Barbarossa
Axis Prior Turn:
Mud everywhere.
Gneisenau (CC) is scouting for S-4 and finds her in the Lenningrad port at the cost of a point of damage.
S-4 is then bombed by the German Maritime bombers. Soviet Fighters intercept, and Finnish Fighters Escort. Losses: Finnish FTR -1(or more), GE MARB -1(or more), USSR FTR -1?, S-4 -2.
S-4 is destroyed later in the turn by a German Medium Bomber.
The Prince Eugen (CA str 9) is spotted scouting the road from Narva to Lenningrad.
1st Panzer attacks LXXVII Corps across the river line south of Narva. The Corps takes 4 damage and manages to hang on.
3rd Corps in Luga is shattered after being bombed and attacked by 11th Panzer and a Panzergrenadier at the cost of 1 damge to the Panzer. However, the Germans do not move in to take the city.
A German bomber (not sure which kind) took a hit bombing 3rd Army in Vitebsk.
22nd Army positioned west of Smolensk is hammered by a Panzer and multiple Infantry units (including at least 1 Army and 1 Corps). It retreats north of Smolensk at a strength of 1, having done 1 damage to the Panzer.
VII Corps in Bryansk takes 3 damage from German attacks, and does 1 damage back to the German 5th Panzer.
An air battle is fought over Taganrog, this one doesn't go as well for the Soviets. The Russian Fighter takes 4 damage (2 from Romanian FTR and 2 from GE TAC), the Romanian FTR takes an unknown amount of damage.
Taganrog falls with the defending Corps doing no damage to the Germans.
IV Corps, north of Rostov, is beaten down to 2 strength and only manages to do 1 point to a German Corps.
10th Army continues to hold the bottleneck of the Crimea from the Romanians, but also continues to get the worse of the fighting. 10th Army takes 4 damage and does 1 back to a Romanian Army.
Partisans appear in Kiev
Allied Turn:
Snow in the Ukraine and Frozen in Russia and Finland.
10th Corps steps out of Velikiye Luki to relink the rail and road to Vitebsk, then steps back to the town.
11th Army is mustered right on the front line in the town of Luga before the Germans walk in.
More shuffling and reinforcing.
Mediterranean
Axis Prior Turn:
Rough seas
*Note: The bulk of the UK's Eastern Med Fleet moved into the far south eastern corner of the med and was screened by 2 Destroyers (1 in the port of Port Said) and a CL.
HMS Sheffield and HMS Mohawk come under heavy attack from the Regina Maria.
Rundown of results against HMS Sheffield: Sheffield 3 dmg (str 5), GE Sub 0 dmg, IT CA 0 dmg, IT sub 1 dmg.
Rundown of results against HMS Mohawk: Mohawk 4 dmg (str 5), GE sub 1 dmg, IT BB 0 dmg, IT CA 1 dmg, IT CA 1 dmg, IT CL 1 dmg.
The Italians counter attack throwing nearly everything at the WDF Army and manage to shatter it. It didn't help that the German Arty managed to do 2 damage with 2 prepitory barages.
The WDF Army did the following damage back in the fighting: IT Army 3 dmg, IT Corps 2 dmg, GE Recon 1 dmg, and maybe 1 dmg to the IT 10th Army (str 9) which takes up the position in the line (I don't remember if it attacked or not).
Allied Turn:
Sandstorms ground almost all of the Commonwealth land based planes (argh!), only a FTR is able to be used by hex switching with Monty in Sidi Barani.
The Aussies do 2 damage to the Italian 10th Army and take 1 back, they also get a pip of experience.
The desert Artillary then fires and does a point to 10th Army.
The Kiwis take their shot and also exchange 2 damage for 1 taken back against 10th Army.
7th Armor takes its turn and also does 2 for 1.
1st Corps takes a turn but only exchanges 1 for 1, leaving 10th Army at 1 strength.
The BEF (str 8), who were hoping to reinforce, now switch positions with the Australians and shatter 10th Army. Monty gets his first pip of exp.
Monty and a Fighter hex swap so that the fighter can actually fly.
The Fighter scouts and finds elements of the Italian Fleet, and comes across the Light Cruiser and damages her for a point. A BB, CA, 2 DD and 3 German subs are found as well.
The Parthian (UK Sub) attempting to make its way to the Italian Battleship finds a fourth GE sub (U35, level 2, str 9).
As much as the Battleship commanders want to muck it up, it is decided to let the Carriers do the job. There are just too many subs.
HMS Ark Royal strikes the Battleship for 6 damage over two strikes and takes 1 to her air wing.
HMS Courageous sinks the Battleship Andrea Dora on her first strike. Her second strike goes after a Heavy Cruiser and does 3 to it.
HMS Glorious sinks the Heavy Cruiser Pola after two strikes. Her air wing is reduced by 1 over the two raids.
HMS Amazon leaves Port Said to see if she can find out which of the other three german subs is the badly damaged U81. They are U371 (str 7, lvl 3), U47 (str 8, lvl 2) and U73 (str 7, lvl 3, 1 exp).
U81 is not here (not too surprising, given she was at str 3), but it means that there are 5 German subs in the Med, and 1 in the Atlantic and, for the moment at least, no more.*
Amazon strikes U73 and both take 2 damage bringing them down to str 6 (DD) and str 5 (sub).
The damaged Mohawk (str 5, 1 exp) takes her turn against U73 and forces her to dive.
HMCS Assiniboine (str 10) goes after U47 because she has the lowest supply (6). U47 takes 3 damage (str 5) and Assinibone takes 1 back.
Atlantic & USA
Axis Prior Turn:
A German Fighter from western France flies over the Isle of Wight or Portsmouth and is intercepted by fighters in England. The UK Fighter takes 3 damage, and an unknown amount is done to German fighter.
Another German Fighter, from the Belgium/Netherlands area, flies over Dover. It is shot at by an AA gun north of Dover, but is not intercepted?!?** The AA gun scores a hit against the fighters.
USA declares war on Germany and Italy
Allied Turn:
HMS Montgomery finds U377 (str 10, lvl 3) while running the US to UK convoy line, not far from her last reported position but now on the South America/Carribean line next to the US line.
Montgomery forces the sub to dive.
USA begins Lend Lease to USSR via Persia.
No MPP lost to raiders (Canadian Convoy)
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*Reports state that Germany has 10 naval vessels. I count 6 subs (5 of which are in the Med and 1 in the Atlantic), Prince Eugen, Gneisenau, Bismark and Tripitz (unless one of the Battleships was scrapped)?
**If an AA guns fire, does that mean you can't intercept with fighters? Seems odd.
Probably should've paused and reinforced before moving forward in Egypt last turn. I counted on the Arty to be more effective with defensive fire than it was and/or the German Arty to be less effective with offensive fire.
A level 1 Italian Army is not an even exchange for a level 211 UK Army, but the UK Army did more damage before dieing than the Italian one did.
