653Nv1.7 Axis AAR

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North Front

It looks like Opie is preparing an armored counterattack, lol.

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South Front

The slow pace of the Rumanians has allowed Opie to build up a nice river defense along the lower Dnepr.

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MPP Report:

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North Front - brr, cold.

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South Front

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I'll say YES to this, along with a similar DE that shows up at the same time for building Coast Guns along the coast of France and the Low Countries. These help a lot in defending the long coasts, and the only way I wouldn't say YES is if I had an MPP problem, which I don't.

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North Front

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South Front

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If UK withdraws from the war, shouldn't all the UK minors do so too?

Are there certain circumstance for the UK to jump back in the war?

If the USA and Russia were still in the war and seemed to be winning it, I think the UK would have probably went back in it. (A script condition like, holding all three Russia victory city in '43 or a liberated France)

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If UK withdraws from the war, shouldn't all the UK minors do so too?

Either the UK Armistice Terms pop-up didn't popup, or I forgot to capture and post it. I can't remember.
Anyway, it doesn't specifically say so, but the armistice only affects Britain.

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Are there certain circumstance for the UK to jump back in the war?

Currently no, although in game terms the UK is at 0%, so I suppose the Allies could Diplo it back into action.
But it's an interesting idea. They could sack Lord Halifax, bring Churchill back, then declare the armistice invalid !
I want to make sure that all of these events for the current situation work well, before I think about winding that ball of twine.

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With the DAK off to Persia, the Italians are ready to move into Saudi Arabia. The German 12.Army HQ is in Palestine to provide logistic support [:)]

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Army Group North
The Russian Winter effects took their toll and stopped all progress and cost lots of MPP's.

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Army Group Center

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Army Group South

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Army Group North
Tallinn falls. 4.PzGrp will head south of Lake Peipus, then north to Leningrad, which is easier in this game than trying to get thru the Narva bottleneck. I could use my one Strat to help get thru Narva, but it will be busy blasting thru the Luga positions.

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Army Group Center

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Army Group South
The idea here is to get 1.PzGrp back together and head to the northeast, in order to eventually reach the area south of Moscow. From south to north, the Rumanians, 11.Army and 17.Army will continue to head east at the infantry pace [similar to AGC historically when Hitler removed the panzers from it after Smolensk].

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If UK withdraws from the war, shouldn't all the UK minors do so too?

Either the UK Armistice Terms pop-up didn't popup, or I forgot to capture and post it. I can't remember.
Anyway, it doesn't specifically say so, but the armistice only affects Britain.

Interesting. It seems that based on the terms the best way to represent that would be to turn neutral the whole non-italian area (Egypt, Palestine, Jordan). Conquering them would be a breach of the armistice.

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It IS interesting, and I am certainly no Middle-East expert, so please don't scoff at what I say !
For Egypt, Palestine and Jordan, none of them wanted British rule so making them neutral once the UK leaves the area may be ok. Except that Egypt was just 'liberated' and the Germans/Italians wouldn't give up control of the Suez Canal to a neutral. I would guess based on other situations [Vichy, Yugoslavia] that all three of these countries would have to form agreements for passage of Axis troops and Axis use of their bases, with the guarantee of sovereignty at the conclusion of all hostilities.
Syria is in a similar situation, it didn't want to fight anybody and I think it would have been friendly to the Germans if the situation were the same as in my current game. Same for Persia, as my DAK approaches its borders and Russia is being thrashed, I am sure they would jump into Axis arms.
I think Turkey and Greece were Anti-Nazi enough that they would go down fighting. I think Saudi Arabia would not join the Axis if the USA promised their support in troops and planes.