It Takes A Village to Raze a Village

[rkr1958]

Turn 53. Axis. August 29, 1941. China. Start of Turn.

[rkr1958]

Turn 53. Axis. August 29, 1941. China. End of Turn.

1. Push in the north.
2. Attrition attacks, reinforcements and upgrades.
3. Also, WILL stay outside of 2-hexes of Sian, Lanchow, Chungking and 3 hexes of Yenan in order to not provoke the CCP rifraff.

[rkr1958]

Turn 53. Axis. August 29, 1941. French Indo-China. Start of Turn.

[rkr1958]

Turn 53. Axis. August 29, 1941. French Indo-China. End of Turn.

1. Started the buildup of amphibious and other forces in southern FIC.
2. These forces will be used to invade and conquer Malaya and the Dutch East Indies when war with the west comes.

[rkr1958]

Turn 53. Axis. August 29, 1941. Research.

1. Unfortunately none of the three axis had any budget for additional research this turn and I don't see that changing very soon.
2. So what they have now is what they're likely to have for a while (once current research chits run their full course that is).

[rkr1958]

Turn 53. Axis. August 29, 1941. MPPs.

[Marcinos1985]

Nice progress in Russia.

[rkr1958]

ORIGINAL: Elessar2

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

Turn 51. Axis. August 1, 1941. The Eastern Front. End of Turn.

1. The axis continue to rush forward into the every expanding vast territory of the Soviet Union.
2. Very apparent that the axis, especially the Wehrmacht need more ground units that can fight!
3. That is, infantry corps and armies on the Eastern Front.

Actually, you are doing very well considering you only have 3 tanks, and no mech infantry.

ORIGINAL: Marcinos1985

Nice progress in Russia.

Thanks guys. Though the fog-of-war has me worried that my opponent has a sledge hammer ready to pound me once the time is right (i.e., General Winter arrives). [&:]

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Opening Messages.

1. U-boats sink 34 MPPs worth of convoys heading to the UK and 22 MPPs worth of convoys heading to the Soviet Union via Murmansk.
2. CCP moved 4% to the allies? Need to keep an eye on that!
3. Turkey has moved 20% to the allies? The other eye on that one!

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Decision Event. Italian Expeditionary Force.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Poland. Start of Turn.

1. Italian Expeditionary Force deploys to Poland.
2. Wehrmacht deploy newly formed infantry army, corps and panzer unit to Poland.
3. (Not shown). Infantry weapons upgraded to level 1 for both Italian infantry corps.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Middle East. Start of Turn.

1. No much to do here except hold on for as long as possible.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Libya. Start of Turn.

1. Same here.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Greece. Start of Turn.

1. This theater has now gone inactive and hopefully will stay that way for a while to come.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Greece. End of Turn.

1. Except for garrison and anti-partisan duties units are being pulled out and deployed to the Eastern Front or garrison duties in Italy and the Balkans.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. East Africa. Start of Turn.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. East Africa. End of Turn.

1. The Italians manage to shattered the CW corps that was between Massawa to the north and Mekelle to the south.
2. The Italians built a garrison for this theater.
3. Hopefully this theater is causing my opponent some grief and attention.
4. Not sure, but it does seem the Italians are doing decently (for now) against the CW.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Western Front.

1. Also, I did remember to move U-35 in the Battle of the Atlantic and get him out into a convoy line.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (1/3). Murmansk Convoys.

1. U-81 made contact withy a Soviet destroyed and back up a bit.
2. At the end of this turn Germany had deployed 4 U-boats on the Murmansk convoy line.
3. Though, I think I will move to U-boats into the North Atlantic to attack British convoys and keep 2 on to attack the Murmansk convoys.

[rkr1958]

Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (2/3). Italian Subs.

1. I decided it was time for the 2 Italians subs, and 2 German U-boats (not shown), in the South Atlantic to make their way back to port for reinforcement and upgrades.
2. They've all be at sea for a long time and I'm sure their crews could use some leave at home.