Expanded Allied Air HQ

[kentkroeckel]

February 3, 1945.

Air losses for Allies, including ground support is 844 for turn. Germany lost 425. This is an advantage of 419 for Luftwaffe. Below is chart for Allied air phase and combat action.

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Next chart shows German unit losses for turn. I have highlighted them in blue. Hungarian losses are from Eastern Front so are not included.

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Ground losses are next. Germany lost 31,782 while Allies lost 17,399. Below is chart.

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Final picture is of Yugoslavia / Italian invasion. Both sides have small units but hexes were taken by Allies. Axis port though, is very secure.

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[kentkroeckel]

February 3, 1945.

BLM is working so I am able to show Italian combat hexes. One hex was taken by Combat on Yugoslavia Peninsula. It is circled in red.

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Following is one of two hexes taken by combat. Each one was taken in one attack.

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Second hex taken in combat.

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Final pictures shows hexes withdrawn from by Germany.

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[kentkroeckel]

February 3, 1945.

There were three hexes taken by combat on Spain invasion. First is below.

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Second.

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Third.

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Final pictures shows overview.

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[kentkroeckel]

February 3, 1945.

First two pictures show the front and how it is converging into one piece.

First contact line picture.

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Second contact line picture. You can see how all the hexes that Germany withdrew from are not occupied. Bad weather hampers.

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The next picture I wanted to show is the 84 German Infantry Division surrendering. This has not happened much in this challenge because Metalist is so good at protection. And to be clear, this is just an anomaly; for which the Allies have had so few of.

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Next picture is of the La Rochelle fort / port garrison surrendering. They cannot move so always surrender if forced to retreat.

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This will sound odd but after a week off I found it challenging to construct the AAR for this turn. There is much going on for each turn now but I do not want posts to be boring. Yet I want to be able to show a conscience narrative of the complex turn.

[kentkroeckel]

February 10, 1945

Germany received -24 victory points for this turn and game total is at -489.

weather is cold in skies while ground is snow covered. Snow and water level is 4-8 on most of map conflict zones.

Germany attacked once and routed an American armor company. Below is results.

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Germany lost 132 aircraft while Allies lost 75 during German air and combat phase.

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Next picture shows north end of French contact line. Airborne unit is circled in pink. Green line shows withdrawing hexes by Axis units.

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Final picture show continuation of French contact line. Some parts are unknown.

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[kentkroeckel]

February 10, 1945.

Germany inflicted around 7,000 losses during its whole combat phase while loosing little. Allies inflicted over 17,000 losses just during air phase. Yet this is normal. below is picture.

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Air losses during Allied air phase are 337 for Axis while Allies lost 593. Total for all up to this point are, 469 for Germany while Allies have lost 668. This is an advantage of 199 for the Luftwaffe. Below is Allied air phase.

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I wanted to show how much the air campaign can change due to ground combat. Below is final chart for air losses with ground air losses. More than a hundred were added to German air losses. All said, the new numbers are 576 Luftwaffe losses while Allies lost 683. Many aircraft when you think about it. It is still a German advantage of 107.

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Final ground losses for Allied combat are below. Though roughly speaking, 38,000 for Germany while Allies lost 18,500.

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[kentkroeckel]

February 10, 1945.

Wanted to talk about airborne activity. Allies are trying to disrupt front line German logistics, active air bases, and finally create isolation pockets. At this stage of the war Germany finds it difficult to destroy airborne divisions. Yet weather hinders Allied advances. However, airborne drops are not effected by terrain; only distance. Eight hexes from main supply. Next four pictures shows how one hex separating a British airborne division in Italy was successfully defended by Germany. Albeit at great cost. BLM is working so I think you will like this minor story in the Italian campaign.

First attack: Pink hex is airborne division. Green line is hexes withdrawn by Axis. Red hex is the one hex Allies took by combat. Finally, the black circled hex is the one that became a battleground. By the way, a naval task force was used too.

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Second attack: Just hex in black.

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Third attack: On this display you can see the task force. It is circled in blue. I circled losses in yellow, showing some of the cost.

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Fourth attack: Germany held but I believe this will force Axis forces to retreat back a couple more hex rows, thus securing the airborne division.

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[kentkroeckel]

February 10, 1945.

I do not want to be redundant so I will give just a quick update on other sectors.

Yugoslavia Peninsula. A couple hexes were won but only one was occupied.

Spain line. Many hexes were vacated while others were won by combat. A few Axis units routed. Germany is doing a controlled retreat in this area. Makes sense too. Do not want to be cut off. Given current conditions, Allies can only advance two hexes because of rail limitations and heavy forest hexes.

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Northern France. I have included the new airdrop. It is a long way from friendly lines but one of the originals linked up, so there is hope.

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Southern France. Allies were not able to occupy all the empty hexes. Old airborne hex is in pink.

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I have an extra picture slot (system allows four) so wanted to show the one port and hex of Italy that is not part of Yugoslavia. It is bottom of picture.

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