43 Campaign - carlkay58 vs QBall - Operation Husky

[Q-Ball]

I can comment, since Carlkay and I are a few turns ahead of this.

He is certainly right about the overwhelming force part; once I saw the whole Allied army on Sicily, I decided on a strategy. I knew Carl would have extra amphibs to use if he chose, so I felt that if I used Germans on Sicily, that would tempt him to lock down the straights. Sicily is a trap for the Germans, IMO, and it's best not to walk into it.

For the Italians though it's use it or lose it, so we piled all Italian forces not nailed down onto Sicily, including any good SUs from the frozen Italian armies. All Italian units were packed 3 high with SUs. Everyone was railed to the Toe and shipped over to Messina.

Messina held until turn 8, so I'm not displeased with the results, as it was accomplished with zero German casualties.

I did bomb his units alot; most of the losses were Italian planes, which are "use it or lose it". Interdicting that many beaches that close to allied aircover is futile, so I've used the Regia Aeronautica to unit bomb to get something out of them.

Carl's strategic campaign has been really good so far, and he handled the air very well over Sicily, so that all I could really do was suicide runs by Italian air.

I didn't commit any German bombers to Sicily at all; just some fighters. I wanted to save all the bombers for a better place to naval interdict, and it turns out I got one later on........

[JeffroK]

Interesting approach from both sides, while 8 turns is OK I feel with the extra troops used it should have been a bit faster, or other landings made.

QBalls withdrawal of all German forces makes sense but should be rewarded by a higher chance of Italian Capitulation at being "abandoned" by their supposed Ally.

The strategies used will only be proved right or wrong as the game continues, The Allies have a lot invested in the Med.

[carlkay58]

JeffK - this is a report only on Operation Husky. Operations Tweedle Dee (Sardinia) and Tweedle Dum (Corsica) were launched on Turn 7. More on those operations later. Unfortunately QBall is escaping with his family for a two week vacation so there will be a wait although I will probably report on Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum in the next week or so before he returns.