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In the Atlantic we finally find some raiders and sink a CA and damage Bismarck a little bit.

In the med I start to attack the Axis in Africa a little bit hope to maybe catch some strugglers trying to get to the harbours.

Axis air seems to move away so think Gibraltar safe at the moment.

Cant find the screenshot [:)]

In the east buildup continues.

More Axis troops coming east now but I wonder if he can get everything ready for a May start.

Lost some screenshots here too. But again not that much going on.

Major things.

My pursuit in Africa of the Axis forces was stupid. There were 2 German arm corps there as well as an Italian and I knew that. I was counting on that the fact that it will take some time to get the axis units out of Africa so I thought there would be no more fighting only retreat. But Battle counterattacked very nicely and shattered the WDF arm corp, that sucks [:)].

Things are turning for the better in the Atlantic but that might have been thanks to a bug. The German subs suddenly intercepted my fleet and lost 5 sub points and I think one sub unit lost. I think there are only 2 damaged subs on the map for now. the raiders are also slightly damaged at least.

With that said I think Battlevonwars campaign in the Atlantic have been very good and I would say that 1941 for the UK is a mostly lost year. So much resources poured into merchants and escorts. I now dont expect to do much offensive stuff in 41 at all possibly Egypt if all the Germans leave. So there seems to be something to think about about the pursuit of the Atlantic warfare. Of course this does not come for free and I still believe the Barbarossa might be a bit on the weak side but we will see.

The Soviets have a large number of units but it is mostly trashy corps so will not look so impressive after a couple of turns into the invasion [:)]. The question is if he will be ready for a May start or if the invasion will be launched a bit later.

The end of the Battle of the Atlantic might be in sight I hope [:)].

Managed to find and sink Admiral Hipper. The turn after March 28 I also found the Bismarck and inflicted 3 points of damage. She had already taken 1 hit before so I think Bismarck is 4 points damaged now and 3 German surface ships are sunk and 1 more lightly damaged. The sub force I think is 2 or 3 subs with I think 2 a bit damaged.

Axis buildup in the east continues and a standoff in Egypt.

March 28 1941

Same as before nothing of note happening except what I wrote above. Managed to find and damage Bismarck this turn.

March 28 1941

Same as before nothing of note happening except what I wrote above. Managed to find and damage Bismarck this turn.

April 41

All quiet on all fronts. One interesting thing Soviet intelligence spots 1 italian mech and not 1 not 2 but 3 Italian arm corps.

It is interesting to see how people use different styles and build different.

May 9 1941

In Egypt stalemate so much Axis units including a 4th Italian arm corps.

Continueing the trend of turning the tide on the seas the British navy launch a naval strike on Oran scoring 8 hits.

The 2 subs though have a good turn sinking 6 merchants and 2 escorts but they suffered 2 hits themselves.

And in the east Barbarossa is launched but I am for the moment the lucky person with the weather rolls as Battlevonwar gets rain in the northern part of the front.

I really like your defense here, btw. Taking notes and making some alterations in my own Soviet setup.

Oh noes . Just kidding sure. This is the first time I try out the alot of corps build so I have been winging it.

What I have done differently from before is.

1. The first version of the Red airforce wil die anyway so I havent upgraded it at all. they are all 1939 stuff. Gogo I15 and whatever they are called [:)]. So far I spam bomb the finns. I dont keep them on the frontline so tired of them just dying [:)].

2. I didint disband the bad mech corps until the 1st turn of the invasion. This meant I could build up a lot of inf corps and still I could build 10 armies on turn one and still have a 85% manpower. It is a compromise compared to before when I built 12-14 inf armies and landed on manpower in the high 60 low 70 range. Quite happy with that compromise will see how it works out.

May 25 1941

Not sure why the Italian navy didnt move. Maybe Battlevonwar wants to get rid of the oilguzzlers. Anyway launch 2 more raids one miss and one score 9 hits including sinking one ship.

Retreat a bit in Egypt.

In the east my luck with the weather continues as there is heavy rain in temparate zone basically the whole southern front and part of the northern front. Almost hurts to see as these turns are so important.

I'm not doing any disbands at all anymore, after playing you decided this was a mistake. I really needed those extra mech corps in the south.

Fair enough, I just really like the feeling of knowing some serious reinforcement will come in after like 4 turns thats why I like to build those armies.

Well, I can imagine disbanding them gradually, maybe. They are pretty garbage. Going to experiment with that next time around.

June 6 1941

In Egypt counterattack Italian arm corps putting it at least temporarily out of action.