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May 10 1940

Campaign season starts and Belgium is conquered. A fairly cautious German advance makes the French a bit brave or foolhardy who knows and kind of follow historical plan with a cautious advance into parts of Belgium.

Airlosses at 3:2 in German favour I think that is where it usually end up.

May 24 1940

And campaign season ends temporarily can you nice people believe it, it is a rain turn. That is so much bad luck I feel and will have an impact on the game as the fall of France will probably be delayed by a month maybe more I am guessing.

French advance into Belgium turned out to be a good idea. Ill go out in the garden and make a rain dance now [:)].

Oh oh. I spoke way too soon. I forgot to take a screenshot from the chock . I felt so comfortable but a new German build has been revealed to me. Not 5 not 6 but 9 mech units surge south through the Ardennes and down to Paris but further east. I tried a few counterattacks but with little result and next turn wont be fun even British units at risk. Very well done! I wonder if I can sleep after this [:)]. I have been stuck with my own build for along time since it works pretty good but this gave me something to think about. I have been considering for some time that with the nerf to airunits a big army might be better and thats what we see here. Picture next turn i wont forget.

Norway conquered by the German para.

By 9 "mech units" do you mean he built 9 mechanized units in addition to the 2 armour Germany starts with for a total of 11 Mech and Armour; or that he built 7 mechanized for a total of 9 combined Mech and Armour? My usual build from the fall of Poland to May 1940 is 2 Armour, 1 Mech, 1 Para, 1 fighter and 1 Tac bomber. So 6 total units. If he built 9 new units that is impressive.

Yea sorry terminology maybe not 100% clear. When I write Mech units I clump together mech and arm corps. Otherwise I tend to write just that arm corps and mech corps. No not 9 extra units built 7 more so 5 arm corps and 4 mech corps and maybe more to come. I dont think it is hard to do. If you are willing to disband some infantry I could see that the Germans could have 11 or so in May June 40. I just havent seen it before in practice. Like every plan it probably has some drawbacks as well.

I have been shellshocked like the French high command in the real war so there havent been some updates for a while. I am sure you are sitting on the edge of the seat waiting for news from the front [:)].

In like 2 turns it is almost over. I have formed a fortress around the river Seine and Somme. But here I made a critical mistake. I thought to form Vichy you have to take Paris but that is of course not true. Take Paris you can get Italy into the war but to form Vichy you just need to take enough cities and as can be seen from the screenshots all of France is basically open. Think I should know these things after so many games [:)]. In the screenshot you can see the glorious 9 arm/mech corps running around.

Also side note. His 4 fighters are doing alot better than my 6 fighters in the other game. I do use supply trucks so not sure how it can be such a big difference. Not that far off from 2:1. Feel I have something to learn here.

July 5 1940

And it is over. Could have done better. Just garrisoning any city like St Nazaire I could have forced a fight for Rouen or Metz at least and prolonged it another turn or so and some more German losses. Which actually are pretty big so even though it went fast it was still fairly costly.

The British lost one mech corps one inf corps and one inf div. More than what I usually lose. Mech corps hurt of course.

August 16 1940

Forgot some screenshots but not that much to show. The Axis have taken out Vichy and invaded and taken out Vichy North Africa. Allied have taken Vichy Syria. Here the situation in Egypt. But considering German losses are not that small and a fair amount of landing ships were used against the Vichy I feel Egypt might be fairly safe this game. Might be famous last words again. we will see [:)].

August 30 1940

ComadrejaKorp is turning out to be a very difficult and creative opponent [:)]. A German invasion of Portugal! Not really sure why. I guess it will be revealed to me. I feel there are some drawbacks as in a place for the Allies to engage the Axis and from there possibly go through Spain. I can see it as a base against Gibraltar but I thought Supply in Africa might be enough for air units. But maybe it will be some all in entire German airforce and then Portugal supply might be needed.

September 13 1940

Are we just lucky to find ships all the time or is it now a bit too easy to find raiders? That is the question as the first CV immediately hits Bismarck

And the 2nd one sinks the Destroyer. And there really is not much German navy left now.

First German airplanes show up in Portugal. I guess we will see if Gibraltar can be held. I think because the German navy is so decimated I think I am willing to sacrifice some ships to try and hold it. Also to help the Soviets I know from my game vs Malkarma that 6 AA on Gibraltar will take a fairly large toll on attacking airplanes. Worse weather is coming as well so there is not a huge window for the Axis.

Because of the Norway conquest British MM looks ok and the fact that the Italian navy wont be supported so much from the Germans the idea of the Italians in the Atlantic doesnt bother me that much. Also keeping them at sea will cost a lot of oil.

Exciting we will see how it plays out.

On Malta I lose a British CV. An Italian sub got in 4 hits a bit lucky and a bomber followed up and sank it so that sucks [:)].

September 27 1940

Looks like Spain will be the next target for the hungry Axis beast. And after that Gibraltar will be the dessert.

Not sure what I think. Taking Spain adds a whole lot of garrisons. If I can keep Malta and Egypt there is always a backdoor into the Mediterranean so you need garrisons in Spain and in the Mediterranean area and with Norway there is alot of coast. But if Malta and Egypt falls as well then I will be in a severe situation for sure. I am also considering the new convoy raider rules by air. Possibly the African coast line might be under threat now.

Looks like Egypt will be under pressure soon.

The well oiled Axis warmachine rolls on taking out Spain in 1 turn.

October 25 1940

Situation in the Mediterranean. A bit interesting I dont see a whole lot of German units going for Gibraltar. Maybe the Axis will wait for next summer or something before taking Gibraltar.

Some airplanes around Malta suggests that is the next target.

ORIGINAL: MagicMissile

The well oiled Axis warmachine rolls on taking out Spain in 1 turn.

I thought Spain had been beefed up so that it couldn't be taken out in 1 turn. Or is that only if the Allies invade Portugal and not the Axis? If so then I think that needs to be changed. Again, Franco was not an idiot. After the Fall of France the Germans put pressure on Spain to either join the Axis or at least allow German troops entry into Spain to attack Gibraltar. Franco rebuffed these. But if the Germans had invaded Portugal he would have known that it was a prelude to a German invasion of Spain just as surely as if the Allies invade Portugal.

I am not sure if Spain have been buffed or not. I dont see any more units but maybe they are stronger?
But yes maybe it would be reasonable that whoever invades Portugal Spain joins the other side.

1940 comes to an end. Stand off at Gibraltar with 4 German armoured corps looking at the small cliff. There have been a cold turn but there was no attack. If I understand the weather charts I think there will be no clear weather until April.

It will be costly but 10 air units and 4 arm corps and a HQ vs a inf corps I think it will fall. I just hope it might take 2 turns so I can remove the AA.

Malta was abandoned in November. As a small consolation prize I invaded the Azores it was empty as someone on Axis Division level had forgot to order the islands to be occupied.

Not much going on but here are losses and forces after 1940.