Rematch 4 player game (Orm, Peskpesk, jjdenver and Mayhemizer)

[Orm]

Jul/Aug '43
Impulse #8 (Axis)

One Italian SUB is damaged, and aborted.

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[Orm]

No contact for the second search. (Axis 7, Allies 9)

[Orm]

Jul/Aug '43
Impulse #8 (Axis)

No strategic bombing.

Germany, and Italy, ground strike two hexes in Normandy with one LND2, two LND3. One of the missions is escorted by one FTR2.

Axis has two FTR2 available for counter-interception.

CW has 4 units available for interception. Will any fly?

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[Mayhemizer_slith]

Fighters from attacked hexes react.

7 factor intercept the hex with more bombers, 6 factor the other hex.

7 factor lands to Rouen.

6 factor lands to UK Dover, unless 7 factor has been shot down before, then it lands to Rouen.

[Orm]

Italy send up their 4-strngth fighter to support the Italian bomber. Germany use their 7-strngth fighter in support of the two German bombers.

Begin with the western of the two air combats.

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[Orm]

Jul/Aug '43
Impulse #8 (Axis)

Allies won the first air combat.

Can change the Italian loss to the fighter if Allies so prefer.

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[Orm]

In the second air combat Allies begin by rolling 7, and the German front fighter is aborted.

[Orm]

Axis counters with 13, and no result. A second round ensues.

[Orm]

Jul/Aug '43
Impulse #8 (Axis)

The Stuka is cleared.

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[Orm]

Jul/Aug '43
Impulse #8 (Axis)

The second air combat ends with the British fighter destroyed.

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[Orm]

Jul/Aug '43
Impulse #8 (Axis)

One Allied unit was disorganized.

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[Orm]

Over to my partner for the second half of our impulse.

[peskpesk]

Rail moves

Germany
MIL Cernauti->Aarhus
INF Div La Spezia->Lille
MTN Div Murmansk->43,53

Land Movment

Japan
Minor shuffle around Vlad

Germany
Shuffleing in the Atlantic wall from Denmark-> North France.
Minor shuffle East front

Debark:

Italy:
HQI (East Med) -> Homs
Supply (East Med) -> Homs

Japan:
HQI (Bay of Bengal) -> Rangoon
MEC (Sea of Japan) -> Vladivostok

Land Combat Declaration
Rommel Was Right, German Panzers appear in Normandy and makes a massive counterattack on the US forces! 54 vs 12, eng commited +9 (13,5B)

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[peskpesk]

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One of the enduring controversies of D-Day and the Normandy campaign - one of the most tantalizing what-ifs for military historians and armchair generals - is how the Germans positioned their armored forces to meet the Allied invasion of June 6, 1944. During the months before the Allies landed, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel argued for placing the panzers (the core of German strength) as close to the beaches as possible; he believed that the campaign would be won or lost in the first forty-eight hours, that the panzers needed to be brought to bear as early as possible, and that Allied airpower would prevent armored forces located farther inland from reaching the beachhead quickly. Other German generals argued for a central panzer reserve hidden near Paris, which could mount a massive counterattack; this was how tanks tended to be used on the Eastern Front, and after all, the Germans did not know just where the Allies would attack. Often indecisive, Hitler split the difference, giving Rommel control of three panzer divisions, holding four in reserve inland (under Hitler’s personal control), and moving three to the south of France. On D-Day, while Hitler slept and was slow to release the reserves, only one panzer division - the 21st, in Rommel’s group - was able to counterattack the Allies! This lone division reached the channel, splitting Juno and Sword Beaches!!!, but committed to the battle too late, and unsupported, it had to withdraw at day’s end

[peskpesk]

CW(2) and FF(3) BBs can give defensive shore bombardment the attacked US forces, any help?

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[Mayhemizer_slith]

Full shore bombardment, thank you.

When asking about ground support, please let me know what planes Axis have to intercept.

[peskpesk]

Romel has von Leeb commited to the Attack. BF 109(6) escort Ju 88A1 Ext to the target hex.
No more Axis planes can be commited.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

I came to conclusion that Allies better win this combat or things look real bad. We send almost everything:

Fighters
8 factor in front, followed by CVP

Bombers (from first to last)
LND3
B-17E
Hurricane
B-17G

We target Axis fighter.

All planes return where they start, except FTR2 lands to SE of Plymouth.

[peskpesk]

Air2AirCombat

Round 1
Allied: 12 AC Lnd3 is Cleared
Axis: 5 AA Lnd3 is Aborted

Round 2
Allied: 11 DC - Axis has nothing to clear
Axis: 16 AA Lnd4 is Aborted

Round 3
Allied: 10 AC - Axis has nothing to clear
Axis: 11 DC- FTR2 (bomber) is cleared

Round 4
Allied: 16 DX PX - FTR2 destroyed
Axis: 12 AC- Lnd4 is cleared

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[peskpesk]

Land Combat

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US units are retreated

Air Rebase:

Japan:
NAV2 (Sasebo) -> Manila
FTR2 (Manila) -> Singapore
FTR2 (Rabaul) -> Menado, Celebes (NEI)
NAV3 (Truk) -> Menado, Celebes (NEI)

Italy:
LND3 (82,55 in Egypt) -> Cagliari, Sardinia
LND2 Amterdam-->N France

Germany
FTR3 51,35->N France
FTR2 Bordeaux->N France

HQ ReOrg
Italy
Balbo FTR2

EOT 5, Less than 3