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Spring 1942 - Dobeln

The Fascist hordes strike deep into Russia, overrunning Leningrad! This cannot stand. Stalin orders the Central front to conduct a strategic counteroffensive against these bourgeois pigs!

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WA - Spring 42: UK welcomes Russia to the war. Spies note that the Japanese naval airforces have ceased training flights over China. War warning sent to Gen Short and Adm Kimmel.

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Summer 1942 - Armoured formations crush the Soviet Armies that pushed forward into Belorussia. Cairo sees a third attack, this time the Allied barely held out again - for how long? New divisions arrived in Africa to reinforce Rommel.

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Soviet Union - Summer 1942
The front is stabilized following the retreat from Belorussia. Not much else to report.

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WA - Summer '42 - ASW manuevers conducted in the South Atlantic. Reinforcements sent to Egypt. Axis force levels are attached. A quarter of the Wehrmacht is with Rommel. The free world wonders how many more troops the Germans will be willing to feed into the desert. [:'(]

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why do you hide the number of troops being built? is it harmful to you?[&:]

ORIGINAL: schury

why do you hide the number of troops being built? is it harmful to you?[&:]

Not really harmful, I just don't want to give away too much info about what I do or do not know at this point in the game.[8|]

why don't you draw a big single rectangle instead?[:D]

Fall 1942 - another Battle at the gates of Cairo, the forth in sequence. The WA repulse the attack again. Germany consolidates its gains in Russia and waits for Winter. Some intelligence for our Japanese soo-to-be brothers in arms.

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Fall 42 - WA: Beleagered Britian begins to counter punch. Daylight bombing raids begin over the Reich. In the Med, the Royal Navy sorties and deals heavy losses to the Italian fleet. Has the lid closed on Rommel's coffin?

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Winter 1943 - Here is a tale of an unlucky U-boat commander whose name we will never know, but we mourn his crew. He sailed out to hunt for enemy transports, sailed around Britain without problems and close to his destination (France) he sighted a small convoy, lightly guarded. With his diesel tanks running low he went on the attack, fired all his topedo tubes and hit - NOTHING [:@]. To add insult to his shame the lonely escort threw depth charges and scored a direct hit right on top of the conning tower, blowing the iron coffing into pieces. Only a big film of oil that was spotted the day after by a long range reconnaicance plane told the U-boat command what must have happended...

Quiet on most fronts in Europe, exept in the Med, where WA fighters and CAG's are punished for invading Italian Air space (the Central Med that is). Germany chooses caution over madness and evades the Sibirian Hordes that amassed opposite the front lines in Russia.

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Winter 43 - Soviet Union

The cowardly fascists have run away like little child!?!! Brave mother Russia goes on the offensive, recapturing lost lands, and threatening the exposed underbelly of evil fascist menace!

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WA: Winter '43 - Disaster befalls RAF in the Med. Undead Rommel pushes the lid off his coffin and is once again free to ghoulishly roam the desert. Japanese are making a heavy push for India having already secured Eastern India. A midget submarine is caught off the entrance to Pearl Harbor.

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Spring 1943 - With the beginning of dry weather heavy air battles took place over Kiev. During the ensueing land battle the Soviet Army group that had advanced into Kiev was destroyed. Axis reconaisance shows that numerous Red Army corps are located in the Ukraine awaiting a similar fate...

While European newspapers explore the recent events in Asia/Pacific and its impact on the now global war news brakes that CAIRO HAS FALLEN. After more than a year of heavy fighting Axis troops march into the ruins of the city, close off the Suez channel and prepare to do some sightseeing around the Pyramids.

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WA - Spring '43: The alliance is still playing a defensive game. Airstrikes against India net a decent haul. Our position in the Central Pacific is re-established, for now. The Japanese have landed in Australia, a move which can not be tolerated.[:@]

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Soviet Union - Spring '43

The Soviet Union does pretty much nothing but grumble and build up

Summer 1943 - Air strikes over France are returned staight to London, where Axis bombers repeatedly hit factories. Unfortunately they hit the same factory over and over again, thus the actual damage is minimal[:(].
 
Axis troops in Cairo try to advance East but are repelled despite good odds. High command is forced to send more troops - why can't Rommel be satisfied with what he got and make the best out of it !?! Besides that the summer seems to be a quiet season in Europe, as all eyes are on the Pacific.
 
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WA - Summer 43: The defensive continues against Germany. However, the Allies go on the offensive against Japan. At sea a major surface engagement reopens the sealanes to Australia. In an aerial battle over the Indian Ocean RAF fighters come up short against the remnants of the IJN CV fleet. Eastern India, Queensland and and Iwo Jima are liberated.

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Soviets - summer 43

The soviet armies go on the offensive yet again in the south.