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Finnish Front South:

In the south, the Finnish defences have solidified. STAVKA expects no further advances here and digs in. There remains some house cleaning in the rear:

Western Front:

Once again, the Germans launch attacks up and down the front. Units on the frontline continue to retreat in response to German assaults, however other defenders hold their ground so no territory has been lost except north-east of Brussels where a Belgian corps is forced to retreat. The line is tenuous at best and will not last. The only consolation for Allied GHQ is that losses have been so murderous that the Germans must be hurting badly as well.

If the Belgians collapse, this will be over shortly. What decimated French units are available reinforce Brussels. In addition, RAF fighter groups from North Africa join the fray to delay the inevitable for as long as possible....

October 14, 2013

Finnish Front North:

The Red Army continues to advance down the coastal road while rear area security tries to clean up guerillas:

Finnish Front South:

Positions are more or less static. Small Finnish forces come out of the woodwork in the rear and rear-area security works to mop them up.

France:

The frontline positions do not change significantly and the weakened French Army continues to dig in. There is danger of a German breakout south of Sedan, but sustained pressure anywhere will cause the French army to collapse at this point. In the rear, a last-ditch defence of Paris is being prepared.

November 4, 1939

A few turns have passed between the last update and this one. We decided to fix a couple of bugs and restart with a house rule enacted from the get go.

You can find the AAR for the new game here.

Here is the situation when we decided to restart:

Finland:

Norway:

Losses @ end of turn 19:

5200 Light Rifle Squads
25000 Rifle Squads
3200 Engineer Squads
Lots of guns (AT, AA and artillery) of all types
Over 2000 French tanks (yes, 2000!)
700 French aircraft
1500 British aircraft
590 Soviet tanks (mostly obsolete)
460 Soviet armoured Cars
280 Soviet aircraft

Easily the bloodiest first 19 turns of EA I have ever played.