ETO Grumpymel vs Hatemf90 - Allied Thread

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RE: ETO Grumpymel vs Hatemf90 - Allied Thread

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In France, the Axis advance is methodical but relentless. No swift breakthough, but a slow grinding march. At least this means plenty of casualties inflicted on Axis forces despite the toll on France. The main Axis advance appears to be pushing through the gap between Nancy and Dijon, threatening to either flank the Moselle defences or to push toward Paris from the SouthEast. There are plenty of armor and mobile units among the enemy formations here, but they are keeping to the slow plodding pace of the infantry, apparently hesitant to outpace thier flak coverage for fear of Allied air attack. There is a secondary advance, mostly comprised of well supported infantry, pushing northeast along the Moselle toward Sedan and the last remnants of the Maginot Line. The Luftwaffe has constructed a new airfield between these to areas of advance to concentrate thier fighter forces and try to keep coverage over the entire line.

My plan for defence is to use the largely unscathed French 9th Army to hold off the secondary advance at the Moselle, meanwhile the 1st Army and the BEF will try to smack the main Axis advance from 2 directions. Whatever mobile elements are left of the 2nd and the Maginot forces will withdraw to support this manuver. I don't think I can stop the Germans, but hopefully I can force them to pay for the ground they are taking.



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The manuver starts with the BEF, in it's first major action of the War, engaging the spearhead of the Axis advance west of Nancy. The British Vickers light tanks are no match for the enemy armor of the German 1st Light Division but the Cruisers and Matilda's score thier fair share of victories. The BEF scores a solid victory as enemy forces are pushed back in a hard fought action.

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Frenche 1st Army tries to follow up the BEF's success with it's own attack against the next German stack in line but they run into more trouble and thier attack stalls with heavy casualties on both sides.

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The Front Line looks more solid, but thin at the end of our turn.

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With the Luftwaffe concentrated in providing CAP for thier forces in France. We decide to pay thier home cities a visit with long range bombers. The Campaign has been characterized by the Luftwaffe concentrating all thier forces to protect thier main ground attacks and the opportunities this creates for Allied air power in other areas. Having long range craft is invaluable to take advantage of opportunities like this.

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Here you can see the kills and losses for the game so far. Overall, I'm not feeling too bad. The early part of the game is supposed to be about the Axis beating up on the Allies. I'm not confident about holding France, but at least we are drawing the battle out there...which means more production for me and more losses for the Axis. The Low Countries have not been brought into the War yet, so they are safe for now. Sweden looks like we may actualy be able to hold.

Most importantly, the casualties are telling the story of the game....the Axis are beating us in the kill count....but not as much as they should be by Summer of 1940.

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