INVADE? Need advice....

[Baelfiin]

Close up of Rome area.

Decided to attack north so that's where I am focusing my ground attack unit directive.
Lots of interdiction set to fly around the whole beachhead, hopefully will hinder movement.

[Baelfiin]

Interdiction results, unfortunately Patton launched his attacks before I was able to take a screenshot, so this shows the positions at the end of the turn

[Baelfiin]

Made some decent progress, I had initially planned on a one hex advance, but after the first contact the germans just melted so I was able to push ahead with armor.
Not sure why they vaporized so quickly, maybe they had no freight in the area to replenish with.
Polish Armor lets me down, they had a chance at glory after the line vaporizes in front of them.

[Jajusha]

What's your soft factor? Is it supplies?
A stack of 3 german divisions, 1CV each must mean out of supplies.

[marion61]

You have such a golden opportunity to cut him off from your lines southward. If you destroyed all the ports down there, none of those units at the toe will escape. He's weak, and you have more than enough to push out now. Why not do an AAR?[8D]

[Baelfiin]

ORIGINAL: Jajusha

What's your soft factor? Is it supplies?
A stack of 3 german divisions, 1CV each must mean out of supplies.

In that shot it is set to ammo, they got pummeld by air then attacked then retreated through interdiction

[Baelfiin]

ORIGINAL: meklore61

You have such a golden opportunity to cut him off from your lines southward. If you destroyed all the ports down there, none of those units at the toe will escape. He's weak, and you have more than enough to push out now. Why not do an AAR?[8D]

Man I thought you were going to high five me for advancing two hexes hehe.
I am afraid of Kampfgruppe von Pelton showing up and kicking my a%% when I am all strung out.
I will try to do better next turn if I don't run out of freight 8)

[marion61]

The Necromonger in me says don't do it. But the Furian in me says, GO FOR IT![:D]

[Baelfiin]

Air action over the beaches in the German turn.

Luftwaffe keeps pressing their attacks, but getting chewed up a little when I get an intercept.

One of the cool things about interdiction is that you can put some into your own hexes so that in the enemy turn and they are advancing you can cause them losses as they trespass into your territory.

[Baelfiin]

Feels like I am not doing so well with VP's

[JocMeister]

Hmm, I´m on T21. Did a similar landing like you did but around Naples instead. Did not take Corsica/Sardinia. But I´m actually up 172 VPs. Did you bomb the u-boat factories? I´ve been concentrating fairly hard on them and only lost 46 VPs on them so far.

[Baelfiin]

AWG and I have been updating to the latest test version as they come out, there was a change in vps on one of them at turn 15, that's where my per turn takes a dive. Also I am taking some casualties and AWG is doing great at getting Garrison VP's.

Going to try to turn up the heat on the Uboats this turn and see if it helps 8)

[marion61]

Your city point divider goes up starting Jan 44. The Allies have to manage points after 44 starts between getting in enough bombing points, city points, and not taking huge casualties. That's why I try and take Rome before 44 hits, you get a lot of points for a captured capitol. Once you land in France, your points will become even more difficult as your going to take casualties to get to Berlin. That's why I was encouraging you to take Rome.[8D]

[whoofe]

ORIGINAL: Baelfiin

AWG and I have been updating to the latest test version as they come out, there was a change in vps on one of them at turn 15, that's where my per turn takes a dive. Also I am taking some casualties and AWG is doing great at getting Garrison VP's.

Going to try to turn up the heat on the Uboats this turn and see if it helps 8)

i think you only need to bomb the U-boats thru 1943. so I am guessing you won't need to do it for too many turns. but then its the rocket sites that need to be bombed

[Baelfiin]

Start of ground phase Turn 22

Air war is heating up bigtime in the Toe.

Luftwaffe is conducting nape of the earth interdiction attacks against me down there that are really creating havoc for my guys

Maybe I can get something done in the north, a big link up with SPOON maybe.

Germans on the coast look awfully weak, I have been pounding them for 3 turns now . . .

[carlkay58]

Monty: "Logistical issues are the only thing holding me back."

Translation: If you only supplied me with an atomic bomb or two things would be going much faster!

[Baelfiin]

Monty continues to struggle in the Toe

Patton breaks out going north only to run into the Panzer Lehr. Linked up with spoon, which is really nice because I need the extra supply badly.

If I don't get a high five or a cookie from meklore this turn I will be sad [:)]
Supply so sketchy I am invading another hex to get another temp port supply dump. (when it preps that is)

[whoofe]

if you could widen that southern beachhead you may have a shot at flanking Rome and forcing a pullback

maybe even more important tho - do you have any strat bombers in range of Romania yet? you really need some ABs on Italy that can base your big bombers

[Baelfiin]

ORIGINAL: whoofe

if you could widen that southern beachhead you may have a shot at flanking Rome and forcing a pullback

maybe even more important tho - do you have any strat bombers in range of Romania yet? you really need some ABs on Italy that can base your big bombers

I hope I can do a little more next turn on the south side of Rome but will see. Not enough stuff to push everywhere, im really regretting the 4 armored divisions mired on the Toe.

No good airbases in range of Ploesti yet, but when I do get some ..... 8)

[Baelfiin]

So much cool stuff going on in the combat system