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Turn 17
26th July 1943

I've decided the British have had enough recovery time and send them forward once again. The Canadians are ordered to take up position on the left flank to provide a link between the American and British armies. I make some progress at last, pushing back the German pioneer and the motorised infantry sent to assist. BUT then I fail a damn proficiency test before I have a chance to reinforce the hex....

Turn 18 - Axis Turn
26th July 1943

The Axis appear to be pulling back - although its not a wholesale retreat. There are no attacks from them this turn.

Turn 18
27th July 1943

The British advance once again with Catania as their objective, while the US forces continue to make gains in the centre - the 15th Panzergrenadier Regiment fails to its hold ground when coming to the aid of an Italian infantry brigade.


Round 3

Turn 18
27th July 1943


Turn 6 (picture pre-attack)
Three attacks are planned plus a few bombardments - 1 by US forces, 1 Canadian and 1 British. The attacks meet with mixed results - but the British at least manage to make further headway in the east of the island. Sadly the turn then ends...

Turn 19 - Axis Turn
28th July 1943

Again there are no attacks by the Axis - but more units pull out - seemingly without being engaged.

Turn 19
28th July 1943

The Allies continue to make progress - albeit at cost and its quite slow. Still, given the lack of any sort of progress initially, I'll take it! [:)]

I can't believe how useless the engineers are though. I've had about 1 repair in the the 8 attempts....

Turn 20 - Axis Turn
29th July 1943

No attack from the Axis but more pulling back. I see that the Axis now get sea transport capacity.

Turn 20
29th July 1943

The engineers are officially useless. Maybe I should have trained them to be engineers and, who knows, then they might fix stiff cos that'd be real swell [8|]....

....anyways, progress is made, and I will switch the bulk of my forces to a Traoina-Randazzo-Messina Axis.

I have managed to move most of my air assets to the island but they are all a bit of a mess. I need to go through these and see what I have got.

Turn 21 - Axis Turn
30th July 1941

The British are on the receiving end of some nasty bombardments once again. But that's fine........ so long as the US can breakthrough in the centre.

Turn 21
30th July 1941

As to be expected the US forces run into some heavy units and so the British try and force the issue. 'Mamma mia of all battles' radio reports a major British offensive on the coast road southwest of Mt Etna.

In heavy fighting that cost the British dearly (more than a quarter of rifle squads destroyed and almost half lost) plus numerous tanks, and heavy weapons, they manage to push the Axis force back. Can they make it count?

Sadly not.... The losses incurred in trying to force the issue are devastating (those are big % of very big forces) and I not only expect no further progress, but the Germans should be able to counter-attack - the lone armoured brigade is certainly toast. Ho hum, rather than be enamoured with artillery, at least I tried [:)]


Forget Prokharovka...
Mt Etna - The Death Ride of the 8th Army

Turn 22 - Axis Turn
31st July 1943

My my what a long Axis turn. The Axis have sea lift capability and they are using it. There was a couple of interceptions by my aircraft but according to the reports there was no damage to anyone by anyone.

The Axis limited themselves to bombardments and caused the Canadians and a British Division and armoured brigade into reorganisation.

Turn 22
31st July 1943

The Allies seem to have lots of fighters but very few bombers....

Anyway I place a number of squadrons onto sea interdiction but there is little I can do otherwise. The Axis have a solid defensive line in the middle and the CW forces are reorganising in the east. I try and force the issue on the west coast but simply run into a brick wall and take huge losses just as I did on the other side of the island with the British.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Turn 22 - Axis Turn
31st July 1943
The Axis limited themselves to bombardments and caused the Canadians and a British Division and armoured brigade into reorganisation.

Ready to start slapping soldiers yet? Now you know how Patton felt.

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Turn 22 - Axis Turn
31st July 1943
The Axis limited themselves to bombardments and caused the Canadians and a British Division and armoured brigade into reorganisation.

Ready to start slapping soldiers yet?

warspite1

No. They are doing their best - the Allies appear to have no bombers...

Turn 23 - Axis and Allied Turn
1st August 1943

Most of my air force is low on supply, most of my ground troops are low on supply and the Axis are bombarding those troops to hell. Not really sure what the answer is. My engineers fix one rail every 6 or so attempts.

With so many rail and bridges blown, at this rate they won't have finished repairing supply lines on the island until 1954.

Interception of Axis units is largely pointless - just another way to lose more aircraft for very little.

Not much I can do other than keep buggering on and hope.....

Turn 24 - Axis and Allied Turn
2nd August 1943

The Allies make further small gains - both on the west coast and south of San Fratello - before running out of steam.

That was a better turn for the engineers too - but I've got them in the wrong places and so some of what they've done has been wasted.

Turn 25 - Axis and Allied Turn
3rd August 1943

With one round to go the British have split the defenders into three pockets on the east coast road. Further gains have been made in the centre and west although the advance has largely run out of steam.

Can you do small (regiment size) invasions as Patton did historically?

ORIGINAL: Zorch

Can you do small (regiment size) invasions as Patton did historically?

warspite1

At this stage I've got absolutely no idea. I'll worry about that if a) I can ever eject the Axis off the island and b) I get sea lift capability [:)]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zorch

Can you do small (regiment size) invasions as Patton did historically?

warspite1

At this stage I've got absolutely no idea. I'll worry about that if a) I can ever eject the Axis off the island and b) I get sea lift capability [:)]

Patton did that on Sicily, to outflank the German line.