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Here's what's going on right now. I've flown some paratroopers to airfields along
the east coast so they can blow bridges and convert some hexes to disrupt the flow
of rail traffic going south. I've started to push west from Taranto along the Bay's
coastal road with the British and NE from Taranto along the railroad with the US.
I've got two reserve divisions at Sicily one of which can sail next turn and one of
which can sail the turn after that. I need to see about the losses.

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Here's some of the losses so far. I'm almost out of
Baltimores so it looks like I need to stand those guys
down for a while.

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This is what it looks like just before I pull the trigger for the second combat
round. The first round went well and I got further behind the Germans and the
contest is almost over here. I evaporated the Axis stack in the mountains NE
of Taranto and those units are establishing an MLR along the east coast. I'm
thinking of moving it along the coastal road until the supply is almost no longer
supporting and build it there.

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I was deliberating on whether to attack again or not and discovered that the 1st
Canadian Division is hurting. I need to replace them on the front lines with one
of the reserve divisions and put the 1st Canadian in reserve to rest and refit.
At least one of the regiments is down to half strength.

I think what I'll do is replace the British units with American ones in this AO and
use the British for further invasions on the west coast of Italy.

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Damn I miss this scenario. And I hate that I never finished working on it. But it looks great now and I look forward to trying this out. Thanks for the great AAR as usual.
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Larry,

Very interesting and I like your use of the paratroopers. Hopefully, you can get them back out.

I've not played this scenario, but are your American units stronger than the Brits/Canadians? If so, you may want to use them on the East coast as the big cities are on that side. Just a thought.
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ORIGINAL: MikeJ19
Larry,
Hey there Mike man. Thanks for your question. When I don't know the answer to
questions I have to look it up and that way *I* learn too. And you guys can come
up with some really interesting questions sometimes.
ORIGINAL: MikeJ19
Very interesting and I like your use of the paratroopers. Hopefully, you can get them back out.
I'm really hoping to get them back out but if not their mission was still important enough to
have done it. The idea is to tear up the rails anc capture the airfields at various spots so
that his engineers will be hopefully busy trying to repair things. I've got plans to get the
aircraft involved in dropping bridges as well but I'm using them as CS right now and that has
priority. If I can keep the paratroopers moving to different spots maybe they will survive
longer. When they turn yellow I'll fly them back to a high supply area and let them refit and
get ready to go out again.
ORIGINAL: MikeJ19
I've not played this scenario, but are your American units stronger than the Brits/Canadians? If so, you may want to use them on the East coast as the big cities are on that side. Just a thought.
Umm....I'm thinking that the British and American Regiments are pretty much the same strength and
I don't think either one of them has an advantage. I'll do some kind of study and give you a full
report.
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Here's that report on the differences between the British regiments and American
regiments and doing this cut and paste has straightened me out on the differences
that I didn't know before. I'm glad I did this. I can better imagine the proper
missions for them now. The British would be great at getting across rivers but
the Americans have organic arty and Greyhounds ( armor ) and therefore we're
comparing apples and oranges to a small extent. They are designed for different
missions and should be used accordingly.

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Larry,

I'm glad I could help or at least offer questions that you do not have immediate answers for. In the Normandy scenario, the British units were stronger than the American ones - and were fighting in easier ground to begin with.

I have never looked that closely at the unit reports before. Very interesting and I will do that more in my next game.
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Here's what it looks like around Taranto right now. I've heard train noises so I'll
bet Brian is railing troops into the Taranto AO to try to push me back into the sea.
I'd best look into building some MLR's pretty quick.

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I got rid of one German stack and there's only one left standing. I would have gotten
rid of it too but my adjacent units were yellow.

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I've just got some moves from Brian and I've started to look things over and move
some units around and I thought I'd take a look at the supply bubbles and compare
it with the overextended threashold and so far we're good. I thought maybe it was
five or so but it's zero so there's no worries about being overextended even with
just a single point of supply. I'll have to remember that.

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Infantrymen of the recently arrived 3rd Inf Div make their way from the pier to the
check-in point on their way to the chow-hall for a hot meal, their first hot meal
of the day, in downtown Taranto. For the chow-hall the Americans have commendered
an Italian resturant for as long as the Americans are here, probably a week or less,
and the proprietor of the resturant gets 5K lire per day. It's a win-win.

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Next I'm moving elements of the 45th division and I've come to the engineers and they
volunteered to venture out into indian-country to capture a key cross-roads town. Now
to get some infantry folks to replace the engineers.

I'm starting to run into resistance along the coastal road and most of the expedition is
still out of position so it's going to take about half a turn to get everybody sorted out
and into formations again.

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Larry,

I love the photos!

Well done in expanding your beachhead. Your are going to make the Axis defence in the area near Sicily irrelevant.

This is fun to follow.

All the best,
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Here's what's going on in some of the hot spots round the map. Germans are starting
to show up where the airborne is. I'm not sure I can save them all. I'm parking ships
near them for support and there's always the CS, that I can increase a tiny bit, and
that's about the best I can do for them. I can always drop some reinforcements near
them to lend a hand because I've got 1/3 of the 82nd Airborne and the British 1st Airborne
Division that I can use but I was saving them for someother place, a more important
place, and where that is hasn't appeared yet but I think I'll know it when I see it.
I need more recon on the ports.

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ORIGINAL: MikeJ19
Larry,
Hey there Mike man. Thanks for posting. We need your input, actually Brian could
perhaps use some tips as well as me.
ORIGINAL: MikeJ19
I love the photos!
I'll see if I can't find some more and weave them into the game.
ORIGINAL: MikeJ19
Well done in expanding your beachhead. Your are going to make the Axis defence in the area near Sicily irrelevant.
Thank you for your kind words. You're too kind by half. Um...I'd rather not invade the Reggio area as all the recons I've done there has revealed a near fortress. I'm watching for any rail movement from that area and there WAS some rail traffic from there going south last turn so I'm guessing he's stripping off some troops to send to the Taranto front. I'm looking for an empty port near a supply point but those are rare. So far the only one is Toulon, France, but so far that's off limits.
ORIGINAL: MikeJ19
This is fun to follow.

All the best,
No need to follow, join in and tell me what I'm supposed to do with the little islands, Corsica and Sardinia. I've got a Panzer Division on one of them, I don't remember which right off the top of my head. My game with Ian is mixing with this game in my head somewhat. I just need to remember that I'm the Allies in my game with Brian.
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The best kind of attack that this DD can muster is a "port attack" on the three
port hexes near and including Reggio and I'm wondering if that means there's no
occupant there or what. I'll need to send over somebody to check it out. Maybe
a recon unit. In fact the 8th Indian Division might have one of those and they are
already staged and ready to sail. They are the reserve division and I'm waiting
for a good time to comitt them and this comes really close to being it. I need to
scope out what else is happening on the front. This division may be needed at
Taranto for all I can envision.

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Going on the intel that was gathered by the UK DD's offshore of Reggio, I decided
to drop a paratrooper unit in Reggio and see what happens. He landed unscathed.
So then I sailed the 8th Indian Division across the channel from Messina and invested
the ports and cities and the next thing I need to do is fly in some CAP for them.
One or more of the shorter-ranged fighter units might suffice.

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Here's the situation just before I ended my turn. I've got units all over the map
and some small progress is being made.

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