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Thank you for doing this. It explains the difference between a negotiated surrender (Vichy and Italy) and a full surrender.

SEPT 13, 1940

Only 2 MS Sunk. The Kriegsmarine steams into the North Atlantic to help the U-Boats. Most of French North Africa is now in Axis hands. But what is it with the partisans? I didn't know the Algerians were so loyal to France; or are they the French Foreign Legion?

My all motorized invasion of Yugoslavia. Will I be able to capture Belgrade before the rains set in?

The Germans build an armour.

SEPT 27, 1940

I am afraid not as my desperation 2:1 attack is repulsed.

In the Atlantic I sink 5 more MS, 4 by my fleet and only 1 by my U-Boats. My U-Boats also take 2 hits. Funny how things can turn around. For about 11 months I was consistently sinking more MS than MM was in our mirror game. But over the last 4 turns I have sunk only 9 MS, while in our mirror game MM has sunk 39 of my MS. Now admittedly he has been using 6 subs to my 4 and his fleet has been active an extra turn; but that is still quite a turn around. To my surprise MM has not even tried to attack my main fleet; but he may well do so on his next turn as I am forced to steam back towards my port in France where he has several RN fleets in range.

I think MM will evacuate Oran on his turn, but I will have to wait to see.

OCT 11, 1940

A bad couple weeks for the bad guys. 6 MS and an escort are sunk by my U-Boats, so that isn't bad. But I also had a U-Boat sunk. It started with it taking a couple hits doing its convoy attack, than it sustained 3 more hits from two air attacks. As you can see in the screenshot below it was in a hex that I am pretty sure would be very low surveillance (or if you are in range of air units does that change that?) and is more than 10 hexes from the nearest air unit. So MM must have changed the tech on some of his air units. I am hoping he just got very lucky to find me twice. If not, than I will have to take back what I posted on the Forum about subs now being almost impossible to sink. On a positive note he was unable to find my main fleet, which escapes to port.

Things were also bad in Yugoslavia. My poor unit positioning last turn meant that he was able to put some of my units out of supply. I bombed and attacked Belgrade in the rain, but no luck. Note to self: Be sure to leave 3 clear turns to conquer Yugoslavia.

MM does vacate French North Africa all of which is now firmly under Axis control.

I don't know as I mentioned that I put Malta out of supply a couple turns ago. MM responded by moving a sub adjacent. I air attacked the sub this turn but only scored 3 hits.

Forces and Casualties. As expected my total land and air casualties now exceed 300 and will go up the longer Belgrade resists. I have inflicted some casualties on the British as well and their land and air strength is relatively weak. My goal is to get the British down to 125 or so MS. I doubt I will succeed as I am pretty sure that MM will be building them as fast as I can sink them, but that is good too.

I build an armour and a sub (to replace the one that was sunk).

Tech Advances. I am pleased that my German Heavy Armor tech has made some big advances over the last few turns, but it is still less than I would like. My Assault tech is doing very well.

OCT 25, 1940

Only 2 MS sunk and I take 2 U-Boat hits. Oh how I long for the Happy Hunting Days.

On the plus side I do capture Belgrade on my first attack.

And I destroy that pesky sub supplying Malta.

The Build Queues. Not sure how everyone else manages to start Barbarossa in April when most of my armour won't even be arriving until then or later. I guess they must start building before France falls. I anticipate that my army size will be around 1500 by May 41 with 8 armour and 4 mechanized. I will use 8 armour and 2 mechanized for Barbarossa. Is that good or bad?

NOV 8, 1940

7 MS sunk, mostly by the German surface fleet; but the UK carriers finally find me and inflict 5 hits of damage. I split my fleet, returning the 3 damaged units to port while the remaining 3 move to try the hunting closer to Canada. Otherwise nothing happening. The Germans build a Mechanized.

NOV 22, 1940.

0 MS sunk. The Germans build a Ground Attack group.

DEC 6, 1940

Only 2 MS sunk and I take 3 sub hits; I do not like this exchange. The Germans build a large corps and Italy builds a mountain corps.

DEC 20, 1940

A very bad turn for the Kriegsmarine. 3 MS sunk along with 2 U-Boat hits. But the worst news is that the RN finds and attacks one of the German fleets.

And the Coup de Grace. To be found once in a very low reconnaissance hex was bad, buy twice in the same turn is catastrophic as the the number of Kriegsamrine units is halved in 2 weeks. Oh well, they were using up too much oil anyway.

Germany builds a large corps.

JAN 3, 1941

A somewhat better turn in the Atlantic as 8 MS are sunk against 2 U-Boat hits. Germany builds another large corps and 10 supply trucks. Italy builds a small corps.