GG 4.040 Tourney Rd 1 - SGT Rice vs AussieBoMbR

[SGT Rice]

Normal Axis turn 1; overwhelming force applied taking Poland and Foochow with no unit losses.

[AussieBoMbR]

Usual stuff...

RAF and French Air Force run a sortie over W.Germany which damages one german fighter, one allied tac and one allied fighter...

[SGT Rice]

Germany redeploys the victorious Wehrmacht to the French frontier; no combat in the West.

Chinese infrastructure and airfields feel the effects from a heavy round of Japanese airstrikes.

[AussieBoMbR]

WAllies Fa39

Not much to report this turn some minor ship and armed forces movement...

Still no action on the western front??? Expecting TLC to be invaded this turn with massive army in W.germany. War readiness is going pretty slowly for both the soviets and the Wallies...

[SGT Rice]

W40 - The attack on the Low Countries begins with port strikes ... the LS is taken out by raiding Dorniers. The hapless Belgian army disappears after a few days fighting. Gunther Prien catches the Royal Oak off Scapa Flow and sends her limping back to port. Air raids in China damage another rail and resource.

[AussieBoMbR]

RAF regroups back in England to prepare for some more sorties in the near future...

HMS valiant heads to alexandria...

Illustrious attempts to blockade kreigsmarine in france

[SGT Rice]

Axis Spring 40

The Germans go with a frontal assault on the Maginot Line; results as shown.

Dorniers from Belgium sink a UK trannie after the FoF.

Scouting U-boats detect that there are no British battleships guarding the northern approaches, so the Scharnhorst/Gneisenau sortie for Brest, dispatching a UK cruiser flotilla enroute.


Light air raids in China; 1 rail & 1 resource hit.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Summer 40

The Brits placed a light air screen (1 CAG, 1 FTR) to keep the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe bottled up in France ... the German battlecruisers & subs sortie; driving off the British aircraft and damaging the CAG. Heinkel squadrons fly through the gap and dispatch another UK trannie. Finally, repeated sorties by Heinkels and 2 LS squadrons damages a French sub flotilla off the Norwegian coast.

Little action in China; 1 resource hit by air attack.

[AussieBoMbR]

Allies Su 1940

Following continuous harassment of Allied transports and surface fleets Churchill gives the order to "Sink the Bismarck"

So the RAF go on what looks like a suicide mission into France but come away with a very good result damaging the BB sitting in dock in exchange for a damaged allied fighter....

Eastern Med fleet is reinforced yet again and it looks like Rommel will have to settle for mountains of Greece rather than the sands of North Africa...

British Isles are reinforced...

Any it looks like mussolini is on holidays???[>:]

[SGT Rice]

Axis Fall 40

The Luftwaffe retreats from France to support the invasions of Yugoslavia & Norway ... no other action in Europe.

Air raids in China score 2 resource & 3 rail hits.

[SGT Rice]

Allied Fall 41 (Aussie)

A quiet turn with no combat; the Brits brace for Italy's entrance into the war.

Axis Winter 41 -

The Fury of Il Duce is unleashed [>:] and the war at sea begins in earnest ... Italy seizes Malta, the Wehrmacht rolls into Greece wiping out the Greek army, the Greek fleet is mopped up by Italian battleships, Stuka raids harass the Royal Navy's Eastern Med fleet, and the wolfpacks are turned loose into the South Atlantic.

More air raids in China ... 4 resource hits.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Spring 41 -

The British leave Gibraltar sparsely garrisoned ... Heinkels & Italian BBs, knock out the lone defending arty, allowing the Sardinian militia to land unopposed.

The Luftwaffe masses in the Eastern Med to good effect; destroyed 1 fighter & 1 militia, damaged 1 sub, 1 lt bomber, 1 arty, 1 factory, 2 rail and Crete taken via paradrop.

Syria revolts against the Empire, providing a beachhead for further Axis excursions into the Middle East.

3 WA trannies damaged in the Battle of the Atlantic.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Spring 41 (cont) -

In the Pacific the Chinese have massed their army in Changsha, leaving two units in Chungking vulnerable to a massive onslaught by the Japanese air force (including the IJNs carrier wings).

[SGT Rice]

Axis Summer 41 -

Gibraltar-based Me109s take down a CAG; 2 wolfpacks returning from the North Atlantic find unescorted trannies.

In the Middle East the CW supply lines are cut by U-boats and He-111s based out of Syria; Transjordan is invaded and heavily reinforced with troops and bombers. Another air battle over Cairo as the Luftwaffe tries to chase the RAF out of the region.

Not much to report in China; 2 resource hits & 1 rail hit.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Summer 41 (cont) -

Action in the Middle East ... the Germans seize Saudi Arabia, sending the Luftwaffe to attack the British Fleet off the Yemeni coast ... assault troops invade Sudan and force the surrender of the Indian defenders. U-boat raiders damage two trannies off of Gibraltar.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Summer 41 (cont) -

In the Far East the Chinese are in an exposed position ... Japanese HBs damage the inland factories, then a massed assault hits the Chinese army in Changsha, killing/damaging all the remaining Chinese on-map units.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Fall 41 -

Germany pushes into the Indian Ocean; landing in Western India. Submarine and air attacks score heavily on WA transports and destroyers.

Japan repositions forces in preparation for the Pacific War.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Spring 42 -

Getting into the high risk/high reward part of the Axis strategy; Russia could enter at any time, but the British position in the Far East is too vulnerable to relinquish the advantage.

Massed Stukas from Oman wipe out the British fleet off of Madagascar; India is isolated by Italian cruisers, Heinkels blast the infrastructure in Southern India and reinforcements pour into the German beachhead in Western India.

German troops push south into British East Africa; a large British garrison is isolated on Madagascar island. The Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic are cleared of British shipping for the time being.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Spring 42 (cont) -

The stage is set in the Pacific ...

[rjh1971]

Chris you got no reply since 6/7/09?

It was getting very interesting...