How the Axis could have won II. Allied AAR

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: n0kn0k

ORIGINAL: warspite1

9th December 1941

To sunnier climes now and the Axis again put in a concerted attack on El-Alamein - XII Corps were lucky to hold on. The RAF also took a bit of a battering too. I can only assume the Germans have increased their tech in the air...

Try and use overwhelming air power to pick the Axis units off, one by one.
So many good units there are doing nothing atm. Try and put the strongest units in front, not corps. [;)]
Try and go around them and cut off supply.
Perhaps even try to do a landing behind their lines if you are bold enough.

warspite1

I have been putting the armies at the front. However I am having to rotate units as the Afrika Korps got to level 2 while many of mine are at 1. I am getting there....I think [;)].

[warspite1]

31st December 1941

The War at Sea continues with the U-Boat menace at large in the Western Approaches, off the coast of Scotland and the Norwegian Sea.

Admiral Donitz calls more Wolf Packs to the scene in the Norwegian Sea - and these launch attacks with varying success. I need to get the carriers out of there.

In the Western Approaches at least one pack is on the loose and hurting convoy traffic, while off Scotland a U-Boat is trying to limp home.

[warspite1]

31st December 1941

The Afrika Korps - specifically Rommels panzers and artillery, reduce the infantry of the British IV Corps, but the Italians, attacking El-Alamein, have no joy and are repulsed with losses.

[warspite1]

31st December 1941

The Northwestern Front not only continue to hold the Germans at the Dvina, but even more encouraging is that one of the two corps that crossed the river near Riga has had to withdraw; the bridgehead on the northbank is now held by the much depleted XXI Corps. Further south near Daugvapils, all three infantry units are reduced in strength and the panzers that attacked the fortress have, at least temporarily, withdrawn.

[warspite1]

31st December 1941

I said earlier that the panzers were not going to get very far without support - and so it has proved. The attack in Minsk remains ineffectual...

[Orm]

Is the USSR to weak in attack to reduce that panzer next to Gomel?

[warspite1]

31st December 1941

In the south its is much the same story, with the infantry on the west bank of the lower Dneipr expending much their strength without actually achieving their goal. The situation to the north remains the only concern - although I have some reinforcement there and hopefully the Romanians and Hungarians will prefer to fight each other [;)]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Is the USSR to weak in attack to reduce that panzer next to Gomel?

warspite1

Probably - I will let you know. I am thinking of putting it out of supply and not attacking but that may be too risky.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Orm

Is the USSR to weak in attack to reduce that panzer next to Gomel?

warspite1

Probably - I will let you know. I am thinking of putting it out of supply and not attacking but that may be too risky.

How about both?

[Orm]

Now that US is in the war, can you put any pressure on getting some minors to join the Allies? Turkey? Sweden? Finland?

[warspite1]

31st December 1941

Here is a brief summary. Pleasingly there are no combat losses this turn:

[Orm]

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[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Now that US is in the war, can you put any pressure on getting some minors to join the Allies? Turkey? Sweden? Finland?

warspite1

I may do, but first I'd like to get a few US units to Europe and put some pressure on.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm



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warspite1

I think the RN can handle that old thing [;)]

[warspite1]

31st December 1941

That was quick!


"Er lads...I think we were supposed to fit the gun INSIDE the emplacement....."

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Orm



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warspite1

I think the RN can handle that old thing [;)]

No doubt. No doubt at all. So that begs to wonder why it is commissioned at all.

[warspite1]

21st January 1942

And so we move into the New Year. There are some decisions to be made - and the answer is YES to both:

[warspite1]

21st January 1942

And the second one

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21st January 1942

Reinforcements

Soviet Union

2 x Corps (Daugvapils, Kherson)
1 x Rokossovsky HQ (Simfernapol)
1 x Garrison (Parnu)
1 x Artillery (Kherson)
1 x Mechanised (Simfernapol)
1 x Army (Dnierpetrovsk)

MPP Expenditure

UK - The British spend MPP on getting the Canadian tanks to Egypt. They spend the rest on reinforcing unit in Egypt.
USA - Nothing - they want a quality HQ
USSR - The Soviets start the research of Advanced Aircraft. Plus the purchase of Rocket Artillery and a Mechanised unit

[warspite1]

21st January 1942

The Allies produce a stamp of its world leaders when they were children to mark the declaration of "Complete Victory".


From left to right: "Shorty" Stalin, "Specky four-eyes" Churchill and er Roosevelt...er when he was Burmese....