GG 4.040 tourney Rd.1 AussieBoMbR Vs BenT

[AussieBoMbR]

39 Su AXIS TURN

German stukas and panzer devisions cross the border and make mince meat of polish resistance...with all but 1 Inf from the wehrmacht damaged..

Transport destory in the atlantic and Japs move all sorts of stuff around and take foochow..

Turn sent to ben

[AussieBoMbR]

39 Fa (or autumn as we call it here in oz) AXIS turn

Germany invades TLC with no losses after heavy shore bombardment criples dutch and belgian forces...

Luftwaffe flies sorties over Eastern frace and shows the allies what the superiority of the Me-109 is all about...

Winter war begins and finland turns pro axis [;)]

Tranny sunk in the atlantic...

Japan not so luky with the one CAG damaged in exchange for only one rail in paotow...

{Sry no pics this turn...}

[BenTaylor]

OK in Winter 40 France fell to large German Army in place in TLC

Didn't look defensible with Allied help

1 French transport flees to UK! In other games I have had 2 x LF and 2 x HF! Am I missing something?

Italy goes straight in and Regina Marina blow away whole Eastern Med fleet including total loss of BBs!

Thank goodness Malta had already been etsablished by wise contingency plan

[BenTaylor]

Scramble to put in place a reasonable force in East looks tenable for now

Notice expansion of Italians in Sudan

The Aussie INF have been sent to hold Kenya depending on Italian lack of offensive supply and just 3 MIL after all

[BenTaylor]

OK forces in homeland and there are 4 subs in Atlantic - 3 Ger and 1 It

Destroyers have been running down torps

[AussieBoMbR]

Recap of axis turn W40

Hitler takes the initiative and decides to conquer western europe quickly during the winter to try and catch churchill with his pants down in malta....

But unfortunately the island is already heavily defended [:@] so no luck there...

some higher than normal losses in france becasue of winter but really not all that bad and less than anticipated...

Mussolini flips straight away and regia marina annihilates RN fleet [&o]....who knows maybe the british crews were suffering form a hangover [8|]

Wolf packs have survived the night at sea and another day of sending unprotected trannies to the bottom off atlantic looks to be on the books

Over in the pacific the Japanese conduct some air raids and damage a chinese factory

[AussieBoMbR]

Only just realized that the french decided to scuttle most of their fleet...(makes up for my last game that saw 2HF and 2 LF cross over! [:D]

combined with the success of the eastern meditteranean the pressure is now surely on the RN to keep africa from falling....

[AussieBoMbR]

Spring Axis 1940

Well the shipping in the mediterranean is just ridiculous [:-]

Axis only able to move 2 units into egypt whilst allies have moved 4 in last turn [&:]

Axis forces deployed to albania to puruse greek over throw while paratroopers dust off their combat gear and head down to southern italy for a date with the maltese...

Subs continue to wreak havoc in the atlantic with two more trannies downed whilst gunther prien heads back to his new home in bordeaux to load up some more torps

Meanwhile german reconnaissance picks up a hole in the english defences...is hitler so bold as to pursue sealion????

Heres the scene in the med at the end of the turn...

[AussieBoMbR]

Here are the wolf packs playing hide and seek in the west atlantic

[AussieBoMbR]

And where did that artillery go ??? [:'(]

[BenTaylor]

RAF get busted but remove Axis fighter cover in proximity

There is no imminent pressure of Sealion based on Luftwaffe activity but Axis has 8 transports on map according to Mil Forces - but we think there is enough Home Defence

Some territorials head out to Egypt

Indian Army too swings out to there and Kenya so Aussie INF itching for a ding dong clobber an Italian MIL in Itai East Af and go vet

Strange omens... Aussie and I had a non tourney game before - this is better so far but we got an Aussie MIL vetted up before in this zone


Plus Axis swung Turkish lemons there way too as last game [&:]

We get Saudi oil tho [8D]

We seem to have parity force in Cairo

[&:]

[AussieBoMbR]

AXIS Summer 1940...

Disappointing start to the turn with Yugoslavia going pro-allied despite all efforts to circumvent it and go for the pro-axis coup by taking out Greece first (one turn too late i guess)...However there is one plus side because the problem with the pro-axis coup is that you only get very late access to Hungarian rail which will effect first turn of barbarossa....i dont think ill go for the pro-axis coup in any future games...

Anywayz Rommel has some scouts head into Cairo but large British reinforcement means that odd of achieving victory are going to be very low...

Instead decisions is made to assault Greece and gain port bonus for med shipping....

Greece taken no losses after heavy bombardment and aerial siege and instant improvement to med shipping is seen...More panzer divisions roll into Egypt and it appears that Cairo will fall next turn...

Troops also skirt around Cairo and take out Syria to threaten Iraq oil fields...

Wolf packs have another field day damaging four trannies and a fifth is damaged in port by a German bomber flying over scotland...

Japanese air force have some more success with a factory burnt to the ground and rail improvements destroyed...

[BenTaylor]

Winter 41 Allies

In the previous turn wolf packs had a good turn zapping trannies with a few sunk. They also took Greece and Yugo

The Axis had put CAP in Tyrrhenian sea of HB, TAC & CAG but RN forced through to enable its own CAP to engage the Regia Marina who are securing the Axis supply for their advance on Middle East

They are down to one HF by looks of things and will need all their air

Some German troops had swung in to reinforce Italian Sudan and their transport and HB CAP and were knocked out

Syria which had been amphibiously taken was brought back and Indian reinforcments brought up

It might just be an Allied holding action in Trans J but Axis supply lines might be shaky if RN can break through from Gib

There is a great volume of air in N Italy though for CAP

[BenTaylor]

End of turn hopefully enough Allied air to stop blitkrieg in to Trans J

Parity force in IEA with ART in place

[BenTaylor]

Not much to report in west

RN concentrates on escort rather than search and destroy against subs

RAF raids France and puts CAP over sub lanes

[AussieBoMbR]

Subs try to take out tranny support for the middle east but elite sub scores snake eyes [:@] and fails to damage tranny...

HF is called in to dispatch tranny and LF protecting Arabian sea with good effect[;)]...rommel attacks trans Jordan with combined armed forces making a big difference...although axis are bounced out, half of all allied forces are damaged and then destroyed with no route back to factory...transjordan likely to fall next turn as the middle east is virtually empty now...

Subs are continuing to raid atlantic with good effective dispatching another 4 trannies...[8D]

Bigger CAP is put in the med this time (3xF, 2xTAC, 1xCAG, 2xHB) so hopefully they can hold out [&:]

Sudan is evacuated and Japanese air force toasts a factory in china

Hitler begins to shifts forces to the eastern front....

[BenTaylor]

Phew after the scrap in TJ Persia (Axis leaning) is invaded to provide a land bridge for Iraqforce - should have done that last turn but thought the ART in IEA would be OK to stop Italian HF

TAC takes a pop at in port HF in Cairo and misses

Sudan taken back

Otherwise it is fall back to Iraq with oil refinery and reinforcements come in from Aus

So no land contact due in Middle East for 6 months and there are 2 ART in IEA to fend off amphib or Italian raids

Don't want RN to risk Axis CAP in west Med but that's alot of aviation fuel getting burnt up and those forces will be needed out east...

[BenTaylor]

End Allies 41

As we can see still scrap in ME and Axis units still queueing up to head east

Axis has 107 supply only I don't think Barb is on yet

[BenTaylor]

The build up in ME as Iraqforce is bumped up with Persia now Allied conquest

Axis have damaged another bunch of trannie but we can still get round Cape

Still big Axis CAP in East Med - lots of fuel...(8 units) [8D]. We have our own ASW CAP down East Atlantic now to disrupt France to N Africa

RN damage a sub now that ASW is 2

Vet strat air bombs Eastern French mines again

Vet TAC in Iraq destroys Italian trannie

Chinese AA gets 2 damaged Jap air [;)]

[AussieBoMbR]

Well im back again, sorry to BenT for the short break will try to keep you updated in future...

AXIS TURN SUMMER '41

Well turns out this was an interesting little turn...

German high command convinces Hitler of the benefit of pursuing the british in the middle east to gain acces to iraq oilfields and the decision is made to temporarily delay barbarossa...

Meanwhile Il Duce decides to invest some money in shares of esso, bp and shell [:)] to try and recoup back some of the expenses involved in keeping the large CAP hovering over the western med which is keeping the whole africa adventure viable...

Il duce also orders the regia marina which is sitting around doing nothing to engage RN in the western med and with help of air support one HF gets busted...RN really not having much luck lately [:D]

Meanwhile a LF and sub head off to stop reinforcements from entering iraq and in doing so dispatch a couple of trannies...fighter engages air units over iraq and a RAF fighter is sent packing...

And off the coast of france 3 veteran subs do very well to nail a tranny and damage a LF...jackpot would have been to get the CV sitting there as well, maybe next time [;)]

Japanes air force fail again with another HB getting stung over china...

Situation in the middle east: