HOF V3 game -Kursk

[I. Larkin]

Russian turn summary:

Parizan captured undefended Riga.

2 Blizzards destroyed Falks near Riga.

3 Bomber readlined Guard in Rostov and Field Army captured Rostov.

2TA "Front" kiled 2 MEh inf. TA killed F-defender near Moscow, Blizzard destroyed Falk.

Bombardments of stacks near Tula, Stalingrad and Sevastopol had no or very little effect.

 

[RickFGS]

Ouch, nicely done for both Eric and Ivan

 

[RickFGS]

The save is with Bowsling?

 

[aksully]

The save is with Bowsling?

Hopefully Larkin sent the save to Bow???

Bow Did you get the save from Larkin???

And your right Rick...the Allies on this turn so far have had some surprises for us!!!

 

[RickFGS]

Hopefully Larkin sent the save to Bow???

Bow Did you get the save from Larkin???

And your right Rick...the Allies on this turn so far have had some surprises for us!!!

We gotta hold the lines!

 

[eric_A]

Hopefully Larkin sent the save to Bow???

Bow Did you get the save from Larkin???

And your right Rick...the Allies on this turn so far have had some surprises for us!!!

I get the save from Larkin and play the minor allies, then I send the save to Bowsling.

 

[Bowsling]

Tried to play, had a crash. Will be away, so if Eric can play my turn, that'd be great.

 

[eric_A]

Tried to play, had a crash. Will be away, so if Eric can play my turn, that'd be great.

OK, will do.

 

[eric_A]

Naval battle in Bay Of Bengal
6T west of Ceylon, CA Cornwall + 4DDs and 1 sub take on
2 IJN CAs and 1 DD. All IJN ships sunk, 2 RN DDs
(2/3) and (3/3) and the sub (3/4) survived.

Casablanca Bombarded by BB Rodney, CLAA and 4 DD
2 Biplanes destroyed

W of Bengazi:
Road destroyed by DB
Africa Korp bombed by P40, MB and DB, damaged 3/12

Tobruk Bombarded by CLAA and 2 DD - no effect

N of Alexandria:
RN sub (4/4) sinks unknown sub
RN DD (1/4) sinks unknown sub

France:
Road destroyed on coal tile near Paris by HB
1 HB Shot down by Me109 west of Paris

SW of Antwerp:
Flak redlined by BB
Rail dest by BB

Near Narvik:
Iron tile bombed by TB and DB, no effect

 

[Glasnost]

Axis will not let recent agressions of Allied forces to go without punishment.

Leningrad Front
One field. art. tests the ice north from Leningrad doing 1dmg. Nothing more

Mediterrean
Axis sub sinks CW Destroyer Near Egypt. No damage taken.


Siege of Sevastopol
Inf. Corp. walks into empty streets. Looks like Russians decided that odds were against them.
Sevastopol taken


Invasion of Malta
Axis Battleship destroys coastal fortress
Axis Battleship hits fighter plane 2/4
Italian Heavy Cruiser hits plane 1/3
Italian Heavy Cruiser takes out fighter plane
Italian Heavy Cruiser Takes out plane 1/3
Axis Destroyer miss
Axis Destroyer miss
Axis Destroyer miss
Axis Destroyer miss
Axis Destroyer hits fortress division 3/4
Axis Destroyer miss
Axis Destroyer miss
Axis Destroyer miss
Axis Destroyer hits static defence division 4/5
Axis Destroyer hits fortress division 2/4
Stuka hits static defence division 1/5
Fighter miss
Fighter shot down
Fighter destroys Barracks
Fighter shot down
Med. Bomber takes down Granary

Marine Corp kills Fortress division 6/7
Marine Division takes out flak 3/4
Marine Division takes out field art. no dmg
Marine Division takes out static defence division 1/4

City is taken

 

[eric_A]

Invasion of Malta

City is taken

It's a good thing I pulled the fleet out of Malta!

 

[eric_A]

9 tiles north of Pearl Harbor:
FT runs into undetected sub and sinks (I was lucky, the FT was empty).
DD (2/4) sinks the sub.

Also near Pearl. force 9 gale is Bombarded by HA, 2 BB
and finished off by TB

Germans Invade Iceland!
P-40 strafes German Mountain Div, - no effect
Oh No! Just look at that big, nasty Iceberg, is that
the theme music music from "Titanic" I hear?

 

[RickFGS]

The german pilot in charge of zi transport as been ordered to engage the enemy "iceberg" and give it no mercy, unfortanelly it seems to be much too large to make an icecream of it

 

[aksully]

This has been a pretty interesting turn!!! So Eric, are you playing Nature with Bow unavailable????

 

[eric_A]

Sully, can you send me the nature password?

 

[Glasnost]

It's a good thing I pulled the fleet out of Malta!

I was hoping to get something valuable out of it... Well at least we got nice beaches for our soldiers to rest on.

 

[aksully]

PW was sent this evening.....sorry I didn't see the email earlier!!

 

[eric_A]

North of Iceland:
The encounter between the Iceberg and the transport
did not go well for the Transport:
transport sunk, Iceberg 2/5

 

[RickFGS]

Darn you nature! Germany will be mounting flamethrowers on his transports from now on...

 

[aksully]

Have the save and will be able to play and forward it on Saturday! Hope my IJN CA will be able to avenge that brave and honorable German Transport!!