WW2-Global

[Rocoteh]

Me,being a noob in civ,is playing only on warlord so the report will no be interresting at all,but i'm very pleased about my industy i produce 8 panzers per turn and my coastal citys build 3 bismarks in 8 turns or so i like it...but Rocoteh I must say u hae greatet such a great szenario very good work ...
One thing annoying me:the USA(being the only enemy with a Navy left,hast tonnes of small ships and i only have 4 of each Bismarks and Gneisnau class but the fact that they can attack only once each turn makes it imposibble 4 me to handle their fleet what about letting them attack 2 times a turn?

Morphling,

Thank you.

On multiple attacks for naval units:

Its an interesting idea. The problem is that it will make some
naval units to powerful. Still I will consider it.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Hello all. I have been very busy at work in the last months and I had plenty to do in my "free time". However I decided to try to play a new game of WWII global right now. Can t live without

IarnGreiper,

Welcome back!

I am looking forward to read your report on the new playtest.

Rocoteh

 

[IarnGreiper]

As usual odd things happen to me (new game, German 2.1 Emperor).

German Front Report december 39

Just as we conquered Poland in two turns Japan declares war on Soviets. The HQ ditched Fall gelb and left our troops in Poland taking defensive positions. With the Luftwaffe superiority we were able to dispatch large numbers of Soviet troops and drive them back. Our only offensive on the west have been two infantry divisions securing Kopenhagen. We stopped two French assaults on our Rhine positions at Freiburg. With the Luftwaffe able to keep our airspace clean (with the exception of Bremen) Freiburg was never in real danger as we stacked some German 88s there.
Romania was close to get lost in october since it got attacked by Soviets and Greece (which took Albania from Italy) simultaniously. But with Luftwaffe air support the Romanians faught them back.
We built the following Kampfgruppen:
Kampfgruppe Nord secured the Baltic coast up to Talinn where we got lucky in cathing almost the entire Russian Baltic fleet. The Swedes ran into a Russian Costal sub and joined our Naval fight.
Kampfgruppe Mitte has been driving through Belarussia and is right now holding the long line of defense between Novgorod and the Ukraine.
Kampfgruppe Süd is has right now encircled Kiev.

Our objective is to sieze Kiev, then we have to decide on the further objectives. Leningrad seems tough even with naval bombardment. Moscow is too well entrenched as well as Sewastopol. We are reluctant in advancing further in the Mid Russia in fear of overstetching our troops especially with the French pressing at Freiburg (which is foolish since they oculd have taken Italy with the troops the wasted on our Freiburg positions). Maybe we give in to the Russian pleas for a cease fire and accept their money.

Italy which happened to send a lot of troops towards the Ukraine is in a desperate condition. Their airforce seems lost and their troops in the Ukraine are scattered and get killed by Russian tank and rair raids.
Finnland is doing fine.
Sweden is blocking me from shelling Leningrad with their navy.
Norway has had another submarine incident and has lost its Navy to the angry Brits. Unfortunately our battlecruiser Deutschland got caughrt in the mess and got sunk as well. Right now Norway does not have any surface ship left and Bergen has been airraided extensively by British bombers. I wonder if the British dare to conduct a Naval landing there.
Spain has declared war on Italy but no action was surveyed by our troops. Greece has been lucky with the Reich being busy with Russia otherwise we would have taught them a lessson.
Turkey, Swiss, Portugal and Yugoslavia remained neutral so far.
On all other fronts everything seems quiet with Japan taking over the Philipenes as sole execption.
Without any German activity on the western front we have yet to see any American unit.

 

[Akrasia]

Great Britain-Sid-1942

Victory-Japan achieved during week 35, 1942. Victory-Europe achieved during week 37, 1942. That same week, the allies resumed open warfare with the Soviets on all fronts.

I will say more a bit later, I just need the time to compose some thoughtful (and hopefully useful) comments in response to your questions.

P.S. In defense of UK capital ships I would like to note that following WWI, as victors over Germany, they were able to incorporate the lessons of naval combat as well as the tech information of thier rivals into their future designs. Under the conditions of the Treaty of Versilles, the Germans could not. Jane's Fighting Ships of WWII says the following about the Vanguard: Armour-Protection believed to be fully equal to that of contemporary battleships of other navies. Gunnery Notes--Latest system of radar control is installed. Engineering Notes--Damage control arrangements claimed to be the most thorough ever installed in H.M. ships. I have noted a number of debates over the ratings of units in the forum for this scenario. I do not wish to continue them, but I had to say something . . .

 

[Adler17]

Akrasia, it is said that Bismarck had an inferior ship design than others. Especially the armour is under critics as said it was thinner (as it was indeed). However I can only agree in the point the gunnery target devices were not so well protected. To the other points I disagree.
1. RADAR: Both Bismarck and Tirpitz had the best German RADAR of that time. It was not so well developed indeed as the British, but together with the extremely good optical system, the German gunners were able to hit the targetted point in a certain range in a radius of 2.5 m, 4 times less than the British, this was not that disadvantage. Also there was no real fighting over 20.000 yards as the chances to hit were extremely small. So RADAR was in no way that advantage as it said, since most of the fightings took place at day.
But a counter example: In 1943 a German fleet torpedo boat group was sent to escort a German freighter coming from Japan (Münsterland). The Admirality knew about this and sent CL Charybdis and 5 DD to catch that convoy. Both sides did not had visual contact, only RADAR and SONAR. As the British opened fire the Germans already had launched their eals. Two of them sunk CL Charybdis, another DD Limbourne. Although they were detected by British RADAR no German ship was hit.
2. The armour: The German armour quality was the best of the world. No ship survives a two hours bombardment by a British fleet and still being floatable with bad armour. Despite the thickness of armour the quality, mixtures and design of a ship´s armour can be much more worth than a heavier armour. Also it is not a real argument to say the German guns and other places were already knocked out due to lesser protection. In two hours fighting while being a lame duck every ship would not have seen so good as Bismarck. In a real fight with a maneuverable ship, the Bismarck would have been able to inflict much more damage. Adn it would have been much harder. The battle only really says something about the construction of the Bismarck, not more, but no less.
OTOH the British did not seem to have learned so much about Jutland if they lost Hood due to the very same reasons. But okay, you say Vanguard had an armour equal to other BBs. That I doubt. From the thickness in some parts maybe but not from design and quality. The British ships ever seemed to be inferior in that degree to US and especially German ships. As example I can only give the battle between Bismarck and PoW. I know PoW was new and so not that a good comparison. But Bismarck was able to damage her badly by hitting only 8 times. Since, IIRC, the Vanguard based on the KGV class, you can add some more hits here, but I doubt that she would have been no damaged badly like the PoW after 12- 16 hits. So in a fight Bismarck would have been superior, not to talk about H class.

Adler

 

[Adler17]

Another gameplay report:
The battle of Skagerrak continues. Scharnhorst sank Queen Elizabeth, but is now again on the way to be repaired.
In the Atlantic Admiral Graf Spee, enroute to Norway is suddenly in severe danger: Two US BBs and 4 CA appeared. U 36 sank two of the CA and is now en route to Brest, like Admiral Graf Spee. I did this because of the...
Fall Gelb!
As the French were advancing in Italy, I decided not to help the Italians until Germany is in danger. Instead I wanted to retake the Italian cities for me. But now the French decided ot threaten my South German cities and so I attacked. I planned this attack before but was not decided yet if I do it. The French decided for me, so I attacked. My Panzer were able to catch Lille after Lille and Verdun bombed by my Luftwaffe. In the following time the infantry was ablt ot take Verdun and my Panzer also took Paris. A stack of artillery and infantry is en route to Brest, where I will have a harbour to use my fleet from. On this way I did not engage the Maginot line, which is also not longer intact as some of the fortresses were already blown to peaces by my Luftwaffe.
The losses are minimal until now.

Adler

 

[Adler17]

And the last update for today:
I was able to take Brest with my infatry and artillery there. Also Straßburg is now German again after being bombed by my Luftwaffe before. The French lost many damaged tanks there. So the rest of the Maginot line is on my territory, a problem to be dealt later, but not more than a small annoyance now.
In the last PC turn the British declared war on Norway, why I don´t know. However Admiral Scheer is now only one tile before a mine field and so she should be safed. Admiral Graf Spee is en route to Brest, followed by USS Texas and USS Colorado. But they have only the same direction as they are away from her.

Adler

 

[goodsmell]

I wish I could play that Scenario with you guys : D
But I dont have that civersion ..

Moderator Action: then buy it.

 

[Adler17]

@goodsmell: Kauf es! (Übrigens ist Deutschland falsch geschrieben...)

So in the following PC turn I was lucky that I brought 3 coastal subs, U 1- 3, to cover the Admiral Scheer. HMS Barham tried to sink the ship but ran into one of the Uboats. Although it sank the boat with ease Admiral Scheer was rescued. I sent Scharnhorst to sink the British ship, what she did, however I miscalculated the way. So Admiral Scheer is now safe but not Scharnhorst. So I use coastal subs as cover to bring my damaged ship home. It is only one tile away from safetyness.
I had to declare war on Spain as they declared war on Italy. And the Norwegian navy is now going into their doom as they try to attack the Allies in the open Atlantic. One of their coastal BBs is already sunk by HMS Valiant, which was surprisingly damaged heavily as well.
In my turn there is not much to say as I try to build up task forces to take Lyon and Bordeaux. The only remarkable thing is sinking a British convoy in the Channel by the Luftwaffe (additionally 2 British DD were sunk as well and a Spitfire shot down by an Elite Me 109).
In the PC turn the AI was able to sink 4 of my Uboats in the Atlantic. There only a few boats are left. However they lost a DD and a CL. Another surprise was made by the Norwegians: They declared war on me! The Brits declare war on them so they do it to me. I only have two transports now, so I have to postpone the war with Norway for a few turns. Then I should have the abilities to invade Norway.
Nothing else happened.

Adler

 

[Rocoteh]

IarnGreiper,

Thank you for the report.

"German Front Report december 39

Just as we conquered Poland in two turns Japan declares war on Soviets. The HQ ditched Fall gelb and left our troops in Poland taking defensive positions. With the Luftwaffe superiority we were able to dispatch large numbers of Soviet troops and drive them back. Our only offensive on the west have been two infantry divisions securing Kopenhagen. We stopped two French assaults on our Rhine positions at Freiburg. With the Luftwaffe able to keep our airspace clean (with the exception of Bremen) Freiburg was never in real danger as we stacked some German 88s there."
IarnGreiper

A very early Soviet attack! That is for sure not easy to handle.
The 88s should be of crucial value in this problematic situation.

"Romania was close to get lost in october since it got attacked by Soviets and Greece (which took Albania from Italy) simultaniously. But with Luftwaffe air support the Romanians faught them back.
We built the following Kampfgruppen:
Kampfgruppe Nord secured the Baltic coast up to Talinn where we got lucky in cathing almost the entire Russian Baltic fleet. The Swedes ran into a Russian Costal sub and joined our Naval fight.
Kampfgruppe Mitte has been driving through Belarussia and is right now holding the long line of defense between Novgorod and the Ukraine.
Kampfgruppe Süd is has right now encircled Kiev."
IarnGreiper

A very good respons!

"Our objective is to sieze Kiev, then we have to decide on the further objectives. Leningrad seems tough even with naval bombardment. Moscow is too well entrenched as well as Sewastopol. We are reluctant in advancing further in the Mid Russia in fear of overstetching our troops especially with the French pressing at Freiburg (which is foolish since they oculd have taken Italy with the troops the wasted on our Freiburg positions). Maybe we give in to the Russian pleas for a cease fire and accept their money."
IarnGreiper

I think that is the best solution.

"Norway has had another submarine incident and has lost its Navy to the angry Brits. Unfortunately our battlecruiser Deutschland got caughrt in the mess and got sunk as well. Right now Norway does not have any surface ship left and Bergen has been airraided extensively by British bombers. I wonder if the British dare to conduct a Naval landing there."
IarnGreiper

I doubt that. They are probably short of troops.

"Spain has declared war on Italy but no action was surveyed by our troops. Greece has been lucky with the Reich being busy with Russia otherwise we would have taught them a lessson.
Turkey, Swiss, Portugal and Yugoslavia remained neutral so far.
On all other fronts everything seems quiet with Japan taking over the Philipenes as sole execption.
Without any German activity on the western front we have yet to see any American unit."
IarnGreiper

Its probably best to invade France as fast as possible (after peace
with Soviet) before it become to strong.

Thank you and welcome back.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Great Britain-Sid-1942

Victory-Japan achieved during week 35, 1942. Victory-Europe achieved during week 37, 1942. That same week, the allies resumed open warfare with the Soviets on all fronts.

I will say more a bit later, I just need the time to compose some thoughtful (and hopefully useful) comments in response to your questions.

P.S. In defense of UK capital ships I would like to note that following WWI, as victors over Germany, they were able to incorporate the lessons of naval combat as well as the tech information of thier rivals into their future designs. Under the conditions of the Treaty of Versilles, the Germans could not. Jane's Fighting Ships of WWII says the following about the Vanguard: Armour-Protection believed to be fully equal to that of contemporary battleships of other navies. Gunnery Notes--Latest system of radar control is installed. Engineering Notes--Damage control arrangements claimed to be the most thorough ever installed in H.M. ships. I have noted a number of debates over the ratings of units in the forum for this scenario. I do not wish to continue them, but I had to say something . . .

Akrasia,

Thank you for your comments.

To estimate the power of battleships and other ships that was never completed
or never saw combat is hard, to say the least.

Take for example post-1945 naval warfare.
With the exception of the sinking of Eilath 1967 and The Falklands War
there have not been much naval combat the last 60 years!
Even with the best computers at hand there will only be estimates
for what could have occured during a a long and important time-period
in naval history.

The same holds true for what-if combat between never built
battleships. With regard to the stats for new British naval units
discussed I will of course make the best estimate I can.
However one should have in mind that given the rather primitive
naval system used in Civ 3 even an estimate that is 15-20% wrong
will only have marginal impact.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Adler,

Thank you for the reports.

"Fall Gelb!
As the French were advancing in Italy, I decided not to help the Italians until Germany is in danger. Instead I wanted to retake the Italian cities for me. But now the French decided ot threaten my South German cities and so I attacked. I planned this attack before but was not decided yet if I do it. The French decided for me, so I attacked. My Panzer were able to catch Lille after Lille and Verdun bombed by my Luftwaffe. In the following time the infantry was ablt ot take Verdun and my Panzer also took Paris. A stack of artillery and infantry is en route to Brest, where I will have a harbour to use my fleet from. On this way I did not engage the Maginot line, which is also not longer intact as some of the fortresses were already blown to peaces by my Luftwaffe.
The losses are minimal until now."
Adler

With regard to version 2.2 it will be interesting to see how AI
react when Italian fortress-units are added at the border.

"I was able to take Brest with my infatry and artillery there. Also Straßburg is now German again after being bombed by my Luftwaffe before. The French lost many damaged tanks there. So the rest of the Maginot line is on my territory, a problem to be dealt later, but not more than a small annoyance now.
In the last PC turn the British declared war on Norway, why I don´t know. However Admiral Scheer is now only one tile before a mine field and so she should be safed. Admiral Graf Spee is en route to Brest, followed by USS Texas and USS Colorado. But they have only the same direction as they are away from her."
Adler

I think the current strenght of the Maginot line is correct.
It should not be to strong since that would not reflect what
occured in history.

"So in the following PC turn I was lucky that I brought 3 coastal subs, U 1- 3, to cover the Admiral Scheer. HMS Barham tried to sink the ship but ran into one of the Uboats. Although it sank the boat with ease Admiral Scheer was rescued. I sent Scharnhorst to sink the British ship, what she did, however I miscalculated the way. So Admiral Scheer is now safe but not Scharnhorst. So I use coastal subs as cover to bring my damaged ship home."
Adler

A very good strategy!

"In the PC turn the AI was able to sink 4 of my Uboats in the Atlantic. There only a few boats are left. However they lost a DD and a CL. Another surprise was made by the Norwegians: They declared war on me! The Brits declare war on them so they do it to me. I only have two transports now, so I have to postpone the war with Norway for a few turns. Then I should have the abilities to invade Norway."
Adler

Many times AI declares war without any reason or logic.
Its just at random!

Thank you and welcome back.


Rocoteh

 

[Adler17]

In the 44th week I was able to beat a French offensive near Straßburg and also able to take Lyon, but with relative high losses of 5 or 6 PzKw III E.
Brest was again bombed by two French CA and a BC (the turn before). The BC retreated and bombed in this turn my troops near Bordeaux and retreated into that town. In the channel I sank a convoy of 3 CL and a TR with my Luftwaffe. Also one of the airfields in Southern England is bombed. In the Biscaya I sank 4 DD and a CL with my Uboats. Only to see two of them being sunk in the next turn. But they sank another DD and another is crippled and sunky by my last type IX SS in the Atlantic, U 39. U 30 and U 32 still exist, but the first is damaged on the way home in the North sea. The other is also en route to Brest, but I have doubts she will arrive.
Therefore in this turn (week 45) I was able to bring Admiral Graf Spee to Brest. She managed it to come home! Now all capital ships are safe. In this turn also Bordeaux is taken.
Also my first carrier entered service: Graf Zeppelin.

Adler

 

[Sasebo]

While I was looking at a different saved game scenario, I noticed that the workers were able to build airfields,outposts & radar stations from the start! Since this was for sure a bad thing, I went and tried to 'correct' this. Long story short, I have now had to reinstall all of Civ3, PTW, and Conquests. Yes, I botched things up THAT badly. Needless to say, I lost all my save games, too. I should have copied them somewhere else, but by the time I got to that point, I was just not thinking clearly. Though with my files being corrupted/misplaced so badly I doubt they would have worked after the re-install. The damned thing still isn't right, I loaded a Conquests Civ-content scenario, the Teturkhan one with cities, and the start paragraph is all whacked out and talking about Prince Henry the Navigator and his school being around in 4000 BC....

I'm going to have to download the big file just to play this scenario, though I do have the 2.1 part of it at least. Small comfort. Does anyone else get these kind of problems? I know it's because I play a lot of modded scenarios, but I don't know how to protect the original files when I go to play the scenarios. If anyone could point me to a primer on the file-switching and how to do it properly, I would appreciate it. I'm sure someone has posted that on this website before.

What freaks me out is that if I try to start a new randomly generated game, everything seems to work properly, it is just when I go to scenarios, especially the ones with a loaded save game, that get all goofy.

Hopefully I will be able to get it back together soon. I am a bit ticked that I could not finish that Italy game, I was pretty sure it was going to be a sure win fairly soon, but there was just enough doubt that I'm going to always wonder about it.

Edit: Rocoteh, I just DLed that 134 MB file again, but the note you put there has me a bit confused...Since I did a complete reinstall I should use the 134 MB and then the 2.1 file right? I don't see how that note to not use the 134 MB with 2.1 would apply to my situation, but I want to be sure.

 

[warmwaffles]

WWII Global Review Update
Germany
Week 31, 1941

The war with Germany and France on Europes mainland is over. And now its time to focus on Russia. Sadly to say I think my expansion into the Soviet Union has been dramatic just like WWII...High amounts of land gained, and low losses. I am scared that this will turn out just as WWII did, when the Soviets fought back. I am getting closer and closer to Moscow and once I take Moscow I will then focus on all of there production centers and resources.

The Soviets were tired over all the losses and what not and signed a peace treaty with me on Week 30, 1941. I have decided to use this time wisely and move my forces strategically to where I want to cause the most devastation possible to the Soviets country while sustaining low losses for my own team.

Here is the current pic of the Eastern Front
note: the image had to be compressed substantially just to be nice to the dial up users :thumbdown

Unit "Roll Call"
64......Workers
7.......Marines
3.......Paratroopers
5.......Bismarck C's
12......1939 Destroyers
22......German 1939 Destroyers
21......German Artillery HQ's
69......German Infantry
3.......U-boat Type VII's
1.......Carrier C2
6.......Light Cruisers
55......JU-88's
46......German 88's
5.......Panzer II's
44......Panzer IIIe's
227.....Panzer IIIg's (Talk about a blitzkrieg...these numbers grow by the 10's)
80......ME-109's
7.......ME-110's
5.......Heinkel-111's
3.......Fortress's
28......JU-87B's (This is due to anti-air and enemy fighters)
3.......SS Infantry
3.......Combat Engineers
6.......Slovakian Infantry
10......German Security Divisions
3.......Light Divisions
16......Flak
3.......Heavy Cruisers
2.......U-Boat Type IX
34......Minefields
12......Special Fortress
11......Hungarian Infantry
2.......Gneisenau Class
17......Romanian Infantry
1.......Duetschland Class
7.......DO-17
15......Bulgarian Infantry
1.......S-boat Flotilla
1.......Special Transport
2.......German Predreadnought
2.......German Motorized Infantry Divisions
852.....Total Units
970.....Allowed Units

@Sasebo...If I were you to releive a lot of hassle just delete it all out a the directory and reinstall it in the C3C/Scenarios folder and put the folder in that destination and the .biq file there too...

 

[Rocoteh]

In the 44th week I was able to beat a French offensive near Straßburg and also able to take Lyon, but with relative high losses of 5 or 6 PzKw III E.
Brest was again bombed by two French CA and a BC (the turn before). The BC retreated and bombed in this turn my troops near Bordeaux and retreated into that town. In the channel I sank a convoy of 3 CL and a TR with my Luftwaffe. Also one of the airfields in Southern England is bombed. In the Biscaya I sank 4 DD and a CL with my Uboats. Only to see two of them being sunk in the next turn. But they sank another DD and another is crippled and sunky by my last type IX SS in the Atlantic, U 39. U 30 and U 32 still exist, but the first is damaged on the way home in the North sea. The other is also en route to Brest, but I have doubts she will arrive.
Therefore in this turn (week 45) I was able to bring Admiral Graf Spee to Brest. She managed it to come home! Now all capital ships are safe. In this turn also Bordeaux is taken.
Also my first carrier entered service: Graf Zeppelin.

Adler

Adler,

Thank you for the report.

A very good start that should make it possible for you to turn East
before Soviet grows strong.

On version 2.2:

I plan to release 2.2 late March. Its possible there will a be version
2.3 fall this year. General interest for the scenario and feedback
will decide that.

Its hard to say at how strong interest for Civ 3 will be this year.

One thing is sure though:

One more patch for Conquests would be of incredible value!

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Sasebo,

"While I was looking at a different saved game scenario, I noticed that the workers were able to build airfields,outposts & radar stations from the start! Since this was for sure a bad thing, I went and tried to 'correct' this. Long story short, I have now had to reinstall all of Civ3, PTW, and Conquests. Yes, I botched things up THAT badly. Needless to say, I lost all my save games, too. I should have copied them somewhere else, but by the time I got to that point, I was just not thinking clearly. Though with my files being corrupted/misplaced so badly I doubt they would have worked after the re-install. The damned thing still isn't right, I loaded a Conquests Civ-content scenario, the Teturkhan one with cities, and the start paragraph is all whacked out and talking about Prince Henry the Navigator and his school being around in 4000 BC...."
Sasebo

This is very bad news!
I hope you will be able to reinstall without problems.

"What freaks me out is that if I try to start a new randomly generated game, everything seems to work properly, it is just when I go to scenarios, especially the ones with a loaded save game, that get all goofy."
Sasebo

Strange!

"Hopefully I will be able to get it back together soon. I am a bit ticked that I could not finish that Italy game, I was pretty sure it was going to be a sure win fairly soon, but there was just enough doubt that I'm going to always wonder about it."
Sasebo

It was a very interesting playtest.

"Edit: Rocoteh, I just DLed that 134 MB file again, but the note you put there has me a bit confused...Since I did a complete reinstall I should use the 134 MB and then the 2.1 file right? I don't see how that note to not use the 134 MB with 2.1 would apply to my situation, but I want to be sure."
Sasebo

Yes, that is right.

I have now deleted the note you refer to, since its possible it
confuse more than clarify.

Welcome back.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Drivebymaster,

Thank you for the report.

"WWII Global Review Update
Germany
Week 31, 1941

The war with Germany and France on Europes mainland is over. And now its time to focus on Russia. Sadly to say I think my expansion into the Soviet Union has been dramatic just like WWII...High amounts of land gained, and low losses. I am scared that this will turn out just as WWII did, when the Soviets fought back. I am getting closer and closer to Moscow and once I take Moscow I will then focus on all of there production centers and resources.

The Soviets were tired over all the losses and what not and signed a peace treaty with me on Week 30, 1941. I have decided to use this time wisely and move my forces strategically to where I want to cause the most devastation possible to the Soviets country while sustaining low losses for my own team."
Drivebymaster

Very interesting screenshot:
Front-lines are not far from the historical time-line.

Comment on unit-stats:

You have a very strong armoured force. In combination with the
air-force I think you will be able to win the war in the east.
Soviet build-up should be limited at this time.

Welcome back with more reports.

Rocoteh

 

[Adler17]

In week 45 I was also able to take Toulouse. Then I prepared for the offensive this turn: I formed two panzer groups: One to take Marseille, the other coming from Italy Milan and Turin. With that huge gap I should eradicate the French forces in continental Europe.
Brest is not the safe harbour I estimated again several Skua bombers made a visit to damage the Admiral Graf Spee heavily. So I just sent her to Bordeaux for repairs. Also 4 French SS sunk by U 32.
The plan with the offensive on both sides did not succeed as I have on both fronts too few units to take the cities. So I have to reinforce my troops there.
Two French CA bomb Bordeaux again and Admiral Graf Spee is down to one HP! She drives through the Atlantic full of allied ships without being hurt and is nearly destroyed in a German controlled harbour! Mais c´est la vie. But now I have a Uboat, U 39, and bombers there to sink the two French CA, Foch and Suffren. And so it happens. A Stuka sinks one one the CA the other already damaged one is sunk by U 39 becoming elite.
Also my Kriegsmarine got important reinforcements: Bismarck and Tirpitz are ready!
I could now break the French resistance and took Marseilles and Milan. Only Turin is now in French hands on the continent, but enclosed. Also I invaded Switzerland and Bern was not a tough nut to crack.
When Turin is mine I will attack Spain. Also I prepare for attacking Norway. 3 transports full of Panzers are ready and will launch the Unternehmen Weserübung next turn.
Also U 30, now elite, returned to a minefield to be safety. It is the 2nd boat of the original Uboat force in the Atlantic to arrive a safe harbour. Only one of three survivors is on patrol.
And now I just took Turin. Now I can prepare for the Spanish Campaign.

Adler

 

[Adler17]

Addtition: I just took Oslo! A Norwegian coastal BB was damaged by my S boats and then sunk by my good old Schleswig- Holstein. Then all other capital ships of my fleet bombed Oslo to damage the forces there. The Stukas of Graf Zeppelin were able to destroy one defending infantry. So the rest was an ease for my marines. I took the city and soon landed 7 PzKw III E. With them I should not have much difficulties to take Norway. I think the probe for Operation Seelöwe is a success!

Adler