WW2-Global

[Hubschrauber]

Looks Great! I love the French Naval situatin! This is by far the most detailed World Map EVER! Rocotech you in a catergory with the Great El Justo!

You should rephrase that to: El Justo is almost in the category of the "God of Civ", Rocoteh!

I did finally start as Italy in 2.2. I haven't finished the first turn yet, but my main goal is to hold onto North Africa for as long as possible, untill I have enough forces to take Suez. That, hopefully, will isolate India enough to give Japan an easier time.

 

[marklv]

"Its incredible that wargaming is still alive after all these years!
I still remember when I bought my first wargame from Avalon Hill
more than 40 years ago."


Goodness me! And I thought I was an oldie here at age 39!!

Sorry, Rocoteh, no offence intended. Well, my very first computer wargame was a US Gold branded one for the Commodore 64 (those were the days) which I purchased back in 1984 - I think it was called "Crusade in Europe". I loved that game! So very basic in comparison to all the sophisticated computing power we have now, but great fun to play.

What strikes me is how *few* strategic wargames have been released in all these years. This despite the huge growth in processing power of PCs. The best one I can remember from the early days was "Clash of Steel", which I think came out in 1993-4. A few other ones popped up from time to time, but the quality was generally awful. Was it a lack of imagination or a lack of interest from game designers? Or maybe they thought there wasn't a big enough market for these games. If so, they were very wrong. There is great interest in wargaming and a strong market is definitely there.

 

[Sasebo]

BBs still have lethal land bombard!?? How is it that I did not know that? After all the time I've put in with this scenario, I'm still finding new things...

Hubschrauber: Another reason to do that is that it will link your North African cities to you mainland cities resource net, and vice-versa through the Turkish roads. I didn't realize that at first, and that made a big difference later on.

William GBTW: Try Italy then, or Japan; lots of VERY fun naval situations if you like that sort of thing. Italy is in the middle of a massive all-out naval battle in a fishbowl, and Japan has so many options it's really hard to decide what to do first. So much....fun

Rocoteh: What is this 'Europe in Flames' you've been mentioning lately? A Civ 4 scenario? Also, regarding the naval production, I HAVE seen the AI build DDs, CAs, and CVs, especially the later versions, but it seems to be predicated by whether or not they are doing well in the capital ship race. If they are way behind they tend not to build those other types. Japan in my last Italy game really branched out in their production, with at least 6 Shokaku Class CVs built, along with numerous DD/CAs, and I think they actually built a sub! Not an Otsu, but a regular sub.

Did you do anything with that idea for auto-produced transports? The AI seems to never build enough, no matter what kind of game I play.

 

[Prometheus1992]

Awesome

My Log


1939 - The first of my German navy has been launched and has sucessfully destroyed most of the british navy. France has half been taken over. Also, belgium and the other countries. Who knew the belgians had the best military...the only way to describe their army is this : and i hate how i lost 4 PANZER DIVISIONS trying to take out ONE BELGIUM INFANTRY. Oh yes, Civ III in its randomization glory! Back to topic: Italy has done jack, along with Finland and Japan. America is sending random ships to my shores to bombard then retreat and come back...silly americans, dont you know who i am? im the juggernaut! (bombed all american ships to death) Late in the year, my army became increasingly stronger


1940 - The German Navy has lost both Scarnhorst and Gneisenau due to British bombing raids. Graf Spee sunk in english channel. Tried to invade Britian with tanks, but was subsequently pushed away when they bombed all of the panzers and troops i landed. Sweden declared war, nothing happened, sank their navy. Denmark waged war for no apparent reason, crushed them. Finally got the Panzer IIg! Finland declared war on Russia, dragging me, italy, and japan into it. Took 2 cities, but lost one of them before a short armistice. My troops are better than the Russians, or so i thought. Second War: Finland drags me into YET ANOTHER WAR. Not to mention that the Italians sent CALVALRY instead of anything else to fight the Russians. Panzers were all destroyed by Russian inferior tanks (my 24-16 tanks lost to 13-5 tanks, LOL!!!). Cities untakable. Russia has triple the size of my airforce (22 to my 7 planes, which is wholly unrealistic). Sank their battleship October Revolution. Tried to invade Odessa and lost everything due to an over-advantaged fortress with a defense of 80?!!?!? This time, i planted spies and stole their plans with my vast cash store. Stole plans and i counted them all, 94 (YES) 94 russian tanks are present on JUST THE EAST SIDE of the border. Thats 94 tanks versus my roughly 30. I got rung out like a mop.

Out of frustration, i quit the game due to an over-advantaged russia and repetitive british bombing
raids.

oh well, its fun all the same i guess

 

[Rocoteh]

Sasebo,

"BBs still have lethal land bombard!?? How is it that I did not know that? After all the time I've put in with this scenario, I'm still finding new things..."
Sasebo

That was a mistake in my memory. In version 2.2 only Iowa has
lethal land. (With regard to battleships.)
Thus I will remove it in version 2.3.

"Rocoteh: What is this 'Europe in Flames' you've been mentioning lately? A Civ 4 scenario? Also, regarding the naval production, I HAVE seen the AI build DDs, CAs, and CVs, especially the later versions, but it seems to be predicated by whether or not they are doing well in the capital ship race. If they are way behind they tend not to build those other types. Japan in my last Italy game really branched out in their production, with at least 6 Shokaku Class CVs built, along with numerous DD/CAs, and I think they actually built a sub! Not an Otsu, but a regular sub."
Sasebo

No its Civ 3 The European Theater of Operations WW2.
The map will also include East US and East Canada.
Naval units will be flotillas for destroyers and submarines (12 ships).
Cruisers will be squadrons (3 ships).
The scenario will have more focus on ground and air aspects if one
compare it with WW2-Global.

On naval production:

Yes its possible that auto-production shall be more used for
naval units.

"Did you do anything with that idea for auto-produced transports? The AI seems to never build enough, no matter what kind of game I play."
Sasebo

I will introduce it in version 2.3.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Week 24:
Turkey is history as all cities are now mine. Also Nordvik is mine.
I sunk a US BB C2 off Nova Scotia for the loss of 5 Uboats.
New CV ready: Potsdam.

PC turn:
A US BB C2 appeared off Agadir.
New technology: Sea 1941 I
New BB: Leuthen.

Week 25 part 1:
Norilsk is mine. The same has to be told of Taluma. And with the capture of Chah Bahar Persia is also history.


Adler

Adler,

Thank you for the report.
I guess that you de facto control Soviet now.

Do you intend to launch a invasion of America from your
current positions or will you move against Australia?

Welcome back.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

marklv,

"Goodness me! And I thought I was an oldie here at age 39!!"
marklv

No I am a real old-timer.

"Sorry, Rocoteh, no offence intended. Well, my very first computer wargame was a US Gold branded one for the Commodore 64 (those were the days) which I purchased back in 1984 - I think it was called "Crusade in Europe". I loved that game! So very basic in comparison to all the sophisticated computing power we have now, but great fun to play. "
marklv


I heard of Crusade in Europe, but I never played it.

"What strikes me is how *few* strategic wargames have been released in all these years. This despite the huge growth in processing power of PCs. The best one I can remember from the early days was "Clash of Steel", which I think came out in 1993-4. A few other ones popped up from time to time, but the quality was generally awful. Was it a lack of imagination or a lack of interest from game designers? Or maybe they thought there wasn't a big enough market for these games. If so, they were very wrong. There is great interest in wargaming and a strong market is definitely there."
marklv

I agree.

In 1975 S.P.I. launched Global War. That game was a big failure.
After that there were almost no Global strategy games for many years.
I think many game-designers did avoid the subject since if you make
mistakes in a WW2-Global game these mistakes will be very obvious
compared with a game on for example The Battle of the Bulge.

One can only hope that we at last will see "A World in Flames" this summer.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Prometheus1992,

Thank you for the report.

"1939 - The first of my German navy has been launched and has sucessfully destroyed most of the british navy. France has half been taken over. Also, belgium and the other countries. Who knew the belgians had the best military...the only way to describe their army is this : and i hate how i lost 4 PANZER DIVISIONS trying to take out ONE BELGIUM INFANTRY. Oh yes, Civ III in its randomization glory! Back to topic: Italy has done jack, along with Finland and Japan. America is sending random ships to my shores to bombard then retreat and come back...silly americans, dont you know who i am? im the juggernaut! (bombed all american ships to death) Late in the year, my army became increasingly stronger"
Prometheus1992

AI really like naval raiding!

"1940 - The German Navy has lost both Scarnhorst and Gneisenau due to British bombing raids. Graf Spee sunk in english channel. Tried to invade Britian with tanks, but was subsequently pushed away when they bombed all of the panzers and troops i landed. Sweden declared war, nothing happened, sank their navy. Denmark waged war for no apparent reason, crushed them. Finally got the Panzer IIg! Finland declared war on Russia, dragging me, italy, and japan into it. Took 2 cities, but lost one of them before a short armistice"
Prometheus1992

Its hard to say why AI declares war like Finland-AI.
Maybe it can be the so called submarine-bug again.

"My troops are better than the Russians, or so i thought. Second War: Finland drags me into YET ANOTHER WAR. Not to mention that the Italians sent CALVALRY instead of anything else to fight the Russians. Panzers were all destroyed by Russian inferior tanks (my 24-16 tanks lost to 13-5 tanks, LOL!!!). Cities untakable. Russia has triple the size of my airforce (22 to my 7 planes, which is wholly unrealistic)."
Prometheus1992


However their planes are not to good with regard to quality.

"Sank their battleship October Revolution. Tried to invade Odessa and lost everything due to an over-advantaged fortress with a defense of 80?!!?!? "
Prometheus1992

The defense of Odessa was very strong in reality.

"Out of frustration, i quit the game due to an over-advantaged russia and repetitive british bombing
raids."
Prometheus1992

If you focus on France the next time you play the scenario
I am sure you will get a better result.

Thank you and welcome back.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

You should rephrase that to: El Justo is almost in the category of the "God of Civ", Rocoteh!

Hubschrauber,






"I did finally start as Italy in 2.2. I haven't finished the first turn yet, but my main goal is to hold onto North Africa for as long as possible, untill I have enough forces to take Suez. That, hopefully, will isolate India enough to give Japan an easier time."
Hubschrauber

Sounds like a good strategy.
Among the major powers France must be the hardest to play,
but Italy is second.
Then I have so far never seen a playtest-report on China.

Thank you and welcome back.

Rocoteh

 

[Bob1475]

Soviet Russia Emperor v 2.2

1940 report

1939 went well in that we avoided any war. We managed to control the timetable in the first half of 1940 also avoiding any war by occasional gifts and groveling to the Axis and Allies. Week 23 we reached Land 40 tech and shifted to significant unit production from our well-developed cities.

With units building up we needed to test our our army and chose Afghanistan in order to move forward our plan to split the British. We took the Afghan cities in a short three week war with overwhelming armor. At this point we have stopped gifting and groveling as our armor forces should give Axis and Allies much to consider before an attack. We demand the Brits stop coming through Afghan and they back off. We eventually seal the border with units but the Brits are going the long way around us to China.

Next target Turkey to facilitate attack on either Brits, Germany or additional neutrals. Week 38 we declare war on Turkey. Lacking transport (poor planning) we take heavy casualties on on Turkish fortification but the door is opened and we drive on Trabzon. Week 39 brings a surprise as Sweden declares war and actually comes close to taking Kiem (we had mistaken the stack as Finns which we allow to walk around although we have sealed them out of the main part of the SR.) These two wars will be make Turkey a little longer than orginally planned. Week 41 we take Trabzon and the Axis declares war on Sweden!

By week 47 we have taken all of Turkey and taken Stockholm. Along the way Germany decided to take out Denmark.

By year-end we are closing on the last three Swede cities and Germany and Sweden declare peace.

Elsewhere - Germany has all of France but Bordeaux was razed in addition to the city razed in 1939. France still has Corsica but the Americans have taken Cagliari as they love to do! Gibraltar has been razed.

Italy holds it European starting positions so obviously the fortifications have worked to keep France at bay. Italy is out of Africa, no cities razed.

In Asia, other than our taking Afghanistan, Communist China is down to two cities. The British hold Mangnai! and still hold Hong Kong.

Japanese have taken a Canton and a few other Chinese cities but obviously not doing that well. They have cleared the Americans out of the Phillipines and off of Guam but the US holds Truk. British cleared the Japanese off of the one Indonesian city they took.

All of this confirms our initial strategy - we must split the British in Asia to relieve the Japanese to keep the US busy.

1941 Goals -

Finish Sweden (January)
Take Persia to split the British. (March/April) Optimally drive West and take Egypt and then sue for peace. (June?)
Assuming the Axis has not attacked - take Norway, Greece and Yugoslavia - (August+)somewhere along the line the Germans will attack as they see us coming at which point we will focus on the Axis.

If not attacked we will either attack the Axis after the neutrals are eliminated or attack China - this depends on how the Japanese are doing.

 

[Hubschrauber]

I've played as china in 2.0 as Regent. It was pretty easy, I managed to take mainland Japan before the middle of 1941 I think. Maybe I will start 2.2 as China now that you mention it. It was pretty fun last time.

 

[Rocoteh]

Bob1475,

Thank you for the report.

"Soviet Russia Emperor v 2.2

1940 report

1939 went well in that we avoided any war. We managed to control the timetable in the first half of 1940 also avoiding any war by occasional gifts and groveling to the Axis and Allies. Week 23 we reached Land 40 tech and shifted to significant unit production from our well-developed cities.

With units building up we needed to test our our army and chose Afghanistan in order to move forward our plan to split the British. We took the Afghan cities in a short three week war with overwhelming armor. At this point we have stopped gifting and groveling as our armor forces should give Axis and Allies much to consider before an attack. We demand the Brits stop coming through Afghan and they back off. We eventually seal the border with units but the Brits are going the long way around us to China."
Bob1475

Yes holding Soviet away from war with the Allies and Axis should
be the first priority.

"Next target Turkey to facilitate attack on either Brits, Germany or additional neutrals. Week 38 we declare war on Turkey. Lacking transport (poor planning) we take heavy casualties on on Turkish fortification but the door is opened and we drive on Trabzon. Week 39 brings a surprise as Sweden declares war and actually comes close to taking Kiem (we had mistaken the stack as Finns which we allow to walk around although we have sealed them out of the main part of the SR.) These two wars will be make Turkey a little longer than orginally planned. Week 41 we take Trabzon and the Axis declares war on Sweden!"

Sweden declares war. Strange AI-action!

"By week 47 we have taken all of Turkey and taken Stockholm. Along the way Germany decided to take out Denmark.

By year-end we are closing on the last three Swede cities and Germany and Sweden declare peace.

Elsewhere - Germany has all of France but Bordeaux was razed in addition to the city razed in 1939. France still has Corsica but the Americans have taken Cagliari as they love to do! Gibraltar has been razed."
Bob1475

I am very disturbed by the fact that AI razes protected cities.
However there is no way to avoid city-razing 100%.

"Italy holds it European starting positions so obviously the fortifications have worked to keep France at bay. Italy is out of Africa, no cities razed."
Bob1475

Very good!

"In Asia, other than our taking Afghanistan, Communist China is down to two cities. The British hold Mangnai! and still hold Hong Kong.

Japanese have taken a Canton and a few other Chinese cities but obviously not doing that well. They have cleared the Americans out of the Phillipines and off of Guam but the US holds Truk. British cleared the Japanese off of the one Indonesian city they took."
Bob1475

All the victory locations in Australia seems to have no impact on Japan-AI.

All of this confirms our initial strategy - we must split the British in Asia to relieve the Japanese to keep the US busy."
Bob1475

That sounds like a good idea.

"1941 Goals -

Finish Sweden (January)
Take Persia to split the British. (March/April) Optimally drive West and take Egypt and then sue for peace. (June?)
Assuming the Axis has not attacked - take Norway, Greece and Yugoslavia - (August+)somewhere along the line the Germans will attack as they see us coming at which point we will focus on the Axis.

If not attacked we will either attack the Axis after the neutrals are eliminated or attack China - this depends on how the Japanese are doing."
Bob1475

Good goals. It will be interesting to follow if you can implement them.

Thank you and welcome back.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

I've played as china in 2.0 as Regent. It was pretty easy, I managed to take mainland Japan before the middle of 1941 I think. Maybe I will start 2.2 as China now that you mention it. It was pretty fun last time.

Hubschrauber,

That is a surprise!
Thank you for the info.

Looking forward to hear how the next playtest turns out.

Rocoteh

 

[Adler17]

Week 25 part 2:
Nothing really exciting happens except the US bomb Agadir with a BB C2 and another one also appeared there. Perhaps I can sink both. Also a KGV appeared off the Channel entrance.
New CVs ready: Paul von Pechmann, Leo Leonhardy

As the half year is over, a new summary of the armed forces:

Germany:

Heer:
5 paratrooper
1 cavalry
1 mobile rocket artillery
30 German army HQ
1 Flamethrower
106 German infantry
96 FlaK 88
6 PzKw II
22 Pz III E
3 Fortress
5 SS infantry
9 Slovakian inf
12 security div.
2 heavy artillery
37 garrisons
2 light divisions
27 special fortress
278 Pz III G
1 German artillery brigade
25 Hungarian inf
30 Romanian inf
15 Bulgarian inf
14 motorized German inf

Luftwaffe:
9 Do 17
120 Ju 87
31 He 111
9 Me 110
145 Me 109
6 transport planes
26 FW 190
59 Ju 88

Kriegsmarine:
41 Bismarck class BB
7 Scharnhorst class BB
4 Deutschland class BC (Panzerschiffe)
2 Deutschland class BB (Predreadnoughts)
21 CV C3
3 CV C2
7 CA C2
6 CL
1 CLAA
62 German 1939 DD
12 1939 DD
178 SS VII
66 SS IX
1 SS
28 SC
3 PF
23 TR
1 Special TR
34 minefields
7 Marines

Soviet union:

Red Army:
3 artillery
100 Russian infantry
13 heavy artillery
1 FlaK
32 Soviet Tank divisions
48 motorized infantry
6 Soviet garrisons

Red Airforce:
1 I 15
2 Pe 2
26 Yak 1

Red Fleet:
3 SS
3 Russian SC
3 TR

Russia is despite a relative strong army not longer a world power. However I have still to be cautious, I do not think they will remain a power at the end of the year. I hope in one year to control all Russian cities.

Japan:

Army:
1 paratrooper
251 infantry
56 Chi Ha
3 Chinese inf
39 special fortress
1 Japanese militia

Air Force:
9 Kate
39 Nate
16 Val
17 Zero

Navy
38 Yamato class BB
3 BB
7 Shokaku class CV
1 CA
34 1939 DD
14 TR

Japan has a relative strong navy and should rule their ocean. However they lack on a big airforce and the Army has also not many offensive units.

UK

Army
1 Cavalry
1 mobile artillery
1 artillery
4 British tank brigades
23 Indian Inf
1 South African inf
1 Gurkha
163 British Inf
5 Cruiser Mk 2
260 Matilda 2
21 Valentine
11 cruiser Mk 1 (can also the other way round)
8 heavy artillery
70 British militia
10 garrison
4 Flak
4 special fortress
4 ANZAC
3 Canadian inf

Royal Air Force:
99 Spitfire
1 Recon plane
2 Lancaster
1 Mosquito (here I also suggest to introduce the German equivalent He 219)
2 Beaufighter
31 Skua
4 Hurricane
4 Whitworth

Royal Navy
14 KGV class BB
1 CA C2
9 CL
2 DD 1941
4 DD 1939
3 DD WW1
17 TR

Britain has a strong army and Airforce but is very lacking a strong Royal Navy. With that she can´t cope the Japanese or German navies.

USA:
3 paratrooper
11 cavalry
7 artillery
511 US infantry (!!!!)
8 Sherman
51 M2A2
62 M3 Lee/ Grant
9 M5A1
23 M 10
5 US paratrooper
20 heavy artillery
9 garrison
9 FlaK
2 special fortress

USAAF
12 fighter
4 bomber
4 F4F Wildcat
4 paratrooper planes
34 Buffalo
17 Dauntless
1 A 24
3 B 25
1 Recon plane

US Navy
18 BB C2
1 CV C3
2 DD 1939
1 DD WW1
17 SS
9 TR
123 Marines 1939
19 Marines 1942

It seems US are my main opponent. However I will first take Asia and Africa before attacking the US.

Adler

 

[Prometheus1992]

thats quite a bit of info


this is tied with my favorite scenario with the Cold War by El Justo.


Glad to see at least one of the scenarios included my hometown of Pittsburgh, but there isn't any coal around it! They didn't call it the Steel City for nothing Sad to see it still in a population decline in the city (Dropped from about 675,000 in 1950's to 314,000 in 2004)



I like how in CivEdit you can change which units are available to whom, because i changed KGV and Hindenburg, Yamato, Iowa etc. to the swedish side and now i am the king of the seas

 

[Rocoteh]

Adler,

Thank you for the report and the stats.

On stats:

278x Pz III G and 120x Ju 87! That is not easy to stop.
Your naval forces are also very strong. 41xBismarck class will
be hard for US and the British Empire to deal with.

With regard to the strenght of their forces I do not think
Japan has achieved much so far. However, as you say they lack
relevant offensive units.

Britains 260xMatilda 2 and 99 Spitfire are impressing but the decimated navy
sets sharp limits for where it can launch offensives.

On He 219: OK I will consider it.

511 US Infantry! US AI seems to focus to much on defensive plans.
However, onward it will probably give priority to offensive units.
One could think that the best defense of US should be a strong navy,
but its obvious AI do not "reason" that way.

Looking forward to follow this playtest.
Thank you and welcome back.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

thats quite a bit of info


this is tied with my favorite scenario with the Cold War by El Justo.


Glad to see at least one of the scenarios included my hometown of Pittsburgh, but there isn't any coal around it! They didn't call it the Steel City for nothing Sad to see it still in a population decline in the city (Dropped from about 675,000 in 1950's to 314,000 in 2004)



I like how in CivEdit you can change which units are available to whom, because i changed KGV and Hindenburg, Yamato, Iowa etc. to the swedish side and now i am the king of the seas

Prometheus1992,

Thank you.

I did not know Pittsburgh have had such a population decline.
However I know that it once was a very important industrial
city in US.


I have spend much time to get an correct economical balance
between the major powers in WW2-Global.
It works rather well.

Rocoteh

 

[Adler17]

Week 26:
The battle of the Atlantic:
BB Arminius sunk a British KGV south of Ireland. U 194 sank a US TR off Boston. BB Beowulf became elite by sinking a US BB C2 off Agadir. Another is sunk by Hagen von Tronje.
The fight in Africa:
Bardei is taken and the French forces in the area beaten.
Much more didn´t happen except 3 new BB are ready: Hohenfriedberg, Skagerrak, Tannenberg.

Adler

 

[pazza]

Exactly how long does the loading process take place? I'm really interested in playing this because most WWII scenarios i've played don't have japan, china, u.s., canada, etc. and it really leaves out the fun of naval battles and large scale combat. anyway my computer is 1.8 ghz and 512 mb ram.

anyway i'm going to start playing it tonight. maybe if i'm lucky i'll be able to get a turn done by dinner time

btw, it says that there are saved games in the original posts but there aren't. is there anyway you could provide a saved game for the u.s. on regent difficulty?

 

[imgrumpy]

I decided to stop my German 2.2 Chieftan game since it was progressing too easily and I really wanted to start as Italy. So without further ado:

Italy 2.2, Chieftan
Week 36, 1939
My general strategy will be to invade Yugoslavia and then Greece since these nations are relatively weak and protected from the other major powers by land. By the time I am finished with them, my Italian Pennisula cities will be developed and producing weapons of war. I will then either pick off some French cities while Germany invades from the north. I at least want Marseilles. My African possessions should be able to hold their own until I can reinforce them later on.

Week 37
We shot down a French Hvy Bomber over Turino, French navy shells Rome. Germany declares war on Denmark. My troops are in place for ware with Yugoslavia next turn. 10 submarines engage the British Battleship Royal Soveriegn just northeast of Alexandria and sink it, only 1 survives. 52 submarines and 5 WW1 destroyers take on the French fleet north of Rome, 3 BB and 4 Hvy CA. All 7 French capital ships are sunk leaving only 6 submarines and 1 WW1 destroyer to return back to Rome. To honor their bravery each vessel is renamed after the ship they sunk. The French fleet has been dealt a cripling blow in the Med. Itailan Hvy Cruiser Fiume sunk while attacking a squadron of French 1939 destroyers off Tunis. BB Cai Dulio sinks French Lt CA Gloire. Numerous fleet actions between Italian destroyers and French DD and Subs, not really worthy of mention. Overall I have lost 66 subs, 3 1939 DD, 10 WW1 DD, and 1 Hvy CA. This is a heavy blow but worth the cost of crippling the French navy in the Med.

Week 38 Zagreb
Germany takes Copenhagen, eliminates Denmark. Definitely should add Denmark to Norway in 2.3. British Gibralter fleet shows up and shells Cagliari. Newly renamed submarine Royal Soveriegn sunk before it could return to Tobruk for repair. More minor fleet action against the French for the loss of 5 1939 DD, 1 WW1 DD, and 1 Lt CA. French Med navy now aproximately down to 1/2 its former strength in numbers. french Cavalry attack Tripoli, but are driven back with no Italian losses. Invasion of Yugoslavia begins! 1st and 2nd Celere Cavalry fall at Zagreb. Littorio Armored Division takes Zagreb.

Week 39 Dubrovnik, Belgrade
French navy has come on with a vengence, forcing me to retreat my navy to port for repairs. I've lost 3 subs, 2 1939 DD, and 5 WW1 DD. Since the start of the war my navy has gone from 217 to 129 ships, though all but 1 Hvy CA were expendable. 3rd Celere Cavalry falls at Belgrade, 1st Alpine Div takes Belgrade. 3rd Alpine takes Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia eliminated. The Italian army is still mostly intact, only losing 3 cavalry and 1 infantry. Now onto Greece. Germany has taken Rotterdam, but still hasn't finished off Warsaw.

Week 40
French attempt to bomb Palermo but are shot from the sky. My Italian fleet that supported the Yugoslavian campaign is rounding the southern point of Greece and is preparing to take up position for shelling their cities in the next couple of turns. Amazingly I only lose 1 unit this turn; a WW1 DD. Still waiting for Germany to take Warsaw.