Ultradave(WA) vs scout1(Ger), '44 D-Day Start, Turn 33 -Jan 9th, 45

[scout1]

OK fine ... Joel .....

Help the Army/Airborne puke ..... us Navy types are used going on our own ......

I will Smyth him anyways .......... [:'(]

[ultradave]

Thanks Joel. No, something I missed. I'll get right on it.

[scout1]

The lines continues to bend but not break ..... Meanwhile, German armor groups behind the lines waiting to be released

[ultradave]

Didn't get a screen shot, but the British liberate Dunkirk, Rome is 2/3 surrounded and being reduced, and a couple of breaks in the line in Italy.

[scout1]

Rome isn't all that its cracked up to be ...... Real estate is getting expensive, cost of living is high ...... time for the Allies to do what they always do ..... pay ALL the bills ...... We're a poor country and can't carry them forever

[ultradave]

Yeah? Good. Don't make me bomb it into rubble. Just leave it for me. You're almost surrounded anyway.

[ultradave]

Turn 32, Jan 2, 1945. British push to the Belgian border, Rome falls and the German line in Italy pulls back, and Patton's 3rd Army continues to try to bull its way through the German lines.


Current situation on the Western Front: (from north to south on the front British 2d Army, Cdn 1st Army (with Polish Armor), US 3rd Army, US 1st Army. 1st FF Corp surrounding Bourdeaux, just at the bottom left. Other FF off the picture.

[ultradave]

Metz is captured and the 3rd Army edges into Luxembourg. In the north, the British 2d Army takes the port of Ostend. In the south, the US 1st Army rolls up to the banks of the Rhine. Germans fall back to a new defensive line in Italy. First picture shows the front in France, and the second shows Italy as of Jan 9th, 1945.

[ultradave]

And Italy, where the Allies are now able to enjoy some very nice Orvietto wine, having been careful to spare the monastery there:

[scout1]

your on the Rhine as the Wehrmacht opted to draw the line here ..... we basically retreated as fast as you could advance ......

[scout1]

Italy .... well was time to find new digs ......

[ultradave]

Press reports always put the best light on things, no matter the circumstances

[ultradave]

The next turn should be an interesting one.

[scout1]

Landing to the north our we my pretty ?

Terrain sucks that way but we'll see who can or can not exploit it ?

[ultradave]

A risky invasion by the Allies in the Rotterdam/Amsterdam area to seize ports and land a sizable force behind the German lines. Several airborne units, and US and Free French forces landed and moved out from the beaches (at least a little - enough to bring ashore the second wave). British 2d Army moves forward, with the aim of linking with the invasion and taking Antwerp. Patton continues his "Our Guts, His Glory" push into the middle of the German line, while 1st Army mostly reorganizes (it is mid-winter after all!).

In Italy, the Allies catch up to the German line and push a couple of small holes, including working their way around to the north side of Lake Bolsena, which I though would provide a good defensive position for the Germans by keeping me from ganging up. (I was able to gang up anyway )

Railroad repair (and hence catching up to the front with depot constructions) is going much better now. Thanks Joel.

First the picture of the Western Front, with the invasion shown:

[ultradave]

Second picture is the view of the Italian Front:

[scout1]

Well, Dave is keeping me on my toes .... If the damn SS would quit having their secret conferences and actually send their units to the front, Dave would be most unhappy ....... Until then, guess I got to keep him off guard ..... Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee .....

[ultradave]

I have to say I'm enjoying this one much more than the one where Scott sent the whole east front west. Even though I won that in points, it was not any fun. I spent a year sitting in place not even able to attack.

At least here there is action, and despite the fact I'm pushing him back, I'm slightly negative in victory points so the game right now is sitting at draw. Scott has actually staged a pretty effective forward defense with small pullbacks and I've had "supply problems" (user error really). So had I done better there the Western Front might have gone better. However, the RR repair is very quickly catching up which means quickly building quite a few more forward depots to supply the 3rd and 1st Armies. (Brits and Cdns were in pretty good shape all along.)

[scout1]

Let me know where you build your forward depots ...... I have some units that would like to
"share"

[ultradave]

I think my invasion is safe, more reinforcements on the way. The British cut holes through the line and Amsterdam is liberated by the 82d Airborne. (yay!!)