TAIFUN (Axis) vs Calcwerc (allies) Full game 1939

[Taifun]

Mud was present in this area of the Front and our spearhead troops could not advance very far. Lwow was captured in quite good condition.

[taffjones]

A very interesting AAR.
Well presented and a good read, looks like a good game [:)]

[Taifun]

Many thanks taffjones and fluidwill matrix for your support. I have been playing WWII card-board games since the 90s (the famous Avalon Third Reich) and I LOVE the SC series of games. For me it is a real pleasure to share with other players new ideas and AARs…

July 1941
North of the Pripyat Marshes the cities of Riga and Minsk and the towns of Polotsk, Vitebsk and Parnu are occupied without opposition. Tallin and Orsha are also devoid of any Soviet troops… we will meet the first entrenched Soviets defending Pskov and Smolensk. We start upgrading some of our infantry to level 2 infantry weapons.

In the Army Group South area of operations the NM moral objective city of Kiev is captured and the Soviet Main Line of Resistance reached behind the mayor Dnepr river.

[Taifun]

August 1941
North of the Pripyat Marshes the empty coastal city of Tallin is occupied . In our main axis of advance, the key town of Pskov is stormed and one of the 2 fortifications blocking the road to Novgorod is destroyed. A para unit is prepared to jump next turn near Daugavpils. There is a change of command and our best General Eric von Manstein is put in charge of Army group North to lead the Leningrad assault. Near Smolensk our fast armored troops destroy the fortified Soviet Army in front of the NM city. A Panzerkorps coming from Army Group South is rail operated to Vitebsk to bolster the main thrust towards Moscow.

[Taifun]

In Army group South Generals Rommel and Kesselring captured the NM city of Dnepropetrovsk and the town of Kherson. From Kherson, obliterating a defending Soviet tank corps, our troops crossed the big Dnepr river and successfully expanded a big bridgehead South of Dnepropetrovsk. Now our master plan was devised. As we lacked the infantry and artillery to assault the river crossing from Kiev-Dnepropetrovsk we will attack North from the new bridgehead in a big pincer movement to isolate or force the withdrawal of the Soviet Main Line of Resistance behind the mayor Dnepr river.

[Taifun]

August 29th 1941
We continue to expand the bridgehead and dispose of the Soviet Heavy tanks defending the area. The soviet HQ positioned Taganrog is severely damaged. One medium bomber wing is transferred to Army Group Center leaving 3 bomber wings in the area.

[Taifun]

General Von Manstein pushes his troops forward in difficult terrain. His lone Panzerkorps attacks unsuccessfully Narva near the coast. The NM moral city of Smolensk is by now in our hands and armored units are bypassing Bryansk from the North.

[Taifun]

September 1941
The rain arrives leaving our bomber wings grounded. The empty town of Kaluga on the road to Moscow is occupied. No progress is made towards Leningrad. A para unit is prepared near Velkiye Luki for a future jump.

[Taifun]

All of our armored troops are now on the other side of the great river Dnepr. The mine complex of Stalino falls in our hands. We expect the Soviets to retire from the Main Line of Resistance or they will be surrounded in a huge cauldron next turn…

[Taifun]

October 1941
The front is broken! 5 Soviet infantry units are cut and surrounded out of supply around the Cherkasy area. A great victory!! Now the whole South front is broken and the last remaining enemy units retreat as fast as they can Eastwards…

[Taifun]

Novgorod is finally captured by our panzergrenadiers with bomber support. The terrain and the mud makes the going very difficult.
Around the Moscow Front Vyazma is captured in a coup the main by our paras and Tula is also reached by a panzerkorps, both towns were undefended.

[Taifun]

December 19th 1941
All our planes from Russia are now safe back in Germany so they will not take any losses from the winter weather next turn. One para unit jumps from Vyazma and manages to occupy Yaroslavl North of Moscow. The other para unit is not so fortunate… too many beers that night and I missed the town of Volkhov!! The para unit ends the turn out of supply and I go to bed!

[Taifun]

The cleaning and mopping up inside the Cherkasy Cauldron is almost finished. General Zhukov escapes barely alive strength 2 towards Voronezh. The year ends with a great victory. We are at the gates of our 3 main objectives: Leningrad, Moscow and Rostov. Nothing will stop us next year…

[Taifun]

July 1941
The USA mobilization is 45%. Japan declares War to the USSR!!! Soviet troops stationed at Vladivostock are attacked and the city surrenders next turn. The lost of this important port effectively severs the economic help that the USA was sending to Stalin (80 MMPs per turn).

[Taifun]

August 1st 1941
The USA mobilization has increased to 57%. The NM objective town of Kunming is captured. The Capital Chungking is by now assailed by 4 veteran Japanese Armies and will fall next turn.
Our troops after taking Vladivostock are operationally transported towards the Northwest Soviet border to start our push, new objective: the NM objective city of Irkutsk.

[Taifun]

August 29th 1941
The NM city of Wanting near the Burmese border is our last big objective in China and will end our campaign. With the capture of Chungking the Chinese are defeated as a military force. In September we counted 20 Chinese units still alive.

[Taifun]

October 1941
In 3 turns the USA mobilization has increased to 89%. Mr Roosevelt did not like our occupation of Siberia. I was not expecting such a violent increase in the USA activation. Fearing that the USA will enter automatically War in November Japan declared the USA this month. Japan was totally unprepared to attack in the Pacific as we were aiming for a December 1941 attack. Not a single American air unit was destroyed and only a BB and a CA went to the bottom in Pearl Harbor… a dismal performance. I think that knowing this super USA activation I would not have attacked the USSR with Japan at all in 1941. The USA fleet survived almost intact and the air wings all escaped.

[Taifun]

November 1941
Thailand is invaded and Bangkok occupied by our para unit. Other Japanese forces enter Burma from China through Wanting. The first units disembark in the Philippines.

[Taifun]

December 1941

[Taifun]

February 1942
We enter Malaysia from Thailand and approach Rangoon from 2 sides. Manila is attacked and the Philippines will Surender next turn. Hong Kong troops invade Japanese occupied China’s territory!!
In mainland Japan long range transports are readied to expand our empire further.