Unsurprisingly the pocketed force is clinging on for their lives and I do fear a sizeable Axis force appearing to your north before said pocket is finally closed. Very tense and action packed stuff.
Now we have some real action! It may or may not help to have the Mountain troops join in from across the strait. You can have them go in, and if the combat odds don't improve, cancel their supporting attack. Hmm, you could also try `support attack`. I'm not too sure what that is supposed to do exactly.
I think a 'support attack' will cause them to enter the battle as reserves (the way any division coming late to a battle does), but if you win they WON'T automatically move in to the captured province, unlike troops you simply attacked the province with. I ended up using this in Barbarossa a lot, as I needed additional support from neighboring divisions, but I didn't want them to move out of their place in the line after the battle was (hopefully) won.
P.S. I love this AAR!
Unsurprisingly the pocketed force is clinging on for their lives and I do fear a sizeable Axis force appearing to your north before said pocket is finally closed. Very tense and action packed stuff.
It's probably too late already, but if you were feeling saucy I'd land some men to cut off that stack of Italians before they could get away.
Note that we had only a 3-2 advantage in casualties on the ground, though that converts to 5-1 once you factor in prisoners. We're going to need many more prisoners if the fighting in Italy is all going like this. We faced worn-out troops, pinned from the beginning, and still only managed to inflict 50% more casualties than we took. Oh well, up the peninsula it is!
Good stuff.
This bodes well for the future.
Really though Canada seems to be in the ascendancy, Italy scrabbling for troops as you push northwards. Once again Canada is showing the rest of the allies how it is done.
Germany and Italy are probably having fun times rationalizing between putting troops on the Central European front and Italian front right now, so you shouldn't have a hard time pushing forward as long as there aren't any large stacks blocking your path. The problem is getting the USSR to stop advancing so quickly. I bet that by January they'll be near Berlin.
The battle for Cosenza goes well right from the start, as expected, and sinking the Garibaldi was great, but we really need to get a move on!
Now to hope, no know, that Canada's wildcats can prevail and not become stranded whales!:excl:
Off to Ortona!
It is not so much that Canada need get a move on as the rest of the allies need do so! Russia is stealing all of the glory (well, maybe not stealing it, more making slow progress whilst many of her troops suffering wounds and so forth but you know what I mean). Good that you managed to sink at least one Italian ship, now to sink a few army divisions (quite how you sink army units I'll leave for you to work out!).
Good show, eh what?
Nice ... another leap to catch some more?
80,000 troops is, what, an entire army? WOW. Italy is in more trouble than the Flyers holding a lead. Or on the power play. Or trying to score. How did we make the playoffs again?
Game 7 loss in overtime at home. You forgot one last part. Stanley Cup Finals. Which is so painful it has never happened before. Wikipedia says there have been only 2 Game 7s in the Finals decided in overtime, and both were won by the Red Wings at home 60 years ago. I suppose you could throw in their top scorer missing an open net and their goalie letting in a soft goal for good measure. Or you could make it an own goal. Pain... reaching... critical... levels... like Maximilian Largo in "Never Say Never Again"... when he's playing that video game... and also the fact... that the whole movie... was a remake of "Thunderball"... GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
At least that reminds me to blame Britain for the Littorio's escape. I blame Britain for the Littorio's escape.
Quite right too! Curse you Britain, forever letting the Allies down.
Good that in spite of another woeful performance from the British navy you are making such stunning progress. Although really I think the capture of over 80,000 Italians is rather overshadowed by the harrowing, yet epic, battle of Paolo.