If you are going to crush USSR, I'd suggest conquest of Turkey and deploying some of your forces in Caucasus. That should slow down the Russians a little bit. Nice AAR, quite enjoyable to read.
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i feel i should update quicker than usual, so here:
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Bulgarian forces where still under german command and after a large number of transport ship where build at the new nazi port of Podgorica(with a lot of help from Italian and Bulgarian resources) new divisions of Bulgarian and Romanian troops where formed and made ready to board the ships. But, English fleets ruled the waves of the Mediterranean and would be happy to send a large German transport fleet to the bottom. So, preparations must be made. Hitler sought Mussolini's help yet again and asked him to divert the British fleets attention as far away from the east side of the sea as possible, so that German transports would be able to slip through undetected. Having yet again fooled Mussolini into making his Armed forces the cannon food Hitler felt confident german forces will stay intact and the war will soon be won.
German Forces that had landed on the beaches of Norway nearly half a year ago where advancing relaxed once the word came in of the fall of Greece and now marched on too a big town north of Oslo called Hamar. The German army continue on without thinking about why they haven't had any Norwegian resistance yet untill they realised the Norwegian army was clever enough to go around them and retake Oslo on September 14th 1940. Oslo was only protected by 1 small Infantry division and commanded by an incompitent officer that didn't see the obvious attack coming. The division was defeated and forced to retreat. The Norwegians destroyed their convoys, supply routes and took many officers prisoner. But Field Marshal Von Rundstedt, the commander of the invasion forces had no worries. All he needed to do is head westward, take the same route as the Norwegians did, go back south, split up, retake Oslo and send a strong enough force to Hamar again that once the retreating Norwegian forces reach Hamar they will crush them (if they aren't already crushed).
The Norwegian invasion army engaged into combat with a small detatched force of that Norwegian army on September 15th and destroyed them all. On September 17th von Rundstedt had split the army up into 2 armies. 1 to take Oslo back and one to cut the retreating forces off and destroy them. This plan worked and the army was rejoined in Hamar on October 4th where the last of the Norwegian army was defeated. Now they headed for Narvik and where held up at large Cities like Bergen and Kristiansand by smaller Norwegian Companies. But the army kept advancing and finally reached Narvik much later in February 1941 and there annexed Norway and made it a puppet state(sound very weird when i put it like that doesn't it?).
In the mean time plans for the invasion of Africa commenced and on December 23rd 1940 German forces landed in Isreal, to the big surprise of the English. The Bulgarian and Romanian cannon fodder where to eradicate the first of the British defenders and once the Gaza strip and Jeruzalem where secured German tanks and troops would land as well, making the push south.
The surprised British troops didn't stand a chance against the onslaught of Bulgarian and Romanian heavy advanced soldiers. 60 thousand troops landed but instead of the Gaza Strip they landed near Tel Aviv(i clicked on the wrong province) and cleared the beaches there. Once the beaches where secured German Armeekorps 29 under command of General Manstein was put on the transports in Podgorica and set sail, due to arrive in January. In the mean time Axis forces attacked and siezed Jerusalem and moved eastward.
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Only 1 picture, so sad
. Next, Operation Sealion mortale. (and a big leap in time)
i feel i should update quicker than usual, so here:
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Bulgarian forces where still under german command and after a large number of transport ship where build at the new nazi port of Podgorica(with a lot of help from Italian and Bulgarian resources) new divisions of Bulgarian and Romanian troops where formed and made ready to board the ships. But, English fleets ruled the waves of the Mediterranean and would be happy to send a large German transport fleet to the bottom. So, preparations must be made. Hitler sought Mussolini's help yet again and asked him to divert the British fleets attention as far away from the east side of the sea as possible, so that German transports would be able to slip through undetected. Having yet again fooled Mussolini into making his Armed forces the cannon food Hitler felt confident german forces will stay intact and the war will soon be won.
German Forces that had landed on the beaches of Norway nearly half a year ago where advancing relaxed once the word came in of the fall of Greece and now marched on too a big town north of Oslo called Hamar. The German army continue on without thinking about why they haven't had any Norwegian resistance yet untill they realised the Norwegian army was clever enough to go around them and retake Oslo on September 14th 1940. Oslo was only protected by 1 small Infantry division and commanded by an incompitent officer that didn't see the obvious attack coming. The division was defeated and forced to retreat. The Norwegians destroyed their convoys, supply routes and took many officers prisoner. But Field Marshal Von Rundstedt, the commander of the invasion forces had no worries. All he needed to do is head westward, take the same route as the Norwegians did, go back south, split up, retake Oslo and send a strong enough force to Hamar again that once the retreating Norwegian forces reach Hamar they will crush them (if they aren't already crushed).
The Norwegian invasion army engaged into combat with a small detatched force of that Norwegian army on September 15th and destroyed them all. On September 17th von Rundstedt had split the army up into 2 armies. 1 to take Oslo back and one to cut the retreating forces off and destroy them. This plan worked and the army was rejoined in Hamar on October 4th where the last of the Norwegian army was defeated. Now they headed for Narvik and where held up at large Cities like Bergen and Kristiansand by smaller Norwegian Companies. But the army kept advancing and finally reached Narvik much later in February 1941 and there annexed Norway and made it a puppet state(sound very weird when i put it like that doesn't it?).
In the mean time plans for the invasion of Africa commenced and on December 23rd 1940 German forces landed in Isreal, to the big surprise of the English. The Bulgarian and Romanian cannon fodder where to eradicate the first of the British defenders and once the Gaza strip and Jeruzalem where secured German tanks and troops would land as well, making the push south.
The surprised British troops didn't stand a chance against the onslaught of Bulgarian and Romanian heavy advanced soldiers. 60 thousand troops landed but instead of the Gaza Strip they landed near Tel Aviv(i clicked on the wrong province) and cleared the beaches there. Once the beaches where secured German Armeekorps 29 under command of General Manstein was put on the transports in Podgorica and set sail, due to arrive in January. In the mean time Axis forces attacked and siezed Jerusalem and moved eastward.
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Only 1 picture, so sad
. Next, Operation Sealion mortale. (and a big leap in time)
I hope the next bit is enjoyed:
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Since the invasion at Tel Aviv the advances in the middle east where going quite well. Mansteins army went further and further south and by the end of January had crossed the Suez Canal and held off British forces there.
Meanwhile the Bulgarian forces where mopping up the rest of the Commonwealth forces in the North and they surrenderd on 5th of February. Iraq promised British forces acces to their country but once the forces reached the borders they where held back and where forced to surrender to the Bulgarian and Romanian forces. England was furious about this and out of fear Iraq didn't join in with the Axis. England didn't declare war on Iraq however, as they now had an direct threath from German forces in Egypt, and now on both sides where they attacked.
On March 3rd Puppet states of Palestine and Jordan where set up in the middle east to relieve the Bulgarian and Romanian forces while new German troops where deployed in Port Said. They would continue their push into Egypt all the way. The race for Alexandria had started between Italy and Germany but German hopes where good they would arrive there first.
On May 21th 1941 German forces defeated the large surrounded british army at Alexandria and totally whiped it off the map. They entered Alexandria and sealed the fate of the Britsh forces. The push south went slow but almost no enemy troops would stand in their way towards Ethiopia. But on July 1941 they would have taken most of Egypt. Excluding the part that Italy took.
In Europe it went quite for a while. Really quite. Well, if you don't count the battle for Britain then, that one raged on for a long time and Germany seemed to get the upper hand with destroying the enemy radar stations and bomber squadrons. Many invasion plans where made too by the generals but all got cancelled. Hitler waited for his fleet to become ready, he had to destroy the English fleet untill there is no Carrier or Battleship left. Only then he could make a strong enough attack on the British island. On the moment only German Submarines where at sea but where at constant threath from the large British Fleets that roamed the seas. He ordered a large number of Transports to be build and stationed at French ports in Normandie. operation sealion he called it.
On September 1941 3 brand new Bismarck-class battleships(one of them called the Bismarck again, the others Tirpitz and Friedrich der gröse) where finished and put to the new fleet of Admiral Saalwachter(Dönitz was put in charge of the Submarines). Hitler wanted direct action with these but Saalwachter knew it would be unwise with such a small fleet in support of 2 underdeveloped Battlecruisers to take on a British Carrier Fleet with nearly 7 Battleships, although inferiour.
By the end of the year enough transports and escorts where finished to send a large force over the channel to invade Britain. While these escorts could defend against a small force(even a few battleships if neccesary) they could never take on Carriers and Hitler needed to have a fleet at the stand by to be deployed when these carriers where detected.
It wasn't untill in June 1942 when 3 State-of-the-art Super heavy Battleships Ludendorff, Hindenburg and Grosdeutschland where made that Saalwachter saw fit to take on the English fleet and set out to patrol the North sea.
Once that Fleet was finished and roaming the seas Hitler went on with operation sealion and 8 divisions of infantry and tanks entered a transport convoy that set out to Dover(8 Transports and 7 of the newest destroyers who where very fast and heavy equipped).
But, on the 18th of June 1941 a small battleship fleet was detected that was send from Plymouth. It intercepted the German convoy fleet in the middle of the Channel. The English fleet had 19 Ships, 5(the Royal Oak, Nelson, Rodney, Ramillies and Royal Sovereign) Battleships, 7 Battlecruisers(amongst them the Repulse, Hood and Renown) and 7 Heavy Cruiser.
The battlecruisers opened fire first and the large transport ships where primary target. The destroyers headed towards the fleet while the transports tried to make a run for it. it became clear how important destroying the transports where when the Battlecruiser Repulse sailed straight by a destroyer without firing a single shot at it, and continuing to fire shells at the Transports. 1 transport got hit by fire from the BC Hood and blew up. The weather was clear and calm so it wasn't really hard to hit a target with big guns on the sea, big targets that wheren't that far away and couldn't outrun the Battlecruisers. The British Battleships got some hits too, the HMS Rodney destroyed a Transport as well as the Royal Oak and Ramillies, the ship that sunk the Bismarck after it rammed another Battleship.
But the destroyers where underestimated. They where fast and could fire a lot more then was anticipated. Before they knew it the HMS Repulse was leaking on every side and coming to a halt in the water. The Destroyers passed the other Battlecruisers, who where still coming closer to the Transport and started firing on the Royal Oak, the pride of the English fleet. As soon as the 4 last transport ships filled with german soldiers and tanks went to the bottom the Battlecruisers turned around but they where too late to save the Royal Oak and it sunk. The Destroyers then broke attacks and fled. 3 of them where destroyed but the rest where fast enough to reach the French coast, where the english had to retreat from the coastal guns. Only 4 destroyers made it back, among them the destroyer that sunk the Royal Oak. The Captain of the ship recieved a medal for that.
But Operation Sealion had failed and the Transport Fleet, including the ones used for invading Norway where gone.
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more sea battle next. and of course more of Afrika.
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Since the invasion at Tel Aviv the advances in the middle east where going quite well. Mansteins army went further and further south and by the end of January had crossed the Suez Canal and held off British forces there.
Meanwhile the Bulgarian forces where mopping up the rest of the Commonwealth forces in the North and they surrenderd on 5th of February. Iraq promised British forces acces to their country but once the forces reached the borders they where held back and where forced to surrender to the Bulgarian and Romanian forces. England was furious about this and out of fear Iraq didn't join in with the Axis. England didn't declare war on Iraq however, as they now had an direct threath from German forces in Egypt, and now on both sides where they attacked.
On March 3rd Puppet states of Palestine and Jordan where set up in the middle east to relieve the Bulgarian and Romanian forces while new German troops where deployed in Port Said. They would continue their push into Egypt all the way. The race for Alexandria had started between Italy and Germany but German hopes where good they would arrive there first.
On May 21th 1941 German forces defeated the large surrounded british army at Alexandria and totally whiped it off the map. They entered Alexandria and sealed the fate of the Britsh forces. The push south went slow but almost no enemy troops would stand in their way towards Ethiopia. But on July 1941 they would have taken most of Egypt. Excluding the part that Italy took.
In Europe it went quite for a while. Really quite. Well, if you don't count the battle for Britain then, that one raged on for a long time and Germany seemed to get the upper hand with destroying the enemy radar stations and bomber squadrons. Many invasion plans where made too by the generals but all got cancelled. Hitler waited for his fleet to become ready, he had to destroy the English fleet untill there is no Carrier or Battleship left. Only then he could make a strong enough attack on the British island. On the moment only German Submarines where at sea but where at constant threath from the large British Fleets that roamed the seas. He ordered a large number of Transports to be build and stationed at French ports in Normandie. operation sealion he called it.
On September 1941 3 brand new Bismarck-class battleships(one of them called the Bismarck again, the others Tirpitz and Friedrich der gröse) where finished and put to the new fleet of Admiral Saalwachter(Dönitz was put in charge of the Submarines). Hitler wanted direct action with these but Saalwachter knew it would be unwise with such a small fleet in support of 2 underdeveloped Battlecruisers to take on a British Carrier Fleet with nearly 7 Battleships, although inferiour.
By the end of the year enough transports and escorts where finished to send a large force over the channel to invade Britain. While these escorts could defend against a small force(even a few battleships if neccesary) they could never take on Carriers and Hitler needed to have a fleet at the stand by to be deployed when these carriers where detected.
It wasn't untill in June 1942 when 3 State-of-the-art Super heavy Battleships Ludendorff, Hindenburg and Grosdeutschland where made that Saalwachter saw fit to take on the English fleet and set out to patrol the North sea.
Once that Fleet was finished and roaming the seas Hitler went on with operation sealion and 8 divisions of infantry and tanks entered a transport convoy that set out to Dover(8 Transports and 7 of the newest destroyers who where very fast and heavy equipped).
But, on the 18th of June 1941 a small battleship fleet was detected that was send from Plymouth. It intercepted the German convoy fleet in the middle of the Channel. The English fleet had 19 Ships, 5(the Royal Oak, Nelson, Rodney, Ramillies and Royal Sovereign) Battleships, 7 Battlecruisers(amongst them the Repulse, Hood and Renown) and 7 Heavy Cruiser.
The battlecruisers opened fire first and the large transport ships where primary target. The destroyers headed towards the fleet while the transports tried to make a run for it. it became clear how important destroying the transports where when the Battlecruiser Repulse sailed straight by a destroyer without firing a single shot at it, and continuing to fire shells at the Transports. 1 transport got hit by fire from the BC Hood and blew up. The weather was clear and calm so it wasn't really hard to hit a target with big guns on the sea, big targets that wheren't that far away and couldn't outrun the Battlecruisers. The British Battleships got some hits too, the HMS Rodney destroyed a Transport as well as the Royal Oak and Ramillies, the ship that sunk the Bismarck after it rammed another Battleship.
But the destroyers where underestimated. They where fast and could fire a lot more then was anticipated. Before they knew it the HMS Repulse was leaking on every side and coming to a halt in the water. The Destroyers passed the other Battlecruisers, who where still coming closer to the Transport and started firing on the Royal Oak, the pride of the English fleet. As soon as the 4 last transport ships filled with german soldiers and tanks went to the bottom the Battlecruisers turned around but they where too late to save the Royal Oak and it sunk. The Destroyers then broke attacks and fled. 3 of them where destroyed but the rest where fast enough to reach the French coast, where the english had to retreat from the coastal guns. Only 4 destroyers made it back, among them the destroyer that sunk the Royal Oak. The Captain of the ship recieved a medal for that.
But Operation Sealion had failed and the Transport Fleet, including the ones used for invading Norway where gone.
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more sea battle next. and of course more of Afrika.
Ouch! Hate losing those transports. You could try mixing a few empty ones into your invasion fleet...Give 'em a few more targets, but not vital ones.
Will take long before i do sealion again. First need to take out the english fleet.
Update:
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In May 1941, Rudolf Hess made his now all famous run into English space trying to make peace. Why was unknown as the German where winning. Hitler declared Hess insane and requested from the British they execute him for treason. The British held him captive and interrogated him. He didn't tell them much though.
In the mean time the battle of britain kept on going in the skies and German tactical bombers where clearly totally taking control. It also crawled of Romanian and Hungarian airforces who had tkane down most of the RAF fighters.
England went on with trying to totally dominate the seas again by attacking the large submarine groups that where attacking commerce in the atlantic. Submarines that got away reported the english behavior to the Kriegsmarine that was patrolling the north sea.
But Saalwachter insisted they kept patrolling the north sea instead of setting course for the atlantic through the strait. He kept saying the English would be expecting that and counter with an even larger force. He hoped that the main fleet of England was somewhere stationed in Scapa Flow and would soon try to out manouver the subs by going through the north sea, and thus run into the battleships of the Reich. The Enigma encoding machine was Saalwachters greatest secret, fleet movements of the Kriegsmarine was kept quite with this little device and so the English didn't know about the fleets position, truly the english didn't even know how many ships the germans now had as all the spies kept wounding up dead.
All the way into 1942 did this continue and 3 times large numbers of submarines where being destroyed. Hitler was getting agitated. He knew the new super Heavy battleships where enoug to take them out and on July 28th 1942 ordered the German fleet to to go into the atlantic through the strait. But the english fleet was waiting for this as Sallwachter said and a large force in Norwich got out of port to meet the German fleet in open sea.
Finally, after more then 2 years the Fleets meet again, settling the long stalemate in favor to however wins this one.
The British fleet was led by 2 Carriers, the HMS Courageous and the more familiar HMS Glorious. Both ship where as they had been at the start of the war, they where not very advance for the age and probably been replaced as the leaders of the entire fleet. But, still 1 particulair carrier, the glorious(as well as the furious who at the time was based at Sheffield) caused Raeder to go crazy which eventually led to his death in 1940. So, this ship held a great both emotional and symbolic meaning to the Nazi's.
They where followed up by 6 Battleships. These battleships where much like the carriers, nothing dangerous about them. They where the same ships used in the great war but upgraded to Queen Elizabeth-class. A couple of very weak Cruisers where their back-up, ones that where still from the great war as well. On tail though a number of more advanced Destroyers made up for the weakness of the fleet. They where more advanced than the german destroyers at least.
The British where distraught at the sight of the battleships, immediately the cruisers turned around and the battleships opened fire. They had never seen such huge ships before. Saalwachter waited to get closer and get a shot at the Carriers but realized that even though the battleships they faced where outdated they had still lots of ammo to spare and a lucky shot could really damage one of their new vessels.
Some shells hit the Super Heavy Battleships, but not much effect was gained. From a distance Saalwachter could see planes taking off from the carriers so he ordered the destroyers to retreat backwards and let the cruisers line up to protect the battleships from air attacks while they started their attacks.
The outcome of this became clear soon for the British grand Admiral Backhouse who led the fleet. Once the super heavy battleships started firing their guns he could hear it as loud as if one of his own battleships was firing right besides him. These guns where big, very big and would soon make wrecks out of the battleships. He ordered a general retreat after only an hour since the start of the battle.
But, it was too late and the German pride vessel the Bismarck had already half the distance that was required for the guns to be effective of their front vessel the HMS valiant and was laying on heavy fire. It wasn't long before a couple of hits blew the ship up and send it to the bottom of the ocean. The sailors on board the Bismarck cheered at the sight of the smoke and rubble going in the air. Its like a turkey shoot for them. The battleships Tirpitz, Ludendorff and Hindenburg lined up with the Bismarck and opened fire as well. Many British battleships where heavily damaged but survived to go behind the destroyers who took the rest of the beatings. The Ludendorff got a lucky shot towards the light cruiser HMS Arethusa and it sunk while the Hindenburg destroyed 2 destroyers and the Tirpitz 1. Now planes from the Glorious and Courageous where close enough to the Battleships and started their dive bombings and Fighter attacks. But they did little damage. There wheren't much planes and after 1 run they where empty and had to go back. Second to that they where being gunned down by the cruisers AA, which was more then accurate enough to take down these slow planes.
Update on progress Egypt:
The German fleet had totally defeated the great British fleet in their own sea and this was felt. But the British didnt give up, this wasn't their prime fleet and they where determined to show the Nazi's what they have been doing the last 2 years.
The British didn't know there where 2 advanced german carriers on the way though.
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Next will be an even bigger and more decisive sea battle.
Update:
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In May 1941, Rudolf Hess made his now all famous run into English space trying to make peace. Why was unknown as the German where winning. Hitler declared Hess insane and requested from the British they execute him for treason. The British held him captive and interrogated him. He didn't tell them much though.
In the mean time the battle of britain kept on going in the skies and German tactical bombers where clearly totally taking control. It also crawled of Romanian and Hungarian airforces who had tkane down most of the RAF fighters.
England went on with trying to totally dominate the seas again by attacking the large submarine groups that where attacking commerce in the atlantic. Submarines that got away reported the english behavior to the Kriegsmarine that was patrolling the north sea.
But Saalwachter insisted they kept patrolling the north sea instead of setting course for the atlantic through the strait. He kept saying the English would be expecting that and counter with an even larger force. He hoped that the main fleet of England was somewhere stationed in Scapa Flow and would soon try to out manouver the subs by going through the north sea, and thus run into the battleships of the Reich. The Enigma encoding machine was Saalwachters greatest secret, fleet movements of the Kriegsmarine was kept quite with this little device and so the English didn't know about the fleets position, truly the english didn't even know how many ships the germans now had as all the spies kept wounding up dead.
All the way into 1942 did this continue and 3 times large numbers of submarines where being destroyed. Hitler was getting agitated. He knew the new super Heavy battleships where enoug to take them out and on July 28th 1942 ordered the German fleet to to go into the atlantic through the strait. But the english fleet was waiting for this as Sallwachter said and a large force in Norwich got out of port to meet the German fleet in open sea.
Finally, after more then 2 years the Fleets meet again, settling the long stalemate in favor to however wins this one.
The British fleet was led by 2 Carriers, the HMS Courageous and the more familiar HMS Glorious. Both ship where as they had been at the start of the war, they where not very advance for the age and probably been replaced as the leaders of the entire fleet. But, still 1 particulair carrier, the glorious(as well as the furious who at the time was based at Sheffield) caused Raeder to go crazy which eventually led to his death in 1940. So, this ship held a great both emotional and symbolic meaning to the Nazi's.
They where followed up by 6 Battleships. These battleships where much like the carriers, nothing dangerous about them. They where the same ships used in the great war but upgraded to Queen Elizabeth-class. A couple of very weak Cruisers where their back-up, ones that where still from the great war as well. On tail though a number of more advanced Destroyers made up for the weakness of the fleet. They where more advanced than the german destroyers at least.
The British where distraught at the sight of the battleships, immediately the cruisers turned around and the battleships opened fire. They had never seen such huge ships before. Saalwachter waited to get closer and get a shot at the Carriers but realized that even though the battleships they faced where outdated they had still lots of ammo to spare and a lucky shot could really damage one of their new vessels.
Some shells hit the Super Heavy Battleships, but not much effect was gained. From a distance Saalwachter could see planes taking off from the carriers so he ordered the destroyers to retreat backwards and let the cruisers line up to protect the battleships from air attacks while they started their attacks.
The outcome of this became clear soon for the British grand Admiral Backhouse who led the fleet. Once the super heavy battleships started firing their guns he could hear it as loud as if one of his own battleships was firing right besides him. These guns where big, very big and would soon make wrecks out of the battleships. He ordered a general retreat after only an hour since the start of the battle.
But, it was too late and the German pride vessel the Bismarck had already half the distance that was required for the guns to be effective of their front vessel the HMS valiant and was laying on heavy fire. It wasn't long before a couple of hits blew the ship up and send it to the bottom of the ocean. The sailors on board the Bismarck cheered at the sight of the smoke and rubble going in the air. Its like a turkey shoot for them. The battleships Tirpitz, Ludendorff and Hindenburg lined up with the Bismarck and opened fire as well. Many British battleships where heavily damaged but survived to go behind the destroyers who took the rest of the beatings. The Ludendorff got a lucky shot towards the light cruiser HMS Arethusa and it sunk while the Hindenburg destroyed 2 destroyers and the Tirpitz 1. Now planes from the Glorious and Courageous where close enough to the Battleships and started their dive bombings and Fighter attacks. But they did little damage. There wheren't much planes and after 1 run they where empty and had to go back. Second to that they where being gunned down by the cruisers AA, which was more then accurate enough to take down these slow planes.
Update on progress Egypt:
The German fleet had totally defeated the great British fleet in their own sea and this was felt. But the British didnt give up, this wasn't their prime fleet and they where determined to show the Nazi's what they have been doing the last 2 years.
The British didn't know there where 2 advanced german carriers on the way though.
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Next will be an even bigger and more decisive sea battle.
Took a while to write, but her it is:
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Before the great battle for the mouth of the Thames Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived in Argentina. He was there to negotiate a new agreement with its dictator Roberto M. Ortiz. Roberto had great respect for the Nazi's and he would willingly give his wife to be part of the axis. But he had some demands, demands that would make the talks a little complicated. For example, he wanted blue prints for the german super heavy battleships and rocket engines. This was refused by ribbentrop however as he found the resources Germany will give too Agrentina just for them to sign the Axis pact(the new name for the tri-partite pact) was sufficient. Not to mention the total support in their conquest of South America.
After a couple more visits by ribbentrop the argeuing of the Argentinians was bugging the Nazi's more and more as they started whining about the USA being so close and Brazilian armed forces they just decided to force them into signing it, before they, like Italy would start their own little war and cause Germany to be left out.
They finally signed the paper on July 27th 1942. just a day before the great victory over England.
On September the 27th 1942 the German fleet met with the english fleet again off the mouth of the thames. Saalwachter didn't know for sure but thought it was exactly the same fleet as they fought before, only with some new escort destroyers.
This time Saalwachter didn't want them to get away and set course at full speed into the english fleet, who had already begun their firing.
Again the British where overwhelmed though, the super heavy battleships got hit a lot by enemy fire but it didn't do much, in the mean time the german ships just steadily headed straight into the Fleet, keeping their guns steady. As soon as they would pass an enemy ship though they would open fire with their smaller guns(still very alrge though), while leaving the big guns face front, aiming at the Carriers(which the englsih didn't realize.)
The First 2 German Battleships Hindenburg and Ludendorff got through the Battleship row that where blocking the way but the ones coming after didn't and they where held back. It didn't matter though, 2 battleships was all that Saalwachter needed. They sped past the Heavy cruiser Eidsvold and tore it to pieces. Meanwhile the German cruisers where flanking the fleet and getting past the enemy Battleships, heading straigth for the Carriers as well.
The Battleships that stayed behind didn't stop there though and launched an assault on the enemy group of Destroyers that where defending the Cruisers. 4 Destroyers got destroyed while the BB KMS Tirpitz sunk the light cruiser HMS Despatch. The Ludendorff also sunk the Battleship HMS Revenge on their way to the Carriers. Now the 2 German battleships where close enough to the Carriers and started firing. The planes that where launched from the carriers where called back quick as the Carriers tried to make a run for it. But they had nowhere to go, from 2 sides enemy Cruisers came in while the German battleships where laying the fire on really thick, setting fire to the HMS Glorious deck. The rest of the English fleet where already gone when the more and more slow going HMS Glorious was surrounded by Cruisers. Finally a shot from the CA KMS Admiral Scheer hit the oil tanks and the Carrier burst up into flames and then broke in half. The HMS Courageous got away.
Now the revenge was complete. The notorious carrier HMS Glorious was sunk, this will be felt by the British.
The English where becoming more and more desperate. How could they now defeat the german fleet?
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Next, the germans take control of the oceans and britain is left without hope.
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Before the great battle for the mouth of the Thames Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived in Argentina. He was there to negotiate a new agreement with its dictator Roberto M. Ortiz. Roberto had great respect for the Nazi's and he would willingly give his wife to be part of the axis. But he had some demands, demands that would make the talks a little complicated. For example, he wanted blue prints for the german super heavy battleships and rocket engines. This was refused by ribbentrop however as he found the resources Germany will give too Agrentina just for them to sign the Axis pact(the new name for the tri-partite pact) was sufficient. Not to mention the total support in their conquest of South America.
After a couple more visits by ribbentrop the argeuing of the Argentinians was bugging the Nazi's more and more as they started whining about the USA being so close and Brazilian armed forces they just decided to force them into signing it, before they, like Italy would start their own little war and cause Germany to be left out.
They finally signed the paper on July 27th 1942. just a day before the great victory over England.
On September the 27th 1942 the German fleet met with the english fleet again off the mouth of the thames. Saalwachter didn't know for sure but thought it was exactly the same fleet as they fought before, only with some new escort destroyers.
This time Saalwachter didn't want them to get away and set course at full speed into the english fleet, who had already begun their firing.
Again the British where overwhelmed though, the super heavy battleships got hit a lot by enemy fire but it didn't do much, in the mean time the german ships just steadily headed straight into the Fleet, keeping their guns steady. As soon as they would pass an enemy ship though they would open fire with their smaller guns(still very alrge though), while leaving the big guns face front, aiming at the Carriers(which the englsih didn't realize.)
The First 2 German Battleships Hindenburg and Ludendorff got through the Battleship row that where blocking the way but the ones coming after didn't and they where held back. It didn't matter though, 2 battleships was all that Saalwachter needed. They sped past the Heavy cruiser Eidsvold and tore it to pieces. Meanwhile the German cruisers where flanking the fleet and getting past the enemy Battleships, heading straigth for the Carriers as well.
The Battleships that stayed behind didn't stop there though and launched an assault on the enemy group of Destroyers that where defending the Cruisers. 4 Destroyers got destroyed while the BB KMS Tirpitz sunk the light cruiser HMS Despatch. The Ludendorff also sunk the Battleship HMS Revenge on their way to the Carriers. Now the 2 German battleships where close enough to the Carriers and started firing. The planes that where launched from the carriers where called back quick as the Carriers tried to make a run for it. But they had nowhere to go, from 2 sides enemy Cruisers came in while the German battleships where laying the fire on really thick, setting fire to the HMS Glorious deck. The rest of the English fleet where already gone when the more and more slow going HMS Glorious was surrounded by Cruisers. Finally a shot from the CA KMS Admiral Scheer hit the oil tanks and the Carrier burst up into flames and then broke in half. The HMS Courageous got away.
Now the revenge was complete. The notorious carrier HMS Glorious was sunk, this will be felt by the British.
The English where becoming more and more desperate. How could they now defeat the german fleet?
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Next, the germans take control of the oceans and britain is left without hope.
Well, now really the whole world is participating:
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Now that South America was dragged into the war Uruguay joined the Allies and declared war on Argentina and the Axis on October 11th 1942. Argentina was stuck though and couldn't hope to win against even Uruguay at this date, they first had to redirect some troops to the borders there.
In the mean time Iraq had joined te Axis as well when they heard about the second great victory over England in the North sea.
Now Saalwachter was Given medal after medal by Hitler. Hitler even kissed the man during the party of his decoration. They talked and they talked, Hitle wanted to hear the stoy of the Glorious demise over and over again. One of the sailors on a Cruiser had taped the glorious downfall and they where showing it over and over again on the big screens all over Germany and german occupied territory.
But saalwachter had to get back to work, England still had a huge fleet with at least 5 more carriers and 9 Battleships that must be destroyed, but they knew now they could do it and instead of luring the british fleet out they could hunt them down one by one. They heard some Canadian vessels, inlcuding 2 light Carriers had arrived here too and they where dying to destroy them. All these Carriers where outdated and saalwachter now knew the strategy to catch up with them before they would get away. He even promised a sunk American carrier by summer 1943 to Hitler. Hitler was delighted with this, the sooner the enemy fleet is out of the water the earlier he could proceed with a new Sea lion. New soldiers and tanks where already being positioned near the coast while loads of new transports where being build.
Saalwachter set sail again with his already legendary fleet and on October 27th met a new British carrier fleet in the midle of channel while passing though. There he destroyed 2 more carriers, the HMS Argus and HMS Eagle along with the battleship HMS King George V.
In November he destroyed the 2 Canadian light carriers that where just recently deployed and in December destroyed the carriers HMS Courageous and HMS Hermes and 2 more battleships the Barham and Warspite. The Germans only lost 2 Destroyers, a couple of subs and a light cruiser during these 2 months. The Victories where great. The German sailors where immortalized on those days.
Of course, Africa was going well too and soon the Germans will be pushing into Ethiopia and take it away from the allies, the goal is to totally conquer the continent so the allies wouldn't have a foot to stand on. Spanish and Portugese forces where having difficulties holding their own colonies but they got loads of help from many Japanese troops.
In East africa though the Canarian islands where taken by America somewhere mid 1942 and spanish where having real diffculties getting them off again. The Americans now had a port really close to Axis held territory, and this is unacceptable.
On January 5th admiral Darlan of the Vichy regime was interrogated by allied officials about the final view towards the Axis forces. The allies revealed they wanted to enter Africa through Vichy France territory. This enraged Darlan and he quickly made his decision. After Phillipe Petain heard of the allied plans he signed the Axis pact on January 8th.
In the mean time Venezuale had joined the war on the side of the Allies while Persia and Finland joined the Axis. Persia and Finland didn't have much to give, only that now German troops had to be send to the border with India or else Persia would be overrun soon. But Venezuela had lots of planes that where rebased to england to help against the Battle for Britiain in the skies.
It didn't matter though, Germany had already placed multiple radar systems all across the French coast line and Allied planes where crashing into the channel one by one.
The Vichy Fleet was of great use to the Axis as they could patrol the Mediterranean and defeat the last of the English battleships, as well as protect the Italian Fleet that was helping a great deal.
Now the British knew they had also lost the sea to the germans as they had only 1 Carrier left, the HMS furious and just 6 more, heavily outdated Battleships that where useless.
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Next the americans get their asses kicked and i proceed with future plans.
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Now that South America was dragged into the war Uruguay joined the Allies and declared war on Argentina and the Axis on October 11th 1942. Argentina was stuck though and couldn't hope to win against even Uruguay at this date, they first had to redirect some troops to the borders there.
In the mean time Iraq had joined te Axis as well when they heard about the second great victory over England in the North sea.
Now Saalwachter was Given medal after medal by Hitler. Hitler even kissed the man during the party of his decoration. They talked and they talked, Hitle wanted to hear the stoy of the Glorious demise over and over again. One of the sailors on a Cruiser had taped the glorious downfall and they where showing it over and over again on the big screens all over Germany and german occupied territory.
But saalwachter had to get back to work, England still had a huge fleet with at least 5 more carriers and 9 Battleships that must be destroyed, but they knew now they could do it and instead of luring the british fleet out they could hunt them down one by one. They heard some Canadian vessels, inlcuding 2 light Carriers had arrived here too and they where dying to destroy them. All these Carriers where outdated and saalwachter now knew the strategy to catch up with them before they would get away. He even promised a sunk American carrier by summer 1943 to Hitler. Hitler was delighted with this, the sooner the enemy fleet is out of the water the earlier he could proceed with a new Sea lion. New soldiers and tanks where already being positioned near the coast while loads of new transports where being build.
Saalwachter set sail again with his already legendary fleet and on October 27th met a new British carrier fleet in the midle of channel while passing though. There he destroyed 2 more carriers, the HMS Argus and HMS Eagle along with the battleship HMS King George V.
In November he destroyed the 2 Canadian light carriers that where just recently deployed and in December destroyed the carriers HMS Courageous and HMS Hermes and 2 more battleships the Barham and Warspite. The Germans only lost 2 Destroyers, a couple of subs and a light cruiser during these 2 months. The Victories where great. The German sailors where immortalized on those days.
Of course, Africa was going well too and soon the Germans will be pushing into Ethiopia and take it away from the allies, the goal is to totally conquer the continent so the allies wouldn't have a foot to stand on. Spanish and Portugese forces where having difficulties holding their own colonies but they got loads of help from many Japanese troops.
In East africa though the Canarian islands where taken by America somewhere mid 1942 and spanish where having real diffculties getting them off again. The Americans now had a port really close to Axis held territory, and this is unacceptable.
On January 5th admiral Darlan of the Vichy regime was interrogated by allied officials about the final view towards the Axis forces. The allies revealed they wanted to enter Africa through Vichy France territory. This enraged Darlan and he quickly made his decision. After Phillipe Petain heard of the allied plans he signed the Axis pact on January 8th.
In the mean time Venezuale had joined the war on the side of the Allies while Persia and Finland joined the Axis. Persia and Finland didn't have much to give, only that now German troops had to be send to the border with India or else Persia would be overrun soon. But Venezuela had lots of planes that where rebased to england to help against the Battle for Britiain in the skies.
It didn't matter though, Germany had already placed multiple radar systems all across the French coast line and Allied planes where crashing into the channel one by one.
The Vichy Fleet was of great use to the Axis as they could patrol the Mediterranean and defeat the last of the English battleships, as well as protect the Italian Fleet that was helping a great deal.
Now the British knew they had also lost the sea to the germans as they had only 1 Carrier left, the HMS furious and just 6 more, heavily outdated Battleships that where useless.
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Next the americans get their asses kicked and i proceed with future plans.
My God... French and Italians are "helping" the Axis. It's a miracle that it still exists. :rofl:
SirDaniel said:
at each ilsand about 3 or 4 divisions. and the numbers keep swelling. The stack will be giant in a few years.
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Hitler laughed at the feeble attempts of England to protect their mainland. On January 25th 1943 it was a go and a taskforce of 8 divisions set out to the South-Western coast of england and started landings there on 4 different beaches.
The british coastal defences where strong but the Luftwaffe took care of business and made sure minimal casualties where caused on the german side. The Beaches where overrun in just 2 days. This was all really exciting for the German soldiers, they where in the forbidden country as they called it. Once the beaches where secured they fougt their way to the major cities and there the English division that was defending surrendered. The West Country was in Axis hands.
When the month of January was over a large tank forces landed on the West country and stationed at the east side, ready to recieve orders.
On February 3rd a second sealion was commenced on the Eastern Coast, near London. The County Kent was quickly overrun and German forces secured the Thames by capturing the town of Southend.
The English fleet was nowhere in sight and London was cut off from supplies from the sea.
A second army was landed in Kent a few days later and now the advances to London commenced.
From the West the infantry forces attacked the fortified city Bristol while the tank forces made a double assault on Plymouth and Oxford.
Both attacks where where successful. Now the Eastern forces attacked and went north over the river Thames and took the whole Eastern seaboard in 2 weeks, closing the circle around London at Bedfordshire, north of London where they met with their fellow soldiers.
Now London was totally surrounded and cut off, the 4 divisions defending London didn't have any other choice but to fight untill the bitter end, while trying to protect their city.
On February 28th 1943 German forces attacked the city of London and took the town with great agression. The British troops defending it where totally outmatched and outgunned and it was more a slaughter then a battle. In the end only a couple of hundred english soldiers had survived and surrendered. The city was left nearly untouched, except for a few places where tanks had to clear a path for the infrantry.
Now the major push went north, all German troops advanced to make the push as fast as possible.
But, Hitler had an idea. The transports where rerouted to Liverpool and loaded up with some tanks and infrantry and where set to land at belfast, Ireland.
The English never expected the Germans there so soon and the small region of English country was quickly overrun.
The americans meanwhile thought they could liberate Britain by landing a pathetic, worthless force at Dover again, but the Transports of Germany where already back in France and loaded with a few more troops to quickly take back what the Americans recaptured. The americans forces where totally annihilated when the beaches who where still prepared for landing where flooded with German soldiers again.
By March 23rd German forces had reached the borders of Scotland and the German fleet waited at Scapa flow to take on the british fleet that was hiding there.
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Right, i'll update the situation in africa and then we'll leap forward again in time.
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Hitler laughed at the feeble attempts of England to protect their mainland. On January 25th 1943 it was a go and a taskforce of 8 divisions set out to the South-Western coast of england and started landings there on 4 different beaches.
The british coastal defences where strong but the Luftwaffe took care of business and made sure minimal casualties where caused on the german side. The Beaches where overrun in just 2 days. This was all really exciting for the German soldiers, they where in the forbidden country as they called it. Once the beaches where secured they fougt their way to the major cities and there the English division that was defending surrendered. The West Country was in Axis hands.
When the month of January was over a large tank forces landed on the West country and stationed at the east side, ready to recieve orders.
On February 3rd a second sealion was commenced on the Eastern Coast, near London. The County Kent was quickly overrun and German forces secured the Thames by capturing the town of Southend.
The English fleet was nowhere in sight and London was cut off from supplies from the sea.
A second army was landed in Kent a few days later and now the advances to London commenced.
From the West the infantry forces attacked the fortified city Bristol while the tank forces made a double assault on Plymouth and Oxford.
Both attacks where where successful. Now the Eastern forces attacked and went north over the river Thames and took the whole Eastern seaboard in 2 weeks, closing the circle around London at Bedfordshire, north of London where they met with their fellow soldiers.
Now London was totally surrounded and cut off, the 4 divisions defending London didn't have any other choice but to fight untill the bitter end, while trying to protect their city.
On February 28th 1943 German forces attacked the city of London and took the town with great agression. The British troops defending it where totally outmatched and outgunned and it was more a slaughter then a battle. In the end only a couple of hundred english soldiers had survived and surrendered. The city was left nearly untouched, except for a few places where tanks had to clear a path for the infrantry.
Now the major push went north, all German troops advanced to make the push as fast as possible.
But, Hitler had an idea. The transports where rerouted to Liverpool and loaded up with some tanks and infrantry and where set to land at belfast, Ireland.
The English never expected the Germans there so soon and the small region of English country was quickly overrun.
The americans meanwhile thought they could liberate Britain by landing a pathetic, worthless force at Dover again, but the Transports of Germany where already back in France and loaded with a few more troops to quickly take back what the Americans recaptured. The americans forces where totally annihilated when the beaches who where still prepared for landing where flooded with German soldiers again.
By March 23rd German forces had reached the borders of Scotland and the German fleet waited at Scapa flow to take on the british fleet that was hiding there.
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Right, i'll update the situation in africa and then we'll leap forward again in time.
Do not make peace with the British - they will declare war or you again within six months...
And who controls Malta? It could be quite pain in the for the Italians since His Majesty's government likes to relocate there after capture of Britain and N.Ireland... and sends thousands of troops there - even a nuclear attack couldn't help me in my game. It would be wise to solve this problem as fast as you can.
And who controls Malta? It could be quite pain in the
for the Italians since His Majesty's government likes to relocate there after capture of Britain and N.Ireland... and sends thousands of troops there - even a nuclear attack couldn't help me in my game. It would be wise to solve this problem as fast as you can.
it is first when i hear of such event! it always was a pain for me as SU since there always hiding naval and air fleets... but attack from air should solve this
Jan Skrzetuski said:Do not make peace with the British - they will declare war or you again within six months...
And who controls Malta? It could be quite pain in the
Peace? are you nuts? THIS IS SPARTA! oh, no wait, wrong part of history
Malta has already been taken by Italy.
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Meanwhile in Africa the advances where steadily going forward. General von Manstein was in charge of the operations and instead of going past the eastern seaboard of Africa and retaking Ethiopia he went straight through the middle and attacked French Colonies and retake what the english took from the Vichy French. That way he could relieve the Spanish forces that where defending their own little colony.
During January and February they slipped through the desert and arrived at their destination, the Central African plains and Nigeria. Their they engaged into combat with french and English troops. At the end of March the german forces had entered the French colonies and now headed towards the English occupied Vichy France.
In March also the Americans landed in Morocco from the Canarian islands and began operations there. Luckily there where some Japanese elites that could hold off the American attacks.
By the end of April Scotland was fully overrun and a Puppet state was installed.
Now the British lost everything, all they had was their troops advances in Asia and Africa, and they where loosing Africa.
The British had obviously been advancing into asia for quite some time now, long before the Germans where told about it by the Japanese.
Appearently the British had send all their forces from Great Britain itself to this place, fools.
In any case, during the next half year Germans expanded their territory in Africa while the British expanded into Asia.
Also the American forces swelled in Morocco and little by little they gained land, but soon the German Afrika korps would be coming in from the south, Manstein just had to regroup his forces.
At sea it wasn't going well for the allies either, as after the loss of the Enterprise American losses just kept increasing, mostly heavy cruiser trying to protect the last Carriers in the Atlantic. The Americans still had 7 Carriers, the ones in the Pacific wheren't doing any better then the ones in the Atlantic though. Japan had destroyed 2 American carriers while the Americans hadn't destroyed any of the Japanese.
Even the Italians where destroying battleship after battleship in the Mediterranean. Things where looking well for the Axis.
Allies where loosing Africa all the way untill February 1944, when the Afrika korps slowed down it activities as the armies where exhausted and speed wasn't nessesary anymore too defeat the already broken allied troops. It was all a matter of mopping up the rest of them and going for Ethiopia.
Still though, the situation in Morocco was getting worse and Hitler questioned the fact if Manstein was able to help the Axis forces there before they brok through, they could occupy the whole Northern coast before they could do anything about it.
But Manstein didn't have any worries. The Americans wouldn't be foolish enough to stretch their forces so early. Once the American forces are strong enough, they will have to face the German Afrika Korps.
As for asia, well. That was expected. Those Chinese don't know how to fight.
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Don't really know whats coming next.... Conquest of Africa is kinda boring. I think i focus on sea battles again. Also the Cape Verde and Canarians Islands are now focussed upon.
Don't forget Soviets are still at war with England as USA, better hope for the allies they won't border with them soon.
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Meanwhile in Africa the advances where steadily going forward. General von Manstein was in charge of the operations and instead of going past the eastern seaboard of Africa and retaking Ethiopia he went straight through the middle and attacked French Colonies and retake what the english took from the Vichy French. That way he could relieve the Spanish forces that where defending their own little colony.
During January and February they slipped through the desert and arrived at their destination, the Central African plains and Nigeria. Their they engaged into combat with french and English troops. At the end of March the german forces had entered the French colonies and now headed towards the English occupied Vichy France.
In March also the Americans landed in Morocco from the Canarian islands and began operations there. Luckily there where some Japanese elites that could hold off the American attacks.
By the end of April Scotland was fully overrun and a Puppet state was installed.
Now the British lost everything, all they had was their troops advances in Asia and Africa, and they where loosing Africa.
The British had obviously been advancing into asia for quite some time now, long before the Germans where told about it by the Japanese.
Appearently the British had send all their forces from Great Britain itself to this place, fools.
In any case, during the next half year Germans expanded their territory in Africa while the British expanded into Asia.
Also the American forces swelled in Morocco and little by little they gained land, but soon the German Afrika korps would be coming in from the south, Manstein just had to regroup his forces.
At sea it wasn't going well for the allies either, as after the loss of the Enterprise American losses just kept increasing, mostly heavy cruiser trying to protect the last Carriers in the Atlantic. The Americans still had 7 Carriers, the ones in the Pacific wheren't doing any better then the ones in the Atlantic though. Japan had destroyed 2 American carriers while the Americans hadn't destroyed any of the Japanese.
Even the Italians where destroying battleship after battleship in the Mediterranean. Things where looking well for the Axis.
Allies where loosing Africa all the way untill February 1944, when the Afrika korps slowed down it activities as the armies where exhausted and speed wasn't nessesary anymore too defeat the already broken allied troops. It was all a matter of mopping up the rest of them and going for Ethiopia.
Still though, the situation in Morocco was getting worse and Hitler questioned the fact if Manstein was able to help the Axis forces there before they brok through, they could occupy the whole Northern coast before they could do anything about it.
But Manstein didn't have any worries. The Americans wouldn't be foolish enough to stretch their forces so early. Once the American forces are strong enough, they will have to face the German Afrika Korps.
As for asia, well. That was expected. Those Chinese don't know how to fight.
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Don't really know whats coming next.... Conquest of Africa is kinda boring. I think i focus on sea battles again. Also the Cape Verde and Canarians Islands are now focussed upon.
Don't forget Soviets are still at war with England as USA, better hope for the allies they won't border with them soon.
