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WhisperingDeath: long term plans? Take Moscow, I guess. Are you talking operational focus? As for your question about the pocket, we'll have to wait and see.

Karl Martell: I'll make the save game available if anyone wants it, but I can't do MP. I play in 10 minute blocks between diaper changes from 4am t0 450am, CST.

My son's diaper, mind you.

lifeless: no idea about Zhukov. He was commanding the pocket in Marsielle, but was replaced during the fighting.
 
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The continental provinces of the Netherlands are returned to Dutch control on the 8th of May:



American planners grow increasingly anxious about their overextended supply lines.
 
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Advancing on Copenhagen, Hodge encounters German infantry fleeing to occupied Sweden:



The limited geography of the area prevents carrier support, and tactical bombers are engaged elsewhere. The Germans are routed, but the battle proves costly.
 

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A mixed force of American and Canadian divisions eliminates the Geneva pocket on May 10th:



Intelligence estimates that the Red Army has 587 divisions; almost one million Soviet soldiers were killed or captured in the Western European campaign.
 

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Soviet forces begin to arrive in numbers in eastern Germany as the American / Canadian lunge loses steam:


(ignore the Geneva pocket here - my ordering was a bit off)

With the majority of his divisions in the Savoy area, SHAFE considers a short pause in the east to 'tidy up his lines', and to redeploy his airplanes from the Caen / Paris area. SHAFE is confident that his forces can defeat the Soviet divisions on his front, but is concerned that engaging at less than overwhelming odds will needlessly bleed his troops. In the south, American and Canadian divisions begin their advance into Italy.
 

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Oh, I suspect that the AI has had plenty of time to disregard all of Kan's careful planning at this point.

Vann
 

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3 or so divisions per front line province. Nothing I can't beat, but I'd prefer to wait and overwhelm them, so as to not take significant casualties. I've been building transports and escorts since I took over the game, but it still not enough. I'm mostly worried about my TC, which will be much better once I liberate France and Spain.
 

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rich-love: ...In the south, American and Canadian divisions begin their advance into Italy.

magnificent progress! ! :D

the problem with stopping to adjust to the Soviet changes in strength allows them to also adjust... Catch 22? ? :wacko:
 

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3 or so divisions per front line province. Nothing I can't beat, but I'd prefer to wait and overwhelm them, so as to not take significant casualties. I've been building transports and escorts since I took over the game, but it still not enough. I'm mostly worried about my TC, which will be much better once I liberate France and Spain.
I was wondering about your TC - but with Fr5ance liberated - it ought to drop significantly.

BTW what is your TC right now? :confused:
 

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GhostWriter: They'll have a week or so to adjust, but the closer they get, the more I can kill at once...

therev: Occupying France, Spain, most of Germany, Denmark, and parts of northern Italy, I'm at 925/973 (see upcoming posts). I'm going to liberate Denmark and France real soon, so that'll help a great deal. It's gone above 973 a few times, based on offensive supply timings.
 

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2nd Fleet, blocking the exit from the Baltic at the Kattegat, is attacked by the remnants of the German fleet:



USN destroyers have a field day in the narrow and shallow waters:

 

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As the tempo along the Eastern Front slows, Eisenhower clears out a pocket of trapped German infantry:



The German army is reduced to a handful of divisions defending the area around Berlin.
 

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Excellent progress!
 

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Actually, I have a good deal of partisan activity. France was annexed to the USSR, so I get occupation penalties. It makes no sense, but that's what the game engine says.