Short Review
The global war needs it little bit more back up game information to clarify the situation. There is one very important occurrence as a result of the save game editing, event manipulation and so on. All German units that were over enemy territory at the time of the global DOW have been reduced to zero org. I am lucky that the whole process was instantaneous or else they may have been strategically deployed back to Berlin as well. As it is I have several thousand aircraft at zero org that are suddenly out of the campaign until they can recover. This significantly increases the temporary panic since I have a massive reduction in my ability to disrupt enemy advances.
I am now at war with everyone except the comintern so I have immediate needs to prevent the loss of territory to what would otherwise be minor irritants.
09:00 September 2nd 1940 a
I have 24 mobile divisions and 3 infantry divisions recently arrived on the west coast of France. These have arrived so quickly because they have been brought via sea transport from northern Russia. One panzer corps has arrived so recently that it cannot move yet.
The protection of northern France has been given priority so the first group is heading off to eliminate the Vichy forces at Vichy before they can cause too much chaos. The second group, when they become mobile, must rush over and disrupt the northwards movement of the Vichy forces on the Italian border. These will be capable of disrupting my force concentration north of Italy (red circles) with serious medium term consequences. The drive across Vichy will take about ten days so the Vichy forces have a real opportunity to cause trouble.
The single infantry corps is assigned to take territory and disrupt Vichy operations in south-western France.
09:00 September 2nd 1940b
The presence of various German naval forces has revealed a lot more about the deployment of Forces in Italy. Despite being at war with Germany for some time now their forces remain concentrated in the south. This is actually harder for me to defeat than if they came north to defend the border but it is still somewhat foolish AI behaviour.
I have a significant infantry force approaching but no mobile divisions. The panzer arm was always intended to be a west branch from Vichy who are already present plus an eastern branch from the forces conquering Romania. The eastern branch is weeks away from availability so the campaign is going to occur in a rather piecemeal fashion. The first issue is that the infantry armies are not due for a long time and the Italian and Vichy forces should be quite capable of disrupting the Turin delivery at least. In fact, I have no idea how I can preserve Turin for the minimum 16 days (it is actually 16 days 12 hours to the first divisions arrive).
My effective fighter force has been halved by org loss and with similar issues further east I don’t see air power being able to rescue the situation. This seems to be a very effective dumping in the ****.
09:00 September 2nd 1940c
Over Romania we have instantly lost 2/3 of the previous air support. Whilst this is not serious in this theatre it does have serious implications elsewhere as this air support is no longer available for use elsewhere. These CAS groups will need to be evacuated to areas with adequate airfield provision to recover org. Unfortunately these airfields are not nearby and these CAS will lose a lot of their recovered org in returning to the combat zone. It is likely I have lost their effective usage for the best part of a month.
Ground forces already have a good grip of Romania and they will proceed with the current strategy to eliminate that country. The blocking force west of Bulgaria effectively neutralises any threat from Bulgaria and western Turkey so the Balkan theatre remains solidly safe.
09:00 September 2nd 1940 d
In eastern Turkey the loss of air support is total and critical. These air units are my only chance to control the enemy forces in the area and every single air unit is this area (including Persia) has been brought to zero org. There will be a complete evacuation of air units to allow some org recovery and if there is any enemy advance all German forces will immediately retreat. It is particularly upsetting to have TACs lose their org as their ability to retain org has enabled them to remain in operation throughout all operations. They usually recover org as fast as redeployment removes it despite operating from inadequate airfields. The only redeeming feature of the situation here is the possibility of recovering the situation via operations in Persia.
09:00 September 2nd 1940 e
The Persian theatre has also lost all its air support. This is awkward but not disastrous. I have 27 operational divisions in theatre moving to occupy front line positions and then advance against the enemy. It us unlikely that I have sufficient forces to hold eastern Persia since I will be attacked by Afghanistan as well as the British but the situation in western Persia could develop nicely. The main target is to move west taking out Iraq and then strike Turkey from the south. The destruction of all allied forces against the Egyptian frontier will not be possible since Italy is now a member of the allied alliance.
The biggest issue in this theatre is movement times to occupy the frontline mountain provinces. If I arrive first then further reinforcements will be successfully delivered and I can attack on into the lowlands. If the allies get there first they get good defensive positions and they disrupt my reinforcements. My forces in Baku are mostly infantry and mountain divisions so I will be able to take the mountains back easily enough but the timing is all important for delivery of the mobile troops currently in redeployment.
