The Axis strike Back
Mighty G said:
Dont worry Tonic, when the Axis up there propoganda like this it usually means the war aint going as good as they had planned for.
Keep to your current plan, in 1944' we will see not who is right or wrong, but who is left!
As per normal early Allied confidence has now been shattered on a massive scale with the UK enjoying nothing but defeat and loss this session.
Situation report April 1940.
The early setbacks by Italy in the med have been stabilised. The UK launched bold, brave but ulitmately foolish operations in north africa in an attempt to kick Italy out of Libya.
Germany while watching the early defeats of Italy after there failed gamble to take Greece without the allies intfering, with the UK bringing in greece to the allies and catching the Italians flat footed.
What the UK did not know is substantial German airforces had been positioned to fight and keep the airways open over malta and provide powerful naval air power to destroy allied fleets which came our way. The last provinces in africa would be defended with massive strength.
With a large allied fleet consisting of 6 Battleships, battlecruisers and many other ships, over 70 allied ships were present. This forces was attempting to land forces at Tripoli and behind it to destroy the Italian forces once and for all. The province of zura feel to the UK with some 11 divisions landing there (6 moutain, 5 infantry). Now all that remained for complete allied victory was the Italian forces at Tripoli which came under repeated assult.
All looked lost, but an Italian fleet with a blockade runner on as its admiral made it past the massed allied fleet numerous times to delivery urgently needed reinforcements to tripoli in a nick of time to stave of defeat. The 70 odd allied ships could not intercept the Italian fleet, they were simply to slick for them and got many needed divisions to Tripoli. A risky gameble that paid off, had that Italian fleet been engaged it might well have been destroyed with many divisions lost to the depths of med.
German air was making its presence felt after defeating massed UK airforces over matla mainly due to new lvl II model figters now appearing in large numbers. With the UK air now dealt with the German tactical bombers could make there presence felt.
Over the next few days some 5 UK battleships, 1 Battlecrusier and an asortment of smaller ships were sunk. The bulk of the UK mediterian capital fleet is now on the bottom of the med.
With the allied fleet now in full retreat to safety after suffering huge losses attention now turned to destroying the allied forces in zura. It took a few attacks with large german air bombing the organisation for victory to be had. The 11 UK divisions were destroyed. Uk forces that surrendered have been ships to italy for POW camps and forced labour for the war effort.
Allied forces now begun to retreat back across libya in fear of total ahnilation. Another UK landing in greece soon fleed into full retreat losing two of its 12 Transports which were fully loaded as they carried 12 allied division just loaded from greece. For some unknow reason the German bombers would not bomb the allied fleet when it moved one seazone even though fully with in range. The allies could have lost many more TPs and divisions, a lucky break for them.
Malta was also seized during this time with German airsuport. Spain has been invaded and nearly completely over run, the netherlands, luxemburg and portugal have all been over run or in the process. Operations against norway have been launched.
In the Atlantic German U-boats enjoyed great success. Sinking over 200 allied convoys in a 6 week peroid and 40 escourts. Of this the UK made up 120 UK convoys and 30 escourts. No German u-boats were lost in this peroid.
With massed German Tacitcal bombers operating in the Atlantic bombing convoys and any allied fleets operating there. Germany looks forward in great anticaption to destroying US fleets should it become required to do so. We may not sink entire fleets but the CVs and BBs will be the first sunk. The more lost in the atlantic combating cheap lvl II subs the less Japan will have to worry about.
German plans are now ahead of planned and doing considerably better then envisioned. The destruction of so many Battleships so early certainly was not expected and big bonus considering my main fleet is all subs.
The Uk will now have to strip its home fleet in order to have any chance at holding the Suez, if we see substantial fleet movements to the med Operation Sealion will be launched with air forces and land forces already deployed to the channel in case a quick opening allows this.
The damage inflicted on UK fleets in the med with only 1/3 of Germanies bomber force was pleaseing to see. Less then 50% of Germanies fighters/interceptors were deployed to Italy to help them.
The luftwaffe well organised, well position and led has avenged its early defeats over france and enabled a great victory. With such air dominance now one wonders what that kind of air power if massed on the channel will do to the UK. Its remaining fleet would be no match and possible all its major ships sunk. Even with US intervention it would be indeed costly in terms of capital ships lost, there by giving Japan as big advanatage in the Pacific.
Perhaps it is time to call the US bluff. Let them come, for they will die and die in great numbers.
Dark days lie ahead for the allies.
Heil Hitler.
