The war is won! And at a cost of less than 10 000 men. It took a while, but nonetheless the real Red Army would have been happy with your results!
Congratulations and felicitations to the Comrades of the Red Army and of course the Secret Committee! I'm sure Some rousing renditions of The Internationale were sung into the small hours - the musicality helped of course by some good Russian vodka!
The war is won! And at a cost of less than 10 000 men. It took a while, but nonetheless the real Red Army would have been happy with your results!
A period of consolidation, development and watching events develop in the West now beckons. Tri will be busy!
For some reason the idea of Germans getting heavy water makes me very, very, very uneasy.
On the other hand that Dutch Front will not be easy for the Germans to advance in. Unless they bring in some transports or airborne units to hit the Dutch from a blind side.
Seeing the gray provinces along the German/Dutch line made me think of the movie A "Bridge Too Far".
Anyway, still here and ready for the big-show to unfold.
Well, not really any surprises. I didn't think the German Navy would be able to hold up against the combined might of the British and French Navies. Kind of shocked to hear they lost some troop transports. I would have thought the German High Command would have tried to protect them better. A major screw up there.
Also I would have thought they would be more careful with their U-Boats.
Now, once France starts to lose ports that MAY change. Their fleets will have to find bases elsewhere. They may end up leaving the British to fight in European waters all by themselves. Add the fact that the German Navy will be able to base Sea Bombers in France and the lowlands...well..the tides may turn.
It all hangs on the fate of France.
If those German Heavy Tanks are Tigers there is little KV-1s will be able to do against them. What do our anti-tank weapons among our infantry look like? If the Germans attack it will be the Soviet Infantry who will have to deal with the assault of the German Heavy Tanks.
The slow down in Norway could just be that Germans have the troops but not a secure way to get them to Norway. Remember you did report them losing some transport earlier. It could be they don't have a lot of those in reserve. And without the airbases in Oslo paratroops can't be brought in.*
* I've seen the German AI in my Spanish AAR bring in paratroops during the invasion of the UK. At first I thought the AI has carried out a massive airassault as a second wave of the invasion - the first wave being all the seaports it took. But it didn't drop them - the AI just used the captured airbases to bring them in. It was if the AI didn't trust the Troop Transports to survive crossing the British Channel but DID trust its control of the skies. So the AI brought in the paratroops like they were reinforcements. As the UK was full of garrisons at the time it wasn't a bad move.
Still the French losing a part of the Maginot-Line is, as you say, a sign something has happened to their right flank.
If the Germans really want to break the French lines they could just invade the Swiss and force the French to shift everything south.
Yes, Italy joining in seems to be the real killer. Once that happens, my own (limited but reasonable) experience is the AI just can't cope with it. And it took a few goes at it before I was able to do it as a human French leader.What would also be handy for the Germans, is if Italy were to join the war... I don't think the AI would go as far as executing both Von Schlieffen and Tannenbaum in the same invasion of France... we shall wait and see...