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Mark:
End Winter 1940

The British government determines that reinforcing Norway is untenable and the Germans quickly move to occupy the rest of the country.  The Germans attempt one last bombing campaign of London before withdrawing their air force to the east.  German U-boat pens are built along the Atlantic coast of France.

In the Med, German airpower based on Rhodes and Cyprus drive the Royal Navy out of Alexandria and give the Italians dominance over the Eastern Mediterranean.  General Rommel becomes famous by landing a German mechanized corps in Syria and driving the British Army out of Palestine. 

Meanwhile, there is a significant German military build up in East Prussia and Romania.  Despite efforts by the British government to warn the Soviets of this intelligence, Stalin, also ignoring his own intelligence network, refuses to believe it. Instead, he insists that it is 'Fake News' and that Hitler is his BFF and would never do anything to damage their 'super, biggly, beautiful, fantastic' relationship and shatter the neutrality pact. . .

Mark:
Spring 1941

The World held its Breath - John launches a Spring Barbarossa!  All pics taken at the end of the turn after non-combat movement. The Germans went for an early Barbarossa with two large panzer armies based in East Prussia and Romania. Guderian blasted through the disorganized Russian defenses in Lithuania and seized Minsk before the Soviets could react.  At the same time Hoepner drove his panzer group northward and took Kiev in a lightning strike.  The giant pincer managed to pocket an entire Soviet Front around Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk.

Meanwhile, in the Med, Rommal landed a reinforced panzer corps in Syria and took Palestine and the Sinai.  The move put the British in a desperate situation.  Luckily, much needed airpower was already on its way from England to bolster the 8th Army in Egypt - and more reinforcement were on the way.  Auchinlek was not taking any chances, however, and order the immediate building of fortification in and around Cairo.

Mark:
Summer 1941

The British did not waste anytime dealing with the Rommel threat in the Middle East.  Quickly seizing the initiative, Auchinlek attacked over the Suez and using all of the mechanized forces and airpower at his disposal quickly blitzed through Palestine and on to Damascus.  Rommel, with his panzer army shattered, retreated into the Syrian desert for a night rendezvous at a pre-arranged airstrip to be transported back to North Africa. . .

Slim was sent with a corps to Persia to deal with the Iraqi insurgents holding the oilfield around Kirkuk.

On the Eastern front, Soviet forces retreated in disarray not knowing where the next panzer fist would fall.  Feinting as if they were headed East, Hoeppner turned his panzer group south and sliced through the soviet defenses in the Crimea and took Sevastopol by the end of August.  Army Groups North and Center advanced on Leningrad and Moscow.

Mark:
Autumn 1941
With the threat in the Middle-East cleaned up and Allied airpower having superiority (at least temporarily) over the Eastern Med, the 8th army turns its attention to driving Rommel off the continent.

In the East, the Soviets defend the Dneiper, but are driven back by Army Group South, though they managed to inflict some casualties on the advancing Germans who are learning this campaign will be different than France.  The Russians hold the Kerch straights and fall back over the Don at the end of Autumn.  Army Group North manages to cut Leningrad's last remaining land-link to the rest of Russia by taking Novgorod while Army Group Center takes Rzhev and the Valdai Hills.  Orel, Kursk and Yelets also fall to the Germans by late Autumn.


In the West, the British continue to take a toll on the German u-boat fleet which courageously continues to go out on patrol - but with fewer returning back to port.  British investment in destroyers, long range fighters and bombers is taking a toll on the Kriegsmarine.

Mark:
Japanese Surprise Attack Turn - a turn that will live in Infamy!

Caught up to our Pacific game, the WW struggle continues!  The Japanese dastardly attacked Pearl Harbor sinking one battleship group and putting another in the mud, while also destroying the transport naval unit.  The Japanese also took Siam, Burma, Luzon in the Philippines, along with Guadalcanal, and Northern New Guinea.  The end of the turn saw the US carriers repositioned to the South Pacific with U.S. and Australian infantry reinforcing several of the key islands there.  The Japanese combined fleet concentrated in the Solomon Sea and another Japanese fleet redeployed to Rangoon to put pressure on India.

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