August 2008 Playtest

[Mark]

Here are some pics from the August 2008 Playtest of the Advanced game:

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[Mark]

Guderian and team make short work of Poland. . .I did kill one of John's fighters,but casualties were light.

The BEF lands in France and we prepare our defenses.

The Germans mass an army in Austria - preparing for an early Balkan compaign.

They also launch a surprise Winter assault on Belgium, marching into the Ardennes.

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Spring 1940 - The Germans slice through the BEF and on into Paris forcing an early French capitulation with light casualties.

U-boats prowling in the Atlantic

The Soviets win a costly Winter war with Finland not until the Spring thaw and also occupy the Baltic states.

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In Summer 1940, the German charge through Yugoslavia and mass on the Greek border.

The Kriegsmarine sorties and finds refuge in port in Brittany.  (Putting ships in port make the immune from naval battles, but air attacks against them receive a bonus).  The Luftwaffe is massed along the Channel for a Battle of Britain and to protect their navy.

Cunningham and the British fleet evacuate some of the Greek army and reinforce it with an Indian division to hold Crete.  The Italiansare still neutral.

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Winter 1940 in the Med, France and the North Atlantic

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Spring 1941:  Italy declares war and Wavell leads the 8th Army into Bardia and Gazala, defeating them and driving them back into Tobruk where Rommel and the DAK are forming.

The North Atlantic and the Russian Front pre-Barbarosa. . .

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Summer 1941:  John organizes and executes a very strong Barbarosa and encircles several Soviet armies along the border.

Rommel counterattacks and drives the British back into Egypt.

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Army Group South advances over the Dnepr in Autumn of 1941.  Army Groups Center and North take Smolensk and the Baltic States.

In the Med, Cunningham counterattacks and drives the Italian fleet away from Crete with damage to their capital ships.



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[John D.]

Well- things looked ok at this point but I was short on oil and it was impacting my production. I need oil! >

[Mark]

On the Russian Front, an assault on the Crimea is repulsed and the Germans are at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad in the North.

In the Med, Rommel falls back out of Egypt after a battle at Mersuh Matruh.

In the North Atlantic, the Kriegsmarine takes refuge in the Norwegian fjords and the British fleet tries to make it dificult for them to get back to the Baltic.

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In Spring 1942, the British 8th Army advances in North Africa.  Field Marshal von Rundstedt takes the Crimea and Sevastopol and von Manstein advances across the Ukraine toward Stalingrad. Armyu Group North and the Finnish Army advance to isolate Leningrad while Zhukov defends Moscow from Army Group Center.

Meanwhile,  a small British and U.S. army lands on the beaches of Brittany against a weakly defended France.


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[Yoper]

I knew you guys were looney, but is that a rail gun unit I see on the eastern front?!?!?!?!?!?

Craig

[John D.]

Yes - I insisted on them. 

[Mark]

Summer 1942: Manstein takes the Maikop oil fields; Monty chases Rommel into Lybia; and Alexander liberates Paris

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Autumn 1942: Manstein and Konev face off along the Don; Rommel falls back in better defensive terrain in Tunisia; and the Germans decide to fight for France after all.

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