Don't Mention The War - Part 39

This was the turn it all fell apart.  It is a struggle at the best of times (complex game, still learning the rules, still getting confused with other games I'm playing - so many variations on the stickiness of ZoCs for example) and as the evening wore on I was not the most focussed, but it was mud, what could possibly go wrong?

At this stage I made three mistakes.  One could of been bad, but the crisis was averted, one was a missed opportunity, but the third has seen the destruction of AGS.

What's left of AGS

 :-(

If the Axis don't win the initiative going into July/August 1944 it will be even worse as it will give the Allies a back to back move.

The missed opportunity was to attack Vilnius where the recent advance of the Communists had left them flipped and vulnerable to an attack from three hexes.

Missed opportunity for a counter attack :-( 

The narrowly averted disaster in the West was putting armour in a city rather than in the open.

Under that 7 factor fighter is a single armoured unit.

At least reinforcements are on their way.

But the total horror was not moving a unit to seal off a gap which allowed the Communists to surround and put out of supply two front line hexes of flipped units.  Being flipped reduces a unit's value to one or three if it is out of supply - easy kills even in rain.

If I had moved that 6-4 infantry corps it might have avoided the disaster.

As it is there are only weak units under those aircraft

and if we don't win the initiative...

And if that wasn't bad enough on the east and western fronts, Taranto fell after a double one was rolled on ground strikes.  Why couldn't that have occurred on their combat roll?

Worse still the Pacific Theatre has also gone pear shaped with the US landing in Port Arthur, strangling Japanese production and drawing back just enough units from the border to allow the Soviets to break the Garrison value by half a point.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the terror bombing.  

However there was one success, convoys were able to be put in place to take consignments of Swedish iron ore.

Production May/June 1944