The Struggle for Europe PBEM

[klesh]

Also, I forgot to announce that the Soviet Union is now in possesion of its first Genreal unit. Georgi Zukov has taken command of the defense of Moscow, but his is reported to be dillusional as the only fighting in Moscow is for who will get the first test shots of the new Katyusha weapons being developed! Unfortunately the estimate for Zukov's arrival to the actual front is in the order of 7 months. It is doubtful he will see action as plans call for the end of the Reich and the war by then.

-VK.

[Marko]

Bordeaux and Limoges liberated.

[Case]

East and West Walls Reinforced

Yet more emergancy divisions have been rushed to Germany's key Western and Eastern defencive positions. Large numbers of Norwegian pilots have also arrived in the reich - their expertise should prove very useful in the winter months.


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Marko, I saved the game as EU.net and ran the .bat file. While the terrain and rules files appear to have changed, I'm a bit concerned that the .bat may not have worked on the .net file (I imagine that it was looking for a .sav).

[Marko]

Originally posted by Case
Marko, I saved the game as EU.net and ran the .bat file. While the terrain and rules files appear to have changed, I'm a bit concerned that the .bat may not have worked on the .net file (I imagine that it was looking for a .sav).

You made everything right. The program works with .net files too.

Other players should also change to the Winter settings before their turn. Changing the file name to EU isn't neccessary as Case already changed the events.

[Case]

OK - great

[Kalmer]

All is quiet in Turkey.

[Grothgar]

Nothing Much happened.

[The ANZAC]

Winter Offensive launched!

St Lo, St Nazaire and Le Mans have been liberated as well as Venice. Rome is poised to be cut off....

[klesh]

November of 1941- The Collapse of the Reich

The Grand Winter Offensive that will end this war was launched by Vasili Kleshnikov this month. The largest combined army in Europe descended upon Germany's vaunted Westwall. However, this elaborate defensive network turned out to be merely a picket fence as the People's armour poured into the Reich under the cover of our new Il-2 Sturmoviks.



Frankfurt was captured, inflicting losses of armour, SS troops, bombergroups, and stukas to the Germans. Stalin was outraged to find out that two entire divisions of Spanish fascists were defending Frankfurt under the command of the Nazi's. He demands an explanation from Spain as to their presence on the battlefield!

Having smashed the westwall wide open, hundreds of thousands of Soviet men advanced in order to end this horrible war. With the Oder breached at Frankfurt, a quick drive was excecuted in the direction of Berlin. Lighter resistance was encountered in the outskirts of the city but as we neared the Reichstag and Hitler's bunker, the soldiers we faced were elite Falschirmjager divisions.



These fanatical, suicidal defenders of the Reich were no match for wave after wave of T-34's supported by scores of Red Army regulars and the ocasional NKVD operative. Fighting took place in every room, on every floor as the search for Adolf Hitler and his henchmen continued. His whereabouts are unknown at this time, but at 14:24 on the 21st of November the Hammer and Sickle of the People's Republic was raised atop the German Reichstag.



Germany's capital is in ruin, and its government and army are on the run. Some higher ranking capured Germans are talking of a proposed surrender being worked up, but we have had no contact of any kind regarding this. Stalin has not made public his intention to accept anything less than unconditional surrender.

The day before the collapse of resistance in Berlin, Stalin made a speach wishing the French and British armies the best of luck and a speady victory in their battles with the Germans in the west.

Frankfurt and Berlin captured.

-Vasily Kleshnikov.

[Case]

Argh!

Where on earth did your army start from? Poznan was empty, and I didn't spot any troops concentrations out in the open (not that that neccesarily means much )

Anyway, it's a fitting end to a very skillful campaign - congratulations

[Darius871]

Congrats Klesh!

[The ANZAC]

All the allied leaders congratulate Russia on her marvelous victory. Paris and Rome are close at hand and are also expected to fall. Hopefully both our armies can meet and play cricket by the end of this year

[Case]

Originally posted by The ANZAC
Hopefully both our armies can meet and play cricket by the end of this year

Bah! Everyone knows that Poms can't play cricket.

(they're currently at 8/324 in responce to Australia's all out for 492 [with an innings left to play])

[Henrik]

Well done FMK!

Does this mean this pbem is over or will the allies and russians start fighting over whats left of germany now?

[Grothgar]

Well i for one think that we should carry on playing, and as for the spannish divisions, i assume they were under german control, in which case i have no idea, in fact if they are under my control i have even less of an idea. I assume the germans have them to start or maybe my predecessor as the spannish player kinda gave them to the german player?
Oh and ANZAC i cant believe you didnt notce the fact that Cork is now in spannish hands