The Struggle for Europe PBEM

[Kalmer]

Sorry guys.

[Grothgar]

Um Kalmar shouldnt you be posting the turn for May??? Rather than last turns file,

[Kalmer]

Oops

[Grothgar]

Nothing much happened in spain this month, there was a wierd effect where the leadership still believed they were in april but this is put down to their use of recreational drugs.

[The ANZAC]

nothing special...

[klesh]

Operation TREZUB! The fall of a capital!

In this month, Comrade Stalin reviewed the map of the front. Things have stabalized in the Balkan Front, as positional warfare has taken control of the large German and Soviet forces concentrated in the area. "Marshal Kleshnikov, we need to relieve preassure on the battle for Budapest. We cannot simply hunker down, and wait for the hordes of Germans to come upon us in that sector. We've lost the momentum from our initial successes there, and the opposing forces must only be getting stronger, as are we." He continued..

"We have a new operation planned here that will give you the breathing room you and your boys in the south require. And above this, I have just recived a report stating that the 11th Guards Heavy Tank Army with its full compliment of Kv-1's has just arrived there and is at your disposal." Kleshnikov nodded and grinned. He new that the German front was shaky at best. He also knew that his forces were becoming sufficiently powerful that his position would not be threatened. Stalin then got up from his desk, made his way to a set of pulldown maps on the wall, and pulled the one labeled: TREZUB

Stalin detailed how General Andrikov would have the 1st and 2nd Guards Tank Armies at his disposal at the point of his advance. He was to cross the Bug, and continue on while his large infantry component sured up the line behind the tanks.


Unlike Operation Chetepaka, Operation Trezub was completely enacted under the aircover of the Red Airforce. Masses of Polkiparov's clouded the sky and cleared a path for the armour's swift advance.


The troops fought as if they were Chetepaka veterans from the south, but no. For they were troops assaulting the ancient city of Warszawa. They smashed the meager troops holding the street barricades and focused on the double set of fortified bunkers within the city. These were a tough nut to crack, but eventually the bunker walls were breached by our sapper units using shaped charges. Soviet troops filled the city and took up defensive positions.

The desitnation of this new fighting force is known only in Moskva. They may swing to thenorth and invade East Prussia, or perhaps push to the south and join the battle for Budapest. However, Berlin is now only 2 cities away from the frontlines, effectively half the ground the troops in the Balkans have been able to cover in their battles against the 'mighty' Wermacht. This also makes for a tasty target as Hitler and his cronies are cowering there.

In any event, the silence in the north has been broken, and if you listen closely you'll hear the sound of T-34's.

Warszawa captured.

-Vasily Kleshnikov.

[klesh]

And just for yuks, here is a shot of both RAF's (Royal and Red) mutually attacking the Luftwaffe.

[Marko]

No news this month.. Hopefully the Red Army is soon in Berlin

[Marko]

MARCH 1941

Axis liberated Oradea in Rumania, and retook Zagreb in Yugoslavia and Bastia in Corsica.

Turkey conquered Beirut.

Allies liberated Split and Rijeka in Yugoslavia, captured Taranto in Italy, and liberated Abbeville and Caen in France.

Soviets captured Oradea.

France took Palermo and Syracusa in Sicily.

APRIL 1941

Axis destroyed Abbeville and Caen in France, captured Split and Rijeka in Yugoslavia, Oradea in Rumania, Taranto in Italy, and Baghdad and Damascus in Middle-East.

Allies liberated Dunkerque, Antwerp and Brest in France.

France took Messina in Sicily.


MAY 1941

Axis conquered Dunkerque, Antwerp and Brest in France an Beirout in Near East.

Allies retook Taranto in Italy.

Soviets captured Warszava in Poland and Oradea in Rumania.

[Case]

Warsaw Salient Crushed!

German forces under the personal command of Adolf Hitler have driven the Stalinist hordes out of the city of Warsaw.
Tank crews of Army Group Vistula report that the new Soviet tanks are very difficult to deal with, but can be outmaneuvered once they emerge from their defencive positions.

Below: Troops and tanks of the 56th Panzergrenadier division enter Warsaw

[klesh]

*bump* for Kalmer.

[Kalmer]

No news.

[klesh]

Only because Kalmer's file hasn't been DL'ed at all.

*bump* for Gary.

[Grothgar]

Nothing much going on in spain, the invasion force to ponta del garda is almost there, damn slow transports

[The ANZAC]

Beirut and Damascus liberated. Baghdad soon to follow...