German Campaign using War Cab

[Imp]

Turn 12 start

We have relocated including our artillery, still a bit to do its quite now but expect incoming in areas A-D in that order.
Its more like 10 batteries & 6 on map I think, we lost contact with 17cm so it CB fired!

Relocating caused problems we lost control of the North group who gained ground & took some casualties.
Two of our Squads caused problems deciding to go heroic instead of retreating as I wanted them to.
We can finally pull the top squad out this go instead of committing units to save him.
The bottom one was the only unit on the hill & decided to rally twice & take everyone on by himself, eventually giving up when down to 3 men.
I made a silly move killing an AT team in the process.
We did bail out the tank crew, not done that in ages.
We have some decent fields of fire for the MGs now.

We have lost 4 units around 55 men including damage, a few squads would do well to head for our rear. Killed 44 Poles got one Dingo the other vanished & killed our first AA unit.

NORTH
Fall back slightly in case of arty & head back on the hill if its safe.
Under cover of woods & smoke gone searching for AA & with some luck the HQ. Also to cover road if they route here & tell tale smoke puffs say arty lies this way, halftracks heading back before they run into AA.

SOUTH
Minor risk 2 tanks went looking for AA think its in an area we cannot see. Tank is exposed 11 hex blind spot but still in kill zone for an ATG so dischargers are on.
There were a lot of Piat teams on the flank spotter plane missed most of them.
Not great position here due to expected arty more have moved East than I would have liked. A few moved West but till we know the situation hiding or selective shots - there are 3 snipers somewhere in there.
Letting them exit the depression MG has LOS & we have brought up the SPMortars using in direct fire mode.
Be nice if we can move into the tree line behind the depression.

Planes are plotted to come in here tank is going to risk a look it is vulnerable at short range to AA fire. If finds nothing cancelling & sending in to the North as we should have cleared AA there in a few turns.
Hope those 5in miss all transports are empty.
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Off topic but who needs war to thin the masses what is the US playing at with COVID 19 I thought they had the CDC.
Only a handful of countries have an upward trend in cases but the US curve is truly frightening.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Imp

Off topic but who needs war to thin the masses what is the US playing at with COVID 19 I thought they had the CDC.
Only a handful of countries have an upward trend in cases but the US curve is truly frightening.

John

Let's put this into perspective and look at the really big picture

https://www.worldometers.info/

These numbers change upwards constantly and the stats all come from UN or similar sources

The number of deaths worldwide from the Hunan virus as I type this is 605,587 ( call it Covid if you like , I will use the same naming convention they used for Ebola )

Certainly that is a high number but the number of deaths worldwide from all Communicable disease this year is 7,121,141 of which Hunan accounts for 8.5%

Road traffic accident fatalities this year to date is 740,494

Deaths caused by malaria this year to date is 538,070

Deaths caused by HIV/AIDS this year to date is 922,161

The number of Abortions this year to date is 23,332,916

And the "Big "C" --Deaths caused by cancer this year = 4,508,393

and with all that the Net population growth this year to date is 44,589,299 ( and that growth HAS slowed considerably since 1963 but it still is growth worldwide )

WW1 and the Spanish flu combined didn't slow that trend.( 20 million for the war + 50 million for the flu ) In 1900 the world population was 1.6 Billion and by 1927 it had grown to 2 Billion and it's getting near to 8 Billion now ( 7,799,091,129 and climbing)

That is little comfort to those who are most susceptible to this latest outbreak or their families but the numbers say this current pandemic is doing nothing to "thin the masses" as you say. Cancer and HIV/AIDs has taken nearly 9x more than Hunan/Covid has so far and traffic fatalities contiunes to lead Hunan/Covid so you are more at risk driving to the store to pick up a face mask statistically.

And one final number....0.1% ( one tenth of 1 % ) the number of reported confirmed Hunan/Covid infections (14,468,218 ) as a percentage of the total world population ( 7,799,109,384 right now ) and that's not deaths just confirmed infections

"Don't worry....be happy"