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Spring
1941 Axis turn:
The image shows the eastern front at the outset of the Nazi-Soviet war. The German
objective, Moscow, is partially visible in the upper right corner in the hex with a Soviet
4-0 fortress. Soviet armies are called "fronts".
The Germans unleash Operation Barbarossa against the USSR with ten armies - four of them
panzer - and all three of their air units. Four German infantry armies, two panzer armies,
and one air unit attack the Soviet stack with the 3-10 air unit and a 7-4 front. The
Soviet air force is shot down but the front holds fast. Two German infantry, two panzer,
and the other two air units attack the Soviet 4-0 fortress and 7-4 front, but are stopped
cold. The narrow attack frontage has thwarted the blitzkrieg.
Elsewhere, excess German and Italian units which have nothing else to do, mass on the
Yugoslavian border.
Spring
1941 Allied turn:
On the eastern front, the Soviets are forced to stretch their defenses to prevent Axis
forces from outflanking the line with a seaborne landing in either the north or south.
Their front in the Baltic States falls back to Leningrad, while the position of the
"South" front on the Black Sea hangs a bit precariously due to a shortage of
units.
Elsewhere, the British begin an operation to drive the Germans out of Norway by landing an
army on a coastal hex northwest of Oslo, and move an RAF unit to Scapa Flow to provide air
support.
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