New Year, New Headaches
The Axis win initiative and get favourable rain weather instead of snow. Hitler moves the railgun towards Dnepetrovsk. He uses the last of his Offensive Points to send the subs out during a Land impulse and reorganise the Rommel HQ which flips over to reorganise the railgun. The two subs in Faroes Gap find convoys and cause carnage - 3 convoys are damaged and the ASW ship is sent back to port along with both light cruisers and 3 convoys. One sub is damaged and the other is sent back to port. Hitler is extremely happy. South of Kaunas Hitler tries to destroy a large almost surrounded pocket of Soviet troops. He attacks the neck to completely surround the Soviets and sends in a large air force to support it but his fighter cover is sent back by Soviet fighters. The German bombers try to get through still but the Hs123 gets shot down so the rest abort. The land attacks are no better. The northern"neck" battle sees the Germans lose the Hungarian cavalry and a G...