Fallschirmsjäger attack Givet, Dinant and Charleville

Summala, XO Osasto Lagus: " I would also like to thank people who joined my paradrops to Givet, Dinant and Charleville. I had LOTS of fun just flying the plane seeing you guys so excited about the jumps, and that's enough for me. I'd like to give special thanks to my allmighty JumpMaster Yallu who did damn good work calling the jump and getting paras out pinpoint accurate. And big thanks to players who joined the jumps."

Read more of PARAs on Dec 29th-30th!!!!..... over at Axis Discussions!

Soldats recieved awards

Vondoosh: " I award these players The Merit Star for there deication to the axis attack on Breda on 12/26/08. Please stand and Salute the deicated soldats for the following; Rutt-For your constant deication of flying paras. dropping paras on enemy abs threw ea filled skies.
Remorti and Syxx510-For there constant Ms's running to make the player base happy and the attack endless.
Angel13, Dover, and Cobraez- for there bunker duties when everyone else was fighting in Breda."

Axis discussions

Hotfink retires

Hotfink, 3rd Panzergruppe: " I have been with the HC now for well over 3 Years now this account and 1 other. I love all of you guys I really do. I have been here for alot of Cincs and I have been fired by alot of Cincs. I am known as that thing that always will be. I know I would not be a Very good Cinc face it I am off the wall and a drunk.

Its just time to hang it up. I have been in positions from DCOS to 12th CO even Heer CO To finish up my Career I am Luftwaffe 2 XO. It was a Great Ride Guys. I wanna just play the game with the new RO rule that came out i couldnt just fly anymore which is what i want. I dont like ground attacks much I used to but gave it up. People have Suggested a Demotion but I really dont wanna work my way up the ranks again done it 5 times now. I have been fired by alot of Cinc's even asked to leave quite a few times. I wish the Current Cinc would just fire me Hint Hint Gaspipe so I wouldnt retire it would be a Firing.In my Tribute all I ask is Great Youtube Videos as a send off. Lets See what u got Guys. See You all on the battlefield! S!"

Thread in Axis Discussions

Wake em'up call

(November 18th - Nachrichten Blitz)
(OKA) It appears that Drakhl a retired High Commander, known for beeing very active in his timezone, posted threads in the Axis open forum which have been moved to the Axis secured forum, governed by the OKA. Not many Axis players enjoy access to he secured forum and the same goes for the Allies. Those who plays all sides are not allowed access to the any secured sections so these threads are moved and not openly discussed, and they revolv around the OKA High Command. It is very rare that threads and/or posts are deleted in the Axis open forum and they appear so when they are moved.

Drakhl, 1st Fallschirmjager Regiment: " I've made several posts now that have either been closed or moved to other forums about the problems in GHC. I have been informed via PM by some high ranking OKW that any more posts I make in axis discussions will be deleted or locked, because my "attitude creates bad morale".

Well guess what GHC.. you work for the players. You are not enhancing their gameplay by repeating the same mistakes over and over. You are not enhancing their gameplay by ignoring and crushing any dissenting opinions.
We have had three separate incidents of brigades being trapped and routed in the opening two weeks of this campaign?
We have had the CinC and staff suspending HC members, and many leaving because of new policies instated by them.

I know we have had hard times, I was in HC during them and did my best to pick up the pieces. But you're entirely out of excuses now. "We're still learning" and "we just dont have the people" aren't going to fly. You have multiple retired HC and the playerbase to draw on for advice even in the wee hours of the morning. You have squads ready to fight for you if you would just give them something in return. You have more people leaving than new people joining because you refuse to look for the cause and only address the symptoms.

Consider this a wake up call, because you are losing axis players daily. Despite all the crap I take, I am still playing axis because I believe in the cause. Now convince the players that you still do."

Thread in Playskewl.

One thousand satchels

Matamor, XO 1775th reported: " It's all about the thrill that brought me, number of kills is just a stat. Over 1k armors sapped. 1159 allied tanks sapped in career. Many missions 3/4, few with 4/4. And stills sapping. Long life to sapper S!"

Report to the thread in Playskewl.

Open letter: To the Playerbase

Open Letter: TO THE PLAYERBASE

S! Soldaten.

In recent weeks, the focus has shifted onto our low pop times and inevitably, some players have grown disgruntled with the Officers who operate during this time zone, or indeed sometimes the lack thereof.

As is always the case, some players are more frustrated by this than others, and there has been one or two 'heated' discussions regarding the situation. Some comments, oft repeated whenever there is a problem, are to be frank, insulting and more damaging to the games well being than most of you know. And it is on this subject I write to you all.

I do not represent the Axis Command when I write this, and my letter to you, is at it's heart, purely based on my own personal opinions and ideas.

Key to the most recent spate of debate, is the following points: [1] Axis Officers in the low-pop time zones are inadequate to the task or don't do their job properly, [2] There is not enough officers in these time zones, and finally, [3] insults, accusations and general disparaging and disdainful remarks aimed -broadly- at the GHC.

What a lot of players may not realise or in some cases, even wish to consider, is that we HC Officers are not an elitist group who play only for themselves. The very essence of our job is contrary to that. As an Officer advances higher through the chain of command, that Officer must devote more of his/her time to administrative duties, filling reports, officer evaluations, training of junior officers etc - and all of this is in addition to leading you the playerbase successfully in the field.

In short, we're here purely FOR the players - despite what some may wish to believe. But, at it's core, we too are players ourselves. And it is folly to believe that we would willingly permit actions that would ruin the game in any way intentionally. We're human and we do make mistakes.

But back to my point. TS3 is my time zone. I am the resident IKW[OCS] trainer for this time zone also. And of late, I have made a concious effort to provide more intel and communication to the Axis players. But, like many other officers - seeing comments on the forums that impune our intelligence, and often our integrity - turns a lot of Officers off.

TO be honest with you all, I did not log one single sortie during the 'mini-campaign' that went through so quickly. In fact, I did not log into the game at all. Because I felt the playerbase did not deserve my time.

Tragically, while I only took this stance for 3-4 days, some officers - indeed officers of a MUCH greater calibre than I could hope to be - have taken this stance permanently. They have resigned, they have even unsubscribed from the game simply because they, like me, have volunteered their time, changed their routines in real life in some cases etc, to willingly GIVE of ourselves to you the players. Even worse, is that most of these Officers were TS3 - our low pop.

Further for your consideration, I wish to point out that low-pop for us is also the Allied high-pop, and our Officers in this time zone, must defend hard often with VERY limited numbers, and throughout all of this, we must referee the chat channels to keep them from becoming a ceaseless spamfest of derision from disgruntled players. It is a glaringly obvious fact that we require more Officers during this time zone.

What might not be glaringly obvious to many of the more vocal advocates for GHC being drawn and quartered, is that their comments cause two negative reactions: [1] They cause the morale of the existing HC officers to plummet. Not many of us enjoy being called names and insulted or accused of being corrupt or unethical in our roles, and, [2] It lowers the enthusiasm of prospective recruits to the HC - after all - would you volunteer to do a job where you KNEW you were going to get yelled at, abused and insulted.

In closing, I would ask that players apply some more thought to their postings on the forum, MYSELF INCLUDED, and try to refrain from posting imflammatory or rude comments regarding either fellow players OR the HC communities. We are human as I said before, and we WILL make mistakes and we WILL ruin things from time to time just when you're getting into the swing of something. But the solution can't, and will never be, abuse, intolerance, ignorance or spite.

Teamwork, understanding, enthusiasm and a bit of tact might not be THE solution - but it's certainly a lot more productive.

As always, I am available in game during TS3 most nights for a few hours and, as always, any player on the Axis side may PM me in game and request intel or assistance from the HC.

Regards,
Praevus8

The anti-tank rifle

Solitaer: " I use the ATR almost exclusively. I love the difficulty of it and the challenge it gives to use. I also prefer its more flat trajectory for shooting inf at long distance. Now I am usually in the top 10 on the ATR top 100 list.

Playing Axis I hardly ever get a kill on an ET. Even the allied armored cars are not easy to kill. ALL the allied Tier zero stuff is hard to kill. Somua is nearly impossible and the CHAR is unkillable period. Then there is the matty in many years of playing this game I have killed ONE of them with the ATR (poor wolfie69 had her drivers hatch open). The fairly easy kills for an EXPERIENCED ATR'ist are, A13, Dalmer, Vickers, Pan, Hotckis. Of course the ATGs and Trucks are easy pickens. Once you get past tier zero it is a whole other story. You might as well have a sling shot if your trying to kill Tier1-3 allied tanks with ATR with the exception of the Stuart and if you are an expert the Crusader. Playing ATR as allied. I can KILL every single German tank minus the Tiger, PIIIH and Stug G. The Stug B, PIV, 232, 251, HT, Opel, PIVG, P38t, PII, PIIIF are all EASY kills for the experienced ATR'ist and most are easy kills for the ATR noob.

Now lets do the math. Thats 5 tier 0 allied units killable by the ATR NOT including ATGs or Trucks. And 6 tier 0 units axis killable by the ATR NOT including ATGs or Trucks. So the allies have twice as many units counting both countries and have less units killable by a weapon meant to kill tier 0 units?
Either the French armor needs a nerf or the German ATR needs a boost to its effectiveness. I say French armor because the matty is the only non killable unit for the Britts where the french have many more. Frankly the whole inf verses tank game needs a TOTAL revamp but thats another post all together. We need our antitank rockets."

Read the thread over at The Barracks.

An OKW Officer Speaks Out

(October 31st - Oberkommando die Luftwaffe)
(OKL) Keld4r, Kommandeur 1. Gruppe, 2. Jagdgeschwader: " S! Soldaten. Let me be the first to apologize to you for the tumultous events that transpired and ultimately lead to our demise. i KNOW my apology isnt worth 2 cents to you, but you deserve it nonetheless. I was online when the allied breakout occured, and i held my tongue. not to prove a point or any crap like that but out of negligence. I failed you, the axis playerbase by not speaking up and taking control of the situation. You see me sig, yes i am a luft officer. I am however an ex cinc and was the most experienced officer online when things went south, so ultimately the excuse that im luft holds no bearing, i failed in my duties as a senior player and officer within the okw to try and turn things around. I see a lot of my fellow axis players on here speaking out about equipment imbalance. Gentlemen, i was cinc at a time when i had to do rdp, crs didnt do it for us. therefore i speak with facts, not inuendo, nor rumor. yes, the allied armor is superior to ours. however..... and this is an important caveat here.... we have the capability to offset that created imbalance with our own kit in the form of the 88 and the stuka. It just takes a willingness to do so on our parts, and that is our, as a whole sides, failing. that "imbalance" is not a design flaw, it is there for purpose because that is how it was at the start. gentlemen, victory is up to us. if we want it we have to go get it. asking crs for a knee jerk reaction equipment wise isnt going to get us anywhere, that is basically asking for a crutch, and that crutch would taint any and all future accomplishments. tier 0/1 are our hardest tiers, without doubt. however it is because we as a side have given up trying to overcome a percieved allied advantage that we fail, not because of the equipment. quite simply put, tanks cant cap a town. i well realise our leaders of past are gone, plastic, dutchmon, schilling, zz etc. trust me, i was here, i learned under their tutelage, and i well recognise i will never be the leader they were to you. that does not mean however that we do not have leaders of equal capability within our ranks today. we just have to get those leaders to step up and lead, whether hc or not. my only goal since i have joined the hc is to increase hc/squad relations, to put the onus back on the squads to get the jobs done, and to basically, for lack of a better term, cater to our squads. Why do you ask? because it is not opinion but proven fact that the squads make or break the game. as an hc officer my job is to assist them and let them do their thing with as little interference as possible.

In closing: i, as an hc officer apologise for failing you. it will not happen again. i am prepared to stay up the hours required to offset our skilled foe in the wee hours if it is needed. i am willing to take every bit of knowledge i have gained, as a cinc, as an axis player of 7 years to any and all junior officer or senior officer willing to listen and learn. i am willing to try my utmost to instill the respect of squads and the ideaology of servitude to our playerbase within those i can. make no mistakes axis players. it was not some marvel new strategy of the allies that cost us this map. it was the mistake of your hc, and we have addressed it internally. i can not speak for everyone, but as the most experienced officer online during the break out it is my responsibility to respond to you and be held accountable to you. i will try my utmost to restore your faith in your high command. if you need anything while online, if you have suggestions while online, or think you see an opening or potential whlie online please feel free to pm me so it can be addressed. all i ask, even though to be honest i have no right to ask anything of you, is that you do not unsub, nor give up on us. we need you to log in. we need you to help shape the future of the axis side. we may be the "high command" but in truth we are nothing without you. the axis squads, the axis playerbase. the true strength of the axis side, always have been, always will be. S!"

Read the thread over at The Barracks.

Achtung Luftwaffe!

Keld4r, Jagdflieger Jagdgeschwader 51 "Molder" and Retired Commander-In-Chief of OKA: " An unsere Jäger: Die feindlichen Bomber werden starten sobald die neue Kampagne begonnen hat. Es ist unsere Pflicht, die alliierten Horden zurückzuschlagen. Mögen sie unsere Fabriken nie in ihren Bombenvisieren erblicken. Sie sollen bittere Tränen vergiessen und mit den Zähnen knirschen, wenn wir ihre Bomber dezimieren. Lasst sie uns so hart bestrafen, das sie nie wieder unseren Luftraum betreten wollen. Zwingen wir sie, mehr Jäger als Bomber mitzubringen. Wir, die Luftwaffe, sind für Sieg oder Niederlage verantwortlich. Es wird keinen alliierten Vorteil im RDP mehr geben, NEIN; die Aliierten werden einen Messerschmitt 109 Sommer erleben." (all credit to rote7 for the translation)

In english: " To your fighters, enemy bombers will be inbound as soon as the server is reset. It is our duty to repel the evil allied horde and never let them see our factories through their bombsites!!!!! Let there be weeping and gnashing of teeth as we decimate their raids!!! Let us punish them so that they refuse to try and enter our airspace again!!!! Let us force them to bring more escorts than bombers due to our diligence!!!! We, the Luftwaffe, are what stands between victory and defeat. Let there not be any tier imbalance, nay, let the allies suffer a 190 summer!!!!"

Read the whole thread over at The Hangar.

From Intermission

Campaign 47 over Intermission starts

(October 27th - From the Front)

(BE) It is now official with the fall of Aachen, Allied forces are Victorious and Campaign 47 the second victory in a row for the Allies. Campaign 48 starts this wednesday 29th after intermission. Team Axis wishes to thank ALL of you who joined us in fighting for Germany this campaign and welcomes you to our ranks in Campaign 48! Read the whole article here.

Armoured warfare
Axis vs. Allies
October 27th 0,81
October 10th 0,65
October 7th 0,61

Infantry warfare
Axis vs. Allied

October 27th 1,00
October 10th 1,03
October 7th 1,05

Air warfare
Axis vs. Allies
October 27th 1,03
October 10th 1,06
October 7th 1,05

Naval warfare
Axis vs. Allies
October 27th 0,87
October 10th 0,96
October 7th 0,88

Combined warfare
Axis vs. Allies
October 27th 0,96
October 10th 0,95
October 7th 0,93

Generaloberst Xfire1, Kommandant des 6'ten Armee: " I hereby welcome (recognize) you in the name of the OKW. After day upon day of bitter fights/battles the weapons/guns on all fronts have now fell silent. You have fought/struggled (against) the enemy by land, by sea, and by air; bravely and completely without regrets/remorse! You have succeeded in forming a western front against the Allied troops, and were even able to expand and make progress. However, by means of powerful/strategic reservation of resources, the Allied troops have finally succeeded in driving this front to our domestic borders (the borders of our homeland). Unfortunately, we had to surrender (our cause) to the powerful, Allied "Vormasch" (war machine or Juggernaut).. Soldiers of the armed forces;You should indeed be proud of yourselves! In the most intense battles, you have fought side by side with your teammates (comrades), in divided/dispersed foxholes; and still yet, when the battle often seemed hopeless, you never gave up.. I am proud of you all! With superior/overwhelming force, we will smash the Allied powers in Campaign #48! With full motivation, we will rise up as the ultimate victor! I salute you all!"
World at war Gazette Playskewl thread Axis Discussion

Defending Germany

Last stand at Kreuzberg

4 remaining lmgs holding bunker at Kreuzberg

1. Panzerdivision rolling into Kerpen

17. Infanterie Division holding the bunker at Kerpen

Flamerige and Etain Axis

The little Panzer that could

Kommandeur Drakhl reported: " During the axis attack on Paal, I rolled a Pz 3h from the FB straight into town (against all my instincts no less). I parked in between some buildings and proceeded to mow down infantry. I will now tell you the story of how my little panzer survived an unbelieveable amount of damage. While sitting in this spot, I had a sapper run up to me and place one satchel, which did no damage. I decided to relocate to a safer position near the AB. While sitting near the AB gate I began to take ATR plinks from the spawnable depot, which I counted to be no less than 15, possibly even 20. When the ATRs were frustrated by my MGs, they began to roll out 57mm ATGs, from which I took three shots to my frontal armour before killing them off with AP and MG. No damage. While sitting here, a 500lber bomb dropped right next to me, shaking me with concussion and hitting hard with shrapnel. I thought I was dead, and was happy to see that my little panzer had taken no damage whatsoever.

Once the depot was captured, I rolled out of the AB after a report of an S-35 nearby. I engaged the S-35 at point blank range, taking a total of three rounds to the front before I killed him. No damage. I then relocated to a hull down position behind a steep berm. As soon as I arrived a char b1 engaged me from point blank range, who had been hiding in a bush nearby. It took approximately 12 shots into my front for me to locate him, as it was so close the tracer did not render before the explosion hit my tank. I turned my turret and engaged him, firing about 8 AP until I killed him.
While I sat there I was mortared repeatedly, as well as ATRed some more. My commander now dead I was blind, and a sapper managed to get all four of his charges on me. He then shot about 2-3 clips of ammunition into me in frustration before a friendly infantry killed him. After being ATRed, ATGed, shot by two ETs, bombed, strafed and sapped, I RTBed at Paal for a total of 16 kills. Kills included 3 ATGs, 2 ETs and 11 EI. I am invincible!"
Sortie Motor pool thread

Last stand at Remich

(October 12th - Axis Discussions)
(OKH) Unterfeldwebel Kenki reported from Remich: " I join up in the naval river town of Sierck-les-Bains to liberate the town of Remich from enemy hands. We arrive on the scene and other then the enemy finishing thier captures we find the city oddly quiet other then sparce engagements. I leave the opel driver wielding my light machine gun. Wile most of the main force attacked the south end I flanked from the north and gained three captures seeing the occational corpse of a british soldier. I head near the dock when anouther opel driver appears but when I join him as he heads to the city instead of the east armybase which was my intent. Mean while Prt. Supremus captures the dock which was critcal in the defence of the town, I advance tword the east army base. As I cross the bridge I encounter enemy sniper fire, rather countless times, non-of which hit me but it was very unnerving. I send out communications about the sniper and a friendly tank comes, but as I was on a time limit I had to cross anyway and continued to take sniper fire as I headed east, south of my final target.

As this is going on reports of enemy fbs are screamed on the communication channels, heavy infantry brigades and armor headed for the town as well as a para op of four men. We lacked the man power to hold the town and rapidly began losing men.

I arrive to the Armybase, steathfully expecting resistance yet not finding any and begin my capture when the Pvt comes to help. Enemeys are gaining a lot of cps and our resistance is faiding due to fatuged supplies. The Pvt and I secure the armybase. After five minutes of resistance eventually we had to give up and pull back. However I told them I would stay and defend untill our reinforcments arrive. The Pvt considered the city lost and abandoned his post.

Anouther 10 minutes later the defences of the east army base take out a few of the enemys inexperenced personel but I begin the hear the sounds of bedferd trucks. I set up my Light machine gun and mow down an enemy soldier. Lucky they wernt expecting a defender in the army base.

Anouther 5 min pass. They gained over three quarters of they city. Occational enemy officers and bedferds come but the armybase defence takes them out I sigh I relief. Being jumpy as hell after reports of more CPs are captured.

Four more mins pass. The enemy tries agian to get into the army base. First one enemy officer charges full blazen into it and I mow him down like the first one.. but my drum is out, I quickly replace it seeing two more enemy soldiers rushing in.. lucky they were sloppy and didnt have enough reaction time to take me out and I mowed both of them down.

Agian Sighing in relief.. Paratroopers have arrived, reinforcements at least.. they regain some ground but unfortunatly it was just a small moment as they took them out.. leaving me alone once agian.

Para forces heading to enemy fbs try to arrive to stop the enemy from flooding the city but it is too late. They captured the last standing structure before my position.. The docks...

Two mins pass after the docks are down. A few of what was left of frendlys took out some of the enemy force but were overran, leaving me trapped. Supplies never arrived in time. The ground rumbles... enemys begin to try to kill me by placing satchel charges. They try agian and agian but fail. Eventually the sapper trys to rush me but I got the drop on them and kill them before much dmg was done.

The enemy thought enough was enough... My was sweat dropping extrealy bad and I had began to be afraid hearing the rumble of enemy tanks firing on the bunker. It was shaking wildly, they made shots from the door, moving down the coridor slowly.. aganizidly slow... trying to hit me in my position... I find the rounds becomming way to close and I pull away... unfortunatly this ended in disaster as I had remade my position below the stairway not knowing an enemy soldier had enemy snuck in.

I ready my light machinegun knowing I will die, and in a quick burst of smg bullets I die.. Shot in the back by Enemy Officer Lt. Imded. They captured the city after my death."

After Action Report Sortie

Generalmajor Veygar new writer

Generalmajor Veygar Commanding Officer of 1. Kampfgruppe, 33. Infanterie Division have decided to join the Axis team on From the Front. I am pleased to welcome him to write with us and look forward to his future contributions.

S!
Svedala

Editor-In-Chief

From the Front

Axis teamspeak in need of funds

(October 12th - Oberkommando der Achsenmächte)
(OKA) General der Truppe Colt1945, CO XVIII Armee Korps announced the need for fund to Teamspeak: " I have spoken to Greatone, and we are in DIRE need of donations to keep the Server up and running! We have 9 days until it goes down, unless we get sufficient donations to keep it running! We need 150 dollars donated, it is no fair to have the server owner paying it out of his own pocket, FOR US!PLEASE guys, chip in and do the community a favor, you won't regret it. Send all donations to Paypal hce97@bellsouth.net. Thank you once again! "!S"
Read the thread over at Axis Discussions here.

From the Front expands

(October 10th - From the Front - Svedala)
(FTF) The From the Front Newspaper will now include a section for the Axis players. We are currently looking for a cooperation with the German High Command so they can write their own news. The section will be tied to the frontpage for easy navigation within the newspaper.

As for now, From the Front's Svedala will update this section.