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News from the Axis community
(August 21th - 12th Armee)
Brussels under Axis rule
(OKH) Leutnant
Acst was seen flying a Junker 52 with other elements of the victorius 2. Luftflotte , in order to get fallschirmsjagers to the city of Brussels and then took the battle to the ground. He was pleased to report after the fight: "
Waffles are now served in Brussels!"
Befehlshaber
Xl2dylar was impressed by both sides: "
It must have been tough on the Allied Commander that called the Fallback. We had all but given up until we saw the .fall come up then it was "everyone back in hurry the allies fell back in Brussels. Believe me when I say it was a huge releif to see. Even then it was not over. The allies gave one heck of a fight and I'm certain that commander fought tooth and nail to keep his honor intact."
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Artwork by Xl2dylar
Kommendeur
Dinker fought alongside shipping in fresh troops to feed the successful attack and providing a safe ride for General der Truppe
Peepers who attended the brawl. After a quick lunch at the castle of Brussels, they return to their duties within 12th Armee and Luftflotte 2 as the enemy is trying to lay a siege on the city.
Operation Blue Steel is hereby a comple success!
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Kommendeur Dinker going for the kill
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(August 20th - MarineGruppenkommando West)
Promotions in Kriegsmarine
(OKM) Admiral Man, Oberbefehlshaber der MGK West has managed to fully staffed his fleet and was pleased to announed new promotions: "
MGK West Command XO Atltom58. Kriegschiffegruppe: CO Sabot1, XO Puppet. Angriffsdivision: CO Mwhitman, XO Denw2o. 5. Zerstorerflotilla: CO Raptor77, XO Ludwig. 8. Zerstorerflotilla: CO Utcloud" Kriegsmarine has had problems in the past to fill up the positions but Admiral Man has managed to staff his. Notice that
UtCloud,
The notorious hammer of Whitstable is back as well as retired Denw2o who does a comeback.
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(August 20th - IV. Armeekorps)
Promotions in 33. Infanterie Division
(OKH) General der Truppe Rabbit5, Kommandeur des IV. Armeekorps announced new promotions within his Armeekorps: "
Listen up! 33ID: Sneiki88 - 33ID KG-2 OIC-4, Transfer of Genobrst from 3rd PD to 33ID KG-1 OIC 10, 3rd PD: Kilo33 - 33ID KG3 OIC-5, Welcome new officers, we're glad to have ya's aboard!"
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(August 20th - Oberkommando der Luftwaffe)
New stellvertrender Kommendeur der 2nd Luftflotte
(OKL) Luftmarschall Keld4r, Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe announced: "
I would like to congratulate Snapster on achieving the promotion of Xo of 2nd Luftflotte. It has been a long time coming, and im proud to finally actually be able to announce it."
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(August 20th - 17th Infanterie Division)
Promotions within 17th Infanterie Division
(OKH) Generalleutnant Kilo69, Kommendeur des 17. Infanterie Division, announced an reorganisation of 17. ID: "
Major re-org has gone within 17 ID, Dajammer promoted from KG3 CO to 17 ID XO, Heavy265 promoted from KG1 CO to 17 ID XXO, Hierbart promoted from KG1 XXO to KG1 CO, Jafng promoted from KG1 RO to KG1 XXO. Weeed promoted from KG3 XO to KG3 CO, Freegeek promoted from KG3 XXO to KG3 XO. Congrats to all! I fully expect this promotions to greatly increase 17 ID's co-ordination and battlefield presence!"
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(August 20th - Oberkommando der Aschenmächte)
Operation Retribution: Phase Seven
(OKA) Generalfeldmarshall ZZ: "
The 31st day of Campaign 22 has had some major changes to the map in as little 5 days over 40 Axis Towns and Cities have been liberated, and many new towns have been added to supply new Headquarters for the Kampgruppes. The officers would also like to extend a hearty thanks for all the caches of wine and sprits that we have found in numerous cellars and hidden rooms. For those of you that were keeping track, we did sort of skip a few numbers there, with such lightning results from the last week, it has been hard to relay in real time to those in other areas outside of the Chain of Command. And with the successful capture of Antwerpen, we can choose a few new targets for this coming weekend. I do believe that the Armee Commanders have something special lined up for this weekend's Apocalypse. And while I would love to expand on it in this thread, it really wouldn't be proper. Afterall, all the up to date current information can be found in game, on one of the many auto tuned channels, and on the OKA Designated Text Channels."
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(August 20th - Baracks)
Liaisons for the official BE forum elected
(CRS) Community manager Badger announced the elected Liaisons: "
Barracks Liaison-schulz, Hangar Liaison-wingmann, Harbour Liaison-icetwp, Motor Pool Liaison-scotsman"
Badger explains what the Liaison program is: It is to monitor the forums through a one week time period, collect questions from the threads posted during that week and send them to CRS to replace the production notes questions. They will also gather links that they feel CRS should view posted during that week and send the links and questions into CRS in their weekly report submitted on Sunday evening. This report will be included in the Community Management’s internal report and sent to the proper departments where experts in their forum topic will answer the questions and send it back to the Community Management Team. They will then give the answers to the questions back to the liaisons to be published in the forum they represent in a sticky. This will allow the questions and answers to be found easily in their forum.
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(August 20th - Cornered Rat Software)
Battleground Europe open beta/stress test
(CRS) Rafter, CRS: "
Bedford, Texas August 19th, 2005-08-18 – Playnet Inc. and its development studio, Cornered Rat Software are pleased to announce a public beta and stress test for the upcoming release of BATTLEGROUND EUROPE. Beginning at 1200CT (US) on Thursday, August 25th, 2005 account creation forms will be made available on the official website for test accounts. Participants will receive instructions on how to download the pre-release client and information on where to submit error reports. Space will be limited for the test which will run from Thursday, August 25th through Sunday August 28th."
This made the headlines on
MMPORG
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(August 20th - Cornered Rat Software)
Welcome back soldier program
(CRS) CRS: "
Beginning Monday, August 22nd all inactive accounts from August 2004 will be elegible for free play through August 28th."
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(August 19th - World war II Online Polls)
New Polls up - Go and vote!
(CRS) Hummel announced that the new polls are now up and running and asks all players to go and vote!
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(August 19th - Oberkommando des Heere)
Operation Blue Steel: Saturday 1200 GMT
(OKH) Generaloberst Crashm8, Generalstabschef des Heeres: "
"Operation Blue Steel" set to kick off Saturday 1200GMT. Orders are out to both Armees for the joint operation against the Allied Barbarians. All Heer officers are ordered back to the front to deal the 'fatal' blow to the War hungry Allies. Rally your men, wave to the wife and children and get ready to lay some PWNAGE on the Allies. Contact your KG officers for orders. S! all and see you on the battlefield!"
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(August 19th - 16th Infanterie Division)
Chitdead doesn´t know of Fear
(CRS) Oberleutnant Jordan85 reported that Hauptmann Chitdead answered when Schutze Breihof made the call: " Southeast hill, three Shermans, three Stuarts, one Matty and one 57 mm Anti-Tank gun!" Chitdead sneaked up the hill outside Hamoir and charged five enemy tanks, making the hill look like a barbeque and secured the deployement of friendely panzers to meet the aggressors! The news arrived at PR Korps in Köln 9 days later, but is still worth mentioning. Check out the Sortie
here.
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(August 19th - 12th Armee)
12th Armee enjoys breakfeast in new Headquarters
(OKH) At 0200 EST the Breakfast Club (BC) decided that enough is enough. Antwerp was under british rule and the naval base and Airfield was a thorn in the eye on the advancing Wehrmacht. After securing the key points in the city under the nose of
rats and loosing the Airfield a couple of times, the battle had been going on for seven hours.
The bitter fight to the death, with no side wanting to take down their banners, 12th Armee supported by Luftflotte 2 and Kriegsmarine liberated Antwerp from the foes. 12th Armee Fallschirmsjager was strenghtened during the opening hours of the battle, and lead by Generalmajor SirBenny the one hundred man strong task force, among other things, took and held the north spawnable giving the panzers time to arrive and secure that part of the town. The enemy held towns of Boom, St.Niklas and Temse are now stressed from the advancing panzerdivisionen supported by Stuka bombers. British destroyers are redeployed back the line and now the war for the Zeelands are in favour of the Wehrmacht.
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Kommendeurs Peepers, Uglyfoot and Rexxor guarding CAB
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General der Truppe Peepers preparing a breakfast special in CAB
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(August 19th - XVIII Armeekorp)
Generalleutnant Hondo17 retires
(OKH) From Generalleutnant Hondo17, Stabschef des XVIII. Armekorp retirement speech: "
It is time for me to hang my OKW Commanders hat on the hook and walk that long lonely road back to the trenches. I have to tell you that my time here in the OKW has been an experience that I will never forget. Some of the people that I consider my closest friends are because of my time here. I take with me the memory of the day I was able to coordinate and lead the12 hour attack that led to the capture Of Antwerp, Boom, St Nick and Temse. At one point there was a smoking 3F sitting on one of the overpasses it was down to its mg but he held the high ground and we won the day. Things like that get etched in your mind. Great memories... I want to thank all of you for allowing me the opportunity to serve the Axis side it has been both an Honor and a pleasure. Salute!"
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(August 19th - CRS Community Report)
Community report and the return of UTCloud
(CRS) Community manager Badger: "
...Over the last week they have rallied to the call and took the momentum away from the Allied Forces and started their march to victory. Regaining most of the lost territory and more, Axis Forces have pushed the map back to the line, which this campaign began and are continuing to march westward. They have captured the southern portion of the map, and at the time of this writing are on the verge of capturing Antwerp."
Generalfeldmarschall Julesr, DCoS: "
After fighting on our heels for the first two and a half weeks, holding the line for another week, we have turned the entire map around and have now recaptured all the lost towns and have the Allies on the run. There is no quitting as Team Axis moral is very high and every single unit is fighting hard and not giving an inch. We have moved the map with some startling attacks and counter-attacks that must have some Allied Commanders scratching their heads in disbelieve. The names of the hero's during these encounters are in the dozens, as Team Axis' will to fight on is never shattered. At the time of this report going out, we have retaken over 40 towns!
Axis Promotions
Kommendeur xl2dylar - promoted to Oberbefehlshaber der 12. Armee.
OCS graduated
Offizierantwärters Jaklitch, Sneiki88, G8Crushr, Owensm, Asmodeos and UT_Cloud!
AXIS PLAYER SPOTLIGHT
Enigma98 CO, I Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 3
In the last two weeks Engima98 has been instrumental in leading successful attacks and the capture of almost a dozen towns. His ability to communicate has made his attacks very difficult to stop. His organizational skills have lead to well balanced, yet ferocious attacks on the enemy from the air and ground. Salute and Congratulations on a job well done!
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