Intermission

Allied forces Victorious

(October 31st - Allied High Command)
(AHC) Today they Allied High Command announced that they won the 39th Campaign and 2nd with the new Brigade rules. Read more.

The Battle of Bitburg

(October 30th - Oberkommando das Heer)
(OKH) Major Svedala deployed at the Bitburg-Vivande depot at 18:48 carrying his trusted kar 98 rifle. In order to defend Bitburg he joined the defense of the depots with infantrymen like Sab06 and then moved out of town with panzers in order to get a perimiter to deny the french and british forces to deploy mobile spawns close to town. Svedala shot one british rifleman and then moved towards the west forward base where he managed to damage one light-machinegunner one QF 6 pounder, two QF 2 pounders, five Bofors 40mm AA gun, one Bedford and one Morris gun tractor, while scouting for the panzers.

This weeks video picks

Axis & Allies bombing raid By Soyo102



Roermond battle provided by Bionicyahoo made by KFS1



WWIIOL RDP raid by Tubiflex



WWIIOL - new naval effects by Unknown

Southern front open

(October 28th - Southern Front)
(OKW) Today while BKB claimed that they saved France, Wehrmacht confirmed that the southern front lacks enough brigades to hold the Fresnes-Arlon line leaving the city of Luxembourg open for the taking. It was unknown what OKW was planning in order to save the southern front at the time this article was published but the french and british forces in the area are said to keep up the push eastwards. With Tier 3 now available M10's and Tigers are seen on the battlefield and new tactics employed.

Changes to Axis News

(October 26th - Axis News Team)
(PR) The Axis News layout will undergo major changes to better reflect a newspaper. Expect lots of updates this weekend with the finished result available by monday. During the next week the Archived editions from Axis News, Zeitung die Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe News and Nachrichten Blitz will be available as well as special editions. There are also plans on making news from the french and british forces available.

Battleground Europe Game Monitor

(October 18th - Playskewls)
(PR) Xiper announced the v0.9.3 released of BEGM: Battleground Europe Game Monitor - public release: " Mostly minor updates and fixes.v0.9.3- game map now zooms in when scrolling to town (via link or typing)- don't show RDP info during intermission- sync RDP cycle data every hour to prevent rounding-error drift and keep cycle/goal up to date- factory allied/axis current health percent now only includes friendly owned factories- can now double click events in Current Attacks (like Recent Events)- added "x mins ago" tooltips to Current Attacks (like Recent Events)- fixed crash when logging after opening log file failed- fixed bug where when brigade kicked out after control lost some facilities remain listed as spawnable until hcunit move event arrives 10 minutes later- fixed display height bug when starting Factory Status widget with all countries collapsed- added BEGM tag to useragent in request headers- misc updates, bugfixes"

Allied tanks versus Axis panzers

(October 17th - Oberkommando das Heer)
(OKH) The campaign started October 12th and we can now present the first statsistics from the panzerbattles. French and british tanks have destroyed 1865 of Wehrmachts panzers and lost 1146 which means that the Allies enjoy a 1.63 kill/death ratio (past campaigns it's 1.42). Overall the total loss of lives in all branches and all sides is 122,884 out of 227,615 sorties.
Among the top 6 Tankers, 5 are Axis and one french. #1 is Dacian, DE Army with 95 sorties, 81 kills, 14 panzers lost, 5,79 k/d, 73 rtb and 598 minutes on mission.

From the Front

Scharfschutze reports in

(October 14th - Oberkommando Das Heer)
(OKH) The call for infantry to Spontin came just as Major Svedala wrapped up in Bergen Op Zoom, a short but hard fight won by Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine showing up in force to support the troops on the ground. Several deployed at Spontin to flush out enemy forces entrenched in the Armybase as well as the depots. Sappers cleared one depot by placing charges on it and then the odd enemy infantry tried to infiltrate the town and that called for Scharfschutzes (Snipers) who kept the killing then enemy infantry who used the same paths in to the town over and over again. The operation was a success and the enemy High Command was unable to escalate the attack with an attack objective.

Newsreel: October 13th

(October 13th - Oberkommando der Wehrmacht)
(OKW) Sedan was one of the most intense battles for weeks. It had lots and lots of infantry with mortars raining fire on eachoter. The Allies held the west side of the river for a while during which time invidual mortarmen sent hundreds of mortarrounds with smoke to cover the advancing panzers and infantry and high-explosive to keep the enemy from holding their positions. One bridge was up and both sides thought they could make a succesful attack on the other side and so the bridge stayed unharmed and hundreds died crossing it. At the end of the day 12. Armee supported by Luftwaffe and detachments from 6. Armee managed to take and secure the town of Sedan. Althou not qualified as an epic battle the intensity of it will be carried in many soldiers minds for weeks to come, this is what world war II online is about.


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Video: 88

(October 14th - Oberkommando das Heer)
(OKH) During the defense of Andenne, Befehl Billdkat towed 3 Flak36 (88:s) and 2 Flak28 to the area north and south of Andenne in order to meet a french build-up of tanks west and northwest of the town. The detachment were quick to repell the attackars and gain control over the mountain south and hill to the north were they could continue to operate and dis-courage and more french aggressions in the area.

Newsreel: Intermission

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Video: Anti-Alt F4

(October 12 - Oberkommando die Luftwaffe)
(OKL) Stuka action by TheChort, 644th Wild Boars.

Newsreel: October 12th

(October 12th - Oberkommando der Wehrmacht)
(OKW) See the first 45 minutes of Campaign #39, features the initial navy battle of Veere-Kamperland with Kriegsmarine and defense of Gravenpolder as well as Air Strike on Zandvliet by Luftwaffe. The newsreel is ended with the assault on french held Longwyn by Das Heer and Luftwaffe. All clips from Major Svedala, Axis News.

Inermission over and Campaign #39 starts

(October 11th - Oberkommando der Wehrmacht)
(OKW) Intermission was a sucess as Brigade routed didn´t return and Wehrmacht managed to invade and take England. Campaign #39 will continue with the 7 hour resupply timers and Brigades routed will stay off the map for as long as 12 hours as explained by CRS.

Allied forces Victorious

(October 9th - Oberkommando der Wehrmacht)
(OKW) Campaign #38 which started September 6th 1343 CT
ended in Allied Victory at October 9th. A total of 1.533.984 soldiers entered the battlefield and 834.811 were killed, 38.877 control points switched ownership. France deployed 399.848 soldiers and lost 249.667, United Kingdom's BEF 342.842 deployed and 191.144 lost, Wehrmacht sent 791.294 soldiers to war and 394.000 were lost. All top 10 players in sorties were Axis!

TOP TEN PLAYERS ALL SIDES
Oberstleutnant Hunchman, 2988 sorties, 1614 kills, 58 captures, 8718 minutes.
Major Jdai, 2451 sorties, 1499 kills, 118 captures and 10949 minutes.
Oberstleutnant Jppsx, 2191 sorties, 3716 kills, 15 captures, 9431 minutes.
Leutnant Wllstrt7, 2146 sorties, 1200 kills, 76 captures, 14296 minutes.
Oberstleutnant Berzerkr, 2074 sorties, 2534 kills, 79 captures, 11082 minutes.
Oberstleutnant Swiftcut, 1933 sorties, 2112 kills, 21 captures, 6229 minutes.
Majoren Foxthrot, 1860 sorties, 1516 kills, 88 captures, 9770 minutes.
Hauptmann Dyin, 1692 sorties, 524 kills, 11 captures, 5461 minutes.
Oberst Martyng, 1691 sorties, 923 kills, 192 captures, 6561 minutes.
Majoren Tarrian, 1674 sorties, 448 kills, 164 captures, 7688 minutes.

Heavy fighting over Monchen-Gladbach

(October 8th - Oberkommando der Wehrmacht)
(OKW) A massive assault by Wehrmacht was made earlier today to try and brake-out of the temporarily stalemate on German soil and secure the factories of Monchen-Gladbach. When Axis News arrived at the scene, Wehrmacht held half of the city concentrated on the south side and the Airfield kept switching ownership while skirmishes took place on the german countryside. The FB to Kaarst was subject to heavy attacks and once lost regained in no time only to find itself under attack again. Stukas kept bombarding the northern Armybase held by french troops while Jagdfliegers pursued the Royal Airforce over the razed city. The war is not over and Wehrmacht calls on all able soldaten to join the ranks of the frontline troops in order to push back the aggressors.

Nicole on the current campaign

Axis News took the time to ask Anne-Nicole Smith on the current campaign, She is available at this link (Conversation edited for profanities and shortend)

ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> HI WHORE .
You -> OK , SO I'M A SIDESWITCHER , YOU GOT ME , BUT BACK ON TOPIC . WHO WILL WIN , AXIS OR ALLIES .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> YOU'RE DUMB .
You -> SO IT'S OBVIOUS THEN , WHO WILL WIN THIS CAMPAIGN THAT IS .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> OKAY FINE .
You -> AND DANDY , YET THE QUESTION REMAINS UNANSWERED . IT'S A WORLD WAR II SIMULATOR MADE BY THE RATS .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> I HEARD THAT EVEN LIBERTARIANS BLAME OTHER PEOPLE FOR THEIR PROBLEMS .
You -> NOW YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT OT AND TO BE FRANK YOU TEND TO LEAN TOWARDS GOING OFF TOPIC .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> YO BEOTCH .
You -> O'RLY .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> HI HOW IS YOUR VAGINA .
You -> IT DOESN'T HAVE SAND IN IT IF THAT'S WHAT YOUR ASKING . WELL THE BRIGADE SWAPPING THINKG COULD MAKE YOU WHINE THOU .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> HELLO .
You -> I HOPE YOUR MIND DIDN'T GO BLANK BECAUSE IN A WAY , THIS CONVERSATION WAS HEADING PLACES .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> HELLO .
You -> HMM , WELL OK , YOU ARE ANNENICOLE SMITH AFTER ALL . SO WHAT'S YOUR PREFERENCE , GERMAN , BRITISH OR FRENCH .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> AND YOU ARE MY FARKTOY .
You -> THAT DIDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION , COME TO THINK OF IT , YOU DON'T REALLY ANSWER QUESTIONS .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> OH I SEE .
You -> YEAH , IN A CONVERSATION , WHEN ASKED A QUESTION , ONE IS SUPPOSED TO ANSWER . SO INFANTRY , FLYBOY OR SEAMAN ?
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> RUSSIA .
You -> I GUESS THAT COULD COUNT AS A COMEBACK BUT I DON'T THINK THE RATS WILL ADD RUSSIA .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> UR FUNNY .
You -> AND YOU'RE DEAD . LET US HOPE THIS CONVERSATION COULD BE SAVED THOU .
ANNA NICOLE SMITH -> GONNA FIND MY BABY , GONNA HOLD HER TIGHT .
You -> DON'T GO HAIKU ON ME WHEN WE FINALLY SEEMED TO GET BACK ON TOPIC . , .
NICOLE ->Sorry, I'm not smart enough to answer, but I'm learning new things all the time
Conversation thread reset (Pretend that this is a new conversation)

Speak like an australian night

(September 29th - Oberkommando das Heer)
(OKH) Axis News can report that Oberfeldwebel Slob, 3rd Panzergruppe tried to invent a new Teamspek event but to no avail. Oberfeldwebel Slob explains: " On ts last night i announced that it was Speak like an australian night. if you spoke on ts last night, you had to use an australian accent. Kommandeur Whacko was having none of that and i think he should be banned from the event as a result. The only other person beside myself who participated was Deeks. i think he should be promoted as he does a pretty good australian accent, but i have to admit it's not as good as mine."