February

OKW continues to pour reinforcements onto the island by way of Bristol. 3rd Panzer Group has landed and joined the fray in the north in a local flanking maneuver to try and cut off the defenders at Liverpool:

Plymouth continues to hold out, tying up two armies in the southwest. 1st Army has firmly established control over the London area and now looks to trap the British and American units in East Anglia on the beaches.

Here's a closer look at the southwestern front:

22 American divisions are trapped and threatened with annihilation, and 10th Army tightens the noose with the marines in reserve. As the Wehrmacht has secured the only deep-water harbor in the region, the enemy cannot be consistently resupplied by sea, so they are in trouble.

Meanwhile in the east, 1st Army pushes another large American contingent (300,000 infantry) toward a similar fate (along with 20 British divisions):

In the north, two panzer groups spring forward for a last-hurrah encirclement maneuver around Leeds. This will also have the nice side effect of isolating two large pockets of American forces along the west and east coasts, where we are free to hammer away at either flank with the benefit of interior lines. OKW plans to retire the mobile units to the rear echelon once this mini-operation is completed, as they are less effective in the uneven highland country to the north.

Overall, OKW has done a marvelous job here in outmaneuvering a numerically superior force. Over 100 enemy divisions have been separated along three different axes, with no hope of reinforcing one another. The Americans continue to demonstrate what not to do and repeat the mistakes of the Red Army. Instead of leveraging the strong defensive benefits of the hilly terrain to the north center, they have concentrated the bulk of their units on either flank to defend the cities, where they are easily isolated.