World in Flames - A New Hope

1939 Played: Sep/Oct Nov/Dec

Sep/Oct - 1939

Played: 2006-12-30

7 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Ger DOW Pol(CW)
Impulse 2: Allies : CW DOW Ger,Fra DOW Ger,Russia annex East Poland
Impulse 3: Axis : Ger DoW Denmark
Impulse 4: Allies :
Impulse 5: Axis :
Impulse 6: Allies :
Impulse 7: Axis :
End: Ger Conq Pol,Den

The world is in a state of shock! Germany has (again) declared war on Poland. Luftwaffe and the fearsome German army, previously set up heavily along Poland's borders, swiftly sweep Poland's outlying defences.
France and CW, honourable to the core then declare war on Germany. CW land based bombers port strike the German fleet and manage to sink one cruiser. Convoy escorts are sent around the world, and a provoking TF is sent to Italian sea while the French BBs and the Bearn CV is sent to the western med, threatening the Italian fleet in La Spezia.
Italy remains calm and just transports Graziani to Eastern Libya and shuffles his troops there a bit.
The weather remains good and the turn is long, allowing Germany to not only conquer Poland without losses, but also take Denmark and move a sizable force westwards to the Franco-German border. The German navy also sorties to the North sea but neither they Germans nor the Brits find one another.
Russia is set up on the border on Finland but does not do anything at all about the borderlands issue, partly due to bad weather but (I guess) mostly due to fear of loosing the precious US entry chits. Stalin does annex eastern Poland with a 2-1 GAR, just to increase the humiliation of Poland just a bit more.
In Asia, Japan continues it's pre-existing war against China. The air force prepares the ground for an attack against Si-An, which succeeds and cuts the Chinese front in two. This together with a Japanese outflanking move through the north desert threatens the Communist supply and induces them to retreat away from the mountains they occupy and nearer to their supply source (flipping themselves in the process). But the turn turns out to be long and with good weather, so the outflanking force makes it all the way to Lan-Chow and cuts the Communist supply forever. (Lan-Chow being the last Communist held city/supply source.)

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USA : Subj: World war again[2007-09-30 04:23:22] Reply
Well, the war started again, just as we had suspected...

Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Axis plans[2007-10-11 09:51:59] Reply
Germany wanted to make a Barbarossa 41 from the start, so Italy and Japan adapted. We agreed to make a joint effort at attacking in M/J 1941, with Japan taking resources from the east and Germany and Italy from the west. Italy was to provide Balbo and as many bombers as possible, and also some fighters. We agreed that Italys plan in the Med should be 95% defensive, but in return, Germany should help Italy align Yugoslavia as soon as possible. Malta was a potential target if the possibility would arise, but if so, this would almost exclusively be an attack in order to deny allies a good port for invading Italy from later on. Communist Chinas setup was very aggressive, so we decided to try for a combined flanking and direct assault of their positions which was quite successful, and suddely Chinas situation went from the default bad situation to extremely bad. The main thing was to free up troops for the russian offensive.

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US Entry: -
USA:    11BP: CV(fd),4CP,SUB(fd),2BB(fd)
Japan:   8BP: SYNTH
Germany:??BP: INF,2AIR?
Italy:   2BP: 2BP saved
France:  4BP: 2GAR
CW:      9BP  1INF, 2CP, 1FTR(2)    
Russia:  8BP: 1MECH, 1INF
China:   2BP: MIL

Nov/Dec - 1939

Played: 2007-01-02

6 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Italy DoW CW. Italy DoW France
Impulse 2: Allies :
Impulse 3: Axis :
Impulse 4: Allies :
Impulse 5: Axis :
Impulse 6: Allies :
End: China surrenders.

Italy starts out bold by declaring war on Germany and France. The Regia Aeronautica is sent to the western med and the fleet to Italian sea but neither find their target. Balbo is transported back from Africa to Italy and La Spezia receives German air cover, which manage to abort the following french port strike from Bearn. An Italian sub damages a British BB in Eastern Med but is itself damaged in the process.
Germany continues to transport troops west and CW sends land units and and fighters to the Mediterranean. Russia starts transporting troops from the Finnish borderlands to the Rumanian border.
Meanwhile, in China. The Communists are all flipped and terminally out of supply, so now the Japanese focus turns to the Nationalist in the south. After some additional combat in the mountains, the cities of Cheng-Tu and Chunking are, mysteriously, left ungarrisoned and thus easily occupied by Japanese forces. A large Chinese counterattack in the south accomplishes very little, and then China surprisingly surrenders.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Temptations and surrenders[2007-10-11 09:55:37] Reply
We immediately broke our initial plan for some reason. I guess the CW targets were too tempting, and also we wanted to put some preassure on france and to have some Italian bombers ready for the summer of 1940 s campaign in France. Chinas surrender was actually a surprise to us. Time will tell if it was a good move. US entry skyrocketed, we do know that.

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US Entry: 15
USA:    11BP AMPH(fd),2TRS(fd),TERR,BB(fd)
Japan:  11BP: CV(fu),MAR,NAV(2)
Germany:??BP: SUB,MECH,2INF
Italy:   2BP: AMPH(fd),SUB(rep) (using 2 saved BP)
France:  4BP: 2 GARR
CW:     10BP:  1INF, 2CP, 1CVP(3), 1TRS(fd)
Russia:  8BP: 1 MTN, 1 INF, 1BP
China:  -

1940 Played: Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec

Jan/Feb - 1940

Played: 2007-01-10

6 impulses.

Impulse 1: Allies :
Impulse 2: Axis :
Impulse 3: Allies :
Impulse 4: Axis :
Impulse 5: Allies :
Impulse 6: Axis :
End:

While blizzards rage over Europe, from Murmansk to Tunisia, Germany transports his troops west towards France. Noteworthy is also that as the weather clears slightly in the Med, Italian Sparvieros en route

Italian sparvieros sink one CW submarine and one CV(with plane) and damages one French battleship in the Western Mediterranean sea. In the Italian sea, the only remaining CW submarine is damaged by some Italian cruisers.
The euroaxis also masses some infantry corps and a few bombers, all led by field marshal Balbo on the northern Hungarian border.

On the allied side, Russia reinforces the border on Rumania and CW reinforces Malta with a strong INF corps while France does pretty much nothing.

In Asia, Japan is now at peace with everyone and uses this opportunity to persuade Siam into an alliance. To the north, Japan and USSR move troops towards the borders.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Japan[2007-10-11 09:58:08] Reply
Modified strategy for Japan: Build stuff. Everything! Also, lets see if we can put some pressure on India with the available Japanese troops.

Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Japan[2007-10-11 10:04:21] Reply
Also, see if we can taunt USSR to station some more troops around Manchuria in 1940. We did not really want a war there, since Russia has some quite fearsome forces available and Japan had all the resources he needed.

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US Entry: (15) 16,4
USA:    11BP: 3BB(fd),INF
Japan:  21BP: 1GAR, 1TERR (Korea), 1ART (art), 2NAV(2), 2BB(fd), 1 BP->USA
Germany: 
Italy:   5BP: 1 NAV, 1 CP
France:  6BP: 1 FTR, 1 GARR
CW:     17BP: (+2GoD): HQ-I, CVP(3), FTR(3), CV(fd), BB(fu), CP
Russia: 14BP: 2 INF, 1 MECH, 1 GUN
China:  -

Mar/Apr - 1940

Played: 2007-01-10

5 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Ge DoW Netherlands
Impulse 2: Allies :
Impulse 3: Axis :
Impulse 4: Allies : USSR claims (and gets) Bessarabia.
Impulse 5: Axis : Ge DoW Belgium. Hungary demands Trans, Rumaina refuses. Ge DoW Hungary. Ge DoW Bulgaria. Italy DoW Hungary. (USA cares about everything except the italian DoW)
End: Ge conq Netherland. Ge conq Hungary

The weather suddenly clears which Germany celebrates by declaring war on Holland. Most of the navy stationed in Rotterdam makes it to English ports but the country is quickly taken by the German army, supported by paratroopers and some bombers.
Unreliable weather then makes nothing much happens for a while until the weather clears again and Russia demands Bessarabia from Rumania. Germany, as Rumania's advisor quickly realizes the battle is hopeless and advises Rumania to give in to Russia's claims. Next, Hungary and Bulgaria demands "their" parts of poor Rumania. This time however, Germany denies their claims. Not only so, but Germany also declares war on Belgium, Bulgaria and on Hungary (the later together with Italy). The Hungarian defenders are quickly done away with and Germany conquers the country. Bulgaria remains safe for now.
The Belgian defenders are all swept away by the germans but Brussels still stands unoccupied but almost surrounded by Germans when the turn ends (early).

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Weather[2007-10-11 10:01:17] Reply
Well, at least we got one turn with good weather which let us take Holland easily, and also kill most of Belgiums defenders in the rain. Shame about the short turn.

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US Entry: (15,16,4) 13,19
USA:    10BP: BB(fu),TRS(fd),AMPH(fd)
Japan:  20BP: 1MNT, 1MNT-div, 1GAR, 1ART (AT), 1FTR(2), 2CV(fd), 1CVL(fd)
Germany: 
Italy:   5BP: 1 ATR
France:  6BP: 1 FTR, 1 GARR
CW:     16BP (+1GoD): 2INF (1 Ind), FTR(3), CV(fd), amph(fd), CP
Russia: 16BP: 2 INF, 1 MECH, 1 HQ-I
China:  -

2007-01-07

May/Jun - 1940

Played: 2007-01-16

7 impulses.

Impulse 1: Allies :
Impulse 2: Axis : Germany aligns Rumania
Impulse 3: Allies :
Impulse 4: Axis :
Impulse 5: Allies :
Impulse 6: Axis :
Impulse 7: Allies :
End: Ge conq Belgium

The French Air Force have a field day and shoots down lots of german fighters. But this isn't enough to stop the German war machine which relentlessly moves forward. The first German tanks are sighted close to Paris, and the future doesn't look bright for France.
Rumania joins the german war effort and Rumanian troops is immediately ordered to attack Bulgaria, but there they await arrival of stronger German troops before any attacks can be made.

Japan, who is at peace with every-one, builds troops.
Russia pulls its troops back from the area around Manchuria and sets up a defensive position on the line Ulan-Bator - Chita as a response to the Japaneese buildup in Manchuria.
But, the build-up in Manchuria seems over and instead forces are sent to reinforce Siam and some units in China move westwards.
Observers conclude Japan no longer think it is in their best interest to have a war with Russia.
The CW reinforces the Malaya very heavily. The US strenghtens the garrison on Wake and the diplomatic relations between USA and Japan becomes more and more strained.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: France[2007-10-11 10:05:55] Reply
Damn the french air force. Good thing Italy has some aircraft available too. A few good land attacks made up for the air combats though.

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US Entry: (15,16,4,13,19) 23,7
USA:    11BP: 2TRS(fd),AMPH(fd),FTR(2)
Japan:  20BP: INF,GAR,MARdiv,CVP(1),3AMPH(fd)
Germany:15BP: 2MIL,FTR(2),FTR(3),SUB(r),SUB(fu)
Italy:   5BP: LND(3)
France:  6BP: FTR(2),GARR
CW:     17(+1)BP:2MOT(1ind,1can),FTR(3),BB(fu),TRS(fd)
Russia: 17BP: 4INF,MECH
China:  -

2007-01-16

Jul/Aug - 1940

Played: 2007-01-24

8 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis :
Impulse 2: Allies :
Impulse 3: Axis :
Impulse 4: Allies :
Impulse 5: Axis :
Impulse 6: Allies :
Impulse 7: Axis :
Impulse 8: Allies :
End:

The unstoppable German war machine proceeds slowly in France towards Paris, blitzing French defenders left and right. As the Luftwaffe aided by some Italian bombers eventually manage to down the French air force and Rundstedt uses an OC, the fall of france now seems inevitable and close at hand. Gort and his infantry corps take the opportunity to first retreat west and then evacuate via the North Sea.
Italian bombers rebase south towards Sicily and Greece, along with some second grade German bombers. An attempt is made by Rumanian and German forces to assault the city of Sofia but only one of the two defending corps are killed and the Axis will have to wait until S/O to make another attempt.
Russia rails forces west from the Manchuria area and consolidates his lines in Ukraine and Poland. CW seams to care mostly for escorting his convoys.
Japan, who is at peace with every-one, builds troops.
USA, who is at peace with every-one, builds ships.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: France[2007-10-11 10:09:17] Reply
Turn ended kind of early so the assault on Paris had to wait quite some time more. In my opinion, Per the early german player was a bit to catious here. Towards the end of the turn, you can afford to make a few +7 blitzes and flip if it means ground is gained.

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US Entry: (15,16,4,13,19, 23,7),22
USA:    16BP: CV(fu),BB(fu),2CP,INF,SUB(fd),FTR(2)              6BP saved
Japan:  20BP: BB(fu),3CVL(fd),SUB(fd),GAR,INF,2CVP(1)
Germany:15BP: 3INF,ARM,1SUB(?)
Italy:  5 BP: 1 SUB(fu), 1 AMPH(fu)
France: 4BP: 2 MIL
CW:     2MOT, 1MIL, 1TRS(fu), 1CVP (tror det var en aus och sa mot)
Russia: 16BP: 3 INF, 1 MECH, 1 GUN
China:  -

2007-01-24

Sep/Oct - 1940

Played: 2007-01-24

6 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis :
Impulse 2: Allies :
Impulse 3: Axis :
Impulse 4: Allies :
Impulse 5: Axis :
Impulse 6: Allies :
End: Germany conquers Bulgaria. Germany declares Vichy(Europan,Indochina,french west african colonies)

Weather is unusually erretic, storms are interleaved with fine without any regularity. Germany surrounds Paris, sweeping the last remaining defenders around the city and securing valuable resources. Some French forces desperatly countrattack on very low odds and actually manage to destroy some German corps.
Sofia finally falls to superiour forces lead by Antonescu and the fastest of the German attackers are set up on the border of Greece. The Marine is now in La Spezia and the PARA is with an Italian ATR in Taranto. The Greeks send diplomatic protests both to Berlin and Rome which remain unanswered.
Late in the turn, Paris falls to German forces lead by von Leeb. Vichy is established with French East Africa and the entire French Pacific colonies except for Indochina remaining loyal to the new Free French government which is established in Gabon.
Japan, who is at peace with every-one, builds troops.
USA, who is at peace with every-one, builds ships.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: France[2007-10-11 10:11:06] Reply
Again, damn the french and their die rolls. First the Luftwaffe gets badly hit. Now the army is struck by lightning by 1:2 odds french counterattacks. Though we did take Paris, which was about time.

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US Entry: (15,16,4,13,19, 23,7,22) 31,11
USA:    25BP: SUB(fu),MAR,AMPH(fu),CVP(0),CVP(1),2BB(fu),CV(fu) 1BP saved
Japan:  15BP: SUB(fd),CVP,CVL(fu),???
Germany:15BP: INF,2MIL,GAR,MECH
Italy:   8BP: 1 SUB(rep), 1 SUB(fd), 1 LND-3, 1 CP
FreeFr: 
Vichy:
CW:     17BP(+2): 2MOT,MIL,2CV(fu),NAV(3) (en indisk mot och en can mil)
Russia: 16BP: 3GARR, 1 ARM, 1 FTR(4)
China:  -

2007-01-24

Nov/Dec - 1940

Played: 2007-01-29

6 impulses.

Impulse 1: Allies :
Impulse 2: Axis :
Impulse 3: Allies :
Impulse 4: Axis : Germany and Italy DoW Greece
Impulse 5: Allies :
Impulse 6: Axis :
End: Germany conquers Greece.

Japan, who is at peace with every-one, builds troops.
USA, who is at peace with every-one, builds ships.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Greece[2007-10-11 10:13:19] Reply
Time to prepare for aligning Yugoslavia, although the short turn and German eagerness almost destroyed the entire plan as Italy had to have troops in the force which conquered Athens, which it was barely time for.

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US Entry: (15,16,4,13,19, 23,7,22, 31,11)
USA:    20BP: AMPH(fu),BB(fu),BB(rep),2CP,TRS(fu),INF,2SUB(fu)  1BP save
Japan:  15BP: 1 INF, 2 CVP(1), 2 CL(rep), 3 CONV, 1 FROG(fd)
Germany:15BP: 5GARR,1MECH
Italy:   5BP: LND(3)
FreeFr: 
Vichy:
CW:     17BP(+1): AMPH(fu), PARA, CVP(3), BB(fu), 2MIL
Russia: 16BP: 2 INF, 1 GARR, 2 MECH
China:  -

1941 Played: Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec

Jan/Feb - 1941

Played: 2007-01-29

7 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis :
Impulse 2: Allies :
Impulse 3: Axis : Italy aligns Yugoslavia.
Impulse 4: Allies :
Impulse 5: Axis :
Impulse 6: Allies :
Impulse 7: Axis :
End:

Germany continues to add troops to his eastern front-in-being but is slowed by bad winter weather. Portions of the Luftwaffe rebases south towards Sicily where they join the entire Regia Aeronautica in bombing the English infantry corps at Malta, without any visible effect.
English battleships contest the Eastern Mediterranean without air cover but since all Italian pilots and admirals are equipped with the compulsary blindfold in tasteful green, white and red stripes, they are fundamentally unable to find anything except for their own bottoms, and then only with an atlas and some guidance by an anatomy teacher. Mussolini starts negotiations with Stalin for getting lessons on how the USSR purged the officer ranks to achieve some kind of minimum quality among the senior staff.
Japan, who is at peace with every-one, builds troops.
But also, Japan place troops and transports in offensive positions, seemingly positioning for attack.
USA is alarmed by the massive japanese troop assembly that seem to threaten CW positions in Asia and the Pacific and pass the War Approriations Bill. US industry shift production towards military equipment and we see no less than two battleships and four carriers being ordered.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Go East![2007-10-11 10:23:25] Reply
And so begins the surge eastwards. We almost did not manage to get all troops there in time because of the weather. Italy also started a long period of not being able to find anything at all in the med. However, during parts of this period, there was not much to find either since the CW (and later also USA) more or less ignored the med completely from now until at least 1943. US gear up was disturbingly early. Compared to the mean value for this US entry action, it basically means +150 BP for the US in total. Ouch!

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US Entry: (15,16,4,13,19, 23,7,22, 31,11) 34
USA:    30BP: 3CV(fd),2BB(fd),CVL(fd),HQ(i),SUB(fu),ENG,2CVP(1) 5BP saved
Japan:  15BP: 1 INF, 1 CVP(1), 1AMPH(Fu), 1 TRS(fu), 1 SUB(fu)
Germany:28BP: INF,4MIL,MNT,2MECH,FTR(2)
Italy:  10BP: LND(2),SUB(fd),1CP,MTN
FreeFr: 
Vichy:
CW:     22BP(+1): AMPH(fd), MAR, INF, 2MIL, FTR(2), BB(fu), CP
Russia: 18BP (2 Saved): 4 GARR, 2 MECH
China:  -

2007-01-29

Mar/Apr - 1941

Played: 2007-02-07

5 impulses.

Impulse 1: Allies :
Impulse 2: Axis :
Impulse 3: Allies :
Impulse 4: Axis :
Impulse 5: Allies :
Impulse 6: Axis :
Impulse 7: Allies :
End:

The German and Italian air force rebase north from Sicily while the entire German army continues its march eastwards. Raiding submarines from the Euroaxis disturb CW convoy lines somewhat in the Central atlantic. The turn ends quite early and everyone seems to be unhappy with this.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: The pact[2007-10-11 10:25:56] Reply
Weather is rather lousy but at least the turn marker does not move very fast. Still, the turn ended early and we still have troops we need to move eastwards. It seems as though it will be very hard to break the pact. We might not have aligned enough minors, but above all, France caused way too many losses in 1940.

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US Entry: (15,16,4,13,19, 23,7,22, 31,11, 34) 30,26
USA:  30BP+3: PARA,2FTR(2),NAV(3),AMPH(fu),AMPH(fd),2CV(fd),2VCL(fd),BB(fd)
Japan:  15BP; INF,FTR(2),2TRS(fu)
Germany: (33?): GAR,INF,3ARM,2FTR(3)
Italy:   9BP:  HQ-I,GAR,SUB(fd),SUB(fu)
FreeFr: 
Vichy:
CW  21(+2)BP: 2Mot(1 NZ),Gar,Mil(Rangoon),CVP(1),CV(fu),TRS(fu),2CA(rep)
Russia: 16 BP:HQ-I,INF,GUN
China:  -

May/Jun - 1941

Played: 2007-02-14

8 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Japan DoW Tibet. Japan militarises Marshals
Impulse 2: Allies :
Impulse 3: Axis : Italy and Japan DoW USSR.
Impulse 4: Allies :
Impulse 5: Axis : Germany DoW USSR. Germany Align Finland.
Impulse 6: Allies : CW DoW Nepal
Impulse 7: Axis :
Impulse 8: Allies :
End:

(Japan describes)
Japan, who is at peace with every-one, can no longer tolerate the USSR's vile provocatons and declares war on it. Vladivostok falls quickly, and Japan also swiftly captures most of the Russian resources in the area. (Of course, since the area is almost completely evacuated by the Red Army, resistance is very light.) In the Pacific, Japan garrisons the Marshall Islands.
(USSR describes)
The USSR which is at peace with everyone has seen massive troop movements on its borders both in the east and the west. With the diplomatic talks still going on, Italy suddenly declares war together with Japan. This seems to be a diplomatic sidestep to give Germany a reason to declare war on USSR even though they are in a peace treaty.
The only thing seen of the italians are their entire air force, and the few italian ground troops spotted before the declaration of war seems to run away from the border. In the east japaneese force cross the border and assault the lone forces in Vladivostock.
As feared by the Russian high command, Germany declares war later in the month, referring to some obscure clause in the treaty. Its forces flows forward and sweeps away all opposition. Only one border corps has gotten enough warning of the impendning assault and manages to fight back, although in vain. With the massive assault, russian diplomats starts talks with the Commonwealth and the United States, trying to convince them to help russia in any way.
(Italy describes)
Italy recieves demands from his German brother to pave the way for what has for some obscure reason been officially named Operation Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thus, Italy declares war on the evil USSR. The official communiqué states the reason to be russian mistreatment of ethnic Italians and systematic oppression of catholics. The pope approves and blesses this holy war (as fits a man of faith), wishing for "countless number of russian casualties, gruesome death to the slavic race, annihilation of the russian cities and gods grace to everyone. Amen!"
Bombing runs are conducted all over the front with focus in the north. Even italian naval bombers from the Mediterranean participate. A little less than 10 corps are flipped, including the only HQ in the north. Balbo and an ATR reorganizes some bombers while more arrive from Italy.
After the initial Italian bombing run which showed that the Russians are not unbeatable and the encouraging words from the Holy Father, also Germany sees it fit to declare war on the USSR, despite rain in the arctic. Some bombing runs are conducted by both Germany and Italy and German troops slaughter a few forward deployed russian corps and advance into eastern Poland, Lithuania and Bessarabia.
The german campaign in eastern Poland progresses slowly as summer rains limit the german armed forces mobility. Some Russian outposts are crushed and a blitz just south of the Pripet forces Russia to retreat and leave some flipped corps for the wolves, but just as the main assault on the Russian lines is about to begin and the russian pawn sacrifice is to be harvested, the turn ends.
(USSR describes)
The valiant russian defenders bravely muster their strength to withstand the german onslaught. The defenders do a forced march and managed to get into good positions, but this leaves the HQ and the supply train in the dusty horision. After a successful german/italian bombing the exausted defenders are swept away, forcing a quick retreat to new positions of the russian defenses.
(and some other stuff)
German and Italian subs in the atlantic accomplish nothing due to lack of skill and binoculars.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: War![2007-10-11 10:30:14] Reply
Bit of a panic action here. We were still some points short of breaking the attack, so Italy was to ZOC and flip as much as possible to reduce the USSRs garrison ratio. Also, all available German troops in france are railed eastwards and reorganized. In addition, we were stopped by the weather in impulse 1 meaning that Germany only had one turn of good weather to attack in (rain on the other). Not good, but at least we got the war we wanted.

Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: [2007-10-11 10:32:18] Reply
US entry also took additional hits though the separate Axis DOWs but what to do...

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US Entry: (15,16,4,13,19, 23,7,22, 31,11, 34, 30,26), 36
USA:     29BP; ATR(3),CVP(0),FTR(2),2BB(fu),CV(rep),TRS(fd),2GAR
Japan:  18 BP: 1 GAR, 2 FTR(2), 1 BB(fu), 1 CP, 1 SUB(fu), 1 FROG
Germany:
Italy:  10 BP: 1 MECH, 1 LND-3
FreeFr: 
Vichy:
CW   21(+1)BP: ARM, 2GARR, CVP(3), TRS(fd), CV(fu), BB(fu), 2CP
Russia: 28 BP: 5 GARR, 3 MIL, 4 INF
China:  -

2007-02-14

Jul/Aug - 1941

Played: 2007-02-21

8 impulses.

Impulse 1: Allies :
Impulse 2: Axis : Japan Dow CW and USA
Impulse 3: Allies : USA DoW Germany and Italy, USA align Brazil
Impulse 4: Axis :
Impulse 5: Allies : Free France DoW Japan. USA align Mexico
Impulse 6: Axis : Japan demands Indo-China
Impulse 7: Allies : USA align Central America
Impulse 8: Axis :
End: Japan conquers NEI.

Japan:
Japan declares war on the US and the Commonwealth, sends it's fleet to hunt their convoys and hinder their sea movement, and invades NEI. The US retaliates by sending u-boats to hunt Japanese convoys, which solely results in one sub sunk.
Later in the turn, Japan invades and conquers NEI, and aligns Indo-China. Japanese marines capture the port Lae on Papua, and from there proceeds to take the western part of the island of New Britain. The main part of the Japanese fleet rebases to Truk at the end of turn.
In USA, the japanese DoW makes it possible for Rosevelt to try to enter the european war. The massive attacks on Russia along with the japanese build up against CW helps accomplishing this, though in the Senate it is only by one vote the motion is passed. However, US declares war on Germany and Italy, gears up the industry and immediately demands assistance from Brasil, Mexico and Central America. The US fleet is sent west into the pacific and the first US units arrive to the fighting in Europe, a squadron of fighters.
Italy: The weather clears and Russia makes the most of his double turn and reforms his lines in good order. Italian bombers wreak havoc in the Russian lines in an air action and German fighters blast two out of the three available russian fighter squadrons out of the sky. With the aid of an offensive chit on Mannstein, German armour devastates the russian lines. Russian forces are cut of from supply and the HQs are also threatened. Among the losses are the HQ Koniev. Also, lots of corps are sent to the spiral and russian reinforcements for S/O will be massive.
Just as the final attack is to be launched on the disrupted Zhukov, Russia cracks his OC to turn his two remaining HQs face up and counterattack. Despite German air support, a German ARM corps is killed and Zhukov narrowly escapes destruction, just before the turn ends.
Also the north front are attacked by the Germans and both Lithuania and Lativa are liberated. Some Russians are still in the area around Minsk and east of Riga but the lines do seem awfully thin.
In the Med, Italian naval bombers finally manage to find Malta and disrupt the CW INF stationed there. CW ships stay under cover in their ports.
CW and the USA, now in total war suddely decides that the atlantic is a new theatre of operations where action has been to sparse. Their combined forces stage an invasion close to the lightly defended Bourdeaux, which is subsequently taken and the allies set up camp south of La Garonne. In the Bay of Biscay, Alexander is just about to join them when Italian subs are inches from sinking the transport he travels on. The transport is however only damaged and Alexander just manages to escape.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: East and west[2007-10-11 11:03:55] Reply
Russias double turn was not what we needed. Suddenly he has a front once again. Italy to the rescue. Massive bombings throughout the turn makes sure Germany can kill quite a number of russians and gain some ground. Zhukov was just about saved by the bell there too. US total war hurt, badly. We did have a corps or two around Bourdeaux, which is notoriously hard to defend for the axis and easy to hold for the allies but it was not enough. Fortunately, we could at least contain the allied invasion.

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:    54BP: 2CP,BB(fu),TRS(rep),TRS(fu),TRS(fd),CA(repCW),HQ-A,ARM,CVP(1),2FTR(2),LND(4),MECHdiv,2GAR,SUB(fd)
Japan:   19BP: 1 GAR, 1 FTR(3), 1 BB(fu), 5 CP, 1 SUB(fd), 1 SUB(fu).
Germany: 30BP: 1 HQ-A, 1 ARM, 1 MECH, 2 FTR-2, 1 LND-2, 1 SUB(rep)
Italy:   12BP: 1 ARM, 1 GAR, 1 MIL, SUB(fu), 1 minisub(fu), 1 BB(rep)
FreeFr:   3BP: AMPH(fd)
Vichy:   
CW:      20BP:ARM, HQ-I,NAV(3)(aus),2CP,CV(fu)
Russia:  27BP:6MIL,HQ-I,GUN,MECH
China:  -

2007-02-21

Sep/Oct - 1941

Played: 2007-02-21

6 impulses.

Impulse 1: Allies : Weather 6:RFFRFF
Impulse 2: Axis : Weather 10:StStRStRF
Impulse 3: Allies : Weather 8:RRFStFF. CW,USA,FreeFrance DoW Portugal
Impulse 4: Axis : Weather 6:RFFRFF
Impulse 5: Allies : Weather 10:StStRStRF
Impulse 6: Axis : Weather 12:BSnStStStR
End: CW conquers Portugal.

Weather is terrible. Storms rages over Europe throughout the entire turn and the German offensive in the east almost comes to a standstill. Just a few slow Russian troops which were left behind as the Russians take up new positions farther east are killed, with some german losses.
Italy is positioned for an invasion of Malta but weather and some CW battleships puts a stop to those plans. Although the axis have air superiority in the eastern med, the battle is fought with guns only. One Italian CA is sunk, yet another two are damaged with one damaged BB for CW.
Italian subs take to the sea under the cover of the storms but accomplish nothing in the bad weather. Germany sends more troops and aircraft west to counter the Bourdeaux infestation.
Japan sends it's fleet and air force to sea in force in an attempt to dominate the important sea zones around the ports of Rabaul and Truk. Very bad weather ensues and enables the enemy to pretty much move around as it wants anyway, and Rabaul is both reinforced and resupplied. The Japanse foothold on New Britain is strenghtened also, though, but the attempted invasion of the Phillipines is aborted because of the weather. Consistent very bad weather also makes the fronts in Siberia, Burma and Tibet completely uneventful. Truk is reinforced with WP ground troops and several long-range Zero fighters.
The enemy submarines, now endeavouring out from Rabaul, score some hits against the Japanese convoy lanes, and also manages to sink an entire new (unescorted) CVL, with planes and all. Japanese raiders clear the British supply lines to Singapore.
USA sends convoys with large amounts of military equipment to help Russia, but the only possible harbour for it to arrive is iced in because of the bad weather, so the effort is in vain. US and CW invades Portugal and also strengthens the beachhead in Bordeaux with an american HQ and some more fighter squadrons.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Weather[2007-10-11 11:07:33] Reply
This was not a good turn. Crappy weather from hell. Not much got done in the USSR. Bit of a bummer really.

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:    49BP: CVL(fu),2CA(rep),CW-CV(rep),BB(fu),TRS(fu),ARM,GAR,PARA,2SUB(fd),2CVP(1),LND(4),2FTR(2)
Japan:  18BP.MIL,2FTR(2),2CL(rep),2CVL(fu),2CP,SUB(rep),SUB(fu)
Germany:
Italy:  11BP: NAV(3),GAR,MIL,2CA(rep)
FreeFr:  
Vichy:   
CW:      20(+1)BP:HQ-A,2FTR(2),CV(fu),BB(rep),CP
Russia:  
China:  -

2007-02-28

Nov/Dec - 1941

Played: 2007-03-07

5 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Weather 7:SnSnRFRF
Impulse 2: Allies : Weather 10:BSnSnRStR
Impulse 3: Axis : Weather 7:SnSnRFRF
Impulse 4: Allies : Weather 8:SnSnRFRF
Impulse 5: Axis : Weather 9:BSnStFStF(+2 on next weather)
End:

Weather is horrible, terrible, hideous, even as far as Africa. Germany, aided by Italian bombers nevertheless kills a few russian corps and advance forward through the snow, especially in the north. Estonia is liberated on the way towards Leningrad.
Some axis aircraft manage at sinking the french transport and a few CW convoys in the Bay of Biscay, putting Alexanders BEF out ouf supply, but well dug in around the Bourdeaux area.
Italian subs raid the Atlantic but finds very little. Graziani is evacuated from eastern Libya to Tunisia and the air force patrols the Med which displays an impressive lack of allied activity.
Japan again sails large fleets to contest and sweep the sea zones around Rabaul of allied supply ships. This fails completely due to hard weather (-> non-flying aircraft) and bad dice, and on the rare occasions when there is combat the smaller allied fleets generally surprise the Japanese ships heavily, and do more or equal damage despite being nominally weaker.
The Imperial Air Force intercepts a port strike on the Japanese sub base on the Marshall Islands in some force, which results in the loss of the best carrier fighter in the entire fleet with no losses for the Americans.
The Americans successfully invades another Marshall Island, leaving only one under Imperial control. More or less the only thing the Japanese forces succeds with during the turn is an invasion that gains them a beachhead on the Phillippines, near Manila.
Japanese production is near it's theoretical maximum: 20 of 21 realistically possible factories are now producing units.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: The allies have druid powers![2007-10-11 11:10:29] Reply
Damn this weather! The allies have managed to secure the Bourdeaux beachhead with no problem during the bad weather and when the weather clears(?) to snow, we fail at flipping them completely. BTW: Italian subs must have the crappiest binoculars ever.

Magnus (USA) : Subj: Re: binoculars[2007-10-11 16:18:42] Reply
Actually, the Italians sold their really bad binoculars to the US ASW-forces before the war, so italian subs possibly had the 2nd worst binoculars in the world.

Kaj (Ge, It) : Subj: binoculars[2007-10-12 12:19:53] Reply
Probably true, at least in the atlantic. Italian subs roam the seven seas, find nothing and ar not found themseleves. Repeat until bored, or until intrinsic asw on the convoys pretty much wipe out remaining subs.

Magnus (USA) : Subj: Re: binoculars[2007-10-12 20:27:48] Reply
Not just in the Atlantic. I have consistently been rolling 8+ on my search rolls against japanese Subs.

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:    54BP: 3CV(fu),CVL(fu),TRS(fu),AMPH(fu),2CP,MECHdiv,MARdiv,ATR(3),3FTR(2),LND(4),2SUB(rep),1SUB(FreeFrance,rep)
Japan:  20BP:GAR,3CVP(1),2CV(fu),CV(rep),2CA(rep),1BP saved.
Germany:30BP:3FTR(2),ARM,ARM-div,CAV-div,INF,MECH-div
Italy:  11BP: LND(4),GAR,INF
FreeFr: 
Vichy:   
CW:     20BP: 2FTR(2),FTR(3),MECH,TRS(fd),CP
Russia: 23BP: HQ-I,INF,4GARR,MIL,MECH
China:  -

2007-03-07

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1942 Played: Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec

Jan/Feb - 1942

Played: 2007-03-14

5 impulses.

Impulse 1: Allies : Weather 3:StRFFRF
Impulse 2: Axis : Weather 10:BBSnFStR
Impulse 3: Allies : Weather 8:BSnStFStF
Impulse 4: Axis : Weather 8:BSnStFStF
Impulse 5: Allies : Weather 9:BSnSnFStR
End:

Blizzards rage over Europe and the German high sea fleet takes to the sea where it is joined by parts of the italian air force and some italian submarines. Except for damaging a CV for Great Britain and the annihilation of the russian submarines however, little is achieved.
CW sail escorts and seems to prepare for the summer as american PARAs and ATR along with HQs and ARM are transported to Britain. Italy frets as weather in the Med has never been worse. Not a single impulse of civilized weather since J/A 1941.
Russia consolidates his defenses around Leningrad and in the south.
In the Pacific, US troops invade Eniwetok, and the island is taken in a very bloody battle, with the japanese garrison of 15.000 troops being annihilated, but taking with them twice as many american soldiers to the grave.
For the rest of the turn, some japanese, american and french submarines and cruisers sail around, but, except for a few smaller skirmishes, nothing much happens.

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USA: Not great odds on the Marshalls-invasion, but at least more than 50% (had to roll 8+ on the dice), but the gain from conquering the last island in that group was big enough to warrant taking the risk. As it was, I grabbed the Island, but lost three units myself, but only one of any value, so the price was not too high.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Weather[2007-10-11 11:12:53] Reply
Sure, I know it s winter but this is ridiculous. Not one single impulse in which you can air strike russians in the artic. As Italy, I am becoming seriously annoyed that our since long time planned invasion of Malta has now been postponed for many turn due to the weather.

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:    63BP: 2CV(fu),BB(fu),TRS(fu),TRS(fd),AMPH(fd),CA(rep),SUB(fu),2SUB(rep)
              HQ-A,MIL,CVP(1),LND(4),LND(3),3FTR(3)
Japan:  20BP:GAR,3FTR(2),2CP,3CL(rep),SUB(fu)
Germany:42BP?: HQ-I,MTN,MECH,ATdiv,ATR,LND(2),2FTR(3)
Italy:  16BP: FTR(2),HQ-I,GAR,FROG,ART
FreeFr: 
Vichy:   
CW:     26BP: 2FTR(3),FTR(2),HQ-I,AMPH(rep),TRS(fd),2CP
Russia: 25BP:HQ-I,3INF,MTN,2GARR,FTR(2)
China:  -

2007-03-14

Mar/Apr - 1942

Played: 2007-03-21

1 impulses.

Impulse 1: Allies : Weather:BAD BAD BAD
End:

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: What to do?[2007-10-11 11:14:25] Reply
Not one impulse of civilized weather in Europe. *sigh* Although, Italian subs did manage to find some convoys this turn. Yay!

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:    62BP: TRS(fu),2BB(fu),CVL(fu),AMPH(fd),CA(rep),CW-CV(rep),
        MECH-div,ARM,ENG,MOT,LND(3),FTR(3),5CVP(1),2SUB(fu),SUB(rep)
Japan:  19BP:2MIL,2FTR(2),NAV(2),2CA(rep),SUB(fu). (+ lots of saved BP:)
Germany:
Italy:  16BP:FTR,LND(3),INF,ART
FreeFr: ??BP: AMPH(fu)
Vichy:   
CW:     26BP(+1):3FTR(2),ARM,PARA-div,TRS(fu),BB(rep)
Russia: 26BP: 1 MECH, 1 FTR(2), 1 INF, 4 GARR, 1 MOT, 1 GUN
China:  -

2007-03-21

May/Jun - 1942

Played: 2007-03-28

9 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Weather: 2 StRFStRR
Impulse 2: Allies : Weather: 7
Impulse 3: Axis : Weather: 2 StRFStRR
Impulse 4: Allies : Weather: 2 StRFStRR
Impulse 5: Axis : Weather: 7
Impulse 6: Allies : Weather: 8 FFFFFF
Impulse 7: Axis : Weather: 9 FFFFFF
Impulse 8: Allies : Weather: 2 StRFStRR
Impulse 9: Axis : Weather: 8 FFFFFF
End:

The bad weather continues so very little happens initially in the turn. Then - finally - the storms clear - for the first time in A YEAR - , and the Imperial forces immediately goes on the offensive. The cities of Manila, Rangoon and Khabarovsk all fall to assaults, and the garrison at Rabaul is bombed to pieces by the air force.
Weather contines to be awful in Europe for the axis. Storms at best it seams. Very little progress is made in Russia. Germany deploys more troops and aircraft to western france and uses the bad weather as an excuse to sortie the entire Kriegsmarin, along with all italian subs and some aircraft in the Bay of Biscay, but the only thing that happends is that some Italian subs are aborted and one is sunk while one CW CA is damaged. Germany utterly fails to find anything anywhere.
In the Med, weather is fine or the first time since J/A 1941. The long awaited invasion of Malta is launched, and while one German corps is lost, the island is taken from the english defenders.
Allies on the other hand do not seem bothered by the weather and invade the German mainland in Bremen with marines and PARAs. German defenses seam weak but some creative rail movements and some help from Rommel seems to at least contain the invasion. However, in the North sea lurks Montgomery and some serious ARM corps looking ready for battle.
This the third impulse in M/J 1942 is also the first impulse since the end of J/A 1941 in which the allies have fine weather in the North Temperate zone.
And finally, Japan assaults and takes Rabaul.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Landfall![2007-10-11 11:17:32] Reply
One impulse of fine weather, at last. Malta taken at last. Unfortunatly, allies also land in Bremen. Emergency! Contain and kill operation initiated. Good thing for Euroaxis that Japan is still the main concern of the USA. Most of his actions are directed there.

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:  61BP:TRS(fu),2BB(rep),Fra-CA(rep),CW-CA(rep),CA(rep),CP
           3FTR(2),3CVP(1),LND(3),LND(4),ARM,ARM-div,HQ-I,CW-SUB(rep)
Japan:29BP:MTN,INF,TERR(Korea),AA,2FTR(2),2CB(rep),2CP,SUB(fd),FROG(fd),6BP saved
Germany:40BP: 2GARR,2INF,ARM,6FTR(2)
Italy:  15BP: MOT,GARR,LND(3),FTR(2)
FreeFr:  4BP: FTR(2)
Vichy:   
CW:     27+1BP:TRS(fu),TRS(fd),BB(rep),2FTR(2),FTR(3),ENG,ARMdiv
Russia: 31BP: HQ-A,MECH,4INF,GARR,FTR(2)
China:  -

2007-03-28

Jul/Aug - 1942

Played: 2007-04-11,2007-04-25

10 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Weather: 7 FFFStFF
Impulse 2: Allies : Weather: 6 FFFStFF
Impulse 3: Axis : Weather: 7 FFFStFF
Impulse 4: Allies : Weather: 1 FFFFFF
Impulse 5: Axis : Weather: 2 FFFRFF
Impulse 6: Allies : Weather: 2 FFFRFF
Impulse 7: Axis : Weather: 8 FFFStFF
Impulse 8: Allies : Weather: 2 FFFRFF
Impulse 9: Axis : Weather: 10 FFFStFF
Impulse 10: Allies : Weather: 2 FFFRFF
End: CW conquers Finland. CW conquers Mozambique

In the first impulse, Italy conducts only air operations and bombs the Russian positions in the east and deploys new elements of the Regia Aeronaitica towards Kiel and Bourdeaux while the Luftwaffe does the same. Germany also exploits his previous breakthroughs in russia and gains a lot of ground, slaughtering Russian corps as he progresses. The central Russian front lead by the disrupted Zhukov is being encircled, although most russian troops manage to slip out before the germans can finish the encirclement.
The allies retreat from Bremen to Denmark and annihilates the last German corps in Denmark and also successfully invades Finland close to Helsinki. However, the invasion is hurried and badly planned, so the invaders, including the royal marines are quickly thrown back into the sea by the Finnish forces as they retreat from northern Finland to meet the new threat to their homeland.
The Allied response to this is to stage yet another invasion, this time southwest of Helsinki, and now by air. The british airforce sinks all german convoys in the Baltic and two airborne corps are landed in Finland by american transport planes, the finnish troops in Finland can do nothing but stand and watch as british troops enter their capital. The finns still in Murmansk get orders from German High command to take as much ground as possible while still in the war.
A mighty air-to-air battle is fought over Kiel, pitting 8 allied FTR against 6 german FTR escorting three bombers, as the Euroaxis try to disrupt the Allied forces there. While the battle starts out at even odds, luck heavily favours the allies this time and they repell all axis bombers, destroying one of them and two fighters without any allied losses.
In the pacific, Japan send out some raiders and there are a few skirmishes between small groups of japanese and american cruisers. As the US attention seem to be directed towards Europe, not much more happens for a while, but later in the turn, US fighters can be seen in the sea zone north of Truk, and US ships begin to move in the Pacific area. In Bay of Bengal, Japan and CW fights a minor battle resulting in the sinking of a japanese carrier and one british carrier being damaged.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: [2007-10-11 11:22:42] Reply
Did not see the Helsinki invation comming. It was mostly luck and a well placed german CP in the Baltic that allowed the finns to throw the defenders back into the sea. The did however flip so we could do little against the second invation. This started a series of a2a combats over Kiel which were pretty much all in allied favour, despite good odds for the axis.

Magnus (USA) : Subj: Re: Helsinki[2007-10-11 16:21:27] Reply
We did try to hide our Helsinki-intentions, but we got stupid in the first attempt due to seeing a threat that in reality didnt exist. If we had stuck to our initial plan, it would have gone a lot better and the second invasion wouldnt have been needed.

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:    65BP: TRS(fu),2BB(rep),2CP,6FTR(2),2FTR(3),MECH,PARA
Japan:  31BP: TERR(filipino),INF,MIL,ART,AA,2FTR(2)(förbyggda),3CA(rep),2CP
Germany:46BP: 3INF,2MOT,ARM,3FTR(?),LND(2),SYNTH
Italy:  16BP: FROG(fu),SUB(rep),INF,MECH, FTR(?),MIL
FreeFr: 
Vichy:  -
CW:     27BP: MECH,MAR,MARDiv,3FTR(2),TRS(fd)
Russia: 33BP: HQ-A,ARM,3INF,3GARR,FTR(2)
China:  -

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2007-04-25

Sep/Oct - 1942

Played: 2007-05-09

8 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Weather: 2: FFFFFF
Impulse 2: Allies : Weather: 10 StStRStFF
Impulse 3: Axis : Weather: 7: RRFRFF
Impulse 4: Allies : Weather: 6: RFFRFF
Impulse 5: Axis : Weather: 1: FFFFFF
Impulse 6: Allies : Weather: 8: RRFStFF
Impulse 7: Axis : Weather: 3: FFFFFF
Impulse 8: Allies : Weather: 4: FFFFFF
End: CW conquers Angola

The Axis launch another assault on Kiel, but the troops there defends well with assistance of the british fleet, and the attack is repulsed. In Russia, the German army gets orders to stop the advance and instead moves back to find good defense positions.
USA and CW ships in more men and airplanes to Denmark. German transport vessels manage to land one Italian GAR in northern Denmark, just to annoy the allies there, before being sunk by the Royal Navy aided by the Russian Baltic Sea fleet. But the Italian corps is quickly disposed of by an allied blitz.
In France, the british-american beach head in Bordeaux is abandoned and Alexander and his army is shipped out, leaving a small garrison to hinder the german advance while the rescue operation is in progress. 60000 men iss pulled out, but 15000 men are left in the forests south of Bordeaux and forced to surrender, but british press releases talk about the whole operation being a stunning success and focus on how this whole invasion paved the way for the actions in Denmark and Finland.
The entire German navy, alongside Italian submarines also takes the opportunity under momentary bad weather to sortie from ports in Brest and eastern Germany. The navy and the submarines does manage to sink a few allied CP in the North Sea, the Bay of Biscay and the North Atlantic but is then exposed to heavy retaliation from the Royal Navy and some pocket battleships and some cruisers are sunk and some are damaged with only minor losses for the CW.
In the Pacific the US Marine land troops on the southern part of New Ireland and reclaims the airfields on the island, allowing american fighters access to the Bismarck Sea. USA sends more troop transports into the Solomons sea zone, protected by a carrier task force, and IJN promptly sends out their super battleships a carrier fleet and land based fighters to intercept the the transports but the fleets fail to find eachother. USA quickly responds to this by sending the full american fleet and huge amounts of fighters into the area, the fleets now find eachother, or rather, the air armadas do, a huge air battle is carried out, resulting in the air wings from four japanese carriers being annihilated. several naval bombers and torpedo planes manage to get through the fighter screens, the japanese planes stumbling upon a defenseless american carrier whose air wing just landed and sinking it, men planes and all. Meanwhile, american planes reach the japanese fleet and try to sink a japanese carrier, but get intercepted by surprisingly strong AA fire from the battleships Yamato and Musashi who place themselves between the target carrier and the attacking planes. Several bombs hit the two battleships, but no critical damage is sustained and the ships can make their way back to Japan for repairs. Low on carrier planes and with damage done to the battleships, the japanese decides it is best to leave the sea zone and the battle is considered an, although small, american victory, at the loss of one american carrier, four japanese carriers are left out of action for a month and two japanese battleships go into dry dock for almost half a year.
In Bay of Bengal, the japanese manage to cut british supply to Singapore, and promptly the IJA advances towards the british positions on the peninsula. Kuala Lumpur quickly falls, and soon japanese troops reach the british defense ring around Singapore, and the city is now truly surrounded.

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Kaj (Ge, IT) : Subj: Europe[2007-10-11 11:30:00] Reply
Damn! I only needed to roll 10+ to clear Kiel of defenders but I have failed to do that constantly. Did manage to clear the Bourdeaux pocket though. I was quite surprised that they completely abandomed those positions for Denmark though. They did have if not crack troops but good enough troops in the UK to maintain the pressure on both places. Since allied now are gradually taking the initiative in the west and the weather is worsening, we decide it is time to realize the fact the we will not be able to kill the USSR. Better then to take up defensive position sooner than to late. In retrospect, maby we should have pushed on a little bit further.

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:    61BP:AMPH(fu),2CW-BB(rep),2CP,ATR(3),CVP,FTR(2),2LND(3),
             MECH,MECHdiv,PARAdiv,INF,OC
Japan:  26BP: 8BPINF,2CVP(1),5BP ships,SUB(rep),1BP saved
Germany: 35BP: 1 ARM, 1 ART, 1 LND-3, 1 GAR, 2 MOT, 2 INF
Italy:    7BP: 1 GAR, 1 SUB(rep), 1 FTR
FreeFr: 
Vichy:  - 
CW:     27BP: ARM, INF, MOTdiv, FTR(2), FTR(3), CVP, TRS(fd), 2CP
Russia: 34BP: 2FTR(2),1PAR,2INF,1HQ-I,2MIL,2MECH
China:  -

[Pictures - 2007-05-02]

2007-05-09

Nov/Dec - 1942

Played: 2007-05-16

4 impulses.

Impulse 1: Axis : Weather: 5: StRFFFF
Impulse 2: Allies : Weather: 5: StRFFFF
Impulse 3: Axis : Weather:10: BSnSnRStR
Impulse 4: Allies : Weather:11: BBSnRStR
End:

On the Eastern front, Germany's withdrawal continues. Russian troops slowly advances and reclaim the german occupied areas. In western Europe, more british and american troops and planes are transported to Denmark, but nothing much happens. In North Africa, american troops slowly moves through Morocco and CW prepares and assault on the italian positions in Libya but are delayed by bad weather.
In the Pacific theatre, a US Task Force is sent to South China Sea to test the japanese navy and give some relief to the surronded british stronghold in Singapore. Japan hurries out some planes to meet the threat, but the american fleet manage to avoid them and with the aid of a group of free french submarines the japanese fleet in the area is sighted. A short and uneventful air battle occurs when the two fleets send their air wings towards eachother, the planes reach their targets and a japanese carrier is damaged beyond repairs while the japanese planes are disrupted by heavy american AA fire and forced to return to base without accomplishing anything.
Further north, american submarines intercept some japanese merchants close to Tokyo, resulting in disruption of some convoying and a japanese troop transport being sunk.
In the northern Asia, russian cavalry is raiding into China, but they don't guard their rear, so japanese troops move in and threaten to conquer Mongolia.
CW and Japan continues to fight for control over the Bay of Bengal sea area, this time the british are victorious and IJN are forced to retreat and supply to Singapore is restored.

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Kaj (Ge, It) : Subj: Med[2007-10-11 11:38:22] Reply
Intresting is that nothing much happends in the med. Not much in the way of CW reinforcements arrive in suez, save some troops from India and australia. No fighters and no navy though. The fort in eastern Libya is still alive and holding the CW back and I am slowly preparing defensive positions in central Libya and in Algeria. The sole objective is to delay the allies now. Italy has really become quite a vicious beast with the aid from German resources. I have quite a lot of fighters and bombers built and have taken very few losses. Even some ART and MECH are now defending mother Italy.

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US Entry: Total War!
USA:    62BP:AMPH(fu),2CP,BB(rep),2CW-CA(rep),FR-CA(rep),ATR(3),CVP,
             4LND(3),MECH,INF,MIL,OC
Japan:  24BP:2INF,TERR(Manch),2CVP(1),2CA(rep),CV(rep),3CP,SUB(fu),FROG(fu),1BPsaved
Germany:36BP: 1 ART, 1 MECH, 1 ARM, 1 LND-3, 2 MOT, 1 GAR, 2 INF
Italy:  10BP: 1 SUB(fu), 1 MOT, 1 FTR, 1 SUB(rep)
FreeFr: 
CW:     27BP: AMPH(fu), TRS(fu), MECH, 3FTR(2)
Russia: 27BP: 1MIL,1GARR,1ENG,1MTN,1MECH,1MOT,1SKI,1LND,1STR
China:  -