Thu, 04 Apr 2002 
From: "Sir Grognard" <sirgrognard@hotmail.com>
Subject: GR: Grognard in Flames 1

 
Options used Options not used S / O 1939 N / D 1939 J / F 1940 M / A 1940 
M / J 1940
 J / F 1941 M /A 1941 M / J 1941 J / A 1941 S / O 1941 N / D 1941 J / F 1942 
M / A 1942 M / J 1942 J / A 1942 S / O 1942 N / D 1942 J / F 1943 M / A 1943 
M / J 1943 J / A 1943 S / O 1943 N / D 1943 J / F 1944 M / A 1944 M / J 1944 
J / A 1944 S / O 1944 N / D 1944 J / F 1945 M / A 1945 M / J 1945 J / A 1945
SUMMARY

 
WiFFE Global War
 
Key Options in use: Deluxe, 2d10, RaW Oil, LoC Vichy, CVPiF, Heavy Units, AiF/PatiF/PoliF Units, LiF USEntry, LiF GBAs, LOS, DSB, Manpower, Railway 
Movement, CH Attack Weakness, Africa and Scandinavian maps.
 
Notable Options NOT in use: PoliF, Leaders, INT, Bounce Combat, AiF maps.
House Rules: Zoya/Tito HQs are always in supply only in their respective home countries. Classic CLs in play at full factors and cost. All players have access to any
 dice used in the game.
 
US places 2 chits vs. GE/IT; 1 vs. JA. GE sets up aggressive vs. Po/De with minimal screen vs FR. IT sets up aggressive vs. Gr.
 

Sept/October 1939
 
1. W = 4. GE (LAND) DoW Po (CW; +1 USE). GE ground strikes disrupt nothing of note. GE loses an AT gun taking Danzig (Assault: 20); loses an ART 
taking Warsaw (Assault: 22); kills a lone Po INF (Blitz: 23+) and loses an INF DIV taking Krakow (Assault: 20). The GE player already hates the 2d10 chart, 
losing 3 units in the first impulse in high odds attacks. @IT (Neutral) sends a TRS into the Red Sea to pick up an INF. @@JA enters a vacant Chengchou (No 
USE) and loses an ENG and MIL taking and occupying Si-An (No USE).
 
2. CW (COMB) and FR (NAVAL) DoW GE (-1 USE). FR LND port attacks Kiel, damaging the Scharnhorst and the Graf Spee. @CW LND ground 
strikes the GE Danish invasion force, disrupting 1 of the 2 corps. Po FTR and LND fly into Hu and are internned. @@CH (LAND) communists pull back line to 
adjust for loss of Si-An.
 
3. W = 7. GE (LAND) takes hex north of Lodz (Blitz: 22) and reorgs the GE corps on the De border. @IT (Neutral) transports INF to Albania. @@ JA 
flips into vacated hexes in north; loses an AT gun in south CH for no gain.
 
4. CW (NAVAL) slams Wavell HQ-A into the south of FR from Egypt.
 
5. W = 9*. GE Dows De (CW; No USE) in rain and runs corps into Fredrikshaven and Copenhagen. GE (LAND) attacks Lodz, unsuccessfully, and loses 
an INF (Assault: 17).
 
6. CW embarks Gort HQ/BEF and sends them to the North Sea on TRS and SCS. @USSR occupies E.Po (No USE). Turn Ends.
 
Partisans: 1 on the Burma Oil and 1 in Korea (resource hex).
USEntry: New chit in JA pool. Option #9, Resources to CH (No Tension). 
Known chits: GE/IT – x, x; JA – 3, 3.
RTB: BEF to FR.
Conquest: GE conquers De. Partisan damages Burma Oil.

 
Nov/Dec 1939
 
Lending: US>CH 1 res, 1 Oil; CW>FR 4 res, 1 Oil.
Initiative (X+2) X=10, A=3; Axis win and go first.
 
1. W=2 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) destroys the Po HQ west of Lodz (Assault: 23+) and takes Lodz (Assault: 23+) moving in an ENG after combat. @ IT 
(Neutral) embarks and INF from Sardinia. @@JA (LAND) loses a MIL and ENG in south CH and fails to take the resource hex. JA kills the partisan in Ko.
 
2. CW (NAVAL) and FR (LAND) send strategic bombers into GE’s industrial heartland. The Brits drop their loads well short of the target, but the French 
hit Munich for the loss of a production point.
 
3. W=3 (NT=Fine). IT (Neutral) DoWs Gr (CW: +1USE) and invades the southern 
port (Kalamai) and marches into the NW Gr port. @GE (COMB) aligns Bu (+1 USE) and sends 3 cps into the Baltic for the Swe resources. The Bu INF takes
 the northern Gr port (Salonika).
 
4. CW (NAVAL) slams an INF into Athens, docking the Queens; a MOT and TRS move into Lemnos, Gr. Other troops are sent to the E. Med and stay 
 
at sea.
 
5. W=1 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) transfers troops en masse to the western front. @IT (Neutral) returns to base a TRS/INF into the NW Gr. port. IT walks
 an HQ into the port west of Athens.
 
6. CW (COMB) returns to base a MECH/TRS into Iraklion, Crete and debarks a 5-4 INF into Athens.
 
7. W=1 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) continues to mobilize on the Be border and along the Maginot.
 
8. CW (LAND) aligns Yu (-1 USE) and walks Yu CAV into Sophia, Bu. Turn ends.
 
Partisans: (DR:9) CH +2 (Shanghai and a resource hex).
USEntry: new chit to GE/IT. Option LiF 18, Resources to CW (+1 to tension). 
Known chits prior to tension loss: GE/IT: 4, 3, 2, 1; JA: 3, 3.
Vichy: FR +1 (Paris).
Peace: GE repairs Lodz red factory; GE conquers Po; CW conquers Bu; 
Partisan damages Shanghai major port.
Allied minor support: (CW supports Gr +1 USE).
 
Note: An oversight occurred in this turn: Crete, of course, is a territory and not part of the Gr home country. Technically, CW could not have aligned Yu and 
subsequently conquered Bu, nor did they qualify for Allied minor support. This was not noticed until some time later.

 
Mar/Apr 1940
 
Lending: GE>IT, 5 res, 5 Oil; US>CW 2 Oil; CW>FR 4 res; CW>CH 1 res, 2 Oil.
Initiative (X+1) X=3, A=3; Allies win tie (no re-roll demanded) and go first.
 
1. W=3 (NT=Snow). CW (COMB) sends a fleet off the IT coast and damage 2 IT 
CA’s with CVPs. CW also sends reinforcements to the North Sea and lands them in France. FR (LAND) reinforces its defensive line in Be and FR.
 
2. GE (LAND) aligns Ru as full ally (No USE) and sends them into Yu and Bu. 
In Be, Stukas miss all ground strike targets but kill a FR FTR in the process. GE diverts some land units towards Yu and takes Be hex 1233 (Blitz: 18). GE reorgs. 
@ IT (NAVAL) slams a GE MECH into Tripoli. IT SUBs find off Cape St. Vincent sinking 2 CW cps and aborting 3 more; 1 IT SUB is destroyed.
 
3. W=2* (NT=Snow). CW (COMB) replaces some cps and tries without success to find the IT convoys in the W.Med and It. Coast.
 
4. GE (COMB) sends a surface fleet (7 SCS) to the North Sea but doesn’t find the CW troop transports or convoy. GE takes another Be hex from FR 
units (Blitz: not recorded). GE MECH runs up the Tunisian coast securing minor ports. @ IT (LAND) walks into Br. Somaliland. IT manoeuvres troops vs. Gr, the 
south of FR and 1 hex into Egypt. @@ JA kills a partisan and closes the Burma Road politically (No USE). Turn Ends.
 
Partisans: (DR:5) Bu +1; Po +1 (resource hex).
USEntry: new chit to JA. Option 17, Lend-lease to CH (+1 to tension); 
Option 11 US East Coast Escorts (+1 to tension). Known chits prior to tension loss: GE/IT: 4, 3, 2, 1, X, GE/IT Tension: X; JA: 4, 3, 3, X.
Neutrality Pacts: USSR defensive garrison chits: 0, 0, 1, 1.
RTB: GE fleet moves down a box in North Sea.
Vichy: FR (min) +1. GE: +2.
Peace: IT conquers Br. Somaliland.
 
 

 
May/Jun 1940
 
Lending: GE>IT, 5 res, 2 Oil; US>CW 3 Oil; CW>FR 4 res.
Initiative (X+1) X=9, A=1; Axis win and go first.
 
1. W=9 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) sends NAV to supplement fleet in N. Sea (3 box). 
Disrupts 1 FR unit with ground strike and takes a resource hex in northern FR (Blitz: 23+) and breaks through an additional hex. GE kills the partisan in Po. @ IT 
(NAVAL) sinks the CW convoy in the E. Med, slams the Rome MIL into a Gr. port, and sends a DIV to the E. Med on a CA. IT rebases a LND to GE. GE 
MECH takes Tunis and heads west.
 
2. CW (COMB) shoots down an Me-109 while ground striking the GE breakthrough units. CW LND disrupts a GE ARM. GE activates when CW moves 
troops to North Sea; GE aborts 2 cps and 2 CA’s before CW can debark troops into Rouen, FR. @ USSR (Neutral) DoWs Pe (-1 USE) and disrupts the Pe 
CAV in Tehran with ground strikes.
 
3. W=8 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) ground strikes vs. CW in Lille don’t disrupt a thing. GE reorgs ARM and a/c. GE MECH continues west along the North 
African coast. @ IT (LAND) rails MOT DIV to FR and invades Cyprus (Assault: auto).
 
4. CW (LAND) evacuates Lille, which has 4 GE hexes on it. @ USSR (Neutral) moves troops through mountains towards Tehran.
 
5. W=8 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) occupies Lille but has no luck trying to take a hex in FR and loses a MOT (Blitz: 14) while killing a FR MIL. GE and IT 
(LAND) attempt to take a mountain hex in the south of FR on the IT border. GE loses a PARA in the failed attempt (Assault: 13).
 
6. FR (COMB) sends BB fleet to W. Med and finds the IT convoy and escort. FR sinks the Pola CA and has 2 of its BBs aborted. @ USSR takes 
Tehran but loses 2 CAV to the valiant Pe CAV in the process (Assault: 15).
 
7. W=7 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) loses another MOT while taking FR hex 1232 
(Blitz: 16). GE loses a stuka while aborting FR FTR. GE MECH enters Algiers. 
GE takes CW held hex east of Rouen (Blitz: 17), FR. GE takes Zagreb, Yu (Assault: 23+). @ IT (NAVAL) sends a DIV to sea.
 
8. CW (NAVAL) and FR (LAND) SUBs find in Italian Coast and sink 2 IT cps. FR pulls out of Be forest hex 1031, leaving them holding 1 hex in Be in the 
SW corner. Turn ends.
 
Partisans: (DR:10) none.
USEntry: new chit to JA. Option 13, Embargo on Strategic Materials (+1 to Tension). 
Chits shown this turn, prior to tension loss: GE/IT: 4, 3, 1; GE/IT Tension: X, X, X. JA: 3, 3, X, X; JA Tension: X.
Vichy: (min) FR +5. GE: +5.
Neutrality Pacts: USSR Defensive Garrision chits = 0, 0, 1, 1, 2.
RTB: IT sends an SCS with DIV to Tunis.
Production: Italy rents 7 cps from Norway (No USE).
Peace: IT conquers Cyprus; IT conquers Tunisia; GE conquers Algeria; 
USSR conquers Persia. GE ENG repairs Brussels red factory; IT ENG repairs Lille red factory.

Jul/Aug 1940

Lending: GE>IT, 5 res; US>CW 3 Oil; CW>FR 2 res; FR>CW 11 BPs.

Initiative (X+1) X=9, A=4; Axis win and go first.

1.            W=9 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) sends a FTR to the North Sea to cover NAV and GE fleet now in the 2 box. GE takes the CW held hex NE of Paris (Blitz:

23+) killing 2 CW units. IT (COMB) sends a SUB to the 2 box in Cape St. Vincent but doesn’t find. An IT FTR kills a CW CVP/Pil in the E.Med.

2.            CW (COMB) sends Alexander HQ to Nantes, FR. @ CH re-captures a vacant port on its east coast.

3.            W=4 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) makes a 2 hex attack on a second hex on Paris, held by Brits and fails in a costly battle (Blitz: 13) losing a MECH and an

SPG. CW loses a MIL. During ground support, GE FTR shoots down a CW LND-3 and a FTR-2. GE kills a Yu CAV (Assault: 23+) in the mountains south east

of Zagreb. GE reorgs in FR. @ IT (COMB) sends cps with escort to IT. Coast and damages a CW SUB that activates, with a/c that reacted in to the combat.

4.            CW (COMB) sends a loaded TRS to the North Sea; GE FTR kills a CW CVP in the ensuing combat. CW finally has enough Ind units and kills the partisan

on the Burma Oil (that has survived from the first turn of the game.) @ FR (COMB) flys a NAV to the Italian Coast where it aborts an IT LAND before being

destroyed by IT FTR.

5.            W=2 (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) blows an O-chit on Guderian HQ-A. GE shoots down a CW LND, attacks the CW held NW hex on Paris again and takes

it (Blitz: 21). A simultaneous attack on Metz is also successful; IT loses an ENG while FR loses a FTR to GE air, an AT gun and a corps (Assault: 19). GE reorgs.

6.            CW (COMB) sends more troops to the North Sea on TRS and SCS. GE naval air damages the DIV-laden CA. CW sends a fleet into the W.Med where

it sinks an IT cp. CW belatedly realizes Belgrade is about to be under siege and pulls units out of Bu.

7.            W=10* (NT=Fine). GE (LAND) attempts a 2-hex attack on a FR-held third hex on Paris (east) buts fails losing a MECH (Blitz: 10). GE takes the resource

hex west of Metz and loses an ENG. Belgrade falls to GE at the cost of an INF DIV (Assault: 22) and a Ru CAV walks into Sophia. GE is out of reorg

capabilities. @ IT (COMB) sends escorts to the W. Med but loses the cp there, along with a CA, to the CW fleet. IT damages a CW CA in the process.

8.            CW (COMB) damages another IT CA in the W.Med. FR (COMB) sails a fleet to the Italian Coast where it damages an IT CA and aborts another that

was carrying a DIV. FR counter-attacks a flipped GE INF and INF DIV stack but doesn’t take the hex (Blitz: 14); FR loses a MOT and GE loses a DIV.

9.            W=11** (NT=Fine) GE (COMB) with its FR force disrupted and out of HQs, sends SUBs to the Bay of Biscay and the North Sea. The SUB in BofB

does not find, but find in the North Sea sinking 3 and aborting 2 CW cps as the turn ends. @ JA (LAND) [who has been plugging away apparently unnoticed by

the clerics this turn] kills Mao HQ and takes the hex directly east of Lan Chow!

Turn ends.

Partisans: (DR:3) Fr Indo-China (Hanoi, resource hex).

USEntry: new chit to JA. No Options Chosen.

Chits shown this turn: GE/IT: X, X, X; GE/IT Tension: X, X, X.  JA:  X, X, X, X; JA Tension: X, X.

Vichy chits (net): FR ~0. GE: +4. IT +1.

Peace: GE conquers Yu; GE liberates Bu.

Jan/Feb 1941

Lending: GE>IT 5 res, 1 Oil; US>CW 4 Oil; CW>FR 1 res, 5 Oil; FR>CW 7 BPs.

Initiative (0) X=8, A=1; Allies demand re-roll; X=9, A=7 Axis win and go first.

1. W=9** (NT=Snow). GE (AIR), with 3 non-river hexes on Paris, flies ground strikes with 7 LNDs vs. hexes behind Paris (containing 3xHQs, ARM, 2xATs and

2xARTs), with 1 FTR escort. IT flies 1 LND-3 as well. FR responds with its 3 remaining FTRs (FTR-2, FTR-3, CVP-1). Amazingly, no aircraft are shot down. 1

GE LND and 3 FR FTRs are aborted. GE succeeds in flipping HQI, ARM (in forest, in snow), INF and Paris MIL. GE rebases NAV from Kiel to Konigsberg as

garrison, and 3 FTRs from GE to FR. GE reorgs aircraft with Guderian and Von Bock.

@ JA (COMB) ground strikes Lan Chow and flips a corps. With Mao HQ killed in a previous turn, JA waits to see if the weather improves and rebases more air to

within range.

2. CW (NAVAL) sends mini-fleets to all 3 seazones in the Med. but does not locate IT convoys.

@ FR (LAND) makes Pairs stronger and reorgs an aircraft, leaving 1 HQ face-up behind Paris.

3. W=5* (NT=Snow). GE (COMB) sends out SUB to Faeroes Gap and sinks 2 cps and aborts 2. GE attacks Paris. GE ground strikes 1 corps in Paris and the

HQ adjacent pre-empting any defensive HQ support. FR commits both adjacent ART. GE has a ground support Stuka aborted and aborts the FR fighter-bomber.

With a DRM of +4 (-4 snow, -1 city, -3 factories, +2 winterized corps, +2 HQ support, +1 HQ vs city, +2 flipped corps, ~2.5:1= +5) GE rolls a ‘7’ and loses a

MTN corps (Assault: 11).

@ JA decides a DRM of +2 vs Lan Chow is not worth the attempt and does not attack. Turn ends. Partisans: (DR:10) NEI gets a 1-2 partisan. USEntry: new chit

to JA. US chooses Option 22. US Gears up Production (+1 to JA Tension).

Chits shown this turn, prior to tension roll: GE/IT: 4, 3, 2, 1; GE/IT Tension: 4, 2, X. JA: 5, 3, 3, 2, X, X, X; JA Tension: 4, 3. Nazi-Soviet Pact: USSR defensive

chits: 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0. Offensive garrison chits: X, 2. Vichy chit totals: FR =17 (Net Index Value = 101), GE =13, IT =2 (Net Index Value = 61).

[Note: we replaced all the 1941 counters with old USEntry chits from a defunct set.]

Mar/Apr 1941

Lending: GE>IT 5 res; US>CW 3 Oil; CW>FR 3 res, 2 Oil; FR>CW 7 BPs.

Initiative (0) X=10, A=2; No re-roll demanded. Axis win and go first. 1.

W=7* (NT=Snow). GE (LAND) loses a Rummy LND-2 and shoots down a FR FTR (CVP) attempting a ground strike vs. FR hex 1128. GE takes the hex and

loses an SS MOT DIV, retreating the FR forces (Blitz: 16). GE reorgs. @ IT (COMB) rails a MOT to FR.

@@ In clear weather JA (COMB) slams the Tokyo MIL into Canton and attacks the southern resource hex (again) taking it after aborting the CH FTR and

disrupting a CH MIL with CVP tac points; JA loses a gun while CH loses an AT gun, MIL [Canton – an oversight since the front line is no place for Japanese-held

city MIL] and INF (Assault: 20).

2. CW (COMB) goes convoy hunting off the Italian coast but runs into a feisty air defence that sees both CW CVPs and a pilot killed and their CV’s aborted to

Gibraltar. One of the remaining CW escorts is aborted and the other follows voluntarily. In W. Med CW aborts the IT convoy but has 2 SCS aborted leaving its

CV with a single escort.

3. W=3 (NT=Snow). GE (LAND) finally determines it has enough units back from Yu to attack isolated Strasbourg, France that has been a screened hold out

behind the front. GE, with assistance from Guderian HQ-A and an IT ENG, takes the city killing a FR INF and GARR (Assault: 23+).

4. CW (COMB) sends another corps into Egypt from the Red Sea and bolsters it W. Med convoy hunters.

@ FR (LAND) maximizes its Paris defence, moving in a 3-factor AT gun.

5. W=4 (NT=Storm). GE (COMB) takes a hard look at Paris but without ground strike capability, sends out subs to the North Sea to attempt to cut the lend lease

line to FR as the turn ends (80% chance to end turn). GE subs sinks 2 cp and aborts the rest from the seazone and have a SUB damaged. GE rails the Ru HQ-I into

Ploesti from Yu.

@ IT (NAVAL) also sends out subs to Cape Verde Basin and Cape St. Vincent to no avail. IT replaces a cp in the W. Med and puts to sea escorts in the 1 box

and pickets in the 4 in anticipation of the turn ending; CW finds but leaves the air protected cps alone and goes after the 1 box, damaging both IT CA’s.

6. CW (COMB) jumps at the unexpected impulse, replacing the lend-lease line in the North Sea. GE subs are submerged and do not find the Brit convoy.

@ FR (NAVAL) satisfied that its defence is maximized goes Vichy chit hunting in the Med. A FR BB fleet sails from Marseilles but does not find off the Italian

coast. FR subs sail from Syria to the E. Med where 1 SUB is sunk by an Italian NAV and LND combo; the other FR SUB is aborted after sending the IT cp to

port in the south of Gr.

7. W=8 (NT=Fine). The GE high command perks up: not only is there yet another impulse, but the weather clears in France. With its army mostly where it needs

to be GE (COMB) sends its 7 SCS fleet through the North Sea undetected and makes the Faeroes Gap to surface raid convoys. Neither the surface raiders nor

the SUB in the North Sea find any targets, much to the CW’s relief. GE rails a MTN from Yu to Ploesti. GE ground strikes Paris and disrupts the entire defence.

GE 2- factor ENG, HQ-I and an IT ENG lead the assault that finally sees Paris fall (Assault: 25) [DR: 14].

@ JA takes mountain hex 0634 in northern CH (Assault: 22) that now gives JA 3 hexes on the Cheng-Tu/ Chungking valley from the north. Turn (finally) ends.

Partisans: (DR:8) Gr gets a partisan in Salonika minor port. India, despite its residual garrison of 5 Burma partisan killers, receives a partisan that is placed on a

central resource. USEntry: new chit to JA. US chooses Option 24. Re-open Burma Road (No Tension), Option 23. Freeze Japanese Assets (+1 to JA Tension).

Chits shown/known this turn, prior to tension rolls: GE/IT: 4, 3, 2, 1; GE/IT Tension: 4, 2, X. JA: 5, 3, 3, 2, X, X, X; JA Tension: 4, 3, X. Nazi-Soviet Pact: USSR

defensive chits: 0, 0, 1, 1, 0. Offensive garrison chits: X, X, 2, 2; Units garrison = 47. German defensive garrison (units and chits) = 28. Vichy Index: France = 93;

Axis = 95. [Note: when we ran out of Vichy chits, we decided to write down a ‘4’ for each chit we did not have that was awarded.

Jul/Aug 1941
 
Lending: GE>IT 5 res, 1 Oil; US>CW 4 Oil; CW>FF 1 res, 3 BPs; CW>CH 2 res, 1 Oil.
Initiative (Allies +1) X=3, A=6; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=8 (NT=Fine). CW (LAND) Moves west in France towards Brest and Nantes. @ FF (COMB) sends convoy escorts off the West African coast. FF, 
whose units teleported to Mauritania from Vichy, moves an HQ towards the coast in search of supply; 2 FTR-2s begin a long rebase across Africa towards Egypt. 
@@ USSR (Neutral) reinforces its gathering army in Siberia with an HQ and SKI DIV and send a SUB to the South China Sea. At least four LND-4s are within 
reach of the JA SYNTH guarded by a lone squadron of Zekes, but no DoW is offered.
 
2. GE (LAND) grounds strikes Gr MTN in the mountain hex NW of Athens. GE troops in France catch the Brit rearguard in France and kill a GARR and 
an INF DIV (Blitz 23+). GE garrisons Vichy cities. Rommel HQ-A and Guderian HQ-A are re-assigned to take charge of Army Group Centre and Army Group 
South respectively and begin rolling their tanks east. GE @ IT (COMB) sails a MOT division on a CA to the E. MED avoiding CW naval and air patrols, and 
offloads it into Bardia, Li. @@ JA (COMB) slams a MAR on a TRS into New Caledonia and walks a unit into Hanoi. JA then attacks the valley hex west of 
Chungking and takes it, killing 2 Nationalist corps (Assault: 23+) and ‘the’ CH FTR and Pilot.
 
3. W=2 (NT= Fine). CW (COMB) slams troops into western France to bolster the withdrawing BEF and picks up a GARR from the northern coast with a
 TRS in the North Sea. @ FF air continues their journey across the African continent. @@ USSR (Neutral) sends out another SUB to the Mariannas sea zone and 
continue to threaten Manchuria and Japanese production.
 
4. GE (LAND) sends a NAV to the 3-box in the W. Med. The Wehrmacht attacks CW troops in France and retreat Alexander HQ into Nantes, losing yet 
another FTR and pilot to Brit air (Blitz: 21). GE forces head east and southeast from France. @IT (COMB) sends a small surface fleet of CAs to the Italian Coast.
 A combined army of IT and GE forces take out the flipped Gr MTN northwest of Athens (Assault: 21). @@ JA (NAVAL) sends out carriers, escorts and 
pickets to key sea zones.
 
5. W=5 (NT=Fine). CW (COMB) reinforce a flipped Alexander HQ in Nantes with a 2-factor ENG. @ FF (COMB) continues it air rebases in Africa 
and slowly moving its land forces to the coast in Mauritania.
 
6. GE (COMB) sends 4 SCS surface raiders to the Faeroes Gap, eluding Brit patrols in the North Sea. They surprise a large convoy and chase away 2 CW
 CAs and 3 cps before they lose them. The GE army, with its morale high, attempts a 1-hex attack on 2 flipped Brits north of Nantes. They lose a LND-3 to British
 FTRs but take the hex, retreating the CW troops (blitz: 20). Rundstedt HQ-A reorgs the flipped units. @ IT (COMB) sends out subs past Gibraltar but hunting is 
poor.
 
7. W=2 (NT=Fine). CW (NAVAL) sends transports and big naval guns with carriers to the Bay of Biscay. The convoy line is repaired and a carrier fleet in 
the W. Med in reinforced. An air battle ensues with reacted-in Axis air and the British fleet. CW CVPs abort a GE NAV then loses a CVP to an IT NAV that is 
also aborted. In the E. Med an IT LND-3 is shot down with Pilot by a newly arrived carrier squadron, and a CA is aborted to Kalamai, Gr. @ FF (COMB) finally
 lands its FTRs in Egypt to many British cheers.
 
8. GE (LAND) has its third shot at Alexander with a 5-hex attack on Nantes. 
He manages to escape once more since the CW has managed to reinforce him into a 3 unit stack each time, but an INF dies (Assault: 21). Once more GE retreats 
rather than shatters him, since he will shortly have no retreat path. Rommel HQ-A arrives in southeast Po and relieves von Leeb HQ-I who heads north towards the 
coast. GE sends troops south with von Bock HQ-I towards Bordeaux and the Pyrenees. @ IT (COMB) sends BBs to the E. Med to provide shore bombardment, 
with FTR and NAV cover in the 2-box. A CW NAV is shot down before the fleets lose sight of each other. IT ground strikes Athens, flipping a CW INF. On the 
subsequent 2-hex attack, combined GE and IT land forces fail to take it, but do not lose any units (Assault: 13). The turn ends on a roll of ‘2’.
 
Partisans: (DR: 8) France (1 on a flipped Stuka in Bordeaux, destroying it); 
Vichy France (1 on the resource hex); Guderian HQ-A, with a stopover in Yu on his way to Ru, helps the vigilant garrison troops suppress any partisan activity.
USEntry: new chit to JA pool. No options chosen. 
Chits shown/known this turn: GE/IT: 4, 3, 2, 1, X, X; GE/IT Tension: 4, 2, X. JA: X, 3, X, X, X, X, X, X; JA Tension: 4, 3, X, X.
RTB: IT returns 3xBB to Kalamai, Gr.; GE surface raiders sail into LaRochelle, France; USSR naval units in the Pacific sail back to Vlad.Nazi-Soviet Pact: USSR 
defensive = 57, offensive 42 + 2 chits; GE offensive = 29 + 15 chits; defensive = 52.
 
Notes: No US options have been played since it froze JA assets; the USSR, while building up in Siberia (2x HQs, 2x INF, MECH DIV, 2x SKI DIV, CAV, 
GARR, and 4x LND-4) and sent out a naval unit per impulse, has not issued any declarations.
 

Sept/Oct 1941
 
Lending: GE>IT 5x res, 2x Oil; US>CW 5x Oil; CW>FF 4x BPs; CW>CH 2x res, 1 Oil.
Initiative (Allies +1) X=4, A=5; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=1 (NT=Fine). CW (COMB) sends a large fleet with TRS and AMPH to the Bay of Biscay and extracts the survivor Alexander HQ along with 3 
corps and divisions from France, leaving 2 corps in Brest. A TRS in the North Sea also aids the extraction, picking up a GARR from the north coast of France. 
@ FF (LAND) continues to organize its forces in Mauritania and Senegal. The French partisan overruns a GE LND-3 in Bayonne and it rebases to LaRochelle. 
@ USSR (Neutral) sends a SUB out to the Mariannas sea zone.
 
2. GE (LAND) attacks the remnants of the BEF (2x corps) in Brest, killing them both (Blitz: 18). @ IT (COMB) flies naval bombers with fighter cover into 
the E. Med (2-box) and sails 4x SCS as well (4-box) vs. a small CW supply fleet with air cover (1 and 2 boxes). IT, FF and CW all react in fighters and a Rummy
 LND-2 joins in with an IT NAV-2 to cover the Italian convoys. After the CW air cover is aborted and IT naval air damages the TRS (putting the CW INF in 
Athens out of supply)and a BB, CW fleet voluntarily aborts from the sea zone along with the FF fighters. GE ground strikes fail to flip either corps in Athens and the
 second assault on the city falls short, IT loses a MOT DIV and the Athens MIL dies (Assault: 17). @@ JA (LAND) takes the eastern most forest resource hex in 
southern CH.
 
3. W=6 (NT= Fine). CW (COMB) extracts its INF from Athens then reinforces it with the Gr MTN that came on outside the city on the peninsula. 
@ FF (LAND) suicides out with the partisan against a lone ENG in Bordeaux, but simply dies in dramatic fashion instead (Assault: 5) @@ USSR (COMB) DoWs 
JA (-2 USE) and sends a SUB to the sea of Japan, where it is aborted while aborting a JA CA. The SUB in the Mariannas sinks the cp. USSR ground strikes four 
hexes with 4x LND-4s, flipping a MOT west of Vlad stacked with a TERR, a GARR south of Vlad in Ko, and an HQ in Port Arthur, essentially the entire 
Manchurian defence other than a weak GARR in Mukden. USSR attacks west out of Vlad with an HQ, Siberian INF and a gun, killing a MOT and a Manchurian
 TERR, but loses the Siberian and the gun (Assault: 19).
 
4. GE (LAND) kills the partisan in VF. @ IT (LAND) rails an ENG to Salonika, GR, where it – and a GE LND-3 - are reorged by Guderian HQ (who 
can’t seem to get to his assignment in Ru). IT reorgs its assault forces in Greece. @@ JA (COMB) slams units into Korea and Manchuria.
 
5. W=6 (NT=Fine). CW (NAVAL) has a small reinforcement fleet with a CVL stopped in the W. Med, by a GE NAV and IT FTR, which was bound for 
the E. Med. In the E. Med a fresh fleet from Aden braves the Axis air umbrella but voluntarily aborts, again, after having a CVP shot down and 2 CA’s, a BB and a
 CV aborted. @ USSR (LAND) rails a MECH and a battalion of rocket trucks to Vlad, then revels in its new ability to set up a proper line in Poland and the 
Ukraine. Two divisions (MECH and CAV) take Harbin and walk south along the railways towards Mukden.
 
6. GE (LAND) once again fails in an attempt to disrupt the now lone Gr MTN in Athens. @ GE, limited to a single corps (1 still flipped), and IT (COMB) 
attack Athens for the third time, and it holds again (Assault: 8) against a roll of ‘3’. IT loses an ENG and MOT. @@ JA pulls a MAR out of New Caledonia into 
Port Arthur, replacing it with a MTN DIV. Mukden is reinforced and the weak GARR flips west into the mountains. FTRs/CVPs arrive from CH and Japan.
 
7. W=7 (NT=Rain). CW (LAND) moves an Ind INF next to Fr. Indo China where it flips out of supply. @ USSR moves a CAV DIV into a gap in the 
newly forming Japanese defence line, directly east of Mukden. An HQ and a corps are railed to the city north of Mukden from Poland. Turn ends.
 
Partisans: (DR: 5) none.
USEntry: new chit to JA pool. US choose Option 25 Repair western Allies ships (no tension), Option 27 Lend lease to western Allies (+1 to tension) and Option 
26 Relocate fleet to Pearl (+1 to tension). 
Chits shown/known this turn: GE/IT: 4, 4, 3, 2, 2, 1; GE/IT Tension: 4, 2, X. JA: 5, 3, 2, 1, 1, X, X; JA Tension: 4, 3, X, X.
Conquest: GE ENG repairs Brest major port.
 

Nov/Dec 1941
 
Lending: GE>IT 5x res, 1x Oil; US>CW 5x Oil, 2x BPs; CW>FF 4x BPs; CW>CH 2x res, 2x Oil; USSR>FF 3x BPs; FF>CW 1 res.
Initiative (0) X=7, A=8; Axis demand re-roll; X=9, A=4; Axis win and go first.
 
1. W=7* (NT= Snow) GE (LAND) kills a Fr. Indo China partisan with its newly arrived TERR (Assault: auto). @ IT (COMB) flies naval air with fighter 
cover and follows up with 3x BB from Salonika to the E. Med. Combined Axis forces renew their siege of Athens and attack it again, this time in the rain. 
Naval guns add their support but newly reactivated MIL and the Gr MTN hold the city once more (Assault: 11). @@ JA (COMB) sends units from Japan, 
Manchuria and Korea north to bolster its defensive line (essentially a straight east-west line from Korea through Mukden to the western Manchurian resource hex, 
except for the infiltrating Russian CAV division). JA attacks the lone USSR CAV division and kills it while losing a Manchurian TERR 
(Assault: 22) tenuously securing Mukden’s eastern flank and eliminating the Soviet salient.
 
2. CW (COMB) sails a 3x CV, TRS and 11 SCS fleet to the E. Med from Alexandria to punish the Italians and lend support to the valiant Greeks in 
Athens. CW naval air aborts 2 of the 3 IT BBs before losing them in the rain. FF (COMB) MAR arrives in Gibraltar, where there is now a TRS and AMPH. 
@ USSR (LAND) manoeuvres units in Manchuria and in the west. @@ USA sends a 2x CV and 8x SCS fleet to Pearl Harbor, including the CV Bearn.
 
3. W=4 (NT= Rain) GE (COMB) sails a CV with 3x SCS to the Faeroes Gap but does not find any action. It draws the 2x CW NAV-4s from where they 
were threatening the Baltic on the east coast of England. Fr. Indo China TERR kills the 1 factor partisan in the mountains south of Hanoi and manages to stay alive
 in the process (Assault: 18). IT (LAND) reorgs its exhausted troops in Greece.
 
4. CW (NAVAL) sends an aggressive fleet to the Faeroes in search of the reported GE surface raiders but does not locate them. A CW ENG arrives off 
the coast of southeast Asia. CW activates in the E. Med but is once again found by the Axis air cover (2x IT FTR, 2x IT NAV and 2x Ru LND-2s) that shoots 
down yet another CW CVP. Italian and Rumanian bombers then sink the Ark Royal with its full compliment of aircraft and pilots. @@ FF DoWs VF (n/a USE) 
and invades Morocco (Not Hostile) with an ENG a hex south of the southern port. @@@ CH (LAND) Communist forces take advantage of a distracted JA and 
attack its northernmost corps in CH, a CAV, killing it while losing 1 of its 3 attacking corps (Assault: 17) and flips. @@@@ USSR sinks another JA cp in the 
Mariannas with a SUB.
 
5. W=6 (NT=Fine). GE (COMB) having successfully drawn off the Sunderlands and noting the only immediate Allies land response is in Gibraltar threatening the Med, DoWs No (USSR; No USE) USSR sets up the MTN and SKI in Oslo. 
GE lands a MAR, MTN and MTN division a hex east of Kristianland, from a fleet in the Baltic. @ IT (COMB) sends a wp GARR on a TRS, along with 2x SCS 
to the W. Med under GE NAV and IT FTR cover then debarks the GARR into Tripoli, doubling its defence. IT mounts its fifth attack on the Greek capital. The 
attacks fails with the Axis losing 3 units (Famous ‘14’) including an IT MTN division, a GE INF division and a GE INF, while only killing the cat-like Athens MIL. 
@@ JA (COMB) reinforces Saigon and bolsters its defence in Manchuria with tactical aircraft. Turn ends.
 
Partisans: (DR: 5) a partisan finally appears in Yugoslavia (on a 10% chance).
USEntry: new chit to JA pool. No options chosen. 
Chits shown/known this turn: GE/IT: 4, X, X, 2, X; GE/IT Tension: 4, 2, X, X. JA: 5, X, X, X, X, X, X; JA Tension: 4, 3, X, X, X.
 

J / F 1942
 
(6 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 5x res, 3x Oil; GE>JA 2 res; US>CW 4x Oil, 2x BPs; CW>FF 2x BPs; CW>CH 2x res, 2x Oil; USSR>FF 3x BPs; FF>CW 1 res.
Initiative (Allies +2) X=10, A=2; no re-roll demanded; Axis win and go first.
 
1. W=2 (NT= Rain) GE (COMB) flies naval air to the W. Med, and reinforces its Norway invasion force with an SS MECH from a TRS that sailed from Memel, E. Prussia. GE rails an ENG to Greece where it hopes it is not needed. GE sends a MTN div to secure the resource and port in western Norway. Guderian HQ-A, fed up with the pathetic efforts by troops nominally under his control in Greece, takes matters into his own hand by leading a final assault on the Greek capital. The GE MECH, recalled for other duty, pulls out of the thin Italian line in Egypt. Grazianni HQ-A expresses concern. @ IT (COMB) sends battleships with escort to the E. Med with naval air. An IT LND-2 ground strikes Athens to no effect vs. the recurrent MIL and the MTN. The combined forces of GE and IT make their 6th assault on the Greek capital and take their frustration out on the defenders when they finally breach it (Assault: 23+). @@ JA (COMB) sails CVs to the Sea of Japan and relieves an INF division in Mukden with an ENG.
 
2. CW (NAVAL) sends a MIL with a fleet to the Norwegian Sea and picks up FF troops from Africa. CW units from Britain languish on TRS in Cape St. Vincent. @ USSR (COMB) reinforces Oslo with a wp GARR and moves the No MTN into the mountains west of Oslo.
 
3. W=1 (NT= Fine) GE (NAVAL) collapses Vichy (+2 USE). None of the land units in VF go FF. GE aligns Sp (+1 USE) and sets up north and south of Gibraltar, with Franco HQ-I in Er Rif. The bemused Italians announce that future cooperation with Germany will be limited. GE slams von Bock HQ-I and an ENG into a port in Norway. A GE Graf Zeppelin-led fleet from Kiel sails to intercept the CW MIL earmarked for Narvik, but fails to find it. A Sp TRS with 2 slow BBs and a CA sail into the W. Med to supply the Er Rif force, with air cover. Sp CAs sail to the Cape Verde Basin against CW TRS laden with FF troops but have no luck. @ IT (NAVAL) sends air and a small CA fleet to bolster the Axis presence in the W. Med. IT sends subs to Cape St. Vincent but only manages to damage a CW CA before the subs are aborted. An IT MECH from Athens slams into Bardia, Li. @@ JA (COMB) relieves a TERR in Mukden with Yamashita HQ-I. JA takes Chang-Sha in southern CH (Assault: 21) without a loss (No USE).
 
4. CW (COMB) flies a FTR-2 and sails a CV fleet to the W. Med where they shoot down an IT FTR-1 and sink the IT CV with plane and pilot. A CW MIL debarks into Narvik, No. @ USSR (LAND) has 2x LND-4s aborted attempting to ground strike Mukden aborted and decides to hold off its planned attack on the last Manchurian factories.
 
5. W=4* (NT= Storm) GE (COMB) sends a reorged AMPH out to the Baltic and walks an SS INF to the coast. Sp CAs are surprised off the African coast; one is damaged and another aborted. The GE CV fleet still cannot locate the CW Narvik reinforcement fleet in the Norwegian Sea. A GE MAR walks across to the coastal hex southeast of Oslo. IT (LAND) moves a MECH into the line to replace the GE MECH that is slowly making its way west.
 
6. CW (NAVAL) sends more LBA to the W. Med and has a FTR-2 aborted and a NAV-4 killed along with its pilot. In the E. Med a CW CV fleet aborts an IT TRS and 2x BBs into Athens, Gr. @ USSR (NAVAL) sails convoys to the North Sea and Norwegian Sea, then sails the Black Sea fleet. The Pacific fleets have no luck finding JA supply in the typhoon conditions. 2x Norwegian TRS sail undetected, in the storm, from Olso into Lenningrad. Turn ends.
 
Partisans: (DR: 10; none)
USEntry: new chit 2x to JA pool. US chooses Option 34 War Appropriations 
Act. Chits shown/known this turn: GE/IT: 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, X, X; GE/IT Tension: 4, 4, 2, X. JA: 5, 4, 3, 3, 2, X, X, X, X; JA Tension: 4, 3, 2, X, X.
Conquest: IT conquers Greece.
 

Mar/Apr 1942
 
(4 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 5x res, 1x Oil; GE>JA 2 res; US>CW 3x Oil; CW>FF 2x BPs; 
CW>CH 2x res, 1x BP; USSR>FF 3x BPs; FF>CW 1 res.
Initiative (Allies +2) X=3, A=9; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=2 (NT= Storm) CW (NAVAL) sends a bolsters its CV fleet in the W. 
Med and surprises the Spanish and Italian fleets. After spending to avoid Axis air and clearing off enemy surface, CW damages an IT CA and aborts another LaSpazia. @ USSR (NAVAL) moves a TRS to the Baltic Sea and redeploys some convoys.
 
2. GE (COMB) sends the Bismark, 2x CAs and a TRS with SS MTN into the Baltic and lands the MTN in Norway. The 2 remaining Sp CAs activate off Africa but are surprised: one is sunk and the other aborted back to Cadiz, narrowly avoiding a CW fleet off the Rock. @ IT (NAVAL) sends subs to Cape St. Vincent. One SUB is aborted after they abort a CW CVL carrying a DIV into Rabat, Morocco. @@ JA (NAVAL) covers its convoys and slams units into Truk.
 
3. W=1 (NT= Rain) US (NAVAL) DoWs GE (-2 USE) and aligns Central America (No USE). US sends a huge fleet of 6 CVs, TRS, AMPH (loaded with troops) and 28 SCS to the zero box of the Polynesian sea zone. US cruisers bolster the CW fleet in the W. Med but don’t find. @ CW (COMB) debarks an HQ into Morocco. @@ USSR (COMB) sends 2x wp INF on Norwegian TRSs to the Baltic from Leningrad. GE activates and finds, sinking a TRS with 6-3 INF.
 
4. GE (LAND) rails and moves land units to and around E. Po and Ru. GE rails an ART to Sp. A GE ATR flies a MTN corps adjacent to Oslo. @ IT (LAND) bolsters its Egyptian stalemate force with a MECH. @@ JA (LAND) maximizes its Mukden defence and moves divisions and marines to ports in Manchuria, China and Hanoi. Turn ends on a roll of ‘2’.
 
Partisans: (DR: 10) Yugoslavia receives a second partisan; NEI receives its 3rd partisan (each one placed on an island). USEntry: new chit 2x to JA pool. US chooses Option 36 Commonwealth Reinforces the Pacific. Chits shown/known this turn: GE/IT: 5, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2; GE/IT Tension: 4, 4, 2, X. JA: 6, 4, 3, 3, 2, X, X, X, X, X; JA Tension: 4, 3, 2, X, X, X.RTB: US sends its massive fleet with 2 corps and a gun into Rabaul. Other troops land in Guadalcanal. Conquest: GE ENG repairs Danzig major port.End of Mar/Apr 42.

 
May/Jun 1942
 
(6 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 5x res, 1x Oil; GE>JA 2 res; CW>FF 2x BPs; CW>CH 2x res, 1x Oil; USSR>FF 3x BPs; FF>CW 1 res.
Initiative (Allies +2) X=6, A=4; Allies demand re-roll; X= n/a, A=11. 
Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=2 (NT= Rain). CW (NAVAL) CV fleet in W. Med finds GE supply fleet (Spanish TRS) with IT SCSs in the zero box. CW air shoots down a crappy GE CVP (flown as a NAV) but loses a CVP and has a FTR-2 aborted, then calls off the combat in face of the overwhelming Axis air umbrella. @ FF (LAND) continues to build up in Morocco with CW advisors, including Monty HQ. @@ USSR (NAVAL) sends out subs in the Pacific but they have no luck. The Norwegian trawlers fair no better hunting the German merchant ships in the Baltic.
 
2. GE (COMB) sends its CV and SCSs fleet with TRS and AMPH into the Baltic and embarks an INF and ENG from East Prussia, thumbing their noses at the Norwegian gunboats. The GE troops land without issue in Norway. A GE ATR flies a Ru MTN to Norway from Fredrikshavn, De. GE rebases air to Ru and E. Po., including its single FTR-3 strat deterrent in France. @ IT (NAVAL) sends a BB/TRS fleet to the E. Med and embarks a MIL from Athens. A newly christened BB sails with escorts to the W. Med to bolster the GE supply fleet. @@ JA (NAVAL) sails virtually every ship it has, many loaded with troops, to sea zones around the Pacific.
 
 
3. W=6 (NT= Fine). CW (LAND) promptly strat bombs Lille for a point with an Anson! @ US (NAVAL) escorts its supply lines in the Pacific, but leaves a large naval force in Rabaul. @@ USSR (LAND) attempts to ground strike Mukden and shoots down a Zeke, but loses one LND-4 and has the other aborted. The attack is on anyway and during ground support JA loses 3x fighters and 2x bombers, clearing through a single LND-2. USSR has all its support and escorts aborted, except for a LND-4 cleared. AA guns in Mukden open up halving the support. The 2-hex attack, with HQs on both sides lending their support, fails; USSR loses a MECH and a GARR while JA loses the AA gun (Assault: 16).
 
4. GE (COMB) sends 3x Spanish CAs with a GE convoy point to the zero box in the W. Med from Barcelona and embarks a GE MOT DIV from Marsailles. CW chooses not to activate, due to Axis naval air, and GE lands the division in Tangiers, Er Rif. GE rails a motorized AA gun to Ru. GE attacks Oslo and takes it, killing a No SKI, a USSR white print advisor and retreating the USSR wp 8-1 GARR (Assault: 23+). @ IT (COMB) DoWs the US (+6 USE), then picks up a PARA DIV with an SCS off the Italian Coast and lands it in Greece. The Rome MIL debarks onto an HQ east of Bardia in Egypt. @@ JA (Super-Combined) DoWs CW, FF and USA (+12 USE) blows its O-chit and port strikes the 20 ship US fleet in Rabaul. JA air sinks the CV Hornet, the CV Yorktown and damages the CV Lexington (on a saved 'X')and a couple of CAs. 
JA sinks the 5x Allied cps in the South China Sea and others, but fails to get Rabaul out of supply. Subsequent ground strikes by CVPs fail to flip anything in Rabaul so JA invades on either side of it with INF and DIVs. JA invades the Philippines with MARs and lands a couple of ENGs on two Oil hexes in the NEI. JA counter-attacks the Mukden assault force, killing an ART, and flips.
 
5. W=7 (NT= Fine). CW (COMB) strat bombs Brussels for a point with a Welesley, flying with impunity over the unguarded airspace in Western Europe. CW flips an INF into the mountains northwest of Bangkok, cutting off the natives from their capital. @ US (COMB) aligns Brazil and sails a large retaliatory fleet to meet the JA build up off Rabaul but the fleets miss each other. A US SUB dies aborting a JA CA and a couple of cps in the China Sea. In the South China Sea a JA CV is aborted but so are the Allied subs. @@ USSR (LAND) reorgs its Mukden attack force, smelling blood since the JA counter-attack left the units in Mukden flipped, possibly USSR’s best shot at conquering Manchuria thus far.
 
6. GE (LAND) rails units to Ru and E. Poland and kills a partisan in Sarejevo, Yu (Assault: 23+). @ JA (COMB) reinforces Bangkok with a wp corps and rebases air to Manchuria and Truk. Turn ends on a 20% chance, likely saving Manchuria.
 
Partisans: France receives a partisan on a 20% chance (Lyons – not repaired).
Conquest: CW conquers Rio Muni; FF conquers Spanish Sahara; GE ENG repairs Oslo major port; IT ENG repairs Athens major port.
 

Jul/Aug 1942
 
(13 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 5x res, 1x Oil; GE>JA 1 res; CW>CH 2x res; USSR>FF 2x BPs; FF>CW 1 res.
Initiative (Allies +1) X=1, A=3; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=1 (NT= Fine). US (NAVAL) aligns Mexico and DoWs Columbia. US sends its main fleet (4 CVs, 18 SCS) to the South China Sea, attempting to lure the JA navy into a battle of attrition, and clears the sea zone of convoys after avoiding the reacted in JA LBA. @ CW (NAVAL) sends a fleet from Alexandria to the E. Med, manages to evade the reacted in IT air and aborts the single IT cp. A CW SUB can’t locate the IT supply in the Italian Coast. @@ USSR flies 4x LNDs to ground strike Mukden with 2x FTR escorts. JA manages to get a FTR and a CVP scrambled to intercept. Both the FTR and CVP (along with their pilots) die, but manage to kill a LND-4 (17 range) and abort one other. The cleared bombers flip the DIV and a corps in the city. JA chooses not to use defensive HQ support, feeling if the city falls, he wants it face up for a counter-attack. The attack fails regardless and Manchuria lives on for the time being (Assault: 16). JA loses a flipped DIV; USSR loses an ENG and a corps.
 
2. GE (LAND) DoWs USSR [duh] and aligns Fi. GE rails a MTN DIV to Trondheim from Oslo and a Sp ARM to Poland along with a MECH DIV from Brest, Fr. GE ground strikes work well in E. Poland and Bessarabia and subsequent attacks rip open the numerically superior Russian forward defence in a rather spectacular fashion. Rudel needs all four of his dice to flip an oos MECH in the forests west of the marshes. The Finns walk and flip an INF and SKI DIV southwest of Murmansk, putting the rail line in ZOC. The Fi MECH walks adjacent to Murmansk. Brest-Livosk falls easily and breakthroughs occur in the north gaining 2 hexes (w and nw) on Kaunas, Lithuania. A breakthrough in the south puts Odessa in ZOC. In total USSR loses a MECH, CAV, 3x INF, GARR, 2x ART, MOT DIV, INF DIV, and 2x FTR-2s with pilots (ground struck and overrun). Zhukov HQ-A is flipped in the Ukraine, Timoshenko HQ-I is in the swamps and Vatutin HQ-I is in Odessa. Mannerheim HQ-I reorgs the Finns next to Murmansk. @ IT (NAVAL) sends air to the E. Med and follows with 2x TRS, 4x BB and 2x CA, with a MAR, MOT, PARA DIV and ENG to the 3 box. An IT sub sails to Cape St. Vincent but does not activate. IT BBs and CA’s sail to the W. Med to support the Axis supply line. @@ JA (COMB) replaces cps and attacks Manila with a MAR and a MAR DIV. All the units involved die, including the lone TERR defender (Assault: 15).
 
3. W=6 (NT= Fine). US (COMB) activates in the S. China Sea in monsoon conditions and kills the 4 JA cps and a CA; US has a TRS carrying a bp GARR aborted to Manilla. @ CW (COMB) activates in the E. Med but IT finds and calls off the combat. In the W. Med, a CW fleet hunts for the Er Rif supply but, to preserve shore bombardment for the Rock, calls off the combat when faced with either the superior Axis air cover that reacts in or surface parity. @@ FF (LAND) and CW forces attack the Er Rif flank guard in the Moroccan mountains to the south, consisting of an Algerian TERR and a GE MOT DIV. GE ground support and escort is aborted but the Allied attack fails in any case (Assault: 12) with the CW losing a GARR and the rest, including a FF HQ flipping. @@@ With all 3 of his European theatre HQs south of the Pripet Marshes, USSR (LAND) rails an HQ from Vlad to the forest hex west of Vitebsk. Russia, in disarray in the west, extracts what units it can to try and form a line but ZOCs, river breaches, breakthroughs and supply problems hinder them. USSR belatedly pulls some units out of the line in Manchuria to railheads, but many – including the air – are disrupted from the failed attack on Mukden.
 
4. GE (LAND) rails a wp GARR to Brest, Fr. and a wp INF to Trondheim, No. Von Leeb HQ-I walks north along the rails in No. GE continues pushing its initiative in Poland and Rumanian against the disorganized Russians, killing 3 more corps and a gun. GE takes the hex east of Lvov, Po, and takes Riga, Latvia on a breakthrough. GE kills the partisan in Yu at the cost of the Croat MIL and a Ru CAV (Assault: 15). @ IT (LAND) rails a corps to Athens, Gr. then invades unoccupied Haifa with a MAR and 2x divisions and takes it easily with shore bombardment (Assault: 23+). @@ JA (NAVAL) covers its supply lines in the Pacific. JA finally takes the bait and sends a fleet (4x CV, 3xBB, AMPH, 8x CA’s) to the South China Sea (3 box) to supply and protect its interests in the region. US activates but neither fleet finds each other in the monsoon weather.
 
5. W=3 (NT= Fine). CW (LAND) strat bombs Brussells for a point with a crappy LND. CW reacts to the IT threat to the FF home country (Syria: 1x CW TERR in Damascus, 1x FF INF in Beirut) by pulling back from the stalemate in western Egypt and sends a fast MECH and a MOT across the Suez. @ US (COMB) reinforces Rabaul with wp units from transports and moves the existing troops south of the JA forces west of the port. US activates in the South China Sea and aircraft die like flies, mostly to AA fire. Each lose a CVP in A2A then the US loses 2x CVP when the JA player rolls a single ‘10’ for AA; JA also loses a CVP to AA fire. A JA CV is damaged and the West Virginia is sunk. In the Bismarck Sea, JA loses a CVP and US loses a NAV. @@USSR rails the Vitebsk factory to Asian map.
 
6. GE (LAND) rails a MECH from Tunisia onto Franco, HQ-I, in Er Rif, a Ru MTN to Trondheim and an INF to Rumania. GE takes Kaunas (Assault: 22) in the north and breaks through to hex 1931 in the south. Antonescu (Ru) HQ-I reorgs the railed INF. An ATR reorgs the Sp ARM in Poland. @ IT (LAND) rails an AA gun to Athens and moves its Egypt force east to close with the withdrawing CW force. IT lands an INF from a TRS into Haifa. @@ JA (COMB) slams units from Japan into the northern Philippine port and sails a supply fleet to the zero box of the South China Sea, made up of 3x CVL, 5x BB, 1x CA and 4cps, where JA LBA cover is flying. The US activates, finds and picks on the zero sinking a CVL and the CA. Most of the remaining JA naval units are aborted. The US suffers a CA damaged and some aborts.
 
7. W= 10* (NT= Fine). CW (LAND) strat bombs Lille for a point with another crappy LND (2 strat factors). CW continues to pull its western Egypt force east towards Alexandria. Its MECH approaches the IT invasion force attempting to distract them from their assignment. The slower MOT follows close behind. @ US (COMB) in an attempt to reinforce Manilla, returns to base a wp Aussie INF on a TRS from the Bismarck Sea through the South China Sea, to try and reinforce Manilla. The JA force intercepts and, when the lone US TRS receives no answer to its distress calls, it is promptly sunk with all hands. @@ USSR (LAND) continues to rail units from Manchuria to the western front. @@@ CH (LAND) has been sliming around the JA forces in the north and now flips into the mountain resource hex near Manchuria.
 
8. GE (COMB) temporarily relents in the onslaught against Russia to take care of pressing business in the Med. GE sails a Sp TRS with wp INF and an SCS with an INF DIV into the W. Med from Barcelona. Narrowly avoiding discovery by the CW fleet, the troops arrive in Tangiers unscathed. GE rails an ART to Spain. Another Russian corps and gun die south of the Pripets. GE shatters a Siberian INF in the north. GE rebases a NAV-3 to Spain. @ IT (COMB) sails a TRS with an HQ-I and an SCS with another ENG to the E. Med where they are forced to stop by the CW navy. During the ensuing combat CW CVP aborts a LND-2 (LL Stuka) to Cyprus, but IT air damages the last CW CV in that sea zone. The CW voluntarily aborts, since it now faces surface and air superiority. IT lands the HQ and ENG in Syria and Palestine. @@ JA (LAND) attacks the oos flipped Commie in the north and kills it, but loses both attacking units (Assault: 16), leaving CH ZoC on the much-needed resource.
 
9. W= 4 (NT= Fine) CW (COMB) sends troops to Cape St. Vincent; IT SUB activates and GE reacts in its NAV-3 but they don’t find. CW activates in the W. Med to try and take out the well-guarded Axis supply line to Er Rif. CW AA aborts a GE NAV back to Spain but the remaining Axis naval air damages a CA and aborts a BB back to the rock before the combat ends. CW reinforces Damascus with a MECH. @ US (COMB) activates again in the South China Sea and continues its war of attrition with JA. JA loses another CVP and has a CA damaged, while the US has a CA sunk. @@ USSR (LAND) forms a holed line but it looks bleak and demands a second front NOW.
 
10. GE (LAND) renews its chewing of the Russian defence but loses a FTR-3 to Russian air, its first loss of the operation. Ground strikes continue to work and USSR loses more units with breakthroughs in the north and south. Zhukov HQ-A is attacked and retreated onto Timoshenko HQ-I while both his escorts die (Blitz: 23+). Von Bock HQ, in Spain, reorgs an ART and a NAV. 
Von Leeb HQ-I arrives south of Tronheim and reorgs the INF and Ru MTN. 
Rundstedt HQ-A reorgs 2x LNDs in the Ukraine and Rumania. An ATR reorgs a MECH DIV. @ IT (LAND) moves it Egypt force east to close with the CW who have reduced its western Egypt force to 2 corps in Alexandria and 2 corps southeast of it, with their left flank protected by the Quattara Depression. 
In Syria, IT attacks Beirut with the assistance of shore bombardment, an HQ and 2x ENG and takes it (Assault: 18) but the attack leaves the ferocious Italians exhausted from their efforts. IT captures a stored Oil in Beirut. @@ JA (COMB) sails a small fleet from Truk to reinforce the South China Sea force, but is intercepted by a US picket fleet in the Bismarck Sea. JA fights its way through but loses a couple of units and aborts a US NAV before arriving at their destination. In the ensuing combat both sides CVPs take a beating leaving the US with no CVPs and JA with 1 CVP that has no naval air points. JA takes Manilla against an oos US GARR.

11. W=9 (NT= Fine). CW (LAND) moves units in Burma and India. More CW units debark from TRS into Morocco. @ US (COMB) activates in the South China Sea and finds with 2 surprise. JA calls naval air but has no nav points so they continue rolling. Next, JA finds with 2 surprise and a surface combat ensues. The US with a total of 18 ships with 72 surface sinks 3x JA CA’s and damages the Yamato [a saved ‘X’ through poor advice from his partner, IMO]; JA with a total of 22 ships with 72 surface sinks 3 US CA’s, damages another and aborts a CV. @@ USSR separates Timoshenko HQ-I from Zhukov HQ-A that landed in his position. USSR air is now exhausted on the western front.
 
12. GE (COMB) aligns Argentina then sails a TRS, AMPH and 2x SCS from Oslo, loaded with an SS MECH, MAR, ENG and picks up a PARA DIV from Kiel. GE flies a NAV-2 to Cape St. Vincent and activates but rolls a ‘10’. Another ‘10’ savcs the Russian cps in the Baltic. A wp MIL is railed from Bordeaux, Fr to Belgrade, Yu to prevent a partisan from arriving in that supply source. GE ground strikes don’t work vs. Timoshenko HQ-I and a planned attack hex. GE walks a fast moving MECH into Talin, Estonia. GE overruns a flipped LND directly east of Minsk with a wp ARM. A blitz attack in the Ukraine kills a Russian MECH and MECH DIV (Blitz: 23+) and partially isolates the 2 Soviet HQs when the attackers breakthrough to 2 hexes west of Kiev. @ IT (COMB) sends a cp to the E. Med and rails an INF to Athens. @@ JA (COMB) takes back a hex from the ChiComs in northern China, destroying the flipped corps and retrieving their precious resource. A JA wp MTN walks towards the Philippine resource.
 
13. W=4 (NT= Fine). CW (COMB) assesses an attack vs. GE forces in Er Rif, but doesn’t like the assault table odds. Wavell HQ-A joins the MECH in Damascus, the FF capital. @ US (COMB) DoWs Uruguay and marches in with Brazilian troops. @@ USSR (COMB) rails a LND-2 from Manchuria 1 map closer to the western front. The turn ends.

Partisans: France receives a partisan (in Bordeaux), as does French Indo-China (Saigon).
RTB: GE sends a PARA DIV into Finland; SS MECH, MAR and ENG arrive in a Baltic States port.
Peace: US conquers Columbia; US conquers Uruguay; JA conquers the Philippines; GE liberates Lithuania; GE liberates Latvia; GE liberates Estonia; IT ENG repairs Beirut major port.

Sep/Oct 1942
 
(6 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 3x res, 2x Oil; GE>JA 1 res; CW>CH 2x res; CW>USSR 3 BPs; FF>CW 1 res.
Initiative (0) X =3, A =8; Axis demands re-roll; X =1, A =10; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=10** (NT= Storm). CW (COMB) sends several TRS to Cape St. Vincent where 
an IT SUB attempts to intercept. GE flies a NAV-2 but the Axis don’t find in the rain. CW replaces a FF MAR and in Gibraltar with a wp MTN corps. Wavell HQ-A replaces a TERR in Damascus, Syria and moves the TERR out into the mountains to secure the FF capital’s northern flank. @ USSR (LAND) rails the Kiev factory to the Asian map.
 
2. GE (NAVAL) flies a NAV-3 to Cape St. Vincent. The Bismarck and an escort sail to the Norwegian Sea but can’t find the USSR convoys in storm, a SUB arrives in the Faeroes Gap and has similar results. A CVL with a BB and 2x CA sail to the Bay of Biscay where they sink 2x cps and abort 3 others. The Finnish trawler, along with a GE CA, sail into the Baltic but don’t find. GE sails a CV and 3x CA to Cape St. Vincent where they are met by 3x Spanish SCS but the GE player promptly rolls another ‘10’ and the Rock stays in supply. Argentinian boats sail to the Brazilian coast where they sink a FF cp, a US cp and damage a FF CA. 4x Ar SCS sail to Cape St. Verde where 2x CA are aborted but are sunk when found by the CW fleet off Gibraltar in an attempt the dash to France (GE player rolls another ‘10’). The Sp TRS embarks a GE GARR from the south of France. @ IT (NAVAL) sends a SUB to Cape St. Vincent, sails a support fleet to the W. Med from LaSpazia, a battleship fleet with 2x loaded TRSs (AA/GARR) from Athens to the E. Med and slams an HQ-I from Italy into Beirut, Syria on a TRS. @@ JA (NAVAL) reassesses its chances of taking Rabaul and perhaps wisely embarks its units onto a variety of well-escorted ships in the Bismarck Sea.

3. W=11** (NT= Storm). CW (NAVAL) repairs its lines and pays more attention to its assets in the Atlantic now that the Kriegsmarine has shown its face. A fleet sails from Port Siad to the W. Med, with the grace of the Italian fleet in the E. Med, to support (DSB) a suspected attack on Gibraltar. CW extracts a FF Moroccan MIL from Gibraltar onto a TRS. The substantial CW fleet braves the Axis air cover and activates in the W. Med, but rain prevents them from finding the enemy. @ US (COMB) debarks a wp GARR into Gibraltar and a US ARM arrives in Morocco. In the Pacific neither the CW nor US find in mainly monsoon weather. JA gives a sigh of relief with troop-laden ships still at sea. @@ France (LAND) continues to slime around to the south of Er Rif in the Moroccan mountains, in an attempt to surround the Axis forces laying siege to the Rock.
 
4. GE (LAND) rails an ENG from Norway to Finland, then closes with the shaky lines Russia has formed in the north and the south but presses no attacks in the mud. GE debarks a GARR into Tangiers. GE rebases air to the lines in Russia and the Ukraine. Von Leeb HQ-I and the Narvik expedition force continue north from Trondheim in the snow. @ IT (LAND) aligns Iraq. An AA gun and a GARR debark into Beirut. The big Italian naval guns open up on Alexandria (OSB) and its ground forces assault the city taking it on a roll of ‘17’, stunning the Allies (Assault: 26); CW loses an INF and a TERR. @@ JA (LAND) debarks units into Truk and the Philippines and moves a MAR to the coast in Manchuria.

5.                  W=6 (NT= Fine). CW (LAND) is forced to hastily organize a defence of Cairo and Port Siad and manages to place a blocking force behind the Nile vs. the victorious Italians busy looting Alexandria. A CW MOT secures the southeast flank of the FF capital, limiting any attack to come from only 2 hexes. An attack is once again considered against Er Rif but some Allied units had flipped to move into position in the recent rain. @ US (COMB) DoWs Ecuador. US forces land in Morocco and Batavia, NEI. @@ USSR (LAND) strat bombs Lodz for the loss of a GE production point and reinforces its incomplete lines. Minsk becomes stronger by several combat factors.

6. GE (LAND) loses a FTR-2 and a good LND-3 to crappy Soviet air in southern Russia. In the subsequent attack against Zhukov HQ-A and his minions, no one dies, and the attackers are disrupted (Blitz: 12). Germany loses a MOT DIV while destroying a lone Russian MECH northwest of the port Nikolyev on the Black Sea (Blitz: 14) piercing the Russian line. @IT (LAND) purposely ‘forgets’ about a promise to activate for GE in Cape St. Vincent and sends in ground strikers against Damascus. A FF FTR-2 shoots down an IT FTR-2 but is itself aborted clearing through the Italian Stuka and a LND-3 that flip both the MECH and Wavell HQ-A. CW loses a LND-3 during ground support and IT clears through a NAV-2 with a couple of tac points. Italy attacks and takes Damascus easily (Assault: 30) on a roll of ’19’. Italy captures 4x stored Oil; the FF are humiliated to learn that their so recently refurbished parliament buildings are now occupied by the despised black feathers. 
Wavell HQ-A and the CW MECH are destroyed, of course. Other IT forces form up on the Nile and stare across at the remnants of the British Army in Egypt, consisting of a wp INF and a scrabble of TERR and MIL.
 
Partisans: China receives 2 partisans, who set up shop in Shanghai.
Peace: USA conquers Ecuador; IT conquers Free France (Syria), Free France’s new home country is Morocco; IT destroys 2 blue (built) factories in Syria.
End of Sep/Oct 42.

Notes: The US/CW/FF force in Morocco currently consists of 3x HQs, 12 corps and 8x third steps. GE/Sp forces in Er Rif consist of 1x HQ, 8x Corps and 3x third steps.

Nov/Dec 1942
 
(8 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 3x res; GE>JA 1 res; CW>CH 2x res; FF>CW 1 res; CW>US 3 Oil.
Initiative (Allies +1) X =7, A =7; Allies demand re-roll; X =7, A =7; 
Axis win and go first.
 
1. W=3 (NT= Fine). GE (LAND) attacks Minsk in the rain. During ground support, Russia shoots down 2x GE FTR-2 with pilots and Stuka; GE shoots down a LND-4. GE takes Minsk (Assault: 21). In the south, GE attacks Vatutin HQ on the 3-resource hex and retreats him and loses a MECH and flips in the process, but takes the hex (Blitz: 16). GE reorgs. @ IT assaults a wp CW INF northwest of Cairo all across a river and kills it without a loss after successfully ground-striking it (Blitz: 22).
 
2. CW (COMB) sends a TRS to Cape St. Vincent with 2x US guns. An IT SUB intercepts and stops the ship. GE reacts in air to join a NAV-2 that stayed at sea. A GE NAV-3 is shot down but the CV Formidable is sent to the bottom with its air squadron. US (COMB) joins the CW in a port strike vs. a JA TRS in Hainan from CVs in the South China Sea. JA rolls low enough to call off the combat. @@ USSR rails the Dneprochuckski factory.
 
3. W=9** (NT= Snow). GE (COMB) sails a CVL with 3x SCS to the 4-box of Cape St. Vincent from Cadiz, Sp. GE kills an abandoned and flipped ART in the Ukraine and rebases badly needed air to the Russian front and a NAV-4 to Cadiz. GE reorgs air in the Ukraine. @ IT (NAVAL) BBs with escort sortie from Athens, Gr., to the E, Med. A captured FR BB and other SCS sail to the W. Med to protect the Axis supply lines.
 
4. US (COMB) debarks its guns into Morocco from the CW TRS. In the South China Sea, US carrier planes shoot down a JA NAV-2, sink a CV and abort a CVL; JA kills 2 US CVPs. @ USSR (COMB) sails TRS and escorts to the Baltic Sea and attempts to kill the GE cps, but is not successful.
 
5. W=6* (NT= Storm). GE (LAND) attacks a USSR MECH and GARR but rolls a ‘3’ and loses a Hu MOT and an AT (Blitz: 7) creating the games first GBA (11-6 wp MECH). @ IT (NAVAL) activates but does not find in Cape St. Vincent. IT kills the last hold out in Syria, a flipped and oos Aussie TERR (Assault: 23+). @@ JA (NAVAL) sends a fleet to the 4-box of the South China Sea where the US activates. JA rolls well then kills a CW FTR, sinks the US CV Enterprise, damages a US BB and aborts a CW CV. The Allies abort from the sea zone.
 
6. CW (LAND) scrambles to save Cairo, debarking an HQ and a SA TERR from the Red Sea. CW moves units in Morocco as well but storm holds off an attack. @ USSR (LAND) rails the Karkhov factory.
 
7. W =5 (NT = RAIN) GE (COMB) flies a Condor to the 4-Box of Cape St. Vincent then sorties the Graf Zeppelin with 3x SCS from Brest, Fr. After evading the CW ships in the Bay of Biscay, they join the Condor, CVL and Sp SCS in the 4-box of C.St.V. GE activates, IT flies air, and finds, sinking a US TRS and aborting a CW TRS. IT loses a NAV-2 but Axis air kills a CW FTR-2 then sinks 5x cps and aborts 4 others leaving 1 cp for supply to Gibraltar. 
Axis air then damages a CW BB in a higher box but the combat ends with the Rock in supply. GE rebases more air in and around Russia. @ IT (COMB) ZoCs the CW supply to Jerusalem then attacks and kills the TERR and flipped CW MOT (Assault: 23+) taking the ancient city.
 
8. CW (NAVAL) and US (COMB) re-supply the Rock with a US AMPH and cps. 
GE activates and naval air promptly sinks the AMPH, 3x cps and aborts 2 more, depleting by not quite clearing supply from the area. A Brazilian CA is also aborted. US sails a mid-sized fleet to the China Sea where they pick on the zero box. US carrier planes sink a JA AMPH, damage a TRS and abort a BB but leave the cps alone. @ USSR (COMB) moves a TRS down a box and picks up a wp GARR that had been languishing in an Estonian port. The turn ends.
 
Partisans: (DR=4) Korea receives a partisan on the red factory in Seoul.
Peace: IT conquers Palestine.

Note: During the reinforcement phase of this turn, FF received its factory (that was on the spiral) in its new HC of Morocco, since there was no specific rule to prohibit it.

Jan/Feb 1943
 
(5 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 3x res; GE>JA 1 res; CW>CH 2x res; CW>FF 1 Oil; CW>US 3 Oil; 
CW>USSR 3 BPs; US>CW 2 BPs; US>FF 4 BPs.
Initiative (0) X =7, A =7; Axis demand re-roll; X =9, A =10; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=9** (NT= Snow). CW (NAVAL) sends a NAV-4 to the South China Sea and FTR-2 to Cape St. Vincent. 5x CW SCS stop in the South China Sea, intercepted on their way to the China Sea. Two fair-sized CW fleets (one of CA/CLs and a CV from the Rock and the other of CVs and BBs from UK) sail to CStV, the 4 and 2 boxes respectively, but they do not locate the Germans. A CV with 5x SCS sails to the China Sea but doesn’t find. A SUB cannot locate the GE cp in the W. Med. @ US (COMB) sends land-based air from NEI to the South China Sea then pounces on the undermanned JA fleets that remained there in the zero and the 3 boxes, sailing the majority of its naval assets in the theatre, including 9x CV, CVL and 20+ SCS to the 3 box. US finds and it is not pretty: JA CVPs manage to abort 5 of the thirteen US/CW aircraft and a single JA bomber makes it through to the US fleet. A JA land-based NAV-2 is killed; 2x JA CVP are shot down and 3 more die when the US sinks 2x CVL and a CV. The lone JA bomber is shot down by 81+ AA. JA aborts the remnants of its fleets and its cps to Tokyo. @@ USSR (LAND) rails the Stalino factory east, then reclaims the Oil pipeline in Persia from the ZoC placed upon it by the Iraqi CAV in the swamps. A USSR corps moves west into the hex north of the CAV in Iraq.

2. GE (LAND) rails a MTN from Germany and a PARA DIV from Helsinki, Fi, to Malaga, Sp. An ARM is railed to the line in the Ukraine. GE ART ground strikes 2x corps in Gibraltar buss misses the FTR and gun. GE mountain troops finally reach the hex south of Narvik and flip, oos, in the blizzard. GE reorgs the MTN and div in Spain. @ IT (LAND) closes in on Egypt from the east through Palestine. A NAV and FTR rebase to IT controlled hexes on the Red Sea. @@ JA (COMB) sends a CVL fleet to the zero box in the China Sea and picks up a DIV from Formosa. JA slams an HQ-A in Port Arthur, Manchuria and flips troops around its line against the remaining Russians.
 
3. W=7* (NT= Snow). US (COMB) sends an AMPH loaded with a FF MAR out to sea from Morocco, but it is stopped in the sea zone by an IT SUB. A US fleet arrives in the China Sea and joins the CW one already there. They activate and the JA fleet in the zero gets pounded by four Allied rolls of ‘2’ or less in a row. JA loses a carrier, a couple of BBs, CA’s and a whack of cps. 
JA manages to sink a couple of CW cruisers and the CVL ‘Eagle’ but JA will not win a war of attrition. US lands troops between the JA held Oil hexes in the NEI. @ CW (COMB) strats Lille for a point. @@USSR (COMB) sends its Black Sea fleet to sea. USSR cannot find the GE cps in the Baltic, or the cp in the Black Sea.
 
4. GE (COMB) ships the reorged MTN and division to Tangiers on Spanish boats. GE attacks a single Russian in snow in the north. GE loses 2x FTR-2s and a Bu LND-2 then rolls crap (Blitz: 12). Nothing else happens except the attackers are now flipped and USSR gets a production bonus this turn after all. @ IT (NAVAL) sends a SUB to Cape St. Vincent, slams a heavy MECH into Jaffa, Er Rif. IT embarks 2x ENG from Palestine and an INF from Athens, Gr.
 
5. W=8** (NT= Snow). US (NAVAL) sends every naval not yet sailed in the Pacific to the South China Sea. @ USSR (LAND) takes the southern Iraqi Oil hex with an INF and sends a MECH DIV up towards the other. Turn ends.

Partisans: (DR= 5) USSR gets 2x partisans that set up just south of the Pripets near the Poland border.

Mar/Apr 1943
 
(6 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 4x res; GE>JA 1 res; CW>CH 2x res; 1 Oil; US>FF 2x BPs; US>CW 2 BPs.
Initiative (0) X =2, A =9; Axis demand re-roll; X =4, A =7; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=5 (NT= Storm). CW (NAVAL) sends a TRS with a FF MAR to the Bay of Biscay. @ FF (COMB) lands a MAR on the partisan in Bordeaux, Fr. @@ CH attacks a lone JA HQ-I in a forest resource hex in the south of China, using its newly arrived MECH DIV to call blitz. The attack fails without a loss (Blitz: 12) and the attackers flip. @@@ USSR (LAND) takes the second Oil in Iraq and the rail hex in Syria (providing a route through Turkey) with a MECH DIV that then heads back towards Persia. The 2 partisans in the Ukraine flip into the Pripets.
 
2. GE (COMB) sails the Bismarck and a couple of CA’s to the Norwegian Sea to attempt to cut supply to the Brits in Narvik but doesn’t find. GE rails Rundstedt HQ-A to the interior of France near Bordeaux from southern Russia. 
@ IT (COMB) flies a NAV-2 to the Red Sea and reacts in a FTR-2. IT finds, shoots down a FF FTR-2 and kills the cp putting Egypt oos. A MTN is railed to Toulon, Fr. from Italy to assist its erstwhile allies. IT ground strikes 1 of the 2 corps in Cairo then attacks and takes the Egyptian capital easily (Assault: 23), stranding a CW HQ and a hodge-podge of CW units. IT reorgs a LND-2 Stuka.
 
3. W=7 (NT= Rain). CW (NAVAL) transports US troops to the Bay of Biscay. CW rebases air to Bordeaux. @US (LAND) debarks a MECH and a MTN into Bordeaux and the hex south. In the Pacific, US kills one of the JA ENG and takes the southern Oil hex. @@ USSR (COMB) doesn’t find in the Baltic but does in the Black Sea and, avoiding 2x LND-2s, kills the GE cp, putting the MAR on the peninsula oos.
 
4. GE (LAND) rails a wp MTN to Bilbao, Sp, a wp ARM (12-5) to Rundstedt and a wp INF to the port north of Bordeaux. A variety of SS garrison troops in France rush towards the invasion site as does the Barcelona garrison. The Narvik task force is recalled and it turns back towards Trondheim. A Ru MECH and an ARM move towards the partisans in the Ukraine. GE loses a FTR-2 in Russia during a ground strike attempt that fails. GE does not attack. @ IT (NAVAL) sails naval air to Cape St. Vincent and activates. Axis air kills the CW FTR-2 and US CVP and kills some cps, leaving 1. In the next round, the Allies find and attack 2x NAV-4s without fighter cover in the 4 box, killing them both.
 
5. W=4 (NT= Storm). USSR (COMB) sails it Vlad SUBs into the Pacific, activating for the Allies. No damage is done except for the Sea of Japan where the IJN is mauled once again and is reduced to 5x cps and a single CVL before the US fleet loses them in the storm. US (LAND) and CW (COMB) land more units in France. A whack of CW air is rebased to France as well. The beachhead is expanding rapidly.
 
6. GE (LAND) rails Mannstein HQ-A to the Pyrenees from the east to the delight of the Russian player. An AA gun and a wp MTN arrive in France via rail as well. IT (COMB) rails a MTN to southern France. In Egypt, Italy takes Port Siad, killing 2x CW corps and captures a supply unit. JA (NAVAL) embarks oos land units from outlying areas of the Pacific and pulls in its blunted horns. A good-sized fleet sails to the ‘1’ box of the China Sea. An attempt to evade the massive Allied fleet in the South China Sea with a single cp (to trace to the last remaining NEI Oil) fails when the Allies find on a 50% chance. It is sunk. Turn ends on a 70% chance.
 
Partisans: (DR= 8) Greece (50%), France (50%) and Yugoslavia (40%) each receive a partisan.
RTB: The US lands Clark HQ-I and other land units in Bayonne and Bordeaux, Fr.
Peace: IT conquers Egypt.

May/Jun 1943
 
(9 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 3x res, 2x Oil; GE>JA 1 res; CW>CH 2x res; 2x Oil; US>CW 2 BPs.
Initiative (Allies +1) X =1, A =6; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=4 (NT= Fine). CW (NAVAL) activates for the US fleet in the Sea of Japan but does not find. @ US (LAND) and CW air attempt a ground strike in France without success and lose a CW LND in the process. A B-17 is cleared but AA clears all but a point that does no damage. No attack ensues. Back in the Pacific, American forces kill the remaining JA ENG and take the final Oil resource in NEI, putting a severe crunch on Japan’s reorg and production capabilities. @@ USSR DoWs Saudi Arabia (Italy) and flips onto the Oil from Kuwait (Italy sets up the CAV in the capital.) USSR attempts to ground strike German forces in the south but its tank-buster is aborted. USSR attacks in any case, killing a Stuka, forces take the hex (NW of the 3 resource hex, cutting GE’s ability to rail them out) with ease (Blitz: 23+) killing a GE ARM and an INF.
 
2. GE (LAND) attempts to take out the new Russian salient with a counter attack that fizzles and more GE air is shot out of the sky. Russia, otoh, clears through 14 points of ground support. A roll of ‘6’ creates a new MECH GBA while GE loses a MOT DIV and flips (Blitz: 14). GE has better luck in the Med where ART ground strikes flip the 3 defenders in Gibraltar and with a DRM of +6, GE rolls big and takes the well-supplied Rock (Assault: 23+). @ JA attacks a Russian HQ north of Mukden but only kills its escort while losing its HQ-A (Assault: 13) on a poor roll.
 
3. W=3 (NT= Fine). CW (COMB) sends a support fleet to the China Sea. @ US (COMB) sends fleets to the China Sea and South China Sea. The US fleet in the Sea of Japan sinks all 5x JA cps there. In the China Sea, JA responds to the activation with LBA and holds its own, killing a US CVP and damaging a CV (saved ‘X’) and a CW CA. JA loses 2x FTR-2 and a NAV-2. The allies abort from the sea zone in the face of air superiority. A US MAR DIV moves across from Bordeaux, takes a hex and debarks 2x corps into the hex, expanding the Allied beachhead.
 
4. GE (LAND) rails troops to France and rearranges its sparse forces in an attempt to contain the Allied incursion. Troops march at the double from Spain and other areas of France. @ IT (LAND) rails an HQ to Barcelona and walks troops from Italy towards France. Its troops in Egypt line up to eradicate the remaining CW units that are preventing the Italian navy from using the canal. @@ JA (COMB) exchanges DIVs in the line in northern China and walks the MECH DIV to Manchuria.
 
5. W=9 (NT= Fine). CH (LAND) ground strikes then attacks a lone oos JA MIL east of Hanoi and retreats it (Blitz: 17). CH flips units into vacated hexes in the south, east of Cheng-chou.

6. GE (LAND) sends a FTR-3 and a NAV-3 to the Bay of Biscay. @ IT (COMB) flies a NAV-3 to the Bay of Biscay and activates. Axis air kills a 9 A2A tank-busting Spitfire squadron and a US CVP then descends upon the transport fleets. The Bearn CV, a De CA and the QE TRS are sunk and 4x TRS/AMPH are damaged. Another US CVP squadron is forced to ditch when the remaining CV is too small to land the planes. @@ JA (LAND) attacks the HQ in Manchuria again shattering it and its new security force (Blitz: 21). JA attacks the CH expansion in the south behind the lines in a pincer move that succeeds and retakes the city (Assualt: 22) isolating 2x flipped, oos CH corps in separate hexes.
 
7. W= 5 (NT= Fine). CW (COMB) and the US (NAVAL) pull units out of Morocco but are forced to stop by Axis naval air. 6x US SUB sail to the China Sea. @ USSR (COMB) sends 4x SUB from Vlad to the China Sea. In the ensuing activation, JA air rids the sea zone of 6 of the subs to no loss.
 
8. JA (COMB) sails a couple of TRS to the China Sea that gives the USSR/US subs the opportunity to activate; they manage to abort 2x cps before being chased off. JA attacks the retreating Russians in Manchuria and kills the Mongolian CAV and inadvertently leaves Mukden open in the process when it advances after combat.

9. W= 3 (NT= Fine). US (LAND) attacks a hex in France and loses a MOT DIV while destroying a battalion of German motorized anti-tank guns (Blitz: 14). The Germans hold their encirclement, just barely. @ USSR quickly rails an HQ to Manchuria, putting its units in supply, then moves a formerly retreating MIL into a hex adjacent to vacant Mukden. Much to the consternation of the JA player, the turn ends.
 
Partisans: (DR= 3) France and Belgium each receive a partisan. Russia receives 3x partisans, who set up near Zoya HQ-P behind the German lines in the south.
RTB: The US and CW troops on transports in Cape St. Vincent head into Bordeaux, Bayonne and England.
Peace: Germany conquers Gibraltar; CW repairs the Burma Oil.

Jul/Aug 1943
 
(12 Impulse Turn)
 
Lending: GE>IT 3x res, 2x Oil; CW>CH 1x res; 1x Oil; US>CW 2 BPs; CW>US 5 Oil.
Initiative (none) X =8, A =8; Allies demand re-roll; X=6, A=9; Allies win and go first.
 
1. W=6 (NT= Fine). CW (NAVAL) sends troops to the Bay of Biscay. @ US (COMB) sends fleets to the South China Sea and the China sea but they don’t find. GE activates with naval air in the Bay of Biscay and kills a tank-busting Tempest with pilot. The GE air is aborted before they can attack the transports. US, with plenty of shore bombardment, takes the hex that separated their two forces, killing a GE INF and spiralling a MECH (Blitz: 22). @@ USSR takes Mukden that was left unoccupied last turn (JA really wanted to go first).

2.                  GE (LAND) rails reinforcements to France from Norway and Germany, then kills partisans in Be and FR with local troops and newly arrived Model HQ-I from Germany. GE attacks the Russian salient in the south, consisting of 2x GBAs and a DIV. GE has 2x FTR-2 and a LND-2 shot down during ground support but takes the hex back, shattering the defenders (Blitz: 21). @ IT (COMB) ground strikes a stack of stragglers in Egypt, flipping them. IT rails an HQ to St. Nazaire, France. IT kills the Ind INF and SA MIL in Egypt (Blitz: 23+). @@ JA (LAND) has no air in Manchuria to ground strike the oos Russian in Mukden but has a good 4-hex attack on the single unit. Unfortunately, JA chooses not to use HQ support due to his Oil crunch and that is the difference. Disaster befalls JA when they flip, without taking the hex back, including the HQ (Assault: 13). CH player gleefully points out 3x Manchurian TERR in the line in China. JA flips his oos stack in Hanoi east a hex in an attempt to consolidate his defence in China.

3. W=4 (NT= Fine). CW (COMB) port strikes the small IT BB fleet in St. Nazaire. AA kills a CVP but others are cleared and manage to damage 2x BB. @ US (COMB) sends a whack of CVPs into Tokyo harbour in a port attack that sees a squadron lost to AA fire but damage a fleet CV and the Siam CA. JA loses 3x CVPs in the air-to-air combat. The US fleet can’t find the JA supply fleet in the China Sea. In France, the US takes another hex and shatters the GE defenders (MTN, INF and DIV) while losing a MOT DIV (Blitz: 19). In the Pacific, US takes Bangkok (Assault: 23) with shore bombardment. @@ CH (LAND) attacks the flipped and oos JA stack that had vacated Hanoi and spirals 2x corps. JA loses a DIV (Blitz: 21).

4. IT (COMB) flips a corps in Rabat with ground strikes from a couple of NAVs. @ GE (LAND) rails Franco HQ-I, Model HQ-I and an ART to the line in France. Ground strikes in Russia fail. GE and Sp units attack Rabat, Morocco from 2 hexes and roll well, taking the FF capital (Assault: 23) and capture a stored build point. GE kills a Soviet GARR in Estonia and breaks through (Blitz: 23). GE flips all but 1 HQ and reorgs air and land units in Russia and France. @@ JA (COMB) attempts to slam a wp GARR into Port Arthur but is forced to stop by the US fleet. A MAR walks into Manchuria from China. JA rebases CVPs to Manchuria.
 
5. W=7 (NT= Fine). CW (COMB) port strikes an IT TRS in Barcelona, damaging it. @ US (LAND) and CW troops take another hex in France, east of LaRochelle (Blitz: 18) retreating the defenders. @@ FF (LAND) and other Allied troops counter-attack Rabat, but fall just short of re-taking it (Assault: 19). GE loses a GARR and a PARA DIV; FF loses and ENG and ART. A FF MAR and a CW MAR DIV land in northwest Spain in an oos hex near Ferol. @@@ USSR partisans kill a lone GE MOT DIV in southern Russia, rolling ‘19’ (Assault: 23).

6. GE (LAND) uses an Offensive chit to reorg 8x HQs. Ground strikes in Estonia actually work flipping 2x USSR corps. Another ground strike finally flips a lone Russian INF that has tied up units in the Rumanian swamps. GE rails Manstein HQ-A to Vigo, Sp putting a Sp CAV in supply, which moves into Ferol to refuse another Allied port in Europe. The Russians in Estonia die (Blitz: 23+) as do pair of partisans in southern Russia (Blitz: 23). The stranded Russian INF in Rumania is sent home as well (Assault: 23). @ IT (COMB) flips the last CW unit in Egypt with a FTR-2 and kills it. @@ JA (LAND) attempts to ground strike the single oos and surrounded Russian in Mukden to no avail, then reorgs an INF in Manchuria with a TRS in the China Sea, rebases another CVP and prays the turn does not end.
 
7. W= 10* (NT= Fine). USSR (LAND) grounds strikes east of Minsk flipping a GE corps then attacks, taking the hex (Blitz: 16) by retreating the defenders and losing a MECH. USSR does not advance into the hex.
 
8. GE (LAND) reinforces Rabat. GE attacks Zhukov HQ-A stack in order to gain a fourth hex on Kiev, but rolls poorly and loses a MOT DIV (Blitz: 14). In the north, GE kills an ART and spirals a corps taking the last Russian hex in Estonia, leaving a clear run for Leningrad for the moment (Blitz: 22). @ IT (LAND) rails an HQ from Egypt to northern Syria. @@ JA (LAND) ground strikes fail once more but attacks with his lone 2 face up units anyway in a desperate bid to prevent conquest. He rolls well but both attackers die along with the Russian (Assault: 14). He eyes a Manchurian TERR that has been inching along all turn but is still not quite there. JA player converts to Buddhism and assumes the lotus position.

9. W= 5 (NT= Fine). US (COMB) port strikes the remnants of an IT fleet in St. Nazaire, Fr. IT calls off the combat with surprise points. @ USSR (COMB) sails its Baltic Sea fleet from Leningrad and finds, killing 4 of 5 GE cps. 
@@ CW (COMB) shore bombardment helps the US take LaRochelle, Fr., while killing an SS CAV and ART; a GE INF is shattered. @@@ FF (LAND) and CW forces make a desperate 1 hex counter-attack on Rabat but it is suicide (Assault: 7).
 
10. IT (COMB) activates in Cape St. Vincent and damages a CW CA with a US DIV. @ GE (LAND) attempts to kill Zoya HQ-P with a bunch of units but fails, losing a Ru MECH, while Zoya loses a ‘0’ factor partisan she was stacked with (Blitz: 14). @@ JA (COMB) sends cps to the zero and what ships it can muster to the 1 box of the Sea of Japan. JA walks the Manchurian TERR adjacent to Mukden, converts to Shintoism and makes many offerings to the ancestors.
 
11. W= 4 (NT= Fine). US (COMB) sends a whack of subs to the Sea of Japan but does not find. The main US fleet in the China Sea, however, finally does find and Japan is in a world of hurt. JA takes its lumps for 1 round of naval combat vs. 128 US surface factors (4X, 2D, 2A) and aborts to Tokyo. 

The US loses 3x CA. @ CW (NAVAL) does not sail anything but uses the impulse to reorg a number of ships in England. @@ FF (LAND) launches yet another suicide attack against Rabat, since they will all die at the end of the turn anyway, but it holds a third time (Assault: 10). The JA player leaves the room while the end of turn roll is made.

12. GE (NAVAL) sends cps with escorts and naval air to the Baltic, sails a cp and Rummy CA to the Black Sea, 2x cps to the W. Med from Spain and France. The Graf Zeppelin with 6x CA sails from Cadiz to the Bay of Biscay. @ IT (COMB) flies 2x NAV and sails BBs to the Bay of Biscay. The Axis find a number of times before getting spanked by a far superior Allied force, sinking all the Allied cps, a TRS, 2x CA, CVL (Langley II) and an AMPH. The Allies suffered several damages and aborts as well, essentially clearing the zero and the 1 boxes. Finally the real fleet finds and sinks the Graf Zeppelin and 2x Sp CA. Argentinian SCS are damaged as is an IT BB. IT also loses both NAVs. @@ JA (LAND) is exultant and walks the TERR into Mukden, once again averting disaster. He reverts to agnosticism(sic). The turn ends.
 
Partisans: (DR= 5) Russia receives 2x partisans in the only hex available, north of the Pripets by the Poland border.

Peace: CH conquers Fr. Indo-China; US conquers Siam; GE conquers FF (Morocco); IT conquers Kenya; IT repairs Port Siad major port; GE destroys Mannerheim (Fi) HQ-I; GE destroys FF (Rabat) built factory.

Jul/Aug 1944

(7 Impulse Turn)

Lending: GE>IT 3x res; US>CW 2 BPs; CW>US 10 Oil; USSR>CW 2 Oil; CW>CH 1 Oil.

Initiative (Axis +1) X =7, A =2; Axis win and go first.

1.      W=11** (NT= Fine). GE (LAND) happy with the unseasonable rain in the Arctic, ground strikes US forces in France with 3x ART, flipping a unit in each target hex (ENG, ARM, MECH). GE also ground strikes the lead USSR hex (2-ENG, GBA ARM, GBA MECH) in Rumania, flipping all three. A spiralled Finn MOT has arrived in Helsinki putting the kybosh on Russia’s plans for an easy conquest of Finland, for the moment: 2x USSR corps are blocked on the Hango peninsula by a Fi MIL in 1 hex and a SKI and the MOT in Helsinki.

Spanish units take over the hex west of Toulon from the Italians and GE pulls back a hex in northwest France, leaving a cheap speed bump behind. @IT (LAND) kills another USSR CAV running amok in the Syrian desert, after ground striking it (Assault: 23) and 2x slow moving GARR close in on the flipped, oos Russian CAV in Jordan, that could not reorg last turn.

2.      CW (NAVAL) and @ US (LAND) fly ground strike missions in France and, although 1x GE FTR is killed, US loses a LND and others are aborted. A LND clears and flips a DIV in Nantes. US forces kill the lone GE speed bump (Blitz: 23) and take Nantes (Assault: 23). GE loses Franco HQ-I and a MTN DIV in the attack across the Loire on 2 sides (US player rolled a ‘20’); an INF is spiralled. US invades the Korean west coast, led by an armoured MAR, killing the notional (Blitz: 23). @@ CH (LAND) blows an O-chit on Mao HQ-I and flips 2x JA corps in Si-an through ground strikes by Nationalist air.

The Chi-coms assault across rivers and take the city, killing a JA INF and INF DIV; the other corps is spiralled. @@@ USSR sends 2 unescorted LND-4s to Ploesti on a strategic bombing run. 1 of  2x GE FTR is shot down after killing an 18-range LND-4; the other bomber is cleared and hits the Oil for all 3 points.

3.      W= 12 ** (NT= Rain) [I don’t remember a louder cheer in reaction to a weather roll – by the Axis players, of course... –Ed.] GE (LAND) rails reinforcements to France and Rumania and scrambles to maximize his overtaxed defences. GE forms a line in northwest France, leaving a single INF in the forest resource hex directly in front of the line – a speed bump if nothing else. @ IT (COMB) sails its long-idle fleet from LaSpazia, including 2 of its 3x CV, on a pleasure cruise to the eastern end of the Italian Lake (E. Med). IT sends a NAV to the Arabian Sea and activates; CW reacts a FTR from Bombay but neither side finds. Ground strikes in France and Iraq miss.

@@ JA (LAND) pulls back its line in the south into the mountains and covers the hole east of Si-an.

4.      US (LAND) kills the speed bump in France (Blitz: 23) but doesn’t like its chances elsewhere in the unseasonable rain. @ CH (LAND) sends ground strikers in an attempt to rupture the JA line, but misses. CH attacks anyway and rolls low in a low-odds attack (Assault: 11). CH’s only loss was taken by a Partisan.

5.      W= 9 (NT= Fine). IT (LAND) sends another NAV to the Arabian Sea then ground strikes a wp USSR MIL attempting to flank the main force in Iraq. IT then kills the MIL (Blitz: 23). IT kills the flipped and oos USSR CAV that had liberated Jordan and loses both its attackers in the process when the IT player rolls the notorious assault result (Assault: 14). IT loses a 4-1 GARR and the Palestine TERR. IT also takes over (moves northeast) a hex in the central mountains in southern France from the Germans. @ GE (LAND) attempts ground strikes vs US, CW and USSR; all LNDs are cleared but none hit any of their targets. GE rails a MAR to Helsinki from Rumania. GE presses an attack northeast of Lille, Fr., vs a FF MAR, CW MAR and CW MAR division. GE has several ARM and MECH but disaster strikes when he rolls a ‘6’ and flips virtually his entire CW containment force in that area (Blitz: 12). @@ JA (COMB) sneaks past a US fleet in the Sea of Japan with troops on a lone AMPH and reinforces Korea.

6.      USSR (LAND) blows an O-chit on Zhukov. Russian ground strikes fail for the most part with Russian losing 2x FTR, 2x LND and many aborted to 1x GE FTR killed. In the one hex where USSR was not intercepted, air disrupts a corps and a division. In the swamp northeast of Riga, USSR loses a FTR during ground support and both sides clear a LND. The attacks flounders in the swamp (Assault: 17) with each taking a loss (both lose guns).

Further south, just west of the swamps, Russia takes a hex by retreating the defenders (Blitz: 17). East of Lvov, Po., USSR loses another LND but doubled units take the hex (Blitz: 23+) then breakthrough and overrun Mannerheim HQ-I in Lvov with doubling saved for this purpose. In Rumania, USSR uses doubled troops to take a hex, but the defenders miraculously live, retreated, when the USSR player rolls a ‘2’ (Blitz: 16). @ CW (LAND) grounds strikes vs flipped Lille are aborted but PARA are cleared along with 24 points of ground support (mainly from Liberators and B-17s, etc., led by a couple of crappy CVPs to take any hits). GE loses a Stuka and another is cleared for 7 points but Lille falls in any case, with only the 3-factor SS ENG surviving but shattered (Assault: 22). The Allies lose a FF MAR.

South of Cherbourg, CW takes a hex and retreats the defenders into Cherbourg, flipped and oos, cutting them off with ZoC (Blitz: 20). Unfortunately, CW has to lose its armoured MAR division that has been so effective against the northern coast in Europe. @@ US (COMB) activates a SUB in the W. Med without luck. In Korea, US makes no headway against the port, Fusan, in a stalled attack using shore bombardment (Assault: 13).

7.      W= 8 (NT= Fine). GE (LAND) scrambles to fix the hole in its line in E. Poland at Lvov, but has to leave a gap at the mountains further south.

GE risks an HQ by moving it alone into the hole south of Cherbourg, putting the retreated units back in supply. The turn ends (to the chagrin of the Allies).

Partisans: (DR=7). Yugoslavia receives a second partisan. China receives 2 partisans.

Sept/Oct 1944

(6 Impulse Turn)

Lending: IT>GE 1 Oil; US>CW 2 BPs; USSR>CW 2 Oil.

Initiative (zero box) X =4, A =1; Allies demand re-roll; X =6, A =7;

Allies win and go first.

1.      W=5 (NT= Fine). CW (NAVAL) sends a fleet to the Sea of Japan, fails to locate the JA supply fleet but forces JA to commit several of its diminishing forces of LBA to the potential combat. CW picks up its units from the hex in rance, near Cherbourg, where they were facing the lone GE HQ. CW ground strikers flip a GE MECH in northwestern France. @ US (LAND) attempts to ground strike 2x adjacent hexes in France just north of the central mountains, but an large accurate flak battalion leaves each bomber with only a point that fail to disrupt the defenders (GE rolled a min.

‘3’ on each of the –1/6 AA rolls). Another ground strike across the Loire River flips a GE MECH. US replaces the CW units that pulled out to the North Sea and attacks the lone GE HQ, from a single hex with shore bombardment.

GE ground support helps save the HQ when it is merely retreated back to the lines (Blitz: 17). US retreats another GE speed bump, in front of its main line of defence, back into friendly territory (Blitz: 17) where it is quickly re-assigned as breakthrough prevention for its sector. A US attack against the flipped AA gun stack fizzles (Blitz: 12). In the Pacific Theatre, a US MAR walks onto a southern JA home country island from Korea, in search of a port. A planned attack against Fusan, Korea is cancelled when the odds don’t appeal to the US player, even with shore bombardment and projected ground support. @@ USSR (LAND) strat bombs Mukden for –2 production points. Ground strikes in Manchuria only manage to flip a JA division; no attack ensues. In the west, USSR takes a hex in E. Poland just south of the west end of the Pripets (Blitz: 23) killing a GE INF and INF division. USSR also attacks sacrificial units in Chisnau, Rumania, killing them both (GE MIL and Ru INF(h)) but loses a precious ENG (Assault: 22). @@@ CH breaks the JA line in Central China and kills a JA HQ in the process.

2.      IT (COMB) sends 2x CV, 1xBB and 1x CA to the Arabian Sea after flying a NAV there. IT, with a long-range FTR escort, sends a Piaggio against the US lines in France and grounds strikes, flipping an ARM. IT tweaks its front vs USSR scrub troops in Iraq. @ GE (LAND) pulls back a hex in France and E. Poland and several hexes in the North, leaving a garrison behind in Riga (INF, MIL, MOT division, AMPH, TRS, 2x CA) and a flank guard in the swamp north of the city. @@ JA (LAND) flips a wp unit into the port island directly east of the US MAR in Japan and contains the salient in China as best it can.

3.      W= 7 (NT= Rain) US (NAVAL) sends a major fleet to the Sea of Japan but doesn’t find. A smaller fleet has similar results in the China Sea. A token US fleet also sails to the Arabian Sea without seeing action. @CW (LAND) invades Denmark near the border with Germany (Assault: 23+). @@ USSR (LAND) loses a FTR in an attempted ground strike against oos German forces in Poland but has no luck disrupting the enemy. USSR attacks the Leipzig MIL alone in the swamps northeast of Riga, Latvia and kills it (Assault: 23+) giving Russian forces 3x hexes on Riga. USSR loses a MECH DIV in an attack against a GE HQ stack in mid-Poland and only manages to kill a GE MOT DIV.

Further south in Poland, oos German units hold their ground at the cost of an AT gun; Russia loses a MECH DIV and a SKI. Russia reorgs.

4.      IT (NAVAL) reinforces its naval presence in the Arabian Sea. Italy’s 4x TRS sail and pick up units around the Med, including a TERR that has been quietly guarding the Sardinian resource since 1940. IT attempts to ground strike US forces in France but its LND-3 is shot down by a weak squadron of CW String-bags, that also die (–4/+4, no less). @ GE (COMB) sails from Riga with its entire garrison and slams them into Aarhus, De, complicating the British attempt to liberate the Danes. Both corps in Copenhagen also advance across the straits to meet the CW beachhead. @@ JA (NAVAL) sends a fleet with an AMPH to a high box in the China Sea. Japanese naval air manages to abort a US TRS carrying a MAR back to Manilla.

5.      W= 2 (NT= Fine). CW (LAND) reinforces its invasion force in De by air. A CW PARA lands without issue, but GE air aborts the CW ATR carrying a US PARA forcing it to land disrupted. @ US (LAND) debarks a Mexican corps into Korea. @@ USSR occupies vacated Riga and closes with the retreating GE forces, but declines to enter a vacant hex in E. Prussia, conveniently left open by GE. Russia loses a FTR and has a LND aborted in Rumania, but shoots down a Rummy FTR as well. USSR attacks west of Chisnau and takes the hex in spite of GE HQ support, spiralling the defenders (Blitz: 20). In southern E. Poland, USSR loses a FTR and a LND while GE clears in ground support, but Russian armoured units take the hex anyway, killing an air-landing DIV and retreating the remaining defenders (Blitz: 22). Farther north, USSR takes another hex at the cost of a wp MECH corps and retreats the Germans (Blitz: 16). @@@ CH (LAND) takes Wah-An in mid-China with a low odds assault that kills both JA defenders to the loss of a INF DIV (Assault: 22).

6.      IT (COMB) sails a MAR and ENG on ships to the Red Sea. IT activates in the Arabian Sea but fails to get Aden oos and has a NAV aborted. IT moves a unit into the vacant capital of Jordan instead of invading. @ GE (LAND) moves an ARM through Kiel against the flipped PARA and 2x DIV stack in Denmark. CW defensive shore bombardment and ground support by scores of a/c puts the attack at 1:1. A poor roll by the GE player doesn’t help matters and the attack is rebuffed without much damage to either side (Blitz: 12).

The turn ends.

Partisans: (DR=8). Tito HQ-P replaces 2x PART in Yugoslavia; Greece receives a big partisan (3-3) much to the dismay of the Italian occupation forces.

Peace: Italy re-conquers Jordan; USSR re-conquers Latvia; USSR re-conquers Lithuania; CH ENG repairs Canton red factory; CW ENG repairs Hong Kong major port.

Nov/Dec 1944

(5 Impulse Turn)

Lending: GE>IT 4 Res; US>CW 2 BPs; CW>CH 1 Oil.

Initiative (zero box) X =6, A =2; Allies demand re-roll; X =6, A =3;

Axis win and go first.

1.      W=9** (NT= Snow). GE rails reinforcements to Rumania and repairs its lines in E. Poland. GE withdraws its line a hex in France, backing off a resource in the north. Spanish units in the Pyrenees move to behind the alpine hexsides. @ IT (LAND) also withdraws in France and moves east, giving up a river line near Toulon. @@ JA (comb) sends out subs to no avail but its main fleet, such as it is, sails to the China Sea and finds the Allied fleet. JA loses a NAV and 2x CVP, including its 7-ranger, but manages to kill a CW NAV then sink a US BB and damage a CA.

2.      US (LAND), lacking winterized units, is satisfied to simply fill the vacuum left by Axis units in France and does not attack. @ USSR (LAND) ground strikes 2x JA corps in Korea and flips them. In the ensuing attack, Russia fails to take the hex but kills one of defending corps at the cost of a Siberian (Assault: 17). @@ CH does no attacks after ground-strikers are aborted, but manages to kill the JA FTR in the process.

3.      W= 11** (NT= Blizzard). GE (LAND) maximizes its defensive lines under the cover of blizzards that rage throughout Europe. @ IT (LAND) withdraws from Toulon and moves south, holding the eastern Pyranees.

4.      US (NAVAL) sails its big boy fleet to the China Sea and punishes the JA supply fleet sinking a CV, 3x CVL, 5x CA and cps, while losing a few superfluous cruisers. JA refuses to abort through the 4x rounds of naval combat that sees the US with 8 surprize points each time, in a (successful) attempt to keep the mainland in supply with an AMPH. [The JA player was not present for this impulse as he had to leave early; the GE player who took over was visibly upset with this turn of events, rolling 8, 9, 10, 9 to the US player’s 1, 2, 3, 2… mais c’est le vie, n’est pas? –Ed.] @ USSR sails ships to the Black Sea but doesn’t find the GE cp. USSR replaces the corps that was killed in the previous attack in Korea and takes the hex this time, killing the remaining defender (Assault: not recorded).

5.      W= 9** (NT= Snow).  GE (COMB) sails its fleet, including a CV, CVL, battleships and cruisers to the Baltic and sinks the USSR cps putting 2x Russian corps oos on the Hango peninsula in Finland. @ IT (COMB), limited by minor ports on the Red Sea, sails 2x CV, 1x BB and a CA with a PARA division to the Arabian Sea, along with naval air. IT activates and shoots down an Allied CVP, sinks a CW SUB, the Allied cps and damages a CW cruiser. IT invades an oos hex adjacent to Aden with the paratroop division (Assualt: auto). @@ JA (LAND) pulls back in southern China to Hang-Chow and straightens its line vs. the Soviets in Korea. The turn ends.

Partisans: (DR=3). No partisan activity.

US Entry: Japan declares puppet government in Nanking.

RTB: Italian fleet stays in the Arabian Sea in order to attempt to intercept any reinforcement of Aden. Japanese combat-reduced fleet stays in the China Sea in order to supply the mainland. German fleet stays in the Baltic.

Peace: CH ENG repairs Canton major port.

Jan/Feb 1945

(3 Impulse Turn)

Lending: GE>IT 4 Res; CW>US 1 Res; CW>CH 1 Oil.

Initiative (zero box) X =7, A =9; Axis demands re-roll; X =6, A =10;

Allies win and go first.

1.      W=12*** (NT= Blizzard). USSR (COMB) send subs out into the Pacific but doesn't find. @ CW ships a SA wp MOT from Cape Town to the Arabian Sea that escapes detection in the rain. It debarks into Aden without issue.

Blizzards in the Arctic, North Temperate and Med keep any land movements to a minimum.

2.      IT (NAVAL) reinforces its fleet in the Arabian Sea but doesn’t find the CW TRS.   @ JA (COMB) returns to base its supply fleet in the China Sea and replaces it with a supply fleet to the Sea of Japan; US and USSR subs activate but don’t find. @ GE (LAND) rails an Argentina CAV from Bolivia to Buenos Aires to reinforce the Argentina capital against Brazilian aggression. GE rails a bp Fi INF out of Petsamo to southern Finland, giving up the resource. A GE MAR walks into Talin, Estonia from Finland.

3.      W= 11*** (NT= Blizzard). CW (NAVAL) sends a relief cruiser to the Arabian Sea, but it is aborted along with 2x US SUB by alert Italian air. @ US (COMB) follows the JA fleet into the Sea of Japan but it cannot locate it in the blizzard. US garrison forces move and flip to close with the JA line in southern China. The turn ends.

Partisans: (DR=9). China receives 2 big partisans on the coast.

Peace: GE liberates Estonia.

Mar/Apr 1945

(5 Impulse Turn)

Lending: GE>IT 4 Res.

Initiative (zero box) X =4, A =6; Allies win and go first.

1.      W=10 (NT= Fine) CW (COMB) moves transports to the China Sea and embarks 2x US MAR and a MAR division. @ US (LAND) invades Tokyo, defended only with a 4-1 GARR and an AT. Shore bombardment and ground support triple the attackers’ strength but a stalwart defence (and a poor US roll) repulses the invasion; a JA GARR is lost (Assault: 14). In Europe, the US blows an O-chit on Ike HQ-A and makes several attacks, including an assault on Paris. US ground strikers miss all targets against the 2x GE corps isolated in Cherbourg, but take the hex easily with British naval guns providing support (Blitz: 23+). US and CW troops assault Rouen, which is sandwiched between   the American and British forces in France and also experiences the accurate gunnery of CW surface ships. CW loses an INF in the attack but two Allies meet and shake hands in the centre of the city (Assault: 20). Paris is ground struck disrupting all 3x defenders (+5 DRM) and is assaulted by US troops from 2x hexes, both across the river but fortified by Ike HQ-A. Heading the troops are 2x 2-factor ENG which are doubled (+8 DRM). A CW PARA is destroyed when their ATR is shot down and a US PARA/ATR is aborted by GE fighters, but a US PARA DIV is cleared and drops near Paris (+1 DRM). During ground support a CW Tempest dies (as usual) but so does a GE LND-3 and a FTR-2. US and CW clear through 24 points of ground support while GE clears through a mere 5. GE uses HQ support but with a final DRM of +11 and a decent roll of ‘13’, Paris falls (Assault: 23+). The only survivor, a 3-factor SS ENG is retreated. @@ USSR (LAND) uses an O-chit on Zhukov who has made his way to southern E. Poland. Russian ground strikers are aborted in central E. Poland but a tank-buster LND flips a DIV and a corps across a river in the south. In Rumania, a major air battle ensues with 4x GE FTR vs. 6x USSR FTR escorting 2x LND. Russia loses a FTR and a tank-buster LND, then aborts from the combat when its final LND is aborted to no German losses. USSR attacks in E. Prussia in a low odds attack, but a roll of ‘15’ shatters the defenders (Blitz: 19). Another risky one-hex attack across a river retreats a lone GE MECH in northern E. Poland (Blitz: 16); the Soviets lose a unit and flip. Zhukov-fortified units attack the flipped units across a river in southern E. Poland without the benefit of ENG and are stonewalled by the defenders (Blitz: 12). In Rumania, another Zhukov-enhanced attack meets the same result when GE clears in ground support, aborts the Russian LND and uses Manstien for HQ support (Blitz: 12). In Iraq, USSR attacks an IT MECH and AA from 3-hexes and kills Italy’s best gun but fails to take the hex; 2x MIL are sacrificed (Assault: 16). In Manchuria, USSR loses a MECH DIV but kills the Manchurian TERR and takes a key coastal mountain hex on the China Sea that cuts the rail line that allows Japanese reorg through the Sea of Japan (Assault: 22). @@@@ CH (COMB) sends out its SUB and activates for the US in the China Sea but no one finds. CH Nationalists ground strike and flip 2x oos JA units, then the CHI-Coms attack the JA line with the help of 2x hefty PART from the rear and cut it (Assault: 23).

2.      IT (COMB) DoWs Yemen (CW). IT moves some ships to the Arabian Sea. An IT MAR crosses into Yemen, adjacent to Aden. IT attacks the flipped Russian MECH in Syria, that is cutting supply to the IT forces in Iraq, and kills it with the assistance of a tank-buster Piaggio (Blitz: 23+). IT rebases air off the line in France. @ GE (LAND) rails newly reconstituted Mannerheim HQ-I from Helsinki to Copenhagen and an Algerian TERR from Algeria to Danzig as breakthrough protection, using up both straits rail moves for the turn. A Spanish MIL is railed to a coastal port in Yugoslavia, completing the containment of Tito HQ-P. GE pulls back a little in France, straightening its line. GE reorgs flipped units in the front lines. @@ JA (COMB) sends a 10x ship supply fleet (2x CV, 3x BB, SUB, 3x CA, AMPH) to the 4 box of the China Sea, hoping to avoid the major US fleet. It does not. Naval air combat consists of 2x JA CVP against 13x US CVP: JA manages to abort 3x US CVP (+/- 4 column) and AA kills another 2x US CVP. The remaining US air sinks the AMPH and SUB. By the time they don’t find, JA is left with 2xBB and 2x CA in the sea area.

3.      W= 2* (NT= Snow).  US (COMB) moves the A-bomb to Hawaii from SanFran where it is then embarked onto a TRS off the Marshalls. US activates in the Sea of Japan but can’t find the small JA supply fleet there. US activates in the China Sea, but only a small picket CW fleet in the 4-box finds. CW (COMB) picks on a lone JA SUB in a lower box and aborts it, but has 2 of its 3 SCS aborted as well. US ground strikes miss vs. JA units south of Shanghai. @@ CH (LAND) attacks a lone, flipped and oos wp JA HQ-I on the coast of China and kills it when the JA player calls ‘assault’ without thinking… (Assault: 11). The Allies have now sliced the Japanese units on the mainland into 3 pockets: Korea/E. Manchuria, Port Arthur/Northern China/Mid-China and a 3-hex pocket around Shanghai.

@@@ USSR (LAND) does nothing of any note other than to continue marching its ENG divisions to Poland from Rumania, where they have apparently abandoned attempting to break the maze of GE forts in and around Ploesti and the swamps. USSR also rebases some air forward through the blizzard in the Ukraine and the Baltics.

4.      GE (LAND) takes advantage of the weather and Russian inactivity to maximize its lines in E. Poland and E. Prussia and is behind rivers in most hexes south of Warsaw. GE pulls back a hex-line in France, leaving behind the ubiquitous speed bump. @ IT (LAND) also moves east, back a hex-line in southern France, and south into the coastal mountains of Spain, vacating a portion of the southern coast of France and giving up the rail between Spain and Germany. An IT ARM and CAV join an IT MECH, MIL and ART in north-western Yugoslavia to help suppress partisans, and to protect its eastern frontiers if the Russian army ever makes an appearance. @@ JA (COMB) sends a convoy point to the China Sea and it is miraculously not found by the Allied fleets.

5.      W= 7 (NT= Rain). US (SUPER-COMBINED)attempts to port strike a long idle IT mini-fleet in Gibraltar, but the Italians are not surprised and there is no combat. A small US BB fleet sails from India to the Arabian Sea only to have Italian naval air find them and they sink the Nevada, damage the Texas and Oklahoma and abort another back to India. US subs have no luck searching for the Italian supply in the Red Sea. The TRS carrying the A-bomb returns to base to The Philippines. In the China Sea, US activates but only the small CW fleet in the 4-box finds at first and nothing of interest occurs. The major US fleet in the 2-box then finds and the JA fleet is again sunk and scattered then limps a couple of ships home after a single round with the US fleet, which again puts the mainland forces oos. US sea borne city in Argentina, southeast of Buenos Aeries. The US loses 2x corps when the US player rolls a ‘3’ (Assault: 13).

@ CW (LAND) ground strikes east of Lille but only manages to flip a division. A Tempest actually survives an A2A combat and then flips a division and a MECH northeast of Paris. Combined US and CW troops attack the speed bump in front of the German lines and kill both GARR with ease (Assault: 23+). CW air, supporting US ground forces attacking the hex northeast of Paris, kills a GE Me-410 and aborts a Stuka but clears a few GE points through. US takes the hex (Blitz: 22) by killing a Sp INF and retreating a MECH and AA gun. @@ USSR (LAND) attempts to ground strike Mukden, Manchuria but misses and, again, performs no attacks.

@@@ CH  (LAND) slowly but surely envelopes the main oos JA force in China whose tenuous reorg line (providing there is overseas supply) is threatened but intact at Peking. The turn ends on a 30% chance.

Partisans: (DR=10). NEI receives a fourth partisan, placed on one of the Oil resources.

Final Reorg: JA cannot reorg any of its several flipped land and air units on the mainland due to lack of supply.

Peace: CW Liberates France.

May/Jun 1945

(9 Impulse Turn)

Lending: GE>IT 5 Res, 5 Bpts.

Initiative (zero box) X =1, A =4; Axis demands re-roll; X =4, A =5;

Allies win and go first.

1.      W=7 (NT= Fine) CW (NAVAL) sends out its major fleet to the North Sea to augment those that stayed at sea. CW ground strikes in France killing 2x GE FTR-2 and flips 2x corps in one hex and a division in the other.

@ US (LAND) declares an O-chit on Ike HQ-A. US air attempts to ground strike a German hex in France and another GE FTR-2 bites the dust, but not before killing a tank-buster US LND. The attacks proceed in any case… East of Paris another Tempest is shot down and GE manages to clear through 13 points of ground support. The US loses an ARM division in the failed attack (Blitz: 9) when the US player rolls yet another ‘3’. The attack on the next hex south, with 2x flipped defenders, is more successful, but still only retreats the Germans (Blitz: 17). Doubled units attack Vichy, France, garrisoned by the Munich MIL and a 3-factor SS MIL who perform a stout defence assisted by GE ground support. The city holds, with the US losing an ART, on another unfortunate US roll of ‘5’ (Assault: 11). Further south, US (and CW) air faces a good portion of the Italian air force, during ground support, and loses 2x FTR and have their bombers aborted, but manage to kill an IT FTR-2.

Doubled American troops assault the mountain redoubt (INF, MTN) but merely exhaust themselves in the effort (Assault: 12).

@@ USSR (LAND) finally decides the ground is dry enough to fight and Koniev gets an O-chit this time. Russian air shoots down a GE FTR-3 and FTR-2 then flips an AT gun in E. Poland. Other ground-strikers are aborted. A couple of hexes east of Warsaw, GE clears through 8 points of ground support but Soviet units take the hex anyway, retreating the defenders (Blitz: 18). Doubled units in East Prussia have no problem when, although GE clears through 6 points of ground support, Russia clears through 13 making the rough odds 162-24. Reserve troops prevent any breakthrough but an AT and INF are destroyed and a MECH is spiralled (Blitz: 23+).  In the Pacific, US air attempts to destroy Japanese units in Korea and fly the atomic bomb in a carpet bomb mission.

Unbelievably, 2x JA CVP (flying as fighters from land) abort the front LND then kill the one carrying the bomb (+/- 3 A2A column). USSR ground strikes, flips 1 of 3 units in Mukden (the HQ) then attacks, taking the city once more (Assault: 23). Russian chooses to retreat the surviving HQ. @@@ CH (LAND) Nationalist air flips only a division on an oos stack in Hang Chow but assaulst the city anyway. It holds and the CH Nationalists lose a CAV division and flip (Assault: 12). Chi-Coms, however, overrun a flipped JA LND as they run around behind the JA lines and assault Peking, defended by a lone Warlord, from the front and rear. They take the city, completing the encirclement of approximately 5-6x JA corps and an HQ in China (Assault: 21). The US uses all its HQs worldwide to reorg land and air units, including most of the 20 surviving land units that flipped in France this impulse.

2.      JA (COMB) sails out all its last 2x CV and SCS, along with TRS/AMPH, to the China Sea in a forlorn hope to get supply to the mainland. JA lands an INF division in each of Shanghai and Port Arthur (2 of its 3 remaining victory hexes).

@ IT (LAND) pulls out its expeditionary force in Iraq, en masse, and heads for the Syrian coast (3x HQ, 2x INF, 2x MIL, MECH, Supply unit, 2x division, and a Stuka) leaving behind a partisan on the northernmost Oil in Iraq and a Syrian TERR on the rail line to the west.

@@ GE (LAND) moves reinforcements forward and fiddles with its lines.

3.      W= 7 (NT= Fine). US (COMB) uses an offensive chit to re-flip its HQs. US activates in the China Sea but doesn’t find. @ USSR (SUPER-COMB) sends subs to the Sea of Japan, SCS to the Black Sea and SCS to the Baltic: none find their quarry. USSR carpet bombs Warsaw with 24 points, after GE aborts 1x LND, and kills a flipped FTR in the hex on a roll of ‘9’. Russian air ground strikes 5 hexes in E. Prussian and Poland and flips several units including Warsaw and an HQ further north. USSR attacks the HQ stack in E. Prussia and takes it, spiralling the HQ (Blitz: 23+). GE HQ support fails to save a hex east of the mountains in Rumania when the Russian player rolls a ‘19’ killing an ENG and a MTN; a 12-factor ARM is spiralled (Blitz: 23).

@@ CW invades the southwest port in Norway in an invasion lead by its resurrected Armoured MAR division (Blitz” 23+). CW loses a MECH division but takes Aarhus, Denmark (Blitz: 16). The defenders are destroyed without any retreat path and the mini-fleet is overrun. Russian naval units spot the fleeing Germans and intercept, damage an AMPH then abort 4 of 6 cps while avoiding GE naval air, before the remaining ships limp into Stettin. CW and US units team up on the hinge of the German line near the France/Belgian border and shatter the defenders (Blitz: 21). A second US attack vs Vichy, France, is costly but the city is taken (Assault: 19); US loses a MOT and an INF.

@@@ CH (LAND) blitzes a flipped, oos MIL in China (Blitz: 23+).

4.      JA (LAND) switches units in Manchuria in an attempt to get Manchurian units out of Port Arthur and others in. @ IT (LAND) continues its exodus towards the Mediterranean Sea in Syria, filling its ports and coastlines.

@@ GE (SUPER-COMBINED) flies a NAV then sails its main fleet, approx. 10 ships including 2x CV/L and a captured French SUB, to the 4-box of the Baltic Sea and finds the pesky Russians. GE sinks a Norwegian CA and damages a Russian before losing sight of the others. GE units are railed to potential hot points and GE does its best to fix holes in E. Prussia and Poland. GE declares Chisnau, Rumania an open city and backs into the mountains. GE withdraws in Western Europe and forms a straight line anchored in the north at Antwerp, then south through Brussels and Metz to the Swiss border.

5.      W= 4 (NT= Fine). CH (COMB) sends out its SUB and activates for the Allies in the China Sea and finds: during round 1 the US naval air arm (approx. 16 a/c) sinks a CV, AMPH, a CA and damages a CA. Round 2 sees the BB Musashi and another CA sunk before JA voluntarily aborts its surviving craft [the GE player vows not to take over for JA again, rolling 2x ‘10’ to the Allies’ 2x ‘1’ –Ed.] Chi-Com troops roll a flipped and oos JA HQ within the encirclement in China (Assault: 18). @ CW (LAND) uses an O-chit on Monty. CW doubled units attacking from a single hex, with 38 points of OSB, take Antwerp (Assault: not recorded). Other fortified units attack southeast of Brussels and shatter the defenders, but the CW is forced to lose an ARM (Blitz: 20). A solitary MIL in Fredrikshavn, Denmark, also bites the dust and the CW now has a minor port on the Baltic (Blitz: 23+).

@@ US (LAND) blows another O-chit on Ike HQ-A and tears into the German line. Doubled units attack and take the hex northwest of Metz, shattering the defenders (Blitz: 20) and breakthrough an extra hex. Southeast of Metz, US troops retreat the defenders and take more real estate (Blitz: 16), ZoCing a GE stack in the southwest corner of GE from supply.

@@@ USSR sees an O-chit declared on Zhukov. Ground strikes are moderately successful and Russia attacks Warsaw and the hex northwest of it. A PARA lands around the city and a doubled ENG leads the attack that sees the Polish capital liberated (Assault: 23+). GE loses a PARA and an INF and has its ENG retreated.

The attack northwest of Warsaw sees the USSR lose a MECH division but the defenders are retreated into Lodz and to the other side of it.

@@ In China, US troops take Hang Chow and no JA troops survive (Assault: 23+) as they have no retreat path. US reorgs air and land units worldwide with the remainder of its unflipped HQs.

6.      JA (COMB) sends a cp to the China Sea and it is promptly sunk. A SUB tries to find a CW TRS in the Bismarck Sea, but has no luck. @ GE (LAND) scrambles to make a line in The Low Countries but can’t patch the hole at the Seigfried line further south. Manstein HQ-A is railed from Rumania to the mountains north of Switzerland and puts the isolated units in supply. @@ IT (LAND) moves units south of Switzerland in anticipation of a possible Allied DoW on the border country. Italian troops in Syria await transportation.

7.      W= 2* (NT = Rain). US (LAND) uses an O-chit to re-flip its HQs. American troops force the gap in the German lines and push into Germany and overrun a stored Oil in Saarbruken. US takes Metz, defended by a lone disrupted GE HQ (Blitz: 23+) and overruns a flipped Stuka.

@@ USSR takes a flipped, oos stack southwest of Warsaw and breaks through with a MECH division to overrun a FTR-3 that is then forced to rebase (Blitz: 23+). A Russian MAR walks around Danzig and, although is now oos, is within overrun range of several spend GE air units.

8.      IT (NAVAL) slams an HQ into Italy. 3x TRS and SCS sail to the E. Med and Red Sea and pick up HQ, MECH, INF, ENG, MOT division and an INF division. A tank-buster Piaggio is killed in France when Italy tries to help its erstwhile partner contain the US salient wit a ground strike.

@ JA (COMB) flies a CVP as a NAV to the zero-box of the China Sea and sails a cp there as well. The Allies don’t find, and with supply restored for the moment, JA switches units on the mainland to try and minimize the damage the will occur when the Manchurians disappear.

@@ GE (LAND) rails crappy garrison-duty units to the 3x GE cities nearest the US breakthrough in order to put some ZoC on the advancing units. GE counter attacks the USSR MECH division that broke through alone and kills it (Blitz: 23+).

9.      W= 10 (NT= Fine). US (LAND) uses its third O-chit on Ike HQ-A this turn.

A PARA is ATR’d adjacent to Strasbourg, Fr, which falls in the ensuing attack (Blitz: 23+). Aachen and Karlesruhe, Ge, both fall to fortified US troops (2x Blitz: 23+) with the sole survivor, an ARM, of both attacks retreated into Cologne. The turn ends on a 50% chance. US troops fail to take Shanghai and lose a GARR (Assault: 17) but JA loses an ENG. @ CW (LAND) close with GE troops defending the Norwegian port that is on 2 sea zones. CW takes the hex northwest of Liege, Be, and spirals the survivors (Blitz: 22).

@@ USSR (LAND) attacks a single flipped MECH across a river in Poland but merely retreats it (Blitz: 16) and loses a MOT division. USSR kills Rudel LND-2, who was attempting to provide ground support in Rumania, but fails to take the hex when the USSR player rolls a ‘2’; Russia loses a MOT division and a MECH division. GE loses a MIL (Blitz: 16). Russia loses an ENG and an ARM in a failed attempt to take Lodz (Assault: 16); GE loses a red-dot gun.

@@@ CH (LAND). A rare Chi-Com LND flips a JA MTN in Port Arthur for the Russians but they do not press an attack. The turn ends on a 50% chance.

Partisans: (DR= 2). No partisan activity.

RTB: The German fleet stays at sea in the Baltic. Italian troop-laden transports and cruisers in the Red Sea and E. Med fill northern Italian ports. The monster US fleet stays on patrol in the China Sea.

Peace: CW Liberates Belgium, CW Liberates The Netherlands; USSR Liberates Poland; USSR conquers Manchuria.

End of May/Jun 1945.

Jul/Aug 1945

(7 Impulse Turn)

Lending: none.

Initiative (Axis +1) X =8, A =4; Axis win and go first.

1.      W=7 (NT= Fine). JA (NAVAL) sails its remnant navy to the ‘4’ box of the China Sea in hopes of getting supply to the mainland; a CVP flying as a NAV and some cps are in the zero. 2x TRS attempt to join the fleet but are stopped by Russian subs as they leave Korea. The US activates and bitch-slaps the JA fleet, killing its last 2x CV and rids the sea zone of all but the cps, 2x BB (including the Yamato) and a CA. JA’s only consolation are 2x excellent –1/2 AA rolls (10-10 and 9-9) which kill 3x US CVP.

@ GE (LAND) flies a FTR-3 to the Baltic to join its naval forces already there. USSR activates and is punished for its attempt, losing its last SCS assets in the theatre. GE rushes its reinforcements, spiralled and built, consisting of 20x corps (8 heavy ARM/MECH), 2x HQ, 4x non-GE corps, 7x divisions and 9 a/c to hot points, of which there are many.

@@ IT (LAND) moves units against the Swiss border and the German border south of Munich.

2.      CW (NAVAL) sails a CV, 2x BB and a CA from Fredrikshavn, De. to the Baltic and activates. CW finds but doesn’t like its odds against the GE fleet so it attacks and sinks the lone Finnish boat in the ‘2’ box. @ US (SUPER-COMBINED) hauls reinforcements from the US to Europe. US activates in the Sea of Japan and the China Sea but does not find. US ground strikers hit 9x hexes in Germany, with GE only able to muster enough FTR to 4 of them.

The ground strikes are mostly unsuccessful except for 1 hex where all are 3x defenders are disrupted. US kills the flipped stack in GE (Blitz: 23+) and takes Saarbrucken (Assault: 22) in a 6x hex attack that sees 6x US units flip.

@@ CH (AIR) attempts to carpet-bomb Shanghai but fails. @@@ USSR (LAND) loses a LND and a FTR but kills a GE FTR in ground strike attempts in Poland. In Rumania, the ground strike a/c is aborted by Rummy and GE air. In Poland, both GE and USSR clear in 5x points of ground support but USSR takes the river hex for the loss of an ENG (Blitz: 19). Russian forces take a mountain hex in Rumania from a lone GE MOT in a combat that costs them a MOT division and an ARM division (Assault: 15).

@@@@ FR (COMB) [is noted only because each Allied mp performed a different type of action in one impulse :) –Ed.] US and USSR reorg.

3.      W= 5 (NT= Fine). JA (NAVAL) sends its 2x TRS home to Japan and reorgs them with an HQ.

@ GE (LAND) pulls back in mid and southern Poland, leaving the north anchored at Danzig in the north, and into Czechoslovakia at the south of a fairly good defensive line vs. the USSR. In the west, the GE line vs. the US salient is tenuous and the situation is much more fluid.

@@ IT (LAND) helps the situation by taking over mountain hexes south of Munich, lead by 2x heavy HQ. IT rebases more of its underused air force to northeast Italy.

4.      CH (COMB) sends out its SUB and activates in the Sea of Japan but sees no action. CH attacks a lone JA flipped HQ in the mountains northwest of Port Arthur, Manchuria, and takes the hex but loses a MTN and MIL (Assault: 19).

@ FR (COMB) activates for the Allies in the China Sea and that pretty well spells the end of Japan’s hopes to supply the mainland when they kill every JA asset in the sea zone (US, leery of the fluky JA AA, went surface with 170+ surface factors).

@@ USSR (LAND) takes Port Arthur (Assault: 20). In Europe, USSR has its ground-strike aircraft shot down or aborted. USSR attacks the forest (fort) hex northeast of Ploesti but loses a MECH, an ARM and fails to take its (Assault: 19); GE loses a gun. In Poland, Russian forces are frustrated when they attack GE 2 hexes south of GE-held Lodz (Blitz: 12).

@@@ US (LAND) used an O-chit on Ike. US loses a Black Widow but kills 2x GE FTR during a ground strike mission on Lyons, Fr. A LND is cleared through but GE AA in the hex takes a point off, leaving ‘3’. A MTN is flipped (along with the AA) and the US uses doubled troops to attack the mountain redoubt, worth 44 (red-dot AA, 2x MTN) prior to ground support.

Both sides clear in support but attacking ENG and PARA make the difference and the US takes Lyons (Assault: 21). US troops kill a speed bump in GE (Blitz: auto) and take Frankfurt against 3x flipped units (Assault: 23+). In China, the US takes mainly flipped and oos Shanghai (Assault: auto) and announces it will not revert it to CH.

@@@@ CW (LAND) land reinforcements in Norway and closes with the defenders. CW teams with FR troops to take out another GE speed bump in the north, but cannot muster a single ARM of MECH unit to force blitz. The defenders hold off the attack losing a flipped GARR; the Allies lose a FR corps and a CW GARR (Assault: 14). CW troops take the hex north of Kiel, however, at the cost of a PARA (Assault: 20).

5.      W= 1 (NT= Fine). JA (LAND) simply collapses land units to in and around Tokyo, its last remaining victory hex.

@ GE (LAND) rails a MTN division and a Ru MTN out the the hex south of Lyons, then walks Rundstedt HQ a hex east along the rails towards Italy.

@@ IT (LAND) replaces units in the hex vacated by the Germans south of Lyons and takes over the garrison of Munich, freeing up some badly needed GE troops to move east.

6.      USSR (SUPER-COMBINED) sails ships and activates in the Black Sea, but the lone Rummy fishing boat simply rids the sea zone of all 3x USSR SCS over several rounds of meaningless naval combat. Activation in the Baltic fails to find for either side. USSR, frustrated by abortive attacks on a key GE stack in Poland (on the northern resource) carpet bombs it instead, annihilating all 3x defenders. This allows USSR to flank the German line and breakthrough after taking the next hex south (Blitz: 23+). An attack against a southern Poland mountain hex is less successful (Assault: 13).

@ US (LAND) uses an O-chit and assaults Munich. A US LND manages to evade IT FTR cover and flips a heavy ARM in the city. During ground support, the US shoots down another Piaggio, but others clear and IT lends 14/2 =7 points to the defence of the city. An average roll of ‘11’ is not enough for the doubled units to dislodge the defenders and the US loses an ENG and an INF division; IT loses an INF division (Assault: 16). US troops kill a flipped GE HQ and are now a fort-hexside away from being adjacent to Prague, Cz.

@@ CW (LAND) kills a 3-flipped stack in northern GE (Blitz: 23+). An attack in Norway, against 2x MECH, a hex southwest of Oslo fails when GE CVP, the Bismarck and other ships lend support to the defenders (Blitz: 13). CW loses its ARM/MAR division, a MAR division and flips.

7.      JA (PASS) has little more it can do. @ IT (PASS) holds.

@@ GE (LAND) ponders a PASS action but notes that USSR is a single land move away from unoccupied Vienna, the CW the same vs. Berlin. Prague and Budapest are also at risk. GE rails crap to 3 of those cities. GE pulls the GE line in Poland as far west and south as possible, leaving 3 unit garrisons in Danzig and Lodz. All is moot when the GE player rolls a ‘2’ ending the game on a 20% chance.

Peace: All Major Powers Come to Peace.

End of Jul/Aug 1945.

Victory: Allies (45/52)–7; Axis (22/15)+7: Marginal to Moderate Axis

Victory.

*********************************

WiFFE Global War Campaign

Grognard in Flames Turn Game Summary

“Résumé”

Game Summary/Highlights:

***

1. SO39: GE DoW Poland; CW/FR DoW GE; GE conquers Denmark.

2. ND39: IT DoW Greece; CW aligns Yugoslavia; CW conquers Bulgaria; GE conquers Poland.

***

3. JF40: GE conquers Netherlands; GE conquers Belgium; IT conquers French Somalia; USSR demands and receives Bessarabia; GE denies Hungary/Bulgaria claims.

4. MA40: GE aligns Rumania (full ally); IT conquers British Somalia.

5. MJ40: GE conquers Algeria; IT conquers Tunisia; IT conquers Cyprus; USSR conquers Persia; US embargoes strategic materials to JA.

6. JA40: GE conquers Yugoslavia; GE liberates Bulgaria; GE takes Metz O-chit).

7. SO40: JA aligns Siam.

8. ND40: GE takes 3rd hex on Paris, France; JA occupies The Marshals.

***

9. JF41: GE fails 1st attack on Paris, France; US gears up.

10. MA41: GE takes Paris, France; JA reaches Chung King/Cheng Tu, China Valley from north; US freezes JA assets.

11. MJ41: GE installs Level 3 Vichy; GE conquers French Indo-China (concession); GE conquers New Caledonia (concession); FF established in Syria. FF forces in France are teleported to the interior of Mauritania.

12. JA41: IT fails 1st attack on Athens, Greece; CW begins extraction of BEF in FR.

13. SO41: IT fails in 2nd and 3rd attacks on Athens, Greece; CW completes extraction of BEF; USSR DoWs JA.

14. ND41: GE Dows Norway; FF Dows VF (not hostile) and enters Morocco; JA advance in CH halted to deal with USSR; IT fails in 4th and 5th attacks on Athens, Greece.

***

15. JF42: US Passes War Appropriations Bill; GE collapses VF; GE aligns Spain (2x O-chits); IT conquers Greece.

16. MA42: US Dows GE; US troops reinforce Rabaul; US aligns Central America. Main FF troops begin to arrive in Morocco from Mauritius.

17. MJ42: JA DoWs FF, CW and US; IT Dows US; GE conquers Norway; CW conquers Rio Muni; FF conquers Spanish Sahara; US aligns Brazil.

18. JA42: GE DoWs USSR; GE aligns Finland; GE aligns Argentina; GE aligns Hungary; GE liberates Lithuania; GE liberates Latvia; GE liberates Estonia;

JA conquers Philippines; US aligns Mexico; US conquers Columbia; US conquers Uruguay; partisan in Bordeaux, Fr.

19. SO42: IT conquers FF (Syria); FF established in embattled Morocco; US conquers Ecuador.

20. ND42: GE takes Minsk, USSR; IT conquers Palestine.

***

21. JF43: USSR DoWs IT and enters Iraq; US navy maims JA fleet in the Pacific sinking 4 capital ships.

22. MA43: IT conquers Egypt; FF and US troops land in Bordeaux, France with partisan help; GE aggression in USSR halted as troops rail to France; USSR captures both Iraqi (IT) Oil hexes.

23. MJ43: GE conquers Gibraltar; JA goes on the offensive in Manchuria; US reinforces beachhead in France; USSR DoWs Saudi Arabia and captures Oil hex.

24. JA43: Allies expand beachhead in France; GE conquers FF (Morocco); FF armed forces dissolved; FF established in Senegal; IT conquers Kenya; USSR counter-attacks in Manchuria; CH conquers Fr. Indo-China; US conquers Siam.

25. SO43: IT HQs chain across Syria; IT retakes northernmost Iraq Oil hex; Allies move troops out of Morocco to France. Allies hold France from Loire River in the north to Bayonne in the south 2-3 hexes from the Bay of Biscay, facing a strong GE containment force.

26. ND43: USSR conquers Iraq; US conquers Hainan; US troops enter southern China; IT retakes 2nd Iraqi Oil hex; GE begins strategic withdrawal from USSR; USSR retakes Minsk, USSR (open city); USSR re-conquers Estonia.

***

27. JF44: GE conquers Bolivia; GE withdraws from USSR.

28. MA44: CW invades The Netherlands; US captures Kwajellein, Marshall Islands; US captures Truk; US liberate The Philippines.

29. MJ44: CW invades northern France and Belgium; CW captures Calais, France; US captures Brest and Lorient, France; US captures Canton, China; US conquers Formosa; USSR offensive ineffective vs. GE; USSR invades Finland, captures Hango; USSR conquers Jordan.

30. JA44: CW captures Lille, France; US captures Nantes, France; US invades Korea; USSR captures Lvov, Poland and punctures GE line; Freak weather slows Allied offensives (3 impulses, 1 rain).

31. SO44: CW invades De; GE withdraws from Latvia and Lithuania; USSR re-conquers Latvia and Lithuania; IT liberates Jordan; US troops enter JA.

32. ND44: JA declares puppet government in Nanking, China; Poor weather slows Allied offensives; GE and IT withdraw and consolidate in France.

***

33. JF45: GE re-liberates Estonia; severe weather halts Allies offensives.

34. MA45: IT DoWs Yemen; US captures Paris; CW liberates France; GE withdraws to strong points in France and Be; USSR re-conquers Estonia; Argentina (GE) repulses US invasion; Tokyo, Japan repulses US invasion; CH breaks JA line and encircles main force.

35. MJ45: US breaks GE line in southern France and troops pour into Germany proper; USSR liberates Poland; CW liberates Belgium; CW liberates The Netherlands; USSR conquers Manchuria.

36. JA45: US captures Shanghai; USSR captures Port Arthur, Manchuria; CH captures Peking, China; IT garrisons Munich, Germany; All major powers come to peace as the war ends.

***

Victory: Allies –7; Axis +7: Marginal to Moderate Axis Victory.

The game ended at the end of Jul/Aug 1945 with the Allies controlling 45 victory hexes and the Axis controlling 22. The Axis high water mark was 36.

At game end, the Allies controlled every victory hex on the Asian and Pacific maps except for Tokyo, which was retained by Japan.

In the west, Germany controlled (but garrisoned by/or was nearest to neutral) the following 15 victory hexes: Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Gibraltar (IT), Helsinki, Kiel, Madrid, Marseilles (IT), Munich, Oslo, Prague, Stockholm (n), and Vienna.

Italy controlled the following 6 victory hexes: Athens, Istanbul (n), Jerusalem, Milan, Rome, and Suez.

The Allies controlled the remaining victory hexes.

The totals vs. the Game Objective Chart (2000 Annual) were as follows: CW –2 (16/18), US even (13/13), USSR –2 (11/13), FR –3 (2/5), CH even  (2/2); GE +5 (15/10), IT +6 (6/0), JA –4 (1/5).

The groupings by player were as follows:

CW/US –2 (29/31), USSR/FR/CH –5 (15/20); GE/IT +11 (21/10), JA –4  (1/5).

The game was hosted by Sir Grognard and took place from Feb. 28/02 through Oct 1/02 (approximately 7 months) meeting weekly for an average of 6 hours per session.

A.D.G. Copyright notice

America in Flames, World in Flames and all their components and kits, in both their electronic and printed forms, are Copyright 1985 ~ 2002, Australian Design

Group.

Permission is hereby granted to copy these rules electronically for your personal use only, provided that they are copied in their entirety (including this message).

Any deletion or alteration or on-selling, without the express written permission of Australian Design Group, is a violation of domestic and international copyright law.

Please refer questions and comments to:

Australian Design Group

PO Box 6253

Los Osos, CA 93412 USA

or

wiflames@slonet.org.