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ITALY TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

PURCHASE FTR, Mech

COMBAT

MALTA BOMBING CAMPAIGN
Sicily: BMB SBR> Malta NB
Loss IT: BMB

ATTACK ON HARPOON CONV
sz 95: DD, 2 Subs attack> sz 94: CV w Air, CA, DD, Sub, Tranny w Inf
Loss IT: all units + Loss UK: DD, Sub

ATTACK ON VIGOROUS CONV
sz 97: BB, CA, DD attack> sz 98: 2 CA, 2 DD, Sub, Tranny
Loss IT: BB damaged + Loss UK: CA, Sub
attacker retreat to sz 97

NON-COMB MOVE
IT: Tranny w Inf (Ge) + Inf (IT) to sz 96 + offload Libya
sz 96: BB, CA, DD, Tranny to sz 95
Lib: Inf to Tobruk
IT: FTR to Tobruk

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

PURCHASE
India: 2 Inf
Aus: Tank

COMBAT

India: BMB SBR> Siam = damage

Sub to sz 43 Borneo

NON-COMB MOVE
Aus: Mech to W. Aus
N-Z: Inf load Tranny to sz 49 + offload Guadalcanal Isl (Solomon Isl chain)

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FRANCE TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

Pierre Laval is the new Vichy player

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ROUND 12 - june july aug 1942
GERMANY TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

-Adolf now give Directive 45 to his troops; forget Moscow, grab the oil in Caucasus
-OPERATION PASTORIUS: Adolf send secret agents to USA
-Adolf start building the Atlantic Wall

TECH:
-Me 262 Jet first testfly
-V2 Rocket
-L-IV Nuclear Reactor Accident - the first nuclear accident in history

PURCHASE 3 Sub, 2 FTR, TAC, 2 BMB, 2 Tank, 2 Art, 2 Inf, Mech, AA + Holl/Belg: Fort

COMBAT
DESTRUCTION OF STALINGRAD
Pol: 2 BMB SBR> Volgograd Factory
Loss GE: 1 BMB + Loss USSR: Stalingrad factory 90 % damage

SIEGE OF LENINGRAD
Bela: Inf, Art attack> Arch: Inf
Loss USSR: all units (Leningrad is now under siege)

CASE BLUE
Bry + Ukr: 4 Tanks, 5 Inf, 5 Art + 2 FTR, 2 TAC, BMB attack> Ros: 6 Inf, 2 Art, 3 Tanks
Loss GE: Tank, 2 Inf + Loss USSR: all units

OPERATION SEYDLITZ
Smo: Tank, Inf, Art, Mech attack> Vologda: Inf Art
Loss GE: Inf + Loss USSR: all units

OPERATION STORFANG
Ukr: 4 Inf, Heavy Art attack> Crim: Fort, 3 Inf AA
Rom: 2 BMB attack> Crim:
Loss GE: 2 Inf, 2 BMB + Loss USSR: all units

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

DESTRUCTION OF PQ 17 CONVOY
Nor: BB, DD, Sub attack> sz 125: PQ 17 conv. = Loss USSR: 3 IPC

NEULAND
2 Subs attack> sz 101: = Loss US: 8 IPC
2 Subs attack> sz 89: = Loss US: 4 IPC

Sub attack> 117 = Loss UK: 1 IPC
Sub attack> 118 = Loss UK: 1 IPC
Sub attack> 107 = Loss UK: 1 IPC
Sub attack> 108 = Loss UK: 1 IPC
Sub attack> 87 = Loss UK: 2 IPC

ATTACK ON HARPOON CONV
Sicily: FTR, TAC + Sub attack> sz 94: CV, CA, Tranny
Loss GE: Sub + Loss UK: Tranny
attacker retreat

ATTACK ON VIGOROUS CONV
Crete: BMB attack> sz 98: CA, 2 DD, Tranny
Loss UK: DD
attacker retreat

BATTLE OF EL ALAMAIN - Black Saturday
Tobruk: Tank + TAC attack> Alex: Tank (UK)
Loss UK: all units
(Rommel is very successful because he can read the Black Code and know everything the brits do)

NON-COMB MOVE

LIDICE MASSACRE
Czhec: 100 000 civilians killed - retaliation for the assasination of Heydrich

HOLOCAUST
-Start the use of gas chambers
-Warsaw ghetto massacre
-All jews in Holl/Belg and France is sent to camps

GE. Sub to sz 91

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USSR TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

MOSCOW CONFERENCE
Stalin, Winston and Harriman (US) discuss reasons for a campaign in North Africa.
Also some tech exchanges.

PURCHASE 3 FTR, 2 TACm BMB, 4 Tank, 6 Inf, 2 Mech, 4 Art, AA

COMBAT

BALTIC SEA CAMPAIGN
NOV 115: Sub pass minefield + attack> sz 114: shipping = Ge Loss 1 IPC

RZHEV MEAT GRINDER
Rus: 2 Tanks, 3 Inf, Art + 2 TAC attack> Vologda: Tank, Mech, Art, AA
Loss USSR: 2 Tanks, 3 Inf, 2 TAC + Loss GE: Art, Mech
attacker retreat

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JAPAN TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

PURCHASE: BB, Tranny, FTR, BMB, Tank (to Manchuria)

COMBAT

OPERATION AI - Invasion of Aleutian Isl
JA 6: 2 CA, DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 8 + Amp> Aleut (empty)

INDIAN OCEAN RAID
Sub attack> sz 72 Loss UK = 1 IPC
Sub attack> sz 80 Loss UK = 1 IPC

OPERATION MO - Invasion of New Guinea
Car 33: Tranny w Inf to sz 45 + Amp> Dutch New Guinea (empty)

THE SAVO RAID
Car 33: 2 CA attack> sz 49: 2 CA, DD
Loss JA: 2 CA + Loss US: 2 CA

THE GILBERT RAID
Car 33: CV w Air, 2 CA, 3 DD, Tranny w Inf attack> sz 48: CV w 2 Air, BB, CA, DD
Loss JA: CV, Air
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE

Ja 6: 2 BB, DD to sz 15
Ja 6: 2 CV w 3 Air, CA to sz 25 Midway: Sub
Ja 6: 2 BB, DD to sz 16
Ja 6: BB, 2 CA, 2 DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 24

TOKYO EXPRESS -use Subs to supply garrisons on islands

THE REVENGE FOR THE DOOLITTLE RAID
-massacre 300 000 civilians in Hunan, Anhwe, Kiangsu and Kiangsi
-start the Hunan Famine that will starve 3 millions the next year

COLLECT INCOME
Convoy disruptions:
US Sub in sz 6 Loss 1 IPC
US Sub in sz 20 Loss 1 IPC
US Sub in sz 36 Loss 1 IPC
UK Sub in sz 43 Loss 1 IPC

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USA TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

SECOND WASHINGTON CONFERENCE: FDR and Winston
-Invasion of North Africa is first priority
-Postpone the invasion of France

Brazil DOW Ge and It. (because they sank brazilian ships)
The Allies can now use facilities and bases in Brazil.

OPERATION PASTORIUS
2 german spies defect to FBI. All spies arrested and 6 is shot.

MUSICIANS STRIKE
Musicians want more money, they want you to pay for listen to music.

TECH Plutonium isolated - University of Chicago

PURCHASE
East: CV, 2 Air, BB, Sub, Tranny, FTR, TAC, 3 BMB, 2 Tanks, 4 inf, 1 Airborne inf, Art Home: Mech
West: DD, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB, 1 Marines. Home: Mech, AA
LL to UK: 2 Trannies, FTR, Tank / to USSR: FTR, Tank / to China Tank,
Ascension Isl: Airbase
Hawaii: Naval Base (This is the time Hawaii got a major Naval Base)

COMBAT EUROPE

BOMB. CAMPAIGN
UK: BMB SBR> Holl/Belg Airbase
Loss US: BMB

OIL CAMPAIGN
Egy: BMB SBR> Rom (Ploesti oil field)
Loss US: BMB

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
2 DD attack> sz 101: 2 GE Subs
Loss GE: 2 Subs
Better convoy duty in sz 101 and improved Anti-Sub Weapons

COMBAT PACIFIC

BATTLE OF MIDWAY
Hawaii 26: CV + 3 cv-Air attack> sz 25: 2 CV, 3 cv-Air, CA
Midway 25: TAC + Sub attack> sz 25:
Loss US: CV, 2 cv-Air + Loss Jap: all units
1 cv-Air land on CV in sz 13 Point Luck

NON-COMB MOVE - Euro
BOLERO CONV
Tranny w Inf, Art to UK

TORCH CONV
Tranny w Inf, Art to UK

US: FTR, 3 BMB to UK

Brazil: FTR (BRA) to Panama.
Panama: FTR to US

Transit to Pacific: 101: CV, 2 Air, BB, Sub to sz 10

NON-COMB MOVE PACIFIC

Hawaii 26: CV, 2 CA, 2 DD to sz 13 Point Luck

US 10: Tranny w Inf + FTR to sz 1 Alaska

Form China Air Task Force

Situation Europe

Situation Pacific

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CHINA TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

PURCHASE
KMT: 3 Inf
CCP: Inf
ROC: Inf

Start of the HENAN FAMINE
Between 1 and 3 million will starve to death before Spring 1943

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UK TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

Winston tell US military attache Bonner Fellers to stop using the Black Code, since Rommel can read it

PURCHASE
UK: DD, Sub, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, Tank, Art, Inf, + Lend Leas to USSR: Tank
CAN: Lend Lease to UK: Tranny, Tank, + Lend Lease to USSR: Mech

COMBAT

BOMB CAMPAIGN
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. Ge. Factory
Loss UK: 1 BMB + Loss Ge: Factory 50 % damage

UK: FTR, TAC SBR> Norm Naval Base = damage

THE DIEPPE RAID
UK 110: DD w Commandoes attack sz 110 Norm: Fort, Tank, FTR
Loss UK: all units

NON-COMB MOVE

PEDESTAL CONV
Gib 91: CV, 1 Air, BB, CA, 3 DD, Sub, Tranny to sz 94 Bomb Alley

CLUB RUN
UK: FTR, TAC, Sub to 91 Gib
Gib 91: FTR, TAC, Sub to 96 Malta
Malta FTR, TAC to Egy

ANDERS ARMY
Iraq: Inf (POL) to Trans Jordan

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ITALY TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

THE IMMALA BIRTHDAY MEETING
Adolf (GE) meet Mannerheim (FIN) in a saloon train coach at Immala Airfield, Finland
Adolf want Mannerheim to attack Leningrad.
Mannerheim refuse.
Adolf is sad.

PURCHASE
IT: Inf
ROM: Inf

NON-COMB MOVE
Ukr: 3 Inf, Mech (IT) + 2 Inf (ROM) to Rostov

Tobruk: Inf FTR to Alex

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT
Gandhi (independent Indian player) start civil disobedience across India.
Winston (official UK and British India player) don’t approve of this and have Gandhi arrested.
(Gandhi spend the rest of the game in jail)
Winston also have 100 000 civilians arrested, and 10 000 killed.
Also the Bengal Famine is in progress with millions starving.

Subas Bose form the Indian National Army, against UK and pro-Axis

PURCHASE
Aus: Inf

COMBAT

Ind: BMB SBR> Siam (Bangkok)= damage

ARAKAN CAMPAIGN
Ind: 4 Inf (Punjab) attack> Burma: 3 Inf, Art (JAP) + Inf (BURMA)
Loss UK: 2 Inf
Attacker retreat. Blame it on the monsoon season

NON-COMB MOVE
Aus: Tank to W. Aus
India recive a Lend Lease Tank from USA

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STRICT NEUTRAL TURKEY TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942
Not an official power, but I allow a guest appearance, since it make trade agreements with both Allies and Axis powers, and act as a client state of both UK and GE. Also, it is a power in A&A 1914, and that must count for something

TURKISH PARLIAMENT PASSES THE VARLIK VERGISI ACT - Art of the Steal
230 % capital tax on non-muslims (armenians, greeks, jews, christians and all foreigners)
The aim is to inflict financial ruin to all non-muslims.

Also 5000 non-muslims to labor camp in East Anatolia.
2 500 jews to extermination camp
All other non-muslims to Askale Labor camp.

Military forces mobilized in Turkey: DD, TAC, 8 Inf, Tank, Art, 2 Fort = Total 1 300 000 men.
(Paid by UK, and GE)

Trade agreements:
Export chromite to Ge, US and UK.

Winston (UK) guarantee Turkey freedom against both Germany and USSR

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FRANCE TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

CHERCHELL CONFERENCE in Algerie.
A clandestine conference between general Clark (US) and admiral Darlan (FRA) and Giraud (FRA)
(de Gaulle (Free France) is left out)

THE CLARK-DARLAN AGREEMENT
-French forces in Morocco and Algeria will not resist Allied landings.
-Darlan as leader of French Forces
-France as a full Allied of US and UK.
-Allies get freedom of movement and bases rights.

For Blog and game purpose, Morocco and Algeria now defines as pro-Allied neutrals

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ROUND 13 - sept oct nov 1942
GERMANY TURN 13 - FALL 1942

Adolf issues The Commando Order: shoot commandoes on sight! No more Dieppe-raids.

Adolf withdraw all subs from sz 101 US East coast, because the escorts and ASW is too strong.

TECH: A-4 Rocket in Penemunde is the first man made rocket to reach space

PURCHASE: 3 Subs, 2 FTR, TAC, 2 BMB, 2 Tanks, 2 Art, 3 Inf, Mnt. inf + Atlantic Wall 1 Fort W. GE

COMBAT
Pol: 2 BMB SBR> Volgograd (Stalingrad factory) = 90% damage
Ukr: 2 BMB SBR> Caucasus oil industri = damage

OP. FISCHREIER - BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
Ros: 3 Inf, Art, Tank + TAC, FTR attack> Vol: 3 Inf
Loss USSR: all units

OP. EDELWEISS - BATTLE OF CAUCASUS
Ros: 2 Inf, Art, Tan + TAC, FTR attack> Cau: Inf, TAC
Loss USSR: all units

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
Nor 126: 2 Subs + TAC attack> sz 125: PQ-conv + DD escort
Loss GE: Sub + Loss UK: DD + 2 IPC conv dis

Sub attack> sz 123: conv + DD escort
Loss GE: Sub

Sub attack> sz 118: ON-conv = loss 2 IPC
Sub attack> sz 106: SC-conv = loss 2 IPC
Sub attack> sz 107: SC-conv = loss 2 IPC
Sub attack> sz 108: HX-conv = loss 2 IPC
Sub attack> sz 103: SC-conv = loss 2 IPC

2 Subs attack> sz 89 conv zone = loss 7 IPC

Sub attack> sz 90: DD escort
Loss GE: Sub

Sub attack> SZ 87: Laconia liner = sunk

Sub attack> sz 72 DD
Loss GE: Sub sunk

THE DUEL
A. CA (raider Stier) attack> sz 84: Tranny (SS Hopkins)
Loss Ge: CA + Loss US: Tranny (this was the only Raider to be sunk by a Tranny in WWII)

THE ATTACK ON PEDESTAL CONVOY
Sicily: FTR, TAC, BMB + Sub attack> sz 94: CV, Air, BB, CA, DD, Sub, Tranny
Loss GE: FTR, Sub + Loss UK: CV dam, Air, BB dam, DD, Tranny

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USSR TURN 13 - FALL 1942

PURCHASE 3 FTR, 2 TAC, BMB, 4 Tank, 2 Mech, 6 Inf, 4 Art, AA

COMBAT

OP SINYAVINO - BATTLE OF BALTIC
Nov: 3 Inf, Art, attack> Bal: 3 Inf, Art, Tank, AA
Loss USSR: 2 Inf, Art + Loss GE: Inf
attacker retreat

OP MARS - BATTLE OF VOLOGDA
Rus: 3 Inf, 2 Art, 2 Tanks, 2 FTR attack> Vol: 2 Tanks, 3 Mech
Loss USSR: 3 Inf, Art, 2 Tanks + Loss GE: Mech
attacker retreat

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JAPAN TURN 13 - FALL 1942

PURCHASE DD, Tranny, FTR, BMB, Inf, Art

COMBAT
GUADAL CAMPAIGN
sz 47: CV, 2 Air, BB, 4 CA, 3 DD attack> sz 49: CV, 2 Air, BB, 2 CA, 2 DD, Tranny
New Br.: BMB attack> sz 49:
Loss JAP: BMB, CV, 2 Air, BB, CA, DD + Loss US: all units

Tranny w Inf, Art amp> Solomon Isl: Inf (US) + Inf (ANZ)
Loss JAP: Art + Loss US: all units

BATTLE OF HUBEI
Kia: Inf, Art, FTR attack> Hunan: 3 Inf (KMT) + FTR (US)
Loss JAP: Inf + Loss KMT: Inf
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE
JAP: Tank load on Tranny to sz 19 offload into Manchuria

COLLECT INCOME - CONVOY DISRUPTION
US Sub in sz 6 = loss 2 IPC
US Sub in sz 19 = loss 2 IPC
US Sub in sz 20 = loss 1 IPC
UK Sub in sz 36 = loss 1 IPC

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USA TURN 13 - FALL 1942

TECH:
B-59 Airacomet Jet
ASW: DMS 1000 Radar. Now US destroyers have all the abilities in the OOB rules.

PURCHASE
East: CA, DD, Sub, Tranny, FTR, TAC, 3 BMB, 2 Tanks, 5 Inf, Art + Home Def: Mech, AA
West: CV, 2 Air, DD, Sub, TAC, 2 Inf + Home Def: Mech, AA
Lend Lease to UK: CV, Air, Tank,
Lend Lease to USSR: FTR, Tank

COMBAT

MIGHTY EIGHT
UK: BMB SBR> Norm Factory = 0 dam

LACONIA INCIDENT
US: BMB + DD attack sz 87: Sub (GE) during rescue mission to Laconia survivors
Sub submerge

NON-COMB MOVE
OPERATION TORCH - INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA
US 101: TF 34: CV, 2 Air, BB, 2 CA, 4 DD, Sub + Tranny w Inf, Tank offload in Morocco: Inf (FRA)

BOLERO CONV
US: Tranny w Inf, Tank to UK

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CHINA TURN 13 - FALL 1942

PURCHASE
KMT: 3 Inf
CCP: Inf

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UK TURN 13 - FALL 1942

King Selassie (Ethiopia) (with gov in exile in London) DOW all Axis powers

TECH ASV Mark III Radar. UK Destroyers now got all the abilities from the OOB Rulebook.

PURCHASE
UK: DD, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, Tank, Art, Inf + Lend Leas to USSR: FTR
CAN: 2 Inf Home defence Pacific coast + Lend Leas to USSR: Tranny, Mech (Pacific)

COMBAT
BOMB CAMPAIGN
UK: 2 BMB SBR> W. GE factory = damage
UK: 2 BMB SBR> N. IT: factory = damage
UK: 2 BMB SBR> N. IT: Naval Base = damage

OP. FRESHMAN - RAID ON VEMORK
UK: Skytrain w Paratroopers attack> NOR (Vemork heavy water plant) = fiasco
Loss UK: all units

MALTA STRIKE FORCE
Malt 96: FTR, TAC + Sub attack> sz 95: CA, DD, Sub
Loss UK: Sub + Loss IT: CA, Sub
attacker retreat

*OP. LIGHTFOOT *
Egy: 2 Inf, Mech, Tank, + FTR, TAC attack> Alex: Tank, Mech (GE) + Inf, FTR (IT)
Loss UK: Tank + Loss Axis: all units
(Rommel can no longer read the Black Code and did not see this comin)

OPERATION TORCH - INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA
GIB 91: Force H: CV, 2 Air, BB, 2 CA, 4 DD, Sub attack> sz 92: Sub (GE) + Sub (IT)
Loss Axis: all units

NON-COMB MOVE
OP TORCH
UK 109: 2 Trannies w Inf, Art + Inf, Mech (US) to sz 92 + offload in Algiers: Inf (FRA)

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ITALY TURN 13 - FALL 1942

PURCHASE
IT: Tranny, FTR, Inf
Spain: 5 Inf
Rom: Inf

NON-COMB MOVE
Rost: Mech (IT) + 2 Inf (ROM) to Volgograd

CASE ANTON
N. IT: Inf to S. FRA: Inf (Vichy) is removed
Lib: Inf to Tunisia: Inf (Vichy) is removed
IT 95: Tranny w Inf to Corsica (former Vichy terr)

IT: Tranny w inf to Sardinia