GG 4.040 tourney Rd. 3: SGT Rice - xianing

[xianing]

Common beginning of both side
Axis side : Poland, Denmark and TLC fell without loss, Yogo turned learn allies. No U-boat attack.
Japan no loss in the first turn. In China some rail and resources damaged.

Allies side : suicide air attack damaged 1 German fighter. No other attack.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Spring 40 ... France falls ... Germans redeploy to attack Yugo.

Japanese complete the destruction of the Chinese rail network.

[xianing]

Allies Spring 40, German veteran sub damaged.
Soviet Production up to x2.

[xianing]

Fall 40, Germany took Norway and Greece. Italy was refused to join Axis ??

[xianing]

Winter 41, Germany refused again Italy's request to join Axis. That is rarely to see.
With Romania finally joined Axis, Germany finished the preparation of Barbarossa.

[xianing]

Spring 41, quiet turn, but Japan seems will join Barbarossa next turn...[:(]

[SGT Rice]

Axis Summer 41 - Considered a Spring 41 Barbarossa but Ning was able to reinforce Leningrad with 4 MIL in the Allied turn, so invasion was postponed and Panzers redeployed to Rumania.

Summer Barbarossa involved a double envelopment of the Soviet armies in Eastern Poland.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Summer 41 continued - Japan joins with Germany for the "squeeze play".

[xianing]

Allies 41 Summer, WA supplies arrived in Russia, Kharkov and Leningrad reinforced.
Japan will soon have to pay for betraying their friend.[:-]

[SGT Rice]

Axis Fall 41 -

Finland joins the Axis
Leningrad is taken in an assault using every available panzer and bomber.

Japan continues pressing into Siberia.
The main Chinese field army (7 INF) is routed out of Changsha by the Japanese Army.
All remaining Chinese factories are damaged by air attack.

[xianing]

Situation before the first winter: Soviet is trying to defend both sides.
Hopefully US will enter soon.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Winter 42

Germany matches the Russian concentration threatening Kiev ... panzers move out from Leningrad towards the Urals.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Winter 42 (cont)

Japan pauses to build up in the face of a Russian militia army in Central Siberia.

[xianing]

Very difficult time for Russia, but we still attacked in the first winter.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Spring 42

The wounded Germans retreat from Kiev ... raiding panzers overrun Kirov ... Luftwaffe raids drop Russian production to 14.

Malta has been turned into a strategic air base ... 3 STR, 1 TAC, 2 FTR.

[SGT Rice]

Axis Spring 42 (cont.)

The Japanese continue to press the Russians ... 3 Russian ARM preclude a blitz bonus; not enough militia destroyed to take the region. Judging by the B-17s in Northern India the U.S. is likely to enter this turn ...

[xianing]

Spring 42, US declare war to Persia, Portugal and Siam, but not Japan.
Russia retreat from Siberia.
Situation in Europe:

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Situation in Asia:

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Summer 42, Spain and Indochina liberated by WA.

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Fall 42, Soviet took back some areas. Germany and Japan seem be stopped.
Germany tried to stop WA in France, can they ?