Global War Solitaire

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The whole American fleet being in the China sea, the Japanese fleet sorties in the Japanese sea.
It has no wishes to meet a fleet that is superior in all aspects, and it can still serve well both with carrier planes and defensive shore bombardment.

It meets the few american ships there.

Note: I could make the naval combat by playing it as an interception attempt. Initiating combat still throws an exception. Interestingly, a bug has now disappeared: before, the game would crash a bit later after the interception combat is finished, but the game now seems to proceed.

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Staying alive until the end of the game for Germany will be difficult.
Even staying alive this turn is not ensured!

Now, Germany renounces keeping frontlines. It pulls its armies into cities, preferably these with factories.
In the south, the immediately available garrison (a 4-3 infantry and a 5-4 mountains) are obviously not enough to keep Munich. A desperate attept is done to provide an escape corridor to the elite units trapped in the Russian pocket. Its unlikely to succeed, but Munich is in no immediate danger,unless the allies attempt a lone paradrop assault, very likely to fail.

As we can see, Berlin is "well" defended, with the only working aircrafts (which are not crummy), good troops, and 5 fortified hex-sides. It is not yet captured. British and Russians will have to decide on how to do this!

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Japan at the start of the second impulse in May 45

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In Germany, whatever planes can fly do...
And even crapy aircraft can work wonders!

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Using their now barely contested air superiority, the allies do widespread ground strikes.

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Russians too...

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Everywhere there are German troops...

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The objective being to prepare that and the next impulses attacks.

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Objective hexes of course have a high priority.

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But blocking retreat too...

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In Japan, the USA are more picky ; widespread bombing is not the mood.

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Yokohama falls, thanks to the heavy fleet support.

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And Prague falls too, not without inflicting some damage to the attacker.

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The British complet their half-surrounding of Berlin, and join with the northern forces, isolating Hamburg and Kiel (missing screen capture...) ; and the Russian do their half of the work.

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Cleanup in Czecoslovakia.

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Cleanup in Poland...

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and again...

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And even in Shanghai, for a steep cost (a lost mechanized vs a marine division...)
But that's an objective hex!

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Germany at the start of the second axis impulse in May 45.

Note that the allied made a blunder! They should have paradropped on Munich, which would have eaisly succeeded with the help of the adjacent US armies. But the Commonwealth used all its air actions for ground strikes... So Munich will see a real combat!

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Japan at the start of the second axis impulse in May 45.

Tokyo is now under siege ; if it can resist, it will be thanks to the fleet! We'll see...