Alternative History: The Great War that didn't happen

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May/Jun 1940

3rd Allied Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
In Belgium, the attack last impulse put many German units disorganized. France attacks one of those stacks and with the Disruption bonus and HQ support get a nice over +9 modifier.

Germany again chooses the Blitz table and it works again. All three units are shattered. France doesn't lose any units.

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May/Jun 1940

3rd Allied Impulse:

Situation in Belgium after Allied attack:

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May/Jun 1940

4th Axis Impulse:

Weather:
A roll of 3 puts bad weather in the Arctic, and both Monsoon areas.

Actions:
GE Land
IT Land
JA Combined

Naval Moves:
JA moves some of the forces from Singapore back towards mainland China.

Land Combat:
Italy decides not to attack Athens yet, but 4 other attacks are declared this impulse.

The first is in Vladivostok where the Japanese look to take the factory city. Even with shore bombardment a low roll keeps the city in Soviet hands. They kill off the MIL who can probably be put right back in next turn. Sigh.

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May/Jun 1940

4th Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
The next three are near automatics.

Spanish forces cleaning up that pesky French MIL.

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May/Jun 1940

4th Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
German forces killing a stack of Polish units, who did their job, forcing a German FTR to rebase AND delaying an attack on the Soviets for another impulse at least.

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May/Jun 1940

4th Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
Finally, Turkish forces take another Allied territory (in fact 2, they also walked through Amman, Transjordan on their way to Jerusalem). Egypt is next?

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May/Jun 1940

4th Allied Impulse:
Axis rolls a 9, turn keeps going.

Actions:
All Allies PASS, giving them a 40% chance of ending the turn. They roll a 1. Turn Over.

very short May/Jun turn. The Axis margin of error is already pretty small here, and a short prime-attack turn is death.

Here are the losses for the bloody first turn of the war

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May/Jun 1940

End of Turn Phase:

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Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Reinforcements:

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Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

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Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Initiative:
Axis 10, Allies 7. Axis chooses to go first.

Weather:
9 - Fine everywhere, Storms in N. Monsoon

Actions:
Germany wants to use at least one of their offensives this turn.
GE Land
IT Land
JA Land

Ground Strikes:
Axis launches multiple ground strikes, with only one, a strike on the Soviet Zhukov HQ, resulting in air-combat. Axis has the +1/-1 odds advantage.

1st round, Allies roll a 14, Germany must abort, and chooses their front fighter. Axis rolls a 12, no effect. Even odds.
2nd round, Allies roll another 14, Germany aborts the last fighter. Axis rolls a 8 and aborts the Soviet fighter.

the bomber gets through.

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Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Zhukov only one hit. 1 out of 3.

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Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Ju88 misses both.

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Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Italian ARTY hits the defender in Nice.

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Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Italian mission over Marseilles is a failure. 0 out of 2.

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Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Final strike is against Mao, a miss.

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Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Land Combat:
Overall, not much movement in Belgium/France, but the Germans are moving some second echelon forces south thru Switzerland to assist in the efforts down there.

Italy declares an attack on Nice, France, bringing some ground support as well

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Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
Here is the results of that attack. Italy has a +10.75 modifier (including Graziani HQ support). A victory here will close up the Italian supply lines.

France chooses the Assault table.

... are you kidding me? Italy gets the fractional (+11) but rolls a 4! They lose 2 units, all disorganized, but Nice is taken.

Italy's turn is over in France on the first impulse, pretty much.

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Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
The Axis moves on to two Japanese attacks. Japan chooses to attack the Nationals again, this time in the city of Ichang. They are able to get a +10.5 modifier. China chooses the Blitz table.

Japan gets the fractional, and rolls a 14, killing the unit.

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Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
Still can't believe that roll of 4... anyways, Japan then rolls a 20 on an attack where they have a +16.333 modifier. Waste, but Vladivostok is now in Japanese hands.