Alternative History: The Great War that didn't happen

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Jul/Aug 1940
Allies roll a 5 for the End Turn roll. Turn keeps going.

5th Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
Final attack, at +21 modifier. Absolutely no way luck plays into this. Guess what? Yup, Germany rolls the highest attack roll its had in the last eight attacks. A very high roll of 12 out of 20. My sarcasm is slightly dripping right now.

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Jul/Aug 1940

5th Allied Impulse:

Actions:
CH Pass
CW Pass
FR Pass
US Pass
SU Land

Rail Movement:
USSR moves another rail and one MIL to Sevastapol

Land Movement:
With everyone else passing, the Soviets use this impulse to try to save a few more units and hopefully end the turn.

The turn roll is a .. 9. Turn keeps going

6th Axis Impulse:

Weather:
4 - Fine everywhere but N. Monsoon (rain)

Actions:
GE Land
IT Land
JA Land

Ground Strikes:
Italy uses up their last aircraft on a low-odds chance of flipping a French CAV unit. Fails.

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Jul/Aug 1940

6th Axis Impulse:

Rail Movement:
IT rails a GARR to the French border
GE rails a Turkish MTN to Iraq

Land Combat:
Japan makes an attack on the 4-1 GARR guarding Sian and Mao's right flank. They are able to get a base +8.5 modifier. Mao and Imezu are forced to use HQ support to balance each other out.

China chooses the Blitz table.

I am THIS CLOSE to quitting this AAR lol. Japan rolls a 4 out of 20. The Axis attack rolls are killing them long-term. They cannot survive trading 2 units for 1 Allied unit.

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Jul/Aug 1940

6th Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
High modifier. Check.
Advantage in Armor, so attacker can choose Blitz table. Check.
No losses for defense, AGAIN...

The Soviet units have gotten probably two impulses worth of free movement just from the retreats they've been able to get. Germany breaks the ability for the Soviets to form a good line once again, and at least the Germans didn't lose any more units, but really, they can't win this war getting these mediocre results. They need KILLS.

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Jul/Aug 1940
End of Turn roll was a 10. Turn continues.

6th Allied Impulse:

Actions:
CH Land
CW Land
FR Land
US Land
SU Land

Moves:
USSR rails another factory to Tiflis

Situation in Northern Russia

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Jul/Aug 1940

6th Allied Impulse:

Moves (continued):
Ukraine

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Jul/Aug 1940

6th Allied Impulse:

Moves (continued):
Communist Chinese have to cover Sian

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Jul/Aug 1940
End of Turn roll was a 10 AGAIN. Turn continues.

7th Axis Impulse:

Weather:
7. Fine everywhere but N. Monsoon (Storm)

Actions:
GE Land
IT Pass
JA Land

Moves:
JA rails a Manchurian MIL to China

GE declares one attack, now helped by the disrupted bonus, they choose a blitz attack on the two units that retreated last impulse.

They get a full victory finally, killing 2 units and getting a breakthrough.

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Jul/Aug 1940
End of Turn roll is a 3. Turn Ends

End of Turn Phase:

Losses:

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Jul/Aug 1940

End of Turn Phase:

Production:
Germany (26): 2 x INF, ARM, ARM HQ, FTR2, LND2, PILOT
Italy (8): 2 x MIL, FTR2, NAV2
Japan (19): MIL, GARR, ARTY DIV, CVP0, CVP1, PILOT, CV (finish), CV (repair), save 4

China (7): 2 x GARR, CAV DIV, FTR2
CW (18): INF, GARR, ARM, FTR2, FTR3, PILOT
France (14): 3 x INF, INF HQ
US (31): INF, MAR, 2 x CVP1, FTR2, 3 x PILOT, 2 x BB (start), 3 x AMPH (start)
USSR (29): MIL, INF HQ, ARM, CAV, 2 x AT DIV, FTR2, LND2, 2 x PILOT

Reinforcements:

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Sep/Oct 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Conquests:
Dutch Guyana completely conquered by USA
Lithuania completely conquered by Germany
Latvia completely conquered by Germany
Egypt completely conquered by Germany
Angola completely conquered by Commonwealth
French Indo-China completely conquered by Japan

Initiative:
Axis rolls a 7, Axis rolls a 9. Axis doesn't reroll. Allies decide to go first.

Weather:
Roll of 7. Rain most everywhere except Med. and Southern regions

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Allies Impulse:

Actions:
US Combined
CH Land
CW Naval
Fr Combined
SU Land

Naval Moves:
US tries another port strike on Truk, but once again Japan rolls well enough to avoid the port attack

France moves their fleet out to West Med, if the situation allows they want to support a possible breakout from Marseilles

CW transports a South African TERR to Bay of Biscay to land in Spain
CW moves its smaller CV fleet out to Bay of Bengal to protect India
CW moves a SUB to South China Sea
CW moves a BB fleet to Bay of Biscay for bombardment support to Wavell in Spain
CW moves a Greek SCS to East Med to make things difficult to Italian fleet wanting to do shore bombardment of Athens (Italy did a dumb move and went to port in Turkey, making them easy to put out of supply)

US moves 3 BBs and brings 2 MILs from Venezuela off of Brazil coast

Combat:
- CW initiates search in South China Sea for Japanese CONVs. Search unsuccessful.
- France initiates search in Italian Coast for Italian CONVs. Search unsuccessful.

Strat Bombing:
Successful strike on Hamburg

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Allies Impulse:

Ground Strikes:
CW sends the TAC bomber at Gibraltar and a CVP on a ground strike on the Spanish units guarding Gibraltar. If they get lucky, they'll try to complicate things for the Spaniards. Missed.

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Allies Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
US tries an ARTY strike on Rio de Janeiro, but no effect.

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Allies Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Soviets try a ground strike on an OOS Swedish MOT corps. If successful, they'll try to get an easy kill in the land attack phase. Nope.

Wasted strikes globally. Not a single hit.

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Allies Impulse:

Land Moves:
No attacks this impulse. Rain is playing havoc with Axis and Allies alike. Here is the US invasion of Brazil.

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Allies Impulse:

Land Moves:
Here's the Ukraine

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Allies Impulse:

Land Moves:
Here's Northern Russia. Soviets think its better to keep their units in place, but OOS then move them and become disupted.

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Allies Impulse:

Land Moves:
Northern China

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Sep/Oct 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Actions:
GE Land
IT Land
JA Land

Ground Strikes:
Rainy weather precludes alot of air usage, but in Marseilles in the Fine weather, the Italians strike Marseilles. Clearing this city will be their priority this turn, as it will create a land bridge between Spain and Italy and negate the need of CONVs in the West Med. The strike goes OK, hitting 1 of 2.