Global War: Japanese Aggression

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14. Nov/Dec 1941. Northern China. Korea. China Sea.

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14. Nov/Dec 1941. Western Med. Libya and North Africa.

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14. Nov/Dec 1941. Land Combat. North Africa.

The CW rolled a 4 on their bid to to capture Tripoli and all of Libya. A 4!

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14. Nov/Dec 1941. Economic Reports.

1. Germany lost 3 PP's, which translated directly to 3 BP's, from RAF strategic bombing.

2. Japan's war producing is, and has for a while, been suffering.

3. China's production multiplier dropped to 0.5. There have been turns when it's been as high as 1.

4. USA war production is booming.

5. Soviet PP output continues to grow but the production multiplier is still at 0.5.

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14. Nov/Dec 1941. CP Losses.

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MWiF updated to the latest public beta version 2.1.0.3. And Hot Patch 2.1.1.0 applied to that version.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. Victory Totals.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. Destroyed and Repair Pools.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. CW and USA Drive the Italians Out of North Africa.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. North Africa & Western Med.

1. CW completely conquers Libya.

2. CW (chooses to) liberate Tunisia and return it back to France.

3. USA (chooses to) liberate Algeria and return it back to France.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. Western Med.

The RN and USN continue to have the upper hand on the Italian RM and German Luftwaffe in the Western Med. However, both the Italians and Germans continue to contest the sea area.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.

1. The Germans are now in position to break the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. However, because of the poor weather they chose to wait.

2. The Soviets double down on their forward defense and push their forces closer to the axis especially in the south.

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15. Nov/Dec 1942. China. South China Sea.

Switching to Asia and the Pacific ...

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. USA Captures Truk & CW Liberates Rangoon.

1. The amphibious invasion and capture of Truk by the USA resulted in 1 VP swing from Japan to the USA.

2. The liberation of Rangoon by the CW from the Japanese gave the CW the opportunity to liberate Burma, which they choose to do.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. South China Sea.

1. The USN this turn in the South China Sea chose to target Japanese convoys.

2. The USN managed to sink 8 Japanese convoys and force another 2 to abort.

3. The Japanese managed to replace enough of these 10 (8+2) convoys so that all but 1 resource having to travel through the South China Sea managed to get to their respective factory.

4. However, the lost of 8 CPs is certainly something that the Japanese will not be able to sustain, even for 1 more turn.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. South China Sea. Bay of Bengal. Post Return to Base.

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17. Jan/Feb 1942. The Marianas. Bismarck Sea. The Marshalls.

1. The USN makes immediate use of Truk.

2. With an engineer and trasport in Hawaii, it's a priority to get that engineer to Truk, repair it and get full capacity of a major port.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. Sea Areas.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. CP Losses.

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15. Jan/Feb 1942. Economic Reports.

1. Germany's, Italy's and Japan's production multiplier increased from 1 to 1.25.

2. CW's multiplier also increased from 1 to 1.25.

3. And, the Soviets increased from 0.5 to 1.

4. Allies strategic bombing reduces Germany's PP total by 1 and Italy's by 2.

5. CW final BP total exceeded Germany's by 2.

5. Soviet final BP total exceeded Germany's by 1.

6. The USA final BP total of 62 exceeds all the axis (Germany, Italy and Japan) combined which is 55.