Global War: Japanese Aggression

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Turn 20. Nov/Dec 1942. Nazi-Soviet Pact.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Weather and Actions.

Short, brutal winter turn.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Geo-Political Map.

Note, the top map is control by country. The bottom map shows units by country. Each hex on the regular map is represented by a pixel on the bottom map. Non-white pixels show the "hexes" that units occupy.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Victory Points.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1942. Destroyed & Repair Pools.

The USN managed to sink the lone Japanese carrier, the Akagi, that return to action this turn (in the China Sea).

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Sea Areas.

The Western Allies finally managed to sweep the Japanese from the South China Sea and keep them out at the end of the turn.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Japanese Captured Oil in the Dutch East Indies Blocked.

The net result for the Japanese of not having any SCS or CPs in the South China Sea was that Japan did not have access to the captured Dutch East Indies oil for reorganization. The only oil they did have available for reorganization was 1 oil point from their synth oil facility.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. China Sea. USN Surprises the IJN.

In the China Sea the USN managed to find and surprise the Japanese navy. The USN choose to isolate Japan's remaining aircraft carrier, the Akagi and their convoys.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. China Sea. Naval Battle.

The USN succeeded in sinking the Akagi but managed to only sink one CP and force a second to abort. The USN lost contact with the Japanese after this initial round and the one-side naval combat ended.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. CP Losses.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Land Combat. Canton China.

The Nationalist Chinese (literally) decided that this was a good time to roll the dice and made a low odds attack to take Canton, China. They failed but did manage to destroy a Japanese marine division.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Canton China.

A division that the Japanese were able to "replace" from an adjacent stack.

With the optional rule Chinese attack weakness, it's going to be a long struggle for the Nationalist to dislodge the Japanese from Canton and Hong Kong. In reality, probably the only way this is going to happen is for the USN to completely knock the Japanese navy out of the China Sea, and South China Sea, which would put these troops out of supply. Then, the attack might succeed if the USA is successful is disorganizing these troops. Really, I see no other way, so it may take some time. Oh, and don't forgot about the weather too. All this works probably only in fine weather in the North Monsoon.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Japan. China Sea.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Iraq. Persia.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Sardinia. Western Med. Italian Coast.

The Germans managed to reinforce Cagliari with a 5-3 MIL, making the conquest of Sardinia just that much harder for the Western Allies.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Trade.

France stopped it's one traded oil with the CW because France was down to 1 saved oil point.

France up its non-oil "traded" resources with the USA from 2 to 4.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. France. Use Oil.

However, there was a mix up with the supposedly 4 non-oil resources "traded", really given, to the USA. One of the four was the oil resource that was being sent to the CW but was stopped in order for France to build up its oil stockpile. A royal mix up that must be corrected next turn.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. USA. Final Production.

There was another mix up concerning the 4 traded French resources. The western allies failed to properly account for the convoying of all four resources. The result was that all four did make it to the USA but only 2 of the 3 traded BP's from the USA to the CW made it.

In the +BP column of this turn economic report, the CW will still show a +3BP's, but 1 of those 3 is from a build point that the CW saved last turn.

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Turn 21. Jan/Feb 1943. Economic Reports.

1. Germany, Italy and the CW all got a production multiplier bump from 1.25 to 1.5.

2. The Soviets got a bump from 1 to 1.5!

3. Both Germany and Japan lost 1 PP to strategic bombing. Japan loss came from Chinese bombers. The loss of 1 PP directly translated in the loss of only 1 BP for Germany and Japan due to rounding.

4. The USA and Soviet oil stockpiles are growing.

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I am surprised that neither Russia nor Germany declared war on the other. Both can, according to your garrison report, and I would think it advantageous for one side or the other to be at war. Also, because of the surprise rules, it is far better to declare war than to have war declared on you, so, even if you don't want to go to war, if you think your opponent will, declare war.

I find waiting for good weather in this situation to be a bad idea. If I do, my opponent always goes first in the critical turn and declare war on me first. Always. I think there is a rule somewhere requiring this. [:)]