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RN inflicted further attrition in the E Med, sinking the Italian cp and damaging a cruiser and a battleship.

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Chinese Communists withdrew from Tungkwan.

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AXIS #6 MAY/JUN 41

Japanese naval move, Germany and Italy land. Pretty quiet.

Romanian Cavalry and a German Infantry Corps occupied the Yugoslav ports. The CA Dalmacija made it to Malta, but the cp was intercepted on a 2, and destroyed by Littorio. She is making a habit of sinking Allied cps but perhaps over-gunned for this mission.

The Axis are less than impressed with a weather roll 1. Summer storms. A break to your English cricket season.

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After a very quiet Allied #7 impulse, the turn ends on a 1. A brutally short May/June from the Axis point of view.

Destroyed units May/June 1941. Yugoslavia is conquered. Where can I find cp losses? The Italians lost 2 or 3.

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AXIS BUILDS MAY/JUN 41

Germany 23; 2x pilots, 2x FTR2, LND2, MECH, TERR, INF, MIL
Italy 7; sub repair, cp, TRS repair, NAV3
Japan 13; 3x pilots, MIL, GARR, TERR, repair CA Kinugasa
Vichy 2; repair BB Courbet

NEW UNITS JUL/AUG 41

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ORIGINAL: professorhex
[...] Where can I find cp losses? The Italians lost 2 or 3.

Unfortunately, you can't. Nor pilots, either.

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Allied Production May/June '41

China : 7 bp. Pilot, militia, Inf.
CW: 19 bp. Pilot x2, Amph, 1st, Inf, Terr, CVA-1, Ftr-2, Convoy x4.
US: 18 bp. Marine, Convoy x2, CVA-1, TRS, 2nd, Pilot, CV Bunker Hill, 1st, FTR-2.
USSR: 15 bp. Ski div, AA, Mech, Pilot x2.

Perfect weather for Barbarosa.

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We have not even kept to the oft-criticised Hitlerian timetable. Yet it must happen.

The Hungarian woman is wailing over distended entrails. Over the Berghof balcony the sky turns a frightening gamboge and purple. The Fuhrer takes an early night, and was not at all interested in his boiled vegetable dinner or Disney animation, etc etc.

The short May/June has left the lines well apart, especially in the south. Historians will note the unusually short weather, and Balkan delays.

The southern flank. The resources. Barely a speed bump. Summer uniforms.

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AXIS #1 JUL/AUG 41

Germany aligns Finland. Wise to this ploy, the Soviets have garrisoned Leningrad, but not Murmansk, which the Finns soon occupy.

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The Eastern Front on the eve of the grand German offensive. The Germans will need to move into position and conserve their main strength, mindful of the need for air cover next impulse.

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Italy naval, Germany and Japan land.

Sub searches fail in N Atlantic (5, 10) and CSV (5, 7). But an Italian sub finds in Biscay (3, 9).

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1 CW cp is destroyed and 3 cps aborted to Plymouth in the Bay of Biscay. Half abort for the sub. Subsequent searches fail.

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The Italians have loaded E Med with air power. 3, 5 find.

Italian fighters again underperform, despite +1 air to air from surprise; but the 3 bombers get through and sink both Allied cps.

Malta is now out of supply. Scrambled Allied bombers abort back there after a single combat round.

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Japanese raid on Chungking.

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Luftwaffe ground strikes on the surprise impulse are all in the south.

Zhukov is hit by Dorniers.

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Timoshenko and his stack on the Dneister are immobilised by Stukas.

Sometimes I will roll well.

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But it doesn't all go to plan. Another important stack on the Dneister is missed completely.

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Yamamoto launches a blitz NW of Tungkwan. Occupation of the vacated city does not annoy USA (roll 8).

Later the inland Admiral has to reorganise 4 land units.

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An anti-partisan operation in Rouen is automatic.

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Antonescu's Army Group invades Bulgaria.