Reverse 4-player AAR.

[warspite1]

Western Front (sorry this is slightly out of sequence and is post the rebases mentioned below).

[warspite1]

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 8 (Axis)

The result stands as per the explanation above. The Chinese are unable to retreat and so the cavalry and division are both destroyed. The attack, carried out in such difficult terrain sees the Japanese units disorganised.

[warspite1]

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 8 (Axis)

Rebase:
Japan

Kaga flies off her air component and heads to the local naval air station in downtown Tokyo

Germany

The Luftwaffe rebases:
- the fighters of JG4 from Belgium to France
- the Ju-88's of KG3 are ordered from Holland to the Rhineland
- and finally the Tante-Ju's in Holland are sent to Liege.

Reorganisation: None

End of Turn: A 9 is thrown (turn ends on less than a 3) and so its back to the Allies


Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 9 (Allies)

Weather: It's fine everywhere except for the Northern Monsoon which remains wetter than a haddock's bathing costume...

[AllenK]

J/A 40 Allies 9

No DoW or alignments

China and France land. US Pass. Rest combined.

CW sub sails from Plymouth to West Med 1-box.

Only area for naval combat was Cape Verde. CW declines.

France rail INF from Vichy to Marseilles.

Over to Mayhemizer to complete the impulse.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

France reorganizes their lines swapping units and CW takes control of Lille.

Chinese retreat in north and south.

USSR rebase planes to German border. France rebases fighter from Paris by one hex.

On a 3 turn ends (3 or less was needed)!!!

[Orm]

[:@]

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Get ready to be even more angry... Partisan appears to China blocking a resource.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

USSR places marker to offense and move one marker from defense to offense.

How does Germany place their markers?

[warspite1]

Defense please

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Get ready to be even more angry... Partisan appears to China blocking a resource.

Nah. That one I expected. I've almost completely blocked the possibility to get partisans so, of course, it is going to appear the turn I fail. Even funnier it gets when I consider that if I would have gotten one more impulse then the risk for a partisan in China would have been zero.

[Orm]

Any US entry options selected that affect the end of turn?

[AllenK]

US puts a chit in the Ge/It pool.

It imposes an embargo on strategic materials to Japan but with their minds focused on China, the Japanese show little reaction (10 rolled, no chit to tension). Approval is granted in the two houses for lend-lease shipments to China. The Japanese are again not bothered (7 rolled).

Across the Atlantic, it's a different matter when the two houses also approve a bill allowing US resources to be sent to the Allies (5 rolled. Chit to tension pool).

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Turn end instructions for France and USSR

France saves 2 oils (Bayonne and Damascus). Productions is 8 BPs.

USSR saves 1 oil to Leningrad. Production is 15 BPs.


Stay at sea and RTB

CA in Black Sea returns to Sevastopol.
All possible French ships stays at sea (note that CP on CSV is going to return to base as is German CP on Baltic Sea). BB from West Med returns to Marseilles.


Oil use

France reorganizes all using oil points in Damascus and Bayonne.
USSR reorganizes 2 bombers for no oil cost.


Production

France scraps fighter.

AllenK can decide what Chinese are going to build.

France 8
2x MIL
2x FTR2

USSR
Pilot
FTR2
INF
MTN div
ARM


Reinforcements

France
MIL to Paris and Lyons
AT gun to Paris
INf to Vichy

USSR
Assing pilot to SU2
MIL Lanchow
CAV to Yenan
GAR to Tianshui

LND2 to Minks
CAV and Ski div to Minsk


Recourse Lending

France asks CW to keep sending 1 oil.
France sends 3 BPs to UK.

[Orm]

End of turn orders for Italy and Japan.

Italy saves 1 oil and has 6 BPs for production.
Japan saves 1 oil and has 15 BPs for production.

Stay at sea:
Italy: Only CP stay at sea.
Japan: The 5 CPs in the Japanese Coast is split. Two of those CPs are set to return to base. The three remaining CPs stay at sea.

Return to Base:
All Italian ships return to La Spezia.
The 2 Japanese CPs return to Fukuoka

Use oil:
Japan reorganize all units for one oil (1.1).
Italy reorganizes all units except three for 1 oil (1.4). The BB, CA, and LND3 (Ca. 133) remain disorganized.

Scrap:
Italy scrap the 3 range FTR2 (Macchi C. 200)

Production:

Italy (6):
2 x FTR2
Pilot

Japan (15):
PARA Div
CV Shokaku (2nd)
BB (1st)
ATR3
MECH

Reinforcements:

Italy:
FTR2 (CR 42) -> Turin
NAV2 -> Rome

Japan:
LND3 -> Sasebo
ART -> Fukuoka
INF -> Tokyo

Remove the land based CVP1 in Tokyo.

[warspite1]

EoT for Germany

Can you please check my CP to ensure they are on sentry? Thank-you.

Prelim Saving one oil (in addition to the 2 Trade received being saved in Berlin) = 12 build points

Reorganise all units except convoys and old battleships – should be 3.4 for an expenditure of 3.

Build
MIL x 2
FTR x 2
PIL x 2

Reinforcements
GARR is Cologne
U-boat in Kiel
He-112 in Cologne
Bf-109 in Aachen
Synth Oil in Prague

[AllenK]

China has 4 BP's production.

CW saves 6 oil and has 18 BP's production (1 factory idle).

US saves the oil it can. Production 10 BP's.

CW CV task forces in the North Sea and West Med stay at sea, as do various escorts in the major convoy zones. TRANS in North Sea to London. TRANS in Cape Verde to Cape Town. CV in Cape St Vincent to Gibraltar. CA's in Central Med to Gib. CA in Faeroes Gap to Belfast. Sub in West Med to Malta.

Japanese oil use came to 1.2 so I carried on with reorganising all as it still only spent 1 oil.

CW reorganises all except the destroyer flotilla (1.45 points) for 1 oil spent.

US had no disorganised oil units.

China builds 2 MIL

CW 18
INF HQ
MIL x2
AMPH 2nd
Pilot x2
CV Formidable 2nd.

US 10
AMPH 2nd
TRANS
Pilot
INF

Reinforcements

China - Pilot to FTR and placed at Chungking with MIL. GARR to Kunming.

CW - Pilots to P-40 (Hull) and Gladiator (London). CP to Liverpool. CP to Bombay.

US - GARR to San Diego.

Initiative

Axis 4, Allies 1. Allies can reroll (Axis are at +1). Mayhemizer, what would the French like?

[Zecke]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Get ready to be even more angry... Partisan appears to China blocking a resource.

Nah. That one I expected. I've almost completely blocked the possibility to get partisans so, of course, it is going to appear the turn I fail. Even funnier it gets when I consider that if I would have gotten one more impulse then the risk for a partisan in China would have been zero.

Partisans..[:D]... ihaetd them¡...so finalyy Orm you found partisans at CHINA[X(],,,de verdad¡¡

[Zecke]

eso es que te quieren..orm..i know the situation.

[AllenK]

After a brief exchange of signals between their respective governments, the Allies decide not to press the issue regarding initiative. Do the Axis wish to go first or second?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: AllenK

After a brief exchange of signals between their respective governments, the Allies decide not to press the issue regarding initiative. Do the Axis wish to go first or second?

warspite1

I say, thank you for asking. We would very much like to go first please, if its not too much trouble? .... what? Oh sorry, we're the bad guys. In that case:

Wir mussen zuerst zu gehen dumbkopf! (or something)