Witness to World War 2.

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1942. Allied #4.

RN. French Navy. Italian Coast. Sicily.

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RN. Central Atlantic.

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RN. North Atlantic.

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RN. Faeores Gap. Non-phasing combat by German u-boats fail to find.

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RN. Bay of Biscay. Non-phasing combat by German u-boats and Surface raiders fail to find.

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USSR Rail. No factories railed east, which allowed two corps/armies to be railed west to the front lines.

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USSR Land Combat. Looks like the Italian mountain division got to bold in moving ahead and paid the price.

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1942. Allied #4.

USSR. Eastern Europe.

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1942. Axis #7.

Weather. The brutal weather mostly continues but lets up some in the Med (snow) and clears in the north monsoon (fine).

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1942. Axis #7.

Actions. Japan - land, Germany - land, Italy - combine.

Bay of Biscay. Axis subs and surface raiders again fail to find the allies in the Bay of Biscay.

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1942. Axis #7.

The Italian Coast. RN and French Navy. The allies have no problem finding and sinking the supply convoy the Italians put out off the Italian Coast.

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Sicily. Sicily has devolved into a stalemate with current battlelines reminiscent of the trench warfare in the first world war.

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1941. Axis #7.

Euro-Axis. The Eastern Front. Land Combat. Tula, USSR.

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Euro-Axis. The Eastern Front.

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Japan. Southern China (Nationalist Chinese). Land Combat (1/2).

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1941. Axis #7.

Japan. French-Indo China (Nationalist Chinese). Land Combat (2/2).

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1941. Axis #7.

Japan. China & French-Info China Front.

End of Turn. Turn continues on a roll of 4 (<2 needed to end).

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1942. Allied #10.

Actions. Free France - naval, China - land, Great Britain - land, USA - pass, USSR - land.

RAF. Naval Air. The RAF uses a bit of gamesmanship in flying the Indian fighter group out into the Red Sea, which will allow the fighter group to return to base later in, or at the end of, the turn into Egypt. Where's the gamesmanship? The Indian fighter group, which was allowed by the Sundanese to base in Sudan, didn't have the range to fly from Aden to Egypt during a rebase phase. They can only achieve this by the naval air/return to base strategy they're currently employing.

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1942. Allied #10.

Great Britain. Sicilian Assault Wargaming. British war planners, even with the full bombardment support of the RN battleships operating off the Italian Coast, estimate that an assault on Palermo has an estimated 36.8% chance of succeeding (which is slightly better than 1 out of 3). Worse, they estimate a 5.9% chance that the Brits would have to lose 3 units. Again, this sort of loss would threaten Great Britain's chances of remaining ashore in Sicily. So no assault attempt (again) this impulse.

RN. Ground Strike. Ajaccio, Corsica. Missed, but only a 10% of hitting to begin with.

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Turn 15. Jan/Feb 1942. Allied #10.

USSR Rail. Again, no factory dismantled and railed east; but two more corps/armies railed east to the front.