Witness to World War 2.

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Turn 25. Sep/Oct 1943. Allied #9.

The Pacific. USN. Bismarck Sea (2/2).

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Turn 25. Sep/Oct 1943. Allied #9.

Western Allies. Vichy France Bridgehead.

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China.

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USSR.

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The Middle East.

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End of Turn. Turn continues.

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Turn 25. Sep/Oct 1943. Axis #9.

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

Japan. Strategic Bombing. Kumning, China.

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Japan. Southern China. Japan is looking for some payback against the Chinese for all the trouble that they've cause the Imperial Japanese Army. The payback starts against the Nationalist.

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Japan. Northern China. And continues against the Nationalist in the north working with the communist.

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Germany. Southern France (1/2). Very effective spoiling ground strikes.

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Germany. Southern France (2/2).

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Euro-Axis. Eastern Front (1/4)

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Euro-Axis. Eastern Front (2/4)

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Euro-Axis. Eastern Front (3/4)

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Euro-Axis. Eastern Front (4/4)

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Euro-Axis. Middle East (1/2).

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Turn 25. Sep/Oct 1943. Axis #9.

Euro-Axis. Middle East (2/2). Note that Germany has moved a NAV to the banks of the Caspian Sea. They hope to be able to take a combine, fly the NAV to the 3-box and knock out the 2 Soviet CP's transporting oil and providing supply.

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End of Turn. Turn continues on a roll of 8 (<5 required to end).

Allied #10. Weather. Weather remains fine across the map.

[Courtenay]

The western Allies should take a page from the German books and fly a Catalina or a Sunderland to Turkey,where it can fly to the four box of the Black sea and sink the Rumanian CP. It would probably appreciate a long range fighter to escort it. But right now that CP is the most important Axis unit on the map.

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ORIGINAL: Courtenay

The western Allies should take a page from the German books and fly a Catalina or a Sunderland to Turkey,where it can fly to the four box of the Black sea and sink the Rumanian CP. It would probably appreciate a long range fighter to escort it. But right now that CP is the most important Axis unit on the map.

Agreed. That plane should have been send there a long time ago already.

Apart from that, the Allies are losing far to many units. Some movement made by the Allies are not good at all. Why risk a nice Soviet ARM unit to take a port which isn't of any importance at this stage? The USSR isn't in a good position to cut supply with that SS unit in Batum anyhow...

The Soviets need FTR's to put pressure on the Luftwaffe. They've got to few of them on the map...

And what about Japan? I see a lot of naval action against the Japanese, but I don't see any invasions by the US Marines. What I do see, is expensive CW and US units getting killed in Europe. It looks like opportunistic play by the Allies, without a good strategic goal.

What is the main strategy by the Allies? Which major power do they want to conquer first? Japan or Italy? I can't see a strategic plan behind what is happening at the moment. I see fighting going on in sideshows like Turkey and Persia. There's less than two years to get to Berlin, Tokyo and Rome...