The final countdown - En svensk uppgörelse

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Sep/Oct '39
Impulse #3 (Axis)

No strategic bombing. No Ground Strikes. No rail movement.

Land Movement:

Japan:
MOT 71,143->75,142
HQI 70,144->73,143
ENG Canton->93,141

Germany makes minor adjustments along the Dutch, and Belgian borders. In Poland the Army Group advance slowly towards Lodz, and Warsaw.

No land combats.

Air Rebase:

Japan:
LND2 Nanchang->Canton
NAV2 84,143->74,144

Germany:
FTR2 (Essen) -> 51,33
LND3 (Frankfurt) -> Aachen
FTR3 (Dusseldorf) -> Aachen

Italy:
LND3 (Turin) -> Saarbrucken

Reorganization:

Germany:
ATR3 -> ART in 51,33
HQI Reorganize three units on the West Front.

Italy:
HQA -> NAV2 in Genoa

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Picture from Sep/Oct '39 Impulse #5 (Allies) - DOW

[jesperpehrson]

Turn 1. Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #5.

No wars

France - combined
USSR - combined
China - land
US - combined
CW - combined

Port strike:
None

Naval air:
None

Naval movement:
CW protects convoys in Cape St Vincent.
CW sails a CA-fleet to the Eastern Med.

France sends 2 CA to the Baltic 3-box

The US sends 2 SUBs towards Midway.

Naval combat:
CW elects to not initiate combat in Bay of Biscay nor Cape St. Vincent.
CW initiates in the Eastern Med.
Allies rolls 7
Axis rolls 2



What does Italy want to do?

Questions to ponder for Italy/Germany as well:
Does Italy want to initiate in the Bay of Biscay?
Does Germany want to react against the French CA that will initiate in the Baltic?

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If Italy has 6 surprise points, then they will go with surface combat. Use 4 surprise points to reduce the damage suffered to 1D + 3A. Then use the remaining 2 surprise points to 1X on the CW fleet. Then the Italian force aborts to La Spezia. Garibaldi takes the first D result. If I made a miscalculation then please let me now.

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Italy will not react in BoB. I thought they couldn't anyway. Just kidding. Italy won't react in CSV.

Germany will not reinforce the Baltic Sea.

[jesperpehrson]

Naval combat continued:

D on CA Garibaldi, roll 9 - aborted
X on CA Manchester, roll 2 - destroyed
As Italy will abort the sea the aborts irrelevant.


The Italian ships abort to La Spezia.

France initiates in the Baltic.
Allies rolls 1
Axis rolls 5
France spends 4 surprise to chose submarine combat.
France increases the damage with the remaining surprisepoints.


Does Germany stay and fight?

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Germany stay.

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And aborted CPs seek protection in Kiel.

[jesperpehrson]

Naval combat continued:
Both stay and fight in the Baltic.
Allies rolls 9
Axis rolls 10
Search is unsuccessful and no more combat.

Italy does not initiate in Cape St Vincent.

[jesperpehrson]

Turn 1. Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #5, continued.

Ground strike:
None

Rail movement:
None

Land movement:
China captures to port of Kiungchow on Hainan.


France moves the MIL from Paris to the Belgian Border.
BEF deploys in northern France.


Land combat:
None

Air rebase:
Poland sends both their aircraft to Romania allowing the pilots to continue on in the RAF.

New weather is:

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Sep/Oct '39
Impulse #7 (Axis)

Germany DOW Belgium. One US entry marker added. (4 rolled)

Will Belgium align to France, or CW?

How will the Belgian units be placed? Not shown in the picture is 1 TERR, and 2 CPs.

Note: If France is considered for aligning Belgium, then, in order to avoid later surprises, it might be beneficial to be updated on the rule deviation on Vichy creation.

Edit: Pictured replaced with a better cut one.

[jesperpehrson]

Please explain what you mean by rules deviation 😊

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In RAC there are a few rule deviations. Rule changes from the WIF version that MWIF is built upon.

I cut in the relevant change shortly.

I only mentioned it so that there will be no surprise later on, because I know that not all has read the entire RAC. Especially not when they were familiar to the WIF rules.

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The last point may be the most relevant one. Note that it include minor countries colonies as well.

Cut from RAC:

17. Vichy France
....
17.2 Determine control
....
[Deviation (taken from RAW8.21 draft)
• All Axis controlled hexes in Vichy controlled minor countries and territories immediately revert (see 13.7.5)
to Vichy French control.
• Axis controlled hexes in Free French controlled minor countries and territories remain under Axis control.
• All Allied controlled hexes in Free French controlled minor countries and territories immediately revert to
Free French control.
• All Allied controlled hexes in Vichy French controlled minor countries and territories may now be
immediately reverted to Vichy control. Vichy France is hostile to all Allied major powers that do not
immediately revert all such hexes to Vichy control.
• Finally all Vichy controlled minor countries France has gained controlled of since the start of the game
immediately become controlled by an Axis major power nominated by the major power that installed Vichy
France. The minor country is conquered if it aligned to France and aligned if it was conquered by France.
If more than one minor country is available to be allocated they may be allocated to different major powers.]

[jesperpehrson]

Thanks

[jesperpehrson]

Align Belgium with France.

Set up:
The two INF in Antwerp.
CAV in Liege

MIL in Boma.
Convoys in Boma.

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Sep/Oct '39
Impulse #7 (Axis)

Land: Germany, Japan
Combined: Italy
Naval:

Germany play one offensive on Rundstedt.

No port strikes. No naval air.

Italy send 2 CA to the West Med 4-box.

Italy decline to initiate in CSV, but begin the hunt for Allied shipping in the West Med.

Edit: No additional Axis air.

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Italy finds the Allied shipping on a roll of 5, while the Allies rolls a 10. This gives the Italian fleet enough surprise to eliminate all the Allied CPs.

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Sep/Oct '39
Impulse #7 (Axis)

Strategic Bombing:
Italy:
NAV2 -> Bayonne

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The Italians just missed the target.

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Sep/Oct '39
Impulse #7 (Axis)

Ground Strike:
Germany:
LND2 (Cologne) -> Brussels
LND3 (Aachen) -> 54,31

France can intercept the raid NW of Reims (54,31) with one FTR2. Germany can counter-intercept with one FTR3. Will France intercept the German bomber?