It Takes A Village to Raze a Village

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (3/3). German U-boats.

1. Headed home for some R&R.
2. Hopefully they'll make it back safely.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Arctic Front. Start of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Arctic Front. End of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. The Eastern Front. Start of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. The Eastern Front. End of Turn.

1. Rostov, Velikye Luki, Kaluga fall.
2. More ground troops moved in via operational movement.
3. A few reinforcements, especially to the armor corps (down to 1-step) and A/T unit (down to 5-steps).

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Production. Germany.

1. Germany built two new infantry corps and two garrisons.
2. One corps and both garrisons included max upgrade levels.
3. The Germany corps that didn't had all upgrades excluded by mistake. That is, it was suppose to be built with max upgrades too.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. Production. Italy.

1. A new garrison for East Africa as mentioned previously.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. China. Start of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. China. End of Turn.

1. Attritional attacks including the destruction of a Chinese army in the north continues.
2. Adjustments of the front line with care taken not to trigger a CCP advance towards the allies.
3. That is stay 3-hexes away from Sian, Lanchow and Chunking and 4-hexes away from Yenan.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. French Indo China. Start of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. French Indo China. Pacific. End of Turn.

1. Buildup in southern FIC continues.
2. Also, most of the KB moves east to forward Pacific bases in prep from their attack on Pearl Harbor.
3. BBs and CAs move south to bases in preparation for their support of Japanese invasions of Malaya, the Philippines, Dutch East Indies and Guam.

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Turn 65. Axis. September 26, 1941. MPPs.

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Turn 57. Axis. October 14, 1941. Opening Messages.

1. U-boats sink 72 MPPs headed to Russia and 8 to the UK.
2. U-505 lost 6-steps to a Soviet Destroyer.
3. Two U-boats in the South Atlantic had to dive due to a heavy RN presence and did take some damage.

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Turn 57. Axis. October 14, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (1/3). Murmansk Convoy.

1. U-505 lost 6-steps limps in to Trondheim, Norway for repairs.
2. U-372, U-371 and U-81 continue their positions on the Murmansk convoy route to hopefully sink more MPPs headed to Russia.

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Turn 57. Axis. October 14, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (2/3). South Atlantic.

1. U-37 and U-30 move off of the convoy lines in order to flee the RN DDs hunting them.
2. Their orders are to make it back to port for reinforcement and upgrade.

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Turn 57. Axis. October 14, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (3/3).

1. The two Italian subs are also ordered back to port for reinforcement and upgrade.
2. However, they remain on the convoy lines in the hopes of sinking a few MPPs headed to the UK.

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Turn 57. Axis. October 14, 1941. Diplomacy.

1. Really focused on the US here, which is at 69%.
2. By my count the axis have 3 more turns, including this turn, before the historical DOW on the US.
3. Not sure about how the 69% works, or what it'll be in two more axis and two more allied turns but the axis are going to war with the US at that time unless the US somehow enters the war during the next two allied turns?

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Turn 57. Axis. October 14, 1941. Pacific. Start of Turn.

1. I hope I hadn't waited too long but invasion transports will be formed next turn.

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Turn 57. Axis. October 14, 1941. Pacific. End of Turn.

1. The KB and Japanese subs headed for the Central Pacific and will be just side of the US declared line at the end of next turn.
2. Of course their target is the USN fleet based at Pearl.
3. Final upgrades to a number of DDs, BBs, CAs and CVs were made this turn too.

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Turn 57. Axis. October 14, 1941. South China Sea. End of Turn.

1. As mentioned a couple of posts back, amphibious transports will be formed next turn.
2. Also, the Japanese airborne unit in FIC will be put in prepare mode.
3. Honestly I have no clue about the strength of the allies in any of the areas I'm going to invade as this is my first time to play thought.
4. But it's definitely fun and entertaining!