A Blazing World (4-player game)

[NatRapsEno]

Naval for USA, Land for Commonwealth and USSR. Turn ends. No partisans. Axis SAS sent.

[Orm]

Looks like trade from Vichy France to Germany is buggy. Might need to edit in those BPs.

Did you edit in the Soviet BP from last turn?

Allied RTB save sent.

[Orm]

Losses for the turn.

The Soviet Black Sea Fleet were destroyed since they had no base remaining. The two Dutch ships were destroyed in their pool (construction) during last end of turn conquest. Or so I think anyway.

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[NatRapsEno]

OK, we can fix the Vichy issue, just let me know. I did not edit the BP for USSR yet. I will let you know when I do. I also have an issue with the Senagal resource not getting to the UK, even though there are CP vacant for it's transport. I will save a BP in England this turn and add the BP during the next turn for commonwealth as they will be one short this turn.

Axis RTB sent.

[Orm]

I also have an issue with the Senagal resource not getting to the UK, even though there are CP vacant for it's transport. I will save a BP in England this turn and add the BP during the next turn for commonwealth as they will be one short this turn.

I think that one more resource to CW would yield two more BPs due to rounding. If I am correct then CW should have 2 BPs added in.

[Orm]

Do I do the Allied oil stuff?

[Courtenay]

Thank you, Orm. I thought the PP was produced from nothing, which seems strange, but is by no means the strangest WiF rule.

Somehow it almost seems appropriate that Japanese bombing would cause the loss of an unproduced production point, that causes a production point that was produced somewhere else to be lost. It reminds me what Chinese accounting was all-too-often like during the war. It fell off a truck!

[NatRapsEno]

You may proceed with Allied oil usage. Please reorganize all of the Allied units. For Commonwealth, please use both of the saved oil in Kuwait if at all possible. No breakdowns for Allies. You should be able to proceed to builds and I won't need the file again until Allied builds.

[Orm]

Use Oil:

Germany:
All units are reorganized for 0 oil (0,2).

Italy:
All units are reorganized for 1 oil (0,8).

Japan:
All units are reorganized for 2 oil (2,3).

VF:
All units are reorganized for 0 oil (0,1).

China -> 0 oil
CW -> 3 oil
France -> 0 oil
USA -> 2 oil
USSR -> 0 oil

Breakdown:
-

Scrap:
-

Production:

Germany (41 + 2 later edited in from Vichy):
GARR
Air Lnd Div
TERR
HQI
MECH
3 FTR2
NAV3
4 Pilot
2 SUB (1st)
BB (2nd)
CV (2nd)
Save 1 BP in Berlin

Italy (19):
HQI
AA
FTR2
NAV3
2 Pilot
SUB (1st)

Japan (19):
TER 2
3xCP 3
CV fu 2
BB fd 2
2xPIL 4
SUB fd 1
CVP 1
NAV4 4

VF production seems weird, and so does the new saved BPs. More on VF later.

[Orm]

Allied Builds save sent.

[NatRapsEno]

Allied Reinforcements sent. Modify the trade from USA to USSR by increasing BPs lent to two. Do the same for the agreement between USA and Free France.

If the Allies win initiative, the Axis will move first.

[Orm]

Incoming reinforcements before production, so 1-turn units are missing.

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[Orm]

Reinforcements:

Germany:
FTR2 -> Aachen
FTR2 -> Bremen
CBV GARR -> Amsterdam
CBV CAV -> Kiev
MIL -> Buenos Aires
TERR -> Jerusalem
MOT + GARR -> Kiel
ARM -> Munich
MECH -> Hamburg
MECH Div -> Aachen
BB -> Kiel
Remove LND3 in Dusseldorf

Italy:
FTR2 -> Venice
FTR2 -> Palermo
MIL -> Teheran
CA + 2 CP -> La Spezia

Japan:
FTR2 + NAV3 -> Sasebo
CBV GARR -> Manila
CBV INF -> Telok Betong
TERR -> Hanoi
Synth -> Hiroshima
BB -> Tokyo
TRS -> Fukuoka

Voluntary Resource Lending:
Modified; Germany -> Italy: 7 resources total + 7 BPs -> 7 Res + 0 Oil
Modified; VF -> Germany: 3 BPs (Removed from actual trade. Seems easier to handle outside the system)

Axis goes first if we win the initiative, no re-roll.

[Orm]

Allies wins the initiative, so Axis moves first. (Axis 3 - Allies 10)

The new weather is fine everywhere (8+2).

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[Orm]

Mar/Apr '42
Impulse #1 (Axis)

Germany aligns Turkey.

Land: Germany
Combined: Italy
Naval: Japan

No Port Strikes.

Naval air:
Germany:
VF FTR2 -> West Med 2-box
Italy:
NAV2 -> West Med 4-box

Naval movement:

Italy:
SUB -> Arabian Sea 2-box

Japan:
Transports:
CAV Div Siberia -> Japan Sea
INF Fukuoka -> Hanoi
MAR Batavia -> Singapore ->
-> MAR Singapore -> Bay of Bengal 3-box
INF Div Burma -> Bay of Bengal 3-box
MAR Div Rabaul -> Bismarck Sea 4-box
----
CV + 2 CA -> Cape Naturaliste 3-box
Escorts to the Bay of Bengal 3-box transport force
2 CA -> SW Ind Ocean 3-box
SUB -> Christmas Isl 2-box
----
Plenty of escorts leave port.

Axis will search in all three available sea areas.

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[Orm]

Any air to the Arabian Sea?

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[Orm]

Any air to the Christmas Isl?

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[NatRapsEno]

Hudson to 3 box, fighter from Hawaii to 0 box. In Arabian Sea fly the Sunderland to the 3 box and the fighter to 0 box

[Orm]

The U-boatiners decide to stay safe against such overwhelming air presence. Only search is in SW Ind Ocean.

[Orm]

Mar/Apr '42
Impulse #1 (Axis)

The Japanese cruisers find, and sink, the Greek (CW), transport ships. (Axis 1, Allies 6)

In the picture below Axis should have had one more surprise point but I am not going back to fix something that makes no difference (I erroneously put in 5 for Allies).

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