Storm Clouds Gathering (4-player game)

[NatRapsEno]

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Germany rebases a fighter to West Coast of France, the Condor to Portugal, and the 6 range Stuka from Egypt to NW Greece. Italy rebases the Gabby from Palastine to Sicily, fighter from Egypt to Greece, and the Falco from Egypt to Greek islands.

Japan rebases fighter to Japan from Pacific and fighters and bombers to the Canton area.

Turn sent.

[NatRapsEno]

FYI, I received the dreaded message "the carrier plane has no place to land so will be destroyed" for the CVP in Arabian Sea after it's ground strike of Aden. Sure enough, it shows up in the destroyed pool along with a Japanese pilot. I'm not sure how to rectify this but in the near term you should treat this carrier as having the CVP still on it for combat purposes. We will work around this as best we can as I research how to possibly fix it through editing.

[NatRapsEno]

The game is on knife's edge. The Axis have embarked on a very unique and difficult strategy that allows the USSR complete freedom of action, but puts a lot of pressure on the Commonwealth. I'm sure it's been done countless times, but I have never seen an invasion of Portugal by the Axis. The long term effectiveness of this strategy will have to be measured later in the war.

[Orm]

Picture from May/Jun '42 Impulse #2 (Allies) - DOW

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[Orm]

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Allied)

No declarations of war.

Land: USSR, China
Combined: USA
Naval: Free France, CW

No Port Strikes.

Naval air:
USA:
FTR2 Pago Pago -> Polynesia 3-box

Naval movement:

CW + FF:
TRS + FTR2 Halifax -> Ponta Delgada, Azores
TRS + FTR2 Freetown -> Ponta Delgada, Azores
SUB Madras -> Bay of Bengal 4-box
CP Cape Town -> Arabian Sea
Home Fleet Liverpool -> BoB 4-box
Force H Gibraltar -> Western Mediterranean 4-box
Convoy escorts do their thing.

USA:
TRS + AT New York -> CSV 0-box
2 BB + 6 CA + CL Norfolk -> CSV 0-box
2 BB + 3 CL Norfolk -> North Atl 0-box

Save sent for naval searches.

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[Orm]

Allies begin searching in BoB. No air added.

Will Axis add any air?

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[NatRapsEno]

Fly the F3 from La Rochelle and the 4 strength Fokker from Brest to the 0 box.

[NatRapsEno]

For West Med, fly the 115C to the 2 box.

[Orm]

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Allied)

Allies find in the BoB, and has just enough points to make it a surface action (6-7).

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[Orm]

How should the result on the German ships be applied?

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[NatRapsEno]

X on CP. One damage each on Bismarck and Admiral Scheer. First abort on the Amphib and second on Amhib as well if does not abort on the first try. Otherwise, second abort on any damaged ship(Admiral Scheer if both the Bismarck and Admiral Scheer damaged).

Stay in zone.

[Orm]

The combat results.

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[Orm]

CW stay as well. Any new Axis air?

[Orm]

FYI, I received the dreaded message "the carrier plane has no place to land so will be destroyed" for the CVP in Arabian Sea after it's ground strike of Aden. Sure enough, it shows up in the destroyed pool along with a Japanese pilot. I'm not sure how to rectify this but in the near term you should treat this carrier as having the CVP still on it for combat purposes. We will work around this as best we can as I research how to possibly fix it through editing.

I have had this bug as well. In my case I the bug was created when I restored a game to a save made after I flew the mission with the CVP but before it returned. As far as I can recall I have never had this bug when I did the CVP mission without restoring the game to a save point.

Anyway. Any suggestions on how to handle this is welcome. I have had issues with games before that have had CVPs edited in on carriers. Maybe we should try to avoid that solution?

[NatRapsEno]

No additional air added. Aborts to Brest.

[Orm]

For West Med, fly the 115C to the 2 box.

Miss the second time in BoB (9-3).

Next search is in the West Med.

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