WiF - The Second Half

[EUBanana]

Alrighty, bed time. If anybody has any suggestions what to do with Italy I'm all ears!

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: EUBanana

Alrighty, bed time. If anybody has any suggestions what to do with Italy I'm all ears!

warspite1

Sorry mate, in war there is only one thing to do with Italy....pray she joins the other side [:D].

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: EUBanana

Alrighty, bed time. If anybody has any suggestions what to do with Italy I'm all ears!

warspite1

Sorry mate, in war there is only one thing to do with Italy....pray she joins the other side [:D].

Italy, the Rodney Dangerfield of WW2. No respect. [:D]

[EUBanana]

May/Jun 42 Allied #6

US passes (nothing to do... is this normal for the US? or am I being a noob? [:(]). CW combined, USSR/China land.

CW moves a couple of TRS around, MAR from Bristol to Suez about the Queens, TRS to Alexandria to pick up a Blenheim (prolly for India). No naval combat as the Axis aren't at sea (yet?). As things seem quiet for the Wallies, they decide to strat bomb Lille, doesn't seem like they'll be super necessary to hold back so what the hell . No damage done. (Well, not to anything strategically relevant anyway!). Then they move Wavell up to the Tunisian border, and the Indian MECH that debarked at Chittagong heads for Calcutta and the partisans.

The USSR realises it has nothing from the southern Dnieper to send to the north bar a 6-4 INF which was at the southern tip. It moves, its in Kursk now though so a long way to go. They deem themselves fairly safe at Pskov so nobody moves there. Armour at Smolensk moves to the front, was going to keep it in reserve - but a 3 point MIL is going to get rolled over without help so the ARM helps.

[EUBanana]

May/Jun 42 Allied #6

The Nationalist Chinese decide to attack Yamamoto with +6 to the roll - slim odds but Yamamoto is a high value target, so the risk is deemed acceptable with the Japanese on the run. They decide to use the airfarce, with a fighter as a bomber - unfortunately they/I didn't realise that there was a Nate nearby which can actually still fly. The Nate intercepts, and shoots down the P36, killing the pilot. not a good start.

The attack goes in, Japan picks blitzkrieg, trying to reduce the chance of Yamamoto being killed. And yup, looks like he will survive this turn at least.

[EUBanana]

May/Jun 42 Axis #7

The Russians at Smolensk, awaiting the hammerblow, are saved by the weather. A storm means the Germans arent going to bother attempting to cross the river there, not with it newly reinforced. The Japanese are happier to see a pause in operations as there's rain there too.

As per usual when the weather is bad, Germany goes for a naval to deploy U-boats. Italy goes land. Japan goes for a combined.

Germany sends a single ultra modern sub with a long range to the 2 box of the Central Atlantic (this one came from Kiel!). The main effort is at Biscay though, with 4 subs going to the 4 box and 1 to the 3 box.

Japanese subs in the Coral Sea fail to find targets. The lone German U-boat counter in the Central Atlantic, ditto. ...Aaaand the main effort at Biscay, the same.

Completely wasted turn combat wise. Japan does transport an ARM DIV to Shanghai though, and moves a MIL to Fukuoka, ready for transport next turn, and Germany takes the lull as an opportunity to move some more aircraft to the front.

[EUBanana]

May/Jun 42 Allied #9.

Decisions. There's not really a whole lot to be done with the Allied turns at the moment, the only thing the USSR has to do is move that INF from Kursk further north. The Chinese are mostly disorged after Chiang's attack, there is Mao free to act still but ... his odds of attacking undisorged Japanese (no more air strikes) are not so good.

50% chance of end of turn if everybody passes.

Everybody passes. A roll of 2 means winter gets closer as the turn ends.

[EUBanana]

A Russian partisan appears, the only partisan to do so. It goes on the railway line between Krivoy Rog and the Fatherland. 3 less resources for the Fuhrer...

[EUBanana]

Fair bit of infantry arriving for Japan... badly needed doesn't even begin. And Germany too. The US fleet is getting a LOT of transports in 1942, so another batch of those.

[EUBanana]

The Germans don't have enough oil to refuel even their entire airforce, though they do refuel all ground units. The U-boat and Kriegsmarine are left completely fallow this turn. [:(]

Italy reorgs everything. Germany is still giving them 2 oil a turn, that is cut to 1 oil a turn. Focus will shift to the German ground troops not messing about with the Regina Marina.

Japan reorgs everything, but the oil they saved is now all gone, shouldn't be a problem given the SYNTH they are getting this turn.

CW reorgs 90% of the navy but not everything, making that SYNTH purchase not seem so stupid I guess.

USSR reorgs everything easily. As does the US (hardly needs saying!).

[EUBanana]

May/Jun 42 was bloody on the Eastern Front...

[EUBanana]

Builds.

Germany, 30 BP
1 MOT
2 ARM
2 INF DIV
1 INF
1 LND-2
1 FTR-3
1 pilot

Italy
3 CV (ok, probably useless, but you never know I guess. Just not sure what to do with these guys)
1 Garrison
1 FTR-2
1 INF

Japan
2 MIL
1 NAV-3
1 INF
1 garrison

China
1 INF
1 CAV DIV
1 antitank
1 pilot

Commonwealth
7 naval construction, cruisers
1 AMPH
Inf HQ (Mountbatten)
LND-4
Pilot
1 MIL
2 Carrier Air

USA
2 naval construction (1 carrier, 1 TRS)
3 carrier air 1, 1 carrier air 2
4 pilots
6 CV
2 BB
2 LND-4
1 MOT
1 INF

USSR
3 INF
2 MECH
1 MECH DIV
1 antitank
2 LND-2
1 CAV


Malaya was conquered by Japan (??? guess you don't need Singapore).
Latvia was liberated by Germany, Mr Hitler is nice like that.

Nice weather everywhere for the next turn, Axis have the initiative.

And... bedtime. [:D]

[composer99]

Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaya, and Singapore has no factories, so to conquer the minor country, the Japanese just need to conquer Kuala Lumpur.

Of course, that doesn't help them much if Allied units are based in Singapore and prevent it from converting automatically to Japanese control.

[EUBanana]

Jul/Aug 1942 Axis #1

Germany takes an air action, Italy and Japan both naval.

Italian Sparvieros head for the east med, no other naval air.

Japan moves a convoy to the Marianas and a TRS takes a Kate to Kwajalein. A bunch of convoys go to the South China Sea, enough to slurp up all the oil and resources from there. A Ki-32 Mary is transported to Legaspi to aid in the conquest of the PI. Battleships and cruisers are sent in force to the South China Sea to protect convoys and provide shore bombardment, while Japanese submarines are deployed from Truk to the American supply lines in Polynesia and the Coral Sea. The Kido Butai moves mostly for the Coral Sea too, though not all the IJN is deployed, some remains at Truk, just in case.

Fair bit of shuttling ground troops around. an INF is taken from Japan to Java. A MAR and a MIL end up in the China Sea space ready to be unloaded. Japan is in dire need of carrier air, there's a half dozen CVs of various sorts which lack airplanes...






Japanese subs at Polynesia sink the convoy point there, but no joy finding anything int he Coral Sea which could be bad given the huge US fleet at Rabaul.

[EUBanana]

The German air action means heavy bombing across the front, but especially over by Smolensk. The Red Air Force comes out to play but isn't very effective, an unescorted Stuka makes it through, and in a furball over Smolensk both sides lose a fighter but the bombers get through.





The bombers do pretty good damage - both units at Pskov are disorganised. Several units are disorged by Smolensk, though it's spread out, no full stacks.

[EUBanana]

Jul/Aug 1942 Axis #1

On the southern end of the front the Luftwaffe is making a bit of an effort too, heavy damage is done. The USSR needs a LOT more fighters. Rommel and Manstein are used to reorg a lot of the German bombers.

[EUBanana]

Jul/Aug 1942 Allied #2

US/CW take naval actions, USSR takes a land.

The CW sends a huge fleet to meet the Italians in the Coast of Italy sea space; operations in the Med cannot happen until naval superiority is decided after all. Unfortunately they are in the 2 box and the Italians in the 3, and the Italians have the advantage in guns, though the CW has 4 CVs there.

Glorious, Formidable, Duke of York and Hood head from the UK, where they were being fixed/rearmed with planes, to Gibraltar. The Queens take a MAR from Suez to the East Indian sea space with the intent of debarking on Java so the Japanese dont just walk all over it.

[EUBanana]

Jul/Aug 1942 Allied #2

The United States decides to try and attack the Japanese in the Coral Sea. They have a huge advantage in gun power, but a slight disadvantage in the air. They reason that if they are fortunate the Japanese could suffer badly, if they are unfortunate, well, they have major navy reinforcements in 1943 so what the hell.

2 P38 are loaded into TRS and sent across the Atlantic, they will help strategic bombing immensely. A TRS, AMPH and supply are en route to the South Pacific.

And then... huge battle in the Coral Sea! Both sides find each other.

[EUBanana]

Both sides should've plumped for a lot more bombers I think... not many bombers made it through, on either side.

[EUBanana]

The single Kate that makes it through for the Japanese is destroyed by AA fire.

The SBD that makes it through has its bombs reduced by 3 and aborts a couple of cruisers.

Not too impressive...

And neither side finds each other again so thats it.