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At Tsitsihar Japanese artilly opens fire:

The Italian Stuka does it's work, too...

The Italians rail a CAV to Cadiz. Antonescu rails towards Stalingrad. Japanese troops move into attack position around Tsitsihar.
The Blitzkrieg really takes on speed:
German forces move towards Vorozneh, cutting supply to Timoshenko. An disorganised INF gets overrun. The tramsservice at Stalingrad is still operating, when the LVII Panzer Korps races through the city, after which they move forward towards Saratov, where on the airfields the crews of two TB-3''s manage to destroy the planes before they are taken prisoner. The oilfields at Grozy are taken by a MECH which races towards Astrakhan. The PzKw I's of the LII Korps take the oilfields at Armavir after which they cross the straits at Kerch, taking the iron mines...
The Turkish army crosses the Caucasus. Other German units around Baku are moving along the coast north to secure the railline.

The Italian commanders of the Ethiopian TERR orders a suicide attack (the unit will be destroyed during conquest, so why not try to take an Allied INF with it). The cruiser Shropshire aids the defenders, while the Italian BB's also bombard the hex:

Umezu (HQ support used) personally directs the attack on Tsitsihar. Yeremenko provides defensive HQ support. Japanese planes are send in for ground support:

North of Moscow, von Leeb (HQ support) leads the attack at the Soviet units which have entrenched themselves in a forest.

Rommel drives in his command tank thought the woods west of Moscow, ordering another attack. The Luftwaffe aids him by sending Me-110 as ground support:

The city of Tula is attacked too. The Luftwaffe provides air cover to prevent the Soviet bombers to intervene:

Timoshenko gets attacked. Dorniers give ground support to the attack.

Panzer enters Voronesh, destroying another Soviet FTR.
North of Sevastopol, the Rumanian army attacks, aided by Stuka's:

North of Tiflis, the Turkish army attacks:

The turn doesn't end (60% chance):

And here is the weather for the next couple of impulses:

The Moscovian Front:

Stalingrad:

Manchuria. Apart from the units shown in these pictures, the USSR has a CAV and a INF in Siberia, an INF in a swamp near Baku, a GAR in South Persia, a GAR in Murmansk and a CAV in Karelia. And summer is approaching. In Berlin, the OKH is amazed at the results...

Quite the turn for the Axis. The Euro-Axis are going to get a good boost economically and oil issues are likely going to be a thing of the past before long.

March/April 1942, Allied impulse number 13:

Moscow to Washington and London: “The Soviet Army is collapsing. We need help”...

There is a 90% chance that the turn will end if all Allies pass. They do so and prey that the die roll will be with them:

March/April 1942, End of turn phases:

No partisans appear.

French war time music with a video made in occupied Paris: "Mon Homme" (Mistinguett) / Swing version ... Alex Renard et son Orchestre (ca. 1942)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GWzlGQyHro

Here is the destroyed pool, where the Soviet disaster is clearly visible. According to the house rule in play, all named ships are scrapped.

And the repair pool:

And the construction pool: