Impulse #1 & #3 - Allied / Axis - Sept / Oct 1943
In the while in the rest of the world:
Soviet Union: The Russians, moving slowly due to the snow, pull slightly toward the Urals; bring the freshly rebuilt Irktusk MIL to Chita; and rearrange their line in the Caucasus. Germans slug behind due to supply shortage, toward the Urals.
Mannerheim moves via rail north of Astrakhan.
France: All is idle there, some units from Germany move to new positions and Antonescu arrives from Romania directly to take lead of the defenders of Normany.
Japanese Raids: Japan has unleashed submarines, which all fail to find except one off the shores of Pago-Pago, sinking 1 US convoy point. Japanese Cruisers engage with large numerical superiority UK escorts in Arabian Sea. (1 Cruiser sank for the CW, and 2 CPs lost, Japan suffers 1 damaged Cruiser).
The American Plan to conquer Truk!
American submarines and a small cruiser force are setup to raid the convoy lanes of the Japanese, but their attempt is not blessed by luck - and actually Japanese land based planes find the cruiser squadron and sink one!
In the while USA marines with a grand stand of carriers, battleship and other lesser ships ready to land at Truk, where the Japanese main fleet is at the anchor.
The USA forward an amount of planes to bombard Truk, and the land based defenders are overwhelmed and scattered (1 7 and 2 * 5 Air to Air factor defenders, against enough planes to warrant a +2 to the attackers and -2 to the Japanese). Thanksfully only 1 Japanese is disrupted (The US boldly opted to attack with rain!)
Shore bombing ensures, and further air missions which are unopposed. The US land with 2 marine corps supported by marine engineers, against a MIL, a GAR and an ENG that served the purpose to have more planes in Truk. The US peels the needed roll - getting a 19. (A bug happens here, we need to artificially roll for 0 US losses and will subtract 4 BPs from Japan later on - you can read in the Tech Forum what happened!).
Four new Essex class carriers arrived at Majuro and got quickly reorganized by MCArthur who was waiting just there for them.
Japanese fleet retaliation - to hunt some old US battleships that served well in the shore bombardment - proved to be useless as they did not found the US Battleships.
New Japanese carriers are sent from Japan to Truk, but still 1 carrier is waiting for planes. (Even with a big production of 35, the Japanese are short of pilots!).
Here the current Destroyed Pool:
As mentioned, Japan and US got both 1 damaged cruiser.
US lost 1 CP, UK lost 2 CPs, Italy lost 1 CP.
The NAVs of the Axis where shot in friendly territory and their pilots got saved.
US used an O-Chit for a Supercombined.
