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Japan - The Hainan resource needs sending to Canton. Save both DEI oils in Tokyo. Should give 10 BP's.

Due to a Chinese partisan on a resource, this oil configuration only delivers 9 BPs. Should one less oil be saved? Or should Japan change the builds? Or any other variant?

ORIGINAL: Orm

Japan - The Hainan resource needs sending to Canton. Save both DEI oils in Tokyo. Should give 10 BP's.

Due to a Chinese partisan on a resource, this oil configuration only delivers 9 BPs. Should one less oil be saved? Or should Japan change the builds? Or any other variant?

Thought that might happen. Send one of the DEI oils to production, thanks.

I wonder why the program always wants to save the NEI oil in Ominato. It is frustrating. And it forces me to use override. Even in the first production step.

ORIGINAL: Orm

I wonder why the program always wants to save the NEI oil in Ominato. It is frustrating. And it forces me to use override. Even in the first production step.

warspite1

Wasn't he one of the Wombles?

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Orm

I wonder why the program always wants to save the NEI oil in Ominato. It is frustrating. And it forces me to use override. Even in the first production step.

warspite1

Wasn't he one of the Wombles?

No idea. I have no clue when it comes to bats. [&:] [:(]

*sigh* [:(]

I am taking a break from end of turn. For some weird reason I used to think end of turn was fun. Don't know what I was thinking. The production system is borked with defaults that no one has ordered and can't be removed, so they must be overwritten all the time. Convoy routes that was changed that the program can't remember even though not even one CP has moved. And then there is the worst, traded resources. It feel like the program is fighting a war with me. I learned how to avoid most of these pitfalls.

And done all that I reach the oil reorganization step and wonders why a oil seems to have disappeared from Germany. Germany had 3 oils in Berlin, used two to reorganize for, and when it came to Italy they wanted to use little oil from Germany, and the program listed Berlin, once, as containing zero oil. first time I've seen a 0 oil listed before I begun reorganization. Hoped that it would return after the step. But it was a forlorn hope.

So now I am talking a walk to calm down.

And hope that I do not break things further by using a end of turn save. Because that has caused errors in my games before.

Rant over.

[:(]

Tried to complete the EoT, and the fiftytwelfth time seemed to work. Please check all your nations for errors.

Allies end of turn: (note that there can be errors in this since I had to redo things, and might have messed it up either in writing or in action)

USSR place the pact marker in the offensive pool.

USA draw one entry marker and place it in the Japanese pool.

USA plays "resources to China" for no tension (8).

Preliminary planning:
CW - 21 production points - 11 BPs.
France - 9 production points - 9 BPs.
USA - 40 production points - 11 BPs.
USSR - 23 production points - 8 BPs
China - 7 production points - 5 BPs.

Stay at sea:
The following units stay at sea.

CW:
Convoy escorts in 1 and 4 boxes
Almost all CPs
North Sea: BB + CL
East Med: 2 x CA

France:
CL in North Sea

USA:
All CPs

USSR:
CPs

Return to Base:

France:
2 x SUB -> Syria
TRS + CL -> Dakar

CW:
2 x SUB -> Malta
TRS + TERR -> Gibraltar
TRS + INF -> Port Said
2 x TRS -> Plymouth
Liner -> Plymouth
Fleet (West Med) -> Gibraltar
Fleet (North Sea) -> Plymouth
Fleet (East Med) -> port Said

USA:
SUB -> Midway

Use Oil:

USSR:
All units are reorganized for 0 oil (0.45).

CW:
All units are reorganized for 4 oil (4.25).

France:
All units, except 2 x BB + 2 x SUB + 4 x CP, are reorganized for 1 oil (1.00). Edit: Forgot to add that one HQI remains disorganized.

USA:
All units, except 5 x BB, are reorganized for 0 oil (0.4).

China:
No units are reorganized for 0 oil (0.0).

Breakdown: -

Prod plan Final:
zzzz

Scrap: -

Production:
China (5):
CAV Div
2 x MIL

CW (11):
INF
Pilot
FTR2
TRS (1st)
CP
CL Naïad (2nd)

France (9):
3 x MIL
Pilot
Save 1 BP in Paris

USA (11):
CV (1st)
Pilot
TRS (1st)
2 x BB (1st)
CVP1

USSR (8):
INF
LND4
SAve 1 BP in Moscow

Germany conquers Poland, Denmark, and Netherlands. Although Netherlands continue the fight from Australia
Italy conquers French Somaliland.

Reinforcements:

CW:
LND3 -> London
NAV2 -> Hull
NAV2 + CP -> Liverpool
CVP1 -> Bristol
BB -> Plymouth

France:
MIL -> Bordeaux
MIL -> Metz
MIL -> Dakar
FTR2 -> Lyons

USA:
CA + 2 x CL -> Norfolk

China:
MIL -> Kunming

China (Com):
MIL -> Lanchow

USSR:
Remove 5 aircraft

Voluntary Resource Lending:
CW -> France: 4 resources, 1 oil
CW -> China: 1 oil
USA -> China: 1 resource

Note: France had planned to build the Marseilles MIL. But it is missing from the force pool. Suspected bug. Changed it to a pilot to continue faster.

Nov/Dec '39
New Turn

Allies win the initiative (Axis 7 +1, Allies 9). At least the first round. Will Axis demand a reroll and have a second go at winning the initiative?

Yes please

Nov/Dec '39
New Turn - Initiative

Axis wins the initiative after re-roll. (Axis 7, Allies 5)

I assume that Axis will go first. So I will not wait for confirmation, and roll the weather straight away. If they wanted us to go first I will be really happy to go back and change it. Regardless of weather.

Nov/Dec '39
Impulse: 1 (Axis)

The winter weather hit hard, and fast, with extreme snowfall in the North, and rain in the South. (10 rolled)

N/D 39 Axis 1

No DoW. Japan exerts diplomatic pressure and forces the closure of the Burma Road. The US barely notices (9 rolled).

All three go for land.

Italy flies FTR to West Med 2-box.

Rail Movement:
7-5 MECH to Cologne
6-5 ARM to Cologne
8-6 ARM to 52,35.

Land Movement.

Japanese SNLF force marches to seize Nanning. Again, the US isn't bothered (7 rolled).

In North China, the Japanese start moving towards the partisan.

Edit: For the revised rail move instruction.

Allenk see instructions - the rail movement changed!!

Rain continues to hamper things in South China.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Allenk see instructions - the rail movement changed!!

Got it.

German land movement

Land Movement:
4-1 GARR to 53,42
7-3 and 6-4 (white) to Warsaw
von Leeb to 50,42
7-4 (Black) and 3-3 ART to Lodz
6-4 (Black) to Danzig
5-4 MTN and 1-3 to Poznan
Panzerjaeger to 49,40
7-2 MIL to Magdeburg
1-4 to Kiel
3-3 AA and 5-4 to 50,33
9-4, 8-4 MOT and 2-6 ARM to 51,32
4-2 ART to Liege
6-3 and 6-3 to 53,32
von Bock to 53,34
von Rundstedt to 52,35
5-3 from Saarbruken to 54,33.

Italy

In Europe

North Africa. The supply unit also continues northwards.

Germany launches one automatic attack on Brussels. 8-6 MECH, 8-4 MOT and 4-2 ART move in.

Rebase

Stuka to Cologne
stuka to Magdeburg
Bf-109E1 to 53,32
He-112 to Cologne

Reorganisation

von Bock reorganises the two ARM and one MECH

Nov/Dec '39
Impulse #4 (Allies)

No declarations of war.

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

No port strikes.

Naval Air:
CW:
LND3 (Gibraltar) -> West Med 4-box

Naval Movement:

USA:
SUB (Midway) -> China Sea
TRS + FTR2 (San Diego) -> Hawaiian Islands

CW:
CA + INF Div (Plymouth) -> Antwerp
3 x BB + TRS -> North Sea 3-box - TRS embark INF (Southampton)

CW begin searching in the East Med.