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In SE Asia, Singapore captured and Malaya liberated. DEI was liberated in the previous month.

Indians sent more to pressure toward Wanting and Kunming.

May 19, 1944: Greece liberated. Sofia besieged. Turkey was attacked from all directions. Tehran was captured, and Persia would surrender for the third time.

Jun 16, 1944: The American armor line in France got a bit thinner, but newly researched level 5 tanks have just arrived to replace the last models. Now they would have a tech advantage over the Germans, first time during the whole war. The Air Force also just received level 4 fighters, on par with the Germans. Infantry units began to arrive to fill in the ranks.

In Russia, Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, and Rostov were all recovered at the same time. Some German units were about to be trapped in Crimea. With the bombing of American strat B flew from Persia, they couldn't be operated away.

More units were sent to the Konigsberg/Danzig front. It's only six hexes from there to Berlin!

In China, a lone Indian tank that came up through Lhasa captured Guazhou, cutting off all Jap forces in Urumchi and beyond from the rest of Jap territory.



And, as posted in the 2nd picture of this thread, newly commissioned IJN CV Taiho was sunk in Osaka port by the aircraft from Okinawa and multiple US CVs in the region.

July 14, 1944: Cairo was finally captured by the Allies. A stubborn German army held out until now. Egypt finally liberated.
Turkey was now in grave danger. With attacks coming from all directions, she couldn't really establish a defensive perimeter.

Now a German HQ was trapped in Sevastopol. The city and its ports were all reduced to 0 from American Strat Bombers in the previous turn. After destroying the 2 inf units protecting him, the Russians pulled away, offering the much respected German general (Von Leeb?) to disband himself with dignity, instead of facing destruction and capture. Sensing the war was nearing its end, this was more or less a gesture offered.

And 14 days later, the Axis offered their Surrender.

The war, my friend, was finally over.

ORIGINAL: Cpuncher

ORIGINAL: Elessar2

Did my eyes deceive me up there, or did it show that the IJN had exactly TWO ships left!?

At the time, yes.

UK and US combined ship loss was 39 total, while Germany and Japan was 43 total. Considering the Axis never bought any ship, never spent much to even to repair the damaged ones, and Allies had twice the number of ships, this was a decent result for Axis.

Axis never had enough cash.

Huh. I almost always as the Japanese buy 2 additional CV's pre-war, and try to pump one out every 6 months or so, plus a cruiser or two to help screen them.

Looks like putting all that effort into conquering China was very much a pyrrhic victory.

Unit count at the very end: Drastic difference from just before the new year.

And final loss board:

Ultimately, it was the early mobilization of USSR and US, and hence, the MPPs that decided the fate of the war. However, it still took the Allies 2 and half years to turn the tide. But once the tide was turned, it would be turned back very quickly.

Here are some MPP graph of the more important majors. UK:

US:

USSR:

Germany:

And Japan:

A look at the whole world at the end.

Notice there were still actions at Narvik, Port of Spain, South and East Africa, and Shikuka, that were not previously shown. Japan just landed in San Francisco on the last turn.

And the situation at the end in China, Siberia and Japan:

SE Asia and W Pacific.

And of course, let me end this with the part of the world where things really mattered!

Thank you very much for sharing this state of the art game and AAR! Very interesting and educative at the same time. I enjoyed greatly your detailed analysis of the current war options and decisions.