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Sep/Oct 1940, Allied Impulse #1

US Army establishes footholds in Greenland and Denmark with a couple of divisions and a convoy line.

Sep/Oct 1940, Allied Impulse #1

Soviet bombers obliterate Rumanian oil fields.

Sep/Oct 1940, Allied Impulse #1

Skies over Belgium light up. Commonwealth bombers aren't as much trying to incur damage, as they are forcing German fighters to break off of an inevitable Impulse 2 ground strike attack - the one that French fighters are hoping to intercept.

One CW bomber is aborted, and a CW FTR2 goes down, including the pilot. The rest of the force turns back, but at least 2 German fighters are now out of the picture.

Interlude, South China front

Mainly just maneuvering back and forth. No major offensives.

Sep/Oct 1940, Allied Impulse #1

All available French reserves shift South. The frontline is still as perfect as it can be - ATs, AA, best units available - but everyone else is moved down.

Interlude, North China front

A stalemate as well.

Sep/Oct 1940, Axis Impulse #2

Despite clear weather, Axis forces mainly hold ground, except for a single sortie in Northern China. Alas, even that one goes quite badly.

Sep/Oct 1940, Allied Impulse #3

Soviet strategic bombers are merciless; not only 3 oil points are lost the impulse before, now there's a lost BP as well. By now all 4 LND4's are on the Rumanian front.

Sep/Oct 1940, Axis Impulse #4

Germans use an Offensive chit and a land action, and a massive, absolutely massive air battle ensues in Western Belgium.

Two German bombers and two fighters have to abort.
French lose all four fighters - and a pilot.

French AA sends one more German bomber home. But five more break through.

Sep/Oct 1940, Axis Impulse #4

And the battles are ready; Germans in Belgium, trying to break through the thick blue line, and Italians in the Alps, forcing their way through after all the possible ground strikes have failed.

Sep/Oct 1940, Axis Impulse #4

Italian battle does not go too horribly bad. There's enough cheap cannon fodder to absorb the losses, and the path across the southern France is now open.

Sep/Oct 1940, Axis Impulse #4

The gamble in Belgium pays off fully for Germans. It's not a breakthrough, but the French lines do crumble.

All three remaining German HQ flip to recover two bombers, two fighter-bombers, and two artillery units.

Sep/Oct 1940, Allied Impulse #5

Two former Danish cruisers and a couple of WW1-era cruiser hulks, snuck into Baltic via a Commonwealth-held harbor, finally pay off for themselves.

Sep/Oct 1940, Allied Impulse #5

Commonwealth bombs Cologne - German AA rolls the perfect trio of 1, 1, and a 1. I guess that someone's going to a latrine detail before long.

Sep/Oct 1940, Allied Impulse #5

Peking Militia sneaks into an under-garrisoned Chinese city - any chance to grab a US entry chit is a good opportunity.

Hit and run boys, hit and run.

Interlude, Belgian front.

Allies fall back a bit, straightening the battle lines.

Interlude, Alps front.

French are starting to stabilize the area, but frankly that may all be too little too late.

Sep/Oct 1940, Axis Impulse #6

Three battles - Germans in Belgium, Italians in the Alps, and Japanese somewhere by Shanghai.

Commonwealth bombs Cologne - German AA rolls the perfect trio of 1, 1, and a 1. I guess that someone's going to a latrine detail before long.

Sep/Oct 1940, Axis Impulse #6

As always, WiF remains an instance of best plans lain in error and/or due to horrible dice rolls; French forces in Belgium are merely pushed back, a French division rushing to cut off Italian advance gets chopped to pieces, and Peking Militia, oh so bravely charging to retake a Japanese-held city dies without as much as US noticing - at all.

Sep/Oct 1940, Allies Impulse #7

Buying for time, Allies go all-pass - and it works, forcing the turn towards winter.