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Rail Movement:

Japan:
MAR Div (Tientsin) -> Tianshui

Germany:
Inf Stettin -> Minsk
Inf Div Salonika -> Tallinn

Italy
HQI (60,26) -> 39,50

Land Movement:

Italy:
-

Japan:
The Japanese armies advance on the central valley.


Picture from Jul/Aug '41 Impulse #6 (Axis) - Land Movement

Over to Germany for the second part of the Axis impulse.

Germany advances slowly in the north and shuffels a few units around in the front line.

Debark:
Italy land one AA and one Supply in Salonica.


Land Combat:

Japan:

All units attack hex 77,139 at +18.

Germany attacks Pskov at 19,5. After adding a Lnd2 Stuka.

USSR can do defensive ground support with:

Lnd3 SB-2RK
Lnd4 TB-3

But since the high odds and Axis has FTR2+FTR3 to intercept with I guess not(Else I go back and fix it)

The marauding CAV is destroyed.

Pskov falls

Air Rebase:

Italy:
NAV2 (Burgas) -> 53,26 (France)

Japan:
FTR2 (Tianshui) -> 79,131

Germany
LND2 57,53->45,52
LND3 51,46->Pskov

Air Reorganization
ATR 43,50->41,54 Reorg INF

No reorganization

Weather Jul/Aug 1941 Allied 7#

41 JA i7:
CW combined, FF naval, CH/SU land

CW moves SUB Egypt -> 2 box ItC sz
CW moves BB+AMPH Plymouth -> 2 box CSV sz
FF moves 2 CA's down a box near USA

One search for CW:

planes that can react are 2 IT and 3 GE (Sparviero is stacked with GE floatplane):

The German NAV3 (He 115C) to the 2-box, and the German FTR2 (He 112) in Kalamai to the 0-box. Thank you.

Both sides roll a 2, so SUB and NAV3 in 2 box find each other. Result is A vs SUB which fails its' roll with a 3 and is aborted to Alexandria.

SU bombers hit Ploesti with no success.

41 JA i7 (continued)
rail:
CW 3-3 MIL Dover -> Glasgow
SU HQI -> 40,56 near Pskov, Kuybyshev MIL -> Gomel, Sverdlovsk MIL -> Smolensk

Land moves:
CW HQ one hex NW in Iraq
China reshuffles troops
SU falls back around Leningrad

Land combat:
Baghdad attacked with air support at +19 and falls

rebase:
SU rebases LND4 near Gomel
CW rebases FTR2 to Plymouth

reorg:
Yeremenko reorgs 3 land units around Vitebsk

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse: 8 (Axis)

No declarations of war.

Land: Germany, Japan
Combined: Italy
Naval:

No port strikes. No naval air.

Naval Movement:
Italy:
BB + CA + TRS (La Spezia) -> East Med 1-box - embark INF from Tobruk

Strategic Bombing:

Italy:
NAV2 -> London

Japan:
LND3 -> Chungking

China can intercept the Japanese bomber with one FTR2. Japan has one FTR2 on standby for counter-interception. Will China intercept the bomber?

Edit: China decline interception.


Picture from Jul/Aug '41 Impulse #8 (Axis) - Strategic Bombing

London is bombed for effect


Picture from Jul/Aug '41 Impulse #8 (Axis) - Strategic Bombing

The Japanese raid on Chungking temporarily halts production.


Picture from Jul/Aug '41 Impulse #8 (Axis) - Strategic Bombing

Ground Strike:

Germany:
LND2 (45,52) -> 44,53

Additional ground strikes in next post.


Picture from Jul/Aug '41 Impulse #8 (Axis) - Ground Strike

Ground Strike continued:

Germany:
LND2 (52,56) -> 52,58
FTR3 (as bomber) -> 52,58

Italy:
LND3 (51,55) -> 52,58


Picture from Jul/Aug '41 Impulse #8 (Axis) - Ground Strike

USSR has one 4 strength FTR2 available to intercept the raid west of Vitebsk. Germany has one 6 strength FTR2 and one 5 strength FTR3 available. Will USSR intercept the raid?

And East of Kiev the Soviet Union has one 4 strength FTR2 available as well. Here Germany has 3 FTR2 (6,5,5 in strength). Will USSR intercept here?

USSR intercept with one FTR2, while Germany use two FTR2.


Picture from Jul/Aug '41 Impulse #8 (Axis) - Ground Strike