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Good break for the Axis not to have the turn end on their turn to keep the +2 box.

November/December 1942, End of turn phases:

Here is the destroyed pool:

The cruisers Kirov, Ajax and Pensacola gets scrapped (according to the house rule in play). In addition the CW scraps the Dutch SUB and the US scraps the Brazilian INF and the AiraCobra FTR.

Music: Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra - Remember Pearl Harbor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQDT3EZQ2k

Germany produces 51 build points, of which 5 are send to Italy. It uses 4 oil for reorganisation. It finishes the Tirpits and repairs the captured Dutch cruiser De Ruyter. Builds are an offensive, 2 pilots, 2CVP, FTR2, LND3, MECH, Ski division and 3 INF.

Italy produces 15 build points and receives 5 from Germany. It uses 2 oil for reorganisation. It repairs the cruisers Colleoni and Cadorna. Builds are 2 pilots, NAV2, 2 LND3, INF, CAV.

Japan produces 28 build points and uses 3 oil for reorganisation. It starts the carrier Shinano, a BB and a cruiser. Builds are: 4 CP, 2 FTR2, 2 CVP1, TER, PARA.

Here are the Axis oil reserves at the end of the turn.

The USSR produces 14 build points and receive 1 from the US. It uses 0 oil for reorganisation. Builds are MIL, 3 INF, INF division and a FTR2.

France produces nothing, but receives 3 build point from the US. It uses 0 oil for reorganisation. It starts an AMPH.

The CW produces 30 build points and receives 5 from the US. It uses 6 oil for reorganisation. It repairs the Spanish TRS, finished the BB Anson, the cruiser Mauritius and a TRS. Builds are 2 CP, CVP1, FTR2, LND3, ENG, 2 INF.

The US produces 66 build points. It sends 5 to the CW, 3 to France and 1 to the USSR. It uses 7 oil for reorganisation. It finishes 2 AMPH, starts a CVL and 3 BB's. Builds are 5 pilots, 1 CVP1, 2 FTR2, 2 LND3, 2 LND4, MOT, 3 INF.

Here are the Allied oil reserves at the end of the turn:

The Axis build 94 build points, the Allies 110...

Listen to: Kurt Widmann - Was eine Frau im Frühling träumt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8sC_cck3I8

Again the USSR refuses to surrender. The Soviet government doesn't even want to see the Swiss ambassador...

January/february 1943, start of turn phases:

It's the start of a new year, so a lot of obsolete planes get scrapped by all major powers.

Here are the Axis reïnforcements:

And the Allied reinforcements:

A new year. Lets make a journey around the world:

First: Murmansk:

North Eastern Europe:

Ukraine and Caucasus. Notice the positioning of the garrison units in the USSR.

Music: Ernst van´t Hoff - Oh What You Said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH9filqeu6o

All resources and red factories with the raillines are covered, so partisans appearing cannot interfere with the production in the turn they are arriving.

Egypt and the Persian Gulf. The Italian fleet has set up shop in Port Said.

The CW fleet is in Aden.

Birma and South West China:

The Japanese fleet in Singapore:

The US fleet in Perth:

Northern Australia:

The Japanese cruisers at Rabaul:

Japan, where the carriers will be equipped with brand new planes:

Eastern Siberia:

The Tashkent region:

The Urals. Notice that the USSR has got more land units in the theater as Germany at the moment: