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Turn sent. USSR reorganizes the Tashkent militia which railed to Perm.

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Axis)

No declarations of war.

Land: Germany
Combined: Italy
Naval: Japan

No Port Strikes.

Naval Air:

Germany:
VF FTR2 -> West Med 2-box
Italy:
NAV2 -> West Med 4-box

Naval Movement:

Italy:
CA + 2 TRS + HQI + INF (La Spezia) -> West Med 2-box

Japan:
CP Fukuoka->Sea of Japan >0-box
2x CL Fukuoka->Sea of Japan 4-box
CP Canton->Bay of Bengal 0-box
3xBB CVL+2xCL(one loaded with Inf Div) Singapore-> Bay of Bengal 3-box
TRS Rangoon Bay of Bengal 3-box load Mar
2xCA+CV Batavia -> Cape Naturalist 4-Box
CVL Hosho Fukuoka->South China Sea 0-box
CL Guam load Mar Div-> Bismark Sea 4-Box
CA Rabul load Inf Div Legaspi -> Bismarck Sea 4-Box
Sub, Truk->Christmas Island 2-box
Sub, Rabul->Tasman Sea 4-box
Sub, Rabul->NZC 3-box
TRS Fukuoka load Mil->Singapore
TRS Hanoi-> Sea of Japan >0-box Load Mil
2 CL-> South China Sea 4-box
CA + CL->China Sea 4-box
Minor changes were made in the Japanese orders after they were written, and the text above might not fully reflect this.

Four areas for Axis to search in.

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Japan begin searching at Christmas Island. Will US fly their NAV3 to the area?

No support for Christmas Island

No contact in Christmas Isl (Axis 10, Allies 8).

NZC next.

No contact in NZC (Axis 10, Allies 4).

Lastly Tasman Sea.

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Axis)

The Dutch CP is sunk (1-10).

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Axis)

I assumed that Allies didn't want to search in the West Med. I will go back if you do want to search here.

Correct, no search in West Med

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Axis)

No strategic bombing. No ground strikes.

Rail movement:

Italy:
INF Div Baghdad -> Suez

Germany:
YUG HQI -> Rostov region -> Astrakhan region
MIL Krasnodar -> La Spezia
MIL D-town -> La Spezia

Germany + Italy:
- AG Mannerheim continue to besiege Leningrad, and supplies the 5th Gebirgsjager Division in their march towards Murmansk.
- AG von Bock prepares to assault Archangelsk.
- AG Rommel moves towards Ural, and prepares to assault Kazan.
- AG Manstein moves towards Ural.
- AG Rundstedt moves towards Ural.
- AG Guderian continue to besiege Astrakhan.
- Balbo moves to a rail connection.
- 10th Italian Corps moves a couple of hexes north in NE Persia.
- Minor movement in Western Europe, Africa, and Iraq.

Italy airlift the XLIX Gebirgs-korps from Reggio to western Libya.

Debark:
HQI -> NE Morocco
INF -> Oran

Germany assaults Archangelsk, and Kazan.

Archangelsk is 5:1 in odds.
Kazan is currently 47:5.

One German LND3 fly 3 points in ground support to Kazan. If no air intervenes the odds is 50:5 or automatic. Germany has one FTR2 available for counter-interception. Will any Soviet planes fly?

no support

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Archangel, and Kazan, are liberated.

May/Jun '42
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Air Rebase:

Japan:
FTR2 3 hex W of Macao->Chittagong
CVP Iwo jima->Guam
Italy:
LND3 Penza area -> SE Kuybyshev
Germany:
FTR2 Munich -> Italy
2 LND2 Somewhere in Ukraine towards astrakhan

No reorganization.

Weather remains the same.

Save sent.

Sorry I didn't get to the game yet. I should be back in action this weekend.

Land actions.

Just the one roll for the Chilean attack.

USSR reorganizes one corps with air resupply mission. USA reorganizes motorized artilery.

Turn sent.