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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #7. Western Allies. Amphibious Landing. Ancona, Italy.

A strategic mistake by the axis of only relying on only notionals to defend the minor port of Ancona is exploited by the CW/US but at the cost of two of the three invading unit. The end result is that the Western Allies now have a toe-hold on the Italian mainland. The question now is will they be able to hold and expand their beachhead?

Editor's note: It's amazing the strategic and tactical mistakes I make and don't see until I'm playing the other side. If I ever play a game again against another human I plan to wargame through my turn and then "play my opponent's side" to see if I've left any holes. Will take more time to play my turn but should make my play stronger

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #7. USSR. The Leningrad Front.

I guess technically the Red Army has no "officially" broken the axis siege on Leningrad. They now need to reestablish a rail link to the city in order to get the Leningrad factory producing.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #7. USSR. The Moscow Front.

Wow ... another loss inflicted by Badoglio against the Moscow Front. It goes to show that even with a PWIN of 76.5% there's still a 23.5% chance of losing.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #7. USAAF, Strategic Bombing Raid. Japan.

USAAF strategic bombers manage to knock out the only Japanese production point.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #7. communist Chinese. Shanghai, China.

Mao's communist Chinese fail with a 72% PWIN to take Shanghai.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #7. Nationalist Chinese. Hanoi, French Indo China.

Chang and his Nationalist Chinese, though with a significantly lower PWIN, fail to even inflict a loss on the IJA 3-stack defending Hanoi. Couple this with the fact the Chinese air-force as failed in probably a half-dozen attempts (i.e., ground strikes) over the past 4 or 5 turns to disorganize a single unit.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #11. Weather.

FYI: Assuming the turn ends during this impulse pair, which is a very good assumption at 90% it will, the +2 weather modified significantly increases the chance of fine weather in the Med, north temperate and arctic for next turn's first impulse pair.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #11. German, Oil. USAAF/RAF Strategic Bombing Raids.

Allied bombers do a much better job hitting German oil. 2 of 5 of the available German/Italian oil income is knocked out. That's significant.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #11. USSR. The Moscow Front.

The Moscow Front continues to grind away at the axis. It's about inflicting losses and gaining ground. Soviet losses are immaterial, except for the units lost, that is.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #11. USSR. The Polish Front.

The Red Army continues to grind away, also, on the Polish Front. Though they suffered massive disorganization they suffered no losses owing to the ability to choose blitz over assault.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #11. US/CW. The Balkan Theater of Operations (BTO). (1/2).

The Western Allies do some of their own grinding in the BTO in an attempt to break the southern flank of the axis there.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Allied #11. US/CW. The Balkan Theater of Operations (BTO). (2/2).

An aggressive combined US/CW airborne drops takes a vital port in Greece and cements the allies attempt to get around the axis southern flank in the Balkans.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Axis #14.

The turn ends at the conclusion of the axis #14 impulse. With respect to turn initiative it remains the same as last turn. Neither side has an advantage (i.e., 0 of the track) and the allies win ties since the axis won the last initiative and elected for the allies to move first.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Destroyed / Repair Pools.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. CP Losses.

Allied convoys are still taking losses.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Surrender?

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Economic Reports.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Authorized Production. 1-Year. 6-Turns. Axis.

Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Authorized Production. 1-Year. 6-Turns. Allied.

Turn 34. Mar/Apr 1945. Trade.

Turn 34. Mar/Apr 1945. Initiative.