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No further combat in the North Sea. (Both sides rolled 10)

Now Japan has to decide which of the 11 sea areas they will activate. First up is the Gulf of Alaska.

No contact in Gulf of Alaska. (Axis 7, Allies 4)
No contact in SE Indian Ocean. (Axis 5, Allies 10 - forgot to specify which roll was for which side but kept the rolls anyway)
No contact in the Persian Gulf. (Axis 10, Allies 3)
No contact in the Hawaiian Islands. (Axis 6, Allies 5)

And that was a bit depressing. None of the Japanese SUBs found any targets. [:(]

Next up is the cruisers in the Red Sea.

The hunt for Queen Mary and company was a failure. (Axis 6, Allies 5)

Lets find out if the carrier force in the Arabian Sea can do better.

Nope. The Japanese carriers can't find anything either. (Axis 8, Allies 10) [:@]

The cruisers in Cape Naturaliste found nothing at all (Axis 8, Allies 4)
And finally, a sea area,Coral Sea, where the Japanese actually find some enemy shipping. And with 14 surprise points the CW CP is sunk. (Axis 4, Allies 10)

The cruisers in Tasman Sea found nothing at all (Axis 10, Allies 10)
And the cruiser in the New Zeeland Coast finds, and sinks the CW CP. (Axis 2, Allies 6)

And in the final area to be searched, Polynesia, the Japanese carrier force sinks two Allied CPs. (Axis 5, Allies 6)

And after 13 naval searches (I think) I will take a break. I suspect that the action will continue tomorrow.

[:@][:@][:@][:(] They were the most pitiful search rolls I've ever seen.
The Japanese scouts should consider sepuku.[:(][:(]

ORIGINAL: peskpesk

[:@][:@][:@][:(] They were the most pitiful search rolls I've ever seen.
The Japanese scouts should consider sepuku.[:(][:(]

No, they should not consider that. That practice has been abolished, and outlawed. However, transferring them to latrine duty might be appropriate. [;)]

ORIGINAL: peskpesk

[:@][:@][:@][:(] They were the most pitiful search rolls I've ever seen.
The Japanese scouts should consider sepuku.[:(][:(]

Those are my usual search rolls with the axis in my current game. Total waste of BP building submarines and fleet...

ORIGINAL: Oberost
Total waste of BP building submarines and fleet...

You said it.

May/Jun '42
Impulse #4 (Axis)

No strategic bombing.

Italy ground strikes the Leningrad defenders with all the available aircraft that they got (1 LND2 + 2 LND3).

Yea. That went pretty much as expected. [:@] [:(]

May/Jun '42
Impulse #4 (Axis)

Rail Moves:

Germany:
HQI 55,24->46,53
GAR Kiel ->54,57
MIL Berlin->52,56

Italy:
FTR2 (La Rochelle) -> Toulon

Italy collapses Vichy France.

Edit: 2 US chits picked (1 rolled).

A lot of French ships sail from Marseilles as Vichy France is collapsed. What safe havens will they seek? And which ships will sail together?

I will let you know when I get to computer. If you want to play during the day, please post picture of UK ports and let me know do you have any naval bombers that reach West Med.

Ships sail in following groups

Sub to Gibraltar
3x CP and CA Foch + CA Algerie to fort-de-France in Martinique in Caribbean
TRS and all BBs to Plymouth
3x CP and CA Suffren to Gibraltar

Germany tries to intercept the groups with CPs included, but fails. (6 and 9 rolled)

Picture showing the French ships destroyed in port.

Edit: 6 CPs were destroyed as well.