A noob driven Total War!

[AlbertN]

UK persistant bombing of the Fatherland should reach its natural halt now as the Luftwaffe mass deployed fighters to protect their economical backbone.
Alas in the previous battle for Bay of Biscay the German lost half (one out of two!) their Heinkel 115!

[AlbertN]

China last stand, this turn they'll do a rushing charge to cause losses where they can. (Posting it as my friend is playing the turn).
1 Japan unit will be shattered and another destroyed (this one by the commies in the north).

[AlbertN]

End of November - December 40 USA Entry Pools.
USA seems quite ready to move in to war, soon to have the next gear up (producing 20 already since Oct-Nov '40.)

[AlbertN]

Resume of 2nd Half 1940 & Early '41 facts.

The Axis dived in Spain, seeking to expand their resource base for their production. Although USA has not liked the move, even the less the occupation of Gibraltar.
The UK has shifted his convoy route deeper in the middle of the Atlantic, working to secure it with their immense fleet, that surrendered the Mediterranean to the Regia Marina. Only the Free French fleet that escaped from Vichy from capture contested the Eastern Mediterranean. The clash ended in the old good style of WW1 naval battles with long distance gunnery.
Seen the situation the Axis has brought in naval air to provide cover. The French fleet returned after being bombed to Beirut.
German Condors, seen that Gibraltar fell before their arrival to contest the seas, bombed first the UK factories in the distant north of England, forcing RAF squadrons to redeploy, before to wave their hands and move in Rhodes. The French Fleet got bombed at the anchor in Beirut too, suffering more losses.

A mix of Italo-German forces reaches El-Alamein, preparing for marching into the Cairo meanwhile the UK scrambles Indian legions - but the dreamy mechanized unit of theirs is in the production spyral still.
(In Jan-Feb '41 the Italian A-HQ and a Mech will crush the defenders south of Alexandria, shattering them and making a break. Aerial total supremacy by Axis side is felt).

The UK start to ship units around Cape Horn, but if they will make there in time is an incognito value. Other plans are made to land them in the British Somaliland which is held by their local territorial.
Suez falls in January '41 by a spearhead of Italian mechanized forces, isolating Wavell in Alexandria for a last stand. The USA do not digest well that either.

China ultimately falls, in Jan-Feb '41 as well.
A detail that was slipping under my radar, Japan went in peace thus could only use Combined Actions and all the Reserve units were called off! The tragedy.
Japan is totally unprepared for the war with the USA then (and I merrily sent troops in the isles that are Reserves, Truck suddenly is empty with a large fleet and airforce at the anchor...), and in fact President Roosevelt gets fed up with the bold imperial conquest policy of the Japanese Emperor, opting to let the hammer fall. In March-April '41 the USA declares war to the Japan after having previously embargoed their oil supplies.
Japan has its forces mainly inland deep in China, and its Combined Fleet is short of airplanes up to date to fight. Disaster looms ahead. (And that's where, if one would follow the Tripartite Pact, the EU-Axis should declare war on USA. Which I won't!).

The UK shipping seems way too strongly defended to even try the luck with the submarines.
I feel I've just trashed PPs in producing submarines, the amount of Cruisers the UK is fielding is simply insane.

'41 Plans is to secure Suez fully, see where a penetration in the Middle East can be made, and seize Greece as well.
For Japan, whichever plan I had has just been thrown in the flames, and now the struggle to survive for the Empire of the Rising Sun shall begin, with the USA surprising the Japanese badly.