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S/O 39 Axis 1

Germany and Japan land, Italy combined.


Naval air
German FTR2 to North Sea box 2 and FTR3 to Baltic Sea box 0.


Ground strike
Japan bombs Kweilin with 2 bombers, escorted by a fighter.

One German Stuka bombs Lodz.

Chinese fighter can intercept, will it fly?

No aircraft for the Chinese thank-you

One hit in Poland.

Nice try in China.

German units overrun Polish ships. CP is destroyed and CA sails to Plymouth.


Land move
Germany prepares to attack Lodz.

Japan advances in south.


Land combat
Lodz is under attack. As are division (automatic) and 3-3 INF NW of Warsaw (automatic).

Massive ground support in Lodz.

Lodz is assault or automatic. 7:1 even.

Even a well planned attack like this can fail. So much for my blitzkrieg...

Rebase
Italian FTR few hexes in Sicily.


Reorg
German HQs reorg ARM, 2x INF and Stuka.


Back to the Allies.


German reserves:
5-1 GAR and 5-4 INF to Karlsruhe
4-1 GAR and 6-3 INF to Saarbrucken
9-4 INF and 8-4 MOT to Dusseldorf
8-6 MECH to Essen

Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2 (Allied)

Declarations of War and Alignments:
CW and France

The British and French declare war on Germany. A 6 is thrown and a chit is removed.

China: Land
Commonwealth: Naval
France: Combined
Soviet Union: Combined
United States: Combined

Port Attack: None
Naval Air: None

Naval Movement:
Soviet Union

A convoy sails for the Arctic Ocean 0-box

Commonwealth

The CW puts ships to sea on the convoy routes.
A MOT is transferred to Gibraltar

France

An INF is transported to the Western Med

Strategic Bombardment:
Commonwealth and France

The Allied bombers hit their targets.

Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2 (Allied)

Ground Strike: None

Rail Movement: None
Land Movement:
France

Billotte moves north

China

Chinese forces move into Central China

Debark:
France

An INF is landed in Marseilles

Land Combat: None

Air Rebase:
Commonwealth

The Polish air force fly to Warsaw

HQ Reorganisation:
Commonwealth

Gort reorganises the Hampden

France

Georges does the same to the LeO


Weather for Axis Impulse 3: A 7 is thrown.

Germany has almost all units flipped and oil fields are burning...

I see problems in near future.

Germany should have no oil issues at this point even with two saved oil lost.

And I rather have 2 oil lost than 3 PPs lost that would have been the likely outcome if factories had been target instead.

S/O 39 Axis 3

Once again so called "Minor conflict" goes total war as soon as possible.

DoW
Italy on CW
Germany on Denmark

How do you set up Danish ships?
I guess as many CPs as possible to Iceland or Faroes and rest to Frederikshavn? And aborts to Liverpool or where?

Pedr Skram and Niels Juel + 2 CP to Fredrikshaven.
4 CP to the Reykjavik

If any Danish survive and join the Allies then they should try and head for Southampton.

US gets one marker from DoW on Denmark.

Italy call reserves to Turin.

Germany land, Italy and Japan combined.


Naval air
Italian FTR to West Med box 2.


Naval move
Japan
2x TRS and CL loaded with HQ, MIL and ENG to South China Sea box 0.
2x TRS loaded with 2x MAR to Shanghai.

Italy
15 cruisers, one loaded with INF div, to East Med box 4.


Naval combat
Italy initiates combat on East and West Med. NAV intercepts to West Med.


To be continued later...

West Med
Axis 10, Allied 7. No combat.

East Med
Axis 4, allied 9.

Boxes 4 and 1 are chosen.

Italy has 13 surprise points. This will hurt.
4 points are used to get surface combat.
2 points are used to increase damage (2X 2D 2A).
3 points are used to target first X on CV Ark Royal.
4 points are saved to target another X.

Italy takes X 2D.

Ark Royal survives first X. Italy places another on her and she sinks.

How do you place remaining 2D 2A?

Diomede, Enterprise, Edinburgh, Norfolk please