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Japan winter 40

Japan starts building 4 subs and deploys its 3 heavy bombers in Japan. With another tech steal my bomber land attack will increase and I'll be able to hit the Chinese factories (which i missed again this turn) I did manage to suppression damage the 2 militia and inf in the last Chinese coastal territory but it took all my air and the 3BB's/ 2 DD's for a total supply cost of 12 to do it. No other Japanese activity to report.

another end turn summary, notice the yugo revolt ! one of the random events that can occur if conditions are right. For Yugo its having it leaning or pro axis and its then checked for each turn, too bad for me its happened so early but not as bad for me as for the units there when the germans are done in france!

Germany spring 40

I'm kicking myself for not attacking the low countries last turn as it looks like the AI is getting cocky and has kept a few british troops in france. With a winter attack on the netherlands I might have been in a better position to scare them back to England.

Here is my move into the low countries, and I'll show the new combat results screen in the posts that follow.

notice the inf 240 with evasion 5 gets attacked by the stuka, the roll total is divided by the units evasion for a total of 3 suppression points. now follow the unit 240 as it battles in the following pic. I really like the detailed pop up explaining the results.

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next i attack into France and suffer the consequences of waiting last turn with heavy arty losses (note: tweaks are in the works to address possible targeting issues with arty)

at the moment vichy is declared the Italians are checked to see if they will join the axis right away ( a 33% chance of happening , wooot for me ) otherwise I would have to wait until turns end and from then on each turn a 75% chance exists that Italy will request to join if they haven't already

I now control the Italian forces, notice the units have little flags to identify them now. how cool is that. almost as cool as some of the unit upgrades changing to newer icons to reflect the tech increase .... wait for it, its coming in a few turns with the german armor [8D]

on the coolness topic I'll back up a bit and explain the stars some units have. units have a chance with combat success to become advanced (silver and +1 to combat) and elite (gold and +2 )

One of my inf that survived france has become elite and I plan on using it to take on Russia by itself, i figure 3 or 4 turns and it should be in moscow [X(] ... [;)]

with western europe locked down I decide to launch my 3 german and now 2 Italian subs on the wallies. Sub combat has been revamped to give it a much more realistic feel and changes have been made to encourage dispersing them and discourage attacking surface ships in large groups or grouping large numbers together. When a sub lines up to attack a region with a surface ships in it and it targets a surface ship there is a 66% chance it wont engage it at all. if it targets a transport it will always shoot.

subs also are now using the suppression attack for op-fire so mobilty of fleets is increased and it results in a more fluid battle to kill transports. also if a sub is attacked during a turn and survives it is considered 'driven deep' and will not continue to op fire for the remainder of the turn.

the same suppression is used aginst them with cag op fire aswell as the next pic shows, I gained 5 (half way to its damage threshold) so I opted to port it in france rather that give the transport an easy shot at humiliating it [:-]

I'll give some more details on sub combat as it arrises.

next my Italian fleet moves on the 2 BB in the central med.

as the spring turn movement phase wraps up the germans are looking good. I plan on moving to attack Yugo right away and lets see what the wallies do in Cairo as its looking empty right now and maybe an easy target?

Japan spring 40

with the 3 new bombers I managed to damage two factories. all other supply expenditures are postponed and Japan continues to build subs and put the maximuim one point into subs/fighters and cag evasion.

here is a zoomed out view of Japanese forces, notice the new highlighted areas to show move limits on the DD selected in Japan.

Germany summer 40

This shows the start of summer 40, I will move armor and my para unit into North Africa and a few units to Austria to attack yugo in the fall and continue to assault transports off the european coastline.

notice the partisans in poland, that increases by one each turn I dont attack Russia so I'll need to keep funneling militia in there for a few more turns

My attacks on transports goes well, 4 of 5 attacks were a success with one kill and 3 damages. I see Britian has shored up defense in N. Africa and you'll see in the next turn that they move even more units in try and thwart my attempt at capturing the suez.

Japan summer 40

Japanese bombers strike at the other two Chinese factories. I damage Sinkiang but come away with only the fighter kill in the capital, the last Chinese factory still sits there undamaged.

At turns end the subs are launched and the rest of the Japanese production goes into supply and tech research. I'll need to build a few more infantry and transport units over the next few turns to finish prepping for my surprise attack on the US.

Germany fall 40

My subs upgrade to 3 attack and 3 evasion at the end of this turn and it should give me a turn or two with an advantage over the wallies efforts to stop my blockade attempts. I get greedy with the Italian sub moved through gibralter op-fire and its damaged by the lowly transport off Africa and we hang our heads in shame.

german subs at turn end.

an interesting development in Italian east Africa this turn, due to the failed attempt to dislodge the militia there last turn it received veteran status with its kill on the attacking british militia. instead of staying a veteran militia it will upgrade to regular inf next turn[8D]