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Jan/Feb '40
Start of turn
Allies

Reinforcements:

CW:
scrap 3 FTR2
CVP0 -> CV in Liverpool
MIL -> Brussels
MIL -> Batavia
MIL -> Montreol
GARR -> Bombay

France:
scrap FTR2
FTR3 -> Lille
MIL -> Dakar

USA:
GARR -> Long Beach
INF -> Boston

China (Nat):
AA -> Chihkiang

China (Com):
-

USSR:
-

Voluntary Resource Lending:
CW -> France - 4 resources (no oil)
France -> CW - 1 BP

Allies go first, if we win the initiative.

Allies win the initiative with 6 vs 2 (modified to a 3).

Axis demands a re-roll.

Axis won the re-roll. Both sides rolled a 5.

Winter arrives in Europe.

Thank God I won the initiative or Brussels would have probably cost an offensive chit later on.

Land actions for Japan and Germany. Combined for Italy.

Japan strat bombs Kweiyang successfully.

Japan occupies Hengyang and the US get an entry chit for it.

Germany advances and repositions units in the west. Italy moves two units closer to Tunis. Japan closes in for an attack on the Peking militia.

I declined air support from your Mohawk in China as I could intercept with a 5-strength fighter and have an AA gun in the attack. I declined air support for your British bombers in attack on Brussels as they would not make a difference even if they got thru air defenses and my AA gun in attack.

The attack on Brussels is automatic. Yamamoto failed in HQ support in China.
Not sure which table you would choose but will go with assault. Hope it is right choice.
Germany rebases its fighters to cover possible strategic bombing targets. Italy rebases toward Tunis. Japan rebases a fighter from Changsha further south.

Impulse sent.

Italy's lone naval move was to move a CP into West Med

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #4 (Allies)

No declarations of war.

US lend lease two FTR2 to China.

Land: China
Combined: USA, USSR
Naval: France, CW

Naval Movement:

USA:
USA ship one GARR to Midway.

France:
TRS -> CVB - embark MIL
Battle ship to the North Sea.
Battle Fleet to the West Med.
Battle Fleet on convoy duty in the West Meed.
Convoy escorts leave port.
SUBs to Italian Coast.

CW:
2 TRS (Plymouth) -> North Seaq 3-box - embark INF + MIL (England)
CA + INF Div (Liverpool) -> Tunis
Liner + MIL (Adelaide -> Cape Basin
CPs leave port to establish new convoy lines to Dutch Guyana, Belgian Congo, and Malaya.
TRS -> East Coast
Carrier fleet to the West Med.
Fast battleshps to the West Med.
Carrier to the North Sea.
Battle fleet to the North Sea.
Convoy escorts leave port.
SUBs to Italian Coast.
Cruiser squadron to the East Med.
Light cruiser relocate from Gibraltar to Tunis.

Combined Allied Fleet search the Western Mediterranean for Italian supply ships.

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #4 (Allies)

No luck for Allies in the West Med. (Allies 5, Axis 1)

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #4 (Allies)

No strategic bombing. No Ground Strikes.

Rail Move:
USSR:
ART Blagoveshchensk->Krasnoyarsk

Land Moves:

CH NAT
CAV 77,136->78,139
MIL 78,142->80,140
AA Chihkiang->85,139
MIL 87,140->86,141
INF 90,141->89,140
MIL 90,138->Kweilin
MIL 92,139->90,138

USSR
CAV 53,134->49,134
ART Leningrad->37,51
MEC 29,54->31,53
HQA 42,61->40,58
CAV 71,77->72,78

Air Rebase:

USSR:
LND3 67,74->40.58
LND3 Novgorod->38,52

France:
FTR3 (Lille) -> 55,30
FTR2 (Rouen) -> 54,31

CW:
FTR2 (Malta) -> Tunis
LND2 (Alexandria) -> Malta
LND3 (England) -> Harwich

No reorganization.

And the winter weather continues.

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Land actions across the board.

No ground strikes or strat bombing.

Germany rearranged forces in Belgium. Italy closed around Tunis. Japan closed for an attack in the South on the 17th Inf next to Kweilin.
Declined this intercept as Japan can counter with a 5 strength. I figured you would not want to suffer a +2/-2 when I might get the fractional anyway and the odds would be 7-1 regardless in that case.
Obvious assault
Japan rebases a bomber and fighter further South. Germany adjusts a couple planes a few hexes. Italy moves nav to SE Sicily.

Turn continues. Impulse sent.

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #10 (Allies)

No declarations of war.

Land: China, France
Combined: USSR, CW
Naval:
Pass: USA

No port strikes. No naval air.

Naval Moves:
CW:
TRS (Casablanca) -> North Sea 1-box - embark ART (Dover)
3 CA (Malta) -> North Sea 1-box

CW initiate a naval search in the West Med.

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #10 (Allies)

The Combined Allied Fleet finds, and sinks, the Italian convoy point. (Allies 2, Axis 1)

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #10 (Allies)

No strategic bombing. No Ground Strikes.

Rail Movement:

France:
INF (Brest) -> Lille

USSR:
CAV Cernauti->HQI (Near Finish border)

CW:
MIL (Montreal) -> Halifax

Land Moves:

USSR:
HQA 4 hexes towards Leningrad
CAV -> Ulan-Ude
CAV towards Teheran
AT->Cernauti

CH COM
MIL Kaifen->W,W

CH NAT
AA->(E)
HQI Chang->(W)
4-3 INF->(W)
3-4 CAV->(SW,SW)
Warlord->Chihkiang
MIL (Kunming)->Kweilin
MIL (Chungking)->(Sw,Sw)
CAV (2-4)->Chengchow

CW:
-

France:
Minor manoeuvres along the French-Belgian border, and some depth in the defences are created.

Debark:
CW:
One ART, one INF, and one MIL, lands along the coast at the French-Belgian border.

Air Rebase:

USSR:
LND3->Estonian border

CW:
CVP (CV Furious - West Med) -> CV Glorious in West Med

No reorganization.

Turn continues with a roll of 5 (1-4 to end).