The Australian Axis Rebels versus the Swedish Allied Empire (5 player game)

[toenailthehun]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Land Moves cont
Germany:
In France Axis forces advance towards and across the Loire River

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[toenailthehun]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Land Combat:
2 attacks
43,52 odds currently 54.5:16 3-1
45,53 odds currently 63:19 3-1

Soviets have the below available for Def ground support
Axis added no ground support
Axis did not use HQ support
2 Ftr's can intercept 45,53
1 Ftr can intercept 43,52

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Do Soviets wish to add any support?

[GeneralAdvance]

No support

[toenailthehun]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Land Combat:

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Axis has Combat table choice for both attacks and chooses Blitz

Will resolve in order presented

[toenailthehun]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Land Combat:

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Will not convert to retreat
Which Soviet unit to be destroyed?

I will choose Div, if this is not what you want I will go back and adjust

[toenailthehun]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Land Combat

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I will destroy AA, again if wrong choice let me know and I will change it.

[toenailthehun]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #2 (Axis)

Guess my choices were correct so will continue on...

Air Rebase:
Japan: CVP to Truk loads onto CV Shokaku
Italy: CR.42 -> 57,35
SM.82 (ATR) -> 55,57
Ju87D -> 54,58
Germany: Ju87B -> 55,58

Air Reorg:
Germany: Ju52 reorgs Marine in 58,58

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[toenailthehun]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #2 (Axis)

HQ Reorg:
Germany: Rundstedt reorgs Ju87 & He 111

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Italy:
Balbo reorgs C.200

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[toenailthehun]

New Weather much like the old weather

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Turn sent

[Orm]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #3 (Allies)

US attempts to DOW Japan.

[Orm]

The US DOW on Japan succeeded (5 rolled, 8 or less needed).

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[Orm]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #3 (Allies)

USA aligns Panama.

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

No port strikes. No naval air.

Naval movement:

USA:
CP SCS -> Brisbane
2 CP CP -> Pago Pago
CP Bay of Bengal -> Madagascar
SUB -> Japanese Coast 0-box
SUB -> Bismarck Sea 2-box
SUB -> The Solomons 3-box
A few cruisers leave San Diego to escort Pacific supply convoys
Some rearangement of convoy lines in the Atlantic
A few BBs leave San Diego for convoy duty in the Atlantic
A couple BBs leave Norfolk for convoy escort duty in the Atlantic

US search in the Japanese Coast.

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[Orm]

No luck along he Japanese Coast (10-2).

Next search: Bismarck Sea

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[Orm]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #3 (Allies)

Both sides find (1-3).

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[Orm]

The Japanese cruiser is aborted. US stay for round two. Does Japan stay?

Abort port for CA if Japan stay? Abort ports for all if they abort?

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[toenailthehun]

Japan will stay
Abort CA Furutaka to Truk

[Orm]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #3 (Allies)

No contact the second time (10-1).

[Orm]

Jul/Aug '41
Impulse #3 (Allies)

No strategic bombing. No Ground Strikes.

Rail Movement:
USSR:
Factory Leningrad -> Magnitorsk
Mil Astrakhan -> Smolensk

Land movement:

USSR:
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In Manchuria:
Cav Div take a couple of railway hexes.
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West Front - Leningrad:
Forces retreat into cities Pskov, and Novgorod.
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West Front - Belarus:
General retreat around one hex.
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West Front - Ukraine:
Hold the Line.
Zhukov moves southwards to take over command from Timoshenko.

Com China:
Try to encircle the Manchurian TERR close to Taiyuan.
Several units change move one hex north.
Cav Div moves one hex eastwards but take a roundabout route there to liberate Paotow (no city, just a named hex)

Nat China:
-

CW:
XI Corps continues its march along the Libyan coast, leave Cyrenaica, and enters Tripolitania.
Forces in Egypt advance either towards Tobruk, or retreat towards Alexandria.
2nd British Infantry Division leave Mogadishu and advance northwards into Ethiopia
TERR moves a couple of hexes in India (From Bombay suburbs towards Deccan plateau).
Minor movement to strengthen the defences in Western France.

Air rebase:

CW:
LND2 Alexandria -> 83, 43, Cyrenaica
NAV2 Suez -> 83, 42, Cyrenaica
Rearranging CVPs in Liverpool

USSR:
LND4 Gomel -> E Sevastopol
LND3 Kursk -> Gomel

USA:
NAV3 E Pago Pago - Tumeloto, Ellice Islands
NAV3 Pago Pago - E Brisbane
LND3 New Foundland -> Greenland
Rearranging CVP in Pearl Harbor

Reorganization:
LND4 41,53 -> Smolensk -> E Kalinin

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[Orm]

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Picture from Jul/Aug '41 Impulse #4 (Axis) - DOW

[Orm]

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