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That's weird.

I am told that there is a Conquered Naval Unit - Jacob van Heemskerck in Greenland??
There is a throw for it and it is destroyed.

Why? Does anyone know what the hell that was all about?

I am now being asked to choose a new Home Country for the Netherlands. I choose the United Kingdom, although could have chosen the NEI, Dutch Guyana or any of the CW home countries. Not sure what the best decision is here.

Same for Belgium and I choose the UK again.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Its Jan/Feb 1940 and its scrapping time. Plenty of stuff for the CW to get rid of:

Anson
Wellesley
Nimrod
Gladiator

Commonwealth

I get another pilot and bring another Hurricane - the MkIIA - into the game.

Duke of York and Anson have been placed into the construction pool along with a submarine.

I get a Dutch militia that I place in Batavia

The 1st South African Infantry Corps is put into Durban

The newly arrived Hurricane (see above) goes into Southampton.

France

I scrap the French Carrier Air and two rubbish Land Bombers

I am asked if I want to swap the light cruiser De Grasse (which is in the force pool) for a CVL. For the reason please see the write-up for the CVL below. I say no - I am not going to be building either anyway....

I get a pilot and gratefully put him into an MS406 fighter.

Not much happening elsewhere

The Soviets get two Infantry and the Chinese Communists get one.

The Germans have some naval air to scrap.

I also receive a message asking if I want to swap Gneisenau for another version. I say yes as this was something Hitler wanted to do (although the replacement arrives in the construction pool and will take a while to be ready). The reason for the replacement is given below.

I get an He-112 fighter for a newly arrived pilot and a white print 7-4 Infantry. The Finns get a couple more units - and are looking quite strong!

The Italians scrap nothing - and receive no reinforcements.

The Japanese scrap some low quality Naval Air and get one Infantry replacement.

I do not know if this will work but I try setting up a loan of 1 oil to France from the CW. Let's see what happens. I must remember to put a convoy in the North Sea.

We now have the initiative roll. The Axis win this one and have the first impulse.

Could this be the luck the Allies need? The Northern Temperate zone is.....SNOW! Whoops....

What happens next? You'll have to wait and see....[:)]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Could this be the luck the Allies need? The Northern Temperate zone is.....SNOW! Whoops....

What happens next? You'll have to wait and see....[:)]

Snow? That's reasonable good weather for the attacking side. Snow is much, much better than rain...

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I just came across this stonking AAR of yours warspite1. Jolly good show! Almost as riveting as your AAR about brushing your teeth or your AAR about trimming your nails. Keep up the good work!

Oh, do be so kind as to let us know if you actually start an AAR about...um...you know...WiF. Cheerio.

warspite1

Thank-you sir. Yes you can check out my Brushing Teeth AAR - being English, its a very short work. The Nails AAR is a little more expansive - here are some Minions I painted on my little warspite in the summer holidays:

Not bad!

ORIGINAL: Centuur

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Could this be the luck the Allies need? The Northern Temperate zone is.....SNOW! Whoops....

What happens next? You'll have to wait and see....[:)]

Snow? That's reasonable good weather for the attacking side. Snow is much, much better than rain...

warspite1

Mmmmm.... not so good then [:(]

ORIGINAL: CrusssDaddy

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I just came across this stonking AAR of yours warspite1. Jolly good show! Almost as riveting as your AAR about brushing your teeth or your AAR about trimming your nails. Keep up the good work!

Oh, do be so kind as to let us know if you actually start an AAR about...um...you know...WiF. Cheerio.

warspite1

Thank-you sir. Yes you can check out my Brushing Teeth AAR - being English, its a very short work. The Nails AAR is a little more expansive - here are some Minions I painted on my little warspite in the summer holidays:

Not bad!

warspite1

Thank-you sir - I wish I could play MWIF as well as I can paint Despicable Me Minions onto my daughters fingers [;)]

Okay its Impulse 1 Jan /Feb 1940. I have not had an air battle yet so lets give that a go. I fly a Ju88A1 to the hex northwest of Rheims. A Bf109E2 flies in support.

Two MS406's then fly to intercept; and so the Germans bring in another Bf109. There's going to be a big fight!!

This is the Air to Air Combat sequence chart. Two 5-quality Luftwaffe aircraft against two 4-quality French. Its a gamble for the French but they are tired of sitting around waiting to be attacked.

The French Air Combat roll is 11. This is a DC result (Defender Cleared) which means the Bomber gets through the fighter screen.

The Germans roll a 16. This is a DX. Defender destroyed. The pilot is saved as the battle took place over French territory.

The Germans are asked whether they want to stay or abort. They choose to stay not surprisingly. The French feel lucky and decide to stay....

The French roll a 16 (AA - Attacker Aborts). The German fighter returns to base - except I cannot move the fighter??

I advance the turn and the two remaining fighters battle it out. A dice roll of 3 from the German is another AX - the French fighter strength is no more, but the pilot survives again [8|]

To rub salt into an already festering open wound, the German ground strike then succeeds... what a hideous turn for les blues...

Meanwhile in China, the Japanese get ready to attack a couple of Nationalist units southwest of Hengyang.