Turn 10. Mar/Apr 1941. Neutrality Pacts.
At this point in the game there are two neutrality pacts.
1. Nazi-Soviet pact signed (in game turns) on the Jul/Aug 1939 turn just prior to the start of the game. Historically, this pact was signed on 23 August 1939.
2. I need to issue a correction to the garrison/chit values for this pact which I'll provide the info and rationale for in the next few post.
3. Soviet-Japanese pact signed (in game turns) on the Jan/Feb 1941 turn in order pact chits to be drawn in the Mar/Apr 1941 turn. Historically this pact was signed on April 13, 1941. However, since pact chits must be in place at the beginning of the May/June 1941 turn, means that they had to be drawn on the end of the Mar/Apr 1941 turn, which means that the pact had to be implemented on Jan/Feb 1941 turn. In WiF sequence of play, pact chit draws occur before the peace step which is where neutrality pacts are made.
4. Prior to signing the Soviet-Japanese non-aggression pact there was an uneasy pace in Asia between the Soviets and Japanese. An uneasy peace that I modeled by maintain the garrisons given the table below for the S039 and then JA40 entries (lines).
5. In game turns, as I mentioned in the introduction, the Soviets start on the May/June 1941 turn putting 1 chit per turn into this pact. Initially, and for a long while, all chits are put into the defensive pool.
6. This means that starting on the May/June 1941 that the number of Soviet chits in the Nazi-Soviet pact cannot increase as the Soviets only get 1 pact chit per turn. However, the can if they draw a high value chit put that chit into the Nazi-Soviet pact and move a lower value chit form that pact to the Soviet-Japanese pact. And that's exactly how they'll play it until at war with Germany.
7. The Japanese get 1 chit every other turn and that chit will go into the defensive pool.
8. The chits for the Soviet-Japanese pact are all chrome. It's scripted that the Soviets and Japanese will maintain the garrisons given in the table below and that neither will declare war on the other until after impulse 5 of the July/August 1945 turn. Historically the Soviets declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945, which was 2 days after the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan.
