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Now at the foot of the Urals Mountains, Guderian wastes no time in smashing through the first defence line, and crossing the Ufa river.

Stavka quickly moves to contain the breakout

Clark arrives in Morocco.

Guderian sets about widening the bridgehead over the river.

Stavka once again orders a retreat. Perm will have to withstand a siege. The line cannot be held here.

Over England there is a huge air battle but remarkably not one air unit is destroyed. Unfortunately for London the new Italian Piaggios get through

The new Italian strategic bombers prove devastating

For some time there has been a partisan in Moscow. It has taken the Germans some time to assemble a spare HQ and some units to deal with the problem. Finally they arrive and re-take the former Soviet capitol.

Von Bock launches a somewhat risky attack at Ashqabad. Sure enough, the defenders are ready for him. It is a slaughter.

As Jul/Aug 1942 comes to an end, the Japanese are at the shores of Lake Baikal whilst the Germans are at the Urals. The two forces can be seen on one screen at zoom level 2 now!

German production is now unbelievably huge

I might add that US production is still higher, at 54.
Here are the losses for Jul/Aug 1942:

And here are the Axis reinforcements for Sep/Oct 42

And the Allied reinforcements for Sep/Oct 1942

I stuffed up this screen shot, but its mostly clear enough. Here is global control at the end of Jul/Aug 1942

The Axis get the initiative in the first impulse of Sep/Oct 1942 and decide to send out the fleets. Here's a screenshot after movement, showing all of the sea areas which have Axis convoys and ships in them.

The RN is surprised in the North Sea by a task force led by Tirpitz. Unfortunately for the Germans the Courageous is only damaged.

In the Bay of Biscay the RN surprises the Kriegsmarine, and the Graf Spee is sunk.

The Allies send out their fleets to counter the Axis moves, and there are seven sea areas in which battles could occur.

It was at this point that a nasty bug (since fixed) was affecting the game, and after a number of attempts I kind of lost track of what was what. So the next screen shot may or may not be what actually ended up happening.
Nonetheless there were a lot of air battles and both sides lost a few carrier aircraft.