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May/Jun 42 Allies impulse 5 ( impulse 12 ) Rain arctic, rest fine.

CW combined, rest pass

CW stratbomb Cologne 2 pp lost

CW lands more troops in Sardinia

Turn ends. no partisans

Units destroyed during the May/Jun 42 turn

Russian front at the end of May/Jun 42

The Mediterranean situation at end of May/Jun 42

The Japanese controlled areas at the end of May/Jun 42

May/Jun 42 production

Germany 34 2Inf, 2Mot, 2Mil, Mech, 2Ftr, Lnd3, 2Pil
Italy 10 Ftr, Pil, SUB2, CP, Mot
Japan 26 BB, CVL2, 2Ftr, Synth, 3Pil, 4CVP

CW 25 2Ftr, Ftr3, BB2, 3Pil, 2CVP, Mech, Inf
USA 53 BB, Amph2, TRS2, 3BB2, 4Pil, CVrep, Arm, Inf, 3CVP, Mech, CAV
Russia 26 2Mil, Inf, Mot, 2Mech, Ftr, Pil, BPsav

Reinforcements for July/August 42

July/August 42 Allies initiative Fine weather

Russia land, rest combined action.

CW fails to find Italians in the Med areas

CW stratbomb Essen fails, German AA shot.

US invades and takes Kwajalein and Majuro, they were not yet occupied by Japanese troops.

CW invades and attacks Cagliari from land using HQ support and Shore bombardment and air cover. Italians fly in supporting bombers and uses defensive shore support.
A cw Fighter was lost and the Italian air was aborted with one bomber downed. Cagliari fell to the CW.

Russia balances their hold at river and retreat as best they can. The Caucasus defenses are bolstered.

July/August 42 Axis impulse 1 ( iimpulse 2 ) Fine weather

Germany land, Italy and Japan combined.

Italy suffers a damaged BB in It Coast, CW air remains in place there.

Japan invade northern New Guinea coast and reinforces Truk.

Germany Ground strikes Moscow, Russian fighter intercepts and German Ftr defends, Russ Ftr downed and German Bomber thru.

Strike on Moscow with 6 factor bomber only disorganizes 1 of three units there.

Strike South of Ryazan yields nothing and south of Voronesh works in single unit there.

The attacks that follow are all Blitz and at high odds of better than +12

The attacks worked well.

North of Moscow the advance breaks the north line.

South of Ryazan the Russian was only retreated and 4 German units were disorganized, A HQ reorganized key units.

South of Voronesh the Russian river line was broken.

The Russian will have to run eastwards now.

July/August 42 Allies impulse 2 ( impulse 3 ) fine

CW stratbombing takes 1 pp from Germany

Russians try to retreat in an orderly fashion, but their positions are very shaky now. The Caucasus is being heavily reinforced.

July/August 42 Axis impulse 2 ( impulse 4 ) Fine

Germany land, Italy and Japan combined.

Italy attacks in E Med but suffers an Italian Convoy sunk. Fails to find in W Med and sinks 2 CW convoys in N Atlantic.

Italy stratbombs Newcastle and knocks out 1 PP.

Germany ground strikes NE Moscow 1 of 2 disorganized. Moscow fails to hit any. Voronesh disorganizes 2 of 3 units.

Japan reinforces Rabaul and invades Wewak and Lae to take full control of New Guinea

July/August 42 Axis impulse 2 attacks

All except Voronesh worked well, Voronesh did fall but cost the Germans 1 Div and 6 disorganized units.

German HQ Manstein reorganized German units in the Voronesh area.

The Russian front lines after the German Jult/August 42 attacks.

July/August 42 Allies impulse 3 ( impulse 5 ) Fine

Russia land, rest combined.

CW sinks Italian Convoy in Italian Coast and sends out replacement convoys to the N Atlantic.

US lands troops in Algeria

July/August Axis impulse 3 ( impulse 6 ) Fine.

Germany land, Italy and Japan combined.

Italy sinks a CW convoy in E Med cutting their supply near Tobruk.

Japan lands reinforcemnts in the Pacific

German ground strikes all fail.

Shown are the German attacks in Russia

Here are the attacks in Russia in J/A 42 impulse 6

All of them gave German advances in land but at a cost of 2 Russians only shattered and 2 German armor Divs lost and one Inf lost.

In addition 6 German units were disorganized.

J/A 42 Axis impulse 3 after the attcks in Russia

July/August 42 Allies impulse 4 ( impulse 7 ) Fine

CW naval, rest pass only a 20% EOT chance but Russia cannot really run much this impulse anyway.

CW sinks Italian Convoy in It Coast

CW ground strikes Malta disorganizing one of two units

Turn did not end.

July/August 42 Axis impulse 4 ( impulse 8 ) Fine

Germany land, Italy and Japan combined.

Japan sends SUBs out but gets no results.

Italy fails to find the CW forces in Italian Coast.

Germany Ground strikes Moscow for the third time and finally disrupts the 2 units that were not disrupted already.

German attacks are shown, Russia allocates Ground support to those German Fighters could not reach.

The attacks all worked fine this time.

J/A 42 Axis impulse 4 ( impulse 8 )

The Russian front after the attacks and advances have been made.

Russia now need end of turn and bad weather desperately.