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Jan/Feb 1940
Impulse: 1 (Axis)

Land Combat: None

Rebase:
Japan

As per the above

Germany

Four fighters rebase nearer the front

Italy

A Bomber rebases in Turin

Reorganisation: None

Turn 3. Jan/Feb 1940. Allied #3. USSR. China. (1/2).

USSR - combine, China - land.

Rail. Timoshevn HQ-I to USSR 36,56.

Land Moves. USSR.
(1) 85 mm arty div. Poland 52,51 to Lvov, Poland.
(2) Lanchow Warlord. China 75,136 to Mountain 74,137
(3) Inf Div. Leningrad to USSR 40,51.
(4) Eng Div. Leningrad to USSR 40,51.

Future Eastern Front.

Turn 3. Jan/Feb 1940. Allied #3. USSR. China. (2/2).

Land combat. none.

Air rebase. none.

Reorg. none.

China.

Turn 3. Jan/Feb 1940. Allied #3.

Land for China and France
Combined for US and USSR
Naval for CW

No DOW
No port attacks

Naval air:
CW flies a Vildebeest into the 3-box of the North Sea and a Blenheim into the 4-box of the western Med.

Naval moves:
CW protects their shipping.
The CW strengthens their shipping with the use of their newly aquired Dutch (and Belgian) convoys.
The Dutch transport travels towards the UK.
The Queens goes round Kap Horn while 2 of the transports in the Med goes back to England.
A fleet of 7 BBs and CAs moves out into the North Sea.
CV Illustrous finally arrives in Gibraltar where it will be fitted with some CVPs.
The Dutch sub in Plymouth is sent to Cape St Vincent.
The 2 CW subs in Malta sails towards the Italian Coast (3-box).

The US returns 3 transports from Honolulu to the West Coast.

Naval combat:
The CW tries to initiate combat in the Italian Coast.
The Italians have a FTR in Nice (6 move) and a NAV in La Spezia (11 move) that react and protect the Italian convoy.
What is Italys response?

Nothing for Italy Thank-you.

Turn 3. Jan/Feb 1940. Allied #3 continued

Naval combat
CW initiates combat in Italian coast, Italy does not respond with interceptions. CW commits theirs subs.
Searchrolls are 9 for the allies and 2 for the axis, meaning no combat.


No stratbombing.

CW groundstrikes Italian hex SE of Tobruk with the ART. The strike is a fail after rolling 5,7 and 3.


China and USSR moves as Ronnies posts above suggests. There is one discrepancy though and I went with the written orders and not the picture. The Commie warlord is ordered to move but it does not show in the picture.

France shuffles their southern frontline somewhat while the northern front is quite stable.




No landcombat.

CW rebases a CVP to land on CV Illustrous and a LND to the SE of England.
France rebases their FTRs in Paris closer towards the front, able to cover the units in Antwerp.


Sending the turn the Axis to roll the weather.

Jan/Feb 1940
Impulse: 7 (Axis)

Weather throw: 7

Japan chooses land move. No time to bring reinforcements over sea.
Rail moves ; Garrison from Tsingtao to Kaifeng. And The Manchuria Harbin Militia from Tjitsihar to Tayuan(stack with Warlord)
Further we await the movement phase.

Jan/Feb 1940
Impulse: 7 (Axis)

Declarations of War and Alignments: None

Japan: Land
Germany: Land
Italy: Land

Port Attack: None
Naval Air: None

Strategic Bombing: None
Ground Strike: None

Rail Movement:
Japan

GARR from Tsingtao to Kaifeng
MIL from Manchuria to Taiyuan

Germany

MIL from Copenhagen to Warsaw
INF from Hanover to Turin

Italy

MIL from Rome to Nice

Land Movement:
Italy and Germany

The combined Italian/German forces in the south press on into France

Germany

German forces push beyond the Maginot Line into the mountains. Elsewhere there is a general tidy up.

Land Combat:

None for the Germans and Italians. I await the Japanese orders.

Two Land Combats

A Japanese HQ was disorganised, in movement, to get the rest of the army in supply.
A Chinese city was taken but no entry chit was drawn.
Two land combat rolls were high enough to get a +23.
The 11th inf takes over the hex of the Peking Militia.
The 2nd Inf moves in the other hex.
Rebase : The bomber from Kaifeng to Wuhan. The naval from Haichow to Wuhan.
No HQ reorganisation.
Over to the Germans to end impuls.

Jan/Feb 1940
Impulse: 7 (Axis)

Air Rebase:
Germany

A bomber completes its journey to Poland

Italy

A Macchi heads deeper into France

Japan

See above.

Reorganisation: None


End of Turn: Turn ends on less than a 2 (a 10 is thrown)

Turn 3. Jan/Feb 1940. Allied #10. USSR & China (1/2).

USSR - combine. China - land. No air moves. No land combats.

Future Eastern Front.

One unit railed and one unit moved.

Railed. AA div. Odessa to Poland 54,51.
Moved. 4 inf div in the north.

Turn 3. Jan/Feb 1940. Allied #10. USSR & China (1/2).

China.

Jan Feb 1940 Allied #10

China - Land
USSR - Combined
CW - Combined
France - Land
US - Combined

No port attacks
No naval air

CW sends 2 convoys from Plymouth to Gibraltar
CW returns a transport from Gibraltar to Bristol

The US sails an INF DIV from San Diego to Midway.

Naval combat:

CW tries to initiate combat in the Italian Coast.
Does Italy want to react?

No thank-you

Jan Feb 1940 allied #10
Continued Naval Combat

Italy declines to intercept.
Searchrolls allied 1 axis 10
Italian convoy sunk

No stratbombing
No groundstrikes

USSR and China rails and moves as posted above by Ronnie.

CW advances to make a move on Benghazi.


France retreats from southern France in order!



Air rebase:
CW rebases a Harrow to Harwich and a FTR from France to Dover.


No reorg.

End of turn on die less than 5. 10 rolled.

Jan/Feb 1940 imp. 13
Japan chooses land move.
Strategic bombing on Sian: Ki-32 (mary) bomber rolls 1. Way of target.
Bomber returns to Tungkwan.
Nothing else till movement phase.

Jan/Feb 1940
Impulse: 13 (Axis)

The weather roll was a 7(9)

Jan/Feb 1940
Impulse: 13 (Axis)

Declarations of War and Alignments: None

Japan: Land
Germany: Land
Italy: Land

Port Attack: None
Naval Air: None

Strategic Bombardment:
Japan

vs Sian with a Ki-32

Germany

vs Hull with an He-115c
vs Liverpool with a Ju-88 on extended range
vs Metz with an He-111

Italy

vs Marseilles with a Z.501