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Germany creates Vichy France. US reacts negatively and 2 US entry chits are drawn (18 rolled).

Which will be the new French Home Country?

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I think there might be a bug in what Vichy administrative group some French minor belongs. I thought that French Somaliland belonged to Asian Minor Countries and Territories so it should have become a Vichy territory, but here it was rolled as Free France. It seems to me that none of the territories rolled Free French is a better fit.

Same objection to Belgian Congo. Although this time I thought it belonged to 'Other minor countries and territories'.

ORIGINAL: Orm

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I think there might be a bug in what Vichy administrative group some French minor belongs. I thought that French Somaliland belonged to Asian Minor Countries and Territories so it should have become a Vichy territory, but here it was rolled as Free France. It seems to me that none of the territories rolled Free French is a better fit.

Same objection to Belgian Congo. Although this time I thought it belonged to 'Other minor countries and territories'.

Are you sure FSL is part of Asian minors? I thought it was part of the Equatorial Africa as it is usually Free French but I might be way of base. It is not in Asia after all.

Anything that can be fixed?

ORIGINAL: jesperpehrson

ORIGINAL: Orm

[&:]

I think there might be a bug in what Vichy administrative group some French minor belongs. I thought that French Somaliland belonged to Asian Minor Countries and Territories so it should have become a Vichy territory, but here it was rolled as Free France. It seems to me that none of the territories rolled Free French is a better fit.

Same objection to Belgian Congo. Although this time I thought it belonged to 'Other minor countries and territories'.

Are you sure FSL is part of Asian minors? I thought it was part of the Equatorial Africa as it is usually Free French but I might be way of base. It is not in Asia after all.

No. I wasn't sure. Now I am after checking the rules, FAQ, and forum. Apparently the FSL belongs to the other minor category.

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Cut from FAQ:
Q17.2-7 I am playing with the African map. What
happens to French somaliland if it is still
French controlled when Vichy is declared?
A: You roll for it on the "All other territories &
minors" row of the Free-French chart (see
WiF 17.2). Date 13/01/2009

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The following was found on the forum: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.a ... =&#3234945

Free-French Chart* (Administration group: Die (% chance to become Free French))
1) Morocco (Capital: Rabat), Algeria (Capital: Algiers), and Tunisia (Capital: Tunis): 10 (10%)

2) French West Africa: 9–10 (20%)
French Guinea (Capital: Konakri), French Sudan (Capital: Bamako), Ivory Coast (Capital: Bingerville), Niger Colony (Capital: Niamey), Senegal (Capital: Dakar), Togo & Dahomey (Capital: Togo), Upper Volta (Capital: Oungadougou), and Mauretania (Capital: St. Louis)

3) Syria (Capital: Damascus): 9–10 (20%)

4) French Indo-China (Capital: Hanoi): 9–10 (20%)

5) Madagascar (Capital: Antanarivo): 8–10 (30%)

6) All Asian map minors & territories: 7–10 (40%)
Comoros Islands and Reunion Islands

7) French Equatorial Africa: 3–10 (80%)
Chad (Capital: Fort Lamy), Ubangi-Sharie (Capital: Bangui), Cameroons (Capital: Younde), Gabon (Capital: Libreville), Middle Congo (Capital: Brazzaville).

8) All Pacific map minors & territories: 2–10 (90%)
New Caledonia (territory) and all French Pacific islands

9) All other territories & minors: 9–10 (20%)
French Somaliland (Capital: Jibuti), French Guyana (Capital: Cayenne) (South America map) and all French islands on the Americas map

So the chart looks like this.

Note: Reunion Islands (FR) are east of Madagascar so I added them to the Asian map Administration group.

ORIGINAL: Zeijlon

Anything that can be fixed?

No idea how. I am open for suggestions.

ORIGINAL: Orm

Which will be the new French Home Country?

The French re-establish in Madagascar.

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Zeijlon

Anything that can be fixed?

No idea how. I am open for suggestions.

If you use debug tools, one can change the control of the country to Vichy. And I think that a bug report needs to be done, regarding this one, since it's a new bug.

ORIGINAL: Orm

Which will be the new French Home Country?

The new Free French Home Country is French Somaliland.

ORIGINAL: Zeijlon

CW
Modify (1 oil, minimum) to China

Japan has politically closed the Burma Road. I see no practical way that this oil can be delivered to China. The oil can, of course, be dumped in the Chinese minor ports of Wenchow, or Foochow, but that seems very impractical since a Chinese oil there is more likely to benefit Japan than China. Therefore I remove the CW trade to China. (I can always go back and change if I missed something)

Edit: The French trade to China was also removed.

Both sides rolled 2 for initiative. Allies win ties and therefore the initiative because Axis declines to demand a re-roll.

The weather roll was a 4 modified to a 6.

Not often you see a disorganized HQ at the start of the Turn. Timoshenko had bad luck when the turn abruptly ended and found himself out of oil reach, due to ZOC and enemy hexes.

Turn 4. Mar/Apr 1940. Allied #1.

No wars or alignments.

CW Naval
China Land
USA Combined
USSR Land
Frankrike Naval

Port attack:
None

Naval air:
None

Naval movement:
CW moves convoys from Bay of Biscay to Liverpool
CW moves convoys to Faeroes Gap
CW protects their convoys in the North Atlantic, Faeroes Gap and Cape St. Vincent.
The Queens sails to Cape Town
A CW TRS in Kenya sails to the Red Sea
A CW TRS moves from Gibraltar to the Cape Basin
France moves convoys from Belgian Congo and Gabon to Mozambique Channel.
US moves a TRS from Hawaii to San Diego.

Strategic bombardment:
None

Ground strike:
None

Rail movement:
USSR rails a CAV to Vladivostok

Landmovement:
USSR moves in to Eastern Poland. The US is not amused (a 2 is rolled).
USSR claims the Baltic States. The US is not amused (a 1 is rolled).


USSR moves about in Manchuria to get things into supply.


China steadies their lines



Landcombat:
None

Air rebase:
USSR moves a LND to Manchuria
USSR moves a FTR towards the front in Manchuria
CW rebases a FTR to Manchester

Reorg:
ATR reorgs 2 CP in Liverpool
HQ Gort reorgs 4 CP in Liverpool

1940 MAR/APR
Impulse #3 (Axis)

No declarations of war.

Combined: Germany, Italy, Japan
Combined:
Naval:

No port strikes.

Naval Air
Italy

FTR2 La Spezia ->West med 1-box


Naval moves
Germany
2xCP Kolberg -> Baltic Sea

Italy
Sub La Spezia -> CVB 1-box
Sub La Spezia -> CsV 3-box

Japan
Task force 1 Fukuoka; TRS,Amph,CA Ashigara. TRS loads MEC, Amph MIL -> Port Arthur
TRS 4-4 Fukuoka by Kobe -> China Sea 0-box.

Search CVB

Axis roll -> 5

Allied roll -> 7

No combat

Rail Move

Germany
INF Fredrikshavn->HQI Poland

Italy
GARR Saarbrücken -> La Rochelle

Japan
MIL Changsha->Changchun

Land Movement

Germany
Moves a few units in France to the cost and a few Armors moves east.

Italy
Supply unit Khartoum -> 98, 59
TERR 101, 64 -> 100, 66

Japan
MEC Port Arthur->68,151
MIL Kirin->Changchun
CAV Div 72,131->72,130

Air rebases

Germany
LND2 Königsberg -> Danzig
LND2 54, 31 -> Prague
NAV3 Bremen -> 73 ,38
NAV3 Hamburg -> 74, 39
FTR2 Aachen -> Leghorn
ATR La Spezia -> Rome

Italy
NAV2 63, 33 -> 73 ,37
NAV2 Palermo -> 75, 40

Japan

Lnd2 Kweilin->Kaifeng
Nav3 82,147->KAifeng
FTR2 68,156->63,154
FTR2 83,142->67,150

No Reorg

New Weather