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J/F 40 Axis 3

No DoW. Germany aligns Hungary.

Germany and Japan land. Italy combined.

Italy sends subs to the 3 and 4 box West Med and the 3 box East Med.

Naval combat is declined in Italian Coast.

East Med.

The sub initiates searching. Searches: Axis 9, Allies 6. No combat.

West Med. Sub in the 3-box initiates searching. Searches: Axis 4, Allies 9. Axis find from 4-box. 0-box only chosen. 4 surprise points reduce Axis losses to an A. On a 2, the sub scuttles back to La Spezia.

Allied losses are D, 3A. I presume the D will be on a French CP, where do the French and CW CP's abort to? Do Allies stay or abort?

Gibraltar is good. Allies stay.

Don't think the French one can go there.

Oh, one of them survived. Marseilles, thank you.

Japan sends a couple of ground strikes. Does the Chinese AA gun wish to fire?

No thank you.

Good night. If you attack, assault is my primary choise.

Ground strikes do okay.

Germany rails 105mm ART from Poland to Cologne. Bremen MIL to Lodz. Hanover MIL to Warsaw.

Italy retreats an INF in Egypt at the cost of disorganising it. Rome MIL continues moving north.

The German build up along the Belgium border continues.

China following Japan's moves.

One land combat declared by the Japanese. Chiang could lend 0.5 factors of HQ support but I'm going to assume this will be declined as it would leave the HQ disorganised and would only bring the fractional odds roll (.286) to 0.

Yamamoto adds his support to the attack.

Final odds.

Japan loses its ENG but Changsha is taken.

The Japanese occupation of the city passes unnoticed in the US (8 rolled).

Germany rebases a LND and ATR to the Western front and the Bf-110 to Rotterdam.

Italy rebases a FTR to La Spezia from a bit further south, A FTR from La Spezia to Sicily and a LND from Egypt to Tripoli.

No reorgs.

Weather moderates a bit.

Back to the Allies.

Nice attack. Missed ENG and thought you don't get good enough attack to city and AA stayed in mountains.

Weather in Persia is fine I think. Tonight USSR DoW on Persia. Do you place unit to capital or somewhere else?

Probably. How are the Soviets set up?

ORIGINAL: AllenK

Japan loses its ENG but Changsha is taken.

High risk taken here. What if the dreaded 14 (a 6 rolled) came out for the Japanese? I think one could say that would have meant "game over" in China, with the loss of Yamamoto.

It took me this long to realize units behind lake did not attack. Was that a mistake or calculated risk?

ORIGINAL: AllenK

Probably. How are the Soviets set up?

4 corps and INF div in east, ENG in west. Some bombers to support. Soviets take capital if there is no defense.

I'd originally thought the units behind the lake would be able to attack. Took a calculated risk when they couldn't. Part of the calculation was the Japanese had already rolled a six only a couple of their combats ago. The likelihood of them rolling another so soon was therefore pretty low. Probably wouldn't have done it if the reward hadn't been depriving the Chinese of a factory city and putting the other units OOS.

Persian CAV to capital thanks

J/F 40 Allied 5

USSR DoW on Persia. On a 5 one US gets once again mad...

To which major power do you want to align Persia?

I go back and redo everything if I guessed wrong the alignment (I chose Germany).

China and France land, others combined.

CW sends CP to West Med and CA to North Sea box 4.

USSR ground strikes Teheran.