Global War AAR in Pictures

[rkr1958]

Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied. communist Chinese. Northern China.

Mao and his forces pull back and hope for bad weather.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied. Southern China.

The Nationalist too are hoping for a degradation in the weather.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #3. Weather.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #3. German U-boats. North Atlantic.

Germany takes a combine and uses that combine to move u-boats into the North Atlantic and causes some damage there. German u-boats sink 4 CW CPs. With inadequate escorts, the CW decides to abort, save the 5 CPs there and fight another day.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #3. Germany. Yugoslavia.

With rain, odds less than 10A and a very good chance of better weather the Germans decide to wait and not attack Belgrade this impulse.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #3. Italy. Land Combat. Palestine.

Italy takes a land.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #3. Italy. Middle East.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied #5. CW. East Med.

The CW takes a naval. The bring in more warships including the aircraft carrier Glorious to counter the Italian RM there. The RN decides to "roll the dice" and initiates combat. Come what may, the British navy has ruled the seas for 100's of years and isn't about to back down from the upstart Italian navy.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied #5. CW. East Med. Naval Combat, Round 1.

The Italians surprise the British and manage to isolate the Ark Royal in hopes of damaging or even sinking it. The Germans and Italians realize that control of the sea is about air power combined with ships and not ships alone. Ark Royal's carrier air wing is show down, but the carrier itself avoids damage and is aborted back to the safety of Gibraltar.

Round 2.

Both sides stick around for a second round but neither finds the other.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied #5. CW. Italian Coast.

A RN sub unit tries to find and sink Italian convoys operating off the Italian coast. However, it's the Italian RM ships in the area that find the RN sub unit and damages it.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied #5. CW. Cape St. Vincent.

The CW uses this naval to beef the escorts for the convoys operating in the Cape St. Vincent sea area.

[AlbertN]

Well, by the looks now on the long term the RN will attrition down all the Italian CPs and Navy; from Malta / Gibraltar, and the Italian army in Africa will be pratically stuck OOS.

Yugoslavia should be usually aligned, not conquered. But that's another tale.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied #5. CW. North Atlantic.

The CW replaces the 4 CPs sunk and the 5 CPs that fled the German u-boat attack last impulse in the North Atlantic. Of course, these 9 CPs were accompanied by strong ASW escorts.

HQ Reorg.

Alexander is used to reorganize the 5 CPs and the RN heavy cruiser that fled last impulse from the u-boats.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied #5. CW. Convoy Routes Reestablished.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #7. Weather.

The axis just can't seem to get a break weather wise this game. Rain not only continues to the North Temperate but now spreads to the Med. Also, storms flair up in the Arctic and North Monsoon.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #7. East Med.

The Germans take a combine and the Italians a land. The Germans use their combine to try to initiate combat with the RN in the East Med using their NAV. That attempt fails as both sides fail to find the other.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #7. North Atlantic.

The Germans also use their combine to move two more u-boat units from Kiel out into the North Atlantic to join the 3 other u-boat units there. The Germans attempt to initiate combat but both sides fail to find the other.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #7. Germany. Ground Strike. Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Germany's ground strike fails to disorganize the 4-4 Yugoslavian mountain corps. I'm not sure it was even worth the try given the rain and the fact that the unit is in a city.

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #7. Germany. Land Combat. Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Germany throws everything that have available into the land combat to take Belgrade including HQ support (von Bock) and enough planes to result in 7 factors of ground support in the rain and against defenders in a city.

The land combat is successful. The two Yugoslavian defenders are destroyed and Belgrade is taken. However, the city and, thus Yugoslavia, would have held on a roll of 2, 3 or 4, which translates to a 6% chance. Though low, not low enough for my taste. Needless to say a roll of 11 produce a sign of relief (as the German player).

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Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Axis #7. Germany. Yugoslavia.