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Nov/Dec '39 EoT
Allies

Preliminary planning:
CW - 22 production points - 11 BPs. 1 oil saved in UK was used for production.
France - 13 production points - 7 BPs.
USA - 40 production points - 11 BPs.
USSR - 26 production points - 9 BPs. +1 saved BP.
China - 4 production points - 3 BPs.

Stay at sea:
The following units stay at sea.

CW:
ALL CP
North Sea: CA in 3-box
North Atlantic: 1-Box

France:
All CPs except 1 CP in South China Sea
North Sea: CA in 3-box

USA:
CPs

USSR:
CPs

Return to Base:

France:
North Sea -> Brest
South China Sea -> Makassar, NEI
CSV -> Dakar
BoB -> Mogador

CW:
Italian Coast: 2 SUB -> Malta
East Coast: -> Bermuda
East Indian Ocean: TRS -> Bombay
Mozambique Channel: LIN -> Adelaide
Caribbean Sea -> Barbados
Mouths of the Amazon: -> Liverpool

North Sea:
CA -> Liverpool
TRS + 2 BB + 3 CA -> Plymouth

BoB:
CA -> Liverpool
BB -> Freetown

North Atlantic:
CA -> Liverpool
BB + CA -> Bermuda

CSV
2 CVL -> Liverpool
BB -> Gibraltar

Cape Verde Basin:
BB + CA -> Freetown
CA -> Gibraltar

USA:
Caribbean Sea 3xBB->Norfolk

USSR:
BB -> Rostov

Use Oil:

USSR:
All units are reorganized for 0 oil (0.3).

CW:
All units, except one CVL and one CA, are reorganized for 3 oil (3.4).

France:
All units, except 4 CA, are reorganized for 0 oil (0.45).

USA:
All units are reorganized for 0 oil (0.3).

China:
All units are reorganized for 0 oil (0.0).

Prod plan Final:
x

Scrap: -

Production:
China (3):
MIL
CAV Div

CW (11):
2 x MIL
FTR2
Pilot
CP
Repair BB

France (7):
MIL
AT
Pilot

USA (11):
BB fd
BB fu
NAV3
PIL
CP

USSR (10):
INF
LND4
Pilot
Save 1 BP

Edit: Corrected for errors. France did not break down any unit. And USSR had also built one pilot.

Jan/Feb '40 Start of turn
Allies

Reinforcements:

CW:
MIL -> Auckland
MIL -> Rangoon
GARR -> Bombay
MTN (Yug) -> Skopje
Belgrade MIL can not be placed.

France:
Scrap FTR2
FTR3-> Vichy
MIL-> Bordeaux

USA:
NAV2 -> Norfolk

China (Nat):
MIL -> Kunming

China (Com):
-

USSR:
5-3 INF-> Khabarovsk

Voluntary Resource Lending:
CW -> France - 3 resources
CW -> China - 1 oil
USA -> China - 1 resource

Jan/Feb '40 Start of turn

Axis wins the initiative. (Axis roll 7, Allies 2)

And Axis moves first.

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #1 (Axis)

New, snowy, weather.

End of turn clarification:

CW could, of course, not reorganize the Yugoslavian HQI in Belgrade.

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #1 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #1 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #1 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #1 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #1 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #1 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Jan/Feb '40 Impulse #1 (Axis) - DOW

JAN/FEB40 AXIS IMP# 1

No DOW
GER Align Rumania, roll of 10, USA uninterested, no chit

Rumanian Set up

GER, JP Land Actions
IT Combined Action

No Port Attacks
No Naval Air
Naval movement IT CA Garibaldi ASW Patrols to Italian Coast 0 Box

GER attempt to Strat Bomb Birmingham and Manchester, was able to find Manchester (10 rolled 2PP lost) but not Birmingham (1 rolled)

No Axis Ground Strikes

1 JP Rail move 3-2 Man TER from Mukden to Terauchi 76,144

GER land movement

AA unit from Dusseldorf to Cologne, AT Cologne to 53, 34

The remainder in Yugoslavia expanding the area under GER control and surrounding Belgrade


Over to JP / IT for Land moves ....

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #1 (Axis) Continued

Land Moves;
Italy: HQ-I Balbo and 4-5 Mot Celere swap hexes
Japan:

Japanese Infantry enter abandoned city of Hengyang





No US interest in tis move.

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #1 (Axis) Continued

Land Moves;
Japan - In Central Japan various shuffling

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #1 (Axis) Continued

Land Moves;
Japan - in China's Centre & South the following movements happen