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The Birmingham raid yields no result. (3 rolled)

No more action for this evening.

Jan/Feb '43
Impulse #9 (Axis)

No Ground Strikes.

Rail move.
Inf Murmansk->Odessa
Gar Copenhagen->HQ Manstein

Land Moves:
Germany:
HQI (61,29) -> 61,28
Italy:
MOT Div (61,31) -> 61,30

Some movement in Central and Southern front,
Minor movement in Artic

Air Rebase:
Germany:
LND2 (Boulogne) -> Calais
LND3 (Aachen) -> Lille
FTR2 23,52->34,55
FTR3 47,52->52,55

No reorg.


Turn ends on 3 (3 Needed)

Am I correct that LND4 in northern USSR is OOS after Axis submarine attack?

Yes. Although, I think, that it was a Japanese CVL that did the actual attack that disrupted the link to oil.

Jan/Feb '43
End of Turn

Horrible pilot losses for Germany.

Jan/Feb '43
End of Turn

No partisans. Axis garrisons were tested twice, but held firm.

Axis end of turn:

Preliminary planning:
Germany - 27 production points - 37 BPs. Save 3 oil (Bratislava, Budapest, and Berlin).
Italy - 11 production points - 21 BPs. Save 2 oil. 1 in Rome, 1 in Milan (Changing 1 saved oil from Turin to Milan should clear the idle saved oil (over-stacking in Turin)).
Japan - 19 production points - 29 BPs. 4 oil for saving or reorg. Save Burma oil in Nagoya. Save Balikpapan oil in Canton. 1 Palembang oil in Batavia. And two Palembang oil idle for reorg.

Stay at sea:
The following units stay at sea.

Germany:
North Sea: Hungarian FTR2
Eastern Mediterranean: CP

Italy:
Italian Coast: CP + 4 CA
CSV: SUB in 4-box
Eastern Mediterranean: 2 CA in 4-box

Japan:
China Sea: 12 CP + 3 CA
South China Sea: 5 CP + 1 CA in 1-box
Bismarck Sea: CP
Timor Sea: CA

Return to Base:

Germany:
Italian Coast: NAV3 -> 73,39 (Sicily)
North Sea: FTR2 + NAV3 -> Brest; FTR3 (Bf 110G) -> Calais; 2 FTR3 -> Antwerp

Italy:
All SUBs -> Brest
North Sea: FTR2 -> Brest; LND3 -> Lille; NAV3 -> 54,24
BoB: NAV3 -> Brest
Eastern Mediterranean: FTR2 -> Tripoli
Western Mediterranean: Fleet -> La Spezia

Japan:
China Sea: TRS + INF + CA (Tone) -> Seoul; FTR2 -> Hong Kong; CA -> Fukuoka
South China Sea: CA (Furutaka) -> Tokyo; CA (Nachi) -> Tientsin: 2 AMPH + BB (Hyuga) -> Singapore; CVL + 2 BB + CA + TRS -> Manila
Red Sea: SUB -> Singapore
Arabian Sea: SUB -> Singapore
The Marianas: CA -> Tokyo
The Solomons: 2 BB -> Truk
Coral Sea: SUB -> Rabaul
Antipodes: SUB -> Truk
Mozambique Channel: CA -> Batavia
Cape Basin: CVL -> Batavia
Bismarck Sea: BB + CA -> Rabaul
Bay of Bengal: FTR2 + NAV3 -> Kuala Lumpur; NAv2 + CA (Myoko) -> Singapore; CV (Zuikaku) + Ca (Kumano) -> Truk; 2 CV + BB + 2 CA -> Batavia

Use Oil:

Germany:
All units, except 3 Finnish Fokker (1 FTR2 + 2 LND2) + LND2 (Hs 123) in hex 47,36, are reorganized for 3 oil (3.4). Use 1 saved oil in Bratislava, and 1 in Budapest. Also use the oil being saved in Budapest.

Italy:
All units, except HQI Cavallero and 2 CA (Abruzzi and Zara), are reorganized for 3 oil (3.4). Use 1 saved oil in Milan, and 2 in Turin.

Japan:
All units are reorganized are reorganized for 5 oil (5.1). Use the 2 idle NEI + the NEI oil being saved in Canton. Use the oil saved in Canton, and in Shanghai.

Breakdown:
Japan:
INF in hex 70,145 -> INF + MOT Div

Scrap:

Germany:
2 FTR2 (4 + 5 strength)

Production:
Germany (37):
GARR
2 INF
ENG
MECH
AT (5 BP)
4 FTR2
4 Pilot

Italy (21):
INF
AA (5 BP)
2 FTR2
NAV2
3 Pilot
SUB (1st)

Japan (29):
GARR
INF
MECH
AA
FTR2
CVP0
CVP2
3 Pilot
CVL (2nd)
Repair CA
CP
Repair SUB 4455

Factory destruction:
-

Reinforcements:

Germany:
FTR2 (Bf 109E-3) -> Königsberg
LND3 (Ju 88A4) -> Königsberg
LND3 (Hs 129) -> Königsberg
FTR2 (FW 190G-3) -> Breslau
GARR + AA -> Essen
MECH + INF (7-4) + MOT Div -> Königsberg
ARM -> Breslau
MOT -> Aachen
INF (8-4) -> Dusseldorf
MAR + INF (8-3) + SUB -> Kiel

Italy:
FTR2 (Macchi C.202) -> Genoa
FTR2 (Re.2002) -> Palermo
NAV3 -> Palermo
MTN Div -> Turin
2 SUB-> La Spezia

Japan:
FTR2 (Ki-44-Ia) -> Sasebo
NAV4 -> Sasebo
CVP1 (A6M5) -> CV Soryu in Fukuoka
SUB-> Tokyo
CVL + CA + CP + ART -> Fukuoka

Voluntary Resource Lending:
Modified; Germany -> Italy: 8 resources, (1 oil, minimum) + 4 BPs

Axis goes first if we win the initiative. No re-roll.

Last turn Allies (me) forgot that there is one USSR LND4 disorganized in the arctic and returned CPs from Arctic Ocean. This turn rain saved the plane and Allies built new convoy line from Persia to Arctic Ocean, but Japanese CV sunk one CP near South Africa on last impulse.

Allies have new master plan to save the plane. See the map for "easy job to deliver the oil". Poor bastard who ever needs to deliver it. Imagine transporting few barrels of oil cross the Africa. ..

I am curious if this actually worked; sometimes MWiF does not handle very long supply lines correctly.

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer_slith
Allies have new master plan to save the plane. See the map for "easy job to deliver the oil". Poor bastard who ever needs to deliver it. Imagine transporting few barrels of oil cross the Africa. ..

Don't you need an unbroken rail/road network to deliver the oil across central Africa?

Actually it's basic supply path so no rail needed.

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

I am curious if this actually worked; sometimes MWiF does not handle very long supply lines correctly.

We will see. To us important is, that the plane is saved [:)]

ORIGINAL: jjdenver

Actually it's basic supply path so no rail needed.

Ok. Got you. You're talking oil for reorg. I thought you're were trying to transport it to save. My bad.

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer_slith

Last turn Allies (me) forgot that there is one USSR LND4 disorganized in the arctic and returned CPs from Arctic Ocean. This turn rain saved the plane and Allies built new convoy line from Persia to Arctic Ocean, but Japanese CV sunk one CP near South Africa on last impulse.

Allies have new master plan to save the plane. See the map for "easy job to deliver the oil". Poor bastard who ever needs to deliver it. Imagine transporting few barrels of oil cross the Africa. ..

Good job in finding that route. [&o] [:)]

Note that the route could have used Free French territory as well.

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

I am curious if this actually worked; sometimes MWiF does not handle very long supply lines correctly.

MWIF found a route for the oil. Not sure if it was the route showed. But the plane is able to be reorganized in our game.

Japan - 19 production points - 29 BPs. 4 oil for saving or reorg. Save Burma oil in Nagoya. Save Balikpapan oil in Canton. 1 Palembang oil in Batavia. And two Palembang oil idle for reorg.

Oil use
All units are reorganized are reorganized for 5 oil (5.1). Use the 2 idle NEI + the NEI oil being saved in Canton. Use the oil saved in Canton, and in Shanghai.

I don't think I understand this or there is an error.

Japan has 2 oils in Palembang. One is saved to Batavia and one is idle, not two.

Is Burma oil used to reorg? I did that and moved on. Let me know if that is OK or not.

What happens if CW liberates Netherlands or not? What is the difference?

Side note: Game has totally fixed itself at EOT, no editing needed anymore. There was some issues after I returned extra CPs to ports when production was optimum, in next phase CW was 2 BPs low and some routes needed to be redone to fox the situatuin but it was doable.

Yes. The sentence "1 Palembang oil in Batavia." should have been deleted.

My intention was to increase the saved oil in Japan by one. And decrease the saved oil in China by two. So total saved oil was -1. But locally +1 in Japan. And in China -2.

Looks good to go anyway. [:)]