The Australian Axis Rebels versus the Swedish Allied Empire (5 player game)

[toenailthehun]

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

No ATR

Land Combat;

Only 1 attack by Germany on Belgrade





As the city is surrounded it is obviously an Assault choice

[toenailthehun]

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

5 rolled Belgrade falls to the advancing Wehrmacht

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

Air Rebases;
Germany: ATR to Aachen, Ju87 B to west of Nuremburg

[toenailthehun]

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

Air Rebases;
Italy:
Japan: Ki-27 to 91,138, Ki-32 to 91,140

[toenailthehun]

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

HQ Reorg's;
Italy:
Japan:
Germany: Rundstedt reorgs Ju88A1 and He 111





Over to the Allies for JF40 Allies#4

[Orm]

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #4 (Allies)

No declarations of war.

Land: China
Combined: France, USA, USSR
Naval: CW

No port strikes. No naval air.

Naval Movement:

USA:
CP -> South China Sea

France:
TRS + INF + CA Beirut -> West Med 0-box

CW:
Liner + MIL (Adelaide) -> Red Sea 0-box
CP (West Med) -> Suez
CP (Mouths of the Amazon) -> Freetown
TRS + GARR (Bombay) -> Red Sea 0-box
SUB (UK) -> BoB 3-box
2 SUB (Malta) - Italian Coast 3-box
CA (Split) -> West Med 0-box
BB (Suez) -> West Med 0-box
2 CA -> Faeroes Gap 4-box
3 BB + 2 CA (Plymouth) -> North Sea 3-box
A lot of convoy escorts leave port (incl. 5 BB, and one CVL)

No strategic bombing. No Ground Strikes.

Rail moves:

USSR:
2-3 INF Div Odessa -> Leningrad

France:
2-3 MIL Bordeaux ->Paris

Land Moves:

USSR:
4-2 ART Leningrad -> 37, 51
4-3 INF Murmansk -> 22, 53
6-6 MECH Leningrad -> 34, 55

France:
1-3 INF Div 60, 32 -> 57, 31
1-4 MOT Div 56, 32 -> 54, 31

Edit: Added the GARR that was loaded on the TRS sailing for the Red Sea.

[Orm]

Over to USA for the second part of the Empires impulse.

[peskpesk]

1940 JF Allied #4 North China at the end of impulse

[peskpesk]

1940 JF Allied #4 South China at the end of impulse

[peskpesk]

1940 JF Allied #4

Disembark:
France:
5-3 INF West med -> Nice

Air rebase:

CW:
CVP1 (4-range Gladiator) on HMS Courageous, in Gibraltar, to HMS Furious.
FTR2 (49,29) -> Cardiff

France:
FTR2 Lille -> 55, 31
FTR3 Vichy -> 56, 31

CH:
See img.

No reorganization.

New weather (6)

[toenailthehun]

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis)

No DoW's
No Minors aligned

Actions;
Land: Germany, Japan
Combined: Italy
Naval:

No Port attacks
No Naval Air

Naval Moves;
Italy: CA Abruzzi does on Sub hunting exercise in Italian Coast

[toenailthehun]

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

Strategic Bombing;

Japan:
Germany: Launches raids on Sheffield and Coventry

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Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

Coventry raid not as successful

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Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

Ground Strikes;
Germany:
Japan: Ki-32 strikes at the Chinese city of Kweilin





With some unexpected success

[toenailthehun]

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

Rail Moves;
Italy:
Japan:
Germany: 7-4 Mot rails from Belgrade to Dusseldorf
5-4 Mtn rails from Belgrade to Frankfurt
HQ-I Von Leeb to 53,34

[toenailthehun]

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

Land Moves;
Italy: 4-5 Mot moves into Genoa
Japan: Most units move following pics show position after land moves

North China

[toenailthehun]

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

Land Moves;
Japan: Central and Southern China




I will now hand over to Germany to continue the Axis pulse.

[ssiviour]

GER land moves:

Some more shuffling at the Belgian Fontier

In the South some units begin the long march back to the Fatherland

[toenailthehun]

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

Land Combat;
Germany:
Japan: 1 attack only all out assault on Kweilin

HQ Support failed





Will assume it is an Assault as there is no retreat hex

[toenailthehun]

Jan/Feb '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued





Kyoto Militia will be Japan's loss

US were uninterested in the fall of Kweilin.