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May/Jun '40
Impulse #5 (Axis)

Italian submarines decline to search.

No strategic bombing.

Two German bombers, one from Tirana on extended range and one from Leros, ground strike the Greek defenders in Athens.

May/Jun '40
Impulse #5 (Axis)

The ground strike in Greece is good.

May/Jun '40
Impulse #5 (Axis)

Rail Movement:

Germany:
INF (Karlsruhe) -> Memel
INF (Paris) -> Krakow
GARR (Metz) -> Memel

Italy:
HQI (55,24 in France) -> 72,42 in Southern Italy

Land Moves:

Germany:
INF (69,46) -> 69,48 in Greece
HQI 3 hexes west to St-Malo
INF (Munich) -> 60,37 in Italy
German units on the west front either moves eastwards, or towards train stations.

Italy:
5-5 MECH Turin -> La Spezia

Japan:
MIL 61,155->156(E)
INF Kirin->61,155(NE)
MIL 5-2 Changchun->Kirin
TER 64,155->65,156(SE,E)
HQI 64,154->64,155(E)
MEC 62,153->62,152(W)
INF 78,145-Kaifeng
INF Kaifeng->74,143(N,N)
HQI 74,143->72,143(N,N)
MIL Paoting->72,143(SW,SW)
WAR 70,142->69,141(NW)
GAR 74,142->75,143(SE)
MAR 85,147->Hangchow
MAR DIV Canton->90,142(N,N)

Air Transport:
PARA (Malta) -> Tirana via HQI in hex 72,42

Debark:

Italy:
INF Div -> Leros

Japan:
GAR -> Haichow

Invasion:
14th SS Div invade Heraklion
2nd, and 3rd, infantry divisions invade Athens

Paradrop:
German PARA in Tirana is loaded onto Italian SM.81 bombers and drops on Athens

Will the Notional in Athens be included in the combat? Germany has 5.5 combat factors in the invading/paradropping force. This can be tripled with shore bombardment and ground support. The odds is expected to be 17:4 +2 without notional, or 17:5 +3 with notional. And will CW select blitz or assault in Athens?

The notional in Heraklion has no combat factors and has no relevance.

Edit: I had wrongly written Tirana when I should have written Heraklion. This is now corrected.

Use notional and chose blitz

May/Jun '40
Impulse #5 (Axis)

Two Italian BBs and one CA add 5.5 points (6 points) to the attack on Athens. One German LND3, flying from Leros, adds another 5.5 points (8).

May/Jun '40
Impulse #5 (Axis)

The attack on Athens is good.

The Greek merchant fleet in Athens are overrun. 4 CPs are sunk, and 1 CP is captured. 4 CPs escape. (10,4,7,2,1,3,7,3,7 rolled)

The 4 Greek CPs flee Athens and head for Aden. Each one sail separately. The German FTR2 in the East Med initiates a hunt for the escaping ships.

The two first CPs to sail were hunted down, and sunk, by the Italian fleet. The remaining 2 CPs sailed for Aden, but where declined entry into the port. The CPs then continued to Bombay. I hope Bombay works. Otherwise I can go back and change. (Axis intercept rolls were 2,2,5,7 - Allied surprise rolls were 9,7)

May/Jun '40
Impulse #5 (Axis)

Air Rebase:
Italy:
FTR2 (Palermo) -> 75,40

No reorganization.

LOL I meant to write assault but instead I wrote blitz. Tired it seems but since a 9 was rolled it did not matter.

Turn 5. May/Jun 1940. #6.

No declarations of war or alignments

Russia - Land
China - Land
Commonwealth - Combined
France - Pass
US - Combined

Portstrikes:
None

Naval air:
None (UK, US, Rus)

Naval Movement:
CW sails 6 CP from Liverpool to Faeros Gap
CW sails 2 CP from Bay of Biscay to Liverpool

US sails 1 CP from San-Fran to Bering Sea
US sails 1 CP from San-Fran to Gulf of Alaska
US sails 1 CP from Norfolk to Canadian coast

Naval combat:

Allies does not initiate anywhere.



Do GE want to search?

No, thank you.

Turn 6. May/Jun 1940. #6. Continued.

Strategic bombardment:
CW bombs Metz (Wellesley) and Lille (Whitley). All fails miserably (3 and 2 rolled).

Groundstrike:
None

Rail movement:
USSR HQ Timoshenko from Manchuria to east of Lvov.

Land movement:
Minor movements in China to consolidate lines.

CW moves a MIL towards the partisan south of Agra.

Russia prepares defenses against German aggression.


USSR moves eastward in Manchuria


Debark:
Indian INF debarks in Suez

Landcombat:
Indian forces attack partisan south of Agra. Odds are 6:1 becoming 5:1 in the rain.


Air rebase:
USSR rebases 2 bombers from Manchuria towards Europe


New weather for next impulse is a 6.

No declarations of war.

May/Jun '40
Impulse #7 (Axis)

Land: Japan
Combined: Germany, Italy
Naval:

No port strikes. No naval air.

Naval Movement:

Italy:
La Spezia 2CAs+2TRS+7-4 INF+5-5 MECH -> East Med 0-box
One CA embark German Division from Heraklion.

Germany:
2 BB and 2 CA leave Brest for Bay of Biscay 4-box.

The German SUB initiates combat in the Bay of Biscay. Germany decline to add any air to the sea area. CW has 4 units that can fly to the Bay of Biscay. Will CW reinforce the sea area?

Fly the swordfish to the 0-box please

No combat in the Bay of Biscay. Both sides rolled 9.

May/Jun '40
Impulse #7 (Axis)

No strategic bombing.

Germany ground strikes the isolated Polish defenders in Warsaw with one LND2.

One defender was hit. The HQI.