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Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #1 (Axis) Continued

Naval Moves;
Japan: Task Force from Fukuoka enters China Sea

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #1 (Axis) Continued

Naval Moves;
Italy: Italian Cruiser Duca D'Aosta sails from Port to patrol the Red Sea

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #1 (Axis) Continued

No Strat Bombing

Ground Strikes;
Germany: 2 x Ju87 5 factor Stuka's strike Antwerp



Both Infantry disorganised

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #1 (Axis) Continued

Ground Strikes;
Japan: Launches Carrier planes to strike at the Chinese Cav




With success

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #1 (Axis) Continued

Rail Moves;
Japan: Rails Seoul Mil to Shanghai
Italy:


I will hand over to my Team mate to complete our pulse

GER Rail INF from Belgrade to Poznan & INF from Zagreb to Dusseldorf

IT Land moves 4-5 MOT from Genoa to La Spezia
JP ENG in Haichow moves 3 Hexes West to 77, 145

GER Land units in Austria move North West Into Germany
Rumanian units move towards Bessarabia
GER units in Yugoslavia Spread out
GER units on the Western Front move into Belgium & Brussels

JP Disemabarks MIL to Canton and MECH to Haichow

GER Paradrops onto Brussels

No JP / IT Land Attacks

GER Attacks Leige and Brussels, Both will be Automatic

In Brussels CW will have the choice wether to include Notional or not?

No, thank you, to notional.

No notional means GER Para unit drops on an empty city ...

Leige is easily overwhelmed, no roll necessary

GER Rebase FTR2 55, 38 to 53, 32

No IT Rebases

JP Rebases D3A2 from Sasebo to Hengyang, and G3M2 to Canton

No JP Reorgs

For GER HQ-I Von Leeb Reorgs LND2 JU87B in Aachen


On to the Empire .....

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #4 (Allies)

No declarations of war.

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

No port strikes. No naval air.

Naval moves:

USSR:
Sub (5mp) Vladivostok -> Japanese coast 3-box

US CP Manila->Bay of Bengal

CW:
2 TRS + MOT + AT (Plymouth) -> North Sea 1-box
TRS + BB + CA + HQA (Gibraltar) -> Bay of Biscay 0-box

No strategic bombing. No Ground Strikes.

Rail moves:

USSR:
2-3 A-T Cernauti -> Kiev

France:
5-3 INF Nice -> Paris
5-3 MTN Algiers -> Oran

CW:
GARR (Casablanca) -> Tunis

Land moves:

USSR:
2-3 INF Div Leningrad -> 37, 51
3-3 INF Blagoveshchensk-> 52, 156

Com CH
MIL Sian->Tungkwan
CAV DIV Tungkwan->72,139(NE,E of Yenan)
MIL 72,140->72,141(E)

France:
5-4 INF Lille -> 52, 31
6-4 INF 53, 30 -> 52, 31
7-6 ARM Rouen -> 53,31
5-2 MIL 54, 31 -> 53, 31
2-3 A-T 53, 30 -> 53, 31
5-1 GARR 55, 32 -> 54, 32
5-3 INF 53, 30 -> 54, 32
2-3 A-A 55, 32 -> 54, 32
5-5 MOT 54, 31 -> 55, 32
Bilotte 55, 32 -> 53, 30
1-4 MOT Div 54, 31 -> 53, 30
Georges Lille -> 54, 31
2-3 MIL Paris -> 54, 31
6-6 MECH Vichy -> 55, 32
3.-2 ART Metz -> 55, 32
1-3 INF Div 57, 31 -> Metz
3-3 INF Metz -> 56, 34
4-1 GARR 56, 34 -> Metz
3-5 CAV Damascus -> Tel Aviv

Debark:
CW:
HQA -> Bayonne
MOT -> Calais
AT -> Calais

Air rebase:

USSR:
LND3 (IL-4) Blagoveshchensk -> 64, 162

China:
FTR2 86,135->85,136(2 hexes W of Chihkiang)

CW:
FTR2 (51,30) -> Coventry
FTR2 (London) -> 51,30
FTR2 (London) -> Dover
FTR2 (Cardiff) -> Liverpool
LND2 (Gibraltar) -> Tunis

No reorganization.

Storms hit Europe.

Picture from Mar/Apr '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Mar/Apr '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Mar/Apr '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Mar/Apr '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Mar/Apr '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Picture from Mar/Apr '40 Impulse #7 (Axis) - DOW

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #7 (Axis)

Italy declares war on France
No other DoW's
Japan takes the special action of politically forcing the closure of the Burma Rd.
US had no interest in this turn of events.

US was very concerned about the widening war in Europe and another marker was added to the Ger/Ity Pool

Italy mobilises its Reserves with Militia forming in Rome and Milan, as well as a Garrison stationed in Turin and 4th Inf deployed to Genoa

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

No minors were aligned

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

As its first act of aggression against the French, the Z.501 Port strikes Fleet in Marseilles

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #7 (Axis) Continued

There is no Anti-air from the surprised French fleet
4 SP spent increasing the damage to be inflicted to 1D 3A




Italy will place D on BB Provence