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Sepct / Oct 1940 - British Counterattack in Spain!

Clearly one has to learn from the mistakes.

The calculated risk of moving a screening force in front of Gibraltar did not gave its fruits.
The "calculating" the Naval Impulse of the Brits firsthand was right. Shame on my 2nd Impulse the Artillery failed to strike anything in Gibraltar.
Just to get one unit out of combat would have shrunk by +2 the attack ability of the Brits, if not less.

Then there was the riserve shot; a Me109 and a Ju88 ready, one to Ground Support and the other to Escort.
Clearly the RAF proved its superiority (with the fighter based in Gibraltar, that was not ground pinned by the artillery strike) repelling the Luftwaffe from the skies.

The Spanish mechanized unit arrived, attacked with the Gibraltar garrison, and kaboom - Germany loses 6 more BPs (1 ART and 1 INF-DIV).

Sept / Oct 1940 - Axis Impulse #7 - Marocco

It's the only place really seeing some meaningful action.

The Axis performs an amount of bombardments via their planes, and the RAF once again shows their superiority to the Luftwaffe (The Luftwaffe loses 1 FTR2 and Pilot, RAF loses only the FTR2).

The Italian Army, with the leadership of Balbo assaults the British positions in the southern corner of their line.
The Brits opt to retreat and preserve their troops (Blitz combat), which is exactly what happens. No losses for the Brits but their troops are "shattered" and probably will be back soon enough to fight again.

Not a very good result for the Axis which is consuming oil over oil to do little ground gains.

The Luftwaffe too tries a strike on the Spanish Mechanized Corp, but their bombers failed.

The only drawback for the Brits is that they've Gort and a MOT unit disrupted in their first line, if they'd opt to retreat suddenly.

re: the Japanese need another HQ. I doubt this will ever be added to a Japanese Force Pool. The Japanese had to stop their historical advance in China largely over logistic issues - they struggled to feed their own occupation troops. These troops would mount regular "Rice Offensives" into the countryside to seize the harvest to both feed themselves and deny food to the Chinese guerillas. Their occupation was so barbaric they had little chance to ever realistically occupy the whole of China, as the IJA would simply never be big enough for the task. The Auxiliaries formed helped some (TERR counters, Nanking MIL, Warlord conversions, etc.), but the Japanese ideology worked against themselves in a major way.

It is a good play in World in Flames for the Japanese to advance build the Yamashita HQ-I on the Jan/Feb 1940 turn however.

Hmm, I thought of Yamashita, but that's 8 BPs, and that's a helluva of points for the poor Japan economy.

Anyhow - we'll have a restart after a talk on the "supply bug" in Afrika, allowing the Germans to operate when they should not.