DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt"

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The Germans use their cheaper and replaceable submarines to take the losses and get incredibly lucky; no sub is lost, although three are damaged.
Unsurprisingly the RN flees the North Sea.

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The US launch another port attack, this time on Rabaul.
A Japanese carrier in the Marianas launches an intercept mission and they are blown from the sky by the Hellcats.

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Again the Japanese AA fire is devastating and another US carrier plane is shot down

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The surviving US plane heads on in and sink the Hiryu, a small measure of revenge for Pearl Harbor.

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In Central Asia, the Russians have had to abandon Samarkand and are now surrounding Tashkent.

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The US built an offensive chit recently and decide to use it to break the deadlock in Nth Africa

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Both sides send every aircraft they can for ground support.
But the green American pilots are no match for the veteran Axis pilots (OK just making up excuses here) and they are all blown out of the sky, for the loss of two Axis planes. The US forces get no ground support but the Italian troops get Stukas aplenty

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Unsurprisingly the attack fails.
The US are lucky to only lose a MOT division.

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The Germans also built an offensive chit, and they use it on a super-combined impulse; it is clear weather everywhere and that might be the last for some time, so it seems like a good idea.
In the North Sea, transports loaded with the Wehrmacht's Marine Corps put to sea. What are they planning?

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The Germans launch a massive wave of strategic bombers at the United Kingdom.
All but the attackers at Glasgow have FW-190 escorts.

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The Typhoons don't cover themselves with glory; faced with equal odds they not only clear the Heinkel bombers but get blown out of the sky by the Focke-Wulfs.

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At Glasgow the pathfinder Ju-88S' are shot down by the Mosquitoes, but their high defensive rating is enough to abort the interceptors, and the Ju-290's get through to their targets.

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Over Manchester the P-51Bs fail to stop the Heinkels but for no losses, and in most other cities the bombers hit their targets.
The Commonwealth lose 8 production points in total!

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Over Sverdlovsk the LaGG-3 fighters shoot down the Fw-190's but are aborted. The Stukas go in, but only disorganize one unit.

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Rommel moves east of the Urals and other German armour units head towards Novosibirsk, their final goal.
Guderian prepares to finish off Sverdlovsk.

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In the Indian Ocean, the Italians and Japanese are conducting simultaneous invasions of the Maldives and Ceylon.

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The German marines land at Scapa Flow! The aim: to make life more difficult for the RN and to sink the aborted US cruisers there.

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The attack on Sverdlovsk goes in with plenty of air support available too.

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Von Bock attacks towards Tashkent but only destroys one of the defenders.

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Sverdlovsk, unsurprisingly, falls. Just Tashkent and Novosibirsk stand in the way of German conquest.