Bob Flemin' and Orm. A World... AARse II

[warspite1]

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 4

So on to Vitebsk. This is a 3:1 +1 on the Assault table....

....8 Both defenders are disorganised, although that is effectively the end of the German turn as all units are disorganised.

[warspite1]

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 4

And finally to China where the odds are 3:1 and the Chinese have chosen Blitz....

...the odds move to 4:1 and its a 10. The Chinese lose two units.

[warspite1]

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 4

China was a good result but that impulse completely finishes the Germans north of the Pripet Marshes. They can now be cut off and surrounded. [:(]

The Japanese re-base a couple of aircraft in Manchukuo.

Just to improve the mood, a 4 is thrown for the weather, which means its Fine everywhere except the one place I have any chance of making progress - southern China, where the rain is now falling in torrents of biblical proportions...

[Orm]

No declarations of war.

CW and France take combined impulses.

No Port Strikes. No naval air.

France, and CW, abort their convoy from the Western Mediterranean.

HMS Valiant, escorted by several cruisers, move to the Western Mediterranean in hunt for the Italian Fleet.

A French submarine initiate combat in the Italian Coast. Will Italy fly out with any of their fighters?


Picture from Jul/Aug 40 Impulse #5 (Allied) - Naval Combat

[warspite1]

No thank you

[Orm]

Neither side found in the Italian Coast sea area. (Allied rolled 9 and Axis 5)

CW search for the Italians in the Western Mediterranean.

Will Italy send out any fighters here?


Picture from Jul/Aug 40 Impulse #5 (Allied) - Naval Combat

[warspite1]

No thank you.

[Orm]

Only the Italian search roll was a success. Which box, or boxes, will the Italian navy include in the combat?


Picture from Jul/Aug 40 Impulse #5 (Allied) - Naval Combat

[warspite1]

Only the 3-box please.

[Orm]

I should have asked at once if you wanted to avoid combat. If you prefer combat, is surface combat ok, or do you want to spend surprise points in changing combat type?

[warspite1]

I do not want to avoid combat and am not interested in having choice of target. As for combat type I only have surface units to surface it is.

As for spending surprise points I want to hurt the enemy but moreover, I want to avoid damage and pain to RM shipping. Not sure how that is best played out but guess something like one increase in my naval combat colums and the rest decreases to the enemy combat column.

[Orm]

Edit: How will the Italians spend their six surprise points?

Which Italian ships will they select for what result?

[warspite1]

Please increase my naval combat column by 2 and decrease the enemy's by 1 column.

To the extent I have the choice please target:

Barbiano
Abruzzi
Savoia
Fiume

In that order. Prefer damage to sinking.

[Orm]

One Italian light cruiser sunk and two cruisers damaged.


Picture from Jul/Aug 40 Impulse #5 (Allied) - Naval Combat

[Orm]

Two French battleship sunk!

The Allies stay in the sea area. Do the Italians stay as well?


Picture from Jul/Aug 40 Impulse #5 (Allied) - Naval Combat

[warspite1]

Yes please.

[Orm]

Both sides fail to find the enemy. (Allied roll was a 8 and the Italian a 6)

[Orm]

No strategic bombing.

USSR ground strikes the German panzer spearhead and succeeds in disorganizing one of the units.


Picture from Jul/Aug 40 Impulse #5 (Allied) - Ground Strike

[Orm]

No rail movement.

1st Belgian Corps debark in Gibraltar.

No land combats.

France rebase two fighters to the French Alps.

USSR reorganize two units in Manchuria.


Picture from Jul/Aug 40 Impulse #5 (Allied) - Reorganization

[warspite1]

Jul /Aug 1940
Impulse: 6

The Germans take a Combined, the Italians and Japanese a Land each.

The remaining ships of the Kriegsmarine (less the two old er battleships) head for the Baltic, accompanying an AMPH loaded with a division.

The Japanese try some Strategic Bombing of Sian - which proves something of a miserable failure....

The Finns try ground striking Zhukov and friend. Sadly this is also filed under "useless waste of time".

The following attacks are declared:

Manchukuo
Finland
Italy

For the first attack the odds are 14:11 or 1:1 and a German division seeks to take Zhukov in the rear (oh er missus!!). Whether notional is used or not the odds are 1:1. Do the Soviets want to use the notional?