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

Z.501 scores a hit

Allies choice for 1st A result

Put the A on the damaged BB, if possible. And the Next A we decide on the same ship. And then put them on the 4 strength BB.

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

1st Abort was also a hit
Italy targets the BB Bretagne next
This is a hit as well




Allies choice for the last A

Put the last A on Jean Bart.

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

Final result

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

Z.501 flys home to 63,33

No Naval Air

Naval Moves;
Italy: Trn loaded with Mot Celere sails from La Spezia straight into Tobruk
Cruisers take up Convoy escort and Sub hunting duties in Italian Coast and East Med zones
Task Force of 2 x BB's and 2 CA escorts take up position in the West Med
Subs enter the Cape St Vincent zone searching for French shipping
2nd Cruiser enters the Red Sea
Italian merchant fleet flees the Red Sea

On to Naval search

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

Naval Combat;
Italy will initiate searches in all 3 zones




Will start in the Red Sea Zone, CA Duca D'Aosta will initiate

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

No find in the Red Sea




Cape St. Vincent next
Sub 5042 will initiate

Subs are committed

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

Axis find on 2/7 Roll

Final result is less French Merchant Navy




On to East Med zone where CA San Giorgio initiates

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

Wild miss in East Med





No Strategic Bombing
No Ground Strikes

Rail Movement;
Italy:
Japan:
Germany: SS Div in Keil rails to La Spezia, 3rd Inf Div in Saarbrucken rails to La Spezia, Inf in Belgrade to Genoa

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

Land Moves;
Japan: More crawling forward in the storms in Central China

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

Land Moves;
Japan: In the South more moving in the rare fine weather




Over to Germany to complete the pulse

GER Land moves are all on the Western Front moving towards France and reinforcing the bridgehead over the Dyle at Brussels with the brave Para's moving back to Aachen for some quick refit

No Axis Land Attacks

Air Rebases
IT: NAV3 Erone From Genoa to 74, 39
JP: NAV2 B5N1 from Nanchang to Hengyang
GER: FTR2 BF109 Amasterdam to Brussels, LND2 JU87B Aachen to Brussels, LND2 JU87B Cologne to Brussels, LND3 JU88A1 Amsterdam to 74, 40

Axis Reorgs

JP: Umezu Reorgs INF DIV and Shanghai Warlord
IT: Balbo Reorgs NAV2 Z.501
GER: Von Bock Reorgs ATR JU52 and INF in Dusseldorf

No Naval Reorgs

Turn ends on a 1, 3 rolled

On to the Empire .....

Mar/Apr '40
Impulse #9 (Allies)

No declarations of war.

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

No port strikes. No naval air.

Three US battleships begin a goodwill tour of the South Pacific. Polynesia, Samoa, Fiji, and New Zeeland are, among others, planned to be visited by the ships.

France sail one TRS, loaded with MOT, and escorted by one CA, from Dakar to the Central Atlantic 0-box

Belgium send one CP to CSV.

VW send The Queens from Adelaide loaded with one TERR to Cape Basin.

No strategic bombing. No Ground Strikes.

Rail Moves:

CW:
MIL (Montreal) -> Halifax

USSR:
Zhukov Krasnokamensk-> 43,98 West

France:
2-3 MIL 54, 31 -> Nice

Land Movement:

France:
5-4 INF 52, 31 -> Lille
6-4 INF 52, 31 -> 54, 31

CW:
MECH (54,28) -> 52,31
INF (Calais) -> 52,31
AT (Calais) -> 52,31

Over to US for the remainder of our impulse.

1940 MA Allied #9 North China post movement