Turn 7. Sep/Oct 1940. Allied #11.
[al] End of turn roll was an 8, so the turn continues.
[al] Weather roll is 7, becoming 9 with the previous impulse's die roll modifier. That's Storm/Rain/Rain/Storm/Fine/Fine. Bad weather everywhere it counts.
[ax] Well at least my planes can fly in the north temperate to try to counter those sneaky Soviet subs if they attack again.
[al] Allied Impulse 11
No DoWs, alignments, etc.
Actions
China: Land
Commonwealth: Combined
Free France: Pass
United States: Pass
Soviet Union: Combined
[ax] Looks like my planes will be flying then.
[al] Naval Stuff
No port attacks or naval air.
Naval Moves
- CW sails 4 cp to Faeroes Gap and 1 cp to North Atlantic from Liverpool.
- USSR subs in Murmansk sail to the Norwegian Sea and North Atlantic.
[ax] USSR subs in the North Atlantic? Interesting.
[al] Naval Stuff
Naval Combat
- USSR initiates in Japanese Coast. No planes can intercept from land, but in this weather the CV planes are in the air. USSR commits subs.
- Search rolls are Soviets 7, Japan 1. Not looking good for the subs.
So, some decisions for the Axis. Japan has 8 surprise by my reckoning. Which box(es) to pick, and naval air or surface?
[ax] Select both subs and fight a surface.
[al] Okay.
[al] Current damage profiles:
- Subs inflict 2A on Japanese.
- Kido Butai inflicts 1D, 3A on subs.
How do you want to spend surprise points?
[ax] Please move damage to Soviet subs up 4-columns to X, 2D.
[al] How to allocate aborts to Japan?
[ax] A each on each of the two IJN CA's.
[al] Japanese Damage (2A):
(1) A on Chokai: saving throw is 6 - she aborts.
(2) A on Mikuma: saving throw is 10 - she stays in the zone.
Soviet Damage (X, 2D):
(1) X on 3/3 sub: saving throw is 5 - sunk
(2) D on 4/3 sub: saving throw is 5 - damaged
(3) D on 4/3 sub: saving throw is 4 - sunk
Looks like Japan caught wind of the sub's location and ambushed them. Maybe some Soviet naval codes were broken at a good time.
[al] To where should Chokai abort?
[ax] Fukuko, please.
[ax] Well that's a thorn (Soviet navy/subs in Asia) in the Japanese side that's been take care of, for now at least.
[al] Quite.
[al] Land Stuff
Rail Movement
(1) British III Corps (6-4 INF) rails from Cairo to Aswan.
Land Movement
(1) KMT cavalry withdraws back to Ankang, while a garrison army advances out of Chungking.
(2) Sydney MIL advances west out of Berbera back towards Ethiopia.
(3) HQ Wavell moves into Suez, and 2nd infantry division (1-4 inf) moves from Cairo to Port Said.
(4) HQ Yeremenko advances down Trans-Manchurian railway, and 50th Army withdraws up the rail line into the swamp (into supply from Yeremenko).
(5) HQ Timoshenko continues advancing towards Kiev.
[al] No land combats, and no rebases, so on to end of turn roll.
[al] End of turn roll is 7. Turn continues.
[ax] copy that.
[al] Game file sent at start of Axis impulse.
Japanese Coast. {Great result for the Japanese. Both Soviet subs sunk at the cost of an aborted heavy cruiser. That removes, for now at least, any Soviet threat to Japanese convoy lines except from land based air, which I put at low risk.}
