New AAR Keith Vs Ian

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Egypt & E Med

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South-Eastern Front

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North-Eastern Front

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Some action from mid-late JUL/AUG 1941.

Allied #6 saw a series of air attacks by Soviets and British. A port strike by carrier planes on La Spezia delivered further damage to the increasingly battered Italian navy. Fiume was bottomed and Abruzzi damaged. An RAF bomber was shot down over Essen, but the Reds destroyed 2 saved German oil at Koenigsberg. A Soviet bomber was destroyed attempting a ground strike.

Axis #7 saw three land actions but just two German attacks. The Germans widened their bridgehead on the River Dvina.

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The Soviets committed two bombers as ground support in an attempt to save Timoshenko's HQ from a blitz by Rommel's Army Group in SW Ukraine. Intercepting German fighters show down their I-16 escort, they aborted, Timoshenko's HQ was destroyed.

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Rommel's panzers break through, isolating a Red Army stack NE of Odessa.

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The Soviets edge back in Allied #8. The Axis get one more impulse than in May/June, #9.

Artillery ground strike against the Odessa pocket fails.

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The Germans press on north of the Dvina.

Minsk has been left undefended aside from a disorganised AT division. It falls to an automatic assault.

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Rommel's Army Group destroys a Cavalry Corps screening Zhukov's disorganised HQ.

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Rommel's panzers overrun a disorganised Soviet LaGG3 fighter, and deny the USSR access to the resources at Krivoy Rog.

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But further north the Germans get a bad roll and Zhukov's line holds.

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The Japanese are keen to reach Sian before the communists can reinforce it next turn. But isolated Nationalist units do Mao a favour by holding their line in the mountains south of the city against Terauchi's assault.

In Allied #10, all but the USSR pass, and again the turn ends earlier than the Axis would have liked.

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Destroyed Jul/Aug 1941.

Some high value Soviet units, German lorries and Marines, Italian seamen, the entire Bulgarian Army, and more Japanese than Chinese. A bad turn also for the CW. Six CW cps destroyed also, I think.

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North Eastern Front eot July/Aug 1941

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South Eastern Front eot July/Aug 1941

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North China eot July/Aug 1941

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South China eot July/Aug 1941

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New Builds for Sept/Oct 1941

Includes 4 shattered Soviet units.

AXIS PRODUCTION

ITALY (8); repair BB Vittorio Veneto, CL Attendolo; cp; pilot; TERR

JAPAN (15); BB Yamato (2nd), repair CA Aoba; pilot; FTR2; 3x INF DIV

GERMANY (24); 2 pilots; FTR2, LND3; 2x MIL, GARR, MOT*; MECH

(*might have gearing wrong here, if can build only 3 INF, cancel a MIL and please build another FTR2 instead)

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Allied Production Jul/Aug '41.
China: 6 bp. Mil, Gar, Inf Div.
CW: 14 bp. Nav3, Naval Repair, pilot x3, Terr, CVA-1, Convx2.
USA: 27bp. Lnd-4, Pilot x2, CVA-1, BB 2nd phase, convoy x2, armor, mar div, Inf.
USSR: 25 bp. Inf, Arm, ftr-2 x4, pilot x4.

US did their second gear up and started Strat bomber production.

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Start of Sept/Oct '41. Russians are trading space for time in an attempt to slow down the Germans. Railed another factory to the east. Here is the southern front.

In other news more American Battlewagons are dispatched to Pearl.