It Takes A Village to Raze a Village

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Opening Messages.

1. German U-boats sink 61 MPPs headed to Russia and along with Italian subs sink 39 MPPs headed to the UK.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Japanese Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor.

1. Japan DOWs the US, Dutch East Indies, Philippines and several others.
2. Apparently Japan and Great Britain were already at war.
3. The KB hits the USN fleet at Pearl harbor. They only manage to sink 1 BB and their air groups take a number of losses.
4. Not sure if I did IJN's surprise attack on Pearl right but I don't think it was worth it. The KB would have been better employed elsewhere.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Pacific. Guam.

1. Japan captures Guam.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Pacific. Rabaul, New Britain.

1. Japan forms a long range amph out of Palau with the intention of invading and capturing Rabaul.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Pacific. The Solomons.

1. Japan forms a long range amph out of Kwajalein with the intention of invading and capturing the Solomons.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Pacific. The Philippines.

1. Japan invades the Philippines.
2. Another SNL amph is formed out of Japan.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Pacific. Sarawak. Singapore

1. Japan invades Sarawak and Singapore.
2. An amph out of French Indo-China is formed.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. China. End of Turn.

1. Japan's push in the north continues.
2. Minor attrition attacks elsewhere.
3. There lots of Japanese land and air units tied up in China.
4. Not sure what's left to do in China?
5. Almost forgot, Hong Kong is captured.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (1/3).

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (2/3).

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Battle of the Atlantic (3/3).

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. East Med.

1. 2-steps again knocked off the Garrison defending Rhodes by the RN and, again, those 2-steps reinforced back.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. East Africa. End of Turn.

1. Stalemate?

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. The Eastern Front. Army Group North. End of Turn.

1. Troops digging in for the winter.
2. No action here.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. The Eastern Front. Army Group Center. End of Turn.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. The Eastern Front. Army Group South. End of Turn.

1. This theater remained active with Army Group South continuing their push into the Caucuses.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. The Western Front. End of Turn.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. Production. Germany.

1. Corps and garrison built.

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Turn 61. Axis. December 19, 1941. MPPs.

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During Pearl Harbor did you set your CVs to Naval/Tactical mode? Those poor results suggest you still had them in fighter mode.

I see no new IJN ships other than the ones already in the queue at scenario start. But the US won't have built any, either. You do need to get a chit into getting Fighters Level 3-falling behind the US in fighter tech can spell disaster.