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Jul/Aug '40
Impulse #7

No Ground Strikes. No rail movement.

Land Movement, part one:

Japan:
MAR (87,140) -> 88,140

Over to Germany for the second part of our impulse.

Land movement continued:

Germany:
Massive force concentration around Paris
Strong forces around Vichy.

Debark:

Italy:
HQI -> 69,45 (Albania)
MIL -> 69,45 (Albania)

Japan:
GARR -> Haichow
INF (23rd) -> Shanghai

Paradrop
Strasbourg -> Paris

France can intercept with FTR2,FTR3, Germany has 2FTR2 and 2FTR3 standing by.
Any takers?

No thank you.

Land combat declaration

Germany
Attacks Paris and MOT next to Vichy.

Will France include notionals?

No thanks.

Any ground support? Axis has 2xFTR2 and 1xFTR3 standing by

Big air combat over the capital

First round result

Air2Air combat result

Ground support result

Land combat selection

Paris fall to the germans, which unit to shatter?

The Fr Art is shattered.

The Fr MOT is destroyed.

Air rebase:

Italy:
LND3 (Turin) -> 75,40 (Sicily)

Germany

Lnd3 Saarbruken -> Paris
Ftr2 Liege-> Boulogne

No HQ Reorg

Ends on die less than 2 -> 8

I'm posting this pic to show state of Manhchuria at beginning of JA 41. These are the starting positions for the units that are taking "free" moves to occupy Manchuria. They'll use "free" moves to get back to these positions if possible. Or if they need to start moving to railheads before they get back to these positions then they'll use one of the 5 allowed combined impulse moves to get to a hex that's "reachable" within 1 move from their free move starting spot. I hope this makes sense. I had to go find an old save game to find this pic so I wanted to post it here for reference.

J/A 40 Allied 8

No DoW

USSR Combined (land taken to conquer Manchuria)
China and France land, CW combined.


Naval move
CW TRS from Plymouth to Gibraltar with FTR2.


Rail move
CW INF from Tel Aviv to Cairo.
USSR 4-2 ART to Penza (moving west).


Land move
USSR free land moves:
3-5 CAV 2 hex west
5-4 Mukden -> Changchun
5-4 64,151 -> 60,151
6-4 -> 60,155
Zhukov -> 67,149

USSR
3 units in Tsitsihar 2 hexes NW along rail line.
1-3 ENG into Tsitsihar.
CAV 55,153 -> 3 hex West.

NatChi
CAV joins to units in mountains north of Chengtu.

CW
TERR to Jaffa.

France
Units run SW.


Rebase
3 USSR bombers to NW Machuria.

CW FTR3 to Egypt, FTR2 from Gibraltar to Algeria.

Turn does not end.

Back to the Axis.

No declarations of war.

Land: Germany, Japan
Combined: Italy
Naval:

No port strikes. No naval air.

Italy sail one CP to the Western Mediterranean. No naval combat. (only SUBs to fight)

No strategic bombing.

Germany ground strike the two British defenders in Calais.

CW can intercept with one FTR2, and one CVP0. Germany has one 4 strength FTR2 available for counter-interception.

Will CW intercept the German LND3? (see picture)


Picture from Jul/Aug '40 Impulse #9 (Axis) - Ground Strike

Spitfire intercept and lands back to same hex.