Global War: Japanese Aggression

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Turn 32. Nov/Dec 1944. Weather and Actions.

Whatever bad luck or issues the allied player has had with weather or with the turn ending too soon was made up several times over this turn. Fantastic weather rolls and unbelievable fine weather for this time of year. Well, if you're the allied player that is.

Note that the US player played an o-chit every impulse this turn.

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Turn 32. Nov/Dec 1944. Europe.

The result of all that fine weather was a complete collapse of the Germany army. It was so bad that Germany offered to surrender, but it came with conditions. Making it known that the allies will accept nothing other than an unconditional surrender from Germany, the allies turned down Germany's offer.

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Turn 32. Nov/Dec 1944. Destroyed Pool.

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Turn 32. Nov/Dec 1944. Allied Targeting of German Oil.

USA and USSR strategic bombers knocked out all of Germany's oil this turn.

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Turn 32. Nov/Dec 1944. Economic Reports.

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Turn 32. Nov/Dec 1944. Allied Factories and Convoy Routes.

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Turn 32. Nov/Dec 1944. Geo-Political.

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Turn 32. Nov/Dec 1944. Victory Totals.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Weather. Actions.

A short turn with storms in the North Temperate during the first impulse pair. Since 95% of all fighting is in this region this meant no combat during this pair. However, the USA did take a super-combined, which at first may not make sense, but it does after some though and play. The USA used this super combined to move up its land forces in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands close to the German lines. Also, storm put a number of advance US units out of supply. The US player was able to move HQ units to positions to put these units in supply. Also, the USA player used the super-combined to rebase an enormous number of air units to within range of the remaining German units. And, even during storms, because of the extensive "road" structure in Germany, land movement was not really a problem.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. USSR # 3. Poland. Combat Reporter's Notebook.

The fact that storms were raging in the North Temperate, which includes much of Poland, did not deter Stalin and his Red Army from attacking. It helps when the attacks are automatic. Warsaw was captured by the Soviets.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. USSR # 8. Germany and Romania. Combat Reporter's Notebook.

The Red Army is in its element in snow and that was what the weather was this impulse in the North Temperate. The Soviets launch one attack pushing into Romania and two attacks trying to cross Oder. Only 1 of the 2 attacks succeed in that the Soviets managed to established a bridgehead on the west side of the Oder.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Western Allies #8. Northern Germany. Combat Reporter's Notebook.

The Americans and British successfully push to the outskirts of Berlin in preparation for the final assault to take the city and end this war.

Unfortunately, they will have to wait until next turn as the turn ends on a roll of 2 against a 20% chance.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1944. Western Europe.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. German U-boat Raid. A Footnote.

A group of fanatical submariner Nazis volunteered to manned the last organized German u-boat unit and raid allied convoys in the North Atlantic. The allies were tipped off to this possibility when Manstein was used to reorganize a German SS infantry corps and, with no other ground units left that he could reorganize, reorganize a single German u-boat unit. The allies put cruiser, battleship and carrier escorts out into the sea areas reachable by this newly reorganized German u-boat unit.

The final German u-boat raid was anti-climate when their crews failed to find the allies. And, conversely, the allies failed to find the u-boats unit.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Destroyed Pool.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1944. USA Only Lost this Turn.

The USA's only loss this turn came through carelessness and not combat. Truthfully, I wasn't aware of frozen lakes and flying boats. But I am now and will be on the look out for that in the future. Another lesson learned by me and learned the hard way.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. (Loss of) German Production.

No need for strategic bombing of German oil and industry. All its oil and most of its industry was captured instead by the Western Allies and the Soviets.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Economic Reports.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Geo-Political.

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Turn 33. Jan/Feb 1945. Victory Totals.