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Now for the other Battle plan.

I moved 2 CAG's and a Battle Fleet too Gibraltar over the last few turns and have now assigned them to North Africa Command.
Their mission objectives are as follows.

1. Link up with the Royal Navy Mediterranean fleets
2. Destroy the Italian Navy
3. Assist Wavel in securing North Africa.
4. Move to the Pacific to assist Australia.

I did a lousy job of scouting when I sortied out of Gibraltar and actually moved past two German u boats so I had to move back too attack them this allowed one of them to escape. Poor execution on my part, I will slow down and make sure that doesn't happen again. The second sub was right at the limit of my air-range and my air strike didn't kill him due to low AP.

My first Objective will be accomplished next turn, I hope he will bring the Italian Navy out to engage me but I doubt he will. You cant tell by the screen shots but both my fleets are in range of each other so next turn they will link up and if he attacks one of them before that then next turn the other will be able to assist in counter attacking. This turn I am at my weakest and he can possibly land a heavy blow to me. I doubt he can defeat either fleet but he can heavily damage one of them costing me serious losses.

this screen shows my Army of Africa preparing for the Offensive.
So the war in Africa is starting. I need to secure Africa asap so I can move some CAG's to the Pacific theater. Japan has taken two Chinese cities giving them a 8 vp advantage and I will have to move fast to keep japan from winning.

the Situation in India is going well. My defenses will be done next turn and I will switch production to offense. I need to either attack Japan asap with the Indian Army or build a Air-force to strike him.
I am actually at a loss on what to do here. This is a real challenge to try and take the pressure off of China and I don't know exactly how to do it. Even when the USA comes online it will take 6-8 months to get any significant forces moved to this theater. Since the USA starts at zero readiness and in winter. It takes all winter just to get supply and readiness up to speed.
So until then any naval forces I send there will be vastly out numbered and I will have to be very careful how I use them. I do however have a radical plan in mind with the USA but haven't decided yet if I should try it. I am still thinking over my options.

As you can see Japan has just taken Kunming. This is a surprise to me I had no idea till last turn what the situation was. If I had I would have been producing different units already, this changes every thing. and as you can see he has made no move at all to build a road to Bangkok to invade. So it looks like I have a opening here to take the fight to him. But it will take several turns to produce offensive units in enough quantity to be effective.
I hope China can hang on.

Japan just withdrew many of its forces from China. He wont go for the last city until spring. I am building level bombers to hit bridges and what not around China and Japan. Russia Will hold to Moscow this winter and a left hook from the south is in the brink of cutting his forces on the Caucuses off. I wish i could get some PP on Russia from England.

Do I ever get Soviet partisans?

yes you will get them. you will get a lot of them the first winter the axis invades. and the more territory he conquers the more will have a chance to pop. If I understand it right from Explorers explanation the further he goes into Siberia the more will pop also.

he has tried to design the scenario so that Russia is never completely out of the game. If Germany has the chance to invade Siberia the further into it he goes the more troops he has to use for garrison duties until it reaches a very high amount making invading Siberia not very smart strategically.

if i can send you PP I will but I think I need to capture a city/port to do it and I cant do it at all during winter due to the arctic sea freezing over. I also don't have the resource available yet to capture that port since i am committed to invading Europe.

did you get the Flying tigers I sent china or was it too late ?

i got them. They are on horse killing duty. Japan has invested no airforce in China.

awesome they should help you some.

Its also worth to mention that The German Player has a MASSIVE army committed against Russia. I have chosen to retreat until the USA comes online. I made one big mistake by letting him take the Caucuses unopposed. We will see how this turns out. The best thing that would happen to me is if the USA aids the Bordeaux bridgehead and opens a second minor front in Africa.

Don't worry bro that's exactly what I plan to do 

Well this was a bloody turn for both sides. Not only was there a huge battle in the med but Japan attacked Pearl harbor and San Francisco.

In the Med Grumpy executed a Brilliant attack on my most powerful fleet. and the result was very costly for both sides. He had 10 cruiser II I was expecting at most 5. He did a full encirclement of my fleet and if during the attack my fleet had tried to retreat all of it would have been destroyed. Thankfully that didn't happen. The casualties where heavy on both sides as you can see below.

I did miscalculate a little and my Med fleets where not quite in range to help with the Battle on my turn costing me extra losses and allowing 2 of his CA-II to escape for now.
This is the end of the battle.
as far as I can tell only 2 subs and the two CA-II survived.
However the end result is a victory for me even though it came with heavy losses because he doesn't have the force ratio to contest my control of the Med now.

here are the results for the turn. This includes me sinking a couple subs at San Fran also.

The beachhead in Europe is still holding on, I wasn't able to blow the bridge this time due to my strike force attacking the wrong side of the river thus allowing his fighters to intercept me. I lost 1 LB and 3 long range fighters. I killed nothing.

Now for the pacific, Japan attacked pearl and sank the Pacific fleet as was expected. He also attacked Halsey at San Fran with 12 subs. The thing is he attacked a turn early so my forces had 40% readiness instead of lower which would have been the case if he had attacked in Nov and it was winter. So his attack at San fran failed and he lost 6 subs and killed 1 CA-I and 2 Destroyers. He does have me trapped in the harbor and I was unable to Break out since my planes only had 40% readiness I did sink 2 subs though.
With my carriers trapped there I created a new unit and moved all my C-Air to it so that if he follows up this attack and does sink my carriers I wont lose all my planes when the ships sink. I am also making all the fighters and carrier air i can but I doubt they will get there in time if he attacks again with the fleets from pearl. I have fleets headed there but they are really too far away to help. The question is does he have enough supply to move to SF and attack and still make it back to a base before my fleets can find him.

I am glad that this was changed in the latest version so the USA wont lose these three carriers on the first turn.

this is his attack on pearl as you can see he really hammered it hard even destroying the coastal defense guns.

and last I have begun my advance in North Africa, with control of the Med now nothing can prevent me from taking it over.

ORIGINAL: 82ndtrooper

Sorry to interrupt, but where could I obtain these very nice road and railway line graphics:

ORIGINAL: CSO_Talorgan

ORIGINAL: 82ndtrooper

Sorry to interrupt, but where could I obtain these very nice road and railway line graphics:

You would have to talk to someone that knows how to design these scenarios bro.

Explorer2 added those to this one and I am sure he will read this tomorrow and answer you.