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Japanese engineers occupy Coconada port. The situation in India looks interesting with the arrival of Mountbatten's HQ.

End of impulse.

Allied Production N/D 42

China: 4 bp. mil, gar.
CW: 26 bp. pilot x2, CV Indafigable 2nd phase, CL Niaid 2nd phase, trs 1st phase, CVA-1 x2, NAV-3, HQA, mil, terr.
US: 58 bp. pilot x2, o-chit, CV hornet 2 2nd phase, trs 2nd phase, amphib 2nd phase, CVA-1 x2, lnd-4, ATR, AT, HQA, armor, sub 1st phase.
Russia: 14 bp. mil x4, ftr-2, pilot, gar.

AXIS #7 JAN/FEB 42

Japan naval, Germany and Italy land.

They keep their main fleets in port but escort convoys, send reinforcements to Bay of Bengal and the Marianas, prepare to top up some CVs with new planes, chase US cps with subs in Mendocino, and challenge in the skies in the Marshalls where significant US assets are patrolling. This is the only successful search.

The Japs spend 4 surprise points reducing the US fighters' A2A values, and get a lucky roll.

My opponent is not impressed that his marines on the BB Indiana were aborted back to Honolulu.

Blizzards preclude action elsewhere, the Germans resist the urge to launch a +12 despite the weather in Tambov.

End of impulse.

RN deters Japanese attempts to land AT in India and sinks an old CL by throwing their Bombay fleet into Bay of Bengal.

Turn ends.

Destroyed Jan/Feb 1943

Reinforcements for Mar/Apr 43

AXIS PRODUCTION J/F 43
Germany 51; 2x INF, HQ-I, MTN, 4x pilots, ARM, MECH DIV, 2x FTR2, 2x LND3, CVA1, ART5, CVL Seydlitz (2nd), CA Java (repair)
Japan 24; 3x pilots, CVA1, FTR2, NAV2, cp, MAR, INF, MOT
Italy 15; sub (repair), 2x pilots, FTR2, LND3, TERR, MAR DIV
Vichy; TERR

AXIS #3 MAR/APR 1943

Allies won the initiative. They are evacuating from Bordeaux.

Turkey aligns with Germany.

Japan naval, Germany and Italy land.

Naval searches with subs in Mendocino and the Hawaiian islands both fail.

The only violence is a partially successful Japanese ground strike in South China.

Italian armies crawl along in Yugoslavia and Egypt/Sudan.

Stormy weather precludes any action in Russia, and Kesselring doesn't attack the evacuating Allies in Western France in the rain.

The weather worsens, 1. End of impulse.

Allied Production Jan/Feb 43

China: 3 bp. Inf.
CW: 32 bp. inf, inf div, Marine div, HQ-A, CV 1st phase, BB 1st phase, FTR-2 x2, CVa-1, NAV-3, Pilot x2.
US: 52 bp. inf, armor, art, CV 1st phase, TRS 1st phase, sub 1st phase, CV Wasp2 2nd phase, amphib 2nd phase, ART-4, LND-4, CVa-1 x2, o chit.
Russia: 18 bp. inf x2, FTR-2 x2, armor, pilot.

AXIS #8 MAR/APR 43

An American attempt to take Majuro in the Marianas failed with both invading and defending divisions destroyed.

Weather is so bad Germany takes a first naval move in what feels like 18 months or more

Only find is by the leading u boat in the stormy North Atlantic. Convoys were not so feisty a couple of years ago.

A solitary CW cp is destroyed. No find in round 2, and no find by a small flotilla led by Bismarck in the Norwegian Sea, but pretty much every German and aligned armed vessel is at sea.

A look at some of the quieter fronts. No other fighting.

In N China Yamamoto moves forward as the Japanese ready for better weather. Mao has no access to oil.

There are still two Jap HQs in theatre. In 1943 we must see results.

Chinese forces are stronger in the south, where the balance is uncertain with Chiang's HQ back on the map and some air power. But still an oil issue for the Kuomintang.

The Japanese are active in Burma and Bengal, with a big fleet in the Bay.

Hata rails to the Burmese oilfield but does not risk an attack in the rain.

Defences in Coconada and in the mountains north west of Calcutta are consolidated.

Balbo has invaded Sudan along the Nile. Port Sudan is occupied to provide a supply route by the Italian Mech Cps.

The long-standing besieging force at Khartoum shifts position under cover of snow.

SNOW. IN THE SUDAN.

Is this normal in April?

Eastern Front Axis #8 Mar/Apr 42

Guderian has substantial German and Turkish forces south of the Caucasus. How far can they get across the Kalmyk Steppe this summer?

Turn ends following AXIS #14

Destroyed Mar/Apr 43