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Of course, the British vice admiral decides to abort.

The Admiralty in London is not amused to see an operation to destroy Japanese TRS during the surprise impulse ending in a total disaster...

Time for some music, after all those national anthems. Here is the Pacific Ocean March from Japan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00zdkVELNEI

SUB's sail out of Truk to see if they can attack convoys in the Australian waters. There is a French one present and it's surprised. And not only that, but it seems the French cruiser commander didn't even put his crew on battle readiness.

The Japanese SUB's sail at the surface and sink the cruiser and the merchantmen with no survivors (12 surprise points spend to increase the damage). After this, the Japanese decide to stay in the sea area, but don't commit the SUB's for another round of combat. The Allies stay too.

Yamamoto and two white print units disembark at the Siamese-Malayan border:

At the Ukrainian Front, two Stuka's escorted by Me-110 are send to ground strike the same hex.The USSR intercepts with it's FTR. The Luftwaffe reacts by sending the He into action:

However, the remaining flying artillery does what it needs to do:

Von Manstein and an additional INF are railed towards the Ukrainian Front and the SS INF is railed into Pskov. Movement takes place to attack several hexes in the USSR. This might be a short turn, with a large chance on bad weather and every time weather is fine, the Axis should try to kill Soviet units.

German Swing: Willi Stanke - Das Karussell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXDRZ-eSVog

Italian and German Para's, under the command of General Student, are dropped unto the already disorganised defenders in the Ukraine. Supported by large number of troops a massive attack takes place. The Soviets scramble all available men (notional unit included) to defend the hex. At the Belorussian Front, two hexes and the city of Novgorod are attacked by Rommels army group, partly supported by Stuka's. The USSR scrambles a lot of aircraft and the Luftwaffe, together with Italian planes intercepts. Air battles are raging around the frontlines:

North of Vitebsk:

South of Vitebsk:

In the Ukraine:

At Novgorod, German infantry atttacks the city:

North of Vitebsk, Rommel himself is on the frontlines (HQ support included):

South of Vitebsk, German infantry tries to eliminate the Soviet defenders:

In the Ukraine, the oldest soldier in Germany did his homework:

Finally: Guderians troops engage Koniev, who calls for the Blitzkrieg table since that gives less casulaties and might save him.

Italian Music: Aldo Masseglia e Trio Lescano - Cinquant'anni fa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFtf_3ym_E

With Koniev dead, the USSR units at the Middle East front are out of supply. Guderian therefore reorganises the two Stuka's.

The Ukrainian front:

The Belorussian front:

The Karelian front:

The Manchurian front:

The weather report. And there is much rejoicing in Berlin. Here's a sunny German Soldierssong: Deutsches Soldatenlied "Annemarie":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK1uKpIdsPA

September/October 1941, Allied impulse number 7:

A chance that the turn will end of 30% when all major powers pass is considered to be not high enough. Especially, since the USSR needs to repair the frontlines...

USSR and the CW take land actions, the US a combined action and the French pass.

The previous turn did exhaust the Luftwaffe, where the USSR still has got the three TB-3's available for action. This means that for this impulse, the USSR has air superiority and those long range aircraft can assist in ground support anywhere along the front in the USSR.

Music out of the USSR: Три танкиста

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9_rL2aop7Y

Timoshenko is railed into the woods hex at the Persian/Turkish/ USSR border. STAVKA does need that front to be in supply. A factory is railed out of Dnepropetrovsk towards Siberia. The Soviet forces withdraw tactically. Again, all the reserves are now at the frontlines, but the front still isn't broken. Zhukov reroganises two planes.

Here's the Belorussian Front:

The Ukrainian Front: