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Here is situation in USSR after impulse 7.

I should read rules more often:

Combat engineers

They also provide this benefit to land units with which they are stacked, but only as many as the engineer unit’s combat value. For example, an engineer with a combat strength of 1 can help only 1 additional unit.

Both engineers provided benefits only to one unit and I destroyed my better ENG [:-]

Edit: Using benefits for another MTN also would have given me fractional odds 0,864.

Germany rebases FTR and Ju52 from Leningrad area to near Moscow. In southern front 2 planes are rebased to front line.

Italy rebases FTR to Rostov area and two bombers from Latvia to northern and southern fronts.

Japan rebases FTR to China.

Germany uses AMPH in Baltic Sea to reorganize INF in Leningrad.

On a 5 turn continues

Okay, my internet seems to be stabilising finally and I can devote some time to the game rather than customer help lines.

J/F 41 Allies 10

No DoW

USSR & China, Land. US & CW Combined. France Pass.

US puts a CV and 2 CL to North Atlantic 1-box. CW sends 2 empty CV back to Liverpool. 2 BB from Liverpool to Plymouth (I'd returned them to the wrong port! Signals mix up in the Admiralty).

USSR rails factory from Gorki eastwards.

The Communists continue to concentrate their forces in China.

The Soviets messed up in Southern Russia when they forgot Rostov would get the terrain bonus for marsh in snow/blizzard. I should have abandoned it and pulled back across the river. They do their best but it's looking precarious. No movement in the north.

USSR rebases a couple of air units (Ftr and Lnd-4) in the south.

No reorgs.

Turn continues on a 10 and the weather improves.

J/F 41 Axis 13

No DoW

Japan aligns French Indo-China, on a 5 Us gets one chit.

All choose naval.

Naval move:
Japan sends Trans loaded with MAR from Vladivostok to Hanoi.
CP to Bismarck Sea.
CV's, BB's and escorts to Sea of Japan and China Sea.

Germany sends Finnish ships Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen to North Sea box 2 to try their luck.
Sub from Kiel sails to Faroes Gap box 0, just to rebase to France (No combat).
4 German subs from France spreads to 4 different sea areas.

Vichy France sends 5xCP and Trans from Africa to West Med.

Italy sends CL to Italian Coast box 4.

Axis initiates combat everywhere else but East Coast (I realized sub can't find anything in storm from box 1).

North Sea: Axis 9, Allies 3. No combat.

Bay of Biscay: Axis 8, Allies 3. Allies have 5 surprise points (2x CL in box 4 finds German sub). Do they want to avoid combat or choose sub combat to cause D and take nothing?

Cape Verde Basin: Axis 8, Allies 7. No combat.

North Atlantic: Axis 4, Allies 5. No combat.

Do CW want to fly planes to West Med?

German naval raid failed totally, no losses to CW. I should have taken land, advance in south and make risky attack in north...

D on the sub and no planes, thanks.

On a 3 sub is damaged. Now I hope 1-10 search rolls for Axis and after that turn ends.

Bay of Biscay 2nd round: Axis 7, Allies 4. I "Almost" made it.

I really wanted to cut convoy line just before turn end...

West Med: Axis 5, Allies 1. Axis choose naval air combat.

I believe Allies use their 2 points to bring Axis damage down to NE.

2nd round: Axis 1, Allies 5.

One CL is damaged, both are aborted to North African port.

Edit: AllenK is online. Is Oran good port to abort?

You finally got them. Oran is good.

I have been hunting for them like 6 months...

Germany sends bombers for strategic bombing mission. Do fighters in Moscow want to intercept? Germany has 2x 6 factor fighters in intercept range.

No thanks.

Attack in Moscow is good. This is the first time Germany uses bombers for strategic bombing.

Attack in Saratov fails.

Japanese NAv rebases to an island so that it can reach both Korea and China for ground support missions. One FTR from Korea rebases to China.

On a 8 turn continues. This is good for Axis initiative purposes, otherwise I'm not sure if it is good at all.