A musical global war AAR...

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The capture of Singapore gives headlines in the US newspapers, but who cares with the enormous number of entry chits already in the Japanese entry pools...

On the beaches of the tropical island of New Hanover, the local defense force tries to stop the Japanese Marines, who are supported by naval gunfire. The local Major calls for the Assault table:

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All other invasions made by Japan are automatic victories. I could have chosen not to include the notional units, but than I would not get such a nice list to include in this AAR.

Rommel decides to reoganise a FTR (to prevent a Soviet ground strike on the armoured spearhead) and the ART. Von Bock reorganises three land units in the frontlines. Balbo reorganises an Italian air unit.

Let's take a look at the frontlines:

Karelia:

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The Belorussian Front:

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The Ukrainian Front:

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The Persian Front:

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New Britain, and some Italian music: Tina Allori - Notte e dì

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axf5H4uD8pg

[Klydon]

Looks like a fairly good turn for the Axis. Issue is they need to keep having good turns to keep the pressure on the Russians. Russians still have plenty of units and should be able to pull back and reform their lines. Part of the issue for them is the losses on the Iranian border and the fact the Germans were not disorganized in that attack. I imagine the Germans are drooling over trying to get Turkey into the war and that would be a huge blow to the Russians in terms of length of front and the fact the Axis would be able to more easily reinforce Guderian.

The Imperial Naval Staff of Japan has to be really concerned about those three US carriers and planes coming into play this turn. The US will likely have parity if not superiority as far as carriers go and a surprise turn could really hurt the Japanese depending on what else is going on.

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ORIGINAL: Klydon

Looks like a fairly good turn for the Axis. Issue is they need to keep having good turns to keep the pressure on the Russians. Russians still have plenty of units and should be able to pull back and reform their lines. Part of the issue for them is the losses on the Iranian border and the fact the Germans were not disorganized in that attack. I imagine the Germans are drooling over trying to get Turkey into the war and that would be a huge blow to the Russians in terms of length of front and the fact the Axis would be able to more easily reinforce Guderian.

The Imperial Naval Staff of Japan has to be really concerned about those three US carriers and planes coming into play this turn. The US will likely have parity if not superiority as far as carriers go and a surprise turn could really hurt the Japanese depending on what else is going on.

Ahh. But the Abwehr calculates that the chance of a succesfull DoW on Japan by the US is about 30%. Even with four entry chits moved into the tension pools (the maximum which can be moved), the chance will still be 50% or less next turn. That's also the reason why the Japanese are in somewhat of a hurry to take over the British territories. They estimate they have to go to war with the US in M/A of 1942...

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November/December 1941, Allied impulse number 6:

The USSR, CW and France take land actions. The US takes a combined action.

Bomber Command, escorted by thee FTR's make a bombing run against Lille. Axis FTR's intercept and the RAF send in more FTR's. An air to air battle commences:

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The Axis, after losing 2 FTR's, decide to abort.

Here is: Jimmy Dorsey. Blue Champagne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUeI-9jo4Go

Anti aircraft batteries open fire. The Italian and German gunners aim is quite good, aborting one bomber and reducing the other bombers factors:

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The remaing CW bombers drop the bombs too early. Resendential area's are hit, but the industrial district remains unharmed:

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The CW moves more land units into Somaliland and Birma. It continues to chase the Lybian TERR in Africa.

Listen to: Jimmy Dorsey & Helen O'Connell - Embraceable You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8FntItKAS4

The USSR railmoves another factory into Siberia. An INF is railed from Kiev to Timoshenko, to strengthen the defenses in place. Frontlines in the USSR are repaired, but another nice weather turn for Germany will make things very,, very bad for the USSR.

The Belorussian Front:

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The Ukrainian Front:

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The three TB-3's are ordered to Tiflis, since they are needed to give ground support to Timoshenko, who will be attacked next impulse, weather permitting...

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Rommel is very pleased when his aide gives him the report, made by the “Deutschen Wetterdiensten”...

[Klydon]

Oh, that weather could be ugly. Should be ugly for the Allies, but the Axis also need the dice to go well too.

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November/December 1941, Axis impulse number 7:

Let's see how the dice are doing, then...

Germany and Japan take land actions and Italy takes a naval action.

An Italian task force leave Cadiz and Gibraltar for a raid on Allied shipping in the North Atlantic. The commander in charge of the convoy escorts, suddenly sees the Italian fleet coming out of a raincloud....

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The Allied merchantmen can't match the Italian ships in speed. It's a massacre:

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The Italian ships are unharmed. The Italians decide to stay for another round. The CW stays too. The search rolls means that the hunt for the merchantmen continues...

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Again a slaughter among the merchantmen...