It Takes A Village to Raze a Village

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Turn 100. Axis. July 2, 1943. China. End of Turn.

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Turn 100. Axis. July 2, 1943. Home Islands. End of Turn.

1. Nagasaki is looking a bit lonely ... need to get a unit down there next turn.

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Turn 100. Axis. July 2, 1943. Production. Japan.

1. Corps w/upgrades added to Japan's production queue.

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Turn 100. Axis. July 2, 1943. National Morale.

USSR (show below): 58
UK: 85
CW: 92
US: 93
China: 66

Germany: 112
Italy: 51
Japan: 95

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Turn 100. Axis. July 2, 1943. MPPs.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Opening Messages.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Western Front. Start of Turn.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Western Front. End of Turn.

1. UK SFNL between Broningen and Bremen destroyed.
2. US HQ landed in St. Malo destroyed and St. Malo recaptured.
3. US army (2-steps) southeast of Malo destroyed.
4. US corps (4-steps) southeast of Brest reduced by 2-steps, to 2-steps, and forced to retreat.
5. Additional units moved to the Western Front.
6. Fighter units reinforced and/or upgraded.
7. Also, additional fighter units enroute from the Eastern Front.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Battle of the Atlantic. Murmansk Convoy.

1. U-371 safely brought to port.
2. U-35, at 2-steps, not reinforced due to oversight in MPP spending (i.e., almost no MPPs left when attention turned to BOA).
3. U-377 remains on station and sunk 17 MPPs headed to Russia last turn.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Battle of the Atlantic. South Atlantic.

1. Axum, U-30 and U-37 remain on station.
2. They sunk 24 MPPs headed to the UK last turn.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. The Med. End of Turn.

1. Appears to be static.
2. However, no plans to strip forces from this front for others.
3. Don't want to let my guard down.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. The Eastern Front. Army Group North. End of Turn.

1. Archangelsk is captured.
2. The Finns along with a German garrison move on Murmansk.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. The Eastern Front. Army Group Center. End of Turn.

1. The Wehrmacht has a tiger by the tail and has no intention of letting go; otherwise they risk being eaten.
2. The bitter struggle on the Eastern Front continues with Army Group Center continuing to push where they can.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. The Eastern Front. Army Group South. End of Turn.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. The Eastern Front. Army Group A. End of Turn.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Production.

1. Germany adds an army w/upgrades and Italy adds a corps w/upgrades to their production queues.
2. (Not Shown). Japan adds a corps w/upgrades.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Pacific. End of Turn.

1. Truk falls.
2. Saipan put under siege and invaded. IJN SNLF also knocked several steps (~5) off of the invading US armor unit, lost no steps of their own and forced the unit to retreat.
3. Rabul also under siege and invaded. IJN SNLF knocked 2-steps off of the UK invading SNFL but loses 2-steps of their own.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Malaya & Dutch East Indies. End of Turn.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. Burma, Siam & French Indo-China. End of Turn.

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Turn 102. Axis. July 30, 1943. China. End of Turn.

1. The IJA manage to capture Sian in the North.
2. Also, additional forces are brought into the North to (hopefully) counter the apparent future offensive by the Chinese.