DQ2004's AAR #2 - "Ouch. ...that hurt"

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The repair pool is also chock full of ships; the small but heavily-utilised German fleet has been going in and out of the repair pool like a yo-yo.

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These are the reinforcements both sides can expect for the last turn of 1942.
The Germans will have to rename that French cruiser... hmmn what to call it?

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Axis control at the start of Nov/Dec 1942.

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I can't remember who got the initiative at the start of November 1942, but the first result is a Japanese sub sunk off Hawaii.

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The Japanese get their revenge, sinking USS Chester escorting convoys off New Zealand.

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They also destroy Allied supply lines in Polynesia. Once again the Marines on Guadalcanal go hungry.

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Another turn, another wing of Heinkel He-177's destroyed. The Luftwaffe just can't catch a trick at the moment.

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The French cruiser Foch is renamed 'Markgraf' after the WW1 German battleship. Markgraf and her fellow Kriegsmarine squadron head into the Faeroes Gap to try to cut the convoy lines.

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The Allies get the surprise points though, and bomb the subs.

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Another bombing raid over England, another target missed. And yet another defending fighter unit wiped out.
With Mosquitoes now available in the force pools, this was the last mission of the Whirlwinds.

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The Italian Marines storm ashore at Victoria in the Seychelles, their flanks guarded by a Japanese carrier strike group.

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The Allies find the German squadron yet again, and the Admiral Scheer narrowly escapes destruction yet again.

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Swordfish sneak through and abort the Graf Zeppelin, and damage the Markgraf.

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It has been yet another turn filled with brief naval battles, but the losses are not so high as previous turns.

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Axis control at the beginning of 1943.

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For the first turn of 1943 the Axis gain the initiative again. Once again they decide to send their fleets out, and this time they decide to cut the Allied convoy line going through the Bay of Biscay. They get surprise and the convoys are annihilated.

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Newly repaired Tirpitz moves from Kiel to Brest where she is reorganized by von Bock, in preparation for later moves into the North Atlantic. But the RAF is having none of this, and with support from Implacable's Spitfires, the bombers get through - but at a high price;

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The bombers partially succeed - Tirpitz goes straight back into the repair pool, having been back on the map for less than two impulses!

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The Allies move everything into the Bay of Biscay to try and wipe out the pesky Kriegsmarine once and for all.

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Once again however it is the Germans that get the surprise points...
Implacable joins Tirpitz in the repair pool.