Turn 34. Mar/Apr 1945. Allied #1. Impulse #234.
Actions & Weather.
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War Directives.
(1) I've come to the conclusion at this stage in my counterfactual that it's time to retire my War Directives driven approach for one that focuses on control of the 67 objective cities.
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Objective Cities.
(2) Control of the 67 objective cities along with "score" has been a standard report at the end of each turn for all 33 turns played thus far.
(3) Score is the difference between the number of objective cities controlled and the average of the historical and game "average" provided with MWIF.
(4) That is, Score = VPs - (Historical + Average) / 2.
(5) As you can see Germany current has a commanding lead with a score of 8 followed by the Western Allies 0.
(6) The USSR and Japan, each currently with a score of -4, bring up the rear.
(7) Well, the rear, rear is Italy being completely conquered on turn 23, May/June 1943. Italy's score is irrelevant,
they finished dead last.
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Tehran Conference.
(8) In my counterfactual whether or not the "Big 3" (FDR, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin) would have met at Tehran or not is irrelevant.
(9) They would have met for a "second" time somewhere.
(10) I think it obvious that while both German and Japan have a lot more fight left, German so more than Japan, that the axis are going to be defeated.
(11) Germany will be completely conquered even if the war (i.e., game) extends pass turn 36.
(12) Japan, honestly I don't know I have the energy for a full scale invasion and conquest of the Home Islands.
(13) Much like the real allies (mainly US) felt.
(14) However in my case it's just a bit of "war gaming" fatigue versus the real case where 1,000,000's or even 10,000,000's potential lives loss (both sides, military and civilian).
(15) I'm not sure the US public in 1946 would have tolerate such losses after 5 years or war.
(16) So my plan is to play out this counterfactual until Germany is completely conquered and every objective city outside of Japan is controlled by the allies.
(17) This leaves Japan with one (Tokyo).
(18) Then I think it's reasonable to conclude this counterfactual on the premise that the Atomic bomb forced Japan to surrender with the concession that they get to keep their emperor. Whether or not through demonstration or actual use, I'll leave that choice up to the reader.
(19) There's still a lot of "fighting" left; specifically in Europe before then so I see this counterfactual AAR continuing on for some time.
(20) Honestly, I'm having a blast even though the outcome isn't really in doubt.
(21) The last scoring will be at the end of Turn 36, Jul/Aug 1945; however, if my requirements for ending are not yet achieved I will continue.
Status.
(22) Even though the Western Allies have a score of 0, meaning they're on par with historical (& game average) objective cities controlled, they're behind in Europe and way ahead in the Pacific & Asia.
(23) However; they're poised to make that difference up quickly.
(24) In my counterfactual my Western Allies have an opportunity to do in Europe what the actual Western Allies couldn't and was the reason for the start of World War II.
(25) And that is; reestablish and guarantee Poland's sovereignty.
Objective City Objectives
(26) The following is a list (not necessarily in order of priority) of enemy objective city "objectives" for the allies.
(27) Western Allies (13) - Paris, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Munich, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna, Belgrade, Budapest, Takaki, Diego Suarez, Istanbul, Bucharest.
(28) USSR / CCP (8) - Kiev, Istanbul, Bucharest, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Vienna, Chunking.
(29) China (Nationalist) (1) - Chunking.
(30) Note that the intersection of these list are NOT null meaning the Western Allies, Soviets and Chinese Nationalist have eyes on some of the same objectives.
(31) Of course, capturing enemy objective cities require sound military strategy and the capture of other critical cities.
(32) One example, is Donitz's new U-boat base at Rotterdam.
(33) Other examples include cities with factories and/or resource points.
(34) Or cities for airbases and to deny supply.
