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ANZAC TURN 8 - SUMMER 1941

Menzie resign, Fadden new player

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FRANCE TURN 8 - SUMMER 1941

Nothing happened

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ROUND 9 - sept oct nov 1941

GERMANY TURN 9 - FALL 1941

ANTI-COMMIE PACT FROM 1936
Original members: Ge, It, Jap, Hun, Spain, Manchuko
New members: Bulg, Rom, Den, Fin, Nanjing and Croatia

Adolf also want Turkey to join, but Inonu says no.

CLODIUS TRADE AGREEMENT
Turkey export 45 000 tons of chromite to Ge in 1941 and 1942, and 90 000 tons in 1943 and 44
Germany export machinery, weapons and tech to Turkey

HOLOCAUST - All jews must wear a yellow badge

Also, the Baltic States are now self-administrated by Hjalmar Mae

From left: Franco, Tojo, Musso, Horty, Adolf, Boris, Inonu, Ion, Mannerheim, Stauning, Wang, Mae

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GERMANY TURN 9 - FALL 1941

PURCHASE: 2 Sub, FTR, 2 BMB, Tank, 2 Art, 3 Inf, Mech, AA

COMBAT

Greece: BMB SBR> Egypt > damage

OPERATION BARBAROSSA PART 2
Pol: BMB SBR> Moscow > damage

Pol: FTR, TAC, BMB attack> sz 115 BB, DD, Tranny (USSR)
Loss USSR: all units

E. Pol: 2 Tanks, 4 Mech + 2 BMB> blitz Belo > attack> Smolensk: 4 Inf, Art, Tank, TAC
Loss Ge: 1 Mech + Loss USSR: all units

E. Pol: 2 Tanks, 4 Inf, 2 Art + TAC attack> W. Ukr: 6 Inf, Tank, TAC
Loss Ge: 1 Inf + Loss USSR: all units

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
2 Sub attack> sz 117 SC-conv + BB, DD, Tranny (US)
Loss US: Ruben James sunk + BB Texas followed + 2 IPC conv loss

2 Sub attack> sz 118: SC-conv + DD (US) + DD (UK) + DD (CAN)
Loss US: Kearny sunk + 2 IPC conv. loss

1 Sub attack> sz 123 : DD (US)
Loss US: Greer incident

1 Sub attac sz 103 conv > loss 2 IPC

1 Sub attack sz 9: DD (UK)
Loss Ge: 1 Sub

1 Sub attack> sz 92: CV (UK) (Ark Royal)
Loss Ge: Sub + Loss UK: CV (Ark Royal)

NON-COMB MOVE

GE: FTR , TAC to Sicily

Tank (Afrika Korps) to N. IT load on It Tranny

Sub to sz 93

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USSR TURN 9 - FALL 1941

FIRST MOSCOW CONFERENCE:
Harriman (US) + lord Beaverbrook (UK) is in Moscow to arrange assistance to USSR

USSR government move to Samara. Stalin stay in Moscow.

Spy Richard Sorge assure Stalin that Japan will only strike Far East USSR if:
-Moscow is captured
-Japan army become 3 times larger than USSR army
-Civil war breaks out in Sibir (not very likely)

PURCHASE : 2 FTR, 2 TAC, 2 Tanks, 12 Inf, 3 Art, AA

COMBAT
THE GREAT COUNTER ATTACK
Rus: 3 Inf, Art, Tank, 2 FTR attack> Smolensk: 2 Tank, 3 Mech (GE)
Loss USSR: 2 Inf, Tank + Loss GE: Mech
attacker retreat

ANGLO-SOVJET INVASION OF PERSIA
Cau: Tank, Inf attack> North West Persia Inf (Persia)
Loss Persia: all units

NON-COMBA MOVE

Sibir: 2 Inf to Russia

4 million Volga germans deported to GULAG > 1.5 mill die

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JAPAN TURN 9 - FALL 1941

Tokyo Kid sign military alliance with Phibun (Siam) and Ba Maw (Burma)

Spy Richard Sorge is arrested by Kempetai police

Tojo (the new PM) and Joe Grew start peace talks

PURCHASE: Tranny, TAC, 4 Inf, Art

COMBAT
SECOND BATTLE OF HUNAN
Kiangsi: Inf, Art attack> Hunan: 3 Inf (KMT)
Loss Ja: Inf + Loss KMT: Inf
attacker retreat

NON COMBAT MOVE

OPERATION AI
Jap sz 6: 2 CV w 4 Air, BB, CA, DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 31

Jap sz 6: CV w 2 Air, BB, CA, 2 DD, Sub, 5 Trannies W 5 Inf to sz 36

Jap: BMB, TAC to FIC

Jap sz6: 2 Trannies w 2 Inf to sz 33

Marshall isl sz33: Sub to sz 27

I don’t like this but in the next turn Japans carriers will move like 19 sea zones and do combat in 4 different places all in one turn. And that is a blatant violation to the OOB rules. To make this historically correct a Turn would have to be like 4 days, and not 3 months (90 days) like in my Blog.

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USA TURN 9 - FALL 1941

THE HULL NOTE TO JAPAN - FDR tell Tokyo Kid to withdraw from China and FIC, or else…
(Joe Grew give FDR a heads up that Japan may strike next turn)

FDR approves $ 1 billion in Lend Lease to Stalin (USSR)
FDR also advice Mannerheim (Fin) to stay inside his 1939-borders.

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
FDR give the “Shoot on sight” order. US warships is not sitting ducks
FDR give the “Freedom of the Seas” speach, Remember Greer, Kearny, Reuben James.

FDR start to buy chromite, tobacco and dried fruit from Turkey just to counter Adolf

Bonner Fellers go to Egypt as military attache, and will use the Black Codes. Not good.

AMERICA FIRST:
C. Lindbergh delivers his Des Moines speach: FDR, the brits and the jews startet this war.

THE FREE STATE OF JEFFERSON:
Gilbert Gable is fed up and proclaim the free State of Jefferson, with Yreka as capitol.
(Then he die of heart attack the next week, and the movement fizzle out)

from left: Gable, Lindbergh, Grew, Missy LeHand, FDR, Mannerheim, Hull and Tokyo kid

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USA TURN 9 - FALL 1941

TECH : First Liberty ship launced + first P 38 Lightning produced
PURCHASE:
East: BMB, TAC, Tank, 3 Inf, Art + upgrade factories + Pentagon
West: Sub, TAC, Art, AA
LL to UK: 2 Trannies, FTR, Tank
LL to USSR: FTR, Tank
Iceland: Air Base
(Fire in Massachusets destroy 16 000 tons of rubber. Set back to military production)

NON COMBAT MOVES:

Hawaii 26: CV w 2 Air, 2 CA, DD to sz 30 John. Isl

3 BB, 3 CA, DD, Sub in Hawaii 26

Phil 36: DD to sz 56 + Sub to sz 55

Burma: FTR (AVG) to Yunnan

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CHINA TURN 9 - FALL 1941

PURCHASE 3 Inf (KMT)

NON COMB MOVE

Yunnan: Inf to Burma (to protect the Burma Road)

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UK TURN 9 - FALL 1941

Winston give ultimatum to Ion (Rom), Horty (Hun) and Mannerheim (Fin): don’t support Adolf

Winston force Reza Sha to resign, and welcome Reza Pahlavi as new Persian player

Winston buy a lot of chromite from Turkey just to counter Adolf

Winston also declare a state of emergency in Malaya

PURCHASE
UK: CV w 2 Air, FTR, TAC, 2 BMB, Tank Art Paratrooper + LL to USSR: FTR
Can: LL to USSR: Tranny + Mech delivered to Far East Sovjet

COMBAT
UK: BMB SBR> Berlin
Loss UK: BMB

UK: TAC SBR> Brest Naval Base > damage
UK: TAC SBR> Holl/Belg Air Base > damage

ANKLET RAID DD attack> sz 126 Nor fish industri > damage

DD attack> sz 116: Uboat Supply ship (GE) sunk
DD attack> sz 90: Uboat Supply ship (GE) sunk
CA attack> sz 84: A. CA (GE) Atlantis sunk, ending the wars longest warship cruise of 622 days

OPERATION CRUSADER
Alex: Tank, Inf + TAC attack> Tobruk: Tank (GE) + Inf, FTR (IT)
Loss UK: Inf + Loss GE/IT: all units

NON COMB MOVE

HALBERD CONVOY
Gib 92: BB, CA, DD, Tranny to sz 94 (Bomb Alley)

CLUB RUN
UK: FTR + Sub to Gib 92 to Malta 96 to Egypt 98

Can 106: Tranny + FTR to UK

MURMANSK CONVOY
UK: Tranny w Tank (LL USSR) to 127 Kar

Iraq AB: BMB to India

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ITALY TURN 9 - FALL 1941

PURCHASE: FTR, Inf

COMBAT
INVASION OF UKRAINE (OP. MUNCHEN II)
Bess: 4 Inf, Tank, FTR (Rom) + Tank (IT) + Inf (Hun) attack> Ukr: 4 Inf, Art, Tank, AA
Loss Rom: 1 Inf + Loss USSR: all units

NON COMB MOVE
It 95: Tranny w Tank (GE) + Inf (IT) to 96 Libya

Pol: Inf (Spain) to Baltic States

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ANZAC + UK PAC TURN 9 - FALL 1941

COMBAT

THE KOMORAN BATTLE
Aus: DD attack> sz 42: A. CA (GE)
Loss Ge: CA (Komet) sunk

NON-COMB MOVE

Ceylon: BB (UK) to sz 37 Malaya

Malaya 37: CA, DD to sz 38 Burma

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ROUND 10 - DEC, JAN FEB 1942: > US entry and the game become global

GERMANY TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

Adolf DOW FDR (US)

WANNSEE CONFERENCE
-Final solution: murder all jews
-Night and Fog- decree: GESTAPO arrest all political opponents

Rommel can now read the allies Black Code.

TECH: M4 Enigma machine invented

PURCHASE: DD, Sub, 2 FTR, TAC, 2 BMB, Tank, 2 Art, 3 Inf, Mech, AA

COMBAT

Pol: BMB SBR> Moscow > damage (also hit Stalins dacha)

Sicily: BMB SBR> Malta FTR +NB
Loss UK: FTR + NB damaged

OPERATION TYPHOON:
Smo: 2 Tanks, 7 Mechs + BMB attack> Rus: 8 Inf, 3 Art, Tank, 2 FTR, AA
Loss Ge: 2 Tank, 3 Mech + Loss USSR: 6 Inf
attacker retreat

BATTLE OF BRYANSK
W. Ukr: 3 Inf, Art, Tank attack> Bryansk: 6 Inf, Art
Loss Ge: 2 Inf + Loss USSR: all units

THE CHANNEL DASH:
Norm 105: BB attack> sz 110: DD, FTR, TAC (UK)
Ge 112: DD, FTR attack> sz 110
Loss Ge: BB damaged
attacker retreat to sz 112

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
(Operation Neuland - target US shipping)

2 Subs attack> sz 101: conv disruptin = 6 IPC (US)
2 Subs attack> sz 89: conv disruption = 5 IPC (US)
Sub attack> sz 106: conv disruption = 4 IPC (Can)
Sub attack> sz 117: ON-conv = loss 1 IPC (UK)
Sub attack> sz 109: DD = Loss GE: Sub
Sub attack> sz 103: DD = Loss Ge: Sub

BATTLE OF MED
sz 99: Sub attack> sz 98 BB (UK)
Loss Ge: Sub + Loss UK: BB damaged

NON-COMB MOVE
Belo: 6 Inf, 4 Art, Tank, 2 FTR, AA to Smolensk
Ge: 2 FTR to Norway

OPERATION POLARNIGHT
Ge 113: BB (Tirpitz), DD to sz 126 Nor

AFRIKA KORPS
Ge: Mech to IT > load Tranny (IT)

HOLOCAUST: Chelmno Camp opened, > 200 000 civilians killed

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USSR TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

STALINS FAMILY ISSUES:
His dacha (second home) was just bombed to ruins by Luftwaffe and his temper short:
-Yakuv’s wife Yulia is sent to GULAG.
-Svetlanas boyfriend Aleksei Kapler is sent to GULAG
-Vasily got alcohol problems.
-The 17 generals and 30 officers that was sent to GULAG in Turn 7 is now killed

Ander’s Polish Army is formed in Turkestan.

Mannerheim (FIN) show up in Moscow to beg for peace, but it’s a bad timing

PURCHASE:
Rus: 3 FTR, 2 TAC, BMB, 4 Tank, 10 Inf, 2 Mech, 4 Art, AA
Turk: 1 Inf (POL)

COMBAT
THE GREAT WINTER OFFENSIVE:

Novg: Tank, 3 Inf, Art + FTR attack> Baltic: 4 Inf, 2 Art, Tank, AA, FTR (GE) + Inf (Spain)
Loss USSR: 3 Inf + Loss Ge: 2 Inf
attacker retreat

Rus: 2 Tanks, 3 Mech, 2 Inf, 3 Art, 2 TAC, 2 FTR attack> Smo: 6 Inf, 4 Mech, 4 Art, Tank, AA, FTR
Loss USSR: Tank, 3 Mech, 2 Inf + Loss Ge: 3 Inf
attacker retreat

NON-COMBAT MOVE
Kill the 17 generals and 30 officers that went to GULAG in Turn 7

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JAPAN TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

Tokyo Kid DOW FDR (US) + Winston (UK) (by newspapers published in japanese)
Berlin-pact members (Ge, IT, Rom, Bul, Hun, Cro etc) also DOW US + UK

PURCHASE: BB, FTR, BMB, Inf, Art

COMBAT

THE PEARL RAID:
sz 31: 4 CV-Air attack> sz 26 Hawaii: 3 BB, 3 CA, 3 DD, 2 Subs, + FTR
Loss US: 2 BB sunk, 1 BB damaged, 1 CA, FTR
attacker retreat and land on CV in sz 33

sz 31: 2 CV, BB, CA, DD non-comb move to sz 33 Car Isl

sz 31: Tranny w Inf amp. assault> Wake Isl (US) (empty)

THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGLES
sz 27: Sub attack> sz 10: and scare the s*It out of Elwood = 0 damage

INVASION OF MALAYA:
FIC: BMB attack> sz 37: BB (UK)
Loss UK: BB

sz 36: BB, 3 CA, DD, Tranny w Inf, Art > sz 37 + Amp.> Mal: Fort, FTR (UK)+Inf (ANZ)+Inf (punjab)
Loss UK/ANZ/India: all units

INVASION OF PHILIPPINES
sz 20: 3 CA, 3 DD, Tranny w Inf, Art > sz 36 + Amp> Phil: 1 Marines (US)
Formosa: BMB attack> Phil:
Loss US: all units

INVASION OF GUAM
sz 6 JA: Tranny w Inf > sz 21 + Amp> Guam (US) (empty)

INVASION OF HONG KONG
sz 6 JA: DD, Tranny w Inf > sz 20 + Amp> H. K.: Inf (UK)
Loss UK: all units

INVASION OF NEW BRITAIN
sz 33: Tranny w Inf > sz47 + Amp> N. Br (ANZ) (empty)

INVASION OF GILBERT ISL
sz 33: Tranny w Inf > sz 48 + Amp> Gil Isl (UK) (empty)

INVASION OF NEI:
FIC: Skytrain w Paratroop attack> Sumatra (Holl/Belg) (empty)

sz 36: CV w 1 Air, BB, CA, 2 DD, 3 Subs attack sz 41: CA (ANZ)+CA (Hol/Be)+ DD (UK)
Loss ANZ/HOL/UK: all units

sz 36: Tranny w Inf > sz 42 + Amp> Java Inf (HOL)
Loss Hol: all units

sz 36: Tranny w Inf > sz 44 + Amp> Celebes (empty)

sz 36: Tranny w Inf > sz 43 + Amp> Borneo: Inf (Punjab)
Loss UK: all units

sz 36: CV-Air attack> sz 55: Tranny (ANZ)
Loss ANZAC: all units
CV-Air land on CV in sz 41

INVASION OF BURMA:
FIC: 3 Inf, Art + TAC attack> Shan State: Inf (India) + Inf (Nepal)
Loss India + Nepal: all units

THIRD BATTLE OF HUNAN:
Anhwe: Inf, Art, FTR attack> Hunan: 3 Inf (KMT)
Loss Ja: Inf + Loss KMT: Inf
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE
FIC: Inf to pro-Axis Siam = Siam join the Axis
FIC: Inf to pro-Axis Shan State = Burma join the Axis

Overview of the situation:

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USA TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

FDR delivers his “The Infamy” speech, one of the most famous speeches.
Winston become the first englishman to adress the US Congress

ARCADIA CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON:
-Declaration by United Nations: No peace with the Axis
signed by:
The Big Four: FDR, Winston, Stalin and Chiang
The Dominions: King, Curtin, Fraser and Smuts
Central America: total 9 minor players
Euro gov. in exile: Pierlot/Gelbrandy, Benes, Joan, Sikorsky, Tsouderos, Peter
Other: Abdul + Peru (don’t remember name, must edit later)

United Nations DOW the Axis (Ge, IT, Rom, Hun, Bul, Fin, Alb, Vichy)

Exceptions:
FDR refuse to DOW Mannerheim (FIN)
Stalin refuse to DOW Tokyo Kid (JAP)
Mongolia only DOW Adolf (GE)

Stalin also deny US to SBR Japan from USSR territory

FDR SIGNES EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066:
All japanese, germans, and italians in USA must go to Camp.

FDR take possession of SS Normandy (FRA) by Right of Angary.

FDR approve of the Doolittle-Raid plan

From left: Martha Gellhorn (friend of the Roosevelt family), Big Four and Robert Capa far right

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USA TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

TECH
-ASW Huff Duff direction finding of Subs.
-Sikorsky R4 - first mass produced helicopter

PURCHASE:
East: CA, DD, Sub, Tranny, FTR, 3 BMB, Tank, 5 Inf, Art + Home defense: Mech, AA
West: DD, FTR, TAC, BMB, Inf, Art + Home defense: Mech, AA
Cuba: Airbase
Alaska: Airbase
Lend Lease to UK: CV w Air, Tank
Lend Lease to USSR: FTR, Tank
Lend Lease to Brazil: Tank
Lend Lease to India: Tank

COMBAT Pacific
sz 10: DD attack> sz 10 Sub (JAP)
Loss JAP: Sub (This was the subs that stuck fear in Elwood)

NON-COMB MOVE Europe:

US 101: Tranny w Inf to UK to prepare for the Eight Airforce. First US force to arrive in Europe.

sz 101: SS Normandy take fire and sink in New York

US BMB to Gib

-Internment of japanese, germans and italians in camps

NON-COMB MOVE Pacific
Prepare the Doolittle Raid:
US 10: CV w B 25, CA, DD to sz 25 Midway

sz 30 John Isl: CV w 2 Air, 3 CA, DD Tranny w Inf to sz 54 + offload Inf > Aus.

sz 26 Haw: Sub to sz 55
sz 26 Haw: Sub to sz 35 Phil

sz 10 US: Tranny w Inf to sz 47 + offload Solomons (to build Airbase)

US BMB to Aus
US BMB to India

Europe Theater

Pacific Theater

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CHINA TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

Mao start a mass movement

PURCHASE
KMT: 3 Inf
CCP: 1 Inf
ROC: 1 Inf

NON-COMB MOVE

Burma: Inf (KMT) to Yunnan. (Give up protecting the Burma Road)

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UK TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

ABDEEN PALACE INCIDENT
-Winston want Egypt to support the Allied war effort.
-King Farouk I is pro-Axis and want to stay neutral.
-Winston send troops to occupie Abdeen Palace, the home of king Farouk I, defendet by Egyptian Army of 5 000 infantry.
-King Farouk I will now comply, but because of the humiliation UK lose support from Egypt.

Winston DOW Mannerheim (FIN)

TECH: Huff Duff anti-sub weapon

PURCHASE
UK: DD, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, Tank, Inf, Art + Lend Lease to USSR: Tank
CAN: Pacific: Tranny, 2 Inf (Home defence) + LL to USSR: Mech
Gibraltar: Airbase

COMBAT

BOMB. CAMPAIGN:
UK: 2 BMB SBR> W. GE: = damage

RAF RAID ON KIEL:
UK: FTR, TAC attack> sz 112: BB
Loss GE: BB sunk

BATTLE OF MED:
Gib 91: CA, DD attack sz 96: Tranny (IT) = Tranny lost

Malta 96: Sub attack sz 97: Italian Fleet
Loss UK: Sub + Loss IT: BB damaged

ABDEEN PALACE INCIDENT
Egypt: Inf (UK) attack> Inf (Egy)
Loss: Inf (Egy)

NON-COMB MOVE

MURMANSK CONVOY SCREEN
UK: CV w Air, BB, CA, DD, Sub to sz 124

UK: BMB to India

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ITALY TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

Mannerheim (FIN) start peace-talk with FDR and Winston

PURCHASE:
IT: Sub, TAC, Mech
Rom: Inf

COMBAT

BOMB. CAMPAIGN MALTA
Sicily: BMB SBR> Malta NB = damage

sz 95: DD attack> sz 94: Sub, Tranny (UK)
Loss UK: all units

RAID ON ALEXANDRIA
sz 97: Sub attack> sz 98 Alex
Loss IT: Sub + Loss UK: BB damaged

NON-COMB MOVE
LIBYA CONVOY
IT: BB, CA, DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 96 + offload into Libya

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

Winston belive that Japan is unstoppable and order Scorched Eart in Burma, and withdrawal of all forces out of harms way.

PURCHASE
Aus: Mech
N-Z: Inf
India: 2 Inf

COMBAT
BOMB. CAMPAIGN ON BANGKOK
India: BMB SBR> Siam = damage

Ceylon 39: Sub attack> sz 43: Tranny (JAP) = Tranny sunk

NON-COMB MOVE

Ceylon 39: BB, CA, DD to sz 79
Ceylon 39: BB, CA, DD to sz 72
Ceylon 39: CA, Tranny stay

N-Z: CA, DD to 62 Sydney

Start of the BENGAL FAMINE:
Burma: Inf (Punj) + Inf (Nep) do Scorched Eart and withdraw to India
500 000 civilian refugees to India = 400 000 civilians starve to death