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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

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FRANCE TURN 10 - WINTER 1942

NON-COMB MOVE

CV (Bearn) w Air to sz 89 Martinique Isl.

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ROUND 11 - march april may 1942

GERMANY TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

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

COMBAT
BAEDEKER BLITZ
W. GE: 2 BMB SBR> UK
Loss Ge: 1 BMB + Loss UK: damage

OPERATION EIS STOSS
Pol: 2 BMB SBR> Leningrad
Loss Ge: 1 BMB + Loss Leningrad: Damage

Pol: 1 BMB SBR> Moscow = damage

Sicily: FTR, TAC SBR> Malta Naval Base
Loss Ge: FTR + Loss UK: NB 50% damage

OPERATION HANNOVER
Smo: 3 Inf, Art attack> Vologda: 3 Inf
Loss Ge: Inf + Loss USSR: all units

CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN
UKR: 2 Inf, Art + BMB attack> Crim: Fort, 3 Inf, AA
Loss Ge: Inf + Loss USSR: 2 Inf
attacker retreat
(Crimea is part of Ukraine on the A&A Map so I made it a contestet territory. If I ever make my own homemade map, I will make it a separate territory.)

BATTLE OF ROSTOV
Ukr: 2 Inf, Art attack> Rostov: 1 Inf
Loss USSR: all units

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
Nor: TAC + Sub attack> sz 125: PQ-conv loss USSR = 1 IPC
W. GE: Sub attack> sz 118: ON-conv loss UK = 2 IPC

OPERATION NEULAND
2 Sub attack> sz 101: conv loss US = 10 IPC
2 Sub attack> sw 89: conv loss US = 5 IPC + (also sink a neutral Mexican ship)
1 Sub attack> sz 85: conv loss US = 1 IPC + (also sink a neutral Brazilian ship)

BATTLE OF GAZALA
Lib: Tank, Mech + TAC attack> Tobruk: Tank, Inf
Loss UK: all units
(At this point Rommel could read the Black Code and knew everything the brits was planning)

NON-COMB MOVE
Ge: TAC to Norway
Ge: 2 BMB to Romania
Ge: FTR to Sicily
Ge: Inf (DAK) to Italy (later to Libya)
Ge: Sub to sz 93

HOLOCAUST:
Open Belzec camp, Treblinka camp and Sobibor camp, all in Poland

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USSR TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

Winston and Stalin have a secret, bilateral conference:
After the war, Stalin want Finland, Poland, Baltic States and all of Balkan
Winston just want access to the Baltic Sea

(only known pic of the secret meeting)

PURCHASE: 3 FTR, 2 TAC, BMB, 4 Tanks, 2 Mech, 6 Inf, 4 Art, 3 AA

COMBAT

Nov: BMB SBR> Berlin
Loss USSR: BMB

VYASMA AIRBORNE OPERATION
Rus: Skytrain w Paratrooper, 2 Inf, Art, + 2 Partisan attack> Vologda: 2 Inf, Art (GE)
Loss USSR: Inf, Partisan + Loss GE: all units

SECOND BATTLE OF ROSTOV
Cau: 2 Inf, Art + 2 FTR, 2 TAC attack> Rostov: 2 Inf, Art (GE)
Loss USSR; Inf + Loss GE: all units

NON-COMB MOVE

Cau: 2 Inf load on Tranny sz 100 and offload in Crimean

ANDERS POLISH ARMY
Turkmenistan: Inf (Pol) to East Persia

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JAPAN TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

PURCHASE: Sub, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB, Inf, Art

COMBAT

INDIAN OCEAN RAID
sz 41: 2 cv-Air attack> sz 39: CA, Tranny (UK)
sz 41: Sub attack> sz 39:
Loss UK: all units

sz 41: Sub attack> sz 72: BB, CA, DD
Sub submerge

OP. MO - BATTLE OF CORAL SEA
sz 33: 2 cv-Air attack> sz 54: CV w 2 Air, 3 CA, 2 DD, Tranny (US)
Loss JA: 2 cv-Air + Loss US: CV damaged

sz 33: Tranny w Inf > sz 49 + Amp> Tulagi (Island in the Solomons)

SYDNEY HARBOUR STRIKE
Sub attack> sz 62: CA, DD (ANZ)
Loss JA: Sub

INVASION OF BURMA
Shan: 3 Inf, Art (JA) + Inf (Siam) attack> Burma (empty)

NON-COMB MOVE

sz 33: CV, BB to sz 42
sz 35: CA, DD to sz 42

COLLECT INCOME
Convoy disruption:

US Sub in sz 35 = 1 IPC lost
UK sub in sz 43 = 2 IPC lost

Since Japan never organized convoys with escorts like the Allies did when crossing the Atlantic, the OOB "Convoy Disruption rule fits perfect. So I use that system on Japan and the other system in Atlantic

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USA TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

Hap Arnold is commander of USAAF
D. MacArthur escape Phil, and move to Australia (but he’ll be back)

Manuel (Mexico) DOW Adolf (GE). (He did sink mexican ships this turn)

PURCHASE
East: BB, DD, Sub, Tranny, FTR, TAC, 3 BMB, 2 Tank, 5 Inf, Art, + Home Def: Mech, AA
West: DD, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB, Tank + Home Def: Mech, AA
LL to UK: CV + cv-Air (This was a lot of small CV escorts and CV lights, but I don’t have a plastic piece for that)
LL to USSR: FTR, Tank
LL to Free Poland: Tank
Brazil: Airbase
Salomon Isl: Airbase (on New Caledonia, Jap occupie the other islands)

COMBAT
DOOLITTLE RAID
sz 25: B 25 SBR> Japan and land in Kiangsu
This had great propaganda effect.

BATTLE OF CORAL SEA
sz 54: 2 cv-Air attack> sz 47: CV, 3 CA, 2 DD, Tranny
Loss US: 1 cv-Air + Loss JAP: CV damaged

BATTLE OF TULAGI
CA, DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 49 + Amp> Tulagi: Inf (Jap)
Loss JAP: all units

Sub to sz 6
Sub to sz 20
Sub to sz 36

NON-COMB MOVE
EUROPE:

BOLERO CONVOY (to build up for invasion of Normandy)
US: 2 Inf load Tranny, to sz 109 + offload into UK

Gib: BMB to Egypt
US: BMB to UK

TASK FORCE 39
101: CV w 2 Air, BB, CA, DD to sz 119
CA, DD to sz 124 (screen)

Mexico: 3 Inf to USA, 1 FTR to Pacific + 500 000 workers to USA

PACIFIC
India: BMB to Yunnan
sz 25: CV, CA, DD to sz 26 load Air
sz 54: CV, 2 CA to sz 26 load Air

sz 26 Hawaii: BB damaged to sz 10 NB for repair (Hawaii NB did not have a dry dock)

sz 10: 2 Subs to sz 25

Red arrows are attack. Blue arrows are non-comb move

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CHINA TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

PURCHASE:
KMT: 3 Inf
CCP: Inf

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UK TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

ANGLO-SOVJET TREATY OF 1942 in London. Winston and Stalin are Comrades in Arms.

King George VI award George Cross to Malta - to honor the brave people of the island fortress

Rhodesia, Tanganyika and Belgian Kongo DOW Japan and Vichy

OPERATION ANTHROPID:
Czech SOE-agents Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik assasinate Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
(Heydrich was chief of GESTAPO and the architect of Holocaust, aka the man with an iron heart)

PURCHASE:
UK: CA, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, Tank, Inf, Art + LL to USSR: Tank
CAN: TAC, 2 Inf + LL to USSR: Mech

COMBAT:

OPERATION MILL:
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. Ge factory
Loss UK: BMB + Loss Ge: factory 50% damage

RAID ON TIRPITZ:
sz 124 CV: cv-Air attack> sz 126: BB (GE)
UK: BMB attack sz 126:
Loss UK: cv-Air
attacker retreat

ST. NAZAIRE RAID:
UK: DD w Commandoes to sz 105 + Raid> Norm Naval Base = damage
attacker retreat

OPERATION IRONCLAD - INVASION OF MADAGASKAR
S.A. 2 Inf load Tranny, to sz 72 + attack> Mad: Inf (Vichy)
sz 72: BB, CA shore bomb> Mad:
Loss Vichy: all units

NON-COMB MOVE

HARPOON CONV:
Gib 91: CV w Air, CA, DD Tranny w Inf, Sub to sz 94 Bomb Alley

VIGOROUS CONV:
Egy 98: 2 CA, 2 DD, Sub, Tranny

CLUB RUN:
UK: FTR, TAC + Sub to 91 GIB
GIB: TAC + Sub to 96 Malta
Malta: FTR + Sub to 98 Egy

ANDERS POLISH ARMY
E. Persia: Inf (Pol) load Tranny bridge to Iraq.

Pic show Invasion of Madagasker (Operation Ironclad) rarely seen in the average A&A game

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ITALY TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

PURCHASE FTR, Mech

COMBAT

MALTA BOMBING CAMPAIGN
Sicily: BMB SBR> Malta NB
Loss IT: BMB

ATTACK ON HARPOON CONV
sz 95: DD, 2 Subs attack> sz 94: CV w Air, CA, DD, Sub, Tranny w Inf
Loss IT: all units + Loss UK: DD, Sub

ATTACK ON VIGOROUS CONV
sz 97: BB, CA, DD attack> sz 98: 2 CA, 2 DD, Sub, Tranny
Loss IT: BB damaged + Loss UK: CA, Sub
attacker retreat to sz 97

NON-COMB MOVE
IT: Tranny w Inf (Ge) + Inf (IT) to sz 96 + offload Libya
sz 96: BB, CA, DD, Tranny to sz 95
Lib: Inf to Tobruk
IT: FTR to Tobruk

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

PURCHASE
India: 2 Inf
Aus: Tank

COMBAT

India: BMB SBR> Siam = damage

Sub to sz 43 Borneo

NON-COMB MOVE
Aus: Mech to W. Aus
N-Z: Inf load Tranny to sz 49 + offload Guadalcanal Isl (Solomon Isl chain)

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FRANCE TURN 11 - SPRING 1942

Pierre Laval is the new Vichy player

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ROUND 12 - june july aug 1942
GERMANY TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

-Adolf now give Directive 45 to his troops; forget Moscow, grab the oil in Caucasus
-OPERATION PASTORIUS: Adolf send secret agents to USA
-Adolf start building the Atlantic Wall

TECH:
-Me 262 Jet first testfly
-V2 Rocket
-L-IV Nuclear Reactor Accident - the first nuclear accident in history

PURCHASE 3 Sub, 2 FTR, TAC, 2 BMB, 2 Tank, 2 Art, 2 Inf, Mech, AA + Holl/Belg: Fort

COMBAT
DESTRUCTION OF STALINGRAD
Pol: 2 BMB SBR> Volgograd Factory
Loss GE: 1 BMB + Loss USSR: Stalingrad factory 90 % damage

SIEGE OF LENINGRAD
Bela: Inf, Art attack> Arch: Inf
Loss USSR: all units (Leningrad is now under siege)

CASE BLUE
Bry + Ukr: 4 Tanks, 5 Inf, 5 Art + 2 FTR, 2 TAC, BMB attack> Ros: 6 Inf, 2 Art, 3 Tanks
Loss GE: Tank, 2 Inf + Loss USSR: all units

OPERATION SEYDLITZ
Smo: Tank, Inf, Art, Mech attack> Vologda: Inf Art
Loss GE: Inf + Loss USSR: all units

OPERATION STORFANG
Ukr: 4 Inf, Heavy Art attack> Crim: Fort, 3 Inf AA
Rom: 2 BMB attack> Crim:
Loss GE: 2 Inf, 2 BMB + Loss USSR: all units

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

DESTRUCTION OF PQ 17 CONVOY
Nor: BB, DD, Sub attack> sz 125: PQ 17 conv. = Loss USSR: 3 IPC

NEULAND
2 Subs attack> sz 101: = Loss US: 8 IPC
2 Subs attack> sz 89: = Loss US: 4 IPC

Sub attack> 117 = Loss UK: 1 IPC
Sub attack> 118 = Loss UK: 1 IPC
Sub attack> 107 = Loss UK: 1 IPC
Sub attack> 108 = Loss UK: 1 IPC
Sub attack> 87 = Loss UK: 2 IPC

ATTACK ON HARPOON CONV
Sicily: FTR, TAC + Sub attack> sz 94: CV, CA, Tranny
Loss GE: Sub + Loss UK: Tranny
attacker retreat

ATTACK ON VIGOROUS CONV
Crete: BMB attack> sz 98: CA, 2 DD, Tranny
Loss UK: DD
attacker retreat

BATTLE OF EL ALAMAIN - Black Saturday
Tobruk: Tank + TAC attack> Alex: Tank (UK)
Loss UK: all units
(Rommel is very successful because he can read the Black Code and know everything the brits do)

NON-COMB MOVE

LIDICE MASSACRE
Czhec: 100 000 civilians killed - retaliation for the assasination of Heydrich

HOLOCAUST
-Start the use of gas chambers
-Warsaw ghetto massacre
-All jews in Holl/Belg and France is sent to camps

GE. Sub to sz 91

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USSR TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

MOSCOW CONFERENCE
Stalin, Winston and Harriman (US) discuss reasons for a campaign in North Africa.
Also some tech exchanges.

PURCHASE 3 FTR, 2 TACm BMB, 4 Tank, 6 Inf, 2 Mech, 4 Art, AA

COMBAT

BALTIC SEA CAMPAIGN
NOV 115: Sub pass minefield + attack> sz 114: shipping = Ge Loss 1 IPC

RZHEV MEAT GRINDER
Rus: 2 Tanks, 3 Inf, Art + 2 TAC attack> Vologda: Tank, Mech, Art, AA
Loss USSR: 2 Tanks, 3 Inf, 2 TAC + Loss GE: Art, Mech
attacker retreat

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JAPAN TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

PURCHASE: BB, Tranny, FTR, BMB, Tank (to Manchuria)

COMBAT

OPERATION AI - Invasion of Aleutian Isl
JA 6: 2 CA, DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 8 + Amp> Aleut (empty)

INDIAN OCEAN RAID
Sub attack> sz 72 Loss UK = 1 IPC
Sub attack> sz 80 Loss UK = 1 IPC

OPERATION MO - Invasion of New Guinea
Car 33: Tranny w Inf to sz 45 + Amp> Dutch New Guinea (empty)

THE SAVO RAID
Car 33: 2 CA attack> sz 49: 2 CA, DD
Loss JA: 2 CA + Loss US: 2 CA

THE GILBERT RAID
Car 33: CV w Air, 2 CA, 3 DD, Tranny w Inf attack> sz 48: CV w 2 Air, BB, CA, DD
Loss JA: CV, Air
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE

Ja 6: 2 BB, DD to sz 15
Ja 6: 2 CV w 3 Air, CA to sz 25 Midway: Sub
Ja 6: 2 BB, DD to sz 16
Ja 6: BB, 2 CA, 2 DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 24

TOKYO EXPRESS -use Subs to supply garrisons on islands

THE REVENGE FOR THE DOOLITTLE RAID
-massacre 300 000 civilians in Hunan, Anhwe, Kiangsu and Kiangsi
-start the Hunan Famine that will starve 3 millions the next year

COLLECT INCOME
Convoy disruptions:
US Sub in sz 6 Loss 1 IPC
US Sub in sz 20 Loss 1 IPC
US Sub in sz 36 Loss 1 IPC
UK Sub in sz 43 Loss 1 IPC

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USA TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

SECOND WASHINGTON CONFERENCE: FDR and Winston
-Invasion of North Africa is first priority
-Postpone the invasion of France

Brazil DOW Ge and It. (because they sank brazilian ships)
The Allies can now use facilities and bases in Brazil.

OPERATION PASTORIUS
2 german spies defect to FBI. All spies arrested and 6 is shot.

MUSICIANS STRIKE
Musicians want more money, they want you to pay for listen to music.

TECH Plutonium isolated - University of Chicago

PURCHASE
East: CV, 2 Air, BB, Sub, Tranny, FTR, TAC, 3 BMB, 2 Tanks, 4 inf, 1 Airborne inf, Art Home: Mech
West: DD, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB, 1 Marines. Home: Mech, AA
LL to UK: 2 Trannies, FTR, Tank / to USSR: FTR, Tank / to China Tank,
Ascension Isl: Airbase
Hawaii: Naval Base (This is the time Hawaii got a major Naval Base)

COMBAT EUROPE

BOMB. CAMPAIGN
UK: BMB SBR> Holl/Belg Airbase
Loss US: BMB

OIL CAMPAIGN
Egy: BMB SBR> Rom (Ploesti oil field)
Loss US: BMB

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
2 DD attack> sz 101: 2 GE Subs
Loss GE: 2 Subs
Better convoy duty in sz 101 and improved Anti-Sub Weapons

COMBAT PACIFIC

BATTLE OF MIDWAY
Hawaii 26: CV + 3 cv-Air attack> sz 25: 2 CV, 3 cv-Air, CA
Midway 25: TAC + Sub attack> sz 25:
Loss US: CV, 2 cv-Air + Loss Jap: all units
1 cv-Air land on CV in sz 13 Point Luck

NON-COMB MOVE - Euro
BOLERO CONV
Tranny w Inf, Art to UK

TORCH CONV
Tranny w Inf, Art to UK

US: FTR, 3 BMB to UK

Brazil: FTR (BRA) to Panama.
Panama: FTR to US

Transit to Pacific: 101: CV, 2 Air, BB, Sub to sz 10

NON-COMB MOVE PACIFIC

Hawaii 26: CV, 2 CA, 2 DD to sz 13 Point Luck

US 10: Tranny w Inf + FTR to sz 1 Alaska

Form China Air Task Force

Situation Europe

Situation Pacific

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CHINA TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

PURCHASE
KMT: 3 Inf
CCP: Inf
ROC: Inf

Start of the HENAN FAMINE
Between 1 and 3 million will starve to death before Spring 1943

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UK TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

Winston tell US military attache Bonner Fellers to stop using the Black Code, since Rommel can read it

PURCHASE
UK: DD, Sub, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, Tank, Art, Inf, + Lend Leas to USSR: Tank
CAN: Lend Lease to UK: Tranny, Tank, + Lend Lease to USSR: Mech

COMBAT

BOMB CAMPAIGN
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. Ge. Factory
Loss UK: 1 BMB + Loss Ge: Factory 50 % damage

UK: FTR, TAC SBR> Norm Naval Base = damage

THE DIEPPE RAID
UK 110: DD w Commandoes attack sz 110 Norm: Fort, Tank, FTR
Loss UK: all units

NON-COMB MOVE

PEDESTAL CONV
Gib 91: CV, 1 Air, BB, CA, 3 DD, Sub, Tranny to sz 94 Bomb Alley

CLUB RUN
UK: FTR, TAC, Sub to 91 Gib
Gib 91: FTR, TAC, Sub to 96 Malta
Malta FTR, TAC to Egy

ANDERS ARMY
Iraq: Inf (POL) to Trans Jordan

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ITALY TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

THE IMMALA BIRTHDAY MEETING
Adolf (GE) meet Mannerheim (FIN) in a saloon train coach at Immala Airfield, Finland
Adolf want Mannerheim to attack Leningrad.
Mannerheim refuse.
Adolf is sad.

PURCHASE
IT: Inf
ROM: Inf

NON-COMB MOVE
Ukr: 3 Inf, Mech (IT) + 2 Inf (ROM) to Rostov

Tobruk: Inf FTR to Alex

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 12 - SUMMER 1942

QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT
Gandhi (independent Indian player) start civil disobedience across India.
Winston (official UK and British India player) don’t approve of this and have Gandhi arrested.
(Gandhi spend the rest of the game in jail)
Winston also have 100 000 civilians arrested, and 10 000 killed.
Also the Bengal Famine is in progress with millions starving.

Subas Bose form the Indian National Army, against UK and pro-Axis

PURCHASE
Aus: Inf

COMBAT

Ind: BMB SBR> Siam (Bangkok)= damage

ARAKAN CAMPAIGN
Ind: 4 Inf (Punjab) attack> Burma: 3 Inf, Art (JAP) + Inf (BURMA)
Loss UK: 2 Inf
Attacker retreat. Blame it on the monsoon season

NON-COMB MOVE
Aus: Tank to W. Aus
India recive a Lend Lease Tank from USA