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UK TURN 20 - SUMMER 1944

Polish government in exile in London order Home Army to start an uprising in Warsaw, to help the Red Army that is right outside the gate.

PURCHASE
UK: CV, 2 Air, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, 2 Inf + LL to USSR: Tank
CAN: FTR + LL to USSR: Mech

COMBAT

BOMB CAMPAIGN
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. Ge: factory = total damage
Sicily: 1 BMB SBR> N. IT: factory = total damage
Egypt: 1 BMB SBR> Rom: Oil Field = total damage

OPERATION OVERLORD - INVASION OF NORMANDY - UK sector
UK: 4 Trannies to sz 110 + 4 Inf, 2 Art, 2 Tanks amp> Norm: Fort, 2 Inf, Tank, AA, 2 FTR
UK. BB, 4 CA to sz 110 + shore bombard> Norm:
UK: 3 BMB, 2 TAC, 4 FTR, Skytrain w Airborne attack> Norm:
Loss UK: 2 Tanks, BMB, TAC, 2 FTR, Skytrain + Loss GE: all units

OPERATION NEPTUN
UK: CV, 2 Air, 2 DD attack> sz 112: 2 Subs
Loss GE: all units

UK: CV, 2 Air, 2 DD attack> sz 105: 2 Subs
Loss GE: all units

NON-COMB MOVE

THE WARSAW UPRISING
UK: Skytrain w Airborne (Pol) + supply + $ 16 mill in gold offload in Pol.

Alg: 3 Inf + Inf (CAN) + 2 FTR to S. IT.

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ITALY TURN 20 - SUMMER 1944

THE KING MICHAEL COUP IN ROMENIA
General Emil Bodnogas, a sovjet agent, arrange the coup.
First, the current player, Ion Antonescu, is arrested and sent to Moscow.
King Michael I become the new romanian player.

-Ceasefire with Stalin (Red Army)
-Switch side and DOW Adolf (GE)
-5 Inf (Rom) join the Allies

This was decisive for the Red Army advance into Balkan. If the romanian Army had dug in behind the fortified Carpathian-Danube line, Red Army would never have liberated Balkan. This also cut off the oil supply to Germany.

Adolf now admit the war is lost.

Up north, Mannerheim has to sort out his deal with Stalin.
First, Risto Ryti get 10 years in jail.
4 Inf (FIN) is removed from the map, but 1 Inf stay to fight the germans. Contestet territory

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 20 - SUMMER 1944

COMBAT

India: BMB SBR> Siam (Bangkok) = damage
India: BMB SBR> Malaya = damage

OPERATION CRIMSON & BANQUET
Ceylon: CV, 2 Air, BB, CA, DD to sz 41 + cv-Air SBR> Sumatra: Oil field = damage

OPERATION CARTWHEEL
Aus: Tranny to sz 47 + Inf (ANZ) amp> New Britain: Inf (JAP)
Loss JAP: all units

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FRANCE TURN 20 - SUMMER 1944

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE IS DECLARED
Capital is Algiers
Player is de Gaulle

De Gaulle DOW Adolf and Tokyo Kid

NON-COMB MOVE
Alg: Tranny w Inf, Tank to sz 110 + offload in Norm.
Alg: Tranny w inf, Tank to sz 95 + offload in S. It

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ROUND 21 - (sept oct nov 1944)

GERMANY TURN 21 - FALL 1944

Adolf establish the Volkssturm, a milits open for everybody, and run by Himmler

Laval, the Vichy French player, relocate his government to Germany, and go to jail.

PURCHASE
GE: 6 FTR, TAC, V-2 Rockets, 5 Tanks, 20 Inf (milits),
sz 114: 2 Subs, 3 Trannies, 2 Passenger Liners
Atlantic Wall: Fort
East Wall: Blockhouse
Gothic Line: Blockhouse

COMBAT

OPERATION PENGUIN
Holl/Belg: 2 V-2 Rockets SBR> UK (London) = damage

BOMBING OF ROMANIA
Ge: BMB SBR> Rom: FTR
Loss GE: BMB

DESTRUCTION OF WARSAW
Pol: TAC SBR> Warsaw (city inside Poland, make it a contested territory) = damage
Pol: 3 Art barrage> Warsaw = damage
Pol: 2 Inf scorched earth> Warsaw (contested territory) = total damage
200 000 civilians killed + 700 000 expelled

NON-COMB MOVE

OPERATION BIRKE
North Finland (Lappland): 2 MNT Inf to Norway
1 MNT stay and do scorched earth = damage

OPERATION HANNIBAL
sz 114: 2 Liners, 3 Trannies mobilized to move troops from Baltic to Denmark and Germany

Greece: all troops move to Ge = Greece is left empty

DUTCH FAMINE
Holl/Belg: Inf scorched eart + blockade + cut off food supply = 20 000 civilians dead

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USSR TURN 21 - FALL 1944

MOSCOW CONFERENCE - TOLSTOY
Stalin and Winston establish post-war spheres of influence.

Stalin DOW king Simeon II, a 6 year old kid that play Bulgaria.

Stalin found EAM, a commie government in Greece, with partisans and a Red Army

Stalin veto support to Poland and tell FDR to move all US forces out of Russia ASAP
This start a Cold War between USA and USSR

Stalin DOW Simeon, a 6 year old kid that play Bulgaria. This Game Room was a jungle

PURCHASE
Rus: 4 FTR, 4 TAC, BMB, 7 Tanks, 4 Art, 10 Inf,
Greece: 2 Partisans

COMBAT

PETSAMO OFFENSIVE
Kar: 2 Inf, Art, Tank + TAC attack> North Fin: MNT Inf
Loss Ge: all units

BALTIC OFFENSIVE
Belo: 10 Inf, 10 Art, 5 Tanks + 4 FTR, 4 TAC attack> Baltic: BH, 2 Inf, 2 Art, 2 Tank, AA, FTR + Inf (Sp)
Loss USSR: 3 Inf, 3 Art, 2 Tanks, 2 TAC + Loss Axis: all units

HUNGARIAN OFFENSIVE
E. Pol: 5 Tank, 7 Mech + FTR, TAC blitz + attack> Hung: 2 Inf, Art, Tank, AA, TAC + 2 Inf (Hun)
Loss USSR: 3 Tanks, Mech + Loss Axis: Inf, Tank (GE)
attacker retreat to Rom

BELGRADE OFFENSIVE
E. Pol: Tank, 4 Mech + FTR, TAC blitz + attack> Yugo: 2 Inf + Inf (Hun)
Loss Axis: all units

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JAPAN TURN 21 - FALL 1944

PURCHASE
CV, Air, Tranny, 3 FTR, TAC, BMB, 3 Inf, Art, AA

COMBAT

OPERATION ICHI-GO
Hop + Hun: 2 Inf, Art, Tank + TAC attack> Kweichow: 5 Inf (KMT) + FTR (US)
Loss JAP: 2 Inf + Loss Allies: 2 Inf
attacker retreat

sz 6: DD attack> Sub (US)
Loss US: all units

NON-COMB MOVE
2 CV, 3 Air, BB, CA, DD to sz 6
BB, CA, DD to sz 37
BB, CA DD to sz 43
FTR to Okinava
FTR to Formosa
FTR + 2 Kamikaze to Phil.
TAC, BMB to Kwantung

COLLECT INCOME CONVOY DISRUPTION
3 Subs in sz 19 = loss 9 IPC
2 Subs in sz 20 = loss 4 IPC
Sub in sz 35 = loss 2 IPC
Sub in sz 36 = loss 3 IPC
2 Subs in sz 44 = loss 3 IPC
Sub in sz 42 = loss 2 IPC
CV, BB, CA, DD in sz 41 = loss 4 IPC

total loss = 27 IPC

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USA TURN 21 - FALL 1944

US ELECTION - FDR become only player (so far) to get a 4th term

Crisis in Stalin-FDR relations. FDR terminate Lend Lease to USSR. A cold war start.

PURCHASE EUROPE
CV, 2 Air, DD, Sub, Tranny, 4 FTR, TAC, 9 BMB
LL to UK: 2 Trannies, FTR, TAC, BMB, Tank

COMBAT

BOMB CAMPAIGN
UK: 6 BMB SBR> W. GE: 6 FTR + factory
Loss US: 2 BMB + Loss GE: 2 FTR + factory = total damage

Sicily: 2 BMB SBR> N. IT:2 FTR + factory
Loss US: BMB + Loss Axis: FTR + factory = total damage + Gorla Massacre (by accident)

Sicily: BMB SBR> Hun: FTR
Loss US: BMB

Sicily: BMB SBR> Pol: FTR
Loss US: BMB

LIBERATION OF FRANCE
Norm: 4 Inf, 4 Art, 4 Tank + 2 TAC attack> FRA: 6 Inf, Art, Tank, AA, FTR
Loss US 3 Inf, Tank, TAC + Loss GE: all units

OPERATION DRAGOON
Alg: Tranny to sz 96 + 2 Inf, Art Tank amp> S. Fra: 2 Inf, Art
Sicily: 3 BMB, 2 TAC attack> S. Fra:
Loss GE: all units

NON-COMB MOVE
OPERATION FRANTIC JOE EVACUATION
W. Ukr: 2 FTR, 2 BMB to S. IT + Poltava Airbase closed

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US PART 2 - PACIFIC
PURCHASE PACIFIC
West: CV, 2 Air, DD, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB
Guam: Airbase

COMBAT
OPERATION MATTERHORN
China: BMB SBR> Manchuria: factory = damage
land on Guam

Mariana Isl: BMB SBR> Formosa: Airbase = total damage

OPERATION MUSKETEER
TF 38:
2 cv-Air attack> Okinava: FTR = Loss Jap all units
2 cv-Air attack> Formosa: FTR = Loss Jap all units
2 cv-Air attack> Phil: FTR = loss Jap all units

2 CV, 4 Air, 3 BB, 2 CA, 3 DD, 2 Subs, Tranny attack> sz 35: Kamikaze
Loss US: 1 CV sunk by kamikaze
Tranny w 2 Inf, Art + 2 cv-Air amp> Phil (Leyte) Inf, FTR
Loss JAP: all units
Philippines Isl become a contestet territory

Tranny to sz 34 + Inf, Art amp> Palau: Inf
Loss US: Inf + Loss JAP: all units

sz 16: 2 Subs attack> sz 6: CV, 1 Air (targeted attack)
Loss JAP: all units. (Shinano was the largest carrier ever sunk by subs)

NON-COMB MOVE
TG 30 LOGISTICS:
sz 10: CV, 2 Air, DD, Sub, 2 Trannies w Marines, Inf, Art, Tank to sz 26
sz 26: CV, 2 Air, DD, Sub, 2 Trannies w Marines, Inf, Art, Tank to sz 32

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CHINA TURN 21 - FALL 1944

PURCHASE
KMT: 2 Inf
CCP: 2 Inf

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UK TURN 21 - FALL 1944

QUEBEC CONFERENCE -OCTAGON
FDR and Winston agree on the Morgenthau Plan.

HYDE PARK AGREEMENT
FDR and Winston agree that nuclear weapons must be in US and UK possessions only.

Also no more LL to Stalin

King George II of Greece beg Winston for protection.
Greece now become a de facto UK Protectorate

PURCHASE
UK: DD, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, Tank

COMBAT

BOMB CAMPAIGN
UK: 1 BMB SBR> Nor: Naval Base = total damage
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. GE: Naval Base = total damage

OPERATION RATWEEK
S. IT: 1 BMB SBR> Yugo: Railway = total damage

SINKING OF TIRPITZ
UK: BMB attack> sz 126: BB sunk

LIBARATION OF HOLL/BELG
Norm: 5 Inf, 3 Art, 2 Tanks attack> Holl/Belg: 2 Forts, 6 Inf, Art, Tank, AA, 2 FTR
UK: BMB, FTR, Skytrain w Airborne Inf attack> Holl/Belg:
sz 110: Tranny w Inf amp> Holl/Belg:
sz 110: BB shore bomb> Holl/Belg:
Loss UK: Inf, Tank, FTR, BMB, Skytrain, Airborne + Loss Ge: all units

OPERATION OLIVE
S. IT: 4 Inf, Art, Tank + 2 FTR, TAC, BMB attack> N. IT: 3 BH, 4 Art, Para + 3 MNT Inf (Salo)
Loss UK: Inf + Loss Axis: Inf
attacker retreat

RAF BALTIC SEA CAMPAIGN
UK: BMB attack> sz 113: Tranny sunk

NON-COMB MOVE
S. IT sz 97: Tranny to sz 99 + Inf offload in Greece

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ITALY TURN 21 - FALL 1944

SZALASI COUP IN HUNGARY
Hungary will continue to fight the Red Army

KIMON COUP IN BULGARIA
Bulgaria switch side, armistice with USSR and Kimon DOW Adolf

NON-COMB MOVE
Romania: 2 Inf (Rom) to Yugo
Bulg: 2 Inf (Bul) to Yugo

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 21 - FALL 1944

COMBAT
India: BMB SBR> Siam (Bangkok) = total damage
India: BMB SBR> Malaya = total damage

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FRANCE TURN 21 - FALL 1944

New french capitol is Paris

Also Belgian government in exile return to Belgium

PURCHASE
FRA: 2 Inf

NON-COMB MOVE
Norm: Inf, Tank to Fra
S. Fra: Inf, Tank to Fra
All ships to sz 93

Norm: Inf (Belg) + Inf (Czech) to Holl/Belg

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ROUND 22 - (dec 1944 + jan, feb 1945)
GERMANY TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

PURCHASE
GE: 1 Sub, 3 FTR, Rockets, 2 Tanks, 20 Inf (Milits) AA
NOR: Lyngen Line: Fort + Blockhouse

COMBAT

OPERATION PENGUIN
GE: 2 V-2 Rockets SBR> Belgium = damage
GE: 1 V-2 Rocket SBR> FRA (Paris) = damage

OPERATION BODENPLATTE
GE: 2 FTR SBR> Holl/Belg: Airbase + 2 FTR
Loss GE: all units + Loss Allies: 1 FTR
(Half of the german Figthers was lost to friendly AA-fire on their way home to Germany because of secrecy and radio silence)

BATTLE OF THE BULGE
W. GE: Inf, Art, 2 Tanks, Mech attack> Holl/Belg: 8 Inf, 4 Art, 3 Tanks, AA (total Allies)
Loss GE: 2 Tanks + Loss Allies: Inf, Tank (US) + Malmedy Massacre (Peiper murder 84 US POWs)
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE
OPERATION NORDLICHT - RETREAT TO LYNGEN LINE
Finnmark: 2 MNT Inf to North Norway (Norway really need to be split in 3 territories)

OPERATION HANNIBAL
sz 113: 2 Liners, 3 Trannies to sz 115 + load 4 Inf + 9 civilian units + move to sz 114 + offload GE

This was the largest evacuation by sea in history. 22 Passenger Liners and 1000 merchant ships of all types evacuated 350 000 soldiers + 900 000 civilians from East Prussia to Germany

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USSR TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

YALTA CONFERENCE - ARGONAUT/CRICKET
Stalin agree to join the war against Japan. FDR and Winston is happy.

Also, swedish diplomat Raol Wallenberg disappear in Ljubyanka Prison for some reason.

Far left, Wallenberg meet the Sovjet police

PURCHASE
3 FTR, 3 TAC, Bmb, 6 Tanks, 2 Inf, Art
(Production is scaled down because the war will soon end)

COMBAT
BALTIC SEA CAMPAIGN
sz 115: 1 Sub attack> sz 114: 1 Liners, 2 Trannies
Loss Ge: all units.
This includes :
SS Wilhelm Gustloff = 9 500 casualties -largest loss of life in a ship sinking in history
MV Goya = 6500 casualties
SS General Steuben = 4 000
Orion 4 000
SS Hansa unknown

PRUSSIA - VISTULA - ODER OFFENSIVE
Baltic: 7 Inf, 6 Art, 4 Tanks attack> Pol: 2 Blockhouse, 9 Inf, 2 Art, Tank, AA, TAC
E. Pol: 6 Inf, 6 Art, 4 Tank, 6 Mech attack> Pol:
Rus: 4 FTR, 5 TAC, BMB attack> Pol:
Loss USSR: 9 Inf, 3 Art, 4 Tanks, 3 TACs + Loss Ge: all units

BUDAPEST OFFENSIVE
Rom: 8 Inf, 4 Art, Tank + 3 FTR, 2 TAC attack> Hungary: Inf + 2 Inf (Hun)
Loss Axis: all units

NON-COMB MOVE
THE DECEMBER INCIDENT
Greece: 200 000 civilians demonstrate against the UK troops

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JAPAN TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

PURCHASE
DD, Tranny, 2 FTR, TAC, Inf

COMBAT

JAP: 1 BMB SBR> Guam: Airbase
Loss JAP: all units
JAP: 1 BMB SBR> Marianas Isl: Airbase
Loss JAP: all units

OPERATION SHO-GO
sz 6: 1 CV, 2 Air, BB, CA, DD, Sub attack> sz 35: 7th Fleet, TF 38, TG 30
sz 37: BB, CA, DD attack> sz 35:
sz 43: BB, CA, DD attack> sz 35:
Formosa: FTR, TAC, BMB attack> sz 35:
Loss JAP: 1 CV, 2 Air, 2 BB, 3 CA, DD, TAC + Loss US: 2 CV, 4 Air, BB damaged, DD
attacker retreat to sz 20

FTR land in Luzon (Phil)
4 Trannies to sz 35 + 3 Inf, Tank, AA offload in Luzon (Phil)
(At this point I think maybe Phil should be split in several islands, but contestet terr works too)

sz 6: DD attack> sz 20: 2 Subs
Loss US: 1 Sub + 1 Sub submerged (Japanese Destroyers never got the radar tech)

COLLECT INCOME CONV DISRUPTION
2 Subs in sz 6 = loss 2 IPC
3 Subs in sz 19 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 20 = loss 1 IPC
1 Sub in sz 36 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 37 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 42 = loss 1 IPC
CV, BB, CA, DD in sz 41 = loss 4 IPC

Total loss = 14 IPC (in real world 1 400 000 tons of merchant shipping)

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USA TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

George Marshall become first US five star general
Douglas MacArthur become second US five star general
Eisenhower become third US five star general

Audie Murphy (19) become most decorated US combat soldier of WWII

Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela and Uruguay DOW the Axis

PURCHASE
East: CV, 2 Air, CA, Sub, Tranny, 3 FTR, TAC, 5 BMB
West: CV, 2 Air, CA, DD, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB
Palau: Airbase
Marianas Isl: Airbase

COMBAT IN EUROPE
LARGEST RAID ON BERLIN EVER
UK: 6 BMB SBR> GE (Berlin): = total damage
OPERATION VERITABLE
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. GE: = total damage

NON-COMB MOVE EUROPE
S. FRA: 6th Army to FRA
CHENOGNE MASSACRE
US troops kill 80 german POWs as retaliation for Malmedy

COMBAT PACIFIC
OPERATION MATTERHORN
Guam: BMB SBR> Jap: Airbase = total damage
Marianas: BMB SBR> Jap: Naval Base = total damage

THE SOUTH CHINA SEA RAID
TF 38:
2 cv-Air SBR> Formosa: Airbase = total damage
2 cv-Air SBR> Hong Kong: Naval Base = total damage
2 cv-Air SBR> Hainan = total damage
2 cv-Air SBR> FIC = total damage

OPERATION MUSKETEER
sz 35 east part: 7th Fleet to sz 35 west part: FTR scramble + 2 Kamikaze
Loss US: CV, CA, DD, Tranny + Loss JAP: all units
Marines, 2 Inf, Art + FTR, TAC amp> Luzon: 3 Inf, Tank, AA
Loss US: 2 Inf, TAC + Loss Jap: all units

OPERATION DETACHMENT - RISING THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA
TF 52: 2 CV, 4 Air, 2 BB, CA, DD, Tranny to sz 17: kamikaze
Loss US: CV, 2 Air + Loss Jap: all units
Marines amp> Iwo Jima: Inf, AA
Loss JAP: all units

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CHINA TURN 22 - WINTER 1945
PURCHASE
KMT: 2 Inf
CCP: 2 Inf

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UK TURN 22 - WINTER 1945
Mustafa (Turk) and Ahmad Pasha (Egy) DOW the Axis.
Ahmad Pasha is assassinated right after this announcement

UK Home Guard is stood down (war is soon to end)

Also king George II of Greece leave his throne vacant.
Archbishop Damaskinos as new Greece player.
Winston is no longer wanted as protector of Greece. Brits must go home.

PURCHASE
UK: DD, 2 FTR, 2 BMB

COMBAT

OPERATION VERITABLE
UK: 3 BMB SBR> GE (Berlin) = total damage
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. GE = total damage
UK: 1 BMB SBR> Nor= total damage

RAF BALTIC SEA CAMPAIGN
UK: BMB attack> (minelaying) sz 113: CA, DD, Liner, Tranny,
Loss GE: all units

This include Passenger Liners:
SS Deutschland =unknown casualties of 10 000 passengers
Thielbek = 8 000
Cap Arcona = 5 000
warships: Admiral Scheer, Schlesien, Lutzow and destroyers