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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

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ITALY TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

OPERATION SUNRISE
General Karl Wolf meet Allen Dulles (CIA) to negotiate surrender of N. It.

Himmler negotiate surrender with aid from diplomat Folke Bernadotte (strict neutral Sweden)

Bela Miklos, the new Hungarian player, switch side and DOW Adolf

Tito form Yugoslavia government

Mannerheim (FIN) DOW Adolf

Per Albin (strict neutral Sweden) cease all trade with Germany

Karl Renner proclaim government of Free Austria

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

COMBAT
OPERATION CAPITAL - INVASION OF BURMA
India: 4 Inf, Art, Tank, BMB (UK) + 4 Inf (Punjab) + 2 Inf (Gurkha) attack> Burma: 3 Inf (JAP) + Inf (BU)
Loss Allies: 1 Inf + Loss JAP: all units

BATTLE OF RAMREE ISLAND
1000 japanese soldiers retreat into crocodile-infestet mangrove swamps.
Only 20 survive.
This is known as the worst animal attack ever recordet. If it’s true. Historians differ

Burma switch side and join the Allies.
1 Inf (BU) join the Allies.

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FRANCE TURN 22 - WINTER 1945
Syria and Lebanon DOW Axis

PURCHASE
FRA: 2 Inf, Art

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ROUND 23 (march april may 1945)
GERMANY TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

Adolf issues the Nero decree = destroy and burn everything

PURCHASE
FTR, Tank, 10 Inf (milits)

COMBAT

OPERATION SPRING AWAKENING
G. GE: 2 Inf, Art, Tank + TAC attack> Hungary: 8 Inf, 4 Art, Tank, AA
Loss GE: Inf, Tank, TAC + Loss USSR: Inf
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE
Mass suicides start in East Germany

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USSR TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

PURCHASE
3 FTR, 3 TAC, 6 Tanks, 2 Inf, 2 Art

COMBAT

BERLIN OFFENSIVE
Pol: 10 Inf, 10 Art, 6 Tanks + 4 FTR, 4 TAC attack> GE: 6 Inf, 2 Art, AA 3 FTR
Loss USSR: 4 Inf, 2 Tanks, FTR + Loss GE: all units

VIENNA-PRAGUE OFFENSIVE
Hun: 10 Inf, 4 Art, 2 Tanks, 6 Mech + 2 TAC attack> Great GE: 12 Inf, 2 Art, Tank, FTR
Loss USSR: 3 Inf + Loss GE: all units

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JAPAN TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

PURCHASE
Tranny, 2 FTR, Inf

COMBAT

OPERATION TEN-GO
sz 20: BB, DD + FTR, TAC attack> sz 19: 3 Subs (US)
Loss US: 1 Sub + 2 Subs submerge
FTR, TAC land on Okinava

COLLECT INCOME CONVOY DISRUPTION
2 Subs in sz 6 = loss 4 IPC
2 Subs in sz 19 = loss 2 IPC
2 Subs in sz 20 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 36 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 37 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 44 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 42 = loss 2 IPC
CV, BB, CA, DD in sz 41 = loss 4 IPC
total loss 20 IPC

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USA TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

FDR is dead. Truman become 33rd President.

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO

Chile and Brazil DOW Japan

PURCHASE
East: CV, 2 Air, CA, Sub, Tranny, 3 FTR, TAC, 5 BMB
West: CV, 2 Air, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB
Iwo Jima: Airbase

COMBAT EUROPE
UK: 2 BMB SBR> neutral Swiss cities Bern and Zurich by accident.
UK: 4 BMB SBR> W. GE = total damage

INVASION OF WEST GERMANY
FRA: 4 Inf, 5 Art, 4 Tanks attack> W. GE: 3 Blockhouses, 7 Inf, 4 Art, AA, 2 FTR
Holl/Belg: 3 Inf, 2 Art, Tank attack> W. GE:
Norm: 10 Mech attack> W. GE:
UK: 4 FTR, 4 TAC attack> W. GE
Loss US: Inf + Loss Ge: all units

OPERATION GRAPESHOT
S. IT: 2 Inf, Art, Tank attack> N. It: 3 Blockhouses, 1 MNT, AA (GE) + 3 Alp Inf (IT)
Loss Axis: all units surrender without any fighting

COMBAT PACIFIC

OPERATION STARVATION
Guam: BMB SBR> Japan: Naval Base = total damage
Marianas BMB SBR> Japan: Naval Base = total damage

OPERATION ICEBERG
TF 52: 3 CV, 5 Air, 3 BB, 3 CA, 3 DD, 4 Trannies attack> sz 19: BB, DD, FTR, TAC
Loss US: 3 BB damaged + Loss JAP: all units
4 Marines, 3 Inf, Art, Tank attack> Okinava: Inf, FTR
Loss US: Inf, Tank + Loss Jap: all units

OPERATION MUSKETEER
sz 35: 2 Trannies + 2 Inf, Art amp> Mindanao: Inf
Loss Jap: all units

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CHINA TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

COMBAT
SECOND GUANGXI CAMPAIGN
Yunnan: 6 Inf attack> Kwangsi: 2 Inf, Art
Loss KMT: 1 Inf + Loss JAP: all units