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JAPAN TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

Tokyo Kid rejects the Potsdam Declaration.

PURCHASE
2 FTR, Inf

NON-COMB MOVE
Siam: 2 Inf (JA) + Inf (Siam) + Inf (Free India) to Shan State

COLLECT INCOME CONVOY DISRUPTION
4 Subs in sz 6 = loss 11 IPC
US Fleet in sz 19 = loss 9 IPC
2 Subs in sz 20 = loss 5 IPC
total loss = 25 IPC

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USA TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

UN Charter signed in San Francisco

Truman approves the use of A-Bomb in Japan

TECH
Trinity test in New Mexico - first a-bomb ever,

PURCHASE
East: CA, 3 FTR, TAC, 3 BMB
Okinava: Airbase

COMBAT

OPERATION MATTERHORN
Iwo: BMB SBR> Jap = total damage
Oki: BMB SBR> Jap; = total damage
Guam: BMB SBR> Jap: = total damage

OPERATION CENTERBOARD
Marianas: H. BMB nuke> Jap: = total damage

TF 58: 8 CV, 16 Air, 2 BB, 5 CA, 5 DD attack> sz 6: DD, 5 Trannis + FTR scrambled
Loss Jap: all units
8 cv-Air SBR> Jap: Naval Base = total damage

sz 22: CA to sz 21: Sub (Jap)
Loss US: CA Indianapolis sunk

2 Trannies to sz 6 + 2 inf, Art amp> South Korea: contestet territory with USSR
This was the beginning of a divided Korea and later the Korean War

15. august - Tokyo Kid surrender

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CHINA TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

Chiang and Mao meet in Chongqing. This start the civil war.

Ho Chi Minh start an uprising in French Indo China, now named Vietnam.

Sukarno start an uprising in Indonesia (Java) and declare independence from Holland

PURCHASE
KMT 1 Inf
CCP 5 Inf
Vietnam: Inf
Java: 2 Inf

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UK TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

Winston resign, Attlee new UK player.

King is re-elected as the Canada player

UK take over Syria and Lebanon from France

British Somaliland: Sheik Bashir start a rebellion against UK rule

NURENBERG TRIALS BEGIN

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ITALY TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

Tito back down. Trieste (town in Italy) is not worth a new world war.

NON-COMB MOVE
N: It: 2 Inf (Yugo) to Yugo

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

Aus: Curtin dies in office. Ben is the new ANZAC player

Subas Bose, the Free India player, is assassinated

Tokyo Kid signs the surrender abord USS Missouri in sz 6.
D. MacArthur is supreme commander in Japan.

Unfortunately I miss a MacArthur figurine so Patton step in. Will edit later
Martha Gellhorn and Capa far right
Also the cleaners have startet to put away the game. Next holiday this basement will be used for the A&A 1914 game. But that will be another Blog

COMBAT
OPERATION CAPITAL
India: 4 Inf, Art, Tank (UK) + 4 Inf (Pun) + Inf (Gur) attack> Shan State: 2 Inf (JA), Inf (Siam), Inf (Free)
Loss Axis: all units

Tranny to sz 43 + Inf (UK) Inf (ANZ) amp> Borneo; Inf
Loss Jap: all units

BATTLE OF SURABAYA
TF 37: CA, DD, Tranny to sz 42 + Inf (UK), Inf (ANZ) amp> Java: 2 Inf (Indonesia)
Loss Indonesia: all units

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FRANCE TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

Charles de Gaulle become PRESIDENT of France for job well done

Winners of the A&A Global 1939 Tournament game is:
The Allied Team: Clement, Truman, Stalin and Chiang- the Big Four

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How risky was the real WW II game for the players?

Lets look into the 9 playable powers:

3 players died in Round 23, all in april 1945.
Adolf, the german player, commited suicide because he lost the game.
Benito, the italian player, was hanged because he lost the game.

FDR was winning the game, but died of natural causes just before cashing in. An intriguing fact is that if Wendell Willkie had won the election, and become the US player, he too died during the game, in Round 21, oct 1944. So either way a vice had to finish the game. In this case Truman.

Also two ANZAC players died in office during the game. Michael Savage died in Round 3 and John Curtin in Round 24, the last round. ANZAC was played by 6 different players, starting with “Pig Iron Bob” Menzies and finishing with Ben and Fraser.

The first UK player, Neville Chamberlain, resigned in Round 3 and died in Round 5.
The most famous UK player, Winston, resigned in Round 24, the last round, and was replaced in the Victory Parade by Clement Attlee. Now that must have been disappointing to Winnie.

None of the 5 french players died but 4 of them was arrested and spent some time in prison.
Both Daladier and Reynauld were locked up at Itter Castle prison already in Round 4.
Petain and Pierre Laval got locked op in Round 21 for switching to the Axis.
de Gaulle would pop up and play France the last round, rejecting the Allied victory and keep a solo game going in the old french colonies all over the world.

Of the main 9 players only Stalin, Tokyo Kid and Chiang would play from Round 1 to the final Round 24.

Of the minor neutral non-playable powers, a lot of players would be arrested after the game, for being war criminals. Others would be assassinated during play.

Poland, the first to fight, lost 2 great players:
Ryds-Smigly in round 10 and Sikorsky in round 16.

Metaxa, playing Greece, was possible poisoned in round 6.
Tsar Boris III, playing Bulgaria, was possible poisoned in round 16.
Stauning, playing Denmark, died in round 11.
Ulmanis, playing one of the Baltic States, died in GULAG in round 13, and Smedina in round 21.
Szalasi, playing Hungary, was hanged in round 23.
Quisling, who tried to play Norway unofficial after the worlds first solo coup by a radio speech, and with no back up what so ever, and even during a german attack, in wich the german player Adolf nor any of his officers was prepared for this, is hanged in round 23.

In China, the ROC- player Wang Jingwei is killed in round 21. The other puppet players to Japan, Prince De and emperor Puyi, spent some time in GULAG, but survive a short time after round 24.
KMT-player Chiang survive round 24, but are soon to be replaced by Mao, playing CCP.

The dominion players Will King, playing Canada, and Smuts, playing South Africa, are in the game from round 1 to round 24. Now that pretty much sums it up. Hopeful we won’t see this much drama on a Con, a Turnament game in our basement with casual friends.