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
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
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
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
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
UK TURN 23 - SPRING 1945
OPERATION UNTHINKABLE
Winston consider backstabbing Stalin and attack the Red Army in Germany to save Poland.
Patton agree.
Truman rule out the operation as military unfeasible.
The Arab League is formed in Cairo.
The king of kings, Reza Pahlavi of Persia, demands all UK and USSR troops leave Persia ASAP!!!
King Ibn Saud (Saudi Arabia) and Johan (Norway) DOW Tokyo Kid
From left: king Farouk, Truman, Pahlavi, Winston, Johan, Ibn and Tokyo Kid far right.
PURCHASE
CV, 2 Air, 2 FTR, 2 BMB
COMBAT
UK: 1 BMB SBR> Nor = total damage
UK: 2 BMB SBR> W. Ge: = total damage
UK: 2 BMB attack> sz 113: sink all remaining ships
INVASION OF WESTERN GERMANY
Holl/Belg: 4 Inf, 3 Art, Tank attack> W. Ge: 2 Fort, 2 Blockhouses, 4 Inf, AA, 2 FTR
UK: 2 Trannies to sz 110 + 2 Inf + 2 Inf (CAN) amp> W. GE
Loss Ge: all units
NON-COMB MOVE
Adolf give up and all Axis forces in Denmark and Norway surrender.
UK, Tranny w Inf to sz 112 + offload in Nor
UK: Tranny w Inf to sz 112 + offload in Den
ITALY TURN 23 - SPRING 1945
Musso and Clara is hanged.
Adolf and Eva commit suicide
Two of the main Axis players have left the game
The new Italian player, Badoglio DOW Tokyo Kid
COMBAT
BATTLE OF POLJANA
Yugo: 2 Inf (Partisan) attack> Slovenia/Trieste: Inf (GE) + Inf (Serb)
Loss Axis: all units + 100 000 serbs, croats and cossacks is massacred
Because Trieste was UK responsibility, Tito is now in conflict with Winston.
This was the last official battle in Europe, but because France is last in the Turn order, The Second Battle of the Alps will be the last battle in this Blog
ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 23 - SPRING 1945
COMBAT
BATTLE OF MALACCA STRAIT
Ceylon: DD attack> sz 37: CA
Loss JAP: all units
NON-COMB MOVE
sz 41: CV, BB, CA, DD to sz 19
FRANCE TURN 23 - SPRING 1945
Jodl signs the unconditional surrender at Reims, France.
Stalin is not present.
de Gaulle DOW Badoglio because he want to grab a piece of Italy
PURCHASE
2 Inf, Art
COMBAT
SECOND BATTLE OF THE ALPS
S. It: Inf, Tank, FTR attack> N. It: Inf (IT)
Loss IT: all units
Truman is not happy and stop de Gaulle.
NON-COMB MOVE
THE SELIFA MASSACRE IN ALGERIA
Alg: Inf murder 40 000 civilians
ROUND 24 (june july aug 1945) the final round
GERMANY TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945
POTSDAM CONFERENCE - TERMINAL
The Allied Control Council takes power and supreme autorothy of Germany.
De Gaulle resist this Agreement. Germany belongs to France now.
Stalin, Truman and Winston also demand unconditional surrender of Japan.
Also a lot of Axis war criminals are arrested: left on the pic
The situation in Europe after the war
USSR TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945
Stalin (USSR) and Choibalsan (Mongolia) DOW Tokyo Kid (Japan)
PURCHASE
3 FTR, 3 TAC, 6 Tanks, 2 Inf, 2 Art
COMBAT
SOVJET-JAPAN WAR
Amur: 8 Inf, 8 Art, 7 Tanks + 2 FTR, 2 TAC, BMB attack> Manchuria: 6 Inf, Art, Tank, FTR, TAC, 3 Inf Manchuko
Loss USSR: Inf, Tank + Loss JAP: all units
Amur: 7 Inf + 3 FTR, TAC attack> North Korea: 4 Inf, 2 FTR
Loss JAP: all units
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Thank you so much for taking time to go through and liking this blog. I guess we both love history.
I can’t take credit for the idea. The Classic A&A MB edition was publised in 1984, and from 1995 online homepages on the WWW had become common. I remember there were lots of homepages about A&A, like Don’s Essays and Thrasher, and a dude made a blog almost exactly like this, but with MB Classic and start in 1942 and each Round was 6 months. It was so well done. Unfortunately I can’t find it, it’s propably lost. I loved it so much I wanted to do the same. Now his blog was really well done, and my blog is just the beta test. I was hoping for some discussion and feedback before I make my homepage. So far I understand that I have to make better pics. To represent historical events visually is important. Nobody read a lot of text.
Again, thanks for giving me feedback
