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Eventually fortuna decides to return to its true love. :)

I’m not so sure if you had won it through economic victory by going for Leningrad and Stalingrad. I would still be something like 50 IPC ahead of you globally (currently: 64). I get 11 new units per round in France with the French (7) and the UK (4) build. That number may have increased to 13 if the UK would build a third transport, which it could easily afford now with 45 IPC. At the same time, your German factories still get bombed with 4 bombers per turn - even if one gets shot down, that’s 16.5 IPC damage on average you have to repair every turn. Italy won’t get back any of its bonusses soon, there are enough Brits coming their way to keep them busy at 30 IPC. Russia has 42 IPC to spend now and would still collect something like 30 IPC next round; i.e. they would have sufficiently a comeback that you would still need to spend IPC on them. There are 2 US transports coming with 4 fresh US units, and I still have a reserve force of 2 transports and 4 units in northafrica. This round, they arrive at Gibraltar, ready to strike either Western Germany (jointly with the airforce and the France troops) or Denmark (and then 3 UK transports + 3 ftrs on Berlin, if you don’t defend it properly) or Italy. I.e., I could probably take western germany before you get back to Norway (which I could re-take with the UK as well). I.e., things for Germany don’t look good anymore.

In the Pacific, even though you have a lot of income, things don’t look great either. Your airforce is depleted, you need to build land units (and planes) to push China back, the attack on ANZAC has failed/is failing, you lost almost half of your fleet and the US outnumbers you both with regard to carriers (4:3) and bombers (4:2). Even if the US sends one bomber per turn to Europe, globally the allies have 90-92 IPC in the pacific vs. japan with 78. In two turns, those 4 US carriers are in sz54 and can take (and probably hold) Java or another of the islands, in which case your income drops by 9 IPC. And then Japan doesn’t have so much income anymore, either.

But now, as you said, other life goals… (in my case: going back to Brussels one hour late)

TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.7

Game History

Round :5

Purchase Units - Japanese
            Japanese buy 1 carrier, 2 destroyers, 4 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 6 SuicideAttackTokens;

Combat Move - Japanese
            1 unit repaired.
            Turning on Edit Mode
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            EDIT: Adding units owned by Japanese to 53 Sea Zone: 1 carrier
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Japanese to 53 Sea Zone: 2 fighters
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Japanese from Caroline Islands: 2 fighters
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            1 infantry moved from Amur to Siberia
                  Japanese take Siberia from Russians
            1 infantry moved from Sakha to Buryatia
                  Japanese take Buryatia from Russians
            1 infantry moved from Chahar to Suiyuyan
            1 artillery moved from Central Mongolia to Ulaanbaatar
            1 armour moved from Sakha to Ulaanbaatar
            1 infantry moved from Kweichow to Shensi
                  Japanese take Shensi from Chinese
            1 infantry moved from Kweichow to Szechwan
            2 infantry moved from Kwangsi to Yunnan
            1 artillery moved from Kweichow to Yunnan
            1 infantry moved from Kwangsi to French Indo China
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Amur to Ulaanbaatar
            1 fighter moved from Kwangsi to French Indo China
            1 fighter moved from Kwangsi to Yunnan
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Kwangsi to Yunnan
            1 bomber moved from Jehol to Suiyuyan
            1 bomber moved from Jehol to Szechwan
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Kwangsi to French Indo China
            1 carrier moved from 35 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 carrier moved from 35 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            2 tactical_bombers moved from 35 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            2 fighters moved from 35 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser moved from 35 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            2 destroyers moved from 35 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 35 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            2 battleships moved from 35 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 carrier moved from 33 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from 33 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 tactical_bomber moved from 33 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser moved from 33 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 33 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            2 fighters moved from 53 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 transport moved from 19 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 6 Sea Zone to 8 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from 8 Sea Zone to Aleutian Islands
            1 artillery moved from Philippines to 35 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 transport moved from 35 Sea Zone to 21 Sea Zone
            1 artillery moved from 21 Sea Zone to Guam
            1 transport moved from 35 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Caroline Islands to 33 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 33 Sea Zone to 47 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from 47 Sea Zone to New Britain

Combat - Japanese

Yep, must be fate telling you to just let it be… unbelievable! Probably you’re going to meet the woman of your dreams within a week.