Sept/Oct 1939: The Germans load up on the Polish front, but leave von Bock and four corps in the west. The Poles put out screening forces and defend Lodz and Warsaw heavily. The outlying toops are all easily crushed. Japan ferries troops to China to the north and south, including a large force into Foochow. They occupy Chengchow but lose control of their forces, which go on a 6 day orgy of violence against the helpless civilian population. American news outlets report everything.
  Impulse 2 sees France and Great Britain finally rise to the challenge of European fascism and declare war on Germany. The Brits bomb Germany, taking a build point. The French call in their colonial troops to defend France and attack Baltic convoys bringing iron ore from Sweden. 3 German CONVs are sunk.
  Impulse 3. The weather turns shockingly bad. The Germans have enough force, however to mount a +12 assault on Lodz, but the tenacious Poles keep control of the city (-/1 result). The Germans, exhausted, are spent for the turn.
  Impulse 5 is Allied, and British troops land in France. Egypt is reinforced. The Soviets build up on the Rumanian border. The Chinese hang on desperately in the north.
  Impulse 7 sees the weather remain unchanged – namely horrible. The Germans sortie their navy. After slipping past CW pickets in the North Sea, the Germans find lots of water in the North Atlantic, but no convoys (to the relief of the British). The Japanese slowly push their units forward in the north, moving up additional units and the Terauchi HQ to support the northern attack. Italy pulls a corps from Ethiopia back to Italy. The convoy line to Sweden is repaired.
  Impulse 9. The Allies try to find and punish the Kriegsmarine for daring to sail out, but they find nothing. Attempts to sink the new convoys in the Baltic also fail.
  The turn ends on a whimper, with Poland still fighting and the Chinese holding on against the Japanese. The US sends resources to China and passes Selective Service.

Nov/Dec 1939: The Allies win initiative despite an Axis reroll. The weather remains bad the entire turn. First impulse and the CW take a naval and defend their convoys. The French continue to slowly pull colonial troops to France. The Soviets loom menacingly at the Rumanian border and the Chinese continue to hope for bad weather.
  Impulse 3 for the Axis and Germany declares war on Denmark, taking Copenhagen without a fight. They also launch an assault on Lodz in the snow but disaster strikes, the dreaded ’14’ (3/1) happens on the +9 attack and the Germans lose their ENG in the effort. Japanese troops push forward a hex into the deserts north of Si-an, but no action occurs.
  Impulse 5 sees general Allied preparation. The British land more troops in Egypt and push units to ports in England. The French mass on their borders. The Chinese play for time.
  Impulse 7. Despite the blowing snow the Germans attack Holland, signaling their evil intentions of world domination. Americans are incensed as the powerful Dutch lobby in Washington D.C. protests. The Dutch are overwhelmed in Amsterdam (Germans roll ’17’ on the attack). In Poland the last corps not in Lodz or Warsaw is destroyed on a high odds blitz.
  Impulse 9 and the British take a naval to pull the Danish and Dutch ships out of harm’s way. Not much else happens.
  Impulse 11. The weather gets even worse and there are blizzards in Europe. The Germans decide to seek convoys.  The British pickets in the Faroes Gap do their job, however, and the Gneisenau is damaged while the Admiral Hipper is aborted. The brave Polish destroyer squadron is destroyed, however, while the Dutch Sumatra is damaged. The remaining German sorties makes it to the high seas and attack the convoys. There is only an escort of 4 British CAs, but they do their job! The CA Blucher is sunk while the Graf Spee and the Deutschland are damaged. The Newcastle is damaged in return and the CONVs are spared. The British had a chance to catch the damaged German ships as they limped home, but the poor weather allowed them to slip by. Nothing else of note occurs.
  The turn ends after the German naval. Partisans appear in the NEI and seize Palembang, depriving the CW of oil. “Ungrateful bastards” is heard from Chamberlain. The US occupies Greenland and Iceland and passes E. Murrow as well. There is one tension chit in each pool and 3 in each entry pool. Notably, the Germans put the Tirpitz on the spiral (face up) in the first turn and immediately repair the two damaged CAs on the second. Should the CW be worried about Axis naval aspirations?

Jan/Feb 1940: The Axis win initiative in the new year, but the weather remains poor and the Axis decide to make the Allies go first. The Soviets demand Bessarabia and the Germans force the Rumanians to comply. In their own impulse the Germans than allow the Hungarian and Bulgarian claims. The Allies manage navies and hold the line.
  Impulse 4 sees the Axis arranging for attacks, but nothing happens in the blizzards. Hungary is activated as a German ally.
  Impulse 7 is more of the same as the weather clears from blizzard to snow. Additional units make it to Egypt and the Soviets start arranging their new border.
  Impulse 10 sees the Axis take advantage of the snow, attacking in northern China. They clear a mountain hex with no losses (-/1). In Poland, a daring +6 assault on Lodz is also successful with a rolled ’15.’ Warsaw is encircled and its days are numbered.
  The turn then ends with a string of Axis successes, including the turn end, as the Chinese line looks weak in the north. The U.S. escorts the East Coast and China is given licenses to produce aircraft. Tension is produced.

Mar/April 1940: The feared double-move occurs with the Axis winning initiative. Fortunately for the Allies, storms settle into Europe and northern China, minimizing the harm in both theatres. The Germans slog slowly to the western front and complete arrangements for the attack on Warsaw. Japan ferries yet more troops to China.
  Impulse 3 is a standard Allied move. CW navalizes to protect convoys, France holds the line, and the Soviets slowly move units around. The Soviets do occupy Eastern Poland, activating the secret provision of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. America is incensed, lowering entry.
  Impulse 5 sees poor weather again. Germany sends out raiders, but the picket fleet finds and stops them. In the ensuing search rolls, however, the German navy hides in the storms. The Italians reinforce Libya and pull corps off the French line toward ports, presumably for transport to Africa. The line in China is unchanged.
  Impulse 8 and the Allies search for the German navy (and fail). An Indian MOT reaches Egypt. Not much else changes except the French micro-managing the line. China hopes for more bad weather>

  Impulse 11… and their hopes are dashed. The Axis get clear weather and strike massive blows. First they declare war on Belgium. Two mid range attacks are both successful, clearing Brussels and Liege. Belgium falls in a single impulse. Worse yet, the turn will end, and so all the remaining Belgian units (FTR and navy) get removed instead fighting for the British. The Germans also assault Warsaw, clearing the city without loss on a +16 attack. Japan attacks Mao in China past the mountain line, forcing it to retreat and breaking the first northern mountain line. In one impulse the Germans erase two turns of frustrated inaction.
  The turn then ends. The US picks no options and no partisans emerge, despite a precarious lack of garrison in China.

May/June 1940: The Allies are desperate for initiative to avoid a second consecutive Axis double move. The odds are in the Allies favor (with a +1 now and winning ties) and they do get initiative. The weather turns sour again, back to rain, but the Allies surge forward to defend a line of hexes in Belgium and to repair the shattered line in northern China. The Chinese flip a unit in the mountains in the north to slow the Japanese and otherwise pull back to the second mountain line in the north. The British reinforce northern Belgium and the French slog forward in the rain to take up positions in western Belgium.
  On the Axis impulse the Japanese ferry yet more troops to China. The Germans push forward, railing and moving units from Poland to the western front. No action occurs.
  On impulse 5 the weather clears. The Allies strategically bomb, taking on BP from Dortmund. Tactical raids manage to flip several German corps on the French front, clogging up the line of attack. The Soviets push into eastern Poland but also start moving troops in Siberia as well.
  On impulse 6 the Germans continue to stream west and rail more units to the front. The Japanese take a +8 assault on the mountain hex in northern China, annihilating the unit (rolled ’16’). Not much action overall as the Germans reposition.
  Impulse 7 and the weather remains clear. More Allied raids net nothing in Europe, but the German armor from Poland is nearly to the west. The Chinese hold the line. The British push up the Western Desert Force to the Libyan border, looking suspiciously hostile.
  Impulse 8. The Germans finally have their forces near the western front, but the disorganized units prevent attacks. The Fuhrer decides to wait for the big push . Italy gets a MECH and a TAC over to Libya. The Japanese find clear weather in the North Monsoon zone and so launch a massive assault on the mountains just east of Changsha. The attack goes awry (2/1) and the Japanese are bloodied.
  Impulse 9. Not much happens as most of China is flipped. The French front is stalled. The British continue to move up to the Libyan border and a MOT is landed in France. The turn ends on a whimper.
  The US gifts destroyers to the CW but there are no partisans.

July/Aug 1940: The Axis win initiative and elect to go first. The weather is clear except for the monsoon zone. The Axis, reorganized and ready for action, launch an orgy of offensives. It starts when Italy declares war on the French and Commonwealth. They take a combined and the fleet moves to dominate the eastern Med. Italian troops groundstrike the WDF, flipping Wavell. The ensuing attack, however, is a mixed result (-/1): the CW loses a DIV but the entire attacking Italian army flips. The Germans drop an O-chit with Rundstedt and hit two hexes in Belgium. A +11 blitz in the Ardennes is a complete success, but the French airforce rises to the occasion to drop the northern attack to a +9 and the Germans falter (2/1) and fail to take the hex. The Japanese assault Si-an at +8 and roll average, resulting in casualties (1/1) but no change of territory.
  Impulse 2: Not to be outdone in carnage and fearing for the Chinese, the USSR declares war on Japan. Two cruisers sneak into the China Sea and ravage the Japanese CONVs, sinking 6 of them. Soviet bombers take 1 BP from Osaka and Soviet troops lurch into the Manchurian mountains. The Americans, however, are outraged and two entry chits are lost. The British try to punish the Italians and they sail a major fleet out into the Med. Unfortunately for the CW, their navy is out of practice with live rounds and they are stunningly surprised (1/10 search split). The CW loses the CAs Devonshire and Glasgow while the Rodney and Canberra are damaged. The Italians suffer only the E. di Savoia and Abruzzi damaged. A second round of combat ensues and the British are now in a straight up fight. Taking an air, the Italians lose a NAV while the CW lose a CVP. The Littorio and the Fiume are damaged in air strikes. Combat then ceases.
  Impulse 3 see the Japanese take a naval to redeploy as many troops to Korea and Manchuria as possible. They were fortunate to have many TRS ready with troops. They try to locate the two pesky Soviet cruisers, but fail. The Germans reorganize their line and push up replacement troops, ready for another round of attacks. The Italians take a naval to go CONV hunting, but fail to locate any.
  Impulse 4. The Brits take an air. A port strike on the Italian TRS in Libya fails (on a 3/10 search roll split). A French sortie finds the Italian CONV in the Italian coast and sinks them. Despite active searching, no combat occurs in the Eastern Med. British bombers strategically bomb Germany, taking 3 BPs from Berlin. Tactical strikes then have success, flipping the last face-up German HQ and also flipping an ARM on the front line. Any subsequent attacks will be weaker as a result. The Soviets take a land and push into Manchuria toward Harbin, with the northernmost res falling to the Mongolian CAV.
  Impulse 5: The Germans, undeterred, attack the forested hex in France and on a +12 blitz eliminate the hex and push forward. The Japanese search for the Soviet cruisers and find them, damaging the Maxim Gorky and aborting the other. Japanese troops flood east and take up positions along the ‘Mukden’ line. The Italians hold on fiercely in the eastern Med. Sub attacks find only CW defenders, and the subs are aborted back to port with one damaged.
  Impulse 6: The carriers of the British navy start by launching a second port strike against the TRS in Tobruk. This time fate favors the Allies, and a 1/9 split on the search roll enables the Brits to sink both TRS. The CW then seeks out the Italian navy and two bloody, painful rounds of combat follow. The CW lose the Effingham with the Resolution damaged. The Italians take the worse end, with the Vittorio Veneto and the Garibaldi sinking while the Duc d’Aosta and the Conti d’Cavour are damaged. In the second round the Trento and the Trieste are damaged. But the Italians hold and keep supply. The French try desperately to reorganize their line to hold back the Germans, whose massive ARM superiority is beginning to show. The Germans have slowly ground down the French, killing both anti-tank units and two ART. The Chinese hold their line, watching Japanese corps peel off for duty against the Soviets.
  Impulse 7: The Germans attack again, this time French ground support lowers the odds, and a +5 blitz does not fare so well (1/1 result). The entire leading edge of the German army is now flipped. The Italians dodge the now massively reduced British navy. The Japanese continue to slowly reinforce the Mukden line.
  Impulse 8 sees the Allies try to counterattack and improve their positions. The Soviets take a +12 assault and eliminate the MIL in Harbin. The Chinese try to help by taking a +9 assault in the north (against a face-down stack) and kill an ART on a (1/1) result. The French try to get their line back by attacking the German salient in the forest on a +9 attack. The French hoped for a blitz, but the Germans (having equal ARM as defenders) decided to make the attack an assault at the last minute. The result was (1/1) and the Germans held the vital hex. The turn then ended.
  At turn’s end a CW picket fleet intercepted the Kriegsmarine returning to port and damaged the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau, and the Admiral Hipper. The US did not pick any options, but China was finally rolled on the partisan chart. 2 of the nasty partisans appeared.

Sept/October 1940: The last French attack left a hex weak next to the German armor, so the Allies were desperate to get initiative. They failed despite demanding a reroll, but the weather accomplished what good planning could not. The turns starts out with early storms. The Germans revise their line and get their vaunted PARA into position with the ATR (the PARA has been dropped 3 times at this point and all of those attacks were complete successes). The Japanese ferry more reinforcements to Manchuria and rationalize their line in China.
  Impulse 3 (Allied): The CW take a naval to cover convoys and bring small reinforcements to Europe. France fixes its line but sits defensively. British groundstrikes do flip another ARM on the front line, but the German line looks increasingly impressive. The Soviets try to hunt Japanese convoys but fail to find anything.
  Impulse 5: The weather does not improve (same roll) and the Fuhrer decides he cannot wait. In the rain (!) the Germans drop an O-Chit and hit the strongest hex in the French line (with an ARM, MECH, and DIV). But this time the PARA is dropped. Its ferrying ATR is cleared despite a +4 A-to-A roll and drops, sealing the fate (those PARA just don’t fail…) of the French. A rolled ’15’ on what ends up as a +12 blitz smashes the hex and removes most of the anti-armor capability the French have left. The Italian land units fall back from Egypt in an orderly retreat to Benghazi. The Japanese reinforce China to counter the PART threat in central China.
  Impulse 7: The Allies try to find the Italians, but fail. The Soviets try to find Japanese CONVs again, and fail. The French and British do manage to flip a German unit on the line in France. Not much is happening in the poor weather.
  Impulse 9: Unbelievably, the weather gets worse. The Germans, seeing a weakened French line, cry out in anguish at the weather-spirits. …

Nov/Dec 1940: The Axis win initiative and another back-to-back impulse, but the weather continues to be poor. The Germans, seeking to take advantage of the additional hex earned last turn, decide to launch a risky attack into France despite the bad weather. The undefeated Fliegerkorps assist the panzers, but their streak ends as the attack is lowered by French air support and HQ support to a +1 blitz. The PARA and a MECH die. The Japanese continue to ferry units to Manchuria and China, surrounding a Chinese MTN and PART behind their lines.
  The Allies do little. The CW takes a naval and sets up convoy defense. The French adjust their lines. The Chinese hunker down in the weather. The Soviets send out their subs again to hunt Japanese CONV, but find nothing.
  Impulse 5 sees the Axis complaining about the weather, which got worse (again). The Italians cared not and attacked the Fr. Som. TER, killing it in a 4-1 attack on a rolled ’18.’ Italians vow that the victory signals the start of a new phase of the war. The Germans take a naval to try and raid CONV in the storms, but the brave picket fleet in the North Sea finds and stops the raiders. In a subsequent battle, the Schliesen and the Schleswig-Holstein are both sunk, but the rest of the German navy escape unharmed back to port. The Italians send out CONV to get the Sardinian point and firm up supply to Africa.
  Impulse 8 and the Brits go after the CONV, finding nothing. The French hold the line, the Chinese do the same. The Soviets complete a line in Manchuria that runs from Mongolia to Korea, but no one dares attack with the lines ensconced in mountains. Strategic bombing takes points from Dortmund, Essen, and Tokyo.
  Impulse 11 sees the Italians going after the Brits in the Med. The CW sink all 3 CONV but the Italian air force shoots down one of the best CW CVP. Germans start redeploying some units to Hungary and Poland. The Italians start massing on the Yugoslavian border.
  Impulse 13: CW and France try to further punish the Italian navy, but fail. The Soviets try to raid more Japanese convoys, but also fail. The turn does not end despite the high ending roll (‘7,’ but ‘8’ rolled).
  Impulse 14 and the Axis mostly reposition units with the front in France bogged down in bad weather and disorganized units. The Italians continue to fall back in Libya, where it is now clear the Brits won’t be able to catch them before making the ‘neck’ of Libya as a defensive position. The turn then ends.
  No partisans appear and the US selects no entry actions.

Jan/Feb 1941: The Axis again win initiative and the double-move, but again the advantage is slight with continued bad weather. The Germans take a land but make no attacks. The Italians try a naval and again put CONV out in the Med. The Japanese ferry yet more troops to China.
  Impulse 4: The CW strategically bomb in the poor weather, and it comes back to haunt them as the Luftwaffe shoots down the best British TAC. Nonetheless, the Soviets fare better, taking 1 point from Sapporo and 2 points from Tokyo. British fleets in the Med do find and sink the Glorizia.
  Impulse 7 and the weather is stormy. The Germans glower at the French over the guns of their tanks, waiting for the mud to dry and the clouds to lift. The Japanese set up to attack the PART in China, but hold off awaiting better weather.
  Impulse 9: The Allies do little, aside from minor attempts to adjust forces. The British push forward a bit into Cyrennica. The Chinese slowly move a unit or two flipping into forward positions and strengthening their line. The Soviets finish forming a line south of the Pripets, apparently believing that the Germans might be perfidious. The turn ends.
  No partisans again this turn and again no US entry actions.

Mar/April 1941: The Allies win initiative and elect to go first in case the weather clears. It partially clears (rolled ‘7’ for rain in the temperate). France pushes a new ARM and a new AT div into position for the inevitable onslaught. The Soviets hunt Japanese CONV and again fail to find any. Stillwell arrived in China and reinforces Chang-Sha.
  Impulse 3: The Germans are tired of the rain. They assault Metz. After air combat and weather effects, the attack is a +3 and the Germans take one casualty to no effect on the defenders. The Japanese are ready to attack in China after putting the final touches on their line, which is pretty thick and solid from Canton all the way to Peking and over along the Korean border.
  Impulse 5 and disaster strikes: the weather clears. The Brits and Soviets strategically bomb, taking 1 point from Sapporo and one from Brussels. British tactical bombing does manage to flip one DIV on the front lines in France, but it is not much. The CW, seeking a distraction for the Germans, invades central Denmark successfully.  
  Impulse 7: The Axis strike back. The Japanese use the clear weather to annihilate the MTN/PART stack in central China (+13 assault on a rolled ’19’). The Germans make two attacks into France, one blitz into central France and an assault on Metz (again). After air clears and HQ support, both attacks resolve down to +4s. But the Germans roll an ’18’ on the blitz and bash the hex without loss. The Metz attack fares worse, with the Germans losing 2 minor units. Nonetheless, the solid French line has now cracked.
  Impulse 9 and the weather dips back into rain in the Temperate zone. The British reinforce Denmark and advance in Libya securing a new front where the Italians are defending the ‘neck’ of Libya. The Chinese mourn the loss of the MTN, but do so without launching any counterattacks. The French struggle to man the new extended line. A brief thought is given to a counter-attack, but too many French units are face-down.
  Impulse 11: Trying to capitalize on the success, the German greedily attack again in France with a +9 blitz in the mud. The attack succeeds, but at a cost. The (1/R) result gains the hex but costs the Germans a MECH. The Japanese redeploy the units used to kill the PART in China and the Italians continue to pile up on the Yugoslavian border. Despite a 50% chance, the turn continues.
  Impulse 13: The weather clears again, and the Allies are desperate to not give the Germans another crack at things. Everyone passes except Britain, who uses the clear weather to bomb again. All the bombings fail, however. And then the turn continues (need an ‘8’ to end, rolled a ‘9’).
  Impulse 15: The Germans curse their good luck, as the previous attacks in the mud were successful, but flipped the front line. The Germans judge that there are no reasonable attacks to be made, so they reinforce the line instead and wait to reflip the army and airforce. Italy takes a combined to put CONV back out. The Japanese position TRS with MAR and seem to be preparing for some kind of amphibious operations. The turn ends.
  For a 3rd consecutive turn there are no partisans anywhere. The U.S., however, finally rouses from its slumber and gears up. They reveal entry levels of 24 and 27 and tension level at 12. The green giant stirs…

May/June 1941:  The Allies squeak out an initiative win and it matters. The weather starts and stays clear all turn. The Soviets start off matters by sinking two Japanese CONV off the coast of Japan. Soviet bombers also take 3 BPs from the Japanese. The British take a naval and post a fleet in the Italian Coast while protecting CONVs and setting a picket fleet in the North Sea. The French reorganize the line and throw two new anti-tank units into the vulnerable front, significantly improving the line. China builds up and holds the line. Commonweatlh and French bombing manage to flip several units, including the best German HQ von Bock. This success turns out to be critical.
  Impulse 2 and the Germans throw their all into the Western front. They attack the clear hex just west of Metz and a huge battle ensues, resulting in the death of a German FTR and the loss of the best French FTR as well. French TAC clears and the attack is reduced to a +7 blitz. The Germans perform well, however, and take the hex on a -/R result without loss. But the Germans have to use both of the other 2 HQs to reflip the army and part of the airforce.
  Impulse 3. The Brits take an air and bomb Germany, but only net 1BP from Dortmund. Once again they bomb the German front line and flip one unit, but it is in the central hex of the line. The French shuffle their line to account for the German gains. The Soviets again hunt for convoys in the Pacific but find nothing.
  Impulse 4: The Germans shift to exploit the opening in the south and take a +12 blitz that destroys two French INF. The line looks like a dagger being inserted into France just behind the Maginot line. Japan activates Siam and the US public hardly notices.
  Impulse 5: The CW port strike the Italian sub fleet in a minor port and finally success! (This was the 3rd port strike over 2 turns.) Both subs there are sunk with excellent Allied surprise rolls. The French hold the line and resist the temptation to take risky counterattacks. The Soviets take a land and the entire front in Poland lurches forward, rapidly raising the Soviet garrison totals.
  Impulse 6: The Japanese continue to shift forces, but now DIVs and MARs are moving to ports where they are finding TRS and SCSs waiting for them. Could this be a sign of Imperial perfidy? The Germans decide to cast caution to the wind and launch two risky blitz attacks. Both wind up being +4 blitzes, one in the north and one in the southern part of the line in France. The German rolls average both time (’10’) and gets a 1/1 results both times. No hexes are taken, but the French are starting to thin.
  Impulse 7: Confident that most of the German army is flipped (see the von Bock disorganization above) the French take a combined and move the TRS to Africa to await the formation of the expected Moroccan corps (killed previously and rebuilt). The Brits try more bombing but fail and move additional corps to Denmark, including an ARM. The Chinese sit and await an opportunity. The Soviets surge into Eastern Poland.
  Impulse 8: The Japanese take a naval and most of the fleet sails to reorganize in various ports. The Italians keep their fleet at home and push units to the Yugoslavian border. The Italian MAR walks over to Corsica. The Germans adjust the line in Poland and send troops to Hungary.
  Impulse 9: The CW move but the rest of the Allies pass. The turn ends.
  No partisans are rolled and the US relocates the fleet to Pearl Harbor.

July/August 1941: The Axis win initiative and the turn stays clear. The Germans start with a +9 blitz on the southern part of the front that nets a hex at the cost of a loss (1/R). The units are reorganized. The Italians move aircraft around and garrison Italian coastal cities and ports. The Japanese continue moving units around, mostly DIV and some MAR, including two MAR into Siam.
  Impulse 2: The British take a naval and split their fleet in the Med. One stack in the Italian Coast and a second in the Eastern Med, including AMPHs. The Italian CONV in the Italian coast is found and sunk, as is the San Giorgio in the Eastern Med, leaving the Italians in Africa out of supply. The French adjust their lines again, holding on against the German onslaught. The Soviets go CONV hunting yet again, but fail to find anything. Seoul takes 1BP loss to strategic bombing. The war with the USSR is starting to really cost the Japanese long term builds.
  Impulse 3: The Japanese militarize the Marshalls, but there is not entry effect. The Germans hit a weak hex in France behind the Maginot line, obliterating two French INF on what becomes a +19 blitz. The Germans look angry and menacing. The Italians send their main battle fleet into the Italian coast to do battle but no one finds anything.
  Impulse 4: The French run a TRS into Marseilles with the MOR INF and the rest of the fleet sorties to find the Italians. Some question the wisdom of the action given the German advance, but the French admirals will not be dissuaded. Of course, none of the search rolls work and there is no combat anywhere. The Brits, however, assault Copenhagen at +10 (2/1 debacle, but the city is liberated) and invade Sicily (succeeds without loss, despite a defending German NAV being cleared on a +5 air attack!). 2 BPs are taken from Berlin. The Soviets continue to press into Poland.
  Impulse 5: The Germans renew the attack, blitzing a French HQ on a +10 attack and succeeding. They convert the result to a ‘R’ to try and trap the units on the Swiss frontier. Italy and Japan shuffle units, but no major action occurs.
  Impulse 6: The Brits land more troops into Sicily off of waiting TRS. The Soviets continue to advance, now basically on the German border in the south and advancing in the north. The Chinese sit, the French hope for the best.
  Impulse 7: The Germans try a frontal blitz assault on the strongest French hex east of Paris. The attack fails to clear the territory (1/1) and the Germans prepare to attack again. Unfortunately for the Wehrmacht, the turn surprisingly ends at its earliest opportunity. The CW are actually saddened, as they had not completed securing Sicily. But the beachhead is secure.
  A partisan arises in South Africa of all places, just as the Brits had moved a S. African corps out. The US adopts the Truman Committee and now can build any units without concern for pacifistic limits.

Sept/Oct 1941: The Axis out roll the Allies (9 to 8) and move first. The weather starts out muddy in Europe. The real news, however, is the Japanese, who declare war on the CW and NEI! They take a land/naval. In the naval portion they find and sink 2 CW CONV, but miss a few other opportunities. Units invade Rabaul, Hong Kong, Batavia, the oil hexes in the NEI, and the Siamese push into Malaya. Everything comes off without a hitch. The Germans, despite the weather, have extended the French line enough that attacks are present for the taking. A +14 attack is successful and destroys two more French INF. The Italians sail out the navy with a TRS and collect a MOT while posting in the eastern Med.
  Impulse 3 is Allied. The USSR remembers finally that it never occupied the Baltics (oops!) and rectifies the error. The Americans urge the Soviets to counter Axis aggression and cheer the move. The Brits take a naval and hunt the Italians, but cannot find them. Additional units come to the Med to reinforce Sicily and take northern Sardinia (a CW unit walked from Corsica). The Chinese sit. The French scramble to repair the hole in their line, but the rainy weather slows them down. The hexes east of Paris are strong, but the southern wing is weak and the Germans are attacking there.
  Impulse 5: The weather clears. The Germans launch a risky one hex attack (with PARA!) across the Seine south of Paris. The result is pure success (rolled ’19’ on a +13 blitz) and the ARM blitzes an additional hex. The Germans hold two hexes on Paris (although both across the river to the south). The Italians abort their navy and the MOT home. The Japanese take a land and advance into Malaya while repositioning in China and Manchuria. Not much in the way of combat with the Soviets since the opening turn of the war.
  Impulse 6: The French decide on a desperate gamble and attack the hex just lost, hoping to cut off the exploiting ARM. German TAC clear, but the +8 attack is a brilliant success (rolled ’19’ like the Germans before), killing a valuable PARA and ENG. The Brits complete taking all of Sicily (an Italian MTN blocks the toe of Italy now) and units move in Denmark and India. The US continues to move ships to Pearl Harbor.
  Impulse 7: The weather stays clear in the temperate and the Germans press forward. A +10 blitz succeeds and clears another hex on the road to Paris (with a rolled ’20’). Italy shifts forces off of the Yugoslavian border to cover hexes in mainland Italy. The Japanese prepare for further offensive actions and push down the Malay peninsula.
  Impulse 9: The Allies take advantage of the weather as well. Monty kills an out of supply TER in Tunisia. An Indian corps lands in S. Africa and kills the pesky PART there. The French try a counterattack to kill the HQ Guderian on a +5 blitz, but the attack goes badly (1/R) but at least a bad TAC is overrun. The Chinese and Soviets hold the line in the East. The turn then ends.
  The US starts lend-lease to generate tension. No other options are selected.

Nov/Dec 1941: The Axis win initiative and the weather stays completely clear worldwide. The Germans launch an attack on the strongest defenders west of Paris, but the attack goes awry (1/1 result on +9 blitz). The Japanese take a combined and sail out two large carrier fleets to the north and south of Hawaii. The Italians continue to shift and defend the entire coastline of Italy.
  Impulse 2: The CW defend convoys and move troops. The French struggle to hold its expanding line. The Chinese hold and the Soviets continue to move forward in to Poland. Bombers take 1 BP from Seoul.
  Impulse 3: The weather stay clear. The Germans blitz another hex in France (+12 blitz, complete success). The Italians hold and the Japanese take a naval! Units on AMPH and TRS appear off the shore of the Philippines. Will war come?
  Impulse 4: The CW take an air and find success. A port strike in the Med finds and sinks the last Italian TRS in port. Bombers blanket the sky, taking 3 BPs from Berlin, 2 from Essen, and 1 BP from Dortmund. Some groundstrikes in France are attempted, but all fail, with the loss of a CW TAC. The French yet again tweak the line to reinforce it as best they can. The US continues to send naval reinforcements to Pearl, but dark clouds gather.
  Impulse 5: The weather worsens slightly, but remains clear in the North Monsoon zone. Japan declares war on the United States! Japan takes an air to launch an enormous port strike on the American navy. Quality construction, however, helps mitigate the disaster, as the US survives more than half of their defense rolls. Nonetheless (6/2/2) is a lot of damage. The CV Hornet is sunk along with the BBs New Mexico and Nevada. The CV Saratoga and the West Virginia are damaged. Overall, the Americans are fortunate. The Germans Continue to desperately push forward, now having several hexes on Paris. Two attacks are made. A risky +3 blitz clears another hex on Paris on a rolled ’19’ but a +7 assault on Metz fails (1/-).
  Impulse 7: The Americans organize for war, but launch no counterattacks. The Brits push in Sardinia, taking Cagliari and killing a TER there. Sicily is fully secured. The British in Belgium continue to hold Antwerp and points west. The French struggle on. Paris is held by a 7-1 GAR, a 7-3 INF and a 2-1 DIV – it cannot get stronger. The Germans, however, hold 4 hexes around the city (although 2 are across a river). Only the weather holds off the Germans.
  Impulse 9: And the weather favors the Allies, turning into snow. The Germans probe but no attacks are made on the French capital. The Japanese invade the Philippines and push next to an undefended Singapore. The Italians fiercely fortify. The turn then surprisingly ends, bringing an end to 1941.
  The US gears up (plus other Japanese options). Calculations are made and it is not possible for the Germans to prevent the Soviets from breaking the Nazi-Soviet pact, so the Germans spent most of the turn preparing defensive positions in Poland.

Jan/Feb 1942: The Allies win initiative but the weather starts out poor, with blizzards and snow across Europe. The Americans, incensed by Axis perfidy, pass a resolution in Congress and declare war on Germany and Italy. The Soviet Union, seeing the American actions, also declare war on Germany and Italy, but include Rumania as well. The world is surely in flames!
  But not much actually happens in the turn. The Brits and Americans organize their navies. A major CW fleet parks in the Italian coast and American troops prepare to land… but where? Pickets keep supply to Hawaii. The French huddle and hope the American reach Paris before the Germans do. The Soviets lurch into Poland and Rumania but cannot even reach the lines of the Germans and Rumanians in the bad weather.
  Impulse 4: The Axis in the poor weather do not do much either. The Germans solidify a line in Poland that runs from Konigsberg in the north, through Warsaw, into the Carpathians all the way down to Bucharest. The Japanese take a combined and shuttle units to the Philippines and to China to deal with a growing partisan problem. Italy seems intent on defending every single coastal hex in the boot.
  Impulse 7 sees the weather get worse. The UK and USA shuffle troops to fronts (slowly) and the Soviets crawl forward, not even able to make contact with the German line because of the movements costs.
  Impulse 10. The Italians take a naval and establish supply via CONV to Libya. Unsurprisingly, two attempts to locate the Italians fail. Japan also takes a naval with the turn end nearing and shifts troops out of the NEI having taken Batavia and garrisoned the oil. The turn then ends. More partisans show up in China (6 total now).

Mar/April 1942: The Axis win initiative and the Allies contemplate a reroll, but the chances of good weather are slim, so they let it go. They are immediately punished for it when the weather clears spectacularly. The Germans take a land. The Eastern Front is reorganized (but still looks thin) but the big news is that the Germans go all out on an assault on Paris. Double PARA drop with 4 hexes. After massive air combat where the Germans shoot down five A/C (the entire French airforce), the +12 assault succeeds without loss, just as the Americans are about to land in western France. Italy takes a naval and recalls the CONV to try and protect them. Japan takes a land and pushes forward in the Philippines, allowing room in the ports for reinforcements. The main fleet does not move.
  Impulse 2: The Western Allies scramble, but have to take navals to move troops around. An invasion fleet sets up in the Med and troops appear to be moving to Belgium to reinforce the British salient. American forces are positioned off the coast near Brest. The French do counterattack to regain a hex on Paris, getting a B result and bashing two German units. So it falls to the Chinese and Soviets to get anything done. The Chinese launch two attacks, a +4 on Canton and a +6 on Chenchow, both of which fail with rolls of ‘6’ and ‘4’ respectively on the attacks. The Soviets launch two attacks: A +10 blitz into the Ploesti oil hex (they take the hex on a B* result) and a +11 blitz south of Warsaw to cross the river (pyrrhic victory of 1/B, so they take the hex but lose the ENG). Thus far the Soviets have not claimed a single German kill, in the air or on the land, but they are pushing forward and Rumania looks to be in trouble. Strategic bombing happens, taking 2 points from the Germans and one from the Japanese.
  Impulse 3: The weather hates the French, who need clear weather for a chance to retake the capital. Instead, a ‘1’ is rolled with the worst possible weather. The Axis consolidate in France and Poland. Basically nothing happens except the Japanese find a picket cruiser and sink it (CA Northampton).
  Impulse 5: In the bad weather the Allies only manage to kill an Italian TER in Sardinia, liberating Cagliari. A few US forces come ashore in western France. A Canadian INF reinforces Antwerp. The Soviets curse the weather as well and all they can do is limp forward. A full line of contact is made with the Germans in Poland, who retreat one hex and cede Konigsberg to the Red Army. The line is now looking much stronger in Poland, but it is weak in the Carpathians. The Chinese army is flipped so nothing happens there and the US fleet waits for an opportunity.
  Impulse 8: The weather gets a little better – just enough for the Japanese to see a window and attack Manila. They take it without loss on a +14 assault, causing MacArthur to swear that he will return somewhere at some point in the future. The Germans and Italians wait for the French to capitulate.
  Impulse 11: The moderately better weather also allows the Allies to resume some operations. The British under Monty attack Tripoli from the rear after landings the previous turn in Tunisia. The +12 attack goes off without a hitch and Tripoli falls. The French, realizing the turn is nearing its end, try to position for a serious attack on Paris. The weather is just brutal, however. They try two attacks that both wind up (after German air support) to be +0 assaults. Each one fails (2/1 and 1/1) although at least a German INF and DIV are killed. The Soviets try an important winter attack north of Warsaw – a +6 blitz that fails (1/-), killing a white print Soviet INF. Mexico is activated as an American ally.
  The turn then ends as feared. France is doomed. No partisans occur and as expected, the Germans install a Vichy government despite the presence of American forces on French soil. What are they thinking? Madagascar, the Asian map territories, Equatorial Africa, the Marquesas and the Pacific territories go free, the rest go Vichy. The Free French government sets up in Gabon. Japan conquers the Philippines.

May/June 1942: The Allies win initiative. Weather starts clear except in the North Monsoon. The Allies all declare war on Vichy to take some territories later in the turn (really just Syria for the oil for Britain). Again the US and CW take a naval and the Soviets and Chinese do the fighting. China launches a +5 assault on Chengchow (again) and it fails (again) the same result (’10’ after a rolled ‘5’). The Soviets attack the same hex north of Warsaw, again at +6 on the blitz and fail yet again (1/-), losing a MOT DIV. However, a +14 assault on some Hungarians in the Carpathians succeeds, breaking the line and a huge +15 PARA assault on Bucharest succeeds, taking the capital. At the same time, an advanced INF sweeps into the unguarded Sofia. Bulgaria and Rumania should be removed from the war at turn’s end. China also takes Hanoi (flips in because of muddy weather). British strategic bombing takes 3 BPs from the Germans.
  Impulse 2: Japan occupies Vichy to be able to land for free and claim the rest of the nation from the Vichy. The Germans are intent on crushing the British pocket in Belgium and the America pocket (if you can call it that, not much there…) in western France. A +7 blitz (after Allied air support) retreats the advance American force (an ARM and ART DIV). A +7 assault on Lille is successful, taking the hex without loss. German HQs reflip all of the units disorganized (on the 1/2 flip result). The British enclave looks hopelessly doomed and the US area looks only slightly better, although there are 5 corps waiting to land in the Bay of Biscay.
  Impulse 3: The Allies do their best. US/CW forces land in France, clearing an area around Brest. The British invade Albania, taking Tirana without loss despite a scary moment when they clear Italian defending bombers despite a massive air advantage (but the rolled ’16’ saves the +11 invasion). The Soviets push reinforcements forward slowly because it is raining in the arctic and attack Rommel in the mountains. Another typical Soviet result (2/1), but they are satisfied with trading 2:1 in killing Germans. The Soviets forces push forward from Bucharest around the remaining out of supply Rumanians and Bulgarians, ‘racing’ towards Hungary through the mountains.
  Impulse 4:  The Germans work on reducing the pocket in Belgium. A +14 blitz kills all the defenders south of Antwerp to the loss of MOT DIV. The Eastern front is pulled back slightly in anticipation of the loss of Rumania and Bulgaria from the war. The Germans hold strong around Warsaw. Japan redistributes units, garrisoning NEI oil and Truk and Kwajalein.
  Impulse 5: The weather turns sour, leaving Europe in mud. The CW take an air in order to reorganize their airforce. The Americans do a combined, mostly consolidating their holding in western France. No attacks or movement occur.
  Impulse 7: The Japanese take a naval to punish a small US fleet and find success. The BB California is sunk with the Idaho and Arizona damaged. The Germans hold the line while the Italians start garrisoning the border with Yugoslavia, including the Austrian border to help the Germans. No offensive action is taken.
  Impulse 9: The Americans get revenge for their losses. With the main part of the Japanese fleet committed north of Hawaii, the US fleet sails into the China sea. Fortunate in naval rolls, the US fleet finds the Japanese defenders 3 times. A Japanese AMPH and TRS are sunk, and the BBs Mutsu, Fuso, Nagato, Yamashiro, and Hyuga are all damaged (with an amazing run of good defense rolls). Several CONV are also sunk. The rest of the Allies push into an orgy offense. A +4 assault on Canton fails, although causes casualties (2/2). A +2 attack on Foochow does nothing (-/-). A +6 Soviet blitz in northern Poland finally finds some success (1/B) and Soviet units rolls into Lodz on the exploitation. A +12 assault takes a mountain hex in Hungary.
  Impulse 10: The Germans seek to seal the breach and launch a +8 assault to reclaim Lodz. The attempt succeeds with excellent German performance (rolled ’17’), killing two of the best Soviet corps on the front and sealing the front again. The Axis move from the brink of the front collapsing to back to a firm line. The Japanese sneak CONV back into the South China Sea and the Americans find nothing. The CONV line is re-established. The turn then ends.
  No partisans appear.

Jul/Aug 1942: The Allies win initiative and so first. The CW and US take a naval and move troops and planes to Europe. The Pacific stays quiet in the face of the superior Japanese navy. The Soviets take advantage of a single German corps left alone and kill it on a +17 blitz, advancing a hex in Poland. The Chinese hang out in the poor North Monsoon weather.
  Impulse 2: The Germans seek to destroy the Belgian pocket, but heavy Allied shore bombardment and airpower drop the attack to a +8 assault. The attack fails (2/1) and the Germans lose a PARA in the attack on Antwerp. The Japanese take a naval, but mostly shuttle troops around and build up on Singapore, which is being defended by two Indian corps. They do manage to find Commonwealth pickets in the Indian Ocean, having the Takao damaged but sinking the Belfast. Italy lines up on the Austrian side of the Yugoslavian border, anticipating the entrance of Yugoslavia into the war since the CW as of last impulse managed to get 4 corps into Albania.
  Impulse 3: As predicted, the Yugoslavians join the Allied effort, extending the front in the east. The Soviets kill a single Hungarian unit on an automatic attack and push reinforcements forward in the north to replace losses. Most of the Soviet army in the south slowly pushes through the Carpathians into Hungary to close to the new front line. The British push into Yugoslavia to help their new allies and try a breakout from Denmark. A +9 blitz is wildly successful and they blitz into Kiel, forcing the German navy to rebase to Stettin. 2 CONV are sunk in the relocation to the loss of the CA Cumberland sunk and the Birmingham damaged.
  Impulse 4: All the Axis take land impulses. The Germans reinforce the eastern line and tweak the fronts in the west. The Americans are being held by strong armor forces three hexes away from Brest but a lot of troops in Belgium are flipped from the failed assault on Antwerp. Many forces move east and the Germans fall back west of Budapest, effectively ceding the Hungarian war effort.
  Impulse 5:  The CW takes an air and the bombs fall across the  Reich. One oil and 4 BPs are taken in various raids. The Japanese lose one BP from Shanghai. The US takes a combined but really not much happens except to land the last troops and planes from the boats off of France. The American area has two HQs and 5 additional corps plus aircraft. The Soviets struggle to push up to the German line in the south and rebase aircraft to the front. The Chinese are mostly flipped, nothing happens.
  Impulse 6: The Japanese take a naval and hunt the American CA Astoria providing supply to Singapore. Their patience is rewarded as the ship is not only found, but surprised and horrifically annihilated (to no Japanese losses). The Germans continue to modify and strengthen their lines as troops filter into a new defense line in central Hungary running north through Poland. The Germans still hold Warsaw. The Axis are successful with ground strikes, however, flipping Zhukov in Hungary and some key corps on the front nearby.
  Impulse 7: The Allies take the initiative with several operations. The Soviet push is a disaster. A huge attack to punch a hole in Hungary goes awry from the start. German TAC clear dropping the attack to a still good +11 blitz. Two Soviet PARA drop as well. Then the blundering commanders botch the attack (on a rolled ‘2’ on 2 10-sided dice!). Both PARA die and the Soviet army disorganizes. Another attack in the mountains fails when reduced to a +4 assault. The western Allies fare better. A joint US/CW PARA operation secures Boulogne, threatening to cut off the forces west of Paris. 
  Impulse 8: The Germans pull ARM off of the American front to eliminate the PARA, but stiff Allied air support causes problems. The attack fails (-/-) flipping the ARM and leaving the American front weak. The eastern front now looks stronger and the Italians complete a defensive line in the mountains north of Yugoslavia. That front looks to be a slog of epic proportions. The Japanese abort vulnerable TRS with units to various ports.
  Impulse 9: The CW eliminate a DIV pocketed north of Kiel. The Soviets try a risky +1 blitz in Poland which again goes awry (2/-) and weakens the front further. A +7 assault on Guderian in Hungary also goes wrong (2/1) and the German HQ survives. Generals are being shot as this is being typed. A crucial attack in US sector in France succeeds, however, as a +10 blitz managed to bash a German stack, opening up the way to Paris and threatening to pocket several German corps near Nantes. The Allies are on the bring a major breakout in France.
  Impulse 10: After some debate, the Axis decide to all pass to try and end the turn (which ends on a ‘4’). The decision is fateful as a ‘6’ is rolled (-2 to the roll because all passed) and the turn ends. The western allies cry out at the lost opportunities. A French partisan appears in Metz.

Sept/Oct 1942: With the Axis seemingly always ending the turns, the Allies have kept the +2 initiative advantage and they win initiative again. The weather start clear world-wide and the Allies immediately go on the offensive. The Soviets line up attacks. A +5 blitz in Hungary takes a forest hex (-/1 result), a +18 blitz kills a solitary Guderian on the Hungarian plains, and a +4 assault takes a mountain hex in Poland (-/1). The Americans take a land while the Brits take a naval and set pickets, defenses, and move TRS. AMPHs set up in both the North Sea and off the Italian coast. The Americans kill a pocketed and flipped German ARM in France (on a +15 blitz) and otherwise move up towards Paris. The Chinese take a +7 attack (the best yet) on Chengchow, but cannot seem to roll higher than a ‘6’ and flip the army on a (-/-) result.
  Impulse 2 sees the Germans moving to seal the breaches in the line both east and west. A +17 assault kills a PART in Metz and the Germans also seek to corral the landing in NE France. They assault Lille (defended by two PARA). Massive Allied airpower comes to their defense and lowers the final attack to a +5 assault. The result is pyrrhic victory (2/2) but the Germans recapture the city and eliminate the paratroopers. The Allies mourn the loss of those brave men. Japan takes naval and puts Singapore firmly out of supply while moving troops towards the Malay peninsula. Italy prepares for invasion while simultaneously defending the Yugoslavian line through Austria.
  Impulse 3 and the weather remains clear. This time the US take a naval and the CW goes on the offensive. US naval units set up positions in the North Sea and 4 new fleet class CVs head to Pearl. Three quality FTRs arrive in Hawaii as well. The Soviets lead again, taking a +16 blitz in Hungary to kill an INF, but groundstrikes in the north fail to flip anything and no actions are taken there. The CW invade Italy north of Rome and successfully get ashore (+13 invasion). Elements of Group Gort around Kiel attack Lubeck, but only manage a retreat result (-/R), taking the hex but not killing any defenders. Gort reorganizes the half of the units flipped. The Yugoslavians under joint command with Montgomery assault the Austrian alps and succeed on a +9 attack, pushing northwards, killing a 2-3 MTN DIV. China sits and contemplates its repeated failures.
  Impulse 4. The Axis, keen to regain a better line, launch what becomes a +5 blitz into Hungary. The attack fares poorly (2/1 result) and several quality German corps are flipped. The line otherwise holds, however, as creative German defense frustrates Allied and Soviet advances. The Germans manage to build a surprisingly quality defense line along the Seine despite Allied pockets in Antwerp and Boulogne. Japan takes a land and ground strikes Singapore, but to no effect. Units in China shift and corps land in and around Singapore. Clearly an assault is in the offing.
  Impulse 5. The weather stays clear and the Allies put on a major effort, all taking land options. The CW and US try to clear a path south of Paris, but the +9 blitz only retreats the defenders to a better defensive position (-/R). A +15 blitz on Rostock is successful, however, and the CW get a minor breakthrough, threatening both Stettin with the navy docked there and Berlin. The CW in Italy attack an Italian corps in Civitavecchia, killing it but flipping in the process (-/1 result) on a +12 assault. Joint CW-Yugoslavians attack deeper into the mountains, getting a surprising victory on a +6 assault against Italian defenders. The Soviets follow suit, clearing a forest hex in Austria on a +7 blitz and bashing a GAR defender in the Czechlands on a +9 blitz. A desperate attack in northern Poland (reduced to a +0 after air support and Manstein’s support) causes casualties (1/1) but the line holds. The Allies are stretching the Axis lines, but they have yet to break. Both German oil fields are bombed, but shockingly the bombers hit nothing. 2 BPs are taken from Essen and a factory is destroyed.
  Impulse 6: The Germans and Italians spend the turn patching breeches in the lines. A MECH leaves the eastern front to deal with the CW breakthrough near Rostock, defending Stettin and corralling the lead British ARM. Shuffling occurs in the eastern line and the Germans are forced to retreat a hex, leaving Bratislava open to the Red Army. Nonetheless, the resilient German armies continue to maintain a coherent line from Italy to the Baltic. The same is true for France, where the Germans manage to improve the Seine Line. No attacks are made. The Japanese take a combined, mostly to pound Singapore with more air strikes, this time flipping a DIV and MECH in the island city.
  Impulse 7: The weather turns gloomy and muddy as September turns into October. Rain covers Europe. Not much happens except the American push south, threatening to liberate southern France. Minor bombing occurs.
  Impulse 9: The Germans collapse Vichy but have no forces to defend it. The Seine line curls into Switzerland north of Lyon. Italy reinforces its line from the Austrian oil south to Venice, but they have to pull units out of Italy to do so. A landing west of Rome is corralled but the poor weather has discouraged attacks. Japan bombs and fails to flip units in Singapore.
  Impulse 11 sees the weather clearly slightly (rain in Arctic, but clear in Temperate). The Soviets elect to push in Austria, but the going is tough. A +8 assault sees a hex taken, but at great loss (2/2 result). An attack in northern Poland produces a (-/B) result, opening another breech in the line. The turn then ends, and Manstein on the northern front in Poland is in danger.
  2 PARTs appear in China.

Nov/Dec 1942:  The Allies win initiative again but the weather turns to mud and snow, slowing possible Allied advances. The Soviets invest most of their quality units in a snowy attack on Vienna that succeeds at a +10 without loss. The Chinese try an attack that is dropped to a +3 on Foochow, but the result is predictable (-/-). The US and the CW take navals and move troops and aircraft forward to the fronts. The CW try and maintain supply to Singapore via a daring CONV line from India.
  Impulse 4: The Japanese try to secure their western flank. They sink the CW CONV and flip a unit in Singapore, but the +10 assault does not take the city (1/1). Plans are made to send more troops to take the island. The Germans struggle to pull back to a coherent line in Poland. They succeed, but the line now has single units defending portions of the line in some places. The Italians hold the mountain line, but they too look over-stretched.
  Impulse 7: The weather stays snowy in Europe and clear in the monsoon zone. The Chinese renew their attacks, taking a +5 assault on Canton. The resulting (2/2) is a good result, but fails to take the port. The Soviets kill two speed bumps in Poland (left to cover the German retreat to a better line) and take a +8 blitz in northern Poland against Manstein that fails (-/-). Bombing attacks against the oil hexes fail but pull up valuable FTR cover. The US and GER exchange FTR losses.  More units land in northern Germany on Kiel front and in France. The US pushes into Lyon and a MOT speeds to the south of France.
  Impulse 9: The Japanese take a combined and move more units towards Singapore and reinforce Truk with a DIV. The Germans again have a solid defensive line, but it is weakening. Once prevalent air cover is thinning. The Italians hold the line.
  Impulse 11: The weather stays the same. The Soviets struggle to man their own line and push inward into Austria around the oil hex and towards Prague. A +10 blitz in a forest in Poland succeeds. Soviet troops mass around the Warsaw pocket, perhaps thinking to attack when the weather breaks. The US and CW bomb, and manage to take both oil points from the Axis, leaving the Germans in a difficult position. The Kriegsmarine in Stettin is already face-down and so are most of their HQs and aircraft. 4 additional points are taken in other bombing.
  Impulse 13: The Japanese find and sink the CA Lamont-Piquet in the Pacific, opening supply to Rabaul. Aircraft are shifted towards the Marianas and Singapore.
  The turn ends with a whimper and two PARTs appear in France, taking two RES points from Germany. Germany, essentially without oil, chooses to reflip FTRs to protect the oil.

Jan/Feb 1943: Again the Allies win initiative and go first. The US plays chits to execute a Land/Naval after the weather roll produces clear in the North Monsoon. Ships and aircraft put Kwajalein out of supply and an invasion takes the island without loss on a +15 invasion. 4 CVs flee to Japan and two aircraft rebase to Truk. A DIV takes Palau as well. The German oil is bombed and missed, but another German FTR is shot down in the process. The CW take a naval and move more troops forward and strategically bomb. The Soviets, not to be outdone, execute a successful +12 blitz attack in northern Poland (killing an INF) and a +19 assault on a face-down von Leeb in the Czechlands.  China moves reinforcement DIVs towards the front lines to provide replacements. US and CW cruisers gut Japanese CONVs in the South China Sea, potentially cutting many resources.
  Impulse 3: The Germans kill one French PART and pulls back out of a developing potential pocket in SE Poland. Every German HQ is face-down as well as most of the ARM units in France (except 2 that are killing PARTs). The Italians move units towards Milan as they recognize danger with US units pushing into the Italian alps. Turin cannot be saved, but units man the line from Milan to Genoa. Japan take a naval and sends pickets to try and isolate Singapore again. Tactical bombing on Singapore fails.
  Impulse 5: All the Allies take lands except China, who wants a combined to take extra groundstrikes (which all fail anyway). The weather is blizzard in Europe. The US and CW spend the impulse pushing units forward in France, in northern Germany, and in India. The previous impulse the CW pulled the units from the beachhead in Italy, as Italy got a MECH reinforcement that threatened to blitz the toehold into oblivion. The Soviets continue to have trouble with Warsaw, which, although out of supply, hampers everything in Poland. Further south, the attacks continue and a +13 assault north of Breslau succeeds in killing an INF. The bad weather slows Soviet troop movements.
  Impulse 8: The Germans and Italians take lands and do their best to hold the line. A breech in the line near Prague cannot be healed, but the units stagger in key positions to hold the Red Army back (in part due to difficult supply and a lack of Soviet units in the area). The Germans kill the 2nd French PART in Metz without loss despite the freezing weather. Japan takes a combined and seeks to punish a group of CW and US cruisers holding open supply. The CA Kinugasa sinks, but the Japanese net the Gloucester and Norfolk sunk while two US cruisers are aborted.
  Impulse 11: The weather ‘clears’ to snow in Europe. The CW take an air and further darken the cloudy skies with bombers. Both oil are again hit and both are lost to the Axis despite fierce air combats. 2 other BPs are taken, one from Hamburg, one from Paris. Groundstrikes flip the last face-up TAC in France and accomplish little else. The Soviets attack Manstein again (4th time) and this time annihilate him on a +13 blitz. Tired of the roadblock, a +10 assault on Warsaw also succeeds, clearing the city and the Soviet rear. Critically, a +10 attack on the mountain hex south of the Austrian oil succeeds (2/2 — painful losses of two Soviet white prints…), cutting off the oil. Three Italian units defend the isolate oil, an HQ, a GAR, and a DIV. The turn then promptly ends.
  A second turn without any oil (and only 1 on map oil depot) sees the Germans again decide to flip FTRs to defend the skies. A MECH div is also reflipped. The Italians are able to reflip all of their units in Italy and Germany (only 2 were face down). One PART appears in China, but is not consequential at this point. The CW maintains supply to Singapore and significant Allied FTRs now have bases in the sea zones around Truk. The German line in Poland is present, but thin, and broken in one spot at the German/Czech border. Italy continues to hold the mountain line, but with its best units isolated on the oil hex in Austria. Japan suffered a build reduction because of CONV losses, but they continue to draw all 4 oil from the NEI.

Mar/Apr 1943:  The Allies, on a roll, win initiative again and the weather starts stunningly clear. The US takes a combined and invades Bonin Island successfully. The invasion is a bit daring, underneath two FTRs and some battleships only. The fleet is only narrowly missed by Japanese NAV in the search phase. The CW take a naval and move troops. The Soviets and Chinese bear the brunt of the fighting. A +14 blitz in Silesia succeeds and a +16 blitz in Bavaria kills an Italian corps, opening up the southern frontier. The PARTs in northern China attack at +2 and fail (2/-). A +4 assault on Foochow surprisingly succeeds (on a rolled ’20’). A +5 assault on Chengchow takes the city at cost (2/1).
  On the 2nd impulse the Axis strike back. The Italian fleet sorties into the Italian Coast to try and provide shore bombardment for the campaign in Italy. In the first round of naval combat, the Italians surprise the CW fleet and sink a CW TRS loaded with Gort. The combat winds up going 4 total rounds. The Brits lose the TRS, a Yugoslavian cruiser, but nothing else. The Italians lose the E. di Savoia sunk but otherwise pass all their rolls, and so several cruisers and battleships are simply aborted. Ultimately a portion of the Italian fleet remains. Meanwhile, the Japanese get their own revenge. Most of the Japanese fleet sorties to intercept the US fleet off of the Bonin Islands (Marianas). The Japanese manage to find the Americans and wreak havoc. The Japanese lose a NAV. The US loses all of their AMPHs on map, the CA Augusta, and the BB Tennessee. The few remaining forces flee, but the US winds up taking Bonin and Iwo Jima (and thus have bases off the China Sea close to Japan). The Germans try to hold onto a line, falling back in the east and in the west with the Soviets leaking into Bavaria. They try a +5 blitz (dropped after defense air support) on the CW MAR in northern Germany. But the attack goes wrong and fails (1/-), flipping several key corps.
  Impulse 3: The weather stays clear. The US takes a naval to move troops and sails out a major fleet to try and take on the Japanese. But the fleets find nothing. The rest of the Allies takes lands to press the attack. A +3 assault fails against Canton (-/-) and a +4 attack north of Foochow takes another hex (-/1). The Soviets automatically kill two pocketed units in eastern Germany and succeed on a +14 blitz in central Germany. The Brits also attack. A +10 attack succeeds against a single corps in Bremen and a +12 blitz clears a hex east of Hamburg.  Units reinvade Italy just south of Venice.
  The Axis in impulse 4 go on the offense. The Japanese send more FTRs to the area and engage the US fleet. The result is plane carnage but little else. The US and the Japanese lose 4 planes each, but after everything, the Akagi and Nagato are damaged and naught else happens. The Germans decide to pull entirely back from the French front as Allied forces in the west look threatening. The line in the east is broken in the south but more or less intact in the north. The Italians pull remaining units from Austria into Italy.
  Impulse 5: The weather turns stormy, shutting down operations. The Soviets attack once to take a hex east of Munich and overrun the Germany navy left to its own devices in Stettin. The Americans and Brits filter forward but make no attacks. The Chinese are basically spent.
  Impulse 7: The Axis work on shortening their lines. Italy pulls back further and completes the encirclement of the Venice landing. The Japanese try to find the Americans, but no combat occurs.
  Impulse 9: The weather clears again the Allies attack. Two US PARAs drop behind the German lines in France (just west of Metz). Meanwhile the US attacks near the Swiss border in the mountains, clearing the hex on a +12 assault. The Soviets blitz north of Munich on a +16 and succeed. The Soviets then assault Praha on a +11 assault and roll the modified dreaded ’14,’ taking 3 losses and not securing the city. They end on a strong note, however, taking a +13 blitz in the north and blitzing into Berlin. Strategic bombing during the turn saw 5 BPs and 1 Res taken from the Germans as the Brits take an air. The turn then ends, leaving the Germans in a precarious position before May. No Partisans arise.

May/June 1943: The Axis are desperate to go first, but despite a reroll the Allies win. After some debate, both the US and CW take navals, hoping that Soviet pressure will allow them to keep momentum in Europe. The weather is clear. The Soviets do as bided, taking a +14 blitz in central Germany, a +19 assault on Munich, and an automatic blitz near Berlin. All are successful and the German line in the east has been fractured in multiple places. The double-move was disastrous for the Germans, especially in southern Germany. The Chinese attack Hangchow on a +4, taking the city with heavy losses (2/1) and another assault on Canton fails (2/- after a rolled ‘3’).
  Impulse 2: The Germans decide to adopt a hedgehog strategy in Germany and pull their units out of France. The corps there run east while the units in the east seek to double-up in factory cities. The Italians pull their last Austrian units into Italy proper. As a part of the movement, the Germans attack and kill the 2 US PARAs (but are 1/2 flipped) despite heavy Allied defensive air support. The Japanese catch the CA Chester and sink it off the coast of Japan.
  Impulse 3: The weather stays clear for a turn of heavy Axis carnage. All the Allies take land actions and attack. The Soviets complete 2 automatic attacks against corps that could not reach safe cities. They then drop PARAs on the Austria oil field, taking the hex on a +16 assault, killing the last three Italian units outside of Italy (aside from out of supply units in Libya and Ethiopia). The US take a +17 blitz in France and blitz forward, cutting through the northern part of the line in France. Meanwhile, the Soviets manage to snake a corps from Munich, cutting off the retreating units from France and creating a pocket of 6 German corps near Metz. The US and CW then attack two other hexes, killing them in automatic attacks in the pocket. The Chinese launch a +6 attack on Chengchow and finally take the city (2/1).
  Impulse 4: Germany completes the city hedgehog defense. There are 8 factory city hexes with 2 or 3 units each defending. All Germany can do now is wait and hope. The only exception is the north German oil hex, which they somehow still hold. Italy defends and the Japanese fall back to a better line in China.
  Impulse 5: The weather stays clear (except the North Monsoon). The Brits clear a unit in the Netherlands and two blitzed in France (+12 and +17) clear the last of the pocket, including Rundstedt. The Soviets attack Praha again at +8 and get a 2/2 result–failing to take the city in the second attack. The Pacific stays quiet as the US focuses on pushing forward into Germany and northern Italy.
  Impulse 6: The Germans and Italians pass while the Japanese take a combined, even though the odds of the turn ending are only 10%. The turn continued.
  Impulse 7: The Allies go strategic bombing. One German FTR and one CW strat are downed, but shockingly several attacks on the ’14-18′ table all fail, including on the oil hex. The US, CW, and USSR all take air actions and move up and reorganize their airforces, ready for action in the next impulse.
  Impulse 8: But the Axis gamble and pass… and get exactly the die roll needed to end the turn! 2 additional PARTs appear in China. France is liberated.

July/August 1943: Game Called – Allied victory.