Sept/Oct 1939: The conflagration begins. The Poles defend their core territory, but the Germans manage a quality assault on Lodz anyway, taking the city to the loss of the ENG (1/2S). Two other attacks clearing Polish units are successful. The Italians move units to the French frontier. The Japanese send more army units to China, with the two MAR heading to Canton and Hainan.
  The CW and France declare war on Germany. The USSR claims eastern Poland. The BEF lands in northern France (Gort + 2 corps) but other naval assets including land units head to the Med. France pulls in the corps from Syria. The Chinese move the Workers units forward, but otherwise hold the line. Chengchow, despite being exposed, is reinforced with two Nationalist units. 
  Impulse #3 and the weather sours. The Germans nonetheless reduce another hex of Polish defenders, but wait to assault Warsaw. The Italians are quiet. The Japanese move Terauchi from Manchuria to northern China. 
  Impulse #4 sees the USSR declare war on Iran. The US is outraged (naturally). The CAV defender of Tehran is flipped, but the going is slow for the Soviets. The CW bomb Germany and take one BP despite the muddy weather. The CW reposition fleets, now building a rather large one in Alexandria, Egypt. The French form a defensive line with their reserves and reinforcements.
  Impulse #5: The weather remains foul. The Germans clear a last hex before Warsaw and surround it. More quiet from Mussolini and the Japanese still continue to push army units forward to the front in China, but no attacks happen in the poor weather.
  Impulse #6: Everyone on the Allied side passes except the USSR, which mounts a +14 assault on Tehran, taking the city (and conquering Iran) without loss. The end of turn is then rolled–with precisely what is needed to end the turn.
  A Chinese PART appears in northern China and the US elects to start the lend-lease and production of Chinese aircraft. 

Nov/Dec 1939: The Axis win initiative but the weather remains muddy in Europe. The Germans, since it is early in the turn, elect to wait on assaulting Warsaw after their groundstrikes all fail. The Italians move a MECH to eastern Libya, perhaps to counter the large CW force growing there. Japan take a combined, sending a DIV and a MAR westward off the coast of Africa. The US is incensed by this naked act of aggression despite protests from Italy that they invited the Japanese to use their E. African ports.
  Impulse #2: The Soviets start railing corps… back to Vladivostock?! Over the turn, multiple corps join the forces originally there on the border with Manchuria. The CW sets up with a naval, protecting convoy lines and shipping more units to the Med. The French collect the Senegalese corps and return it to France. China nervously watches the Japanese forces in the north get steadily thicker. The Japanese built an ARM first turn, so the fear is that the summer might be bloody.
  Impulse #3: The weather gets worse in Europe. Germany starts moving other corps westward, but again decides to wait on assaulting Warsaw as again the groundstrikes fail. The Italians have loaded up units on the French border but pulled the Red Sea DD fleet back to Italy.
  Impulse #4: A quiet Allied turn. The Soviets shifts units to Siberia; the CW and France wait patiently in the snow. China prays for a harsh winter.
  Impulse #5: The weather gets marginally better, but the Germans are done waiting. They assault Warsaw in the snow, and the Wehrmacht is up to the task, taking the city without loss on a +8 assault. They also declare war on Denmark, taking the country quickly. They surprise the Danes and manage to capture or sink almost every CONV and ship (only 2 CONV escape!). The Japanese rebase into African ports. The Italians sit quietly.
  The turn then ends. No PARTs appear. The US sends resources to China and occupies Greenland and Iceland. One tension chit is added to the European pool. 

Jan/Feb 1940: The Axis win initiative again and the weather starts partly clear (mud in the temperate and arctic, clear all else). The Germans move their army west while garrisoning Poland and Denmark. The Italians scamper back to Italy with the TRS, fearful of the Allies picking it off. The Japanese declare war on Saudia Arabia and land on the oil hex in the surprise impulse with a DIV. Saudi Arabia aligns with the CW since there are significant forces in Egypt accessible by rail. Surprisingly, popular opinion in the US hardly notices the naked aggression of the Japanese.
  Impulse #2: The Soviets occupy the Baltic States (without provoking American ire). The CW take a naval and set up convoy defense and shuttle some units, again to the Med. The French pull in the Moroccan corps to mainland France. China extends its paper-thin line in the north to counter the large Japanese in the area, but poor weather is hampering Japanese efforts to advance.
  Impulse #3: Germany aligns Hungary, who join the Axis cause. The expansion of the war causes some alarm in the US, however. The Germans push west, with significant forces in the west, but part of the army strewn out across Germany and Poland. The Italians are quiet and the Japanese land the MAR on the oil hex in Saudi Arabia, securing the hex. Yamamoto boards a ship, clearly headed to Saudi Arabia to provide supply inland.
  Impulse #4: The CW rails a fast INF corps to western S. Arabia to support the new ally. The French form a solid line on the border of Belgium, with 2 CW corps anchoring the coastal hex. The Soviets continue to shift units to Siberia and China offers prayers to their ancestors, even though the anticipated offensive from the Japanese has yet to materialize. The Japanese have built basically nothing other than land forces up to this point. 
  Impulse #5: Japan uses political pressure to shut down the Burma Road, much to the dismay of the beleaguered Chinese. Nonetheless, in the bad weather, no attacks are made. The Japanese now have two HQs on the front in northern China and an impressive line of units. The Italians are quiet despite having a sizable force in both Libya and on the French border. Germany now has a solid line of units running from the North Sea down to Switzerland, but surely the Germans would not violate Dutch neutrality, right?
  We won’t find this turn, as it ends on the Axis impulse, shifting the initiative marker back to neutral. No PARTs appear (despite a chance of one in Palestine) and the US selects no options.

Mar/April 1940: The Allies win initiative despite a re-roll demand from the Axis. The Allies go first! The British reinforcement will arrive in Riyadh before the Japanese.