Sept/Oct 1939: The conflagration begins. The Poles mostly huddle around Warsaw and Lodz, but that does not stop the Wehrmacht from successfully assaulting Warsaw first impulse. The Polish air force chooses the cowardly route, setting up far away from the battles in central Poland. Italy quietly watches events and Japan shifts forces to both southern and northern China.
  Impulse #2: The Allies declare war on Germany and shockingly the US approves (no entry penalty). The CW takes a naval and immediately shifts most of their naval forces to… the Med? No BEF on boats to France, instead troops head for warmer weather. The French pull in the Moroccans to defend France. China holds the line. The USSR has a heavy deployment on the Rumanian border.
  Impulse #3: The French inexplicably leave a gap in the southern Maginot line and a German corps seizes the opportunity, breaking the line. The weather is clear, so the Germans also finish the Poles, taking Lodz on a +19 assault. The Italians are quiet, and so are the Japanese, who are concentrating forces around Si-an. 
  Impulse #4: The French rearrange to plug the gap in the south, but without any help from the British, their line is thin. The Soviets annex the Baltic States, but no one cares. The British continue relocating forces to the Med theatre.
  Impulse #5: The weather sours. The Germans automatically kill an isolated Polish corps and send units streaming west. The Japanese activate Siam as a minor without entry penalty. No peep from the Italians.
  Impulse#6: The Allies try to end the turn and all pass, but the attempt fails.
  Impulse #7: The weather clears again. The Germans declare war on Denmark, taking it without resistance. Japan has built up forces in the north, but as many of them are flipped, the army waits to reorganize and resupply. 
  Impulse #8: Since the turn did not end for the Axis, the Allies try again, passing and this time ending the turn. 
  The US sends resources to China and occupies Greenland, with one tension chit. No partisans appear.

Nov/Dec 1939: The Allies win initiative and go first. The weather starts out muddy and rainy. The CW shift naval forces from the Pacific to the Med and more forces shift around Gibraltar to Egypt and Malta. The French try to hold a line and the weather helps, but the front looks tenuous. China holds the line.
  Impulse #2: The Germans and Japanese both use the impulse to shift forces and no action takes place.
  Impulse #3: The weather remains muddy and snowy in Europe. The Allies quietly await Axis aggression. 
  Impulse #4: Even in the snow, the Germans declare war on the Netherlands, easily overpowering the nation. Most of the navy and the Dutch FTR escape, however. The US is offended by the aggression, however. Japan and Italy continue to exercise patience.
  Impulse #5: All of the Allies except the CW pass, while the CW uses the impulse to shift aircraft. The turn, however, does not end. 
  Impulse #6: The Germans push their army, now fully in the west, to the Belgian and French borders, but no action occurs. The Italians remain out of the war. 
  Impulse #7: The weather partially clears and the Allies fearfully attempt to pass to deny the Germans a winter clear turn. They succeed and the turn ends. 
  The US starts Chinese aircraft and interns the Bearn, taking a TRS. One tension chit is generated. No partisans occur.

Jan/Feb 1940: The Allies win initiative and when the Axis do not demand a reroll, the Allies go first. The weather starts and remains muddy with occasional snow. The CW starts with a naval and France brings the Senegalese corps to France. The Soviets position on the Rumanian border and the Chinese hold a fragile line. 
  Impulse #2: The Germans declare war on Belgium and, despite the snow take Liege and Brussels in one impulse, with a +14 assault succeeding without loss (the other being an automatic). The Japanese attack a single CAV in the southern mountains of China, flipping but taking the hex without loss (-/1 on a +12 assault). The Italians are still quiet.
  Impulse #3: The Soviets demand Bessarabia and the Germans pressure the Rumanians to cede the territory to their erstwhile ally. The French push forward a hex into Belgium, but their line (without any BEF) is thin and largely without any reserves behind the line. 
  Impulse #4: The Germans back Hungarian and Bulgarian claims on Rumanian territory. The Axis generally just reposition in the poor weather and no action occurs.
  Impulse #5: A quiet impulse. The Chinese move some communists forward. 
  Impulse #6: Germany takes a naval and aligns Hungary as an active minor (the US does not care). German SUBs and surface raiders scour the seas but find no CW convoys. Italy remains quiet and the Japanese shift forces to southern China. The turn then ends.
  No PARTs appear. The US selects no options and February ends with a whimper.

Mar/April 1940: The Axis win initiative and go first, but the weather starts and stays muddy throughout the turn. Germany starts by aligning Bulgaria and takes a combined to push SUBs out, but no convoys are found. The Japanese take a +12 assault in southern China and succeed without loss, seizing a Chinese RES in the forest hex on the rail line. Italy remains quiet.
  Impulse #2: The French pray for bad weather and for their training regimen to complete quickly to field more forces. The CW defend convoy lines. Surprisingly, no CW forces–not even air forces–move to assist the French at all, including in impulses where there are no German FTRs available for air cover. Could the King have made a faustian pact with Hitison? 
  Impulses 3 through 5 — the Germans raid convoys and fail, and push up land and aircraft on the new line in Belgium. The CW and France are quiet do little. China adjusts to its losses, holding a thin line, especially in the south. The turn ends impulse 5. No PARTs appear, and the US adopts Selective Service.

May/June 1940:  The Axis secure initiative, but must demand a reroll to get it. The weather starts clear except in the north monsoon, where it rains. The Italians enter the war, declaring on the CW and France. In their naval action, they find convoys in the Cape Verde Coast, eliminating the French and one CW CONV while aborting several others. Two other naval searches fail. The Germans decide the French should be no more, and drop a chit (Rundstedt). Three attacks are made, all of which are successful. In the north a +10 blitz blows a hole (*/1B) north of Lille. In the center the French ARM is bashed as the +11 blitz is pure success (*/2B). In the south, the Germans achieve another breakout just across the Maginot, but they do lose the PARA in the attempt (1/1). The face down units are all reorganized. The French line looks like Swiss cheese. The Japanese, not to be outdone, take a +11 assault on Chengchow, taking the city without loss (*/2S) and control their troops (no US entry). 
  Impulse #2: The British take a naval, but not to help their allies (? not sure what to call them). They hunt Italians and find one group, damaging 2 Italian CAs to the loss of one damaged CW cruiser. The Red Sea flotilla is also found and destroyed, leaving the British rear to the Suez secure. The French pull back with the forces they have and push an INF DIV into the line on the border with Italy. The Chinese line does not look better, but there is still a line!
  Impulse #3: The weather clears–even in the north monsoon and the Japanese are gleeful. They move units without flipping in the south, preparing for another attack there. The Italians assault and trade losses with the French in the alps, but take a critical hex in the mountains (flipped). The Germans decide to double down on their success and drop a second offensive chit (von Bock). Three more attacks. A +17 blitz routs the French south of Lille while a +9 blitz north of Lille removes the northern flank without loss on a successful blitz. The only mild disappointment was an assault on Metz, which succeeds but at cost (2/2 with a loss of a PARA DIV and ENG). Thus, by the end of only the 2nd impulse, most of the French army has evaporated.
  Impulse #4: The French fall back in a huddle around Paris, hoping for bad weather. The British have aircraft which could bomb the German lines, but refuse to do so. The CW takes a combined and shifts a few units. There is a sizable British force and both CW HQs in Egypt, defending a line by Alexandria. The Soviets start shifting some units back to what looks to be a line on the Dniepr River.
  Impulse #5: To add insult to French and Chinese injury, the weather is clear world-wide. The Germans take a land and continue the attack. A +7 blitz north of Paris and a +11 blitz south of Paris are both completely successful. The noose tightens on Paris. The Japanese the assault the second RES in southern China on a +8 attack and take it without loss, killing Chang. The Italians seize Fr. Somalialand. 
  Impulse #6: The French have had enough and decide to fight back. Taking a combined to put the northern forward flank of the Germans out of supply, they surge forward and kill a German AT unit to keep that northern flank out of supply for an impulse. The CW also take a combined and hunt Italians in the Med, trying to strangle the Libyan forces, but no combat occurs. The Chinese shift to fill the line, but it is thin in the south.
  Impulse #7: More clear weather and the Germans keep attacking. After moving to re-establish supply, A +17 and +18 blitz each clear two hexes near Paris (granting supply to the rest of the forward army), but a +8 assault (lowered due to French TAC clearing) takes a hex but flips much of the central German army (1/1). The Germans get 5 hexes around Paris. The Italians take Br. Somalialand. The Japanese shift forces south.
  Impulse #8: The French, emboldened by their actions which slightly delayed the Wehrmacht, attack north out of Lille. The attack fails (1/1) but kills a German INF. That plus another move again puts part of the forward German army out of supply.  The CW hunt Italians again, and again fail to find them. The Soviets start forming a line (?) along the Dniepr. 
  Impulse #9: The turn won’t seem to end. The Germans take a land, but spend 2 chit points to send the mighty Schliesen to establish naval supply to Rouen. The brave French navy, however, spots the slow battleship, sinking it with all hands and keeping the forward northern flank out of supply. The Italians send a CA of their won into the Eastern Med to establish supply to Libya, but the Brits find and sink it. The Germans decide to re-establish supply the old fashioned way (directly over land) and so assault Lille. The +9 assault is ideally done (rolled ’18’) and the city’s defenders are eliminated without loss. The Japanese are quiet, moving a few units in the south of China. 
  Impulse #10: Why won’t the turn end cry the Allies? But they cannot afford to pass. The CW reinforce the Med, trying to keep the Libyan force out of supply. They now groundstrike and flip some units, moving land forces to the frontier. The Brits then attack the Italians from the south, and the successful automatic blitz pockets the Italians around Tobruk. The CW also manage to sink the Italian CONV in the Italian Coast. The French hold on.
  Impulse #11: The Germans take a combined and use their subs to hunt convoys, but fail to find anything. They complete the encirclement of Paris but choose not to take a low odds assault (would have been +5). The Italians sneak another CA into the E. Med, and this time manage to sneak supplies to Tobruk undetected. The Japanese drool over options in China if the weather clears in the south. 
  Finally, the turn ends, shifting initiative towards the Allies (+1). No PARTs appear and the US selects Gift DDs to the British, who immediately use it to fund an AMPH program. 

July/August 1940: The Allies win initiative and elect to go first. The weather finds it clear everywhere except the north monsoon. In an unusual act of cooperation, the British bomb several hexes of German armor west of Paris, flipping one MECH. This unit is then attacked by French armor reinforcements just arrived. The French manage to liberate one hex on Paris while annihilating the MECH. The CW, taking a combined, also sinks the Italian CA in the E. Med and attacks Italians in Tobruk, killing them all without loss on a +17 blitz. The Italians in eastern Libya are in trouble, but still hold Bardia. China reinforces near Kunming and filters communist reinforcements in the northern line.
  Impulse #2: The Germans ground strike Paris, but vicious French AA prevents anything from being disorganized. The Germans elect to wait to attack, instead rebasing more TAC to within range of Paris. The Italians take a land action and start organizing a defense of Italy. The Japanese look to shift to a northern campaign, but the line is not well suited to that, so not much happens.
  Impulse #3: The Brits blitz (+12) and kill another hex of Italians, leaving only Bardia in Italians hands, face-up but out of supply. The French post another fleet in the North Sea, but there is not a lot left of the French army. The Chinese hold the line and the Soviets pull Zhukov to Europe, away from Siberia.
  Impulse #4: The Germans launch an air blitz, and a DIV and one corps are flipped in Paris. With von Bock in support, the Germans attack with a +12 assault, but the French elan is too much for the Germans, and the attack fails (1/1 result), flipping most of the army. 7 corps are reflipped, but there are reinforcements waiting outside Paris, so the hex winds up actually increasing in strength on the subsequent Allied turn. German morale visibly suffers, even though they are in complete command of the theatre. Italy tries a daring sea-rescue, moving its main fleet and 2 TRS to collect the units in Bardia. Not only do they evacuate the troops, in the subsequent impulse, they successfully safely abort out and back to Italy. Some call it the “Italian Dunkerque,” mainly because the British did not send troops to help the French this war. Japan is quiet, managing the front.
  Impulse #5: The UK takes a naval to catch the Italians, but fail to find anything. A large fleet is posted in the Italian coast. The French move their ARM into Paris, replacing the loss. China holds the line.
  Impulse #6: A quiet impulse, with Germany and Italy trying to raid convoys. No convoy losses occur.
  Impulse #7: The UK invade Rhodes, killing a face-down Italian TAC that rebased there earlier. British MECH takes Benghazi. The French push up reinforcements from Bordeaux, but they are slow. Otherwise, the French take to taunting the Germans surrounding Paris (probably not a good idea…). The Chinese hold the line.
  Impulse #8: The Germans opt not to take a low odds attack against Paris and instead crush the one French hex west of Paris, killing two units to no loss (+13 blitz). The Italians abort their rescue fleet (previous impulse). The Japanese are cautious and make no attacks.
  Impulse #9: The French navy sorties in the Med, and sinks one Italian old BB to the loss of one CA. The southern reinforcements attack von Bock, but to no effect (-/-). The British push westward in Libya. China holds the line.
  Impulse #10: The Germans go convoy hunting and strike paydirt, discovering that the British are not escorting the Mid-Atlantic. Of the 11 CONV there, 6 are sunk and 5 are aborted, crushing the CW economy… because the turn then ends. 
  Two Chinese PARTs appear, including one on Hainan as the Japanese had just moved the unit with a ZOC away. The other appears in northern China. The US selects no entry options.

Sept/Oct 1940: The Axis win initiative and the weather starts completely clear (rolled ‘4’). The Germans ground strike Paris, flip everything, and take the city on a +14 assault. Meanwhile, the Japanese kill the PART on Hainan and position elsewhere in China for more attacks in the south. The Italians position troops around Italy, not attempting to reinforce Libya.
  Impulse #2: The Germans might think that the French are done, but the French do not think so. They start consolidating what few forces they have for attacks designed to push towards Paris. This impulse not much happens. The CW take a land and push the desert force from Tobruk closer to Tripoli, with one MECH reaching the outskirts of the city. The Chinese hold the line.
  Impulse #3: The Germans immediately move forces eastwards out of France. A friendly warning is issued, but the Germans now have other prey in mind. The Italians post a fleet in the E. Med and a CONV in the Italian coast with a few escorts. The Japanese kill the other Chinese PART and assault the Chinese in the southern mountains, taking the hex without loss on a +14 assault.
  Impulse #4: The French and British cooperate (shockingly) in a naval mission that finds and sinks an Italian CA to the loss of one British CA damaged. The Brits defend convoys and repair damaged lines from the previous turn. The Chinese still have a line, although it looks thinner in the south.
  Impulse #5: The weather turns sour and muddy. The Germans are still busy evacuating France, and Paris is no longer surrounded by rings of corps. All of the German corps are being moved to Poland except a few heading to Hungary. The Japanese slow down their advance in China with the poor weather. Italy is cautious and tries to hold on to its CONV to maximize its economy.
  Impulse #6: The French contemplate an attack, but the bad weather precludes the venture. Instead, the CW and French continue to cooperate, sinking 2 more Italian CAs in the Med. The Soviets are building a line along the Dniepr River. 
  Impulse #7: The weather clears. The Germans continue to empty France, confident of their victory. An armored HQ is left along on a face-down TAC, but the French ignore it as it does not lie in the path to Paris. The Italians expand their holdings in Africa, pushing into Kenya. The Japanese are also relatively quiet after a vigorous start to the turn.
  Impulse #8: Seeing the dearth of defenders, the French hatch a plan to boldly retake Paris. In stage 1, they attack just east of Paris. A +2 assault, fueled by French elan, succeeds, clearing the way to Paris (1/2S). The Germans grumble about absurd French plans, but hope runs high in the French army. The British take another land and push more corps towards Tripoli, now pushing units to surround the territorial capital. The Chinese shuffle the communist line, but all is pretty much status quo. 
  Impulse #9: Another clear weather turn for the Axis. Germany reinforces Paris (adding a second unit) but still does not respect the French, despite the successful counterattack last impulse. Japan and Italy are quiet. It turns out that the Germans were right, as the turn ends and a collaborationist Vichy government is installed.
  No partisans appear, the US selects no options. Most of the territories go Vichy except Indo-China, West Africa, Equatorial Africa, and the Pacific territories. DeGaulle enters the game and the Free French select Senegal as their new capital. 

Nov/Dec 1940: The Allies win initiative but elect to make the Axis go first. The weather starts snowy and muddy. The Germans activate the Rumanians as a minor ally and immediately start sending troops into the theatre. The Soviets watch nervously. Italy takes the Kenyan capital, continuing to expand in Africa. The CW finally talk about maybe sending forces there. Maybe. The Japanese on a combined reinforce China, but with the poor weather, no action occurs.
  Impulse #2: The CW take a naval and set up strong naval forces around the Med. France is abuzz with stories of heroism and how Petain betrayed the Republic, given that the spearhead driving for Paris was about to liberate the city when he capitulated and surrendered the French army. The US was outraged at the surrender of the French and the drum beat of war can be heard in some corridors in Washington D.C. DeGaulle appeals to the British to come collect his forces in Senegal, but the British currently pay him little heed.
  Impulse #3: The weather clears slightly, but the rains dominate Europe. The Germans loose their SUBs, sinking 2 CONV and aborting others in the Africa convoy line around Cape Verde. The Italians are more conservative with their navy, having lost several cruisers the previous month. Japan is quiet, but shifting forces in China.
  Impulse #4: The CW debate repairing their convoy lines versus attacking the Italians, and ultimately decide to take a land and assault Tripoli. The attack (+20 by the end) is successful; the Brits take Tripoli without loss. The FF hatch cunning plans to invade France and liberate the nation. China holds the line. The USSR watches their western border get greyer with an accumulation of Wehrmacht units. But Hitlerson would surely not attack an ally, right?
  Impulse #5: The Germans continue to push land units eastward, although some remain in France to pacify the angry countryside. The Italians defend more of their key coastal cities. The Japanese push more units into southern China, but the weather is not conducive to attacks. The turn then ends, much to the dismay of the CW, who has unrepaired gaps in their convoy lines.
  The US wakes up, selects resources to the USSR and reduces Japanese resources; both actions produce tension. 

Jan/Feb 1941: 

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