Sept/Oct 1939: The conflagration begins. Germany splits its forces between Poland, a corps and DIV on the Danish border, and the French frontier. First impulse sees the Germans assault three Polish corps blocking the way to Lodz and Warsaw. The attacks are painful, but all succeed: +10 assault (2/2), a +16 assault (1/2), and one automatic. The Italians move the CCNN from Eithiopia to Rhodes. The Japanese send corps from Japan to China, including Yamamato, and assault Chengchow, taking the city without loss and without irritating US opinion.
  Impulse 2:  The CW and France declare war on Germany. The UK moves navy about, bringing back much of the Pacific fleet to Europe. Both call reserves and fill out their lines. China walks into an undefended Foochow. There is no sign of tension on the Japanese-Soviet border.
  Impulse 3: The weather sours, turning Europe to mud. The Axis do basically nothing. The Germans secure the Polish resources and push up around Lodz/Warsaw, but no attacks are made. The Italians move a MECH to Libya. Japan holds tights.
  Impulse 4: The USSR claims East Poland (-1 US entry).
  Impulse 5: The weather remains cloudy and mucky. The Germans and Japanese patiently bide their time. No attacks are made.  
  Impulse 6: Hoping for the best, the Allies all pass. With a 50% chance of ending the turn, a ‘6’ is rolled, continuing the turn.
  Impulse 7: The Axis are rewarded–clear weather returns. The Japanese makea +10 assault in central China, killing a GAR to no losses. The win splits China in two, with the Communists up north and the Nationalists in the south. Germany attacks Lodz at +15 and clears it without loss. Germany also declares war on Denmark, occupying the country without resistance. One cruiser is captured but most of the CONV escape to fight with the CW. Italy moves a DIV to Libya.
  Then the turn ends, threatening a dangerous double-move in China and opening up possibilities for the Germans. The US selects no entry options.

Nov/Dec 1939: The Axis win initiative to the dismay of the Allies and then the initial weather is completely clear.  The Germans make short work of the Poles in Warsaw,  storming the city without loss. The Italians continue to slowly build up forces in eastern Libya. The Japanese assault Si-an, causing casualties but fail to take the city (-/1 result). 
  Impulse 2 sees the Soviets occupy the Baltic States. The French, seeing the German line weak in the southern part of their front, launch a large attack at good odds (+12). Unfortunately the troops perform really badly. They kill a German GAR, but lose two DIVs and a corps of their own in the ill-fated adventure. 
  The next 5 impulses see little action as the weather turns sour. The Germans relocate forces from Poland and build up in the West. The Italians move another unit to Libya, and the Japanese shuffle forces around. No attacks are made. The British land Gort in France, but no other support. Apparently the French can handle the Germans alone. 
  The turns ends on Axis impulse 7, shifting initiative back towards the Allies. Poland is conquered. The US take no entry options and another PART appears in Malaya of all places.

Jan/Feb 1940: The Axis win initiative and the weather starts out stormy. The first two impulses see virtually nothing being done by either the Axis or the Allies. 
  Impulse 3 and the weather turns snowy in the temperate. The Gemans declare war on the Netherlands and overwhelm them, taking over without loss. Most of the navy flee to fight with the Commonwealth, but the Germans do scuttle the Java. The Italians move over an ART unit to Libya. Japan moves some units to China. After the great breakthrough in November (they have one hex adjacent to Chungking) the front has stalled.
  Impulse 4 sees the Allies not do much. The French hold their line, still in German territory in the south. The British move some troops, but there are still no real forces in France to speak of. The United States does not seem interested in European or world affairs.
  The turn ends with the Allies. No PARTs appear, the US does not pick any options. The Netherlands is incompletely conquered.

Mar/Apr 1940: The Axis again win initiative and the weather starts clear across the globe. The Germans declare war on Belgium and use the clear campaign weather to annihilate the Belgian army. Liege and Brussels are both taken on high odds attacks (+19) without loss. The Belgians align with France and their brave FTR joins the French air force. The Japanese take a +7 assault in the mountains north of Si-an, but the attack goes awry (1/-), flipping most of the Japanese army. Italy bides its time, apparently waiting to see who will gain the upper hand.
  Impulse 2 and the French start to pull back from their German gains to realign against the new threat coming via Belgium. The CW still refuse to send troops to France beyond the single HQ sitting behind the lines. China slowly flips units to the front, grateful that the Japanese attack did not break the northern line. The Soviets demand Bessarabia and the Germans acquiesce. 
  Impulse 3: Hungarian and Bulgarian demands on Romanian territory are granted by the Germans, who also pull Bulgaria into the war (without US entry penalty). The weather is stormy and poor, however, so little happens in Europe. The Japanese army is spent and the Italians are playing a waiting game. 
  Impulse 4 and the Allies wait for the inevitable clearing of the weather….
  Impulse 5 sees worse weather. The Germans align Hungary and then take a naval in the blizzard to hunt convoys. They succeed in the North Atlantic, sinking 2 CW CONVS and aborting 3 more. A larger task force in the Bay Biscay finds nothing, however. The turn then ends, allowing the German raiders to return to port without loss. 
  Germany incompletely conquers Belgium. No PARTs appear and the US again takes no entry options. 

May/Jun 1940: The Allies finally win initiative, but the weather starts clear world-wide. All knew the clear weather was coming. The Brits actually land the BEF in northern France and the French reorganize their line to face the oncoming German push. 
  And come it does. Impulse #2 and the Germans drop an offensive chit (with Rundstedt). A +15 blitz in central Belgium is successful (*/2B). The French concentrate their defenses on the second attack, an attack into the Ardennes, clearing their bombers. The resulting +5 blitz causes casualties (1/B) but the Germans take the hex. The Japanese, not to be outdone, launch an assault on the coast that is a huge success (+10 attack, rolled ’20’). The Chinese flank in the south looks exposed. 
  Impulse 3: The Allies seek to repair the stretched line in France. The UK takes another naval, however, so the line stays bent to the north. The rest of the Allies seek to hold on. The Soviets seem to be moving to rearward positions away from the Polish border.
  Impulse 4: The Germans follow with a second offensive chit (Guderian). With extra hexes and some successful ground strikes, the Germans annihilate a central hex and exploit a successful blitz to occupy two hexes next to Paris. In so doing, they overrun 2 French aircraft, mostly eliminating the French air force. Still not a peep out of Italy, who has a major portion of his army on the Egyptian border. The Japanese continue their assault in the south, attacking a mountain hex near Foochow at +5. Their performance is spectacular (rolled ’18’) taking no losses and eliminating the defending Chinese army, including the HQ Chiang! 
  Impulse 5: The French launch a desperate counterattack behind the German spearhead to cut it out of supply. After a fierce air battle, the French come through! The assault yields (-/1S) and the two forward ARM are isolated. Half of the attacking French are flipped, however, which is a problem. The CW shift the BEF towards Paris, which is only weakly defended. The Chinese shift over in an attempt to cover the shattered eastern wing of their line.
  Impulse 6: Japan starts by attacking Foochow (with a combined seaborne invasion) and gets exactly what they need (-/1) and take it without loss. The army is flipped, but the advance this turn has been impressive. The Germans launch two counterattacks. One succeeds completely (+11 yields */2B) and the other kills a French unit but fails to take the hex (-/1). The Germans have nonetheless reopened supply to the forward pocket. 
  Impulse 7: The French go for a second counterattack to pocket the Germans again. The effort is valiant, but the Luftwaffe is too much, dropping the reasonable attack to a +3 assault that fails (1/-). Now the entire French army is flipped. The CW move the BEF adjacent to Paris to cover the northern flank of the city. The Chinese stretch their lines to try and hold key mountain hexes in southern China.
  Impulse 8: The turn gods bless the Axis, giving them another impulse. The Germans use the turn (all clear weather thus far) and blitz a lonely French INF corps, taking Lille in the exploit, which was not defended. The action counter-pockets two French stacks in what remains of Belgium, cutting off a French HQ and the French ARM. The Japanese army is now mostly spent, and some minor shifting is all that occurs. The Italians remain patient and do nothing.
  Impulse 9: The weather turns muddy, but the Allies decide to use the opportunity to try and pass. The gambit pays off, as the turns ends (only because of the turn-ending bonus). 
  A PART appears in Algeria, cutting off the resource there. The US finally picks an option, occupying Greenland and Iceland.

July/August 1940: With the German army reorganized and on the doorstep of Paris, the Allies manage to get initiative but have to demand a re-roll to get it. The Allies then surprise the world when France and the CW declare war on Italy. They hunt some convoys and sink 4 in the western Med. The US is seriously irritated (-2 chits). The French decide to try and take the initiate and launch a counter-attack to clear one of the hexes next to Paris. Despite downing several German aircraft, the Luftwaffe gets through, lowering the attack to a +4 blitz. The French performance is mediocre (1/B) but they regain a hex next to Paris, pushing the Germans slightly further away. The Chinese move reinforcements in the north towards the front near Si-an. 
  Impulse 2: The Germans now turn methodical, eliminating the pocketed French units in Belgium without loss. Addition corps filter forward the tenuous forward positions near Paris are now impressive stacks of armor. An additional +16 attack just west of Metz succeeds in killing two more French units without loss. The French lines are looking thin. The Chinese stabilize the front as the weather in the N. Monsoon turns rainy. The Italians, now in the war, pull in their remaining convoys and lurch into Egypt.
  Impulse 3: The CW port strikes the Italian fleet in Taranto with impressive results. The Brits sink one TRS and damage the other, impairing the Italian supply efforts in Africa. 2 CONV are additionally sunk. The French fill Paris, but it is not a strong defense force (total of 10). There is simply not a lot to go around. So the French send out their fleet to try and intimidate the Italians.
  Impulse 4: The Germans start clearing the wings to the north and south of Paris. A +15 blitz in the north takes a hex but at cost (1/B) while the +15 blitz in the south eliminates two more French units without loss. The CW still hold the northern flank of Paris, but are in danger of being encircled. The Japanese, having shifted north, launch a daring assault on Si-an. The +5 attack is costly, however, (2/1) and they fail to take the city. The assault flips the army, mostly ending chances of offensive operations for the rest of the turn.
  Impulse 5: France, without a face-up army except on the Italian front, decides to launch a port strike against the Italians. The result is predictable despite having complete surprise (1-10 search split): the French CVP is shot down by Italian AA. The Brits take an air, strategically bomb Germany (-1 BP from Essen) and seek to bomb the German front line. The planes clear, but the bombing is inaccurate; no German units are disorganized. The Chinese breathe a sigh of relief that the Japanese finally had a failed attack. 
  Impulse 6: Germany completes the encirclement of Paris. The Brits are then groundstruck and annihilated in an automatic attack. One southern French unit is also annihilated in an automatic attack. The Germans now have Paris completely surrounded. The Italians push forward into Egypt and have contact with the defending forces just outside of Alexandria. 
  Impulse 7: The Allies try to end the turn early by having everyone except the CW pass. The Brits send a cruiser force to the eastern Med which cuts the Italians out of supply. To add insult to that injury, the Brits activate combat off the Italian coast and manage to abort the Italian NAV there as well, reinforcing the stranglehold. The Brits do lose one CVP in the air combat, however. The gambit, however, does not succeed this turn, and the turn continues.
  Impulse 8: The Germans pile on Paris, storming the city on a successful +16 assault. The Japanese wait to reorganize their army, and the Italians sit in Egypt. 
  Impulse 9: The Allies perform minor functions. The French army is nearly annihilated, so the French decide to send their navy out into the Italian Coast and the Brits watch the Italian coastal resorts. The turn, however, then ends.
  The US select no options. Another PART appears in Malay (that makes 3!). The Germans elect not to install a Vichy government.

Sept/Oct 1940: The Axis win initiative (which is now +2 in their favor after a shift last turn) and go first. The Japanese start things off with a +6 assault in southern China in the mountains. They take the hex (giving them several on Chang-Sha now), but suffer two casualties (2/1). The Germans stream south towards the Med coast. Italy enters the fray, pushing two units into French Alps. 
  Impulse 2 does not see any action. The French basically huddle. The Brits send a small force into the Red Sea and a larger force into the E. Med, trying to keep the Italians out of supply. The Soviets are clearly building a defensive line roughly running along the Dnieper River. Do they suspect German perfidy?
  Impulse 3: The weather stays clears again, and the Germans push two HQs and several corps to the outskirts of Marseilles. The ploy is now clear: the Germans want the bonus modifier on the Vichy colony rolls by preventing French BBs and CV from being based in a home country port. The Japanese slowly shift units inside the front, moving a HQ towards the south. Italy is quiet, without supply in Egypt.
  Impulse 4: The French, having sniffed out the plan, move two corps into Marseilles where the fleet resides (face down). The CW port strike the Italian Sea Fleet, sinking the destroyer flotila there. The Soviets and Chinese patiently adjust their forces.
  Impulse 5: Improbably, the weather again stays clear. The Germans mass around Marseilles and assault the city with a +13 attack. Complete success takes the city, scatters the battleships, and captures the CV Bearn! More inaction from the other Axis, with minor shifting of forces in China. Italy does manage to sneak a TER into Tunis and Fr. Somaliland. 
  Impulse 6: Not much the Allies can do, so the Brits strategically bomb Germany. They are hugely successful. The Germans lose 1 BP in Hannover, 2 BPs in Dortmund, and one of those factories is destroyed. The French fear for their future.
  Impulse 7: The weather finally turns sour. The Germans start shifting forces around France and eastward. Many corps enter Vichy. The Italians again must wait for supply opportunities as they are unwilling to risk their fleet. 
  Impulse 8: The Allies decide to pass to try and end the turn early. The pass works, ending the turn (it would not have ended without the passing). The US finally picks an option, sending resources to China (no tension). A PART appears in China, occupying Tsingtao. 
  The Germans now elect to install a Vichy government. Many of their corps in Vichy are now ‘teleported’ to arrive as reinforcements in two turns. The Germans receive the -2 bonus to rolls for the colonies, and everything goes Vichy except Equatorial Africa and the Pacific territories. DeGaulle is on the spiral, and so will appear turn in the new home country–Middle Congo. The US is incensed at the action, however, giving the US +2 entry chits.

Nov/Dec 1940: The Axis win initiative again. Surprisingly, the weather starts clear. Feeling bold, the Germans take a first impulse naval and hunt convoys while repositioning part of their sub fleet (no doubt to head to Brest at turn’s end). The Kriegsmarine is rusty from inaction, however, and fails to locate any CW convoys. Germany does bring Rumania into the war, however (no US entry). Japan immediately occupies Indo-China, landing a MECH in Hanoi. The Japanese then attack and kill the PART (and the Commie DIV that popped up in the city). No US entry results and the city is taken without loss. Italy sneaks a NAV and FTR into the Eastern Med, establishing supply. A groundstrike also flips a defending CW TER. So the Italians launch a +8 blitz attack. They kill one TER, bashing an AT unit, and advance one hex (-/1B). 
  Impulse 2: The Brits go hunting. Despite sending a smallish force to hunt the Germans, a 1-10 surprise split favors the CW. The CA Blucher is sunk and the rest of the German raiders skulk home, aborting from the sea zone. The Brits do suffer the CA Effingham damaged. DeGaulle sits in Middle Congo, unable to move in the jungle without becoming disorganized (and they have no oil). The Brits declined to loan them oil at this time. China is looking stronger in the north, but their lines in the south are stretched and looking thin.
  Impulse #3: The weather turns nasty (rolled 10). The Germans reposition forces slowly and start railing units to… Bulgaria? Other units push towards Poland. The Italians lack the strength to mount another attack in Egypt in the bad weather and so wait. Japan continues to slowly shift a HQ south.
  Impulse #4 Despite the snowy weather in Europe, the Brits strategically bomb, taking 1 BP from Paris but nothing else. More quiet waiting during the poor weather for China and the USSR.
  Impulse #5: The weather stays poor. The Germans take an air action and rebase most of their air force east and south, into Bulgaria and Poland. Italy stays patient as does Japan.
  Impulse 6: The Allies all pass except for the CW, who tries to bomb again and fails to do any economic damage. The turn in fact ends.
  The US, bolstered with recent Axis provocations, selects two options, #13 Embargoing the Japanese and #14 Murrow Reports. No PARTs appear.

Jan/Feb 1941: The Allies win initiative and go first. The turn is short, filled with bad weather and the Axis only get 2 impulses. The Brits send reinforcements to Egypt, including a MECH and big INF along with a FTR. The Soviets have more or less of a line along the Dnieper River, expecting attack. The Japanese are not active in China, but instead set up to move some DIVs and naval forces to southern China. The Brits try to strategically bomb France, but fail. The Germans shove units east, including to Bulgaria.
  The turn ends on the 3rd Allied impulse (impulse 5). The US pick option 26, relocating the fleet to Pearl Harbor. No PARTs appear. 

Mar/April 1941: The Axis win initiative this turn and go first. The weather starts middling, with clear weather in the Med, but nowhere else. After a furious consultation with their Italian allies, the Germans are persuaded to declare war on Greece. Initially things go well. The groundstrikes flip both of the Greek units (defending Athens). Northern Greece, however, is in the temperate zone, which is muddy. The Germans lurch forward just a hex or two. The Italians land a corps and a MAR DIV in Palestine, aided by partisans there. The Japanese sail out ships and TRS with units in the South China Sea.
  Impulse #2: The CW port strikes Italy, sinking a SUB in a minor port. A TER and INF move back to defend eastern Egypt from the Italian incursion and the MECH moves to the Italian front, but no combat occurs. The Brits try to engage the Italians in the E. Med, but they fail to locate one another.
  Impulse #3: The Germans push south into Greece, but slowly, as the weather stays muddy in the temperate. Units redeploy to the east. In order to get through the mountains, the Germans flip some units and then reorganize them to get into the clear weather zone. The PARA moves forward and the ATR rebases to it. The Germans also reorganize their air defense over Germany and France. The Italians send NAV out to find the Brits, but again there is no combat. The Japanese are curiously passive in China, focusing on these naval moves.
  Impulse #4: The CW strategically bombs targets in France, but fails to score any hits. The US slowly moves ships to Hawaii. The Soviets seem happy with their ‘defense in depth’ position against a possible German attack. 
  Impulse #5: The weather stays the same, vexing the Axis. Snow would be better, the mud slows everything down. After consulting with the Italians, the Germans decide to try and seize Athens immediately (since the turn could easily end). First, the Italian navy sorties into the E. Med, trying to dislodge the British navy. But again, no combat occurs. So the Italian navy then supports the attack. With a PARA, one INF corps, and an invading DIV, a +11 assault occurs. Unfortunately, the relatively high odds attack is poorly executed. The PARA and invading DIV die, causing only one Greek loss (roll of ‘7’ — one less than required to succeed). Guderian reflips what remains, and if the turn continues, the Germans will have an automatic attack.
  Impulse #6: The Brits now strategically bomb Italy, but again fail to hit anything. The Soviets and Chinese wait patiently for events to develop. The Germans are frustrated again as the turn ends, allowing Greek reinforcements to bolster the defense of Athens.
  The Japanese get permission to base naval and land units in Somolialand. The US is incensed (+1 entry). Four ships and 2 DIVs are now based in Mogadishu. The US picks two options, gifting destroyers to the CW and freezing Japanese assets. No PARTs appear. 

May/June 1941: Despite having a +2 advantage, the Allies win initiative, even after the Axis ask for a reroll. The Allies move first. The weather, however, starts clear everywhere. The CW opens up striking the Italian sub in Trapani, damaging it. The Soviets makes final preparations. The US watches not very intently.
  Impulse #2 and sure enough, the Germans and Italians declare war on the USSR. Two GAR are killed in E. Poland and a +9 blitz in Lithuania succeeds. Finland is activated and the Finns take Murmansk, which was not defended. The Italians send a sizable NAV force into the Med, but no combat occurs. The Japanese use the clear weather to launch an assault on Chang-Sha, but again the attack is botched (-/-) and the situation is status quo. 
  Impulse #3 sees the CW send out some air to the E. Med, and the Italians use the opportunity to start a naval combat. The CW lose 3 CVPs and have the Ark Royal and CA Berwick damaged. The Brits then abort out of the seazone, licking their wounds at Malta. The Soviets build a line in front of the Dnieper River, feeling bucky about their army. Two ground strikes hit the front of the German lines, but they are unsuccessful. The CW bombs 2 RES and take 1 BP from Germany in strategic bombing.
  Impulse #4. The Germans and Italians use their naval victory to crush Greece. A large Italian fleet supports a +15 assault on Athens, which succeeds without loss. German attacks in Russia go less well, with a +10 assault on Riga failing (1/1) and a +10 blitz south of Kiev gets across the river at a cost (1/B). The German main army is nearing the Russian lines, which were set up in depth. The Japanese move some naval assets, but there is not much change in China.
  Impulse #5 sees the CW take a land and attack the Italians in Palestine. The +10 blitz bashes the Italian MOT, reducing the Italian presence in Palestine to one PART and one MAR DIV. The Soviets pull back behind the Dnieper except for Kiev in the south, maintaining a complete line. 
  Impulse #6. The Germans, now with Athens, activate Yugoslavia as an ally. Immediate the Yugo HQ is railed to the Baltics to help with German supply issues there. A +10 assault takes Kiev (1/2S) and a +16 blitz near Minsk is a complete success, breaking the line and overrunning a Soviet TAC. The Soviet line is still reasonably solid, but the Germans are advancing. The Japanese remain relatively passive.
  Impulse #7 and the CW try another bombing run, but fail to secure any hits. The Soviets again adjust their line, holding a line from west of the Crimea up the Dnieper, although the Germans have Kiev and one hex across the river. Minsk remains Soviet, but the line bends around German advances  up and over to Riga.
  Impulse 8 sees the Japanese lurch into action, declaring war on Iran and invading the 2 oil hex in the south. The Germans assault Krivoy Rog at +10 and take the vital resource hex without loss, rolling a natural ’20.’ The Italians meanwhile ferry a hefty German INF into Tel Aviv, reinforcing the Palestinian force. The troops in Egypt proper have done nothing for some time, although two TER are slowly crawling up the Red Sea coast into Egypt from the south.
  The turn then unexpectedly ends. Two PARTs appear in China and are placed in Shanghai, seizing the city and sadly overrunning a face-down Japanese TRS that was in the port. The US picks two options, lend-lease to the Allies and lend-lease to the Chinese. Tension is acquired in both cases. 

July-August 1941: The Axis win initiative on a tie roll as the Allies went first last turn. Weather is predictably clear except in the N. Monsoon. The Italians start by groundstriking Alexandria, flipping two units. They then launch an all-in +9 assault that results in a bloody draw (2/2).  The Germans attack twice in the USSR, a +12 blitz pocketing 4 Soviet corps in the north and a +5 assault near Dneproptevsk that fails (1/1). The Japanese start moving fleets and reorganize units to address the Partisan uprising in Shanghai.
  Impulse 2: the Soviets start railing out factories, moving Vtebsk to Tomsk. The Soviets are mostly holding the Dnieper line in the south and it is a back and forth mess in the north. The Soviets still hold Minsk and Riga, but the latter is cut off. Pskov anchors the line for the Russians in the north. The CW decides to try and remove the Axis threat from the rear of Egypt, attacking the German corps and Italian MAR in Tel-Aviv. More bloodshed with a 2/2 result, but all that is left is a PART in Haifa.
  Impulse 3: The Japanese sail out the navy and obliterates the Chinese stack in Shanghai without loss, but lose control of their victorious units, resulting in a PR nightmare as elite Japanese marines go on a rampage in the city. The American public is outraged. The Germans blitz near Pskov, getting a B result and choosing to retreat the defenders to try and pocket them. A bold blitz in the center of the southern line at +10 kills two Soviet units and the German blitzes into the rear, overruning a TAC and threatening a breakthrough. The Italians hold a precarious line in Egypt, but manage to transport a new German corps to Haifa to keep a threat there.
  Impulse 4: The Brits take a naval and a large fleet with lots of AMPHs and TRS appears in the North Sea. The Soviets rail another factory eastward and counterattack in the north, bashing a Yugoslavian unit and better securing the area around Minsk.
  Impulse 5: The Germany take a combined and try to thwart the coming British invasion. The Kriegsmarine sorties and has mixed results. They do manage to sneak a cruiser past the picket lines and sink a loaded AMPH, but the cost is 5 cruisers with the Bismarck damaged. Most of the German navy is just gone. The Brits lose 3 CAs in addition to the AMPH. Rommel is railed to defend the German coast and some TAC are rebased to the west. But as a distraction the move works, as the Germans basically do nothing in the USSR. Italy waits patiently for German help, or encouragement, so something. But two TERs from East Africa, which have been slowly moving northward finally make it adjacent to Cairo and the Suez. Japan mobilizes the fleet… a sign of things to come?
  Impulse 6: The USSR shifts another factory east (Leningrad) and launches a +8 blitz to reclaim the Dnieper river line. It succeeds with a loss (1/R). The CW makes its invasion…into the neck of Denmark. The invasion is successful with no losses. The US sends a MAR to Midway and more ships to Pearl, like usual.
  Impulse #7: The Italians push an Eithiopian TER into Cairo (unopposed). The Germans continue assaulting the Soviet line. A +13 blitz in the north succeeds, clearing around Pskov. A +14 assault on Riga, however, is bloodier (2/2), but the Germans clear the city. The Japanese are slowly moving ships and DIVs around. Units start to appear in Pacific islands….
  Impulse #8 sees the Soviets counterattack. A +12 blitz on a flank in the north kills a German GAR and allows the USSR to promote its first Guards Banner unit. The CW pulls two corps off the lines and kills the TERR in Cairo, saving Egypt (for now at least). 
  Impulse #9: The Germans go all out. A +8 assault on Pskov clears the city without loss. A +9 and +11 blitz in the south both succeed after Panzers cut a swath of Soviet units out of supply. Koniev perishes. Only one attack goes wrong, a +7 assault north of Minsk is a bloody stalemate (2/2). The Germans are advancing again, but the constant losses are starting to show. Nonetheless, the Germans have now cleared the way to Leningrad and have a full bridgehead across the Dnieper. Advance units (although out of supply) have taken Rostov.
  Impulse #10: Hasn’t the turn ended yet? The CW take the bonus impulse to launch a +11 assault on Germans defending the neck of Denmark. It is successful, killing an INF without loss. The CW MAR island hops into Copenhagen, threatening to open the Baltic to Allied naval raids. The Brits try and hit the convoys, but fail to find anything. The Soviets put their lines in some order. The north has a strong group around Minsk and hedgehog redoubts in the south, scattered from Gomel to Sevastopol, roughly long the Dnieper, but just past. They strategically retreat from Dnepropotvesk. 
  Impulse 11 and the turn continues. The Germans take a +11 blitz in the south which has mixed results (1/B) and a +12 assault in the south succeeds, killing Zhukov with some loss (1/2). The German line is now spotty with most of its units flipped, but the progress is clear. Italy contemplates attacking in Egypt, but chooses to wait. 
  Impulse #12: Nobody expects the turn to continue, but again it does. The Allies search for German convoys in the Baltic and fail. The Soviets reorganize their hedgehogs and make one attack, promoting an INF to a Guards unit on the successful attack. The CW try for combat in the Med but no fleets are spotted.
  Impulse #13: The Germans are confident they will not get another impulse, but want to make sure, so the Italians and Japanese pass while the Germans take a land action. One +8 blitz in southern Russia is a mild success (-/R). And then, of course, the turn continues.
  Impulse #14: The Allies don’t do much. The Soviets kill a German MECH behind the lines caught out of supply, promoting another INF. A lowly NKVD DIV walks into an unguarded Kiev, liberating the city. The CW protect their forces in Denmark, just north of the Kiel canal now. Three German corps are trapped in northern Denmark, but the Germans over the turn have railed additional units to the area, including a HQ and a big armor. The Chinese cling to their positions, but little action occurred there this turn. The US has just been slowly reinforcing the Pearl Fleet.
  Finally, however, the turn ends, by far the longest turn of the game. The US decides it is finally irritated at the world situation and imposes a complete oil embargo on Japan. Tension rises. Then they pass a resource lending bill to the USSR and tension rises again. The two remaining German surface ships remain on patrol in the North Sea, but the CW fleet in the Med goes home. The Brits do send an ARM to reinforce in Port Said and the Japanese navy is mostly in Truk.

Sept/Oct 1941: The Axis win initiative and elect to go first.  The weather starts clear everywhere. The Japanese take a combined and continue moving units about, mostly to the islands. A 5-1 GAR heads to Canton. The Germans try to push the Brits out of Denmark, but after massive British air support, the attack is lowered to a +4 blitz, which fails (-/-). The Germans fare no better in another attack on Kiev, trying to retake the lost city (1/-), flipping a good number of corps. They are successful, however, it taking the key city of Zap, a +8 attack clearing the city without loss. The real star of the impulse, however, it Italy. The navy sails out to the Eastern Med and a NAV heads out to the Red Sea, cutting the Egyptian forces out of supply. An inspired groundstrike flips both units defending Alexandria and the Italians assault the city, taking it without loss on an automatic attack. Another German corps debarks off an Italian TRS into Haifa, keeping pressure from the other flank as well. 
  Impulse #2: The Soviets kill the out of supply German corps in Rostov, helping to stem the bleeding there. The failed attack on Kiev seems to have improved matters for the moment, depending the weather. The CW take a naval and put Egypt back into supply. They have a large fleet in Port Said that remains there with the hope it can stay in supply for the next impulse. A second large British fleet appears (with plenty of TRS and troops) in the Western Med. The US sends CONV into the Atlantic, apparently thinking about lending resources in the future. 
  Impulse #3: The weather worsens a bit (clear in the temperate, but raining in the arctic). The Germans, trying to tip the balance in the Middle East, make a +7 assault on the British in Tel-Aviv. The attack goes horribly wrong, and everyone dies (3/1 result). The Brits have only Wavell in the area, plus some units near Alexandria. The battle in Egypt is tense. The Germans, having taken a combined, try (for the first time!) to use their subs to raid British convoys, but no convoys are found. The Italians try to establish naval dominance and risk combat in the E. Med. They get their wish, and combat ensues. The Italians lose their only TRS and the E. di Savoia sunk, but punish the British, who lose the CV Courageous and the CA Manchester (sunk). They also lose several CVPs in the battle, leaving the Italians with air superiority. The Japanese take a land and move DIVs all over. The 2 MAR in China head for Shanghai and there is a reorganization of the line in southern China.
  Impulse #4. The Soviets take a +8 blitz near Stalino, trading (1/1) and killing a German INF. Otherwise the line looks a series of loose hedgehog positions–but the Soviets are holding the line. The CW pulls back slightly in Egypt, bolstered by the arrival of an 8-6 ARM (from the start of the turn). Denmark is reinforced with airpower. 
  Impulse #5. The weather surprisingly turns clear. The Japanese take a combined and move two large stacks of ships, picking up some DIVs and corps along the way. The Italians shuffle forward in Egypt and decide on a bold, risky plan. They launch a +5 blitz against Port Said. It ‘succeeds’ (1/1), kills the British ARM, and cuts the British forces into two. The Suez Canal is closed and the Americans are incensed. This is a large swing the status of the battle for Egypt. The Germans go on an attack spree in Russia. A +9 attack on Stalino takes the city (-/1S), a +14 attack clears the last hex around Leningrad without loss, and a +10 assault on Minsk is a huge success, clearing the city without loss (-/2S).  
  And then the turns ends, but the action does not. The Brits, having lost all the ports in Egypt, decide to run reinforcements into Haifa, which they still control. The Italians NAVs on patrol, however, unexpectedly find them, sinking an AMPH, a cruiser, and damaging a TRS. None of the land units make to the Mideast. The US gears up war production finally. A PART appears in Greece, and they seize Athens, which the Brits use as a port. 

Nov/Dec 1941: The Allies win initiative despite a reroll. The weather starts mostly clear (only rain in the Arctic). The Soviets, having cleared a line to Kiev, rail out the factory there. The Chinese group up and assault the forested resource hex in southern China. The attack proves to be fateful. The Chinese take the hex and kill the Japanese INF, but suffer horrible losses (3/1) and flip almost all of their southern army. The Brits again try to seize control of the Eastern Med, but the Italians won’t let go. They intercept and sink the Terror, but also intercept and sink a TRS loaded with a MOT (headed for Palestine). No CW reinforcements are coming. The Brits exact some revenge, however, taking 3 BPs in a strategic bombing raid over Berlin. The city burns. 
  Impulse #2, starting on 7 Dec 1941, a date which will be known in England as a day of infamy, the Japanese enter the wider war. Japan declares war on the Commonwealth, France, and the NEI and use their chit points for a supercombined. The navy fans out, much of it loaded with troops. The Japanese take Rabaul, Hong Kong, three oil hexes in the NEI, Trincomalee on Ceylon, and land in Malaysia and Aden. More surprisingly, Japanese troops surprise the Commonwealth and land a MAR DIV on Kings Island in southern Australia. And the Japanese are not done. They launch a +10 assault on Chang-sha and a +12 assault in southern China, taking advantage of the disorganized Chinese army. Both attacks are complete successes, although the success did lead to some unfortunate loss of discipline in Chang-sha followed by American outrage. The southern flank of China looks exposed. Meanwhile, back in Europe, the Germans attack and kill the PART in Athens, killing a CW FTR there as well. A +9 blitz clears a hex in the neck of Denmark, bashing the CW HQ and pushing the Brits back on to the Danish islands. The Italians flow forward slowly in Egypt, pushing a unit into Palestine from the west.
  Impulse #3. The Soviets move the Rostov factory east, but no combat occurs. The Brits bomb Munich, taking 1 BP, but not much other action occurs. 
  Impulse #4. The Japanese continue forward, pushing into Burma and taking Rangoon. They hit the resource hex they lost last turn, killing the two defenders without loss on a +12 assault. The Japanese MAR on King’s Island walks into the factory city of Melbourne unopposed. Despite two turns of trying, Japanese luck in hunting CW CONVs has been poor. netting only 6 CONV across the entire Pacific after two rounds of hunting. Italians continue to slide across Egypt, surrounding the two remaining stack of CW units (in Cairo and Suez) respectively. Those CW units are out of supply, but resists 2 rounds of groundstrikes to hold firm. The Germans in the muddy weather slowly push north and east in the north, and slowly form a line from Crimea to Rostov in the south, although Kiev is still held by the Soviets. The Germans sneak out 4 CONV into the Baltic to try and reopen the Swedish ore shipments.
  Impulse #5: Snow comes to Europe. The Soviets form a line on the river going north from Rostov and rail the factory in Kalinin to the Urals. Do they think they cannot hold? The CW narrowly averts disaster, seeing that Canberra is undefended and moving a unit into defend it from the lone Japanese MAR DIV. More maneuvering occurs, but nothing else of major note. The stronghold in the Danish islands gets a buff and an attempt to find and sink the German convoys fails. The US snakes out a convoy line to the USSR via Murmansk. Apparently aid to the USSR might be coming.
  Impulse #6. The Germans use the freezing weather to make progress, attacking Leningrad at +6 and Vitebsk at +5. Both attacks are limited successes (-/1) but neither takes the hex. The Japanese land another unit in Burma, secure the country and the oil there. Another attack is made in China (auto victory), clearing another corps and opening the south even further. Italy tries to find the CW again and fails, and slowly moves units around Egypt, heading east. 
  The turn then ends. A PART appears in Russia, but the Germans are fortunate and avoid partisans in Poland and France. The US selects lend lease to the USSR, generating tension. The US still remains out of the war, but looks to be speeding towards it.

Jan/Feb 1942: The Allies win initiative and the Axis cannot ask for a reroll, so the Allies go first. The weather starts out middling, muddy and rainy. The Soviets move another factory east (Tula) but not much happens on the eastern front. The UK takes a naval and abandons the Med,  leaving four corps in Egypt to fend for themselves. The Chinese pull back their line in the south, probably saving come exposed corps.
  Impulse 2: The Japanese take a naval and fan out across the Pacific again, including a large fleet off the coast of Hawaii. They sink the lone Free French CA off the coast of Africa. Germany eliminates the pesky Greek PART without loss and shockingly takes Leningrad in the snow on a +9 assault thanks to the winterized Finnish forces. A land route to the Swedish ore opens. Italy slowly shuffles units across the north of Egypt, pushing towards Palestine while keeping the CW forces trapped.
  Impulse 3: The Allies play passively. The CW shuffle troops and reinforce Gibraltar. Strategic bombing again hits hard, taking 3 BPs from the Germans. The Soviets hedgehog in the north but continue to slowly build a line in the south.
  Impulse 4: The Japanese strike as predicted, launching a surprise raid on Pearl Harbor. Somehow, despite plenty of warning, the Americans are well and truly surprised, not thinking the Japanese would attack them. The US pays for their lethargy in a rather spectacular fashion. The US loses four fleet class CVs and a CA, while the BB Arkansas and New Orleans are damaged. The Japanese took an air action to send basically every CVP they have at the Americans. The Germans kill a Soviet PART but otherwise do not do much. Italy picks up a German corps from Greece and sends it to Egypt.
  To the dismay of the Japanese, who were clearly ready with invasions across the Pacific, the turns ends on a ‘1’ at its earliest possibility. To add insult to injury, three Soviet PARTs appear behind German lines. Since it is the start of 1942, the various economies are all larger with increased war production. The US passes War Appropriations and enters the war in the Pacific.

Mar/April 1942: The Axis win initiative despite an Allied demand for a reroll. The weather starts mostly muddy across the USSR. The Germans take a land and work on clearing the way for the summer offensive. 2 Sov PARTs are killed, Vitebsk is taken (+8 assault, no losses), and an attack in the south at the neck of Crimea fails (1/-). The Italians, however, do better, flipping all of the CW forces in Egypt and successfully clearing Egypt of all Allied forces in two high odds attacks. The Italians now have corps streaming eastward. The Japanese take a naval, setting up naval forces filled with troops, but leave a large contingent in Truk. 
  Impulse #2: The CW bomb again, taking 2 BPs from Praha, but another raid fails to find its target. The US decides to make it truly a global conflict, declaring war on Germany and Italy (60% chance succeeds). US naval forces send troops to Scotland and reinforcements towards Hawaii.
  Impulse 3: Italy aligns Iraq with 4 corps in Transjordan. Italians and Germans stream towards Iran. Germany spends 2 chit points to relocate subs to Brest and raid convoys. He does find and sink 3 CW CONV, but that is all. Japan shifts units and advances in southern China.
  Impulse 4: The US activates Mexico as an ally. The CW shifts out of the Med, basically abandoning it for the time being. A TER defends Malta and an INF defends Gibraltar. The Soviet line slowly gets bigger and longer. The Chinese huddle.
  Impulse 5: The weather stays middling, The Germans take a combined and try to raid convoys, but fail to find anything. Italy continues a fun shuffle eastwards from Egypt across Jordan into Iraq towards Iran and presumably the southern Soviet border. Japan marches invade Madagascar, taking the major port. They also invade south of Legaspi in the Philippines and move a MAR on to northern Luzon.
  Impulse 6: A quiet turn for the Allies. The Soviets await the Germans in a static line running from Kalinin to the Crimea, anchored at Rostov. 
  Impulse 7: Improbably the turn continues and the weather clears a bit (clear in temperate, rainy in arctic). The Germans use the break in weather to assault Smolensk, failing to take the city on a +11 assault (1/1). The extra impulse helps push more corps into Iraq, ever so slowly. An Italian NAV rebases to Denmark.
  Impulse 8: The turn still does not end and it is another quiet turn for the Allies. The US sends planes to the Pacific, including a TAC into the Aleutian Islands.
  The turn finally ends. PARTs appear in the USSR, 3 of them. One liberates Pskov. The economies are humming now, churning out war material.

May/June 1942: The Axis win initiative. The Allies debate asking for a reroll, but elect not to do so. The decision might turn out to be important. The weather starts clear (except, of course, for the north monsoon zone). The Germans take a land and send out a NAV point into the Baltic. Given that they hold western Denmark, the CW units in Denmark fall out of supply–including a sizable navy. The Luftwaffe then strikes, flipping both of the defending corps on the main island. The Germans blitz them away (-/1B) and gain purchase on the island, threatening to reclaim all of Denmark and close the Skagerrak. Elsewhere the Germans attack in the east, blitzing into the Crimea on a +15 blitz (suc) and taking Smolensk in a bloody affair (2/2). The way east to Moscow is now clear. The Italians move a German INF to Tel Aviv and again slowly push 3 corps an impulse east into Iraq. The Japanese reinforce Kwajalein and move a unit towards Manilla, taking the resource point.
  Impulse 2: The CW in a bold and fearless move, double-down on their Baltic operations. They move two TRS into the Baltic with a fleet to re-establish supply. The Italians react to reinforce the Germans in the sea zone with NAV. Combat ensures, and the CW suffers the Queens damaged along with the CA Glasgow. The main reinforcements to Copenhagen are diverted. Combat then stops, but the Brits do get their supply lines back up. The Soviets continue to be patient, inviting German attacks as they build up. The Soviets send some ships into the Black sea to secure the Kerch straits.
  Impulse 3: The weather remains the same. The Germans push into Crimea, pocketing Sevastopol and use their last chit points to send out the Romanian destroyer fleet to allow an attack across the strait. The +7 blitz secures a retreat and sees the Germans push across, but at some cost (1/R). A +11 assault on Pskov (a PART and INF) is successful without loss. The Italians push onto the Asian map in Iraq, with aircraft now rebasing to Iraq as well. The Japanese push south on Madagascar towards the capital and move another corps to Luzon island to reinforce the MAR there, closing in on Manilla.
  Impulse 4: The Brits remain cheeky. They move out the now in-supply fleet from Copenhagen, and with the MAR and a DIV invade Gydansk on the Baltic. An ARM from England comes into the the Baltic as well. The Italians try to sink the convoys of troops, but fail to find the CW. The invasion is successful and an 8-6 ARM reinforces Copenhagen–a vital city that is keeping the Baltic open for the CW. Every impulse with naval searches is high drama. The Soviets rail units to the new forming Caucasus Front and push into northern Iran. The US remains coy, keeping units in Scotland and shifting NAV and air to the Pacific.
  Impulse 5: The weather remains clear and so the Germans kill two PARTs in the USSR and attack Kiev at +12 and clear the city without loss. Italy tries to find the Brits in the Baltic with their NAV but fails. Japan takes a combined and slowly shifts units in the central Pacific.
  Impulse 6: The US sends TRS loaded with troops to the Baltic to reinforce. Italian NAV find the fleet this time, sinking the last AMPH (though without troops) and damaging the Revenge. The troops make it through, however. The CW MAR walks into Konigsberg and the US troops land in Copenhagen and Konigsberg. The Chinese continue to sit and hold their line, which has now stabilized. The Soviets maintain a hedgehog line, although the Germans are pushing through the Crimea.
  Impulse 7: The last remaining Soviet PART is killed and a +7 blitz just across the straits at Novoss clears Soviet defenders (1/B but all defenders had no retreat and died). A southern path to the Caucasus has opened. The Italians again search to sink more of the CW fleet, but fail. Panic Italian and German units rail to cities in Poland and Lithuania. Japan takes another combined. Additional units arrive in the Philippines and the MAR DIV takes Madagascar.
  Impulse 8: The CW run a FTR on a TRS into the Baltic to help matters. The Italians find the fleet and damage the Royal Sovereign and the Shropshire, but the FTR makes it through to port. Some ships are aborted into Konigsberg. Copenhagen is now fully defended and there is a growing beachhead around Kongisberg. Additional strategic bombing occurs, and 1 BP and 1 Res are taken. The Soviets rail some units to the gates of the Caucasus and push into Iran to counter the growing threat there.
  Impulse 9: The turn continues. Italy declares war on Saudia Arabia and occupies the oil fields there. Another attempt is made to expel the Brits from the Baltic, but no combat occurs. The Germans attack Kursk at +14 and succeed without loss. More Germans push across the Kerch straits. The Japanese take a land, using the clear weather, and assault a resource point in southern China. The attack fares poorly (rolled a natural ‘2’) and two Japanese corps are killed on the +4 assault.
  Impulse 10: The Allies, worried about their position in the Baltic, elect to pass. The turn ends. 
  One PART appears in China. The British navy rebases back to Britain except for 3 BBs and one TRS that could only reach Baltic ports. Those are in Kongsberg. A FTR and cruiser keep supply in the Baltic. 

July/Aug 1942: A critical turn for the war. The Axis win initiative. The weather is clear and the Germans and Italians launch a nasty plan in the Baltic. Both takes combined actions and send masses of NAV and FTRs to the North Atlantic and Baltic and activate combat. The CW is ready, sending FTR cover into the Atlantic. The Germans roll well and the on-loan Soviet admiral placed in charge of naval forces turns out to be incompetent. A horrific 2-10 split faces the CW. They are not afraid, however, as they have a massive FTR advantage. The Germans use all of their surprise to lower the Allied attack rolls and the tactic works: no CW units are harmed, but one Italian NAV sneaks through and manages to abort the last surface ship. Another round of combat sees some NAV aborted, but in the end a NAV remains, cutting supply to the Baltic. The CW know what is coming but cannot prevent it. 4 German TAC strike Copenhagen, flipping every single unit (including planes). A +13 assault is then made against the out of supply units, and the Germans retake Copenhagen, closing the Skaggerak and cutting off the Allied beachhead in Poland/East Prussia. The attention in Europe, however, leaves the Germans passive on the Eastern front in July. Japan reinforces Melbourne with a corps. 
  Impulse #2: The Brits, licking their wounds, decide to inflict some damage of their own and take an air action. First, a NAV in Australia strikes and sinks the lone Japanese AMPH in Melbourne. British bombers darken the skies of Germany, taking 2 res points and 1 BP from the Germans in 5 strikes. Alexander then reorganizes most of that air fleet. The US shifts planes to the Pacific and send TRS back to the US for more troops to aid in the European conflict. The Soviets sail the Black Sea fleet and sink the Rumanian destroyer fleet, placing the Germans across the Kerch strait out of supply. As the Russians still hold Rostov and the river line that runs north, it is unclear how the Germans will maintain supply there. They have one loan Rumanian CONV to get it done. Russians move further into Iran and take up positions near Grozny. 
  Impulse #3: The Germans go on the offensive in the USSR. They take a decent attack north of Rostov, but the sole Soviet TAC clears against the German FTR cover, dropping the attack to a +5 blitz. The attack marginally succeeds (-/B) but flips half of the attackers. A +9 assault on Kharkov inflicts casualties but fails to take the city and flips a large number of German corps (-/1). A +7 attack on Kalinin fails entirely (-/-). The Germans use several HQs to reorganize much of their army. A few units move towards the Allied beachhead (now cut out of supply) in E. Prussia. The Italians relocate their AMPH to Italy and slowly move units towards the Iranian front. Japan takes a naval, moving some units to islands and picking up a FTR off the coast of China on a TRS. 
  Impulse #4: The CW bombs again, taking a BP from Munich and hitting the oil hex in Austria. The Soviets continue to be patient, defending the Donets river line to Rostov in the south and hedgehog positions in the north. Units move up towards the German line across the Kerch strait. 
  Impulse #5: With the army reinvigorated, the Germans continue their summer push, but find it a bloody affair. A risky assault against Rostov (+4) fails (-/-), flipping much of the southern army. A +7 blitz succeeds in crossing the Donets river line, but a MECH is lost (1/B). A second assault on Kalinin takes the city, but at some cost (2/2). The Italians take a land and move corps in Europe towards the E. Prussian beachhead (railed into the area last turn) and still slowly push to meet the Soviets in Iran. A line of contact has been established. Japan takes a combined and pushes up units against Manila, now surrounding the city. Another unit is sent to Melbourne to reinforce the area, including a HQ.
  Impulse #6: With so many German units disorganized in the south, the Soviets elect to counterattack. A +9 blitz bashes a German HQ and cuts a MECH and ARM out of supply (flipped) in the Donets river bend around Rostov (-/B). With most of the German airforce expended and most of the units similarly flipped, the threat is real. The Soviets also catch the Romanian DD fleet and put the Germans across the Kerch straits out of supply. Lastly, a lone MECH dashes south and cuts the supplies to the Germans in the center of the line as well. A vicious dance begins for the remainder of the turn, where the stretched Germans try to re-establish supply to their mostly flipped army and the Soviets move to block it. The CW takes a naval, moving the navy to defend convoys and sending sizable surface forces south towards S. Africa. The NEI fleet attacks the Japanese in the S. China Sea, surprising them and sinking a TRS loaded with a FTR. 
  Impulse #7: The Germans take a combined and send the Romanian merchant fleet out to establish supply. The Soviets try but fail to stop the effort. The newly resupplied army attacks the Krasnodar oil hex, but fails (1/- on a +6 blitz), flipping four high quality units in addition to the loss. The Germans push some corps in the center to relink their HQs with the needed rail lines, but the situation is tense. The Japanese invade Noumea and try to find some British picket cruisers, but fail to do so. 
  Impulse #8: The Soviets take a combined, try to find the Romanian supply fleet, and fail. They do, however, manage to attack and kill (without loss) *both* of the isolated armor units of the Germans next to Rostov. The line there is repaired and an ARM is promoted to Guards Banner.  Units in the north again cut supply to Army Group Center by inching forward to place railhexes in zones of control. The CW takes another naval. The US meanwhile has been quiet, mostly slowly moving units to the Hawaiian islands and some units to the UK. The FTR and NAV presence in the Pacific is growing. 
  Impulse #9: The Germans make no attacks, but again shift a few units to put the center into supply. Now that the southern flank has supply for the moment, the Germans shift some forces there and use an ATR to reorganize a MECH next to Krasnodar. The Italians take another combined, putting an additional NAV in to the Western Med. A German groundstrike on Malta fails, but the purpose of some Italian moves is now clearer. The Japanese take a naval. Despite solid efforts, convoy raids off the coast of Africa fail, as do attempts to find the CW CA near Australia. 
  Impulse #10: The Soviets, feeling increasingly bold, push out from Kharkov, extending the attempt to pocket the center of the Germans. This time the Soviets are not able to put the Germans out of supply, but they are close. An attempt to find and sink the Romanians again fails. No attacks are made. The CW takes a land and uses the impulse to shift units around in England and Australia and India. China, per usual, hunkers down and awaits Japanese attacks that do not come. 
  Impulse #11: The turn continues. Germany, with its army mostly flipped but in supply, takes a naval. The surface fleet and subs spread out, attacking four sea zones filled with Allied convoys. Only one attack lands, however, sinking two CONV and aborting another. Combat then ends. The Italians finally get their two HQs near enough to the Iranian line to put everything in supply there. The long supply line runs to Baghdad and then out over the water through the Suez canal back to Italy and Germany.  Japan takes another naval and finally finds that pesky CW cruiser, sinking the Gloucester without loss. But the turn does not end….
  Impulse #12: The Soviets take advantage of the opportunity. On a combined, the Black Sea fleet finally finds the Romanian ships and sinks them, cutting supply to the southern German army. A +9 attack on Prince Paul (yes, the Yugoslavians were providing supply for the Germans….) kills it without loss and the situation in the south look precarious for the Germans. It also looks worrisome in the center, where the arrival of a Soviet ARM that had been pushing up cuts supply to the center again. All this is made worse as the turns ends. The CW, Chinese, and US do not do anything of particular note. The turn ends with no PARTs appearing. 

Sept/Oct 1942: As long as July/August was, this turn was destined to be short. The Axis win initiative despite an Allied attempt at a reroll. The weather, however, turns muddy and stormy, making life difficult for the Germans trying to supply their armies. The Germans manage to put the center into supply again and rail reinforcements into the Donets basin. The Italians take a land and close in around E. Prussia. Japan takes a naval, shifting units around, including sending a bunch of slow battleships to Hong Kong (probably for use against the Philippines, which is still US held). 
  Impulse #2: The Soviets, also newly reinforced but on the front lines, pushes up against the Germans in the south and moves more units to the northern flank of Amry Group Center (to the east of Gomel), threatening to double-down on the center pocket. The CW takes a naval and defends convoys. The US shifts 2 FTRs and a MECH to the UK and a MAR and planes to Midway. A MAR DIV arrives in Pago Pago. 
  Impulse #3: The weather stays muddy. The Italians take an air and finish putting a large NAV and FTR force on the coast of the Black Sea, but without an HQ there, they are *just* out of supply in the bad weather, not able to trace to any of the minor country capitals. The Soviet blockage of the Black Sea continues. The Germans flip a unit to retake a key rail line that puts the center back into supply again, but the lines are thin and with much of the center army still flipped (could not reorganize at the end of last turn because isolated), the situation remains dicey. The Soviets do not, however, appear to have enough power to actually reduce the pocket. Additional German air power arrives to provide support. The Japanese appear to set up for something on their combined.
  Impulse #4: The Soviets again push a unit to cut a key rail hex with a ZOC and put the center back out of supply. The back-and-forth supply battle has been fun to watch. No attacks are made in the rain, but the Soviet line is getting bigger and the Germans in the north are near Moscow, but their army is quite small there. The Soviet forces around Moscow now outnumber the Germans and there is a large gap in the lines from Kalinin to Gomel. The UK and US do naval things, mostly repositioning. Bombing by the UK fails. And then, the turn unexpectedly ends (10% chance), leaving large portions of the German army still out of supply as winter approaches. Worse, Chinese PARTs appear, and one group seizes control of Shanghai, just in time for communist reinforcements next turn to bolster the partisans in the Japanese rear. 
  Commentary: The start of Jul/Aug was a *huge* win for the Axis, isolating the dangerous Allied beachhead in E. Prussia and threatening massive losses for the Soviets. By the end of Sept/Oct, the German army in the USSR looks vulnerable and the Allied beachhead in E. Prussia remains (although still out of supply). The US build up in Hawaii is finally starting to look like it might pose a threat and the Japanese are struggling to exploit their early impressive gains. There is a big Japanese army around Canberra, but it does not look like they are in a position to conquer Australia just yet. The Philippines remains. The Japanese have Madagascar, but their land forces are severely stretched, especially now in China. They have lots of punch left to be sure, but will it be too diffuse to be effective? The clear weather in the Pacific is arriving, so we shall see! This game is surprisingly close in this war reporters estimation. More excitement to come!

Nov/Dec 1942: The Axis win initiative and the weather remains muddy except in the Pacific. The Japanese start with an assault on Manila, but MacArthur thwarts the effort (2/1 attack on +5 attack). The Germans keep fighting in Russia, taking a hex north of the Dnipro River (+16 att, 1/2S result) and taking Tabriz in Iran on a +5 assault (2/2, but takes hex). The Italians shift aircraft.
  Impulse #2 and the Allies are fairly passive. The US moves plans and DIVs around the Pacific, but is tentative around the large Japanese fleet at Truk. The CW takes an air and strategically bombs, but does not get much (1 BP and 1 Res taken from France). The Russians hold the line.
  Impulse #3: The weather stays muddy so the Axis mostly shift forces. The Japanese reposition to move more troops to the Philippines. The Italians don’t do much and the Germans consolidate forces in the USSR, railing more troops from the west.
  Impulse #4: The Soviets create enough of a local force advantage in the north to launch an assault on Kalinin. The +19 attack when the dust clears eliminates the German defenders without loss. Elsewhere in the Allied world, things are quiet. 
  Impulse #5: The weather surprisingly clears and the Axis resume offensive operations. The Japanese attack a PART in Hangchow at +10 and retake the city without loss. Italian forces liberate Konigsberg from the now withering Allied landings in the Baltic since the reclosure of the Skaggerak. The Germans kill an out of supply Soviet MECH and launch a +15 assault against Gdansk (1/2) that clears the city and the coast of the Allied forces. Only one pocket of Americans remain. The final four CW ships (2 SCS and a TRS) all die horrible deaths. The turn then ends.

Jan/Feb 1943: The new year brings new hope, but for whom? The Axis win initiative but the weather is muddy, except in the N. Monsoon. The Japanese attack Manila again, this time finding complete success on a +7 assault. They also kill a PART in Tsintao. The last two isolated American units in Poland are killed by the Germans. German attacks against the Soviets are also successful, with a +7 assault (-/1s) and +13 assault (suc) clearing two more units.  
  Impulse #2: The Soviets find a weak spot in the German line and threaten a breakthrough in the center of the line, but German air saves the day, lowering the assault to +7. The attack fails (1/-). The CW takes a naval and starts sending naval units towards Africa. The Pacific heats up as the US invades Majuro, taking the key port island in the Mariannas.
  Impulse #3: The Japanese will have none of the American aggression. They post fleets astride the island, ground strike the MAR there with carrier air, and invade. The final +6 invasion succeeds at a cost (2/1), but the Japanese reclaim the island. The Italians finally have their act together and, after ground striking the TER there, invade and take Malta without loss. The Italians are the masters of the Med. The Allies currently only have Gibraltar as a port in the entire Med. The Germans struggle to keep their army on the other side of the Kerch Straits in supply. There are 6 corps there currently out of supply after the Soviets sank the Rumanian fleet.
  Impulse #4: The CW invade Trincomalee in Ceylon, reclaiming the major port. Status quo for the rest of the world except the US, who send out a fleet to hunt Japanese ships and a sizeable air contingent to hunt Japanese carriers on both sides of Majuro. They are unable to find anything, however.
  Impulse #5: The weather clears a bit. The Germans use the opportunity to attack the Soviets in Kivroy Rog, who popped up there after PARTs liberated the city. The attack goes awry, however (2/1) despite the +10 attack. The Japanese hope to remain hidden in the open waters of the Pacific. 
  Impulse #6: The Americans try again and fail to find the Japanese forces. The CW bombs Germany, but has a rough time of it, only taking 1 Res in France. There is little movement in the Soviet Union or in China.
  Impulse #7: The Germans take a combined and try to hunt convoys, but fail to find anything. The Italians sail the fleet, presumably headed for Malta. 
  Impulse #8: The turn continues improbably, but there is not much to be done. The US try to find the Japanese fleet and again fail to provoke combat. The turn then ends. Several PARTs appear in the USSR, liberating Pskov and Odesa.

Mar/April 1943: The Allies finally win initiative and go first. The Soviets see an opportunity and attack Rommel in the USSR, but the attack is poorly done, only resulting in retreat (-/R) on a +10 blitz. The CW takes a naval and there is a huge shift of forces, including sizable elements moving to the Indian Ocean. A force cuts off the Persian Gulf, potentially cutting the Saudi and Iranian oil from the Axis. A cruiser force raids the S. China Sea, killing 4 Japanese CONV. The US pushes small units forward in the south Pacific, including sizable air elements. A huge set of naval reinforcements is coming–but not until Sept ’43. 
  Impulse #2: The Italian air force finally clears the Black Sea of Russian surface ships, damaging the Paris Commune and freeing up supply for the German army across the straits. The Germans immediately start pulling back towards Kerch. The Germans also retake Pskov on a +8 assault (1/2S). The Japanese try to retake Shanghai, which had been surprise liberated by PARTs last turn. The attack fails, however (1/1) and the city holds. The Japanese forget to rebase a NAV to cover the S. China sea, which will prove costly. 
  Impulse #3: The CW strike again, sinking 6 more CONV in the S. China Sea. The Soviets continue their delicate dance, trying not to give the Germans any easy attacks. The German line is solid but thin, with no real reserves. The Germans constantly struggle to garrison cities to prevent PART activities. More German units are also being deployed in the west. The Americans are conservative, but have TRS out, moving units and air deeper into the Pacific. Is there a plan brewing?
  Impulse #4: Italy takes a naval and moves out the main fleet into the Red Sea. The Germans kill a PART north of Odesa. The Japanese finally send a kill fleet to the S. China Sea and punish the CW, sinking two Dutch ships and scattering the rest of the CW navy there. 
  Impulse #5: The rest of the world is relatively quiet, with minor adjustments to the lines. The weather is generally muddy, however, so this is no surprise.
  Impulse #6: The Germans take a combined and go convoy hunting, but again are frustrated. They lose a SUB damaged. Not much else happens.  The Japanese push units towards Shanghai again, hoping to build up and take the city. 
  Impulse #7: The turn surprisingly continues, and then the weather clears. The CW invade Bushere in Iran, taking the oil hex from the Japanese (it was placed out of supply). The CW also bombs again, taking 1 BP and 2 Res from the Germans. In one epic fight, the CW lost 2 FTRs and one STRAT to a loss of 3 German FTRs over Paris. The Chinese decide to contribute and assault in the mountains of northern China. The (1/1) result is labeled a victory by Mao although they do not take the hex. The Soviets take a +13 blitz near Smolensk and are successful in opening a small breach in the German line. 
  The turn then ends. The Germans are fortunate an avoid PARTs in the USSR with excellent anti-PART rolls. The US rebases a large number of units and planes into the minor ports still controlled by the Allies in the NEI. This threatens air projection into the S. China Sea. 

May/June 1943: The Axis win initiative and the weather starts clear (except in the N. Monsoon per usual). The Germans pull back their line, countering the pesky Soviet breach in their line. Reinforcements flood along the Atlantic Wall, which now looks increasingly stout. The Italians send their main fleet to control the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. An AMPH follows with a MAR into the E. Med. The Japanese take a naval and position surface fleets for support operations, and there are units on AMPH and TRS in the S. China Sea. CONV ruptures are addressed from last turn. They also put the US units in the NEI out of supply, trying to counter the threat.
  Impulse #2: The CW make a daring raid, sending 3 cruisers into the Med. They dodge a picket of Italian NAV in the W. Med and push into the E. Med, where they find and surprise the Italians, whose covering NAV were of no use. The Italian AMPH and the MAR sink to the bottom of the Med. The CW then abort out, once again dodging the searching Italian aircraft. The CW now have several CVs and some quality ships operating in the Indian Ocean. The Soviets attack Smolensk at +6 after German air clear. The result is (1/1) and the Germans keep the city, but Zhukov reflips the attacking Soviet units. The US, on a naval, re-establishes supply to the NEI forward units and snakes more units to the area. In Europe, the US moves are sluggish, but slowly US units and aircraft are appearing in western England. 
  Impulse #3: The weather remains clear. 

To be continued… game in progress.