Sept/Oct 1939: The conflagration begins. Poland defends in depth forward on the frontier as the Germans have only a light presence in E. Prussia. Germany then makes a bold blitz attack in the rear of the Polish line, and finds complete success (rolled ’18’ on +10 blitz) allowing the panzers to blitz into Warsaw and Lodz. Italy tries to sponsor peace talks, but finds none of the Allies are willing to enter into genuine negotiations. Japan signs a pact with the USSR in exchange for some resources and oil, and then immediately unleashes a +12 assault on Chengchow, which succeeds (rolled ’12’). The troops are well controlled, and foreign observers are impressed with the discipline of the Japanese army. 
  Impulse #2: The French and CW aggressively declare war on Germany, causing cries of outrage from the US (-2 chits). The CW take a naval and defend their convoy lines. The French raid into the Baltic with a sub and 3 SCS. The Germans defend with a NAV, but the French find nothing. The USSR, predicting the rapid demise of the Poles, occupies E. Poland, irritating American opinion further. Comrade Cobblin thinks about taking the Baltic States, but calmer heads prevail, noting the absence of any leeway in U.S. public opinion (no chits in the European entry pool). China still has a solid front line north to south, and just advances some W units towards the front.
  Impulse #3: The weather is middling, with clear in the temperate but rain in the North Monsoon. Japanese generals grumble. Germany starts by declaring war on Denmark and seizing all the ports. More than half of the CONV scamper away to England, but the light cruisers are all sunk. The Germans try to clear Poland, but an attack on Posnan goes awry (1/2 on a +14 assault), flipping a large portion of the Wehrmacht. The Italians move men and material around the Med. The Japanese aggressive expand their campaign in China, launching a +14 assault in southern China on the coast that kills an Inf corps. 
  Impulse #4: CW troops, allegedly en route to France, get diverted. The CW land in force in northern Denmark. Gort, a MECH, and an INF Div all land, along with TAC and NAV. They land on friendly soil next to a German Mech Div, then attack and bash it, clearing northern Denmark for CW operations. The French look across the border at the German army streaming westward and hope the Brits come through. The Soviets bide their time, but send most of the Far East Army westward. China continues to hold a line, but it is starting to look a bit thinner.
  Impulse #5: The weather worsens considerably. The Germans inch back toward France, the Japanese and Italians are quiet.
  Impulse #6: The Allies revel in the bad weather, hopeful for the campaign season to be over for the turn. The Brits take a combined to rearrange some CONV lines. Not much happens.
  Impulse #7: The weather suddenly clears and the Germans go nuts, declaring war on the Netherlands. The country falls without much fanfare, although poor performance costs the Germans a DIV on the +17 assault on Amsterdam (1/2S). The TRS and most of the CONV survive to fight with the CW, but the SUB and one SCS are sunk. The Japanese boldly try to push into southern China, taking a +7 assault. It goes badly (2/1), costing the Japanese a MIL and a DIV. 
  The turn then ends, with Poland conquered, and Denmark and the Netherlands incompletely conquered. No partisans appear, but Japan rebases units to Italian territories, irritating public opinion in the US.

Nov/Dec 1939: The Axis win initiative and the weather starts out clear worldwide. The Germans are quick to take advantage, declaring war on Belgium and annihilating them in high odds attacks. The first row from Antwerp to Liege is all taken. The Italians look up with mild curiosity, but continue to send forces to Libya. Japan refuses to relent, shifting to the north and attacking the mountain hex north of Si-an at +7. This time, the attack succeeds, (-/1), although the army is flipped. 
  Impulse #2: The USSR occupies the Baltics, but no one seems to care. The CW navalizes and protects their convoy lines, setting up to get a full pipeline next turn. The NAV in Denmark flies out into the Baltic, but no CONV are located. France pushes up to defend a forward line in Belgium, but with no British troops in France,  the line is thin. The USSR pushes forward into Poland and the Baltic states, aggressively posturing their army. 
  Impulse #3: The Germans are surprised to find that the weather stays clear. They take advantage launching a +13 blitz (succeeds with */B) and a +18 assault that kills the last Belgian unit. The Germans exploit the blitz attack, creating a breakthrough. A French HQ used support in the first attack, and is now flanked by Germans, disorganized and looking lonely.  The Japanese use the weather to declare war on Iran and occupy its southern oil fields. The US is incensed and the entry pool is growing. Italy continues to wait and watch.
  Impulse #4: Panic sets in all around France. The line is pulled back but re-established. Pleas for the promised CW fall on deaf ears. Instead, the CW send more NAV to Denmark and raid the Baltic again. This time, they find German FTR cover, that aborts both of the planes. 
  Impulse #5: The weather finally sours, but mud does not stop the Germans. They roll into Lille unopposed and kill the French HQ in an automatic assault. The Japanese use naval support to take another southern coastal hex on a +14 assault, advancing without loss. Intense negotiations appear to be happening between Italy and Germany. Might they soon enter the war?
  Impulse #6: The Allies decide the best way to save France is to get to the winter. All Allies pass, and it works. They get exactly the roll needed to end the turn with the passes. 
  Belgium is incompletely conquered, the Germans are in a hex in France, and Japan looks like it is performing a wide right hook in northern China. No partisans appear as the Brits pass their roll against Japanese funded Malay rebels. 

Jan/Feb 1940: The Axis again win initiative, but the weather is wintery. The Germans kill a lone unit defending near Rouen and advance their forces into northern Denmark and into France. The Japanese use the clear season in the north monsoon zone to attack, killing another Chinese unit on a +12 assault (-/2S). 
  Impulse #2: The CW again sortie with NAV and TAC into the Baltic. Again, they find no CONV. The Brits advance a force under Wavell into western Egypt, facing down the Italians near (but not on) the border with Libya. It almost seems as if the Brits are daring the Italians to enter the war. France Pulls back another few hexes to consolidate forces. The Chinese also start to pull back in both the north and south as Japanese attacks have thinned the line considerably.
  Impulse #3: The weather stays bad, so the Germans decide to go CONV raiding while Italy decides the time has come to enter the war, declaring on both France and the CW. Italian sub raids do small damage (2 CONV sunk) but little else. The Germans raid in the North Atlantic, slipping past the picket fleet in the North Sea, but they find nothing. In their combined, they also clear Rouen on a +17 assault, killing one French unit. The Japanese attack a resource hex in southern China, but despite the +14 assault, find it hard going (1/1).
  Impulse #4: The CW decide to go hunting and send a fleet to locate the Kriegsmarine in the North Atlantic, but they find nothing. More hunting in the Baltic also yields nothing, even though the CW now also have a FTR in the area as well. The French continue to ask where the BEF is as the Brits have yet to attack out of their northern Danish beachhead. 
  Impulse #5:  The British now find disaster as the Germans take a combined and locate the CONVs in the N. Atlantic, avoiding the hunting fleet twice, sinking the CA Effingham and 6 CONV besides (and aborting 4 more). The weather is terrible so not much else happens, with no attacks or movement on the mainland in France. The Japanese army is expended for the turn. The Italians lurch forward in Egypt, advancing to meet Wavell, but no combat occurs. Italian forces seize French and British Somaliland. 
  The turn then ends. A pro-Italian PART appears in Palestine and envoys have officially invited the Italians to liberate Palestine from their British oppressors. The US has yet to take an entry option, despite a considerable collection of chits in the entry pools. 

Mar/April 1940: The Axis win initiative despite a demanded re-roll, and the weather turns completely clear. The Italians lead off by sneaking a cruiser off the coast of Egypt and pushing a MECH east of Wavell to put the forward elements of the CW out of supply. The TAC then so their job, disorganizing Wavell. The subsequent +12 blitz attack annihilates the Western Desert Force and the path to Alexandria is clear! The Germans, not to be outdone, play a O-chit and crush two French armies, exploiting next to Paris in two hexes. The French are reeling, but fortunately the amazing BEF is no doubt going to save the day. Japan thinks about a low-odds assault on Si-an, but instead shifts units south and attacks southern China, killing a CAV without loss on a +14 blitz, using their new MECH corps.
  Impulse #2: The CW takes a naval, flies out into the Baltic, sends a kill fleet into the Med, and spreads out to defend  CONVS while repairing some damage from last turn. The Baltic and Med fleets find nothing, however, to the mounting frustration of the Brits. The French pull back and launch a bold counter-attack. After TAC clears, the odds drop to a +3 blitz, but French elan comes through! The German ARM is bashed, the French army remains steadfast, retaking a key hex next to Paris. The Chinese decide to pull back now that their line is being stretched from Lan-Chow all the way around to the southern shore. 
  Impulse #3: The Japanese lead off, clearing a mountain rail hex on a +10 assault, half-flipping in the endeavor (-/1S). The Italians surge forward, seeking to punish the CW for naively thinking that the Med is anything but an Italian lake, but they are immediately humbled as some cheesy CVP shoots down the Italian NAV without loss. The Italians do manage to hold on to supply, however. Germany eliminates another French corps on an automatic attack, despite the rain. 
  Impulse #4: The French come to play, sending most of their fleet into the eastern Med to help the Brits hunt the Italian supply ships. The CW also send more naval units to the area, but the new camouflage on the Italian cruisers thwarts their efforts. Supply to Egypt remains! The Chinese decide to pull back again, leaving Chang-Sha fully defended but otherwise isolated. The Soviets are pushing up to the German frontier in Poland, apparently trying to posture and force the Germans to send units there….
  Impulse #5: The weather stays muddy in Europe, but clear in the Med. The Germans again munch French units on the wings, closing around Paris. The attacks (+19, auto) succeed. The Italians decide to throw caution to the wind and launch a daring +10 blitz south of Alexandria to break the line. The attack retreats the Egyptian TER, but opens a hole in the CW line and leaves Cairo undefended. The Italian HQ flips, but the lead MECH remains operational and surges forward. The Japanese spend the turn flipping forward in China (bad weather) and reinforcing in the south. 
  Impulse #6:  The Allies huddle around Paris, push Soviet troops westward in Poland, and hold a thin yellow line in China. The CW again tries to find German and Italian naval assets, but fails again. The Axis look ready to take Paris with decent weather, but the turn ends and the Allies get a reprieve.
  The US suddenly lurches into action, sending resources to China and occupying Greenland and Iceland. Only the latter prompts tension. No PARTs appear, althoug the CW did manage to eliminate the Palestinian PART earlier in the turn.

May/June 1940: Germany sends massive economic aid to Italy (6R 1 oil), hoping the investment will pay dividends. The Axis win initiative and the weather starts clear. Despite calls from El Duce to attack Paris, the Germans instead move to completely encircle Paris, taking a +19 and +15 blitz on French units around Paris. Both succeed without loss and the Germans have 5 hexes around Paris now. The Japanese continue their relentless aggression in China, attacking Si-an on a +10 assault. The preparation paid off, as the troops perform brilliantly (rolled 18!). Unfortunately, their exuberance went too far, and some *minor* poor behavior was recorded and then reported in the US media, causing outrage in the US. The Italians push their army forward in Egypt, snaking through the line and threatening Cairo as well as the Suez. Italian forces in Africa slowly spread out, with the A-E Sudan being taken. Later in the turn, Kenya will fall as well.
  Impulse #2: The wily CW takes a naval and sneaks two corps into Egypt, one with the Queens into Damietta and a South African into Port Said. More troops and two planes are on TRS in the Cape Verde Coast, looking like they are coming to Egypt as well. The French move some of their forces south to hold critical factory cities in case the Germans try for a complete conquest. The Chinese sit and hope for the best. The perfidious Commies start sneaking an Iranian unit south, being quiet about it. The Japanese are busy and do not seem to notice….
  Impulse #3: The Germans assault Metz, taking the city without loss on a +7 assault. Another French is killed, completing the encirclement of Paris. Still the Germans won’t attack the capital. The Italians, seeing the wave of British reinforcements coming, hatch a plan. Most of the Italian navy sets up in the Western Med while the lead MECH in Egypt cuts to Suez–blocking supply! The forces in Alexandria are then struck and flipped. The ensuing +10 assault succeeds while leaving the Italians mostly face up. Sadly, the US is becoming addicted to petulant outrage, and the closing of the Suez sets off American media. The Japanese arrange forces in China and extend a hex around Lan-Chow. The Japanese CAV  is out of supply, but there is little the Chinese can do. 
  Impulse #4: The CW and French hunt the Italians in the Med, but find nothing. The CW finally finds success in the Baltic, however, shooting down a defending German FTR and knocking out all of the CONV.  The US remains quiet. Aside from sending Nimitz to Pearl, the US has just been building up. The Soviets continue to pile up on the border with Germany. Could they be planning to abandon the Pact?
  Impulse #5: All three Axis powers take land options. The Germans, having completely encircled Paris, finally assault it, taking it easily on a +17 attack, with the Fallschirmjager taking the lead. The Italians kill the SA INF in Port Said and push around Cairo, which is defended by the Egyptian TER. The Japanese try to exploit their success by assaulting into the mountains west of Si-an, but their combat fortune disappears. A +6 attack fails (1/-), killing the ENG–a costly loss. 
  Impulse #6: The CW frantically try to save some units in Egypt and come to a temporary agreement with the Italians to allow a 7-3 INF to evacuate in exchange for concessions in combat operations elsewhere.  The deal essentially seals the fate of Egypt. The French consolidate what forces they have around Toulouse and Toulon. China hold pat with an increasingly thin line that is still intact, running from Lan-Chow to Kwei-yang in the south.
  Impulse #7: The weather turns muddy. The Germans start repositioning units, sending more to Poland to counter the obvious Soviet threat. The German navy sorties and again finds CONVS, killing 3 of them and damaging the Royal Oak and the Ramilles in the North Atlantic. When the navy retreats, the Scharnhorst is damaged in action. The Italians take advantage of the deal with the CW to mount an invasion of Malta, taking the island by isolating it and invading with a DIV. Cairo is assaulted and taken without loss, but flipping the army (-/1). Japan’s army is mostly flipped or out of supply, so not much happens.
  Impulse #8: The sneaky Soviets are thwarted by the bad weather, but flip the Iranian CAV in to a hex adjacent to the Japanese controlled oil-fields in southern Iran. If the Allies get initiative, at least one of those fields will be returned to Iran. The UK takes a naval to defend its CONV, but cannot entirely repair the line. They have, however, kept the Baltic free of German CONV, so there is pain on both sides.
  The Allies then, improbably, end the turn to the disappointment of the Axis. A PART appears in China in Foochow. The US continues its active plan, embargoing the Japanese and starting lend-lease to China. 

July/August 1940: The Axis hold their breath, but they win initiative. The weather starts clear everything except (predictably) the N. Monsoon zone. The Japanese rush a MIL to Iran to secure Bushere before the Iranian CAV can arrive. The Italians invade Cyprus, taking the resource there. The Germans take a combined action and move CONV out into the Baltic to replace previous losses. They also start a bombing campaign in England, taking 2 BPs over the turn from the CW. Units start moving to Denmark and Poland.
  Impulse #2: The Chinese feel bucky and launch an attack on a MAR in the mountains in southern China, hoping to punish the Japanese. The Imperial air force shows, however, dropping the attack to a +2. As a result, the Chinese attack fails (1/-), flipping most of the Nationalist army. The CW takes a naval and spreads out defending CONV. NAV and FTRs return to the Baltic, but fail to find the German convoys. The Soviets are aggressively pushing their army to the Polish frontier, with Zhukov leading the way. 
  Impulse #3: Italy kills the Palestine TER and pushes into Transjordan. The Japanese take a +8 attack in the mountains west of Si-an and take the hex, breaking the northern line (1/2S). There is panic in the Chinese Communists as they only hold Lan-Chow as a supply source. Mao is on the spiral to return, but they lack a reinforcement location for him to organize his forces and return to the fray. Germany uses a land to move more forces to Poland, Denmark, and now a corps is sent to Genoa in Italy.
  Impulse #4: A quiet turn. The CW try to hunt CONV in the Baltic, but fail. The Chinese and Soviets are quiet. The impulses are moving quickly with a lull in action.
  Impulse #5: The Japanese, using the success of the previous attack (and having reorganized a few units), make two +10 attacks in China, both on the eastern portions of the Chungking plain. The northern attack is a complete success. The southern one kills the defenders, but flips the advancing army and inflicts serious casualties on the Japanese. (2/1) Nonetheless, the center of the Chinese line is mostly gone, with several units isolated. The Germans are again strangely quiet, moving forces east and north. A second German INF heads to Italy. The Italians push into Transjordan while its TERs are slowing moving around central Africa.
  Impulse #6: The CW finally strike, taking a BP from Germany in strategic bombing. Attempts to find the Baltic CONV again fail. The Chinese have few options and simply try to hold on to their current positions.
  Impulse #7: Italy, having a sufficiently impressive force in Jordan, persuade the Iraqis to join the Axis cause as an Italian minor. The US is unexpectedly outraged, although no one understands why. Italian units stream towards Iran. The Japanese meanwhile declare occupation of Indo-China, landing a corps and MAR DIV in Hanoi and then immediately pushing towards Kunming. The Chinese line has been flanked in the south. Germany takes a combined and hunts British CONV. The hunting, now done in conjunction with some Italian NAV, nets 2 CW CONV, but the Germans lose a twin engine FTR for their efforts. 
  Impulse #8: The CW, seeing the massing of ARM in Denmark, work to make sure their large air force can leave in the case of a German counterattack. The move is a clever anticipation. The USSR and China are again mostly quiet.
  Impulse #9: The Germans strike and strike hard in Denmark. They disorganize the units defending the eastern crossing arrow in northern Denmark, drop the PARA, and blitz successfully despite defensive shore bombardment from the CW. The +9 blitz is completely successful (*/2S), killing two defenders and overrunning a FTR and a TAC. The Japanese are frustrated as the center of the Chinese front is essentially undefended, but the Imperial army is disorganized on the line. Italy pushes further into Iraq. 
  Impulse #10: The Allies decide to all pass, and the turn ends. 
  No PARTs appear, and US chooses E. R. Murrow reports to help manipulate the tension rolls. The US has received several chits over the last few turns. 

Sept/Oct 1940: The Japanese want initiative to take advantage of their situation in China. It take a reroll, but the Axis win and the weather starts clear. The Japanese army walks uncontested into Kunming, Cheng-tu, and Chunking, and assault Kweiyang , taking it without loss on a +13 assault. A disorganized Chiang suffers defeat as well, dying on a +10 assault in the central mountains of China. Lastly, the clear weather allows the Japanese to kill the pesky PART in Foochow. China looks in dire shape.  The Germans spread out across France and further into Poland. Additional aircraft reinforcements arrive in Denmark to deal with the British forces there. The Italians take a naval and post a large fleet in the eastern Med, including two German corps loaded on two TRS and DIVs in higher search boxes.
  Impulse #2: The CW take a combined and save two units and an aircraft from Denmark, essentially ceding the peninsula to the Germans (only an AT remains in Denmark now). The clever previous play allowed the CW to extract its remaining aircraft when it looked like it might all be annihilated. The Chinese await Japanese attacks but the Soviet continue to pile into eastern Poland. A new arms race of sorts is well under way there.
  Impulse #3: The Italians declare war on Greece and invade Patras, Salonika, and push into northern Greece from Albania. After some discussion, the Greeks decide to defend the res hex as well as Athens. The Germans continue to push forces east, but take a combined and try to hunt CONV. One CW CONV is sunk, but otherwise the attackers are fended off in the face of serious CW air and sea forces. Japan takes a combined to move the entire CV fleet to Japan as China is quiet.
  Impulse #4: The Allies defend CONV, strategically bomb (missing this time), and sit tight. One CA is damaged when aborted after a CONV attack (no CONV lost, only SCS aborted) and gets caught by the Germans in the Bay of Biscay. More sitting and posturing in the rest of Europe.
  Impulse #5: The German corps land in Patras (secured by the Italian DIVs previously) and the Italian MTN and INF push up next to the resource hex in Greece. Italian ground strikes fail to disorganize the Greeks. The Japanese push up the new ARM corps and blitz the last Chinese unit in central China on a +17 attack. The Germans clear the last CW unit on a +13 blitz, clearing the nation without loss. 
  Impulse #6: Several Allied powers pass, but the turn does not end. The CW strategically bomb (miss) and naval action attempts fails to locate anything.
  Impulse #7: The Italians, with some minor support from the Germans, assault and take Athens on a +15 attack. Italy conquers Greece at the end of the turn. Germany and Italy declare war on Iran, but no one seems to care since the Japanese have been there for nearly a year now. The Germans continue to walk units west to east, but also spread out around France. von Leeb is posted near Brest (where the German navy and some Italian NAV are mostly located), and there are several TAC in the area, which periodically bomb the UK. 1 BP is taken from Southampton this turn, but other attempts fail. The Japanese pull some units out of the front line to bolster their PART defense. To this point, the Japanese have been unusually fortunate, only having had to worry about even rolling for PARTs one time.
  Impulse #8: The Allies all pass, but the turn does not end. 
  Impulse #9 Axis joy at the additional impulse turns to dust as the weather turns horrible. The Italians continue to push into Iraq and into Iran. Germany uses the extra impulse to shift a few more units east. Japan has little left to do, and waits. The turn then ends, shifting initiative against the Axis to +1 Allied.
  No PARTs appear. The US chooses to escort in the US East Coast. Italy conquers Greece and Uganda. 

Nov/Dec 1940: The Allies win initiative. The weather starts middling, but there is little action. We have another fall “phony war” of sorts. The CW defend CONVS and more troops to defend England. China sits in several small hedgehog locations. Lan-Chow and Chang-Sha are the only two factory cities remaining to them. 
  Impulse #2: The Italians, with the Suez canal open, send a force to open supply lines to Iraq. The Japanese push forces to fully encircle Lan-Chow and get close to Chang-Sha. The Germans take a combined and just run naval reinforcements from Kiel to Brest.
  Impulse #3: The CW bomb in France, taking 1 BP and 1 res there. Not much else happens.
  Impulse #4: The Axis all take land actions and shift forces. The Italians push into Iran, moving slowly in the mountains. The Japanese concentrate around Lan-Chow. More of the same movement of forces for the Germans.
  Impulse #5: The Allies pass, ending the turn.
  PART checks happen in China, but the Japanese are on the ball and prevent them from appearing. The US chooses no options. The year ends on a whimper.

Jan/Feb 1941: The Allies win initiative and move first. The CW spreads out to defend its convoy lines, now freshly reinforced with CONV replacements. The Soviets aggressively build a strong line in E. Poland and the Chinese look miserable. The weather is muddy but not snowy, so there is not much action, although it is clear in the N. Monsoon zone.
  Impulse #2. The Germans take a combined, the Italians a naval, and the Japanese a combined. Naval action! Germany first activates Hungary as a minor ally, and the world barely notices (except the USSR, which gets a RES point back). The Italians field a mighty surface fleet in the Arabian Sea and find the CW there twice, sinking 3 British CAs and 1 CONV before the fleet scatters (the Italians suffer the E. di Savoie damaged). The Germans try to do some damage, but fail to find anything in the East Coast. Japan moves units to the Chinese mainland and shifts forces back towards Chang-Sha.
  Impulse #3 see the Allies reposition a bit, moving CW FTRs to protect the Bay of Biscay and the 7-4 MOT comes to Liverpool from Canada. Some thoughts of strategic bombing fade as the bad weather makes the attacks unattractive. The Soviets and China continue their respective courses.
  Impulse #4: The weather mostly clears (rainy in temperate). Germany activates Rumania as an ally and again no one notices…except the Soviets, who now see German units railing into Rumania on their southern border. “Probably just joint exercises” muses Cobblin. Japan takes a land and shifts units toward Chang-Sha again, the slow theater making things painful. Italy lands a 1-3 Mar DIV in Djibouti, adjacent to Aden, but there is nothing the CW can do about it. Italian forces push into Iran and reinforcements straggle in. Supply is tenuous, but present.
  Impulse #5. The Allies send reinforcements to defend the E. Coast CONV and Calcutta is defended by Indian units. The Soviets bluster about a bit, but rail a unit to Baku in response to the Italians nearing their southern border.
  Impulse #6. The turn does not end and the weather sours everywhere except the N. Monsoon, with snow in the temperate zone. Germany starts by activating Yugoslavia as an ally, possible because the Axis control Athens and Rumania. The US is finally irritated at rise of fascist states in Europe. The Germans and Italians sortie out with NAV and FTRs into the Bay of Biscay and in some surprising combat, find no CONVs but locate the CW battle fleet, sinking the CV Ark Royal (the pride of the British fleet) and damaging the BB Rodney and another CA. To add insult to injury, a lone German bomber takes 1 BP from Liverpool on an improbably bombing run. The Japanese, finally in position and in supply, attack Chang-Sha, taking the city in a bloody affair (2/2), losing a Mar DIV and a Worker unit in the assault. Nonetheless, the city falls and the Nationalists lack any supply source. 
  The turn still does not end, but the Allies agree to pass, ending the turn automatically. No PARTs appear, but the US becomes active, activating Selective Service (no tension) and freezing Japanese assets (tension). It is unclear where US entry is, but the number of chits has grown considerably recently.  

Mar/April 1941: The Axis win initiative and elect to go first. With help from the poor weather last impulse, the weather is mostly clear (except the Arctic). This surprises the Imperial Army, who on a lark decides to use the unexpected clear weather to assault Lan-Chow–the last remaining redoubt of the Chinese. The +14 assault is a brilliant success, with the Japanese storming the city (in orderly fashion…) without loss. The Italians, not to be outdone, assault Tehran on a +6, taking the city (1/1) and securing the country. The Germans take a combined but fail to find CONVs. They do take a BP from Liverpool after German and Italian NAV in the Bay of Biscay locate nothing. 
  Impulse #2 sees the CW reinforce the E. Coast again with an impressive surface fleet. The Germans choose not to seek combat. The British abandon the CONV line from India to S. Africa, but still have most of the rest of their lines fully intact. The Soviets, who popped up two corps on either side of the Caspian Sea, now eye the soon to be new Iranian fascist state with suspicion. China sobs silently and then looks forward to being a new member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. 
  Impulse #3: The weather stunningly gets yet more clear (everywhere). Japan activates Siam as a minor ally (and nobody notices). The Japanese start preparing to redeploy troops from China to other theatres. Italy takes a naval, setting up in the Indian Ocean. Germany rails units to the Polish frontier.
  Impulse #4 sees the Allies preparing for a wider war. The CW strategically bombs (taking 1 RES in France) and protects their convoys. The Soviets mass on the Polish border. 
  Impulse #5: The weather turns seasonal. The Italians invade into the Laccadives off the cost of India. The Japanese take a naval and occupy Madagascar, causing irritation in the US. Germany is shuffling troops.
  Impulse #6: The CW rail two units to stop the Italian MAR from walking into India. The Soviets, thinking that the turn certainly won’t end on a ‘1,’ waits to relocate some airforce. To the serious dismay of the Axis, the turn then ends.
  No PARTs appear and the US gifts DDs to the CW. China is conquered, adding two chits to US Entry (plus the added draw each turn). Iran and Tanganyika are conquered by Italy. 

May/June 1941: The Axis win initiative and go first. Germany and Italy declare war on the USSR. Finland is brought in as a minor ally for the Germans and Afghanistan for the Italians. The slugfest commences. The Germans start with clear weather but the army is clearly not ready, as it performs shockingly poorly. Aside from 2 automatic attacks, the Germans launch 5 attacks and 3 of them fail on rolls of ‘6’ or less. Nonetheless, the Germans threaten to pocket the Soviets in eastern Poland and achieve a breakthrough of sorts in the Baltics. The Italians push near Baku, but with weak forces. The move forces the Soviets to put something there, so that is an Italian contribution of sorts. The Japanese take a land, moving forces in China.
  Impulse #2 and the CW decide to get bucky, attacking Italian CONV in the Med. They find and sink 3 CONV in the Eastern Med to no losses. They otherwise cover their CONV lines, which are still broken from the Pacific, but are otherwise fully intact. The Soviets, mostly disorganized from the initial ground strikes of the Germans (both Zhukov and Vatutin were flipped), calls out its reserves and forms a line that bends from Minsk around the Pripets south to Lvov. The US watches and waits.
  Impulse #3: Another disaster strikes the Axis as the weather turns sour (roll of ‘1’–snow and storm in Russia). The Germans make the most of it, cutting the Soviets out of supply again on the front. 3 high odds attacks succeed, killing small isolated Soviet units. The Germans are nonetheless behind their timetable with the unexpectedly bad weather. The Italians take a naval and try to punish the CW in the Med, but fail to find anything. The Japanese take a combined but the Pacific is quiet.
  Impulse #4: The UK take a naval and pull out most of their ships from the Med. The Soviets still have a large army in Poland, and they sit tight, hoping for more bad weather, but they do raid in the Baltic, sinking all of the German CONV there. 
  Impulse #5: The weather clears. The Germans work on reducing the pocket in Poland, killing 3 units with automatic attacks and taking a +13 blitz that also succeeds. The Italians pursue the remnants of the CW fleet in the Med, managing to sink one CA and damage another while repairing their CONV lines. The Japanese continue to slowly extract their army from deep in China towards the coast. The front line in the Caucasus is a stalement. 
  Impulse #6. The Allies set to work. The CW takes an air and strikes the German navy in Brest, damaging the Bismarck. The CW then strategically bombs Germany. The attacks mostly fail, however. The Soviets work on holding the line, hoping the turn will end.
  Impulse #7. The weather stays clear and the Germans continue to slowly push forward and reduce the pocket in Poland. Bulgaria is activated as an ally. A 15 blitz in southern Poland succeeds and a +18 blitz hits Zhukov, who is forced to retreat, still inside the pocket. The Italians work on attacking the CW CONV in the Bay of Biscay, but find nothing again. The Japanese continue their slow trek out of China.
  Impulse #8: The Soviets find paydirt and manage to put the Polish pocket back in supply. The rejoicing is heard far and wide. With a 50% chance to end the turn, the USSR is expecting salvation. The CW bombs again, again inflicting no damage. It does, however, port strike the German fleet again, inflicting several damages to a BB and 2 CAs. The turn does not end, however.
  Impulse #9: But yet the war gods hate the Axis as the weather turns sour again. The Germans do must enough to cut the pocket out of supply again, but the costs are high, as 2 of 3 attacks fails (1/-, 1/R, and an auto). The German army is increasingly disorganized, although lead elements take Dnepropetvsk and surround Kivroy Rog in the south. Italy and Japan are quiet.
  Impulse #10 sees the Allies pass, which ends the turn. No PARTs appear and the US relocates the fleet to Pearl Harbor and sends resources to the USSR. Tension is generated.

July/Aug 1941: The Allies win initiative despite an Axis demand for a reroll. The CW opens by strategically bombing Metz, taking both a BP and the RES there. A major fleet raids the E. Med, but finds nothing. The Soviets, reinforced with MIL, hedgehog except in the center, where they snake units forward to try and reinforce Kiev. The US sends ships to Pearl Harbor.
  Impulse 2. The Germans kill a GAR in the Polish pocket and then blitz a unit outside of Kiev. The rest of the army lurches forward, north and south, towards Moscow and Rostov. The Italians take a land and push forward into the Caucasus, just south of Baku all the way to Yerevan. Japan send the fleet out. A NAV rebases to the E. Med area for Italy. 
  Impulse #3 sees more of the same. The CW take a naval and fail to find Italian CONV, the Soviets hedgehog, and the US reinforces Honolulu.
  Impulse #4 sees the Germans finally push their army to the front lines. The Soviet pocket in Poland is left disorganized and isolated guarded by a few corps. The rest push east. Minsk is assaulted at +17 and taken, Kiev is taken in a +19 attack, and a touchy +12 assault takes Krivoy Rog. The successful attacks open the line. Italy takes a combined and hunts CW CONV, but finds nothing. Additional NAV head to the E. Med, but fail to find anything. A few units shuffle to the front in the Caucasus. Japan moves land units to Siam and towards the coast in China. An IHQ gets railed to NW Manchuko. 
  Impulse #5. The CW, seeing more Italian NAV, abandon the E. Med. A defense fleet in the E. Coast triggers Italian subs, who grab a few CONV. The Soviet line is looking thin, although they hold the north (including Riga) reasonably well. More ships head to Hawaii.
  Impulse #6 has the Germans still pushing in the USSR. A +14 assault takes Vitebsk and a +19 blitz opens Crimea by killing a Soviet INF. The Italians look for convoys but fail. Japan is mostly quiet.
  Impulse #7 is yet more CW strategic bombing and it succeeds, taking one RES in France. The Soviets pray for the turn to end as their forces are seriously thinned. 
  Impulse #8 keeps the Wehrmacht rolling. They use chit points to send out CONV into the Baltic to re-establish the Swedish ore shipments. Then the attacks continue. A +14 assault takes Vitebsk without loss, a +12 assault at Kharkiv fails (2/1), and a joint German/Italian attack west of Baku is a moderate success, taking the hex with high casualties (2/1). The turn then ends. The Japanese rebase into the Marshalls, militarizing the islands and triggering US outrage. 
  No PARTs appear and the US embargoes Japan while also reflagging merchant ships. 

Sept/Oct 1941: The Allies win initiative again on the reroll and go first. The weather starts completely clear–a beautiful fall in the Soviet Union. The Soviets rail out the Rostov factory to Barnaul and defend cities. The CW strategically bomb, taking a RES near Lille. The US continues to send naval assets to Honolulu.
  Impulse #2 and with the weather the Germans continue to attack. Kharkiv falls on a +15 assault, Zaporozhe falls on a +13 attack, and the last Soviet ARM falls after being groundstruck while isolated near the Romanian border. The Wehrmacht also moves towards Moscow, with nothing in the way. Italy pushes feebly forward on the Caucasus front and moves NAV reinforcements around the Med and into France. Japan takes a naval and spreads out across the Pacific, including off the coast of Hawaii.
  Impulse #3 sees more of the same but with worse weather (rain in the arctic). The Soviets rail another factory east, the CW bomb while protecting convoys (taking another RES point in France). The CW then reorganizes (on an air impulse) his entire bombing force. The diminished Soviets hang on and hope for winter.
  Impulse #4. The Germans spend the turn pushing the army eastward, closing in on Moscow and Rostov, crossing the Kerch straits as well. Only the Italians attack, trying to flank to the west of Baku. The +9 blitz is disappointing, taking the hex with a R result only. Japan… waits.  
  Impulse #5: Yet more CW strategic bombing, now making more hits. 2 BP are lost in Prague and another in Paris. The Germans have lost 5 BPs this turn already. The Soviets are stunned as the weather clears again, opening him up to more attacks with the clear weather. The turn does not end, and so the Axis move to a clear weather turn.
  Impulse #6 pushes the world to war as Japan declares  war on the CW, Free France, and the USA. They spend 15 points to take a supercombined. A major CV fleet hits Pearl Harbor, but the US fleet there is not huge. Two CVs are lost, along with the BB North Carolina and 3 CAs, but otherwise the damage is limited and most of the US fleet remains intact. Naval units hit CONV, taking 5 US CONV and 6 CW CONV in the Pacific. A small BB fleet surprises and sinks the CV Courageous off the coast of S. Africa. Then the troops rolls in. The Japanese invade across the Pacific, taking one oil hex in the NEI, Rabaul, Suva, Midway, some other small islands, and–critically–the two islands on either side of Honolulu. Troops take Hong Kong and push into Burma as well. A MAR DIV lands on King’s Isle in southern Australia. The map turns red with the Rising Sun. Meanwhile, Germany assaults Moscow and takes the city on a +11 attack, seizing the Soviet capital. A +15 assault also liberates Rostov, opening the western approached to the Caucasus. 
  Impulse #7. The weather remains shockingly clear–the Soviet good fortune in May/June has evaporated as the Axis get unexpected clear impulses. The US takes a naval and immediately shifts naval forces to the Pacific after calling out their reserves, but Hawaii is currently isolated and out of supply. The CW take a naval to protect what is left of their convoy lines in the Pacific and repair some gaps in the CONV line. The Soviets hold in the north and the far south, but are ominously undermanned in the center.
  Impulse #8: The weather stays clear so the Germans work on sweeping the Soviets off of the European map. Two small pockets of Soviets are killed on automatic attacks and a +19 assault takes Krasnodar. The road to Turkey looks open. The Japanese moves units, taking the Malay peninsula, moving through Burma, and pushing into Australia. Italy threatens to send a MAR into India.
  Impulse #9: The turn continues with the Allies holding on while they wait for the Americans to make their presence felt. It happens immediately as the Commonwealth get the gift of a huge number of CONV to repair their lines. More strategic bombing hits Germany.
  Impulse #10: The turn still refuses to end and the Axis take advantage. The Japanese move into an undefended Canberra, conquering Australia at the end of the turn. Japanese units flip forward in Burma towards India. The Germans assault Stalingrad and take it without loss on a +11 attack. Italy holds the line in the Caucasus and awaits a link up with the Germans from the west.
  The turn then ends. No PARTs appear. The US looms large, but the Axis have a wide reach at this point.

Nov/Dec 1941: The Axis win initiative. The weather starts out snowy in the north, muddy in most other places (except the N. Monsoon). The Japanese find and sink the CA Chester, putting Hawaii out of supply. Various units are shuttled across the Pacific, reinforcing islands and sending reinforcements to the new Burma/Indian front as well as near Palembang and the Philippines. Germany attack Leningrad on a +5 but fails to even cause casualties. Italy sets up to support Germany in France.
  Impulse #2: The US elects to regroup and not challenge the sizable Japanese fleet off of Hawaii. Some help is sent to the UK, mostly in the form of CONV. The CW spreads out and guards its CONV lines. The Soviets are building a defense line in the Urals.
  Impulse #3: The weather stays mostly the same. The Japanese launch a major invasion, trying to take Honolulu. The attack mostly goes wrong: groundstrikes fail and the final attack is only a +5, which fails miserably when the Japanese roll a ‘4.’ Three invading units die horrible deaths on the beaches of Waikiki. Germany and Italy strike out in the snow to raid the Bay of Biscay and finally find some success. The CW loses 4 FTRs in the combats but only 2 CONV after all is said and done. 
  Impulse #4: The CW reinforce the Bay of Biscay, but no combat occurs. The US, thankful that Honolulu is safe, send a major fleet to try and re-establish supply north of the island. Despite Japanese efforts to find the fleet, no combat occurs. The Soviets hold the line.
  Impulse #5: More of the same weather-wise, so the Germans grind forward, taking Kuibyshev on an automatic attack. The Germans push on to the Asian map and deeper into the Caucasus. The Italians shift some forces around the Med, the purpose is not clear. The turn then ends after the Japanese do little.

No PARTs appear. Germany builds higher as the CW only took one BP in strategic bombing damage this turn. More German FTRs have appeared over their factories, and the Italians are now contributing FTRs as well. 

Jan/Feb 1942: The Allies win initiative and the weather starts snowy and rainy. The UK spreads out to defend CONV and starts moving major forces… to the Indian Ocean. Several corps, DIVs, and a large part of the fleet heads to Capetown clear en route to India. Japanese defenses there do seem light…. The US port strikes Midway, damaging a Japanese AMPH there. The Soviets… hold the line.
  Impulse #2: The Japanese move the larger part of their fleet to find and punish the Americans, but find nothing. Germany and Italy declare war on the US, fearful that they would declare war first. The Italians take a naval and the fleet moves in both the Med and Indian Ocean. The Germans (with Italian support) seek to hit the Biscay CONV, and find some success, damaging a CA and sinking the CV Furious. No CONV are lost, however.
  Impulse #3: The US reinforces the fleet north of Hawaii, but again the Japanese cannot find the fleet. The CW continues to move aggressively from Europe to India. You know what the Soviets do.
  Impulse #4: Germany collapses Vichy and the Italians take Syria and Algeria, moving westward across Africa (and south as well, as TER push into Rhodesia). The Japanese take a land, reinforcing the Palembang landing and push onto Luzon towards Manilla. The Italian land also allows them to take Tiflis in the Caucasus. 
  Impulse #5: Thee CW tries to bomb and the other Allies pass. The pass made the difference and the turn ends.

A PART appears in India, seizing Bombay. The Axis rejoice, hoping to reinforce the city before the CW can retake it. No other PARTs appear. The US economy is now running at full throttle. 

Mar/April 1942: The Axis get initiative but the turn is destined to be short. The weather starts out terrible. The Germans start by pushing east and south in the USSR. They are approaching the border of Turkey with 4 corps and are building a line along the Urals as the Soviet defense line is forming there. The Italians set up, now able to push NAV into the Cade Verde Coast and raid the CW lines. Several CONV are sunk, a BB is damaged and the Valiant is sunk. The Italians fail, however, to clear the sea zone. The Japanese take a naval and move troops, including reinforcements to the Philippines and to Burma/India.
  Impulse #2: The CW run more ships and troops south through the Cape Verde Coast. The Dutch TRS is damaged (with Wavell on board) but most of the units make it through without issue. The CW will have a large fleet in Capetown at the end of the turn. The US occupies Papeete in French Polynesia and sends a massive fleet off the coast of Pago Pago, bringing some troops to New Zealand as well. The Soviets hold the line.
  Impulse #3: The weather clears. The Germans push to the Turkish border inside the USSR and have a full line along the Urals now. The Italians continue to try and hit the British in the Cape Verde Coast. The Japanese, thinking the turn is likely to continue, take a land. Units debark in Bombay, push around Calcutta, and assault Manila, which falls on a +9 assault. Most of the internal lines in the Pacific are secure for the Japanese, except for Batavia, which is still held by the Dutch. 
  Impulse #4: The CW bomb the Germans, taking 1 BP from Lyon but not much else happens. The US continues to build up and the ‘green wave’ on the production spiral is starting to look menacing. There is a *clear* Japan-first strategy in play, with the US still pumping out enormous amounts of navy. The Soviets hold the line. And then the turn unexpectedly ends, frustrating the Axis in several regards.

May/June 1942: The Allies win initiative despite a reroll, and the weather starts clear. Nonetheless, it is destined to be a shockingly short turn. The Allies start with navals. The US posts a major fleet off the coast of Pago Pago, threatening two Japanese fleets stationed at ports bordering the area. The CW defends convoy lines, moves a fleet off the coast of the India, and runs reinforcements into India, including the elite MAR unit. The Soviets are starting to look strong with a solid line along the Ural mountains. The CW hit Lyon and take a build point from the Germans.
  Impulse #2: The Germans activate Turkey as an ally, having 4 corps on their Soviet-border. The Germans and Italians then take an air (!), piling up FTRs and NAV in the Bay of Biscay. It comes to nothing, however, as despite high odds no combat occurs. The Germans do take 1 BP from Southampton in bombing raids. The Italians also send major NAV assets into the Cape Verde Coast. They do find the Brits, forcing a cruiser to leave the area. The Japanese take a naval and seek to punish American impudence. With nearly equal fleets, the Japanese use land-based FTR cover and send a large fleet to engage the US and a large fleet to engage the Brits off of India. A divine wind arose, giving the Japanese a 1-8 search roll split against the Americans. Average air combat luck saw most of the Japanese NAV clear while none of the US NAV cleared. Two CVs and a CA were sunk, 1 CV, 1 BB, and 1 CA were damaged before the Americans ran for it. Meanwhile, the Japanese exacted a similar toll from the CW near India, sinking a CV and damaging a CA before forcing the CW fleet to scatter.
  Impulse #3 saw the Allies repositioning as the weather turned horrible (roll of ‘1’). More strategic bombing, but it fails to produce results against Germany. The CW decides not to try to establish supply to Gibraltar, but the fortress is well defended with two large corps. The Soviets hold the line despite building German forces and the US helps the CW with CONV.
  Impulse #4: Everyone takes land actions. The Italians finally push into Morocco and TERs in Africa push into Rhodesia. The Japanese push up, flowing around Calcutta and expand from Bombay. The Germans continue to push more troops towards the USSR, both on the Ural line and around some forces in the Caucasus. Italian and groundstrikes continue to fail to flip key Soviet units. 
  Impulse #5: The US activates Mexico as an ally. Some minor positioning happens and not much else. Weather clears.
  Impulse #6: Germans still push units forward in the USSR and some additional forces defend France and Denmark. The Italians push further into Morocco. The Japanese land more forces in India around Calcutta. The Italians try again to activate combat in the Bay of Biscay, but fail again.  
  Then the turn ends at its earliest possibility, to the great disappointment of the Axis. No PARTs appear despite the need for some rolls in the USSR. 

July/August 1942: The Allies get initiative after a reroll, shifting the initiative track to +1 Allies. The CW takes a naval, sets up to establish supply to Gibraltar and reinforces the Biscay CONV run. The US supports the CW and runs part of its fleet from Papeete back to San Diego while sending FTR reinforcement to the UK. The Soviets, newly reinforced, have a decent looking line in the Urals.
  Impulse #2 sees the Japanese surprise the US with an invasion of Papeete. The invasion succeeds, displacing the fleet, part of which has to shelter in nearby minor ports. The main fleet, however, escapes. The Italians and Germans again do the air maneuver, flooding the Bay of Biscay with FTRs and NAV as well as dominating the Cape Verde Coast with Italian NAV. Again, the Axis find nothing in Biscay, but sink the CW CA off of Gibraltar, again putting the stronghold out of supply. 
  Impulse #3 sees the US and CW taking combined actions, mostly shifting forces. The CW bombs Germany and takes 1 BP from Breslau. The Soviets hold the line.
  Impulse #4. Germany takes a +12 assault and take Ufa without loss. On the southern flank of the Urals line, a +10 blitz is costly, but takes a key hex (1/R), allowing the Germans to turn the southern flank. The Japanese take a naval, moving land and air forces around the Pacific, including garrisoning islands in the eastern Pacific and sending more units to India. Italy takes a combined, groundstrikes Gibraltar with German help, but only managed to flip one unit–an American ARM remains resilient. More hunting happens in the Bay of Biscay, but again sadly no action is seen.
  Impulse #5 sees the Soviets hold the line, but pivot slightly to defend the southern flank at Magnitogorsk. The UK sneakily reinforces Calcutta and Delhi before the Japanese can close the ring around Calcutta.
  Impulse #6. The Japanese port strike part of the scattered US fleet, sinking the CVL Langley and a TRS while damaging a SUB. The units in India in terrible monsoon weather creep up around Calcutta, encircling it completely. The Italians search for Allied naval units but find nothing. The Germans reinforce the southern flank in the Urals and push up around Tiflis in the Caucasus.
  Impulse #7 sees the CW take an air and reorganize some air units. Two small strat raids yield no results. The US shifts some forces from the Pacific to the Atlantic, especially some CONV and TRS. The Soviets hold the line.
  Impulse #8 is a critical turn. The Italians take an air and finally the Allied forces in the Bay of Biscay are discovered and with serious surprise points. The A-to-A values are 19 (allied) to 20 (Axis), but with the surprise shifts, several Allied FTRs are quickly aborted out of the seazone, tilting the combat. Axis NAV clear and sink a CW CV and CA to no losses for the Axis. The Allies, overpowered at the moment, arrange to send more American air assets to the UK and abandon the seazone. German attacks, meanwhile, take 3 BPs from the CW in bombing raids. The Japanese strike another minor port in the Pacific, sinking one sub and damaging another. That same island is then invaded, and both of the 2 remaining SUBs are destroyed. The Germans then take a +7 attack on Magnitogorsk, and kill both defenders (1/2S), turning the line. 
  Impulse #9. The Soviets, keen to restore the line, take a +6 assault to retake Magnitogorsk. They succeed…at a terrible cost (3/1). The Soviet line is flipped and seriously weakened. Stalin prepares a far east bunker. The US and UK arrange for the added air assets. With the end of turn nearing, the US positions two CAs off the coast of Hawaii in the 1 box of two sea zones to try and establish supply.
  Impulse #10: The Germans, emboldened by the success of their flanking operation, assault forward. A +12 assault north of Magnitogorsk succeeds and a joint attack with the Italians south of Tiflis clears a Soviet hex (1/2S… I note that the Italians took the loss…). The Japanese take a combined and hunt the Americans, fortuitously catching both, sinking one and damaging the other. They also take the opportunity to invade Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians. 
  Impulse #11 sees the Allies trying to partially pass, but the attempt fails. 
  Impulse #12. The Germans attack Magnitogorsk again, taking it a second time for the turn without loss on a +10 assault. The Japanese place Hawaii out of supply. The Italians try to strike Gibraltar and fail.
  Impulse #13. The US takes a combined, re-establishes supply to Hawaii, and the turn ends. No PARTs appear. 

Sept/Oct 1942: The Allies win initiative and the turn starts off clear globally. The US and UK start with navals, the US posting a large fleet off the coast of Hawaii, reinforced with 4 new carriers loaded with quality aircraft. They find the Japanese fleet there, and sink a BB to no American loss. Supply is restored to Hawaii. US subs attack Japanese CONV, but fail to find any. The CW complete the new convoy line, avoiding the Bay of Biscay and using the Faroes Gap. The Soviets… hold the line. 
  Impulse #2. The Japanese converge on the US fleet, sending land-based air to even the power dynamic. The US has a FTR advantage, but the Japanese have a large NAV edge. No combat occurs, however. The rest of the Japanese navy attends to various tasks, including setting up to invade Hiva in the SE Pacific, reinforcing with aircraft from Japan to the Hawaiian front, and so on. Italy sets up with a fleet off the coast of Gibraltar. Several groundstrikes on Gibraltar fail. That will become the theme of the turn, as 10 total groundstrikes will all fail, including using planes with TAC values of 6. The Germans take a combined and invade Scapa Flow, although the invading units all flip. In the Urals, a +10 attack clears a mountain hex with high casualties (2/1).  
  Impulse #3: The US reinforces the Hawaiian fleet… and gets surprise against the Japanese. The ensuing battle is an air slugfest, with the Japanese losing 7 planes, including a land based NAV and 6 carrier planes, mostly as a result of the poor air-to-air odds. The US loses one plane… but a large contingent of those Japanese NAV pierce the screen. The result is devastation. The US loses 3 CVs and 1 CA sunk, with a few aborts and a damage. The CW takes a land and reorganizes forces in England. The Soviets don’t have much of a line left to hold, but what they have, they are holding. 
  Impulse #4 is a quiet one. The Germans push forces forward in the USSR, flanking the Soviets and streaming eastward along the Trans-Siberian railway. The Italians push south in Africa and bomb Gibraltar more, failing. The Japanese take a land and reinforce around Calcutta and invade some additional islands in the Pacific.
  Impulse #5 see the weather remain clear. The CW takes an oil point in strategic bombing, but the German economy is so huge now that the Fuhrer laughs it off. The US and CW send reinforcements to Scotland to stop a potential expansion of the Scapa Flow landing. The Soviets hold what remains of their line.
  Impulse #6. A quiet turn for the Axis. The Italians are out of aircraft to bomb Gibraltar with, not that it would likely do anything anyway. The Italians do flip a TER into Pretoria, potentially conquering S. Africa. The Japanese invade a few more islands in the Pacific, cleaning up bases and moving forces around Calcutta. The Germans push east into Siberia and reinforce in France.
  Impulse #7. Another quiet turn after the CW realizes that the MOT they have in Durban cannot reach Pretoria in time. So the Brits make sure they have a unit in Durban and Cape Town to hold the major ports. The US shifts forces to England, but not a lot.
  Impulse #8. The Germans attack a key city in the Urals, taking it on a +9 assault (1/2S) as much of the rest of their forces head about the Trans-Siberian railway eastward. the Italians and Japanese are quiet.
  Impulse #9. The weather finally turns bad, but the Allies have had enough of the long turn and elect to pass. The turn ends. No PARTs appear and S. Africa is conquered by Italy. The Axis economies are large, but the Allies have a firm and growing land/air presence in England. What will the Allies do with all of that power?

Nov/Dec 1942: The Allies again win initiative. The UK takes a naval and the US a combined, allowing them to jointly drop a big American INF just outside of Scapa Flow to trap the German marine force there. The weather is abysmal, so not much else happens. The US sends yet another fleet to get supply to Hawaii, this time sending two TRS with additional quality FTRs. When the Japanese are unable to find the fleet, the FTRs rebase to Honolulu. The Soviets split their reinforcements, trying to stop the eastward spread of the Germans.
  Impulse #2. The Germans take a combined and send most of their fleet out to the US East Coast, where they find and sink the Queens (loaded with an American corps) and ravage 6 CONV as well. The Bismarck is damaged by US defending BBs. The Italians and Germans groundstrike Gibraltar, but in the bad weather, success is less likely and indeed the peninsula resists all attempts to reduce it. The Germans take another Soviet hex with heavy casualties (2/2 on a +12 attack in the snow). But the Soviet forces are so depleted, the war of attrition still favors the Germans. The Japanese take a naval and hunt the US navy, but cannot locate it. They do send CAs further out to put Hawaii out of supply again and a small fleet appears off the coast of Panama.
  Impulse #3. The US panics and sends a MECH to defend the Panama Canal and puts a cruiser fleet of its own to re-establish supply to Hawaii. Combat is south, but again none happens. The CW pulls its fleet out of Cape Town and reinforces its lines, although there still is not much clear plan for the enormous land and air forces sitting in England.
  Impulse #4. The Germans take another combined and again find the Allied fleet off the coast of America. The German navy takes a beating from the American defense fleet, suffering 2 additional BBs and 3 CAs damaged, but they extort a huge CONV toll, sinking 8 CONV. The convoy line is still intact, but the Allies are finally starting to see some pressure on their convoy reserves. The Italians in the bad weather cannot do much, and thus don’t. Japan takes a land action, tries to strike Calcutta (fails), and pushes two more units up around Calcutta. The city is fully encircled. 
  Impulse #5. The weather remains fairly bad. The US decides to chance sending a FTR out as cover over the Hawaiian fleet, as the chance of combat was 20% but the chance of the turn continuing was 30% (with a threat that the Japanese might cut Hawaii out of supply again). In the ensuing search rolls, the Japanese did not find the Americans, but the US found the Japanese, and with not enough surprise to decline combat. The subsequent air combat was per usual: the US, despite a slight disadvantage in the air-to-air rating, eviscerate the Japanese, shooting down 2 FTRs and one NAV, but at the end of the day, the Japanese clear a ton of NAV (even with halving for the snow). Another US CV and 2 CAs are sunk, with one CV damaged. The US, now weakened and without land based air-cover, abandons the sea zone and hopes the turn ends. The Commonwealth takes a naval and pushes away from Africa and sends more forces north into Scotland. The turn then in fact does end.
  No PARTs appear (despite the need for several rolls). Initiative shifts to +2 for the Axis.

Jan/Feb 1943: The new year arrives and the Axis win initiative with muddy weather in the north and clear weather in the south. The Japanese, having already disorganized the defenders on the main island, launch an invasion first impulse. With MARs and a HQ (Yamamoto!), the Japanese boldly assault the beaches. They take Honolulu with the minimum roll needed, but it succeeds! Nimitz and the rest of the defenders are sent packing. The Germans take a land and push forces into deeper into Siberia. Two redoubts remain in the Urals, but the Soviets have built another line further east. The Italians try to put Gibraltar out of supply, but fail.
  Impulse #2 sees the US re-orient and units start moving to Europe. More FTRs and land units reinforce the UK. Oddly, the island is overrun with units and aircraft and the Allies are starting to have a difficult time finding places to base all of their aircraft. The Soviets hold both of their lines. 
  Impulse #3 sees the weather… partially clear. The Germans waste no time and assault Sverdlovsk at +12 and take the city without loss. Only Molotov remains in the Urals line. The Italians again try to find the CW units in the Cape St. Vincent off the coast of Gibraltar, but fail. Groundstrikes (4 total) fail to disrupt the defenders. The Japanese take a full naval and start moving large numbers of units and set up with DIVs to take more small Pacific islands.
  Impulse #4. The US runs its TRS out of Gibraltar and the CW fleet follows suit. The Italian NAV cannot stop them. More preparations happen in the UK, but there is no clear pattern as to what is happening there. Convoy lines are defended.
  Impulse #5 is a big one. The Germans lead off with a +8 attack in the snow against Molotov, which clears the city with some loss (1/2S). The Germans also assault Leningrad, but the city stubbornly holds when incompetent coordination foils the +9 assault (rolled a ‘2’ on the attack). The Japanese, however, fare better, launching a +9 assault on Calcutta which succeeds (1/2S), clearing the way to Delhi. Unfortunately, this very turn Montbatton arrived and reinforced the capital, so the Indians plan to put up a fight. 
  Impulse #6 sees the Allies not wanting to give the Axis more time. All pass and the turn ends, much to the dismay of the Japanese. No PARTs appear. The US and Germany have economies that are roughly the same size, which is scary for both sides. The US continues to produce absurdly large numbers of ships.

Mar/April 1943: The Axis win initiative and the weather starts out muddy in the temperate, but clear elsewhere. The impulse starts with the skies darkening over Gibraltar. The sea zone is cleared and then finally Italian bombers (after the Germans fail) disorganize the defenders of Gibraltar. The Royal Italian Marines, supported by the famous “Spaghetti Garrison” invade and seize Gibraltar. The Med is finally an Italian lake! The Germans, now having cleared the Urals, push east. The Japanese start with a naval and reorganize their forces, setting up to take more small Pacific islands, reinforce India, and push troops towards… South Africa?
  Impulse #2: The Allies take a naval and the US fleet, loaded with troops from the West Coast, head to the Atlantic. The fleet is impressive and the Japanese, without land based air cover, decide to leave it alone. It passes through to the UK without incident. The CW moves the former S. African fleet north to Freetown, just as the Japanese navy moves into the area off of Madagascar. The Soviets hold the new line.
  Impulse #3: All three powers take land actions. Italy activates Spain, but not much happens given that the weather is poor, with lots of mud and storms. The Japanese push towards Delhi and land corps in S. Africa. The Germans continue to slowly push east and reinforce western Europe. 
  Impulse #4 sees small maneuverings by the Allies, with the new load of US troops and planes spreading out across England. Farmland in the UK is being actively converted to landing strips basically everywhere. 
  And then the Allies rudely end the turn at its earliest possibility. No PARTs appear and the war grinds forward.

May/June 1943: The Axis win initiative and the weather starts bright and beautiful across the world. The Axis declare war on Portugal to stop Allied meddling, taking Lisbon without loss on a +14 assault and Porto on a +10 blitz. The Germans clear Riga (finally) and advance in Siberia. Japan pushes towards Delhi. 
  Impulse #2 sees the CW and US set up major naval forces with AMPH and TRS in the North Sea. What might be coming? The USSR holds on, with less, but continues the fight. 
  In the 3rd impulse, the Germans attack Novosibirsk, but fail to take the city on poor performance (+11 assault, 2/1 result). The Japanese take a naval and shift forces, pushing more corps to S. Africa to help the Italians expel the remaining Allied forces in Cape Town and Durban. Italy also takes a naval, consolidating fleets with the new port of Lisbon to use.
  Impulse #4 and the Allies declare war on Norway, invading Kristiansand without loss. HQs and more corps are on TRS ready to support the landing and Allied planes rebase to cover the beachhead. 
  Impulse 5 sees the Germans reinforce Norway with 2 corps and planes. The weather is muddy, so not much can be done. They cannot contain the landing, but they reinforce the Oslo region. The Japanese go on the warpath, assaulting Capetown (+15 assault succeeds with 1/1 result), Maputo in Portuguese Mozambique (+14  assault is completely successful) and Lucknow outside of Delhi (+14 attack kills Mountbatten). The Italians shift forces to cover Spain and the northwest coast of Africa.
  Impulse 6 and the Allies push into Norway, landing additional forces and aircraft in Norway. 
  Impulse 7. The weather clears again, and the Japanese surround Delhi and push towards the Canadian MOT in Durban from both the north and the south. Italian raiders hit convoys in the Atlantic, but do not do much damage.
  The turn then surprisingly ends early. No PARTs appear.

Jul/Aug 1943: The Axis win initiative and go first. The Germans take a combined and the Italians an air action in order to contest the North Sea. Over the course of the turn the Axis try hard to expel the Allies from the North Sea, but fail. They do, however, cause damage, sinking the CV LexingtonII, the Illustrious, and damaging several CAs. The Axis lose a few NAV and FTRs, but in the main are hotly contesting the sea zone. The Japanese take a naval and set up invasion fleets off the coast of New Zealand and send units to India.
  Impulse #2 sees the Allies double down on the Norway venture. Despite Axis efforts, the Allies land more HQs and several more corps on combined actions when none of the ships are found in naval searching. 
  Impulse #3 sees more searching but no finding in the North Sea. The Japanese successfully invade New Zealand and take Delhi on a +9 assault without loss. Allied forces on the Pacific map dwindle. The Italians set up in the Bay of Biscay.
  Impulse #4. The Allies push to Bergen and have an impressive invasion force. German units now man the line, but the US is unlikely to expelled anytime soon. US FTRs relocated the US to aid in guarding the North Sea.
  Impulse #5. The Italians invade N. Ireland, but despite a valiant effort, fail entirely, losing 3 units including their MAR on a +7 invasion south of Belfast. The Germans take a +10 assault on Leningrad, but also fail (2/1). The Japanese move units in central India towards ports and land more units in New Zealand and S. Africa.
  Impulse #6. The CW strategically bomb Barcelona, costing the Italians 1 BP. Yet more Allied units enter Norway as the European war now focuses almost entirely there. 
  Impulse #7. The Japanese enter Wellington, conquering NZ, but a joint CW/US force holds the major port of Auckland. The Germans attack Baku, but fail (2/1) on a +12 assault. They roll just as badly in an attack on Barnaul (+13, 2/1 result) but get complete success advancing a hex in Norway on a +10 blitz assisted by a PARA drop. 
  Impulse #8. The UK takes an air action to reorganize planes, mainly to defend the North Sea. The US continues to ferry units to the UK. Russia holds the line. The UK craftily sneaks NAV into the Baltic, causing some damage to German CONV and briefly putting the Germans in Norway out of supply.
  Impulse #9 is uneventful. The Germans establish supply and reorganize the new line in Norway and slowly push units towards Tashkent and reinforce the Barnaul region. Italy tweaks its defenses in Spain and N. Africa.
  Impulse #10. The UK takes a naval to shift forces while the other Allies pass. The turn ends on exactly the required number. No PARTs appear. India is conquered, stranding a British MAR there.

Sept/Oct 1943: The Axis win initiative after demanding a reroll. Both Germany and Italy take an air in order to send thousands of aircraft into the skies over the North Sea. Combat results, seeing the Allies take major FTR losses in the ensuing rounds of combat. The Allies hold on and the next round of search rolls fails, but the Axis hold an edge there. Norway remains in supply.
  Impulse #2 The Allies reinforce the North Sea with significant air and naval assets, but the ensuing combat is a disaster, causing the Allies to abandon the sea zone after heavily air losses.
  Impulse #3: The Germans shift attention to the USSR, moving forces up slowly across the Siberian plains. The Japanese assault Durban, Ceylon, and Auckland, taking all three without loss in high-odds attacks. The Italians engage in naval raids, sinking 3 CONV off the coast of S. America. 
  Impulse #4 The Allies sneak out a SCS to establish supply to Norway and succeed as no naval combat occurs.
  Impulse #5: The Axis go naval hunting, but fail to cut off Norway, although German units clear the Baltic and reinforce Norway with yet more units. The Japanese shift naval forces into the S. Atlantic, taking St. Helena and Ascension islands. 
  Impulses 6, 7, and 8 pass with little action. Norway remains in supply, but the Axis control the North Sea nonetheless.

At this point the game is called for the end of the semester by mutual agreement.

Final Victory Tally (game called end of 1943)

Germany: +9
Japan/Italy: +27
Commonwealth: -9
US/FRA: -14
USSR: -15