The bad weather continues.
AUSGAME 2020 1941 – N/D 41 EOT and a New Year 1942
Another abbreviated summary of last week’s session:
Notable events N/D 41:
• The weather worsened 7 +2 (9) rolled.
• 1 impulse played – Axis rolled EOT – initiative shifts down +1 Axis.
• The GERM a Naval and subs sail cutting the CW conv link.
• Japan Combined and took Honk Kong.
• Manchurian Front Russia rails ARM and MECH Corps back to the West to the GERM Border.
• GERM SCS Bismarck fleet engages Royal Navy both find, CW CA and Graf Spee sunk 1 for 1.
• EOT rebase CW strips Conv back and has to spend saved oil in UK.
• Part Roll = 1 - No Partisans – a reprieve for Japan.
• Morocco Liberated and handed back to the Free French – FF CBV is placed on the Production Spiral to arrive next turn – Free France is back in the game.
Notable events J/F 42:
• Allies win the first initiative roll of the year, hoping for a trend, but with the bad weather they hand it to the Axis – Axis go first.
• Weather worsens 9 + 2 (11) Blizzard just about everywhere.
• Axis take naval Moves, Italy no cost combined.
• Japan aligns Siam – no interest from the US Senate.
• Conv war hots up – GERM U boats sink 3 Conv, dam 3 and abort 3 – Faroes’s gap now empty, 1 UBoat X’d in the Norwegian sea hunting for the Norwegian supply Conv.
• This last impulse saw lots of 2’s and 7’s rolled for searches by both sides – with both sides finding with 2’s or completely missing both on 7’s.
• The GERM Raider Atlantis missed its search and remained out at sea – now the hunter becomes the hunted. The 'Big Sisters' Tirpitz and Bismarck sail into the North Sea to challenge the Royal Navy.
• A large Jap Fleet (Strike) w 2 x CVs fail to find a lone CW CA in the Bay of Bengal (rain).
• The Italians continue to leave Italy in droves by train to garrison the French/W European coast and Norway!
• GERM build O Points in prep for the Russian offensive, Japan builds its excellent L/Range Zeros.
• Vichy France has built Roads in Tunisia to link up the north African railways to help with supply – nice use of Vichy BPs – helps keep N African Axis forces in supply.
• Allies are building Marines, para’s and Tpt Acft.
• Italy Nav air and Cons as they are critically low at only 4 left.
• Russian build doubles with the .25 increment for 42 and annual increase – Stalin well pleased.
• All other nations gain a .25 increment as the War industry winds up.
Summary.
Another marginal session for the Axis, EOT roll with Axis starting and ending shifts the initiative towards the allies by one – Russia is happy with that. Bonus for the Axis is that the CW has to use its UK ‘saved’ oil to max its production – still has plenty in Canada though. The Conv war of attrition is hotting up as both Conv and Subs are lost. The J/F bad weather reduces options for either side. The Allies gave up the first turn, one bad weather just in case the Axis roll EOT then the initiative will shift another +1 towards the Allies – this may be important for 42 Barbarossa.
In the Pacific both the US and Japan face off against each other as neither have significant advantage over each other, Japan is waiting for its L/Range Ftrs and the US its ‘Red’ CVs. Japan is on the back foot as Rabaul, Batavia, Singapore and Kwajalein are all in Allied hands. The good news for the Japs is that Russia has stopped its land ops in Russia as it focusses on the Russian front and its garrison.
In Europe the defence of N Africa has begun, the Axis await the impending DOW by Russia (US?) and Russia awaits the impending DOW by Germany – seems fair. Russia’s main effort at the moment is the destruction of the 2 factor (4 in the Mtn) Partisan in the oil city of Bandar Shahpur.
Next, Allied first impulse bad weather – will the US DOW GERM, has taken no entry actions since war with Japan – must be getting close. With bad weather everywhere – the action will focus on naval Ops. With a +3 on the weather and impulse marker it will be a very short turn.
Bismark
Tirpitz - the Big sisters sail to challenge Royal Navy supremacy
JF 1942 All the way USA
N/D 1941 Losses - mixed bag
S Arabia still in CW control
Note red counter south of Aden is a Norwegian Tpt
Central pacific - a green sea
The Chinese line stabilised now that Hong Kong and the Partisans have been 'cleaned up'.
The Far East - Japan's 'sphere of influence'
The Russian Front - Russia is about to step back from the frontier I suspect
1942 Losses - and so it begins the war of attrition a Sub for 3 Conv Points
Russia has set its line in Manchuria as it now focuses on the Russian Front
Yep I think we can call this a US Theatre.
The W Med - Morocco handed over to the Free French and the march East along the E - w rail line
The western Front and the German 'Big Sisters' come out to play in the bad weather.
The western Front and the German 'Big Sisters' come out to play in the bad weather.
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