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New Year, New Headaches

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 The Axis win initiative and get favourable rain weather instead of snow. Hitler moves the railgun towards Dnepetrovsk. He uses the last of his Offensive Points to send the subs out during a Land impulse and reorganise the Rommel HQ which flips over to reorganise the railgun. The two subs in Faroes Gap find convoys and cause carnage -  3 convoys are damaged and the ASW ship is sent back to port along with  both light cruisers and 3 convoys. One sub is damaged and the other is sent back to port. Hitler is extremely happy.  South of Kaunas Hitler tries to destroy a large almost surrounded pocket of Soviet troops. He attacks the neck to completely surround the Soviets and sends in a large air force to support it but his fighter cover is sent back by Soviet fighters. The German bombers try to get through still but the Hs123 gets shot down so the rest abort. The land attacks are no better. The  northern"neck" battle sees the Germans lose the Hungarian cavalry and a German infantry

The winter of discontent

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 The Axis drew the iniative roll and the Allies chose not to reroll so as the Allies went first last time the initiative switches to the Axis. The weather is Fine everywhere. Japan chooses a no-cost combined impulse and moves a weak Japanese infantry corps to China. On the Vietnamese border Yamashita tries a risky attack on a lone Chinese Army in the moutains supported by bombers. Fortune favours the brave and Japanese forces advance into China from this angle. Italy with a naval impulse sends subs and naval aircraft into the Med and Red Sea but fail to find any convoys. They send light cruisers out into the West Med to protect their convoys. Hiter with a no-cost combined sends out the u-boats. They sink the Soviet convoy in the Norwegian Sea but this is their only success. On land the newly arrived Manstein HQ arrives in Ukraine by rail and the Rommel HQ reorganises him at cost of being disorganised himself. The big news is in Poland where after Hitler's goading Guderian launches

U-boat carnage

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The second year of war dawns. The Allies win initiative again. The weather is rainy except in the Med. The Commonwealth chooses a Naval action to send escorts out to protect their convoys. They send light cruisers with good AA factors to the Med. Naval aircraft and subs look for the unprotected Italian convoy in the West Med but fail to locate them. The Ozzie naval air unit flies to Netherlands East Indies, a transport with the armoured corps moves round the African coast and a heavy cruiser moves an infantry division from the UK to Malta. Lots of old bttleships move into the Est Med. The French move escort light cruisers to patrol the Carribbean and the Brazilian coast. The Chinese move units around to shore up their crumbling line. The Americans can now use land based aircraft in sea zones so use a naval aircraft to help patrol the East Coast waters. The Soviets sailed out into the Black Sea to support Odessa and moved land units into Poland from the Soviet Union and away from the Ge