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Japan - the centre of the storm

 The Axis easily win Initiative this Turn - for the second Turn in a row. The Weather is rainy in the Northern Hemisphere but Fine everywhere else including the Mediterranean. Japan completes its fortification on Midway making the crucial island a tough nut for the US to crack. Mussolini chooses a no-cost combined impulse. His naval aircraft do well in the Western Mediterranean - they send the Beaufighter back to base, damage a convoy and send two light cruisers back to base. The Nazgul flies to the East Mediterranean but waits there to intercept any transports carrying the troops in the East Mediterranean. Subs in the Cape Vincent get caught by Beauforts and damaged.  Japan chooses a Naval impulse. Escorts are sent out. Subs are sent to guard against the Pacific Fleet moving out of port in Samoa. Minisubs are sent against Pearl Harbour but have little effect. Yamamoto HQ moves nearer to Australia to Rabaul. The  Kido Butai main fleet, fighter and 3 subs move to Polynesia and . The Kid

Is this Autumn-time for Hitler and Germany?

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 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet in a conference and plan to achieve serious inroads into Germany by Summer 43. Stalin takes the implicit message that Berlin is his. Are the Allies counting their chickens? Hitler hopes so. He reckons he can generate good quality infantry and garrison units faster than the UK can and the US can get them over the Atlantic. If Mussolini can draw away the Yanks to the South of France then Hitler can match the number of British corps at the border of France. He can use his reinforcements this Turn including units that were Broken through last Turn and now returning to the fray against the Soviets. Stalin has to move units to Poland and the Baltics by rail which will disorganise them and mean they might not be able to fight till next Turn. Both sides roll for Initiative and the Axis win. The weather on the next impulse is rain except the Med and south of the north monsoon zone. Mussolini disbands a weak biplane unit in France and keeps the pilot.  His d