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A Bridge Just Right and Hitler's long hot summer of pain

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 Japan launches 4 light carriers with rubbish planes.  The powerful Kwantung motorised infantry forms in Manchuria. The Allies do not have many units arriving on the board apart from Commonwealth and American planes  (the US has 3 fighters and a medium bomber, the Commonwealth has a Spitfire). Hitler gets to deploys his SS tank army gets to redeploy in West Poland. His new infantry is split between east and west fronts but his two new fighters go to the Ruhr on the West.  The Italians deploy an Alpini  mountain troops, a powerful infantry guards corps plus a fighter near the border with the Alps. Hitler scraps an old Dornier ground attack plane to provide 1 Build point for later - the Germans have given up on the idea of naval invasions.  The Allies win initiative. The weather is Fine everywhere except Stormy in the North monsoon zone. Churchill and Roosevelt both chooses a no-cost combined impulse. The US and Royal Navies transports many US troops across the Atlantic. S Churchill send

Rain dance and the Pacific Fleet strikes back at Japan

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 The Allies win Initiative for the first time in 1943! The weather is rotten - mostly rain but storm in the Arctic and North Monsoon zone- but fine in the Med. Stalin chooses a Land impulse. Near Berlin all the Soviet offensive points are used to get a break through but Stalin rolls poorly and only forces the defenders to retreat with half the attackers flipped over. Stalin would shoot the general but its Zhukov his best general. Still at least Konigsberg is being slowly surrounded. South of Lodz the Soviets move forces out of Lodz and Warsaw (only the Warsaw garrison is replaced by weak infantry) and the German SSS panzer spearhead is surrounded. The Germans send bombers to support and in the dogfight the Germans shoot down the Soviet fighter (but the pilot survives). The attack is low odds but but with the help of the HQ the Soviets manage to Blitz the SS who now have to leave the game til l next round. One mechanised corps is lost but another is promoted to Guards Banner Army and ha