The End of the game

 The Commonwealth launches repaired tankers including one in Australia. 2 light cruisers, a Chindit division and a great Tempest 2 fighter in India and 20 Offensive points (new total 25) and Burmese Territorials in Rangoon. France gets 15 Offensive points. Hitler gets Hamburg militia and Guderian comes back northwest of Stettin having just avoided the Allied encirclement. The Soviets add a  guards cavalry corps and 2 bombers to Siberia and 30 Offensive points  (new total 37) and a sub at Vladivostok. China gets a Nationalist mechanised corps and 5 Offensive points (new total 10). Japan gets 5 Offensive poitn s (new total 8). The mighty Musashi battleship is launched and two carriers are repaired and have two planes each and are added to the Kido Butai. The US adds 45 Offensive points to get a total of 49 Offensive points. A host of naval and air units of which 5 Essex class carriers mostly with one plane each are launched. A mountain infantry corps is also produced for the Italian front.  Italy produces a naval aircraft. The Allies win Initiative. The weather is Fine everywhere except the North Monsoon Zone where it is Rainy.

China again moves forces into position for an offensive on Kweiyang - perhaps hoping that the use of Offensive points will give them a slim chance of success. In the North Mao moves into the mountains to help supply further offensives towards Manchuoko.Churchill and De Gaulle choose a Land impulse. Gort leads a double offensive massive combined arms attack along with French 1st Tank Army on Hamburg. Tempests shoot down the Bf109 and German naval aircraft used in a desperate ground attack role are scattered. British artillery disorganise the Garrison corps. The Germans lose one corps and another corps gets blitzed onto the Production circle. The British capture another factory. The sub hunting Sunderland moves to Tripoli. The Indian Tempest moves to Changmai. The Indian mechanised corps moves east to cut the supply line to Yamamoto HQ. Commonwealth forces cross the Mekong to surround Bangkok from the Northeast and artillery and NZ motorised division join Alexander HQ. Alexander flips over to reorganise these forces disorganised by their marching in the monsoon weather.  The marines in Sardinia move back to the Olbia port on the Italian sea.

Stalin chooses a no-cost combined impulse.  Three Subs move out into the Sea of Japan. A Japanese naval aircraft moves into the 3 box and damages one of the subs. The subs try again and manage to dodge the aircraft. Three convoy points are damaged and the antisubmarine warfare ship is sent back to base. One sub is sent back to base and the Soviets stop searching happy they have cut Japan off from Asia. Zhukov spends 13 Offensive points to double an attack on Stettin. Hitler throws in all the air he can to support the defenders. One Soviet lend lease P40 gets shot down and the Soviets lose an infantry army and engineer division in the bloody assault but kill all the defenders and take Stettin one of the few factory cities left to Germany. The Soviet air force launches multiple ground attacks on the Manchuoko garrison corps and territorials in the swamps south of Khabarov but only succeed in disorganising the Garrison corps - as it is out of supply and a lower quality black print unit its only has a combat value of 1. Soviet units move around Vienna surrounding it but there are many German units in the way. 

The US spends 16 Offensive points to have a Naval , Air and Land impulse combined.  US night fighters go to bomb Prague in the day. A Bf109 plus biplanes used in Germany's hour of need try to intercept them with US fighters joining to challenge them. The night fighters gets through and disorganises the German infantry corps but the Panzer corps is unscathed.  The new Mustang rebases to Northern Ireland. Air units fly into the 3 box in South China Seas. The US bombs Manila and disorganises one of the defending units. Amphibious landers carry two infantry corps who jointly assault Manila along with two marine corps and one marine division attacking from land. Two battleships offer gun support. One Japanese Philippine garrison unit is destroyed and the territorial unit is shattered and placed on the reinforcement circle (but if the Japanese don't take Manila back then this unit will not appear as the Philippines will be liberated). One marine corps and a marine division are disorganised. 

US forces combine with Yugoslav troops to winkle out a German infantry corps in the mountains but the Ranger division is destroyed. Us units with French engineer help destroy the garrison corps south of Prague and cross the Elbe. On the France/ Italy border US and Brazilian units push forward into the gap in the Italian lines and into the Italian Alps with Clarke HQ moving in support. They have cut off two Italian corps in Nice.

I've lost interest in the game as it's become a procession so have stopped playing it. I might go back and play again from when the USSR invaded Germany but don't have the Balkan countries joining the Axis o see how that played out or a hypothetical show down between the British & Japanese Empires assuming the European war did not break out or was rapidly resolved.

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