At Sebas; it seems Romania does need a push...see the comment below. About the CVs I finally got my first sinking...a CVL. Takes one to know one I guess.
Yeah Forster, you're right about the age bit being a non-factor. I used 'old dog' but it should really have been a "sick old dog".Fido is not very frisky.
In General
* November 1940 saw pesky Nepal and Bhutan defeated and about half of India lose its red. All Indian ports are in Japanese hands.
* On 29 Nov. I finally sank a Brit CVL with one of my CVs
* 3 Jan 41 The Undeclared War-event by the USA
* Jan-June - Romania continues to move away from the Axis corner. Germany is trying to influence at times but even then, it cannot pull the neutral nation back to any degree when the U.K. adds influence because the numbers still slightly favor the Allies at 22.79 vs 20.67. I'm guessing here, but since the SU is still Romania's largest threat it will take the Russians going to war to put Romania in the Axis corner. Neutrality stands at 35.78 and needs to drop below 25.
The Med
The Italians started off with a bang by knocking the Brits out of Egypt and North Africa and taking down Iraq. However, they did not capture Cypress and Gibraltar and that proved disastrous. Since my (Japan) riddling of all British forces east of South Africa, the U.K. A.I. has wisely focused on the near problem of the Med. Since there were few Italian troops holding the gains, the Brits have reclaimed Alexandria and pushed to Bengasi. British Marines had also taken Albania and the native Italian ports of Cagliari and Olbia, that has the Italians making new attacks in those areas. What looks to be a decent Army has landed n Tripoli to try and halt the Brits but a minor landing near Olbia looks doomed from the start. The British will not hold Albania either because of a huge Axis force swinging that way. Any allied landing in the south always causes a serious overreaction. The Italians are making one other move, they are finally going after Cypress but since they landed on the airbase side of the island, I doubt they will succeed. Such is the high-cost of leaving Gibraltar in British hands with a port to rebase deep into the Med.
Pacific bases
It's late June, 1941 and my "1st Conquest of the Pacific" is now complete but not without doing something quite gamey. Since my expansion till the present time has happened far faster than I can make wagon-loads of GARs, I finally had to accept that "GARs will arrive when they arrive". The reason is I took 2 Marine Corps, a few Infantry Corps with 2 assault fleets and very quickly, island-hopped the rest of the Allied (current) bases in the Pacific, figuring if they retake one unguarded then I will deal with it. Along the way, I discovered Guadalcanal was Australian? so they had to go the puppet route . Ofc course New Zealand then had to follow suit. With both of them in the Axis corner (shh, it's a secret) I made a fairly quick run through Nauru,
Luganville and the other near naval bases, Guadalcanal and surrounding bases in New Guinea, the French bases of Noumea, Tarawa and the other ports in the Gilberts, then British Fongafale and finally Fiji, the last stronghold of the British in the Pacific. A real bummer about this operation was I sunk the Australian Navy in the process and most of NZ’s TPs. I wish that hadn’t happened.
Preparations
I will eventually cover all these bases with GARx2. Surprisingly my next IC run will defend many of them. Until I have enough, a INF div will sit and wait. I hope what this huge effort will do is prevent the U.S. from using ANY Pacific port or airfield other than their own. 2 GARs is not going to hold against US Marines but my plan is to spread defensive response forces in key regions, like Japan did with Truk in the real war. Ofc I intend on going on the Offense I just wanted to make sure that American offensives are readily seen and the ranges of the Fleets and Wings greatly curtailed by having no free rebasing for masses of U.S. ships and planes, were they have not had to fight to go. Arrgh!
I expect to be at war soon, actually a little surprised I’m not. If Germany had not been putting the magic-whammy on the Yanks I probably would be. Anyway, since I see the big war nearing I'm doing a statistical review of all forces to see how things stand when the greater-war triggers. Many don’t care about this kind of stuff but I’m ex-QA/SPC, so its in my blood so to speak and I’ll share it next for those that might enjoy a gamey analysis.
