Best season of this game, by far. There are only 3 builds despite many centers changing hands from one end of the continent to the next. Clarity seems to be forming around the end game: will momentum roll toward an inevitable result, or will the human factor take this massive conflict into a different direction?!
As 1940 starts winding to a close we take a moment to look away from the war and consider international affairs:
The indecisive posture of the United States is poignantly illustrated on August 4: General John J. Pershing urges all-out aid to Britain in a nationwide radio broadcast, while Charles Lindbergh is the features speaker at a large isolationist rally in Chicago
On August 21 Leon Trotsky died in Mexico from axe wounds sustained the previous day by an NKVD agent. In light of the present Soviet struggles in the European engagement one wonders if Trotsky's leadership might have made a difference
In September the United States begins converting National Guard Divisions: the newly-formed U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division is activated and ordered into federal service
On September 12, away from military activity, a group of young Frenchmen hiking in Lascaux discover 17,000 year-old cave paintings
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 on September 16, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history
On October 16 draft registration begins. It is believed that 16 million men will eventually be so conscripted
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented third term as U.S. President on November 5
On December 14 plutonium is first isolated chemically in the laboratory
There are 2 retreats this season; upcoming deadlines at the end of this note:
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PLAYERS
Britain - sunchung / Sun Chung / sun.chung@gmail.com
France - DrSwordopolis / Nick Powell / nick.s.powell@gmail.com
Germany - charlesf / Charles Feaux de la Croix / charlesf@web.de
Italy (and Nationalist Spain) - raistlin / David Gould / davidchegould@bigpond.com
Poland - smileyrob / Robert Stein / smileyrob68@gmail.com
Turkey - Wladimir7 / Wladimir Mysonski / wmysonski@gmail.com
USSR (and Republican Spain) - Nitsch / Karsten Nitsch / karsten.nitsch@gmx.de
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HEADLINES
British Empire is officially closed as far-away holdings fall, in exchange for more regional gains
French armies remain spritely, maneuvering throughout Paris and the countryside
Re-conquest of Munich gives hope to beleaguered Wehrmacht
Italians continue to show strategic and tactical class
Polish expansion afar offset by defeats uncomfortably close to Warsaw
Seedy bookmakers instal Turks as favourites to win the war after latest spectacular season
Ironically, Stalin retreats to Stalingrad to make his last stand
Joy of defeating Portugal is mixed with horror as British overrun Madrid
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Britain:
F Belgium Supports F North Sea - Netherlands
F Denmark - Helgoland Bight
F Morocco Hold (*Disbanded*)
F Atlantic Ocean - Arabian Sea (*Bounce*)
F English Channel - South-Western Approaches (*Bounce*)
F North Sea - Netherlands
F Skaggerak - Denmark
F South-Western Approaches - Madrid
France:
A Paris - Gascony
A Picardy - Paris
Germany:
A Czechia - Austria (*Bounce*)
A Hamburg Supports A Saxony - Munich
A Lorraine - Switzerland (*Dislodged*)
A Saxony - Munich
Italy:
F Algiers - Morocco
A Austria - Hungary
A Burgundy Supports A Munich - Lorraine
A Croatia Supports A Austria - Hungary
A Marseille - Switzerland (*Bounce*)
A Munich - Lorraine
A Switzerland - Austria (*Bounce*)
F Tyrrhenian Sea Supports F Western Mediterranean
F Western Mediterranean Supports F Algiers - Morocco
Poland:
A Byelorussia Supports A Moscow
A Cracow - Slovakia
F Finland(sc) - Sweden
A Leningrad Supports A Moscow
A Moscow Supports A Western Ukraine - Eastern Ukraine (*Cut*)
A Rumania - Serbia (*Dislodged*)
A Transylvania - Hungary (*Fails*)
A Western Ukraine - Eastern Ukraine (*Bounce*)
F Gulf of Danzig Supports F Finland(sc) - Sweden
Turkey:
A Bulgaria Supports A Dobruja - Rumania
A Dobruja - Rumania
A Eastern Anatolia - Iran
A Kazakhstan - Siberia
A Palestine - Egypt
A Serbia Supports A Dobruja - Rumania
F Suez - Arabian Sea (*Bounce*)
F Black Sea Supports A Dobruja - Rumania
F Eastern Mediterranean Convoys A Palestine - Egypt
F Libyan Sea Convoys A Palestine - Egypt
USSR:
A Eastern Ukraine - Western Ukraine (*Fails*)
A Stalingrad - Moscow (*Fails*)
Republican_Spain:
A Burgos Supports A Madrid - Portugal
F Gibraltar - South-Western Approaches (*Bounce*)
A Madrid - Portugal
Portugal:
F Portugal Hold (*Dislodged*)
Retreats:
German A Czechia can retreat to Rheinland or Picardy or OTB
Polish A Rumania can retreat to Cracow or OTB
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Winter 1940 Builds:
Germany:
Build?
Italy:
Build
Poland:
Build?
Turkey:
Build
Build
USSR
Remove
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Ownership of supply centers
Britain: Belgium, Denmark, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London, Madrid, Netherlands, Norway.
France: Brest, Paris.
Germany: Berlin, Czechia, Hamburg, Munich.
Italy: Algiers, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Marsailles, Milan, Morocco, Naples, Rome, Switzerland, Tripoli.
Poland: Cracow, Finland, Gdynia, Latvia, Leningrad, Lithuania, Moscow, Sweden, Warsaw.
Turkey: Ankara, Beirut, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Istanbul, Izmir, Rumania, Serbia, Suez.
USSR: Stalingrad.
Republican_Spain: Burgos, Portugal, Valencia.
Britain: 8 Supply centers, 7 Units: Builds 1 units.
France: 2 Supply centers, 2 Units: Builds 0 units.
Germany: 4 Supply centers, 4 Units: Builds 0 unit.
Italy: 11 Supply centers, 9 Units: Builds 2 units.
Poland: 9 Supply centers, 9 Units: Builds 0 units.
Turkey: 12 Supply centers, 10 Units: Builds 2 unit.
USSR: 1 Supply center, 2 Units: Removes 1 unit.
Republican_Spain: 3 Supply center, 3 Units: Builds 0 unit.
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Upcoming Deadlines (all orders are due at 5 PM EST, GMT -5)
Winter 1940 Retreats/Adjustments, Thursday September 9
Spring 1941 Prelims, Friday September 10
Spring 1941 Orders, Tuesday September 14
Summer 1941 Retreats, Thursday September 16
Fall 1941 Prelims, Friday September 17
Fall 1941 Orders, Tuesday September 21
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