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May/June 1942. Allied #2. Casablanca, Morocco.

The third move of the combined Anglo-American Torch/Dragoon Operation is a US amphibious invasion of Casablanca. This invasion is preceded by air strikes from USN carriers operating in the Atlantic in the St. Vincent sea area.

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May/June 1942. Allied #3. Amphibious Invasion of Casablanca, Morocco.

The US has many more ground troops and build points than transports. All it can muster for the invasion is a single corps. As such, the US is willing to a take a chance on the invasion.

The pre-attack odds of success are 50% on 3:1 + 1 assault table and 70% at 4:1 +1. With the odds of getting the fractional odds shift from 3:1 to 4:1 at 67%, this puts the expected chance of success at 63%. The US gets the odds shift but miss the 70% chance of successfully killing the notional and landing the single corps!

The amphibious landing is a failure!

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May/June 1942. Allied #3. Operation Dragoon. The Invasion of Southern France.

The fourth and last operation of the invasion of Vichy is a CW landing against Vichy in southern France. Specifically, Marseilles. The RN sends a massive force into the Western Med, including 3 invasion transports, for this operation.

This force is opposed by the balance of the Italian navy who seek to engage the CW.

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May/June 1942. Allied #2. RN Invasion Force, The Western Med.

The RN with its primary (sole) objective this impulse on supporting the CW amphibious invasion of Marseilles, successfully avoids the Italian navy.

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May/June 1942. Allied #3. Pre-Invasion. Marseilles.

All available (usable) RN naval guns, carrier air, (CW and USA) ground air hit Marseilles in support of the CW amphibious invasion.

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May/June 1942. Allied #2. Marseilles, Vichy France. CW Amphibious Invasion.

Even with all the naval and air support the allies could muster, the CW can only manage 3:1 odds with only a 0.375 chance of getting an odds shift to 4:1. The fractional odds roll fails so the attack stays at 3:1. At 3:1 +1 on the assault table, this invasion has an 70% chance of succeeding (i.e., killing the notional and having 1 corps survive). However, that's still a 30% of failure. The attack roll is average and the invasion is successful, but, at the cost of a 6-4 CW corps.

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May/June 1942. Allied #3. The CW toehold in Southern France.

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May/June 1942. Allied #3. Relations with Vichy France.

Not only is Vichy France at war with the CW and USA, but it's also hostile to them. Isn't that what war is? [&:]

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May/June 1942. Allied #3. The Solomons.

Wishing to maximize the use of their super combined, the US move a carrier strike and an invasion task force out to sea in the Solomons. The target of the invasion force is Kwajalein, however, no landing take place this impulse as the US is waiting for fine weather and better odds.

The USN also keeps a potent naval force in reserve at Truk composed of 3 CVs, 3 BBs and 3 CAs. This is an interesting cat and mouse game that has developed between the USN and IJN in the Pacific with respect to naval forces in reserve.



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May/June 1942. Allied #3. East Indian Ocean.

The CW also wanting to maximize their use of a super combined, move a carrier task force into the East Indian Ocean to seek out and engage the Japanese naval and air forces on patrol there. Also, this move restores supply the Australian 7-5 mech corps in Batavia, Java to the north.

The RN and IJN forces initially clash in air to air combat. Planes from the Ark Royal get the better of the combat downing a IJA fighter and being cleared through on a run against the IJN.

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May/June 1942. Allied #3. East Indian Ocean (Naval Air Combat).

The bombers were either shaken or exhilarated by their close, but successful encounter with the Japanese fighters because they fail miserably in their attack on two IJN heavy cruisers.

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May/June 1942. East Indian Ocean. Naval Air Combat Round 2.

The second round of naval air combat in the East Indian Ocean goes decisively for the RN and the bombers off the Ark Royal. The CW wins the search roll and is able to only engage the 3 IJN cruisers in box 4. 2 of the 3 heavy cruisers are damaged and the 3rd is forced to abort.

The IJN wins the search roll for a 3rd round and elects to avoid combat.

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Vichy France being hostile is a specific technical term in (M)WiF.

Basically, a hostile Vichy France fights more like a real Axis belligerent, whereas if it's at war but not hostile, the Allies have an easier time of it.

(Interestingly, by invading, the Allies have removed the possibility of Germany collapsing Vichy France.)
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May/June 1942. Allied #3. Northern China.

The Chinese communist in the north make a bold move to cut supply to the Teraachi HQ unit. Though, they don't have the odds to attack with any confidence.



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May/June 1942. Allied #3. Northern USSR.

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May/June 1942. Allied #3. Southern USSR.

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ORIGINAL: composer99

(Interestingly, by invading, the Allies have removed the possibility of Germany collapsing Vichy France.)
Is that good or bad?
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Probably neither, since the only Vichy French asset to speak of is its fleet, which if it runs on German activity limits will still be fairly hamstrung.

Although the fact that Vichy France is hostile also means that Vichy French units won't surrender without a fight - not that there are many of them left in any case.
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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

May/June 1942. Allied #2. RN Invasion Force, The Western Med.

The RN with its primary (sole) objective this impulse on supporting the CW amphibious invasion of Marseilles, successfully avoids the Italian navy.

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Next time if you got 13 surprise points and the Axis has no air in the sea area to aim at your precious transports, you blow the Italian fleet out of the water. You've got a better fleet and those old Italian BB's are no match for you... This was a good opportunity to get rid of them...
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ORIGINAL: composer99

Probably neither, since the only Vichy French asset to speak of is its fleet, which if it runs on German activity limits will still be fairly hamstrung.

Although the fact that Vichy France is hostile also means that Vichy French units won't surrender without a fight - not that there are many of them left in any case.
Vichy put both their Atlantic fleet, based at Casablanca, and their Med fleet based at Marseilles out to sea last turn to deter this very operation (i.e., Torch / Dragoon). My intention, uh ... Vichy's intention, was to leave these fleets out on patrol over the next 3 turns. But, since Vichy is neutral this fleet had to return to base. Or at least I think it did? I hope it did, because then I (I mean Vichy) really messed up. Either way, the Vichy fleets were returned to base, disorganized and couldn't be reorganized due to the absence of oil. So the 2 traded oil points from Germany sent this turn to Vichy is suppose to rectify that, however, I think I messed that up too. And by the way, the Vichy Med fleet based at Marseilles was severely disrupted by the allied invasion there.
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