World in Flames - Empires in Flames

Weather is very mixed. Summer storms and even snow in the Arctic is mixed with sunshine throughout the world. The allied advance in France is slowed and Germany has plenty of time to form a line of defense along the Seine river. British and US MECHs, ARMs, GUNs and vast amounts of fighters continue to pour in on a steady stream.

In late June as the weather clears, allied bombers ground strike the German positions along the river but almost only in Paris are they successful. Eisenhower then coordinates the assault on the city (OC) and with hideous amounts of ground support and paradrops, the city is taken and France is liberated.

At the same time, British forces in Denmark supported by bombers, paratroopers, marines and shore bombardment successfully assault the fortress north of Kiel. Wavells forces in Albania also take the last Italian stronghold of Tirane. Italy is now completely conquered.

On the eastern front, things are not so bright for the allies. While the Germans do not advance, the Russians mostly seams concerned with getting themselves killed in low-odds assaults rather than killing Germans. Luftwaffe has a great time bombing the advancing Russians when they attack the German positions.

In unreliable weather, the CW fleet in India takes to the South China sea where approximately 50% of the Japanese navy also patrols. Luckily for the Japanese, CW commanders seems utterly incompetent at finding their enemy and some CW cruisers and a CV is sunk with two more damaged in the battle where storms prevent the CW aircraft from lifting. Japan only loses a few heavy cruisers.

Retaliation comes from another direction. A lone US submarine manages to completely empty the China sea of Japanese CPs and Japanese CP reserves are looking awfully thin.

As so often is the case, it is the Chinese army which has to take a beating when Japan wants to loose some excess aggressions. The Communist forces north west of Si-An are killed without mercy in a heroic Japanese assault and as usual, the newspapers in Tokyo has a great victory to write about.

This turns primary US operation in the pacific is a major failure. An invasion in the mountains in NEI is intercepted by local militia which supported by Japanese battleships slaughter the invading US Marine corps.