World in Flames - Empires in Flames

CW and Greek forces kill a Romanian cavalry speed bump in the Yugoslavian mountains. Other German units are flipped and left out of supply. Mountaineers make a dash north from Sofia, cutting the supply to Romania and to some Hungarian units trapped in Bulgaria. Stalin's smile threatens to remove the top of his head.

With Romania out of supply and no hope of rescue and, Rommel and the Romanians are an easy prey for Russian bombers and the red army. Bucharest falls and with it the Romanian army. A lone German ARM west of the city suddenly finds itself not only without supply but also without allies. Russia also launches a series of assaults all over the line, taking advantage of his winter equipment. Some ground is gained and Germany is forced to move his front one more step back.

In France, the massive allied army there, consisting almost only of ARM and MECH struggle to gain some ground in the bad weather. While their combined air force manage to down some German aircraft, the ground attacks accomplish nothing but the occasional bloodbath. The German lines still holds.

Another invasion is conducted by the allies east of Amsterdam and the hex is taken, killing the weak defending corps.

CW forces from India invades southern Siam and swiftly liberates Malaya. Fighters are immediately rebased to the new airfields bordering South China Sea. CW forces also land in NEI south of Medan but the turn ends before they can take the port of Padang where the USA intended to deploy a force to capture the oilfields of NEI.

US marines continue their assault on the Philippines by killing some territorials there. Allied forces try for the first time to contest the South China Sea and after a heavy naval air battle where approximately 30 air-to-sea points clear through the Japanese fighter cover, the remaining Japanese forces withdraw to their bases.

Just before the end of the turn however, a stealthy Japanese TRS manage to establish a route to the precious NEI oil and the fuel problem is solved for the Japanese forces for now.

In norhtern Asia, Stalin decides that now is the time to seize the lighly defended Manchuria. All but one of the Japanese border guards are annihilated without Russian losses and the Red army slowly advances on Harbin and Seuol while Chinese partisans prevent Japan from railing reinforcements to Manchuria from China.