| Av. | Bid | Option play | Minor | Inc. | Spending | BP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CW | 11 | 9 | +2 | Cw 3, Treaty 2 w US | Bulgaria | 14,50 | 5 Bid, FTR-3, HQ-I | 9,63 |
| US | 10 | 7 | +3 | 0(f), Accept treaty | Brazil | 5,41 | 5 Bid | 19,47 |
| GE | 8 | 7 | +2 | - +4 | 14,25 | 5 Bid, 2 INF, HQ-A, LND-2 | 2,25 | |
| FR | 2 | 1 | +4 | - +0 | 8,30 | PE1, PIL, GAR, INF | 10,81 | |
| RU | 5 | 1 | +3 | - +4 | 5,90 | 2 INF | 0,95 | |
| IT | 9 | 1 | +1 | - +3 | 8,25 | GAR, ATR-3, CV-1 II(2), SUB | 9,25 | |
| JA | 7 | +1 | - +3 | 8,25 | 2 Bid, GAR, PIL, AMPH(3), CONV | 7,25 | ||
| CH | 14 | - +1 | 2,75 | MOT, GAR | 9,55 |
The Commonwealth-US treaty specifies that the Commonwealth gets to fetch the 5 Venezuelan oil if she so desires.
| Av. | Bid | Option play | Minor | Inc. | Spending | BP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH | 15 | 14 | CH 2, Double All Production! | Netherlands | 5,50 | HQ-I, GAR, INF DIV | -0,95 | |
| GE | 10 | 8 | +3 | 0(g) +12 | Belgium | 13,50 | 7 Bid | 8,75 |
| IT | 11 | 10 | +1 | IT 4, It's Bellum w Greece | 8,25 | MECH DIV, PARA | 7,50 | |
| CW | 7 | 2 | +4 | IPO 10, Election! | Hungary | 14,50 | 5 Bid, INF, 3 CONV, 2 SCS-1 II(1+2) | 9,13 |
| US | 8 | 1 | +3 | US 2, Gear up! | Persia | 6,58 | 2 Bid | 12,05 |
| RU | 8 | 1 | +2 | 0(g) +12 | Yugoslavia | 5,90 | 2 INF | 0,85 |
| FR | 1 | 1 | +2 | - +0 | 8,30 | PE 1, AT, PIL, FTR-2 | 11,11 | |
| JA | 12 | +1 | - +3 | 8,25 | 2 Bid, INF, SUB, PIL, CONV | 6,50 |
An Italian port strike against the Greek fleet in Korkyra sinks it. The Italian fifth infantry corps lands against marginal resistance south of the western Greek port of Patrai.
The Greek army races out of Athens in order to deny the use of the western Greek ports to Italy.
Italian troops assault Patrai after a brief build-up, taking it with no losses, assisted by air support from both navy and army airplanes, who both persevere in spite of Greek fighter cover.
| Av. | Bid | Option play | Minor | Inc. | Spending | BP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU | 19 | 12 | +1 | IPO 4, Coup in Rumania | Turkey | 6,50 | R.LL 1, 2 MIL | 4,35 |
| GE | 21 | 9 | +3 | GE 4, It's Krieg! | 16,50 | MTN, SUB, PIL | 18,25 | |
| JA | 17 | 12 | - +3 | 8,75 | 3 Bid, SCS-1 II(2), FTR-2, PIL | 6,25 | ||
| US | 9 | 3 | +2 | - +3 | 6,58 | 18,63 | ||
| CW | 10 | 3 | +2 | - +2 | 14,50 | 2 Bid, FTR-3, PIL, SCS-1 II(2), SUB II, 3 CONV | 10,63 | |
| IT | 1 | 1 | +3 | - +3 | 7,50 | MECH, INF | 7,00 | |
| CH | 1 | +4 | - +1 | 5,50 | INF DIV, AT | -0,45 | ||
| FR | +1 | - +0 | 8,30 | 4 Bid, LL 8, PE 1 | 1,41 |
France declares that it will lend-lease 10 build points to Russia.
The German armed forces have spent the winter massing on the Soviet border, and now Germany declares war. The Luftwaffe strikes against Smolensk, Kiev and Odessa with little effect. Italian bombers drop their cargo on Athens in spite of Greek fighter cover, but there is no effect. German forces take Pskov and Vitebsk, completely overwhelming the out-numbered defenders.
Soviet submarines comb the Baltic in vain for German convoys. The Red Air Force strikes against forward elements of the Wehrmacht in Vitebsk and south-east of Pskov with some success.
The Luftwaffe for the first time sends the brand new Ju-87D Stuka against Soviet forces in Smolensk, with only partial success. Then German ground forces attack Smolensk, Kiev and Odessa, destroying a total of 4 Soviet corps and forcing one to retreat. The German offensive in Smolensk took its toll on the German attackers, who are now disrupted. German troops also race through the Baltic States and capture Novgorod and Stalino against light resistance.
Soviet submarines still fail to find the German convoys. The Kalinin factory is dismantled and loaded onto trains for transport to Sverdlovsk.
The Luftwaffe strikes against Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk, with some success only in Kharkov. Gomel and Rostov fall to forward elements of the Wehrmacht, the latter cutting off the rail line from the Caucasian resources to the Soviet factories. The corps that was retreated out of Smolensk is destroyed en passant by German panzers. German troops also attack and take Dnepropetrovsk, destroying the two Soviet corps defending it. In the Mediterranean, Italian troops now attack Athens, taking it with no losses.
Elements of the Wehrmacht enter Kalinin, Boyansk and Tula, encountering very light resistance. An attack on Kharkov destroys the two corps in it. Still no sign of the offensive slacking.
The Luftwaffe attacks Kursk, causing some disorder among the defenders. Ryazan, Voronezh and Yaroslavl are taken, the latter cutting the rail line to Archangelsk and Murmansk. Now there is no way for the French lend lease to reach Russia. Kursk and its two defending corps fall.
The remainder of the Luftwaffe, having had severe problems reaching the front, now strike at Moscow, disrupting all the defenders. Stavropol falls. An assault on Moscow captures it easily, destroying two airplanes with pilots, two corps and one division.
The 41st Panzer corps races deep into the Caucasus, capturing an oil field. Saratov falls.
When the offensive finally draws to a close, the German armed forces are still completely intact. 14 Soviet corps, 2 divisions and 2 airplanes have been destroyed. 7 Soviet resource centers and 2 oil fields have been captured for German use. 18 Soviet factories are in German hands, of which 4 can at some future time be put to German use. Leningrad and the Caucasian oil fields are cut off from the rest of the Soviet Union. Only 7 functional factories remain, all but one in Asia. One lucky kick, and the whole rotten structure collapsed. Even the most optimistic German planners expected it to take at least two.
A band of partisans appear in the Greek mountains.
Greece and the Baltic States have been conquered.
| Av. | Bid | Option play | Minor | Inc. | Spending | BP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU | 7 | 7 | +4 | 0(g) +12 | Rumania | |||
| JA | 11 | 8 | +3 | JA 4, It's War! | ||||
| GE | 12 | 6 | +3 | - +4 | ||||
| US | 9 | 1 | +2 | - +3 | ||||
| CW | 11 | 1 | +2 | - +2 | ||||
| IT | 3 | 1 | +1 | - +3 | ||||
| FR | 4 | 1 | - +0 | |||||
| CH | 2 | +1 | - +1 |
Elements of the Red Air Force based in Leningrad strike against Wehrmacht troops crossing Russia, but with little effect. The Gorki factory is relocated to Chelyabinsk.
The German offensive continues, albeit at a slightly lower tempo. Gorki falls to German troops moving towards the Asian part of Russia.
The entire Red Navy sets to sea, in the Baltic and the Black Sea. The German convoys in the Baltic escape detection again.
Penza falls, and German troops continue to struggle east. Russia is vast.
Japan declares war on Russia. A Japanese task force enters the Japanese Sea and promptly dispatches the Russian submarine lurking there. Meanwhile, Japanese air strikes disrupt the Russian defenders in Vladivostok. The Luftwaffe also strikes Russian troops, with mixed success. Perm and Vologda fall, as German troops move further into Asian Russia. Italian troops, in a huge coordinated campaign in the Greek mountains, obliterate the partisans there. Japanese troops assault and take Vladivostok, destroying a Russian infantry and militia corps and suffering no losses. German troops blitz Russian troops south of Kazan, destroying a cavalry and infantry corps.
The Russian Baltic Sea fleet fails once more in its efforts to find the German convoys. Russian troops counter-attack for the first time. In the west, a German mechanized corps is engaged in a mobile battle which results in the loss of a Russian infantry corps. In the east, a disrupted Japanese cavalry corps that is out of supply is attacked and dispatched by a Russian infantry corps.
German troops take Giflis and Uta and reach the foothills of the Ural. A Russian mechanized corps, disorganized after its desperate counter-attack is easily eliminated after it is put out of supply by German troops reaching the Caspian Sea from the west.
The second stage of the offensive has resulted in the loss to the Russian of another 2 factories, four oil fields and 2 resource centers. In addition to this, the factory in Kazan is now isolated.
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