NationStates Jolt Archive

Third World War
Chronology of Events

January 1939 Japan blockades China
February 3, 1939 Japan invades China
February - April 1939 Fierce fighting between Japan and China, Japanese take Hong Kong, Canton, and Kwielang, and isolate China from Vietnam. LTA places a trade embargo on Japan. First major bombing raids of large cities (launched by Japan). Heavy Chinese and Japanese casualties.

LTA and Pact mobilize and prepare for war, and the LTA supports China and the Pact supports Japan. Both sides move major forces around, and the situation grows more and more tense.

May 4, 1939 Union and British naval forces get involved in a major naval battle in the North Sea. The British lose 2 light cruisers and 6 destroyers sunk, and among the 3400 dead is Lord Mountbatten, a member of the Royal family serving as the executive officer aboard a light cruiser. The Allies also lose nearly 150 aircraft, but shoot down 30 Union aircraft in return, and destroy another 100 aircraft when they sink a Union carrier and damage another. The Union also loses two destroyers sunk and several others damaged.

Declarations of War are issued by the Pact against the LTA shortly after, and the LTA replies. Both sides blame the other for starting the battle. Italy declares neutrality and pulls out of the LTA, but China joins the LTA.

1939
The LTA and Pact fight for supremacy at sea, and gradually in a series of battles the LTA wins. In addition, the LTA secures Africa and the Western Hemisphere. China manages to hold out and avoids conquest, while the Pact launches a massive bombardment with missiles against London. Allied bombers hit Pact cities in Germany and eventually in Russia. The LTA destroys Pact forcs in the Levant. The Pact conquers the Netherlands, Belgium, and Burgundy and eventually Denmark. The LTA continues economic development of Africa. The LTA also secures Southeast Asia.

1940
The LTA gains supremacy at sea. The LTA then invades Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Japan. Allied bombers are used in the battlefield role. Jet fighters enter service. Japan attacks Chinese and Vietnamese with chemical weapons including nerve gas. The Union deports nearly 1 million Belgians into the Union for work as forced labor and murders 100,000 Belgian soldiers. After heavy fighting, France and Japan are defeated, and Belgium is liberated. Italy enters the war on the LTA side, as does all of Latin America except for Paraguay. India enters the war and secures southern Iran and Afghanistan.

1941
China goes on the offensive and clears China of Pact forces. The LTA invades northern Russia, the Ukraine, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechslovakia and Germany and by the end of the year has conquered all Pact territory west of the Neiman / Dnieper river lines, as well as Finland and Denmark. Sweden and Norway enter the war on the LTA side. The US begins an all out bombing campaign of Siberian and Urals industrial targets, which along with the loss of territory, cripples the Union.

1942
In a summer offensive, the LTA drives into the Soviet Union from Karellia, Poland, the Ukraine, Central Asia, China, and the Sea of Okhotsk and the Soviet Union is conquered. The Soviets conduct nuclear and germ warfare against India, China, and the United States, and the United States retaliates with germ and nuclear warfare against the Soviet Union. Between the ground offensives and bombing, the Soviets finally collapse and the civilian government is destroyed with the atomic bombing of Omsk on September 5, and STAVKA asks for a cease fire on September 15, 1942 (known forever more as Victory Day in all LTA nations). The final surrender is signed on September 30, 1942.

Millions are dead, and millions more will die and entire continents are in ruins.

Fall and Winter 1942-43
The widespread biological warfare attacks cause continued outbreaks of the Black Death throughout North America and Asia. Food shortages are serious in North America, but severe in Europe and catastrophic in Asia. Approximately 30% of the population dies in some areas of China, India and Siberia, while in the rest of Russia, China, India, Persia and Central Asia die offs of 10% are common. The fall harvests are disasters in many areas because the Wheat Rust and Rice Blast contagions spread widely, forcing the destruction of the crops of entire regions to stop the spread. Radiation leaves many vulnerable as well, with influenza and other usually chronic but survivable diseases becoming killers. The usual ability of North America to feed the world is compromised by severe livestock losses, as well as Wheat Rust but at least famine is held at bay there.

Spring 1943 and the remainder of 1943
Outbreaks of Plant and Livestock diseases, as well as the Plague are still common but far less severe then the previous year. Nevertheless, harvests are still down and many who survived last years famine die this year as diseases prey on their weakened bodies. India also suffers a severe drought which adds to the misery and death toll.

1944 -45
The outbreaks have finally burned out and the world is finally able to sigh in relief. The War has finally ended.

In all, approximately 150 million have died during or immediately after the war because of the effects of the war.

But State Communism has been destroyed, as well as the most powerful single empire the world has ever seen.

Maps in use
Asia and the Pacific
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/fullimage/95677
each hex is 230 kilometers

Europe, North Africa, the Mideast and the Atlantic
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/fullimage/95676
each hex is 100 Kilometers

The Americas
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/fullimage/95679
each hex is 650 kilometers

there is no World In Flames map available for Africa, although I have it to use as a reference. This map is pretty good though.
This however is a good map to use
http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/maps/mapscan/af1922l.jpg

Stacking
On the Europe Map
Ground units: 2 corps plus 2 other units
Air units: 4 air units in a city, 4 on a HQ unit (which can't move)
Naval units: no limit at sea or in a major (blue) port. No more than 6 in a minor (white) port.

Asia: Doubled
Americas: double the Asia limits:

Combat is determined using one of two different combat results tables for ground combat, and various tables for air and naval combat. Relatively small or really important naval battles are determined using a couple of naval games I own (for flavor more than anything else). The ground combat results table is a either the assault table (lots of casualties) or the mobile table (fewer casualties and the possibility of forcing defending units to retreat). Only mechanized and armored units can use the mobile table or an attack that has a majority of those units.

What the terrain means
Capitals and cities with a factory symbol -- infantry, mechanized, motorized and garrison units are doubled in defense. Assault table only, armored units are halved attacking Capitals and cities with a factory symbol
other cities -- no combat effect, assault table only
(remember how big these hexes are, and units have alot more firepower then the last war)
woods hexes -- cost 2 points for mechanized, motorized and armored units to move through instead of 1 (twice that in Asia). assault table only
rough hexes -- all units except armored corps are doubled in defense, alpine units are tripled. Costs 3 points to enter (twice that in Asia) for all except infantry, commandos and alpine units. Assault table only
alpine (the white hex sides) are impassible to any but Alpine units, or commandos. No attacks across alpine hex sides
desert -- supply range is halved.
rivers -- attacking units are halved if attacking across rivers. assault table only
jungle -- supply as desert, combat and movement as mountian hex, assault table only
swamp -- as per jungle, except all units must end movement upon entering, except commandos

Amphibious landings
Amphibious fleets can carry (combination is fine) 2 marine or 2 infantry or 2 amphibious engineer units plus 1 other unit OR 1 mechanized, motorized or armored corps and 1 other unit. Only units from amphibious fleets can conduct amphibious landings (except for commandos)

Paradrops
Parachute and airborne units can be dropped within 10 hexes (5 hexes in Asia) of the city they are based in if stacked with an air transport unit. They can be dropped within 20 hexes (10 Asia) with a heavy (4 engined) air transport. They can be ferried by heavy transport to any city within 50 hexes or 3 sea zones of their base. Alpine units may also be airtranported in this way (but not air dropped).

Anti Submarine warfare
Only carriers, landbased naval air units, and light ship units can attack submarines. Submarine warfare is handled by the referee.

Naval Mine warfare
Strategic bomber units and landbased naval air units can be used to lay offensive minefields in enemy waters. They must be based in a base in the same sea zone as their target (strategic bombers can lay mines from 2 sea zones away). This costs 1 point and uses up an aircraft for that turn. It costs 2 points to remove those mines. If not removed, your commerce suffers damage and you may lose some warships. These aircrarft are subject to interception by defending fighters.

Submarines may conduct this type of warfare as well instead of attacking shipping. Submarines have a range of 4 sea zones. Minefields are in shallow coastal waters, and all enemy ports are considered affected in that sea zone until the mines are cleared (which occurs as soon as the points to remove them are spent)

Commercial Shipping is abstracted, but 10% is usually in port, 20% is usually coastal shipping, and 70% is at sea at any given time. If convoyed, shipping is less efficient, and each shipping unit is only worth .75 points commercial points. However, shipping that isn't convoyed takes 10 times as many losses from submarine attack or surface raiders as shipping that is convoyed.

Special Naval Choke Points
Pact and Associated powers naval forces cannot pass through the Straits of Dover as long as the LTA controls Dover. They also cannot enter the Indian Ocean through the Straits of Molucca as long as the LTA owns Singapore. They may not enter the Mediterranean Sea through the Straits of Gibraltar as long as the LTA controls Gibraltar or Tangiers. In addition, they cannot use the Suez or Panama Canals.

LTA and Associated powers naval forces cannot pass through the Dardenelles into the Black Sea as long as the MEU is neutral or allied with the Pact. In addition, Allied surface forces cannot enter the Sea of Okhotsk unless they control the Kurile Islands, or the Sea of Japan unless they control Sakkalin or the Japanese Home Islands. They cannot enter the Yellow Sea unless they control either Okinawa or Formosa. However, LTA air and submarine forces can do so if they can reach.

LTA and Associated powers surface naval forces cannot enter the Persian Gulf under the same conditions as the Black Sea. In addition, they cannot enter the Baltic Sea unless the LTA controls Denmark. No LTA naval forces can operate east of Kallinin (in the Baltic) unless they control both Hango and Kallinin.

Naval Ranges
Ships return to port at the end of each turn. Unless you buy logistics fleets, which can support up to 10 large warships and 10 light ship units each. Logistics fleets cost 3 points, and are essentially just like theater supply units. They refuel and rearm the fleet that they are attached to
Neither side starts the war with logistics fleets.

Tech level 6 ships are now designed for long range cruising and are more efficient then the last war. They have a range of 4 sea zones, except for UK, US and Japanese ships, which are designed to operate in the Pacific and have a range of 5 sea zones.

Aircraft ranges
For simplicity, even though various aircraft have various ranges historically, the following will be used. (European hexes, halved for Asian map)
All Jets have a range of 6 (early jets are terrible gas hogs)
All rocket planes (should you want one) have a range of the hex they are based in
B35 Flying Wing 15 hexes (doubled at extended range for half bombing strength)
B29 / ME264 12 hexes (doubled as above)
B17G / B24 10 hexes (doubled as above)
Lancaster (and all other 4 engined bombers) 9 hexes (doubled as above)
P51 (once invented) / Corsair / DO335 / A6M 12 hexes
All other fighters 8 hexes
all Twin engined bomber units 12 hexes
all single engined bomber units 6 hexes
all twin engined and single engined naval air units and all fighters and bombers 1 sea zone or as above
all four engined naval and bomber units 2 sea zones
all carrier aircraft 1 sea zone, or any hex within 2 hexes of the sea

Remember to that Asian hexes are twice as big, so range is halved

Ground movement (European hexes, halved in Asia)
Garrison, militia, flak, and coastal defense units can be moved by strategic moves only
all infantry units 4 hexes
motorized units, HQs, theater supply units 6 hexes
mechanized units 8 hexes

Remember, I am basically handling all this, but you need to know what the capabilities are.

Shipping Units
They can be used for commerce, or they can be converted into transport units. However, once converted, they cannot be used for commerce the remainder of that year.

You get one strategic move for every transport or liner unit that you have in that ocean. Remember, strategic moves are once a turn. Units moved by strategic move cannot be used that turn for anything else.

Transports can also be used for amphibious landings. They hold 2 infantry or 1 other unit. Units offloaded this way land at a port and can move their movement allowance normally (losing 2 points for unloading and 2 for loading).
Units can always move one hex.

Railroad moves
You get 1 railroad strategic move for every city that you control in your country that has a factory symbol on it (for simplicity). It costs 2 strategic moves to move from the Asian map to the European map or vice versa (its a long way after all). Remember, units moved this way cannot do anything else that turn.

Production centers
You have 1 production center (factories, oilfields, coal mines etc) for every 2 peacetime normal production points that you have. You wil need to specify where your factories are (not you China, thats been done already for you).

You may move production centers, except for oil centers (and I will tell you what those are). However, it takes a rail move for each production center moved, and they are out of production for 3 turns during that time. Which means yes, you will lose some points that year.

Production centers can be damaged by bombing (takes 6 points to fix them) or by ground combat in the hex they are in.

The maximum number of production centers allowed in a hex is 6 and a city must be present.

OIL
The resource hexes on the map can be ignored, EXCEPT FOR THE ONES WITH AN OIL SYMBOL. The value listed are accurate as is the location of it. Only exceptions are Nigeria, Algeria and Libya, who have oil in this game but not on the map. For convience, Lagos, Tripoli and Algiers are each worth 5 oil points.

You must have sufficient oil to operate your mechanized, motorized, aircraft and naval units. They require the same amount of oil as they do maintenance points. Each oil resource you have is worth 20 oil maintenance points. You have sufficient reserves for 3 turns if you lose access to oil. At the start of each year, you must figure out if you have enough oil for all the unit. Example, the Union has 16 oil resources on the map, which gives them 320 oil maintenance points. A 4 engined bomber requires 3 oil maintenance points each year, while a mechanized corps requires .5 oil points each year.

You may loan oil to your allies and neutrals can sell to whoever they can reach. The Dutch have 4 oil resources and at the start of the war the Japanese are buying 3 of those, giving the Japanese 75 oil maintenance points plus whatever the Union gives them. Generally neutrals will sell to the closest market after their own needs are secured. Except if that market is blockaded, then they will sell to whoever can buy. 1 Commerce point gets you 1 oil resource from a neutral.

Atomic Weapons
Must be tech level 6.5, have researched advanced physics or applied nuclear energy, then must spend 24 points for infrastructure (for the processing plants etc), and it takes 3 years. Research cannot begin until the war actually starts and only if you are a belligerent nation.

To use, requires a large 4 engined bomber (specific types are B29 or ME264) or larger aircraft. OR they can be used as nuclear landmines. If used against a target, all production in that target city is destroyed. If used against a port, all shipping in that port is destroyed, and if used against land units, immediately disorganizes them and 1 unit of any type is eliminated. If used against air units will remove 1 air unit.

First year of production will provide exactly 4 atomic weapons. They double every year after that until Tech level 7 is reached (and new rules come about).

Nuclear facilities can be targeted and destroyed by bombing. No facilities, no production of atomic weapons.

Chemical Weapons are available. Technically they are in violation of treaty. First side to use them will alienate neutrals. At that point referee decisions will be made. However, the first turn they are used, the nation using them gets to double its combat strength in any attacks. After that, they only get that bonus against lower tech level opponents.

Biological weapons are available. However, you must be tech level 6.5 or better, and it takes biological weapons research for 2 years, and then you must spend 24 points to produce a production facility (which takes a year). Then you contact referee to tell me what exactly you have planned.
Needless to say, if used and you are discovered, the Neutrals will not like you one bit.

Special operations units
Commandos are division sized units (for convienence) and if based in a port, can attack any beach or port within 10 (5 Asia) hexes of their base using small craft without needing amphibious shipping. They cost 2 points and require 3 turns to build. They can also be used as paratroops and can be airdropped to any hex within 30 (15 Asia) hexes of their base (as they are so small as to not require many transport aircraft). Commandos can also be transported by a light ship unit and conduct amphibious landing beyond their normal range.

You can only build 1 commando unit for every 10 corps of ground units you have. These kind of soldiers are rare, and most armies need them to provide officers and NCOs for the rest of the army. If eliminated, these units cannot be replaced for the rest of the war.

Special naval assault units represent minisubmarines and frogmen. They cost 1 point, and each Navy is allowed exactly 1. They can be replaced, and can attack any enemy naval base in the same sea zone (see the maps for where the sea zones are) or can be delivered by submarine. They are automatically eliminated if used, but can attack up to 4 enemy capital ships in an enemy port with a chance of sinking or seriously damaging them.

Amphibious engineer units are corps sized units. They are eliminated when used, but automatically eliminate fortifications and coast defense guns in the hex they land in. They also make that hex a major port for up to one year.
These units cost 6 points and require 1 year to build. The US can build 2, all other nations can build 1 (they are a US invention and were widely used in the real World War II)

Ballistic and cruise missile units
Essentially we are talking about the V1 and V2. Both the LTA and Union have this technology. They cost 1 point for V1s and 2 points for V2s. They are useful only for strategic bombardment only as they are lucky to hit a city sized target. Range is 4 hexes (Europe) or 2 hexes (Asia). They have a low bombardment strength and have a 1 in 6 chance of actually inflicting production damage.

Proximity fuses
This technology, which the US and UK start with, significantly improves anti aircraft fire and artillery fire. Anti aircraft gets a column shift, while field artillery units are doubled. The Union gets this technology in 1940. However, only tech level 6.5 nations can actually make us of it, as the ammunition is relatively expensive and technically challenging.

Kamikaze units and Banzai Charges
Japanese player only. The bombing strength against shipping targets are doubled, however the air unit and the pilot is eliminated in the attack, assuming its survives flak and fighters. Ground units that Banzi charge have their attack strength doubled but are also eliminated. kamikaze pilots cost 1 point and require 1 turn to train. Kamikazes are only available if a Japanese city in Japan is bombed by strategic bombing. Banzai charges are available at any time.

Civil Defense
Not available until 6 months after war start. Cost is 1 point for every 10 million people. Simulates improved bomb shelters, firefighting techniques, mass casualty medical procedures, factory dispersal and hardening. Reduces strategic bombing damage by 1 point. Reduces civilian casualties significantly as well.

LTA European Theater of Operations
Spanish forces
1 x 5 point mountain corps, 1 5 point garrison unit (Bilbao), 1 5 point garrison unit, 1 6 point infantry corps (Barcelona), 1 7 point motorized corps (Saragossa), 1 HQ, 1 fighter (P47C), 1 5 point garrison unit, 1 5 point infantry corps, 1 4 point flak unit (Madrid), 1 3 point flak unit (Cadiz), 1 6 point infantry corps, 1 3 point flak unit (Barcelona), 1 5 point infantry corps (Palma), 1 5 point garrison unit, 1 Naval Air (B25) 1 light ship unit, (Ferol), 1 5 point infantry corps (Seville)

Portuguese Forces
1 6 point garrison unit, 1 P47, 1 light ship unit at Lisbon,

LTA forces in Iberia
2 Colombian 5 point Alpine Corps (Santender), 1 US HQ (General Bradley), 1 US 9 point mechanized corps (Lisbon),

Great Britain and Ireland
(First Sea Lord Betram Ramsey, CIGS General Alan Brooke)
Irish forces
1 x 5 point garrison unit (Dublin)

British forces (General Alexander, Air Marshals Harris and Park)
1x 9 point mechanized corps, 1 coast artillery unit, 1 x 3 point flak unit, 1 Spitfire Mk9 fighter unit, 1 fortification (Dover), 1 x 6 point garrison unit, 1 x 5 point flak unit, 1 Spitfire Mk9 fighter unit (London), 1 coast artillery, 1 x 4 point flak unit, 1 fortification, 1 x Spitfire Mk9 fighter unit (Scapa Flow), 4 Lancaster heavy bomber units (Harwich, normal bombing range 9 hexes, extended range 18 hexes), 1x 3 point artillery unit, 1 x 10 point marine corps (Liverpool)

US forces in Britain (General Eisenhower, General Spaatz)
1 x 5 point flak unit, 1x 9 point mechanized corps (Harwich), 1 HQ unit, 1x 5 point flak unit, 1 P47N fighter unit, 2 B17G bomber units (hex west of Harwich, normal bombing range 10 hexes, extended range 20 hexes), 1 x 9 point mechanized corps, 1 x 4 point flak unit, 1 P47N fighter unit, 3 x B17G bomber units (Coventry), 1 x 5 point flak unit, 1 x 9 point mechanized corps, 1 P47N fighter unit, 1 x B26 bomber unit, 1 x B25 naval air unit (Portsmouth), 1 x 10 point amphibious corps (Liverpool)

LTA Naval Forces Western Europe (Admiral Somerville)
British Home Fleet (Scapa Flow) (9 battleships, 3 fleet carriers, 2 light carriers, 5 heavy cruisers, 11 light cruisers, 60 destroyers)
Battleships Lion, Temeraire, Conqueror, Hood, King George V, Duke of York, Prince of Wales, Anson, Howe, Carriers Argus, Courageous, Hermes, Eagle, Vindictive (3 Corsair, 1 Avenger), Heavy cruisers Centaur, Caledon, Ceres, Caroline, Cambrian, Light cruisers Derby, Yarmouth, Dartmouth, Chester, Dublin, Abergaveny, Gloucester, Chichester, Liverpool, Belfast, Lowestoft, 6 light ships (60 destroyers),

LTA Submarine Forces Europe (Harwich)
3 UK submarine units (30 submarines) 3 US submarine units (30 submarines)

LTA 6th Fleet (Gibraltar) Admiral Cunningham RN, Rear Admiral Olendorf USN
Battleships Nelson, Rodney (RN), Light Carriers Glorious, Furious (RN)(1 Hellcat), heavy cruisers Portland, Astoria, Tuscaloosa, Vincennes, Indianapolis (USN), 4 light cruisers Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falmouth, Nottingham (RN),4 light ships (40 destroyers)(RN),

Moroccan Defense forces: 1 Mountain corps (Casablanca), 1 garrison unit (Tangiers), 2 x 3 point flak units (1 each Casablanca, Tangiers), 1 P47 fighter unit, 1 pilot, 1 light ship unit (40 corvettes), 1 x 4 point US flak unit

Belgian Home Forces
1 fortification, 1x 3 point flak unit, 1x 8 point garrison unit, 1 x 5 point garrison unit (Liege), 1 fortification, 1 x 5 point antitank unit, 1 x 8 point garrison unit, 1 x 5 point garrison unit, 1 Spitfire Mk9 fighter unit (Brussels), 1 fortification, 1 x 5 point flak unit, 1 x 8 point garrison unit, 1 x 5 point garrison unit, 1 Light ship unit (10 destroyers) (Antwerp)

in addition, Belgium has 1 x 3 point garrison unit in the Belgian Congo

Belgium has prepared to fight as long as possible and then will evacuate its government and its air force to England if overrun. It has 6 shipping units, 1 national airline and 1 international airline as well that will retreat of Belgium is overrun.

Burgundy
2 x 4 point garrison units each Metz, Strasburg,

Burgundian units will surrender if a Pact attack of 2:1 or better odds are directed at them. The country is divided and national morale is relatively low.

Morocco
1 Mountain corps (Casablanca), 1 garrison unit (Tangiers), 2 anti aircraft units (1 each Casablanca, Tangiers), 1 P47 fighter unit, 1 pilot, 1 light ship unit (40 corvettes),

Italy
Will declare neutrality unless attacked. It has 2 x 5 point Alpine corps, 8 x 5 point garrison units (manning border defenses) 6 x 6 point reserve motorized corps, 2 x 8 point mechanized corps, 5 x 3 point flak units, 3 x fighter units, 2 x naval air units (twin engined), 1 air transport unit, 1x4 point parachute corps, 1 special naval attack unit, 4 battleships, 2 light carriers, 6 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, 60 destroyers, 40 submarines, 8 shipping units, 2 airlines, plus all 8 of its border hexes with the Union and France and Yugoslavia are fortified (Pola is not fortified or significantly garrisoned)

Italy surrenders only if all cities marked with a factory and Rome are captured.

It also has 1 x 3 point garrison in Djibouti, and 1 x 5 point garrison Tripoli and 1 x 3 point garrison each at Tobruk and Benghazi

Atlantic Theater of Operations
US 2nd Fleet (New York)(Admiral Hewitt)
Heavy cruisers Chester, Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Houston, Northhampton, 4 light ship units (60 destroyer escorts), Light cruiser Ontario (RCN), 1 amphibious fleet, 3 liner units, 5 transport units
2 Canadian light ships (10 destroyers, 40 corvettes), 1 US light ship unit (40 US Coast Guard corvettes)
1 USN B24 unit (Iceland), 1 USN B24 unit (Azores), 2 USN 24 units (US East coast), 1 Canadian B24 unit (Halifax),

British Atlantic Fleet (Liverpool)(Admiral Fraser)
Heavy cruisers Hawkins, Raleigh, Frobisher, Effingham, Drake, 10 light ships (100 destroyers), 2 light ships (30 destroyer escorts, USN) 1 amphibious fleet, 10 liner units, 5 transports

Colombian Atlantic Fleet
Fleet carriers Vincente Sewell, Dario Echandia, Francisco de Paula Santander, heavy cruisers Manuel Ancizar, Alberto Lleras Camargo, 20 destroyers, 2 Corsairs, 1 Avenger

Southern Theater of Operations (General Wavell)
LTA forces Egypt (General O’Connor)
LTA forces Egypt (General O’Connor)
1 x 8 point garrison unit (Alexandria), 1 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 12 point mechanized corps, 1 HQ, 1 x 3 point mechanized artillery unit, 1 Spitfire Mk9 fighter unit, 1 Mosquito bomber unit, (Port Said), 2 x 10 point mechanized corps, 1 x 3 point mechanized artillery unit (Suez), 1 x 14 point armored corps, 2 x 3 point Egyptian Infantry corps (Alexandria, in training), 1 x 3 point Egyptian cavalry corps (Alexandria), 1 x 3 point Egyptian garrison unit (Khartoum Sudan)

British Mediterranean Fleet (Alexandria)(Admiral Vian)
Light cruisers Chatham, Weymouth, Birkenhead, Birmingham, 2 light ships (20 destroyers), 2 submarine units (20 submarines),

Algeria
1 x 4 point garrison unit each Oran, Algiers, Bone, 1 x 4 point cavalry corps, 1 P47C fighter unit, 1 x 3 point flak unit Algiers, 1 x 7 point motorized corps Oran

LTA forces West Africa (General Alexander)
1 HQ unit, 2 x 9 point mechanized corps, 1 Mosquito bomber unit,

South African Forces
1 x 10 point mechanized corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, 1 Spitfire Mk9 fighter unit, 1 reserve pilot,

LTA Southern Fleet (Admiral Phillips)(Capetown)
light cruisers Worcester, Bristol (RN), Pretoria, Natal, Capetown, Durban, Kimberly (RSAN), 10 destroyers (RSAN),

Asian Theater of Operations
China Home Forces
Tientsin 2 x 5 point garrison units, 1 x 1 point flak unit, 1 x 1 point AT unit
Peking 1 x 5 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point militia unit, 1 x 1 point flak unit, 1 x 1 point AT unit, 1 national airline, 1 pilot (last one in China)
Shanghai 2 x 7 point mechanized corps, 1 x 1 point AT unit, 1 x 3 point militia unit
1 x 5 point garrison unit each Changsha, Chengtu, Lanchow, Foochow
2 x 5 point infantry corps,1 x 5 point garrison unit, 1 x 1 point flak unit Chungking
1 x 5 point infantry corps, 1x 5 point garrison unit, 1 x 1 point flak unit Kunming
1 x 5 point infantry corps, 1 3 point artilery unit Nanning
1 x 5 point garrison unit, 1 x 1 point flak unit Sian
1 x 5 point garrison unit, 1 x 1 point flak unit Changsha

Factories remaining + relocated factories
Kunming 5
Chungking 3 +2
Chengtu 3 + 2
Lanchow 2 +3
Sian 2 + 3
Current production is 2 points a turn (enough for 2 militia units a turn or 1 infantry corps)

6 Chinese pilots have been sent to the US, along with a small cadre of naval officers and petty officers

Pacific Theater of Operations (includes Southeast Asia for now)
British Forces Southeast Asia
1 x 9 point mechanized corps (Rangoon), 1 x 10 point garrison unit, 1 Spitfire Mk 9 fighter unit, 1 Mosquito bomber unit (Singapore),

USAE Home Forces
1 x 4 point amphibious corps, 1 x 5 point infantry corps, (adjacent to Bangkok), 1 x 6 point motorized infantry corps, 1 x 5 point garrison units (Hanoi) 1 x 6 point motorized corps, 1 x 5 point garrison unit (Saigon) 1 x 5 point garrison unit (Pnom Penh), 1 x Hawker Hurricane IV fighter unit, 1 x Mosquito bomber unit (Hanoi), 3 light ship units (45 destroyer escorts), 12 shipping units,

British Eastern Fleet (Admiral Tovey)(Ceylon)
Light cruisers Manchester, Hull, Edinburgh, 1 light ship unit (10 destroyers)

LTA 7th Fleet (Admiral Kincaid)(Manila)
Heavy cruisers Vincennes, Astoria, Chicago, Wichita, Australia (RAN), Canberra (RAN), Light cruisers Perth (RAN), Hobart (RAN), 10 destroyers (RAN), 15 destroyer escorts (USN), 40 submarines (USN), 30 submarines (RN), 10 submarines (RAN)

US Forces Philippines (General Wainwright)
1 x 7 point motorized infantry corps, 1 x HQ (MacArthur), 1 5 point flak unit, 1 8 point garrison unit, 1 fortification, 1 P47N fighter unit (Manila) 1 B25 naval air unit, 1 B25 bomber unit, 1 B17G (Aparri)

US 1st Fleet (Panama)(Admirals Halsey/Mitcher/Olendorf))
Fleet Carriers Essex, Kitty Hawk, Constellation, Constitution, Intrepid, America, Oriskany, Lake Erie, Lake Champlain, Mobile Bay, Battleships Montana, Indiana, Massachusetts, South Dakota Antiaircraft cruisers Atlanta, Juneau, San Pedro, San Juan, San Diego, San Antonio, San Pedro, Duluth, Galveston, Los Angeles, 6 light ships (60 destroyers), 6 Corsairs, 4 Avengers

US 3rd Fleet (Hawaii)(Admirals Kimmel/Brown/Fletcher)
Fleet Carriers Enterprise, Yorktown, Wasp, Hornet, Ranger, Bon Homme Richard, Battleships Texas, North Carolina, Washington, Alabama, Light cruisers Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Savannah, Nashville, Boise, anti aircraft cruisers Biloxi, Hampton, 2 light ships (20 destroyers), 2 light ships (30 destroyer escorts), 4 Corsair, 2 Avenger

Australian Fleet (Rabual)(Admiral Crutchley)
Battlecruisers Renown, Brisbane, light cruisers Melbourne, Adalaide, 10 destroyers

US 5th Fleet (San Diego) (Admiral Turner)
30 destroyer escorts, 40 corvettes, 2 transport units, 1 amphibious fleet

US Army forces Hawaii
1 B25 naval air unit, 1 P47N fighter unit, 1 x 10 point amphibious corps, 1 x 12 point amphibious corps, 1 fortification, 1 x 6 point flak unit,

US Army forces Truk
1 fortification, 1 x 5 point flak unit

Australian Home Forces
7 point garrison units Darwin, Sydney,Brisbane, Port Moresby, , 2 x 7 point garrison units, 1 Corsair fighter unit, 1 B24 naval unit (Rabual) 11 point mechanized corps Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane 1 Corsair fighter units (Sydney),

US Army Alaska
1x5 point mountain corps, (Anchorage)
1 x 5 point flak unit, 1 P38J fighter unit, 1 B24 naval air unit (Dutch Harbor)

Western Hemisphere
US Home Forces (US Army Chief of Staff Marshall, US Navy Chief of Naval Operations King)
2 HQ units (Patton, Bradley), 2 x 14 point armored corps, 2 x 12 point mechanized corps, 1 x 5 point airborne corps, 10 x 9 point mechanized corps, 3 x 6 point mechanized field artillery units, 3 x 6 point motorized field artillery units, 10 x 5 point flak units, 2 x 8 point motorized corps
3 B25 bomber units, 3 B26 bomber units, 1 P38J fighter unit, 4 P47N fighter unit
plus 6 Chinese pilots (available when planes are available)

Colombian Home Forces
4 x 6 point garrison units, 1 x 5 point Alpine corps, 1 x 5 point motorized artillery, 3 x 5 point flak artillery, 1 x 10 point mechanized corps, 1 HQ unit, 1 theater supply unit, 8 x C2M2 fighter units, 1 x CB2M1 light bomber units,

Cuba, Chile, Mexico each have 1x4 point garrison unit at their capital, plus Chile has 5 light cruisers, 10 destroyers (all tech level 6), plus 1 fighter unit (P47D)

US Army Panama
1 fortification, 2 x 6 point flak unit,

Canadian Home forces
3 x 9 point motorized infantry corps, 1 HQ unit, 2 fighter units (P38J)

In PROGRESS as I edit and look over maps.

French Forces
French Navy (need names for some of these ships)
Naval Aviation
1xFighter Unit (FW-190, Calais)
1xLight Bomber Unit (Stuka, Brest)
1xNaval Bomber (Stuka, Brest)
3xPilots

2xFighter Units (FW-190, Marsellie, Brest)
1xNaval Bomber Unit (Stuka, Calais)
1xLight Bomber Unit (Stuka, Bordeaux)
4xPilots

5xLight Naval Bombers (need pilots)
4xHeavy Naval Bombers (See above)
2 carrier fighters, 2 carrier torpedo bombers (pilots needed)
2 available pilots (for landbased aircraft)
1 reserve 2-engined airline, 1 reserve 4-engined airline, 1 2-engined air transport unit,

Mediterranean Fleet (based at Toulon)
Battleships Richelieu, Jean Bart, 2 heavy cruisers, 3 anti aircraft cruisers, 7 light cruisers, 10 destroyers, 30 submarines, 1 fleet carrier, 2 light carriers, 1 carrier fighter, 1 carrier torpedo bomber,

Under construction
Available September (refitting and crewing up at Toulon)
2 fleet carriers (need names), 3 light carriers (need names), 2 battleships, 4 battlecruisers
available 1940 (more points needed, will have spent 12 months construction time) French building shipyards are in Brest, Marseilles
2 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 3 anti aircraft cruisers, 4 submarine units


French Army
Atlantic Wall forces (18 hexes)
All Atlantic hexes have 1 fortification, 1 x coast defense unit, 1 x 2 point flak unit, 1 x 3 point militia unit.

Mobile Army
5x 9 point Mechanized Corps (Calais, Brest, Bayonne, clear hex on Spanish Border, Bordeaux,)
1 x 10 point mechanized corps (Paris)
3x 5 point Alpine Corps (Toulouse, mountain hex south of Toulouse, hex north-west of Turin)
1 x 4 point parachute corps (Paris
1x 6 point Marine Corp (Nice)
1x 5 point Mechanized Anti-Tank Unit (Toulouse)
1x 4 point Mechanized Field Artillery (Bayonne)
1xHQ (Vichy)

Colonial Army
1 x 10 point mechanized corps

under construction
2 HQ units (January 1940), 8 pilots (January 1940),

Due to the technical issues we are having.. PLEASE WAIT FOR A BIT ON ORDERS. I am still trying to set up the situation. When the forums went down, it was April 1939. The US and British had just moved forces around, and it was the Pact turn to respond. The blockade of Siam had just been put into place, and the Japanese player hasn't had a chance to respond to that either.

No ultimatums have been given yet etc, and figure Monday will be May 1, so take whatever steps you want to take by the end of April.

Railroad Strategic moves by country
Western Hemisphere
Canada 3
USA 12
Mexico 1
Gran Colombia 2
Argentina 2
Brazil 1
Chile 1

Asia
USAE 4
Siam 1
Burma 1
India 5
China 6
Japan 5
Manchuria 2
Mongolia 2
Kashgaria 2
Union (Asian map) 9
Afghanistan 1

European map
Sweden 3
Denmark 1
Netherlands 1
Belgium 2
Burgundy 1
Spain 4
Portugal 1
France 8
Italy 7
Yugoslavia 2
Hungary 1
Czechslovakia 2
MEU 3
Rumania 1
Union 32
Switzerland 2

The effects of strategic bombing
You may choose from missions
1. Port attack -- concentration on docks, the harbor, and naval and port facilities. Sufficient hits (4) reduces a major (blue) port to a minor one, or a minor one to none. You can still base ships there like it was a major or minor port (as after all, the harbor is there) but no repairs can be carried out. Hits also destroy 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% of any ships being constructed there. This kind of attack produces few civilian casualties, 10,000 per heavy bomber unit used. It costs 6 points to restore a port to its previous level and takes 3 turns.
2. Production attack-- each hit reduces production by one. This kind of attack produces sizeable civilian casualties, 25,000 per heavy bomber unit used. It takes 6 points to repair a production center and takes 1 turn.
3. Terror attack -- every two hits knocks out 1 production center, however, 50,000 civilians are casualties for every bomber unit used. No production from that city for 1 turn after the raid. Casualties are doubled if chemical weapons are used.

V1 and V2 raids are covered above in their own rules.

In the North Sea, hundreds of warships were in very close proximity to each other by modern standards. Worse, so were thousands of aircraft. Later historians will say that an incident was inevitable, and blame the continuing build up of tension over the last 18 months for the eventual and inevitable clash. Some will blame the Union, some the LTA, and some the Japanese for invading China and inflaming the international situation.

Naturally, both sides will blame each other for shooting first, and for the escalation that occurred after.

In truth, they all correct, although not completely.

It started with a relic. A mine, left over from the last war, and missed by minesweeping afterwards finally was set loose from its mooring when its anchor chain parted. Normally, such a mine would have filled with water first and sunk but this one was particularly well made. Caught by the tide, it was swept out to sea, and was drifting in the middle of the North Sea on May 4. It was a balmy and unusually pretty day for the standards of this waterway.

A flotilla of 10 British destroyers and 4 light cruisers (Derby, Yarmouth, Dartmouth, Chester) were cruising near the Dogger Bank where the meet a flotilla of 20 Union destroyers acting as outer picket for the Union Northern Fleet, which has just steamed out of Bremerhaven. The British force, under Rear Admiral Harry Harwood is steaming at 20 knots, too fast for accurate sonar, while the German force, under Rear Admiral Langsdorff was steaming at 30 knots. In addition, a flight of Union FW190 fighters was overhead, from the carrier Revolutsiya, while a flight of Corsairs from the light carrier Argus are covering the British. Also nearby were a pair of Union U-boats, both of whom were submerged.

At 1000 hours, both sides sighted the other and both commanders decided to continue their courses, which would bring them within 3000 yards of one another, a typical occurrence over the last few months as the British and Union Navies tested each others mettle. Overhead, the fighters of each side maintained a wary distance, each watching the other. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1853672637/002-6932557-5559233?v=glance&n=283155

It was at 1002 hours that the momentum of the past years since the last war finally brought war. The British destroyer Zulu, the lead ship, ran into the relic mine, which immediately detonated directly against the hull and set off the forward magazine. In a couple of seconds, the destroyer disappeared in a catastrophic explosion (only 3 men would be picked up later).

Overhead, the Union fighter leader, Heinz Knoke saw the explosion, as did Royal Navy Lieutenant Sailor Mahan who immediately assumed the worst and turned toward the German fighters. Within seconds, a dogfight occurred and soon after that, a fighter from each side was spinning into the sea.

Harwood, also assumed the worst and decided that the Union must have be given orders to attack and ordered his ships to open fire at 5,000 yards. Langsdorf, shocked by the stunning event, couldn’t help but notice the British gun turrets leaving train and pointing at his ships and ordered an immediate torpedo attack. Both sides also immediately called for help.

Torpedoes and gunfire swept both forces, and 5 British destroyers were soon burning wrecks as were 2 German destroyers. The Union fleet, a mere 18 miles away, came over the horizon even as the fight was ending, and seeing his destroyers hard pressed, Admiral Lutjens ordered his three 18 inch gun battleships to commence firing. Shells the size of small automobiles were soon arcing their way toward the British. Harwood, ordered his force to lay smoke, but it was too late, and salvos began landing all around the 4 British cruisers. The Derby and Yarmouth both disappeared as several 18 inch shells hit each one, both blown to pieces as the heavy shells exploded magazines. Among the dead is Admiral Harwood and his staff, and the executive officer of the Yarmouth, Lord Mountbatten, a member of the Royal Family.

Meanwhile Admiral Tovey flashed word to the Admiralty and as it became clear that Harwood’s entire force was in danger of destruction, ordered a full strike by all four of his carriers and detached the carriers and 20 destroyers to hang back, while the rest of the Home Fleet accelerated toward the enemy at 30 knots.

Satisfied that the British were retreating and fully aware that he didn’t have orders to start a war, Lutjens ordered his fleet to slow and regroup, and ordered Langsdorf to report to him.

Even as Langsdorf’s destroyer was coming alongside of the Karl Marx so he could transfer over, radar plots all over the fleet picked up a huge bogey coming from the northwest at 200 miles per hour. It was obviously a British airstrike, and now convinced that the British were determined to avenge their losses, Lutjens orders every fighter in the air. Minutes later 100 Union FW190s were taking off and the anti aircraft guns of the fleet were manned and the fleet began hurriedly moving into antiaircraft formation.

At 30 miles out, the FW190s intercepted the massive strike of 233 Corsairs and Avengers, and a swirling dogfight was underway over the North Sea. While the 72 escorting Corsairs held off the Union fighters, the rest of the force of Corsairs armed with bombs and rockets, and Avengers armed with torpedoes closed in and braved the wall of flak the Union gunners put up.

Meanwhile, in the dogfight, 25 Corsairs and 25 FW190s were spinning into the sea. Flak knocks down 12 Corsairs and 9 Avengers before they reach their targets, put the rest concentrating on the enemy carriers, getting several torpedo hits on the Demokraze which causes her to capsize and landing bomb hits on the Revolutsiya, knocking out her forward elevator and a rocket hit wrecks the bridge and the entire air operations staff. Another 7 Avengers are splashed leaving the scene, as are 3 Corsairs. Rocket hits also hit several destroyers to clear the way for the torpedo bombers, and one of those rockets kills Langsdorff at his bridge.

Now facing a situation where he doesn’t have air cover, Lutjens calls for help and instructions, as scout planes and a U-Boat have spotted the British fleet closing at 30 knots, a mere hour away.

Scratch that.

reserved for whatever I need to place here

Burgundy
1 x 5 point garrison unit each Metz, Strasburg, Saarbruchen.
Saarbrucken is still German. I know you have a lot to keep track of, and I do appreciate the work you're doing, but it's ownership has been previously clarified on several occasions.

I'll assume that there are two garrisons at Metz, our presumptive capital of Burgundy (though now that I come to think of it, Strasbourg might've made more sense as a capital . . . oh well, it won't make a difference soon).

Also, I have some questions:

The range of aircraft: is that operational radius or range of a direct-line flight?

Do the stated ranges begin with the first hex the unit moves into or do they include the hex the unit moves out of?

What does a range of "2 sea zones" actually mean? Especially in terms of the operational radius of strategic bombers.

Are the attack value of tanks really halved against cities and fortifications? They also get no defensive bonuses for any terrain. Tanks seem to suck.

Both industrialized or capital cities and fortifications double the defense of units inside them (again, except for tanks – I'm starting to feel like I've inadvertently wasted a lot of money on tanks). Additionally, fortifications double the defense value of units inside cities. Does this mean everything starts out quadrupled (except tanks)? Moreover, some units like antiaircraft and antitank get doubled against certain units. This needs clarification, as it's looking literally impossible to take a city.

What's the deal with logistical fleets? Why can't we start with them, exactly?

What are the effects of railroads upon movement, if any?

Saarbrucken is still German. I know you have a lot to keep track of, and I do appreciate the work you're doing, but it's ownership has been previously clarified on several occasions.

will be fixed


The range of aircraft: is that operational radius or range of a direct-line flight?

operational radius


Do the stated ranges begin with the first hex the unit moves into or do they include the hex the unit moves out of?

includes the hex moving out of, incidently, air units can ferry from one place to another, at three times their range. However, that is like a strategic move, and thats all they do that turn. They can also land at a different location then where they start as long as it its within their combat radius


What does a range of "2 sea zones" actually mean? Especially in terms of the operational radius of strategic bombers.

on the maps you will notice the oceans are divided up into sea zones, long range heavy bombers can actually reach two of them.



Are the attack value of tanks really halved against cities and fortifications? They also get no defensive bonuses for any terrain. Tanks seem to suck.

Both industrialized or capital cities and fortifications double the defense of units inside them (again, except for tanks – I'm starting to feel like I've inadvertently wasted a lot of money on tanks). Additionally, fortifications double the defense value of units inside cities. Does this mean everything starts out quadrupled (except tanks)? Moreover, some units like antiaircraft and antitank get doubled against certain units. This needs clarification, as it's looking literally impossible to take a city.

there are a lot of non industralized cities, tanks have higher combat factors, and even though they don't get the mobile combat results table against the non industrial cities, they still add in their higher combat value. Armored units have less infantry then mechanized units, and infantry is what works best in urban warfare. Also remember the highest a defending force can be increased is triple its defense strength.


What's the deal with logistical fleets? Why can't we start with them, exactly?

historically, all navies have a bad habit of spending all of their money on bright shiny warships, especially battleships and carriers during peacetime, as they take longer to build, look cool in the media, and cannot be easily or quickly built up during wartime. Every navy in this game has fewer light ships then they need (which was a building decision) and for historical accuracy, I am not having navies start out with a lot of support ships. As it only takes 3 turns to build a service fleet from scratch, or 1 turn to convert one from a shipping unit, this reflects history well.

Hey GB the USEA military is a little wrong.
Here are the real figures (and unit locations as of present for you conveniance)
[Will delete this upon confirmation]

adjusted accordingly

there are a lot of non industralized cities, tanks have higher combat factors, and even though they don't get the mobile combat results table against the non industrial cities, they still add in their higher combat value. Armored units have less infantry then mechanized units, and infantry is what works best in urban warfare. Also remember the highest a defending force can be increased is triple its defense strength.
(Emphasis added.)

Now I'm a more confused. According to this post (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9108039&postcount=1), both armored and mechanized units have their combat strengths "halved if attacking or defending in a city, mountain, forest or swamp hex." In mountains and swamps and "Capitals and cities with a factory symbol," therefore, their combat strength is effectively quartered. And there really aren't that many hexes on the map that aren't either cities, mountains, forests, or swamps (and virtually none worth having).

I'm also still wondering what effect railroads have.

(Emphasis added.)

Now I'm a more confused. According to this post (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9108039&postcount=1), both armored and mechanized units have their combat strengths "halved if attacking or defending in a city, mountain, forest or swamp hex." In mountains and swamps and "Capitals and cities with a factory symbol," therefore, their combat strength is effectively quartered. And there really aren't that many hexes on the map that aren't either cities, mountains, forests, or swamps (and virtually none worth having).

I'm also still wondering what effect railroads have.

that post (at the beginning of the military thread) is replaced by the rules at the start of this thread, except for the fact (which I will add in) that armored units are halved attacking factory cities and capitals. Vehicles are more capable now than when I last updated the cost of military units (which I will edit as well).

Railroads (as marked on the WIF map) just indicate where actual raillines are, except for the additions made so far in this RP (like the railroads added to Central and East Asia). Rail roads only effect strategic movement.

May / June 1939
Initiative LTA (includes China) goes first
Weather: clear everywhere

Japan and China are still at war. Now the Pact and LTA are as well, and the LTA also has declared war on Japan.

the British Home Fleet moves into the North Sea, and the US 1st Fleet under Halsey moves from Panama to the North Sea. The US uses its 8 strategic moves to shift 4 P47 units, 3 B25 units and 1 B26 unit to England.
(2 P47s Dover, 1 B25 Dover, 2 B25 London, 2 P47 Sheffield, 1 B26 Portsmouth)

All LTA merchant shipping is ordered out of Pact and Japanese ports, the Baltic and Black Seas, and merchant ships in LTA ports are armed and given naval gun crews under mobilization plans as they finish unloading cargos.

Spain moves its troops to the border. Colombia has 2 x 5 point Alpine corps in the hex adjacent to Bilboa on the border. The motorized corps in Saragossa moves into the mountain hex adjacent to Toulouse, and the infantry corps in Barcelona moves into the mountain hex northeast of it. 2 strategic moves shift a 5 point infantry corps and 5 point garrison unit from Ferrol to Barcelona, and 2 more shift a 5 point infantry corps from Seville and a 7 point infantry corps from Madrid to Saragossa. The Portuguese provide a rail move to shift the 5 point infantry corps from Palma to Santandar.

OOC: I guess this is more like the Waiting war before France got dominated. Boooring. Might have to start killing some world leaders soon...

In the North Sea, hundreds of warships were in very close proximity to each other by modern standards. Worse, so were thousands of aircraft. Later historians will say that an incident was inevitable, and blame the continuing build up of tension over the last 18 months for the eventual and inevitable clash. Some will blame the Union, some the LTA, and some the Japanese for invading China and inflaming the international situation.

Naturally, both sides will blame each other for shooting first, and for the escalation that occurred after.

In truth, they all correct, although not completely.

It started with a relic. A mine, left over from the last war, and missed by minesweeping afterwards finally was set loose from its mooring when its anchor chain parted. Normally, such a mine would have filled with water first and sunk but this one was particularly well made. Caught by the tide, it was swept out to sea, and was drifting in the middle of the North Sea on May 4. It was a balmy and unusually pretty day for the standards of this waterway.

A flotilla of 10 British destroyers and 4 light cruisers (Derby, Yarmouth, Dartmouth, Chester) were cruising near the Dogger Bank where the meet a flotilla of 20 Union destroyers acting as outer picket for the Union Northern Fleet, which has just steamed out of Bremerhaven. The British force, under Rear Admiral Harry Harwood is steaming at 20 knots, too fast for accurate sonar, while the German force, under Rear Admiral Langsdorff was steaming at 30 knots. In addition, a flight of Union FW190 fighters was overhead, from the carrier Revolutsiya, while a flight of Corsairs from the light carrier Argus are covering the British. Also nearby were a pair of Union U-boats, both of whom were submerged.

At 1000 hours, both sides sighted the other and both commanders decided to continue their courses, which would bring them within 3000 yards of one another, a typical occurrence over the last few months as the British and Union Navies tested each others mettle. Overhead, the fighters of each side maintained a wary distance, each watching the other. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1853672637/002-6932557-5559233?v=glance&n=283155

It was at 1002 hours that the momentum of the past years since the last war finally brought war. The British destroyer Zulu, the lead ship, ran into the relic mine, which immediately detonated directly against the hull and set off the forward magazine. In a couple of seconds, the destroyer disappeared in a catastrophic explosion (only 3 men would be picked up later).

Overhead, the Union fighter leader, Heinz Knoke saw the explosion, as did Royal Navy Lieutenant Sailor Mahan who immediately assumed the worst and turned toward the German fighters. Within seconds, a dogfight occurred and soon after that, a fighter from each side was spinning into the sea.

Harwood, also assumed the worst and decided that the Union must have be given orders to attack and ordered his ships to open fire at 5,000 yards. Langsdorf, shocked by the stunning event, couldn’t help but notice the British gun turrets leaving train and pointing at his ships and ordered an immediate torpedo attack. Both sides also immediately called for help.

Torpedoes and gunfire swept both forces, and 5 British destroyers were soon burning wrecks as were 2 German destroyers. The Union fleet, a mere 18 miles away, came over the horizon even as the fight was ending, and seeing his destroyers hard pressed, Admiral Lutjens ordered his three 18 inch gun battleships to commence firing. Shells the size of small automobiles were soon arcing their way toward the British. Harwood, ordered his force to lay smoke, but it was too late, and salvos began landing all around the 4 British cruisers. The Derby and Yarmouth both disappeared as several 18 inch shells hit each one, both blown to pieces as the heavy shells exploded magazines. Among the dead is Admiral Harwood and his staff, and the executive officer of the Yarmouth, Lord Mountbatten, a member of the Royal Family.

Meanwhile Admiral Tovey flashed word to the Admiralty and as it became clear that Harwood’s entire force was in danger of destruction, ordered a full strike by all four of his carriers and detached the carriers and 20 destroyers to hang back, while the rest of the Home Fleet accelerated toward the enemy at 30 knots.

Satisfied that the British were retreating and fully aware that he didn’t have orders to start a war, Lutjens ordered his fleet to slow and regroup, and ordered Langsdorf to report to him.

Even as Langsdorf’s destroyer was coming alongside of the Karl Marx so he could transfer over, radar plots all over the fleet picked up a huge bogey coming from the northwest at 200 miles per hour. It was obviously a British airstrike, and now convinced that the British were determined to avenge their losses, Lutjens orders every fighter in the air. Minutes later 100 Union FW190s were taking off and the anti aircraft guns of the fleet were manned and the fleet began hurriedly moving into antiaircraft formation.

At 30 miles out, the FW190s intercepted the massive strike of 233 Corsairs and Avengers, and a swirling dogfight was underway over the North Sea. While the 72 escorting Corsairs held off the Union fighters, the rest of the force of Corsairs armed with bombs and rockets, and Avengers armed with torpedoes closed in and braved the wall of flak the Union gunners put up.

Meanwhile, in the dogfight, 25 Corsairs and 25 FW190s were spinning into the sea. Flak knocks down 12 Corsairs and 9 Avengers before they reach their targets, put the rest concentrating on the enemy carriers, getting several torpedo hits on the Demokraze which causes her to capsize and landing bomb hits on the Revolutsiya, knocking out her forward elevator and a rocket hit wrecks the bridge and the entire air operations staff. Another 7 Avengers are splashed leaving the scene, as are 3 Corsairs. Rocket hits also hit several destroyers to clear the way for the torpedo bombers, and one of those rockets kills Langsdorff at his bridge.

Now facing a situation where he doesn’t have air cover, Lutjens calls for help and instructions, as scout planes and a U-Boat have spotted the British fleet closing at 30 knots, a mere hour away.


Beginning in 1938, I have been rolling for an accident, and this phase, one happened.

Even as the declarations of war are received, the LTA High Command orders war plans to go into effect.

Meanwhile Italy notices it has not been issued a declaration of war, and unclear on who shot first, the Italians chose to pull out of the LTA and declare their neutrality.

ooc
I have a lot to game out tomorrow, but expect a massive fleet action in the North Sea, massive LTA airattacks against Pact targets in Europe, very heavy fighting in China as the Pact moves south into China and Korea, and a flurry of activity elsewhere.

The Belgians immediately order the evacuation of their three principle fortress cities in hopes of keeping civilian losses down. In Burgundy, fully aware that they have no hope fo successfully repelling an invasion, the pro right elements in the Army send their intelligence service underground. If nothing else, they can help the war effort and fight for liberation by supplying intelligence to the LTA via Switzerland.

The nations in Central America, plus Cuba and Mexico declare national efforts (ooc basically they supply points to the US and this allows them to retain social services etc during the war... since they will get 10 points from the US in 1940, this isn't a big help, but every little bit helps).

In Britain the newspapers make late reprints and their headlines cry out warning of the "Cowardly Red", and his "Devious Attack on the Home Fleet". A state of national emergency follows with Neville Chamberlain taking the lead as Prime Minister in reassuring the populace:

"My people, Britain has been attacked. The Communist fleet has assailed our Home Fleet just off Dogger Bank in teh North Sea. In a cowardly assault just after 10.00 am this morning what is believed to be a torpedo from a submerged submarine struck the destroyer HMS Zulu, causing a hit on the forward magazine and resulting in it sinking. The Home Fleet immediately responded with a valourous attack made by the cruisers HMS Derby, Yarmouth, Dartmouth, Chester and supporting destroyers against superior numbers causing much damage and chaos amongst the enemy fleet. It is my sad duty to inform you that it is during this brave engagement of a superior force that both Admiral Harwood and Lord Mountbatten were struck down in their line of duty. It is known that both men refused to leave their stations until the very end and that they died fulfilling their duties. Their brave efforts resulted in bloodying the enemy and causing them to cease their agressive stance untila withdrawal of remaining ships could be made.

"Shortly after thisincident the Hoem Fleet launched a major airstrike against the vile attackers resulting in major damage to the enemy fleet sinking one carrier and damaging another. It is such that whilst we have been cowardly wounded today the enemy has suffered much worse and has been forced to stall his attacks. Meanwhile a major British counterattack is planned and we will surely beat these erstwhile invaders before teh end of the week.

"I have just recently recieved the official Union declaration of war, some hours after the engagement this morning. This shows how cowardly our foe is, that he cannot be trusted and must resort to surprise tactics in order to outfight us. The British Empire will use no such tactics and we will simply outfight our adversaries whether on the ground, at sea or in the air.

"I have just recently come from an emergency meeting of the parliament, I put forward a motion that an official state of war be existent between the British Empire and Warsaw Pact. This was duely passed with no opposition and we are now officially engaged in war with the Union and its allies. I also proposed that a coalition war governmentg be created so that there will be no bickering over matters of national importance. This was also passed by the House of Commons and as the more experienced and charismatic man I have given the Prime Minister position to Mr Winston Churchill. I will become Chancellor of the Exchequer of the coalition government and elections will be run after the war is over to elect a new government.

"I have organised meetings with our LTA and Commonwealth allies and our military strategy will be determined from there. Though I have no doubts that the British Empire will triumph over our adversaries I urge everyone of you to do your duty and support this fine country, whether that is in the armed forces, the factories, offices or as a public service provider. The Army, Navy and Airforce will naturally be recruiting more and more people to fight the red menace and I urge any citizen of the United Kingdom to join up at your nearest recruiting station and help to fight the enemy, be it as a soldier, sailor, aircraftman, nurse, flight controller or any other of a multitude of jobs. Just know that this government will continue to do its utmost to eradicate threats to world peace, and above all remember the heroes of Dogger Bank!"

Britain declares that a state of war now exists between Britain and the UNion and her allies.

Britain also offers to evacuate the Belgian government and her Army, Navy and Airforce, if the situation in Belgium becomes lost and there is no other alternative but evacuation. Mr Churchill also suggests that arrangements be made to destroy equipment of the Belgian military to prevent it falling into Union hands.

New British Coalition War Cabinet:

Winston Churchill — Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Leader of the House of Commons.
Neville Chamberlain — Chancellor of the Exchequer
Clement Attlee — Lord Privy Seal and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, Deputy Prime Minister,
Lord Halifax — Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, leader of the House of Lords
Lord Beaverbrook — Minister of Aircraft Production,
Ernest Bevin — Minister of Labour
Herbert Morrison — Home Secretary,
Lord Woolton — Minister of Reconstruction

May June LTA phase 2
OOC
The Union fleet retires to avoid battle in the North Sea as it is outnumbered heavily. However, Union naval aircraft in Germany begin attacking the British fleet (3 light naval air units, 2 fighter units) and fierce air battles occur over the North Sea. The British have the fighters from their 4 carriers (2 Corsair units) but they are heavily outnumbered. The British lose 1 carrier fighter unit (and its pilot), but drive off one of the light naval air units, so only 2 get through. They meet a wall of flak however, with 1 naval air unit destroyed (and its pilot), and the other driven off.

IC
In fierce action, the Union launches repeated massive air attacks against the Home Fleet in the North Sea. Desperate air battles result in the loss of 120 British aircraft, but the fighters and heavy and accurate flak destroy over 600 Union aircraft and the British ships suffer only a few minor hits. Only 4 destroyers are lost in the series of attacks.

OOC
Meanwhile, the massive bomber force in England, 5 B17G units and 4 Lancaster units, escorted by 2 P47 units attacks Kiel and Hamburg (5 against Kiel, 4 against Hamburg).
To meet them the Union has 4 FW190 units and 2 ME109 units plus a 4 point flak unit at each target. The LTA has 1 P47 and 2 B17s returned home at Kiel, but 3 get through and flak is ineffective. The LTA also shoots down a FW190 unit. They concentrate their bombing on the port and shipbuilding facilities, rolling a “6”, getting 5 hits (which destroys 100% of the ships under construction, reduces the port from a major to a minor port, and also damages 3 production centers with the left over damage). Over Hamburg, the US loses a P47 unit, the RAF loses a Lancaster unit, and the Germans lose a FW190 unit. Flak returns another Lancaster unit before it can bomb but 2 get through, and they get 3 hits, destroying 75% of the ships under construction there, and reducing the port from a major to a minor port and damages a production center as well.

IC
Heavy Allied bombing raids, involving 2250 American and British bombers and 1000 American fighters fight their way through 3000 Union fighters to heavily bomb Hamburg and Kiel, severely damaging both ports and factories in the area. Nearly 70,000 German civilians are also killed in the continual raids, and the Union loses nearly 1000 aircraft and many pilots. LTA losses are heavy as well, with nearly 1200 aircraft going down.

OOC
In the Med, the LTA fleet stays near Gibraltar, content to hold the bottleneck, while the British Med Fleet remains near the entrance of the Suez Canal, content to hold that bottleneck. The British remain in the North Sea, and at the end of the phase, the American 1st Fleet, with 12 carriers, 4 battleships, 12 cruisers and numerous destroyers and over 1200 aircraft joins it. LTA submarines penetrate the Baltic and Gulf of Adriatic, sinking a staggering 1,500,000 tons of Pact shipping in a month (3 Union shipping units) in the Baltic, and 700,000 tons in the Gulf of Adriatic and near Greece (1 Yugoslavian shipping unit). The Pact and Yugoslavians find they lack nearly enough escorts and until the entrances of those two sea areas are mined, they face a dangerous problem.

In Africa, the British easily overrun the French colonies of the Ivory Coast and Dahomey, and fierce fighting occurs in Senegal where the British have two corps (18 points), 1 HQ and a bomber unit against a single 10 point French mechanized corps. The bomber disorganizes the French, which are out of supply (as the British have blockaded the port of Dakar), reducing it to 3 points. The resulting attack destroys the French garrison and Senegal falls

IC
The LTA submarine forces launches fierce and effective attacks against Union and Yugoslavian shipping, catching both naval powers off guard. Over 2,200,000 tons of enemy shipping are sunk at the cost of 6 US and 12 British submarines, and trade in the Gulf of Adriatic and Baltic Sea is crippled for a time. In Africa, the British destroy the French garrison in Senegal and by the end of the month of June, isolated and cut off from the outside world, and worried that the Moroccans and Algerians would be coming next, the civil authorities in French Africa surrender to avoid further loss of life.

In the Caribbean, the Colombians force Martinique and Guadalupe to surrender, ending the last of the French overseas empire.

War at Sea Pact May June Phase 2
In the Atlantic, at the cost of 2 Union submarine units, the Union sinks 2 US and 3 UK shipping units (20 submarines versus 2.5 million tons of shipping). In the Med, the Pact sinks another 2 UK shipping units (1 million tons) but loses 1 Yugoslav and 1 French submarine unit.

The Combined Pact Fleet (French, Union and Rumanian ships) concentrates in the waters off southern France, while the LTA is content to remain at the entrances to the Med (off Egypt and Gibraltar).

Essentially the Pact catches the LTA before they can start convoys and inflicts painful losses.

Attack against England
The Union launches a massive attack against London using its new F103 Missile (the V1). The Germans have 10 units, which are a one shot attack. They can be intercepted by fighters and hit by flak, and because of their short range must fly through flak belts at Dover and then the flak around London. 4 units worth are shot down by flak, and fighters knock down 2 more but 4 get through. This is treated as a terror attack for casualties and a special attack against production, and the F103s damage 1 London production center, and kill or injure 200,000 people (including 40,000 killed). However, as it does not have a concentrated damage center (like bombers inflict) London continues normally (in game terms).

Pact Phase 2 May June PART 2
Battle in the Low Countries

OOC
The Union discovers that Belgium is the most heavily fortified place on Earth.

The Union attacks Liege, which is fortified and a factory city, tripling the defense. The Belgians have 2 corps and a flak unit, worth 16 (becomes 48 points). They are also defending behind a river. The Union has the 2nd Army group. Attacking from across the river are 4 x 8 point motorized infantry corps, and 2 x 11 point armored corps, 1 x 4 point rocket artillery unit and 1 x 4 point (which becomes 8) siege artillery unit. The ground troops are halved, becoming 19 points plus the artillery for 31 ground points. Realizing that is isn’t near enough, the Union calls in 4 light bomber units and 4 fighter units for 36 points (giving them 67 points or a 1.5 to one.). The Union commits its bombers as well, 2 HE177 bomber units and 2 JU88 bomber units plus 2 FW190 fighter units to attempt to disrupt the Belgians first.

Meanwhile, 2 more ME109G fighter wings out of the Ruhr attack the Belgian Air Force at its bases to force it to fight.

The French invade from the south aiming to take Antwerp. They face 36 points of defense (18 points doubled for fortification) and have only 19 points of ground strength (1 x 9 point mechanized corps, 1 x 10 point armored corps) but commit 3 Stuka light bomber units for 18 more points… giving them a 1:1. They also commit another Stuka plus 1 FW190 fighter unit plus 2 HE177 naval air units to attempt to disrupt the Belgians.

At Brussels, the Belgians and Union fights an air battle, and each loses a fighter unit and a pilot, which takes care of the Belgian Air Force, although at a painful cost. At Liege, the Union bombers and fighters get through the flak with no significant losses, and manage to disrupt all three Belgian units (which means no flak to deal with during the main attack). Now with 3:2 odds plus 1, the Union attacks, and at the cost of two motorized corps destroys the 5 point Belgian garrison unit. However, the Belgians still hold the fortress. The Union uses its HQ to reorganize both artillery units and both motorized corps that remain plus uses 2 transport units to reorganize the 2 armored corps.

Meanwhile, 2 Union 11 point armored corps move adjacent to Strasbourg and are joined by 2 Union reserve 6 point infantry corps. Having achieved 2:1 odds, the Burgundians in Strasbourg surrender without serious resistance.

During the LTA third phase, nothing the LTA will do will affect this situation so during the Pact third phase the Pact attacks again, this time with 4 x 11 point armored corps, 2 x 8 point motorized corps and 2 x 6 point reserve infantry corps (from the Hamburg area) plus the artillery, but have no air support. The Belgians are down to 39 points of effective defense versus 47 points of Pact effective attack strength, a 1:1+1, and this time at the cost of 1 infantry corps, the Pact destroys the garrison and takes the ruins of the city of Liege. (all production centers in Liege will require repairs)

Meanwhile, the French attack Antwerp, and first manage to disrupt the Belgian defenders, and then attack at 1:1+1. They are repulsed, losing a mechanized corps. Their other unit is disrupted. Lacking reserves handy to the area, the French are forced to settle for a siege situation.

Belgium manages to maintain contact with the outside world via submarine and small boats to neutral Holland as well as land traffic to Holland.

Meanwhile, in the third Pact phase, the Germans bring up an Alpine corps from Munich, plus a French parachute corps from Paris arrives. This gives the Pact forces 21 points versus the Burgundian 8 points, forcing a Burgundian surrender without serious resistance.

IC
The Union and French invade Burgundy and Belgium. Burgundy does manage to force the Pact to divert large numbers of troops against it, but quickly surrenders. Belgium however fights fiercely. Over 5500 Union and 3,000 French aircraft take part in the campaign, along with 8 Union and 2 French corps, along with other support units, or nearly 500,000 troops. At Liege, the 150,000 strong Belgian garrison lasts nearly 6 weeks before finally surrendering, and the Union suffers nearly 100,000 casualties taking it. Antwerp however repulses the French attack at the cost of 50,000 French casualties, and the Belgian Air Force fights well in spite of overpowering odds, shooting down over 500 Pact aircraft before being destroyed.

The following speech is delivered to the Rumanian troops preparing for action in Germany.

"Today, we stand on the brink of yet a third world war! But we shall not falter in our resolve to preserve peace, liberty, and justice for all peoples. The Americans, the British, those foul little men across the sea. They are your enemies, and they want to conquer you! Spit in your faces and grind you into the dust! They want your wives! They want your children! They want to force you to slave for a rich man with a gold watch and a top hat! They want you to lose your pride as men, as workers! They want to crush your spirit, and your countries!"

Will you let them do that? I say NO! I say that we will fight them, to the last bullet, the last bomb. We will fight tooth and nail. They will never set foot on the sacred soil of Rumania, nor the soil of any other free country in Europe without paying in blood for every step they take. So fight them! FIGHT THEM! Fight them unto death. Do not shirk your duty, your Comrades are there with you, side by side. Do not fail them! Do not fail the French, our allies and brothers in the Holy Mother Church, do not fail your Comrades to the East and North. The Polish, the Russians, the Germans, the Finns, the Yugoslavians, the Czechs, the Ukranians, and the Hungarians would all gladly spill their blood for you. Do not hesitate to do the same for them!"


In other news, the Parliament in Rumania casts a vote removing the king from power and establishing the People's Republic of Rumania, despite attempts to prevent by the Conservative minority. The King is quietly escorted to his summer home in the countryside, where he will remain in retirement.

LTA Phase 3
North Sea
The US 1st Fleet, along with the British carriers, under the command of Halsey, launches a massive air strike against the Union fleet that has recently retired to the German North Sea ports.

Union naval forces
3 superbattleships (Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Ferdinand Lasalle), 2 fleet carriers (Demokrazie, Revolutsiya), 2 carrier air groups, 2 battleships (Cádiz, Venezia), 3 heavy cruisers, 3 antiaircraft cruisers, 70 destroyers (7 light ships), 120 submarines (12 units commanded by Commodore Karl Dönitz), 2 amphibious assault fleets, 10 transport units

other forces available: 1 ME109 fighter unit, 1 JU188 naval air, 1 4 point flak unit

US Naval forces
US 1st Fleet (Admirals Halsey/Mitcher/Olendorf))
Fleet Carriers Essex, Kitty Hawk, Constellation, Constitution, Intrepid, America, Oriskany, Lake Erie, Lake Champlain, Mobile Bay, Battleships Montana, Indiana, Massachusetts, South Dakota Antiaircraft cruisers Atlanta, Juneau, San Pedro, San Juan, San Diego, San Antonio, San Pedro, Duluth, Galveston, Los Angeles, 6 light ships (60 destroyers), 6 Corsairs, 4 Avengers

Plus 1 Avenger from the Royal Navy Home Fleet (which is still hanging about)

The Allies hit the German fleet with 5 Avenger units, escorted by 4 Corsairs, leaving 2 Corsairs to hold back the Union counterstrike. Although flak is fierce, and the Union fighters fight hard, they are overwhelmed (1 Union fighter unit shot down and 1 pilot lost, 3 Avenger units driven off without attacking), the American and British torpedo bombers and fighter bombers get 8 torpedoes into the last Union carrier, which rolls over and explodes, and several torpedo and bomb hits are scored on all three of the big Union super battleships, while even heavier damage is inflicted on the 2 older Union battleships (all 5 battleships will require repairs at a functioning naval base, one in the Baltic is recommended for that purpose). Repeated attacks also sink 20 destroyers and 3 antiaircraft cruisers, along with 10 submarines. Followup raids also sink 2 transport units and 1 amphibious fleet unit (1.5 million tons of shipping). Although the Americans lose nearly 300 aircraft to flak the raids are considered a great success. (3 US Avenger units destroyed, along with the 1 pilot).

Meanwhile, the attempted Union counterattacks are cut to ribbons by American fighters (1 JU188 unit shot down, and the pilot is lost).

After three days, the Americans withdraw further out to sea, content to see if the Union will sortie (which is viewed as unlikely).

ooc
(that’s pretty much it for Europe for May and June, unless France decides to invade Spain)

The British use their strategic movements to ship 6x9 point US mechanized corps to Spain, along with 3 US mechanized artillery units, 2 B26s, and 1 P47. (US units moved to Santander, Ferrol and Vigo). In additional 4 US flak units are shipped to England and Ireland deploying at Belfast, Dublin, Liverpool and Glasgow.

Following news of the believed attack on the British Fleet near Dogger Bank, headlines and newsies in South Africa shout such mantras as "Reds Attack British Fleet," and "Pact Provokes Britain." However, the most ominous of these announcements comes on the front page of the far-right paper Die Burger: "War!"

Gathering an emergency session of the Volksraad, Jan Smuts delivers a speech to the Union. This speech is the first political speech broadcast by radio across South Africa.

"Brothers, fellow South Africans. The Warsaw Pact has attacked a British flotilla in the North Sea, sinking a destroyer and destroying many aircraft. This attack was unprovoked, and undeserved. But I do not come to you now to speak of events past; they have happened, and they cannot be changed. Rather, I must speak now of our path in the future.

"There are those in this raad that have been cursed as Anglophiles, myself among them. This is understandable, given the history of our relationship with Britain. It can be said that we have too quickly forgotten the past, and have forgiven Britain's debts to us before it was time. It can be said.

"But it has never been said, and God willing, never will be said, that South Africa abandons her allies, especially now, during their time of need. The British Empire, the United States, Gran Colombia, Algeria, Belgium, and many others now look to us.

"The abomination that calls itself the Union now seeks to dominate the world. What else could their motive be, starting a war we neither wanted nor sought?

"Will South Africa stand by her allies? Will we join with our brothers overseas to fight for justice and peace, or will we falter and allow those nations who have helped us to stand on our feet after decades of poverty fall into ashes?"

Smuts was forced to pause for a moment, as loud denials poured from the Volksraad. Only the most intense National Party members, and the single CPSA seat, were silent.

"I say now that South Africa will join this fight, and with God as our shield we will win through, no matter the cost! May God in His wisdom have mercy on our enemies, and give them the same chance for redemption that He gave to us thirty-three years ago."

Smuts continued to speak for a moment, but applause drowned him out until finally he decided to just be silent. Mentally, he crossed himself, and prayed for the world.

In response to the war rageing around the world, Spain has mobilized her armys on the French border and have received many troops from other LTA members. Presidente Primo de Rivera wants all Spaniards to know that in this time of need they are especially necessary. He wants all citizens to use as few materials that can be used for war such as petroleum, rubber and other materials and is also advocateing 'Victory Gardens' so that citizens can grow their own produce and more food can be brought to the soldiers and support to their allies. Propaganda posters have been put up all over Spain with slogans such as 'Vote IGE! Vote for Victory!' and 'Ride alone and ride with the Union!'. All are created for the purpose of maintaining stability and enhancing nationalist sentiment.

(OOC: Laptops were'nt around in 1939...silly me.

"Good evening, Mister Connelly." The voice was deep coming from the President.

Stephen shifted slightly, dragging a hand through his scruffy red beard. "Mr. President, Sir, if I might have a word?"

Riptide sighed. "You're in my office, man, so speak." Never one for euphamisms, the President had business to attend to.

"Well, Sir..." Stephen's anxiousness was wearing on both of the men. "We've got commitments under the London Treaty Alliance. We-"

"I know we're at war with the Soviets." Riptide cut the man off. "And I know that right now we haven't the resources to effectively prosecute a proper campaign. However, we do have the ability to assist our Anglish brethren. We have, what, ten thousand men available?"

Stephen was taken aback. "Well, Sir...you'll be knowin' more about that than me. But I would say your estimates are correct. We can spare about ten thousand men."

Riptide's deep emerald eyes bored into Stephen's. "Then raise them. I shall send a communique to London to arrange their deployment into Angland and then into wherever they are needed."

"Aye, Sir." Stephen swallowed hard and turned, straightening his suit as he left the office.

With a heavy sigh, Riptide turned to his typewriter.

Diplomatic Message/
To: Winston Churchill, London, Angland
From: Riptide Monzarc, Dublin, Eire

Dear Sir,

We are aware that the Treaty of London Alliance has declared war with the Soviet Union and Japan. In order to make this motion concrete in my country, however, a seperate motion needs to be passed in the Lower House, Upper House, and by myself. While largely ceremonial, owing to the absolute authority of the aforementioned Treaty, it is our legal code.

However, Ireland is a developing nation still. We are investing vast amounts of money on our infrastructure and industrial capacity. We can afford to raise 10,000 troops, and we shall do so to fulfill obligations under the ToLA, but we shan't have much heavy machinery, naval or air power to lend to the War Effort.

Once War is officially declared, and the men are raised, I am placing them at your behest to fulfill our obligations. We shall financially compensate all we can.

Thank you,

Riptide Monzarc

From: Winston Churchill, London, UK
To: Riptide Monzarc, Dublin, Eire

Dear Sir,

I am pleased to see that our Irish brothers have honoured their membership of the London Treaty Alliance by putting forward the motion of declaring war against the Union. I am reassured by your promises that such a situation will occur and am glad that the Irish nation will stand beside Britain and the LTA in this matter. It is sad that war will come to us in this manne, following an unprovoked Union attack on the British Home Fleet, but such is the enemy that we face. He will stop at nothing to see the world in flames once more and the march of Communsim across the globe. But that is why we peace loving nations set up the LTA and this just war must be fought, and won, at all odds. I understand the restriction placed upon you by your economy at this present time and can understand the relatively small amount of troops that you can send in aid of this war. I would propose that post-war Britain will provide aid to Ireland so that it can industrialise and grow to the strength of a world power. I hope that this heralds in a new age of cooperation between the English and Irish peoples and that our citizens can grow to forget their differences and cooperate in the quest for world peace.

Yours,

Winston Churchill.

Riptide turned to his laptop.

OOC:
It may be a bit early for laptops yet, being 1939 and all!

Otherwise, a pretty good first post for E20, with refernce to current affairs, political systems in place etc. Shows that some good research has ben done. I'm glad Britain has the support of Ireland anyway!

May June 1939
other events
The Pact attempts to bring the British to battle in the Eastern Mediterranean, but fail as the British fleet simply retires to Suez, out of range.

In the Pacific and in China, great battles are fought. The Chinese suffer heavy defeats at Peking and Tientsin, and the Americans inflict more losses then they suffere, but a command failure results in an American withdrawal at the Philippine Sea, resulting in the loss of Truk.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10263377&postcount=49
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10265842&postcount=51
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10266124&postcount=54
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10267364&postcount=56

Brazil remains quiet, its government unwilling to enter the war on the Pact side without reasonable assurance that the Pact can actually help them (ooc, player hasn't posted, so this is an easy out for now). Argentina remains neutral as well, but the bulk of the Pan American and LTA nations in Latin America join the war on the American side as per treaty.

ooc
May June turn is now over. I now have to figure out where everything ends up (like fleets and armies in Asia), then post weather and initiative, and then orders will be needed.

Any builds need to be made in the Economic thread please.

As most of the Pact players quit, the rest of this will be handled as a history, and I will finish that up this weekend.

Short version, the Pact loses, and Union and Japan are utterly defeated in 5 years. Nuclear weapons are used, as are chemical and biological weapons.

May June 1939 Losses
LTA
USA
Carrier Ranger, heavy cruisers Vincennes, Astoria, Chicago, anti air craft cruiser Biloxi, 14 destroy escorts (1 light ship), 2 shipping units, 1 P47, 3 Avenger carrier torpedo bomber units, 1 corsair carrier fighter unit1 carrier pilot, 1 submarine unit (6 submarines), 1 flak unit, Truk captured by Russians
UK
Light cruiser Derby, Yarmouth, 1 light ship unit (6 destroyers), 1 submarine unit (12 submarines), 2 Corsair carrier fighter unit, 1 Avenger carrier torpedo bomber unit, 1 Lancaster heavy bomber unit, 1 production center, 5 shipping units, 1 carrier pilot, 1 pilot
Australia
Heavy cruiser Canberra, Light cruiser Perth, 1 light ship unit (4 destroyers)
Burgundy
All – 4 ground units
Belgium
2 garrison units, 1 flak unit, Liege, 1 Spitfire Mk9 fighter unit, 1 pilot unit
China
2 flak units, 1 antitank unit, 1 militia unit, Peking, Tientsin, Nanning

Total LTA losses: 1 carrier, 4 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 2 submarine units,
3 light ship units, 7 shipping units, 5 carrier air units, 2 fighter units, 1 heavy bomber unit, 2 carrier pilot, 2 pilots, 9 ground units, plus Peking, Tientsin, all of Burgundy, Liege, Truk, damage to London

Pact
Japan
Carrier Akagi, battleship Mushashi, light cruiser Naka, 1 light ship unit (6 destroyers), 1 light ship unit (10 old destroyers), 4 shipping units, port of Taikoku wrecked, 1 George carrier fighter unit, 1 carrier torpedo bomber unit, 1 carrier pilot, heavy cruisers Nachi, Kako damaged

Union losses
(from Northern Fleet) 2 carriers, 3 antiaircraft cruisers, 2 light ship units (20 destroyers), 3 submarine units, 2 transport units, 1 amphibious fleet unit, 3 shipping units, 20 cruisers under construction destroyed, 5 battleships damaged, 1 carrier fighter unit, 1 carrier torpedo bomber unit, 1 carrier pilot unit, 4 fighter units, 1 light naval air unit, 1 medium naval air unit, 4 pilots, 2 motorized corps,

Yugoslav losses
1 shipping unit

French losses
1 mechanized corps

total Pact losses
3 carriers,1 battleship, 3 antiaircraft cruisers, 1 light curiser, 3 light ships, 3 submarine units, 9 shipping units, 1 amphibious fleet, 4 carrier air units, 4 fighter units, 2 naval air units, 1 carrier pilot, 4 pilots, 3 ground units,


comparision
12 LTA vs 12 Pact warships (not counting ships destroyed under construction)
7 shipping vs 9 shipping
o amphib vs 1 amphib
5 carrier air vs 4 carrier air
2 carrier pilots vs 1 carrier pilot
3 land air units vs 6 land air units
2 pilots vs 4 pilots
9 ground units vs 3 ground units
40 LTA units total vs 40 Pact units
36 (22 captured intact by Pact) production points plus 7 commercial vs 24 production plus 7 commercial

ooc
So how were these losses massively anti Pact once again?

In July and August, fierce fighting wages across the world. In the Mediterranean, a powerful US and British combined fleet threatens to raid Toulon and draws the Combined Pact fleet into battle. The size of the fleets dwarf the biggest battles of the last war, while nearly 1400 Allied and 2000 Pact aircraft are involved. In a series of surface and air actions, the Pact fleet is shattered, losing 18 ships sunk, including 7 battleships and battlecruisers, 1 fleet, 1 light and 2 escort carriers, 2 more battleships are heavily damaged and also losing 200 carrier and 1000 landbased aircraft. However the LTA loses 15 ships sunk including 1 battleship and 2 light carriers, and 7 more ships are heavily damaged, including all 4 American battleships and 3 carriers. 300 carrier and 500 landbased fighters are also lost. But the Pact Union Fleet is effectively destroyed.

In China, the Pact and Japanese take Shanghai and Changsha, but the Vietnamese and Chinese retake Kwieyang and Nanning, restoring land communications from China to Indochina.

In the Pacific, the Combined Pact/Japanese fleet covers the invasion of Luzon, supported by powerful landbased airpower. The US Navy declines battle, and the Japanese get ashore with a powerful army. The Americans dig in at Bataan and Corregidor and wait for relief. The Americans lose 750 bombers as the Japanese gain control of the air, but additional Chinese fighters and American bombers reach Mindanao, along with reinforcements to hold that vital island. Reinforcements reach Indochina as well as the reconstituted Chinese Air Force arrives with 1000 American P47Ns.

In the Atlantic, LTA losses drop markedly and Union submarine losses rise significantly, but still the LTA loses 1 million tons of shipping. However Allied bombers hit northern France and Germany, badly damaging Hamburg and Lille. Pact missiles continue to pummel London inflicting serious damage. Belgium fights on, but Brussels falls and the Belgians are making a last stand at Antwerp.

In the Mideast, the British punish the MEU for picking the wrong side, taking Lebanon and Palestine and threatening Damascus, and also forcing the Pact to send the bulk of the Czech, Rumanian and Hungarian Army to prop up the overextended Turks. The Americans send a large army under Patton to assist the British, and General Alexander, who recently quickly conquered French West Africa, is appointed Supreme Commander in that theater.

Political Events
Korea declares neutrality, Turkey joins Pact (in exchange for promises to get Egypt back as well as Aden and Oman). Greece declares neutrality after a coup overthrows pro Pact government. LTA informs Netherlands that it will be blockaded unless it ceases selling oil to Japan. Facing threat of loss of trade, and well aware that Colombia will eagerly take the Dutch West Indies if it fails to comply and joins the Pact, Netherlands ceases sale of oil to Japan, and also ceases allowing imports to pass through their country to the Pact. United States and United Kingdom rally the LTA nations still in the League of Nations and form the United Nations, a more powerful international body. On the Security Council, the US, UK, China, Colombia, and South Africa are given permanent seats. The UN then promptly condemns the Pact for waging an aggressive war of conquest. Siam is occupied by the British, and joins the UN as a member state, as well as declaring war on Japan and the Pact (because it isn't allowed not to)

Economic phase
The Union is forced to postpone construction on 12 heavy cruisers, giving them 32 points to repair their 5 damaged battleships, and spend 18 points to repair damage to production centers in Hamburg and Kiel and remaining 2 points to place a pilot in production (shows up July 1940). Japan builds 3 pilots (show up in July 40), and 2 infantry corps (show up September). US takes over 12 Chinese shipping units, gives 5 to UK to replace losses, 2 to replace its losses, and remaining 5 become US transport units. China is informed US considers this an even trade for rebuilding Chinese Air Force. It also reduces aid to India by 12 points, and uses that income to purchase 12 missile units to continue to hit London with.

ooc
losses will be posted eventually as well, for now, concentrating on dealing with the war.

Political
Italy rejoins the LTA and declares war on the Pact as it is apparent that the LTA has a better chance of victory and the Pact lacks the striking power to invade Italy. Greece makes contact with Greeks living in Turkey and makes plans to enter the war on the LTA side when Istanbul is dangled in front of them as a prize, along with portions of the Turkish Aegean coast. Brazil joins the UN and signs the Pan American Treaty in order to ward of Colombian or Argentine moves. This leaves only Paraguay out of the Pan American Treaty until a revolution breaks out in Uruguay and it pulls out of the treaty. A series of skirmishes along the Argentine border leads to Argentina invading Uruguay to restore order, which will lead to eventual annexation (in 1944). Argentina also declares war on the Pact.

The War
Pact goes first, and launches all out attack on Antwerp, which finally falls (1 Union infantry lost). The Union launches more V1s at London, (only 6 this time) and only 1 gets through, creating another 50,000 British casualties. In the Atlantic, the Union manages to sink 1 UK shipping unit and 40 UK corvettes, but loses 80 submarines in the process, shattering the U-Boat arm in the Atlantic. The Union Atlantic Fleet is reinforced when battleships return from the repair yard. The French realize how big the LTA armies are getting in Spain and calls for help. The Russians however are unable to send reinforcements yet, but invade the Netherlands, concerned that the Dutch will let UN forces invade through their country. In the first massed parachute assault in history, 2 airborne corps drop on the Hague and Amsterdam, while armored forces drive north from Belgium and infantry drive west from Germany. The Dutch fall quickly, but their merchant fleet and navy escapes, joining the Allied side.

In China, the Japanese redeploy south and attack Kwieyang, taking the city and killing 1 Chinese corps, while the Pact and Manchurians assault Sian, which falls.

In the Philippines, the Japanese launch an all out assault using every aircraft they can. The US loses 1 P47 but shoots down 1 Japanese heavy bomber. Heavy fighting costs the Americans 1 motorized infantry corps and the Japanese lose an infantry corps, but Bataan holds out in spite of increasingly short rations. The Japanese land another mechanized corps to assist.

Meanwhile, the Japanese and Russians send the bulk of their fleet into the Bismark Sea, threatening Guam, Palau, and isolating the Philippines from supply from Hawaii. A smaller Japanese fleet moves into the South China Sea, cutting off the Philippines from the south.

The Americans respond to this, sending the 3rd Fleet into the Bismark Sea, and the 7th Fleet into the South China Sea, who are joined by the Dutch. A pair of surface battles costs the Dutch most of their fleet, and the 7th Fleet is forced to limp away with most of its ships heavily damaged, but it does knock the Yamato out of the war for while when it is heavily damaged, and the Japanese lose another carrier air unit and its valuable pilot. A more critical problem now because in the Bismark Sea, the Americans win a decisive victory when they sink 2 Japanese, 2 Union carriers, and shoot down 500 Pact carrier aircraft (and 5 pilots) at the cost of the carrier Wasp sunk, and 2 carriers damaged and 200 aircraft (and 2 pilots). This prevents the invasion of both Guam and Palau when the Pact is forced to retire, isolates Truk (although the 2 Russian marine corps pull back with them) and opens the sea route to Philippines.

The Americans now respond in the Pacific by sending newly based B25s out of Mindanao after the Japanese Army in Luzon, pounding it heavily and preventing any more Japanese attacks due to supply problems and disorganization. Allied submarines continue to plague the Pact, sinking 3 Japanese shipping units and 30 Pact destroyers at the cost of 30 Allied submarines. Meanwhile, Pact submarines torpedo and sink the carrier Yorktown and heavily damage the US superbattleship Texas.

In Indochina, British forces move from Thailand into Vietnam, providing some much needed stiffening on that front.

In the Middle East, the Americans move up from the Suez area, and the British and Americans launch an all out offensive at Damsascus, taking the city, and destroying the Turkish forces in the area. Meanwhile, a combined Algerian / Egyptian force drives south along the Red Sea coast and reaches Medina and Mecca, while local Arabs rise up and secure the city. The Turkish garrisons are forced to surrender, and for the first time in centuries, the Turks no longer hold the Islamic Holy places.

Along the Spanish / French border, and the Italian border, Allied forces launch continual patrol actions but do not launch a major offensive. However, their presence is tying down the French and Yugoslav armies, and forces the Union to shift forces back to Bavaria. Allied bombers hammer French cities, inflicting severe damage, and wrecking nearly half of French production, and force the Union to shift fighters from Russia and Siberia to reinforce the heavily damaged French defenses. French production is reduced to 50% of its prewar level, plus it has lost its commerce and income from its colonies.

At the end of October the US Third Fleet gets significant reinforcements, and the 5th Fleet with a large number of old battleships and cruisers and sizeable amphibious forces reaches Hawaii. For the first time in the war, the Allies outnumber the Pact navies in the Pacific.

It becomes apparent now that the Union has failed to mobilize properly for war, for in spite of its huge population and production, it finds itself actually outnumbered in the critical theaters in Southwest Europe, the Mideast and faces a similar danger in China. It has run out of reserves, and will have to mobilize fully to defend its vast territory and immense borders.

It also becomes apparent that the assault on the Philippines happened two months too late. Instead of Truk, it would have been better to land in Luzon in August.

Political
Argentina agrees to send an expeditionary force to defend Spain. In the Union, the hardliners demand institution of rationing, full mobilization and suppression of any dissent. More moderate elements of the government protest, and in the power struggle, backed by the military leadership, the hard liners under Trotsky take full control, and ‘unreliable’ elements are purged (arrested and sent to prison). Trotsky shortly after that authorizes full scale development of atomic weapons and biological weapons as a priority. In Japan, a similar situation occurs but a larger percentage of the opposition is executed. The Union slips from being Leftist but democratic to communist and a dictatorship.

The War
Winter comes to the Northern Hemisphere, and mud and winter conditions break a halt to the fighting in China, as mud and winter conditions make moving supplies extremely difficult. Bombing also slows down over France and Germany, providing a needed respite for the Union and French economy. The LTA gets a respite as well, as North Atlantic storms and the severe losses the Pact has suffered forces Doenitz to give up commerce warfare for now. Production bottlenecks (the Union doesn't have any points left to spend) brings a halt to the V1 campaign. However, testing of the V2, a ballistic missile replacement, is completed and in 1940 production is authorized.

However, in the Philippines and the Mideast the fighting continues in intensity. In Syria, the British go on the defensive to keep the combined Pact army from threatening the American flank as Patton drives across the Syrian desert into Iraq, hitting the Turkish defenses at Baghdad and taking the city, and cutting off all Turkish forces in Arabia. The Arabs rise up, and many of the MEU troops in the region, Arab as well, desert or switch sides. By the end of December the MEU no longer controls Arabia, and tribal leaders and locals set up governments in Kuwait, Arabia, and Palestine. Fighting will continue in those areas for the years to come, but from an LTA perspective, it isn’t important as its internecine. The main thing is that the MEU is no longer supplying oil to the Pact except for a trickle coming out of Persia. Even this ends when India enters the war on the LTA side, and seizes control of the principal oil production areas. Meanwhile, the Persians rise up en masse, and the MEU garrisons in Persia suffer the same fate as they did in Arabia.

Patton pushes his troops up the Tigris Euphrates and reaches Kurdistan, and the US government offers the Kurds independence if they revolt. With centuries old hatred of the Turks, the Kurds quickly do so, and the MEU is forced to deploy troops to the region to try and hold it.

In the Pacific, the US 3rd Fleet under Spruance covers the 5th Fleet under Kincaid as it takes back Truk. Meanwhile, the 7th Fleet, now under the command of Admiral Crutchley, escorts supplies to Luzon. The Japanese, now facing oil shortages for the first time, and concerned about the possibility of an American attack against Japan itself, evacuate their forces in the Philippines and pull back to Formosa and reinforce their outlying outposts of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The Japanese High Command comes up with a plan for a decisive battle using land based aircraft and the Combined Fleet. Continuing to try and fight a losing battle in the Philippines doesn’t fit into that plan.

However, the aid they have provided Indonesian rebels finally bears fruit as the Indonesians rise up against the Dutch. The LTA, having bigger problems to deal with and not needing Dutch East India oil, ignore the situation for now. The Dutch, with limited manpower, manage to hold the cities, but lose the countryside in Java, Sumatra and Bali, but the lesser populated islands, most of which are very undeveloped, and the coast of Dutch Borneo remains under their control.

Nationalist China still survives. Pushed back to the mountains, but still in the war. With Japan and the Pact facing serious problems elsewhere, the Nationalist government is able to shift resources to deal with the somewhat serious Communist guerilla problem. They are also able to raise some guerillas of their own to operate in Japanese controlled areas.

The Union shifts its armored and mechanized forces, and its air forces out of China, leaving the mopping up of China to the Manchurians and Communist guerillas. Mainly because those valuable troops are more desperately needed in Central Asia and Europe.

Pact builds

Union 943 production, 260 oil maintenance
Military maintenance -- 176
Union air force – 120 points (120 oil)
18 FW190 fighter units, 6 HE219 fighter units, 8 Il10 bomber units, 2 JU188 bomber units, 5 IL10 naval air units, 10 HE177 bomber units, 6 HE177 heavy naval air units,
1 Ju52 transport, 1 Go553 heavy transport, 50 pilots,
Union Navy – 27 points (27 oil)
10 battleships, 12 cruisers, 140 destroyers, 45 frigates, 80 corvettes, 3 amphib fleets, 150 submarines, 6 carriers, 4 carrier planes, 4 carrier pilots,
Union Army – 29 (10 oil)
7 HQ, 8 armored corps, 5 motorized infantry, 21 infantry corps, 3 alpine corps, 4 parachute corps, 5 garrison units, 8 coast defense artillery, 18 flak units, 10 field artillery, 3 fortifications,
Level 2 social services – 280 million people for 56 points
Civil Defense – 28 points
Atomic weapons development – 24 (Omsk)
Biological weapons development facility – 24 points

308 points used (leaving 105 points a turn, plus 5 extra for January)
January / February builds – 24 points (repair Hamburg-- May), 10 infantry corps (20 points- March) 10 jet fighter units (30 points, May), 10 pilots (20 points, January 41), 3 V2 units, 14 V1 units (17 points)

Czechslovakia 27 points
3 mechanized corps, 1 pilot, 1 FW190, 2.25 points, Civil Defense – 2 points, level 3 social services – 4 points, (2 oil points), 3 points a turn, 4 for January…
January 1 flak unit, 1 militia

Hungary 15 points
2 mechanized, 1 garrison, 1 flak, 1 FW190, 1 Ju52, 2 pilots – 3 points, level 2 social – 2 points, civil defense –1 point, 9 points available, 1 point a turn, plus 3 points for January
January – 1 pilot (January 1941), 1 infantry corps (2 oil)

Rumania 30 points
4 mechanized corps, 2 mechanized artillery, 1 HQ, 1 FW190, 1 IL10, 1 Alpine corps, 6 destroyers, 1 light cruiser, 1 heavy cruiser, 10 submarines, 2 pilots, - 10 points (6 oil)

France – 81 points
4xMechanized Corps, 3xAlpine Corps, 1xMarine Corps, 1xMechanized Artillery Unit
1xHQ, 1xMechanized Anti-Tank unit, 18 garrison, 18 antitank, 18 fortification, 24 flak,
2 IL10 bomber, 3 IL10 naval air, 4 HE177 naval air, 3 carrier planes, 3 carrier pilots, 10 pilots, 1 carrier, 2 battleships (damaged), 10 cruisers, 20 destroyers, 50 submarines,
military maintenance – 48 (30 oil)
level 2 social services – 10
Civil defense – 5
Available for builds 3 points a turn plus 3 points turn from Burgundy
January – upgrade 6 garrison to motorized infantry

Yugoslavia – 45 points
2 armored corps, 3 alpine corps, 2 infantry corps, 1 HQ, 1 field artillery unit, 1 light cruiser, 2 FW190 fighters, 1 IL10 bomber, 10 destroyers, 10 submarines, -- 6 points (4 oil)
level 2 social services – 2 points
Civil Defense – 1 point
6 points turn for builds
January – 2 pilots (January 1941), 2 V2 units

MEU – 22 points
1 mechanized corps, 1 marine corps, 4 alpine corps, 1 flak unit, 1 coast artillery unit, 1 fortification, 1 FW190, 1 IL10, 4 pilots, 6 light cruisers, 40 destroyers, -- 10 points (5 oil)
Level 2 social services – 2 points
Civil defense – 1 point
4 points for January plus 1 point every turn – 2 infantry corps

Manchuria - 23 points
2 mechanized corps, 4 infantry corps, 6 garrisons, 6 flak, 2 artillery, 1 theater supply unit, 2 FW190s, 2 pilots, 1 light cruiser, 10 submarines, 2 alpine corps, -- 7 points (3 oil)
Level 1 social services – 4 points
1 point left over – 1 militia in January 21, 2006

Mongolia -- 6 points
1 HQ, 2 artillery units, 3 cavalry units, 2 garrison units -- 2 points
level 1 social services – 1 point
build for 1939 – 3 militia, convert garrison to infantry

Japan – 115 points
Navy – 7 battleships, 6 carriers, 20 cruisers, 94 destroyers, 60 submarines, 2 amphibs, 4 transports, 4 carrier planes, 5 carrier pilots, 23 points (23 oil)
Air Force –3 Rinzen heavy bombers, 2 Emily heavy naval air, 6 Frances medium naval air, 6 Frank fighter units, 1 DC 3 transport, 1 Mavis heavy transport, 20 pilots, (42 points, 42 oil)
Army – 2 armored corps, 2 mechanized corps, 6 infantry corps, 1 marine corps, 2 alpine corps, 3 HQ, 1 garrison, 8 flak, (7 points, 3 oil)
Level 1 social services – 8 points
Civil defense – 8 points
4 points turn for builds plus 3 points extra to start –
January – repair Yamato, purchase 3 carrier planes, 1 infantry corps

Oil needed – 277 (shortfall of 17, forcing Japanese to cut oil for pilot training, saving 6 points, and convert all army units to infantry, saving 3 more points. Still short, the Pact cuts oil to the Manchurian Army, saving 2 points, cut oil to Turkish navy, saving 2 more points, and still are 4 short, which means Japanese forced to curtail naval operations to what is strictly necessary.

ooc
as can be seen, by the first year of the war, the Pact doesn't have enough oil after losing MEU oil and access to Dutch East Indies oil

LTA builds (part 1)
United States – 524 build points, 340 oil points available
Navy – 15 fleet carriers, 4 light carriers, 15 escort carriers, 19 battleships, 42 cruisers, 260 destroyers, 105 destroyer escorts, 80 corvettes, 11 transports, 3 liner units, 5 amphibious fleets, 5 sea logistics groups, 40 carrier aircraft, 40 carrier pilots, -- 64 points (64 oil)
Air Forces – 5 B35 super heavy bombers, 5 B29 super heavy bombers, 12 A26 bomber units, 10 P51 fighter units, 5 P47N fighter units, 4 C47 transport units, 2 C54 heavy transport units, 4 PB4Y heavy naval air, 68 pilots, -- 113 points (105 oil)
US Army – 2 armored corps, 20 mechanized corps, 1 alpine corps, 2 airborne corps, 5 HQs, 2 motorized corps, 16 flak units, 12 mechanized artillery units, -- 23 points (20 oil)
Military maintenance – 204 points
Level 3 social services – 27 points
Civil defense – 9 points
Atomic weapons program – 24 points
Africa development – 100 points
Aid to Central America, Mexico, Caribbean – 12 points
Total used – 364 points
Available per turn – 24 points plus 4 extra for January
January
1 B36 bomber (5 points), 5 P80 jet fighters (15 points), 1 P47N fighters (4 points), 2 infantry corps,

Canada 50 points, 20 oil points
1 Liberator heavy naval air, 2 P51 fighter units, 1 Mosquito bomber unit, 4 pilots, 3 mechanized corps, 1 armored corps, 1 HQ unit, 3 light ship units (120 corvettes), 1 light ship unit (10 destroyers), 10 points (10 oil)

United Kingdom 299 points, 140 oil points
Royal Navy – 16 battleships, 4 fleet carriers, 2 light carriers, 23 cruisers, 210 destroyers, 60 submarines, 6 liner units, 6 transport units, 2 amphibious fleets, 5 carrier planes, 6 carrier pilots, -- 38 points (38 oil)
Air Forces – 8 Lancaster heavy bombers, 15 Spitfire Mk17 fighter units, 6 Mosquito naval air units, 2 Mosquito night fighters, 1 C54 heavy transport unit, 1 C47 transport unit, 35 pilots (69 points, 69 oil)
Ground forces – 3 HQs, 2 armored corps, 12 mechanized corps, 1 airborne corps, 1 amphibious corps, 6 mechanized artillery units, 5 flak units, (21 points, 20 oil)
Military – 128
Level 3 social – 32 points
Civil defense – 4 poiints
22 points a turn
January – 5 jet fighter units (15 points, May), 1 commando unit, 2 fighter units (Fury)

ooc
meanwhile, the US alone has around 200 points extra of oil to loan to its alies, and that isn't even counting Venezuelan oil that Colombia has (another 100 points)

Pact deployment
Western TVD
Atlantic Wall – 18 garrison, 18 coast defense, 18 flak, (all French)
Italian border – 3 Alpine corps, 1 mechanized corps (all French)
Spanish border – French 4 mechanized corps, French 2 mechanized at units, French 1 HQ, 8 SU Inf corps, 1 SU HQ,
Belgian/Dutch coast – 6 SU infantry corps, 3 SU flak, 3 SU coast defense, 6 fortifications, 1 HQ
German coast – 4 garrison units, 5 coast defense units, 2 flak units (Hamburg, Kiel), 1 infantry corps, 1 HQ
Panzer Army South (France) – 4 armored corps, 2 motorized infantry corps, 1 HQ, 3 field artillery,
Panzer Army North (Holland) – 4 armored corps, 3 motorized infantry corps, 1 HQ, 3 field artillery,
Air Forces – 4 SU FFW190, 2 FW-190, 4 SU IL10, 3 French IL10, 5 JU188
Atlantic Striking force – 3 SU HE177, 4 French SU HE177,
Strategic striking force – 10 HE177, 3 V2, 14 V1
Reserve – 4 parachute corps, 4 transport aircraft

Southern TVD
Italian border – 3 Alpine corps, 1 x 9 point infantry corps, 1 HQ, 1 Yugo Infantry corps, 3 Yugo Alpine corps, 1 Yugo HQ, 1 Yugo field artillery, 2 Yugo armored corps, 1 Yugo FW190, 1 Yugo IL10, 2 V2 units

Turkish TVD
Syrian border – 3 Turkish infantry corps, 2 Theater supply unit, Rumanian 1 HQ, 4x 7 point Mechanized Corps, 4 x 2 point mechanized artillery units, Czech 3 x 8 point mechanized corps, Hungarian 2 x 7 point mechanized corps, Rumanian Air Force with 1 FW190, 1 Stuka

Turkish Home Forces – 1 MEU Mech corps, 1 MEU Amphibious unit ,1 fighter unit, (Istanbul), 1 MEU garrison (Gallipolli), 1 MEU Alpine corps (Ezrurum) , Flak Artillery (Istanbul),Coast artillery(Gallipolli), Theater supply units(Ankara), and dive bomber unit (Ankara) 3 Alpine corps(Kurdistan)

Southern TVD
Northern Persia – 5 Alpine corps, 4 infantry corps, 1 field artillery unit, 1 HQ, 2 theater supply units,
Afghanistan – 1 garrison unit, 1 Alpine corps

Siberian TVD
Coast artillery and fortifications and flak at Petropavlovsk, Vladivostok, Sakkalin, Kuriles, garrison at Vladivostok,



Homeland Air Defenses
Warsaw – 2 FW190 fighter, 1 antiaircraft brigade
Petrograd - 1 FW190 fighter, 1 antiaircraft brigade
Berlin - 1 antiaircraft brigade, 2 HE219 fighter units
Essen - 1 FW 190 fighter unit1 antiaircraft brigade
Koln - 1 antiaircraft brigade
Frankfurt - 1 FW190 unit, 1 antiaircraft brigade
Munich - 1 FW190 unit 1 antiaircraft brigade
Vienna - 1 FW190 unit, 1 antiaircraft brigade
Moscow –2 FW190 units, 1 antiaircraft brigade
Minsk - 1 FW190 fighter unit, 1 antiaircraft brigade
Baku – 1 FW190 fighter unit, 2 antiaircraft brigade
Ploesti - 1 FW190 fighter unit, 2 antiaircraft brigade,3 heavy/strategic bomber wings, 2 heavy fighter wing, 1 Rum mountain corps,
Prague – 1 FW190 unit, 1 flak unit
Bucharest – 1 HU FW190 unit, 1 flak unit, 1 garrison

Baltic Squadron, based at Gdansk
3 superbattleships (Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Ferdinand Lasalle 2 battleships (Cádiz, Venezia 3 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 48 destroyers (5 light ships), 15 frigates (1 light ship), 20 corvettes (1 light ship 130 submarines (13 units commanded by Commodore Karl Dönitz), 1 amphibious assault fleets, 2 naval infantry corps, 3 light naval air wings, 2 heavy naval air wings, 8 converted troop transports, 13 shipping units

Northern Squadron, based at Murmansk (Counter Admiral Erich Bey)
15 frigates, 20 corvettes (2 light ships), 2 icebreakers (light cruisers)

Black Sea Squadron, based at Sevastopol (Counter Admiral Vladimir Tributz)
1 battleship, 2 battlecruisers, 2 fleet carriers, 2 light carriers, 1 light cruiser, 10 destroyers (1 light ship), 15 frigates (1 light ship), 3 carrier planes, 3 pilots, 10 shipping unit

Adriatic Fleet
1 Yugo CL, 10 Yugo DD, 10 Yugo Submarines

Aegean Fleet
6 CL, 40 destroyers,

Mediterranean Fleet (Toulon)
1 superbattleship (Petr Alekseyevich Kropotkin), 1 French Carrier (Ville de Paris), 1 fleet carrier (Sozialismus), 1 carrier aircraft, 1 pilot, 2 CA, 30 destroyers, 1 Rum CA, 1 Rum CL, 10 Rum destroyers, 2 French CA, 5 French CL, 3 French CLAA, 20 French Destroyers, 50 French submarines,

Pacific and Asian Theaters
Combined Japanese / SU fleet
superbattleships (Georgy Volgin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon), Battleships: Haruna, Kirishima, Nagato, Mikasa, Fuso, Yamashiro, Hyuga, Carriers Ryuho, Shokaku Zuikaku, Soryu, Kaga, Hiryu, Vladivostok, Gongjing, 8 carrier units, 8 carrier pilots, heavy cruisers Nachi, Myoko, Furutaka, Kako, Kinguasa, Haguro, Ashigara, Kitsugari, Aoba,
8 anti aircraft cruisers, 90 destroyers

Reserve / Escort fleet
54 destroyers, 1 light cruiser, 4 amphibious fleets, 40 shipping units,

Pact forces in Nationalist China
SU / Manchurian: 6 infantry corps, 2 mechanized corps, 3 artillery units, 1 theater supply unit, 1 FW190 fighter unit, 3 IL10 bomber units
Mongolian: 2 cavalry corps, 2 infantry corps, 1 theater supply unit, 2 artillery units
Japanese: 8 infantry corps, 2 HQs, 2 artillery units, 3 heavy bombers, 2 fighters,

Formosa: 1 garrison unit, 1 infantry corps, 1 flak unit
Okinawa: 1 infantry corps
Iwo Jima: 1 infantry corps
Japanese Home Army: 2 alpine corps, 2 infantry corps, 10 flak units,

Air Forces: 5 Francis Naval air, 3 fighter, 2 Emily flying boats,

ooc
some delay in actual combat as I had to organize the Pact forces based on the current situation plus organize the LTA forces based on actions as well.

LTA deployments January 1940
Allied Forces in Great Britian: (Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery, Crerar)
US Forces: 8 flak units, 2 HQs, 1 amphibious corps, 4 mechanized corps, 6 P51, 5 B29, 6 A26, 4 C47, 2 parachute corps, 2 mechanized artillery units,
UK Forces: 6 flak units, 1 HQ, 2 mechanized corps, 1 amphibious corps, 2 artillery units,
10 Spitfire Mk 17, 2 Mosquito Night fighter units, 8 Lancaster heavy bombers, 4 Mosquito naval air, 1 C47, 1 parachute corps, 3 reserve pilots, 1 frogman
Canadians: 1 HQ, 3 mechanized corps, 1 armored corps, Mosquito bomber unit,
Other forces: 1 Belgian Commando Division,

Allied Forces in Spain
US Forces: 1 HQ, 8 US mechanized corps, 4 US artillery units, 2 A26, 2P47
Colombian forces: 3 Alpine corps, 2 mechanized corps, 1 HQ, 4 P47, 2 A26
Chile: 2 infantry corps,
Argentina: 1 mechanized corps
Spanish: 6 flak, 1 Alpine corps, 12 infantry corps, 1 HQ, 4 artillery units, 1 P47
Portuguese: 2 infantry corps, 1 P47
Mexico: 1 infantry corps
Morocco: 1 Alpine corps, 1 mechanized corps, 1 P47N
Algeria: 1 mechanized corps, 1 P47N

Allied Forces in Italy
US forces: 5 B35, 4 P51
Italian forces: 2 Alpine corps, 5 garrison units, 7 mechanized corps, 2 HQs, 2 armored corps, 10 flak units, 6 fighter units, 2 medium bomber units, 2 medium naval air units, 1 C47, 1 C54, 1 parachute corps, 1 commando division, 1 frogman

Allied Forces in Mideast
US Forces: 2 A26, 2 P47N, 1 HQ, 2 armored corps, 2 mechanized corps, 2 artillery units, 3 flak units, 2 54
UK Forces: 2 HQ, 2 armored corps, 6 mechanized corps, 2 Spitfire, 2 Mosquitos, 1 C54
Egyptians: 1 cavalry, 1motorized, 2 infantry corps,
Algerian: 1 cavalry corps
South Africa: 1 mechanized corps,

Allied Forces in Central Asia:
Indian forces: 6 mechanized corps (Afghanistan), 1 HQ, 1 P47, 2 Alpine corps (Tibetan border), 4 Infantry corps (southern Iran)

Allied Forces Southeast Asia
UK: 2 mechanized corps, 1 Spitfire, 2 Typhoon,
USAE forces: 6 infantry corps, 1 P47
US forces: 1 HQ

Allied Forces China:
1 x 5 point garrison unit each Chengtu, Lanchow, Foochow
3 x 5 point infantry corps,1 x 5 point garrison unit, 2 x 1 point flak unit 1 national airline, 1 pilot (last one in China)Chungking. 4 P47N
2 x 5 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unti, 1x 5 point garrison unit, 1 x 1 point flak unit Kunming, 2 P47N, 1 A26


Factories remaining + relocated factories
Kunming 5
Chungking 2 +2
Chengtu 3 + 2
Lanchow 2 +3
Sian 2 + 3

Allied Forces Pacific:
US Forces: 4 amphibious corps, 6 mechanized corps, 2 infantry corps, 1 HQ, 1 P47N, 2 A26, 1 alpine corps,
Australian Forces: 3 amphibious corps, 1 amphibious engineer, 3 infantry corps,

LTA forces Atlantic:
4 US, 1 Canadian PB4Y

Pacific Fleets
US 3rd Fleet (Hawaii)(Admirals Nimitz/ Spruance/Lee)
Fleet Carriers Hornet, Enterprise, Essex, Kitty Hawk, Intrepid, Bon Homme Richard, Lake Erie, Lake Champlain, Mobile Bay, Saratoga, Lexington Battleships New Jersey, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Washington, Alabama, Montana, Texas Indiana, Massachusetts, South Dakota Light cruisers Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Savannah, Nashville, Boise, anti aircraft cruisers San Diego, San Antonio, San Pedro, Duluth, Galveston, Los Angeles, Hampton, Biloxi, Wichita, Vincennes, Astoria, 16 light ships (160 destroyers), 5 service groups, 3 Bearcat, 4 Corsair, 2 Avenger, 2 Tigercat

US 5th Fleet (San Diego) (Admiral Kincaid/Turner)
Battleships Colorado, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, New Mexico, Mississippi, Idaho, Pennsylvania light cruisers Omaha, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Marblehead, Trenton, Detroit, Concord, Richmond, Memphis, Luzon, Mindanao, Paney, Cebu, Samar, Guam, 60 destroyer escorts, 40 corvettes, 7 transport units, 5 amphibious fleets

LTA 7th Fleet (Admiral Crutchley)(Singapore)
BC Renown, Brisbane, Heavy cruisers Wichita, Australia (RAN), Light cruisers Hobart Melbourne, Adalaide (RAN), Manchester, Hull, Edinburgh, (RN) 10 destroyers (RN), 12 destroyers (RAN), 60 submarines (USN), 20 submarines (RN), 10 submarines (RAN)

Mediterranean Fleets
US 6th Fleet (Gibraltar)(Admirals Halsey/Mitcher/)
Fleet Carriers, America, Oriskany Constellation, Constitution, Antiaircraft cruisers Atlanta, Juneau, San Pedro, San Juan, , 6 light ships (60 destroyers), 2 Corsairs, 2 Avengers

LTA Mediterranean Fleet (Alexandria) Admiral Cunningham RN,
Light Carriers Glorious, Argus, (RN)(1 Corsair)heavy cruisers Tuscaloosa, Indianapolis (USN), 4 light cruisers Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falmouth, Nottingham Chatham, Weymouth, Birkenhead, Birmingham Worcester, Bristol (RN), Pretoria, Natal, Capetown, Durban, Kimberly (RSAN), 10 destroyers (RSAN), 3 light ships (50 destroyers)(RN), 20 submarines (RN), 10 submarines (RSAN)

Italian fleet
4 battleships, 2 light carriers, 6 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, 60 destroyers, 40 submarines

Atlantic Fleets
US 2nd Fleet (New York)(Admiral Olendorf/ Hewitt)
CVL Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, 2 Avengers, Heavy cruisers Chester, Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Houston, Northhampton, 3 light ship units (45 destroyer escorts), 3 liner units, 5 transport units
4 Canadian light ships (10 destroyers, 120 corvettes), 1 US light ship unit (40 US Coast Guard corvettes)

British Atlantic Fleet (Liverpool)(Admiral Fraser)
Battleships Rodney, Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Valiant, Malaya, Heavy cruisers Hawkins, Raleigh, Frobisher, Effingham, Drake, 9 light ships (90 destroyers), 2 light ships (30 destroyer escorts, USN) 2 amphibious fleets, 10 liner units, 5 transports, 1 Belgian light ship (10 destroyers)

Colombian Atlantic Fleet
Fleet carriers Vincente Sewell, Dario Echandia, Francisco de Paula Santander, heavy cruisers Manuel Ancizar, Alberto Lleras Camargo, 20 destroyers, 2 Corsairs, 1 Avenger, 4 transports, 1 amphibious fleet

British Home Fleet (Scapa Flow)(Somerville)
Battleships Vanguard, Thunder, Lion, Temeraire, Conqueror, Hood, King George V, Duke of York, Prince of Wales, Anson, Howe, Carriers, Hermes, Eagle, Vindictive (3 Corsair, 3 carrier pilots), Heavy cruisers Centaur, Caledon, Ceres, Caroline, Cambrian, Light cruisers Dartmouth, Chester, Dublin, Abergaveny, Gloucester, Chichester, Liverpool, Belfast, Lowestoft, 5light ships (54 destroyers),

LTA Submarine Forces Europe (Harwich)
3 UK submarine units (30 submarines) 3 US submarine units (30 submarines)

January February 1940
The Pact continues massive missile attacks against England, launching 7000 V1s and 1500 V2s. The Buzzbombs run into a wall of flak and fighters (6 flak units plus 10 fighters), which account for nearly all, but still nearly 500 get through. Improved British civil defense measures, and evacautions, reduce casualties significantly, but still between the Ballistic missiles (for which there is no defense) and the buzzbombs, nearly 120,000 English civilians are casualties.

The LTA is forced to move forward the planned invasion of Europe by a year. Bad weather however prevents much in the way of LTA counter strikes, and also prevents support attacks by Union heavy bombers.

Patrol actions continue where the LTA and Pact forces are in contact, in China, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, Persia, Spain and Italy.

Only in the Pacific is the weather decent enough for operations, and the US Navy provides cover for the invasion of Iwo Jima, which falls in savage fighting (1 Japanese and 1 US corps destroyed). Another operation in the Caroline islands sees the reconquest of Truk by US forces (no signficant casualties).

March April 1940
The weather clears early in Northern Europe and China.

Political
Sweden sharply condemns the continued missile attacks on England and the Allied reprisal bombing raids at night. However it acknowledges that the Union acted first. Denmark is pressured to cutting imports to the Union but declines to do so for now, pointing out to its Scandinavian allies that it is defenseless should the Pact choose to move against it. Ethiopia joins the alliance against the Pact, and declares war. However, other than providing useful staging points for Allied transport aircraft, it has no other effect on the war. The Egyptians help the cities of Mecca, Medina and Jiddah create the Sultanate of Arabia under Hashemite rule. Kuwait, Qatar, and Palestine declare their independence and form sultanates (Kuwait, Qatar) or a republic (Palestine). Lebanon also forms a republic, while the Shiites living around Basra create their own republic. The Sunnis in Baghdad create the Republic of Iraq, while the Persians are under either Pact or Indian military rule for the moment. Shiite guerillas continue to operate against the Pact.

Pact Strategic
15 V1, 6 V2 units (500 missiles each) attack England, as do 10 heavy bombers (2500 bombers in night raids). RAF has 10 fighters (5000 fighters), plus flak. 2 Mosquitos (500 night fighters) vs 10 HE277, shooting down 1 HE277, aborting 2 others. Flak (11 points worth) over Liverpool shoots down 2 more HE277 and aborts another. German bombers hit English cities in terror raids, inflicting 120,000 civilian casualties and damaging 1 production point. Liverpool is disrupted, reducing English production by 5 points next turn. Meanwhile, Spitfires and flak deal with V1s, shooting down all of them, but again the V2s get through, this time smashing into Portsmith (1 production point lost) and creating 180,000 civilian casualties in England.

In the Atlantic, the Union and French sink 3 Allied (1 Colombian, 1 Argentine, and 1 US shipping unit) but their submarine fleet is effectively destroyed, as 90 Union and 40 French submarines are sunk. US light and escort carriers also inflict severe losses on Pact long range bombers, shooting down 1 Union and 1 French long range bomber, and aborting all of the rest. 1 French pilot is lost, as is 1 Union pilot.

Over Vietnam, the Japanese send their heavy bombers at night to punish the USAE, hitting Hanoi, and inflicting 90,000 Vietnamese civilian casualties.

LTA Strategic
British bombers launch night raids at the Ruhr (8 Lancasters) while the USAAF launches daytime raids at the same targets (5 B29, 6 P51). In addition, American Flying Wings out of Egypt attack Ploesti (5 B35). The Pact has 2 night fighters to deal with the British, 3 FW190 to fight the Americans over the Ruhr but only 2 FW190s to fight the Americans over Ploesti. The British suffer heavy losses in night raids, losing 2 Lancaster units shot down (2 pilots lost), and 2 more aborted, but do manage to shoot down 1 night fighter. Flak is also heavy, shooting down 1 Lancaster and aborting another, but 1 gets through doing little damage but inflicting 30,000 German civilian casualties. During the daytime, the Americans do better, shooting down 2 FW190 units at the cost of 1 of P51 unit (1 US and 1 Pact pilot lost), and the B29s, flying much higher than the B17s had, present formidable problems for flak, which is 50% less effective against them. Only 1 is aborted, and 4 get through, damaging 3 production centers, and inflicting 120,000 civilian casualties as well. Over Ploesti, the Pact finds that the Flying Wings fly just as high, and are formidable to attack and the heavy US escort shoots down both enemy fighter units while suffering no signficiant losses. Flak is ineffective here, and 2 oil production centers (worth 40 oil maintenance points) are damaged.

In the Pacific, LTA submarines continue their attacks on Japanese shipping, sinking 5 shipping units, at the cost of 20 US and 10 RN submarines. In addition, 10 Russian destroyers are also sunk.

China
The Japanese and Manchurians make a last desperate attempt to knock China out of the war. The Japanese attempt to fight their way through the mountains, using banzai tactics east of Chung King, but are repulsed, losing 2 infantry corps while the Chinese suffer no significant losses. The Manchurians and Mongolians try for Lanchow however, and take the city after desperate fighting destroys the Chinese defenders but also 1 Mongolian cavalry corps. On the coast, the Japanese take Foochow, destroying the last Nationalist toe hold on the coast.

The Allies (2 British mechanized, 4 Vietnamese infantry) launch an offensive of their own however from Vietnam, and destroy the Japanese troops defending Nanning and Kwieyang (2 Japanese corps, 1 Fighter unit shot down) with the help of heavy air support (6 Chinese P47s, 1 USAE P47, 1 Chinese A26, 2 RAF Typhoon, 1 RAF Spitfire). Once again land communications are restored to China. For the first time, the prospect of liberating Hong Kong and Canton is available as well. The Japanese are forced to fall back to Canton, ending once and for all the Japanese effort to conquer China.

Pacific
Meanwhile, the Allies launch a major assault on the Japanese perimeter aimed at both Okinawa and Taiwan. The Pact Combined fleet steams out to fight a battle to decide the fate of Japan. The Pact has 9 battleships, 8 carriers, 17 cruisers and 90 destroyers, plus is supported by 120 submarines. However, the US 3rd Fleet alone has 11 carriers, 11 battleships, 16 cruisers, and 160 destroyers, and is supported by 50 submarines as well. The Japanese also hope to commit 2500 land based bombers and 1000 fighters to the battle, aiming to get at the amphibious forces escorted by the US 5th Fleet (8 battleships, 15 destroyers, 60 destroyer escorts, and 2.5 million tons of amphibious shipping, plus another 2 million tons of transports and 2.5 million tons of logestics shipping). The Americans also have 1000 bombers and 500 fighters in the Philippines who can attack Japanese airfields in Formosa. The battle of Okinawa is the biggest battle in naval history, dwarfing anything else before.

American bombers out of the Philippines hit first, hammering Japanese airfields in Formosa and shooting down 500 Japanese fighters (destroying a pilot unit as well), and destroying dozens of Japanese planes on the ground and preventing 10000 Japanese bombers based there from joining the battle.

The Combined Fleet launches every plane it can into the air, and its remaining landbased aircraft, and now the oil shortage and its effects on Japanese pilot training show their effect. 300 Japanese carrier aircraft, and 500 Japanese land based bombers are shot down by American fighters, while another 500 Japanese landbased bombers and 200 Japanese and Russian carrier planes are shot down by American flak. Only a few dozen planes get through (mostly Russian), and they sink the American carriers Lexington and Saratoga (much to the heartbreak of many an American pre war carrier sailor). American counterstrikes are met by a mere 100 Russian fighters but a wall of flak as well. The Russians are shot out of the sky, but Pact flak shoots down 200 American aircraft. However, American torpedo and fighter bombers sink both Russian carriers in exchange.

Undaunted, and desperate, Admiral Mikawa orders Admiral Ozawa to keep his carriers to the north in hopes of drawing off American bombers, and continues on with his and the Russian battleships. It works, and American bombers hit the Japanese carriers, this time far less well defended by flak, and sink 4 of them. However, Spruance is forced to order Admiral Lee to take the battle line north to intercept the combined Japanese and Russian fleet. 11 US battleships, 15 old light cruisers (drawn from the 5th fleet), and 100 destroyers intercept the enemy fleet of 9 battleships, 9 heavy cruisers and 50 destroyers.

The better fire control of the American battleships and their better armor and damage control work tells the tale. 3 of the Japanese battleships are obsolescent, 2 more are obsolete, and the American ships are faster and although shooting a lighter shell then the 18 inch guns of the 2 Russian super battleships, have the same range. Only the Japanese battleship Yamashiro survives unscathed and the Mikasa limps away heavily damaged. But 2 Russian and 5 Japanese battleships are sunk, as are 21 destroyers and the heavy cruiser Myoko. Another 12 destroyers and 2 heavy cruisers are damaged as well. The surviving fleet turns back, under heavy air attack which claims both remaining Japanese carriers and the Mikasa.

American losses are heavy as well, with the battleship South Dakota, 4 light cruisers and 3 destroyers going down, and 6 battleships, 3 cruisers and 12 destroyers damaged and out of action. Japanese and Russian submarine attacks are heavy, sinking the carriers Hornet and Bon Homme Richard, and damaging the Tennessee and sinking the Mississippi. However, the cost is 30 Japanese and 30 Russian submarines, proving again that submarines facing fleets are at a serious disadvantage. American submarines are less successful, failing to sink any enemy ships but sending another 10 Japanese destroyers to the repair yards.

The Australians land at Okinawa with 3 amphibious corps, and in fierce fighting, destroy the Japanese corps defending that island, while the Americans land 2 amphibious and 1 mechanized corps at Taiwan, taking Tainan (and destroying a Japanese infantry) before battling their way across the island and securing Taihoku at the end of April. The Americans and Australians discover that the Japanese will not surrender, and vicious fighting, some of the most savage so far in the war, results. However, the superior firepower of the Allied units, and the heavy naval gunfire support, is enough to eventually win the day.

Europe
The muddy weather in Spain and Italy prevents any offensives, as does the mud in Turkey. Both sides continue patrol actions.

OOC:

I'm a little lost here.

Were the 2 Russian Superbattleships sunk in the fight between the Pact and USA in the Pacific? Or did they limp away with the remants of the I.J.N.?

It wasn't clear because you said... "Only the Japanese battleship Yamashiro survives unscathed and the Mikasa limps away heavily damaged."

Does this mean that everything else is sunk (the ones you stated) or seriously damaged?

OOC:

I'm a little lost here.

Were the 2 Russian Superbattleships sunk in the fight between the Pact and USA in the Pacific? Or did they limp away with the remants of the I.J.N.?

It wasn't clear because you said... "Only the Japanese battleship Yamashiro survives unscathed and the Mikasa limps away heavily damaged."

Does this mean that everything else is sunk (the ones you stated) or seriously damaged?

yep, both Russians are sunk... by the battleships Montana, Texas, New Jersey and Iowa... all four US battleships were heavily damaged in the fight. The Yamato survives, because at the time it was under repair. It will die gloriously when the LTA invades Japan.

May June 1940
Weather is clear everywhere
Political
Rumors of mass deportation of Belgians and the execution of 100,000 Belgian soldiers after they had surrender trickle out of Europe (after Liberation this would be confirmed. OOC deportation was an actual order received from Union to me, execution fits with this considering how bitter the fighting was in Belgium). The MEU begins to disintegrate further as rioting breaks out in the largely ethnic Greek portions of Turkey adjacent to the Aegean Sea. The guerilla war in Kurdistan grows in intensity, but is easily contained by Pact forces in northern Iraq and Iran, but less so in eastern Turkey. Rumors of atrocities in that area also trickle out. An attempt by moderate elements to bring an end of the war results in a number of arrests and murders. The die-hard elements of the government order the use of chemical weapons on Vietnamese and Chinese cities, mainly for revenge.
Special attack units (Kamikazes) are formed in Japan as well. By scrapping together everything they can, and some Union arms, the Japanese mobilize the nation to fight the expected invasion.

Strategic Warfare
The Pact continues their missile attacks against England, and now 2 RAF jet fighter units and 3 Spitfire units, along with flak, shoots down nearly all of the V1s. However, more V2 missiles fall on England, concentrating London again, but failing to knock out any production. However, 180,000 British civilians are killed or injured by the attacks.

Concerned about the threat of Italy, and enraged that the Italians have violated their agreement to remain neutral, the Pact government orders its bombers to attack Rome. The Italians have no night fighters available, but flak is heavy, aborting one of the bombers, but 180,000 Italian civilians are killed or wounded. Rome also is knocked out for production purposes for 2 months. Damage is also suffered in the Vatican, and among the dead is the Pope and the Italian President.

The Japanese attack Chungking, Kunming and Hanoi, and use nerve gas bombs along with high explosives. Over 200,000 Chinese and 100,000 Vietnamese civilians are killed, and a similar number are wounded in the attacks.

Meanwhile, the American Flying Wings hit Belgrade, to pointedly remind the Yugoslavs that the price of membership in the Pact is blood. Belgrade is poorly defended, and escorting US fighters destroy the Yugoslav fighter unit, while Belgrade is severely damaged, with 5 production centers wrecked, and Yuguslavia suffers 50,000 civilian casualties as well.

However, the expected bombing raids over Germany or France don’t come. The reason becomes apparent soon.

The Union Navy and French Navy give up on the Atlantic for now, as the Union Navy has to rebuild its U-Boat force with the new snorkel equipped boats expected next year, and crew losses have become unbearable if a cadre is to remain available.
Mideast
The Americans under Patton move to the ports, for deployment elsewhere, while the British fall back, unwilling to expend the blood needed to fight their way through the mountains into Turkey. Seizing his chance, the Union commander, Timoshenko orders an major offensive aimed at regaining Mosul and Kirkuk, as well as the Persian Gulf oil fields. In Iraq, the Pact forces easily overrun both oil centers, while they bog down fighting the Indians in Persia. Heavy fighting costs the Pact 3 infantry corps, while the Indians lose 1 infantry corps, but the Union retakes Bandar Shapar and Basra, but then Patton is ordered to cancel the move to Europe and US and British and South African forces launch a massive counteroffensive, hoping to destroy the Pact forces now that they are in the open. A massive series of armored battles erupts in Iraq, but when its over, the Czechs, Rumanians and Hungarians have been destroyed. (4 Rumanian, 3 Czech and 2 Hungarian mechanized corps wrecked). Allied air superiority and support is decisive, as it the greater firepower of the Allied armored and mechanized corps. The South Africans retake Basra, while the Americans take Kirkuk and the British Mosul. Timoshenko is ordered to Moscow, and summarily shot.

Afghanistan
The Indians attack and take Kabual, securing Afghanistan. The Union however has 6 infantry corps in Central Asia, and moves them to the border to forestall an Indian offensive further north.

China
Aware that an invasion of Japan is coming, the Vietnamese and British move up on Canton to keep the Japanese fixed in place. Meanwhile, the Chinese finally have the breathing space they need to strengthen the defensives of Chengtu. Aware the Japan may be doomed, the Union shifts forces from Russia to Siberia, while the Manchurians pull back north of the Yellow River, abandoning everything south of it. However, Mao, and a large guerilla force, own the area between the Manchurians and Nationalists. Communist militias form in Shanghai, Nanking, Sian, Tsingtao, Tsinan, Wuhan, and Chengchow (1 militia each). These militia units are poorly armed, but ensure Communist political control of these areas.

France
(see below)

Japan
(see below)

Invasion of Japan
US 3rd Fleet (Admirals Nimitz/ Spruance/Lee)
Fleet Carriers Enterprise, Essex, Kitty Hawk, Intrepid, Lake Erie, Lake Champlain, Mobile Bay, Battleships North Carolina, Washington, Alabama, Massachusetts, Light cruisers Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Savannah, Nashville, Boise, anti aircraft cruisers San Diego, San Antonio, San Pedro, Duluth, Galveston, Los Angeles, Hampton, Biloxi, Wichita, Vincennes, Astoria, 16 light ships (148 destroyers), 5 service groups, 2 Bearcat, 2 Corsair, 2 Avenger, 1 Tigercat

US 5th Fleet (Admiral Kincaid/Turner)
Battleships Colorado, Maryland, West Virginia, New Mexico, Mississippi, Idaho, Pennsylvania light cruisers Concord, Richmond, Memphis, Luzon, Mindanao, Paney, Cebu, Samar, Guam, 60 destroyer escorts, 40 corvettes, 7 transport units, 6 amphibious fleets, landing forces – 3 Anzac amphibious corps, 3 US amphibious corps, 1 Anzac amphibious engineer, 1 US HQ, 2 US infantry corps,

LTA 7th Fleet (Admiral Crutchley)
BC Renown, Brisbane, Heavy cruisers Wichita, Australia (RAN), Light cruisers Hobart Melbourne, Adalaide (RAN), Manchester, Hull, Edinburgh, (RN) 10 destroyers (RN), 12 destroyers (RAN), 60 submarines (USN), 20 submarines (RN), 10 submarines (RAN)

Japanese fleet
superbattleships Yamato Battleships: Yamashiro, heavy cruisers Nachi (damaged), Furutaka(damaged), Kako(damaged) Kinguasa, Haguro, Ashigara, Kitsugari, Aoba,
8 anti aircraft cruisers, 69 destroyers (12 damaged)

Pact forces in Japan
Japanese Home Army: 2 alpine corps, 2 infantry corps, 10 flak units, 10 militia units
Air Forces: 2 Francis Naval air, 1 fighter, 2 Emily flying boats, 2 Kamikaze carrier dive bombers,

Deployment: 1 Alpine corps (Nagasaki), 1 Alpine corps (Tokushima), 1x 9 point infantry, 1x3 point militia, 1 x 3 point flak unit (Fukokou), 1 x 9 point infantry corps, 2 x 3 point flak units, 2 x 3 point militia (Tokyo), 2 x 3 point flak, 2 x 3 point flak units each Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya, 1 x 3 point militia, 1 x 3 point flak unit (Sapporo)


The Allies move off the coast of Japan, with a huge fleet (even bigger then the one that is assaulting France at the same time). Meanwhile, the LTA 7th Fleet moves through the Tsushima Straits and enters the Sea of Japan, cutting off Japan from support from the Union and Manchuria, and along with Allied submarines sinking 6 Japanese and 2 Manchurian shipping units, along with 20 Russian destroyers. The Allies lose no ships in exchange, due to immense firepower superiority.

Meanwhile, the Japanese commit every remaining warship and aircraft in a desperate attempt to disrupt the invasion, which is already landing troops near Nagoya and Tokyo.

American fighters face a wave of 1200 Kamikazes escorted by 500 fighters, and desperate air battles erupt off the coast of Japan, shooting down all 500 Japanese fighters and 200 Kamikazes at the cost of 200 carrier fighters (1 US and 3 Japanese pilots lost). American antiaircraft shoots down 500 more, but Kamikazes sink 1 million tons of amphibious shipping (shattering 1 US and 1 Australian amphibious corps, and 2 US infantry corps, which turn up in US and Australian cities next turn as infantry units). Meanwhile, the Japanese fleet attempts to exit the Inland Sea and is attacked by US Navy torpedo and fighter bombers. Japanese antiaircraft shoots down 100 American aircraft, but the surviving 200 Navy planes concentrate on the Japanese battleships, sinking both the Yamato and Yamashiro. The battleline of the US 3rd Fleet, once again under Admiral Lee, is waiting as the Japanese ships reach the entrance of the Inland Sea, and sink all of the Japanese heavy cruisers and 29 destroyers, at the cost of light cruisers Concord, Memphis, Luzon and Guam and 18 destroyers. Out of torpedoes, the surviving Japanese 5 antiaircraft cruisers and 40 destroyers continue the attack anyway, and blasted apart by Lees ships, but still manage to take out 7 more US destroyers before the last Japanese ship goes down. Japanese submarines launch similarly desperate attacks, sinking 4 American destroyer escorts but failing to penetrate the dense screen surrounding the American fleet. Every one is sunk or damaged to the point where it is forced to return to base (only 6 make it home out of the Japanese fleet).

Although losses have been painful, the invasion continues. The Australians assault Nagoya with 2 x 10 point amphibious corps and 1 amphibious engineer unit (which negates the Japanese bonus for defending a factory city). The Japanese have 12 points of defense versus 20 ground and 20 naval gunfire support plus 8 points of carrier air support, giving them a 3:1. Chemical weapons double the Australian attack strength, making it a 5:1 The Australians get ashore, destroying 2 Japanese corps (both flak) and shattering both militia (which show up next turn elsewhere). Meanwhile, the Americans land with the same firepower at Tokyo, defended by 15 points (doubled to 30) for a 2:1. The Japanese are disrupted however by airstrikes from US carrier planes (which don’t provide air support for the landing, but would not have helped in any case). The Americans get ashore, losing 1 amphibious corps in the assault, but destroy 1 Japanese unit (1 flak) and shatter the other 3, and also take Tokyo.

The Japanese attempt to counterattack the Australians at Nagoya, using Banzai tactics to get a 1:1+1 attack. They roll average however (they needed a 10), and destroy 1 Australian amphibious corps but 3 militia, 1 Alpine and 2 flak units are destroyed in the attack. The Americans then land their HQ, and transports bring 1 US alpine and 6 US mechanized corps ashore, while overrunning Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Osaka.

Finally, Hirohito has what he needs. The Navy is completely destroyed, the Allies are ashore, and the Army has failed, and is down to a few shattered units in Honshu, and a couple of corps in Kyushu and Hokkaido. He has managed to escape to Niigata, and most of the real fanatics died in battle. He gets a surrender approved.

On June 29, the Japanese ask for a cease fire and accept the LTA demand for unconditional surrender.

France 1940
Pact deployment
Western TVD
Atlantic Wall – 12 garrison, 6 motorized infantry, 18 coast defense, 18 flak, (all French)
Italian border – 3 Alpine corps, 1 mechanized corps (all French)
Spanish border – French 4 mechanized corps, French 2 mechanized at units, French 1 HQ, 8 SU Inf corps, 1 SU HQ,
French infantry in Marsailles, Toulon, Paris
Belgian/Dutch coast – 3 SU infantry corps, 2 SU flak, 1 SU coast defense, 3 fortifications, 1 HQ
German coast – 4 garrison units, 5 coast defense units, 2 flak units (Hamburg, Kiel), 1 infantry corps, 1 HQ
Panzer Army South (France) – 4 armored corps, 2 motorized infantry corps, 1 HQ, 3 field artillery,
Panzer Army North (Holland) – 4 armored corps, 3 motorized infantry corps, 1 HQ, 3 field artillery,
Air Forces – 4 SU ME262, 2 TA152, 2 SU IL10, 3 French IL10, 5 JU188
Atlantic Striking force – 1 SU HE177, 3 French SU HE177,

Available from Baltic
3 superbattleships (Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Ferdinand Lasalle 2 battleships (Cádiz, Venezia 3 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 48 destroyers (5 light ships),

Available from Med
1 superbattleship (Petr Alekseyevich Kropotkin), 1 French Carrier (Ville de Paris), 1 fleet carrier (Sozialismus), 1 carrier aircraft, 1 pilot, 2 CA, 30 destroyers, 1 Rum CA, 1 Rum CL, 10 Rum destroyers, 2 French CA, 5 French CL, 3 French CLAA, 20 French Destroyers, 10 French submarines,

Allied Forces
LTA Mediterranean Fleet (Alexandria) Admiral Cunningham RN,
Light Carriers Glorious, Argus, (RN)(1 Corsair)heavy cruisers Tuscaloosa, Indianapolis (USN), 4 light cruisers Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falmouth, Nottingham Chatham, Weymouth, Birkenhead, Birmingham Worcester, Bristol (RN), Pretoria, Natal, Capetown, Durban, Kimberly (RSAN), 10 destroyers (RSAN), 3 light ships (50 destroyers)(RN), 20 submarines (RN), 10 submarines (RSAN)

Italian fleet
4 battleships, 2 light carriers, 6 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, 60 destroyers, 40 submarines

Covering Force: British Home Fleet (Scapa Flow)(Somerville)
Battleships Vanguard, Thunder, Lion, Temeraire, Conqueror, Hood, King George V, Duke of York, Prince of Wales, Anson, Howe, Carriers, Hermes, Eagle, Vindictive (3 Corsair, 3 carrier pilots), Heavy cruisers Centaur, Caledon, Ceres, Caroline, Cambrian, Light cruisers Dartmouth, Chester, Dublin, Abergaveny, Gloucester, Chichester, Liverpool, Belfast, Lowestoft, 5light ships (54 destroyers),

Support force: Colombian Atlantic Fleet
Fleet carriers Vincente Sewell, Dario Echandia, Francisco de Paula Santander, heavy cruisers Manuel Ancizar, Alberto Lleras Camargo, 20 destroyers, 2 Corsairs, 1 Avenger,

Invasion Fleet
Battleships Rodney, Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Valiant, Malaya, Heavy cruisers Hawkins, Raleigh, Frobisher, Effingham, Drake, 9 light ships (90 destroyers), 2 light ships (30 destroyer escorts, USN) 2 amphibious fleets, 1 Colombian amphibious fleet, 4 Colombian transports , 4 US transports, 5 UK transport plus US 2nd Fleet with CVL Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, 2 Avengers, Heavy cruisers Chester, Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Houston, Northhampton carrying 1 US, 1 UK amphibious corps, 1 Belgian commando division,1 UK commando division, 1 US HQ, 1 Canadian HQ, 4 US mechanized corps, 2US mechanized artillery units, 3 Canadian mechanized corps, 1 Canadian armored corps, 1 US amphibious engineer, 1 UK mechanized corps

Airborne forces:
2 US airborne corps, 1 UK airborne corps, 3 C47 units

Air Forces
5 P80 jet fighter, 5 P51, 5 B29, 6 A26, 4 C47, 1 P47N, 5 Lancaster heavy bombers, 4 Mosquito naval air, 3 Meteor Jet fighter

Allied Forces in Spain
US Forces: 1 HQ, 8 US mechanized corps, 4 US artillery units, 2 A26, 2P47
Colombian forces: 3 Alpine corps, 2 mechanized corps, 1 HQ, 4 P47, 2 A26
Chile: 2 infantry corps,
Argentina: 1 mechanized corps
Spanish: 6 flak, 1 Alpine corps, 12 infantry corps, 1 HQ, 4 artillery units, 1 P47
Portuguese: 2 infantry corps, 1 P47
Mexico: 1 infantry corps
Morocco: 1 Alpine corps, 1 mechanized corps, 1 P47N
Algeria: 1 mechanized corps, 1 P47N

The Allies launch a combined invasion from both Spain and the North Sea, attacking Union forces on the Spanish border and conducting a massive invasion. The invasion begins with a massive attack by US and British jet fighters and American and British medium bombers against Pact air forces throughout France, forcing them to come up to fight. The Allies shoot down 1 ME262, 1 TA152, but more importantly, prevent Pact and French fighters from providing support to their forces or interfering with the invasion. Just as importantly, the French and Belgian airfields are heavily hammered, knocking most of the Pact and French bombers out of the fight. Although it uses up 8 Allied jet fighters and 8 A26s, it is the important opening.

Next British Lancasters hammer Pact troops stationed at Antwerp and Rotterdam, disrupting the defending units. Meanwhile American B29s hit Panzer Army South and North, disrupting the HQs, and 6 of 8 armored corps, and 3 of 5 mechanized corps. The next stage is the air and sea invasion. Both American and the British airborne corps land on Amsterdam. The amphibious attack consists of 1 US amphibious corps, 1 US mechanized corps, and 1 Belgian commando division at Antwerp, and 1 UK amphibious corps, 1 Canadian mechanized corps, and 1 UK commando division at Rotterdam. The airborne troops negate the defensive advantage the Union gets for defending in an industrial city (Rotterdam) , as well as adding their attack strengths to the attack. The American/Belgian attack consists of 20 ground points, plus 20 naval bombardment points (40 total) against 10 Union points (Antwerp is not a factory city or capital, so defenders not doubled). At 5:1, the no chance of preventing the invasion and indeed the Allied roll is high enough to avoid any losses. Antwerp and the Schledt estuary fall, and the Union infantry and flak unit is destroyed. The British attack at Rotterdam has similar odds, and is even more successful. No Allied units are disrupted during the attack. At Amsterdam, the airborne assault negates the advantage the Union has for defending a capital city, and the Allies have 12 points plus air support (6 points for a P47N, plus 6 points of carrier air, plus 12 points of naval gunfire support) for 36 points versus 12 German points. At 3:1, the Allies take the city, losing 1 American airborne corps in the process but destroying 1 Union infantry corps and 1 flak unit.

The Union counterattacks with what troops it has available, 2 armored corps from Cologne, and 4 infantry corps from the Dutch and German coasts. They concentrate their 52 points against the 20 British and Canadian points at Rotterdam, getting a 2:1. The British hold, losing an amphibious corps and destroying a Union infantry corps (and the Union forces are all disorganized).

The Allies have a firm hold of the Dutch and Belgian coasts, and now work to widen the lodgement. Both Brussels and Lille are empty of Pact troops, and the Americans make another landing at Calais. The amphibious engineer unit negates the French fortification, while 26 points of American mechanized infantry and artillery (now in Lille) attack from behind, while the Amphibious engineer (no combat value) and 1 American mechanized corps attacks from the sea (10 more points). The French have 6 points of defense and are overwhelmed and destroyed. Calais is now a major port for game purposes for 1 year. Meanwhile, the Canadians drive inland and take Brussels and along with American amphibious troops and the Belgian and British commandos, attack the Union armored forces in the hex southeast of Rotterdam. The Allies have 72 points versus 24 Union points, and use the mobile assault table to destroy 1 Union armored corps and shatter the other (which shows up next turn in a Union city). The French give up trying to hold the coast, and shift 6 motorized infantry units that were between Rouen and St. Malo, plus infantry and anti tank and flak units, to establish a line between Paris and the Allies.
The Allies are content to take Boulogne and Liege, having secured a solid lodgement. Additional forces, the rest of the British Army in England, arrive in Belgium and Holland, providing the needed offensive strength to continue the offensive next turn. Meanwhile, the remaining undisorganized Union HQ reorganizes the 2 German mechanized corps and 2 armored corps that remain, and they hurriedly reinforce the Union line to prevent an immediate breakout by the Allies.

(this takes place over 4 phases, and takes up all of May and June)/

Meanwhile, the Allied forces in Spain launch a massive attack against the French forces on the Spanish border, concentrating the bulk of the power on the southeast of Toulouse, where the French have 2 x 10 point mechanized corps, 1 x 4 point antitank unit holding the clear terrain between the mountains and the coast, and the Union has 2 x 6 point infantry corps holding the mountains. The Americans spearhead the attack with 4 x 10 point mechanized corps, and 2 x 6 point artillery units, supported by 2 US P47 (12 points), while 2 Colombian A26 units hammer the French (disorganizing all three units). The Americans have 64 points versus 28 (as the anti tank unit is doubled against Mechanized troops). The Americans have a 2:1+1, and roll well enough to destroy 1 French unit (the AT gun dies). The US HQ reorganizes the American units involved, and the Americans attack again on the next phase, this time with 52 points (plus 12 more for 1 Spanish and 1 Moroccan P47) against 20 French points, for a 3:1+1. This time the Americans roll better, destroying both French corps, and are not disorganized in return, allowing them to take the hex and open the way into France. The Union has only 2 mechanized corps undisrupted in reserve from the Southern Panzer Army, and they, along with 2 French mechanized corps pulled off the line launch a counterattack. The odds are 2:1, and the French/Union roll well enough for both sides to lose a unit (1 French mechanized corps, 1 US mechanized corps). However the Pact forces are disorganized. On the next phase, the US moves 1 mechanized corps up (to replace the dead one) and 3 Colombian, and 1 Moroccan Alpine corps, plus the US mechanized, attack the Union infantry in the mountains southeast of Toulouse. The Colombian P47s hit the Soviets, disrupting both corps, and the Allies have 48 points versus 12 (become 24) Union defense, for a 2:1+1. The Allies roll well enough to destroy 2 Soviet infantry corps at the cost of 1 US mechanized corps. The Colombian HQ reorganizes the 3 Colombian and 1 Moroccan corps. On the next phase, the Colombians, Moroccans and 2 Spanish (1 Alpine, 1 infantry) plus 1 Spanish artillery attack the Pact troops hold Toulouse (42 defending points versus 42 attacking points. The Allies roll well enough to kill 1 Soviet infantry at the cost of 1 Spanish infantry (and all Allied units are disrupted).

At the end of June, the Pact still holds a line, and has shifted garrison (which are now 1 point weaker infantry corps) and flak units from the coast to shift them south to reinforce the defense line in southern France. The Battle of France continues.

The Pact decides not to commit their fleet in the Baltic or the Med, as they want the threat of attack to tie down Allied naval forces that otherwise would be providing fire support (in the Med) and to keep the Swedes honest (in the Baltic).

July August 1940
Political
Japanese leaders sign the instrument of unconditional surrender aboard the USS Enterprise, the only US carrier that began the war in the Pacific that still survives. Douglas MacArthur, senior US Army in the Pacific (and in the Army for that matter) is appointed Military governor of Japan. The surviving Japanese forces in China surrender, along with a few scattered garrisons on outlying islands.

Meanwhile, Sweden harshly condemns the Union bombing of Rome and the death of the Pople. Norway and Sweden recall their ambassadors, and Denmark final gives in to pressure and halts trade with the Union, as do Norway and Sweden. Serious rumbliings also occur in Poland, southern Germany, and Austria (all heavily Catholic). In Latin America, the people are outraged, and volunteers flock to enlist to fight the Godless Communists. In Argentina, particularly devout members of the government demand that Argentina send more troops to fight the Communists.

FDR runs for a 4rth Term, well aware he is unlikely to finish it, but determined to see victory if fate is kind.

In South America, Chile, Argentina, and Peru agree to share a common currency. Uruguay follows suit (as it is under Argentine control). In Brazil, the death of the Pope leads to a revolution of sorts at the Polls, and the Socialist lose in National Elections.

In Bulgaria, as reports of the heavy damage suffered by Belgrade and Ploesti come in, the Bulgarian people decide that neutrality should continue.

ooc
more combat results for the remainder of 1940 tomorrow, as well as a start on 1941. Its rather complicated to keep track of all this, and oddly enough, my family insisted on my attention this weekend .. go figure.

China completely and utterly condemns the Pact's slaying of the Pope. Prime Minister Song Jiaoren had this to say.

"Even though the Chinese are not Catholic people, we still find it appalling that the Communists would sink as low as to kill a religious figure or icon. It would be as if the Communists killed every Buddhist, Hindu, Daoist or Taoist monk within China. Or similiar to if the Communists killed the Dalai Lama.

Attacking religious or civilian people, their icons and leaders, and their ways of life cannot and will not be tolerated. China sends its sympathies to the grieving Catholic populace of the world. We must defeat the Pact, lest it do the same a million times over to other religious peoples and groups, or innocent civilians!"

Outrage in Gran Colombia over the murder of the Pope only serves to push Colombian enlistment and zeal over the edge. Troops are told to fight in the name of the Pope, become his martyrs and achieve revenge in the name of God against the Communist Heretics.

The recent election in Brazil has brought about an end to Gran Colombia waiting with baited breath for the Brazilians to claim alliegence with the Pact.

As Koreans celebrate the fall of the "militaristic short bastards" in Japan (OOC: A real Korean insult to Japanese was just used), the Rhee Government notes the bombing of Rome and the death of the Pope.

In response, Korean Catholics howl in protest, and the Rhee Government issues a statement condemning the attack, saying, "Though we are merely observers in this bloody play, we feel that this recently witnessed scene is utterly, unbearably intolerable. A large segment of my people are Christians, and though there are many Protestants such as I, we are united in disgust."

Concerned about the threat of Italy, and enraged that the Italians have violated their agreement to remain neutral, the Pact government orders its bombers to attack Rome. The Italians have no night fighters available, but flak is heavy, aborting one of the bombers, but 180,000 Italian civilians are killed or wounded. Rome also is knocked out for production purposes for 2 months. Damage is also suffered in the Vatican, and among the dead is the Pope and the Italian President.

ooc: I really don't think this is really that realistic, the pact really had no plans to attack italy and wouldn' risk bringing in Italy earlier than neccessary....I don't know, whatever.

Oh but my real reason for posting is, can you please but someone else in charge of Japan's occupation? Maybe someone more harsh.

ooc: I really don't think this is really that realistic, the pact really had no plans to attack italy and wouldn' risk bringing in Italy earlier than neccessary....I don't know, whatever.

Oh but my real reason for posting is, can you please but someone else in charge of Japan's occupation? Maybe someone more harsh.

ooc
Italy is based on the many "we will make them pay" statements the Pact players made last war, and Germany made the war before that, so it fits the general Pact dislike of Italy in general. Notice the Pact did decide not to try the Italian Alps this time though.

MacArthur was picked because he is the logical choice. I suppose we can have Communist sympathizer kill him at some point, or he could run for President and get replaced by someone else. However, the US doesn't really hate Japan like historically it did. No Bataan Death March, no Pearl Harbor... now the Chinese hate the Japanese, and the Vietnamese do to. But the US isn't going to let them be in charge of Japanese occupation. Definitely there will be a lot more accountability for war crimes though. Every officer in the chain of command involving the use of chemical weapons on civilian targets will be handed over to the Vietnamese and Chinese to deal justice to.

Japan actually suffered a lot less damage than it did historically. It cities weren't firebombed, no nuclear attack, no mining operation, and the ground fighting was severe, but relatively quick. Although Tokyo, Yokohoma, and Nagoya are wrecked and the US and Australians did use chemical weapons against troops (which naturally killed a hell of a lot of civilians too... figure about a million dead civilians for Japan). But the damage was localized to those areas.

There will be reparations though.... and that Japanese constitution that they have historically limiting defense spending to 1% of GDP and no military role in the government. The US and Australians don't want to have to deal with Japan again if they can help it. Plus a 10 year occupation (although it probably won't last that long).

Of course, the occupation will be over by the time play resumes.....

July August 1940 Political Events (Part 2)
In late July the MEU government collapses when the Allies reach Ankara and Greece declares war on the MEU and invades Turkish Thrace and sends troops to the heavily Greek coast of Smyrna.

Bulgaria again emphasizes its neutrality (and hopes that the LTA doesn't decide to use Bulgaria as a road to Ploesti). Noticing that a neutral country is a useful barrier, the Pact honors that neutrality. The Union government also officially apologizes to the Vatican and world Catholics for the accidental death of the Pope.

In France, the government unravels when the Allies reach Paris, and the hardcore Communist elements mostly die in the fighting, while the rest retreats to Vichy and then Nantes. However, a growing number of French are dispirited by the catastrophic battlefield situation and the government falls apart as parts once to surrender and the other part wants to fight on.

The Belgian and Dutch government in exile return to their capitals.

July August 1940
China
The Manchurians pull back to the north side of the Yellow River, Japanese forces surrender, and Mao and his guerillas take over a number of cities abandoned by the Japanese and Manchurians. Vietnamese and British forces occupy Canton, Hong Kong, Foochow, Changsha and Hainan, disarming the Japanese troops there (and capturing enough weapons and equipment to allow the Chinese to create 6 infantry corps in September). They also capture sufficient aircraft for China to put together 2 heavy bomber units. Chinese forces advancing out of the Chung King area take Sian and Wuhan away from the Communists and additional troops from Kunming reach Chengtu, allowing the Nationalists to establish a firm line in that area.

Central Asia
The Union and Indians lack the strength to drive either side out of their rugged positions and so are content to rage patrol actions. Kashgaria remains neutral in the war, hoping to retain its independence.

Middle East
Oman occupies the Trucial States (UAE in modern day) and Riyadh and sets up the Saudi family as Sultan of that portion of Arabia while annexing the Trucial states. Meanwhile, the Allies leave 2 British mechanized corps to hold northern Iraq, and drive with 4 armored, 8 mechanized and several artillery and HQ units into Turkey. The Turks, with only 3 infantry corps in the area, are destroyed in spite of the good defensive terrain simply by being overwhelmed and outflanked. The Allies take Alexandretta in early July, and then, with nothing in front of them, charge into Turkey, with Patton and his 3rd Army reaching the outskirts of Ankara at the end of July, while O’Connor and his 8th Army overrunning Mersin and Adana in early July. The South Africans and Egyptians take Antalya in mid July, while the British reach Smyrna at the end of July. Patton then takes Ankara in a bitter fight, supported by B35s operating out of Egypt that carpet bomb the Turkish defenders, at the cost of 1 US mechanized corps. Patton then charges west, reaching the Hellespont at Scutari and the Black Sea at Sinope by the end of August. Meanwhile the British easily overrun undefended Smyrna, and drive to Panderma, on the Sea of Ankara.

Greece enters the war in early August, and leaves the bulk of its army to watch the Yugoslavs but drives into Turkey with 2 infantry corps, while landing another at Smyrna to lay claim to the heavily ethnically Greek portion of Turkey. The Turkish fleet retreats to Istanbul, while the Union Black Sea fleet provides what support it can. The Turks and Greeks fight a savage battle at Gallipolli. Supported by elements of the British Mediterranean Fleet, the British launch an assault as well to support the Greeks and in fierce fighting, at the cost of 1 Greek and 1 British (mechanized) corps, the entrance of the Dardenelles are captured. Reduced to armies holding Istanbul and Ezurum, and with Egyptian and Algerian cavalry and Kurdish rebels placing Ezurum under siege, the MEU government finally agrees to surrender when the Union government, not having the troops to spare to try and defend all of Turkey contents itself with securing control of Turkish Armenia to guard the southern border of the Union. The MEU surrenders on August 28, 1940.

Mediterranean Sea and Italy
Under close blockade by LTA submarines, and with LTA fleets just off shore, the Combined Pact Mediterranean is bottled up in harbor. With Greece joining the war, the Italians land an airborne corps and amphibious corps in Tirana and with the small (1 alpine corps and 1 garrison corps) Albanian Army take up positions along the Yugoslav border. The ethnic Albanians in Kosovo begin rebelling, and Yugoslavia calls for Union assistance. However, with most of its reserves in the process of upgrading from infantry to motorized infantry, the Union has no forces to send just yet except for a single Alpine corps sent to Skopje to help watch the Greek border, freeing up a pair of Yugoslav infantry corps to watch the Albanian border.

France
The Allies continue their assault, using their A26s and Jet fighters to pound the Pact air forces in the area (1 P80, 1 Meteor, 2 ME262, 1 TA152 shot down) and their heavy bombers continue to pound Pact armored reserves (disrupting 5 out of 6 armored corps, and all 5 mechanized corps, plus 2 French mechanized corps). British and Canadian Mosquitos pound the French line north of Paris, disrupting 6 motorized infantry corps. The Americans hold the line in Belgium, guarding the flank, while the Canadians and the newly arrive British 2nd Army attack and destroy 5 French corps in front of Paris and then attack Paris itself, capturing the city in brutal house to house fighting. This time the Notre Dame is damaged, but luckily the fighting comes to an end before the Louvre is damaged. The British lose 2 infantry corps, and the Canadians 1 mechanized corps in the heavy fighting, but have cleared northern France of Pact forces. Driving south, they cut the entire Pact Army in southern France out of supply when they tanke undefended Vichy and Lyon. Meanwhile, the LTA forces along the Spanish border have taken Toulouse (at the cost of 1 Colombian Alpine corps and 1 Spanish infantry corps), and are pushing on the Pact southern Panzer Army around Nantes and pinned French and Russian forces against the coast around Bordeaux.

The Pact isn’t idle during this offensive, and manages to reorganize its northern panzer group, which makes a determined effort to counterattack, hitting the Americans at Leige (1 US airborne, 1 US mechanized, 1US artillery) with 4 armored, 3 mechanized and 1 infantry corps. In fierce fighting, the Americans hold off the assault at the cost of the mechanized corps (and 1 Pact infantry corps), and shift the American amphibious corps to reinforce the defense. Further fighting costs the Pact 2 mechanized corps and the Americans an amphibious corps, but Liege holds and the Pact is unable to punch a hole for supplies to reach the French and Union troops rapidly being pocketed by the LTA or divert forces to open a hole that way.

The Pact begins plans for a massive counteroffensive somewhere. Just where is to be determined, but concerned about their oil fields in Baku and Ploesti, the Southern or Southern European fronts look like good options.
The problem is that such an offensive may not be possible until next year, as it will take that long to build up the needed mechanized forces and aircraft for a successful offensive.

OOC:Rp atmosphere time!

Private Bao Tanh of the 1st rifles ducked behind a block of fallen masonary as sharp staccato bursts of enemy fire sounded in the streets of Guangzhou around him. To his left the rest of his squad sheltered in the remains of a building that looked as though a tank had driven through it.
The sargeant told him to take point and advance up the street in english, the language of their American instructors.
His heart pounding Bao ran to the other side of the street, hitting the wall of a shop before raising his M1 Garand to stare down it's sights at the battle smog obscured streets beyond.
Turning his head round he shouted a loud "Clear!" over the explosions and screaming aircraft that fought above.
His squadmates scrambled out of the ruins and into the street, spreading out they advanced caustiously forward.
Bao heard the deep rumbling first, and then the squeaking accompanied by the crunching of debris. Turning in horror he yelled at the men to get down before flinging himself into cover. The men standing in the street were terrified as a roaring metal behemoth materialized out of the smoke and began to belch flame. They scrambled for cover but many were cut down in a hail of lead and shrapnel.
Those that mannaged to get into cover began taking shots at the supporting infantry, but the tank advanced towards them unfazed, it's main cannon spitting flame at the Indochinese soldiers.
One brave man pulled a grenade of his belt and ran out of cover to throw it at the armoured vehicle, he was eviscerrated by a hail of machine gun fire, but the grenade arced from his hand and detonated next to the tank, blowing it's track off. Though immobilized it was still deadly and with it's advance halted it began to roar like wounded beast, blasting at anything that moved in the rubble.
Bao clutched at the prayer beads around his neck and asked for fogivennes of all his sins as he prayed to lord Budbah. When the Indochinese men thought all was lost a loud droning drowned out all the other sounds of battle, Bao looked up and saw a shape rip through the smoke, as a shark through a shoal of fish, and barrel straight towards them. The plane swooped overhead before pulling out of it's breakneck dive and clearly showed the White star and green circle of the Indochinese airforce. Bao looked in wonder as the bomb the plane had dropped exploded next to the tank, obliterating it in a flash of light.
A period of silence ensued in the street, no shots were fired by either side, then whooping with joy Bao followed by the rest of his squad rose from their positions and began to fire. Bao fired again and again untill the clip sprung out of the top of his gun, ramming another one in he charged forawrds into the smoke where he came across a young japanese soldier, with the thrill of battle stiil coarsing through his veins he pulled the trigger even as the young man pleaded for his life. The rest of the squad swept forward killing as they adavnced.
The Japanese now in full retreat paused only to crack an occasional shot off at the pursuing soldiers. To Bao's right a brick wall exploded as a British light tank burst through it, the commander manning the machine gun gave a small salute before gunning down more of the enemy.
Eventually the hectic chase stopped and Bao found himself guarding a large number of Japanese prisoners with his remaining squad mates in a small square enclosed by houses. The sky was quiet now and the sounds of battle far off, the smoke and fog of war was dissapating and a small bird flew down and landed on a old knarled tree growing in one corner of small terraced square. Bao looked around for the Sargeant of the Corporals, but could not find them, when he asked his friends told him that they had died when the tank came. When he asked who had lead them they awnsered "We followed you."
Bao looked around again, he was in charge, he had lead these men through hell and had never known, they had followed him.
A terrified looking Japanese prisoner asked him in heavily broken Vietnamese for a smoke. Looking at the boy's face, his memories of all the people that he had seen die today flooded back to him. Lighting a ciggerette he toosed it to the prisoner and walked off to towards the adjoining street, he had to think by himself. It began to rain, the small bird sought shelter under a fallen pilar and in the distance the sounds of battle faded away to nothingness.

"All right lads, we've cleared the foe from this town, but there are countless more, and it's time we began to show these wogs how it's done. Platoon, move out!" The young lieutenant's voice cracked with excitement.

"Someone needs to oil the lieutenant, sir. He squeaks," muttered the regimental adjutant, standing with his commander in the shade of an awning. Turkey in July was not what anyone would call pleasant. It was all the worse for the South African soldiers. At home, July was winter.

Colonel Piet van Aarten laughed. He didn't figure the platoon leader to be any older than eighteen, nineteen at most. He was a boy new to the military profession; probably fresh out of the South African Military Academy, Class of '38. Whatever that school may have taught him about military affairs, it had taught him little of the world. The adjutant, Captain Johannes ten Koop, sneered.

"Idiot. Calling them bloody wogs. Doesn't he know we would have had a devil of a time taking this damn town without the Egyptians?"

Van Aarten frowned. Ten Koop was a rare breed in South Africa, one of the few whites who judged men not by their skin, but by their actions. Fortunately for his career, so was van Aarten. A disproportionate number of soldiers were. "Probably not. We didn't, and so he figures we could have done better without them. I'll give them their credit, though. The Arabs are fine soldiers."

The Colonel remembered when the allied force had entered the town. The 1st Regiment, the Transvaal Highlanders, had been the first to walk down the streets after the surrender. Van Aarten remembered the sound of pipes, and the faces of the townspeople. Many were angry, some sullen. None attacked the soldiers; they were Turks, not idiots. A very few even smiled and waved at the soldiers. Van Aarten's adjutant had been surprised at that until van Aarten told him a story his father had told him, from the first Great War. The elder van Aarten had led a kommando for the Russians in Serbia, and had participated in taking some towns. Some defeated people cheered, to avoid reprisals later. They would just as soon cheer for the other side, as well. "That makes sense," ten Koop had replied.

Now the I Mechanized Corp was moving out, to wherever the London Alliance's High Command, which was to say, the Americans, chose. Van Aarten would follow his regiment, and lead them against the Pact, whether it be the Turks or the Russians or the Germans. He hoped he didn't have to fight the Germans. He knew a few from Southwest Africa, and they had always seemed decent people.

Of course, he supposed, anyone who would willingly go to war likely could not call themselves decent.

September October 1940
Political
The Middle Eastern Union (which has been reduced to part of European Turkey and Kurdistan) surrenders. Wary of Sweden picking the wrong (LTA) side, the Union shifts 20 V2 units (10,000 missiles) into positions in Finland and the Baltic islands within range of Stockholm and other Swedish cities. . The Pact also keeps a sizeable reserve of paratroopers (4 corps), plus 4 marine corps and the Baltic Fleet available just in case the Swedes act. Finally, this information is leaked to Sweden.

The remaining V1s, some 5000 in all, are set up within range of Amsterdam (in secret) as they lack the range to hit the Swedes, but are useful for perhaps wrecking an important LTA port

Strong Pact pressure is placed on Denmark to join the Pact or face invasion. Without a significant army, the Danes stall for time. Time runs out when a pair of parachute corps land on Copenhagen. Denmark surrenders and is annexed by the Union. Well aware that they cannot fight the Pact without huge assistance from the LTA, the Swedes and Norwegians complain, but not too loudly.

Brazil declares war on the Pact, and allows the LTA to use its ports. However, internal political issues make the Brazilian declaration of war a pro forma one. Paraguay stubbornly ignores the war and pressure to join in, even in a pro forma way.

The British set up, with Moroccan assistance, the UN mandates for Mali, the Ivory Coast and Senegal, promising independence in 10 years. Similar promises for Dominion status are made for British African territories. Other French territories are also organized but further action will wait until the post war period. Morocco annexes Mauritania, while Algeria annexes Niger (both annexations occur with LTA permission). Italy offers formal citizenship to the people of Libya and Eritrea and representation in their Parliament. Belgium and Portugal stubbornly refuse to change their policies and the LTA lets the matter drop for now.

LTA forces help the Kurds establish Kurdistan in the areas under Allied control, and also promise Syria independence. However, the MEU surrender does create considerable tension in the Turkish and Greek areas of the old MEU (modern Turkey), and although fighting hasn’t broken out yet, it is likely to the minute the LTA forces leave.

In northern Persia, the Union sets up a Communist Iranian government. However, only the large numbers of Union troops in northern Persia keep it together (and alive).

Modern Africa (real life)
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/images/africa.jpg

Colonial Africa (real life)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/maps/mapscan/af1922l.jpg

The UN hands over French Equatorial Africa (modern day Gabon, Cameroon, and Congo) to South Africa to handle as a mandate (which gives a South African infantry corps something to do for a couple of years garrisoning the place)

September October 1940
France
Army Group B, under the command of Field Marshal Model, with the 2nd and 4th Panzer Armies (Union) launches a full scale offensive to retake Vichy and regain contact with the Union, while the French Army retreats north to get behind the river Loire. Savage air battles erupt at Vichy as the Union commits every bomber that will fly escorted by their remaining fighters in France (1 Me262 unit, 5 JU188 unit). The Americans commit 3 jet fighter units to intercept them, and 1 ME262, 2 JU188 units are destroyed, another aborted, but 1 gets through and disrupts the 1 Canadian mechanized corps and 1 British artillery unit there. The Union attacks but the Americans commit 3 A26 units to shore up the British, and Canadians hold, destroying 2 Union mechanized corps. The German HQ reorganizes the disrupted Union corps. Meanwhile, Army Group G, under Marshal Tukhachevsky decides against attacking Liege again, and swings south through Burgundy driving on Paris from the southeast. Army Group A, under Gorbatov, takes up positions to cover the line (along with reserves moved up from Karellia and the Ukraine).

The Allies make their countermoves. The Americans land veteran marine corps (the veterans of the invasion of Japan) and 2 mechanized corps plus 2 airborne corps (1 British and 1 American) supported by the massive firepower of the 5th Fleet at Brest, Nantes, and Lorient and overwhelm the weak coastal defenses there (only 8 points of defense at Brest and Lorient, and 12 at Nantes as their infantry support is elsewhere) and get ashore behind the French and Union lines.

Meanwhile, the Allied 12th Army group drive out of Spain (12th under Colombian General Garza) attack the Russians Army Group H that is fighting a rear guard action at area between the rugged Massif and the Atlantic coast. The Argentine and Colombian corps (2 Argentine and 4 Colombian) destroy 2 Russian corps which along with the other 2 have been disrupted by Allied bombing (Colombian).

Further south and east Mark Clark and his 18th Army Group advance into southern France, where heavily supported by US B35s and P51s, destroy the French garrisons at Marseilles and Toulon. The French fleet commander orders his ships to scuttle (as he doesn’t want to waste their lives trying to take on the powerful UN fleets offshore) and massively outnumbered, the Admiral Raeder orders his Union and Rumanian ships to do the same. (Raeder commits suicide as the battleship Kropotkin blows up). Meanwhile the Italians launch their own offensive across the border, and take Nice. The battle of southern France isn’t cheap, as 2 US mechanized and 1 Italian mechanized corps are destroyed in the fighting, but the remaining French Alpine corps is isolated between Lyon (held by the Canadians) and Turin (Italy) and easily mopped up (as it is out of supply and disrupted) by Italian forces. Over a half a million Union, Rumanian and French soldiers and sailors go into captivity and the last Pact naval forces in the Mediterranean are gone.

In northern France, the British land reinforcements to shore up the cordon separating the Union Army Groups B and G, and American B29s and British Lancasters pound the Union armored and mechanized corps as well as their HQ, disrupting all of them. With the loss of Nantes and Marseille, France has been conquered and remaining French troops begin surrendering everywhere, and the French army collapses, leaving the flank and rear of Army Group B completely open. Unable to move, as disorganized, both Army Groups H and B are then destroyed by attacks by the Allies moving up from Spain.

The Allies bag nearly 500,000 Union prisoners in the Fall of France, plus another 50,000 Rumanian and Union sailors from Toulon, and 3 million French prisoners. The cost has been heavy, with over a half of million Allied casualties, but Forteresse France is no more.

The Pact, seeing the situation is hopeless, uses every transport aircraft it has to reorganize Army Group G, which falls back to Burgundy to form a line of defense.

Balkans
The Union launches a massive bombing raid against Athens and Salonica, severely damaging both ports (and preventing their use for supply purposes by the Allies until repaired). Greek civilian losses are very heavy, nearly 250,000 civilians are casualties, and Greece begins to regret entering the war, especially when the Communists rise up and a Civil War breaks out. The Greek Army is forced to recall its forces from Turkey, and heavy fighting breaks out between Royalist and Communist forces. Meanwhile, the Italians bring 2 mechanized corps across the Adriatic to reinforce Albania, along with a HQ unit.

China
The Nationalists take Hankow, Shanghai and Nanking from the Communists, and then advance north, taking Tsinan and Tsingtao. Mao Tse Tung escapes to Manchuria with a small cadre of loyal followers but the Communist rebellion is destroyed for now.

Mideast
The Americans, British and South Africans concentrate their forces in Thrace, while Kurdish and Greek militias take control of Kurdistan and Smyrna (Greeks). The rest of Turkey is left alone, and the provisional Turkish government is formed which attempts to restore order. This leaves Turkey open to a Union advance out of Armenia, but the LTA isn’t concerned as it is a long way to anything vital, the fall and winter rains will come soon, and the Union has bigger problems as with the Straits open, and the huge LTA naval supremacy, the entire Union Black Sea coast is open to invasion, as is Bulgaria and more importantly, Rumania. In Warsaw, Stafka looks over the situation grimly and agrees without knowing it. However, the British 9th Army remains in northern Iraq, beefed up by Egyptian and Algerian troops as well as Kurdish and Iraqi militias. Enough so that a Union offensive will require significant forces.

Central Asia and Persia
The front remains quit except for patrol actions.


Far East
American aircraft out of Japan and the LTA 7th Fleet blockade the Kuriles, and American mountain troops take that island chain.

November / December 1940
Bad weather brings operations to a halt almost everywhere. Allied and Pact forces are moved around to prepare for future operations, but no significant combat occurs.

Meanwhile, Japan signs a formal peace treaty. Hirohito remains Emperor, and Japan keeps the home islands and gets the Kuriles back. However, it losses Okinawa which becomes a US base, Formosa and Hainan, which are transferred to China, and must provide economic support (half its budget) to China for the next 10 years. In addition, it remains under LTA occupation for that time period, and and cannot spend more then 10% of its budget in the future on military and naval forces.

However, much of Japanese industry is undamaged, and in 1941 will be supplying China and Vietnam with industrial help (build points and equipment).

China also gets 12 shipping units (formerly Japanese ships), Vietnam gets 3, and both get 1 four engined flying boat (as an international airline, although the USAE and China will have to provide the pilots).

Meanwhile, the MEU is declared dissolved, and the nations of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, Basra, Saudi Arabia, Western Arabia, Kuwait, Palestine (including Jordon) are accepted into the United Nations.

Moroccan, Algerian, Egyptian, and Omani troops occupy Syria, Iraq, Basra, Palestine and Kuwait, while Indian forces occupy Iran as a UN Mandate. Greece gains control of Thrace (formerly European Turkey), including the prize of Constantinople (formerly Istanbul). Greece also claims Smryna, but the UN and LTA decide to ignore that claim for now (but don't refuse it either).

Kuwait gains its full independence, as does Saudi Arabia and Western Arabia.

Italy annexes Nice and Corsica, with LTA permission. Brittany is granted independence from France (ooc, they have a long history of thinking of themselves of Britons first, and French second anyway). The UK is allowed to remove everything from the Louvre as partial reparations for the French allowing the Pact to launch massive missile attacks against London and kill or injure nearly 1 million English civilians (roughly 200,000 of those are deaths)

ooc
by the way, the Combined Pact fleet was outnumbered 12 carriers to 2, 16 battleships to 1, and 40 cruisers to 20, and 150 destroyers to 50. The Admirals and politicians might have wanted a last glorious battle, but the sailors aren't stupid, and responsible European military leaders do not throw away their troops (sailors in this case) lives for no purpose.

The Pact and French armies were pounded by roughly 30 bomber and 20 fighter units, outnumbered on the ground and the Allies held the cordon long enough to destroy them.

This is because the initial Pact deployments, as given to me by the Pact players, concentrated too much on Atlantic defenses, and not enough on air defenses and mobile reserves and was based on a faulty premise, that Safehaven2 pointed out very, very well.

I was impressed by that analysis, but chose not to comment on it, as after all, he was right and they didn't see it in spite of his observations. The LTA strategy was always to invade via Belgium and the Netherlands and outflank those defenses except when they were weakened, along with pressure from Spain. Italy was an added bonus.

Britain officially announces the full independence of Yemen, Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. They are made an offer of entry to the Commonwealth of Nations with promises of future aid and full cooperation and support of Britain and other Commonweath nations in the future.

Britain also promises dominion status post-war and full independence to British African colonies within 15 years of the war's end if they agree to become members of the Commonwealth upon independence. This list will include: Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Oubangui-Chari (Central African republic), Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia and others.

Back at home Prime Minister Churchill urges the populace to back the troops and the invasion of Pact territory fully. Especially given the enemies willingness to launch rocket strikes against civilian targets, including at home in Britain and even at the Vatican City. Churchill promises that the enemy will have to pay for this breach of humanity and cites LTA bombings of Pact territory and the invasions as evidence of LTA vigilence against the enemy.

He urges British catholics to remember the martyership of Pope Pius XII and to see what lows the enemy is iwlling to sink to to try to harm us in the Pacts last dying throes.

1941
The US, United Kingdom, China and some Pact nations go to Total War economies. Although both have suffered serious damage (French down to 10 production centers, Japan down to 21) Japan and France are integrated into the LTA economies. Economic development in Africa by the United States and United Kingdom begin to yield dividends (1 production center each in Monrovia, Liberia; Lagos, Nigeria; Dar as Salaam, Tanzania; and Mombassa, Kenya). British East and West Africa, as well as British Southern Africa reach tech level 4.

Modern African Nations involved are Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Sierra Leon and Liberia.

In 1941, the Americans began investing in Ethiopia and finish the Cape to Cairo railroad.

FDR takes office for his fourth term, and Truman remains Vice President.

LTA Economies 1941 (total LTA Oil points are 780)

United States – 691 build points, 340 oil points
Safety net for USA, Central America, Philippines – 84 points
Civil Defense -- 15
African development -- 150
US Navy – 34 carriers, 18 battleships, 40 carrier planes, 40 carrier pilots, 30 cruisers, 200 destroyers (20 light ships), 90 destroyer escorts (6 light ships), 160 corvettes (4 light ships), 90 submarines (9 submarine units), 6 amphibious fleets, 10 transports, 3 liners, -- 80 points
US Air Forces – 5 B36 superheavy bombers, 5 B35 superheavy bombers, 5 B29 heavy bombers, 5 P80 jet fighters, 12 P51 fighters, 15 A26 medium bombers, 10 AD1 Skyraider light bombers, 10 C47 transport, 3 C54 heavy transport, 3 Corsair, 2 P61 Nightfighters, 90 pilots – 150 points
US ground forces – 6 HQ, 5 armored corps, 15 mechanized corps, 10 mechanized artillery units, 3 airborne corps, 1 alpine corps, 4 amphibious corps, 2 infantry corps, 28 flak units, -- 60 points
Total military maintenance – 290
Available Build points for 1941 –156 (26 points a turn)

US controls Japanese economy, which has 65 points , spends 27 for social services (level 3), 12 for repairing economy, leaving 26 available, which are used to provide China with 4 build points a turn plus 2 are used for a national airline (DC3).

United Kingdom, Australia and Canada – 394 build points, 140 oil points
Social spending – 63 points (UK, Canada and Imperial)
Civil defense – 5 points (UK and Canada)
Aid to India – 26 points
Aid to USA – 24 points (For nuclear infrastructure)(year 2)
Aid to USA – 24 points for Biological warfare research (year 2)
Royal Navy – 7 carriers, 8 carrier planes, 8 carrier pilots, 16 battleships, 32 cruisers, 210 destroyers (21 light ships), 30 frigates (2 light ships), 90 submarines, 15 transports, 7 liners, -- 40 points
Air Forces – 11 Meteor Jet fighters, 6 Fury fighters, 3 Mosquito night fighters, 1 Lincoln heavy bomber, 8 Mosquito medium bombers, 6 C47, 2 C54, 40 pilots, 1 Australian pilot, 1 Canadian pilot, 82 points
Ground forces – 4 HQs, 4 armored corps, 12 mechanized corps, 1 airborne corps, 1 amphibious corps, 8 mechanized artillery units, 12 flak units, 2 commando units, 4 garrison units-- 20 points
Available build points 114 points (19 points a turn)

Britain controls the French and Brittany economies, which has 40 points. 15 points for level 3 social services, 12 to repair industry, and 12 to repair a Belgian industry, leaving 1 available, which is used for 1 militia unit (represents National Police)

China – 72 build points
Level 1 social services – 50 points, leaving 2 points a turns for builds (plus 2 from Japan and frequent LTA military aid).

South Africa – 42 build points
Colombia – 78 build points
USAE – 30 build points
Argentina – 53 build points
Algeria – 17 build points
Italy -- 96 build points
India -- 40 build points (plus aid from UK)

Build points include commerce, production centers, resources from colonies and other sources, and assumes either wartime or total war mobilization

Some economies have been included in the bigger powers to make life easier for me. A more detailed economic picture will be provided when the war is over.

The Pact has a total of 1180 production points.

Sweden, still neutral (and including Norway) has 12 production centers, plus 34 points of commerce, giving it a potential of 52 at Total War, less for wartime and national effort and peacetime.

the LTA and UN powers above have 1513 build points, plus another 180 points of oil available when the Dutch East Indies, Persia and Iraq are factored in. (plus the 780 it already has).

The Pact has 260 points of oil, the bulk of which is concentrated well within Allied bomber range, and potentially within Allied ground offensive range. (Baku and Ploesti)

LTA Economies 1941 (total LTA Oil points are 780)

United States – 691 build points, 340 oil points
Safety net for USA, Central America, Philippines – 84 points
Civil Defense -- 15
African development -- 150
US Navy – 34 carriers, 18 battleships, 40 carrier planes, 40 carrier pilots, 30 cruisers, 200 destroyers (20 light ships), 90 destroyer escorts (6 light ships), 160 corvettes (4 light ships), 90 submarines (9 submarine units), 6 amphibious fleets, 10 transports, 3 liners, -- 80 points
US Air Forces – 5 B36 superheavy bombers, 5 B35 superheavy bombers, 5 B29 heavy bombers, 5 P80 jet fighters, 12 P51 fighters, 15 A26 medium bombers, 10 AD1 Skyraider light bombers, 10 C47 transport, 3 C54 heavy transport, 3 Corsair, 2 P61 Nightfighters, 90 pilots – 150 points
US ground forces – 6 HQ, 5 armored corps, 15 mechanized corps, 10 mechanized artillery units, 3 airborne corps, 1 alpine corps, 4 amphibious corps, 2 infantry corps, 28 flak units, -- 60 points
Total military maintenance – 290
Available Build points for 1941 –156 (26 points a turn)

US controls Japanese economy, which has 65 points , spends 27 for social services (level 3), 12 for repairing economy, leaving 26 available, which are used to provide China with 4 build points a turn plus 2 are used for a national airline (DC3).

United Kingdom, Australia and Canada – 394 build points, 140 oil points
Social spending – 63 points (UK, Canada and Imperial)
Civil defense – 5 points (UK and Canada)
Aid to India – 26 points
Aid to USA – 24 points (For nuclear infrastructure)(year 2)
Aid to USA – 24 points for Biological warfare research (year 2)
Royal Navy – 7 carriers, 8 carrier planes, 8 carrier pilots, 16 battleships, 32 cruisers, 210 destroyers (21 light ships), 30 frigates (2 light ships), 90 submarines, 15 transports, 7 liners, -- 40 points
Air Forces – 11 Meteor Jet fighters, 6 Fury fighters, 3 Mosquito night fighters, 1 Lincoln heavy bomber, 8 Mosquito medium bombers, 6 C47, 2 C54, 40 pilots, 1 Australian pilot, 1 Canadian pilot, 82 points
Ground forces – 4 HQs, 4 armored corps, 12 mechanized corps, 1 airborne corps, 1 amphibious corps, 8 mechanized artillery units, 12 flak units, 2 commando units, 4 garrison units-- 20 points
Available build points 114 points (19 points a turn)

Britain controls the French and Brittany economies, which has 40 points. 15 points for level 3 social services, 12 to repair industry, and 12 to repair a Belgian industry, leaving 1 available, which is used for 1 militia unit (represents National Police)

China – 72 build points
Level 1 social services – 50 points, leaving 2 points a turns for builds (plus 2 from Japan and frequent LTA military aid).

South Africa – 42 build points
Colombia – 78 build points
USAE – 30 build points
Argentina – 53 build points
Algeria – 17 build points
Italy -- 96 build points
India -- 40 build points (plus aid from UK)

Build points include commerce, production centers, resources from colonies and other sources, and assumes either wartime or total war mobilization

Some economies have been included in the bigger powers to make life easier for me. A more detailed economic picture will be provided when the war is over.

Woah there, partner. Why do I only have 40 build points? According to me han-didly-handy little plan (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10123790&postcount=684) there, I should have at least 22 base points (this is factoring in that the plans may have been changed, so my 1940 plan to build a shizit-load of boats might not have happened), and then multiplied by 3 I should have 66 points.

OOC:

I'd like to know how many factories in China "Proper" are damaged? I'd like to try to rebuild these factories ASAP. I'm not sure what the price is- last I heard it was 2 points to repair 1 unit of production, correct?

OOC:

I'd like to know how many factories in China "Proper" are damaged? I'd like to try to rebuild these factories ASAP. I'm not sure what the price is- last I heard it was 2 points to repair 1 unit of production, correct?

OOC:

I'd like to know how many factories in China "Proper" are damaged? I'd like to try to rebuild these factories ASAP. I'm not sure what the price is- last I heard it was 2 points to repair 1 unit of production, correct?

China started with 100 production centers before the 2nd Japanese invasion. 15 (5 each Kunming, Chungking and Chengtu) are operational. The other 85 are damaged. It costs 12 points for each production center to repair them (half the cost of building one from scratch).

However, the Chinese were given what is left of their merchant fleet back (12 shipping units). You have 60 production points (plus the 12 commerce) because you are on Total War spending. In 1942 the US will help you repair some of that damage, assuming it can. The Japanese will have some more points it can give you as well. The disarmed Japanese units that survived the war provided you with enough equipment to convert 6 militia units to infantry for free (which has already been factored in).

Woah there, partner. Why do I only have 40 build points? According to me han-didly-handy little plan (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10123790&postcount=684) there, I should have at least 22 base points (this is factoring in that the plans may have been changed, so my 1940 plan to build a shizit-load of boats might not have happened), and then multiplied by 3 I should have 66 points.

I will look over it this evening and make corrections to the post in this thread, but the information is mainly for information purposes anyway. The really big powers are the important thing, as they are the ones fielding the big navies and airforces and mechanized armies.

Ohh.

What happened to the old "6 points will repair a factory unit" (a factory unit = 2 production units) anyway?

I will look over it this evening and make corrections to the post in this thread, but the information is mainly for information purposes anyway. The really big powers are the important thing, as they are the ones fielding the big navies and airforces and mechanized armies.

Good point ;).

Ohh.

What happened to the old "6 points will repair a factory unit" (a factory unit = 2 production units) anyway?

thats was the last war, when factories only cost 12 points.

January February 1941
Continued bad weather in the main theaters prevents much action, but the LTA and Pact both shuffle their forces around for the spring. Provisional governments for France, Brittany, and Japan are organized, with local nationals running things under UN (specifically UK in France, and US in Japan) supervision.

Political
France is forced to sign the surrender document, which prevents them from having an army, or navy or air force, but does allow it to have a coast guard, national police and aviation assets to support those too functions. The Henschel design team is arrested and sent to the United States (were they get big money working now for the US government and are loaned to General Motors and other US vehicle manufacturers). The LTA ships Japanese and French POWs who are 19-25, or who are officers or career enlisted men to North America for internment until the war ends, the remaining POWs are allowed to go home.

All French and Japanese war manufacturing plants are taken over by the LTA, but the owners are allowed to convert to civilian manufacture (with some exceptions if the LTA likes what they were building).

Rumors of Union atrocities in Belgium are confirmed, as several mass graves are found in the Ardennes that held the bodies of "reactionary elements" like nobility, right wing government officals and some military officers. Belgium begins criminal trials for collaborators, as does the Netherlands.

The Pact is warned that any further instance of such atrocities will see UN reprisals, and further bombardment of civilian targets by missiles will also see reprisal.

The UN agrees that only unconditional surrender for the Union and its dissolution into the various nationalities that make it up are acceptable outcomes to the war.

Naturally, the Pact strongly criticizes both the condemnation, calling it LTA propaganda, and the unconditional surrender demand. Pact propoganda now concentrates on the theme of saving socialism and freedom from capitalist imperialism.

The fact that the nations with the largest colonial territory, the US and Britian, have already begun the process of setting them down the road to independence, and the fact that France and Japan both had colonies and the Union held some nationalities that would prefer independence, is ignored.

Pact 1180 points, 240 oil
Level 5 spending 120 points
Civil defense 20 points
Nuclear weapons program 24 points
Biological weapons development 24 points
Red Navy – 5 battleships, 5 cruisers, 50 destroyers, 40 snorkel submarines, 60 submarines, 120 corvettes, 30 frigates, 4 amphibious fleets, 12 transports, -- 20 points (20 oil)
Red Navy – 6 Me262 jet fighters, 10 Ar234 jet bombers, 10 TA152 fighter, 1 Do335 night fighter, 10 HE177, 3 JU188, 3 IL10, 8 JU52 transports, 80 pilots, -- 144 points (144 oil)
Red Army-- 5 HQs, 20 armored corps, 5 mechanized corps, 25 motorized infantry corps, 12 Alpine corps, 80 infantry corps, 32 artillery units, 4 amphibious corps, 5 parachute corps, 4 cavalry corps, 5 theater supply units, 40 flak units, 4 commando units, -- 76 points (23 oil)
752 build points (125 points a turn + 2 extra for January

Builds (so everyone can see how this is going)
Pact
January 10 snorkel submarine units (50 submarines, 40 points, July), Minewarfare Dardenelles (10 points for 10 hexes), 20 P1011 jet fighters (60 points, May), 6 BV193 torpedo bombers (12 points, March), 5militia units (Manchuria, Jan, 5 points)
March – 15 pilots (30 points, March 42), 20 anti tank units (60 points), 1 flak units (30 units), upgrade 5 Manchurian militia to 5 infantry corps
May -- 15 TA152 fighters (30 points, July), 10 flak units (30 points, September), repair 2 oil centers (24 points), 11 infantry corps (22 points), 2 snorkel submarine units (8 points),
July -- repair Moscow (2 production centers), 4 infantry corps
September (down to 80 points), 10 TA183 fighters (30 points), 50 militia units


USA
January – 3 FH1 Phantom carrier jet fighters (6 points, available Mar), 5 P84 Thunderjet jet fighter bombers (15 points, available May), 1 C97 heavy transport (4 points, available July), 1 militia unit (for Palestine, available Jan)
March – 6 P82 Twin Mustang (18 points, available July), 2 pilots (4 points, available March 42)
May -- Mine warfare (German coast) 5 points, 2 B50 heavy bombers (8 points, Dec), 3 P84 jet fighter bombers (9 points September)
July -- repair or refit 7 carriers (14), 7 FH1 Phantom carrier jet fighters (7 points), 1 Crimean militia (1 point)
September -- upgrade 3 infantry to motorized (3 points), build 6 mechanized corps (16 points), 1 B45 medium jet bomber

UK
January – 12 points to repair 1 Belgium factory (May), 3 infantry corps (6 points, March), 1 Mosquito bomber unit (3 points, May),
March – clear mines in Dardenelles (10 points), 3 Vampire Jet fighters (9 points, July)
May -- 3 RAF B50 (12 points, December), 1 infantry corps (2 points), 1 Dutch infantry corps (2 points), 1 Belgian infantry corps (2 points), upgrade Dutch infantry to motorized (1 point
July -- 1 heavy carrier (12 points, avialable January 1943), plus 6 points to US (3 infantry corps), plus 1 point for Bulgarian militia
September -- upgrade 8 chinese infantry to motorized (8 points), 3 Meteor IV jet units (9 points), 5 points Burgundy to 2 infantry corps, 1 militia

Italy
January 3 P80 jet fighters (9 points), 1 infantry corps (2 points)
March 1 infantry corps (2 points), 3 field artillery units (9 points)
May -- upgrade 2 infantry to motorized (2 points), 3 garrison units (9 points)
July -- upgrade 2 motorized to mechanized (2 points), build 2 Albanian infantry corps (4 points), 5 points to US (used to build 2 more infantry corps, 1 Formosa militia unit (for China)
September -- build 3 infantry, upgrade 2 motorized

China
January 2 infantry corps
March 2 infantry corps
Colombia provides 10 points to China (10 militia units) plus Japan provides 4 more for 4 for militia.
July -- as above, but used to upgrade 14 militia into 14 infantry corps
September -- 2 P51 fighter units

The Messerschmitt P1011 is a 600 mph jet fighter, of course, the US P80B, FH1 and P84, and Meteor III are also 600 MPH fighters)

March April 1941
Mud in the Arctic and temperate zones, but clear everywhere else.
Results in process

Pact Deployment 1941
Home land defenses
Warsaw – 2 flak, 1 P1011 jet fighter
Minsk – 1 flak,
Kiev – 1 flak,
Dneiperpetrovsk – 1 flak,
Petrograd - 2 flak,
Berlin - 2 flak, 1 DO335 fighter unit, 2 P1011 jet fighters
Essen - 2 flak, 2 ME262, 2 Ar234 (jet bombers)0
Koln - 2 flak, 2 Ar 234 jet bombers, 2 PO1011 jet fighters
Helsinki- 1 flak
Frankfurt-- 2 Flak,2 P1011 jet fighters
Munich - 2 flak, , 1 fortification
Vienna - 2 flak,
Moscow – 2 flak, 2 P1011 Jet fighters
Minsk - 2 flak,
Baku – 4 TA152 , 2 ME262, 3 flak,
Ploesti - 4 TA152, 2 ME262, 3 flak, 1 Rum mountain corps,
Prague – Czech 1 TA152 unit, 2 flak units, 3 infantry corps (adjacent)
Bucharest – 1 flak unit, 1 garrison, 2 infantry corps (Bulgarian border), 3 Ar 234 jet bombers
Budapest – 2 flak unit, 2 infantry corps,
Dusselforf – 1 flak,
Kiev – 1 flak
Odessa – 1flak
Hamburg – 1 flak, 4 P1011 jet fighters,
Hannover - 1 flak
Perm - 1 P1011 jet fighter
Novosibirsk - 1 P1011 jet fighter
Sverdlovsk - 1 P1011 jet fighter

Western TVD
(Germany/Burgundy/Holland/Denmark)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Copenhagen)
2 x 6 point infantry corps (2 hexes west of Copenhagen)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 fortification, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Kiel)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 fortification, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Bremen)
2 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit ((1 hex east of Amsterdam)
2 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (1 hex west of Essen)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (1 hex west of Dusseldorf)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, 1 x 5 point flak unit (Cologne)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Aachen)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (1 hex west of Saarbrucken)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Metz)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (hex southeast of Metz)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (hex northwest of Zurich)
1 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 9 point motorized corps, 1 HQ, 1 artillery unit (Frankfurt)
1 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 9 point motorized corps, 1 HQ, 1 artillery unit (Karlsruhe)
2 x 12 point armored corps (hex southeast of Hamburg)
2 x 12 point armored corps, 3 JU188 bombers (Stuttgart)
2 x 12 point armored corps (east of Cologne)
4 x 5 point Alpine corps, 4 x 6 point infantry corps, (Italian border)
1 HQ, 1 fortification, 2 x 9 point motorized corps (Munich)

Balkan TVD
(Yugoslavia/Rumania/Hungary)
4 x 5 point alpine corps (Italian border)
3 x 6 point infantry corps (1 each Split, Zara and Dubrovnik
6 x 7 point infantry (1 each for each Albanian and Greek border hexes)
2x 1 point guerilla units (2 mountain hexes in Greece)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery corps (Skopje)
2 x 8 point mechanized corps (Belgrade), 1 TA152,
10 x 7 point motorized corps, 5 x 3 point artillery corps, (Rumanian/Belgrade border)
1 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 5 point mountain corps (Constanza)
1 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Belgrade)
1 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Ploesti)
1 x HQ (hex between Constanza and Ploesti)

Ukrainian TVD
2 x 6 point infantry corps (Odessa)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 3 IL10 torpedo bombers, 1 P1011 jet fighter(Sevastapol)
2 x 14 point armored corps. 3 Ar234 jet bombers, 1 P1011 jet fighter (Kiev)
2 x 14 point armored corps (Niloleyev), 2 P1011 Jet fighters, 2 BV193 torpedo bombers
Evepatoria -- 4 BV193 torpedo bombers
Dneiperpetrovsk -- 4 HE 177 naval units (heavy)

Caucasus TVD
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Batumi)
8 x 6 point infantry corps, 4 x 4 point artillery units (Turkish/Soviet border in rough terrain)
2 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Tiflis)
2 x 7 point infantry corps (Tabriz)
2 x 7 point infantry corps (Tehran)
2 x 8 point motorized infantry corps (Baku)

Central Asian TVD
2 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 theater supply unit (Meshed)
2 x 5 point alpine corps (Samarkand)
2 x 5 point alpine corps, (Tashkent)
2 x 14 point armored corps, 1 theater supply unit (Karaganda)
2 x 3 point cavalry corps (Alma Ata)

Manchurian TVD
2 x 5 point infantry corps, 2 ME234 heavy bombers (Ulan Bator)
2 x 7 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Lanchow)
2 x 3 point cavalry corps (mountain hex west of resource hex north of Lanchow)
2 x 7 point infantry corps (west of Lanchow)
10 x 7 point infantry corps (Yellow River line)
1 HQ, 2 x 12 point mechanized corps (Peking)
2 x 8 point motorized infantry corps, 1 x 3 point arillery unit, 1 theater supply unit (Tientsin)
2 x 7 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Port Arthur)
3 x 6 point infantry corps (Mukden, Harbin, Changchun)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Vladivostok),
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Khaborovsk)
3 x 6 point infantry corps, 3 x 3 point artillery units (2 on Sakkalin, 1 kamchatka)

Reserve forces
2 x 12 mechanized corps, 1 theater supply unit, (Moscow)
1 x 12 point mechanized corps, 1 theater supply unit (Petrograd)
2 x 8 point motorized infantry corps (Warsaw)
2 x 14 point armored corps (Minsk)
2 x 6 point amphibious corps, 2 commando units, 4 HE177 (Riga)
2 x 6 point amphibious corps, 2 command units (Helsinki)
4 x JU52, 2 x 5 point airborne corps (Danzig)
4 x JU52, 2 x 5 point airborne corps (Stettin)


Baltic Squadron, based at Gdansk
3 superbattleships (Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Ferdinand Lasalle 2 battleships (Cádiz, Venezia 3 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 48 destroyers (5 light ships), 15 frigates (1 light ship), 20 corvettes (1 light ship 40 submarines (4 units commanded by Commodore Karl Dönitz), 1 amphibious assault fleets, 2 naval infantry corps, 3 light naval air wings, 2 heavy naval air wings, 8 converted troop transports, 13 shipping units

Northern Squadron, based at Murmansk (Counter Admiral Erich Bey)
15 frigates, 20 corvettes (2 light ships), 2 icebreakers (light cruisers)

Black Sea Squadron, based at Sevastopol (Counter Admiral Vladimir Tributz)
1 battleship, 2 battlecruisers, 2 fleet carriers, 2 light carriers, 1 light cruiser, 10 destroyers (1 light ship), 15 frigates (1 light ship), 3 carrier planes, 3 pilots, 10 shipping unit

Adriatic Fleet
1 Yugo CL, 10 Yugo DD, 10 Yugo Submarines

LTA Deployments 1941
Western Front
The front (Montgomery – 12th Army Group, Auchenleck 15th Army Group, Garza (Colombian) 1st Army Group, Delarosa (Spanish) 18th Army Group
1 x 7 point Dutch infantry corps, 2 x US 6 point flak unit (Amsterdam)
1 UK HQ, 2 x US 6 point flak units, 1 x UK 12 point mechanized corps (Rotterdam)
2 x UK 11 point mechanized corps, 1 x UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit (1 hex east of Rotterdam)
2 x UK 11 point mechanized corps, 1 x UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit (1 hex east of Antwerp)
1 x UK 11 point mechanized corps, 1 Belgian 11 point mechanized corps, 1 UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit, (Liege)
2 x South African 11 point mechanized infantry corps, 1 x UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit (west of Aachan)
2 x Colombian 9 point mechanized infantry corps, 1 x Colombian 6 point mechanized artillery unit (2 hexes west of Saarbrucken)
2 x Colombian 9 point mechanized infantry corps, 1 x Colombian 6 point mechanized artillery unit (west of Metz)
2 x Spanish 10 point mechanized infantry corps, 1 x Spanish 6 point mechanized artillery unit (southeast of Metz)
2 x Chilean 5 point Alpine corps (northwest of Bern)

in reserve (Alexander)
2 x 14 point UK armored corps, 1 UK HQ, 1 x 6 point US flak unit (Antwerp)
2 x 14 point Colombian armored corps, 2x US 6 point flak units (Brussels)
2 x 12 point Spanish armored corps, 1 x Spanish 6 point mechanized artillery unit (Vichy)
2 x 12 point Colombian armored corps, 1 x UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit (Lille)
1 UK HQ, 2 x 11 point UK mechanized corps, 1 x US 6 point flak unit (Rouen)
2 x Argentine 9 point mechanized corps (Calais)

occupation forces (Lord Gort)
4 x UK garrison units (Brest, St. Malo, Cherbourg, Le Havre)
4 x Spanish 6 point infantry corps (Lorient, St. Nazaire, La Rochelle, Nantes)
1 x Portuguese 6 point infantry (Bordeauz)
2 x Spanish 5 point infantry corps (Bayonne, Toulouse)
4 x Italian 5 point garrison units (Nice, Toulon, Marseilles, Lyon)

2nd Tactical Air Force (RAF, Cunningham)
2 x Meteor jet fighters, 2 x Mosquito bombers (Amsterdam)
2 x Meteor jet fighters, 2 x Mosquito bombers (Rotterdam)
2 x Meteor jet fighters, 2 x Mosquito bombers (Antwerp)
4 x Fury fighters (Liege)
1 x Belgian Mosquito bomber , 3 RAF C47(Calais),
3 x RAF C47, 1 x Meteor jet fighter (Lille)

1st Tactical Air Force (Colombian Air Force)
2 x P80 jet fighters, 2 x AD1 Skyraider (Brussels)
2 x P80 jet fighters, 2 x A26 bombers (Paris)
2 x P80 jet fighters, 2 x Spanish A26 bombers (Vichy)
1 x Spanish P51 fighter, 1 x Spanish A26, 1 x Chilean A26, 1 x Portuguese (Lyon)
1 x Argentine C47, 1 x Colombian C47, 1 x Spanish C47 (Le Havre)

British Home Forces
Fighter command
4 x Meteor jet fighters (London, Dover, Southhampton, Scapa Flow,)
4 x Mosquito night fighters (London, Sheffield, Glasgow, Southhampton)
Antiaircraft command
3 x 6 point flak units each (London, Scapa Flow, Birmingham, Southhampton)
3 x 6 point US flak units each (Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Conventry)
3 x Irish 6 point flak units (Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast)

Home Fleet (Somerville RN, Lee USN (Scapa Flow)
RN Battleships Vanguard, Thunder, Lion, Temeraire, Conqueror, USN battleships Montana, Texas, Iowa, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Missouri, RN Heavy cruisers Hawkins, Raleigh, Frobisher, Effingham, Drake, Centaur, Caledon, Ceres, Caroline, Cambrian, USN heavy cruisers Chester, Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Houston, Northhampton, Tuscaloosa, Indianapolis, plus 60 RN destroyers,

Comsublant (Yarmouth)
60 US, 90 RN submarines

LTA 2nd Fleet (Ramsey/Hewitt) (Dublin, Belfast, Scapa Flow, Holyhead, Waterford )
RN Battleships Hood, King George V, Duke of York, Prince of Wales, Anson, Howe, Rodney, Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Valiant, Malaya, RN fleet Carriers Hermes, Eagle, Vindictive RN light carriers Glorious, Argus, 2 Sea Fury, 2 Avenger, USN light carriers Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, 2 Avenger, RN light cruisers Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falmouth, Nottingham Chatham, Weymouth, Birkenhead, Birmingham Worcester, Bristol, Dartmouth, Chester, Dublin, Abergaveny, Gloucester, Chichester, Liverpool, Belfast, Lowestoft, plus 50 RN destroyers, 2 UK amphibious fleets, 4 UK transports

5th Army Group (Crerar)
2 x Canadian 12 point mechanized corps, 1 x UK Commando unit (Scapa Flow)
1 x Canadian 14 point armored corps, 1 x Canadian 12 point mechanized corps (Belfast)
2 x US 11 point Amphibious corps (Dublin)
1 US HQ (Bradley), 1 US x 10 point mechanized corps (Derry)
1 Canadian HQ, 1 UK commando unit, 1 UK amphibious corps (Holyhead)
2 x US 6 point artillery units (Waterford)

Strategic Forces Europe
US 8th Air Force (Spaatz)
4 x US B50 superheavy bombers (Harwich)
4 x US P51 escort fighters (Dover)

Invasion Forces Ukraine
Overall command Eisenhower (Army), Nimitz (Navy)
US 6th Fleet (Spruance/Mitcher) (Gibraltar)
RN heavy carrier Soveriegn of the Seas, US heavy carriers Lexington (II), Saratoga (II), Yorktown (II), 4 FH1 Phantom jet fighters, US fleet carriers America, Oriskany Constellation, Constitution, Essex, Kitty Hawk, Intrepid, Lake Erie, Lake Champlain, Mobile Bay, Enterprise, 4 FJI, 3 Corsairs, 4 Skyraiders, Colombian Fleet carriers Vincente Sewell, Dario Echandia, Francisco de Paula Santander, 3 Bearcats, Italian light carriers Andrea Doria, Lepanto, 1 Corsair, US battleships North Carolina, Washington, Alabama, Massachusetts, Indiana, US AA cruisers San Diego, San Antonio, San Pedro, Duluth, Galveston, Los Angeles, Hampton, Biloxi, Wichita, Vincennes, Astoria, Atlanta, Juneau, San Pedro, San Juan, plus 100 US destroyers

US 5th Fleet (Kincaid/Turner)(Alexandria, Naples, Port Said, Malta, Rhodes, Syracuse, Tripoli, Panderma)
Italian batteships Littorio, Roma, Vitttorio Veniti, Italia, US battleships Colorado, Maryland, West Virginia, New Mexico, Mississippi, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Colombian heavy cruisers Manuel Ancizar, Alberto Lleras Camargo, Italian heavy cruisers Pola, Gloriza, Zara, Verona, Napoli, Palermo, US Light cruisers Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Savannah, Nashville, Boise, Concord, Richmond, Memphis, Luzon, Mindanao, Paney, Cebu, Samar, Guam, South African light cruisers Pretoria, Natal, Capetown, Durban, Kimberly, plus 10 South African destroyers, 20 Italian destroyers, 60 US destroyers, 6 US amphibious fleets, 1 Colombian amphibious fleet, 4 Colombian transports, 12 US transports,

US 21st Army Group (Clark)
1 US x 10 point amphibious corps, 1 x 11 point Australian amphibious corps, 1 US commando unit (Alexandria)
1 US amphibious corps, 1 Italian 10 point amphibious corps, 1 US amphibious engineer unit (Naples)
1 US HQ, 1 x US 12 point mechanized corps (Port Said)
2 x US 6 point mechanized artillery units (Malta)
2 x US 5 point airborne corps, 1 commando unit (Scuttari)
1 x US 6 point airborne corps, 1 x UK 5 point airborne corps (Zonguldak)

US 1st Army Group (Patch)
1 US HQ, 1 x 6 point mechanized artillery (Rhodes)
2 x US 9 point mechanized corps (Syracuse)
2 x US 9 point mechanized corps (Palermo)
1 x US HQ (Tripoli)
1 x US HQ (Panderma)

US 9th Air Force
3 x Skyraider (Alexandria)
3 x Skyraider (Naples)
2 x Corsair (Malta)

US 12th Army Group (Patton)
1 x 15 point armored corps, 1 x 13 point mechanized corps, 1 x 6 point mechanized artillery unit, (1 hex east of Istanbul)
1 x 15 point armored corps, 1 x 13 point mechanized corps, 1 x 6 point mechanized artillery unit (2 hexes east of Istanbul)
1 HQ, 1 x 13 point armored corps, 1 x 11 point mechanized corps, 1 x 6 point flak unit (Istanbul)
2 x 13 point armored corps, 1 HQ (Hodges) (1 hex east of Scutari)
2 x 9 point mechanized corps, 1 x 6 point mechanized artillery unit (rugged hex west of Istanbul)
1 x 13 point armored corps, 1 x 11 point mechanized corps, 1 x 6 point mechanized unit (hex northwest of Istanbul)
1 x 11 point mechanized corps (woods hex next to Scutari)
2 x 11 point South African mechanized corps (Alexandretta)


US 12th Air Force
2 x P80 Jet fighters, 2 x A26 bombers (Sinop)
2 x P80 Jet fighters, 2 x A26 bombers (Istanbul)
1 x B50 heavy bomber, 1 RAF Lincoln heavy bomber, 2 x P51 fighter units (Panderma)
2 x P51, 2 x C47 ((Zonguldak)
2 x P51, 2 x C47 (Scuttari)

US 14th Air Force
3 x A26 bombers, 1 x P51 (Ankara), 1 Moroccan alpine unit, 2 x 6 point flak units
1 x P80 jet fighter, 1 x P51, 2 x C47, 2 x 6 point flak units (Athens)
1 x P51, 3 x C54 (Smyrna)
1 x P61 Nightfighter, 3 x A26 bombers (Lemnos)
3 x A26 Bombers, 1 C47 (Iraklion)

15th Air Force
3 x B35 superheavy bombers, 1 x P51 fighter, 1 x 6 point flak unit (Rhodes)
2 x B35 superheavy bombers, 1x P51 fighter, 1 x 6 point flak unit (Famagusta)

other forces in area
Eastern Turkey – 4 Kurdish militia
Also militia in Syria, Palestine, Kuwait, Eastern Arabia, Saudi Arabia,
Egypt has 2 infantry corps in Syria, Algeria 1 corps in Palestine, Egypt 1 cavalry corps in Mecca

UK 9th Army
1 HQ, 2 x 9 point mechanized corps, 1 Fury fighter, 2 Mosquito bombers, (Mosul)
1 x 9 point mechanized corps, 1 Iraqi militia unit, 1 Fury fighter, 2 Mosquito bombers, (Baghdad)
1 x 9 point mechanizec corps, 1 Basra militia unit (Basra)
2 x C54 heavy transports (Port Said)

Italian and Albanian forces
German and Yugoslav border -- 4 x 5 point garrison, 4 x 7 point motorized infantry, 4 fortifications
Albania -- 2 x 5 point alpine corps, 2 x 11 point armored corps, 2 x 8 point motorized corps, 2 HQs, 1 x 5 point artillery unit, 1 x Albanian 5 x point alpine corps, 1 x Albanian 3 point garrison unit,
in reserve: 1 x 5 point parachute corps, 1 C47 transport (Bari)
Rome 3 x 6 point flak units, 3 CC 102 fighter units
Bari - 2 x Z1024 bombers
Greece -- 3 x 7 point infantry corps (Yugoslav border) 3 x 3 point garrison units (Athens, Patrai, Kalamai), 1 HQ, 2 x 5 point alpine corps (Salanoka)

Other LTA Forces
Japan (MacArthur)
US occupation forces 1 Alpine unit (Sapporo), 1 infantry corps, 1 x 6 flak unit (Tokyo), 1 infantry corps (Hiroshima), 1 x 6 point flak unit (Kyoto), 1 Australian infantry corps (Nagoya)

7th Air Force
1 P51 fighter unit, (Tokyo)
1 P61 night fighter unit, 1 A26 bomber unit (Kyoto)

LTA 7th Fleet (Admiral Crutchley)(Tokyo)
BC Renown, Brisbane, Heavy cruisers Wichita, Australia (RAN), Light cruisers Hobart Melbourne, Adalaide (RAN), Manchester, Hull, Edinburgh, (RN) 10 destroyers (RN), 12 destroyers (RAN), 60 submarines (USN), 20 submarines (RN), 10 submarines (RAN)

20th Air Force (Doolittle)
1 HQ, 3 x B36 superheavy bombers, 1 P51 fighter unit (Rangoon)
2 x C47, 2 x B36 superheavy bombers (Mandalay)

China
US Forces China
13th Air Force (Chennault)
2 x AD1 Skyraider 2 Chinese P47 Chengtu),
2 x AD1 Skyraider, 2 Chinese P47 (Tsingtao)
2 x Chinese P47, 1 Chinese A26 (Nanking)
Chinese Army
Yellow River Line
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 2 x 5 point infantry corps (northwest Tsingtao)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 2 x 5 point infantry corps (Tsinan)
4 x 5 point infantry corps, 2 x 3 point artillery unit (hex southeast of Tsinan)
4 x 5 point infantry corps, 2 x 4 point artillery units (Chengchow)
2 x 5 point infantry corps (Sian)
4 x 6 point infantry corps (Yellow river line north of Chengtu)
in reserve
4 x 7 point Vietnamese infantry corps (Nanking)
4 x 4 point militia (Shanghai)
4 x 4 point militia (Wuhan)
1 x 4 point militia each (Kunming, Chungking)

Central Asia
Indian Army
3 x 8 point infantry corps (Kabul)
3 x 8 point infantry corps (Peshwar)
3 x 8 point infantry corps ( Bandar Abbas, Bandar Shappar, and Bushehr)

Atlantic ASW forces and misc shipping
US 20 shipping units, Colombia 30 shipping units, UK 30 shipping units, Canada 7 shipping units, other allied shipping

30 Colombian destroyers, 15 US escort carriers, 40 US destroyers, 90 US destroyer escorts, 80 US corvettes, 3 US liner units, 1 Canadian PB4Y, 10 Canadian destroyers, 80 Canadian corvettes 100 RN destroyers, 30 RN frigates, 8 RN transports, 7 RN liner units,

North American Defenses
3 Canadian P61 fighter units
15 reserve US pilots
other forces
5 UK reserve pilots (in UK)

various home forces elsewhere

Political
Bulgaria is informed that US forces will be driving through their country with or without their permission. If Bulgaria agree to let the US pass through, the Bulgaria will be awarded the heavily ethnic Bulgarian area of South Dobruja. In addition, Bulgarian intelligence indicts that the Pact is going to invade as well but without providing any territorial incentive. Facing two fires, Bulgaria decides to join the LTA and hope that the Americans win quickly in Rumania before Bulgaria becomes a battlefield.

Strategic
The continues rebuilding its U-boat arm, launches a massive V1 attack against Amsterdam and Rotterdam. However, the 5000 V1s face 1500 Meteors and are mostly shot down, with only a few civilian casualties.

Meanwhile, the Americans launch a powerful bomber offensive against targets deep inside Russia and Germany. American B36s hit Perm in the Urals from bases in Burma heavily damaging the city and wrecking 1 oil center and 1 production center. American B35s operating from Cyprus and Rhodes hit Moscow in a devastating air raid, heavily damaging 3 production centers there. Attacking from England, the Americans also hit Berlin with B50s escorted by Mustangs, brushing aside Pact fighters and damaging 1 production center. American losses overall are light, only a few dozen aircraft lost, as all 3 Pact targets were weakly defended by fighters, and the very high flying bombers are extremely hard to target with flak guns, even guns with proximity fuses. (ooc without proximity fuses, they couldn’t be hit at all. These bombers are cruising at 300 – 400 mph, and flying at over 35,000 feet or more)

Using their massive air transport fleet and headquarters, the Americans are able to double the number of missions they normally would be able to fly, and hit Novosibirsk, Hannover and Tula.


Even though damage was heavy, it could have been worse, as the poor weather limited flying days and often required bombing using radar.

Total damage inflicted
3 production centers Moscow
1 production center Berlin
1 oil and 1 production center Perm
1 oil center (Germany)
1 production center Tula
25 points disrupted (not available for May) plus 6 points a turn lost until repaired

280,000 civilian casualties
(84 points needed for repairs)

Otherwise, the continued bad weather in the major theaters limits operations to patrol actions. The UN forces continue to move forces around in preparation for May, and the Union makes its own plans and shifts what forces it can. The Union attempts to use its few remaining submarines in the Black Sea and its bombers (at night) to mine the Dardenelles, but extremely strong Allied naval forces sink 7 and damage 3 of the Union boats (eliminating it as a force), while American P61 nightfighters drive off the Union HE177s.

The LTA launch massive blows against the Pact in China, the Ukraine, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Germany and northern Russia.
Weather is clear on all fronts.

China
Chinese forces launch an massive offensive (ultimately involving 22 corps of Vietnamese and Chinese troops, and 2500 US and 3250 Chinese aircraft versus 14 Manchurian corps) along the Yellow between Sian and Tsian and get across the river. The Manchurians counterattack in force, and then the Vietnamese reserves enter the battle. Massive air support from Claire Chennault’s US/Chinese 13th Air Force makes the difference, and 7 Manchurian and 3 Chinese corps are destroyed, and 3 more Manchurian corps are shattered. In all, the Manchurians lose 395,000 casualties while the Chinese suffer only 150,000, and the Chinese have scored a major victory, and have reached the gates of Taiyuan. They have also unhinged the Manchurian line, and the Manchurians are forced to pull back from Lanchow and retreat north.

Chinese losses: 2 x 6 point infantry, 1 x 5 point infantry
Manchurian losses: 7 x 7 point infantry, plus 3 x 7 point infantry shattered.

Check you TGs, Galveston.

Check you TGs, Galveston.
ooc
Rumania it is...besides, I would think the Afrikaaners (the descendents of the Kommandos) would approve of Patton.

IC
The Americans, with assistance from their South African, Italian, British and Australian allies, and their new ally, Bulgaria, launch massive invasions of Rumania, the Crimea and the southern Ukraine.

The Allied Armade of nearly 500 warships and well over 10,000 transports, amphibious assault ships and support ships enters the Black Sea. Supporting the invasions are nearly 15,000 Allied (mostly American) aircraft.

The Pact responds by sending every plane they have against the fleet. In all 7500 aircraft attack the massive fleet, and at the cost of 1650 aircraft, the Pact sinks the brand new British carrier Soveriegn of the Seas with 20 torpedo hits, and heavily damages the brand new American carriers Lexington, Saratoga and Yorktown, knocking them out of action, the only carriers in the fleet able to handle jets. The Americans also 400 fighters, plus another 300 are out of the fight with the departure of the 3 American super carriers.

The Allies discover that the P1011 is superior to their FH1 Phantoms, not to mention the piston-engined Bearcats and prop/jet combination FJ1. All 400 Allied fighters lost are shot down by the German built jet, who clear the way for the Union bombers although themselves also knocked out of the flight but the large number of Allied fighters cost the Union 400 of their own jets as well and while the Phantoms and FJ1s kept the fighters busy, enough Bearcats get through to shoot down 250 of the HE177s as they attack with television guided missiles. . Allied flak is deadly as ever though, shooting down 1250 enemy aircraft, badly disrupting attacks, and Allied jamming prevents any hits from the television guided missiles.

Once Allied troops get ashore, the Union jet fighter bases are overrun, costing the Union another 400 Jets on the ground and shattering the ground elements of the jet fighter units involved.

As immense as the Union attack is, its not enough to drive the Allies away, and US and Italian Marines and Australian and American infantry land on a broad front from Odessa to Nikolayev.

Ukraine Summary
The Australians and Americans land at Odessa, and suffer very heavy casualties, losing 100,000 casualties (divided evenly US and Australian) among the US Marines and Australian infantry (all American and Australian units are veterans of the Invasion of Japan). However, they inflict 100,000 Union casualties as well, and the American Marines and Australians manage to clear the way for American mechanized troops to take the city. Meanwhile, at Nikolayev, American Army troops (veterans of the invasion of France) and Italian Marines, supported by RAF and USAAF heavy bombers which carpet bomb and badly disrupt the Union armored units present, and heavily supported by naval gunfire and aircraft, smash both Pact armored corps, inflicting 100,000 Union losses but suffering 50,000 American and 10,000 Italian casualties. But the Allies are ashore in the Ukraine, and hundreds of transports carrying hundreds of thousands of troops are already entering the Black Sea to bring ashore reinforcements.

The Union counterattacks with the its remaining armored corps at Odessa, hoping to retake the city, and have strong support from 750 Jet bombers, but the Americans are dug in deep, and hold off the attack, costing both sides 50,000 more casualties. With a huge expanse of the Union practically naked of troops, the Union is forced to pull reserves from Warsaw, and Moscow, as well troops from Frankfurt and Karlsruhe and send them by rail to the Ukraine to establish a line.

Allied reinforcements arrive and the Union continues their heavy air attacks on the Allied fleet, now concentrating on anti aircraft cruisers and battleships hoping to clear the way for further attacks. The Allies still have 600 carrier fighters left though, and the 3,000 remaining Union torpedo planes, now without fighter escort, face an extreme difficulties. The Allies shoot down 2,200 of the enemy aircraft at the cost of 100 fighters and no hits are scored on the Allied fleets. The US bring in the 9th Air Force to help hold the lodgement and widen it by attacking and taking Culatae-Alba, and destroying the remaining Union forces in the area (another 50,000 Union casualties and only 5,000 US casualties).

Meanwhile, in the Crimea, the Allied paratroopers take Kerch, which is undefended, and the Pact is forced to move 2 infantry corps from Persia to secure Krasnador and keep the Allies from crossing over the Kerch Straits.

Rumania
Bulgaria joins the LTA, and the Americans attacks Rumania with the aid of the 12th, 14th and 15th Air Forces (4500 aircraft) and 13 corps. The Pact fights hard, but is simply overwhelmed in the air, and then once air superiority is achieved, American bombers continually pound the Pact troops while armored and mechanized forces under the command of Generals Patton and Hodges overwhelm them in detail. By the end of June the Americans hold the wreckage of Ploesti and Bucharest, have taken Constanza, and linked up with Allied forces in the Ukraine. The South Africans also have an army in Rumania and remain in reserve for most of the action, although in June destroy a Pact infantry corps near Constanza and then drive north clearing the rest of Rumania of resistance reaching Cernauth on the Dneisser River by the end of June.

However the two campaigns are really part of one overall campaign.

OOC
UK losses 1 heavy carrier (Soveriegn of the Seas), 1 carrier jet fighter unit 1,500 casualties
US losses: 2 amphibious corps, 2 mechanized corps, 1 P80 jet fighter unit, 1 pilot, 3 heavy carriers (Saratoga, Lexington, and Yorktown) damanged, 2 carrier fighter units, 250,000 casualties, 800 aircraft
Australian losses: 1 amphibious corps, 50,000 casaulties
Plus 10,000 Italian casualties

Union losses: 6 armored corps, 9 motorized corps, 5 infantry corps, 1 alpine corps, 1 HQ, 6 artillery units, 2 flak units, 2 P1011. 2 ME262, 3 TA152, 2 HE177, 2 IL10, 4 BV193, 6 pilot units destroyed 1 motorized corps, 3 artillery units, 1 flak unit, 2 P1011, 1 TA152 shattered. 1,800,000 casualties and 7100 aircraft destroyed.
Rumania surrenders (40 production points lost each year, and 5 a turn for the remainder of the year)
3 oil centers lost (60 oil maintenance points
Odessa and its 5 production centers also are no longer available, and the Allies are within easy range of the Union oil i Maikop. (almost 10% of their remaining oil available)

Lapland
The LTA 2nd Fleet, 100 warships and 3000 amphibious, transport and support ships and including 9 light carriers steams into the Barents Sea and rounds Nord Kapp and begins landing the Allied 5th Army Group at Petsamo and Murmansk, both of which are minimally defended. The Union is caught completely by surprise, as all of their intelligence sources pointed at invasions from the south, east and west, but nothing leaked about anything from the north. The small Union Northern Fleet is easily destroyed, and both ports are quickly under Allied control. They are forced to strip the Western Front of 6 infantry corps, and commit their 4 airborne corps and hurriedly rail them north to defend Karellia and Finland. This has the side benefit for the allies of stripping the entire Western TVD of its reserves (when the forces sent to the Ukraine are factored in).

The Canadians drive into Finland, destroying a pair of Pact parachute corps in northern Finland and cutting the direct land route from Finland to Sweden while the Americans overrun Archangel and destroy 2 Union infantry corps there. At that point the front stabilizes.

Pact losses: 200,000 casualties and access to the Atlantic via the Barents Sea.
Allied losses: 10,000 Canadian and 10,000 US casualties

Balkans
The Italians, Greeks, Bulgarians and Albanians watch the American conquest of Rumania with great interest. Meanwhile, the Yugoslavs now find themselves dealing with the possibility of being attacked from 3 sides. Reserves are stripped from Belgrade and Skopje to form a front facing Rumania and Bulgaria. The LTA decides to wait just a little longer.

Western Front
The Allies wait, and watch as the Pact is forced to strip Germany of reserves to deal with disasters elsewhere.

Strategic warfare
Allied bombers hammer Stuttgart and Vladivostok, inflicting severe damage (5 production centers lost each) to both targets and suffer minimal losses as neither target is strongly defended by flak and neither has fighter cover.

American bombers from England then hit Nuremburg (1 production center) while the American bombers in Burma hit Mukden inflicting serious damage to 2 production centers

Total Pact economic losses May/July 40 points, plus 13 requiring repair, plus 10 conquered (Rumania) and 10 conquered (Odessa, Kerch)

Pact Deployment July 1941
Home land defenses
Warsaw – 2 flak, 2 x 9 point motorized corps,1 P1011 jet fighter
Minsk – 1 flak, 3 x antitank units
Berlin - 2 flak, 2 antitank units, 1 DO335 fighter unit, 2 P1011 jet fighters
Essen - 2 flak, 2 ME262, 2 Ar234 (jet bombers)0
Koln - 2 flak, 2 Ar 234 jet bombers, 2 P1011 jet fighters
Frankfurt-- 2 Flak,2 P1011 jet fighters
Munich - 2 flak, 1 fortification
Vienna - 2 flak, 2 anti tank units
Moscow – 4 flak, 2 P1011 Jet fighters
Minsk - 2 flak, 2 antitank units,
Baku – 4 TA152 , 2 ME262, 4 flak,
Prague – Czech 1 TA152 unit, 2 flak units, 3 infantry corps (adjacent)
Budapest – 2 flak unit, 1 TA152, 3 Ar234 jet bombers
Dusseldorf – 1 flak, 3 antitank units,
Hamburg – 1 flak, 4 P1011 jet fighters,
Hannover - 1 flak, 3 antitank units
Perm – 4 flak, 1 P1011 jet fighter
Novosibirsk –1 P1011 jet fighter
Sverdlovsk – 4 flak, 1 P1011 jet fighter
Lvov – 2 x 6 point infantry corps
Lodz – 2 x 6 point infantry corps
Danzig – 2 x 6 point infantry corps
Dresden – 1 x 6 point infantry corps
Grozny – 4 flak,

Karellian TVD
1 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 5 point airborne corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, 1 x 4 flak unit (Helsink)
1 x 6 point infantry corps , 1 x 5 point airborne corps (Vyborg)
2 x 6 point infantry corps,1 x 3 point artillery unit (Karellia X hex)
1 x 12 point mechanized corps, 1 theater supply unit, 2 flak, 3 JU188 bombers (Petrograd)

Western TVD
(Germany/Burgundy/Holland/Denmark)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Copenhagen)
2 x 8 point motorized corps (2 hexes west of Copenhagen)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 fortification, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Kiel)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 fortification, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Bremen)
2 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit ((1 hex east of Amsterdam)
2 x 12 point armored corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, (1 hex west of Essen)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (1 hex west of Dusseldorf)
2 x 12 point armored corps , 1 x 5 point flak unit (Cologne)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Aachen)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (1 hex west of Saarbrucken)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Metz)
2 x 12 point armored corps (hex southeast of Metz)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (hex northwest of Zurich)
4 x 5 point Alpine corps, 4 x 6 point infantry corps, (Italian border)
1 HQ, 1 fortification, (Munich)

Balkan TVD
(Yugoslavia/Hungary)
4 x 5 point alpine corps (Italian border)
1 x 6 point infantry, 1 x YU 7 point infantry (Skopje)
2 x 6 point infantry corps (west of Sofia adjacent)
2 x 6 point infantry corps (southeast of fist adjacent)
2 x 7 YU point infantry corps (2 hexes northwest Sofia)
2 x 8 YU point motorized corps (2 hexes southeast Hungarian fist)
2 x 7 HU point infantry corps (3 hexes west of Rumanian fist)
2 x 7 YUpoint infantry corps, 1 TA152 (Belgrade)
1 x 7 YU point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery units (Zagreb)
2x 1 point guerilla units (2 mountain hexes in Greece)

Ukrainian TVD
1 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 9 point motorized corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, 1 x 4 point flak, 3 x TA152, (Dneipropetrovsk)
1 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 9 point motorized corps, 1 artillery unit (1 hex east of Nikolayev
2 x 12 mechanized corps, (southwest adjacent Dneipropetrovsk)
1 HQ unit (west of Stalino adjacent)
1 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 flak unit, 1 artillery unit, 1 theater supply unit, 3 TA152 (Stalino)
2 x 8 point motorized infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, 1 x 4 point flak unit, 2 P1101 jet fighters, (Kiev)
2 x 14 point armored corps, 1 HQ, (east of Kiev adjacent)
1 x IL10 torpedo bomber, 2 BV193 torpedo bomber, 1 x TA152, 2 x 6 point infantry corps (Berdiansk)
2 x HE177 heavy naval air, 2 TA152, 4 antitank units (Kharkov)
1 antitank unit, 2 x 6 point infantry corps (Kursk)

Caucasus TVD
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Batumi)
8 x 6 point infantry corps, 4 x 4 point artillery units (Turkish/Soviet border in rough terrain)
2 x 14 point armored corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Tiflis)
2 x 7 point infantry corps (Tabriz)
2 x 7 point infantry corps (Tehran)
2 x 8 point motorized infantry corps (Baku)

Central Asian TVD
2 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 theater supply unit (Meshed)
2 x 5 point alpine corps (Samarkand)
2 x 5 point alpine corps, (Tashkent)
2 x 14 point armored corps, 1 theater supply unit (Karaganda)
2 x 3 point cavalry corps (Alma Ata)

Manchurian TVD
2 x 5 point infantry corps, 2 ME234 heavy bombers (Ulan Bator)
2 x 7 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (northeast Lanchow adjacent)
2 x 3 point cavalry corps (2 hexes west of Taiyuan)
2 x 7 point infantry corps (northwest of Lanchow adjacent)
2 x 7 point infantry corps, 1x 6 point infantry corps (Peking)
3 x 6 point infantry corps,1 theater supply unit (Tientsin)
2 x 8 point motorized infantry corps, 1 x 3 point arillery unit, 2 x 12 point mechanized corps, 1 HQ (Taiyun)
3 x 7 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, 4 TA152, (Port Arthur)

2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, 2 TA152 (Vladivostok),
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Khaborovsk)
3 x 6 point infantry corps, 3 x 3 point artillery units (2 on Sakkalin, 1 Kamchatka)

Reserve forces
2 x 6 point amphibious corps, 2 commando units, 4 HE177 (Riga)
2 x 6 point amphibious corps, 2 command units (Helsinki)
3 x JU52, (Danzig)
4 x JU52, (Stettin)


Baltic Squadron, based at Gdansk
3 superbattleships (Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Ferdinand Lasalle 2 battleships (Cádiz, Venezia 3 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 48 destroyers (5 light ships), 15 frigates (1 light ship), 20 corvettes (1 light ship 40 submarines (4 units commanded by Commodore Karl Dönitz), 1 amphibious assault fleets, 2 naval infantry corps, 3 light naval air wings, 2 heavy naval air wings, 8 converted troop transports, 13 shipping units

Adriatic Fleet
1 Yugo CL, 10 Yugo DD, 10 Yugo Submarines

the Pact sinks the brand new British carrier Soveriegn of the Seas with 20 torpedo hits

Ah no, not my brand new ship! The Ruskies will pay for that one, now i've got to build another, keeping up with the neighbours and whatnot. I'll have to raid the English great ships list (1400-1650) for some old fashioned traditional names again.

Anyway a few random musings: Will Frigate warfare emerge during this war for ASW and maybe AAW useage? Or will that wait until after the war? Also perhaps battleships will begin to be phased out like in WWII, except for the USN which maintained Battleships for fire support until the 90's. I believe most others were decommissioned by the 60's.

So, back on with the war...

Ah no, not my brand new ship! The Ruskies will pay for that one, now i've got to build another, keeping up with the neighbours and whatnot. I'll have to raid the English great ships list (1400-1650) for some old fashioned traditional names again.

Anyway a few random musings: Will Frigate warfare emerge during this war for ASW and maybe AAW useage? Or will that wait until after the war? Also perhaps battleships will begin to be phased out like in WWII, except for the USN which maintained Battleships for fire support until the 90's. I believe most others were decommissioned by the 60's.

So, back on with the war...

ooc
I had the British buy a new carrier which will show up in 1943. At this point, frigates (and the US version, destroyer escorts) are shouldering a lot of the load in the Atlantic, which is about to heat up again as the Pact throws the first snorkel boats into the fray. The last battleship encounter, if it occurs will be in the Baltic or North Sea between the US/RN Home Fleet and the Pact Baltic fleet.

Mostly though, battleships are providing AAW and shore bombardment support. The US already plans to demobilize its 8 old battleships soon.

for a British carrier, I would suggest the "Ark Royal", as at the moment you don't have one.

China
The Chinese continue their offensive while the Vietnamese are in reserve, taking Taiyuan, and destroying the Manchurian army retreating in the Gobi desert west of the Great Wall. The Manchurians counterattack, and inflict serious casualties but are unable to drive the Chinese back out of Taiyuan. However, the Chinese are stopped when they assault Peking, and the Manchurians hold. Heavy air combat occurs as well, as both sides commit every plane that will fly.

Chinese losses: 2 infantry corps, 3 P47 shot down (120,000 casualties, 1500 aircraft)
Manchurian losses: 2 motorized infantry, 3 infantry, 1 artillery unit destroyed, 1 infantry, 2 mechanized, 1 HQ, 1 artillery unit shattered. (400,000 casualties)
Union losses: 2 Ta 152, 1 ME234, 1 pilot (1250 aircraft)
Mongolian losses: 2 cavalry corps (100,000 casualties)

Balkans
The Americans, Italians, British, Albanians, Greeks, South Africans, and Bulgarians launch a massive offensive aimed at knocking Hungary and Yugoslavia out of the war and opening the doors to Czechslovakia and Poland. In July, in heavy fighting, the American 3rd Army clears the Hungarians out of Transylvania while the US 7th and South African 1st Armies clear the Yugoslavs out of the mountains passes and rugged hills between Rumania and Belgrade in costly fighting. Massive Allied air support makes all the difference, as is does further south as the Allies take Skopje in Yugoslavia. Only in Kosovo are the Allies held back. The Pact, facing pressure in Germany, Karallia and Ukraine, all places more vital, scrapes together what reserves it can, sending Union and Czech troops based in Warsaw and Prague to Hungary. The US 7th Army, South African 1st Army, Bulgarian Army, Italian Army, Greek Army and Albanian Army then destroy the bulk of Yugoslav forces in southern Yugoslavia, and take Sarajevo and Dubrovnik. At that point, the Slovenes secede from Yugoslavia and declare independence, and the remnants of the Yugoslav government surrenders. Among the dead at Belgrade was Tito and the bulk of the political leadership.

With the Yugoslav surrender on August 3, the Pact army guarding the Yugoslavian/Italian border finds itself in danger of being cut off, and it retreats into Austria. With no flank, the Union/Czech line along the Danube guarding Hungary is wide open to attack as well, and the Czechs pull back to Bratislavia, and the Union troops have no choice but to pull back to Vienna.

Patton swiftly overruns Budapest, which surrenders without a fight, and with it the Hungarian government. By the end of August, the Bulgarians have taken over the occupation of Rumania, the Greeks, Albanians and Italians are occupying Yugoslavia and watching the Union troops in Austria, and Patton’s Army group is concentrating in Hungary for the next offensive.

Losses:
US 2 mechanized corps, 100,000 casualties
South Africa 10,000 casualties
Italy 1 motorized corps, 50,000 casualties
Hungarian and Yugoslav armies are destroyed (150,000 Hungarian and 500,000 Yugoslav troops
Pact loses Budapest, which falls intact to Allies (along with entire Hungarian economy) and Zagreb, worth 5 production centers is now controlled by Italians.

Albania annexes Kosovo, Greece annexes Macedonia, Italy makes Slovenia a client state, and rest of Yugoslavia is occupied. Belgrade can be repaired but is not an important LTA priority at this time.
Ukrainian Front
The British 9th Army is rushed up from Bulgaria, after it had been rushed from Iraq the previous month and reaches the Dniesser River by middle of July. Allied carriers of the 6th Fleet and the Crimean based 9th Air Force launch airstrikes at Union airbases in the southern Ukraine, hitting Dneiperpetrovsk, Stalino and Berdiansk. The Allies lose 100 aircraft, mostly Marine Corsairs based out of the Crimea but destroy 1500 TA152s (killing 2 pilot units as well), and destroying 300 Pact torpedo bombers on the ground and extensively damaging their bases, knocking the 1200 surviving aircraft out of action until September.

The Union then launches a massive counteroffensive aimed at retaking Nikoleyev and Odessa and sends every one of its remaining aircraft into the air to support the ground attack and hit the battleships supporting the defense. Carriers from the 6th Fleet provide support for the 5th Fleet, while the 12th Air Force commits a sizeable fraction of its strength to support the US 9th Army commanded by General Hodges at Nikolayev. Heavy air combat over the sea and over Nikolayev costs the Americans 1000 P80s and 100 P51s, and air strikes sink the old American battleships Tennessee, West Virginia and California, and the Italian battleship Roma and send the Italian battleship Littorio home heavily damaged. The Union troops manage to take the port however, and wreck the US 5th Army, inflicting 160,000 casualties and forcing the 5th Fleet to evacuate 150,000 troops of the 9th Army and 9th Air Force. Pact ground losses are minimal, only 10,000. General Clark, commander of the 21st Army Group is among the dead, killed by a bomb during the evacuation, while the 9th Army Commander, Hodges, is severally wounded and captured. It is the first major defeat the LTA has suffered in nearly 2 years.

Eisenhower takes personal command of the situation, and orders the US 9th Army to hold in place while the British 9th Army continues to move up. The Union armor then strikes at Odessa, and is bloodily repulsed. Eisenhower then orders a counterattack from General Wilson’s British 9th Army and General Simpson’s 5th Army, as well as a parachute landing of elements of the Allied 1st Airborne Army behind the enemy. The badly mauled Union 6th Panzer Army is encircled, and then destroyed. Having lost a third of its striking power, and now outflanked, the Union 1st and 2nd Ukranian fronts are hurriedly order to retreat northeast to Kiev and do so.

US losses: 2 P80 jet fighter units, 2 AD1 Skyraider units, 3 old battleships, 1 mechanized corps, 1 amphibious engineer unit destroyed, 1 mechanized corps, 1 HQ, 1 mechanized artillery unit shattered (2250 aircraft, 200,000 casualties)
Italian losses: 1 battleship sunk, 1 damaged, 5,000 casaulties
British losses: 10,000 casualties
Union casualties: 2 P1011 jet fighter units, 3 TA152 fighter units, 2 motorized corps, 2 armored corps, 2 artillery units, (3000 aircraft, 350,000 casualties)

Western Front
The British 2nd Army attacks at Arnhem on July 4 supported by the entire 8th Air Force and substantial numbers of RAF jet fighters. The Union throws all of the fighters it has in the area, and deadly fighting destroys 1000 RAF jets but they fail to penetrate the thick screen of escorts and are driven off, losing 100 of their number. American bombers then drop thousands of tons of bombs, badly mauling the Union 5th Panzer Army, and the overwhelming attack that follows destroys 2 Union armored corps, as well as the survivors of artillery in the area. The British advance and threaten to isolate the other half of the 5th Panzer Army. Meanwhile, the Colombian 1st Army attacks in the Ardennes, and here Colombian and Union jets duel. The Colombians lose 1000 jets, but take all 500 of the Union jets with them. Once again the P1011 has proven to be a dangerous enemy in the air. In heavy fighting, the severely outnumbered Union troops are crushed in the Ardennes and the survivors driven out, getting the Colombians across the Meuse River.

The Pact High Command orders the line to hold in the south, and shifts every available reserve in a desperate effort to restore the line in Holland. The 7th Army, 5th Panzer and 3rd Panzer Armies launch an all out attack against the Arnhem Salient The counterattack fails and the Union suffers heavy losses on the ground, while continued heavy fighting in the air bleeds both sides heavily, with 1200 RAF and 700 Union aircraft lost.

The second part of the LTA plan now goes into effect and British commandos seize the northern tip of Denmark and its useful port, while US and Royal Marines land north of the Kiel Canal in Denmark and Germany and destroy the Union forces in the area and also close the Kiel Canal, the last outlet the Pact has to the Atlantic. Further south, the 2nd Army continues its drive, destroying the other half of the 5th Panzer Army in Holland, while the Colombians and British 8th Army attacks Aachan, supported again by the 8th Air Force. The remainder of the Union 6th Army is destroyed and the city falls on July 30.

The Pact is forced to shorten its line, and orders are given to pull all forces south of Koln across the Rhine, abandoning Burgundy (much to the relief of its people). In August, the British mop up the remainder of Pact forces in Holland, capturing 100,000 prisoners, while Spanish, Colombian, and Chilean forces liberate Burgundy, which has managed to escape the war undamaged (ooc because it didn’t resist the Pact invasion and the Pact didn’t fight here, although the Burgundians accept it as a miracle.

In late August, after the Allies take Helsinki (Finland) and Hango (eliminating the missile threat against Sweden), the Swedes declare war on the Union, followed by Norway with the objective of liberating Denmark. The Swedes provide pilots for the Home Fleet to navigate through the minefields in the Kattegatt, and the British and Americans enter the North Sea in strength.

The Union sends its fleet out to engage the enemy, knowing its last chance had come. Its the last big gun duel of the century and the finale for the battleship, but they go down hard. All 5 Union battleships, 2 light cruisers and 5 destroyers are sunk in the battle, while the Union fleet dies game, sinking the US battleship Montana, the British heavy cruiser Cambrian and 12 destroyers and sending the battleships Vanguard, Thunder, Lion and Temaire along with 5 destroyers home for repairs. The surviving Union ships break off, and then learn that the 4 Iowa class battleships are actually faster then they are. All 3 Union heavy cruisers are sunk, as are 11 more destroyers by the big guns of the 34 knot battleships, while British and American cruisers and destroyers finish off the remaining Union ships. Only 2 Union destroyers escape and make it back to Riga. The Union Navy is no more.

With the LTA controlling the Baltic, Swedish bombers attack the Union troops at Denmark, and then US and Royal Marines, and Swedish troops attack the Union forces, and quickly overrun them as they run out of supplies. By August 28, Denmark has been completely liberated. Other Swedish forces move into Lappland to take over occupation duties in Murmansk, Petsamo, and Archangel, while more Swedish troops take over occupation duties in Helsinki.

British losses: 3 Meteor jet fighter units, 1 Mosquito bomber unit, (190 aircraft, plus 30,000 ground casualties)
Colombian losses: 2 P80 jet fighter units (12000 aircraft) plus 30,000 ground casualties
US losses: 20,000 ground casualties, 1 warship, 1200 naval casualties
Swedish losses: 5,000 ground casualties, 100 aircraft
Union losses: 2 armored corps, 4 motorized corps, 2 artillery units, 8 infantry corps destroyed, 2 P1011 jet fighter units (1200 aircraft, 450,000 casualties). In addition, 56 warships and 50,000 naval casualties

The Netherlands, Burgundy and Denmark liberated. Finland and Karellia conquered

Karellia
American bombers hit the Union missile sites at Hango and the elsewhere, neutralizing them. On August 4, the Americans and Canadians assault Helsinki, taking the city in heavy fighting. Shifting east, they then attack and drive out the Union forces holding Viipori (Vyborg), and and a provesional government forms in Helsinki and declares its independence.

Losses:
Union 2 infantry corps destroyed, 2 shattered. Plus 20 V2 missile units destroyed (when Hango is overrun).

July August 1941
American B36s continue their raids over Union targets but switch to night missions. They concentrate on Sverdlovsk, and in a series of raids devastate the city, inflicting nearly 500,000 civilian casualties and wrecking all 5 production centers.

Political
Sweden and Norway join in the war against the Union. Finland gains its independence, as does Slovenia. Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia have been conquered by LTA forces, and Burgundy, Belgium and the Netherlands are now completely liberated. The Albanians annex Kosovo, and the Greeks annex Macedonia.

Some communists still try to fight on in France, but the massive LTA occupation forces hunts them down and kills or captures nearly all by the end of the summer. The French people just don't have their heart in it. Many viewed the war as a massive mistake caused by idealists in Paris out of touch with the the French people. Being conquered by the Anglo-Americans twice in two decades is enough most decide.

September October 1941
The Fall rains begin in the Arctic weather zone, but the skies remain sunny elsewhere except for the Northern Monsoon zone, where rains come as well.

Political
The Union government attempts to begin evacuating industry from Germany and triggers massive social unrest. Recently called up militia and homeguard units instead decide to defy the government, particularly as many view it as a Russian plot to strip Germany. Union troops are called in to disarm the rebellous militias, and a disaster occurs. German militia begin fighting Union troops. The Russian troops open fire, which in turn triggers fighting between Russian and German troops. The fighting spreads across Germany and also breaks out in Poland.

In Czechslovakia, the military looks at the situation, and stages a coup, overthrowing the communist government. The Czechs begin looking for a way out of the war.

ooc
German and Russian fighting based on orders from Parthini, and is also reasonable, as the Germans are still a market economy and are more democratic then the Russian portions of the Union. A split was inevitable, even Vas agreed with that, and with the stresses of continual military defeat, the split has finally come.

China
The Chinese and Vietnamese finally take Peking and then Tientsin after maneuvering to isolate them. Another 200,000 Chinese, 50,000 Vietnamese and 400,000 Manchurians become casualties.

Karellia
Bad weather brings operations to a close for now.

Germany
As the Union forces tear themselves to peaces, the Americans and South Africans and Italians drive into Austria and then Poland, while the British, Colombians, Dutch, Belgians, Chileans, Argentines, and Spanish drive into the heart of Germany. Resistance eventually collapses by the end of September, and Patton reaches Berlin on October 30. Bavaria is the first major portion of Germany to surrender, but just before Patton reaches Berlin, a provisional German government takes power, led by the Rommel and several members of the General Staff, and Germany officially surrenders and leaves the Pact.

The Russians lose nearly 500,000 troops, while nearly 3 million German soldiers go into captivity. Czechslovakia also surrenders, and Poles form a provisional government in Warsaw, even as the Union government flees to Kubyshev.

OOC: Yay! I get my Deutchlanders back!

If everyone remembers, Germany and Britian were allied until the Revolution. Also, I know the Kaiser died in 41, but he's to interesting to kill off just yet :)

IC: In London, word of the surrender and withdrawl from the Pact of Germany brings great excitement to the Government-in-Exile. A very old Kaiser praises the LTA for their swift decisions in crushing the Communist scum. The Kaiser, nearing 83 years has assembled a staff of old Junkers and has begun to create an advisory staff for assembly of the Empire in Exile. Acting under authority of the Reichstag, the new Staff has unanimously agreed to petition their protectors and allies, the British, for restoring of the Kaiser to the throne of Prussia and Germany.

The Kaiser, sensing his death, has begun to write a biography of himself titled Mein Kampf, outlining his life as both Kaiser and Kaiser in Exile, as well as a harsh commentary on the last 25 years of Germany's history.

IC: PM Churchill's government begins discussion with the German Kaiser and his staff as to the reconstruction of Germany and the future of Europe. The old Anglo-German alliance is dusted off and presented to the German Government for renewal (though it is technically still in effect). Britain advises the other members of the LTA to allow the restoral of the old German government.

The interim German government is allocated spare offices in Whitehall and an embassy near to Buckingham Palace. King George VI is also keen to continue meetings with his great Uncle, the Kaiser (which I presume would've happened in the meantime anyway) at the Palace.

OOC: GB, the Ark Royal's fine, please use that.

Parthini, please make good use of Rommel! Too valuable to waste!

November – December 1941
Political
Poland joins the UN, and declares war on the Union and creates an army with US and British assistance. German and Polish industry is put to work for the Allied cause, providing small arms for the Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Chilean, and Indian armies, as well as for US and British elite forces. The French Panther tank hull with a fixed 88 mm gun is also put into production for those armies. The French economy is also put to work producing US trucks and halftracks.

The Union declares itself the USSR (Soviet Union for short) and vows to liberate the territory lost in the name of socialism and freedom. Naturally, the UN continues its war aims, which call for the destruction of the Soviet Union as a unified state as a threat to world peace and security.

Other events
LTA forces and local militias continue to mop up pockets of Soviet resistance in Germany and Poland. Cut off from supply, most of these pockets eventually surrender when ammunition runs out, but heavy fighting occurs in a number of German cities. Between the Allied bombing, civil unrest and conventional fighting, nearly 500,000 German civilians are dead, and nearly 2 million have become casualties since the war began. However, the LTA does allow the release of older men with families from POW camps, and careful screening for political reliability allows for more to go home. A number of exiles from overseas come home as well, including the Imperial family. After some discussion, the LTA does allow the Germans to form a German Legion under German officers consisting of anticommunist volunteers to fight against the Russians. Manstein, a German exile officer whose family fled to England in 1918, who had been serving in the British Army, is appointed commander of the 2 mechanized corps formed.
The Poles also form an army of 4 corps to fight against the Russians under General Anders.

Meanwhile, having suffered a catastrophic disaster, the Soviets hurriedly assemble what troops they can to form a line in Belorussia, the Ukraine, and the Baltic States. Poor weather prevents serious operations by the LTA, which is good from the Soviet perspective.

January – February 1942
Political
The Soviets further purge non-communist elements in the Union government. In Manchuria, a similar purge occurs. Meanwhile, Mongolia looks for a way out of the war. In Kashgaria, the government is very glad that they sat it out. The US government hands formal civil administration of Formosa and Hainan to China. Okinawa and its islands are placed under US administration as a UN mandate. The LTA helps the Ukraine form a civilian democratic government in Odessa to take over administration once the rest of the Ukraine is cleared of Soviet troops. Ethnic Ukranian troops become unreliable and pure ethnic units are dispersed and the troops spread around to more reliable units. Similar moves are made to ensure the reliability of the Balts and Central Asians.

Other events
The Soviets continues to build up its defenses as best it can. Meanwhile, the LTA begins shifting troops around for spring operations. Poor weather continues to make operations difficult and the war continues at a lull for now.

March April 1942
Events from previous months gain momentum. Spanish, Argentine, and Italian troops are given the occupation mission for Germany, Czechslovakia and Yugoslavia (along with the Greeks and Bulgarians). Swedish forces also have occupation duty in Kiel and Eastern Prussia. The bulk of the US and British armies, along with the South Africans, Colombians, Poles, German Legion, Scandics, Chileans, Canadians, and Italians assemble in Finland, Prussia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the eastern Ukraine for the invasion of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, Chinese forces continue to pressure the Manchurians and Mongolians and LTA amphibious forces assemble in Japan to threaten Siberia.

The Soviets prepare for a final stand, hoping to wear the Allies out through exhaustion and save Communism.

Both sides continue atomic research and are near production of a bomb. Both are also working on biological weapons, although the Soviets are working with more urgency then the LTA. In April, both sides explode atomic weapons, the Americans in New Mexico, and the Soviets in Kazakstan. While senior Allied officials discuss the uses of this new weapon, the Soviets already know what they plan to do with theirs. Each side will only have 1 working weapon a month for the remainder of the year.

Sargeant Bao Tanh looked across the flat land from his foxhole at the enemy lines, a small enemy mechanized unit was defending this approach into Peking and the elite 1st Rifles were part of the group asigned to assault from the north after days of labouriously encircling he city.
Gripping his tompson in sweaty palms, Bao surveyed his platoon, they were good men, each and every one. He had lost many and he would certainly lose more.
A shrill whistle sounded and over to the left a high ranking Chinese commander sat atop his tank and brought his arm down in a chopping motion.
Checking his weapon for the last time he breathed deeply and looked around once more, wondering which of these faces he was seeing for the last time.
"Advance!!" His shout was muffled by the planes screeching overhead, but his men followed him as he leapt out of his foxhole and onto the the hard earth, breaking into a run to keep up with the monsterous tanks.
Artillery thundered in the distance and a plane, it's engine flaming from a direct hit, plunged into the rooftops. Enemy fire zipped all around him as he continued forward, the tank beside him opened fire, it's cannon obliterating a building containing a machine gun nest. A rifleman two metres away crumpled as a bullet hit him in the chest, still Bao charged forward.
He hit the cold, hard wall of a building and crouched down, breathing heavily to catch his breath as the rest of the platoon joined him. After making a quick headcount and silently mourning those who had not made it, he peeked around the corner and into the street. Smoke and dust obscured most of thwe skyline and anemy troops scurried from cover to cover firing at the advancing allies.
A chinese tank rumbled down the street and the platoon fell in behind it, pausing ever now and then to crouch and take shots at the enemy positions.
return fire pierced the air around him and fires friom explosions boiled the air, still he fought on, blazing away at the enemy.
They rounded a corner and a sound like a banshee's call filled the air and the turret of the tank blossomed in flame. The manchurian holding the panzerfaust was quickly downed and his men took up positions pouring fire into the enemy.
Crouching behind a fallen archway he reviewed his objective map, given to him before the battle. A large red circle denotated the position of the AA battery he was to assault and green crosses showed the landmarks that he could identify. scanning the visible skyline he orientated the map and looked around. The fight still continued, but the enemy platoon was broken and had been gradually retreating down the opposite street.
Yelling for attention he kicked down a door and chraged into a house, running up the stairs with his men following he broke out onto the roof, turning left they trveled over the rooftops untill they came into sight of a a large square from which tracer fire was pouring into the sky. Wasting no time he took up positon on the roof top ledge, took aim and fired. Like a thunder clap his men lined along the roof opened up and the enemy below turned their attention towards them. Before they could return fire however the other half of the platoon led by the leiutenant stormed in through the entrance to the square, killing all with weapons raised. A few manchurian gunner manged to open fire and the leiutenant was hit, but they were gunned down and the rest surrendered.
His objective secure and his commanding officer wounded, Bao took control and organised the men to defend the position.

Reinforcement continued to flood into the city, and the fighting moved grindingly towards the centre as slowly but surely the Manchurians gave ground.

Soviet Forces May 1942
Home land defenses
Moscow – 2 flak, 2 P1011 Jet fighters
Gorki – 1 TA 183 jet fighter, 1 JU390 super heavy bomber
Stalino – 1 x 15 point armored corps, 1 x 5 point flak unit, 1 x TA183 jet fighter
Kursk – 1 x 15 point armored corps, 1 x 5 point flak unit, 1 HQ, 1 X TA183 jet fighter
Kharkov – 1 x 15 point armored corps, 1 x 5 point flak unit, 1 x TA 183 jet fighter
Baku – 2 TA183, 3 flak,
Tula – 1 TA183 jet fighter, 2 x 15 point armored corps, 1 HQ
Perm - 1 TA 183 jet fighter
Novosibirsk - 1 TA 183 jet fighter
Sverdlovsk - 1 TA 183 jet fighter
Omsk – 1 TA 183 jet fighter, 2 JU390 super heavy bomber
10 reserve pilots

Northern TVD
2 x 5point flak, 2 x 8 point infantry corps, 2 x TA183 jet fighters, (Petrograd)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x theater supply unit, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (map edge hex X)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (map edge hex small d)

4 infantry corps, 4 armored corps, 2 motorized corps, 6 artillery units, 2 HQs,

Western TVD
Neiman River Line: 20 x 6 point infantry corps, 10 x 4 point anti tank unit, 1 x TA183 (Minsk, Riga, Vilna)
2 x 6 point infantry corps (2 hexes southeast Minsk)

Ukrainian TVD
2 x 6 point infantry corps (woods hex northwest of Kiev)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 4 point flak unit, 1 x TA 183 jet fighter (Kiev)
2 x 15 point armored corps, 1 x 5 point motorized flak unit, 1 HQ (woods hex east of Kiev)
2 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 x 5 point mechanized antitank unit (2 hexes due north Dneipopetrovsk)
2 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 x 5 point mechanized antitank unit (northeast Dneipopetrovsk adjacent)
2 x 8 point infantry corps, 1 x 5 point flak unit, 1 TA 183 jet fighter (Dneipopetrovsk)
2 x 10 point motorized infantry corps, 1 x 5 point flak unit (southeast of Dneipopetrovsk adjacent)
2 x 10 point motorized infantry corps, 1 x 5 point flak unit (east of Nikolayev adjacent)

Transcaucasus TVD
2 x 6 point infantry corps (Rostov)
2 x 8 point infantry corps (Krasnodar)

Caucasus TVD
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Batumi)
4 x 6 point infantry corps, 4 x 4 point artillery units (Turkish/Soviet border in rough terrain)
2 x 7 point infantry corps (Tabriz)
2 x 7 point infantry corps (Tehran)
2 x 8 point motorized infantry corps (Baku)

Central Asian TVD
1 x 8 point motorized corps, 1 theater supply unit (Meshed)
1 x 5 point alpine corps (Samarkand)
1 x 5 point alpine corps, (Tashkent)
2 x 14 point armored corps, 1 theater supply unit (Karaganda)
2 x 3 point cavalry corps (Alma Ata)

Manchurian TVD
2 x 5 point Alpine corps, 1 TA 183 jet fighter (Ulan Bator)
3 x 6 point infantry corps (Mukden, Harbin, Changchun, Port Arthur)
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit, 2 commando units (Vladivostok),
2 x 6 point infantry corps, 1 x 3 point artillery unit (Khaborovsk)
3 x 6 point infantry corps, 3 x 3 point artillery units (2 on Sakkalin, 1 kamchatka)

under construction
arriving July – 5 Ju288 bombers, 5 TA 183 jet fighters, 10 x anti tank units, 10 fortifications
arriving September – 2 HQs

The Soviet Army finds itself without a strategic reserve, on the defensive and with orders to stand or die. KGB machine gun teams are assigned down to the battalion level, with orders to shoot stragglers and defeatists. Commissars are assigned to commanders down to the company level as well.

Trosky and the Politbureau have ordered "Not One Step Back" and the people to "Save the Revolution"

The Politically Unreliable now live in fear of arrest, and deportation to forced labor.

LTA forces 1942 (principal combat zones)
Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe General Eisenhower, SHAEF

Arctic Front
1 x Swedish Vampire jet fighter, 1 x Swedish Mosquito unit, 1 x 5 point flak (Helsinki)
2 x 8 point Swedish motorized infantry corps, 1 x 6 point artillery unit (northeast of Petrograd adjacent).
2 x 8 point Swedish motorized infantry corps, 1 x 5 point flak, 1 x Swedish Vampire fighter unit, 3 x US F84 jet fighter bomber units (Vyborg)
US/Canadian 5th Army Group (Devers)
US 8th Army (Eichelberger)
2 x US 12 point mechanized corps (USMC), 2 x US 11 point mechanized corps, 2 x US 6 point mechanized artillery unit, 1 US HQ (Archangel box)
Canadian 1st Army (Crerar)
3 x Canadian 12 point mechanized corps, 1 x Canadian 15 point armored corps, 2 x Canadian 6 point mechanized artillery unit, 1 Canadian HQ (Archangel box)
1 US/Canadian commando unit (1st Special Service Force/Devils Brigade)
US / Canadian 5th Air Force
2 x US F86 jet fighters, 2 x US F84 jet fighter bombers, 2 x P82 night fighters

Baltic Front
UK 21st Army Group (Alexander)
British 2nd Army (Montgomery)
2 x UK 15 point armored corps, 1 x UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit (1 hex east of Konigsberg)
2 x UK 15 point armored corps, 1 UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit (2 hexes east of Konigsberg)
British 8th Army (Dempsey)
1 x UK 12 point mechanized corps, 1 x Free German 16 point armored corps, 1 x UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit (2 hexes west of Vilna)
1 x UK 12 point mechanized corps, 1 x Belgian 11 point mechanized corps, 1 x UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit (3 hexes west of Minsk)
British 14th Army (Slim) (reserve)
2 x UK 12 point mechanized corps, 1x UK HQ, (2 hexes east of Danzig)
2 x Polish 12 point mechanized corps, 1 x UK HQ (3 hexes east of Danzig)
UK 2nd Tactical Air Force
2 x Vampire jet fighters, 1 x Mosquito light bomber, 1 x C47, 1 UK 6 point airborne corps (Konigsberg),
2 x Vampire jet fighters, 1 x Mosquito light bomber, 1 x C47, 1 Dutch 5 point airborne corps, 1 UK HQ (Danzig)
UK 4th Tactical Air Force
3 x Fury fighter bombers, 1 x C47, 1 British commando unit, 1 Belgian commando unit 1 Free German commando unit (Gydnia)
2 x UK B50 heavy bombers, 1 x Vampire jet fighter, 1 x C47 (Karlskrona)
2 x UK C54, 1 Belgian C54, 1 Dutch C54 (Copenhagen)

US 12th Army Group (Patton)
US 3rd Army (Wainwright)
2 x 15 point armored corps, 1 x 6 point mechanized artillery unit (2 hexes southeast Vilna)
2 x 15 armored corps, 1 x 6 point mechanized artillery unit (2 hexes south of Vilna)
US 7th Army (Patch)
2 x 12 mechanized infantry corps, 1 x 6 point mechanized artillery unit (southwest adjacent Minsk)
2 x Polish 7 point infantry corps (2 hexes southeast Minsk)
US 9th Army (Simpson)
1 x US 15 point armored corps, 1 x US 13 point mechanized corps, 1 x US 6 point mechanized artillery unit, 1 HQ (2 hexes northeast Brest Litovsk)
1 x US 15 point armored corps, 1 x US 13 point mechanized corps, 1 x US 6 point mechanized artillery unit, 1 HQ, (northeast Brest Litovsk adjacent)
2 x US 12 point mechanized corps, 1 HQ, (Brest Litovsk)
US 9th Air Force
2 x F86 jet fighters, 2 x F84 fighter bombers (Brest Litovsk)
2 x F86 jet fighters, 2 x F84 fighter bombers (Warsaw)
4 x A26 bombers (Lodz)
4 x C47, 2 x US 6 point airborne corps (Poznan)

Ukraine Front
Colombian 1st Army
2 x Colombian 14 point armored corps, 1 US mechanized artillery unit (4 hexes west of Kiev)
2 x Colombian 14 point armored corps, 1 US mechanized artillery unit (4 hexes east of Lvov)
1 x Argentine 11 point mechanized infantry corps, 1 HQ (4 hexes northeast Cernauth)
Colombian 2nd Army
2 x Colombian 11 point mechanized infantry corps (4 hexes west Dneipopetrovsk)
2 x Colombian 11 point mechanized infantry corps, 1 HQ (2 hexes northeast of Cernauth)
1st Tactical Air Force
2 x C47, 2 x A26, (Lvov)
1 x Colombian F86, 3 x Colombian P47 (Cernauth)
Italian 4th Army
1 x Chilean 10 point mechanized corps, 1 x Italian 14 point armored corps, 1 Italian 6 point mechanized unit, 1 HQ (northwest hex adjacent Odessa)
2 x Italian 12 point mechanized corps, 1 x 5 point flak unit (Odessa)
US 14th Air Force
2 x US F86, 2 x US F84 (Odessa)
2 x US P82, 2 x US A26 (Chisinau)
2 x US C47, 2 x US A26 (Alba)
2 x US F86, 2 x US Skyraider (Nikolayev)

Crimean Front
Italian 9th Army
2 x Italian 10 point mechanized corps, 1 x 5 point mechanized antitank unit (2 hexes north of Sevastapol)
1 x Italian 9 point mechanized corps, 1 x 6 point artillery unit (Kerch)
1 Italian HQ, 1 x Italian 13 point armored corps, 1 x US 9 point mechanized infantry corps (Sevastapol)
Italian 3rd Tactical Air Force
2 x F86, 2 x A26 (Kerch)
2 x C47, 2 x US Skyraider (Sevastapol)

Theater Reserve
1st South African Army
2 x South African 13 point mechanized corps, 1 x US mechanized artillery unit (southeast Warsaw adjacent)
1 x US 16 point armored corps, 1 x UK 16 point armored corps, 1 x UK 6 point mechanized artillery unit, 1 HQ (1 hex southeast Lodz)
8th Air Force
1 UK Vampire jet fighter, 3 x US B50 heavy bomber (Malmoe)
1 UK Vampire jet fighter, 3 x US B50 heavy bomber (Kolbert)
1 UK Vampire jet fighter, 3 x US B50 heavy bomber (Stettin)
3 x US C47 (Amsterdam)
3 x Spanish C47 (Rotterdam)
3 x US C47 (Kiel)

Baltic Sea Naval forces LTA 2nd Fleet (Ramsey)(Copenhagen)
RN Battleships Hood, King George V, Duke of York, Prince of Wales, Anson, Howe, Rodney, Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Valiant, Malaya, RN Heavy cruisers Hawkins, Raleigh, Frobisher, Effingham, Drake, Centaur, Caledon, Ceres, Caroline, RN light cruisers Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falmouth, Nottingham Chatham, Weymouth, Birkenhead, Birmingham Worcester, Bristol, Dartmouth, Chester, Dublin, Abergaveny, Gloucester, Chichester, Liverpool, Belfast, Lowestoft, plus 50 RN destroyers, 2 UK amphibious fleets, 1 UK amphibious corps, 1 UK HQ, 1 UK 12 point mechanized corps,

Black Sea Naval forces LTA 5th Fleet (Olendorf)(Istanbul)
Italian batteships Vitttorio Veniti, Italia, US battleships Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico , Idaho, Pennsylvania, Colombian heavy cruisers Manuel Ancizar, Alberto Lleras Camargo, US heavy cruisers Chester, Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Houston, Northhampton, Tuscaloosa, Indianapolis, Italian heavy cruisers Pola, Gloriza, Zara, Verona, Napoli, Palermo, US Light cruisers Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Savannah, Nashville, Boise, Concord, Richmond, Memphis, Luzon, Mindanao, Paney, Cebu, Samar, Guam, South African light cruisers Pretoria, Natal, Capetown, Durban, Kimberly, plus 10 South African destroyers, 20 Italian destroyers, 60 US destroyers

Central Asian Front
6 Indian 8 point motorized corps, 1 HQ, 4 Indian 7 point infantry corps, 4 Indian 5 point alpine corps

Supreme Commander Allied Forces Asia MacArthur

China
Gobi Desert
8 x 6 point infantry corps, 4 x 4 point artillery units, 1 HQ
Manchuria
8 x 6 point infantry corps, 4 x 7 point Vietnamese infantry corps, 2 Chinese 8 point amphibious corps, 2 HQ, 6 Chinese P47, 2 Chinese A26, 2 x US F86, 2 x US F84
3 US heavy carriers, 4 US fleet carriers (jet capable), 5 US carriers, 10 US fast battleships, 12 US anti aircraft cruisers, 100 destroyers, plus 4 amphibious fleets, 2 US amphibious corps, 1 USMC

Under direct US command

US 20th Air Force (Okinawa, Formosa, Kyushu, Alaska, Northern Canada)
6 B36B units (10 engine bombers)

US / Canada defenses
4 US P82 night fighters, 2 Canadian P82 night fighters, 5 point flak units New York City, Washington DC, Ottawa, Seattle, Detroit,

May June 1942
Arctic Front
The Canadians and Americans launch an attack out of the Archangel area aimed at Vologda, and an area that would put them north and east of Moscow. Meanwhile, the Swedes besiege Petrograd, keeping Finland secure. The Americans and Canadians take the city, destroying the Soviet Army in the area, and force the Soviets to shift reserves to cover Yaroslavl. Lacking substantial reserves, the Soviets abandon Tehran, and shift the forces there to Moscow.

The Allies then push toward Yaroslavl, and the Soviets are forced to send half the garrison of Petrograd and their forces guarding Karellia to the upper Volga to defend the front. The Swedes in Karellia then attack and destroy the remaining Soviet forces in Karellia, opening the way to Novgorod and threatening Petrograd from the south and east. The American and Canadian assault on Yaroslavl lasts 4 weeks, but at the end of June the city falls. The Americans are forced to commit a large force of B50s to carpet bomb their way in, but the road to Moscow from the north is opened. Meanwhile, the Swedes take Novgorod and then move to the southern side of Petrograd, placing it under siege.

Losses:
Canadian: 1 mechanized corps (50,000 casualties), US: 1 mechanized corps (50,000 casualties, 100 aircraft) Soviet: 4 infantry corps, 1 armored corps, 2 flak units, 1 TA183 unit (350,000 casualties, 500 aircraft). Also Vologda, Yaroslavl and Novgorod conquered and Petrograd besieged and isolated.

Northern Front
The Allies launch a massive offensive along the Neiman River, while launching air attacks against Soviet fighter bases and paradropping the 1st Airborne Army to seize Riga and seizing the critical railroad junction between Vitebsk and Smolensk. American superheavy bombers of the 8th Air Force carpet bomb a massive section of the front between Minsk and the Vilna, inflicting serious casualties and badly disorganizing the defenders, while other Allied bombers hit Soviet forces at other key locations. The US 7th Army under Simpson easily takes the ruins of Minsk, while the 3rd Army attacks the shattered Soviet line west of the city and gets across the river and pockets more Soviet forces, pinning them against the river and American forces on the other side.

The British attack south of Kalnaus and east of Memel, supported by heavy bombers in the Memel area. The British 2nd Army gets across the Neimen east of Memel, while the 8th Army gets across the river south of Kalnaus. Meanwhile, Allied commandos take the weakly defended cities of Liepaja, Parnu, and Talinn.

STAVKA attempts to persuade the Politburo to allow a retreat, but is overruled. The Soviet forces are ordered to hold and die in place to slow down the enemy advance. However, the armored reserves in Kazakhstan are sent by rail to Smolensk.

Having gotten across the Neimen, Patton cleans up pockets remaining south of Minsk and south of Vilna. Cut off from supply, the defending Soviet forces are easily destroyed and 150,000 prisoners are taken. The Dutch paratroopers advance and take the vital rail junction and industrial center at Vitebsk in mid July, while the British 2nd Army attacks and destroy the Soviet forces in Memel with the help of massive naval gunfire support, and British and Polish 8th Army takes Kaumus and cleans up remaining resistance along the Neimen River.

The destruction of the Neiman Line and the entire Western Strategic Directorate (nearly 2 army groups) leaves Belorussa and the Baltic States wide open. The British 2nd Army drives northeast, linking up with the Swedes, while the British and Polish 8th Army, South African 1st Army, US 7th Army and US 3rd Army drives east, overrunning and destroying a Soviet tank army that makes a determined but ultimately futile stand as the South Africans and British surround and destroy it at Smolensk. The Americans meanwhile drive southwest, destroying Soviet forces defending Gomel and Bryansk.

Losses: 1 UK 11 point mechanized corps (80,000 British, 90,000 US, 10,000 Polish casualties plus 200 aircraft)
Soviet losses: 2 armored corps, 22 infantry corps, 10 anti tank unit, 2 x TA183 fighter units (1.65 million troops, 1000 aircraft, including 900,000 POWs total)

Southern Front
The Colombian 1st Army and 2nd Army moves up to the outskirts of Kiev, pinning Soviet forces in the area in place, while the Italian 4th Army attacks along the southern reaches of the Dneiper River. Heavily supported by naval gunfire and sizeable air support, the Italians and Chileans destroy the Soviet Army guarding the entrance to Crimea and the lower Dnieper and gain a solid bridgehead. The Soviets strip Kharkov, Kursk and Stalino to reform a line and keep the Italians from breaking through. The Soviets abandon Tabriz in Iran as well, shifting the forces there to Kursk to provide a reserve.

Having focused Soviet attention and reserves in the far south, the Allies then launch a massive assault on Kiev with the 1st and 2nd Colombian armies. The city falls in bitter fighting, but finally surrenders when Argentine troops reach the primary command post in Red Square. Leaving the Argentines to garrison Kiev, the Colombian 1st Army drives on Kursk, while the Colombian 2nd Army mops up Soviet forces outflanked and cut off west of Kiev, which keeps them occupied until the end of June. At Kursk, the Colombians fight a bitter battle with Soviet forces but take the city by the end of June. American and Colombian patrols link up soon after.

Further south, the Italians and Chileans keep the pressure on, widening their bridgehead across the lower Dnieper and then in a fierce tank battle, taking Berdiansk. In danger of encirclement, the Soviet commander, Zhukov, manages to persuade the Politburo to allow a retreat and pulls his remaining forces back to defend the Rostov/Stalino/Kharkov/Vornezh line and the gateway to the lower Volga and Transcaucas region.

Losses:
Italians: 1 mechanized corps, 1 F86 fighter unit, 1 pilot (70,000 men)
Chileans: 5,000 men
Argentines: 5,000 men
US: 100 aircraft
Colombians: 2 armored corps, 1 A26 unit, 1 pilot (120,000 men)
Soviet: 4 motorized infantry corps, 4 infantry corps, 2 flak units, 2 TA183 fighter units destroyed, 2 anti tank units, shattered (600,000 casualties)

Central Asia
Once the Soviets weaken and then abandon northern Persia, the Indians advance and secure Tehran and then Tabriz, crushing the communist Iranian government. Screening Samarkand, the Indian Army also advances into Soviet Central Asia, taking the cities of Ashqabad and Krasnodavosk on the Caspian Sea, dangerously close to Baku on the opposite shore. With no troops to spare, the Soviets are unable to react to the situation. However, they strike at the Indians more directly.

Manchuria
Having liberated all of the territory China held prior to 1938, the Nationalist Chinese government begins the invasion of Manchuria and Mongolia. A brutal and costly battle of attrition begins at Port Arthur, supported by the LTA 7th Fleet and the American carriers of the 3rd Fleet (recently returned to the Pacific). In costly fighting that lasts nearly 6 weeks, the Chinese take the city. A Manchurian counterattack then retakes the city, destroying another Chinese army but a renewed attack by the Chinese takes it back again. However, a war of attrition is something the Chinese can now win, and the Soviets and Manchurians are well aware of it. They chose to strike China directly as well.

OOC
Nationalist losses: 6 infantry corps, 1 P47 unit destroyed, 2 infantry corps shattered
Manchurian losses: 4 infantry corps, 1 artillery unit destroyed, 2 infantry corps shattered.

Strategic operations
The Soviets use their bombers to make deep raids against China and India at night, showering agricultural areas with bombs that explode a few hundred feet above rice fields, showering fields with a biological agent – Rice Blast, a highly infectious and rapidly spreading blight that begins to affect large portions of the rice crops of those 2 nations (centered in Bangaladesh in India, and the Yellow River valley in China). Nearly 20% of the crops of those countries are infected within a few weeks, and the artificial nature of the disease becomes rapidly apparent. With shipping world wide heavily committed to the war effort and the priority to defeat the Soviet Union quickly before they do more damage still the primary LTA goal, both nations are looking at localized famines within a few weeks, and the national reserves of food stuffs are quickly exhausted. Food Rationing quickly becomes necessary in order to continue provide the armies with the food they need. The elderly and infirm die first, but small children soon join them. (both nations lose 2% of their population to famine this year).
However, this is not the only weapon used. Soviet bombers also drop flea bombs that release vast numbers of fleas into areas heavily populated by rodent populations. These fleas carry the Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as the Black Death. Before disease control measures can be fully instituted, nearly 245,000 Indians and 400,000 Chinese die, and significant areas in northern China and the Lahore region of India have to be evacuated.

Finally, one last awful weapon is used. Bombs are dropped on the cities of Lanchow and Rawalpindi. These bombs release millions of spores of Anthrax, a disease deadly to cattle and humans alike. Nearly 200,000 Indians and 300,000 Chinese die in these attacks, and both cities have to be evacuated. Nearly 500,000 head of cattle and sheep are lost in India as well, worsening the famine situation. Both cities have to be completely evacuated, creating hundreds of thousands of refugees in both countries. (ooc neither city will be inhabitable without vast resources, in other words, 12 points each, being spent to decontaminate them).

Meanwhile, the American super heavy bombers are active as well, hitting the cities of Sverdlovsk and Magnetogorsk in heavy night raids, inflicting 600,000 civilian casualties and burning out the hearts of both cities, and wrecking production from both cities as well.

By the end of June the Americans are well aware of the nature of the attacks on China and India and plans are made for retaliation.

Meanwhile, the Soviets finish production of 3 atomic bombs, and make plans for there use. The Americans finish 3 bombs of their own, and the war crimes against China and India make initial concerns over their potential inhumanity a mute point.

In retaliation to the attacks on Indian soil with weapons of mass destruction, the Indian Government has ordered that the Indian army show no mercy to those who dared to kill innocent civilians. Therefore, every Soviet soldier that does not surrender before a skirmish, battle, etc, is to be shot on sight. We shall not execute our prisoners; we shall take no prisoners.

In retaliation to the attacks on Indian soil with weapons of mass destruction, the Indian Government has ordered that the Indian army show no mercy to those who dared to kill innocent civilians. Therefore, every Soviet soldier that does not surrender before a skirmish, battle, etc, is to be shot on sight. We shall not execute our prisoners; we shall take no prisoners.

OOC:

China will do the same, but if China captures any Soviet, Manchurian, or Mongolian prisoners, they will be put into forced labor camps to produce the resources needed to clean out the cities and replace ruined rice crops. Treatment of the Soviets, Manchurians, and Mongolians will be just as harsh as they treated the Chinese people.

"Eye for an eye" applies here.

other events
The US sends night fighters to China and India, but the aircraft and logistics needed for support (radar stations) will not be in place until sometime in August. The US Centers for Disease Control is sent to India and China to begin investigating the outbreaks and what can be done to deal with them. The newly created United Nations World Health Organization is also sent.

As much shipping as can be spared is set aside for relief aid to the two stricken nations, principally food and antibiotics.

China and India are forced to burn millions of acres of rice crops that a nearly ready for harvest in an effort to stop the Rice Blast.

The British government deplores the atrocities commited by the Soviets in the Far East. Offers of scientific assistance are made to the WHO, specifically the use of any British biologist who can be shipped to the region in addition to any who are already members of the WHO team.

Britain also looks to the provision of her dead. British fatalities will not be repatriatred back home. Instead the same practice as was followed in the last war will be followed the "noble British tradition" of battlefield cemetries and burying men in the ground that they fought for. The British and Commonwealth Graves Commission will continue its work and begins to establish large cemetaries in France, Germany and other British Theatres. Commonwealth fatalities will also be treated in the same manner if advised by their governments.

Prime Minister Song Jiaoren shuddered as he read the latest casaulty figures from the beyond-evil Soviet weapons of mass destruction. He had difficulty wrapping his mind around several figures.

10 million projected deaths from famine.
1 million projected deaths from the bubonic plaque and anthrax attacks.

Jiaoren shuddered once again and began muttering to himself.

"This terrible tragedy. Even the Chinese Communists and the Japanese aren't as vile as to cause the deaths of multi-millions of Chinese. Extreme measures must be taken, and our people must be avenged."

He called for his economic and military advisors and then began an emergency session within several days.

-------------------------------------------

Song locked his eyes with each and every single advisor present, and slowly rose to his full height. He began speaking in a cold and icy tone that could extinguish the flames of Hell itself if any such flame were present.

"I want the following to be done.

First, imprison all existing Manchurians, Mongolians, and Soviet prisoners of war.

Second, establish work camps in the Gobi Desert.

Third, send all Manchurian, Mongolian, and Soviet prisoners into these work camps.

Fourth, have these prisoners be put to work on producing the necessary equipment and material to clean out the infected cities and ruined infrastructure. They will not be paid for their labors- why should they?

Fifth, feed the prisoners the infected rice. This should be poetic justice, forcing the guilty to literally eat the fruits of their labor, or in other words, the fruits of their atrocity.

Sixth, any future Soviet, Manchurian, and Mongolian military personnel captured in the war shall also be deported to these work camps.

Finally, I want you to look at establishing different crops within China, or expand existing food sectors such as corn, wheat, potatoes, and such. We cannot rely on rice as our major source of food, as this biological attack has clearly demostrated. If we were to emply multiple types of crops equally, then there will be a far less chance of massive starvation in the future from biological attacks."

The advisors were silent for a long, yet indeterminate period of time as they absorbed Song Jiaoren's sub-zero cold fury.

-------------------------------------------

Comminque to the LTA
From: Sovereign Republic of China

Greetings.

As you may already be very well aware by now, we have suffered a major crisis thanks to the evil Soviets. We are looking at no less than 11 million dead within the end of the year due to famine.

We have been pondering a possible solution to this crisis. My advisors inform me that if China were to adopt multiple crops equally, such as wheat, corn, potatoes, and such, then the likelihood of another crisis of this magnitude will not occur. Any assistance in planning, technologies, re-planting, and cooperation with farmers, food companies, and the farming sector in other LTA nations would be greatly appreciated.

We must preserve in the face of this horrible new threat from the Soviets. We need to destroy them and make them pay for what they have done not only to China, but to India and Great Britain as well!

Thank you and may victory be with us,
~Prime Minister Song Jiaoren

Political events
Korea declares war on the Union for supporting Kim and his rebels. The Soviet government shifts essential functions to Omsk, but the senior leadership stays in the city for now.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away due to a stroke, and Harry S. Truman becomes President of the United States. A bomb shelter is built under the White House in secret, just in case.

Strategic events
The Soviet Union has three atomic bombs. On July 3, 1942 they use them. Single bombers fly over the cities of Chengtu (China) and Bombay (India) and each drops a 20 kiloton atomic weapon just after midnight local time, catching millions of people in their beds. Both cities are densely populated, with hundreds of thousands living in the area of total destruction, and most live in flimsily constructed housing that is easily destroyed. In an instant, hundreds of thousands of lives are plotted out, and worse, the intense heat sets of fire storms that burn down nearly all of the remainder of each city. Only a few stoutly constructed European style buildings or relics from by gone ages survive. Nearly a million die in each city (ooc population densities are nearly 10 times that of Hiroshima, and they are bigger cities, with higher fuel loads to feed fires.) The Russians then continue to use their bombers to continue to drop Rice Blast, Anthrax and Flea bombs, concentrating this time on the Calcutta and the surrounding area (causing the flight of nearly 10 million from that city and leaving nearly 500,000 dead), and on Nanking and its surrounding areas (another 5 million Chinese in refugee camps and 200,000 dead).

The loss of the two principal industrial cities in India brings war production to a halt, and in spite of desires by the government to continue the offensive, the opposition in Parliament joined by substantial Moslem and Sikh members demand and get a withdrawal of half of the Indian Army out of Central Asia to return home and help with security and disaster relief. In China, reinforcements initially bound for the front are diverted to the same role, and China has also lost a third of its remaining production (bringing it down to 10% of its pre war level).

However, India and China are not the only ones to suffer damaging blows. The Soviets send raids of 250 JU390s aimed at the Midwest United States. The extremely high flying bombers are primarily just a cover however. A few dozen aircraft diverge from the bomber stream and drop bombs containing Mad Cow Disease, Hoof and Mouth, and Anthrax over Kansas, Texas, Montana and California. The epidemics that follow wipe out nearly 30% of the cattle and sheep production in the United States and Canada, and also kill millions of horses as well. Soviet aircraft losses are heavy however because of interceptions by US all weather fighters, but enough get through to drop bombs on Detroit, inflicting some damage to the US auto industry (which is now building vehicles and aircraft for the war). On July 6, during one raid, a JU390 manages to leave the bomber stream and makes its way to St. Louis, and drops a 20 kiloton atomic bomb on that city, killing 100,000, and injuring 200,000 more and burning down much of the city (ooc US cities are more heavily constructed than the cities in India and China, casualty figures are based on Cold War data from official US Department of Energy estimates).

The Americans however don’t sit on their hands. US B36s hit Kazan and Novosibirsk, burning both cities to the ground and inflicting another 600,000 casualties. US bombers drop Wheat Rust on the Siberian wheat production areas as well, and other US bombers drop millions of Anthrax spores on Moscow and thousands of tons of nerve gas on Petrograd. In Moscow, nearly 300,000 die, but in Petrograd nearly 500,000 people die and the city immediately surrenders to the Swedes to prevent further catastrophe on July 12. The US has atomic weapons as well, and hits Perm (100,000 dead), Gorki (100,000 dead) and Volgograd (125,000 dead). War production in the Soviet Union is reduced by nearly 70% and fuel production and distribution is becoming very difficult. Police measures force the populations to stay in the cities, even in Moscow.

However, neither the Soviets or the Americans have been able to locate the locations where their opponent is building weapons, and neither can be sure more aren’t available.

ooc: No Indian war production for remainder of the year, and next year the Indian economy has exactly 1 production center to work with (industry salvaged and set up again in Madras). China has exactly 10 production centers available next year. Both India and China will now lose 5% of their populations instead of the original 2%.

The US has lost 6 production centers (1 Detroit, 5 St. Louis), plus will not be able to continue Total War economy in 1943. The US and Canada will suffer no significant population loss, but also will not be able to export food as most of their usual burgeoning food surplus has been lost.

The Soviet Union, specifically Siberia, will suffer famine and epidemics that will kill 10% of the total Russian population, and nearly 40% of those living in Siberia. In addition, the Soviet Union will have no war production next year, and will not be able to operate a war or national effort economy as it no longer has any economic slack whatsoever.

The Soviet Union is down to 2 super heavy bomber units due to casualties suffered attacking the United States.

the Soviet government sends messages to India and China.

India will no longer be attacked if it pulls all forces out of Soviet territory. The Soviet Union however agrees to allow India to keep Afghanistan and Iran.

China will no longer be attacked if it pulls out of Mongolia (the Mongolia marked on the World in Flames map as Mongolia) and once it conquers Manchuria, agrees to stay out of Soviet Siberia (as marked on the World in Flames map)

In India, the opposition and much of the ruling party as well demand that India accept the terms. Further damage on the scale so far could very well bring about a general economic collapse, which will kill even more than the damage so far has.

In China, some advisors recommend acceptance, because as things stand now, China could rebuild itself with its own efforts, but further damage could very well leave China as helpless as it was in 1895.

July August
Western Front
The Allies spend much of July moving their aircraft and supply apparatus forward, while the heavy bombers pound Soviet industrial and retaliatory targets. Losses are light as the Soviets do not have a night fighter capable of dealing with the high flying B50s and B36s.

With the surrender of Petrograd in mid July, the Poles and Swedes take over occupation duties in the Baltic States, Northern Russia and Belorussia. The Polish government annexes directly Memel, Lithuania, and Latvia, while Sweden incorporates Murmansk, Petrograd and Karellia into an enlarged Finland, which gains independence and joins the Scandic Union. Further south, the Free Ukrainian government moves into Kiev and begins administering the territory west of the Dneiper. Crimea is given its independence as well.

The offensive begins on July 23, with the Canadian 1st Army and British 2nd Army driving on Kalinin. The Soviets fight hard but are destroyed and the city falls by the end of July. The British 8th Army and US 7th Army attack the remaining Soviet forces in the Moscow area. In poor condition because of supply difficulties, the Soviets are overwhelmed, and many units simply collapse. However, with the city itself badly contaminated, only recon troops actually enter the city itself and find it a ghost town filled with bodies. The US Third Army attacks Tula, which holds out for 3 weeks before falling, and desperate Soviet counterattacks are repulsed and the last armored reserves in the area are destroyed by concentrated bombing and slashing attacks by US armor. The German Legion takes Ryazan in early August. With Soviet forces in northern Russia destroyed, the British are given the job of occupying Gorki and driving east toward the Urals, with the South Africans with them.

The US 3rd, 7th and 8th Armies now drive south. The 3rd Army overruns Voronezh which falls in heavy fighting, while the 8th Army swings east, overrunning undefended Saratov, Penza and the ruins of Volgograd. Meanwhile, in mid August, the Colombian 1st Army and the US 7th Army attacks Soviet forces attempting to retreat east, and with the support of the Italian 4th Army and Colombian 2nd Army surrounds them and forces their surrender at the Don River bend.

With central control falling apart, and now isolated, the Soviet forces in the Caucasus region, Kransador, and the few that haven’t surrendered so far in various pockets fall apart. Soldiers shoot their political officers and go home, or surrender if the Allies are close by. By the end of August the entirety of Russia west of the Urals has collapsed or been conquered.

Meanwhile, the British, South Africans and US 8th Army charge east. The Americans overrun Kubyshev and reach the Ural River, the gateway to the Central Asian steppes at the end of August. Meanwhile, the South Africans overrun Kazan, while the British 2nd and 8th Armies overruns Perm. The British forward recon troops are at the foothills of the Urals by the end of August.

Manchuria, Mongolia and Central Asia
The Koreans discover that the Soviets have all but abandoned Vladivostok and cross the border and seize it. Meanwhile, US forces take Sakkalin Islands, the Kuriles and Kamchatka, which have been similarly abandoned. The Soviets pull what they have left to Chita for a final stand.

Meanwhile, in Manchuria, in vicious fighting, the Chinese take Mukden, and then Harbin, destroying the Manchurian army and the surviving Manchurian government officials flee to Siberia. Only Mongolia makes a fight of it, and logistical difficulties for the Chinese to halt for a time. At the end of August, Ulan Bator still holds out, and the Mongolians request a peace that would allow them to remain independent of China (but accept a client state role).

In Central Asia, the Indian advances halts as supplies become a problem. However, Central Asian troops mutiny against Soviet leadership, and local political and military leaders declare their independence and the formation of the Central Asia Republic, with the capital being located in Tashkent.

Seeing a quick solution that will free up troops to concentrate on Siberia, the UN quickly accepts Central Asian independence.

September / October 1942
The Soviets manage to put together one last bomb, and send it on a one way trip to North America on September 3. Coming in low over the Arctic, it is spotted a few miles from Quebec, and damaged by a Canadian P82 fighter. The crew decides that Boston will simply have to do, and detonate their weapon over that city, causing the deaths of 150,000 Americans.

A couple of days later, the Americans determine that Omsk is the location of the Soviet atomic weapons program and the current capital, and detonate their last atomic weapon over that city, killing 100,000 Russians, including Trotsky and the Politburo, and destroying the nuclear weapons facility. Fall out is exceptionally heavy, and years will pass before the full extent of the damage is realized.

The Chinese, exhausted, and running out of supplies, are forced to halt, and Mongolia surrenders to the UN. Meanwhile, the British, Americans and South Africans overrun the Urals industrial region. The military commanders that remain, still under the command of Zhukov, decide that enough is enough, shoot their political officers and formerly surrender. US, Canadian and Dutch paratroopers are flown to the remaining cities in Siberia to accept that surrender.

The final surrender document is signed on September 30, 1942 in Novosibirsk in the ruins of of the provincial capital building.

The Third World War is over.

But the effects linger…..

OOC:

How will the victors divvy up the spoils of war? From what I can tell so far, India acquires Afghanistan and Iran, while China gains Manchuria, Formosa, and Hainan Dao. The Swedes take over the portion of Russia near Finland. Italy takes some Yugoslavian land if I'm not mistaken. Poland grabs Latvia and Lithuania, and a few other small annexations here and there.

However, the big million dollar question remains. What is to become of Russia and her client states? What will happen to Siberia, Mongolia, Urals, Volga, Crimea, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Rumania, etc? I know Ukraine and Crimea probably gained independence but what of the others?

July 15th, 1942. Groundbreaking Ceremony on a War Memorial in Perth, Australia. Prime Minister John Curtin speaking to a crowd mixed with veterans of the Invasion of Japan and relatives.

My thanks to Mr. Gardin for his introduction on this occasion…Thank you…. We gather here today by circumstances varied, but in remembrance of those who have gone before us, for it has often been the duty of heads of state to preside over the burial of soldiers. Those who have gone off to defend the homeland, never to return. A far greater man than I once said of a war memorial that though “it is all together fitting and proper that we do this….in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.” Of course, still true today, though that was many years ago. But on days like this, it is common for us to look back to simpler times, to happy times. It was not so very long ago that those memories of peace were real. And though, God willing, those memories may live again, at times it may seem cruel that all that remains of our comrades in arms, our brother Australians, is the shadow of memory. And yet it is thus.

For more than three years, every race of man on the Earth has watched in horror a world gone mad. Australians, Americans, Englishmen—Germans, Columbians, Chinese---Russians, Turks, and Indians. All have known the pains and unspeakable horrors of our human folly. We hear of famine and sickness, of single bombs eradicating entire cities, and our hearts grow cold. What is another hundred-thousand dead, heaped upon the tens of millions who have already gone, and the millions more to follow? What, some of you ask, what is a million dead compared to my love—my son, my father, my brother? And yet it is thus.

The world convulses yet again. We fight the Great Crusade—they say. We are the Greatest Generation—they say. We oppose all that is unjust, and wicked, and wrong. At least, that is what they say.

This is what I say. I say the end is near. Our allies move on a deadly, dying Soviet Union. I do not deny the suffering of this world’s people, though I promise that some justice will be measured out. It will not be enough, it will never be enough, but I must plead with you and the world to accept it. The pieces of so many lives are shattered, and may seem beyond repair. And yet…

And yet we shall overcome this tragedy, these tragedies, as one people united. These losses, so hard to gaze upon, to comprehend today are not in vain. We have all lost so that we may all gain. And so, it is thus.

ooc: sorry I'm a little slow on the draw datewise. Hope it is still acceptable.

Official Declaration of Peace by the Indian Government

At last, brothers and sisters of the world, this bloody war is over. We have suffered great losses, yes. The countries of India and China lay in ruin, as does Europe, Japan, the former Union, and the United States. While we wish to make ammends with the Russan people, we demand that justice be done to those who have dared to use Weapons of Mass Destruction againt innocent civilians. Millions of our countrymen lie dead. We did not use the weapons first, they did. Thus, we demand that a War Crimes Tribunal be held in Moscow, or any other suitable city, to punish those criminals.

OOC:

How will the victors divvy up the spoils of war? From what I can tell so far, India acquires Afghanistan and Iran, while China gains Manchuria, Formosa, and Hainan Dao. The Swedes take over the portion of Russia near Finland. Italy takes some Yugoslavian land if I'm not mistaken. Poland grabs Latvia and Lithuania, and a few other small annexations here and there.

However, the big million dollar question remains. What is to become of Russia and her client states? What will happen to Siberia, Mongolia, Urals, Volga, Crimea, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Rumania, etc? I know Ukraine and Crimea probably gained independence but what of the others?

OOC; I'm fine with Persia and Afghanistan. However; if this united Turkestan thing goes down the drain, you can expect me to do some "liberating" of the Russian Turkestan states.

September 21

The Kaiser, sensing his last days, finishes his grand Biography: Mein Kampf. While a large portion contains a surprisingly historical and accurate representation of his time as Kaiser of Germany, the latter parts are filled with words of German pride. However, the last chapter is a harsh condemnation of the Russian people and their atrocities, and an order to the German people to never stoop so low as the vile Russians did.

October 3

Three days after its release, Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Hohenzollern dies in the company of his Son and his Nephew, the King of England, as well as several doctors and his Guard. He passes quietly listening to Wagner.

October 5

With the Surrender of the Soviets, Crown Prince Wilhelm pushes Churchill and the UN Delegate to reinstate the Hohenzollerns to the Throne of Germany. Promising Cooperation and economic aid to both China and India, Wilhelm believes that a Civilian government in Germany will ease the pains and allow the occupation to end much sooner. He also poses the possibility of restoring a Hohenzollern to the Rumanian throne.

OOC: Speaking of which, what will happen to Germany?

OOC: If India gets aid from Germany, we'll exchange it for some discounted oil, or even free, methinks.

OOC: If India gets aid from Germany, we'll exchange it for some discounted oil, or even free, methinks.

OOC:

China will go for a similiar deal- but as China doesn't have lots of oil at this time, probably some iron or coal from Manchuria instead.

OOC:

China will go for a similiar deal- but as China doesn't have lots of oil at this time, probably some iron or coal from Manchuria instead.

OOC: And both of you (India and China) will recieve loans from the Bank Of Korea and some food relief. We still have productive farmland, the North is mainly some farms and mostly industrial areas.

-----North of Harbin----

The long column of allied troops stretched endlessly into the distance, ravaged by the effects of war on their minds the troops march despondantly on towards the next fight, the next battle, the next killing.
Sargeant Bao Tanh walked alongside the truck packed with his squad. He dragged long and hard on a stub of a cigerette. Eight days worth of growth adorned his chin, the tattered white star and green circle patch hung limply off his shoulder.
In the distance a dust cloud grew, as it came closer the motorcycle at it's head became visible. The rider seemed in a state of wonder, seeing the sargeant just in time he skidded to halt, avoiding a collision by mere centimetres.
Bao took another drag on his ciggerette and looked with dullened eyes at the young courier.
"You seem in a hurry." The boys eyes looked alive with fire. He spoke shakely and quickly.
"It's over" Bao's brow creased.
"What's over?" The boy continued to shake and spoke in avery quiet voice
"The war, it's over... everywhere." Bao's ciggerette dropped out of his mouth and he stared. He looked down at his hands and then up at the sky, the sun was shining, birds were in the sky. All of time seemed to stop. Breathing quickly he spun around to look at the trucks of weary soldiers and at the top of the voice he yelled to the sky.
"The war is over!"

----------------------------------

Prime Minister Lin Yen appeared in Saigon today still recovering from her wounds gained from a drive by shooting with communist rebels. With her President Nyugen Ai Quoc announced the end of the war pubically in the USEA.

In their joint speach they pledged to undo the damage of the war and help the world recover from the ravages of war.

To help with situation in India and China all rice that is not neede by the USEA is to be shipped to those countries.

September 31st, 1942
Speech by Prime Minister Jan C. Smuts to the Volksraad, Pretoria

"You are all by now aware that yesterday the surviving military leadership of the Soviet Union formally surrendered the London Allies at Novosibirsk, finalizing the peace overtures first made to a combined force of American, British and South African soldiers in the Ural industrial region. We have now come to a cross-roads, a point of no return, if you will. We are presented with two choices.

"We can fall into isolationism, and focus on our internal conflicts, our own petty problems. Or we can take up an unprecedented new role for our Union.

"South Africa has escaped this war all but unscarred. Yes, our country has lost thousands of brothers, sons, and fathers. They will not be forgotten, can not be forgotten...I echo the words of Mr. John Curtin, and affirm that these fallen men, and their surviving comrades, are the greatest generation this world has seen. Their heroism will not be lost to the ash heap of history.

"But our losses pale in comparison to those of our allies. The British, regardless of how we feel as Boers, must be commended for their bravery and indomitable spirit during the vicious Communist attacks on their civilians. The Chinese, and the Indians, now fall past the brink of famine. We have all here felt hunger; no one who lived after our War ended in 1902 will forget. These famines came about as the result of cowardly Soviet chemical and biological attacks, raining disease and poison down upon innocents. The United States were exposed to horrible new weapons of war, an evil unknown until now.

"The Union of South Africa will hereby be providing monetary and agricultural aid to both India and China. They are our allies, and have fought bravely. They deserve no less. If we are able, we will assist the United States with what we can, as they would undoubtedly do for us in a similar situation. None of us here can fathom the destruction wrought by Soviet nuclear weapons, weapons of hell-fire and apocalyptic fury.

"Let us never forget what has happened these past four years. We must not forget the lessons learned, nor the warnings given."

***

In the Urals, with his regiment left with little but occupation duty, Colonel Piet van Aarten begins writing down his thoughts on a small notepad. Tentatively titled The Watershed Years: 1939-1942, he intends to publish it upon his return to South African, in order to give the South Africa people a first-hand account of the horrors of modern war.

OOC:

How will the victors divvy up the spoils of war? From what I can tell so far, India acquires Afghanistan and Iran, while China gains Manchuria, Formosa, and Hainan Dao. The Swedes take over the portion of Russia near Finland. Italy takes some Yugoslavian land if I'm not mistaken. Poland grabs Latvia and Lithuania, and a few other small annexations here and there.

However, the big million dollar question remains. What is to become of Russia and her client states? What will happen to Siberia, Mongolia, Urals, Volga, Crimea, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Rumania, etc? I know Ukraine and Crimea probably gained independence but what of the others?

give me a day or so to sort all of this out before questions begin

OOC; I'm fine with Persia and Afghanistan. However; if this united Turkestan thing goes down the drain, you can expect me to do some "liberating" of the Russian Turkestan states.

things like that will begin with the restart.. right now, India isn't in a very good position to liberate anything.

OOC: I guess we should start a treaty thread?

things like that will begin with the restart.. right now, India isn't in a very good position to liberate anything.

I know. But in 10-15 years, I'll be ready. I'm guessing I'll be all fixed in 1950, yes? Also, what happened to my merchant fleet? I don't remember any naval battles in the Indian ocean.

Also; I get first dibs on the German WWII weapons plans! That way I can improve them and make them uber! Imagine; Panzers in the '50s! (Omigod).

And no, Germany, no tanks for you! You guys build nukes that bomb India, I get your plans!

Bombay, India

Colonel Ayub Khan walked through the streets of Bombay. In the months since the nuclear attack, the city was in the midst of the clean-up effort. Rubble still lay in the streets, with destroyed buildings everwhere. On the side of the road sat victims of the attack, many of whom suffered from radiation sicknesses. Although his regiment had been cleaning up Mumbai Harbour area, work still needed to be done. Within 3 months, it was estimated that the city would finally be cleaned, and then the re-building could begin.

Colonel Khan walked near where the hypocenter of the bomb was, on top of the Bombay Stock Exchange. It seemed that the Russians had "struck from beyond the grave" so to speak by destroying the center of India's economy. There was little remaining of the stock exchange, or any buildings around the city. Khan walked as close to the hypocenter as was possible, and saw nothing but rubble. He then turned around and walked back towards his nearby jeep.

As the jeep drove back towards his regimental HQ, the colonel thought about the millions that had died in Russian attacks, and how it was India's weakness that caused them. If India had drove into Russia quick enough, they could have forced Russias surrender sooner. However, India's woefully under-prepared army had barely capture Afghanistan and Iran. This lead to the young colonel coming up with thoughts of what he would do if he were in charge of the military. Nay, if he were in charge of India as a whole.

OOC: I'm sure some of you can see where this is heading...

Pre War populations
Albania – 1.1m (0.1)
Argentina – 11.7m (1.5)
Australia – 6.7m (0.75)
Belgium – 8.4m (0.3)
Bolivia - 2.6m (1)
Brazil – 33.4m (1)
Bulgaria – 6.3m (1)
Burgundy – 3.3m (0.4)
Canada – 8.5m (0.8)
Chile – 5.3m (1.5)
China – 535m ()
Czechoslovakia – 16.3m (0.5)
France – 45.5m (0.4)
Greece – 7.2m (1.2)
Gran Colombia –13.8m (1.6)
Hungary – 8.9m (0.4)
India (including Pakistan and Bangladesh) – 385m ()
Ireland – 2.9m (0.5)
Italy – 44.4m (1)
Japan – 72m ()
Kashgaria - 4.5m ()
Korea – 33m ()
Manchuria - 40m ()
Mexico – 19m (1.6)
Mongolia - 2.5m ()
Middle Eastern Union – 39m ()
Netherlands – 8.7m (1)
Paraguay – 1m (1.7)
Peru – 6.6m (1.6)
Romania – 19.5m (1)
Scandinavian Union – 13.1m
{Denmark – 3.9m (0.8)}
{Norway – 2.9m (0.4)}
{Sweden – 6.3m (0.4)}
Sovereign People’s Conciliar Union – ?m
{Finland – 2m (0.5)}
{Germany – 69.4m (0.5)}
{Livonia – 15.7m (1.2)}
{Poland – 35m (0.8)}
{Russia – 94.6m (0.7)}
{Transcaucasia – 11.5m (1)}
{Turkestan – 20m ()}
{Ukraine – 35m (0.8)}
South Africa – 10.3m ()
Spain – 27.8m (0.8)
Tibet - 3m ()
United Kingdom – 45.7m (0.4)
Uruguay – 1.95m (1)
United States – 144.5m (0.8)
United South East Asian States - 21.7m ()
{Cambodia - 2.5m ()}
{Laos - 1.2m ()}
{Vietnam - 18m ()}
Yugoslavia – 13.4m (0.8)

Approximate Military and Civilian Death toll from World War III from all causes, including famine and disease caused by war and immediate postwar deaths.

LTA
China 55 million
India 40 million
Russia 25 million
Japan 5 million
United States 4.5 million
Germany 4 million
Ukraine 3.75 million
Turkey 2.5 million
Iran 2.25 million
France 2 million
Belgium 1 million (highest proportionate loss)
United Kingdom 1 million
Rumania 500,000
USAE 300,000
Poland 250,000
Colombia 200,000
Netherlands 150,000
Hungary 125,000
Czechslovakia 125,000
Spain 100,000
Denmark 75,000
Australia 50,000
Canada 50,000
Italy 30,000
South Africa 25,000
Burgundy 20,000
Chile 15,000
Sweden 15,000
Morocco 10,000
Ireland 10,000
Egypt 10,000
Algeria 10,000
Portugal 10,000
All others (combined) 100,000

Approximately 150 million

The cities of Moscow, Calcutta, Rawalpindi, Lanchow, and Nanking have been rendered uninhabitable due to Anthrax contimination. The city of Omsk has been rendered unhabitable due to radiation contimination. The cities of St. Louis, Boston, Gorki, and Vogograd have been levelled by atomic weapons.

The important and historic cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, London, Bucharest, Kiev, Petrograd, Belgrade, Tokyo, Peking, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Rome, and Copenhagen along with numerous other cities have suffered serious damage to historic and cultural sites. A loss of the irreplaceable and priceless.

Third World War
Chronology of Events

January 1939 Japan blockades China
February 3, 1939 Japan invades China
February - April 1939 Fierce fighting between Japan and China, Japanese take Hong Kong, Canton, and Kwielang, and isolate China from Vietnam. LTA places a trade embargo on Japan. First major bombing raids of large cities (launched by Japan). Heavy Chinese and Japanese casualties.

LTA and Pact mobilize and prepare for war, and the LTA supports China and the Pact supports Japan. Both sides move major forces around, and the situation grows more and more tense.

May 4, 1939 Union and British naval forces get involved in a major naval battle in the North Sea. The British lose 2 light cruisers and 6 destroyers sunk, and among the 3400 dead is Lord Mountbatten, a member of the Royal family serving as the executive officer aboard a light cruiser. The Allies also lose nearly 150 aircraft, but shoot down 30 Union aircraft in return, and destroy another 100 aircraft when they sink a Union carrier and damage another. The Union also loses two destroyers sunk and several others damaged.

Declarations of War are issued by the Pact against the LTA shortly after, and the LTA replies. Both sides blame the other for starting the battle. Italy declares neutrality and pulls out of the LTA, but China joins the LTA.

1939
The LTA and Pact fight for supremacy at sea, and gradually in a series of battles the LTA wins. In addition, the LTA secures Africa and the Western Hemisphere. China manages to hold out and avoids conquest, while the Pact launches a massive bombardment with missiles against London. Allied bombers hit Pact cities in Germany and eventually in Russia. The LTA destroys Pact forcs in the Levant. The Pact conquers the Netherlands, Belgium, and Burgundy and eventually Denmark. The LTA continues economic development of Africa. The LTA also secures Southeast Asia.

1940
The LTA gains supremacy at sea. The LTA then invades Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Japan. Allied bombers are used in the battlefield role. Jet fighters enter service. Japan attacks Chinese and Vietnamese with chemical weapons including nerve gas. The Union deports nearly 1 million Belgians into the Union for work as forced labor and murders 100,000 Belgian soldiers. After heavy fighting, France and Japan are defeated, and Belgium is liberated. Italy enters the war on the LTA side, as does all of Latin America except for Paraguay. India enters the war and secures southern Iran and Afghanistan.

1941
China goes on the offensive and clears China of Pact forces. The LTA invades northern Russia, the Ukraine, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechslovakia and Germany and by the end of the year has conquered all Pact territory west of the Neiman / Dnieper river lines, as well as Finland and Denmark. Sweden and Norway enter the war on the LTA side. The US begins an all out bombing campaign of Siberian and Urals industrial targets, which along with the loss of territory, cripples the Union.

1942
In a summer offensive, the LTA drives into the Soviet Union from Karellia, Poland, the Ukraine, Central Asia, China, and the Sea of Okhotsk and the Soviet Union is conquered. The Soviets conduct nuclear and germ warfare against India, China, and the United States, and the United States retaliates with germ and nuclear warfare against the Soviet Union. Between the ground offensives and bombing, the Soviets finally collapse and the civilian government is destroyed with the atomic bombing of Omsk on September 5, and STAVKA asks for a cease fire on September 15, 1942 (known forever more as Victory Day in all LTA nations). The final surrender is signed on September 30, 1942.

Millions are dead, and millions more will die and entire continents are in ruins.

Fall and Winter 1942-43
The widespread biological warfare attacks cause continued outbreaks of the Black Death throughout North America and Asia. Food shortages are serious in North America, but severe in Europe and catastrophic in Asia. Approximately 30% of the population dies in some areas of China, India and Siberia, while in the rest of Russia, China, India, Persia and Central Asia die offs of 10% are common. The fall harvests are disasters in many areas because the Wheat Rust and Rice Blast contagions spread widely, forcing the destruction of the crops of entire regions to stop the spread. Radiation leaves many vulnerable as well, with influenza and other usually chronic but survivable diseases becoming killers. The usual ability of North America to feed the world is compromised by severe livestock losses, as well as Wheat Rust but at least famine is held at bay there.

Spring 1943 and the remainder of 1943
Outbreaks of Plant and Livestock diseases, as well as the Plague are still common but far less severe then the previous year. Nevertheless, harvests are still down and many who survived last years famine die this year as diseases prey on their weakened bodies. India also suffers a severe drought which adds to the misery and death toll.

1944 -45
The outbreaks have finally burned out and the world is finally able to sigh in relief. The War has finally ended.

In all, approximately 150 million have died during or immediately after the war because of the effects of the war.

But State Communism has been destroyed, as well as the most powerful single empire the world has ever seen.


updated chronology of the war (the short version)

1942 - 43
The Occupation zones and responsabilities are finalized

ooc
working on that

Prime Minister Churchill makes a statement to the nation on Radio and Television:

"It is with great relief and pride in this fine country that I can today announce that the vile communist has surrendered. The Russian government has surrendered to LTA forces at Novosibirsk and the war has ended. The world has suffered many hardships these past few years and has seen the advent of massed biological and nuclear warfare. More than 150 million people are known to have died and we will never know the final cost of the war. Britain has suffered greatly, much of our industry has been destroyed and many of you will have lost brothers, husbands and fathers fighting in the war. Still further of you will know of innocent victims who died at home or at workas a result of the beastly Russian bombings. It is only through hard work in the future that we can rebuild this fine nation and her Commonwealth and make sure that civilisation will endure.

"In accordance with my promises at the start of this conflict I am stepping down as leader of this country in January 1944 to make way for a new elected government. In addition semi-independence will be given to all British colonies in the form of Dominion status.

"Furthermore Britain will support the return of the Hohenzollern dynasty to the German Throne and the rebuilding of that nation. It is hoped that by doing so the British and German people and once again be united against their enemies as they were in the past before the tendrils of Communism stretched into Europe."

Approximate Military and Civilian Death toll from World War III from all causes, including famine and disease caused by war and immediate postwar deaths.

LTA
China 55 million
India 40 million
Russia 25 million
Japan 5 million
United States 4.5 million
Germany 4 million
Ukraine 3.75 million
Turkey 2.5 million
Iran 2.25 million
France 2 million
Belgium 1 million (highest proportionate loss)
United Kingdom 1 million
Rumania 500,000
USAE 300,000
Poland 250,000
Colombia 200,000
Netherlands 150,000
Hungary 125,000
Czechslovakia 125,000
Spain 100,000
Denmark 75,000
Australia 50,000
Canada 50,000
Italy 30,000
South Africa 25,000
Burgundy 20,000
Chile 15,000
Sweden 15,000
Morocco 10,000
Ireland 10,000
Egypt 10,000
Algeria 10,000
Portugal 10,000
All others (combined) 100,000

Approximately 150 million

The cities of Moscow, Calcutta, Rawalpindi, Lanchow, and Nanking have been rendered uninhabitable due to Anthrax contimination. The city of Omsk has been rendered unhabitable due to radiation contimination. The cities of St. Louis, Boston, Gorki, and Vogograd have been levelled by atomic weapons.

The important and historic cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, London, Bucharest, Kiev, Petrograd, Belgrade, Tokyo, Peking, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Rome, and Copenhagen along with numerous other cities have suffered serious damage to historic and cultural sites. A loss of the irreplaceable and priceless.


Bombay wasn't leveled? Sweet!

I'm also guessing that Bombay was the largest city bombed, but I'm not sure.

Thirdly, India joined the war last, but suffered the second most amount of casualties. Eeeeeh....

OOC:

Where does China stand right now?

1. How much industry are in Lanchow and Nanking?
2. How much will it cost to rebuild Chengtu, the city that was nuked?
3. How many factories are intact in Mongolia and Manchuria?
4. How many factories in these two areas have to be rebuilt?
5. Do I get any production or resources from Hainan Dao and Formosa? I think Japan did before the war.

I'd like to know so I will be able to be aware where China stands economically and thus, I can plan on what to do in the next few game years.

Bombay wasn't leveled? Sweet!

I'm also guessing that Bombay was the largest city bombed, but I'm not sure.

Thirdly, India joined the war last, but suffered the second most amount of casualties. Eeeeeh....

Bombay is rather huge in area, and only 1/3 of it was destroyed. Boston on the other hand is rather tightly restricted by geography to a relatively small area, making it the perfect target for atomic weapons. A 20 kiloton bomb isn't all that big (compared to H Bombs) and only a radius of 2 miles from Ground Zero is totally destroyed, and another 5 miles out is severely damaged. Its fire that did the most damage in India and China. The high casualties compared to Boston (for example) are because the Asian cities are far more densely populated then European and American cities.

You actually lost far more people (about 80% of the casualties) after the war then during it.. the Bengali Famine in 1943 (historical) caused by drought killed about 3 -4 million, in this timeline its worsened by an already serious existing man made famine caused by crop damage and food shortages elsewhere.

OOC:

Where does China stand right now?

1. How much industry are in Lanchow and Nanking?
2. How much will it cost to rebuild Chengtu, the city that was nuked?
3. How many factories are intact in Mongolia and Manchuria?
4. How many factories in these two areas have to be rebuilt?
5. Do I get any production or resources from Hainan Dao and Formosa? I think Japan did before the war.

I'd like to know so I will be able to be aware where China stands economically and thus, I can plan on what to do in the next few game years.

Lanchow had 5 damaged production centers (from earlier fighting) and it will cost you 24 points just to clean up the city to repair them.

Nanking had no production. Chengtu had 5 production centers (60 points to repair them all). Mongolia has 1 undamaged production center, while Manchuria had 8, but all are damaged. You will get some resources from Formosa and Hainan.

Economic damage and 1943 production levels are being determined today, along with the situation as of 1945 (which is the planned restart date)

You can avoid having to spend at Level 1 social spending for the immediate postwar period by having 1 infantry corps or garrison unit in every one of your cities (they keep order and provide disaster relief), as your population recognizes that damage has been immense. You are still getting assistance from Japan (reparations). The former Soviet Union is in no shape to give anyone reparations at this point. It has exactly 5 undamaged production centers in Russia itself, and lost the production centers that are still intact elsewhere. Allied bombing took out the ones in Siberia, and combat took out the ones in European Russia for the most part.

Food relief from various LTA countries is what keeps your death toll at the level I posted it.

Lanchow had 5 damaged production centers (from earlier fighting) and it will cost you 24 points just to clean up the city to repair them.

Nanking had no production. Chengtu had 5 production centers (60 points to repair them all). Mongolia has 1 undamaged production center, while Manchuria had 8, but all are damaged. You will get some resources from Formosa and Hainan.

Economic damage and 1943 production levels are being determined today, along with the situation as of 1945 (which is the planned restart date)

You can avoid having to spend at Level 1 social spending for the immediate postwar period by having 1 infantry corps or garrison unit in every one of your cities (they keep order and provide disaster relief), as your population recognizes that damage has been immense. You are still getting assistance from Japan (reparations). The former Soviet Union is in no shape to give anyone reparations at this point. It has exactly 5 undamaged production centers in Russia itself, and lost the production centers that are still intact elsewhere. Allied bombing took out the ones in Siberia, and combat took out the ones in European Russia for the most part.

Food relief from various LTA countries is what keeps your death toll at the level I posted it.

Okay. I'd like to do clean up of the affected cities first (Nanking, Chengtu, and Lanchow), then rebuild the factories in Chengtu and Lanchow.

Towards this end, I would like to take up Colombia and Australia on its offer of 24 points of aid (should be 48 points total). I believe that 48 points will be enough to clean up my cities along with the work camps comprised of POW's that you approved the other night.

After my cities are cleaned up, then I'd like to rebuild my economy as much as humanely possible so that I can start up social services and everything. Consider all my military garrisoned / guarding all my cities as a temporary replacement for social services until the services can be become self-sustaining.


EDIT:

Perhaps the Soviets can pay reparations in other ways not necessarily cash or "money". The Soviets can give up all their technological secrets (like tanks, guns, research, medicines, etc.) or formally surrender some land to China and India.

Are we going to start a treaty thread or is it just going to be the UN telling everyone what happens, because there are a few places that got jacked that I wouldn't mind at least arguing for. Also, what reparations, if any, will Imperial Germany have to pay? I plan to give substantial aid to both India and China, I just have to figure out what I have to do in Germany first, which I will wait for GB to calculate.

Approximate Military and Civilian Death toll from World War III from all causes, including famine and disease caused by war and immediate postwar deaths.

LTA
China 50 million
India 34 million
Russia 10 million
Japan 5 million
United States 3.5 million
Germany 4 million
Ukraine 3.75 million
Turkey 2.5 million
Iran 2.25 million
France 2 million
Belgium 1 million (highest proportionate loss)
United Kingdom 1 million
Rumania 500,000
USAE 300,000
Poland 250,000
Colombia 200,000
Netherlands 150,000
Hungary 125,000
Czechslovakia 125,000
Spain 100,000
Denmark 75,000
Australia 50,000
Canada 50,000
Italy 30,000
South Africa 25,000
Burgundy 20,000
Chile 15,000
Sweden 15,000
Morocco 10,000
Ireland 10,000
Egypt 10,000
Algeria 10,000
Portugal 10,000
All others (combined) 100,000

Approximately 125 million

The cities of Moscow, Calcutta, Rawalpindi, Lanchow, and Nanking have been rendered uninhabitable due to Anthrax contimination. The city of Omsk has been rendered unhabitable due to radiation contimination. The cities of St. Louis, Boston, Gorki, and Vogograd have been levelled by atomic weapons.

The important and historic cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, London, Bucharest, Kiev, Petrograd, Belgrade, Tokyo, Peking, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Rome, and Copenhagen along with numerous other cities have suffered serious damage to historic and cultural sites. A loss of the irreplaceable and priceless.

By instituting and enforcing severe food rationing in France, Germany, the Ukraine, Poland and the United States, Spain, the US and the UK (the primary occupying authorities) manage to reduce the death toll in Russia, and food aid from Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa and Colombia makes a sizeable difference as well. In addition, the LTA mobilizes huge amounts of shipping and the thousands of air transport planes used during the invasion to make a difference. Famine deaths are severely reduced, although problems with disease still keep the death rate high.

Parthini']Are we going to start a treaty thread or is it just going to be the UN telling everyone what happens, because there are a few places that got jacked that I wouldn't mind at least arguing for. Also, what reparations, if any, will Imperial Germany have to pay? I plan to give substantial aid to both India and China, I just have to figure out what I have to do in Germany first, which I will wait for GB to calculate.

From 1942 -44, there are no governments in the occupied Pact states except for Poland, the Ukraine, Slovenia and Finland. The remaining Pact states are under military occupation overseen by Eisenhower through the UN chain of command. So no treaty until actual governments exist. There is some territorial land grabs going on, but nothing recognized officially.

1945 game starts again and everyone has a government. Some governments still have the UN military watching them close and are essentially occupied, but the UN will hold elections in late (November) 1944 so that governments can be created.

Some things will occur however in the meantime. The UN (with the US, UK, various NPC Latin American States, Canada, Iceland, Spain, Morocco, Ethiopia and Egypt providing enough votes to make it happen) do some map redrawing.

Created nations:
Jordan
Palestine
Syria
Eastern Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Kurdistan (although borders are a bit vague)
Ukraine
Poland (including Lithueania and Latvia, plus Polish areas consisting of the areas historically held by Austria and Russia)
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbajain
Austria

Territorial adjustments that are uncontested
Denmark gets the Schleiswig Holstein area (which it owned until the Prussians took it in 1860)
Finland created, and gets Petrograd, Murmansk, and Karellia area.(joins Scandic Union)
Estonia created (joins Scandic Union)
Australia is given western Papua outright, and UN mandate over Indonesia (stripping it from Dutch, who aren't pleased but in no position to complain)
French Equatorial Africa handed over to UK as a UN Mandate
French Northwest Africa split between Algeria and Morocco as UN Mandates
Guadalupe and Martinique handed over to Colombia
Netherlands sells Surinam for much needed cash (12 points from Colombia)
US gets Okinawa as a UN Mandate
China gets Manchuria, Formosa, and Hainan
Japan given Kuriles
Korea allowed to hold Vladivostok, future status under debate
China given UN Mandate over Mongolia in exchange for confirming Tibetan independence
Yugoslavia loses Macedonia (to Greece), and Slovenia (independence)
Germany loses Austria (to independence)
Czechslovakia loses Sudentenland (to Germany)
Burgundy regains independence

ooc
Still lots of messes left over.. for one thing, the future of Russia is still hotly debated. A lot of this should be RPed, and the UN carving up the map also leaves lots of room for future RP. Which is as it should be.

The US Army hunts for Communist officials in occupied Russia and finds far fewer then it hoped. Most of the government died in either Moscow or Omsk, and vast amounts of records have been lost or cannot be easily accessed (as they are in the highly contiminated city of Moscow).

However, the US Army does conduct trials with British, South African and Russian Army officers assisting and sitting in of Communist Political Officers, who are then convicted and shot when found guilty of war crimes against the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, or other Allied states who took part in the invasion from the north and west, or who carried out crimes against the Russian people. Officials found guilty of war crimes against China, India, Belgium or other nations (if those crimes were worse then what they did to the US or others) are handed over to those nations for sentencing. Several hundred thousand Russian and other Pact civilians who had been imprisoned in Gulags, and who survived (nearly a million didn't) are returned home (as long as their home still exists).

The US Army refuses to hand over military officers who carried out bombing attacks against China and India and the United States, pointing out that US Army flight crews carried out very similar attacks against Russia. However, very few did survive so the numbers are only a few dozen.

Similar trials are carried out in Japan and the military officers who ordered the use of nerve gas against China and Vietnam are handed over to those nations for sentencing.

The UN attempts to get involved in the War Crimes process and wants trials, but the US points out that under International Law, the actual occupying powers have that authority. No trials are carried out in France, and only a few are carried out in Germany, mostly against German Communist officials who ordered deportations and murder of opponents. The German Army is allowed to handle that.

The US is against reparations, and stubbornly fights against it in the UN. Its main arguement is that the Russian people didn't start the war or order the use of weapons of mass destruction. The Communist Party did, and it has been destroyed.

And what of my plans to annex Chile and Peru? How have they gone in the meantime?

And what of my plans to annex Chile and Peru? How have they gone in the meantime?

B 1945 you will have managed to get them to sign an economic and military treaty... (you are wooing them after all), and to share a common currency, and they are open to the idea. However, they want to see a constitution first before agreeing to full integration (a summary will do).

Created nations:
Jordan
Palestine
Syria
Eastern Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Kurdistan (although borders are a bit vague)
Ukraine
Poland (including Lithueania and Latvia, plus Polish areas consisting of the areas historically held by Austria and Russia)
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbajain
Austria


ooc: Yay, a list of countries that i can chose from for my next country (Since I am allowing Bolivia to be annexed).

didnt part of france break off and become independent too?

So what exactly happened in the MEU? It would be nice if it had a Yugoslavia-style civil war, with everyone fighting everyone else, which would give me a chance to start in Jordan.

Err...this is kind of embarrising but can someone give me the link to the main page? I was clearing out my subscriptions and seem to have accidently deleted it.

Oh, sorry for my lack of participation lately. I got Hearts of Iron II last week and that and school have been taking up a lot of my time.
Damn curse of Japan....

Economic Situation December 1944 (includes points spent in 1944)

Production centers: available (damaged)

Former Pact States
Russia (includes Siberia and Transurals regions)
Prewar: 100 (50 Russia, 30 Urals, 20 Siberia Prewar population: 95 million Postwar population 85 million

European Russia 21 (29)
Vitebsk 5, Kalinin (5), Moscow (5), Minsk 5, Tula (3), Kursk (2), Saratov 5, Volgograd (3), Krasnador 2, Gorki (3), Yaraslavl (2), Smolensk 2, Rostov 3,
Oil points at Grozny, Maikop,
Urals Region 5 (25)
Kazan (5), Perm (5), Sverdlovsk (5), Magnitogorsk (5), Kubyshev 5, Omsk (5) Oil points at Perm
Siberia 10 (10)
Novosibirsk (5), Irkustk 5, Chita 5,
Permanently lost Petrograd 5 (to Finland)/Vladivostok (5) to Manchuria
Total production centers available: 36
Needing repair: 59
Commerce: 2 points (national airline, no merchant shipping remains)

Russia has no direct access to the Atlantic Ocean or Baltic Sea, but does have access to the Black Sea and limited access to the Pacific Ocean.
In 1944, Russia has a military force of 6 infantry corps, 2 air transport units, mostly used for disaster relief and to deal with rebel communist guerillas.
Russia is at Peacetime for 38 points, most of which are used for repairing production centers and providing a social safety net as best it can. (Level 1 social spending for 8.5 points, Civil defense for 8.5 points, military for 4 points, 12 points to fix Kursk production, 5 points to create international airline. Russia has lost the Kuriles to Japan, but keeps Sakkalin Island.

The Ukraine
Prewar 40 production centers, 35 million people
Postwar: production centers: 15 (25) plus 6 shipping units, 1 national airline, tech level 6.5
Available points: 23 (level 1 social services 6.5, 4 infantry corps – 1 point, repair 1 production center 12 points, build 1 shipping unit – 3 points)
Stalino 5, Dneipopetrovsk 5, Kiev (5), Odessa (5), Kharkov 5, Nikolayev (5), Berdiansk (5)
(used 2005 map of Ukraine)

Poland (includes Lithuania and Latvia)
Prewar production centers: 30, plus 35 million people
Postwar production centers: 35, plus 45 million people tech level 6.5
Warsaw 5, Lodz 5, Krakow 5, Katowice 5, Brest-Litovsk 5, Lvov 5, Riga 5 plus 5 shipping points, 1 national airline
Available points: 42 (social services 3 – 21 points, military with 2 armored corps, 8 infantry corps, 8 flak units, 3 Mig 15 jet fighter units, 3 C47 transport units, 8 pilots – 9 points, assist Rumania rebuild 1 production center –12 points
(use 1939 map of all three nations, less the Polish corridor which remains German). The designers for MIG (Mikuyen Gregorivich) have moved to Warsaw, as has Sikorsky Aviation, giving Poland a leading role in aviation design.

Central Asian Republic
Prewar 4 production centers, 9 million people
Postwar 4 production centers (all in Tashkent), 8 million people, tech level 5
Available points: 4 (level 2 social spending -2, 4 tech level 6 infantry corps – 2)
(Turkmenistan, Kirghizia, Uzbekistan, Khazakstan, Tajikistan)

Kashgaria
Prewar 2 production centers, 5 million people
Postwar 2 production centers, 5 million people (production centers at Urumchi, Kashgar) tech level 4
Available points: 2 (level 2 social spending 1, 2 tech level 6 garrison units – 1)


Azerbajain
Prewar 4 oil points, no production, 2 million people
Postwar 4 oil points, plus 1 national airline, 2 million people (oil is in Baku)
Available points: 6 (level 5 social spending – 1 point, 1 jet fighter unit, 1 pilot, 2 flak units, 1 garrison unit, 2 infantry corps all tech level 6 – 5 points)
(2005 map)

Georgian and Armenian Union
Prewar: 1 oil point, 2 million people,
Postwar 1 oil point, 4 million people + 1 national airline
Available points: 3 (level 3 social spending – 1 point, 4 tech level 6 infantry corps – 2 points)
(2005 maps)

Germany
Prewar production: 58, population 69 million
Post war production: 19 (39) 1 oil points, 1 national airline, 1 international airline, 5 shipping units, population 60 million tech level 6.5
Hamburg (5), Essen (5), Dusseldorf (5), Cologne (5), Hannover (5), Stuttgart (4), Nuremburg 5, Leipzig 5, Dresden 2, Berlin (5), Munich 5, Stettin (5), Danzig 2
Available points: 28 (level 2 social spending 14, repair 1 production center 12, 8 garrison units – 2 points)
(1938 Germany plus Sudetenland and Polish corridor minus Schlieswig Holstein, Austria and Memel)

Rumania
Prewar: 10 production centers, 3 oil points, 20 million people
Postwar: (10) production centers, 1 (2) oil points, 19 million people tech level 5, 1 shipping unit
Bucharest (5), Constanza (5)
Available points: 2 (level 1 social spending – 2, 4 garrison units (0 points), plus rebuilding assistance from Poland
(modern map)

Hungary
Prewar: 5 production centers, 9 million people
Postwar: 5 production centers (all in Budapest), 1 national airline, 9 million people, tech level 6
Available points: 7 (level 3 social spending – 3 points, 2 garrison units, 1 HQ, 1 Mig 15, jet fighter unit, 1 pilot – 4 points)
(modern map)

Czechslovakia
Prewar: 9 production centers, 16 million people
Postwar: 9 production centers, 15 million people, 1 national airline, Prague 5 production centers, Bratislavia – 4 production centers, tech level 6.5
Available points: 11 (level 5 social services – 7.5 points, 2 alpine corps, 1 Mig 15 jet fighter unit, 1 pilot, -- 3.5 points)
(1939 map)

Yugoslavia (doesn’t count Slovenian production)
Prewar 4 production centers, 14 million people
Postwar: Belgrade (4), 1 national airline, 4 shipping units, 8 million people tech level 5
Available points: 6 (level 1 social services – 1.5 points, 2 garrison units - .5 points, year 1 of 3 production center repair – 4 points,
(1939 map less Slovenia and Macedonia and Kosovo)

Albania and Kosovo
Prewar: no production, 1 resource point, 1 million people
Postwar: no production, 1 resource point, 1 national airline, 3 million people, tech level 5
Available points: 3 (level 5 social services – 1.5 points, 3 tech level 6 alpine corps – 1.5 points)

Slovenia
Prewar: 4 production centers,
Postwar: 4 production centers, 1 national airline, 4 million people, tech level 6
Available points: 6 (level 5 social services – 2 points, 2 alpine corps, 2 garrison units, 1 flak unit, 1 pilot, 1 F86 jet fighter unit – 4 points)
(modern 2005 map)

France
Prewar: 35 production centers plus 3 colonial resources, 50 million (including colonial)
Postwar: 20 (15) production centers, plus 1 national airline, 8 shipping units, 44 milllion
Paris (5), Nantes (3), Lille 5, Marseilles (5), Toulouse (5), Rouen (2), Vichy 5, Lyon 5
Available points: 30 (level 3 social services – 13 points, rebuild 1 production center – 12 points, build international airline – 5 points, 1 militia unit (free, represents national police. France is not allowed an army or air force, but is allowed a coast guard of 2 light ship units, which it hasn’t built yet).

In progress

Err...this is kind of embarrising but can someone give me the link to the main page? I was clearing out my subscriptions and seem to have accidently deleted it.

Oh, sorry for my lack of participation lately. I got Hearts of Iron II last week and that and school have been taking up a lot of my time.
Damn curse of Japan....

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=424002

There you go.

OOC:

I believe China had 100 factories pre-war- are they now called "Production Centers"?

I remember Manchuria having 45 production points while it was part of the Pact as I remember the Pact pretty much maximized production for all of its members with the exception of the MEU and France. Mongolia had roughly 5 - 10 as I remember the Pact investing in Mongolia prior to WW-III? In addition, Formosa gave Japan 2 - 4 points, and can't remember the amount from Hainan Dao, probably 1 or 2 points.

Chinese merchant fleet should be 25 ships post-war as explained in the main thread, and probably can reach the max of 30 by 1945. I think I still have my airlines intact- I have the pilots to spare and the planes as well (I used my international airline to fly my pilots to the Philipines) so I should have the maximum commerce by 1945 or 1946 which is 34 points unless I'm mistaken.

WHAT!

What is this crap about Austria being taken away :mad:

On a less emotional note, when would the Kaiser and the Reichstag return to power?

Also, I take it that I have 19 working production points and have to repair 20 points? I thought I only lost 25% of my economy...

Also, wouldn't there be some points in Kongingnsburg and the Sudenland?

Lastly, what happened to my Free German army? Did it just disband?

Parthini']Also, wouldn't there be some points in Kongingnsburg and the Sudenland?

Lastly, what happened to my Free German army? Did it just disband?

nope, it became garrison units after subsidies from the LTA stopped. Sudetenland and Konigsburg don't have much industry. Kaiser and the Reichstag can be assumed to win the UN sponsered November 1944 election, which puts them in power in January 45.

Read the opening chronology and some of the activities of the Free German Army postwar become clear.

Sharina, I haven't gotten to you yet.

Britain agrees to all new countries created, but shares concerns relating to the creation of Austria. After all the German people were more or less unwilling puppets of the Russian dictators. However the gracious donation of Sudetenland and Konigsburg to the German Crown is acknoledged.

Britain confirms her willingness to uphold her duty to maintain French Equatorial Africa as a UN Mandate until such time as independence can be granted.

Errr, when do I see my economy?

Economic Situation December 1944 (includes points spent in 1944)

Permanently lost...Vladivostok (5) to Manchuria



That's funny. I thought I got Vladivostok, or at least got to keep it until something was worked out.

Errr, when do I see my economy?

working on Asia now as a matter of fact

That's funny. I thought I got Vladivostok, or at least got to keep it until something was worked out.

I did actually mean to type Korea... I will fix it

working on Asia now as a matter of fact

Awesome.

working on Asia now as a matter of fact

::crosses fingers:: Here's hoping that means AustraliASIA too.

Japan
Prewar 35 production centers plus 5 points colonial, 75 million
Postwar: 25 (10), 6 shipping units, 1 national airline, 1 international airline, 70 million people
Tokyo (5), Nagoya (5), Kyoto 5, Osaka 5, Hiroshima 5, Fukukoa 5, Niigata 5
Available points: 35 (social spending level 2 – 15 points, rebuild 1 production center – 12 points, reparations to China – 5 points, 2 points to US, 1 point to Australia to pay for cost of LTA protection and bases. Japan is not allowed military forces at this time.
(Japanese home islands plus Kuriles)

China (includes Manchuria, Mongolia, Formosa, Hainan)
Prewar 115 production centers, 540 million
Postwar 16 (99) plus 4 colonial (Taiwan), 30 shipping units, 1 national airline, 1 international airline, population 494 million tech level 6
Mukden (5), Port Arthur (5), Harbin (4), Ulan Bator 1, Peking 1 (4), Tientsin 1 (4), Lanchow (5), Chengtu 1 (4), Sian 1 (4), Shanghai 1(4), Chungking 5, Kunming 5, Canton 1 (4), Hong Kong 1 (4), Changsha 1(4), Kwieyung 1(4), Nanking (5), Wuhan 1(4), Hangchow 1(4), Nanning 1 (4), Chengchow (5), Tsingtao (5), Tsinan (5), Tai-yuan (5)
Available points: 23 + 34 commerce + 4 colonial = 61 (level 1 social spending 49 points, army with 12 infantry corps, 2 HQ, 4 P47 fighter bombers, 4 pilots –7 points, rebuilding 7 plus 5 Japanese reparations repairs 1 production center a year.
Anthrax cleanup has been completed with US help. LTA help has already repaired a number of production centers, but at least now China can actually stand on its own.
(Modern China except Sinkiang and adding in Taiwan and Mongolia)

STILL IN PROGRESS

Ehhhhhh, when will India be up?

What happened to the other 14 shipping units that the Union had? I get 5, Poland gets 5 and Russia gets 6, but I know we had full shipping capacity. If they got interned by the LTA, you know... I could use a few more to my 468 points that I need to repair...

Parthini']What happened to the other 14 shipping units that the Union had? I get 5, Poland gets 5 and Russia gets 6, but I know we had full shipping capacity. If they got interned by the LTA, you know... I could use a few more to my 468 points that I need to repair...

many were sunk in port, or destroyed in port when ports were taken. The surviving shipping units are the ones that weren't sunk, or were in a port that wasn't wrecked, or units that were returned. Several shipping units were taken over by the US to replace losses it suffered, or transferred to other LTA nations to provide needed shipping. A form of reparations.

GB, is all the postwar-clean-up-stuff being posted piecemeal somewhere that I have forgotten to check or are you waiting to post it all at once? I kind of feel like i am in an intel hole or something...

GB, is all the postwar-clean-up-stuff being posted piecemeal somewhere that I have forgotten to check or are you waiting to post it all at once? I kind of feel like i am in an intel hole or something...

its going to be posted all at once, except for the chronology that is already posted at the start of this thread

its going to be posted all at once, except for the chronology that is already posted at the start of this thread

all i needed to know--thanks

new costs for ground forces.. air and naval forces later this evening after I run some errands. Also posted in the military thread as a recent post

Military Units

Ground forces
Brigades are 5,000 men (including support needed outside of the brigade)
Divisions and Groups are 20,000 men (as above)
Corps and Units are 50,000 men (as above)

Light infantry units:
All light infantry units can be carried by transport aircraft and later on helicopter, can operate in any terrain without penalty, get combat advantages for cities and rough terrain and movement advantages for jungle, rough, and forest terrain. Costs reflect not only equipment but also initial training. Maintenance reflects training costs.

Parachute brigade cost: 2 points maintenance .25 points, combat strength 1, can be airdropped by 1 transport aircraft up to the limit of its range

Marine light infantry brigade cost 2 points, maintenance .25 points, combat strength 1, can conduct amphibious landings if transported by a transport or amphibious group

Mountain infantry brigade cost 2 points, maintenance .25 points, combat strength 1, can cross high mountain areas and operate in arctic conditions without penalty.

Light infantry division cost 1 points, maintenance .25 points, combat strength 2

Conventional forces
Standard units that have some trucks and heavy weapons, but not as much as mechanized and motorized units do. Cannot be airlifted, but do get combat advantages for cities and rough terrain. No movement advantages or special disadvantages.

Garrison unit cost 3 points, maintenance .25, combat strength 3, combat strength includes flak strength, cannot move except by strategic movement, no partisan / guerilla operations near garrison units.

Infantry division cost 1 point, maintenance .25 points, combat strength 2, the standard infantry division

Infantry corps cost 5 points, maintenance .5 points, combat strength 5, 2 infantry divisions plus corps artillery support

Flak group cost 3 points, maintenance .25 points, combat strength 3, later on includes surface to air missiles, special anti air defense adjustment (reduces damage caused by air attacks.)

Artillery unit 3 points, maintenance .25 points, combat strength 3, provides combat advantages in combat

Mechanized forces
Have a lot of mobility, with all units having sufficient vehicles to move everything at once, and usually includes at least some tanks and other armored vehicles. Special combat advantages against light and conventional forces, but also special terrain disadvantages in rough, swamp, forest, jungle and urban terrain, and special movement disadvantages in forest,, jungle, rough and swamp terrain.

Mechanized infantry division cost 4 points, maintenance .5 points, combat strength 5

Armored division cost 5 points, maintenance .5 points, combat strength 6

Mechanized artillery group cost 5 points, maintenance .5 points, combat strength 4, otherwise as artillery

Mechanized flak group cost .5 points, maitnenace .5 points, combat strength 4, otherwise as flak.


a new combat system will be used from now on, that is from 1950s - 2000 era combat called Third World War (a board game), with smaller situations gamed out using the computer game Operational Art of War.

Helicopter units, once they show up, will be covered by the costs of air units.

Ehhhhhh, when will India be up?

Stop procrastinating, GB! I need to know!

BLLLAAAARRR!

Stop procrastinating, GB! I need to know!

BLLLAAAARRR!

India (includes Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan)
Prewar 20 production centers, 390 million
Postwar 0 (0), -30 shipping units, -1 national airline, -1 international airline, population 100 million tech level 2

Pwned. :p

Just kidding, bro.

Stop procrastinating, GB! I need to know!

BLLLAAAARRR!

probably this evening... quick question, do you have national airline, international airline, and how many shipping units did you have before India entered the war.

probably this evening... quick question, do you have national airline, international airline, and how many shipping units did you have before India entered the war.

Honestly, I think he had 10 - 15, and was planning on building more. I may be wrong though.

Honestly, I think he had 10 - 15, and was planning on building more. I may be wrong though.

he had plans through 1950, which needless to say, where a bit disrupted by the war

probably this evening... quick question, do you have national airline, international airline, and how many shipping units did you have before India entered the war.

I had...

Lemme check. *goes deep into files*

Around 15 shipping points and no airlines. I can give you a more precise answer for the shipping points later, when I'm on my laptop.

ok, I give up! Why is it taking you so long to update India? Whyyyyyyy?

ok, I give up! Why is it taking you so long to update India? Whyyyyyyy?
Because there are more nations than just India. Keep it in your pants.

the United States and Russia sign a peace treaty on December 25, 1945. Russia agrees to honor the borders that exist as a result of the war, and not to buid an ocean going navy, or construct nuclear or biological or chemical weapons. The United States and Russia also sign a mutual defense treaty, and the US agrees to continue to assist Russia in fighting Communist insurgents.

The Russians agree to allow the US to permanently station up to 100,000 US military personnel in Russia and pay the basing costs. The US will maintain Air Force, Army and Navy bases in Russia (a Navy base at Sakkalin and Petropovlovsk).