@Zhuge Liang: You have to remember: this is not a rational enemy I face, but rather the AI. Once I edit the save to allow them the use of their nukes, they will show me no restraint. Expect nuclear weapons use to be......heavy.
@Xesan: I am going to stay on a defensive posture in Scandinavia until the time comes for an all out offensive against Germany and its European allies. Any offensive from Scandinavia will most likely be directed towards Finland and the Kola Peninsula.
@Zeldar155: I really dont care enough to bring Greece into the allies. I will keep them neutral.
@salidas16: I think you might be woefully underestimating their nuclear capabilities. I am pretty confident that both Russia and Germany have far more nukes than I have, and have the capability to cause catastrophic damage. Also, with the war going so badly for them, you can easily imagine both the Tsar and the Kaiser coming under tons of pressure by their generals to do something drastic.
@Spitfire_Pilot: Believe me when I say, having played all the way to winter 1959, that Germanys defenses are far stronger than anticipated.....
@everyone else: thanks for the comments!
Battles in the central asian theatre are becoming far more intense as Russian and European units redeploy to the region to defend their territory. Here, at Frunze, between the Indian and Qing borders, a massive battle takes place. Involving thousands of main battle tanks on both sides and almost 2 million soldiers, Allied and Russian forces mercilessly fire away at each other. However, due to their superior defensive positions in the mountains of the area, the Russians are able to come out on top, repulsing the allied attack and inflicting heavy casualties.
With the Qing empire struggling to supply its remaining forces, the USAF's strategic air command finds an opportunity to make effective use of its B-52 bomber force. With the last Qing industrial complexes focused solely on the cities of Lhasa and Urumqi, American B-52 are sent into the region to destroy these vital targets. Eventually, the Qing empire's remaining heavy industries are reduced to rubble, and what used to be limited supply shipments to their forces finally drop to utterly nothing.
Another weird example of the butterfly effect of alternate history. Ho Chi Minh, the arch nemesis of the USA in the Vietnam war, turns out to be commanding allied Vietnamese forces on the front lines against the enemy. If irony were strawberries, we would all be slurping a lot of smoothies right now.:rofl:
The allied forces continue their massive offensive into the steppes of far western China. Here, in the center of the front, 930,000 Chinese and other Asian forces run into and smash 91 depleted divisions of Qing and Russian troops.
Further south, Chinese forces brush aside the battered remains of the Qing army that are guarding the region. By doing this, allied forces are able to cut off the Qing provisional capital of Lhasa, Tibet, from the rest of their forces.
In southeastern Kazakhstan, substantial enemy reinforcements have begun arriving in the area, launching numerous counterattacks against allied units in the region. Here, at Zhambyl, tank heavy Russian forces battle it out with their American counterparts, ultimately failing to break allied defenses.
Sensing weakness, Chinese forces, under the command of popular Chinese general Chiang Kai Shek lay siege to the battered Qing armies defending Lhasa. Although extremely short on essential supplies such as food and ammunition, the sheer numbers of enemy troops combined with the terrible weather and terrain force Chiang to call off his attack. More units will have to be called in before the coup de grace can be made against the Qing remnants.
Back in North America, German ICBM's once again rain down from the skies onto the city of Denver, with their focus once again being on the Denver Nuclear Weapons Facility. Heavy damage is sustained, but lucky no radiation leaks have been detected thanks to heavy fortifications of the actual reactor complexes.
This time, the President has had enough. To show the Germans that the allies are not unwilling to retaliate, Eisenhower orders the launch of 2 divisions worth of Atlas ICBM's at Germany. The missiles fly over the Altantic and rain down upon the city of Berlin, causing substantial damage to the city's high tech military installations, such as the Berlin nuclear technology institute and the Luftwaffe's missile and rocketry testing facilities.
Meanwhile, in the North Sea, American warships moored in the harbour of Narvik, Norway, are raided by carrier aircraft of the German navy. The Germans succeed in causing some damage, with the greatest loss being the old pre-pacific war aircraft carrier
USS Hornet. In retaliation, Admiral Spruance charges out to sea, bringing with him 9 Enterprise class nuclear aircraft carriers.
In a series of running battles off the Norwegian coast, the US navy manages to cause substantial damage to the German fleet. This includes the destruction of a number of German capital ships, totaling 4 battleships and 1 nuclear aircraft carrier. One of the enemy vessels sunk is the longtime flagship of the German navy, the
SMS Kanzler Bismarck, once one of the worlds most fearsome battleships, now nothing more than scrap metal thanks to the US navy.