@Asalto:I guess I didn't have enough of them. They really gave me a good lashing....
@pat97ryk: I doubt they would be too happy since their homes are largely in ruins and their economy is basically shattered, not to mention they are now under Japanese occupation.
@MarkusH: No independent Quebec, now or ever.
@everyone else: Thanks for the comments!
Reinvigorated with new units, the Americans are fighting harder and harder for every piece of ground taken. Here, in West Texas, the Americans launch a major offensive to drive Japanese troops out of the region. Unable to sustain prolonged combat due to massive manpower shortages, Japanese troops flee to the west.
To the south, a General Offensive is ordered against Mexico. Japanese commanders order their forces on the ground to march deep into the country, towards Mexico City and beyond, with the ultimate goal of finally overrunning the entire country.
Meanwhile, Japanese forces attempt to retake lost ground in Texas, but the strain of months of intense combat is now felt very painfully on their units. Many Japanese formations are understrength and unable to hold ground in the face of ferocious and reinvigorated American attacks. Midland is once again lost, a very bad sign of the state of the Japanese Army at this point.
Air battles in North America have been somewhat of a rarity, since the US Air Force suffered painful losses during years of previous battles, compounded with a lack of resources due to greater emphasis on ground units in American military production. Japan's air force has been mostly inactive due to the lack of any real opposition in the air, with only rare cases of air combat actually taking place on the continent. Here for instance, Japanese fighters rip apart some Colombian Air Force units which attempt to bomb Japanese forces in Mexico.
In Canada, Japanese and Korean soldiers invade Saskatchewan, hoping to overrun the entire province and bring it under Japanese control.
Meanwhile, in Colorado, US forces launch a very major counterattack out of the great plains to try and retake the state from Japanese forces. The Americans throw everything they have into this offensive, and even use old mothballed M60A3 medium tanks that have been pressed back into service in the battle for their homeland. The attack at first looks like it may achieve a breakthrough, but Japanese and Allied Forces in the area, which are still largely intact due to relative inactivity in this region, are able to blunt the American counterattack and force their units to withdraw from combat.
In Canad however, the situation becomes much bleaker. A massive Canadian Army formation, almost half a million troops in strength, punches against Japanese lines in southern Saskatchewan, driving hard down the Trans Canada highway to liberate Canadian territory. Vastly outnumbered and outgunned by this surprise Canadian attack, Japanese forces flee to the west. (BTW, I don't know why the AI did this, but they took the reinforcements they got from the "reserves" event, simply grouped them all in one huge army, and started gallivanting into battle with it. I sorta gave it the name "The Canadian Doomstack". Very strange, especially since I don't remember ever giving them THAT many soldiers...)
In Mexico, fighting is reaching brand new levels of intensity as major Japanese led forces battle it out with Mexico's newly mobilized infantry forces near Mexico City. The Mexican Army is fighting very hard to hold its ground and drive the Japanese forces out of their country, but Japanese troops are equally as determined to hold at all costs and drive the enemy further and further south.
Heavy fighting is also breaking out in New Mexico, as the Americans move to recapture Roswell and the major airbase at Area 51. Japanese trucks full of "sensitive" cargo leave the base en route to California, while Japanese and Allied troops try to hold back the American onslaught. Eventually, the enemy forces break through, smashing some Manchukuo Army units before they retake the Roswell area.
Mexico City: the largest urban area in all of North America is now besieged by Japanese and Allied armies attacking from the north. Hoping for a quick breakthrough against battered and demoralized Mexican conscripts, instead, they are faced with intense resistance by fiercely determined Mexican Army soldiers, backed up with thousands of expeditionary troops from the United States Army. Intense enemy firepower, deep in-depth urban defenses, and strong manpower reserves stonewall the Japanese Army's advance into the city, forcing the attack to be abandoned. The defeat at Mexico City is a very bitter one for the Japanese army, as it effectively ends the advance of the entire Japanese force that is trying to march south. Further advances into Mexico are called off, until reinforcements arrive and enemy resistance is weakened out by attrition and airstrikes.
In Canada, the massive Canadian army that marched into Regina now pushes deeper into Japanese occupied territory. The Canadians send everything they have into a huge attack towards Edmonton, in order to liberate the entire Canadian prairies from Japanese control. Japanese commanders now order their forces to withdraw, in preparations for luring the Canadian forces into a major trap.
To try to relieve pressure from the Northern and Southern fronts, Japanese and Korean troops go on the offensive in Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota. They attack concentrations of enemy troops in all three states and force them to flee their positions, inflicting huge losses on the enemy in the process. It is hoped that this attack will force the Americans to divert additional US and Canadian Army units to the area to maintain their defensive lines, but Japanese commanders cannot tell if they have achieved the desired effect, as enemy presence in more contested areas is still formidable.
In New Mexico meanwhile, Roswell is once again taken by Japanese forces, inflicting major casualties on the Americans before their battered units flee to the east.
The American Front, October 2021. More ground has been gained, but mounting casualties are taking a greater and greater toll on the ability of the Japanese Army and its Allies to make further offensives. Advances in Mexico have been ground to a halt, and gains in Canada are under greater and greater threat from mounting US/Canadian Army resistance. Texas, North Dakota, and New Mexico have also been the scenes of renewed fighting against reinvigorated American units, which have been gradually wearing away at the Japanese Army's ability to take and hold ground. A general sense has emerged within Japanese High Command that the war in North America has begun to greatly bog down. If a decisive change does not occur soon, Japan could find itself stuck in a quagmire that will become harder and harder to win, barring some sort of diplomatic settlement with the Americans and their remaining allies.