@Karaiskandar: It will not be long now.
@salidas16: No kidding. I started with with no IC, 26% dissent, a 5 division army, an obsolete airforce, and a pathetic navy that was only good for slapping around latin american countries. Now here I am, with London, Madrid, and Paris in US hands, and Rome soon to follow. No one will stop the march of freedom!
@ColonelIronboot: Nah. Don't have enough troops up north to go to the Balkans, plus the Germans and Hungarians are marching relatively fast there, so It will come under Mitteleuropan control.
@ everyone else: I am still very hesitant to reinstate a French monarchy, even a constitutional one. I have not read anything about Petain being a monarchist, and all of France's monarchs all seem to either get exiled or get their heads cut off. Therefore, I will stand by my decision to reinstate a French republic, as well as change their flag and map colour to one of my choosing. (I HATE that bright vichy white!)
Syndicalist Austria surrenders. With most of the country back under their control, the Germans decide, to the loud protests of the Austrian monarchy, to directly annex Austria as a new state in the German Empire. What little was left of the old Austrian empire has now been stamped out permanently.
Outside of Dijon, US forces run into soldiers of the Russian Empire marching towards the south, finally linking up the German/US frontlines against the French Syndicalists.
German soldiers land in Sicily, easily overrunning local Italian defense units.
The navy's brand new South Dakota class battleships complete their sea trials and are ready for service, however, they will not be committed to combat until their escorting destroyers are completed.
The final ride of the French Commune's battered navy. 3 carriers, 1 battleship, and 1 battlecruiser are destroyed by Halsey's task force, with no American losses other than some damage to the
Oriskany,
Valley Forge, and the
Ulysses S Grant.
US troops launch the final offensive in Italy, smashing Italian forces all along the front.
In response, the Italians launch a final, desperate assault on US troops in Anzio. The small US mechanized infantry force garrisoning the city withdraws to prevent heavy casualties.
US commanders decide that now is the time to finally take the city of Rome. 200,000 US troops storm Rome, marching all the way to the Colisseum and storming the final Italian stronghold in what used to be Vatican city. (which had since been sacked by the syndicalist government and turned into a "museum of bourgeois lies") Rome's defenders quickly surrender en masse, and the city is secured.
The rest of the Italian army on the Italian mainland is quickly rounded up and crushed by the US army, first, at the city of Taranto...
And finally, in Potenza. (which had been under my control, but then this big force of Italian divisions just suddenly popped up once US troops moved in. )
What is left of Italy's forces are now being cleared out of the Balkans by Mitteleuropan troops. Zagreb and Sarajevo have already been liberated from the Syndicalists, as whats left of the Italian army begins to surrender in droves to German and Hungarian troops.
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