In India, the situation is grim. Indian forces have shattered allied lines blocking access to the southern tip of the subcontinent, and are now rolling up the line along the Bay of Bengal. DRI troops are ordered to hold their ground at all costs, but they cannot bear the hammerblows of the Indian Army's powerful armoured and motorized forces. DRI forces withdraw from combat, in an attempt to preserve their forces.
At sea things are going much better. Indian submarines are decimated by Royal Thai Navy frigates and destroyers, well suited to anti-submarine warfare. Many of these Indian subs are destroyed, while the rest flee back to their ports.
In China, powerful SCO forces converge on the city of Fuzhou, a critical urban centre that Japanese forces are ordered to hold to the last man and bullet. The battle is very close at times, and it looked like SCO troops would break through, but their momentum soon runs out and Japanese reinforcements arrive from the south, allowing the Japanese Army to hold the city.
The noose continues to tighten in India. DRI forces are routed by powerful Indian attacks which shatter their morale and inflict heavy casualties. DRI and Japanese forces are ordered to take up positions near Calcutta and tighten their defenses.
Back at sea, very large numbers of American submarines are being destroyed by the Japanese Navy. On these two occasions, a combined total of 10 American subs are destroyed, losses that are greatly hurting the US Navy's extensive submarine fleet.
In southeast Asia, bad news from India is compounded by even worse news from Myanmar. With victory just within the grasp of the Royal Thai Army, a huge force of Russian tanks, newly arrived to the southeast Asian theatre, takes up blocking positions and pounds the Thai Army with overwhelming firepower. The RTA's forces have no counter to the raw power of highly advanced Russian armoured divisions, and are forced to abandon the attack. All hopes for a quick victory in South East Asia are now dashed in one single stroke.
Back in India, the only hope Japanese and allied forces have to holding their ground is to hit the massing Indian Armies with decisive and overwhelming counterattacks. Powerful Japanese units equipped with highly advanced weaponry are able to carry out this task successfully, destroying many Indian formations and inflicting devastating casualties. This prevents the Indian Army from launching any mass offensives that could threaten to drive Japanese troops out of the region, and could be the only hope Japan has of winning on the Indian front.
At sea, Japanese and allied navies are busy fending off what seem like endless numbers of enemy ships entering the pacific ocean. Ever since the start of the war, essentially every country Japan is at war with has been sending groups of frigates, destroyers, and submarines to come fight in the Pacific. Japanese ships are intercepting American, Indian, Chinese, Russian, even Turkish, Eastern European, and Nigerian ships in the pacific! For now, the Japanese navy is holding its own, destroying almost every single ship it can find that dares to come to the Pacific. Japanese propaganda broadcasts on television and on the internet use this to great advantage, trying to demoralize enemy forces with messages of "don't come to the Pacific to die" or "The Pacific Ocean: graveyard of navies".
On the Indian front, southern India falls town by town, city by city, to the Indian Army. Having evacuated Japanese allied forces from the region, and lacking the manpower for a large scale counteroffensive, there is nothing Japan can do to stop them.
More enemy vessels are intercepted and annihilated in the Pacific ocean. Romanians, Turks, even Serb vessels are wiped out by Japanese seapower.
Meanwhile, the situation in Vietnam begins to greatly deteriorate. First, RTA and ARVN forces are halted in their advance on Hanoi by newly arrived Sino-Russian troops. Chinese forces then counterattack, driving, deep to the south and forcing allied units to withdraw towards Thai Cambodia.
More enemy ships are intercepted and annihilated off the coast of Vietnam. This time the enemy fleet consists of a combined SCO expeditionary fleet, made up of Greek, Polish, and Bulgarian escort ships/troop transports. There seems to be no end to the amount of ships the enemy can muster against Japan!
This is soon followed by a battle that would later become famous as "Nigeria's Tsushima". A very large convoy of Nigerian troopships, supported by Nigerian and Serb escort vessels, runs into the waiting arms of Japanese nuclear battlecruisers. Unsurprisingly, the battle turns into a rout, as extreme Japanese firepower decimates the enemy ships. For the Nigerians, this defeat is especially painful. The fleet had been sent by Nigeria's president as a sign of the country's new status as a major power, something that is greatly undermined by the loss of thousands of soldiers and sailors far away from home in the Pacific ocean.
Finally, in Thailand, the moment Thai and Japanese commander's had been fearing finally comes. After some weeks of preparation, the Russians launch a large scale invasion of Thailand, spearheaded by hundreds of tanks and thousands of well equipped soldiers. Thai forces along the border are no match for this punishing assault, and fall back to secondary defensive positions. A repeat of what happened only 6 years ago, where Russian forces brought Thailand to its knees, is now feared by top Japanese commanders. With no troops left to spare, the Thai's and whatever regional allies that can be mustered will have to fend for themselves.
At sea things are going much better. Indian submarines are decimated by Royal Thai Navy frigates and destroyers, well suited to anti-submarine warfare. Many of these Indian subs are destroyed, while the rest flee back to their ports.
In China, powerful SCO forces converge on the city of Fuzhou, a critical urban centre that Japanese forces are ordered to hold to the last man and bullet. The battle is very close at times, and it looked like SCO troops would break through, but their momentum soon runs out and Japanese reinforcements arrive from the south, allowing the Japanese Army to hold the city.
The noose continues to tighten in India. DRI forces are routed by powerful Indian attacks which shatter their morale and inflict heavy casualties. DRI and Japanese forces are ordered to take up positions near Calcutta and tighten their defenses.
Back at sea, very large numbers of American submarines are being destroyed by the Japanese Navy. On these two occasions, a combined total of 10 American subs are destroyed, losses that are greatly hurting the US Navy's extensive submarine fleet.
In southeast Asia, bad news from India is compounded by even worse news from Myanmar. With victory just within the grasp of the Royal Thai Army, a huge force of Russian tanks, newly arrived to the southeast Asian theatre, takes up blocking positions and pounds the Thai Army with overwhelming firepower. The RTA's forces have no counter to the raw power of highly advanced Russian armoured divisions, and are forced to abandon the attack. All hopes for a quick victory in South East Asia are now dashed in one single stroke.
Back in India, the only hope Japanese and allied forces have to holding their ground is to hit the massing Indian Armies with decisive and overwhelming counterattacks. Powerful Japanese units equipped with highly advanced weaponry are able to carry out this task successfully, destroying many Indian formations and inflicting devastating casualties. This prevents the Indian Army from launching any mass offensives that could threaten to drive Japanese troops out of the region, and could be the only hope Japan has of winning on the Indian front.
At sea, Japanese and allied navies are busy fending off what seem like endless numbers of enemy ships entering the pacific ocean. Ever since the start of the war, essentially every country Japan is at war with has been sending groups of frigates, destroyers, and submarines to come fight in the Pacific. Japanese ships are intercepting American, Indian, Chinese, Russian, even Turkish, Eastern European, and Nigerian ships in the pacific! For now, the Japanese navy is holding its own, destroying almost every single ship it can find that dares to come to the Pacific. Japanese propaganda broadcasts on television and on the internet use this to great advantage, trying to demoralize enemy forces with messages of "don't come to the Pacific to die" or "The Pacific Ocean: graveyard of navies".
On the Indian front, southern India falls town by town, city by city, to the Indian Army. Having evacuated Japanese allied forces from the region, and lacking the manpower for a large scale counteroffensive, there is nothing Japan can do to stop them.
More enemy vessels are intercepted and annihilated in the Pacific ocean. Romanians, Turks, even Serb vessels are wiped out by Japanese seapower.
Meanwhile, the situation in Vietnam begins to greatly deteriorate. First, RTA and ARVN forces are halted in their advance on Hanoi by newly arrived Sino-Russian troops. Chinese forces then counterattack, driving, deep to the south and forcing allied units to withdraw towards Thai Cambodia.
More enemy ships are intercepted and annihilated off the coast of Vietnam. This time the enemy fleet consists of a combined SCO expeditionary fleet, made up of Greek, Polish, and Bulgarian escort ships/troop transports. There seems to be no end to the amount of ships the enemy can muster against Japan!
This is soon followed by a battle that would later become famous as "Nigeria's Tsushima". A very large convoy of Nigerian troopships, supported by Nigerian and Serb escort vessels, runs into the waiting arms of Japanese nuclear battlecruisers. Unsurprisingly, the battle turns into a rout, as extreme Japanese firepower decimates the enemy ships. For the Nigerians, this defeat is especially painful. The fleet had been sent by Nigeria's president as a sign of the country's new status as a major power, something that is greatly undermined by the loss of thousands of soldiers and sailors far away from home in the Pacific ocean.
Finally, in Thailand, the moment Thai and Japanese commander's had been fearing finally comes. After some weeks of preparation, the Russians launch a large scale invasion of Thailand, spearheaded by hundreds of tanks and thousands of well equipped soldiers. Thai forces along the border are no match for this punishing assault, and fall back to secondary defensive positions. A repeat of what happened only 6 years ago, where Russian forces brought Thailand to its knees, is now feared by top Japanese commanders. With no troops left to spare, the Thai's and whatever regional allies that can be mustered will have to fend for themselves.
