@Morlak:Exactly. When I free up all of those battle hardened infantry from the north, I am going to steamroll Longs Union State. However, I need to hold the line first, and the AUS is putting up more and more pressure all the time.
@Zhuge Liang: I havent really been reporting on the western front yet since nothing of real importance has happened there yet. The only things there are the PSA marching their army into Nevada and Arizona, as well as western Utah. My whole strategy in the west is simple, hold the rocky mountains, and halt the PSA from gaining much strategic depth. In the west, I can trade land for time, while I deal with the much stronger AUS and CSA rebellions.
@yourworstnightm: If i am not mistaken, a peaceful reunion with the PSA can only happen if the PSA and USA are at peace. Therefore, I will have to march all the way to the pacific ocean to bring california back into the fold.
@everyone else: thanks for the comments.
Authors note: sorry for the slowing down of my updates. It is crunch time at uni and I am juggling 3 papers right now. Hopefully this update will hold you all over for a while longer.
General DeWitt's 1st Cavalry division rides into southern Illinois, pushing AUS troops there out with little resistance. However, the cavalry are soon faced with a massive CSA frontal assault, consisting of about 80,000 militants and regular infantry. Completely outnumbered and outgunned, DeWitt retreats back across the Mississippi into Missouri, suffering heavy casualties.
Finally, the first decisive victory so far in the civil war. Completely cut off from their commanders in Chicago, and almost out of ammunition and supplies, CSA militants and regulars stationed in New York City surrender by the thousands to the US army. It is estimated that about 100,000 CS troops were captured here. With this decisive victory, at least 4 US divisions can now be redeployed to the west, to help break through CSA lines in Indiana and Ohio and finally link up directly with US forces in the midwest and the great plains.
In international news, Spain becomes the next nation to suffer war with itself, with the Carlist faction of Spain rising up in the northern parts of the country and declaring war on the legitimate Spanish government.
Another development concerns the Ukraine, which suffers a full blown overthrow of its German puppet regime, and its replacement with a syndicalist government led by Nikita Khrushchev. This development could have a very large reverberating effect on the current European balance of powers.
In central Asia, a war develops when the government of Turkestan decides to invade the Kazakh state of Alash Orda. The Kazakhs however, come up with a very interesting way to protect themselves. Alash Orda willingly gives up its sovereignty to the Russian government, peacefully rejoining Russia for protection from Turkestan. Now, the Turkestani's are up against one of the worlds most powerful nations, as Russian troops march south to meet them.
Back in the US, CSA militants are able to march all the way out of northern Wisconsin and into eastern Minnesota, taking control of Minneapolis from US authorities. American infantry, as well as the 1st Cavalry division, organize a task force to retake the city and push the CSA out of Minnesota. After a rather long battle, US forces, heavily disorganized and exhausted, are just barely able to best the CSA militia's, pushing them out of the city.
Once again, in Spain, the long suppressed CNT-FAI comes out of hiding and joins the fighting, seizing control of vast swathes of eastern Spain and declaring open war on both the Carlist and government factions. Soon, the CNT-FAI's ranks are bolstered with thousands of British and French volunteers, who form the so called international brigades.
Back in the US, the CSA offensive has expanded. CSA militants have crossed over both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, retaking St Louis, Milwaukee, and marching into Kentucky for the first time. However, the US joint chiefs of staff sense a weakness. Seeing that the CSA has overstretched their forces, a massive counterattack is launched, directed at Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio. In all areas, US forces are victorious, sending CSA militants fleeing in all directions.
Huey Long is not quiet through all of this however, ordering his Union States Army to throw US forces out of North Carolina. With US lines stretched thin in this area, they are able to break through in the center, at Fayetteville.
US troops attempt a half hearted diversionary counterattack into Tennessee. However, things go bad right from the start, as US troops find themselves up against not minute men or paramilitaries, but fully trained and heavily armed AUS regulars, who are able to successfully blunt this federal offensive. Also note that US troops are about to get kicked out of Charlotte, in North Carolina.
In the battle against the CSA, there is another decisive breakthrough. US infantry from east and west link up in Northern Indiana, completely isolating thousands of CSA militias and infantry to the south. All CS army counterattacks fail, and the kessel is fully sealed. The death knell of Jack Reeds army and his socialist state is finally at hand!
With morale now climbing, US forces go on the offensive once again in Arkansas, with Little Rock becoming the scene once more for heavy fighting between US and AUS infantry. through weight of numbers, the US troops breakthrough, and retake the city.