@Xesan: I probably won't create Israel, or palestine, but rather, a third country that I am sure most people have not heard of...
@CylonAndrew: I am confident that before that can happen, I will be able to secure the mountainous provinces of Western Persia to secure that front with the Russians.
@Karaiskandar: It is pretty powerful, but the German's are still outnumbered heavily at sea by my carrier fleet. Plus, the German navy has a large imbalance of Capital ships to escort vessels, making them highly vulnerable, unlike the far more capable Imperial Japanese Navy of the Pacific war.
@salidas16: As far as the Ottomans are concerned, I plan to bring them down completely. The sick man of Europe is an oppressive empire, that persecutes its many ethnic minorities. These people, and the Turkish people themselves, deserve freedom from Ottoman rule. I am still not sure how I will divide up the region though, since the post WW1 carving up of the middle east by France and Britain never happened in this reality.
@Asalto: Africa was never really expected to be a real challenge. Goring does not have enough Industry and soldiers to effectively challenge the might of the Allied Forces.
@everyone: thanks for the comments!
Tel Aviv falls to US army mechanized infantry formations charging out of the Gaza region. The Ottomans however attempt to retake the city with a large infantry counterattack. This attack turns into a bloody fiasco, with huge numbers of Ottoman infantry pounded into the ground by American mobile artillery and huge automatic weapons fire. The Ottoman attack falls apart with the enemy turning back to the north.
By this time in the game, I have researched the last technologies that are possible to research in HOI2. I kinda wish I had tried to add the cold war tech tree extension, but trying to do so now would probably screw up the game. Anyway, thats all done with now.
In the southern portion of the Arabian peninsula, all of Yemen has been secured by US forces. Now, American troops prepare to move both northeast and northwest, towards major arab coastal cities and towns.
Meanwhile, in Asia, US forces, with the aid of Chinese Republican army troops, begin to cross the easternmost part of the Yellow River, one of the Qing Empire's last natural lines of defense.
Back in Europe, total stalemate has descended on the European frontlines. French and Spanish forces, supported by small numbers of other allied divisions, are deeply entrenched along the riverbanks of Northeastern France. On the other side, German and huge numbers of Eastern European forces are piled up in intricate in-depth defenses, supported by massive numbers of jet aircraft that constantly patrol the skies against allied bombers. The situation here reminds many military officers of what it was like in the First World war, where huge numbers of Entente and German troops filled trenches stretching all the way from Switzerland in the south to the English Channel in the north.
Back in China, the Qing empire is continuing to lose more and more ground to Allied troops. Although the US army failed to cross the Yellow river at Anyang due to heavy Qing army resistance, they have succeeded in crossing at Yucheng, along the eastern coast. In the centre meanwhile, Republican troops are continuing to roll the front slowly to the north, with US forces having to catch up to the Chinese formations.
Back in the Middle East, US armoured and motorized troops, lead by the combat veteran General MacArthur, punch through Ottoman defenses at Haifa. This attack is supported by heavy naval artillery gunfire by American battleships off the coast, which bathe the Ottoman infantry in devastating shellfire. The Ottoman army breaks, and heads north into Lebanon and Syria.
Unable to defend against US armoured attacks, the Ottoman army has begun retreating deeper into Syria and Jordan. During this retreat, Ottoman troops, which were garrisoning Jerusalem, declare the holy city completely open, in an attempt to spare this important world religious site from any wartime violence and damage. Ottoman troops peacefully leave the city, hours before US forces enter it.
Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in all of Islam, are also declared to be open cities by the Ottoman empire. A similar scenario plays out in the region as did in Jerusalem, with Ottoman troops withdrawing to the North East towards Mesopotamia without a shot fired, only hours before US forces take control of both cities. This show of chivalry by the two warring nations pleases both sides, with nobody wanting to be responsible for the destruction of some of the earths oldest and most sacred places.
As the fighting continues to rage in the Middle East and Asia, back in the Atlantic, the US navy begins a massive sealift operation from the continental United States to the island base of Sao Tome, just off the western coast of Mittelafrika. 390,000 US troops, made up largely of Air Cavalry divisions and Marines, will be put in place to begin major combat operations in the region.