Back in Europe an army under Kleist firmly puts North Italy under German control but Montgomery and the Italians stop him somewhere between Bologna and Roma. The front in Europe is quite static overall with the Germans, apart from the Italian actions, only moving forward a bit in the Balkans, more precise, the Romanian oilfields. They hold pretty well overall though. The Germans seem to be investing in better planes to counter our advances it seems.
By November Japan is taking big blows. O’Connor wins a major battle in China and has the Japanese on the run completely. A first attempt for a US invasion in the mainland is thwarted by Yamamoto as a major naval battle takes place which ends pretty much undecided but does make an invasion at this time impossible. A bit sadistic maybe but there’s some good news in there for the empire: we now easily had the best and largest fleet again.
Russia meanwhile had sorted out its internal struggles and reverted back to familiar behaviour; in the name of “eradicating evil communism” they attacked commie Mongolia, which evidently proved to be a pushover and was soon annexed. The Cromwells and jets are advancing nicely. We should be able to invade in full force.
January 1944 sees us sweep up the last resistance in China. Japan remains ready for the taking, esp now their fleet has been severely depleted. Their industries were left no chance to regain momentum because of American bombing and they scrambled hopelessly to put a stop to it. By April all of China was liberated.with O’Connor personally freeing Shanghai. The Germans expect the expected and start building an Atlantic Wall in France.
May sees the 2nd try to invade Japan. American troops, this time in British transports, try again. Sleazy moves into Korea themselves while China moves into Manchuria. By June Korea and Manchuria had fallen but the US met fierce resistance in Japan. Still they were on their last legs. July 1944, Japan surrenders unconditionally. The US takes control of Japan, the UK of Korea and Taiwan and China of Manchuria. Chiang Kai Check reign supreme in China. Sleazy are deemed to have done enough and are left in India, Korea and Taiwan to hold the fort.
By November Japan is taking big blows. O’Connor wins a major battle in China and has the Japanese on the run completely. A first attempt for a US invasion in the mainland is thwarted by Yamamoto as a major naval battle takes place which ends pretty much undecided but does make an invasion at this time impossible. A bit sadistic maybe but there’s some good news in there for the empire: we now easily had the best and largest fleet again.
Russia meanwhile had sorted out its internal struggles and reverted back to familiar behaviour; in the name of “eradicating evil communism” they attacked commie Mongolia, which evidently proved to be a pushover and was soon annexed. The Cromwells and jets are advancing nicely. We should be able to invade in full force.
January 1944 sees us sweep up the last resistance in China. Japan remains ready for the taking, esp now their fleet has been severely depleted. Their industries were left no chance to regain momentum because of American bombing and they scrambled hopelessly to put a stop to it. By April all of China was liberated.with O’Connor personally freeing Shanghai. The Germans expect the expected and start building an Atlantic Wall in France.
May sees the 2nd try to invade Japan. American troops, this time in British transports, try again. Sleazy moves into Korea themselves while China moves into Manchuria. By June Korea and Manchuria had fallen but the US met fierce resistance in Japan. Still they were on their last legs. July 1944, Japan surrenders unconditionally. The US takes control of Japan, the UK of Korea and Taiwan and China of Manchuria. Chiang Kai Check reign supreme in China. Sleazy are deemed to have done enough and are left in India, Korea and Taiwan to hold the fort.
