NEW ALLIANCES! In Europe one alliance has ended as a new one begins. The Scandinavian Union has joined the Stonewall Pact as the Second Great War rages onward and already some Norwiegan and Dannish forces have been dispatched in support of the German front. In the southeast the Islamic Alliance has been formed, led by Turkey and Saudi Arabia and containing the mainly revolted nations created by the dissolution of the French Empire. As yet they have not made a position clear on their stance in the ongoing struggle.
REPUBLICAN FRENCH ECONOMY COLLAPSES! The economy of the French republic has fallen, perhaps fatally. The end of the colonies and the ongoing dissent and civil war has strained the economy to the point at which it broke. It may take some time to ever repair from this disaster.
ISLAMIC ALLIANCE ADVANCES! With the creation of the new union, the greatest minds in all of the Middle East have gathered to design a new medium tank. This tank is known by its designers as the Fist of Allah, but known to foriegn observers simply as the Fist.
UNITED STATES ANNOUNCES OFFER FOR BRITIAN! President Truman has offered a Ship for Bases plan, asking for a lease on access to British bases in exchange for 100 American destroyers. No word has come out of Downing Street on a response to this, but most expect approval of the plan.
COMMUNISTS HIT BACK IN FRANCE! As the Second Great War rages on across Europe, the fighting in France has yet to cease. Communist French forces have launched a major counter-attack against British and Republican troops, hitting them back away from Caen.
Casualty List
Communist French: 18,000 Infantry, 10,000 Soviet Infantry, 200 T-34s, 100 YAKs
British: 12,000 Infantry, 190 Light Tanks
Republican French: 21,000 Infantry, 210 Light Tanks, 150 Fighters
SECOND GREAT WAR
BRITISH SHIP SUNK AT MOUTH OF THE THAMES! In a daring raid, Spainish submarines managed to sneak past the British destroyer net and sunk a British merchant ship coming from Africa in the middle of the Thames channel. This caused considerable panic and a brief economic downturn. This is merely the first British ship sunk as several more British flagged ships are sunk in the Atlantic by Spainish and Soviet submarines. Throughout the Atlantic some minor casualties have occured on both sides as destroyers sink submarines and the submarines occasionally sink escorts.
Casualty List
Soviet: 10 Submarines
Spainish: 5 submarines
British: 10 Destroyers
GERMANS SURRENDER WEST OF WARSAW! A small German army of 30,000, cut off from the rest of the armed forces were forced to surrender as the Soviets advanced west. Though Soviet casualties were inflicted they were relatively minor as the Germans continue the withdrawl to the Oder River. However the arrival of Allied forces from Denmark, Norway, and Brazil could turn the tide in the coming months of war.
Casualty List
German: 30,000 Infantry, 25 Me-262s
Soviets: 25,000 Soviet Infantry, 30 T-34s, 70 YAKs, 5 DB-2s
SOVIETS PUSH BACK INTO CZECHSLOVAKIA! Fighting against allied Czech, Austrian, and Portuguese forces, the Soviets have managed to punch their way back west, driving nearly all the way to Bratislavia and Vienna. Casualties have been heavy on this front, as both sides have clashed in head on combat.
Casualty List
Soviet: 57,000 Soviet Infantry, 250 T-34s, 90 IS-3s, 150 YAKs, 40 MiG-9s, 75 DB-2s
Czech: 39,000 Infantry, 370 Light Tanks, 70 Panthers, 100 S.245s, 15 Me-262s
Portuguese: 4,000 Infantry, 25 Light Tanks
Austrian: 3,000 Infantry, 30 Light Tanks, 25 Sagitarrios
BLOODY FIGHT FOR BUDAPEST! Allied and Communist forces have been locked into a great battle in the city of Budapest as Italian troops arrive and make the fight nearly even in numbers. Allied control of the skies has halted any further Soviet advances in the open, forcing the ongoing fight in this formerly beautiful city. Casualties have been extraordinarily heavy as both sides continue the bloodbath.
Casualty List
Soviet: 85,000 Soviet Infantry, 450 T-34s, 25 IS-3s, 250 YAKs, 110 MiG-9s, 120 DB-2s
Bulgarian: 15,000 Infantry
Hungarian: 45,000 Infantry, 400 Light Tanks, 75 Panthers, 120 Sagitarrios
Italian: 40,000 Infantry, 340 Light Tanks, 180 Sagitarrios
CLUJ SURRENDERS TO SOVIET ONSLAUGHT AS ROMANIANS RAID OIL FIELDS! The Romanian city of Cluj has surrendered as food and ammunition runs short under the Soviet siege. Nearly 60,000 Romanians surrendered, making this the second largest Allied defeat so far in the war. To the east, the Romanians have managed to raid and heavily damage the Bulgarian held oil fields, sending the Bulgarians into a rout as the allied forces wrecked the fields for communist. However Soviet forces quickly moved in and forced the Romanian raid back to its start point.
Casualty List
Soviet: 35,000 Soviet Infantry, 100 T-34s, 70 YAKs, 10 DB-2s
Bulgarian: 25,000 Infantry, 100 Light Tanks, 30 YAKs
Romanian: 68,000 Infantry, 250 Mech Infantry, 125 Panthers, 30 Sagitarrios, 10 Bombers
GREEK FRONT STALLS! As Italian forces were withdrawn to fight at the battle of Budapest, the Greeks have managed to halt the new Italian drive south with nearly equal forces. The front has more or less stabilized as neither side has managed to gain a successful breakthrough.
Casualty List
Italian: 16,000 Infantry, 40 Light Tanks
Greeks: 18,000 Infantry, 15 T-34s
DISASTER AT GILBRALTER! British and Commonwealth forces have attempted an assualt onto southern Spain only to find it disasterously backfire. Troop transports departing from Britian were quickly spotted by communist submarines and after figuring out where the attack would come from the entire Spainish and Soviet armies in the area were rushed to the south. In the process the Soviet and Spainish submarine forces launched continual attacks on the convoy carrying the army, inflicting heavy casualties on both troops and escorts, despite losses of their own. Many brave British troops were drowned in the journey. Disaster continued as amphibious assualts took place on the south and the assualt came from Gilbralter, as every single communist plane in the area took flight. Allied ship after ship were sunk by combined naval and air efforts, as the communists threw everything they had at the Allied fleets. Four British Battleships, including the famous Prince of Wales were sunk by Spainish bombers. As troops landed on the beaches, they were met by heights with machine guns and artillery prepared behind barbed wire and sandbags. The amphibious landings were forced to be called off as the British fleet withdrew to the Baeleric Islands. From Gilbralter itself, the British forces attacked into Spain, only to be surronded and nearly destroyed in the open. In the process of a retreat, nearly 110,000 British and commonwealth troops escaped Iberia in what has become known as the Miracle of Gilbralter.
Casualty List
Soviet: 25,000 Soviet Infantry, 150 T-34s, 250 YAKs, 50 MiG-9s, 55 Submarines
Spainish: 30,000 Infantry, 300 Light Tanks, 50 T-34s, 2,000 Mech Infantry, 1 Battleship, 2 Battlecruisers, 9 Cruisers, 35 Destroyers, 40 Submarines, 245 YAKs, 200 MiG-9s, 95 Bombers
British: 105,000 Infantry, 800 Light Tanks, 450 Spitfires, 150 Meteors, 255 Lancasters, 4 Battleships, 2 Battlecruisers, 5 Cruisers, 55 Destroyers
Italian: 25 Destroyers
VLADIOSTOCK FALLS TO JAPANESE ATTACK! The eastern Soviet city of Vladiostock has fallen to a renewed Japanese offensive as Soviet forces continue a transfer from front to front. Casualties have been low as the Soviet forces trade space for time.
Soviet: 20,000 Soviet Infantry, 100 T-34s, 200 YAKs
Japanese: 30,000 Infantry, 250 Light Tanks, 50 Zeros, 25 Bombers
DIPLOMATIC POUCH
To: United Kingdom
From: United States of America
We offer you 100 Destroyers built in American shipyards in exchange for use of your bases in the Caribbean.
OOC
I've changed around the tech bit with the formation of the alliances, instead now it will just say the alliance name with the tech instead of the individual countries. That way i dont have to worry about the tech stats as much. This of course does not count for atomic research.
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