heh. I don't think there was anything we could have done either, I'm just saying that now would NOT be a good time.

I read the manual. I would like some CAGs with the carriers, please.

Sorry folks I've not been at home most of the last week so no updates! Will be back with another update Monday night

April 16th:



Any opportunity to interven in Ethiopia has, it seems, been lost. Italy has reorganised its east African possessions into one colony.

May 1st:



An interesting development, which may save us the bother of intervening in Spain...

But bad news on May 25:


May 20:


In violation of the Versailles Treaty, Germany has reoccupied the Rhineland. After a brief international crisis in which Belgium and France sabre-rattled somewhat timidly, no action has been taken as a repercussion. The League of Nations has proved weak.

We have some good news - our technological efforts are producing some results:



And I have been able to funnel more resources into espionage away from officer training, as we have a surplus of 101%!

Finally, the 1st Armoured Division, the Royal Hussars, has been raised in England and is ready for deployment:



So, what're our next moves?

I favour keeping 1st Armoured in the UK.

I also recommend we begin expanding our bombers.

I also think we should switch espionage to lowering neutrality.

Any information required and I will see what our spies have come up with.

I think we definitely need to get our nation's people int he mood for a fight. It'll happen regardless.

Isn't the armoured division meant to be a part of our response corps?

Hmm. Some of the images did not load, Mark. I'm curious to see as to what they were.

Odd Mythos, they should work, they're working for me.

Murph - I was in the belief the response corps would be stationed in the UK and deployed to hot-spots as and when. The UK is pretty central so it'd make sense to keep it there.

Of course I may have misunderstood - what does everyone else think?

I will work on building some motorised divisions soon to support it? How's that sound?

sorry. what is our state of aircraft/tech?

im sure you can whip it off faster than I can read 10 pages

Motorized divisions sound great, as does lowering neutrality.

We will likely need more than one tank division, but since we won't be doing anything in the mideast right away, and they're not well suited to the terrain in India, we might as well keep them in the UK for now.

Lowering neutrality sounds good to me, too.

If I understood the manual right, carriers need CAGs to be of any use whatsoever. Could we build some when we have the capacity? Otherwise we might loose a lot of swimming tennis courts when anything happens.

My intelligence interests are clear (Germany's and Japan's Navy) and are a standing request. Anything comes up I want to know.

I'm not 100% clear on our deployment forces, Mark.

What I had in my mind was -
2 Corps strength task forces - each of 3 divisions plus an air squadron and some transports old cruisers for naval support.

One of these at least needs to be based somewhere in the mid-east/india. the other... home is fair enough.

i know you've formed a couple of corps strength forces, but i'm not sure whether they are defence forces for our theatres or are free to be used as our deployment corps.

What I have done Murph is two of those corps (all infantry), one in Egypt and another in India, on its way to Calcutta.

If that's what you desire I can recall the Indian corps back to the UK and go ahead with building the interceptor squadron, and pen that for deployment with the Egyptian corps.

Is that ok?

Hasa - intel will be on its way ASAP. Same for Jim's prior request on Italian forces.

nah. to be honest, having one in Egypt and one in india works just fine for me - with the major issues of protecting the suez link and india, this gives us 6 divisions we can rush in to trouble spots.

personally I'd add 1st armoured to the egyptian corps, giving us some extra options if we do need to deploy them elsewhere.

Italy's Navy, according to our latest reports:



According to the scant information it has provided us with, there's a mixture of destroyers and cruisers, with a few submarines.

Destroyers and cruisers generally act as screens for larger ships. I bet the Italians have a number of battleships, perhaps even carriers, somewhere among their number.

Japan:



Bad news - Japan has managed to eliminate all of our current spies. We have some scant information from before the last spy was caught.

Not much to reveal here. This gives us nothing like an accurate picture of the Imperial Navy at all.

Germany has also eliminated all our spies, and we have zero intelligence on their navy or air force.

I will redouble our efforts and give MI6 a good earchewing.

Two diplomatic options have arisen.

The possibility has come to sign a treaty with Egypt. Britain will withdraw all troops from Egypt except those necessary to defend the Suez Canal and environs (suitably flexibly defined to give us a broad remit) and grant Egypt legislative independence, but it will remain to all intents and purposes a British puppet state. In time of war we will have options to take command of the country's army.

What should we do?

Secondly, we can publically announce an 'imperial preference' policy. If we do this, our relations with Canada, NZ, Australia and South Africa will be boosted quite nicely; however, our relations with France will be a little strained, and with America they'll be strained quite severely.

Nonetheless I believe it is a worthwhile move, as the French would never risk abandoning us, and the Americans aren't exactly intent on getting involved in world affairs in the first place.

I'm fine with both those options. The 1st is precisely what the deployment corps are about, and on the 2nd we can just throw some bones the way of the US, keep em a bit happier.

same here.

ditto.

I've always thought of you as "Tank Commander", but clearly wasn't appreciating you enough!

*pins another star on SP's epaulettes*