Fooble's War

02 Mar 1941

Our invasion of Borneo, backed by some Siamese troops has progressed well. The defenders we encountered surrendered soon after our landing, making our advance across the island unopposed.

The marines have pushed on through Java, claiming it’s resources and factories. We have put these to work making up our ammunition deficit, which is holding up progress in Yunnan, where we are still unable to make progress.

01 Feb 1941

Our sieges at Yunnan and Xibei San Ma continue to be a drain on our overstretched war production, however our invasion of Sumatra went as well as could be hoped.

01 Jan 1941

As a stream of fresh equipment begins to arrive at our front line divisions, we can begin to contemplate aggressive action again. arching in the Chinese mountains during winter would be foolhardy, but shore landings in the Tropical east indies is much more viable.

01 Dec 1940

We have run our ammunition and fuel reserves dry. We are going to halt all aggression until the spring. New war factories are being built in the come islands and on the China coast to allow us to begin fighting again in 1941.

01 Nov 1940

Our advances into Xibei San Ma, Yunnan and Borneo have all stalled. We do not produce enough equipment to maintain action on 3 fronts for more than a month. As winter set in we plan to wind down our offensives and refocus our economy from construction to arms production.

Our scientists are developing new landing craft, ship models and aircraft to aid our planned campaign through Indonesia, but without the factories to produce them we cannot make use of their work.

01 Oct 1940

Yunnan has lost it’s main factory complex to us, which we are now using to resupply our army. Xibei San Ma continue to hold out in the mountains, our regular infantry there were proving ineffective and so have left the siege. They will support our landings on Borneo in Indonesia.

01 Sep 1940

Singapore has been returned to the Siamese. We could have really used it large war factory and abundant resources, but at least we may now trade for the resources on favourable terms, and a member of the Sphere is now greatly strengthened.

01 Aug 1940

Malaya is now mostly taken, only a few enemy troops hold out in the northern jungle, sandwiched between our marines and the Siamese army. Once this conquest is complete our marines can move on to Borneo to gain access to the valuable oil fields that will fuel our Pacific Fleet.

Xibei San Ma continues to hold out in their mountaintop city, but without food and under constant harassment from our air force their situation is grim. We hope that they will surrender before the winter sets in, as it will make the situation dire for both of us.

01 Jul 1940

Xibei San Ma is approaching collapse, but it’s capital, Golmud, is a mountaintop stronghold that is successfully resisting our attempts to capture it. We must push on, as a winter siege in these mountains far inland will lead to months of heavy attrition.

In the home islands the stream of fresh volunteers has dried up. We are going to have to instigate a more rigorous draft law to find the manpower we need to complete our objectives.

01 Jun 1940

Xibei San Ma is falling back as volunteer units from the rest of the Sphere are sent to the front. Once our work here is complete the small Chinese state of Yunnan should be taken. It has an industrialised east that we can make use of, and the west can be added to one of our buffer colonies.

01 May 1940

Indochina has been fully occupied by the Sphere. Siam has taken possession of Cambodia and Laos while we have taken Vietnam. This extends our reach down to coast far enough to threaten Malaya and the East indies with invasion.

02 Apr 1940

We continue to advance down the pacific coast without any opposition. Siam has reported that there is some french infantry holding out in Cambodia but otherwise they too make good progress.

02 Mar 1940

As the French Entente suffer a sting of defeats against the Axis, and Britain’s Empire continues to devolve, there is never going to be a better time to oust their influence from the pacific.

01 Feb 1940

Germany continues its march through the Balkans, forcing Yugoslavia into surrender. Britain’s Empire is quickly disintegrating, India joining the communists, Canada declaring independence and Australia rejecting any call to war.

01 Jan 1940

Without the prepared defences the Communist Chinese could not hope to stand against The entire Prosperity Sphere. after 2 weeks of sporadic fighting and retreating they capitulated. As they hold strategic resources and a large stockpile of weapons and ammunition we have annexed them into mainland Japan.

01 Dec 1939

Germany has annexed Poland. With many forces now free from the Polish front, Germany attacks Luxembourg and Switzerland to give them routes around the heavily fortified Maginot line on the French/German border.

Shanxi has surrendered. We have taken control of the industrialised south of the state, and have granted the north to Mengkukuo, as reward for their assistance and to strengthen our buffer states against the Soviet Union.

01 Nov 1936

Our troops are once again fully equipped and ready for action. Our partners in the Prosperity sphere have sent support divisions to help us annex the Shanxi, in two weeks their first line of defence had collapsed leaving their capital Taiyuan dangerously exposed.