2nd World War

At POW camps all around NAZI Europe, Gestapo and SS units begin liquidating Alliance prisoners by the many thousands.   In a more direct retaliation, fifty ballistic missiles armed with VX and another seventy five conventional and sarin ballistic missiles slam into London, concentrated generally on industrial and residential sectors. Despite the widespread availability of chemical protection gear, London experiences nearly eighty thousand casualties immediately or in the aftermath of the attack.

The last defender's morale has been shattered by the mutiny to their east and relentless Axis chemical and conventional shelling.

The new submarine is a large diesel-electric attack model fitted with the latest surface scanning radar, sonar systems, many more batteries, and 12 torpedo tubes armed with cutting edge homing torpedoes. It marks the beginning of a new phase in the Battle of the Atlantic; large new German attack submarines gain the upper hand by operating solo and savaging Alliance convoys with submerged attack runs utilizing large torpedo volleys.  

Chapter 3 in Shattered World : Madness Ascendant

U.S. forces have now occupied most of Portugal and are rapidly consolidating and firming up their logistical toehold on the continent. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers now pour into the Iberian peninsula despite intermittent German ballistic missile attacks. Axis Powers forces have begun to settle into a line of defense roughly along the Spanish border, paying particular attention to the approaches to central and southern Spain

Prowling U.S. submarines and maritime aircraft have severely hampered Japanese lines of communication between the Home Islands and Korea as the U.S. continues to tighten its crippling blockade of Japan. On the Home Islands themselves massive conventional and chemical raids continue to hammer Japanese cities several times a week though it has now been some time since any atomic attacks on Japan. On Okinawa, Taiwan, islands in the central Pacific, and even coastal China and the Philippines U.S. forces have been massing now for many months as the U.S. general staff continues to debate whether to simply maintain the blockade of Japan or to set a Spring invasion date. One thing is clear, nothing less an unconditional Japanese surrender will be contemplated.

Soviet loyalist forces have largely suppressed the Red Army Mutiny in the south but Axis Powers mechanized forces have made a broad sweeping movement from rail heads in Ukraine all the way to the Volga frontier with little effective Soviet resistance. However growing Soviet resistance anchored on Beriagrad, and overly stretched Axis logistics, have combined to stabilize the front.   The remnants of the Soviet spy network inside Germany have informed Beria that the German High Command has called a halt to offensive operations in the East until the Spring and Beria and Stavka are content to continue to build up defenses along the Volga and focus on the dire situation in the Moscow salient.