Oceania -Posting of Countries

[DuQuense]

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Economic Development
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[Cockroach]

Union of Pacific Dominions
Consists of: The Commonwealth of Australia (OC 5) and the Domonion of New Zealand (OC 6)
Population (pre ISOT in brackets):8.6 million (12.3 million) and 1.5 million (1.5. million)
Economic Development: Substantial manufacturing industry in the costal areas around Merlbourne and Sydney, Coal mines and steel mill in the Hunter Vally (~100km North of Sydney), high food production in terms of grain and cattle inland.
Government: Consitutional Monarchy, Govener General Sir John Monash
Military:
Airforce: 125 Kingsford Smith [KS-3] Dingo close support aircraft (a two seat biplane armed with 3 .303" guns and a 20mm cannon and capable of carrying 500 pounds of bombs); 60 Hawker Cyclone fighters (radial engined varient of the Hurricane, 6 .303" MGs and 1 20mm cannon, top speed of 520 km/h, see attatched image); 50 Handley Page Hampden medium bombers (stats as per OTL); 75 Kingsford Smith [KS-4] Anzac light fighters (1 20mm cannon 4 .303" MGs, max speed of 460 km/h)
Army: 35000 active and 125000 reserve infantry, 5000 active and 15000 reserve cavalry (light horse, lancers and mounted infantry), 25 Matilda II (http://www.wwiivehicles.com/html/unitedkingdom/matilda.html) infantry tanks, 50 Vickers Medium Mk IIA medium tanks (http://www.wwiivehicles.com/html/unitedkingdom/mk_ii_medium.html), 65 Vicker Light Tanks Mk VI (http://www.wwiivehicles.com/html/unitedkingdom/light_tanks_mk_vi.html), 5 Australian Heavy Tank Mk 1 "Wombat" with more under construction (1 12 pounder QF naval gun and 1 .303" Vickers MG in turret, 1 .303" Lewis anti-aircraft MG mounted on top of turret, 2 .303" Vickers in additional small turret; armor thickness varying between 15 mm and 65 mm; top speed of 43 km/h on road and 25 km/h off road)
Navy: 2 Battlecruisers (HMAS New South Wales and HMAS Tasmania (http://warshipprojects.board.dk3.com/2/viewtopic.php?t=1217)), 1 Battleship under construction (HMNZS New Zealand), 1 carrier (HMAS Albatross, 45 aircraft capacity), 4 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, 24 destroyers, 15 sloops
History:
Settlement of Australia occured in 1785. Unlike OTL Federation between the Australian colonies was achieved earlier (1893) and New Zealand joined in 1905. Royal Australian Navy (RAN) formed in 1896 consisting of 2 armored cruisers, 3 light cruisers, 6 torpedo boat destroyers and assorted left overs from the small colonial navies. A sizable force was dispatched to both the Boer war and Boxer Rebellion, both forces gave a good acount of themselves. Aquired the Battlecruisers HMAS Australia and HMNZS New Zealand in 1907, orders for 3 new battlecruisers were placed shortly there after (see link to HMAS NSW), one was later transfered to the RN, HMAS NSW was completed in 1914 and did not arrive in Australia until post WW1 and HMAS Tasmania was delayed until post war. Upon decleration of WW1 in 1914 the RAN and New Zealand Squadron (NZS) started opperations to eliminate German pocessions and the German East Asian Squadron culminating in the Battle of Rabul which resulted in the destruction of Nurnberg, Dresden, Gneisenau and von Spee's flagship Scharnhorst but cost the RAN the loss of the armored cruisers HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Protector. Australian and New Zealand troops were disptached to the middle east and played a vital role in the capture of the Dardenelles. These troops were redeployed to France their career their being much like OTL. The RAN and NZS later joined the RN for opperations in European waters forming the Dominion Battle Squadron (DBS) consisting of the 3 battlecruisers in commision at the time. The DBS was engaged in numerous opperations. At Jutland HMAS Australia was severaly damaged and HMAS New South Wales was credited with sinking a German battleship. During DBS was also engaged in the destruction of the sortie of parts of the High Seas Fleet just after the armistance but HMNZS New Zealand was sunk with all hand by what was belived to be a magazine explosion. Post war both Australia and New Zealand managed to heavily industrialise.

Edit: Revised armorment of several vechials

[Cockroach]

New Holland
Population: 3.5 million
Government: Governer appointed by dutch East Indies company (VOC), local parliment with limited powers
Military:
Army:35000 VOC infantry backed up by 19000 local militia including 5000 Cavalry
Navy: 3 Coast defense ships (6 12" guns in two triple turrets); 3 light cruisers and 6 destroyers However 8 VOC armed merchantmen (5 5.9" and 6 37mm guns) and 4 VOC merchant cruisers (4 7.5" in two twin turrets and 12 37mm) happened to be in port at the time of ISOT
Airforce: 57 single seat fighter/scouts armed with 2 0.30" Machine guns and 20 twin seat light bombers armed with 3 0.30" Machine guns and capable of carying 1500 pounds of bombs or 1 21" torpedo
Economic Development: A number of mines producing a variety of minerals, some farming, very limited production capability mainly centered around Tasman (OTL Perth)
History:
With the destruction of the English fleet during a series of wars in the 1600s and early 1700s (OTLs Dutch Wars) Holland was left the preeminant sea power in Europe and the East Indies. During the 1600s a number of dutch ships were wrecked on the coast of Terra Australis, culminating in the loss of the Batavia. After the wreck of the Batavia the dutch became determined to survey the coast and reefs which ultimatly led to the discovery of some areas which were not desert and during the 1690s the establishment of several small settlements on the coast. Over time these settlements grew and with the discovery of a number of mineral deposits boomed. Even today New Holland largely relies on the export of these minerals.

[Cockroach]

Correct:
KS-3 was actually too lightly armed so I decided I should make it a bit more useful:

Kingsford Smith [KS-3] Dingo close support aircraft/dive bomber/torpedo bomber, a two seat biplane armed with 3 .303" guns and a 20mm cannon and capable of carrying 1500 pounds of bombs or a 21" torpedo

[Ward]

French Pacific Territories

New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna .
New Caledonia pop is 230,000
French Polynesia pop is 250,000
Island of Wallis and Futuna pop 14,000

Military Forces of French Pacific Territories
Reg. Pacific Foeign Leagon
1 Battion of Tanks AMX-13 90's 17 tanks each Co 3 Cos in Battion
2 Battions of Inf 3 Co each of 130 men in VAB APC
1 Battion of Arttiery 3 Battories each 6 155mm Guns Each

AirForce
1 Sq of 8 Atlantic ASW aircraft
2 Sq of 12 each Mirage F1C
1 Sq of 12 Super Frelon Helos

Navy
2 Cassard Class air defense Frigate
4 D'Estienne D'orves class ASW Corvettes
1 Amethyste Class Submarines
6 L"audacieuse class offshoe patrol Boats




Tech is 1983

if this is not ok I will pull this country

[DominusNovus]

if this is not ok I will pull this country
I think we should put it to a vote.

[DuQuense]

?Didn't whe hash this out on the ASB thread?, Even ISOTing Monaco, or such whould be such Butterflies as to make any idea of what would happen unpredicible.

[Ward]

I think we should put it to a vote.



I will agree with what ever the vote is.
People asked about a small nation with modren tech that is why I posted .

[perdedor99]

A nation with technology like that will change the balance of the game. True, their planes will run out of JP5 and will be only pieces of study for the military engineers like also their computers and armored vehicles but still too strong of a thread to the rest of nations in the area.

[Ward]

up Date on French Paciric Territories

Military

In New Caledonia
1 Reg of Legionar ( 3 battions of Inf. 1 battion of artt. 3 co. of 75mm
3 sqs of Morane 406 (18 Aircraft each)
1 sq of Potez 63.11 ( 17 aircraft)
CL Jeanne D'Arc
CL Montcalm
3 DD Le Fantasque Class
4 DD Bourrasque Class
8 Diane class Subs


In French Polynesia
1 Inf Reg ( 3 Batt. of Inf)
1 Sq of Curtiss H-75 ( 11 aircraft )
3 Bougainville class Colonia Sloops


In Wallis and Futuna
2 co. of Inf


Tech 1939

Head of Goverment General Dumemes

[Ward]

The Kingdom of Siam
Head of Goverment King Rama VIII
population 37 million

Navy
2 Sri Ayuthia Class coastal Defence Ship
2 Ratnakosindra class armoured gunship
2 Taksin class Cruisers
9 Puket class Torpedo-boats
3 Kantan class torpedo - Boats
2 Tachin class sloops
2 Bangrachan class minelayers
4 Sinsamudar class submarines

Army 250,000
8 inf Divs
1 armd Batt Vickers mk 7 tankets

Airforce 30,000
2 sqs of P-26 ( 23 aircraft)
4 Sqs of Zero's ( 56 aircraft)
1 Sq of Tojos ( 18 aircraft)
1 sq of Bettys ( 14 aircraft )


French Indo China

Pop 130 million
Head of Govement General Collin Govener General

Army 250,000
2 Demi-Brigs of African Each with 5 Battions of North African troops
9e Armord Battion with 4 co of 27 Somua
7 Ler RMSW Battion 4 co of 27 AMD Parhard Armd Cars
1st Inf Div
1st Foeign Legon Reg
2nd Foreign Legon Reg
4 th Foreign Legion Reg
Legion Airborn Reg
4 comando Battion
1 Naval Div
1st DLM
Air force
5 sqs of 12 each Morane 406
6 sqs of Bloch 152 12 aircraft each
8 sqs of Dewoitine 520 12 aircraft each
5 sqs of Douglas DB-7 12 aircraft each
18 sqs of Bloch 210 12 aircraft each
8 sqs of Dc-4 12 aircraft each
1 sq of Ju 52 16 aircraft

Navy
CV Painleve
CV Joffre 12 willdcats 12 Dauntless
BB Richelieus
BC Dunkerque
BC Strasbourg
4 Suffren Class CA
2 CA Duquesne Class
1 CA Algerie
6 La Galissonniere class
5 Mogador Class DD
6 Le Fantasque Class DD
12 Le Hardi Class DD
6 Vauquelin Class DD
9 Aurore Class Subs
6 Minerve Class Subs


Siam attacked French Indo China in 1939 The French moved to fight them

[Ward]

Background History of France IndoChina
in 1935 the French stopped A. Hitler when he tried his first military Adventure and brought the Weimar Republic back into power. and disarmed Germany back to the Versaille treaty regulations .
in 1934 the French Goverment stated to bring it Naval forces up to strength as called for by the 1922 washington Treaty. This is why the French navy has ships 3 years earlier then she would of had in are time line .
In the Spring of 1939 France started to hear rumors that the Kingdom of Siam and Japan were about to attack French Indo China . So by the end of summer the French had sent 2 Reg. Army Divs to Indo China as well as most of the French surface navy . The Airforce had also sent new aircraft to replace the outdate aircraft stationed there .
The French Had strong wornings that Japan and Saim were going to Attack on Sept 2 1939.
Siam is woundering where the promised help from Japan, are at. She know that by herself she can not win a war against the French .
This French Indo China is from a diffrent time line then that of the French Pacific Islands

[Grey Wolf]

It looks very interesting Ward - your France is going to be a fascinating factor, a strong European presence in an unexpected place for it. King Rama would be advised to make the best deal he could and accept protectorate status - at least if no one shows up to help him !

Best Regards
Grey Wolf