Moving right along, my cover for Reich-3. According to SJG, the PoD is in 1941, when the Japanese decide to attack Vladivostok instead of Pearl Harbor. I guess the Imperial Japanese Army was more influential in this timeline. The Americans stayed out of the war and never fully funded nuclear research, while the Germans and Japanese divided Eurasia between themselves. SJG mentions UK refugees, so the United Kingdom was invaded at some point. At any rate, I have chosen to depict a full-blown Axis victory, with no holds barred. I have used various base maps from other depictions of Axis victories here, rather than try to emulate what SJG set forth in Reich-5, to further differentiate the two. I suspect that even after the defeat of the UK and the USSR, wars of conquest continued, and with a current year of 1970, the Axis have had plenty of time to conquer and consolidate. So, what you are seeing here is not the product of an alternate WWII, but an alternate WWII and a series of wars afterward. Still implausible, but hey, it's GURPS.
The Americans are isolated, with only Canada and Mexico as close allies. I depict the rest of the Caribbean and Central America as in the American camp, since the description mentions the Germans coveting America's sphere of influence here. I also handed America the Philippines, even though only Hawaii is mentioned as being an American possession the Japanese covet, because if the Japanese did attack the Philippines, they would have gone to war with America. The Germans and Japanese are having increased border incidents along their common Eurasian border; I suspect most of that is in Central Asia, because the Siberian border of the Third Reich is doubtless heavily garrisoned. The two Axis powers have decided to table these disputes until they defeat the Americans. The SJG blurb is silent on whether nukes have been invented in the meanwhile, but I suspect the Germans, Japanese and Americans have their own arsenals, with Germany's being the strongest and America's the weakest. The threat of nuclear war wouldn't necessarily stop the Axis from launching an attack; they are the Axis, after all.
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