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To continue on the interwar ships of the Marina Imperial, these are the candidates for heavy and light cruisers and destroyers and submarines
The Imperial Mexican Navy and Spanish Royal Navy would use the same type of light cruiser with the SNS Reina Victoria Eugenia class, the class consists of 4 ships, BSM Veracruz, BSM Santo Dominigo, BSM Belize for the Marina Imperial and lastly the SNS Reina Victoria Eugenia for the Spanish. (In OTL the Reina Victoria Eugenia is a unique light cruiser)
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Aside from the three cruisers of the Reina Victoria Eugenia class, the Marina Imperial also purchased several German light cruiser designs in the interwar periods and has their own locally built models, perhaps some light cruisers based on the German Nurnberg class or the older Great War era Dresden class. About 6 Nurnberg types and 10 Dresden types would be the probable numbers they can field.
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For heavy cruisers, perhaps one or two ships similar to the German Admiral Hipper class as their modern heavy cruisers and four Mexican version of the German Great war era Blucher or Greek Georgios Averof armored cruisers for older great war era cruisers of Mexico.
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Lastly for destroyers and submarines
Their mainstay destroyers would likely to be the license built version of the older Great War era German G101 class destroyers and the Mexican version of the OTL Italian Capitani Romani class flotilla cruiser as their more modern “super destroyers” design to outgun and outfight any Japanese destroyers in combat. For the total number of DDs, perhaps 42 ships would suffice
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For submarines, the best choice would be the German Type VII U-boats, perhaps more than dozen submarines of this type for safe measure. Preferrably around 24-36 ships.
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To sum up, the Marina Imperial would have had 6 heavy/armored cruisers, 20 light cruisers, 42 destroyers and 36 submarines at the beginning of the war.
Its smaller than the US and the Dominion of Canada Navy but its size is still pretty large. This is basically the bulk of the Mexican fleet after the naval arms race with Japan in the interwar period.
Thinking about it, we all know how shit the Italian tanks were in OTL imagine how God awful the Sardinian tanks are, unless the French are giving them tanks. I'm curious though, I have plans for the Mexican colonies and their participation in the war, especially South Africa what was their equipment and did they have tanks or ships and what would be the consequences of the combined Ottoman and Persian armies taking on their ancient enemy Russia?I will probably recommend more detailed things on France,Soviet later but the Italian navy is not a big threat to Austria Hungary and its German allies as its fleet is a shadow of its former Regia Marina self, the Italian battlefleet after the war were divided amongs the allies as war spoils.
Initially the Central Powers thought Italy has completed their 15in guns super dreadnoughts of Caracciolo class and they planned to demand Italy handed these to them but after they found out these ships are far from complete, this is how the former Regia Marina battlefleet was dismantled
-One Cavour class battleship, the Conte di Cavour was given to the Ottoman under the name Kanuni Sultan Suleyman (Sultan Suleiman the Great)
-The two Andrea Doria class battleships were given to Germany and Austria
-One Cavour class battleship, Leonardo da Vinci was given to Mexico
-The incomplete Francesco Caracciolo battleship hull which had already launched would be towed back to Germany to be used as target ship.
Italy was allowed to retain the remaining dreadnought Dante Alighieri, four pre-dreadnoughts of the Regina Elena class as their token post war defense fleet.
After Italy brokeup into several states, these ships were split between Kingdom of Sardinia and Kingdom of two Siciles, with the German sponsored Kingdom of two Siciles get the Dante Alighieri and the two pre-dreads Napoli and Roma, while Sardinia got the two Regina Elena and Vittorio Emmanuele.
Due to Italy fragmented state and its industry in ruins, the Possibility of building something like the Roma class is pretty much out of the question and impossible ITTL.




For French tanks, opposed to their defensive oriented OTL, the army would prefer something that can go fast and hit hard So there are plenty of options here.
First is their “armored cars” which are essentially light recon tanks equivalent to Panzer I and Panzer II,the AMR-33 and AMR-35. These tanks were only armed with 7.7mm or 13.2mm MGs,at best, some models had 25mm Hotchkiss AT cannon.
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Second is their proper light tanks, this consists of the AMC-34, this tank used the same turret as the Renault FT so it can be cheaply mass produced, although the later models had a turret with short barreled 47mm gun, France also has a sizeable number of older Renault FT laying around mainly used for local security patrols.
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For medium tanks, this is where France has plenty of good choices. The first is the cavalry tank AMC-35 with two man turret and good 47mm gun while also had decent armor to protect the crew against light AT gun. Second is the excellent Somua S35 cavalry tankwhich has 47mm single manned turret, well armored hull and also decent speed.
Both tanks are agile, has punchy 47mm guns however the cost to maintain an AMC-35 is cheaper than the Somua S35, which has much more costly casted sloped armor and the suspensions difficult to repair.
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For Heavy tanks, France starts off with the Char B1 with one-man 47mm turret and short 75mm howitzer in the hull and then they can move to the heavier ARL-44 , with the early series armed with 75mm cannon and then upgraded to 90mm cannon , the ARL-44 can served as the French equivalent of Tiger I ITTL, heavy, slow and tend to be mechnaically unreliable, then France can develop the larger and faster AMX-50 with 100mm gun as their Tiger II equivalent.
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For the French equivalent to the Stug III tank destroyer/assault gun, i give you this, the SAu-40 assault gun with hull mounted 75mm and a MG turret based on the Somua S35 chassis.
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You can actually have the UoB or France annex Denmark and Norway as these nations are actually militarily weak. If both the UoB ans France has managed to renounce their treaties and had early remilitarization, this also works too.Right now I have plans on how Mexico and the Commonwealth will handle Japan and how Mexico will handle France, Britain, and Sardinia. But I have to ask you: could we potentially see a sort of a invasion of Norway and Denmark in this Second Weltkrieg or would it be wasteful?
The real reasons why the White Army is much more like Free France ITTL is because unlike the OTL, its not a ragtag bunch of warlords/former nobles trying to stab one another in midst of a civil war against the Soviet.
Also because the Romanovs were still alive and kicking, the family pretty much served as a unifying symbol for various Russian moderate republican and Tsarist and Orthodox conservative factions to fight against the Bolsheviks.
So, despite being beaten by the Soviet and had to flee to Eastern Europe and America, they still remained united as long as the Tsar and his family is still there.
Think of it like how the Spanish Civil war works with the fascists, Catholics and monarchists managed to unite together to defeat the Republicans OTL to restore the Spanish monarchy back.
How would Mexico, a Catholic nation, fit into this? I would imagine Soviet propaganda framing this as second capitalistic, Imperalistic attempt to crush the proletariat. I would imagine Mexico would have to take a backseat to the this resistance rather than be showing their full support to the Romanovs. Also how would be Czar? Alexie or Emiliano?

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