Battle of Hudson (IG133)

Just West of Adrian was the town of Hudson. Like Adrian and Tecumseh, Hudson would come under attack by the Red Army, attempting to push through the town and secure a road leading deeper into Michigan. However, Ohio had not committed as large a force to Hudson as it had to Adrian and Tecumseh. Even though the Michigander defenders were also smaller than their compatriots to the North, the Red Army simply did not have enough force to push through Michigan’s trenches. The fact that Hudson had previously been fortified by Michigan certainly wouldn’t help. While Ohio’s artillery would succeed at destroying some of the earthworks in the town, Hudson would hold.

Draw - 2 production development and 2 forts destroyed

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Battle of Jackson (IG132)

The most surprising move of Operation Big Jupiter was the attack on Jackson, Michigan. Jackson was not on the front lines. Ann Arbor, currently under the control of the Anarchist Student Union of the University of Michigan, was neutral in the current war. Neither Michigan nor Ohio had the troops to spare to put down the Universitarians and secure Ann Arbor for themselves. However, Zionist troops had snuck through the city dressed in civilian clothes, with their M2 Halftrack disguised as an agricultural tractor. They launched a surprise attack on the city of Jackson in Michigan’s rear, hoping that the city’s defenders would be busy on the front lines.

Zion would be wrong. Jackson was defended. Its defenders were quite numerous, and well-armed in fact. The Zionist militia would soon be limping its way back through Ann Arbor, begging the Universitarians to allow them to return to Ohio. The Zionist’s only consolation prize was the fact that they had force the Michiganders to shell one of their own power plants in the crossfire.

Defender Victory - 2 production development destroyed

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The War at Sea

Farther to the South, the American Pacific Fleet, based out of Star Island, would be busy. They would patrol the mouth of the Mississippi and the Coast of Carolina, boarding convoys bound for Zion and Ohio and seizing their cargo. While the New Aetiopians would protest at first, the Hawaiian strategic bombers flying overhead would dissuade them from engaging with the convoy raiders. The New Aetiopians would, however contact the Convention of Inland Rivers, the Mississippi Gulf, and the Caribbean Sea. If the sovereign states of the Gulf would not act to contain these raiders, their credibility as an anti-piracy organization would be suspect.

All in all, over the course of these past few months, the American Pacific Fleet would secure:

• $375 million on its way from New Aetiopia to Ohio
• 450 food on its way from New Aetiopia to Ohio
• 175 fuel on its way from Sequoyah to Zion
• $590 million on its way from Rio Grande to Ohio
• $440 million on its way from the Caribbean Federation to Ohio
• 250 units of construction materials on its way from the Carribbean Federation to Ohio
• 19 sea convoys from Ohio
• 7 sea convoys from Zion

[I deleted the convoys and added outgoing raid trades to Ohio and Zion’s sheet - Hawaii please add incoming trades to your sheet]