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UK Sep-Dec 1918

- Celebrations are held throughout the country heralding the end of the Great War. There is mourning too, for the million British soldiers killed in the conflict, but the overwhelming atmosphere is one of celebration. These parties are further bolstered with the news that America has retreated from the British Isles. Truly Britannia rules.

- With many of the Women's Battalions returning home having served alongside men in the defence of Scotland, there are growing calls for women's suffrage to be granted.

- The German Kriegsmarine is interned at Scapa Flow naval base. When boats arrive in port they are boarded and their crews apprehended. The Germans, who had been planning to sink their navy, panic at this without time to lay all the charges, and in the confusion only 19 of the 74 ships are sunk, a blow but not a serious one. The captured German vessels are very soon pressed into service, some without even being repainted, to serve in the new American war.

- With all the German reparations we start doing economy stuff to make sure the Empire doesn't collapse. Don't ask me for the specifics.

- A small garrison force arrives to Bremerhaven and the British bit of Bremen.

- Spanish Flu starts to do its thing, by which I mean death and illness. No sooner have celebrations ended then the British government bans gatherings of more than ten people, whilst closing the Tube system.

American Front:

- Several armies from Africa under the now famed General Laurence (of Arabia) arrive in the Caribbean, before landing in British Honduras. The American forces in the territory are soon surrounded and trapped in the forests of the Cockscomb Basin. A large sweeping operation is then carried out, and the American invasion force is all either killed or captured.

- Small Royal Navy fleets shell Boston, New York, Norfolk and Wilmington, which neccesitates the diversion of some American vessels from the blockade. A massive naval offensive is then conducted against the blockade, shattering it in places. Troop transports flood through, and subsequently two landings are carried out on Newfoundland, at the Great Northern Peninsula and the Burin Peninsula, whilst a massive amount of soldiers land at Avalon to begin a renewed offensive against American lines.

- Ships of the Royal Navy based from Lowlandian Fiji sail across the Pacific to bombard West Coast cities. Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego are all heavily targeted before the ships turn tail and flee back across the Pacific. American ships succeed in sinking around a fifth of the attacking fleet, showing that perhaps the offensive wasn't a very tactical idea.