In the Pacific however things arent as bland, with the IJN getting into action in the indian ocean to help sure up german positions in the midle east and india and seriously threaten british supply lines...
To start off a veteran carrier unit is sent into attack HMS Indomitable lurking around the gulf of aden with better than expected results ending up in the british carrier sent to the bottom of the sea with no japanese losses...and with the jap carrier sitting where it is there are going to be plenty of op fire oppurtunities for retreating british ships [:D]
a LF is also attacked by a second carrier of the western coast of india...
Following the cut in british supply lines japanese forces amphibously land in southern india to prevent further production of supplies and majority of IJA chinese expeditionary force push into mandalay to threaten calcutta...
Meanwhile in the DEI, musashi's massive 18" badboys bombard coastal artillery batteries in sumatra and para troopers succesfully land there, booting out the ghurkhas and allowing japan to access the tasty resources.....[;)]
Other than that things are relatively slow for the japanese...as mentioned before the US DOW really stuffed up expansion operations with a large number of transports getting sunk and giving mccarthur time to set up artillery positions to slow progress....(need to watch this closer next time)...
So the scene in the indian ocean:
