Nuadan Campaign

Nuadan Campaign
Part of the Western Theater of the Siduri War
A convoy in the Nuandan Ocean
Date October 1934 - January 1938 Location Nuadan Ocean Result Stalemate
Belligerents
Cacertian Empire	Republic of Syara Allamunnika
Commanders and leaders
Andrea Doria Eugenia Davion Ulisse Barbato	Hristijan Rajcevski Dicho Wasilew
Units involved
Center Fleet Southern Fleet Andria Fleet	Navy of the Syaran Republic
Strength
150-200 warships 40-60 submarines 600 aircraft	200-300 warships 30-50 submarines 1,300 aircraft
Casualties and losses
74 warships sunk 17,650 sailors killed 1,012 merchant ships sunk 11,372 merchant seamen killed 152 aircraft lost	151 warships sunk 27,850 sailors killed 1,402 merchant ships sunk 14,892 merchant seamen killed 458 aircraft lost

The Nuadan Campaign was a naval campaign fought between the Common Axis and the Inner Sphere in the Nuadan Ocean during the Siduri War. The Nuadan Campaign is usually considered to be part of the Western Theater and was fought primarily by the Cacertian Royal Navy and the Navy of the Syaran Republic.

The Nuadan Ocean held strategic significance for both sides. For the Cacertians this was the only effective means of importing raw materials and resources from west Eracura, as the Sundering Sea had been effectively closed off to Common Axis aligned shipping in the western mouth of the Sundering. Merchant vessels had to instead sail south towards the Cacertian territory of Andria in the Sabri Sea to circumnavigate the Siduri continent, passing near the Ossorian territory of Hemar, West Aeoteroa, and Nawalupa in what became known as the Nuadan Triangle, where Syaran warships would often try to intercept Common Axis shipping. In response the Cacertians launched numerous commerce raiders into the Nuadan to interfere with the Inner Sphere's trade with west Eracura.

Much of the fighting in the campaign took place in the form of single ship or division sized engagements by destroyers, corvettes, convoy escorts, and auxiliary cruisers, though larger capital ships often served as raiders including the Syaran Moddra-class battlecruisers and the Cacertian Amika Carpio-class battleships. Capital ships often played significant roles as surface raiders and their feats, such as the Divide Dash, earned wide spread public attention.