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This scenario gives too much credit to the actual French fiorces deployed and what could be deployed in the French Indo China region. There was no way to get reenforcements there, simply because of lack of sufficient numbers of lifttransports for all those troops, since the French were defeatedalready by the Germans and the French navy and merchantnavy either takenover by the British, or isolated and locked up in Vichy French ports. Franche at best coulds deploy only two old light unarmored cruisers, such as the ship of force already deployed there Lamotte-Picket. a few sloops of war and perhaps some other local supportships. No heavy cruisers possible and certainly no battleships, since the UK would never allow them to get to sea after France had fallen and denied them to even leave the Atlantic before the French surrender.

Japan is more or less historical, but a bit overcreddited as well, since the need for a carrierforce is a bit of an overkill. These ships were still training their aircrews for teh oncomming Pearl Harbor Attack. Only the smaller Ryujo and Hosho would possibly be available and these were sufficient to give local aircover for the troopconvoys. Landbased bombers could be flown al the way from Formosa and already captrured Chinese bases as Canton and so on. Battleships were not even needed, appart from a possible pressence of some Kongo's with the heavy cruisers of the 2nd fleet. These were more than a match for whatever the French may thrown in at them in navalships.

Airpower is deemed essential and the possible pressence of the often underestimated De.520 is ruled out, since France barely had enough itself to defend itself, leaving it out of the question to send some overseas. Most planes would be obsolete in design and mostly relegated to secondary objectives, such as short range airdefense and bomber intercept, never becomming offensive, due to lack of available longer ranged aircraft with more potential than what was available at the time. Japan was master in the skies at sea and over land, as long as the bombers were given some long range protection of equally long range fighters, which were still in short supply in Japan itself in 1940. Only the G3M long range Naval Bomber was already available in nimbers, but the A6M was not and first purely allocated on the big carriers and later on land bases. The unportected G3M could become prey for the antique French fighters, if well deployed.

On the short term it would be an easy victory for Japan and France knew this too well, haveing been defeated alreadty just yet. The will to fight again over colonial turf was not an option yet.