1950s The Post War Order.
This is my first AAR, comments and advice are more than welcome.
The basis for this game came after a Comm Chi/USA campaign.
I took over as Comm Chi in 1936, and did quite well up to 1942 until I noticed Germans in Mongolia.....clearly if the Nazis won, I would have no chance of winning.
So I took over the USA in 1942 and landed in France with the 150 or so units that were busy sitting around in Washington DC doing absolutely nothing.
I could run through the American war from 1943-52, but that is going to take a very very long time.
A summary follows:
Taken from A History of the Third World War, by Dr. William Hammondsworth. Chapter One: Its origins.
The German armies were routed in the Brest landings, and were pushed back to the Rhine without much difficulty by 1947, whereupon stalemate resulted. In the Pacific Theatre, Japan lost the home islands by 1946, but had too much on the Asian mainland for outright annexation. The rather less advantageous option of setting up a puppet state was taken, with the immediate effect of granting Nationalist China its lost lands and the added bonus of Japanese fighting against Germans in Central Asia.
The development of the tritium bomb in 1946, and the development of a host of advanced B29 strategic bombers the following year turned the tide in the US's favour. By 1947 Italy was annexed, and the line was pushed to central Germany, Lubeck-Hannover-Wurzburg, in 1950, after copious use of nuclear weaponry.
Germany proved to be rather resistant, and the Allied focus was shifted to the Balkans. Within a year, Bulgaria and Romania were defeated. The USSR, faced with unguarded German Siberia, decided to retake its lost lands with their formidable militia armies. The depletion of German manpower also meant the end of the rather shortlived Nazi colony of India, and the subsequent execution of the Indian Nazi collaborator, Subhas Chandra Bose.
[see this link, Indians in the Waffen SS!! http://www.wssob.com/000legind.html]
Argentina, for some inexplicable reason, decided to hop on the Axis bandwagon at this late stage. They were promptly dealt with by an American task force which only saw two months of fighting in total.
By 1951, German Norway had been liberated by the British and Saudi Arabian armies, and Germany was on its last legs, holding out in the Ukraine and Belarus.
Persia was annexed in late 1951 by Britain, and Germany was finally defeated by American armies in Western Russia. The Americans and Soviets shook hands on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, and peace came at last.....or so the world thought.
The British Empire, meanwhile, was bankrupted by 14 years of continuous war. Its colonies demanded independence, with India being the most realistic candidate for breakaway from the Empire. The Indian populace did not fight the British, and later the Germans, only to see themselves ruled by a white Viceroy once again. The likes of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Mohammad Ali Jinnah staged a massive non cooperation movement against the British, with great effect. Britain had yet to reestablish control over the subcontinent, and had received a clear message from the White House that it would not be endorsing colonialism anywhere in the world by taking part in aiding the European powers reestablish control over their former colonies. Within two weeks, Britain had allowed the independence of India, and swiftly transported her troops to Eastern Europe to assist in restoring order to former German satellites. [note: I took over as Britain and granted independence]
Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands in August 1952 under the leadership of Sukarno. The Dutch, having other priorities in Europe, could do little to stop the Indonesian army. [note: I took over as Netherlands and gave them independence]
France and Britain held on to their African possessions, but within a decade these too would break free from the chains of empire as the winds of change sweep across the dark continent.
Within years of the Allied victory, war erupted in East Asia once again. The two Chinas, no longer part of the Allies, found themselves at war with a resurgent Japanese Empire, which had resented their defeat at the hands of the Americans seven years earlier. The limited American presence in the country was slaughtered, and with Japanese forces spread throughout China, formerly as Allied soldiers, the Japanese high command thought the gamble of reestablishing their presence in China before Allied intervention was worth taking. Moreover, Japanese intelligence had reported that the elderly Stalin had decided to destroy the Western capitalist scum once and for all, much to the dismay of his generals. That, however, could provide enough time for Japan to launch its bid for Asian dominance once again....
This is my first AAR, comments and advice are more than welcome.
The basis for this game came after a Comm Chi/USA campaign.
I took over as Comm Chi in 1936, and did quite well up to 1942 until I noticed Germans in Mongolia.....clearly if the Nazis won, I would have no chance of winning.
So I took over the USA in 1942 and landed in France with the 150 or so units that were busy sitting around in Washington DC doing absolutely nothing.
I could run through the American war from 1943-52, but that is going to take a very very long time.
A summary follows:
Taken from A History of the Third World War, by Dr. William Hammondsworth. Chapter One: Its origins.
The German armies were routed in the Brest landings, and were pushed back to the Rhine without much difficulty by 1947, whereupon stalemate resulted. In the Pacific Theatre, Japan lost the home islands by 1946, but had too much on the Asian mainland for outright annexation. The rather less advantageous option of setting up a puppet state was taken, with the immediate effect of granting Nationalist China its lost lands and the added bonus of Japanese fighting against Germans in Central Asia.
The development of the tritium bomb in 1946, and the development of a host of advanced B29 strategic bombers the following year turned the tide in the US's favour. By 1947 Italy was annexed, and the line was pushed to central Germany, Lubeck-Hannover-Wurzburg, in 1950, after copious use of nuclear weaponry.
Germany proved to be rather resistant, and the Allied focus was shifted to the Balkans. Within a year, Bulgaria and Romania were defeated. The USSR, faced with unguarded German Siberia, decided to retake its lost lands with their formidable militia armies. The depletion of German manpower also meant the end of the rather shortlived Nazi colony of India, and the subsequent execution of the Indian Nazi collaborator, Subhas Chandra Bose.
[see this link, Indians in the Waffen SS!! http://www.wssob.com/000legind.html]
Argentina, for some inexplicable reason, decided to hop on the Axis bandwagon at this late stage. They were promptly dealt with by an American task force which only saw two months of fighting in total.
By 1951, German Norway had been liberated by the British and Saudi Arabian armies, and Germany was on its last legs, holding out in the Ukraine and Belarus.
Persia was annexed in late 1951 by Britain, and Germany was finally defeated by American armies in Western Russia. The Americans and Soviets shook hands on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, and peace came at last.....or so the world thought.
The British Empire, meanwhile, was bankrupted by 14 years of continuous war. Its colonies demanded independence, with India being the most realistic candidate for breakaway from the Empire. The Indian populace did not fight the British, and later the Germans, only to see themselves ruled by a white Viceroy once again. The likes of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Mohammad Ali Jinnah staged a massive non cooperation movement against the British, with great effect. Britain had yet to reestablish control over the subcontinent, and had received a clear message from the White House that it would not be endorsing colonialism anywhere in the world by taking part in aiding the European powers reestablish control over their former colonies. Within two weeks, Britain had allowed the independence of India, and swiftly transported her troops to Eastern Europe to assist in restoring order to former German satellites. [note: I took over as Britain and granted independence]
Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands in August 1952 under the leadership of Sukarno. The Dutch, having other priorities in Europe, could do little to stop the Indonesian army. [note: I took over as Netherlands and gave them independence]
France and Britain held on to their African possessions, but within a decade these too would break free from the chains of empire as the winds of change sweep across the dark continent.
Within years of the Allied victory, war erupted in East Asia once again. The two Chinas, no longer part of the Allies, found themselves at war with a resurgent Japanese Empire, which had resented their defeat at the hands of the Americans seven years earlier. The limited American presence in the country was slaughtered, and with Japanese forces spread throughout China, formerly as Allied soldiers, the Japanese high command thought the gamble of reestablishing their presence in China before Allied intervention was worth taking. Moreover, Japanese intelligence had reported that the elderly Stalin had decided to destroy the Western capitalist scum once and for all, much to the dismay of his generals. That, however, could provide enough time for Japan to launch its bid for Asian dominance once again....
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i shall continue watching this
