Prologue
Prologue
September 1948
Europe
The past decade has been one full of glory for the Third Reich. After the war over the Pommeranian corridor and reclaiming their rightfull lands in the east, the Germans looked west: towards the old democracies of France, Belgium and the Netherlands. After a 2-month campaign that brought about the destruction of the biggest continental power in Western Europe, the war in the west settled into a 4-year stalemate, also known as the Second Phoney War. German forces landed in Ireland in 1941, trying to break the stalemate, but were overwhelmed by British forces in Belfast and had to evacuate the island. The First German-Irish War was the first major German defeat in Europe.
A Balkan alliance between Yugoslavia, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria was completely destroyed and the Balkans are now dominated by the great Hungarian Kingdom and the Italian Empire. A last Allied attempt to halt Axis conquests in the east, by getting Turkey into the Allied camp, was quickly crushed and soon afterwards both Nationalist Spain and Portugal sent an envoy to join the Axis.
In 1944, after the Second German-Irish War in which Ireland was liberated again and united with German support, Hitler issued the orders for Operation Seelöwe III. It was seen as a last desperate attempt to conquer the British Isles, something that had tried twice before. If this operation failed, London would become the first city to meet a new German weapon: the Atomic Bomb.
However, for reasons no-one can explain, the entire Southern coastline of England was abadoned! Seizing the opportunity, 3 German Panzerarmee's landed on the Southern coast of England, quickly making their way to London, liberating England and Wales, and after a short 2-week campaign the whole of the British Isles had been conquered in one of the easiest campaigns in the entire war. The British still hold some minor footholds in Africa, but those will be dealt with once the time is right.
To celebrate the occupation of the British Isles after the long Second Phoney War, and the still strong Nazi-Soviet Alliance, Hitler stunned the international community by legalizing the KPD, the German Communist Party, and Stalin by doing a similar move by allowing a National Socialist Party being set up on their soil. In return, the Soviets were allowed to annex an old Axis ally: Finland.
Africa
After the conquest of Egypt and the seizure of the Suez channel by Italo-German forces in 1941, the Italians spent years fighting their way back into Ethiopia and to the border of the Congo. However, twice they were thrown back by large Franco-British forces, so in 1945 Hitler issued a decree that re-established the Deutsche Africa Korps. During the Spring of 1945, a spectacular invasion of South Africa was launched with just one Panzerarmee, under the valiant command of General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. After establishing a friendly regime in South Africa, two more Panzerarmees were landed, who began the long conquest of the Congo.
Now Africa has been divided into three zones: the Italian protectorates of the East and the North, the free nations of Middle Africa and the Vichy protectorates in the West.
Asia
In the autumn of 1942, Japan, desperate after loosing several strategic islands to the USA, decided to try its luck on the Soviet Union. How wrong they were. After just 6 months all of China had been overrun by the Red Army, and now the Soviet collosos is pushing into Indochina from two directions. The Soviet Union was brutally attacked by the British in 1944, which resulted into a similar brutal conquest of India, which was the last industrial basin for the United Kingdom after the loss of the British Isles. Lucky for Japan, the Soviet Navy is virtually non-excistant, so they shouldn't fear any invasion in the near future. But the Americans are still in the area, even though they're pretty far away after the occupation of the Phillipines, and their navy is a serious threat to the Japanese.
America
After the conquest of the British Isles, Germany has established several military bases in the Atlantic from where an invasion of the USA can be launched, such as Bermuda, Andros and Newfoundland. From discontent about how the war was being run, several British colonies in the Americas have revolted and establishes Socialist regimes. Such nations include Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana (which got annexed by Venezuela soon after their revolution). As you can see, a German expedition has landed at Miami to check out the strength of the US forces in the area. It proved that one Panzerarmee definately isn't enough to subdue those American swines
The Axis
Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Nationalist Spain, Syria, Malta, Cyprus, Iraq, Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rwanada, Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria and Central Africa.
The Allies
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Communist China, France, Liberia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela.
The Comintern
Soviet Union and Mongolia.
