mike8472 said:Rome September 1939.
El Duce looked on the European map with glee on the prospects of a German war vs the Western Allies. How could Italy take advanatage of such a situation. El Duce would let the wars progress dictate any actions Italy may take advanatage of.
Secret cables were sent to berlin to outline a general strategy for Italian war entry and war aims. Italy possed secret intel on how the UK may fight any war and advised the German high command accordingly.
However Hitler knew better and launched a foolish operation to try and secure Iceland. Even after El duce had warned Hitler long ago that the UK would be wise to such a move. The Duce prefered for Germany to keep its fleet in a safe place until the time was right. The time was not right when faced with the full might of both the UK and French navies facing only Germany. El Duce adivsed the German Naval command to bide there time until france was defeated and Italy was close to war, Germany would then only face perhaps 1/3 the naval forces arrayed against it at present. Then operations oculd be lauched with an even larger German fleet facing smaller forces.
El Duces information was ignored and operations against Iceland were commenced. Although many british ships were lost an Entire German fleet was sunk. All the divisions aboard and the ones that landed on iceland were destroyed or surrendered.
Make no mistake this is a disaster of epic proporations for Germany. I have never seen Germany lose so much so early in any conflict.
I hope in future Hitler will take the Duces advice on what actions his enemies will take and what sort of action germany should embark on. El Duce predicted this a number of years ago, truely notramdamus of our time.
The Duce now see's Germany as the lesser power in the Axis alliance. Italy will have to take the lead and deal crushing blows to the Allies if this war is to last beyond 1941. That is if Italy see any advantage to joining the losing side of a war.
It is yet to be seen if Germany can even take France. If Germany cannot take france then Italy will never join the war and will have to take a different course to achieve its aims.
One can only hope the Hitler in all his madness comes to his sense as he is staring down the barrel of defeat and the war is only a few months old.
major ball said:El Duce...whats that running down your leg?
Axis Comrade said:Il Duce worries to much. It was planned to sacrifice that fleet (20 warships and 6 TP's). In doing so we also delivered a defeat to the UK by sinking 3 BB's, 1 CV, 3 CVL (IIRC) along with a number of heavy cruisers and light cruisers. The first UK fleet could not do the job and quickly after large detachements of the UK and French fleets arrived proving that the allied fleet is nothing but a bunch of Aboriginals, can't do shit unless they outnumber you 20 to 1. Besides, a bigger and better German fleet is already rolling off the production line as the UK sits there and gloats of it's decisive victory over a smaller force with it's overwhelming odds.
German infantry corps with light armour support and assistance from our Hungarian allies, launched an unexpected attack on the French Maginot line which was co-ordinated by German Bunker Buster specialists which resulted in minimal loss of manpower and victory. The allies were quickly thrown into a scramble in order to try and cover the breach in the allied front lines. It appears that the entire Canadian, Belgium, French and British armies are now situated in France were Il Duce says they intend to stay for the winter. We look at the allies and laugh. They need half the navies of the world to take down our small German navy, and they need half the armies of the world to try and stop our armed forces. It was rumoured that Air Marshall Goering was overheard saying "Come 1940 Mein Fuhrur, our Messerschmidts will be so numerous that they will block out the sun hence plunging the allies nations into eternal darkness.SE.
Mighty G said:hey mike dont forget to check the embargo again for me.
also add in some leaders too!!
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'mike8472 said:Major told me Tonic cant play tonight due to work.
I will also have a night off, im working from 10.30 anyway.
Lets play again Friday night from 7pm, or earlier if we can as both me and munster have to leave by about 10.15pm anyway so an early start would be good.