I just started a Game Yesterday (February 4th, 2004) as Italy.
1.05, 1936.
Unsuspected by all, even Il Duce, Germany would soon be Italian..
Hil Roma!!
Il Duce started out blitzing Ethiopia, after realizing I was at war with them, and started a great undetaking of building 9 Moutain troops and 15 inf w. Art brig.
Afterwards i took Saudi Arabia and Iran in a few months, simply by massing all my troops in ships and getting them ready to invade the undefended Saudi and Iranian beaches and using mountaineers to quickly overcome Iran.
Subsequenlty I and invaded Greece wich fell in august 1937. Mad with power, the Italian Jugernaut steamrolled into Bulgaria, with the unseen effect of Germany declaring war against Il Duce???
The lure of the sea
German Transports was defeated easily at Gibraltar.
German Uboats started to wreak havoc amongst the italian convoys, while the italian navy easily smashed german Capital ship navy units, who where out of fuel, in the red sea (not daring going through at Gibraltar).
Land Warfare Begins
As soon as Bulgaria was Italy, all available home-army units was sent to the Austrian Border.
Il Duce beat hr. Hitler for military acces through Austria and military operations began, Il Duce determined to make the germans now their place!!
The capture of the two southernmost german undefended provinces was easy. What followed was a battle of attrition with the germans unsuccesfully trying to wrest the provinces back and Italy trying to expand the bridgehead. Germany was beaten by numerical superiority and river crossing difficulties. Italy was beaten by lower org levels, river crossing and german panzer I & II units.
New ways
It occured to the Italien Field Marshall Graziani, that the Czekoslovakian bordes were undfended. Il Duce once more secured military acces, and the 4 motorized divisions of Italy moved up to take Leipzig and made a dash for Hamburg. After a few aborted attempts the rouse finally succeded, and 4 german uboat flotillas was captured. The Italians in Hamburg was soon forced to retreat, and only through securing military acces through Holland, they were saved and later went on to take Koln.
Reinforcements
With reinforcement from colonial forces, except Libya, and the units from the training camps, Italy broke out from southern Germany and the Czek provinces simultainiously, quickly taking Nurmberg, Essen, Berlin, Rostock and Kiel. The latter 2 provinces was captured by an armoured colomn of to Fiat 3000 tanks who fought their way to Kiel capturing four enemy crusiers at Rostock, only to be cut of at Kiel, but saved through the italian Merchant navys effeciency in supplying it until Rostock was retaken by follow up divisions. By now it was a matter of time.
The end is nigh...
German troops panicked and was moving randomly about, but soon concenrtated in Saarbrucken where 20 Milita with 20 beaten regular Army units deperately tried a breaktout only to be enveloped from all sides by 45 Italian Division of finest quality. The Italian armies on the Oder made crossings and brought final german resistance to a halt, although this was only done to battle harden its leaders as the country already was ripe for annexation. It had taken a year, but germany was no more... it was august 1938.
What will happen next? Who will be next?
Democracies and peace loving folk throughout the world are equally impressed by and fearing the Italian might.
more to come..
Btw, Axis point score dropped to NIL as I annexed Germany.
I am playing a parallel game, where i puppet Germany instead at an earlier point, hoping to gain vital Technology and retaining many good quality German army units for me to control...
On the other hand, the quality of these units couldn't stand the test of Il Duces will!
Fjongus
1.05, 1936.
Unsuspected by all, even Il Duce, Germany would soon be Italian..
Hil Roma!!
Il Duce started out blitzing Ethiopia, after realizing I was at war with them, and started a great undetaking of building 9 Moutain troops and 15 inf w. Art brig.
Afterwards i took Saudi Arabia and Iran in a few months, simply by massing all my troops in ships and getting them ready to invade the undefended Saudi and Iranian beaches and using mountaineers to quickly overcome Iran.
Subsequenlty I and invaded Greece wich fell in august 1937. Mad with power, the Italian Jugernaut steamrolled into Bulgaria, with the unseen effect of Germany declaring war against Il Duce???
The lure of the sea
German Transports was defeated easily at Gibraltar.
German Uboats started to wreak havoc amongst the italian convoys, while the italian navy easily smashed german Capital ship navy units, who where out of fuel, in the red sea (not daring going through at Gibraltar).
Land Warfare Begins
As soon as Bulgaria was Italy, all available home-army units was sent to the Austrian Border.
Il Duce beat hr. Hitler for military acces through Austria and military operations began, Il Duce determined to make the germans now their place!!
The capture of the two southernmost german undefended provinces was easy. What followed was a battle of attrition with the germans unsuccesfully trying to wrest the provinces back and Italy trying to expand the bridgehead. Germany was beaten by numerical superiority and river crossing difficulties. Italy was beaten by lower org levels, river crossing and german panzer I & II units.
New ways
It occured to the Italien Field Marshall Graziani, that the Czekoslovakian bordes were undfended. Il Duce once more secured military acces, and the 4 motorized divisions of Italy moved up to take Leipzig and made a dash for Hamburg. After a few aborted attempts the rouse finally succeded, and 4 german uboat flotillas was captured. The Italians in Hamburg was soon forced to retreat, and only through securing military acces through Holland, they were saved and later went on to take Koln.
Reinforcements
With reinforcement from colonial forces, except Libya, and the units from the training camps, Italy broke out from southern Germany and the Czek provinces simultainiously, quickly taking Nurmberg, Essen, Berlin, Rostock and Kiel. The latter 2 provinces was captured by an armoured colomn of to Fiat 3000 tanks who fought their way to Kiel capturing four enemy crusiers at Rostock, only to be cut of at Kiel, but saved through the italian Merchant navys effeciency in supplying it until Rostock was retaken by follow up divisions. By now it was a matter of time.
The end is nigh...
German troops panicked and was moving randomly about, but soon concenrtated in Saarbrucken where 20 Milita with 20 beaten regular Army units deperately tried a breaktout only to be enveloped from all sides by 45 Italian Division of finest quality. The Italian armies on the Oder made crossings and brought final german resistance to a halt, although this was only done to battle harden its leaders as the country already was ripe for annexation. It had taken a year, but germany was no more... it was august 1938.
What will happen next? Who will be next?
Democracies and peace loving folk throughout the world are equally impressed by and fearing the Italian might.
more to come..
Btw, Axis point score dropped to NIL as I annexed Germany.
I am playing a parallel game, where i puppet Germany instead at an earlier point, hoping to gain vital Technology and retaining many good quality German army units for me to control...
On the other hand, the quality of these units couldn't stand the test of Il Duces will!
Fjongus