THE EARLY WAR I was America, in the 1936 global strategy. Per usual, I built up my forces, then I joined the Allies around spring 1940. Of course, knowing that war was about to come, I had already built up a sufficient number of forces. I defeated the Axis in Africa, with nominal British help. Using Africa as a springboard, I replayed Operation Husky during 1942, only a year earlier. The Italians were soundly defeated and had only the province of Split at the end of 1942. TAKING DOWN FORTRESS EUROPE Interestingly enough, the Soviet A.I. was a beast, and was knocking on the gates of Berlin by early 1943. I took command of the surprisingly numerous and capable Canadian forces, which equaled my own American numbers, and I commenced a landing on France in fall 1943, quickly overrunning the few German division that had not been relocated the hold off the Russians. When that attack ground to a halt in the province-congested Netherlands-Belgium, I took command of British and Australian forces and landed in Greece. CONSOLIDATION 1944 was a year of linking and uniting the fronts. The Greek and Italian fronts connected through Yugoslavia. Croatia was a problem, because it harbored Axis troops as an ally against Russia, but we were not in a war with it. It was not belligerent enough for me to declare war, so I had to leave a fairly large contigent of troops around it. The French front united with the Italian front through the Munich area. By the end of 1944, Allied territories stretched from Netherlands down to southern Germany and Greece. ANGERING THE BEAR In February 1945, the U.S.S.R. annexed Germany, giving it a huge amount of victory points. I calculated, and unless we could woo Japan, we would lose. Here, I made a ridiculous mistake. I declared war on the belligerent Soviet Union. They quickly overran Greece, and I evacuated the fifty or so Allied divisions there. The Italian Socialist Republic nearly crumbled, until the divisions from the Balkans reinforced the area. The Netherlands were quickly annexed, and Belgium was in danger of falling as well, until the Japanese, who had stayed out of the war, declared war on the Soviets. As I was not the leader of the Allies, I could not offer an alliance. 1945 was a year of barely holding on, due to my foolish declaration of war. PINNED DOWN At the start of 1946, things were still looking bad. I had not given enough priority to the nuclear research, and the first bomb would not be ready until 1948, too late to help me. The rivers in Europe were the only things saving the Allies from complete loss. The Finnish had already fallen early in 1942, so most of the Soviets were in Europe or in Siberia fighting the Japanese, who were losing. Manchukuo's capital had fallen, and their northern islands had fallen as well. My allies' A.I. thought that there was a more need for garrisons than the actual front, and up to 100 total divisions were sitting useless in national territories that would never have revolted. I now relocated those divisions to Europe, and I secured Western Europe to the Rhine. However, the Italian front was isolated from France, as Vichy France still existed as a state. 1946 was a tough year, and the stalemate on the European front continued, while the Japanese steadily lost ground. By now, the victory points were definitely foretelling a Soviet win. SHARPENING THE SWORD In 1947, I had the brainchild for a victory plan that would never be able to occur in real life. By now, I had some 200 or so Allied divisions against a seemingly unending storm of Soviet troops. The only thing the Allies had left was complete naval superiority. Carrier groups plagued the Baltics and the Arctic Soviet positions, but now I withdrew them as to allow the Soviets to remove their garrisons from the area. My plan will be described as I carry it out. The first half of 1947 was building a huge army without detracting from the European army. I had military control over most of my Allies. We now controlled even less victory points with the independence of Pakistan and India. The Netherlands had a large number of troops guarding the unthreathened East Indies, so I took those troops along as well. THE HAMMER FALLS Around late 1947, November, I carried out my plan. I landed well-sized armies in Kiel, Leningrad, and Riga-Tallinn. I secured Leningrad tightly, counting on the slow Soviet return. I blizted 20 or so divisions down to Smolensk, and 40 or so down to Moscow and Kalinin. 6 divisions traveled all the way to Stalingrad. In Kiel, the 60 divisions secured Hamburg, and 20 traveled to Essen. When I landed 10 divisions to secure Berlin, I finally had a huge advantage in victory points. By this time, it was the middle of December, and the Soviets would be hard-pressed to retake it all before the 30th. They did take back Essen, but I landed troops in the Netherlands to stall them. They took Essen instead, leaving my Dutch troops intact with their country liberated. When the Russian troops were reorganizing, my European front leaped forward, pushing into West Germany and down to Greece, not even stopping to consolidate. I skipped less important points and spread my troops thin, to grab as many victory points as possible. At the end, with Moscow, Berlin, Leningrad, Stalingrad, and even Kiev in my hands, I won by a fairly large margin. Of course, such a offensive could never occur in real life, because all the troops would have been annihilated in a matter of time.
Nice one. I'm sure in real life they wouldn't get annihilated, just they wouldn't be able to split Russia in two like you did. In real life, the Soviets would have to pull lots of troops from the front line allowing you to make advances there. But still, a great AAR!
the soviets responded a lot faster than expected though, i think they had some troops in mongolia or tanna tuva that came back when I started the landings, so leningrad was cut off from moscow supply-wise.
