On one of my german campaigns I had pushed past Moscow, Stalingrad and was about to encircle Leningrad by the end of November 41. By August 43 my line stretched from the province north of Baku to the furthest north Russian province. I had annilated pretty much the entire Soviet army in the first year with two huge encirclements in roughly where Poland-Byelorussia are (probably 150 divisions) and two further encirclements in Latvia (maybe 70 divisions) and Leningrad (maybe 80 divisions, I had Leningrad inside an encirlement within a few other encirclements.)
However, in 1944 the British had taken Baku after a 3 month siege (They had an empire stretching from Spains' former North Africa provinces all the way to Siam after a rather brillant move by the Italians supporting the Afrika Korps, they withdrew to defend Italy after Sicily was taken, therefore North Africa was untenneble and after a valiant few months the Afrika Korps was utterly destroyed in Tripoli. I could not spare enough men who were now deep deep inside Russia to save Baku. In 1946 my once world conquering Panzer and Mechanized divisions were reduced to a crawl, starved of their Oil, with Ploesti as well as Baku now in British hands. I had no Navy left after maybe 3 seperate groups of 12 Naval bombers wtfpwned every ship I sent anywhere, the Luftwaffe was still strong on paper, but because of the Oil shortage they were grounded. Finally in 1947 I annexed Russia with an almost infantry only force, my tanks only ever being used in short bursts when I came across a supply dump.
I hastily built up tonns of Infantry while keeping an eye on the US, who had still not joined the war. In 1948 I finally retook Baku after the hardest fighting I ever had playing HoI2 and then USA declared war on the UK and me. By the end of play in 1953 America, Britain, and Germany were all at a stalemate. The Americans against me in France, the British against me in Turkey-Iraq, and the Americans against the British in Africa (America as the top left hand corner of Africa)
Everyone had Nukes by this point but no-one was using them, for some reason.
Imagine if the world had ended up like that.
However, in 1944 the British had taken Baku after a 3 month siege (They had an empire stretching from Spains' former North Africa provinces all the way to Siam after a rather brillant move by the Italians supporting the Afrika Korps, they withdrew to defend Italy after Sicily was taken, therefore North Africa was untenneble and after a valiant few months the Afrika Korps was utterly destroyed in Tripoli. I could not spare enough men who were now deep deep inside Russia to save Baku. In 1946 my once world conquering Panzer and Mechanized divisions were reduced to a crawl, starved of their Oil, with Ploesti as well as Baku now in British hands. I had no Navy left after maybe 3 seperate groups of 12 Naval bombers wtfpwned every ship I sent anywhere, the Luftwaffe was still strong on paper, but because of the Oil shortage they were grounded. Finally in 1947 I annexed Russia with an almost infantry only force, my tanks only ever being used in short bursts when I came across a supply dump.
I hastily built up tonns of Infantry while keeping an eye on the US, who had still not joined the war. In 1948 I finally retook Baku after the hardest fighting I ever had playing HoI2 and then USA declared war on the UK and me. By the end of play in 1953 America, Britain, and Germany were all at a stalemate. The Americans against me in France, the British against me in Turkey-Iraq, and the Americans against the British in Africa (America as the top left hand corner of Africa)
Everyone had Nukes by this point but no-one was using them, for some reason.
Imagine if the world had ended up like that.
