I have always struggled to win the WWII scenario with the french, quickly running short of money and suffering periodic losses against the Axis. But experience from my neutral games gave me an idea that has turned out to be stunningly successful. So on to the story.
It was June 1940. France was militarily unprepared for the blitzkrieg that Germany unleashed and German troupes marched into Paris. With his capital gone and German troupes threatening the rest of mainland France Petain signed an armistice.
However while Hitler began to focus on the allies considering France to be defeated Petain prepared his country...
Petain realized that to defeat the axis he would need money and to get money he would need valuable trade routes from the middle east to America. so while transports set out immediately with frenchmen ready to set up trading posts in Cornwall (south west England) and America they also flooded east from Damascus and Beirut.
Airports were built and all the french cities focused on trading and setting up further trading post cities to build up monetary reserves. Soon France was strong enough to survive a skirmish with the axis where the axis took Strasbourg but then lost it back to the french and the french took this opportunity to steal some key technology. France was going for all out war with the axis but it was certainly not a puppet.
by 1943 the french were making more money than any other empire and researching technology much faster than any other country. As a result robotics was discovered before the allies and it was put to good use destroying the Turkish empire.
With Howitzers the french were now ready to do to the Germans what the Germans had done to them just 3 short years ago - french troupes stormed into Berlin splitting the axis empire in two. The french then captured as many cities as possible alternately at war with the Germans and the new zulu empire and trying to build up howitzers and engineers each turn as well as getting trade money.
Although some cities were recaptured by these two empires in the end the german empire collapsed and without support their partisans capitulated.
Meanwhile the french started a war with the Spanish. This war developed slowly due to the lack of focus for the french but cities still fell regularly until the Spanish were no more.
Around this time the French completed the great pan Eurasian highway that connected India via the middle east to europe via a vast number of small 'trading post' cities. This allowed troupes to come quickly to the aid of the french in crushing what was left of those two empires.
With the axis subdued the french turned to Russia who foolishly made war with the french on the very turn that their armies finished off the last few major Zulu cities. As a result veteran french howitzers poured towards Moscow supported by a flood of engineers, and the Russians shock in loosing Moscow resulted in the Russian empire was split in two (Egyptian and Russian).
The french continued to focus on developing technologies via their trade strategy, and as their armies cut deep into Russia they finally discovered how to build stealth fighters. suddenly jet fighters tore through the last resistance.
Meanwhile in the west the allies had landed a rather large force in France much to the dismay of Petain. Petain insisted that they withdraw the troupes and the allies to his surprise declared war. a skirmish resulted where the french drove the allies from Europe killing many of their attack units.
This weakened the allies just enough that a couple of months later the french armies were able to take the USA England and Egypt all in one turn thanks to the use of rockets in the north all the howitzers from Russia as well as more in Africa and the middle east and many transports and engineers and a few stealth fighters.
finish time December 1945.
all cities conquered, Deity, No Restarts etc.
It was June 1940. France was militarily unprepared for the blitzkrieg that Germany unleashed and German troupes marched into Paris. With his capital gone and German troupes threatening the rest of mainland France Petain signed an armistice.
However while Hitler began to focus on the allies considering France to be defeated Petain prepared his country...
Petain realized that to defeat the axis he would need money and to get money he would need valuable trade routes from the middle east to America. so while transports set out immediately with frenchmen ready to set up trading posts in Cornwall (south west England) and America they also flooded east from Damascus and Beirut.
Airports were built and all the french cities focused on trading and setting up further trading post cities to build up monetary reserves. Soon France was strong enough to survive a skirmish with the axis where the axis took Strasbourg but then lost it back to the french and the french took this opportunity to steal some key technology. France was going for all out war with the axis but it was certainly not a puppet.
by 1943 the french were making more money than any other empire and researching technology much faster than any other country. As a result robotics was discovered before the allies and it was put to good use destroying the Turkish empire.
With Howitzers the french were now ready to do to the Germans what the Germans had done to them just 3 short years ago - french troupes stormed into Berlin splitting the axis empire in two. The french then captured as many cities as possible alternately at war with the Germans and the new zulu empire and trying to build up howitzers and engineers each turn as well as getting trade money.
Although some cities were recaptured by these two empires in the end the german empire collapsed and without support their partisans capitulated.
Meanwhile the french started a war with the Spanish. This war developed slowly due to the lack of focus for the french but cities still fell regularly until the Spanish were no more.
Around this time the French completed the great pan Eurasian highway that connected India via the middle east to europe via a vast number of small 'trading post' cities. This allowed troupes to come quickly to the aid of the french in crushing what was left of those two empires.
With the axis subdued the french turned to Russia who foolishly made war with the french on the very turn that their armies finished off the last few major Zulu cities. As a result veteran french howitzers poured towards Moscow supported by a flood of engineers, and the Russians shock in loosing Moscow resulted in the Russian empire was split in two (Egyptian and Russian).
The french continued to focus on developing technologies via their trade strategy, and as their armies cut deep into Russia they finally discovered how to build stealth fighters. suddenly jet fighters tore through the last resistance.
Meanwhile in the west the allies had landed a rather large force in France much to the dismay of Petain. Petain insisted that they withdraw the troupes and the allies to his surprise declared war. a skirmish resulted where the french drove the allies from Europe killing many of their attack units.
This weakened the allies just enough that a couple of months later the french armies were able to take the USA England and Egypt all in one turn thanks to the use of rockets in the north all the howitzers from Russia as well as more in Africa and the middle east and many transports and engineers and a few stealth fighters.
finish time December 1945.
all cities conquered, Deity, No Restarts etc.
otherwise bombers and rocketry from the axis are useful
