An Oncoming Train Wreck - Beginners HoI2 AAR

With the fall of Japan, German forces moved south towards Australasia. The last remnants of the Allies was located in the islands of the South Pacific, consisting of Australia, New Zealand, and France. Adapting their island hopping tactics to larger land masses, the Germans made landings at Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra (for some reason Canberra is coastal in HoI2 :crazyeye: ),Sydney, Newcastle, and Brisbane. Most of the Australian army was located in the islands off New Guinea and had been pinned down by the Kriegsmarine. Before attempting to seize Rabaul, similiar landings were made across New Zealand. With Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch occupied, the New Zealand government surrendered.

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Unable to land directly on the island of New Britain, the Luftwaffe began bombing the island from the airstrips at Lae. After a month, a landing could finally be made on the southern tip of island at Gasmata. After the intense bombings, the Australians were quickly defeated and surrendered.

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Using tactics similar to those at Rabaul, the island of Noumea was attacked. 1 French infantry division attempted to fight off the numerous Germans, but was soon overrun. With the fall of Noumea, as well as the defeat of Liberia, the Allies were defeated.

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With the Allies defeated, it was now time to attack the Soviet Union. The Germans attacked from the Urals, Persia, China, and Manchuria across a front that stretch across the entire continent of Asia. On all fronts the Soviets were pushed back as the German Panzers rolled across the Siberia countryside. In the Far East, Vladivostok was overrun and 45 Soviet divisions became encircled against the Tatar Sea. However, by this time winter was beginning to set in and the encircled Soviets were able to hold out much longer than expected.

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The poorly equipped Mongolian and Tuvinian armies were easily defeated as the Germans proceeded to capture the countryside. Before long both governments would surrender as the Germans marched on through into Siberia.

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By mid-November, the last major city in the Soviet Union had fallen. With just a vast, empty wilderness left, the Soviet government was forced to surrender. With this victory, the Axis was left as the sole great power left in the world.

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The next step on the German path to global domination was the many neutral countries scattered throughout Europe and South America. Working in stages, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Syria became the first targets. The Bulgarians were the only nation to put up a serious challenge. They briefly occupied the Romanian capital of Bucharest and managed to advance into Italian held Greece before German forces arrived to crush their armies. Up next, they moved into South America. Starting with Colombia and Venezuala, the German army worked its way south along the Andes before sweeping north again into Argentina and Paraguay. The final target in North America was Brazil, whose many large coastal cities were attacked with the use of amphibious landings.

With South America subdued, the Germans moved into Northern Europe. They attacked Sweden through Norway and Denmark, managing to capture several key cities before the Finns pulled a move that greatly angered Germany when the annexed Sweden. Moving on from the diplomatic defeat, Latvia and Lithuania fell. Ireland, Portugal, Vichy, and Switzerland were the last to fall. With these countries defeated and annexed, Germany and its Allies now controlled the world.

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Peace had finally returned to the world that was now united. However, Germany wasn't quite done yet. Germany dissolved the alliance and began to turn on its onetime allies. Romania, Hungary, and Lebanon fell first, after which the Germans moved onto Italy. They marched south along the Italian peninsula, captured the Dalmatian coast, occupied Greece as far south as Athens, and seized key cities in Italian North Africa. The Italians surrendered and war was declared on Spain. Unlike Italy, the Spanish managed to put up a fight. Unable to break through in the mountainous north, 60 divisions were landed in the south. Now fighting on two fronts, the Spanish were quickly overwhelmed and annexed. The final target of Germany was Finland. Had the Fins not annexed Sweden, they may have been allowed to keep their territories in Karelia, but had instead betrayed Germany by annexing Sweden. With a large number of divisions already in place from the invasions of Sweden and Latvia, the Finns were quickly defeated. With the annexation of Finland, the world belonged to Germany and its thirteen puppet states.

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Not wanting to have to administer the entire world, dozens of new puppets were created. Germany itself kept Greater Germany and large parts of France, but everything else was divided up. The League of Nations was renamed Der Völkerbund and now consisted of Germany and all its puppets, and became an organization to help Germany better control its puppets. The various islands in the South Pacific were split between the nearby nations, and France, Russia, the UK, and United States were ripped apart into numerous smaller, more manageable states. And now, the world was united as one.

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Final statistics:

End Date June 24, 1951
Army 731 Infantry, 136 Armored, 1005 total divisions
Navy 11 Carriers, 20 Battleships, 25 Heavy Cruisers, 129 total ships
Air Force 32 Fighters, 21 CAS, 97 total planes
Most Successful Ship (estimate) KMS Peter Strasser (Carrier) - 34 ships sunk
 
Congradulations! I would have like to see the looks on your allies faces when you turned on them.
 
In other news PrinceScamp has been declared God Emperor of Cascadia and has invaded Alberta for oil to end their threat of WMDs.


The annual paintball battle ended in a tie with the Cascadian lumberjacks having retrated to the now well fortified beer tent and the Albertans being scattered by several loose bulls.
 
e350tb, in 1952, declared himself King of Great Britain, reuinted England, Scotland and Wales, and banned the abreviation UK and the words United Kingdom. He had German support.
 
In 1955 PrinceScamp made IronMan a non-Person.

I told you in the last AAR to stay away from my watermelon!

Due to IronMan not existing, it was not possible to prove that Scamp did anything to him.
 
in 1963 a large group of rebels lead by one "Tom Gunn". They quickly took over the united states of america and the confederate states of america. When german forces finally arrived from south america the group of rebels were quickly pushed all the way back to new york. in a small village Tom Gunn was killed by a german panzer shell. The german forces were never threated again, until Teh Alienz came.
 
In 1964, Texas became one of few states to actually be allowed slight self-government, and Mythmonster2 became President of the new Texagermania.
 
e350tb, in 1952, declared himself King of Great Britain, reuinted England, Scotland and Wales, and banned the abreviation UK and the words United Kingdom. He had German support.

Nein!

In other news PrinceScamp has been declared God Emperor of Cascadia and has invaded Alberta for oil to end their threat of WMDs.

The annual paintball battle ended in a tie with the Cascadian lumberjacks having retrated to the now well fortified beer tent and the Albertans being scattered by several loose bulls.

Nein!

in 1963 a large group of rebels lead by one "Tom Gunn". They quickly took over the united states of america and the confederate states of america. When german forces finally arrived from south america the group of rebels were quickly pushed all the way back to new york. in a small village Tom Gunn was killed by a german panzer shell. The german forces were never threated again, until Teh Alienz came.

Nein!

In 1964, Texas became one of few states to actually be allowed slight self-government, and Mythmonster2 became President of the new Texagermania.

Nein!
 
Well done, SuBI! Not bad considering it was your first game. Now move on to the '44 campaing as Germany on very hard. :hammer:

By the way, could you edit the last pic into a spoiler? Makes it easier to read the update.
 
oh cmon we should get to have a little storytelling fun :(

Well I want to leave open the possibility of continuing the story in the future at a point where the German alliance falls apart and the world falls into a new World War. So I can't have all the puppets spiraling off into their own storylines. ;)

I would just need to disband the German armed forces, release some puppets and create a new alliance. And of course, get that no time limit mod.
 
Congratulations on your world conquest and the patience you had to pull it off (I normally quit when victory is obvious).
 
Aaaargh, HOW DO YOU MULTIQUOTE???
The tab that reads multi in the bottom right of ever post :P
 
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