Harry Tuttle
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Ok, I know everyone is sick of WW2 scenarios aka: "Invade France, beat Russia, invade England, you're done". Instead of the usual storyline, how about we do something different. Here goes...
September 1941 (pre-Pearl Harbor, pre-Invasion of Sicily, right smack in the middle of Barbarosa) - Hitler has an aneurism at one of his mass rallies and and dies soon after. The Third Reich is left without a leader and a general fear grips the German public. The power gap left prods Himmler, Goebbels, Rommel, and Goering to sieze power. Seeing that ultimately none could rule alone, the four create a Tetrarchy, with Rommel (being the charismatic general) as the pseudo leader. Rommel, with his new found ability to actually influence the entire war, instead of just a theater, starts to rearrange the war effort in a way that no politico/occultist leader could. Rommel pushes into the Soviet Union until the end of October, where he orders an immediate "scorched earth" withdrawal.
Late October 1941 - The tetrarchy re-evaluates the war. Himmler and Goebbels both want to continue the final push into Russia, but at the advice of Rommel and Goering they back down. "The German citizens need to be shown that they have capable leadership. Goering and I will lead the war effort. You provide the foundation and the troops." says Rommel. Himmler and Goebbels, being political animals at best and left without Sugar Daddy Adolf, agree and start to reinforce the German public through increased propaganda and an SS led campaign in the Fatherland. Rommel, fearing the events that could happen if the United States enters the war, decides to cut off the alliance with Imperial Japan, seeing the eventual confrontation between the two powers. He initiates an innovative plan to accelerate German war technology, a plan that does not include the bombing of the civilian targets in Britain. Also, Rommel, seeing the danger of a British held North Africa, increases the supply of troops and weapons to Libya. The rules of war are about to be changed, again.
December 7 1941 - Imperial Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt says his famous speech in front of the U.S. Congress and asks for their support in declaring war. Left out of his speech is the sentence: "Today Nazi Germany declared war on the United States." Congress grants Roosevelt's request and a short, but brutal war is waged in the Pacific. The European theatre takes second seat to the "Pacific War" and Germany is saved (at least for the next few years) the fury of the United States war machine.
Winter 1941 - Stalin, sensing weakness and a chance to turn the war around, sends whatever he can against the reinforced Germans in the Winter of 1941. Holding off the Soviets with minimal reinforcements and superior logistics during the winter and most of the Spring, Rommel then unleashes his refreshed Wermacht, SS battalions, and Luftwaffe in the Summer of 1942.
Late May through June 1942 - The refreshed and reinforced German army takes Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad in a massive push eastward. Stalin is crushed and forced to retreat beyond the Urals. At this point Rommel sees the push into Soviet Asia as futile and tries to negotiate an end to the war with Stalin. Stalin, being the pride filled man he is, refuses. Rommel, seeing the need to consolidate Europe before the United States is goaded into a war with Germany, authorizes the most daring operation of the war so far: "Operation Gemini" - the aim: capture Stalin and make him sign a humiliating peace accord. Led by the infamous Otto Skorzeny the unit paradropped into Kazan, fought off 2 NKVD platoons, and captured Stalin alive. Saved at the last minute by a surprise raid by an SS Panzer division, Skorzeny, with Stalin in tow, returns to German occupied territory. Stalin, under intense SS torture, signs the peace accord. Three months later Himmler, the propaganda genius he is, convinces the Tetrarchy to return Stalin to Soviet Russia, where, hating the man and fearing his return to power, he is immediately executed by the Soviet officers in power. In the years proceeding, a man named Nikita Kruschev siezes power and intiates a rearming of Soviet Russia.
June 1942 to October 1942 - With the East stabilized and a humiliating peace accord signed, Rommel's Germany turns its eyes on North Africa. With increased reinforcements Germany has pushed Montgomery back to Arabia. Egypt is now under German control. Great Britain, without the full support of the United States, is crumbling. Rommel orders a cesation of sustained military activities in North Africa and consolidates French Algeria and Morrocco so as to provide a shield from invasion.
October 1942 - The tetrarchy now sees an invasion of Great Britain as being to costly. Germany has its breathing room and all the resources it needs for the near future. Rommel offers a ceasefire to Churchill, which is signed only after pressure from the English Parliament. For all intensive purposes, the war in Europe is over. The tetrarchy focuses its efforts on repairing war torn Europe, but it does not, in any way, keep its eyes off of creating a world where Germany is supreme...
November 1942 to June 1944 - The United States, with its complete industrial capacity devoted to defeating Imperial Japan, wages war in the Pacific. One by one Japanese strongholds fall to the Americans. In late June two nuclear bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war in the preceeding weeks. The United States is victorious and Japan falls under U.S. administrative rule. The U.S. then provides aid to Nationalistic China, helping them to defeat outlying Comunist forces. It seems that Communism is now confined to Soviet Asia...
September 1944 - The United Nations is established with headquarters in New York. Among the numerous entrants, the United States, Great Britain, Nationalistic China, Soviet Rissia, and Nazi Germany join. Almost immediately a decisive rift is established among the nations of the world. Those that support the United States begin to form a loose alliance called the Allied Powers to counter the already formed Axis Powers.
September 1944 to January 1947 - Communication continues to deteriorate between the Allies and the Axis. The United States sets up military bases in Great Britain as a counter to German supremacy on the mainland. Nazi Germany continues to consolidate the land gained in the European War. German war technology continues to advance, surpassing that of the allies. Germany though, has yet to uncover the secret of the nuclear bomb.
Crimson Valentine - February 14th 1947 - Rommell, under pressure by the rest of the tetrarchy, demonstrates German war readiness by launching the first long range V-3 missile over Great Britain. The allied powers see this as a definitive act leading to war and immediately start deploying troops into Arabia and Great Britain. Kruschev, now leader of Soviet Russia, mobilizes the Soviet Army, and moves multiple units to the Russian/German border. The United States deploys its carrier groups off of Great Britain in an effort to avert war.
To Date - The Allied Powers have the Nuclear Bomb, but can only deliver it by conventional means. The Axis Powers have advanced technology for both the Luftwaffe and Wermacht. Allied intelligence confirms that the Axis powers have built a substantial navy, including carrier fleets. Also, intelligence suspects that the Axis powers have developed aircraft capable of hitting targets in the U.S.
Ok, what will happen? Does anyone think that this will make a good scenario? It's sort of like a Cold War flashpoint scenario, but with the Nazis involved. Remember, the scenario entails all Nazi technological breakthroughs as were dreamed about before the war ended. Anyone, Anyone?????
September 1941 (pre-Pearl Harbor, pre-Invasion of Sicily, right smack in the middle of Barbarosa) - Hitler has an aneurism at one of his mass rallies and and dies soon after. The Third Reich is left without a leader and a general fear grips the German public. The power gap left prods Himmler, Goebbels, Rommel, and Goering to sieze power. Seeing that ultimately none could rule alone, the four create a Tetrarchy, with Rommel (being the charismatic general) as the pseudo leader. Rommel, with his new found ability to actually influence the entire war, instead of just a theater, starts to rearrange the war effort in a way that no politico/occultist leader could. Rommel pushes into the Soviet Union until the end of October, where he orders an immediate "scorched earth" withdrawal.
Late October 1941 - The tetrarchy re-evaluates the war. Himmler and Goebbels both want to continue the final push into Russia, but at the advice of Rommel and Goering they back down. "The German citizens need to be shown that they have capable leadership. Goering and I will lead the war effort. You provide the foundation and the troops." says Rommel. Himmler and Goebbels, being political animals at best and left without Sugar Daddy Adolf, agree and start to reinforce the German public through increased propaganda and an SS led campaign in the Fatherland. Rommel, fearing the events that could happen if the United States enters the war, decides to cut off the alliance with Imperial Japan, seeing the eventual confrontation between the two powers. He initiates an innovative plan to accelerate German war technology, a plan that does not include the bombing of the civilian targets in Britain. Also, Rommel, seeing the danger of a British held North Africa, increases the supply of troops and weapons to Libya. The rules of war are about to be changed, again.
December 7 1941 - Imperial Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt says his famous speech in front of the U.S. Congress and asks for their support in declaring war. Left out of his speech is the sentence: "Today Nazi Germany declared war on the United States." Congress grants Roosevelt's request and a short, but brutal war is waged in the Pacific. The European theatre takes second seat to the "Pacific War" and Germany is saved (at least for the next few years) the fury of the United States war machine.
Winter 1941 - Stalin, sensing weakness and a chance to turn the war around, sends whatever he can against the reinforced Germans in the Winter of 1941. Holding off the Soviets with minimal reinforcements and superior logistics during the winter and most of the Spring, Rommel then unleashes his refreshed Wermacht, SS battalions, and Luftwaffe in the Summer of 1942.
Late May through June 1942 - The refreshed and reinforced German army takes Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad in a massive push eastward. Stalin is crushed and forced to retreat beyond the Urals. At this point Rommel sees the push into Soviet Asia as futile and tries to negotiate an end to the war with Stalin. Stalin, being the pride filled man he is, refuses. Rommel, seeing the need to consolidate Europe before the United States is goaded into a war with Germany, authorizes the most daring operation of the war so far: "Operation Gemini" - the aim: capture Stalin and make him sign a humiliating peace accord. Led by the infamous Otto Skorzeny the unit paradropped into Kazan, fought off 2 NKVD platoons, and captured Stalin alive. Saved at the last minute by a surprise raid by an SS Panzer division, Skorzeny, with Stalin in tow, returns to German occupied territory. Stalin, under intense SS torture, signs the peace accord. Three months later Himmler, the propaganda genius he is, convinces the Tetrarchy to return Stalin to Soviet Russia, where, hating the man and fearing his return to power, he is immediately executed by the Soviet officers in power. In the years proceeding, a man named Nikita Kruschev siezes power and intiates a rearming of Soviet Russia.
June 1942 to October 1942 - With the East stabilized and a humiliating peace accord signed, Rommel's Germany turns its eyes on North Africa. With increased reinforcements Germany has pushed Montgomery back to Arabia. Egypt is now under German control. Great Britain, without the full support of the United States, is crumbling. Rommel orders a cesation of sustained military activities in North Africa and consolidates French Algeria and Morrocco so as to provide a shield from invasion.
October 1942 - The tetrarchy now sees an invasion of Great Britain as being to costly. Germany has its breathing room and all the resources it needs for the near future. Rommel offers a ceasefire to Churchill, which is signed only after pressure from the English Parliament. For all intensive purposes, the war in Europe is over. The tetrarchy focuses its efforts on repairing war torn Europe, but it does not, in any way, keep its eyes off of creating a world where Germany is supreme...
November 1942 to June 1944 - The United States, with its complete industrial capacity devoted to defeating Imperial Japan, wages war in the Pacific. One by one Japanese strongholds fall to the Americans. In late June two nuclear bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war in the preceeding weeks. The United States is victorious and Japan falls under U.S. administrative rule. The U.S. then provides aid to Nationalistic China, helping them to defeat outlying Comunist forces. It seems that Communism is now confined to Soviet Asia...
September 1944 - The United Nations is established with headquarters in New York. Among the numerous entrants, the United States, Great Britain, Nationalistic China, Soviet Rissia, and Nazi Germany join. Almost immediately a decisive rift is established among the nations of the world. Those that support the United States begin to form a loose alliance called the Allied Powers to counter the already formed Axis Powers.
September 1944 to January 1947 - Communication continues to deteriorate between the Allies and the Axis. The United States sets up military bases in Great Britain as a counter to German supremacy on the mainland. Nazi Germany continues to consolidate the land gained in the European War. German war technology continues to advance, surpassing that of the allies. Germany though, has yet to uncover the secret of the nuclear bomb.
Crimson Valentine - February 14th 1947 - Rommell, under pressure by the rest of the tetrarchy, demonstrates German war readiness by launching the first long range V-3 missile over Great Britain. The allied powers see this as a definitive act leading to war and immediately start deploying troops into Arabia and Great Britain. Kruschev, now leader of Soviet Russia, mobilizes the Soviet Army, and moves multiple units to the Russian/German border. The United States deploys its carrier groups off of Great Britain in an effort to avert war.
To Date - The Allied Powers have the Nuclear Bomb, but can only deliver it by conventional means. The Axis Powers have advanced technology for both the Luftwaffe and Wermacht. Allied intelligence confirms that the Axis powers have built a substantial navy, including carrier fleets. Also, intelligence suspects that the Axis powers have developed aircraft capable of hitting targets in the U.S.
Ok, what will happen? Does anyone think that this will make a good scenario? It's sort of like a Cold War flashpoint scenario, but with the Nazis involved. Remember, the scenario entails all Nazi technological breakthroughs as were dreamed about before the war ended. Anyone, Anyone?????