Let's Play Darkest Hour: Arms, Armistice and Red Alert

[Cassidy]

Arms, Armistice and Revolutions is a minimod for Darkest Hour focused on WW1 and the Interwar. Along other things, it features some interesting events for Germany in its 1933 "Day of Decision" scenario where you might choose to deviate from how things went historically. And that is exactly what this Let's Play will be about.

This OP will contain mostly fluff on stuff I just missed taking screenshots of. The graphical update proper will be in the next post.

1. Intro (right here)
2. Arbeiter, Bauern
3. From securing Berlin to Germany's Finest Hour
4. The End of a Nightmare
5. With Hitler gone, time will tell what happens
6. Hölle Marsch
   
   CORPORATE JEW MASTER HIJACK:
   
7. Part 1

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Intro

The German people had long suffered betrayals throughout the early twentieth century, first at the hands of Italy in the Great War, then by his own citizens in the Dolchstoßlegende. The people spoke up, and revolution began! But before the revolution fully took hold, Germany was betrayed once again by the leftists, the Social Democratic Party. As a result of the Weimar Republic, Germany lay in ruins after the war suffering under the Tyranny of Versailles and forced to unfairly admit blame for a war. As an insult to injury, the victorious entente then offered 'aid' in reconstruction only to withdraw it a moment later and demand war reparations. The people could only watch as the hated French took over the Ruhr in 1923 while the government did nothing. The traitorous Weimar Republic seemed to collapse as Communists and National Socialists both rallied the people to revolt, given promises by the army of support. They were nothing but empty words. Now, it has been another ten years under the Weimar Republic. Another ten years of economic ruin, famine, mismanagement, and humiliation. The people can not take anymore injustice. The country is at a standstill, with daily skirmishes and protests organized by Communist and Nationalist Socialist militias. Both ideologically opposed parties now find themselves in a position to lead the Reichstag. Will Germany embrace communism and overturn the unjust Bourgeoisie societies that ruined him? Will Germany be drawn in by the National-socialists who promises law and order in a new German Reich? Or, worse, will Germany be betrayed once again in another Dolchstoßlegende?



The complete disappearance of Adolph Hitler in 1924 was a mystery never truly answered. Even with the loss of their charismatic leader, the Nazis were far from defeated and radicalism did not take a step back. The 1929 crash made things even worse, but this time, the lack of a charismatic figurehead like Hitler has greatly weakened the National-socialists and they failed to draw as much support as they would have done had their Fuhrer not disappeared. Yet, they continued to fight, involved in clashes both against the near collapsing Weimar Republic and against the communists. Everything was reaching a boiling point, a crucial moment in history where events happening over the course of only one year would define the future for many decades to come.

This year is 1933, Germany lies on the verge of a civil war. Communists and Nazis have now engaged into violent, open combat in the streets while the people stop giving any credibility that still was left to the Weimar Republic. The German communists managed to unite under the leadership of a man the Nazis now had nobody capable of matching in his charisma and ability of drawing crowds to take direct action. In desperation, the Weimar Republic attempted to hold the reins by giving concessions to the Nazis, which only worsened their already fragile situation.

Millions of unemployed workers were a force to be reckoned with. With most of them drawn by the communists, the final strike against the decrepit republic was swift and decisive. In a few days, the revolutionary commitee rapidly seized power, as the capitalist nations gazed upon such development of one of the greatest industrial powers of the world becoming a new socialist power aghast. Many probably were considering to intervene quickly to crush such revolution, but when Stalin publicly signed the alliance treaty with the new German socialist state, their plans were forgotten under desks, for they wouldn't dare to take such a risk, and tried instead to resort to appeasement.

A mistake they would regret greatly in the coming years.

However, not all was well for the new regime. The revolution was not fully endorsed by the population, and manipulated by the old elites, millions rose in open rebellion. Massive dissent and insurgency marked the start of this new socialist order, just like they marked all the dark times of the Weimar Republic. The old reactionaries were defeated in the field of battle, but only temporarily, for the German Civil War would still rage for many years, with Nazis and conservatives resorting to guerrilla warfare as a powerful counter-revolutionary force.

Under such turbulent times, the leader of the German socialist state, Ludwig Renn, still more influenced by ideology than by the allure of power and convenience of realpolitik, sympathizes with the ideals of Trotsky, particularly that the revolution must not be a national, but an Internationalist affair. Even with all the difficulties against rebels and counter-revolutionaries, he has great plans for Europe, and perhaps one day, the entire world.

Through 1934 a storm was brewing. A new revolutionary Spring was about to begin.

 

[Cassidy]

In the troubled times of the early thirties, the German Communist party grew stronger, even in the forces, to try to seize power in march 1933.Helped and armed by the Soviet Union, the putschist seize power after violent combats against Reichwehr's elements faithful to the former government. Today, tension rises again as Europe is wondering whether Germany will be the new spearhead of the Bolshevik Revolution...

Arbeiter Bauern

During the year of 1935, supported by the German Socialist Republic, communist revolutions erupt all over Europe in a new revolutionary Spring, and most of them emerge victorious against the reactionary forces, including in countries like Finland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. Once the dust is settled, and except for Austria and Poland, all of Central Europe heading towards socialist, Ludwig Renn decides to take an even bolder step in accordance to his Internationalist beliefs. He believed this was the turning point in history for socialism, and there was only one way to defeat the capitalists for once and all, and thus, during the last months of 1935:

The true "war to end all wars", from the communist point of view, has begun. This was a war against the bourgeois, the tyrants and petty dictators, the lapdogs. This was a war that would be fought to the bitter end. The only acceptable peace is the global emancipation of the proletariat! The bourgeois have humiliated and crushed the German people for long enough. Now the ideals of our German brother Karl Marx shall spread all across the planet no matter the cost!

Crushed and downsized by the humiliating Versailles treaty, the German Red Army was not prepared for fighting this war on their own. Yet, even with the French bourgeois far outnumbering them, they stood tall until the arrival of Soviet reinforcements to the frontline, culminating in the long and devastating Battle of Mainz. Even when everything pointed to defeat, the realization this was the chance of Germany becoming once again great, rather than communism, drove them to not give up.

The battle lasted for nearly a month, leading to heavy casualties for both sides. The nature of this battle was such that three German divisions perished, but they will not give up. The full might of the Soviet Army is now on their side!

The revolution continues to spread all over Central Europe. The enemies of the worker class shall tremble! This is the final war! This is the global revolution. The old world will be left behind, we're standing next to the Socialist World Republic! This is the goal of this conflict: nothing more, nothing less. Whether it will be the more idealistic and "Trotskyist" bureaucratic and authoritarian politburo of Renn or the more psychopathic and ruthless bureaucratic and authoritarian politburo of Stalin that shall seize the World Republic, once all is over, is yet to be seen.

Petit-bourgeois "socialists" from CNT-FAI and Republican Spain in general unjustly accuse the German Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union of having "corrupted the true socialist ideal" while they traitorously side with the bourgeois oppressors of the proletariat! How could be a greater proof they are nothing but traitorous revisionists and false socialists than this?

The German Army at the current state can do little to turn the tide of the war that has stagnated. They do their best however, once Austria decides to join the conflict, despite being surrounded from near all sides by socialist nations, to crush Austria quickly and deliver an Anchluss.

Then everything goes downhill when Poland also joins the Allies of the Bourgeoisie, leading the Soviets to forsake Germany and retreat further to their home so they won't have to fight over multiple and fronts. No doubt Stalin realized he just backed another Trotsky by mistake and is now attempting to smash Germany while keeping the facade of the "alliance". However, the German people have endured enough, and this time there will be no shameful surrender! After Austria was fully defeated and annexed, only to be rapidly captured by Italian and French forces, all are ordered to prepare for a final stand in Konigsberg after getting some supplies from Leningrad. It is imperative that East Prussia is sufficiently liberated of the reactionary potato rule for a direct border with the Soviets allowing for supplies to flow to the German army before they run out of them.

This is the finest hour of the German socialist revolution. Trust me, we will take back our country, we will drive the capitalist oppressors out of the entire European continent!

The struggle for linking up the front with the Soviets lasts too long, reaching a dramatic moment as supplies run out in Konigsberg. If they lose this battle, the revolutionary war will be lost for the German people, that will be condemned to become a satellite of Stalin's rule rather than having their own independent socialist party. Yet, even without supplies they fight with unsurmountable courage against the Polish forces that now realized the folly of their action. They may wave their flag over the Reichstag as much as they want, but soon that moment will be forgotten, as will their country once again disappear from the map.

Victory! Germany will still overcome all obstacles and turn the tide of this war even after having been at the very eve of total defeat. With the Soviet army right behind, the small but experienced and brave Germany Army boldly launches continual offensives to crush Poland for once and all, as their territory is more and more reduced to their occupation of Germany.

Danzig once again returns to their rightful owners!

This is the sound of the tide of war turning, of the cries of the reactionaries as they realize their apparent victory was nothing but a temporary setback! Soon their forces shall be driven all the way back to the Atlantic!

Our generals are among the greatest, having faced the most challenging and difficult battles and still emerged victorious in most of them. The superior German tactics allow for offensives even at a near 1:1 ratio between German attackers and Polish defenders to oftenly succeed.

The year of 1936 saw the near total defeat of Germany, as their armies, like Mao Zedong's army, rallied in a long march through much of central and eastern europe, never facing battles they stood no chance of winning. In their long march, they have crushed Austria and secured the last hope of Germany not suffering complete annexation in Konigsberg, and once the Soviet Red Army began to hit Poland hard, the German Red Army didn't waste time to successfully liberate East Prussia. Now, they prepare for the challenging task ahead of taking back Berlin while the Soviets also advance relentlessly against the reactionary forces.

THE OLD WORLD WILL BE LEFT BEHIND!

WE'RE STANDING NEXT TO THE SOCIALIST WORLD REPUBLIC!

*cues Hell March*

 

[Hellraiser]

Marx damn these reactionary french puppets of the capitalist fat cats!

 

[Cassidy]

I know this looks small time next to JA2 and Mongolia LPs, but I'll do it anyway.

Never thought that fighting a war against West Europe with most Central Europe supporting it and the Soviet Union on the same side would be this tough.

Because as it is I think it will be more fun to make it mostly about Germany itself because the "Hell March" I was thinking it would become turned into a FAIL March instead thanks to Soviet AI dumbfuckery.

And right now from all my active LPs this is the most challenging too.

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From securing Berlin to Germany's Finest Hour

Arbeiter von Wien

Poland didn't last much against the combined strength of so many enemies. Although the France gained much territory, one of their allies shall soon be out of the war.

Berlin was once again retaken by the German socialists, but the frogs will sooner or later launch a counter-offensive, and without the willingness of the Soviets to support this advance, it could be lost, again.

Poland is no more! Socialism has conquered all of Central and Eastern Europe! The war is far from over, and the French has proven themselves far more formidable this time.

A massive French counter-offensive threatens recent gains of Germany while the winter is coming. The Great War was nothing next to the scale and bloodshed of this ongoing war between the forces of Capitalism and Socialism.

There is little left to do for the small German Red Army to do than to attempt holding the ground they have retaken. The war continues in a stalemate, with neither side achieving any decisive victory over Central Europe.

Eventually, defending Berlin and surrounding liberated regions become a very difficult challenge as the Soviet forces are too occupied over the vast fronts to the south to send much help.

The German Rote Heer is fighting valiantly against the odds, but their chances of victory are slim. The Soviets continue to make major strategic flukes as if the situation wasn't bad enough despite the recent defeat of Poland.

Regardless of it final outcome, the defense of Rostock has been truly legendary. They were hoping that Soviet comes would arrive and thus they fought as long as they could, and made the French pay inch by inch for this land.

Then the gravity of the situation increased as Frankfurt-Oder was also attacked by a French army, forcing their flanking offensive to be halted.

In the end, there was little they could have done. Many wonder if it would have been a better idea to wait a few more years of army buildup before calling for a revolution against the bourgeois, and although Germany has still survived, its situation remain grim and the Soviets have been losing too much ground lately.

The liberation of Berlin was thus short-lasted in this seemingly unending war.

Where Czechoslovakia was split between its capitalist west and socialist east formed from the battlefields, both hoping for an unification by force and victory against their enemies.

Denmark's revolution will be short-lasted for their tiny army will stand no chance against the massive strength of the bourgeois legions.

The relentless French offensives continue, and the German Rote Heer lacks the numbers to overcome the massive assault. The situation is taking a turn for the worse.

Is this the end? Will the revolution be crushed under the jackboots of the French bourgeois and bankster puppets? The Soviet forces fail to achieve decisive victories and even to hold their ground in multiple fronts. The bourgeois are winning the war. That is the truth, the sad truth.

Germany cannot lose another war to France again or there will be no longer a Germany but a broken mess of duchies as the enemies of the German worker will definitively break the nation apart to divide and conquer! Forward against the enemy, for the people, for the workers and for the Fatherland! No surrender, not one step back!

Hold Stettin at all costs comrades! The future of our people depends on you!

Finally good news! One of the reason the Soviets have been faltering, the massive front the British invasion of the Balkans opened, will soon be put to an end, allowing most of their forces there to relocate to the north.

No! Germany will not be defeated again!

It is futile, and with the loss of Stettin, the future of Germany becomes truly dark. Yet they did not halt the offensive. They continued trying to achieve the impossible.

And along the greater war, Japan, uninterested in joining the other reactionary forces against the march of International Socialism, had other ambitions instead.

Predictably, Stettin was lost, and now this is truly Germany's finest hour.

A desperate effort begins to hold Gdynia long enough for reinforcements that shall hopefully stop this offensive from wiping Germany of the map. Their last stand over East Prussia will now either come to an end or to a great turning of the tides of this war. For the Soviets are increasing the size of their army, and if Germany can hold out long enough, they will not only survive but emerge victorious and independent rather than a Soviet satellite. Easier said than done, however.

Gdynia is lost, and the French offensive continues to prove itself as relentless as the Napoleonic campaigns of centuries ago. The situation couldn't be any worse.

If Elbing falls, then there is no doubt of the imminent German defeat! Forward comrades! Hold the Vistula line no matter the cost!

A decisive victory was achieved. Germany may yet survive! With Elbing secured, it is time to look for any opportunity to deliver major strategic blows to the French army through encirclements that would not risk the already precarious situation of the front. Soviet reinforcements finally arrived and the French advance has been contained, but a decisive victory is needed to drive them all the way back to Paris.

MADNESS?

THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAACUS LEAGUE!

 

[marooned]

Looks pretty messed up. Keep up the good work!

 

[Cassidy]

The End of a Nightmare

To rely on the unreliable is to wish for defeat. Without any conditions to reinforce casualties the small German Army literally fought to the last man, and the massive strategic incompetence of the Soviet Union was pushing everything towards an inevitable end. After valiantly defending Elbing for the entire year of 1937, the German Army simply ceased to exist as a fighting force, and all they could do was to provide their HQ division for supporting the Soviet operations.

And so they did, as did General Mielke, who has been fighting a this hopeless war all along. The idea this was on purpose was disproved. Like they say: never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, for the Soviets were also losing their own ground, and terribly. Everything was going downhill as Renn received considerably more grim reports of the situation of the front. They were coming without mercy.

From the same city where the old Kaisers were crowned, the Comrade-President observed and heard the sounds of the shells and gunfire. The Soviets incompetently allowed for Konigsberg to be surrounded, and he refused to retreat with others of his cabinet in a sea escort to Leningrad. His dream was born in Germany, and now that it died, he shall die with it. Grabbing a MP-40 himself, he was ready, in the despair of failure, to fight together with the retreating Soviet and German forces as the lines were getting closer and closer to the Konigsberg palace itself.

Defeated but defiant to the end, he looked at the men over the quickly set up emplacements, and at the massive advancing French army that surrounded and outnumbered them, and despite his age, he charged. The machinegun fire was nearly hitting him, it would be better to die for the revolution than to live in shame of a defeat.

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Ludwig Renn suddenly rose from his bed, still remembering the sad memories of defeat, and then he realized, and confirmed by looking at the 1935 calendar, that it was all a dream, a really bad dream. But perhaps it has given him wisdom, for Germany was still in turmoil. Before the final war, the German Red Army had to be expanded exponentially from the rump it currently is due to the humiliating Versailles Treaty.

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Yeah, I should have guessed Soviet Union would fail. I'll start this again from 1935 in the next update and pursue a less insane strategy than to throw a country with 10 divisions only in a war against the entire capitalist world.

 

[SerratedBiz]

I truly believed in the great socialist victory; alas, it shall have to be on another occasion.

How could the Soviets fail, though? Their stacks seem infinite when compared to the French. Was it simply bad AI or is there something I'm not seeing?

 

[eklektyk]

Well, I can only dream to one day become near as awsome as Our beloved Comander Cassidy and His LPs!!! Forward Commmmmmmmrades!!!!

 

[Cassidy]

With Hitler gone, time will tell what happens

Ludwig Renn knew that before starting the final war against the Bourgeoisie, he needed a real military force and to put an end to the internal conflicts that ravaged Germany since the depressive days of the decadent Weimar Republic. As he invested heavily in measures to reduce dissent, his foreign agents successfully spread the revolution to Denmark, securing the Baltic Sea for the Socialist International.

The Revolution shall not be televised, because televisions still don't exist. Heavy repressive measures are being enacted by the countries still under control of the capitalists as like in a chain of falling dominoes, country by country is taken by the Red Spring of socialism, which revolutionaries have been successful through the near totality of Central Europe.

The democratically elected radical left-wing government of Spain, after extreme measures of land reform and other socialist policies combined with a parallel revolution by anarchists, communists and other radicals is split apart between fascist forces led by Franco and the legitimate workers' government. The Soviet Union rapidly chooses to send support to Republican Spain, while Mussolini sends support to the other side, and the false democracies of the bourgeoisie at France and United Kingdom refuse to support any side.

In the end, only Greece wasn't swept away by the unrelenting Red Spring at the Balkans, and Central Europe was almost one-hundred percent socialist with the exception of a defiant Polish military dictatorship and of a fascist Austria.

Scandinavia didn't end in a much different situation from Central Europe. Only Norway had reactionary forces strong enough to stop the revolution. The situation was gradually developing into an inevitable conflict, while Renn continued to bide his time.

Here I should post a Wyrmlord's quote on how printing money solves everything for the sake of irony.

While expanding the military was of essence, equally important was to improve military doctrines to a new way of warfare: Blitzkireg. Contrary to the Soviet one, quality was to take precedence over quantity for the German Red Army, which would be based on heavily mechanized forces, highly trained infantry and armored divisions to achieve crushing victories and rapidly conquer enemy territory.

To assist with such endeavors, now that dissent was finally low enough for the government to focus on the expansion of the tiny army left since the humiliation of Versailles, another branch of the military was also being given much priority.

For with the support of powerful close air support aircrafts escorted by modern fighters, the bourgeois armies would be in for a slaughter and rapid defeat. Countless aircrafts were mass produced in Germany during 1937, 1938 and 1939, and it was in September 1939 that the Chairman realized the time has come. In the already ongoing conflict over Spain, the Republican forces were on the eve of victory, while a new, far greater war was about to begin:

Hell March

Although the German plan seemed a bad idea, as Belgium and Netherlands rapidly broke down their "neutrality" and declared war together with the other capitalists, the French weren't really ready for a deployment of air power of the scale that was about to happen, and their trenches would last little next to heavy bombardment and massed strikes. For even with such a formidable defense, they would be bound to lose.

Independent divisions were doing their best to keep the Belgian and Dutch sodomites at bay, and to perhaps even gain ground against the two small players along the capitalist alliance.

Strasbourg was rapidly swept aside by the sheer numerical and technological superiority of the German Red Army and of the Air Force.

The French launched a desperate counter-offensive as their front suffered the risk of being broken, and part of the Maginot line was virtually wiped out by continual bombardments. Rapid German divisions advanced to Liege with the goal of pocketing a much larger Belgian and French force. The Soviet Red Army would eventually arrive to provide support and secure those fronts.

Although no major territorial gains happened yet, the Allied Bourgeoisie is suffering devastating losses of entire divisions already. Left behind by the unrelenting revolutionary forces, the servants of the capitalists are being broken apart.

The tiny Luxembourg becomes the first of many bourgeois States to fall. This time there will be no terms of surrender, no reasons to stop: this war will last until the bourgeois and reactionary forces cease to exist.

By September 30th, Strasbourg is about to fall, as daily airstrikes ravage the land and the French defenders are almost completely demoralized.

A French offensive at Luxembourg is successfully stopped. They seem to be getting really desperate to not lose their Maginot which was never designed to face the massive airstrikes shattering those fortifications.

With the first Soviet reinforcements arriving, the situation over Belgium and Netherlands is stable.

Arlon is lost, but it is at worst a temporary setback. The battle for Strasbourg continues and a new enemy joins the conflict: Austria.

Already expecting Austria to sooner or later get involved, the German Red Army had forces ready to defend Bavaria and perhaps even crush Austria without further support depending on their success.

The French achieve a victory. May it be a Pyrrhic one. They are suffer so much greater losses than the German Red Army that sooner or later their armies will simply collapse, although that is not the plan.

The French breakthrough is a risk for their bourgeois army, for because of it a large part of their forces are under threat of encirclement. The Battle of Strasbourg remains undecided, but even if it ends without a breakthrough, it can be considered at best a tactical victory for the French, and more probably, a pyrrhic one from the massive losses continual close air support caused on them.

Soviet forces have finally secured the Belgian and Dutch front lines.

The French had to divert near their entire army out of other fronts to stop a clear German victory over Strasbourg, exposing much of their small advance into German territory to an encirclement. This is a strategic mistake they will regret. Meanwhile, the Soviet forces began to push back the Belgian, Dutch and French forces to the north.

Poland still stated nothing about the war, but they wouldn't remain neutral for much longer.

The German High Command was well aware of this fact, and a small part of the German Red Army was into position to begin an invasion as soon as the Polish started their hopeless war by joining the rest of the great alliance of reactionaries and bourgeois.

The Soviet forces were keeping all of the Polish military busy to the east, allowing for German panzers to simply march over Poland without any resistance so far.

Polish territory is rapidly fallen as Renn already got his plans ready. Right now, the Soviet Union is a solid ally, but once the world is taken by socialism, his Trotskyist ideology will lead to an inevitable final war against Stalin, and some allies will be terribly needed for such a gigantic conflict.

Meanwhile, the Italian and Austrian forces failed in their battles, and the counter-offensive rapidly began to swept aside Austrian territories. The defeat and anchluss of Austria were a matter of time.

Desperatedly trying to hold themselves between the hammer and the anvil sickle, Polish forces were redeployed just in time to stop further German advance to the north, when an audacious plan was devised. Despite outnumbered at 4:1, the attackers at Northern Poland were ordered to keep on until they were literally unable to, as a distraction to allow the other forces to conquer further ground.

Combined German and Soviet forces inflicted a devastating defeat on the French at Cologne, and started their advance to put the Netherlands out of the war and ensure a socialist mainland Holland will replace it.

The continued offensives at the Maginot Line, or what's left of it after so many continued bombardments, have become partially futile with the coming of winter, although they served a purpose in distracting the sheer majority of the French Army from defending Belgium and the Netherlands and inflicted disproportionatedly higher losses on the enemy armies. Once Winter is over a massive blitz through Belgium will definitively be a viable strategy now that the Soviet Red Army is providing support and will probably keep the central front defended.

Meanwhile Strasbourg remain free from snow, and thus another offensive will soon start there.

The combined forces of socialism are clearly overwhelming the French Army, and it is almost certain that France will be no more by the Summer of 1940 from how the situation is progressing. As for Poland, although the German forces dealing with it are quite small, their doom is coming, and to end the mostly favorable situation, Austria is about to be defeated.

Another small-time reactionary is gone. Luxembourg and Albania are only two of many that shall fall next to the unremitting power of the socialist revolution!

A daring plan is set into motion to ensure the rapid defeat of Poland while winter is gradually arriving, and although the battles are challenging due to the limited extent of German forces in this front, things are going well.

The complete encirclement of Warsaw is the plan. A blitzkrieg done right, a seizing of the opportunity, Germany has conquered far more ground in Poland than the Soviet Union despite having a much smaller army in such front.

Perhaps breaking through Strasbourg is a possibility. The battles are definitively pushing the French army to its limits.

And suddenly, the Soviet forces decide to support the offensive, putting the French forces over Strasbourg in a really difficult situation where victory for Germany is now a near absolute possibility after all the brutal fighting in this front.

However, something went terribly wrong,

The plan to encircle Warsaw.

Something had to be done to prevent an entire division from being lost!

Offensives are immediately launched against Radom and Siedlce, which if successful shall not only relieve the surrounded division, but also completely encircle Warsaw. Actually only Radom was required for that but gaining more ground always is useful and in this case, recommended as the forces to the north couldn't attack any other interesting target.

Victory! Warsaw is completely surrounded by the powerful German Red Army! Close Air Support wings are called to help finishing this off.

The Polish Army makes its last stand, their defeat being now only a matter of time, no matter if it snows or rains.

Eventually, winter also arrived at Strasbourg while the battle for Warsaw continued.

Reinforcements and continued air support rapidly took down the confidence of the defenders, who had no chance to hold the city successfully by now. Thanks in a large part to the bravery of many bomber aces, the Battle of Warsaw was won, forcing the unconditional surrender of Poland to the Communist forces.

Instead of fully annexing Poland, Renn demanded only a link to East Prussia and Danzig, combined with some western Polish territories with significant German minorities. The rest of Poland was then left to a communist government loyal to Ludwig Renn first, Stalin second.

As for Austria, its defeat will still happen during the winter, probably. And there was one more ace on the sleeve: once Italy falls, France will have no chance.



THE RED SPRING SHALL SEIZE THE ENTIRE CONTINENT!

 

[Hellraiser]

Instead of fully annexing Poland, Renn demanded only a link to East Prussia and Danzig, combined with some western Polish territories with significant German minorities. The rest of Poland was then left to a communist government loyal to Ludwig Renn first, Stalin second.

The right-wing lunatics true poles were right!

 

[L'ennui]

Nice LP. I actually just starting playing this mod a few days ago, and oddly enough I'm invading Canada as a Stalinist USA... Lots of fun! Darkest Hour is pretty cool, probably my favorite version of HoI (including HoI 3).

 

[Cassidy]

Just one note: I forgot to turn on the screenshot utility through this, which is the reason for a certain gap I'll do my best to describe in text.

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Hölle Marsch

Hell March

A soft underbelly remains even during winter from where France could be utterly crushed: Italy is it. The German Red Army will not waste such an opportunity and thus, with Poland defeated and now under communism, they will turn their attention to Mussolini's failed ambitions, hoping the Soviet Red Army will keep the existing front line under control.

Air battles rage on between the small number of German interceptors and enemy bombers and escort fighters, with mostly positive results for the brave fighter pilots of Germany.

And while the invasion of Italy was readying in organization, the end of Austria was nigh, as with heavy air support, the socialist armies launched their offensive against the gates of Vienna. Despite overwhelmed and having no chances of victory, the bourgeois and reactionary armies fought valiantly. The capitalist and fascist brainwashing must work really good to get such soldiers to fight with such fanaticism even in a completely hopeless battle.

Perhaps we could learn some methods from them REDACTED

By 5th of January, the invasion of Italy began with promising odds in favor of Germany. To force France to defend another front will be devastating, while installing another socialist government in Italy will greatly help the cause of the revolution.

Austria fell, as it was to be, an inevitable fate for them from the very beginning. Meanwhile the Armored and Motorized German forces swept through much of Northern Italy at such a pace that they rapidly encircled many Italian forces and approached the border with France.

Italy is being swept aside by the German blitzkrieg, which will soon head towards Rome itself.

In their desperation, the Italians tried to trade some territory for the continuation of their oppressive fascist rule against the proletariat. No deals with fascists shall be done! Only the complete dissolution of the fascist govenrment and its replacement with a German-friendly socialist government shall be accepted as peace terms!

The blitzkrieg over Italy was masterfully executed, leaving most of the Italian army stranded near the border with Yugoslavia, the same which will soon meet its doom. Or perhaps there is a better way to settle this.

Upon capturing Genoa, the German Red Army acted with such velocity they even managed to capture an Italian heavy cruiser before it could be evacuated. Italy's end is inevitable at this point.

The Italian army tries to desperatedly stop the German advance, but they will most likely fail.

And soon another encirclement shall be concluded as the month of February was beginning, marking the rapid defeat of Italy in this true War to end all Wars.

Stranded Italian forces over Turin are crushed as well, the Red tide continues sweeping over the entire country as its weak and ill-trained army achieves failure after failure.

And thus, in a battle that would likely define the winner of this part of the conflict, a large part of the Italian army is surrounded, and the odds are all against them at this point.

However, so focused were the men of Germany on spreading the revolution to Italy through military means that they neglected a critical event that happened during their offensive.

The British Empire launched a successful amphibious operation against Denmark! Germany must not fall! They must be pocketed and crushed while there is time to stop this from becoming a serious threat.

Many units are thus redeployed towards Denmark to stop the British from invading the heart of Germany.

The invasion force is a serious threat, were it to be ignored, which won't happen.

And while the news over Denmark were grim, things were very different over Italy, where Bologna has finally been secured, with many enemy divisions destroyed or surrendered.

Several maneuvers later, not only Germany was safe, but part of the invading army was surrounded and would soon be crushed. They tried desperatedly to survive.

But without supplies and outnumbered, they were rapidly crushed, and thus all forces in this front began to head towards the complete liberation of Denmark from the British imperialism.

After a bloody winter battle, Abenra was also secured, and shortly after, a devastating and costly amphibious invasion began against Odense, with the goal of paving the way for the liberation of Copenhagen. Countless thousands died in the beaches of Odense, and again and again forces were sent, one after the other, until the defenders, despite their numerical superiority, were crushed after over a month of battle thanks to such unremitting perseverance and to the continual ground support missions of Stuka dive bombers.

Meanwhile, in Italy, the push seized practically all of continental Italy, forcing Mussolini to seek exile as finally a socialist rule was established over the country and all its colonial territories as well, while Italy still had most of their army and all of their navy intact, and thus, from there the forces responsible for defeating Italy were redeployed to the border between it and France, form where a massive offensive began. This offensive was also successful, bypassing the Maginot Line through an unexpected means. And those were not the only news that worried the capitalist world, for the Netherlands and Belgium were in a bad shape as well.

The offensive on Copenhagen, thanks to continual air support, is rapidly gaining ground, and soon the British occupation forces there shall be entirely crushed. And Soviet offensives have also near entirely crushed the Netherlands and are almost putting down Belgium too, as France desperatedly tries to hold the ever-increasing front against the unstoppable legions of the Soviet Union and of Germany, as the statistics so cleary show.

Meanwhile, to the south Grenoble is pocketed and will eventually go down, leading to the total defeat of twelve enemy divisions, which will be a gigantic loss for the French Army, that may probably open the way to the complete conquest of France once and if successful. The French never expected the Germans to dare launching a blitzkrieg through the "tank-impossible" mountains, and they paid a high price for such assumption. Their time was coming.

For they may still hold the upper hand, but soon the Capitalists will start losing even more than they already did. Communism will sweep all over Europe and beyond!

For nobody could ever stand a chance against the combined might of the massive Soviet Army and of the highly-trained German Army! Their numbers are such that the complete conquest of Europe is only a matter of time.

The end is coming for capitalism in Europe.

 

[marooned]

This update was pretty cool.

How long till the soviets betray you and start opening fronts in the East. Pretty huge army they got.

 

[Hellraiser]

Liberate the proletariat from the tyranny of fatcats, banksters and other parasites!

 

[Fafnir]

Push the dirty Capitalist back to Jewland!

 

[Cassidy]

This update was pretty cool.

How long till the soviets betray you and start opening fronts in the East. Pretty huge army they got.

They won't. I intend to switch sides once continental Europe, except for Iberia, has fallen.

Also I got a big final update from the Commie Germany side. 66 images, which means this needs a new page.

 

[XenomorphII]

BUMP!

 

[Fafnir]

Bump

 

[Fafnir]

M:

 

[Fafnir]

Bump!

 

[marooned]

M:

 

[eklektyk]

Bump for Cassidy ... em ..... Comrades!!!!

 

[XenomorphII]

BUMP! Again.

 

[Fafnir]

 

[Fafnir]

Bump