I need to edit the mod so it links discovering certain techs first than any other country to special events, the very beginning of this update will show why. And of course add a glorious image of the Vaterland in the Moon to the specific event for Germany winning the Space Race, which obviously is about to begin. I already disabled the railroaded Space Race events of NWO2 because Cold War Expansion Tech has specific tech trees for it that are much better because they allow any country to try into space, including Poland.
As for crushing Bolsheviks eastwards, I don't trust NATO, so more kebab must be removed from the premises first.
Finally, this will be the last update in this page.
GarfunkeL
I know those numbers are supposed to represent total casualties including Wounded, MIA and POWs, but that is not dramatic and grimdark enough.
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Unser Traum vom Mond beginnt
Götterdämmerung Muss Fliegen
The Balkans are isolated from the Soviet front lines while brutal battles are waged all over it, the Bolsheviks throwing everything they have again.
And slowly their numbers began to become simply overwhelming. The businesses over the Balkans should be finished as soon as possible.
Putting an end to the Bolshevik and illegitimate government of Bulgaria is the first step of an operation called Fall Komnenos, intent o cutting off the Bolshevik supply lines from Southern Europe by securing Constantinople and crushing all of their forces stranded there.
A brutal offensive over Pleven began with Tiger III tanks having much difficulties because of the river crossing, fortunately the Bundeswehr technical superiority and air supremacy were major factors as well for the odds of victory.
Meanwhile, over Romania a planned strategic encirclement had its first succesful step.
The Panzers have crossed the river and secured Plovdiv, and now they were positioned to advance closer to Sofia and finish off Bulgaria, once all was ready for the difficult attack it would require.
Yet, there were news noteworthy enough in May of 1955 to share the first page of many newspapers with WW3. The famous Germany company Focke-Wulf was tasked with the project of developing the first man-made satellite and a vehicle capable of sending it into space. It was only the beginning of a much larger dream of glory, of exploring the final frontier of outer space through new wunderwaffen that will overshadow all previous ones.
The Space Race has begun, and the Fatherland started taking the lead.
However, down to earth blood spills over the swamplands of Mozyr, the masses of Bolshevik forces rapidly exhausting the German forces over the vast front lines.
And then, the risky offensive to both reach Sofia and encircle the enemy forces. The Fallchirmjäger are once again sent to action, landing over the mountains of Gabrovo. It would be difficult, specially because of the nature of their support and how such mountains would limit their maneuver, but they had 1200 Stukas, and their enemies didn't.
On one hand, it was a disaster. On the other, it depleted the Bolshevik forces in that part of the front and left the far more Panzer friendly landscape around Plovdiv lightly defended, and it was exactly there that the second attempt to break through Sofia would happen.
The German army is forced to fall back again because of overwhelming Bolshevik numbers, but the situation over the front lines remain stable, the Soviet gains being minimal through the last months and always at an immense cost of casualties.
The Poles took the initiative over the planned encirclement, just like they boldly did back in East Prussia.
The push towards Sofia has begun, with heavy air support to ensure its success.
And once again, more serious losses shall happen for the Bolshevik hordes as the encirclement over Romania ends completely successful and now it is only a matter of finishing it.
The casualty numbers speak for themselves.
As long as their gains are mininal, this can continue until Southern Europe is purified from the taint of Bolshevism.
But it was Hell. Truly, a hellish war.
And speaking of this war being hell, the Kwa' didn't wait for Germany to finish their conquest of red Bulgaria, but instead flattened Sofia with another H-bomb, creating one more post-nuclear wasteland over Eurasia.
No need to wait further for reorganizing the divisions at Plovdiv. The Red Army survivors in the irradiated ruins of Sofia were in panic and disarray, and now it was only a matter of time for the capitulation of Bulgaria to happen, and for a new pocket to be formed as a plus.
They tried everything they could to stop, but it was pointless. 1200 Stukas raining bombs for the entire day after being the survivor of a nuclear attack was something no human could withstand.
The Soviet victories over the Eastern Front were temporary at best, completely pointless at worst.
But the German and Polish forces were stretched and having a very hard and nightmarish time holding the line against their legions.
All is over for Bolshevik Bulgaria, but the tragedy the reckless and actually completely unneeded at that point use of a nuclear warhead against Sofia will never be forgotten, or forgiven.
All is over for 8 divisions completely surrounded by the German Army over Romania, and that is only the beginning. Once Southern Europe is rid of their taint, a new Barbarossa will begin to reach the new capital of the Soviet Union after the Zerstrahlung of Moscow: Stalingrad.
For the moment, the Soviet offensives have been completely halted, in spite of their superior numbers.
Never before an army has witnessed the effects of a nuclear attack so soon after the date when ITZ happened. Already aware of the lasting effects, most soldiers never left their trucks, and those who got close wore gas masks and NBC protection. The scenery was one of despair. There were still people dying on the streets, there were burnt out corpses all over, charred babies...
An once quite populated city, Sofia now was practically a ghost town, a forsaken ruin.
Those who witnessed ITZ would never be the same again.
Despite being near depleted, the 10 divisions at Nowogrodek held the line.
But they weren't running short of meat for the meatgrinder any time soon. Damn.
The reds were trying to stop the capitulation of Bulgaria, but at this point it was unlikely their actions would succeed at that.
They would only succeed in bringing them even greater casualties.
And another encirclement about to be completed.
Yet the reds were many, and they attacked relentlessly after all these years of total war and over a dozen million casualties.
But this wouldn't be their time.
NOW TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
After all German victories, after all the losses they suffered, like cockroaches, they continue to maintain their massive numbers, but their country is collapsing, slowly, and this time, they won't win through sheer sacrifice of an entire generation.
For the price they paid for Beria's insanity already is beyond all measure, comparable to the massive casualties of WW1 in a much shorter timeframe. Plus those numbers don't count the losses caused by encircled divisions that surrendered, which should put it to possibly near 20 million, if not more. Yet they still had the will and strategic conditions to fight, even after so many of their cities becoming atomic ruins, even after so many losses, the Red Army remains massive and horrifying to face.
The fall of Bulgaria is another step closer to German victory, yet victory remains distant. The road to Constantinople is undefended and if the city is occupied, the supply lines of the Bolsheviks will be in disarray. Fall Komnenos is about to reach its most important stage.
TO BE CONTINUED ON THE NEXT PAGE