Lebensraum - a GD 1938 game

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1938, May 2nd.

The war with China was going well, even the general staff was cautiously optimistic. Then again why wouldn´t they be winning. The country of The Rising Sun had everything it needed to win such a war, apart from the natural resources... resources it was going to need to get from China.

Already, Tsingtao and Hangchow had been taken, and a succesfull naval assault on Hainan captured the Island at the beginning of May. Japanese troops were making good speed on the connecting Shanghai with Beijing. It would only be a matter of time before the Chinese troops in between had to either flee their positions, or risk encirclement.

Also Japanese troops were at the gate of Wuhan, and its precious resources of coal. Soon Japan would rival even the western colonialists.

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1938, May 30th.

German sources report the fall of Warsaw and Lille. The mighty German army is grinding its way slowly into France... Poland now consists of only Bialystock and Vilnius. Abwehr expect these to fall to the Soviets soon.

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As soviet armies move into Vilnius and Bialystok, they receive a telegram from the allied parliament in London, via the polish anti fascist resistance.

"Mid east is natural area of interest of UK.. STOP. SU Has to accept.. STOP. Move out and your forces will survive.. STOP. END TELEGRAM."

For the past 100 years the UK has attempted to slow soviet expansion into the Steppes, and this is the final straw. We refuse to be treated as a third rate power.

Reconnaissance aircraft snap these pictures, of the 34th guards cavalry corps wrestling Abadan and Bandar Abbas from allied control. Full blown war has erupted with the united kingdom over Persia. Stalin, refusing to lose face in a time where the Third Reich is marching across Europe and any perceived weakness could make you a potential target, has gambled once again.



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Tensions are also eased between the axis powers, japan, and the soviet union. Stalin pulls back a portion of the far east army, and reforms and shock army for redeployment to the middle east. Georgi Zhukov is rumored to head up this new corps.

Diplomatic overtures of peace, prosperity, and free trade are made towards germany and italy. Backed up with the big guns of success in poland, and now in the middle east, coupled with the very disciplined and organized corps with their massive tank divisions, now becoming fully staffed and boasting numbers in far excess of the Wehrmachts 6 Panzer divisions, the Stavka and Polit Bureau feel confident in a German Soviet agreement.

Overtures are also made to japan, to see what the Soviets can do about shortening their war with China.
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A British rifle division, and artillery battalion meet the guards cavalry corps and are hurled back towards India. An agreement and non aggression - non interloping pact has been reached between Germany and the Soviet union, splitting Europe along current borders, with the soviets sphere being the east and near asia, and europe being the sphere of the germans.



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First, appologies for not posting anything last turn. I promise I will try to post every turn.

1938, July, Germany.

The reich was in a strange situation. For some reason the Soviets had first accepted an alliance, and then declared war. (We are looking into this, may be a bug in Vics code, or just trickery from Kraftwerk...)...

So a decision had to be made. It was tough, do we trust these Soviets, or are they going to stab us in the back. In the end we decided to trust them, and sent them yet another suggestion of peace.

Then we had the War! Not to forget.

In the Atlantic, the British are beginning to learn how to lessen their losses. Last turn the Uboats got very opportunistic, and sank several destroyer IIs. Now the British have begun stacking them with Submarines, which Uboats actually have problem sinking...

German units made a fantastic breakthrough at Le Havre, this turn. Smashing through the defences, and hitting some rear area units (including some British Engineers), with a stab deep into Normandy. It looks as though this will be the easy way to Paris! Simply bypassing the Maginot and hitting the rear areas, where there is less defence.

Here is a look at the map, as it was when i ended the turn.


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1938, July, Japan.

The chinese made several small attacks, that were very annoying. So the Japanese Army decided to learn them a lesson...

In the northern part of the front, two hexes were taken, in both cases with few losses, and alot of enemy losses. In the southern part of the front, a single hex, the Plains south of Wuhan, was retaken, and the enemy there was also taught a lesson or two...

But the real offensive was in the middle of the front. Here Japanese troops routed several groups of infantry and cavalry that the hapless Chinese had tried to put in their way. Like the Poles before them, the Chinese are learning that Cavalry is no good against tanks. The very mobile and agile nature of the attack must have taken the Chinese completely by surprise. The important bridge leading from the Shanghai to Beijing, was attacked from four sides, and taken...

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November-1938

The unholly alliance of totalitarian powers is very close to achieve a total victory in the Eurasian continent. Paris fell last months. Egypt is going to fall soon and Soviet troops are threatening India. It isn´t possible for the USA to keep neutral anymore. President Roosevelt sent an ultimate to the four agressors, demanding a immediate halt to all offensive operations and a retreat to pre war borders, otherwise......
In China, Wuhan fell to Japanese troops. Japanese advance is slow and Chinese counterattacks are inflicting moderate casualties on enemy troops, but China has been suffering more losses than it can replace, the outcome of this war is certain, unless external aid is sent.
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Dec-1938 (USA)
Alliance signed with UK and France. However, didn´t DOW Italy and Germany.
Alliance signed with China, resulting in DOW against Japan
Lend Lease tanks and aircraft sent to oue new allies, also some infantry was sent to......(?????)
China
Few Japanese attacks last time, gave us some time to breath and replace losses.
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1939, november

The game has progressed quite a bit since the last post. Suffice to say that the Axis, which includes the Soviet Union, in what seems an unbreakable alliance, have seized power in most places.

In Europe, the last remaining non-axis country (apart from Britain), Turkey, has become attacked by German and Italian troops. In the middle east the Soviet union has run over the defenses in Iraq, Syria and so on, Only Jerusalem is still a free city. It is bombarded constantly by Italian and Soviet artillery, and Italian air flies sorties at it, at will, as there is no longer any airdefence worth mentioning. Gibraltar is long gone as a british fortress city, but Malta remains, a spec in the water outside the Italian coast, without any supply to come from the Suez, which is now Italian too.

The Soviets are pouring into India, through Persia, which was gratiously handed over to the Soviets by the Germans. Pakistan is now a Soviet Province! In China, joint cooperation by Japanese and Soviet forces, has cut the Chinese in two pockets, that resist as best they can, but it seems inevitable that China will fall. A smaller action has taken place, in the south of China, resulting in Japanese troops pouring into Indochina, capturing half of it, and nearing occupation of it all.

Pearl harbor happened, after the Americans joined the war. It was still a complete surprise, and victory for the Japanese, who sunk the American pacific fleet. At present there is a huge naval battle going on all over the pacific, to determine who will gain the upper hand in dominating these waters. Mostly it is fought with Destroyers vs. Submarines. Both parties are now as advanced as they can be, in those research areas (Submarine IIIs, Destroyer IIs)...

In Latin America, several states are taking part in what is now in every sense of the word a global war. Brazil and Chile have joined the Axis, while Ecuador has become allied with the USA. So far there has been little ground war to report in this area, none frankly, but American planes keep strafing Brazilian airfields, while Brazilian and Chilean naval formations try and intercept supplies, and harass the coastal cities.

In Africa, the mediterranian coast is now completely Italian. Just this last month, the Casablanca fell, to Italian (spanish) forces, and it seems that the Italians can now relax, and make their way towards becoming a regime with some power. If it was not for the Ethiopian war, which is somewhat of a close race, between the British and the Italians, it would be all sunshine. Along the western coast of Africa, several subs keep supplies to a minimum for the forces there, and thus also preventing an invasion coming from the south. A bitter pill was when the Italians had to give up the Azores without a fight, to the Americans. But Mussolini is mostly a happy man these days, with Turkey soon to be an Italian province.

In the Atlantic, fierce convoy battles and naval clashes between the German uboat fleets and the British Surface navy and submarines, as well as the american fleets are keeping the waters unsafe for anyone daring to enter them. Recently Iceland was captured by the British. They however payed a heavy toll, as one of their major fleets, including several battleships was sunk, by enterprising German Uboats. In the air above Britain, it is not very safe either. There are daily sorties flown by the Luftwaffe, which is using their frontline fighters to puncture the British airdefence bubble.

This has been a short report, of what is going on atm. in the game.










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Things do look bleak for the Allies. How come the Soviets joined the Axis Powers?

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Well, it is a long story... but an opportunity arose...

The Germans got their hands on Persia, and the Soviets their hands on Rumania. Between the two of us, we decided (Kraftwerk and me) that we should switch possessions... had the Rumanians not joined the Soviets, and the Persians Germany, I am not sure the two sides would have found each other at all...

Things got alittle tense when Kraftwerk dropped out of the game, and Bwheatley took over for him. The allies tried to convince him to join them, while the Germans reminded him of who was sitting at his border, ready to attack. Together Germany and Soviet Union came up with a plan, to backstab the Allies, and gain much of the Middle East... of course before that could happen the Soviets had to move their entire army from the German border, ... something that was alittle too easy for Germany to monitor, as we were playing with Allies share recon. (That´s been turned off for the Axis and Comintern powers in the newest version)...

But thats the short story....
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woot, this is a cool game. [:)]
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