4
1939
Although being a communist nation led by like minded people, an attempt by the extremists to communise several factories was greatly resisted by many. Their calls for this idea to be shot down were further supported by evidence showing that factories that had previously been communised had huge drops in efficency and production. The idea was rejected by the parties leadership.
A member of the communist party in Australia visited Croatia as part of a mutual support deal that would help improve both nations production of basic resources. The man, who's name was lost in the records, showed several leading members of the Croatian party plans of new mining equipment that should increase the amount that is mined. The plans were quickly invested into and for a year the level of basic resource production increased by 10%. However the increase did not last as the new machinary was expensive to maintain and many miners returned to using their older and more reliable tools.
The war between Australia and Portugual became very fluid during 1939. The siege around the capital of Portugal had been broken several times and continued to hold out inspite of their situation.
Namibia became the first nation to annex another sparking the start of change in the world order. The outcome of which is still being awaited.
Tensions in with Nigeria increased again, this time the smugglers were caught shipping small arms. Thier destination was unknown as the fight that ensued on its discovery ended with all but two of the smugglers being killed. The two that were captured died a few days later of their injuries.
The Aus-Port war continued to move back and forth. When the Australians were forced to fall back a significant way, quite often the commander was locked in a room with a pistol that had only one bullet. The room would only be unlocked after the gun had been fired and if the commander was still alive he would be shot and his entire family stripped of their possessions and exiled to the wild jungles. However this method of punishment was eventually dropped because a brain drain in the leadership of the army was feared because the frontlines kept moving back and forth so often.
In the north of Portugal, the Portuguese had managed to cut off several divisions in the Imphal pocket. However within 10 days the Australians had managed to recapture the land that had been lost.
Although a largely silent border, the Polish had begun deploying several more divisions along it. As a result several mountain divisions were ordered to create a corps and by the end of the year the majority of it had been deployed. Some of these new divisions were also the first to have no reserve elements.
Brazil was the second country annex another.
Germany was the third to fall after being attacked from three different directions by Singapore, Schleswig-Holstein and Andalusia.
By the end of the year, Portugal had managed to liberate the most northern areas of their nation and the frontline had largely stablisied.
The Great Alliances had expanded significantly during this period, the Allied membership had almost doubled and the Axis membership had almost sextupled. However the Comintern remained the largest alliance with a total of 19 countries where as the Axis and Allies only had 11 and 18 respectively.
Axis:
- Norway
- Denmark
- Kent
- Aquitaine
- Eygpt
- Singapore
- Andalusia
- Abkhazia
Allies:
- Wallonia
- Turkey
- Wessex
- Mexico
- Maratine Union
- Sahrawi Republic (sp?)
- Sudetenland
Comintern:
- Ulster
- Bohemia
- Cannacht
- Serbia
By April 1939 the militia brigades had all been fully trained and could then be classed as Infantry. Nigeria still outnumbered Croatia but the quality and training of the Croatian army was thought to negate this advantage. The airforce and navy still only existed on paper. War with Nigeria continued to seem inevitable.
I am aware that some screenshots on previous posts are no longer working. I can not reupload these images as they are no longer on my hard disk! This is the hosts fault that they no longer exist!
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