I really love it, when the game gives you unexpected twists like this. Strangest WW2 so far.
I invaded Czechoslovakia and occupied it within a month.
At the same time Italy declared war on Albania and I thought that if I dow Albania as well it might allow Italy to become an ally. It didn't work, alliance still requires Paris to fall. However Italy was at war with allies nonetheless.
As my forces concentrated on Low Countries border, in mid March USSR dow on Poland.
France began to steamroll Italy reaching Milan in early April. I was actually sending troops towards Innsbruck. Soviets were throwing Poles back and I began to fear a 2 fronts war, because without a non-aggression pact with Stalin odds were, he would continue in Germany.
Forced to move fast I decided to throw everything on a roll of a dice. Concentrated most arm and moto along with some infin Saarbrucken and in mid April I attacked Metz, ignoring low countries completely Diversionary attacks on Strasbourg and Colmar kept the troops there busy. Metz fell and then my army split in 2. Largest armies went NW towards Longwy-Sedan-Rheims and the other took Nancy and Belfort creating a 45 allied division pocket in Strasbourg and Colmar.
Von Rundtstedt moto army moved extremely fast taking Lyon Vichy and even Marseilles undefended. A further 18 division allied army was blocked in northern Italy.
By late April Paris fell. At this moment Europe must have suffered a heart stroke. Everyone was asking to join Axis. Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria voluntarily joined me. Yugoslavia too, but they annexed Albania and abandoned me.
English troops pulled up a Dunkirk and evacuated France. France fell to a historical partition and my troops moved to take low countries.
I certainly didn't expect it, by in mid July Ribbentropp Molotov pact event showed up, right after England guarantees Polish border against Germany, even though the soviets were at the gates of Warsaw.
I pulled whatever troops I had including paratroopers and marines and dow on Poland by event. Some funny events showed up with Vichy France gearing up for war...
Poland was incredibly weak as I caught them in a middle of a large offensive which threw soviets away from Warsaw but it allowed me to take it.
By late August, Poland was defeated and split. Denmark and Low Countries fell too.
I am now in late September and preparing for a Yugoslavia campaign and for operation Weserbung.