Probably just as well for Germany, really. France would have gone through Prussia like castor oil through a flu victim.
If anyone is interested in playing Prussia, the position is open. I believe Germany intends to play, however; he was just having connection troubles today. It is to be hoped that he'll still have a nation when the dust settles.
It's an inflexible requirement that cabinet members must have one of the two 'b's; beards or breasts. However, apart from their other qualification, I assure you that Yngling women do not shave.
And, of course, they've got teeth.
The German collapse was pretty quick, in the face of overwhelming numbers; here's the situation a mere week after the DOW, with French troops already scores of kilometers into Germany.
World reaction was immediate; Georgia (with its vassal Pakistan), Finland, Japan, and China all declared war on France and rushed to Germany's aid. However, distance was a bit against them. The most that could be done right away was to invade Africa, which the Pakistanis accordingly did:
Alas, this brave effort went unsupported in the rush to get to the main front in Europe, and - apart from Madagascar - Africa's territory remains unbreached. Meanwhile France continued to overrun Germany:
By this point Chinese troops had arrived in some strength, but logistical difficulties - the collapsing German state was, at this point, having enormous trouble feeding its own troops, never mind allies - prevented them from stemming the advance.
By May, nonetheless, foreign aid was becoming noticeable, and the advance slowed considerably:
The French nonetheless scored a brilliant tactical victory at Leeuwarden, where nine German divisions - by this point, a considerable fraction of their army - were surrounded and destroyed. Alas, I got to the screenie button just too late:
These losses were however replaced by foreign bayonets, and by mid-June the alliance was feeling much better about its prospects:
Such is overconfidence! The French rallied for another offensive, and in a month of campaigning drove their foes behind the Elbe:
Where the front promptly bogged down in winter weather, in spite of the occasional foray by either side across it:
Heavy fighting during the winter proved inconclusive, and now - April of 1937 - the line of the front still runs along the Elbe. In January France put forth tentative peace feelers, but rejected the offered terms. On the short front between the Prussian border and the North Sea, the allied armies cannot make their weight felt, and the French coastline is strongly garrisoned. In the long run, however, the weight of metal and men must begin to tell against France; they cannot fight the whole of Eurasia forever now that their initial brilliant drive has bogged down in the mud.
The American powers, incidentally, are neutral in this conflict, and making profit from supplying both sides with resources - with a 50% surcharge for delivering to a war zone. Our isolationism is too high to intervene on either side, which is a pity since that would likely be decisive. Amusing incident: I was musing aloud in chat on the possibility of attacking Finland while its entire army was in Germany, and getting swiftly to the Urals. Impossible due to isolationism, as the electorate swiftly demonstrated: I got hit with a "Parliamentary Scandal" event and 5% dissent. Presumably the game engine overheard the Lagmann saying a bit too much in his cups, after hours.
If anyone is interested in playing Prussia, the position is open. I believe Germany intends to play, however; he was just having connection troubles today. It is to be hoped that he'll still have a nation when the dust settles.
It's an inflexible requirement that cabinet members must have one of the two 'b's; beards or breasts. However, apart from their other qualification, I assure you that Yngling women do not shave.
And, of course, they've got teeth.The German collapse was pretty quick, in the face of overwhelming numbers; here's the situation a mere week after the DOW, with French troops already scores of kilometers into Germany.
World reaction was immediate; Georgia (with its vassal Pakistan), Finland, Japan, and China all declared war on France and rushed to Germany's aid. However, distance was a bit against them. The most that could be done right away was to invade Africa, which the Pakistanis accordingly did:
Alas, this brave effort went unsupported in the rush to get to the main front in Europe, and - apart from Madagascar - Africa's territory remains unbreached. Meanwhile France continued to overrun Germany:
By this point Chinese troops had arrived in some strength, but logistical difficulties - the collapsing German state was, at this point, having enormous trouble feeding its own troops, never mind allies - prevented them from stemming the advance.
By May, nonetheless, foreign aid was becoming noticeable, and the advance slowed considerably:
The French nonetheless scored a brilliant tactical victory at Leeuwarden, where nine German divisions - by this point, a considerable fraction of their army - were surrounded and destroyed. Alas, I got to the screenie button just too late:
These losses were however replaced by foreign bayonets, and by mid-June the alliance was feeling much better about its prospects:
Such is overconfidence! The French rallied for another offensive, and in a month of campaigning drove their foes behind the Elbe:
Where the front promptly bogged down in winter weather, in spite of the occasional foray by either side across it:
Heavy fighting during the winter proved inconclusive, and now - April of 1937 - the line of the front still runs along the Elbe. In January France put forth tentative peace feelers, but rejected the offered terms. On the short front between the Prussian border and the North Sea, the allied armies cannot make their weight felt, and the French coastline is strongly garrisoned. In the long run, however, the weight of metal and men must begin to tell against France; they cannot fight the whole of Eurasia forever now that their initial brilliant drive has bogged down in the mud.
The American powers, incidentally, are neutral in this conflict, and making profit from supplying both sides with resources - with a 50% surcharge for delivering to a war zone. Our isolationism is too high to intervene on either side, which is a pity since that would likely be decisive. Amusing incident: I was musing aloud in chat on the possibility of attacking Finland while its entire army was in Germany, and getting swiftly to the Urals. Impossible due to isolationism, as the electorate swiftly demonstrated: I got hit with a "Parliamentary Scandal" event and 5% dissent. Presumably the game engine overheard the Lagmann saying a bit too much in his cups, after hours.
