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You build bc's instead of bb's? Why? The cost is so close that I never bother with bc's.
 
Inner Circle Glad you like it!

son of liberty I'm just researching them. In the far and distant future I plan to have an all-nuclear Navy, and to build nuclear cruisers I need all the cruiser techs on maximum. besides. I have a soft spot for the battlecruisers, especially the HMS Hood.
 
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Chapter III

By Feburary 1936 the German Rearmament plan was well under way. The first of the 36 new Divisions of the first batch would be ready in about a month, bolstering Germanys uncomfortably thin defences in the east. The three Armoured Divisions, hopefully the first of many many more were reorganized into the I. Panzerkorps, headed by a bright young General named Heinz Guderian. Guderian, author of a provocative new book about offensive Armoured Warfare had quickly risen through the ranks of the Heer and had personally overseen the maneuvers of the incomplete I. Panzerkorps in the Grafenwöhr training grounds.

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Panzer I "Ratte" during the maneuver near Grafenwöhr​

Germany prepared itself for the evermore inevtiable struggle that lay ahead. The Submarine crisis, at first a relatively unimportant event grew more and more as bith the Nations of the Paris Pact and the Allies used this opportunity, milking its propaganda potential dry. By late Feburary Great Britain had another internal Crisis. The former First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston S. Churchill was a staunch opponent of Mosely and Edward VIII whom he both saw as "vermin that spit on everything Britain once stood for". This statement at the eve of Moseleys coup had earned him house arrest. He nonetheless had managed to keep an unsteady correspondents with both Edwards Brother, Prince Albert also not exactly a friend of Britains new Regime and most importantly the German Foreign Ministry. In late Feburary the Internal Security Division of Moselys B.U.F. found out about this, but could not yet link it to either Prince Albert or Churchill.

This however changed. In light of the depressingly scarce progress the Allies made against Ethopia, Mosely needed somethign to boost his popularity, and asked Edward VIII to help him. After beeing promised more power for himself in the Gouvernement the King divulged information to Internal Security that would eventually allow them to link the mailchain to Albert, but not yet to Churchill. On may 5th however they managed to see one of the others exchange letters with Churchill and imediately asked for instructions and permission to arrest him.

This infelxibility that was to plague the Moseley regime for years to come saved Churchills live. Warned by a sympathetic telephone operator who was in fact a son of Churchills former secretary he managed to slip away before the men could catch him. He hid in the house fo the very same Operator, plotting his escape abroad. As much as he loved Britain, he knew that he could not help his beloved Island if he was in jail, or maybe even worse: dead. Prince Albert was no longer secure too. Ling Edward had confronted hsi Brother and when he had not only admitted to have orcestrated this whole conspiracy but also said he was proud of it Edward snapped and asked for his brothers arrest. Albert new the game was up when Edward exused himself to the nearest phone. He grabbed his family, soem lugguage and drove towards Dover. On the way he picked up Chirchill from his prearranged hiding place and secretly contacted the German Embassy, arranging a extraction with the help of the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst = Federal Intelligence Service ). A fishing boat was to bring him, his family and Churchill across the Channel to the French coast from where they would cross the border into Germany. This plan was immediately shot to hell when the Prince was recognized by a Facist Blackshirt in London and when the scheduled pick-up could not be done. Fleeing south without any Royal Dignity they encountered a small airstrip named Biggin Hill. One of the Aviators there, a man loyal to the old ways offered to fly them south to Portsmouth where they would surely find other loyal men to help them. He himself would stay behind, logging the flight as a Instrument Check. It was so. A Royal Navy Destroyer, manned by a loyal crew brough them directly to Gemany. Getting there was not easy, as the coastal batteries of Portsmouth opened up on the small ship and nearly wrecked it. Andrews daughter, Princess Elisabeth lost a tooth and a finger during this, and when the DD finally limped into Wilhelmshafen under the protection of Luftwaffe Interceptors it was only fit for the Scrapyard. Nonetheless the cause of Freedom had scored a big big victory, despite the refusal of the Australasion Alliance to take in the refugees.

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I accidentally typed Andrew instead of Albert when I coded this event. I wasnt myself these days.​

Churchill, with open backing from Albert approached the British Exile community in Berlin, led by former Foreign Office official Anthony Eden anf only hours later the Deutschlandfunk newscast trumpeted around the world that these two had organized a democratic United Kingdom Gouvernement in Exile.

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Mosely and Edward were furious, but they could do nothing short of declearing outright war ( which they couldn't given their unstable internal situation ) but expulsing all German Nationals and cutting all relations with the BRD ( which they did ).

This did not bother Adenauer. The Heer was growing stronger by the day, and the Luftwaffes Interceptors grew in numbers too, and Britain was by no means ready for a full scale war - yet.
 
Hehehe! Nice to see Germany as Europe last hope! Quite the reverse of history! And don't worry about comments they come and go as .... the wind?!

Anyway, looking forward how germany will spread the peace and of course german democracy!
 
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Chapter IV

In the weeks after the sucessfull escape of the two most prominent opposition leaders Moseley and Edward had their hands full. On one hand they had to deal with the political fallout of the escape itself, and on the other hadnthe ever escalating Submarine crisis. The French had staged a show-trial and codemmed the men to a life sentence in a state prison in the deepest bowels of France, lest they be rescued by Special Forces. Moseley, who had wanted to order exactly that was furious and ordered the Royal Air Force to prepare for large scale reconnaisance flights above France. With this he wanted to show the french who was the boss, as the AdA was a shadow of its former self. On July 13th the British delivered an ultimatum to the French: Turn over the Crew of the Submarine and pay £100.000 as a compensation, and admit that all faults lay with the Marine Populaire. Naturally, as everyone within the German Foreign Ministry and the rest of Berlin expected the French refused.

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Only Minutes after the French Declaration of war reached London Mussolini, in a broadcast from Rome announced that he was joining his "valiant British Allies in the fight against Bolshewism" and ordered the Italian forces to commence hostilities against France. Little did he know that the french had already gathered some forces at theItalian border, albeit limited. They attacked immdiately, along with this offensive they also started seizing the lightly if at all defended British colonies in Africa. The only place were all was well for the Allies was Asia, where British colonial forces started to advance against French Indochina. By July 22nd Genoa was in French hands and according to German intelligence the Italians could do little to nothing top stop the French steamroller, and on August 13th the French forces entered Rimini, Ferrara and Bologna. Italys fate was sealed a mere month after the war had begun.

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German Forces, on high alert ever since the war had begun did not lower their posture. What hindered the french and the Belgians to com pouring over the Siegfried lien when they had finished off Italy? Even worse, if they marched through Austria they could circumvent the line alltogether, and that was the MoDs and KSSs' worst nightmare. They did not need to woory ( for the moment ) as by the end of Agust it became clear that both sides were duking it out in Africa, with the French slowly winning, despite the small British landing in Morocco, that was doomed from the start as the British Army had not allocated enough forces to the task. ( AN: I hope you forgive me the frequent use of Nofog. I just wanna know what is going on when nothing moves for several weeks )

For the moment however the front in Africa moves so slow that movement was measured in weeks and months and not in days or hours like in Italy.

Venice fell to French Armour on August 17th, along with Florence.

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Mussolini, who was already making busy preparations to flee Italy to England by the means of a Italian submarine was screaming for British assistance on the mainland, but the British, who could not even hold the French in Africa had none to give.
Rome fell on August 24th.

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The front on Spetmeber 6th.​

Italy was doomed.

The remnants of the Italian Army retreated to Sicily on Spetmeber 15th, only to be bombed into oblivion by the few planes the AdA could spare, and that the Italians had managed to cpature Corsica did not change the situation one tiny bit.

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Seems like the Italians will never be able to fight a war on their own... :p

What happened to the Eastern European nations in this alternate history? Where do nations like Austria and Hungary stand?
 
ThePhysicist said:
Seems like the Italians will never be able to fight a war on their own... :p

What happened to the Eastern European nations in this alternate history? Where do nations like Austria and Hungary stand?


:D


I cant say much without spoiling what I have laied out, but it is possible that they might join the brits when/if things in eastern europe heat up. :D
 
An interesting turn of events. Churchill flees to germany... :rofl: He is spinning in his grave right now. The italians must be the french of your aar ;) . What was the us response? Did you code events for thier involvement? Obviously thier normal events will be useless.
 
:D I already apologized to Mr. Churchill. Well, the Italians were by no means ready for that war, but it surprised me nontheless that they were squashed this fast.


As for the United States: No Idea yet, I'll make it up as I go along. Maybe an altered Panay Incident event or something, as I said, no Idea yet.
 
Well, if everything plays out as intended I will have my hands full with them anyways, which explains the frantic scramble I'm building troops with. :wacko:

Note: I will start to fight both the allies and the paris pact at seperate times, due to plot reasons and "other" reasons.
 
I truely do have no life. I felt like doing another update, a transitional piece, as nothing much happens for almost all of 1937 and 1938. I really hate it when I have to jum such large gaps, but a lot of the stuff that the game has for that time period wont fire.


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Chapter V


After the French had squashed Italy unexpectedly fast the German Armed Forces faced a possibilitsy no one dared thinking about before. Fighting a two, and if Austria actually joined the Allies, three front war. This did not ease the sleep of the planners at the KSS and the MoD at all, but the situation could not be helped. The Cabinet and the Bundestag approved a bill that would allow the Heer to almost double its strength by the end of 1938, and the Panzertruppen also recieved good news: Not only would they soon get the Panzer III "Fuchs", armed with a 50mm gun, and until that model was ready the Panzer II "Luchs" with a 20mm gun as a stopgap measure.

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A "Luchs" shortly after beeing delivered to the 7. Panzerdivision

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A early prototype of the Panzer III "Fuchs"​

Politically nothing changed in the Republic, but the world stood by no means still. In North and Central Africa the French were still slowly pushing the British back, although the British had captured most of the Belgian Congo. In Lybia the meager Italian forces that hadn't yet thrown the towel slowly but surely retreated towards the Egyptian border. This was the Situation in Africa, and it would stay essentially like that as both sides were either unwilling or unable to commit larger forces than what already was in the theatre, although the British sent several Divisions to strengthen the Italian hold onto Sardinia. In Africa British Forces consisted of mainly Militia, and these could not hope to match the Armeé d' Afriques thinly stretched but professional Infantry and Cavalry Divisions. The British tried multiple landings in Morocco, but each was too weak to hold the Bridghead for more than a few weeks, and lost multiple Divisions that way. What they did accomplish was that the French could not hope to break the line in Lybia, despite some local gains in the area.


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The Front in May 1937​

This was the situation: Great War type trenchwarfare in Lybia and turtle-speed advance in central afrika.

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Like that 1937 went by, with a rapid expansion of the Heer, the Luftwaffe and the Marine, which recieved the first Bismark Class BB, the DMS Bismark and two new Battlecruisers, DMS Scharnhorst and DMS Gneisenau. 1938 began similarly, only that the Heer grew stronger, as the first Divisions of the third Panzerkorps were deployed to the area south of Berlin and the first "Fuchs" medium tanks were delivered to the units in the field, and tmuch to the delight of the Panzer Troops prove itself to be a reliable and capable machine, despite its relatively small main armament, but the Krupp works already had something bigger on the drawing board, sporting a 75 mm gun, and just waited for funding to develop it into a full production model, but for the moment their task was to develop a new line of field and AT guns for the Infantry Corps.

A standard Bundeswehr Infantry Corps was made up of Six Divisions, with two of them equipped with an Artillery, Anti Tank Gun and AA attachement, as the Luftwaffe would not always be there to provide air cover same as the Heers panzers could not be everywhere at the same time. The Heer hoped that this would make the standard Corps a well-rounded formation, versitaile enough to perform well on both Offense and Defense. The Standard German Panzerkorps was made up differently, to make use of what Guderian, now Commander of the I. Panzerkorps had described as "Combined Arms". Its four Divisions of Panzers would be closely followed by Infantry that was to be fully motorized to be able to keep up with the spearheads, to protect the flanks of said spearhead against any counterattacks by bypassed enemy units and stragglers that might find the opportunity too tempting to pass on. The years 1937 and 1938 was therefore a busy year for the Germans, wether they worked in agriculture, an Office or the Armaments Industry, and that made them forget that the world did not end at the German borders and not even the beginning of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War in june 1937 could bring them out of this state. This however changed rapidly when a new crisis brewed up in Europe, and this one concerned the Germans directly. In Chzeckoslovakia the German Ambassador was scheduled for retirement and was to fly home with a converted He 111 Bomber used by the Exequtive Squadron of the Luftwaffe and this plane was clearly marked as such, but this apperantly did not occur to the two Chzeck pilots that were out on a standard training flight, to practice attacks on ground targets. They apperantly mistook the executive flight for a spay-plane. The Chzeck Air Force had promised to send escorting fighters, but these had not showed up at the rendezvous point, and the plane had to make the run to German Airspace alone. The two fighters that did find the plane approached from the rear and made, according to radio intercepts no challenge and shot the plane down with three short bursts.

The Incident exploded into a full-fledged crisis not until several days later. The Czecks pilots who were scorned by their superiours clamied that they had seen the plane photograph border fortifications. This was most certainly not true, but the Czecks were still milking the incident for what propaganda value it had. They recieved unexpected assistance from the United Kingdom, where Moseley, after the last two years catastrophic defeats in Africa, where the French had finally advanced to the Egyptian border. He also still bore a grudge on the Germans as they had made him look like a fool in front of his own country. He also personally hated the Republic because in his eyes the democratic system was "full of decadent Bolshewiks and Socialist scumbags that will jump into bed with the socialists at the earliest opportunity". He also secretly accused the BND and the BRD in general of secretly aiding the French in their war against him. He had long yearned for a opportunity to get back at the germans and he so jumped to this opportunity when teh Chzeck ambassador asked for the terms under which the Chzeckoslovakian Facist Republic might join the Allied Alliance.

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The Czecks demanded an immediate apology by Germany for trying to spy on the border. Adenauer felt like he was listening to a broken record, especially when he thought of the Submarine crisis that had led to the Anglo-French war. He made a speech in front of the Bundestag three weeks after the plan had been shot down, knowing fully well that the last such crisis had let to a full-scale war.

Adenauers speech said:
Fellow members of the Bundestag. The Heinkel Crisis that has sprung up so unexpectedly has the potential for a major regional conflict. The Czechoslovakian Facist republic has accused us of spying on their borderfortifications in preparation for a full scale war! This is most certainly not true. There were times when talk like that would have been used as a casus belli, in fact a equally minor incident sparked off the great war! This is why I am asking my coleague in Orague to reconsider. I am willing to refrain from any demands on the Czecks but the one that they apologize to the families of the victims of this tragic incident.

Germany held its breath.
 
Totally awesome so far. I can't wait for more.
 
son of liberty maybe even this weekend.

btw, I've hidden a reference to our (german) national anthem somewhere in this aar. he who finds it shalt recieve a cyber cookie!
 
trekaddict said:
son of liberty maybe even this weekend.

btw, I've hidden a reference to our (german) national anthem somewhere in this aar. he who finds it shalt recieve a cyber cookie!
that´s easy! the title of this aar is the first Phrase of the national anthem

"Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" ( Unity and Justice and Liberty)