Are we even looking at the same map screen? Germany had a massive gaping hole teared into it, it's only successes were pushing down from the eastern edge of Poland which could be easily cut off from supply and then destroyed. All of your claims about his forces being under equipped... We have no idea about the German situation, it is 1939 and it is fighting on all fronts. Moreover, not being able to hold Berlin, I'd contend that is just the A.I being inept again as was with the invasion of Romania; when the capital was taken the A.I abandoned it and Romania retook it, Daniel had to manually tell troops to stay, could have been the same problem.
The main issue was the push from Italy supported by allied troops imo...
Daniel's forces were wiped out, exhausted or just not up to the task. Listen to Daniel's comments, and reactions. he said it himself time and again " send in untrained troops" ... "garrison divisions to the front"... " I have no equipment" " Oh God", "Oh no" "God damn it". He knew it was over. Daniel is very very good. But you can see him procrastinating before the invasion, as the time clicked down; " you have twenty three minutes... twenty minutes... fifteen minutes" You could see he wasn't really ready. But with the minutes ticking away he had to go anyway.
He took advantage of his surprise invasion - launched while Germany was busy looking west and north - and that way managed to get to Berlin, even stepped his toe in the city, but he had neither strength nor organisation enough to really take and hold it. From where I was looking, it wasn't an AI problem that stopped him taking the German capital, but simply that his offensive had run out of steam and the German response was starting to concentrate and hurt him. It took everything he had just to get there - and then the Germans counter attacked. The Germans just blitzed him. It's true that we have no idea how underequipped or tired the Germans were - but the results speak for themselves. They stormed, unstoppable, all the way back and deep into Hungarian territory - while even the Italians did the same in the south. And Daniel, clearly, could do nothing about it. When the game ended the Hungarians were trying to cut off those Germans - but you can see that even Daniel entertained little hope for success. He knew he was too worn out, too weak, too disorganised, the enemy too strong and far too deep into his country on two fronts, with little of his own available forces to stop them. The defeat of his country was too imminent - he simply had no time to build a response. IT WAS OVER. And if you watch and listen carefully you can see that Daniel knew that it was over too - and accepted it.
If he had spent more time preparing, and played the offensive at a slower speed, and coordinated the attacks better, as he usually would, the results could have been very different, but he didn't, and he didn't because he was rushing to play the German war before he ran out of time. That haste and lack of attention resulted in a very sudden and very decisive Hungarian defeat. Hungary may not have won anyway - their ambitions were far reaching to say the least - take on the Axis AND the Allies? At the same time?! It would have taken an insane effort with intense attention, commitment, with diligent planning and preparation to even get close to pulling that off. It certainly wasn't going to happen at super fast game speed with 0 prep.
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