The Australians make a landing in Bremen and the UK takes out the Italians and occupies Rome, causing the Axis to surrender. That's when the Germans start to crumble in the west I execute some more encircling attacks and finally march to the borders of the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Anyway, in the west I manage to make a desperate push towards Berlin, and my tanks occupy the city. Fortunately, my armies in Germany are still supplied since I control Baltic ports from Memel to Danzig, so shipments can come from Leningrad. They even cut my territory in half once they push north to the Lithuanian border. I scramble some armies to cut them off, but my defense there is stretching really thin, and the Hungarians manage to eventually occupy western Ukraine and eastern Poland (basically everything between Warsaw and Kiev, not including the cities themselves). That is when fucking Hungary decides to join the Axis, and their units flood into my territory, with some Germans joining in as well. After months of pushing and trying to create good attacks from multiple directions, I start to break though the German lines. However, France is pushing slowly in the west, advancing slightly across the Rhine and into occupied Belgium they are not making huge gains either, and actually losing to the Italians down south. Fortunately I don't have to watch Asia, since Japan is still bogged down in China, though clearly winning.Īnyway, my push into Germany is painfully slow because of material shortage and Germans having good entrenchment.

The Netherlands also join some time later due to UK pressure. Luckily, after a month or so France decided that enough and declared war on Germany, and soon after the UK joins in making this a big Allies and Comintern vs Axis world war. Italy is also in the Axis, but does little against me. At this point, Germany holds Czechia and Slovakia is in the Axis, so I have to guard that border as well (it's really crappy to attack because of all the mountains). I overrun Eastern Prussia and concentrate on the push towards Berlin.

I was finally ready and declared war on Germany in mid-1939, just as Germany was invading Belgium (but had no other western wars yet).

I was playing the Soviet Union, building up for an early war against Germany. Had a rather intense game of Hearts of Iron 4 yesterday.

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