It all happened so sudden. Nobody expected it. What had seemed like a morning as all the others since the war had started, one in which more blood would be shed in a futile conflict started by a madman who had set the world ablaze, soon became a day which nobody would ever forget. The bells tolled. People whispered it at first, peace... Peace at last. Could it be true?
The Allied landing in Northern Germany, forever remembered by the common Joe as the Berlin Heist, set off a chain reaction within the Third Reich. Faced with an extremely complicated situation, one in which defeat was inevitable though it would be a slow and painful death which perhaps would last another 5 years, they decided to stage a coup to remove Hitler from power. They believed that their might on the battlefield meant the Allies could be persuaded to sit down at the negotiating table as long as Hitler was not the one they spoke to. And they were right, the German Armed Forces, despite being cornered and forced back on all fronts, was still the biggest and most experienced fighting force in the world. It took the combined might of 5 allied nations to eclipse them, and even then, the allies suffered far more serious losses wherever they fought. The German generals were well aware that the allied national will to continue the fight was stretching thin, and the immense casualties that the road to Berlin would entail, after the ones that they already suffered, would perhaps be enough to sue for a favorable peace. But for this, Hitler would have to be removed from power.
As the ides of October swept through the streets of Berlin, Hitler retreated into his bunker, and rather than being captured by turncloak generals, he shot himself. He would not be made an example of by the allied lawyers, who undoubtedly would blame the entire war and all its atrocities on him. Nobody followed him into his grave.
The next day, Admiral Donitz sued for peace, and a ceasefire was signed.
1945 Summary & Post Game Analysis
The war has ended, anticlimacticly perhaps, but it is all over. It's time to mend bones and hearts and walls and streets. It's time to return to our lovers, and hit the sheets. To sleep of course. It's been a long, long struggle.
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Events:
While on their deathbed, the Japenese Empire lashes out one last time, conquering Canberra. It's a futile attempt, but annoying nonetheless. A few months later, the Imperial Ambitions of Japan are nothing but cinders and ashes over the smouldering ruins of occupied Tokyo.
The war shifts to the theatres of Europe and its edges, in Spain, Persia, the Middle East and the most titanic struggle of all, the plains of Central Russia. The allies secretly prepare for a dagger thrust straight to the heart of the Third Reich, hoping to capture Berlin and take Hitler prisoner, or at least kill him. Everything else is just a diversion. Yet the dire struggle of the soldiers fighting those battles is no less real.
In Spain, the allies go from almost reaching the Pyrennees to being with their backs against the wall, clinging only to the narrow stretches of the Portuguese coast.
In Persia, the lines flow back and forth, but in the end, in a concerted effort of Indian, British and Russian troops, Tehran is surrounded and about to fall.
The Russians bear the brunt of the fighting and the dying, as they have done throughout the entire war. The biggest battles in human history unfold on the steppe around Voronezh, as armoured behemoths tear at each other, crushing metal and flesh in the wake of their carnage. The German panzers come out on top as Zhukov's steel fist is stopped by German Plate, however, there's always the endless human hordes, the meat shield that protects the heart and organs of Mother Russia. And they are unstoppable. Slowly but surely, the Germans are pushed back.
In Europe, they have drawn up a line that puts the Maginot to shame. But still, they suffer the same fate. Immobile structures, no matter how impregnable, are obsolete in a war of movement, stealth and shadows. A war that is fought in the skies as much as on the seas as it is on the ground. Bypassed. Bygone. Bye-bye.
Men drop from the sky over Leipzig and Potzdam, men emerge from the waves in Hamburg and Bremen. And they are just the beginning. The question is only, where will it end... where would it have ended?
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Allied War Aims for 1945
- Japan will be forced to surrender >
successful
- Go on the offensive in Russia. >
moderately successful
- Create a diversion in Spain and the Middle East, in order to drain units and resources and turn the Nazi gaze away from the main target >
partial success, it worked in the Middle East but the allies got destroyed in Spain
- Prepare for an invasion of Northern Germany by seizing or destroying ports and key transport hubs around Berlin. The attack will be preceded by Strategic Bombing, slowing down the reinforcements that can reach Berlin. Paratroopers will seize key locations further in land, while amphibious landings dispatch of defenses around Hamburg, Bremen and parts of Denmark. >
extremely successful
Intelligence report on Incomes:
MPP
USA = 1025
UK = 850
USSR = 750
IND = 250
CHI = 225
Total = 3100
GER = 1200
Difference = 1900
Intelligence report on Axis Armed Forces
The Germans were still a considerable fighting force, with 146 land units (of which around 100 of them were seasoned fighting units, 11 HQs, the rest were garrisons), and their tiger tanks were without peer on the field of battle.
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Axis research breakthroughs 39-40|41|42|43|44
G> 12|6|5|4| = total
I> 3|1|5|-|- = total
J> 11|3|3|1| = total
Subtotal> 26|10|13|5|
Total Axis = 54
Allied research breakthroughs 39-40|41|42|43|44
UK> 11|6|2|12|7 = total
US> 14|14|7|7|6 = total
USSR> 9|8|3|6|3 = total
Subtotal> 34|28|12|25|16
Total Allied = 115
China> 1111|-|-|-|11
India> 1111|11|1|11|111
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Total research investments:
USA: 8.5k +200 diplo
UK: 7.3k +300 diplo
USSR: 5.2k
CH: 2.4k + 100 diplo
IND: 2.4k
Total = 25.8k
GER: 4.1k +250 diplo
JAP: 2k
ITA: 800
Total = 6.9k
Not counting India and China, allies spent 21k on research, vs 7k of the Axis. That’s 3 to 1. But in breakthroughs, the ratio is more like 2.3 to 1, however, this is not counting the 45 year breakthroughs and maybe some in 46 as well. In 45 there about 15-20, so that makes it closer to 2.5 to 1. So all in all, it seems balanced in terms of MPP spent.
