Moderator: Vic
ORIGINAL: kombrig
The Soviet Union is staying away from the great imperialist war and is currently concentrating on improving its citizens living standards to a level not seen in the capitalist world.
ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz
The Duce was somewhat surprised and bewildered, as he received the Bulgarian delegation.
"have our diplomatic corps been doing something i don´t know of" he said to Count Ciano, Foreign minister of Italy.
"Not to my knowledge, Duce" he replied, thinking that probably alot of things where being done by the diplomatic corps that the duce, neither cared to know about, nor knew about.
The delegation from Bulgaria had a document with them. It was a treaty of affiliation and alliance, with Italy. The Duce was pleased, this would make him seem like a big man, espeically in the eyes of the Fuhrer, he thought. Never mind he didn´t understand how it happened.
ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz
Il Duce looked worried. It was not so much the fact that his invasion army (the one that had been attacking egypt) was in full flight. Not it was much more than that. The British papers were mocking the Great Italian Soldier, and the great leader himself was also a target of this ridicule. They called him "Fat, Pompous and Ridiculous". Somehow he had to change that image of himself.
It was not that there was a whole lot of bad news to report. In fact, the Italian army had just taken Tunis, from the pityfull French, and the Italian Navy had just scared off the British Navy in an engagement near Gibraltar. Things in general were good. Why did the British act like things were good for them. That annoyed the Duce.
If one was to look at the British position overall, they should not be reporting so optimistically. The Germans were taking the satelite state of Sweden with relative ease. In fact Göteborg had just fallen. The German subs, according to the Fuhrer, were wreaking havoc with the British supply system, and were almost unchecked. The British were attempting some air raids, and those preformed at day were disasters, acomplishing little, and for pretty high losses. The British were even still flying in their outdated Hurricanes, a plane that the newest Italian plane, the MC.200, was far superiour. The night raids that the British were attempting, also were pretty unsuccesful. Their latest raid, on Amsterdam, barely caused producton there to be affected, while the losses of British life was severe.
No if the Duce had to guess, they were trying to provoke him into making a mistake. And their provocations were working. Slowly the Duce was hatching a plan, that was going to criple the British.... or be the death of the Italian Empire. But it had to be done...
ORIGINAL: Bombur
Of course you have a diplomatic option. The American East coast ports are full of "would be" Lend Lease equipment. You just need to offer an alliance to America to get them.....and them you bomb the German shipyards and hunt enemy subs to make the Atlantic route safe....if the things turn to worse, you still can fall back to Africa, where USA are building a sizeable force. But you´ve been refusing any diplomatic contact attempted by USA....
ORIGINAL: Twotribes
Britain did not have what it takes to beat Germany alone. The fact you won't ally in my opinion invalidates this whole game. With the US as your ally you have a chance, without them you rightfully get defeated.
ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz
Nothing Personal, Jeffrey H, But I would like to see some numbers to back up the claims of airwar being lost and sea war ditto. If I was to write anything NON-AAR about it, I would say that things are about equal. At least I don´t see the Air War as being lost... nor the Sea War.
