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Did the Soviet player threaten the Poles?

no, I threatened the Baltic states

6 March 1939

I believe it was a direct declaration of war.

Poland has four cities left after the taking of Warsaw. If the Soviets can complete their conquest of innocent Poland they may slice off pieces for their ally Germany.

Hard to know which territory will suffer most under such brutes.

March saw the fall of Warsaw. Due to valiant effort of the engineering core carving out roads in frozen land and the unveiling of the BT-7 M tank, Soviet forces were able to push into a near encirclement of Warsaw... and this made all the difference. Warsaw was left as snow-covered ruins with near as many dead Soviets as Polish soldiers by the end of the siege. Only Krakow remains as a true bastion of Polish resistance.

Soviets have accepted Germany's offer for an alliance.

With Krakow on the verge of surrender and the remaining Polish armies in tatters, Stalin turned Soviets forces on Ally influenced Romania. War broke out at dawn with the thunder of new, state of the art artillery and an air assault. With BT- 7 M companies leading the assault, Romanian forces were easily thrown back. The Soviet navy formed a blockade and bombarded cities. Veteran units from the Polish campaign are expected to be a second wave that will push to the Romanian oil fields.

Hmmmm...that´s a curious development, the alliance between USSR and the Axis won´t last too much, victory conditions were designed for this. But the USSR is also starving his allies from Romanian oil. I wonder what we will see next.

I am playing a solo game and the Axis won before 1940 and war by getting Austria and Czechoslovakia.

There was a false message of Germany winning the game. I will tell ernie to see what is happening.

I believe I have 645 victory point or 627, that is with Germany controlling czech Austria poland by war, Hungary Romania and I also have denmark by war Low countries, most of France Italy has Yugoslava and Bulgara and now greece by war. Some of those happened after it said I won. not sure if it is even counting new victory spots for Axis.

Probably a bug in my coding. I'll take a look at it.

not sure if it is even counting new victory spots for Axis.

... and it is. It keeps counting forever, so people can determine their own victory conditions.

It´s necessary to have 3 allied countries broken for the Axis to win.
Claus, the last version is already in the dropbox (100-2)

It´s necessary to have 3 allied countries broken for the Axis to win.

Not exactly. It is necessary to have 3 non-Axis countries broken for the Axis to win. There is also a need for Axis VPs to be more than the total VPs of non-Axis countries. Also at least two Axis countries need to be not broken.

Well the only broken Country was China at the time.

3 April 1939

France is still guiding the defense of Poland, and Great Britain the defense of Romania. The brave eastern Europeans are causing Soviet losses, but their much stronger opponent has the cards.

The Germans stand by and watch. The Poles and Romanians call across the border that the Germans are watching their own future. Nothing the Soviets say can be trusted, and once they have physical possession of Poland and Romania it would be foolish to expect them to give it up.

In China both sides are attacking. The Chinese have had to call on their impressive reserves of manpower to reinforce hard fighting units. The Japanese too have brought many more units to the front.

Krakow has fallen. Now the Polish army is nothing but a ragtag bunch. In Romania, Soviet veteran forces are pouring in. Resistance, so far, has been light. The experiences of Poland seem to have had a very positive effect on this new campaign.

1 May 1939

The Soviet soldiers are excited by their victories, but confused why they are invading their neighbors. They see German troops marching about in Soviet territory, and remember the Germans from the Great War, and the writings of the Germany dictator, and the brutal suppression of Communism in Germany. Why are we attacking our neighbors?

The area between Taiyuan and the Japanese lines is a cockpit, where troops battle back and forth.

29 May 1939

Full scale war in the west. Germany took Strasbourg, forcing two French divisions back. One of them was a division of chars, including the B1-bis. The French and British bombarded the Germans, including an airstrike by the RAF.

In China the antagonists trade blows, but the war has slowed down as both forces are balanced, taking terrain into account.

In Romania the Germans and Soviets are fighting the Romanians to see who can get to the prize of Ploiesti, and Bucharest. Much of the Axis effort is being borne by Bulgarians who got a bloody nose from Romanian attackers. Here is the map - who will win the race?

May 1939

Stalin didn't take kindly to the German forces reaping gains on the blood of Soviets soldiers in Romania. The alliance is now canceled. Although, this by no means Germany is seen as an enemy. Borders between the two nations are being etched out amicably.

26 June 1939

Perhaps the Soviets are allowing the Germans a shot at Bucharest and Ploiesti for they did not push this month.

The Romanians have attacked in a couple places.