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France itself is collapsing.

30. August 1940

France surrenders completely. This is fantastic news as it means we get all the French colonies. Perhaps we can argue that it was worth the loss of 3 submarines, the Allied fleets have been completely absent from the Med.

Germany orders the vonManstein HQ.

27. September 1940

With the conquest of France completed, Germany orders 4 new tank divisions and a rocket artillery.

The question is now how to garrison and protect the former French colonies. The furthest ones like French Polynesia are of course impossible, but perhaps we can secure most of the Mediterranean? Syria could be difficult but not impossible, and could further be used as a base for an attack on Egypt.

Japan keeps attacking the Chinese but do not make much progress. Orders a new tactical air unit.

25. October 1940

Von Kuchler arrives in Syria. Rainy weather keeps Japan bogged down, not making any progress vs. China.

The Allies put pressure on Spain while the Axis starts diplo-investing in Sweden. German tank tech reaches level 2. Hungary and Romania join the Axis.

22. November 1940

Japan is not doing too well against China and loses an army to Communist attacks.

Germany assaults an anti-tank unit in Jerusalem. Iraq joins the Axis.

Both the US and the soviets are alarmed by German advances in the middle east, not good news.

20. December 1940

The battle for Jerusalem rages. Germany makes contingency plans should Spain join the Allies.

interesting

17. January 1941

Allied forces evacuate Egypt.

Africa corps is formed, but perhaps not for actual use in Africa. Germany abandons plans for attacks on Spain, preferring to keep it neutral. Spain is now 3% Axis leaning, Sweden 46%. The US is 54% mobilized, Soviets 48%. Plans for an attack on the Soviet Union commences.

Italy is tasked with garrisoning northern Africa. It would be good to seize Gibraltar, but at the moment we cannot spare the HQ/air-power.

German research is proceeding according to plan. We have not min-maxed tank research. It wouldn't hurt to get another level of naval weapons.

German production. We are not building mechanized infantry.

Italy struggles economically. Could use Command and Control and Naval Weaponry. Probably too late by now.

Japan is not doing great. Still missing crucial techs like anti-sub, anti-air and better fighters. One level of ground attack weapons would be very useful too. And another level of Spying...

14. February 1941

Italian troops enter Alexandria. As soon as Cairo can be secured, Germany will leave operations in the Middle East to Italy.

German troops mass on the Soviet border. All is quiet in China.

14. March 1941

Cairo falls.

Germany gets 4 new panzer units. Everything is ready for the invasion of the Soviet Union next month, weather permitting.

Japan gets infantry tech 2.

11. April 1941

Bad weather (rain, snow, even mud?) postpones the attack on Russia another month.

Italian forces clash with a British armored unit on the Sudanese border. Italy will try to establish links with its colonies.

Axis naval forces clash with Allies in the north. A Canadian destroyer is sunk. The Italian heavy cruiser Gorizia is suprised by the King George V and badly damaged.

9. May 1941

Troop transports are spotted north of Norway! The Italian fleet is utterly mauled trying to get to them. The only British loss is one BB.

Germany finally invades the USSR. The results are as expected. As usual, I mess up the fleet combat off Leningrad, sinking one CL but taking quite a few hits in the process. Soviets still have their SS and BB units.

6. June 1941

The remains of the Italian fleet and a German CA are eliminated north of Norway. My tradition of being very poor at fleet strategy continues.

Italy starts the advance into Sudan. It will be months before we approach Khartoum.

Heavy fighting on the Dnieper river slows the German advance in the south.

4. July 1941

The assault on the USSR continues. Sweden is at 73% Axis and we are hoping to activate Finland soon.