Italy starts in 1936 with little to begin with. Industry is far behind its contemporary neighbors.
Commerce is somewhat running and the military is a bunch of people forced to take arms.
I manage to shape it up under almost every aspect but it’s a slow process.
Germany attacks far too early to make it to Paris, even though it gets scary close, and gets pushed back to the Belgian border. There a new trench warfare see constant fighting with only little temporary gains.
Sadly on the eastern front Russia is too weak to contrast the early Panzers and gets steamrolled in the position you’ll see right down here.
This is what it looks like now in Europe. And it’s not pretty.
I known…
When I restarted I really wanted to get through with this and finally win. Or something. I didn’t want to just ‘end it’.
Then that Skin for the community thing got me and I really enjoyed it.
Hope nobody is mad at me.
I’d also have another thing on the back burner… but it’s way too early.
Not a bit, that is the reason for the “” smiley.
If you ever get back to it great, but if other things are more fun and appealing to you now doing those things makes the most sense, to me anyway.
The map on the wall marks clearly the chance to be grasped.
While the German might is wrestling one arm to the east and one to the west, its soft, undefended underbelly is exposed to the south.
New troops are being trained.
Veteran troops are fed and armed.
Our forts are well kept and manned.
Our flyboys have studied the maps for months and knows the area palm by palm…
October…
October was the pivotal month for the non-choice.
Despite my initial confidence, as the month progressed, I realized I was only fooling myself. Italy was not ready to attack.
Yet.
All the estimates and projection kept on leading to the one outcome: not a clear defeat but simple resource exhaustion.
Whether basic manufacturing resources, food, or men- six months from the attack our war machine was on its knees.
It all revolved around the weak link of my army “belt”- north east, where the Italian border meets the (former) Austrian and Slovenian.
To be honest, and by the smallest margin only, there were a couple of projection showing us holding up long enough to be recognized among the Allies and eventually getting enough help to break through.
As luck would have it, the tipping point is few Mechanized Divisions. Easily within our grasp, if the Industry was lead correctly.
The one resource that we might not have is Time.
Unfortunately, in fact, the Soviet Bear was giving up- not without a fight- to the German war machines…
Its collapse would free an awful lot of teutonic divisions to be re-directed to the Western Front and/or to the South.
It was more and more looking like an exact copy of World War I- and I didn’t like any of it.
So then, October…
Dragging along, useless, damp, annoyingly cold and windy.
The occasional sunny day casting an odd and grim light among the soldiers scattered between the mountains peaks…
If we are to attack we need to make sure that the HQs are always going to follow closely the fighting troops.
To that aim I rearrange slightly some of the mid-level ones.
And the fighting is just as deadly as it’s stale on the western front too.
The same two or three regions changing hands as some sort of sinister juggling.
Finally, as my Industry advisor promised me, the first week of December brought two brand new Armored Brigades.
Ready and deployed to the north, reinforcing were needed…
Fate is a cruel mistress…
Like too many times before in the past, as soon as I felt I was reaching the proper readiness state something happened.
Boy it did.
Uhm… why this sudden change of heart?
Uh-oh…
The might bear that resisted so many years in the past- finally was crushed. Some days after Christmas.
This is my production queue.
At the almost top you can see the two Armored Brigades that were completed in December.
This was taken right after one Industrial Plant was finished (in fact the next one is first on top).
I needed pretty badly new units, new brigades, more troops.
I had to cut somewhere; either the fundamental training or the unnecessary commercial goods.
Apparently my choice wasn’t settling well among a small percentage of the population.
Alas, I couldn’t let this go- send the Police in full riot gear.
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Worried, here…