Fall 2025 Campaign
Germany: Hight
Japan/Italy: Watson Grabar
USA/France: Kenny Harris
USSR/China: Daniel Garrison
Commonwealth and General General: Grant Collins
Bids
Agreed: straight up game! All bids are zero.
War Report
Sept/Oct 1939: The conflagration begins. The Poles defend by stopping the lead elements of the Wehrmacht, and the strategy is partially successful. Warsaw falls but the Germans cannot reach Lodz. The Italians peacefully reinforce their border with France. Japan attacks in northern China, successfully taking the city of Chengchow, but a few ne’er-do-wells run amok, causing outrage in the American press.
Impulse #2: France and the CW declare war on Germany. The CW take a naval and set up with the BEF ready to land on the continent. The French take daring action, sending their SUBs into the Baltic to raid the German convoy lines there. They successfully abort 3 of the 4 CONV there, but sink none (and suffer no losses). The Soviets build up on the border of Iran, but at the cost of leaving Siberia under-defended. China snakes a DIV forward to seize Hangchow but otherwise holds the line.
Impulse #3: The Germans declare war on Denmark for pro-Allied sentiment. Surprisingly, a CA with a DIV sneaks out and seizes Iceland. The main part of Denmark is overrun. Lodz is assaulted and taken without loss. Troops start to head west. Italy deposits corps in Libya. Japan tries to avert the obvious plan by the Soviets to invade Iran and declares war on the USSR. MARs off the coast invade Vladivostock, taking the city with loss. Japanese elements in the north take two RES and cut off a Siberian INF corps. Japan kills the DIV in Hangchow, but again the American press is outraged about the battle.
Impulse #4: The Soviets oddly declare war on the Netherlands, but it appears this is a part of the nefarious Molotov-Ribbentrop II pact with Germany. Has Europe been sold out?! The French bring the Moroccan corps to southern France and the CW land Gort and a MECH in northern France. The Soviets do indeed also declare war on Iran and push to assault Tehran. The Japanese warned them that the divine wind was against them, and so it was. The +6 assault is a bloody affair, with the Soviets losing 3 units, although the defenders do all die. One lone CAV remains to take the capital before the end of the turn. Strangely, US entry is quite advanced in the Japanese pool, but Soviet aggression has pushed the European pool back to nothing.
Impulse #5:
…turn in progress
War News
Japanese Called to Check Unbridled Soviet Aggression! Dateline Vladivostok 8 September 1939.
In an unprecedented move never before seen in Europe, the Soviet Union declared war on the neutral nation of Iran and invaded from the north. A stern rebuke was sent from Hightler, the Fuhrer of Germany, but because German forces were quelling an uprising in the Polish areas of German territory, no direct action was taken. Instead, Minister Wideki Grabatojo of the Empire of Japan has been asked by the League of Nations to stop the Soviet aggression. “If no one else will stand up the bully that is Dansef Stalison, then we must do so. This is clearly a failure of Western democracy. There is no room for communism in Asia!” The Japanese promptly seized the port of Vladivostock in an attempt to force the Soviets to stand down. No official word has come from Moscow.