Hello everyone, hope you all had a less busy week than I did. ;) I do apologize for the wait, but life happens, and we are all this much closer to the Early Access release of The Second World War. Petain is given leave to form the Vichy state in southern France, while the Wehrmacht takes control of northern and coastal regions pending the end of the war. The army finds itself occupied with mopping up straggling brigades and partisans.
As the year turns to 1940, the Empire of Japan is all but defeated on the mainland. The Soviets are surprisingly merciful and accept a request for peace from Tokyo – after establishing the Japanese People's Republic in Hokkaido.
Lithuania decides to throw its (pitiful) weight around and severs diplomatic ties to the Reich.
As the winter comes to a close in early 1940, Germany finds itself fresh out of fuel. With its tanks halted, repeling the British is suddenly an arduous task. From across the channel, Churchill's troops make a second landing and cut off Brittany. In Vichy, armed conflict erupts between Petain's governing and those desiring to resume the war with the Reich.
In old Francia, it is hard to say who has a worse spring: In the north, the trench warfare of The Great War re-emerges as the Germans desperately try to cut off and assault British forces led by tanks, resulting in the mobile brilliance of Rommel and Guderian rendered useless and the virtual destruction of the Luftwaffe. In the south, Commander-in-Chief Charles Nogues proclaims a French Fourth Republic that he is destined to lead to glory much as Napoleon did over a century earlier. It is civil war in the Vichy State.
Farther south, Italy is in all-out war with the British Empire themselves with both sides vying for control of the Suez Canal at all costs.
By the end of April, the WehrMacht manages to persevere and unexpected naval victories result in His Majesty's Army being driven out of France and Flanders. Sighs of relief echo from one end of the Reichstag to the other as oil starts to trickle back in. However, not everything is well; Charles Nogues is winning the civil war for the Vichy State, and Greece has decided to complicate matters in the Mediterranean. Adolf Hitler finds himself in a precarious position: If he intervenes, Nogues will join the allies and create yet another melee he may not be able to win with such low oil reserves. On the other hand, if he does not, Petain will likely lose and Nogues may join the Allies anyway.
Smaller factions disrupt the balance of power and chaos erupts in Occitania, which is starting to bear an uncanny resemblance to Spain.
In the summer of 1940, Adolf Hitler and his administration believe themselves to be trapped, with the Soviet menace on one end at the defiant British Empire on the other. Unable to effectively utilize his mobile divisions, the decision is made to bring Sealion before Barbarossa, that is, to knock the British out of the war via invasion before turning to the Soviets. This begins by vying for control of the Straits of Dover.
In the second week of August, Sealion begins. Temporary superiority in the channel (even if under duress by the Royal Air Force) results in troops being sent on a perilous mission to capture London and win the war. A fresh invasion comes to the mainland from British and Canadian forces, catching the Reich off-guard, and anarchy from the French Civil War spills north.
The Royal Navy and Air Force assault and badly damage the Kriegsmarine, sending what remains of it in full retreat. Still, the Sussex Landings overwhelm the token British garrison and the Wehrmacht marches north and into London. They find the royal family evacuated along with the government. General Johannes Blaskowitz and a cohort of officers enter the vacated Westminster and, in the Lords Chamber, declare Winston Churchill an enemy of the English people and his government exiled. The German Heer march through the streets in parades joined by British Fascists before beginning their campaign into East Anglia and Lincoln... and there this story ends.

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