@BEGINEVENTS @IF NOSCHISM defender=ANYBODY @THEN @ENDIF @IF TURN turn=3 @THEN TEXT Adolf Hitler ended with the Treaty of Versailles. ENDTEXT @ENDIF @IF TURN turn=8 @THEN TEXT The Soviet Communist Party purges the Soviet Army. Over 35.000 are arrested and executed. ENDTEXT @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Chinese Division attacker=Japanese defender=Chinese @THEN TEXT The conflict on the Marco-Polobridge in Peking leads to the Japanese-Chinese War. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Nanking attacker=Japanese defender=Chinese @THEN TEXT Japan's plan for the extension is along the coast of weak China, in no connection with the actions in Europe. Japanese forces capture Nanking, real China. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF TURN turn=16 @THEN TEXT The War Ministry of Germany, Von Blomberg and Freiherr Von Fritsch is discharge. It is replace by the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) with Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as its head and Von Ribbentrop Minister For Foreign Affairs. ENDTEXT @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Wien attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Anschluss: Austria is annexed to the "Greater German Reich Groszdeutschland" ("Blumenkrieg"). ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Engineers attacker=Japanese defender=Chinese @THEN TEXT Chinese forces breach the dykes along the Yellow River to slow the Japan advancing forces. Over 1.000.000 Chinese peasants dies in the floods and fighting. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Praha attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Germany troops move to occupy Czechoslovakia. The German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia are claimed. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF TURN turn=29 @THEN TEXT The Spanish Civil War ended, Madrid surrenders; General Franco in Madrid. ENDTEXT @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Tirana attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Italian troops invade Albania. The policies and financial dealings of the Albanian King force Italy to occupy Albania, in which it has long standing political and financial interests. Germany abrogates the 1934 Nonaggression Pact and the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Warzawa attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT German SS troops put on a false attack on a German radio station at Gliewitz.Dressed in Polish uniforms to convince the world that Poland is the aggressor nation and to justify their comming invasion of Poland. "Operation Weiss": German troops invade Poland. German tanks thundered across the Polish border at precisely 0445 hours, supported by Junkers Ju87 ("Stuka" named Sturzkampfflugzeug) dive-bombers. Adolf Hitler was working on the new kind of warfare "Blitzkrieg", Lightning War that involved massive use of tanks, motorized infantry and airforce. Tactics of Blitzkrieg designed new role for tanks, spearheads for quick penetration of enemy territory. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Aircraft Carrier attacker=Axis defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT The British Carrier "Courageous", 22.500 tons, sunk by the U-29, German Kriegsmarine. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Lwow attacker=Soviets defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Russian troops invade eastern Poland. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Submarine attacker=ANYBODY defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Admiral Donitz attempts his first 'wolf pack' deployment of U-boats tactics, in which groups of submarines were assembled to engage in sustained attacks on a convoy, but without success. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Battleship attacker=Axis defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT The British Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak sunk by the German U-boat U47 (Leutnant Prien), which has penetrated the hiding place of the English fleet in the bay of Scapa Flow (Scotland) at 1.23u, with 833 men on board. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Tirana attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Italian troops invade Albania, The policies and financial dealings of the Albanian King force Italy to occupy Albania, in which it has long standing political and financial interests. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Commonwealth Division attacker=Axis defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT Begin of World War II. Irak and Saudia-Arabia break diplomatic relations, Great Britain and France, follow by India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, declare war on Germany and begin the phoney war ("drole de guerre") in the west. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Helsinki attacker=Soviets defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT The Russian-Finnish Winterwar starts. Russian troops invade Finland, in winter, and reach the Mannerheim Line, Finland's main defensive position reaches five days later, with few access roads, very low temperature (-46º) and in the North constantly darkness. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Oslo attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT "Operation Weserübung": Norway was strategically and economically important to both Germany and the Allies. Control of its coastline could either help Britain to strengthen its blockade, or provide Germany with suitable bases for its navy. It was also a vital outlet for Swedish iron ore, an essential part of Germany's war economy. Hitler decided to pre-empt an Allied move and ordered the seizure of Norway. German troops invaded Norway by sea and air. They seized key locations and the Luftwaffe took control of the air. Unable to prevent the invasion, the Royal Navy nevertheless inflicted significant losses upon the German surface fleet. British, French and Polish units were sent to assist the Norwegians but their efforts were uncoordinated and poorly planned. They failed to dislodge the Germans, and withdrawal followed. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Amsterdam attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT "Operation Gelb": German troops invade the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The Germans unleashed a series of devastating and audacious series of operations against neutral Holland and Belgium. Airborne units supported by the Luftwaffe seized key positions in the Netherlands well in advance of the main columns. Unable to match the force and ingenuity of the invaders, and disconcerted by air raids on civilian targets, the Dutch army capitulated. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Brüssel attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT In Belgium a memorable German airborne assault took place on the key fortress of Eban Emael. Although the Belgian army fought for three weeks against overwhelming odds, it surrendered. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Paris attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Paris falls! German troops, 6th German Army, enter Paris, France. General Frere (French 7th Army) leaves Paris without fighting and von Studnitz leads the 87th Infantry Division in ints triumphal entry march. The western allied forces completely lost control over the European continent. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF TURN turn=46 @THEN TEXT The German battleship Bismarck enters service. ENDTEXT CREATEUNIT unit=Battleship owner=Axis veteran=yes homecity=NONE locations 135,41 endlocations @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Bucuresti attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Marshall Ion Antonescu, Fascist leader, is appointed Prime Minister of Romania. Antonescu sent out loyalty to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. German troops invade Romania to "defend" its oil fields. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Alexandria attacker=Axis defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT First Italian offensive in North-Africa; Italy invade Egypt, the objective is to lock the Suez Canal. Stop at Sidi Barrani; because they didn't become enough material to continue. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Freighter attacker=Axis defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT The Allied convoy HX-72 is attacked by a U-boat wolfpack; 12 of the 41 ships were sunk. Commander Schepke wasn't detected in his U100 ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Athen attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Italian troops invade Greece from Albania with 155.000 men. After becoming fully mobilised the Greeks can field 420.000 men. King George of Greece flees the country. Operation "Demon": Nearly 50,000 men rescued from little beaches and harbors of South-Greece. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Budapest attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Hungary declares its support for Germany and Italy and joines the Axis Tripartite Pact.. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Alexandria attacker=British Commonwealth defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Operation " Compass": British troops (Wavell), 31.000 men and 225 tanks, defeat the Italian Army in Egypt, march from Sidi Barrani to El-Agheila. In this period British troops destroys 8 Italian div., 130.000 Italian prisoners of war, 470 tanks and 1300 guns the prize. British losses: 500 dead, 1371 wounded, 55 missing ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Sofia attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Bulgaria joins the Axis Tripartite Pact. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Beograd attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT "Operation Marita" the Balkan States campaign: Germany invades Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav Army surrenders to German forces in Belgrado. King Peter II flees. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Addis Abeba attacker=British Commonwealth defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Addis Abeda (Ethiopia) capture by the British, a month later Emperor Haile Selassi returnes to his city. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Kreta attacker=Axis defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT "Operation Merkur": German troops invade the British-held island of Crete. The full German assault on Crete commences with air attacks followed by paratroops dropped on the four airfields. They suffer heavy losses. Some 23.000 troops and 600 aircraft are deployed. The British and Greek forces are short of equipment and firepower but know the Germans are coming; they will outnumber them considerably. The Mediterranean fleet is offshore preventing any German arrivals by sea. The German side of the mission begins well but is then hit by delays in the flights of the aircraft bringing more troops, by heavy ground fire against those who do land and loss of communication between many of the constituent parts of the invasion. Towards the end of the day, the withdrawal of New Zealand units from Maleme airfield gives the Germans an unexpected foothold. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Soviet Division attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT Operation Barbaross begins: Barbarossa was the code name for the German offensive against the Soviet Union. The invasion was originally called Fritz, then Directive 21. The final name given to it was Barbarossa because, in legend, Fredrick (Barbarossa) was supposedly going to rise from his sleep-like stage and restore Germany to power. Italy (60,000 men to Ukraine), Finland, and Romania also joined the German battle against the Soviet Union and declare war. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Kijev attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT German forces capture Kiev, after six weeks of fighting, the capital of the Soviet Ukraine. German High Command releases 650.000 russian soldiers prisoners of war have been taken, 884 tanks and 3.718 guns. Soviet loss of life reached half a million, Germany lost 100.000 men. "Grossaktion" in Kiev: Wehrmacht kills 52.000 men and women, 34.000 are jews. "Einsatzgruppen" im Osten kills ca. 1.000.000 people (September, October and November). ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Freighter attacker=Axis defender=Americans @THEN TEXT A German U-boat, U-552 (Type VIIC, the "Red Devil" boat) commanded by Erich Topp, accidently sank the first WW II U.S. warship to be lost in war, the Navy destroyer Reuben James. Over 100 U.S. sailors were killed. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Oslo attacker=British Commonwealth defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT Britain gives the go-ahead to take Norway, in order to cut off the much needed supply of copper to the Germans. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Early fighter attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT The Luftwaffe (German Air Force) destroys over 2,000 Red Air Force aircraft in the hours days of the offensive, many still on the ground. The numerically strongest air force in the world is wiped out in 48 hours. The Commander of Russian Aviation, General Rychagov, is given the death sentence for "treasonable activity" (i.e. defeat.) ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Minsk attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT The Wehrmarcht captures Minsk, having advanced over 200 miles in a week. The Soviet 3rd, 4th, and 10th armies are totally annihilated. A total of 15 Russian divisions are surrounded, and later surrender. Over 290,000 prisoners are taken as well as 2,585 tanks, 1,449 guns, and 246 aircraft. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Minsk attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT Stalin calls for scorched earth policy in radio broadcast. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF RECEIVEDTECHNOLOGY technology=76 receiver=Soviets @THEN TEXT A new Soviet tank is spotted on the battlefield and all the German's shells simply bounce off of it's armour! ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=T-34 attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT Hitler is haunted by the ghost of Napoleon. He admits to Guderian, "had I known Russian tank strength...I would not have started this war." ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Novgorod attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT With their drive up the center halted, the Germans attempt to gain a way to Moscow from the North through Novgorod, and they so far have succeded! ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Rostov attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT Paulus' 6th Army crosses the Don River and races for Stalingrad. Russian General Chuikov reinforces as fast as his railways allow. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Rostov attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT Zhukov, Russia's only undefeated general, is now put in charge of the defenses of Stalingrad. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Moskva attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT Army Group Center manages to capture Moscow! Although there is absolutely ferocious fighting to prevent the fall of the key city in Russia, the Wehrmacht proves to be much to difficult of an enemy to stop. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Odessa attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT The Black Sea port of Odessa falls to the advancing Germans under Von Rundstedt. The capture of this port poses a major threat to the Soviet economy and opens the coastal road to the fortified port of Sevastopol. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Sevastopol attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT German and Romanian troops capture Sevastopol, Russia after 8 month siege. General von Manstein is promoted to Field Marshal. The Germans have expended more han 46.000 shells and 20.000 tons of bombs against Sevastopol; the figure is marginally less than the total dropped on the UK during 1941. Fort of Maxim Gorkiy was reduced to rubble by the Germans massive assault, yet after it's destruction defenders emerged from the ruins and continued fighting. The loss of this port deprives the Soviet Black Sea fleet of it's home base. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Leningrad attacker=Axis defender=Soviets @THEN TEXT After a long siege, the defenders of Leningrad, starving and without ammunition finally give up. The Germans have reached one of their prime objectives: capturing the birthplace of the proletarian revolution and of the Soviet Communist Party. This terrible blow leaves the entire Soviet Union stunned... ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=London attacker=Axis defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT Adolf Hitler's Germany has done the impossible to imagine, they have captured London. From July to October 1940, the English people suffered under the Battle of Britain: intense German bombing. But the Royal Air Force valiantly defended its homeland from the German Luftwaffe, and the Nazis were unable to crush British morale. The second attempt proved more succeful. Now the faith of the free world lies in the hands of the Americans... ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Cruiser attacker=Japanese defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT Japanese aircraft sink the British Royal Navy ships Prince of Wales and Repulse off the coast of ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Hong Kong attacker=Japanese defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT British forces surrender Hong Kong to the Japanese. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Singapore attacker=Japanese defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT Singapore (70.000 men British troops and General Perceival) surrender to the Japanese (General Yamashita). ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Rangoon attacker=Japanese defender=British Commonwealth @THEN TEXT British citizens and troops are evacuated from Rangoon, Burma. The electricity and generating plant at the Yenengyaung oil-fields, Burma, was 'scorched' by British engineers as Japanese forces closed in. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Midway attacker=Japanese defender=Americans @THEN TEXT The Battle of Midway. Begin of the 4-day air-naval battle of Midway. In this battle of planes; Japanese lost carriers "Akagi", "Kaga" , "Soryu" and "Hiryu", American lost carrier "Yorktown", sank by a Japanese submarine. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Sicilia attacker=ANYBODY defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Operation "Husky": Allied forces invade Sicily, Italy. This Operation was the greatest Airborne-Amphibious Operation of WWII; 3.000 ships and landing-craft with 160.000 men (8 Divisions), 14.000 vehicles, 600 tanks and 1800 guns. Army of occupations (As-troops): 315.000 Italians and 90.000 Germans. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Roma attacker=ANYBODY defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Polish troops hoist their red-white flag on the ruins of Monte Cassino. In 24 days hard fighting, impregnable Cassino fell, two German armies were defeated, 20,000 prisoners were taken, three defence lined were smashed, and vast quantities of German material were destroyed. But Allied casualties in the four battles amounted to about 21,000 including 4,100 killed in action. The historic Benedictine monastery at Cassino, Italy, which the Germans used as an observation post and artillery position, now stands demolished. The abbey fell to Allied troops after fierce and bitter fighting. German troops evacuate Monti Cassino, Italy. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Brest attacker=ANYBODY defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Allied forces launch the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. Preparations for the invasion of Europe by the Allies involved enormous movements of men and equipment and considerable secrecy in order to conceal the exact timing and destination from the Germans. The men did not know until the last possible moment where and when they were going. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Paris attacker=ANYBODY defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Liberation of Paris by Free French, US, and British forces.General Jacques LeClerc accepts the German surrender (General von Cholitz). ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Brüssel attacker=British Commonwealth defender=Axis @THEN TEXT British forces, under Lieutenant General Sir Miles C. Dempsey, capture Brussels, Belgium. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Amsterdam attacker=British Commonwealth defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Operation "Market Garden": Allied paratroops land inside the Netherlands, in the biggest airborne operation ever attempted. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF RECEIVEDTECHNOLOGY technology=2 receiver=Axis @THEN TEXT The Me 262 fighters, their first action are ineffective. They will eventually shoot down 25 Allied bombers, but their cumbersome take-off and landing, and the routing restrictions necessitated by their high fuel consumption, sees 35 of them lost. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Suez Canal attacker=ANYBODY defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT By controlling the Suez Canal, you and your allies will be allowed to sail through. Only the owner of this strategical important canal, together with its allies, will be allowed to do so. The defender loose 500 gold by loosing it. ENDTEXT CHANGEMONEY receiver=TRIGGERDEFENDER amount=-500 @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Panama Canal attacker=ANYBODY defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT By controlling the Panama Canal, you and your allies will be allowed to sail through. Only the owner of this strategical important canal, together with its allies, will be allowed to do so. The defender loose 500 gold by loosing it. ENDTEXT CHANGEMONEY receiver=TRIGGERDEFENDER amount=-500 @ENDIF @IF UNITKILLED unit=Atomic Bomb attacker=ANYBODY defender=ANYBODY @THEN TEXT The world's first atomic bomb (Uranium), Little Boy, is dropped. One minute after the explosion 66.000 were killed and 69.000 wounded. ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @IF CITYTAKEN city=Berlin attacker=Soviets defender=Axis @THEN TEXT Soviet forces capture Berlin, Germany. German forces (General Weidling) in Berlin surrender to the Red Army (General Tsjoeikow). ENDTEXT JUSTONCE @ENDIF @ENDEVENTS