Challenge of Fate - join in the construction

[curtsibling]

Hehe!

The plot sounds oddly familiar!
If you guys need any graphic help, just gimme a call!

God work by all!

[jim panse]

Well, maybe the timeline needs adjustments ....

[FiGu]

Winter..

Wow, the british troops just put their winter clothes on

[FiGu]

FiGu, what about the tracks of the tanks .... wouldn´t it be nice to have them coloured like the German tanks?

Sure!

[FiGu]

German Winter units

here comes the Heer in winter camo!

[jim panse]

FiGu, for you. A present

[FiGu]

Italians roll in!

Here comes the italians with their heavy tank! P26/40!

[spader]

Sorry to say this but Hitler would never ever withdraw from Poland even if all his generals told him to.

One question to Jim Panse about the following pic

The unit that is located at: 2 From the left and "inwards"
and 3 down... what unit is that? It is some type of StuG right?



/Spader

[jim panse]

Originally posted by spader
Sorry to say this but Hitler would never ever withdraw from Poland even if all his generals told him to.

One question to Jim Panse about the following pic

The unit that is located at: 2 From the left and "inwards"
and 3 down... what unit is that? It is some type of StuG right?



/Spader

(1) We are currently fixing the timeline ..... it will be as accurate as possible in an alternative scenario

(2) Yes, it´s a StuG III.

[Choke]

I think it should be remembered, this is an ALTERNATE reality. It can be whatever the creator WANTS because it's NOT REALITY.

[our_man]

With all these alternate history scenarios (Soviet Steel, Challenge of Fate) in development one wonders if we should try and resurrect SDC5 and make things a bit more competitive?

[jim panse]

The Timeline ..... (Part 2)

Yesterday FiGu and I agreed on some modifications to the timeline.

At the beginning of 1939 Stalin decided to send Republican Spain more than additional military advisors and sent a vast expeditionary force to the Iberian Peninsula. The reinforced Republican Forces were able to turn the tide and wiped the Nationalists from the European continent.

In spring 1939 the Fascists under Franco only held the Spanish territory in Northern Africa but for how long?

OVer the summer 1939 the relations between the Baltic Republics Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia and the USSR got worser every day. And in Eastern Europe Poland dreamed of the days of Kosciusko .... and gambled with the Soviet Union.
On the Iberian peninsula the Republican Army, supported by parts of the Red Army "exported" the Revolution to Portugal.

One day in August 1939 the USSR attacked Poland. The Polish Army fought fierce battles but the Soviet Army was far too great to be stopped by Poland.

Within the following two months Poland was defeated, occupied and forced to join the Soviet Union as a Socialist Soviet Republic. Hundreds of thousands Poles and Germans fled westwards, towards Germany, telling horrific stories of the cruelties the Soviet Army should have committed

First, Germany stood aside and asked the USSR to not march over the German-Russian borders of 1914 but since the Red Army occupied all of Poland the relations between Germany and the now enlarged Soviet Union got worser every day. Germany also didn´t want to give asylum to the polish refugees but Great Britain and France agreed in paying 2/3 of the costs.

In autumn 1939 the USSR had nearly finished reorganizing the former Polish lands and was now able to attack Middle Europe. As an answer to this Red Threat Germany began rearming the escaped parts of the Polish Army and turned its armies from the Western borders towards the East, expecting the Soviet assault any day.

But Stalin decided to go after Finnland and the Baltic Republics before going to war with Germany. The Red Army overrun the small pockets of resistance in the Baltic Republics and Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia joined the USSR.
But the Finns resisted the Soviet Army and so the Western Democracies agreed in aiding the autoritarian regime of Carl von Mannerheim against the USSR and sent in an expeditionary force. Also Germany sent some support troops to Finnland thinking that the defence of Berlin starts in Finnland.

The Finnish Winter War lasted the whole winter 1939/40 but the Soviet Army could not break through to Helsinki and the war went on without decisive battles ....

But there was still the Middle European front. Stalin ordered his troops to remain defensive until the Western Powers withdraw their forces. Over the Winter 1939/40 Stalin and the now Communist Spain agreed in a combined attack on the rest of Europe, the USSR shall attack from the East, Spain from the South-West.

That´s the situation now, as the scenario kicks off in spirng 1940.
The Red Army started a massive assault on Germany who asks France and Great Britain to defend the "European Culture against the invaders from the East". The Western Powers agreed to join the war on Germany´s side.
France announced it could hardly spare troops because of the communist threat from the south. At last Great Britain was struggling to reinforce Gibraltar which is besieged by a huge Spanish-Soviet Army.
Italy felt itself not really threatened at this moment and waited.
On the southern edge of Europe Turkey was also struggling. A communist coup d´état took place only hours before the Soviet offensive against Germany begun. The insurgents were able to gain control over Ankara and some minor cities in the East. The Turkish president, Ismet Inönü, fled to Istanbul, asked for help against the Red Threat and vowed to crush the communist rebellion.

Can you Challange the Fate? Can you turn the tide? Or will the Soviet Juggernaut overrun Europe and turn the Old Continent into some Soviet Republics?

[Henrik]

Originally posted by spader

Am I the only one who notices that image is upside down?

[jim panse]

Ok, first units ....

... and my wish-list:

- a Partisan unit (2nd row, 1st unit)
- a Republican Guard (communist spanish unit, 3rd row, 3rd unit)
- NKWD Troops/Red Guard (3rd row, 5th unit)
- Siberian Troops (3rd row, 6th unit)
- Yakovlev Yak-1 (4th row, 3rd unit)
- Petlyakov Pe-2 (4th row, 4th unit)
- (UK) Commandos (5th row, 3rd unit; sorry FiGu but your commando overlaps the allowed area)
- V-1/A2 Flying Bomb
- V-2/A4 Ballistic Missile (I know that there are a lot of good-looking missiles, I just want to decide ... )

That´s it for now, just post you units here or in the units thread (in this case please leave a message here. Thanks).

[jim panse]

Yes, the tracks of the tanks and of the other tracked vehicles will be changed.