A Fitter Italian Military

[Shadow Knight]

SK: love the eastern front stuka analogue. A lot of this comes down to how long the fight lasts. As for prisoners, the French ones will go the North Africa I imagine, and the Belgian ones probably to Britain. Be worthwhile at some poitn to have a look at plane losses and compare: recall that ITTL the fighters held back OTL are committed to the front.

Which means the Germans are unlikely to recover many experienced pilots after they overrun France, (I'm going on the assumption they will or this TL might be pretty short.) unless at the minimum France surrenders and turns over captured German pilots held in POW camps in NA. If the loses are high enough I don't see how the Luftwaffe would be all that effective if changes are not made.

Given the political structure of Nazi Germany I'd expect the Luftwaffe of doing the eastern front Stuka analogue in this case no matter how long the fight is as if it proves a worthy design they can (well try to at least) make the claim that it was their planes that made the defeat of France happen.

 

[Croesus]

Next instalment is up... the western front... no nukes.

 

[Shadow Knight]

it seems the pieces are starting to fall into place for another epic battle. Good show!

 

[whatisinaname]

France round two !!

 

[Croesus]

Next instalment is up...

 

[whatisinaname]

Another good part, nice points about Norway and Belgum.

 

[Shadow Knight]

Hmm I foresee some serious troubles for Allies in the near future.

 

[Thande]

I love this timeline. It's like getting news from the front lines of a real war as it happens: the fortunes of both sides are up and down like Clinton's trousers and we await, with bated breath, the final result

 

[Shadow Knight]

I love this timeline. It's like getting news from the front lines of a real war as it happens: the fortunes of both sides are up and down like Clinton's trousers and we await, with bated breath, the final result

Thande...Thande...Thande...

LOL

 

[Croesus]

Thanks for the encouragement all... and enough of Clinton's pants... next instalment is up. History may be about to reassert itself.

 

[Thande]

Thande...Thande...Thande...

LOL

Pardon my ten-years-out-of-date joke

Thanks for the encouragement all... and enough of Clinton's pants... next instalment is up. History may be about to reassert itself.

Another good update.

Incredibly pedantic nitpick: it's the Armée de l'Air.

 

[whatisinaname]

Another good part, round two in France looks like it will be interesting.

 

[Shadow Knight]

The pieces are set and the game is about to begin.

 

[Shadow Knight]

Just had a thought Croesus. What do the Soviets (i.e. Stalin) think of the Italian presence in the Balkans?

You mentioned before the war games near the Romanian-Soviet border but we haven't heard anything from their in a while.

 

[Croesus]

Just had a thought Croesus. What do the Soviets (i.e. Stalin) think of the Italian presence in the Balkans? You mentioned before the war games near the Romanian-Soviet border but we haven't heard anything from their in a while.

Shadow Knight, your timing is impeccable. The next and final post of this first phase is up. Enjoy.

Thank you all for your help, advice and contribution. It has been an awesome experience for me and I hope its proved entertaining. I'll now be doing some long delayed revision and preparing the basis of the second phase. Some addendum posts will be made before then and I'd be happy to discuss issues covered in the TL so far.

Once again, thank you.

 

[Hashasheen]

Shadow Knight, your timing is impeccable. The next and final post of this first phase is up. Enjoy.

Thank you all for your help, advice and contribution. It has been an awesome experience for me and I hope its proved entertaining. I'll now be doing some long delayed revision and preparing the basis of the second phase. Some addendum posts will be made before then and I'd be happy to discuss issues covered in the TL so far.

Once again, thank you.

AWESOME, CROESUS RULES< FTW!

 

[Shadow Knight]

Shadow Knight, your timing is impeccable. The next and final post of this first phase is up. Enjoy.

Thank you all for your help, advice and contribution. It has been an awesome experience for me and I hope its proved entertaining. I'll now be doing some long delayed revision and preparing the basis of the second phase. Some addendum posts will be made before then and I'd be happy to discuss issues covered in the TL so far.

Once again, thank you.

Holy crap! This turn of events is going to have some people in Berlin quite unhappy. In fact there are going to be a lot of unhappy folks all over the place.

Can't wait to see part two.

 

[Thande]

Superb work, Croesus.

Berlin’s advice did not however recognise the shift in political fortunes in the Danube-Balkan region since the fall of Yugoslavia.

And everything changes...

Query, I can see how the Italians would get the commercial interests they want in Ploesti by helping the Romanians against the Soviets, but how do the Hungarians think they're going to get the part of Transylvania they want? Demand it from the Romanians in exchange for their assistance? To Bucharest, how's that any better than what the Soviets are doing?

 

[Trolim]

Oh HELL yeah. How strong is Finland at this point?

This is very precious. Everything to this point was prelude. Excellent job.

 

[Expat]

Amazing! Stupendous! Brilliant!

Um...is this part two going to be like "tv mini-series part two," showing up the next night, or like the months you have to wait between normal tv seasons? rapacious consumers want to know...