Axis Dictator challenge

Well, assuming current knowledge but committed to trying to 'win' whatever that means.

a) As Italy, don't jump on the bandwagon to hell. Stay neutral and keep my head down while trying to develop my economy while everybody else are wreaking theirs.

b) As Japan, unless managing to patch up a peace with the Chinese and withdrawing to Manchuria counts as a win, presuming that's politically possible. Failing that trying to persuade the Dutch to sell me oil. Failing that attack Britain and the Netherlands but do not dow on the US. Leave them the burden of committing to conflict and hope that if you do a vigerous blockage of the Philippines can prompt intervention and you can defeat their fleet [possible] then patch up a peace [unlikely but as Sherlock says when you rule out the impossible;)].

c) As Germany, possibly seek to discourage Italian intervention. Failing that don't send Rommel to N Africa. Find someone who will obey orders! Possibly leave the Italians to wither on the vine in Greece.

Do invade the SU in 41 but with a bit better forward planning. Try and make for a more liberal occupation policy. Despite what some people say its not impossible and would reap huge benefits. Prepare for winter.

Most of all do not declare war on the US. Posisbly even denounce any Japanese attack to distance yourself. [After all they didn't join the crusade against Stalin and the last thing you want is another powerful enemy].

No holocaust and seek to minimise other barbarities. As said by Corbell Mark IV, both evil and stupid.

Steve
 
If i was Hitler..

uhm.. where to start.. first i would have seeked psychological treatment for my extreme disregard for human life.

then i could have went one or three ways..

1. Invade Poland then stop. set up defensive arrangements along the western front. then just waited for the call to ask what it was that i really wanted. at which time i would have put Germany back to its 1914 borders and been be done.

If option 1 failed.

2. Invade France on schedule, hopefully trapping more at Dunkirk, then asking the British to relax and offer terms for a negotiated peace. then if that fails its on to the battle of Britain, to force them to the table.

3. Barbarossa goes ahead. Treat the locals as allies, work with them as a liberator, of course i will want some form of compensation (probably in some form of land exchange), but let them know I plan to leave once things die down.

Kick back and watch the ranks of my eastern armies swell as we march to liberate the soviet union as the Soviet army disintegrates from a smarter liberating move to the east. I get the territories i desire in the East, the Russians-Ukrainians and co get a shot at a decent Government that of course is rather friendly to me. Once Russia Falls the Brits will relax and all will be good. I turn my middle-europa into an economic power house. War is over and no holocaust or mass murder.

If I was Mussolini
Be better prepared, more knowledgeable general staff.

As stated before if i was Japan...
DO ANY THING NOT TO FIGHT AMERICA.
FIND AWAY TO PULL OUT OF MUCH OF CHINA PROPER.
(Not all) I would hang on to Manchuko, Chosen and Formosa.

Then relax and play some baseball.
 
1st September 1939?

Start total war from day 1, begin establishing a maginot-like line with the border with the Soviet-Union, using much local manpower.


Program Götterdämmerung and Amerika raket begin early. Groundlay for genetical researchs, aimed at one day at freeing everyone willing to be above the "human condition" and Homo Drakensis-like colonists, to be sent into space.

Unite europe in one commone alliance to counter-balance both the Soviet-Union and the US, control africa and the middle-east, where Iran is made into a major power. Support a similar alliance in asia between former asian european colonies and Japan (they will be turned into european-looking people with weird eye hair colour at a later time). :D :rolleyes:

You´ll shit an entire wall of China just seeing the world 70 years later.
 
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As Hitler: Once Poland, Belguim, the Netherlands, and France are dealt with demand all Pre 1914 borders. After that, return the rest of France back, make Poland and the Low countries puppets states. Then go ahead with Barbarossa only with the intention of overthrowing the communist government. Also make this goal publicly known. score propaganda victory with the local population by acting as a liberator and an ever further propaganda victory by showing real and faked crimes of Stalin's regime. Once the Soviets have been knocked out, proceed to consolidate my gains.

As Tojo: Do whatever I can to avoid war with the US. Other then that, same as OTL
 
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As all of them: Help the British Empire.

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Start propaganda campaigns screaming pro-British, anti-American. See if I can't get an alliance, offer ANYTHING.

If that did not work, well, I'd try to set up a European Confederation! As Japan, go war mode and try and take down as much of USA as possible. Get some scientists researching nuclear, with some helpful hints from myself.

Make pearl harbour much later, because the rest of the time I'll be preparing for an invasion. (How hard is it to sneak a fleet over a vast ocean?)
 
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