Rommel at Tobruk (1941)

Germany didn't decide to promote Rommel after the war... the UK and US government including Hollywood decided to do so before there was a West German governement.

This is what he won by stroking the Anglo-American press the way they wanted it and waging war in a way the British 8th Army, Churchill and the Americans viewed as honorable toward their troops. Its also what he won by defending Jews in his areas of operation as post war Hollywood wouldn't have promoted a Jew killer.

Its also easier to have a dead symbol then a live one and especially one the Soviets and Polish couldn't attack as a war criminal as he never fought either place.
 
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I am a bit of a gamer so I recieved a game announcement for the game that comes out next week below.

They are promoting it you can conquer your way to India with Panzer Corps: Afrika Korps. Really? Really?

Panzer Corps: Afrika Korps Release Date Nears!

The year is 1941 and you will lead the German Afrika Korps, and it's Axis allies, into Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II.

The reputation of the "Deutsches Afrikakorps" or "DAK" was synonymous with that of its first commander Erwin Rommel, now it is up to you to overwhelm the Allied forces in North Africa, secure the Suez Canal and take hold of the oil rich lands of the Arabian peninsula, maybe even invade the underbelly of the British Empire and threaten its crown jewel: India.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/173667/Panzer_Corps_Afrika_Korps_Release_Date_Nears.php

How does that work assuming the DAK has no help from alien space bats running interference dropping nukes on British and American forces?
 
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I am a bit of a gamer so I recieved a game announcement for the game that comes out next week below.

They are promoting it you can conquer your way to India with Panzer Corps: Afrika Korps. Really? Really?



How does that work assuming the DAK has no help from alien space bats running interference dropping nukes on British and American forces?

Have you by chance played the game it was based off of?

Panzer General II featured scenarios invading Britain and the US. It also featured a scenario where you open the road to Moscow.
 
Have you by chance played the game it was based off of?

Panzer General II featured scenarios invading Britain and the US. It also featured a scenario where you open the road to Moscow.

Not as yet I haven't, but I may if they offer decient price and I hear good reviews on the new pack. As for a Sea Lion on the US. That is just... :D:rolleyes::D
 
The Germans had three years of campaigns to try to defeat the Soviets IOTL, they failed. They got panzers deep into Egypt, they failed. They gave the British several of their all-time great drubbings of the war in North Africa and Greece, and all of these victories collectively meant bupkiss.
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Germans didn't have enough forces in Egypt for their victories to be either decisive or cause consequences desirable to the German High Command.They treated North Africa as an Italian theatre of war,therefore secondary.had it been otherwise,the British would have asked fo an armistice to save their empire.
 
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Germans didn't have enough forces in Egypt for their victories to be either decisive or cause consequences desirable to the German High Command.They treated North Africa as an Italian theatre of war,therefore secondary.had it been otherwise,the British would have asked fo an armistice to save their empire.

They were right to do that, too. The prospect of their winning a victory in North Africa was logistically and geographically impossible.
 
Not as yet I haven't, but I may if they offer decient price and I hear good reviews on the new pack. As for a Sea Lion on the US. That is just... :D:rolleyes::D

Well, in the Blitzkrieg campaign (Basically the "starter" campaign) at the end of the campaign you invade the US near Savannah, Georgia. The next mission is the last one and you end up near Oak Ridge, trying to capture the American nuclear facilities.

There's another game that is based on PG2, but I'm not going to link to it because I believe it's of dubious legality.
 
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