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It's War!

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 "This morning the British ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany." Neville Chamberlain, 1939 China had already been fighting the Japanese since 1937 but most people focus on the German invasion of Poland as the starting point of the Second World War. Germany declared war on Poland and its planes launched ground strikes flipping over the defenders in Lodz and Warsaw then its ground trooops shattered the defenders in Western Poland with no losses. The US Entry penalty for such actions turned out to be 3.  The Italians moved their sub into the Red Sea. Japan moved the Tokyo militia and China from Japan and its Manchurian-based HQ towards N China. Japan launched a

Set up complete

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 \ For the background on this game see https://worldinflamessolooddysey.blogspot.com/2022/04/world-in-flames-solo-odyssey-ive-always.html?m=1 Set up is ahead of schedule  Its very complicated and i might have got it wrong but as I'm playing myself it shouldn't matter too much The biggest problem i had was with Japan's set up but someone on the FaceBook group directed me to the latest setup guidelines The biggest variation was giving the Soviet Union extra units (including an extra fighter to the east of Soviet Union to counter Japan)  to closer match the historical size of the Red Army that invaded Poland. Here's a screenshot of Nazi Germany about to stab Poland in the face   Here's a screenshot of the big Red Army about to stab Poland in the back