I quickly signed on to the Tripartite Pact and launched an invasion of the Caucuses. Nazi Germany took Moscow and the Soviets moved their capital to Central Asia. Eager to crush them and end the war quickly (my army was woefully outdated) I signed an alliance with Iran so that I could invade Soviet Central Asia from the south. As I began my invasion the British declared war on me. I invaded British Iraq and quickly took Baghdad. Upon doing this I linked up with my ally Italy. They were struggling to invade Saudi Arabia and Syria so I decided to aid them by attacking Syria. I crushed Syria and then shortly afterward the Soviet capital of Stalinabad fell to my invincible forces. With this the entire Soviet Union surrendered.
Things were looking pretty good for the Axis. We had control of almost all of the Eastern Hemisphere. An American landing force was beginning to take land in China but I was confident that the Japanese could handle it. Just in case they needed reinforcements I started an invasion of Uyghuristan to try and link up with my Japanese allies. The invasion progressed painfully slow thanks to supply problems so I chose to invade Iran and British India so that I could aid the Japanese from the South. Unfortunately, by the time I had overrun Iran and India the Japanese Empire had almost totally collapsed. The Americans controlled all of China and were moving into my possessions in the Russian far east. My hold on India was tenuous as well, rebels ravaged the countryside but I was unable to spare troops to put them down. I invaded Mongolia to try and outflank the Americans but was unable to complete the invasion before a British and American force began moving into India, forcing me to withdraw.
At this point Germany and Italy were still strong and so I was convinced that their combined force could halt the allied advance in Asia. Unfortunately, they kept sending units into Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
I continued to defend my empire but my army kept shrinking due to my severe technological disadvantage compared to the British and Americans. I started churning out massive numbers of foot infantry to try and stall the American advance, then Indian rebels seized enough land to declare independence and reform their nation. By this time Americans and Brits were in Central India. I decided that now was the time to make a stand, either my empire would crush the allies and retake India, or my army would be forever destroyed and the enemy would have a clear path all the way to Ankara. In spite of overwhelming numbers against me I launched the offensive, with foot infantry and elite guard against Bren Carriers and M-75 APCs, with T 26 light tanks going toe to toe with M6 heavy tanks and Churchills. I opened the offensive with an artillery barrage using 77m 1916 Field Guns and then sent the armor forward with infantry support. Captured Soviet fighters and bombers provided air cover and when my lines started to buckle I sent the elite guards forward to hold the line.
After heavy losses I drove the allies back to Dhaka and then surrounded the British army around the city. I slowly closed the pocket until 90% of the British army had been destroyed. (not just in this theater, but in the whole world) The few remaining American units retreated as my victorious army liberated all of India from the allies. I held the line for another 6 months until an American counteroffensive broke my lines and retook India from me despite a brave fight and several counterattacks by my forces. The remnants of my army withdrew to the homeland to prepare for the final battle as American units rolled through Persia and Uyghuristan into the Turkish heartland. My few remaining units defended Ankara bravely, but after only 10 days the capital fell and the Americans took Anatolia.
The last brave lads left from my entire military made a last stand at the Southern tip of India while the government fled to northern Siberia. Americans flooded into the Caucuses, the Middle East, and western Russia, quickly liberating Moscow from the Germans and taking all of eastern Europe before taking Berlin and crushing Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany fell to allied forces and the Netherlands, France, Finland, and Luxembourg were liberated. The Italians held out in vain as their empire crumbled and I realized all was lost.
I honestly do not understand how I could have won that scenario, in spite of my efforts to the contrary, the Soviet Union forced me into the war on the side of the Axis and the Germans and Italians refused to use their massive air force to halt the American advance.
Anyway, what impressive defeats do you all have to share?
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I can't remember which scenario it was, but I'm pretty certain it is the 36 one. Regardless, to keep playing would be pointless, as I have almost no military and only a handful of land production facilities. Not to mention my massive population and resource disadvantage. I did keep playing a little bit past the last screenshot I posted and Italy fell within 3 weeks. They had a very large military, but their technological inferiority was the death of them. (The US had F 84 Thunderjets and Banshees). Anyway, I started over again from a save close to the second screenshot. This time instead of annexing India I liberated them, thus taking them out of the war and denying the US that population. I also blocked American advances into my homeland by liberating Kazakhstan and some of the other Central Asian nations. By doing this I bought myself some time to buildup and modernize my military.