British Empire HWW

1020 points. 574 units destroyed. 689 provinces captured. Yes, that is possible, even with an empire teetering on the edge of collapse. My first UK victory.

Of course I remember nothing from the game. I have no patience to rummage through the papers to confirm when I attacked whom, when I got attacked by France or Iraq or Iran. The game lasted only 18 days. I had 1020 points, Manchukuo added 830, and Canada contributed 620. Add them up for 2470, 5 cities more than we needed. Obviously only me and Canada got to play around with nukes.

Canada dropped four nukes - Lima, Sucre, La Paz and Caracas. Venezuela was Canada's coalition member before he went AI and Canada threw everything at the small nation which now held some 50% of South America. This game was full of upsets - Canada overthrowing the arrogant USA by day 5, Manchukuo eating Japanese colonies, South Africa taking out Mozambique, Madagascar, Angola and marching down Congo and up to Niger.

On day 1 I made sure to ally with absolutely everyone (except Egypt of course), my land could be threatened by more or less anyone. Japan made sure to go AI soon, but others remained. I tried remaining neutral, ultimately joining coalition with Canada and Manchukuo only on day 16. And we won barely 2 days later.

Germany declared war on me (actually, its AI did) and had it done that a day ago, my land in Yugoslavia and Romania would be in a tough spot. Too little, too late.

A quick overview of what each of us owned at the end:

Canada - All of North America + All of Central America + Ecuador + half of Venezuela mainland and Peru + some land in Brazil

UK (me) - I failed to retain all my starting land, losing three provinces of five in Guyana. Except for those, I had everything else I had on day 1 + all of Cuba (except Havana) + Egypt + Ethiopia + Libya + Liberia + many random provinces in Algeria + Oran + some 80% of mainland France (all cities except Spanish Marseille) + mainland Italy + Greece + Yugoslavia + All cities of mainland Romania + Turkey + Saudi Arabia + Yemen + Oman + Iraq + Bandar Abbas and Tabriz + almost all of Sumatra, Java and Borneo (all cities).

Manchukuo - ALL of Asia and Asian Russia, including Tuguegarao. This includes Japan, Taiwan, China, Mongolia, Communist China, India, Indochina, Thailand, Tibet, Xinjiang, and half of Persia which i couldn't take (or revolted back).

Fun facts:

South Africa moved capital to Luanda.

I almost went AI since I got bored of this game round.

I owned three cities in Brazil, but then Venezuela (who helped me eat these cities) went AI and attacked my land. That's why I lost the three provinces in Guyana, as Canada attacked Venezuela and took those provinces which were mine since day 1.

Apart from us three, only Canada and Spain remained till the end, Sweden (my ally also) going AI on the last day.

My army:

8 interceptors (level 4)

5 naval bombers (level 3)

1 strat bomber (level 2)

13 tac bombers (level 3)

6 attack bombers (level 3)

5 anti air (level 3)

65 infantry (level 5, produced normally)

8 mech infantry (level 2)

18 artillery (level 3)

16 battleships (level 5)

17 battleships (level 4)

29 cruisers (level 5)

34 destroyers (level 5)

5 anti tank (level 2)

5 commando (level 1)

1 commando (unit card, level 1)

3 carriers (level 1)

41 militia (level 4, some were starting units, many I made to defend Italy and Turkey from Germany and Iran respectively)

8 light tank (level 3)

35 armored cars (level 4)

2 submarines (level 1)

1 infantry (level 6 - not sure how I got it, but it spawned in Muscat)

8 med tanks (level 2)

1 mot inf (level 3)

1 infantry (level 5 - probably one of around 7-8 i used from unit cards)

1 mot inf (level 4)

1 SP artillery (level 1)

1 heavy tank (level 1)

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8817.4/9394 HP

343 units total

Funny stats:

574/16 = 35.88 K/D

689/116 = 5.94 C/L

At war with 11 countries

817 provinces

1,159,779,600 population

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