Italy in 1939 Historical - A Story

I was Italy in a 1939 Historical map. France attacked me about 15 days in with naval support from its ally Canada. I had planned with my allies the USSR and Germany to attack France when this happened but my allies went inactive .

The moment the war broke out France who outnumbered me by at least 3:1 seized all of north Italy as my navy was tied down fighting Canada. Fortunately, my mechanized forces seized a defenseless Africa which would be key later.

As the more numerous French forces stormed Italy I faced the choice of evacuation or fighting to the death. I decided to evacuate and reorganize myself . As I still had some commandoes trapped in the Alps I decided that they were going to die anyway so I sent them on a suicide mission to seize Paris. Somehow, my commandos reached Paris with 5 hp left. They slowly started taking back france.

As France finished seizing my core provinces he launched several naval invasions of Africa which I now fully controlled. As most of you will know, Libya has vast oil reserves in 1939 historical and this provided me with a strong economy as I had previously fully developed these provinces. The French forces and Canadian slowly perished as my naval bombers were able to take them out on the open sea. Canada eventually sued for peace while France moved to the defensive.

As mentioned above my forces in Paris were growing and slowly eating France from the inside. Eventually, France went inactive when I reached Marseille and that pretty much left the road to Italy open.

Canada was wise enough to change teams and asked me to join his coalition. We ended up winning together. It was probably my all time favorite win as I had gone from a somewhat major nation to a collection of African colonies with some militia and naval bombers back to being a nuclear superpower.