Konflikt 47 - Background thoughts.

So what’s the background and opportunities for conflict in Konflikt 47?

It changes a couple of things in the background. The Battle of Midway is more indecisive, and it was only decisive because an American attack caught the Japanese in the middle of re-arming and refuelling their planes on deck. Stalingrad is more indecisive and the 6^th army escapes. These two events change the balance on the Eastern front and allow the Germans to better consolidate into defensive lines there (and Stalin has a purge of his generals again) and the Pacific, where things bog down into stalemate between the US and Japanese navies.

Then the US test a nuclear weapon, creating a rift in space at Los Alamos. The US don’t really understand or study it that much, concentrating on getting a second device built. The US drop the device on Dresden after Hitler calls the Allies bluff after they threaten to use atomic weapons on Germany.

However the US are then out of nuclear weapons.

The Germans start studying the rift much sooner, and both the US and Germany find signals coming from them with new scientific concepts. As they don’t talk to each other, they don’t work out that they are receiving different messages.

They start developing technology based on these messages. Which leads into the parallel history.

Konflikt 47 kicks off when the war has already gone on two years longer, and Germany and Japan are nowhere near defeat. The worst winter in a century is finally lifting and everyone gets back to it.

There are 4 major theatre’s of conflict.

Western Front – US/Commonwealth vs Germany.

Eastern Front – Germany vs Soviet Union with partisans supported by both sides and the US.

Persian Front – Soviet Union vs UK/Commonwealth vs Axis (which Turkey has joined).

Pacific Theatre – Japan vs US and UK/Commonwealth with Soviets

This takes in pretty much every major theatre of WWII.

But it leaves it open for big changes.

Would countries like Spain and Argentina join the war on the Axis side? Turkey has joined the Axis, there’s plenty of room for more countries to join the Axis.

Spain’s Blue Division fought alongside the Axis on the Russian front, would they join the Axis with the promise of Nazi technology?

With Brazil siding with the Allies would Argentina officially join the Axis? Particularly given how many members of the SS and Nazi regime settled in Argentina after the war.  

There’s a lot of space to expand things or plot hooks to use.

The jungles of South America, with secret Nazi labs plotting to release Nachtjagers into American cities and cause mass panic.

A jungle war in South America between Argentina and Brazil with walkers might be a very interesting route to go down.

Argentina attacks the Falkland Islands as part of joining the Axis.

It would also add conflict to South America.

What about me?

There has been a lot of discussion some places from people with less mainstream armies (Polish, Italians, French, Hungarians etc) asking what they will get. In the interim there is a very simple solution to this.

In the background, who is supplying this nation with tanks?

Hungarians are being supplied by Germany, so add the Spinne light walker to their force list.

Brazil is being armed by the Americans under Lend Lease, so add Coyote and Grizzly walkers to their list.

Communist China is being supplied by the Soviets, so they get Cossacks.