Britain is a defensive army that is dealing with a massive existential threat that got WAY out of hand. The is the mindset that one should go into when wielding this faction.
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By the time they realized the full gravity of the situation, most of their manpower was tied up at Dunkirk facing outright slaughter in a matter of days. As far as anyone knew, Hitler was an idiot who would make some small conquests, be in office till his people got bored of him, fail and get booted out. That it was stupid to try and satisfy the Nazis, but honestly, with the information that was at hand, how could he possibly have known any better? The Germans had gone from taking possibly the worst brunt of WW1, with 1.7 million casualties out of the 9.7 million total, and a position of complete disarmament and poverty under the treaty of Versailles to this unstoppable killing machine, every aspect of their military built up in abject secrecy. People like to talk about Chamberlain and his policy of appeasement a lot. This was a monster and the cup he sought to fill had no bottom. People talked, and negotiations stalled, but what Britain failed to realize is that this was no mere 5 minute dictator, nor was this a reasonable rational man that could be won over with logic. uh oh… he just attacked Poland with the Soviets joining in to divvy it up amongst themselves… and again, nothing was done, despite the fact that Germany has broken the terms of the treaty, has a military, and it’s a really good one. Then he eyes Czechoslovakia, and, with the hopes of placation, he is given all the areas in that state with the majority of German citizens, but it wasn’t to be.
Why would now be any different? Then he takes Austria and reunites it with Germany, and nothing was done. I sure how someone picks up that phone because they freakin’ called it.īring us to CoH2 time, when this weird guy with the pencil mustache and claims to be a veteran of WW1 rises to power in Germany, Britain thinks that this is another flash in the pan dictator. Bye, Austro-Hungarians), certain parties wanted more territory and didn’t get it, France wanted Germany’s money, smaller, weaker, easily conquered nations were created, and Britain was of the position that all this was far too harsh and left no measure to make the recently defeated Central Powers into good neighbors with each other. One other thing one has to bear in mind is that the treaty of Versailles left no nation happy and satisfied. This created a lot of very disenfranchised, very angry people, who were going to make their opinions known in about 20 years. From the perspective of the average German citizen, they only got involved because they heard that Russia had mobilized their army, and now they were being issued terms of dictated peace when they weren’t even the ones who started the damn war. One other thing one has to bear in mind is how much slower information traveled back then. Though to understand what led us to this sad point, we must journey back to 1918 where the treaty of Versailles was just signed with article 231 placing the entire blame for the first world war, the war to end all wars, squarely upon “Germany and her allies”, forcing them to pay back an impossible sum in war reparations, disarm as a nation, and several other egregious conditions. A few among them are the type who would apologize for being blown up moments prior to it happening, though one could argue that that is the exact kind of appeasement that got them into this mess in the first place. The British are the nice kinds of guys that are always so polite and courteous that one can’t help but take a liking to them. Across the English channel, into Africa, and driving deep into Berlin to be precise.
The British….the British…the British are coming.
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