Italy - HOI4 - Sitzkrieg in the West

08 Sep 1939: I increase my air presence in the Balkans by creating a fighter and a CAS wing near Belgrade in Serbia.
13 Sep 1939 (Day 44) and the Wehrmacht has made some progress but the panzers appear to be bogged down. Notice how my 80th Parachute Division gives me more intel.
20 Sep 1939: As if Adolf didn't have enough problems. The more the merrier.
Here we see that Germany has war goals against Denmark.
France is guaranteeing the independence of Norway (why not Romania or Poland?)
Germany has war goals against Norway. Does Adolf really want to open that can of worms?
No comment required. Note that Germany has 49% Stability and 36.1% War Support - not good. (To the right of the German flag.)
Germany declares war on Denmark and the small nation joins the Allies.
On the next day Norway is targeted and they also join the Allies.
The good news here is that World Tension is now 51% so I can give Lend Lease to nations at war.
I choose Romania because a long drawn-out war here will hurt Germany most. If Romania falls the full weight of the German war machine will pounce on France and Britain.
I hope it helps.
22 Sep 1939 and France finally joins the Allies.
23 Sep 1939 and I receive the Fiat BR.20 tactical bomber but it is already obsolete. I wont produce many of these but it is better than the current bomber.
I select to research the Ba.88 CAS aircraft next.
I use Air XP to increase the performance of my new bomber slightly then replace the Ca.101. The XP come from the aircraft which I offered in Lend Lease.
28 Sep 1939: (Day 59) The German advance has stalled. Are forces being sent to the western front?
29 Sep 1939 - Day 7 of the campaign and German forces are stuck at the Danish border.
France is excelling by doing nothing! SITZKRIEG!!!
29 Sep 1939 and Hitler is going crazy again. (The mouse is over the wrong focus.) Operation Tannenbaum is an attack on Switzerland! Tannenbaum is German for Xmas tree.
Nobody is winning. France needs to be more active.
05 Oct 1939 - no progress in Romania...
 ...but Denmark is being ravaged.
08 Oct 1939: My Decryption research has completed.
I choose to research Encryption next.
An overview of my research projects with a view of 'no progress' in Romania.
That's all for this post. At least Italy is now contributing to the Allied war effort.

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