Next Italy attacked by Germany going through Switzerland…
Round One: Germany buys 1 Cruiser & 4 transports, takes Switzerland, for a lost of one trooper each side. Italy buy a plane & sub., transport brings home trooper & gun from N.Africa, and, concentrates troops & guns at Piedmont.
Round Two: Germany builds for an attack on Piedmont, buys four fighters & BB, &, Battle Fleet sails for Med. Sea. Italy buys two subs. & transport picks up trooper in E. Africa,
Round Three: Germany builds C & 4 troopers & three guns. New BB joins transport fleet. Battle fleet enters Med. Sea and attacks Italian Fleet(both sides loses a BB & C & 4 German & 3 Italian subs). Both naval forces are wiped out!
Even thought not all armies are together, Germany attacks with one plane, 6 guns, & 15 troopers, against Italy’s army of 1 plane, 6 guns, 20 troopers. Losses for Italy 8 troopers, &, Germany losses of 1 plane, 14 troopers, and, five guns.
Italy buys a sub. & three troopers. Destroys the invading German trooper & gun in Piedmont, for a lost of an trooper. Her transport is coming back with a trooper from East Africa.
It is a hard choice, but, the the once Axis partner, gives the political victory to Germany. Rome is defended by four troopers and a sub.(A German fleet of a BB & 4 transports, of a gun & trooper each, is coming in the Med. Sea to take out Rome or her home islands, and, now non defensive colonies, much less Albania. Also a German C is just behind the transports). Also the second wave of Germans due to invade Piedmont, have 4 fighters, 8 guns, and,35 troopers(much less a third wave of just only 8 troopers & six guns), against a Italian fighter, 6 guns, and, 12 troopers.
If Germany had waited for round four to invade, with the combined first and second wave, Italy would have gone down(losing all her forces in Piedmont). Better to settle for a political victory for German, than let the “Huns” overrun Italy.
IPC loses in material are Germany 123 & Italy 69.
