Setting Part 1

Europe is battered from a war that should have ended years ago but that flares and smoulders sullenly.

Britain

Girded for total war and with a people hardened to deprivation and sacrifice Britain is the closest it has ever come to losing its identity. All industry is nationalised, all freedoms curtailed and the government in the hands of a brutal industrial committie manned by the Iron Lords. Success in the Dunkirk landings bought prestige and influence and strengthened the Iron Lords grip.  

As long as Germany refuses to surrender, Britain will stand defiant.

France

With swathes of land turned into battlefields and massive casualties in the first weeks of the war, France is barely treading water. From Verdun via Reims, Amiens to Lille and on to Dunkirk the front lines bleed armies daily. The French soldier has proven dogged and brave to a fault but lessons are filtering through and the French army has become second only in experience to the Germans. With the help of Britains armies and the industrial might of America, France intends to win her country back.

Germany

An industrial giant before the war and eager to test it’s military might, Germany didn’t wait for the deadlines to pass. On July the 25th the military machine rolled into Serbia and Russia. The Balkins collapsed in days and a series of hammer blows to the barely assembling Russian army shattered it into routing hordes.

A massive rail and air lift saw the German army shift fronts in time to stem the beginnings of the French response.

Britains landing on the Dunkirk beaches shocked the Germans back tens of miles but new trench lines and fortifications contained the retreat.

Germany has the industrial might and manpower for a protracted war. It has the military leadership to back it up but, it is the people who may ultimately determine how long the conflict continues.