oh boy time for a bit of a story of a game i just had literally minutes ago
>hearts of iron 3
>decide to, for once instead of germany, play as italy
>noneutrality
>only 1938, blitz yugoslavia to hell
>by 1939 i've managed to, after a painstaking matter of 5 reloads of a save, take over greece
>best friend germany up there kicking ass
>after enjoying a moment of victory against greece, i decide to go for turkey
>its only around one or two IRL minutes before i swiftly conquer turkey
>realize i've been somewhat neglecting my afrika korps
>UK and iraq are slowly but surely taking over my territory there
>more south there are soldiers with UK surrounding them, but not invading them
>the soldiers are all out of supplies so i can't counter-attack them
>place troops on the borders of UK-occupied german middle east territory
>place two large squadrons on iraq's borders, before performing another blitz on them
>free some german territory as well
>groß italy
>suddenly holy stuff i swear i can hear the cavalry horn as within about 30 seconds german masses just start swarming in to free their middle east and afrika territory from the british
>mainly germany and me, italy as support, proceed to kick the UK's ass in the middle east and eastern africa
>manage to begin freeing up some of my men to the north as well
>enjoying my pizza
>suddenly dozens of events
>'CARIO FALLS TO THE AXIS'
>'EXTREMELY IMPORTANT PENINSULA STRONGPOINT FALLS TO JAPAN'
>'SYDNEY AUSTRALIA FALLS TO JAPAN'
>realize japan is loving stuff up over there too
>a couple more events about axis doing great things
>think it's a home run from here, everythings doing great
>in the past i put like 4 mountain troops and 2 infantry troops on the turkish-russian border
and then
it happened
>barbarossa happens
>germany begins to kick ass once again, apparently manages to screw over britain too
>russians overwhelm my turkish-russian defenses
>proceed to storm turkey while i panic a little and begin moving troops from iraq and east africa to turkey
>it takes hell of a long time for them to get there, and when they do, my stacks of 4 units begin falling to russian stacks of 1 to 2 units
>germany's gotten pretty far deep into russia, which i suppose is good since it appears i'm attracting half of the russian army
>russia storms over iraq, which had pretty much no defenses now
>russia seems to only be delayed slightly by the numerous troops i throw at it
>can only get light armour even though its 1941-1942
>russia invades my iraq territory and germany's middle east territory, leaving really just turkey for them to go for next
>russia, halfway through turkey, apparently manages to puppet it because of the stuff occupation-annexation system
now comes the most bullstuff part
>apparently since turkey was liberated as a puppet of the USSR, i now have a treaty with it
>all of my remaining troops (there were quite a bit semi-large stacks of them, but not outrageously large) in turkey get stuck in 'foreign territory', which only happens if you're in peaceful territory
>cant even invade turkey for some odd reason even though they're USSR's puppet and in comintern now
>once i realize whats happening, i immediately begin pulling them out
> they go slow as hell because of all the mountains in turkey and low supplies
>russian army quickly overlaps all of them because friendly territory and completely decimate 97% of my troops in that country
>greece performs an uprising because, once again, the occupation-annexation system is complete stuff
>germany is still really far deep into the USSR, but im still getting a lot of the stuff of it
>decide "forget it, it's not really that much of a cheat"
>begin putting in the 'surrender' cheat into console, because it's not really cheating since i'm already occupying it, and the cheat will just make greece go from occupied to conquered/annexed
>apparently arrange 'ITA' and 'GREE' wrongly, causing greece to fully occupy me
>didn't save that far in, slightly rage
the aftermath
>reload save, its back to when i took over iraq, and right after a lot of the whole 'axis beats everyone to hell' events
>pause almost immediately, begin redirecting a lot of troops to the russian border
>put in the 'surrender' cheat for turkey and greece (NOTE: in a very earlier part of this game, when i forgot to save, i had invaded turkey and conquered it rightfully so it wasnt much of a cheat to do that to them)
>unpause, almost immediate "GERMANY INVADES RUSSIA" notification
>russia proceeds to kick my ass to hell once again, but more slowly because i had a bit of time to react
>germany this time doesn't even really make it past the russian polish border
>i cant even play this anymore
