So I’ve been playing a lot more of my games to later years, like to 1950-55 and I noticed something kind odd (yes odder then seeing Eisenhower and president and Nixon as his VP in Americas diplomatic screen). If WW2 stretches into the late 40’s, like into 46 and 47, the US goes absolutely nuke crazy. If Germany is still standing strong across Europe the Americans undertake an atomic purging of Hitlers Germany to a rather alarming degree. I watched them nuke every major city in Germany from Berlin and Dresden to Hannover and Munich. Then, once they’ve run out of German cities to wreck they move onto Axis allied nations and start nuking places like Rome, and Milan and places like that.
I thought, at first this was just the American response to a powerful Germany, but then when war broke out later between the US and the USSR, they went right back to it. This time they widened their scope and nuked every Warsaw pact nations capitol (including Berlin for the 3rd time that game!) before moving onto places in Russia (oddly enough Moscow was like the last place they bombed). It makes being allied to America a bit iffy, I was KMT China, and dangerous. I was attacking a territory in central Asia trying to break Soviet control of the area and take pressure off the US in Europe, and while this was happening 10 of my best divisions (motorized infantry with medium armour brigades attached) got stuck in a territory the Soviets were counter attacking, and for a brief moment, though my troops were there, the territory was still marked as Soviet controlled. Sure enough, in comes the US with a long range bomber and nukes the places, sure he wiped out something like 40+ retreating Soviet and Warsaw pact divisions, but he also destroyed my main offensive armies and killed of two of my best army commanders! I was pissed! It turned the rest of the campaign into a slow infantry slog match (which as China I won of course).
