So since I know everyone is super interested, I've decided to regale you all with my Hearts of Iron adventures.
The first hundred or so hours I played almost exclusively as Axis nations, and I thought to myself, why not play as an Allied nation? So I picked most iconic Allied country of all,
Czechoslovakia.
I decided the only way I could survive was to play defensive, so I built up a bunch of forts on the border with Germany (like a Maginot line, except it was a Sudeten-line) along with a massive army of infantry and artillery. So when Hitler came a-knockin' for the Sudetenland, I gave him the middle finger and told him to suck it. Luckily I had an alliance with France and luckier still they joined the war when Hitler declared war on me.
So both France and I are holding off Germany at the Maginot line and the Sudeten-line respectively, while Hitler kept throwing his men into our well-fortified meat grinders. He hadn't gained an inch of territory but had at least a million casualties by the time Italy joined, and swept France from the south. Hitler gets cocky and decides to declare on Poland, but this time the UK got involved and helped stave off the invasion. Poland gave up some land to the Soviets in exchange for them not invading, and seeing our opportunity, we start pushing back
into Germany, resulting in this;
So we knock out Germany, then sweep into the southeast to put down the Junior Axis (Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria), then take back France and finally with our forces combined, mop up Italy.
In the peace conference, I annexed all of Germany because

you Hitler. We reinstated all the conquered nations as democracies, even Germany, who is now exiled in Prussia. Belgium took Italy's African possessions, and also Albania, for some reason. I believe the only fascist nation left is Spain, who was not involved in the war. Not too long after the war was finally over, Japan declares on the Dutch East Indies after having conquered China, and the Soviets declare on Poland, who I've vowed to protect in honor of their noble sacrifice. So we'll see how that goes.
Stay tuned for more adventures in "
you Hitler, you're not my supervisor!"