Talk:The Future (Map Game)/@comment-25876858-20150121001206/@comment-6812733-20150121214603

That was in the 40's, this game is put into the current date. We haven't seen any of such advances after Barbarossa. Even then, France, Britain, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Poland and USSR weren't ready for the onslaught that Germany threw at them. France and Britain almost had revolts against the government when they decided to mobilize after Poland was invaded, USSR didn't have their troops ready, the rest (except Poland) were never military mights, they could never truly put up a fight. Poland was the only one who could halt the advance for a small amount of time yet they needed Britain and France to attack immediately. Germany had been building their forces since the start of 1930's. It took them 9 years to be able to defeat Poland. By almost all their forces against the Poles, even then they were halted. What "saved" the germans were the soviet troops. That's why the "fake war" took place between West and Germany before Fall of France. Because France and Britain had the manpower to defeat Germany but they didn't know it. Germany had to keep building it's forces for a year to be able to beat France and Britain on continental Europe. So basicly 10 years for Germany to be able to do anything like they did in France in 1940. These days none of that is possible since world has no real armed forces left because it's expensive and nobody has the money to do so.

Besides, you annexed those territories, that's the problem here. You could easily occupy land but annexing it is a whole different matter.