The Allied powers

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free... But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"

— Winston Churchill, House of Commons, June 18, 1940

Allied powers

  • United Kingdom of Great britain and northern ireland

    ALLIED MAJOR

    The sun was setting on an empire that spanned the globe, but the shadows growing over the English Channel were darker than any night. For a decade, a generation haunted by the ghosts of the Great War clung to the fragile hope of "Peace for our time," turning a blind eye to the rising storm in the East. They watched as borders were redrawn and neighbors vanished, convinced that the beast could be sated with ink and promises.

    But as the clock ticked toward midnight, the illusion of safety shattered. From the quiet shores of Kent to the industrial heart of the North, a nation of shopkeepers and coal miners realized the terrible truth: some fires cannot be reasoned with, they can only be fought.

    United Kingdom starts with 12.5m population.

  • United States of America

    ALLIED MAJOR

    Long before the world plunged into global war, the modern blueprint for tyranny was forged under the Mediterranean sun. It began with the rhythmic thud of black boots on Roman cobblestones and the intoxicating, theatrical promise of a resurrected empire.

    He didn't just conquer a fractured nation; he seduced it. He offered dangerous pride to the broken and iron-fisted order to the chaotic, masking brutal street violence behind the illusion of national destiny. But the price of this manufactured glory was absolute surrender to the state.

    United States of America starts the game in a depressive state.
    United States of America starts with 20m population.

  • French Republic

    ALLIED MAJOR

    The "Greatest Army in Europe" didn't fall to a lack of courage, but to the crushing weight of a ghost. Haunted by the millions lost in the trenches of the Great War, France built a wall of steel and concrete, the Maginot Line, convinced that the next conflict would be a slow, grinding echo of the last. They waited behind their fortresses, certain that the borders of the Republic were inviolable.

    But the storm that broke in May 1940 didn't strike the wall; it flowed around it like a black tide. In six weeks of lightning and fire, the pride of a century was shattered, leaving a nation to face an impossible choice: to flee and fight from the shadows of exile, or to remain and endure the long, suffocating silence of occupation.

    French Republic starts with 12.75m population.

  • Dominion of Canada

    ALLIED MINOR

    A young nation forged in the mud of Vimy Ridge, Canada stood across the Atlantic, no longer a mere colony but a sovereign power with a choice to make. When the mother country’s call went out, the answer wasn't forced, it was a roar of volunteer fire. They were the "Shock Army of the Empire," a land of vast prairies and frozen frontiers that transformed almost overnight into a global industrial powerhouse. From the treacherous crossings of the North Atlantic to the bloody breaking of the Hitler Line, they fought to prove that a middle power could carry the weight of a titan.

    Dominion of Canada starts with 8m population.

  • Australian Commonwealth

    ALLIED MINOR

    For a century, the Great Southern Land felt shielded by the distant, iron might of the British Navy. But as the sun rose over a new and terrifying Pacific threat, the Australians realized the terrifying truth: the "Singapore Fortress" was a myth, and the enemy was at the gate. With their finest divisions fighting thousands of miles away in the sands of North Africa, the nation had to look to its own shores and a new, uncertain alliance with the Americans. It was a struggle for the very soil under their feet, fought in the suffocating green hell of New Guinea.

    Australia starts the game with 7.5m population.

  • Union of South Africa

    ALLIED MINOR

    A land divided by the deep, jagged scars of its own history, South Africa stood at a crossroads that threatened to tear it apart. While some saw the war as a crusade for civilization, others remembered the bitter taste of British concentration camps and looked toward the Axis with a dark, sympathetic hope. The decision to join the fight was won by a single vote in parliament, launching a fractured nation into a conflict where its soldiers bled in the mountains of Ethiopia and the deserts of Libya. It was a war fought on the front lines and a political shadow-war fought at home.

    South Africa starts with 6.25m population.