How do you think history would have changed if the Germans took Moscow in 1941?

The usa would still win. We would nuke germany. But russia would be a blood bath

I don't think taking Moscow would have made a difference. Unless the Russians LET them have it. By the end of that battle, the German troops were worn out, demoralized, short of everything except dead comrades and facing a Russian Winter. Also, by then, the Russians had ramped up their war production while the Germans had an incredibly long and fragile supply line. .  I

If the battle for Moscow proved to be as deadly as the siege of Leningrad it may have been a pyrrhic victory and could have actually weakened Germany to the point where they were unable to effectively hold off the Allied forces in Europe and the Mediterranean countries.

But if Moscow's fall meant that Russia capitulated, Operation Barbarossa would have succeeded before Japan forced the US into the war and the Wehrmacht may well have proved unstoppable.

Of course, because of the economic pressure of the time, Japan may still have attacked Pearl Harbor but may not have had Germany's approval at a time when Hitler was on the brink of establishing his Third Reich in reality. (I doubt that Japan would have been willing to go it alone against the US, though that isn't by any means certain.)

Germany was also doing research into nuclear weapons and, with the Allies defeated may well have achieved it before the US.)

And another small outcome: Finland, who declared war on Russia in 1941, wouldn't have lost their mineral-rich eastern territories and would be far wealthier than they are today.

You sure ask some interesting questions, Rooster.

Dear Rooster,

I don't know if my answer will be relevant to your game project...and I don't have the historical knowledge of your other answerers...

But I read a fascinating biography of Eva Braun once, and apparently Hitler had something of a god-complex...he believed supernatural powers were with him and he could not lose.

So he made bad decisions, and what really defeated the German invasion of Russia was the Russian winter! As it did Napoleon, when he tried the same thing.

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So; if we speculate Germany taking Moscow, that means Hitler was actually sane and would make better decisions elsewhere too...and then really, Germany could very possibly have won WWII! So for your game, the scenario very well could be George Orwell's book 1984, or Arthur Koestler's classic DARKNESS AT NOON.