I just want to say that this AAR is a brilliant piece of work.
Truly one of my fav.
Keep up the good work!
Truly one of my fav.
Keep up the good work!
I have about 40 additional 3INF, 1 ART divisions in the west (which might have been able to contain the French at the Maginot under manual control, but not with the AI operating at Korps level).
So basically I will have about 60 divisions for Belgium and France (Netherlands is still neutral, but might join the allies soon).
As can be seen by those numbers I did essentially sacrifice INF for TACs (in addition to no AAs and just 3 IC and 10 infrastructure), oh, and I did build 3BB, 6LA and 1 rocket test site, but have just 30k supplies.
CharonJr
Heh.
This is exactly what I love about this AAR: the human aspect. Keep it up !
You have done well to get that many with all that expenditure. Will you leave anything in the east of trust the M-R Pact? (I think I had about 60k supplies when I hit France, but that is probably more than I need. I think that subconsciously I am in HOI2 mode and think I can give the accelerated supply bonus to units).
I just want to say that this AAR is a brilliant piece of work.
Truly one of my fav.
Keep up the good work!
1 reason I find it useful to build up supplies is so as to be able to fund upgrades later on. By the time you introduce the 1940 & 1942 techs for inf and armour your IC will probably be under stress what with replacements, new units etc. So one option is to temporarily set supply production to 0 (or very low) and divert the IC to fund your upgrade bill. If you don't keep on top of the upgrades at key pts (42 seems particularly so as its unlikely you've 'won' at that stage, 44 is maybe a bit easier to manage as things should be decided - for good or ill, and you may well have a lot more IC from conquests), otherwise, even if you prioritise, you just end up with a monumental backlog.
In that case, I tend to feel I've wasted the leadership that went into research, especially as I tend not to want to scrap older land/air units.
Not least as some of them might have accumulated a lot of valuable experience.
Thanks Karaiskandar: hard at work as we speak (well, writing 1-3 Aug). Hope I can keep you hooked.
According to my informant, the Russian ambassador has been crowing about the Finnish surrender, claiming that it was due to series of victories by the Red Army. The truth, according to Finnish diplomats, is slightly different. They claim that the Russians had managed to push forward into Finnish territory, but had paid a hideous cost in men and equipment. What had prompted the Finnish surrender had been the realisation that the Russians seemed prepared to suffer any losses, while the Finns with their small population could not absorb their steady casualty lists. They realised that they would not be able to prevent the Russians from taking Helsinki before winter, and it would only be in extreme weather that they had a hope of real victories against the invaders. The use of the VVS to bomb Helsinki and Viipuri only accelerated the surrender.
So, Finland declared victory, even though they surrendered due to superior Russian weaponry and the ability of Russians to replace losses? Uh-huh.
You should consider annexing Romania and Bulgaria and in fact basically everybody not aligned to a faction. It will increase your IC, manpower and leadership as well as your resources. Actually, Yougoslavia and Hungary should've been annexed too, as your own administrative skills are way better than those of the AI and a unified building program would be worth a lot more than this situation where everybody is building his own stuff, sometimes vastly inferior to other members of a faction. I do miss the option of sharing techs with your faction members.
Edit: Any plans about Norway and Sweden? Since you're planning on allying yourself with Finland, I assume this country is removed from the list of possible targets.
You're welcome, I'm really impressed by the level of detail you can offer.
And the AAR point of view is quite original also. Furthermore the IA seems to put quite a good fight.
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Building only reserve divisions was the key to get a force of this size despite building up the navy and spending IC on the luxury of a rocket test site.
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CharonJr
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And thank you again for this AAR which managed to break my resolve to wait till 1.4 with my next game. This one turns out to be quite interesting. The Belgiums just managed to prevent me from taking Bastonge for 2 weeks, but this gave me enough time to get my 2 shiny new para-divisions into shape for a drop (a kind of reverse Market Garden with my paras securing a "highway" over the bridges and through the forests of Liege and Leuven with 14 armor divisions racing to relieve them and head towards the Channel and northern France.
Something that bugs me.
So, Finland declared victory, even though they surrendered due to superior Russian weaponry and the ability of Russians to replace losses? Uh-huh.
I'm sure the leader of Polish government-in-exile is busy boasting of its 'victory' over the Germans. After all, they delayed the German offensive and killed a few Germans. Maybe the Finnish Prime Minister would like to meet up with him, and maybe compare notes, or award him a medal of bravery?
Kind of reminds me of the United States claiming to have never lost a war due to the fact, that the vietnam war wasn't a war, because no vietnamese communist ran into the foreign office to declare war ;>
To simply report it as a surrender would have been too easy - I wanted to leave a seed that the Finns felt aggrieved and were ready to take on Russia again if they had some help. I probably over-egged it: what I really wanted to do was portray the Finns claiming that they had been forced to surrender by force of numbers, not because of a lack of will to fight.
"...the Fuhrer did, however, enquire when he could expect to see a final report on Fall Weiss, including lessons learned." Indeed! Are you sure you weren't on someone's general staff somewhere?:rofl: