Enewald - Alas, wrong answerIt will take years before I can reach the Pacific.
Dr.Dave - Thank you.
Winner - I miss a reference I guess. The only things that come to my mind are Imperium Galactica and Battlestar Galactica. Enlighten me please?
Small update today.
The Great Escape
continued
Soon after, Grand Admiral Dönitz was speaking with a man mostly everyone thought of being dead.
Grand Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was not dead at all, but it was still ready to serve his Country even if in exile, even if now formally under the command of the German Kriegsmarine. Dönitz promised him that German and Japanese troops would enter Tokyo again, even if it meant crossing the whole Soviet Union.2300 May 25th 1945
20 Sensuikantai, 23. Kaigun, Gulf of Cintra
Vice Admiral Kato had to survive a shocking encounter with an American fleet that sunk his submarine, 20 Sensuikantai, before they could disengage.
No one could exactly know how on Earth Kato was still alive as his Submarine flotilla, where he was in, had been destroyed by US depth charges.0400 May 26th 1945
IJN Katsuragi, 2nd Destroyer Fleet, Gulf of Cadiz
Ozawa and his amazingly slow fleet encountered a small US fleet as he was in the proximity of Portuguese shores. And it worried Ozawa a lot, as it contained a Carrier.
Luckily for Ozawa, night and rain greatly diminshed the risk of a lethal impact, and Ozawa sailed for another day, closer to freedom as he was closer to Bordeaux.0800 May 27th 1945
LXXVI. Panzerkorps, Murmansk, Finland
After six days of combat, some of the most precious Soviet Armored divisions were slowly encountering their ultimate fate of becoming prisoners of the Third Reich.
The Soviets would regret their choice of neglecting a Transport fleet.0900 May 28th 1945
IJN Katsuragi, 2nd Destroyer Fleet, Coast of Porto
This time, it was enough for Ozawa. It was the fourth time that the very same American fleet was taunting him with their Battleships by running back and forth his fleet. This time his battered Carrier Task Force, if a Carrier Task Force consisting of a Carrier, a Destroyer and a Submarine flotilla could be given this name, would teach a lesson of to his arrogant enemies.
American sailors faced the wrath of Ozawa at the sight of a surreal scenario: the Battleship USS Indiana being attacked and sunk by a handful of aircraft without oil coming from a barely afloat Carrier, the IJN Katsuragi. What a humiliation for the US sailors that had to assist, impotent, at the loss of a Battleship to an enemy that was defeated already: Japan.0100 May 29th 1945
XIV. Panzerkorps, Kola, Finland
Harpe liked marching East.
Not the same could be said for the Soviet forces. Now, East meant 'White Sea' to them. The switching from 'White' to 'Red' was to be achieved soon if Soviet forces would not surrender in time to Harpe.
They did, after more than one day of desperate resistance.
just finished reading this AAR absolutly brilliant really liked reading it keep those updates coming.
God luck
Yays, now to Leningrad!
And hail Yamamoto!
Oh my.... Yamamoto talking shop with Dönitz.... Poor Royal Navy....
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I was reffering to Battlestar Galactica. You know, the story about fleet of survivors from 12 colonies, nuked and destroyed by their mysterious robotic enemy, protected by the only remaining battleship/fighter carrier, trying to find safe haven... The Japanese navy is in the same situationOriginally Posted by DvD-IT
Mozla - Thank you. Updates are not always fairly regular, as it's not always possible, but I try my best to keep the pace.
Enewald - This time, Leningrad is a feasible objective
trekaddict - Even with Yamamoto under the Kriegsmarine banner, the RN is still safe, at least till Yamamoto doesn't possess a decent fleet to lead against them
Winner - Now you cleared my doubts.
Update.
Cabinet Meeting June 1945
0000 June 1st 1945
Reichstag Building, Berlin, Germany
"Good morning gentlemen. Heinz will start with a report on our strategical situation."
"Thank you Martin. Our position has evolved significantly during the last month as we are steadily crushing whatever resistance the Soviets offer in Finland."
"Soviet resistance is reduced to a mere twenty divisions and few territories left, yet they insist on sending further divisions from Russian soil. We can only be happy about this, as our Luftwaffe has destroyed many of their divisions and will continue to do so till we have enough oil to run our planes' engines.
Anyways, we count on smashing the last Soviet resistance on Finnish soil by pocketing their last reserve of thirteen divisions in Joensuu, which are foolishly attacking our six divisions in Mikkeli. Cutting off seventeen of their divisions and capturing them will be an easy task and this is what I expect Ringel to do in ten or so days. Then he will make our first moves into the Soviet Union."
"Ernst, have Ringel's efforts dented our enemies' military might?" Bormann asked Kaltenbrunner, Head of Intelligence.
"Our spies seem to agree his efforts surely had an impact on the Soviet Army. We have managed to infiltrate some more spies in our enemies' countries, but our reports are still far from being accurate."
"We have one more agent in the Soviet Union. Estimates are fifteen less infantry divisions and six armored divisions: twenty-one divisions destroyed in one month is completely plausible and these numbers should provide for a quite accurate report of our enemy's status. Their Air Force is still large but has reportedly declined by eight fighter squadrons since last month. Their industry is basically the same; they have completed research on Improved Rocket Interceptor, and little else, I think."
"There's one more agent in the United States too. Their Navy shows one less Battleship which we know to be correct, as we have recently sunk the USS Indiana. So, it is quite safe to estimate that they have twenty-one Battleships and seventeen Carriers. Their industry, already large, does not stop to grow. They have completed research on Semi-Modern Mechanized Division."
"We have made no attempt to infiltrate more agents in the UK. It looks like they have twenty-six more infantry divisions and thirty more smaller ships. We are not in the position to know whether these are rough estimates or plausible numbers. That is all from me."
"Albert."
"Industry is progressing nicely. Our serial runs of V2 are running and our Nuclear Reactor construction hasn't suffered any setback yet. Stockpiles are as usual good except for Oil. Please don't consider that plus sign as it is completely incorrect. We're struggling to keep our Oil stockpiles above zero; our problem is not the funding to arrange trade deals, but the countries to deal with. Ernst will say something about this I think."
"Our Transport Capacity is still suffering but I expect to have it come to default level by mid-June. Manpower is growing and is not an issue for now, given that we don't engage in a bloody campaign against the Soviet Union which, given the situation, I think it is unlikely that we'll spend so many lives this time."
"Ernst, what about our Trade Partners?"
"The matter is simply that Romania and Bulgaria do not have the necessary Oil production to satisfy our needs. Every other Country demands ridiculously high amounts of resources to trade for every single drop of Oil, even Nationalist Spain, which should somehow be sympathetic to our cause, refuses to sell Oil at a reasonable price."
"Those swines of Franco, we'll show them one day." muttered Heinz Guderian.
"They will be punished too, but not now. For now Ernst, just continue struggling with our Allies. We'll try to keep our Oil consumption as low as possible. Gentlemen, let's come back to our business: take a map and colour the Soviet Union grey.
Hmm... grey soviet union...
and poor Franco is going to be punished.
Maybe attack Swiss to get their oil reserves?
Or some other nation...
Oil is always a problem. Have you researched all the "synthetic oil" techs?
I usually get decent deal from Venezuela. The ultimate solution however is to capture Caucasus and the Middle East
Enewald - The Swiss are safe for some years to come. Oil will be obtained the regular way, i.e. through diplomatic deals at the moment. With the Summer campaign against the Soviet Union in full motion, I cannot divert matériel to other countries.
Winner - I am currently researching the next to last one - the one that leads to Plastics. Venezuela does indeed offer decent deals but trade effectiveness is a shocking 0%, as if the Atlantic Ocean was littered with thousands of angry ships looking for whatever is floating and not flying Allied banners.
Update.
The Great Escape
0800 June 1st 1945
Kola, Finland
General Harpe captured yet another Soviet division retreating to nowhere in Kola. This time it was an Headquarters division.
Some other Soviet divisions were still retreating East.0300 June 2nd 1945
Bordeaux, France
Two Japanese commanders and their respective crews ended a long and dangerous journey that encompassed the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. 2nd Destroyer Fleet and 5. Kaigun, led respectively by Admiral Ozawa and Vice Admiral Godo, had reached with safety the French coast at Bordeaux.
Among them were the Battleship IJN Musashi and the fairly old Carrier IJN Ryuho, both in a state of great damage. Also the Carrier IJN Katsuragi, proud of having sunk an American Battleship while low on everything, food, fuel and morale, was now in safety.0900 June 2nd 1945
The skies above Mikkeli
Once again the skies of Finland were filled with flying metal.
The Soviets still did not learn that bombers and flying stuff that bombed things were to be escorted with planes able to shoot at other planes.0000 June 4th 1945
Intelligence Dept., Berlin, Germany
German research completed an important piece of research for the Wehrmacht.
Porsche invented a new design for Germany's armored divisions; many divisions would need upgrades now. While Speer would struggle finding some spare Industrial capacity for upgrades, Messerschmitt was ordered to research a Turbojet model of Tactical Bombers. The Luftwaffe had a decent number of them and they were becoming obsolete; also Germany already had the blueprints for this kind of technology.2300 June 24 1945
Bordeaux, France
Another Japanese commander reached the safety of Bordeaux.
This time it was the turn of Kato; finally every IJN fleet that escaped the surrender reached Bordeaux.1600 June 5th 1945
Finland
The Soviets launched a desperate attempt at gaining new footholds in Finland. Despite the low presence of German and Finnish presence in Mikkeli, the Luftwaffe would help causing the Soviets a lot of trouble.
With the Soviets busy on such futile attempts, elsewhere German troops would try to close the trap for them.
General Harpe completed the last defenders of Kola. Five more divisions embraced the glory of the Third Reich.0500 June 6th 1945
The skies above Mikkeli
Reports from the sky were becoming quite monotonous.
Air General Bülowius once again inflicted devastating casualties upon his Soviet adversary; one entire squadron was shot down.
The Luftwaffe was once again busy reducing Soviet troops to bits. The Soviet attack on Mikkeli was losing strenght day after day, under pressure of constant bombing.
The Great Escape
continued
0500 June 8th 1945
Petrozavodsk, Soviet Union
By 1945 the Soviets should have learned that the Wehrmacht had a thing for encirclement, especially after the loss of one hundred twenty divisions to a battered Germany. And so they thought that the hammer would fall on Joensuu, where the Luftwaffe was bombing Soviet divisions to death. But that was, once again, not the case.
Hausser spearheaded the attack on Petrozavodsk. Fifteen or so Soviet divisions in Joensuu and Sortavala awaited their impending doom.
As soon as Hausser attacked, some Soviet divisions were attempting to escape the trap that was about to take place. Field Marshal Dietl began to correct this impulsive behaviour. Odds were not really favourable to the few German divisions but all they had to do was to hold the Soviets for some day.
And Hausser was quickly making his way through the few Soviet divisions in Petrozavodsk. Some other Soviet divisions would soon try to reinforce the defense, however.
Soviet pilots loved the thrill of strong emotions, and flying two Bomber squadrons through five German, fully equipped fighter squadrons. Whether this was courage or imprudence however, this made little difference to the outcome of the battle.1300 June 95h 1945
Joensuu, Finland
The attack on Joensuu still lacked strenght, and some divisions started to tire.
It was still more than enough to keep the Soviets at bay and let Hausser complete the trap at their expense.
Indeed Hausser needed little time to smash through Petrozavodsk. Aided by the Luftwaffe, by June 11th the battle was almost over, with the Soviets losing three or four divisions under the hammer of Close Air Support squadrons, and many others taking heavy casualties.
That way, the attack on Joensuu was going as planned: not too strong to push the Soviets further East, not too light to lose morale and equipment. And the following day, the tide of this battle would finally swing the Axis' way.
After four days, Hausser finally completed the encirclement ant the pocket Joensuu-Sortavala was formed, containing more than twelve divisions. Field Marshal Dietl would now fight against much less motivated divisions.
Indeed only hours after every kind of communications between Soviet forces in Finland and the Soviet Union had been cut, it took really little efforts for Dietl to bring ten divisions to his knees.
With these successes against their bitter foe, many generals would eagerly await the monthly Intelligence report on the Military status of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union.
hmm... they should have now less divs on the eastern frotn than you do... so a breakthrough somewhere, bombers destroy everything that moves, tanks drive in, some Kesselschlächte and Sieg.
maybe if u had enough people after the finnish campaign u could go trough turkey to the oilfields of Baku and Maikop ant by the way destroy the frienship of Lebanon and Syria
Update, please
your first post on the forums is the demand update!Update, please
If that's so, DVD has to update!
and it has been long...
Sorry, i read the posts all night
No update from 15.05.
Calm down
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a week?Calm down
I am starving yet again!
The world is cruel... but so is the AARland too
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