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Good updates!

Any reason why you used those Admirals, and not some of the Soviet Unions better ones?

Glad to see the ships are starting to be pumped out of the shipyards.
 
Can't wait to see the Red Fleet dominating the seas :)
 
the most annoying part of this is that you only have one naval doctrine tech team which has a decent skill level but you can´t use it at 100%...
 
trekaddict - already did that in the UoB, ended up with too much land warfare... :eek:o

Lord Strange - It's not (too) forgotten. Spent the first years working on nothing else, remember.

Storm501 - 3rd Siberian Naval Army command? Hehe :D

Maj. von Mauser - We just had a purge, too soon for new reforms. Also, the Commissar wanted to retain honorary command over the Pacific Fleet.

gassy_pl - Our intelligence reports say nothing about a German submarine presence in the Baltic sea at least.

Inner Circle - Gah! It is indeed ghastly. Perhaps I'll edit that further on.

Jedrek and Avatar018 - Thanks, I hope you'll like what's to come. :)
 
In HoI2 the navy is seriously underpowered. I think that a country that designed and initiated construction of three full-scale battleships (the Sovyetski Soyuz class) and and proved itself capable of organising full-scale amphibious operations should have something better than Brasil or Argentina ;]
 
Jedrek said:
In HoI2 the navy is seriously underpowered. I think that a country that designed and initiated construction of three full-scale battleships (the Sovyetski Soyuz class) and and proved itself capable of organising full-scale amphibious operations should have something better than Brasil or Argentina ;]
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What amphibious operation?
 
Well I don't know if the Soviets really did anything with their navy that Brazil or Argentina couldn't have done. They had crappy ships, and actually used only their submarines. Their landings weren't really marine-like, they just stuck "naval infantry" (=ordinary seamen from extra ships) and normal riflemen into destroyers and then threw them to the beaches in Crimea. And got a bloody nose, pretty much. Again, Brazil and Argentina were capable of doing that too.
 
Nice update Freakie. Can't wait for the first of those SHBB's to roll off the production que and into the docks. Then the whole world will shudder at the might of the socialist navy.

Tanesis,
 
1939 was truly set to be the best year the Naval Fleet of the USSR had ever seen.

Starting May, and extending all the way into September of the same year, a tremendous battle would be fought by the Red Armies of the Soviet Union and Mongolia against the Japanese and their Manchurian puppet, over a border dispute around the river Khalkhin Gol.

In time, the Soviet victory would be such that Japan stopped even considering war against the USSR. Needless to say, this took a lot of pressure from the Navy's collective shoulders. The Pacific fleet had gained at least a good couple of years to get itself ready for any foe!

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The increasingly mundane entry of service of new light cruisers and destroyers continues.

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But 1939 was a not a year for mundane things. In June, the dream of the People - and Stalin - starts becoming reality, as the first glorious new battleships are commissioned, to great joy of all! The Sovietsky Soyuz-class now sends fear into the hearts of all the Enemies of Socialism! Soon perhaps, it will send steel into them as well.

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Almost as soon as they are Commissioned, service tests are ordered, passing right where potential adversaries can see them. Such glory is not to be hidden! A tour of the shores of Britain was considered, but eventually decided against, for they could take the chance of a surprise attack.



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Japan can't even disguise their obvious interest, as they send a huge fleet to "escort" our battleship.

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Not that they're the only ones. Germany and Britain also reacted rather swiftly to our new Champions of Communism.



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And a lot to worry about all of them did, as the Navy's build-up was only speeding up. In August the first basic Carriers in the History of the USSR are commissioned.

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With the three main Fleet's capacity so suddenly increased, a leadership reform was also implemented.

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Stalin is a happy, confident man, in August 1939.
 
Huzaah For th Soviets. And why are you keeping the terribel old ships. Please turn them into scrap or museums.
 
Cool, the Soviets are showing off their new mighty navy. :cool: ...I think you should scrap those old ships too, they're just a waste of supplies.
 
i like the old original ships. i cant quite put my finger on why.
 
@ Kassaka - I meant mostly the operation near Novorossyisk in 1943 where the Soviets disembarked a considerable force to liberate the port from the Germans.

Here's a scan from a history book, pages 1469-1470 mention that the landing force consisted of over 17k soldiers

Surely, that was nothing compared to D-Day or Operation Husky, but the Soviet never trully required such operations to be performed and thus failed to develop specific doctrines, techniques or equipment. And I can name one thing neitheir Brasil, nor Argentina could handle - construction of a battleship-scale craft on their own. IIRC, all the South American dreadnoughts have been constructed in either British or US shipyards and then sold to South America. As I mentioned earlier, in the day of the German invasion, the Soviets had three battleships under construction.

No comments for the AAR, because I think everything has already been said. We'll see how you handle the German threat, then the true fun will begin :)
 
Any plans for Turkey?

Do u have any TP in the south?

Great AAR so far!
 
Keep the old ships. At least the larger ones.

Level One SS's and DD's are pretty useless, but CA's and BB's are not to be wasted.


Anywaysm it was quite halarious the way you worked into the story the obvious fear and alarm of the nations of the world.

I say Naval exercises once a month.
 
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Lord Strange and Storm501 - If it floats, it's good. Plus we only have one new BB and CVL. Hardly a lavish Navy... yet. ;)

BritishImperial - They look cool and have cool name that's why.

Jedrek - Germany doesn't look very threatening now.

koontz - No on both. Apart from being the garantee of the 1921 Treaty, we have decent relations with Turkey. Not to mention that any hostile move could turn international focus on us, which we rather not have at the moment.

Maj. von Mauser - Hey, we don't want them to get to actually know precise stuff about the Soyuz' - only fear it.

roadcop and everyone else - thanks for the continued support. :)
You know I haven't played the game since I started AARing about it. getting Itchy, but gotta catch the AAR up to it.

edit: by the way. I haven't needed it yet, but soon I'll start running out of names for ships. I've got a list of ideas already, but don't know how to translate them to latin-alphabet Russian. Any of yes know how to do it?
 
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