Great work by both you and the Jap player, taking the objectives swiftly with no delay. Lets just hope that the Allies don't drop in on Amsterdam...Just another thought, what are your defences like in the area of Wilhelmshaven? A large assault there with the goal of storming Berlin and/or cutting off the Sickle would be a clever move by them, albeit risky, if your defences are on the weak side.
Probably sounds ridiculous, but trying to provide some conversation on what seems pretty straightforward and clean cut at the moment, besides the risk of an allied defence in Amsterdam, which could provide some difficulty. Keep up the good work CptEasy
For the moment, the defense of Wilhelmshaven is not too strong, but, both the city itself and the neighboring province has troops so the Brits have to fight to even gain a staging post and I have some reserves too. All in all, it is not strong enough for a decisive attack but he won’t get away with a quickie – and I didn’t think he had troops to spare to mount a strong attack. I actually don’t fear an attack there right now, but we’ll see. Maxyboy (UK) is a more careful player than I am, but it also tend to mean that he comes with great force and/or finesse when he feel the time is right.
It sounds more like a plan I would come up with
Your advance is probably too quick for the Allies to react. I doubt that they had many troops in reserve and transporting them takes time. Moreover, they probably fear your potential naval strikes on their ships (they could easily lose as much, if not more, IC-days as you would due to delay), not to mention the fact that they are probably busy with transferring troops to the French-Belgian border.
However, you should be wary of potential threats in the East. The moment when Belgium becomes your enemy, your eastern border becomes threatened. It seems that you have been forced to push for "West first" policy, as advancing on the Eastern Front will be difficult with a long western border ranging from Belgium to Switzerland. If that's the case, then we are about to witness the most crucial phase of your campaign. If you win in France, you have the chance to win this war. Otherwise, you have none.
I hope you are right. That is what I planned for. But just one or two divs would really hurt right now. And for the second part of your text – I totally agree with you. When this two front war started I told the other axis players – if we take either Moscow or Paris, its game over for the Allies. Of course, it not over ‘till the fat lady sings, and I have been wrong before. If I get stuck – then it’s game over for Axis.
The AI really outdid itself here - or it actually anticipated your plan and secretly wanted to join the Axis. A human player who wanted to be puppeted asap couldn't have done it better.
maybe the many rare deals had the ai convinced that you were not as threatening.
Maybe it didn't anticipate a paradrop so far behind the main line.. thought they could march south from Amsterdam and retreat west from the border and form a defensive line along the river. In any case great Aar
Heh, yeah, the whole war was just a huge charade... I like both your explanation. Make sense to me Story-wise it adds up quite nicely - but programming-wise I’m not impressed.
A hello from the shadows. Just wanted to thank you for this aar, it's really great and one of those that really give tention to the story, feels like every squere inch of enemy territory matters. It's very dynamic. Style is simple but well balanced beetwen the story and gameplay. The effort you bring into planning and overthinking the strategy is also, impressive. Well done, i say.
Love all your MP AAR's, great work!
Thanks guys. Like all AAR writers I’m cred-addicted – so your words inspire and give energy. Lots of more material is already produced so it will keep coming.