"He may be an SOB, but he is our kind of SOB"

son of liberty · Oct 29, 2011

Even before my dow vs Bolivia/Brazil, La Plata was beating them and was deep into Brazilian territory. I had to dow La Plata in order to attack Brazil's major cities.

I am surprised that the KR ai does not seem to spend much effort on upgrades.

One interesting effect of fighting in all these terrain types, and in such long lasting battles, is the proliferation of terrain traits. Several of my main leaders have 2-3 traits each.

Germany keeps stealing my outlying islands. I am deploying marines to reclaim, but lack of escort fleets for the transport fleets hampers my efforts.

I must have caught Von Kluge on vacation or something. Why else would a winter specialist be in Brazil LOL.

So, who decided on motorcycles for motorized cavalry?

One downside to playing the US as a dictatorship. I don't usually have to worry about partisans. I am building garrisons. Actually, I believe gar/art makes up the bulk of my military at the moment.

The naval game is starting to heat up. My enemies really love sinking my convoys. I am actually running twice the number of convoy builds than I would in a normal game.

First major sub vs sub engagement.

Finally able to start battling Brazilians.

That Italian battle fleet is still lurking around. I wish the fleet would finish building. :sad:

Sorry, but the only peace I offer is the peace of unconditional surrender.

son of liberty · Oct 29, 2011

These shots will bring you almost up to date. I was actually to busy to play this week, but I will get some playing done today. I only have 10 screen shots left after these.

son of liberty · Oct 29, 2011

Kluge in Brazil? Rundstedt in Alaska? Man the ai is weird.

I wasn't planning to ally Japan, but I was curious,

so, we know the ai will use nukes. I am fighting all of the majors except Japan(that will come soon enough), an investment in nuclear technology seems prudent.

Retaking Wake. Australia has a major carrier fleet in the area.

Germany keeps taking undefended islands. I send my Marines to take them back and then ship garrisons to the important ones.

Delhi has been holding Trinidad for quite sometime. I finally have the Marines and the free time to take it back.

One of my SAGs is finally ready for duty

Two obsolete sub fleets totally pwn'd the Austrian navy. There were only 4 up to date subs involved. The rest were subs captured during the ACW.

son of liberty · Oct 29, 2011

son of liberty · Oct 30, 2011

So the first few months of active naval warfare are going well. My wolfpacks are doing exceptionally well. As soon as we gain naval superiority in the Atlantic, we will reclaim Liberia and then the rest of Africa. I plan to save Europe and Japan for last. I will grab all the major islands in 1942 including The Philippines, England and Ireland but not Japan. I want to prolong the naval war, so will leave the Japanese home islands alone until near the end.

son of liberty · Oct 30, 2011

I am now up to early 42 and the naval contest is a good one, though my more modernized USN is definitely showing her worth. The USN is far and away the most modern navy, and it is heavily brigaded giving it yet another leg up. All of my sea-wolves have wolf packs of 12 subs except Fife, he only has 5 subs atm but more are under construction. I started the naval campaign with aggressive coastal defense and island hopping in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At my current stopping point I control Truk as my advance base in the Pacific, and half the Canary Islands as my advance base in the Atlantic.

son of liberty · Oct 30, 2011

I complete the build of the USMC, 24 divisions strong. Some of them are designed for jungle warfare(mar/eng) in Africa and southeast Asia. The rest are assault forces designed to take heavily defended islands(mar/spart). The remainder of the pics here show my attempts to gain naval superiority.

son of liberty · Oct 30, 2011

This post will catch you back up. My plan is to jump off from the Canary Islands and begin the subjugation of Africa. Liberia will be my first target. Then Nationalist France. In the Pacific, I will use Truk as a base for seizing the Philippines. Control of the Philippine islands gives me easy access to all of east Asia.

son of liberty · Oct 31, 2011

At this point, I realize that I have simply not built enough divisions. However, I cannot really start a major crash building program for almost a year. Thus I must concentrate on one theater at a time. So in Africa we press on for the annexation of Nationalist France. While in the Pacific theater of operations we adopt a more conservative strategy and only grab a couple key islands while still engaging the various enemy fleets. I have to say that the event dissolving all my militia/art at the end of the ACW cost me that year of production. If I could use all the inf I have doing beach defense, I would be much farther ahead of the game.

son of liberty · Oct 31, 2011

son of liberty · Oct 31, 2011

son of liberty · Oct 31, 2011

son of liberty · Oct 31, 2011

This will catch you up again. I just realized that I am not at war with the Union of Britain. That will be rectified in the next session. I have already taken Iceland as the first step to attacking the UoB, Ireland will be next and then the fortress island itself. I say "fortress island" because every beach has at least 6 defenders. I may need all of my Marines and Rangers to make the first couple of breaches. Once my main armored and motorized forces land though it should be fair;y easy. The other concern will be their navy. While mine is much larger, theirs only has to cover a very small area.

I am raiding the German possessions in the south Pacific, I will station no troops there until I am ready to invade Australia. The raids are to destroy their troops and damage the bases themselves. I am only attacking islands that have naval and/or air bases. Once all of the German south Pacific assets are out of the way, I will attack the Philippines.

son of liberty · Nov 1, 2011

Due to a large number of naval battles, the attack against the UoB had to be postponed. Apparently the European powers are not satisfied with the large haircuts their fleets have received. I guess I have to trim them down a little more and then UoB can be attacked. It was probably better to wait until after the winter anyway given UoB's strong beach defenses.

son of liberty · Nov 2, 2011

I made a big mistake in my intended invasion of Ireland. I sent 3 marine and 3 ranger(mountain) divisions to attack Galway. However, I forgot to promote Lt General Holcomb to General. As a result that attack dragged on and on giving the Irish time to reinforce. MacArthur turned it around though by ordering an attack on Belfast. That garrison had been stripped to a mere unbrigaded militia division. American forces were able to land in Belfast and send troops to support the still ongoing assault of Galway. Defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory by simple game mechanics.

o My transport fleet was under orders to conduct the attack for the default time period and thus broke off the attack just as we were about to win. I learned an important lesson and will now direct the transport fleets to engage for at least 1 year.

The air war over North Africa is pretty intense. I have 2 ftr and 2 interceptor air-wings patrolling the theater. ((I consider 1 in game plane a "squadron" and 4 squadrons a "wing"))

Finally the long awaited dow against the current bastion of syndicalism The Union of Britain must fall.

son of liberty · Nov 3, 2011

I am on a brief hiatus while I ask the devs to address a bug. Playing KR US campaign. I have annexed National France and occupy North Africa. The ai will only send supply convoys to Algiers, and I cannot manually choose any place else in Africa. I hold all of the major Atlantic ports, Casablanca, Tangiers, Dakar etc...
I cannot even choose my original landing spot of Monrovia. DH/KR latest released patches with minor modifications; 10 tech teams, shorter diplomatic and spy ops times, changes to the US officer corps to reflect my beliefs about what they should be. No changes regarding the trading set up at all. This is a problem because I am at war with Spain and Spain holds Gibraltar, I am also at war with Germany and Germany holds the Suez.

Timmie0307 · Nov 3, 2011

son of liberty said:
I am on a brief hiatus while I ask the devs to address a bug. Playing KR US campaign. I have annexed National France and occupy North Africa. The ai will only send supply convoys to Algiers, and I cannot manually choose any place else in Africa. I hold all of the major Atlantic ports, Casablanca, Tangiers, Dakar etc...
I cannot even choose my original landing spot of Monrovia. DH/KR latest released patches with minor modifications; 10 tech teams, shorter diplomatic and spy ops times, changes to the US officer corps to reflect my beliefs about what they should be. No changes regarding the trading set up at all. This is a problem because I am at war with Spain and Spain holds Gibraltar, I am also at war with Germany and Germany holds the Suez.

I can't help you with the problem although I understand what you mean. Maybe you should try and capture Gibraltar at all costs. On the other hand I can imagine that it takes quite a while for supplies to be put through the Sahara from Monrovia to Algiers (if that's what you mean) so storywise it would be correct..

Nevertheless fine updates, you are getting closer and closer to the heart of the enemy, as usual: Berlin...

what about partisans, are they a pain in the ass?

Tim

son of liberty · Nov 3, 2011

LOL, I have 137 garrison divisions. Does that answer your question? Martin has suggested I add 20 vp to Casablanca which should, in his opinion, redirect the transports to choose it over Algiers. By the time I take Gibraltar, my troops in Africa would be withered to almost no strength. I would have to go back to my previous saves, 9 game months prior. It would also require a complete change up of my force dispositions since I am ready to invade the Union of Britain with the bulk of my troops staged in Dublin for the attack.

son of liberty · Nov 4, 2011

MartinBG came up with a work around for me. There will be an update later today.

son of liberty · Nov 4, 2011

With Martin's work around in place, we resume the war. First comes the requisite naval battles to diminish their fleet. UoB is the second most powerful naval power in the world atm. Their number of CVs outnumbers what I have in theater. Same with their BBs and BCs. I can only hope that my battle tested leaders, experienced crews, and (hopefully)higher quality warships give me an advantage. UoB also has a very large force of naval bombers. Thier is no way my fleets make it through this unscathed. With that consideration, I have already started building replacement ships.

"He may be an SOB, but he is our kind of SOB"

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