The AI switch files at this point in the game instruct the USA and ENG AI's to give high priority to amphibious assaults on the French coast. Unfortunately, however, the AI often ignores these instructions, and just stacks like 30-50 divisions in random provinces instead of actually using them in combat....
Good to know they'll prioritise France. AI inactivity seems to be hardcoded. Would switching the AI to aggressive help or would that do more harm then good?
Vichy France stays in the fight until the bitter end. (VIC is quite angry about the British scuttling the French navy, among other things). The event series to have Franco's Nationalist Spain join the Axis will cause Vichy France to collapse, but other than that, VIC behaves like a normal country.
Fair enough, not that historical, but I'm not complaining! It's good to have an ally with 7 interceptors and enough troops to defend the southern-French coast.
One thing to watch for is VIC's IC. If the Allies bomb it down to zero, then the entire VIC army will starve and die from lack of supplies. (Same can happen with Bulgaria, too). Make sure you periodically check those countries' supply level (you can see that in the diplomatic screen if you start to make a deal with them). If their supplies are very low, send them some.
Thanks, I will keep an eye on that.
What an epic struggle! Certainly this will be somebody's bitter end!
It will indeed! Hopefully the war has irrevocably turned in my favour! At least on the eastern front anyways.
Luftwaffe: While I'm not in the pilot's seat, I can clearly see the difference when you engage with only 3 wings, or a proper minimum of 4. But generally, the modernization seems to be holding off the Allies. As regards the dimise of the SU airforce, it might become a surprise - if there are reinfocements, but now all going into the Red Army (?
I am trying to use 4 wings, I only have 3 when 1 wing is so badly damaged I need to send it to Berlin so it can avoid combat for several weeks/months and get some R&R. Not sure why the Soviet AI isn't reinforcing its airforce, maybe (hopefully) it's because it's maxing out production of new air and army units.
Norway: That cost the Brits a lot.
It really did, I'm surprised they used armoured divisions to invade, hopefully it'll be the same in France, only not during the actual landing process! Norway should be secure now thanks to the Kriegsmarine and me sending enough units to Norway for a secure defence. I could place more coastal forts there, but there are more important places that need defending to be honest. I do not need metal from Sweden now Metz has been fully repaired and its infra maxed out at 200. Although it has been trading several rares with me.
Resources: Well, again you seem to have moved beyound several crises.
Somehow I can been. Italy will at least be able to give me 5k rares in the upcoming months, meaning German industry should survive at maximum capacity into 1945. I am also building up Hannover's infrastructure, and Baku's in order to alleviate the oil and rares problem. As I said to Barvinok, invading Persia is also a possibility in order to get even more oil. But not sure if that'll lead to a complete collapse on that front. My army is simply not big enough to invade Persia unless I am able to free up a significant amount of troops from the eastern front.
Casaulties: Over 2 million KIA - tragic but true (abouts). However, your reinforcements slider is the best caught up I've yet seen, meaning the succesful air defense is paying dividends.
Thankyou, I got the idea to only reiforce land units that are away from the front from panzergenerals and it is certainly paying dividends.
Tunisia: 70 divisions and nothing much to transport them... how nice, and most forunate!
I am suprised Japan has been able to sink so many US transport ships, I guess the AI is doing its suicidal (and not in a good way) stratey of using unescorted transport ships.
Bermuda: Well, I suppose one must try these things. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. In your case: Ventured, but no goal gained!
Exactly, it would've been nice to get all those rares the French must have but luckily for the Allies, it was not the case. Maybe the French had based must of their units in Libreville anyway, so the plan might have failed in the first place.
Baku: This looks quite insecure to me... hope you can hang onto it... but that's getting to be a very long east-stretching front. Now's when you need all those disbanded MOTs since you have the oil and the spaces to roam. Aren't war plans ironic? Well, you still have the ARM. How many divisions might that be?
Very ironice, but needed to be done. I should be able to upgrade my infantry to 1945 if the oil situation stabilises. I have a total of 17 l.arm and arm divisions.
Spies: Too bad player can't get better info on things like MP pool, etc than deductions based on battles fought.
Yeah I agree. In real life the Germans made quite accurate estimates asto what avaliable manpower the Soviets had each year. Although they also made wrong assumptions about how many would go into industry or the military etc.
Manhatten: But this might all change with a big BOOM! Hopefully the AI will stay historic and only bomb Japan.
I highly doubt (but highly hope) so! I imagine Gringoesteban has made specific AI files that enoucrage the US to bomb Berlin once it has nukes.
Great AAR... chin up, brave face... march on to your glory or doom. GOOD LUCK!
Thankyou, I will certainly march to the very end, even if that means going beyond 1946 (which is the end year for the mod).
Request: I would like to see more regularly not the production but the IC sliders on production display. The FULL OUT zooms are great. As long as I can find Riga, Warsaw, Kiev and Moscow, no problem. I guess I should start looking for Stalingrad.
As In editing out the production side of the screenshot to just include the IC sliders? If so, yes I can do that.
I am always happy to oblige. Although I hope there will be no changes regarding Warsaw or Kiev. Kiev now has 6 land fortifications so the Red Army can try all it wants to take the city! Their might be an upcoming change regarding Stalingrad, maybe even Moscow. Only time will tell
Scouting from Astrakhan wouldn't be too dangerous, I guess. Looking forward to V-1 attacks, and the capture of Stalingrad. Maybe an all-front offensive to finally topple the Red Army?
The Red Air Force is no longer a threat so Astrakhan is probably the best option, just need enough units to capture it. Its a marshland so it'll take a while to capture but it should be more-then worth it. The Red Army is certainly weak in the south, but not so sure in the centre and north. I think they outnumber most of my forces 2-to-1, it's suprising they haven't attacked there. Although I have placed at least 2 land fortifications on every bordering province with the USSR, except Riga as I don't expect to hold the city for much longer.