Hmm the Aussie L.Arm is a giant among the Nationalists with its 2-2 rating against the 1-1 Spanish units.
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Let's just say I'll be doing more island hopping than fleet destroying.Good luck against Armada, mister Big Navy
Or in other words, I'm staying as far as I can from the US
I'm surprised how powerful that unit is. I just built it from the leftover IC from custom game mode, thinking it might be a nice support. But wow, it's taken river provinces by itself, sometimes while being bombed. Sadly, I can't really show much of that - I could make a whole AAR out of that one unit if I posted every single battle
I'm convinced that without it, the nationalists would have probably lost.
Apparently, we have pretty high quality tanks. That's what the naval generals keep saying. We were doing alright in Madrid. God knows why we were in Madrid anyway.
Then with a bit of nationalist help, we managed to take the city.
But then came news that actually interested me. We got a new ship. We were sent pictures of it through some convoys. It looked pretty powerful, I have to admit. I might try to see if I can work on there. Probably more fun than on transport ships, that's for sure.
Oh, and alongside that, we had finished training infantry.
Why on Earth do we need infantry? What are we doing - planning to invade Japan or something? But I'm getting the strangest feeling we're going to be caught up in some big war sooner or later. Hitler reoccupied some industrial area and the Allies were not all too happy about it. Well, at least Germany's going well. Maybe they'll invade France, and that will be interesting. Oh, and I think the guys over here were getting bored of my questioning, because they told me I could go to expeditionary HQ tomorrow.
Alright, I'm somewhere in the middle of Spain. Our tanks were given orders to take a vital airbase. I know that Spain doesn't have too many of these, so I can sort of understand the necessity of this.
The generals were raging all last night. I could barely get to sleep. The nationalists were supposed to protect the lines or something. They didn't sound too happy.
The nationalists took a few days to do anything, but eventually the tanks were given a new location to go to. The temporarily relocated capital of the republicans, I believe. These nationalists are quite stupid; it would have been much easier to just invade by sea instead of spending months trying to get to this southern area by land. We couldn't do that as our supply lines would be too stretched, but surely they could? We had transport ships here, and they've been waiting for something to do!
Wow. Finally the republicans surrendered.
I'm surprised to hear it, but many of their politicians admitted our light armour was the most detrimental unit in the whole war.
But at least I can finally go home.
I suppose I've learned one thing: I think the generals are trusting me a bit more. Just a few hours ago, they openly mentioned our next mission in front of me. I'm not sure I want to be a part of it.
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You should send your German allies your Armour Training books
Meanwhile, the heavy armour starts pouring out of the factories...
Both. We won't have enough money to keep buying licenses. Until our ships have been researched to a level I'm happy with, I'm just going to buy licenses though. I think I'm only going to license planes and never research them, that's too much research for tiny Australia to manage otherwise.
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I'm sure we'll be the terror of the IS-2s and T-34s
Well, I'm back in Australia. For a few days, while we refuel and reorganise. We're getting ready to load our men on board again. This time, we have some infantry.
I was ordered to move to the south of New Zealand, where we would be attack in great power, in a giant surprise attack. Why are we invading New Zealand? I thought they were our allies!
Also, we got a nice new interceptor, and we purchased a production license from Japan to produce 'close air support'. Tactical bombers are too expensive to produce. Which I have to wonder - if we don't have industry to produce tactical bombers, why are we being so aggressive anyway? Surely the USA is eventually going to snap out of their isolation and stop us? Who can we rely on then - our only allies are Spain and Germany and they barely have a navy to speak of.
We won the battle pretty quickly.
The New Zealand army decided to evacuate the whole southern island, practically giving us Christchurch.
We secured more ports quickly.
The New Zealand army rushed to take this port back from us. While their divisions were busy, we flanked them and took them by surprise. A desperate counter-attack by the New Zealanders was launched, when they realised what had happened, but that ended in hours.
My fleet then sent up an infantry division to take yet more territory from our new enemy. They gave up pretty quickly after this.
When I arrived back in Australia, I talked to some of the people at expeditionary HQ. They were planning a huge expansion of the navy.
And we also got a shiny new ship.
Alright. I've just been told we're going to be doing some actual naval stuff, not just transporting infantry. Oh, and great news! I'll be working on a proper fighting ship. Finally! Some of the people were wondering who we could possibly be standing up against, navally. But through my talks with HQ, I knew already. Japan was going to invade China and they had seen the might of our light armour division. With the promise that they would give us one of the captured cities, Australia had eagerly agreed to help them out. It would be a great way to test out our new interceptor and our expanding navy too.
I still have no idea what's going on - why are we allied with Germany, helping nationalist spain, invading New Zealand and now helping Japan? I must be missing something here. HQ is refusing to tell me and none of my friends know what's going on.
It's like a giant plot to overthrow England - Germany, nationalist Spain and Japan are all their theoretical enemies and New Zealand was an ally. Huh.
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Avid reader of the four faction war here-definitely subbing to this one, can't wait to see how it pans out
Avid reader of the four faction war here-definitely subbing to this one, can't wait to see how it pans out
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Oh, I probably should be doing one of those graphs that I used to do. It would be a nice addition. I can't do it now as I don't have saves files pre-invasion
Well, I'll have to do it in future
I believe it was 3 more IC in total (+1 base IC) with .2 manpower and I have no idea what the leadership gain was.
Quick question: would you guys prefer/like me to have this as more of a diary entry ('dear diary, today i' sort of thing)? I could have each post as a different diary entry, and it might be a bit neater and collected than the current system which has tenses mixed up all over the place. What do you guys think?
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I like the current style to be honest, the dear diary thing isn't necessary for me.
Interesting work.
Just as a sidenote though...you might get better results by replacing one of those AC with a CAV or MOT, or one of the LARM for that matter. For one, you would get better defensiveness and soft attack, but also you would get a combined arms bonus (I assume you are playing TFH?).
Just as a sidenote though...you might get better results by replacing one of those AC with a CAV or MOT, or one of the LARM for that matter. For one, you would get better defensiveness and soft attack, but also you would get a combined arms bonus (I assume you are playing TFH?).
Alright, thanks for the feedback
I shall keep it how it is.
Thanks
Wouldn't I get higher combined arms with an AC (it's support, whereas CAV and MOT are both infantry) though? Although CAV and MOT are definitely preferable, I need to greatly expand Australia's navy at the moment, sadly at the expense of my land forces. ACs are cheap and give a little motorised production bonus anyway, which definitely will be useful when I start building motorised again sometime in the future. And cavalry doesn't upgrade well
When I finish a few of my expensive ships, I'll grab some MOT and LARM. At the moment I just don't have the industry to support that.
The Japanese certainly were not going to be wasting time. Straight after securing a promise that we would help them, they declared war on the Chinese.
To my knowledge, this then lead to Germany, under pressure by our government and Japan's, allowing them to join in an alliance. That's what I gathered from the official speeches. I'm not that surprised that the Allies were looking angrily at us. They knew we were up to something.
It was a bit uninspiring to say the least, when I saw what we were up against. Yunnan, seeing that Australia had joined Japan in declaring war, promised to help China. This was going to be big. Strangely enough, we aren't war with Shanxi. I don't know why.
The transport flotilla arrived with light armour quickly, to the relief of the Japanese who already were encountering powerful resistance to their invasion.
I can hear a voice on my ship's radio. Australia has just entered 'a new age of power and alliances'. Whatever that means. All I know is that more ships are going to be coming out of our factories.
Japan requested our navy to help them destroy the Chinese navy. As I was relocated to our beautiful HMAS Australia (which was soon to be renamed AS Australia. Apparently 'Her Majesty's Australian Ship' was no longer a prefix our navy would be using), I immediately got to work doing things.
I think these were just tests to see how efficiently we could cooperate with the Japanese navy. None of us spoke Japanese and few of them spoke English, so it didn't go hugely well. We gave the Chinese a huge scare when a little destroyer came across a rather large fleet. Our other fleet began anti-convoy duties to see how efficient they were. This is all a test of our navy's strength, I bet.
I can hear the radio, some men are cheering and others booing. The results for the election have just come in. I'm apolitical so I didn't really care who won or not.
Meanwhile, our light armour division came across a Chinese strongpoint. The Japanese had been trying to dislodge the forces for days, and finally we came to their help.
There were 350 casualties on our side in that battle, but most of those were Japanese. We did inflict most of the Chinese casualties, however; a fact that expeditionary HQ was proud of.
Our first real naval encounter happened a few hours ago. Some of their ships escaped to their docks, unfortunately. But we managed to sink one vessel. Some scouting boats have been sent to see if there are any survivors.
And yeah. Today the orders came in to actually change the names of the ships. They're naming our battlecruiser (which we're going to get soon!) AS Australia, and renamed HMAS Australia to AS Superior. No idea why. Sounds cool, I guess. The fleet's changing its name tomorrow to something completely different.
Okay, I seriously think Britain has just given up on us. So we can't use the words 'Her Majesty's' in our ship names anymore it seems, our airforce is no longer 'Royal', and we're allied with Japan and Germany? I have to ask somebody in power about this soon.
Yep. I asked somebody about it and they said England pretty much hates us. They're calling us aggressive, stupid and evil. And they feel very worried about their Pacific territorial holdings being taken by us, it seems.
At least the Chinese navy is falling apart.
Those ancient ships really don't threaten anybody.
And so Australia joins Japan in a new dawn in the Far East.
I wonder what the Americans will think of this, hehehe.
I wonder what the Americans will think of this, hehehe.
Alright, thanks for the feedback
I shall keep it how it is.
Thanks
Wouldn't I get higher combined arms with an AC (it's support, whereas CAV and MOT are both infantry) though? Although CAV and MOT are definitely preferable, I need to greatly expand Australia's navy at the moment, sadly at the expense of my land forces. ACs are cheap and give a little motorised production bonus anyway, which definitely will be useful when I start building motorised again sometime in the future. And cavalry doesn't upgrade well
When I finish a few of my expensive ships, I'll grab some MOT and LARM. At the moment I just don't have the industry to support that.
Problem is, without an infantry component such as MOT or CAV, you don't get any CA bonus. However, if you put one in there, and then setup your OOB so your HQs have Battlemasters, you'll get a very nice CA bonus.
But, for australia, its not mega important to max the CA. Your BMs are only level 1 or 2. It stacks but not incredibly so.
Keep in mind though, that CAV and MOT both have better defensiveness and terraing penalties than AC.