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"Our enemies are little worms; I saw them at Munich"--Adolf Hitler, June 1939, attributed by Johannes Blaskowitz, commander of the occupation of Czechoslavakia in his opening defense statement at Nuremburg.
AoD 1.10, 1936, GER.
Goal is to start the war at Munich and defeat ENG. Avoid war with SOV, even if SOV attacks me before I can finish ENG (not unlikely given my practically non-existent navy and expected ENG production shifts once war starts--which happened; they shifts mostly to INTs and MOTs).
War at Last!
10/12/1938. Delayed the Sudeten Crisis by 17 days because 8 '39 INF were completed 10/2 (since Hitler initiated the crisis, seemed fair).
To make it work, I edited the germany and czech event files so that:
-CZE resists the demand; and
-If/when GER wins, I will fire a modified March '39 HUN partition event giving GER the cores not gained at Munich. Winning is defined as all of the Czech lands (any more and HUN would not get its share).
-Since I could not figure out how to have the Allies DoW GER, had GER DoW them, then edited the save file to back out the 25 belligerence and add the appropriate dissent to ENG (5.6%) and FRA (4.4%). No belligerence for them; they're showing spine.
The economic preparation has been tense. Followed more or less normal economic development, but with fewer x3 and x2 provinces (not justified by Pang's calculation) and those scaled back to x1 earlyish. 324 effective IC at war start vs. 340 for ENG+FRA (with the dissent). >150k oil but in deficit in metal and rares, practically no money, and 30k supplies.
Could not afford:
-Diplomatic initiatives (except SCW; Nats are about to win) or more than minimal espionage.
-Navy. Completed what was working at start (except cancelled the BCs) plus 2 large SS (1 line working), minus the old BCs and DDs which were sold the first day. SS-4s developed but none started.
-Much air force. 2 lines of INT-3 working (one will be short), one each of TAC-3 and CAS-1. Few upgrades.
-Much army. The Austrian army (upgraded to 1936), 16 INF '39 (3 lines stopped at 2 last week, 5 continuing), 23 ART-5 (1 line), 7 ART-4s upgraded from AUS, and what else I started with or inherited. 1 HQ-2 (1 line), 2 HQ-1 (start, inherited). 2 lines of GAR+MP just started. A little tech progress on other land, but no production.
-Much defenses. 7/4/3 forts facing FRA, 8 airbase levels at Cologne and Aachen (1 line), not even any relevant research.
The relatively good news is that our tech is good (we have good progress on industry, Blitzkrieg, and all 6 '38 TAC and CAS techs). Best, the enemy's forces are not stronger than ours:
INF/CAV/MTN/HQ: GER 70, CZE 20 (INF all '36), FRA 49, ENG 24 (but a majority of the FRA and ENG are 1918).
ARM/MOT: GER 3 LARM-1, CZE 4 LARM-2FRA 2 LARM-2, ENG 3 MOT-1. ENG has only 6 mobile divs in the U.K., most of the rest far away. FRA has 40 at home, 6 in NA, 3 far away. We have 8 divs defending the coast, 15 facing FRA, leaving 50 vs CZE.
INT: GER 7 (5 -3s, 2 -2s), opponents 10 (CZE 4 -2s, others mostly -1s)
TAC: GER 7 (1 -3, 3 -2s, 3 -1s). A measure of how tight it's been. Opponents 10 TAC-1. ENG has 3 STR-1, which are actually scary in the circumstances.
CAS: GER 3.
Unfortunately CZE has level 5 forts in four provinces and level 2 everywhere else, so only two attacks today. It's nice and sunny, though.
"Our enemies are little worms; I saw them at Munich"--Adolf Hitler, June 1939, attributed by Johannes Blaskowitz, commander of the occupation of Czechoslavakia in his opening defense statement at Nuremburg.
AoD 1.10, 1936, GER.
Goal is to start the war at Munich and defeat ENG. Avoid war with SOV, even if SOV attacks me before I can finish ENG (not unlikely given my practically non-existent navy and expected ENG production shifts once war starts--which happened; they shifts mostly to INTs and MOTs).
War at Last!
10/12/1938. Delayed the Sudeten Crisis by 17 days because 8 '39 INF were completed 10/2 (since Hitler initiated the crisis, seemed fair).
To make it work, I edited the germany and czech event files so that:
-CZE resists the demand; and
-If/when GER wins, I will fire a modified March '39 HUN partition event giving GER the cores not gained at Munich. Winning is defined as all of the Czech lands (any more and HUN would not get its share).
-Since I could not figure out how to have the Allies DoW GER, had GER DoW them, then edited the save file to back out the 25 belligerence and add the appropriate dissent to ENG (5.6%) and FRA (4.4%). No belligerence for them; they're showing spine.
The economic preparation has been tense. Followed more or less normal economic development, but with fewer x3 and x2 provinces (not justified by Pang's calculation) and those scaled back to x1 earlyish. 324 effective IC at war start vs. 340 for ENG+FRA (with the dissent). >150k oil but in deficit in metal and rares, practically no money, and 30k supplies.
Could not afford:
-Diplomatic initiatives (except SCW; Nats are about to win) or more than minimal espionage.
-Navy. Completed what was working at start (except cancelled the BCs) plus 2 large SS (1 line working), minus the old BCs and DDs which were sold the first day. SS-4s developed but none started.
-Much air force. 2 lines of INT-3 working (one will be short), one each of TAC-3 and CAS-1. Few upgrades.
-Much army. The Austrian army (upgraded to 1936), 16 INF '39 (3 lines stopped at 2 last week, 5 continuing), 23 ART-5 (1 line), 7 ART-4s upgraded from AUS, and what else I started with or inherited. 1 HQ-2 (1 line), 2 HQ-1 (start, inherited). 2 lines of GAR+MP just started. A little tech progress on other land, but no production.
-Much defenses. 7/4/3 forts facing FRA, 8 airbase levels at Cologne and Aachen (1 line), not even any relevant research.
The relatively good news is that our tech is good (we have good progress on industry, Blitzkrieg, and all 6 '38 TAC and CAS techs). Best, the enemy's forces are not stronger than ours:
INF/CAV/MTN/HQ: GER 70, CZE 20 (INF all '36), FRA 49, ENG 24 (but a majority of the FRA and ENG are 1918).
ARM/MOT: GER 3 LARM-1, CZE 4 LARM-2FRA 2 LARM-2, ENG 3 MOT-1. ENG has only 6 mobile divs in the U.K., most of the rest far away. FRA has 40 at home, 6 in NA, 3 far away. We have 8 divs defending the coast, 15 facing FRA, leaving 50 vs CZE.
INT: GER 7 (5 -3s, 2 -2s), opponents 10 (CZE 4 -2s, others mostly -1s)
TAC: GER 7 (1 -3, 3 -2s, 3 -1s). A measure of how tight it's been. Opponents 10 TAC-1. ENG has 3 STR-1, which are actually scary in the circumstances.
CAS: GER 3.
Unfortunately CZE has level 5 forts in four provinces and level 2 everywhere else, so only two attacks today. It's nice and sunny, though.
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