Nice update concerning the different fields of warfare. I like the way you portrait some people, with their inner thoughts etc. Nice psychology and group psychology thing going on there! But if I understand it correctly, you get a lot of events that make units available? Like event New Aircraft Carrier is ready for deployment etc? Do you actually produce things yourself?
What is the current state of the military, in Air Force and Naval particular?
Keep continuing writing such nice and detailed posts!
Tim
No, the carriers and most of the surface fleet are long-term build queue items. I get the standard Plan Z stuff, which does not include a carrier according to Mod33. By '39, the Luftwaffe consists of one Tac squadron (Luftsportverband, under Grauert), which I start with, and one Transport squadron (Lufthansa, under Zander), which I get from a mobilization event. They explode and modernize starting in 1939, which is why I figure now's a good time to express Goering's bauxite frustrations. The fleet consists of the three pocket battleships,
Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau, the three
Hippers, the aviation cruisers
Hindenburg and
Germania, the upgraded pre-dreadnoughts
Schleswig-Holstein and
Schlesien (considered to be equivalent to
Bayern-class dreadnoughts), the three K-class cruisers, a handful of destroyers, and a seemingly infinite supply of Type IX boats, which form the backbone of the U-waffe rather than the Type VII. There were four stacks of 99 building, so it was unlikely that I was going to run out of U-boats.
The general breakdown by 1941, when it matters, is this (with the caveat that I cannot be absolutely certain which savegames were from this runthrough, but my build results and event results generally look like this):
Kaiserliche Marine
Battleship fleet (Raeder) - 6 battleships
Battlecruiser fleet (Raeder) - 6 battlecruisers
Auxiliary fleet (Raeder) -
Hippers and
Deutschlands, total 6 CA
Carrier fleet ("Canaris," in-game Marschall) - 4 modern carriers, 2 aviation cruisers
Submarine fleet (Dönitz and others) - 18 Type IX flotilla, 4 Type VII flotilla, 2 Type II flotilla
Reichsheer
Armored force (various) - 26 divisions armor, mostly PzKpfW IV
Mobile force (various) - 6 divisions mot. inf.
Guards armored corps (Manstein) - 2 armored, 1 mechanized
1., 2. Guards infantry corps (various) - 6 divisions mot. inf.
Line infantry divisions (various) - 60 divisions plus 40 in subsequent mobilization events
"Freikorps Stahlhelm" - 4 divisions militia
Airborne corps (Student) - 3 divisions
Luftwaffe
12 squadrons CAS (various)
12 squadrons TAC (various)
12 squadrons INT (various)
6 squadrons FTR (various)
3 squadrons Transports (Zander)
Of these, the real standout for event-based units are the infantry divisions, which mobilize from reserves and, scarily enough, often start with 1918-era equipment.