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I still don't know if I will manage Sealion - England is pretty well defended and in the north terrain is rough and I cant use parachutes due to limited TP range (actually 300km). Still I managed to secure the two TP fleets I got with the "captured equipment in France" event. Probably the UK carrier fleets are busy in the med.

Air battle did improve somewhat, but there are still allied fighter groups which could severely harm my bombers in case the fighters flying air sup are not there when the bombers get attacked.

So far I was unsuccessful in sinking RN ships in the channel even though a bunch got severely damaged.

Preparing the next update including annexation of Jugoslavia and rescuing the two transports...
 
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Operation Marita - Part I

To secure the southern flank of "fortress europe" and to relief the pressure on Italy in Nothern Africa Jugoslavia was attacked.




Even though Hungary and Romania were also participating in the war an attack on a friendly Jugoslavia was hurting german diplomatical relations in the Balkan region.




The german troops advanced fast into Jugoslavia.




With allied help Jugoslavian bombers were hurting oil production in Ploesti. Meanwhile Italy was already almost defeated in Northern Africa.




Resistance in the Mostar area was heavy but besides that the troops were advancing as planned.




The next fierce resistance was met in Pristina where the german spearheads were halted in the rough terrain. The german public was disturbed by the news and demanded a faster advance.




Meanwhile Germany executed a rescue mission for the two transport fleets based in France which were attacked by carriers. Fortunately german fighters had prevented the worst, but it would be only a question of time until they would have been sunk. As soon as the recon of the Luftwaffe did no longer report heavy enemy presence the transports went out into the channel by night. The Luftwaffe made sure no air attack was launched and the Kriegsmarine was on its way to escort the ships home. Fortunately the weak enemy forces were driven away by the heavy bombardement and the transport fleets managed to get to Rostock where repairs immediately began. These transports could be valuable in a possible Sealion - but Luftwaffe recon showed that the coastal provinces were heavily defended with twelve divisions in Dover alone.




With the captured french trucks three more divisions had been upgraded.




On october 11th the final strike began. If successfull the german troops would reach the greek border and would crush the last resistance of the jugoslavian army.


 
Yugoslavia is about to fall good job! :)
 
You get events for the upgrading to motorized divisions, too?
 
Things seem to be going quite well for the German army.
 
Yes, you get those events since Germany used the captured trucks to motorize the Wehrmacht. Despite that helpful events overall difficulty of hard in HSR is probably higher then VH in vanilla, but it will need the US and SU in war to check how difficult it indeed is to win over the SU and hold the west.

So far things look good, but the "real" war has not begun yet. I was already getting optimistic about Sealion since the Luftwaffe has finally achieved air superiority over England. The radar stations, airbases and infrastructure there are actually getting bombed to the stoneage even though my bomber wings do suffer, too. But finally those "killer stacks" are showing up again which contain 30 ships including several carriers. It will probably be suicide trying to engage them. Naval bombing is so far only damaging the RN, but still no ship has been sunk even when I bombed 2 ships with 7 planes - not to speak of the big stacks which are not even scratched by the naval bombardement.

Preparing the next update...
 
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Operation Marita - Part II

On october 14th the german troops finally reached the greece border and Yugoslavia was annexed.




More Infantry was motorized.




Even though Germany intended to grant independence to Croatia and the other balkan countries this was yet not possible. The access to the mediterranean was critical for further offenses in the east.




On october 17th the border to Greece was crossed.




The conquest of Yugoslavia was celebrated at home, meanwhile the UK landed an expedition force in Greece to stop the Germans.




General Rommel pushed southwards though heavy rain was hampering the tank movement. The UK defended fiercely but in the end they could not hold Athens against the flood of german tanks.




Now only the heavy fortified positions around Saloniki were holding out. The Luftwaffe was helping out with bombardements and the defenders were defeated.




Military equipment had been conquered in Yugoslavia and was brought to good use in the Reich.



On october 23rd the campaign in Greece was already over and Greece annexed.


 
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So HSR nerfs NAVstacks?
 
I think so. Naval bombardements are probably less effective, at least by the basic naval bombers I have.

Next update will be air battle over England, future perspectives and Sealion if I will manage to beat the RN.
 
Nice it will be exiting to see how Sealion is like in the HSR-mod :D
 
Yes that was because of the upgrade event. The infantry is removed and you receive mot divisions instead. Might lead to that message if the divisions are in a small unit which is eradicated by the event.

Update is delayed because I couldn't stop playing - it got real interesting :D
 
Time of Preparation - Part I

Germany had expanded well so far, but now was the time to think about the future. One serious problem was the manpower situation - a huge force buildup and the constant losses due to Airbattle over England were showing effects. An attack on Turkey could provoke a SU DOW and was therefore postponed since Germany was still far from ready to face the red hordes. Instead trying to coup Turkey was an option. Same for Sweden while Spain, Argentina and Portugal should be befriended and hopefully their isolationism would be reduced somewhat. Meanwhile blueprint stealing from the enemies would be executed as much as possible (even though it had shown not much effect so far). Research was critical and the Allies were a tad bit ahead of Germany.




The Allies began raiding Ploesti from their Airbase on Crete.




The campaign in Greece and the capture of the british expedition force were a huge success. Meanwhile the Luftwaffe bombed East England focusing on infra structure and airbases to supporting grinding down the RAF by the fighters and interceptors flying air superiority over southern England.




A lot of equipment was captured in Greece including a full transport fleet.




Only very few RN ships were entering the zone of german air superiority. The huge RN carrier fleets - approx 2-3 - were also mostly staying out of range and when bombed they usually managed to fend off most attacks. Several RN ships would be somewhat damaged but only very few would be sunk. This was a big problem since the Kriegsmarine could not hope to win sea battles against those fleets which not even included carriers but also battleships. The Luftwaffe was therefore supposed to decimate the RN. But the RN was simply staying out of range which would leave the big fleets virtually untouched, making Sealion a huge risk.




There were discussions about stopping the air raids on Ploesti by a airborne operation on Crete. But the Parachutes were needed also for a possible Sealion and the operation in Crete was postponed.




On November 16th the Tripartite Pact was signed.




Runways in eastern England were destroyed, but since the RAF were using surrounding airbases the range of operations was increased. Meanwhile a Siamese fleet was visiting Germany and they were welcome warmly.




Despite the constant drain of manpower the air operations over England were continued. Many allied airwings were badly hurt and had no more infrastructure for sufficient repairs, some had been even completely annihalated.


 
Time of Preparation - Part II

When full air superiority was achieved and recon planes showed no sight of enemy fleets the Kriegsmarine was heading to England. Air recon had shown that Dover was lightly defended probably since no one expected an attack there due to the massive coastal fortifications. But On the other hand it was a good spot to withstand any british counterattack since the Themse was a natural barrier.




Right when the Marines were boarding the landing vessels alarming news reached the invasion force. A strong RN Carrier and Battleship fleet was heading their way with full speed! Under this conditions an invasion was not possible and the Kriegsmarine retreated.




Weather was getting worse making an invasion impossible. Air battle over England was continued in reduced form trying to keep the RAF from regaining strength. Naval bombardements were unsuccessful since the large carrier fleets, the primary target, did not show up. Even limited Kriegsmarine operations to lure then RN into battle did show no effect, the RN was staying out of bomberrange. At least a diplomatical success was achieved when Bulgaria finally joined the Axis.




Few actions were seen in the last days of 1940 due to weather and christmas time.


 
You can still renew the preparations in the spring. Crushing Britain probably won't repuire a large number of land forces, so you can allocate most of them to the border with Soviet Union and start preparing on that front as well.
 
I think you will need a big taskforce with carriers to sink some of those british ships that should make the operation easier :)
 
@kami888
That's the plan :)
At least the AI in HSR guards the British Isles somewhat (estimate about 30-40 divs) so 20+ elite divisions are needed. They also have some armoured divisions there.

@lifeless
Indeed. But the real headache are that 2-3 killer stacks which could easy sink the whole Kriegsmarine due to superior CV and BB numbers. And they can't even be decimated in by the Luftwaffe ahead of a possible invasion since they stay out of range.

@General Jac
The problem is that I have none at my disposal :p
Just the Graf Zeppelin, Bismarck and Tirpitz can't hope to destroy those meanwhile about 15 Carriers and 15-20 Battleships.

As a sidenote: I probably won't be able to update the AAR the next few days because I have to travel some.
 
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Early 1941

Plane designs were subject of ongoing research and improvement.




In times of war people at home had to make some sacrifices.




Germany was leading nation when it came to industrial research but elsewise the Allies had a slight advantage in research.




As of today there are still different oppinions why Rudolf Hess flew to Britain.


Historical Informations

Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, a silent workhorse as was Hess, took over the position of Hess. This choice was not very popular with many leading politicians and some dissent was caused.

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More SS units were formed - among it the famous tank division "Wiking".



Due to air superiority of the Luftwaffe the RN was staying mostly out of bomber range. Very rare were the occasions when the Luftwaffe could effectively bomb a RN taskforce.




In march the weather finally began to warm up. The RN was very active in the mediterranean, but the italian Navy was fighting back successfully in combination with naval bombers. The RN was also attacking greece ports, sinking german transport ships which were captured after the fall of Greece.

Germany had meanwhile finished preparations for Sealion. Two parachute divisions and two air transports were ready for action and an invasion force was waiting to be shipped from Amsterdam. The Luftwaffe was continously flying recon operations to make sure no british taskforce would interfere the Kriegsmarine. Finally the Kriegsmarine was again on target for Dover, six Marine divisions on board of the transports.

Now the only question was when the RN would show up...
 
The Brits will not like to have your elite german marines on their beaches methinks ;)
 
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