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what would our soviet masters say about delay's! they would reward you for drawing more viewers with your brilliant cliffhangers, just like American idol
I plead guilty as charged, Comrade Comissar. The evil capitalist pigs made me focus on other duties, distracting me from my obligation to the motherland!
OOC: Consider the following the 'correct version of mid-August, as the save I made at the end of it was corrupted - again!
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By early August, the American High Command realized the strength and numbers in which the Soviet troops had swarmed ashore in, and their findings shocked them. This resulted in the greatest move of men and materials westward since the days of the Manifest Destiny, as American armoured, motorized and infantry divisions, as well as ships and air groups moved to the frontline in America's homeland.
While the huge numbers of troops and tanks fought it out on the ground, up above the skies were just as dangerous. The VVS, lacking the short supply lines and spare aircraft, was forced to defend its own airspace, being extremely limited in replacement aircraft, and only operating out of Los Angeles airfield, and a few dirt strips in the countryside.
Losses were heavy, and all too often the American bombers reached their targets.
A typical engagement during a attack by a Soviet OMG.
Meanwhile, at sea, the American Navy had realized the situation, and the possibilites it presented them to strike back at the Soviets. Hampered by long supply lines and little air cover, the American Pacific Fleet began to insert raiding groups to mop up the convoys bringing supplies and replacements to the Soviet beachhead.
The crux came on the 5th of August, as a American carrier task force under Admiral English intercepted a convoy headed for Los Angeles. In a brutal daylight engagement, the Soviet crusiers managed to beat off the American surface ships, forcing the carriers to withdraw, but not before inflicting a heavy toll on them before the arrival of the Soviet Far East Fleet's air combat groups forced a withdrawal.
The engagement at its height, as the Far East Fleet steamed to the rescue.
The Soviets had swapped two light and a heavy crusier for a collection of destroyers and a light crusier. A terrible swap, as the Soviet Navy could ill afford to lose such modern combat ships so far from replacements or support.
Soviet merchant ship afire after the American attack. It made port in Pearl Harbour, and underwent emergency repairs.
While the American Navy played a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the Soviet Far East Squadrons, the long-awaited American counter-attack developed.
It fell along the far northern flank of the Soviet lines, through a small town called Greenfield. Dozens of armoured divisions on both sides were deployed to the area, as the Russian Amerika Army HQ in Los Angeles send units into the grinder in a attempt to halt the American's drive.
Soviet tanks moving to the frontline. Hundreds of simmilar tanks followed them.
The fighting was extremely brutal, as the American tanks attempted to drive through a mixed defense of armoured units, mechanzied divisions and marine infantry. Often units would be cut off and fight to the death, and the Soviet command managed only to keep the entire frontline together by rotating units from quiet sectors into the battle, and replacing them with battle-damaged units instead.
Soviet infantryman attempting to attack a American tank around the Greenfield area.
The losses for both sides were extremely heavy, but eventualy, the Americans, disgusted by the huge slaughter, withdrew.
Current OOB of Soviet troops in America
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By early August, the American High Command realized the strength and numbers in which the Soviet troops had swarmed ashore in, and their findings shocked them. This resulted in the greatest move of men and materials westward since the days of the Manifest Destiny, as American armoured, motorized and infantry divisions, as well as ships and air groups moved to the frontline in America's homeland.
While the huge numbers of troops and tanks fought it out on the ground, up above the skies were just as dangerous. The VVS, lacking the short supply lines and spare aircraft, was forced to defend its own airspace, being extremely limited in replacement aircraft, and only operating out of Los Angeles airfield, and a few dirt strips in the countryside.
Losses were heavy, and all too often the American bombers reached their targets.
A typical engagement during a attack by a Soviet OMG.
Meanwhile, at sea, the American Navy had realized the situation, and the possibilites it presented them to strike back at the Soviets. Hampered by long supply lines and little air cover, the American Pacific Fleet began to insert raiding groups to mop up the convoys bringing supplies and replacements to the Soviet beachhead.
The crux came on the 5th of August, as a American carrier task force under Admiral English intercepted a convoy headed for Los Angeles. In a brutal daylight engagement, the Soviet crusiers managed to beat off the American surface ships, forcing the carriers to withdraw, but not before inflicting a heavy toll on them before the arrival of the Soviet Far East Fleet's air combat groups forced a withdrawal.
The engagement at its height, as the Far East Fleet steamed to the rescue.
The Soviets had swapped two light and a heavy crusier for a collection of destroyers and a light crusier. A terrible swap, as the Soviet Navy could ill afford to lose such modern combat ships so far from replacements or support.
Soviet merchant ship afire after the American attack. It made port in Pearl Harbour, and underwent emergency repairs.
While the American Navy played a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the Soviet Far East Squadrons, the long-awaited American counter-attack developed.
It fell along the far northern flank of the Soviet lines, through a small town called Greenfield. Dozens of armoured divisions on both sides were deployed to the area, as the Russian Amerika Army HQ in Los Angeles send units into the grinder in a attempt to halt the American's drive.
Soviet tanks moving to the frontline. Hundreds of simmilar tanks followed them.
The fighting was extremely brutal, as the American tanks attempted to drive through a mixed defense of armoured units, mechanzied divisions and marine infantry. Often units would be cut off and fight to the death, and the Soviet command managed only to keep the entire frontline together by rotating units from quiet sectors into the battle, and replacing them with battle-damaged units instead.
Soviet infantryman attempting to attack a American tank around the Greenfield area.
The losses for both sides were extremely heavy, but eventualy, the Americans, disgusted by the huge slaughter, withdrew.
Current OOB of Soviet troops in America
good to see you starting again - this is going to be tense for a while, more than anything else it'll be your airpower (or lack) that proves critical
Come ooooooon, Major!
Remember my suggestion from awhile back. Aim for the Panama Canal, that'll cripple any American ability to pass ships into the Pacific without the long Argentine sweep around. From the Canal you can charge Puerto Rico and take a shot at D.C. itself! It worked for me as Japan... ^_^
Remember my suggestion from awhile back. Aim for the Panama Canal, that'll cripple any American ability to pass ships into the Pacific without the long Argentine sweep around. From the Canal you can charge Puerto Rico and take a shot at D.C. itself! It worked for me as Japan... ^_^
i'm so happy to see the return of this, i think i may cry :')
push forward! washington or bust
push forward! washington or bust
Good job getting your priorities straight! HOI3 AAR > Life
Unless I'm mistaken, he is playing with a "realistic" touch?
Unless I'm mistaken, he is playing with a "realistic" touch?
That soldier on the picture with RPG-2 is Polish soldier not Soviet you can even see Polish eagle on his helmet.
First off, thanks for all the comments.
Updating this AAR will be slow at best, though I will make a effort to try to get one update in at weekends, perhaps two if my life permits.
Good to see the old hands still with us: aussie, Sakura and Loki.
@Hearth - I think realism went out the window quite a while back with this AAR, even though I try to fudge the crazier aspects of HoI3
@DrakenPL - Excellent spot. I like adding the black and white pictures as it gives a little extra immersion. However, it can be quite hard to find suitable ones (damn you World in Conflict for not being set twenty years before 1989, then I could have shamlessly used that!) so you can forgive me if such errors occur.
Updating this AAR will be slow at best, though I will make a effort to try to get one update in at weekends, perhaps two if my life permits.
Good to see the old hands still with us: aussie, Sakura and Loki.
@Hearth - I think realism went out the window quite a while back with this AAR, even though I try to fudge the crazier aspects of HoI3
@DrakenPL - Excellent spot. I like adding the black and white pictures as it gives a little extra immersion. However, it can be quite hard to find suitable ones (damn you World in Conflict for not being set twenty years before 1989, then I could have shamlessly used that!) so you can forgive me if such errors occur.
I am glad you think so!
And on a utterly unrelated and totaly different topic, the AARland Awards are coming around again! Please take the time to vote, and I could'nt care less if it was me (though the NKVD might have something to say about it!), and I have read some fantastic AAR's on this board, so please take the time to fill it in!
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?562822-AARland-Choice-AwAARds-2011-(Round-3)
Let's see if you can get across the Atlantic, too! I want to see the Hammer & Sickle over the White House!
Landings in the Caribbean, eventually Florida, several different to spread the enemies out maybe? Land in New England, Washington-British Columbia, Florida... Spread out the armies to help with eventual supply problems.
Wow you really underestimated the Americans,because really...Bringing only 2 armies against the yanks is not enough,at least not on one front(Winks seductivley,while saying the tip).
Difficulty, Disaster and Determination
In the short space of a month, the Soviet invasion of American soil turned from a classic example of Soviet units liberating the common man from the oppression of capitalism in a perfect military campaign into a general disaster. The Soviet units were a match for their American counterparts, if not more so, but the Russian's could not sustain the troops. While a Soviet tank was advanced to knock out four, five, or even six or seven American tanks, every loss required a replacement from a ocean away. Soon, it began to tell on the frontline effectiveness - the Americans made better headway against units down to 50% strength or less.
The American Navy, thought crushed, began to creep back into action, appearing like ants to feast on the bloated corpse of the logistical chain from Russia to America. Unwilling to be seen idle, the Soviet fleet, now based in Pearl Harbour, sallied out in a effort to protect the supply convoys into America. It was a unavoidable decision - the supplies had to get through, but the Soviet carriers would be exposed to strikes from the American Navy.
Soviet plans to secure the sealanes and ensure the steady flow of supply to America.
The supplies reached America, for a week or two. Then, the USN understood what was happening and began the cat-and-mouse game around the Western Seaboard. Over a series of engagements, the USN and Soviet Navy clashed. On the whole, the USN suffered more than their Russian counter-parts, losing the carrier Kearsarge along with its escorting crusiers and destroyers. The Soviet Navy was willing to take such exchanges.
Until the Saratov sank.
In a day-long carrier clash, the Saratov and the Kazan dueled it out with the American fleet centered around the USS Bennington. The jet fighters of both sides kept the bombers away from the ships, until a flight of American A-4 Skyhawks found themselves lost. Out of position, they had undershot the Soviet fighter screen, and appearing unexpected from the south, managed to catch the carrier with the southern fighter screen refueling on the deck. The flight of four aircraft made a run on the Saratov without losing any planes to the huge cloud of defensive fire from the fleet. Three missiles made it past the countermeasures, one exploding with little damage against the hull, another impacted on the carriers island with the third crashing into a AA position amidships.
Between the last two missile impacts, the flight deck was showered with fire and shrapnel, with exploding AA rounds going off for good measure. This, combined with the fueled and armed fighters on deck made for the perfect inferno. By the time the four Skyhawks had been torn apart by vengefull Soviet fighter pilots, the damage on the Saratov had went from a easily controled repair job to a unstoppable blaze. Attempts to fight the blaze proved worthless, and such was the intensity was the heat that the crusier Tallin had to remain well back of the carrier in order to take off the Saratov's crew.
Within an hour, the crew had been transfered to the Tallin, and shortly afterwards the inferno reached the center of the Saratov, breaking the ships back with a huge explosion.
The destruction of the Saratov.
The crusier Grozny was destroyed in a night action, stumbling upon the Oklahoma, damaged by Soviet aircraft attempting to return to an American port. The Soviet crusier destroyed the battleship and its escort, but was fataly damanged by a single 14 inch shell from the Oklahoma.
Unable to engage in such brutal attritional warfare with the USN, the Soviet Navy returned to Hawaii to repair and reorganize itself. With the Soviet carrier fleet a spent force, the USN's smaller crusiers and destroyers enforced a tight blockade around the Soviet troops in America.
The end was clear to see. In one last effort, the Soviet Navy pulled off a fantastic feat. With American troops pressing on San Deigo and Los Angeles both, the Soviet Navy pulled off a fantastic coup. On two consecutive nights, the Navy managed to transport a fanstasic number of soldiers out of San Deigo, leaving only a token garrison.
Three days later, they performed the same task in Los Angeles.
Towards the dying days of the American adventure, Soviet soldeirs still held out in Los Angeles. The last message before going silent was "The Americans are breaking into the building, we are the last. Do not forget us."
It was a huge turn of events, despite the lost equipment and ships, balancing out the abject failure of the American adventure. It enraged the American high command, finding a huge quanity of abandonded equipment, but few frontline soldiers to justify it.
Such a turn of events also saved the Soviet regime in Moscow, as no political figure, no matter how powerfull would have been as weak as a babe in the event of the surrender of the troops in America - regardless of who was made a scapegoat.
In the short space of a month, the Soviet invasion of American soil turned from a classic example of Soviet units liberating the common man from the oppression of capitalism in a perfect military campaign into a general disaster. The Soviet units were a match for their American counterparts, if not more so, but the Russian's could not sustain the troops. While a Soviet tank was advanced to knock out four, five, or even six or seven American tanks, every loss required a replacement from a ocean away. Soon, it began to tell on the frontline effectiveness - the Americans made better headway against units down to 50% strength or less.
The American Navy, thought crushed, began to creep back into action, appearing like ants to feast on the bloated corpse of the logistical chain from Russia to America. Unwilling to be seen idle, the Soviet fleet, now based in Pearl Harbour, sallied out in a effort to protect the supply convoys into America. It was a unavoidable decision - the supplies had to get through, but the Soviet carriers would be exposed to strikes from the American Navy.
Soviet plans to secure the sealanes and ensure the steady flow of supply to America.
The supplies reached America, for a week or two. Then, the USN understood what was happening and began the cat-and-mouse game around the Western Seaboard. Over a series of engagements, the USN and Soviet Navy clashed. On the whole, the USN suffered more than their Russian counter-parts, losing the carrier Kearsarge along with its escorting crusiers and destroyers. The Soviet Navy was willing to take such exchanges.
Until the Saratov sank.
In a day-long carrier clash, the Saratov and the Kazan dueled it out with the American fleet centered around the USS Bennington. The jet fighters of both sides kept the bombers away from the ships, until a flight of American A-4 Skyhawks found themselves lost. Out of position, they had undershot the Soviet fighter screen, and appearing unexpected from the south, managed to catch the carrier with the southern fighter screen refueling on the deck. The flight of four aircraft made a run on the Saratov without losing any planes to the huge cloud of defensive fire from the fleet. Three missiles made it past the countermeasures, one exploding with little damage against the hull, another impacted on the carriers island with the third crashing into a AA position amidships.
Between the last two missile impacts, the flight deck was showered with fire and shrapnel, with exploding AA rounds going off for good measure. This, combined with the fueled and armed fighters on deck made for the perfect inferno. By the time the four Skyhawks had been torn apart by vengefull Soviet fighter pilots, the damage on the Saratov had went from a easily controled repair job to a unstoppable blaze. Attempts to fight the blaze proved worthless, and such was the intensity was the heat that the crusier Tallin had to remain well back of the carrier in order to take off the Saratov's crew.
Within an hour, the crew had been transfered to the Tallin, and shortly afterwards the inferno reached the center of the Saratov, breaking the ships back with a huge explosion.
The destruction of the Saratov.
The crusier Grozny was destroyed in a night action, stumbling upon the Oklahoma, damaged by Soviet aircraft attempting to return to an American port. The Soviet crusier destroyed the battleship and its escort, but was fataly damanged by a single 14 inch shell from the Oklahoma.
Unable to engage in such brutal attritional warfare with the USN, the Soviet Navy returned to Hawaii to repair and reorganize itself. With the Soviet carrier fleet a spent force, the USN's smaller crusiers and destroyers enforced a tight blockade around the Soviet troops in America.
The end was clear to see. In one last effort, the Soviet Navy pulled off a fantastic feat. With American troops pressing on San Deigo and Los Angeles both, the Soviet Navy pulled off a fantastic coup. On two consecutive nights, the Navy managed to transport a fanstasic number of soldiers out of San Deigo, leaving only a token garrison.
Three days later, they performed the same task in Los Angeles.
Towards the dying days of the American adventure, Soviet soldeirs still held out in Los Angeles. The last message before going silent was "The Americans are breaking into the building, we are the last. Do not forget us."
It was a huge turn of events, despite the lost equipment and ships, balancing out the abject failure of the American adventure. It enraged the American high command, finding a huge quanity of abandonded equipment, but few frontline soldiers to justify it.
Such a turn of events also saved the Soviet regime in Moscow, as no political figure, no matter how powerfull would have been as weak as a babe in the event of the surrender of the troops in America - regardless of who was made a scapegoat.