I played as Germany and there was an event when I declare war to Denmark and Norway...I had nothing in the north border so Denmark took Berlin.(didn't knew about strategic redeployment)...my stockpile was gone...
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Spent months depoying to attack the USSR in MAy 42 as Italy. Had taken over turkey and had large amounts of mountaineers and a plan to blitz through the Caucasus and take St alingrad and Sverdlosk. Took control of Romania and Bulgaria and Hungary and ended up with 90 odd divisions in Turkey, and put my fast units and several 9 division armirs in east Poland to help the Germans out.
The blitz through the mountians took a couple of months, and the plan more or less worked as I captured Stalingrad and was advancing on Sverdlosk and I assumed the Germans would do thier usual advance on Moscow. Maybe because I took out France in 39 however the Germans had done Sealion on England and had surrounded 80 odd divisions in London. Most of the German army was in England. By Nov 42 winter was kicking in I had bogged down near Moscow and had large amounts of Soviet infantry in fron and to the sides. The Germans had captured Leningrad via Finland but I was having to dribble in reinforcements to try and hold the line for the Germans- at the Oder river.
An extra 90 divisions would have made a huge difference and I should have ignored the Caucasus part as capturing Baku isn't hard and once you break through the Soviet lines Stalingrad and Sverdlosk are basicall a long drive for some of your faster units.
The blitz through the mountians took a couple of months, and the plan more or less worked as I captured Stalingrad and was advancing on Sverdlosk and I assumed the Germans would do thier usual advance on Moscow. Maybe because I took out France in 39 however the Germans had done Sealion on England and had surrounded 80 odd divisions in London. Most of the German army was in England. By Nov 42 winter was kicking in I had bogged down near Moscow and had large amounts of Soviet infantry in fron and to the sides. The Germans had captured Leningrad via Finland but I was having to dribble in reinforcements to try and hold the line for the Germans- at the Oder river.
An extra 90 divisions would have made a huge difference and I should have ignored the Caucasus part as capturing Baku isn't hard and once you break through the Soviet lines Stalingrad and Sverdlosk are basicall a long drive for some of your faster units.
Not quite sure what category to put this in but...
I was playing as the USA and slowly taking over europe but did not ally the allies.
When i defeated the axis the event fired that redraw borders...I had to retake europe all over again AND the SU who DOW'd me with my army redeploying to DC.
I was playing as the USA and slowly taking over europe but did not ally the allies.
When i defeated the axis the event fired that redraw borders...I had to retake europe all over again AND the SU who DOW'd me with my army redeploying to DC.
I played Germany. I managed to get Nationalist Spain to join me during the war. It was 41 and it was time to declare war on the SU. So I was happily micromanaging my way to Moscow and Leninggrad when I suddenly get a message: "UK has annexed Nationalist Spain."
I had only left the minimal amount of troops behind in France to counter an early UKD-Day.
I had only left the minimal amount of troops behind in France to counter an early UKD-Day.
Playing as Yugoslavia, I had annexed Albania, Hungary, and Bulgaria. While invading Turkey, I transferred all but two divisions to southern Bulgaria. However, after months of refusing to give up my Adriatic coast to Italy, she finally invaded. After securing Istanbul, western Yugoslavia was completely overrun.
I was Germany and was feeling very arrogant as got through the Maginot Line without have to conquer Belgium or the Netherlands and had conquered Great Britain, France, Italy, Poland so I was deep, DEEP into SU...and I miss the message state "The Netherlands has declared war." WTFO?!?!?! 
I had nothing to stop them with except some foot infantry that holding some beaches in Northern Germany and a few in France. I did beat them off and added them to the 'conquered' list but it was quite close. Lesson learned? Alway keep a mobile corps in the homeland. - Rick
I had nothing to stop them with except some foot infantry that holding some beaches in Northern Germany and a few in France. I did beat them off and added them to the 'conquered' list but it was quite close. Lesson learned? Alway keep a mobile corps in the homeland. - Rick
In one of my early games I was playing as the SU and wanted to build up the Red Navy, so I built 18 carriers, but I forgot to build the CAG's and had to start them after the CV's were done. I had my carriers parked at Leningrad waiting for the planes, and Germany DoW'd me. They sank them all. Oops.
Nukes.
Well i suppose when i was really just breaking the back of anything land based that moved, playing Germany. I was racing towards developing nukes. It was 1943, war was going really good cept russia began to creep up to my door. Pushing hard, but I managed to funnel the bulk of its fighting force. Finished my nuke, was preparing to launch when i realized......I had no way to deliver it.
Yes thats right, no rockets, no bombers, i neglected these areas....NOTHING.
and so russia rolled on into my door step.
Well that and i was dominating russia pounding them into salt, best game ever i musst admit. Speed cranked up so fast my eyes hurt. And when time is scrolling and you are hitting enter like a mad man to get little boxes off your screen to get back to action you fail to notice that america not only landed in france but was half way to the reich...Grrrr
Well i suppose when i was really just breaking the back of anything land based that moved, playing Germany. I was racing towards developing nukes. It was 1943, war was going really good cept russia began to creep up to my door. Pushing hard, but I managed to funnel the bulk of its fighting force. Finished my nuke, was preparing to launch when i realized......I had no way to deliver it.
Yes thats right, no rockets, no bombers, i neglected these areas....NOTHING.
and so russia rolled on into my door step.
Well that and i was dominating russia pounding them into salt, best game ever i musst admit. Speed cranked up so fast my eyes hurt. And when time is scrolling and you are hitting enter like a mad man to get little boxes off your screen to get back to action you fail to notice that america not only landed in france but was half way to the reich...Grrrr
Well, why not put this thread back in action again?
Not sure if it's my biggest goof (heaven knows there've been many), but it's the one that comes to the top of my mind now, mainly because it happened just a few hours ago. I was playing a GC as Nationalist China. Everything was going well. Pushed the Japanese out of mainland Asia, got the Fading Sun event, and then annexed all the other warlords. So I now have all of Nat Chi's cores except for Tibet and Mongolia. Even better, I was able accepted into the Allies.
Of course, though defeated on the mainland, Japan still exists. I intend to annex them and fully punish them for invading China. But the problem is their formidable navy, although they have almost no army after losing it in China.
So I researched aircraft carriers and then built 6. I was wondering whether I would have to declare war on them, or if they would still do Pearl Harbor despite having gotten their asses kicked in China.
I was lucky - the Japanese still chose to declare war on the Allies, despite having almost no army.
Or maybe not so lucky. You see, the six carriers I had built? I deployed them in Hainan, without any screens or even CAGs. I was hoping the Japanese would still declare war, but I didn't think they'd do it THAT early. I planned to rebase the carriers to British India, but never got around to doing it before the war started.
So of course, naval bombers from Indochina (which the Japanese still got from France despite losing in China) started bombing the carriers. I moved them out and tried to rebase to India, and of course ran into a 30-ship Japanese fleet. Got defeated and auto-retreated back to Hainan. There being nowhere else to go, I kept trying to rebase with the carriers that didn't even have CAGs. What else could I do, after all. I could not make the fleet retreat towards the direction of British India, where it could be repaired in relative safety. Perhaps because it would always lose before the 5-hour minimum time for "manual retreating". As one might expect of a fleet composed of nothing but carriers that don't have CAGs.
Long story short, lost all six of those carriers. Best of all, the CAGs and escorts finished just days after the carriers had been sunk.
PS: Like a Real Man, I didn't reload after that fiasco. I'll just build another group of carriers, with more advanced tech this time from the US/UK. Anyway, the carriers were only a Plan B. I plan to conquer the Home Islands with a paratrooper drop from my puppet Korea and destroy the IJN with NAVs.
Not sure if it's my biggest goof (heaven knows there've been many), but it's the one that comes to the top of my mind now, mainly because it happened just a few hours ago. I was playing a GC as Nationalist China. Everything was going well. Pushed the Japanese out of mainland Asia, got the Fading Sun event, and then annexed all the other warlords. So I now have all of Nat Chi's cores except for Tibet and Mongolia. Even better, I was able accepted into the Allies.
Of course, though defeated on the mainland, Japan still exists. I intend to annex them and fully punish them for invading China. But the problem is their formidable navy, although they have almost no army after losing it in China.
So I researched aircraft carriers and then built 6. I was wondering whether I would have to declare war on them, or if they would still do Pearl Harbor despite having gotten their asses kicked in China.
I was lucky - the Japanese still chose to declare war on the Allies, despite having almost no army.
Or maybe not so lucky. You see, the six carriers I had built? I deployed them in Hainan, without any screens or even CAGs. I was hoping the Japanese would still declare war, but I didn't think they'd do it THAT early. I planned to rebase the carriers to British India, but never got around to doing it before the war started.
So of course, naval bombers from Indochina (which the Japanese still got from France despite losing in China) started bombing the carriers. I moved them out and tried to rebase to India, and of course ran into a 30-ship Japanese fleet. Got defeated and auto-retreated back to Hainan. There being nowhere else to go, I kept trying to rebase with the carriers that didn't even have CAGs. What else could I do, after all. I could not make the fleet retreat towards the direction of British India, where it could be repaired in relative safety. Perhaps because it would always lose before the 5-hour minimum time for "manual retreating". As one might expect of a fleet composed of nothing but carriers that don't have CAGs.
Long story short, lost all six of those carriers. Best of all, the CAGs and escorts finished just days after the carriers had been sunk.
PS: Like a Real Man, I didn't reload after that fiasco. I'll just build another group of carriers, with more advanced tech this time from the US/UK. Anyway, the carriers were only a Plan B. I plan to conquer the Home Islands with a paratrooper drop from my puppet Korea and destroy the IJN with NAVs.
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You guys will love this. Played the 39 scenario as Germany. Annihilated the Polish army, then turned west for France. Turns out, a couple Polish divsions had been left behind, and they took back half of Poland before my army got back
You guys will love this. Played the 39 scenario as Germany. Annihilated the Polish army, then turned west for France. Turns out, a couple Polish divsions had been left behind, and they took back half of Poland before my army got back
Spent a lot of time reorganizing the army right after beginning a 1936 scenario... as the USSR.
Great Purge happens, all of a sudden most all of those leaders are gone. So I turn on 'auto-assign'.
Bad idea. I now have to manually go through each division to scrounge enough generals to lead my HQs.
Great Purge happens, all of a sudden most all of those leaders are gone. So I turn on 'auto-assign'.
Bad idea. I now have to manually go through each division to scrounge enough generals to lead my HQs.
Spent a lot of time reorganizing the army right after beginning a 1936 scenario... as the USSR.
Great Purge happens, all of a sudden most all of those leaders are gone. So I turn on 'auto-assign'.
Bad idea. I now have to manually go through each division to scrounge enough generals to lead my HQs.
Ah yes. That Great Purge really sucks. I'd really rather not do it, but the dissent hit and the policy move to Dovishness is just as bad as the loss of leaders and tech teams. It's a no-win situation.
When it happened to me, I lost Rokossovsky and Chuikov! Well, at least I didn't lose, say, Konev or Zhukov. Thank God for small favors.
Agreed. 30 dissent is too much to take. For some reason, I always lose Zhukov.
Though the pain was alleviated somewhat when I realized I could just use the ledger to find where the generals had been moved and then shift things from there.
For some reason, I always lose Zhukov.Though the pain was alleviated somewhat when I realized I could just use the ledger to find where the generals had been moved and then shift things from there.
The same thing happened to me, I had Motorized and brigaded the entire Soviet Army, and promoted many leaders to command my large armies and HQs....... I lost Rokossovsky and Bulganin, and I ended up reloading just so I could avoid losing them....
USSR; allied with SPR and helped win SCW. In 1941 moved 40+ divisions to the French border and attacked German-occupied France on a one-province front--to no effect. The remaining 10 or so guarded beaches against Italians who never came and defended Spanish Morocco against Vichy who never came. Then the Portuguese came.
Actually they marched slow and SPR had an air force, so they did not get far. But I sure felt stupid.
Actually they marched slow and SPR had an air force, so they did not get far. But I sure felt stupid.