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Wow. Your TC is actually extremely good. How do you have only 30ish TC load for occupied territory? Well, you don't directly control Poland, that's 70 TC right there, but France and Balkans and Africa and Middle East only give you 30? Wow again. But, IIRC, there is an event in WIF that greatly increases revolt risk in France sometime after you start Barbarossa, is there not?

As a sidenote, I just noticed that generalgouvernment actually has four divisions. That is quite welcome, they can police their land alone.
 
Dofon said:
My oh my, you've been mighty effective at thrashing the Commonwealth so far! The war looks much, much darker for the United Kingdom. The lack of STR seems to indicate you won't be able to knock out their industry directly; it seems you have a prime opportunity to hit them where they are the weakest; their resource supply.
Thank you for the naval comparisons! The Kriegsmarine appears to be in a much better position than it was historically; to see the U.K navy cut down to such a size is beautiful. Now they'll pay in spades when you unleash Donitz, Prien and co. on their shipping; with the ridiculous amount of convoys they have, they might be able to afford the cost though o.o On the other hand... with no Mediterranean to ship through and Dakar in Axis hands, the U-boots are going to be ubercharged in their convoy nailing ability. The Battle of Britain might not happen, but the Battle of the Atlantic is all too happy to make up for the shortfall.
We can't wait for your return, enjoy your break!
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With such a comment, I almost felt that I had to write another update yesterday :) Almost.
Well, it has been the plan since the beginning. The Mediterranean Sea is a much more suitable place to weaken the British than the Atlantic Ocean. That's why I didn't want to install Vichy and create an unwanted glacis in the South...even if this may be counter intuitive. Now, it should be free season for the U-Boot. Should. Because I played the end of January yesterday, and things are getting...interesting. But that's good material for the AAR as you will see.
Now, I have to admit something; my general planning since the beginning goes up to Dakar. Now, I have to decide a new course of action for the next months, until Barbarossa. There are new unplanned events about to unfold, such as Spain about to join Axis and Portugal following this momentum. Also, Germany is entering a dangerous period where there could be nothing serious to do until Barbarossa (on June 22nd), which would be a loss of 5 months. I have excluded to go to The Cape. I am also excluding going to India. I won't take military control of Italy against UK, but I know for sure that I could wipe the Royal Navy out should I do so. This doesn't leave too many options to further weaken UK, but I think that I have found one.

casual said:
Just want to let you know i follow this AAR, it’s great!
I am currently myself playing WIFF 2 (1st time) and if I need any help or advice I just check the AAR ;) .
Cant wait for Barbarossa, I hope it’s not going to be a quick victory on the eastern front :p!
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Thank you! Well, this AAR was intended as a tutorial at its beginning, so I am happy to read that.
Barbarossa! Chuckles... You will see how this mod has been developped to trash the player's hope of a quick victory if Barbarossa is not won six months after its beginning. I KNOW that it will be bloody beyond what you could expect after all these quite easy victories. Truly, I am not sure that I will be able to pull out a victory after 42. Admittedly, my Western front will be much safer than it was historically.

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Wow. Your TC is actually extremely good. How do you have only 30ish TC load for occupied territory? Well, you don't directly control Poland, that's 70 TC right there, but France and Balkans and Africa and Middle East only give you 30? Wow again. But, IIRC, there is an event in WIF that greatly increases revolt risk in France sometime after you start Barbarossa, is there not?
As a sidenote, I just noticed that generalgouvernment actually has four divisions. That is quite welcome, they can police their land alone.
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I can't tell you about the TC for occupied territory. Maybe there is something because France is occupied and not annexed as it is now part of UK.
I have presently 22 GAR keeping the French under control. I have previously noticed that French underground activities will raise a lot after 42, but I don't know what will trigger that. I know that there will be an event for Greece.
Some of these GARs will have to move to Soviet Union at some point, "weakening" German's control over France and impacting TC negatively with the worst timing.
Yes, Generalgovernment has now several units, mainly MIL. That will be enough to keep the populace under control when the Heer will have to leave the territory, as you wrote it. It even have built a FTR, with no leader; I need to find a way to change its ownership to Germany (Actually, I just thought about one, I will try tonight)


MiltonS said:
Very cool, thanks for informing on TC.
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You are welcome.

By the way, I got an information, and there is no event to release Croatia in the Balkans. It will have to be done manually.
 
casual said:
Are you planning to rebase this fleet somewhere else? French coast? Mediterranean?
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You will see. :)

nachopontmercy said:
Damn. It is really unlucky that the British have no important ships in the Mediterranean.
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Yeah. At this point of the game, and based on previous encounter or naval/aerial patrols, my guess was that the only enemy fleets left in the Mediterranean Sea were the British one in Tobruk, the Yugoslavian one under British control, the Greek one about to go under British control, and perhaps a small British one lately seen in Western Mediterranean.
Actually, looking at older screenshots, I found out that a British fleet was in the Red Sea and moving to go through the Suez Canal when the Italians initiated their move to take the city. And it appeared to be a fleet with big naval assets :(
I am not going to complain. Even if the British fleet has not been trapped in the Mediterranean Sea, this entire campaign has seriously weakened it.
As a side note, during my previous and first attempt, I remember that I the British fleet had been trapped in the Mediterranean Sea, 64 units if I remember correctly... and that they never ran out of supply. So, for the AAR, it is better and more plausible that the Admiralty has been able to extract the fleet in time.
 
Quite a pity to see that the RN still has strong assets outside of your trap. Then again, none of the fleets had anything larger than a CA. Looking at the naval comparisons, Germany could very well have a slight lead in capital ships; this doesn't count the Regia Marina, who I presume don't have an AI imperative to send fleets out into the Atlantic/Indian oceans in the case of a Mare Nostrum. A pity. Also, the fleets remained in supply without a port to dock at? o_O I blame Norwegian soldiers fighting under the Union jack; experience raiding coastal villages to resupply and whatnot XD Keep taking down British small ships, the end of RN dominance is in sight! Also, my previous comment about no Battle of Britain appears to be in error; can you remove the RAF as a competitor with TAC's and Fighters?
With Spain and Portugal joining the war, your subs can cruise from Pole to Pole across the Atlantic, no? It still seems the S.America/Africa gap is the best bottleneck though.
Nothing to do? This will not do; Germany has to keep the momentum up to keep England down all the while you deal with the Bolshevik menace! How opposed are you to ahistorical DOW's? You did invade Switzerland; if you feel that Europe's borders could use a shakedown, you can invade Sweden (And perhaps Finland?) to create a Scandinavian puppet government under Quisling;
You could also embark on a campaign to unite the Arab world and dominate the Middle East, by at least invading Saudi Arabia and North Yemen, so you can attack British holdings in the Arabian peninsula; you've indicated you want to invade Iraq, but do you intend to move on Iran as well? They might ally with you if they refuse to be partitioned by the Allies, but I don't know how likely that is. An invasion of Turkey to take the Straits and gain bases to open a Caucasian front come June might be on the cards, but Turkey has some rough terrain; you'd best be prepared to take them down rapidly if you choose to invade, lest they knock off too much MP from you. If you take Iran and Turkey, you'll be in a great position to take the Soviet Caucasus; with that and the rest of the Middle East's oil, your oil supply woes will be a thing of the past. If you need a historical impetus, you could say that this guy>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini<< got Hitler's ear a little early after he took his hometown and needed a collaborator to run it; one thing leads to another and next thing you know Hitler is leading a crusade to free Arab/Muslim people from pro-English governments (and take that juicy oil)
Of course, I don't know how far ahead you are and if there is enough time for your forces to take the Middle East with time to redeploy for major operations in Eastern Europe, so take it as you will. I'm still all for taking the fight right to England, but you've said you want to starve them down a little, and you don't intend to go full measure there anyways, so do as you will. Perhaps a certain other British Isle is up for a little National Socialist liberation? ^^
Good to see you back again, keep up the good work!
 
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What he needs to do is focus on the Soviets. This mod has a craaaaaaazy Soviet AI whochurns out infantry and militia divisions like there's no tomorrow. If he can secure the Arabian Peninsula before the war with the Soviets starts, and without diverting too many units there, than okay, but it's already July 1941...
Beware the Bear!
 
Dofon said:
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Good to see you back again, keep up the good work!
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Thank you! For the other comments, you will see in time. :) I can only say that I have played up to February first.

Blackoberst said:
What he needs to do is focus on the Soviets. This mod has a craaaaaaazy Soviet AI whochurns out infantry and militia divisions like there's no tomorrow. If he can secure the Arabian Peninsula before the war with the Soviets starts, and without diverting too many units there, than okay, but it's already July 1941...
Beware the Bear!
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You almost scared me. I had to check; no, I am not past June 22nd :)
Now, I agree. It is no longer the time to extend my front line, not with all the shuffling of units required by the upcoming Barbarossa. And even if I could secure the entire Arabic Peninsula before mid-March.

You will notice what is clearly a bug in the following update; it has been reported and will be fixed.

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So what was the bug? I couldn't see it. Was it the bombproof palm trees?

Also, with four days per update while not that much is happening, we can reasonably expect to have one update per four hours during Barbarossa :D
 
Kurfürst said:
So what was the bug? I couldn't see it. Was it the bombproof palm trees?
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Yes. If it is not intended, that's a bug.

Kurfürst said:
Also, with four days per update while not that much is happening, we can reasonably expect to have one update per four hours during Barbarossa :D
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This hurts! :) But brace yourself, it is about to get worse :p Nevertheless, I won't change the upcoming updates as they are ready.

Yet, your concerns are totally valid, and believe me that I have shared them for a long time now. I don't want to write update for only few days, but there are reasons why sometimes I have to:
-I try not to have a day split over 2 updates. In that case, I usually add less relevant pictures to fill up the gaps.
-What you see as 'not that much happening' may be relevant to something else which will happen soon. That is something that the reader may miss if he has forgotten about the previous updates.
-I have the tendency to provide more updates when the Kriegsmarine is involved because any loss here is usually permanent, and because I like the naval aspect.
-And I agree that sometimes I don't know how to cut short the "narrative" and go to what is the most important. :blush:

For all these reasons, January is going to be packed. I have not played later, but I expect that it will go faster. Until then, face the brunt!
 
Lucifer said:
This hurts! :) But brace yourself, it is about to get worse :p
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Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining, far from it. It's very entertaining, watching a master (with monstous case of OCD ;) ) showcase his skill. I was just... posting an observation, that seeing Barbarossa to its conclusion might take a while. The updates are cool, as to the format and amount of info and everything.
 
Kurfürst said:
Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining, far from it. It's very entertaining, watching a master (with monstous case of OCD ;) ) showcase his skill. I was just... posting an observation, that seeing Barbarossa to its conclusion might take a while. The updates are cool, as to the format and amount of info and everything.
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OCD? Obsessive–compulsive disorder? Is this serious, Doctor? :)

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The order of this update and its subsequent intent were to have the readers reacting like: "Damn! What happened?"
 
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I presume you attempted the coup with the US to give the Allies a fair shake for Spain, right? I can see why you might be disappointed; Franco wasn't considered very reliable by the Axis I imagine. Carlist-Nazi-freedomland is so much cooler :p
With the fall of Greece, England stands alone; with Spain and Portugal on the edge of joining the Axis, she stands against almost all of Europe. England's *ahem* darkest hour is coming. It looks like the west African Coast is about to get a nice deposit of British steel, too.
Wow, your surface fleet dodged a bullet against those subs. If it were anybody but Raeder at the head of the fleet, the Kriegsmarine might've been short a surface fleet... though, that surface fleet surviving is worrisome on it's own; the Axis have been too disaster-free for their own good this war XD Let's hope they're not saving all the bad tidings for later...
Are the subs ready to move into position, mein Fuhrer? It isn't a proper World War until Germany flattens the share price of every major shipping company :p
 
Dofon said:
I presume you attempted the coup with the US to give the Allies a fair shake for Spain, right? I can see why you might be disappointed; Franco wasn't considered very reliable by the Axis I imagine. Carlist-Nazi-freedomland is so much cooler :p
With the fall of Greece, England stands alone; with Spain and Portugal on the edge of joining the Axis, she stands against almost all of Europe. England's *ahem* darkest hour is coming. It looks like the west African Coast is about to get a nice deposit of British steel, too.
Wow, your surface fleet dodged a bullet against those subs. If it were anybody but Raeder at the head of the fleet, the Kriegsmarine might've been short a surface fleet... though, that surface fleet surviving is worrisome on it's own; the Axis have been too disaster-free for their own good this war XD Let's hope they're not saving all the bad tidings for later...
Are the subs ready to move into position, mein Fuhrer? It isn't a proper World War until Germany flattens the share price of every major shipping company :p
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Sorry, I was not clear. I have NOT triggered the US coup in-game. They did it by themselves and failed. This came as a shock. Few days after, I thought that it would be cool for the AAR to show what would have happened if it had succeeded, so I manually triggered the coup with acceptall (3% chances of success otherwise) from a save, just for the screenshots.

I don't think that I have been disaster-free for no reason. I've been very methodical and careful so far IMO. I moved this fleet only after several factors had been secured:
-British heavy units gutted, so only the subs could be a real threat (that's why I moved only the German fastest units [ 31kn vs. 15kn for the second fleet], and the best ones against submarines)
-Dakar captured
-Air cover in Western Africa
-Bad weather in the Atlantic

Nevertheless, meeting these subs in the only province enjoying nice weather for only 1 day had been a nasty surprise. But then I remembered that the German fleet had 10 CL VI which are very fast and very good against subs. Therefore, I expected an uncontested German victory. Had it been against the second heavier, older and slower fleet still in the Baltic, theses one would have been slaughtered. Conclusion, I had done everything to limit the risks in case such a thing would happen, and it paid at the end.

Yes, I hope that the Lloyd will file for bankruptcy.
 
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Only OCD could make such detailed indepth immersive realistic multievel allinclusive aar, because you actually do controll every aspect of the game, not like anywhere else where airforces are only additive and navy same or even less... here it feels like your state is real as it matters with everything spends and manages on all important things and you make them real and legitimately important. I do not feel enywhere else that there is holism like here.
 
Deus Eversor said:
Only OCD could make such detailed indepth immersive realistic multievel allinclusive aar, because you actually do controll every aspect of the game, not like anywhere else where airforces are only additive and navy same or even less... here it feels like your state is real as it matters with everything spends and manages on all important things and you make them real and legitimately important.
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That's not something that I would like to have...except if intended, like for...creating a map or writing a story.

Deus Eversor said:
I do not feel anywhere else that there is holism like here.
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What a weird coincidence! "Holism" is a neologism termed by the South African Jan Smuts. And this Jan Smuts is the same commander whose butt is being kicked by the Axis in Tambacounda, South East of Dakar. I guess that too much philosophy is not doing him a lot of good these in-game days :p
 
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