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High Drama In The Wolf's Lair! Anyway, good riddance of the oddly-mustachioed one. I do echo the question above: why did Manstein et. al. also die? Is it some kind of game balancing mechanism, or is there another explanation?
Marseille is proving to be quite the thorn in your side. I wouldn't have thought that that invasion in Southern France would develop as the most imminent threat: I keep expecting the Reds to steamroller their way to Berlin, but (unless you're purposefully not telling us everything) they seem pretty quiet on the Eastern Front proper (shame about Finland, though).
Marseille is proving to be quite the thorn in your side. I wouldn't have thought that that invasion in Southern France would develop as the most imminent threat: I keep expecting the Reds to steamroller their way to Berlin, but (unless you're purposefully not telling us everything) they seem pretty quiet on the Eastern Front proper (shame about Finland, though).
All NSDAP (National Socialist) politicians were removed. These were simply according to in-game tags, there's no historical connection per' se. If they were also a military leader, that leader was removed as well.
At the end of the day, the Government was formed around the DNVP (paternal autocrat) party.
Yes. In looking at some of the programed "coup" events, they were all accompained by a dissent hit. That's someting that harkens back to HOI2 (if memory serves me). Look at it as; all the former party members now out of work are making trouble.
Oh yes! Politicians are changed all the time. It's unlikely the Air Marshal, Navy Chief, or Army Chief will change anytime soon as these are tied to the research tree. But, the others are changed as need be.
This question doesn't come up much, and this AAR doesn't chronicle every minor event, but the changes can be rapid fire, for example: If defensive reinforcement is needed during a battle a "school of defense" politician is selected for Chief of Staff (COS). If reinforcements are then needed during an attack the COS is replaced by a "school of fire support" politician. Once those needs are met, then a "school of psychology" politician is used to improve reorganization of depleted units. These changes may all occur with a day or two.
Without listing them all, there are other situational uses, not only for COS, but other politicians as well. Some of the combinations are tied to Laws, others to Intellegence or Party Politics. Armamament Minister is tied to IC's and resources, and in this game the position changes about every month as one can imagine.
Yes, it's so frustrating. Germany forces are armored and evenly arrayed along the front, while the Allies are all guards and stacked to high heaven. Yet, the battle goes on an on, week after week. I don't know the answer, this may be a good question for the board.
Yes, Germany had to bring in more and more reinforcements from France and the Eastern front to deal with this mess.
But, the strategy is sound. If the Allies attack anywhere along the perimiter--just fall back and force them (Allies) to extend their lines into a larger and larger perimeter. This will stretch-out their units and weaken their ability to counter-attack around Marsille. Meanwhile, continue attacking along the coast to threaten Allied supply lines. Eventually, something's got to give. The Allies dependence on supply-hungry marines and fuel-hungry heavy tanks is their weakness.
The Allies strategy (if we can call it that) is to extend the fighting as long as possible to drain Germany's manpower. So far, they've done a good job of it as the fighting is entering it's third month.
The most fortunate thing is the Soviets are not attacking right now. The USSR is evidently frozen in place by strategic bombing, or they're upgrading and will attack at a later time. Either way, Germany is very lucky right now. But, that luck won't last forever and the Allies in the south of France must be defeated ASAP.
The plan going forward will be revealed more in detail in the next installment.
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Your analysis is quite correct. Am not quite sure why the Soviets are not taking this opportunity, but can say the German forces in the East are properly arrayed and have adequate reserves. Have had to move one armored infantry corps to the South of France, and one other to Italy to defend against a possible break-through there (update next time). But, these mobile divisions remain behind the lines, so unless the Soviet AI is cheating it won't notice they're missing. Germany still has enough mobile reserves in the east to deal with multiple threats, but again, it's good the Soviets don't know how depleated German manpower is.
Might be a good idea to send in FJ and infantry, since Marseilles is a city, after all. The armour might just purely have too many nerfs from attacking a heavily garrisoned city, enough to probably negate the advantage of the heavy american stacking.
There might be something to that. If you scroll down [post=13008602]here[/post] you can see me eliminating 16 enemy divisions stacked with 3 HQs with only two Infantry divisions, so I don't know why Marseilles can't be reduced when things should be even more in Germany's favor.
Wait...so you are going for Naval Aviation and Decisive Battle doctrines? Those aren't the first names that the coup brought up?
The bomb went off in the middle of a military meeting. It would obviously include a lot of Germany's top ranking generals and field marshalls.
*Subscribed. I am a huge fan of German AARs, especially Götterdämmerung ones. And I find your focus on air power quite interesting. I will definitely stay tuned to see how it all pans out and to see whether your focus on air power is justified in the end.
Stuyvesant wrote: "Why would Manstein also die?"
Good catch. It looks like a typo. Should have removed Roland Freisler #228 and got #229 Erich von Manstein instead. Call it friendly fire.
Muh ha ha ha, knew it :3 I'd also suggest Ringel be removed...he was an avid NSDAP fanatic, having joined when he was in the Austrian Army pre-anschluss (unlike the German army, the Austrian army allowed it's members to be political/join parties).
With regards to Marseille, this might be one of the cases where attacking from multiple provinces hurts you, because it extends the frontage which the defenders can use more effectively than the attackers - I assume you don't have 50 panzer brigades facing them! Reduce the frontage to a single province, leave one division on the defensive in the rest. Shift all your offensive forces to the single province you are attacking from.
Finally, send in the infantry, and possibly a few engineer brigades to support the armor.
Finally, send in the infantry, and possibly a few engineer brigades to support the armor.
Yes that makes good sense. Will give it a try. Them battling bastards of Bastigone, err, Marsielle.
i would propose to choke them with naval bombers on their supply line. But you need those supplies.
Or, no, you don't. You need fuel but they don't have any there. So choke them with NAV
And maybe a few subs if you don't mind littering the mediterranean with german made steel
On the political side. Is the outcome of the plot a choice? If so why did you go for killing moustachio? It's not making your life any easier on the short term. And the short term is critical
Or, no, you don't. You need fuel but they don't have any there. So choke them with NAV
And maybe a few subs if you don't mind littering the mediterranean with german made steelOn the political side. Is the outcome of the plot a choice? If so why did you go for killing moustachio? It's not making your life any easier on the short term. And the short term is critical
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