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situation:
playing japan in 39 scenario on hard/furious
It is now late 1942.
I am at war with the allies and USA (not russia)
I am only allied to manchuria (default puppet at start)
I have conquered all of china and indo china and pressed the british back to
india. I have control over most of the dutch island and have enough of
all resources except energy.

The british is not my primary problem. i have a strong defensive line against
them. The trouble is the USA.
I have the 4 original CVs about 8 BB and 30 subs with 20-30 cruisers of
various sizes. I have composed my ships/ uboats into 2 30 stacks.
1 only with subs (strangely, my subs always get their behind kicked, even when fighting at night against capital ships...grumf)
I have about 10 naval bombers with more being built.

problem:
The USA has a shit load of ships and unless i move both my 2 30 stacks
together i start loosing ships at an alarming rate.
my naval tech is reasonable good, but i have zero manpower left, so reinforement is gonna get difficult.
I am at a loss as of what to do.....
my various islands are protected by 1 or more garrisons, but i will be unable
to respond in force once the american start to invade my islands since i cannot move my ships to more than 1 spot at the time.. and currently im patroling the japan coastline..afraid to venture further out.

The only solution for my problem, that i can see. Is to build more naval bombers and hope they will be able to sink some of the american ships

If anyone else have comments and/or experience playing the japanese
please dont hesitate to chip in here

nappy out.

 

[Armfeldt]

The best way to defeat the US is to build carriers, lots of them. I usually build 10-15 improved carriers before going to war with them. Since building carriers will take you like 18 months, I would go with more nav bombers if I were you.

 

[PB-DK]

I am playing Germany/1936/Normal/Furious. It is now May, 1941.

Everything went according to the book. (I reloaded when it did not.)

Poland: They were annexed in 8 days.
Denmark/Norway: Done. I was invading France at the time it started.
Greenland/Iceland: I took too long to take Denmark, so they belong to USA.
Low Countries: Done. I invaded them in March, 1940.
France: Done. They were Vichied at the end of March.
England: Done. I did Sealowe in April.
Royal Navy: Davy Jones' Locker. I used the Submarine Exploit.

Appolo Program: Done. I handicapped my game by building a Level 10 Rocket Test Facility in Rostok. At normal difficulty level I get more production than I can shake a stick at.

Technology: I took the diversified approach. Everything up to 1938 is researched. I skipped a few doctrines from 1939. I still have some interesting stuff to go through from 1940 (improving the aircraft) and I am just starting 1941.

I notice that the AI is current on the essential items and behind on doctrines, especially the air doctrines. Perhaps I can exploit this.

I am not yet at war with the USA or USSR. I find my enemies to be out of reach right now. I took advantage of the winter months of 1940/41 to completely garrison the Lowlands, France, British Isles, and Norway. My trollpower stands at 764.

I have 108 Infantry, 1 Cavalry, 8 Motor, 13 Armor, 1 Paratrooper, 9 Marines, 9 Mountaineer, 6 HQ, and 79 Garrisons. (Count 'em!)

The Ruskies have 120 Infantry, 6 Cavalry, 16 Motor, 30 Armor, 11 Mountain, 1 HQ, and 6 Garrison. (Armor is 17 Light and 13 Regular)

My navy is #3 and the RN is less than half the size of my navy. The USN is more than twice the size, since they sure like to build ships. The Russian navy is simply not a threat - end of story.

I have 6 Escorts, 4 Fighters, 8 Interceptors, 4 CAS, 1 Strategic Bomber, 8 Tactical Bomber, 8 Naval Bombers, and 1 Transport Plane.

The Ruskies have 14 Interceptors, 2 CAS, and 17 Tactical Bombers.

I know I did not play the Germans to be a nice guy. Here is the question for the field: Should I do Russia right now, or should I wait another year?

I think the moment is right, but I am sure low on manpower. I suppose it is not going to get any better next year.

you have sufficient forces to hit the ruskie's, so you only have to reduce the manpower losses to a minimum by making sure you attack the indevidual provinces with ample firepower and you keep the soviet's occupied by your airforce...

remember to build a few lvl 5+ airfields near the boarder to house your CAS...

and that will mean waiting atleast a year for them to be ready if you have not already done so...

you can do fine without the airbases, i prefere to have them... but if you have enough bases close to the boarder then go for it as soon as the muddy season is over...

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situation:
playing japan in 39 scenario on hard/furious
It is now late 1942.
I am at war with the allies and USA (not russia)
I am only allied to manchuria (default puppet at start)
I have conquered all of china and indo china and pressed the british back to
india. I have control over most of the dutch island and have enough of
all resources except energy.

Okay, seems you have the burma/india situation under control so you should be safe enough from that direction... for now atleast

yes energy can be difficult to obtain, guess you will have to up your oil conversion techs to help conserving energy for industrial purposes...

The british is not my primary problem. i have a strong defensive line against
them. The trouble is the USA.
I have the 4 original CVs about 8 BB and 30 subs with 20-30 cruisers of
various sizes. I have composed my ships/ uboats into 2 30 stacks.
1 only with subs (strangely, my subs always get their behind kicked, even when fighting at night against capital ships...grumf)
I have about 10 naval bombers with more being built.

you don't have very many Carriers and that will be your main problem the next few years as the pacific is a Carrier battleground, I don't try to take on the US unless i have parity or atleast 10 carriers (which ever is the smallest number)
i use my subs to raid convoys and yes if they encounter a fleet with a lot of Destroyers then they will take losses... fact of life i suppose... deal with it... (naval bomber are pretty good in that aspect )
keep on building those naval bombers as they are effective against ships... i usually use them in groups of 2's or 3's with an escort (3 bomber, 1 escort) if there is any hostile fighters or if it is near my home i use them in a group of 4 bombers... (lots of death from above to any ship)

problem:
The USA has a shit load of ships and unless i move both my 2 30 stacks
together i start loosing ships at an alarming rate.
my naval tech is reasonable good, but i have zero manpower left, so reinforement is gonna get difficult.
I am at a loss as of what to do.....
my various islands are protected by 1 or more garrisons, but i will be unable
to respond in force once the american start to invade my islands since i cannot move my ships to more than 1 spot at the time.. and currently im patroling the japan coastline..afraid to venture further out.

well i guess you have lost your naval initiative and i guess that unless you regain it soon you will start to loose your islands one by one in a matter of time...

having the right commander for the job is crusial to any naval success, a grand admiral who is a lvl 1 or 0 is a poor choise if you could have 2 stacks of 12 or 18 with lvl 2 or 3 admirals in command, each lvl of skill grants a +5% bonus to effectivity...

also the composition of the naval groups are important to success, the general guide line is to keep the amount of escorts to 100% so that you don't get any nasty surprices from your enemies... also be aware of the fact that groups with one or more carriers are carrier groups and never try to close the range so leaving you best BB's in the carrier group is only something you want if you want your carriers well protected in the event of a hostile fleet comming too close (yes it happens from time to time)

i usually NEVER use the autopromote and ALWAYS take the time to promote only those who i want to promote in order not to loose too much xp... i form my fleets from the best admirals that i have and do not promote admirals just because i think it would be cool to have a bit larger stack to play with... so if i have a good admiral (skill lvl 4+) f.x. a vice admiral (12 ships) then i form the 'taskforce' from that... i would form a carrier taskforce from 1-3 CV's with 1 BC or BB and 2 CA's to form the 'heavy' escort and i would use 3-5 CL's and 1-3 DD's to form the 'screen' escorts leaving me (hopefully) with a 12 ship carrier group that has sufficient firepower to knock out most non-carrier groups they can encounter... if i had a Admiral (18 ships) i would priotise the carriers and keep the number of heavies at about the same (and use a max of 3 DD's for escort or no DD's if the group has to go far)

Flexibility is a key to success, use your naval bombers to sweep the japanese home sea's so you don't have to use more than an ASW group to keep your shipping lanes clear and use your battle/carrier groups to go out and engage the US fleets and support your operations... see one of my previous post on how i usually group my ships and what strategies i usually use...

The only solution for my problem, that i can see. Is to build more naval bombers and hope they will be able to sink some of the american ships

If anyone else have comments and/or experience playing the japanese
please dont hesitate to chip in here

nappy out.

Naval bombers rule... and so do carriers... but they wont help anything if you are just sitting home, not having the 'guts' to go out and stick it to the yanks... just achive local superiority with ships and bombers and you will do fine... (i hope )

anyways, again go back and take a look at my previous posts... there should be a thing or two that might be useful... if you still have problem, then post them here and we will go into fine detail...

 

[Jopi]

Thanks for the post. I understand your concerns. Really is a rather difficult situation. Lemme start by assuming that your manpower is OK. I think you should indeed continue with your "bonus campaigns" as they take very little troops and reduce your enimies ability stage in these areas. As for your invasion plans for England, I don't think you will have enough Naval capacity to see your troops safely ashore. You may get lucky.... but its an awefully big gamble with such a small navy. ALSO, with a force such as this massing one must assume that they are intended to go somewhere, especially with their Naval dominance. I would EXPECT an invasion sometime soon.... having the ability to smash this may be the break your looking for (without resorting to nukes, which the DR. doesn't use ever). By smashing this assault (the Naval components as well hopefully.... relying on your subs and bombers) you may have a window to attack.
Let me discuss some other options though.
1) without a Navy you cannot project power globally... only continentally (or multi-continentally in adjoining continents). North America, South America (who cares), Australia, new Zealand, etc will be out of reach. Must begin a strategy to change this. Building a navy of your own built around carriers and a large amount of Naval bombers should help tremendously.
2)I really think you are stuck in a postion of defense in Europe until you can rectify #1. Advancing into Asia and Africa seem to be worthwhile adventures while you build.
3) Your going to need staging areas... both for air cover and naval launchings... start looking for some good places now and set those up.
4) I don't think you are in a "lose" situation for global conquest yet... just behind a little... and with the IC's the Asia/Africa campaign open up you should find yourself dealt back in shortly.
5) watch that invasion carefully... I might even go so far as to try and "bait" the landing force to a place of your choosing (one where you can smash both the ground units and the naval units).

Hope that helps. Lemme know how it goes

Cop115
aka - the DR.

About time I updated this... I continued the war in Asia, but I left Africa pretty much to the Italians. After slugging through the jungles of Burma I attacked China. Japan was annexed when Mexico took their last islands in Pacific, so I got whole Indochina and Manchuria for myself. China was a breeze. They had about 160 divisions, but they were mostly fightinf the Russians. It just took me ages to walk to Yakutsk, which the Chinese had taken from the Russians.
Meanwhile in Europe I continued bombing the Channel. I built a lot of subs during that time. My manpower was diminishing, which gave a good incentive to build navy. The bombers sent the Allied navies to Davy Jones' locker. By the time the invasion began, Allies had a total of six or seven carriers. I landed the initial invasion force to Edinburgh. I quickly shipped my tanks and mechs there. I nuked the Americans in Plymouth. After that, the numbers were even. The invasion was stalled when I ran out of convoy transports to supply my armies. That only delayed the inevitable.
Lacking anything better to do, I researched ICBMs and attacked American industry. At the moment, the situation is pretty curious. Americans have only 40 or so non-garrison divisions. They are commited to useless battles in Kamchatka or Norway. In a month, I will get a fleet of transports. I'll try to invade the US. Garrisons aren't much of a threat, and I expect them to be very spread out. I have 2 CVs at the moment, and I'm building more. The Americans have about 11 carriers, but I think I can cross the Atlantic safely.

 

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Banzai!!!

Time to provide an update.
Being in the US Navy during the first six months since Pearl Harbor has not been healthy endeavour . As of June 1, the Americans have only 178 ships left meaning that nearly 2/3 of their navy is sunk . They have currently only one aircraft carrier and battleship left and 3 heavy cruisers. Throughout spring the island hopping campaign in the Pacific continued. The Americans are now completely without naval bases, also at the end of May, an undefended Panama was taken by 3 marine divisions, which I am leaving there to prevent the Colombians from liberating it. Effectively the Pacific is now mine, the US westcoast is completely overrun, American vessels will be forced to move towards the Atlantic if they want to stand a chance of survival.
The only thorn in my left in the Pacific is the island of Maui at Hawai. The US has 3 infantry divisions stationed there, and forces me to keep a bigger garrison at Pearl Harbor. Though I can keep them locked up with a submarine fleet, I still fear their extensive fleet of light cruisers and destroyers.
As for my advance in the US, it continues largely unopposed and I am 2/3 of the way to the East Coast. The invasion of Mexico was a succes and I managed to annex them in early March. At the moment TC appears to be my biggest problem, even now I have maxed my IC by going towards a fully centrally planned economy and appointing the most IC generating ministers. I try to skip unimportant provinces to conserve TC, but it is not helping much due to pockets of resistance by isolated US divisions. This has also forced me to deploy several armies to hunt down and annihilate them.
Another problem is posed by the US airforce, they still have 13 tactical bomber wings and they wreak havoc on my lone divisions, initially I tried taking out their airfields, by quickly conquering those, but that no longer seems to work as they have to many of them. Aircover is also not feasible because I have only 4 interceptor wings and cannot deploy them all over the US. I lost 1 marine division to those bombers already and needed to carry out a strategic withdrawal to save several other divisions. My army corps OTOH are making better progress albeit more slowly. And even they needed to be halted, due to the long traveling through hostile territory they have become exausted and I needed to regain org.
Bassically my plan is to move as far eastwards as possible during the summer. I have one daring plan. With the Pacific almost completely sealed off and the Panama Canal now available to me, I intend to move the main fleet through it and support a landing operation on the East coast.
Concerning production, I have finished my upgrades and am now reinforcing the army again and repairing the fleet. I have 3 type V carriers under construction and they are due to be finished in March '43 bringing the total Carriers at 13, my 2 BCs are ready next August. I no longer plan to build more any more capital ships for the time being, giving the state of the US Navy. Research on Advanced Light Cruisers has almost finished and I intend to build several more of those. Other producion of units consists of Tacs, motorized infantry, garrison divisions and some brigades. Also I have commissioned the construction of a missile site to help speed up research in that field.

 

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Jopi - Be careful. I had thought the same as Japan and the US quickly converts from naval building to land army building. My attack with Japan stalled in the Rocky Mountains and is now stagnant.
General Alkar - I played Japan recently as well. Had similar path as you did. Had less success in my mainland invasion, but there are no navies left in the world other than mine. Met stiff resistance from the combined armies of North Amerca. Also... China declared war on Russia after the Axis declared on Russia... guess they wanted a piece of the pie.... well they got a BIG chunk of russia... Basically everything East of India. On a whim, I saved the game and loaded as them and declared war on the Allies! Saved... and reloaded as Japan... Wow that got fun Also declared war on Persia despite not having a border so Germany could push into India with me. Took them FOREVER to get started. But they are rolling now.

Got a good game going as Germany now. Have conquered Europe except for my allies Hungary, Romania, Italy. Portugal is +200 now as is Argentina. Sweden is still nuetral. England still exists, but i destroy 5 convoys a day and the allied navies are dwindling. Deciding wether I should go for England or Russia next. Got a very large army with motorized and medium tanks II. Don't think either stands a chance; although manpower is low at 800 or so. I have a rather large navy now and my naval bombers rain fire down on any fleet.
I dunno.... probably go England.

 

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Got a good game going as Germany now. Have conquered Europe except for my allies Hungary, Romania, Italy. Portugal is +200 now as is Argentina. Sweden is still nuetral. England still exists, but i destroy 5 convoys a day and the allied navies are dwindling. Deciding wether I should go for England or Russia next. Got a very large army with motorized and medium tanks II. Don't think either stands a chance; although manpower is low at 800 or so. I have a rather large navy now and my naval bombers rain fire down on any fleet.
I dunno.... probably go England.

You basically answeredyour own question, England would the target of choice then. Although I don't know the relative strengths of your navy and airforce compared to theirs, you will stand a good chance as long as you can get the transports across, which I presume you can. I haven't tried a Barbarossa myself as Germany, so I don't know if you can pull that one off. A strategy I haven't tried myself, is building a defensive wall along the the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact border. I think it is only six provinces and therefore would take about 30 IC for 3 years to get lvl. 10 fortresses all over the place. Though Russia might use your allies to bypass that line and from your description they could also overrun Scandinavia, though the latter would drain their manpower during Winter instead of yours.
Another advantage of invading England is as you said earlier, that it make a US invasion in Europe far less likely. If you think the East Front to be secure, overrun Africa and/or get through Turkey into the Middle East. Next stop obviously, India.

On my own campaign as Japan, the rest of the Summer went by rather quickly. My forces managed to reach the East Coast practically unopposed, only the coastal areas itself had some defences left. The remnants of the US Navy were evacuated to the East Coast as well and avoided getting massacred any further. The main fleet succesfully supported the landing of several marine divisions along the East Coast and combined with my rapid advance accross the USA they were annexed in August '41. The enitre campaign took less than nine months. Though for succes speed is of the very essence and the USA should not be at war with anybody else to prevent them from building up forces in advance. Had the USA joined the Allies a succesfull invasion would have been nearly impossible.

Right now I am pondering on what to do next. I have about 370 IC and enough resources to last me for years. Though I am running out of convoys to transport everything. Mostly I am now building garrison divisions to occupy the States and some motorized infantry, marines/mountaineers.
The only thing bothers me right now is that my IC accounting appears to be all screwed up, with the modifiers being off. Unless I am mistaken I get at least 30 IC to little . I sent a bugreport about it and I got a reply that they will examine the differences between the effects and the IC-tooltip.

 

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I dunno - I wouldn't exactly say the border is secure... being as I have Hungary and Romania on board. Would definitely do England before the Middle East.
As for your game... if Germany is still in the game.... you won. What other force could possibley challenge you? Congrats!

Anyone wanna play a cooperative game this weekend? Was thinkin Friday at 6 EST. Play till we drop. Lemme know if yur interested here on the thread... I can't keep my inbox empty here.

Or just message me at peacemaker1152005@yahoo.com (messanger or email).

Later

 

[Scavenius]

Dear Sirs

Well now its time for me to make my first post.

Playing Japan Normal/normal 36 campain 3rd try failed 2 last times in china , so this time I stayed out of China and build IC instead got it to 147 now, and killing all lvl 1 ships (not the carrier) and all garrisions on the Isles to save supplies, the war has progessed normaly Germany overrunning everyting exept for UK home isle and Italy are kicked from Africa and I got Indochina.
Germany DoW SU in April 41 a week before my nonagresion pack with them expired I send a thanks to Germany for that, as SU had a huge army at the Manchouko border.

US are not in the war yet, but Im afried the gonna DoW Germany soon as there Belligiece are massive 87 now, mine are 0 :rofl: .

Im set up to strike at the Netherlands and UK in south East Asia.
I got 6 carriers the 4 old ones and 2 new ones and 2 more comming with in 3 month and 4 more with in 1 year.
I got 4 navel bomber groupes with 3 bombers and 1 escort, 2 stacks of SS 4 with 10 in each + alot of old ships.
So My 12 Marine divisions and around 12 inf divisions are ready to strike, but Im scared of the blue dot to the east.

my question are if I capture all Netherlands VP in South East asia can I annex them as Germany control the ones in Europa or do I have to capture all and just occupire it. I hope to capture all of it before the US enters the war.

So should I stike and hope that the US dont join the allies?

I must say this is the best campain I got I think I can undestand Japans dillemma.

Humble recruit Scavenius

 

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I don't think you can annex those territories without conquering all of the UK or Netherlands. Which is impossible.

However they may offer you a peace deal with most of the valuable territory.

I haven't tried to take either yet as Japan. I was waiting for the Germans to beat the USSR...but they didn't.

 

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Dear Sirs

Well now its time for me to make my first post.

Playing Japan Normal/normal 36 campain 3rd try failed 2 last times in china , so this time I stayed out of China and build IC instead got it to 147 now, and killing all lvl 1 ships (not the carrier) and all garrisions on the Isles to save supplies, the war has progessed normaly Germany overrunning everyting exept for UK home isle and Italy are kicked from Africa and I got Indochina.
Germany DoW SU in April 41 a week before my nonagresion pack with them expired I send a thanks to Germany for that, as SU had a huge army at the Manchouko border.

Forget about defending Manchukuo, though they are your puppet the territory is next to worthless, containing scarce resources and IC. Withdraw all your and Manchukuo's forces back to defend Korea. Manchukou will eat up Soviet TC, while providing practically nothing in return. Since you did not conquer China, your IC is fairly low. Conquest of all the Chinese factions yielded me about 50 extra IC, more even after I got a Prince of Terror, security minister.
Disbanding all type I ships save for that CV is a good thing to conserve resources. Disbanding those garrisons wasn't, you could have used those to bolster your defences of the various pacific isles instead. Especially since you do not have to bother about China.

US are not in the war yet, but Im afried the gonna DoW Germany soon as there Belligiece are massive 87 now, mine are 0 :rofl: .

Im set up to strike at the Netherlands and UK in south East Asia.
I got 6 carriers the 4 old ones and 2 new ones and 2 more comming with in 3 month and 4 more with in 1 year.
I got 4 navel bomber groupes with 3 bombers and 1 escort, 2 stacks of SS 4 with 10 in each + alot of old ships.
So My 12 Marine divisions and around 12 inf divisions are ready to strike, but Im scared of the blue dot to the east.

my question are if I capture all Netherlands VP in South East asia can I annex them as Germany control the ones in Europa or do I have to capture all and just occupire it. I hope to capture all of it before the US enters the war.

So should I stike and hope that the US dont join the allies?

I must say this is the best campain I got I think I can undestand Japans dillemma.

Humble recruit Scavenius

Your fleet looks to be in good shape, and you have a nice amount of naval bombers to fight eventually a defensive war against the US. Though personally I find it not necessary to provide escorts for naval bombers. Better transfer those to your Tacs. However your ground forces appear insufficient to take on the allies head on. The DEI are lightly defended and contain the last Dutch VP provinces, if you take those and Germany has overrun the Netherlands like they usually do then they can be annexed. The problem is though that the DEI are relatively poor in resources, one of the main gripes was the lack of oil in Borneo represented in the game.
Still you are going to need resources, hopefully you have been building up a stockpile of resources by trading supplies with the USA and USSR before the war broke out, if not you are in deep trouble. Since you are part of the Axis good relations with the USA aren't going to help you either.
Something else that comes to mind, if Germany has launched Barbarossa, and you have sufficient ground forces, try to take and hold on to Vladivostok, the province that needs to be held by Japan in order to fire the "Bitter Peace" event. You could try helping Germany a lot by keeping as many Soviet divisions occupied in the Russian Far East as possible. Though this makes land based operations against the Allies, especially the British, very difficult.

 

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I dunno - I wouldn't exactly say the border is secure... being as I have Hungary and Romania on board. Would definitely do England before the Middle East.
As for your game... if Germany is still in the game.... you won. What other force could possibley challenge you? Congrats!

Anyone wanna play a cooperative game this weekend? Was thinkin Friday at 6 EST. Play till we drop. Lemme know if yur interested here on the thread... I can't keep my inbox empty here.

Or just message me at peacemaker1152005@yahoo.com (messanger or email).

Later

Germany is still around and leads in VPs, though not by much and holds much of Westen Russia, Moscow is still surrounded, but the Germans appear to have gotten stuck on the Eastern Front, making little to no progress during the '42 summer. I am obviously 2nd place in VPs. Effectively the Axis nations have won. A funny thing that happened, was that Liberia inherited the remnants of the US Navy, making them with over 160 the largest in number of ships, though it is mostly LCs, DDs and TPs. My navy rules the Oceans, I have twice the numbers of ships the British have, who rank 3rd and they have only 3 CVs. With my naval bombers and carrier fleet nobody can effectively challenge my rule. Due to the screwed IC accounting and my leading position I have gotten tired of this game and decided to play another country. Germany on Hard/Furious will propably be my next challenge.

As for multiplayer game, I am mostly available during weekends and weekday evenings. I haven't played any Paradox games multiplayer yet due to difficulties with my firewall, but managed to solve that now I think. I can join a game on Friday though my timezone is CET ( Cental European Time, +1 GMT) 6 EST would be very late here, but I think I'll manage a play till we drop game . I can be contacted by PM, or we could start a thread in the HoI2 MP-Forum.

 

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Scavenius - Yes u can... if you have all the VP you can annex (although it might be Germany actually annexing). I believe however that they have a province in northern South America as well......
Gonna agree with General Altar that disbanding the garrisons was a mistake... if anything bring them to the home front. What I ted to do is go pick up all the island guys and attack the "blue" chinese province which broders my mainland provinces almost immediatly (if I don't try and take all of China). These guys work perfect here.
As for Manchuko u may want to throw your fighters up there, great way to get xp. Same for your tac bombers.
Also I would highly recommend getting more Naval bombers.... your gonna need um.

Thanks for the post and keep us up to speed on what happens.

Cop115
aka - the DR.

 

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Scavenius - Yes u can... if you have all the VP you can annex (although it might be Germany actually annexing). I believe however that they have a province in northern South America as well......
Gonna agree with General Altar that disbanding the garrisons was a mistake... if anything bring them to the home front. What I ted to do is go pick up all the island guys and attack the "blue" chinese province which broders my mainland provinces almost immediatly (if I don't try and take all of China). These guys work perfect here.
As for Manchuko u may want to throw your fighters up there, great way to get xp. Same for your tac bombers.
Also I would highly recommend getting more Naval bombers.... your gonna need um.

Thanks for the post and keep us up to speed on what happens.

Cop115
aka - the DR.

The Dutch colony of Suriname, Paramaribo in South-America, does not have any VPs, once the Netherlands and Dutch East Indies are occupied the Netherlands can be annexed. In your case Germany can annex them, since they control the original Dutch capital. They get all the Dutch provinces they occupy plus any Dutch provinces that are still free. You get to keep all the provinces you occupy.

 

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Thanks for the update on that Alkar.

Also posted in MP forum the plan for friday night MP games.

Anyone interested please post there.

 

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Should I invest in building factories as the UK at the very start of a 1936 campaign?

 

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Sure. Actually to be honest.... everyone but Poland, Austria, Czech, Ethiopia, Spain, and China probably could and should.

Probably a few others... but usually starting off with building factories for 2 years lets you get up on tech and still build for a late 39 force with men to spare.

 

[Scavenius]

Back again

I attacked and took the VPs and annexed the dutch in 3 month, well I lost the province they got in southamerica to the French, but thats no biggy allso I took Malaya from UK currently Im cleaning up AUS from New Guinia.
after this counquests I have 100k+ in all resoures.

US have not Dowed me so thats good, they even offered me more trade deals :rofl:

Naval situation, I sunk around 5 UK BB and a CV + various of smaller ships and only lost 4 subs and a CL.
I kinda see now that not taking out China might be a mistake as the warlord on the Indochina border DoW and with the UK the are pilling up alot of troops at the border.
In the pacific I only defend the 3 isles that have Naval/air bases.
I think Im going to fortify my indochina border and try take out AUS and New Zeeland during the first half of 42.

Recruit Scavenius

 

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Good job.

Got a question for ya. Did you acually annex or did Germany? My understanding on who can do this and when seems to be insufficient.

Also, you better leave some troopers on your China border, preferabley those with some speed to them. China is goin' somewhere.
One last thing.... this is gona be a DR. quotable.....

"thow hast awakened the sleeping giant... best get some magic beans ready now!"
or.....
"Dr. says finish with the Australians and Zealanders..... and get ready for bigger things"



Good job so far bud. Keep us up to speed.... and heed my warning

 

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Anti kommunistischer Schutzwall

After my abandoning my Japan game, I have now started a game '36 as Germany on Hard/Furious. The first 2 years were spend on building IC improvements and a lvl 8 rocket test site. I focussed my relationship improvements primarily on the USSR and USA. I do not intend to make allies, but conquer them instead. Most of Germany's allies are pretty much useless anyway and I can make better use of their resources and IC.
Austria and Czechia were taken, Slovakia went to Hungary. Poland fell in 1939, followed by Belgium, Luxembourg, France and the Netherlands in that order in November 1939. During Spring 1940 I overran Hungary, Rumenia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Sealion took place in August that year and the island of Great Britain has almost fallen.
My longterm goals are the conquest of the rest Europe, these include conquering all the Mediterrenian nations. I do not intend to launch an operation Barbarossa, and instead have been building up a defensive wall from the Baltic till the Black Sea, the goal is to have a line of lvl 10 fortifications with at least 5 divisions in each province. Though I left a gap at the Russian province of Stryj. It would have taken me an additional 3 provinces to fortify the line over there, my intention is to quickly take over that province if/when war breaks out and fortify that one.
Since I do not intend to fight out Barbarossa I have been focussing on building a strong navy and airforce instead. Depending on how my game progresses I might decide to take on the USA instead of the Soviet Union, although that one would carry its own risks as well.