I'm playing the Total Realism Mod for Darkest hour 1.01.1
Ok, so either I am a bit rusty at the game after not playing it for a while, or this mod is seriously challenging. I have it on Normal/Normal btw.
So I'm playing as Italy, and we are getting our butts handed to us by the Allies. Germany barely made it to Smolensk by 1941, and already they are getting pushed back. I sent about 25~30 expedition force to Germany before the start of the war, AND I had to completely stall my invasion plans in Greece, I just didn't have time to use my Greek invasion force, beat the Greeks, and then send those troops up to the Germany/Russia border in time for Barbarossa.
My navy is getting smacked around brutally, especially after the U.S. entered the war. My African invasion army was doing great, ~55 infantry divisions, and I even managed to encircle and destroy ~10 English divisions at the start but my blitz of Egypt was indefinitely halted and thwarted at the city of Alexandria, every attack failed. I tried alternation between about ~23 attacking at a time while the reserves regained org (To avoid stacking penalties and to provide a continual attack). I was so close to breaking them at Alexandria but all of a sudden the English started getting reinforced there to the max, and in no time I was in a manpower slugmatch vs ~30 superior enemy divisions and growing, I ran out of org and stopped the attack. Thought I would wait and reinforce that area with some troops, but their numbers kept growing. Now at 1942 they have 80 divisons vs my 56, there is no way I can ever break that at this point.
The US just landed in Casablanca, I have only 9 divisions in reserve to spare so I quickly sent them from mainland Italy to Amphib assault Algiers. I drove back some armor divisions in the first couple of weeks but when I reached Oran I was annihilated, I made a huge mistake got encircled by their quicker tanks and 9 units down the drain, didn't have enough time to get my transports to save them.. Aside from the 1 division defensive units I have on the beaches so I didn't get invaded in Libya and my 56 divisions that are in El Alamein standing guard against 80 plus divisions from the English i'm completely out. The US has started to steamroll through Morocco without any obstacles, I have nothing to throw at them at all. The only other units I have are in Belorussia under the command of Germans, pulling them out is not an option since Germany is landlocked with the growing numbers of the Soviets that are slowly but surely pushing them back.
I Don't know what to do! Should I immediately try to abandon Africa and "Try" to transport my divisions from El Alamein to mainland italy for the defense of Italy? I know within the year they'll have North Africa, I have nothing else to defend Italy with... what a disaster
Ok, so either I am a bit rusty at the game after not playing it for a while, or this mod is seriously challenging. I have it on Normal/Normal btw.
So I'm playing as Italy, and we are getting our butts handed to us by the Allies. Germany barely made it to Smolensk by 1941, and already they are getting pushed back. I sent about 25~30 expedition force to Germany before the start of the war, AND I had to completely stall my invasion plans in Greece, I just didn't have time to use my Greek invasion force, beat the Greeks, and then send those troops up to the Germany/Russia border in time for Barbarossa.
My navy is getting smacked around brutally, especially after the U.S. entered the war. My African invasion army was doing great, ~55 infantry divisions, and I even managed to encircle and destroy ~10 English divisions at the start but my blitz of Egypt was indefinitely halted and thwarted at the city of Alexandria, every attack failed. I tried alternation between about ~23 attacking at a time while the reserves regained org (To avoid stacking penalties and to provide a continual attack). I was so close to breaking them at Alexandria but all of a sudden the English started getting reinforced there to the max, and in no time I was in a manpower slugmatch vs ~30 superior enemy divisions and growing, I ran out of org and stopped the attack. Thought I would wait and reinforce that area with some troops, but their numbers kept growing. Now at 1942 they have 80 divisons vs my 56, there is no way I can ever break that at this point.
The US just landed in Casablanca, I have only 9 divisions in reserve to spare so I quickly sent them from mainland Italy to Amphib assault Algiers. I drove back some armor divisions in the first couple of weeks but when I reached Oran I was annihilated, I made a huge mistake got encircled by their quicker tanks and 9 units down the drain, didn't have enough time to get my transports to save them.. Aside from the 1 division defensive units I have on the beaches so I didn't get invaded in Libya and my 56 divisions that are in El Alamein standing guard against 80 plus divisions from the English i'm completely out. The US has started to steamroll through Morocco without any obstacles, I have nothing to throw at them at all. The only other units I have are in Belorussia under the command of Germans, pulling them out is not an option since Germany is landlocked with the growing numbers of the Soviets that are slowly but surely pushing them back.
I Don't know what to do! Should I immediately try to abandon Africa and "Try" to transport my divisions from El Alamein to mainland italy for the defense of Italy? I know within the year they'll have North Africa, I have nothing else to defend Italy with... what a disaster
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