Epic AAR, I can't believe you have been working on this for almost 2 years, kudos to you sir!
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Thank you good sir.
Truth to be told, I wish I had finished this earlier, but PC disasters and a busy real life had kept me away from the game for extended amounts of time. Thankfully, I have NOT lost the save games and when all this is over (in the coming 2-3 weeks, crossing fingers), I will be offering some of them for you to sink your teeth into.
For example, I have already thrown the gauntlet to whoever can start playing with the USA in a late save (for example now!) and reverse their fate before all is lost!
I am seriously considering it. Especially if it comes out stable enough after the first 1-2 patches.
Don't count too much on Japan, in my Germany AAR when I had smashed the American fleet and so on, they never got further than Hawaii and the first islands of the Aleoets chain, ignoring all my allied objectives on San Fransisco etc. Be prepared to have to do all of the heavy lifting yourself.
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I can confirm this. I invaded the USA playing as Italy and both the German and Japanese did absolutely nothing despite one of my invasion points being a static line in Mexico that held for over a year before further landing on the east and west coasts.
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Thank you, guys. This is a bizarre behavior to say the least. In most other places I have noticed that the AI follows the attack/defend tag here more or less. They simply have to feel really confident (almost overpowering) to do it. Perhaps America scares the hell out of them. But it is really weird, especially if the human does the difficult part of landing and sequestering a port and an airfield, they have no excuse to send in reinforcements and try to get their own objectives. Japan, for example, should be almost hard-coded to attack and seize San Francisco and Los Angeles.
September 22-23, 1944
Puerto Rico must fall. It has been decided. After our successful landing in the Bermudas, we need to destroy this "hornet nest" (pan intended: I have fallen victim to the Hornet CV in the past! and there is also a Wasp CV in port!!) and clear this important US naval station in the Caribbean.
(I know the defenses are weak cause I used my subterfuge advantage again to "steal local plans"...)
The invading Marine divisions are the same two that have managed the feat in the Bermudas. The Bermudas are now garrisoned by a normal INF division. At least 11 ships will be protecting the coasts and shell the American positions. Unfortunately, we expect the American naval guns to return fire as our men are fighting on the beaches...
As you may notice: I have manually selected the CAG to bomb the port and stationed ships as we approach from SE... Btw, the ones without enough supplies is us...
September 22-23, 1944
Puerto Rico must fall. It has been decided. After our successful landing in the Bermudas, we need to destroy this "hornet nest" (pan intended: I have fallen victim to the Hornet CV in the past! and there is also a Wasp CV in port!!) and clear this important US naval station in the Caribbean.
(I know the defenses are weak cause I used my subterfuge advantage again to "steal local plans"...)
The invading Marine divisions are the same two that have managed the feat in the Bermudas. The Bermudas are now garrisoned by a normal INF division. At least 11 ships will be protecting the coasts and shell the American positions. Unfortunately, we expect the American naval guns to return fire as our men are fighting on the beaches...
As you may notice: I have manually selected the CAG to bomb the port and stationed ships as we approach from SE... Btw, the ones without enough supplies is us...
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if you can catch and destroy those vessels at Puerto Rico then the US Navy in the Atlantic will be almost over without any doubt
Can't you console-force the Japanese to attack the USA alongside you? I mean, it would make sense for both nations to work together, after all. And where is the spirit of Bismarck if you have to do all the fighting alone?
They will probably move out once the battle for Puerto Rico is over. If my own vessels don't annihilate them at that point, they will indeed flee to another nearby base. You do remember how they fled Scotland, don't you? That screenshot of 4 fleets abandoning Europe still haunts them...
Well, perhaps, but I would also want to portray the rest of the world as "war wary". In real life the USA would have probably accepted the new Axis World Order if 13-14 out of fifteen war goals were reached and the Allies and Soviets had almost none. I could do something else though: I have 3-4 Expeditionary Japanese divisions. Perhaps I could land them and give them back to Japan. In a month of game time they will return to Japanese control. Perhaps the Japanese AI could take it from there.
France. And I was just considering to invade it to deny them one of these last Caribbean ports...
September 25-26, 1944
Our men fight on the beaches of Puerto Rico. The garrison of the island is overwhelmed. We will soon be masters of it. The Americans can simply not save the island anymore. We are BREAKING THROUGH!!
Of all the resources the German war economy uses, the "rare" ones are always in red. It seems that even if we have conquered vast territories in Europe and beyond, we cannot have enough of those rare elements, earths, metals, etc that are needed for our war effort. The German industry had never had an issue so far, it had always produced or procured through the seized lands the things it needed. Remember the campaign to subdue Sweden? It was done because we were running out of metal/steel (see old screenshots).
Berlin gives the order to invest some time and effort to improve our scientists' and engineers' ability to extract the important rare resources that we need from our current production.
He is kind of right, though. If you have noticed in previous screenshots, I have not quite taken care of my supplies production (especially after dismissing Minister Todt who was a "Military Entrepreneur" giving a +20% supplies production). Indeed the calculation involves a lot of parameters and depends on where the units are stationed on the network, if they are moving, the infrastructure of their propagation, etc.
As I bring more and more units to the Dutch Guiana supplies are ceded also to the Netherlands. If I have understood correctly, when units are on friendly-allied territory, the ally takes care of their logistics but your nation still pays (them) them difference. That might have put some extra strain on the network, lately, but I guess when it will find its new equilibrium it will return the non used supplies back to the stack.
That said, I am running out of supplies either way as my production is much lower in respect to what it should have been for some time now. But I cannot spare much to supplies and upgrades when I have ships to get sooner than later. I want to have those transport ships and extra DDs to face the Americans!
As I bring more and more units to the Dutch Guiana supplies are ceded also to the Netherlands. If I have understood correctly, when units are on friendly-allied territory, the ally takes care of their logistics but your nation still pays (them) them difference. That might have put some extra strain on the network, lately, but I guess when it will find its new equilibrium it will return the non used supplies back to the stack.
That said, I am running out of supplies either way as my production is much lower in respect to what it should have been for some time now. But I cannot spare much to supplies and upgrades when I have ships to get sooner than later. I want to have those transport ships and extra DDs to face the Americans!
September 28, 1944
Immediately after the fall of Puerto Rico, we use the rest of our amphibian assault divisions to capture the French and British islands of Trinidad, Barbados, Antigua, etc. This way we deny the Allies safe front bases that they can operate and hurt our invasion of Brazil.
Not even the tropical storms stop us!
The French move the vestiges of their capital from Guadeloupe to Martinique, an island without a serious port. It should be game over for them. As we invade Antigua, two American naval aircraft squadrons surprise our troops landing, but it is already too late for the British colonial island...
Immediately after the fall of Puerto Rico, we use the rest of our amphibian assault divisions to capture the French and British islands of Trinidad, Barbados, Antigua, etc. This way we deny the Allies safe front bases that they can operate and hurt our invasion of Brazil.
Not even the tropical storms stop us!
The French move the vestiges of their capital from Guadeloupe to Martinique, an island without a serious port. It should be game over for them. As we invade Antigua, two American naval aircraft squadrons surprise our troops landing, but it is already too late for the British colonial island...
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Well if France wasn't finished off yet, they surely are now. They can't even ship supplies to anywhere anymore
Well if France wasn't finished off yet, they surely are now. They can't even ship supplies to anywhere anymore
Indeed, I think it is game-over for them. I have taken all of their possessions elsewhere (in the Pacific and beyond). There is still French territory overseas, but I think it is all under the Vichy regime. That's why Martinique was probably one of their last possible solutions. Unfortunately, according to the game mechanics, this means they won't be able to send supplies and fuel anywhere on the map anymore. But remember: they still have a small but respectable surface fleet which gets refuelled and rearmed in Canada (last time my subs spied). So I guess they can still sting.
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Regarding my plans to invade the USA from the South, I think I will do the plan (as many of you suggested). But in order to role-play it better I will do like this: I will place the 2. Armee (under my famous General Koch-Erpach) in the borders of Venezuela and ask for passage rights. If they are not accepted I will invade them and install a friendly government. Although the oil wells at Paramaribo are quite the asset, I don't want to have to leave occupation forces in Venezuela and, later Colombia. Once my troops have reached Panama, I will move Northwards towards Mexico. This time around I will start conquering (they are small countries after all), but only if they don't accept German passage rights.
But I don't recall if I can attack from a country that I am simply passing through. If I cannot, then my army might get stuck as one country gives passage rights but not the next. I will have to think it through. Also, I am not sure if Mexico should be attacked (and conquered) or not. Its ports are ideal places to put troops on the ground and have relatively mild weather all year round to bring further reinforcements.
Thus: two armies will invade Canada, one Alaska, one Mexico, one will be backup... btw, the invasion will be set to AI management once my troops are on the ground. I will be commanding personally only Koch-Erpach (i.e. the Mexican route).
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Correct, you cannot attack across a neutral border.
Mexico is not in hte Allies yet? Good, then maybe you can knock them out quickly and establish a front on the US border before hordes of American tanks arrive.
Make sure to get your hands on some major pors, or build some Mulberries yourself to supply the army. The US itself has several major ports that work great, but Mexico is a different story.
Mexico is not in hte Allies yet? Good, then maybe you can knock them out quickly and establish a front on the US border before hordes of American tanks arrive.
Make sure to get your hands on some major pors, or build some Mulberries yourself to supply the army. The US itself has several major ports that work great, but Mexico is a different story.