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A French fighter escadrille with American P-40 fighterplanes.
After Poland was defeated, the French Army joined the Belgian Army. They formed a line running from Switserland to the Belgian-Dutch boarder. The first section of the line, was named the 'Maginot' line, and was considered impentrable by both sides. The second part of the line, running from the Northern tip of the Maginot line trough Luxemburg and Belgium to the Dutch boarder was called without much imagination the 'boarder line'. This line was to prove just as tough as the Maginot Line. Garrisoned by no less than forty Belgian, Irish, American, Spanish and French units. The Germans launched major attacks on the line, but it held troughout January, Febuary, March, April and May. This caused the British high command to re-think their earlier strategy. And in mid March the first elements of the BEF started landing in France. Commanded by Bill Slim this force was under equipped, but quite large, comprising of ten divisions. The USA had joined the war soon after Poland had been annexed by Germany, and soon US units were coming over the atlantic to help their belliguered allies. The US units were all put under French command, and would play a vital role in the protection of France and Belgium.
The Handley Page Halifax bombers started pounding Germany once more. With western Germany recieving a massive pounding. The bombers suffered some losses to large amounts of flak, but they managed to dent German morale. (NU went from 85 to 72 in the first six months of '39). Western Germany was not well defended by the Luftwaffe, and only one jagengeschwader was encountred for the first six months. This unit could be beaten back by the large amount of British bombers, and did not pose a very big threat.
In the meantime the Royal Navy was active. A small number of U-boats came out into the channel, and sunk a number of merchant ships. They were hunted down and destroyed by destroyers.
What did Axis do to make USA join the Allies so soon? Moreover, do Germany have other fronts that might tie down Luftwaffe or why are they absent?
@Cpt Easy: Well, they seem to have major protection over Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover and Rostock, as on the France-German boarder. But other than that....... the USA decided from 1936 that they would join the Axis, and used diplomacy to get there. No idea why :wacko:
@ Wuffer: Certainly will :rofl:
@ Dunbal: Thanks!
@Soulking: yes absolutly it will help. Building up to the invasion of Germany slowly.
@ El Pip: nice to have you on board!
@ Wuffer: Certainly will :rofl:
@ Dunbal: Thanks!
@Soulking: yes absolutly it will help. Building up to the invasion of Germany slowly.
@ El Pip: nice to have you on board!
I see that the French are going to repeat their mistake. Putting all their bets on a static defensive system.
It will be very interesting to see if you can succeed in bombing Germany into submission. First results seem hopefull; lowering NU from 95 to just over 70.
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I actually think it will work, considering that just a few bombers can pack quite a punch. Anyway... Subscribed!
A Loyd Carrier of the Irish explodes.
1939, Stalemate
(Ground warfare in 1939)
In the begining of 1939 came the long awaited German offensive. It was a reapeat of the von Schlieffen Plan, and the French and Belgian troops were deployed just right to stop the German thrust trough Belgium. However, it struck with such force that after a week of fighting it broke trough the Belgian Army and penetrated a slight way into Belgium. All of the Belgian plains lay open, the Belgian army was routed, and french reinforcements would take time to arrive. At this critical moment in the battle the first Irish division stept into the gap. Supported by fighter-bombers from the RAF, it held the German advance for eight days. Fighting a masterfull rear-guard operation. It blunted the German ground attack, and the front, altough moved in favour of the Germans, was stabilised by US and french units. The fighting Irish took a huge amount of punishment in their brave action. Going into the battle with 10,000 men, it came out of the battle with only 3,272. The Belgian Army reorginised and soon took back its part in the fighting line.
Hard attacks were also launched against the French-Luxemburger troops in Luxemburg. They had however constructed their defenses well, and managed -with heavy casualties- to stop the Germans. Thus the Western front settled down to WWI trech style warfare. This was certainly in allied favour, by now the BEF was crossing the channel, and day by day more US troops arrived over the Atlantic. In the mean time, the Royal Navy had a other big battle on its hands......
@timkoningskelp: Yeah I wonder aswell. I think it will be neccesairy to invade tough.
@SpeedyDeletion: yay always glad when peeps read my AAAR's
@Soulking: Thanks for all the replies! Keeps me going!
@SpeedyDeletion: yay always glad when peeps read my AAAR's
@Soulking: Thanks for all the replies! Keeps me going!
The way the game is set up, you will at least have to capture a city or two to get VPs, even if Germany's national unity is in the 0-5% range.
HMS Repulse leads the British ad-hoc Royal Navy force which destoryed the German High Seas fleet in the English Channel.
1939, Stalemate
At the end of the year the German high seas fleet left its base from Wilhelmshaven, evading the North Sea Battlgroup which was waiting for it outside. The Germans, -composing of three light cruisers, two destroyers, one battleship of the Bismarck class, and the two aging battlecruisers Schliesen and Schleswig Holstein- snuck into the channel were they were spotted by two Royal Navy Destroyers; Hotspur and Hunter. The two destroyers, in the Nelsonian tradition immediatly steared to engage the German Fleet, while calling up the support of a French Squadron nearby. The two old destroyers were destroyed within fiveteen minits of engaging the Germans. But they held the Germans in place until the French could arrive. The French fleet, consiting of the battlecruiser Dunqirue and four destroyers bravely attcked the German Fleet, but the four destroyers were soon sunk. And Dunqirue had to retreat into a French port. In the meantime, the Royal Navy had scraped toghether a scratch force.
Renown, Repulse, Nelson, Royal Oak, Suffolk and escorting destroyers moved into the channel to block the Germans until the main North Sea Squadron arrived. It soon spotted the German fleet heading back to port. Increasing to flank speed, Cunningham prepared his fleet for battle. The German fleet could not out run the faster Royal Navy ships, and turned into the British Fleet. The Battlecruisers thirsting for revenge, after the damaging of Hood scored huge hits with their first salvo's. Repulse hit the Bismarck class battleship with a full broadside, exploding the ship into small pieces. Next was Renown sighting for Schliesen. Two shells hit the old german Battlecruiser, and it broke in two in a spectacular fashion. Finally the old guns of the heavy cruiser Suffolk scored two hits of Schleswig-Holstein, which was later scuttled by her crew. The killing spree was not over yet. Repulse smached one more light cruiser, KMS Nautulus, and Nelson fnished of a other. The last German ships broke of the engagement and headed home. This victory for the Royal Navy confirmed its mastery of the sea. The only remaining threat was now in the Baltic, where two more German Battleships had just been launched.
Nice idea, though my games tend to slow down to a crawl with too many aircraft around
Nice!
1,000 bombers!
What happens if Germany breaks the Belgian army and successfully invades France?
How's North Africa doing? any maps pics xD
1,000 bombers!
What happens if Germany breaks the Belgian army and successfully invades France?
How's North Africa doing? any maps pics xD
@Balthasar: Oh that suks, my other computer is really bad aswell, but at the moment the one I am playing from is great!
@Danking: I am just at war with Germany, not with Italy or the rest of the large Axis. I can only hope the Belgian and French Armies hold the line......
@blsteen: Doubt it, the USA do have lots of expeditionairy forces in France, probably the reason why it is holding out. 14 CAS units, and dozens of infantry divisions.
@EVRYONE: I need help, I am playing on windows 7, but the screenshots I am making are not in the folder where they are supposed to be! Any ideas?
@Danking: I am just at war with Germany, not with Italy or the rest of the large Axis. I can only hope the Belgian and French Armies hold the line......
@blsteen: Doubt it, the USA do have lots of expeditionairy forces in France, probably the reason why it is holding out. 14 CAS units, and dozens of infantry divisions.
@EVRYONE: I need help, I am playing on windows 7, but the screenshots I am making are not in the folder where they are supposed to be! Any ideas?
Burds, I don't believe the computer itself has much to do with the speed, it's rather the way the program has been written. It was the same with HoI 2 already, lots of units and the came almost stopped. I've got a quite up to date system with which I'm able to play other, more demanding games, fluently, yet HoI 3 slows down at one point or the other.
Instead of looking in the game's directory in C:/Program Files, try looking in some sub-directory of C:/Users/(your user name)/...
Dunno if you already checked this, but first time I played on win 7 I couldn't find them either - at first - as the screenshot folder were empty. Then, within the screenshot folder, I pressed a little flap saying "compatibility files" or something similar (mine is not in Engslish) and there they where. Same thing goes for save files I think, if you'll try to find them through C:
You are my hero, I can now acces the screenshots!
Also, bleu emu, thank you for the help.
Now that I have the screenshot I will try to make a nice story from the screenies, because the game has already been played. I have exams now, so the next up date will probably be next week. Once again thanks!