Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945+ HistAARy

[Zardnaar]

Citizens of the Reich. The foul denziens of communist Russia have decleared war on us.

As a lastr resort force has been used to reclaim Konigsberg for the German people avenging the criminal expulsions of 43-46.

Elsewhere vast numbers of Soviet hordes have crossed the frontier.

After a week of fierce fighting Soviets thrusts have been repulsed

After 2 weeks of Fighting the Romanians are liberated from the Soviet yoke.

As Romania falls to the liberating troops the battle for Warsaw rages.

Another Communnist country decides its not worth fighting for comrade Stalin

3 Weeks into the German counteroffensive. Rumours of large Soviet forces smashing into Bundewehr spearheads are completely false.

Terrorist steal a ballistic missile and warhead conveniently hitting 26 Soviet divisions.

Rumours the Luftwaffe recieving a severe mauling, counterattacks in the Balkens and stalemate in the Ukraine are completely false. Italian forces heroically defend Konigsberg, and advance on Elbing.

 

[Zardnaar]

Advancing troops left several pockets to be picked over. Around 40 Soviet divisions are destroyed in Lithuania and Romania.

Bulgaria is also eliminated from the Commintern. Another 20 odd divisons are destroyed.

We really have to secure those missiles and bombs. Federal investigators shut sown the chain store known as "Nukes R Us". Someone could get hurt!!!!

Two months after Barbarossa was launched the advance has fallen behind schedule. On the plus side the Bundeswehr is still advancing. Large numbers of Soviet troops have largely forced a stalemate in the Baltic area and it s believed the Finns have around 30 divisiosn near Leningrad and the Soviets have 20+divisons in Leningrade. The main thrust continues through the Ukraine and it is hoped to capture Moscow before winter and to liberate the Ukraine by october. Plans to capure Sverdlosk by winter may prove to be optimistic.

The Dnieper river line however has been breached.

 

[gianlucad]

the second barbarossa shall not fail!

 

[Zardnaar]

Fierce fighting continued on the eastern front. The first snow had started o fall in early october. IN the distence Wittman could see the Kremlin. Advancing ahead of the rest of his tropps he established that Moscow had been stripped bare of defenders as he only encountered a few screening units.

The assault on Moscow was ordered. By now the Soviets had managed to evacuate their government to the east and the new capital was in Gorky. Hopefully they had left behind some resources to collect.

A few weeks later a general halt was called for. Large amounts of snow and ice made progress difficult and the Bundeswehr was ordered to prepare winter quarters in most parts of Russia. Moscow and Stalingrad had fallen to the Bundeswehr, while isolated counterattacks continued to drive back Soviets spearheads. The line was very thin in the Lithuania area and only the intervention of the Luftwaffe had prevented a Soviet breakthrough. Elite Alpine units were trying to cut the Soviet forces off in the Caucasus while German marines had captured Murmansk.

Any supplies the trapped Soviet forces were getting would have to come from Helsinki. The finns had a large amount of divisions defending Helsinki. It was estimated they had over 30 divisions. An advanced V2 was prepped.......

Since Barbarossa was launched an estimated 200 000 German Soldiers have been kiled. The Luftwaffe has also lost an estimated 60% of all tactical bombers due to stronger than anticipated Soviet air defences. Only 8 units out of 20 remain due to the mauling they recieved.

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Hmmm, big losses there. I'm only vaguely familiar with HoI so perhaps the move is a good one but your advance to Moscow looks precariously poised to be cut off and annihilated. I guess if it works though it is a very good pay off.

 

[Zardnaar]

Theres not alot of Soviet Units in the west. Using nofog I checked as I thought I was getting it to easy. Theres several hundred divisions in the far east. Moscow iteself is defended by 3 inf divisons with artillery. Wittman is driving off towards Gorky more or less by himself. Unlike a normal Barbarossa I'm not aiming to trigger the bitter peace ASAP. The basic idea was to get local numerical superiority, pocket the red army and destroy them. Nukes were supposed to be a last resort but I used some tactically to destroy large stacks of Soviet units.

Losing that many tactical bombers hurts alot as they were supposed to be used to help eliminate Soviet pockets espicially in the marshes in western Russia. I didn't pay that much attention to them early on as I had all the air doctrines and very modern aircraft. Oops. Worst case scenario if the units get cut off my navy can evacuate them probably faster than the Russians can destroy them. I've more or less broken through in the east but the weather is making advances very slow. Most of the red army in the west is in that large pocket west of Moscow. Not many near Stalingrad and the Caucasus. I'm not looking forward to summer if the Soviets are transferring units west. Theres a large stack of 200+ divisions that would make a nice nuke target but thats cheating to much. If my scout units find a stack that large I'll nuke it. All up I would guesstimate I've elimiated around 100 Soviet divisions in pockets+nukes and all Romanian and Bulgarian units which were another 40-50 odd I suppose. I have a few single tank divisions with armored cars usually a province or two ahead of the main thrusts and I'm building X8 airfields which get deployed to the front where needed. CAS units usually aren't to far away and are used to slow down advances and destroy retreating units. I'm outnumbered badly in the Baltic areas.

According to my intellgence screen the Soviets ave 389 inf dvisons remaining and 33 armored. IIRC that screen said they had over 600 inf and 57 armored units ealrier on before the invasion. Its not to accurate but maybe I've destroyed more than I thought. I don't know how many the Luftwaffe got.

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Those are some impressive numbers for destruction of Soviet forces. I guess that really puts your tactical bomber losses into perspective.

 

[Zardnaar]

I haven't actually lost a single ground unit. I had 138 manpower when the invasion was launched. Curreently at 47 which is 90 MP lost + 130 days worth of reinforcments which is just over 1MP per day. 200+MP down the drain. I'm trying to keep the dissent down but I should probably build some new TACs for summer 52 as I'll have 6 months of alot of sitting on my butt to do. Might try a Moscow/Stalingrad encirclement and cut off the Caucasus and let them starve for a bit.