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They must have a wormhole generator in Gibraltar or something :rofl:

Anyway, have you considered a trap? Withdraw from southern Spain, let them take the initiative and then encircle crush them in small maneuver battles.

I am not good at guessing, but I hope Moscow falls soon.
 
ColossusCrusher, trekaddict - Please also specify the day.

Winner - Or an underwater tunnel that goes all the way from the East Coast to Gibraltar. That's what the US IC is for, heh. About the retreating trick, I did consider it but I would be exploiting an AI weakness in that case.

Thanks to all who voted so far, please keep on submitting your guesses!

This is the shortest update I've ever written. I could do more, but I'd like to keep at least one update per month.
 
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Quiet before the Storm

1000 February 30th 1946
Seville, Spain

The world was stunned as nations of every continent experienced one of the most peaceful months of this World War after the 'phony war', or 'drôle de guerre', as the French dubbed it, of 1940.

The lull was finally broken on February 30th, when the British tried to assault the Spanish city of Seville. Twenty-five divisions, most of them motorized, attempted an offensive against thirteen Japanese-led divisions.​

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Field Marshal Sugiyama was facing an easy task, and so he personally took a close look at the casualties rate of this particular battle. The British started the battle with a nominal strenght of 25 divisions, but they actually possessed something more like 243,200 men. In thirteen hours they suffered around 1,500 casualties while inflicting only 600 to the well-entrenched German-Japanese-Spanish coalition defending the city. A casualties rate of 1:2.5 was definitely more than acceptable for troops that were defending in urban terrain against motorized divisions.​
 
It looks like a good sumbarine raid on the supply convoys, perhaps combined with naval bombing could work wonders. Perhaps you could send your surface assets to sink some unguarded transports as well. In one Vanilla HOI2DD game I had the same situation in gribratar that you have and could not disloge them without retreating.
 
June 22, 1946
For old time's sake. :D
 
I say 04.07.1946

btw, great AAR, just finished reading it
 
Moscow falls Octber 11th 1946

Also just finished reading this great AAR.

As I only played HoI once (for some reason I like HoI and CK AARs but mostly play EU or CK) this might be stupid questions but could you recreate Italy and get it as an ally? If you can what would be the pros and cons?
 
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darthkommandant - Convoy raiding would be a pleasure, though the game mechanics will make it extremely difficult to stop supplying Gibraltar entirely. Naval Bombardment won't work too much either, because it is now capped at 20% combat penalty, and it will take some years before I can build up a decent surface fleet.

Thyranni, Mico94 - Thanks and welcome.

johho888 - Thanks and welcome you too. Your question is serious: a nation can indeed release puppets. Without entering too much in detail, you can recreate a nation as your puppet which, in turn, will be automatically allied to you and fight whichever war you fight. It will autonomously produce manpower, units and conduct research, and it will also give you whatever excess material it produces.

There are few if any drawbacks at all, at the point that creating powerful puppets are sort of gamey practices. So, to answer your question, yes I could recreate Italy, and I would greatly benefit from it because it could produce many divisions, but in the end I won't release any puppet simply because I'd just profit too much from them.

EDIT: 70,000 views and 730 replies. That's a rate of almost 100 views per reply. Thanks to all for viewing and commenting so far!

Monthly update.
 
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Cabinet Meeting March 1946

0000 March 1st 1946
Reichstag, Berlin

"Good day all. Ernst, you are first" Bormann started the usual meeting.

"Thanks. Our espionage funds have finally achieved almost total coverage of Soviet information."​

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"In fact, we now have ten spies inside the Soviet Union. News this time are considerably better than last month, when they trained eleven infantry divisions: this month the numbers are stationary, and such is their industry, in slight decline, perhaps due to a small resource deficit. Also, they haven't completed a single research project this month. Although it is unlikely that they have very few spare funds for research, it is strange that the Soviet research is moving at such a slow pace."​

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"United States. They have built six more industrial complexes this month as their expansion seems unstoppable. They have completed the concepts of Flying Rocket development, a new model of Tank and an improved design of Static Anti-Air."​

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"United Kingdom. Nothing much to say here, except for the development of a new model of Light Cruiser."

"Albert."

"We're proceeding smoothly. There's still much work to do, but we can now upgrade almost half of our Armed Forces at full speed, whereas in the past month we couldn't even cover a third of our Army's improvement needs."​

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"We've also managed to consistently reduce our Oil deficit for the time being. That is, of course, until we begin operations against the Soviet Union again."

"Thanks Albert. February has been a quiet month" Bormann intervened "but I wonder if we have any plans for that thing called Gibraltar. I heard that there are more than fifty divisions down there."

"Correct" Julius Ringel replied back "I've been inspecting the situation in Spain, and I regret to say that we can't take the Rock. It's simply impossible with our current forces at disposal. I say we re-transfer the Luftwaffe in Central Europe and let the Allies waste their troops in Gibraltar. Our Spanish defenses are not going to be contested for the time being, and our Japanese troops are already providing the best form of defense."

"Well then, we'll let them stay for now. Don't let them become too big a threat because in that case we must act swiftly: we cannot let a second front be opened... again. See you all next month." Bormann ended the meeting.​
 
22th July 1946
That would make it exactly 5 years
 
Quiet before the Storm

0000 March 2nd 1946
Seville, Spain

Field Marshal Sugiyama was in his HQ office when he finally realized that something was really wrong when the little counters depicting UK troops started falling off his wall map of Gibraltar.​

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German intelligence found as many as fifty-nine divisions in The Rock, and the number would not cease to grow.​

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Seeing as it was a waste of men and fuel to ever attempt anything against the Allies, fortified in their little logistical paradise, a general consensus among the top generals agreed for a 'withdrawal' of the Luftwaffe on its previous positions. Most of the aicrafts rebased in Cologne in order to try and prevent Allied bombing; another huge chunk rebased in Eastern Prussia, just to scare the neighbouring Soviets, as the mere sight of a flying object with the Luftwaffe insigna meant pure terror to them.​

1900 March 6th 1946
The skies above Münster

The Allies' Happy Times in Europe would be over for a brief time, now that it was decided to hunt Allied bombers who, perhaps due to the prolonged absence of any German counter-initiative, were always being sent without any escort whatsoever.​

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The lack of escorts and the abundance of targets made the German pilots very happy. Not so for their Allied counterparts.​

1700 March 7th 1946
Seville, Spain

Just to spice up things a little, the logistics wizards at Gibraltar surprised the Japanese, attacking where no-one would have ever thought: Seville.

Field Marshal Sugiyama was very interested in keeping track of casualties, and he would make the same experiment tried one month ago.​

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The battle would not be a short one, and Sugiyama had a lot of data acquired this time. Over the course of sixteen days, the Allies lost around 12-15,000, while the German-Spanish-Japanese garrison suffered casualties that range between 5,000 and 7,000. Calculations are proven difficult by the constant variation of divisions involved in battle, divisions that are very often not at full strenght. Nevertheless, it was safe to assume that this attack assured a casualty ratio of approximately 1:3.​

1000 March 10th 1946
The skies above Dieppe, France

Germans and Americans met once again in the skies.​

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American pilots met the ground once again.​

0000 March 19th 1946
Intelligence Dept., Berlin, Germany

I.G. Farben further helped on the development of synthetic oil.​

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Its efforts would be barely noticeable to the oil-munching Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, but there was little else that could be done to address this issue. Research was now aimed, once again, at the improvement of Germany's knowledge about Nuclear Reactors.​

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The new syntethic oil technologies netted an overall improvement of 3.55 tonnes of more oil being produced per day. The Germans Armed Forces could well consume over 300 a day when in full swing, so that was barely a one percent improvement.​

0000 March 20th 1946
Intelligence Dept., Berlin, Germany

The research spree did not end here as Kriegsmarinewerft finally developed an improved version of a true monster: the Super Heavy Battleship.​

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The long-term strategy for a new, revamped German Kriegsmarine, however, included the employment for Light Carriers as those proved to be invaluable assets for a Surface Fleet against the new ruling power on the seas, the Carrier, a subject the Germans knew too little about to hope to face the Allies' navy.​

1500 March 21st 1946
Diplomatic Offices, Berlin, Germany

Von Ribbentrop met an ambassador coming from the Far East. His experience with the Japanese made him well accustomed to discerning Japanese from Chinese somatic traits, and the man in front of him was clearly a Chinese. There was a further complication, however, in the fact that that Chinese could be a Nationalist or a Communist. And, when the ambassador started talking, von Ribbentrop was quite ashamed of the fact he didn't know what Country he was representing.

Then, when the ambassador started blabbering something about the lines of 'white peace' and 'socialist paradise', von Ribbentrop erupted into a big, belly, rather vulgar for a diplomat, laugh.​

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"What's so funny about that!" the Chinese ambassador protested, but von Ribbentrop was too occupied with providing oxygen for its lungs to answer back.​

1500 March 21st 1946
Naval Base of Rostock, Germany

Another important step for the German Kriegsmarine happened on this day, as the German battleship Tirpitz, along with other smaller vessels, were successfully rescued from the hostile waters of Norway to safe shores.​

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Vessels like the Tirpitz and Admiral Scheer would be a welcome addition to a fledging Kriegsmarine. It was weak and scattered. Now it was only weak. Heck of an improvement.​
 
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Quiet before the Storm

continued

0000 March 28th 1946
Intelligence Dept., Berlin, Germany

Another branch of Air doctrines was slowly expanding as Germany was catching up with her enemies.​

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Hugo Sperrle and his staff had just completed research on a new doctrine involving destroying things the German fashion. He and his team would continue doing so.​

0600 March 28th 1946
The skies above Wolfsburg, Germany

Perhaps excited by the doctrinal breakthroughs of one of their colleagues, or more realistically worried by the presence of American aicraft so close to Berlin, German pilots had another day of practice.​

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Training targets courtesy of US Industries.​
 
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