Best of luck with the training - am sure you'll kick tail while learning a heap
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Good luck! Take your time. Remember real life is more important than AAR.
glad you are back! and that there is finally waaaar!
Very best of luck my friend. I remember that phase of my own initial officer training in some ways like it was yesterday. Even if it was almost 40 years ago!
And all the best for everything else. Know you have good friends here wishing you well and waiting until you feel like either updating or just saying hello or commenting on other AARs.
PS: If resistance to interrogation after capture is part of the survival stage, remember: don't try to 'play' them or be a smart-arse. I did once and it doesn't work!! Name, rank and serial number.
The Italians won!
As to other matters - look after yourself. And take whatever time you need for yourself. I hesitate to say I know the feeling, but last year I went through (and am still going through) a not dis-similar relationship situation.
Best of luck with the training - am sure you'll kick tail while learning a heap
Well that’s a relief! Getting nabbed, stuck in a mock pow camp in sub-zero temps after a week of evasion in the mountains and then getting interrogated by the Intel Corps guys while my troops were basically coming down with exposure and being evacuated from the ‘camp’ one by one was one of the more colourful episodes of my training. Even that pretty tame version made me really not want to ever be captured. And that was when we were training to fight ‘conventional’ enemies.Well, it's not Army officer... training to be a copper, the Army time is well and truly behind me (unless I indulge the wild hair trying to get an age waiver to become a Warrant Officer or something). I do appreciate the support. And no, resistance to interrogation isn't part of the survival phase, that's just trying to stay away from getting shot! There is an element of interrogation, though... get those suspects to confess!
Well that’s a relief! Getting nabbed, stuck in a mock pow camp in sub-zero temps after a week of evasion in the mountains and then getting interrogated by the Intel Corps guys while my troops were basically coming down with exposure and being evacuated from the ‘camp’ one by one was one of the more colourful episodes of my training. Even that pretty tame version made me really not want to ever be captured. And that was when we were training to fight ‘conventional’ enemies.
Grill ‘em good if the boot is on the other foot!
good luck, and survive well
for other stuff that seems to be negative now, most of them turn out to be actually positive things in the end
And the war proper begins with a bang! I suppose all wars do, but some (as now) more so than others.
One question: how did you manage to push France out of the Allies? I try to do that in just about any Germany game I run and it never works.
yes!! war!!
It has been a long time coming.
The balloon goes up! Will there be an operational report on the blitzkrieg in Poland?
And so the world abandons Poland to its fate. That's one thing that seems fairly constant in all timelines.
War at last! Though Poland is only the warm-up round. Italy taking Greece without triggering WW2 was interesting. Curious to see how this evolves. When will Italy declare war? How long will it take you to conquer Poland, and will Japan join in early, or wait for 1941?
Glad to have you back.
It's been a while since I read the previous updates, I pretty much forgot that it was already 1942. Your AAR is officially more behind the OTL schedule than mine... unless Barbarossa is triggered within the next 2 months (in game)...Remember it's 1942 already! Japan and Italy join when they think that there is an opening, which occurs later this year. Glad to be back!
It's been a while since I read the previous updates, I pretty much forgot that it was already 1942. Your AAR is officially more behind the OTL schedule than mine... unless Barbarossa is triggered within the next 2 months (in game)...
I would hate to be predictable, so I will spare us all some comments about lead-flavoured snails and swapping the tea bags for lead paint.Yes! Take a look at the updated Table of Contents here! I'm also waiting for the inevitable @El Pip response about lead chips.
It is nice that in this uncertain world some things are as constant as the North Star.The world seemed to be playing exactly to the Reich’s tune.
I would hate to be predictable, so I will spare us all some comments about lead-flavoured snails and swapping the tea bags for lead paint.
If this was OTL then maybe this would have been a cunning plan from the Allies. By 1942 France would have the Char G1R and SOUMA S40 in service along with the MAS-40 semi-auto rifle and lots of imported radios. In the air the grand re-org and conversion from biplane would be complete, meaning plenty of Dewoitine D.530s, VG-33/40s and trained air and ground crew to go with them. (I'm assuming the Joffre-class carriers still get low priority to free up steel for all those tanks). Plus of course Germany would have run out of any raw material you care to mention so the ammunition and panzer production lines would have stopped sometime in 1940 due to lack of supply, a secret blessing as the Reich had no money to pay anyone.
Obviously none of that happens as this is HOI - Germany has been building like crazy non-stop, while I suspect France will have built no tanks, armed it's infantry division with blunt spoons and then sent half the army to garrison small Pacific Islands.
It is nice that in this uncertain world some things are as constant as the North Star.
My thoughts and commiserations on the struggles in your personal life and good luck with your training to become part of the thin blue line. Watch out for the doughnuts though, lest you become the very thick blue line.
The scale is all wrong for this to work. The 1930s trades were fairly low key,a bit under 200 million Reichsmarks spread over 4/5 years. For scale an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser is 80-85 million RM. Those trades pretty much cleared the old Soviet debts from the 20s.I don't think I've brought it up, but with the extra years of peace between Germany and the Soviets, wouldn't there be enough raw materials to keep things going, especially with the early Anschluss and delayed Danzig demand? I don't have any sources (I'm looking at Wiki at the moment... and let me just say this would have been a nice thing to do well in advance of my game play. I'm sorry that I didn't figure out a way to bring this in!) but what I'm gathering is that the Soviet Union (especially from 1939 - 1941 in OTL, but in TTL since 1936) really wanted to work off their own debts and so sold a significant amount of resources to the Germans in exchange for significant amounts of military equipment.