A welcome update! So it’s the big league now:
It is! The Main Event!
The Soviets are toast. Buttered (and battered) on both sides.
Indeed, if not for God (me) being fickle and deciding how long it should take.
Here we go. Onwards to Irkutsk and beyond!
Banzai!
Just started and the toll mounts already. It will get much worse ...
Indeed.
Are all those units really needed to defeat the British or can some be send east already?
They're working their way east. The fighting was tough in the Isles, and I think that yes, they needed to have them.
This is an utterly Soviet turn of events and will surely give El Pip a chuckle whenever he pops on in.
I'm sure he'll lament the inability of HoI3 to properly model how the Japanese and Axis actually worked and that there isn't a NAP between Moscow and Tokyo to prevent something silly like this.
What.
What.
WHAT.
Brzesc Litewski...Brest Fortress...the famous "Hero Fortress" of Barbarossa...
Lightly held?!?!!
This is utter heresy and I demand a redo.
You know, you might get your wish! See my response to Bullfilter below.
Much better.
Nice to see this is still going, slowly but surely, although I cannot help but notice a distressing lack of slick graphics telling me the composition of the Red Navy, which is clearly the most important thing to know here and the omission of which should be considered a cardinal sin. No, I do not care that the last update did in fact have such a graphic, I demand another one!
Well, that might be coming in the next update! You'll have to see.... (or, alternatively, refer to the table of contents because it's right there. Your choice.)
It is definitely very on brand for this AAR, the Soviets making sure to be distracted to make things even easier for Germany. Should anyone ever say "Mr Pip I find HOI3 on Very Easy Mode far too challenging, what can I do to make the game even easier?" I shall point them at this AAR.
Quite! Very easy. If anyone says that they feel that they need to play on VE, show them this and tell them it was on Normal, they'll be fine.
I too noted the lack of graphics and was perturbed by it. Slick graphics and an unfeasible number of computers being played at once are the Raison d'être of this work, what is left if they are not present?
I believe I mentioned before that I was going to tone them down to try and get through the story arc of this disaster. I might produce them every so often but they are fairly consuming in resources (precious precious time) that I was trying to avoid spending on a game I'm not even playing anymore. I do have a future project that I want to work on.
I'm sure the Soviet historians are able to correct that in the official history!
I'm sure...
My dear Wraith11B, i really enjoy this AAR.
The writing is very good, funny at times and the replies make for a fun and agreable reading. The efforts in including pictures and graphics are to be commanded.
Hooking up 5 computers together is quite an impressive accomplishment. Some would call it insane, i prefer to say it’s dedication…
Keep it up and i’m looking forward to the next post. I hope the waiting won’t be to long.
Vanslyke
Glad to see people joining in! My apologies for not responding sooner. My time was absorbed by a (now ex-)girlfriend and so I've more time to devote to the proper arts of a Gentleman... writing of an alternative history war.
The AAR that keeps delivering!
And I hope it continues to do so!
Just figured I'd let you know I've caught up and following along. Keep up the good work, it's been an entertaining read!
Thank you!
Was just wondering whether there has just been a long summer break, or something more enduring has interrupted the story. Hope it is not the latter. We’re here waiting for when you may feel like restarting. And if the previous wonderful (but no doubt time consuming) format was getting to be too much, the more recent shorter update was excellent too. Anyway, just noting that this one is not forgotten by your devotees.
Not forgotten, just restricted on time. I do have it open right now to write up the next "phase" of action on the front. An update cometh soon!
Also, just because I feel like mentioning it, I've built two new towers, but also needed to replace one of my laptops (the problem child one that I've rebuilt several times now. Fuck that piece of garbage). So I'm up to seven computers. My intent is to work on a bit of a mix of HPP and BICE--I'd really like to use some of what BICE did with the military (ie, naval changes to single vessels, smaller air wings, the division designer changes, but without all of the 8000 different ground unit types) and the HPP events etc. My hope is that I can guide several nations (probably the UK, GER, FRA, POL, SOV, ITA, and JAP to start) to a more reasonable alternate history than this wehraboo wet dream.