Dev Diary #13 - Arsenal of Democracy Beta AAR - 3.December 2009

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Part VII-The tide has turned January 1 thru July 1, 1943

Today’s update is screenshot heavy so I am breaking it into two posts.

In the first half of 1943, I was able to stop the German advances for the most part. Although the Germans picked up some ground in the southern front, I was able to gain enough to cancel it out in the center. I was even able to start the process of retaking Finland.

Supply has seemly caught up to the Germans in Finland. The United Kingdom was able to advance all the way to Narvik. Partisans were able to liberate Murmansk by themselves. I was even able to reclaim the southern part of Finland.

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In the African front Italy was able to hold on to its gains and capture the Suez Canal.

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On the Asian front Japan appears to be stalled in Burma.

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Also included is a shot of Germany’s production screen. It appears that they did run out of manpower at some point, but now do not have enough IC to actually produce anything.

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As you can see in the next screen shot, I was able to launch an attack during the month of June and capture three lightly defended provinces east of Kiev. This marked the first time I was able to actually take land from the Germans on the main front. South of that, the Germans were able to take a few provinces and are currently threatening to push me into the Black Sea. Hopefully my gains in the center will be able to distract them.

On the northern front I was initially lost Kaunas. I was able to retake in once the Germans had run out of organization though.

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Also included are some miscellaneous screenshots of my tabs as requested. There is a new brigade in them.

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Check back tomorrow for the next update.
 

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Why are they using 150 IC for supplies when need is zero? It looks mostly like the AI has let things run completely out of hand.

It does not calculate supply need until the end of the first day when you first load the game. Judging from their military salaries they are going to need every bit of that 150.
 

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It does not calculate supply need until the end of the first day when you first load the game. Judging from their military salaries they are going to need every bit of that 150.

Ah. Good. :)

What has been going on in Germany then, have they been bombed by the allies?

And, thanks for doing this. It's great. :cool:
 

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Ah. Good. :)

What has been going on in Germany then, have they been bombed by the allies?

And, thanks for doing this. It's great. :cool:

The base IC is only 150 (just 8 above the '36 start level) and the repair province tab wants 366 IC, I'd expect some of that is for the Soviet territory but it does indicate that some significant Allied bombing has taken place too
 

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Thanks for this great AAR.

I was wondering, am I the only one who wonders why assault gun brigade text is under the picture when others have it on top of pictures (those which has it) :wacko: ?
 

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Thanks for this great AAR.

I was wondering, am I the only one who wonders why assault gun brigade text is under the picture when others have it on top of pictures (those which has it) :wacko: ?

The text AG is also centered as opposed to right-aligned in the others.;)
 

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Looks like the Germans not only ran out of MP but also out of money, IC and everything. If that´s due to the Allied bombardement only then it´s fairly unrealistic (and too easy for the Allies).
 

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The base IC is only 150 (just 8 above the '36 start level) and the repair province tab wants 366 IC, I'd expect some of that is for the Soviet territory but it does indicate that some significant Allied bombing has taken place too

Is it possible to decide which provinces to repair, and which not to repair?

I seem to recall having seen some sort of prioritized province-thingy, at least? Can't remember where, though? :confused:
 

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Looks like the Germans not only ran out of MP but also out of money, IC and everything. If that´s due to the Allied bombardement only then it´s fairly unrealistic (and too easy for the Allies).
Yeah, maybe strategic bombing needs to be tweaked down a bit then.
 

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Is it possible to decide which provinces to repair, and which not to repair?

I seem to recall having seen some sort of prioritized province-thingy, at least? Can't remember where, though? :confused:

That would be good. It seems to me that Germany should be able to focus on repairing german provinces, not be bogged down by russian ones.