Chapter XIII: The fall of the Vichy France and Germany
As the war goes, my country grows stronger, although this might even happened before, I´ll add it here just for flavor...
Both armies have been pushing the Germans steadily, and this is the end of Germany (unless the Japan will suddenly go to “super AI” mode and kills us all )
I´ve invaded Corsica later on and ultimately the French State itself... I´ve sent 6 divisions of MTN (useless here, I know) and 2 divisions of LARM (licenses from Australia) to the French mainland...
The fights were a lot easier than they should be, Vichy´s army is way too big for them, and split troops ratio after the fall of French Republic is 1, so they have the entire army, but heavily reduced IC, which means no supplies and a lot of dissent, and AI itself can´t disband division... So I was most of the times basically abusing the Vichy´s AI, HPP team said they are going to do something about it, because this whole conquest was ridiculously easy...
Bordeaux and Toulouse have fallen...
I must admit I could split my LARM divisions to make 4x2 instead of 2x4, but even then, they made the progress a lot faster...
What? Is this a glitch? The Alexandria is controlled by rebels, and the eastern part of Egypt is controlled by Japan, but how the hell is Japan conquering Egypt, when Cairo is still in Egyptian hands???
A pocket of 73 thousands Vichy soldiers...
I needed to take Cherbourg to fully knock down the Vichy France, but I just went with LARM for VPs and capitals, the war just would extend Petain´s agony...
After this conquest I´ve established a puppet stated of Tunisia (which was liberated by 1 division of ENG expeditionary forces ) and Madagascar (no resources here anyway)... I´ve also given 3 provinces of Vichy to Morocco, wondering why they didn´t conquer it by themselves...
In Asia the situation looks the same; except for the Allied forces helping the Nationalists, since the war in Europe is almost over (only Hungary lefts there)...
So I hold my rule to keep my attention only to Europe (except the big chunk of desert I´ve left from Vichy, where are no cores for puppets, not even some infrastructure to move armies there)…
Thanks for reading, stay tuned for the next episode!
P.S. I´ve modded the save game after this screen to me controlling Cairo to be able to liberate the Egypt, since I find that as a nonsense to just be it that way (LARM brig liberating the occupied provinces in Egypt didn´t help, neither putting it in Egyptian controlled Cairo did)…
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