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Thanks for all the feedback everybody. I've added a bunch of images and descriptions to the last operations post since I thought it kept together better thematically.
Operations: End of May, Northern sector
While the Soviet Southern front reels against Syndie attacks, the northern flank is continuing to crash through the Baltic States. On May 31 Estonia capitulates.
The surrender traps five French divisions on the Estonian Archipelago and another ten in Voru, now totally surrounded by Soviet rear-echelon infantry units. Under siege for almost three weeks, the Estonian submission saps them of their morale and they surrender the following day.
The French marine divisions on the archipelago are still relatively fresh and attempt several breakouts back onto the mainland with small craft in night attacks. The battered Soviet divisions along the coast are unable to contain them, so the Red fleet is sent in to complicate matters for the French and hamper any escape attempts.
After only a day of patrolling, the fleet ambushes a German squadron in the Gulf of Riga and inflicts significant casualties.
Though the Baltic is secure for the moment, intelligence estimates the French still have 2 aircraft carriers and the British a whopping 12! Recon flights over the Kattegat increase dramatically as the navy becomes increasingly paranoid of a British incursion into the Baltic.
In Latvia, Soviet units finally take Riga and push through Lithuania in just over a week, hitting the German border on May 26th. Soviet tank armies crash through the gap between the French and German commands before more Syndicalist units can be brought to the front.
After a brief pause to resupply, the advance moves on to Plock while a massive attack pins down German units in Konigsburg. German units are now pinned against the Baltic coast with only paltry French forces to their south preventing a massive encirclement. It is however, at this time that high command moves the two previously mentioned armored corps to Hungary and the attack loses much of its momentum.
Within a few days Elbing is reinforced and Konigsberg largely evacuated. The Franco-German line shifts west with minimal casualties but, Marshall Rokossovsky, leading the operation, seamlessly shifts the axis of advance due south. Though there are no longer enough forces to pin down the Germans in the North, the marshall gambles that a bold thrust will threaten to cut off Warsaw and throw enemy command into a panic. Poland still has significant forces in the field and the French need to save the Polish capital and prevent another capitulation.
Operations: End of May, Northern sector
While the Soviet Southern front reels against Syndie attacks, the northern flank is continuing to crash through the Baltic States. On May 31 Estonia capitulates.
The surrender traps five French divisions on the Estonian Archipelago and another ten in Voru, now totally surrounded by Soviet rear-echelon infantry units. Under siege for almost three weeks, the Estonian submission saps them of their morale and they surrender the following day.
The French marine divisions on the archipelago are still relatively fresh and attempt several breakouts back onto the mainland with small craft in night attacks. The battered Soviet divisions along the coast are unable to contain them, so the Red fleet is sent in to complicate matters for the French and hamper any escape attempts.
After only a day of patrolling, the fleet ambushes a German squadron in the Gulf of Riga and inflicts significant casualties.
Though the Baltic is secure for the moment, intelligence estimates the French still have 2 aircraft carriers and the British a whopping 12! Recon flights over the Kattegat increase dramatically as the navy becomes increasingly paranoid of a British incursion into the Baltic.
In Latvia, Soviet units finally take Riga and push through Lithuania in just over a week, hitting the German border on May 26th. Soviet tank armies crash through the gap between the French and German commands before more Syndicalist units can be brought to the front.
After a brief pause to resupply, the advance moves on to Plock while a massive attack pins down German units in Konigsburg. German units are now pinned against the Baltic coast with only paltry French forces to their south preventing a massive encirclement. It is however, at this time that high command moves the two previously mentioned armored corps to Hungary and the attack loses much of its momentum.
Within a few days Elbing is reinforced and Konigsberg largely evacuated. The Franco-German line shifts west with minimal casualties but, Marshall Rokossovsky, leading the operation, seamlessly shifts the axis of advance due south. Though there are no longer enough forces to pin down the Germans in the North, the marshall gambles that a bold thrust will threaten to cut off Warsaw and throw enemy command into a panic. Poland still has significant forces in the field and the French need to save the Polish capital and prevent another capitulation.
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My home of Kansas is similar to Poland, only instead of armies repeatedly marching back and forth over the land we merely have to deal with large air masses doing the same. It has been super windy lately. I prefer it to total war going on outside, of course 
I have a question: What values are you using in the DB file for bombardement? usually my cas missions (with all air doctrines researched and with 8 squadrons) kills 10,17,20 soldiers at the max
I love it!are these tech teams for the Russian republic only? or only your new russian nation? or all russian soviet nations(soviet russia, soviet union etc)
I have a question: What values are you using in the DB file for bombardement? usually my cas missions (with all air doctrines researched and with 8 squadrons) kills 10,17,20 soldiers at the max
Base values. The air attacks seem to do much more damage against units in plains and either attacking or moving. They don't do a whole lot against infantry dug in in a forest.
The ones I posted are for countries with the tag SOV, so any of the USSR variations will get them. The Russian republic gets a few new ones (and some variations on the Soviet teams) as well as Germany and the USA. Most of the other majors have some altered teams to work with the new tech components. Off the top of my head, I know I did changes to France, UK, and Japan... maybe Italy
Capitulations! Capitulations everywhere! I guess that's their fault for leaving such an open pocket.
Operations Early June
Marshall Rokossovsky's decision to turn the Prussian attack south begins to bear fruit. Twenty armored and mechanized divisions, the cream of the Soviet army, slice their way through Plock, West of Warsaw and on to Lodz. The Poles flee to the South, leaving only a token garrison in Warsaw. French and German forces in East Prussia continue to be pinned down by Marshall Govorov's Baltic Front and are unable to counter-attack or regroup effectively.
On June the 7th, German armor makes a ferocious counter-attack out of western Poland but, by this time, the ring is already set. With the infantry battles to the East of the Polish capital concluded, Rokossovsky is able to decisively reinforce his front lines and the Syndicalist attack is repelled with heavy losses on both sides.
After weeks of rest and repair, the Soviet air force's front line units are finally capable of taking to the skies as an effective force again. A large air battle erupts over central Slovakia as Soviet units fight to keep airspace clear for the tactical and support aircraft. After two hours of indecisive air combat, both sides return to base to lick their wounds. With ground superiority nearly in hand, Soviet command is happy with a stalemate in the air.
With Warsaw surrounded, and its garrison largely defeated, Marshall Rokossovsky turns his tank armies North once again. On June 15th, 1st and 6th tank armies crash through the French and German defenses in Elbing. Already exhausted fighting Soviet units to their East, they are utterly shocked by massed Red armor exploding out of the South. Within a few hours entire divisions of Syndicalists are routing westwards, leaving a trapped German garrison in Koenigsburg.
As the German counter-attack is being repulsed, Soviet infantry armies strike into the south of Poland. Although the attack lacks the mobility for a decisive blow, it does threaten French units in Lublin with encirclement and those units are faced with the choice between being surrounded or routing and being overrun.
The Baltic fleet sallies from Leningrad and Helsinki en route to blockade the remnants of the German Prussian garrison. The initial engagement in the Gulf of Danzig leaves two German cruisers at the bottom but the Soviet fleet is ambushed off of Riga by four older German fleet carriers. Though severely outclassed, the German air groups force back the Soviet ships by weight of numbers.
Both fleet carriers are damaged, with the Admiral Dushenov retreating to Leningrad and the Marshall Tukhachevski group slipping into Hanko under cover of darkness.
Marshall Rokossovsky's decision to turn the Prussian attack south begins to bear fruit. Twenty armored and mechanized divisions, the cream of the Soviet army, slice their way through Plock, West of Warsaw and on to Lodz. The Poles flee to the South, leaving only a token garrison in Warsaw. French and German forces in East Prussia continue to be pinned down by Marshall Govorov's Baltic Front and are unable to counter-attack or regroup effectively.
On June the 7th, German armor makes a ferocious counter-attack out of western Poland but, by this time, the ring is already set. With the infantry battles to the East of the Polish capital concluded, Rokossovsky is able to decisively reinforce his front lines and the Syndicalist attack is repelled with heavy losses on both sides.
After weeks of rest and repair, the Soviet air force's front line units are finally capable of taking to the skies as an effective force again. A large air battle erupts over central Slovakia as Soviet units fight to keep airspace clear for the tactical and support aircraft. After two hours of indecisive air combat, both sides return to base to lick their wounds. With ground superiority nearly in hand, Soviet command is happy with a stalemate in the air.
With Warsaw surrounded, and its garrison largely defeated, Marshall Rokossovsky turns his tank armies North once again. On June 15th, 1st and 6th tank armies crash through the French and German defenses in Elbing. Already exhausted fighting Soviet units to their East, they are utterly shocked by massed Red armor exploding out of the South. Within a few hours entire divisions of Syndicalists are routing westwards, leaving a trapped German garrison in Koenigsburg.
As the German counter-attack is being repulsed, Soviet infantry armies strike into the south of Poland. Although the attack lacks the mobility for a decisive blow, it does threaten French units in Lublin with encirclement and those units are faced with the choice between being surrounded or routing and being overrun.
The Baltic fleet sallies from Leningrad and Helsinki en route to blockade the remnants of the German Prussian garrison. The initial engagement in the Gulf of Danzig leaves two German cruisers at the bottom but the Soviet fleet is ambushed off of Riga by four older German fleet carriers. Though severely outclassed, the German air groups force back the Soviet ships by weight of numbers.
Both fleet carriers are damaged, with the Admiral Dushenov retreating to Leningrad and the Marshall Tukhachevski group slipping into Hanko under cover of darkness.
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Redid the intro post and finally got around to adding text to the last one
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So the Western Communists looking to overwhlem with numbers against superior technology? Has this world gone topsy turvy?!
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Oh dear, those naval forces will continue to cause you trouble. That said, I see Poland soon being yours.
So I'm currently working on A LOT of event content that will show up soon. There are not limited to event chains for:
Bhartiya commune invading Afghanistan
Conditions under which French use nukes and their targets
Soviet linguistic policy (this one is a really big chain and effects all the integration events)
trans-siberian RR expansion
French domestic events following defeat or nuclear attack
Soviet leadership post-Kirov
reordering of equipment techs within land doctrine and ability to pick a specialization with some doctrine paths opening up a 2nd specialization
Bhartiya commune invading Afghanistan
Conditions under which French use nukes and their targets
Soviet linguistic policy (this one is a really big chain and effects all the integration events)
trans-siberian RR expansion
French domestic events following defeat or nuclear attack
Soviet leadership post-Kirov
reordering of equipment techs within land doctrine and ability to pick a specialization with some doctrine paths opening up a 2nd specialization
Can we find that has happened in North America or to the Entente, China and Japan? I would be interested in what they are doing in this.
Sure thing!
The United States is currently neutral and unaligned. General MacArthur is in his 18th year as president. While he still commands the loyalty of the majority of the US population, his influence is beginning to wane as many in the senate and congress have grown impatient with the exceedingly slow return to democracy. Currently, the country is undergoing the so-called MacArthur Revitalization Plan to rebuild infrastructure and industry following the civil war and is focused primarily inward as the general-president tries to maintain his hold on power.
Canada meanders on as normal. An armistice with Britain ended the sea war in 1943 and the majority of the Canadian population has adopted a live-and-let-live attitude towards the Union of Britain.
France has reverted to a monarchy at least in name. Real power however lies with the council of ministers and is still hell-bent on reclaiming mainland France. With Canada largely withdrawing support, that particular venture seems to be farther and farther removed from reality. France did however inherit the majority of Mittelafrika and has begun a decolonization and confederation program on the dark continent.
In China, the Qing Empire maintains control over most of China proper with the exceptions of Xinziang and Manchuria, Soviet and Japanese puppets respectively. The Chinese emperor is occupied with suppressing revolutionary fervor, both socialist, and nationalist, for the time being.
The Japanese state has been living in splendid isolation as the rest of the world has turned to chaos. Japan succeeded in seizing some German naval bases at the end of the last war and, while not an official member of the Entente, maintains close ties, especially with Canada.
You may have noticed that I'm now using the DEC map. I am a fan.
Awesome! And DEC map, noticed that too.
Can one hot apply that onto an installation without breaking the save? I imagine so, since it's just terrain textures, right? I don't want to break my AAR though.
I'd like to request some views also on other parts of the world. Well I guess India will feature in an update or two...and Aussies and South Africa probably just doing their own thing?
Can one hot apply that onto an installation without breaking the save? I imagine so, since it's just terrain textures, right? I don't want to break my AAR though.
I'd like to request some views also on other parts of the world. Well I guess India will feature in an update or two...and Aussies and South Africa probably just doing their own thing?
I love how uncaring we are that the world is turning into shit. Then again with MacArthur leading the US we might as well focus more at home.
I guess that Soviets don't really care about these neutral and non-leftist nations or do they?
I guess that Soviets don't really care about these neutral and non-leftist nations or do they?
Do you think you'll be able to smash through Europe before the Balkans get pushed back too far to form a united front?