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MingeBag said:
That's not something we'd like to know, bro... everything doesn't have to be told!
Well, I am of course, of mixed emotions on the return of Herr Kanitatlan to this AAR... Although I am absolutely stoked about the continuation of its awesomeness, it surely means that my fellow Canadians and I will have to once again take up arms in what has truly become a fruitless struggle for the rest of the "free" world. It is to we Canadians that the torch has been passed. We shall hold it aloft, as a beacon on the vanguard of freedom.
Welcome back everybody. I pleased to see the loyal audience turned out in such numbers although I am disturbed by some of the response.
MingeBag's reaction on reading the AAR
and here we see Bafflegab's warning striking fear into the general populous
MingeBag's reaction on reading the AAR
and here we see Bafflegab's warning striking fear into the general populous
I was looking forward to seeing the picture. To my dismay, the picture would not load! I attempted to sustain my erection until I saw what delightful wonders could accompany such a caption, but alas, it was not to be! I then looked at the source code of your post, to see an error when presenting such a picture. Perhaps you can fix it, but it is too late for my penis. 
06:00 September 22nd 1940
Europe is now isolated from Turkey giving me the opportunity to turn west and clean up. Enemy positions are strong and this will require substantial further forces.
15:00 September 22nd 1940
Another random naval battle. My fleets in the Mediterranean are simply lurking about waiting for opportunistic battles and preventing the enemy from making any effective use of sea power. The objective is to prevent any embarrassing operations occurring in the western Mediterranean due to the large areas of unprotected coast exposed to enemy action.
16:00 September 22nd 1940
Vichy forces have retaken Nimes. This is not acceptable but they seem to have wheeled out a couple of really serious units to do it with. Somua S-35 tanks with Char 1b tanks in support, yuck – makes you want a Tiger division rather than these cheap Panzer IVs. In truth the backbone of the armour in my attack is StuH42 assault guns. However, French ESE has become completely wrecked due to national level supply problems and wrecked province infrastructure and my naval bombardment is quite effective as well.
05:00 September 24th 1940
The Bulgarians have managed to begin taking my undefended provinces to the west but my convergent attacks are clearly the beginning of the end as I close in for the kill. In reality the only province that matters is Sofia since I can annex then as soon as I take it. Therefore operations will initially focus on establishing jumping off points for a convergent attack followed by the actual attack on Sofia. It is sufficiently well defended that I will need to bring forward very substantial forces.
06:00 September 24th 1940
Finally it is time for the brave HQs to intervene with the occupation of Venice by lead command elements of my infantry armies. Genoa has now fallen and German troops are returning to southern France. It looks like the Italians should have no difficulty restoring the line by retaking Genoa and Venice but whilst they do that my line will fill up and Trento will fall. Turin is now completely clear and no threat to my garrison troops.
21:00 September 24th 1940
Oh bugger. This is somewhat disturbing, as it will demand both fleet and army redeployments. Both will take a while to organise so we have another campaign that will go on for a good while. The infantry division in Portadown is the only German mobile unit available in Ireland and I will therefore be forced to redeploy units and then transport them by sea. There are no high org air units ready to deploy and hence this really will take some time to deal with.
While I suggested that the Americans attack where the Germans were weak, I thought it would be inderstood that they sould attack in force! they will now lose these troops after merely causing some annoyance...
Always left to the Canadians to liberate Europe from tyranny...
I promise to release more hot air in the near future as an addendum to my previous hollow efforts. Beware!
Always left to the Canadians to liberate Europe from tyranny...
I promise to release more hot air in the near future as an addendum to my previous hollow efforts. Beware!
How fares the Luftwaffe? Are they done with their (collective) vacation? If you had some planes scouting around North Ireland....well, you know the rest.
Belfast seems to be a consistent target for US invasions in my Germany games as well... I've never understood the AI's propensity for invading places as out of the way as Northern Ireland.
The same thing that draws the US AI to Guam and Iceland, a deep and abiding love of islands.dublish said:
And so it begins...
The admiral breaths a sigh of relief. Damned political hacks meddling in military affairs...mutter mutter. At least the landing was unopposed. "We must ensure that the Irish rise up against the Germans..." Yeah, yeah, but what if they don't like the GIs? At least the German navy or air force didn't show up. "Hopefully next time we can do this proper", he thought. "Then we might be able to bloody the nose of the 'great' Kriegsmarine." He flicked his cigarette into the sea and shuffled off the flying bridge back inside.
The admiral breaths a sigh of relief. Damned political hacks meddling in military affairs...mutter mutter. At least the landing was unopposed. "We must ensure that the Irish rise up against the Germans..." Yeah, yeah, but what if they don't like the GIs? At least the German navy or air force didn't show up. "Hopefully next time we can do this proper", he thought. "Then we might be able to bloody the nose of the 'great' Kriegsmarine." He flicked his cigarette into the sea and shuffled off the flying bridge back inside.
September 25th-26th 1940
I’m going to keep the routine updates until the end of September (game time) when there will be a short interruption for statistics. I don’t know if you can all remember what the hell is going on but I can’t so I need a review and I thought you might as well all watch. But for now we will carry on with the routine stuff.
07:00 September 25th 1940
Here we have a small US flotilla attempting to exploit the close proximity of the two German main fleets. The real main fleet is now on its way to Ireland to suppress US naval action in support of their invasion. Since the US DOW I have been hiding in the Mediterranean but I now have to venture out and see what US forces are drifting around. The Mediterranean is only open to US forces that happened to be there already from before the DOW or which arrive via the Suez Canal. This makes the Mediterranean a safe haven and hiding there has been intentional whilst my air power sees what develops out in the big bad ocean. So far this hasn’t been much but if you remember the scale of the US navy (soon to be re-reported) you will realise it isn’t a going to be a safe place.
The Kriegsmarine will be heading for Ireland by a coastal route well covered by German air power and ports to escape into. Despite the serious firepower my fleet deploys I don’t want to be engaging in pitched naval battles with a nation that can throw 40 modern CVs at me even before calling on its allies. This isn’t, of course, an issue of fear as most of you will realise, it is in fact about caution. Currently there is nothing to be gained from risking the fleet so I won’t risk it. It a little while we may see some major naval battles but for now it is all about skirmishing and making sure that I don’t lose even a single ship.
Meanwhile in southern France I have retaken Nimes and only need to concentrate my forces before destroying the rest of the Vichy army in Marseille. Unfortunately they have a substantial force but as long as I am quick the majority will be at very low org. All forces are moving to the east side of the river so that I optimise my attack strength and the attack will go in as soon as the panzer group in Genoa has returned to Toulon.
10:00 September 25th 1940
Meanwhile at the far southeastern corner of operations we discover just how important Basrah is. It seems to have been provided with a more than adequate defence by quite a few countries. Combined this turns out to be a little excessive. My two division advance into Aberdan has to count as a probe and they got out of there sharpish just as soon as anyone objected.
06:00 September 26th 1940
Meanwhile the air raid ambushes continue with some fighters in Athens doing the dirty on the Syrian air force. This is an especially annoying raid since I know they got those tactical bombers from Germany in an event sequence not so long ago. Still, the AI needs every advantage it can get. Needless to say they withdraw with low org and very serious losses.
07:00 September 26th 1940
Back in Italy the lead command elements of my army have decided that discretion is the better part of valour and they better hoof it back to Venice before someone tries to cut them off. In the Alps the race is on for Trento. The Italian division there (militia of all things) has been defeated but there is a race between major German and major Italian forces. Whoever gets there first will hold this key defensive location. Capturing it will make a big difference to the jumping off point for the Italian invasion. If the Italians get there first I will probably have to wait for a lot more divisions to arrive to avoid the potential loss of life from a “weak” attack.
Remember that the Russian campaign only cost 67,500 put beyond military service and I’m not about to rack up the casualties in some minor campaign elsewhere. It remains my game policy to minimise casualties even beyond the level of optimised combat performance.
11:00 September 26th 1940
We have finally encountered a more significant US fleet but they remain incapable of closing and without CVs they have no chance. A more worrying issue is the near total dominance of modern ships which hints at the state of the rest of the US fleet. The game mods I made focus on recent US fleet growth so that huge fleet of theirs is probably made up of model IV ships. This battle, however, ends well with the sinking of two US heavy cruisers. This is the secondary German fleet and has only 6 CVs guarded by a real mixed assortment of modern and obsolete ships.
The main fleet only has 12 CVs and there are a further 4 working up in Kiel along with other new ships.
17:00 September 26th 1940
Off the coast of Spain yet another AI nation makes an appearance offering up a couple of antique destroyer flotillas for target practice. Currently I’m not bothering to report all the bombing of the west coast of Europe since no significant targets have turned up. The recorded images focus on new nations being spotted but there is a slow accumulation of bomb damage on AI ships although very little in the way of actual losses.
20:00 September 26th 1940
Meanwhile, the rapid response force of naval bombers is on the scene and bombing passing ships. The US landing fleet has clearly gone since these ships are the wrong nationality. It looks to me like they are part of the so called vanguard. Possibly using sandwich boards for torpedo protection.
The rapid relief force consists of 4 very low org interceptor squadrons and 16 naval bomber squadrons. The naval bombers have arrived with reasonable org but the real targets seem to be long gone from the area.
I’m going to keep the routine updates until the end of September (game time) when there will be a short interruption for statistics. I don’t know if you can all remember what the hell is going on but I can’t so I need a review and I thought you might as well all watch. But for now we will carry on with the routine stuff.
07:00 September 25th 1940
Here we have a small US flotilla attempting to exploit the close proximity of the two German main fleets. The real main fleet is now on its way to Ireland to suppress US naval action in support of their invasion. Since the US DOW I have been hiding in the Mediterranean but I now have to venture out and see what US forces are drifting around. The Mediterranean is only open to US forces that happened to be there already from before the DOW or which arrive via the Suez Canal. This makes the Mediterranean a safe haven and hiding there has been intentional whilst my air power sees what develops out in the big bad ocean. So far this hasn’t been much but if you remember the scale of the US navy (soon to be re-reported) you will realise it isn’t a going to be a safe place.
The Kriegsmarine will be heading for Ireland by a coastal route well covered by German air power and ports to escape into. Despite the serious firepower my fleet deploys I don’t want to be engaging in pitched naval battles with a nation that can throw 40 modern CVs at me even before calling on its allies. This isn’t, of course, an issue of fear as most of you will realise, it is in fact about caution. Currently there is nothing to be gained from risking the fleet so I won’t risk it. It a little while we may see some major naval battles but for now it is all about skirmishing and making sure that I don’t lose even a single ship.
Meanwhile in southern France I have retaken Nimes and only need to concentrate my forces before destroying the rest of the Vichy army in Marseille. Unfortunately they have a substantial force but as long as I am quick the majority will be at very low org. All forces are moving to the east side of the river so that I optimise my attack strength and the attack will go in as soon as the panzer group in Genoa has returned to Toulon.
10:00 September 25th 1940
Meanwhile at the far southeastern corner of operations we discover just how important Basrah is. It seems to have been provided with a more than adequate defence by quite a few countries. Combined this turns out to be a little excessive. My two division advance into Aberdan has to count as a probe and they got out of there sharpish just as soon as anyone objected.
06:00 September 26th 1940
Meanwhile the air raid ambushes continue with some fighters in Athens doing the dirty on the Syrian air force. This is an especially annoying raid since I know they got those tactical bombers from Germany in an event sequence not so long ago. Still, the AI needs every advantage it can get. Needless to say they withdraw with low org and very serious losses.
07:00 September 26th 1940
Back in Italy the lead command elements of my army have decided that discretion is the better part of valour and they better hoof it back to Venice before someone tries to cut them off. In the Alps the race is on for Trento. The Italian division there (militia of all things) has been defeated but there is a race between major German and major Italian forces. Whoever gets there first will hold this key defensive location. Capturing it will make a big difference to the jumping off point for the Italian invasion. If the Italians get there first I will probably have to wait for a lot more divisions to arrive to avoid the potential loss of life from a “weak” attack.
Remember that the Russian campaign only cost 67,500 put beyond military service and I’m not about to rack up the casualties in some minor campaign elsewhere. It remains my game policy to minimise casualties even beyond the level of optimised combat performance.
11:00 September 26th 1940
We have finally encountered a more significant US fleet but they remain incapable of closing and without CVs they have no chance. A more worrying issue is the near total dominance of modern ships which hints at the state of the rest of the US fleet. The game mods I made focus on recent US fleet growth so that huge fleet of theirs is probably made up of model IV ships. This battle, however, ends well with the sinking of two US heavy cruisers. This is the secondary German fleet and has only 6 CVs guarded by a real mixed assortment of modern and obsolete ships.
The main fleet only has 12 CVs and there are a further 4 working up in Kiel along with other new ships.
17:00 September 26th 1940
Off the coast of Spain yet another AI nation makes an appearance offering up a couple of antique destroyer flotillas for target practice. Currently I’m not bothering to report all the bombing of the west coast of Europe since no significant targets have turned up. The recorded images focus on new nations being spotted but there is a slow accumulation of bomb damage on AI ships although very little in the way of actual losses.
20:00 September 26th 1940
Meanwhile, the rapid response force of naval bombers is on the scene and bombing passing ships. The US landing fleet has clearly gone since these ships are the wrong nationality. It looks to me like they are part of the so called vanguard. Possibly using sandwich boards for torpedo protection.
The rapid relief force consists of 4 very low org interceptor squadrons and 16 naval bomber squadrons. The naval bombers have arrived with reasonable org but the real targets seem to be long gone from the area.
We have already surmised thatMingeBag said:it is too late for my penis.
The US Navy will soon have these silly Nazi sailors in their silly Nazi carriers wishing they had stayed in their their U-Bootes glub glub glub
Interesting that Argentina DOW'd you - I thought they would have stayed out of it no matter how high your belligerence - How high is it BTW?
Wow that American navy sounds really large and dangerous. I am actually surprised they haven’t managed to land more forces on your coasts than the three divisions in Ireland. Vichy France is out of the game, but Italy might become a hard and long campaign if you aren’t able to take Trento first, as for Basrah I am shocked by the amount of enemy forces down there. I think you are going to need stronger and more forces on that front to create a breakthrough.
noobermenschen said:We have already surmised that
The US Navy will soon have these silly Nazi sailors in their silly Nazi carriers wishing they had stayed in their their U-Bootes glub glub glub
Interesting that Argentina DOW'd you - I thought they would have stayed out of it no matter how high your belligerence - How high is it BTW?
If you look back to just after the bitter peace I created a global war with everyone at war with me except Russia (and made a few other adjustments) to restore the interest to the game. Therefore, not only has Argentina DOWed me but every single country outside the communist block. Everyone outside the Comintern is in the allied alliance.
The universal war does seem to have drawn in an awful lot of divisions from lesser powers that are all heading for the key locations. Once I progress in Africa there will be the usual deluge of minor power invasions along the west coast.Lord E said:
Personally I think the global war effect has made this all much more interesting. Complete analysis and further developments at the turn of the month (game time).
September 27th 1940
06:00 September 27th 1940
In central Persia the German advance is continuing but the flank guard on both sides look somewhat tricky to deal with. The German objective will need to be initially limited to trying to annex the rest of Persia since both east and west advances will need a lot more forces. The advance is also threatened in the rear by war with Turkey since the Anatolian front is almost completely undefended.
This theatre is a good illustration of the serious consequences of the outbreak of global war. The allied forces visibly present are sufficient to block German progress and pose a serious threat and there will no doubt be significant further forces in India. The dispersion resulting from commitments in Europe will soon, no doubt, come home to roost. The medium term plan now looks to be developing all the following lines.
Phase 1
Clean up Europe and the Mediterranean whilst carrying out a holding action in the Middle East and attempting to annex Persia.
Phase 2
Conquer Turkey by whatever means possible. This currently demands amphibious action as the spare forces will be in Europe and the straights crossing into Asia Minor looks a little difficult.
Phase 3
Restore the Middle East theatre to full development.
This of course assumes no militant developments from the Soviet Union.
10:00 September 27th 1940
All German forces have arrived and the final assault goes in against Marseille. The usual massive selection of modifiers have given the German forces a significant advantage despite having similar numbers to the defenders. The mix of division types and availability of brigades is also heavily in my favour. The only thing missing is naval support which has been successfully disrupted by the US navy. This is a little annoying but after 5 hours of heavy fighting all remaining Vichy forces in Europe surrender and pass into the German POW system.
So ends the French campaign with another massive encirclement battle and heavy allied losses.
17:00 September 27th 1940
Back in Ireland the naval bombers don’t seem to be finding targets at sea so I have set some onto interdiction against the enemy land forces. Their attack factors are so small that they will have barely any effect, especially since the target is stationary but it does gives them valuable combat experience, which is always a good thing. I don’t know if the AI takes any notice whatsoever but it may also encourage them to remain stationary and prevent the general collapse of defences in across the whole island. It’s lucky there are only 3 US divisions because it wouldn’t take many more to turn the whole area into a disaster.
06:00 September 27th 1940
In central Persia the German advance is continuing but the flank guard on both sides look somewhat tricky to deal with. The German objective will need to be initially limited to trying to annex the rest of Persia since both east and west advances will need a lot more forces. The advance is also threatened in the rear by war with Turkey since the Anatolian front is almost completely undefended.
This theatre is a good illustration of the serious consequences of the outbreak of global war. The allied forces visibly present are sufficient to block German progress and pose a serious threat and there will no doubt be significant further forces in India. The dispersion resulting from commitments in Europe will soon, no doubt, come home to roost. The medium term plan now looks to be developing all the following lines.
Phase 1
Clean up Europe and the Mediterranean whilst carrying out a holding action in the Middle East and attempting to annex Persia.
Phase 2
Conquer Turkey by whatever means possible. This currently demands amphibious action as the spare forces will be in Europe and the straights crossing into Asia Minor looks a little difficult.
Phase 3
Restore the Middle East theatre to full development.
This of course assumes no militant developments from the Soviet Union.
10:00 September 27th 1940
All German forces have arrived and the final assault goes in against Marseille. The usual massive selection of modifiers have given the German forces a significant advantage despite having similar numbers to the defenders. The mix of division types and availability of brigades is also heavily in my favour. The only thing missing is naval support which has been successfully disrupted by the US navy. This is a little annoying but after 5 hours of heavy fighting all remaining Vichy forces in Europe surrender and pass into the German POW system.
So ends the French campaign with another massive encirclement battle and heavy allied losses.
17:00 September 27th 1940
Back in Ireland the naval bombers don’t seem to be finding targets at sea so I have set some onto interdiction against the enemy land forces. Their attack factors are so small that they will have barely any effect, especially since the target is stationary but it does gives them valuable combat experience, which is always a good thing. I don’t know if the AI takes any notice whatsoever but it may also encourage them to remain stationary and prevent the general collapse of defences in across the whole island. It’s lucky there are only 3 US divisions because it wouldn’t take many more to turn the whole area into a disaster.
I hesitate to post in this thread because every time I do it shuts down for weeks (or months) at a time.
Very excited to see regular updates again. Hopefully you can beat the Italians to the Alps, or your victory there could be delayed long enough to cause serious problems elsewhere. And while I am of course pulling for our glorious Navy, I can't wait to see the first US super-CV stack in action.
Is there any reason to think there may be?
Very excited to see regular updates again. Hopefully you can beat the Italians to the Alps, or your victory there could be delayed long enough to cause serious problems elsewhere. And while I am of course pulling for our glorious Navy, I can't wait to see the first US super-CV stack in action.
Is there any reason to think there may be?