um....no idea
sweet luftwaffa command
thx for the naming of the CV
what kinda action will i be receiving?
sweet luftwaffa command
thx for the naming of the CV
what kinda action will i be receiving?
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Actually, I'm feeling much better..... (and besides, I don't want to go on the cart ).
How is my alter-ego doing and, more importantly, where, since he was flying by the Straits of Hormuz the last time I remember seeing him. As the Persian Campaign has successfully concluded I am wondering if he has moved east or south. After the KM's recent misadventure in the Indian Ocean I don't feel as bad remembering the Luftwaffe's "vacation" during the Italy Campaign (about 4,867 pages ago :wacko: ). The thickening wall of enemy units is making things more interesting!
).How is my alter-ego doing and, more importantly, where, since he was flying by the Straits of Hormuz the last time I remember seeing him. As the Persian Campaign has successfully concluded I am wondering if he has moved east or south. After the KM's recent misadventure in the Indian Ocean I don't feel as bad remembering the Luftwaffe's "vacation" during the Italy Campaign (about 4,867 pages ago :wacko: ). The thickening wall of enemy units is making things more interesting!
Herbert West said:
According to Wikipedia:
"The design of the rocket launcher caused some problems, as the hot rocket exhaust could not be vented into the fighting compartment but neither could the barrel withstand the pressure if the gases were not vented. Therefore a ring of ventilation shafts were put around the barrel which channeled the exhaust and gave the weapon somewhat of a pepperbox appearance."
I'm assuming that this is the 29th November question.
With the annexation of Tannu Tuva you can deploy newly built units straight at the frontline?Kanitatlan said:
19:00 29th November 1941
Who can tell use what this picture means?
Medi said:
I think it's a picture of the terrain (mountains,hills and forest) in that part of siberia
About the AAR, indeed a shame about the loss of 3 CV, although I did even worse once, and lost 15 CVs (all my capital ships) in one battle. The key for naval suppremacy, is quitting the battle at the right time. (Obviously I was wrong that time
) But I made it up with a grand surface battlefleet, maybe you should have one to??
RembleThe issue of the CVLs is about how effective they are in allowing the enemy to close. The great fear of any player depending on CV task forces is that the enemy might develope the ability to regularly close and undermine the whole principal of carrier warfare. My concern is to understand what fleet make up I should worry about. Is the key the mere presence of one or two CVLs. Evaluated on the basis of aggregate sighting scores my CVs should win out every time unless they are unlucky.
By the way, sorry about getting you sunk. The KMS Remble was the last CV to sink and I should definitely have given up before that. It takes a long time to get 60% experienced CV and I don't like losing anything let alone one of my best units.
Nice to know it is definitely a Turan I.
Killerflood As a Luftwaffe commander you will be in constant action in command of a TAC bomber group. Currently these are breeding like flies (I have 12 runs building) and consume commanders like there is no tomorrow.
WhisperingDeath Your alter-ego is currently hanging around the Indian border and later on (where I am up to) has been assigned to manage ground attack in Central Asia for air unit training.
LarsG Now we all know about the Sturmtiger gun - I'm pretty sure I knew that once but it was so long ago I couldn't remember for sure. I seem to recall I thought it was an odd idea because it should generate enhanced recoil.
Medi That about covers it. Nice to see someone is reading a little more carefully.
Burgundy I have a surface gunfire group and will in a few months have a second one. They are based on nice economical heavy cruisers so aren't as spectacular as they might be but they are effective as we will soon see.
By the way, sorry about getting you sunk. The KMS Remble was the last CV to sink and I should definitely have given up before that. It takes a long time to get 60% experienced CV and I don't like losing anything let alone one of my best units.
Nice to know it is definitely a Turan I.
Killerflood As a Luftwaffe commander you will be in constant action in command of a TAC bomber group. Currently these are breeding like flies (I have 12 runs building) and consume commanders like there is no tomorrow.
WhisperingDeath Your alter-ego is currently hanging around the Indian border and later on (where I am up to) has been assigned to manage ground attack in Central Asia for air unit training.
LarsG Now we all know about the Sturmtiger gun - I'm pretty sure I knew that once but it was so long ago I couldn't remember for sure. I seem to recall I thought it was an odd idea because it should generate enhanced recoil.
Medi That about covers it. Nice to see someone is reading a little more carefully.
Burgundy I have a surface gunfire group and will in a few months have a second one. They are based on nice economical heavy cruisers so aren't as spectacular as they might be but they are effective as we will soon see.
12:00 30th November 1941
Enough bad news for now. We are finally in position for an attack on Lagos and with the usual air support my troops are soon advancing to capture the only allied airfield in the area.
00:00 1st December 1941
Back in the east a full strength German task force has caught that EVIL Petal Throne fleet that caused so much trouble and despite the weather is able to finish off several of their key assets. This does start to make the previous battle look a bit better since it set up this opportunity for us and the pursuit is not over yet by a long way. I have several perfectly fit task forces to chase them with.
18:00 1st December 1941
To the west more bad things occur with another IPTN task force catching my retreating highly damaged fleet. Fortunately the conditions are diabolical and we can escape with effectively no damage whatsoever. Also the second wave of German pursuit is beautifully placed to pursue this IPTN task force instead. This is a slight dispersion of effort but this task force looks to be not too much of a threat to any of my main fleets.
23:00 1st December 1941
The pursuit is stalled as several allied fleets are dumped in my way to waste time. The enemy submarines get away with it as usual but transports are another matter …
08:00 2nd December 1941
The bombing of South Africa is beginning to have an effect with their industrial production massively reduced already.
13:00 2nd December 1941
A selection of minor fleet encounters throughout the rest of the day achieve very little and I seem to have lost track of both enemy task forces. This is slightly worrying with respect to the second one as it could cause problems depending on exactly where it has gone.
23:00 2nd December 1941
The USA indulges in another of their expensive port attack missions. You can see it has already cost them significant damage to two aircraft carriers and there will me more as they retreat. The AI really does need to be cured of this bad habit.
10:00 3rd December 1941
I guess we’ve found the missing task force. This empty transport fleet was returning to Karachi after delivering some garrison troops for Ceylon. I’ve now lost yet another unit, albeit a rather less valuable ship. Since the scale escort properly required is an entire main fleet task force this is going to be a long-term issue as transports simply won’t be able to go anywhere in safety.
13:00 3rd December 1941
We’ve caught up with task force one again and finished of the rest of their capital ships. This follow up pursuit has been most satisfying and helps redeem the cost of the earlier battle.
08:00 4th December 1941
Over Ibadan the allies have managed to get a single bomber squadron in the air but not soon enough. My interceptors have managed to recover just enough org to give me four operational squadrons which is enough to inflict a near fatal defeat on the enemy.
10:00 4th December 1941
Even though the enemy is completely out of capital ships I intend to harass this task force for as long as I can. Even light cruisers and destroyers are victories of a sort.
20:00 4th December 1941
South Africa is now at a steady state with 8 effective IC. This may not even be enough to generate supplies for the large army they have been operating but that is a lot to hope for.
02:00 5th December 1941
The enemy task force two has been sighted again rushing northwards in the western Indian Ocean. They have encountered a fleet of new cruisers and destroyers heading for assignment in Ceylon. My fleet is rather overmatched and unable to close so they are forced to retreat. No real harm has been done but I had assumed the task force would be the other side of India.
11:00 5th December 1941
Despite continuing harassment I seem unable to sink any more ships from this allied task force. This is annoying but I suppose it doesn’t really matter.
05:00 6th December 1941
I am chasing the other task force but being subject by the usual delays to sink passing flotsam. The real plan is to congregate several fleets around here and try to intercept and pursue when the enemy turns south again.
12:00 6th December 1941
The enemy’s behaviour is finally explained as they fritter away their org conducting a port strike against a massive u-boat force – more scratched paint, replacement light bulbs and that sort of thing. After this they will turn south and should be easily intercepted around the tip of India.
Excellent
04:00 8th December 1941
Another puzzle map; who can tell me what is happening here?
05:00 8th December 1941
The enemy promptly counter-attacks Ulan Bator but yet again only uses a fraction of the forces present allowing me to easily repel their attacks. Ulan Bator is mine and staying that way.
07:00 8th December 1941
The repeat battles of Multan are to be supplemented by a similar strike on Sukkur. Again the objective is simply to defeat the enemy divisions rather than take any territory. I experimented with an attack of Peshawar as well but the combat modifiers are so outrageous that it remains permanently out of the question.
9th December World political View
The horrible blemish is 2 provinces taken by partisans at the southern end of the Urals
02:00 9th December 1941
First contact is made by a group of naval bombers flying out of Tricomalee. They don’t inflict much damage but suddenly the entire Kriegsmarine is sailing on intercept courses. And so it begins.
09:00 9th December 1941
First contact inflicts a fair bit of damage but only sinks one ship with the remainder escaping eastwards. As ever there is a small fleet hanging around just to delay the pursuit.
Kanitatlan said:
You annexed Mongolia ? Also very interesting naval updates, about your note that CV generate xp very slowly - I have ARMA and my SU CV fleet gained 100xp very fast, only after 2-3 mayor naval engagements.
Edit.Also if it isn't secret how did you make screenshots covering all planet ?
My CVs are gaining experience at the rate of about 2-3 points per ship sunk. To my mind this is slow since it requires the sinking of huge numbers of enemy ships to reach 100 experience. The effect may be due to my attitude to overwhelming force. experience is linked to time in combat and I tend to minimise it for all units by trying to fight at the highest odds possible. This means that I have lots of 4 hour battles whereas a few 48 hour battles would be hugely more productive of experience but imply some sort of parity of force and hence major losses for my side which is unacceptable.Edzako said:
The world map is created simply by taking 8 screens, patching them together and then scaling down to 25% size.
18:00 9th December 1941
Another small fleet tries to disrupt our cruiser fleet from positioning itself at the cost of almost complete destruction.
06:00 10th December 1941
Next morning both a carrier task force and our surface gunfire fleet intercept the enemy.
11:00 10th December 1941
Late in the afternoon range is suddenly closed down to light cruiser range. The enemy may think this is a success but they suddenly find that I have a couple of dozen cruiser just ready to pound them. They are already four ships down on their original strength and they haven’t escaped yet.
20:00 10th December 1941
Our second carrier group has been moving into position to intercept the enemy when they retreat and charges straight through an Australian transport group sink one flotilla on the way.
05:00 11th December 1941
In Mongolia our constant air strikes are now getting a little weak in effect. The winter weather is now closing down effective air operations. Also, the Petal Throne likes to use garrison divisions which means that there are always one or two units at full “dug in” status in each province and this significantly reduces our air attack effectiveness against the other units passing through.
11:00 11th December 1941
Tired of waiting I have launched the beginning of the Indian campaign. This has not been handled ideally well but I want to get on with it. Currently there is a hole in the enemy frontline as a result of previous battles so the beginning consists entirely of German divisions rushing for the big hole.
15:00 11th December 1941
The second carrier groups guessed wrong and is left sinking a Russian submarine whilst the other two fleets get a further nibble at the enemy task force.
05:00 12th December 1941
A straight pursuit eastwards leads to a massively successful battle resulting in the loss of over half the enemy task force. This is what German naval warfare should be about.
07:00 12th December 1941
The enemy has a few troops trying to move into the Multan gap but they are not so much defeated as driven over by the swarms of German divisions. This sort of response isn’t going to have much effect on my operations.
06:00 13th December 1941
Not knowing which way the enemy was going the pursuing fleets have split north and south. The cruiser group strikes lucky and manages to finish off the enemy task force completely.
Originally it had 1 CV, 9 CVL, a load of cruisers and a few destroyers. Now they are all gone.
02:00 15th December 1941
The first group arrives in Multan to an immediate hiccup. They are assigned to advance on into Lahore but clearly do not have the strength to complete that operation via a major river crossing so they must halt and await other units coming forward.
13:00 15th December 1941
The Fallschirmjäger now take their role in the campaign. I have dropped across the rear of enemy lines in all the provinces that are in range. This suddenly makes the whole enemy position look extremely vulnerable and we will see how the AI responds to this.
02:00 16th December 1941
In the far north the first reinforcements have arrived and make it possible to push the advance forward into Yakutsk. The province doesn’t have a huge significance since I can build airfields but it is nice to deprive the enemy.
04:00 16th December 1941
The AI has reacted very quickly to the landings. They will be unable to take Bikaner off me, partly because their attack force is about to get bombed to buggery, but the attack on Meerut is irresistible. This does at least get some of their troops moving and hence turns them into good air targets.
14:00 16th December 1941
The AI is now attacking Ludhiana as well and the whole parachute landing thing is starting to look like a bit of a mistake. I suppose the idea of dropping the Fallshirmjager simply because you can and this is where they can reach is a bit of a silly idea. It should speed up the offensive a little by allowing my troops to move faster but everything feels oh so slow compared to Europe.
06:00 17th December 1941
This is the last attack in West Africa and the enemy can offer little resistance due to preparatory bombing. After occupying Nigeria the campaign shifts to being the Central African campaign. All available troops released by the general offensive are instead being sent to South Africa. I need infantry to take the central African jungles and given that French stack quite a bit of it too.
Kanitatlan said:
And yet.. more divisions taken from the critical Indian theatre.. where your offensive has halted in part to lack of troops.
Would a stricly defensive posture in Africa have been more worthwhile (or even use the med as a moat) until the Indian subcontinent is yours?
imo taking africa can easily be postphoned since the only province there with real relevance is suez, a province than can be easily defenden with only few forces. in kanitatlan's situation i would just have sealed of the mediterranean and cleansed it from enemy ships but not have advanced into africa. once the med is cleansed, they are unable to launch any landing there and thus africa is unimportant
Von Uber, Manziel the remark was not emant to indicate troops actually being sent to Africa, I was just noting the need for them. In fact the African theatre is developing nicely and the huge French stack is no immediate concern since I didn't intend to go anywhere near it. It does promise some pain for the future.
The current Africa plan is to close down Nigeria and then redirect all mobile forces to the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe area to try and take out South Africa.
Looking back there are several motivations for going into Africa. the relevant ones are ...
1. Remove all allied bases along the North African coast to make sure all naval forces are properly isolated and there is no possibility of flying harassing operations across the Mediterranean.
2. Capture the Dakar - Freetown area as the future primary base for striking at South America
3. Clear Ethiopea to allow annexing of Italy
4. Capture the East coast and South Africa to deny all useful bases for operating in the western Indian Ocean in my rear.
5. Acquire bases in South Africa for operations in the South Atlantic. Operating from here allows me to avoid encroaching on the rather more dangerous zone of the mid Atlatic.
As you can see there are quite a few motivators and putting it off is only appropriate when the commitment required becomes excessive. Unfortunately things are developing in such a way that any commitment anywhere seems excessive.
The current Africa plan is to close down Nigeria and then redirect all mobile forces to the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe area to try and take out South Africa.
Looking back there are several motivations for going into Africa. the relevant ones are ...
1. Remove all allied bases along the North African coast to make sure all naval forces are properly isolated and there is no possibility of flying harassing operations across the Mediterranean.
2. Capture the Dakar - Freetown area as the future primary base for striking at South America
3. Clear Ethiopea to allow annexing of Italy
4. Capture the East coast and South Africa to deny all useful bases for operating in the western Indian Ocean in my rear.
5. Acquire bases in South Africa for operations in the South Atlantic. Operating from here allows me to avoid encroaching on the rather more dangerous zone of the mid Atlatic.
As you can see there are quite a few motivators and putting it off is only appropriate when the commitment required becomes excessive. Unfortunately things are developing in such a way that any commitment anywhere seems excessive.
00:00 18th December 1941
Best to nick blueprints off the British quickly as they are very soon going to be left far behind. They still have three tech slots but if I take out India they are going to be down to one. They will remain a good intelligence target for a while but they will sooner or later fall behind in everything. There is little prospect of annexing the UK in the near future as they still hold a wide variety of far flung VP hexes.
02:00 20th December 1941
Further ground forces arriving in Siberia has enabled me to launch the offensive to close up with lake Baikal. This offensive is simply aimed and gaining a more secure holding to the rear of Ulan Ude. I am making no attempt to outmanoeuvre the enemy since air power will remove all the defeated enemy divisions for me. All I need to do is make sure some keep moving.
02:00 21st December 1941
The AI has launched another of their port strikes to the usual scratched paint effect. They will lose all their org and with a bit of luck a few ships on the way home. The channel is a particularly heavily patrolled zone to try and keep the AI out of the north sea and this fleet is now just inside the zone – bombs away!
09:00 21st December 1941
To improve security I am launching a supporting attack to clear the enemy out of Sukkur. I would like to clear Hyderabad and Peshawar as well but I am in no position to attack those two provinces successfully.
21:00 22nd December 1941
The Fallschirmjägers have managed to expand their holdings and even grabbed the only decent airfield in central India. This is quite useful and maybe justifies at least part of the drop. Their advance must stall soon since the enemy will be bringing more troops to bear as fast as they can. Ludhiana has fallen and the allied forces are advancing unopposed into Meerut as well. I feel a crisis approaching.
00:00 24th December 1941
The enemy is counter-striking against Delhi but I suspect their attack will fail rather messily once a few bombers pay a visit. The advanced armoured group in Bikaner should have been directed immediately to the north but I missed this step. If this had been done it is possible the horrible developments over the next day or two could have been avoided although I suspect it would have made no difference.
06:00 25th December 1941
Meerut has fallen and massive German mobile forces are striking north to make contact with Kasakka in the mountains of Srinagar.
09:00 25th December 1941
The enemy has launched a massive attack on Srinagar mostly using forces located in the mountains so that I cannot even flank attack them. Kasakka is holding on valiantly and quickly acquires the skills to make good use of the terrain.
14:00 25th December 1941
As a bit of light relief the Russians are attempting a landing in Lisbon using militia. There is a lesson here, militia are extraordinarily useless at opposed landings and it is unlikely that the defending unit lost more than a dozen men in the entire battle. Even the armoured cars don’t help because the primary problem is terrible combat modifiers rather than poor firepower for militia. This is definitely an example of total AI insanity.
23:00 25th December 1941
Disaster has struck and our Fallschirmjäger division has been destroyed, Kasakka captured. A terrible end to a fine career. This is the first divisional loss in the entire game and constitutes a terrible defeat as I have lost 14 manpower (after allowing for manpower recovery due to casualties suffered). Given that the whole of Barbarossa cost only 68 manpower this is not good, not good at all. After all, do you realise it will take 5 days to recoup the lost manpower.
But no, what is this – captured Italian transport aircraft – souvenirs from Alexandria make it Delhi with Kasakka on board. The leader and all the wounded are successfully evacuated but most of the division is lost. Oddly enough the two already defeated and retreating divisions are perfectly OK and my offensive can rescue them before their retreats complete.
01:00 28th December 1941
In the Bay of Bengal the opportunity for further naval revenge appears but to little effect. Poor weather and undamaged enemy ships is the cause but the battle ends and the enemy vanishes.
19:00 28th December 1941
The offensive to rescue the remaining Fallschirmjägers is developing nicely and things look secure against further losses.
00:00 29th December 1941
The allies have taken Khobdo off me but there are already substantial forces on their way there. Deploying a new garrison division along with the small force that just arrived is a poor choice. Soon they are just more prisoners being rounded up. I can skirmish over Khobdo with no problems but I am a little nervous of that bloody great stack next door.
02:00 29th December 1941
The Indian offensive is starting to get going now with a panzer group already in Kanpur and heading east to the Bengal coast. Enveloping the enemy to the south is looking a little dodgy due to terrain so I will focus on the full envelopment first. Rear area security is also a little poor and I am desperately missing the forces that have been dispersed to the other fronts.
08:00 29th December 1941
More bad news as it is revealed that the AI is actually capable of sinking convoys. This is not a significant event since they have only sunk 4 convoys but I cannot afford to have the supply lines to Ceylon disrupted, as it is now the main base for the entire Kriegsmarine. Fortunately a quick sweep eliminates the problem and it doesn’t reoccur.
14:00 29th December 1941
The fall of Lahore ends the recovery process for the northern flank but the enemy seems to want it back. This counter-attack clearly isn’t going to succeed but …
01:00 30th December 1941
They are persistent and commit a vast force to try and retake Lahore. I’m getting quite good at combat events and this really doesn’t turn out well for them whilst my armoured divisions appear to be barely affected.
It is worth noting that the enemy still has many 1936 infantry divisions. I suspect the Petal Throne forces are going through a very long and slow upgrade process as a result of inheriting the Chinese army. I am surprised that 1936 divisions remain so prominent but they do seem to be.
05:00 30th December 1941
The movement for the attack on Lahore has exposed the enemy to full effect bombing by my CAS who now have fun levying a further cost for their counter-attack. This is the only way I am going to ever clear Peshawar but it remains a slow process.
13:00 30th December 1941
The allies are also trying to cave in the other flank with an attack on Johdpur. This initially looks weak but after they commit further troops I am forced to retreat to avoid further losses although this is merely a temporary setback. In reality the defeat here is due to my aversion for losses more than the overwhelming nature of their attack. I can’t go fighting the enemy at parity or losses will be equal and anyway I don’t want these divisions down around zero org.