Wait, is there anywhere else I can download it?
EDIT: Nevermind, found it. Anything else you can recommend?
EDIT: Nevermind, found it. Anything else you can recommend?
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Jan 2nd 1938
The Sino-Japanese war is progressing with some clear Japanese progress but not yet any threat of them winning. China has a great deal of territory left.
Jan 6th 1938
Spyin g has got into a nice steady state situation as I continuously try to collect blueprints from the USA and the UK. Unfortunately I am now emptying the ‘dry patch’ filled with ludicrous doctrines that nobody would want. This is all rather expensive and not very useful.
Jan 10th 1938
More pork-based delivery systems are put on the drawing board. This has to be the weirdest tech picture with Basic tactical Bomber being illustrated with a picture of a Stuka. This is an obvious attempt to confuse us by suggesting the wrong technology is being researched or may be they think we will be fooled into thinking it is a bigger aircraft by giving a close up for the tactical bomber and a distant shot for the close air support.
Feb 20th 1938
This is the key armour technology for my initial campaigns with a nice picture of exactly the correct vehicle, a mid-range model Pz III (looks like a 37mm gun variant)
Feb 22nd 1938
Unexpectedly the UK yields up a useful blueprint when all I thought I was going to get was useless doctrines.
March 3rd 1938
March 29th 1938
The Anschluss proves quite useful with the inheriting of almost exactly 300 manpower of units plus 300 manpower for the pool. Significant stocks of energy and metals are acquired with modest stocks of rares and oil. The addition of $900 is useful and will finance a lot of additional espionage activity.
May 11th 1938
Back to the useless doctrines. This is something that has to be tolerated but over the next few years there will be plenty of other technologies to steal. Unfortunately I am now starting a phase of success against the UK that simply promises a complete set of doctrine blueprint ready for sealion. These have little role but to hang as souvenirs on the wall. Unfortunately the US has another set of useless doctrines so when I finally succeed against them there will be more dross to pick up. Since I will only cripple the UK by invading the British Isles they will remain as an espionage target for some time to come and I may be able to steal every single technology they have before I annex them. I don’t know how useful this will be but there are bound to be a selection of techs that I do not have but could use.
May 19th 1938
Now the crap blueprints are really starting to set in. Experience tells me I am in for a long run of these.
June 21st 1938
A new tech team gets in on the act and begins reorganising German industry to maximise output of war materials.
July 1st 1938
Yeah, thanks. I’d sack my intelligence team if I didn’t know it wasn’t their fault.
July 14th 1938
Keeping on being successful against the British rather than the Americans is a really bad idea. The UK really has an extensive selection of things I don’t want.
Sep 30th 1938
Finally something more interesting has happened and Germany is a little bit bigger. My units are starting to come of the production line and the Austrian army is upgrading. Unfortunately the Austrian units are all at zero experience whereas all my German units have experience 20. This is unfortunate and cannot be addressed except by disbanding and rebuilding which I am not keen on doing. It will be most damaging to the mountain forces as they will be predominantly of Austrian origin for the foreseeable future.
Nov 4th 1938
At first glance more rubbish doctrines but no – its actually on my branch of the naval tree so a useful blueprint at last.
Post Poland Strategy
Time for a new strategy discussion. The invasion plans for Poland have provoked no discussion so I guess they are a bit of a no brainer. Let us assume that the Poland campaign has completed its first phase – Warsaw has been captured and all forces in western Poland have been eliminated. In these circumstances the first issue is whether to pursue the campaign into the “mud” zone. There will be significant Polish forces remaining in eastern Poland and unless I eliminate at least some of them I will be committed to retaining significant forces in the east.
Q1: do I pursue into the mud and try to destroy more Polish forces before moving on?
Q2: whatever I do for Q1, what mix of forces should I leave behind?
One supplemental point for Q2 is that I will keep having new units coming of the production line and southern Poland is as good a place to deploy them as any other. Each new unit will need significant time to gain org and go through its upgrade process. This deployment will provide a trickle of armoured divisions and aircraft.
The next issue is the follow on strategy after Poland. The obvious next step is to transfer all available forces to the west and carry out the invasion of the Low Countries and France. There is however an alternative of turning south and taking out Hungary and Yugoslavia simply because they are handy for immediate further operations. I am leaning towards a direct to France approach especially because of issue further down this post (see below).
Q3: what operations to immediately follow Poland.
A side issue is when to invade Denmark. They have a key role in providing a locked door for the Baltic. Ideally it would be nice to entice some allied fleets into the Baltic before locking the door but it does also have a significant security role as it prevents allied landings in the Baltic. I think can assume that Denmark will take relatively limited forces to invade and therefore it could be done any time although it might be best to make sure it does not clash with the invasion of France.
Q4: when to take out Denmark?
Assuming France has been invaded and taken out there then comes the question of what to do next. I plan to take the Vichy event as this is so very effective at removing France from effective play. After France I am inclined to take a bit of time before invading the UK since their defences will remain quite strong. This will mean that I must pursue a strategy of reduction via air and naval power before actually landing. During this period forces can be used elsewhere. My inclination is to send forces to Spain and to the Balkans at the same time. Invading Spain will be a bit of a challenge due to the narrow supply path through occupied France but I think we can live with that. In the east I would go for Hungary, then Yugoslavia, then Bulgaria and then Greece if adequate air forces can be deployed to take Crete by air attack (heavily supported paratroops). This sequence would have to be very quick to be completed before it is time to invade the UK although taking down Britain could reasonably be several months after Poland – say a latest target of September.
I am rather keen on the idea of leaving Romania at least until the MR pact triggers and even then I would be nervous about a Soviet DOW. It would substantially shorten the eastern front, as do the Baltic states, but I think discussing that would be getting a little ahead of ourselves.
Q5: strategy after France whilst waiting for air and navy to be ready for invading the UK
I am tempted to take out Scandinavia at some point as Norway is a good naval base for making landings in northern Russia as well as the whole area being a good source of resources. I suspect that resources will not be an issue after I capture a few stockpiles except for oil, which I am going to use up at a fantastic rate. There’s nothing like invading the Soviet union knowing that you have 9 months oil supply and absolutely no way of replenishing it. Hopefully London will have dealt with that issue.
Within this strategy I am extremely hesitant to attack any country that I will not be able to annex and hence will definitely contribute further to the allies. Vichy is definitely an issue since they bugger up supply lines through France but will add significant naval forces to the allies if I attack them. Portugal is a similar issue except their navy will be fairly puny. From experience as the Soviets Spain and Portugal make excellent bases for clearing UK naval strength from the Atlantic and given time actually eliminating the whole lot. Unfortunately I hope to invade on rather shorter time scales.
The last question is a little long-term and will definitely need review.
Q6: What baseline do I want for the invasion of the Soviet Union?
Q6a: What line should I take with the MR pact – no deals, limited pact, full pact.
Time for a new strategy discussion. The invasion plans for Poland have provoked no discussion so I guess they are a bit of a no brainer. Let us assume that the Poland campaign has completed its first phase – Warsaw has been captured and all forces in western Poland have been eliminated. In these circumstances the first issue is whether to pursue the campaign into the “mud” zone. There will be significant Polish forces remaining in eastern Poland and unless I eliminate at least some of them I will be committed to retaining significant forces in the east.
Q1: do I pursue into the mud and try to destroy more Polish forces before moving on?
Q2: whatever I do for Q1, what mix of forces should I leave behind?
One supplemental point for Q2 is that I will keep having new units coming of the production line and southern Poland is as good a place to deploy them as any other. Each new unit will need significant time to gain org and go through its upgrade process. This deployment will provide a trickle of armoured divisions and aircraft.
The next issue is the follow on strategy after Poland. The obvious next step is to transfer all available forces to the west and carry out the invasion of the Low Countries and France. There is however an alternative of turning south and taking out Hungary and Yugoslavia simply because they are handy for immediate further operations. I am leaning towards a direct to France approach especially because of issue further down this post (see below).
Q3: what operations to immediately follow Poland.
A side issue is when to invade Denmark. They have a key role in providing a locked door for the Baltic. Ideally it would be nice to entice some allied fleets into the Baltic before locking the door but it does also have a significant security role as it prevents allied landings in the Baltic. I think can assume that Denmark will take relatively limited forces to invade and therefore it could be done any time although it might be best to make sure it does not clash with the invasion of France.
Q4: when to take out Denmark?
Assuming France has been invaded and taken out there then comes the question of what to do next. I plan to take the Vichy event as this is so very effective at removing France from effective play. After France I am inclined to take a bit of time before invading the UK since their defences will remain quite strong. This will mean that I must pursue a strategy of reduction via air and naval power before actually landing. During this period forces can be used elsewhere. My inclination is to send forces to Spain and to the Balkans at the same time. Invading Spain will be a bit of a challenge due to the narrow supply path through occupied France but I think we can live with that. In the east I would go for Hungary, then Yugoslavia, then Bulgaria and then Greece if adequate air forces can be deployed to take Crete by air attack (heavily supported paratroops). This sequence would have to be very quick to be completed before it is time to invade the UK although taking down Britain could reasonably be several months after Poland – say a latest target of September.
I am rather keen on the idea of leaving Romania at least until the MR pact triggers and even then I would be nervous about a Soviet DOW. It would substantially shorten the eastern front, as do the Baltic states, but I think discussing that would be getting a little ahead of ourselves.
Q5: strategy after France whilst waiting for air and navy to be ready for invading the UK
I am tempted to take out Scandinavia at some point as Norway is a good naval base for making landings in northern Russia as well as the whole area being a good source of resources. I suspect that resources will not be an issue after I capture a few stockpiles except for oil, which I am going to use up at a fantastic rate. There’s nothing like invading the Soviet union knowing that you have 9 months oil supply and absolutely no way of replenishing it. Hopefully London will have dealt with that issue.
Within this strategy I am extremely hesitant to attack any country that I will not be able to annex and hence will definitely contribute further to the allies. Vichy is definitely an issue since they bugger up supply lines through France but will add significant naval forces to the allies if I attack them. Portugal is a similar issue except their navy will be fairly puny. From experience as the Soviets Spain and Portugal make excellent bases for clearing UK naval strength from the Atlantic and given time actually eliminating the whole lot. Unfortunately I hope to invade on rather shorter time scales.
The last question is a little long-term and will definitely need review.
Q6: What baseline do I want for the invasion of the Soviet Union?
Q6a: What line should I take with the MR pact – no deals, limited pact, full pact.
I'm a bit tired and will give a better answer tomorrow, but for Q6a:
No pact. Eastern poland is quite close to Moscow and when advancing we don't have go through all those marshes.
No pact. Eastern poland is quite close to Moscow and when advancing we don't have go through all those marshes.
Well with their IC going through the roof so fast it's probably best to prepare for a Barbarossa as soon as possible anyway, so no M-R pact at all seems to be the best option to me as the effect of keeping the Soviets from attacking you for a while won't be as important.
But MR pact would give the soviets more marsh to play around with = bigger pocket = more divisions destroyed.