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CaptRobau, zeekater, 4th Dimension, Manziel Pretty much covered by responses. The giant stacks are quite a few divisions but not completely out of scale.
LIFO 5 increasingly yucky provinces to Hudson bay with a truly minimal German force. Not really feasible but that empty coast is, just not yet.
Lord Strange Yes and No. The literal truth is that I have space so it is easy. It may take time and involve some challenge but victory is never in question if there is sufficient room.
WhisperingDeath Oddly enough the campaign is quite different from Barbarossa. In Barbarossa the core strategic action was rolling up the Soviet line from the south whilst the entire Soviet force moved from misdeployment in the north in a southwards direction. In this case US forces are distinctly blobified and whilst they can be approached from different directions there is no clear defeat in detail.
Raaritsgozilla Like everything in this AAR the undefeatable hordes are actually defeatable but everything that looks immanent is rather more distant than you expect.
Ianovich Just beware I'm playing DD not Armagedon so airforces take rather lower losses. On the plus side, air force is an effective way to convert IC into combat power without using lots of manpower.
Bafflegab, BlitzMartinDK The allied air problem is due to very poor coordination of the mixture of techs to get to turbojets. The AI needs to pick up a whole range of different enabling technologies and has never been very good at doing this. The result is that AI air unit progress always tends to stall for a bit before going jet powered.
Krases One slight inaccuracy in that statement.
Zuckergußgebäck So that's why the US airforce has started bombing them.
LIFO 5 increasingly yucky provinces to Hudson bay with a truly minimal German force. Not really feasible but that empty coast is, just not yet.
Lord Strange Yes and No. The literal truth is that I have space so it is easy. It may take time and involve some challenge but victory is never in question if there is sufficient room.
WhisperingDeath Oddly enough the campaign is quite different from Barbarossa. In Barbarossa the core strategic action was rolling up the Soviet line from the south whilst the entire Soviet force moved from misdeployment in the north in a southwards direction. In this case US forces are distinctly blobified and whilst they can be approached from different directions there is no clear defeat in detail.
Raaritsgozilla Like everything in this AAR the undefeatable hordes are actually defeatable but everything that looks immanent is rather more distant than you expect.
Ianovich Just beware I'm playing DD not Armagedon so airforces take rather lower losses. On the plus side, air force is an effective way to convert IC into combat power without using lots of manpower.
Bafflegab, BlitzMartinDK The allied air problem is due to very poor coordination of the mixture of techs to get to turbojets. The AI needs to pick up a whole range of different enabling technologies and has never been very good at doing this. The result is that AI air unit progress always tends to stall for a bit before going jet powered.
Krases One slight inaccuracy in that statement.
Zuckergußgebäck So that's why the US airforce has started bombing them.
April 7th-8th 1945
10:00 April 7th 1945
10:00 April 7th 1945
Across the Atlantic we have managed to find and heavily damage a US submarine before it can sink anything. This makes a nice change. (All cheer)
00:00 April 8th 1945
No sooner have I invaded the USA than they begin bombing their own populace. It really is amazing how quickly the AI grabs at this sort of opportunity. For now I'm really not too bothered about this. Resource losses are utterly irrelevant as I lack the convoys to shift them anyway and even IC has limited yield.
01:00 April 8th 1945
More German forces are rushing into the theatre and the US dispute over Monroe is starting to tail off a little. Things are starting to look a bit more stable and optimistic.
12:00 April 8th 1945
Constant bombing of enemy troops is now being hampered by static positions. On the lower Mississippi my position is secure and hence across the river enemy troops are digging in. This seriously detracts from the bombing campaign.
15:00 April 8th 1945
More US troops arrive in Monroe. These look like returnees, ie I have fought them before, they've recovered a few days org and are back but still well below full strength. This is a promising development as Monroe could develop nicely into a Verdun type battle of attrition but heavily weighted in my favour. As long as I maintain a good combat ratio I can fight enemy divisions to destruction at limited cost. This was the technique that I principally applied in Edge of Darkness but it yields a lower loss ratio than earlier successes in Fatherland. I would therefore prefer a manoeuvre based solution but Verdun is acceptable to keep the enemy focus in the wrong place.
19:00 April 8th 1945
I now declare this bombing mildly irritating and it looks like that is the threshold for triggering a response. I lack the airfield capacity to properly support interceptors but I will have to move some in anyway. Let's just hope they don't have too much fighting to do.
April 9th-10th 1945
00:00 April 9th 1945
00:00 April 9th 1945
I'm not sure how much difference this will make. It only improves air combat capability and there really does seem to be little need for that at the moment. Next tech is naval doctrines. I haven't been pushing these and I am some way behind 1945 tech levels, it has been apparent that the US has better naval doctrines and with no other more critical targets I decide to get started.
03:00 April 9th 1945
The US continues to pour in a steady stream of victims. Monroe may need to be renamed.
13:00 April 9th 1945
This puts paid to the US bombers. They turn out to be a mixed group with escorts but my tech lead is way too much for them now.
00:00 April 10th 1945
It looks like there are still a few enemy ships around but the naval war has reduced to the odd rare encounter mostly involving German aircraft and enemy ships.
07:00 April 10th 1945
An insufficient US attack on Pine Bluff turns out to lead to many hours fighting. It seems that US forces are intent on disputing a Mississippi bridgehead with all the force they can muster and at any cost. Attacks like this are usually cancelled but for once it is persistent.
09:00 April 10th 1945
A high level view illustrates just how poor the US position is now. I have a huge enclave with a few troops pushing up over the Canadian borders. My frontline is extremely weak everywhere but on the lower Mississippi so I could be stopped at any time by new US forces. I have to face the fact that the US can deploy one or two new divisions every day and if they appear in the empty areas the advance has to just stop.
Three provinces left 
With a big stroke of luck is feasible
How about using paras to speed up land grab in some areas?
With a big stroke of luck is feasible How about using paras to speed up land grab in some areas?
The western front looks like it is going to need some attention soon.
Is the general strategy going to be an "east first" assault or will you try to eliminate the west first?
Is the general strategy going to be an "east first" assault or will you try to eliminate the west first?
I'd go for the west. From what I can tell, the east is in a complete stalemate. Consolidate the Mississippi Line. With the country split, only the east is supplied (from Washington). Unless the supplies now go through Canada (which it would in RL). Either way if you've divided the country completely, the fight for the west should go in your favor. Once that is done put the troops from the west on the Mississippi Line and push through. Or you could do a simultaneous amphibious invasion in lets say in Florida and cross the Mississippi. Then again I don't know how the troop concentration is in the coastal provinces. Another thing you could do is moving some troops to the North where the concentration of US troops is still low. Push through there and either use it to draw troops from the other parts of the front are use it to slowly encircle them.
Also Mississippi, as a word, sucks
Also Mississippi, as a word, sucks
I go away for 3 days an you conquer even more of America. In my opinion, try to isolate the two halves as much as possible- keep the west from reinforcing or making a breakout to the east of the US.
The US is split, and once again, it would seem that the constant lack of retaliation in sufficient force will be the allies downfall. Coming at the German in a piecemeal fashion hasn't worked yet, but as they say... Try, try again...
Amazing that it has been three years already, but still only nine in-game (no, it's not a rant about the rate of updates). Happy birthday, AAR.
"Dear Diary,
Its been almost 7 days since Fatherland - Deutschland uber alles was updated. Not sure how much longer I can go on without an update, I am hearing noises and hallucinating. Gangrene might be setting in. Woe is me!
-Krases"
Its been almost 7 days since Fatherland - Deutschland uber alles was updated. Not sure how much longer I can go on without an update, I am hearing noises and hallucinating. Gangrene might be setting in. Woe is me!
-Krases"
So many days without update, so I suppose in next batch there will be no Canada anymore
So many days without update, so I suppose in next batch there will be no Canada anymore
Don't say such hurtful things... We will resist from beyond the solar system if necessary... Kanitatlan never told you where our off map IC was coming from... but the new alien overlords will give you a hint... Muahahaha!!!
I take solace in the fact that herr Kanitatlan is either working to make HOI3 better, or is preparing a massive update for us... *hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge*
