Yeah, the Allies in France are actually now behind their historical counterparts.Jolly good! Patton is down (at least for some time) and Jerries managed to hold back the Allied thrust!
European Union of Socialist Republics, now that's a good idea! Maybe after I have conquered whole Europe including UK, I could make a super EU. Just imagine all that IC, maybe it would go over 1k, so it would be more than the Americans have. But I would only have about 400.Onwards comrade, for the glory of the European Union of Socialist Republics!
Thanks!
...Yeah, poor Guderian hasn't been the same after the Red Army captured the Ploesti oilfields.
Still, I'm for ejecting Warsaw Uprising from HoI completely (unless the engine gets modified), not injecting additional ill-planned events... The French, Polish and Yugoslavians all claim that title, AFAIK...
Yeah, HoI engine is not capable of simulation Warsaw Uprising in any way... But your theory about "nationalist plot" has one weak spot - no Polish nationalist would even think about bringing AK under Soviet command
As for the AAR - I like the RA3 accents there
Indeed, Tito was pain in Axis' ass.
BTW, can somebody tell me who got the largest underground army in WW2?
I have some divisions that are filling the 3 southern provinces. I don't remember if any of those provinces is worth of any victory points, but isn't Cracow worth something? So hopefully I won't have an occupied partisan active Poland, because the division organization regain will be very low then.
Yeah, Churchill doesn't trust the Soviets much. But come on, they just want to share vodka with everyone!
The shouting is too much for Molotov, since Kulik is in the HQ too. As for Stalin, he wants all the land he can get.
Well, HoI is a bit crude for simulating a lot of stuff. But it would be nice if the Polish independence event would make Poland a Soviet ally right away. Then the troops wouldn't be deployed to Moscow, right?Yeah, HoI engine is not capable of simulation Warsaw Uprising in any way... But your theory about "nationalist plot" has one weak spot - no Polish nationalist would even think about bringing AK under Soviet command
Thanks! Personally I mostly like the first Red Alert, it was so legendary back then.As for the AAR - I like the RA3 accents there
...RA2 is quite ok too, I haven't really tried RA3, I have just watched my friend play it.Yeah, a Yugoslavian event would be really cool. They would need lots of forts and good mountain divisions to hold back the Germans though. Too bad that the British have occupied Southern Yugoslavia, so Yugoslavia will be divided. I'm really anxious to end the war, so I could make a big peace conference update. There will surely be lots of things, like North and South Bulgaria. Or maybe the Allies will give Southern Bulgaria to the Greeks. Then there's Yugoslavia and Albania. A socialist North Italy would be cool if the Soviets are fast enough. And then there's Germany, hopefully the Soviets will do a little better than historically there. And let's not forget about Norway, Portugal and Spain. On the other side of the world, there is the Japanese and American divided Philippines. I don't realize, why the Americans let the Japanese keep the Northern Philippines though.Indeed, Tito was pain in Axis' ass.
...So the Philippines nes will be made independent again.BTW, can somebody tell me who got the largest underground army in WW2?
I don't know much about this, but I'm with the Yugoslavians too. The Allies really helped the French resistance movement. The Soviets pushed the Germans out of Poland. But the Yugoslavians were mostly on their own...
Yeah, HoI has it's limits...
Red Alert 3, the famous RTS game series. It all started from the Command & Conquer game, one of the first real RTS games after Dune 2, at least that's what I think. Then they made lots of sequels including Red Alert, where Einstein travels back in time and prevents Hitler from rising to power. But then the Soviets become really powerful and they attack Europe. RA 2 and 3 continue that story and in RA3 there is the super powerful Rising Sun Empire.
I have played Victoria and the January uprising was after the Crimean War. But who were the Polands "allies" then? Didn't they just rebel agaist Austria-Hungary, Germany (It was unified then, right?) and Russia?
I doubt they would really do something like that, even though Southern Bulgaria is quite powerless. But maybe the Greece could occupy the area to fight agaist the Bulgarian communist rebels, who are seeking to reclaim the southern areas of Bulgaria. Or maybe there could be a Bulgarian civil war?
What do you mean? Should I make them a part of Greece or make them independent, like Albania and Macedonia?
Yeah, the Western culture is very based on the Greek civilization. Things like philosophy, theater and democracy come from there.
Hmm, this is a hard one. Historically the Allies didn't invade Greece, the Greeks just liberated the country themselves. But in this AAR the Allies invaded Greece and they will probably put a democratic government in charge. Greece might even get some new lands, so would the situation be the same?
Also Yugoslavia and Poland were in a very different position strategically. Yugoslavia was somewhat remote and didn't require a large military presence. But Poland was right next to Germany, the Eastern Front reinforcements went through there and in -44 and -45 it was a battlefield.
Also there is the fact, that Yugoslavia included many nationalities and religions. Catholic, orthodox and muslim. Then there were Slovenians, Bosnians, Serbs, Albanians, Croatians... sorry, I can't remember every nationality, but that had a big effect too.
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Also there is the fact, that Yugoslavia included many nationalities and religions. Catholic, orthodox and muslim. Then there were Slovenians, Bosnians, Serbs, Albanians, Croatians... sorry, I can't remember every nationality, but that had a big effect too.
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I guess, Allies would at least make an attempt to reinstitute the Kingdom, after all, Kingdom was their official ally, and was banished after war only trough elections/referendum (however they were possibly unfair). It all depends how far into norway/Germany do you get. They might want to trade away some tritory in order to esdablish strong Serba, Greece and possibly Bulgaria on Balkans, as a sort of flank to Soviets. Or might trade full Bulgaria and YUG for Norway (I don't think, the British would want Soviet subs to have pens in Norwegian fjords, and Soviet TUpolievs to be in range of the Isles). In the end they might establish a Kingdom under Karadjordjevics composing of Macedonia, Kosovo, and Montenegro.
Yeah, that's true, nearly everyone wanted those extremist occupators out of the country.
Yugoslavia was really unstable since it's creating, like there were many assasinations and such? Throwing the Germans out of Yugoslavia might have somewhat unified the people because they worked for the same goal. I'm really impressed how Tito was able to keep the country unified and stable with all it's religions and nationalities. The people didn't exactly have their own national culture and government, they had to share it with others, mostly with the Serbs, who were dominant in the government? Tito's death left a big power vacuum that nobody was really able to fill and the country went into civil war. There the people let out the about 60 years of suffocated nationalism?But the diversity of religion and nationalities affected a lot after the war(why do you think yugoslavia collapsed in the 90s?).
It was very hard to keep all those people togheter-only a good leader could(guess who?
Wow, there aren't any more of them? Are the people in Kosovo Albanians or something?
Maybe if they occupied whole Yugoslavia. But it seems that they will only get a minor southern part of it, so I don't think that it would even make a South Yugoslavia. Could there even be a South Yugoslavia? Maybe there should just be Albania and then Macedonia or Macedonia could be a part of Greece.
You know that IRL the Allies would never trade territories with the Soviets.
...And in HoI I can't trade with them, because I'm not allied with them. Maybe there might be some province changes to make normal looking borders, but realistically thinking there wouldn't be much province trading.So what would it be called? Kingdom of Karadjordjevics, that sounds really medieval.
Would it be realistic to give them Albania?Since the Yugoslavians didn't liberate the country themselves (well, they didn't have an event) the Soviets will rule that country like the other Eastern European countries. So an uber Yugoslavia with Albania would be cool if the Soviets manage to conquer the Southern Balkans at some point.
Since the British occupy the area, it will have to be Macedonia or Greece, but I prefer Greece, since Macedonia would be really powerless. But if the Soviets take control of the area I would give it to Yugoslavia. Because if I give Yugoslavia Edessa and Ioannia + Albania, then Yugoslavia's borders would look really cool. The Bulgarians might get Salonika and Kavala, so Greece would be a smaller country.
Albania has many options. I think that the Allies would still respect Albania's independence. But it could be incorporated onto Greece or some South Yugoslavian coutry. I have a lot of possibilities with these new countries and borders, so maybe I should randomize it. The possibilities of -36 borders should be higher, because I don't think that the Allies would have any reasons to create any new border changes in the Balkans and everywhere else. Expect to punish Germany, if they are really mad. Like after WWI in Versailles they did that, the French wanted to humiliate Germany. Some American guy thought that they shouldn't change borders, because it would just lead to future wars. But then he died or something, then French and British did thing their way.
Maybe most people would think that, but even though I like to keep my AAR(s) simple, doesn't mean that I'm not interested in these little details. So actually I find this stuff interesting and I enjoy talking about it, since most people don't know or care about that stuff in this small freezing country.
So they drink rajika in Yugoslavia? Maybe Tito should try cigarettes and gin on Churchill, because he really likes them. I'm not sure about Gin though, but he had a cigarette in his mouth almost every time.
The Uprising took place in years 1863-1864 and was aimed mainly against Russia. Indeed, as a non-existing country, Poland was not a part of any military alliance. Still, leaders of the uprising hoped that France, Italy, Great Britain and other liberal countries would help us against what has remained of the Holy Alliance. Plus, many Poles believed that Napoleon III, as Bonaparte's nephew, should be our natural ally... Wishful thinking.
