An excellent update! Also the communist running the Belgian military is probably the most hilarious thing I've seen all month!
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I have a question, is this played on 1.03 or the current version, because when I went over to look at the mod it only showed a download for 1.03, and I'd like to play the mod without having to constantly downgrade (unless there is a fix, I'm really ignorant on the matter).
Chapter17: The end of the beginning.
On August 12, an other breakthrough was made and Friedrich Kirchner immediately (or so he later said) found a way to exploit it.
On the same day military authority had been officially passed on to the collaborating government of Hungary, however there were some doubts whether the right persons had been picked to lead it as its new president turned out be a rather stern imperialist who still saw its lost conquest as national territory, though it was generally seen as not Germanies problem.
The encirclement was already paying of and shortly thereafter it looked like an even larger could be pulled off. Plans where drawn and on the 18th operation Apfelkuchen (so named because it involved dropping propaganda leaflets promising surrendering Russians apple pie) started.
General Rommel would tie up the bolsheviks in Jelgava so motorized divisions could grab northern Russia, whilst the Belarus pocket was to be put under constant pressure in order to prevent any outbreaks.
August 25 saw three German divisions reconquer Bucharest (the capital of fascist Romania), or atleast that which was left of it. A few days later the Soviets launched a counterattack which eventually ended with the routing of the whole army.
Around the same time the race riots in Wilmington ran that much out of hand that a whole confederate army was turned away from the front in order to squash the so-called Wilmington commune, before they had a black belt socialist republic or something in their rear. (the German high command was appalled when they heard the CSA got around 5 times more trouble with keeping their own black population in line then Germany got with commies in the occupied territories).
On August 28 saw construction of a massive underground secret facility just 10 miles from Berlin being started with a few flak towers being build around it for good measure.
Meanwhile operation Apfelkuchen was becoming a great success with even large numbers of Soviets not in the Belarus pocket taken as POW. But soon they found out that the cakes were a lie. (Well, actually it wasn't as the Heer ate all the apple pies which were supposed to go the Russians).
On August 12, an other breakthrough was made and Friedrich Kirchner immediately (or so he later said) found a way to exploit it.
On the same day military authority had been officially passed on to the collaborating government of Hungary, however there were some doubts whether the right persons had been picked to lead it as its new president turned out be a rather stern imperialist who still saw its lost conquest as national territory, though it was generally seen as not Germanies problem.
The encirclement was already paying of and shortly thereafter it looked like an even larger could be pulled off. Plans where drawn and on the 18th operation Apfelkuchen (so named because it involved dropping propaganda leaflets promising surrendering Russians apple pie) started.
General Rommel would tie up the bolsheviks in Jelgava so motorized divisions could grab northern Russia, whilst the Belarus pocket was to be put under constant pressure in order to prevent any outbreaks.
August 25 saw three German divisions reconquer Bucharest (the capital of fascist Romania), or atleast that which was left of it. A few days later the Soviets launched a counterattack which eventually ended with the routing of the whole army.
Around the same time the race riots in Wilmington ran that much out of hand that a whole confederate army was turned away from the front in order to squash the so-called Wilmington commune, before they had a black belt socialist republic or something in their rear. (the German high command was appalled when they heard the CSA got around 5 times more trouble with keeping their own black population in line then Germany got with commies in the occupied territories).
On August 28 saw construction of a massive underground secret facility just 10 miles from Berlin being started with a few flak towers being build around it for good measure.
Meanwhile operation Apfelkuchen was becoming a great success with even large numbers of Soviets not in the Belarus pocket taken as POW. But soon they found out that the cakes were a lie. (Well, actually it wasn't as the Heer ate all the apple pies which were supposed to go the Russians).
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Chapter18: The beginning of the end.
On September 5 the yankees managed to cut Canada in half. This sparkad large fear in the German government that the USSA might end up conquering all of America before sufficient reinforcements arrive.
In the middle of September the Belarus pocket continues to collapse. In Ukraine a quick response from the German army even managed to save an army which seemed lost after it somehow managed to get routed by a smaller army.
On the 19th a motorized division managed to reach the Black Sea (from the north!), effectively turning all of West-Ukraine in one big pocket.
Already construction was started on new transport ships to transfer the troops which will be freed up from the pockets collapse across the Atlantic.
The following day a couple of Polish cavalry and self-propelled artillery brigades managed to 'liberate' Moscow. (Those Russians really should have guarded their capital better.)
On September 22 there remained few enough hostile soldiers (which hadn't yet deserted) in the Belarus pocket to officially hand over control of the area to a group of people of which few was known (except that they hated communists and one of them looked like an eastern orthodox monk).
On September 5 the yankees managed to cut Canada in half. This sparkad large fear in the German government that the USSA might end up conquering all of America before sufficient reinforcements arrive.
In the middle of September the Belarus pocket continues to collapse. In Ukraine a quick response from the German army even managed to save an army which seemed lost after it somehow managed to get routed by a smaller army.
On the 19th a motorized division managed to reach the Black Sea (from the north!), effectively turning all of West-Ukraine in one big pocket.
Already construction was started on new transport ships to transfer the troops which will be freed up from the pockets collapse across the Atlantic.
The following day a couple of Polish cavalry and self-propelled artillery brigades managed to 'liberate' Moscow. (Those Russians really should have guarded their capital better.)
On September 22 there remained few enough hostile soldiers (which hadn't yet deserted) in the Belarus pocket to officially hand over control of the area to a group of people of which few was known (except that they hated communists and one of them looked like an eastern orthodox monk).
Well I'm planning to do it, the nazi French even have the option after the bitter peace (yet somehow there isn't a Czar in the minister files, so I assume it wasn't yet finished).
Honestly, I think you should abandon North America. Why would Germany care? Plus it's a more interesting post war...
But the Reich must commit to the British, a faithful ally, against the Yankees.
I agree,
You must found a way to intervene in North America, if you let the USSA alone now they will be too much powerfull to destroy later in the game. The AI will never stop building divisions and by 1950 they will have something like 200+ divisions making it impossible to invade them or even just to maintain a beachhead.
I finally got the decision to place a German on Belarian throne to work (I shouldn't have released them before having edited their minister file).
So I think the next chapter should be out in the weekend.
And yes I'm doing my best to turn the tide in America but there is only so much you can do when you only have 8 transport ships and the first batch of troops you send just disapeared. (I believed it was caused by me giving them away as expeditionaries when they where still in their transports.)
EDIT: Whoops I just found out I wrote Ukrainian instead of Belarian
So I think the next chapter should be out in the weekend.
And yes I'm doing my best to turn the tide in America but there is only so much you can do when you only have 8 transport ships and the first batch of troops you send just disapeared. (I believed it was caused by me giving them away as expeditionaries when they where still in their transports.)
EDIT: Whoops I just found out I wrote Ukrainian instead of Belarian
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Chapter19:
On September 22 the first large numbers of German (well actually Austrian but it isn’t like if the Americans know the difference) soldiers have set food on confederate soil. It is still unknown what happened with the earlier contingent, however it is assumed that they were abducted by aliens.
Around the same time the Germans continue their tradition of placing their aristocrats on the thrones of other nations without politely asking it first.
September 30: It continues to business as usual on the eastern front (as in the Germans are ensmallening a pocket and grabbing a lot of land). With the exception of a motorized division which somehow ended up 'retreating' straight into a Soviet army and other small things like the creation of two 'very small' pockets and the northern 'land grab' divisions finally meeting more then nominal resistance.
By comparison the Scandinavian front looks like a complete stalemate, the Asian front even more so. (Apparently the time your average Chinese and British soldier spends drinking tea with each other or getting lost in jungles or mountain passes dwarfs the time spent on even preparing for battle.)
On September 22 the first large numbers of German (well actually Austrian but it isn’t like if the Americans know the difference) soldiers have set food on confederate soil. It is still unknown what happened with the earlier contingent, however it is assumed that they were abducted by aliens.
Around the same time the Germans continue their tradition of placing their aristocrats on the thrones of other nations without politely asking it first.
September 30: It continues to business as usual on the eastern front (as in the Germans are ensmallening a pocket and grabbing a lot of land). With the exception of a motorized division which somehow ended up 'retreating' straight into a Soviet army and other small things like the creation of two 'very small' pockets and the northern 'land grab' divisions finally meeting more then nominal resistance.
By comparison the Scandinavian front looks like a complete stalemate, the Asian front even more so. (Apparently the time your average Chinese and British soldier spends drinking tea with each other or getting lost in jungles or mountain passes dwarfs the time spent on even preparing for battle.)
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The British aren't attacking over the Himalayas right? I'm no military strategist but I think it would be wise to avoid mountains when you're on the offensive.
Chapter20: the unoriginally named chapter
On October 21, after the taking of Boston, basically the whole New Englander army deserted and any resistance melted away. In allied press it was generally seen as proof of New English 'cowardice' (that it might have more to do with nobody having asked them whether they actually wanted independence in the first place didn't occur to them.)
The same day the vanguard of the German Ostheer reached the Caspian sea, cutting of most of the USSR from its replacement capital (the enigmatic Russians placed it in Crimea for some mysterious reason). Thanks to the spread of the news the red army suffered from a collapse in morale making them fight 20% less hard.
In the same week, it started to look like Scandinavia is starting to have a 'tiny near-death experience' (luckily they have still a VP in Malmo). However at the eastern front everything is going to plan, even a siege started of an important industrial center, Trotskygrad. It was actually quite anti-climatic, just 4 divisions headbutting each other.
A glance on the rest of front suffices to make it clear that Russia is coming down like a house of cards (however it is as of yet unknown which brand of cards).
On the other side of the Soviet Union, the Japanese kick down (or rather conquer) another pillar supporting Lenin's Legacy.
On October 21, after the taking of Boston, basically the whole New Englander army deserted and any resistance melted away. In allied press it was generally seen as proof of New English 'cowardice' (that it might have more to do with nobody having asked them whether they actually wanted independence in the first place didn't occur to them.)
The same day the vanguard of the German Ostheer reached the Caspian sea, cutting of most of the USSR from its replacement capital (the enigmatic Russians placed it in Crimea for some mysterious reason). Thanks to the spread of the news the red army suffered from a collapse in morale making them fight 20% less hard.
In the same week, it started to look like Scandinavia is starting to have a 'tiny near-death experience' (luckily they have still a VP in Malmo). However at the eastern front everything is going to plan, even a siege started of an important industrial center, Trotskygrad. It was actually quite anti-climatic, just 4 divisions headbutting each other.
A glance on the rest of front suffices to make it clear that Russia is coming down like a house of cards (however it is as of yet unknown which brand of cards).
On the other side of the Soviet Union, the Japanese kick down (or rather conquer) another pillar supporting Lenin's Legacy.
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Chapter21:
On November 6 the Mexicans crossed the confederate border in order to reclaim Texas. As most of their units just sat on the border, they presumably weren't told of the war, possibly it was a single commander acting of his own accord.
Also the Reichstag passed a law allowing foreigners to volunteer for getting shot at by the Smirnovists, as every dead foreigner is one less dead German (possibly even more if they manage to shoot a few reds before dieing).
The Bolsheviks have turned another motorized division 'retreating' into one of their armies into a propaganda coup, they claimed they captured 100 000 men and that it was 'proof' that they could hold out till the Yank's painted the map of North-America red (It is unknown whether they self believed it).
Speaking of America it looked like the commie's have an internal disagreement about who should get Texas, it will probably be split where their armies meet.
On November 19, the Scandinavians where still holding out and even doing well, probably their viking heritage which came back up, or it might be a morale rise caused by the upcoming reinforcements.
Meanwhile German troops reached the Finnish border, hopefully they won't wage war there in the winter, as those are said to be very cold there.
Victoria, the most multicural isle in the world.
On November 6 the Mexicans crossed the confederate border in order to reclaim Texas. As most of their units just sat on the border, they presumably weren't told of the war, possibly it was a single commander acting of his own accord.
Also the Reichstag passed a law allowing foreigners to volunteer for getting shot at by the Smirnovists, as every dead foreigner is one less dead German (possibly even more if they manage to shoot a few reds before dieing).
The Bolsheviks have turned another motorized division 'retreating' into one of their armies into a propaganda coup, they claimed they captured 100 000 men and that it was 'proof' that they could hold out till the Yank's painted the map of North-America red (It is unknown whether they self believed it).
Speaking of America it looked like the commie's have an internal disagreement about who should get Texas, it will probably be split where their armies meet.
On November 19, the Scandinavians where still holding out and even doing well, probably their viking heritage which came back up, or it might be a morale rise caused by the upcoming reinforcements.
Meanwhile German troops reached the Finnish border, hopefully they won't wage war there in the winter, as those are said to be very cold there.
Victoria, the most multicural isle in the world.
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Mexico "still" needs the Yankees? Don't forget, Mexico, who it was that funded your Revolution in the first place!
