Well, you're gaining much more manpower now than the soviets so you could wait as long as you like.
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Haha, remember to bug report the "no occupation policy" bug 
we don't want that for 1.4.
we don't want that for 1.4.
I could, but that will delay future operations such as the conquest of China and the USA. It would also mean that it would become too easy. I will probably only wait six months to a year.
Haha, remember to bug report the "no occupation policy" bug
I've now reported it but annoyingly I don't have a save showing the problem, or on reloading the game it sors itself out.
Welcome PauloTekin and thankyou for your praise.
Yep, it went well indeed. A bit disappointing really that Germany's defense was so pathetic.
Chapter 8.4 - May 1943
The bulk of the Italian army has now been cut off in the north of the country following a landing in La Spezia. 2. Hadtest's job is now to destroy the Italian forces in the north before starting an advance southwards towards Roma and eventually Sicily.
Meanwhile the RAF is continuing its bombing campaign of Hungarian owned southern France. Each time they come though they are met by one of Hungary's interceptor wings and the British bombers are now showing the effects of these interceptions.
Victory in the battle of Verona cuts off a small Italian force in Ferrara. The Hungarian plan in northern Italy is to cut up the Italian army into small pieces and then to eliminate them bit by bit.
On the 29th of April, work is completed on ten new radar stations. Five of these will immediately be deployed in Feyzabad on the border of Soviet Central Asia but the other five will have to remain in the deployment queue. This is because I have lost Mong Ma where they were to be deployed to Yunnan. As I don't really have anywhere else where I need a radar station they will have to wait until Mong Ma is recovered.
Later the same day, the Italian forces surrounded in Ferrara are defeated which frees up more Hungarian forces to move to the south of the front to hold off any attempts by the Italians to break through the southern cordon. The Italians had been making an attempt at Pistoia but this counterattack is now starting to falter.
Further north, the Italian high command has been discovered in Brescia. They are accompanied by an army group, army and a corps HQ but only one battered infantry division so they should be beaten fairly easily by the two attacking Hungarian divisions both of which are in good shape.
By late evening news had been received of victory in the battle to defend Pistoia against the Italian breakthrough attempt. News was also received of another two victories but all three battles resulted in fairly high casualties for the Hungarian forces. There was however also some bad news as the attempt to take San Remo finally failed. As with the other battles, losses were high but again, as with the other battles the Italians suffered more. At the end of the day the defeat at San Remo is only a temporary setback as it doesn't change the strategic picture in any way.
The 1st of May brought with it some technological advances, medium tank armour and reliability and also the mechanised offensive doctrine. All of these research projects would be continued on to the next level.
With a new month starting, Hungary also received a new influx of manpower, 89.2 in fact. This is enough to cover Hungary's current manpower shortfall but I have other plans for it and start to build six new infantry divisions. These will be used to form XXV Állandó Hadsereg which will bring 5. Hadtest up to full strength.
Along with the current research projects I decide to start a load more. The eight new projects that are started are the four infantry techs as well as mountain, marine and airborne infantry. The final one of these will need transport planes to truly be effective and hence the last new tech that is started is basic four engine airframes.
This reduces the number of new officers being trained but it is still pretty high at just under 200 per day.
Over in the far east I have started an operation to take the last remaining Dutch VP in Makassar needed for their surrender. Before my transport fleet can reach Makassar Proper and land troops there, the 1st Battleship Fleet which had gone on ahead runs into a Japanese Fleet. It is only a small group of submarines but it is the first time the IJN have been encounted.
The destroyers of the 1st Battleship Fleet make quick work of the enemy submarines and the landing in Makassar is able to go ahead as planned. This pushes the Netherlands over the brink and at midnight on the 4th of May, the Dutch government decides to go into exile to fight on.
Back in the Mediterranean an Italian fleet has unwisely popped it's head out of port and run straight into the 2nd Battleship Fleet in the Ligurian Sea. Before the Italians even realise they are in danger, the heavy cruiser RM Gorizia and a destroyer flotilla are sunk by the guns of Hungary's battleships. The remaining Italian heavy cruisers, RM Pola and RM Trento, also badly damaged by the opening salvo, are attempting to flee.
The Italian ships don't manage to get away and both join the other Italian ships at the bottom of the Ligurian Sea. Hungary's navy is certainly proving its worth as they win yet another victory without losing any of their own ships.
Meanwhile, things are getting slightly out of hand in northern Norway. A little while back there was a second partisan uprising and with the battle against the first lot still going on after 18 months or so, the second group have been free to conquer a number of provinces. I'm going to have to do something about this problem soon and I should have some troops arriving in the area who will eventually man the Soviet border. I should at least be able to contain the partisans, whether I will be able to defeat them will be another matter however.
The evening of the 4th of May brought news of victory against the Italians in the fortified city of Torino. As with many of the battles with Italy, losses have again been heavy on the Hungarian side but it is now looking as if fighting in northern Italy will not last much longer. The Italian army in the north has now been split into two and the eastern pocket in the Po valley is nearing collapse. Italian forces are now starting to appear from the south but as yet not in large enough size to pose any problems. There are however quite a few HQs which could mean that Italy has more men further south than originally thought.
Fighting is also going on with the Italians in Ethiopia and on the morning of the 10th of May, news is received of a victory in Dese. Progress has been slow in Ethiopia due to problems with supply but the Hungarian forces there do have the upper hand and are slowly reducing the Italian presence there.
Over in Borneo, the Japanese in Kuching have now been encircled and an attack on their beachhead is launched by two divisions, 20. and 24. gyaloghadosztálys. Once troops have been landed further to the east to remove the last British presence on the island, the fleet can park itself off the coast of Kuching and provide naval bombardment in support of the attack on Kuching.
The British have two divisions in Belaga, though one of them, the 21st Inf Brigade, already shows the effects of a previous engagement with the Hungarian army and hence will play little part in the battle. Encircled and out of supply the British have little chance of surviving this battle.
On the 11th of May, the Hungarian navy receive updates to their doctrine with the completion of new work on battlefleet concentration doctrine and battleship crew training. Further research into both areas is stopped for now and two new projects take their place in the research queue, spotting and basing.
Due to the conquest of new provinces primarily in northern Italy, Hungary's leadership has now gone over 55 meaning that the rate of officer training has again gone over 200 new officers per day.
On the evening of the 11th, a strong Japanese fleet arrives off the coast of Kuching to try and relieve the blockade of their embattled land forces. This fleet includes two Japanese battleships, the IJN Hyuga and the IJN Yamashiro, along with three light cruisers and a flotilla of destroyers. Although the Hungarian fleet is considerably bigger and should win this battle comfortably, the IJN fleet is strong enough to cause considerable damage and could potentially sink a Hungarian battleship for the first time since the sinking of MKH Szent István.
The battle of Western Sarawak Coast lasts for seven hours and does indeed cause a lot of damage to two of Hungary's battleships, MKH Bulgaria and MKH Romania, however neither of them are sunk. All the Hungarian destroyers, light cruisers and transport ships also survive the battle, unlike any of the Japanese ships that all end up at the bottom of the sea. The IJN Hyuga became the second battleship to be sunk by MKH Czechoslovakia whilst IJN Yamashiro similarly became the second battleship to be sunk by the daring 27th DD flotilla. The crews of the 27th DD flotilla have no become so insufferable that the sailors from other Hungarian ships now try and avoid them when they are in port on shore leave.
In Burma, Yunnan's forces have now reached the coast near Rangoon. This effectively cuts off the Hungarian III Állandó Hadsereg on the front line with the British further south. At the moment they are in no immediate danger but the problem will have to be dealt with soon. Once the troops in Borneo are finished they can be moved to this theatre but there is still the problem of whether to deal with the British first or whether Yunnan's advance should first be stopped and supply lines re-opened to III Állandó Hadsereg.
Back in Italy three more battles are won by the divisions belonging to 2. Hadtest and the fighting in the north is now coming close to ending.
By the 19th of May, the two battles on Borneo against the British and the Japanese are both firmly in Hungary's favour and Borneo should shortly be fully in Hungary's hands.
Over in the Caribbean work has been completed on the latest round of air base expansions. The bases on Hispaniola are both fairly large now but work will still be continued on another round. I have also decided to increase the infrastructure in both Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince as well as the province in between them as it is expected that the island will have to hold quite a few troops in preparation for any invasion of the Americas and anything that can improve their supply will be a bonus.
The following day brings the completion of a whole load of infrastructure projects running down from Budapest through Turkey to the Indian border as well as down through Africa. Some further projects are started on provinces leading to the Indian border, but not as many as were previously being run.
Meanwhile, the 2nd Battleship Fleet has been sailing around various Italian ports looking for the remnants of the Italian fleet. In most ports they only found evidence of destroyers or submarines but on reaching the Red Sea they have found at least one Italian battleship in the port of Ed. They will hang around outside Ed in the hope that the Italian fleet sorties or is forced out by the ground forces in Africa taking the port.
The troops in this area all belong to II Állandó Hadsereg and the plan is that once they finish off in Ethiopia they will then be ferried to the Far East to join the bulk of 1. Hadtest in Malaya and Burma.
On the afternoon of the 20th of May the second battle for San Remo is won by the Hungarian army in conjunction with the air force. This removes the last Italian presence in the north of the country and allows 2. Hadtest to now concentrate on the southern front with the Italians. The Italians in San Remo are attempting to retreat westwards into Hungarian territory but as on previous occasions they will never make it.
Although the front line in the south is currently pretty static, once the four corps of 2. Hadtest that are in the area get themselves re-organised they should be able to break through the Italian lines and head south fairly rapidly.
Reading your AAR made me realise how important the Command of the Sea is.
In my games I was concentrating first on the Airforce, second on the Land Forces and Navy was always negleted.
Decent control over the Sea adds a lot of strategic possibilies what I never had at my disposal...
Even a relativly weak Land army can achive a lot of victories if it can be ferried anywhere on the globe...
In my games I was concentrating first on the Airforce, second on the Land Forces and Navy was always negleted.
Decent control over the Sea adds a lot of strategic possibilies what I never had at my disposal...
Even a relativly weak Land army can achive a lot of victories if it can be ferried anywhere on the globe...
With the investment into new formations, how is the status of your units in Italy? Are they actually recieving reinforcements?
A pitched battle with Italian forces on their own soil could be costly, why not land a corps or two further south?
A pitched battle with Italian forces on their own soil could be costly, why not land a corps or two further south?
Just want to say sir...That I am currently on Page 6 --- The chapter on Sweden...I dare not stray forward in page count to see what occurs...But i sincerely let you know that this has been a TRULY EPIC read and I'm very much enjoying this! I'm further excited that I'm only half way (per page count) through the story!
Please, please do not get bored, or stop writing! I (and i think we) want to see how this will end!!!
Please, please do not get bored, or stop writing! I (and i think we) want to see how this will end!!!
I'm British so the idea of conquering the world with a small army and a powerful navy comes naturally. As a result, I always tend to end up with a powerful navy whoever I play with, even a landlocked country like Hungary.
They are understrength and won't receive reinforcements until the start of the next month. As for landing troops behind the lines, that is a good idea. At the moment there are only four corps of 2. Hadtest in Italy, the fifth has recently finished up in Portugal and is now free to use.
Welcome eric292, I'm glad that you are enjoying it so far. I too want to see how it ends so I can't see myself giving up.
Really good, as usual. You might want to concentrate on Yunan in the far east, or you may lose some of those Hungarian troops that are introducing goulash (sp?) to that part of the world.
Yeah, I'm keeping a close eye on their advance as they are putting a number of divisions in danger. I could move a corps to face them once they are finished in Borneo but I think it may be better to deal with the British in the Malayan Peninsula first as that would then free up a further two corps to deal with Yunnan.
Chapter 8.5 - June 1943
On the evening of the 25th of May the battle for Kuching against the Japanese is won. Thus ends the conquest of Borneo and it means that a corps is now freed up to either meet the threat from Yunnan or to help out on the Malayan peninsula against the British. For the moment Yunnan's advance into Burma will have to remain unchecked as dealing with the British first will mean that a further two corps are freed up.
Over in East Africa the battle for Djibouti against the Italians has also been won. This theatre is of minor significance and I may end up leaving the Italians be in this area. The only interest I really have is pushing them out of Ed which will force their remaining battleships out of port into the hands of the 2nd Battleship Fleet.
By midnight of the 31st of May, two sets of landings on the Malayan peninsula have been completed, one to the north of the British positions and one on the east coast. An attack on Gua Masung is subsequently launched, designed to cut the British force in the area into two separate parts. Interestingly, not all the troops in Gua Masung are of British origin although they are fighting under the British flag. The 6ème Division d'Infanterie I believe was originally a Belgian division though I don't know what they are doing in this part of the world.
The Hungarian Head of Intelligence, Rezsö Andorka, has brought news that Manchukuo and Japan have signed a non-aggression pact. It seems it is not just the British who sign these pacts with governments that are currently residing in their capital.
On the morning of the 3rd of June, to the satisfaction of the navy, the army honours their promise to attack the port of Ed. Initially the attack is only launched by a single division against an Italian division and three HQ brigades but there are two further Hungarian divisions that can soon join in once they complete their current advances.
By midday on the 4th of June most of Burma is in Yunnan's hands. As yet though, no attack has been attempted against the Hungarian garrison in Rangoon. If there is one, the 1st Transport fleet can always station itself off the coast so that the garrison can be evacuated. Although the Hungarian position is precarious, disaster should be averted.
By the 10th of June, Hungarian scientists had announced three new technological breakthroughs. Two of these, supply production and destroyer anti aircraft armament would be continued on to the next level of development but the third, Tac ground crew training would be changed to Nav pilot training.
On the afternoon of the 15th of June, victory in the battle of Gua Masung was announced. Casualties on the Hungarian side weren't too bad however the British took almost seven times as many. This victory cut the British army in two and in order to start reducing the southern pocket an attack was launched on Gunung Tapis. One side effect of retreating behind a river to hold a stronger defensive line is that when you go back on the offensive you then have to attack across the same river. The British end up helping out in this respect by moving an armoured division from the east to help out the defense of Gunung Tapis meaning that a Hungarian division can occupy the undefended province and get an attack vector on Gunung Tapis that doesn't have to cross a river.
On the 17th of June the battle of Ed finishes and when the Hungarian forces capture the port the Italian fleet is forced out to sea. In the Southern Red Sea the Italian fleet, consisting of two battleships, RM Andrea Doria and RM Giulio Cesere, run straight into the Hungarian 2nd Battleship fleet with its complement of seven battleships. The Italian Admiral Da Zara's only hope it that they can get away from the Hungarian fleet under cover of a storm.
Unfortunately for Da Zara, the Hungarians had sent the 7th DD flotilla in close to the shore in order to warn the rest of the fleet of the direction that the Italians were trying to flee. The Italian battleships managed to sink the 7th DD but not before it could get a message off, meaning that the Italian ships soon came under a massive bombardment from Hungarian battleships. An hour into the battle, MKH Finland had sunk the Italian escort 8a Flottiglia Torpediniere. This meant that the Hungarians could now concentrate all of their guns on the two Italian battleships and it was only a second hour before both Italian ships started sinking beneath the waves. In the after battle report, MKH Nagy Lajos was credited with the sinking of the Giulio Cesere, the second Italian battleship that she had managed to sink, whilst MKH Finland gained a second scalp in the battle when she was credited with the sinking of the Andrea Doria. This battle meant the end of the Regia Marina as an effective force as she was now believed not to possess any more capital ships, at least none could be found by either the Hungarian navy or air force.
Back in Italy, X Állandó Hadsereg have been landed in and around Napoli, quite a distance behind the Italian lines. They expected resistance in the area t be minimal with the large majority of Italian forces having moved to the front lines further north but they were surprised to soon come under a strong attack in Mondragone.
The 20th of June also saw the completion of two new transport flotilla which would be assigned to the Reserve Fleet in the Mediterranean, as well as two research projects, bomber targeting focus and infantry warfare. The latter would continue on to the next level whilst the air doctrine research would be changed to Nav ground crew training.
A couple of days later and two more research projects were also completed, medium bomb and twin engine airframe. These projects would be switched to air launched torpedo and twin engine aircraft armament.
On the afternoon of the 23rd of June a major offensive is started in the north of Italy with an attack on Arezzo. The landings to the south have at least resulted in a number of Italian divisions being sent south out of the front line. In the south, the province of Salerno has now been surrounded and an attempt to eradicate the defenders is underway. The position in Mondragone however is now reaching critical point for the Hungarian defenders whilst the division in Campobasso has also found itself under attack.
On the 25ht of June, two major pieces of news were received by the Hungarian high command, some good, some bad. First the good news, four new battleships had been completed for the Hungarian navy. The first two would be renamed MKH Greece and MKH Turkey and would join the 1st Transport Fleet in the Far East. As a result, MKH Szent László, the old obsolete battleship currently with that fleet would return to the Mediterranean and join the Reserve Fleet. A year previously this journey would have been considered too dangerous for a sole battleship on its own but with the British and Italian navies now largely at the bottom of the sea the journey was believed safe as it in fact turned out to be. The final two new battleships, renamed MKH Latvia and MKH Lithuania, would join the Baltic Fleet in Riga. This fleet is currently involved in shipping some forces from 4. Hadtest to Finland so that they can take up station on the Soviet border.
The bad news comes from Burma where Yunnan's advances have now resulted in the encirclement of the Hungarian garrison in Rangoon. Due to the large port in Rangoon, the Hungarian force is in no danger of running out of supplies but the sooner they can be relieved the better. It does mean however that the 1st Transport Fleet has to remain in the area so that they can get offshore in case the garrison is attacked, allowing it to retreat out to sea.
In Italy, the battle for Mondragone has now been lost and the troops there have decided to retreat inland towards Campobasso. Thankfully, the battle there has been won, for now, and they should arrive safely. Napoli has now also come under attack and as it looks like the port may well be lost it has been decided that the Reserve Fleet, backed up by the 2nd Battleship Fleet which has now returned from the Red Sea, should now put into action an operation to evacuate X Állandó Hadsereg.
On the evening of the 26th of June much better news was received from Malaya where the battle of Kelian Intan has been won. Victory in this battle in the northern British pocket (where the second of the two Hungarian Tac wings is flying) will result in the northern pocket itself being cut in two. The British army in the southern part of the Malayan Peninsula is now in deep trouble and the Hungarian forces here should soon be able to advance towards Siam to take on the British on the Burmese border.
Having been shipped north by the Baltic Fleet, XVI Állandó Hadsereg has now reached Lapland and has started to take back provinces that have been captured by the Norwegian nationalist uprising. An attack has been started on the second of the two partisan groups in Skibotn by the 20th Inf Division but it is hampered slightly by a slight lack of supplies. With the conquest of Germany supplies to Scandinavia are no longer coming by sea and are now being brought overland via Denmark resulting in some temporary shortages.
On the morning of the 30th of June, the battle of Napoli is lost and X Állandó Hadsereg division is forced to retreat. The remaining divisions in the corps now have just one thing on their mind and that is to safely get to the coast so that they can be evacuated. As a result the divisions in Campobasso also retreat although they could yet have held out a bit longer in the second battle for the province.
In the afternoon, the battle for Salerno is won and the defending Italian division is destroyed. Theoretically the Italians could have retreated to Napoli which was by now back in Italian hands but any enemy presence in a province will cause a retreat to be impossible. The presence could just be an enemy bomber squadron or even an interceptor squadron flying air superiority or in this case it is the already retreating X Állandó Hadsereg division. In my mind this is wrong and a retreat should only be impossible if a province is actually held by an enemy division that is in fighting condition.
On the morning of the 1st of July, news is received that the Norwegian nationalists in Lapland have finally declared independence from Hungary. This is a result of Hungarian failure to win the battle of Skaidi due to the frozen conditions and constant thunderstorm in the area since the rising which if I remember correctly originally occurred in November 1941. This doesn't actually change a great deal, just the colour on the map and the name of the enemy.
This happened to me as greece, and It's a pain when it's France in the maginot line
I take it you haven't researched arctic warfare equipment yet? Might have helped. Got to watch those cold weather buggers.
The commander of the division who could not actually get his troops to hit the Norwegians ought to have gained a huge amount of experience!!!!!!
Your avarage division seems to be weeker than the Italians.
I quess your next target is Russia. I think you should invest a lot of research into upgrading your land forces, for example inf techs, land doctrines. Russia is not Italy...
Maybe you can also consider adding art to your inf divisions, you can afford the research now and Art is not heavy on IC either.
I quess your next target is Russia. I think you should invest a lot of research into upgrading your land forces, for example inf techs, land doctrines. Russia is not Italy...
Maybe you can also consider adding art to your inf divisions, you can afford the research now and Art is not heavy on IC either.
The Norwegians aren't much of a problem as they don't really change the situation. More of a problem is my own situation in the Maginot, the mass of Manchu divisions.
I haven't as yet but artic warfare equipment, like the other terrain equipment techs, only affects attrition and not combat effectiveness. It should do both imo.
You would think so wouldn't you. The commander is Billinitzer who started at skill 1. He is still at skill 1 though, 71% of the way to skill 2. This is partly due to him being in charge of an army and partly due to his old guard trait. I could game the system, only attack with a division and rotate commanders in and out to gain levels, but I'n not going to.
Nope, not looking good at all. I believe some came from the front lines to the north whilst others came from the south and from Sicily.
I'm not so sure that they are much weaker than the Italians, if they are there is little in it. Part of the problem was that I tried to do too much with the few troops I had in Southern Italy. The other problem is that I believe the Italians are now at a 200% officer ratio due to the destruction of their army in the north.
Having said that, the Hungarian army does need to improve before an attack is launched on Russia. I've got until at least May '44 to do so, maybe longer if I find other things to do first like maybe get a foothold on the American continent.
As for artillery, I'm in two minds about adding it. The biggest advantage artillery gives is when you have filled out the combat width, something that I am not sure I can do against the Soviets. I may still add them though as I am pretty sure I will fill the combat width when the invasion of the USA starts.
Hiyas Morrell8 and welcome to my AAR. They've been cut off but as long as they reach the coast the navy should stop them from being destroyed.