Don't forget to mention their key role in determining Force sensitivity.
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Don't forget to mention their key role in determining Force sensitivity.
Haha, unfortunately there was not a single question on mitochondria! But overall things went pretty well. I'm out of town this weekend but now school is finally done, which means I can finally get back into DH.
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The Allies On the March- Part 1
The invasion of Sicily had been an overwhelming success for the Entente forces led by Douglas MacArthur. It was also the first time since 1794 that a sitting US President led troops into battle. Within hours of securing the beachhead, MacArthur was on shore and telling commanders to advance as quickly as possible. the Army's newly created motorized divisions would be the spearhead of the force, which quickly cut through the scenic italian countryside. Soon though, Naval Intelligence had found another weakness in the Italian defenses; the beachhead at Salerno had been left completely undefended by the Socialist Army. With this beachhead, the US and her allies could secure a point of entry very near to the capital of Naples, where the nearest Italian forces were located. Just a few days after Operation Wolverine, 3 infantry divisions were landed at Salerno, guaranteeing the Entente foothold in Southern Europe (there had been some trepidation among Entente commanders, especially the older Brits, weary of another potential Gallipoli, that US forces could be stopped at the Messina and held off from the mainland).
Before long, American divisions were rolling across southern Italy, quickly capturing towns with their GMC 2 ½ ton trucks before the Italians had so much as a second to react. Also fortunate for the Americans was that the Italian Air Force and Navy had been deployed to fight the Kaiserliche Marine and the Luftstreitkräfte in France. This meant that the Entente had complete air and naval superiority when fighting in Italy. On August 7, the US Army got its first taste of combat with a foreign enemy since 1898 in the Spanish-American War. The US motorized corps, in a mad dash to secure the Italian Naval base at Taranto, had finally made contact with the enemy. The Italian 2nd Infantry division had travelled through the night via train to reach the city in an attempt to stop the Americans until more reinforcements could be conscripted and pressed into service. After two days of fighting and 3,000 casualties, the Italians broke and fled the city in retreat. As the US forces entered the city, they quickly captured the Airbase near the Navy yards, finding and capturing 526 Italian IMAM Ro51s and their pilots, dealing a massive blow to the Italian high command. Furthermore, the Italian retreat from the city is so disorganized that US forces are able to get ahead of the retreating Italians and are able to capture the remainder of the division, almost 13,000 men.
Soon the front line shifts to Potenza, where two fresh Italian divisions had dug in. Fighting becomes difficult as the italians use the narrow streets of the old city to slow the advance of the American cavalry divisions assaulting the town. With the help of several wings of new USAF B-25 bombers, the italians are broke once again and are forced to retreat north, as their backs increasingly are pushed against the wall of the Italian federation to the north. Soon, a crisis was developing along that border as southern italians, seeing the writing on the wall, began to flee in droves to the north. This eventually culminated in several border guard units firing into crowds of refugees as they tried to flee north. This caused an uproar across the socialist republic, but the government was already working out its plans to flee to the commune of France. There was a lot of talk among Italian politicians that the Commune would simply roll through the Italian federation and save the Republic from the Entente advance. This plan may have worked, but the Italian federation were quick to react to what they saw developing, and ordered their eastern armies, normally watching the border with Austria, to redeploy west and set up an extensive defensive line to hold as long as possible against the commune’s wrath. France, already bogged down against Germany in Belgium, refused to help what was left of the SRI. After Potenza fell, the army quickly moved on and took the town of Campobasso. This victory allowed the US Motorized Corps, under General Marshall, to break off and move unopposed into the Italian countryside, performing a sweeping right hook up the Adriatic coast to cut off what was left of the Italian Army.
By August 26th, just 23 days after the initial landings, US forces were marching on Cassino and Naples. The Italian government quickly boarded several french submarines and fled to Paris, where they would be protected by the Commune and her army. With the government fleeing, the Italian state fell into chaos. Italian soldiers fought desperately, but the US had every advantage imaginable over the italian defenders. After being divided and broken up, the Italian armies began to surrender en masse. This included the Italian 2nd Army, which was almost 18,000 strong when it put down its weapons. When american troops moved into naples, they found 200 Italian SM.79 Sparviero bombers left unattended at the main Italian airbase as their crews no longer had the fuel (nor the command structure) to carry out any raids against US forces. The flight crews were soon rounded up and taken as POWs, while many planes would end up being scrapped and recycled for parts back in the US.Shortly after, Cassino fell and the final Italian armies in Italy surrendered to the US Army. For the older Entente powers, this kind of tour de force was the return to Europe which they had wanted but felt they could never achieve. However, the addition of the fresh United States was something the Entente planners had never accounted for- and something for which they were counting their blessings now.
However, the Americans were not without faults. They had found throughout their campaign in Italy that much of their equipment was unfit for the environment. US high command, recognizing that they will face similar conditions in the future, called on Remington Arms to develop new equipment which would be better suited for harsh environments. This turned out to be a major boon, as that equipment would soon be needed….
The invasion of Sicily had been an overwhelming success for the Entente forces led by Douglas MacArthur. It was also the first time since 1794 that a sitting US President led troops into battle. Within hours of securing the beachhead, MacArthur was on shore and telling commanders to advance as quickly as possible. the Army's newly created motorized divisions would be the spearhead of the force, which quickly cut through the scenic italian countryside. Soon though, Naval Intelligence had found another weakness in the Italian defenses; the beachhead at Salerno had been left completely undefended by the Socialist Army. With this beachhead, the US and her allies could secure a point of entry very near to the capital of Naples, where the nearest Italian forces were located. Just a few days after Operation Wolverine, 3 infantry divisions were landed at Salerno, guaranteeing the Entente foothold in Southern Europe (there had been some trepidation among Entente commanders, especially the older Brits, weary of another potential Gallipoli, that US forces could be stopped at the Messina and held off from the mainland).
Before long, American divisions were rolling across southern Italy, quickly capturing towns with their GMC 2 ½ ton trucks before the Italians had so much as a second to react. Also fortunate for the Americans was that the Italian Air Force and Navy had been deployed to fight the Kaiserliche Marine and the Luftstreitkräfte in France. This meant that the Entente had complete air and naval superiority when fighting in Italy. On August 7, the US Army got its first taste of combat with a foreign enemy since 1898 in the Spanish-American War. The US motorized corps, in a mad dash to secure the Italian Naval base at Taranto, had finally made contact with the enemy. The Italian 2nd Infantry division had travelled through the night via train to reach the city in an attempt to stop the Americans until more reinforcements could be conscripted and pressed into service. After two days of fighting and 3,000 casualties, the Italians broke and fled the city in retreat. As the US forces entered the city, they quickly captured the Airbase near the Navy yards, finding and capturing 526 Italian IMAM Ro51s and their pilots, dealing a massive blow to the Italian high command. Furthermore, the Italian retreat from the city is so disorganized that US forces are able to get ahead of the retreating Italians and are able to capture the remainder of the division, almost 13,000 men.
Soon the front line shifts to Potenza, where two fresh Italian divisions had dug in. Fighting becomes difficult as the italians use the narrow streets of the old city to slow the advance of the American cavalry divisions assaulting the town. With the help of several wings of new USAF B-25 bombers, the italians are broke once again and are forced to retreat north, as their backs increasingly are pushed against the wall of the Italian federation to the north. Soon, a crisis was developing along that border as southern italians, seeing the writing on the wall, began to flee in droves to the north. This eventually culminated in several border guard units firing into crowds of refugees as they tried to flee north. This caused an uproar across the socialist republic, but the government was already working out its plans to flee to the commune of France. There was a lot of talk among Italian politicians that the Commune would simply roll through the Italian federation and save the Republic from the Entente advance. This plan may have worked, but the Italian federation were quick to react to what they saw developing, and ordered their eastern armies, normally watching the border with Austria, to redeploy west and set up an extensive defensive line to hold as long as possible against the commune’s wrath. France, already bogged down against Germany in Belgium, refused to help what was left of the SRI. After Potenza fell, the army quickly moved on and took the town of Campobasso. This victory allowed the US Motorized Corps, under General Marshall, to break off and move unopposed into the Italian countryside, performing a sweeping right hook up the Adriatic coast to cut off what was left of the Italian Army.
By August 26th, just 23 days after the initial landings, US forces were marching on Cassino and Naples. The Italian government quickly boarded several french submarines and fled to Paris, where they would be protected by the Commune and her army. With the government fleeing, the Italian state fell into chaos. Italian soldiers fought desperately, but the US had every advantage imaginable over the italian defenders. After being divided and broken up, the Italian armies began to surrender en masse. This included the Italian 2nd Army, which was almost 18,000 strong when it put down its weapons. When american troops moved into naples, they found 200 Italian SM.79 Sparviero bombers left unattended at the main Italian airbase as their crews no longer had the fuel (nor the command structure) to carry out any raids against US forces. The flight crews were soon rounded up and taken as POWs, while many planes would end up being scrapped and recycled for parts back in the US.Shortly after, Cassino fell and the final Italian armies in Italy surrendered to the US Army. For the older Entente powers, this kind of tour de force was the return to Europe which they had wanted but felt they could never achieve. However, the addition of the fresh United States was something the Entente planners had never accounted for- and something for which they were counting their blessings now.
However, the Americans were not without faults. They had found throughout their campaign in Italy that much of their equipment was unfit for the environment. US high command, recognizing that they will face similar conditions in the future, called on Remington Arms to develop new equipment which would be better suited for harsh environments. This turned out to be a major boon, as that equipment would soon be needed….
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Are you going to give Two-Sicilies back to the Northern Italians in exchange for them joining the Entente?
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Make Italy switch sides again, as is tradition (although Italian Federation is neutral, but neutrality is a side, right?)!
"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
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I do intend to give southern Italy to the Italian fed, but I think the event chain is wrong. When should I get the trade for an alliance event?
You should get the event sometime after you annex Syndicalist Italy. It can be in a few days, but sometimes it waits for a couple months. Of course, you can just trigger it with console.
You should give Sicily to the Federation in my opinion as that gives you a completely open door to France. With most French troops busy battling Germany across the Ardennes and Belgium this gives you a free hand to steamroll Southern France. Italy is also a decent ally with a good amount of divisions and a strong control over the Mediterranean with their Navy. The Italian Federation isn't even a bad country to ally with as under the direction of the Pope, Italy has become a prosperous nation that builds it's economy around helping the poor in a Christian manner. The most important reason why you should ally with the Federation now is because if you don't when the Pope dies there is a chance that Italy could become an Austrian puppet or ally with Germany. If you wanna keep Italy out of the MittleEuropa then giving back Sicily is a must. Also try to ally with Carlist Spain to get a second front going against the French and secure the Atlantic.
P.S MacArthur is now officially the most badass President
P.S MacArthur is now officially the most badass President
My event says "Liberate Italian Republic; or Liberate Kingdom of Two sicilies; or continue with occupation"
I'm looking at the event files, and there should be a fourth option that allows you to offer it to the Italian Federation. It apparently only fires if you are certain countries or allied to the Federation already. I would suggest modding the option triggers to allow for the US to offer it to the Federation, or failing that restore the Two Sicilies.
I think it has to do with the Italian federation already being allied to carlist Spain?
No, that should not have an effect. It's just that you are not allied to the federation, and the other options are the default ones.
The reasons it says no event is just because Carlist Spain has the dual Mediterranean alliance with Italy. As i said before it is imperative that you return Sicily to Italy for a valuable ally as well as preventing the Germans from gaining a foothold in the Mediterranean. For Carlist Spain i would modding a event suggest in return for alliance you could offer them one of these:
1.Gibraltar
2. Catalan regions of Southern France
3. Support for Spanish claims on German Morocco
If you don't gain Italy as a ally its more than likely that Austria will make it a puppet or conquer it in a war eventually. It's better to think about the long term prospects of this and get Southern and Western Europe to join your side in a possible future war against MitteleEuropa.
1.Gibraltar
2. Catalan regions of Southern France
3. Support for Spanish claims on German Morocco
If you don't gain Italy as a ally its more than likely that Austria will make it a puppet or conquer it in a war eventually. It's better to think about the long term prospects of this and get Southern and Western Europe to join your side in a possible future war against MitteleEuropa.