and maybe Trieste Innsbruck Strategic Oops (Tiso)"The Slovak General Staff suggested the Trieste Innsbruck Tactical Stronghold, we think the Germans appreciated it but all the other Axis powers just laughed." Malar added dejectedly.
The AI is giving me some excellent raw material to work with.Great work with the not Italian front
It is a huge amount of armour and, in an unusual Paradox twist, it is bloody amazing armour. I had a quick check and the Dominion armoured divisions are equipped with A.34 Comet tanks, for those who don't keep up on their tank porn the Comet only entered service in December 1944 and only ever equipped 1 full division before the war ended. So it is a bit surprising to see the New Zealand, Canadian and South African armoured divisions kitted out with them. Particularly as, in line with Paradox practice, none of those nations have even the most basic tank tech researched.Sigh, Italy... By far the most defensible region in the game with its narrow front, tough mountainous terrain and plentiful rivers intersecting it. The AI really excels at roleplaying Germany doesn't it. Then again thats a metric ton of Allied armour and mechanised and knowing the AI's lack of AT brigades....
That is true, Romania is serving an excellent job as buffer state.Romania still survives, lets look at the bright side. As long as Romania fights, Slovakia has little to feat of the 3rd Ukranian Front getting anywhere near them.
Some traditions have to be maintained.This is how we like it !
There were many oops in the alleged defence of Italy, for once Slovakia didn't make them. Well not in comparison to the other powers involved.and maybe Trieste Innsbruck Strategic Oops (Tiso)
If T&T don't defend a world of pre-industrial ignorance then who will?We must hold the T.I.T.S. Front for as long as possible. The fate of the information hating world depends upon it!
That's the joke for the next update ruined! (not really )Hopefully the Slovak 1st Division is able to make it to the Bucharest Operational and Organizational Base Stronghold safe and sound!
I realise that, given my track record of such announcements, this is unlikely to occur, but I am aiming to finish the tale of T&T by the end of 2018. I'm not going to say this year, because that would be ridiculous. But within the next 14 months seems achievable given how everything is collapsing around them.Excellent - as the war draws to its inevitable grisly close, reporting time can continue to slow down to ensure this work is still going strong for many years yet. Perhaps hourly intervals could help? That way it can perhaps be timed to end on the centenary of the end of the war in 2045. Hearts of Titanium 23 may be out by then, but no matter: Tiso and Tuka are timeless (or time lords).
In any event, given Paradox's new business model even if it did last till 2045 we would still be on Hearts of Iron IV, but enjoying the release of the 432485th DLC package. That would be the one adding a semi-realistic death of Ataturk event and three new ways to make it easier to do a world conquest when playing as Germany.
I admire your optimism about Paradox and it's approach to future game engine development. I am unsure which would surprise me more, Vicki III or Paradox admitting they've milked CK II dry in terms of DLC. Genuinely I might finish Butterfly Effect before either of those two events occur.Yeah but hopefully full blown sequels to EUIV and CKII. Maybe even Vicky. HOI's problem is that it's so limited by just doing 1936-45ish. Maybe they should expand it to the whole twentieth century. That's what modders focus on anyway.
I know, it's incredible. It's no surprise the Allies are tearing through Italy, they out tech everything in the theatre and most things in the game. As I understand it, normally in the 1944 scenario the German AI/player can push D-Day back into the sea (as the Allies land in Normandy with no supplies and no ports / in-game mulberry harbours), so they can use superior numbers to hold back the advanced British and Dominion armour. As I modded the scenario to give the allies supplies and a port, that hasn't happened and so the Comets are rolling up the Alps.They use the Comet tanks? The British competitor to the Panther? With sloped armour, the powerful 77-mm-gun and the great Meteor-engines used by Burma/Birma/Myanmar until the 1990s? Wow!
they've milked CK II dry in terms of DLC
I quite agree. Paradox struck good with this series, especially because they pulled it off so well. I would be down for a full medieval world map. Heck, I'm glad that stuff gets suggested and actually put in, unlike with many other strategy game franchises. What I want from CKII now is...idk. Naval combat I'm not sure I'd like, but I'd like the option to have it on, it's nit like it didn't happen. More map would be great. More ways to build a custom empire, because you don't have that much choice right now. And...that's about it.From a business perspective, why would Paradox stop producing CKII DLCs so long as they continue to make money? If you don't like the DLCs don't buy them.
From a customer perspective, it's incredible that they are still supporting and patching the base game 5 years on. The base game is quite playable without any DLCs.
Now a full world simulator in CKII could be fun... You could play the whole "The vikings survive in North America" game!
Thus far Jesensky has caught Portugese, Belgian and Greek spies along with dozens of others. He is surprisingly good at counter-intelligence.Surprisingly Ethiopia is sending spies to Slovakia, marginally more surprisingly Slovakia is catching them.
Isn't more like that Slovakia is only catching spies of countries like Ethiopia ?
Pruzinsky will be called upon whenever a question of Slovak resources, industry or manpower arises. Given that Slovakia has no resources, a tiny industry (running at half capacity) and not much manpower there is very little for him to say. But he is nothing if not a stoic and optimistic Victorian gentlemen, so he keeps coming to cabinet and attempting to raise the tone.Very much to like about that update - both the news and its excellent presentation. Much wry amusement to be had and even a short piece of social realist poetry! And a reminder that Pruzinsky exists - even if we have no idea what he is meant to do or actually does. Which is good for all concerned, as he will no doubt be promptly forgotten again. Which last is better than being sent to that pit with the sharp pencils ...
1. I'm imaging the rest of the country going through enforced Prohibition as the entire national output is diverted to the cabinet.1. I do have a quick question. With Slovakian industry what it is and T and T's consumption levels how is there any intoxicating beverage left in Slovakia
2. On the French Foreign Legion while the common soldier was foreign the officers were probably French therefore I am not surprised that they lost to some lustwa.. Luswafe... German Air Force personnel
3. Their RL job of faffing about in Denmark/Norway is probably the best job in the German army at that point (no Russian front)
They use the Comet tanks? The British competitor to the Panther? With sloped armour, the powerful 77-mm-gun and the great Meteor-engines used by Burma/Birma/Myanmar until the 1990s? Wow!
Well, I took a look on some photos of the Comet, so I agree, that the armour isn't sloped everywhere but it is at the chassisfront.Sloped armour didn't come for British tanks until the Centurion.