Isolationist USA (1936 very hard)

[RolandRahn]

Aborted on September 20th, 1943 (November 7th, 2009) as game has slowed down to 1.25 Minutes/day and there was no way that the US would get involved in any war.


Version 1.2
Nation: USA
Year: 1936
Difficulty: Very Hard


Special rules:
No draft unless the continental US is directly invaded
No joining of an alliance unless the US is already at war
No reduction of Neutrality (unless USA is or was at war or unless Axis or Commintern enter the western hemisphere)

WARNING I:
This might result in a boring "Hands-off"-game with the United States doing nothing

WARNING II:
If it becomes really boring, I might break off when patch 1.3 is published.

 

[RolandRahn]

Chapter one
The United States becomes isolationist

Part one: The United States entry into the Great war

August 27th, 1915

Admiral von Tirpitz felt that a huge burden had disappeared. Eventually, the Kaiser had made the correct decision and ordered to continue the unlimited submarine warfare. In an official proclamation, the loss of civilian life was regretted, but it was necessary to put a blockade on Britain just as Britain and her allies blockaded the Central Powers.
Now, the unrestricted Submarine Warfare could continue and with the Allied economies being strangled in the same way as the Imperial economy, it was an even fight and, therefore, necessary to be a German victory.


Late Summer 1916

William Jennings Bryan was disappointed. He had done everything to prevent America’s entry into the so-called “Great war”. After the sinking of the Lusitania, he resigned as Secretary of State when President Wilson insisted on “strict accountability for any infringement of American rights, intentional or incidental”. Bryan also insisted on such a strict accountability, but only as long as Americans would not deliberately enter active war ones.
But after several more sunken ships, the United States eventually entered the war.

Late 1916

In the following months, both the conscription act of 1916 as well as the espionage act of 1916 were passed.

On the one hand, these acts were very controversial. Many people asked the sense of sending young men into the battlefields of Europe, just to protect “American rights in active war zones”. Mostly, they argued that Americans should not have entered active war zones by boarding ships travelling to Britain or France in the first place.
Some, like Eugene Debs, went into prison after criticizing the draft.

On the other hand, the American intervention was desperately needed. The unlimited submarine war hit the allied economies much worse than expected. On the Western Front, both sides had been in a Stalemate. It was believed that the best way would be one large offensive in 1917, to end the war (which itself was the war to end all wars).



Part II: The case of private Smith

Spring 1917

The first American regiments arrived in France. The supply situation was desperate. But the Germans must had been suffered equally, most likely even worse. Therefore, the one big offensive should start as soon as possible. Full scale usage of the US troops, much earlier than anticipated by the Germans, was thought to give a surprise effect that would ensure victory within days once the Neville offensive would lead to one giant breakthrough.
To ensure an American involvement much earlier than expected, US Units would be used to directly reinforce allied, mostly French, units.

April 1917
General Mireau was disgusted. An American regiment would fight along his French regiments. He was sure that this offensive would lead to the end of the war within days (weeks at worst). Now, the Yankees would take part in the final days of the war, get a far too high share of the glory, while suffering nearly no casualties. His French troops had gone through nearly three years of hardship, but all this would count for nothing. It was disgusting.

May 3rd, 1917
Eventually, the Americans had arrived. The 3 French regiments of Mireau’s Division had suffered horrible casualties in a first attempt to storm the German positions.
Everything was ready for the attack. The US regiment would cover an area between two Regiments of Mireau’s division. While the spirit of the US servicemen was high (many wanting to believe that the French leaders were right and that this was the final offensive), the American officers were concerned. Many green troops, going into offensive against much more experienced German troops, would stay on the defensive and were battle hardened by more than 2 ½ years of combat.

The situation in the French regiments was vice versa:
Here, the simple soldiers had a realistic picture. An earlier attempt to storm the enemy positions had failed. And the fresh American troops…no one questioned their courage, but they were green troops. And even if they would be battle hardened veterans, this was going to be another failed attack.

When the artillery fire stopped, and the signal was given to storm towards the enemy…..the French refused.

The American troops stormed into the fire, but soon their officers (those who survived) realized what was happening. The Americans were under fire. No one was at the flanks. All German troops concentrated their fire on the sector of the American regiment. Eventually, they organized the retreat.

The mutiny quickly spread to other French units. General Mireau was upset that it had started in his unit – or that at least, it looked like that.

He demanded that an example should be made and 100 soldiers of each regiment should be executed – as an example for the remaining troops. His staff was able to talk him out of this, but he insisted on 4 executions – one man from each regiment.

When this news reached the US regimental commander, Colonel Kensington, he outrightly refused this ridiculous order and demanded an explanation why the French units refused to advance.

Mireau felt challenged by this question, and wanted artillery to be prepared ready to open fire on the American regiment. Again, his staff was able to talk him out of this idea. But he insisted on the four executions.

In the end, Mireau personally ordered a group of military policeman to capture one US soldier – exactly one – in the rear area. They succeeded in capturing a lonely messenger, private Smith. The court-martial was unusual. The three French servicemen knew what would happen and had basically given up. Private Smith demanded a translator, to talk with an American officer, and an American Lawyer.
He was simply ignored. The verdict was clear from the beginning.

On the next day, the executions took place. Several of Mireau’s staff officers were horrified – if the American regimental commander would ever learn about it (and sooner or later, this would leak out), he would file a protest note to his superiors. They imagined what would happen if a French soldier would be executed by an American firing squad – especially under this conditions. They were smart enough to realize that the Americans would react in the same way as the French would do - practically ending any cooperation. One could only hope that this would not leak out immediately.

However, they underestimated General Mireau. Mireau’s ego was seriously hurt by the US regiment commander’s earlier refusal. He send a triumphant message that an American soldier, private Frank Smith, had been tried and executed for cowardice under fire. As a good advice “from one officer to another officer”, he suggested that the US colonel should make the news of the execution public “to encourage his soldiers”.

Colonel Kensington was desperate. His personal feelings…..he would like to make a truce with the Germans. Attacking the flanking French regiments, so that the Germans could advance into his position, then attacking into the French rear area. He would ask the Germans only for two little details…..after the battle, he would like a free passage to a german harbor and, from there, back to the US. And the body – living or death – of a certain General Mireau.
Of course, his duty came first. He send a messenger, accompanied by a company, to the back to inform his superiors. And there, the problems started. Legally, he was part of the French control structure, with General Mireau being his commanding officer.

So, he decided that the messenger would wire telegrams to the US Embassy in Paris, the secretary of war in Washington D.C. and to several US officers in France holding a higher rank, but not directly being his superiors – they occupied administrative positions for coordination of the war effort between the US and the other Entente troops.


Part III:
The cover up, the end of the great war & the beginning of the truth

May 1917:
The situation was terribly complex. The French press blamed the US troops for the failure of the Neville offensive in order to divert attention from the French army mutiny. In the US, politicians demanded the immediate reorganization of US regiments into US divisions (and of the US divisions into US Armies).
Only very few persons knew of the case of Private Smith. All of those were sworn into secrecy. Yet, it was obvious that sooner or later, something would leak.
The French Army sacked General Mireau and silenced him under the thread of a court martial for high treason.

Eventually, the US Army was organized into an US expeditionary force. It fought well, and eventually, WWI ended in November 1918 with the capitulation of the central powers.

Soon after the war, the Spanish flu hit the world. After this, people tried to forget about all the sufferings and losses and had the common wish to start over with their lives.

But there was still a dispute regarding the early engagement of US regiments in the great war. Many people in France blamed the failure of the Neville offensive on the inexperienced American troops. Many people in the US pointed to the French munities of 1917. For the majority of the populations – both in France and in the US – these were academic discussions. The war was over. These discussions wouldn’t help anyone – neither those who survived, nor those who had perished.

Still, there were some rumors about something that had happened at one French division….

The first real, solid leak did not occur in the US. It occurred in France. Families of some fallen soldiers knew veterans who had served in the same division, and eventually the family of one fallen soldier learned that he did not die in combat, but was executed after a rather unfair process initiated by the division commander, a certain General Mireau.

Soon, they managed to get the names of the two other soldiers. Eventually, they fielded a lawsuit as their sons had been “murdered after an unfair trial”. At the beginning, the French authorities blocked their demands as they were expected to do. With denial, insisting that it was a fair process, that the 4 condemned men were guilty of cowardice, but suddenly there was a change. Silence.
The families were offered generous compensations if they would stop suing – all they had to do was to stop investigating. In personal visits, high ranking officers sold them a story that a further investigation had revealed that this was indeed an unfair process, but that this was an isolated incident and that it would be “of national interest” to keep it low. The executed would be pardoned, their criminal record erased, an official declaration would be made that this was a miscarriage of justice and after a compensation, it would be in the best interest of everyone “to make peace with the past”.

Two families accepted. One didn’t. They started digging. And they started searching – the authorities had already admitted that there were 4 victims. They started asking Veterans who served with them. But nearly everywhere, they met a wall of silence. Eventually, one veteran, under the condition of anonymity, told them that it was one soldier from each regiment – and one regiment was a US regiment.

So, they contacted the US embassy in Paris. But nobody knew anything, and a lower level diplomat (who was not part of the conspiracy) was assigned to answer the strange inquiries from an elderly French couple. The problem was that this diplomat was determined to help a couple who lost their only child in the war as best as he could in the hope that they would find some peace when it turned out that their suspicions were completely wrong – their son could not have been executed together with an American soldier. The whole story had to be wrong. He invited them into his office, tried to convince them that no US soldier had been executed for cowardice or desertion – at least not since the civil war. In this conversation, he learned that their son must have been executed as this was already acknowledged by the French authorities. The conversation did not bear the result he hoped for. Now, he started investigating on his own account. Not to uncover a conspiracy, but to help an elderly, mourning couple to get information that might help them to cope with their horrible loss. He tracked down the veterans association of the American regiment. He wrote to several people explaining the case and asking for help.

In the US Regiment, only a very few people knew the truth. Some men started asking questions about private Smith. From that moment on, the truth could no longer be suppressed.




Part IV:
A new amendment

It was late 1923.

Detail after Detail was revealed. That the US troops attacked on that fateful day in May 1917, that the French regiments started to mutiny, that an incompetent French General “ordered” 4 soldiers to be executed, that an American Soldier was abducted…..and that all of this was covered up.

Eugene Debs, who run for the White house in the 1920 on a socialist ticket (while still being imprisoned) demanded that any compulsory military service should be unconstitutional “Now and forever”. If the Smith-affair would have become public immediately, back in 1917, the damage would have been less severe. The “worst” thing that could have happened would have been the US making peace with the central powers and staying out of the war.
But with the cover up, with the realization that the US did not gain anything by participating in the “Great War” (“except the right of US Citizens to travel into active war zones”, as some critics said), there was an “Debs was right” feeling that was shared by more than just the 3.4 % that voted for him in the elections of 1920 (which was the best result ever for the American socialists).
And he had spend time in prison – for what? What was insubordination a few years ago could now be viewed as “standing for the right of the Americans not to get slaughtered in a far away war”.

Eventually, it became clear that the two grand old parties had to do something – otherwise, the socialists might transfer the whole system into a three-party system. And there was outrage at the base of both of the grand old parties, too.

Soon, it became apparent that a simple protest note to France wasn’t enough. With great haste, a new amendment was written prohibiting any draft “unless the United States was directly invaded in the western hemisphere”. The unusual condition “in the western hemisphere” was to prevent the government from drafting men to defend the US interests in some oversea territories like the Philippines or Guam.
Critics said that this was an invitation for anyone to invade the Philippines as the US would fight “with both hands tied behind the back” unless someone would be stupid enough to invade the continental US. Proponents of the new amendment stated that the US would still be able to protect her interests everywhere, it was just that “the government would no longer be able to draft Mr. Smith to fight in a foreign war that is not the American’s business”. More extreme voices added an “….and to be murdered by our so-called allies”.

The result was that the US can only draft her residents in the event of a direct invasion. A more extremist variant, restricting use of draftees only for repelling an invasion and only on US territory and only for the duration of the invasion was dismissed; eventually, the amendment was created using a wording that would allow compulsory military service in the event of an invasion, for the duration until the invader was defeated or a peace was made.

Still, the new amendment was the target for many European cartoonists. Some were picturing a giant uncle Sam, shooting into his own foot. One very disgusting made fun about the fact that “France eliminated the US as a world power by shooting a single soldier”.

In the US, however, people were satisfied. From now on, other peoples could live in peace. Or they could kill each other. Or do whatever they desire. No American would be drafted into such a foreign war. Those who argued that the US had said “farewell” to the international politics were quickly answered with an “….and that is exactly what we want!”.

 

[RolandRahn]

2 things:

- I stole the idea to build infrastructure in order to raise construction practical from another thread.

- Furthermore, one should NOT order a parallel series of items to be built. I tried it with infrastructure:
If one orders infrastructure to be enhanced from 80 to 100% in 10 provinces, the first round will be build fine. But when all 10 provinces are improved from 80 to 90% on the same day, the next round only partially profits from the increased contruction pratical value.
The first province starts building with a construction proactical only improved from the first province, the second starts with the construction practical from the 1st and 2nd improvement and so on.


Chapter II:
Out of the depression

Part I:
Shifting of priorities

President Roosevelt was desperate. The depression had come back, the economy was in a free fall again. Something had to be done – immediately.
In his new year’s speech, he announced a further reduction of the military budget in favor for an infrastructure program.
“At this point, building production capacity isn’t necessary. Building warships is not necessary – we have sufficient naval strength to prevent anyone from landing and supplying an invasion force in the western Hemisphere. What we need are jobs for the average American! By enhancing our infrastructure, we are building the fundament for a recovery. The first effect will be that people working in the construction business will have money again – money that will be spend for food, shelter and consumer goods which will create even more jobs. It’s time for a jumpstart!”

Infrastructure construction was started around Norfolk, Va. Northwards towards Washington D.C., southwards to Charleston, South Carolina.

Officially to have perfect lines of communication along the east coast – in fact to create work places as a replacement for the jobs lost in naval construction.

Another center of construction was the Mid-West. Starting from Minneapolis, going via Madison down to Chicago. From Chicago, one route of perfect infrastructure was to be build to Detroit and from there to Cleveland.
Another route would lead from Chicago to Indianapolis.

This was the official program.

Some efforts were going into a strange military installation into Brevard County, Florida, just east of Orlando. The exact reason wasn’t known, and the local population didn’t ask any questions about something that created jobs.

There was some public outcry from all those areas that did not benefit from this program, but in the end, it was agreed that a high infrastructure scattered in many small areas throughout the US wouldn’t make that much sense. Furthermore, in the final stages, the program would cover every state.

Regarding other efforts, all intelligence activities were reduced to counter-intelligence activities – but this defense would be maximized.

The research efforts concentrated on some exotic areas – this was necessary as the US would have to fight all future wars with a few soldiers, and the idea of the ability to launch projectiles over a huge distance without putting one American into harm’s way sounded…enticing.

Later in January, research orders were issued with priorities on Militia, Infantry, Cavalry, light tanks, aircraft carriers and submarines.


January 26th:
Spanish civil war breaks out
Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union are intervening

January 28th:
Italy joins the Axis

March 11th:
Ethiopia surrenders and becomes an Italian puppet

April 5th:
Germany reoccupies the Rhineland

November 26th:
The first round of infrastructure is build (from 80 to 90%). I cancel and reorder the buildup from 90 to 100% so that all provinces profit from the construction practical of 8.7 .
Furthermore, I start new factories in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Detroit….

December 11th:
Republican Spain has won the civil war

December 17th:
South Africa joins the Allies



1937

January 1st:
Japan DOWs Nationalist China
Guangxi Clique, Shanxi, Communist China join Nationalist China in their war against Japan.

 

[Evil4Zerggin]

- I stole the idea to build infrastructure in order to raise construction practical from another thread.

This no longer works in 1.2--they reduced the practical gain, so you might as well go for industry directly. (If you're referring to my thread, that was a 1.1 game.)

 

[RolandRahn]

This no longer works in 1.2--they reduced the practical gain, so you might as well go for industry directly. (If you're referring to my thread, that was a 1.1 game.)

You are right - building Infrastructure to raise Construction Practical doesn’t seem to work (at least not as effective as building factories).

On September 14th, 1937, my construction practical was 6.8.
On September 15th, 37 Infrastructures (0.8 IC) and 3 factories (4.02 IC) were finished.
The construction practical was 13.6 (=6.8 increase).
The increase was 0.7 for each factory => 2.1 increase due to factories, 4.7 increase due to infrastructure = 0.127 increase / infrastructure
An infrastructure is five times cheaper than a factory.
0.127 *4.02/0.8 = 0.638 => Building factories gives more construction practical / IC invested than building Infrastructure.

For role playing reasons, I continue to build infrastructure.

Best regards,
Roland

 

[Myth]

Good stuff, though the blue color you chose for text is absolute murder.

 

[RolandRahn]

OK, I hope that the black text is more human.


Part II:
The end of peace in Europe – who cares?

September 15th:

The focus of the federal stimulus went to the west. New infrastructures were constructed from Everett (north of Seattle) down to San Diego
New factories were started in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland.
It should be unnecessary to state that this move was highly unpopular with the southern states.

December 7th:
Communist China joins the Commintern

1938

January 8th:
Germany annexes Austria

February 18th:
Munich

April 20th:
Japan annexes Shanxi

June 7th:
The infrastructure program at the west coast was continued.
New factories in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Cleveland.
In a startling speech President Roosevelt praised the first results of the infrastructure and industry programs. With each step, more factories were build. Soon, the whole nation would profit from the program.

New Construction Practical 18.8

October 1st:
Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

October 2nd:
Poland joins the Allies

1939

January 1st:
Italy annexes Albania

January 4th:
Communist China defeated by Japan.
They chose to continue to fight.

February 11th:
Construction practical 15.4

February 12th:
Construction practical 24.0

New factories in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Seattle, San Diego, Savannah and Atlanta.
New infrastructure projects from Cincinnati towards Atlanta and from there to Savannah.

February 15th:
Communist parties NOT outlawed – neutrality now 103% (but only for one day)

May 3rd:
Germany declares war on Poland

May 4th:
United States gears up for war
Denmark is mobilizing

May 5th:

In an emergency broadcast, President Roosevelt calmed down the public.
“It is true that a dark shadow has fallen over Europe – again. With two major wars waging in Europe and in Asia, rest assured that this administration has a single goal – to keep the lighthouse of peace and liberty working in the western hemisphere.
It is also true that we just passed an emergency act to fortify and expand two of our most western bases in the pacific. The reason for this is simple:
Unlike the Atlantic ocean, which provides us with a natural barrier against Axis actions, the pacific consists of many smaller islands, which could enable an enemy to jump from one island to another, until he builds up a chain of islands that reaches the US territory of Hawaii. By fortifying these two islands into nearly invincible forts, we break this chain in the first elements – and without a war.”

Emergency defense expansion in the Pacific

 

[RolandRahn]

OK. I aborted the game as by late 1943, the speed is now 1.25 Minutes/day.
Here is what happened:



Part III:
Dark age in Europe – but there is a several thousand mile wide anti-tank ditch between them and us.

June 7th:
After more than one month, Warsaw fall into the hands of the Axis.

On the same day, the USSR annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

June 8th:
Poland refuses to surrender

June 11th:
Germany DOWs Norway (limited war)

June 12th:
Germany DOWs Sweden (limited war)

June 13th:
Nicaragua and Panama form an alliance

June 14th:
Belgium is mobilizing
Luxemburg is mobilizing

June 16th:
Finland is mobilizing

June 18th:
Netherlands is mobilizing
Peru allies with Argentina

June 20th:
Germany declares limited war against the Netherlands

June 21st:
El Salvador allies with Nicaragua

June 23rd:
Switzerland is mobilizing

June 26th:
Nicaragua allies with Guatemala

July 1st:
Soviet Union DOWs Finland

July 2nd:
Germany declares limited war against Belgium

July 8th:
Amsterdam captured by Germany

July 20th:
Germany declared limited war on Denmark.
It is now at war with all three Scandinavian nations.
Furthermore, it hasn’t captured a single French province – the Belgians are still holding out.

July 27th:
Nationalist China capitulates and becomes a Japanese puppet

July 29th:
Bruxelles has fallen

September 21st:
Copenhagen captured by Germany

September 22nd:
Danish government now in exile

September 30th:
Started building a reactor in Roswell

October 6th:
Another construction phase finished. Construction practical is 28.9
The infrastructure from Cincinnati to Savannah continues
New factories in Savannah, Atlanta, San Diego, Seattle, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Harrisburg.

October 28th:
Guangxi Clique surrenders and is now a Japanese puppet.

December 26th:
Xibei San Ma surrender to Japan and are annexed.

1940
The Democrats are winning the elections

January 1st:
Greece declares a limited war on Italy.
Republican Spain joins the allies

January 8th:
Honduras allies with Costa Rica

January 9th:
Panama allies with Costa Rica

March 31st:
I decide NOT to outlaw the fascist parties

April 1st:
Romania joins the Comintern

April 25th:
Paris taken by the Germans
French government flees to Marseille

April 30th:
Germany annexes Sweden

May 23rd:
Another industrial/Infrastructure step concluded.
Continued Infrastructure in Johnson City & Ashville.
New factories in Savannah, Atlanta, San Diego, Seattle, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Harrisburg.
Started building two infantry divisions with 5 Infantry brigades each (serial build).
Construction practical now 35.9

July 15th:
Greece surrenders and is annexed by Italy

July 23rd:
France has surrendered. Vichy France comes into being

August 1st:
Germany declares limited war on Yugoslavia

August 17th:
Norway surrenders and becomes a German puppet

October 1st:
Ethiopia joins war against allies

October 2nd:
Italy joins war against allies

October 7th:
Yugoslavia surrenders and becomes a German puppet

Late October/Early November:
24th Infantry division ready and being shipped from San Diego to Guam

November 6th:
New HQ “Guam defense force” on Guam.
Only attachment:
24th Infantry Division


November 18th:
Madrid encircled.

November 26th:
Madrid fallen

December 17th:
Another industrial/Infrastructure step concluded.
Continued Infrastructure in Johnson City & Ashville.
New factories in Savannah, Atlanta, San Diego, Seattle, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Harrisburg, Jacksonville, Miami, New Orleans, Mobile and Charleston, S.C..
Construction Practical now 40.9

December 24th:
Republican Spain falls. Government decides to go into exile.

1941

January 7th:
Germany declares limited war on Sweden.
This is a rather strange thing as Sweden has been annexed by Germany.

January 15th:

After the latest events, the President made an address to the Nation.
“With the last British troops being evacuated from Gibraltar, the European main land is now in Axis hands. Be assured that the first and foremost duty of this government is to prevent this Nation from being drawn into this war. I, as well as every member of this administration, will do everything humanly possible to avoid the participation of the United States in another senseless round of oversea fighting.
In the pacific, our defenses in the Western Pacific continue to be strengthened. In the Atlantic, our fleet is currently able to provide an effective defense against any invasion threat. At this point, the best thing to do is to concentrate on industrial growth in order to eventually overcome the last signs of the depression which has been torturing our great Nation for more than a decade.”


February 3rd:
Ethiopia capitulates and becomes a British puppet

February 14th:
Liberia joins the Allies

Late March:
6th ‘Sightseeing Sixth’ Division ready in San Diego and transferred to Wake

March 28th:
New HQ: “Wake defense force” on Wake
Only attachment:
6th Infantry Division

May 3rd:
Republican Spain and UK sign a non-aggression pact? But the Spanish government is in British exile…

July 5th:
Another industrial/Infrastructure step concluded.
Started new factories in Savannah, Atlanta, San Diego, Seattle, Cincinnati, Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Harrisburg, Jacksonville, Miami, New Orleans, Mobile Charleston, S.C. , Houston, Austin and Dallas.
Construction Practical now 46.8

August 5th:
First reactor level build in Roswell.
Priority now switches to my rocket test site.

1942

January 11th:
Another industrial/Infrastructure step concluded.
Started new factories in Savannah, Atlanta, San Diego, Seattle, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Harrisburg, Jacksonville, Miami, New Orleans, Mobile Charleston, S.C. , Houston, Austin, Dallas, Bismarck, Sioux Falls and St. Louis.
Construction Practical now 53.1

January 28th:
First rocket site finished in Orlando.

June 27th:
Started building two new CVs (1942-techs => United States class)

July 2nd:
Another industrial/Infrastructure step concluded.
Started new factories in 20 locations
Construction Practical now 58.3

August 30th:
2nd reactor finished in Roswell.
Started building 4 Submarines (Nautilus class)


December 13th:
Another industrial/Infrastructure step concluded.
Started new factories in 22 locations
Construction Practical now 64.7


1943

May 18th:
Another industrial/Infrastructure step concluded.
Started new factories in 25 locations
Construction Practical now 71.8

September 16th:
Ethiopia surrenders to Italy and forms a GIE

September 19th:
UK signs non-aggression pact with Ethiopia

September 20th:
I’m giving up.

The speed is now down to 1.25 Minutes/day.
This means 37.5 Minutes/month even if nothing happens.

II guess that the fact that the USSR has more than 4000 brigades might have something to do with the speed issue.

Germany is probable innocent – their army isn’t big enough to slow the game down:

Regarding the current force strengths, I guess that Germany doesn’t invade the USSR as the red Army is simply too large.

It can’t invade the UK due to that anti-tank-ditch between the French northern coast and the English coast.

The UK can’t do anything as the Axis controls both Gibraltar and the Suez Canal – so, there is no way for an offensive in the med.

Only the USSR could do something by invading the axis.

Or Japan could attack me.


I will wait for 1.3 in the hope that the speed problem won’t be as severe as with 1.2 . And I will probably never again play the US as a huge, neutral country that just wants to stay out of the world’s affairs – as this leads to a very boring game.

Best regards,

Roland

 

[unmerged(141824)]

How the heck does ussr have over 4000 brigades! OMG