Italy conquers Paris - will Vichy event trigger?

[LodovicoAriosto]

You might want to take the slight dissent hit and release some Middle Eastern nations. That'll help your TC -- you don't get a lot of IC for all those provinces.

-- Beppo

A good idea. Thanks. But I think that my game will go to hell. Barbarossa probably won't strike and the Germans will be desperately weak without the respective invasion AI scripts. I have already tried to assume the control of their military but it's not possible. They send only exp. forces which are of no use, as you probably know.

 

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I cannot give you my screenshot, but in '43 I already create some impenetrable defense and I have take over the whole africa and middle east, only persia remains as they're my security guard against SU. I don't know how, but Persia didn't declare war on me. I used Doomsday in vanilla version

 

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Annex France completely, give paris to Germany and the BP should fire

 

[LodovicoAriosto]

Annex France completely, give paris to Germany and the BP should fire

Yes, it might work. But isn't Barbarossa bound to a certain date? (22/6/41). Do you know which folder the Barbarossa plan event is in and what its number is? I couldn't locate it.

If this works, I will try to crush France completely and hope that SU doesn't DoW Germany. But there is still a risk because SU will be much stronger than GER compared to '41 and I saw a case when GER didn't DoW SU due to very strong human SU player (who built cca 400 inf until 41

 

[LodovicoAriosto]

I cannot give you my screenshot, but in '43 I already create some impenetrable defense and I have take over the whole africa and middle east, only persia remains as they're my security guard against SU. I don't know how, but Persia didn't declare war on me. I used Doomsday in vanilla version

And what is the situation in the Eastern front? In most cases, the SOV pushes the Germans back in 43 and it still cannot reach Italy. I play ARMA 1.1

 

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To annex France you'd need to take Noumea, which is right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Annexing France isn't as easy as it sounds.

 

[LodovicoAriosto]

To annex France you'd need to take Noumea, which is right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Annexing France isn't as easy as it sounds.

I know. There is no more any point in debating triggering Barbarossa, because obviously I will annex France at least in 5 years, maybe 10, after massive navy build-up. I will be able to test (whether Barbarossa fires after annexing France and giving Paris to Germans) probably after takover of India, Africa and USA. And Barbarossa plan won't matter anyway in 1945-50.

I shall try to ignore SU and deal with the rest of the world instead. And pray for the Marx's ghost that Stalin won't attack Germans.

For now, I don't intent to use nukes but maybe it will be only chance against Eastern hordes.

 

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Do you know which folder the Barbarossa plan event is in and what its number is? I couldn't locate it.

There is no such thing. The AI GER has to manually DoW SU, which it does if it has more than 70% of SU's army. A weakened Germany will usually not do Barbarossa, because they will not have a sufficient army to do it.

In case you got confused somewhere along the line, BP stands for Bitter Peace, not Barbarossa Plan. BP is the event that ends the war in Axis victory.

Edit: I meant that BP ends the war against SU. And it requires Paris to be held by Germans. AFAIK Paris has nothing to do with starting the war.

 

[LodovicoAriosto]

There is no such thing. The AI GER has to manually DoW SU, which it does if it has more than 70% of SU's army. A weakened Germany will usually not do Barbarossa, because they will not have a sufficient army to do it.

In case you got confused somewhere along the line, BP stands for Bitter Peace, not Barbarossa Plan. BP is the event that ends the war in Axis victory.

Oh yes. I played both Germany and SU several times. I remember that in my first SU game the Germany DoWed me precisely on 22nd the June which corresponds to historical date. That it why I thought there is an event. As Germany I had to DoW manually but I thought that I must had spoilt the game somewhere which caused the event not to fire.

 

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And what is the situation in the Eastern front? In most cases, the SOV pushes the Germans back in 43 and it still cannot reach Italy. I play ARMA 1.1

I didn't really know. I'm too concentrated on the African that I never try to see what's going on in the eastern Front

 

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I have auto-pause on engaging naval battles. Perhaps it will save my navy from being sunk by those pesky Amis

Good idea! Just done the same myself. Cheers.