Have you considered driving on into Russia from Finland once Scandanavia is liberated?
And where is that save file located?
And where is that save file located?
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I have considered I could do that, but I would need more men then Bradley currently has as the majority of their army is likely to be in Russia. I believe I will put someone else in charge of invading Russia and Finland though. I intend to send him 10 British divisions as reinforcement and try to carefully ensure they take no territory for themselves. The reason for this is that the ai never releases countries it conquers, leading to massive Empires and I do not want the British dominating Europe after the war.
Also the save game is located at Rapidshare.
Good stuff, things seem to be progressing very nicely. I'm looking forward to seeing how things pan out once landings on mainland Europe begin.
Eisenhower and Kennedy get their own aircraft carriers? What's the logic behind that?
JFK joined the Navy, died heroically in *random battle* and Ike is simply the least tarnished US Commander?
Eisenhower and Kennedy get their own aircraft carriers? What's the logic behind that?
I did not notice the one named after Eisenhower, I did however notice and was dumbfounded by the one named after Kennedy
It was decided that Bradley would lead the invasion of Norway and Patton, due to his skill at commanding tank divisions would invade Spain. Patton was furious that the command of the invasion of Norway had gone to his rival, but not so much that it had not gone to him. He understood that his skills as a tank commander would be useless in Norway, but had still held out hope that he, or at least a friend of his, might be chosen because his tanks could drive into Germany quicker after the region fell. He would have preferred the command go to someone other then Bradley though and repeatedly took shots at him in the press. However, a disturbing fact then came to light.
Apparently, Roosevelt had neglected to assign escorts to the various convoys that supplied US troops overseas. This made them easy prey for the Axis raiders and meant that the majority of them had been sunk, causing tons of American troops overseas to be left completely unsupplied.
The problem was most accute in the Panama Canal, where the Canal forces two division almost ceased to exist (they were done to less then a quarter strength by the time I could get the transports ready. Sorry, but I forgot to take a screenshot of this). To make matters worse, they had built far too few escorts to protect the convoys, only building 26 escort craft.
This infuriated Truman, as it meant he would have to cancel the construction of the nation's, and the world's, first ever nuclear reactor. The reactor would have produced a new form of electricity that had just been discovered by Robert Oppenheimer, which involved splitting the uranium atom. It might also have military applications, but those had yet to be delved into. Realizing that it would take too long to produce both the required transports and required escorts at the same time, he decided to produce the convoy's themselves first and then build the escorts.
To make matters worse, news also came in of the first US territory to fall to the Japanese
While this did not worry Truman too much as the island was not viewed as an integral part of the United States, it did mean that the United States was running out of time in the Pacific. Plans were therefore ordered to be drawn up for an offensive in the region.
Good news did come though, in the form of the news of the recent completion of the Mountaineer divisions.
12 divisions were put under the command of Field Marshal Eisenhower. Truman then had to decide who would lead another 12 divisions. He decided that Eisenhower, due to his lack of experience holding a high command, would need a highly experienced officer to act as an adviser. He first wanted to send Marshall, but then he realized that, while Marshall would be ideal, his duties as chief of staff meant that he could not be given a command of this caliber yet. He therefore decided to promote Joseph Stilwell, a general at the time, to field marshal and allow him to command the second group. Stilwell was one of if not the best corps commander in the entire US army and, despite his lack of diplomatic skill, would be ideal for this job because of his vast amount of experience gained from 44 years in the army. Truman also had to worry about the upcoming election. While his successes made a defeat unlikely, he was still nervous about it.
A Force of 10 British divisions under general Harold Alexander, the Earl of Tunis, was also put together to be used to support the British attack in Spain. The plan was to send these men to Barcelona once the Mediterranean was opened to support the British Mountain troops that would be out of there element in the flat terrain of Barcelona.
On October 25th, the Convoys were finally finished and assigned to the routes that needed them most.
However, Truman soon regretted leaving the assigning of these divisions in the hands of others however when an incident occurred where too many transports were assigned to one route.
When the Election finally came, it pitted Truman against Thomas Dewey, who had made a respectable showing against the immensely popular Roosevelt.
However, Truman's successes in the developing war ensured his victory.
Truman promoted Marshal to Secretary of State and replaced him as chief of staff and chief of the Army with Patton's arch-rival, Omar Bradley. Patton was furious, as he believed that HE should have taken over Marshal's job, seeing as he was the man who liberated Britain. He took several venomous interviews with the press where he made clear in no uncertain terms what he thought about Bradley and Truman's decision to make him the chief of Staff. He also wrote scathing remarks in his journal about what he thought about Truman, a man he now despised. This made Patton more determined then ever to beat his rival. He secretly plotted to drive straight for Paris the moment that Iberia was secured, without waiting for orders, to ensure that the honor did not go to some upstart and put his goal of catching Bradley hopelessly beyond his grasp.
Apparently, Roosevelt had neglected to assign escorts to the various convoys that supplied US troops overseas. This made them easy prey for the Axis raiders and meant that the majority of them had been sunk, causing tons of American troops overseas to be left completely unsupplied.
The problem was most accute in the Panama Canal, where the Canal forces two division almost ceased to exist (they were done to less then a quarter strength by the time I could get the transports ready. Sorry, but I forgot to take a screenshot of this). To make matters worse, they had built far too few escorts to protect the convoys, only building 26 escort craft.
This infuriated Truman, as it meant he would have to cancel the construction of the nation's, and the world's, first ever nuclear reactor. The reactor would have produced a new form of electricity that had just been discovered by Robert Oppenheimer, which involved splitting the uranium atom. It might also have military applications, but those had yet to be delved into. Realizing that it would take too long to produce both the required transports and required escorts at the same time, he decided to produce the convoy's themselves first and then build the escorts.
To make matters worse, news also came in of the first US territory to fall to the Japanese
While this did not worry Truman too much as the island was not viewed as an integral part of the United States, it did mean that the United States was running out of time in the Pacific. Plans were therefore ordered to be drawn up for an offensive in the region.
Good news did come though, in the form of the news of the recent completion of the Mountaineer divisions.
12 divisions were put under the command of Field Marshal Eisenhower. Truman then had to decide who would lead another 12 divisions. He decided that Eisenhower, due to his lack of experience holding a high command, would need a highly experienced officer to act as an adviser. He first wanted to send Marshall, but then he realized that, while Marshall would be ideal, his duties as chief of staff meant that he could not be given a command of this caliber yet. He therefore decided to promote Joseph Stilwell, a general at the time, to field marshal and allow him to command the second group. Stilwell was one of if not the best corps commander in the entire US army and, despite his lack of diplomatic skill, would be ideal for this job because of his vast amount of experience gained from 44 years in the army. Truman also had to worry about the upcoming election. While his successes made a defeat unlikely, he was still nervous about it.
A Force of 10 British divisions under general Harold Alexander, the Earl of Tunis, was also put together to be used to support the British attack in Spain. The plan was to send these men to Barcelona once the Mediterranean was opened to support the British Mountain troops that would be out of there element in the flat terrain of Barcelona.
On October 25th, the Convoys were finally finished and assigned to the routes that needed them most.
However, Truman soon regretted leaving the assigning of these divisions in the hands of others however when an incident occurred where too many transports were assigned to one route.
When the Election finally came, it pitted Truman against Thomas Dewey, who had made a respectable showing against the immensely popular Roosevelt.
However, Truman's successes in the developing war ensured his victory.
Truman promoted Marshal to Secretary of State and replaced him as chief of staff and chief of the Army with Patton's arch-rival, Omar Bradley. Patton was furious, as he believed that HE should have taken over Marshal's job, seeing as he was the man who liberated Britain. He took several venomous interviews with the press where he made clear in no uncertain terms what he thought about Bradley and Truman's decision to make him the chief of Staff. He also wrote scathing remarks in his journal about what he thought about Truman, a man he now despised. This made Patton more determined then ever to beat his rival. He secretly plotted to drive straight for Paris the moment that Iberia was secured, without waiting for orders, to ensure that the honor did not go to some upstart and put his goal of catching Bradley hopelessly beyond his grasp.
Wow, looks like the previous regime's mistakes are still haunting you. Are you planning to use nukes at all- if not then I guess cancelling the reactor should cause any problems but it could always hurt you long-term.
I have a stated aversion to using nukes as I think it is cheap. I do not have the technological capacity to produce them yet, but I want to build up the necessary technology. Despite my dislike for them, I want to have them available as a plan B if the invasion of Europe becomes hopelessly deadlocked or worse, fails. In other words, I do not want to use the nukes, but I will if I have to
That makes sense, I tend to use nukes either if I have to as well or for catharsis. I doubt the situation will call for nukes any time soon though as you're going to be fighting on several wide fronts so the enemy shouldn't get bottlenecked.
FDR and Patton...they are both pricks for what they are doing (or did, in the case of the former) to Truman.
The Truman of OTL would have fired Mac, er, Patton for his going to the press like that
He would have, unfortunately, this Patton is very popular for his liberation of Britain and Also I have plans for Patton. He would also have no grounds for firing Patton other then for speaking out against him. Truman would get annihilated in the press for what would look like a purely political move. remember, MacArthur wanted to invade China and wanted permission to use nuclear weapons. He essentially was ready to start WWIII and Truman had no other choice but to fire him. If he found out about Patton's plan to drive into France without waiting for orders, I suspect that he might fire him though. Also, what can Patton really do against Truman and Bradley right now? The election has passed and by the time the next one comes around, the incident will have been forgotten. Patton is not a threat to Truman...yet.
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Patton was something of a prick in OTL as well. Remember the soldier slapping incident on Sicily. I believed that that is exactly what Patton would actually do, seeing as he was not a man to pull punches.FDR and Patton...they are both pricks for what they are doing (or did, in the case of the former) to Truman.
Very much enjoying the rivalry amongst the American officers. Adds a nice slant to the AAR. Also the repeated need to right the wrongs made by the AI makes things all the more interesting. Great stuff.
If Patton and America emerge victorious in this war... maybe Patton (instead of Ike) will become President! Poor England, first taken by Germany, then by the United States... I'm sure the Tories are thinking, "what happened to Britannia?"
Great stuff!
Poor England, first taken by Germany, then by the United States... I'm sure the Tories are thinking, "what happened to Britannia?" Great stuff!
Depends whether Churchill's in charge or not. The man would probably have loved it. America, by jove, indeed!
If Patton and America emerge victorious in this war... maybe Patton (instead of Ike) will become President!
Great stuff!
The thought of President Patton made me shiver for some reason.
Thank you very much. I really am beginning to think that the term "Artificial Intelligence" is an oxymoron
If Patton and America emerge victorious in this war... maybe Patton (instead of Ike) will become President!
Great stuff!
I do not want to get too much into who I will run for president in '52. I will say that I intend to modify who runs for the office. You and the rest of my readers are more then welcome to guess who the candidates will be.
The head of the UK is actually Clement Atlee.
I can understand that, Patton would make for a very authoritarian president.
I have been busy today so there will be no update today. However, that also means that I shall most likely post 2 updates tomorrow
Truman was almost ready to launch the landings in Norway and Spain. However, Patton had not stepped down his offensive and he had to decide what to do about it. Dismissing him would delay the offensive yet again, something he refused to let happen as it had already been delayed enough. He decided to make Patton the Supreme Commander of the European Theater. He figured that would placate him temporarily and therefore buy Truman some time to figure out what to do about him. He made sure to let Patton know that if he had not been slated to command the invasion of Spain, Truman would have fired him and that if anything like this happened again, there would be nothing that could save him. Faced with losing his career as a general and any chance for future glory, Patton backed down and conceded this round to Truman. While he was ecstatic about his new found power, he knew that it was a defeat disguised as a victory. Patton also knew that he would now have to be on his best behavior as Truman would now be looking for any excuse to fire him. This effectively turned his planned invasion of France into a colossal gamble. If it succeeded, it would appear a stroke of genius and he would be wildly popular with the people. Truman would also not be able to justify firing the man who had allowed for a massive breakthrough into France. If it failed, however, it would go down in history as an overzealous move by an overzealous commander that could have cost the US the war and as a move only a complete idiot would make. Patton would have also handed Truman the perfect excuse to fire him.
Soon after this situation resolved itself, Truman received word that one of the nations that the Germans had conquered rebelled and were fighting their own war against Germany
While it was unlikely that this rebellion would succeed, it could serve as an example and inspire future rebellions against the Germans. It also reinforced the fact that the Germans were not invincible. Sure enough, the Germans soon crushed the revolt
Soon after, the Convoy escorts were completed and Truman ordered some additional convoys to be produced to replace convoys that might be sunk by the Germans and Japanese.
Truman then received some intelligence that the Axis were gathering force in Freetown. He could not figure out why they were focusing so many men on a more or less useless front, but it was still a threat to Liberia, the region that Truman intended to launch his offensive in Africa from eventually.
Bradley also finally disembarked for Norway.
It was decided that the landing would take place at Bergen. There were two reasons for this. First, it contained a rather large naval base, which would allow for easy reinforcement. It also contained an airbase, which would give American planes a much needed base that they could use to harass Norway
A fleet of U-boots soon intercepted the force, but they were easily beaten and 2 of them were sunk
This also came with some bad news, however, as Bradley failed to gain a foothold and had been thrown out of Bergen before even managing to take the city
This was a worrying development. If Bradley could not gain a foothold soon, the offensive would have to be temporarily called off, as the transports he was using were also needed to take Patton to Spain
A German fleet also arrived to attempt to sink the transports. What they did not know was that Nimitz and the Atlantic fleet were also there. the German fleet of 30 ships, including at least 5 carriers, was driven off but unfortunately, no ships were sunk.
That is the first of today's updates. I have also been having a problem that I have never had before. During landings, clicking on any of the units involved or the battle icon to look at how the battle is going and how many men are involved causes the game to crash. I figured it was the amount of troops being put ashore, but if I try to send them to other places, the game crashes when I click on one of the units on the transport. Normally, I would ignore the problem as it is not that big a deal, but since this is an aar and needs screenshots of such battles, I need to fix it.
Soon after this situation resolved itself, Truman received word that one of the nations that the Germans had conquered rebelled and were fighting their own war against Germany
While it was unlikely that this rebellion would succeed, it could serve as an example and inspire future rebellions against the Germans. It also reinforced the fact that the Germans were not invincible. Sure enough, the Germans soon crushed the revolt
Soon after, the Convoy escorts were completed and Truman ordered some additional convoys to be produced to replace convoys that might be sunk by the Germans and Japanese.
Truman then received some intelligence that the Axis were gathering force in Freetown. He could not figure out why they were focusing so many men on a more or less useless front, but it was still a threat to Liberia, the region that Truman intended to launch his offensive in Africa from eventually.
Bradley also finally disembarked for Norway.
It was decided that the landing would take place at Bergen. There were two reasons for this. First, it contained a rather large naval base, which would allow for easy reinforcement. It also contained an airbase, which would give American planes a much needed base that they could use to harass Norway
A fleet of U-boots soon intercepted the force, but they were easily beaten and 2 of them were sunk
This also came with some bad news, however, as Bradley failed to gain a foothold and had been thrown out of Bergen before even managing to take the city
This was a worrying development. If Bradley could not gain a foothold soon, the offensive would have to be temporarily called off, as the transports he was using were also needed to take Patton to Spain
A German fleet also arrived to attempt to sink the transports. What they did not know was that Nimitz and the Atlantic fleet were also there. the German fleet of 30 ships, including at least 5 carriers, was driven off but unfortunately, no ships were sunk.
That is the first of today's updates. I have also been having a problem that I have never had before. During landings, clicking on any of the units involved or the battle icon to look at how the battle is going and how many men are involved causes the game to crash. I figured it was the amount of troops being put ashore, but if I try to send them to other places, the game crashes when I click on one of the units on the transport. Normally, I would ignore the problem as it is not that big a deal, but since this is an aar and needs screenshots of such battles, I need to fix it.