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You know, you could recycle your generals so that they are always there where needed most. 
6.3
Deadlock and Advances
June 4th - November 7th
I have a problem in one theatre of war, not so much in another but it is certainly annoying.
The Brazillians again do their probing.
Without taking screenshots I tried to start and offensive to link the two areas by encircling the brazillians against the coast. However partially due to supplies still being an issue. Both attempts failed to completely to even get off the ground with a red 4% attacking them. Despite my constant bombing, my bombers have no effect...which is very odd considering the affect they had on the turks all those years ago.
I would land troops further down the coast however my transport planes lack the range and the Brazil's navy would prevent me from landing because they would be near their home ports. Thus I am digging in and waiting for my transports to have larger fuel tanks and get jet engine technology.
Meanwhile in the Pacific...
Japan makes an attempt to land troops in Siam. This is the first battle of Phet Buri. Naval Bombers are quick to act, I know I sank ships but the statistics page has been bugged for a while. I think it only updates every year.
End of the First battle of Phet Buri. Begin the second battle of Phet Buri.
End of the third battle of Phet Buri.
Airborne invasion of Ponape Island.
First layer of forts built in Brazil.
Ponape falls.
Kwajelein is taken by marines
Maleoap falls
Majuro falls... however my troops are never able to cross over because of two reason. Lack of supplies or the IJN patrolling the waters.
The craving to see something annexed has grown too much...
I invade with 15x Mnt Brigades, 3x Art and 2x Eng. A similar Corps is in development.
First battle of Khvoy
Second battle of Khvoy
While trying to land troops behind Majuro however they are intercepted.
I cancel the landing as my ships can't take another fight.
Yes... it has taken me this long to research this. Several units are ordered immediately.
The state of the fronts.
Deadlock and Advances
June 4th - November 7th
I have a problem in one theatre of war, not so much in another but it is certainly annoying.
The Brazillians again do their probing.
Without taking screenshots I tried to start and offensive to link the two areas by encircling the brazillians against the coast. However partially due to supplies still being an issue. Both attempts failed to completely to even get off the ground with a red 4% attacking them. Despite my constant bombing, my bombers have no effect...which is very odd considering the affect they had on the turks all those years ago.
I would land troops further down the coast however my transport planes lack the range and the Brazil's navy would prevent me from landing because they would be near their home ports. Thus I am digging in and waiting for my transports to have larger fuel tanks and get jet engine technology.
Meanwhile in the Pacific...
Japan makes an attempt to land troops in Siam. This is the first battle of Phet Buri. Naval Bombers are quick to act, I know I sank ships but the statistics page has been bugged for a while. I think it only updates every year.
End of the First battle of Phet Buri. Begin the second battle of Phet Buri.
End of the third battle of Phet Buri.
Airborne invasion of Ponape Island.
First layer of forts built in Brazil.
Ponape falls.
Kwajelein is taken by marines
Maleoap falls
Majuro falls... however my troops are never able to cross over because of two reason. Lack of supplies or the IJN patrolling the waters.
The craving to see something annexed has grown too much...
I invade with 15x Mnt Brigades, 3x Art and 2x Eng. A similar Corps is in development.
First battle of Khvoy
Second battle of Khvoy
While trying to land troops behind Majuro however they are intercepted.
I cancel the landing as my ships can't take another fight.
Yes... it has taken me this long to research this. Several units are ordered immediately.
The state of the fronts.
Only Brazil and Japan are the big challenges (I think), I have some more to post but I'm getting a little bored with this game as I'm still running 1.3. So after doing a little clean up I think I'll declare victory.
6.4
I need more boats!
November 7th 1952 - February 1953
My troops continue to advance into Persia.
For some reason I did not mention this but in my last post I dropped some Paras on Majuro. They later destroyed what was left of the enemy.
In an effort to prevent the IJN from raiding my ships I land troops on the nearby port of Milli. However their fleet is located further south and better defended.
Milli captured.
My transport fleet is attacked by hte IJN. I had to send in another fleet to prevent its loss.
Persians are encircled.
When I tried to make a break for it by transport fleet is attacked by 3 carriers.
They were no match and I'm lucky I did not lose that carrier.
No for a matter of Pride. Paratroopers are LANDED on the beaches of Martinique and proceed to attack Gaudaloupe.
Tehran falls.
My troops begin to push for the final VP.
Victoire!
I need more boats!
November 7th 1952 - February 1953
My troops continue to advance into Persia.
For some reason I did not mention this but in my last post I dropped some Paras on Majuro. They later destroyed what was left of the enemy.
In an effort to prevent the IJN from raiding my ships I land troops on the nearby port of Milli. However their fleet is located further south and better defended.
Milli captured.
My transport fleet is attacked by hte IJN. I had to send in another fleet to prevent its loss.
Persians are encircled.
When I tried to make a break for it by transport fleet is attacked by 3 carriers.
They were no match and I'm lucky I did not lose that carrier.
No for a matter of Pride. Paratroopers are LANDED on the beaches of Martinique and proceed to attack Gaudaloupe.
Tehran falls.
My troops begin to push for the final VP.
Victoire!
Wow certainly an amazing AAR, but I do have a few question though:
When are you gonna take on the US?? XD
How did you manage to deactivate the time factor?... I really would appreciate the answer for those 2
Waiting for the french to retake Louisiana and Canada
When are you gonna take on the US?? XD
How did you manage to deactivate the time factor?... I really would appreciate the answer for those 2
Waiting for the french to retake Louisiana and Canada
Could be..
Wow certainly an amazing AAR, but I do have a few question though:
When are you gonna take on the US?? XD
How did you manage to deactivate the time factor?... I really would appreciate the answer for those 2
Waiting for the french to retake Louisiana and Canada
At the moment, the US is not gonna happen. I did a little spying on their techs and numbers. The US has almost 5000 infantry brigades of a VERY high standard, I have 1,100 spread through out the world. They also seem to have a massive advanced destroyer fleet. Their tech and numbers would crush me. Not to mention that theres the billion other allied countries to deal with. I will deal with the axis and move on to a new game in 1.4. I promise to be more devious in that one.
There is a file you edit. Goto /Paradox Interactive/ Hearts of Iron III/common and open the file called defines.lua in notepad. Although before this I suggest making a backup. At the top of the file you'll see a start and end date. Just change the year to whatever you want. For example mine is 2000.1.1
6.5
I Couldn't Think of a Good Title
9th February - 17th September
This was a pretty slow session, mostly due to a lot of waiting for tech to advance to extend the range of my air transports or the building of new units.
This first screenshot isnt taken until May 8th, thats how slow. These are the first carriers in years and are 1948 level. I had been waiting for these techs for quite sometime to get near the modern level. As far as I know these will be the most advance carriers although the Americans might have more advanced ones. I would have to check. (The other pair of CAG was ordered months earlier).
April 24th
The plan
The execution
The axe falls
well that killed a lot of time didn't it?
Invasion of Satawan.
Invasion of Palau
With the range extended, it's time to actually do something in Brazil. I have yet to caputre one of their VP's, with this plan I was hoping to capture two and solidify my position before the enemy reached me.
Unfortunately for me, they sent 3 stacks looking a lot like this.
I cancelled this advance for good reason. River crossings in Brazil seem to negate any attack against anyone.
Buying time till a port is built.
If you look closely you will see that those divisions are at 50% strength. Why? They haven't been in a fight since they first landed. The lack of supply and attrition has taken its toll! I sent in the air transports to resupply them and they were quickly brought upto full strength again.
Another advance called off. It was varying between 45-55% and some of my troops were almost exhausted.
Invasion of Rota. Where promptly my troops get stuck on due to the IJN patrolling those waters. Thus an emergancy Airfield is ordered.
Most of their troops retreated leaving only a small amount. Strangely my bombs are now working but afterawhile cease to have an effect in some areas. I can't understand why.
First layers completed!
This is where my troops get stuck.
6 weeks later my trick worked. Unfortunately that island had no supply so after the airfield was built I transported them back to truk where they got resupplied, rebased them back in Rota which allowed me to launch an airbourne invasion.
Saipan falls!
Unfortunately I hadn't learnt my lesson as a division gets stuck on Tinian. Naval bombers can't find the enemy at all. (600th posted screenshot!)
And now for an epicly long screenshot; or what would have been. I took a screenshot of all my tech pages and point out how in places its been neglected and how I only have a total of 25ish leadership points despite my massive empire (which is something I don' like about HOI3, I should get more Leadership than that!). I would have also pointed out to the 1950 level Destroyers that I had just finished researching and just ordeed 20 Flottillas of them.
So instead I am posting this. Bastille Day 1939.
(suprisingly hard to find these on google images... odd)
I Couldn't Think of a Good Title
9th February - 17th September
This was a pretty slow session, mostly due to a lot of waiting for tech to advance to extend the range of my air transports or the building of new units.
This first screenshot isnt taken until May 8th, thats how slow. These are the first carriers in years and are 1948 level. I had been waiting for these techs for quite sometime to get near the modern level. As far as I know these will be the most advance carriers although the Americans might have more advanced ones. I would have to check. (The other pair of CAG was ordered months earlier).
April 24th
The plan
The execution
The axe falls
well that killed a lot of time didn't it?
Invasion of Satawan.
Invasion of Palau
With the range extended, it's time to actually do something in Brazil. I have yet to caputre one of their VP's, with this plan I was hoping to capture two and solidify my position before the enemy reached me.
Unfortunately for me, they sent 3 stacks looking a lot like this.
I cancelled this advance for good reason. River crossings in Brazil seem to negate any attack against anyone.
Buying time till a port is built.
If you look closely you will see that those divisions are at 50% strength. Why? They haven't been in a fight since they first landed. The lack of supply and attrition has taken its toll! I sent in the air transports to resupply them and they were quickly brought upto full strength again.
Another advance called off. It was varying between 45-55% and some of my troops were almost exhausted.
Invasion of Rota. Where promptly my troops get stuck on due to the IJN patrolling those waters. Thus an emergancy Airfield is ordered.
Most of their troops retreated leaving only a small amount. Strangely my bombs are now working but afterawhile cease to have an effect in some areas. I can't understand why.
First layers completed!
This is where my troops get stuck.
6 weeks later my trick worked. Unfortunately that island had no supply so after the airfield was built I transported them back to truk where they got resupplied, rebased them back in Rota which allowed me to launch an airbourne invasion.
Saipan falls!
Unfortunately I hadn't learnt my lesson as a division gets stuck on Tinian. Naval bombers can't find the enemy at all. (600th posted screenshot!)
And now for an epicly long screenshot; or what would have been. I took a screenshot of all my tech pages and point out how in places its been neglected and how I only have a total of 25ish leadership points despite my massive empire (which is something I don' like about HOI3, I should get more Leadership than that!). I would have also pointed out to the 1950 level Destroyers that I had just finished researching and just ordeed 20 Flottillas of them.
So instead I am posting this. Bastille Day 1939.
(suprisingly hard to find these on google images... odd)
As far as I know, not very big, they lack some things in large quantities.They whored infantry tech so they are currently more advanced than me. The main problem is is just pushing forward when I'm having major supply issue and can not link the two fronts to count that problem. I think that because I have an airbase further south now I can just drop paras on their VP's. I only took one and their surrender dropped by almost 20%.
My bombers are sort of draining their manpower but they aren't going very much damage. Meanwhile my eye is wandering over peoples borders.
I'll try and play some more tonight.
6.6
The End
September 15th - November 12th
The game started out slow, manpower and supplies are the bane of the latter half of this game.
I send a corp of Mountaineers over to the border with Sinkiang, they weren't allied with anyone but it would take several months to reach it and even by the end of this post they had only just reached Tibet.
Para's are landed in Rio de Janeiro!
My forces spread out quickly to grab a hold of more VP's. I will not be cheated out of them again!
Troops march on an undefended Sao Paulo
Troops slow down Brazillian advance into Vitoria so my troops can gain the valuable VP.
It seems para's are very popular method of advancing for me it seems. Paras land on Iwo Jima!
Sao Paulo is mine, this division is sent north.
Iwo Jima is mine! (Although tbh it is supposed to be called Iwo To, just someone got it wrong on a map, they corrected that recently).
And.... DISASTER
I have no idea why the game started doing this, I don't. I didn't click a thing, honest.
As you can see my production is massive, but I didn't do this, note all the brigades. For some reason the game decided to stop me from changing any of the sliders or cancelling any of these projects. It also started out as 180 in supplies and 380 in production. Next day it was 160 with 420. I waited for a day to see if this would change but it didn't. I saved and restarted the game, no luck. I loaded up the autosave, no luck there either. I have no explanation for this bug. Because of the length of this AAR I am still using 1.3 but in all honesty, I think I have achieved my Napoleonic dream even if I did not goto Moscow, Washington or London. I still conquered more than Napoleon.
Thus I am ending this AAR and will start a new one soon running 1.4 at last.
In the meantime, here are some statistics and the final map.
Number of hours played: Too many
Number of Casualites: I need more paper to write this number down
Number of Screenshots: 796 aka 4.11gb of images.
Number actually posted: 616
What I learned:
France can conquer a large portion of the world but is screwed over by the lack of leadership even after controlling a large amount of the world.
Supplies are a whore to get to work in 1.3
France's navy is out dated.
After awhile you stop building units and just end up building large amounts of infrastructure become an expanding empire determined to bring really infrastructure to the world.
Paras are far more useful than pushing across large areas.
My plans for this game:
*Australia also counts as part of my Empire.
Any suggestions for the next AAR are welcome but might not be listened to.
The End
September 15th - November 12th
The game started out slow, manpower and supplies are the bane of the latter half of this game.
I send a corp of Mountaineers over to the border with Sinkiang, they weren't allied with anyone but it would take several months to reach it and even by the end of this post they had only just reached Tibet.
Para's are landed in Rio de Janeiro!
My forces spread out quickly to grab a hold of more VP's. I will not be cheated out of them again!
Troops march on an undefended Sao Paulo
Troops slow down Brazillian advance into Vitoria so my troops can gain the valuable VP.
It seems para's are very popular method of advancing for me it seems. Paras land on Iwo Jima!
Sao Paulo is mine, this division is sent north.
Iwo Jima is mine! (Although tbh it is supposed to be called Iwo To, just someone got it wrong on a map, they corrected that recently).
And.... DISASTER
I have no idea why the game started doing this, I don't. I didn't click a thing, honest.
As you can see my production is massive, but I didn't do this, note all the brigades. For some reason the game decided to stop me from changing any of the sliders or cancelling any of these projects. It also started out as 180 in supplies and 380 in production. Next day it was 160 with 420. I waited for a day to see if this would change but it didn't. I saved and restarted the game, no luck. I loaded up the autosave, no luck there either. I have no explanation for this bug. Because of the length of this AAR I am still using 1.3 but in all honesty, I think I have achieved my Napoleonic dream even if I did not goto Moscow, Washington or London. I still conquered more than Napoleon.
Thus I am ending this AAR and will start a new one soon running 1.4 at last.
In the meantime, here are some statistics and the final map.
Number of hours played: Too many
Number of Casualites: I need more paper to write this number down
Number of Screenshots: 796 aka 4.11gb of images.
Number actually posted: 616
What I learned:
France can conquer a large portion of the world but is screwed over by the lack of leadership even after controlling a large amount of the world.
Supplies are a whore to get to work in 1.3
France's navy is out dated.
After awhile you stop building units and just end up building large amounts of infrastructure become an expanding empire determined to bring really infrastructure to the world.
Paras are far more useful than pushing across large areas.
My plans for this game:
- Puppet Brazil and Argentina
- Annex Japan
- Annex Czhechslovakia
- Go nuts and declare war on everyone with my entire armed forces in Paris and waiting to see how long I would last.
*Australia also counts as part of my Empire.
Any suggestions for the next AAR are welcome but might not be listened to.
Well I believe the reason is that the Production part is in AI control, you somehow changed it ... XD
Except its been on manual control the entire time. It still added more stuff the next day.
I think I have started a game as Romania and see what I can do with them. Not liking having so little in the way of leadership and IC after playing this game for months.
I think I have started a game as Romania and see what I can do with them. Not liking having so little in the way of leadership and IC after playing this game for months.
*does not feel like an idiot*
Too late now anyway, updated to 1.4 and besides I want to play a couple games that are just for me like right now I'm trying out the RandomHOI mod playing as a Facist Saxony surrounded by Comintern countries. Perfect choice huh?
Too late now anyway, updated to 1.4 and besides I want to play a couple games that are just for me like right now I'm trying out the RandomHOI mod playing as a Facist Saxony surrounded by Comintern countries
. Perfect choice huh?