I agree with Macke11, the Soviet Air Force seems to be the most powerful weapon on the battlefield so far. Need to make sure it is properly supplied, maintained, and that the advancing Soviet Divisions can secure airbases for them.
Viipuri has a Level 3 Air Base, and I tried relocating I ShAD there, because of it's ridiculously short range (185km)... But after several days of just sitting there, it had no fuel left, while there is a level 8 supply corridor between
Leningrad and
Viipuri, as I didn't need the extra range just yet, it was pulled back, this happened after the end of the last update, I've played on about 10 days, so in the coming days I will update you on that as well. When I moved I BAD to
Tallin, it started losing organisation because it was out of fuel and supplies for several days, this was fixed by running a
Leningrad-
Tallin convoy, rather pointless as there are plenty good enough land links to
Tallin. The supply AI seems to be a bit slow in this respect...
Any future plans for Sweden and Norway? Or will your future plans, post-Finland, focus more on Central Europe and the growing threat of Greater Germany?
The decision hasn't been made yet, but the Swedes did send material help and volunteers to help the Finns, so we would have an excuse for attacking Sweden, we'll see once we have won in Finland. Sweden also has the strategic resource Tungsten, which would be nice to have... Norway is another story, as they refused Military Access to and from Finland, they seem to keep the Winter war at a distance, so justifying an invasion would be pretty tricky...
I am curious whether you will stop the war once you initial demands are met, whether you will liberate Finland, and thus free up your northern borders once and for all.
Blood has been shed, if they don't surrender within the first month of hostilities
(spoiler alert, they don't) we will annex all of Finland, because not doing so will leave an antagonistic government in place, which could stab us in the back at every moment... We also have to show the world that walking away from our negotiating table without giving us what is rightfully ours doesn't go unpunished, so we will take more than we asked for, a lot more...
Keep up the good work! Agree with Davout about detailed descriptions, but assume you were probably taking a more detailed approach to a smaller war (and the first of this AAR). A picture (screenshot) can paint things more quickly sometimes, but I also see your descriptions were more in the style of the rest of your AAR. Your call in the end: depends on your time and willpower re the writing of it
You assume correctly, I don't see myself going into this much detail throughout Barbarossa, I will try to do this while keeping up the overall style of the AAR, and even then there will probably still be plenty of details, just spread over more battles... I still have some time to figure out a more succinct, but still coherent approach for Barbarossa. You'll see when we get there...