Tons of issues. The following update will cover something like 2 1/2 months because of issues (but it will contain more shots and more action).
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Tons of issues. The following update will cover something like 2 1/2 months because of issues (but it will contain more shots and more action).
I don't know. Not too many. They got quite a few out of there. I guess something like 5+ Divisions ... but I really don't know.
Apologies to intrude again, but I'm having some trouble understanding a particular feature of the game. It's about laws and their requirements. If any of you cared to have a look at my latest post in this thread, and share your opinion, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Very good session today. Finally Soviet Union is at war, but it is not Barbarossa!! we attacked germany... And not just to get better laws, right now a full operation is in place against Romania! This while a huge chunk of the German army is in the west trying to take Southern Spain and Gibraltar, defended by UK in a strong defendive position! Also plenty of action in the East!
I'll post a Soviet update as soon as UK posts the previous chapter!
I'll post a Soviet update as soon as UK posts the previous chapter!
Recap
Chapter V – A Western Front in Spain
July 8 – September 21 1940
In July British troops were getting ready in the port of Bristol to react to any move by Germany. The Allies assumed that an attack on Spain was planned, but as the Allies were already fighting in Asia and Italy was growing stronger and stronger, the Allies waited passively.
Then, in August 1940 German forces crossed the Pyrenees and attacked Nationalist Spain with a mix of infantry, mountaineers and armour (both medium and heavy).
Within a week British forces had landed, within 2 weeks British forces have established a defensive line in North Central Spain.
In the meantime British Elite Forces (Gurkhas) took back Cyprus from a German paratrooper division (and destroyed the German division).
The Battle for Spain continued. British planes had been rebased to Madrid and Galicia and were flying many missions. TACs, FTRs, INTs were active.
British heavy armour managed to slow down the German advance significantly … but only in a limited area. The Germans seem to have committed more than 30 or so divisions to the attack on Spain and they bypassed the British.
Italian surprise!
Suddenly Italian troops landed in Valencia. The joint Allied naval forces (British SAG, British CTF and a large US SAG) arrived too late. The Italians had landed and the Italian navy withdrew into the Central Med.
End of Session (Spain)
At the end of the session (September 20) the Axis forces have put the British into a difficult position. They outnumbered British forces around 2:1 and easily destroyed any Spanish opposition.
This is how it looked:
At the same time Italian battleships, planes and subs kept sinking British convoys.
Chapter V – The Battle for Siam and Malaya begins
British forces getting ready to invade Siam.
The Royal Air Force running air superiority missions to ensure that the ground forces are not bombed too much.
Japanese counterattack:
The Japanese landed on the Eastern coast of Malaya/Siam and immediately counter attacked British forces. They managed to cut off 2 British divisions. 1 INF and 1 MAR – the only chance for those divisions to get out alive was a retreat to ships. But the ships were bombarded by Japanese CAGs and some transports were sunk. A British CTF was moved from Sri Lanka and then British CAGs tried to provide the ships with some air cover … the transports wouldn’t survive long.
End of Session (Asia)
At the end of the session Japanese forces controlled the central part of the Malayan peninsula. 2 divisions were in danger of being lost.
The session ended with Germany pushing into Spain and Japan pushing into Malaya.
Chapter V – A Western Front in Spain
July 8 – September 21 1940
In July British troops were getting ready in the port of Bristol to react to any move by Germany. The Allies assumed that an attack on Spain was planned, but as the Allies were already fighting in Asia and Italy was growing stronger and stronger, the Allies waited passively.
Then, in August 1940 German forces crossed the Pyrenees and attacked Nationalist Spain with a mix of infantry, mountaineers and armour (both medium and heavy).
Within a week British forces had landed, within 2 weeks British forces have established a defensive line in North Central Spain.
In the meantime British Elite Forces (Gurkhas) took back Cyprus from a German paratrooper division (and destroyed the German division).
The Battle for Spain continued. British planes had been rebased to Madrid and Galicia and were flying many missions. TACs, FTRs, INTs were active.
British heavy armour managed to slow down the German advance significantly … but only in a limited area. The Germans seem to have committed more than 30 or so divisions to the attack on Spain and they bypassed the British.
Italian surprise!
Suddenly Italian troops landed in Valencia. The joint Allied naval forces (British SAG, British CTF and a large US SAG) arrived too late. The Italians had landed and the Italian navy withdrew into the Central Med.
End of Session (Spain)
At the end of the session (September 20) the Axis forces have put the British into a difficult position. They outnumbered British forces around 2:1 and easily destroyed any Spanish opposition.
This is how it looked:
At the same time Italian battleships, planes and subs kept sinking British convoys.
Chapter V – The Battle for Siam and Malaya begins
British forces getting ready to invade Siam.
The Royal Air Force running air superiority missions to ensure that the ground forces are not bombed too much.
Japanese counterattack:
The Japanese landed on the Eastern coast of Malaya/Siam and immediately counter attacked British forces. They managed to cut off 2 British divisions. 1 INF and 1 MAR – the only chance for those divisions to get out alive was a retreat to ships. But the ships were bombarded by Japanese CAGs and some transports were sunk. A British CTF was moved from Sri Lanka and then British CAGs tried to provide the ships with some air cover … the transports wouldn’t survive long.
End of Session (Asia)
At the end of the session Japanese forces controlled the central part of the Malayan peninsula. 2 divisions were in danger of being lost.
The session ended with Germany pushing into Spain and Japan pushing into Malaya.
Rast has already teased the next chapter (which we have already played).
What will Japan do next? How long can the British hold out in Spain?
What will Japan do next? How long can the British hold out in Spain?
btw: While the Allies were not surprised that Germany attacked Spain, we thought that they might be overstretched by doing that.
Wow, that's real news. Seems like I'll have to manage a Soviet attack on Germany all alone this week. Seems quite demanding. :happy:
Cheers, Tomba
Sounds like fun! At least Germany has a two front war. Around 30+ German divisions are in Spain fighting the British.
Looks interesting.. let's hope Germany didn't overstretch himself to much. Otherwise Soviet will be in Berlin soon 
Looks interesting.. let's hope Germany didn't overstretch himself to much. Otherwise Soviet will be in Berlin soon
As an Allied player, I hope Germany did overstretch a bit - that's the entire point of trying to defend Spain and thus tying down Axis divisions.
I still owe you guys (the few followers we have) an update covering the loss of the majority of the British carrier fleet in Asia. (4 CVs lost in the last session)
As an Allied player, I hope Germany did overstretch a bit - that's the entire point of trying to defend Spain and thus tying down Axis divisions.
I still owe you guys (the few followers we have) an update covering the loss of the majority of the British carrier fleet in Asia. (4 CVs lost in the last session)
You have more followers the you think. Most are silent readers
Loss of 4 CV must hurt..
Chapter VI: The Soviet Intervention
We ended last session in September with a somewhat slow German advance into Spain. Following the German-Spanish war, Soviet Union declared war on Afghanistan as soon as the Soviet troops were deployed on the border (around mid October). Soviet advance into Afghanistan was performed as fast as possible, but still somewhat slow due to bad terrain and infrastructure.
November was coming, by that time it was believed that Germany would have been able to break the MR pact and attack us. However, a huge chunck of the German army was still tied in Spain, trying to advance towards Gibraltar. So an attack on the East was very unlikely for the time being. Nevertheless, the Soviet build-up strategy had been designed to have the red army ready and up-to-date by November the first...
Even if the Germans had broken trough the first line of defence, with some Italian help, the brits were falling back orderly and around this time they were discussing with us whether they should leave Spain or try to build a last line of defence around Gibraltar (I won't go in detail about the western front)
It was believed that a Soviet attack in the East, combined with a strong British defence of the last riverline before Gibraltar, would have caught Germany off-guard. We decided to persue this strategy, well aware of the risk of losing a big chung of the British forces. There were two factors that convinced me about the feasibility of this strategy: the war with Afghanistan, that allowed me to silently mobilize my army without the Germans noticing it, and the apparent weakness of the german front in Romania, probably due to the fact that they wanted to put their schwerpunkt in the Lwow area (in Southern Poland), where most of their panzers were, and didn't expect Romania to become an active front line. With so many German troops deployed in Western Europe we expected to be able to restrain or slow down the German attack at Lwow with the force of our numbers and heavy tanks and gain the time to deal a heavy blow to Romania...
This is the Northern front on the 5th of November. It is deployed in a strong and deep defensive position.
This is the Southern front on the same day. The Lwow region looks ok, ready to take the German punch. The Romanian region still needs to get the last reinforcements and to be deployed offensively (to be done last minute). We are still waiting some weeks because we have some upgrade to finish and we want to make sure that the English defensive line in Spain is stable enough to hold the Germans for some time.
This is our army at the end of November:
As you can see, I heavily rely on heavy armours and militia, both having a very good ratio in terms of power/officer cost. My standard Harm unit is: Harm-mot-td-ac-ac, combining a decent speed (thanks to the ac), high armour, piercing and soft/hard attack values, a good CA bonus and low softness, this will be the backbone of my army. My standard militia units are 5*Mil and 4*Mil+AT. My standard infantry units are 3*inf+AT and 3*Mont (starting)+AT. The AT spam was ment more for the artillery practicals then anything else, but since Germany turned out to have a nice amount of Marms it will be usefull anyway. Right at this time I also started to build an actuall airforce. It was meant to be ready in May 1941, to meet a late, but likely, German attack. I will have to do without them at the start.
Obviously, the reason why I showed you my army is that finally, on the 26th (not exactly sure) of November, a few hours before the fall of Afghanistan (that would have de-mobilized us), we decide to stop waiting and declare war!!
The first progress into Romania
Germany starts its attack at Lwow
A German push for Mariampole is countered with a Soviet attack on Memel
Another attack is initiated in Northern Romania
You tell me what's wrong in this spy report!!
The German push for Lwow has been stalled (many units are being redeployed South to Romania)
The Soviet attack in the South has finally broken through, the Northern attack is about to. However, a powerfull German counterattack from the South is threatening our exposed flank
The Northern front at the end of the session. We have taken the riverline in the North and have managed to stall the Germans in the South
That's it for the session folks!
Hope you liked to finally see Soviet Union in action, quite an unusual opening for SU too! I must say most of these (minor) victories are due to the amazing job the brits have done in the West (wait for their update...)
We ended last session in September with a somewhat slow German advance into Spain. Following the German-Spanish war, Soviet Union declared war on Afghanistan as soon as the Soviet troops were deployed on the border (around mid October). Soviet advance into Afghanistan was performed as fast as possible, but still somewhat slow due to bad terrain and infrastructure.
November was coming, by that time it was believed that Germany would have been able to break the MR pact and attack us. However, a huge chunck of the German army was still tied in Spain, trying to advance towards Gibraltar. So an attack on the East was very unlikely for the time being. Nevertheless, the Soviet build-up strategy had been designed to have the red army ready and up-to-date by November the first...
Even if the Germans had broken trough the first line of defence, with some Italian help, the brits were falling back orderly and around this time they were discussing with us whether they should leave Spain or try to build a last line of defence around Gibraltar (I won't go in detail about the western front)
It was believed that a Soviet attack in the East, combined with a strong British defence of the last riverline before Gibraltar, would have caught Germany off-guard. We decided to persue this strategy, well aware of the risk of losing a big chung of the British forces. There were two factors that convinced me about the feasibility of this strategy: the war with Afghanistan, that allowed me to silently mobilize my army without the Germans noticing it, and the apparent weakness of the german front in Romania, probably due to the fact that they wanted to put their schwerpunkt in the Lwow area (in Southern Poland), where most of their panzers were, and didn't expect Romania to become an active front line. With so many German troops deployed in Western Europe we expected to be able to restrain or slow down the German attack at Lwow with the force of our numbers and heavy tanks and gain the time to deal a heavy blow to Romania...
This is the Northern front on the 5th of November. It is deployed in a strong and deep defensive position.
This is the Southern front on the same day. The Lwow region looks ok, ready to take the German punch. The Romanian region still needs to get the last reinforcements and to be deployed offensively (to be done last minute). We are still waiting some weeks because we have some upgrade to finish and we want to make sure that the English defensive line in Spain is stable enough to hold the Germans for some time.
This is our army at the end of November:
As you can see, I heavily rely on heavy armours and militia, both having a very good ratio in terms of power/officer cost. My standard Harm unit is: Harm-mot-td-ac-ac, combining a decent speed (thanks to the ac), high armour, piercing and soft/hard attack values, a good CA bonus and low softness, this will be the backbone of my army. My standard militia units are 5*Mil and 4*Mil+AT. My standard infantry units are 3*inf+AT and 3*Mont (starting)+AT. The AT spam was ment more for the artillery practicals then anything else, but since Germany turned out to have a nice amount of Marms it will be usefull anyway. Right at this time I also started to build an actuall airforce. It was meant to be ready in May 1941, to meet a late, but likely, German attack. I will have to do without them at the start.
Obviously, the reason why I showed you my army is that finally, on the 26th (not exactly sure) of November, a few hours before the fall of Afghanistan (that would have de-mobilized us), we decide to stop waiting and declare war!!
The first progress into Romania
Germany starts its attack at Lwow
A German push for Mariampole is countered with a Soviet attack on Memel
Another attack is initiated in Northern Romania
You tell me what's wrong in this spy report!!
The German push for Lwow has been stalled (many units are being redeployed South to Romania)
The Soviet attack in the South has finally broken through, the Northern attack is about to. However, a powerfull German counterattack from the South is threatening our exposed flank
The Northern front at the end of the session. We have taken the riverline in the North and have managed to stall the Germans in the South
That's it for the session folks!
Hope you liked to finally see Soviet Union in action, quite an unusual opening for SU too! I must say most of these (minor) victories are due to the amazing job the brits have done in the West (wait for their update...)
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