Wohoooo daily updates for a month, whenever his internetz will be back. \o/
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Hello, I have been following your game since a long time ago and it´s the best aar i have seen (except Rome Aarisen maybe)
I have been asking myself something: why did you not try a sealion operation?
I´m new with HoI3, but a veteran of HoI2 and i always did it before Barbarossa for assuring my west flank.
PS: I have heard that it was consider gamey because it was very easy to make in the game debt to the AI. Is this the reason?
Question: Why are you using the 'native' names of those cities, when there are perfectly servicable German ones? Brünn instead of Brno and Mährisch-Ostrau instead of Ostrava would be the proper way to call them.
Also, did I mention I would really really enjoy a HoI3-Mod that changes province names according to whoever controls them?
Nerdgasm!
What is a sun?
The Yellow thing that one does not see very often in Finland.
The point would be to occupy Crete before the British attempt to get away, although I admit that the AI very rarely tries to ship out units, it would make their supply runs a little more difficult. Plus, it would enable the Italians to annex Greece, if they should decide to attack Athens after all.
On the other hand, the paras might show their worth later on in drops near the Suez, to cut off the British. Then again, this is really an Italian theatre and who knows if the Führer would want to get sidetracked with events in supposedly Italian Mare Nostrum.
Great update as usual! It's good to see things are back to normal and you're enjoying yourself, Uriah!
It's only October '40. The tentative date for Barbarossa seems to be just before April, so that leaves roughly 4 months. When I suggested bombing the British in North Africa, my thinking was inline with yours: use the time for asymmetric ops in the Med. Low-investment, high-yeild stuff. Taking Crete is a win-win: removes supply/withdrawal route, gives the Germans an airbase to support the Italian advance on the NA coast, removes airfields threatening petrol supply during Barbarossa. Although the last one seems more relevant to the narrative than the AI!
Hello again folks!
The navy is back from leave, so a late happy new year@all!
@Baltasar:
It is a 7,9mm MG 245/1(n) [or 245/2(n), this is impossible to see on a photo. This was the german designation for captured norwegian Colt Browning M 1917 machine guns. It looks very much like a sMG 08 (not the "light" 08/15, which looks different because it has a shoulder stock, a pistol grip with trigger compared to the one fired with both thumbs on the sMG08 or the 245/1(n) and the 08/15 is aircooled, not watercooled). Also the belt on the 08 is fed from the right side of the weapon, in the picture you can see that this gun is fed from the left. And the barrel muzzle on the 245/1(n) is much thicker (I think it´s a case) than that of the 08. What also speaks for a captured norwegian weapon is the landscape, it looks pretty much like Norway.
It can´t be a Vickers (7,92mm sMG 216(r) or 7,7mm sMG 230(e), (r) or 7,7mm sMG 231(h) in German service), because on these the cooling case around the barrel
has channels (for better cooling effects) , not a clean surface like on the 08 or 245/1(n).
@GhostWriter: thank you very much for you kind words about my service in the navy! Glad to hear that (which is not the rule...). And thank you for your time in Germany back in the sixties!
@Uriah: don´t worry having a German native speaker from the navy here. I´ll give you "my two cents" about the last naval battles in a further post. I think for today it´s enough about
German weapons. But you are lucky! Beeing in the navy for 20 years means not automatically knowledge abou tactics and history but fortunately for you military and naval history is
my greatest hobby.....
Just a short one: it´s Mittelmeer not Mittelsee for the Med Sea in German. (another part of the "is the language logic discussion", because the Baltic Sea is the Ostsee.....)
Nice game Uriah, a buddy of mine had something similar years ago.
A spring Barbarossa...wasn't it originally set in OTL in the middle of May?
To avoid the worst of the "rasputitsa"?
My apologies for forgetting about your AAR.
In the picture of Bayerlein's train set/model, the kid looks like if he's about to attack the photographer
And I'm guessing that that is your room, and if i'm correct, then you have a LOT of books - more than me at least.
Finally an Italian advance! And the Japanese have finally taken Jinan! It's a miracle!
It seems that taking Gibraltar was the right course of action to prop up your neighbour to the south.
In case you didn't hear, it looks like there is going to be a new expansion coming out focusing on Barbarossa. I bet it will be out just in time for your barbarossa in this AAR
I've received a message by pigeon from our redoubtable little clerk. I don't quite understand it, but he asked me to pass it on; something about "Sorry for the lack of diary entries of late, but my internet[?] is down. Normal service should resume in a few days."
There was a bit more, but the handwriting was rather small - the sign of a disturbed mind, I believe - and smeared with pigeon-poop. Make of it what you will.
[BTW, in the pic of the Normandy game did anyone note the hefty scissors and square in the lower left? Yes, that's what Uriah uses to cut his counters out. Frankly, sometimes he frightens me.]
Pigeon? He can afford pigeons? Why, back in my day, we used plucked chickens,
and then only after removing the drumsticks!
These young wippersnappers have it too easy.
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Wohoooo daily updates for a month, whenever his internetz will be back. \o/
*waits impatiently*
Do not send too many units to the soviet border, or they will break the NAP and dow.
I can almost hear the wheels grind in the factories. It will be a busy 5? months... But to get the best equipment out against the soviet hordes is a necessity.
What is the state of research in armor?
Supply is key in the east and Bayerlein's request didn't come a day too soon
It's nice to see a shift from a combat heavy report to a more economic/industrial one.
Would be just Spielzimmer.
Since you mentioned the upgrading of al TAC and NAV wings, I'd consider not upgrading them now. First of all, your tech levels will be better than those of the Soviets, so it is not immediately neccessary. Secondly, I still feel that the Wehrmacht has way too few boots on the ground to take on the behemoth known as Red Army. Even your best estimates calculate at least 200 divisions and OB Ost will have less then half than that. While you do have Allies, their combat worth is questionable as can be seen in Greece and North Africa where the Italians somehow manage to get stuck despite all odds in their favor.
Delaying the upgrade to newer planes will free up considerable production capabilities and should be used for either more important upgrades (infantry, tanks, artillery) or new units (you should be able to get infantry divisions done by March).
Congratulations to Admiral Raeder and his squadron. The appearance of the Kriegsmarine in the central Med should raise an eyebrow or two in London. However, he should be informed that fuel is to be prioritised for the other branches soon. Since he will not recieve new ships anytime soon, he has to take care of what he has at his disposal, meaning that the damaged ships need to be brought home for repairs is his current primary duty.
Goering can also be proud of his boys, they're giving the Brits quite a beating over the channel. He should intensify operations here to inflict as many losses on the RAF as possible as long as the ratio is in your favor. Once Barbarossa starts, he'll have considerably fewer fighers available and cutting down the RAF now means that you gets a larger window of peace where the RAF will be busy replacing losses instead of harassing continental Europe.
Actually it is a gaming room, not a game room. But yeah, we do like to create complicated new words out of old ones by combining, rearranging and declining them...Thanks : I thought that might be it but in Englsih it would be a "games room" and not a game room". There is a shocking lack of consistency in the world's languages. Babel has a lot to answer for.
All infantry (bar garrisons) and armour are upgraded, as are all interceptors. I am producing lots new units, but MP is now a problem. I am on about 850, with expectations of massive lossses in the first few weeks of Barbarossa. I am prepared to take MP lower, but I will see how it stands at 1 January before committing to mass increases. Bear in mind that soon I will be able to expand to 5 regiment divisions: that will chew up MP as I make my "strike" armies more potent by adding support regiments. I currently have 530 regiments in the Heer: maybe another 30-40 in production. So close to 175 divisions, of which about at least 130 will be available for Russia.
The sun is a glowing ball of heat that shines all year round (except at night). It ensures that we become sun-bronzed Aussies and burns pale northern interlopers (and Tasmanians).
I thought the AI would not break the NAP? I know that after the expiry date there is a chance of an attack if I am too threatening, but are you sure the computer can break a pact?
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Thanks : I thought that might be it but in Englsih it would be a "games room" and not a game room". There is a shocking lack of consistency in the world's languages. Babel has a lot to answer for.
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After the initial period, the NA seems to run until one side or the other decides to end it. I am pretty sure there is a minimum safe period, but I am not sure if that is 2 or 3 years, probably 2.
Here in the States we call it a game room. Most of ours spouses would call it a mess and a waste of space.
Glad to see you back on line.