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Anyway the session; In China allies managed to break the Great wall only after the soviets had cut off the supply lines, though the advance was still slow.
Liberated Pacific minors are doing pretty well in the hands of AI; NZ built HQ and Australia some 9 5lvl DDs and 3 5lvl ints.
In Mediterranean sea the situation was quite worrying, cos' we had forgot/ignored it in the last session and now the Germans were taking advantage of it. I noticed the loss of islands long time after all em' where taken; not that ideal situation (UK was AI).
Now Nazis have air cover so we can't operate with our fleets, unfortunately no one told that to UK AI which arrogantly refused to let me control British forces though I had military control. 
Anti-SS fleet run into some floating vessels also, luckily it can somehow fight back and loss of one DD ain't that bad.
Meanwhile in the British Isles...
Operation to liberate Sweden and Norway had been planned long and finally American generals and admirals were confident enough to carry it out. German subs and planes were knowingly located in the Mediterranean, and thus Patton gave the operation a green light.
Some small distractions...
Bridgehead
... and quick deployment of troops.
Unsurprisingly the bombing began immediately, more powerless than expected.
Malmö was captured and fortified and so the advance to north began.
German High Command is shocked by the speed of reinfocements; in the first days there where speak about pushing allies back to sea in no time.
I realized only now that I could have taken Copenhagen before the German reinforcements came many days later. Oh well...
Patton & co. rolling...
... and rolling...
... and rolling...
Marines taking Oslo.
DD Fleets were patrolling sea zones along the ship lane to Mediterranean to make sure that any sub fleet could not interrupt troop shipments. Not even Dönitz.
Poor Dönitz...
First axis troops encircled.
Yay...
Air show by luftwaffe, keeping the morale of our men up.
Patton running wild.
Last beach to Baltic Sea.
Samurais in action.
Last WP taken 1 month after Göteborg. Generals are pleased.
Freedoooommm!
But then the Africa happened... Once I found out that there are some rares in Northern Africa, it became obvious that the Germans will try to do something. Unfortunately I though I had time to organise the beach defences after the Scandinavian campaign, and take back "lost" islands, but noo...
But we got Patton and extended range fighters ready to kick ass, yarr!
About the military control thing. The game would have to be edited so USA becomes the leader of the alliance then UK is mil controllable (If Strom is willing to move his ass and actually do it that is).
Delex: It is already modded and had no effect. Storm also deleted some AI-AI mili controls and that helped a lot, since the british ships are now the only one which do as they please. :F
Mico94: Yeah well too bad te previous owner of USA promoted Patton to highest rank so he is skill 2 now
Mico94: Yeah well too bad te previous owner of USA promoted Patton to highest rank so he is skill 2 now
oh oh i wanna know the skillz of soviet comanders! Zhukov, Rokkosovsky, Pavlov and i believe few other field marshals
I am running out of rares, so it is my only option or my IC will totally be overrun. If North Africa provides, say 20 rares a day, that would fuel 40 IC. With my policy it would be 60 daily IC. So my IC would rise from 420 to 480.
My troops are sitting around, and Barba is still 4 years away. I won't sit on my thumbs while the enemies of the Reich are getting stronger.
Easier said than done.
Even if I managed to advance past El Alamein and Alexandria, Suez is still only a desert prov behind a river, that can be attacked only from 1 prov. Max 24 divs under command limit, river and desert penalties... about 12 divs attack power. The Allies already have a heavy garrison at Suez, and even more divs guarding the shores of Israel and Syria. But still capturing Suez would do miracles for the position of the Mediterranean and the African rares.
Mälmö is the same thing, about 15 divs attack power. Currently the Allies have some 30 divs there, so not possible atm.
And landing in the Baltics vs hundreds of Soviet divs sounds like a suicide mission! :rofl:
The greatest issue is that I have only some 4 TPs. More are under production, since rapid reinforcing has become vital in this kind of warfare.
Will be done.
Heh, I have to dissapoint you on their skillz. All Soviet leaders were modded to skill 0 mj. generals in the beginning of the game. If you are patient and train them well, they will become skilled. But this Soviet player was busy to get some command limit on his invasion of Germany in -39.oh oh i wanna know the skillz of soviet comanders! Zhukov, Rokkosovsky, Pavlov and i believe few other field marshals
I will provide you some screens of their skillz after this session, which is really gonna be an exciting one for Africa.
good luck storm! and i didnt mean land in the baltics during barba, i meant against the allies in sweden. but with 4 transports, that seems unlikely. Have you started specialization yet? marines, maountaineers, paratroopers? with germanys need to have quality instead of numbers, it would make sense to invest ic into that, a small base for a CTF, and a much larger and more modern air force.
This session was a bit shorter, lasting from October -44 to the beginning of -45.
The Axis were able to expand in Africa, until they ran to a wall of massed Allied troops. Any further advance is impossible, and the Allies have the initiave. However the Axis positions are strong in tough hilly terrain, so the Allies have stayed in their positions as well. There were several naval battles, and in one of them the Axis lost all their TPs and their precious CAs and BB. Now the transport production has started from scratch, and the speed of deploying troops to Africa has slowed down considerably. The main objectives of West Africa, Algiers and Casablanca weren't reached. In Libya the precious base of Tripoli was conquered, followed by Bengazi. Tobruk was held for a short while, but later fell to the Allied masses. But the most significant sources of rares have been secured, not to mention several sources of oil. Germany suffered from a lack of rares for a short while, but has now been able to save her industry with the African rares and some trading with Finland.
Central America also became a theatre of war. For some reason Horundas left the Allies and joined the Axis. Then the powerful army of Horundas invaded the Allied El Salvador and annexed it. The other Central American States are staying neutral, but the Axis have a base of power in Central America... unless US marines show up! :rofl:
The Soviets continued their costly advance in China. At first it seemed that the Chinese could hold on forever, but then they started to have supply issues. Nanking has fallen, so the last VP prov is Shanghai. But the Red Army has taken massive casualties, and the urban environment is difficult to fight in.
In the Pacific the Soviets were more successful, puppeting Indonesia and annexing the Philippines.
The Germans should have the capacity to deliver a nuke in 3 months. The 2nd nuke will be ready in 4 months.
Also Franklin D. Roosevelt has died. Truman has taken over, and the USA even moved 1 step to authoritarian!
Horundas joins the Axis and invades El Salvador.
At the start of the African campaign, the German panzers faced heavy air bombing. One motorized division was lost, and several int squadrons had to be sent to Germany for refitting. But the Brazilian airforce was driven away.
The Soviets annex Tannu Tuva.
Guderian and Rommel quickly crush the French.
Tripoli falls without any significant resistance to Rommel's Tigers.
Germans face the first Brazilian troops. Apparently their task is to buy time for the Americans to arrive...
Brazilians holding the line.
Montgomery is totally humiliated! :rofl:
Massive air battles are fought between Horundas and El Salvador. The legend of Central American fighter aces has been born! Though the rest of the world has already moved to rocket fighters...
Dönitz's wundersubs prove to be useful. However the Allied DD mass still rules the waves...
Then the real action in Africa begins. Patton is back with his new tanks, and he is so confident after Sweden that the Germans will be driven to the sea in a matter of weeks.
But the German panzerarmies hold the line... barely.
Guderian's blitz continues, with the French Army retreating. But British troops are slowly arriving from Egypt...
The first Soviet assault on Nanking was a disaster. But the Red Army doesn't give up easily...
Sturmoviks revenge the loss by pounding the Chinese troops in Nanking.
Many Red Army soldiers found their final resting place in China.
In just 10 days the Allies have increased their size to 36 divs. Rommel is in a tough position, holding the key point of the line. Will the line hold?
The Top 12 has stayed pretty much the same during this short perioid. The Soviet IC continues to climb, while the US gained about 50 IC from her IC construction program. Germany lives on, maybe gained 2 IC from Africa!
And here are the 3 best Soviet leaders. Apparently legendary leaders like Kulik and Konev were killed in the purge. Vlassov and Zhukov have led the troops as Field Marshals for a long time. Rokossovsky is one of the skilzl masterz, being the spearhead always as a Lt.General. But still 6 years of uninterrupted fighting with massive losses in nearly every battle. You gotta respect that...
In update #2 the size of the African battles are growing fast. Dönitz sends his new wundersubs to raid the coast of Florida. Germany finally researches revolutionary jetplanes, that are superior to the unreliable rocket interceptors. Also how long can the Chinese hold on to Nanking? What is the fate of Chiang and the Chinese Dragon?
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More transports are coming on a steady phase. But all of them have to be focused on the Mediterranean. I need to get troops quickly to Africa, and even more important I need to get them quickly out of there if it comes to that.
My techteams are really busy, and in many areas behind the Allies, since they have the best teams of USA, UK and Japan to research different areas and share bps. I have started to focus a bit on marine techs to lessen the landing handicap for my inf. Also I've researched mountaineers further, since I have some good bps for them, the terrain is good, and finally I'm having more of a shortage of IC than MP.
Currently my IC is streched to the limit. Even if I manage to keep my rares up, it is only 430. 100 IC goes to supplies, 30 to consumer (and even more when there is dissent killing). That leaves me with 300 IC. Usually 10-50 IC going to reinforcements, and 200 needs to be in production, which I have been trying to reduce. So my upgrade budget is limited, at least until my European coastal forts are finished.
So now I've been trying to spare a bit with upgrading. Thanks to my mobilization techs, my drafted army is considerable, so that increases the upgrade cost. So to counter that, I've been trying to prioritize units, research 2 models ahead to reduce the cost and so on.
But the truth is, that both USA and USSR are expanding their IC capacity, because they can afford it unlike me. USSR's Army is even more outdated than the Chinese Army (they still fight with -41 inf in 1945!) :rofl: ...No offense Aknirak.
What comes to the Allies, they have superior techs as I mentioned. Then their free market makes it cheaper to produce units and upgrade. Not to mention their armies are a lot smaller, I mean USA has some 100 divs and I have 300 divs.
In the end, it's really interesting to compare the average Axis div to an Allied divs. I should make a comparison with pics and everything at some point. But in short:
Numerical superiority: The Allies really outnumber the Axis. Even though Germany has 300 divs, you should remember that nearly 100 of them are garrisons, and even more are on beach duty or reserves in Europe. The Allies need little beach guards, so with massive amounts of divs from every corner of the world, they are superior in numbers. This make attacking the Allies difficult, although decryption might help there.
Technological superiority: The Allies have more advanced divs, even with many minors. With combined research their teams are ahead, and their free market and standing army is superior compared to the Axis, along with smaller army size for invidual nations. Currently most Allied troops are dated to 43-44 stage. The Axis are more in the 41-44 stage, while the Comitern hangs around 40-43.
Organization: The Axis blitzkrieg doctrine gives them superior organization at the cost of reduced morale. So Axis troops at full org can be tough. This will become even more apparent with standing army. Most Axis troops are around 106 org, but some expert mountaineers can even be at 120 org. However since Hungary and Yugoslavia possess different land doc trees, their org is more around 90.
Morale: The Allies thanks to their infiltration docs have almost double morale, when you compare 140% to the Axis 80%. However the USA has another land doc, so they are 80% too. But especially UK and Japan have 140% morale. When they get the 1946 tech and artillery brigades, their org will be around 130% and morale 170%!!!
Fighting efficency: The Allies have the upper hand. There aren't many factors that affect fighting efficency, if we exclude leaders and xp. But night fighting is one of them, where UK and Japan are the masters of all.
Experience: The Axis have fought non-stop since 1939. The Allied campaigns have been shorter and more like occupying territory. The German soldiers still remember the Polish meatgrinder...
Leaders: The Axis have maxed their leaders. The best commanders are skill 6. But skill alone doesn't matter since you can find mountaineers, hills fighters, winter specialists, defenders, attackers, all have had their fair share of xp. But some Allied leaders aren't too bad either, especially the Japanese.
Airpower: The Allies have superior numbers of planes with superior tech. Though their airforce focuses more on air superiority, despite some Brazilian bombings. So the German Luftwaffe has learned to be really careful, especially after rocket intereptors showed up. But we shall see if this changes with the new German jets...
Naval power: The Allies are built on USA, UK and Japan, the all 3 serious naval powers of the game. German subs can raid Allied convoys and TP's. The German naval bombers can strike the Allied ships when in a safe area outside Allied planes. But the masses of Allied ships rule the waves.
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maybe if you could get a japanese player, they could join axis and distract the allies for a time. their navy could in skillful hands hold off the allies, their army is big enough to hold what they have, and theri air force could hold on to air supremacy, with most of allied attention focused on europe. unfortunatly i do not use EIR so i couldnt.