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Hitler (Germany): Hey, Franco... you gettin’ in on this war, or what? You’ve been stalling me for months, now.
Franco (Nationalist Spain): Well... the problem is, my Army sucks. If I have to defend my Atlantic beaches... AND my Mediterranean beaches... AND deal with the Poms in Gibraltar... that doesn’t leave me much to actually help out with. It’s probably better if I just sit this out for a little while.
Mussolini (Italy): Pfah! Soon my glorious Army will drive the perfidious British out of the Suez, and the British Mediterranean Fleet will be caught like rats in a trap and destroyed... and then you can join us in our Pact of Steel!
Franco (Nationalist Spain): Yeah, well... if you can take Suez, I expect I can take Gibraltar.
Hitler (Germany): Fine... you two can work that out between you... I won’t hold my breath... I’ve got my hands full dealing with Uncle Joe. I figure I got one more month of good weather... lessee...
Hitler (Germany): ... there’s not much left of your Army, Stalin... let’s see if I can poke a few holes in it.
Hitler (Germany): ... and it’s that time again...
Stalin (USSR): Weak.
Hitler (Germany): There! Cut off another little bunch of your dudes. Are you running out yet?
Stalin (USSR): I still got lots. Oh, look... it’s starting to snow! Ready for a snowball fight, Adolf?
Hitler (Germany): Sure thing... just let me put my fuzzy mittens on...
Hitler (Germany): Wow... it IS getting a little chilly out here on the plains. I’ll bet it’s a lot warmer inside those buildings over there...
Hitler (Germany): ... cool, another one of my FM dudes got “Urban Warfare Specialist”. Not bad for an old geezer who retired in 1919. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
Stalin (USSR): Yer not gettin’ MY city!
Hitler (Germany): Sure I am... I’m gonna rename it “Adolfgrad”. Time for another little smear of Dissent...
Hitler (Germany): ... oooh! You only got a hundred of your guys left. Ready to give in? I’ll let you keep the ass-end of your country. I’ll even make you a General...
Stalin (USSR): No way! By spring, I’ll have another couple of hundred dudes built.
Hitler (Germany): Then I won’t wait for spring. I’ll just keep going. I got my Nibble-Wooshers to keep me warm... awww, man... my TC is really starting to suck... 75% SE. These Partisans of yours are mental. I guess it’s time to swap in Crazy Heinrich. No more “Mr. Nice” Power Hungry Demagogue... there! That looks a little better... 90% SE.
Mussolini (Italy): Hah-Ha! My glorious Armies are driving the cowardly British from Suez! The resurgent Roman Empire is triumphant!
Franco (Nationalist Spain): Holy Crap, Benito... did you do that all by yourself?
Mussolini (Italy): Of course, fool! Did you think the British helped me? Now join our invincible Axis alliance, and attack Gibraltar!
Franco (Nationalist Spain): You take Suez, like I said... and then I’ll think it over.
Hitler (Germany): Alright! Woo-hoo! Rommel FTW!
Hitler (Germany): ... just one more city to go! Go, Manstein!
Mahmud Jam (Persia): The Nazi aggressors have reached what used to be our borders... before Russia grabbed half of our country. This is intolerable! We must now declare war on the Fascists, and join the Allies!
Hitler (Germany): Wait, wait... your name is Jam? REALLY Jam?
Hitler (Germany): Bwa-ha-ha... Hey Benito! You attack him from that side, I’ll attack him from this side... and we’ll make a Jam sandwich!
Mussolini (Italy): Lol... with Turkey on the side!
Ismet Inöyü (Turkey): We’re neutral! We’re neutral!
Mahmud Jam (Persia): You evil men... stop making fun of my name!
Hitler (Germany): ... almost there... go, Manstein, go!
Hitler (Germany): Woo-hoo! Manstein FTW!
Hitler (Germany): How do you like me NOW, Stalin? This is your last chance... give in, and I’ll make you a General. I’ll even give you some of my Nibble-Whooshers to play with. Waddya say?
Stalin (USSR): ... mmm... I’ll think about it...
Hitler (Germany): Sure... take a couple of weeks. Not too long, though. Once I start moving again, it’s Vladivostok or bust!
Mussolini (Italy): Suez is ours! The cowardly British flee!
Mussolini (Italy): Now join us, and together we will crush these dogs!
Franco (Nationalist Spain): That’s pretty impressive... yeah, sure. I’m in.
Stalin (USSR): I guess... OK, I give. We’ll call a cease-fire... until I can build my Army up again, anyway. This ain’t over, Adolf!
Hitler (Germany): Woo-hoo! We are the greatest! We... WTF???
Tojo (Japan): <0<, 574<!|\|... ! m (u|V|!|\|6 4 u!!!11!
Hitler (Germany): Tojo, you nut-case... If you’d done that yesterday, you would have gotten all of Siberia for free, and a forced peace settlement!
Tojo (Japan): |)0|\|7 VV4|\|7 p34(3... ! VV4|\|7 VV(.
Hitler (Germany): You’re mental, Tojo. Looks like I’ll have to race you.
Franco (Nationalist Spain): Well... the problem is, my Army sucks. If I have to defend my Atlantic beaches... AND my Mediterranean beaches... AND deal with the Poms in Gibraltar... that doesn’t leave me much to actually help out with. It’s probably better if I just sit this out for a little while.
Mussolini (Italy): Pfah! Soon my glorious Army will drive the perfidious British out of the Suez, and the British Mediterranean Fleet will be caught like rats in a trap and destroyed... and then you can join us in our Pact of Steel!
Franco (Nationalist Spain): Yeah, well... if you can take Suez, I expect I can take Gibraltar.
Hitler (Germany): Fine... you two can work that out between you... I won’t hold my breath... I’ve got my hands full dealing with Uncle Joe. I figure I got one more month of good weather... lessee...
Hitler (Germany): ... there’s not much left of your Army, Stalin... let’s see if I can poke a few holes in it.
Hitler (Germany): ... and it’s that time again...
Stalin (USSR): Weak.
Hitler (Germany): There! Cut off another little bunch of your dudes. Are you running out yet?
Stalin (USSR): I still got lots. Oh, look... it’s starting to snow! Ready for a snowball fight, Adolf?
Hitler (Germany): Sure thing... just let me put my fuzzy mittens on...
Hitler (Germany): Wow... it IS getting a little chilly out here on the plains. I’ll bet it’s a lot warmer inside those buildings over there...
Hitler (Germany): ... cool, another one of my FM dudes got “Urban Warfare Specialist”. Not bad for an old geezer who retired in 1919. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
Stalin (USSR): Yer not gettin’ MY city!
Hitler (Germany): Sure I am... I’m gonna rename it “Adolfgrad”. Time for another little smear of Dissent...
Hitler (Germany): ... oooh! You only got a hundred of your guys left. Ready to give in? I’ll let you keep the ass-end of your country. I’ll even make you a General...
Stalin (USSR): No way! By spring, I’ll have another couple of hundred dudes built.
Hitler (Germany): Then I won’t wait for spring. I’ll just keep going. I got my Nibble-Wooshers to keep me warm... awww, man... my TC is really starting to suck... 75% SE. These Partisans of yours are mental. I guess it’s time to swap in Crazy Heinrich. No more “Mr. Nice” Power Hungry Demagogue... there! That looks a little better... 90% SE.
Mussolini (Italy): Hah-Ha! My glorious Armies are driving the cowardly British from Suez! The resurgent Roman Empire is triumphant!
Franco (Nationalist Spain): Holy Crap, Benito... did you do that all by yourself?
Mussolini (Italy): Of course, fool! Did you think the British helped me? Now join our invincible Axis alliance, and attack Gibraltar!
Franco (Nationalist Spain): You take Suez, like I said... and then I’ll think it over.
Hitler (Germany): Alright! Woo-hoo! Rommel FTW!
Hitler (Germany): ... just one more city to go! Go, Manstein!
Mahmud Jam (Persia): The Nazi aggressors have reached what used to be our borders... before Russia grabbed half of our country. This is intolerable! We must now declare war on the Fascists, and join the Allies!
Hitler (Germany): Wait, wait... your name is Jam? REALLY Jam?
Hitler (Germany): Bwa-ha-ha... Hey Benito! You attack him from that side, I’ll attack him from this side... and we’ll make a Jam sandwich!
Mussolini (Italy): Lol... with Turkey on the side!
Ismet Inöyü (Turkey): We’re neutral! We’re neutral!
Mahmud Jam (Persia): You evil men... stop making fun of my name!
Hitler (Germany): ... almost there... go, Manstein, go!
Hitler (Germany): Woo-hoo! Manstein FTW!
Hitler (Germany): How do you like me NOW, Stalin? This is your last chance... give in, and I’ll make you a General. I’ll even give you some of my Nibble-Whooshers to play with. Waddya say?
Stalin (USSR): ... mmm... I’ll think about it...
Hitler (Germany): Sure... take a couple of weeks. Not too long, though. Once I start moving again, it’s Vladivostok or bust!
Mussolini (Italy): Suez is ours! The cowardly British flee!
Mussolini (Italy): Now join us, and together we will crush these dogs!
Franco (Nationalist Spain): That’s pretty impressive... yeah, sure. I’m in.
Stalin (USSR): I guess... OK, I give. We’ll call a cease-fire... until I can build my Army up again, anyway. This ain’t over, Adolf!
Hitler (Germany): Woo-hoo! We are the greatest! We... WTF???
Tojo (Japan): <0<, 574<!|\|... ! m (u|V|!|\|6 4 u!!!11!
Hitler (Germany): Tojo, you nut-case... If you’d done that yesterday, you would have gotten all of Siberia for free, and a forced peace settlement!
Tojo (Japan): |)0|\|7 VV4|\|7 p34(3... ! VV4|\|7 VV(.
Hitler (Germany): You’re mental, Tojo. Looks like I’ll have to race you.
The dazzling brilliance of Tojo's move is this:
If he had declared war on Comintern even ONE day earlier, he would have gotten Siberia in the Bitter Peace settlement, without firing a shot... but Siberia isn't worth much, and he would also have gotten a forced 18-month peace treaty.
Instead, he waited and declared war on Comintern THE DAY AFTER the Bitter Peace fired... while most of the Russian Army is stuck in SR mode, being evacuated from the German-annexed provinces. He can invade them along the entire front, from Sinkiang to Vladivostok... and they can only oppose him with about a third of their (already badly mauled) forces. All the rest will be stuck in the SR queue for a month or so.
Tojo has no interest in a cheap Siberian conquest followed by a forced peace... he's obviously going flat-out for World Conquest.
If he had declared war on Comintern even ONE day earlier, he would have gotten Siberia in the Bitter Peace settlement, without firing a shot... but Siberia isn't worth much, and he would also have gotten a forced 18-month peace treaty.
Instead, he waited and declared war on Comintern THE DAY AFTER the Bitter Peace fired... while most of the Russian Army is stuck in SR mode, being evacuated from the German-annexed provinces. He can invade them along the entire front, from Sinkiang to Vladivostok... and they can only oppose him with about a third of their (already badly mauled) forces. All the rest will be stuck in the SR queue for a month or so.
Tojo has no interest in a cheap Siberian conquest followed by a forced peace... he's obviously going flat-out for World Conquest.
How are You going to do that dont You have an agreement with Mr.Stalin.... (I think we have seen this before.....?). So You break the peace agreement and start the war again vs. russia?
Next update pls. this game is driving me mad! :rofl:
Next update pls. this game is driving me mad! :rofl:
Nice move by Tojo!!
And I even understood all of the leet with little difficulty!
Anyways, would you really make Stalin a General if he surrendered?
I can see it now, Feld Marschal Stalin...
And I even understood all of the leet with little difficulty!
Anyways, would you really make Stalin a General if he surrendered?
I can see it now, Feld Marschal Stalin...
It's certainly time for a planning session.twcAxeman said:
I've put the USSR out of the war... and Tojo is likely to put them out of the game entirely. The UK has been immobilized (but not defeated) by the mass destruction of their Convoys. My main opponents and potential opponents are now:
1) The UK and Commonwealth (Canada, India, Australia, etc).
2) The USA... and they will be HUGE, since Tojo geared them up completely before the European war even started.
3) Tojo... there isn't enough room on this planet for TWO crazy dictators bent on world domination.
I should probably try to take them out in that order... UK first, then the USA, then Tojo. Unfortunately... I haven't built my fleet yet, except for my 88 surviving U-Boat flotillas (out of 100 built) and one 30-ship fleet of light vessels, mostly DDs.
I can certainly take out the UK and India with the weak Navy that I have now... but in Mod-34, an invasion of the British Home Islands will usually trigger an immediate USA DoW.
It is now the end of 1940. I propose to take India during the Winter and Spring of '40-41, then the UK in Spring or Summer.
I am three techs away from Air Cav. I propose to spend the winter upgrading my forces (I still have some pre-war Infantry in the line!), and then spend 1941 building a Cruizerg Navy and a bunch of Helicopters... maybe some Mech Infantry as well. Then in 1942... Invasion USA.
Any comments or suggestions from my Advisors?
Plan sounds fine to me, although I want to see a killer navy soon, show Roosevelt and Hirohito who is boss!! 
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oYeah, I'm interested in seeing how a cruizerg navy deals with the American carrier navy. Since you are trying to be the most dominant crazy dictator, you need to pick up the small pieces, too. Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, that sort of thing, but you really want to get India before Tojo. That crazy warmonger might try to mop it up before you can get to it.
Good fun!
-- Beppo
Good fun!
-- Beppo
Yeah, sounds like a plan.
Let Tojo mix it up with the US before you get dragged into it. Maybe they'll destroy each other in a massive 30+ CV combat that leaves heavily damaged DDs as the only survivors...
Let Tojo mix it up with the US before you get dragged into it. Maybe they'll destroy each other in a massive 30+ CV combat that leaves heavily damaged DDs as the only survivors...
I don't suppose Air Cavalry can cross the English channel without boats? That would be such an awesome image. A fleet of Nazi Helicopters flying over the Channel...
Pretty sure they are treated as Land units. It's a pity, though.HannibalBarca said:
Too bad, I can imagine Jap Air Cavalry blitzing America.....
Reminds me of Iron Sky....
Reminds me of Iron Sky....
Aww, no carriers? I find it pretty easy to have Base Strike relatively up to date and thus killer carrier fleets in my Germany games, but I am not sure how persuing that path would work in mod34.
Anywho, best of luck in the naval war and certianly make sure to devote some IC to upgrades for Sealion and the coming slog through the Americas and Asia.
Anywho, best of luck in the naval war and certianly make sure to devote some IC to upgrades for Sealion and the coming slog through the Americas and Asia.
Carriers require a very long lead-time, both in Tech research and in construction. Cruizergs are far faster and cheaper... I can have a servicable Cruizerg Navy ready about 18 months before I would have a CV Navy ready. Also... it's only 1940 ATM... Carriers are unimpressive compared to gunships at this early stage of the war. I may be in Washington before CVs really become powerful in 1943-44.germanpeon said:
I liked the commentary back and forth between the author, Mussolini, and Franco...very much like some mp games I played back in the day. At least Stalin didn't go out like a noob, but took his licks like a man, and is planning to make a come-back. I wonder what he said when Tojo declared on him one day after the bitter peace event? Now THAT I would have killed to see a video of!
That said...you'd better hurry up Blue Emu...or Tojo's going to conquer the world first!
TheExecuter
That said...you'd better hurry up Blue Emu...or Tojo's going to conquer the world first!
TheExecuter
:rofl: Mahmud Jam is awesome - Silent Workhorse, and Persia needs all the help she can get!blue emu said:
Did Italy really make an amphibious landing on the Levantine coast?!?!