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Thurak said:
There would be a border between Kirkuk and Tabriz - SU occupies northern Persia at start of ´44 scenario.


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Guess not
 
Nathan Madien said:
I can imagine that, Remble. :p

Langley: Hi, everyone! We're here!
Pensacola: I hope you saved enough seaweed for us!

Meanwhile on the bottom of the North Atlantic...

Titanic: I'm lonely. :(

:rofl: :rofl:

Brilliant :D
 
Krogzar said:
:rofl: :rofl:

Brilliant :D

Agreed.


Nice update though.

Central American Transports=Pwned

Partisan Militia=Pwned

Numerous Enemy Divisions=Pwned

Your doing pretty good this update. :cool:
 
Krogzar said:
:rofl: :rofl:

Brilliant :D

Thank you. :) I wanted to shed light on an very important matter. With the bottom of the Pacific turning into one big party for all those sunken warships, the Titanic is rather lonely sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic with nothing to do. I think it would be nice if Remble somehow sank an Allied warship in the Atlantic to give the Titanic some much-needed company.
 
Nathan Madien said:
Thank you. :) I wanted to shed light on an very important matter. With the bottom of the Pacific turning into one big party for all those sunken warships, the Titanic is rather lonely sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic with nothing to do. I think it would be nice if Remble somehow sank an Allied warship in the Atlantic to give the Titanic some much-needed company.

What about the Bismarck? :rofl: Ok it wasn´t sunk by Remble but i don´t think the titanic is alone...

btw: we could make a communist party for all those destroyed soviet divisions?

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Communist Party :D
 
Thurak said:
There would be a border between Kirkuk and Tabriz - SU occupies northern Persia at start of ´44 scenario.

The Soviet Union does indeed start the '44 campaign with Northern Iran. The thing is that there is an event that triggers when Germany surrenders asking if the Soviets want to give up northern Iran, and the AI did.
 
Kanitatlan said:
Does that mean you are manually setting a single operation every day to make sure they are on the ground at 00:00. Micro-management nightmare time :wacko:

It is real hard work optimising every little detail isn't it.
He's been doing this for quite some time, to get the planes upgraded an on active duty at the same time. Talk about klicks!
 
Nice going in the Middle East. It never ceases to amaze me how much a human player can do with but a handful of divisions. This is one of the reasons I like to play minors so much.

Regarding your bombers in Kuweit: don't they attack the Allied startegic bombers? Or would they only do so, if they had escorts?

And I know what Rear-Admiral Sherman is looking for with is single, unescorted carrier: trouble!
 
Inner Circle said:
What about the Bismarck? :rofl: Ok it wasn´t sunk by Remble but i don´t think the titanic is alone...

btw: we could make a communist party for all those destroyed soviet divisions?

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Communist Party :D

Well, the Titanic is British and the Bismarck is German. They would probably just argue about who had it worse.

Titanic: At least I wasn't damaged by antique airplanes!
Bismarck: Oh, and I suppose hitting an iceberg on your first voyage is somehow better?

The Communist Party... :rofl:
 
Sokraates said:
Regarding your bombers in Kuweit: don't they attack the Allied startegic bombers? Or would they only do so, if they had escorts?

The only time aircraft intercept one another is if one of them was on air superiority in the area. Otherwise no battle between them would occur. Even if the Tact. Bombers had escorts.

Good job so far Remble, keep it up and the Soviets will crack soon.
 
Panzer6 said:
The only time aircraft intercept one another is if one of them was on air superiority in the area. Otherwise no battle between them would occur. Even if the Tact. Bombers had escorts.

Good job so far Remble, keep it up and the Soviets will crack soon.

Ah ... *lighbulb turns on*. Thanks for explaining.
 
*pant pant* You got any idea how long it takes to read up on this thing?
There should be a law against AARs with more than a hundred pages...

or not.. :D

Remble, although I loved your German AAR (read it after it was done, I believe, though not entirely certain), this one is simply magnificent..

To picture you slaving over the details and minuscule bits and pieces makes me wonder if you ought to have 'AAR Workhorse' as your costum title.. or something like David's Evil Twin or some such.. David and Goliath that is, the slingshot and all..

I am amazed, utterly stupified and countless similar words, which my diseased-ridded mind cannot recall at the time being..

I stand in awe, simply awe... *bows*

This is truly the morning sunshine for the Empire of the Rising Sun.. :)
 
What is the Titanic whining about?

It has countless sunk ships, plus ships sunk by the German wolfpacks.

It also has ships sunk in the Battle of Jutland, and the German fleet that made it's late war sortie.

Really, the Titanic is fine.
 
safferli - Baghdad is close yes. The oil won't be going to Japan as I am a little cunning. I disabled the oil pick up from the convoy heading from Kuwait to Japan. This saves me needing to restock oil as there will be a stockpile on hand. With some luck Iraq and India will link up at some point and this oil will then go to my main stockpile in Asia which is in Tangshan on the border with Manchuria.

Kanitatlan, safferli - Correct I am manually targetting them every day. I did the same for my CAS when they needed to upgrade and will do so again for their next upgrade. My life would be simpler if I was using 4 size wings but I am using smaller ones to spread experience around so that I have 4 well trained commanders for the next set of TAC's.

Thurak, alan_le_cowboy, I Killed Kenny, Panzer6 - Persia was indeed handed back by the Soviets some time after the fall of Germany. I had a look in the game history but couldn't find the exact date in amongst the large amount of information. I will look in more depth when I have the time. Therefore I can annex Iraq without obtaining a border with the Soviets and will do if possible. Where I might go after that remains to be seen.

alan_le_cowboy - Syria does indeed look to be neutral but it is at War and has been for some time. This looks like a little bit of a bug as Syria is a French puppet as is Lebanon. Both are at War with me and neither shows up as being so in the Allies screen.

Nathan Madien - Very funny :D

robou - The Soviets have not shown any willingness to move into the area yet but the door is still wide open in India if they want to.

Maj. von Mauser - Thank you. February started off fairly well for me :)

Inner Circle - :D

Sokraates, Panzer6 - Thanks. It takes few divisions to advance with when you have bombers on your side to help :) Panzer6 is correct as always in that aircraft should not attack eachother unless one or other is on an air superiority mission. I have had some occasions where transitting American fighters hit my own aircraft during naval patrols which shouldn't happen. Mr. Sherman finds the trouble he is looking for.

Doge Robert - Thank you very much and welcome aboard :) My apologies for the length of this AAR which is, of course, all the fault of the various people who post frequently in this thread and is nothing to do with my own small contribution :D

Update to follow ...
 
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0600 February 6th 1947.
Kwantung Army Headquarters. Mukden, China.

Field Marshall Terauchi was considering his options as he watched the Red Army forces move around the front line. His main problem would be predicting the enemies next move in Manchuria. Plenty of other things kept him occupied while he thought things through.​

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The two Soviet Armoured divisions in Xinjing had begun to dig in and were causing a few problems for the Dive bombers. General Ando led nine Japanese divisions forward to make life easier for the bombers as the enemy Armour was forced to retreat. Xinjing province was one place that Terauchi really did not want a large Soviet force to muster as it allowed a possible envelopment against his own position in Mukden.​





0800 February 6th 1947.
Naval Offices. Tokyo, Japan.

Ozawa was covering a very large area of operations as the Commander of the Pacific fleet so Osami decided to allocate the seas around Japan to his own offices as well as Operation Tedious.​

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The spotting of Admiral Sherman by Siamese Naval bombers in the Izu Trench came as somewhat of a surprise and highlighted the problem with the Allies still controlling Attu Island. Apparently the more modern American ships had the range to reach mainland Japan from that small island.​

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Twenty two hours later USS Princeton was spotted again, this time in the Tsushima Strait between Japan and Korea. Admiral Kuroshima and his Destroyer fleet was stationed in the area to prevent Soviet Submarines from transitting towards Vladivostok and would respond to the sighting by Siamese Tactical bombers. Four hours later and the USS Princeton was almost totally destroyed as the Destroyers managed to close and attack with some success. The Siamese bombers would be allowed to chase the fleeing Admiral Sherman and try to finish the job.​





0600 February 7th 1947.
The Skies Above Magadan.

Shima and his repairing bombers had managed to destroy one division in Okhotsk and went in search of more fairly easy prey as they continued to recover their strength.​

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The province of Magadan turned out to contain one enemy Headquarters and two Armoured divisions which would keep Shima occupied for some time to come. Enemy Armour was right at the top of the priority bombing list.​





0600 February 7th 1947.
North China Army Headquarters. Lanzhou, China.

Enemy forces moving towards the invasion in the Middle East needed to be neutralised and the only weapon Higashikuni had to do such a thing was the Tactical bomber group of Kondo.​

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Najaf would be his target for today as he went after the Motorised division in the province. Kondo would have plenty of targets for some time to come by the looks of things to the north west.​

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At 0700 hours Higashikuni received another report, from Naval Headquarters, to inform him of the sinking of a British Destroyer Division in Gwatar Bay at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. IJN Hiyo would claim the kill as Allied shipping slowly began to take more interest in the area.​

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An Iraqi Infantry division moved into Nasiriyah province to the south of Baghdad towards the early morning. Nishihara would force it to retreat fairly quickly and the fleeing division would be destroyed long before it could manage to return to Baghdad.​
 
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0000 February 8th 1947.
Naval Offices. Tokyo, Japan.

Unfortunately the Siamese Tactical bomber squadron had not managed to sink the USS Princeton which forced Osami to make other plans for Admiral Sherman.​

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Admiral Koga and BC Division 1 left Tokyo and headed north to intercept the fast moving enemy Light Carrier. Sherman and Koga appeared to be on a collision course.​

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At 1000 hours BC Division 1 encountered the USS Princeton in the Tsugaru Strait with only one possible outcome. In under an hour the American ship was sunk as the combined firepower of two Battlecruisers and two Light Carriers targetted the striken vessel. The Light Carrier IJN Taiyo would caim the final blow.​

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Meanwhile, Carrier Group C had moved south after sinking the British Destroyer Division as they went in search of the enemy ships hiding in Mascate harbour. One of the two Canadian Transport Flotillas would survive but the Empress of Australia would sink to aircraft from IJN Hiyo.​





1000 February 8th 1947.
Kwantung Army Headquarters. Mukden, Manchukuo.

Some updated intelligence information was required for some of the more established Soviet positions in Manchuria.​

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Liaoyuan province had been under the enemies control for some time and the last reported enemy army size had been twenty two divisions. This number had shrunk to twelve as the Red Army responded to the invasions around Vladivostok and Sakhalin Island.​

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Further west another attack was ordered against Erenhot where a Headquarters division had been spotted. The Dive bombers from Beiping would ensure it did not leave alive.​

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Two Soviet Motorised divisions would follow the Armour into Xinjing province where they were immediately attacked by Nakajima and his Dive bombers. There was once again a very large enemy force mustering in and moving through Harbin and Ulan Hot provinces.​





2300 February 10th 1947.
BB Division 1 Flagship. IJN Yamato, Gulf of Mannar.

BB Division 1 had not encountered much enemy activity since arriving on station off the coast of Ceylon but Ozawa was expecting American ships to show up periodically.​

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Soviet Submarines would in fact be the first enemy fleet to be encountered. The hopelessly outdated Submarines suffered badly as the Light Carriers of BB Division 1 easily picked two of them off. The Light Carrier IJN Hosho would claim both 1 and 3. Flotiliya Podlodok.​





0900 February 11th 1947.
North China Army Headquarters. Lanzhou, China.

Despite some increased resistance in Iraq Japanese ground forces continued their advance and claimed more enemy territory.​

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Nishihara had arrived in Nasiriyah and reported that the Iraqi capital contained two enemy divisions which would require some support to attack. Higashikuni would have to await further advances before he could order such an attack. Increasing numbers of enemy Strategic bombers were systematically destroying anything that did not move across the entire invasion area.​





0000 February 12th 1947.
Industry Offices. Tokyo, Japan.

Ginjiro looked up as he heard a knock on his door. Foreign Minister Mamoru had come to pay a visit at his request.

"Good morning Minister Mamoru." he greeted the diplomat. "I take it you brought with you what I asked?"

"Morning. Yes I did. How about you enlighten me on why you wanted me to bring some of my tea stocks over to your office?"

"I thought we deserved a little celebration."

"Oh?"​

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Ginjiro slid over the latest report on Industrial output and Resources so that Mamoru could read it.

"That is what we call a miracle in Diplomatic circles and is well worth celebrating." said Mamoru.

"I was fairly sure you would see it that way." Ginijro replied with a grin.​
 
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wow remble,

positive energy flow, congratz!!!
 
Positive energy for Japan? I call that witchcraft, not diplomacy. :)

In any case: good update and good going!