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its your AAR, i just sit here high LOLing
 
That sucks, but by all means, do an alternate history again, we'll have fun anyway.:)
 
I was actualy a bit disapointed that the climactic invasion of US failed. Maybe it's a good opportunity to make it work this time ;).
 
A quick update to say that the Five Year Plan is rapidly turning into the Ten Year plan. Damn those anarchists in higher education that mess with my scheduals for writing with essays. I'll get an update done within the month. Until then, I've been asked to promote the ARRland Awards, so please, take the time to vote comrades.


 
It is with great sadness that I have to annonce the end of this AAR. It's a two-fold issue, the corrupt nature of my saved game and the sheer slog that it is going to be against America. After I swapped to America using tags, and with 800 acutal IC (with zero rare materials!) and the biggest army in the world, and suffered numerous crashes trying to actualy play, I've thrown in the towel with this game.

I will write up a decent ending post going back to the orignal timeline (ie, American invasion of France) and round up events from my own recollections of the game, as well as give a little information on how I imagine my Soviet superpower game to turn out.

As for future AAR's, I'm up for starting another Soviet one, though if something radicaly different strikes my fancy then that might change.

As always, the support on this has been great, and I would not have got even halfway to where we are without it, so thanks to all you readers!
 
Thanks for the treat, it's been a great journey.:)
 
I'm sorry to hear about the corrupted files and even more sorry to hear this will end your AAR. I hope you come back with a new one since this one was very entertaining!
 
Workers of the World United.

Following the American landings in France, and the battles that led to the destruction of the American beachhead near Brest, sweeping changes began to take place all across the world. The fighting in France was the first campaign that American reporters had unrestricted access to film and record, and the American public at home was shaken by footage of Soviet tank attacks, air-strikes and the piles of dead bodies and destroyed equipment.

On the other side of the conflict, a certain defeatist attitude was creeping into the Kremlin and STAVKA; the view that American tamk divisions could be destroyed by the dozen, but the factories that made the tanks were impervious to harm. Despite the relaxing of war-time controls across the Soviet sphere, the population was weary of nearly twenty years of warfare.

It was ironic, that days after the American fleet had sailed westwards from the French coast carrying the few thousand soldiers lucky enough to escape the beachhead, both sides began to put forward tentative overtues towards diplomacy. The meeting ground for the seeds of peace was in Venezuela, which had achived a ideological "middle-ground" in its socialist government with capitalist oil interests.

Over the weeks that followed, the details were decided upon in shady bars in Maracaibo while the war carried on. It was a political minefield, with both sides not wishing to appear on the losing side, but desiring peace as the only thing preventing more death and the possibility of an extended nuclear exchange.

By January, 1957, the terms of the Caracas Agreement were laid out. At midnight on the 22nd of January, both the Kremlin and the White House announced a cease-fire. Two days later, Brezhnev and Eisenhower flew into Caracas to sign the Agreement to divide the world between their two nations.

The world would never be the same again. The United Kingdom became a democratic republic, with the government-in-exile in Canada returning with the King in exchange for the disarmament of the British Army and Navy. Eurasia became the Soviet zone of influence, while North and South America became the American sphere. Austrailia and New Zealand were granted independance as democratic states, in return for America declaring Hawaii a demilitarized zone. Africa was to become no-man's-land; Soviet demands for the release of colonial nations resulted in the destruction of the great European empires, while America insisted on the non-involvement of the world's two superpowers.

When the Agreement came into effect on Febuary 1st, 1957, the world afterwards was generaly at peace, despite the occasional sabre rattling that followed. By the end of the decade, both the newly formed Eurasian Union of Socialist States and America and her allies had found something better to fight over than a battlefield; the Space Race started in earnest, using rockets that only a few years before would have carried nuclear bombs.

The legacy of decades of conflict did not disapear overnight. For years afterwards, wars and guerilla warfare would continue across South America and Africa as the aftershock of the Third World War. However, the United Nations, comprising of the Soviet sphere, the American influence nations, and the collection of neutral states by and large attempted to work together to stamp out the embers of war, as enough of the world had been burned already.
 
i think its impossible for ussr to leave behind its south american allies and at the same time leave africa be, with such large empire ussr would most likely keep its strong influence isolating us and make it starve from nuclear and space programs... while ussr would undergo cultural and probably structural changes during 60s/70s reforming itself to something like irl eu
 
(Hope you don't mind this, Major.)

"In my youth, I had not seen a conflict unlike the terrors of the Third World War. Just after the second, this war ravaged the world in earnest... But even then, I am glad that since then, no conflict like it has rocked our world, so that you, my children, grandchildren and descendants are safe from the atrocities we witnessed in our lifetime."
-- Unattributed Comrade in the Japanese SSR

Just, bravo. even if you couldn't finish it in game... It's a great end.
 
i think its impossible for ussr to leave behind its south american allies and at the same time leave africa be, with such large empire ussr would most likely keep its strong influence isolating us and make it starve from nuclear and space programs... while ussr would undergo cultural and probably structural changes during 60s/70s reforming itself to something like irl eu

In all probability, yes, but with only two nuclear powers and neither side wanting to trigger the Fourth and last World War, I'd have betted on some equlibrium being reached.

(Hope you don't mind this, Major.)

"In my youth, I had not seen a conflict unlike the terrors of the Third World War. Just after the second, this war ravaged the world in earnest... But even then, I am glad that since then, no conflict like it has rocked our world, so that you, my children, grandchildren and descendants are safe from the atrocities we witnessed in our lifetime."
-- Unattributed Comrade in the Japanese SSR

Just, bravo. even if you couldn't finish it in game... It's a great end.

By all means, carry on! One thing I wanted to do but never really got around to was to develop a dozen or so characters and have them witness it from the ground up, and contrast that from our view downwards. It's a pity, because when the tanks were rolling towards Paris or troops coming ashore on the West Coast, it would have made an intersting spectacle!

Perhaps for next time...
 
America has been pretty daft in using nukes, they only targeted IC-less areas with manpower.

As for the 1066 thing, correct. Forgot about my countrymen under David II burning Dover.

Actually the Dutch invaded Britian in order to secure the throne for a Protestant (at the time a Catholic was about to take the throne, at least in inheritance order, and being at war with France and already forced to flood several cities to stop both French and Spaniard advancements he was intensely interested in keeping England out of Catholic hands) the only reason not many consider this is because of an English extenuation of the matter, namely dubbing it "The Glorious Revolution of 1688". True, many supported it but a legitimate government was ousted by foreigner arms, that meets the criteria for invasion imo (obvly historians still debate if it was an invasion based on several facts, like domestic support).

Great AAR tho!