Bummer about the loss of those carriers and transports. Now you know how I feel playing as Japan with a vastly outnumbered fleet and no replacement ships if the current ones are sunk. But then again you can afford to replace your ships, I can't. 
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-Dietrich ran up the stairs. At the top he ran towards the center room and kicked in the door. At one time it had apparently been a dining room. In the center was an oak table that was lined with chairs. Glass cabinets lined the beautifully adorned walls, most were empty but there were small remains of fine silverware left behind in the rush to vacate.
Dietrich moved quickly to the window and looked out. Satisfied he gestured to the person behind him and they moved the table to one end, with its top resting against the wall.
"Set up the machine gun here and fire at anyone moving down that road. If you see any trucks, wait until either a second truck appears or the first one makes it past there." He pointed to a building halfway between their position and a bend in the road. The Building they were in sat at the center top of a 'T' intersection, providing a clear field of fire down the length of the road, until the road turned a corner. The road itself was lined with tightly packed houses on either side.
While the machine gun crew set up, Dietrich turned to another man. "Stay here. Provide cover for them and you are to get them more ammo if needed." The man nodded and Dietrich ran to check on some of the other positions. He made it just outside when a soldier carrying a panzerfaust tried to run by. Dietrich grabbed him by the collar and hauled him inside.
"What unit are you with?" He demanded. The soldier started to reply but Dietrich cut him off. "Doesn't matter, come with me." Dietrich had him follow further up the building to the room over the dining room. He pointed at the window "You fire at any vehicles that come down that road after the first one- got it?" He barley waited for a reply as he ran back down stairs and outside. He gathered the rest of the men and split them in two groups. He had them run down two small alleys parallel to the stem of the 'T' intersection. He had one group take cover along the houses lining the left side of the 'T'. Further down the road the 'T' took a right and turned into an 'L'. It was at the right end of this 'L' that he and the rest of him men waited.
After about 10 minutes there was a rumble as four British trucks started moving towards the first bend in the 'L', past where Dietrich and his men were. The British were moving quickly to try to shore up their lines to the east of Birmingham.
As the first truck turned the corner he tensed. As the second turned the corner there was a slight delay followed by an explosion as the panzerfaust ripped into the second truck. This was quickly followed by the chatter of the machine gun. The two trucks still behind the corner stopped and disgorged their troops. As they moved into positions along the right of the 'L' they were engaged by the second group of Dietrich's men.
Still Dietrich waited. He did not want his men caught in the crossfire.
With two of their trucks now destroyed and apparently coming up against prepared positions, the British fell back to the base of the 'L'. Whether it was to take up defensive positions there or to fall back Dietrich didn't know but they were moving back past Dietrich's position. He now took aim at the man furthest back (closest to their position) and opened fire, dropping the man. He picked another target then another with the rest of his men doing the same. Seeing that they were nearly surrounded and caught in the open the surviving British dropped their weapons and raised their hands in surrender.
The fire quickly stopped and Dietrich moved from his place of concealment to take them captive with a wolfish smile on his face……
The British were just unprepared for the assault on Birmingham. Five well experienced and highly trained mountain and paratrooper divisions led the attack from the north. Armored supporting attacks were made from the east. Experts in Urban warfare, the paratroopers overwhelmed the two British divisions there
The British retreated to London and the Germans followed. The British were only able to call in a single division for reinforcement. In an almost identical assault strategy to the Birmingham attack the British were pushed out of London as well. There had just not been enough time to recall troops from Africa or Asia. With London taken, it was only a matter of time before Germany controlled all of England.
As this was evident to everyone, Germany continued to expand its long ranged plans with its new bomber technology
In response to the German advance to the south and west the evacuation of 'Carrier England' commenced. Even so several airfields were over-run with hundreds of planes still on the ground. There had simply not been enough room at any airfield in range to house the planes and they had to be left behind. The Luftwaffe also had some say in the matter as well as they proweled the skies looking for their adversaries. Allied estimates put the number at somewhere around 45% of Allied fighter strength and 33% of Allied bomber strength was lost in the evacuation
Several Allied divisions tried to make a stand in Portsmouth, but they just had no chance. The Germans were too numerous, especially their armor, to which the Allies in Portsmouth had none of their own
(Note: look at the massive materials increase. Yay! I never have to worry about oil again!!!)
By September 8th, for all intents and purposes, England was secure. Attempts were made to occupy Stonrway, but the Allied navy intervened and it was decided to leave the island be. With so many of their core provinces, the British had lost 330 of their 345 ICs in less than a month
The Royal Navy was still out there (although its ability to re-supply was in doubt) but the effectiveness of the British Army was at an end, having been left with no ability to train new units, reinforce or upgrade existing and maybe not even the ability to supply themselves.
Dietrich moved quickly to the window and looked out. Satisfied he gestured to the person behind him and they moved the table to one end, with its top resting against the wall.
"Set up the machine gun here and fire at anyone moving down that road. If you see any trucks, wait until either a second truck appears or the first one makes it past there." He pointed to a building halfway between their position and a bend in the road. The Building they were in sat at the center top of a 'T' intersection, providing a clear field of fire down the length of the road, until the road turned a corner. The road itself was lined with tightly packed houses on either side.
While the machine gun crew set up, Dietrich turned to another man. "Stay here. Provide cover for them and you are to get them more ammo if needed." The man nodded and Dietrich ran to check on some of the other positions. He made it just outside when a soldier carrying a panzerfaust tried to run by. Dietrich grabbed him by the collar and hauled him inside.
"What unit are you with?" He demanded. The soldier started to reply but Dietrich cut him off. "Doesn't matter, come with me." Dietrich had him follow further up the building to the room over the dining room. He pointed at the window "You fire at any vehicles that come down that road after the first one- got it?" He barley waited for a reply as he ran back down stairs and outside. He gathered the rest of the men and split them in two groups. He had them run down two small alleys parallel to the stem of the 'T' intersection. He had one group take cover along the houses lining the left side of the 'T'. Further down the road the 'T' took a right and turned into an 'L'. It was at the right end of this 'L' that he and the rest of him men waited.
After about 10 minutes there was a rumble as four British trucks started moving towards the first bend in the 'L', past where Dietrich and his men were. The British were moving quickly to try to shore up their lines to the east of Birmingham.
As the first truck turned the corner he tensed. As the second turned the corner there was a slight delay followed by an explosion as the panzerfaust ripped into the second truck. This was quickly followed by the chatter of the machine gun. The two trucks still behind the corner stopped and disgorged their troops. As they moved into positions along the right of the 'L' they were engaged by the second group of Dietrich's men.
Still Dietrich waited. He did not want his men caught in the crossfire.
With two of their trucks now destroyed and apparently coming up against prepared positions, the British fell back to the base of the 'L'. Whether it was to take up defensive positions there or to fall back Dietrich didn't know but they were moving back past Dietrich's position. He now took aim at the man furthest back (closest to their position) and opened fire, dropping the man. He picked another target then another with the rest of his men doing the same. Seeing that they were nearly surrounded and caught in the open the surviving British dropped their weapons and raised their hands in surrender.
The fire quickly stopped and Dietrich moved from his place of concealment to take them captive with a wolfish smile on his face……
The British were just unprepared for the assault on Birmingham. Five well experienced and highly trained mountain and paratrooper divisions led the attack from the north. Armored supporting attacks were made from the east. Experts in Urban warfare, the paratroopers overwhelmed the two British divisions there
The British retreated to London and the Germans followed. The British were only able to call in a single division for reinforcement. In an almost identical assault strategy to the Birmingham attack the British were pushed out of London as well. There had just not been enough time to recall troops from Africa or Asia. With London taken, it was only a matter of time before Germany controlled all of England.
As this was evident to everyone, Germany continued to expand its long ranged plans with its new bomber technology
In response to the German advance to the south and west the evacuation of 'Carrier England' commenced. Even so several airfields were over-run with hundreds of planes still on the ground. There had simply not been enough room at any airfield in range to house the planes and they had to be left behind. The Luftwaffe also had some say in the matter as well as they proweled the skies looking for their adversaries. Allied estimates put the number at somewhere around 45% of Allied fighter strength and 33% of Allied bomber strength was lost in the evacuation
Several Allied divisions tried to make a stand in Portsmouth, but they just had no chance. The Germans were too numerous, especially their armor, to which the Allies in Portsmouth had none of their own
(Note: look at the massive materials increase. Yay! I never have to worry about oil again!!!)
By September 8th, for all intents and purposes, England was secure. Attempts were made to occupy Stonrway, but the Allied navy intervened and it was decided to leave the island be. With so many of their core provinces, the British had lost 330 of their 345 ICs in less than a month
The Royal Navy was still out there (although its ability to re-supply was in doubt) but the effectiveness of the British Army was at an end, having been left with no ability to train new units, reinforce or upgrade existing and maybe not even the ability to supply themselves.
General Jac: Yes, but it makes the war in the Atlantic more interesting!
Rommel22: A very good chance for it being dropped on the Americans
Rapcw: Yeah, I was very sad At least you have doctrines that allow you to fight 1 on 1. And I think Canada may start with a carrier since they have one in both of our '44 games
Spacehusky: There will definately be a change in how I utilize the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe
Rommel22: A very good chance for it being dropped on the Americans
Rapcw: Yeah, I was very sad
At least you have doctrines that allow you to fight 1 on 1. And I think Canada may start with a carrier since they have one in both of our '44 gamesSpacehusky: There will definately be a change in how I utilize the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe
Muahahah! Soon those pesky Americans will het to feel hat it is like to be strategically bombed! (And little bit later they'll get to know the "secret project" a bit betterExterous said:
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Lützow said:Muahahah! Soon those pesky Americans will het to feel hat it is like to be strategically bombed! (And little bit later they'll get to know the "secret project" a bit better
Yes! Conserve precious fuel, burn americans!
I hope you're prepared for the Allies to attempt more invasions on England than they did on France
As for Communist China, they were still holding out in their single, fortified province - Yan'an. An assault by 20 German divisions against their 17 was not quite enough to dislodge them - so they were left surviving…for now….
While the advance through central American occupied China was going well, the Americans were putting up stiff resistance in the mountainous southern China.
Concentrated assaults needed to be made by German forces to dislodge them and the going was slow
German manufacturing continued to upgrade and expand the nuclear capacity of Germany
In Africa the British proved that they shouldn't be written off just yet, as they led a coalition of forces in a back and forth battle over Tambora. Finally a combined German/Hungarian/Romanian force was able to drive them out for good.
And, now that momentum had been gained by the arrival of 3 Hungarian and 3 Romanian divisions, the attack continued south
The Kriegsmarine had made several sorties to attempt to engage and defeat the Allied fleet. While they had not met with failure, like the 'victories' during the invasion of England they had not had any successes either. In fact, all they had really accomplished was to damage a few allied ships and continue to take heavy damage themselves. It was clear that something would need to change in order to fight the Allies at sea.
A complete re-work was arranged for the Kriegsmarine. Admiral Saalwalcher (sp) was made the Naval minister due to his added carrier abilities (while I may like battleships cause they're cool they are just no match for carriers.) German planners had underestimated the effectiveness of late American Naval Doctrines (a failure on my part, but to be fair I had never faced a navy this late in the game - I prefer to invade American around 1941 or so and I usually have close to naval parity in terms of carriers and my battleships are newer, but I digress) and, while current construction continued, no further battleships would be constructed.
That production capacity would instead be directed to Carriers and Planes. It was at this point that Germans discovered something that was very helpful. ASM equipped CAS planes made excellent short-ranged naval bombers (naval attack 12) - current naval bombers were 9 but had 4x the range. Immediate production was began on both and research was started on improving my naval bombers (This is kinda cool since my games are usually over before I get to play with anything like ASM CAS, ICBMs, Air Cav and the like. Nothing like making up strategies for them on the fly)
In China, the German forces had almost reached the Pacific
The Americans put up quite a fight around Nanjing versus the weakened and disorganized German forces but where eventually bypassed so that the urban areas could be taken
Large coalition forces on both sides continued to clash over relatively unimportant Africa
While the advance through central American occupied China was going well, the Americans were putting up stiff resistance in the mountainous southern China.
Concentrated assaults needed to be made by German forces to dislodge them and the going was slow
German manufacturing continued to upgrade and expand the nuclear capacity of Germany
In Africa the British proved that they shouldn't be written off just yet, as they led a coalition of forces in a back and forth battle over Tambora. Finally a combined German/Hungarian/Romanian force was able to drive them out for good.
And, now that momentum had been gained by the arrival of 3 Hungarian and 3 Romanian divisions, the attack continued south
The Kriegsmarine had made several sorties to attempt to engage and defeat the Allied fleet. While they had not met with failure, like the 'victories' during the invasion of England they had not had any successes either. In fact, all they had really accomplished was to damage a few allied ships and continue to take heavy damage themselves. It was clear that something would need to change in order to fight the Allies at sea.
A complete re-work was arranged for the Kriegsmarine. Admiral Saalwalcher (sp) was made the Naval minister due to his added carrier abilities (while I may like battleships cause they're cool they are just no match for carriers.) German planners had underestimated the effectiveness of late American Naval Doctrines (a failure on my part, but to be fair I had never faced a navy this late in the game - I prefer to invade American around 1941 or so and I usually have close to naval parity in terms of carriers and my battleships are newer, but I digress) and, while current construction continued, no further battleships would be constructed.
That production capacity would instead be directed to Carriers and Planes. It was at this point that Germans discovered something that was very helpful. ASM equipped CAS planes made excellent short-ranged naval bombers (naval attack 12) - current naval bombers were 9 but had 4x the range. Immediate production was began on both and research was started on improving my naval bombers (This is kinda cool since my games are usually over before I get to play with anything like ASM CAS, ICBMs, Air Cav and the like. Nothing like making up strategies for them on the fly)
In China, the German forces had almost reached the Pacific
The Americans put up quite a fight around Nanjing versus the weakened and disorganized German forces but where eventually bypassed so that the urban areas could be taken
Large coalition forces on both sides continued to clash over relatively unimportant Africa
Lützow: Indeed they will!
Jon Young:
knugen_n1: Drunks! Oh....sorry - I thought we were playing word association (jsut kidding to all you Irish out there!)
Carthade: Yeah, but I've got my garrison strategy pretty much worked out from the countless times I have taken over England. Should be better than Yugoslavia
Jon Young:
knugen_n1: Drunks! Oh....sorry - I thought we were playing word association
(jsut kidding to all you Irish out there!)Carthade: Yeah, but I've got my garrison strategy pretty much worked out from the countless times I have taken over England. Should be better than Yugoslavia
Thanks for the great AAR Exterous! I have really enjoyed reading it.
One question though. Your last post showed the game date as October 1949. Why hasn't the USA nuked you yet?
One question though. Your last post showed the game date as October 1949. Why hasn't the USA nuked you yet?
I guess that makes any game that goes beyond August 6, 1945 a little ahistorical.knugen_n1 said:
But perhaps with Exterous's command of the air war, we can assume that the USA DID try to nuke Geramny, but the planes carrying the bombs were shot down in route.
The US uses nukes in the doomsday scenario, so why wouldn't they nuke in the '44 scenario if you're playing doomsday?
The German Army completed its large encirclement of the majority of the American troops in China. Using superior numbers they had been able to circle around behind the Americans while other divisions pressed the Americans from the front.
The advance down the west coast had been relatively uneventful as only a single Allied division was present and was easily overwhelmed. As they neared French colonies however they met French militia divisions. The advance slowed as most of the Axis forces had outrun their supplies and had to pause to regroup. Once that was done, the advance continued, but at a slower pace
In November, Communist China was attacked again, this time with the help of 8 additional divisions to help the breakthrough. This time the Germans were successful. The limited industrial ability to Communist China was not enough to deal with additional German troops. Their annoyance was at an end
As the pacification of China continued, with all American opposition ended aside from the pocket, Germany continued its refinement of its nuclear arsenal.
The Americans were slowly pushed back into one province while other German forces secured every province up to the Pacific coast without incident.
Having broken through British lines, Field Marshall Kesselring's forces advanced south towards South Africa and west towards Belgium held territory in the east and Rommel's forces advanced south into French held Africa in the west.
By December, the last of the Americans were removed from China (there were still a few towards Russian held China, but that’s none of my conern)
And China was incorporated into the German Reich
Forces were repositioned towards Vietnam where the Americans had been strong enough to fend off the small number of German divisions in the area.
Through the end of December and January, forces continued to advance in Africa against weaker and weaker Allied forces. The countries contributing forces (UK, France, Belgium and South Africa) lacked the ability to send replacement troops to the front.
In Vietnam, forces were slowly advancing against the Americans. Both the jungle, the Americans and the heavily mechanized nature of German forces slowed them down, but they were still advancing.
At the start of February the Kriegsmarine started operation again. This time the entire fleet was operated out of Brest. To defend against the Port attacks the Allies love to do, 75% of the Luftwaffe was rebased there. The American CAGS had little hope of getting through that fighter screen. Also, the first squadrons of ASM CAS and Nav bombers started operating out of Brest.
In addition the composition of fleets at sea changed. The Kriegsmarine would field a single fleet of 30 ships. The others would remain in Brest and serve as replacements for damaged ships when the fleet returned to port. In addition, no battleships would be sent to sea - the danger from carriers was too great at this point. At the moment the Kriegsmarine could field only a single 30 ship fleet, but it contained the crème of the crop with 8 carriers, 2 heavy cruisers, 10 light cruisers (most of them type VIIIs) and 10 destroyers (most type VIIs) - (as a side note, I modeled this fleet after the Allied ones that had been beating on my poor navy, but with a few changes. My fleet included more cruisers than the allies generally did - they generally included more destroyers. I wonder if that’s due to the German sub threat that is typically present in most games?)
After several weeks of sparring with the various Allied fleets, that were everywhere, the fleet scored its first victory on February 17th, engaging a medium sized USN fleet and sinking a battleship and several cruisers.
The advance down the west coast had been relatively uneventful as only a single Allied division was present and was easily overwhelmed. As they neared French colonies however they met French militia divisions. The advance slowed as most of the Axis forces had outrun their supplies and had to pause to regroup. Once that was done, the advance continued, but at a slower pace
In November, Communist China was attacked again, this time with the help of 8 additional divisions to help the breakthrough. This time the Germans were successful. The limited industrial ability to Communist China was not enough to deal with additional German troops. Their annoyance was at an end
As the pacification of China continued, with all American opposition ended aside from the pocket, Germany continued its refinement of its nuclear arsenal.
The Americans were slowly pushed back into one province while other German forces secured every province up to the Pacific coast without incident.
Having broken through British lines, Field Marshall Kesselring's forces advanced south towards South Africa and west towards Belgium held territory in the east and Rommel's forces advanced south into French held Africa in the west.
By December, the last of the Americans were removed from China (there were still a few towards Russian held China, but that’s none of my conern)
And China was incorporated into the German Reich
Forces were repositioned towards Vietnam where the Americans had been strong enough to fend off the small number of German divisions in the area.
Through the end of December and January, forces continued to advance in Africa against weaker and weaker Allied forces. The countries contributing forces (UK, France, Belgium and South Africa) lacked the ability to send replacement troops to the front.
In Vietnam, forces were slowly advancing against the Americans. Both the jungle, the Americans and the heavily mechanized nature of German forces slowed them down, but they were still advancing.
At the start of February the Kriegsmarine started operation again. This time the entire fleet was operated out of Brest. To defend against the Port attacks the Allies love to do, 75% of the Luftwaffe was rebased there. The American CAGS had little hope of getting through that fighter screen. Also, the first squadrons of ASM CAS and Nav bombers started operating out of Brest.
In addition the composition of fleets at sea changed. The Kriegsmarine would field a single fleet of 30 ships. The others would remain in Brest and serve as replacements for damaged ships when the fleet returned to port. In addition, no battleships would be sent to sea - the danger from carriers was too great at this point. At the moment the Kriegsmarine could field only a single 30 ship fleet, but it contained the crème of the crop with 8 carriers, 2 heavy cruisers, 10 light cruisers (most of them type VIIIs) and 10 destroyers (most type VIIs) - (as a side note, I modeled this fleet after the Allied ones that had been beating on my poor navy, but with a few changes. My fleet included more cruisers than the allies generally did - they generally included more destroyers. I wonder if that’s due to the German sub threat that is typically present in most games?)
After several weeks of sparring with the various Allied fleets, that were everywhere, the fleet scored its first victory on February 17th, engaging a medium sized USN fleet and sinking a battleship and several cruisers.
General Jac: Probably not going to happen. I have no real need for it and I want to save my TPs for later
Rocket-Man: Great! I'm glad you like it!! I don't know why the US hasn't nuked. (Well - I do, but I'm not going to tell anyone.....yet)
knugen_n1: People say they've been nuked by the AI - its never happened to be but I rarely play after '44
lifeless: Not on land or air anyway. Now if only I could build a land bridge to the US......
Rocket-Man: Assuming they continued the Manhattan project - which brings up an interesting point - I do not believe the US starts with any nuclear reactors in the '44 scenario. Is any one able to check the '44 DD scenario right now?
DeathDemon: Now that I think about it - I don't think they start with any nuclear reactors - that may be why.
Rocket-Man: Great! I'm glad you like it!! I don't know why the US hasn't nuked. (Well - I do, but I'm not going to tell anyone.....yet)
knugen_n1: People say they've been nuked by the AI - its never happened to be but I rarely play after '44
lifeless: Not on land or air anyway. Now if only I could build a land bridge to the US......
Rocket-Man: Assuming they continued the Manhattan project - which brings up an interesting point - I do not believe the US starts with any nuclear reactors in the '44 scenario. Is any one able to check the '44 DD scenario right now?
DeathDemon: Now that I think about it - I don't think they start with any nuclear reactors - that may be why.
Seems your TC is a little bit to overloaded... To bad It's to late to create some really powerful puppets...
