It seems my modest army is winning against the Axis in Asia only because of the massive support it is receiving from Strategic Bomber Command. We recently annexed the Axis countries of Mengkukuo and India. We also established the China-Nanking puppet where Nationalist China (Japan's puppet) once loomed; and will soon be annexing N. China and Japan (only one more VC to get in each). And the speed of conquest has left us diplomatically behind because we could be liberating other puppets like Burma, Malaysia, Nationalist Vietnam and Korea.
I have 31 STR-IV wings (one was shot down over Germany last year). But it only takes a dozen (3 stacks) to reduce a country like India to an infra-wasteland in about a week. Just one hit from one bomber stack will take a province’s 200 infra (even if mountainous) to only 2-5% remaining if one has achieved every strategic doctrine possible.
Now we are seeing many of Hitler’s numerous Asian puppets for the first time thru our Norton bomb sights since we took off the gloves (removed the ESC/FTR brigades) and are flying very long missions to systematically destroy them so only their off-map IC remains. And we expect that our next conquest – the once feared Manchukuo (as we have so few divisions to attack them) - will quickly lose its teeth after a couple days of strategic “softening up of the enemy”.
Unfortunately we are fighting a war with ever more fronts appearing as the Wehrmacht is rushing powerful forces to take back the Asian losses. There are panzers rushing thru Persia, panzers crossing the Himalayas, and I suspect a lot more panzers traveling the Trans-Siberia Railroad route to attack us from ever increasing directions.
NO PROBLEM:
1) Find the panzers in the vastness of Asia using long range bombers (the STR-IV has a 1300 km range).
2) Hit the provinces they are in and all around with three STR stacks for 2-3 days reducing all the infra to near zero. The panzers soon stop moving! And because it is puppet territory, it stays destroyed much longer than German provinces.
3) Must do battle with strong panzers forces? Don’t worry too much! Just send URGENT REQUEST to Strategic Bomber Command and the panzers will next day suffer nil ESE all around to seriously weaken their attack as each hour passes.
BUT THERE IS ONE DRAWBACK… anything devastated by strategic bombers as much as we are doing takes very long to fully repair once we capture it. But for a comparatively small Liberation Army now spread from Karachi to Vladivostok, it is our “bomber umbrella” that is mostly responsible for us not having been pushed back into the sea by the countless numerically superior enemy.
"Bombs away!"
I have 31 STR-IV wings (one was shot down over Germany last year). But it only takes a dozen (3 stacks) to reduce a country like India to an infra-wasteland in about a week. Just one hit from one bomber stack will take a province’s 200 infra (even if mountainous) to only 2-5% remaining if one has achieved every strategic doctrine possible.
Now we are seeing many of Hitler’s numerous Asian puppets for the first time thru our Norton bomb sights since we took off the gloves (removed the ESC/FTR brigades) and are flying very long missions to systematically destroy them so only their off-map IC remains. And we expect that our next conquest – the once feared Manchukuo (as we have so few divisions to attack them) - will quickly lose its teeth after a couple days of strategic “softening up of the enemy”.
Unfortunately we are fighting a war with ever more fronts appearing as the Wehrmacht is rushing powerful forces to take back the Asian losses. There are panzers rushing thru Persia, panzers crossing the Himalayas, and I suspect a lot more panzers traveling the Trans-Siberia Railroad route to attack us from ever increasing directions.
NO PROBLEM:
1) Find the panzers in the vastness of Asia using long range bombers (the STR-IV has a 1300 km range).
2) Hit the provinces they are in and all around with three STR stacks for 2-3 days reducing all the infra to near zero. The panzers soon stop moving! And because it is puppet territory, it stays destroyed much longer than German provinces.
3) Must do battle with strong panzers forces? Don’t worry too much! Just send URGENT REQUEST to Strategic Bomber Command and the panzers will next day suffer nil ESE all around to seriously weaken their attack as each hour passes.
BUT THERE IS ONE DRAWBACK… anything devastated by strategic bombers as much as we are doing takes very long to fully repair once we capture it. But for a comparatively small Liberation Army now spread from Karachi to Vladivostok, it is our “bomber umbrella” that is mostly responsible for us not having been pushed back into the sea by the countless numerically superior enemy.
"Bombs away!"
