Not till feb
You could order from http://www.strategic-plus.co.uk/ though, they (will) have the US version.-
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Not till feb
You could order from http://www.strategic-plus.co.uk/ though, they (will) have the US version.
Btw, I think that the U.S. war entry was more provoked by Germany annexing large parts of France - which occurs at the same time as the Japanese demands, so my perception of what tipped the scales might have been wrong.
Comrade Sytass,
I believe the proleteriat in the USA demanded the declaration of war against the Bourgeois Revisionist Imperialist Hitlerite clique! Once the German regime has been replaced by rule by the vanguard movement of the Party of Labour, there will be only a short struggle to replace the plutocratic oligarchy currently oppressing the proleteriat in the USA.
The difficulty of deployment of forces for the protection of the revolution must be caused by the continued sabotage by Counterrevolutionary Reactionary Factionalists Zinovievite-Trotskyite bloc, the anti-Marxists, chauvinists, and inveterate agents of , no doubt goaded by the unrelenting plots by the Fascist Hitlerite clique for the subjugation of our Party, for the liquidation of the independence of our country, and our people to the diabolical plans of this clique.
And as I mentioned earlier, don't forget Comrade Kirov's warning:
"We must put an end to opportunist complacency arising from the mistaken presupposition that in proportion to the growth of our forces the enemy will grow ever tamer and more inoffensive. Such a presupposition is basically wrong. It is a belch of the Right deviation, which assured everyone that the enemies would quietly creep into socialism, that in the long run they would become real socialists. It is not the business of the Bolsheviks to rest on their laurels and stand around gaping. It is not complacency that we need but vigilance, real Bolshevik revolutionary vigilance. It must be remembered that the more desperate the position of the enemies, the more willing they will be to seize on extreme measures as the only measures of doomed people in their struggle against Soviet power. We must remember this and be vigilant."
I believe the proleteriat in the USA demanded the declaration of war against the Bourgeois Revisionist Imperialist Hitlerite clique! Once the German regime has been replaced by rule by the vanguard movement of the Party of Labour, there will be only a short struggle to replace the plutocratic oligarchy currently oppressing the proleteriat in the USA.
The difficulty of deployment of forces for the protection of the revolution must be caused by the continued sabotage by Counterrevolutionary Reactionary Factionalists Zinovievite-Trotskyite bloc, the anti-Marxists, chauvinists, and inveterate agents of , no doubt goaded by the unrelenting plots by the Fascist Hitlerite clique for the subjugation of our Party, for the liquidation of the independence of our country, and our people to the diabolical plans of this clique.
And as I mentioned earlier, don't forget Comrade Kirov's warning:
"We must put an end to opportunist complacency arising from the mistaken presupposition that in proportion to the growth of our forces the enemy will grow ever tamer and more inoffensive. Such a presupposition is basically wrong. It is a belch of the Right deviation, which assured everyone that the enemies would quietly creep into socialism, that in the long run they would become real socialists. It is not the business of the Bolsheviks to rest on their laurels and stand around gaping. It is not complacency that we need but vigilance, real Bolshevik revolutionary vigilance. It must be remembered that the more desperate the position of the enemies, the more willing they will be to seize on extreme measures as the only measures of doomed people in their struggle against Soviet power. We must remember this and be vigilant."
But what will you do when the Romanians get a beating by the German troops and sign an armistice or even worse, get conquered by Germany troops? What's your strategy for the next year except beating Germany by your large army? Will you build up a defensive line somewhere?
Would it be plausable to strike at Germany from occupied Yugoslavia? Leaving that land with no troops open is inviting.
However if you move all your troops back into Romania and on the Russian front, wouldnt that allow Germany to simply walk into Romania/occupied Yugoslavia?
However if you move all your troops back into Romania and on the Russian front, wouldnt that allow Germany to simply walk into Romania/occupied Yugoslavia?
Aetius, you remind me more and more of the Joseph Fiennes character in Duel - Enemy at the Gates.
I hope Germany is more ocupied with me for the moment and leaves Romania alone. I shared tech with Romania, so their infantry is current,but their tanks...
I hope Germany is more ocupied with me for the moment and leaves Romania alone. I shared tech with Romania, so their infantry is current,but their tanks...
so can't you take control of their military and build up a defensive line in the Hungarian mountains with the infantry? In the mountains tanks don't matter so much.
Sytass,
Suck them in! Let them keep coming after you and set up defensive lines on the Dnieper. This should give you time to get your armour and mechanised forces ready. Then engage in battles of encirclement, holding across the Dnieper with infantry and flanking on either side with armour.
Don't be a afraid to give up a little territory temporarily for ultimate victory! The dialectic demands it
Cheers,
Dr. Charm
Suck them in! Let them keep coming after you and set up defensive lines on the Dnieper. This should give you time to get your armour and mechanised forces ready. Then engage in battles of encirclement, holding across the Dnieper with infantry and flanking on either side with armour.
Don't be a afraid to give up a little territory temporarily for ultimate victory! The dialectic demands it
Cheers,
Dr. Charm
It was just AARs like this one that sucked me into the EU universe in the first place. Good job, Sytass, you dirty commie bastard...
Don't give an inch of Mother Russia! Strike with your new forces and Finns from the north, and Romanians from the south and cut off German army in Ukraine!
Originally posted by DarthMaur
Don't give an inch of Mother Russia! Strike with your new forces and Finns from the north, and Romanians from the south and cut off German army in Ukraine!
Am I misreading the AAR? I picked this post, but there are a few acting like Sytass is kicking ass here. It sounds to me, though, that there is a bit of a crisis on the southern front-- 17 divisions lost in ONE BATTLE! And some of them were the new armored divisions! Ouch.
I'm sure Comrade Sytass and recover but I am glad to see the AI pull a fast one and actually win some major battles after reading BiB's Japan AAR.
Took a few weeks for this slaughter, though - I should have waited for the Romanians, attacking together with them.
This is a very good written AAR! Very interesting, especially since I haven't got the game yet. When will we get the next installment? Can we hope for tonight?
Very interesting, especially since I haven't got the game yet. When will we get the next installment? Can we hope for tonight?
Originally posted by Nikolai
This is a very good written AAR!
How about now?
* * * July - December 1940 * * *
The Germans had broken through the Soviet lines with small units while they kept massing in Lwow. The hero of the Persian invasion, Zhukov, was getting new recruits to replenish his eight slightly worn divisions. He was keeping the Germans busy in the north, while a new army of six divisions under Rokossovski were getting ready near Wilno, destined to get to Königsberg. The Finnish were on their way to cut off the stray divisions that had gotten far into the southern U.S.S.R.
The Romanians remained victorious in Yugoslavia. With the German allies beaten, the Romanians set out to march into the soft underbelly of of Germany in Austria. Meretskov was in Moscow the new Chief of Staff at STAVKA. He was a man who believed that a good morale was essential to the outcome of the battle. Timoshenko was assigned Field Marshal of a new army, called the Moscow Guards, by far the most advanced unit in the Red Army, with two tank divisions and three mechanized divisions along with an artillery brigade and an anti tank unit.
Romanian offensive into Germany
In Southern Germany the Romanians met eventually with ferocious defense from hastily mustered German and stray Yugoslav divisions. And while the Southern front was slowly stabilizing, with a major offensive on the way to throw the Nazis back there, the North was now minimalistically defended. The Soviet forces were stretched way too thin and new units arrived way too slowly. Stalin's advisors urged him to let his troops fall back into Russia, but he insisted stubbornly that no inch of the sacred Soviet soil was to be ceded to the Fascists. On August 13th, 1940, a pocket was closed around Lwow. Forces from Romania, Finland and the Soviet Union under the joint command of the Finnish Field Marshal Mannerheim had encircled the armies of General Paulus. Within a day, Paulus' troops were on the retreat.
Zhukov found himself and his allies surrounded himself, now, however. He immediately pushed east to make it back into friendly territory. The Romanians had by late August taken most of Austria, and pushed into Czech and Bavarian territory. However, the large number of German units spread out so far made it more and more difficult to counter their invasion. Even the Romanian offensive in Germany stalled. Deeper and deeper drove the Germans into Russia, with the Red Army only winning the initiative locally in few instances. Already two small divisions were moving towards undefended Moscow. Timoshenko's modern army was destroyed north of Sevastopol.
In October the attack on Moscow had been driven away. However, the Germans had seized Stalingrad unopposedly and were moving towards Leningrad in the north. The Soviets, so far using large units that were almost invincible but not very mobile changed their way of waging war. Like the Germans, they split their units and so were able to cover a larger portion of the front. Almost unwittingly, though, the Germans had occupied most of Romania in the meantime, blitzing through the Carpathians. Their forces in Germany were cut off. And in late December 1940, they had been but annihilated. The Soviets, however, had managed to put some control on the German offensives that rampaged through their lands. With more divisions soon to arrive, it was but a question of time till the tide would shift permanently. New hope also spawned in the West of Europe. A contingent of Free French had landed in La Rochelle, hoping to establish a foothold in their home country in an effort to re-take what was once theirs...
European Fronts December 1940
French Landing in La Rochelle December 1940
The Germans had broken through the Soviet lines with small units while they kept massing in Lwow. The hero of the Persian invasion, Zhukov, was getting new recruits to replenish his eight slightly worn divisions. He was keeping the Germans busy in the north, while a new army of six divisions under Rokossovski were getting ready near Wilno, destined to get to Königsberg. The Finnish were on their way to cut off the stray divisions that had gotten far into the southern U.S.S.R.
The Romanians remained victorious in Yugoslavia. With the German allies beaten, the Romanians set out to march into the soft underbelly of of Germany in Austria. Meretskov was in Moscow the new Chief of Staff at STAVKA. He was a man who believed that a good morale was essential to the outcome of the battle. Timoshenko was assigned Field Marshal of a new army, called the Moscow Guards, by far the most advanced unit in the Red Army, with two tank divisions and three mechanized divisions along with an artillery brigade and an anti tank unit.
Romanian offensive into Germany
In Southern Germany the Romanians met eventually with ferocious defense from hastily mustered German and stray Yugoslav divisions. And while the Southern front was slowly stabilizing, with a major offensive on the way to throw the Nazis back there, the North was now minimalistically defended. The Soviet forces were stretched way too thin and new units arrived way too slowly. Stalin's advisors urged him to let his troops fall back into Russia, but he insisted stubbornly that no inch of the sacred Soviet soil was to be ceded to the Fascists. On August 13th, 1940, a pocket was closed around Lwow. Forces from Romania, Finland and the Soviet Union under the joint command of the Finnish Field Marshal Mannerheim had encircled the armies of General Paulus. Within a day, Paulus' troops were on the retreat.
Zhukov found himself and his allies surrounded himself, now, however. He immediately pushed east to make it back into friendly territory. The Romanians had by late August taken most of Austria, and pushed into Czech and Bavarian territory. However, the large number of German units spread out so far made it more and more difficult to counter their invasion. Even the Romanian offensive in Germany stalled. Deeper and deeper drove the Germans into Russia, with the Red Army only winning the initiative locally in few instances. Already two small divisions were moving towards undefended Moscow. Timoshenko's modern army was destroyed north of Sevastopol.
In October the attack on Moscow had been driven away. However, the Germans had seized Stalingrad unopposedly and were moving towards Leningrad in the north. The Soviets, so far using large units that were almost invincible but not very mobile changed their way of waging war. Like the Germans, they split their units and so were able to cover a larger portion of the front. Almost unwittingly, though, the Germans had occupied most of Romania in the meantime, blitzing through the Carpathians. Their forces in Germany were cut off. And in late December 1940, they had been but annihilated. The Soviets, however, had managed to put some control on the German offensives that rampaged through their lands. With more divisions soon to arrive, it was but a question of time till the tide would shift permanently. New hope also spawned in the West of Europe. A contingent of Free French had landed in La Rochelle, hoping to establish a foothold in their home country in an effort to re-take what was once theirs...
European Fronts December 1940
French Landing in La Rochelle December 1940
Sorry about this short-ish update, but there was mainly a back and forth in this campaign that, while hectic when playing, is not so easy to write about, so I generalized a bit.
Originally posted by Dan Cook
So the AI's not so easy
They did keep me busy fending them off Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad... the map looked at some points a bit messier than in the last screen.
I was so busy in Russia, I barely noticed the death of the Romanians. I kept them busy with ordering them through southern Germany, but all of a sudden (or so it seemed), the Germans had come through Romania....
I also thought I took a screenie of Mannerheim fighing Paulus, but I was wrong.