Though in this particular AAR it would be fitting if more than 100% officers triggered a negative "too many cooks" modifier.
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Though in this particular AAR it would be fitting if more than 100% officers triggered a negative "too many cooks" modifier.
-10% to speed of units and their organisation but +10% to morale
#you can't fight drunk and you can't run on full stomach, but the athmosfere is awesome.
Lordban: Tnx for the clarification .
Gankenstein: There can never be TOO MANY cooks!
Forge the sickle and hammer into soup bowls and spoons or how the Soviet bear got its ass kicked by an army of cooks.
Alrighty! Finally the day has dawn where the humongous red blob on the map of Eurasia is going to be wiped out by a ever-increasing light blue blob.
The Soviets are so terrified of us, that they formed an alliance with the mightiest power in terms of camels and medieval warfare.
On may 26th brandnew bomberrs rolled off the assembly line and were instantly assigned to existing squadrons, the only downside is that the morale of those new bomber groups is rising veeery slowly.
Leadership points are after 6 months of beefing up our officers numbers once again redirected into researching new technologies, bombing efficiency seems really like a good field of research.
The time of winter hibernation is over, time to poke the bear around.
Since I`m going to play manually (no goddamn AI is going to meddle with my plans), the process of getting the war started will be a long and painful one.
A foretaste of things to come.
Covering the Finnish front ...
... still covering the Finnish front.
Next update will contain some nourishment hopefully, stay tuned
.Gankenstein: There can never be TOO MANY cooks!
Forge the sickle and hammer into soup bowls and spoons or how the Soviet bear got its ass kicked by an army of cooks.
Alrighty! Finally the day has dawn where the humongous red blob on the map of Eurasia is going to be wiped out by a ever-increasing light blue blob.
The Soviets are so terrified of us, that they formed an alliance with the mightiest power in terms of camels and medieval warfare
.
On may 26th brandnew bomberrs rolled off the assembly line and were instantly assigned to existing squadrons, the only downside is that the morale of those new bomber groups is rising veeery slowly.
Leadership points are after 6 months of beefing up our officers numbers once again redirected into researching new technologies, bombing efficiency seems really like a good field of research.
The time of winter hibernation is over, time to poke the bear around
.
Since I`m going to play manually (no goddamn AI is going to meddle with my plans), the process of getting the war started will be a long and painful one.
A foretaste of things to come.
Covering the Finnish front ...
... still covering the Finnish front.
Next update will contain some nourishment hopefully, stay tuned
Gladiator: I will eat `em all and serve you all .
peterhoi3: Glad some interest remains after so much postponing.
As for the culinary side of the Soviet campaign, I have an ambitious plan of describing dishes of most of the cultures inhabiting the vast realm of socialist paradise (tartars, fenno-ugric nationalities, bashkires, ukrainians, byelorussians, chukchi etc.).
.peterhoi3: Glad some interest remains after so much postponing
.As for the culinary side of the Soviet campaign, I have an ambitious plan of describing dishes of most of the cultures inhabiting the vast realm of socialist paradise (tartars, fenno-ugric nationalities, bashkires, ukrainians, byelorussians, chukchi etc.).
Heh, estonian really looks like twisted finnish. Infantry division is Jalkaväkidivisioona in Finnish, and in estonian it appears to be "Jalaväediviis". Looking forward to the next update!
One Chef to mince them all,
One Chef to cook them,
One Chef to season them all
And on our tables Serve them.
... sorry
One Chef to cook them,
One Chef to season them all
And on our tables Serve them.
... sorry
tuore: Well, some southern Estonian dialects sound more finnish, than estonian . Although I haven`t learned finnish, I do understand most of it when it`s spoken, that`s how similar our languages are .
Lordban: Wow, a poem ... for me ... You make me blusho!
Gankenstein: Aham, fish ... then a fish-dish there shall be!
Before I start to carve up the soviet empire, I`ll make a little detour to the ethnicity of the Soviet Union. There were over 160 ethnical groups of people living in the former SU and I don`t believe, I can introduce the culinary achievements of all of them. So let`s have a look at some I definitely will write about.
A pretty detailed map of the ethnical characteristic of the SU.
Here are the soviet republics. All of them are predominantly nation states.
1. Russia
2. Ukraine
3. Byelorussia
4. Uzbekistan
5. Kazkhstan
6. Georgia
7. Azerbaijan
8. Lithuania
9. Moldavia
10. Latvia
11. Kyrgyzstan
12. Tajikistan
13. Armenia
14. Turkmenistan
15. Estonia
The Russian Federation. This one`s a bit tricky. The green areas represent republics each inhabited by a different nationality with the addition of a large percentage of russians. The orange regions are kinda like national reservations for ethnic groups who only make up for maybe about 10% of all the population of the region.
Now let`s start the culinary exploration of the SU with the largest nation - the russians.
Yxa - Ukha - a thick fish-soup
History:
Ukha is a soup made from fresh fish with spices. Small fishes like ruffs, perches were used to make soup strong and to give it a specific smell. Boiled tenches, sheat-fish, burbots were added in an already cooked soup to make it "sweet and tender". Cinnamon, cloves and pepper were principal spices. It is not difficult to cook Ukha. But real Ukha must be cooked
on the fire or at least on the oven.
What goes in there:
400 g small fishes.
300 g pike-perch.
300 g burbot.
6 ea small potatoes.
3 ea small onions.
1 ea parsley root.
1 1/2 l water.
pepper, salt, parsley, dill.
spices.
Clean small fishes, put in gauze and tie up. Pour cold water over,
bring to boil, take froth away, add 1 onion, parsley root, salt, bay leaf,
and leave on a very low heat for an hour. Take the gauze with
fishes out. Put chopped potatoes, green parsley and boil until potatoes
are ready. 15 minutes before soup is ready, put fish slices in it.
Ukha, decorated with greens, is served with Vodka.
To avoid or not to ... ?
At the end, when soup is ready, add one shot of vodka in the soup and turn it off. Wait for a while. Vodka will be evaporated with some liquid and Uha will be more concentrated.
That should satisfy the popular need for fish.
. Although I haven`t learned finnish, I do understand most of it when it`s spoken, that`s how similar our languages are .Lordban: Wow, a poem ... for me ... You make me blush
o!Gankenstein: Aham, fish ... then a fish-dish there shall be!
Before I start to carve up the soviet empire, I`ll make a little detour to the ethnicity of the Soviet Union. There were over 160 ethnical groups of people living in the former SU and I don`t believe, I can introduce the culinary achievements of all of them. So let`s have a look at some I definitely will write about.
A pretty detailed map of the ethnical characteristic of the SU.
Here are the soviet republics. All of them are predominantly nation states.
1. Russia
2. Ukraine
3. Byelorussia
4. Uzbekistan
5. Kazkhstan
6. Georgia
7. Azerbaijan
8. Lithuania
9. Moldavia
10. Latvia
11. Kyrgyzstan
12. Tajikistan
13. Armenia
14. Turkmenistan
15. Estonia
The Russian Federation. This one`s a bit tricky. The green areas represent republics each inhabited by a different nationality with the addition of a large percentage of russians. The orange regions are kinda like national reservations for ethnic groups who only make up for maybe about 10% of all the population of the region.
Now let`s start the culinary exploration of the SU with the largest nation - the russians.
Yxa - Ukha - a thick fish-soup
History:
Ukha is a soup made from fresh fish with spices. Small fishes like ruffs, perches were used to make soup strong and to give it a specific smell. Boiled tenches, sheat-fish, burbots were added in an already cooked soup to make it "sweet and tender". Cinnamon, cloves and pepper were principal spices. It is not difficult to cook Ukha. But real Ukha must be cooked
on the fire or at least on the oven.
What goes in there:
400 g small fishes.
300 g pike-perch.
300 g burbot.
6 ea small potatoes.
3 ea small onions.
1 ea parsley root.
1 1/2 l water.
pepper, salt, parsley, dill.
spices.
Clean small fishes, put in gauze and tie up. Pour cold water over,
bring to boil, take froth away, add 1 onion, parsley root, salt, bay leaf,
and leave on a very low heat for an hour. Take the gauze with
fishes out. Put chopped potatoes, green parsley and boil until potatoes
are ready. 15 minutes before soup is ready, put fish slices in it.
Ukha, decorated with greens, is served with Vodka.
To avoid or not to ... ?
At the end, when soup is ready, add one shot of vodka in the soup and turn it off. Wait for a while. Vodka will be evaporated with some liquid and Uha will be more concentrated.
That should satisfy the popular need for fish
.
Not too sure if I can convince my wife to try that soup, although she does like dill.
Likewise: I couldn't stop reading! Funny, actually informative, and most of all fun. And here I thought this would be a SHORT AAR...
Jemisi: Add more dill, maybe she`ll like it then better .
LewsTherin: Thanks, a picture alone tells as much as a 1000 words.
Calbeck: A short aar, never! I`m not even halfway through.
Enewald: Don`t worry, I`ll keep You fed.
.LewsTherin: Thanks, a picture alone tells as much as a 1000 words
.Calbeck: A short aar, never! I`m not even halfway through
.Enewald: Don`t worry, I`ll keep You fed
.
Are You suggesting something?
Alrighty! An update.
An Estonian naval task force (actually it`s the whole of my warship fleet
) is blocking the entrance to the Mediterranean sea, just in case.
A massive attack on all fronts has been launched and some battles are won within an hour.
Is it really that easy to beat the socialist paradise?
Let`s have a look on all the sectors of the largest front Estonia has ever conducted warfare. Northern part of Finland.
Karelia.
The surrounding area of Leningrad.
Things look good in the Baltic front also ...
The marshlands of Byelorussia ...
Western Ukraine.
Romania ...
Western Caucasus (Georgia).
Eastern Caucasus around Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Things do not go too well on the shore of the Caspian sea for estonians, but hopefully the troops attacking through Turkmenistan will soon enough encircle the majority of the soviet forces in this general area and bring relieve to the lone infantry division.
An effortless sweep through Uzbekistan.
The easternmost part of this mammoth-front in the Tjan-Shan mountains of Tajikistan. Soon some additional troops are needed here, in order to secure the right flank against the minor communist states ...
... as this diplomatic screenie shows.
It`s crucial to my strategy to push for a breakthrough in this area (Odessa). Creating holes in the soviet lines in Southern Ukraine, will allow the armoured units to penetrate deep into Soviet territory and attempt to link up with the armoured units trying a similar manouver from The Caucasus.
Initially the plan seems to be working
.
Minsk also is a vital province to be had, situated just north of the marshlands, this will be the staging area of the northern prong, which is to make a sweeping move around the swampy region and meet with the one from the south around at the back of the marshes. Many, many commie bastards will be captured
.
That`s not a good sign the soviets slaughtering so many valiant men
The beginning of this war is looking favourable to the estonians, only time will tell if they`ll be victorious or take a beating like Napoleon did. Anyways the thing that bothers me the most, is that my bombers are sitting down because of low org (freshly deployed) and can`t aid the ground troops in their fierce battles ...
No meals in this update (it`s summer, you all should probably get in shape for showing off on the beaches in front of the gals
). Actually I haven`t yet decided which cultures culinary achievements I shall present , and I think, I hit the screenie limit also.Till` next update!
Enewald: Quite obvious, I can`t believe, I didn`t think of it myself o. Tnx for the advice .
o. Tnx for the advice .
It´s amazing how the Soviet units seem to be melting. Could it be that they were not mobilized?