Out of AAR: I made things a lot harder for me. How? Fixing stupid soviet AI. They have a max TC of about 550, with 800-900 TC in actual units and partisans
Oh also did i mention that they're on 2200 because of redeployments... Yeah.
I set all the redeployments to instantly deploy the next day and reduced the value in the AI from 25% to 5% of all their forces to deploy. Hopefully now they won't have a 4+ oveloaded TC and might be worth actually fighting.
Chapter Four-Part One: Perhaps i spoke too soon
Ancelotti was still waiting for all the divisions to be in place before he started the attack on the Milanese encirclement.
The news came...
The war room was in a flurry...
"Mister Ancelotti"
A: "Yes?"
"Caruso and Marshall are on the line for you"
A: "Who?"
"The French General"
A: "Oh.. put them on"
C: "No doubt you've heard"
A: "Yes.. is it a blessing or a curse"
C: "Don't know, but i'd rather... you know... get some orders"
M: "We should attack now"
C: "It would be too foolhardy"
M: "I don't think your position will get any comfier, there is no loss here in attacking, we may well win"
A: "I'm going to have to agree with Marshall here... they sprung our largest attack force before we had a chance to start the cull... Graziani's headed to Venice... Marshall command the rest to attack Milan"
M: "Wizh plezure"
By some either bad luck, or actual competancy from Soviet Command however. The situation got rather complicated.
Rather quickly.
A: "Shit"
C: "God damnit what do we do now"
A: "Marshall how are you holding"
M: "I can't attack any longer, the men themselves will give up if we continue"
A: "... sigh...Then stop the attack..."
A: "Marshall, we'll need to try and extricate your forces they're too valuable to lose... Caruso can you hold the attack"
C: "...No?"
A: "Bad luck, hold it, The fleet will be helping you off the coast, and rains expected in the next few hours"
C: "You know how many of our troops will be lost if i keep this up?"
A: "Unless it's more than 40,000 Frenchman... i don't want to hear it"
The next day of fighting was indeed brutal. Of all the italian divisions only one still had a coherant capacity to fight.
A: "Marshall, how long is it going to take"
M: "ETA... early tomorrow morning.... and mid-afternoon"
A: "Caruso..."
C: "I'm not a magician damnit..."
Will Marshall's french HQs escape?
You don't know... that's the beauty of the most dick-headed suspense i can pull out of my arse.
Will those Milanese divisions be destroyed?
I don't know, one crisis at a time.
Why, if you haven't updated in half a week because of this event chain... why aren't we seeing it.
Shut your trap D:!