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where did you get those sexy sprites?
I believe the guy who made SKIF for HoI2 also made some custom sprites and links were found in his signature. They work fine in AoD and are quite good to use since I am not too fond of counters myself, even though I occasionally might use them.
Karaiskandar said:
Actually I am not sure if USA auto-jumps into alliance once the surprise attack event + DoW occurs. Atleast in HoI2 I've had few games where I didn't invite USA to alliance until I really had to
Actually I am not sure if USA auto-jumps into alliance once the surprise attack event + DoW occurs. Atleast in HoI2 I've had few games where I didn't invite USA to alliance until I really had to
Yes I see, but it will be easy to have them on your side now.
Damn! I hope that doesn't happen in my game. I plan to have my navy ready around Jan 42.Treacherous Japanese!
They were supposed to attack in December, not in February!
But it's not that bad, now the US are your allies.
Damn! I hope that doesn't happen in my game. I plan to have my navy ready around Jan 42.
Ohoh better be prepared for some kind of bad surprise I think.
August 4th, 1941. The last four months have been crazy in a way or another and borderlines madness. It feels like a bad dream you can't wake up from. I'll be starting with the bad news:
After our so-called Norway garrison had been on hold for over six months and most of the activity were limited to reconnaisance units or snipers making fun out of the germans, when Finland ultimately joined the bandwagon and isolated them ultimately from the north, the germans attacked and after four days of fierce fighting they had to surrender, as no evac ships could be brought in time.
One rather amusing factor though was that our press managed to make it like another case of Leonidas, as they were outnumbered, outgunned and having moderate lack of supplies when they still held out for few days. It's hailed as heroic standoff of the british soldiers and Churchill announced a memorial will be made once the time is right.
Even more crooked though was our situation in Hong Kong. While they haven't made any real offenses throughout the border, several attempts to seize Hong Kong have been made but most of them were repelled by the mere presence of the RN. However, things got quite awry for the japanese:
A small fleet in Hong Kong intercepted major transport group and according to several officers on the fleet, it was like a turkey shot. At one point they even had to stop picking up some survivors from the sunk ships as their ships couldn't support any more passengers. Another shocking piece of news came from Malta shortly after though:
The italians attempted to seize Malta with airbourne invasion. The initial response from the garrison was sluggish as they were expecting a major air raid instead of paratroopers, but once the fact became obvious they quickly took iniative in the situation. The italians fought valiantly for four days until they finally had to surrender.
However, not too long before that Germany had declared war on Jugoslavia, it was quite hopeless battle for the defenders.
In the meantime, our fleet in Hong Kong kept sinking japanese transports at will. In the latest military meeting Churchill ordered that Force B under admiral Sommerville shall go in the pacific due the potential threat of IJN: A single fleet with a mere light carrier and few cruisers won't hold out if they concentrate any major fleet nearby there. It was not too long after that once we heard that Soviet Union had declared war on Japan, even though they are already at war against Germany.
However, around the coast of North Africa the italians are sitting ducks quite literally. We have managed to secure sealanes in order to pour more fresh, well eguipped troops in Africa. Those few times there has been contact with the italian navy they have either ended up as major damages for the italians or otherwise miserable defeats. One time when they attempted to attack a small task force by the cover of night, their slow battleships were unable to catch faster carriers and their screens and thanks to the quick iniative seized by the admiral, even when they were close to firing range they were able to 'run away' before they managed to do that. Six hours later when the sun cleared the sky the italians were the ones being buggered.
In India, Singkiang attempted to exploit our open flank but railroads are magnificent advatange and we managed to redeploy several divisions to halt them, and after few months even push them back.
The situation in Soviet Union is not looking too good. The enemy is almost at the gates of Moscow.
On the other hand, situation in Africa have seen a major turn of events. Operation Cigar was a failure, partly due logistical reasons and faulty planning regarding the southern flank but due the experience, Field Marshall Brooke proposed a new plan, called Operation Wall. The objective was almost the same as in Operation Cigar, but this time instead of expanding the front southwards it was expanded linearly throughout the centre and north in so-called frogleaps.
Even though the italians had greater numerical superiority, they still lacked quality and proper air cover. So far only italian bombardment witnessed in Africa was near General Auchinleck's headquarters and the bombs missed by over a mile. Operation Wall commenced on 10th of July 0400 hours. After 20 days of rough fighting the italians ultimately crumbled with notable casualties, while our own casualties - while I can't remember the exact figures - were surprisingly low. However, due the nature of the desert and supply, before the second part of Operation Wall is commenced (in other words, encircle Tobruk and siege it to submission) there will be a supply buildup for several weeks for both The Royal Navy and our Desert Rats.
After our so-called Norway garrison had been on hold for over six months and most of the activity were limited to reconnaisance units or snipers making fun out of the germans, when Finland ultimately joined the bandwagon and isolated them ultimately from the north, the germans attacked and after four days of fierce fighting they had to surrender, as no evac ships could be brought in time.
One rather amusing factor though was that our press managed to make it like another case of Leonidas, as they were outnumbered, outgunned and having moderate lack of supplies when they still held out for few days. It's hailed as heroic standoff of the british soldiers and Churchill announced a memorial will be made once the time is right.
Even more crooked though was our situation in Hong Kong. While they haven't made any real offenses throughout the border, several attempts to seize Hong Kong have been made but most of them were repelled by the mere presence of the RN. However, things got quite awry for the japanese:
A small fleet in Hong Kong intercepted major transport group and according to several officers on the fleet, it was like a turkey shot. At one point they even had to stop picking up some survivors from the sunk ships as their ships couldn't support any more passengers. Another shocking piece of news came from Malta shortly after though:
The italians attempted to seize Malta with airbourne invasion. The initial response from the garrison was sluggish as they were expecting a major air raid instead of paratroopers, but once the fact became obvious they quickly took iniative in the situation. The italians fought valiantly for four days until they finally had to surrender.
However, not too long before that Germany had declared war on Jugoslavia, it was quite hopeless battle for the defenders.
In the meantime, our fleet in Hong Kong kept sinking japanese transports at will. In the latest military meeting Churchill ordered that Force B under admiral Sommerville shall go in the pacific due the potential threat of IJN: A single fleet with a mere light carrier and few cruisers won't hold out if they concentrate any major fleet nearby there. It was not too long after that once we heard that Soviet Union had declared war on Japan, even though they are already at war against Germany.
However, around the coast of North Africa the italians are sitting ducks quite literally. We have managed to secure sealanes in order to pour more fresh, well eguipped troops in Africa. Those few times there has been contact with the italian navy they have either ended up as major damages for the italians or otherwise miserable defeats. One time when they attempted to attack a small task force by the cover of night, their slow battleships were unable to catch faster carriers and their screens and thanks to the quick iniative seized by the admiral, even when they were close to firing range they were able to 'run away' before they managed to do that. Six hours later when the sun cleared the sky the italians were the ones being buggered.
In India, Singkiang attempted to exploit our open flank but railroads are magnificent advatange and we managed to redeploy several divisions to halt them, and after few months even push them back.
The situation in Soviet Union is not looking too good. The enemy is almost at the gates of Moscow.
On the other hand, situation in Africa have seen a major turn of events. Operation Cigar was a failure, partly due logistical reasons and faulty planning regarding the southern flank but due the experience, Field Marshall Brooke proposed a new plan, called Operation Wall. The objective was almost the same as in Operation Cigar, but this time instead of expanding the front southwards it was expanded linearly throughout the centre and north in so-called frogleaps.
Even though the italians had greater numerical superiority, they still lacked quality and proper air cover. So far only italian bombardment witnessed in Africa was near General Auchinleck's headquarters and the bombs missed by over a mile. Operation Wall commenced on 10th of July 0400 hours. After 20 days of rough fighting the italians ultimately crumbled with notable casualties, while our own casualties - while I can't remember the exact figures - were surprisingly low. However, due the nature of the desert and supply, before the second part of Operation Wall is commenced (in other words, encircle Tobruk and siege it to submission) there will be a supply buildup for several weeks for both The Royal Navy and our Desert Rats.
How the heck do you use redeployment? I've never understood that
Select unit you want to redeploy, click the province with ctrl button on and there is strategic redeployement included as one of the avaible missions. Select that, ok and there it goes. Obviously you need a land connection to do it with the exception of V1s, V2s and ICMBs - just a friendly occupied airfield.
The future look dark, but God willing, all good will prevail and rid the Earth of all evil.
I just noticed the prioritize build buttons. I will have a strong ctf well before Japan "should" attack.Ohoh better be prepared for some kind of bad surprise I think.
Ok it's a good thing.
It's quite cool to see that the AI now knows how to use paratroopers.
The attempt was impressive. Too bad the Italian airforce did not help out with some close air support.
Not sure if this has been asked but, what map icons are you using? I just noticed in one of your screenshots, the Italian battleship and British carrier's looked pretty sweet on the campaign map.
So where can I find such brilliant icons?
Cheers
So where can I find such brilliant icons?
Cheers
Selfquote ftw
This time I'm just going to add the links to save further confusion:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=319054
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=319711
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7587503#post7587503
The initial supply buildup for Operation Wall was expected to be two weeks, but due excellent organisation abilities of Field Marshall Brooke it was handled in ten days and the second offense began on 15th of August. Ultimately the battle lasted for several days before the italians were routed.
Meantime in far east, the japanese finally launched their own offense en masse. Due poor intelligence information it caught our troops by surprise, even though they managed to hold out for five days before an order for retreat was given on the whole front to buy time and land. The local RAF command decided to bomb all supply routes as much as possible in order to halt their offense due logistical reasons rather than anything else. So far several areas of the frontlines have been bombed so badly that there's barely any roads left.
After long period of depressing silence, u-boats reports have appeared once again and our boys were thrilled. It has been over six months since they got to play with our fresh destroyers. Morale on the homefront also skyrocketed when the initial u-boat threat was halted, but now it seems that the germans are completely unable to take the iniative.
It was not too long after that when recently deployed Force A saw contact with IJN. The battle lasted for several days and ultimately both sides took major damage and lost one carrier, even though the damage for the RN was far greater than anticipated. Force A has to remain in ports for repairs for over a year atleast before they are even remotedly operational. Luckily for the japanese, apparently their secret new battleship(s?) took quite a beating aswell. Unfortunately, when Force B was intended as reinforcements by the time they arrived the battle was lost and they took also heavy damage.
Our front in far east is under a stalemate - to our luck - as the japanese and their allies are incapable of advancing for the moment due RAF pressure on supplies. The further they come, more streched their lines become and lack of aerial cover allows the RAF to bomb at will.
As for the situation in Italy, I've yet to see the latest report about the situation in Africa as someone forgot to bring it to me yesterday. I hope he didn't pass out from the fumes of cigars. Sometimes it smells here as some evil troll from a fairytale thought this was a new toilet.
Meantime in far east, the japanese finally launched their own offense en masse. Due poor intelligence information it caught our troops by surprise, even though they managed to hold out for five days before an order for retreat was given on the whole front to buy time and land. The local RAF command decided to bomb all supply routes as much as possible in order to halt their offense due logistical reasons rather than anything else. So far several areas of the frontlines have been bombed so badly that there's barely any roads left.
After long period of depressing silence, u-boats reports have appeared once again and our boys were thrilled. It has been over six months since they got to play with our fresh destroyers. Morale on the homefront also skyrocketed when the initial u-boat threat was halted, but now it seems that the germans are completely unable to take the iniative.
It was not too long after that when recently deployed Force A saw contact with IJN. The battle lasted for several days and ultimately both sides took major damage and lost one carrier, even though the damage for the RN was far greater than anticipated. Force A has to remain in ports for repairs for over a year atleast before they are even remotedly operational. Luckily for the japanese, apparently their secret new battleship(s?) took quite a beating aswell. Unfortunately, when Force B was intended as reinforcements by the time they arrived the battle was lost and they took also heavy damage.
Our front in far east is under a stalemate - to our luck - as the japanese and their allies are incapable of advancing for the moment due RAF pressure on supplies. The further they come, more streched their lines become and lack of aerial cover allows the RAF to bomb at will.
As for the situation in Italy, I've yet to see the latest report about the situation in Africa as someone forgot to bring it to me yesterday. I hope he didn't pass out from the fumes of cigars. Sometimes it smells here as some evil troll from a fairytale thought this was a new toilet.
Stalemate in Asia, progress in Africa, not too bad for the moment!
I hope that you'll be able to defeat the Italians quickly.
I hope that you'll be able to defeat the Italians quickly.
December 13th, 1941. It's been a while since I got time to write this, but there has been alot of things going on. I finally got my hands on the report about North Africa and the problem was not the runner passing out of cigar fumes, but rather Churchill passing out due pure happiness. Between the two monts after Operation Wall began, Tobruk was sieged and captured after 10 days of relentless naval and aerial bombardment and the armoured corps pushed on under the leadership of now Lt. General Montgomery.
It was not too long before General Gort and other so-called rearguards were ordered to clean up the pocket in Al Jaghbub. Even though the italian infantry surrendered after several days, their well eguipped motorized and armoured formations fought tenaciously. After one week of costly cleanup every avaible bomber was ordered to bomb Al Jaghbub at will. Several days later most of the italians had surrender, even though some of them were so stubborn they had barricaded their field HQ and boobytrapped every possible entrance, requiring engineers and direct fire support to force them to surrender.
It was not too long ago after that we've recheived the shocking news about USSR: Germany is running all over the place like hot knife through butter. An emergency meeting was put on by the war cabinet shortly after as if the germans manages to expand too much southwards, Persia, India and Africa are under major threat. I am surprised their logistics have allowed them to go so far.
The news in Africa were alot more positive though, most of the pockets and remants of their army had either been cleaned or almost cleaned. It didn't take more than a week and only italians in Africa were prisoners rather than a real threat.
On 9th of November, the japanese attempted yet another attack to secure Hong Kong. It lasted only several hours before the Royal Navy blocked their invasion attempt once again, but several days later a big surprise came: Huge IJN fleet commanded by the mastermind of Pearl Harbour sailed in. The engagement lasted only few hours before a retreat was called in, as the overwhelming numbers could not be held back by a simple light carrier.
After that it was quiet around almost every front for the moment. It was not until december that the japanese launched another offense in the Far East. After few days of delay a withdrawal on whole front was ordered and the policy of scorched earth was allowed on several locations. The RAF is still bombing every possible supply route as much as possible, but they still have enough stockpiles to go on for several offenses - presuming the japanese don't meet any serious resistance, which has been the case so far. Churchill informed me that two fresh marine divisions are being deployed in India within a month, and Singapore's defences are to be enhanced with engineers and extra division.
It was not too long before General Gort and other so-called rearguards were ordered to clean up the pocket in Al Jaghbub. Even though the italian infantry surrendered after several days, their well eguipped motorized and armoured formations fought tenaciously. After one week of costly cleanup every avaible bomber was ordered to bomb Al Jaghbub at will. Several days later most of the italians had surrender, even though some of them were so stubborn they had barricaded their field HQ and boobytrapped every possible entrance, requiring engineers and direct fire support to force them to surrender.
It was not too long ago after that we've recheived the shocking news about USSR: Germany is running all over the place like hot knife through butter. An emergency meeting was put on by the war cabinet shortly after as if the germans manages to expand too much southwards, Persia, India and Africa are under major threat. I am surprised their logistics have allowed them to go so far.
The news in Africa were alot more positive though, most of the pockets and remants of their army had either been cleaned or almost cleaned. It didn't take more than a week and only italians in Africa were prisoners rather than a real threat.
On 9th of November, the japanese attempted yet another attack to secure Hong Kong. It lasted only several hours before the Royal Navy blocked their invasion attempt once again, but several days later a big surprise came: Huge IJN fleet commanded by the mastermind of Pearl Harbour sailed in. The engagement lasted only few hours before a retreat was called in, as the overwhelming numbers could not be held back by a simple light carrier.
After that it was quiet around almost every front for the moment. It was not until december that the japanese launched another offense in the Far East. After few days of delay a withdrawal on whole front was ordered and the policy of scorched earth was allowed on several locations. The RAF is still bombing every possible supply route as much as possible, but they still have enough stockpiles to go on for several offenses - presuming the japanese don't meet any serious resistance, which has been the case so far. Churchill informed me that two fresh marine divisions are being deployed in India within a month, and Singapore's defences are to be enhanced with engineers and extra division.
Oh I don't like the current situation on the Eastern Front.
Without the Soviets to keep them busy the Germans will come for you.
Scary...
Without the Soviets to keep them busy the Germans will come for you.
Scary...