You really want more? I can wrap up the Vicky half today if you really want me too.
And I would have VickyAAR'd it - but I took no screenshots
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You really want more? I can wrap up the Vicky half today if you really want me too.
And I would have VickyAAR'd it - but I took no screenshots
You really want more? I can wrap up the Vicky half today if you really want me too.
If you can do it that would be really cool, but you can take your time if you want to also !
The new year 1917 was a dangerous one over much of the globe. The British and the Russians fought desperately against each other, as did those same British and the French.
In the Atlantic, the USN pushes hard for Ireland, while the RN moves to block them. The resulting naval clash breaks the offensive ability of both sides, bringing the US push for Ireland to an end.
In New Brunswick, the British secure a landing, but General Wise and his men quickly rally and throw the Royal Marines into the cold Atlantic. The US 1st, 2nd and 3rd armies, the striking power from the Canadain offensive, now disassemble into smaller corps of two divisions to garrison the entire coastline. Two mobile reserves of four divisions are also formed - Pershing in Philadelphia and Wise in Easton.
The Japanese become more and more belligerent in their "maneuvers" and the United States begin to draw up plans for an offensive against Japanese Hawaii. They also realize that they're focus on the Royal Navy has blinded them to the growing threat in the Pacific. A fleet for that ocean is chalked up.
As the war slips further and further away from the UK, the British begin to suffer angry uprisings all across their empire. Now almost all of its Indian satellites have withdrawn from the war, and the Royal Navy seems incapable of breaching America's "Atlantic Shield".
The end is nigh.
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Sorry - but not much happened in 1917
why couldnt my america game be epic like this? i quit it after i began to be comsumed by a mexican couterattack. then i played the usa in 1914 and germany won in 1916 denying me the chance to fight. vicky doesnt like me *goes and crys in the corner*
but now ill just sit here and read about your game. when do you start building acrriers? it seems like you could use some right now to make a landing in ireland. also how does their combat differ from other ships? as far as i can remember vicky doesnt have firing ranges which would leave carriers vulnerable.
but now ill just sit here and read about your game. when do you start building acrriers? it seems like you could use some right now to make a landing in ireland. also how does their combat differ from other ships? as far as i can remember vicky doesnt have firing ranges which would leave carriers vulnerable.
Carriers usually don't become available until the late twenties. The invention chain leaves a lot to be desired. But I build four before this AAR ends, after scrapping most of my fleet upon the conclusion of the Freedom War.
BTW there's only one more Freedom War update, then an epilogue of the Vicky half. THEN I play AoD.
And I think this is only that epic because I had not idea what I was doing at first and got whipped and halfway through realized how to play
EDIT - Are you liking my chapter pics?
BTW there's only one more Freedom War update, then an epilogue of the Vicky half. THEN I play AoD.
And I think this is only that epic because I had not idea what I was doing at first and got whipped and halfway through realized how to play
EDIT - Are you liking my chapter pics?
Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
- The Star-Spangled Banner, US National Anthem
1918.
A year that will live in infamy for Great Britain forevermore.
As the year started, the United Kingdom began to make gains against Russia. The Kingdom of the Tzars was forced to yield left and right. No counterattack succeeded, no defense long held. Maybe Britain had a hope of winning this war after all!
The USN was, after all, confined to its ports, and the Royal Marines could certainly defeat the US Army in a direct fight. Never mind that with the fall of Bermuda, Newfoundland and Guyana the UK lacked a base close enough to the US to attack with. They could retake them.
The the French made their next move.
MacArthur had been negotiating with the French all this time, and now the French government openly supported the United States. They pushed forward against the British on all fronts, thereby effectively ending the war.
The United Kingdom finally accepted the terms of the Wilson Woodrow Peace.
The Treaty of Watertown - Ironically the very same city the Canadians had centralized their occupation of northern New York in - officially brought an end to hostilities between all of the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Freedom War was finally over.
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Sorry about the length and not-epicness of this post - but 1918 was another nothing-happened year.
did you purposly make this begin and end in the same years as OTLs great war? maybe you should have continued the war with the french on your side, saved russia, and taken over africa. Then it would be easy to take the rest of africa from the frenchies in AoD.and btw the chapter pics are awesome.
Thank you about the pics!
And as a matter of fact I did not purposefully do it. I only really noticed it about 1921 and nearly fell off my chair laughing. That was what made me decide to really AAR this
And as a matter of fact I did not purposefully do it. I only really noticed it about 1921 and nearly fell off my chair laughing. That was what made me decide to really AAR this
well if you didnt mean to do it, why did you eccept a peace deal at all? you could have attacked the japs and gained a few islands at least. mayve sent some troops to help russia and cut off the british troops, assuming they attacked from asia
Well - I was never really allied with the French and Russians. That was for AAR purposes because the UK was fighting them at the same time.
I'd gotten what I wanted from the Freedom War, and I just wanted at that point to move into HOI - so I took the peace and hoped for a quite 15 years, which I got.
I'd gotten what I wanted from the Freedom War, and I just wanted at that point to move into HOI - so I took the peace and hoped for a quite 15 years, which I got.
too bad acceptall doesnt work in vicky. that would have helped with french and russian diplomacy.
by chance did any communist revolutions happen in your game? or is russia still a momnarchy and france still a republic?
by chance did any communist revolutions happen in your game? or is russia still a momnarchy and france still a republic?
Commies?
Let me put it this way: In the original conversion to AoD the game made the leader (and only member) of the Comintern Saudi Arabia.
I, needless to say, went in a made a few edits at that point. The world is a much more fun and complicated place now
And Russia/France are democracies.
The UK is nazi:rofl:
hmmm looking forward to it. what about germany/japan/china/italy/austria? did they they survive intact?
darn it lighthearter! this AAR is too interesting for its own good! Its like when i get a really good book. except here i cant turn the page until i get permission to.:rofl:
this AAR is too interesting for its own good! Its like when i get a really good book. except here i cant turn the page until i get permission to.:rofl:
United States of America
During the Freedom War Woodrow Wilson had only been elected to his second term in 1916 by a slight margin over Theodore Roosevelt. However, in 1920 he defeated Republican Roosevelt and Socialist Eugene Debs by a landslide. In America, celebrations at their freedom were occurring nonstop since the end of the Freedom War. These celebrations had none of the air of a dying man getting the best out of what time he had left, like the ones from 1914 and the beginning of the war, but instead were wild, victorious.
Wilson went on to serve his third term with distinction, then hand the reins to Roosevelt by declining to run for a fourth term in the 1924 elections. Roosevelt served for one term before Herbert Hoover ousted him in 1928. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 practically destroyed Hoover's administration, and Franklin D. Roosevelt easily beat him out for the Democratic nomination. After the younger Roosevelt had secured the presidency, four US aircraft carriers were completed, as well as fourteen modern cruisers. These ships were assigned to an Atlantic and a Pacific command, the former based at New York, the latter at Seattle.
America had not forgotten the threats around it.
Confederate States of America, Germany & Deseret
The CSA never really got over its neutrality in the Freedom War. That destroyed President Semmes' administration and paved the way for a left-wing takeover of the Senate. After the Socialists had secured control, they rapidly became more and more radical, until Deseret declared its sovereignty from the CSA.
The Confederates let Deseret be a simple satellite state at that point, not wanting to anger the Mormons who were the real power in the new nation. However, when Germany fell to the Revolution, Deseret began to fall more and more to the right, wondering if she might not have some common cause with Britain after all . . . .
European Powers
The United Kingdom practically collapsed as a result of losing the Freedom War. Only stern government control kept it from breaking at the seams. as the twenties rolled in the worst economic crash in the history of Britannia destroyed the nation to the point where it took a wheelbarrow full of pounds to buy a loaf of bread.
Enter Oswald Mosely and his "silver shirts". The British Fascist party seized the reins of the country swiftly, resolving the economy and uniting Britain with hate rhetoric against America, Canada, France and Russia.
The British had never ended their war against Russia, and when 1924 hit the Tzar sued for peace. The British only took small concessions in Kazakh - but that was because there eye was on a new gateway into America. The entirety of Russian Alaska was ceded in the Treaty of Moscow, giving the British yet another angle to fight the United States.
Asia & Other
Japan's government took its lead from Britain, and reformed on decidedly angry and hateful lines. Anti-Americanism was commonplace, and almost government-mandated. The Japanese Hawaiian Islands became a massive garrison station as anger against the USA began to grow. The Empire of the Rising Sun was quite possibly the greatest threat to the United States in early 1936.
Canada and Quebec remain loyal American puppets during this time - Quebec wholeheartedly and Canada grudgingly. It remains to be seen how loyal they will be if a war breaks out.
1936 looms . . . and now the world in in chaos.
Democracy will need an arsenal to survive.
