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Thanks everybody for your comments 
Oh Gods forbid! I hate the Eastern front.
I thought about it However Kaiserreich tends to produce very long games and I really won't have time to do an AAR of such scale.
Or a misplaced event But I think there is a chance of them re-joining the Central Powers. Had that happened, this AAR would end much sooner. Plus, I like defeating Italy
Yes. It wasn't an actual landing by the way, the divisions just appeared there because of an event that's supposed to simulate the British involvement in the war. Sadly it doesn't check who's holding the province
But I am not complaining, it actually made the game more interesting for me.
With what? All my divisions are assigned to their respective armies. I didn't want to make dozens of one-division detachments ruining my whole army organization. I figured the coasts would have to wait until I build more garrisons.
Oh Mother Russia, union of lands...
Continue! The march to Moscow is near!
Oh Gods forbid! I hate the Eastern front.
I have a tres, tres terrible headache after witnessing such a devastating French defeat. After achieving victory you should play a Kaiserreich game as the vanquished French and do a reverse Schlieffen plan with Syndicalist panzers
I thought about it
However Kaiserreich tends to produce very long games and I really won't have time to do an AAR of such scale.Or a misplaced event
But I think there is a chance of them re-joining the Central Powers. Had that happened, this AAR would end much sooner. Plus, I like defeating Italy Yes. It wasn't an actual landing by the way, the divisions just appeared there because of an event that's supposed to simulate the British involvement in the war. Sadly it doesn't check who's holding the province
But I am not complaining, it actually made the game more interesting for me.
With what? All my divisions are assigned to their respective armies. I didn't want to make dozens of one-division detachments ruining my whole army organization. I figured the coasts would have to wait until I build more garrisons.
At least the Entente is making a good fight of things now, even if it takes misplaced events to stir them into action.
Out of interest would you recommend the 1914 bug? It's a very interesting concept but it's always looked rather messy and unfinished.
Out of interest would you recommend the 1914 bug? It's a very interesting concept but it's always looked rather messy and unfinished.
At least the Entente is making a good fight of things now, even if it takes misplaced events to stir them into action.
Out of interest would you recommend the 1914 bug? It's a very interesting concept but it's always looked rather messy and unfinished.
Are you sure you didn't mean "mod"? It's not that bad
I think the mod is very good. I don't play unmodded HoI, and out of all the mods I played, this one is among the top 3 or 4. I certainly had some good times with it. Although it is true that the version I am playing is heavily customized to fit my tastes.
Main event chains are completed and work well, there are new ministers and leaders, new countries, new tech tree, a lot of other stuff, and it is reasonably stable (it suffers of occasional CTDs during surrender events, which I suspect are caused by expeditionary forces in service of another country). THE issue with the mod is the AI. I honestly don't know why it is so hard to make it fight a two-front war correctly, but I am no modder. I know many smart people dealt with it and failed or succeeded only partially, so there must be something wrong with the engine itself - it's probably not well-suited to simulating a static, attritional warfare of the WW1 sort.
The mod is currently being ported to Arsenal of Democracy and if the guy who's doing it succeeds, it will even have a new E3 map with much more detailed and realistically looking provinces. Hopefully AOD will also help with the AI.
I am being incoherent here, I know. If you're asking if the mod is worth a try, I say "yes, definitely." Especially if you can mod away the things you don't like and customize it to your liking.
Thanks for the advice, I'll give the mod a try when I can. The AI problem looks bad but as long as it isn't completely broken things should be fine, vanilla HOI2 isn't exactly a leader in the field itself.
I am humored by the fight being given to you by the Danes.
Hopefully you are able to nip the British Landing in the bud.
Hopefully you are able to nip the British Landing in the bud.
Chapter 4: A Sea of Blood
After recovering from the shock, the Germans send von Kluck's 1st and von Bulow's 2nd Army as well as some smaller units to deal with the British Expeditionary Force. They manage to stop the British advance at the cost of nearly 100,000 casualties, but are unable to throw them back to the sea. For the time being a new line of trenches is formed in France and Brittany remains under Entente control.
Thing are going better in Serbia, where the 6th and 10th Armies decisively defeat the Serbs. Many are taken captive or killed, but a substantial number of them escapes through difficult mountain passes to Albania. The victory in Serbia is important, because it frees German forces for operations on other fronts.
Another British raid on Ghent alarms the Germans. 3 elite Commonwealth divisions are staging an amphibious invasion of beaches defended by a single garrison division. The operation doesn't go well for the British, but it proves to be a huge temptation for the Germans. A fleet of pre-dreadnaught battleships is sent to intercept the enemy task force. With luck the British may lose some of their troop transport ships.
Unfortunately the Germans sail into a trap. As it is approaching its target, the German fleet is ambushed by combined fleet of Britain, France and Italy. The cornered Germans fight desperately to smash open the enemy lines and escape. The succeed, but at an unimaginable cost: 15 battleships and 3 heavy cruisers are sunk together with 15 smaller ships. The Entente loses 5 battleships, 1 battlecruiser and 18 smaller vessels.
Spontaneous celebrations of the "2nd Trafalgar" erupt all over Britain.
Germany is stunned by this sudden defeat. The Kaiser is absolutely furious. Despite protests and pleas from the admiralty, he orders the Hochseeflotte to exact revenge on the Entente fleets. Soon after it leaves the port, the HSF encounters an Italian fleet in pursuit of the defeated Germans - it engages it and damages many enemy ships, but the Italians turn back and flee before any of their ships are sunk. The HSF can't pursue the enemy through the English Channel and so it return back to Wilhelmshafen.
As the Russian troops advance deeper into Austria-Hungary, riots erupt among Czechs and Slovaks who desire greater degree of autonomy in exchange for their continued support of the war. The Austrian Emperor doesn't have any other choice but to accept their demands (and the Hungarians are in no position to veto it), at least for now - Bohemia is home to more than two thirds of the entire Austro-Hungarian industrial capacity. If the rioters disrupted the war production there, Austria would be defeated in a matter of weeks. Limited autonomy is thus granted to the Czechs who, together with their brethren in Slovakia, form a regional government. They also demand their conscripts to be organized in separate military units under Czecho-Slovak leadership, claiming the Austro-Hungarian officers were often treating them like cannon-fodder. This request is also granted.
The Kaiser watches in horror. He relies on Austria to keep the Russians busy in the East, but now it seems Austria is about to crumble. Something has to be done, and soon.
(I swear I had nothing to do with this event!)
Unfortunately, the German forces in the East aren't capable of staging large offensives without further reinforcements, although they manage to recapture Cracow from the Russians. For this reason a massive force is pulled off the Western front and sent to Poland to prepare for a counter-offensive that will hopefully derail the Russian assault.
This leaves the remaining forces in France dangerously overstretched, especially when hundreds of thousands of Italian troops arrive to reinforce the French.
Thousands of feet march to the beat, it's an army on the march
Long way from home, paying the price in young mens lives
Thousands of feet march to the beat, it's an army in despair
Knee-deep in mud, stuck in the trench with no way out
Thousands of machine guns
Get on firing through the night
Mortars placed and wreck the scene
Guns the fields that once were green
Still a dead-lock at the front line
Where the soldiers die in mud
Rosen, houses since long gone
Still no glory has been won
What's the Price of a Mile?
Long way from home, paying the price in young mens lives
Thousands of feet march to the beat, it's an army in despair
Knee-deep in mud, stuck in the trench with no way out
Thousands of machine guns
Get on firing through the night
Mortars placed and wreck the scene
Guns the fields that once were green
Still a dead-lock at the front line
Where the soldiers die in mud
Rosen, houses since long gone
Still no glory has been won
What's the Price of a Mile?
I guess it's hardly surprising that the war has ended up as a stalemate even if things had been going so well. More divisions from somewhere are needed to break it but while I can't see where the Central Powers could get any from the Entente should have a bunch of new allies joining them sooner or later.
Fantastic AAR and a great read so far.
Might have to check out this 1914 Mod, have not had the courage to try a mod on my beloved Hoi2 yet
Might have to check out this 1914 Mod, have not had the courage to try a mod on my beloved Hoi2 yet
We both have the same taste in music.
Not only you.
*goes back to reread the AAR with that music running.*
Silly me, but, I don't see the effects of the "Digging" event on the map. Hasn't it fired?
As always, thanks for your support
It's the BEF, they just look French on the map
For now...
Indeed That's another of my favourite - humbling Italy. Never gets old
I've just discovered a band whose music I could very well like
The computer won't explode, don't worry. Just make a copy and follow the installation instructions.
It didn't fire in 1914, probably because I've never had the "Schlieffen Plan failed" event. In hindsight, it's probably one of the reasons I got so far so quick.
It's the BEF, they just look French on the map
For now...
Indeed
That's another of my favourite - humbling Italy. Never gets old We both have the same taste in music.
I've just discovered a band whose music I could very well like
Fantastic AAR and a great read so far.
Might have to check out this 1914 Mod, have not had the courage to try a mod on my beloved Hoi2 yet
The computer won't explode, don't worry. Just make a copy and follow the installation instructions.
It didn't fire in 1914, probably because I've never had the "Schlieffen Plan failed" event. In hindsight, it's probably one of the reasons I got so far so quick.