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It seems my subjects aren't very happy with the war.

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I'd love to talk about it but I have no idea what it means. I don't like the sound of the territorial pride modifier so I've changed my espionage to increase my party's popularity. Maybe that'll fix it.

Meanwhile, the Bulgarian front was slowly deteriorating for them. I was almost ready to attack their capital, though I am a bit worried of the stack they've put there. It looks nasty.

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That's like a corps of units. Knowing BICE, they've probably buffed units defending the capital or something so that's not good. I highly doubt they'll be able to push out, so I can still try to surround them more, but that looks worrying nonetheless. I bombed it in preparation for my attack, with the usual 20 casualties per bombing run.

I launched my attack the moment my forces were ready.

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This is going to be a problem. I've decided to throw all of my forces at the city when they reach it, so I brought in my southern-most corps to help take the city. My plan is to secure the entire eastern side of the city and through that, surround the city, hopefully trapping some forces to the west too.

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I launched the battles to do just this. They were going well for me.

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It looks like it's about time to take their capital once more.

I'll probably get more text next time even more
 
That low popularity modifier is nasty indeed. Did you check the strategic effects list for why it triggered? It must be on there somewhere.
Good luck enveloping the city, that should teach them!
 
And what's the cassus belli of this war? That's why I hate HOI3. Attack anyone because why not....Dude ... a realistic Romania wouldn't ever attack Bulgaria without a reason.
If you want a realistic AAR, and a challenging one too, don't attack anyone, give Bassarabia to Russia and then ally them. Fight against Bulgaria, Hungary and Germany at the same time.
Don't destroy all the Axis members before the creation of the Axis, and all of this before you even get to have a communist country. What you doing makes no sense at all.

Anyway .. do what you want. That's why I will never play HOI3.
 
Migthy said:
And what's the cassus belli of this war? That's why I hate HOI3. Attack anyone because why not....Dude ... a realistic Romania wouldn't ever attack Bulgaria without a reason.
If you want a realistic AAR, and a challenging one too, don't attack anyone, give Bassarabia to Russia and then ally them. Fight against Bulgaria, Hungary and Germany at the same time.
Don't destroy all the Axis members before the creation of the Axis, and all of this before you even get to have a communist country. What you doing makes no sense at all.

Anyway .. do what you want. That's why I will never play HOI3.
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I thought it started over the Dobruja dispute, but Romania took things a little too far here. Of course, Paradox did not bother to add the Dobruja dispute, or many CBs at all actually...
 
Big Blue Blob said:
I thought it started over the Dobruja dispute, but Romania took things a little too far here. Of course, Paradox did not bother to add the Dobruja dispute, or many CBs at all actually...
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Yes, I think you could make a case for a dispute over the Dobruja/Constanta area getting out of hand.
 
Migthy said:
And for Greece?
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Well Bulgaria and Greece fought over Thessaloníki during the 2nd Balkan War. Bulgaria was not very liked by it's neighbours at the time, to put it mildly.
Or do you mean Romania vs Greece? Cause that wouldn't make much sense IRL. But a revenge for the 2nd Balkan War/ WW1 casus belli for Bulgaria is pretty sensible.
 
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TehDarkMiner, what ever happened to your Australia AAR?
 
sebas379 said:
That low popularity modifier is nasty indeed. Did you check the strategic effects list for why it triggered? It must be on there somewhere.
Good luck enveloping the city, that should teach them!
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Ah, I forgot that it would be there, thanks :)

And what's the cassus belli of this war? That's why I hate HOI3. Attack anyone because why not....Dude ... a realistic Romania wouldn't ever attack Bulgaria without a reason.
If you want a realistic AAR, and a challenging one too, don't attack anyone, give Bassarabia to Russia and then ally them. Fight against Bulgaria, Hungary and Germany at the same time.
Don't destroy all the Axis members before the creation of the Axis, and all of this before you even get to have a communist country. What you doing makes no sense at all.

Anyway .. do what you want. That's why I will never play HOI3.
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Problem is, that's suicide, not a challenge. I'm also very ahistorical, so 'realistic Romania' definitely doesn't fit (this is communist anyway, I hardly see how 'realism' fits :p)
I'll try to come up with proper reasons for wars though.

I thought it started over the Dobruja dispute, but Romania took things a little too far here. Of course, Paradox did not bother to add the Dobruja dispute, or many CBs at all actually...
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Or that ^

And for Greece?
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Well, I did state I'm not sure about Greece in the first place :p

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TehDarkMiner, what ever happened to your Australia AAR?
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Thanks. Long story short: I lost it (I have a backup though). By that time I already installed BICE and not vanilla HoI3. A few days ago I got back a way to play vanilla so I'll be able to do it soon-ish. By Christmas at the least. I'm slowly going through my USBs until I found the one I saved it to :p
But I promise by Christmas. I rather liked that AAR myself :)

For Romania, none. It should not happen. Hence I suggested war with Hungary instead.
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Well, clearly I didn't think this all through enough.

Thanks for the comments though, guys - in future I will definitely keep this sort of stuff in mind in this AAR and others. I might not even go to war with Hungary at all considering what's been said here (though I won't go back on Bulgaria - I need something. It would be impossible to last a year with Bulgaria, to my opinion. I'll focus my next update on some casus belli.
I'm still not that great at AARs, but practice makes perfect, as they say.
 
I should probably write AARs in third person so casus bellis actually advance the 'plot'. It doesn't really sound like an excuse to invade a country like it does in first person. Well at least I have that in mind for my next AARs

I completed surrounding the city after a small skirmish to its south.

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With about 2 corps worth of divisions, I launched the second attack on Sofia. And immediately, I could see that it was going to be a lot more successful than last time.

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Of course, by now, they should have fully mobilised. But at least 3 of the units in the stack are HQs, which gives the impression that the force defending Sofia is larger than it really is. Furthermore, I managed to complete my encirclement of the city, letting me throw my final corps into the battle. This was going very well for me now.

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The battle ended within 24 hours of total encirclement. Bulgaria just couldn't bring in any reinforcements to their city.

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This, naturally, lead to the annexation of the lovely Bulgarian factories and resources into my hands.

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In total, I would have lost about five thousand men in that war to battles. No idea how much to attrition.

that was also not a lot of text, I know. Sorry. I made those screenshots before I'd read those comments, so I didn't really have lots of text in mind. In future updates I can make it meatier, regarding the text.
 
That was one bloody battle of Sofiya!
That's your Southern flank secure for the time being, nice job.
 
One neighbor dealt with and so many more to go. How strong are you compared to your neighbors? The difference in men in that final battle was huge but I guess it could be that they just weren't ready. How much time passed in the game?
 
sebas379 said:
That was one bloody battle of Sofiya!
That's your Southern flank secure for the time being, nice job.
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Thanks :)

One neighbor dealt with and so many more to go. How strong are you compared to your neighbors? The difference in men in that final battle was huge but I guess it could be that they just weren't ready. How much time passed in the game?
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Since I haven't done AARs for a while I sort of forgot to add time to all of these updates (though future ones I have the times recorded for) - I really have had a poor start to this AAR :\. It went for about a month or so though.

I have no real way of working out how strong I am in comparison to my neighbours, unfortunately. I could tag HUN or tag YUG or something but to be honest, I want to keep it a surprise (I don't know how much BICE buffed/nerfed the strengths of those armies) for me. Border armies are not representative of the whole army strength for minors, from what I've seen of Bulgaria, otherwise I'd post a screenshot specifically detailing that but I think that would lead to underestimation of the strengths of the entire armies of the countries (though I'll add something to the next update regarding border strengths).

On a side note, my next few updates will be spanning quite a long time; it's rather quiet. I'll have time periods on those though of course.
 
TehDarkMiner said:
Since I haven't done AARs for a while I sort of forgot to add time to all of these updates (though future ones I have the times recorded for) - I really have had a poor start to this AAR :\. It went for about a month or so though.

I have no real way of working out how strong I am in comparison to my neighbours, unfortunately. I could tag HUN or tag YUG or something but to be honest, I want to keep it a surprise (I don't know how much BICE buffed/nerfed the strengths of those armies) for me. Border armies are not representative of the whole army strength for minors, from what I've seen of Bulgaria, otherwise I'd post a screenshot specifically detailing that but I think that would lead to underestimation of the strengths of the entire armies of the countries (though I'll add something to the next update regarding border strengths).

On a side note, my next few updates will be spanning quite a long time; it's rather quiet. I'll have time periods on those though of course.
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It's not a poor start but merely me being very demanding :). I've never played this game so I have little idea on how long these battles actually take. Personally, I don't mind just knowing how many enemy troops are along the border. It's natural for the enemy to keep reserves (it's more fun for the player if the numbers are unknown) but trouble normally arises for them if you managed to break through that outer line. It takes time to get reserves to the front lines (at least, I hope that's the case) and their numbers could be irrelevant if their front can't hold. I apologize for giving you such a headache.
 
Don't worry about 'giving my such a headache', I'm not going to improve without criticism. Bring it on :p
If anything, thanks for it :)

Well, I'll show you how many troops there are on the border soon. If not next update (I've already played it, I got bored :p, I usually play 1-2 updates in advance so that I will have content to post regardless of whether I can sink several hours into HoI3 at the time), then I'll do it the one afterwards.
 
I might be slightly wrong about this update's date
End of the Bulgarian war, September 36 - 12 July '37.

I was given the option to get some 'advanced equipment'. I actually have no idea what this did.

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However, I was soon given the opportunity to build a national monument, and to get some nice light tanks.

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Both of these had some interesting benefits and interesting drawbacks. In particular, the light tanks were very expensive money wise (-50% money for several months), although I am practically swimming in money at the moment so that's not much of a problem. The monument cost 5000 money and 5000 supplies but gave me a +2% national unity bonus. Not much, I know, but what else am I going to spend that on?

Barely anything of interest happened in this time. The Spanish Civil War started. I checked the armies for that, and they're actually surprisingly big - 400k or so on either side.

There was one thing though.

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Yes, Romania was now part of the comintern and this strangely coincided with a gain in popularity.

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I am now no longer very unpopular, and just unpopular. Yay.

And of course, Japan and China were embroiled in war. The Axis now found itself a new member.

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Yeah, I had this update done before I read some of those suggestions so next update I'll do it all
 
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