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Yes you did, and I'm very sorry about that, but myself and the radioactive frozen beverage confirmed it, and you were right, so there's that...I suggested the correct one in my first reply comrade
Let's just say that we all collectively managed to advise the correct course of action.
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Let's just say that we all collectively managed to advise the correct course of action.
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For no apparent reason, The Internationale begins blaring from loudspeakers mounted on Turkish convoy vehicles across and behind the front.
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To this day, when I feel down I sing either the internationale or Austrian workers march to lift my spiritsFor no apparent reason, The Internationale begins blaring from loudspeakers mounted on Turkish convoy vehicles across and behind the front.
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Just read upto and including Chapter 151 - and oh wow. Oh wow oh wow oh wow. Never saw this coming.
Paradox games are really glorious at times. And this is one of those times. You should see the size of the grin on my face, and since I have some enforced time at home (having a bout of the dreaded D courtesy, as it were, of my daughter) I can't wait to find out more!
Paradox games are really glorious at times. And this is one of those times. You should see the size of the grin on my face, and since I have some enforced time at home (having a bout of the dreaded D courtesy, as it were, of my daughter) I can't wait to find out more!
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Just read upto and including Chapter 151 - and oh wow. Oh wow oh wow oh wow. Never saw this coming.
Paradox games are really glorious at times. And this is one of those times. You should see the size of the grin on my face, and since I have some enforced time at home (having a bout of the dreaded D courtesy, as it were, of my daughter) I can't wait to find out more!
Yeah, this was quite the shot in the arm for the game and really ensured that ttl would be different during and after ww2. Turkey has two superpowers vying for favour and protection now.
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I believe you have inadvertently quadruple-posted
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Huh. Never seen that before. Anyway, you're nearly caught up! You might miss the flight to moscow but could be waiting when we get back.I believe you have inadvertently quadruple-posted
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Popping in from Chapter 161 just to note my appreciation of this line:
“The lousy bastards – both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead to me now! And that Tom Stoppard character has a lot to answer for!”
“The lousy bastards – both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead to me now! And that Tom Stoppard character has a lot to answer for!”
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And stopping for the moment after reading Chapter 166
The dynamic of the Russian front is interesting. And some truly bloody battles for the Turks, but the defence now seems remakably solid given the situation at some points last year. One also wonders if Germany is having any oil issues being denied Romanian oil for so long? Was amused to see the MECs ordered.
And I am delighted Perse is now a true Turk!
The dynamic of the Russian front is interesting. And some truly bloody battles for the Turks, but the defence now seems remakably solid given the situation at some points last year. One also wonders if Germany is having any oil issues being denied Romanian oil for so long? Was amused to see the MECs ordered.
And I am delighted Perse is now a true Turk!
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All: next sesh played through until the end of the month, but with rival summit meetings in Vienna and Moscow and reports on Croatia and Slovakia due, plus more intense action on the Balkan Front and then end-of-month summary reports, it will take two-three chapters to tell the tale! Some response feedback first.
We'll see how your reading of the Patriotic Front (as a whole) compares to the alternate reality over the coming game period to the end of the month. I won't say anything to spoil.
'Who, me?' *shrugs shoulders and give an insouciant wink. *
Perhaps a bit of both.
I think they are now all in Japanese PoW camps.
Thanks everyone.
And that's a lot of territory the Soviets need to liberate from Japanese hands!
All: Thanks for the very energetic and comprehensive engagement! Although it came from something frustrating, I ended up enjoying the assassination episode and am looking forward to its aftermath. As mentioned at the start, the next chapter will be a mix of the Coalition meeting, combat action, Axis politics and the Secret War. Screenshots and illustrations mainly done, now to the writing ...
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That's why everything looks like a nail!
Quite. A few years yet of large scale operations and long supply lines. Best improve the sinews of wars a bit.
Very.
Happens every so often!
Good point re Romania: it is becoming a concern again.
Infighting between and within the Axis states is endemic and indeed a function of their inherent nature. Oh, if only there could be such an Inglorius Basterds moment!
The gormless Fascists never expect the Turkish Inquisition!
August the 21st, 1942, was much like any other summer's day in Beograd, and Eymen Mutlu, a file clerk at HQ 1st Army, was on his way to work as usual when... (da dum!) Nothing happened! (dum dum da dum) Scarcely able to believe his eyes, Eymen Mutlu looked down. But one glance confirmed his suspicions. Behind a bush, on the side of the road, there was *no* severed arm. No dismembered trunk of a man in his late fifties. No head in a bag. Nothing. Not a sausage. For Eymen Mutlu, this was *not* to be the start of any trail of events which would not, in no time at all, involve him in neither a tangled knot of suspicion, nor any web of lies, which would, had he been not uninvolved, surely have led him to no other place, than the central criminal court of the Askeri Yargıtay (the Military Court of Cassation) in Ankara.
He well may!
It will soon be discussed in Moscow.
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You're most welcome, as always.
We'll see how your reading of the Patriotic Front (as a whole) compares to the alternate reality over the coming game period to the end of the month. I won't say anything to spoil. Or, Paradox just used a wrong photo
Good advice - confirmed by subsequent discussions
My game policy is normally to just run with them and play it per the game (with one or two notable exceptions). The alt-hist magic dust absolves Paradox of most of their crimes: part of the challenge is trying to justify them!
I tried everything I could. In all this time, that's the first time that has happened, And there are normally a couple of hundred (at least) screenshots per session these days.
We will see what battlefield events and circumstances have in store for us. And what the enemy does (or doesn't) do.
Very good.a tale of two şükrüs
They are pretty much all now back to their respective fronts, more or less.
And there was something about that poster, simple though it was in concept, that caught my eye. Nicer to look at than most of the factory-made Soviet stuff - don't tell Stalin that, though.
More consideration at Turkish staff talks at the Embassy oin Moscow prior to the main meeting.
Per above: we'll see what the cards hold for us by then.About what happens after the pocket is eliminated, I say a race to Budapest
If I knew, I would. Like in @Eurasia 's US AAR, they just seem to keep rebasing the main fleets between the west and east coast, patrol the Atlantic and Med and send nothing but a fair amount of submarine wolf packs around the Pacific.
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We got there in the end!
Bah. I come here hoping for power struggles, political intrigue, perhaps a fist-fight between Ögel and Kaya, and all I get is a president with a headache. DAMN YOU, BULLFILTER!! *shakes fist*
'Who, me?' *shrugs shoulders and give an insouciant wink. *Once in a while, they recognise that the national interest is a thing. And/or neither wants to appear like a spoiled brat and unsympathetic in front of their wounded President!I begin to understand how Lord El Pip feels reading about competent Italians in the Stahlpakts AAR, as here Turkish leadership again makes a wise decision and chooses to curtail any potential Ögel/Kaya hijinks, at the expense of the poor readership starved for drama and intrigue?
What's that you say? Something about a war being on? Dramatic fighting in some kind of bulge? Nonsense, I say!
Perhaps a bit of both.I thank you, sir!Always impressive how you manage to write the most arcane of in-game and out-of-game events into the narrative without missing a beat. I tip my hat to you, sir.
Well, until this time I had my reservations, but now it is clear that the war has been decided in favor of the Anti-Fascists.
Almost all in the hands of the three rspective AI commands, so we'll see what they do. The main Turkish concern is the right flank of the hard-pressed Romanian-Soviet EF defensive line in what's left of Romania being turned.
Alas, there were no transport fleets within thousands of kilometres, AFAIC tell.Perhaps they've just relocated their valuable PAR and MAR divisions for more useful tasks, and accidentally left the island ungarrisoned? And the Japan AI is then bombing an undefended airfield? To be sure, equally as likely with the Paradox AI, but less devastating than the outcome posited by the authAAR.
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Per above, the Turkish staff will 'talk turkey' about this privately before the Coalition meeting in Moscow.
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Yep, got there in the beginning and the end.
Thanks everyone.I think Moscow is going to be far safer than the Croatian GNR!
The greater concern is their ability to create these bridgeheads. It illustrates the limits of Turkish capacity (even when augmented by Soviet EFs - though not a large amount of them.
In OTL, this was when the seeds for the Stalingrad disaster were being sown, which were then reaped a few months later. I'm very much paralleling Hitler's behaviour over all of that here. His descent into irrational self-destructive megalomania really started to accelerate at this point in OTL. He may not be quite there yet in this one, but it's beckoning ... as to who orchestrated and who assisted, more will be discovered as Cennet and Kelebek explore the origins of the plot behind Axis lines.
Interesting thoughts, and they have contributed to the Turkish briefing packs for the meeting. We'll see how that turns out - immediately and down the track a little.
The Fascist dragon still has a little fire in its breath, however. Who will it attempt to scorch next?
Per above, things seem to be reasonable, but there is always a bit of a knife's edge, especially with the Comintern partners. The Axis continues to try to slowly asphyxiate Turkey's beset Romanian allies.
And that's a lot of territory the Soviets need to liberate from Japanese hands! Thank you. The arc is now off and running, too!
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All: Thanks for the very energetic and comprehensive engagement! Although it came from something frustrating, I ended up enjoying the assassination episode and am looking forward to its aftermath. As mentioned at the start, the next chapter will be a mix of the Coalition meeting, combat action, Axis politics and the Secret War. Screenshots and illustrations mainly done, now to the writing ...
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@stnlyan , I've replied separately to you posts so as not to spoil in relation to current commentary.
I'd have a look at Germany if I wasn't on a no-tag pledge, and I'm not risking my scarce spies trying to infiltrate the Reich. S.I.T.H. may get there, but they are not 'regular' spies and don't do that kind of espionage. Wet work is more their line of effort!
It was a big event. But, if you take @Eurasia 's AAR as a bit of a guide, its importance ahs to be measured against the degree of involvement the US exhibits.Just read upto and including Chapter 151 - and oh wow. Oh wow oh wow oh wow. Never saw this coming.
Paradox games are really glorious at times. And this is one of those times. You should see the size of the grin on my face, and since I have some enforced time at home (having a bout of the dreaded D courtesy, as it were, of my daughter) I can't wait to find out more!
Oh, I'm so glad you did! That was half the whole narrative arc for all those characters from when I first introduced B.J. Guildenstern then gradually brought in the other characters over all that time, and I think you may be the first to specifically mention it.
Ah, you will see how hectic things get when we move from the Fight Club to Fighting Season! Hold onto your hat!
I'd have a look at Germany if I wasn't on a no-tag pledge, and I'm not risking my scarce spies trying to infiltrate the Reich. S.I.T.H. may get there, but they are not 'regular' spies and don't do that kind of espionage. Wet work is more their line of effort! - 1
And I'm all caught up.
I do admire Perse's methods of dealing with various lechers.
The Summer Offensive is proving successful almost beyond all hope. As for the wider patriotic front, it looks like "death by trying to help the AI" has been just about averted, for the time being at least. No good deed goes unpunished and all of that. It is also a delight to see the UK AI up to all its usual tricks still in North Africa, and the American AI ditto in the Pacific. I am somewhat impressed though the British have yet to "forget" to defend Singapore and Rangoon.
Onto a purely HoI3 question, as it is a game I played only lightly - is there no mechanism by which you can generate more generals?
I do admire Perse's methods of dealing with various lechers.
The Summer Offensive is proving successful almost beyond all hope. As for the wider patriotic front, it looks like "death by trying to help the AI" has been just about averted, for the time being at least. No good deed goes unpunished and all of that. It is also a delight to see the UK AI up to all its usual tricks still in North Africa, and the American AI ditto in the Pacific. I am somewhat impressed though the British have yet to "forget" to defend Singapore and Rangoon.
Onto a purely HoI3 question, as it is a game I played only lightly - is there no mechanism by which you can generate more generals?
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Fantastic - thanks so much, that's an impressive achievement, my friend.
Re generals: no, not without jumping in to edit the game or save files.
You get a small amount of new ones (as Turkey, anyway) at the beginning of each year. It never catered for Turkey expanding so much and I have taken the lack as a human-player handicap for the game.As for the UK and US AIs:
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My in-universe character is rising quickly but alas, there's no Vicky2 like create general button that gives you one depleting from the officer resources. Great powers have enough hardcoded generals and the game feels like it's not really well tested or balanced for minors, even bigger minors like Turkey.
If I started a Turkey run before starting I probably would try to rewrite the AI of the neighboring countries and puppeted them instead of annexing to use their leadership (another thing that's mostly going to waste at the moment) and generals but that's too big work for me (it's like a whole AI mod from scratch) so I don't go into it.
Having said all these, I still think HoI3 is a much better game than HoI4
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I tried everything I could. In all this time, that's the first time that has happened, And there are normally a couple of hundred (at least) screenshots per session these days.
Laughs in several hundred of screencaps per computer...
Good to hear! So get on with it!
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It's easy to make a new Leader.
In the history folder is a leader folder. There should be, for example, a Aus.text. These are all the military leaders of Australia. The last one is number 2768. So just make a new one like this -
}
2769 = {
......name = "Bullfilter"
......country = AUS
......type = land
......skill = 0
......max_skill = 3
......loyalty = 1.00
......picture = L10138
......add_trait = logistics_wizard
......history = {
........1930.1.1 = { rank = 1 }
......}
}
(The periods in front of the code is just space - check out the text files to see what I mean)
And the Leader portraits is in the portraits folder in the gfx folder. They are the TGA images starting with L. The last one if L10137. So make the new leader L10138.
But, hey you need a image. So go find one and resize it to 36x50. Make sure to switch it to black and white.
Then convert to a tga image. So the name looks like this L10138.TGA
Of course the expansions change some stats of the leaders. For example if I wanted to add a Japanese leader I would go into the history folder under the tfh folder to find the leader folder containing Jap.text.
In the history folder is a leader folder. There should be, for example, a Aus.text. These are all the military leaders of Australia. The last one is number 2768. So just make a new one like this -
}
2769 = {
......name = "Bullfilter"
......country = AUS
......type = land
......skill = 0
......max_skill = 3
......loyalty = 1.00
......picture = L10138
......add_trait = logistics_wizard
......history = {
........1930.1.1 = { rank = 1 }
......}
}
(The periods in front of the code is just space - check out the text files to see what I mean)
And the Leader portraits is in the portraits folder in the gfx folder. They are the TGA images starting with L. The last one if L10137. So make the new leader L10138.
But, hey you need a image. So go find one and resize it to 36x50. Make sure to switch it to black and white.
Then convert to a tga image. So the name looks like this L10138.TGA
Of course the expansions change some stats of the leaders. For example if I wanted to add a Japanese leader I would go into the history folder under the tfh folder to find the leader folder containing Jap.text.
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