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This AAR starts on june 10, 1942. I have decided to write an ARR after
seeing how bizarre and complicated the world has become.

1. I play with Italy. I have conquered all the eastern Mediterranean,
the Middle East, the Balcans and some places in the Western
Mediterranean. Cyprus was conquered after a bloody landing,
however the Italian troops found nobody after landing in Gibraltar
and Malta. Italian navy is very weak right now, due to the
permanent confrontation with the British. Observe the Italian territory
in France. After the German entrance in Paris triggered the Vichy
France, since I had many troops in France, I declared war
to annex them. The Germans joined in. When Vichy France
went to Exile the Germans kept a part of it, and I kept most
of it, including a single isolated province in the border with Spain.
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2. The second picture shows Asia largely conquered by
Japan, including almost entirely Indonesia and India. Others have
been puppeted, like Nationalist China. But Japanese success
goes far beyond all of this....
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3. Observe the north of Europe, The UK in particular. What the germans
did not have guts to do, the Japanese did. A huge line of warships
including several carriers and transports crossed the Indian sea,
the Suez canal, the Mediterranean sea and the French coast and
landed in England. When most of the work was done, the germans
joined in, landing in the west of England. The UK surrendered to Japan, which
annexed the country and all its non occupied colonies.
Denmark and Sweden are german puppets, Norweian government is in exile.
Observe that India was conquered by Japan before the UK.
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33. Observe the line of Japanese warships crossing the Mediterranean.
They navigate in both directions.
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4. The map of Africa is quite peculiar as well, since Japan
owns a few parts taken to the UK. In the west of Africa, Liberia,
on the allied side, has conquered some provinces of Vichy France
and Japan. Vichy France is at war with Italy and Germany and their
puppets.
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5. Let´s return to England for a moment. There, in the province of
Dover, a Bulgarian Infantry unit resists, surrounded by the Japanese
and under a rain of german bombs.
Bulgaria went to Exile when I conquered it. Could anybody explain
me how is it possible this unit is there? An expeditionary
Bulgarian force integrated in the English army? But shouldn´t
it dissapear once the UK has ceased to exist?
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In America the Japanese also own some UK former colonies,
like the Falkland Islands, Jamaica and others. I have seen several
Japanese warships in the Caribbean.

At the moment the US and the URSS are out of the war. They
must be growing and preparing huge armies. When they both wake up,
and they will, the war may become apocalyptical. Russia will be
attacked from all sides, from the west by Germany and its puppets,
from Turkey and Rumania by Italy, from its entire asian border
by Japan and its puppets. The US should expect Japan to come
from the west and from the Caribbean sea, where they already
have bases.

Since in the north I have the mighty germans and in the South and
in the west and south now I have the mighty Japanese, I plan to
concentrate on my border with with the URSS.
Since I have read there is a bug that makes Germany never
declare war to the URSS, I may start the war myself.
Once the URSS is obliterated we will have to deal with
the US...

Which faction will dominate the world? Any bets?

To be continued...
 
My goodness, the Axis has overrun enormous tracts of the world! :eek:
 
The bulgarian thing is due to government in exile. When they do this, the capital relocates to an ally, which turned out to be London/UK. So they also end up with some units there, and when Japan conquered UK, the provinces with bulgarian units then become reconquered by the Bulgarians, which is how you ended up with your screenshot.

The other thing is that the UK got smashed because all they do is build transports x1000 and put up minimal fight, which is why right now I'm only playing as UK since that's the only way to avoid that problem :p.
 
That's pretty impressive! Quetzilla is correct about the government in exile -- the Bulgarians have the ability to make their own troops with their GIE.

But most impressive that the Japanese decided the ultimate solution to a war with the UK must be to sail to the opposite side of the world. It's like they tried what the Russians did at Tsushima, but in reverse! :)

Definitely worthy of an AAR!

Rensslaer
 
6. On april 27th 1943 I declare a limited war on the URSS and
start a massive attack on both the Balcan and Causasian front.
My purpose was to conquer Russia myself, only making a call
to arms if the situation turned complicated. However the Germans
and Japanese join in immediately. I would like to prevent this
but I don´t know how to do it. On may 9th the Balcan front is
broken and Italian troops advance with little resistance.
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7. In the eastern front the Japanese do little progress against
the Soviets, even their puppet Manchukuo losses some provinces.
It seems that Japanese forces are all around the world so they
don´t have a large army anywhere.
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8. On july 24th the Germans approach Moscow finding so little
resistance that in some sections of the front they find no
Soviet unit.
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9. On august 11th the Germans take Moscow. The war is not over
however, the Soviets continue to fight...
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10. I then give an attacking stance to the two army groups
to attack Stalingrad, thinking that maybe after this city
falls the Soviets may surrender to me. Both army groups
start the attack. However...
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11. After a short time the Balcan army starts a massive
strategic redeployment with the bizarre purpose of joining
the Caucasian army, going all the way aroung the black sea.
I had to stop the game, cancel this idiotic action and
give them direct movent orders towards Stalingrad.
Can anybody explain this? Is it a bug?
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12. As my forces approach Stalingrad...
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13. The Soviets surrender to the Germans, who annex the
country.I get absolutely no territories from the fallen
Soviets, nothing at all after all the effort. Please correct
me if I am wrong, I think a nation surrenders to the attacker
who takes the victory point that triggers the surrender,
however I am not sure how the territories are distributed.
In this case the Germans take all, however when Vichy France
went into exile I took a part of them and the Germans took
some provinces. Can anybody shed some light on this please?
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Another interesting question is why the Soviet Union is
divided in two parts. The Germans have annexed the Western
part but beyond the Urals the Soviet Union continues to
exist.

14. Well after this the only remaining major enemy is the
USA. Everything seems to be going quite strangely, the USA
has become a member of the Comintern. I decide to deal with
later.
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15. On february 13, 1944 I realize there is a Nationalist
uprise in the Netherlands. The unit is surrounded and
attacked from all sides, including some Slovakians...
For my surprice, 5 days later the unit is still there,
under permanent land attacks and bombings. It was
eventually destroyed, but how is it possible that this
unit stood there at least one week?
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16. In Asia the Japanese continue invading countries...
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17. On april first 1944 I realise that the US has landed
an invasion force in the north of Germany. Will it prevail?
I don´t know, but it seems to be that it will not.
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What I miss most in this game is some interaction between you
the countries supposed to be your allies. At the present
moment I can try to invade the US myself and that´s it.
The Germans or Japanese may join, but they will act
independently. It would be nice if they took the initiative
or I could start the initiative to propose them a common
plan, like the Japanese landing in the west, the Germans in
the east and me in the South East. On the other side,
the allied Ai's also operate independent, or that´s what
I have seen until now. Have you ever seen a coordinated
allied landing?

At this point I have stopped playing because the lag
was absolutely unbearable.
 
11. After a short time the Balcan army starts a massive
strategic redeployment with the bizarre purpose of joining
the Caucasian army, going all the way aroung the black sea.
I had to stop the game, cancel this idiotic action and
give them direct movent orders towards Stalingrad.
Can anybody explain this? Is it a bug?

There's a bug in the theatre AI which will interfere with player orders. Giving orders at army group levels will avoid this effect, but you have to detach these army groups first. There is another AAR in this forum which deals especially with experiments on AI: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=435569

Another interesting question is why the Soviet Union is
divided in two parts. The Germans have annexed the Western
part but beyond the Urals the Soviet Union continues to
exist.
That's also caused by the 'Bitter Peace' event. If Japan hadn't joined the war against Russia, they wouldn't have gained any provinces in the east, at least in HoI 2 this event transferred some provinces to Japan.


I'm somewhat surprised if not outright astonished about the performance of Japan in your game. In all my games, the Japs were being kicked from the continent by chinese armies. I wonder what they did in your game.
 
Nice Italian Empire. I like playing Italy but its rather easy to conquer the Balkans.