A Flag Full Of Staars

[son of liberty]

USNA 36 Abyss Grand Campaign

This is only my second aar attempt. My first one bored even me. Hopefully this one will be better.
Starting rules:No allies, IC Takeover off, Tech Team Takeover on. Difficulty "very emu/aggressive". I allowed myself 2 slider changes: full freemarket(this is America after all) and full hawk. No other cheats, no reloads(except in case of a crash or something).
I will let you guys decide, puppets or no?

1/1/36 West Wing of the White House

President Roosevelt addresses the cabinet "Gentlemen, as you know these are dangerous times. The world is a tinder box just waiting for a spark. How prepared are we? Ken, as head of the OSS and Chairman of the JCS, I will ask you first."

"Mr President" began Kenneth Stuart "Our intelligence capabilities are non existent. Fortunately the rest of the world is in the same boat. Our military is small and outdated, again the rest of the world has the same problem. Our analysis shows there will be war. There are simply not enough resources for everybody. The Confederates and the Libertadores have already had minor border skirmishes, and a war between them could easily drag us into the mix. I propose an immediate draft consisting of 24 irregular divisions, to be stiffened by a leavening of artillery brigades. Further, I suggest we begin an immediate upgrade of our intelligence gathering capabilities."

"Fine, Mackenzie how much of that can we produce?"

"Sir," Armaments minister Ian Mackenzie answered "we cannot use our full industrial capacity. We lack many strategic resources. However we can accommodate his requests."

"Good. Ernie, how is the Navy?"

"Mr President our naval power is pitiful. We need to immediately research and build more and better warships. We match any other nation, but we will face the combined navies of the Axis as well as the Comintern. I request we immediately build 6 more carriers, 6 more light cruisers, and 2 submarines. We also need more transports and we must strengthen the merchant marine."

"So Ordered" intoned the President.

"Joe, what about the air force?"

"Sir, the air force needs to research and upgrade what we have first. Then we can build more. My priority would be to research and upgrade our interceptors."

"Ok" answered Roosevelt "Lets get moving on this before we get caught by a surprise attack."

(screen shots on the way later on today)

 

[TombolaG]

Looks good, I'm in.

 

[Aethis]

Good luck!

 

[Ciryandor]

To make it interesting, maximum of 1 puppet per continent not including puppets provided at the start of the game. Puppets may NOT be used for offensive duties, and may not be given FREE blueprints (though FAIR negotiated trades [100% chance] are legal); also none of these puppets have more than 50 base IC to prevent gamey exploitation of Eurasian manpower. Finally, since tech-team takeover is on, the US may not have more than two foreign/non-USA tech teams researching at any given time.

 

[Asalto]

Nice!

 

[son of liberty]

To make it interesting, maximum of 1 puppet per continent not including puppets provided at the start of the game. Puppets may NOT be used for offensive duties, and may not be given FREE blueprints (though FAIR negotiated trades [100% chance] are legal); also none of these puppets have more than 50 base IC to prevent gamey exploitation of Eurasian manpower. Finally, since tech-team takeover is on, the US may not have more than two foreign/non-USA tech teams researching at any given time.

I am thinking of no puppets at all, but your idea sounds good also. I will wait for more votes. Well Time to load some screenies.

 

[son of liberty]

Here are some shots of my builds and research projects.

This shows my concentration on militia. I produced a total of 30. Later they will be put on beach guard duty.

Starting research projects, I actually had a defector from the Confederates give me the bp for Modern Agriculture. That was a pleasant surprise.

Bradley has all the matches for Germany's land doctrines. Panzers here we come.

 

[son of liberty]

Now for some naval battles.

In order to build up experience, I split my navy in 4. TF#1 has half of the surface ships except the 2 transports. TF#2 has the other half of the surface ships. TF#3 is my submarine fleet. TF#4 is the 2 starting transports. This vadm, started as a sk2, as are all the starting fleet commanders.

Notice my superior positioning. It is due to the lack of transports in my fleet. Only 1 BC took damage in this battle.

They are supposed to be attacking my transports, but notice the actual target :rofl:

This surprised me. The CV's have no org, but won't retreat. I am beating that one cv severely.

 

[son of liberty]

The early part of the land war was too easy. I waited until april to give the ai time to garrison his border, but he did so only very weakly. You will see why in the next post.

I actually close this pocket, and end up catching 4 inf and 2 arm.

 

[son of liberty]

Time for a quick peek around the world.

Notice the position of the Lib's. The Confederates are just about done. So far only Prussia has been annexed by Roma.

 

[son of liberty]

If you have any suggestions to help my dialogue posts flow more smoothly, they would be appreciated.

 

[son of liberty]

Hmmm... 215 views, but few comments. Is there something missing that you would like to see? I know the action hasn't really heated up yet, but good or bad comments are appreciated.

 

[son of liberty]

"Mr President, the Libertadores have crossed the Panama Canal. We must accelerate our conquest of Central America" stated Field Marshall Rose. "I recommend that the navy resume interdiction of the Confederate fleet, so that we can use amphibious landings to grab the rest of their key areas."

"Ernie, what do you think?" asked the President

"We can do it, but our newly deployed cruisers are not really ready. CTF1 is still undergoing workups to prepare for redeployment. They can be ready in 2-3 weeks. Our new SAG still has both battle cruisers and 1 heavy cruiser in drydock under going major repairs. We are not ready, but we will deploy if needed." Replied King

"It is your decision, Ernie. We need the best possible position we can get before the communists attack us. We already face the combined Axis, and the other democracies think they can achieve a fair peace. They will not ally with us." answered Rose.

"We will deploy. I agree that we must secure South America before communist troops flood in." decided King.

 

[son of liberty]

"Sir, Admiral Birkhead reports that CTF1 has engaged the confederate fleet. They are near the Cayman Islands" Reported a messenger

"Order the transport fleets to assault all beaches asap!" Replied King

"Aye aye sir!"

 

[son of liberty]

Ok, another quick general status report. I actually stole my first blueprint, from the Lib's.

Latest Builds.

Current research.

 

[Aethis]

Hmmm... 215 views, but few comments. Is there something missing that you would like to see? I know the action hasn't really heated up yet, but good or bad comments are appreciated.

Heh I have this trouble with my AAR as well

 

[Beladriel]

Who doesn't?

Good to see an Armageddon AAR, they are sooo hard to find. Hope by the time you annex Libertadores, Some huge enemy will annex rest of the Europe. Would be cool to say a different Overlord!

 

[son of liberty]

Who doesn't?

Good to see an Armageddon AAR, they are sooo hard to find. Hope by the time you annex Libertadores, Some huge enemy will annex rest of the Europe. Would be cool to say a different Overlord!

I agree. I am trying to take it slow. I hope that the commies dow me soon. I really do not want to pay that 10% dissent to dow them.

 

[unmerged(24320)]

son of liberty: ...I hope that the commies dow me soon. I really do not want to pay that 10% dissent to dow them.

i'm in ! !

i has not been even 10 hours since you started this AAR ! !

perhaps you need to give the guys a break ! !

good start ! !

 

[son of liberty]

son of liberty: ...I hope that the commies dow me soon. I really do not want to pay that 10% dissent to dow them.

i'm in ! !

i has not been even 10 hours since you started this AAR ! !

perhaps you need to give the guys a break ! !

good start ! !

:rofl: Good point. I usually play 10+ hours straight. I have been going slow and doing other things. I have only played as far as the annexation of the Confederates so far.