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A German game log, strategic advisors are welcome.

Nation: Germany
Scenario: 1936
Difficulty: Hard
A.I: Coward
Household rules: Not sharing techs, no exploits of any obvious hole in the game
 
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Preparing for War, winter 36- spring 37


Winter and spring 1936

Extensive construction of anti-air batteries and coastal forts. Not a single German province are left without anti-air batteries; The batteries are doubled and tripled in the industrial heartland, the Capital, the coastline from Wilhelmshafen to Kiel, and in the provinces bordering France, during the summer.

Excess coal are used to acquire oil, steel and rubber, mostly in a ratio of one to one, but also four to one with rubber after the world market dried up.

All production are directed against research and development, the rearming of the country is postponed until the summer.

23.5.36 Italy annexes Ethiopia after a prolonged war.


Summer, autumn and winter 1936

Total German army:
37 INF
3 ARM
20 Ships
9 Aircrafts

German military spending increases significantly.

1.7.36 - The PzII (30 mm) are developed.

18.7.36 - The Spanish Civil War starts, Russia supports the republicans, Germany and Italy supports the nationalists.

5.12.36 - Private initiative increases German industrial production.

1.1.37 - German minister of security, Frick, are replaced by Wirmer. The chief of staff, Beck, are replaced by Hoepner.


Spring, summer and autumn 1937

3.3.37 - Republican Spain defeats Franco and his fascist army. Peace returns to the Iberian Peninsula.

23.6.37 – Germany develops the PzIII (30mm)

1.7.37 – Tension in the far East. The Japanese constitution are overthrown. The new military rulers declares war on the Chinese communists.

8.7.37 – Japan declares war on nationalist China.


Winter 1937


12.12.37 - Major worker strike causes dissent in Germany, supplies lost.

1.1 .37 - German chief of staff, Hoepner, are replaced by Keitel. With Keitel and Wirmer in office, the German manpower are largely increased.


Spring 1938

2.3.38 - Germany forces Austria to accept annexation. The German industry increases and anti-air batteries are built in the new provinces.
 
Balkan Wars, spring 38-summer 38


Spring and summer 1938

The German military production are far higher than the research and development.


Yugoslavian front:
(von Witzleben)

26 INF
11 ARM

French front: 12 INF
(Kesselring)

Benelux: 4 INF
(Heissmeyer)

Czech front: 8 INF
(von Rundstedt)

Polish Front: 3 INF
(Zwickwolff)

East Preussia: 5 INF
(von Kaupisch)

Strategic defence: 2 INF

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Yugoslavian Army:

16 INF
4 CAV


11.3.38 - Germany attacks Yugoslavia

23.3.38 - Beograd are captured and Yugoslavia surrenders and are annexed. The German Army sustained minimal losses.


Rumanian front:
(von Witzleben)

24 INF
11 ARM

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Rumanian Army:

20 INF
6 CAV
1 ARM


3.4.38 - Germany attacks Rumania

13-17.4.38 - Battle of Bucharest, 29 German divisions defeats 19 Rumanian divisions.

25.4.38 - Constanta captured, Rumania surrenders and are annexed. The German army had some losses in Rumanian counterattacks on their supply line and in Bucharest.

7-13.7.38 - Albania, without proper defence, are occupied by Germany.
 
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Sudetenland, autumn 38


Autumn 1938

Anti-aircraft batteries, costal forts and land fortification are constructed in Yugoslavia,
Rumania and Albania.


French front: 12 INF
(Kesselring)

Benelux: 6 INF
(Heissmeyer)

Czech front: 21 INF
(von Rundstedt) 6 ARM

Polish Front: 23 INF
(incl. Prussia and Rumania) 8 ARM
(von Küchler)

Greek front: 9 INF
(von Paulus)

Strategic defence: 5 INF


The demand for Sudetenland is a grand bluff. Germany is outnumbered; A firm alliance between the western alliance, Great Britain and France, and the nations in the east, Poland and Czechoslovakia would be a sure defeat for Germany.

30.9.38 - The Czechs caves and hand over Sudetenland.

1.10.38 - Communist China are defeated and their provinces annexed by Japan.
 
The Fall of France, winter 38-spring 39


Western Front: 20 INF
(Kesselring)

Eastern Front:
(von Rundstedt)

50 INF
14 ARM

Southern Front: 9 INF
(von Paulus)

Strategic defence: 6 INF

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France (Homeland only): app. 70 divisions

Polish Army:
46 INF
4 CAV

Greek Army:
18 INF
1 CAV


December 1938

3.12.38 - The western Alliance declares war on Germany.

3.12.38 - Germany declares war on Poland.

Even if the Czechs no longer poses a real threat, having withdrawn from any dealing with the Allied after the Munich-agreement, the German army are outnumbered, at land, in air and at sea. The only option is to defeat Poland fast and move troops west before France launches a major offensive.

17.12.38 - Poland are helpless against a threefold (From German, Prussian and Rumanian provinces) attack. They surrender and are annexed after only two weeks fighting. The German Army moves immediately to the western front. No deal are made with the Russians.

23-30.12.38 - As a buffer against Russia, Latvia are occupied and annexed by Germany.


Winter and spring 1939

18.1.39 - The German chief of army, Fritsch, are replaced by Hammerstein-Equord.

18.1.39 - As a buffer against Russia, Estonia are occupied and annexed by Germany.

19.1.39 - To secure the strait, Denmark are occupied and annexed by Germany.


Western Front:
(Kesselring)

73 INF
12 ARM

Southern Front:
(von Paulus)
9 INF

Strategic defence:
(incl. Eastern Front)

11 INF
2 ARM

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France (Homeland only): app. 74 divisions
Belgium (Homeland only): app. 19 divisions
Netherlands (Homeland only): app. 16 divisions
British forces: unknown

Greek Army:
16 INF
1 CAV


8.2.39 - Germany declares war on Belgium Netherlands and Greece. The western offensive begins.


28.2.39 - The Dutch Army are defeated and annihilated. Netherlands are de facto occupied.


The campaign against France runs through Antwerp and depends on fast tanks, with attached engineer brigades, to capture poorly defended provinces. The infantry moves in and makes a better defence. Large battles are avoided where possible.

15.3.39 - Czechoslovakia are dissolved without a fight. Slovakia are created as a German puppet and a member of the axis.

19.3.39 - After loss of large areas in the North, France collapses. Vichy France, a German puppet and a member of the axis are created in the southern Provinces.

19.3.39 - Hungary joins the axis.

19.3.39 - The German security minister, Wirmer, are replaced by Frick.

Land fortifications, costal forts and anti-air batteries are constructed in occupied territory.
 
Europe turns dark grey, spring 39-summer 39


22.3.39 - Germany declares war on Switzerland and Luxemburg.

24.3.39 - Lithuania surrenders Memel to Germany.

24.3.39 - Luxemburg annexed by Germany.

30.3.39 - Brussels captured and Belgium are de facto occupied.

8.4.39 - Lithuania joins axis.

11.4.39 - Switzerland annexed by Germany.

15.4.39 - German offensive against Greece


Greek front:
(von Kluge)

29 INF
+16 Slovakian INF
+ 2 Hungarian CAV

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Greek Army:
16 INF
1 CAV


21.4.39 - Germany declares war on Spain.


Spanish front:
(von Rundstedt)

43 INF
12 ARM
+7 Vichy French INF

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Spanish Army:

16 INF
1 ARM
1 CAV
9 MIL


16.5.39 - Spain annexed, German troops are reassigned to Greece

29.5.39 - Allied intervention in Greece. 12 Commonwealth divisions lands in Argostoli.

29.5.39 - Italy joins axis

30.5.39 - Athens captured by the Germans.

18.6.39 - Australian troops captures Ceuta.

19.6.39 - Mainland Greece are de facto occupied by Germany.

20.6.39 - Germany stages successful coup in Sweden, national socialists in power.

The Italian navy receives heavy casualties in the Mediterranean in June, the British strategic bombing of mainland Europe are only a partial success. Paris and Copenhagen are bombed.

The western wall, anti-air batteries and costal forts, and the eastern wall, anti-air batteries and land fortification, are under construction.
 
Appendix: Summer 1939, New Political Order

Germany,
National socialist,
Axis

129 land units
25 ships
13 aircrafts

Vichy France,
Paternal Autocrat,
Puppet regime

34 land units
10 ships
8 aircrafts

Slovakia
Fascist,
Puppet regime

22 land units
6 aircrafts

Hungary,
Fascist,
Axis

14 land units
4 aircrafts

Lithuania,
Paternal Autocrat,
Axis

5 land units
1 aircraft

Italy,
Fascist,
Axis

78 land units
33 ships
28 aircrafts

Sweden,
National socialist,
pro-German neutral

Bulgaria,
Paternal Autocrat,
pro-German neutral

Portugal,
Fascist,
pro-German neutral

Austria, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Spain are annexed,


Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and France are de facto occupied.


Other major countries:

UK:
127 land units
159 ships
40 aircrafts

USA:
116 land units
111 ships
63 aircrafts

Soviet:
189 land units
33 ships
34 aircrafts


After two years of fighting and diplomacy, Europe are firmly under German control. Their production are significantly increased and their army likewise. Form here, we can imagine three different approaches and strategies.


1. South

Attack the Middle East and North-Africa, after annexing Turkey.

- Turkey and Iraq can be annexed and will add IC and resources, especially, oil

- A second front against Soviet, i.e. through Caucasus.

- The fall of the Middle East and North-Africa will make the Mediterranean an axis pond

- The British Mediterranean fleet will be crushed.

- Southern Europe will be safe for invasion and German and Italian divisions can be diverted.

- Malta, Crete and Cyprus will be captured.

- Convoys across the Mediterranean, supplying Vichy French and Italian troops in Africa, and bringing resources to Vichy French and Italian industry in Europe.

- Hopefully, Italian troops trapped in Ethiopia can be rescued.


2. West

- Prepare for an invasion of the British homeland in 1940

- The fall of Great Britain will mean a sure defeat for the western alliance

- Success is uncertain, the German navy and air force (summer 1939) are well behind their British counterparts.


2. East

- Prepare for an invasion of the Soviet in 1940

- The fall of Soviet will add significant to German production.

- The fall of Soviet will remove the communist threat against Germany.

- Success is uncertain, with the British still strong, the German army could be overstretched.


I, the supreme commander of the axis, support strongly the southern strategy. Unless the German High Command object (The Paradox Forum), I will continue this path.
 
At last, I think i managed to post a picture?

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SOUTH!

Secure the Mediterranean, push thru the Sudan to Entebbe and the Belgian Congo (make sure the lands goes to you, not ITA) to get some rubber access. It won't be enough to meet your needs but any little bit that you don't need to convert from oil is helpful in keeping the economy healthy. Persia makes a good buffer between you in Iraq and British India, so stop with Iraq and Kuwait. And of course oil is always good.

Don't go WEST until the south is secure! Conquest (or major occupation) of Britain leads to rapid rise of US War Entry - better to face American landings in Iberia than in Sicily if possible. Personally I prefer building a good defensive position in the West (3+ Coastal Forts in all landing areas in W Europe) and then deal with Soviets before finishing off the British. And if you have DI, use it on the USA to keep it out of war as long as possible. If USA goes to war with Japan before Japan is in Axis let them duke it out and concetrate on either finishing off USSR or Britain, don't jump in if you don't need too (one of Hitler's biggest diplomatic mistakes).
 
There came a new patch, i'm reworking the AAR, making a new game following the same strategic principles, but i didn't work. Seems odd going back to an old patch, when a brand new one is out there.
 
Well, i played 1,05, but in 1,05c i can't do a campaign in Balkan anymore without risking war with the US. I still want to start the war after the Munich-agreement (Oct 38), but the only countries i can invade now, in 1,05c, seems like Latvia and Estonia, not much IC or resources there, but you counter at least a future Russian expansion there.
 
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