This my first AAR of my first HOI game, and I didn't really take notes. So I'm just gonna give a very long general summery and my impression of the game, which has so far lasted from 1936 to January 24th of 1941. It was played with the 1.01 patch.
I started of in 1936 America with a pitifully small army which I immediatly started to rapidly expand. I kept FDR And spread my reserarch around willy nilly, not really concentrating on anything.
Japan invaded Nationalist China after a couple of months. Communist China was crushed by the Nationals so fast I didn't even notice. Japan also declared war on the Neatherlands at about the same time. By mid 1937 Japan had conquered 2/3 of China leaving only the mountains of the west in Nationalist hands.
Strangly Japan only conquered half of Dutch Indonesia and then stopped. The parts that they did occupy did not even have rubber. Japan also occupied Dutch Suriname in South America!
Germany anschlused Austria in December of 1937 and annexed the Chezch part of Chezchoslovakia in March of 1938. On a side note my professor of German history at college was the son of the last ambassador to Chezchoslovakia from the Chinese nationals. His father was then then their ambasador to the Reich.
Italy annexed Ethiopia and Albania.
The Republicans beat the Nationals in Spain in 1937 and joined the Comintern.
The Allies, consisting of the British Empire, the French Empire and Poland declared war on the Axis on March 13, 1938. The Axis at the time consited of only Germany and Slovakia.
It went well for the Allies in the first week. The Poles and French conquered a couple of provinces each. But after a few weeks the Italians joined the Axis and invaded France from the South, and Germany invaded through Belgium. France capitulated after two months. Germany chose the Vinchy option and Italy got nothing for all its hard work.
The British asked me to join the Alliance at that time and I agreed. I Immediatly sent my Atlantic fleet under King to the North Sea and then the Baltic where after three battles I had sunk the entire German surface fleet.
However this didn't help Poland, which had suprisingly lasted four months before being annexed in its entirity by Germany. One province also went to Slovakia and one to Hungary which had joined the Axis after France fell. Belgium fell in early August and was annexed. It lasted that long because of the BEF and the RAF.
I couldn't really intervene decisivly beacuse while I had about 20 reinforced infantry divisions and 5 early light tank armoured divisions I had foolishly neglected to build transports!
So while I was building transports and mechenaized infantry divisions, the world went insane. Romania joined the Axis and on September 13 1938 the Axis declared war against the Comintern. Japan and Munchuko joined the Axis two months later. Strangely the Neatherlands did not join the Allies and Germany did not declare war on it even though they were still at war with Japan.
The small Spanish/German front in the Pyrenese has never moved an inch. The Germans took Minsk almost immediatly, but since then the front hasn't shifted more then a province ethier way. However an axis offensive through Romania reached deep in to the Caucasus before it was cut off in mid 1939. Lucikly for the Soviets, Japan was to busy fighting the British in China to invade Siberia.
The British totaly ignored Europe and Africa and launched an invasion of Japanese China from Burma with almost their entire army! They took all of southern China and linked up with Hong Kong! This has caused the Japanese to totally ignore me which is good since I am focused on Euope. There have been a couple of inconclusive naval battels and that's it. By mid 1940 the Japanese had regained their loses and invaded Burma. By 1941 they had conquered 2/3rds of it. However I took control of the Austrialian military in November 1940 and had it invade Japanese New Guinea.
Incredibly, despite the fact that the Soviets were locked in a life or death struggle with Germany it launched the Winter War on schedule in November of 1939! This caused Finland to jion the Axis. Sweden joined Finlands war against the Soviets in mid 1940 but did not jion the Axis. This front has seasawed back and forth wildly but at present (JAN41) is at the prewar border.
Around mid 1940 the Soviets broke through in Romania and anexed it. However the Axis counterattacked through Hungary and have taken back the Northwestern half of the country, which has been given to Hungary.
While all this was going down I had begun to transfer tropps to Europe in early 1939. I was going to intervene in Africa were the Italians were making inroads in British Egypt. But the Italians invaded Greece, which jioned the Allies so, I disembarcked two infantry and one mountain division in northern Greece and invaded Italian Albainia and conquered it in two weeks. Greece got the territory though. Aparently when you attack from a friendly nation that nation gets the land rather then you.
Yugoslavia has remained nuetral the whole time, but after much diplomatic action Bulgaria joined the Allies in January of 1941.
I left Grecce and then landed in Egypt with 9 division under Bradley and 7 divisions under Patton in September of 1939. Bradley had a mix of Infantry and Mech Infantry. Patton had a mix of early light and early medium tanks. All of my divisions are enhanced. By January of 1940 I had swept 18 Italian divisions into the sea, giving the Libyan coast to Britian and liberating French Tunisia. The desert gave me more trouble then the Italians, I discovered the reinforce button just in time.
I then began to prepare for an invasion of Italian proper.
I built up an army of 36 divisions in North Africa, 9 under Patton, 9 under Bradley, 9 under MacArthur and 9 under Eisinhowser. This was because I could only ferry across nine division at one time. Eisenhower had a mix of Infantry, Mech Inf and one armoured division. MacArthur had a mix of marines, mech inf and two armoured divisions. Patton had another armoured dvision and a mech inf.
On June 24th of 1940 Bradley landed in Roma, crushing 4 Italian divisions. On the 28th Patton landed in Naples driving out two Italian divisons. On July third MacArthur landed on the heel of the boot and beat one Italian division. On the 8th Eisenhower landed in the Province opposite of Roma.
By mid November I had conquerd the entire peninsula and had 27 divisions on the German border, destroying at least 15 Italian divisions on the way. I also had controll of an Australian fighter and bomber squadran that inexplicably turned up in Venice.
MacArthur was in Messana with 12 divisions. Despite the reinforcements (which consisted of two marine and one armoured) and a naval bombardment he couldn't take Syracuse, which was held by 17 land divisions and one tactical bomber squandran.
Syracuse didn't fall untill late December when Simpson landed with four mech and three aroumed. Giving me 19 divisions in Sicily.
Despite the fact that I now have all of Italy including Sicily and Sardina I can only Pupet government it. I can't annex it because they have a lot of East Africa. That is just ridiculous!
I have transfered Simpsons corp to Venice. Bradley and Eisenhower have taken two border German provinces. Patton attacked Munich from Bradley's province but has been repulsed and is retreating back to Bradley's lines has we speak.
The Germans have total air superiority but that will not help them. Once I tranfer MacArthur's men to the front line I will have 46 divisions on their southern border. With most of their men tied down on the Russian front they will not be able to resist me.
I landed 4 mech inf and 2 armoured divisions under some dopey looking general whose name I forget in Bordeaux in southern France. They were slaughtered on the beaches and they are currently retreating to their ships. They have lost half their men. I plan to reinforce them in England and then land them in Antwerp.
So as of Jan 24th 1941 I have 75 divisions, 15 of which are armoured. 5 carrier battle groups, and 16 mostly obsolete air squadrans. I have very good infantry weapons (Yippe, assualt rifles) and am researching produce Uranium232. I think I will ahve the bomb by mid 42, early 43 at the latest. But my haphazard research has left me with low to mid levels on almost every thing else. Next time I will try to be more focused.
With Italy out of the war I think Germany will fall by late 42 or early 43. Hopefully I will be able to transfer most of my men to the Asian theater, but the AI only knows what will happen when American and Soviet lines link up, we are not allied after all.
If we fight I should have the upper hand as I have not lost that many men. No division under my command has ever been anhilated. But I have probaly lost what is equivlant to 110,00 men KIA so far. I have over 3500 manpower points left. The Soviets must have lost far more then that.
Well thats whats happened. My game seems to be one of the few where the Germans did not roll over the Soviets when a real live person wasn't involved. It's been wacky but it all could have been possibly I think.
So what do you guys think?
I started of in 1936 America with a pitifully small army which I immediatly started to rapidly expand. I kept FDR And spread my reserarch around willy nilly, not really concentrating on anything.
Japan invaded Nationalist China after a couple of months. Communist China was crushed by the Nationals so fast I didn't even notice. Japan also declared war on the Neatherlands at about the same time. By mid 1937 Japan had conquered 2/3 of China leaving only the mountains of the west in Nationalist hands.
Strangly Japan only conquered half of Dutch Indonesia and then stopped. The parts that they did occupy did not even have rubber. Japan also occupied Dutch Suriname in South America!
Germany anschlused Austria in December of 1937 and annexed the Chezch part of Chezchoslovakia in March of 1938. On a side note my professor of German history at college was the son of the last ambassador to Chezchoslovakia from the Chinese nationals. His father was then then their ambasador to the Reich.
Italy annexed Ethiopia and Albania.
The Republicans beat the Nationals in Spain in 1937 and joined the Comintern.
The Allies, consisting of the British Empire, the French Empire and Poland declared war on the Axis on March 13, 1938. The Axis at the time consited of only Germany and Slovakia.
It went well for the Allies in the first week. The Poles and French conquered a couple of provinces each. But after a few weeks the Italians joined the Axis and invaded France from the South, and Germany invaded through Belgium. France capitulated after two months. Germany chose the Vinchy option and Italy got nothing for all its hard work.
The British asked me to join the Alliance at that time and I agreed. I Immediatly sent my Atlantic fleet under King to the North Sea and then the Baltic where after three battles I had sunk the entire German surface fleet.
However this didn't help Poland, which had suprisingly lasted four months before being annexed in its entirity by Germany. One province also went to Slovakia and one to Hungary which had joined the Axis after France fell. Belgium fell in early August and was annexed. It lasted that long because of the BEF and the RAF.
I couldn't really intervene decisivly beacuse while I had about 20 reinforced infantry divisions and 5 early light tank armoured divisions I had foolishly neglected to build transports!
So while I was building transports and mechenaized infantry divisions, the world went insane. Romania joined the Axis and on September 13 1938 the Axis declared war against the Comintern. Japan and Munchuko joined the Axis two months later. Strangely the Neatherlands did not join the Allies and Germany did not declare war on it even though they were still at war with Japan.
The small Spanish/German front in the Pyrenese has never moved an inch. The Germans took Minsk almost immediatly, but since then the front hasn't shifted more then a province ethier way. However an axis offensive through Romania reached deep in to the Caucasus before it was cut off in mid 1939. Lucikly for the Soviets, Japan was to busy fighting the British in China to invade Siberia.
The British totaly ignored Europe and Africa and launched an invasion of Japanese China from Burma with almost their entire army! They took all of southern China and linked up with Hong Kong! This has caused the Japanese to totally ignore me which is good since I am focused on Euope. There have been a couple of inconclusive naval battels and that's it. By mid 1940 the Japanese had regained their loses and invaded Burma. By 1941 they had conquered 2/3rds of it. However I took control of the Austrialian military in November 1940 and had it invade Japanese New Guinea.
Incredibly, despite the fact that the Soviets were locked in a life or death struggle with Germany it launched the Winter War on schedule in November of 1939! This caused Finland to jion the Axis. Sweden joined Finlands war against the Soviets in mid 1940 but did not jion the Axis. This front has seasawed back and forth wildly but at present (JAN41) is at the prewar border.
Around mid 1940 the Soviets broke through in Romania and anexed it. However the Axis counterattacked through Hungary and have taken back the Northwestern half of the country, which has been given to Hungary.
While all this was going down I had begun to transfer tropps to Europe in early 1939. I was going to intervene in Africa were the Italians were making inroads in British Egypt. But the Italians invaded Greece, which jioned the Allies so, I disembarcked two infantry and one mountain division in northern Greece and invaded Italian Albainia and conquered it in two weeks. Greece got the territory though. Aparently when you attack from a friendly nation that nation gets the land rather then you.
Yugoslavia has remained nuetral the whole time, but after much diplomatic action Bulgaria joined the Allies in January of 1941.
I left Grecce and then landed in Egypt with 9 division under Bradley and 7 divisions under Patton in September of 1939. Bradley had a mix of Infantry and Mech Infantry. Patton had a mix of early light and early medium tanks. All of my divisions are enhanced. By January of 1940 I had swept 18 Italian divisions into the sea, giving the Libyan coast to Britian and liberating French Tunisia. The desert gave me more trouble then the Italians, I discovered the reinforce button just in time.
I then began to prepare for an invasion of Italian proper.
I built up an army of 36 divisions in North Africa, 9 under Patton, 9 under Bradley, 9 under MacArthur and 9 under Eisinhowser. This was because I could only ferry across nine division at one time. Eisenhower had a mix of Infantry, Mech Inf and one armoured division. MacArthur had a mix of marines, mech inf and two armoured divisions. Patton had another armoured dvision and a mech inf.
On June 24th of 1940 Bradley landed in Roma, crushing 4 Italian divisions. On the 28th Patton landed in Naples driving out two Italian divisons. On July third MacArthur landed on the heel of the boot and beat one Italian division. On the 8th Eisenhower landed in the Province opposite of Roma.
By mid November I had conquerd the entire peninsula and had 27 divisions on the German border, destroying at least 15 Italian divisions on the way. I also had controll of an Australian fighter and bomber squadran that inexplicably turned up in Venice.
MacArthur was in Messana with 12 divisions. Despite the reinforcements (which consisted of two marine and one armoured) and a naval bombardment he couldn't take Syracuse, which was held by 17 land divisions and one tactical bomber squandran.
Syracuse didn't fall untill late December when Simpson landed with four mech and three aroumed. Giving me 19 divisions in Sicily.
Despite the fact that I now have all of Italy including Sicily and Sardina I can only Pupet government it. I can't annex it because they have a lot of East Africa. That is just ridiculous!
I have transfered Simpsons corp to Venice. Bradley and Eisenhower have taken two border German provinces. Patton attacked Munich from Bradley's province but has been repulsed and is retreating back to Bradley's lines has we speak.
The Germans have total air superiority but that will not help them. Once I tranfer MacArthur's men to the front line I will have 46 divisions on their southern border. With most of their men tied down on the Russian front they will not be able to resist me.
I landed 4 mech inf and 2 armoured divisions under some dopey looking general whose name I forget in Bordeaux in southern France. They were slaughtered on the beaches and they are currently retreating to their ships. They have lost half their men. I plan to reinforce them in England and then land them in Antwerp.
So as of Jan 24th 1941 I have 75 divisions, 15 of which are armoured. 5 carrier battle groups, and 16 mostly obsolete air squadrans. I have very good infantry weapons (Yippe, assualt rifles) and am researching produce Uranium232. I think I will ahve the bomb by mid 42, early 43 at the latest. But my haphazard research has left me with low to mid levels on almost every thing else. Next time I will try to be more focused.
With Italy out of the war I think Germany will fall by late 42 or early 43. Hopefully I will be able to transfer most of my men to the Asian theater, but the AI only knows what will happen when American and Soviet lines link up, we are not allied after all.
If we fight I should have the upper hand as I have not lost that many men. No division under my command has ever been anhilated. But I have probaly lost what is equivlant to 110,00 men KIA so far. I have over 3500 manpower points left. The Soviets must have lost far more then that.
Well thats whats happened. My game seems to be one of the few where the Germans did not roll over the Soviets when a real live person wasn't involved. It's been wacky but it all could have been possibly I think.
So what do you guys think?
