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I apologize for the delay 
here is the opening month of the war, I hope it makes up for it
Das Kaiserreich ! Imperial Germany and the Great War
Part III - You will not be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees
August 1914
After war was declared on the Triple Entente, new laws were enacted in order to bring the full strength of the Kaiserreich's war capacity to bear upon her enemies, there would be no way to win without mobilizing all of our industrial and manpower resources.
This would be a long war, but hopefully not too long.
The Eastern Front opened up with a massive offensive by the Army across the entire German-Russian frontier on August 1st, by midnight most of the these opening battles had already been decided in our favor.
The Russian's reel under the might of our forces!
In spite of joining the Central Powers, Japan ultimately sends a ultimatum to our Ambassador in Tokyo, demanding the concession of our colonies and interests in China and the Pacific lest they restore their alliance with the United Kingdom and join the war against us. We accepted their ultimatum half-expecting them to declare war on us anyway, as it turns out they stick to their promise of staying in our Alliance.
"Your Majesty, why should we have conceded our possession's to those upstart Nipponese! If we had left a garrison and a couple of naval squadrons then we could have easily held them off and wreak havoc on Allied trade in ze Pacific!"
"Because it would be more useful to have them with us than against us, they're clearly too ambitious for their own good but we can use that to our advantage!"
In the first naval skirmishes of the war, the Hochseeflotte managed to pull off a series of victories against the fleets of the Allies, to the shock and dismay of many in Britain who had expected any naval battle to automatically go in their favor as most of them had for the last 300 years. Notable victories were also scored on land at St. Die, Ostroleka, Belfort, Mlawa and Luxembourg, while the Kingdom of Italy start to mobilize it's reserves and Greece continued to hold to it's neutrality.
The Allies got caught off guard thus far, but can it last?
These previous actions would however, pale in comparison to the first dreadnought-on-dreadnought action of the war, it was decided to intercept 3 Royal dreadnoughts at Cape Wrath, the battle started our in our favor before HMS Hercules sunk the SMS König Albert, while the SMS Gneisenhorst and König sustain severe damage but survived. The Battle of Cape Wrath results in a victory that failed to be decisive. The United Kingdom then declares war on Austria-Hungary in support of Serbia.
The loss of 1 dreadnought vs none destroyed makes this a pyrrhic victory at best.
It was becoming apparent that the advance on the western front was becoming bogged down as we attempted to cross the River Meuse without any real success, while French units continued to pour into Belgium and support their defense, with the French repelling us at Charmes, Epinal and Le Thilliot. It had been contemplated calling in the rest of our allies into the war, but Austro-Hungarian Ambassadors were one step ahead of us when Italy, Japan and the Ottoman Empire declared war on the Triple Entente on August 10th.
The History of the next Century and beyond will be decided in this war!
4 Cavalry and 3 Stormtrooper divisions which were considered surplus to the Eastern Front were re-assigned to the Western Front in order give our armies in France much-needed reinforcements. It would be a while before they would be in any position to support our armies, with the French forces under Belgian command managing to seize Bitburg and later Aachen, they fail to make any further progress while the rest of the front quickly devolves into trench fighting. In lighter news the Russian's continue to fall back on the Eastern Front and the Ottoman's seize the recently-occupied Persian Oil Fields from the British.
At least we had enough resources for a long war.
Our doctrines and weapons were expected to be up-to-date by the end of the of year, a major point of neglect during the arms race was the development of newer artillery designs, which was hoped to be rectified by the spring of 1915, while heavy artillery and seaplane tenders were also being developed. Intelligence in Britain reports the construction of new dreadnoughts, aswell as light aircraft, convoys and industrial capacity.
The British juggernaut is in full steam, the longer we can't invade them the worse it'll be for us.
The Russian Campaign continued to progress well on our sector of the front, 2 divisions were cut off at Staszow and Riga had just fell to our forces, the war has become increasingly unpopular on the home front (For them of course!) when news broke of the fall of Lodz, Batumi and Warszawa, while the French had their own hit in unity with the fall of Nancy. The Yankees complete the so-called Panama Canal (When America really owns it, and Panama, really, one day the Monroe doctrine shall fall too!) While the British plot to slice up the Austro-Hungarian Empire even as a Boer rebellion threatens their own in Africa and Montenegro capitulates, with her government fleeing aboard.
You will not be home before the leaves fall from the trees...
here is the opening month of the war, I hope it makes up for it Das Kaiserreich ! Imperial Germany and the Great War
Part III - You will not be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees
August 1914
After war was declared on the Triple Entente, new laws were enacted in order to bring the full strength of the Kaiserreich's war capacity to bear upon her enemies, there would be no way to win without mobilizing all of our industrial and manpower resources.
This would be a long war, but hopefully not too long.
The Eastern Front opened up with a massive offensive by the Army across the entire German-Russian frontier on August 1st, by midnight most of the these opening battles had already been decided in our favor.
The Russian's reel under the might of our forces!
In spite of joining the Central Powers, Japan ultimately sends a ultimatum to our Ambassador in Tokyo, demanding the concession of our colonies and interests in China and the Pacific lest they restore their alliance with the United Kingdom and join the war against us. We accepted their ultimatum half-expecting them to declare war on us anyway, as it turns out they stick to their promise of staying in our Alliance.
"Your Majesty, why should we have conceded our possession's to those upstart Nipponese! If we had left a garrison and a couple of naval squadrons then we could have easily held them off and wreak havoc on Allied trade in ze Pacific!"
"Because it would be more useful to have them with us than against us, they're clearly too ambitious for their own good but we can use that to our advantage!"
In the first naval skirmishes of the war, the Hochseeflotte managed to pull off a series of victories against the fleets of the Allies, to the shock and dismay of many in Britain who had expected any naval battle to automatically go in their favor as most of them had for the last 300 years. Notable victories were also scored on land at St. Die, Ostroleka, Belfort, Mlawa and Luxembourg, while the Kingdom of Italy start to mobilize it's reserves and Greece continued to hold to it's neutrality.
The Allies got caught off guard thus far, but can it last?
These previous actions would however, pale in comparison to the first dreadnought-on-dreadnought action of the war, it was decided to intercept 3 Royal dreadnoughts at Cape Wrath, the battle started our in our favor before HMS Hercules sunk the SMS König Albert, while the SMS Gneisenhorst and König sustain severe damage but survived. The Battle of Cape Wrath results in a victory that failed to be decisive. The United Kingdom then declares war on Austria-Hungary in support of Serbia.
It was becoming apparent that the advance on the western front was becoming bogged down as we attempted to cross the River Meuse without any real success, while French units continued to pour into Belgium and support their defense, with the French repelling us at Charmes, Epinal and Le Thilliot. It had been contemplated calling in the rest of our allies into the war, but Austro-Hungarian Ambassadors were one step ahead of us when Italy, Japan and the Ottoman Empire declared war on the Triple Entente on August 10th.
The History of the next Century and beyond will be decided in this war!
4 Cavalry and 3 Stormtrooper divisions which were considered surplus to the Eastern Front were re-assigned to the Western Front in order give our armies in France much-needed reinforcements. It would be a while before they would be in any position to support our armies, with the French forces under Belgian command managing to seize Bitburg and later Aachen, they fail to make any further progress while the rest of the front quickly devolves into trench fighting. In lighter news the Russian's continue to fall back on the Eastern Front and the Ottoman's seize the recently-occupied Persian Oil Fields from the British.
At least we had enough resources for a long war.
Our doctrines and weapons were expected to be up-to-date by the end of the of year, a major point of neglect during the arms race was the development of newer artillery designs, which was hoped to be rectified by the spring of 1915, while heavy artillery and seaplane tenders were also being developed. Intelligence in Britain reports the construction of new dreadnoughts, aswell as light aircraft, convoys and industrial capacity.
The British juggernaut is in full steam, the longer we can't invade them the worse it'll be for us.
The Russian Campaign continued to progress well on our sector of the front, 2 divisions were cut off at Staszow and Riga had just fell to our forces, the war has become increasingly unpopular on the home front (For them of course!) when news broke of the fall of Lodz, Batumi and Warszawa, while the French had their own hit in unity with the fall of Nancy. The Yankees complete the so-called Panama Canal (When America really owns it, and Panama, really, one day the Monroe doctrine shall fall too!) While the British plot to slice up the Austro-Hungarian Empire even as a Boer rebellion threatens their own in Africa and Montenegro capitulates, with her government fleeing aboard.
You will not be home before the leaves fall from the trees...
interesting update... I find quite amusing that Italians kept their promise and fight against France, there are a lot of lands to give them instead of South Tyrol...
what really worries me is that even though you build a lot of ships and that you are sinking more than they sink you, the Hochseeglotte can not sustain such amount of losses in the long therm... your aggressive strategy might not be the path for victory at seas... not when the Heer needs more boots and better weapons and the IC to produce them
edit: just a little comment about British superiority at sea... the Royal Navy was beaten badly at the War of Jenkin's Ear, so I think they had about 150 years only ruling truly the waves
what really worries me is that even though you build a lot of ships and that you are sinking more than they sink you, the Hochseeglotte can not sustain such amount of losses in the long therm... your aggressive strategy might not be the path for victory at seas... not when the Heer needs more boots and better weapons and the IC to produce them
edit: just a little comment about British superiority at sea... the Royal Navy was beaten badly at the War of Jenkin's Ear, so I think they had about 150 years only ruling truly the waves
There is definitely more for Italy to conquer at the expense of France, but do keep in mind that this is 1914 Italy (Before Mussolini tried to whip it into shape, to no avail) so it'll be a question of whether they can get the biggest slice of the pie
As it stood, at the war's start the Hochseeflotte had 4 more modern capital ships than the Royal Navy, with 11 D-BB/7 BC at my disposal vs 10/4 each for the British, and when Japan got called in they had 3/2, that along with the combined Italo-Austro-Hungarian-Ottoman fleets in the Mediterranean, Britain has far more on it's plate to deal with than it did IRL, even if their industrial outputs together are paltry compared to Britain's. I had expected to lose more than I did TBH, I would say things are currently on the fence as far as the war at sea is concerned at this point in time.
I had for the most part neglected the army partly out of absent-mindedness/obsession with the navy
I need to build modern artillery brigades since some of my divisions still don't have them... I will eventually upgrade all those spare starting militia that I have once the IC is available, since at this point in time I was spending my IC in upgrades, airfields, an interceptor + scout, and the last 3 Derfflinger's. On the plus side, my officer ratio has stayed relatively high.I had no idea about the War of Jenkin's Ear, thanks for that bit of info!
No promises on time, but I have more coming
that war did not really get the attention she deserves, as she was a truly shame for England... the 'Rule Britannia' was first played during that war, celebrating a minor victory of Admiral Vernon... they even had medals melted for when the war was over, sadly, the Spanish Empire had one last moment of greatness and the war ended in a total strategical failure for Britain
and about Italy... IMHO Italy in WW1 did far much better than in WW2... just remember they kept a lot of AUstrian troops and even the Germans had to send an entire Gebirgskorps to avoid a total collapse of that front... they defeated the Austrian so badly in 1918 that forced them out of war and many authors believe it was what triggered the ask for an armistice from Germany too
and about Italy... IMHO Italy in WW1 did far much better than in WW2... just remember they kept a lot of AUstrian troops and even the Germans had to send an entire Gebirgskorps to avoid a total collapse of that front... they defeated the Austrian so badly in 1918 that forced them out of war and many authors believe it was what triggered the ask for an armistice from Germany too
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Also remember the Italians entire border with Austria-Hungary was the Alps. So take the normal issues an army in WW1 has on the offensive, and then do it literally through the mountains. Plus the frontage is relatively narrow so there is little opportunity for maneuver or making your enemy extend the line to bleed his reserves. All you can do is attack head on into what for the era was some of the best defensive terrain of the entire war.
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It seems that I had a mistaken impression of Italy's fighting abilities in WW1...
They certainly did better than I knew, given the situation on the Front.Or maybe is is why I was so dismissive of them
Glorious naval carnage! Now lets hope the land forces can bring similar honour to the empire!
You'r pushing int the Baltic States fast, wouldn't it have been wiser to try and eliminate the mass of Russian divisions in Poland first? After all they are so exposed in that salient..... Nevertheless you seem to have them on the run quite well. France is still a juggernaut though, going to be interesting.
You'r pushing int the Baltic States fast, wouldn't it have been wiser to try and eliminate the mass of Russian divisions in Poland first? After all they are so exposed in that salient..... Nevertheless you seem to have them on the run quite well. France is still a juggernaut though, going to be interesting.
I hadn't really counted on having to encircle the Russian's en masse since I fully expected them to break and fall before the superior German armies like they did IRL, that being said I have managed to cut off and defeat at least 3 divisions by trapping them between my advance and the borders of Austria-Hungary (Who only starting fighting them when Britain called Russia to arms, interestingly)
Once the Heeres equipment and doctrines improve I suspect it will finally get it's act together and start driving deeper into France and Belgium. Maybe next year we can conquer Paris aswell as ensuring that the Russians can't threaten us any further, since they also have to split attention between the Ottomans in the Caucasus/Black Sea and the Japanese in the Far East
And that was the tip of the iceberg for naval carnage (Also smacked around some Romanov ships in unposted screens)
Dont underestimate russia. Their troops seem inferior but they have a lot of em. Germsny did surround and capture hundreds of thousands of russian troops irl, thats always the way to go. Its just more difficult without panzer divisions, but it should be possible.
From what i gather, ww1 france is your SU equivalent so that shiuld mean russia is easier.
Lastly you dont have to take moscow, take some other cities and let the bolshewik revolution do the rest for you.
From what i gather, ww1 france is your SU equivalent so that shiuld mean russia is easier.
Lastly you dont have to take moscow, take some other cities and let the bolshewik revolution do the rest for you.
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This looks good, here's to a German victory!
(Hopefully, it doesn't end up in a Kaiserreich style ending, eh?)
(Hopefully, it doesn't end up in a Kaiserreich style ending, eh?
)be careful with your navy the British have more ships that you and they have the allied navies for support they could still defeat you by the number of ships they sink and hopefully you manage to hold onto your Chinese and pacific colonies
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Russia certainly isn't gonna be a cakewalk, which is why I had set my spies to reduce their national unity even lower, that and I had plans on recruiting the Persians and Mongolian's to the Central Powers (The latter of which proves to be disappointment, but we'll touch on that later)
I wouldn't compare WW1 France to the Soviet Union necessarily, but they will be a bigger challenge since I focused a lot of resources into the navy. I don't think I'll even have to reach Saint Petersburg to bring the whole rotten structure crashing down, but that remains to be seen.
Thank you! And I have faith that it won't end up like thatThis looks good, here's to a German victory!
(Hopefully, it doesn't end up in a Kaiserreich style ending, eh?
They most certainly do, but I do have Italy and Japan on my side instead of the Allies, I had to concede my Pacific/Chinese colonies to the Japanese lest they defected back to the British, which gave me 5 dissident, but necessary to secure their alliance... and I massed all my ships in Home waters.
To be honest though, the naval AI in HoI3 has never been great to begin with, plus I segregate my dreadnoughts/battlecruisers from my pre-dreadnoughts/ancient cruisers, I say have faith in the Hochseeflotte! That being said I try to employ caution so as to avoid further losses to my capital ships, pulling them out of battle if things start to go south (At the expense of my screens generally, but those are easier to replace)
@All: It should be known that I have a fair amount of playing ahead of time (Into early 1915, not gonna specify when exactly) but I do plan on bring this up-to-date before I play too much further
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Extremely nice AAR, inspired me to buy all the HoI 3 DLCs just for TFH and this mod
Add Romania in the Central Powers!
Add Romania in the Central Powers!