DEG HoI Game 5 AAR

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This thread is for posting AARs to the ongoing DEG HoI Game 5. Post only AAR-related stuff here, and have any discussions about rules etc in the MP-thread. I can host screenshots on my website that you can link to, just ICQ me the file and I'll give you a URL to it.

The game specifics:
Scenario: 1936
Setings: very hard/normal
Players: 8 (4 vs 4)
Nations played: Germany, Romania, Italy, Japan, UK, Canada, USA, USSR

 

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The following letters are from correspondence between the two Fowler brothers and their mother Susan in Birmingham. Private Benjamin Fowler (born 1917) is currently serving with the 8th Infantry Division in Egypt, and his older brother Patrick Fowler (born 1916), serving as a seaman aboard the HMS Hood with the UK Home Fleet. Their father was killed in action in 1917 during the battle of Cambrai.

A letter dated June 17 1938:

Dear Mother,
Life here in Egypt is as boring as ever. There is never any fun, and the heat is unbearable. The only good news is that we recently received brand new rifles, the Lee Rifle No. 4. It is much better then the old ones, which were made even before the Great War. Last week we also got a chance to see the Pyramids. Hopefully I will be home for Christmas. With regards,
Benjamin

A letter written August 9 1938:

Dear Mother,
Life aboard is as usual, nothing out of the ordinary. As you have probably noticed from the news, the Italians are behaving very suspiciously, annexing minor countries left and right. They have no right to do this! I wish somebody would put a stop to it soon. Unfortunately I doubt that our Prime Minister will put up a fight, he would rather sell out our allies then risk another war. These are troublesome times we are living in. With love,
Patrick

The new UK service rifle, the Lee Rifle No. 4

The situation in Europe in August 1938

The situation in the Middle East in August 1938

The situation in Asia in August 1938

 

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Hope this is as interesting as the last one Wish I had a group to play with

 

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Romania 1936
Surrounded by the hostile neighbours of Hungary, Bulgaria and Soviet Union, the liberal government was weak. Threatend by the strong autocratic opposition the democratic leadership of Romania made an effort to solve the territorial differences with the surrounding nations. Unsuccessful, the government lost the peoples confidence and thus lost the election to the right wing party.

[COLOR=sea-green]Romania 1937[/COLOR]
The new government led by Goga took a new path, worried by the hostile countries nearby. Industry was upgraded and the Army was mobilized. At the border to the mighty nation in the east, fortresses was built and the other neighbours was soon to be dealt with. Hungary and Yugoslavia was annexed by the Italian friends and the Romanian armies was gathered at the Bulgarian border.

[COLOR=dark-blue]War on Bulgaria[/COLOR]
The plan was to quickly overrun the Bulgarian defenders in Varna and Ruse and then rush towards Plovdiv where Dumitrescu and Antonescu would join their forces and take Sofia before any real defence could be prepared.

The plan was a complete fiasco as the Bulgarian forces soon realized that they were heavily outnumbered and quickly retreated up in the mountains. Hence the war dragged on and many Romanian soldiers fell on the mountain slopes were the Bulgarian defence line was.

Here you can see the first German Expedition Corps fighting off a Bulgarian counter-offensive.

After a few months Field Marshall Antonescu and Prime Minister Goga was forced to plead for aid from Nazi Germany. Germany did assist with two Expedition Corps and with heavy losses among the Romanian troops Sofia finally fell and Bulgaria was annexed.

Romania 1938
Romanian High Command now had to focus on improving the standard of their Army. Being nearly beaten by a backwater Army as the Bulgarian really made Field Marshall Antonescu doubt what he could do to hinder the Mighty Red from growing in his direction, claiming Bessarabia as they were.

Being in the grip of Germany, Romania had to focus on preparing for the unavoidable clash against Soviet Union. But rumours soon talked about a secret German-Soviet pact and hope was regained of a peaceful future as masters of the Eastern part of the Balkans.

 

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The Soviet Union 1936-1938

In the Workers Socialist Paradise a new 5-year plan was adopted to secure the gains of the Communistic world revolution. Most appreciated comrade Stalin ordered an impregnable line of fortifications, bearing his own name, to be constructed in the forested terrain between the cradle of the Revolution, Leningrad, to our magnificent worker community and capital Moscow. Any intruder, capitalistic as well as Fascist would be sure to perish on this bulwark of Bolshevism. Deep trenches and a multitude of anti-air batteries are being prepared as we speak.

Our ever hardworking Chief of the army General Shaposhnikov has ordered an increase of our peace time army reserve to include more than 5 million reservist. The red army of workers and socialists are not only to be the largest and most glorious force in the world but also to be the most modern adopting all the current doctrines of the Great War and the struggle for socialism. A large quantity of armed fighting vehicles have been ordered to be constructed carrying not only machine guns but some of them even carrying cannons to strike fear into any enemies bones.

On the first of April 1936 Comrade Stalin ordered our Red Army to move into our neighbour Persia to protect the vast majority of the population that earned for nothing else but uniting with the Socialist Republic of Workers and constitute yet a new state herein, from the few, radical capitalist conservatives that tried to violently prevent this development with fascist-capitalist methods, but to no avail. Our glorious forces soon stood victorious as expected and Persia was joined to our realm. The masses in Teheran and Moscow were ecstatic alike. In the Persian capital the joy was such that large quantities of NKVD troops had to be stationed along the route of the parade to maintain the exuberance of the spectators.

A large number of high-ranking officers had however been affected by the propaganda of the enemy and sworn to damage the state at all cost. As enemies of the state they were executed and still more enemies may lurk in the shadows but once we find them we will be merciless. The revolution must be protected and our magnanimous community of workers communes allowed the happiness and prosperity that rules at present.

When the fascist vultures in Rumania attacked our Bulgarian brothers Comrade Stalin furiously ordered a mobilization of a few hundred infantry divisions to learn the megalomaniacs in Bucharest what the cost of oppressing the workers of the world really is. Only the supreme longing for peace discouraged our wise leader from initiating a crusade against the evil of this world.

Our scientists have proclaimed that with the right funding and if provided with the right resources they would be able to construct a bomb, larger and more powerful than anything seen before and able to alone destroy an entire city. This project is currently on hold.

 

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