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Background Info:

This is my 3rd campaign. All 3 are in various stages, but ongoing.
1- America, Arma 1.2. It took so long for me to figure out wtf to do, strategy, tactics, etc that it is currently 1948 and I control the entire Pacific, to India and Mongolia. The Japanese Alliance is just about dead. Europe is... heh. Fubar.
2- Peru, 1.3b. Year is 1941 I think, and I control all of South America except Brazil and Argentina I believe. Japan actually controls the French/UK territories in S.A. and is at war with brazil. I'm tempted to ally with them, though I need to spend a few years boosting defenses to fend off a US invasion before doing so. Conversely, I might just ally with the US (if i still can, relations has been kept at +200) and wait til Japan takes out Brazil before scooping that up. Though its iffy.



Kaisereich: The campaign of this AAR. I've gone ahead and played the first few years, just to get a feel for it. And to skip ahead of all the opening stuff we've all read in the previous AAR's. Neither of my previous campaigns were very defensive, so i'm getting schooled in all sorts of new ways.

My strategy was simple: Secure Washington, let the Canadians hold the Northeast as a backstop, and expand into the Rust Belt and down the East Coast towards Atlanta. Here is the current situation:

Active Area:
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Full USA:
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--This is just an overview post. Next post I'll layout my political stances and all that. Eventually I'll get to a bit of drama and prose, :p)

Oh, and btw. I am new to this game. I have no delusions that I'm some sort of world conquering fiend. If you have tips or ideas, i'd love to hear them. Just don't try to spell out a full blown strategy or whatnot or try to explain how i'm screwing up.
 
Your current situation is actually somewhat okay. By that I mean the remaining US territories.

Good luck!
 
Thx.

Info:

All of my decisions have been based made on the premise that Democracy is a good idea and should be upheld, even in the worst of storms. The blood of patriots and all that.

AUS and CSA have been allowed their meetings and demonstrations. The Monroe Doctrine has been upheld, but current enforcement has been suspended due to the emergency.

A Republican was voted President.
No city has been looted, this is America.



(I'm going to do my updates in the form of a journal. I have a sort of hero crush on Walter Krueger. His story is awesome. Private-General. From the Spanish American War to the Japanese Theatre of WW2, this dude was a hoss.)


From the Journals of W. Krueger, US Army. February, 1938.

This can't go on. MacArthur wants Detroit. Marshall wants Atlanta. Craig wants to dig in and reinforce. All 3 are maneuvering President Curtis, but the old man can't decide on a course of action, so we push our luck and we strike out like rabid wolves, devouring what we can with little thought for tomorrow.

I can see their points. MacArthur's plan to decapitate the CSA war effort by continuing a campaign to secure the Rustbelt and Ohio Valleys Industry is near brilliance. And perhaps I lean that way myself a bit further than the others.

Marshals plan to take the Industry of the Bible Belt, and the Power Plants in Birmingham would further our own strength by far, considering our own power and industrial shortages. However, further weakening the AUS when the CSA is still a vital force might be foolhardy.

Craig's plan to simply spend a year retraining and reinforcing and letting the CSA, AUS, and the ever east-ward PSA tear each others throats out is, while not exactly awe-inspiring in its daring, is a safe choice, especially when both MacArthur and Marshall show no reluctance to continue to spread our lines further and further out.

A choice must be made. The AUS is weak, but the CSA is pressing eastward again. God Preserve the Union.
 
Ohh interesting :)
 
February-June, 1938.

Spring this year brought nothing but disappointment and failure to the Union. It was a surprise, truly. In late March General MacArthur withdrew from Cleveland, realizing finally that a full surge into Detroit, and necessarily the rest of Michigan, would be impossible. Buffalo and Columbus, it was agreed, would create of any push the CSA made into Cleveland a funnel for US counterattacks. And it seemed to be working.

April showers brought may flowers. Hundreds of US soldiers lay newly dead. We never saw it coming. The AUS, which all reports had them weakened and reorganizing in the west, attacked en masse. Over 150,000 troops, voices loosing rebel yells which had been waiting 70 years to revist the north, came flowing out of Atlanta and Chattanooga. The Carolina's were rolled up in days. The Virginia's were subsequently blitzed. Our forward progress in Dixie over the past six months was gone, in less than one.

As of mid-June, Charleston had been taken, but the enemy forces had been pushed back through an attack initiated by myself in Clarksburg, and reinforced by General Craig out of Columbus. MacArthur awaited orders in Buffalo, not believing such an offensive could actually be happening. General Marshall made the best of the situation however...

(Mid June, 1938)
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Marshal, based out of Raleigh to oversee all Southern Operations, came up with a plan to swing south to Wilmington, while reinforcing Washington from Pittsburgh and Baltimore. He hoped to cut off a couple divisions threatening the Capital from Norfolk and Richmond. I myself was attached to this Operation, moving out of Clarksburg and keeping on Marshals flank to protect from attack.

July was ending by this point, and the AUS had split their attack force. After breaking our lines much of it had detoured north, straight into Ohio to strike at the gathering hordes of CSA troops in western Michigan and Minnesota. A few of their divisions had dove right through the Appalachian and Alleghany Mountains though...

(Late July):
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Marshals plan was a success. It could have gone either way, but while he played the part of sheepdog to the AUS forces still south of DC, I was entrusted to bring the territories to the west back under control. Help came from Washington itself, new Militia forces pouring out of it to entrap the northern Divisions as well. General Craig, long since pushed out of Columbus, was instrumental in fully reintegrating the territory from West Virginia to Dover back under union control. 40,000 AUS men were killed or captured by December, and fully 60,000+ new born patriots, finally seeing the truth and dire nature of the situation, marched out to recapture the lands from New York to Atlanta.

General MacArthur spent his time seething in Buffalo. In late 38, early 39, he was forced to watch as Craig recieved the Reinforcements he had been demanding, and in February Marshall actually marched into Atlanta, as he had been desiring since the beginning of hostilities.

(February, 1939)
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MacArthur was not to be kept waiting forever, however. The renewed Hostilities between the AUS and the CSA were causing some huge shockwaves across the Rustbelt. Territory changed hands multiple times until, finally, we, The US, was surprised to note that the bulk of the CSA forces had been thrown clear across the Mississippi!

MacArthur demanded leave of President Curtis to initiate his own operation. It was given. Within weeks Craig had moved back into Columbus, and then swung north, into Indianapolis. His presence was to simply block off any reinforcements or southward escape routes the Michigan forces might attempt utilization of. General Marshall, in the south, has begun a slow withdrawl back into South Carolina as he and his minor commanders are met with increasing forces of AUS fighters apparently heading back East when word of Atlanta's fall came. I, personally, hold Lousiville at the moment, coordinating efforts along a battle line that stretches the length of Tennessee to the south, and Missouri/Indiana to the North.

(April 1939):
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@Van- Yeah, im really bad about just getting into the game. Next thing I know its like 5 months later and I aint taken any screen shots.
@Zel- There has been some huge battles out westward, Colorado and Nebraska like. I don't think it's gone well for the CSA on any front.
@Soul- Yes!!!... Eventually! >.>

June, 1939.

This war... Two years and no end in sight. Well, that's not exactly true. There is hope in the United States. Marshall's push into Atlanta brought a renewed hope that had nearly died the day Washington was under seige by AUS forces from Virginia. Now, hope is resurging again. We control the factories of Detroit again. The CSA and the AUS, so bitter their hatred, they have created weak positions within their lines; and MacArthur is exploiting them to the utmost of his ability.

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July, '39

MacArthur continues his advance with the aid of Craig, who now sits upon Owensboro. 'To the Mississippi!' has become the rallying cry to the north. Fighting in Chicago has been intense from what I've heard, but MacArthur can not be stopped. In the South, Ashville continually trades hands, and Tennessee has become a bloody piece of real estate

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August, '39

The CSA pushed hard against the AUS in an effort to make it back to Chicago, their capital. They didn't make it, and now MacArthur is fast-supplying his forces in an effort to move into the rest of illinois. Reports indicate weakened units being gathered together within the CSA to attempt to project force they no longer have, time will tell.

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Ashville continues to serve no other purpose than to steal the lives of young men. Nashville will soon be ours, as will Memphis, General Craig commands there.
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September, '39.

It was true, then. The CSA is, was a shell of its former self by the time MacArthur made it into Wisconsin.
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A few thousand men, that was all. 7 divisions in milwaukee, with barely the strength of one. What sort of battles had been fought beyond the Mississippi, to cull their numbers so badly? In the end, it doesn't truly matter. MacArthur has his win. Broken and with little to show for it, the CSA surrenders unconditionally.

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So now I sit in Fayettville, along with the armies of Generals Marshall and Somervall. Waiting. General MacArthur has his win to the North, but the AUS is too strong in their own lands. We've lost Ashville, again. We've been forcefully pushed out of Columbia. We have to push back, now. We have to seize Atlanta once more!

I have heard the whisperings, however. Our Navy has been sweeping the coast for the AUS lately, which President Curtis was lax to do early in war, expecting them to come back, perhaps?

Transport ships have been moved and forces are being arranged. General Craig's mind has been at work, and I only hope our defenses can hold on long enough for whatever he is planning to succeed.
 
Do the Zachary Taylor's Anaconda plan, hereby cutting off the western and eastern part of the AUS troops...then they aren't supplied anymore? Would be nice though...Greenville - Jackson - Biloxi area is clear....but another of your nice plans would be nice...the war is going nice so far...are PSA and AUS also at war with each other?

Any post civil war ideas?

Tim
 
All you need to do is capture the whole of Alabama and you would have cut off the Western AUS from it's capital.
 
-Van- Yeah, I should go see how long the 2nd ACW lasts in other aars, just to see how bad im doing. lol

-tim&soul- That is the plan, in the long run. I want MacArthur to make the run south, since Craig (in Western Ky/TN) is too important where he is protecting the Ohio Valley and that entire flank. Unfortunately, if ya look at my manpower over the last year, things are beginning to get... dicey. Which is where my current plan stems. The CSA ran out of manpower, I am out of manpower... Surely it can't take much more for the AUS to be unable to pay their butcher's bill too, eh?
 
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