In my first effort at this game, not understanding the controls, I was unfit to command a third world dictatorship much less a vast country like the USA, but nevertheless, here I was, supreme ruler. Ineptitude and inexperience were my main tools I employed to try to lead America through the upcoming dark times. Blunders understanding the rules of the game, the interface and so on and so forth quickly led to increased dissent, and a complete lack of supplies. Inevitably when dissent got up to 86% percent, the peasants rebelled, and civil war broke out, and lo and behold, America in 1937 because Socialist. Figuring out too late that the people had to be fed, consumer goods were upped to a goodly level, and in an attempt to get the dissent down, put almost all my resources into consumer goods. It took until about 1946 before they were under 5%, so the progress in research and military buildup was extremely hampered most of the war.
As the events around the world got worse and worse, 1941 came around. For some reason, this year rang a bell, but I wasn't exactly sure why. Late in that year, the state department got a request from Great Britain to join the allies. I foolishly turned it down, on the thinking that because of the low output from such high dissent, I was unprepared militarily to fight Japan. Of course, foolish me, not having ever read a history book in my life, how was I to know that Japan would declare war on us 2 months later? And when they did, I waited and waited for many months before Britain finally came knocking again on an alliance, at which time I quickly hopped on board.
Because of my economic and political foul up resulting in no production and civil war, it was decided a two front war was out of the question. Japan had declared war on me, so Japan is who I warred with; let the Europeans deal with Germany. I supplied them resources and research, and sent a few subs into the Meditarranean to sink Italian convoys, but otherwise, paid it no heed.
Early on I decided I would not loose Guam, so garrisoned it greatly. From there I worked up the island chain to conquer Bonin Island, which of course being so close to Japan made those gentleman extremely unhappy and there was a steady flow of ships to try to reconquer it. It was my version of Guadalcanal and Iron Bottom Sound. The naval battles lasted several months, and the number of convoy transports sent to the bottom of the sea, well, lets just say the sea in those parts aren't as deep as they used to be.
Once that was accomplished, our troops in the Philipines grabbed the lightly garrisoned Formosa. Subs around the home islands reported just how lightly defended they were, and with relatively little trouble, and a lot of troops, we conquered the home islands of Japan. Feeling good about ourselves, handing out promotions, decorations and planning victory parades, we then came to the realization that the Japs never really liked living on an island any way, choosing the vast expanses of mainland China instead. We gained a foothold in Korea, where we were met with the real Japanese forces, and driven promptly off. Any foothold made on the continent was duly wiped out.
Learning the hard way, carpet bombing was finally introduced. The "hit it where they ain't" policy was then employed. With large stacks of Japanese units stacked up against large stacks of British in Burma, they were unable to garrison all of their coastal possesions. I made a landing in Hanoi and Singapore. This forced the units up in China to move down there, and when the garrison up north was lighter, I landed my main force on Korea and Shanghai. With American production now growing steadily, more troops were available and a foothold was gained, from whence it verly slowly moved inland. Korea was well defended by the Japs, and once taken, and Manchukou puppeted (to my great relief!), the Japs took 20 divisions up north to reopen the fight. By spring I had them surrounded in Kange, and after a great siege and much bombing, Kange fell, and the north was finally secure. At that point, while still much stubborn fighting ensued, the rest of the campaign was mop up. When Ulan Batar fell on Sept 10 1946, Japan was officially annexed into the United States. With one star for every state on the flag, there was very little room left for the stripes.
Asia out of the way, and dissent levels finally down to below 10%, the now Jugernaut of the American army turned its eyes to Europe. A landing at Lisbon and some Portugese islands brought about quick puppetship. With armies massed now in Britain, an initial foothold was gained in Denmark, which like in Asia, made the Germans move troops from France to Denmark, leaving lots of empty beach for D-Day. The Germans put up a good steady stubborn retreat, and with my foolish and constant overextending of the armies,and not resting them, the germans continually counterattacked and came through gaps, recapturing territory. But inevitably, the German homeland was final conquered. Czechoslovakia was a great battle, but they were soon. Hungary was the greatest challenge, destroying two American Armies in a failed attach on Budapest. Putting a defensive line around it to hold that front neutral, Poland and Italy were captured. With tons of fresh troops from the states, as well as finally figuring out how to handle supply lines and economics, Hungary was revisited and quickly vanquished. The Balkans were next, and fell within a month.
At this point it was all mop up work in German held Russia. Germany had done its historical number on the Soviet Union, grabbing all its european provinces before Russia gave in, ceding it all to them. I foolishly supplied Russia with techs and supplies throughout the war, hoping for them to get back in the war to regain their lands. Stalin had turned chicken, and even when there were no Germans left in the annexed parts, he still merely lined up 20 divisions at a time on the borders. As it turned out, when I conquered Germany and duly annexed it, I in effect annexed half of Russia without so much as a shot fired. This one made Seward's Folly look like chump change. With the army now very powerful, 1948 came around, and put a stop to our attempt to conquer Russia and the non allied countries.
Blunders they were aplenty in this first campaign, the early ones I spent the rest of the campaign paying for, I could have conquered the world had I known what I was doing, but I'll consider it a victory to have China, Japan, Argentina, Bolivia, Dakar, Spain, Germany, the Balkans, Poland and Western Russia all as a part of the USW. Oh yes, to match the changing geography, the country was renamed the United States of the World. Too many stars now, we need a bigger flag.
As the events around the world got worse and worse, 1941 came around. For some reason, this year rang a bell, but I wasn't exactly sure why. Late in that year, the state department got a request from Great Britain to join the allies. I foolishly turned it down, on the thinking that because of the low output from such high dissent, I was unprepared militarily to fight Japan. Of course, foolish me, not having ever read a history book in my life, how was I to know that Japan would declare war on us 2 months later? And when they did, I waited and waited for many months before Britain finally came knocking again on an alliance, at which time I quickly hopped on board.
Because of my economic and political foul up resulting in no production and civil war, it was decided a two front war was out of the question. Japan had declared war on me, so Japan is who I warred with; let the Europeans deal with Germany. I supplied them resources and research, and sent a few subs into the Meditarranean to sink Italian convoys, but otherwise, paid it no heed.
Early on I decided I would not loose Guam, so garrisoned it greatly. From there I worked up the island chain to conquer Bonin Island, which of course being so close to Japan made those gentleman extremely unhappy and there was a steady flow of ships to try to reconquer it. It was my version of Guadalcanal and Iron Bottom Sound. The naval battles lasted several months, and the number of convoy transports sent to the bottom of the sea, well, lets just say the sea in those parts aren't as deep as they used to be.
Once that was accomplished, our troops in the Philipines grabbed the lightly garrisoned Formosa. Subs around the home islands reported just how lightly defended they were, and with relatively little trouble, and a lot of troops, we conquered the home islands of Japan. Feeling good about ourselves, handing out promotions, decorations and planning victory parades, we then came to the realization that the Japs never really liked living on an island any way, choosing the vast expanses of mainland China instead. We gained a foothold in Korea, where we were met with the real Japanese forces, and driven promptly off. Any foothold made on the continent was duly wiped out.
Learning the hard way, carpet bombing was finally introduced. The "hit it where they ain't" policy was then employed. With large stacks of Japanese units stacked up against large stacks of British in Burma, they were unable to garrison all of their coastal possesions. I made a landing in Hanoi and Singapore. This forced the units up in China to move down there, and when the garrison up north was lighter, I landed my main force on Korea and Shanghai. With American production now growing steadily, more troops were available and a foothold was gained, from whence it verly slowly moved inland. Korea was well defended by the Japs, and once taken, and Manchukou puppeted (to my great relief!), the Japs took 20 divisions up north to reopen the fight. By spring I had them surrounded in Kange, and after a great siege and much bombing, Kange fell, and the north was finally secure. At that point, while still much stubborn fighting ensued, the rest of the campaign was mop up. When Ulan Batar fell on Sept 10 1946, Japan was officially annexed into the United States. With one star for every state on the flag, there was very little room left for the stripes.
Asia out of the way, and dissent levels finally down to below 10%, the now Jugernaut of the American army turned its eyes to Europe. A landing at Lisbon and some Portugese islands brought about quick puppetship. With armies massed now in Britain, an initial foothold was gained in Denmark, which like in Asia, made the Germans move troops from France to Denmark, leaving lots of empty beach for D-Day. The Germans put up a good steady stubborn retreat, and with my foolish and constant overextending of the armies,and not resting them, the germans continually counterattacked and came through gaps, recapturing territory. But inevitably, the German homeland was final conquered. Czechoslovakia was a great battle, but they were soon. Hungary was the greatest challenge, destroying two American Armies in a failed attach on Budapest. Putting a defensive line around it to hold that front neutral, Poland and Italy were captured. With tons of fresh troops from the states, as well as finally figuring out how to handle supply lines and economics, Hungary was revisited and quickly vanquished. The Balkans were next, and fell within a month.
At this point it was all mop up work in German held Russia. Germany had done its historical number on the Soviet Union, grabbing all its european provinces before Russia gave in, ceding it all to them. I foolishly supplied Russia with techs and supplies throughout the war, hoping for them to get back in the war to regain their lands. Stalin had turned chicken, and even when there were no Germans left in the annexed parts, he still merely lined up 20 divisions at a time on the borders. As it turned out, when I conquered Germany and duly annexed it, I in effect annexed half of Russia without so much as a shot fired. This one made Seward's Folly look like chump change. With the army now very powerful, 1948 came around, and put a stop to our attempt to conquer Russia and the non allied countries.
Blunders they were aplenty in this first campaign, the early ones I spent the rest of the campaign paying for, I could have conquered the world had I known what I was doing, but I'll consider it a victory to have China, Japan, Argentina, Bolivia, Dakar, Spain, Germany, the Balkans, Poland and Western Russia all as a part of the USW. Oh yes, to match the changing geography, the country was renamed the United States of the World. Too many stars now, we need a bigger flag.
