Hello and welcome to what must be my......I dunno but I've done a lot of AAR's and finished......that's not the point. Well anyway, this is going to be a 'No nonsense AAR'. No arty farty 'one day he went to the shops and germany invaded'. NO! The arty farty is fine for a bit but everything is arty farty including most of my previous AARs so I reckon I should just do an 'actual AAR' and see what happens
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As you have probably guessed from my aptly named title the AAR is about my game with France, it hasn't finished, it's barely started. I find it impossible to write an AAR once the game has been finished. I'm using CORE 0.71 which is very nice, some picture pack and that isn't relavant at all but I like it. I will not be writing to any kind of structure so I hope you don't find yourself too lost in this. Down to business.
When I turned the game on, apart from noticing the lovely new graphics and the slightly altered colour of the sea in the CORE mod I realised that I noticed that we shared a border with Germany (NO WAY!) and that only 3 provinces of the border were fortified. Using my brilliant intellect I deduced that Germany would probably invade around 1939 so I immediately set about building Forts in the provinces Lille, Sedan, Chaumont, Grenoble and Toulon. This will extend my Maginot Line (the big wall stopping Germany getting over the Rhine) behind Belgium. This is a sneaky trick because once Belgium falls which I assume it will because the stupid AI will try and sneak round there like it always does I will be sitting in forts and they won't be able to get through. Crafty eh? As for the Maginot Line I have started building AA guns in every province (Metz, Strasbourg and Colmar). It can't hurt to have a few of them floating about and seeing as the Germans will want to bomb me then it should kill a few Jerries and hey, the only place for a Jerry is 6ft under, right Ruskies? There are forts being built in Grenoble and Toulon in case the Italians try and pull a fast one.
After that breif defence maneuvre I had a brainwave, plenty of people have done it in their AARs so I shuld do it in mine. Increase the Industrial Capactiy of some Provinces. I had to do this according to a plan or something would go wrong so I decided all provinces that had under 2 IC in mainland France were to be upgraded. My plan sort of failed when I discovered that there were only about two provinces which fitted this criteria so I decided any province that had under 3 IC. They were:
Chateauroux
Limoges
Poitiers
La Rochelle
Bordeaux
Bayonne
Auch
Tarbes
Toulouse
Montpellier
Nimes
Rodez
Besancon
Unfortunately Grenoble and Toulon fell into that criteria but I don't mind making an exception this once, they are 2 IC which isn't bad and I wouldn't be able to enjoy the benefits if the Italians took them would I?
So my industry was getting updated, I couldn't be arsed to do anything to my colonies so I decided to move on to the military which I will cover in the next update.
As you have probably guessed from my aptly named title the AAR is about my game with France, it hasn't finished, it's barely started. I find it impossible to write an AAR once the game has been finished. I'm using CORE 0.71 which is very nice, some picture pack and that isn't relavant at all but I like it. I will not be writing to any kind of structure so I hope you don't find yourself too lost in this. Down to business.
F is for France!
When I turned the game on, apart from noticing the lovely new graphics and the slightly altered colour of the sea in the CORE mod I realised that I noticed that we shared a border with Germany (NO WAY!) and that only 3 provinces of the border were fortified. Using my brilliant intellect I deduced that Germany would probably invade around 1939 so I immediately set about building Forts in the provinces Lille, Sedan, Chaumont, Grenoble and Toulon. This will extend my Maginot Line (the big wall stopping Germany getting over the Rhine) behind Belgium. This is a sneaky trick because once Belgium falls which I assume it will because the stupid AI will try and sneak round there like it always does I will be sitting in forts and they won't be able to get through. Crafty eh? As for the Maginot Line I have started building AA guns in every province (Metz, Strasbourg and Colmar). It can't hurt to have a few of them floating about and seeing as the Germans will want to bomb me then it should kill a few Jerries and hey, the only place for a Jerry is 6ft under, right Ruskies? There are forts being built in Grenoble and Toulon in case the Italians try and pull a fast one.
After that breif defence maneuvre I had a brainwave, plenty of people have done it in their AARs so I shuld do it in mine. Increase the Industrial Capactiy of some Provinces. I had to do this according to a plan or something would go wrong so I decided all provinces that had under 2 IC in mainland France were to be upgraded. My plan sort of failed when I discovered that there were only about two provinces which fitted this criteria so I decided any province that had under 3 IC. They were:
Chateauroux
Limoges
Poitiers
La Rochelle
Bordeaux
Bayonne
Auch
Tarbes
Toulouse
Montpellier
Nimes
Rodez
Besancon
Unfortunately Grenoble and Toulon fell into that criteria but I don't mind making an exception this once, they are 2 IC which isn't bad and I wouldn't be able to enjoy the benefits if the Italians took them would I?
So my industry was getting updated, I couldn't be arsed to do anything to my colonies so I decided to move on to the military which I will cover in the next update.