First Day Gameplay Austria: 1936 Start!

[SuperKyle]

Alright so...I just installed the game, I did play the demo but my knowledge of hoi3 is far from 100%. I'm going to go into this AAR with my combined knowledge from HoI2 + HoI3 demo and it should make for an interesting game.

This will be a purely gameplay AAR with no fan-fiction except debating with myself whether to attack a country or not. I will also do votes on certain major acts like deciding on a war or whether to join a faction or not. I will also never reload if something bad happens. This is just purely to get a feel for the gameplay of the game as is, with the bugs or anything else that comes with it.

GAME STATISTICS:

Country: Austria
Scenario Start: January 1st, 1936
Resolution: 1680x1050
Difficulty: Normal
Version: 1.1b
AI Control: None

Goals: Create a medium sized empire in the balkans, and go to war with either the communists or with the Axis.

 

[SuperKyle]

January 1st, 1936
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POLITICS

First things first, lets take a look at the people in charge of this small european country.

Our government has no elections, so we needn't worry about that.

I sacked the Foreign Minister and replaced him with the iron-fisted brute Eduard Baar-Baarenfels.

The Chief of Staff is now the same man in charge of the army, Wilhem Zehner. Hopefully his +5% to manpower will help us during a critical time in the future.


For the Laws section, we changed our military to specialist training and press to State Press.

INTELLIGENCE

For Intel, since our changes are minimal a screenshot will not be required.

I have upped priority in Hungary to max with the goal of increasing their threat, Germany's priority to 2 to support our party, and our home spies to max priority with reducing neutrality.

TECHNOLOGY

PRODUCTION

Currently, our industry techs are too bad to add infastructure or do much at all, and I don't need an army for at least this year unless something develops, so all I did hear was put my extra i.c. into more consumer goods and upgrades for the existing army. No screenie required.

DIPLOMACY

I set myself to align towards Axis, and trading with Romania for 10 energy for .5 money or so. No need for anything else.



MILITARY

Our military is fairly small, 37,350 men in total including reserves.

And we have no airforce or navy.


Well, that's the beginning of 1936! On to brighter horizons!

 

[stnylan]

Just a word of presentation advice - you may want to resize your screenies, since currently they will be warping the forum for quite a few readers.

 

[unmerged(15971)]

Looks interesting. I will follow this.

 

[Myth]

Austria eh? Should be fun. But I'll echo stnylan's advice. I have a high resolution at 1680x1050 and those screenies are still too wide! Think of those people who have lower resolutions.

 

[SuperKyle]

Austria eh? Should be fun. But I'll echo stnylan's advice. I have a high resolution at 1680x1050 and those screenies are still too wide! Think of those people who have lower resolutions.

Alright, np. I have photoshop. will only take a sec.

 

[SuperKyle]

March 2, 1936​

WAR Update
And the spanish civil war kicks off a few months early:

A week after my game started I change education to focus on heavy leadership bonuses because my money income was higher than expected without production queues =)

I also added a tech at 30% and reduced diplomacy and officers to 0% and upped espionage slightly. I now have 2 spies in hungary, almost 3 now.

 

[Myth]

Oh man, the Spanish Civil War starting already? I have the feeling that Europe's going to be relatively unstable--not just in this AAR but in all AARs--compared to HoI2. Always interesting.

 

[SuperKyle]

April 8, 1936​

WAR Update

Italy joined the Axis at the end of March, and only a few weeks later Ethiopia succumbed to the newest axis member.

Strangely, they decided to make it a puppet instead of annexing them.
Italians respect the ethiopians? o_0

 

[stnylan]

Thanks for altering the screenshots - much easier to follow the AAR now. Interesting choice by Italy.

 

[MastahCheef117]

Retarded Mussolini, gonna get his ass kicked in the Home Boot because of that.

 

[SuperKyle]

June 22, 1936​

WAR Update

Uhh..so..seems like the war in Spain is already over.

Nationalist Spain has won in a little under 4 months.

I had to check twice to believe it.

Another shocker, Finland is aligning itself to the Allies on purpose! I'm trading with them to get them to stop but I have no idea whether that'll work or not.

I started construction of 3 4 brigade divisions. More details of my expanding military at January 1st of 1938.

 

[Griffin.Gen]

Woah, quick Civil War there.
I'm not really shocked that Finland joined the allies though.

 

[SuperKyle]

Woah, quick Civil War there.
I'm not really shocked that Finland joined the allies though.

They didn't join the allies yet, it's still just France and Britain. But they're the closest faction out of everyone right now about to join.

I'm aligned 100% to the Axis but I can't join because of my neutrality at the moment.

 

[Griffin.Gen]

They didn't join the allies yet, it's still just France and Britain. But they're the closest faction out of everyone right now about to join.

I'm aligned 100% to the Axis but I can't join because of my neutrality at the moment.

Oh right. Theres a difference between Alignment and actually joining a faction.
I didn't play much.

 

[unmerged(64529)]

Of all the AAR's this one has the most gameplay, so I am following!

 

[Chamboozer]

This looks interesting, and makes me that I still have a few more hours till my copy finishes dling. I'll be following.

 

[SuperKyle]

January 1st, 1937​

And so one year later, Austria is still sitting calmly in the middle of Europe looking at the developing storm.

POLITICS

Politics have changed for the worst for my goals. My fascist party-in-power has lost some popularity ground from a year ago to the social democrats. Hopefully my slowly rising national unity will help sway the masses.

INTELLIGENCE

I have been quite the busy bee in intelligence over the past year. While focusing on reducing neutrality and raising spy count, it was then my national unity dipped from 50% to 49% due to foreign spies. This alarmed me, so I spent a month rounding up the country for spies and executing them. Then I went on a national unity priority in intel. My national unity sits at a recovering 55% now, but my neutrality only dropped 100% to 97%. This isn't good for the plans I had in 1939 unless I can make it up over these next two years.

I've effectively raised the threat level of Hungary to the most threatening country in europe to 2.8 threat! Ha. Eventually I will make europe see that reclaiming hungary is the just thing to do for Austria =)

I've limited my intel reach to Czech, Hungary, USSR, Germany, the UK, and myself.

Also Czech isnt very actively pursuing my spies, as you can see. Meanwhile Hungary executes them every month it seems like.

TECHNOLOGY

PRODUCTION

Currently building the 9th & 10th Infantry divisions, built as INF/INF/ART/ART (I built 1 INF/INF/AT/AT last year). Both scheduled to be done sometime September of 1937. All three of these divisions are reserves.

DIPLOMACY

During the year of 1936, as I got close to the Axis, and after Ethiopia was allowed into the Axis as a puppet, I asked for military access to all three axis members (Italy, Ger, and Ethiopia.) They all accepted, but Germany was far less willing. This surely means my acceptance into the Axis is all but near...right?

Meanwhile, majority of the worlds nations drift towards the Axis, who are obviously superior to the other 2 factions.

MILITARY

Still no airforce or tanks. I'm thinking once I join Axis to order motorized from Germany...What do you guys think?

 

[SuperKyle]

January 1st, 1937​

WAR Update

And a few hours later, Japan declares war on China.

 

[unmerged(64529)]

Motorized or not, you should get some licences from Germany.