Will check, but last time I looked there were hardly any naval losses on either side. It’s a mystery!They're a little late this reality around!
I'm surprised by this. Usually the US manages to at least hold serve against Japan by sheer force of numbers, navally, especially since the European Axis navy is usually sunk by mid-1941 and the Japanese AI is incredibly fond of getting all of their own ships killed in ill-advised fleet actions.
Quite a shocker. Can we get a picture of Japan/US naval losses? Maybe the US got unlucky and lost all their BBs early on to Japanese carriers or some such.
Will have a look for them
. Missing in inaction, most likely!
Hmmm, good thinking - hold that one and we’ll see what the former me decided!
Yes, interesting to hypothesise on what would happen post war in that regard: the singular and decisive assistance provided by Britain and the completely different narrative for France, plus the fact it had been done with some US lend-lease (they have at least provided that) but not the same military reliance as in OTL would be transformative, n’est pas?
I wondered about that - I’ll need to get my maps out, but that’s not where I thought Christmas Island was! They have left Vietnam, Australia, New Guinea and NZ mercifully alone. It looks like they are focussing on the USSR and US.No, not the Christmas Islands! NOOOOOO!
Have they taken the Land-Down-Under yet? HEHEHe!
A good tried and tested game for the WW2 enthusiast. Not perfect, but you can have some good fun with it.That AAR really makes me want to try my hand at Hoi3 one more time.
I haven’t been game to try HOI4 yet. I was after something more traditionally board-game looking, so will stick with 3 for now. And I haven’t even delved into the major mods yet (HPP or BICE), though I have played the WW1 mod a few times and enjoyed that.
It has reached the frontline in the war on sobriety and is engaging in the battle with vigour. It is hoped they will return to the States and re-start the Californian wine industry early, perhaps saving Americans from their terrible lager.
I think the finishing point of this one will help answer these hypothetical answers quite clearly, but, to the extent I recall it (I’m deliberately not flashing forward to be able to retain some of the mystery or discovery
) - not wanting to spoil, like letting slip the dramatic Allied collapse and defeat by the rejuvenated Axis - ooops! I played it a few times and it went OK, though well over a year ago. The dearth of decent WW1 simulations around also meant I was grateful for it. I remember playing as Russia and Germany (winning, then going back to the point where the Allies were just about to collapse then winning that as well, so the AI is the same old one). I think as with the WW2 games, if you want something close or challenging, you need to build in your own (weak power, hard setting, difficult situation, etc). Unless you just like blitz the world conquests against a hapless computer opponent, or can find another human to play against.
I will have a quick look when I get the chance, as you've asked, but I have deliberately not been delving into too many details for this AAR (the 'bare bones' approach), as it competes for time with my two main AARs that I both play and run simultaneously (which do go into lots of detail). So it is mainly just minimal gameplay and screenshots, though I do show the odd other piece of info.
Here you go - perhaps not the dream list you were hoping for, but these are the levels I've reached and how the game lists them.
French light armour, MOT, MECH, SP ARTY and ENGR.
French heavy armour, INF and ARTY.
It seems Paradox has let French armoured tech follow my ‘no frills’ AAR approach - or vice versa.Ah, yes, the world-famous "Light Armour VI" model. Absolutely strikes fear into the heart of the Germans, it does.
"French".
I'm a bit surprised by that last one in particular, I'd always thought Paradox would just shoehorn the post-war French tank models in and pretend that they could have existed at mid-WWII tech levels. I'm...honestly not sure if this is better, or lazier.
Still, in this game where there is such close and warm Anglo-French cooperation, perhaps it makes sense! Better than Shermans - or ‘Ronsons’, as their crews used to call the petrol-engined models!
I will check how many HArm brigades there are next chance. Certainly good for that inf-coop heavy hitting piece, before the faster formations do the exploitation.
Yes, good to see an actual Allied army at work here. What I really needed at this point was more US troops to help keep the momentum up in Italy while not taking the foot off the pedal in Germany.
I know, I had similar thoughts.
Given this was just a game for fun at the time (no AAR seriousness to focus on these details), I just tend to ignore such random duplications. No so in Talking Turkey, or course! Unless in some obscure garrison brigade somewhere ... 
