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Wow, great call! I think given the results, that Romania would likely suffer the result of Germany from OTL: split into sectors but without a "Berlin" necessarily. I concur that there are few enough options for re-evaluation of the post war (Libya, Kenya and Zambia come to mind, along with Numibia and Zimbabwe). Indochina can break itself apart into Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. But such were the limitations!
Yes, if this were a serious mod and I knew/learned how to do it, I would have gone further, but this took a bit of time as it was, and I now need to get back to my other AARs.
But the Quick & Dirty show will go on in due course.
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Nice!The Masters Of The Aussies!
It may be necessary to liberate Australia from the Japanese eventually!
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Hmm...if El Pip is always disappointed by the French regardless of what they do, Bullfilter always becomes communist, no matter how well capitalism kills it.
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If you are going to turn to the forces of evil then a Japanese fight back would be more interesting, and much more of a challenge, than firing up the Red Steamroller.
If you insist on going Commie could you at least do it from the perspective of Kalinin and not Stalin, this would be both different and amusing - a confused puppet trying to understand what was happening to the country he was notionally head of state of.
If you insist on going Commie could you at least do it from the perspective of Kalinin and not Stalin, this would be both different and amusing - a confused puppet trying to understand what was happening to the country he was notionally head of state of.
I'm amused that a strong Britain and France would kowtow to the anticolonial war aims of the junior partner, the United States...who did so little to win the war...
Indeed it is a fantastic AAR, France managed to establish democracy in most parts of Europe.
You sure that you will ignore the Japanese imperialistic threat?
Btw did Greece join the Allies on their own or they needed to see the amount of divisions gathering on their border?
You sure that you will ignore the Japanese imperialistic threat?
Btw did Greece join the Allies on their own or they needed to see the amount of divisions gathering on their border?
Aha! We knew @Bullfilter would not be able to resist the siren call of another AAR! Take all the time you need, friend, and we'll be here when you're ready to get down to it!
As far as modding the countries, you have two options if you choose to pursue them at a later date. One is simply to change the country names in the localization files, which is quick and easy but affects all games, not only this one - might not be too much of a problem, since the Czechs have been eaten up in your Turkey AAR as well. The other would be to create a "new" country by copying the relevant files from the Czechslovakia country to make a Czech Republic, which is probably too involved for this AAR or the next but worth a mention.
Playing as the Soviets offers the interesting probability of facing off against a competent USA, which would have no problem deploying troops to Europe without the necessity of a naval invasion - in addition to the still-intact Wehrmacht and Regio Esercito! While wiping up Japan and its puppets would not be difficult once troops were deployed, I think this colossal war with the Allies would be quite a show!
As far as modding the countries, you have two options if you choose to pursue them at a later date. One is simply to change the country names in the localization files, which is quick and easy but affects all games, not only this one - might not be too much of a problem, since the Czechs have been eaten up in your Turkey AAR as well. The other would be to create a "new" country by copying the relevant files from the Czechslovakia country to make a Czech Republic, which is probably too involved for this AAR or the next but worth a mention.
Playing as the Soviets offers the interesting probability of facing off against a competent USA, which would have no problem deploying troops to Europe without the necessity of a naval invasion - in addition to the still-intact Wehrmacht and Regio Esercito! While wiping up Japan and its puppets would not be difficult once troops were deployed, I think this colossal war with the Allies would be quite a show!
Heh - in reality I actually dislike the Communists almost as much as the Fascists. In this case, I was just picking the other side of the fence, and the faction that had the fewest victory objectives achieved. And with all of those Allies to fight.
Maybe Japan could be Quick and Dirty 3, but (per above) wouldn’t be the Operation Unthinkable angle I was hoping for. I thought with a large lodgement of Japanese in the east and almost all the Axis having joined the Allies now, it may prove difficult enough to win. But maybe not. We will see! The Kalinin aspect does sound quirky. But there won’t really be any narrative on this one, so the rich vein for bewildered and querulous commentary could be lost!
Perhaps, but given Germany had lost this war, though surrendering early and thus keeping their armed forces, I figured them going back to 1936 borders was actually pretty generous. I was tempted to give Poland Silesia and Prussia a la OTL post-war, but relented!
In this case I just wanted to make the map different and create as many countries as I could! And break up the Allies a bit, but still keep them in a bloc. I thought here of France and the UK as the big players at the Allied/UN table, with the US somewhere between the first and second tier. Perhaps now with Germany and Italy, with permanent membership of the Allied Security Council, but no veto. They could become more important in WW2.1, but that would take some actual genuine effort!Thank you!Indeed it is a fantastic AAR, France managed to establish democracy in most parts of Europe.
You sure that you will ignore the Japanese imperialistic threat?
Btw did Greece join the Allies on their own or they needed to see the amount of divisions gathering on their border?
France and the Allies will indeed now be forced to deal with Japan after all. I’m kind of interested to see if they do, how they do it and whether the US finally steps up. The Greece joining was, I assume, more just the UK AI getting around to ask them. Perhaps the Soviets being in Romania and them already being completely Allied aligned finally did the trick.
ah, you know me too well!Aha! We knew @Bullfilter would not be able to resist the siren call of another AAR! Take all the time you need, friend, and we'll be here when you're ready to get down to it!
Thanks - I’ll see how the other two are going and will certainly advertise when I’m ready!I think at some point, as I did with Civ4, I might try my hand at a proper scenario mod (though perhaps with HPP instead, depending on how I find it’s playability). I didn’t want to touch the base game files in case I stuffed something up!
You are right there. Also, there may be a little more set-up for Q&D2 before I start it (putting it aside for now). Maybe war between the UN and Comintern will have already begun ... will think about it more, later. By having a good look at what the Soviets have, I’ll judge whether the situation needs even more handicapping to make it challenging.
Very well done with France and the allies so far.
And if you want some handicaps as SU let the AI-OOB as it is and concentrate on naval research because there will be the worst technical standard I think.
And of course don't cancel anything which is in the production queue!
And if you want some handicaps as SU let the AI-OOB as it is and concentrate on naval research because there will be the worst technical standard I think.
And of course don't cancel anything which is in the production queue!
Yes, I’m thinking roughly along those lines, probably quite a high amount of AI governance too.
If you want an alternative to AI governance, you can change your message settings so that you get pop-ups but none of them pause the game, and then play with a no-pausing rule. That way you get all the joy of managing your entire army with total control, but the game becomes quite hectic and there's a lot of room for mistake-making!
Or, if you value your sanity, you can just use the AI, that might be safer from a mental health perspective.
Ah, I need to keep my blood pressure down!If you want an alternative to AI governance, you can change your message settings so that you get pop-ups but none of them pause the game, and then play with a no-pausing rule. That way you get all the joy of managing your entire army with total control, but the game becomes quite hectic and there's a lot of room for mistake-making!
Or, if you value your sanity, you can just use the AI, that might be safer from a mental health perspective.
I like the idea of more AI as both an evening out tool, but also to manage such a huge land army as the soviets have (I think it is around 900 brigades by now in this game). But I will refine my ideas further and thank you for your thoughts. If I was just playing the game, I might go with the message thing on slow time, but find it useful to pause when they arrive (I do that manually most of the time) to keep track of the event screenshots for the AARs.
As for France, I notice the government is only releasing one real colony, Indochina. Lebanon and Syria were protectorates, so I'd say they have struck a well-balanced position! The rest of the colonies would soon get their indepence anyway, as France and Britain are victorious but probably broke and war-exhausted
@Bullfilter : What were the losses BTW ?
Just to clarify, do you mean total losses, from the summary screens? I don’t use them much.
Yes, since we were talking about post-war Europe I wondered how bloody this world war had been, for France in particular.