Thanks for all the praise, warms my heart
I'll try to answer some questions now, some are basically the same ones and there are lots of them. Hopefully you'll find answers nevertheless.
beef3 said:
Were the German forces that took Grenoble part of a German expeditionary force sent to aid Italy, or did they just march through Italy on their way to the southern flank?
They were under German control.
G'Kar said:
He was allied to them, wasn't he? Giving national provinces back to your allies after an annexation was an automatic process in HoI 1 already, IIRC. The takeover of North Africa was probably per event, but that's just a guess.
Not an event. The provinces in Africa weren't national provinces of either Spain so as I held them upon annexation they became mine.
czolgosz said:
I have to say, I was impressed with the German AI waiting until the weather was favorable before launching their assault on France. The HoI1 AI almost always attacked in the winter.
I was just as impressed, although at times bit dissappointed as well as sitzkrieg is boring.
AlexanderG said:
Cool. But kind of worrying.
It seems that almost 4 years of preperation and it still isnt enough to stop the Germans.
Balance of forces is still tilted quite unfavourable against the French, probably to make it more fun for a Non-France human player.
Well, France fell in few weeks in reality. Being able to hold Germans, and Italians, for 6 months actually would indicate that the game has been made quite favourable against Germans.
czolgosz said:
Well, there was a lot of resources that might have been better employed had his main priority been to stop the Germans. He was role-playing a little bit - intervening in the Spanish Civil War, building up his navy, etc. He might have built only infantry and fortifications and created a different outcome, but what's the fun in that?
True. Spain was actually a complete waste, so was the navy buildup. Had I known Japan would stall in China and UK keep her fleet in home waters I could have skipped that part altogether. Note that an important part of the navy "cost" was from research being directed towards navy research. Especially the destroyer thing in the start was definedly not wise, as commented here I ignored the historical year and it took ages.
Deadghaidh said:
Is there any way to keep playing as the Free____ if you have units and overseas territory? Or do the 'Free" forces just get added to your allies forces?
Also, could you have avoided the fallout from smiting Nationalist Spain if you'd used the colonies you were given to create a puppet state in Morroco?
You continue as Free France after Vichy, I just didn't want to as Johan said he would release a
finished AAR. Besides, it's not like Free France is all that fun with only the colonies left.
Come to think of it that Moroccon thingie would have been pretty wise. But then the map of Africa wouldn't be as pretty and blue
Ex Mudder said:
I'd also like to hear more about the DP sliders and events - I wasn't sure from your AAR which were a result of your manually manipulating the sliders, and which were from events.
A choice made for artistic impression
All in all the events and sliders are now really intertwined, they sort of penalize one for trying to do something really stupid. Most of the political turmoil was actually caused because of my turning away from traditional French politics. The becoming semi-fascist thingie does have dire consequences, I kept having dissent because of that.
Hakkapeliitta said:
The only thing that annoyed me a little was that even though the (spanish)republicans won with french help they were still couped by the communists. As far as I know, the communist "coup" only happened in the real life because the republicans were pretty much abandoned by western governments and thus were relying too much on soviet help.
Yeah, it struck me as wrong and I bitched&whined about it. Then I was given a through history lesson by the betas and devs who know more about SCW telling why that was working as designed. But there are ways around it if one playes his cards right, didn't know it then though.
czolgosz said:
More worrisome to me is the fact that France was able to directly intervene in the SCW without a response from Germany and Italy. Yes, I'm aware that you could intervene with impunity in HoI1. I know he took a BB hit, and that's a step in the right direction, but direct intervention in the SCW by one of the majors should have a real chance of triggering WWII. Grosshaus didn't seem worried about that possibility.
I did worry about that, because of keeping large garrisons in Italian and German borders I could only contribute with those few armies in Spain. With my full might, especially all mountaineers and armor, it would have been over much sooner.
Stingray said:
An Interesting AAR, too bad the spaniards went communist on you though.. How many divisions did you keep in Africa and your other colonies? Would they have been any help if you had shipped them back to Europe?
Not much, two infantry in Indochina and 3 in Africa plus 4 cavalry in Africa. Might have made a difference in containing the breach in Italy perhaps. But eventually I was quite doomed, the German tank buildup was actually only starting quite late in the game as a patch enabling that was made.
Usually_Insane said:
A common tactic (at least for me) in hoi1 was to send some of my un its as expeditionary forces and then "assist" with some attack orders. couldn't he have sent some french units to rep. Spain? is this possible?
Not possible anymore.
eye-switcher said:
What happened in China, you commented about a clash between Japan and Soviet troops but after that you didnt mention that again.How did that go?
Dunno really. Got more interesting things to focus on and didn't pay much attention there anymore. No wars though.
