High Command Group Game (A8) AAR for all players, all sessions

[unmerged(43564)]

'










PLAYERS:


UK - HC
Canada - Patrock
USA - OSO
Sovjet - Revulution

Germany - R2D2
Hungery - Attis
Romania - Citicen_x
Italy - Malik
Japan - Robin
Nationalist Spain - Tempus



*************************************



AAR SESSION 1
1 Jan 1936 - 1 Jan 1939




















The Brittish common welth nations, have throu a extensive program modefied its inteligence's servises, and navy from 1936-1939.
The axis nations have been making tanks and infantery equicment, who makes them some dangures, but war in our time is not lightly, our goverment have recived this guarantees from the German goverment, and our to nations will work for a future with cuntinued peace.

Germans annexations of Austria and its claiming of the Rhaingland, have been the last claims from Germany, as it is ensured.
For political purpessess, have our goverment together with the polish goverment, made treatys between our nations, ensuring defencive alliences and cooperation, if hostiletys werre to come aigenst any future nations in Europa.

United Kingdom have commissioned a new an highly modern Carrier class, the Ark Royal class, it has capebiletys far suprime any other carrier in the wourld, and are far suprime any other carrier currently in servise any were in the wourld.









The biggest fleet in the wourld is growing, and its new leaders, and extensive resharsh programs, is well fit for any conflict, if there would be any hostiletys aigenst the commonwelth nations, or UK itself.


The western economical cooperation is still undr development, and the strong US econnomy is wery good for the peace time econnomy of Canada and UK.
Japans annexations in Asia have put heavely pressure on rare matirials in the wourld, and UK is getting richer by the days, due to the high rare matierial prises.
The UK rarematerial center located at Colombo, is also being fortefied, this island have gotten higly modern radar systems, and far advansed anticostical defenses, if any enamy whould deare to try an invation of the Island.


The wourld is going forward, and our inteligence servises have gotten spesial premisions to investigate the Axis division numbers, cuntiniuisly increesing at the czecoslovakien borders.


High Command

 

[unmerged(48076)]

Japan

With soar eyes the Japanese government watched the once mighty Chinese empire fallen onto disaree, its warlords squandering their people and natural recources, in petty wars and diffrences. The Japanese decided the former empire should have another strong Emperor on the Throne, the Japanese Emperor!
Quickly upgrading their technology the Japanese started building up groundforces for a future invation. Only waiting for the right political atmoshere and word of The Emperor.
Soon the the Japaense Army was the 2nd Largest in the world, and in mid 37 The Japanese invaded China. In a daring move they landed on both Qindago in the North-East, and Fuzhao in the South-East of Nat. China off the coast of the Island of Taipei. The daring strategy to lett the Japanese forces fight straight through eachother from these two beach heads. And they succeed, a bridge-head was formed Between Qindago-Xuzhou, Heifei, Wuhu, Quzhou and Fuzao. The entire East-Coast of Nat. China was cut-off from the inland. It is thought some 35 Chinese div. have fought bravely to defend their Eastern Seaboard. Allthough the bulk of their forces were lost. They effectively stalled the Japanese forces. However Japanese war-propagande blame this only due to the poor chinese infrastructure. As Nationalist China fell in mid 38, it is only a matter of time for all China is Annexed by the Japanese Empire. Now in Januari 1939, intelligence reports Japanese forces are moving onto the Capital of Sinkiang, thus almost at the start of the beginning of a new Era in Japanese and Asian History.

 

[unmerged(44886)]

Nationalist Spain

The battle for Spain was very tough, nationalist forces found themselves outnumbered over 1.5 to one in total forces, and 2 to one in infantry. This was due to the massive effort France and the UK made to improve and increase the number of Republican Divisions. After a long bloody battle in the north against heavy odds Nationalist forces secured Bilbao and Barcelona. Using the river line to defend against numerically superior forces we waited for our attack from Seville to draw off enemy forces. After some forces were drawn off a quick attack with armor and infantry took the key province of Valladolid. A quick attack by armor and infantry on Madrid found it poorly defended and Madrid was taken by armor. After that virtually all-Nationalist forces were required to attack Siguenza forcing some 9 enemy Infantry divisions to retreat. An armored blitz was ordered during this attack from Madrid through Guadalajara, Valencia, finally ending in Murcia. At the end of this attack 12 divisions had surrendered and all supply bases were in the hands of Nationalist Spain in early October. The Republican forces surrendered and only hard corps revolutionary forces like The Friends of Durruti continued to fight.
Since then the industrial capacity and modernizeing the army has been given the majority of the resources. Franco desires a much larger military and an increase in research capacity. Franco has made it clear he will join an alliance soon enough and wants the military to be prepared. All of Spain waits hesitantly for his decision.

 

[ELOSO]

France/USA

Note: The USA was controlled by the AI and I'll decline to comment on it's progress until after the next playing. I played France in the first session which comments follow...

France looked to the east to see an old threat reborn when the Nazi party took control of Alemania and began to demand territories lost in the Treaty of Versaille.

We turned to our friends in the last great war and began to work very closely with them in an effort to modernize our army to the grave danger that lie in waiting along the Rhine. France took small strides as she rose out of the ashes of a small depression and increasingly beefed up industrial production as our neighbor grew more and more belligerent. We are confident that our modernization efforts will pay off in defense of the homeland in the future years as we fear that Hitler will strike out soon.

Viva la France!

 

[Roffelito]

German AAR

German AAR from 1 jan 1936 - 1 jan 1939

Germanys 1936 began with an immediate reoccupation of the gigantic allied slavecamp Ruhr. After that the german economy began to flourish, the unemployment was erradicated and the army, navy and airforce was partly in secrecy rebuilded, in defiance of the versaillytreaty.

This progress lead to austria joining the reich 1938. Soon after that the sutetenland was brought back to the reich as well.
Soon the german reich will be complete. Anf if any allied powers would decide to intervene we wont hesitate to bring war to their countrys. Germany is leading a strong alliance with members both on the american continent and in asia.




R2-D2

 

[pustak]

Canada began 1936 as a minor power in the world, a nation under the protective umbrella of Great Britain. Over the past 3 years she has grown into a force for freedom and justice in her own right.

Industry and technology have been the main focus of Canadian economic policy over the past few years, ensuring an effective response to any agression by our enemies. Plans have been laid with the help of our British and French allies for Canadian forces to act as a quick-response force anywhere in the world. The high-quality and mobility of Canadian troops will prove an important force multiplier in the fight against tyrrany.

 

[firemind]

italy aar

Italy began a massive build up of her industrial strength (have base 81 ic now). A strong airforce has been built.
Ready defend the homeland against any attacks from hostile powers. Ethiopia was quickly overcome, and is now part of new
roman empire. The italien army has been strengthed.

 

[unmerged(43564)]

AAR SESSION 2

UK MILETARY ACTIVETYS WAS MANAGED BY CHEMBERLIN, CHURSHILL WILL ATTEND AT OFFICE FROM NEXT SESSION:

 

[Roffelito]

German AAR

German AAR 1 jan 1939- 4 april 1940

1939 continued with the "paperproduced" versaillenation of Tcheckoslowakia being annexed by germany and hungary. The next step was to get the german area Danzig back from the poles. They refused and war followed.
After a few weeks poland was totally annexed and split in the middle with the friend of the german people, sovietunion. This led the allies to declare war against the axis alliance.

The other axis didnt waste any time, romanian, hungarian and Italian forces quickly secured the Med, mideast, Northafrica and working its way into india.
Spain has also begun a brave offensive in africa and liberated some of UKs colonies there. Shortly after the polish campaign a huge attack was directed into the french mainland from germany. With the capture of paris the victory was secured. Before vichyfrance was founded italy had liberated most of the northafrican french areas.

Denmark and sweden was also put under german military protection without much resistance from the locals. Netherlands and norway still have the same peaceful diplomatic relation to germany as in the past. But for how long is not known, reports have shown that they might have been supplying the allies with vital military infromation about the axis armies.

The future is secured for the axis alliance the only dark cloud is that the resourcedemanding industries of europe that are consuming more than the land can produce... How will the leaders met this threat to the newfound lifestyles of europes people???



R2-D2

 

[unmerged(47722)]

Hungary

Hungarian AAR: From the very depths of turtmoil in the '20s to the triump of
the Hungarian Empire in early '40s

After the collapse of Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hungary lost 72% its formal territory ,what is unacceptable at any terms. After the war the little antant,what is nearly encircled Hungary, was waiting for the provoke to claim the rest of our lands. Hungary only chance to survive was to find new powerfull allies . That's why Hungary joined the new allience led by Germany and Italy .This alliance is mainly standand for mutual defence against spreading communist thinking in the east. Thanks to the allies help in economy and research, Hungary succesfully rebuilt a new mighty heavy industry.

In March 1939 Hungary saw an oppurtunity to claim a part of its formal Kingdom. This was possible due to german claim of sudeteland and then the annexation of czech part of the formal Czechslovak Kingdom. After weeks of diplomatic negatiations Germany accepted the Hungarian version for decide the future of slovakian part, but asked for hungarian millitary assistance in the upcoming war against the allies ,if it brokes out.

After Poland joined to the capitalists in April , Axis countries held a conference in Berlin of the future of our alliance. In this meating it was foreseen that a conflict with the western allies is unavoidable.
However Hungary wanted a superb quality fast advancing motorized army with support of tanks and airplains it was unachiveable in such a short time.So Hungary quickly ordered millitary supplies for set up 20 infantry divisions at '39 axis standard (what is much better in quality than any armies in the world) by September according to new pact. But our development teams started working on new projets help with germany researchers.

cont later

 

[unmerged(48076)]

Japan

After the succesfull Campaign in februari 1939 of conquering China, and annexing into The Japanese Empire it has been quiet in Asia. The Japanese establishing their rule upon the Chinese people. Although now and then a Chinese warloard rises up and starts a riot, the major part of the Chinese people recognise the sense in Japanese rule and see their country flourish, and realise they are much better of under the Japanese rule.

Where it is quiet in the East, war is unleashed in Europe. Seeing the Germans as their counterparts in Europe, The Japanese started relations with Germany. After the succesfull German Campaign in Europe and the war spreading to the Middle-East And Africa, Japanese and German emisaries agreed that if Japan will also declare war on the Allies, Japan may free the Indian people and bring it under their rule.

The Japanese are happy to call the Germans their friends and hope to tighten their bond and look forward to further their relations with Germany and its Axis brethren.

Troops excited and trigger happy, waiting along the Indian border moral is high, as the hour of a new Japanese Campaign draws near....

 

[ELOSO]

USA:

SESSION II:

Roosevelt met with Congress to discuss that last plans of the New Deal to bring in the new decade. After much deliberation with the cabinet members and congress a bold plan was implemented as we watched Fascism spread around the world. Most of the American people are quite content with letting the Europeans fight this war, but their leader believes that it will spread to our shores soon enough.

 

[firemind]

Italy aar second session

The first italien objective was to secure north africa.
A few french divions were defending tunis and they were quickly surrounded. 3 cavalery divisions were sent racing towards casablanca. Algeria and Tunisia were liberated before the french decided to surrender.

Alexandria were defended by mostly south african troops and saudi troops. After a few unsuccessfull assaults, Alexandria was taken. At the same time hungarian and romanian troops had secured iraq and reached the suez channel from the other side. Seeing that their situation was getting desperat, the allied troops becan to flee. Only a few managed to escape, most were captured in Luxor. Italien troops are now retaking Ethiopia.

Spain requested assitance in west africa and therefore a expeditionary forces was sent to aid. Now fighting against the portugese in african jungle.

Italy also aided the attack on france by taking the southern part of france. Unfortunaly this territory had to be handed
back to new french goverment due to an agreement with germany.

Italy is very satisfied about how the war is going, but there are rumors of a massive millitary buildup in soviet Union.

 

[unmerged(43564)]

AAR Session 3

















The Central Militery Command (CMC) Was established when Chursill took office.
The situation for 1940 was serverly critical as UK was not prepered for war.
The Axis forces, has totaly 885 Divisions, and with high capacety miletary equicment did thay invade whole Europa and Almost whole Afrika.

The UK forces from 40-41, started an intence armerments program, with seting up 200 division as goal, for the next 365 days.

Cuntinues deploying of divisions ment relief in Afrika, totaly was over 140 allied divisions depoyed to defent South Afrika, and the forces repalled aigenst wave after wave with attacks.

Eventely did the allied division to start gaining ground, and with Hungery, Romania and Italy on the east side, and Germany and Nationalist Spain on the North and West side, did the allied divisions despite remarkeble axis leadership and fighting, start to gain some ground.

At a poingt was 83 allied divisions trapped, surounded by 218 axis divisions, and with the sea as only retreat, the vital inportency of Air suprimecy was the only thing saving the Allied divisions.

The sea evakuation was done, larger then any can imagine.
of the 1 660 000 man troops trapped, did 154 000 of them have to pay thair life, to safe the others.

RAF was vital, in preventing Axis air suprimecy in the area, and by destroying navelbombers as soon as thay was airborne, did we manage to save the men.

2 Type II, National Spanish submerine groups, sunc a Carrier, CV 001 Hearns, as well as 4 transport squadrons, and over 5 Cruisers, before an armada of 30 Advansed Destroyer Groups, could come and clean the sea.

RAF as the 2nd largest airforse in the wourld, following USAF, will maintain allied air suprimecy to alied victory is secured.

Axis did today 21 June 1941 with 896 divisions, attack SU who has 305 divisions, we will for sure se how this interesting situation will develop.



High Command

 

[ELOSO]

USA Session III = April 1940 - June 1941

The facist nations began to march in earnest in 1940 attempting to secure the continent of Africa and British possessions in India. Newspaper reports from abroad spoke of heroic stands and a desperate withdrawal near the former French port of Dakar. President Roosevelt campaigned across America via radio addresses attempting to gather more support to enter the war. These efforts were in vain as most of the people were still strongly isolationist. He was successful, however, in convincing Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act and send material to England to help buy them time.

 

[firemind]

Italy aar session 3

The champaign in africa continued. Moves were closely coordinate with Spain.
Italien forces had landed in Angola and began to push south, but the british had reinforced the area.
The offensive were stopped there. British forces landed in nigeria, and immediately preparations were made to encircle these forces.
Unluckily the troops were evacuated just before the attack. The offensive in east africa went well. Only minor british forces
were encounted there. The low infrasture made the any progress slow. In the end of december Italien forces reached the
last belgian holdout in africa. Together with spanish forces belgium was knocked out of the war.

A major battle took place in Dakar. Around 30 british with 4 armored divions had landed there. Several italien divions were sent there. For a few months it looked like the area would fall to the british and cut off the spanish and italien divisions from europe deeper down in Africa. The british airforce had taken control of air space, which made it difficult to control naval movements. Germany sent a large tank army to fight british,
and this turned the battle in favor of axis. The british offensive was halted and the hope to destroyed a large part of the british army was a possibility. The british armored divisions got surrounded severals, but british
forces maneged to break through to them each time. Most of the british forces got evacuated, and 7 divisions left behind were destroyed by axis. The british forces were likely evacuated to south africa, since a major attack was initiated a month after the evacuaton. In december it was clear that taking south africa would be a long operations and therefore the decision was taken to pull the main forces out of africa.

The soviet union had begun to make more and more threats against the axis. The communications between the allies and soviet union had been intercepted. From these it was clear that the soviet union would attack in spring 1942, therefore the decision was taken in axis to surprise the soviet and attack was made on the 22 june 1941. Italien forces are standing in former polish provincies. Ready to match into the soviet union

 

[Roffelito]

German AAR 3rd session

German AAR 6 april 1940 - 22 june 1941

Germany and its allies now stand completely supreme on the european continent, the only other minor powers being switzerland, holland, uk,norway and sovietunion. But shortly after vichy was founded, an old borderdispute with switzerland broke out into open conflict and they where also annexed by germany.

In southamerica the armies of Peru(axis) led by the hungarian general Attis conquered both Bolivia and Paraguay. The axis alliance had got a good foothold in centralamerica too, 3 minor countries has joined our cause there, and captured a 4th.

At the same time italy and spain had a combined campaign in africa in order to liberate other less fortunate countries from the UK/French colonialrule. This was an overall succes altough uk landed armies 2 times to try to stop that. They slipped out of our traps both times with the least possible marginal. The second time germany decided to send its most talented panzerleaders to help chase them out in a very risky seatransportoperation.
The airforce was also there and in a fantastic cooperation between all axis (incl. Argentina) a large part of the UKs navy was sunk.

In the east japan has liberated the crownjewell of the british empire, india. Also indochina has been taken. The uk seems to have invested much in defensive installations on all the islands though. Colombo has seen fierce battles when japanese forces has attempted several landings there. Singapore is also untouched for so long(only because of USAs threaths according to diplomats with insight)

A major soviet invasion has just been started by the axis.. time will tell how that goes..

R2-D2

 

[Revolution]

Revolution - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics


Through backdoor maneuvers and political backstabbing Stalin rose to and somehow managed to keep power in Russia. Despite showing some ingenuity and foresight with his industrial buildups, his paranoia began to show through with damaging purges that hindered rather than helped the state. The downward spiral of the situation in Russia took a turn for the worse in 1936... Hitler fed off of Stalins paranoia and fear of conflict to turn Russia into Germany's cow...milked for all she was worth of natural resources. Deals were signed between Stalin and Hitler guaranteeing that the soviet ground forces would number no more than 300 divisions as long as Germany and Russia could maintain their peaceful relationship.
For 3 long years Russia was bled by the axis forces....the soil cries out for revenge

During the christmas celebrations in december of 38, change came about. A brilliant young commander with a great love for his country had finally made it back to Moscow after being on the run from Stalin's purges for 6 years. With him were 300 loyal men, all crack soldiers. Wearing their army uniforms and with help from the inside, they were able to get close to Stalin without raising an alarm. A silent coup was carried out, removing Stalin's personal guards and political friends. Stalin was to remain the visible part of the government out of necessity (his newly purged army was quite loyal to him) but his every move would be watched and he would constantly be surrounded by armed guards unloyal to him. Afraid for his life, a broken old man; Stalin went along peacefully and did what he was told...knowing that a wrong move would result in certain death. Behind the scenes the young commander, known only as Revolution, began to work to save Russia from certain doom.

Money was immediatly pulled from school systems, care of the elderly, and statue building and diverted to military technology (specifically infantry and tank technology) which had lagged far behind the rest of the world. A one year industrial program was adopted to bring Russia's industry more in line with her German counterpart while the technology caught up. Allready having acheived the 300 division limit to which Russia had agreed to, Revolution decided to focus on tanks to easier stay within the division limit. All trade with Germany was ceased and relations chilled immediatly. The axis complained but with Russia still under her 300 division limit, they could do nothing. Unfortunatly there were hiccups in the planned force buildup. A group of scientists claimed to have made a breakthrough in the area of assembly line experimentation. But, when their activities were inspected it was found out that they had just been taking money and spending it on building statues. A new team was put to the task of working on the assembly line and the old team was covered in molten silver and put on display infront of the politburo.

In june 41 the axis declared war on the USSR. Outnumbered, the russians will have a difficult fight. Large amounts of mountain divisions from nationalist spain sit in turkey, supported by hungary and romania. Persia and Afganistan both hold home to axis troops ready to move into russia. On the eastern front, large concentrations of italiens hold the north while the German armour sits ready to push up into russia from the south and middle. Finnish troops with german support sit poised to take back their homeland and more. The japanese lie in wait, their movement against Russia is not a question...the only question is when.


VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

 

[unmerged(44886)]

Nationalist Spain

As commander and chief of armed forces and industrial development, I have been extremely busy. Our beloved head of state Franco made the decision on December 26 1939 to join the axis alliance. On this date Franco made it clear that the Axis had put great pressure on the government diplomatically, causing various internal government changes to occur to create this new alliance.
Franco had hedged his bets by waiting to see if the axis had the power to force French capitulation. It was clear to military planners that Spain couldn’t survive an attack from the axis even with British support, as the British army was indeed smaller than the Spanish army at this point. It was fortuitous that in 37 Franco ordered me to build up our industrial infrastructure and start modernizing the army. He also ordered new navy and air bases to various islands and a colonial province in Africa. It seemed to me that this whole build up was for supplying forces to Africa, not exactly the “defensive buildup” Franco made in his radio addresses. Later I learned the true purpose of these new bases.
Shortly after Poland fell Franco made it clear he wanted all troops on alert and ordered a 30-division shift in forces to Africa. To me this was a surprise; any attempt to defend Spain against any aggressor would be nigh impossible with half of our army in Africa. Again it seemed like an offensive move not a defensive one. As the battle for France was leaning towards the axis I was ordered to speak to Franco where he made it clear we were invading Africa, he still held the decision to join the axis close to his chest. He requested a plan to insure supplies, as well as to take all the major ports and airbases on the west cost of Africa all the way to Bata. The plan was submitted shortly before the Vichy French government was finalized.
Our forces began their attacks on December 27 1939. The battle for Africa was going fine until we ran into 8 Portuguese and Belgian divisions in central Africa. The jungle their proved to be their best defense. In the north we discovered many French divisions including 3 armor and one motor division in Dakar. These divisions supported by 2 other French infantry divisions caused a stall of our southern attack as they were dug in behind a river. I daring amphibious invasion occurred in Bathurst, the province directly south of Dakar. As soon as the 6 mountain divisions landed they were under attack by 8 French divisions. They held and cavalry took positions in the only location left for the French armor to retreat. A combined attack forced 3 armor and one motorized division to surrender to Nat Spain Cavalry. Over the next year Nat Spain forces took all of the west cost of Africa destroying some 18 French, Portuguese, and Belgian divisions.
In central and south Africa we asked for assistance from the Italians they supplied support and 12 divisions in the region to assist our 35 divisions. Our main objective was to take Belgium out of the war. After long months of poor roads and long marches through the jungle, with the assistance of the Italians holding our flanks and helping coordinate attacks, we took the Belgian African capitol of Elizabethville. This forced Belgium to capitulate and remove their resources from the allied side.
British forces began a counter attack at Dakar with roughly 30 divisions. With only 15 Nat Spain divisions in the area a call went forth to bring reserves from Germany and some Italian forces as well. After a some gains the British were surrounded by another amphibious invasion. But do to excellent timing and a lot of luck the British armored unit causing all the trouble escaped with most of the British forces. Only 7 of the British divisions ended up surrendering, many more would have been destroyed but the lack of axis air cover allowed them to escape. This brought the total British casualties in the region to 12 divisions, as 5 more were destroyed earlier by a combined Nat Spain and Italian action.
At sea we gave more than we took. Our main force lost a BB and a CL and 3 transports during all these naval actions. Our surface fleet destroyed or seriously damaged 1BB, 4 TP, 3 SS, 1DD, 1CL. Our sub forces with older model submarines used aggressive and bold tactics to sink or badly damage 2 BB 1 CV 1CA and 5 Transports before we lost contact with them. Some survivors rescued by the Italian navy were brought home and given metals for their brave actions.
With barbarossa close at hand Nat Spain was given the job of breaking contact with allied forces and acting as rearguard for Italian and German forces regrouping elsewhere. After several successful engagements and successfully breaking contact on all fronts to be redeployed to other bases in Africa, British and allied forces went on the offensive. Forcing the 2 brave armored divisions to dangerous regard actions. Contact was interrupted with these divisions and they retreated in a direction that was not in the plans for the staged regard action. The British hounded them for 11 months finally getting them surrounded and cut off. An investigation of the incident cited 2 reasons for the loss of these experienced combat units, first local states liberated by Italy cut off all train access in the region, preventing redeployment, and second that the British code breakers succeeded in breaking the codes of the units giving them orders to retreat in the wrong direction.
When all is tallied in the end the allies lost around 30 divisions and many ships in the battle for Africa, so the loss of 2 poorly equipped axis armored divisions seems small by comparison.
The battle for the SU has begun and Spain has a small but significant part to play in turkey. Only time will tell how this operation goes. Ground forces in Africa are regrouping to determine British commitment in the theater before further operations.

 

[unmerged(43564)]

AAR Session 4

















UK and the Common Welth Nations

The Situation for UK is now stabelised, and our forces have pressed the front from South Afrika, and now to North Afrika, temporary we are halted by a few Spanish traitors and some drunk Italiens, this is anyway not any maor problem, as this divisions are on the bric of collaps.

The British divisions, with the British armor reserve, is abseloutly in the preperations phase for an invation of Europa, as the European Axis horde soon will be on the brick of colaps.

The Sovjets is pressed some hard, but a SU counter attack is iminent.
Currently is it obvies that the Axis is presing the allies some hard, but the




Allies is well prepered, and have weapons and tecnology prodjects jet secrat and unknown for the Axis.






The horror to come, is still unknown, but we for sure can say that all enamy VP will be blown away....