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Is Ironhead done with this? Or just taking a well deserved break now that he is home? Let me join the others captain in saying thank you for your service.
 
Is Ironhead done with this? Or just taking a well deserved break now that he is home? Let me join the others captain in saying thank you for your service.

He said he was going to continue the AAR once he got back home. He was supposed to be flying home the middle of last week. I'm getting worried that we haven't heard from him, even just to say hi :( I hope he's ok.
 
Does anyone have a saved game just before the war starts? If you could PM me I will give my email address so that you can sned it to me. Thanks. I should also mention that I am playing Arma with the latest beta patch.
 
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Hmmm, Ironhead said in his post that he would explain the details about defeating the Brits in naval combat, so he is fully justified in asking his question, without any dressing down.

I want to express my gratitude to Ironhead for his service to our country!
I pray that the Captain returned home safely!

Also, thanks to Ironhead for the best AAr wriitten. He did a great service with his AAR, and a greater one with his service to the USA.

Thank you again Captain.
 
Hmmm, Ironhead said in his post that he would explain the details about defeating the Brits in naval combat, so he is fully justified in asking his question, without any dressing down.

I want to express my gratitude to Ironhead for his service to our country!
I pray that the Captain returned home safely!

Also, thanks to Ironhead for the best AAr wriitten. He did a great service with his AAR, and a greater one with his service to the USA.

Thank you again Captain.

I didn't mean to "dress him down", sorry.
 
Hmmm, Ironhead said in his post that he would explain the details about defeating the Brits in naval combat, so he is fully justified in asking his question, without any dressing down.

I want to express my gratitude to Ironhead for his service to our country!
I pray that the Captain returned home safely!

Also, thanks to Ironhead for the best AAr wriitten. He did a great service with his AAR, and a greater one with his service to the USA.

Thank you again Captain.

Relax.
 
Must. Have. Naval. Warfare. Explained.

:(

I am really looking forward to naval warfare as well. I played a couple of games before, but in all those games I neglected naval warfare.

I am now replaying the AAR game, and something nice happened. I was raiding british convoys as ironhead describes. I got attacked by a UK 23-ship fleet, and I could not retreat (why? it said "embarked"). The odds were 50-50, and luckily I won without too much damage to my subs.

I loaded up as the UK and I noticed two interesting things: All their fleets were roughly 2-4 ships, no match for any of my submarine packs. The UK had no convoys/escorts left, and was using 60 IC (roughly 40%) on the production of new convoys and escorts.

I guess convoy raiding can indeed be very effective. The UK does not have significant fleets left to protect its convoys, and it has to spend the bulk of its IC on new convoys. Which, of course, will soon see the bottom of the ocean too.
 
Still no IronHead?
 
Aaaaahhhhh!!!

Eish, I have been playing this tutorial and things are not going my way... I have fallen behind on tech and production and I have been following every step... Will it make a difference because I am playing with HOI2 1.3a and not ARMA or DD?
 
Aaaaahhhhh!!!

Eish, I have been playing this tutorial and things are not going my way... I have fallen behind on tech and production and I have been following every step... Will it make a difference because I am playing with HOI2 1.3a and not ARMA or DD?

I wish I could tell you, but I can only say that it works with Arma 1.2, which is what I'm using. It's my understanding that at least getting Doomsday would be a good idea, though, due to all the game improvements and fixes.

You can get Hearts of Iron 2 Complete (includes Hearts of Iron 2 plus Doomsday and Armageddon) from Gamersgate for $24.99, or just the Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday expansion for $19.99. If you prefer physical CDs instead of downloads, you can get the Hearts of Iron Anthology (includes Hearts of Iron, Hearts of Iron 2, Doomsday and Armageddon) from Amazon.com, or check other stores.

I've followed this tutorial up to after the Vichy France event fired, but I'm taking a slight detour before war with Yugoslavia to go help Nationalist Spain kick out the United Kingdom. Nationalist Spain won the Spanish Civil War in my game, and I invited them into the Axis. I'm pretty sure I have enough time to help them and get back over to Yugoslavia and Greece before winter sets in, as I'm estimating this detour should only take about two months, which means I finish off Yugoslavia in September instead of July. I'll find out... :)

I probably should have helped Nationalist Spain while fighting Yugoslavia, but when I made the decision, I didn't realize I'd have enough corps to do both at once, and I already had my Panzerarmeekorps over by Spain by the time I did realize. I'll need the Panzers for Yugoslavia, but probably could've done without them to kick the UK out of Spain.

If it doesn't work out, I've got a save game from before sending all the troops to Spain :)