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Flashblade said:
Since that was obviously too easy for you ;) I say your next goal should be to subdue Russia by March of '38. As the only threat to Germany this should be your #1 priority!
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Sorry to dissappoint you but I think that will also be too easy. I'm a little ahead of you because I've finished the game but not posted my complete write up and analyses. (but it does depend on what you mean by subdue, annexation of Russia requires the completion of the far eastern campaign to take Irkutsk and Vladivostok).
 
Personguyfellow said:
German marines could quicklyseize Vladivostok if thatwasallit took. So the only difficulty will be pushing through Turkestan and Siberia to reach Irkutsk. Should still be doable without having to invade China, Japanese occupied or otherwise.
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Agreed, but the real difficulty is getting to Irkutsk. The terk through siberia isn't difficult but it does take a long time so combining defeat of Russia with defeat of everyone else may take less extra time than you might think and therefor be more impressive.
 
1938 – South America
Following the anshluss I proceeded to carry out operation “collect minors” with the objective of being at peace again for the Sudeten crisis. This operation consisted of two threads, the conquest of South America and tidying up Europe.

For the conquest of South America I provided two forces. The first attack was a panzer force landed in northern brazil. This army proceeded to sweep through Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. In the final phases they assisted in the conquest of Chile and came back to take Paraguay. Meanwhile an infantry army started working round anti-clockwise using repeated amphibious invasions. My forces still had very low amphibious invasion tech so it was important to land under the most favourable circumstances. There was a heavy battle fleet supporting and most landings were in unoccupied provinces. The whole process was a fairly routine operation and there is little point in going into detail. Operations lasted from the initial landing in Brazil on April 18th to the annexation of Bolivia on September 22nd. I annexed every country in South America and the US garrison took out Mexico. I only took Panama in central America as the low infrastructure provinces looked annoyingly time consuming and risky. Possibly the same sort of problem as Nepal. Over all this operation probably had more forces than were strictly necessary and without the strict time objective could have been carried out as a minor side show in parallel with other activities.

Europe

European operations consisted of removing most of the remaining neutrals, Albania, Norway, Nationalist Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Portugal. These operations only lasted until June 8th but I was lax and didn’t bother taking out Eire, Finland and Switzerland at this time.

These summer operations were quite simple and no challenge. The only real issue was that the conquest of South America needed to be two pronged to complete in time. In fact the infantry force sent to South America was split in two to do two countries at once. The main issue here is simply travel time.

On September 30th , 1938, we demanded Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and in The Treaty of Munich we were awarded it. I’m not sure who the treaty was with but I don’t suppose Czechoslovakia had much choice. I received a bonus of 100 man power and –10 dissent for my trouble.

This whole process of aiming to be at peace just to service these events is starting to look a little sad, if not rather pointless. I don’t think the manpower is as significant as it first seems. A great deal of manpower can be collected from the provinces if they are acquired much earlier because they are claimed provinces and therefore yield proper levels of manpower.
 
After Munich

I now started planning for the invasion of Russia. I was feeling a little nervous about them as they had plenty of divisions and I didn’t really want to attack in winter so I set about a few more countries. First I attacked Italy using invasions across the land frontiers and a massive naval landing in the south. This rapidly overcame their homeland defences and the annexation was only delayed by the time to march to Addis Ababa. (German-Italian war October 14th to November 19th 1938). I then finished of Czechoslovakia (a whole 4 days) and launched attacks on Tibet and Nationalist China. Tibet appeared to be undefended and the attack on China was a walk over. Troops were landed all along the coast and the fighting was mostly about getting provinces before Japan could take advantage of the chaos caused by my attacks. As it is they managed to get Beijing and a couple of other provinces. China was annex on April 7th.
 
Russia

Being somewhat paranoid (too much stony road) I transferred the entire armed forces to the Russian European frontier with only minor forces holding the mountain frontier in the Middle East.

June 8, 1939 : Germany declared war upon Soviet Union, Mongolia and Tannu Tuva
 
Kanitatlan said:
After Munich

I now started planning for the invasion of Russia. I was feeling a little nervous about them as they had plenty of divisions and I didn’t really want to attack in winter so I set about a few more countries.
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You have done all that and you are nervous about Russia? :eek:
 
Kanitatlan said:
On September 30th , 1938, we demanded Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and in The Treaty of Munich we were awarded it. I’m not sure who the treaty was with but I don’t suppose Czechoslovakia had much choice.
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:rofl:

Awe man, I was expecting the Jewish barber to show up by now.
 
Russia at War

The invasion commenced by a massive concentric attack on Minsk by 60 Panzer divisions, the vast majority of which were still Pz II 20mm. There were a few PzIII N (basic medium 70+) but I don’t think it made any real difference. I obtained an immediate break through and discovered that the3 Russians were, in fact, complete rubbish. I romped through Russia sending major forces south down the east bank of the Dnepr. The only secondary attack was a naval landing outside Leningrad and a naval landing at Sevastopol. Key dates :

June 11 battle of Minsk
June 15 Smolensk falls
June 19, Kursk
June 20, Moskva
June 25, Voronezh
June 29 Stalingrad area
July 9 Dnepropetrovsk – the last battle of the west Ukraine pocket
July 21 Stalingrad captured
July 26, Saratov
August 12, Magnitogorsk

No further serious opposition – actually never any serious opposition. I could have defeated the Soviet Union long before this date. My strategy will be somewhat different next time – probably invade the soviet union mid-summer 1937. Basically, I conquered all of European Russia and the important parts of Siberia in two months and could have done it with fewer forces.

In august and September I also took out all the Baltic countries including Finland. This only required the forces left with nothing to do in northern Russia whilst relatively minor forces (OK about 20 panzer divisions but far from the whole army) completed the conquest of Siberia.

On September 25th I attacked Japan and then when I reached them (September 30th) Manchukuo. Since Sinkiang still existed a small army went off to annex them. I rapidly swept away Japanese forces outside of Korea, captured Vladivostok and sent troops through Mongolia to irkutsk annexing the Soviet Union on November 18th , 1939. Because of the still early date Tannu Tuva was still independent and required occupying. I chucked a few troops over to the Japanese Islands and I all I needed to do was occupy a few ungarrisoned Pacific Islands when the capture of Tannu Tuva ended the game.

This gives total world conquest except for

Central – central America
Carribean Nations
Eire
Japan not finished off

Dated at early January 1940.

A good first try.

I shall follow this up with further posts giving some analysis of the war, advice for anyone who wants to follow and discussion of next time.

About next time. Objective total world conquest by ??? (and this time I mean total, every single nation, every single province).
 
I have played your suggested strategy through the France phase, and have the following thoughts:

The invasion of Britain works brilliantly. Canada can be finished off soner by sending a single division to Vancouver. This should give you time to launch an Operation Pacifica, knocking out Australia, NZ, and the Free Dutch if you invaded Hollland. Possibly even occupation of Malaya and Indochina. Alternatively these forces could invade parts of Africa, knocking out South Africa, Free Belgians.

France can be difficult. I have found that they generally do go on the offensice in the Saar, which usually falls around the time of the collapse of the last organized resistance on Britain. The RAF often redeploys en masse to France and becomes annoying. The Hundred Years War style invasion also often runs into the entire French army after the fall of Paris.

Possible alternate route: invasion of France through Low Countries a la von Schlieffen. The Dutch can be knocked out quite easily wheneveryou do strike the Pacific. And France simply despises that one gigantic front.

All in all, I'd say you can weaken the British Empire and Commonwealth and its allies, the Free French, Belgians, and possibly Dutch, greatly before invading the USA in the late summer.
 
Wow, reeling the Russian army back in two months. This is an insane game.

Keep up the good work. :)
 
It seems that your biggest buggers are low infra countries. Paratroopers and Tacs do make short work of them though. After you've conquerd USA, install Himmler as Chief of Security(?), if you just have the manpower. You get a huge IC boost.
 
Jopi said:
It seems that your biggest buggers are low infra countries. Paratroopers and Tacs do make short work of them though. After you've conquerd USA, install Himmler as Chief of Security(?), if you just have the manpower. You get a huge IC boost.
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Nah, Himmler is a softie. You go the whole hog, "prince of terror" is the grade of securit minister for exploiting conquered countries. Oh, and you can't really afford the manpower.
 
Personguyfellow said:
I have played your suggested strategy through the France phase, and have the following thoughts:

The invasion of Britain works brilliantly. Canada can be finished off soner by sending a single division to Vancouver. This should give you time to launch an Operation Pacifica, knocking out Australia, NZ, and the Free Dutch if you invaded Hollland. Possibly even occupation of Malaya and Indochina. Alternatively these forces could invade parts of Africa, knocking out South Africa, Free Belgians.

France can be difficult. I have found that they generally do go on the offensice in the Saar, which usually falls around the time of the collapse of the last organized resistance on Britain. The RAF often redeploys en masse to France and becomes annoying. The Hundred Years War style invasion also often runs into the entire French army after the fall of Paris.

Possible alternate route: invasion of France through Low Countries a la von Schlieffen. The Dutch can be knocked out quite easily wheneveryou do strike the Pacific. And France simply despises that one gigantic front.

All in all, I'd say you can weaken the British Empire and Commonwealth and its allies, the Free French, Belgians, and possibly Dutch, greatly before invading the USA in the late summer.
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One or two points.

On my map I can't see a beach at Vancouver, if there really is one there then I'm with you on that one.

I've played the start through several times to investigate alternative options. I've definitley settled on an extended Pacific capaign. After the main US forces are destroyed, despatch a force to the Pacific to take the US islands and then follow up with Australia and New Zealand. I have tried to save the Dutch for later as I know that they will give me a full stock of rubber but thats actually completely irrelevant. With the low IC levels that I've got (lack of industrial tech etc.) I can live with converting coal through to rubber at the initail prewar rate.

The invasion of France is an interesting area. The idea of the naval invasion is to occupy most of the country and disrupt their war economy. I think the real solution to the campaign is to hold back from trying to destroy them in eastern France and try and draw them into a huge battle for Paris. persuade them to commit major forces to the Paris area were you can surround them and destroy them.

There is one major issue with USA, their entry into the war is extremely unpredictable and unless your going to cheat by reloading you need to be ready for them declaring war as early as July.
 
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