Welcome to my first ever AAR! Allow me to regale you with the tale of my invasion of britain.
The setup.
I'm playing GC-'36 Germany and I've reached aug. 30th 1944. Up until august '44 I'd conquered all of mainland europe, from the urals to the atlantic. This includes scandinavia, iberia and Italy. As a consequence Britain is jam-packed with the airforces of USA, GB, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium and France. The remnants of their navies can also be found there.
Speaking of navies, mine is the third largest in the world, though hardly what you'd call modern. I had spent '43-'44 building up a sizeable navy to take on the combined might of the brits and US. The naval setup was this: 5 fleets of 4 CV's (early), 2 BB's (super-heavy), 1 BC, 1 CA, 3 CL, 13 DD, 2 SS each. Each of them commanded by a grand admiral, but only two with competent command (Raeder and Dönitz).
I had tried to block the british from supplies but in '42 I had to abandon the u-boot blockade in favor of the east front since I'd been ambushed(!) by the russians. It's a long story. Besides the naval power of my fleets I had 5 TF's of 6 TP's each carrying a panzerarmée except the leading one which would leave Königsberg with 6 marine divisions.
The airforces were arrayed in wings of 4 with 16 interceptors (IV) and 20 fighters (III). I also had 16 tac's in wings of 4 (IV). All of these were based on the french side of the channel at airbases from Brest to Amsterdam. Added to these airplanes were some 40 V2 ballistic missiles based in germany proper. My secret weapons for crushing the allied air power.
During my winter bombing campaign, using V1's and 2's, I had counted approximately 40 air div's in eastern england and I knew I was in for a hard fight.
On august 7th 1944 the Kriegsmarine steamed out of port towards an uncertain fate...
The setup.
I'm playing GC-'36 Germany and I've reached aug. 30th 1944. Up until august '44 I'd conquered all of mainland europe, from the urals to the atlantic. This includes scandinavia, iberia and Italy. As a consequence Britain is jam-packed with the airforces of USA, GB, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium and France. The remnants of their navies can also be found there.
Speaking of navies, mine is the third largest in the world, though hardly what you'd call modern. I had spent '43-'44 building up a sizeable navy to take on the combined might of the brits and US. The naval setup was this: 5 fleets of 4 CV's (early), 2 BB's (super-heavy), 1 BC, 1 CA, 3 CL, 13 DD, 2 SS each. Each of them commanded by a grand admiral, but only two with competent command (Raeder and Dönitz).
I had tried to block the british from supplies but in '42 I had to abandon the u-boot blockade in favor of the east front since I'd been ambushed(!) by the russians. It's a long story. Besides the naval power of my fleets I had 5 TF's of 6 TP's each carrying a panzerarmée except the leading one which would leave Königsberg with 6 marine divisions.
The airforces were arrayed in wings of 4 with 16 interceptors (IV) and 20 fighters (III). I also had 16 tac's in wings of 4 (IV). All of these were based on the french side of the channel at airbases from Brest to Amsterdam. Added to these airplanes were some 40 V2 ballistic missiles based in germany proper. My secret weapons for crushing the allied air power.
During my winter bombing campaign, using V1's and 2's, I had counted approximately 40 air div's in eastern england and I knew I was in for a hard fight.
On august 7th 1944 the Kriegsmarine steamed out of port towards an uncertain fate...
My main problem now is supplies, I neglected to build enough convoys and I'm beggining to worry about keeping my troops in fuel and ammo, the stockpiles that I built up during the first week of the invasion are beggining to dwindle and I wont see any more convoys for another couple of months.
