The Great Crusade

[dannyboy2016]

June 1948

Allied forces continue their advance in Central Asia. Five soviet divisions are encircled and destroyed in Kazakhstan on the 10th of June.

Mexican and Argentine Armies lead the charge into Alm-Ata the capital of the Kazakh SSR. Soon they will link with the American forces that just cleared the Soviets from the Tanna Tuva Autonomous Oblast and the Mongolian SSR.

Allied forces attack Baku in early June. The Battle doesn't seem to go well for the allies but the timely intervention of von Manstein's army will win the day for us once the French and Soviets have bleed each other dry.

After taking Baku the Germans drive north. Meanwhile, Stillwell launches an offensive against the capital of Soviet Armenia.

Sizable numbers of Soviet Forces vacated Batum to save Armenia. This gives us a great chance to seize the Naval base there.

Once Yerevan is under our control we launch an offensive to seize the remainder of Soviet Armenia.

Forces from Kazakhstan surge to the West, to link with Manstein, and to the north, where they hope to seize the major industrial cities of the ural region.​

 

[unmerged(89475)]

Damn you're doing well. So when is the big conference for the post war world going to be done? At some point the Euros are gonna have to be confronted and told they're not getting their colonies back.

Which will be a problem in Africa. To be blunt, the only trained administrates at this point, are communists. Especially if the USSR followed SOP for communist revolutions and exiled, killed or imprisoned all the old elites (which would have been mostly white settlers anyways).

 

[Kaiser_Mobius]

Amazing progress on all fronts. I am amazed at your ability to manage so many theatres with all of those troops at the same time.

Great job, and keep fighting the good fight.

 

[dannyboy2016]

Damn you're doing well. So when is the big conference for the post war world going to be done? At some point the Euros are gonna have to be confronted and told they're not getting their colonies back.

Which will be a problem in Africa. To be blunt, the only trained administrates at this point, are communists. Especially if the USSR followed SOP for communist revolutions and exiled, killed or imprisoned all the old elites (which would have been mostly white settlers anyways).

A conference will take place after the US Presidential election. Naturally, Dewey will attend if he is President-elect.

Yeah, Africa will be a mess. It, Russia, and China will probably have to be occupied and administered by the US for a few years after the war.

Amazing progress on all fronts. I am amazed at your ability to manage so many theatres with all of those troops at the same time.

Great job, and keep fighting the good fight.

Glad you are back onboard!

New update soon.

 

[dannyboy2016]

JULY 1948

Allied forces continue advancing through the Caucus region during the first two weeks of July. Superiority in armor and air power allow us to quickly bypass soviet defenses.

We encircle 34 divisions in the Georgian SSR. On the 19th day of July the Soviet forces in Tbilisi are set upon by units from six nations. Surrounded and under assault from six directions, the Soviets quickly surrender.

Once the Georgian pocket is destroyed allied forces drive towards their next two objectives: the sea of Azov and the city of Stalingrad.

These are the front lines in late July. The Soviets are reduced to a foothold in Tibet, a few pacific islands, and a swath of Eurasia. There is still a lot of ground to cover, but it looks like we are in the home stretch. To make things easier, I've appointed Eisenhower to head the army, because of his movement speed bonus. Additionally, I've stockpiled 6 atomic weapons for use later in the campaign, as I fear I'll need them to crack the giant stacks of troops along the Cannon line.

The Soviet Army, while on the defensive, is still significant. The US army, by comparisson, is 246 divisions strong. We field 45 MEC, 45 MOT, 45 ARM, 32 MTN, 12 MAR, 63 GAR, and 4 HQ divisions.​

 

[trekaddict]

So it's twelve years since you converted the game?

(Nuke Production speed is my only real grief with the game.)

 

[dannyboy2016]

So it's twelve years since you converted the game?

(Nuke Production speed is my only real grief with the game.)

Well I did recreate the game from 1936, but I didn't build the first bomb till 44. So it is 7 nukes produced over 4 years.

I'm using 1.2 and an earlier version of the Cold War tech tree project, dunno if that is why I'm producing nukes quicker than you do.

Could the infrastructure at the reactor effect production speed? Maybe the number of civilian reactors do as well?

I coded an event to double nuke production (at the expense of -50 offmap ic) for the HOI2 part of the aar, but I don't remember reusing it for this portion. Maybe that's the reason?

Does it take that long to build a nuke for other players?

 

[unmerged(89475)]

War looks to be in it's final stages. Good job.

 

[Maximilliano]

Just read through this AAR and its predecessor, fascinating read! I wonder how the average person feels about the new world order... happy to speak and do as they please, sure, but it seems that it was a near economic utopia? Was i reading into it too much? too little?

 

[dannyboy2016]

War looks to be in it's final stages. Good job.

Thanks. We're in the home stretch for certain.

Just read through this AAR and its predecessor, fascinating read! I wonder how the average person feels about the new world order... happy to speak and do as they please, sure, but it seems that it was a near economic utopia? Was i reading into it too much? too little?

I'm glad you like it, but I don't quite understand your comment about the near economic utopia. Both the USSR and USA had astronomical IC, but I don't know if thats what you mean.

I'd like to think that a majority of the newly liberated (or occupied peoples) are glad to be free of Stalinism. I imagine that there are all manner of aggressive "de-stalinization" initiatives being enacted throughout the post soviet world.

 

[dannyboy2016]

AUGUST 1948

These were some of the battles that took place during the first week of August 1948. Nations from around the globe march inexorably westward. Thirty years have passed since Rear-Admiral Kolchak's Whites and the heroic Czechoslovak Legion had first threatened to destroy the Soviet state, and now the United Nations is prepared to finish the job.

American airborne forces make their first combat drop into the Calanshio Sand Sea, which was inaccessible by land and remained the only part of Africa outside of allied control. I couldn't ex-filtrate the airborne without building an airfield there, so I just disbanded them.

Stalingrad was encircled during the second week of August.

The Battle of Stalingrad began on the 13th of August. Allied forces crushed all resistance in a matter of days. While Rommel was in overall command of the operation, it was Canadian troops who had the honor of capturing Stalingrad's Central Plaza.

After Stalingrad falls, allied forces continue a steady advance towards the west. The only major battle during this period was the battle of Kharkov, which fell to Manstein's army on the 25th.​

 

[unmerged(68158)]

So Manstein got his Kharkov battle despite the ahistorical situation. Looks like Stalin is borrowing Hitler's 'strategy' of forcing a large chunk of his military to get stuck in Corland where it will be cut off and useless.

 

[ColossusCrusher]

Maybe the Soviets need another 500 bonus divisions...

 

[dannyboy2016]

So Manstein got his Kharkov battle despite the ahistorical situation. Looks like Stalin is borrowing Hitler's 'strategy' of forcing a large chunk of his military to get stuck in Corland where it will be cut off and useless.

Stalin is already dead, but his ignorant successors have squandered a lot of divisions along the "Cannon Line," which runs from Memel to Moldova.

Maybe the Soviets need another 500 bonus divisions...

Hahaha!
Nah I'd rather actually finish this one up.
Update on Monday.

 

[Kaiser_Mobius]

Moscow is so close now. Perhaps the time has also come to break out from the Cannon Line and link up with your east Russian fronts?

Good update.

 

[dannyboy2016]

Moscow is so close now. Perhaps the time has also come to break out from the Cannon Line and link up with your east Russian fronts?

Good update.

Yes sir. September will see the battle for Moscow and the break out from the cannon line.

 

[unmerged(89475)]

Awesome.

I've been thinking now and again over Eastern Europe. Perhaps you should merge Poland, the eastern Ukraine and the baltic states together in a Federation. As well as expand Iran a bit. I don't think you should cut up Russia to badly as you may cause a Wiemar situation that way.

 

[dannyboy2016]

Awesome.

I've been thinking now and again over Eastern Europe. Perhaps you should merge Poland, the eastern Ukraine and the baltic states together in a Federation. As well as expand Iran a bit. I don't think you should cut up Russia to badly as you may cause a Wiemar situation that way.

Maybe I should resurrect the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?

Another problem is Slovakia. I can't give it to the Magyars, because Bela Kun got them into the war on the Soviet side back in the 1920s. Most of the Czech lands are part of Germany. Maybe Slovakia could be home to a much smaller Czechoslovakia, or it could possibly be incorporated into the possible western slavic state centered around Poland.

I think Iran will be expanded somewhat.

I don't know what to do about the Baltics. They will probably be pretty decimated by the time this war ends. Maybe they could be part of some sort of Finno-Ugric union?

 

[Sudaxe]

I don't know what to do about the Baltics. They will probably be pretty decimated by the time this war ends. Maybe they could be part of some sort of Finno-Ugric union?

Maybe a Baltic State federation instead?

 

[dannyboy2016]

SEPTEMBER 1948

The primary objective for the month of September was the capture of Moscow. For President Truman, Moscow, despite the damage inflicted by the atomic bomb, was the most important military and political target, as he anticipated that the city's surrender would shortly afterwards lead to the general collapse of the Soviet Union. After a round of negotiations in Washington, it was agreed that Rommel’s German Army would be committed to Moscow offensive. After two decades of bitter occupation and years of war, the Germans would finally have their chance for revenge. Rommel's well-equipped forces, sporting rudimentary NBC protection and the latest in allied armaments, would struggle for almost a month to expel Timoshenko’s numerically superior force from the city.

The Moscow offensive, codenamed Operation Wotan, was accompanied by a general offensive along the whole of the cannon line. Allied guns thundered from Karelia to Bessarabia.

The Soviet defenders performed poorly across most of the front, except in Eastern Poland, where fanatical Soviet resistance stymied the French army’s advance.

As the defenders of the Cannon Line advanced eastwards the allied forces from the Urals and Caucus fronts drove westwards into Ukraine. The last major tank battle of the war would destroy the small Ukrainian city of Sumy.

As the Operation Wotan enters its second week, American and Canadian forces strike at Timoshenko’s flanks. The beleaguered defenders of Moscow are now almost totally encircled and under attack from 4 directions.

The Argentinians conquer Sevastopol, destroying Grigory Kulik’s Crimean Army.

In an effort to assist the French, the United States drops an atomic weapon on Bielsk.

The first tactical use of an atomic weapon was a huge success and France would have no trouble mopping up the devastated Soviet forces in Eastern Poland.

Meanwhile, Montgomery and Guderian waste no time invading Ukraine.

After a week, the Anglo-German invasion of Ukraine makes great progress and it seems possible that they may be able to encircle vast numbers of Soviet troops.

The Brazilians push Soviet forces out of Lvov. Soon all of Poland will be liberated.

The allies launch an attack on Kiev on September 25th. The Soviet defenders are quickly overwhelmed and Kiev is cleared within two days.

On the 27th of September German forces accept Timoshenko’s surrender and hoist the flag of the United nations over Moscow.

The month ends with the closing of the Kiev pocket.​