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Tachikaze said:
Regia Marina, IIRC, but what it is for the individual ship I can't remember...

Btw, Crisisman, do you think you'll annex the SU completely ever? I personally would never even dream about it, but since you've been annexing every country around so far it felt safe to at least ask. :p

Italian Royal Navy ====> Regia Marina (in short RM not used very often apart from vehicle plates)

Individual ship prefix ====> Regia Nave (in short RN) litterally translates into Royal Ship

To be notet that the term Royal into italian has (actually had) two different transations: Regio and Reale, the latter being somewhat stronger and more like King's own or something like this. The Royal Family was "Reale".
The traditional services were all "Regio" (Regio Esercito, Regia Marina, Regia Aeronautica). The Carabinieri Corps was "Reali" being born as the bodyguard for the king. And talking about Carabinieri, just another trivia: their cap badge used to have the initials of the name of the ruling king. Now their badge holds R.I. for Repubblica Italiana...
 
June-Aug 1943

June 1, 1943 : We won battles against Nationalist China in Hengyang, Dunhuang and Ya'an.

June 3, 1943 : I. Marine Army HQ has finished unloading in Johnson Island. We also defeated the US forces in Belize City.

June 5, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Shaoguan.

June 6, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Zhuzhou."

June 7, 1943 : We won battles against Nationalist China in Chengdu and Chongquing. We won a battle against USA in North Central Hawaiian Rise, sinking 24th Destroyer Division(DD), USS Ranger(CV) and a battle against Canada in Sable Island Bank, sinking HMAS Darwin(CA).

June 8, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Yuling.

June 10, 1943 : Marking the next big push in Central China, we won battles in Pingxiang, Wanxian, Enshi, Changsha, Tianshi and Changde.

June 12, 1943 : A convoy in the Paramaribo-Evora convoy at Madeiran Approach lost 2 transports and 0 escorts. We also won a battle in Nanchang.

June 15, 1943 : We won battles against Nationalist China in Enshi and Wuchang.

June 17, 1943 : We won a battle against Communist China in Pingliang.

June 18, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Nanchong. We also suffered a terrible loss as the US Navy succeeded in landing forces by surprise on the Island of Andros, in the Bahamas. 800 of our newest and best turbojet aircraft were based there and had been heavily engaging the USAAF. The Aircraft were completely lost.

June 23, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Baoji. Also on this day, the US Navy launched air raids on our base in Apamama. Fortunately for us, the fleet was out elsewhere, but they still did significant damage to the port facilities and to some transports in the harbor. We immediately dispatched the KM to intercept and engage the offending fleet.

June 24, 1943 : The Kreigsmarine caught up with the offending US fleet and battle ensued. It was clear as the battle developed that the US Carriers, while superior as ships, were carrying inferior CAGs. The superior CAGs won the day and the US Navy paid with the loss of USS Hornet(CV), USS Essex(CV), USS Mobile(CL).

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June 26, 1943 : In a follow-up battle to the one of the 24th we caught the stragglers and pounded on them, sinking the 48th Destroyer Division(DD), USS Biloxi(CL), USS Savannah(CL).

June 27, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Ankang.

June 30, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Yichang.

July 1, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Xi'an.

July 2, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Xianyang.

July 8, 1943 : Nationalist China annexed Communist China in another preventive move as we closed into the communist home areas.

July 9, 1943 : We have lost control over Belize City to USA, again. In continued efforts in the Pacific, we caught and sank the 31st Destroyer Division(DD), USS Concord(CL), 56th Destroyer Division(DD).

July 13, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Nanyang.

July 14, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Yan'an.

July 17, 1943 : With the US Navy on the run in the Pacific, we launched our invasion of the Hawaiian islands. We won battles against USA in Kauai, Maui, Hawaii and Pearl Harbour.

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July 23, 1943 : The Canadians finally found their courage and siezed Labrador from us.

July 24, 1943 : We won a battle against Nationalist China in Luoyang.

July 25, 1943 : We have lost control over Tobago to USA.

July 27, 1943 : We won a battle against USA in Niihau, completing the campaign in the Hawaiian Islands.

July 29, 1943 : We won a battle against USA in Tobago, reclaiming it for the Reich. We also engaged the US Navy in the Carribean and sank USS Salt Lake City(CA), USS Honolulu(CL), 30th Destroyer Division(DD), USS San Diego(CL).

August 1, 1943 : Meeting with his staff, and representatives from the Imperial High Command, it is decided that with Hawaii as a bastion of defense against US incursions into the Pacific the Japanese would proceed against the Aleutians. Also, the German forces in the Atlantic would begin a campiagn to bring the Carribean and Central America under the Reich prior to a move against all of South America. Argentina is chosen as a potential ally and Ribbentrop is given orders to begin influencing their government towards our point of view. With Argentina driving from the South, and Germany driving from the North, the nations of South America should fall rapidly. Once South America is secure, we will assemble forces for a drive into Mexico and on into the United States and Canada, possibly including multiple landings around the continent. As for Russia, the decision is made to attack in the Spring of 1944. Russia is rebuilding and needs to be removed before they become a powerful adversary. They have already rebuilt to 75 divisions. With these general plans outlined, the staff meeting closes and all retire to begin preparations.

August 3, 1943 : Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Dominican Republic and quickly routed the feeble defenses in Santiago.

August 4, 1943 : We won a battle against Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo.

August 6, 1943 : Dominican Republic are now part of our nation!

August 8, 1943 : Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Haiti and Cuba.

August 9, 1943 : We won a battle against Cuba in Guantánamo and Haiti in Port-au-Prince.

August 11, 1943 : We won a battle against USA in East Clarion Fracture Zone, sinking the USS Bunker Hill(CV), USS Intrepid(CV). It is estimated that the US is now down to 2 operational CVs. The US Navy is no longer consider a high risk threat. Also on this day, we complete the occupation of Haiti and annex them.

August 14, 1943 : We won a battle against Cuba in Havana.

August 17, 1943 : Cuba is annexed and Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Panama. The battle for Panama is over before midnight.

August 19, 1943 : We won a battle against USA in Andros, relcaiming it.

August 23, 1943 : Panama are now part of our nation!

August 25, 1943 : Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Costa Rica and quickly win the battle for San Jose.

August 26, 1943 : Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Honduras. We also win another fight against the US in Belize.

August 28, 1943 : We won a battle against Honduras in Tegucigalpa.

August 29, 1943 : In a double announcement Hitler annexes both Honduras and, at long last, China. The Japanese secure their advances along the coast and a half-dozen provinces are traded between German and Japanese to make for a cleaner border. With the war in China over, Japan immediately begins to shift forces elsewhere.

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We Hawaiians shall stand strong against this tide of German oppression! :mad:

Or not...
 
wow Long interesting read...

very good analysis of Naval combat...

Personally I don't see what the fuss was about Crisisman's Cheap german navy CAG's, BB's and Uboats, being able to beat up on an AI controlled British Navy... or even the American one as it appears... the AI as we all know is fairly limited in it's ability to think stragegicly...... basicly it RE-acts rather than PRO-acts. I suspect Crisisman will be the first to admit that while his naval strategy worked well against the AI if he tried the same strategy against a human player the outcome would likely have been quite different...

I for one know if I had been controlling the Royal Navy in a MP game and he tried to pull what he did against the AI, his fleet would have been crucified!!!! Hard to say what the AI's mission orders were but I seriously doubt the RN units were set to ASW when his u-boats met them. if the AI had actaully been intellgent enough to prosecuste a serious ASW operation he likely would have lost most of his flotilla, The historicaly... and from my experinece in gameplay Uboats very clearly had an advantage against capital ships and transport convoys they are seriously disadvantaged against DD's and CL's... A serious player defense would have consisted of DD's ASW units screened by Naval bombers with Fighter support to protect against surface ships. The AI I've notices sucks rocks at ASW operations. For some reason the AI tends to totally ignore naval bomber operations to cover smaller surface ships.

just for contrast my last battle of the atlantic playing as Canada turned out quite different... the German fleet (15 ships mostly capital including 1 CV) found my Carrier group of 2 CV's and CL/DD screen... they were set for ASW in the mid atlantic and got caught by the german fleet... needless to say my fleet retreated with heavy losses but the german AI fleet pursued straight into 5 Naval bomber squadrons with Escort fighters based in Nova Scotia... the result again was predictable... all 15 German ships were sunk.... well most were sunk and the escapees ran right into my submarine screen... and without thier escorts (destroyed by the Naval bombers) they were also sunk.
 
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Sep-Dec 1943 - New York, New York

August 30, 1943 : Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Guatemala.

September 1, 1943 : We won a battle against Guatemala in Guatemala.

September 2, 1943 : Costa Rica are now part of our nation!

September 3, 1943 : Guatemala are now part of our nation! Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Nicaragua and El Salvador.

September 4, 1943 : We won a battle against Nicaragua in Managua and another against El Salvador in San Salvador.

September 7, 1943 : El Salvador are now part of our nation!

September 11, 1943 : Nicaragua are now part of our nation!

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September 17, 1943 : We won a battle against USA in Legaspi. Troops begin redeploying for the drive to the South.

October 2, 1943 : Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Colombia and quickly overrun Medellin.

October 4, 1943 : The Heer reports the first batch of Infanterie Divisions have been upgraded to Infantry '45. It is immediately discovered that the need of these new division for oil creates a big problem as it is slowing them down greatly. We also win a battle in Barranquilla.

October 7, 1943 : In a secret meeting, Hitler is informed by Werner Heisenberg that he has completed developement of a 'Fission Bomb'. Unfortunately, we do not yet have a large enough reactor to mass produce them, but one should be on line shortly. The other problem is that we currently lack a means of delivering this weapon to the enemies in the Americas. Hitler informs him that Wernher von Braun is currently working on that problem and should have something to report within the next month.

October 9, 1943 : We won a battle against Colombia in Bogotá.

October 10, 1943 : We have lost control over Managua to USA as they land at one of our weak points yet again.

October 14, 1943 : We won a battle against USA in Managua.

October 16, 1943 : A convoy in the Guantánamo-Lissabon convoy at East Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge lost 1 transports and 0 escorts. Unfortunately this location is beyond our air range, so we will have to trust in our convoy escorts.

October 17, 1943 : We won a battle against Colombia in Barranquilla.

October 18, 1943 : Our forces arrive in Cúcuta, the last objective in Columbia and Hitler announces their annexation. There are rumors that Hitler has ordered a new retreat built in the hills near Bogota where he intends to sample various local medicines.

October 28, 1943 : Wernher von Braun has developed 'Intercontinental Ballistic Missile'. It is immediately ordered into production as our first working Fusion Bomb is ready for use. Hitler and his staff begin discussing the best use of these new wonder-weapons.

November 1, 1943 : Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Venezuela and win a victory in Maracaibo.

November 2, 1943 : We won battles against Venezuela in Cumana, Barquisimeto and Caracas as our Marines hit the shores.

November 5, 1943 : The Kriegsmarine reports that the fleet's CAGs have been upgraded to the most modern propeller driven aircraft they can devise. The next step, they say, is to develop jet aircraft suitable for naval deployment. 4 new "Super Carriers" are laid down to replace the aging and battle worn light carriers.

November 9, 1943 : Venezuela are now part of our nation!

November 23, 1943 : 4 new Super Battleships join the fleet, replacing 4 battle-worn Bismarck class vessels. The new ships are christened the KMS München-Oberbayern, KMS Magdeburg-Anhalt, KMS Weser-Ems, and KMS Halle-Merseburg.

November 25, 1943 : Ribbentrop reports that after much work, Argentina rejected our initial Military Alliance proposal. He admits that it was only about 50% likely that they would accept, and recommends another attempt as soon as relations are bolstered some more.

November 26, 1943 : Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Ecuador. We quickly win battles in all 3 Ecuadoran provinces. Unfortunately, however, it will take months for the troops to march into Quito due to the new fuel usage of the infantry divisions.

November 29, 1943 : Not wanting to wait for the long march in Ecuador, the KM loads marines and heads to the coast of Peru. Germany, Italy, Manchukuo and Japan declared war upon Peru and quickly landed in both Lima and Arequipa.

December 2, 1943 : The Peruvian Navy sailed forth boldly into the jaws of the KM. It was target practice as we destroyed the ARP Coronel Bolognesi(CA), ARP Almirante Grau(CA).

December 3, 1943 : Peru are now part of our nation!

December 20, 1943 : Ribbentrop was pleased to report that this time Argentina joined our Military Alliance with Italy, Japan and Manchukuo. The newly enlarged alliance immediately declared war on Uruguay and the Baltic Fleet with its marines was ordered to Argentina to assist in their northward campaign.

December 27, 1943 : The Luftwaffe Special Weapons Division reports that the 1st V2. Division is ready for deployment. Hitler orders it to prepare for launch from the Airbase near Lisbon. After looking over targets, Hitler gives the order to fire as soon as everything is ready.

19:00 December 28, 1943 : New York has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb. Hitler and his staff celebrate their great victory and make a list of 3 more targets to be destroyed when additional weapons become available. Unfortunately, it is reported that another will not be available for a full year. The Industrial loss to the US from this attack comes to approximately 4% of GDP. The military loss was minor, estimated at 3 divisions and an air group.

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And the big picture on new year's day in S.America:
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So what's the land strength of the US? I'm sure you're not looking forward to the great slog north from your new possessions.

Also, do you intend to finish off the Bolsheviks in your rear before pressing on?
 
The first nuclear weapons are launched and the fighting in the Americas begin...

Doom! Doom!

So what will the name of the plan of the invasion of the USA be?
 
Prufrock451 said:
So what's the land strength of the US? I'm sure you're not looking forward to the great slog north from your new possessions.

Also, do you intend to finish off the Bolsheviks in your rear before pressing on?

The US had 90 divisions when at their peak, but have squandered about 40-50 on invasions that were subsequently beaten back. After builds, they currently stand around 65 divisions, but with fewer garrisons bloating the ranks. They also have around 45 air groups and around 60 ships.

Yes, buried in this last report was the plan to take out the USSR this summer.

As for the names of the invasions...you'll have to wait and see. :p
 
Crisisman said:
October 4, 1943 : The Heer reports the first batch of Infanterie Divisions have been upgraded to Infantry '45. It is immediately discovered that the need of these new division for oil creates a big problem as it is slowing them down greatly. We also win a battle in Barranquilla.

You mean that controlling almost all Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific, after conquering numberless enemy capitals you can be short of oil for your Army?
 
berhaven said:
You mean that controlling almost all Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific, after conquering numberless enemy capitals you can be short of oil for your Army?

No, it's part of the game. In certain terrain types oil using units are penalized.
 
Crisisman said:
19:00 December 28, 1943 : New York has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb. Hitler and his staff celebrate their great victory and make a list of 3 more targets to be destroyed when additional weapons become available. Unfortunately, it is reported that another will not be available for a full year. The Industrial loss to the US from this attack comes to approximately 4% of GDP. The military loss was minor, estimated at 3 divisions and an air group.

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Well there goes millions of democrats up in smoke. I guess we know who wins the 44 election now! :D
What size reactors do you have and where are they? Your bomb production is pretty slow. Oh, and one last question. When you mention things like "super carriers" or "super battleships", do you mean nuclear powered ships? I'm just wondering how far along in the tech tree you have come. Keep up the great work.
 
I apologize if this is a newbiesh question, but I'm curious as to how you constructed your factories so quickly. You seem to produce the first round in just 354 days, and the next round in less than 10 months. When I attempt to do the same as Germany I don't get any gearing bonus, and each round takes a full year. Am I missing something?
 
Velius said:
I apologize if this is a newbiesh question, but I'm curious as to how you constructed your factories so quickly. You seem to produce the first round in just 354 days, and the next round in less than 10 months. When I attempt to do the same as Germany I don't get any gearing bonus, and each round takes a full year. Am I missing something?

Hrm, good question. I didn't notice the 6 day reduction in time on the first round. I honestly don't know where that is from. Hawk slider maybe(that's usually my first change). As for follow on rounds, the second round appears quicker because I actually started a few new ones before the first batch were done as I had some IC come available, so that's why it's a bit funny. I generally made a report when the first ones were done within the same general time frame. You can get gearing on factories btw, you just need to click multiple times from the province screen.

No nuclear ships yet...but I've got my nuclear scientists feverishly working on them. It's painfully slow, however, and I'm unsure whether I'll actually see any in service before I'm done with my world conquest. :(
 
Crisisman said:
Hrm, good question. I didn't notice the 6 day reduction in time on the first round. I honestly don't know where that is from. Hawk slider maybe(that's usually my first change). As for follow on rounds, the second round appears quicker because I actually started a few new ones before the first batch were done as I had some IC come available, so that's why it's a bit funny. I generally made a report when the first ones were done within the same general time frame. You can get gearing on factories btw, you just need to click multiple times from the province screen.

No nuclear ships yet...but I've got my nuclear scientists feverishly working on them. It's painfully slow, however, and I'm unsure whether I'll actually see any in service before I'm done with my world conquest. :(

Tere are still a lot of things that make me wonder!
You built 2 BBs in 1.5 years! While it takes about 800days to build one BB. Can you explain how did you manage to do that.
You also managed to form 110 Infantry divisions in three years! This means about 50 IC!
Can you please give the approximate build list in the very beginning of your game about 01.01.36.
 
Nickolay said:
Tere are still a lot of things that make me wonder!
You built 2 BBs in 1.5 years! While it takes about 800days to build one BB. Can you explain how did you manage to do that.
You also managed to form 110 Infantry divisions in three years! This means about 50 IC!
Can you please give the approximate build list in the very beginning of your game about 01.01.36.

The Infantry is easy, just set up 3 runs of 99 infantry on day 1 with your infantry ministers and you'll have your numbers for only around 17IC.

The Bismarck time, however, is troubling me. I just ran the numbers, and it simply doesn't add up! That, combined with the odd 6 day reduction in the IC build time got me scratching my head. I think we've found a bug. The problem is, I can't yet figure out what, exactly, is happening.

For example, the Bismarck completed in 526 days. Well, 526/730 is 72.05% of the base time. To my knowledge, there is no combination of ministers/tech/anything that should give such a result!!!! All the modifiers are in 5% increments...with the sole exception of Gearing Bonus...which isn't supposed to affect the first unit in the series. Same thing with the IC, 354/360 is 98.33% of base time. As the first in the series it should be either 100% or 95%(with hawk). Clearly, something is awry. I'll report it in the BETA forum and see what we can find. Don't panic, however, as this game was run under a number of different patch configurations so it may just be some wierd anomaly resulting from multiple patches on the same game. If any of you see something similar happen with non-beta games, please speak up.(In the general forum, not here)

Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
 
Another question is concearning the speed of your infantery armies. Engineers add speed to a division. But what if you have mixed brigades in an army?
So, maybe you know what will be speed of an army if it would have the following brigades. Will it be incrased or decreased:
1) 3 divisions. 1. art. brig. 1. AT. brig. 1. eng. brig.
2) 3 divisions. all eng. brig.
3) 3 divisions. 2 eng. brigades. one is empty.
And it is also interesting to know - those inf. divisions which inwaded France. Did all of them have only engineers?
 
Nickolay said:
Another question is concearning the speed of your infantery armies. Engineers add speed to a division. But what if you have mixed brigades in an army?
So, maybe you know what will be speed of an army if it would have the following brigades. Will it be incrased or decreased:
1) 3 divisions. 1. art. brig. 1. AT. brig. 1. eng. brig.
2) 3 divisions. all eng. brig.
3) 3 divisions. 2 eng. brigades. one is empty.
And it is also interesting to know - those inf. divisions which inwaded France. Did all of them have only engineers?

I don't know off the top of my head whether the whole stack needs engineers to get the speed bonus. It's easy enough to test though. Just start a game and check the speed display on the unit, then change a brigade and check again.

Yes, I only built Engineer Brigades for first line units. It was one of the things I tried as an experiment in this game, and it seems to work well. By the time I hit France only a portion of the army had been equipped with brigades, I think it was around 50%. I didn't actually finish outfitting all my divisions with Engineers until mid-43.