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I had ordered my Jäeger groups to operate together over Dortmund, where the skies are clear today, but they got separated. Despite relatively minor damage I ground these guys. None of the French or British groups will be back soon, so I want to make sure I'm fully recovered now.


The losses after 48 hours.

The French and British losses are almost all Aircrews.

EDIT:
We dogpile Jauneaud's retreating bombers again over Saarbrucken. Fifty eight French planes are shot down.


Here are the updated french losses from after that fight:
 
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Will follow this. Recently I started a Germany campaign to explore the changes, especially new stacking penalties.
Now is July 40, and I'm scared. SOV has 250+ divs, and I don't have even 100. Probably around 70. Took out France, but by the time I repair my new territory, reinforce, I doubt I'll have time to build a really big air force and army. But I can share with you an advice. Try airfield attack. I halved RAF in half a month using that baby. Dogpile on an airport with TAC and INT and watch enemy dissapear.
 
4th Dimension said:
Will follow this. Recently I started a Germany campaign to explore the changes, especially new stacking penalties.
Now is July 40, and I'm scared. SOV has 250+ divs, and I don't have even 100. Probably around 70. Took out France, but by the time I repair my new territory, reinforce, I doubt I'll have time to build a really big air force and army. But I can share with you an advice. Try airfield attack. I halved RAF in half a month using that baby. Dogpile on an airport with TAC and INT and watch enemy dissapear.
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u better start spamming out an army otherwise u'll be dead within 6 months after the war with the soviets start :p
 
New Targets


My Interceptors don't get any time to rest. The British Tactical bombers have showed up in Leipzig and Vienna. Vienna is out of range, so an ambush is planned for Leipzig tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Loerzer rebases to Wilhelmshafen with the intention of intercepting these British bombers as they cross the coast.
 

Milch and Felmy both tangle with the same group of French Interceptors, and have to rest. The bombing raids keep coming. My province repair cost climbs to 25 IC.

I have captured all the VP locations in Western Poland. Any day now the Soviets will take their half, and I will be able to annex.



Warsaw has been in German hands for 24 hours now. I capture big supplies of Energy and Metal, but no rares. I make a trade with Luxembourg to keep the factories running.

 
Crossroads

Annexing Poland has given me another windfall of resources, but no rares. I seriously underestimated the amount of raw materials I would need. I'm in deep trouble.



I shut down all my foreign trade routes, except the crucial oil shipments from Venezuela. I can't seem to make the trade wizard put escorts with it, so I just have to eat the losses. I'm at 130 convoys and counting down.



And the crazy thing is oil is not even my most critical resource. Because despite the dangers of shipping that oil from Venezuela, I send it to the synthetic material plant, and turn it into rares. It takes 6.25 oil to make a rare right now. So, the 33.2 oil I bring from Venezuela turns into 5.3 rares.

So. Right now I'm trading 9.1 dollars (and some metal) for 5.3 rares.Those 5.3 rares keep 10.6 factories running that would otherwise be shut down. Those 10.6 factories get put towards consumer goods, and make $19.04 each day. So, it costs $9.10 to make $19.04. Half my new production goes into paying for itself. This is not a good situation.

France has a positive flow of 5.9 rares per day. That means they probably have a nice juicy stockpile. My original plan had been to play historically. That would mean settling in for the Sitzkrieg right now. But I think the best strategy is actually to attack now, through the Netherlands and Belgium. By capturing enemy stockpiles I can continue to fuel my industry. The other choice is to shut down 80 Factories.

Attacking now has some disadvantages. None of my troops are upgraded. Infantry is still '36 standard. My bombers are still rickety former mail carriers. My headquarters units still move by horse and buggy. My motorized infantry are some of the most effective troops in the world, but the accompanying tanks are obsolete. On top of that, my interceptors have been forced to the ground to repair. Allied bombers go where they please, for now.

In the short term I make some desperate trades to keep my factories running.





What do you think I should do?
 
I see two options:
1: Invade the Benelux ASAP, the Netherlands national stockpiles will provide you a lot of ressources.
Quite the same for the Belgian one.
The problem is that you'll have to face the French forces soon after.
2: Invade Scandinavia. Norway and Sweden are ressources rich countries.
 
Take Denmark Now. I usually get a fair amount of rares from them. Of course that was in DD/Arm. :D
 
son of liberty said:
Take Denmark Now. I usually get a fair amount of rares from them. Of course that was in DD/Arm. :D
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I declare war on Denmark and march into an undefended Kolding. The only thing I capture is about 1500 oil. No rares again. At least this seals off the Baltic, so I don't have to worry about garrisoning beaches on the North Sea.
 
You have to take Copenhagen. If you annex by event without taking the capital first you get squat.
 
son of liberty said:
You have to take Copenhagen. If you annex by event without taking the capital first you get squat.
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I think you get half the enemy's stockpile when you capture the capital, and half of what is left when you annex. So I think I got considerably less than I could have by not capturing Copenhagen, but only by about 50%.

Meanwhile, In France
September 12th, 1939


12 days after war is declared, the French are organized for an attack on Freiburg. The french troops are rested, and have a lot of Artillery, but the attack across a river into a fort means there will be no quick victories. My reserves move down from Frankfurt. I'd like to use my bombers, but my interceptors need more rest before we can contest the air again.

Edit:
On the 14th my delay event in Freiburg turns into encirclement. I divert some tanks to reinforce the battle.
 
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I'm pretty sure that Oslo and Stockholm are full of rares.
 
Problem with nabbing Moscow is that the capital moves when you get close to Moscow. Problem with nabbing London is the Royal Navy. I suppose you could just use paratroopers, but that is only if, in AoD, you do not have to then get a port and convoy your "earnings" across the channel.
 
It's interesting to note how big the difference between Normal and Hard appears to be...

Now during my equivalent of Fall Blau (no, I didn't manage to defeat the soviets in one summer, nor in the following winter) I'm glad I started building up synthetic material plants after my forces for Barbarossa were finished (and hence, had a lot of IC, but not all that much MP to work with)

Supplies of rares are rapidly dropping, but should be enough to last me to the next batch of the plants, after which I think I should be running about even. Getting my hands on Russian rares would still be good though.
But before the battle of France? That's just frightening.
 
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