To restore the Republic (Nationalist China)

[General Guisan]

Time for some grand strategy

With victory on land, the eyes of the Chinese Nation now turned towards the sea. The new Chinese navy, while not experienced, was equipped with the best material possible, and on a rapid course of expansion. When some spotter planes catched the Fuso, a japanese battleship, only lightly protected from some obsolete cruisers, it was time to sink BIG.

Alarmed by this victory of the Chinese navy, the Japanese sent out their best ships, their best leaders and their best men. For a moment, they could give us a blow, but the shipyards all along the pacific are now in full production of carriers, cruisers, transports, spotters, and many more. The time of Japanese superiority on the Sea is gone.

With all but Singapore under our flag, but still officially British, we're deciding it's time to free the people of Malaysia. Churchill is less amused, but eventually accepts, as Singapore itself would have fallen for sure if it wouldn't have been for our armies.

The Japanese assault on the Phillippines is soon finished and their gouverment has to admit defeat. Don't worry, help is coming fast.

With massive investments into the Sino-British relationships, we're reaching the best level of diplomatic relations since the beginning of the First Opium War with the British. They are starting to be interested in us joining the Allies, slowly, but the trend is going this way. We don't want to join (yet), anyway.

On September 24th, we're aware that the Japanese military now has advanced close to Australia itself, despite all the foes they're fighting. It's about time that someone is stopping them.

Less then a month later, Operation "Free Phillippines (no one can spell it correctly)" is officially launched. Their fleets are mostly busy fighting a thousand miles Southwards.

A check of the European war, still quite a brutal war going on, with neither side able to achieve victory.

And back in the Phillippines, the Japanese are fighting hard but our crack troops are on their way towards Manila.

Happy New Year to all readers.. actually, still someone around? Seems this AAR forum is, unfortunately, not very active

 

[quaazi]

Unfortunately not.

But sinking japanese battleships is still fun as hell, eh?

 

[General Guisan]

D Day

With our ressources fully on naval buildup, quickly more and more vessels are becoming operational. With the main Japanese fleet still deep South, we're launching the liberation of Okinawa, a group of island the Japanese had occupied many decades ago when the Qing empire was in it's last years.

The independent nation of Tanna Tuva is joining the Soviet Union. Well. We could care less, but for the moment we're sending them a congratulation message.

Christmas '44, Borneo island is now fully under Japanese control but the Phillippines are almost freed completely. And we've a much bigger project in development...

In January 1945, after some political debates, China becomes even more democratic. A great day for the Republic. Hurray!

By early February, our preparations are complete. 148 divisions of our best troops are ready all along the coastline from modern Shanghai up to the port of Dalian. The fleet is undergoing last reorganisations, and once weather allows, it's time.

To have the Japanese thinking this is actually against their Southern Conquests, a limited invasion of Borneo is started while the weather is still bad in the North. Hopefully this will keep their fleet away from running home...

Early in March, we've finished the plans to develop our armies with the newest, most advanced weapons earth ever has seen. The elite is given priority, and rapid upgrading is taking place in the highly modern place of Shanghai for the armies stationed there.

Two weeks after having received the newest equipment, our fleet is assembled and sets course for the Japanese home islands. It's D-Day!

Invasion plan sees a massive landing in the North of their Southern most main island near Fukuoka, a second landing near Kagoshima which seems only lightly defended, and another landing directly against heavily defended Hiroshima, which shall stop any additional troops they might throw against our invasion.

The situation after a few days of starting the invasion:

Not long, and the Main Japanese battle fleet is running into our main invasion fleet. Having carriers and modern cruisers against obsolete battleships, even their superior admirals will have a hard time to stop us. But given they've not much to lose, maybe they'll just risk everything to stop our invasion?

 

[quaazi]

Your positioning is terrible though, how are your doctrines going?

 

[General Guisan]

Storm on Tokyo

For once, all operations were going according to schedule. The Japanese fleet: Beaten back. The landing parties: On schedule, or even ahead. Air superiority: Achieved.

The Japanese throw everything they had against our liberation army, taking enormous casaulties.

With Kagoshima secured by our finest men, a steady stream of soldiers made landfall.

Fukuoka soon was taken as well, breaking the neck of any Japanese resistance.

Hiroshima was stubbornly hold by their defenders, yet resistance was futil.

24th April 1945, the Japanese send in their last contingent. Their armies broken, their cities taken, it's time to bring their leaders to court.

The poor defenders of Osaka weren't even given ammunition. With sticks, they managed to inflict minimal causalties on our troops while themselves collapsing within hours.

8th May 1945, a historic day. Field Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek himself leads the elite Marine Brigade towards the city center of Tokyo, the capital of Japan.

The last defenders find themselves quickly under massive artillery fire and collapse almost immediately.

In the final assault on Tokyo, we barely can keep our men back from assaulting the Japanese last positions. Too big is the pride, having taken revenge for the things the Japanese did to us.

Victory!

12th May 1945, Japan is beaten, it will take some weeks to spread the message to all the islands, but nothing can stop us now. The Republic has won it's struggle against it's foe. At the same time, new danger comes from the West...

Ironically the final assault on Tokyo started May, 8th, 1945, the day in history nazi germany capitulated.

quaazi: I've played a bit farther already, so I can't answer your question exactly. My naval doctrines are horrible, as I really have rather bad teams and it's mostly techs I can't rush by researching 2-3 at the same time. A strong army and weak navy is pushing my decision which alliance I need to join even more than any ideology.

 

[quaazi]

Ah, what a sad end to Japan, massive destruction at the hands of the chinese.

 

[General Guisan]

Preparations for a new war

With the Japanese main islands liberated, it was now upon our fleet and our brave marines to clear off all the islands the Japanese were still occuping.

For the Autumn classes at the Whampoa academies all over China, double the regular students were allowed, with classes especially open in artillery and infantry. Nanjing alone shall be training 5.000 new officers for our army.

In the most Northern province of Japan, our invasion went even better than expected. Mostly equipped with spears, the enemy had no chance but as they refused to capitulate, had to be fight to the last men.

Here are some of the harder nuts to crack. The Japanese had really fortified those islands well, but with our fleet now rulling the seas, it was always just a matter of time (and attacking waves) to take one after another island.

With victory almost complete, both the Americans and the Russians are sending further "aid" to us. With our industry stronger than the Soviet Unions, it's a bit weird to receive such "aid", so we're almost sure that Stalin actually wants to keep us neutral. And the Americans to join their side of the war, as the deadlock in Spain is going on for way too long already.

The battle of Batavia was the last time the Japanese tried to stop our troops. Exhausted, unsupplied and for days without food, eventually even their most experienced divisions capitulated for a handful of rice.

quaazi: Well, they started the war. I'll still be forgiving and give them another chance soon. I need more allies

 

[quaazi]

That first screen is scary - four million men to be put under arms!

 

[General Guisan]

New Asia Order

6th September 1945 saw the capitulation of the last Japanese troops in Batavia.

With the Allies fighting against both the Axis and the Soviet Union, it was easy to force them to accept some "changes" on the map for future support.

The Phillippines were given freedom again, this time as friends of China, not the US.

Sarawak was created, to incorporate the whole island of Borneo. Our Malaysian friends weren't very happy about it, but we told them it's in their better interest to keep quiet.

Indonesia was created as well. While the Dutch were able to keep everything east of the Batavian island, everything west (and Batavia) was now Indonesia.

Here is a overview of the new map:

A few days later, on the 10th September, the last Japanese islands in the Pacific fell to our forces, and they capitulated.

China was at peace again, after a war which had brought it from close to humilation to the only strong, neutral nation left on earth.

As we didn't wanted to occupy mainland Japan forever, we granted them to be free again, of course this time with close monitoring from Nanjing. They'll have to serve the Republic now.

Japan had quite a few funny gouvernment changes, from paternal autocract over fascist to national socialist, then to stalinist after the second sino-japanese war, and now they're my market-liberal puppet after the third sino-japanese war.

quaazi: 4 million men isn't all my manpower (as you can see as it hasn't turned red yet) - I'll need quite some troops very soon

 

[General Guisan]

A war to end all wars

With Asia at peace, China developed quickly. New railroads and highways were now fully operational, and the army was expanding over the winter like crazy. It seemed like something big was coming up very soon.

Chinese scientists are finally able to break the secrets of the rocket engine, soon all new-shiny rocket interceptors can be built.

Apparently supported by Soviet agents, a major worker strike breaks out in Manchuria. We have to act against such ruthless behavior.

10th April 1946, China has been at peace for 7 months now. Korea and Indochina are having quite a strong army and able to defend themselves well by now, with Japan soon getting ready as well. The other friendly states are a bit too weak to soon be able to defend themselves against an invasion, so our navy will have this task upon them.

Mikhail Kalinin makes places for a new figurehead in the Soviet Union. He choose his retirement well.

With research going well, we finally give the green light for nuclear research. We have to catch up a lot in this field.

A year ago, our brave soldiers stormed Tokyo. Now they're taking their places on the biggest fleet ever assembled by China. Operation "Liberty" has begun.

Steady Northwards, a day later Vladivostok is in range. 60 Chinese divisions and 12 Korean divisions are ready on the border towards Soviet Far East as well.
And much, much more all along the Sino-Russian border.

8th May 1946, late evening in London (and early morning, 9th May in China) the Chinese Republic officially joins the Allies, becoming the third big nation to fight in the side of democracy and liberty. Demanding the recognisation of Chinese supremacy in Asia, as well as to keep their new allied nations in Asia who used to be former Allied colonies, gaining some disputed borderprovinces in British India and returning Hong Kong to it's legal owner after the war, the British Empire fullfills all wishes for a new ally that should quickly change the war that has been ongoing for way too long now.

We're now at war with the Soviet Union, Germany, and all their allies. With the sunrise, thousands of artillery cannons are delivering their deadly fire all over the front, several thousand kilometers wide.

 

[unmerged(191057)]

Time to reclaim Far east, I say you establish puppet states in Central Asia and Siberia after the war, to keep the Republic safe from any dangerous commu/facist revolutionaries.

 

[quaazi]

The british agreeing to relinquish their colonies to the chinese... truly the Empire is dead.

 

[General Guisan]

The Allied world

This was the first time in around 150 years that China got to pick it's friends, with all three sides of the ongoing war wanting to be their friends. Given that all of them has abused China till a few years ago, it was a difficult decision. The Germans were probably the most friendly nation towards the Republic, but their racial policies has disqualified them from being our allies. The Russians had supported the Communists under Mao Zedong and while supported us with many supplies, is was first seen as a method to keep Japan busy and later to keep us away from turning on them. The Allies, especially Britain and France, had token the best ports of our country, burned our historic sides and took a whole nation as ransom. But times have changed, they are struggling themselves with a mighty foe, and as we could now see the chance to get back what historical was ours, to join them was the only logical solution. It won't be a time-unlimited alliance, that's for sure, but for the years to come, we'll be in the same boat.

The Allied land forces. In Air and Sea, the Allied forces are clearly superior to the Axis and the Comintern, so not much use of showing those statistics. France has recovered quite well and has a rather strong army for a minor.

French carrier fleet securing the Gibraltar area in Spain.

A recently opened second front in Spain around Barcelona.

Operation Liberty is including no less then 356 Chinese divisions, many of them experienced through years of fighting, featuring most recent equipment, many with heavy artillery support.

Operation plans are as following:

1) Crush Vladivostok defenders, make the Russian Pacific fleet visited the bottom of the sea as quickly as possible.

2) Liberate Mongolia and the other provinces rightfully ours, then slowly go Northwards.

3) A strong thrust into Central Asia, trying to get as far as possible till the Russians manage to build up a frontline, then pushing forwards while troops from the (hopefully) victorious battle of Vladivostok reach the frontline.

4) Reach the Ural and wait for Allied support to crush the Soviet Union.

As the operation started, it became clear we were still lacking one ressource - oil. Fortunately, being in the Allies meant we had support. France was quick to offer some of theirs.

Still trying to catch up with technologies in many areas, our scientists had already managed to be ahead of the US in one area. Some good deals were signed, giving us the chance of catching up faster.

The Russians has quite some good troops in Vladivostok, but against some massive forces like ours, their lines quickly crumbled. Shortly after this situation, some landing parties took their rear position and Koreans joined in as well.

The troops facing us in Iman were not less in quantity, but much less in quality.

And even the rather well equipped defenders of Vladivostok lost 4 men for every brave soldier of us who gave his life for liberty.

We, however knew that was just some kind of backwater army we just encountered. Comrade Stalin must be organising his army right now to march East.

quaazi: That's of course not real ingame politics, but rather my IC stronger than theirs, giving me a 16% chance of demanding my cores from them.
Zeldar155: Yes, that's probably the way I'll go if I manage to beat the Soviets. My friendly nations in Asia are delivering me with much-needed rares, and Russia got plenty of ressources. I had to stop my further industrialisation because I was running out of ressources before, not only because I needed all the IC for military.

 

[General Guisan]

The Soviet Union wakes up

As Germany did honour the so called "Munich Treaty" 8 years ago, Czechoslovakia was still around, having been neutral all this years.

Well, apparently us joining the Allies made them.. joining the Axis! Oh well, some more men to fight for Mr. Hitler, I assume.

The initial battles agains the Soviet Union are going quite well, and eventually our faster units reach some prepared soviet troops, taking a while to wait for reinforcements, but all in all, making steady progress towards our initial plans.

Around 90.000 men, mostly the former defenders of Vladivostok, are hissing the white flag in Tetyukhe. With the only real soviet pacific port out of the war, some of our troops start to redeploy towards inner Asia, using the Transsib, wherever already under our control. Some of them, however, get to board our fleet again..

A few weeks later, they get to visit the Pyramids of Gizeh while our fleet is restocking their supplies. A quarter million of our finest soldiers has just been transported to help the Allied case in Europe.

After a few weeks of war, the Soviet Union has already lost quite some factories, and so far not been able to build up a strong frontline to stop our ever forward pushing soldiers.

Outer Mongolia is returned to the Republic. Great joy all over the country.

Our rapidely advancing cavallery in the plains of central asia suddenly is stopped by modern Soviet tanks, taking heavy looses. It seems the first redeployments from Moscow have arrived!

Frontline on the 4th June, 1946. Along the Transsib, our troops have made some progress towards the Ural, but more and more enemy divisions of strong tank and motorized divisions are showing up. Oh, and Comrade Stalin has just declared the Great Patriotic war. Could we win against such odds?

 

[quaazi]

One thing I've noticed is that you don't have any type of armour whatsoever, although your current IC could well allow you to. Fighting the japanese infantry is one thing, but T-34s don't explode as easily.

 

[General Guisan]

Surprising help

When our regular infantery finally meet the enemies tanks, it was quite a shock. Even outnumbered 4:1, they were able to stop our advancement for days, and more and more of those monsters of steel reached the front every day. And they were still lacking infantery support, which was to follow shortly. Our leadership hoped we could establish a stable frontline on the relatively short ural frontline, and then eventually wear them down as those Russians certainly don't even have close to the manpower reserves we have.

Late June, a bit over 150 divisions were on their way towards the Ural, slowed down but not yet halted by Russian tanks.

When, suddenly, our economic advisors all over the country brought great news: The last step of the modernisation of our resource areas has been finished, we're now even more independant. Plans to renew the building of a few factories in our key provinces, despite all the pressure of war, were set in plan.

Then, on the 6th July 1946, our troops barely making any ground against the evergrowing Russian numbers, our dear friend Mr. Hitler, was doing the mistake of his life.

He declared war on the Soviet Union!

Instead of using the Russians as a buffer in between him and us, and let them (and us) bleed dry on the battlefield while preparing his tanks will one side eventually wins and is already exhausted, he decided it was time to invade the Soviet Union himself.

Great cheering all along our frontlines, as this meant probably no more Russian troops arriving at our borders rather than moving westwards. The Soviet Union might be death in a matter of months.

Sweden, having been neutral just as the Czechs for all the time, finally decided to join the Axis as well. The Axis right now for sure is at the height of power, with their invasion of the Soviet Union making extremey quick progress in the first few days, given that all of their armies were on their way to the Ural.. and first Russians already switch sides.

Days after the German declaration, the Russians have finished deploying their troops towards our frontline, and giving us quite some hell. While not equal in quality, their infantery has double the numbers and is supported by some tanks. We don't want to think about what would happen it not half their army is on the way west again..

With all the Axis armies streaming Eastwards into Russia, our plan to support the Allies in their South European landings gets a last-second changeover. Not support in Spain but rather a new frontline in the Balkans is now the target. Our first elite infantery makes landfall in heavily protected Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

All attacks against the Russians in the last days have been fruitless. They outnumber us 2:1 or even 3:1, have tanks, and we haven't pushed all troops towards the frontline, with quite a few of them marching behind as our transportation system is, nicely said, inadequately. We need to wait till all troops have catched up, and the German thrust to irritate the Russians more. Thank you, Mr. Hitler, again.

quaazi: I'm on researching tanks and mot/mech infantery, but still lagging much behind, as till I beat Japan, naval research was #1. Since then, I've made some progress but not yet seen sense in building 40 mot or Lvl 2 tanks, with my research keep making progress (now all with blueprints as I joined the allies)

I expect to start building tanks and mot/mechs in around 1 year.. I actually thought I couldn't push over the Russians and eventually need them to win the war, but Germanys stupid leader has made things MUCH easier for me.

 

[SovietAmerika]

Well, THIS certainly is a weird war. Sweden and Czechoslovakia are in the Axis. The Soviets are actually fighting well all of a sudden. Hitler waits 5 more years to invade the Soviets?

You deserve a medal.

 

[Aliasing]

What strange developments.... Well I'll be watching this AAR from now onwards

 

[General Guisan]

For those loving "what-if's"

What if Stalin hasn't been backstabbed by his old friend Adolf at the very moment he couldn't use it? The Red Army is a hard nut to crack my experienced soldiers are finding out at the very moment, with late July, early August holding great weather for offensive operations but still advancement is very limited. And, surprise surprise, even the much hailed German armies have trouble getting fast into Soviet Russia. Without a two front war it seems, the Russians would have been able to beat any side. Too bad we're coming from both.

Stalin emmm... orders the factories in the West to be moved Eastwards.. probably till he finds out the area he still has power over ends somewhere in the Ural. Smart move Comrade.

The battle of Orsk is one heavily fought for over a week, and eventually our better equipped troops are victorious, yet taking quite some beating from the Russian tanks.

The landfall in Dubrovnik has been a success, quickly our full "Balkan theater" army is under attack by the surprisingly well equipped Yugoslavian national army.

Trying to expand the landside, we're pushing forwards. Our new cadets in Nanjing are prepared for a long trip to Europe as well, as our headquarter is very pleased with the success of our very own front against the Axis.

Uralsk sees the first major retreat of our advancing armies, as the Russians are now able to field their strongest units at the bottleneck we seem not be able to breach for now.

A lock at the Spanish front brings some surprises: Instead of helping us in the Balkans or the Ural, those ungratefull Japanese help the Americans in Jerez. Yes, we know, they get better food and weather, but hey, who doesn't want to fight over some remote place in the middle of Russia?

6. August 1946, the Russians have managed to mostly stabilize the frontline in the East (and I assume in the West as well) for the moment, but we expect them not to be able to hold on forever. The invasion of Yugoslavia is also going ahead right in schedule. Things are looking good for the Allies. We tell Falkenhausen who stayed, even though now unofficially*, in China, that Hitler really helped us with his move on Stalin. He prefered to not give us an answer.

* The event never fired that got Falkenhausen off China when at war with the Axis - I simply not use his techteam and him as leader since joining the Allies for "logical" reasons.

SovietAmerika: Yes, Hitler waited for a long time. But I doubt he could have beaten the Soviets after around 1942, and especially after the American landing in Portugal/Spain. The Axis has a lot of members but the Soviet Union seems to be stronger as usual. Maybe he saw his chance now that my troops went wild. Too bad it was a total strategical failure, but what do we expect from 'lil Adolf? I'm certainly grateful for it, so won't complain.

Aliasing: Yes, a lot of events went different in my game. From Honoring Munich over Yugoslavia actually joining the Axis, no war between Axis und Comintern and Spain&Portugal in the Axis, lots of stuff has been different where it was all-AI and I didn't had any influence. Certainly makes for an interesting game I've to admit.

 

[General Guisan]

No news on the Eastern front

Heavy fighting all August long. No major breakthroughs, but Russians slowly getting grinded down by the sheer amount of troops pounding on them from both West and East. It takes weeks to prepare for a successfull operation against them, and our massively overloaded transport system doesn't help yet. Might be still Christmas for Stalin in the Kreml.

Finally, we're able to take Uralsk, an important province on the way west.

At Chkalov, the Red Army remembers our brave soldiers that we need more numbers if we want to beat them.

And after adding more numbers and more fronts, victory is eventually ours.

Soon, we're getting various comments from all the people we've liberated to found their own states. Not yet..

By early September, the Balkan front finally receives more troops, with a third army group on the way. It's now time to push forward before winter arrives.

Sofia is the first victim, and soon Bulgaria's hope of a German counterattack is shrinking by the day. They're very busy with their frontlines, too.

At Grozny, the Southern offensive which should have pushed towards the oilfields of Baku are stopped. We've now to wait for several weeks before we can restart any greater operation in the Southern area, and it might be too late by then.

At least at Barezniki, we're able to gain another few miles towards Moscow. Having inflicted double the causalties on them than they did to us, we're very glad that half their army is busy in the West. We wouldn't, and couldn't, push against their whole army right now.