Setting
Country : Germany
Scenario : 1944
Difficuty : Normal/Furious
OT : I mean to as a new player (to HoI 2) try and hold back the allies and soviets for as long as possible. The AAR will be written in letter style, and if you like it, please post and say so. If not, post and say so anyway.
Germany June 20th, 1944
Dear Johann.
Great news. I have been promoted. The Führer has fired Ernst Kaltenbrunner for failing to give him correct information regarding the situation at the front and for falling for the American lie that the invasion would take place in Calais. Hans Oster is now the new chief of the SD, and I have been assigned as the main representative of the SD in the Führers staff. I will have to move to East Prussia, but I am sure Erika will understand. Will you make sure that she gets everything she needs in Berlin?
Hans Oster, new chief of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
I leave tomorrow for the Eagle?s Nest.
Your brother, Hamlin Kirsch. June 20, 1944, Berlin
Dear Johann.
The situation here is horrible. Everyone is shouting accusations back and forth, and I was only able to save my own skin by saying to the Führer that the inability of the SD to warn him of the Bolshevik attack was because of the initial troubles in reorganizing the agency and the bad work of Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The activity here has been massive, I haven?t even had time to unpack yet. We are apparently forming 9 new panzer divisions, 8 fighter flotillas, 12 infantry divisions and the vengeance weapons. Meanwhile I have heard that most of our divisions are understrength and in grave need of rest.
One meeting I recall specifically. When I came here I wanted to ask my counterpart in Kaltenbrunners administration whether there was anything I should know.
- So you are the new man here. Let?s see how long you last. he said. I only returned a puzzled look and said nothing. What was he to speak to me about keeping ones job anyway?
- What do you mean? And I am not the new man, I am herr Kirsh.
- I mean what I said. He has fired 9 of us during the war. But do not worry herr Kirsh, just say yes to everything he asks and blame all your failures on saboteurs, spies and jews. Or your boss if you feel ambitious. Doesn?t matter to me, I shall be shuffling papers in Bayern for the rest of the war. Good luck. he said, then just picked up his bag and marched away.
I tried to turn around to talk to him again, but just then a corporal came and asked if he could show me my new rooms. I had to read all the papers left behind there so I didn?t have any time to unpack my bags, and then everyone started running around like there was no tomorrow, and soon enough I was called to explain to the Führers the new failures of the SD.
I mentioned the Bolshevik attack to you earlier Johann. I shouldn?t really be telling anyone this, so don?t pass it on, but there is a 120km hole in the line south of lake Peipus. And in the middle the 9th Armee, 4th Panzerarmee and III Armeekorps are retreating. And in the far south, around Stryj and Lvov, our troops are more or less gone and the Romanians are breaking bad.
Still, all is not lost. The Führer has sent our best commanders to the west. He said that we cannot fight a two-front war, thus this enemy landing must be crushed at once. Almost all our forces in Western Europe are heading towards Normandy. An attack was launched under command of Field Marshall Manstein, with Heinrichi and Rommel supporting. Initially all went well and General Patton was seemingly organizing a retreat, but the Americans got tons of battle-ready troops, and we were forced to fall back. Cherbourg has also fallen. The Führer got into a fit of rage when I had to tell them that our troops surrendered instead of fighting to the last man.
American troops greet the mayor of Barneville on their way to Cherbourg.
Is Erika feeling better now? She was most unhappy when I told her I had to leave and that she couldn?t come with me. Tell her that our fine battleship, the Tirpitz, finally got her revenge for the fall of her sister ship, when a British cruiser was sunk in the northern sea. Don?t worry; we will print it in the newspapers soon, if not by the time you have gotten this letter already.
Your brother, Hamlin Kirsch. June 23. Bad Nauheim
Country : Germany
Scenario : 1944
Difficuty : Normal/Furious
OT : I mean to as a new player (to HoI 2) try and hold back the allies and soviets for as long as possible. The AAR will be written in letter style, and if you like it, please post and say so. If not, post and say so anyway.
Germany June 20th, 1944
Dear Johann.
Great news. I have been promoted. The Führer has fired Ernst Kaltenbrunner for failing to give him correct information regarding the situation at the front and for falling for the American lie that the invasion would take place in Calais. Hans Oster is now the new chief of the SD, and I have been assigned as the main representative of the SD in the Führers staff. I will have to move to East Prussia, but I am sure Erika will understand. Will you make sure that she gets everything she needs in Berlin?
Hans Oster, new chief of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
I leave tomorrow for the Eagle?s Nest.
Your brother, Hamlin Kirsch. June 20, 1944, Berlin
Dear Johann.
The situation here is horrible. Everyone is shouting accusations back and forth, and I was only able to save my own skin by saying to the Führer that the inability of the SD to warn him of the Bolshevik attack was because of the initial troubles in reorganizing the agency and the bad work of Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The activity here has been massive, I haven?t even had time to unpack yet. We are apparently forming 9 new panzer divisions, 8 fighter flotillas, 12 infantry divisions and the vengeance weapons. Meanwhile I have heard that most of our divisions are understrength and in grave need of rest.
One meeting I recall specifically. When I came here I wanted to ask my counterpart in Kaltenbrunners administration whether there was anything I should know.
- So you are the new man here. Let?s see how long you last. he said. I only returned a puzzled look and said nothing. What was he to speak to me about keeping ones job anyway?
- What do you mean? And I am not the new man, I am herr Kirsh.
- I mean what I said. He has fired 9 of us during the war. But do not worry herr Kirsh, just say yes to everything he asks and blame all your failures on saboteurs, spies and jews. Or your boss if you feel ambitious. Doesn?t matter to me, I shall be shuffling papers in Bayern for the rest of the war. Good luck. he said, then just picked up his bag and marched away.
I tried to turn around to talk to him again, but just then a corporal came and asked if he could show me my new rooms. I had to read all the papers left behind there so I didn?t have any time to unpack my bags, and then everyone started running around like there was no tomorrow, and soon enough I was called to explain to the Führers the new failures of the SD.
I mentioned the Bolshevik attack to you earlier Johann. I shouldn?t really be telling anyone this, so don?t pass it on, but there is a 120km hole in the line south of lake Peipus. And in the middle the 9th Armee, 4th Panzerarmee and III Armeekorps are retreating. And in the far south, around Stryj and Lvov, our troops are more or less gone and the Romanians are breaking bad.
Still, all is not lost. The Führer has sent our best commanders to the west. He said that we cannot fight a two-front war, thus this enemy landing must be crushed at once. Almost all our forces in Western Europe are heading towards Normandy. An attack was launched under command of Field Marshall Manstein, with Heinrichi and Rommel supporting. Initially all went well and General Patton was seemingly organizing a retreat, but the Americans got tons of battle-ready troops, and we were forced to fall back. Cherbourg has also fallen. The Führer got into a fit of rage when I had to tell them that our troops surrendered instead of fighting to the last man.
American troops greet the mayor of Barneville on their way to Cherbourg.
Is Erika feeling better now? She was most unhappy when I told her I had to leave and that she couldn?t come with me. Tell her that our fine battleship, the Tirpitz, finally got her revenge for the fall of her sister ship, when a British cruiser was sunk in the northern sea. Don?t worry; we will print it in the newspapers soon, if not by the time you have gotten this letter already.
Your brother, Hamlin Kirsch. June 23. Bad Nauheim
