Hi peeps.

German Battle Report: Saving France.

Here is the German empire at the moment.



Here is the French Empire



Here is the situation. I am at war with:

Bulgaria
Finland
Greece
Romainia
Spain
United Kingdom
United States

These wars were declared as they attacked France and I declared on them in support. The french empire is now only that small patch of land around Paris.
France is being squeezed by Spain, Italy, Belgium and the United Kingdom. The United States made an amphibious landing at the latter end of 2020, and I fought them and pushed them back into the sea. They have since not lauched another assault, perhaps the fact they are finacially crippled.

So to save France from destruction, I have made a diplo trade for 5,000t of military goods every day for 365 days. I cant support them with cash, as im borderline break-even as my military bills are significant.
The sting in the tail with the saving of france is this....Russia.
I have an alliance with Russia, but diplo is bad since I declared war on the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland in retaliation for France being attacked. I destroyed them easy enough, but they were all allies with Russia.

So with that in mind, lets have a gander at Russia's Moscow region shall we?



Im in the process of builidng "The East Wall" defence region. I dont have the stregth to push the Russians back and fight on the western front as well, so Im having to build strong defence lines from Slupsk (Baltic coast) right down to Poprad (ex-slovakian territory on the New Hungarian Border, who I am also supporting with Military goods, and air and artillery support against Romania).



Now this is what is going to have to happen. Im going to have to declare war on Belgium first. I have a border close to their capital, so it needs to be a Blitzkrieg push to Brussels and take the capital. At the same time I need to break my alliance with Italy and let them declare war on me. I will get decced by Austria as well I would imagine. I will get booted from the UN for these 2 agressive moves. Russia is highly likely to break alliance and declare war, as both those nations are also her allies.

Sooooo this will either work or it will be good-bye to the German Empire. There will be NO RELOADS, this will be an "as-is" game. If it goes bad then meh, bye-bye Deutchland!

The reality of the situation is: I dont really have the strength to succesfully pull this off. I have a lot of troops on the ground, but they are border defences. Russia being Russia has a shitstorm amount of troops sat in the Moscow region waiting around. If they send them all at once, then this game may be shorter than expected.
So with that in mind the first order of the day is to build up ground troops to strengthen my border against Italy and Belgium, and try to keep France alive in the process by whatever means I can without speeding up the war declarations. I have fighter support, strategic bomber support and artillery support around the Paris region, which is coming in handy for helping defend against Spain and the United Kingdom, however Italy is an ally of mine, and im neutral to Belguim, so there is only so much I can do atm....Time is critical for her survival!

The date is July 2nd 2021.....

The east wall construction continues with the arrival of 21 more divisions of long range artillery and supply truck support. They get vectored off to the east in a purley defensive role.
2 battle groups of Zumwalts, a battle group of F260-Braunsweig and a battlegroup of U-13D submarines have positioned themselves around the Belguim coast, near to English channel. The position they are in, the Zumwalts are bombarding the British troops in Northern France and the English coastal towns of Margate, Ashford and Dungeness, and the rest have closed off the Engish Channel to any enemy naval traffic trying to use the channel to get to the north sea.

July 13th 2021: Things just took a turn for the worst. Italy have taken Mants-La-Jolie. Thats right next door to Paris. Now Paris garrisons are taking damage. My east wall is nowehere near finished, but If I do nothing France will be gone is a couple of days. I must break treaties with Italy right now. Ive moved my artillery support from italian territory into the French territory at the Paris region, I have moved another 5 squadrons of fighters into Paris, Ive shuffled some troops around to get some kind of support to the Italian border to push into their territory to try and pull troops away from Paris.



July 14th 2021: Well we broke all ties with Italy, now its time for the worst to happen....



Suprisingly the UN is Indifferent about it, and my relations with Russia havent suffered. That is a suprise...

July 31 2021: I strike a new deal for Military goods with France...



August 5 2021: Whilst waiting for Italy to do the right thinbg and declare war on me......they would'nt. So I did. Huzzah! Shame the UN dont like it though...



The same day a few divisions push into Italian territory that was formerly French lands. This is a ruse to feel for their strength's and weaknesses.



August 7th 2021: German forces have secured the Luxembourg region, the Saarland regions, right down to Besacon, with almost no Italian counter-attack or defences. Perhaps the war with France has taken its toll on the Italian war Machine.



August 9 2021: Beguim forces are taking the land from France right from underneath my troops, leaving my armies stranded, so I declared war on Belguim.



August 10 2021: Germany is booted from the UN.

August 20 2021: German attacks begin on the Belgium capital



August 32 2021: Belguim capitulates to German forces.



August 26 2021: My destroying of the Channel Tunnel...er..bridge back in Jan 2020 seems to have paid off. Cant get me with those Challenger tanks mr UK!



September 28 2021: Huge dogfights between the RAF and the Luftwaffer occur in the skies above Caen.



October 7 2021: France has now regained half of its homeland territory due to German actions. We are still using the divisions that we started the Italian/Belgium invasion, so we have quite a few devisions in reserve now incase Russia want to attack us. Although soon we are going to have to curb military spending as the treasury is starting to look grim. Also I started this game and forgot to turn off debt, so Im also 1.7trill in debt already



December 15 2021: In a little under 4 months, the military aspect of this short AAR is completed. Spain has been pushed back and German have occupied just over the borders into Spanish territory. Also German forces have occupied territory inside Italy, and secured France's borders on that side. Militarily all goals have been achieved.
There are 12 squadrons of fighters covering the French coast from Brittany to the Belgium coast. There are submarines posted at Caen since the UK like to try amphibious landings there. There are 6 divisions of infantry stationed at Calais incase of par'de'Calais attack from the UK. There are also 10 divisions of artillery and 4 divisions of supply trucks that are continuosly bombarding the English coast.
Ther troops on the Spainish borders are now there indefinatly, and so are the troops in Italy.



I was lucky that no-one declares war on me for my agression. That was paticulary unusual. Secretly I was hoping Russia would have a pop at me, that would have been stressful fun!

Hope you enjoyed this short AAR, I thought I would do something slightly different that just "take over the world pew pew!".

I am going to continue this game though. It's been fun.

Oh and before I forget, one last thing. This would be totally pointless if France cant repair its country, so here is a little aid package to help them rebuild and maybe teach Spain and Italy a lesson!

That was a good read, i was kind of hoping that Russia would declare war on u tho. That would have made it alot more interesting to see if u could survive and win.

Well done. I enjoy reading about others making their own goals and carrying them out.

Nice,Also nice to see you back on forums Ragu.(Didnt see you for long time )

Saving a region can be quite fun,hopefully in the series further incarnations we will see some form of extended "liberation" feature,in which regions that have been totally defeated can be brought back.

Why not save and declare war on Russia, see how you do?

Now thats a good good idea, Would be good to see how u how u do

Thanks for the replys guys.

Vuk: Cheers man, Ive been really busy with work so my times been limited, ive skimmed the forums, but not had time to post anything.

tkobo: I totally agree with the liberation of defeated countries. Also I would like to see alliances shaped differently. I would prefer them based on political ideology, like dictatorships aligning with dictatorships, ratehr than everyone just allying with everyone else.

I might do as asked and attack Russia see what happens...

you mentioned the us did a landing. I played a europe game as germany where i took everything north of switzerland, and east of britan, including china and russia in 4 years or so, ever got a landing from england or usa, never really got a war declaration from them either. ..

also took out all of latin america, new mexico, colorado, SE california, and utah as Arizona and nobody landed on me with amphibious forces.

i have never seen a CPU amphibious assault either. what settings do you play on and how do i go about provoking an invasion. should i try taiwan vs china?

one more quick bit, is there any way to avoid micromanaging the transportation of airborne or naval-borne forces or do I have to manually do it all? (the only thing I missed from SP2 is quick transport, but the way they did it rendered the navy obsolete and didn’t allow intercept.)

ive been able to do some quick airborne assaults on capitals of small states like utah, Colorado, and Guatemala, but a large naval invasion is difficult and cumbersome, it took months to get one going as south africa vs the us. did ok until i ran out of supplies and airplanes... i "mis-under-estimated" the enemy strength and will to fight for West Palm Beech Florida

Settings are...


Oh and very high volitility!

Provoking an invasion. Amphibious invasion depends on the AI country actually having the transport ships to do it. I don't think the AI can do airborne invasions, as thats something ive never seen.
Micromanaging your own invasions is key imo. I like to send the right amount of troops to the right places. If im invading a country, I seldom invade at one spot. I invade many at once, that requires you to be the quartermaster to ensure not only that the right amount of troops get there, but and most imoprtantly, they get there AT THE SAME TIME. The AI is bad for sending your troops in dribs and drabs if you rubber-band select--->sea invasion.

War IS micromanagement whichever way you look at it. Don't look at it as a bind or bordom, look at it as an oppertunity to do things your way. Also micromanagement means its easy to try new strategies, because you know exactly where your troops are because you personally sent them.

Wow,I have same settings for every time i play

How do you manage to enter a 356 in your trade offer? My game allows only a leading 1 in that number, reducing the number of days to a max of 199

Choose daily, then hold the shift-key and click the + button. Doing so increases the amount by 10 instead of 1.

oh, thanks for that