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Yes. I am also surprised. Probably the real test will come now, with nations with a powerfull military like France and Germany.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

12th October 2021 - Spain's National Day
(On 12th October 1492 three spanish caravels arrived at the coasts of what later would be called America)

After the official acts i was called again to the office of the King.

"We are at war with Germany"
"Yes, your Majesty."
"How comes that our army isn't fighting in Germany then?"
"Well, France is inbetween, your Majesty. It would be too risky to try an amphibian assault that far, so we just only sink german ships at the moment, sire."
"France."
"Yes."
"They still have the Rosellon, our former northest catalan province."
"Yes, sire, and they are also french..."
"Thats right, our people would enjoy fighting the french..."
"Sure, sire, it would be very popular, indeed."
"Well, i always wanted to own Versailles, lets make take the necessary steps, as soon as possible, please."
"For the first days of November we will be ready, sire."

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

MISSION: FRENCH FRIES? WITH SPANISH OMELET, PLEASE

The French Campaign will consist mainly of four phases:

Phase 1: Let them come!
We will make small incursions on the border to provoke a french response, that probably will consist in sending many units to the frontier.
During this phase AI will be dissable, advance will be minimum and the main objective will be to kill as many enemy units as possible, including air and naval units that come to the border.

Phase 2: The AI plays hotspotting
Well, somehow i don't feel very comfortable letting the AI do this second advance phase, but, well, thats the idea of this AAR. I will define hotspots to advance in a wide front until middle France. Then an arm would be lenghten through the west towards the Normandie, avoiding the capital. A second arm will advance to the east along the borders of Italy and Switzerland. If any of those countries declare war, then the other phases will be reconsidered. If not, the AI will keep advancing until we near the german border.

Phase 3: Holding on while fighting the first german wave
Probably as soon as we are near the german border, their forces will storm through the frontier. They must be stopped before any other advance is done. This will be bloody and take some casualties, almost for sure. The idea is that the AI keeps the command.

Phase 4: Surrounding and conquering of Paris
First surround all over, then attack Paris. Also an AI attack.

We all know all plans just hold until the contact with the enemy begins, but some beforehand planning is good to prevent as many scenarios as possible. I think that probably the french front will become an all european front, but we will see.

France declares war, another spy (codename killerflood) was caught in Paris.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

Phase 1: Let them come!
The slowly advance along the border provokes the desired reaction of the french forces, through less intense than i had thought. I let this phase last one week.





These are the casualties so far. Almost the same number of enemy units escaped the destruction with serious damage. Some enemy ships were sunk, as also one supply enemy plane.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

Phase 2: The AI plays hotspotting
I defined 4 attack hotspots and let the AI initiative start. It has about 300 land units under its order. Soon the presence of enemy units increased considerably, coming many tanks to the front as well as air force units.



After two days Bordeaux, Toulouse and Montpellier has been taken. New objective in the east: Nimes. In the Middle and west front, continue advance.



The number of casualties begin to increase:

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

Nimes has fallen. New objective: Marseille. Most visible french forces are around Marseille, so i expect heavy fights there.



Advance towards Limoges and Clermont-Ferrant in the other front. As soon as supply catch up, a new hotspot will be defined at Nantes to the west.



The assault on Marseille.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

13th November Switzerland declares war, no diplomatic deal is possible. As soon as Marseille is taken the whole planning will be reconsidered.
The assault on Marseille continues with heavy fights, in the north the assault of Lyon has begun.



Our forces aproach Nantes



Casualties numbers in the first two weeks of war. Most of our killed units where through enemy missiles. Not having any AA Units has some costs .

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

15th November, we are in Marseille, fighting towards the port and other fabrication facilities. To the North the important land fabrication facilities south of Lyon have fallen in our hands, pushing towards the city. Heavy defensive fire from the french forces. Casualties mount rapidly.
To the west, Nantes is ours, trying to capture the missiles and land fabrication facilities just north of the city. Also attack on Tours.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

16th November, objectives achieved in all fronts. We have captured 10 land fabrication, 3 missiles fabrication, 2 aircraft fabrication and 1 naval fabrication facilities. Frances fabrication capacities have been seriously hindered. Last three will be scrapped, the others will be repaired and put to use, we will need many units to conquer Europe.





Those conquest took a huge cost on casualties, specially for France, but also many spanish units got damaged.



AI iniciative is put onhold. All units will be reorganised and new war plans will be defined.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

19th November, we continue reorganizing our forces. More than 70 units are repairing, over 100 more have little damage. Many naval combats have taken place at the Atlantic, over 30 french ships have been sunk. We are sieging Rennes in the West.



Casualties numbers so far:



All other wars in the world continue unchanged. To date no other country has been conquered, besides the ones Spain took.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

As i see Germany an Switzerland already declared war on you.
Your doing good to build some new units.

Keep on going

Thanks. Yes, and there is more. Look at next update .

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

20th November, reorganizing continues. To the East the italian border has been reach. I expect Italy to declary war any day, so this border will be designed to hold any storm attacks from the italian forces.



At the same time, near the Switzerland border, slowly an advanced line is been formed. Probably there will be also an storming attack from swiss forces as soon as we touch their border.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

In middle France Orleans and Le Mans are being sieged, they will be the future border until the assault to the capital starts, i expect this not to happen in the next two weeks. Many missiles are coming from the Paris area, we would have to entrench and hold.



To the West the Bretagne is been cut from the rest of France. Here are no advance planned yet, we don't want to provoke an UK war declaration at this moment.



After the reorganizing is finished the main objetive will be to advance in the East towards Switzerland and Germany. This will be our new Phase 3, codename Massacre in Sight.

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR

21th November, both cities (Orleans and Le Mans) have fallen, but now Libya has declared war on us. Things get slowly hot.




The casualties so far:




Its time to take a look at the libyan border and plan some action there .

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SR2020: Successfull AI naval invasion - USA vs Cuba, USAAR - No unit or man lost - GC - WC done, SpainAAR-WC hotspotting with the military AI?, MongoliAAR