So, you play sup.1914, I play it bigscale
3 friends and I started a HoI 3 Session after you made me eager for a global strategy game.
So we have Germany, Italy, Hungary (me) and USA as players, right now it is late 1940 and we seem to make it, that’s the general overview of Europe right now.
After a long discussion we arranged this master plan. The Wehrmacht landed in Kannada to tie the yet weak American army there. Right now we have total air superiority there and the troops advance, an encirclement battle was just averted by the USA Player in the last moment. So, the plan there is to keep him busy there as long as possible. We guess that in the worst case we can keep it like that for at least two months, what will be enough time four our battle plan.
Meanwhile in Europe, Italy is going to annex Vichy France because it is a to great threat to have it in our back. Germany will take Sweden and than we try to force Finland to peace since we don’t want to have a to large front with the Russians.
I’m supposed to clean up the Hungarian forces so that they are ready for serious battles within the next 5 months. Since I got just a few old Fiat CR.42 planes and lots of infantry I just focus on upgrading my infantry. That means that right now a Division consists of 4 brigades of infantry. My programme views that a Division will be consist of 2 brigades of infantry and one Artillery- and one anti tank gun Brigade.
I can build right now Toldi and Turan-I tanks, since we know that they are to weak I drop that and maybe later I will build German models in licence.
Then we will take Rumania since we need its oil fields and think it serves us better occupied as a puppet regime than as a stupid free AI. This is the battle plan for Rumania. I focus on some of the industries since it will serve me well to get the resource to build an at least respectable army.
http://www.christians-fotoblog.de/downloads/Image1.jpgBernhard (Hungarian Troops) Christian (German Troops) Dave (Italian Troops) that’s the plan for advancing
Than in March, by no later than April 1941 we will attack the Soviet Union. (I hope that till than my first good equipped units will arrive at the front, I don’t want to get my arse kicked by the Russians, not in front of my friends) Launching the offensive later would be a bad idea because of the Winter that is going to come and the negative effects of the “cleaning in the red army” will not be that great anymore.
It is a to big threat before we can really deal with the USA player, we don’t want to get attacked be the SU during a big scale attack on the USA.
http://www.christians-fotoblog.de/downloads/Image2.jpgAs you can see, the Italian and Hungarian troops just take a minor role in this phase of the plane since they are both to weak to really deal with the Russians, we just need to tie Russian troops down there. Germany and its heavy panzer divisions will do the main attack.
So we hope that it takes for the US player at least till mid 1943 to be ready for an invasion of Europe. By then we must have pulled of the deal with the SU or at least have them crushed so drastically that we already can take heavy units back from the Russian front for a possible US invasion in France or Germany.
edit: Oh it seems like my friend removed our battleplans from the internet, well, ....