TheCommunistManifestor
3rd February 2014, 04:36
Hey folks, i am currently playing some Hearts of Iron 3 (a grand strategy game) as Germany. I wanted to play it slightly realistic and made short work of France, Poland, The low countries, and all the countries in the balklans. Instead of occupying them i just set up puppet governments in all except for France.
I then prepared for Barbarossa. For a year i bolstered my forces from 500k unmechanized troops to 150k mechanized troops and 650k unmechanized troops. i expanded my air force by 33% and only my navy saw massive loses from the royal navy causing me to lose all my battleships, battlecruisers, and submarines and kept my navy stuck in port.
On june 22, 1941 i launched my attack (the real date of barbarossa). I easily crushed their forces although being outnumbered 2:1 by their 1.5 million troops. by November i had pushed 1/3 the way to Stalingrad in the South and 1/2 way to Moscow. Winter set in and my advance ground to a halt. A allied invasion near Normandy caused me to send 100k of my forces west so even though in encircled and defeated almost 500k men only losing around 50k, i was still fighting an uphill battle.
The Soviet Union just got a 25% defense modifier which means that getting my offense off the ground will take some might. What should my plan of action be? Should i strike North to Leningrad with motorised forces? Should i attack for Stalingrad with tanks? Or should i keep pushing for Moscow. Bear in mind that i have 65k Waffen SS armoured units for a thrust into the motherland. Advice from people that haven't played HOI3.
P.S. would anybody want to read a After Action Report (AAR) of the campaign?
I then prepared for Barbarossa. For a year i bolstered my forces from 500k unmechanized troops to 150k mechanized troops and 650k unmechanized troops. i expanded my air force by 33% and only my navy saw massive loses from the royal navy causing me to lose all my battleships, battlecruisers, and submarines and kept my navy stuck in port.
On june 22, 1941 i launched my attack (the real date of barbarossa). I easily crushed their forces although being outnumbered 2:1 by their 1.5 million troops. by November i had pushed 1/3 the way to Stalingrad in the South and 1/2 way to Moscow. Winter set in and my advance ground to a halt. A allied invasion near Normandy caused me to send 100k of my forces west so even though in encircled and defeated almost 500k men only losing around 50k, i was still fighting an uphill battle.
The Soviet Union just got a 25% defense modifier which means that getting my offense off the ground will take some might. What should my plan of action be? Should i strike North to Leningrad with motorised forces? Should i attack for Stalingrad with tanks? Or should i keep pushing for Moscow. Bear in mind that i have 65k Waffen SS armoured units for a thrust into the motherland. Advice from people that haven't played HOI3.
P.S. would anybody want to read a After Action Report (AAR) of the campaign?