In honor of all you frog haters...

[Zoupa]

I decided a couple of days ago to start up HOI2 again, pick France, and conquer the fucking world, but especially the US. Just because  Also, it's awful slow at work these days, so there. Here's the AAR so far.

[Zoupa]

Setting were Normal/Furious I think, maybe Normal/Normal. Start date 1936. Three slight modifications:

1- Extended the tech tree by using the cold war mod's techs for the later dates
2- Using the graphics improvement pack, which to be honest sorta sucks
3- Made an event killing off all the Old Guard generals, admirals and airmen. Fuck Weygand and his retarded shit.

So, I fired it up and quickly dropped my land doctrine, opting for the Blitzkrieg path. Tech teams are fucking terrible. I'm using lots and lots of money to inch up my intel network and to steal blueprints from the Hun. I moved all my army to the motherland, went one step towards Hawk lobby, and voted to keep the same government in june 1936 (I forgot to take pics until the Spanish civil war started, so...)

In july 1936, the poor spaniards got raped by poor redistribution in their civil war event:

[Zoupa]

Of course, I choose to help the pinkos, even though the fucking Russians don't. Great. Germany and Italy back Franco, the brits chose to sit on their hands. I fear RepSpain is in for a trashing. I start chain producing factories to bring my IC up even though it's still crippled by the peace time -%. I'm also trading everything and anything for supplies to free up IC.

[Zoupa]

[sbr]

Not working for me.

[Ideologue]

Histoire fraiche, mon frere.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Good luck Zoups 

[Ideologue]

But yeah, good luck.  Although the thing about France that even if you defeat Germany, won't you have no cause to invade the USSR?

[CountDeMoney]

...but I love the French. 

[Habbaku]

...but I love the French. 

Me too, prior to 1789.

[Zoupa]

Hmmm, Imageshack sorta blows. I'll use one pic per post I guess. There's not much else to say about 1936. I'm on extremely fast, just watching the civil war to my south. My general plan is to build up IC til 1938, then switch to unit production in the 18 months leading up to the war. I'm only going for a group of four interceptors shadowing 4 tac bombers with escort fighters attached. Hopefully 4 or 5 HQ units (I started with 2), a crapload of infantry and maybe a few heavy tanks if IC/time permits.

I also disbanded a bunch of brigades, keeping only the armored cars that I attached to my 4 cavalry divisions. All the artillery is gone ( ), but I'm going for speed in 1939. Hopefully I can race through Bavaria and Slovakia to rescue the Poles.

I'm not touching the Navy until 1941 at least, when Japan starts making noise. I'm not even concerned about Italy since I plan to annex the Reich before the Axis ever expands. I disbanded a few older subs and destroyers that were killing my oil supplies.

I'm not playing with full IC takeover since that's sort of cheating I find, so my plan is to puppet everything worthwhile, since they would make better use of their IC. I did choose tech team takeover, since that seems more plausible and it actually happened during the war. Man I suck at this aar stuff. Should have said all that in the first post. Oh well.

The Russians will get it Ide, worry not. I've never broken up the USSR in HoI2, sounds like fun.

I love you too Money, but I'm still gonna nuke the eastern seaboard. 

[Zoupa]

November 1936, and a rogue politician starts screaming. I ignore him, since democracy is overrated and I'll be declaring lots of wars. Dissent is no fun for the warmonger.

[Zoupa]

The civil war is still raging in november despite the fascists massive initial advantage and outside help. I gave the Republicans a few units and subs, but I fear what they really lack is manpower and air cover 

Still, they manage to retake Madrid and pocket and few provinces.

[Zoupa]

I decide to celebrate the Republican spirit by sending them more stuff, supplies and oil and money.

[Zoupa]

Quick look at the Orient, where events are unfolding normally. Nationalist China and the Clique went to war, China kicked their asses around a bit, then they settled for peace.