The REAL Invasion Amerika AAR

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Here's a list of all my losses so far. Gonna try a new idea now, inspired by LF: this report is CLASSIFIED until 15 hours from the time of this post.

Sorry for the shoddy quality.

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Turn 47
 
Reinforcements: A lot of reconned recon pieces.
 
Special: Very little air combat seems to be going on. Maybe because most of my fighters are too far away from their planes. 58 to 72 AS. -90 VPs. 51:57 LP, in Germany:USA ratio.
 
Fronts
 
South, Canada: Minimal activity. I will defend Quebec, again. I will try to retake Miami with the failed Jamaica assault force.
 
West: I evacuated a couple of units from LA, whatever my transport would allow. I will expand southward with the remaining units, to take the other port and possibly San Diego, which will be bombarded with an arty regiment, one of the units shipped off from LA. This will give me more time. Also, the unit in Vancouve was untouched, so I withdrew it. However, the other unit behind it was in reorg, along with the rest of the formation, so it had to be left behind.
 
Mexico: Ugh.
 
New York: Many of the units in Boston were killed. No shipping left to evacuate them, meaning I will have to try to expand and hold long enough to get away. Also, one of my naval units will attack a small seaborne stack near Boston that he apparently forgot about.He attacks the same place in my NY line again; I have codenamed this location Ruusan. All you Star Wars geeks out their might know what I mean. Hint: Thought bomb.
 
Results: The attack on their sea stack cost him maybe a regiment in total.
The unit was pushed out of Miami with moderate losses, but my units didn't advance. Perhaps this is a good thing - my ships can do it just as easily.
 
In the remaining turn, I attacked the airfield in Seattle with fighters and artillery. I also expanded down from LA. I lost a couple of guns and 15 Japanese and German fighters. He lost 18 naval bombers. Pretty crappy results. I took the port under LA, but despite my troop quality and numerical advantage, and tanks, I lost 200 men, 4 tanks and a few other equipments.
 

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Turn 49
Reinforcements: Hahaha, riiight...

Special: The air war has finally taken off again - 5 planes lost for about 30-40 American planes. AS is 53 to 65. Loss Penalty is 53 to 60. -129 VPs, which is a significant defeat.

Fronts
Canada: He is still maneuvering around Quebec. All remaining units in the forests were disbanded to save men. I realize that if I had done this during the theater-wide retreat, I could have saved thousands of men. [:@][:(]

West: I am trying to bring the unit near Vancouver south to Seattle to take one of the ports there. Farther south, the evacuation continues, and San Diego will hold them back just in case. The Marines in San Francisco still cant destroy the one unsupplied, badly mauled RR unit I have entrenched there.

Central America: Whatever is left will withdraw to Panama. The Americans will be halted there. They managed to defeat malaria there, but they won't be able to defeat me. The Canal will claim its dues - in blood.
In retrospect, sending up the two Mexican armies, which alerted his forces, was a grave mistake. They were both eventually destroyed near the border. I wouldn't have done it if I had known how many men he had.

South: One of the C.S.A ran into a large emabrked force in New Orleans, which I thought only contained a piece of a reserve unit.

New York: Boston was taken. However, no attacks on my line except skirmishes between scouting parties have occurred. He is probably trying to get supply and replacements, as I moved up some fresh heavy tank units to defend Zone Ruusan.

[Jakalo]

Turn 49

In a few words - situation is good and American war machine is going to score victory in this infamous war no matter what.

Near San Francisko few Japanese units are cut off so they, but attack on city fails despite only garrison unit standing against my tanks. Also there is a group of two Japanese units wandering in American deserts for unknown reasons.

[Jakalo]

My forces are approaching Panama but as German air presence is growing stronger and stronger I dispatch my fighters from New York area.

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These two 5 VP objectives I should, and will take, but Panama, unfortunately, will most probably hold due to its excellent defensive positions. As I have seen even Japanese are send to here.

[Jakalo]

And the most static front, New York area. German lines looks almost impenetrable, but it can be breached. Anyway I am gathering the best of my troops to achieve breakthrough in what our intelligence says is codenamed by Germans ''Zone Ruusan''. If tis operation fails then all fighting will be ceased here.
This is significant victory.

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Well, sorry for my absence this past week, but the Internet was, um, failing. Everything's back to normal now, so I should get out a turn and a report soon enough.

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Turn 50
Reinforcements: An Italian regiment.

Special: AS is 67 to 74; I am nearing air parity with the Americans. Also, I downed 25-35 of their aircraft at the cost of 4 of my own. LP is 52 for me, 58 for him. I have -130 VPs, a significant defeat.

Fronts
New York: No major activity, but he is positioning the best troops America has to offer around Ruusan. Marines, tanks, and elite mechanized units with almost as much power as my best Panzer regiments. Perhaps a thought bomb is in order?

West: Only one more unit has made it to San Diego. Fortunately, the others can just march to the port underneath it and sail away. Unfortunately, the Japanese are sailing very slowly, at a rate of maybe 600 km per week. Probably due to their lack of transport units.
The regiment that didn't make it out of Vancouver will wage a guerilla war deep in the American heartland. Maybe it will meet up with the "two Japanese units running around in the desert".

Central America: The Americans have reached Guatemala. I estimate I have 4 turns before their forward units reach Panama. It is not enough time to move all the Japanese there. We shall see how this works out.

[Jakalo]

Turn 50

The wall is breached!

Here is the next two targets.

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My losses of this battle.

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German loses.

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There is still a very good chance thatmy last strongholds will hold him. However, unless some terrible stack-evaporating catastrophe befalls him, I will never regain the initiative. Even if he takes massive losses, there is no way his LP will go up enough to make it a draw.
 
And he has so many surplus troops that he can afford to have several units garrisonning each port.
 
At this scenario's conclusion, I will discuss the numerous mistakes I made - if I can remember them.

[Jakalo]

Turn 56

Quite successful turn for me despite early turn ending.

Panama is in the sight and seems to bee lightly defended which is very, very unlikely given Japanese and Brazilian forces available. But I also have mayor forces available here as in the first importance front. All beaches are covered, NY surrounded and being assaulted. And Panama has 25 VP so crucial target in spite of the fact that I have no navy.

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NY perimeter is being reduced now quite steadily each turn or two. In this turn I conquer the most left hex, not sure that it will hold.

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That hex contains a number of "Suicide Battalions"; they are to fight to the last and hold the Americans back for as long as possible so my main lines can be resupplied.
 
They have little value as anything else.

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I have NY now.

The war is pretty much over. I will crush units left below NY but will leave Panama as it is. So all I have to deal with is half-hearthed invasion in Charlston (?) and beach garrisoning.

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Are you serious? That was meant to be a massive trap. Looks like it backfired before it even really began.

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New York was attacked in an attempt to retake it. In the massive battle the Americans took 18% losses, me 27%. They lost far less men and equipment than I, due to their 1000 plane support. At least I killed a few hundred tanks.

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At the end of August of 1943, German diplomats signed a peace treaty with the U.S., agreeing to an end to all aggresion and a total German withdrawal from Panama and Newfoundland. The U.S. continues to fight the Japenese, although with most of its navy sunk, it will be a hard battle. This devastating war left over a million combatants on both sides dead, with many missing and wounded. Civilian casualties are unknown.

I will soon discuss what I did wrong, and post an animated gif of all the turns from 1 to 69(end turn). Here is the end briefing I have to post according to the document that came with the scenario:


[font="times new roman"]SUBSTANTIAL VICTORY[/font]
[font="times new roman"]     -- WITH Japanese Involvement[/font]
[font="times new roman"]     -- WITH Soviet Entry[/font]
[font="times new roman"] [/font]
[font="times new roman"]The Axis has been soundly defeated.  Axis soldiers lay down their arms all over North America.  Some surrendering to local townspeople armed only with pitchforks.  A humiliated Hitler goes berserk, hanging several top generals and civilian officials on grounds of conspiracy to undermine the German Republic.  Hitler, frustrated beyond belief and now desperate for a military success throws everything he has into the Eastern Front.  Riots break out all across England and in parts of France. The US now looks towards liberating England and all of Europe.  Russia, buoyed by the US success and a prosperous farming season, advances deeper into Poland and Rumania.  German lines are starting to stiffen while the Rumanian government sues for peace.  A US puppet government has been established in Mexico and Brazil.  Mexico later is broken-up into the 49th, 50th, 51st and 52nd states.  In the Pacific, a distracted United States has lost the Philippines to Japan.  The Japanese now march on India, but are meeting tough resistance.  Soviets troops prepare to pour across the Manchurian border.  The US road to Japan leads through Hawaii.  Despite the potential loss of life, this invasion must go forward.[/font]