The REAL Invasion Amerika AAR

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End-game stats.

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Total equipment losses. Slightly better than the last one. I'm getting better at this, I think.

Your turn, Jakalo.

[Jakalo]

[center]Victory[/center]

From now on this day will be celebrated amongst Americans as Day of Victory. Brave and enduring citizens of United States of America managed to defeat seemingly unstoppable Germany juggernaut, proud Japanese and traitorous Mexican and Brazil which will be incorporated into Great America Co-prosperity sphere.
Although war is not over yet it will be soon. American scientists are working to create new, astonishingly powerful weapon which will ensure our supremacy for at least half a century.
Japanese have undoubtedly overstretched themselves and after fall of Nazi Germany they will not hold against full might of Allies and its closest companion USSR.

[Jakalo]

casualties

[desert]

Whatever happened to your Commonwealth allies?[:D]
 
PS: Wow, NY hurt your tanks more than I thought.

[desert]

Okay, I've put this off long enough. Here are some of my biggest mistakes:

• Not moving my armies fast enough. Ostensibly I was doing well, and I had captured D.C. very quickly. However, I got caught up with petty battles and waiting for reinforcements, and I kept that entire army back instead of pushing ahead. This gave him time to regroup and establish greater defenses in the Appalachians. He did not know the true extent of my power there, so when I finally launched the offensive I began to push him back.

 

• That lead into my next error, which was not continuing my attacks immediately after pushing him out of the mountains. I was both waiting for reinforcements and for a task force to circle around the mts. through NY and come down on the northern part of their line, along Lake Erie. This cost me time which at that point I didn't have. I needed to smash through their lines to reach Detroit, so I could surround them, because otherwise they had enough forces blocking my men in Canada there that I could only defend.

 

• A smaller error, but still an important one. Instead of keeping one stack entrenched in Canada, I kept them in the isthmus leading into Detroit. This let him attack me with two stacks. If I defended in Canada, at the entrance to the isthmus, he would have had only one stack, and with reduced strength, because there was a river in the isthmus hex. I would have had more men to defend the area if...

 

• I hadn't sent a large force deeper west into Canada, which tied up a task force in Northern Michigan, where it was eventually destroyed, and in the forests above Minnesota. I did destroy many small units in those forests, but these two forces provoked an even greater response, and eventually they came limping back into Quebec, with a large army hot on their heels. By this time, my southern armies were in danger of encirclement as well, and if I kept advancing in Ohio, I would be surrounded. This led to the general retreat in which over half my land forces in the U.S. were lost, because I panicked and tried to flee as quickly as possible while he gobbled up the trailing units. The point is, if I had kept that force in Quebec, this situation would have never arisen.

More later.

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This AAR will hopefully be revived now, albeit several months too late. We are playing the same scenario as opposite sides now, but my opponent's absence stalled the game at T4. We will only post reports of turns that are 5 turns behind the current game, to ensure a certain level of secrecy. Here is Turn 1.

Turn 1

The German commander foolishly landed a massive armoured
force composed of the Amerika Korps and the 40th Pz. Div. in Norfolk. Obviously
he is hoping to blitz his way into Washington. However, his maneuvers activated
the whole 6th Army, and I have brought many men to defend the capital.

I also used the unexpectedly activated Atlantic Navy to get behind his men
in Boston, with the intent of causing at least enough supply loss to slow
them down slightly.

He has also not landed his paratroopers, saving them for a later turn. He
had better hurry, as the air transport will be gone by Turn 2 (or maybe 3).

Supply: 20

VP: 231

AS: 8/13

LP: 1/0

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Turn 2: The Italians were sent to Boston, but Norfolk does not seem to be
getting reinforcements. He has captured Raleigh with a mechanized detachment
from his main force, and near Boston Hartford barely held. At the D.C.
Wallace line, he already made some preliminary attacks but they were
stopped cold. He threw back the Richmond rearguard surprisingly easily.
His plan seems to be very effective, as it will crush half the eastern
seaboard in a vice, at the expense of the South.
 
However, there is a flaw. If I can hold him at Washington DC, his entire plan
will fall apart. He also continues to neglect to use his paratroopers. And
the LP this turn was 2/2, up from 1/0 last turn, meaning I am hurting him.
One of his tank regiments even had a yellow health icon, and the rest are all
light green. This is a good sign.
 
He has mobilized the Brazilians, who will reach Panama in an estimated 6
weeks/turns.
 
AS: 9/14
 
Supply: 21
 
VP: 222
 
LP: 2/2

[cesteman]

I'd love to see this scenario updated I love playing it!

[Veers]

Good to see another AAR of it!! Good luck to both!

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Unfortunately, it turns out that Jakalo is too busy to write his part of the AAR, so you'll only get the American version of events.

Turn 3: LP: 3/3
Supply: 22
VP: 222
AS: 5/12 - German aircraft moved to US airfields; pilot reports
indicate that at least twice as many German aircraft as American
aircraft were destroyed

Reinforcements: Fighter Wing, and 4 National Guard units, one of which
was destroyed in the German advance through New England and had to be
disbanded.

FRONTS: New England: The enemy did not push much farther past Hartford, giving me
more time to fortify NYC. However, Albany was taken, and it looks like at
least a token force will advance through the Adirondacks towards Canada.

DC: The line holds, and while his 40th Panzer Div is still fairly fresh,
the Amerika Korps units are severely weakened. Recon could not find the location
of the rest of the 90th Inf. Div, and he has shipped in the Romanian(Hungarian)?
army, probably to fill his lines while he attempts to encircle me.

South: He pulled a fast one on me. He has sent elements of the Amerika
Korps and tanks of the 41st and 56th Panzer, the bulk of his force in the area,
through the Appalachian Mts. towards the unprotected underbelly of Ohio
and the otherstates. I could only spare the fresh Texas NG unit to reinforce
the area. If I am correct, he is trying to surround and isolate the entire
North-Eastern US! He is probing farther south with his scouts, and in a
few turns he will get a second task force to attack the South with.

South America: I think the Brazilians were actually moving backwards...

As a bonus, he has still not moved his paratroopers, and his air tran was
withdrawn by now, meaning he lost the opportunity to encircle Washington
or Philadelphia.

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Invasion Amerika: Revolutions - Coming Soon

[smiley69]

Desert - I have read the Turtledove Novel about the alternate WWII - it wouldn't be much of a game though. Lizard technology would overwhelm the Shermans and Mustangs pretty quickly...

[desert]

Well, they managed to hold them back a while. [;)]
 
 

[smiley69]

Heh - lets design a scenario using 90's technology against 40's technology and see how long things last. Heck - I'll even try it out this weekend. I have a test scenario bed already laid out. Give me some units you want to see square off and I'll build it.

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Well, all the values would need to be modified, but fine - 20 Abrams (M1A2), 50 Assault AT+ squads, APCs, some modern artillery, and a half-dozen Falcons vs 100 Shermans, 1000 Rifle squads, anti-tank guns, field guns and mortars, 100 aircraft, etc. in a fortified urban forest hex.

[smiley69]

Right on - I'll get on it.

I won't clutter up your thread any more...will start a new one when I get it built. [:)]

[desert]

Oh, and put all the Americans in one unit so the density penalties don't interfere (or set the map to 50 km per hex).
 
 
 

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Invasion Amerika - Allies
 
Turn 1
Supply: 20
AS: 7/13 (2 fighter units, two ground support)
LP: 1/2 (Heroic American beach defenders?)

He has landed the Amerika Korps in Norfolk, but they have not advanced out of the port hex.
In the ocean he has some backed-up units waiting to land. He has naval units among them.
He also surrounded DC with the paratroopers.

The big shock was his decision to land the 50 ID in Charleston and
the 1 ID in Savannah. I expected him to go for Boston. I am, of course,
in a "spot of bother" right now, so I had all units in the East dig in.
The silver lining is that the seaborne infantry units near Charleston have no big ships
protecting them. You know what that means...

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And the maps.