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Further in the East forces from the 4th Army commanded by Erich Von Manstein have reached the outskirts of the Islamabad city of Aqaba. Intel shows the city to be lightly defended and Manstein is confident the City will soon be under German control.

In the Western Desert the 1st Panzer Army continues to exchange blows with Muslim Armor. Rommel has asked permission to try and break out and push forward towards the Islamabad Industrial South but OKW has ordered him to hold for now until the fall of Almar.

Looks Like Germany is leading the field in kills.

Rommel's forces are being brutalized in the Western desert.

Frustrated with the decision by OKW ordering his Army to hold their position he decided to seek out an ally in hopes of convincing OKW to soften there position on how the 1st Panzer Army should respond to the Muslim hoards assaulting their lines. Rommel decided to take his plea to none other than Field Marshal Guderian.
Rommel flew to the 1st Regional HQ to meet with Heinz Guderian personally and plea his case. Rommel argued that the 1st Panzer Army is in danger of being overrun and that the Eastern German Armies must be left to there own accord. "The 1st Panzer Army must be free to attack and maneuver or wither and die!" Rommel states. "The 1st Panzer is facing the brunt of Islamabad forces and both you and OKW have put another Tank factory on hold." Rommel goes on. " I need Medium Armor Yesterday and quit possibly Tank destroyers in the very near future. The tank factory must come before the the gun factory and you have to help convince OKW to unleash the 1st Panzer Army!"
Guderian sat in stunned silence for a moment and then... "Yes of course Erwin, you are right. I will take your demands to OKW and even the Fuhrer himself and tell them you have my full backing. The 1st Panzer Army must be our first priority right now. The war depends on it!" Guderian exclaims.

Field Marshal Heinz Guderian travels to Berlin to explain in detail the situation in the Western desert and soon finds the Fuhrer is fully supportive.

(Fuhrer) Guderian! Dispatch an immediate message to General Rommel and tell him he will be getting those Medium as soon as Germanly possible and he may take what ever measures he deems necessary to send those Mecca loving bastards straight to #?%!.

(Guderian) Yes my Fuhrer. It is the right decision.

(Fuhrer)Of course it is because I made it!

Upon hearing the message Rommel takes a moment to celebrate with a glass of fine German ale.

Rommel is facing the brunt of the Muslim attack, you are closing to the AI's capitol so that's why you see those strong units.
I'm very surprised to see such little action near that chokepoint where you built that strongpoint... maybe it's because the AI is fighting there heavy battles too against another AI?

ORIGINAL: Josh

Rommel is facing the brunt of the Muslim attack, you are closing to the AI's capitol so that's why you see those strong units.
I'm very surprised to see such little action near that chokepoint where you built that strongpoint... maybe it's because the AI is fighting there heavy battles too against another AI?

Surprisingly Islamabad is only war with me. Every turn the AI does an airstrike on the Southern most fortress followed by a land assault. The fortress holds strong though. The airstrike is ineffective because my fighters intercept and I also have flak located in the local HQ. The strike usually only does about 60 damage to the lock and maybe kills a couple Infantry. The land assault doesn't fare much better except that I may lose 5 or 6 Infantry regiments. By the very next turn the lock is at a 100% again and I replace the lost Infantry. What the AI really needs to break the fortress is Artillery but has yet bring in any.

December,

Eastern German Armies have most successful month of campaign. Both Almar and Aqaba have fallen this month and Manstein's forces approach the Islamabad city of Maradah. The Remaining Eastern Islamabad divisions are now completely cutoff from supply and Model's forces are pressing in to finish them.
The Fuhrer releases a statement to the German press. "This war is no longer an Islamabad war, it is now a German war! It's a Blitzkrieg!"

Rommel recalls the 1st Panzer's Eastern divisions to assist in a counterattack against The Muslim forces and reclaims lost territory. Meanwhile German Engineers have perfected the first prototype of German medium Armor and the new German tank factory is due to go online next month.
Although Rommel is confident that the 1st Panzer Army is poised to lay waist to the Muslim Army he is concerned about the 22nd division's ability to hold against another Islamabad attack. They have suffered severe losses to the enemy the last couple of months and are very battle weary.

December casualty report

Looks like Germany is now out producing Islamabad.[:D]

Seeing that report I'm even more worried about the States ... [:D]

Just wondering what level your raw bases are on? you seem to be using more raw than you are getting. You must try to capture more raw hexes or upgrade your raw with engineers. Same goes for your oil.

When you finish off the Islamabad forces you're going to need alot of armour and big guns to fight the other two forces, more oil for mobility and more raw for guns. Last screenshot you were using -212 and gaining +280 68 raw/turn is not really much. You will start to get crushed if you do not get your raw production up and running.


Tell the Führer you need to start on oil and raw, I'm sure he'll listen to your advice.


Mat

ORIGINAL: british exil

Just wondering what level your raw bases are on? you seem to be using more raw than you are getting. You must try to capture more raw hexes or upgrade your raw with engineers. Same goes for your oil.

When you finish off the Islamabad forces you're going to need alot of armour and big guns to fight the other two forces, more oil for mobility and more raw for guns. Last screenshot you were using -212 and gaining +280 68 raw/turn is not really much. You will start to get crushed if you do not get your raw production up and running.


Tell the Führer you need to start on oil and raw, I'm sure he'll listen to your advice.


Mat

All of my raw resources are on level 2 right now. There are 2 more raw resources that I will likely capture from Islamabad in the next turn or 2 that are also level 2. After I build the tank factory I will start investing all my PP's in technology and resource production. Islamabad has a lot of Factories in the south and as I capture them I will probably not need to build anymore factories. But once I have secured this continent I will be building at least one shipyard.

@Josh

Yeah when war first breaks out between me and the states it is going to be pretty messy.

I was just worried that you might fall behind with your raw, but as you pointed out all is in control.
We only see the screen shots and not the big picture. The goal is to capture and destroy all of Islamabads territory and forces then with factories you gain, you can start to fight on the other continent.

I hope you are already planning for your navy and airforce to help you gain a beachhead.

Enjoying the AAR, keep up the hard work.

Mat

Thanks Mat.

Your right I should have posted some screen shots showing the resources I am about to capture. I will for sure need to make some big investments in Air and Naval Assets before I invade the other continent.

Immediate objective for German forces.

In the East Model will be charged with capturing the level 2 raw resource and continue on to the coast and clean out the remaining Islamabad forces.

Manstein will push South towards the 2 Islamabad factories and the Islamabad city of Maradah.

Rundstedt and Leeb will go down the center towards the level 2 raw resource directly below Almar.

Rommel will continue South through the Western desert.

One more word of advice if I may? When it comes to the naval aspect of the game the AI still is a bit ... lacking so no worries about that. What may become a very threat is the Air superiority of the States, the best thing to build at sea is the cruiser, it's an absolute plane killer. They get Exp too with their shore bombardment capacity. So if and when the States show they have airsupremacy and you're about to invade their hometurf I'd build me some cruisers for troop and port protection.

January,

After the fall of Almar Rundstedt's 4th Army deploys South and captures a raw resource from the enemy and the 1st Panzer hits Islamabad forces hard pushing them back further into the Islamabad desert.