What do you say about waiting time between turns? Has it also increased
since the early turns?
No, it has decreased. Considering how many civs have been eliminated it goes a bit faster now. Japan has over 900 units to move, so that still takes time, but apart from that it doesn't take much time at all. The waiting time after all the civs have moved, and all new improvements been brought up, remains the same though. I have to wait some 3-4 minutes before I can start the new turn. But this is acceptable.
Germany - v 1.9 - Sid - Week 30, 1942
Right after my last report things started to happen rapidly. I had a sudden breakthrough, and the Americans just couldn't hold my forces back any longer.
Cities conquered since week 26:
1. Chicago
2. Orlando
3. Miami
4. New Orleans
5. Saint Louis
6. Memphis
7. Lincoln
8. Houston
9. Ciudad
10. Santa Fe
11. Dallas
12. Denver
13. Albuquerque
14. Bogota
And please observe that this happened in just 4 weeks! Now this is Blitzkrieg!
I don't know why this happened so suddenly. I'm still feeling my forces are inadequate, and I was thinking that I could never win an easy victory with less than 30 panzers in place. But I guess the war of attrition finally paid of (see table below for details on American losses, compared to my own). I had brought in Chinese and Russian infantry to operate behind the frontlines (to quell the resistance in the cities mainly), and I guess that freed up a lot of German infantry, while I have gathered over 20 SS divisions, as well as lots of artillery. I really love my mobile artillery. It can keep the same pace as my panzer, and this is invaluable in a blitzkrieg. I have to build more artillery... much, much more. I need it.
Anyway, my Central American and North American armies met in Santa Fe and continued the push west. My panzer force is standing outside Phoenix, my infantry is camping in the mountains above Las Vegas, and in Minneapolis there are heavy fighting on the streets between the U.S. marines and Waffen SS, while some American units left behind east of Mississippi are wondering where the heck the front went.
This is true Blitzkrieg!
If I had known this breakthrough would come I wouldn't have bothered sending an infantry force through the Canadian forests, they could have attacked from the south instead. After Dallas fell Helena is the new capital of the U.S., but not for long.
And Winnipeg, the capital of the British empire, will also be overrun very soon.
This victory has made me reconsider my plans. I'm now at war with Colombia, and I have decided to conquer the rest of South America shortly. Mexico declared war on me, I guess they ran into one of my u-boats outside California; it's only a matter of time before I wipe them out. The Chileans are swarming across the border. I probably should check my spy-reports more often. The Chileans have 150 infantry divisions, that's the biggest army in the world after mine and the Japanese. I have sent a Luftwaffe detachment to take care of this problem. This won't weaken my offensive in North America since the Luftwaffe have had problems trying to catch up with the Wehrmacht anyway. Everytime I relocate my planes the front has moved forward, and nearly all enemies are without Luftwaffe's range. My current problem is to build a railroad through Mexico. When this is done I'm going to send my panzers and my mobile artillery north where mobility is required, and send the infantry and the heavy artillery south to take South America. Since there are no roads through Amazonas nor in the Andes I have no use of my panzers there. There is no point in waiting for the first Panthers to be produced. America will be mine before I have a chance to test them on the battlefield. Perhaps I should ship them to Australia instead? Someone has to taste the fury of the German panzer.
A comparison of the forces of the six most powerful nations, week 30, 1942 (difference from week 5, 1942 in parenthesis):
. . . . . . . . . . . . Germany . Japan . . . U.S.A. . . . U.K. . . . Finland . . Italy
Workers . . . . . . 94 (15) . . 48 (17) . . 10 (-32) . . 22 (-9) . 15 (12) . 7 (3)
Paratroopers . . . 10 (3) . . . 1 . . . . . . 0 . . . . . . . 0 . . . . . 0 . . . . . 1 (-1)
Marines . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . 170 (49) . 9 (-30) . . . 0 . . . . . 0 . . . . . 2 (1)
Infantry . . . . . . 129 (-19) . 153 (26) . 35 (-132) . 44 (-26) 47 (35) . . 64 (7)
Machine-gunners . 0 . . . . . . 273 (68) . 21 (-93) . 53 (-35) . 29 (9) . . 20 (6)
Artillery . . . . . . . 44 (7) . . . 20 (13) . . 7 (-14) . . 7 (-1) . . 8 (6) . . . 12
Tanks . . . . . . . . 66 (-13) . . 3 (3) . . . 3 (-15) . . 40 (-38) . 29 (13) . 12 (1)
Planes . . . . . . . 98 (11) . . . 93 (16) . . 23 (-24) . 69 (-21) . 4 (4) . . . 22 (3)
Destroyer flotillas 5 (5) . . . . . 85 (26) . 10 (-18) . 6 (-5) . . . 16 (9) . . 10 (3)
Transports . . . . . 33 (-5) . . . 23 (2) . . 4 (-4) . . . 3 (-6) . . 2 (2) . . . 1
Carriers . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . 0 . . . . . . 0 (-2) . . 0 . . . . . . 0 . . . . . 1 (1)
Capital ships . . . 10 . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . 3 . . . . . . 0 . . . . . 0 . . . . . . 0
Submarines . . . . 89 (22) . . . . 0 . . . . . 0 . . . . . . 0 . . . . . 0 . . . . . . 0
The numbers speaks more clearly than words. The American losses are caused by me, and the British losses are a combination of the Japanese attacks in Africa, and my attacks in North America. Please notice that Italy has built a carrier.
Here are a few figures of the rest of the nations:
France: 7 infantry (and not much else).
Brazil: 67 infantry, 35 tanks, 83 HMG.
Netherlands: 21 infantry, 5 submarines, 13 light tanks (makes them a more powerful nation than France).
Mexico: 8 infantry.
Portugal: 12 infantry.
Argentina: 86 infantry, 85 HMG.
Chile: 148 infantry.
Here is a detailed list of my own forces:
Kriegsmarine
Heavy cruiser: 2
Gneisenau: 2
Deutschland: 1
Bismarck C: 5
Carrier C3: 5
Type VIII u-boats: 29
Type IX: 60
Destroyer flotilla 1939: 1
Destroyer flotilla 1941: 4
Luftwaffe
Paratrooper plane: 16
Do-17: 3
ME-109: 28
ME-110: 4
FW-190: 20
Heinkel-111: 6
Ju 88: 16
Ju 87B: 27
Wehrmacht
German 88: 68
German infantry: 129
SS infantry: 41
Romanian infantry: 41
Hungarian infantry: 19
Bulgarian infantry: 18
Russian infantry: 23
Communist infantry: 16
British tanks: 3
U.S. paratrooper: 1
German artillery: 1
Heavy artillery: 12
Mobile artillery: 17
Mobile rocket: 14
All told, circa 650 units. I have taken well over 100 Russian and American workers too. I got rid of the SS armies. And I'm only one week away from finish researching the Panther, which I'm going to mass-produce naturally. I have the largest air-force, the largest submarine-force, and the largest tank-force. But the Japanese army is still much larger than mine. I would have loved to test their strength against mine.
