The World Shall Be Ours! A German HOI2:DDA AAR!

Status:
Hearts Of Iron 2: Doomsday - Armageddon
Country: Germany
Difficulty: Hard
AI Aggressiveness: Normal
Years - 1936 start to 1952 end.
Plan: Complete World Domination!

Please Note: I will try and avoid using an Nazi iconography (namely the Swastika) during this AAR, though some may be accidental/unavoidable.



It is the year 1936. After humiliation of defeat in the Great War, the failure of the Weimer Republic and the struggle with economic woes, Germany now stands ready and prepared to launch itself onto the world stage once again, in a bloody fashion. A government now rules Germany with an Iron fist, built upon the dogma of fascism, authoritarianism and xenophobia. With eyes set on taking back ‘German’ land lost, and asserting dominance over Europe, what fate lies in store for Germany and it’s foes?

Chapter List

The Pre-War Years
Chapter 1 - The Gambit Begins! January 1st 1936 to July 1st 1936
Chapter 2 - The Spanish Civil War, 1st July 1936 - 1st January 1937
Chapter 3 - The Anti-Comintern pact, 1st January 1937 - 1st June 1937
Chapter 4 - The Rising Sun Strikes, 1st June 1937 - 1st January 1938
Chapter 5 -The Anschluss of Austria! January 1st 1938- June 1st 1938
Chapter 6 - The End Of Czechoslovakia, June 1st 1938 - April 1st 1939

The Conflict Begins!
Chapter 7 - WAR! April 1st 1939 - October 15th 1939
Chapter 8 - Fall Weserübung, October 15th 1939 - Aprils 28th 1940
Chapter 9 - The Fall Of France, April 28th 1940 -June 27th 1940

The War Spreads!
Chapter 10 - Dealing with Yugoslavia, June 27th 1940 - August 22nd 1940
Chapter 11 - Into Africa! August 22nd 1940 - December 4th 1940
Chapter 12 - Keeping Pressure On The British, December 4th 1940 - March 10th 1941
Chapter 13 - Trouble In Libya, March 10th 1941 - June 1st 1941

Operation Babarossa - Into Russia we go!
Chapter 14 - Operation Barbarossa! June 1st 1941 - 1st September 1941
Chapter 15 - Pearl Harbour! 1st September 1941- 27th December 1941
Chapter 16 - The Spring Offensive, 27th December 1941- June 1st 1942
Chapter 17 - Breakthrough! June 1st 1942 - July 25th 1942
Chapter 18 - Case Blue, July 25th 1942 - October 8th 1942
Chapter 19 - Getting Through Winter, October 18th 1942 - May 1st 1943

Victory In the East
Chapter 20 - Moscow And Leningrad! May 1st 1943 - July 1st 1943
Chapter 21 - Grinding The Russians Down, July 1st 1943 - October 12th 1943
Chapter 22 - Battle For Stalingrad, October 12th 1943 - June 23rd 1944
Chapter 23 - Victory In The East! June 23rd 1944 - July 11th 1945

To The Bitter End!
Chapter 24 - The Middle East, July 12th 1945 - November 19th 1945
Chapter 25 - Driving The British Out Of Africa And India! 19th November 1945 - August 30th 1946
Chapter 26 - Capturing Northwest Africa, August 30th 1946 - April 19th 1947

The grand council of domination:
Head Of the Government and Supreme Commander- ComradeDavo
Head Of The Heer (Army) - IronMan2055
Head of the Luftwaffe (Air force)- Kan' Sharuminar
Deputy Head Of The Luftwaffe - Godwyn
Head of the Kreigsmarine (Navy) - e350tb
Deputy Head of the Kreigsmarine/Commander U-Boat Pack 1 - toda
Head Of Industry - ArneHD
Head Of Intelligence and Propaganda- swed14
Foreign Minister - Churchill 25
Commander Of The Eastern Front - sirtommygunn
Commander Of The Western Front - germanicus12
Fieldmarshall of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht -sheep21
Minister of Zilly Valks - SuperBeaverInc.
Captain Of The First Panzer Corps - Captain2
Captain Of The Second Panzer Corps -potatokiosk
Adviser For The Heer (Army) - nodikus
General Leuitenent - KaiserWilhelm09
Head Chef (or SAUERKRAUT BOY! as he prefers) - Volum

I claim head of the Heer.

Also with Armageddon it will go beyond 52, to 63 I believe.

It can, though in options I elected 1952, as any more I feel would get a bit tiresome and hard to manage!

Hearts of Iron AAR, eh?

Commander of the Luftwaffe Kan' Sharuminar reporting, if you please.

Kan' Sharuminar said:

Hearts of Iron AAR, eh?

Commander of the Luftwaffe Kan' Sharuminar reporting, if you please.

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Yup, yours is rather good and I got jealous

Plus been the feeling the itch to do one for a while!

Decided upon hard difficulty to make it more of a challenge, i'm used to played normal, anyone know if it's much of a step up?

As far as I remember it just reduces the IC bonus' you receive while the AI gains more. I'm not sure if it affects combat or how the AI acts towards you

Geez, there have been a lot of AARs lately...
Also Ill take command of our eastern forces.

I would like to command the armies in the West. March on to France!

I'll take command of the first Panzer Corps

Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt.

Ministry of Zilly Valks!

And as my first act as Minister of Zilly Valks, could we perhaps make our walks just a bit sillier? The goose stepping is certainly a good start, but just imagine just how much sillier it could become!

General Nodikus reporting for duty in the Heer.

Chief of the Kreigsmarine! It'll make a nice change.

Your head of Industry reporting:

Let me start by stating, we are probably* not going to go to war before 1939. That is three years of building our industry: with some luck we will be able to field an IC base greater than that of the Soviet Union.

Furthermore to boost our IC growth, we should guarantee the independence of Nationalist China and the rest of the Chinese minors, thus making our cabinet more hawkish. A full hawk slider gives us a 20% bonus I think. We should also guarantee any other nations that I missed that might be attacked.

For our slider moves, might I recommend towards Central Planning? It will hurt our monetary income, but gives a direct boost to our IC which translates directly into an increased IC growth.

There are two more things, 1: We must secure a supply of raw resources, in particular rare materials and metal. Energy we produce plenty of, though in my experience, never enough. 2: We need to choose between China and Japan. Either could win a potential war, but our close ties to the Chinese might be at risk if we do not stop cooperating with the Japanese.

*There is a slight, but real, possibility that we might get involved in a conflict before this, especially with regard to Czechoslovakia, both Studetenland and annexation. Also, some people like to take Luxembourg early on this could cause a full blown war with the allies.

The OP has been updated with your titles!

ArneHD - I agree that we need to greatly boost our IC, and shall set about a domestic programme to do so.

However current policy is that Japan would be a greater ally in the East, and we are currently willing to sacrafice Chinese relations for this. In the event of war with Russia, current tatics would be to get Japan fully on side, so that they would threaten and hopefully capture Russian cities in the East, particuarly Vladivostok.

Advice on slider move has bene noted, this has been scheduled for the start of 1937.

As far as I remember it just reduces the IC bonus' you receive while the AI gains more.

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Yeah, at current I have a 'peacetime' modifier, which I don't think you get with Germany on normal?

Chapter 1 - The gambit begins!

January 1st 1936 to July 1st 1936

Upon entering into 1936, it was decreed by the German High Command that we much vastly improve our Industrial capabilities to prepare for the inevitable conflicts that would come with our grand ambitions!

Thus construction was begun on factories in several German provinces and a tech plan was envisioned that would help to greatly boost our IC. Industrial Chief ArneHD supervised this move, empathising the need to out-produce our ideological enemy - the Communists to the east (aka the USSR).



In the coming months it was also decided to build a few more infantry units as part of our re-armament programme, to act as defence on the French borders and to also bolster the area around Czechoslovakia and our borders with Poland.

On January the 4th German troops marched into the Rhineland as we tested the will of our potential opponents, whilst France and Britain protested they did nothing of any substantial use and this served as a great moral booster for the German people!



Following this Head of the Heer IronMan2055 supervised redeployment of the German army to the French and Czechoslovak borders. And on January the 7th e350tb expressed his delight as the KMS Graf Spree was officially launched, signalling German intent to rebuild it’s navy.

Moving onto April and the League Of Nations was given it’s death knell as it could do nothing to stop the Italians annexing Ethiopia. Mussolini and his fascist government seem like they could be useful allies for us in the future…..

On June the 4th trouble flared in the far east as China experienced yet more infighting as the Guangxi Clique sect fell out with Nationalist China in a bloody fashion. Having only recently brokered a true with the Communists in the North, this served to further weaken China’s stability and intelligence tells us that Imperial Japan is keeping a close eye on the situation.

So as it stands it is apparent that the League Of Nations no longer functions, and we will be able to re-arm and industrialise without foreign intervention. This is good….we need a strong industry and a strong armed forces to be able to conduct our plans to regain Germanic lands and assert our dominance.

We have also begun a strategy of placing spies into our rival nations, namely the UK and France, with a mind to the USA and Russia as well. This is to keep an eye on them, evaluate the strength of their forces and potentially steal wartime technology as well.

Could I be on the General staff?

Hmm one thing I hate about Armegeddon is that they've screwed Spain up, the Republicans shouldn't do as well as they do against the Nationalists, i've had to revert to saves like 8 times to get a half decent start for the Nationalists and i'm loosing pateience. So yeah just so people know I might delete some of the Republicans units if they keep annoying me, purely for historical accruacy as the Nationalists really should win the civil war!

KaiserWilhelm09 said:

Could I be on the General staff?

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Consider yourself recruited!

JAWOHL! What is my rank and assignment?

KaiserWilhelm09 said:

JAWOHL! What is my rank and assignment?

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At current we are re-arming and rebuilding our armed forces. Feel free to choose a specific rank, you can take any that haven't already been claimed (see the op). Your assignment will to be assist in the re-armenant effort and preparations for war!