Russia SID 1.8
Week 10, 1940
This is the turning point for Soviet Russia. Up to this point, we have not produced anything to enhance our army. We have been building 100% infrastructure and workers in an attempt to improve our economy and our research capabilities. After having to bow to demands from Britian, US and Japan, we decided to let loose our espionage units who had been training for the last few months (Intelligence Agency was built). We planted spies with the 3 largest empires: US, Britian and Germany. We assumed they would be the most technologically advanced. We were right. Our spies were successful in stealing improvments to our Air, Sea and Ground forces (Light Land 1940, Air 1940, Land/Air 1940, Land 1940, Sea 1940). With this new knowledge, we started production of the T34/76 and KV1 tanks in cities who were capable. Those that weren't focused on production capabilities so they could (Factories and Plants). Unfortunately, our research capabilities are still woefully inadequate, so we continue to save all of our money to help fund our espionage units.
Week 33, 1940
After amasing a large army of T34/76, KV1, and Heavy Artillery Units in Lublin and Odessa, it was time to strike. Even though it was very tempting to punish the "Allies" for their insolence, we decided it was best to attack the Axis instead. The production of their cities would be a great addition to the Motherland, while opening up the Baltic states for invasion by taking out Finland. So, we declared war on Germany and in the first week alone, we took Bucharest, Konigsberg, Warsaw and Dansig. Unfortunately, our units did not get the order to destroy all roads and tracks into Dansig to slow down the German counter attack, so they took the brunt of the German assault. After fierce fighting, Dansig held as did Bucharest and Lwow. Our next attack took out every unit that attacked us which seemed to break the German's back. Italy decided to join the show at that point, sending over 20 tanks and artillery, but they were no match to our superior firepower. Germany was able to send small skirmishes with Panzers after this, but nothing major. The only setback was on the Japanese front. They were able to slip in a couple of Marines and destroy 2 cities (1 in the Kurile Islands, one on the mainland .. I forget the name but it's close to Nomonhan).
Week 50, 1940
Present Day
Germany is fading fast. Their only remaining cities are Munich, Lyon, Paris, Bordeaux and Gibralter. Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito have all set emissaries pleading with us to stop our attack but we've rejected all of them. We have taken Tirana, Venice and Milan from Italy and Helsinki and Tampere from Finland. So far, we have not attacked Japan. We've killed any Marine units that have ventured into our territory. Once Italy is defeated, we will move that army over to our Eastern front and start to push the Japanese off the mainland.
Our workers are starting to work on connecting our new cities to our existing rail net. They aren't able to get too close to the front, but they are still making considerable progress. There is much work to be done in our new territories so we are adding to our worker numbers, mainly from our newly captured cities.
With Europe pretty well secured, we have turned our production back toward research & our economy in an attempt to become research self sufficent. Right now, we are only able to divert 40% of our economy to research which reduces a 40 week task to 24. We want to be able to increase that to 70%, but that will require an additional 691 gold per week to sustain. Our current army/navy is as follows:
124 workers
3 Paratroopers
104 Subs
28 1939 Destroyers
3 Battleships
5 Armies
4 Soviet Cavalries
96 Russian Infantry
86 T 34/76
2 Light Cruisers
14 I-16s
3 Fortresses
3 PE-8
36 KV-1
2 Mig-3
74 Heavy Artillery
2 Garrisons
3 Heavy Cruisers
5 T-26
17 RU I-15
2 U-Boat Type IX
23 Special Fortresses
1 Hungarian Infantry
3 Romanian Infantry
10 Motorized Infantry
1 Bulgarian Infantry
56 Soviet Garrisons
Let's compare that to what our spies tell us about Japan (our next "full strength" target)
11 Workers
1 Paratrooper
4 YamatoC
3 Transports
1 Carrier
5 1939 Destroyers
4 Battleships
1 Carrier B1
70 Japanese Infantry
1 Light Cruiser
10 Ki27 Nate
7 B5N Kate
12 Japanese Marines
40 Type 99 Machinegunners
1 Heavy Cruiser
55 Special Fortresses
10 1939 Destroyer Flotillas
1 Otsu
4 Special Transports
2 Japanese Militias
Kicking them off the mainland should not be a hard task at all. Next will be the allies with Great Britian being the primary target. That should be interesting as they have 135 Matildas, 48 Spitfires and 107 British Infantry among other things.
They are not agressive at all. If axis stupid AI do not make peace with them I probably will be in Chelyabinsk already.
