Iron Hearts

Tigranes

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“Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart
and nothing and no one could pry it lose,
but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.”
Sarah Sundin, A Memory Between Us

Iron Hearts







Welcome to the Game 3 based on my adaptation of European Scenario from WORLD WAR II 1939 mod by asioasioasio. Game 1 ended with the Axis victory. Will the history be different this time around? This time Britain controls all the Canadian forces and Ottawa, while Axis player (me) controls Balkan Axis.

PLAYERS:

Axis Ideology Champion (The Third Reich, Balkan Axis, and Italy) Tigranes

Western Allies Ideology Champion (British Empire with all the Canadian cities, master of symbolic 1 city civ Canada) Luthor_Saxburg

Comintern Ideology Champion (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Rodrigo Costa


Just like in Game 1 -- there are 3 ideologies (Axis, Western Allies, Comintern -- former religions) and 21 objective cities in the game. In 1939 your ideology controls 6 objective cities with 3 objective cities remaining neutral. "Ideology controls a city" means ideology is present in the city and city belongs to you or to the civ that shares your ideology. There are 3 possible victories, one set by game and 2 by house rules:

VICTORIES:

Ideological Victory At any time any player whose ideology controls 12 or more Objective cities (as defined above) instantly wins the game.

WWII victory You win the game by the beginning of the last turn (Week 2 May 1945, after 243 turns :crazyeye:) if your ideology controls more objective cities than your opponents.

Time Victory Regular in-game victory by score in unlikely event we need a tie breaker with each of the ideologies controlling 7 cities (7*3=21).

NEW HOUSE RULES:

1. No gifting units.

2. No airlifts, except for units representing a single person, e.g. Great General, CEO, spy ...

3. Cities cannot be gifted except only when liberated to the original pre-Sep 1939 owner (this includes Canadian cities, which can be returned to Canada by human British player).

4. No permanent alliance between human players (includes Italy with Germany).

5. Italy goes AI if Rome is lost to any civ. Human Germany and human Italy cannot fight each other.

6. Once war is declared no peace deal can be accepted/proposed until the fall of "belligerent" capital.

7. Before 1940 UK can declare on Italy only if Italy is at war with someone.

8. Before 1940 Italy can declare on UK only after fall of Paris.

9. Human players cannot switch from their ideology (religion) and original Politics Civic (Fascist, Right Wing, Communist). Balkan Axis is excluded.

10. No land crossing of USA, Benelux, Spain and Turkey by any human player during OBs with those civs, while those countries stay neutral (not involved in any wars). "Single person units" are excluded. Ships can visit ports but must be found outside those neutral ports at the end of the player's turn. Finland, Sweden, Balkan Allies and West Scandinavia are excluded.

11. If the USA has not joined the side of the Allies by the end of 1941 and declared war, Germany declares war of the USA on Week 1 of December 1941. So does human Italy.

12. Because of the strange bug, Air Missions Bombing Buildings and Bombing Factories are not allowed.

13. Russian Siberian Troops: 4 MG II, 4 Inf II, 4 Red Guards I, 5 new T-34 (you can't even build them yet) and 4 Lavochkin fighters will be stored on the upper right corner of the map in fictional size 1 city Siberia. Russia can use them whenever she gets Great Spy (Zorge) and she has a war with Axis. Great Spy has to be deleted in exchange for those troops or Russia can chose to use Great Spy anyways she wants but troops cannot be touched until the new Great Spy appears.

Everything else is allowed, unless all 3 players agree otherwise.

Game started 6-29-2013. May the strongest ideology win! :salute:
 

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This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by 11.00 a.m. that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us.

I have to tell you that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

Up to the very last it would have been quite possible to have arranged a peaceful and honourable settlement between Germany and Poland, but Hitler would not have it.

Now may God bless you all. May He defend the right. It is the evil things that we shall be fighting against – brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution – and against them I am certain that the right will prevail!


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USSR declares war to Germany, following the wehrmacht agression into the Baltic States!

 
The bad news is -- Roosevelt converted to Western Allies, the good news is -- Stalis is his worst enemy! :)
 
The war still rages in Poland between the Red Army and the Nazis. This week, Warsaw, very badly defended, felt to a soviet tank division!
 
Poland is basically no man's land... No German culture to slow down Soviets. But no Soviet culture to slow down German counter-attack.
 
Things are beginning to settle in the Eastern Front. The Wehrmacht is reinforcing positions with the help of the powerful air cover of the Luftwaffe. But a valiant Red Army recon unit was able to seize the control of the Polish city of Cracow!

 
The Atlantic battle continues, with the U-boat captains doing more damage than the Royal Navy expected! :(
 
The Nazi agression into the Baltic states was completely crushed by the Red Army Heroes of the Mother Russia!!

Talinin was retaken, after a succesful German anfibious assault, and the German attack on Riga was completely suppressed, with all attacking units being destroyed!

 
Do you know what that line there says? "Beloved Stalin -- peoples' happiness!"

Huge French invasion was repulsed this turn :whew:
 
Air dogfights were intense in the skies of Belgium between Axis and Allies.

The result was a draw in numbers but it seems that a certain Adolf "Dolfo" Galland was noticed flying his fierce Focke-Wulf 190.
 
More fighting around Riga. The bridgehead of another german attack to cross the Daugava river was destroyed.

 
Great battle near Riga! The offensive of the Red Army on the retreating Werhmacht units near Riga, ended with the destruction of the German Army in the North!

The efforts of a FW190 fighter squadron, which shot down two fighter and two bomber squadrons, was not enough to prevent an intense air attack by almost all soviet air force over the retreating German units.

The posterior attack of the Red Army artillery, tanks and infantary units, reinforced with recently arrived tank divisions, inflicted a huge defeat on the Werhmacht, in what was a very badly planned German offensive into Riga. Stalin Cheers!!

 
We shall see who will have the last laugh! :wallbash:
 
The commander of the AA forces in London was fired for utter incompetency.

The British decide to change tactics in the air warfare and introduce a new weapon - the Spitfire! The bold new pilots decides to ignore official orders and dare to engage the fierce FW's.... the battle resulted in a draw (in pure numbers) but the RAF was able to do something for the very first time... to shot down the German 1941 plane!!! :goodjob:


 
<Lurker> Good Luck with this ... WWII is on a roll, well done Tigranes!!
 
I am loosing, man! We agreed on no 1941 Russia rule, and now I am stuck on 2 fronts...
 
No I meant well done on creating another PBEM ... Haha ;)
 
The Wehrmacht continues with suicidal tendencies near Riga... Impressive!... More three German units destroyed.

Huge numbers of German prisoners tranfered to working camps in Siberia! They will contribute to the war effort on behalf of the Great Soviet Empire!

 
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