Germany 2.4 Emperor
Week 36 1939
Trade policies
Tax Rates 40%Tax 50% Research 10% Luxury
ROP with all my European allies.
Made trade deal with Argentina Rubber for 16 gold per turn.[Btw I thought you got rid of over seas trade.]
Made trade deal with the Soviet Union German wines for 46 gold per turn.
Researching land/air 1940 eta 26 turns I am losing 31 gold per turn and I have 816 in the bank.
Early Kriegsmarine raids.
Sent 10 destroyers & 3 light cruisers and sunk 10 British submarines, 1 Dutch destroyer, and 2 dutch subs. All but 1 ship retreated to Bremen & minefields with 0 losses.1 destroyer out in open water very vulnerable to British counter attack.
Crushed the Polish fleet with coastal submarines and lost 3 subs the Poles will pay for this.
Kriegsmarine bombs Danzig the S boats are very good for this.
Early Blitzkrieg in Poland.
We attack Danzig with 2 infantry divisions with 0 loses we take the city and we garrison it with 3 German security divisions.
Kriegsmarine bombs units outside Danzig.
The Luftwaffe bombs many polish units and we use our artillery corps to great effect.
Our infantry & panzer divisions destroy many polish units with 1 infantry division & 1 panzer division lost.
2 groups prepare to take Warsaw and 2 Groups prepare to take Radom.
Graf Spree & U boats
I will send the Graf Spee[BTW It was called the Graf Spree this ship was misnamed]to South Africa and then to India to raid along the way and maybe reach the Pacific to help the Japanese .My U boats in the Atlantic will not move I will wait for the British to show up.
Preparations
I send two armies into Holland 1 east of Rotterdam 1 east of Amsterdam the 1 outside Amsterdam has 4 Infantry divisions & 1 88 the 1 outside Rotterdam has 4 inf div, 3mot inf div, 2 Artillery,
1 light div, & 1 88.
One army prepares to attack Denmark with 3 inf divs & 1 mot inf div.
U boats move in to prepare to attack the Norwegian fleet.
Load 1st Marine Div into transport and move it north towards Oslo.
I send 3 destroyers to Finland just to keep an eye on them.
Re-base 6 bombers to Koln.
The allies counter attack.
Denmark Norway Declares war on me!
Their Fleet attacks me and sinks 1 destroyer 5 U boats 2 light Cruisers.They will pay for this.
The dutch attack that lone destroyer they sunk it but lost 2 subs in the process.
The poles counter attacked I take 0 loses.
The RAF and the French Air Force bomb me I take no loses and shot down 4 planes with AAA.
Week 37 1939
Poland falls.
Our glorious armies take Warsaw & Radom with the loss of only 1 panzer division.
Poland then capitulates and we garrison 3 infantry divisions in Warsaw and 3 in Radom.
High command orders us to deploy 9 infantry divisions along the new frontier with the Soviet Union and also to deploy 3 squadrons of me-109s to Poland.
We now have a total of 20 infantry & fortress divisions on the border with the Soviet Union.
Holland falls.
We weaken Rotterdam with 2 artillery barrages and 3 bombing raids then take the city with 0 loses and garrison it with 3 infantry divisions.
We weaken Amsterdam with a few bombing raids and 1 artillery barrage we lose no divisions in the assault and capture the city.We garrison 2 infantry divisions & 1 88 in the city.
High command thinks we can take Antwerp this week we spend 100$ on spies and find out that Antwerp has 3 infantry divisions garrisoned. We move 2 infantry divisions from Rotterdam and replace them with 1 88.
We attack with no air support or artillery the 2 infantry divisions wipe out 2 Belgian infantry divisions then we attack with 1 mot inf div and it is lost We attack with 1 more MOT INF DIV and take the city we garrison it with 2 mot inf divs and 1 infantry division.We then find 1 more infantry division and send it to Rotterdam.
Denmark falls.
We use the 1st marine division to take Copenhagen with no help at all. We then garrison the city with 3 infantry divisions.
Attack on Denmark-Norway's Fleet
We send 2 U boats to attack 2 coastal defense ships I sink 1 and almost sink the other but I lose 1 U boat in the process.
We attack the danish fleet with coastal submarines and lose 4 but sink all of the danish ships.[I think the coastal defense ships are too strong for Denmark-Norway]
Kriegsmarine raids.
Attacked 1 dutch sub with a destroyer and lost the destroyer sent 2nd destroyer and sunk the sub and retreated to Bremen afterwards.Re-based the light cruiser Konigsburg to Rotterdam.We send much of the Kriegsmarine north to attack Norway.
We rush production in Hamburg for a Transport. [cost 460$]
Misc.
We start production on a worker to send to Sicily to make an air base to support operations in the Mediterranean.
Re-based 8 more bombers to Koln.
I now send the U boats in the Atlantic on the hunt.
The allies counter attack.
The French Navy & Royal Navy Bombs Antwerp.
RAF Bombs &
hurts Antwerp we shot down 3 planes.
Royal Navy kills 3 U boats.
Royal Navy battleships bombard minefields off Norway.
BTW this is my first play test please tell me what kind of info you need.
P.S.Merry Christmas
P.S. P.S. Will the Santa hats on the smiley faces on this post go away after Christmas ?