It occurs to me that now would be a good time to contemplate the civil war campaign and to draw out some lessons learned. After much scratching of my chin I’ve come to the following conclusions:
- Making big stack divisions is great and all but one then lacks the flexibility of having small divisions (say, 2 brigades) mopping up enemy territory and closing pockets behind the main force. Small divisions would also be able to destroy trapped and out of supply units without taking away the combat strength from the front lines. When the army reorganizes some corps will be ‘light’ and ready to perform mopping-up duties.
- My troops aren’t terribly mobile. It’s time to get armored ad motorized units researched and built ASAP.
- Air power is extremely powerful. The tactical bombers could turn an even fight into an easy victory within a couple of days. We definitely need more of them too!
What do you think? Thoughts welcome! Meanwhile, on with the adventure.
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CSL over on the QuarterToThree.com forums has been busy writing a Football Manager 2010 AAR featuring Telford United. It’s a great read, and thanks to CSL I’m starting to get interested in football management! CSL does a great job of explaining his decisions and detailing the trials and tribulations of taking Telford through the divisions. This would probably be my ideal game if I coul somehow also involve friends, I love playing games in the same ‘world’ as other people, even if we were never to meet or compete directly, sharing the game’s story together is a lot of fun for me. What do you think?
February opens with the civil war raging, but by mid-February we had taken the Nationalist capital (their new capital is La Coruna in the North West) and effectively divided the Nationalist forces in two, with hopefully the Eastern group – where the former capital is, cut off from all supply.
A Nationalist counter-attack is held off with superior air power.
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The start of the civil war sees the Nationalists control most of north Spain, but the Republicans control most of the fleet and all the units deployed to Madrid. The Canary Islands are largely ours, as are our small African holdings, but the Mallorca Island group has gone Nationalist.
We have a big job ahead of us. We must reorganize the military command structure, assign generals and devise a plan!
Now that I’m 200 pages through various manuals, strategy guides, supplemental strategy guides, quick start guides and forum posts I’ve decided it’s time to write a Hearts of Iron 3 AAR. In this AAR I will be playing Spain from 1936 and taking them through the civil war and out the other side to join the glorious communist bloc! The Global Socialist Revolution has begun! Viva la Socialismo!
A Few Thoughts
I won’t be playing through this AAR with the aim of taking over the whole world – I find that sort of game story a bit tedious. Instead, I’ll be semi-roleplaying and trying to advance Spain, survive WW2 and join the Communist Bloc. That being said, I’m not going to be rushing into joining Comintern as soon as I’m able as that will result in a royal ass kicking from the Germans and Italians. Instead, I’ll play as opportunistically as possible. Read more…
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