What the newly raised German divisions lack in capability, they make up in enthusiasm. But that doesn’t win battles, and after fierce French counterattacks (they know what’s coming), we’ve had to retreat past the Elbe to establish a stable front. Our next assault will be into Denmark.
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In the last episode we have uh dealt quite some losses to the Allies the problem is they keep coming it’s not there’s no end to them uh the Germans are not quite as resilient as they seem given the significant Allied uh Allied well Manpower that’s on our front lines just
The French alone have a relatively vast number of troops here which is really irritating so I sent out my operatives to start building up some contacts in France and um we will see if we can do something about that uh if we start sending them into
Uh into yeah I think we need to get the the Intel networks up first so uh I’m still building an Intel Network in Denmark trying to get some in intelligence about what we’re facing here but I think we what we will do is we’ll establish a we’ll establish a line
Here near hurg which is very fragile unfortunately I would have loved to be further south but uh I do want to focus on trying to cut off Denmark if possible and then we might refocus on trying to wipe them out in Scandinavia depending on how many troops they have there uh I
Have uh one I’ve I’ve got two Railway guns here which I probably don’t need so I’ll refocus one of my Railway guns to uh to the effort here and yeah other than that we are just holding on everywhere digging in and uh trying to yeah try trying to establish
Uh trying to establish a uh a perimeter that we can hold because Germany unfortunately tends to have the wrong priorities when it comes to these sort of things and uh we are as you can tell already being pushed back here and they are already at the gates of Berlin which
Is not quite quite ideal so we’re sending troops out we’re sending troops out to push to push the Allies back and potentially Mak something happen and um one of my operatives was captured in Denmark which is unfortunate which means I need uh somebody to mount a uh to mount a rescue mission
Um which means you are probably going to need to build an inter Network in Denmark so we can rescue the operative what do I need for that uh rescue operative I need uh Intel network of 30% okay so that should be achievable and then we can get my operative back I prefer that
Meanwhile the submarines are doing are doing good work uh in syncing enemy shipping and we’ve got another submarine ready that we can send over over and this one can join the task force here perfect so slowly slowly we are building up uh the submarine Force the bigger problem is obviously that we’re now
Having a very long front that we need to support and uh Allied troops tend to get in the way like here for example so let’s see if we can uh push them back out again from here I I would love to I would love to encircle them but but yeah that’s not
Going to happen so let’s uh let’s defend this position push back this American Tank division that should not be a huge problem but the Germans without assistance are going to be having a really hard time holding anything and uh I might need a couple more divisions on the lines here
Actually from my own perspective uh that are capable of uh capable of assisting withholding that so I think I’m going to get these two divisions to assist uh just uh just holding that so let’s get these two divisions over there we’ve got one division holding Berlin and everybody else is um is
Building up for a Counterattack unfortunately uh yeah the Allies are the Allies are assaulting viciously and I don’t think the Germans standed a chance in hell to to defeat that I’m still Keen to try an offensive operation in the north here we’ll see we’ll wait until these uh these American
Push has come to an end let’s see what that’s looking like uh that’s six divisions can we Counterattack this and then wipe them out and then wipe them out here let’s see if we can make that happen of course the Allies know that and are instantly counterattacking
Towards ke but uh if we can push these if we we can push these divisions out here that would be great uh we do have a naval Invasion that we need to deal with it’s uh just a handful of French troops I think so nothing major
And we do still have Northern Sweden and Finland plant but uh that looks like something we can just defeat the thing is I don’t have enough troops available to to deal with these kind of incursions on a regular basis and uh okay we have dealt We have dealt with this
So that tank division please join the overall front line here and how’s the Denmark operation looking I think that may work if we can push through here and then we might be able to with some German assistance in actually holding the lines near Keel which I
Think they might be able to do we may be able to um we may be able to uh just clean up some divisions here and we’ll see if we can we will see if we can uh we can destroy some and and retake this territory here uh they’re obviously
Counterattacking across the lines here Germany is getting pushed back so it’s good that I’m already bringing divisions in to uh to hold the lines uh the Berlin troops are it’s a lot of Divisions here I would I would love to it’s it’s French again I would love to encircle something but there’s
Just too many of them honestly uh we’re just we’re just desperately holding everywhere and um just trying to M maintain a maintain a cohesive front line at this point and I think you are in German territory are you that’s why you are that’s fine uh as long as nobody is
Managing to land any forces we’re all good so have we broken through not yet by the looks of it there’s there always yet another true division that’s reinforcing but we will see if we can we can breach this position eventually and uh and clear this out uh
But we do need to leave a division here uh to to hold hurg um you defend just focus on defending and uh unfortunately yeah just focus on defending I need to get all three divisions in here uh just to try and defend that we can try to can try to Counterattack from
Hurg okay uh just while we have them in circled how many divisions do we have here that’s just three divisions uh two Americans one Japanese division so I think we can hold that uh Germany is where where are these two divisions that I’m sending here can you um please hurry
Up and you two as well get there please I need you there sooner rather than later uh we’ll see if we can entrup somebody but really I’m just happy if we can take we can can retake Dron and uh deal with the uh and stabilize the front lines
Here uh that’s another Turkish Invasion Germany should be able to hold this are they actually defending Dan or are they not defending Dan um in that case uh send somebody over to danik please on the quick just in case they are not actually defending the port okay I think that’s reasonably stable uh
The three divisions in the north are digging in I’m going to get one division to help out with that and to just clean up that clean up that position there there’s a German division that has gotten stranded there’s nothing we can do about it we’ll we we’re just uh establishing defense a defensive
Perimeter uh across the river line line here and south of Berlin and we will try in fact we can probably try to push these Americans out again to have a good defensive position here so let’s see if we can make anything happen in that regard and that that would be a nice
That would be a nice a nice condensation of the defensive line and then we’ll we’ll get back to we go back to where we need to be and hopefully with uh with a bit of a consolidation here the Germans are going to also be in a better position to you
Know actually defend their positions rather then um then this is the last one we need to take and then I’m going to okay we’ve done this you no no I’m going to need you to hold hurg because the uh the Germans are not going to do it so get
Back to hurg hold that position uh two two divisions actually and we’ll leave these these two here on the front lines how many divisions are left a couple of Danes really um but uh we we will we will hold here for now and everybody else get into your positions hold your
Lines and attempt to please attempt at least um to not be broken through to not be completely broken uh it looks like here we are being overwhelmed as well by American forces um this is this is this is a German Counterattack which is futile but uh what is
This um what are they holding here okay near kovich I’m not too concerned if they want to hold that or not uh that’s their problem I’m happy to I’ve got kater I don’t really need that position it’s slightly fortified but um uh yeah we’re not holding kco anyway and
It’s very it’s very exposed so we’ll let them have that everything else appears to be holding for now uh they have landed here but I think that is going to be dealt with momentarily so these Turkish divisions will go down um I need you back in Hamburg because as usual the Germans are
Not actually defending Hamburg okay we’ve got one division in rostock and everybody else okay we’ we’ve taken this position here so we’re holding the river line now which means I need one of you to move over here and make sure we’re holding that as well and this is just too many Frenchmen
That we cannot easily we cannot easily break through um I’m not entirely certain how we’re going to play this because I don’t see us I don’t see see us just having the fighting the Firepower to oh yeah and there and of course the British are immediately
Landing near rostok the moment I take my eyes of it so I’m going to get that tank division to actually uh uh to actually can they hold rostock that’s one of mine they can hold but the Germans might not be that’s near so we’ll deal we’ll deal with that yeah
Everybody else just dig in for now and attempt to hold the territory down if you might as that would be much appreciated I do have to send one division over to Keel because as usual the Germans are not defending it so we’ll hold here for now
Let’s get them get them to dig in and uh I’m not sure how we can retake D in the face of uh effectively what is almost uh two field armies on the opposing side um what is this happening here uh oh this is the position position
That we we holding across the river line I’m not too fast about this um it’s kind of useful as a springboard but um we’ll see if we can hold it or not because we don’t really have anybody don’t really have anybody else anywhere uh this is German territory so I can’t
Build any fortifications there if we can’t hold it then we’ll abandon it that I’m okay with and we will just try and hold out okay yeah this is too much we can’t counter attack that I would love to retake I would love to pins this around
D but we don’t have the Firepower to do that unfortunately so we’ll sit back and um we’ll sit back and hold it for now uh that they have landed inun as usually as usual uh I did send it I think yeah I did send a uh I did send an Armored
Division North to take care of that and everything else is just holding for now yeah how we going to how we going to maintain Germany is harder than I thought it was going to be because uh it looks like in fact we can change this defensive line to just be uh these are
These two are these two provinces connected okay hang on uh we’ll we’ll remove that and see if we can no I don’t really need a defensive line here I’m just going to get the one division there uh you actually move to Berlin I’m going to move the the railway
Artillery to Berlin and make sure we are holding the lines everywhere and just uh remain defensive for the time being uh that’s uh that’s a lot of Americans and I will need okay I will get a division to kill and I will get you to stay
Here okay so are we do we actually have maintainable lines at this point um can we weaken the French any further uh yeah we we are going to need are you at 30% uh yes okay start the mission uh you are who who am I going to send on this
Mission you uh so please rescue my captured operative Vladimir uh commence when ready routine Mission commence when ready and everything else is just sort of holding here okay the Germans have have reinforced and we have reinforced and we are holding uh British division Landing in
Stund can we please deal with that uh do I even need the tanks I probably don’t need the tanks anyway we’ll do it and then we’ll get back to the front line near Berlin where we are dramatically underpowered and trying to hold to hold where we can and it looks like here we
Are dug in against a yeah we’re dug in against a French Armored Division that is extremely powerful and that we can’t really defeat um which means I need my own tun divisions uh to deal with this French armor division really uh don’t have time to I don’t have the time to
Um okay help out with the Brits help out with the British uh okay British are done get get down here uh on the quick please because we are going to need to uh we are going to need to deal with we’ve got some some some tanks that need dealing with and you are
Probably equipped for that but yeah against these kind of tank divisions we actually have um we actually have not the greatest chance in in the world um you are holding Danish now so I can probably resend some of my divisions back over there uh no further Naval invasions
Happening just now yeah um I need more tanks to counter these cuz these kind of French tank tank divisions that we’re starting to see are extremely powerful and my my divisions don’t have anti- tunk so um I might need need to uh they have support Ry um can I my regular defensive
Divisions can I just give them support anti-tank and how much how many anti-tank guns would I need for that um we would need 3,400 anti-tank guns and I’ve got 5,000 available uh yeah there we go anti- tank guns go so hopefully that gives these divisions some Chance some better chance
To defend themselves against the French incursions here um I did send a tank division down there so we’ll get that to hold here against uh and hopefully they can do that against these French tanks we’ll see how how well they how well they fare everybody else is just on the defense
And the lines are holding everywhere yeah we we’ve sort of reached a bit of a stalemate at this point um the overall problem being that uh well it’s just not um there is just not an awful lot uh that we can do offensively and I think I will need another
Division we need another division here just to hold the line let’s get you down there can I have a railway down there I don’t think I can but um we’ll we’ll reinforce against that French that’s another French tank division yeah well although this one is significantly significantly weaker but yeah I’m I am
Concerned about the amount of um about about the amount of uh tanks that the French bringing are bringing to Bear here at this point and about the French in general fortunately my submarines are still sinking Americans on the ocean which is great and 10 Brit British 10
British transports I don’t know if these are troop transports I do hope they are uh everybody else is just being is just holding the lines and we’re still building fortifications everywhere to uh to keep to keep it that way unfortunately we can’t do that on German territory which U makes any kind of
Operation here significantly harder the French have brought their own Railway gun to Bear now and it looks like um we might not even be able to to hold here we do need to hold here so please get me a second division over there what is it that is attacking us
Just American Ground Forces but I think we haven’t had the time to to entrench just yet I would love to push them back to push them back across the river but uh it’s and and try to launch an assault towards D but it’s too many and yeah 11 infantry divisions and
A and another 10 over here so I really don’t don’t think we have the forces necessary to make this happen unless they are unless they are making any kind of blunders in in their repositioning so for now I think we’ll just dig everybody in and try as much as we can to hold
Them and uh the yugoslavians are coming via C uh that the Germans hopefully can hold that but I am I definitely don’t have divisions left to um and we’re getting cycle charged here by the Americans again I definitely don’t have divisions left to do to do anything I need to get
Let let let everybody dig in for now and probably get a couple more divisions out in the field uh 10 divisions that would help let’s get 10 rookie divisions out into the field and we will get uh we will get eight of these uh we will get eight of these to the seventh
Army I think yeah seventh Army so and the remaining four uh the remaining four divisions that are unassigned uh the the remaining two divisions sorry uh can join the fourth and just help just generally help out with um just generally help out with everything uh okay how is it looking
Like uh uh we have yugoslavians Landing please please CLE clear these out if you can yugoslavians are landing in force so let’s deal with that um that is interestingly enough the same battle so that’s a decent amount of Yugoslavian forces but uh we’ll deal with that as we go uh yeah Eastern
Germany Western Poland would be around here uh Northern Sweden hasn’t happened so nothing to worry about out and that’s just a minor Naval incursion but we we may be able to hold for to find a position where the Germans can actually hold and um no I need
You to Counterattack that please um not sure what happened there to the I think the Germans got defeated here are we still holding for are we still holding this no they have landed right yes they have landed so I need you to I need you um inch 13 just hold for now and
Then we’ll Counterattack them as we go uh this might be we might not be able to hold this position here against these con constant attacks but we’ll see how it goes uh maybe the Germans will reinforce but uh yeah they are definitely cycle charging here um and we’ve held now now this is
Falling uh oh and they’ve push pushed us back here so okay let’s let’s keep the river position let’s keep the position north of the river uh Germany is trying to Counterattack but that’s just too many of them let’s keep the position north of the river uh we will eventually try to push
To to create a defensive perimeter here but that’s going to be a really tough ask uh to make that happen I am going to need to relocate these troops a little cuz we’re not breaking this French position here but we’re not Al we’re not breaking any position here with the
Amount of forces that we have available really uh so for now maybe we’ll just we’ll just remain on the defensive and I’m going to get one division here just to just to hold that worst case we’re falling back to the north of the river line here uh Finland Naval Invasion where uh
There uh that’s the yugoslavians they that we just beat back and I’m not sure where they are invading but uh we’ll deal with that we’ll deal with that in a minute uh you please go and help clean up these Yugoslavian troops here if you don’t mind okay and I do hope that we
Can eventually get a rest bit here uh with these cycle charging Americans and everybody everything calms down a little bit but yeah it’s I would say Force distribution wise uh it we’re we’re sort of at the the at the at the edge here because um and I’m going to extend the
Front line for the first uh just to get them to cover defensive positions please so if you wouldn’t mind can we get can we get like a division over here and one over there additionally that would be lovely okay uh everybody else just dig in for now yeah so I think we
We are sort of in a position where we can where we can maybe hold although this doesn’t look like it might be uh but uh like an an offensive an offensive operation will be very very difficult to mount so we definitely need more time I am thinking of fast
Forwarding a bit uh to a to to a point where we can actually launch launch the because this isn’t all that interesting to watch to fast forward a bit to the next uh to when something interesting happens um like we could break through here but this is too many yeah uh until
Something interesting happens because right now we are sort of in a we’re keeping things in a balance and we are I think we are we are yeah we’re definitely dealing more dealing more losses to the enemy than they are dealing to us but uh we are we’re certainly outnumbered in Germany let me
Put it that way so I think um yeah I think I’ll do that I’ll okay we dealt with that which means this uh this division definitely shouldn’t be holding but you are going to go back uh to the first Army’s front line there we go okay first Army is just on defensive
Duty at this point and we’ll see if an opportunity arises to do anything but I think we need to I think we need to impove improve the uh we need to improve the overall uh we need to improve our overall uh fighting capabilities a little bit before we can before we can
Really get to that so yeah I will let you know when when something interesting happens okay we have had to deal with a French Landing in in Sweden as usual and uh the line here uh near bisto is a little bit on the weak weak side it
Looks like some of the Americans might be able to break through so we’re trying to reinforce this as much as we can and uh we’ll get these troops into position here we have been pushed back uh on the Danish front is there no way we can hold this so we’ll try to hold
Between ke and hurg the problem obviously is the territory it’s not particularly well suited so while we do have some Railway gun support here uh it’s uh yeah not making things easy and everything else has become rather static at this point uh the reason I’m I’m back is
Because we have 150 political power so I can change to service by requirement and we will see how much uh and in fact I don’t have a ship designer but that would just give me Naval Research speed which I don’t really need so uh it’s all good that said we are still sying
Transports and hopefully that is despite their attempts of of escorting their convoys and hopefully that’ll overtime uh that’ll overtime it up I am not sure why I have all these troops now in the fourth Army I think that’s because these these divisions here are on the wrong
Front line uh you belong to the seventh but you are supposed to be having your own line to reinfor uh to assist with reinforcing uh reinforcing effectively the positions here there we go and can I that should be six divisions can I get you please onto your lines on the quick
And we will see if we can manage to yes we’ve managed to hold uh but now we’re open here in bisto which we don’t want to lose so I am trying to fall back to bisto and this division as well can uh can get back onto the line they’re
Really trying to break this here so these Americans have been charging us like crazy we definitely need to we definitely need to reinforce this line uh this is just the Germans trying to hold against the American Onslaught in the swamps but that’s not happening and yeah as you can see uh things
Are things are under attack pretty much everywhere so uh did I just see somebody moving off the lines why I know you don’t move move off the lines you stay here uh okay I am I think I’m just researching uh I don’t have anything else really to research uh could research Naval
Landings or or mine laying but I think I’m pretty much I’m pretty much through with the everything so I’m just re I’m just researching some holes I’ve got Cruisers done um might as well just research some this choice not that I’m ever going to be really using this but uh
Yeah so critical positions uh that’s a German Counterattack not going to get anywhere um critical position here so okay we’ve just in time managed to get here so you just stay on that stay on that location and uh we are reinforcing where we can I’m going to get one more division
Over there and you as well get over there and I’ve got a couple of a couple of green divisions getting onto the front lines here which is helping so hopefully that’ll be enough to just hold and in Sweden things are okay have we dealt with the French yes we have
Dealt with the French so let’s get everybody back onto their positions uh you go there and you just stay where you are okay yeah uh still holding but um any kind of offensive operations at this point are slightly illusory given the sheer amount of troops that
Are there so we’re just uh we’re just holding right now and uh the plan is to try and demoralize the French a bit hopefully and to try and uh uh and then to yeah I’m I’m not sure actually see if we can Master see if we can Master
Enough additional Troop troops that we can especially uh especially tank forces and maybe an Air Force that we can launch an operation against Denmark and then but given how much assistance the Germans have needed in just maintaining their lines I am not super confident that I can actually that Germany can
Actually continue existing they are just so far behind at this point that uh uh yeah it’s it’s a little unfortunate uh I was I was thinking the Germans would be able to would be able to hold by themselves a little better they’ve got 61 divisions but a lot of
The I think a lot of the divisions are not the greatest out there and uh so we we and I don’t know how much Manpower they have left in reserves to be honest but uh yeah we we might we might launch another offensive operation here just the usual try to encircle a couple
Of Divisions break through but they can replenish their forces relatively quickly and uh I’m not sure at which point I can actually go back on the offensive the first push through Europe has been Rel done has been happening relatively well but I think the Soviets are uh yeah have been pretty much wiped
Out I don’t know how much is left from the Soviets uh they do have a couple of Divisions left we have never looked at the far East in a while yeah the British are are operating here um the Americans have definitely been pushing through and I think yeah the Soviet Union is going
To go down so uh I am not sure I am not sure if we can liberate Europe and liberate Germany because the of the sheer amount of of troops that we’re facing here but we we’ll keep on trying and uh as I said the goal of the the goal has been
Achieved the Empire of fuga has been has been created so uh that that was that was the it has been saved I didn’t say that it was going to be easy but um we’re we’re not giving up that easily so we’ll see I’ll just skip
Ahead again and um uh and see what we can do next uh we are this close in Denmark if if I could concentrate the first the first Armed Forces here I’m relatively certain I could push through Denmark and then um and then clean up Sweden and eventually Norway but it’s a major
Operation and if if if we need to spend if we need to distribute half of our or 90% of our troops to just hold in Germany then I just don’t have enough offensive operations uh offensive divisions left um we can build up we’ll see how how far down the um how far down
This is going to go uh in terms of Manpower and if we can build if we can get ourselves a couple more divisions but uh yeah otherwise we’re building fortifications so I will once again skip ahead until something interesting happens okay I think that we have dug in
Sufficiently that uh we can now hold the line in Germany I was initially planning to uh make a move towards Dron but the opposition is too strong and uh that means I have pulled most of the uh I have pulled most of the first Army divisions off this front in fact I can
Probably just delete that for now because we’re not doing that and uh have concentrated them at Denmark so what we’ll do is we will try to we will try to sweep through Denmark and uh then we’ll see either we can use the Marines to cross at Copenhagen and then start working uh
Start breaking the Swedish lines with some support from the troops in the north and uh yeah we’ll we’ll leave Germany as is we’re controlling the Baltic Coast this is a defensible line at this point the troops are relatively well dug in and it looks like uh we have been managing with some reinforcements
To stabilize the line for now fighting on German sorry fighting on German territory is definitely significantly harder because we have no way of actually building fortifications and it looks like um where are we where are the logistics striking in narod now uh apparently so that’s the that’s the latest and
Greatest uh but this region is is pretty well done this region is pretty well um defended so it should not be a huge problem uh the submarines are busy sinking sinking ships as they go but yeah we will try to we will try to assault Denmark and uh then we will try
To make our way potentially through the flats near Oslo if possible but we’ll have to see how that goes uh first we’ll try to to cross at uh at Copenhagen maybe and then work our way up from here or we will try to break through in the north and uh make our way
Towards christiansand the Polish have uh given the constant attacks here uh the Polish have uh gone quite quite heavy on the resistance so that’s something we’ll need to do deal with and I’m still building up my intelligence networks in France once that’s done I’ll switch the agents over to start
Performing uh performing missions to reduce uh the uh overall War support for the French and their stability and we will see um we’ll see if we can have a bit of an impact there but uh I will definitely need one operative back in Denmark if we are going to launch any
Kind of offensive operations so once again we’ll position somebody in Copenhagen and help with that and then we’ll try to to break the to break the Allied reinforcements here uh just hold the rest of the line and uh see what we can get done but all of that coming up
In the next episode The Air Force is not going to be able to operate because at this point literally the Allies have such such a superiority in Fighters that we would need probably twice the amount of aircraft that we have at this point so we’ll just keep building up our
Forces we might be able to use them in some of the more outlying regions if they don’t have anything and yeah the submarines are going to continue are going to continue sinking ships and being useful but yeah it’s uh I think liberating Germany will have to
Wait we have to close the we have to close the Denmark Straight first so I can I can pull the troops off here and actually help defend the German lines because the Germans themselves we’ve just had a massive Naval Invasion near uh near Dani and uh that would have just
Completely destroyed Germany that was a full uh a full American field army they took two ports and uh they they were busy actually shipping in reinforcements while we were cleaning up so uh yeah next episode we will uh we will attempt an assault on Denmark and then we will
See if we can uh make something happen from there and Link that up with uh with the rest of them and uh and see if we can get the uh we can get the Straits closed and the fleet uh here stopped and stuck and reinforcements of troops
Basically unless we once we have we have killed Baltic access that is I mean obviously we need to they can still get through Sweden for now but uh it’s the first half and once we’ve closed off the Straits and have taken Norway then they can no longer reinforce any we should be
Good anyway that’s coming up in the next episode that’s it for me today thanks everybody and I will see you next time bye-bye