Hearts of Iron IV: Finland – Historical AI – part 24

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So let me see I should have a nice stack of aircraft somewhere we have those guys who weren’t training but probably oh they’re on Army three that’s why so we go down here I want oh crap I’m going to have to do this first select the turkey the turkey force and then select

Um these guys one two 3 support on there one two three on there and for ease of management wherever they go they’ve got fighters going with them and I know that doesn’t always work quite as well as I would like it to but um it’s it’s what we’re doing

Right let’s bring in some more where’s the ground attack it’s it is actually you guys okay as long as we got some that’s absolutely fine oh I need to put them in crap I can’t find them now where are they over here yeah go and support no I still need to switch

Armies I need to go and support the Marine means if they they won’t have the range I should think but uh oh we’ve got some supporting them already okay go and support anybody else then we’ll just shift the rest around as as needed right this is going to be

Fun so the big fight down here is going to be great and also we might be able to plunge the Army onwards down here the axis can take care of that if we can go on and get the SE Canal that’s going to be like a major kind of win for um I

Think for us anyway should also cause the enemy right pause stop here we go we’ll sort it out as we go we’re just declaring war call the Allies no the Nordic Empire declared war on the United States wait for everyone to uh yeah okay we don’t have Naval Supremacy quite everywhere

What have we got we got another Mine Sub oh the Mine Subs can go out now that’s going to be fun there are some more up there they are being produced very very fast uh we’ve got a load of regular destroyers which is excellent I will put them all into there for

Now sorry submarines I meant I do know what I’m talking about even if I don’t sound like I do I don’t know how that’s come about so we’ll just put those into there stop the training change the symbol change the color uh split them in half and put those on Convoy

Escort okay so we’re enhancing our situation the Raiders now should really start going to work we’ve also got to set our bombers off haven’t we we do finally have some of these so let’s start Naval bombing and Port striking over there see what we can catch this was supposed to be a

Humongous region for um Naval bombing uh we we can put those in I can’t remember which were the new ones those those I have some of the old ones by the looks of it as well do you know what let’s just put a load of old ones in which Were these decrepit ancient things awful range but you never know so actually I can put them on Port strike I can’t put these on Naval that that’s that’s right okay they’re they’re useless there take take them out I can’t order them to Naval St uh these guys one these these

Can I’ve got someone ground attack over there who’s on ground attack oh they’re supporting Army 4 okay right given a minute we’ve got volunteer forces in transfer sending back all right CU we’ve joined the war those volunteers are coming back I’m guessing invite to faction this is what

I wanted Spain this is what I wanted excellent welcome to the faction big boy I don’t know why they’re so desperate to get involved nonaggression pack with Italy Bulgaria Japan um interesting time so we should be at war with everyone we should be at war with these guys now right

Our flag is in there somewhere I’m sure so we get those 10 divisions back so what happens if I go to Turkey and Trigger this attack yeah we’re at War I thought we were excellent where can I cut them off so everyone’s going to get called into

This fight now it’s going to be absolute flipping chaos all right let’s go over to there and start cutting some of these guys up have a quick look at the naval situation yeah I thought that would very quickly be the case but that’s also fine we never got the the Trans Siberian railroad

Produced I’m surprised just how long it took to really catch up on all the production of everything I thought we’ have been flying away with like Naval bombers and stuff by now but um what I can do is I can send my Strike Force out this one it’s going to have

Pretty bad detection I Think split it between those two which probably won’t really work very well uh what else can we do we could we could have if we built like Cruisers which we don’t quite have the technology to do everything I want to yet I can send out little uh little scouting

Forces which would be quite good and at the moment we do have those Scout planes over the North Sea what we don’t have is anyone over these so let’s see if we can do this excellent I’ve got two more that’s that’s perfect actually I have no idea

If these are actually giving us any benefit for the shipping it’s not what you call Naval patrols is it so let’s see how the fight goes over here and whether I’ve bitten off more than I can chew so our guys are going in quite nicely we are making good

Progress actually let’s uh let’s take let’s leave one of those there move one there and I want to cut this this guy off here so we’ve kind of done the dirty on the a load of People let’s have a look at the air situation Advanced rubber processing brilliant keep it coming so the air situation let me have a look at this as long as we’re not taking any damage over there I have nothing over Greenland so let’s put something there cuz that is within bomber range over

There so let’s just put some some light fighter us up that’s all we need and I’ll maybe put some over the sea actually I should have yeah I’ll put some over the sea as well is that not just why did that not produce sometimes I feel like I fight

The game there we go cuz I didn’t press that uh more than I fight the enemies in the game if you know what I mean so one over Greenland and one over over there I can’t do that because the range the range is terrible okay um I guess you

Guys can go home then for now we won’t need any more than that we’ve got like aerial Supremacy which is which is always nice what we don’t have is Naval Supremacy and I knew that was going to be the issue siam’s cancelled their the non-aggression pact interesting

I thought we disbanded that one cuz it was rubbish volunteer forces have returned so let’s hope Italy just doesn’t then just instantly sort of dissolve cuz I took the divisions off the front line there let’s at this point German Reich send atachi and are there any more political decisions we’ve been looking

At Coastal garrisons that’s something I can trigger all the time and we just to get more troops from it it seems like a never ending supply of troops which is which I guess is useful War support War support no problems there war bonds consumer goods factories y cash that in improved worker

Conditions which we could iron or do that I’ve got so much political power um I’ve got nothing much to spend it on the way of advisers so I guess we just go and observe the fight In Turkey let’s work on that I want to try and cut off these these black uh black SE ports if we can go all the way over there that’s actually not a terrible idea is it but I mean it’s a bit of a it’s a bit of a big swing at the moment

Let’s unpause and make sure that our infantry is actually doing its proper job it seems to be we’ve got these guys cut off which is nice right let’s let’s just finish these off now there shouldn’t be any any reason why we can’t storm through this

Bit and they can go and join the rest of the front line so looking good so far turkey is not looking too great I might have calleded Italy a minute ago I’m not going mad honest fellas so this is going to be some serious work to get Naval Supremacy in any of these

Regions this one might be the one that’s actually possible we can have a oh I forgot about rescuing the Spy crap who’s that a double agent don’t suppose we can have any Americans can we yeah cuz I was okay okay oh we can have a British okay yeah actually that that

Might be quite useful so let’s take you and put you onto a quiet Intel Network so we don’t get captured there and then what we can do is we can start preparing the good old collaboration government which is always useful oh God is he I must have forgotten about the one before it

Right I’ll put you in 68 days it might be too late to rescue him anyway it’s done join Wars from nationalist Spain in you come so we have we have friends in Spain now this is this is awesome uh is anything we need to do we should maybe send an attache over

There which we can afford to do so let’s do that the relations don’t need to improve and uh I don’t think we need to lend lease so that should help with a lot of things how’s the Navy doing is it instantly getting sunk everywhere oh I forgot to do the M submarines I’m

Stupid which you already knew sugar hang on one two 3 and then and then four right let’s start laying some mines obviously we want to like protect our Coastline a bit but we’ll have them in the channel we may as well just just surround our

Enemies as this is going to be our Focus let’s let’s do that let’s start laying mines everywhere and cause some problems for everybody else right then the question is can we actually break through and do something well jalter’s gone and that’s kind of why I wanted Spain in there cuz without

Gibralter which is strong get from the sea but not so much from the lands side at least not the way the game represents it then um this can that can really help the situation in the Mediterranean for the axis so the other thing that we then need to achieve

Is um going to the SE Canal so actually do I want to do all the no what I want to do is leave one behind I’m not getting I’m not getting cut off here this this is the thing that I cannot afford to do and then let’s chop up turkey into like segments

So as long as Spain holds Gibralter and I I trust they will then that spells Doom for the Allies in here at least it should so I’ve got armies prepared to pounce on the UK with very little hope of ever actually achieving that if I could send I could send the

Big Fleet over there but it’s very very risky as long as the subs are doing some work over there why is that quite so low only there were one task force is decided to Convoy raiding all of them are currently active 2% I wouldn’t have thought it’d be quite

As low as that but uh anyway it is what it is so we are storming through turkey it seems follow me we’ll get the armored divisions involved we’re about to take the new capital which is great uh let’s see I’m looking for more opportunities to cut them off basically there’s a good

One there is a good one okay that’s already that’s already in place this is going to be good it it this is going to go through actually stop it’s not going to go through we’ll go around it then I have no doubt that we’ll be able to get around

That and we’ll go in that way but basically I don’t need to leave all these tanks behind now so let’s push them into the fight now that we’ve uh We’ve uh we’ve got there proved anti-air we’ll get manufacturing that we were working on we could do a new

Mechanized doing new Marines as well not quite so urgent I feel as things like that actually does that cuz we don’t use a reconnaissance company cuz we use our own longrange Patrol I don’t actually know if we get the benefit I don’t honestly know if we even

Get the benefit of doing that so let’s hold off for a moment there’s a whole lot of stuff up here to to pay attention to basic Fire Control the air stuff is for now done the Navy the Navy is doing its thing uh we just can’t see a damn thing out

There let me get that so we can actually get some better submarine models or slightly improved submarine models anyway right what’s the situation here let’s bring those down gas yeah I feel like I I should really Railroad load of infantry around here and and cut these guys off I want to get

This cut off first though this this feels like quite an important one stop if it’s too much for you don’t don’t do it wait for reinforcements which which are now rapidly turning upas four divisions ought to do the job that looks much more much more reliable gas fine even more so there we

Go brilliant we’ve met up with our friends and from there Ethiopia has cancel the non-aggression pack let’s recruit a new operative we don’t have any great options I’ll take that whatever happened to the spying thing so that one’s actually in progress rescuing a captured operative okay

And what are we not oh we’re not making the new anti-a are we let’s get that rolled out and let’s just check our supplies uh we they’re captured anti-tank we’re not using them we have pretty good stocks of of everything to the point where I feel like I can recruit another four of

These screw it another six of those why not let’s let’s enjoy life a bit in heal oh I’ve got armies in El sinki that are currently not deployed that I could send down to help out in Turkey I don’t think they’re going to be needed though so let’s bring the armored Core

Back and let’s bring them over to here I mean they’re not really supposed to be going through the enemy like that but you know they’re tankers what can you do actually that’s okay that’s that’s an attack going on so turkey should fall we kind of want our armies scooped up on

This border and then pushing towards the SE Canal so that’s that’s our goal and we should have enough forces to do it the only thing I might need to consider uh supply lines coming through like this and then then we can’t upgrade that but we can upgrade that one is there a

Reason why we can’t upgrade that one not quite sure maybe it’s damaged or something I don’t know uh we’ll put those up there this suddenly looks like a right mess doesn’t it Con hang on can you do that by yourself you’ve got those excellent let’s bring um we’re going we’re just going we’re

Going all the way down to that Port we’ll cut them off again this is excellent news let’s just hold off on the turkey offensive plans and just consolidate a minute cuz I don’t feel like we need to charge head long into istan buul like that cuz

That’s going to get expensive uh what we do need to do however is just make sure we’ve got everything cut off to make sure things can’t escape and then we’re good and we just snip those off we can there ours anyway improved radar so we can go and take a look at

Those Scout planes so I set them up as Naval Scout planes and I don’t even know if they helping to any extent at all I’m really annoyed really annoyed with that so they they have to have Naval weapons I guess there isn’t is there an easy fix for

That if I went into this where are they are naval Scouts which we don’t need all them factories on now absolutely not transport planes uh where are they Naval Scouts tactical bomber weapons but if I do all that I can’t save them as a scout roll so they do have to

Be they’re not serving any purpose whatsoever right trash it just just just trash it or save it as a regular Scout plane then and uh and take that off hang on that’s the wrong one sorry where’s it gone that one I’ll take that off just remove it just make it

Cheaper to produce and then there are just my regular Scout planes which are absolutely fine uh let’s add some more range in fact let’s put some extra fuel tanks in so we lose some air defense from all that but uh I have no quarms about that it is what it

Is why do we have a more advanced version of that oh cuz I’ve just modified it that’s right and cut the factories down to two so so now we can use them as scouting for anything anywhere which uh I guess is is kind of useful if it even works like this I

Don’t know I just don’t know if it does um I don’t know if they’re spotting anything over the ocean at all right okay are we in are we in position to sort of clean that up we should be where do my tanks go tanks are sort of trying to attack through the mountains

And not having a whole lot of Joy over there try bring them back istan bull is is almost gone let’s let’s bring the tanks mind I did say I wanted to pile forwards and get the uh no let’s do one thing at a time let’s go in and see if we can take

This place and and uh all the armor four divisions at a time going in let’s give them some some beautiful Awards over here 5% attack I will take thank you very much it would help having better mechanized stuff we we should start building that now right lovely fantastic progress has been

Made I feel like we don’t need to worry about that do I need to give people access rights ask for military access that would be a good idea we’re in different factions we already have we can’t offer military access why will they not accept very strange so Germans will give us military

Access but Italians will not that might be something that causes a Problem I’m thinking in this yeah okay let’s let Italy sort that mess out down there we took some casualties doing that which was a shame right cancel all that and what we’re actually going to do is um field Marshall order on on this bit oh we

Already have well we have access to to their lands they just don’t have access to ours let’s get down there that’s that’s the plan and are we building supply lines as we go we are it’s just not looking great at the moment is it there going to be a whole lot of

Building going on down there do we have a decent Port here well I think what we should probably do is link that in there and then just also build these up and Link that over to there two can we do that one is that doable and then drop those so good God

There’s a lot of there’s a whole lot of rail building going on right let’s trigger let’s trigger that guy’s orders the Naval Air Force uh dominate the skies support for ground forces air close support models air support Mission efficiency let’s let’s take that one what does the Air Force look like at

At the moment it’s a little bit mixed over turkey it’ll be fine what I’ll do is I’ll just put some standard Fighters basic small airf frame the reason I’m using those is purely because it will fill up by itself with the new stuff or at least it should

Do okay and my tanks I put up here gas let’s take the top four gas and have a go and what I’ll do is I’m just going to cycle these around good God that’s that could take a long time to to break up oh I don’t know though no it’s

Starting to go now excellent turkey’s capitulated we got a lot of materials from that so that that’s actually worked really well uh Germany gets that bit but that’s fine cuz we’ve got access and uh permissions to move through so with the Allies lost here and lost here it is now

Time to make sure they also lose down here and lose the sew canal and then we uh we are we are golden why aren’t