Cassidy
Arcane
Index
- Das Ende der Finsternis (End of the Darkness) - right here
- Fall Neinmaske (Case Nomask)
- Auferstehung (Resurrection)
- Apokalyptische Reiter
- Ragnarök
- Der Himmel Brennt (The Sky is Burning)
- Roter Horde
- Bolschewismus Überall (Bolshevism Everywhere)
- Götterhammer, Kapitel I : Unser Erlösung für Polen
- Götterhammer, Kapitel II : Sieg oder Bolschewismus
- Götterhammer, Kapitel III : Zerstrahlung das Moskau
- Roter Atom
- Winterblitzkrieg 1955
- Die Straße nach Stalingrad
- Fall Drache
- Unser Traum vom Mond beginnt
- Fall Kebab
- Barbarossa II
- Zerstörung von Moskau
- ENTFERN KEBAB AUS RÄUMLICHKEITEN
- HEUTE NACHT WIR SPEISEN IM HÖLLE!
- S-Tag : Tag des Sieges
- Pax Germanica
- Kalter Krieg
- Eisen Himmel
- Rote Alarm
- Endspiel
- Vierter Weltkrieg
This Let's Play will involve one of the toughest scenarios of Hearts of Iron 2 because it involves playing with the losing side in an even more desperate situation than the one immediately after D-Day. Darkest Hour 1.3 with The Grand Campaign combo-mod* plus Cold War Tech Tree Extension more specifically. It is called Endsieg, and it starts by the very end of 1944, with everything obviously turned against Germany, fighting on multiple fronts, depleted, about to run out of fuel to keep their panzers working and their aircrafts on the air, with the Bolshevik hordes already at the gates of Warsaw and the Kwa' already having successfully done D-Day and at the gates of Germany.
*Download links for everything used:
THE GRAND CAMPAIGN AAR+NWO
READ ME
This mod is the result of a long-planned undertaking to merge two independent mods:
- Arms, Armistice, and Revolutions (AAR) by Burning and Limith, which according to its creators, "links the 1914-Scenario to the classical 1936 grand campaign, thereby offering half a century of pure political, economical and social turmoil to play. It takes care of guiding the major powers of WW2 so they can then pursue their individual, (a)historical paths in a new, great War."
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-Arms-Armistice-and-Revolutions-Announcements
- New World Order 2 (NWO) by Bizon, which to quote myself, "is a mod which task is to provide compelling reason to keep playing Darkest Hour after 1945 at least until planned end of timeline in 1964. (...) The task of the mod, once again, is to recreate all the plausible venues in which the World War 2 could have ended, and experience the darkest hours of the Cold War era."
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?561583-New-World-Order-2
With Darkest Hour Full developers concentrating on 1914-1918 and 1933-1945 timeline, AAR mod covering Interwar era and NWO mod taking care of the times of the Cold War, the resulting merger offers the possibility to replay full 50 years of war and peace, creating many possible avenues of historical development.
While creating a working version of such a combination out of recent versions of each mod would be feasible, it would be an arduous task to update it along with development of each mod. So I took another route and created a program to use source files from each mod and merge them on the go. This way anyone can create their version of this mod out of available files.
Note: It is a very first test version of this mod and some things may go wrong. Especially, the fact that I don't know which version of DH Full, AAR and NWO you'll be using creates a maintenance nightmare but I'm sure, at this point, that you'll be understanding, and we'll be fixing it on case-by-case basis. The fact that AAR doesn't support 1.03 yet means I could only create a version that more or less works, but is not fully bug-free. FYI, I used DH Full 1.03 RC2, AAR 1.4.1.1 and NWO 1.9.5 for testing. For the intended result you should probably use DH 1.02 and an older 10.2-compatible NWO version, available from its thread.
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Disclaimer
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I call The Grand Campaign a "mod" in a sense that the result of this project is a set of files that collectively modify Darkest Hour. But what is shared here is primarily a set of routines to merge files from two independent and long-running mods which exist and are developed separately. I don't claim authorship of all the files involved; Darkest Hour Full, AAR and NWO are all works of their respective developers and contributors. - Bizon
READ ME
This mod is the result of a long-planned undertaking to merge two independent mods:
- Arms, Armistice, and Revolutions (AAR) by Burning and Limith, which according to its creators, "links the 1914-Scenario to the classical 1936 grand campaign, thereby offering half a century of pure political, economical and social turmoil to play. It takes care of guiding the major powers of WW2 so they can then pursue their individual, (a)historical paths in a new, great War."
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-Arms-Armistice-and-Revolutions-Announcements
- New World Order 2 (NWO) by Bizon, which to quote myself, "is a mod which task is to provide compelling reason to keep playing Darkest Hour after 1945 at least until planned end of timeline in 1964. (...) The task of the mod, once again, is to recreate all the plausible venues in which the World War 2 could have ended, and experience the darkest hours of the Cold War era."
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?561583-New-World-Order-2
With Darkest Hour Full developers concentrating on 1914-1918 and 1933-1945 timeline, AAR mod covering Interwar era and NWO mod taking care of the times of the Cold War, the resulting merger offers the possibility to replay full 50 years of war and peace, creating many possible avenues of historical development.
While creating a working version of such a combination out of recent versions of each mod would be feasible, it would be an arduous task to update it along with development of each mod. So I took another route and created a program to use source files from each mod and merge them on the go. This way anyone can create their version of this mod out of available files.
Note: It is a very first test version of this mod and some things may go wrong. Especially, the fact that I don't know which version of DH Full, AAR and NWO you'll be using creates a maintenance nightmare but I'm sure, at this point, that you'll be understanding, and we'll be fixing it on case-by-case basis. The fact that AAR doesn't support 1.03 yet means I could only create a version that more or less works, but is not fully bug-free. FYI, I used DH Full 1.03 RC2, AAR 1.4.1.1 and NWO 1.9.5 for testing. For the intended result you should probably use DH 1.02 and an older 10.2-compatible NWO version, available from its thread.
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Disclaimer
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I call The Grand Campaign a "mod" in a sense that the result of this project is a set of files that collectively modify Darkest Hour. But what is shared here is primarily a set of routines to merge files from two independent and long-running mods which exist and are developed separately. I don't claim authorship of all the files involved; Darkest Hour Full, AAR and NWO are all works of their respective developers and contributors. - Bizon
DISCLAIMER: I hope you will not be too much of Grammar Nazis about the titles of each update in this Let's Play, because Wiktionary and Google Translate are not perfect. Also, any similarity of the metaplot of this thread with what nomask7 claims about Eldritch entities and mind control is mere coincidence. Also I do not intend to ever post a copy of this thread elsewhere because librul moderators would erase my thread merely for this:
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Das Ende der Finsternis
"Goebbels, I have been wondering about something today:" the Führer said in a private meeting with him before he would receive the bad news about Warsaw. All was starting to echo bleak and hopeless not even the best propagandist could hide, since the day the Battle of Stalingrad was lost, and now France and most of Poland were lost as well to the massive Bolshevik hordes.
"Yes, mein Führer?"
"Hypothetically, if there were beings, not unlike those our Society has studied in the past, that could implant foreign thoughts into the mind of a man, only for the sake of their own amusement, would such man believe those thoughts were his own if they were implanted enough times?"
"Yes, that would be the perfect propaganda, with those who 'listen' to it forever oblivious to its influence. Why did you ask me that?.
"Nothing,. Also, I need your help. I am stepping down from commanding directly the military, and I need this decision to sound right and not be wrongly interpreted as a sign of weakness .
"Of course, although I am somewhat surprised , mein Führer."
However, that was only the first of many unpredictable decisions, and nothing compared to Hitler's direct orders to "Let the dogs take over Warsaw and serve as a buffer to the hordes of Bolsevhik scum. A daring, ambitious and risky move, allowing Warsaw to stay in their hands would block an important access route and easen the burden of defending such a massive front in a losing war.
Being aware that many of his thoughts were not truly his, but the insertions of some kind of abominable mind controller, Hitler has changed drastically his course of action, and immediately ordered for research of nuclear technology to resume, for it could yet bring the last chance of turning the desperate tide of this war if Germany holds their ground long enough, but now it was most certainly too late to prevent disaster, probably the only reason the mind puppeteers allowed for him to finally think his own thoughts since the day some Jews did not let him become a painter, perhaps to enjoy his misery now that the Germany the demons possessing Hitler created was on the brink of death, and the burden of responsibility for failure would sooner or later fall into him.
Retreat orders were issued. The command for not giving any inch was rescinded, strategic retreats to more defensible positions being considered even while the retreat of Colmar was underway. The Fatherland will not go down without a fight!
While the West Front may be considered precarious, the East Front is completely desperate, seemingly hopeless. The polemic decisions of letting the Warsaw Uprising be proved itself to be a potential only chance of the line withstanding the vastly numerically superior Bolshevik hordes, which were multiplying without end.
Attempts to negotiate a peace that would return all absolutely Polish territories to Poland failed, as in spite of their zero odds of victory, after all the atrocities they have suffered, they were eager for retribution, and ready to do or die. Nevertheless, Warsaw would still be a convenient buffer.
Many V-2 guided rockets were being redeployed to the East Front, as a new purpose for them was envisioned: they would annihilate bottlenecks along the railways and roads seized by the Bolshevik scum, hindering their logistics and delaying their advance for months. Such logistical strikes could be the key to holding the line long enough for the weapon that will turn the tide of the war to be researched and built.
Donitz was ordered to assemble one last gallant wolfpack, one final act of the Battle of the Atlantic intent on hindering the logistics of the Allied forces in France.
By disregarding the threat of leaving certain parts of the front barely defended while providing defense support to the locations where the Soviet Union concentrated all their offensives, the Wehrmacht could yet hold their line against such impossible odds. There was no room for strategic counter offensives, for the numerical superiority of the Bolshevik meant any lost territory would only be taken back by the merciless hammer of the gods. Eager to defeat Germany, the Bolsheviks were suffering massive and disproportionate casualties. However, they could afford to bleed their own people dry for many more years, while the Reich was on its last legs.
The still successful defense of East Prussia was hailed by Goebbels for its showcase of heroism and the superiority of the German army against the Bolshevik scum. However, every time an offensive was successfully halt, a gap in the defenses was left for a new one to begin. How long Germany would withstand such pressure remains to be seen.
Failing to protect the airspace of Berlin, the only wing of rocket interceptors of Germany is disbanded as the impractical, borderline useless fighter aircraft it is.
The Red tide is relentless, but the German soldiers defend the Fatherland with utmost bravery, and their leaders are not afraid of resorting to an elastic defense, attempting to keep up by shifting the bulk of the mobile defenders to where the Bolshevik offensives are mostly concentrated. All battles are hardly fought, and won with only much determination and effort.
Over the skies, the reorganized Luftwaffe now finally had a chance of reestablishing air superiority... if only the oil stockpiles of Germany weren't near depleted.
When the fuel shortages began, all aerial forces became obsolete, and the once mighty panzers were severely hadicapped. Air superiority has become impossible, and only the guided rockets, using a questionable alternate fuel, could still be launched.
Without oil, the German's surface fleet became an white elephant, and the enemies of the Reich had uncontested supremacy over the waves, that could only be defied or bypassed beneath them. Thus unfortunately the near entirety of the Kriegsmarine surface navy had to be disbanded.
Krakow was another hard fought battle, and there was no way to put this victory as anything but of critical importance for the continued survival of Germany. However, as the fluid defense lines left gaps in other parts of the front to ensure victory, this time with a 5:1 casualty ratio in favor of the Reich, new battles started at the ever-chaning weak spots of the front, this time on Radom, which fortunately could be better defended with the benefit of the Warsaw buffer.
An attempt to sneakly move transports to rescue pocketed Germany forces ended as a fiasco, the transports intercepted by Finnish ships and forced to retreat.
While unfortunately the situation was not going well in general, over the north another decisive victory was achieved thanks to the strategy of an elastic defense always readying itself to counter any threat.
At the same time, with the precariety of the front and the failure of the Ustasa, it was chosen to leave them to their own fate alone and consolidate a line from Budapest to Triest.
As many soldiers as possible wihtout endangering the other front lines were deployed to the Eastern Front.
And eventually an even more deadly and numberful invasion against Krakow has began, even as Radom was still under attack This was starting to seriously overtax the ability of the Reich of putting up a fight.
Radom was saved, but for how long?
After taking over Amsterdam, capital of the Low Countries(rather than Denmark), the Kwanzanians launched a massed offensive against the Saar. The very Saar Germany lost during the Weltkrieg. It shall not happen again!
Eventually no matter how many times they could repeat support defense missions, East Prussia was starting to collapse, and upon hearing of the news, the German officers proposed a new, further back defensive line centered at Torun, and to hold such new defensive line at any cost.
Intentional retreats to the new defensive lines were immediately executed, hopefully this new elastic defense line would be effective enough to prevent any industrious Russian tank commanders from achieving the same goal.
A new fallback to a good and defensible line was proposed, while keeping Italy at bay.
Thanks to a tale worthy of being the "German Long March", a long Motorized Infantry division has managed to end very close to the borders with Germany proper, for its last chance of rejoining the rest of the Wehrmacht.
Even worse, rebels began to threaten the stability of Germany.
Croatia was left to her own fate, because it was a too large front to be properly defended.
Many times Krakow was assaulted without success, but every time their ferocity increased.
Even without oil, the armored vehicles of the East Front were doing a great job, most linkely thanks to their commanders.
As New Year's eve approached, there was little room for c elebrations or joy, although so far Germany has managed to hold their ground around the Vistula. As long as their bravery and competence allow them to hold their line for years, there could still be victory, and vindication.
Some people wondered if their Führer was someone else, for his attitude has changed overnight, in many ways for better, ensuring a far more successful defense than what happened before that 16th of December last year, with the allies still failing to achieve any significant breakthrough and suffering almost as heavy losses as the Bolsheviks.
Across the West Front, V2 rockets also were used to destroy logistics, slow down the Allied movements and diminish their logistical supply efficiency, and while victorious over the Saar, they immediately had to resort to their fluid defense lines to hold the ground again.
In an attempt of weakening the West Front onslaught, Donitz is sent on a daunting mission of attacking Allied supply lines over the seas with one of the greatest combined submarine fleet ever conceived.
And somehow, Donitz did it! The allies at France were having supply problems, and what else could be the reason for it?
Thus, the year of 1945 would begin, Germany's Finest Hour, perhaps even more desperate than her situation during the final year of 1919 in the First World War, yet somehow, after losing so much ground, they finally have managed to halt the advance of their enemies for almost an entire month with the Allies failing yet another offensive at the west, while the far more dangerous and numberful Red Army was contained, for the time being, the defensive lines succeeding. Over Italy, in spite of some tentative British attacks, nothing has changed, and soon the brave motorized infantry division that managed to escape from encirclement by maneuvering behind enemy lines will rejoin the front lines
However, the situation at the East Front was far from simple, and the even the news of oil in Hollabrun were overshadowed by the bleak perspectives of this conflict. The demons that controlled Hitler and, in the future, nomask7, already ruined Germany by 1945. Only a miracle or a military genius could change the course of this war. At best, the Wehrmacht could drag it on for a few more years, but sooner or later they wouldn't withstand the massive numbers of the Red Army and the fighting over so many fronts. Werner Heisenberg probably would need more time than what the Wehrmacht and the depleted German people after so many tragic deaths of young patriots in lost battles of the Eastern Front could afford giving, and peace with the Allies was out of question, for they were determined to annihilate Germany as a nation should total defeat happen, as the Morgenthau Plan has proved.
Will the Fatherland courageously hold long enough, against all odds, for the Bolshevik armies to burn in nuclear flames and the tide be turned again, no matter the cost, or will Adolf, like many disturbed tyrants and people supposedly possesed by demons of the past, kill himself as soon as he see visions of a future admirer of his asking for a degenerate Scottish transsexual to shit on his chest?
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