Let's Play Hearts of Iron 2 (Preparing for D-Day in Asia)

[poocolator]

Can Poland finally into space?

 

[Cassidy]

Can Poland finally into space?

Eventually, but the War of the Worlds is far from over yet. It'll last until 1963, or until the ultimate victory of the Foedus of Man, whichever happens first.

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Victory in South America Day: Delayed by Winter, achieved by courage.

After a long struggle, new mountain divisions finally secure Wellington, while Bariloche will soon be liberated by advancing forces from the north, isolating one of the enemy divisions.

Panama is now becoming definitively impenetrable, while the enemy seemingly have drawn most of their forces southwards. Such was a great opportunity, but one that would require much effort and struggle. It was necessary to attempt the dangerous liberation of Central and North America, to secure the supremacy of mankind in Earth.

Slowly, the ultimate movements to crush the isolated enemy forces begin. In an operation, that due to a small mistake, would last a little longer than it should. For, without any nearby air base, the lack of air support would delay the attack against the divisions in Santa Cruz and Punta Arenas.

The majority of Great Britain has been liberated. The British were slowly building an army as a precaution, for considering most of it was made of militias, they had little faith in any chance of ever retaking Europe again.

Finally, one of the most important tactical doctrines for the UDMS-KKK begins to be researched, for it will give for the armies of the KKK unparalleled advantage in night ops, and could, if well used, turn the tide against the enemy.

In 24th of March, the Battle of Bariloche has began. The heavy counter-attacks and air support perhaps would work this time against the POPAMOLES.

One day later, the enemy offensive was halted successfully. Waiting no time, allied forces continue their flanking attacks as the soldiers in Bariloche also advanced on Puerto Aisen to crush the aliens.

And thus, after a day and half of battle, another great victory. Now only two divisions remained before the ultimate victory.

Three actually, but the divisions retreating to Manaus would be so easily defeated they shouldn't count anymore. Such victories were very important due to one fact: the enemy could not build more power armors and tripods with the resources they had available on Earth, and thus, such were far greater losses to them than any losses mankind had, for they were irreplaceable, and once the enemy has been reduced only to forces armed with not that far beyond technology, a chance of victory would arrive. Also, apparently, the fact no more reinforcements came meant that these invaders travelled for years, decades, if not centuries to reach Earth, and thus, they couldn't count on more reinforcements now.

Supply convoys are hunted both in the Atlantic and in the Pacific by the vast and growing U-boat fleet of the UDMS-KKK.

Due to their massive military, the benefits of more efficient supply logistics reducing the costs for supplying troops far outweigh those of increased industrial output, specially because they'll have no extra cost in energy, and thus another change in the cabinet of the provisory government of the UDMS-KKK happened.

Also, to continue the tradition of having the most advanced infantry forces of the world, now, the next advances, specially the improved RPGs, will be very important, and while the revolutionary assault rifles will be useless against power armors and tripods, once the war finally involves once again engagements with the living dead forces armed with just what is assumed to be late 20th century grade technologies, they will make a huge difference compared to submachineguns, bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles.

24th of April of 1942 would be a day to be forever remembered by the British. The day their island has been successfully liberated. To allow themselves to concentrate their efforts on America, they release military control from British forces(Read: way too many armies, and specially fleets to control and I was leaving lots of them unused, and it's unlikely the single British division in Amerikwa is going to make any difference, and once and if Amerikwa is fully liberated, it'll be quite easy to assume control of them again if needed.)

In the North Atlantic, while the allied forces waited for the end of the winter in the Southern hemisphere, to begin the final liberation of South America, one of the most successful raids against enemy convoys happen, however, it would be only one drawing with a few others as the second most successful. For in one single raid by another group, five transports were sunk.

Third most successful, because escorts are worth nothing to sink besides maybe inducing the enemy to waste time manufacturing more of them instead of raising even more their massive armies of living dead.

There was a mess in Panama. It was thus decided to reorganize the forces into larger armies, to make things more manageable without having to check through dozens and dozens of different armies. Meanwhile, the enemy advanced and returned to Managua, several times. Leaving an window of opportunity to isolate them into a single region.

In July 3rd, one day before the indepedence day of the original Kwanzania before ITZ, the most successful attack on an enemy convoy since the beginning of all submarine operations happened, sinking five ships at once. At least now the enemies no longer had over 9000 transports for sure. Medals would definitively be waiting those brave men after so many successful operations.

Unfortunately, the winter of 1942 have significantly delayed the final liberation of South America, while in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, strange research facilities are rumored to have been built next to alleged pyramids and ruins of an ancient civilization.

Later in the same month of August, several morons began to pressure the government to institute economic regulations and an extensive welfare program. The government of the UDMS-KKK soundly refused, shifting to a lolbertarian platform, while also, to increase the support of the people, promising a new plan of managerial modernization with the goal of reducing the spending in bureaucracy and thus giving a tax cut to the people. A huge incline thus happens as a welfare state is prevented.

However, this also meant that the UDSM-KKK was now more prone to failures of the free market caused by global warmthink.

By coincidence, as soon as the south melted in the far South of Patagonia, the Infiltration Assault doctrine has been successfully developed, and now would be tested for the first time against such technologically advanced enemy forces.

Due to a mistake in the relay of orders, the bombers launched their attack against the wrong place. But even without air support, this time, due to sheer numbers, and the fact every force attacking from regions where they'd have to cross rivers were led by Generals able as engineers(far more useful than engineer brigades), allowed them to overwhelm the enemy, putting many to question why the wait for the winter's end in the first place. However, now the time was ripe for the ultimate victory, at last. But while the battle for South America was about to be won, the Battle for Earth was far from over yet.

In 12th of October, the beginning of the end. Although the snow haven't melted yet in Punta Arenas, the momentum dragged the allied forces to risk attacking it immediately. One division of suck, brave and courageous men would volunteer to attack Punta Arenas from the sea while all others would attack from every possible side to crush the enemy for once and all in South America.

The Portuguese expeditionary forces were the only ones that were sufficiently courageous to embark in such dangerous position. Now everything was set for the final battle, except for the arrival of several battleships and heavy cruisers to provide fire support.

And thus, it begins. Despite overwhelming superiority, the battle still could be difficult, and the enemies are not easily defeated.

Nevermind. Not all final battles can avoid being anti-climatic, even though very intense fighting happening during those three hours of battle. And thus, the final victory in South America happened. And 18th of October of 1942 would be forever engraved in the History of humanity, as the day when mankind has for the first time, defeated the invaders in one of the many theaters of this truly global war. 18th of October would be forever celebrated by all the peoples of South America as the V-SA day, or Victory in South America Day. And thus, now, all the brave soldiers began to head on north, where the next great challenge beckons: the Liberation of Central and North Amerikwa.

And thus, the greatest power of the human-controlled parts of the world has emerged victorious in South America, and prepared for the next step to bring salvation of humanity and liberty again to the north, through what was being planned as the largest amphibious operation ever made in the history of Earth.

Great Britain maintained a cautious stand over the Channel. The short distance between Calais and Dover allowed for the inhabitants and soldiers of the island to witness the apocalyptic horrors to the other side of the channel. If Amerikwa could yet be fully liberated, the United Kingdom would become extremely important due to their location for the still far away and uncertain to ever happen next step in the war for Earth. UDMS-KKK, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Dutch government-in-exile in Indonesia, Ireland and Japan were the only surviving States left in Earth of any significance, chance of surviving further on and industrial output.

At least the atrocities and tyranny of the Soviets would never happen again in history, and maybe, in a very, very big maybe, if Poland could be liberated yet, the entirety of fallen Soviet territories would then become theirs for the taking, allowing for the formation of a Greater Poland from the ashes of Eastern Europe (AND CENTRAL EUROPE TOO BECAUSE POLAND IS A CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRY: DON'T FORGET IT).

But that was a very, very, very big maybe. And was very, very far away for now, when the current objective was not Eurasia, but Kwanzania. The Battle for Earth has entered in a stalemate during most of 1942, but soon things would get very bloody and difficult again.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Time to bail out the hamburger-people.

 

[Infantryman]

Very well done. I hope you used the stalemate time well, making a hell lot of transport ships. You'll have to take Nicaragua in one massive landing to avoid disastrous counter-attack. Once they're trapped in Costa Rica, liberating North Kwanzania would be a child's play.

The fact that alien invasion force in Britain has vanished is very strange. With 9000 transport ships, it is impossible they all just starved to death. It must have been the dumbness of the AI. But the Fortress Europe is another thing, with all the time and resources aliens have to build up their forces, I suspect its defences perhaps might even be impenetrable by now. Whichever way will it go, however, I am certain it will be epic.

Another thing that I find most unusual is that some of the European pockets are still holding. The provinces they are trapped in have no industrial capacity at all, so they should have starved to death by now, unless the host countries had an enormous stockpiles of supplies when ITZ came to them.

 

[Cassidy]

The Christmas of 1942 in Kwanzania.

The Battle of Britain continues through the air, as expeditionary forces are tasked with the major challenge of intercepting turbojet strategic bombers above the skies of England.

And thus, as victory in South America is secure, the soldiers are shipped off Patagonia to reach the Venezuelan port of Maracaibo, planned to be a staging area for the largest amphibious operations ever made in mankind history.

And more transports are being built at the shipyards, but not for this operation, for according to reviews, there are enough transports for sixty-three divisions already. They were being built because, if the liberation of the entire Amerikwa works, they would be very much needed.

The shipping of several soldiers to Maracaibo continues through the month of October, while several scattered transports are being now sent there, as the build up of forces begin.

With the successful development of the first assault rifle of the world, the (Oh fuck I have no idea on how to name a Polish-made AR) and of more advanced rather than streamlined RPGs, the UDMS-KKK will soon field the most advanced infantry forces among the forces of mankind. And thus, to reduce the losses of bombers, the development of escort fighters begin.

The vast submarine force of the UDMS-KKK Navy covers both the Atlantic and the Pacific, where another record of tonnage sunk in a single convoy attack happens, and a new submarine ace is on the making, two days after the timid celebration of Poland's independence day by Polish refugees in South America, still hopeful, together with the surviving soldiers of Poland, that one day their nation shall be liberated.

In 22th of November, almost everything was ready for the creatively named Operation Merry Christmas. Among the many men leading this operation is the great war hero Major General Anders, who was among the many victorious patriots in the brutal one-month long battle of Kielce of 1939 and among those who bought precious time for Poland during its finest hour in the now gone Second World War. Anders is the best general of the entire UDMS-KKK army, followed by the great hero Maczek who managed to defend Warsaw several times with a measly division of totally obsolete TK-S tankettes. Forget Rommel, forget Mannstein, forget Guderian, forget Patton. The ultimate panzer leader of this timeline is someone else.

In 25th of November of 1942, a massive fleet began to sail for Cape Gracias a Dios, translated as "Thank God". The faithful inhabitants of South Kwanzania truly had reasons to thank God for the fact these invaders underestimated South America, and the name of the Cape where such operation would begin was perhaps fitting, in a symbolic meaning. The D-Day of America was about to begin.

Meanwhile, news arrive about the people of Greenland and Iceland being sick with the poorly guarded German occupation of both islands and decide to raise in arms against the occupation. The German government-in-exile will soon have nowhere else to go at this rate.

27th of November, the operation begins. Rather than landing directly to Nicaragua, and facing an immediate counter-attack, another plan is made, that once again, will have much to owe to the courage of the Air Force.

Besides, landing in Nicaragua would be a bad idea because it is totally impossible to synchronize arrival in amphibious assaults. And as soon as all sorts safely land, the transports head for Maracaibo and Panama to carry even more soldiers to Managua. Expectingly, the enemy begins to advance northwards. However, there would be something done to significantly delay them.

As soon as their supply lines were isolated, the first new alien convoys already had a welcoming party. But unfortunately, some of them still managed to pass through because there were more of them than torpedoes available to sink them, or perhaps the total lack of any naval doctrine research has a lot to do with this as well. Although the damage was done, effectively cutting off those enemy forces from supplies would be a little more difficult. Meanwhile, all tactical bombers begin to destroy roads, railroads and open huge craters along Nicaragua, until nothing more remains in transport infrastructure.

Thus buying time, so that now, a massive army of more than a million men could advance southwards, and hopefully arrive in Nicaragua before the enemy did.

Some alien flotilla sent for anti-submarine warfare have the misfortune of meeting the main battle fleet of UDMS-KKK, with its six aircraft carriers and several light cruisers and destroyers.

Once everyone is ready, the advance begins.

With the tank destroyer research completed, the development of better tactical bombers start. However, it is reaching a certain limit. Specialists claim that for tactical bombers, this will be the best that can be achieved with piston engine powered props. A new form of aircraft propulsion would have to be invented to allow for the possibility of more advanced bombers.

Panama becomes even more entrenched, allowing for the defenders to have an equivalent 1:1 ratio with the enemy forces to the north safely, while two almost up-to-date medium tank divisions are complete, and a great patriot, who left Poland just in time to escape ITZ, while the crews of the TK-Ses he commanded have chosen to fight to death instead, would finally be able to return to active duty. Only this time, he would be commanding far better 14TP medium tanks instead. Although comparing them to what the aliens fielded as armor was like comparing the TK-S with the German prototypes for a so called Tiger tank.

The German government-in-exile is forcefully expelled from Iceland, and asks, together with several of the greatest German scientific minds, for asylum in the UDMS-KKK. Of course their request is accepted, in the hopes that eventually the German tech teams will be available(or not if they require editing the saved game file again and no way in hell I'm going to do that!)

Making fleets of carriers without screening ships or escorts of any kind, sending lone destroyers to engage a main battlefleet. It is really fortunate such aliens are so incredibly inept in naval warfare.

However, although not successful in completely blockading the enemy forces in Central America, the submarine operations are causing large and continuous lossess to the enemy transport fleets. If the rate of 10 sunk transports for day could be achieved and kept, in less than 3 years the entire merchant fleet of the enemy would be annihilated. But unfortunately sinking 10 ships per day was not that simple.

Not wasting time, the liberation of Central America procceeded while the gross of enemy forces lied at Costa Rica. And immediately after, more liberations would occur, as it became clear the high likelihood that the entire invasion force of North Amerikwa was in Costa Rica now, and could be successfully stranded there.

And the enemy decide to send one more late 20th century-grade destroyer crewed by their horrible zombies to the slaughter.

And thus, a massive battle would begin, the largest battle ever fought in Earth. An army of one million one hundred thirty thousand men against four hundred thirty thousand aliens and thousands of tripods. A denial zone was created, as a gigantic barrage of artillery shells nearly blotted out the sun while several anti-tank gun were positioned around. From the sheer mass of concentrated firepower, tripods began to be destroyed as soon as they advanced to the range of well hidden artillery, and the enemy simply stopping advancing and retreated after only a hour.

This short lasted battle could already mean near total victory in America. However, that was yet to be seen. With the front secure, immediately several amphibious operations begin to liberate the entirery of Central America, Mexico and ultimately, prove Cleve was wrong regarding ITZ COMING and the inevitability of ITZ in Kwanzania.

As the month of december proceeds, more target practice happens for the fleets in the caribbean.

An entire army of 43 divisions is thus isolated, and thanks to heavy fortifications, they dare not to attack Panama despite having far less defenders now than it had when the fortifications were still in the early stages of construction.

The christmas of 1942 would still be a time for celebration despite all that happened, for now, humanity had a chance yet, and a great man would bring a great Christmas gift for Kwanzania:

Major General Maczek would be one of the first men to land in Kwanzania and liberate the city of Miami from the alien occupation. After several searches, survivors were find inside deep bunkers, as they celebrated the holiday even under such terrible circumstances.

But that was only the beginning. Hope arises again in Kwanzania.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Wicked update. Lets just hope no heavy stuff is lurking in the Kwa.

 

[Cassidy]

Kwanzania Reborn

Submarine operations continue to bring even more successes.

Another change in policies to match the reality of the world.

A new mobile HQ is established, commanded by General Bukacki, who according rumors on the street, is a decadent sodomite.

To guard all the amphibious forces liberating Kwanzania, the main battlefleet is splitted in two: a carrier-centric Atlantic Battlefleet and a Battleship-centric Pacific Battlefleet.

Alien transports are expelled from their ports as the allied forces advance through the empty and undefended wastelands of post-ITZ Kwanzania. It will require a demographics studies, but it is very clear that by now, billions of human beings have died, and a huge demographic black hole was left in North Kwanzania. However, as the liberation procceeded, several refugees, previously residing in South Amerikwa, have decided to resettle through the most human-devoid territories, for they still had their industrial infrastructure mostly intact, ripe for the taking to whoever arrives first to claim them. This would forever change the map of America, and give origin to new nations under the flag of the UDMS-KKK.

The survivors of the Canadian Army begin a long march to liberate their nation.

Raising New York to its former glory won't be easy. ITZ was really strong, and as the liberators marched through, soon they realized: there was nobody left alive to be liberated. They marched through a ghost metropolis, the shadow of an once great city. On the other hand, the irrational lifeforms of Earth, from what was noticed, were completely untouched by the aliens, who apparently were trying to preserve them rather than to destroy it, probably as they considered them to be no threat.

The aliens send two destroyers in an unsuccessful attempt to conduct anti-submarine warfare, failing to sink any of the submarines in the region.

The enemy transport fleets in Amerikwa continue to be slowly destroyed.

By the end of January, the entire East Coast of North America has been liberated, and thus, the focus is now shifted inwards. New demographic changes also happen, as an influx of French refugees began to migrate for Eastern Canada, bolstering significantly the Quebecois survivors in their cause to create their own nation.

The Atlantic battlefleet is sent to chase the destroyers, but by the time they arrived, the enemy flotilla was long gone. Also, in the end of January, the UDMS-KKK forces in Britain were ready to defend its airspace in a new Battle of Britain.

It is a difficult hunt, but in the end, despite their technological superiority, the enemy bombers suffer heavy losses, at the expense of the air units ending disorganized and having to wait further to fight again for air supremacy in the British Isles.

After January, considerable progress has been made, as it became clear now the liberation of Kwanzania was only a matter of time, as the enemy foolishly placed their entire North-American invasion force in Costa Rica, as suspected.

The construction of even more submarines, mostly due to the total lack of research in any other type of vessel, starts. By the half of February, the brave Polish, Italian South-American pilots would once again try to stop the continuous strategic bombardments against England.

Little they knew about what awaited them.

Do I need to tell the outcome of such battle?

After losing an entire aerial division and almost losing another one. Two things become completely clear for the UDMS-KKK military. First, because all the victories in America have been very dependent from the air support of tactical bombers, it would be totally impossible to achieve victory in Eurasia until the manage to match the enemy technologically in their air force. Second, the Battle of Britain was totally impossible to be won, and Britain would have to survive on their own. Maybe by constructing deep bunkers and underground cities, but they would never stand a chance of securing air superiority in the island.

Thus, it became clear, that it was very unlikely that Europe could be liberated while there still were survivors there, specially because, combined with their unchallenged air supremacy, the enemy had more than twelve million soldiers according to the lastest intelligence reports. To defeat such a force, backed by what was assumed to be almost fifty tripod divisions, without any hope of achieving even air parity, was not herculean, but impossible. Ironically, the only large landmass that might yet be saved was Australia.

A huge carrier fleet escorted with several modern destroyers bring carnage for the second time against allied submarines. Knowing well the chances of victory, and considering they failed to detect all the submarines operating there, it is chosen to not challenge their main fleets on open seas, for now.

While Eurasia has been wiped out of human life, futile rebellions without cause and chaos are not to be tolerated. the UDMS-KKK, when realizing that no civilized Iceland will ever arise from the anomie, launch an immediate peacekeeping occupation of Greenland and Iceland.

Japan suffers from severe energy shortages, and while they are no friends to the democratic nations of the world, the loss of the entirety of Japan to the aliens due to their industries being shut down out of lack of energy and their soldiers starving without supplies would be a massive loss for humanity. Thus, a symbollic trade is made as the UDMS-KKK offers part of their now vast surplus energy to Japan.

The amphibious operations to establish order in Greenland begins. Iceland will have to wait until a naval base is built in Greenland as it is out of range for now. The post-apocalyptic gangs stand no chance against the organized army sent there.

Rather than returning Iceland to the resourceless German government-in-exile, the UDMS-KKK decided to occupy the island on their own, and start a program of infrastructure building and industrialization in the hopes of increasing the hospitability of this frozen land so that all the Danes, Dutch sodomites and Scandinavians could settle in it and claim their own country.

At the start of March, the nature of the UDMS-KKK as a hyperpower was becoming clear. According to scant intelligence reports, their base industrial capacity was going to be superior to the base industrial capacity the aliens have gathered, but unfortunately, their advanced technologiy made their effective industrial capacity be insanely high.

When Major General Maczek arrived in Cleveland, he witnessed a level of destruction and ITZ never seen before. All along the eastern and formerly Kwan-owned region of the Great Lakes, a major devastation happened, and no survivors were found. However, there were still many factories there, in waiting. Homeless Pole refugees in the still Third World holes of South Kwanzania, hearing upon the news about the ghost metropolises, did not wait. A massive influx of Polish immigrants began to settle in the ruins of New York, Newark, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit, among other cities in the region, changing forever the demographics of North Amerikwa. Sosnkowski, knowing that the majority of Latin Americans would elect non-Pole as president for the UDMS-KKK once the elections came, immediately saw the opportunity, and in the months to come, he, in the city of Cleveland, has proclaimed the the Nowy Polska(New Poland) as a new autonomous state within the UDMS-KKK, with Cleveland as its capital to be reconstructed, encompassing a significant chunk of the Great Lakes, where there was no survivors to protest against it. However, in respect to history, none of the cities would be renamed with Polish Names.

However, New Poland would not be the only ethnic Pole nation established in Kwanzania.

Upon their arrival, they found it surprising that the small town of Klamath has managed to survive all the time through ITZ. The people of the town were impoverished, and upon hearing promises of economic aid and prosperity, they lauded the liberators.

The fortifications in Panama have reached their maximum. Allowing for a few soldiers to be relieved from duty.

The next development, after Central Planning doctrine is completed, will given an even greater edge in night operations for the allied forces.

Although it was said to be impossible, Sosnkowski was not a Frenchman, and neither WhiskeyWolf was, and thus they made preparations already, not letting the disaster in the Battle of Britain cancel out their plans for an attempt to liberate Europe, or at least parts of it.

Enemy forces attempted to stop the blockade of Costa Rica. They failed, sunk no allied ships and one of their destroyers was sunk.

The Atlantic Battlefleet was sent to teach them a lesson, then, in 26th of March of 1943.

ERROR in AI File of Infantry division ID # Whatever

I loaded the game again from the previous save point, and because I refused to do the boring thing of liberating countless of undefended provinces I decided to "cheat" and make the aliens release Kwa and Canada and create an event to make UDMS-KKK annex them.

Then, in 26th of March of 1943

ERROR in AI File of Infantry division ID # Whatever

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LONG TL;DR ZOMG

Unfortunately, this will be the final update at this "stage" due to haunting technical problems regarding the Eldritch horrors of the UNKNOWN STRING WANTED Necron Tripods, apparently related to bad/corrupted AI files or something involve infantry, that always cause an unfixable crash after 25 March 1943. And considering I edited the Tripods out of normal infantry divisions, I'm definitively sure that such save game editing was the cause of such unfixable bug.

I mentioned "stage". Yes, because I never intended for this LP to end so abruptly, but I can't do nothing about it, thus to compensate for it, I'm seriously considering something, although I'll have to wait for the release of the next version of a mod for Hearts of Iron 2 already announced as almost to be going available for download. One that may evoke some drama, and even rage.

SwordOfJustice has announced that the next version of this mod is coming soon* (reading the entirety of the thread can be a little spoilerific, but if I do it, I'm definitively not going with Arroyo/V13). Also, from what I've read so far the mod mostly disconsiders Failout 3 plot.



And even more incline is the way that this mod is being implemented. A very free-for-all with almost no railroading of wars, alliances and conflicts through events. Now, I'll have to wait for this version to be effectively released.

*This could be Thursday however, but anyway, there is still the fluff epilogue about this alternate history Poland.

I could actually "continue" this in the Modern Day Scenario 2 if its AI wasn't so incredibly inept. However, although the Polish part of my playthrough in Hearts of Iron 2 has been interrupted, it has inspired me to continue the alternate history through some cheap photoshops of flags in, as you may have guessed, a certain 4x game that according to some feels a bit "soulless" like Stardock games, even though it's not one of them, but having a Space Poland will give it soul, I'm sure of it. Of course, it deviates from the purpose of this thread, which will be temporarily on hold until the lulz, drama and rage over how the modders of Fallout Doomsday did not stay loyal to the canon of the series can start.

And shall include several interesting custom-made space civilizations too, of course, with some based on the premise that only Britain+New Zealand and Japan had any chance of getting out of the doomed Earth to colonize Space, besides you know who.

I'm going to post the Epilogue already. I hope that regardless of this problem, it has been a fun reading.

 

[Infantryman]

This was one of the best Let's Plays I've ever read . Too bad it ended prematurely .

 

[marooned]

Ditto. It's been a pleasure. Looking forward to seeing more from you.


Salute!

 

[Cassidy]

Epilogue

If you have ADD, just read the large font texts. And it will be full of lulz and wat.

1939 and the 1940s were among the most tragic times in the history of humanity. First, a reenactment of the Great War happened in Poland, as what was to be a quick German victory turned, thanks to the unexpected brilliance of Poland military leaders into another brutal meatgrinder like Verdun and Passchendaele during the First World War, and many hundreds of thousands of Polish and German soldiers have died. However, against all odds, Poland has prevailed, and when they were on the brink of defeat, an event would change everything. At first thought to be a boon, it did not take long to realize that it was perhaps better had Poland lost the war, something that would have happened had the aliens not invaded Germany.

Yes, Andyman is dead in this alternate reality

In 1941, Polish soldiers fought side by side with Germans, Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, and Bulgarians against a seemingly unstopabble tide going all over the world. Although in the previous year, during the several months of the conflict, both France and Germany have managed to halt the enemy advance, the introduction of the dreaded tripods in the battlefield has completely shattered the delicate balance, and then, defeat after defeat began, as Poland led the armies of several small nations through a desperate war fought in multiple fronts. As soon as the Soviet, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian resistance were crushed, aliens began to invade Poland from both East and South, and as the situation in Germany deteriorated, from West as well, when a large rift happened, as a small part of the Polish Army has chosen to retreat for Italy, while most have chosen to fight to the end for their nation, even knowing they stood no chance. Hundreds of thousands fought to the last for their nation, while others continued the fight in Italy, hoping to stop the enemy advance in the mountainous regions to the north. They failed and a desperate evacuation began. Against all odds, hundreds of thousands of otherwise doomed soldiers not only managed to escape from continental Italy, but also from the Mediterranean as they arrived in South America, where their presence would turn the tide of the war for the first time since it began, with the victorious battle of Panama, the first decisive victory of mankind in a battle against tripods.

In the last months of 1941, Poland once again became the spotlight as several Poles proposed the formation of an united multinational State encompassing the entire America still under human control to better fight against the aliens. Thus, the greatest world power to ever rise in mankind history came to birth: the UDMS-KKK. Shortly after its formation, the tide of the battle was turned in South America, and an entire, highly technological enemy army was completely crushed after many months of conflict, thanks to heavy air support and the bravery of many soldiers. Scandinavian soldiers of Norway, Finland and Sweden, and even Afghani soldiers were brought to defend Panama. In November and December, the entirety of the enemy forces in America were cluttered in Costa Rica, and thus, a massive amphibious operation began to isolate them from the rest of the continent, as millions of soldiers advanced to Nicaragua and successfully held their ground against almost half a million of technologically advanced alien forces. And after that, the entirety of America was eventually liberated. Continuous submarine attacks on convoys supplying the stranded enemy forces on Costa Rica happened for many years, while the UDMS-KKK researched and built a modern carrier fleet to challenge the enemy in the seas and prepare an operation to liberate a territory that won't be as difficult to liberate as Eurasia.

1942 also saw the recreation of Poland in the Amerikwan continent. Several regions of United States around the Great Lakes were left completely devoid of human life, and thus, Polish nationalists led by Sosnkowski claimed New England, New York and a stretch of land going through west all the way to Detroit as the autonomous nation of New Poland, also united under the UDMS-KKK, promising they would rebuild all fallen cities, restart the infrastructure and not forget the memory of its previous inhabitants or their traditions.

Also, the nation of the Peru, which has fallen into utter chaos for a long time, receieve a a so large quantity of Polish refugees that its original inhabitants eventually were no longer the ethnic majority. The United Polish States of the Pacific were thus established amidst the chaos, and finally, in the Southernmost regions of Brazil, a not so different demographic gap to that in the Great Lakes due to its evacuation, and the fact it was hit hard by enemy forces, being one of the first regions to fall, led to the formation of the small United Polish States of South America. The three young Polish nations soon merged themselves into the Polish Confederation of America.

1945: Liberation of Australia

In 1945, amphibious landings began in Australia while Cleveland Mark Blakemore checked everything using Vault OS from his bunker, which was always safe during ITZ. The small invasion force was, in a long and brutal war, routed and isolated, and their lone tripod division pocketed in the middle of the Australian desert, where it was left to starve. Australia thus was liberated, becoming the last success of the human forces in Earth before the war entered in a complete standstill except for heavy strategic bombing of Britain and Japan and a handful of naval skirmishes.

Then, in 1948, the aliens simply stopped attacking, probably giving up as they realized that, at their current state, they would not manage to conquer the entirety of the planet. Thus, 1st of April of 1948 was considered the official ending of the War of the Worlds, and the Earth has changed a lot since then. More than a billion of human begins died during the conflict.

The remnants of the Dutch and French Colonial Empire, the few Portuguese and Spanish isles in the Atlantic, New Zealand, Ireland(after some "incentive") and Australia have formed together with Britain a new multinational state called United Kingdoms of Earth. The United Kingdoms of Earth was the second most powerful nation left, and reconstruction and industrialization of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, where many refugees lived now and the density of the population skyrocketed, made them eventually become not so distant from the UDMS-KKK in their economical power. Although, differently from the UDMS-KKK, the United Kingdoms of Earth suffer from severe and increasing inequalities between the wealthy Britain, Australia and New Zealand and the poor, Thirdworldia rated Ireland and Pacific island chains, causing signficant tensions between them.

The few islands stranded in the alien-dominated Mediterranean formed the Mediterranean Confederation, which lacks a leading country amidst so many rump states, and is if anything, worth as much of a footnote in History as Bulgaria and Soviet Union or more exactly, what is left of them. Strangely, the Vraca pocket, sustained by the few industries in the region, survived for years and years to come, while the enemy demonstrated absolutely no interest to finish off the last remnants of the Soviet Union, a frozen shithole with almost nothing in Siberia was everything left of the once glorious Soviet. Another nation of little relevance, but that somehow survived due to the strange alien behavior of not having any will to attack them, is the newly formed Arab Federation, with rumps of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen.

Finally, there is only one more nation that has enough technological and industrial capabilities to not be a nobody in what is left of the planet. Japan has survived all the way through these difficult times, and by 1946, they managed to launch a successful counter-offensive, splitting the alien occupation in two pockets that were rapidly crushed thanks to heavy use of air support, and their former capital, Tokyo, was thus liberated. There was nothing left however, and thus, like in any shitty anime, rather than rebuilding from scratch, they decided to build a new city over its ruins, Neotokyo was thus born, the new capital of the Empire of Japan.

Shitty animes that represent Poland and Lithuania as faggots and boyfriends will thus continue being made.

Germany was "reestablished" in Antarctica as another shithole. However, they hoped one day to make a great discovery in those frozen wastes that would allow for the new Kaiser to recover the lost glory of the II Reich not in this planet, but in the stars. Maybe an ancient UFO crash, maybe the lost city of Atlantis, or maybe... some Prisoners of Ice and horribly dubbed Germans speaking in English with the worst forced accent ever.

And what about the UDMS-KKK?

The United Democratic Multinational States of all Kwanzanias had several border changes between its member nations, based upon ethnic composition changes of regions. The island of Hispaniola and Eastern Canada became the United French States, for the joy of the survivors of Quebec. The rest of Canada was merged with the rest of the United States that were not settled by Poles, leading to the formation to its territorially largest member-nation, the United States of Kwanzania(USK). However, it was also the least populated, due to the devastation the war and ITZ brought to Kwanzania, and it would be decades before it could regain the same glory and prosperity it had before the war.

Mexico and most of the Central America were joined into the Caribbean Hispanic Federation. Although they remain the poorest nation of the UDMS-KKK, thanks to the Law of Possession, they are going through the fastest industrial development among all nations.

The man responsible for the Law of Possession.

The Law of Possession was created and approved by the UDMS-KKK monocameral Congress to solve the serious problem of the fact that, for ther first time, there was an overabundance of unoccupied property and infrastructure, and the threat that a single person claiming too much of them would pose to the economical future of the nation. A very polemic law, the law of possession does not recognize properties claimed that a person is not currently using and are out of the personal realm, like for example, several houses, apartments and so on. Landlords, loaners, bankers and others deemed as parasites by the majority of the society were enraged, as they used their Jewgold to conspire against such act. It was clearly stated that in such dire circumstances, there will be no tolerance for economic activities deemed as entirely parasitical and improductive like loaning, financial speculation and hoarding. The government took a wide turn to the Left wing after this law, although effective market regulations still did not exist, and a welfare system would not be implemented.

However, ironically, the law of Possession created one of the most competitive free markets ever seen. As nobody was allowed to take more than one factory, once great corporations were split between several small businesses, many which sold products that were very similar to each other. With money confiscated from the supposed New World Order and from supposed conspirators of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the government funded a heavy and decentralized industrialization program, as the minister of economy, chosen due to his high skills despite his ideological radicalism, was obviously favoring workers cooperatives. Claims that the so called Illuminati controlled the large corporations of the old also served to push such agenda of intense decentralization of economical power.

The 1950s in America would feature an economy similar to that of the 1800s United States. Far more competition, no nearly monopolistic megacorporations and a far greater amount of self-employed individuals and businessmen than ever seen before, with deals of cooperation between them here and there and no opportunity for Jewish CEOs.

Although a few were left in the gutter, the general overview was that the blame was on their own, because educational reforms made it totally impossible for someone to fail unless he wanted to.

The strange economic model praticed in the UDMS-KKK at the same time broke down the power of the old elites(most of them were dead anyway), but did not forbid people from trying to become wealthier, as long as they do not "become way too powerful to represent a threat to the freedom of the people", according to political rhetoric, and lacked a welfare system. Being self-employed was continually encouraged by the government as well. The heavy competition led to a far more dynamic free market, and boosted technological advance.

A recent member of the UDMS-KKK, the New Scandinavia, formed after a through industrialization plan in Greenland and Iceland, is not the largest member, but on the other hand, features the best standards of life of the entire Kwanzania. It is still a polemic matter, but considering all that happened in the world, Iceland is treated as part of America rather than as part of Europe.

All the Spanish-speaking countries in South America, except for Peru and other countries that received large influxes of Polish immigrants, merged into the Union Suramericana(South-American Union). However, there is a strong spirit of national secession between the highly industrialized and European south and the currently poor, agrarian and mostly Amerindian North, of which parts also desire to merge with Brazil, and it will difficult for this state-member of the UDMS-KKK to stick together.

The country that suffered the least amount of changes in its geopolitical landscape was Brazil, due to the fact it is the only Portuguese-speaking country in America. Gaining a considerable population boost from several European and African refugees, specially Portuguese, the country was going through a very steady industrialization proccess through the end of the 1940s, and had the chance to become among the 3 most industrialized and economically developed nation-members of the UDMS-KKK, together with the Polish Confederation of America. A position they competed for with the Caribbean Hispanic Federation and the Union Suramericana.

1949: UDMS-KKK, United Kingdoms of Earth and Japan begin the Space Race

John Kennedy, president of Kwanzania, speaks to the manboons about the Space

Dogmeat, the first living being from Earth sent to space by the UKE.


Thanks in part to the first results of reverse-engineering of captured alien technology, and in part also to previous researches of rocketry done in Earth, the Space Race begun a little earlier, as the three remaining powers of the world, certain of the existence of planets of livable conditions for human beings through the galaxy, begin a race for developing space flight technologies. In 1949, the Japanese have launched the first satellite in Earth's orbit, and soon the UKE and the UDMS-KKK would also start their expansion and militarization through the space, this time not restricted by faggot treaties, because no atomic weapons were ever invented in this timeline.

11th of November of 1957: Poles land on the Moon

Several satellites, animals and random stuff launched into space later, in 1957, the Polish Confederation of America began the Apollo Mission in partnership with the United States of Kwanzania as they lacked a proper launch site near the equator and borrowed Cape Canaveral for it, and in 11th of November of 1957, the Polish-American astronaut -insert name here- was the first man to step on the Moon.

This was the greatest moment in the history of the New Poland during the 1950s, and also the greatest moment in the history of the UDMS-KKK.

1959: Japanese secrets unveiled as their massive amphibious force is ready to begin another attempt of liberating Asia.

Japanese military forces built out of reverse-engineered alien technology prepare to travel for Korea. The discovery startled the world and prompted a new arms race, as it became clear why the Japanese have not prioritized the Space Race. None of the other remaining nations were glad with the idea of an Asia fully controlled by Japs.

However, the Japanese, although closing a part of the technological gap between them and the enemy forces, lacked the manpower to pull such a herculean effort, something that the UDMS-KKK did not lack, but they would never share their new technologies with the UDMS-KKK.

1962: Polish scientists invest a method of faster-than-light space travel. The Insterstellar age of Man begins

The only good thing about the alien invasion was that it has virtually sidestepped almost a century of technological development through continuous reverse-engineering of many captured alien devices of several different types, and thus it was a common knowledge that the technological level of the time was assumed to be close to how technology would be in 2062 had such tragic events never happened. Although, unlike the Japs, the UDMS-KKK still preferred ballistic weapons over all the fancy, now known lasers, they were close to develop their first gauss guns by then. However, the greatest discovery of the time was made by a scientist named Andrej Stanislaw, who invented the Aperture Space drive, a handwavium that allows for instant travel between two points in space. Thus, soon, crudely made spacecrafts, including even a space bus, were tested with it. And it succeeded.

Thus mankind has managed to explore the inner areas of other solar systems first than the other planets in Sol, left behind as worthless piles of uninhabitable rock. A new age began for mankind, but while Hippies and Woodstock were coming, were they really ready in mind for the greatest adventure humanity has ever started under the guidance of the still existing Foedus of Man?

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Whiskeywolf, now Marshal of Poland, has migrated to New Poland and currently lives in New York together with the Kwanzanian manboons that still reside in the city. He is lauded as a great war hero of Poland and of humanity, and as the savior of Amerikwa. Upon retirement, he continued his life importing mangas and other shit from Japan.

1eyedking and skyway were never seen again, and are presumed to not have survived due to their rage clouding their better judgment during critical and dangerous moments.

TheNamelessPrick was executed together with other members of the Nazi Party after Hitler's assassination.

CloakedFigure, Sheek and other alien generals continue to march day and night without purpose, awaiting for an opportunity to troll the remnants of humanity as they hack through mankind networks and create alts in electronic discussion boards.

And war, of course, war never changes.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Upon retirement, he continued his life importing mangas and other shit from Japan.

Damn right.

Oh yeah... this is not the end! Awesome, awaiting more.

 

[KickAss]

epic. i wish it could continue...

 

[eklektyk]

epic. i wish it could continue...

 

[Cassidy]

epic. i wish it could continue...

ERROR : (ai-prefs : Unexpected field) 'infantry = 100.0000' Line = 67 file = ai\ICL_1936.ai

So apparently it was a parsing error in the Iceland AI file that was provoking this(probably missed because the chances of Iceland becoming independent before 1945 in a typical HoI2 game are like 0%). So I simply putted the same content of ICL_1945 in it and it works now! This LP thread will go until 1963!



Like that time my Civ III LP seemed lost, Updated my ICL_1936.txt



Bring this thread to the next page and you shall see(once I do the annoying part of liberating the rest of Kwanzania which doesn't deserve to be included in the next update except for some witty comments on Reno and Klamath Falls).

Sorry, but the demonstration of the canon fidelity of the Fallout: Doomsday mod will have to wait.

Also, for the lulz: Guess what kind of government Iceland gained?

 

[bandaid]

bump!

 

[bandaid]

onto next page!

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

What, it continuous? Bring it on.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

One more time we gonna celebrate...

 

[Mrowak]

This Lp is up and running again? Awesome!

 

[Mrowak]

This Lp is up and running again? Awesome!

 

[Mrowak]

This Lp is up and running again? Awesome!

I trust you know what to do now Cassidy

 

[Cassidy]

Rise and fall of Communism

Throughout the first half of 1943, the liberatian of north Amerikwa procceeded smoothly, while Britain suffered under terror bombings from extremely fast aircrafts. Interceptors tried, with little success, to halt the tide of devastation, and despite downing some of them, these bombers were fast enough to evade most of the fighters, while self-defense missiles that flew from them were taking a heavy toll. The expeditionary forces are eventually recalled from Britain due to the hopelessness of the situation, and thus, it is wondered whether the dream of liberating Europe will ever become possible if air superiority seems so futile against such technologies.

Perhaps the mysterious research facilities in the Amazon rainforest were the answer. Perhaps.

Amidst the rampant chaos of Iceland, a new order arose, an order of tyranny, promising the creation of an equalitarian society. Claiming the UDMS-KKK and the Foedus of Man are fronts of the bourgeoisie, the government of Iceland declares war on both of them, ignoring the dark times, the fact that right now, mankind should have stood together to fight against the common enemy. They shall face the consequences. A communist government in an island so close to Amerikwa is intolerable. Meanwhile, the German government in exile performs a daring move, by attempting to settle a new State into the frozen wastelands of Antarctica. It is unlikely they will succeed at much there.

Strangely enough, the leader of the government is not known as a radical communist. There is something fishy about this. Maybe he is a puppet only, maybe those people WhiskeyWolf trifled with once were now despaired and willing to try anything to restore their supremacy while something very close to a world government was formed, and beyond their grasp. They were part of ITZ, and they could ruin everything with their conspiracies, even having only Iceland under their control. However, until the construction of a naval base in Greenland was finished, Iceland would be out of reach. An entire army awaited, after having launched a bloody amphibious assault against a small but deadly insurgency in the island.

Reverse-engineering of capture alien technologies that would allow for soldiers to have a never seen before awareness at night, combined with the development of a new doctrine that emphasizes night operations, begun to give a major edge of the UDMS-KKK military against the masses of living dead infantry the enemy forces fielded in Europe and Australia. Meanwhile, there was a serious logistical problem for the UDMS-KKK: San Jose.

The shipping of resources and supplies between South and North Kwanzania was occupying hundreds of convoys, thus, a very, very risky operation would soon begin.

Many questioned it, calling it total madness. However, the submarine operations in the Pacific coast of Central America were not sufficiently well executed to totally blockade San Jose, while those convoys would be needed if the UDMS-KKK was to liberate Australia, let alone Europe.

The battle began at an equal footing among the multinational forces of all Kwanzanias and the aliens. It was messy, too many soldiers fighting at the same ground. But they saw no other possible way of flushing out the enemy forces pinned down in San Jose besides a long campaign of convoy raiding that could last for years, let alone decades.

The enemy has learned to distribute anti-air weaponry through the battlefield instead of centering it on tripods. These powerful anti-aircraft systems gave no chance for the bombers, and a brutal massacre happened in the air, fully destroying five air wings and nearly wiping out completely a sixth one.

The First Battle of San Jose was a complete disaster, and thus the soldiers were ordered to pull back into defensive positions at Panama and Nicaragua before it could become even worse. Severe casualties on ground, combined with the loss of nearly six air wings on air were a very frightening reminder for the UDMS-KKK of what awaited them, should humanity ever set foot on Europe, Africa or Asia again. And yet, WhiskeyWolf was determined to not give up his homeland easily. Europe would be the ground of the bloodiest and greatest amphibious operation of all times, one that would make the D-Day that happened in another timeline look like a walk in the park in comparison. But years of catching up in naval research awaited before this could ever be tried. Australia for now as a much more close objective.

In 3rd of May of 1943, the liberation of Iceland was about to begin, and for the first time in three years, men would kill men instead of aliens. One hundred twenty thousand soldiers took a long journey towards the island, escorted by a trustful and unwavering flagship: the USS Cleveland with its crew of ubermensch.

Although outnumbering them at 4:1, better equipped and trained compared to the hastily drafted "People's Army" of Iceland, they had no idea of how well entrenched these enemies were. A bloody battle began.

With their resistance broken, the soldiers continued to advance through Iceland, while the UDMS-KKK launched their demands:

Iceland, being part of Amerikwa, is rightfully part of the UDMS-KKK. By agreeing with the terms of treaty, they will become a fully autonomous member-State of the UDMS-KKK and have their currenty government replaced by a democratic one. By refusing, they could be annexed at any time deemed convenient.

Yet they refused, although there was something wrong, it was like if their president was doing it against his own will, doing it because something threatened him. Realizing what was this all about, a witchhunt for secret societies begun in the occupied areas of Iceland, a joint-operation by two powerful figures:

Their militias were so demoralized by now they simply laid their weapons down and surrendered. It was obvious most of them were press-ganged. It was time to rid this island from the plague of Communism. Slowly, Jewmasons of the Alpha Brotocols of the Elders of Zion and Illuminati were being rounded up by the Spanish Inquisition and then executed by the always reliable Lithuanian Hitman, the man who killed Adolf Hitler.

With the entirety of Iceland secured, the president felt his family was safe enough, and thus agreed with the demands, aware he lacked any bargaining power while an entire foreign army marched over Iceland. The army stationed in Iceland would now be sent to the Pacific Coast of South Amerikwa, where a gathering up was happening for the next operation: the liberation of Australia.

Along the way, they were attacked by a handful of technologically advanced destroyers. But guarded by the Cleveland, they had nothing to fear.

Finally, the closest Kwa isles to Australia are fitted with a naval base. Almost everything is ready for commencing the first major offensive against the aliens. It was time to bring the war to them, no matter the cost, because the future of humanity was at stake and not doing anything out of fear would put the aliens in a better position to, perhaps one day, strike back. They should be very afraid despite all their advantages,

For the UDMS-KKK, the greatest empire to ever exist in Earth, has risen to its fullest glory.

 

[Infantryman]

Excellent! It's great to see this LP back! And it is good to see USS Cleveland back in action and Lithuanian Hitman cooperating nicely with Spanish Inquisition.

To get rid of command max penalty, you must build a lot of HQs and send them into battle of San Jose (or at least keep them in vicinity). In vanilla HoI2, stacking penalty applies only to amphibious assaults, so you can use your vast numerical superiority fully to your advantage with the HQs.

 

[Cassidy]

To get rid of command max penalty, you must build a lot of HQs and send them into battle of San Jose (or at least keep them in vicinity). In vanilla HoI2, stacking penalty applies only to amphibious assaults, so you can use your vast numerical superiority fully to your advantage with the HQs.

AFAIK HQs "double of maximum command capacity" abilities don't stack, and if they do after all, thus allowing for 8 HQs to give a Field Marshall the ability of commanding 192 divisions in a lone province without penalties, for example, that would be very gamey, because being able to attack in such way would truly break the game.

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Operation Cleveland: Liberation of Australia

Everything is ready for the one of the largest amphibious operations in history, as more than half a million men prepare to embark in a long journey through the Pacific, first to Samoa, and then, to their ultimate destination: Australia. Intelligence from the last broadcasts and reports coming from Australia suggests a considerably smaller invasion force, however backed by a division of Tripods the local defenders stood no chance against, and ITZ came.

Men from all nations of North, Central and South Amerikwas are among these forces. They have no idea of how many enemies they will have to face, of the challenges that await them.

The ultimate disaster in a long story of mishaps, that begun with an incredibly stupid decision from the remnants of Italy to break off the blockade to Palermo, and brought ITZ to Sicily, forcing the rest of their fleet to relocate. The ultimate conequence of this grave mistake now is brought. A massive alien attack completely annihilates the starving, fuel-less fleet that was anchored at the port.

By a stroke of pure coincidence, the landings would occur in the independence day of the original Kwanzania. 4th of July, Kwanzania arrives to save Australia from ITZ. Poetic twist over the original prophecy? The orders are simple: Victory or Death!

Meanwhile, the Main Battlefleet, led by Grand Admiral Kingcomrade, to protect the amphibious operations, begin a mission to patrol the seas of Australian East Coast.

The primary Army and Command Center of the Operation begins landing at Brisbane in 7th of July of 1943. No opposition is encountered. Hopefully ther will be no surprise welcoming party of multiple Tripod divisions deeper in Australia.

A group of destroyers try to attack the submarines conducting operations in the Pacific, but due to their status as seriously outnumbered, one of them is nearly sunk by torpedoes, and thus they retreat, not causing any long-term damage.

Meanwhile, bad news arrive for the cabinet regarding one of the greatest men of Poland. Władysław Sikorski, savior of what once seemed to be inevitable defeat in the Polish-Soviet war, and a decisive strategic planner during the Second World War and the ongoing War of the Worlds, has died due to a heart attack during a diplomatic encounter with the newly established Antarktische Reich. He was one of the few to predict the shift to mobility warfare in the next war, but he was never listened to in Poland like Charles de Gaulle was never listened to in France, at least, in another timeline, for with WhiskeyWolf, he was one of the most influential generals in the Polish Army, and assumed the position of Chief of Staff of the Polish Army, which he maintained until the time of his death, in this sad 5th of July of 1943, which must be another major irony of this Space-Time Continuum where Poland never lost WW2. Could it be that even though history has changed, ripples of events happening originally still influenced? Or was it just a coincidence how the time of this man's death in this STC was almost the same as in the original one before the time travel fucking up everything?

Also, Operation Cleveland was the last strategic planning he was involved into before ITZ came for him.

Regardless of coincidences, which only WhiskeyWolf was aware of, it was a great loss, and none of the remaining generals to take the role were as effective as Sikorsky.

Although Major General Anders, by far the best military leader in the UDMS-KKK, currently leading the only survivors and hardened veterans of the original Polish Home Army that managed to leave Europe: the Polish Expeditionary Forces, was considered for taking the post, his best skills lied in the Battlefield, not in logistics and strategic matters. Besides, he would make construction of motorized and mechanized divisions more efficient, which contradicted the focus of the UDMS-KKK army in specialized infantry, tanks and regular infantry forces instead. Another man was chosen for the task.

For Anders would be in the frontline against the alien menace. His Polish Expeditionary Forces were among the first men to land in Australia, and perhaps the first human beings to set foot on its surface since 1941. Together with him, the man who outshined Mannstein, Rommel and Guderian, while leading for many years of his active duty a measly division of TK-S tankettes. The second best general, and the greatest panzer leader of the world: Major General Maczek.

To discover where the enemy hid, Maczek and another promising Major General specialized in tanks who lacks the same active duty experience but has great potential advance through the plains inner Australia.

Rockhampton is secured, and no signs of enemy presence yet. Maybe they are in the west coast of Australia.

Daring advances and amphibious operations proceed, as it seems there is no immediate threat to the two armored divisions and to the other forces landing to the south. Weeks later since the initial landings, the enemy is still to make their move against the liberation of Australia, while a few survivors, those who were not manboons and thus knew what they didn't even know that they didn't know, were rescued from their bunkers, many were on the verge of dying of starvation, because their supplies were made to endure exaclty two years.

So far, the greatest enemy was the severe logistical strain of having to transport every resource gathered from North Kwanzania by convoys to the provisory capital at Cucuta, while having to supply the far-away troops.

However, things started to look like exactly how the liberation of the United States of Amerikwa and Canada went. Could the aliens have decided to simply evacuated all their military assets from the island like they possibly did in Britain?

Despite the supply issues, more and more daring amphibious operations far away from the main front proceed. What started as a doubt is now almost certain: there will be no challenge in liberating Australia, unless a huge legion of Tripods await in the deep deserts.

The considerable industrial power of the UDMS-KKK is focused on solving the logistical gap of lacking a direct land connection between North Kwanzania and South Kwanzania.

After a long time without results, and Costa Rica still being regularly supplied by the enemy, finally some success again.

And a new record by one of the U-boat aces.

By 5th of August, it was confirmed: Australia was completely devoid of any enemy resistance, other than some disgruntled bunker-dwellers demanding the immediate return of control to their legitimate government. Very few survivors were friendly to the UDMS-KKK, but they were unwilling to pose any serious resistance because the UDMS-KKK was a democratic and open society.

One day later, research proceed, this time the focus being on aerial technologies, to catch up in Interceptors, because of the awareness of what will be needed to have a chance against the enemy forces in the air. A revolutionary new form of aerial propulsion is researched in the secret facilities of the Amazon Rainforest, with support of purchased blueprints from the Antarktische Reich.

As a preparation for an yet distant step once the anti-climatic Operation Cleveland is over, a naval base is established at the farthermost island in the Bering Strait. There was still some indecision on whether the future attempt of liberating Eurasia should start from the West, where they would be at the mercy of British supply lines and make all the territories they liberate with their sacrifices fall under British hands, or through the East, from where Attu Island would serve as a staging base of operations, and thus everything they liberated would be controlled by the UDMS-KKK.

More harassment by destroyers... thanks to reverse-engineering of alien technologies the idea of massive wolfpacks capable of operating properly became viable.

And some torpedoes made the destroyers turn around and retreat, for while they tried to depth charge one of the submarines, all others were trying to sink them.

And they wisely retreat northwards, to the blockade of Costa Rica.

In 11th of September of 1943, the UDMS-KKK begins the research of Turbojet Engines with blueprints once again purchased from the Germans, technologies that will revolutionize aircrafts forever, and perhaps allow for the construction of aircrafts that can stand a chance against the alien air superiority fighters and interceptors.

21st of September of 1943: Victory in Australia Day. The soldiers make through searches for survivors, and the discovery is frightening. At least 99% of the pre-war population of Australia has been wiped out. It was a complete extermination what the aliens did there. ITZ. And, one hour, a team found a place in Melbourne:

Further exploration would lead them to uncover the best technology ever invented:

Vault-OS

And deeper through the bunker they found an ubermensch:

Cleveland Mark Blakemore




And thus, Operation Cleveland achieved all objects. Studying Vault-OS would be vital in the future to prevent ITZ from happening again, and millions of refugees in Amerikwa would soon resettle in Australia. However, now there was only one thing left to decide: whether to try a liberation of Eurasia or not.

Because if the intelligence reports were accurate, the aliens had almost 10 million of hordes at their disposal, hundreds of thousands of tanks and a gigantic Air Force.

It would be the greatest battle ever fought in the history of Earth, the greatest amphibious operation ever made, something that would make D-day look like a child's play in comparison. And either the greatest victory, or the greatest military disaster of history.

The Battle of Australia is over.

The Second Battle of Eurasia could yet begin.





Thus, I'll let you vote on how this insane operation against a force of almost 1000 infantry divisions and more than 100 armored divisions should begin(once all the preparations are made). Like mentioned, if starting by Europe, they will be totally dependent from UK to be supplied and possibly, all territories gained from the aliens will fall under UK control.

On the plus side, the front will not be so massively huge.

If the operation begins from East Asia, everything will be up to the UDMS-KKK, and thus they won't depend from the TC and convoys of UK, but on the other hand, it will be a gigantic and initially multi-sided front line.



So, should they begin this battle against 10 millions of hordes, thousands of tripods and hundreds of thousands of tanks through Asia or Europe?

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Before thinking about taking those huge numbers in Europa how about you get rid of the last aliens in America?