Flying Spaghetti Monster said:
I Think I should turn the surviving Arab countries and parts of liberated Middle East into some united semite country by event(Israel was never founded so Jews and Arabs,
who are both semite peoples, making peace and forming a multikult country isn't that far-fetched) to become a potential rival of what is going to happen in Africa after liberation for having cores in North Africa.
One more thing, every update the number of non-repeated not directly related pics decrease, and it is starting to be less fun, so I'll stick to in-game screenshots mostly.
Looks like you are going the nuke route ...
Is there any other way to defeat hundreds of divisions stacked in a single coastal province, and then stretching all the way down of doomstacks from the Channel to the Mediterranean, that doesn't involve the even more exploiting trick of surrounding a capital and never occupying it(which wouldn't work anyway as Wilhelmshaven is a coastal province)?
In any situation conventional means of victory aren't totally impossible, I'll not use nukes, however. Only for ridiculous doomstacks that are impossible of being cut off from supplies.
Facing a four-digit strong divisions army in Hearts of Iron 2 is an unique experience where the flaws of the AI, although persisiting, no longer make the game easy, even with nukes, I'd say.
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If the xenos will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the xenos
Thanks to many improvements in the air warfare tactics used by UDMS-KKK fighters, the threat of supersonic alien interceptors is significantly diminished, and although casualties happen, the enemies suffer proportionally to every fighter downed. Although they can't advance through ground, over the skies of France humanity has near complete Air superiority.
And in one of these flights, the pilots uncover an estimation of how many legions gathered over Saint-Etienne. Over six millions of xenos are cramming over the region, yet strangely, they haven't tried to attack, for if they did, all at once, even in spite of the wrecking inefficiency of launching such a disorganized legion to attack a single point, this front, or perhaps the whole war, would certainly be over.
In other circumstances it would be useful, but the UDMS-KKK already decided for interceptors to make the bulk of their fighters instead, and researching all the way through fighters isn't something they have the luxury of doing, as the interceptors are more than enough for their role, making them redundant. also, this confirms that only in Saint-Etienne, almost one third of the entire xenos army is stationed, and with an average of one hundred of their divisions over each province in this front, it may as well be certain that more than half of their forces are concentrated there. Still, with an estimated total of 1811 infantry and 253 armored divisions, defeating them will be a herculean effort that may end requiring drastic measures.
Banana could be used to ensure an encirclement of many xenos, provided this difficult offensive against well-fortified powered armor aliens in a jungle succeeds. However, because of bad luck, great storms rage over the nearest air base, and thus, without air support they are forced to fall back and this encirclement doesn't happen.
The research to create a new, modern navy of nuclear powered capital ships is still a long way to go, but much closer than it was back when the darkest hour of the UDMS-KKK navy came and its surface forces were totally obliterated. The revenge for that will yet come. Or not, as beating a navy with, according to latest Intel, 95 carriers and 66 small ships may be much tougher, except that the enemy seems to be severely underestimating the importance of escorts which may lead a better structure fleet to victory even against such numbers.
The Siege of Riyadh
Having defeated the aliens in Jawf marked the beginning of what could be a great victory by crushing the encircled aliens in Riyadh, but to ensure it, now Jawf had to be successfully defended. Immediately upon their arrival, the former AfrikaKKKorps were assaulted by a small force of infantry, tanks and tripods, which made holding their ground extremely difficult, specially as the sand provided little terrain advantage for the defenders. The war machines trudged through it rapidly, as anti-tank and artillery fire rained from the skies. The defenders begin to quickly lose ground as the first line of defense is smashed by the unforgiving tripods, and to answer to it, flanking attacks are being prepared against Karbala and Riyadh itself, from where in spite of lacking supplies, the enemies are also attacking Jawf.
With reinforcements, soon the offensive racks up to 8 enemy divisions, and the defenders seemed to be on the verge of defeat, while the diversionary attack on Riyadh was wearing out quickly. Reinforcements were coming, but to hold out long enough could not work against tripods, as they were backed to a corner, almost broken and there was not much more ground for any further tactical retreat. Yet, these men were not any men, they were brave AfrikaKKKorps, the first soldiers to succesfully defeat tripods in offensives involving less than hundreds of allied divisions at once.
Through their resilience and bravery, they end successfully breaking all attackers but the armored and tripod divisions, and what seemed a hopeless stand begins to shows a few signs of hope while expeditionary arab forces are soon coming to help them down. Being 1941 and even 1943-grade infantry, they will actually be useful allies even if somewhat backwards in equipment.
Then, as three divisions arrive, the tide of the battle is turned, and the Tripods suffer heavy losses. Jawf is secured, as another great victory for the most limited of all UDMS-KKK theaters due to the fact it has much less divisions than both African and European ones. Afterwards, they rest a few days with offensive supplies, to reorganize for the purge of all xenos from Riyadh. Meanwhile, weather clears in Africa, and thus it may be possible for a second attempt to happen at Banana.
There is some hope this time it will work thanks to air support, in spite of how technologically advanced the enemies are.
However, it is quickly learned that regardless of air support, two divisions in power armor in the jungle are very effective defenders even when outnumbered. On better news, victory becomes clear on the east coast of Africa, where the forces are getting further and further through the south.
On April 21st, it is finally decided that Riyadh must be cleansed. Thus, from multiple sides, both expeditionary arab forces and AfrikaKKKorps launch a massed offensive. However, even with their great numerical and strategic advantage, there are many doubts about the outcome of this due to the presence of tripods.
Yet, slowly, the enemy is pushed through the sand. The victory remains unclear, but many start to hope for it. The worse-off reanimated corpses are utterly broken in their capabilities to fight*, and simply rounded up for Exterminatus, and only the armored and tripod divisions are still putting up a fight
*Read the green "organization" bar of the animated dead as how many limbs those along their hordes have left.
While the siege of Riyadh wasn't yet over, Karbala is disputed. Xenu renegades in power armor and tripods charge against the baneblades in a quite tough battle for the defenders.
Then, while things start to look more grim in Riyadh, a more conventional advance without the same amount of chances for a so massive encirclement as taking Banana would ensue succeeds over Central Africa.
With the belief there was no hope of victory yet, the offensive is cancelled, and it is hoped that, by the time they reorganize again, they will be able to succeed before the encirclement could be broken from Kuwait. They wait for an entire week to recover from the failure, and pray for God or Allah.
The arabs then are given a true trial of fire as Medina, their very holy city, is attacked by the Great Satan, in an obvious attempt to break off the siege. Because of the implications of losing Medina again, they fight against the alien with a fanatical fervor, even with their limited equipment and lack of artillery, and buy enough time so that something could be done before a potential disaster, for Damman was lost too, which means sooner or later this encirclement would be over.
Thus no more wait, from all other regions, a second offensive was launched on Riyadh. All divisions bar tripods were mostly broken on their will or capability to fight, this time, and thus they did everything they could while the defenders of Medina struggled against the tripod. Flanked and bombarded by artillery and anti-tank guns from multiple sides the tripod division suffered massive casualties.
And thus, the most important battle of April 1947 ended. Mankind once again prevailed, and the seeds were planted for the formation of another future ally of the UDMS-KKK. The Middle East front changed, as did the African front. The siege of Riyadh was over, proving once again that even with limited numbers, victory may be possible in a front where the possibility of being outnumbered is large.
Meanwhile, things were looking good over Africa. It may take only a few months before a final victory in the continent, which would greatly bolster the morale of all mankind forces. However, the plans for the Asian D-Day were delayed, as it was most likely impossible to build up a large enough army, or Air Marines in enough numbers for it before the next year.
In any case, there would be one more continent regained by mankind soon.
