I keep finding new ways to suffer and people keep making new ways for me to suffer welcome back to the Battle of zoh heights and today we have a new start date which on paper looks easier because it's earlier on in the war January 12th 1945 right after operation bution which completely shattered the German Army in the East but right before the visula order offensive which brought the Soviet Red Army to the gates of Berlin let us check this out we will of course be playing as the main main character of The Mod Germany yeah it doesn't look very greater right now let's turn Iron Man mode on with historical focuses and I mean I've seen worse I can't see what's happening are we boned yeah we're boned check this out if I can compare it to I've done April 12th if I compare this to April 12th yeah I've seen worse now this is actually a little more difficult or rather difficult in different ways but let's go find out prolonging defeat that's really the point of this mod maybe I can still win so we'll see so nice little bit of a events here where you want to if you want to you can read up on the historical offensives counter offensives relief attempts all that spoiler alert Germany loses I'll just get that out right of right away Germany Germany loses Maybe not today though so well we still have most of Germany right in the west this is right after the battle for the Bulge or operation vak am has failed and stalled and is hopelessly stuck this looks reasonable enough I think we can manage that then in Italy if we want to hold Italy this is this is all right I guess fortify this mountain range fortify the center and just pray to God it holds if not we can always fall back to the Alps and then the East so Croatia will have to give up this is just this is this is not good hungry there are 2 four five seven divisions trapped in Budapest that's not great historically the last remaining German armed strength was wasted trying to bust these divisions out and retaking or relieving the siege of Budapest we're not going to do that because I'm not stupid these men will be sacrificed and then the north here we are at least we're on the Vistula River so maybe we can make that work for us and then there's East Prussia we're going to be giving up East Prussia up here the classic everybody knows and loves about the corand pocket these mad Lads held out for very long time and they will today and of course Norway first things first let's go over our Logistics they're bad okay so we are lacking a lot of equipment already nothing horrific yet but I haven't changed my templates yet so Air Force not a single airwing is at full strength fantastic and Navy Navy we still have yeah that's not a Navy every single good surface vessel has been blown out of the water we have left schian she's a pre dreadn Hull nice two heavy Cruisers two light Cruisers bunch of Destroyers and some subs Jesus Christ we'll do our best but it's not going to be the surface Fleet that saves us if anything can save us it will be the subs so Army we have a lot of Divisions still I won't be able to save all of them but I think I can make them work let's check out the template so this is the Infantry Division yeah I I have to make some changes here this is no dear God no no no no no so we've got a mix of different templates we've got a little bit of armored left we got a little bit of motorized mechanized I'm going to do the front lines themselves and the the actual you know management of them offc screen but I do have an idea and this idea was given to me by somebody on the zoh heights Discord of defensive lines now I initially thought you know make of course use the river obviously and work our way down here and make use of the forts in eastern Slovakia level 10 forts that was not to like and then peel off towards the Alps with a separate line here in Italy I've seen someone's very passionate defense of a different line something like this where you go you completely abandon Slovakia P so can get screwed and make use of the fortifications here level four forts level seven Forts and then more level seven forts plunge into the area around Vienna hold Vienna and from Vienna go south through grass to make sure you hold the supply and then down through the hills here into fumi now this should be slightly shorter and a slightly shorter line is denser more defensible we'll have to um experience that in short we'll make use of terrain and forts where we can if the line gets breached I have Alternatives I can still go to the Gap hit around Wells and use the impassible terrain of the Alps to shut this whole thing down it would require me to abandon Italy but so be it and for this side of the front I'll make that a different theater we're going to be holding anything from the heg arnum down there and then we're going to go here instead of sitting on the r completely I am going to make the Judgment call of trying to hold on to as much of Germany as we can yes I can fall back to the Rind if this breaks that's a secondary fall back just sit on the Rind but while I'm still on this side I want to maintain control of the moalan to get the Manpower and the factories out of it not to mention the resources and I'll show that in a minute the moment the front line system wants to play nice with me there are level five forts here that I can use they will at least allow me to buy time so we'll use the forts here to buy time to fight either a delaying action or to really dig in and hold so that's the initial plan we'll pull out of these saliens and we'll also pull out of this tile this is a small slice of the majino and part of me wants to hold on to it so I could then push out from there because because the tile next to it doesn't have forts but again it makes the front line one tile longer have limited troops and I will be fighting for my life here so I would not be thinking about counterattacking I wouldn't Counterattack through there anyway maybe unless I want to do a big pencer any Counterattack will be in the low countries or in won then there is Norway we'll leave the Mountaineers up there with maybe like an extra unit and then the rest of these units are just going to be defending the ports in in Norway we're just going to defend every port in Norway with at least one divisions we'll request Norwegian troops as well to bolster the defenses and we will hold on to Norway for as long as we can once we get overrun with Naval invasions which does tend to happen eventually we are going to abandon it either funneling the troops South into Oslo and then across into Denmark or just deleting the troops so we can get the equipment then corand we are going to hold on to it usually the AI doesn't really care all that much about closing the pocket also because there are Level 10 forts everywhere here this is very well defended it is the last hold out of rice commissar at osland and weirdly enough that means these troops have some Supply and I could even delete the divisions to recover the equipment if I so chose cuz their capitals right here and it counts as being connected to my Capital I guess I don't know but they have no Port which is the first thing I'm going to change I am going to build one Naval Base up there either to get these men out or that's a big maybe to get some sort sort of shock forces in there to try and back door the Soviets if an opportunity arises cuz I've seen in a couple of my test games that this gets really thin like there are 13 divisions 8 five on the line now but as the game progresses and the Soviets really start driving into your Mainline this gets a little thin sometimes and it offers opportunities for big encirclement if you play your cards right Italy is is fairly straightforward yeah just hold that hold the Alps here now I could hold ni or I could just pull back to pamon yeah I usually just hold this I give n and the other tyen Sawa back don't care about it all that much just make sure that we can hold this mountain line for a little bit the enemy tends to be somewhat overstretched in the north we'll see what we can do if we can hold it at all I think we can this is not the focus Tre we all know and love this is very new and just part of the mod I think it needs a little bit of localization because the for Remagen I have no idea what it does other than unlock the decision battle for Remagen the mod maker however has told me these are decisions that will allow you to perform better on the defensive in the historical region so battle for Ragan is going to give you defensive Buffs for the Western Front certain provinces and then we have fak that is an offensive bonus against the Soviet Union all of these are timed fighting Retreat defensive bonus against the Soviet Union Battle of Vienna stemming the tide this gives you bonuses to to basically hold out a little longer I'll go with Battle of Ragan first and then the meat and potatoes here that is now the reason why this is all going to be rather difficult National Spirits we have mass disloyalty not great Allied bombing race not great and this one won't go away until we control Berlin Paris and Warsaw now I hold Warsaw for now I hold Berlin hopefully for the rest of the game but Paris we are nowhere near taking that and it's going to be a while until we get rid of the Allied bombing rates vom looks nice but toal and cre that also looks very nice this is actually pretty useful Enz yeah fine useful and then a shattered V reduced or more attrition less organization regain a less reinforcement rate we are broken our army is on its knees and then the usual general staff and bitcher Loser yeah we're we're not going to lose anyway we can fix the debuffs though so allly bombing rates we can fix by controlling Berlin Paris and Warsaw Mass this loyalty and the shattered verar we have more direct means of fixing welcome to the ob Commando des and her missions these are timed Mission events giving us a certain window of opportunity to complete tasks like operation nodin if we control stasb we get base stability base War support and a ton of command power but we only have 12 days to do it I'm going to go and be honest here we're not going to do this one this one wants us to control alas Lauren the majino I am not going to be able to push five heavy tank divisions off a level 10 fort with my Army in the shape that it is today so we'll just put that one out of our mind V control vren that one we can do now you might be thinking but there's a massive front line there they got a river they got a lot of troops maybe you know they they got some Supply issue so maybe you could push no no no no look closer there you go are you seeing it fim division we're going to Power Drop antp Brussels gent and maybe Len or C it's far enough from the front that it should not be occupied and it's close enough to the front that the AI should not be prioritizing Garrison forces there like they will put garrisons around Paris around these ports because they don't want to get Naval invaded and because they correctly assume that if a breakthrough happens these are vital to supply but if it's closer to the front the AI decides I have enough troops nearby to read the I don't need to keep a Garrison on there right away so these tend to be open then we have hold Warsaw for 39 days now this one is a little easier terrain is good there are no forts but you have a lot of Divisions in the area and you should be able to hold this with some micromanagement but I I can pingpong my last stands for days here I should be fine holding that there will be additional missions as you get closer to the historical dates of certain operations like grape shot the Allied assault on what Ms of Italy they giving us more opportunities to fix more and more and more of these debuffs we just have to hold and for every one of those missions we complete it gets easier however every one of those missions we fail is going to chip away at our war support win some lose some I guess then for construction it's it's very easy I'm going to build that one single Naval base and then I'm going to build a ton I do mean a ton of synthetic refineries followed up with just a bunch of military factors also going to look around a bit see with if you want to build some infrastructure get some steel out of the mooseland get additional aluminum out of obayan that kind of stuff just to get our own resources rolling but no matter what we do it's going to be a tough one research we have our slots and the initial research is simply going to focus on doing things that Will Keep Us Alive for a little bit longer improve the artillery improve the Infantry equipment I'm also going to go over here and get Advanced oil processing get more fuel out of our refineries I want armor trains you think that by 1945 Germany knew how to build armored trains apparently not but we're going to work on that because we are going to get bombed to hell and back again and then for the final slot go for modern tanks but realistically the economy can support it a lot of stuff that I would like but can't really get night vision extra land attack 50% of the time is good support companies I think I want the industry stuff first so let's grab dispersed industry five political power we are on scraping the barrel I would like to not be on scraping the barrel we have 2 and2 million men in reserve I would like to go down to all adults serve but I don't have the war support for it which is a little Annoying not much I can do about that right now what I can do however is replace Albert I'm not going to be using him and get Borman first Funk is not going to come into his own until we've built the synthetics IG Farin is fine Garian yeah you can stick around I guess you're the best I have kitle can't replace you would love to but can't but I have ideas donits can stick around ging I wish I could shoot you but alas then we have student Air Assault expert useful for our trick and Flanders I suppose we've got shner infantry expert wonderful and then for the third slot we'll get guned army regrouping expert more division recovery rates this is all right it's by no means great but it's all right we are also going to be clicking a few buttons here radio propaganda and utilize domestic film industry one two it's a lot of political power but it gets our war support up that affects our stability speaking of stability officer core Spirit of the academy political loyalty more stability and we're over 50% now no more strikes on the horizon our Doctrine we are mobile Warfare good they've gone Blitz Greek which is it's a right but I would have preferred mobile infantry but it is what it is I'm not going to turn back now because this gives us a very Val valuable 5% 5% recruitable pop oh God we are on the wheelchair now I'm going to not get professional officer core mostly because we have all the doctrine we want and later on I'll have plenty of army experience to change out if I so choose now I'm going to go with either elevated engineering Corp faster entrenchment entrenchment is goat or quick improvisation this gives me more daily command power and makes my commander abilities cheaper meaning more Last Stand memes and a little a little bit more flexibility in how and when I use them and I do think I will be using them a lot yeah I'm going to be changing my infant my um my tank template a lot so I might just grab motorization drive and then switch out to quick yeah let's do that I have templates to change now I'm going to go with a flexible organization and if that turns out to be a problem I'll switch it out later though realistically I don't know if I'll have much opportunity we'll see just how dumb this is Navy Convoy Warfare some Marine Primacy and night fighting and then just finish out the doctorine here it's it's not rocket surgery we're just going to get subs Air Force I'm grabbing Air Cruise surveys for cheaper doctrines less accidents and centralized control for better missions work our way down the focus tree to the last one here interception detection and ground support hooray that's pretty much it templates are not great so this is the standard Infantry Division it's too big and too too weirdly equipped I'm going to turn this into a regular org wall I'm going to remove everything but nine infantry battalions they're down to 18 combat with but they're a lot cheaper and have a lot more organization I'm going to remove Cavalry Recon they're just not that valuable if you don't have line artillery I'm going to remove signal companies while the extra initiative is nice it's just not something we need on the defensive something we would like to have but we can't afford I should say and then field hospitals I would love to keep the field hospitals absolutely free Manpower so much Manpower we could just recover through this but I don't think I can afford to keep him I I'll see what I can get I need support artillery to get a little bit of a bite in there and I'm tempted to grab maintenance companies because our economy is going to get bombed to hell and back again it's going to be very difficult to produce enough equipment this might allow us to borrow some Allied Equipment this looks cheapish on the whole but I'm not sure it's actually going to end up being cheap cheaper no anti-tank less artillery fewer trucks fewer of everything and still a nice amount of organization I'll leave the field hospital is in for now I can always delete them later and then once we get enough of it I'm going to start introducing anti-air anti-air is going to be critical anyway this will be the main infantry unit and I'll convert all infantry to this Infantry Division Vaders we're going to get rid of G division these are our Mountaineers I'll have to bring them up to 25 with to make them even slightly optimal for mountains they should do might keep the Cavalry Recon there because they do have quite a few light like this is actually impactful enough to be almost 10% it's good enough and we'll add some support antier these will be more elite units 25 with nice amount of soft attack again support anti-air some Feld hospitals then we have Panza grenader division this is big slightly too big no medium tanks for these remove that let's remove this mechanized infantry we'll remove the anti-air as well as the anti-tank 21 combat with is all right it's not perfect but it's all right the anti-tank replace that with some support AA motorized Recon do I want that no it's it's not impactful enough I'm just going to get rid of it signal companies the initiative is nice but I don't think I need it so I'm just going to get rid of it makes these a little more durable I'll add some support artillery maybe maintenance companies it does lower our organization a bit but the equipment capturing is is nice we'll add maintenance to these so not the best but it will do and then finally the Panza division so we have Panza division Panza up yeah no and SS Panza division we are rolling with the Panza division the usual panzers now I do want to name these guys after channel members I will have to do that manually because the mod alas just doesn't seem to work anymore I'll need to look into that but I'll name these divisions manually all my Elite units will be named after channel members to thank you for your support in the channel it is thanks to people like you that I can do this fulltime now add medium tanks more medium tanks no not medium tank destroyers medium tanks up to 30 wi with 35 Organization for a tank that's fine it does require a lot of heavy uh a lot of medium tanks bit expensive we don't need field hospitals we don't take that many casualties with armor signal companies I might leave in Recon don't need that in the tanks either going to add Logistics because obviously I'm going to add Logistics I think that's it so every unit in the field is going to be converted into those standard templates infantry becomes Infantry Division I keep my MERS V grenadiers I'm not even going to bother Panza grenadiers Panza division so all panzers will be Panza division all grenadiers will be Panza grenadiers and I'll start consolidating units to uh get full strength units if you're wondering what that means consolidating units like take these three Panzer divisions all of them are not at 100% strength so let's take two of these they're both at 59% strength if I click this button consolidate I get one unit with actually a lot more strength it's now got all of its Manpower half of its tanks all of its Mech infin all of its other equipment is just lacking half of its tanks consolidate those and that's a lot more combat effective of a unit and that's what I'm going to do to all the armor divisions until we have a handful of them left but at full strength in the East I'm pulling all the mechanis to the line between Warsaw and radom to to blunt the Red Army offensive as much as I can for as long as I can probably until the fuel runs out the Eastern tanks I'm currently pulling back towards Prague for rearming reorganization and then I need to look at where I need them as a fire brigade to plug holes the rest of the Infantry is uh all converted to the new template well everyone and I could except for the Mountaineers and we're pulling them all back to this new defensive line hopefully they can make it hey you I'm talking to you why aren't you you subscribe go ahead click that button click it good now click the like button all right now we have an understanding don't let me catch you not liking and subscribing ever again are we clear all right enjoy the rest of the video in Italy everybody is deployed I took the tank and the mechanized we had here turned them all into infantry we're just going to try and hold as long as we can just delay delay delay as for the West again I'm getting the armor and mechanized organized around Frankfurt to see where I need them so I can rearm reorganize and all of the paratroopers are going to the Amsterdam airport and we're going to try and paradrop these victory points now the early days the AI will not have an Air Force up but just to be sure I'm redirecting all of my fighters to the Benelux region to either seize control of the air if the AI deploys Fighters but not too many or to put all my Fighters up over the English Channel to bait the enemy into putting their Fighters up there to uh you know fight me I am deploying a couple of these LEL division I've added some Engineers to them 12 with bodies for the front no not for the front for the ports because we might get Naval invaded now to get the armies where I need them we are going to be redeploying them everyone here has to leave and the easiest way to do that is just make sure they're no longer making contact with the Soviets or the just the main front and have them walking back as far as we can and then just turning them all to uh strategic redeployment they all have to strategically redeploy get away from the front so that they can then run if they walk away from the front the Soviets are going to catch them and they'll never be able to get sufficient Supply it's just constantly going to be pingpong along the front I need to manually withdraw them from the front like this so they can get to where they're going all that's left now is to hit unpause and watch my world come crumbling down I guess one more thing I'll design a Cavalry division that has nothing in it but a single horse unit just to put them as our Garrison unit because otherwise we'll be using rather wasting far too much of our equipment still have Army experience so we'll switch motorization drive back to Quick improv I wonder how the parat Troopers will do cuz I am very much dependent on what the AI does to see whether or not this actually works well they've walked into gent I'll see if I can get them to walk into Brussels I'll keep the order running we do have some version of air superiority if they drop another paratrooper all the better they've walked into anop as well I controlr so technically operation V is a success even though we're not ever going to hold the territory this is a success that means I'm going to Halt the remaining two paratroopers and write these two that just dropped off as um lost and I completed the mission vakam it is done I got my benefit this however is a problem I am going to need to micromanage this so I will be using last stands a lot I'll be trying to hold these positions as best I can because I cannot afford to lose this so ROM is very much at risk of losing I am getting more mechanized divisions in there to assist uh warsa should be fine for the time being keep extracting keep getting out of combat and then redeploying to places where they can serve their purpose so down here I'm just going to funnel fresh troops in I'm going to take let's see they're all in combat I'll take the division that actually has some strength to it split it off to a different General I'll take one from this Army as well well as one from this tile gives me four units we assign V uh somebody with a good defensive stat not that it matters too much there we go and we'll hit last stand on a relatively low budget they're going to take a lot of strength damage but they'll take less or damage meaning they cannot retreat they can hold that line until reinforcements arrive and if these units survive those S days I'll do it again more and more mechanized units are arriving in the area they should be able to relieve the worst of the pressure fortunately I still have a little bit of fuel to make the defensive effort work there shockingly the French have left I don't know why the AI does this but if they're going to let me take see I'm going to take it my first offensive of the campaign I will attack this tile and take it yeah I'm going to try to throw up What fighters I have left on interception because I'm taking massive amounts of cast damage from the Soviet Union holy crap that is a lot of cast they're throwing up there I'm going to use what little political power I have left right now to go full scorched Earth on the territory uh my units are out I don't care about the other units in the vicinity we are blow blowing everything up that we can I need to slow down the enemy as much as humanly possible just so we can get out same here Luxembourg I'm going to blow that place right up slow them down by time you extract and evacuate and these are finally being reinforced with some proper mechanized units they even stopped attacking in some places after the initial push I think they're more interested in now taking this undefended ter territory with their blown up railroads they're welcome to it they can have it I just need to organize here set up my defense and out last the mission hold Warsaw one month a little more than a month and then we're very likely to pull back to the stettin line so this is the UT defensive line just to again shorten my lines even more what does surprise me is that they haven't made a single attempt to take Buddha or pest as long as that lasts I can get all of the oil possible out of hung am I stupid or blind or something because the way this looks is I can drive my Mech and my tanks right out of here it looks no ah they just opened the attack all right after consolidating my armor in the East that brings me down to four four combat effective tank divisions I'm going to move them over to the Warsaw area to do that reinforcement from the rear as for the West we have two three that's it three combat effective tanks in the west Jesus where the oh Germany has no more armor funnily enough I'm still getting Hungarian oil I don't have a border with Hungary but because I guess I I don't know I seeing as there's nothing really going on in the west I'm going to retask all of the armor to the Eastern Front there we go this shall turn the tide sure our offensives aimed at retaking the Hungarian oil fields no no this is not happening but uh you know good good good try we'll make it a fighting Retreat or offensive and hungry as fail that was quick then battle for Vienna to secure those positions they're not attacking PES one more week and I can actually do I I had written this off entirely one more week and I can do this even if they start attacking again I can cycle those units for days oh cycle use last stand for days there one more week for Vienna as well it is holding barely but it is holding we are going to do it just as our line in the East is looking like collapsing two more days for the siege of Budapest just Buddha I guess seven more days to hold Warsaw I don't need to hold on for much longer four more days and I can surrender Warsaw we have finished the siege of Budapest and the Vienna offensive I'm going to get these tanks out I'm simply going to actually no I'm simply going to delete them it will recover almost a, tanks for the stockpile I am sorry gigus and mate 115 you are making a glorious sacrifice for the greater good I need that equipment same goes for these two infantry units all of that equipment goes back as well as the three mechanized divisions there all of that equipment is recovered now there's just some hungarians in Buddha yeah it's it's all crumbling now that's okay that is more or less by Design going to pull the mechanized units out and we're going to start up our fresh defensive lines there we're going to pull the armored units out as well oh my God they're taking horrific horrific casualties I got seven tanks left and they're all beat up all right all right it's fine let's go back to Prague and just just rearm in Prague figure out what we do from there and then we're going to redraw the Infantry line just need Warsaw to hold for three more days oh dear God true lightning Striker I've destroyed your unit I have last stand up it's fine that unit can hold I'm going to start the withdrawal now hopefully we can get there in good order getting all these units out is the main event how long how long it's done so I'm just going to queue up like a billion divisions to get Manpower in my uh recruitment queue I'm never going to deploy these units I'm just doing that to suck up like 2 million Manpower from here and then once we've lost the territories I'll stop the Recruitment and hopefully the Manpower goes back to uh my stockpile I think All In All I Got Away there relatively all all right so Mech was able to retake this tile of zzi the armor was able to retake I don't know which tile it was the line is once again continuous and I've dispersed my armor and mechanized along the front two down south two up north and three in the center to act as fire brigades the Western Front there just nothing happening there so I'm not deploying any units on that front we'll have to see how things go here I just noticed why I think I'm holding it says Soviet preparing a defensive minus 75% division speed and attack bonus minus 95% against Germany I think I'm about to get pummeled once those preparations finish I'm scared I'm legitimately scared oh I also finished operation Hannibal and festung Holland how is my vak looking we are looking tight so the negative modifier has transformed into something glorious we still have a little bit of mass disloyalty though that is not great and we War support going down is not great either I'm also going to start rolling out uh new templates so I'm going to take the Infantry Division I'm going to make a flak variant simply introduce support anti-air to it I'm going to start introducing that I guess probably through the units centralized around this area oh God this is it I think this is where the Soviet debuff runs out they're going to assault or the N River their final push not so final if I have my say but they now have the Berlin strategic offensive operation until May 2nd I need to last for 2 weeks through this horror fortunately I do have F directive 74 I'm going to get the Enz begins oh that just bypassed so with the extra anti-air in the region I'm definitely much better off than I was before still have some forts but the Air Force is all but gone there's very little point of putting it up right now might be tempted to just throw a few Fighters over Czechoslovakia do some interception there not really sure what else to do don't really see any major gaps here either I've organized my armor to try a push but honestly they're keeping a lot of units ready and I'm going to pop this now operation Solstice to uh give me this defensive modifier I should not have done that it's an offensive modifier why why not tell me this I'm going to retask half of these mechanized units to these two tiles they seem to be the hardest they always are when you're trying to hold this line cuz they are planes and they can be attacked from multiple sides even with the river it is difficult to hold them there are no forts there is nothing to really stem the tie even though like there is mud and a storm it should be difficult for the AI to really force a breach but you know the AI doesn't care about rules let's get all of our air deployed over Berlin we're going to throw everything we have at them um I beg to differ because I'm I'm still holding the front there nowhere near this Swiss border you stupid bastard I don't regret losing you but you're not supposed to be dead I'm holding the line on your behalf Soviets are going for it Jesus Christ the Allies are doing nothing except maybe a little bit in Italy but the Soviets are absolutely going for it I can drop down to all adult surf so I'll give up 5% recruitable population which is fine I have 3 million in reserve and we get 10% more output 20% more trade training time uh well less training time that's that's a no-brainer that's absolutely something I want I need guns I have sufficient men need guns and I can also offset this loss in Manpower by hopefully eventually getting enough to grab women in the workforce yes that will give me a a little bit of extra recruit pop as much as I hate to admit it I think we're nearing collapse in Italy sudden MK Allied assault there and they managed to take a tile that extends the front by one two three extra tiles I don't really have the strength to keep this up I don't like it but I'm going to have to yield ground here fall back to this position just pull out we're leaving my equipment deficit just keeps getting worse it just keeps getting worse I'm not making enough of anything breaking through down here looks to be going well we'll get a small encircle on Palanga maybe we can get six divisions in circle there steal their equipment take the port and then set up new defensive positions we'll do our best this may end up being a horrific mistake if it if it does so be it if it comes to it I can always get rid of these units there what's this are you [ __ ] me I'm not withdrawing from the core pocket I am attacking I am taking the fight to the enemy I am relieving the main front KL hilpert is getting fired who is Carl hilpert I don't know doesn't seem to be anyone relevant one more day and we finish grap sh I may actually have to fully collapse the front here go from Graz and Clen for to the mountain tile and then set up in the mountain pass up there just completely give up Italy if the Allied pressure stays this high it's not dramatic ital is not that useful of an ally anyway it's a sign of the times get six Mountaineers up there and then all of the other units can go sit on just run Soviets have taken notice of the corand pocket now they're constantly attacking it which I suppose is is all right at least it means I can hurt them some more there got to be honest at this point it feels a little unfair that all of your adversaries get their original Focus trees with all the overpowered late game stuff in it that they can still do and I'm stuck with this what am I supposed to do with this when it runs out then what cool I'll build another land Fort that that's it like what am I supposed to do give me focuses I can do if I manage successful defenses of critical areas give me bonuses from the focus stre production anything but this vagueness I like that they're all short because they have to be to respond to the disasters that are unfolding but one explain what the events from this do and two give me options to do other things cuz I feel very constrained right now and it's just not that enjoyable well Japan yeah enjoy that hopefully that draws some Soviet attention away I don't know how many units they already have there but Japan is about to get banked hard I guess oh well so we're 6 months in and everyone on the Eastern Front has anti-air it is making a significant difference though that's like definitely cutting short the enemy bombing power like they they're they they rule disguise I can't do anything more than just annoy them every now and then like I'm doing here in the low countries I don't see too many fighters I see many bombers so I'm trying to intercept there and do what damage I can I lost 70 yeah like like I'm trading well here but if I were to go to Berlin the try and save off the end here that would not work there's too many enemy Fighters and my majority of my Fighters are just not good and I I've started one of my favorite parts of all these NZ campaigns unrestricted submarine warfare usually when I get a nice grouping of good submarines I um head for the North Atlantic Ridge in the Iberian Coast the Mid-Atlantic Gap like this general area and I start sinking everything I can lay my hands on so submarines on aggressive to engage in high risk later on when they're all excellent Subs I engage at I just put them on always engage and they will start not just sinking enemy convoys but also enemy destroyers and once enough destroyers have been sunk at the relatively low cost of one or two submarines every time they'll start losing actual Capital ships and that's when their navies start to crumble I will bleed them as much as I can because they are doing the same to me I'm going to need to shore up my defense in the East so West so I'm going to deploy a few units to assist with that about 15 should do that brings this up to three full armies the Soviets are tired maybe tired enough for me to make him move going to concentrate my armor what remains of it anyway in this area near posan I'm going to try and break out across the river here because I can attack this province from three sides instead of trying to hop across one of the other positions at the same time I've organized the remaining armor and mechanized in the corand pocket for a naval Invasion around G launching pinning attacks on the flanks so I don't immediately get stopped in my tracks yellow air for now this is literally me throwing the last of the lwaa at the enemy this is one last stab from hell's heart I stab the Stalin damn it he's intercepted we've made it across now we keep driving good drive the dagger deep now breakthrough is happening though it's done all right seven armored divisions concentrate here sweep in on that pocket it is closing very quickly how many divisions is that like 50 13 yeah more than 50 and they're gone so that was the destruction of 10,000 10,000 10, oh it's oh 348,000 units lost with probably like the other 10,000 here also being counted in God yes that was good that was good and we captured a good amount of equipment there as well these mechanized units congratulations you made the landing I'm going to integrate you elsewhere though well there goes the main distraction Japan's gone time to make my new favorite submarine we'll just take a submarine Hull level three and put the new level four modules in it that way they still only cost steel to produce I don't have to resort to using chromium which I hate using it's very expensive and it will have stats that are almost as good good how are my stock piles holding up so everything more or less getting better as we go just support equipment's terrible tanks also not great Fighters I'll just not mention Fighters good news bad news pinning attacks are more successful than the actual armored thrust mostly because it's trying to push through really [ __ ] terrain and it's got a lot of units stacked on that one tile either way though the advance continues I will at least get to the V Chila no matter what I also think I'm slowly starting to win the air War at least in the west I do have less Fighters than the Allies overall and I'm not fighting them where they have their Air Force concentrated but when numbers are mostly more or less equal I have the advantage because I'm putting out very high quality Fighters right now do they are just completely shredding what they have just look at this and tell me these are not absurd numbers once you start wearing down the enemy's escorts like I've I've sunk quite a few destroyers already you can then start absolutely pounding their heavy ship so I just sank a Heavy Cruiser a light Cruiser and six convoys at the cost of one submarine a cheap ass submarine this is going to turn the war for us because this means American forces and Canadian Forces pretty much anyone who is not UK or France and has troops on EUR in Europe they're going to have supply issues their navies are going to get Whitted down and eventually I'm going to be able to hit the United Kingdom with a naval Invasion provided of of course I can take out the Soviets speaking of I've begun a collaboration government at least one because I do not want to drive my tanks all the way to speros and chabin and probably even T men just to capitulate them tanks once again have fuel and can actually move again all right let's keep pushing to the Vistula that's a good River to sit on makes the line a little thinner but at this point the Soviets have expended themselves to the point that I really don't have to worry all that much they got penal battalion out here well it's not a glorious encirclement but we are right outside Warsaw make a drive on that City roosi can't stop me now yeah all right retaking Warsaw I'm just going to clean up and get the full vula front so get the full benefit of the Border there and then I might shift my focus to try and get Paris that way at least the Allied bombing rates will go away and I'll be able to make more of everything I know where the Soviet Union's men went they just went to war with China communist China went to war with the Republic of China and communist China is in the common turn so the Soviet Union is going to be real busy fighting China I can't believe this they want to join my faction China wants to join the axis you will serve as a great distraction changai I'm not sure why you're not joining the Allies but I'll take a friend looks like we might be able to get a funny little encirclement in here around kovitz if the armor and the mechanized can meat in the middle nice little pocket and it looks like they broke yes well now to just issue a cleanup here I'm trying to limit my offensives to just anything with armor to minimize casualties I'm also going to have to minimize my tank losses because this whole cleanup operation has put a dent in my armor stockpile so I'm down 900 tanks big oof Behold The Mighty submarine and what it can do to an enemy Navy yes I've lost seven now eight submarines in this engagement that's fine cuz the enemy's already lost the battleship two heavy Cruisers 14 destroyers and two light Cruisers I'd say we're going to come out ahead on this one no matter how much better or worse this Battle Turns God I'm trading so favorably in the air now I think if I check my Air Force every one of the old almost every no every one of the old BF 109s and the [ __ ] wolf 190s has been let's say spent and the only thing in the Air Force is the me262 shalba B so the the really good airplane that's all I have left and now now we're trading this is where quality over quantity really comes in I'll organize my armored up here with the goal of pushing to there towards swalk we'll Rush The swaly Gap like the Soviets in the 80s I do hope nothing gets intercepted but I should have total domination of the Baltic Sea now drive them forward you move there and now we press up from here come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on drive into the tile no yes okay okay okay okay okay okay okay I need to redraw the front I need to redraw the entire front oh my God 1,700 tanks short that was the dumbest thing I've done in a while but it did get us this breakthrough yeah and the the Allies got that breakthrough why Soviets are pressing in but I think I've got good number of their divisions not as many as I'd like but enough to to matter that pocket's been cleaned up let's see what that says 245,000 men could be better could be worse so new plan as I was probing around here with the Mountaineers I realized and noticed very quickly I can break through here now if I can make this trip South I would separate the fronts again I would have one massive Eastern Front yes I can still get more men to that front but it also opens up the opportunity to strike at Italy possibly Sweeping in and clearing it out going to deploy additional units 1 two 3 it's not ideal but I'm going to take these Mountaineers away add them to that push and then these fresh infantry units can go there okay got to force that breach got to make sure that the motorized and mechanized and tanks push South and I want the Mountaineers fighting in the well the mountains that way I can play through their strength this is a great success Eastern Front is still holding West is probably going to get relieved I I'm I'm guessing these guys are going to start getting pulled away I'm driving hard into Italy couple more tiles couple more tiles and then we'll have them bisected that is Italy cut in half so all of the armor and mechanized you push along the boot and all of the Mountaineers you push to the French Alps and I'm doing this without air support because by golly I can't stand up to 300 Fighters glad that we finally managed to make an actual meaningful breakthrough somewhere yeah we're getting factories now because Italy is getting its factories back that means they're getting handed out to us I can put them to good use replenishing my massive massive losses my very battered and very bruised armor is making very good gains here it's performing above expectations Mountaineers have done excellent work as well reinforce meme them meme them they have been Meed good Park a a tank or two there so they won't get back oh no I'll leave two units behind to man The River Crossing or the straight Crossing rest of the mechanized I'm also committing this is going to be very expensive we've punched a nice hole through the lines of the enemy Mountaineers can maintain a front line as best they can armor and mechanized is going to push North as aggressively as possible before anyone can consolidate the line there so help me God this better work once the attacks stop on my front line uh there we go fall of Paris did that remove Allied bombing no Mass infantry assault now and we try to condense and to consolidate get this pocket closed well pocket it's like half of France this is the majority I think of the Allied armies in Europe we now have tra triumphant do I establish fishi France it seems like the sensible thing to do it gives me a friend Allied bombing has it been removed Allied bombing has been removed so I'm going to establish vishi France that is the north clean up and then well this is the majino it's going to be awful not much I can do about that I think they just nuked Prague yeah that's not good for war support there's also not anything I can do about that other than achieve air superiority which I'm definitely trying how's this we're almost in Belgrade that should be the end of Yugoslavia yes great fantastic and I can shove the mechanized in to Bulgaria who have betrayed me One By One The Dominoes fall and the Traders will get their due there goes Bulgaria but yeah we we pretty much secured there goes Greece most of the Balkans I'm going to try something new and well new tried and tested I should say soon we're going to try for a push from radom South towards mikol or Odessa and then a push in the South heading north again to Odessa or maybe towards stanislav of to just cut off this entire part of the front with a little we can still get some damage in at least this absurd maneuver is working out so we keep driving here towards venitzia and then we go from here to ventia as well along a broad front all right we should be able to meet we're going to touch tips and all of that here is going to be encircled pocket established ah beautiful beautiful beautiful the opposite of beautiful is over here so I'm just going to ignore China and seeing as this front is wide open now start pushing well this is honestly all but over I've taken 3.3 million casualties so I've I've pretty much burned through what reserves I had in a massive infantry offensive yeah you can see just how far we've pushed there's still some Soviet strength so I'm not going to waste the men I have left what I'm going to do is allow my mechanized and my armor to rearm because I have a a pretty sizable equipment deficit still when that's done we're going to make a few large pincers towards Moscow maybe Stalingrad and Leningrad and they should fall cuz I have like three collaboration governments and they will capitulate when they have 50% or less of their victory points link up you bastards that actually is a couple of pockets small one here we'll close that decisively and then a bigger one in the center oh God this is a disgusting front line also RAR osland is Big again and I'm back down to lacking a th000 tanks yeah these offensives are expensive and I'm also out of anti-air one wonderful let's keep pushing along the railway so we have Supply Moscow has been taken oh German armor parading on the Red Square let's see how much more the Soviets are willing to take a little bit more let's try and do the funny going to launch a naval invasion of the entire North here around narva and at the same time when they start making their Landings I'm going to start a tank push from the south now it's going to be a little bit dicey considering the supply situation but I have air should be able to make this work mechanized Landing total and unmitigated success you drive up to Leningrad you drive down toov you drive over there and then we can actually encircle them fully this will allow me to take out the entire Baltic flank and we're going to take lenon gr cuz they don't have anyone here ah time to delete the red Navy once and for all they should be wiped out soon enough anyway Finland is not long for this work World they have betrayed me and shall pay the price and once that ends the hostilities up North I'm driving the tanks the stalling gr the problem is going to be supplies I'm going to sit here for a little bit yeah just have a little think on how I want to handle this and there goes Finland let's see if we can get the Stalingrad from the South if I launch a bunch of distraction attacks on the flank let's get to Stalingrad before the fuel runs out please sir may I just have a small crumb of Victory please I've been good boy all right when we take leet it's it's over it has to be please give me the win it's done Victory oh my God the Soviets still had so much equipment they had 10,000 rocket artillery it is over it's jover I'm just going to get some stuff back and we're going to call it a day and come on don't crash now oh and to spite my enemies I have completely balkanized the Soviet Union turned them into my puppet of course and we have the new glorious axis rice commissar at osland was rewarded for their endurance rice commissariat Ukraine I have a lot of new rice commissariat the hungarians were rewarded for their service and the Romanians punished for their betrayal should have punished Bulgaria a little more as well so we end up with a pretty pretty nice situation as far as Europe's concerned if I were to continue this I would just play for time in the east with most of my landbased Army I would go on a small campaign to take out the Middle East turkey and North Africa using my armor mechanized and probably some infantry at the same time just keep building up a fleet until I could Naval invade the UK take them out of the equation and then start putting pressure on Venezuela they are Fascist if I can get them to like me and put a spy on there uh with this button diplomatic pressure they would eventually allow me to join their faction when that would happen I would rush everything over there secure the immediate surroundings so take out Brazil take out this bunch of colonies up there and use Venezuela as a staging ground to then take out Mexico and the United States of America however that is going to take way too long it's 1950 I think we've proven our point the Greater German re is back the axis is still here and kicking and at this point we're outnumbered but unlike the Allies I still have a little bit of fuel left in the tank not to mention a massive industry and I could probably siphon off some of the Russian manpower to make up for my own losses anyway we are going to end it here I hope you've enjoyed this video I hardly recommend you check out this mod it is so good the man who makes this puts in a lot of effort it needs some polishing it needs some work but it's really good anyway goodbye