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Centuur -> RE: A musical global war AAR... (1/26/2014 3:23:17 PM)
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Next, Japan. Now that's always a hard decision. Apart from the FTR's and HQ's, you need the fleet CV's (with planes), NAV, MAR, TRS and AMPH for extending the perimeter, Synth Oil for when the oil embargo is put in place, but I'm also at war with China. But for this turn, I'll first put my attention towards China. Also, I will want to be able to choose the Blitzkrieg table in China, so I need some tanks too. I choose to build the MECH division and two MIL (since there are two white print MIL of the five which are in the force pool). Also, I'm going to start building a CV, since it takes two years for it to arrive, he should be finished early enough for the war with the US...
China. I'm having to change heads now. I'm allied again. Since the 7-3 elite 8Rte INF is in the force pool, I'm going to build an INF. The spare build point is used to build a CAV division. A fast mover is always welcome, since China is a war where you will keep moving and moving.
The Commonwealth. One is tempted to build CV, finish BB's, build all kinds of nice things which are needed later in the war. Note: later in the war. Now, you need to build to survive! That aren't those nice CV's, BB's, MAR, PARA, MECH, ARM and bombers. They aren't. Also, I advise to not build anything (especially CV's or BB's who need two years to get finished) which the US can build too. Given this, look at the historical things in WW II and Britain. The RAF got lucky that Hitler was impatient, since they were on the verge on collapsing when the Germans decided to start bombing London instead of the airfields. The battle of the Atlantic gave the British logistic problems and meant that a lot of ship building facilities had to be used for the production of merchant vessels and not the shiney war ships. Also, they needed an army to protect the Empire overseas. Those are your priorities. Defensive ones, not offensive ones. However, there is one exception to this rule. After the fall of France, you need to make sure the Germans need to guard against a surprise invasion. For that, you need an Amph. And that's it.
So I need the Amph, convoy points, NAV, FTR's (also long range ones), carrier planes, HQ and infantry. That's it. Nothing else...
First, I scrap the Polish and two obsolete planes. I did go to war last turn and I don't want to have obsolete planes in the force pool, if I got better ones available. So the Swordfish and the Vildebeest stay in. Yes, they are old, but useful.
The builds are therefore: the Amph, 2 convoy points, a Pilot, a GAR and an INF.
Are you fed up with Carl Orff yet? [:)]
His music and the music made by Richard Strauss were considered to be “German” music be the Nazi's in those days. Of course there were other composers who's music were given the tag “German”, but those guys were already dead (Wagner was one of them...).
The relation between Richard Strauss and the Nazi's was a peculiar one, since he had a Jewish daughter in law and Jewish grandchildern to protect. The Nazi's however, needed him. In 1933 Strauss wrote:
“I consider the Streicher-Goebbels Jew-baiting as a disgrace to German honour, as evidence of incompetence – the basest weapon of untalented, lazy mediocrity against a higher intelligence and greater talent.”
The same year, Goebbels wrote:
“Unfortunately we still need him, but one day we shall have our own music and then we shall have no further need of this decadent neurotic”.
That day never came, since Strauss was too important he saved his daugher in law and his grandchildren from the concentrationcamps this way. His mother in law and her other kids weren't that lucky...
Here is a song out of “Friedenstag”, an opera written by Strauss in 1938, which was played througout Germany until war broke out in 1939. It contains some critizism towards the Third Reich, but was still considered to be “good German” music.
This part of this opera is recent out of 1995, Alessandra Marc, soprano, in the role of Maria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkyFJiEyv4s
Don't worry, I won't put more of his music in this AAR, because frankly, I don't like it at all, but I can't give a good picture of the music of WW II if I don't include the “official” German music made those days, can't I...
The French aren't scrapping anything. I use the five build points to build the HQ.
Next, the almighty US. Disappointing isn't it. [&:] All those factories and resources and only 11 build points. Well, we prepare for war in two years. Let's start by putting some warships on the shipyards. The Hornet and the 3 BB's in the force pool are put unto the shipyards this turn, while the Wyoming is put next to the shipyards to be finished.
The USSR. That's simple. Boots on the floor and get good planes in the air. All land units should be build as soon as possible. Now, some people will disagree with me, but I always start building an ARM in the first turn. Others start all out on Infantry units... I build the ARM and a GAR. 8 build points isn't much, but it's a start...
Next, the game handles conquest. The band starts playing the German national anthem, lets put it in here.
This song still is the national anthem. It has three verses and nowadays, only the third verse is sung when played officially. The two first two verses were officially excluded from the national anthem by the Western allies when the BRD asked to reinstate the song as the national anthem again. This figures, since the nazi's didn't encourage the third verse to be sung... Strange, isn't it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAK23saAI1I
I choose Canada as the new home country for Belgium, since it is incompletely conquered, because it still controls the Belgian Congo, a minor country aligned to Belgium. This is also the reason why I can now destroy the factory at Liege (and I will do so, since I can't use it myself and if the allies recapture it during late war, I don't want them to have a production point for free). I can't destroy blue factories in Poland, since that country is completely conquered and therefore not at war anymore...
For that same reason, factories are destroyed in Peking and Canton by the Japanese. I can't destroy the blue factories in Shanghai or Nanking, since there aren't any Japanese units currently in those cities. But if there are Japanese units in those cities in this stage later, I will surely destroy those factories too...
This ends the first turn of the game.
Well, at this point, no more classical music. It's time for Hellen Forrest and the Artie Shaw Orchestra: Deep Purple:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZ2SH3_OnE
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