No Peace in Our Time - the 1939 World War II IH

[Dave Strider]

Perry is now Germany. EB is France.

[Mary The Quene]

Hey all. I'm perhaps a bit late here

Is there still a faction free for me to play? That said i won't be here 24/7 so playing major factions like SU would be to time consuming for me.

Thank you.

[Dan the Man]

Perry is now Germany. EB is France.

So I remain America, meaning I get to do diddly squat for the next two years, and Finland, which is probably slightly more pressing.

I'll try to get on that asap but I have a lot of homework to do tonight.

[Barry Goldwater]

Hey all. I'm perhaps a bit late here

Is there still a faction free for me to play? That said i won't be here 24/7 so playing major factions like SU would be to time consuming for me.

Thank you.

Well, Poland just got murdered, so you could take up the Polish Resistance. Alternatively, you could also take one of the British dominions like Canada, a Middle Eastern minor like Iraq, or one of the South American minors that are still free (I think at least Chile should be good).

[chesser2538]

Argentina is actually already made, Just dig up Perry's thread.
If you play Sweden you will always have friendly neighbors, there is always Spain, and if all else fails you can always be Tannu Tuva

[Celsius]

I have Spain as a secondary, but I havent had time to put up the thread, so feel free to take it over if there are no objections from Barry.

[Narf]

Army General Staff in Karup:	.	.	.
10000	1st Army Division	.	.
.	5000	1st Brigade	.
.	.	1000	1st Armoured Battalion, Jutland Dragoon Regiment
.	.	1000	2nd Armoured Infantry Battalion, Jutland Dragoon Regiment
.	.	1000	3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	4th Armoured Infantry Batallion, The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	5th Armoured Infantry Batallion, The Dannevirke Guard
.	5000	2nd Brigade	.
.	.	1000	1st Armored Infantry Battalion, The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	2nd Armored Infantry Battalion(Reserve), The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	1st Armored Engineer Battalion, The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	1st Armored Infantry Battalion, The Royal Life Guards
.	.	1000	2nd Armored Infantry (Reserve) Battalion, The Royal Life Guards

Begun Making my Army, How would I make this with the game Rules? Is there any way to even make this? Because this is what a realistic division would look like for Denmark from my research. They don't make Divisions like they're set in the rules. Smaller population I suppose. I've played with the thought of making it with the Divisions in the first page, and then just dividing it down to make it fit, still works with the rules, the cost would be the same and everything. There's just be a greater variety but in different numbers..

How do you think it looks so far?

[Mary The Quene]

I have Spain as a secondary, but I havent had time to put up the thread, so feel free to take it over if there are no objections from Barry.

Thanks i'll go with Spain, unless there are any objections?

I'll try to get the thread up this weekend

[Dave Strider]

Army General Staff in Karup:	.	.	.
10000	1st Army Division	.	.
.	5000	1st Brigade	.
.	.	1000	1st Armoured Battalion, Jutland Dragoon Regiment
.	.	1000	2nd Armoured Infantry Battalion, Jutland Dragoon Regiment
.	.	1000	3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	4th Armoured Infantry Batallion, The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	5th Armoured Infantry Batallion, The Dannevirke Guard
.	5000	2nd Brigade	.
.	.	1000	1st Armored Infantry Battalion, The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	2nd Armored Infantry Battalion(Reserve), The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	1st Armored Engineer Battalion, The Guard Hussar Regiment
.	.	1000	1st Armored Infantry Battalion, The Royal Life Guards
.	.	1000	2nd Armored Infantry (Reserve) Battalion, The Royal Life Guards

Begun Making my Army, How would I make this with the game Rules? Is there any way to even make this? Because this is what a realistic division would look like for Denmark from my research. They don't make Divisions like they're set in the rules. Smaller population I suppose. I've played with the thought of making it with the Divisions in the first page, and then just dividing it down to make it fit, still works with the rules, the cost would be the same and everything. There's just be a greater variety but in different numbers..

How do you think it looks so far?

Make a division of cavalry/light infantry, perhaps? Those are 5k in strength.

[Narf]

.Not exactly what I meant.

[Dave Strider]

Well it's a single division by the looks of it, 10k men, why not just make it motorized infantry and attach armor or armored cars to make it a "mechanized" division?

[Narf]

Because It's got Engineers and such too. I'd like to pay for it all proper, just take for example.
1st Armoured Battalion: 1000 men. 5 in each tank. which is 200 Tanks. Rules: Armored Division - 300 tanks - $20000, 8 days, 2000 barrels of oil. So instead of paying for 300 tanks I'd pay for 200. 13333 Coins and 1333 Oil.
7 Mechanized Infantry Battalions 7000 men. Would cost 7000 Coins and 700 Oil.
1 Armoured Engineer Battalion 1000 men. Would cost 750 Coins.
1 Cavalry Battalion 1000 men. Would cost 1200 Coins.

Combined cost which is fair to all: 22283 Coins and 2033 Oil.

[Dave Strider]

Nah, it wouldn't be 200 tanks, it'd more likely be a 40-tank brigade or so. Keep in mind, regiment size includes things like administration, hospitals, field kitchens, postal detachments, mechanics, etc. A tank division IRL in WWII was maybe 100 tanks, I have no clue why they're 300 in this game.

[Narf]

And I'm trying to make it work within the rules of the game.

[Dave Strider]

That's the thing, though, it wouldn't work within the rules of the game. If you've got the cash, you're allowed to make an expanded OOB - i.e. to have more than one division - but you can't make a single division with multiple brigades.

[Pericles of Athens]

You're probably gonna want to expand your forces a bit Narf, considering that the German Wehrmacht will be rolling into town at some point and you'll need them to put up a real fight.

[Barry Goldwater]

I suppose you could have a bunch of really understrength 'divisions' (that's to say, they all start with under the usual 10k men or however many an ordinary division of their type would have, like some of the Polish units from the Battle of Poland thread) with the various brigades attached (one per understrength 'division') to simulate a small, specialist-focused force?

[Barry Goldwater]

Also: RTH hasn't responded to my VM in three days, which means we'll have to assume he's out of commission again. Xion has offered to take up Britain in his stead and turn Japan over to LM's sole control. @LM Are you willing to assume sole control of Japan?

[Narf]

I suppose you could have a bunch of really understrength 'divisions' (that's to say, they all start with under the usual 10k men or however many an ordinary division of their type would have, like some of the Polish units from the Battle of Poland thread) with the various brigades attached (one per understrength 'division') to simulate a small, specialist-focused force?

Thank you very much. I will do that. Fits the country much better.

[chesser2538]

I have yet to hear anything from Iron Aquilifer in the past few days, I've tried to PM with no luck, I kind of need someone to play the other Balkan nations who will be semi active. Anyone know anything?