Hello everyone, my All Countries All In game ended today few hours ago. It is hard to be proud of my 800 odd points when I see USA with a solo victory. Let's see how I played the game although it was kinda hard due to the 4x speed.
Start of Game Day 1:
On the first day I allied with a few important nations. Firstly I allied with Japan who (I might as well point this out right now) remained more or less inactive until I attacked him a day after an epic battle whose details I will share later on. I also shared map with Germany, Xinjiang, Afghanistan and USA and joined the Slavic Reich coalition made by the USSR in which were Yugoslavia and another minor nation which I have forgotten... Newspaper battles were the only thing left besides war, and China and Greece decided to join in: China sent a list of 20 questions with the prefix "Do you know" (the last question was: how to shut up?) and Greece threw one question which I counter questioned with my question. For those of you who are interested, you can find the game ID 8126426 and read the newspapers on day 1. In the meantime I sent some troops over to the Xinjiang border and allied with Communist China who used all his troops and threw them in Kweihwa and Luliang, to which Japan asked me to invade Communist China. I waited for some time until they were locked in combat, then using the infantry i had recruited by that time, I struck and struck hard. Within 30 minutes Communist China had become history and I won my first war in the game (it might be important to note that Japanese troops hit the province of Baiyin and I only managed to take the rest because Mongolia permitted it. Baiyin was recaptured in the Third Sino-Japanese War).
Foreign Warfare: Italo-Greek War
Just like in the Second World War, here too Italy was embarrassed by Greece when he invaded and got pummeled. Libya was half Greek and only two Greek cores had fallen. The war dragged on for a bit until Germany stepped in and divided Yugoslavia who had tried to take advantage of the turmoil.
Middle Game Day 2-10: Part 1 - Expansion in the West
By that time it was late night, so I had already slept off when day 2 started and ended. When I got up, I immediately researched higher technology and analyzed what Xinjiang was doing. The answer? Nothing concerning. Only a barrack and ordnance foundry in 4 cities, 1 empty. I decided this was it. Moved troops in Hami and Sinping and some surrounding provinces and declared war. I remember I got something like 3 light armor vehicles in Sinping and some serious infantry in Hami. Immediately these provinces were annexed. Taking advantage of the time remaining to daychange, I pushed to Urumqi, determined to take it before daychange, and I was successful by a minute or two. By day change I also pushed my troops in Sinping to the adjacent plains and captured much more than would've been possible. Later I pushed further and destroyed Xinjiang in a couple of hours.
Part 2 - Expansion in the South
With the fall of Xinjiang I had connected borders with Afghanistan and the USSR. To get more land and present day Chinese borders, I decided to push south through the mountains of the Tibetan plateau. For this task I upgraded my (motorized) infantry and collected some tanks through plants in Jiuquan and Hainan to support invasion. My airbases in Nanning, Guilin and Wuhan were in full swing, making tactical bombers as fast as they could. I built an airbase in Qamdo and destroyed the meagre army of Tibet using swift attacks on Lhasa to allow further invasion without risk of revolt.
Part 3 - Expansion in the South East
With two minor nations mixed with dust, I decided to move my sights to the South East, where there lay two colonies comprising of 5 present-day countries (India, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam; keep in mind that today Shillong, Imphal etc are cities in India). I decided to eat Indochina first, France was collapsing on almost every front you can think of, and so I did. My only naval force of two destroyers was upgraded to level 2 and sent in the vicinity of Hue to scout out the French Benham-class destroyer. Using my tactical and naval bombers, I sent these small ships to the bottom of the South China Sea. Then I tackled the puny infantry at Hanoi and occupied half of Indochina within an hour. Siam however did not approve of me being reckless and invading everything, and so he also invaded Indochina, taking the capital of Cambodia and Ho Chi Minh City. I took the remaining provinces and so ended the 0th Indochina War (yeah I mean Zeroeth, if you thought that was a mistake).
Part 4 - Non-aggression in Burma pact broken
I became greedy and wanted more. So I turned my sights to the nation of Burma and some states of India. Again my bombers won the day, I quickly took approximately 85% of Burma but was forced to stop due to the cruiser at Yangon. Somehow I pooled up about 60% of my air force in Pak-Lai (yeah, I managed to build an airstrip in the most heavily bombed country of all) and attacked the cruiser. It took a while but the efforts were worth it. I destroyed them and took out Burma.
Part 5 - Minor invasions
Somewhere earlier I had also invaded Macau and later Hong Kong with an amphibious tank, and Bhutan and Nepal ceased to exist, although it took some time to take their capitals as I had to bombard them with artillery just because I didn't want to fight 2 militia, 2 anti tank and 2 anti air. I kept Kathmandu encircled on all sides by enemy provinces (I took everything but Kathmandu) until the next daychange for reasons you shall see below.
Start of Game Day 1:
On the first day I allied with a few important nations. Firstly I allied with Japan who (I might as well point this out right now) remained more or less inactive until I attacked him a day after an epic battle whose details I will share later on. I also shared map with Germany, Xinjiang, Afghanistan and USA and joined the Slavic Reich coalition made by the USSR in which were Yugoslavia and another minor nation which I have forgotten... Newspaper battles were the only thing left besides war, and China and Greece decided to join in: China sent a list of 20 questions with the prefix "Do you know" (the last question was: how to shut up?) and Greece threw one question which I counter questioned with my question. For those of you who are interested, you can find the game ID 8126426 and read the newspapers on day 1. In the meantime I sent some troops over to the Xinjiang border and allied with Communist China who used all his troops and threw them in Kweihwa and Luliang, to which Japan asked me to invade Communist China. I waited for some time until they were locked in combat, then using the infantry i had recruited by that time, I struck and struck hard. Within 30 minutes Communist China had become history and I won my first war in the game (it might be important to note that Japanese troops hit the province of Baiyin and I only managed to take the rest because Mongolia permitted it. Baiyin was recaptured in the Third Sino-Japanese War).
Foreign Warfare: Italo-Greek War
Just like in the Second World War, here too Italy was embarrassed by Greece when he invaded and got pummeled. Libya was half Greek and only two Greek cores had fallen. The war dragged on for a bit until Germany stepped in and divided Yugoslavia who had tried to take advantage of the turmoil.
Middle Game Day 2-10: Part 1 - Expansion in the West
By that time it was late night, so I had already slept off when day 2 started and ended. When I got up, I immediately researched higher technology and analyzed what Xinjiang was doing. The answer? Nothing concerning. Only a barrack and ordnance foundry in 4 cities, 1 empty. I decided this was it. Moved troops in Hami and Sinping and some surrounding provinces and declared war. I remember I got something like 3 light armor vehicles in Sinping and some serious infantry in Hami. Immediately these provinces were annexed. Taking advantage of the time remaining to daychange, I pushed to Urumqi, determined to take it before daychange, and I was successful by a minute or two. By day change I also pushed my troops in Sinping to the adjacent plains and captured much more than would've been possible. Later I pushed further and destroyed Xinjiang in a couple of hours.
Part 2 - Expansion in the South
With the fall of Xinjiang I had connected borders with Afghanistan and the USSR. To get more land and present day Chinese borders, I decided to push south through the mountains of the Tibetan plateau. For this task I upgraded my (motorized) infantry and collected some tanks through plants in Jiuquan and Hainan to support invasion. My airbases in Nanning, Guilin and Wuhan were in full swing, making tactical bombers as fast as they could. I built an airbase in Qamdo and destroyed the meagre army of Tibet using swift attacks on Lhasa to allow further invasion without risk of revolt.
Part 3 - Expansion in the South East
With two minor nations mixed with dust, I decided to move my sights to the South East, where there lay two colonies comprising of 5 present-day countries (India, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam; keep in mind that today Shillong, Imphal etc are cities in India). I decided to eat Indochina first, France was collapsing on almost every front you can think of, and so I did. My only naval force of two destroyers was upgraded to level 2 and sent in the vicinity of Hue to scout out the French Benham-class destroyer. Using my tactical and naval bombers, I sent these small ships to the bottom of the South China Sea. Then I tackled the puny infantry at Hanoi and occupied half of Indochina within an hour. Siam however did not approve of me being reckless and invading everything, and so he also invaded Indochina, taking the capital of Cambodia and Ho Chi Minh City. I took the remaining provinces and so ended the 0th Indochina War (yeah I mean Zeroeth, if you thought that was a mistake).
Part 4 - Non-aggression in Burma pact broken
I became greedy and wanted more. So I turned my sights to the nation of Burma and some states of India. Again my bombers won the day, I quickly took approximately 85% of Burma but was forced to stop due to the cruiser at Yangon. Somehow I pooled up about 60% of my air force in Pak-Lai (yeah, I managed to build an airstrip in the most heavily bombed country of all) and attacked the cruiser. It took a while but the efforts were worth it. I destroyed them and took out Burma.
Part 5 - Minor invasions
Somewhere earlier I had also invaded Macau and later Hong Kong with an amphibious tank, and Bhutan and Nepal ceased to exist, although it took some time to take their capitals as I had to bombard them with artillery just because I didn't want to fight 2 militia, 2 anti tank and 2 anti air. I kept Kathmandu encircled on all sides by enemy provinces (I took everything but Kathmandu) until the next daychange for reasons you shall see below.
"Towards the submarine men, one felt an utter disgust and loathing; they were nothing but an abomination, polluting the clean sea."
