EPTHoI 2 has a pretty neat mod called "Modern Day", that aims to recreate modern warfare. I decided to play as China, and these are the game logs of what ended up happening.
Table of Contents
- Intro
- Russo-Polish Front, Part 1
- Indo-Pak Front, Part 1
- Korea
- Entries below coming soon
- Russo-Polish Front, Part 2
- Phillippines
- Germany
- Indo-Pak Front, Part 2
- France/Japan
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The war begins at 1003 (a code error, should be 2003, but the game engine has a slight Y2K problem since it was scripted for WW2 battles.)
Here the US invades Iraq (the kickoff event for the entire mod), and all countries get their "Status reports", which are basically little info boxes that tell you things like starting per capita GDP, anticipated GDP growth, starting form of government, starting corruption levels, and starting defense tech levels.
Since I got China, I had low per capita GDP, high growth, starting form of government as an Autocracy/Totalitarian Socialist, high starting corruption, and mediocre starting defense tech.
So the next thing I did was quickly try and tech up:
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Tripled the defense/upgrading budget (by massively increasing the pay of my tech teams); then cut the total size of the Chinese military by 2/3rds (by disbanding every single unit with a tech level older than "post-Cold War".) Then upgraded every remaining unit (mostly air units) to the current tech level.
While I did this, I also instituted anti-corruption reforms and shifted the government onto a more free-market/globalist path.
Nothing really happens for 5 years. Pretty much sit at home and tech, hard, while investing into industry in coastal cities to commence a naval buildup. Around spring of 2006, China lays the keels for six post-CW tech level carriers, with two more sets of six more to follow them. The third set of six carriers will be ready by October 2008, perfect timing for some post-Olympics fireworks. All other shipbuilding is devoted to guided missile subs and amphibious assault craft.
Meanwhile, diplomatically I've been working Pakistan, Russia, and Singapore very heavily (giving them lots of preferential trade deals, loads of tech, even donating obsolete army divisions to Russia--critical because I want Russia to have a strong land army by 2009). Each of those countries is critical to the 2008-2009 war I'm planning.
The trigger for the war comes when the leaders of Taiwan begin hinting that they may commit a regrettable mistake.
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Followed by the leaders of America making a regrettable mistake.
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We bide our time and wait. China gets its third set of six carriers, and begins a very accelerated training program with them. In the meanwhile, I begin to aggressively court Pakistan and Singapore, and begin loading sending most PLA land units toward the Russo-Polish borders for "exercises". Also, I share all my Ballistic Missile and Nuclear Warhead Design technologies with Pakistan to help them "defend" themselves against any possible Indian "aggression."
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Pakistan is now a part of the Shanghai Pact. The moment I've been waiting for happens: Taiwan commits an act of stupidity and declares formal independence. Now I make the pitch to Russia:
- We strike May 2009.
I hit Taiwan, then the Phillippines, then Japan.
Russia hits Poland/Baltics/Romania/Ukraine (China helps)--this is important because it ensures US reinforcements go to NATO allies before Asian allies.
North Korea commits suicide against the DMZ (we help if we can spare it); it's okay because NK is not our formal treaty ally.
Pakistan draws any Indian attacks.
Russia agrees, it's game on.
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May 2009 rolls around and all my pieces are in place: 60% of the Chinese Army's elite units are massed along the Carpathian mountains, ready to break through the Dukla Pass/other passes and sweep through the Carpathian Basin-->setting the stage for a southern flank into Poland while the Russian meatgrinder fixes Polish/NATO forces in place.
In the Pacific, I've positioned my brand new fleets of cruise missile submarines and aircraft carriers in a rough triangle around Taiwan. I have enough amphibious assault craft to land 12 divisions per wave onto enemy beaches, or 20+ divisions per wave onto friendly beaches.
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Reunification Day, or R-Day, begins when 9 paratrooper regiments (~20,000 men) land in the mountains of Hualien. They secure landing zones for 10 more whole divisions (~100,000 men). These forces pincer Taipei against 8 more divisions in an amphibious landing by R+ 24 hours. ROC forces on the Kaohsiung plain are kept in place by anti-infrastructure attacks (which work very well because Taiwan crams all its vital infrastructure onto a single flood plain fifty kilometers wide criss-crossed by wide rivers; basically the PLA air force blows up every bridge it can, then constantly strafes the traffic jams that form on the few bridges still standing).
Eventually 200,000 ROC troops are trapped on Kinmen and the Kaohsiung plain, where without food, water, fuel, and ammunition, they surrender in two days.
As soon as Taiwan falls, I redirect my forces toward Singapore. This is where phase two of the attack begins.
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First I get bad news from India. Seems like they feel like they should be the regional Asian hegemon. Still, since I have ensured that Pakistan has an itchy, radioactive, trigger finger, the Indus/Ganges will flow red with blood and green with fallout before any Indian military units have the time or energy to harass Tibet. Pakistan wardecs India (as expected) and I fortify the Himalayan passes with some heliborne infantry.
The US Navy closes the Straits of Malacca over Singaporean protests. Singapore wardecs the USA and joins my Shanghai Pact. This is what 5 years of George W Bush + Shady Sands diplomacy will get you.
The US Navy bulks up in the Persian Gulf and prepares for the mother of all amphibious invasions in the Straits of Malacca. Meanwhile, 12 of my 18 carriers swing south, and await battle...
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