The advantage of this is that you can take France, Denmark, Holland and Belgium before the fall of 1939 (if you play historically). If you influence Poland enough, up to +200, they will join you after 2 or 3 attempts.Increasing the Central Planning slider will help as well. If you build factories (you always should anyway), say around 15 x 2 starting in May-June 1936 (after expending first months overstocking supplies) you will have an IC of around 300 by Sept 1939. This is to be used if you have a large amount of IC. About 75 Soviet armies could be destroyed in a few months. Without supply you can go battle to battle to tear the bear down.įinally: It is not easy to hold the Soviet armies in the trap and to get the trap closed.Perhaps you can alternatively destroy all Soviet convoys - I didn´t try.So the next goal is to conquer the coastal territoris to finally shut the Soviet armies off from any supply. After a short time the AI will supply via the coastal territories.No supply for the Soviet armies from land. You must go from Archangelsk to Moscow and from Moscow to Stalingrad to close the east side of the trap.Until now there shouldn´t be much resistance from the Soviet armies They wait near Leningrad.At the same time, go with tanks, cavalry and HQs directly to Moscow.Use it as a new base and then invade Archangelsk. The goal is to cut supply to the Soviet armies. You must close the trap for the big Soviet armies with your small forces.Sometimes, you can walk to Stalingrad without fighting. Use cavalry or tanks to go quickly to the east and capture as much territory as possible. Go through the last Polish territories to attack the SU. The West Front of the Soviet Union is now open very few troops there.But with 10 Inf and 5 Fortification in Leningrad they don´t attack you (or they don´t succeed in attacking). The Soviets will bring 50-60 (or more) units to the surrounding provinces. Then bring about 10 Inf + 1 HQ to Leningrad and wait. Declare war on the Soviets and invade Leningrad directly or through the province southwest of it.DO NOT annex Poland, or you will lose your buffer. Attack Poland as early as possible, destroy the Polish army and capture all territories, BUT NOT the border territories to Soviet Union! These territories are your buffer to the Soviet Union. You also get a puppet-base for attacking France later. If you release Nationalist Spain, you lose the belligerence. You could potentially be in Paris within two weeks of the outbreak of war and have most of western and southern France at the same time. Invading France from Spain exploits the AI weakness as it does not reinforce that border in sufficient numbers. If you plan for the UK, make sure to research marines to create the bridgehead. This will also give you the needed transports to launch an invasion of the UK as well. This gives you an ideal launching point for invading Gibraltar and France when war with the Allies occurs. By shuttling 9 - 18 divisions to Spain using your brand new transports, you should be able to annex Republican Spain by the end of the summer or even as early as July. As Republican Spain has no guarantees or alliances to protect itself from foreign aggression, you will not have to worry about the Allies at this time. With only 3 to 6 transports by April 1, you can launch a successful invasion of Spain. Use this strategy with caution, as it could easily backfire.Īn easy conquest of Spain can be accomplished by building transports and convoys from the start of 1936. Note that the AI in 1.3 and above is much better about garrisoning provinces that it has captured in order to maintain supply to its troops. It is possible that you could lose control of the situation if you are not careful. The USSR front is huge and the numbers of divisions in play are very large. The French supply cut-off trick also applies in many other similar situations, such as during the invasion of the USSR. This will allow you to destroy a large portion of the French army. By doing this, all the French troops that are behind your lines quickly become out of supply. When you are ready to cut them off, attack and capture Freiburg. The French AI will rush in and try to capture as many Southern German provinces as possible. In the event that they don't attack, removing the garrisons in Freiburg alltogether will stimulate the AI into an attack. Most of the time, the AI will attack Freiburg and makes a breakthrough to southern German provinces. Put 6 divisions in Stuttgart, 6 in Saarbrücken and only 3 in Freiburg. After the fall of Poland, put most of your armies in Nuremberg or Frankfurt. There is an easy way to remove around half of them. In most games France has more than 70 divisions at the start of the war.
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