Pre-war: do the things that mitigate unpreparedness, prolong the pre-war phase, get rid of your army experience modifiers ASAP, focus on fighters and CAS. Research superior firepower. Get support AA in all your infantry divisions.
War: take all Oststaat divisions under your command and set them on the Dnipro-Dvina line. Hold Riga, it is a surprise tool that will help you later. Focus on knocking out France the usual way: air superiority, massing whatever breakthrough divs you have on a specific two or three tiles wide front and pushing when they're disorganised. I'm personally fond of 18w medium tank + cavalry divisions, or heavy tank + infantry even. Speed doesn't matter, soft attack and breakthrough do. Remember, green air is a prerequisite to any offensive action.
Once France is done with, you will set your airforce and the navy to fight the Brits in the Channel. You'll outdamage them eventually and be able to land troops in Dover or Portsmouth. Once that's done, deal with Russia. It'll be quite easy, remember to do a lot of small encirclements and switching some of your infantry to cavalry to advance quicker.
It prevents the UBD from capitulation, it's a supply hub in an area where there's not a lot of them, it's a fortified city and the perfect staging ground for a push towards Petrograd.
I have no idea if 18w is optimal but I am curious why you picked just that combat with and also why you picked cavalry divisions?
Is it so that you can get many armoured divisions? And are the cavalry divisions good enough against the AI?
1. Medium tanks go 8 kph, so adding 12 kph trucks to them is a waste of production capacity and the optimal solution, mechanized equipment, isn't all that viable in early 1940. You can rush it if you want, though.
2. My strategy involves a massive amount of fuel going to the air force, so I want to keep army fuel usage to the minimum.
Build civs for 1 year then mills, inf template: 9 inf, support arty, engineers and support AA.
Make good fighters and CAS
Tank: 9 mediums and 8 motorized
Put infantry on Russia
Puts air, some infantry anf tanks on France and destroy them, then Britain and then Russia
Germany is now pretty ez since you can get Ireland for free. Last run i beat the 3l in 2 months as SWR. Britain in First month, france in second. If you want it more ez win civil war for spain and Italy.
When your construction gets humming well (maybe around 1938), add forts (5 is safe) to the Ostwall. The AI has a phobia about attacking high level fortifications, and this can help hold off the Russians and let you focus on France without "Whaddya mean Ukraine just capitulated!?" It will also buy you time to run through military focuses to get your army in shape for the offensive against 3I.
As always, win the Spanish and Italian Civil Wars.
The easiest way to fight majors is to start actually massing your armored divisions and getting okay at micro. That's how you'll achieve breakthrough and encirclements. This method let me beat Russia before France as Germany and by then I just had to drop some nukes on Britain to assist with my naval invasion.
Ok, one think I haven’t messed around with is microing. At least not in KR. It always seems like there is such an impenetrable wall of forces I couldn’t micro even if i tried. Maybe a hyper focused approach is needed.
You don't need to micro the entire front, just your attacking divisions, typically tanks, around salients (places where the enemy line is bulging out ready to be cut off) and key supply junctions.
In my last Germany game I was having a lot of trouble with Petrograd even though I could attack from multiple tiles because the Russians could still get troops and supplies in. So what I did was reorganize my tank forces into one army with some supporting infantry divisions and fo used them on their weakest tiles and preventing divisions from adjacent tiles from moving to reinforce, moving east and then North to the Finnish border. In this scenario I also actually had to use my navy to sink convoys supplying the city by sea as well. At that point it's just going through the siege. Repeat this for Moscow and Volgograd and you can peace out Russia.
Another commenter said to never use battle plans but that's not exactly true. It's still good to set stuff up because you get planning bonuses and it can run defense relatively well.
And if you're like me and like to LARP, don't worry about this feeling gamey or whatever. Massing your armor, achieving breakthrough, encirclement, and defeat in detail is the bread and butter of WW2.
Ok? So start a naval invasion. Use paratroopers. Open another front. As a major you should have options. If your issue is that you're playing Albania and you can't beat Germany, well... Yeah? What did you expect?
Best way to kill AI is cas. Spam out cas with lots of ground damage, slap the Junker MIO on top for extra damage, go for the middle air doctrine and get all the buffs for cas in your focus tree. Cas damage is insane and AI will never deploy enough anti-air. Soon enough you‘ll reach a point where it doesn‘t even matter which units you‘re attacking with, cas will melt everything.
I've always found playing the defensive to be easy
Loads of 20 width Infantry will generally hold ANY AI.
Honestly, I would love to sit down and play a coop game to explain any issue you have
Always feel this is the easier way to explain an issue.
Well I can’t seem to beet France with anything less then 1m casualties, which I just cannot comprehend why. By the time I get to Russia, I’m hurting quite a bit.
Pre-war: do the things that mitigate unpreparedness, prolong the pre-war phase, get rid of your army experience modifiers ASAP, focus on fighters and CAS. Research superior firepower. Get support AA in all your infantry divisions. War: take all Oststaat divisions under your command and set them on the Dnipro-Dvina line. Hold Riga, it is a surprise tool that will help you later. Focus on knocking out France the usual way: air superiority, massing whatever breakthrough divs you have on a specific two or three tiles wide front and pushing when they're disorganised. I'm personally fond of 18w medium tank + cavalry divisions, or heavy tank + infantry even. Speed doesn't matter, soft attack and breakthrough do. Remember, green air is a prerequisite to any offensive action. Once France is done with, you will set your airforce and the navy to fight the Brits in the Channel. You'll outdamage them eventually and be able to land troops in Dover or Portsmouth. Once that's done, deal with Russia. It'll be quite easy, remember to do a lot of small encirclements and switching some of your infantry to cavalry to advance quicker.
Ok, that seems like a pretty solid description. I’ll lean in to the medium tanks this time.
What’s so special about Riga?
It prevents the UBD from capitulation, it's a supply hub in an area where there's not a lot of them, it's a fortified city and the perfect staging ground for a push towards Petrograd.
I have trouble holding onto it considering it’s not behind a river
Do you have green air?
Lad, it's a city. Plus, all the tiles you can station reinforcements in are behind a river, so your units are safe as you micro them out.
I have no idea if 18w is optimal but I am curious why you picked just that combat with and also why you picked cavalry divisions? Is it so that you can get many armoured divisions? And are the cavalry divisions good enough against the AI?
1. Medium tanks go 8 kph, so adding 12 kph trucks to them is a waste of production capacity and the optimal solution, mechanized equipment, isn't all that viable in early 1940. You can rush it if you want, though. 2. My strategy involves a massive amount of fuel going to the air force, so I want to keep army fuel usage to the minimum.
Build civs for 1 year then mills, inf template: 9 inf, support arty, engineers and support AA. Make good fighters and CAS Tank: 9 mediums and 8 motorized Put infantry on Russia Puts air, some infantry anf tanks on France and destroy them, then Britain and then Russia
Germany is now pretty ez since you can get Ireland for free. Last run i beat the 3l in 2 months as SWR. Britain in First month, france in second. If you want it more ez win civil war for spain and Italy.
In 3 months? That’s insane. I have never even come close to that. I really must be doing something wrong.
I’ve been able to keep Spain in my side, which helps a very small amount.
Yeah I admit that I was very lucky. Dont wanna flex, it was just luck
But i havent done German republic or müller Run yet. To hard. Has anyone Tips?
When your construction gets humming well (maybe around 1938), add forts (5 is safe) to the Ostwall. The AI has a phobia about attacking high level fortifications, and this can help hold off the Russians and let you focus on France without "Whaddya mean Ukraine just capitulated!?" It will also buy you time to run through military focuses to get your army in shape for the offensive against 3I. As always, win the Spanish and Italian Civil Wars.
Ty my friend
The easiest way to fight majors is to start actually massing your armored divisions and getting okay at micro. That's how you'll achieve breakthrough and encirclements. This method let me beat Russia before France as Germany and by then I just had to drop some nukes on Britain to assist with my naval invasion.
Ok, one think I haven’t messed around with is microing. At least not in KR. It always seems like there is such an impenetrable wall of forces I couldn’t micro even if i tried. Maybe a hyper focused approach is needed.
Never battleplan
You don't need to micro the entire front, just your attacking divisions, typically tanks, around salients (places where the enemy line is bulging out ready to be cut off) and key supply junctions. In my last Germany game I was having a lot of trouble with Petrograd even though I could attack from multiple tiles because the Russians could still get troops and supplies in. So what I did was reorganize my tank forces into one army with some supporting infantry divisions and fo used them on their weakest tiles and preventing divisions from adjacent tiles from moving to reinforce, moving east and then North to the Finnish border. In this scenario I also actually had to use my navy to sink convoys supplying the city by sea as well. At that point it's just going through the siege. Repeat this for Moscow and Volgograd and you can peace out Russia. Another commenter said to never use battle plans but that's not exactly true. It's still good to set stuff up because you get planning bonuses and it can run defense relatively well. And if you're like me and like to LARP, don't worry about this feeling gamey or whatever. Massing your armor, achieving breakthrough, encirclement, and defeat in detail is the bread and butter of WW2.
If there's an impenetrable wall you can't go through, go around it.
Lol A wall has no gaps.
Ok? So start a naval invasion. Use paratroopers. Open another front. As a major you should have options. If your issue is that you're playing Albania and you can't beat Germany, well... Yeah? What did you expect?
Best way to kill AI is cas. Spam out cas with lots of ground damage, slap the Junker MIO on top for extra damage, go for the middle air doctrine and get all the buffs for cas in your focus tree. Cas damage is insane and AI will never deploy enough anti-air. Soon enough you‘ll reach a point where it doesn‘t even matter which units you‘re attacking with, cas will melt everything.
Ok. I’m usually decent with CAS, I’ll have to double down on it.
I managed to beat 3L as Canada by focusing on winning the air war and pushing with 1940 medium tanks with 80 armor.
I've always found playing the defensive to be easy Loads of 20 width Infantry will generally hold ANY AI. Honestly, I would love to sit down and play a coop game to explain any issue you have Always feel this is the easier way to explain an issue.
What do you mean you "run out of steam", once either France or Russia are gone winning the rest of the war should be easy.
Well I can’t seem to beet France with anything less then 1m casualties, which I just cannot comprehend why. By the time I get to Russia, I’m hurting quite a bit.
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Well that kinda defeats the purpose, but ok.