so right now i feel confident enough to begin to try a historical german warfare path. that is, devote time to airforce, rocket research, submarines, navy, airforce, nuclear research and army.
so far, its a lot more different than what I think most people play, which is forfeiting the navy and building fighters only to focus on armor/motorized/mechanized only. well i first started by doing 2 serial runs of factories, totalling 28 IC, and used the spares first to buy interceptors... oh well... by 1939 sept say i have 6 ´40 sub flotillas, 10 interceptors, 6 tac bombers model 38, a modest amount of infantry of which 32 guard french border and the rest, about 12 motorized and 9 armored along with 36 infantry divs ready to take poland, as well as 6 mountain divs. also i had 3 garrison divs ready for garrison duty, complete with police brigade. poland was a bit hard to take but after i took over 20 divs they were stemmed out of warsaw, and annexed. after waiting a year and taking denmark, i first tried a double war declaration on netherlands and belgium, but the french moved too quickly to counter me, so instead i decided to simply kill the netherlands 1st then take belgium. i went through avranches then over mons, and then my motorized forces took over france and vichy event fired. boom, rinse, and now the french coast is guarded by garrisons and infantry from sigfried line.
oh, also, since sept 39 i have been convoy raiding the crap out of the british isles. admittedly i have suffered about 5 flotilla loses and suffered damage to my other ones, but they have the total amount of ZERO bomber squadrons, and they got that nasty event that said they cant recieve american lend lease, which means they lose on about 50 IC. my intelligence says they have 24 fighter groups and nothing else. also i allied with italy so i could let them guard the baltic coastline. my naval techs are up to doenitz researching advanced sub ops 2 years early, and the resulting deterrement of convoys from british. anyway, right after vichy fired i cancelled NAP with yugoslavia and sent my panzer armies to completely annex them. created croatia and then declared war on the greeks, to get more IC to fuel my war machine.
so now im waiting in jan ´41, and i have 18 INT wings, 6 TAC wings, 70 inf divs approximately and 36 divs between armor and motorized. my romanian and hungarian allies have given me 30 divs, but i still have time to gather more. my subs continue to wreak holy havoc on the british convoys with only damage being taken instead of losses. also i recently reduced my upgrade IC from 80 to 30, so im building more sub flotillas and some more infantry. right now my queue is all 99x runs of 13 subs, 8 inf i think, 3 arm of model ´39, and 2 motorized. hopefully ill have around 170 total divs ready by barbarossa. ill trigger it early however. as soon as weather clears up im gonna smash the russians.
so far, its a lot more different than what I think most people play, which is forfeiting the navy and building fighters only to focus on armor/motorized/mechanized only. well i first started by doing 2 serial runs of factories, totalling 28 IC, and used the spares first to buy interceptors... oh well... by 1939 sept say i have 6 ´40 sub flotillas, 10 interceptors, 6 tac bombers model 38, a modest amount of infantry of which 32 guard french border and the rest, about 12 motorized and 9 armored along with 36 infantry divs ready to take poland, as well as 6 mountain divs. also i had 3 garrison divs ready for garrison duty, complete with police brigade. poland was a bit hard to take but after i took over 20 divs they were stemmed out of warsaw, and annexed. after waiting a year and taking denmark, i first tried a double war declaration on netherlands and belgium, but the french moved too quickly to counter me, so instead i decided to simply kill the netherlands 1st then take belgium. i went through avranches then over mons, and then my motorized forces took over france and vichy event fired. boom, rinse, and now the french coast is guarded by garrisons and infantry from sigfried line.
oh, also, since sept 39 i have been convoy raiding the crap out of the british isles. admittedly i have suffered about 5 flotilla loses and suffered damage to my other ones, but they have the total amount of ZERO bomber squadrons, and they got that nasty event that said they cant recieve american lend lease, which means they lose on about 50 IC. my intelligence says they have 24 fighter groups and nothing else. also i allied with italy so i could let them guard the baltic coastline. my naval techs are up to doenitz researching advanced sub ops 2 years early, and the resulting deterrement of convoys from british. anyway, right after vichy fired i cancelled NAP with yugoslavia and sent my panzer armies to completely annex them. created croatia and then declared war on the greeks, to get more IC to fuel my war machine.
so now im waiting in jan ´41, and i have 18 INT wings, 6 TAC wings, 70 inf divs approximately and 36 divs between armor and motorized. my romanian and hungarian allies have given me 30 divs, but i still have time to gather more. my subs continue to wreak holy havoc on the british convoys with only damage being taken instead of losses. also i recently reduced my upgrade IC from 80 to 30, so im building more sub flotillas and some more infantry. right now my queue is all 99x runs of 13 subs, 8 inf i think, 3 arm of model ´39, and 2 motorized. hopefully ill have around 170 total divs ready by barbarossa. ill trigger it early however. as soon as weather clears up im gonna smash the russians.
