So, I have started a game of WiF recently. First of all, I have to say it is a very good and fun mod! The AI is very aggressive and will constantly counterattack, unlike in vanilla.
In my first test game I actually ended up fighting in Poland for a full month, and then getting stuck in France the following year. But in the second game, which I'm playing now, I managed to beat Poland in ~2 weeks, though it took until August 1940 before France had been brought down to its knees.
I then started my offensive on the Russians on 22 June. I only managed to conquer western Ukraine, eastern Poland and some of Lithuania before the winter kicked in, at which point I was driven back to the German border in the north, with the southern front barely holding.
I'm not sure what mistakes I did, but it felt like I never had "enough" units. I have seen some players say that they had ~30 panzer divisions by 22 June along with a good airforce, but I personally had to go with ~10 panzer divisions, 10-15 motorized and mechanized, perhaps ~130 infantry divs, an airforce of in total 15-20 planes.
Have I done something wrong with the production? One thing I came to think of at least was that consumer goods always seemed to have a high demand at ~80 when I only needed 20-40. Now, I play with auto economic sliders, and can't enjoy my game without them. But do I have to *shudder* manually micromanage the sliders to produce more?
Feel free to come with any other tips, such as what ministers I should use and so on.
If you are a good player you can just say how you do, and I will do my best to emulate that in my next game.
Anything that's of help is greatly appreciated!
In my first test game I actually ended up fighting in Poland for a full month, and then getting stuck in France the following year. But in the second game, which I'm playing now, I managed to beat Poland in ~2 weeks, though it took until August 1940 before France had been brought down to its knees.
I then started my offensive on the Russians on 22 June. I only managed to conquer western Ukraine, eastern Poland and some of Lithuania before the winter kicked in, at which point I was driven back to the German border in the north, with the southern front barely holding.
I'm not sure what mistakes I did, but it felt like I never had "enough" units. I have seen some players say that they had ~30 panzer divisions by 22 June along with a good airforce, but I personally had to go with ~10 panzer divisions, 10-15 motorized and mechanized, perhaps ~130 infantry divs, an airforce of in total 15-20 planes.
Have I done something wrong with the production? One thing I came to think of at least was that consumer goods always seemed to have a high demand at ~80 when I only needed 20-40. Now, I play with auto economic sliders, and can't enjoy my game without them. But do I have to *shudder* manually micromanage the sliders to produce more?
Feel free to come with any other tips, such as what ministers I should use and so on.
If you are a good player you can just say how you do, and I will do my best to emulate that in my next game.
Anything that's of help is greatly appreciated!
