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I got bored so I installed DD after almost a year. This time I picked Yugoslavia.
I DoWed Albania in mid '38, so the Italians responded.
The Germans dowed me (having previously refused the anschluss of Austria).
The Soviets dowed Germany.
The Turks dowed Italy and landed in North Africa.
Romania and Bulgaria dowed USSR.
The Soviets dowed Poland, which joined the Axis.
When I was near Rome, Italy, Romania and Bulgaria joined the Axis.
When I finished the boot and started campaigns in Bulgaria (was half way through) and Romania, the Soviets puppeted Romania and Bulgaria switched sides.
I dowed Hungary and annexed it.
Greece dowed USSR, joined the Axis and I annexed them.
When the Soviets reached the German border, I dowed Austria, annexed it and broke into Germany. As the majority of their army was in the east, I had a relatively easy job. Now they have 37 divisions in Berlin so it's kinda impossible to take it XD
I landed in North Africa and annexed Italy.
As my IC demands are about 30 (I drained all the manpower for reinforcements, and have only 46 Inf/Mth/Cav divisions), I had about 100 spare IC so I put it into producing supplies which I traded for money so by influencing my powerful neighbours I have +200 relations with the UK, France and the Soviets.
Now... what next? I can't produce any new troops, so I'm thinking about brigading all my existing ones with SP Art (can finish it by the end of '40), and soon I will have researched improved tactical bombers so then I'll start building airforce. I will have improved medium tanks in '41, so I might add some armoured divisions. Should I research mot/mec and train them when I have MP? All of this will harm my TC, though. Should I release Austria, Hungary and Greece so that they can spam me with some infantry, and to relieve the TC a bit as well?

The problem is, whatever I do, there's no way I could do any harm to either the Allies or the Soviets... And researching land doctrines with a lvl 3 team is a pain in the ass...
 
Alliance with allies or komintern, to kill the other the faster you can.
 
A good solution may be to grab everything you can before dowing one of them. Perhaps switzerland, cze or/and belgium. You have far less manpower than your ennemies. That's why you have to build a big aviation (with CAS, a lot of them) and Arm to encircle/destroy divisions.

How is going japan ?
 
You've reached what I look at as the boredom part of the game. You done everything you can but are to weak to tangle with the big boys. Build some CAS and you can maybe take the USSR down once they DoW Japan as most of there army is in the east.
 
Actually, I can join the Soviets. And that's what I'll do. Already in mid-40 they have more than 300 divisions so I'll use '41 to build some airforce and armour (plus they'll supply me with some blueprints), and then I'll dow France in '42. Japan puppeted Nationalist China. I'm just not sure if I should release some puppets of my own?
 
blastmaster said:
I'm just not sure if I should release some puppets of my own?
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I'd release Ethiopia, you get some decent mountaineers from them, and if you don't control access to the right sea lanes you will struggle to supply the area if you end up at war with their owners.
If you release Somalia, I'd recommend building a port and airstrip first in the most southwesterly province (forgot it's name), in case you wish to use it as a base to amphib assault Durban, Massaua is too far away (as I recently found out grr).
 
This is annoying, in the beginning, when I had both manpower and time, I lacked technology and IC. Now, as the war with the Allies is approaching, I have both technology and IC, but neither manpower nor time XD And the Soviets could reeeeally start researching something useful, for a change...
 
Happens alot with countries like Yugo, Hungary, and Romania. You probably have to spam alot of CAS as your MP problems will keep a limit on the size of your army.
 
In the end this turned out to be one of the most interesting games I've had. I dowed the Allies in mid-42, conquered France, Spain and Portugal (the latter two were part of the Axis before we annexed Germany, and before all that Czechoslovakia joined the Axis so I conquered them as well). I used the following year to conquer North Africa and Middle east, thus securing all the ports in the Mediterranean, which then I cleared using bombers so now it's called the Yugoslavian Sea XD Since my 27 squadrons of interceptors were not enough to keep the Allied bombers away from France and Germany, I put a lot of effort into it, and eventually managed to land in the UK in '44, which turned out to be weakly defended as the majority of the Allied army was in Indo-China facing the Japanese. In late '44/early '45 I dowed Persia and broke into India, which I finished off by mid-45, in order to take pressure off the Japanese so that perhaps they would be able to last a bit longer in the Pacific since the Americans are slowly taking away their islands. By this time, the core of my army consists of 20 mechanized, 10 motorized, 8 armoured (all with SP Art) and 5 mtn divisions, while the old infantry (almost all of which has 4 stars for experience) will be used to defend beaches. I guess I won't need much more than that since the Allied army now consists of the USA (and their 50 carriers >_>), Australia and Canada (the latter two have 20 divisions each) so I'll further improve my airforce. I released Italy, I assumed it would make a good puppet - they have decent tech teams and 90 IC. The Soviets sent about 10 divisions to Africa and are rapidly expanding my territory there.
 
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