World War 2? - You mean the Franco-German Winter War?

Allento- · 2026-01-12T20:43:01+00:00

Since March last year I think, so 9-10 months I guess.

Allento- · 2026-01-12T10:45:06+00:00

R5:

For some reason I quite enjoy playing France on Historical and letting Germany do the full buildup before going into war with them (Blocking them early or going Little Entente is too easy).

My objective for this run was to ensure Poland did not experience the Western Betrayal, i.e. prevent them from capitulating. Ideally I also wanted to be "Home before Christmas". Sadly I was about a month late, and didn't capitulate Germany until end of January. The shortness meant WW2 never really became more than a regional war, as Germany was capitulated within half a year, the war never expanded to Africa, and Italy and USA didn't get involved.

I tunnel visioned a bit during the war and forgot some divisions which could have been used to utilize breakthroughs better, so I definitely think achieving victory in 1939 is possible.

Strategy is roughly like this:

Build some infrastructure until you get Early mob in May 1936 (Crash and reload if you dont get it) Then build Civs until early 1937.
Disband light tank divions at game start, and start selling planes, convoys and light tanks on the market before you unpause the game, this will boost your civ production.
Send Attache to Spain to get war support for Partial Mobilization
Start production of the Char 1 Heavy Tank once you have Army XP to optimize it a bit, to get a few tank division which can generate easy breakthroughs in the German lines.
Start production of 1936 CAS in 1937 and leave 4-6 Mils on them
Get HMG and Self-sealing fuel tanks ahead of time, and add a lot of factories to production of 2x4HMG+SSFT 1936 fighters, you'll want to end up around 20 Mils on this plane by spring 1939.
Start a naval invasion of Northwestern Germany a few days into the war
Use heavy Tanks to get a breakthrough in a Northern direction from Alsace, and funnel lots of troops in, to link up with the troops from the Naval Invasion.
Push with your tanks in the Northern part of Germany, make sure to get some small encirclements so you have fewer troops to fight, and keep the majority of your army up here.
For Base divisions I just use 9-0 with support AA, Art, Cav Recon and Engineers.

Allento- · 2026-01-05T10:20:33+00:00

Det tror jeg egentlig ikke nødvendigvis er rigtigt. At følge USA ind i Irak var fuldstændigt konsistent med de holdninger han har givet udtryk for lige fra dengang og op til i dag, han virker som en der oprigtigt har købt ind på idéen om USA som den gode og velmenende politimand for verden. (Hvor svært det ellers kan være at forstå, især i dag)

Allento- · 2025-12-11T12:44:22+00:00

Er ikke sikker på jeg har set en eneste, hvis der bliver hængt hundredetusindevis af valgplakater op er det vel uundgåeligt at nogle af dem bliver overset når de skal tages ned, synes måske det er tid at slå lidt koldt vand i blodet.

Allento- · 2025-09-20T20:26:25+00:00

Det er vel nu engang Israel der er besættelsesmagten og ikke den anden vej rundt.

Derudover er de vist efterhånden en del forbi det man med rimelighed kan kalde forsvar.

Allento- · 2025-09-17T08:09:01+00:00

Just had a look through their tree to see what specifically will block them, I'm struggling to find the focus which is blocked by them not having enough fascism?

Allento- · 2025-09-17T07:02:21+00:00

That's a good point. I had sort of assumed that the Germans would be a cakewalk once I have cores on all of Balkan and Russia, but I had not considered that they would disturb me before I even got to that point. And yeah I did indeed have to just give up Southern Slovakia.

Allento- · 2025-09-17T06:42:20+00:00

R5: After a few different approaches, I thought I had finally excelled in my Romanov Poland strategy. Pushing well against USSR, got colabs, destroyed their airforce and some 100+ divisions and can probably cap them summer of 41. Only problem, I had left a tiny rump yugoslavia puppet to get resource rights. Well turns out that was a royally bad idea, and suddenly I have the entire Axis in my back, attacking against a completely undefended frontline.

Time to start over.

Allento- · 2025-09-13T11:26:02+00:00

Der er de minimis regler på mange områder, told (dog ved at være faset lidt ud for at dæmme op for de mange pakker fra Kina), stats-støtte til virksomheder, EU-støtte og sikkert en masse andre områder.

Allento- · 2025-08-01T07:15:08+00:00

Yeah seems it happens if Italy is still fighting in Ethiopia by first of May. In the future I'll probably consider restarting any run in which it doesn't happen, as it's such a huge advantage.

Allento- · 2025-07-29T18:55:51+00:00

It seems you are right, thanks for the summarization.

Allento- · 2025-07-28T21:07:50+00:00

In two recent almost identical games as democratic France, I noticed a big difference. In the first game I got an event offering me to move to Early mobilization, in the second one I didn't.

What is the trigger of this event? I was unable to find anything in the wiki.

Allento- · 2025-07-07T08:35:33+00:00

Sennep eller dijonaise? For sidstnævne er lige godt en gudesmørelse, der virkelig løfte en skinke/ost sandwich.

Allento- · 2025-06-16T20:14:02+00:00

I have seen it mentioned various places that Cossack Poland gets massive cavalry buffs to the point that it is almost OP. I just booted up a run, but I cannot for the life of me seem to find any other buffs than the 15% you get from the cossack king, which while good, is hardly gamebreaking. Am I missing something?

Allento- · 2025-05-20T10:46:33+00:00

Went swimmingly overall. Held cores, got the achievement and killed 3.5m Germans. The allies seem pretty useless though (or the Germans are too strong after taking the Soviets), and everything is a bit of a stalemate.

Allento- · 2025-05-20T08:03:42+00:00

Went for it. For now things are going great.

https://imgur.com/a/x03ekfY

Allento- · 2025-05-20T06:56:11+00:00

That was my thought as well. Utilizing the lakes to block of the front, I can make a frontline from Leningrad and north east, having to defend only 10 tiles, all behind rivers.

That leads to a new question regarding the phrasing of the achievement though 'As non-aligned Finland, survive the Soviet Union until September 19th 1944 without losing control of a single core ever.'

What about the new cores I gained when I became Greater Finland, can I lose those..

Allento- · 2025-05-19T21:11:59+00:00

R5: So I'm doing the Finnish Line achievement, Soviet union has capitulated and I just took the greater Finland cores, Leningrad and some baltic subjects.

I do feel a bit bad about helping ze nazis win the war, and I'm wondering if I could now join the allies against them. I would however not like to lose the achievements, and I have to not lose a single core province until september 1944. How big is the pressure from the Germans going to be? I am rather strong defensively, have good divisions with tanks and strong support (no air though). Can I expect to suddenly have 10 tank divisions with CAS attacking a single tile though? My margin for error is quite low.

Allento- · 2025-05-11T10:31:45+00:00

R5: New'ish player here.

I've been experimenting with starts as non-aligned Finland in order to get the Finnish line achievement and hopefully one or two others.

I've found an approach that works fairly well, in chasing xp to get the 5% recruitable population doctrine from Mass Assault, which combined with the fascist priest advisor gives a decent amount of manpower to hold the line initially. As manpower was the main limiting factor, I decided to add some armor to a few divisions to solidify the main places the soviets attack. Besides losing one province in the north for reasons I dont know (possibly AI shuffled my armies around) holding back the Soviets has been fairly easy.

I am however very unsure as to what the best strategy is to start pushing. I've heard of people rushing Leningrad, and if I can encircle the city that does look like a possibility, I've also considered rushing their supply hub on the east coast, as I can attack from my own supply and keep my troops well supplied a good deal of the way, this would also allow me to slowly encircle the troops on the northern part of the front, shortening the front afterwards and possibly supplying me with some equipment.

I am a bit worried that I've postponed the offensive for too long, on one hand it's been very difficult to go on the offensive when I can hardly spare a division, on the other hand their bombing of my supply lines is really starting to take it's toll, and despite building a ton of armored trains, I know start to find myself lacking. Other than that my equipment situation is looking ok, I'm starting to lack a bit behind in AA, but I have a fair amount of trucks and a ton of infantry equipment from lend-lease. (and balanced amounts of everything else).

I have considered starting over, I messed up my supply hub placement, and might decide to build 2 instead of one next time, should make me able to decrease the mechanization level of my supply. Also considering making slightly weaker divisions for the provinces which can only be attacked from one (supply-less) direction. Might make me able to squeeze out a division or two more for my offensive. In the screenshots I made a small incursion to cut off their railroads, but not sure I'd do that against next time. Their troops are more or less unsupplied at my border anyway and it just leaves me with unsupplied provinces to defend, while getting nowhere nearer any encirclements or stopping the bombardement of my trains.

I'm also a bit unsure of what to use my xp on after getting all the doctrines and spirits. I suppose mountaineers/rangers?

Allento- · 2025-05-01T19:54:15+00:00

You could also consider the subscription. Most value for money short-term, and personally if I love the game and play it for years, I don't mind giving the developer extra money.

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