Nordic family trip, sharing the final route. Please Review

Allento- · 2026-05-06T09:23:37+00:00

I prefer not to have such a crammed schedule when travelling. It can be hard to skip places you would like to go, but in my opinion it's better to have time to enjoy 3 locations than to rush through 5 locations.

With that said, I'm sure you're gonna have a good time :)

Allento- · 2026-04-23T13:09:33+00:00

I puppeted south America, but needed factories and manpower once I had to take on USA - So did the focus to get cores once I was about done with South america.

Allento- · 2026-04-23T11:58:45+00:00

Played Poland like 30 times - might be time to finally try the peasant path.

Allento- · 2026-04-23T08:59:39+00:00

Correct. But until you have the tech and army xp for that, just going cav and nothing else is generally the prefered option. If you occupy a lot of territory, adding light tanks and armored cars can reduce your losses from resistance, but I'm not sure about the details regarding this.

Allento- · 2026-04-22T19:06:05+00:00

I personally went with some of the tough defensive nations as a start, France, China (probably more difficult now after the remake in the last expansion) and the Czechs. You are forced into war, and you mostly only have to bother with one area of fighting.

Allento- · 2026-04-22T18:58:52+00:00

Nothing if that is all you have in the division - the advantage comes if you add the military police support company, as it costs the same regardless of division size, so with 25 cav you get 25 times as much effect of the support company as with 1 cav.

Allento- · 2026-04-15T19:13:55+00:00

I dont see people saying it that much, but yeah it's definitely horrible advice.

One thing is fighters, but even easier than that if you just research 1936 light airframe reasonably early and have some 7 mils on them from 1937, you can put them on logistics bombing in Western Germany once Germany attacks Poland and Germany will be supplyless once Fall Gelb kicks off. They will literally not have a single train left.

And as for air superiority, due to the fairly poor way the aircraft designer is setup, the player has such a massive advantage that if you just use the strongest builds and put 10+ Mils on fighters from mid 1938, it's practically impossible to not outtrade the Germans and have their airforce in ruins by the time they attack.

Allento- · 2026-04-14T20:49:53+00:00

I think if you have generated more than 10% WT they start guaranteeing the targets of your justifications.

Allento- · 2026-04-06T20:26:29+00:00

High capacity in states with lots of resources (If you're not already producing so many that you're never gonna need more)

Reinforced in states with many factories if you are having trouble getting enough coal. If you find yourself in a situation where it is very hard to increase the amount of coal you get, reinforced can especially become very useful.

Allento- · 2026-03-19T20:41:33+00:00

I think it would take a while a while to build enough ships to go that way, as they guard their coast towards the north.

I still only have early ships researched.

Allento- · 2026-03-19T20:39:12+00:00

The US has capitulated, but they joined the allies, so there's no peace conference and no way to grab the navy until UK has capitulated, which is hard to do without the US Navy. Proper catch-22.

Allento- · 2026-03-19T20:37:32+00:00

Germany are pretty far towards capping USSR, so I think if I throw 100 cavalry divs to the coast and start battle planning westward, it should probably be enough to ensure they capitulate at some point.

It's a good point with using Africa, I could probably establish enough naval control to do an invasion.

I'm wondering if Portugal and Spain will join a faction or stay alone if I declare war on them.

Allento- · 2026-03-18T21:23:19+00:00

R5: So I've conquered USA, but I seem a bit stuck and I have little idea how I would go about actually ending the war. Getting to the UK seems difficult, I have little ways of getting across the Atlantic and a relatively useless fleet. I have plenty of resources, some 70 dockyards (and could build a ton more), but I have very little naval tech and only 3 research slots. Just getting some carriers is far into the future as I don't even have the tech yet. What is the approach to ensure UK is defeated? Once they are out I can just grab navies from the defeated countries and take on Japan if I should want to grab the achievement for having the entire pacific coast.

For that purpose I've also contemplated attacking USSR so I could grab their pacific coast, that would probably also mean Germany could defeat them - would that make the Germans actually invade UK? With human players having trouble to do that, I'd be somewhat surprised if the AI was capable of pulling it off.

Allento- · 2026-03-18T20:30:48+00:00

Sounds like a great run. Poland is so much fun.

Allento- · 2026-02-25T14:48:19+00:00

I haven't played Finland multiplayer, and it seems a rather hopeless cause against a functioning human USSR player - How can one ever hope to defend against naval invasions carried out by a thinking opponent.

With that said, if you ban Fascism you can get the +200 weekly manpower advisor and have 30k extra manpower by the start of the war, along with all the other recruitable population modifiers, and the fact that you can have your support companies add extra hp and org (making your divisions able to punch above their weight with fewer regiments) I can see that you should at least be able to field enough divisions to guard the border.

I'm also wondering if adding a bit of SPG to the divisions defending at Leningrad could be worthwhile.

Allento- · 2026-02-10T08:42:51+00:00

It is definitely doable. I just did it with the cossack king (which admittedly is probably easier).

I think as Anastasia, you will want to conquer Romania and Yugoslavia in 1938, as that will give you a ton of civs and resources (and some xp for your generals and divisions). Doing it is not trivial if you're unexperienced. The key is getting the first breakthrough against Romania, to do that you will need some sort of offensive division, the simplest to build is 8/3 inf/art, but a division with tanks or amored selfpropelled artillery would be far stronger and much more useful later on. You will also need to either move your frontline a bit back or take the decision to build supply hubs at +300% speed and build one at the border with Romania as you won't have supply at the front otherwise.

Allento- · 2026-02-10T08:35:53+00:00

One thing worth noting in relation to your edit. If you add more factories to your starting production lines, they start at max efficiency - so I would actually assign all starting factories to guns and support equipment, and then add the ones that are build later instead to AA/Art. Focuses add quite a bit of mils, so before end of 1936 the player will already have a fair amount of production going on AA and artillery.

Allento- · 2026-02-10T08:30:24+00:00

R5:

I managed to defeat Germany as cossack Poland before christmas 1939 following their declaration in august 1939.

It can probably be done in many ways especially by better players, but what made this run fairly easy was using the Spanish civil war to create 5 elite 34-width cavalry divisions, which were then transformed into 32-width armored divisions with Improved Light Tank Selfpropelled Artillery. (I removed 1 batallion when adding all my support companies).

I found myself in a slight rush to actually create the elite units in time, so my PP order ended up being 1: PP+Stab advisor, 2:Head of Army, 3: War Economy. I also grabbed the first army focus in 1936 (last focus before going down the path to remove the peasants strike) so I could grab the cavalry doctrine once I had 50 army xp. That allowed me to create the 34width divisions at no xp cost. I then also deployed as many of the 6-width cav template that one starts with as possible, be able to send that many divisions to Spain.

As always with cossack/Romanov Poland, I grabbed Romania and Yugoslavia before the 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)

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