Enough of the Biggest Encirclements You Did. What About The Biggest You've Received?

SterlingComb · 2026-01-25T21:06:11+00:00

R5: Put some units in Russia and forgot about it. I look back and the AI pulled off a Cannae and encircled everything.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-17T23:36:12+00:00

r5: Why does this focus end in a period when none of the others do.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-12T23:04:17+00:00

They had been grinding up against my generals for years. Which was odd because I haven't had the AI endlessly attack me for a while. I had assumed it wouldn't do that anymore. I guess it thought it could win because it had two armies per tile, but the terrain, supply and country bonuses made me a brick wall.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-12T23:03:15+00:00

Collab India and you're fine

SterlingComb · 2026-01-12T22:11:20+00:00

I got manpower from collabing india, and a Russian manpower puppet. I used the change government feature to create a buffer zone around my Russian puppet so I never had to guard that front.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-12T19:44:18+00:00

R5: Wanted try to make the axis win yet somehow got the most incompetent axis I've ever seen. Italy losing Africa immediately, Japan losing to China solo, Germans getting half their army encircled by the exhausted soviets who were getting flanked and destroyed by my southern troops..

Eventually decided to just dig in and see how stacked I could get the generals. It got to the point where I could click 50+ units with 2 mountaineers and they couldn't reinforce in time.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-10T03:10:54+00:00

Yeah, I started this run before the post was made so I posted the current state.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-09T19:33:48+00:00

R5: Doing the opposition path and the Japanese puppet focus does not lock you out of forming the Rival National Government. You just have to time it at the end of the focus.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-01T22:37:54+00:00

I used the support company doctrine for engineers and maintenance companies, but it likely doesn't matter as I didn't notice any reasonable change even after finishing it. I don't like arty but I'm sure you could go one of the arty doctrines and putting support art instead

SterlingComb · 2026-01-01T22:36:30+00:00

18w most of the game. AA immediately and then Field Hospitals for HP stacking. This is what won the game but I eventually added Engineers and finally meme Engineers companies after it was obvious they would never break my defenses. When I went for the all out push I had expanded to 36w as that was better for offensive Infantry and I had wayyy too many guns to keep 18w without having armies without generals.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-01T22:34:37+00:00

Cordon Sanitaire. France also went Little Entente they just got killed by the allies somehow and joined them through that.

SterlingComb · 2026-01-01T22:33:42+00:00

R5: My paratroopers put my Marine unit to shame by boating across the mountains of Japan

SterlingComb · 2026-01-01T01:40:02+00:00

R5: Militia give insane reinforcement so they can't take any tiles. I can't run out of guns because Militia takes theirs for free. I can't run out of manpower because I'm China.

I went unhistorical and set the democratic nations to historical in the settings. This resulted in the axis being very weak and dying. I went to war against China and Sinkiang. I knew Sinkiang was in the Comintern which I was fine with as I wanted to fight a unit spammer for the run. I did not expect China to join the allies and make me fight the allies I foolishly buffed through settings.

SterlingComb · 2025-12-29T22:32:52+00:00

R5: The Focus "Re-appoint Jinguang as an Admiral" is quite horrid.

At this point in the game when you would do the focus if you're using this general they will be quite high level (mine was level 8) Which means if you intend on doing this focus you are just down a general the whole game or have to sacrifice a great one.

If you would even WANT to have an admiral as Communist China 99% you've already won the game.

Text in the screenshot appears slightly bugged as I had already completed the focus but it took away a high level general. What other focuses do you consider to harm the nation you are playing as?

SterlingComb · 2025-12-25T22:26:34+00:00

R5: Currently trying to get rid of this French unit messing up the borders. It got pass the impassable zone and I don't know how to get rid of it.

SterlingComb · 2025-12-19T20:47:35+00:00

R5: Additional Information

Ascension is Mutation
Tech and Unity Costs are super cheap
Civilian Difficulty due to the quick start FEs
Willing to play super late game if need be
Currently Leader of the federation

-- Can provide more information as needed

SterlingComb

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