August 1937 - German Reich

[bhjm]

owner of

United Kingdom - and all colonies
France - and all colonies

see attached screenshots. played on Normal, without Mods !

 

[denisKhan]

Ironman?

 

[bhjm]

Ironman?

of course !

 

[denisKhan]

Yeah well the AI isn't the best. I made a similar run but got the similar results in 1938.

 

[Redz28]

It looks like a completely plausible alternative history outcome.

 

[Dalwin]

And that is why I choose to follow a more historical path. The AI simply falls apart too easily if you get too creative in your strategy. Large slider boosts for the AI coupled with a self imposed restriction that my first wars must begin via NF, stops the game from being as much of a cakewalk.

 

[browd]

For a change of pace, try playing a game where you take no National Focuses -- no "free" political power, factories, infrastructure, forts, air bases, tech bonuses, claims or war goals. Just use PP for non-NF purposes, including laws, ministers, influencing other nations and fabricating war goals (since you aren't unlocking any NFs, that also means no continuous focuses). It's pretty interesting how much that changes how you approach the game.

As Germany, having to separately fabricate on the Dutch and Belgians (leaving aside Luxembourg, Denmark and Norway) with the new war goal fabrication mechanics is painful and slow (even with the fascist discount when at war with a major). And this approach seriously nerfs the USA -- no War Bonds, no Giant Wakes, nothing until the Great Depression is removed by the 1940 election. But still very interesting....

 

[Dalwin]

That is an interesting notion and one I have not tried. I spend relatively little time in SP anymore, but perhaps after my current campaign with the Ragnarok mod I will consider it. I presume you are speaking only of larger countries since a non-NF game as the smaller ones would be very stifling since they rely overly much on the OP generic tree.

 

[browd]

Haven't done it as a minor, but I suspect that would be boring beyond belief, since they usually start with so few factories that it would take several years just to build their first factory, much less equip basic infantry.

But for the majors it is challenging to make decisions about research priorities where you can never unlock any additional research slots. Doesn't matter much early game, where there's not much to research, but the impact of not having a 5th or 6th research slot (or as SOV a 4th or 5th slot) is probably underappreciated.