What is your early strategy? Every neighbor country is guaranteed by Romania, and im not ready for 2-front war. What is solution?
Bulgaria strategy
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Just finished a Bulgarian campaign with about 45 factories, as an axis ally with no large scale territorial gains
bulgaria has been massively buffed, allowing it by mid game to field very well equipped tank divisions to assist Barbarossa or act as d-day defence.
primarily, you want to put all your early focuses into civilian/ industry, ignoring foreign investors and building nothing but civs until june 1940. Dedicate 2 research slots to industry rushing and one to tank rushing mediums. When you unlock a new resaerch slot via the focus tree, put it into mobile warfare, then the other research slots you unlock are free to use.
you will need to take the focus (can’t remember the name) that allows you to arrest/denounce the military generals (it’s a 35 day focus). then you will need to waste all pp you now get to destroy the rival parties of the National socialist parties. It will tank your stability, but it’s either that or civil war, which could screw you over in mp games.
once all economic focuses are taken, begin going down greater Bulgaria/ axis alignment. Switch to fascist when pp allows. Do not forget about the industrial focuses available to you via aligning with Germany!
by 1940 you should have an awful lot of civs (I had two full queues of 15 civs processing build slots!), so when June 1940 hits switch to mils and start going down the military area of the focus tree to get more mils (some quite amusingly in the aircraft focus tree areas Which I overlooked until 1942!)
build 40 width medium armor divisions, and nothing else. Use your starting army at game start to get army experience via training and that is it. Once you’ev buffed your armor division to 40 width get rid of your starting army as it wastes manpower.
do not forget to ask Germany for your claims via decision, which they should give you whenever they take land belonging to Greece/yugoslavia and turkey. this gives you more room to build.
by barb you should have at least one 40 width medium tank division (with concentrated industry), optimised builds will probably get you 2-3. But the Bulgarian war machine will gear up by this stage and you will be churning out 40 width tanks divisions every 3 months or so.
bulgaria has become a very fun axis minor to play, if you overcome to initial tedium of dealing with rival parties and potential civil wars. Very fun to play in historical mp IF your Germany can get to barb. otherwise it’s a tedious nation constantly wasting pp on political parties.
bulgaria has been massively buffed, allowing it by mid game to field very well equipped tank divisions to assist Barbarossa or act as d-day defence.
primarily, you want to put all your early focuses into civilian/ industry, ignoring foreign investors and building nothing but civs until june 1940. Dedicate 2 research slots to industry rushing and one to tank rushing mediums. When you unlock a new resaerch slot via the focus tree, put it into mobile warfare, then the other research slots you unlock are free to use.
you will need to take the focus (can’t remember the name) that allows you to arrest/denounce the military generals (it’s a 35 day focus). then you will need to waste all pp you now get to destroy the rival parties of the National socialist parties. It will tank your stability, but it’s either that or civil war, which could screw you over in mp games.
once all economic focuses are taken, begin going down greater Bulgaria/ axis alignment. Switch to fascist when pp allows. Do not forget about the industrial focuses available to you via aligning with Germany!
by 1940 you should have an awful lot of civs (I had two full queues of 15 civs processing build slots!), so when June 1940 hits switch to mils and start going down the military area of the focus tree to get more mils (some quite amusingly in the aircraft focus tree areas Which I overlooked until 1942!)
build 40 width medium armor divisions, and nothing else. Use your starting army at game start to get army experience via training and that is it. Once you’ev buffed your armor division to 40 width get rid of your starting army as it wastes manpower.
do not forget to ask Germany for your claims via decision, which they should give you whenever they take land belonging to Greece/yugoslavia and turkey. this gives you more room to build.
by barb you should have at least one 40 width medium tank division (with concentrated industry), optimised builds will probably get you 2-3. But the Bulgarian war machine will gear up by this stage and you will be churning out 40 width tanks divisions every 3 months or so.
bulgaria has become a very fun axis minor to play, if you overcome to initial tedium of dealing with rival parties and potential civil wars. Very fun to play in historical mp IF your Germany can get to barb. otherwise it’s a tedious nation constantly wasting pp on political parties.
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Bulgaria focus tree is really fun, a great one. Been playing it all day.
Am trying to get the achievement to capitulate Turkey while controlling the rest of the balkans. I go for industry first, in the first 8 focuses. Then I go down the communist path. It's important to keep the Zveno faction your ally, their advisors are really good and will be helpful later on, so my priority is to cooperate with them and spend all my PP to merging with them asap.
Then I work to ally with Yugoslavia. On d1 of the game I start building a spy agency. I spend my 2nd wave of 150pp on operative slot bonus (my first 150pp is communist advisor, it's a great timing for this strat), and do 5 intelligence upgrades for the 3rd spy. The spies are to boost communism in other countries.
You can boost Yugoslavia to communist really quickly, then Greece. I'm trying to refine the strategy as most as possible to see if you can also get Romania into your faction, before you take the focus to unify the balkans into one country.
Communist Bulgaria is really fun and well polished. I've looked at other paths Bulgaria can take and they seem fun too. The only disappointment in this expansion is Turkey imo.
EDIT: I have to say, I really love the factions mechanics in Bulgaria. It's really fun, I'd love to see something similar for more countries.
Am trying to get the achievement to capitulate Turkey while controlling the rest of the balkans. I go for industry first, in the first 8 focuses. Then I go down the communist path. It's important to keep the Zveno faction your ally, their advisors are really good and will be helpful later on, so my priority is to cooperate with them and spend all my PP to merging with them asap.
Then I work to ally with Yugoslavia. On d1 of the game I start building a spy agency. I spend my 2nd wave of 150pp on operative slot bonus (my first 150pp is communist advisor, it's a great timing for this strat), and do 5 intelligence upgrades for the 3rd spy. The spies are to boost communism in other countries.
You can boost Yugoslavia to communist really quickly, then Greece. I'm trying to refine the strategy as most as possible to see if you can also get Romania into your faction, before you take the focus to unify the balkans into one country.
Communist Bulgaria is really fun and well polished. I've looked at other paths Bulgaria can take and they seem fun too. The only disappointment in this expansion is Turkey imo.
EDIT: I have to say, I really love the factions mechanics in Bulgaria. It's really fun, I'd love to see something similar for more countries.
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I probably should play more of the Bulgarians but it just seemed like the democratic/communist side got the juicy things wit hthe cores while Facist/non aligned kinda got pooped on.
Nah, you're looking at it the wrong way.
Even in the historical and semi-historical path for Bulgaria, you're restoring Greater Bulgaria and practically doubling the size of your country. Considering that for many countries simply surviving the war without being conquered is an achievement, I'd say that's a pretty huge success.
You've played too many meme playthroughs and map painting campaigns. When you put it into perspective, even historical Bulgaria's accomplishments will be quite large in the event of an Axis victory.
Well, just got the achievement. Was polishing the strategy for it the entire day, took me over 12 hours from the first try to this successful one. Bulgaria's focus tree is really good, 10/10. Tomorrow I'm doing the fascist achievement, to puppet everyone before taking fate of the balkans. Bulgaria stronk.
Communist Bulgaria is really strong. By 1940, with commie Yugoslavia as an ally, I declared on Greece and Romania was guaranteeing them. So, 2 front war, but I had 24 7/2 divisions ready for it. Annex Greece, puppet Romania, all that before the Axis get a chance to declare on Greece.
EDIT: I have no idea how Kurdistan appeared, when I looked it was just that thicc. Japan was really strong this game too, they took up to Australia by 1943.
Communist Bulgaria is really strong. By 1940, with commie Yugoslavia as an ally, I declared on Greece and Romania was guaranteeing them. So, 2 front war, but I had 24 7/2 divisions ready for it. Annex Greece, puppet Romania, all that before the Axis get a chance to declare on Greece.
EDIT: I have no idea how Kurdistan appeared, when I looked it was just that thicc. Japan was really strong this game too, they took up to Australia by 1943.
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I played as non-aligned Ferdinand and I basically got the whole Balkan cored up with a decent amount of industry by 1940 going against the Germans and doing reasonably well just holding the line waiting for the Allies to do their thing. And there is room for optimisation since this was my first actual try (two others failed because I hadn't figured out the party system yet).
Bulgaria is really nice, you get immensely good army buffs plus manpower percentages, you also get easy access to land doctrine research making you keep up with the pace germany has when it comes to doctrines which is no small feat. Your manpower issue gets solved when you core and bulgarianize your neighbors, even WW1 Bulgaria borders gives you plenty of manpower.
Did you get the Fatherland Front? I played fascist path as an Axis Ally, having a blast with my overpowered, overbuffed country and then around 1941 FF hits me and it's just so broken in the other direction...
Permanent stability loss (-0.3), sink for all your PP for at least 1.5 years. Decisions that you must take to get rid or alleviate those cost you further -10 stability. And once you finally manage to break free of it, you are on 20 stability, major strikes, -50 PP.
Does anyone know if active factions push those modifiers significantly in either direction? By that time all my factions have been integrated or destroyed (broad socialists) so didn't play any part.
But great fun, would play again!
Permanent stability loss (-0.3), sink for all your PP for at least 1.5 years. Decisions that you must take to get rid or alleviate those cost you further -10 stability. And once you finally manage to break free of it, you are on 20 stability, major strikes, -50 PP.
Does anyone know if active factions push those modifiers significantly in either direction? By that time all my factions have been integrated or destroyed (broad socialists) so didn't play any part.
But great fun, would play again!
I probably should go try the tree again, but I could ahve sworn the non aligned dont get the cores. The tree is just so big and confusing @_@
You have to go down the left side of the "Empower the Tsar"-path to his assasination. Choosing another monarch permits to go down Fate of the Balkans route. Further down after the Balkanisation focus with 140 days you can get decisions to core every balkan state. After you cored them (I had it done around 1941-1942, so it's doable in a timely fashion) you are powerful and you can pretty much do anything you want.
Okay. I think I might have to try it again. It sounds like a good world conquest nation then but we'll see.