Thinking up detailed war plans to attempt in various play throughs in hoi4 has been a lot of fun for me, and i can't wait to try them out. Basically, in this topic, choose a country, list your wargoals, and detail your overall strategy for how they will be achieved. If you're feeling particularly motivated, you can even get a map and draw out your strategy. I'd like to bookmark this topic and when the game comes out, try a few of the better strategies out.
i originally posted this in the USA megathread, but then it gave me the idea of making this thread, so i'll just copy and paste it as my first plan. I also made a French battleplan with a badly drawn map in the offensive French topic, but for now I'll just post the USA one. I look forward to seeing all your strategies!
Wargoal: World domination from a Fascist lone wolf USA. No allies besides puppets(phillipines, Liberia).
I would like to be fascist and have my army ready to go by 39. I'll be focusing hugely on carrier based fleets, Marines, and strong, but small mobile armies made up of tanks and eventually mechanized infantry. Basically I'll start by declaring war on the entire western hemisphere except European colonies and canada.)
The only hard part about going south is the poor infrastructure, and if you go down from panama, the amazon rain forest can grind you to a halt. The only nations that won't fall after sending down 3 divisions is Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Luckily, all their capitals are right on the shore, so you can just draw up a massive invasion battleplan that sends marines into each capital from Panama and Miami, and South America will quickly be blue.
After securing South America, time to declare on Canada, The English Carribean colonies, and maybe even French territories in South America. Canada will fall easily, since all their warscore cities are basically right on the border.
I'll form a few fleets next, including one giant one to take on anything England and France can throw at me,basing most of them in the Atlantic, along with a decent sized fleet remaining in Hawaii to intercept anything coming from Australia or Hong Kong.
From there on, your an unstoppable force, and if you're skilled enough, by 41 or so you can literally take on most of the world alone, using an overwhelming navy to quickly take command of the seas and sink the RN and IJP, and also swatting the flies that will be the French and Italian navies.
From there on, I would conquer all of Ireland, stationing a defensive force in Northern Ireland to stop any British forces from crossing the Irish Sea, Grab the Azores from Portugal, Madagascar from France(it was French right?), and basically have Ireland, Azores, Portugal, Madagascar, Hawaii, Greenland, and maybe even New Zealand, and basically fortify them up with max naval forts, stationing a home fleet at each and a decent Naval Bomber force, and basically use them as screens to protect from invasion fleets, bases to launch coordinated invasions, and basically paint the world blue by 45-46.
I'll start sending troops to Hawaii to quickly fall Australia, then take Japan out, before slowly advance a massive army across Asia, taking out China, India, etc, and eventually arriving in Europe, coordinating invasion forces to give harder countries a 2 front war. I'll mass a large army in Ireland, overrunning England with a large force of paratroopers i'll be building up for a year or two beforehand, equipped with antitank support units(you can attach support to paratroopers that parachute into battle right?) use them to take out the Army blocking passage from the Irish sea crossing, allowing my Irish army group to pour in and overwhelm the small army England usually has on the home island in hoi games, then landing near Stalingrad and sandwiching the Soviet army after my troops advance through Siberia and arrive in western Russia. From there on, Europe will fall like dominos, and unless Germany has already taken Poland and France, there shouldnt be any significant challenges. Italy will probably be my last target, advancing to the tip and finally Sicily, before launching an invasion of Africa, taking out any remaining great powers fighting from their colonies.
i originally posted this in the USA megathread, but then it gave me the idea of making this thread, so i'll just copy and paste it as my first plan. I also made a French battleplan with a badly drawn map in the offensive French topic, but for now I'll just post the USA one. I look forward to seeing all your strategies!
Wargoal: World domination from a Fascist lone wolf USA. No allies besides puppets(phillipines, Liberia).
I would like to be fascist and have my army ready to go by 39. I'll be focusing hugely on carrier based fleets, Marines, and strong, but small mobile armies made up of tanks and eventually mechanized infantry. Basically I'll start by declaring war on the entire western hemisphere except European colonies and canada.)
The only hard part about going south is the poor infrastructure, and if you go down from panama, the amazon rain forest can grind you to a halt. The only nations that won't fall after sending down 3 divisions is Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Luckily, all their capitals are right on the shore, so you can just draw up a massive invasion battleplan that sends marines into each capital from Panama and Miami, and South America will quickly be blue.
After securing South America, time to declare on Canada, The English Carribean colonies, and maybe even French territories in South America. Canada will fall easily, since all their warscore cities are basically right on the border.
I'll form a few fleets next, including one giant one to take on anything England and France can throw at me,basing most of them in the Atlantic, along with a decent sized fleet remaining in Hawaii to intercept anything coming from Australia or Hong Kong.
From there on, your an unstoppable force, and if you're skilled enough, by 41 or so you can literally take on most of the world alone, using an overwhelming navy to quickly take command of the seas and sink the RN and IJP, and also swatting the flies that will be the French and Italian navies.
From there on, I would conquer all of Ireland, stationing a defensive force in Northern Ireland to stop any British forces from crossing the Irish Sea, Grab the Azores from Portugal, Madagascar from France(it was French right?), and basically have Ireland, Azores, Portugal, Madagascar, Hawaii, Greenland, and maybe even New Zealand, and basically fortify them up with max naval forts, stationing a home fleet at each and a decent Naval Bomber force, and basically use them as screens to protect from invasion fleets, bases to launch coordinated invasions, and basically paint the world blue by 45-46.
I'll start sending troops to Hawaii to quickly fall Australia, then take Japan out, before slowly advance a massive army across Asia, taking out China, India, etc, and eventually arriving in Europe, coordinating invasion forces to give harder countries a 2 front war. I'll mass a large army in Ireland, overrunning England with a large force of paratroopers i'll be building up for a year or two beforehand, equipped with antitank support units(you can attach support to paratroopers that parachute into battle right?) use them to take out the Army blocking passage from the Irish sea crossing, allowing my Irish army group to pour in and overwhelm the small army England usually has on the home island in hoi games, then landing near Stalingrad and sandwiching the Soviet army after my troops advance through Siberia and arrive in western Russia. From there on, Europe will fall like dominos, and unless Germany has already taken Poland and France, there shouldnt be any significant challenges. Italy will probably be my last target, advancing to the tip and finally Sicily, before launching an invasion of Africa, taking out any remaining great powers fighting from their colonies.
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