Dealing with Yugoslavia

[Gefallener_Held]

So it is beginning of October and I am mulling invading Yugoslavia BEFORE the French campaign. The advantages include preventing Italy from taking all of Yugoslavia and increased MIC and CIC.

I do have a concern though whether, with Italy not yet in the war, I am spreading the Luftwaffe a little thin.

Also, I understand the Yugoslavia chain in national focus is either broke or not worth pursuing. However, if I obtain war goal and declare war, does the Croatia event still fire after some time.

This btw was always my strategy in earlier iterations of Hoi4, in order to obtain criticial Mediterranean ports and with north-eastern half of Greece, obtain a rail link to Turkey. Not sure if these same advantages applyh as much in Hoi4.

Any thoughts or suggestions welcome.

 

[kettyo]

Peaceful Yugo annexation can indeed be useful.

 

[dsturnbull]

You should only need 400 fighters for the Yugoslavian campaign + all TAC and all CAS. I start a war justification as soon as the war with Poland starts:

a) it becomes much cheaper,
b) 45-50 days is plenty of time to conquer Poland, set a small garrison, tidy up any Baltic invasions, and assign one of my regular armies to the Balkan front.

3 panzers, 3-6 motorised divisions, 24 (basically all) mountain divisions, 12 infantry divisions.

Edit: 12 cavalry divisions ready to garrison Yugoslavia and immediately enact full occupation