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I played this tutorial up to the invasion of France. After quitting and reloading several times, I am not able to reenact the capture of France. My rapid advance is invariably stopped around Reims; the "empty provinces" do not exist as the British, French and Belgian forces are all there in force, all of which easily stop the solitary ARM/MOT divisions.
Considering how detailed this walkthrough was, it was several weeks until I got to the French invasion, so it is very frustrating to hit a wall at this point. Everything up to the French invasion was more or less fine, however.
I guess I will try this on an easier difficulty...
Considering how detailed this walkthrough was, it was several weeks until I got to the French invasion, so it is very frustrating to hit a wall at this point. Everything up to the French invasion was more or less fine, however.
I guess I will try this on an easier difficulty...
Bittenfeld said:
The same happened to me when I tried it the first time. My Panzer divisions broke through as expected but when starting their assault into the French "Hinterland" they were attacked by forces from adjacent provinces. I had to reload two times to make it. I would suggest that you restart from the point where you attack Belgium...
Hmm, my recommendations are:Bittenfeld said:
1. Have the ARM/MOTs wait in Reims until Rundstedt's infantry catch up, then use the infantry in a Support Attack to break through that next line of defenders.
2. Make sure you have TACs interdicting the areas you are attacking into.
3. If you are still having problems, have Blomberg's forces sweep down through Belgium. It would be a slight change to the battle plan, but you would still get the Vichy event pretty quickly. After Blomberg's forces (which, if I recall correctly, number approx ~70 infantry divisions, right?) show up on France's northern border, they will have to spread their defenses thin, or else leave one of their flanks unguarded.
Thanks for the recommendations. 
I am learning a lot from this tutorial.
I am learning a lot from this tutorial.
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I just thought of something -- do you mean you are stopped BEFORE you get to Reims? This is possible, since Reims is usually well-defended, and the panzer corps will outrun the infantry through Bastogne and Arlon. If that is the case, have the panzer corps wait in Arlon until the INF catches up.Bittenfeld said:
Ironhead 5 said:
I started doing this myself because Reims was becoming problematic for me, but as you say down below, it's relatively easy for the panzer divisions to outrun the infantry.
I have done so, although my aircraft-related research was a little behind the walkthrough's. If you assign a commander doing research -- such as Udet, Sperrle, Manstein, etc. -- to a unit and have that unit in combat, does that slow the research? Anyway, my air superiority/bombing wasn't a problem at all.
I started doing this as well, as using only 2 of Blomberg's INF divisions seemed like a waste, just having the rest sitting in Aachen. I suppose they're being saved for the invasion into Yugoslavia? Yes, they do get spread kind of thin, which does slow down the invasion as soon I have divisions sufficient enough to defend what I have but not really to attack in force against well-defended provinces (sometimes Reims, almost always Paris).
I will try this, although sometimes I manage to take Reims, sometimes I am indeed stopped there. There's usually a group of around ~30 divisions in the area who manage to repel my attacks, even when my forces are superior.
I have restarted my game on an easier difficulty and when I get to the invasion of France again, I think I'll just have a more direct approach on Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. I'll also make sure my units sit tight there to fully regain their Organization before moving on to France. I am starting to think perhaps I have bee too hasty in trying to imitate the blitzkrieg, although I suppose that is a bit of a gut reaction.
No, this doesn't affect research at all.Bittenfeld said:
One thing that I probably didn't emphasize enough is that, when fighting, you must be flexible. The battle plans that I laid out may not work every time, but they can usually present enough opportunities for exploitation elsewhere. If the panzers get held up in Reims, then attack through Belgium. If you get held up in Antwerp, then attack Liege and Ghent. Etc. Attack where the enemy is weakest.
Ironhead 5 said:
Once when I was playing as Germany, I started my invasion by only declaring war on the Netherlands. I used neutral Belgium to trap and crush Dutch forces. Only when I cleared the Netherlands did I declare war on Belgium. Taking out the Netherlands first made attacking Belgium a bit easier.
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I do the opposite and usually just DOW Belgium and then come back and get The Netherlands and Luxembourg from the east after France is done.Nathan Madien said:
I usually DoW both, send my Panzers thorugh to cut the dutch from the French. I then send my TACs to hammer them and capture the Netherlands with a token force while my Army pushes south.
Hey Ironhead
It's been a week....aren'y you gonna slip us a little update AAR to keep us off your back for another week?
KLorberau
It's been a week....aren'y you gonna slip us a little update AAR to keep us off your back for another week?
KLorberau
On your final comment:
USA cant be beaten just by nuking (Except if you play the MDS scenario where nations have massive quantity in nukes). You must conduct an invasion, which brings the nation to its knees.
USA cant be beaten just by nuking (Except if you play the MDS scenario where nations have massive quantity in nukes). You must conduct an invasion, which brings the nation to its knees.
This AAR isn't over yet, but it may have to be put on hiatus for a short while. My traditional method of uploading screenshots was to save the images to a USB flash drive on my personal computer and then upload via an MWR computer to photobucket... unfortunately, as you may have heard in the news recently, the US Department of Defense has banned USB drives in all computers due to a rampant virus. This ban may be in place for a while, so I will have to either wait for the ban to be lifted or else wait until I can get my hands on some CDs. But I haven't given up on this yet, I will still invade the British Isles before closing the book on this one.
Why dont you use the USB anyway? There is no way they could find out you were using it.
It may be a stupid question, but how did they do that? Did you comp download the file from the Internet automatically which blocks it or something similar?
No, no - my computer is fine, I can use the USB ports all day on it. The problem is that my personal computer doesn't have internet access, so to upload screenshots I have to save them to some form of external media and transfer them to the internet cafe, from whence I can upload them to photobucket. The internet cafe is administered by the Army, so they control those computers.