Everyone has their own ways of doing Barbarossa, but I found this to be particularly effective.
1. I straight away set up Barbarossa, after fall of France. This allows me to invade in early 1940.
2. I avoided invading Norway or Denmark, like they did historically. This allows me to concentrate more forces (high-quality infantry, not just garrison) to defend English channel coast, rather than spreaded them out in Norway. A neutral Denmark also blocks the baltic sea.
3. I aim to achieve local air superiority in Eastern Poland first. I concentrate 600 fighters there with 200 CAS, 300 tactical bombers targetting air fields only. Not sure whether they help but i get green air zone (sometimes yellow) most of the time. Then under air cover, I used my tanks to surround and cut off many divisions. 16 light tank divisions and 8 motorised. I also do the same thing in baltic region with 3 medium panzer divisions (and later 10 more). I was able to get green air cover almost all the time with 300 fighters, 100 Tac, 100 Cas.
4. Romania is super helpful. They are taking crimea and now pentrating deep into Caucasus.
5. My blitzkrieg micromanagement can be broken down into following phases:
Phase 1: Breakthrough -- your goal is to punch through a portion of enemy lines with tanks, preferably on plains (if no choice forests alright)
Phase 2: Exploitation -- the goal is just overrun as much area behind enemy line as possible.
Phase 3: Liquidation -- once you create a huge bulge behind the line. You can either encircle enemy troops from behind or repeat phase 1 again to create even more havoc.
I believe the key to defeating Soviet union is encircle and encircle their field armies with tanks. Using infantry to break throuh is inefficient.
1. I straight away set up Barbarossa, after fall of France. This allows me to invade in early 1940.
2. I avoided invading Norway or Denmark, like they did historically. This allows me to concentrate more forces (high-quality infantry, not just garrison) to defend English channel coast, rather than spreaded them out in Norway. A neutral Denmark also blocks the baltic sea.
3. I aim to achieve local air superiority in Eastern Poland first. I concentrate 600 fighters there with 200 CAS, 300 tactical bombers targetting air fields only. Not sure whether they help but i get green air zone (sometimes yellow) most of the time. Then under air cover, I used my tanks to surround and cut off many divisions. 16 light tank divisions and 8 motorised. I also do the same thing in baltic region with 3 medium panzer divisions (and later 10 more). I was able to get green air cover almost all the time with 300 fighters, 100 Tac, 100 Cas.
4. Romania is super helpful. They are taking crimea and now pentrating deep into Caucasus.
5. My blitzkrieg micromanagement can be broken down into following phases:
Phase 1: Breakthrough -- your goal is to punch through a portion of enemy lines with tanks, preferably on plains (if no choice forests alright)
Phase 2: Exploitation -- the goal is just overrun as much area behind enemy line as possible.
Phase 3: Liquidation -- once you create a huge bulge behind the line. You can either encircle enemy troops from behind or repeat phase 1 again to create even more havoc.
I believe the key to defeating Soviet union is encircle and encircle their field armies with tanks. Using infantry to break throuh is inefficient.
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