How to do early Operation Barbarossa without invading UK

[Zauberelefant]

I always invade Denmark, never Norway and never do the "Weserübung" focus. I manually justify on Denmark.

• Denmark is easy to invade, useful to have no front there later and closes the baltic sea for the Allies.
• Norway has to be invaded per naval invasion, it takes quite a long time due to different terrain and you need a lot of divisions to defend. If you attack with tanks you lose a lot in the mountains. Not worth it in my opinion. (If you plan attacking Sweden it may be different, but I just trade with them)

Weserübung gives you a nice ahead of time bonus for naval invasion tech, which is vital for sealion. Always take it.

 

[Simon_9732495]

Weserübung gives you a nice ahead of time bonus for naval invasion tech, which is vital for sealion. Always take it.

That's true.
I was doing Weserübung each time in many games, but always ended with: "Ok let's do sea lion now! Oh I forgot to research naval invasion tech. Ah, doesn't matter, let's do it with 10 units."
At some point I just stopped doing Weserübung because I never research naval invasion tech, even though having this nice bonus. And I can't fit in the synthetics and rubber focus before Danzig or war, so I want to do it immediately after aroung maginot. And after that I want to do permanent focus "Air production". No time for Weserübung.

It's not a recommendation, it's just how I do it...