Patching the game - compatibility

[Battle bunny]

Seems like my game has the patch 1.1 on it already, but I see the functions of patch 1.3 and I suppose those are worth it. However, I have a game going on with France (Normal/Weakling, going pretty well for a first serious game - annexed Germany with indirect Soviet help). Does patching the game make previous save games incompatible? 'Cause of yes, then I'm going to finish this game before getting around to it. Thanks for any help!

 

[coreymas]

Seems like my game has the patch 1.1 on it already, but I see the functions of patch 1.3 and I suppose those are worth it. However, I have a game going on with France (Normal/Weakling, going pretty well for a first serious game - annexed Germany with indirect Soviet help). Does patching the game make previous save games incompatible? 'Cause of yes, then I'm going to finish this game before getting around to it. Thanks for any help!

It is never guaranteed that a save from a previous patch will work on a future patch.

 

[Codeblue]

Off-topic, but, how'd you manage to do that? I just played a game as the French, had quite a build up of forces, everything modernized and a little Maginot Line to the north and the Germans still steamrolled me...

 

[Pal]

Off-topic, but, how'd you manage to do that? I just played a game as the French, had quite a build up of forces, everything modernized and a little Maginot Line to the north and the Germans still steamrolled me...

Level 10 forts along the Belgian border (rush the adv constr eng tech) and then massive infantry build. Don't forget to build up a defensive airforce (at least 8-12 interceptor wings) and a small offensive airforce (8 Tactical Bomber wings). With the bombers alone you can annihilate the Italians in Africa (from British soil) while the lvl 10 forts manned with 12 to 15 divisions (depending on # of enemy provs bordering) will make for a safe Sitzkrieg along the European border.

When the Brits secured Africa, smash Italy and wait for the Soviets to roll up Germany. Once the red flood is coming, the Germans will strip their French border off 2/3rd of all troops and you can easily break through. While generally it's not worth brigading infantry, for me the AT brigades worked wonders against the German tanks! They had 15 panzer divisions in Belgium, which I couldn't evict with regular inf so I used specialized corps of Inf/AT and they smashed those tincans!

Beware of Nationalist Spain, if they won the SCW!

 

[coreymas]

Off-topic, but, how'd you manage to do that? I just played a game as the French, had quite a build up of forces, everything modernized and a little Maginot Line to the north and the Germans still steamrolled me...

When in doubt... look at the Wiki....

http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki/index.php/France_strategy

 

[Battle bunny]

Level 10 forts along the Belgian border (rush the adv constr eng tech) and then massive infantry build. Don't forget to build up a defensive airforce (at least 8-12 interceptor wings) and a small offensive airforce (8 Tactical Bomber wings). With the bombers alone you can annihilate the Italians in Africa (from British soil) while the lvl 10 forts manned with 12 to 15 divisions (depending on # of enemy provs bordering) will make for a safe Sitzkrieg along the European border.

When the Brits secured Africa, smash Italy and wait for the Soviets to roll up Germany. Once the red flood is coming, the Germans will strip their French border off 2/3rd of all troops and you can easily break through. While generally it's not worth brigading infantry, for me the AT brigades worked wonders against the German tanks! They had 15 panzer divisions in Belgium, which I couldn't evict with regular inf so I used specialized corps of Inf/AT and they smashed those tincans!

Beware of Nationalist Spain, if they won the SCW!

Coreymas: Thanks, I'll not risk it then. Yet.

To the quote: Something like that, yes, except that I defended Belgium and Rotterdam with loads of infantry. And of course, the fact that the Republicans won across the Pyrenees made it even safer. (Although with USA and Japan now allied vs. the SU, I did post a few militiamen on that border too)