Playing as Republican Spain...

[General Howe]

So its 1941, I'm in the Comintern and this is how its going. I am wondering if I have enough manpower to hold off the Nazis until the Soviets crush them. Im at extensive conscription, and instigating communist uprising in the German Reich (finishes august 1942). Also at war with Allies and using a division template from the wiki from germany in 1940 (made the template in 1939 if that helps). I am pushing in but I dont think I will have the manpower to beat them AND the Allies. Any ideas?

In africa stuff is going okay too.
Annexed portugal in 38'/39'

 

[pedrito_elcabra]

Should be doable. 600k manpower and still room to play with conscription laws... all adults serve doesn't really cripple and should net you a LOT of bodies.

 

[kviiri]

600k manpower is enough if you are not wasteful and the Soviets do their job. Avoid losses to encirclements or failed naval invasions. If you are worried, slap some field hospitals with your units to reduce normal combat casualties, don't deploy green troops to combat and don't push hard battles (eg. like forts) - go for easy victories to make openings and encirclement opportunities instead. Patience is the key.

 

[BurdenedWarrior]

you could also try being defensive, hold behind the river until the soviets start pushing. Thats a bit boring though so i'd just continue to push and hope to break the west in order to help east front. Also make sure you go down mass assault doctrine (Extra manpower) also grab all of the communist focus tree for the same reason. Field hospitals, kill your navy ships if things become really desperate. Planes and navies deployed on the map take up manpower.

Side note you can suicide your navy rather then delete it as the manpower is just tied up of the boats existing so if you send them out to their honourable deaths the manpower just comes back to pool!

 

[General Howe]

So far so good. Soviets seem to have made a bit of a push farther into poland, and ive gotten into bretagne.

 

[General Howe]

you could also try being defensive, hold behind the river until the soviets start pushing. Thats a bit boring though so i'd just continue to push and hope to break the west in order to help east front. Also make sure you go down mass assault doctrine (Extra manpower) also grab all of the communist focus tree for the same reason. Field hospitals, kill your navy ships if things become really desperate. Planes and navies deployed on the map take up manpower.

Side note you can suicide your navy rather then delete it as the manpower is just tied up of the boats existing so if you send them out to their honourable deaths the manpower just comes back to pool!

got field hospitals in my divisions. went down all the focus trees for political and almost done with army. havnt done anything for the air or navy trees yet.
Are paratroops good against germany? I might make some to kill england but i know i need air superiority.

 

[General Howe]

soviets took warsaw