So my Noob experiences so far and some questions.

[japar]

Ok, so I have a bit over 200 hours into the game. Over half of that was playing mods as I got frustrated from losing to France as Germany, I've learned a lot of the basics of the game, so now I'm trying to play a successful game as Germany.

That said, in my German games I'm running into the same issues that completely derails my progress. These are the issues.

1.Republican Spain wins and goes Red, aligning with the USSR. RS opens up another front and generally kicks my rear end because I use small infantry divisions of like 16 width to defend the coast of France.

2. Greece. GREECE AND ITALY RUINS EVERYTHING!!!! Italy, even with Bulgaria in the Axis, Italy get's destroyed and the US and UK open a front up in the Balkans and then game over!

I wind up having to pull troops from the Russian border to at least hold back the Allies in Greece, or the Reds in Spain. Then Russia declares war on me.

Any advice on how to deal with the Greek and Spanish problems?

Also, is there a thread on ARMY (not division) Composition? From what I've read it seems like you either create an army of pure infantry or tank/motorized/mech, the latter of which you use for encirclements and break throughs.

Mods I've played,

Millenium Dawn
Novum Vexilium
Cold War
Southern Victory

 

[Bunnytob]

1) Send volunteers? Or does that not work anymore?
2) I guess they just buffed Greece too much. See if you can't divert troops to the front before Italy attacks Greece.

 

[Th3master]

You need to help Italy invade Yugo and Greece or else they'll grind their divisions to death trying to beat them. Italy will lose East Africa and a ton of men, but there's not much you can do about that and at least the allies lose a bit too fighting in the mountains. They will also lose in North Africa quickly if you can't send a small force to beat whatever the UK has there (send maybe 1-2 tank divs). Don't lose the SCW by making small encirclements and using your units the whole time they are there to get xp and also make your side win. For USSR, try to pump out logistics divisions if you want to put a lot of infantry dudes over there to push with them. I'd recommend having around 10-20 Armor Divs of Medium tanks by late 41 in the invasion. You can do this even when building 27 width artillery infantry with supply companies. Your armor will soften the units pretty well and eventually they'll be super underequipped and you can exploit holes in their lines. The AI infantry will probably not be good enough to push yours back and if you really feel like micromanaging your units a ton you can even use infantry to attack and create encirclements. Make sure you have 4k-5k fighters and 2-3k CAS or at least air superiority. Putting AA in your tanks is good too to beat their CAS if you messed up building an airforce. Try to push to Leningrad early and focus on using the weird shapes of the Baltic to encircle lots of units. Leningrad is the easiest major city with lots of industry to take.

 

[CantGetNoSleep]

Lol - sounds like you're experiencing the same problems Germany did with Italy ... (ok, red Spain is a bit different).

As mentioned by others, you need to help Italy take Greece (go through Yougoslavia) and then North Africa - ideally to Suez, and then you can establish a choke point south of that.

If Spain goes red, I'd declare on them and take everything. There's a good chance they'll join the commintern (if they haven't already), so you need to have deeply entrenched infantry with some air support on the russian front whilst you invade (probably naval invade to get round the Pyrenees- or go via the coast). Once you break past the Pyrenees, it's a cake walk for your tanks. And you can take Gibraltar which, if you have Suez as well, will give you control of the Med and then you can just pick of British Navy ships stranded there with bombers.

Meanwhile, on the Russian front, provided you have decent CAS, you should be able to do serious attrition to the Russians without ceding too much territory (if you can avoid calling Romania in, that's even better). Once Spain is dealt with, bring your tanks back to Russia and start a counter attack.

Hope that helps.