UK Fascist taking france before Germany

[leemonk]

Hi,

I'm struggling from a timing aspect to take the Dutch and French before Germany invades.

I've played this multiple times and it has worked however this morning despite 4 restarts I cannot not get the timing down.

Has something been patched in relation to this?

I use Expert AI but was doing so before.

In order to swtich to Fascist asap I do not take a focus for the first 75 days to take double pp'#s.

Any ideas?

Lee

 

[Lord Dakier]

I usually invade the US in 1938 which drags France into a faction with them a lot of the time. If you pump out motorised you can be finished with the US in 6-12 months. Once the USA is dealt with turn everyone back to Britain and invade France, cutting through their Eastern provinces as it will be around now when Germany does it's thing.

You won't be able to take the Netherlands unless Germany are slow to react and aside from their colonial holdings, I don't really see why you'd need to. With the US and France conquered you can just take out all of South America, Middle-East and Arabia with a small force. You now have more resources than everyone else. Build-up, wait for for Germany to DoW Soviet Union, once they're on the edge of Moscow, invade Germany. You follow the traditional 'reach Berlin before Sovies do, but because you're not fighting your way though France it should be pretty quick.

Once Germany capitulate, you can either clean up the Axis by dealing with Japan and Southern Europe or push on into Russia. Either way, Axis or the Commies don't have the resources for a prolonged fight. At this point it's just about whether you can win by 1948.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

^ UK should have no trouble naval invading to cut even Polish land off USSR. Same goes for Sicily which is otherwise really annoying.

In my run I took all of France except near Savoy (puppeted), joined axis and declared on Italy/Japan, and left those wars active while I went and killed USA in '38. The result was that Italy/Japan could never join Axis, were easily beaten by me, and the remaining major factions became a joke after I left axis.

I failed to one tag because I accepted Venezeuala and Dominican republic into faction by accident, but still got One Empire. I'd later get a 1-tag with Italy which TBH wasn't much harder.

 

[leemonk]

Hi

Thanks for all the replies but maybe I was not clear in my original post.

I've run as Fascist many times and my usual route is Holland > France > US.

Holland gets me the Dutch East Indies and control of that sector. I can then pull France into the war. Take them easily and then push into the US. Depending on how long that takes I can 50% of the time come back and take spain too.

However this week, despite 4 restarts, I cannot get even INTO France before Germany are on them. It's the timing that is off not my ability to take them.

The reason I am restarting is that I am trying various strategies but they require mass production.

My short work around is to use the cheat PP and pull the Fascist Demagogue (wrong word?) as soon as the game loads up. But I'd rather not use cheats.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

If you don't call in Germany, how are they getting into France in 1938? You can easily cap France by then.

Also declaring France ---> NED lets you use the fascism bonus vs majors to speed up 2nd justification.

 

[leemonk]

France are supporting Poland.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

France are supporting Poland.

France should be off the board before Germany attacks Poland in historical focus timeline.