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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Dec 6, 2018 9:53:25 GMT
Seems hard, but once you bought 1 decent artillery general and 1 decent tank general, you're all set. Tech? Low to Mid. Strategy? ------ ~THE EXPANSION OF THE MAGINOT LINE~ Wait, that later. ~The defense of France~ Easy. Triple-stack a heavy tank with a good tank gen(not vatutin this time, guderian is best, if not a tank gen with blitzkrieg like bock or manstein, or a city fighting gen like leclerc(seeing double???) And watch paris never fall (well initially). Move all troops to spain. Place infantry in cities for defense. Spawn tripple stacked artillery gen too to defend behind maginot line(konev, leeb, zhukov etc.) ~Just won the civil war? WE DONT CARE~ Spain said they would *only* supply units. If you believe that, go ahead and defend against the germans first. Then watch as the rest of france turns purple, and franco is at the doorstep of paris. Now, of course we don't believe that, and we push into spain with all our generals first. With insane blitzkrieg(only panzer here is leclerc, but too bad have to improvise), to help i spawned vatutin and yamashita, but they aren't compulsory. After spain turns blue, turn your eyes towards germany. Wait What?  ?? NANI IS THAT SPAM ~THE LEGIT EXPANSION OF THE MAGINOT LINE~ France learns its lesson. After your generals hold off the german generals like manstein, meyer, guderian, rommel and bock(the insane power of maxed blitzkrieg with leader), let them heal in the cities. Then expand the maginot line with bunkers and land forts. Like really expand it from the top to the bottom leaving no gaps. All the spammed units from the balkan states, germany and italy will be blocked while you occasionally hit em with artillery. ~Turning all that black bLuE~ When the spam dies down, your generals would be ready. Jump over the maginot line and lead your troops to victory! France wins. In europe at least. Well most of it. Now i will address the other parts of france that are important too. Ajaccio--- abandon it. focus all navy units on taking the nearest spanish port and defend against the italians. Once the navy units are worn down by egypt and russia(or someone else), push back and take ajaccio, then launch attacks from the sea against italy. Africa--- didnt bother placing units. conquered the whole of africa using only the 3 units i had(just kidding i spawned 2 tanks, but they were not stacked and thats all) and 1 general from conquered spain. trick is to attack towards casablanca first then rushing back to wipe out italy. Asia--- why bother? steal thailand and run to china, where your allies have worn japan down and defeating them would be easy. Note, i placed kuznestov on a double stacked cruiser to regain naval control from japan, but again that isnt a must. And... paris never falls. the end. btw ik brunchminati made an awesome guide on this with no generals but good tech, but my guide serves as a simple reference with a slightly different strategy, but a faster, and more fun conquest. Plus france has a longer maginot line for your next conquest in 1950. To keep out something red... |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Dec 6, 2018 9:58:35 GMT
shortest post about a conquest ever... haha but france 1939 is really quite simple, only 4 impt stages, initial defense of paris, conquest of spain, control of the Mediterranean and push on germany. To be honest the expanded maginot line is only for when you want to focus on spain first, but if you can defend against spain and hold against the germans at the same time, then extra generals are not necessary
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Post by Gone on Jul 14, 2019 18:59:04 GMT
Thanks, very helpful. For non-experienced players, France 1939 is like as hard as Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Post by notfinnish on Aug 21, 2019 23:09:39 GMT
I played this and it was a rollercoaster.
There was German general spam, Im talking the likes of Rommel, Guderian, Manstein, Meyer, Witzleben, Keitel, Brautsitch, Kluge, Weichs, Leeb, Heinrici.
By 16 turns America and Canada wake up, spawning Simonds, Halsey, Krueger, Fletcher, Spruance, and Smith, Nimitz, King and Hawaii destroyerguy move.
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Post by Gone on Nov 23, 2019 2:03:34 GMT
 Got S-rank as France. I didn’t follow your guide, Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr, but it’s a great one. Now, here is some of my advice: -Kill Spain as soon as possible. Your economy will be big enough to spawn heavy tanks and rocket artillery consistently to counter the German main attack and make sure that Italy doesn’t capture your southern cities. (Eventually, you will be able to steamroll Germany, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Italy). You don’t need to send anybody too strong, your starting French generals are enough to conquer Spain. Killing Spain early also prevents them from annoying you with the Spanish Navy, and constantly sending troops to try conquering French West Africa, Algeria, Tunisia and French Equatorial Africa. - Aside from Ajaccio, don’t ignore your colonies. Spawn Assault Infantry in Africa so that Spain and Italy don’t get your colonies. In Indochina, thankfully Thailand is the weakest Axis country and defending your colonies from them is easier with the strategy of spawning Assault Infantry in your cities. Your African colonies are important because not only is taking them back annoying, but also because Italy is the toughest country when it comes to attacking and holding colonies. Indochina is even more important because later in the conquest, you will be able to build Level 3 factories and spawn heavy tanks and rocket artillery to fight against Japan. The Japanese aren’t ready for this spam, and as such you will be able to defeat them rather quickly. The best part is that you won’t have to travel to the other side of the world to fight Japan. -Focus on the smaller countries first. You will improve your economy while reducing the strength of the Axis side and allowing your allies to help you against the Axis great powers. -Only attack Germany after you’re sure that most of their generals are dead (Especially Guderian, Manstein and Rommel). Germany's strength comes from the amount of generals that they can spawn. When most or all of these guys are dead, Germany will lose much of its ability to conquer Allied countries easily, and consequently defending against your counterattack. -After you and your allies control a continent, make sure that there are no stray enemy ports left. -Never declare war on a neutral country. It will only prolong the conquest. |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Nov 23, 2019 2:25:23 GMT
well we only differ in terms of the extra bunkers  |
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Post by Gone on Nov 23, 2019 11:45:36 GMT
well we only differ in terms of the extra bunkers Haha! Well, treat my post like a reinforcement of your advice. |
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Post by tristanknight on Feb 14, 2020 12:10:34 GMT
Seems hard, but once you bought 1 decent artillery general and 1 decent tank general, you're all set. Tech? Low to Mid. Strategy? ------ ~THE EXPANSION OF THE MAGINOT LINE~ Wait, that later. ~The defense of France~ Easy. Triple-stack a heavy tank with a good tank gen(not vatutin this time, guderian is best, if not a tank gen with blitzkrieg like bock or manstein, or a city fighting gen like leclerc(seeing double???) And watch paris never fall (well initially). Move all troops to spain. Place infantry in cities for defense. Spawn tripple stacked artillery gen too to defend behind maginot line(konev, leeb, zhukov etc.) ~Just won the civil war? WE DONT CARE~ Spain said they would *only* supply units. If you believe that, go ahead and defend against the germans first. Then watch as the rest of france turns purple, and franco is at the doorstep of paris. Now, of course we don't believe that, and we push into spain with all our generals first. With insane blitzkrieg(only panzer here is leclerc, but too bad have to improvise), to help i spawned vatutin and yamashita, but they aren't compulsory. After spain turns blue, turn your eyes towards germany. Wait What? ?? NANI IS THAT SPAM ~THE LEGIT EXPANSION OF THE MAGINOT LINE~ France learns its lesson. After your generals hold off the german generals like manstein, meyer, guderian, rommel and bock(the insane power of maxed blitzkrieg with leader), let them heal in the cities. Then expand the maginot line with bunkers and land forts. Like really expand it from the top to the bottom leaving no gaps. All the spammed units from the balkan states, germany and italy will be blocked while you occasionally hit em with artillery. ~Turning all that black bLuE~ When the spam dies down, your generals would be ready. Jump over the maginot line and lead your troops to victory! France wins. In europe at least. Well most of it. Now i will address the other parts of france that are important too. Ajaccio--- abandon it. focus all navy units on taking the nearest spanish port and defend against the italians. Once the navy units are worn down by egypt and russia(or someone else), push back and take ajaccio, then launch attacks from the sea against italy. Africa--- didnt bother placing units. conquered the whole of africa using only the 3 units i had(just kidding i spawned 2 tanks, but they were not stacked and thats all) and 1 general from conquered spain. trick is to attack towards casablanca first then rushing back to wipe out italy. Asia--- why bother? steal thailand and run to china, where your allies have worn japan down and defeating them would be easy. Note, i placed kuznestov on a double stacked cruiser to regain naval control from japan, but again that isnt a must. And... paris never falls. the end. btw ik brunchminati made an awesome guide on this with no generals but good tech, but my guide serves as a simple reference with a slightly different strategy, but a faster, and more fun conquest. Plus france has a longer maginot line for your next conquest in 1950. To keep out something red... I tried your guide, this is my fastest conquest ever.  |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Feb 14, 2020 14:04:43 GMT
for faster conquests try the soviet union Tbh this france method was made when my tech and gens were still relatively low (this post has been brought back from some time  , thus maybe directly facing germany with your generals may provide a faster conquest |
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Post by tristanknight on Feb 14, 2020 14:18:08 GMT
for faster conquests try the soviet union Tbh this france method was made when my tech and gens were still relatively low (this post has been brought back from some time , thus maybe directly facing germany with your generals may provide a faster conquest Yeah, Germany was easy. I literally mowed all of Germany down with just Graziani and Konev. |
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Post by Pietro Badoglio on Feb 14, 2020 20:53:23 GMT
A bit unrelated but I remember playing as France in a mod where generals were pretty op. The A.I loves targeting the player over other A.I. I had the entirety of the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine pounding on the Maginot Line with over 10+ generals. Managed to stop them right outside of Paris but managed to pull through to the end.
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Post by blackkyurem14 on Mar 5, 2020 8:23:45 GMT
You did explain that quiet well and it definetly works like this, but I made my first attempt yesterday and my tactic was slightly different, but successful. First of all, I didn't payed much attention to Spain at the beginning, only when I had to protect my towns from their troops or Franco. But what I did against Spain at the beginning, was taking over Casablanca to weaken their economy a little bit and then I did took over Barcelona, After that I only defended the towns next to spain, which was pretty sucessfull.
Then I started pushing against Germarny while they were attacking Belgium and the Netherlands. I used Rommel with a double stacked heavy tank and Manstein with a tripple stacked heavy tank in order to push them into their borders again, directly retaking Benelux from the German grasp. After that I was stuck in a defending position with Germany's generals (Manstein, Rommel, Guderian and Bock) trying to push me out of Benelux. Sadly I lost Rommel in that progress, but Manstein survived, thanks to his power but also thanks to England attacking the German generals as good as they could.
Italy somehow didn't bother to take my cities in Africa. They directly attacked Egypt, losing most of their army without taking any Egyptain city. After that they send the remaining generals to support Germany and attack my towns at the France-Italian border. I was able to defeat them with no problems, thanks to a France general (I forgot his name) who was still alive and sitting at the border to Italy, since almost all of my generals, except Eisenhower who was attacking the Italian fleet in the mediterranean ocean, where defending Benelux. After destroying the armies of Germany, Italy, Hungary and Romania at Benelux, I started to make my first offensive and took over Cologne. At this point I also put Zhukov on a tripple stacked artillery and moved him towards Hamburg and Berlin.
 Then I pushed the German army out of their capital, pushed them back to Munich, Vienna, Prague and Belgrad (which they took over at some point) and pushed their army and the finnish army out of Poland. After finally defeating Germany, I started to attack Italy more aggressive, also defeating them, with the help of Egypt and then I defeated Spain too. Europe and Africa were now freed from the influnce of the Axis powers.
What about Asia though?
I kinda forgot that I had 3 towns over there and noticed it, a few turn before starting attacking Cologne. The towns were damaged by Thailand, but the weren't able to take them over, thanks to England and China. I looked into Asia from time to time and managed to take over Thailand. After taking half of Germany, I noticed that China and Russia lost some ground to Japan, also due to the fact that Japan destroyed the whole fleet of the USA, preventing them from doing much. After I defeated Germany, I started to make my move against Japan from South-East Asia.
I first started to move to Hong Kong, due to the town having almost no life and took it over. Then I started to spam heavy tanks and rocket artillery in order to push the Japanese army back, retaking more chinese towns. While doing so, I had no problem with the Japanese fleet, since they were too focused on the West Coast of America, literally spamming battleships at L.A. and San Francisco.After taking over more ports and towns, Japan wasn't able to spam troops anymore, allowing the USA to move their remaining ships and their troops from the West Coast to the Japanese mainland.
Together with Russia and China, we pushed the Japanese army back to their island. From there I only spammed heavy artillery and took over the whole Japanese island, only leaving some ports for the USA to take over. Two turns after the Japanese mainland was taken over, Japan was finished by the USA, which took over it's Japan's last ports, causing me to win the France conquer
I'm satisfied with my A-Rank victory, but I'm kinda sad that it wasn't a S-Rank victory
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 5, 2020 9:14:30 GMT
Ah its quite rare of Canada to be the one to take A Coruna, usually its either USA or you hahaha, nice guide, I figure its because you forgot about the asian front, which caused you to take a longer time to complete the conquest, and only get an a rank
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 5, 2020 9:14:46 GMT
maybe 50-60 turns can give a S
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Post by Darth Nihilus on Aug 16, 2020 23:39:13 GMT
France is very similar to the UK. You basically just trade a geographical advantage in Asia to boost your geographical advantage in the west.
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?? NANI IS THAT SPAM
, thus maybe directly facing germany with your generals may provide a faster conquest
