Post by Luigi Sansonetti on Oct 3, 2023 15:01:09 GMT
This thread will shortly discuss the general strategy for this Campaign.
For reference, I used the following generals:
*Gamelin marched to Metz to protect the city, Dowding to Dijon, and Tassigny can go to any city. Dowding (with Golden Star Medal) and others will produce an extra 45 gold per round. Put Financial Center on Paris, Trading Market on Dijon, maybe National Defense on Metz and Field Hospital on Brussels.
I do the following in order:
NOTE:
For reference, I used the following generals:
- Guderian (maxxed)
- Rommel (purple M General, Lvl 5 Armored Assault and Panzer Leader, Lvl 4 Blitzkrieg)
- Rokossovsky (red rank, Lvl 5 Armored Assault, Panzer Leader and Rumor)
- Konev (red rank, Lvl 5 Accuracy, Artillery Leader and Rumor, Lvl 4 Explosives)
- Leeb: (red rank L Colonel, all skills maxxed)
- Arnold (red rank is only essential)
- Dowding (Lvl 1 Tech Expert)
*Gamelin marched to Metz to protect the city, Dowding to Dijon, and Tassigny can go to any city. Dowding (with Golden Star Medal) and others will produce an extra 45 gold per round. Put Financial Center on Paris, Trading Market on Dijon, maybe National Defense on Metz and Field Hospital on Brussels.
I do the following in order:
- Deploy Guderian on the pre-existing three-stacked Heavy Tank; Konev, Leeb, and Arnold on pre-existing three-stacked rocket artilleries. Deploy Rommel first, and then Rokossovsky second on the three-stacked Heavy Tank that you produce in Paris. All of them will first march to the Franco-Belgian Border along with De Gaulle.
- Do what is specified in (*)
- You'll have enough money to build three land forts on Ardennes.
- Take Brussels using all of the offensive generals that you have and secure the place. Extend the Maginot Line to the front of Brussels.
- Continue fortifying Ardennes. At least 3 layers of land forts would do. Same goes with the Franco-German border.
- Start marching your offensive generals towards the Ardennes and then to the Franco-German border. The large bulk of enemies will go there. Use rumor and surround key generals (Guderian, Manstein, Rommel) whenever they get close with land forts as much as possible to make them fall into chaos and to eliminate them. I have eliminated Guderian and Goring and it lowered the morale of the enemies.
- Prioritize fortifying around Metz. It is the most vulnerable city. Metz > Ardennes > Belgium in order of most important place to fortify.
NOTE:
- You'll get tons of money but the lack of industry resource will be your limiting factor
- In normal difficulty it is possible to take at least one city. In my case, I have taken Cologne since there were not much enemy there. It gave me 1800 money. Do not attempt this on hard.