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Post by journeykeen on Jan 16, 2024 22:00:51 GMT
I did USSR first try in 11 rounds with no s&l, medal switching, and only mediocre planning. It is not difficult for endgame level players.
Surprisingly, and detrimentally, an unlimited number of generals are allowed. We are already too powerful, and this beleaguers the problem.
The elite German tank generals are nearly fully upgraded on Tiger tanks, Guderian has a level 5 tank medal, and Manstein has a level 6 excellence medal. This makes him quite dangerous (he deleted my max hp Konev in one round since I was unsuspecting), and two rumor generals should be used to neutralize him. Finally rumor matters in conquests again.
Since the USSR was already by-far the easiest for ‘39 (and ‘43 and ‘80), I suspect smaller countries will be much more difficult. I hope so. ET has given us too much power for easy conquests now, and a lot of my generals are now obsolete (Rommel, Rokko, Nimitz, Konev, etc.).
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Post by resiphius on Jan 17, 2024 8:23:19 GMT
Unfortunately no, I’m playing Egypt no IAP run with only Guderian, Montgomery, Konev, Nenonen, MacArthur, Yamashita, Dowding and Rommel(accidentally deployed him out of reflex) and at 40 rounds Germany was already reduced to only 2 separate lands in Asia while Italy and Balkan Axis ceased to exist and Spain was dying (defeated in 41), even the IJA was left with only 1 general (who died in 42). Top tier players probably won’t break a sweat in speedrunning this mode…
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Post by George Rudi on Jan 17, 2024 12:26:53 GMT
Still not too challenging even they add some buff for enemies or allies. Here's some of my point after got Darlan with only 4x conquest.
- UK still useless as usual especially in europe, wont land any unit, only park some naval troop behind belgium and Ned.
- Dont force yourself to head on Germany, it's smaller country like hungary, bulgaria, and romania (most annoying) that will steal your city. Just focus to annihilate them first.
- Never put your gen in a city, Germany gen will crush them in a round (stay away from Leeb and forget-his-name gen with Gustav) . Summon your elite force/ gen in a safer city far from enemy to reach.
- Dowding (especially his tech expert) and some economic gen will be very useful, even if you play as a 3* country
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Post by journeykeen on Jan 17, 2024 15:48:42 GMT
Still not too challenging even they add some buff for enemies or allies. Here's some of my point after got Darlan with only 4x conquest. - UK still useless as usual especially in europe, wont land any unit, only park some naval troop behind belgium and Ned. - Dont force yourself to head on Germany, it's smaller country like hungary, bulgaria, and romania (most annoying) that will steal your city. Just focus to annihilate them first. - Never put your gen in a city, Germany gen will crush them in a round (stay away from Leeb and forget-his-name gen with Gustav) . Summon your elite force/ gen in a safer city far from enemy to reach. - Dowding (especially his tech expert) and some economic gen will be very useful, even if you play as a 3* country Yeah keeping gens in cities near Germany is suicide. Dowding (or another AF general withe the technology boost) is helpful since the elite units require a lot of tech to build. The strategy to complete conquests is basically the same. The only difference is, instead of being ok with using your generals on low-tier units (even light or med tanks), you should definitely wait for elite units. If we decide to eventually have a separate category for challenge speedruns, which I hope exists eventually, then perhaps this might be relaxed too.
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Post by Dorado St. Sebastian on Jan 17, 2024 20:10:43 GMT
Used USA as my first 3 star for 39 conquest challenge. Noticing i could use 30 Commanders, I deployed my 3 resource Gens immediately as i intended to meet as many achievement requs. as possible per conquest run, planning Spain as next 2 star for example. Defeating Japan was easier than Fascist Europe. I was able to complete in 31 rounds, max all National tech for USA, defeat the Axis, and bring home a "whopping" 8 points on 1st try. Only 8 points.....
The technology progress disappeared for USA and sure as heck didn't hold over for any other Nation. It was expensive and slow...and Im supposed to do it again in under 30 rounds for another challenge? Sure, in the last rounds i started noticing great tech effects but, seemed too little too late. Looks like I'll have to rethink my approach to the Conquest Challenges. Waiting to see more discussions on this.
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Post by resiphius on Jan 18, 2024 0:35:39 GMT
Used USA as my first 3 star for 39 conquest challenge. Noticing i could use 30 Commanders, I deployed my 3 resource Gens immediately as i intended to meet as many achievement requs. as possible per conquest run, planning Spain as next 2 star for example. Defeating Japan was easier than Fascist Europe. I was able to complete in 31 rounds, max all National tech for USA, defeat the Axis, and bring home a "whopping" 8 points on 1st try. Only 8 points..... The technology progress disappeared for USA and sure as heck didn't hold over for any other Nation. It was expensive and slow...and Im supposed to do it again in under 30 rounds for another challenge? Sure, in the last rounds i started noticing great tech effects but, seemed too little too late. Looks like I'll have to rethink my approach to the Conquest Challenges. Waiting to see more discussions on this. Also you may want to keep an eye on the diplomatic page to see if your any of enemies has show willingness in surrendering, which can spare you from chasing after enemy remnants that are well out of reach.
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Post by tristanknight on Jan 18, 2024 1:15:03 GMT
Used USA as my first 3 star for 39 conquest challenge. Noticing i could use 30 Commanders, I deployed my 3 resource Gens immediately as i intended to meet as many achievement requs. as possible per conquest run, planning Spain as next 2 star for example. Defeating Japan was easier than Fascist Europe. I was able to complete in 31 rounds, max all National tech for USA, defeat the Axis, and bring home a "whopping" 8 points on 1st try. Only 8 points..... The technology progress disappeared for USA and sure as heck didn't hold over for any other Nation. It was expensive and slow...and Im supposed to do it again in under 30 rounds for another challenge? Sure, in the last rounds i started noticing great tech effects but, seemed too little too late. Looks like I'll have to rethink my approach to the Conquest Challenges. Waiting to see more discussions on this. Also you may want to keep an eye on the diplomatic page to see if your any of enemies has show willingness in surrendering, which can spare you from chasing after enemy remnants that are well out of reach. how can you tell if they're willing to surrender?
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Post by journeykeen on Jan 18, 2024 2:04:04 GMT
Also you may want to keep an eye on the diplomatic page to see if your any of enemies has show willingness in surrendering, which can spare you from chasing after enemy remnants that are well out of reach. how can you tell if they're willing to surrender? I’m wondering the same. I had no idea that was a thing. Does anyone know if declaring war on everyone else counts towards the city count? Like if I need 180+ cities for a reward, can’t I basically do a regular conquest but declare war on everyone?
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Post by resiphius on Jan 18, 2024 3:34:34 GMT
Also you may want to keep an eye on the diplomatic page to see if your any of enemies has show willingness in surrendering, which can spare you from chasing after enemy remnants that are well out of reach. how can you tell if they're willing to surrender? The country’s white flag icon in the diplomatic page will turn orange and later you can start bribing to deplete the loyalty gauge, taking cities from the enemy seems to decrease the bribe price. I used this method to skip fighting the IJN on the other end of the Pacific when I did my Egypt challenge conquest (not speedrun though). The only down side is you will need quite a lot of resources (I spent at least +7000 cash to subdue Japan).
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Post by journeykeen on Jan 18, 2024 4:18:26 GMT
For those wondering, the maximum cities is now 221 since you can declare war on anyone. The trophy only requires 200, though.
I got the whole map, 221, in 30 rounds with Italy.
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Post by jonblend on Jan 18, 2024 21:52:30 GMT
Speed run targets are 20, 25 and 25 rounds for 3, 2, 1 stars respectively.
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Post by conkueror on Jan 19, 2024 23:48:23 GMT
and easiest countries for speedruns are China for 2 star, Poland (might need few restarts for good start) or Netherlands for 1 star. 3 star can be done with any allies 3 star.
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Post by Erich von Manstein on Jan 20, 2024 2:10:46 GMT
If you haven't installed the latest update yet, do the axis countries before updating. ET buffed AI Soviets in the new update so Germany can't bully everyone now.
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Post by journeykeen on Jan 20, 2024 7:29:22 GMT
If you haven't installed the latest update yet, do the axis countries before updating. ET buffed AI Soviets in the new update so Germany can't bully everyone now. Was that the second update? I thought it was a glitch. Regardless, Germany is now far too weak. With minimal s&l I did Belgium, Egypt, and the Netherlands in under 20 rounds, and Norway in 25. That’s with the Allies already having a massive advantage.
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Post by tristanknight on Jan 21, 2024 23:42:39 GMT
If you haven't installed the latest update yet, do the axis countries before updating. ET buffed AI Soviets in the new update so Germany can't bully everyone now. Was that the second update? I thought it was a glitch. Regardless, Germany is now far too weak. With minimal s&l I did Belgium, Egypt, and the Netherlands in under 20 rounds, and Norway in 25. That’s with the Allies already having a massive advantage. i don't think it was the second update because soviets still get plowed by germans every single time in my conquests.
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