Post by Gerd von Rundstedt on Apr 12, 2021 19:20:56 GMT
Can I have some help? I have Rundstedt, Rommel, Doenitz, Badoglio, along with the free generals.
Moderated by Nobunaga Oda . Merged the four or so iterations of threads on the Battle of Hawaii (1945).
First guide by idunnowhattocallthis :
european-war-4.boards.net/post/281027
Second guide by Nobunaga Oda :
european-war-4.boards.net/post/291646
Third guide by NotRandom :
european-war-4.boards.net/post/301705
This is one of the most rage inducing missions of GoG3. It took me several tries and new strategies. Make a mental note to yourself that this wouldn't be easy unless of course, you have max everything and extremely good generals. Do note that this is my first battle guide so the format will be very messy and hard to read, there will be errors and miscalculations and yeah 0-0, I hope it's fine and this can help you in someway.
The team I used will be listed below. I'll rank them from essential to not needed so you can see if your team is enough of a substitute.
-Donitz, 3 stars [Essential]
-Zhukov, 3 stars [Very helpful][Leeb is fine if you have him]
-Ozawa, 0 star [Very helpful]
-Rommel, 3 stars [Very helpful]
-Guderian, 3 stars [Helpful](wot?)
-Kesselring, 1 star [Not needed]
My tech level is: 4-5-5-4-2
Alright then, let's begin!
You'll need to kill Fletcher, Nimitz, and Halsey. I would not recommend going for the perfect clear on your first try, as that would be quite difficult. Fletcher and Nimitz will appear behind Maui at different times, while Halsey is hiding behind Hawai'i in the south. Your land force should not play an essential role until Maui and Hawai'i. (the 4th and 5th island from the northwest).
Put Donitz on the battleship, Guderian on the medium tank, and Zhukov on the artillery. Don't give them any special forces yet because they'll take damage during landing operations or at sea. Bombard O'ahu, which should be held by the USA (the 2nd island in the island chain, with the yellow airfield). Use the aircraft carrier to support your operation. Land your 2 infantry there and grab the airfield for extra coins after all the units there have been killed, however most of your forces including your land generals should stay at sea, far behind the frontline.
on turn 5-8 (depends when its available, but it should be as early as possible), deploy the reinforcement battleship on the island you just captured and put Ozawa on it. Meet up with Donitz and together they should take care of Moloka'i (the Canadian one) together with the rest of your navy. Occupy the city with infantry while keeping most of your army at sea. Replenish your battleships in the port if needed. Send your aircraft carrier north and take care of the first island. There should be a couple of your allies' carrier there so it shouldn't be too hard.
Clear out the navy around Maui and land your troops there. Put SF on your generals (especially the Italian thing on the artillery) and wait for Nimitz to come. After Nimitz arrives focus everything on him. Keep your best naval general in the port in Maui to keep healing. After Nimitz is dead head south, clear the airport on Hawai'i and land a paratrooper there. Spawn the medium tank and put Rommel on it, and put an SF. Then just finish off everything in the last island and you should be fine.
Moderated by Nobunaga Oda . Merged the four or so iterations of threads on the Battle of Hawaii (1945).
First guide by idunnowhattocallthis :
european-war-4.boards.net/post/281027
Ok here comes the guide:
Generals used:Rommel, Leeb (badoglio), Yamashita (rundstedt), Donitz, and the freebies.
Rommel on medium tank, donitz on battleship, model on carrier, ozawa on cruiser, Yamashita on infantry and leeb (badoglio) on Artillery
Give yamashita viking and leeb the M40
Now for the actual guide:
On turn 1, move yamashita and leeb to the north island, you should be able to take out the destroyer and get ready to land, Use model to hit the infantry on the coastal artillery. next land yamashita to kill blamey. The entire mission you should be killing infantry on coast guns with model. while that's happening send your navy and other units to the second island. by turn 5 the north island should be clear and you should have landed on the second island. buy a second carrier, then battleship next turn. try to keep all naval units alive so you can heal them later. you should get the airfield on turn 6, use the money you get to heal your naval units. spend turns 6 and 7 bring up your units and weakening crerar. on turn 7 buy an infantry unit and cruiser with the last of your money, put a para special forces on the infantry. on turn 8 fletcher reveals himself, hit him with your battleship and carriers. you should also have wiped out most of the canadians on this turn. on turn 9 I killed fletcher and simonds. on turn 10 i had the armored car, and 2 infantry units ready to land in the 4th island.
On turn 10, nimtz reveals himself and killed another japanese carrier. I parked donitz in the port on the 4th island, he will heal and hit nimtz every turn, my other units were able to land on the 4th island on this turn as well. your carriers should also torpedo bomb nimtz every turn. on turn 12 my land units helped donitz kill nimtz, although i had to retreat donitz because he was hit hard. Donitz kills arnold, and the rest of your forces prep to land on the final island. I sent 2 cruisers and a destroyer north, well everything else attacks the final island, at this point it should be easy. (sorry I ran out of time, Ill come finish the guide later)
Generals used:Rommel, Leeb (badoglio), Yamashita (rundstedt), Donitz, and the freebies.
Rommel on medium tank, donitz on battleship, model on carrier, ozawa on cruiser, Yamashita on infantry and leeb (badoglio) on Artillery
Give yamashita viking and leeb the M40
Now for the actual guide:
On turn 1, move yamashita and leeb to the north island, you should be able to take out the destroyer and get ready to land, Use model to hit the infantry on the coastal artillery. next land yamashita to kill blamey. The entire mission you should be killing infantry on coast guns with model. while that's happening send your navy and other units to the second island. by turn 5 the north island should be clear and you should have landed on the second island. buy a second carrier, then battleship next turn. try to keep all naval units alive so you can heal them later. you should get the airfield on turn 6, use the money you get to heal your naval units. spend turns 6 and 7 bring up your units and weakening crerar. on turn 7 buy an infantry unit and cruiser with the last of your money, put a para special forces on the infantry. on turn 8 fletcher reveals himself, hit him with your battleship and carriers. you should also have wiped out most of the canadians on this turn. on turn 9 I killed fletcher and simonds. on turn 10 i had the armored car, and 2 infantry units ready to land in the 4th island.
On turn 10, nimtz reveals himself and killed another japanese carrier. I parked donitz in the port on the 4th island, he will heal and hit nimtz every turn, my other units were able to land on the 4th island on this turn as well. your carriers should also torpedo bomb nimtz every turn. on turn 12 my land units helped donitz kill nimtz, although i had to retreat donitz because he was hit hard. Donitz kills arnold, and the rest of your forces prep to land on the final island. I sent 2 cruisers and a destroyer north, well everything else attacks the final island, at this point it should be easy. (sorry I ran out of time, Ill come finish the guide later)
Second guide by Nobunaga Oda :
european-war-4.boards.net/post/291646
I'll take this one.
Tech lvls: 6-6-6-2-6.
Gens used are Guderian on starting 2X Panther, Leeb on the strarting 2X 75/18 M40 (ie. the Italian anti-ship arty Special Force), Ozawa / best naval gen on the starting 4-hex battleship, Yamashita and Rundstedt on individual starting 3X inf (Special Forces deployment is up to you) as well as Riccardi / 2nd best naval gen on Reinforcement 4-hex battleship.
Mistakes that you will see:
Buying a 2X submarine instead of a 3X inf Reinforcement. Deploying Riccardi on a 3X ship instead of the aforementioned 4-hex battleship (80 Reinforcement money).
Strategy: Ignore the ongoing naval battle between AIs. The American fleet will be crippled, but everyone on your side except for the aircraft carriers will be sunk.
Attack in a clockwise direction, target enemy coastal arty and pray that these arty remain usable after their garrisons have been eliminated.
Note: If low on HP, just openly heal/stack as needed. You have more than enough money in this campaign to do so. No need to be stingy.
Tactically, the idea is to concentrate firepower and use overlapping fields of fire to sink powerful ships (Fletcher, Nimitz and Halsey).
If a coastal arty is destroyed and there's value in building another, don't hesitate to deploy Special Forces engineers. It's far better to be able to fight back against Nimitz's 4-hex attacks than to act as sitting ducks.
Target the docked ship and destroy it ASAP. Surround the island on the west and south coasts, land and eliminate the garrison.
Beware the supporting ship to the NE!
Move on to the second island. Deploy your reinforcements as paratroopers. Send them to take key facilities (ie. radar stations or coastal arty).
Deploy your Reinforcement aircraft carrier as soon as possible.
Fletcher should be located north or NE of the third island.
Fletcher moved SW into the rest of my fleet. Unsure if it's scripted or not, but try to pound him with all you've got.
Watch out for a minor counterattack at the northern end of the map!
Beware! Nimitz may or may not remain at the NE corner of the map. He may also move towards the third and fourth islands. Pound him as soon as he shows up!
What follows is the use of the fourth island's airport to send scouts. Evidently, Halsey is MIA so we have to be cautious of his air support and the remaining ground troops.
Land your paratroopers together and march in to take key facilities. Bombard Halsey with everything you've got!
Work with your two aircraft carriers and remaining ships to take out enemy coastal arty garrisons and bomb Halsey.
Mop up the remaining enemies, mainly using the excessive cash saved up to send planes to raid the enemy.
Tech lvls: 6-6-6-2-6.
Gens used are Guderian on starting 2X Panther, Leeb on the strarting 2X 75/18 M40 (ie. the Italian anti-ship arty Special Force), Ozawa / best naval gen on the starting 4-hex battleship, Yamashita and Rundstedt on individual starting 3X inf (Special Forces deployment is up to you) as well as Riccardi / 2nd best naval gen on Reinforcement 4-hex battleship.
Mistakes that you will see:
Buying a 2X submarine instead of a 3X inf Reinforcement. Deploying Riccardi on a 3X ship instead of the aforementioned 4-hex battleship (80 Reinforcement money).
Strategy: Ignore the ongoing naval battle between AIs. The American fleet will be crippled, but everyone on your side except for the aircraft carriers will be sunk.
Attack in a clockwise direction, target enemy coastal arty and pray that these arty remain usable after their garrisons have been eliminated.
Note: If low on HP, just openly heal/stack as needed. You have more than enough money in this campaign to do so. No need to be stingy.
Tactically, the idea is to concentrate firepower and use overlapping fields of fire to sink powerful ships (Fletcher, Nimitz and Halsey).
If a coastal arty is destroyed and there's value in building another, don't hesitate to deploy Special Forces engineers. It's far better to be able to fight back against Nimitz's 4-hex attacks than to act as sitting ducks.
Target the docked ship and destroy it ASAP. Surround the island on the west and south coasts, land and eliminate the garrison.
Beware the supporting ship to the NE!
Move on to the second island. Deploy your reinforcements as paratroopers. Send them to take key facilities (ie. radar stations or coastal arty).
Deploy your Reinforcement aircraft carrier as soon as possible.
Fletcher should be located north or NE of the third island.
Fletcher moved SW into the rest of my fleet. Unsure if it's scripted or not, but try to pound him with all you've got.
Watch out for a minor counterattack at the northern end of the map!
Beware! Nimitz may or may not remain at the NE corner of the map. He may also move towards the third and fourth islands. Pound him as soon as he shows up!
What follows is the use of the fourth island's airport to send scouts. Evidently, Halsey is MIA so we have to be cautious of his air support and the remaining ground troops.
Land your paratroopers together and march in to take key facilities. Bombard Halsey with everything you've got!
Work with your two aircraft carriers and remaining ships to take out enemy coastal arty garrisons and bomb Halsey.
Mop up the remaining enemies, mainly using the excessive cash saved up to send planes to raid the enemy.
Third guide by NotRandom :
european-war-4.boards.net/post/301705
This is one of the most rage inducing missions of GoG3. It took me several tries and new strategies. Make a mental note to yourself that this wouldn't be easy unless of course, you have max everything and extremely good generals. Do note that this is my first battle guide so the format will be very messy and hard to read, there will be errors and miscalculations and yeah 0-0, I hope it's fine and this can help you in someway.
The team I used will be listed below. I'll rank them from essential to not needed so you can see if your team is enough of a substitute.
-Donitz, 3 stars [Essential]
-Zhukov, 3 stars [Very helpful][Leeb is fine if you have him]
-Ozawa, 0 star [Very helpful]
-Rommel, 3 stars [Very helpful]
-Guderian, 3 stars [Helpful](wot?)
-Kesselring, 1 star [Not needed]
My tech level is: 4-5-5-4-2
Alright then, let's begin!
You'll need to kill Fletcher, Nimitz, and Halsey. I would not recommend going for the perfect clear on your first try, as that would be quite difficult. Fletcher and Nimitz will appear behind Maui at different times, while Halsey is hiding behind Hawai'i in the south. Your land force should not play an essential role until Maui and Hawai'i. (the 4th and 5th island from the northwest).
Put Donitz on the battleship, Guderian on the medium tank, and Zhukov on the artillery. Don't give them any special forces yet because they'll take damage during landing operations or at sea. Bombard O'ahu, which should be held by the USA (the 2nd island in the island chain, with the yellow airfield). Use the aircraft carrier to support your operation. Land your 2 infantry there and grab the airfield for extra coins after all the units there have been killed, however most of your forces including your land generals should stay at sea, far behind the frontline.
on turn 5-8 (depends when its available, but it should be as early as possible), deploy the reinforcement battleship on the island you just captured and put Ozawa on it. Meet up with Donitz and together they should take care of Moloka'i (the Canadian one) together with the rest of your navy. Occupy the city with infantry while keeping most of your army at sea. Replenish your battleships in the port if needed. Send your aircraft carrier north and take care of the first island. There should be a couple of your allies' carrier there so it shouldn't be too hard.
Clear out the navy around Maui and land your troops there. Put SF on your generals (especially the Italian thing on the artillery) and wait for Nimitz to come. After Nimitz arrives focus everything on him. Keep your best naval general in the port in Maui to keep healing. After Nimitz is dead head south, clear the airport on Hawai'i and land a paratrooper there. Spawn the medium tank and put Rommel on it, and put an SF. Then just finish off everything in the last island and you should be fine.
