Complete Country Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses [Done]

For strategies on how to defeat the countries view here: european-war-4.boards.net/thread/3584/conquest-strategies-fight-star-countries
This is pretty much a broader way to describe the strategies I will be describing: european-war-4.boards.net/thread/3517/helpful-strategies-depending-on-conquest

Australia:
Strengths: Your country is far away from every other country, it is easy to build an army and save up money.
Weaknesses: It is hard to ship your armies. Your enemies will grow in size before you reach them.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Spam tanks and if it's 1950/60 then send them all at once.
Generals: High Requirement!
^Pre-placed generals: Blamey is useful in '39 & '50
Difficulty: Medium-Hard

Belgium:
Strengths: For 1939 you're close to the enemy. Otherwise, none...
Weaknesses: Not much money production. In 1939, the enemy is ready to attack. Only one starting city.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Suicide your generals...
Generals: High health requirement!
^Pre-placed: No significant!
Difficult: Hard!

Bulgaria:
Strengths: Easy to take out the adjacent countries.
Weaknesses: There is a bunch of countries, and they'll be coming for you.
Nuke Production: None
Good Strategies: Use generals to defeat as many adjacent countries as possible.
Generals: High output requirement!
Pre-Placed: Boris is pretty good.
Difficulty: Medium.

Brazil:
Strengths: You will never have anyone attack you.
Weaknesses: You're isolated from the enemy.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Take the nearby African cities in order to expand your reach.
Generals: Extremely High Requirement
^Pre-placed: No significant
Difficulty: Experts only! 1943 can be done with good strategy

Cuba:
Strengths: 1943 - far from enemies. And otherwise none.
Weaknesses: You can easily be destroyed, especially in 1950/60.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Using good generals to take out nearby cities.
Generals: High Health requirement!
^Pre-placed: None
Difficulty: Extremely Hard!!! Even experts will struggle with 1950/60!!!

Canada:
Strengths: You can produce loads of units with no enemy interference for awhile.
Weaknesses: You have to ship your units across the ocean. Your enemies will grow before you reach them.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Send most every general east. Spam units on Japan. For 1950/60 you should have your units sitting next to Japan until it is taken over by the PRC
Generals: High Output & Health Requirement
^Pre-placed: Crerar appears in most conquests, and he's pretty good.
Difficulty: Hard!

Denmark:
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: There is a sea separating you from any other country. Weak economy.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Build high air defense and also strategic bomb your way to other cities. Don't place any generals unless they have high movement.
Generals: At least one good air general.
^Pre-Placed: No significant.
Difficulty: Hard.


Egypt:
Strengths: In an ideal place to mount an assault on Europe.
Weaknesses: Not many cities.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Build a couple generals and send them where you want to go all at once.
Generals: High Output Requirement (Health too in 1950/60)
Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium-Hard

Finland:
Strengths: Good generals and ideal place for taking USSR.
Weaknesses: One city.
Nuke Production: None
Good Strategies: Take Russian cities before they spawn generals.
Generals: Easy-Medium Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Mannerheim is awesome for defending any city with generals headed toward it.
Difficulty: Relatively Easy

France (1939):
Strengths: Relatively good generals and economy.
Weaknesses: Three enemies are trying to invade you.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Create tanks and armored units to hold back the generals.
Generals: Medium-Hard Requirement
^Pre-Placed: De Gaulle is a pretty good art. Darlan will help you take the seas, if you use him right.
Difficulty: With the right strategies - Medium

France (1943):
Strengths: Lots of generals
Weaknesses: Economy. Opposing strong powers.
Good strategies: Attempt to capture cities. Money production is essential to becoming a super power. Also, since the French generals have high health, but low skills, you can sacrifice them in order to weaken the Germans.
Nuke Production: None
Generals: Medium-High Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: High Health
Difficulty: Medium - Hard

France (1950/1960):
Strengths: Good finances. There is a distance to get to the enemy, which can be useful, especially if you're a defensive player.
Weaknesses: Not as many nukes as competitors.
Good strategies: Send generals across Germany and work to capture cities with strategic-bombing places and missile launchings. Produce nukes every turn you can.
Nuke Production: One city
Generals: Medium health and output requirement
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Easy-Medium

Germany (1939):
Strengths: Strong economy. Loads of countries around you are ripe for the taking.
Weaknesses: None.
Good strategies: Quickly use generals to destroy countries before they can even become a threat.
Generals: No requirement...
^Pre-placed: There are so many good ones, they tend to be high output and health.
Difficulty: Easy

Germany (1943):
Strengths: Superb economy! A few good generals.
Weaknesses: Enemies are strong and ready to go!
Good Strategies: Take over loads of cities before they can make generals. The Russian Front will be difficult, so send most generals to fight it.
Nuke Production: None, until you capture New York.
Generals: High Output Requirement!
^Pre-placed: There's quite a few, but most are meh compared to the enemies.
Difficulty: Hard

Germany (1960):
Strengths: Okay economy. Right on the front.
Weaknesses: Facing Soviets!!! Not much nuke, not very many generals.
Good strategies: Quickly capture Soviet nuclear facilities, defensive will not work!!!
Nuke Production: One facility
Generals: High output and health requirement
^Pre-Placed: Manstein who will be nuked very quickly
Difficulty: Medium

Greece (1939):
Strengths: You do have a little time to build generals. Near to the front.
Weaknesses: Small economy. You'll be assaulted by generals pretty quickly.
Nuke Production: None
Generals: High Health Requirement
^Pre-placed: Papagos is fairly useful.
Difficulty: Medium-Hard

Greece (1950/60):
Strengths: Easy to take out surroundings. Has strategic bombing airport.
Weaknesses: One city and bad economy.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Take out Bulgaria and work your way up, especially targeting nuclear facilities.
Generals: Medium - High Health and Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Papagos for 1950
Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Hungary:
Strengths: Strong Allies. Right on a major front.
Weaknesses: Small economy and your enemies can easily get you.
Nuke Production: None in any era.
Good Strategies: Take enemy countries as quickly as possible to improve economy.
Generals: Medium Output and health requirement
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium-Hard

India:
Strengths: You will definitely have a chance to build up your weaponry before invasion. Mediocre economy. Strong allies
Weaknesses: It's a long way to the battlefield, so it's hard to reinforce your troops. Your allies will often make you into their shadow.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Build up a large group of armies and deploy them at the same time! Then keep on building more armies and use them to reinforce that charge.
Generals: High Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium-Hard

Iran (1950/60):
Strengths: Easy to take out neighbors. Super tank production.
Weaknesses: Economic issues...
Nuke Production: One facility in 1960
Good strategies: Invade Turkey and capture as many cities as possible to improve economy. Strategic bomb your way to capitals and (more) nuke facilities.
Generals: Only useful for first few turns. High output requirement.
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium

Iraq:
See Iran

Italy (1939):
Strengths: Easy to take out neighbors, fairly good economy.
Weaknesses: Not the best location
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Try and capture countries before Germany can. If you're able, have armored cars or motorized infantry waiting outside a city for Germany to destroy it.
Generals: Medium Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Badoglio and Riccardi will help you a lot.
Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Italy (1943):
Strengths: Good economy. A few good generals.
Weaknesses: You have to become a superpower before Germany falls. Most fronts are far away.
Nuke production: None
Good Strategies: Italy 1939 on a larger scale.
Generals: Medium - High Output Requirement
^Pre-placed: Graziani and Riccardi are useful, Badoglio is also there to help.
Difficulty: Medium - Hard

Italy (1960):
Strengths: Pretty good economy and fairly close to the front.
Weaknesses: Not a very easy way to get your generals to the enemy without being nuked.
Nuke Production: Not too hard to achieve.
Good strategies: I would start out defensively. Wait for the Soviet Union to exhaust their generals and destroy your allies before you invade.
Generals: High Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium

Japan (1939):
Strengths: Good economy. Strong navy, and lots of generals.
Weaknesses: USA can easily get strong if you aren't aggressive.
Nuke Production: None
Good Strategies: Take out Chinese cities as quickly as possible to improve economy even more. Capture American cities before generals are produced.
Generals: Low Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Generals good enough to own the sea and quickly take over the land.
Difficulty: Easy

Japan (1943):
Strengths: Good economy. Good generals but not as good as 1939.
Weaknesses: USA is at its height and has nukes.
Nuke Production: Can be acquired...
Good strategies: Invade through Alaska. Be as aggressive as possible, any slow will result in a way harder conquest.
Generals: Medium Output & Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Fairly good
Difficulty: Medium - Hard

Japan (1950/60):
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: Meh economy. You have to deal with all of China.
Nuke Production: One facility in 1960
Good strategies: Invade through Korea and quickly take out Changchun
Generals: High Output & Health Requirement
^Pre-placed: No significant
Difficulty: Hard

Mongolia (1939/43):
Strengths: Good location to stop Japan.
Weaknesses: Bad economy...
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Take Japanese cities as quickly as possible.
Generals: Medium Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: None
Difficulty: Medium

Mongolia (1950/60):
Strengths: Don't have a front to deal with
Weaknesses: Don't have a front to take part in. You have to piggy-back off of China.
Nuke-Production: None
Good strategies: Multiple strategies, most will result in a million turns being consumed.
Generals: None
^Pre-placed: High Output & Health Requirement
Difficulty: Hard

Mexico:
Strengths: You'll probably never ever be attacked. It's like the last thing that's ever attacked. Plenty of time to build a large army.
Weaknesses: No matter what, you'll have to transport your armies across large oceans.
Nuke Production: No
Good Strategies: I would actually wait to make generals until you've recovered enemy land. Make a ginormous army and then send them together to your enemy, while you produce constant reinforcement.
Generals: High health requirement.
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Hard!

Netherlands:
Strengths: None. In 1950/60, you do have a little bit of time to build your economy.
Weaknesses: Right on the Front and you only have one city.
Nuke Production: Essential to Achieve in 1950/60
Good Strategies: Produce all of your generals as quickly as possible and quickly take enemy cities, so that they can't attack you.
Generals: High Output & Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Hard!

]North Korea:
Strengths: You have China to destroy cities.
Weaknesses: You have China to capture cities. You have to fight the USA if you succeed.
Nuke Production: One facility in 1960
Good strategies: Capture Seoul. If you don't capture Seoul restart the conquest. South Korea will be the thing that gives you an advantage toward China.
Generals: Medium - High Output and Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Choe who is meh
Difficulty: Medium - Hard

Norway:
Strengths: You have a little bit of time to prepare for invasion.
Weaknesses: In 1950/60 you're battling someone with nukes. In all of them, you have weak econ.
Nuke Production: None but achievable in 1950/60
Good strategies: Build up your forces until the adjacent ally to you is destroyed (1939 = Denmark & 1950/60 = Sweden) Once they're take out the city as quickly as possible. From there you can bomb your way around or you can use strong tank generals to take a chunk of your enemies.
Generals: High health requirement
Pre-placed: No significant
Difficulty: Hard

People's Republic of China:
Strengths: Good economy and okay location.
Weaknesses: You only have one direction to go...
Nuke Production: Relatively fast, 2 facilities.
Good strategies: Bomb your way through Japan, and continue your pathway utilizing nukes to speed up the process. You should aim to get to Alaska. I believe a missile upgraded to level 5 can go from Tokyo to Alaska.
Generals: Medium Output and Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Lin B. is in 1950.
Difficulty: Medium - Hard

Poland (1939):

Strengths: Deadly close to Enemy!
Weaknesses: You're one of the first things they invade...
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Stall your enemy for a period of time with weak infantry, this will give you a chance to build artillery generals. Keep supplying weak infantry and use your artillery to hurt them from a distance. Then whenever the first few generals are gone, invade.
Generals: 2 Good Artillery Generals and 2 Good Tank Generals
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Hard.

Poland (1950/1960):
Strengths: Right on the front
Weaknesses: Weak economy
Nuke Production: None
Good Strategies: You have to sort of take out as many cities as possible as quickly as possible. It is sort of like France 1939.
Generals: High Output & Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: None
Difficulty: Hard

Portugal:
Strengths: Far from the enemy, so you have an opportunity to build your economy.
Weaknesses: You can easily get destroyed by Soviet nukes.
Nuke Production: Essential
Good strategies: I'd build up a large fleet of tanks and then send them across the Mediterranean. Then you can backdoor the Soviet front.
Generals: High health requirement
Pre-placed: None
Difficulty: Hard

Republic of China (1939/43):
Strengths: Loads of generals to use for suicide missions. Good economy. Ideal location for defeating Japan. For once, you defensive commanders have a place to shine!
Weaknesses: Japan's generals are ready to come destroy you. Bad navy, while taking Japan is navy oriented.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Wait for Japan to suicide some of their generals on you, but have your generals at the ready. Try not to produce units, so you can use fighters to destroy Japanese infantry generals.
Generals: Good air general would be nice, but not required. A good artillery or two, will definitely help.
^Pre-Placed: Mostly defensive generals, watch out because their health is low.
Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Republic of China (1950):
Strengths: If you capture a few Chinese cities, you could easily defeat communist influence.
Weaknesses: Communist China has loads of nukes and is aiming to destroy your cities.
Nuke Production: Easy Acquisition
Good strategies: Take Chinese cities especially ones with nuclear facilities as quickly as possible. Watch out for strategy bombing cities.
Generals: High output and health requirement
^Pre-Placed: Sun L. R.
Difficulty: Hard

South Korea:
Strengths: Not much...
Weaknesses: The entire communist society will show up trying to destroy you.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Acquire cities as quickly as possible. China will try and nuke you off the face of earth, but they can't nuke 5 cities at once.
Generals: High Output and Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Chung, who while is okay, really won't do much.
Difficulty: Hard

Saudi Arabia:
Strengths: You can face the majority of WTO force at the start!
Weaknesses: WTO force is charging straight at you. No tank or field artillery production.
Nuke Production: Literally the country that is the farthest from any nuclear facility, except Austria...
Good strategies: Focus on destroying countries rather than armies.
Generals: A good infantry general might be nice. High output and health requirement.
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Hard

Spain (1939):
Strengths: Good location to take Europe. No strong opponents to fight for awhile.
Weaknesses: Germany will try and be "better" than you.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: A similar piggyback strategy to Italy. Focus on taking any city that is a capital.
Generals: Low Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Franco for economy
Difficulty: Easy

Spain (1943):
Strengths: None really...
Weaknesses: You're a shadow compared to Germany who happens to be falling at this time. America and Canada will try and open a front through Spain.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Push half of your generals north to recover cities Germany has lost to Britain. With the remainder of your generals, defend in Spain from oncoming Americans and Canadians.
Generals: High Output and Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: I think Franco, I need to double check.
Difficulty: Hard

Spain (1950/60):
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: Super far from enemy!!!
Nuke Production: None!!!
Good strategies: The best strategy might be waiting for Russia to take like all of Europe... (EasyTech didn't give me much to work with here...)
Generals: High Output and Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Franco isn't useful in this one.
Difficulty: Hard!!!

Sweden:
Strengths: Right near a nuclear facility.
Weaknesses: Bad economy.
Nuke Production: Next to nuclear facility.
Good strategies: Work your way through Russia by destroying nuclear plants and capturing cities that can drop them. Nearly every general you have will need to be sacrificed to the cause.
Generals: High output and health requirement.
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium

Thailand (1939):
Strengths: The enemies around you are not too strong and won't be too hard to defeat.
Weaknesses: Bad economy. No nearby production facilities.
Nuke Production: None
Good Strategies: Take out Indochina and Burma, then push North toward production facilities. Steal as much of China as possible, so you'll be ready to fight US.
Generals: Medium Output Requirement
^Pre-placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium

Thailand (1943):
Strengths: Strong ally
Weaknesses: You're living in the shadows of an empire that will fall.
Nuke production: None
Good strategies: Try and raise an empire from behind Japan. Push west while having forces near Japanese cities. Whenever America bombs and captures those cities, immediately push them back.
Generals: Medium - High Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium - Hard

Thailand (1950-1960):
Strengths: You can take the Philippines and build up a small force.
Weaknesses: There is two major fronts - Japan/US and Australia.
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Concentrate main force on Australia. Once they're taken care of, it should be easy to send all forces North to take over the falling China.
Generals: High Output and Health Requirement
^Pre-Placed: No significant
Difficulty: Hard!!!

Turkey:
Strengths: Right on the front. Fair economic benefit.
Weaknesses: Soviets are looking to invade immediately.
Nuke Production: Attainable through Soviets.
Good Strategies: Split your force. The stronger half should focus on Iraq and Iran, while the other distracts the USSR. The stronger half will join the weaker one after completing its objective.
Generals: Medium - High Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: No Significant
Difficulty: Medium

United Kingdom (1939):
Strengths: Strong economy. Strong generals. Many colonies. Easy access to European Coast.
Weaknesses: You have to transport your armies across a small sea.
Nuke Production: None
Good Strategies: Rushing your enemies is pretty much it.
Generals: Medium Output Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Wingate, Slim, Montgomery, and Mountbatten are pretty useful.
Difficulty: Medium

United Kingdom (1943):
Strengths: Good generals everywhere! Easy to assault opponents.
Weaknesses: There is still a sea between UK and Europe. Japan...
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: In UK, bomb yourself into Berlin. In Africa, use Monty to punch your way into South Europe. In Asia, first eliminate Japanese airports in China so they can't spam parachute you, and then send over a small force to help take Tokyo.
Generals: Low - Medium
^Pre-Placed: Super Awesome generals (Dowding, Monty, and others.)
Difficulty: It can be easy.

United Kingdom (1950/60)
Strengths: Further from enemy. Good place to use as a nuke hub.
Weaknesses: That sea is really hard to make use of.
Nuke Production: London!
Good strategies: Send generals over to Europe, but only as far as your missiles can go. Once the Soviet generals come near, nuke them and then rush your generals into battle.
Generals: Medium - High Requirement
^Pre-Placed: Monty in 1950
Difficulty: Medium - Hard

USA (1939) {My personal favorite}:
Strengths: Easy to join both theatres. Awesome location for mounting a naval assault on Japan. Economic Powerhouse!
Weaknesses: There are two oceans to ship troops across.
Nuke Production: None
Good Strategies: I would wait to make troops until my generals land in their respective theatres.
Generals: Medium Requirement
^Pre-placed: Dwight D. Eisenhower (My old username)!!! Also a couple others...
Difficulty: Medium.

USA (1943):
Strengths: Alaska has a lvl 3 airport. Great cities and economy.
Weaknesses: European theatre is still hard to join.
Nuke Production: 2 cities
Good Strategies: Push into Japan through the North. Same strategy as 1939 for Europe.
Generals: Low - Medium Requirement
^Pre-placed: None too significant
Difficulty: Easy - Medium

USA (1950/60):
Strengths: Economy! Great cities! Lots of Nuke Factories!
Weaknesses: Those oceans are hard to work with.
Nuke Production: Plenty
Good strategies: China won't be a problem as long as you hold the Philippines. For Europe, you kinda just, well, the same as the rest of the US ones...
Generals: Medium - High Requirement
^Pre-placed: No significant
Difficulty: Medium - Hard

USSR (1939):
Strengths: Has armies pre-placed on both of their fronts. Good generals to get started with! The quickest conquest ever!
Weaknesses: Not much influence in Japan...
Nuke Production: None
Good strategies: Concentrate generals in Europe and then at the same time, spam cars and send them to take Japan.
Generals: Medium output & health requirement
^Pre-Placed: Govorov, Rokkovsky, and other not-so-good ones
Difficulty: Easy - Medium

USSR (1943):
Strengths: Exceptional generals! Strong on both fronts! Easy economy fueling-potential!
Weaknesses: Germany and Japan have a lot of generals waiting to destroy you...
Nuke Production: None
Good Strategies: Aggressive strategies! Rush your generals into battle, so that you won't have to deal with their generals.
Generals: Medium health requirement
^Pre-Placed: Probably the best pre-placed from almost any conquest
Difficulty: Easy

USSR (1950/60):
Strengths: Pretty good generals and nice nice production. Nice economy and easy area to take Europe from.
Weaknesses: The USA and UK will be a pain.
Nuke Production: Tied for first in both eras.
Good strategies: Produce as many nukes as possible! Take as many small countries as possible to benefit economy. Try to capture London and Alaska as quickly as possible.
Generals: No real requirement, but it will definitely help
^Pre-placed: Fairly good gens
Difficulty: Easy-Medium

Yugoslavia:
Strengths: Right on the front. Good spot to target enemies.
Weaknesses: Typically it is the first country to lose. Generals will rush you...
Nuke Production: Yeah, no!
Good Strategies: Send half your generals to Italy, and use the rest to defend from oncoming generals as well as take Bulgaria.
Generals: High health and output requirement
^Pre-placed: Tito
Difficulty: Medium - Hard