If you want to do 1943 Conquest with one star nation, I would like to recommend playing Egypt. Here're the reasons,
- Egypt starts with lv3 industry in Cairo. You get access to the high end unit right at the beginning.
- Egypt has a very good economy (relaive to other one star nations).
- Nearby enemies are quite weak
- Many allies' cities are open for you to take.
- Can easily defend enemies' main troops.
- Good sum of rewards from finishing the conquest.
This conquest does not require any gold tier general (I used only Govorov and Messe with green nameplates and no other upgrade) so I think it is doable for most players. However, you probably need some troop upgrades from HQ, maybe half of the way (but you should have the 75% assault upgrade for your tanks). Cold War upgrade is not needed.
Legends
Blue arrows indicates the attack routes
Violet arrows indicates optional routes
Green area indicates your line of defense with navyOverall Steps to Victory
- Destroy Italian troops on your back
- Build navies to defend yourself
- Take Africa (from both your enemies and allies)
- Control Mediteranean
- Invade Spain
- Liberate France
- March on Berlin
- The rest is up to you
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Destroy Italian troops on your back
- Italian troops will surely be you pain in the arrdd if you leave them alone. So the first thing to do is to get rid of them.
- Campioni on howitzer and Cavallero on heavy tank seem scary but they are not as strong as they look. You have your mighty Nasser on dessert commando to fight tank in a dessert. What are you afraid of?
- With starting medium tank, howitzer, and Nasser, build more artittery and you should be able to take care of the Italian. In the picture, I use Govorov on rocket artillery together with flanking and Nasser, I destroy Cavallero on heavy tank with minimal damage.
- The picture shows Nasser is wrecking Cavallero's tank. Well... not the level of 'Mannerheim in the forest' wreckage but still good enough.
- Take Mogadishu as well so that you do not have to worry about your rear anymore.
- You may need to build some tech institutes otherwise you will earn a very low amount of tech. Thanks to the tech center being hugely nerfed. This is not quite related to the Italian troops on your rear but I put it here since you should do it early on.
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Build Navies- Soon Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary will send a lot of troops to greet you. Fortunately, there is a little body of water called 'Mediterranean' in the middle of you end them so you can fend them off with a few submarines.
- You have two destroyers from the start so build a fre more submarines is enough.
- Make sure that you take care of Riccardi on cruiser as soon as you can, and you life will be much better.
- By the time I took this pic, Riccardi has long gone so you cannot see him here.
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Invade Saudi Arabia (optional)
- Saudi Arabia is neutral and is right next to you.
- If you can spare some troops to earn extra income then declaring war on Saudi Arabia can be an option.
- They just defend themselves and are not sending any troops to attack you. So you can use artillery to attack them. They, however, attack you with airstrikes and this can be annoying.
- I feel that their city walls heal really fast. This might be my imagination.
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Take Africa (from both your enemies and allies)
- By the time you finished doing what mentioned above, the Germans, English, and Frenches in Africa are pretty much exhausted.
- As you see in the picture, many to the town are defendless. Rommel and Manteuffel are dying. Though the situation may vary from game to game. That is, sometimes the Germans kicks the Allies, or other times they are pushed back. But, from my experience, eventually, there are many cities for you to take and the Germans are too weak to oppose you.
- Do not shy to take your allies' cities as well. They are better of in your hand then being wasted away by your allies. The same reason you should not donate money to your allies.
- You pace of interfering Germany VS UK and France in Africa is a delicate matter. Do not step in too fast, otherwise the Germans will not be able to take your allies' cities which would prevent you from stealing them back. In one game, I was very sad that the German failed to capture Tripoli and that strategic city remained useless in the hand of UK.
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Control Mediterranean
- Once Africa is in your hand, your next goal is the control over that small body of water called 'Mediterranean'.
- This allows you to stop the enemy's offensive once and for all, and also prepare for your invasion of Europe.
- To do this, you need to capture the ports in Naples, Marselles, and Barcelona (in blue circles). This will stop the enemy from building navy. Now their land troops are no match for your navy... in the water.
- If you find if difficult to defend the captured ports, build a submarine and let it sit there. Also don't forget to destroy those two pesky coastal artillery (in orange circles).
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The Invasion of Spain
- Now you can launch an attack on Europe. Spain is the choice because it is quite weak and your allies (USA, Cuba, and Mexico) are also helping. I encounter only little resistance on all of my game play (not limited to Egypt).
- Preferred attacking units are artillery. You should also have a lot of infantry tag along because you can use them to surround Madrid. This is not for reducing morale but to to prevent the AI from moving the injured unit out and built a new one.
Liberate France and the March to Berlin
- At this point, you should be able to easily win the game now. By capturing Paris, you get access to Britain and Berlin itself. Brussels and Amsterdam are nearby for you to take as well.
- Try capture Cologne to get the early access to missile (if you are not at tech lv7 yet). Now you should have accumulate a plenty of industrial and tech resource, and missile is virtually free. This missile pad is very useful for a quick taking of Britain.
- Normally, I would recommend leaving Scandinavia for later because it might take more time. There are a lot of big cities camming together from Munich all the way down to Athens. So you will get bigger harvest from going downward than marching a long way to Moscow.
- Try focusing on knocking small nations out of the game on by one. Be careful that some of them might have a piece of land in the east which prevent you from knocking them out with missile and paratroopers alone.
- The rest is up to you.
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To the East and Beyond
- At some point the Axis will reach India or China. So sending some troops to the east to either take some city back or steal the city before being taken is a good idea.
- This allows you to stop the spread of the enemies and also enable you establish a bridgehead for your campaign in the east.
- In this picture, I take New Delhi and fortify it. Later on, with a lot of resource I have, I hop from city to city with airstrike and paratroopers.
- The rest is up to you since the situation is hard to predict. Nevertheless, it's a matter of time that you win the conquest.
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