You need to sign in or create an account to do that. after declaring war, rush your larm straight for paris and orleans with your larm (dont use them to defeat belgium, but go through Namur and in straight line to paris), leaving 1 larm in each tile as you go. Cookie Notice All is quiet around the german border. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. With that i got it on my first try. You need everything they have in 36 at least. You will probably have to delete a few motorized divisions to reinforce the mechanized divisions. The commies controlled brittany and the southwest. Here's my industrial buildup, the key to decisively winning the war early. Recalled volunteers. 2.) Use your airforce to try and achieve air superiority in regions with the most battles. Bad weather (snow, mud, heavy rain) that will effect movement, combat and aircraft. So I managed it. If my advice would be incompatible with a version 1.9x game, feel free to ignore me and anything I say. I only just started playing Darkest Hour/Kaiserreich and after giving it a go as Austria i decided to give Germany a go. It may not display this or other websites correctly. its here, i just reorganized your troops Marshall/Generals, planning orders, just declare war and press play, you will bulldoze belgium and FRA. Select mobility doctrine, build infantry and use allies troops to protect your borders in alsace and 2-3 division in Wilhelmshaven, the others are useless, they are protected by the danish or if they don't join the war you have ships. In mp btw. what about 120 other inf divisions? The cheat code for HOI4 is planes, if you have enough planes then there isn't a force in the game that can stop you, tank divisions are minority. Help, I'm playing as Germany and I can't defeat Commune of France. If you have made it this far, German defeat is inevatable and soon enough they will capitulate. The reasoning is that since we are in the same faction there is a possibility that we can call them to our war hence why they are forced to reallocate divisions. Mod with historical divisions, realistic unit sizes (including "division slice"), accurate relative unit values and recruitable percentages. For supply, units have supply grace so they don't run out of supply for a day or so, and get supply from VPs, not allot, but enough to keep a few units going for a while. Managed to win by making they go inside german territory and encircling them. Encircle, exploit holes, and france is ezpz. I think going to war in 36 might be the easiest choice as France. This is their main streght especial in france. I've conquered pretty much everything except America in an earlier game (a few patches back) by using Tanicius's superb guide Constructing a HoI4 Germany Guide In the last few days I started a new game as Germany, following the same guide. Italy --- they join on german side, and they attack you were you have no defence. Support AA can help mitigate the penalty for fighting without air superiority. You cant really fight anyone else as the French focus tree is only meant for war with Germany up to 1939, though you can alway just build industry and unite Europe under the little entente so if Italy declares on Yugoslavia you can invade them. they had 4000 in 1940, my arm divisions may be bad. This will create a faction between France and Czechoslovakia whose benefits i will explain in the next section. This item has been removed from the community because it violates Steam Community & Content Guidelines. Best method i have found for beating france as germany is taking netherlands and belgium early (declare on DEI and belg as soon as possible ) you can get both before tension rises to 25% if you dont do the Rhineland focus and simply bypass it have 2 Groups of 24 divisions on french border and 1 group of 12-16 tank divisions behind it when you get the Danzig or war.. you are ready to smash france in seconds. You must log in or register to reply here. You are using an out of date browser. JavaScript is disabled. Push into vulnerable terrain with your best troops, use your weaker infantry to pin the neighbouring enemy when they move to reinforce/close the gaps, rush in your motorized/armored troops to advance as much as you can. PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/therambler146. Never too much fighters. Please see the. This will cause the German AI to pull out half of their divisions previously stationed at the marginot to the czechoslovakian borders. JavaScript is disabled. Also I did it and formed the entent. Privacy Policy. i completed mobile warfare tech tree except for the last two in 1940. I also found helpful to prepare motorized army - then, as they wrote above, finish netherland first, prepare fast army on the border with Belgium, and rush Paris before allies send troops to Belgium. It's not the French Royal Navy. I didnt follow your steps though. I'm not kidding I can't even punch through the border and if I do I get swamped. I only just started playing Darkest Hour/Kaiserreich and after giving it a go as Austria i decided to give Germany a go. Also as GoldenTalon said, there are many video walk-throughs. i loaded your game, im making adjusts and reaload there soon is really easy to fix it, coming back soon. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Pick the first option twice and if the AI makes the correct choices you should be in two separate wars against the Communists and Germany, without being part of the Allies. I just pushed through the marginot and hoped that czech/romannia/ yugoslavia would do the rest they got mulched. You must gather your party before venturing forth! A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox Development Studio. they should be enough for germany but are not. While attacking with INF isn't ideal, a well-built INF division can wreck face if you need it to (it's how minor nations get stuff done, after all). Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). Admittedly the communist civil war doesn't help, though. use 20 width divisions, make sure that all of your divisions have some soft attack ( arty for infantry, SPG for mobile divisions), also for tank divisions have like 4 tank brigades and 6 motorized, dont use only tanks! @Batae Ive read somewhere that historically, Hitler had ordered his troop to back down if the remilitarization of the Rhineland was challenged. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America), https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2709732044. You are using an out of date browser. 8LSP + 8 mot is a cheap and very powerful tank composition, also makes it easy to rush for tigers for barbarossa. By the time I invade France they have 133 divisions and they just deathstack them in Belgium and I can't push through. If you believe your item has been removed by mistake, please contact, This item is incompatible with Hearts of Iron IV. Continue Advancing carefully but not too slowly for as the war drags on ,German troops stationed in the Czech border will be called back to the front lines. You must log in or register to reply here. You are using an out of date browser. I push through the belgian coast and drive deep into france with up to 15km/h and get the victory points. Yep that seems to be some feature of some DLC as I lack these buttons. Yes, Germany will always take Rhineland first, so the war starts in April. JavaScript is disabled. Just got the achievement, so to get the event you need to have historical a.i off, then it's a 50/50 if germany backs down or goes to war. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. you could naval invade or para a port and just go around. Engineers are very much for attack aswell, because of the Terrain Boni. Invest in support AA if the Allies have more planes than you. Valve Corporation. They sink my navy instantly with just a few bombers all the time so I did not even bother. If you run out of fuel blitzing through the Lowlands and France you've really done something wrong. #6 It went well so far until I started invading Belgium and France. That explains why. I delete my colonial units. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Archived post. Italy was dealt with by Canada (dont know why). http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=therambler146-------------------------------------------------------------------------Social Links:TWITTER https://twitter.com/TheRambler146FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/therambler146INSTAGRAM https://instagram.com/therambler146/TwitchTV http://www.twitch.tv/therambler146STEAM http://steamcommunity.com/groups/theregimentoframblers So fine, defeat the rebellion, am left with 26 infantry divisions and about 10 mobile. Soviet style units (Artillery Regiment, Mortar Battalion). have you tried para trooping there core state's ? Even Ostpreussen, Niederschlesien and Oberschlesien (Poland took that)? and our What are all the german cores? Subscribe Today on Hearts of Iron 4 HOI4 I will attempt to defeat Germany playing as France before 1937..this might take a couple of tries. for france in late 39, you dont need much; Could be you started the war to late. If you push along the coast, and not through the mountains, you can often make a decent breakthrough and start to flood in divisions, that at the least will extend the french frontline and demand responding divisions that will at the least thin their defensive lines up north, and at best will allow successful offensive pushes in both the north and the south, where one of which is likely to make it to paris. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). You may need to disband your fleet. In the image your tanks have no fuel, so remember if you spaghetti into the enemy you'll have horrible supply unless you make wide entrances into supply zones, so focus on capturing many edge tiles for supply zones quickly to keep your tanks fueled. i tested it. maybe a mistake, i draw a plan and have INF divions attack automatically. The Big Entente Achievement is as follows: As France, complete the "Little Entente" National Focus, and have all German cores owned by you or someone in your faction. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Just out of curiosity, how are your INF and/or CAV divisions built? It may not display this or other websites correctly. if you're going to go for the Little Entente achievement, try to avoid having non-faction nations join in. Yet does it really make that much of a difference deciding about winning or losing? All rights reserved. Beating Germany in 1936 as France [Big Entente] [Step by Step with Screenshots]. DO NOT attack, it's tempting to attack when the Germans are not near your border but as France you cannot beat Germany offensively yet. Use Blitzkrieg tactics. It is only visible to you. Using WW I will give you the same result. Even if war starts after 70 days, you can still go for Little Entente. Keep light tanks and motorised separat for the speed. It's a shame it's not easier, as Germany really stood no chance at all against France in 1936. They field about an equal amount of troops so I don't see my supposed giant advantage. Make sure that you also research doctrines and that you use up to date equipment or even ahead of time. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Then what? Expect extremely incompetent gameplay!------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please show your support by liking/commenting/sharing and subscribing!------------------------------------------------------------------------------Green Man Gaming link - https://www.greenmangaming.com/?tap_a=1964-996bbb\u0026tap_s=7433-3bf67f-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Subscribe today! HOI4 1.9.2 How To Easily Defeat France as Germany - YouTube #hoi4 #tutorial #guide HOI4 1.9.2 How To Easily Defeat France as Germany TakkieSenpai 8.82K subscribers Join Subscribe 530. Can you tell us about your industrial strategy from the game start and what templates you're using? Right, apparently there had been some changes (not that easy to figure out if you haven't played in quite a while). It also can replace support AT, since it gives almost as much piercing as AT. Attrition changes, including unit upkeep. The introduction of fuel for one thing really changed the gameplan for Germany. 3.) Also dont mix light and medium tanks and mech. My friends think Im incompetent so Im going to go against Germany as diplomatic France any tips/strats? they should be enough for germany but are not, i cant breakthrough the front in the first place. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I've used it in the past as well but I feel it's no longer usable. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. I would suggest moving all your troops from around the world back to the maginot line. Doctrine changes. I played on recruit and had some trouble with them but they had not developed tanks yet so I steamrolled them while burning through Britains manpower, the only issue I had was running out of equipment for everything except aircraft. You may not be able to breach the german lines but you should be able to defend and harass until you get your entente allies. This item will only be visible to you, admins, and anyone marked as a creator. Scan this QR code to download the app now. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. I am currently playing HoI4 in version 1.8x with no LaR. War brakes out with France in 1939, French troops almost reach the Ruhr in a month, but i had strategically redeployed all the troops of Germany's eastern allies (Poland, Lithuania, Baltic Duchy, Ruthania, and Ukraine) to that region as soon as the war started. Basically, you should aim for the usual "blitzkrieg-style" opening. Valve Corporation. Keep building up France, now you can divert factories to build up an airforce and have plenty of manpower. Alright I just managed to do the Big Entente achievement after two tries. then you go east to meet up with the french army with about half your larm, while your other half go for victory points in west and south. 1. Archived post. I'm thinking 95% of your problem is the air superiority situation, but let's cover all of our bases, just to be safe. If you declare war on the Netherlands but not Belgium, you can do things one step at a time. Tell your brit bro that their job is clearing out the commies while you handle the fight with Germany. Tanks without fuel lose I believe 90% of their stats, so yes, you should import fuel from Iraq and prioritize your army until you have spare. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You're not trying to break thru the Maginot line are you? i only manually control my speacial attack units such as armor divisons, marines, mountaineers. 2) How can I block the channels? Whether this was added into historical focus in newer patched or DLCs or just bad luck, i cant say. All rights reserved. After Germany is done the game can get boring. Czechoslovakia helps a lot by distracting many units, then with Romania and Yugoslavia Germany can't last. maybe i should invested in MArm earlier and more, i produced them because they are cheap. Make sure your planes can reach the whole airzone or they lose effeciency also need fuel. Sounds like you have waited a long time and built a gigantic army when a small one will do just fine. Get 40w tank divisions and attack with them. War brakes out with France in 1939, French troops almost reach the Ruhr in a month, but i had strategically redeployed all the troops of Germany's eastern allies (Poland, Lithuania, Baltic Duchy, Ruthania, and Ukraine) to that region as soon as the war started. You must log in or register to reply here. You dont even need medium tanks or mech inf for france. Leaving me with about 32 Infantry divisions and 13 mobile. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. After Little Entente focus has finished, you will get a pop up notifying about the Czechoslovakians joining your faction (very rarely they will reject). It's ridiculous that UK always insist on a democratic Germany when I'm trying to annex all the German cores. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1165843487, annex netherlands first, then attack belgium and luxembourg, sometimes build infrastructure sometimes not, i cant keep up with allied fighter production. 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France has awful manpower at start and the fleet has a decent whack you can access. This item will only be visible in searches to you, your friends, and admins. taking netherlands and belgium early (declare on DEI and belg as soon as possible ) you can get both before tension rises to 25% if you dont do the Rhineland focus and simply bypass it have 2 Groups of 24 divisions on french border and 1 group of 12-16 tank divisions behind it when you And the german's will be guarding every port thry have, so it's better to use the tanks for the push from the river. All advice I give and strategic suggestions I make apply to this version of the game. Hoi4 France Defeating Germany In 1937/38 Guide! isint that what they did irl and just trap them there troops die if not connected to supply. Best method i have found for beating france as germany is. That thing is quite outdated to be honest. I've read that beating Germany as France in 1936 is a piece of cake. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Seeing as I just failed twice I'm wondering if I'm missing something. u should figure why FRA had so much INF with full org, you probably inst using light panzer on proper way,,, the FRA start with troops stacked on maginot line, when they reach the north area, they arrive with low org if they are stacked with high org its means that u are slow on low countries advance,. If you wait to start the war in 39 you are in deep trouble. The situation is very biased towards Germany in that case don't oppose them in 1936, do it later when you can form the Little Entente. So I guess I'm better off importing and building silos. Britain --- they join, but do not move troops to you, so they will not help you. For more information, please see our For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Fortunately for use we won't be calling czechoslovakia because we dont want them taking our fruits of hard labour do we? You are using an out of date browser. The Germans should not be able to break through, assuming you recruited troops throughout the years. I recommend using excess eastern front divisions to also establish an offensive in the south in support of the italians. Germany kept backing down in the 6 attempts i tried, although this is with the new 1.5.1 patch and dlc, so don't know if the patch/dlc made it harder or i just have bad luck. While obviously they don't have quite the stats of motorized, they are much cheaper, consume less supply, and still provide somewhat effective move speed at 8km/hr to help outpace infantry. Air wins war. I could probably roll back but figured fuel adds a small nice challenge. ScumpyDawg 19K subscribers Subscribe 3.7K 177K views 2 years ago CANADA Hello and welcome back to another Hoi4 video! instructions unclear, switzerland annexed nepal, oh ok. New units (Conscript, Heavy Artillery, Division Support, Assault Guns, Combat Engineers, MotorCycle and Signal Battalion(s)). JavaScript is disabled. The event to start the war has several choices for France, the UK and Germany. It may not display this or other websites correctly. All rights reserved. Valve Corporation. Try some encirclements with your mobile units. You must log in or register to reply here. With a naval invasion preparing and all infantry and cavalry division stationed just before the river bend. Keep airsuperiorty. Apparently synth refineries do not really give much fuel. You clearly need more stuff. Once you figure out how to use terrain, combat width or your small motorized core, you can afford the distraction other systems provide:). Increased factory costs to slow ahistorical growth rates. The last monarchy ended in the 1870s. I mean, ideally you want to capture air superiority and have more fighters and CAS and such, but if the AI is turning all of Britain's industry over to fighter production you might not be able to win that arms race. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. :angry: Depending on how long you were gone, normally France after LaR overall got nerfed so they should be easier to defeat that prior. The German Reich capitulated in August 1936. They always take the province that has a border with 3 French provinces from the German maginot line anologue. what about 120 other inf divisions? I thought i disbanded them all but i think i trained more. Not a major issue, I kept using mostly land trades (not in this savegame, forgot to adjust it). producing an army of cavalry is one thing I think a lot of players look over. After Reorganizing and Disbanding Uneeded Divisions it is time to divide them into 3 armies: After 70 days are up, You will get a pop up notifying about Remilitarization of the Rhineland. A small group of tanks with ALL your air attached to them should be capable of punching through Belgium and then the French/British will not be able to react fast enough to stop you doing what the Germans did IRL and taking out Paris and removing them. By this point the German airforce should be scattered due to multiple offensives allowing for easier air superiority. Anyhow not gonna discuss division templates here but I will give an alternative method of breaking your stalemate. 5.Lack of Growth: Declaring war in 1936 means dedicating the national focus on forming Little Entente instead of going for Metropolitan France and Research Slots. Yes you need ostpreussen etc. you need to set up your tanks in a concentrated force in the southern netherlands and push through there with infantry/motorized uspport. dont need any template change, or any micronagment. Ah ok, I misunderstood. Rn im trying to build forts in the border to belgium so that i can stop the push there as well lol, @Ikfoster The amount of land the commies get depends on the number of divisions you have, if you disband colonial divisions to focus on a smaller but consolidated army then they would only get calais (at least this was my observation for several test runs), The civil war was different for me. Then I take all the tank divisions and change their template to the mechanized one ( I think you start with one of those "mechanized" divisions with motorized and tanks.) I would never outfit Tanks without them, especially if you tech them up so they are more potent against bunkers and later over rivers. It would have been David vs. Goliath. 1- Edit your screenshot to avoid polemics.. Oh wow, thanks. Lend lease them all your planes and ask them to handle that. Thought you mean blocking reinforcements by sea. An effective method of early German annihilation with minimum losses. So with the fresh troops i am able to hold the line until National Populist Russia joins in on my side redeploying 200 Divisions to the front and pretty much fighting France for me, which i strange as from what i heard NP Russia often takes advantage of the war to fight Germany. Only go on the offensive to pin down troops so tanks/motorized can encircle or if you want to kill of encircled divisions. Regardless of calling them or not they make for good Bait for our next move. Weak airforce: Germany has more planes than France easily earning them air superiority which boosts their attack up to 50% making even defense difficult. Alternatively, try to do more with less - Germans are so strong you can basically ignore both research and buildings and focus on tactical and operational aspect alone. Then delete all the garrison divisions so that you get the equipment. They fight in africa against italy and french commy. Today I am showing you. It is time to hold the ground for 140 days to complete the Little Entente National Focus. When do you get rhineland, rhineland is in my games always first focus picked from germany. Chuck in some cheap cavalry that you can snake once you do a break through, it will ruin the AI's ability to counter you. You will have an easier time defeating France the sooner you invade. But of those I lose like 10 from the communist rebellion.. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Get the Czechoslovaks in your own faction, split up the German troops and done. Today on Hearts of Iron 4 HOI4 I will attempt to defeat Germany playing as France before 1937.this might take a couple of tries.PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/therambler146Alex the Rambler produces videos on a variety of Strategy games while dabbling in other things from time to time. So the war starts on day 70 in 1936. Then the civil war will break out in 3 provinces one of them will be Brittany and that's the only province with troops, the other two will be random and have no troops (unless it's a coastal with port then the enrmy can send volunteers).