I have a little over 12 hours on HOI4 now. How the FUCK do I defeat Germany
have you tried rational debate?
>>2456150Select allAttack move on Berlin.Ez
>>2456150git gud desu
>>2456150Assuming you're playing as the Soviet Union, you're going to need divisions with soft attack and anti-tank capabilities to push the German forces, and you're going to need divisions with good defense. Build forts on the polish border and let the Germans come and just grind them down. Hold the line and grind them down, im talking two million casualties, then you start pushing with your offensive divisions.
>>2456575Thanks. I know I should probably play simpler countries since I'm still starting out but I feel like Germany would be too easy and I like the challenge of stopping Germany and Finland, feel like the struggle will just make me better in the long run.
>>2456737A good defense template is just a block of infantry with anti-air support if you can afford it, and offensive is 9 infantry and 4 artillery and 1 anti-air with engineer, support art, recon, logistics, and flame tanks. Build civilian factories until mid 1938 and then start spamming military factories. Don't do the alternative soviet paths because they involve civil wars that will rape your economy early on.
>>2456150Spam divisions, and place them on the large river defence line in ukraine to the baltics. Also use your airforce to get air superiority and cas to help your troops. Good luck.
>>2456150>Use infantry divisions to attack enemy divisions and stop them from moving>Use fast moving armored and motorized divisions to surround them>Hammer tf out of them with CASUsing this strategy you can defeat literally every land power in the game. Probably don’t even have to edit the starting templates that much.
>>2456737Playing the USSR as your first country will just make you want to quit bro. If you want to learn just play multiple US playthroughs on historical. You can pretty much never lose as the historical US no matter how badly you fuck up. It will also teach you more about navy and air than USSR.
>>2456150refer to >>2456419