The Germans should not be able to break through, assuming you recruited troops throughout the years. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Yet does it really make that much of a difference deciding about winning or losing? 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,. 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. I've read that beating Germany as France in 1936 is a piece of cake. Hoi4 France Defeating Germany In 1937/38 Guide! - YouTube Right, apparently there had been some changes (not that easy to figure out if you haven't played in quite a while). Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). It is time to hold the ground for 140 days to complete the Little Entente National Focus. They fight in africa against italy and french commy. 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. Mod with historical divisions, realistic unit sizes (including "division slice"), accurate relative unit values and recruitable percentages. It would have been David vs. Goliath. You need everything they have in 36 at least. 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. I didnt follow your steps though. Tell your brit bro that their job is clearing out the commies while you handle the fight with Germany. 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. They field about an equal amount of troops so I don't see my supposed giant advantage. I push through the belgian coast and drive deep into france with up to 15km/h and get the victory points. You clearly need more stuff. You will have an easier time defeating France the sooner you invade. 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! Not a major issue, I kept using mostly land trades (not in this savegame, forgot to adjust it). So I managed it. 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. Yes you need ostpreussen etc. 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. By the time I invade France they have 133 divisions and they just deathstack them in Belgium and I can't push through. Thought you mean blocking reinforcements by sea. JavaScript is disabled. Apparently synth refineries do not really give much fuel. You will probably have to delete a few motorized divisions to reinforce the mechanized divisions. You are using an out of date browser. Defeating Germany as France Before 1937 on Hearts of Iron 4 hoi4 i only manually control my speacial attack units such as armor divisons, marines, mountaineers. I delete my colonial units. I think going to war in 36 might be the easiest choice as France. 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. 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. How to beat Germany as France : r/hoi4 - Reddit Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. 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. maybe i should invested in MArm earlier and more, i produced them because they are cheap. Archived post. Keep airsuperiorty. 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. @Batae Ive read somewhere that historically, Hitler had ordered his troop to back down if the remilitarization of the Rhineland was challenged. Regardless of calling them or not they make for good Bait for our next move. If you have made it this far, German defeat is inevatable and soon enough they will capitulate. Soviet style units (Artillery Regiment, Mortar Battalion). So I guess I'm better off importing and building silos. You may need to disband your fleet. for france in late 39, you dont need much; Could be you started the war to late. PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/therambler146. i cant beat france as germany :S | Paradox Interactive Forums They always take the province that has a border with 3 French provinces from the German maginot line anologue. 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. Ah ok, I misunderstood. You are using an out of date browser. Valve Corporation. The introduction of fuel for one thing really changed the gameplan for Germany. I would suggest moving all your troops from around the world back to the maginot line. New units (Conscript, Heavy Artillery, Division Support, Assault Guns, Combat Engineers, MotorCycle and Signal Battalion(s)). Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). It's a shame it's not easier, as Germany really stood no chance at all against France in 1936. if you're going to go for the Little Entente achievement, try to avoid having non-faction nations join in. 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. 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. Only go on the offensive to pin down troops so tanks/motorized can encircle or if you want to kill of encircled 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. its here, i just reorganized your troops Marshall/Generals, planning orders, just declare war and press play, you will bulldoze belgium and FRA. Can you tell us about your industrial strategy from the game start and what templates you're using? 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. It may not display this or other websites correctly. 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). You must log in or register to reply here. Managed to win by making they go inside german territory and encircling them. This item will only be visible in searches to you, your friends, and admins. I only just started playing Darkest Hour/Kaiserreich and after giving it a go as Austria i decided to give Germany a go. The event to start the war has several choices for France, the UK and Germany. 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. This is their main streght especial in france. 1. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. i completed mobile warfare tech tree except for the last two in 1940. This item will only be visible to you, admins, and anyone marked as a creator. 2.) You are using an out of date browser. Basically, you should aim for the usual "blitzkrieg-style" opening. 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 Italy was dealt with by Canada (dont know why). I could probably roll back but figured fuel adds a small nice challenge. Lend lease them all your planes and ask them to handle that. Admittedly the communist civil war doesn't help, though. Support AA can help mitigate the penalty for fighting without air superiority. This will cause the German AI to pull out half of their divisions previously stationed at the marginot to the czechoslovakian borders. Engineers are very much for attack aswell, because of the Terrain Boni. Leaving me with about 32 Infantry divisions and 13 mobile. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. I am currently playing HoI4 in version 1.8x with no LaR. After Germany is done the game can get boring. That thing is quite outdated to be honest. 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. 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. instructions unclear, switzerland annexed nepal, oh ok. and our Yep that seems to be some feature of some DLC as I lack these buttons. Recalled volunteers. 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. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. 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. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America), https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2709732044. But of those I lose like 10 from the communist rebellion.. When do you get rhineland, rhineland is in my games always first focus picked from germany. My friends think Im incompetent so Im going to go against Germany as diplomatic France any tips/strats? You are using an out of date browser. This will create a faction between France and Czechoslovakia whose benefits i will explain in the next section. It's not the French Royal Navy. Then delete all the garrison divisions so that you get the equipment. 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. 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 Here's my industrial buildup, the key to decisively winning the war early. You dont even need medium tanks or mech inf for france. 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! Get the Czechoslovaks in your own faction, split up the German troops and done. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. You must log in or register to reply here. Increased factory costs to slow ahistorical growth rates. :angry: Depending on how long you were gone, normally France after LaR overall got nerfed so they should be easier to defeat that prior. JavaScript is disabled. have you tried para trooping there core state's ? That explains why. I also noticed that Italy will join the Axis if you reload your game, even when their war with Ethiopia is still going. 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. Cookie Notice Whether this was added into historical focus in newer patched or DLCs or just bad luck, i cant say. 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. I recommend using excess eastern front divisions to also establish an offensive in the south in support of the italians.