need some advice conquering the Soviet Union.

[karzaz2009]

I have like 80 divisions with 4 brigades each on the border of the Soviet Union. The problem is that they have like 200 divisions on the border and have many more coming. Can anyone give me any advice.

[OXKART]

i would say there alot to be said about the lead up to an attack, first i would say ,if u wait to long ur gona have a hard time .all so how much land u have will alow u to keep men rec's up for the huge army u need. I find that once i destroy france i need to have landing craft up for landing on england.i think its about 40 bragades,thats needed. MT men are nice for scotland area. all so once u have france on the ropes u should have been making MED tanks and loading them up in the east . make sure there set up in for ur control suppret form the the east AI berlin army . U ill need to punch a hole and the AI dose that porly. one u have 40 berages attacking north east send the rest south east. push ur north tank grp to captal. and the south to major citys. tanks are need for speed and damage. what i doo is make 25 lt tanks for france. this will get ur teck going for tank up grad early. than after that i make med tanks and land them in the east waiting for russia. divisions make up can be any thing from med tank, motor, engners. at frist than make tank destroys for later add ons. they take for ever and russia dont realy get tanks to later .once u have england controled. pull off that army and take norway and sweden, findland can be allied or controled . and move that army around to arcangle. MT men and LT tanks do best up north. all so i dont head to far south in to slovakia or romiana. but once u get russia controled u can go back. all so i find alot of air power is not needed. keep most of ur bombers and fighter in the west vs. english. i keep only about 5 fighters in the war with russia. the cost for supply can realy slow ur tanks down . and that were u need to keep supplys heading. all so Garison men are low supply and can hold taken land. keep a stead supply going . good luck hope this helped

[karzaz2009]

Originally posted by OXKART:

i would say there alot to be said about the lead up to an attack, first i would say ,if u wait to long ur gona have a hard time .all so how much land u have will alow u to keep men rec's up for the huge army u need. I find that once i destroy france i need to have landing craft up for landing on england.i think its about 40 bragades,thats needed. MT men are nice for scotland area. all so once u have france on the ropes u should have been making MED tanks and loading them up in the east . make sure there set up in for ur control suppret form the the east AI berlin army . U ill need to punch a hole and the AI dose that porly. one u have 40 berages attacking north east send the rest south east. push ur north tank grp to captal. and the south to major citys. tanks are need for speed and damage. what i doo is make 25 lt tanks for france. this will get ur teck going for tank up grad early. than after that i make med tanks and land them in the east waiting for russia. divisions make up can be any thing from med tank, motor, engners. at frist than make tank destroys for later add ons. they take for ever and russia dont realy get tanks to later .once u have england controled. pull off that army and take norway and sweden, findland can be allied or controled . and move that army around to arcangle. MT men and LT tanks do best up north. all so i dont head to far south in to slovakia or romiana. but once u get russia controled u can go back. all so i find alot of air power is not needed. keep most of ur bombers and fighter in the west vs. english. i keep only about 5 fighters in the war with russia. the cost for supply can realy slow ur tanks down . and that were u need to keep supplys heading. all so Garison men are low supply and can hold taken land. keep a stead supply going . good luck hope this helped

Thank you for the strategy!

[TheBadger]

when i invade the soviet union i put 1000000 troops on the eastern border and then I put the rest of the troops (3000000-4000000) on the flanks then i converge on their troops from the south and the north which if it works u will surround their troops and kill quite a bit of their army then its just mopping up the rest of the army and securing the capital thats how i did it

[Benjamin Magnus]

The quicker you attack the better is the best advice.I found I can take England by mid 1939 freeing up large numbers of troops for the eastern offensive. Taking the balkan states before the soviets annex them is a good start because its just that much fewer provinces to overrun. Getting Finland on your side and using their territory for a jumping off point to take Leningrad is also a good idea.

What I usually do is mass all my panzer divisions and motorized divisions (really anything with speed of 6 kph+), for me this usually equates to about 30 divisions by mid to late 1939, in one spot. While large numbers of infantry divisions hold the front. Then use fast group to blast through the front, and encircle as large a section of the front as I can. In most instances this adds up to about 400,000 soviet troops.

After the first attack my units are usually in good enough condition for a secondary attack, and I repeat the previous steps. Not being a perfect attack due to units being out of place I usually get about 150,000 in the second attack. By this time youve created a good size salient in the line. Move your infantry to the front to hold the line, pull back your panzers, get everyone reoganzied and resupplied, and plan your next attack, either north or south from the salient. If your finding too many soviet troops in your path, lauch a diversionary attack far from your salient, if you push them hard enough they will pull troops away.

Once youve destroyed enough troops with these encircling attacks, just push the front back in a traditional attack.

[EmpirePutin]

You can cheat getting nukes.Then use your bombers and bomb important cities. But you will need more nukes. Once u have done that.Ground attack soldiers on the front and move your troops to create encislements and small pockets of infantry. Then nutralize them.Once u due that u might want to create saliant.

The saliant will want bombers,fighters and lots of troops.Probably around crimea,Leningrad,the caucasus,the northern areas like archangel,moscow, and Stalingrad.

I hope i've given you enough info!

[karzaz2009]

Originally posted by jaryn211:

when i invade the soviet union i put 1000000 troops on the eastern border and then I put the rest of the troops (3000000-4000000) on the flanks then i converge on their troops from the south and the north which if it works u will surround their troops and kill quite a bit of their army then its just mopping up the rest of the army and securing the capital thats how i did it

I cant do that because they are getting mobilized.

[Aqu]

I mention couple of things not mentioned already because they are something what I have always experienced in the east campaign.

Soviet Union has bad infrastructure all around (i.e. not many roads) except few narrow lanes (one province wide paths). I have always suffered from badly functioning supply. You can try to improve it by improving roads (infrastructure) in captured areas, but that is slow. Also worthwhile to invest in supply technology. I have created several air transport units too to drop supplys when they are not needed for para drops.

Once you get deeper into Soviet soil you prolly have to create police units (e.g. 2xmilitia+military police) to suppress any revolts which might cut your supply lines. Few para units in reserves can be used to quickly kill any rebels (can be dropped right on them). SS unit is the best type to calm down upset areas but they are too expensive and good to be kept too far from the front. Garrison units are cheap and fair in that duty but only for static defenses (e.g important cities and airports) because they are really slow moving