How to destroy Poland and France on Blitzkrieg?

[μCeph]

Whenever I play Germany and start at Blitzkrieg,I have trouble just holding the line,much less actually invading the country,whereas in reality,Germany steamrolled Poland in just a matter of weeks,and held off France until 1941 and then utterly destroyed them. I'll try to push forward,making sure to utilize all my Air force,tanks etc. and I just end up leaving holes in my defense and Polish/French forces break through the line and invade me.then I send forces to retake my territories and the cycle repeats. What strategy would be good to invade them like in real life? Or does the game give Poland/France more forces,power,etc. so it's more balanced?

[dhbaer]

What forces do you have by the time September 1939 rolls around and then for France the next Spring? As Germany you should have no problem amassing 75 inf and 20+ light/medium panzer divisions for Poland and even more 6 months later. With that you can cover all sides of Poland and blitz through. For France, the same thing, just put covering forces on their border and go through Belgium.

[dhbaer]

My bad....I always tart from 1936. I don't know about later starting dates. Maybe you just need to re-arrange your forces first.

[Kilrathii]

Infantry divisions to hold and Armor to punch and encircle. If you start in 1936 you can even go for poland early 39 as soon as all the pre events are done. In poland you can use LARM+MOTO+AC armor divisions.

As far as strategy goes in Poland make two pincers from prussia and south west poland.

[μCeph]

Originally posted by dhbaer:

My bad....I always tart from 1936. I don't know about later starting dates. Maybe you just need to re-arrange your forces first.

The thing is I can't rearrange them. If I try to make a more suitable arrangement I have to move units out of one territory and into another the holes I have to leave get punched through.

[Vuyek]

Play full manual.

There is NO WAY you can lose as Germany when you invade Poland in 1938 or 1939.

The 'blitzkrieg' decision is OP as hell and I do not run it when I invade France and Belgium, as it simply makes the game stupidly easy.

I would suggest you watch some lets plays on youtube.

[pilgrimroadhome]

I'm new to the game too. I would suggest taking a look here. There is a second part and he also made a 9 part overal-game tutorial. For me, it's been hard to see some of the "clicks" on Let's Plays, might be worth your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95CHl9WQaA

[μCeph]

Originally posted by pilgrimroadhome:

I'm new to the game too. I would suggest taking a look here. There is a second part and he also made a 9 part overal-game tutorial. For me, it's been hard to see some of the "clicks" on Let's Plays, might be worth your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95CHl9WQaA

Thx