Help with True Blitzkrieg achievement

[IceJunky]

I've tried it 2 times. I invaded and annexed Poland by January 1937, then used my new factories to build up my military until November 1938 when I declare war on Belgium and France (Britain gets called in). My army always gets stuck at that one province Belgium borders with Germany and the allies just stack troops on it making it impossible to get through. I tried paratroopers but there were still troops in the cities they landed on. I can't do a naval invasion because of the royal navy. On my 2nd run I actually did capitulate Belgium through just pure brute force and a full panzer/motorized army was steamrolling to Paris until the allies regrouped in Belgium and cut off the supply routes from Germany. Is there a better way to get thsi achievment? Thanks in advance

[KriegerKR]

rush danzig or war, then around the maginot, you should be able to take all of poland, luxembourg, belgium, and the netherlands without any allied involvement if you time it right

and then declare war on france, they won't be able to hold even if they extend the maginot line, if your divisions are good.

[seashell]

and what is good division?

[seashell]

and i think italy is really usefull to push from the south to capitulate france

[|H|H| Fr3ddi3]

Don't take this the wrong way but seeing as you are struggling with this I won't teach you the cheese strat, thats more or less a case of running before you can walk. So i'll stick to the normal strat.

When Italy finishes the 'Pact of Steel' Focus you'll get a prompt from them about joining the Axis, at this point you pick the Danzig or War focus, so make sure you have it open, (As a further heads up, Italy will take Albania focus before Pact of Steel, you will get a newspaper pop up about Zog giving in to italy demands, If you leave Danzig too late, France extends the magniot line and makes your job harder).

This will allow you to start the war in september 1939. Prior to Danzig or War, make sure you have Slovakia either annxed or puppeted, it makes the war with Poland go so much faster due to the wider front they have to defend. Any other focuses you take are up to you, but don't bother waging any wars, it'll just kick up tension and allow the allies to rapidly build up arms to fight you. (Thats more or less something you toy around with once you got the basics down.)

As soon as the DoW focus in finished in September 39, take the 'Around Magniot' Focus, it may be greyed out momentarilly just wait a few moments to take it.

You have 70 days to deal with Poland and bring your forces west, that is plenty of time so I won't go into details here, you should be able to figure this one out yourself, just make sure you have forces on the Magniot line before you go to war. For reference 24 of the standard infantry divisions are enough to disuade the enemy from attacking there even without forts.

When Poland is out, grab your forces, take them west and line them up on the Dutch border, ignore Belgium and Luxumbourg for now. As soon as the Focus in complete, Declare war on Holland and knock them out of the war first, DO NOT declare war on Belgium till you are finished with Holland and lined up on the Belgium border and ready to attack.

The goal here is to completely overwhelm Belgium, beat them and then keep on going straight into france without stopping, do it fast enough and you'll be there before the Allies show up to reinforce Frances northern front. Providing you beat Belgium quickly enough, neither France or Britian will have any forces between you and Paris. You can quiet litterally drive your tanks and trucks straight into Paris and down the coast into Cherbourg finishing the war in mainland europe before december even starts. If you want to make sure the Allies don't show up, attack the magniot line with your forces to pin all the enemy forces stationed there, if you need further help, call italy into the war (but doing so is liable to give them alot of France so do so at your own risk).

If you ignore Holland and just attack Belgium, you get bogged down trying to get through a 2 tile front, basically the film 300. This gives the allies plenty of time to react.

If you take Belgium before the war, You'll have a land border with France and they will put froces there to defend it.

The goal is to hit that front when it's unguarded. Doing the above strat ensures that will be the case. You can come back for Luxumbourg later they're unimportant as the only tile you can attack into France from there has a level 10 fort on it so it does not help you, and against Belgium you have a wide enough front from Holland anyway.

If you struggle with this, look into your templates and production orders as it is these that are liable to be the issue not actuall strategy, but for reference. The above is doable with the starting Infantry, Panzer and Motorised Divisions. It's a matter of quantitiy is all.

[shotgun suicide]

Did it in the first game, didnt even wanted to