My whole army wiped out

[HdoStorm]

I navally invaded successfully before landing 24 units to attack britain but 1 unit attacked my 35 divisions even though i was winning all my divisons were wiped out. Why did this happen?

[Mikey]

The army is wiped out if they can't withdraw. If your units are on a single tile that doesn't have a port they will run out of supplies after a couple weeks and die

[SGT Spack 7]

when your troops land they have virtually no org and even with a port i think they still die annoyingly either that or another bug to add to the hundred in this game

[Mikey]

They still can't withdraw even when on a port

Supplies might not have been coming in at a high enough rate to support the large army you landed

[CloudSeeker]

When you are attacked and have no org, your soldiers just die if they can't retreat. The only way to pull back when in a port is to do it manually. Sorry dude but they were just killed.

[SGT Spack 7]

take britain and france down by 1937 using paratrooper, since the ai doesnt play fair no reason why you should

[SGT Spack 7]

quick quide for germany op ness.
you only need 8 paratroopers, just justify on france soon as and make sure you research paratrooper first thing and dont forget to do them, you already start with transport planes in an airbase so domt build them, paradrop capituate france and annex it completely do not puppet it, justify on britain as soon as and paratroop into dover as its always unguarded early game and send your army over from dunkerque sacrificing your small fleet to cover them also very important send a few divisions to french india before attacking UK to attack india this is so they are included in the peace deal as a defeated nation and you can annex them after you annexed them all, you can now do rhineland or the civilwar ( the reason you annex all the land is the fascists get the puppets if you puppet them and then you cant peace out and you have to slog round the world in 0 supply to defeat them trust me dont make this mistake just annex them)
ps if you do the civil war delete all the factorys in easten germany so nazi germany has no military capacity and you can then just wear them down and only build in the rhineland and france and uk etc dont build in eastern germany youll waste factories as hitler will get them

after doing this be extremely careful about the US as they sometimes wont join canada if canada gurantees a nation you declare war on and sometimes they do just make sure you have lots more divisions than them to reduce this or be a cheeky ♥♥♥♥♥♥ like me and after the us joins the war against you do the civilwar focus as the fascist germans will now be at war with US and you can join the US in the allies like a boss onedraw back of this germany will prob join japan so be careful as will italy so try and invade italy before hand.

[SGT Spack 7]

its always worth knowing the civilwar exploit for multiplayer or single player if the us or soviets declare on you just do the civilwar and the best bit is you automatically annex your land back no peace deal so they cant steal anything lol just be careful as it back fired on me massively as i forgot to invade belgium so i couldnt form the EU when i had the civilwar and never would be able to as i was now neutral going democratic in a democratic faction no chance of me declaring on another democratic nation which sucks so i screwed myself over lol

[AC137]

Speaking of, am I the only who often gets their units and/or ships stunlocked?

[NotTheHRE]

If it's a low level port your units still die

[spike2071]

Originally posted by Fiire2k17:

Speaking of, am I the only who often gets their units and/or ships stunlocked?

No, but I do it to them, so I can't complain. :)

Originally posted by HDO_Storm:

what does stunlocked mean lol

When the AI keeps rotating in fresh troops to ensure the battle never ends. It prevents your troops from attacking into another province (even if it's empty).

[AC137]

Originally posted by spike2071:

Originally posted by Fiire2k17:

Speaking of, am I the only who often gets their units and/or ships stunlocked?

No, but I do it to them, so I can't complain. :)

Originally posted by HDO_Storm:

what does stunlocked mean lol

When the AI keeps rotating in fresh troops to ensure the battle never ends. It prevents your troops from attacking into another province (even if it's empty).

The thing you describe is also annoying af, but sometimes my ships, on convoy excort, just get stuck on the same sea province as my intercepted convoys, and do not engage (They are even set to "Fire at will").

[Mack]

35 units in a low level port will rapidly deplete the local stock of supply and become cannon fodder.

You need to immediately push out, immediately set the port you just landed in to a ctrl-click level 10 that puts it at the top of the build order and when possible, do the same for infrastructure.

Also, I wouldn't even push 35 units on a naval invasion of the same port. I'd probably split them into 3 groups of 11, and send one group at the port, and one group to either side so they can then attack into the port and help the landing.

Or split them into 2 groups of 17 and send them at two different ports.

Your goal on a naval landing is to push out and if possibly keep rolling the enemy back to let you bring more troops in. The second best way is to push out and capture the "state" that they landed in so that you have full control over it, and can build a port, infrastructure, radar and an airport.

[andersrlarsen]

if you park a fleet (no mission) outside the port, the troops will have a chance to retreat into sea when they get 0 org.

[sneer]

Overlord waas how many in 1st line ? 6 ? + 3paratroopers and we talk about 44 year invasion when 2 superpower prepared this for over a year ....

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

Originally posted by HDO_Storm:

Yeah that never happens to me much mainly because I only go to war if I have a big advantage

Originally posted by HDO_Storm:

I was playing Germany and wiped out France very quickly. I then achieved naval superiority in the channel using 900 naval bombers and my fleet, i also had naval superiority in England and the channel. I navally invaded successfully before landing 24 units to finish off britain but 1 unit attacked my 35 units and even though the battle was going clearly in my favour all my divisons were wiped out. Why did this happen?

that happens fairly often and i would say its a bug

i seen it happen even on victory(unit retrets from nothing becouse army is gone)

To avoid this drop paratroopers next to port , preferably in few provinces

i ether do this or never naval invade(you can alweys stage coup and move your units into)