Good lord i cant beat the allies :(

[Divine]

So i conquered the axis as USSR and annexed almost every single state by 1943 or so. For some reason the allies only got a few pieces of land.

Attacked the allies in 1945. Overran most of france except for a few pockets in the french ports. For the love of god they have like 20 divisions in each port and i cant dislodge them with my space marines (10 mar, 6 arty, 1 heavy SPAT).

And for some reason, 70 of such divisions are running out of supply. The AI refuses to commit every single division to the front because of this even though they have logistics support companies in every division.

Any ideas what to do? My navy is nearly nonexistent but im building more ships to counter them for a naval invasion :P

Sucks that i only managed to conquer the world so far as germany with both HF and no HF

[Josh]

1. Don't use the frontline/offensive line tool. Not as good as micro-management.

2. The reason your troops won't advance is because flooding an area with too many men leads to low supply pockets/attrition. Upgrade or fix broken infrastructure to improve supply and don't overwhelm supply areas with too many men. Change to the supply map mode (bottom right corner of the screen) to see the supply line path and any choke points (you might have poor infrastructure a few regions back bottlenecking supply).

It doesn't matter if you have logistics companies. That reduces supply use but won't fix supply problems entirely.

3. Get air superiority from fighter planes, this gives a positive buff in combat. Get ground support planes. These do massive damage to enemy organisation.

4. Get decryption advantage. Higher decryption than the enemy gives a combat bonus. This can be researched.

5. Isolate a single port and surround it so you can get an 'encirclement' debuff on the enemy. That's a -30% penalty. Often times they will be low on supply too, having so many troops stacked in 1 port area. The debuff for low supply ranges from -0 to -33%.

6. Get capital ships (battleships or heavy cruisers) to wait on the "hold" command on the coast near the port.

They will provide shore bombardment to weaken the enemy.

You might need naval supremacy or your ships will get sunk, might be hard to do with the Royal Navy of U.K.

7. Make sure you have enough troops to overwhelm the enemy. If they have a stack of 20, get 25, and so forth.

With all these buffs to your forces and debuffs to the enemy, there is absolutely no way they can hold a port, even if they are entrenched.

[Josh]

I just took a port as Germany that had 70 stacked divisions in it. Entirely possible.

[Divine]

Originally posted by Vladimir Putin:

1. Don't use the frontline/offensive line tool. Not as good as micro-management.

2. The reason your troops won't advance is because flooding an area with too many men leads to low supply pockets/attrition. Upgrade or fix broken infrastructure to improve supply and don't overwhelm supply areas with too many men. Change to the supply map mode (bottom right corner of the screen) to see the supply line path and any choke points (you might have poor infrastructure a few regions back bottlenecking supply).

It doesn't matter if you have logistics companies. That reduces supply use but won't fix supply problems entirely.

3. Get air superiority from fighter planes, this gives a positive buff in combat. Get ground support planes. These do massive damage to enemy organisation.

4. Get decryption advantage. Higher decryption than the enemy gives a combat bonus. This can be researched.

5. Isolate a single port and surround it so you can get an 'encirclement' debuff on the enemy. That's a -30% penalty. Often times they will be low on supply too, having so many troops stacked in 1 port area. The debuff for low supply ranges from -0 to -33%.

6. Get capital ships (battleships or heavy cruisers) to wait on the "hold" command on the coast near the port.

They will provide shore bombardment to weaken the enemy.

You might need naval supremacy or your ships will get sunk, might be hard to do with the Royal Navy of U.K.

7. Make sure you have enough troops to overwhelm the enemy. If they have a stack of 20, get 25, and so forth.

With all these buffs to your forces and debuffs to the enemy, there is absolutely no way they can hold a port, even if they are entrenched.

Hey thanks for the tips. When you say ground support planes do you mean close air support or tactical bombers?

[Josh]

I usually just use close air support and it works fine, but I throw some tactical bombers in with them anyway.

[Josh]

I should also mention some things like don't siege ports from across a river and sutff like that.

You want to avoid all debuffs on your troops.

[Josh]

Oh and don't forget, assign your highest level commanders to the assault, not a level 1 General.

Better Generals means better troop performance. Some have traits (Urban assault specialist) improves city attacks.

[Divine]

Originally posted by Vladimir Putin:

Oh and don't forget, assign your highest level commanders to the assault, not a level 1 General.

Better Generals means better troop performance. Some have traits (Urban assault specialist) improves city attacks.

I have no idea why but my attack runs out in just a few hours -_-

Guess i have to wait for more planes to do it xD

Sucks that such battles are common in my games after a certain period xD

[Josh]

Originally posted by Germanyball:

Originally posted by Vladimir Putin:

Oh and don't forget, assign your highest level commanders to the assault, not a level 1 General.

Better Generals means better troop performance. Some have traits (Urban assault specialist) improves city attacks.

I have no idea why but my attack runs out in just a few hours -_-

Guess i have to wait for more planes to do it xD

Sucks that such battles are common in my games after a certain period xD

You probably have low organisation (the green bar on your troop unit cards).

Throwing masses of low organised troops at the enemy does nothing but lower their organisation to zero again. Sounds like you need to wait before re-assaulting or switch with a fresh batch of troops nearby.