Germany in Kaiserreich Seems Invincible

[iMajoraGaming]

As of the most recent patch, I have never, not once, seen Germany even come CLOSE to losing. They have easily steamrolled the Syndicalists and the Reichspakt has vanilla 1945 quantities of units. Easily four HUNDRED on the border with Russia in 1941.

It's basically been handing the game to Germany on a platter every successive game I've played in the last several weeks. It's not fun. It's boring. And when you're playing Russia and are so constantly cycle-spammed by over 400 divisions that you consistently are unable to even do anything anytime a gap opens, you get encircled solely because one division with a spaciously empty noggin left a spot open and then the cycle swarm moves in while ensuring you can't even move one tile, it's just. No. This is boring. This is absurd. They literally are so powerful the Reichspakt overstacks supply lines and takes attrition from having several dozen divisions in one supply region.

Why. Why Kaiserreich devs. The solution to a frail Germany is not tanking my game's speed because you roided out the entire Reichspakt and have the 2nd Weltkrieg end by 1940 from Germany just stomping all its enemies into paste and Sea Lion'ing Britain a week into the war.

[Bourgeois Conformist]

Well, it's a bit the lore of Kaiserreich.

Yes, Wilhelmland is overstretched and needs to deal with a serious economic and political crisis, while the Reichswehr is effectively comatose. The only sensible course for Germany in that scenario is to resolve the crisis asap, and then focus on the French.

Russia is a second-rate power, and the eastern part of the Reichspakt can easily hold until Germany has dealt with the Communards. In order for the Kaiserreich to break a sweat, a lot of things need to fall out of place (basically all countries of the Reichspakt starting solo careers). Alternatively, the Kaiserreich is completely unprepared for war in the early years of the game, though by 1940 the most crippling debuffs have been removed and Germany can then simply outproduce Communard France and the Union of Britain.

[iMajoraGaming]

Originally posted by Chef:

Well, it's a bit the lore of Kaiserreich.

Yes, Wilhelmland is overstretched and needs to deal with a serious economic and political crisis, while the Reichswehr is effectively comatose. The only sensible course for Germany in that scenario is to resolve the crisis asap, and then focus on the French.

Russia is a second-rate power, and the eastern part of the Reichspakt can easily hold until Germany has dealt with the Communards. In order for the Kaiserreich to break a sweat, a lot of things need to fall out of place (basically all countries of the Reichspakt starting solo careers). Alternatively, the Kaiserreich is completely unprepared for war in the early years of the game, though by 1940 the most crippling debuffs have been removed and Germany can then simply outproduce Communard France and the Union of Britain.

It's not really a lore thing, they rebalanced Germany because it was too frail and what they did was make it win essentially 100% of the time within a year of the supposedly 2nd Weltkrieg even beginning, having 400 divisons by 1941 isn't lore accurate.

Player led Russia by 1941 can easily have over a million fielded men with enough raw industry to overwhelmingly be technologically unparalleled, and in a 1-1 their divisions can beat the Germans, as well as their sheer production scale being able to outproduce the entire Reichspakt's airforce. Their manufactured puppets, even with debuffs, can have 100 divisions each, and in my most recent game, had up to 170 divisions each. By 1941. With half of their debuffs still active. Conversely Germany had capitulated the entire Internationale by April 1941. And they did so easily.

They turned the issue of the Reichspakt being frail and losing more often than not to being nearly unassailable. They literally just flipped the issue backwards and created the same issue they had tried to patch out except in reverse. In the lore Germany isn't supposed to be strong enough to win within a year and a half, it's supposed to be a house of cards that struggles to hold on as its sphere of influence gradually implodes, and it surviving in-tact is supposed to be an achievement, not a foregone conclusion.

[gmsh1964]

Try BICE where you will lose as Germany almost always, even on normal.

[iMajoraGaming]

Originally posted by gmsh1964:

Try BICE where you will lose as Germany almost always, even on normal.

I love you gmsh1964... I've hidden it all my life but... I love you... you're so handsome and just...

[gmsh1964]

Is that from a movie, or something? I do not get it.

[iMajoraGaming]

Originally posted by gmsh1964:

Is that from a movie, or something? I do not get it.

tbh I just felt like being randomly and inexplicably affectionate to a complete stranger

[Kemalist(mdx³)]

Isnt Kaiserredux the better "kaiserreich"?
Kaiserreich team are cringelords who dont know jack bout politics/history.

[Frutz]

I have noticed this myself on recent playthroughs. It used to be the syndicalists were overpowered and rightfully so because they were going to be taking the brunt of the world's aggression. Now though if I am doing a playthrough with another country and a piece of land or something I need happens to belong in the reichspakt I know I am screwed because they're not losing.

[EmotionallyBroken]

Originally posted by iMajoraGaming:

, you get encircled solely because one division with a spaciously empty noggin left a spot open and then the cycle swarm moves in while ensuring you can't even move one tile, it's just.

which single county on the map has a loop around you where you get immediately encircled by an enemy taking it as you described rather than the standard single county that is taken, and you immediately have it encircled because they're pushing into your line and you have it surrounded by 3-5 counties?

[iMajoraGaming]

Originally posted by EmotionallyBroken:

Originally posted by iMajoraGaming:

, you get encircled solely because one division with a spaciously empty noggin left a spot open and then the cycle swarm moves in while ensuring you can't even move one tile, it's just.

which single county on the map has a loop around you where you get immediately encircled by an enemy taking it as you described rather than the standard single county that is taken, and you immediately have it encircled because they're pushing into your line and you have it surrounded by 3-5 counties?

"as you described."

more like as you erroneously interpreted for the sake of trying to get a lil gotcha moment lmao

nice try tho

[Maul]

I just got into Kaiserreich. Every time I feel so weak. Are there strats or tips for Kaiserreich?