How to invade USA succesfully as Germany?

[bossman]

I always succesfully land my units at dockyards etc. but lose them fast due to my divisions suffer badly from bad supply and capturing 3 or 4 dockyards isnt enough. Do i have to send some specific kinds of division to invade them? Do i have to change my division templates? Does capturing an airport establish an supply line aswell? Please help.

[GrandMattster]

i went through brazil and up the panama canal into mexico with an invasion from west africa. On the way i built up all the infrastructure there, and air bases and used my fleets to take over the caribbean sea.

[bossman]

Originally posted by FRESHAAAR:

i went through brazil and up the panama canal into mexico with an invasion from west africa. On the way i built up all the infrastructure there, and air bases and used my fleets to take over the caribbean sea.

Yeah i was considering doing that too but the problem is Japan declares war on every single country in South America which makes it much more difficult...

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by ☭ Эранuz ☭:

Originally posted by FRESHAAAR:

i went through brazil and up the panama canal into mexico with an invasion from west africa. On the way i built up all the infrastructure there, and air bases and used my fleets to take over the caribbean sea.

Yeah i was considering doing that too but the problem is Japan declares war on every single country in South America which makes it much more difficult...

Turn off the historical AI then, so Japan doesn't declare ♥♥♥♥.

[Illyrien]

I build airfield and naval base at Greenland and invaded that way... Thats where I truly learned about supplies.. Well, evetually it worked, and I got a solid foothold. But that involved building a lot of naval bases to ensure supply. Quickly after that I took the entire eastern coastline and the US surrended.

Next stop Australia!

[bossman]

Originally posted by Ankou:

Originally posted by ☭ Эранuz ☭:

Yeah i was considering doing that too but the problem is Japan declares war on every single country in South America which makes it much more difficult...

Turn off the historical AI then, so Japan doesn't declare ♥♥♥♥.

Not a dumb idea!

[bossman]

Originally posted by Illyrien:

I build airfield and naval base at Greenland and invaded that way... Thats where I truly learned about supplies.. Well, evetually it worked, and I got a solid foothold. But that involved building a lot of naval bases to ensure supply. Quickly after that I took the entire eastern coastline and the US surrended.

Next stop Australia!

Oh yeah ♥♥♥♥ i actually forgot about Greenland in this game lol

[Baldrick]

Did it last night. Sent a small army of around 15-18 divisions from Sakhalin (the island that starts split between Japan and Soviets) and landed in the port in Alaska. Awful supply, but with motorized it was pretty easy to rush down the coast and capture everything all the way to Seattle, which sorted it. Then I dug in around Oregon and brought in 40-ish more divisions I'd used to take India, and set up a naval invasion of about 40 more from Dakar to Florida.

I considered jumping via French Guyana and Suriname, but decided against it, as I had focused on naval supremacy and had a safe shipping lane. The 40 east coast divisions faced very little resistance before I reached New York-ish, and when I had both coasts, the US capitulated.

If you're holding ports, but still having awful supply issues, you might want to check that your convoys aren't being intercepted. Guard them with destroyer flotillas at least, preferrably with a proper battlefleet when up against the mainland US. I'd also advise against bringing in heavy tanks early on, bring light and medium, motorized, and a lot of leg infantry. Mountaineers also help a lot on the west coast.

Oh, and of course, having a couple of marine divisions always helps with naval invasions.

[GrandMattster]

i have gone the greenland route as well with japan, but it was made significantly easier as i had allied with the soviet union and we controlled everywhere except the US and South America. The trick with that one again is to immediately build ports and airbases in the territories you capture as well as the infrastructure to support everything. also make sure you have the final tier of amphibious invasion tech.

I also staged a communist coup in Florida, and timed it to go off just as my invasion hit Labrador in Canda, and Bangor in the very North East of the US.

[bossman]

Does it help building millitary factories or civillian factories immediatly in the territories ur conquered too? By that i mean the factories are going to produce supplies for them?

[GrandMattster]

the problem with that is, especially as germany or japan, you will encounter a lot of resistance in captured provinces the further away from your core you are. You would have to train some peacekeeping forces to stop them sabotaging your factories and infrastructure. Normally I use some cavalry with support MP (military police) to solve this and then just garrison the major resistance areas. I would hold off on building any factories until the problem with resistance is dealt with.

[Kalimist]

If you can take the Caribbean, especially Cuba and Jamacia you can try to force a landing in Florida. I've only pulled this off once as Fascist England but it could work with anyone who has a foothold in the Caribbean. Pre-set invasions for Miami and two other naval invasions to take a land zone each at the top of where Folrida meets the rest of America. Launch the Miami invasion first (needs to be seperate armies from the other two naval invasions) and once it's taken push up a little bit (no more than a couple of land zones). Once America pours heer infantry into Florida to retake it, launch the other two invasions and try to use them to bottle up the main american force in Florida. They will likely try to escape via ports, but either try to capture all port tiles or have some destroyers and subs set to convoy raiding in the ocean zones around Florida. Either way you should have lots of empty port tiles in the country now, and unless the Americans main force can slip away from you, only rookies being deployed in emergency measures to meet your on going invasion.

[inkvisitor]

I made it through the Caribbean. I've taken the small islands in frog-leaps from South-America. After I occupied the Bahamas, I've landed a marine army with 24 divisiont in Texas, then swiftly sent an other one as reinforcement. They've extended their area to 2-3 port to get enough supply and 2-3 area inland to get some depth to the defense and dig in. The USA have thrown to them almost all of her might, so I suggest some veteran unit and commander would take this role.
After 4-5 days of continuous fight I've launched the 2nd and 3rd landing forces against the eastern shore as north as possible. This two army was also marines to form a beachhead, but right after they secured the first ports, I shipped after them 2 panzer armies and my field commander with 72 division. The tanks broke the way for the infantries who extended the protected area large enough to be able to supply them. After arrived the 3rd and 4th panzer armies I was able to break through the Appalachians, and after the arrival of the new E-50 divisions I've captured Washington and New York.
Suggestions:
Any time I try to use single beachhead, she dump at me so much unit, I was not able to defend myself or supply the defending units. Using 3 beachhead and connect them will secure enough port to feed enough units to fight the Americans.
Right after capture a port, immediately improve the port and infra to maximum to feed your units.
I invaded at the end of '44 and the USA capitulated early '46 after lost 8-9 million soldiers. As I saw, for some reason her units were able to move through forests way faster than any of my units.

[Mack]

I've done the Alaska way, the Canada way, the Florida way and the Mexico way the easiest was Mexico, followed by Florida if you have enough troops and are smart about the way the game works supply & air superiority. Alaska is hell if you get held up after landing. Greenland is a winter death fest.

If you go through Mexico/Central America I'd also reccomend using Jet Fighters with range improvements and Jet Strat bombers to blow up their industry (and nukes if you have).