How to get naval superiority to invade UK? Not as germany

[risraelsen]

I cant seem to naval invade UK before Barbarossa starts

[lakupupu]

paratroopers can do the job and avoid naval superiority while grabbing a port your real armies can move to and attack them with

[cadenjtanner]

just dont start barbarossa

[risraelsen]

Not as germany

[Big Moustache]

First get tons of fighter planes in channel, than all your naval bombers and also do port strikes. Keep doing it long enough to force UK navy out or into repairs. You only need the naval superiority for a blip to launch invasion. Works every time.
Build panzerships not just subs

[HKB_Vader]

Hello! I would recommend building lots of submarines and putting them in fleets of 8-10, since they are very cheap you should be able to get quite a few fleets out quickly.
As for the submarine design I would say the max amount of torpedoes and best engine

[ravenous beast]

Naval bombers in the Channel is the stereotypical answer, but an extra thing I would like to point out here if that if you have La Resistance, get 100% naval infiltration on UK and you can tell what sea zones its navy is operating in to assist in your targeting. UK can often spread its navy out.

If you feel like starting your preparation a bit earlier you can attack the UK's fuel imports (civilian infiltration) because it's totally reliant on trade to get the oil to run its ships and planes. If you are able to starve the UK of fuel you will be able to largely ignore its navy.

UK is uniquely vulnerable to this compared to a country like America which is basically impossible to starve of fuel unless you do weird ♥♥♥♥.

It would help if you tell us what nation you're playing.

[risraelsen]

Ok thanks. I like to play France and go facist, or play as the Netherlands

[FoXi]

Well, sometimes AI decides just to remove their navy from regions, so there is that.

[Graf Schokola]

Many ways to (naval) invade UK. My ways:
- Call in Italia -> take the Suez Canal -> naval invade the UK
- declare war on france as fast as you can -> take that nice fleet -> declare war on UK -> naval invade UK
- dont naval invade -> build fighters and transport planes from start, dont build other planes -> paradrop on UK

[ToddB]

Originally posted by risraelsen:

Not as germany

As Italy, it's quite easy in early '37.

[Scyobi_Empire]

Avoid the channel, knock out Ireland and invade Glasgow with every single ship that isn't a submarine set to naval invasion support and docked in Ireland. Play on a slow speed and the second you can activate the invasion, do it. You'll have a small window to do this before the AI sends its ships to make you lose superiority, but if the invasion has already launched losing superiority does nothing to stop the invasion (apart from risking your convoys being sunk)