How to play Kaiserreich?

[Tatiacus]

I had the most fun I've ever had in HOI4 playing as the Ottomans. The micromanaging was super fun and it felt like my decisions mattered. However playing major nations is impossible it is just doomstacks vs doomstacks bleeding each other out. In Asia it is even worse because it is doomstacks vs doomstacks bleeding each other out but there's no supply. How do I subvert this?

[Pr0fessor]

I am not sure if I understand correctly, but:

You could try and become skilled with Poland?
Prevent the war(s) or redirect them? Italy has a focus to stop the Anschluss of Austria.

Swiss has some awesome stuff too with the Alpine Confederate, claiming and getting land from both Germany, Italy and France!

Hope it helps!

[Ogami]

Originally posted by H4CKT0R:

I am not sure if I understand correctly, but:

You could try and become skilled with Poland?
Prevent the war(s) or redirect them? Italy has a focus to stop the Anschluss of Austria.

Swiss has some awesome stuff too with the Alpine Confederate, claiming and getting land from both Germany, Italy and France!

Hope it helps!

They are talking about a total conversion mod, "Kaissereich", not the normal HOI 4 campaign.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1521695605&searchtext=kaiserreich

[drewbstar]

Who are you playing and when?

Odds are the answer is the same. You need allies and support. You want to win the air and naval war, having more countries really helps here. It's why winning the 1936-1938 civil wars are so important. If you're playing Germany, CNT-FAI winning the Spanish civil war is a modest boost for the 3I, but if they lose it's a massive foothold for you/the Entente.
The real secret is to help your side with the 2nd American Civil War. That will basically make or break any faction.

[✚ Mariel ✚]

1) Beg any nation you aren't at war with for guns and make as much infantry as you can. These infantry are not for attacking, just for standing on ground and not being pushed back.

2) Use all of your military industry on fighters and use them to kill enemy fighters. If you do not have more fighters than your enemy yet then set them on interception only until you do have enough for air superiority

3) When the enemy planes are dead leave 2-3 factories on fighters and put all the rest on close air support planes, you will want at least 100 for push one tile at a time, but if the enemy are still attacking you will want a lot more. These CAS planes will cause massive casualties to the enemy til they are forced to stop attacking.

4) You can attack with your infantry now, gradually pushing from supply hub to supply hub while your cas do all the work for you. But if you want an easier time then make some 14/4 marines, maybe even "space marines" if you spend the time on researching and building the tanks for them. These will be able to do some damage of their own while suffering less casualties

4.5) If you are in the low supply areas do not use space marines, they will run out of fuel and won't be able to move properly. In areas with large lands and few spaces for airports such as china or USA you should use medium planes instead of small planes, they have longer range. If you are struggling for fuel, build synthetic refineries. This will take a while, you might have to be patient.

tl;dr CAS wrecks everything, but you need to clear the skies of enemy planes first. You can put all your industry on planes and just beg other nations for guns til you have made enough planes.