Which campaign to start off with as a noob?

[Şeyma]

I just finished the tutorial and went to go start a campaign, as a noob which one should I start off on? I have all dlc

[EgoVermin]

Victory in the West is not only the base campaign, it is by far the easiest - you start with several elite divisions, thus mitigating your losses, and the Mediterranean theatre helps you prepare for the tougher missions in France. It's also the longest campaign, which will help you get to grips with the mechanics better over time. Good luck!

[Şeyma]

Ok I'll give it a shot

[Daniel_efc]

Yes, like EgoVermin said I would also strongly advise you to start out with Victory in the West and get to grips with the mechanics before venturing into the DLCs. Listed in order of difficulty I would rank the campaigns as follows (easiest to hardest).

* Victory in the West
* Blitzkrieg and Desert Rats
* Barbarossa
* Stalingrad and Moscow

Each DLC does things a little differently, rewarding different play-styles as each faction has its own way of doing things. It is always a learning process the first time playing a new faction/campaign --> and so it really helps if you are comfortable with the basic mechanics. Hope you enjoy!

Cheers!

[Soullessweare]

Originally posted by Daniel_efc:

Listed in order of difficulty I would rank the campaigns as follows (easiest to hardest).

* Victory in the West
* Blitzkrieg and Desert Rats
* Barbarossa
* Stalingrad and Moscow

Yeah, but what about the Sickle Stroke mission in Blitzkrieg? I stopped playing for a month after getting stuck on that one. It still stands out as the biggest difficulty spike to me, even after finishing Stalingrad.

[Gamble8624]

Originally posted by Soullessweare:

Originally posted by Daniel_efc:

Listed in order of difficulty I would rank the campaigns as follows (easiest to hardest).

* Victory in the West
* Blitzkrieg and Desert Rats
* Barbarossa
* Stalingrad and Moscow

Yeah, but what about the Sickle Stroke mission in Blitzkrieg? I stopped playing for a month after getting stuck on that one. It still stands out as the biggest difficulty spike to me, even after finishing Stalingrad.

Sickle Stroke is hard but it's managable. The key is not to push your armor through Sedan but up at the northern crossing. ALL armor need to push hard through there while supply and infantry catch up. Also, you need to transfer/buy specialists before the battle starts and put them at the breakthrough points.

[Soullessweare]

Originally posted by Gamble8624:

Sickle Stroke is hard but it's managable. The key is not to push your armor through Sedan but up at the northern crossing. ALL armor need to push hard through there while supply and infantry catch up. Also, you need to transfer/buy specialists before the battle starts and put them at the breakthrough points.

This is why I love this game so much. I have developed an alternative strategy in which I can reliably get 100% by breaking through at both Sedan and Dinant and blocking all Allied advances across the Aine river. You can extend your supply source a lot further from the city northwest of Sedan (forgot its name) than you can through Dinant. If I remember correctly I did so on Normal though, I did a Classic playthrough of the a-historical path.

[Das Licht]

This game makes you crazy in the head.
It makes you a follower or a middle finger.

[Riekopo]

Is there a single mega campaign with everything?

[Jack Greedy]

Aye it would be nice to have a dlc with mega campaign from 1939 up to 1945, something like Panzer Corps 2. Especially since this game is lot better.

[earl_uhtred]

The problem with a megacampaign is that you'd either end up with a freakishly optimised core of super elite units and HQs that could beat any enemy effortlessly, OR the game would periodically switch them out with green ones, rendering the whole thing pointless.
Play through a Blitzkrieg campaign and compare your force starting the Midlands Blitz to the standalone scenario.