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your plan differ from mine by about year of civs and using tanks. It's interesting, I'll check it. Thank's a lot for advices.
Will return with results
It's been a while since I played the 1939 scenario, but that's nowhere near enough divisions. I have close to 200 INF and 10-12 panzers on Jan 1 in the 1937 scenario.
Edit the base Improved Light Tank template (not the 'Panzer II Ausf. A'): Daimler-Benz, One Man Turret, Close Support Gun. Christie Suspension if you want to splurge. My tank division were 8 L-ARM + 4 MOT. Build like 30-40 of those divisions.
The rest of your manpower pool convert to infantry. AA on all divisions is mandatory, ENG/ART are nice-to-haves but I wouldn't waste too many factories on them.
I think I went for about 6 months of CIVs in the 1939 scenario, then MILs. Anschluss you want at the start of 1937. I only build forts for a month or two right before the outbreak of war.
You need to be super-aggressive early on. Mass your panzers in the east and drive to the Romanian oil fields. Try to capture as many mountain provinces as possible (like in Czechoslovakia) and strat-reploy your INF onto them while your panzers keep moving. Reaching Istanbul is nice, but you won't be able to clean up Yugoslavia and Greece early on.
Capturing Denmark is also critical at the start. Benelux you can take whenever. Then batten down the hatches and weather the storm for ~6 months till the Allies exhaust themselves, then start nibbling away with your panzers. Small encirclements are best at the start till you've destroyed enough Allied divisions to make bigger pushes feasible.
It only turns into a WW1 simulator if you don't build enough panzer divisions.
Possibliy I needed some recommendations about
a) better target borders to achieve through first month or two of war
b) better initial configuration of austrian front
c) optimal time of switching my guns production from gun 1 to gun 2
d) better army organization forms? I mean, may be some tank divisions, may be anything else?
e) better way to spend my construction time spent on forts?
Any other recommendations will also be useful and pleasant.
Are there any actual advices to be able to hold counterattack?
At start of war I have:
1) 157 regular-level divisions on 25 inf + support engs, aa, stosstruppen, logistics and meds
2) 92 Mils and 96 civs, with anchluss at 01.37 and integration of cze at 08.38
3) line of forts 5 from Trier to tile 2 tiles souther Krakow
4) 50k guns, 3.7k of supp eq, 2.5k aa, 1.6k trucks, 1.2M manpower
5) fully implemented mass mobilization-right
6) I've also checked prioritize economic growth way, but it seems to be less useful in this scenario
That's an intentional change to bring 1939 in line with the 1937 version of the mod. You'll need to take the non-Sudetenland parts of Czechoslovakia by force.
How long did you give those minor countries? If you sit around twiddling your thumbs until 1945, eventually they'll all have switched to Scraping the Barrel conscription and thus can pump out a lot of divisions.
If you're talking about early 1939, other countries have the same number of divisions as they would in the unmodded game.
re: Akski-1337
The war starts at the beginning of 1939, unless you declare war on someone before then.
No idea about Tool pack as I've never used it. Although it seems like it should work.
Compatability with Götterdämmerung, which broke a lot of things, was one of the main reasons for the update.
Always glad to hear about people enjoying my mod. Hope things improve in your life. I've always found gaming a pleasant distraction from the vagaries of life.
It takes a lot of effort to maintain and balance just this + the 1937 version of Ragnarok. Plus an island nation would be too easy to defend. But I think there's a mod that should do what you want: 'Alone against the world', though I haven't tried it personally.
You'll have a couple months at the start of the war to make large gains while the Allied forces assemble. After that, there'll be a period where you just need to batten down the hatches and defend. Use your tanks as mobile reserves wherever the Allies threaten a breakthrough. Eventually though, the Allied onslaught will be exhausted when they run out of equipment from the huge losses they're suffering. After that, you can go back on the offensive.
I think it's probably better to go light tanks, since it'll take a long time for medium tank production to ramp up. At game start choose 'Create variant' off Improved Light Tank Chassis (not the existing Panzer II Ausf. a) and add Henschel and Close Support Gun for 6 Army XP. Production cost of 5.68 IC. Throw 50+ MILs at that and you should have around 40 panzer divisions by 1939 (assuming 8 L-ARM + 4 MOT template).
Infantry just do cheapo ones with only AA. No air force.
I'm not sure what's exactly optimal, but I did half a year of CIVs then all MILs. Anschluss early 1937 then continue on path to German War Economy.
I'd ignore the west at war start, and instead capture Denmark, overrun Czechoslovakia ASAP, advance some into Poland, and then maybe focus on Hungary -> Romania before all the tanks exhaust your fuel reserves. Strat reploy often to save fuel, they regain org fast with Mobile Warfare.