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Smaller Campaigns?

Discussion in 'Hearts of Iron' started by SOAR21, Jan 22, 2009.

  1. SOAR21

    SOAR21 Member

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    besides mini-tactics like those above, not really.

    my tactics work fine, they just get boring. I just finished another round, as the U.S. I was planning to get all nukes and just win with a couple well-placed ones, but, i didnt even need it. I had militarily taken the Germans and the Soviets by 1944, partly because Europe was really screwed up, thanks to the Czechs.

    Point is, my tactics are fine.
     
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    I have new tactics now. Very organized.

    A Lieutenant General commands a Corps, comprised of three divisions of the same type.
    I Corps, II Corps, etc. Motorized and Mechanized and Armored Corps are all grouped together.
    An Army, commanded by a General, oversees four or five Corps, with at least one Armored Corps.
    An Army Group, commanded by a Field Marshal, commands two or three armies, and also has seven infantry divisions attached to it as reserves and defense.
    Specialist Groups, such as Marine or Airborne troops, are attached to Armies, not Army Groups.

    This organization allows for maximum flexibility at the lines. Sending in different Corps at different times is very effective, just as having reserves is very important. This way, defenses can be very fluid and breakthroughs can be quickly exploited. Pockets quickly develop, and enemies are easily overrun.

    I was Germany in a 1936 campaign. Von Manstein, commanding Heeresgruppe A, took France in a week and a half with my new tactics. My advance was so fast that entire pockets of five divisions were left as far back as Belgium. Yet, I had not suffered a single defeat, due to committing reserves in the right places. They were assisted by the paradrop of six Fallschirmjager divisions, attached to both the Sixth (von Kleist) and the Ninth (Heinrici) Armies.

    Simultaneously, von Rundstedt and Guderian, with a total of five armies under their commands, surrounded 33 divisions total, in Kiev and Minsk, while keeping the line static in other places. Another six divisions were destroyed in Brest-Litovsk, and another eight in Grodno.

    I seem to have found a working method.
     

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