Go up to a half year ahead of time on engineers and signal companies, keep recon at tier 1. Get support weapons on time and get the infantry hard attack upgrades. Guns 1 is fine for a while, guns 2 should come out when you switch off free trade and have extra steel. Arty is less important but you at least want arty 2. Other things to prioritize: You want AA 3 ASAP, ask an Ally to rush it and license production from them. Research heavy 2 SPAA once heavy 3 is started (don't waste your bonus on SPAA) and research heavy 3 SPAA when it's available. Research heavy 2 with the bonus and research heavy 3 as soon as Lessons of War is finished. Research heavy tank 1 when you see Germany doing Tank Treaty focus. Put one slot on Superior Firepower right-left and finish the doctrine as quickly as you can. Research construction and dispersed any time they're less than 1 year ahead. Get tier 2 in construction and dispersed industry. Standard research juggle for research speed techs at the beginning. If Germany has not done Reassert Eastern Claims before M-R Pact, justify on Lithuania first.

Justify on the Baltic nations and accept their ultimatums, fully annex Finland and do Lessons of War down to your final research slot. You should build nothing except mils from mid 1939 for the rest of the game. War bonds while you're at war and rapidly expand your military industry.

Justify on Finland when Germany does Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and go to war. Build as many civs as you can on high infrastructure provinces and max the infrastructure in Baku for oil in 1939 as you start expanding your armor production. Multiplayer you're aiming for 210-270 civs, in SP 200+ is a good benchmark.

Your starting army has plenty of guns to help Spain/China but you need to jumpstart your economy.įrom there, build civs until mid 1939. You want to convert all but 2-11 military factories (which you leave on motorized and support equipment). Then start converting all your military factories into civilians. Initial construction should be infrastructure in Moscow, Leningrad, Staligrad for 70 days until you're on war eco.

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