Playthrough: winning solo in two days?

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I can see this

Ive had that happen before but its honestly just a coincedence lol

PREPARATIONS

Goal: to win a CoW map (solo) in two days

Map: Road to War as it is the smallest map

Doctrine: Axis as they have the best AC-LT rush option. Allies 10% speed nerf doesn’t help. Only reason would be tacs on day 1, but I don’t think that compensates for the fact that they are slower and weaker than axis. Comintern RA in combination with AC-LT is also strong but RA is too slow and AC-LT will take too much damage. PA not available on that map.

Country: Germany as it is a centrally located and good nation. I want to prevent crossing seas as much as possible as it takes a lot of time and is dangerous.

Units: my idea was to spam a lot of AC-LT stacks of 10 units, but how will I get rid of my food then? I will produce naval and planes but not as much as AC-LT. Therefor I decided to go for motorized infantry as well to use more food and increase speed. The disadvantage is of course that they take more damage against infantry than AC as they are unarmored where AC is light armor.

Next to AC (to be produced in the capital, to mainly go east) , LT and Motorized Infantry (in the west) I will produce subs (I considered cruisers as well as they cost more food and can attack, for example Denmark, but also possibly Sweden and the UK; I chose subs as they are cheaper and strong to guard my coast against UK and Sweden and hopefully I can conquer both Denmark cities with subs, 1 infantry and 1 artillery);

Arty (as RA will only be available at day two, arty costs a lot of food and I can let AI attack me with that, so I can beat small AI with a few infantry and 1 arty) while my fast stacks are conquering most countries;

AB to scout and attack runners, MT and maybe help with defending the seas. I will produce those in the first city I conquer.

Possibly Infantry to defend conquered cities and to get rid of my food.

I will quickly produce NB and / or ints when required.

On day MT and Mot inf l2 seem most interesting, but Inf L2, Subs L2 or even tacs might be worth considering.

I did not mention an important element: as it will be my last game, I will try to spend all my gold (120k) and booster cards. At the start I have these cards:

At the start I researched Inf, Mot Inf., AC, LT, Arty, Subs and AB. I speed up that research as I have sufficient booster cards to do so.

Upgrade core cities to 80% morale instantly with resource and booster cards to make producing more efficient and increase resource production asap.

Buildings: Level 2 barracks, 2 level 1 TP, 1 Naval base and one ordinance foundry. After taking Luxembourg I increased morale with booster cards and build a level 2 aircraft factory (to prevent instant spy actions to demolish it and let my planes crash). To protect against instant spy actions I also build 2 buildings of 1 HP in every city.

In a few minutes I trained 25 LT (planned on 20, but did not pay attention) and 20 Mot inf. in the west and 15 AC and 15 LT in the east.

Shared intelligence for AI further away and trade embargo for close AI nations and France to keep my popularity at an acceptable level as long as possible.

Put unit cards in some provinces, like arty close to Denmark and Switzerland, some infantry and some fast units.

I also waited for operations to be available so I could earn more booster cards and use them straight away.

To gain the needed 419 points, I only need to conquer four player countries: France, Spain, Italy and Yugoslavia and a bunch of AI countries.

When I entered France with my first stack of 5 mot. inf. and 5 LT a few hours after the game started, I immediately got attacked by 1 interceptor and 1 tactical bomber. Of course that did not worry me much, although it meant that France is active and uses WB and probably also gold or boosters to have a tac this soon. When I had conquered the Benelux I attacked France with 25 mot inf. and 20 LT and that war was over soon.

Next on the menu was Spain. Spain and Italy were from the same alliance (and maybe even the same person). Spain attacked me with almost his complete army (16, infantry, 2 AC and 2 AA). I retreated to France to prevent Spain getting the 15% home advantage and to plains to get most bonuses. Still accoridng to Dexter I would lose 1 or 2 mot inf.. Just before I went to sleep I realized I could build fortifications and speed the build with booster cards. I build level 3 and when I woke up all his units were dead and my 10 units didn't have that much damage. Meanwhile during the night I had attacked Spain with another stack and was able to conquer 2 cities before day change without facing any resistance. At the start of day 2 I still had to conquer 40 VP from Spain, but I thought I would not run into much difficulties doing this.

Italy was one of the three players (apart from myself) with a KD > 1. I attacked him with two stacks from France and with a slow stack with some arty from the north. I also conquered a few empty provinces with one LT and one AC from the east. He was producing units and fled when I approached, so he was clearly active. I was able to conquer 2 cities before day change and kill some units.

Yugoslavia was easiest. He did not move or produce anything so with two stacks of 10 axis units I could easily and quickly defeat his weaker comintern units. At day change he only had 2 cities left.

At the first day change I already had 310 out of 419 VP, so it seemed a walk in the park to reach the remaining 110 VP in one day.

General2.0 wrote:

I did not mention an important element: as it will be my last game, I will try to spend all my gold (120k) and booster cards. At the start I have these cards:

Bring Italy to glory!

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AnonymeggABC1234 wrote:

General2.0 wrote:

I did not mention an important element: as it will be my last game, I will try to spend all my gold (120k) and booster cards. At the start I have these cards:

Are you Dutch?

Now let's proceed with day 2. As mentioned, it seemed easy to finish the game today. I still had to conquer 4 cities from Spain, 3 from Italy and 2 from Yugoslavia, but as they were not that active and lost already quite some army, it seemed easy.

It turned out that Spain did not have any unit left, so I could just split up my stacks and conquer the provinces one by one.

Italy put most of his units (about 12, mostly infantry) in one city. I didn't want to lose my stack with 5 Mot Inf and 5 LT, so I waited for arty to arrive. At the start it was only 1, but in the end I had 5 of them. After 7 hours or so, he attacked my arty stack with his units and I could retreat my arty and let his stack attack my meat shield (I was too lazy to shoot and scoot as it would take a lot of time without RA) and I attacked with my Mot inf and LT stack as well. Apart from that, I did not have any issues conquering Italy mainland (I ignored islands without VP in this game).

Yugoslavia did not pose any issue as he did not move at all.

There was more than half a day left and it was clear I would reach the 420. I didn't want to do nothing in my last 12 hours CoW, so I decided to attack everything I could (in the brackets the VP I managed to conquer UK (40), Sweden (40), Norway (10), USSR (I had a unit review on him and he was inactive; 30), Finland (10), Algeria (20), Libya (10) and Tunesia (10). As I did not have destroyers nor naval bombers I could run into subs or other ships, but my KD did not matter as it is my last game anyway.

The most remarkable thing in this game happened in the last hour: I attacked Algeria with two stacks in the morning just before day change. I was quite active and thought I could take a third city if I force marched. But suddenly instead of 1 AA and 1 infantry, there suddenly were 7 AC and 3 infantry! I lost my only unit there and if the game would lasted 15 minutes longer I would lost 3 more. Algeria did not do anything in the past two days, but when he was attacked, he not only trained units very fast, but also wasted at least three units by mobilizing them in the last hour of the game. This one unit loss impacted both our KD quite a lot as his was 0.02 and mine 130.

In the end I had 620 VP, 200 more than required. So it was much easier than I thought.

Not clubbing seals but gunning them down with a machine gun

At the end I had the following 211 units (see also screenshot

32 mot inf, 30 AC, 60 LT -> did most of the work and had to be healed quite a lot, especially the mot inf (as expected).

12 MT -> conquered two cities in Sweden and some other provinces. At day 2, most of the work was already done.

29 inf, 3 AA, 2 AT, 3 militia -> meat shield for my arty and protecting cities

1 int -> did nothing

16 subs -> few kills against Denmark, shielding against inactive Uk and Sweden. With hindsight cruisers would have been better.

12 arty -> helpful against Denmark, Switserland, Austria and Italy

11 AB -> only one kill, some scouting and backup for runners.

In the end the units other than mot inf., Ac and LT were not that helpful. Instead I could have gone with only these units.

For example 35 Mot Inf and 35 LT at the start of the game and then produce in three barracks and two tank plants non stop would have costs only slightly more than my setup. I could have attacked Sweden and possibly UK with that on day one as well, but you do not know how inactive or bad players are at the start of the game.

nice going, i definitely would not have been able to do this, although do normally play waw or ahf

Thanks. I only thought of trying it in one day using all my gold and boosters, but already deleted all my CoW accounts. WaW is of course better, but takes too long for me, that's why I quit. As I have not enough patience for the best map, this is probably not my game, even though I liked it a lot.

General2.0 wrote:

Thanks. I only thought of trying it in one day using all my gold and boosters, but already deleted all my CoW accounts. WaW is of course better, but takes too long for me, that's why I quit. As I have not enough patience for the best map, this is probably not my game, even though I liked it a lot.

Too late, I already deleted the three accounts that I had. In my main account I had 400k gold left. Maybe a waste, but this seemed the only way for me to prevent me from keeping playing and wasting too much time. It is not hard to win beginner maps if you have a firm grasp of the basics and are active.

General2.0 wrote:

Too late, I already deleted the three accounts that I had. In my main account I had 400k gold left. Maybe a waste, but this seemed the only way for me to prevent me from keeping playing and wasting too much time. It is not hard to win beginner maps if you have a firm grasp of the basics and are active.

Same here, deleted 2 previous accounts in hope that I won't return to the game, because of too many people wolfpacking and using alt accounts in matches back then. Now I only play events with higher speeds, since it's more fun otherwise the gameplay is too repetive and for too long. Doing the same thing over and over again, 4 hours a day, everyday for weeks just for a single victory. Research, attack, upgrade, cook troops, regroup, be on time..then defend other allies. I have to commit hours everyday just for a victory.

Gloubular wrote:

Same here, deleted 2 previous accounts in hope that I won't return to the game, because of too many people wolfpacking and using alt accounts in matches back then. Now I only play events with higher speeds, since it's more fun otherwise the gameplay is too repetive and for too long. Doing the same thing over and over again, 4 hours a day, everyday for weeks just for a single victory. Research, attack, upgrade, cook troops, regroup, be on time..then defend other allies. I have to commit hours everyday just for a victory.