Your Army Compositions

I have not reach the "late game" point yet but by army composition I follow a methodological approached to CoW.

-Early game-

I start off by making new infantry units in my cities and allocate them evenly to different fronts of expansion, each front will accommodate 5-10 infantry depending on how the enemy will resist them, supported by 2 AC and 1 LT to expand on day 2-3.

-Mid game-

My mid game will be more defensive/offensive depending on how well the campaign is going. If resistence is light the offensive continue on, if the opposition is fighting back I would consolidate my gains and expand in that front slowly, at this point AC's are completely phase out for LT's and MT's.

-late game-

I have not yet reach the "late game" aspect but if I do, I would favor lots of fast MT's and slow moving infantry.

I mostly replicate this on every game I play or tried to replicate it every game, some started moving on day 2 and most of my forces are out of place in this time, my army composition is what you would call a "slow moving juggernaut" in the defense or a "surgical scalpel" for offence.

The Air Force I use sparingly for defence, as well as the navy, I don't normally use the Air Force offensively, depending on the situation of course.

I go for the good 'ol way of the biggest gun wins. In all of my games but one where I nearly lost but climbed back, I am usually around 5% ahead of the second most researched nation.

Early Game

I usually built some infantry, artillery and cruisers while I research medium tanks and tac bombers. As soon as I have those, I bulk build medium tanks and throw them around with tac bombers for support if they can keep up with the speed of invasions.

Mid Game

By this time I have heavily upgraded tac bombers, missiles, infantry, medium bombers and a rock solid navy of surface ships. I can build and build for days thanks to warmongering early game while everyone else was slowly building an army.

Late Game

I have nuclear bombers, heavily upgraded warships, heavily upgraded tac bombers and fighters, top level missiles and strong infantry with a lot of nuclear stuff researched for missiles and bombers. I am usually near done at this point.

You guys should give this a try, you steamroll your foes. Unless you're the US, it is very hard to reinforce troops. I had to bug out of Europe and build a huge navy to protect my shores.

Early Game

Combination of light tanks, infantry and interceptors to patrol area before bombers strike.

Middle Game

Combination of heavily upgraded infantry, medium tanks, and heavily tactical bombers

Late Game:

Strongly bet for rockets and nuclear bombs

I aM curios why nobody is using artillery more often - is it not a good option to have like 10 units attacking ? Is it better with more tanks and infantry ?

Artilery is not as strong as 1914, and it's more faster to use planes and tanks to win wars. Artilery is not bad but not good, maybe they get change but for now they serve better as defensive units.

When I am mopping up an AI, I like to use them just like S1914 to soften up the opposing army to reduce my casualties. They don't work all that well with a blitzkrieg attack as they fire too slow to match the speed of the tanks. They are definitely not a primary unit but an occasional support unit that is good for defense.

I've noticed that when I use artilleries I have more casualties than I have without using them; is that true? I use at least 10 artilleries per game, but for me 20 is the best to support atacks against cities with fortresses.

I don't know Roos...20 artillery pieces is kinda pricey, if using MT or planes for the same result.

V1nd1cat0r wrote:

I don't know Roos...20 artillery pieces is kinda pricey, if using MT or planes for the same result.

If it's againts high level forts then maybe artillery is the best choice, you need to constantly damage it, although the attack rating is weak it's sustainable, and don't use too much resource like rockets.

I want to think about using mass bombers, but if the fort have anti-air then artillery is really the best choice.

No, bombers are better. No one I have ever fought uses AA's.

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

No,bombers are better. No one I have ever fought uses AA's.

Forts are a very nice upgrade, even in low levels. This building is better here than in S1914.

Forts are for defense. I have only had to defend once so far. Instead I retreated across the Atlantic, built nukes and a massive navy with at least one high level ship in each port.

Forts are not mostly build because of many factors, most prominently is where to build it. It's a nice upgrade for Italy and Spain to prevent a direct land route, for other countries not so important maybe good for RP but not in a normal game.

The only times i've had to build forts was as UK vs Italy. I built 2 one in Paris that i owned vs Italy's tanks and inf and in Egypt where the UK - Italian Border meets to defend off his attacks. Which both were only at lvl 2. If used effectively and placed perfectly they are extremely helpful. In Paris i had 8 inf and 3 Medium tanks defend against a 3 inf 15 tank army attacking it. In North Africa it was in the plains i used 3 Light Tanks 2 inf and the fort to defend against about 9 inf. The Terrain mechanics in this game are very important.

I have reached a late game period and by now everyone hates everyone else and I lagged behind on the research front.

I would have heavy tanks and infantry supported by tactical bombers and my navy to push through the wall of troops

I would then use medium tanks and mechanised infantry to take the next shaky steps to clear and straggling resistance

Finally I use light tanks and motorised infs try to power the blow home and finish of the campaign.

Fire support would usually consist of artillery following closely behind, naval gunfire if terraina allows it,strategic and tactical bombers to soften them up preemptively and maybe a cheeky nuke or rocket.

Defensively I only had to do so twice but it was tough.

I now opt for antitank guns and maxed out Infantry.

I use interceptors for recon and some times lauch rockets where the recon said they were or bomb them with strategic bombers.

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

I go for the good 'ol way of the biggest gun wins. In all of my games but one where I nearly lost but climbed back, I am usually around 5% ahead of the second most researched nation.

Early Game

I usually built some infantry, artillery and cruisers while I research medium tanks and tac bombers. As soon as I have those, I bulk build medium tanks and throw them around with tac bombers for support if they can keep up with the speed of invasions.

Mid Game

By this time I have heavily upgraded tac bombers, missiles, infantry, medium bombers and a rock solid navy of surface ships. I can build and build for days thanks to warmongering early game while everyone else was slowly building an army.

Late Game

I have nuclear bombers, heavily upgraded warships, heavily upgraded tac bombers and fighters, top level missiles and strong infantry with a lot of nuclear stuff researched for missiles and bombers. I am usually near done at this point.

You guys should give this a try, you steamroll your foes. Unless you're the US, it is very hard to reinforce troops. I had to bug out of Europe and build a huge navy to protect my shores.

Why Subs and Destroyers? Cruisers are way powerful than Subs and Destroyers. I've stopped build Subs cause Cruisers are my main defense for BBs. No person would ever send destroyers to kill a BB period cause they out damage and range all ships. Subs yes but Cruisers maxed have 15 damage to Ships and 3 damage Against Stealth Ships. Meanwhile Subs maxed have 7 damage against Ships and 2 damage against stealth ships.... A Cruiser is way more beneficial overall than Subs and Destroyers at defending and Attacking.

Subs are really cheap to mass produce and in wolf packs, usually 5 or 4, and are maxed out in level terms then they can sink bigger ships before the bigger ships know it (usually) I still have surface ship capabilities for naval support and the newsreels, I use destroyers usually to escort the bigger ships in case the enemy has subs of his own because the destroyers are really good at sinking subs