It's probably better.
Best Country to play as in 1939 Historic World War
Clearly Germany starts off as the most powerful but I've found that a lot of people who play as France and UK want to role-play and try to get the soviet union and the US on their side... and i make a lot of enemies before the first day ends as Germany.
So was wondering what you all thought was the best / easiest country to play as. Here's what I've learned by playing as each country so far
Germany:
As mentioned, could start with lots of enemies, encircled by potential hostiles from the start
France:
Starts with a decent army but also starts with -300 food and its colonies tend to rebel if you don't fix the food... you'll need to conquer territories or devote 100% resources to fixing food unless you lose units in a war... Also you have spain behind you but it takes them at least 2 weeks to build up to have any strength to even hit you in the back in a coordinated attack with germany.
UK:
has awful manpower and is therefore unable to produce a large army. Even though historically in the war the UK had a good amount of manpower because they can call upon it's territories such as India. the lack of army makes it tough to expand anywhere.
Soviet Union:
The key to winning as the soviets is the make friends with Japan. If you can make sure you don't get hit int he back near manchuria, where soviet industry and production capabilities are low, then you can focus on europe. If you can align with Germany also then its a winning coalition. otherwise be careful when either you or him invade poland and try to avoid sharing a border with germany as long as possible... espeically if your not friends / coordinating with France although in this case you probably will be.
US:
Starts with very few units. Historically this make sense as in 1939 the US only had an army of 100k people. It takes at least 2 weeks to build up to become a superpower and an early coordinated attack from canada and mexico could spell trouble for middle america. If you can convince them to be allies, then you can eventually take north and south america although by this time, the conflict in europe will likely be resolved. sending units to europe to help in the war doesn't benefit in the growth of your nation unless you're attacking spain or the UK in which case, other european powers can easily push you out of the continent if you don't have allies. Also make friends with japan in this case so you don't have to worry about the west coast. Or if you're eyeing the west coast, it takes like almost a week to travel to asia or australia making it difficult to reinforce. In short, America is very boring to play as.
Japan:
Starts with -39 oil, and low resources until you can build up for 3 days and move troops around to take China. But even then you only have the resources and army to fight in asia. Also pretty boring to play as although I've never attacked the soviet union as Japan as I find it beneficial to make them my ally. If one were to attack the soviet union, walking through siberia without mobile units sounds boring so maybe thats why i haven't tried it.
Poland:
Gets eaten up after (at most) a week. Don't try it lol
Anyway, wondering what your thoughts are on which country is the best but I guess this can be addressed from an army, resources, diplomatic point of view... oh and taking into account which countries are the most boring to play with (cough US couch)
Thoughts?
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BrutusTrump wrote:
The USSR does have a really good economy. It’s probably around the level of the United States’s.
Not at all, the economy is very badBrightAdityas wrote:
It's probably better.
Stop trolling, Claudio.Claudio von Panjim wrote:
BrutusTrump wrote:
The USSR does have a really good economy. It’s probably around the level of the United States’s.Not at all, the economy is very badBrightAdityas wrote:
It's probably better.
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I juts made a thread about History World War resource production in General discussion, check it out. USSR has an economy on the level of the USA according to math.BrutusTrump wrote:
Stop trolling, Claudio.Claudio von Panjim wrote:
BrutusTrump wrote:
The USSR does have a really good economy. It’s probably around the level of the United States’s.Not at all, the economy is very badBrightAdityas wrote:
It's probably better.
I joined as ussr, looks like it has a very small economy and I can't make troopsBrutusTrump wrote:
Stop trolling, Claudio.Claudio von Panjim wrote:
BrutusTrump wrote:
The USSR does have a really good economy. It’s probably around the level of the United States’s.Not at all, the economy is very badBrightAdityas wrote:
It's probably better.
We'll then you must be doing something wrong.
It's literally day 1 and I just joinedBrightAdityas wrote:
We'll then you must be doing something wrong.
I've actually been in games where Mongolia had succesfully taken over the USSR with help from Finland. It was a suicidal mission in the beginning, but with the right troop placement, and it worked. surveyzop
If you takes doctrines into account it is better, even without Comitern doctrine I think the USSR has a bigger economy than the US.BrutusTrump wrote:
The USSR does have a really good economy. It’s probably around the level of the United States
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What does survey zop have to do with this?dugsur wrote:
I've actually been in games where Mongolia had succesfully taken over the USSR with help from Finland. It was a suicidal mission in the beginning, but with the right troop placement, and it worked. surveyzop
Also:mongolian hoard wrote:
Soviet Union:The key to winning as the soviets is the make friends with Japan. If you can make sure you don't get hit int he back near manchuria, where soviet industry and production capabilities are low, then you can focus on europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokushin-ronmongolian horde wrote:
Japan:Starts with -39 oil, and low resources until you can build up for 3 days and move troops around to take China. But even then you only have the resources and army to fight in asia. Also pretty boring to play as although I've never attacked the soviet union as Japan as I find it beneficial to make them my ally. If one were to attack the soviet union, walking through siberia without mobile units sounds boring so maybe thats why i haven't tried it. Thoughts?
— Marshal Foch
A pretty mechanical toy [...] the war will never be won by such machines.
— Lord Kitchener, on tanks
I think USSR or France are solid options. I prefer USSR because as France, you've most of the time gotta deal with Germany, if you win, then you basically dominate Europe, and I have done it once and won, but if you lose, you'll most likely go inactive. The USSR also has a great economy, letting you produce without worrying about running out of resources. Even though they have a bad army in the beginning, leveling those units would make dozens of good units instead of infantry lv 1s.
1 year late but.. Spain can attack France in a coordinated movement with Germany in 3 days, just witnessed it.
USA: Quite Boring but can win if you take out Canada and Mexico then go down to South America, starts with no troops but by day 2-3 you have 100 troops if you manage your resources wisely
Germany: Best for skilled players, newbies usually go inactive on day 1 but starts with massive army and decent economy, you start with many enemies around you but in general would play if you’re skilled and don’t go inactive
UK: Best if you like to play in conservative, usually invaded by Egypt, India, and South Africa since your colonies are weak, could win by focusing on Europe, maybe taking France or Spain. Bad Economy so making troops is hard if you want international defense against others.
France: Invaded by Spain, Italy, or Germany. Decent amount of troops but usually dies when sending all troops to German border because of artillery and your inactivity. Fine economy, would suggest you ally with UK and or USSR if possible.
USSR: Big country, would suggest you buff the east and focus on upgrading infantry, with Comintern you war less damage but can create massive stacks by day 3, big economy is needed to be used wisely in order to produce troops to eventually defend from Germany late game. If you ally with Japan early game you should be fine but don’t let Xinjang or Mongolia take over your land bc it’s very weak
Japan: Easy if you like managing poor economy’s and large army’s, with decent land and navy units it would be easy to take some of the ussr and Manchuko, otherwise china should be easy if they don’t attack you early in the game.
China: really hard country since you start with mostly militia, Suggest giving up or retreating to the mountains, normally if Japan invades you Tibet and Xinjang shouldn’t attack, but defense is highly suggested for China players.
Spain is muy favourite country to play with.
You can playa twoo diferents strategies:
1. Be Fraces's ally.
You don't hace to worry about Frances, who is the only country you border with.
Make a big army and conquer South America. You can alzó invade UK's provinces with french help.
2. Be Frances's enemy.
You can ally with germany or UK and conquer french territories. You may hace problems un África because you don't hace any cities there but it also mayor be easy to conquer some and justo expand.
I'm sorry about the grammar, i'm spanish (Oh, surprise) and I don't know english ver y well. 
For Spain you need to:
-Ally with Germany and Italy if possible
-Launch invasion of France if possible and seize ports in Marseille to make a good navy -Use Motorized infantry as it regularly has lots of damage and speed
-Launch an invasion of Portugal and it’s, colonies
-Go Conservative if France is allied with US and UK, would focus on building up if you are a skilled player in economics.
Otherwise that’s all for Spain
La invasión de Portugal es solo para evitar que otro país lo conquiste antes que tú, pues las 3 ciudades que tiene no son demasiado para lo que cuesta conquistarla, pero si un país enemigo conquista Portugal, es más fácil que te conquiste a ti. .Average_Luz wrote:
Para España necesitas:-Aliarse con Alemania e Italia si es posible
-Lanzar la invasión de Francia si es posible y apoderarse de los puertos de Marsella para formar una buena armada -Usar infantería motorizada, ya que regularmente tiene mucho daño y velocidad
-Lanzar una invasión de Portugal y sus colonias.
-Vuélvase conservador si Francia está aliada con EE. UU. y el Reino Unido, se centraría en construir si es un jugador hábil en economía.
De lo contrario, eso es todo para España.
Con España, si te alías con Francia, no tienes demasiadas fronteras para expandirte, pero tampoco tienes demasiadas fronteras de las que preocuparte, así que puedes probar suerte en las Américas y usar tus territorios en Europa como fuente de ingresos y tropas.
Es una forma segura de jugar (Tus enemigos pueden atacar tus colonias o territorios que conquistas, pero nunca el centro de tu poder, que es la Península Ibérica) y divertido porque puedes reconstruir el imperio español a partir de las múltiples IA que existen en America.
So I am playing the historical World War 1939 Game as the Brits, and for some reason I get units that are created in my territory both on UK soil as well as it colonies. Is there a schedule are way that I can sustain or increase that? I can't find any reference how they are generated.
Here in the future when resource shortages are less of a problem. Also USSR makes 280k resources while US 260k I believe so haha. Interesting.
I find it difficult to know what you mean, but in real life, most of the British Army at any one time was deployed to the colonies. Units are placed where they begin in the real 1939.Goose 72 wrote:
So I am playing the historical World War 1939 Game as the Brits, and for some reason I get units that are created in my territory both on UK soil as well as it colonies. Is there a schedule are way that I can sustain or increase that? I can't find any reference how they are generated.
For example, you will note that your battleships many of them are stationed at Scapa Flow in northern Scotland, which was where the British home fleet was stationed at time of crisis.
There are inaccuracies of course. Apart from that, Britain has two battleships (actually representing four, capital ship numbers are cut by 50%) at Hong Kong. Which is ridiculous considering the /wiki/Singapore_strategy and /wiki/Force_Z. But in general, everything is placed realistically.
— Marshal Foch
A pretty mechanical toy [...] the war will never be won by such machines.
— Lord Kitchener, on tanks
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