R5: Final moments of my Mapuche Chile run from today. Still very doable with NCNS, if not a little easier than before. Desperate Defense basically solves your early manpower problems.
Mapuche Chile is in the same boat as Ethiopia for me, looks like a super interesting idea that I'd love to play but I'm not good enough yet to actually pull it off lol
I rank it easier than Ethiopia, although I haven't played Ethiopia in a couple updates, that might be a bit easier now with the irregular sub doctrine. Might have to give it a try.
Actually thinking more now, Irregular sub doctrine plus Desperate Defense might make the irregular army path for Ethiopia actually not a complete pain in the ass to play.
Mind sharing your basic strategy in terms of what countries to deal with first? I always have a great start and then fail when it comes to my first war against a major because I never know if I should go for the US first or try to cap the UK
Rush to the civil war, Rush to the war with Argentina (buy a shit ton of guns from the market, you're not gonna make enough, fast enough), then I went Uruguay, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, UK. Puppet Canada in the peace deal.
After that you basically have free reign in the Americas. I just worked my way up from South to North one 20 or so day justification at a time. After Mexico, I prepped a full army group (Brazilian manpower helps a ton) prepped a collab or two on the US and invaded through Florida. UK was a harder fight than the US.
Edit: oh! I will add, when you hit Venezuela and El Salvador, make sure you blitz them fast, they have a chance to join the Axis if you take too long to cap them.
Interesting, my next question would be how on earth you invaded the UK? Is it pretty much RNG and hope Germany/Italy has the navy distracted elsewhere? Also did you join the axis or create your own with the focus ?
Steal Portugal and Spain's navies. The old trick of avoiding the channel by invading from the north west of Spain to Bristol still works. With the new navy stuff you can see who has Dominance in a sea zone even if you're not at war, just set your stuff on patrol and plan your invasions and have them ready before you declare. Day one invasions are back, lol, easier than pre NCNS.
R5: Final moments of my Mapuche Chile run from today. Still very doable with NCNS, if not a little easier than before. Desperate Defense basically solves your early manpower problems.
New cavalry doctrine? Where's that? Mobile warfare?
Infantry Sub doctrine, pretty sure it can be picked under any Doctrine, I used Grand Battleplan
Do you need the dlc?
Mapuche Chile is in the same boat as Ethiopia for me, looks like a super interesting idea that I'd love to play but I'm not good enough yet to actually pull it off lol
I rank it easier than Ethiopia, although I haven't played Ethiopia in a couple updates, that might be a bit easier now with the irregular sub doctrine. Might have to give it a try.
Actually thinking more now, Irregular sub doctrine plus Desperate Defense might make the irregular army path for Ethiopia actually not a complete pain in the ass to play.
I acknowledge it's a skill issue but on the recent patch [no NCNS DLC though] it didn't make a difference for me
I'll have to try mapuche again, it's been since ariund Gottedamerung since I did
Mind sharing your basic strategy in terms of what countries to deal with first? I always have a great start and then fail when it comes to my first war against a major because I never know if I should go for the US first or try to cap the UK
Rush to the civil war, Rush to the war with Argentina (buy a shit ton of guns from the market, you're not gonna make enough, fast enough), then I went Uruguay, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, UK. Puppet Canada in the peace deal.
After that you basically have free reign in the Americas. I just worked my way up from South to North one 20 or so day justification at a time. After Mexico, I prepped a full army group (Brazilian manpower helps a ton) prepped a collab or two on the US and invaded through Florida. UK was a harder fight than the US.
Edit: oh! I will add, when you hit Venezuela and El Salvador, make sure you blitz them fast, they have a chance to join the Axis if you take too long to cap them.
Interesting, my next question would be how on earth you invaded the UK? Is it pretty much RNG and hope Germany/Italy has the navy distracted elsewhere? Also did you join the axis or create your own with the focus ?
You auto get the faction so I stuck with it.
Steal Portugal and Spain's navies. The old trick of avoiding the channel by invading from the north west of Spain to Bristol still works. With the new navy stuff you can see who has Dominance in a sea zone even if you're not at war, just set your stuff on patrol and plan your invasions and have them ready before you declare. Day one invasions are back, lol, easier than pre NCNS.
Nice I’m going to try it right now thanks :) also you annex puppet Spain and Portugal ?
Puppet
that looks so fun, though i can never get past the civil war