(probably due to balancing issues that exist especially at the 1936 start.) Sadly you just have to ignore the time counter, because that's the real ahistorical part.

I think germany is the hardest to play historical accurate, because of the free choices the game offers, other country's like ussr/uk/usa and most of the minor nations are way easier to play historically. I managed it as germany two times already. It's easily and totally possible to play historically accurate. Sorry for the long text (tl dr is at the bottom) But what went wrong? Even where my Panzer and SS Divisions were fighting, they were up against so many that the battles dragged on for weeks in one place not moving at all, and generally not in my favour. This Ironman game is screwed now, I'll end up restarting. How the hell did I get slowed down so badly in Belgium and the Netherlands? They just had soooo many divisions from all other the world forming a massive human shield that I couldn't get through anywhere. Huge Allied pocket spreading through Germany. Fighters squadrons down pretty bad (merged remnants of squadrons to form one 50 plane one), other planes generally fine, CAS squadrons even at 100% everywhere.Īll sorts of nationalities piling divisions into the low countries. Get bogged down in Belgium and the Netherlands for all of May and June 1939. Not amazing but ok.Įveryone get on the trains west. Steady build up of stockpiles of CAS, Fighter, Tactical bomber. Panzer Divisions half light tank, half medium tanks for now, expanded with more infantry. SS Divisions expanded to include light tanks Infantry Divisions, Mountaineer Divisions, all expanded using the template to be stronger. Wanted to get the 'True Blitzkrieg' achievment so generally pushed the national focuses to attack Poland. First off I want to point out I have 100 hours in HOI 3, I generally know what I'm doing, but I don't know what the hell went wrong here

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