With spies, it bears note that spy production ALSO comes out of your leadership, which as noted is precious due to needs of your tech and your officer ratio. Germany has a bad habit of losing (what a shock) due to running out of manpower in the East, so it might be preferable to build Fortress Potato and keep all foreigners out, as Land Forts are a FUCKLOAD more powerful in HoI3 than they were before.

As a minor, providing land support and spies is most you can do.Īlternatively, you can focus on building a fortification line. Ideally you will manage to keep officer ratio at 110% while having three full divisions at each border province. Air force and navy are irrelevant, as you are well within the Luftwaffe umbrella, would do absolutely nothing without vast expenses on a naval force, and should conserve Leadership in order to stay on the cutting edge with infantry, industrial and land doctrine techs. First is trying to build up your own army in order to provide Germany with assistance, though you should stick with infantry and other more basic forms of brigades in order to maximize IC to Manpower build-up. ICE fixes THE sole big problem in HoI3, which is the leadership values (in base game, it makes it so that ONLY the major nations are actually playable, due to how much leadership matters), and it adds tons of neat stuff.Īgainst the Soviet Union, you will have essentially two strategies as axis Poland. Though that's more due to the fact that the mod is quite a bit unbalanced.įirst of all, get ICE mod (Iron Cross Edition). Hell, I managed to defeat both of them at the same time a few months back when playing the HPP mod (which has Soviets declare war on Poland as they did in reality). It's quite a strenuous task though of course. It's certainly possible to beat the Soviets and/or the Germans as Poland. If you want to be gamey, prepare from the beginning of the game to start a naval invasion of the UK. I guess you can knock over Romania for the oil fields and then eat up the other Balkans. If you are going to join the Axis there's not a ton you can do before Barbarossa. Soviets are scripted to DoW whoever is on their western front around that time. If you are in a faction everyone else in the faction will join you unless you declare a limited war (which is what Germany does most of the time). As long as you are at 0 neutrality you can declare war on anyone. Also, drop your current IC below 30 (switch to worst laws) and you'll get a decision that knocks off about 50 or so neutrality over time. Since you are polar opposite in ideology and they are fuckhueg, your threat will go up quickly (Your neutrality is reduced by whatever the highest threat in the world is against you). As Poland, you'll want to use spies to Raise Threat on the Soviets.

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