Tough one that - basically took me a good 6 hours today to crack. I'm not sure how winnable that game will be if I carry on - I now have to defeat a very strong Germany, but, India is intact and the USA is yet to be drawn into the war (not sure what to do to get them in). Unfortunately in my run the allies were terrible and the Soviets capitulated almost as soon as I had just managed to push the Japanese off the mainland (enough to get the achievement). All five Chinese warlords refused to be subjugated so had to go round crushing them all, then bided my time to build up my equipment to decent levels then went after the Japanese. I had to play non-historical just to give me chance to build up my forces after 6-7 failed attempts at historical (I put diplomatic pressure and improved relations with Japan until I could get a non-aggression pact). I usually play Republic, historical, but then go Communist and help the Soviets.Īwake and Angry done. But once the war is won, its plain sailing and you get a lot of buffs to build up your industry quickly. The largest problem for me is the civil war that becomes a civil war lol. Its different and it works for the single player. So it allows a sort of concentrated battlefield. You need to spend PP (I think it is?) to focus on a part of the battlefield. If you look at the battles, the modifiers are all negative. So the devs added a static front line to slow it down, and various ways to combat it. The biggest complaint was that the game finished too quickly, usually in favour of the Nationalists. The devs enabled something which is supposed to represent a 'front line' of sorts. Once you understand the politics it's a great campaign.
USe Grand Battle Plan for the defensive bonus. Focus on building up your inf weapons, support and arty.
Attrition will get to them eventually, and they will run out of manpower too.
The trick is definitely a good template, but also let the naval invasions land, surround, and wipe out. It takes forever to build any kind of navy (submarines, really) to get enough naval supremacy (you only have a handful of dockyards), but I used my spies to see that their manpower was almost nothing in their army (their futile naval invasions crushed them), so instead of taking on their navy I just launched some paratroopers onto Nagasaki and crushed them from there.Īchievement achieved and was actually surprisingly fun! Its crazy how you can go from being a Japanese subject with one mil factory to taking over all of China and Japan!Ĭhina is difficult but I can kick Japan out every time. Annexed them, whilst building hundreds of fighters and naval bombers to whittle down the Japanese navy. Once that was done, it was all about just protecting my coastline (pretty easy now with a big economy and driving down the autonomy of the last remaining Chinese states, particularly the southern coastal ones that have all the natural resources (near Hong Kong). Then I was able to again bide my time to build my forces, particularly my artillery (Chinese forces get munched by it) and attacked through China. Managed to get my economy going and waited till I'd built up a big enough army to heave the Japs off the mainland and Korea, this forced a peace.
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Its very unforgiving.ĭragon Swallowed the Sun - as Manchukuo, break free from Japan and annex your former overlord without being in a faction.Īctually pretty straight forward. The worst ones are those that depend on luck of the AI doing something very particular - they can be quite frustrating, as well as the fact you categorically cannot save scrub if you make an error. I have to focus on just one achievement and generally the runs take repeated efforts or are 10-15 hour grinds. What I am finding now is that I can't do one run for multiple achievements. "No more Partitions: As Poland, be independent and ensure that both Germany and the USSR are either in your faction or don’t exist" - I was going to do the "30 Minutes of Hel" achievement next, but might wait till this is released and do both these in one go. "Not a step back!: As the Soviet Union never lose 1 core territory to anyone before 1945" - given how terrible I am as the Soviets.this will be hard.all the Soviet achievements will be hard for me! "The Soviet Onion: As the Soviet Union, have only puppets as neighbors" - another world conquest. "Around Eurasia in 80 days: Have a railroad from Gibraltar to Singapore" - so basically, a world conquest and build a massive railway.