So I decided to try new DLC for Hearts of Iron 4, called Man the Guns. And it's pretty **** good, with a lot of expanded options that increase depth to naval warfare without making it feel like a chore.
But there's one problem. Germany is insanely overbuffed in this patch for some reason.
Here is how my save with Poland went:
Obviously I'm not gonna be attacking Germany head on. So I set up a line of forts behind two rivers in Warsaw. I built pure defensive army that just has infantry and anti-tank units.
And I calmly waited for 1939 to come.
Well, 1939 indeed came. But nothing happened. Adolf himself came to have look at my defenses and his comment was: "Nein, can't touch this. Just surround them with 150 divisions and stand there pretending to look important."
So they did.
Meanwhile my small but brave fleet of mine-laying submarines mined the **** out of the entire Mediterranean, Italian fleet got wrecked. France doesn't fall and Western front is a stalemate. For 3 years, nothing happens, nobody can beat anybody. I was watching some TV shows on the other monitor and meanwhile I was slowly building up two a 2 million army, while still surrounded in Warsaw.
Finally in mid-1942 finally Stalin gets bored sitting on his ****, so he attacks Germany.
So now it's full power of UK, France, United States, Soviet Union, Poland, Belgium and Netherlands against Germany.
Surely they get crushed now, you'd think?
******* my soul was crushed instead, I'm in 1944 and Hitler is still alive and well. Mind you this is supposed to be a weakass Hitler who never taken any country apart from Czechoslovakia and is surrounded on all sides 5 years and counting.
What an absolute load of bollocks.
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