Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Numdydar

Won as the CP with a Surpreme Victory with the 1.4.2 patch.

But it was NOT easy and you cannot do it with out a lot of reloads. Manily due to forgeting small things, like not returning a sub to patrol after repair/upgrade.

The Small Garrisions are a huge problem imho. While they cannot be railed, they can certainly be moved by sea. Which the AI is more than willing to do. So as the player, you have to use these as the AI does and be willing to move these around to fill in gaps in the line and scondary lines of defense.

The begining is also key. As the AHE, you need to conquer Serbia prior to Italy joining the war. Or at least be able to spare 2-3 corps and 1-2 garrisions from other areas.

As Germany, you have to capture Calais so you subs can get more shots in at the EP convoys. You will need at least 6 (7+ is better) subs in order to insure nothing gets thought. 7 or more allows return to base for repairs and upgrades and still be able to sink anything coming in. I only had 6 and a few things got through when I pulled subs out to go back to port.

The 2 subs you start with in the Med are fine. So no more is needed there.

For Turkey, you need 3 corps to face the UK along with 1-2 garrisions. Along with your good defensive leaders. Once you have this, save up for an Art unit. Then build as many Corps/Garrisions as you can handle and place them against the Russians along with the Art unit.

Fortunately Italy is pretty easy to get to surrender. The AH navy is a huge help here as you can easily blast anything on the coast. Just do not leave the Adritic . I did once to kill off a BB and almost lost both ships. Took forever to get them repaired. But well worth the cost once Italy heats up.

After going though the entire game (I captured Paris on the last turn and France surrendered right as the game ended), I can say that winning on Balanced was the hardest thing I have done in a game like this but it can be done.

Of course I would not even wat to try this on Hard . I actually think as the CP it would be unwinable considering how close a thing Balanced is.

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ORIGINAL: Numdydar

I modded them to have 0 movement which made a big difference. Unfortunately that also preveneted the SGs from being disbanded  So cities where I wanted to replace the SGs with better troops, had to be killed off first. Of course this would lead the city to be taken, PPs reduced until recaptured. So not an ideal situation but one that overall made a huge difference in the game play as the CP.

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ORIGINAL: Numdydar

I modded them to have 0 movement which made a big difference. Unfortunately that also preveneted the SGs from being disbanded  So cities where I wanted to replace the SGs with better troops, had to be killed off first. Of course this would lead the city to be taken, PPs reduced until recaptured. So not an ideal situation but one that overall made a huge difference in the game play as the CP.