The War Room - /r/hoi4 Weekly General Help Thread: August 10 2020

So uh, is Britain useless?

Playing as anarchist spain, I was super nervous about where to expand. Saw an opportunity to go after the Netherlands and then Belgium because weirdly enough noone was guaranteeing them. Then (thanks to having my own troops on the borders) I noticed no british troops in france, despite the axis and allies duking it out for 2+ years there at that point. I had been super nervous about attacking the allies because I figured my navy would get instasunk, and France would body me. Instead, my handful of cavalry divisions overran france in about 2 weeks time and they capitulated nearly immediately. Hmm. I was researching paratroopers, but decided to just try a naval invasion. I dunno where the british navy was but they certainly weren't anywhere near England, I landed completely unopposed and England capitulated in a week.

PS technically the spanish civil war was still ongoing, the Nationalists proved to be stinky buggers in Galicia, especially with german and italian volunteers. France and Britain were way easier to kill lol.

Did I just catch britain and france distracted? Am really confused. Am a noob, I had literally no tanks, and just the starter airplanes (18 of them lol). I hadn't build any ships except the defaults ones you start the game with halfway produced. Just the crappy 3-infantry divisions that you get from fighting in the SCW, and like 20 low-supply divisions of cavalry. Regular difficulty.

Am I missing something, or was this just random?

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