A couple of points.

Most people have 3 pioneers. I want one at least for Warsaw so I use Ole Dier. Pioneers are the most OP unit in the game simply because they ignore entrenchment. I upgrade M+1 infantry to these units. You will want pioneers for maps like Warsaw, Maginot Line, Streets of Moscow ...

Having seen this video from R Martin I realised that Armant has the potential to bring many new things and advanced PzC strategies, welcome Armant , its good to see new high caliber players :D :D :D

see the video
https://youtu.be/Fc4Zhh9UUFo


I'm still learning this game and retrying many of ...

Did you consider upgrading your He 111's to Ju 88's? Their stats are much better.


It is really bad idea - at least in my opinion. If you want to upgrade them you must pay full price of Ju 88 (372 prestige) and than again full price of going back into HE family - He 177 is far superior than Ju ...

Narvik

Starting prestige: 3521

Initial thoughts / map info / key tactics:
- There is quite large group of ships, which can be dangerous... but also it is a perfect source of easy kills for your strategic bombers.
- There are 3 enemy airforce units: 2 fighters (Seafire and Hurricane) and a ...

Lillehammer

Starting prestige: 3084

Initial thoughts / map info / key tactics:
- There are 2 enemy airplanes here: weak Norwegian fighter and British Hurricane, which is very dangerous fighter. Both are in aggressive-mode from the start and both have almost entire map in their range ...

Oslo

Starting prestige: 2863

Initial thoughts / map info / key tactics:
- There is only one enemy airplane - quite weak fighter. Still you have to bring your fighter to deal with it or watch it hunting for your overstrengthed arty...
- Notodden's garrison (infantry in the city and AA gun on ...

Spoils of War

Starting prestige: 2009

Initial thoughts / map info / key tactics:
- There are 4 Russian airforce units: 3 fighters and 1 bomber. And they are much more dangerous then Polish airplanes. Fortunately, just like in Piatek scenario, they are triggered in waves so you can deal with ...

Any time that you have turns at the end of the scenario to spare, you may want to let the AI spawn & then force surrenders for extra prestige. You will need every bit you can get at this level.


It is useful exploit on lower difficulties, but on the ultimate difficulty AI has tons of prestige so ...

Modlin

Starting prestige: 991

Initial thoughts / map info / key tactics:
- there is no Polish airforce here, so you can leave your fighters at home.
- 105mm arty near Ciechanow is in aggressive mode.
- Beside of tanks, most other units are in passive mode. This (combined with no airforce ...

Kampinoska Forest

Starting prestige: 858

Initial thoughts / map info / key tactics:
- Most of the fight will be in deep forest so airforce is not very useful here. Also this forest is full of AA guns, all of them are in aggressive mode (but I'm not 100% about Warsaw airfield AA gun).
- There ...

Piatek

Starting prestige: 731

Initial thoughts / map info / key tactics:
- It is the easiest scenario in the entire game.
- If you haven't fallen in love with rivers yet, you will do that after this scenario for sure - every single key victory hex is either a bridge or a city next to the ...

I will add some screens if I find easy way to draw some arrows on them. Also I can't find any BBCode which allows you to hide screens (like "spoiler" one) for people who don't want to see many huge images during scrolling through the topic...


Are you playing at normal dice?

Yes, I'm playing ...

first of all congratulations 🎉 for starting on the ultimate difficulty it is really something extraordinary to play on this type of difficulty.
Initially I started on Rommel difficulty. But my overall tactic is highly based on artillery so I don't have many losses in fights - so limited prestige ...

Poznan

Starting prestige: 800

Initial thoughts / map info / key tactics:
- All infantry stationed in cities are in full passive mode - you can place really juicy targets literally in front of them and they will not attack it. That is especially usefull for blocking the city and prevent AI ...

Introduction

Only Decisive Victories... yeah, it is an extremely painfull goal :x

First of all - beside of couple of easier scenarios (mostly defensive ones), achieving decivise victory on ultimate difficulty with normal combat rules without a single reload is literally impossible and that is a ...