1939 Poland Donut Hol(e)d Hel Strategy HOI4

In this video, we find a new method to hold Poland against the German onslaught in the 1939 start. The donut of łodz and Warsaw makes for a solid defense that trumps pretty much any of the old strategies.
Götterdämmerung made it so the AI now groups their tanks, as well as that they now attack nearly nonstop when their odds are that they will eventually push a nearly capitulated nation. And this effectively made it so nearly all the old strategies became obsolete. So I got to work!
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[@redhead1118]

One more tip to all Poland players - general Stanislaw Sosabowski. He is a Commando (check the name if you want to know why) with Skill 3. So he can be immediately "promoted" to Camouflage Expert trait for +50% CAS damage reduction to the army that he commands. Kind of useful when you fight Germany under red sky. And when he gets to 4 skill you can promote him to Army HQ for the Concealment trait and -5% Enemy air superiority

[@hatless_spider]

Good stuff!

[@graf]

I'm watching from Płock or whatever that is

[@hatless_spider]

lol I'm sorry, my American abilities on Polish is dubious at best

[@graf]

the ł is good, c is pronounced as ts so -ock is like "not skill" without the -ill or the n in front

[@bulkax303]

@@graf pozdrowisz mojego kolege młodego grafa

[@bulkax303]

@@graf prosze szanownego pana juz nie bede pisal

[@jylehansen7328]

I've been waiting for you to release this again.
Absolute legend

[@hamnisek]

Amazing, that you managed to get that! I’ve tried donut strategy in new dlc but I failed. Germany grinds to hard. Exile strategy works better, just finished one after fourth attempt but it’s a lot of RNG. Soviets nowadays tends to fall quickly and for strange reasons many times Japan attacks Soviet’s as well. If soviets are failing AI Germany starts to invest much more into occupation laws switching to martial law which makes uprising almost impossible to make. Also after Warsaw uprising AI tends to grind you a lot and you have a lot of pure inf so manpower loses are high. But all in all with few cheese strategies easier than the donut 😀

[@jdjohn0]

This is awesome, would swapping for engineering on the infantry template help with defense, or do they not have it researched in '38?

[@hatless_spider]

It would help, but then you would need to dedicate more factories to support equipment

[@bepsi6204]

damn civ 7 looks insane

[@hatless_spider]

Still hoping i can get a key 😢

[@superbayern1389]

Any plans for a new Byzantium run in Gotterdammerung?

[@hatless_spider]

Potentially! I was toying with it just the other day