If the US Navy is still strong, get Cuba and Panama, you get air bases as well as you block most of their naval movement from Pacific to Atlantic.
You need really strong Naval Invasions with a lot of Shore Bombardment, and several full armies of 24 Divisions with 40w, each army forming a beachhead.Īlso set your armored Divs on Naval Invasions but let the marines do their job first and a day later start the PzDiv so they arrive there with only little delay and push hard to secure at least a full province. If not, use SPAA for mobile Divs and AA for Inf, which really got strong with 1.5.3. I'd Puppet a big part of SOV then to abuse their manpower.īut USA is strong then of course and a lot depends on how JAP AI did, if JAP took care of Asia/Pacifik, USA are short in rubber and Aluminium as well, so their Air Force lacks reinforcments. I'd still go for Texas and/or New York etc and not via Canada or Mexico. If you delay USA after SOV, it gets as tough as you describe. I'd also like to go via Texas, it's mostly plains there so Guderian can do a quick job.
Use your own BB for coastal bombardment and naval invade the east coast near the main cities, this way you're also getting VPs early on for some local suplly as well as air bases. This way you get bases in North America and with Italian, French (Case Anton) and Brit Navy (Puppet) one should be able to get Naval sup. It is still easier then waiting for SOV to fall, although USA gets a buff when invaded (since WtT). First possibility is to invade GB before USA joins the war, so you could do it at end of 1940.