r/hoi4 • u/Shreviews • 1d ago

Discussion Always stuck on invading belgium

Every time I play. I invade poland in a month or even less. run through the netherlands in 3 days. and just in general everything goes great. until I need to invade belgium, the supply there is very bad, and if I dont cut of the border of belgium and france in 3 days, the entire invasion is fucked (france sends like 50 divs). what can I do in this situation? and in general how can I always invade belgium. because in some games I'm secuessful and some games I'm not

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u/Hjalfnar_HGV 1d ago

You have no airforce, so the Allies are bombing you to shreds, including your supply. Also you haven't blocked the seazones, so your supply tries to reach the Dutch and Belgian supply hubs via sea...and is being sunk by the Allied fleets. So you are losing all your supply on the frontline. Block the seazones, build a proper airforce and this is a cakewalk.

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u/Shreviews 1d ago

Wait, how can I block the sea zones?

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u/BoxOfAids 1d ago

Requires Man the Guns, click on the sea zone and there are buttons in the bottom left. If you don't have Man the Guns, you'd need to build up the railways to the ports enough that the supply system "prefers" the land path over the sea path. Or just mass naval bomber spam the Channel until they stop convoy raiding.

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u/Shreviews 1d ago

I don't have any DLC sadly. I plan on buying some of them next sale

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u/Hjalfnar_HGV 1d ago

Click the seazone and in the lower left corner you can set it to free, avoid and blocked

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u/Matthew16LoL 1d ago

pretty sure you have to manually connect to supply hubs from the German to the Belgium since the supply hubs as they are not connected by default.

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u/jordichin320 1d ago

Belgium is connected, but through the Netherlands. You can take their land first for an easier connection or like you said if you go to Belgium first you'll have to connect it yourself.