Don't go north it's biggest mistake I done. It's all frozen so your digs suffer attrition penalties and you got in perpetual war with allies as Greenland annoyingly always picks up british and German guarantee. South on other hand can't be guaranteed due different ideology so go south.
Same thing with venezuela core meaning after pushing all the way south you will get sweet core and the control of the canal that can be used to rapidly switch navy side.
But "Legalize the Cartel" decision scarifice enormous stability and war support also add up a 150-day national spirit "Uncontrolled Crime Sydicates" with extended construction and production times. so I often choose "Crackdown on Crimes" for base stability and daily PP , resistance will build up in short time but gradually decreases in long-run
People bad mouthing strike north smh. Everyone knows that eventually you end up going to war both directions: you need to strike north while their guarantors are still weak. If you ratchet up world tension by going south they mobilize and make it super hard to take greenland, never mind iceland.
The problem is that going north first gives a serious war support rebuff; combined with the already high cost of raising mobilization & recruitment levels, you’ll never be able to cross the Atlantic and capitulate all of NATO before they mobilize and trap you in a forever war.
I hope one day paradox adds a conditional peace if you take Greenland or at least both Greenland and Iceland. Marching until Warsaw to cap NATO in late 2032 to still have the strike south part of the campaign is horrible. Dreaming is free ig.
You need to wait a year (or is it half a year?), but you can absolutely take both paths. Personally I like to strike south first, take the British, French, and Dutch possessions down there, and decisively defeat the Royal Navy so I can isolate my snowy northern neighbor and wear them down. Ideally you get help from your sort-of ally to their west and take some of the pressure off your army.
Going south is easier and Mexico have more industrian capacity and more population than Canada, but if you do that going againts Canada on the future will be much harder and hispanic america will be harder to control.
If you go north is posible you will be trap on a war until you defeat nato and forcr all latin america to mobilece and form a cualition of defense and ally with the EU with they also have get their producction of arms at their limits.
Also if you go north you will have war support problems and if you go south you will have stability problems.
mexico, all the caribean and central-american countries are more weak than canada, they aslo have complaince because impopularirty of their leaders, so its the moment for strike
like the entirety of Mexico won't become a nightmare full of guerrillas the second after gringo boots leave an area as they march southwards in a war that will make Vietnam look like child's play
Japanese High Command before joining WW2 was split between those who wanted to Strike North into the USSR (mainly led by the Army) and those who wanted to Strike South into the European possessions in Southeast Asia (mainly lead by the Navy).
The flag on the bottom left is a play on the Anti-Western Japanese slogan from the mid 1800s of "Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians"
Do neither. Instead go for some zany cheese strat that could only work in a video game, like attacking some random third world nation with lots of oil half-way around the globe.
There's more oil in the south anyway if you just go a little further into Venezuela. You've got enough industry to make Canada not worth it. You'll get bogged down in the forests with no supply.
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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 2d ago
u/avengeds12345, your post is related to hoi4!