South American Dominance

This is a simple tactic for a good game on Whole World maps. While everyone rushes for North America, Europe, and Asia, you can start off as Brazil:Southeast and quickly conquer all of South America and the Central Americas. With this income you can move into Africa and the Pacifics. The more and more territory you conquer the better. I have tried this multiple times and am yet to fail in being one of the survivors. It's not as much power as playing it smart and weeding out the weak while allying with stronger nations that are guaranteed to survive. When you have a whole continent and most of Africa, people tend not to mess with you even though you aren't economically the best nor best in the amount of troops. The only issue with this is when you do take a place you have to have a hell of an invasion party or else any attempt to take over other places will be horrible. When playing against another South American player the best idea is to take them out quickly, if you do it will be only a slight delay and you might lose some of the american provinces you originally aimed for. Due to the amount of coastal Brazilian cities it is easy to launch a largescale invasion on Africa or the Pacific. Any criticism on this strategy would be nice.

Yeah except north american can wipe you out easily.

This will simply not work. You cant invade any of rich regions with South America.

With enough power your can take North America or simply ally with them. Most likely North America will have two people fighting for it so you can move in to take out any resistance and conquer it. This isn't guaranteed victory everytime, it all depends if North America is agressive or not.

I do this all the time, it does work, but it requires one very important thing:

An alliance with North America.

Without that, you lose.


With a South African plan, you can easily take 75% of Africa as well as Oceania. Oceania provides a nice income, and Africa provides a good invasion point to hit Europe or Asia. While Europe or Asia are stronger than any of these single nations, combined SA, Africa, and Oceania provide you with a powerhouse that even Indochina, Europe, and North America (individually, not together) would struggle to fight and probably lose to.

This.

Also, Brazil:Southeast (assuming 100+ cities is on) is the shit with SM, as is Argentina (which is slightly cheaper though it would mean slower expansion). Use Sky Menace for great justice!

Oh, and
>spawning as Africa
>not suicide
What I want to see is a guide on how to dominate other countries as Africa. Africa always seems to get raped at the end of the game and never move into North Africa which is comparatively rich. If you could actually produce a plan for this, you'd be the best AW player infa 100%.

Africa isn't that tough to play as.

>start as Ghana
>take over Guinea through Nigeria
>Launch ships to Brazil
>take over SA
>Finish taking over Africa
>move to Australia
>win

Geschrieben von goodnames679, 27.11.2011 at 17:17

>Launch ships to Brazil
>take over SA
>Finish taking over Africa
>move to Australia
>win

Yeah... but you don't take the consideration into account that Africa is piss-poor and simply doesn't have enough money to make a decent fleet. It's also fairly underpopulated compared to South America (or rather, less industrialised).

Taking over Africa is also a pain in the arse as there are usually two powers competing in Africa in a crowded world game--West Africa and South-eastern Africa, the former usually being the victor.

Just as you finally are able to divert forces into an invasion of South America, a unified Europe comes over with tens of air transports and many bombers (that's me with SM) which annihilates your still-quite-crappy GW-enchanced militias.

And if that doesn't happen, South America invades you instead. In short; there's no way a non-allyfag Europe will ally with you and will make short work of the 15 or so countries you hold in West Africa (probably the best starting position). In other words? Buttfrustration at how much Africa sucks and another game added to the loss counter on your profile.

There's a reason I said Ghana.

You'd have several thousand bucks left for the fleet.