Solo Victory as Luxembourg

Lord Crayfish · Feb 4th 2023, 12:38am

I think that this is perhaps the hardest possible challenge; to win as Luxembourg in All Countries All In (which is currently on).
After all, you're trapped between two large, powerful countries, land you're landlocked and lack any colonies so even to escape you need to invade Belgium. About the only good thing about Luxembourg to start with seems to be its good number of anti-tank units.
I have seen somebody do this before, so I know it's possible to win. Does anybody have any advice on the best strategy or techniques?

Brando Dilla · Feb 4th 2023, 3:03am

I was actually in a game where Luxembourg was able to single handedly defeat Germany. Although Germany was inactive (and there is no record as to Lux’s potential gold use), it’s still an amazing feat.

Fox-Company · Feb 4th 2023, 4:29am

Brando Dilla wrote:

I was actually in a game where Luxembourg was able to single handedly defeat Germany. Although Germany was inactive (and there is no record as to Lux’s potential gold use), it’s still an amazing feat.

Not if Luxembourg had a deep wallet.

Lord Crayfish · Feb 4th 2023, 5:00am

Fox-Company wrote:

Brando Dilla wrote:

I was actually in a game where Luxembourg was able to single handedly defeat Germany. Although Germany was inactive (and there is no record as to Lux’s potential gold use), it’s still an amazing feat.

Not if Luxembourg had a deep wallet.

Yeah I mean solo and gold-free. Not impossible surely?

jubjub bird · Feb 4th 2023, 5:04am

By far the #1 factor, far outweighing the player's skill (or wallet) is the competency of France and Germany, which is pure luck. At minimum, you need both to go inactive, and probably other nearby countries too. Your best case scenario is that both are barely-active idiots, which is even better than them going AI.

You could play 10 games as Lux, play each one perfectly, and still get wiped out in 9 of them because Germany or France decided to take you out on day 1. Because of this, the ideal strategy is to try diplomacy first, to stay alive for a few days, and ideally get something like ROW with each that you can use to go after other small nations, giving yourself a chance to grow before fighting the hopefully-inactive larger powers.

Lord Crayfish · Feb 4th 2023, 6:15am

jubjub bird wrote:

because Germany or France decided to take you out on day 1. Because of this, the ideal strategy is to try diplomacy first, to stay alive for a few days, [...] giving yourself a chance to grow before fighting the hopefully-inactive larger powers.

Yes, that's what I thought too. Thank you very much.

Carking the 6th · Mar 27th 2023, 10:54pm

This is now my quest… I will do this one day!

I’ll also save up a huge amount of gold over time and then blow all it to dominate as Luxembourg one day maybe lol.

Lord Crayfish · Mar 28th 2023, 6:56am

Carking the 6th wrote:

This is now my quest… I will do this one day!

I’ll also save up a huge amount of gold over time and then blow all it to dominate as Luxembourg one day maybe lol.

My quest is to join a HWW as Tibet, turtle and secretly arm and industrialise, then use paratroopers to overrun all of Asia, Africa, and Australia in 24 hours, like in The Secret of the Swordfish.

Carking the 6th · Mar 28th 2023, 3:23pm

Lord Crayfish wrote:

Carking the 6th wrote:

This is now my quest… I will do this one day!

I’ll also save up a huge amount of gold over time and then blow all it to dominate as Luxembourg one day maybe lol.

My quest is to join a HWW as Tibet, turtle and secretly arm and industrialise, then use paratroopers to overrun all of Asia, Africa, and Australia in 24 hours, like in The Secret of the Swordfish.

Maybe I Should try to win with Tanna Tuva as my ally as Luxembourg. Add Panama, Danzig, Bhutan and the Gang is made.

Brando Dilla · Mar 28th 2023, 5:33pm

It’s been a while since the last all in game mode.

Carking the 6th · Mar 28th 2023, 6:39pm

Brando Dilla wrote:

It’s been a while since the last all in game mode.

The worst part is that it’s my favorite map so i miss it

…

I would like them to have it more often. Maybe even permanently along with normal HWW…

Brando Dilla · Mar 29th 2023, 12:40am

Carking the 6th wrote:

Brando Dilla wrote:

It’s been a while since the last all in game mode.

The worst part is that it’s my favorite map so i miss it …

I would like them to have it more often. Maybe even permanently along with normal HWW…

Mine too.

Claudio NVKP · Mar 30th 2023, 4:28pm

I'll try panjim.

Carking the 6th · Mar 31st 2023, 2:02am

Claudio NVKP wrote:

I'll try panjim.

You can attempt what even the Saviour couldn’t do…

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