So I'm on the verge of my first solo victory in a WW3 map. As NZ, i rushed Australia's capital early game (he can't get troops over to defend because Australia's so big), and having him lose his capital just made him quit. I quietly took over the relatively inactive Pacific basin, then built a massive navy of fully upgraded destroyers and frigates (20 destroyers, 10 frigates), by day 25-30, without a single armor unit or aircraft. By then there was the standard Afro Arab Coalition with Mongolia and 5 players, so I sent a 5-stack to each of them, wrecked their inferiorly researched navies by outranging them, and shut down their ports. Once I had naval supremacy, even though it was 5 on 1 and they had more VP's and economy than me as individuals, I managed to cut off their supply chains to everywhere beyond Africa. I anticipated they would go naval recon so I spammed frigs and that worked like a charm. Having them paralyzed, I struck 3 of their capitals with nuclear ballistic missile subs, and then took the colonies of those remaining because they couldn't fly troops to defend them.
They massively outmuscled me economically, but they were dead in the water after I had secured naval supremacy. This leads me to wonder, is there any way on WW3 to win after utterly losing total control of the waters? [note naval recon spam (if it manages to overcome the frig spam) can be in theory entirely eliminated by aircraft carriers and superiority aircraft, if I'm going to go full naval doctrine]
They massively outmuscled me economically, but they were dead in the water after I had secured naval supremacy. This leads me to wonder, is there any way on WW3 to win after utterly losing total control of the waters? [note naval recon spam (if it manages to overcome the frig spam) can be in theory entirely eliminated by aircraft carriers and superiority aircraft, if I'm going to go full naval doctrine]