
Build a bunker or 2 to retreat if you need to. Send some troops to hold in Italy as once Greece and Turkey surrender, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary will rush Marseille. At this point, the Battle of Germany has begun. Spam subs in Europe, you don't need actuall ships to hold as the Soviet navy will be decimated by Cunningham and will be slowly nibbled by Scandinavia. Then, build a 2 stack cruiser with your naval general in the Shipyard in Alexandria. When you are done with taking Egypt, take the Soviet territories in Africa as they are distractions.

it's impossible to hold it and you have much higher priorities. Retreat from Hanoi, let the Chinese take it. The UK AI is incompetent and doesn't send their troops to help you and instead gets killed in the sea so don't trust them.

Put a landmark on Paris and Cairo so that you can get extra money, and then build 2 super artillery with both having artillery generals (at this point you probably have leeb/konev) so you can use them to bombard the Red Army. Taking Bangkok and Cairo should be your top priorities as both cities are capital cities, meaning you can gain lots of money and they are both tier III factories so you can build heavy tanks. As France, you start out with a VERY good African army and decent European army but a not very good Asian army.
