Well, this was an early end to the grand campaign for me.

-Enemy has space marine divisions which you have no real answer to
-ai of spanish infantry is generally *good* but will let you down when it counts
-Requires a very meta, sweaty playstyle to succeed.

Had to stop at early madrid when it dumped a bunch of soviet tanks and international brigades on turn ten, completely melting my defence while the spanish infantry was miles behind still mopping up enemies from the beginning. I'm sure this is a skill issue, but to be honest, this is way too difficult for the opening of a grand campaign. It's harder than the entire base game. When I watch people play on youtube they're doing extremely unconventional tactics and sweating the capture of enemy armor to use it against them, which is highly ahistorical. I just don't fw this dlc. If I manage to finish it I'll update, but I've basically given up at "Early Madrid"

Edit: I beat the DLC, it does get easier after "Early Madrid" then shoots sky high in difficulty for "Battle of the Ebro" then Catalonia and Madrid 1939 are fairly painless, but good God this DLC is hard for the beginning of a campaign. The trick is doing huge encirclements and capturing a ton of soviet tanks to use yourself (encirclements are fine, but I hate the meta is using captured tanks that germany only scarcely used) I'd recommend you play it but with a huge HUGE buyer beware.

Well, this was an early end to the grand campaign for me. -Enemy has space marine divisions which you have no real answer to -ai of spanish infantry is generally *good* but will let you down when it counts -Requires a very meta, sweaty playstyle to succeed. Had to stop at early madrid when it dumped a bunch of soviet tanks and international brigades on turn ten, completely melting my defence while the spanish infantry was miles behind still mopping up enemies from the beginning. I'm sure this is a skill issue, but to be honest, this is way too difficult for the opening of a grand campaign. It's harder than the entire base game. When I watch people play on youtube they're doing extremely unconventional tactics and sweating the capture of enemy armor to use it against them, which is highly ahistorical. I just don't fw this dlc. If I manage to finish it I'll update, but I've basically given up at "Early Madrid" Edit: I beat the DLC, it does get easier after "Early Madrid" then shoots sky high in difficulty for "Battle of the Ebro" then Catalonia and Madrid 1939 are fairly painless, but good God this DLC is hard for the beginning of a campaign. The trick is doing huge encirclements and capturing a ton of soviet tanks to use yourself (encirclements are fine, but I hate the meta is using captured tanks that germany only scarcely used) I'd recommend you play it but with a huge HUGE buyer beware.