ask-for-help-here

[half glade]

best unit ever made

[covert fog]

average china player ahh

[errant chasm]

Yeah

[fickle panther]

Hey, if I wanna by the Big Nations Bundle and the General Bundle, can I buy them both even though they both have base game?

[rustic marlin]

what the heck

[half glade]

average netherlands player

[rustic marlin]

why did they have 300 divisions

[covert fog]

add more infantry

[half glade]

i have no need

[covert fog]

trust

[errant chasm]

Wait that wasnt the thing i wanted to show you my mistake

[half glade]

did i just finish the game???

[rustic marlin]

sorry to pile on questions but what is garisson divsions. are they to defeat the resistance?

[errant chasm]

yes that is the soft end date you can continue tho

[rustic marlin]

I think I know how to assign them

[half glade]

oh

wait

i get the achievement for 1948 game

let me check

[errant chasm]

yes

[half glade]

i got these yay

[errant chasm]

not to be confused with port garrisons which are physically on the map

[errant chasm]

i did treading a narrow path yesterday, good job

[rustic marlin]

oh theres a lot of resistance in africa

[half glade]

didnt even know it existed

i love playing iron man and getting random achievements

fulfils my life

well

i think thats my most successful game ever

[rustic marlin]

uh

[covert fog]

my most succesful game was 1960 democratic romania on non historical

[half glade]

this was non historical

[covert fog]

nice

[half glade]

hence ugly poland

why didnt they accept my federalisation

[covert fog]

idk

[cosmic thicket]

im a beginner, anyone wanting to help me a little bit? i know most of the basics just need to know how to attack the enemy well because i got taken as germany against lithuania on civilian difficulty

[peak elk]

Yo, congrats!

[half glade]

thanks man!

im releasing all my territories as puppets

so i can get the 51 puppet achievement

[errant chasm]

never knew brentry was an achivement when I did my EU netherlands game. Must have been from the Beligum dlc

[rustic marlin]

what the heck is doctrines do

[half glade]

idk man its funny though

[errant chasm]

gives you buffs

[austere roost]

hover over them to see what the doctrines give

[rustic marlin]

ok but the guide guy is talm bout some shaping it around ur strategy

what does that mean???

[austere roost]

meta is gbp + individual excellence + self propelled support + streamlined/tank destroyer + grand assault but that's for maining tank divisions

[austere roost]

because doctrines decide what are buffed you pick doctrines to fit what you're producing

[rustic marlin]

Ok why main tanks?

[austere roost]

it's more spg/tds and not tanks

because they are the strongest units in the game right now to provide damage

[rustic marlin]

SPG is self propelled artillery? don't know what TDS is

[austere roost]

TD(s)

[rustic marlin]

TanK divisions?

ok

[austere roost]

yes spg is self propelled artillery

[peak elk]

Important.

[austere roost]

td for tank destroyers

[errant chasm]

Tank Derangement Syndrome /s

[peak elk]

Bitt3rsteel does gbp assault inf grand assault

I like the guy

[austere roost]

bittersteel is not a good source for meta

among active english hoi4 ytbers segl is the best i guess

[rustic marlin]

bittersteel?

[peak elk]

Yes, I just mentioned him because: I like the guy

[half glade]

this was a super fun playthrough

my best yet

[austere roost]

he's a guy who's famous for the germany newbie guides that babyfeed you a germany victory in hoi4

[half glade]

i gotta use allies more often

[rustic marlin]

Why would you need a guide specific to a specific country

[peak elk]

Because when you play different countries you'll see that they require you to make decisions under very different circumstances.

[rustic marlin]

reinforced electrical grid helps ur factories right?

[errant chasm]

btw how many hours you got into hoi4?

[peak elk]

And to some people it may be difficult to decide what to prioritise

[peak elk]

If it says energy req. per infrastructure then yes

Theres another one about resource gain

[untold ridge]

what should I do if i dont understand the game at all and the tutorial was hella confusing and overwhelming

[peak elk]

Yeah the tutorial is shitty

[austere roost]

because otherwise we would have hundreds of guys here who won't read won't think and can't beat Poland asking for the most basic help

[peak elk]

So, in my opinion, just playing around, losing one game after annother doesn't help you learn. I think it's best to watch some beginner guides. Hoi4 content creators usually explain what matters and why that stuff matters. You'll get a good understanding of the game. I also suggest you not join multiplayer games yet.

[errant bear]

heyy I need help please. so I'm playing Germany but one of my successor guys isn't doing his focus. he did one but he's not doing the second one. the other two have done their focuses a while ago. can I fix it?

[cosmic thicket]

hello, im a beginner. anyone wanting to help me a little bit? i know most of the basics just need to know how to attack the enemy well because i got taken as germany against lithuania on civilian difficulty

[austere roost]

it takes a while for your inner council to do the next focus

[peak elk]

Mate, there's no need to be such an elitist. We're all gamers here. We help each other.

[rustic marlin]

I was gonna tell you an excessively long story about why I even have HOI4 in my steam library but i'll just tell you effectively like 6 hours

[austere roost]

i'm just saying that it would be overflooded with messages here

[peak elk]

Hey, what do you need?

[rustic marlin]

dw i'm watchig a guide

[errant bear]

yeah but two of them had already finished it and the thing is it's been a long while since that one guy has done his focus. like two or three years believe it or not

[cosmic thicket]

so when im attacking for example lithuania with 40 divisions and they have 8, they still win

i just cant understand it

[glacial steeple]

because hoi4 is mostly about playing your specific country/circumstances correctly

[rustic marlin]

WHY ARE THEY SKULL

[peak elk]

Okay whats your division template, can you share a screenshot?

[cosmic thicket]

or how to defend air attacks or how to send air missions to attack

[rustic marlin]

are they DYING because i'm training them

[cosmic thicket]

im not in the game rn

sorry

i just have the game for like 3 hours

[austere roost]

you should try following bittersteel's germany guide. Under historical it's not worth for germany to attack lithuania

[peak elk]

@cosmic thicket ^

[rustic marlin]

didn't you say that that spoonfeeds you it

[austere roost]

yes so you don't make the basic mistakes

you still have to play the game to win it

then once you can recreate what bittersteel did you can try making changes

[peak elk]

They don't do it continously. Not sure but I think there should be some kind of a cooldown for the inner circle guys.

[rustic marlin]

Should I top off my army groups and have them all at 24?

[peak elk]

He does, but the thing is he explains why you should do these things which will let you expand your knowledge on your after a certain point.

[rustic marlin]

K

[peak elk]

Doesn't really matter afaik.

[cosmic thicket]

wanna call for a sec so i can show ya what you wanted to see

[austere roost]

as long as your command structure (# of divisions, field marshals, etc.) allows it there's nothing wrong

[cosmic thicket]

the division somethin

[peak elk]

Can't

[errant bear]

a whole 2 to 3 years cooldown is insane though. I'm almost at the end now, only have usa and china to beat. really thing there's a problem with it cuz the guy hasn't done anything for a long while now

[austere roost]

obv if you have 120 divs you might want to get 5 generals of 24 divs in one field marshal

[cosmic thicket]

so whats the division template, im playing italy rn

[peak elk]

I don't know whats the problem then. The inner circlr buffs aren't that necessary most of the time. Esp. on singleplayer

[rustic marlin]

Does HP recover like Organization?

[austere roost]

yes it's just equipment and manpower reinforcements

[rustic marlin]

OHhh

so if they like run out of equipment and manpower then they DIE

[austere roost]

hp is just that

70% of your damage will become hp damage

[peak elk]

Ok press U on your keyboard. You'll see the recruitment tab. On the right side there are infantry, armor, motorised divisions. Click "edit" and you'll see the division template. Take screenshots and send them here

[errant bear]

mm don't really care about the buffs themselves. I'm already like mad strong I have soooo many factories. I just wanna have the focus done yk. feels cool to reach the end of it

[austere roost]

so the higher your hp, the less real damage you take for the same unit of damage

[rustic marlin]

what about the other

[peak elk]

You can use the console if you really want to

[austere roost]

your org takes 100% of damage and hp takes 70% damage

[rustic marlin]

you mean 30%?

[austere roost]

no we're talking about base damage

[errant bear]

nah that's cheating I don't like that xd guess I'll finish this game and try again with another dude who actually does his focuses lol

[austere roost]

and your org pool and hp pool are two separate pools

[rustic marlin]

OH

[golden sable]

why does reorganised china give me all their divisions

[rustic marlin]

Like the damage they take from soft and hard

[glacial steeple]

thats based on the hardness bar

[peak elk]

Boy, that's one weak infantry division.

[austere roost]

yes your damage dealt is the base damage and then the org pool takes a 100% hit and hp pool takes 70% hit

[peak elk]

Ok

[rustic marlin]

I know how that works I think

[austere roost]

which is why hp and cost are the two biggest overlooked stats by newbies

[cosmic thicket]

ohw

[errant bear]

btw Italy you actually suck I might as well kick you out and invade you. you offered me 7 divisions in the china war but romania offered 56. like come on

[austere roost]

you always take out italy instead of inviting them

[rustic marlin]

Is cost the multiplier of production time or material numbers?

[peak elk]

Ok, most of the time you'll want to use 9 infantry batallions. Click the plus icon to add 3 more infantry batallions. The support companies on the left are fine as it is.

[austere roost]

every equipment has a cost to produce

[cosmic thicket]

how do i close in the enemy from behind in a war?

[rustic marlin]

where does it say that, unless you're talking about the material requirement?

[peak elk]

First you should upgrade the division as the way I said

[austere roost]

hover over the artillery and it will show you the cost

[cosmic thicket]

i did it

3x infantry battalions added

[rustic marlin]

so what does the cost really MEAN though?

[austere roost]

most equipment's cost are available on wiki too https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Artillery_technology#Equipment

[errant bear]

like bruh they offered to join the war against the soviets and I saw like 1 or 2 of their divisions fighting in the front like. THERE'S NO OTHER WAR GOING ON WHAT IS YOUR ARMY DOING

[rustic marlin]

no i dont understand what it means

holup

looking on wiki

[peak elk]

Okay, you create a an army and a frontline. Then you press the little arrow.

[errant chasm]

Oh that's very little. Yeah unfortunately as you can tell hoi4 is not a simple pick up and play game.

[austere roost]

your base mil factory output is 4.5. It is further multiplied by current production efficiency and factory output modifier. The amount of equipment you produce daily is total output of factories in that line/cost

[candid heart]

Hi. Im new to this game but it looks giga interesting. Anyone bored enough to explain me the basics ? 😄

[cosmic thicket]

ik that

[rustic marlin]

technically I have like 90 but they don't count

[austere roost]

so if your tank is 10 cost and the enemy's tank is 20 cost, you produce twice the amount of tanks

[peak elk]

Well thats just it.

[peak elk]

@candid heart may the youtubers be your servant.

[austere roost]

or if I take concentrated and your take dispersed, by 1941 I will produce around 10-15% more equipment then you do

[rustic marlin]

OH OK
so it is a essentially multipliers or dividers or whatever that change how fast equipment is put together?

[peak elk]

You should also consider the fact that dispersed has a retention buff

[austere roost]

which is irrelevant

[rustic marlin]

I thought military factories WERE the only things that could output things
civs just make buildings, facilitate trade, repair things, apparently make you stronger somehow???
and they also make stuff for people
which is apparently something I want to minimize

[peak elk]

Well anyways gtg I wish y'all a great time

[rustic marlin]

retention?

[rustic marlin]

gn

[austere roost]

civs also have their own production output since buildings have cost too

[rustic marlin]

ohh

and i guess dockyards do too?

do labs?

[austere roost]

how much efficiency you retain when you switch production lines but it's a useless stat

[rustic marlin]

switch from civ to mil?

[austere roost]

dockyards have their own efficiency too, you can check the industry techs and it will tell you

[austere roost]

no when you switch an equipment being produced in the same line

[rustic marlin]

Ah

I see

Whats the difference between that and just deleting the old line and opening up a new one for the new thing

[austere roost]

it's useless because you barely switch equipment production line

[austere roost]

that depends on production baseline

[rustic marlin]

baseline?

[hollow sparrow]

if anyone needs help let me know 😄

[austere roost]

baseline is 10% and base retention is 30%

[austere roost]

starting efficiency

after the first day passes, your factories start at 10% efficiency unless you have baseline buffs

but they don't matter because concentrated catches up in a year

[rustic marlin]

where can I view that? logistics?

[zinc crescent]

How big of a buff does having 100% Intel on the navy,air force and the army using the spy agency gives you

[rustic marlin]

I assume you mean it catches up to 100%

[austere roost]

no i mean a new factory under concentrated catches up to dispersed factories in a year

[austere roost]

no you can check that in your production queues

[rustic marlin]

OHHH so they increase in effiency over time

So efficency is like organization but for buildings

[austere roost]

i guess you can say that

[golden sable]

when does azad hind appear

[austere roost]

cuz it takes time for factories to be proficient with producing the equipment

[rustic marlin]

I see

HOI4 hippocampus mass increasing

[candid heart]

I like it more personal D:

[austere roost]

so for production, the only important stats are production efficiency cap and factory output

[gaunt vortex]

Dude idk why I am receiving 0 supply from my allies territory

[rustic marlin]

K that makes sense pretty well

guide says to always attack from multiple sides

how do I force the divisions to do that

[errant bear]

question bout trading. so I noticed axis has problems when it comes to rubber. can I trade rubber with a country that has a lot of it right before starting the war? would the rubber which you traded stay?

[wild rune]

no

resource stockpile doesn't exist

[fathom thistle]

Just take Netherlands so you get dutch indies if you really need that rubber

[errant bear]

okay good to know thanks

[cosmic thicket]

do you know anyone or like a youtube video or channel that i can watch to learn HOI4

[errant bear]

how does netherlands give me dutch indies?

[fathom thistle]

Cuz it's their puppet. If you finish them you get indies too

You get them early 37 for efficiency. If you don't care about going pure historical

[errant bear]

really? cuz I did finish netherlands before france but I don't think it gave me indies. it gave it to me after I took down england

[wild rune]

Watch the guide posted by the official hoi4 channel then watch segl

[fathom thistle]

You do it before all that so they don't join them

To be precise before world tension reaches 25

If they join allies it's too late

[austere roost]

taking netherlands before you start ww2 is great so you can own the oil in Curacao and the rubber in Indonesia

[wild rune]

before your world tension reaches 10% contributed

[errant bear]

ohh so indies is a netherlands's puppet early game then they join england?

[austere roost]

also the ships give you a better chance against the RN

[fathom thistle]

This

[rustic marlin]

How do I see how many production points my factories are making per-day

I mean output

[errant bear]

wow didn't know that. thanks yall ❤️

[wild rune]

hover over the number being produced in production tab

[fathom thistle]

No but Netherlands join allies normally. And if there is another major in faction indies won't capitulate

Like they would if you yeeted Netherlands early

[rustic marlin]

My factories are powered as long as they have enough coal right?

[austere roost]

you justify on indonesia to get lower world tension generated

[rustic marlin]

what are industrial capacity outputs

[errant bear]

how come taking netherlands historically doesn't give me indies?

[austere roost]

same with you justify on phillipines to declare war on usa unless you want to quickly raise wt to do something

[old epoch]

i never buyed hoi 4 wich to buy

?

[rustic marlin]

I might have already asked this but does efficency effect milfacts

[fathom thistle]

Cuz historically you don't take Netherlands in 37 when you still can do it without the war tension causing them joining allies

[errant bear]

lol I don't think I'm good enough to take america's navy early on xd

[wild rune]

?

what are milfacts

[rustic marlin]

I MEANT civillian

civillian factories

does efficency affect them

[old epoch]

i never buyed hoi 4 wich to buy
?

[fickle bear]

how can i execute a single battle plan on my general like when it doesnt activate all of the other battle plans?

[errant bear]

mm okay. so just take netherlands early and indies in mine, right? cool. thanks a bunch

[fathom thistle]

Justify on indies tho

Less tension

[errant bear]

btw they should do a patch for when you take down england and take all of their lands, Japan won't attack you for having those lands. they could just yk, ask you like a normal person. cuz releasing all the nations manually so they won't declare war on you is annoying

thing is they do ask you about one of those lands but they don't do it for the rest. like dude I'd give them to you happily why launch a whole war against me

[rustic marlin]

so military factory output is this????

x = number of modifiers

[austere roost]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Production#Factories the equation is here

It's 4.5*E*(1+M) in your assumptions

assuming no resource deficiencies

[rustic marlin]

doesn't it go down to 3.5 if unpowered, like as in not enough coal?

[austere roost]

oh yeah coal, but coal is barely a problem now

[minor ruin]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1170929861733388368/1509439422494412963/attachment.gif

this game… it’s all math

[wild rune]

no

[rustic marlin]

how should I prioritize my production lines

[wild rune]

depends on build

[rustic marlin]

wdym build

[austere roost]

what units do you want to produce? what equipment do they need? if you can answer those then you know what to produce

[vital plinth]

👍

Can I use line art with them ? Doctrine gives 20% more soft attack to line arts

[wild rune]

go for combat width reduction on mountaineers instead of that

[rustic marlin]

should I disband outdated airwings

[gleaming umbra]

is there any way to change what type of garrison your puppet uses?

[rustic marlin]

how do i use equipment tags

[shy schooner]

where should I drrop My paratroopers on uk?

[oak root]

Ports.

[wild rune]

no

[wild rune]

Ports if you are trying to airlion or vps if you are trying to insta cap them

[wild rune]

no

[oak root]

Get your invading army positioned onto your own ports, and then get air superiority and then drop the guys on the ports, get them, and then bum rush sending your guys across the channel, expect some losses unless you did a wierd plan z strat and it actually worked.

[oak root]

Impossible if you dont have the mod for making collab governments

[wild rune]

?

[oak root]

You dang well near have to take every bit of land in the UK to cap it and feels like theyve got a garrison in london around the clock

[oak root]

La Resistance, not included when you buy the game unless you buy that oober expensive 80 dollar pack.

[wild rune]

I see

[rustic marlin]

should I give each of my fleets 10 ships?

[wild rune]

?

no

[rustic marlin]

i mean uh

taskforces

[wild rune]

10 fleets per admiral

idk

[rustic marlin]

oh I thought they were called task forces

[wild rune]

I might be wrong

idk

[uncut rose]

cheers :)

two quick things

1, how do I decide what to do to a defeated nation? puppet? annex?

I usually play germany tbh

no clue how to handle it once I capitulate britain, theres just so much

[austere roost]

usually annex is better

unless you want to create a buffer wall for some reason

[red mesa]

It worked then, congrats

[uncut rose]

yup, took all of the allies 😭

[uncut rose]

can I ask why? For some reason the nations annexed always loathe me

Im always at like 60% resistance with single horse divisions as the garry, and local police

[austere roost]

yeah cuz there was a government in exile

norway and poland are notorious for that

[uncut rose]

is there anything I can do to help it?

[austere roost]

there's no more exile since you annexed the allies

so you don't have that problem anymore

[uncut rose]

okay fair

thank you

whats "coring"

[austere roost]

making something a core

it's pretty much irrelevant in hoi4 since your cores are predetermined in 99% of cases

the other one being anarchist spain

[uncut rose]

does that mean I get everything from it?

[austere roost]

yes

[shy schooner]

Vps?

[austere roost]

unless you're communist

if you have 100% compliance with liberated workers you get 10% more factories and resources than if it was a core

[shy schooner]

Okay

[keen hemlock]

what a balanced game

[austere roost]

cores still give you more manpower

[uncut rose]

oh wow fair enough

[austere roost]

like the ideal ussr would be a nation where resource states are non-core while no resource states are core

[uncut rose]

same ive mainly ran germany, too afraid to watch another 2 hour vid to learn another nation

[austere roost]

but like you're not getting 100% compliance until 1945 so it doesn't matter that much actually

[neat widget]

nothing much, basically got a new job at an entertainment center

[oak root]

Longest ive ever played was 1958. Waited that long so I could nuke America and cap it.

[uncut rose]

calm, cheers

[neat widget]

it's not very often that there's a normal amount of people here, it's either a flood of people or barely anyone

[neat widget]

with the us it's just finding a way to deal with its sheer mass

but a few years in hoi4 are transformative

[uncut rose]

is there a guide anywhere that shows somewhat of an efficient route to getting the game's achievments? icl im having fun, but I love having something to "work to", after capitulating europe I usually lose motivation tbh

[oak root]

I always just

[keen hemlock]

i use the wiki

they have some guides

even tho they kinda suck

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2991927852

i use this too

[oak root]

Obliterated the supply hubs in the north and then encirle the entire North Atlantic before plowing straight in

It worked pretty well

They crumble pretty quick, except for my first one, they put up a defense at the virginia line

Had to break out down southeast and sweep across georgia

[neat widget]

i usually make a bridgehead in the us and destroy the us airforce, which numbers in the tens of thousands

[oak root]

(Dont know how I pulled that off, like 1 tank division was capping atlanta 100 miles away from any reinforcements

[neat widget]

honestly a very brute force strategy, but not one that lasts very long with 100 planes getting shot down on each side

[austere roost]

tbh against vanilla ai you can just invade from greenland to nova scotia

and then push with all your troops

[wild rune]

victory points

[neat widget]

or cuba into florida

or through the mexican border

[keen hemlock]

bermuda

[uncut rose]

thank you :)

[austere roost]

yeah vanilla ai usa is very easy to beat late game because vanilla ai is stupid

[oak root]

I feel like its not that brute force, when you break through the initial line near buffalo, the entire north east kinda collapses. It always gets easy to encircle because everything relocates to the north.

[uncut rose]

one last thing, if i have a lot of spread out land, ie as the uk starting, or germany after sea lion, how do I actually defend it? Can I?

[oak root]

Port garrisons

They have to invade via ports or their army runs outa supplys and starves to death

[keen hemlock]

usually i just send my puppets or have my allies

if i dont have any i have port garrisons

[neat widget]

you're going from canada?

that's a luxury some might not have

but it's a good option if you do have it

[oak root]

"Yo our armys only 2.5 mil and our airforce is already at 4k fights in one tile we can sto-"
"MORE FREAKIN ARMORED BIRDS WITH PEASHOOTERS!"

[neat widget]

land warfare is usually brute force in a different way air warfare is

air warfare is "stack as many planes as you can get over one airzone and kill or get killed"

[austere roost]

i feel like I've seen vanilla ai build modern tanks 🤣

[neat widget]

land warfare is "reinforce meme the enemy with as much attack and break as you need" (most likely in the thousands)

[uncut rose]

how do I do that may I ask?

[errant chasm]

That sounds nice. I guess it depends on what's happening at the entertainment center so I am not surprised on the busyness there.

[oak root]

That was dring my germany run. So I did the paradrops on uk and kinda just fell apart after that

[neat widget]

i see

doesn't take 18 years to kill the us though

[oak root]

I forgot, took a bit of a haitis from hoi 4. But there should be a shield icon when you select units and an anchor that lets you click over your sea touching land and it auto sends to ports

[oak root]

Well yeah but

I took an extra ammount of time building up to drop russia

Was a bit too nervous to go down the historical route germany faced

But aye

It worked

[neat widget]

yeah

[oak root]

Soviets fell like wet paper after the ukraine encirclement

[neat widget]

fair enough

however it took me until 1949 to kill the us china and the ussr... as greece

[oak root]

I did ALOT of side quests waiting for america

I honestly wasnt planning on taking them at first

[austere roost]

i still don't get why byzantium can't restore rome like how italy can

[oak root]

And then i got that event they do that says "Gimmie canada or u die"

I then brought my entire army to canada expecting them to declare.

.. They didnt declare, I had to do it myself

[neat widget]

yeah i went down that path

[austere roost]

if moroccans suddenly get a roman passport under italian rule what's stoping them from getting it under greek rule

[neat widget]

a bit bizarre

[austere roost]

oh wait mussolini called himself king of muslims or something?

maybe that's the difference

[neat widget]

sword of islam, but yeah

but if greece can core egypt and syria

that's not much of a difference

[oak root]

Also js a thing America had plenty of nukes. All im gonna say is I dropped 4-5 nukes on america meanwhile they tried and failed miserably to drop a single bomb on paris, leningrad, or moscow

Wierd targets.

But I digress

[neat widget]

nukes can be used as an extension of strategic bombing

or they can be used tactically

either way you lose war support

[austere roost]

yeah but then you have to deal with the aftermath of the nukes when you occupy it

[oak root]

I did that.

I originally tried to nuke every big supply hub in the northeast

So new York, Boston, Washington DC, and Chicago

[neat widget]

fair enough ig

[oak root]

Washington was a dud

Rest of them worked

[uncut rose]

it gives a "min" number

[neat widget]

nukes don't feature very much in my gameplays tbh

[uncut rose]

but makes a HUGE army max number

should I fill the max number?

[neat widget]

once i get nukes i already have most of the things i want

[austere roost]

the game is decided by 1943 in most of the cases anyway

[uncut rose]

had minimum on dutch east indies and the japanese tickled me

[austere roost]

you barely finished the nuclear project by then

[wild rune]

true

[oak root]

Whos funner? Germany or USA

[neat widget]

like the ability to kill 10k us planes

[austere roost]

historical then it's germany

[uncut rose]

germany and youre in combat from like day 5

[errant chasm]

I mean the idea of forming Byzantium in the first place is an absurd thing to do in the first place. But yeah Paradox could have added a few more cores like integrate the western roman territories. Maybe in the next Greece rework lmao.

[neat widget]

germany's a lot of juggling, with the us the gameplay's mor straightforward

[austere roost]

cuz usa has to deal with depression and isolationism first

[wild rune]

Ger imo

[neat widget]

rush down the medium aircraft tree

[uncut rose]

my mate had to beg me for 72 divisions to pull it off 😭

[oak root]

USA would be so much funner if you could declare on anyone

[neat widget]

for the largest economy in the world the US is elegantly simple

[austere roost]

playing dem in this game is just torture

[wild rune]

dem italy

[austere roost]

unless you're doing historical france soloing germany

[keen hemlock]

i kept on failing the guide for it

[austere roost]

then it's sort of challenging and fun

[wild rune]

democratic italy is busted

[austere roost]

taking on germany during rhineland is difficult

but like it's because you don't have time to fix france

[errant chasm]

I mean I am not totally unsurprised. Byzantium is meant to be challenging and an absurd Greece path anyways.

[shy schooner]

The problem is
Idk which location has the most vps on UK

[keen hemlock]

random question

how do you disable dlcs

[glacial steeple]

playset

[errant chasm]

go to the launcher and disable whatever dlcs you want

is your launcher broken or smth

[glacial steeple]

they changed it

[keen hemlock]

thanks

[errant chasm]

oh yeah i see it now

[keen hemlock]

i need the india achivment

that paradox forgot to update

[uncut rose]

should I fill out a defence order army completely?

do I just use my normal inf template?

usually 9 inf, aa, support arty, shovel dudes

[keen hemlock]

how do research bonuses interect with researching something multiple years ahead of time

[glacial steeple]

research faster

afaik it just tells you

[keen hemlock]

ok

[austere roost]

yeah use your research bonus on ahead of time things

for example for ussr you want to time the industry research bonuses from 3rd 5yp to after you start researching 1939 concentrated and production so you can get those bonuses on 1941 industry tech

which also means you can use the final 2 year research buff for industry on 1943 concentrated

[uncut rose]

is this all I gotta do? Hold ports? Are vps worth holding if I have a land border too?

[rustic marlin]

how do I make training not eat all fuel

[austere roost]

for navy, only train subs if you don't have enough fuel

also shift-k means train until regular level which helps prevent fuel waste

[rustic marlin]

im tryna do it to divisions

Also can I trash my shit inter-war planes that you have at the start

iss it possible to recycle them?

also what do I need in terms of a naval fleet

The guide I watched said I needed to constantly make ships but I dont wanna do that

also apparently subs can fight in naval battles but aren't you supposed to keep subs out of your task forces because they're slow?

game keeps telling me i have planes in storagge
i am NOT using ts bro

the guide also told me to finish the production of the starting ships

but they're all like outdated and stuff

[golden sable]

why did portugal declare on me randomly as japan

now the entire axis is on me

[neat widget]

no, if you delete them they disappear

just sell them probably

or use them in secondary theaters

[neat widget]

that always happens, they have a war goal to protect macau lmao

another strange japan related wargoal is chile's, which drags the entire allies in even after japan has capitulated

[golden sable]

broo how to solve it now

i dont want to fight germany

[austere roost]

you can try selling them in the international market if you have aat, and also you don't need to build the pre-dreadnoughts and panzerschiffs. They suck

[golden sable]

how to make peace

without annex or being annexed

[errant chasm]

good question, you can't because paradox hasn't really implemented a white peace system besides a few scripted scenarios.

[golden sable]

as japan, why do i take all my subject's divisons

[uncut rose]

are any alt history paths good for germany?

oops bruh wrong discord

other text is right

[uncut rose]

monarchist?

[uncut rose]

would be an awesome feature

[calm cliff]

i've got 5 paratroop orders. Why aren't they going ?

does it take days for them to take off ?

[errant chasm]

do you have enough transport planes and are they station at the airport?

[calm cliff]

yes

[neat widget]

it takes like 7 days to prepare i believe

[calm cliff]

oh ok. So, i just wasn't patient enough.

So, is it best to set the order, wait a few days, then start the war ?

[golden sable]

how top tell puppet to stop giving me troops

[errant chasm]

you can't unless if you install an ironman breaking mod

[rustic marlin]

what

[errant chasm]

what mod is this?

[rustic marlin]

road to 56

[left glacier]

[errant chasm]

oh okay so looking at this, yeah the army training doesn't give you a whole lot of army xp iirc.

[rustic marlin]

k. i'm js gonna have to wait for ever to get xp?

[errant chasm]

hire a chief of the army (check your officer corps and go to the army section and put someone there) the tooltip should say it gives you army xp

[calm cliff]

How does the enemy have air superiority?

[keen hemlock]

you dont have enough planes up to have it

[calm cliff]

I had 1200 fighters and as far as I could tell, they had none.

or i'm not doing something right

[keen hemlock]

click on the air zone

sometimes my air zones glitch out and they have no color

[errant chasm]

trying to do a great hunger path achivement is historical or Ferenc's path better. I might do the Better than the Szent István achivement too not sure if fascist path removes Horthy from the game which I need.

[calm cliff]

i won the war, i just don't understand why i had no air superiorty nor why I couldn't launch my paratroopers. At first it was that I didn't wait long enough for them to drop. But I watched the timer and when it hit 0, they still didn't drop.

[calm cliff]

if the air zone glitched, I wouldn't know. I would just think i was doing something wrong.

[keen hemlock]

i think i used this guide

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2991927852

[errant chasm]

thanks bookmarking that, btw if you do Ferenc's path does this kick Horthy for the rest of the game for the Szent Istvan achivement.

[keen hemlock]

idk

if you want that go for austria hungary

[errant chasm]

okay thanks

oops i forgot to turn back on historical after playing the Netherlands yesterday lol.

[warped river]

question, whats a good template just sa a normal mass produceable infantry for holding off points

I dont think the ones in templates work for my strategy

which is to use tanks as an elite force of course

but with a lot of infantry

[iron veldt]

AA, SA, shovels & a 3x3 inf

[neat widget]

anti-air, support artillery, 3x3 inf typically

with engineers you start getting out of the realm of mass production

and into the realm of quality infantry

[errant chasm]

<@&846894118219022336> scammer

[old epoch]

if i never got hoi 4 i should buy the normal?? what cost 50 euro

[cobalt cradle]

l

[peak elk]

Wdym never got hoi4? Are you sailing the high seas, gentleman?

[dense flume]

what are the main reasons for MP rules, which seem to be overreach vs reasonable? and why have these rules?

[cold bloom]

If you dont have piles of money you could wait for sale, the game goes on sale pretty often

And Id get that starter bundle with La Resistance

[dense flume]

i hear about spacemarines and wonder what is the deal, since all sides can make them, but maybe the bigger countries may have an edge over smaller, but still if it is equal across all the majors, maybe smaller countries space marines are ok but not majors?

What is the process to flip governments into friendly governements?

stage a coup?

collaboration government?

[wild rune]

or

i think top is better

[bronze grove]

Yes top is better

[glacial steeple]

how could this be worse