ask-for-help-here

[pliant condor]

are u in a rael game

[stuck garnet]

is this a good idea

[pliant condor]

or is the goal just go beat china

[fading fern]

Why haven't my infrantry divisions orders assigned? The mounteneers just don't have a path due to missing naval supremacy. The whole army is supposed to invade spain when I justified a wargoal

[vital plaza]

real game

[pastel scroll]

[stuck garnet]

this isn't for combat to clarify

[vital plaza]

historical

[versed rose]

a real mp vanilla manchu wow

[pliant condor]

well the best thing you can do as manchu

[pastel scroll]

what is it for then?

[pliant condor]

is hard tech xacavation

[stuck garnet]

training

[pastel scroll]

... no

[pliant condor]

and do something useful(apart from making an army) like making railway guns

[stuck garnet]

might conveert to regular inf or like. tanks idk

[upper siren]

there is a cap to how many units can be assigned to the same naval invasion order.

[noble summit]

i was always told artillery was completely useless

[stuck garnet]

and i want mastery 🙏

[upper siren]

can be increased using tech.

[pliant condor]

making army would just be useless

[pastel scroll]

use it for light attack when you can't make anything better

[noble summit]

always has been though

[analog maple]

how did france do this? i am on historical.

[versed rose]

Japan's excav and railway gun slave lmao, almost as fun as New Zealand (not)

[upper siren]

I know.

[fading fern]

I thought the cap was 10 for italy by default?

[stuck garnet]

i heard it's okie dokie when you enemy doesn't have gun2s

[vital plaza]

why not the horse/arty sup one?

[noble summit]

i was always told pure inf with combat support vehicles, AA and hospitals was better

[pastel scroll]

you're fighting Chinese death stack here without industry, use artillery then

[upper siren]

you can see it in the officer corps (navy section).

[vital plaza]

railway guns sounds like a good idea

[vale gulch]

does anybody know how to naval invade UK as Germany in the new update?

[pliant condor]

yeah im talking about that one

[mental ivy]

loaded to an earlier save cuz my fleets were irrecoverable, im planning on invading from wilhelmshaven to helm as what is usually recommended, yet this update changed stuff up so its not the same as before, therefore im screwed cuz idk what the new meta is now

[pastel scroll]

right... can he make those as Muchko?

[pliant condor]

you just won't do anything useful with an army

[upper siren]

for japan its 2 naval invasions with 6 troops each at start.

[pliant condor]

also grind the railway gun doctrine if you are making railway gun

you can also do both

I think excav 4 gives you oil decisions

[fading fern]

Thank you. So would it work to create a second invasion with the other 4 troops? I tried that last time and it somehow didn't work out. They never left port. Neither of them

[mental ivy]

genuinely dont know what im supposed to use for navy, i heard light cruisers are the most bang for your buck kinda thing when it comes to easy supremacy?

[upper siren]

idk. it should work but given what you said I am not sure.

[fading fern]

I aimed both at the same port. Could that have been the error?

[noble summit]

your navy is small, how much did you invest into it?

[bleak merlin]

doctrine is confusing now

[mental ivy]

wait i shouldve loaded an earlier save, all those orange sub thingies had 10 subs each

[noble summit]

so arty is good when playing something like Hungary, Romania etc?

[pliant condor]

it should only be easier

you can get free supremacy now

[bleak merlin]

how do you even grind mastery - is it just from fighting or something

[pliant condor]

just put your fleet on patrol and you have supremacy

[pliant condor]

it's never going to help you

[noble summit]

surface ships are more important for supremacy, convoy raiding doesn't add supremacy anymore, it simply decreases the enemy's

[mental ivy]

against the royal navy?? im outnumbered badly

[upper siren]

I dont think so.

[fading fern]

I was able to set a second invasion. Now one path is green and one is red. Which is confusing because I do not have naval dominance yet to not waste fuel

Edit.
Both are red. Sry. Accidentally hovered above one of them

[noble summit]

then how should i push? That's what i want to know

[upper siren]

wha.

[fast bear]

new update usa should i go commie of facist ?

[pastel scroll]

you're not going into war in 1937 as Hungry or Romania though, you can spend your time trying to make good infantry, not having to hot wire something for like Manchuko or China there

[mental ivy]

can i just spam light cruisers? cuz i heard theyre the most bang for my buck when it comes to not really caring for navy but wanting supremacy anyway

[pliant condor]

they don't use their navy

click on the english channel seazone

[raven snow]

how do you add planes to carriers

[pliant condor]

by playing good

if you have 2 divisions, the enemy has 1, it's more advantage than any artillery can bring

[noble summit]

how does one play good when he barely has enough mils to equip his frontlines troops who have no support companies?

[pliant condor]

czech, poland hungary, romania all have quite a log of mils

[noble summit]

uhh in my experience 2 basic pure inf can't dislodge a basic pure inf if it is entrenched

[pliant condor]

and many oppurtunity to expand

[noble summit]

such as? in historical that is

[pliant condor]

you see

the issue is that you are thinking template is somehow important

this game is not templates 1v1ing each other

[pliant condor]

^

[versed rose]

make more gun

more gun = more div

more div = more win

[pliant condor]

czech would annex germany in 38

[noble summit]

i worded the message incorrectly

[pliant condor]

hungary would form austria hungary

poland would annex baltics or annex germany in 39

romania is well literally in your focus tree

at the top

[raven snow]

how do you add planes to carriers

[pastel scroll]

You click on the carrier and add it?

[raven snow]

i dont see any button

oh now i see it

[pastel scroll]

Glad I helped?

[glacial steeple]

hi chat

[hushed bay]

what divisions should i use

[raven snow]

thanks

[radiant dirge]

I don't get the new navy sistem

Like i want to fight the enemy but they don't engage me at all

[pliant condor]

that describes exactly how the old system works

[mental ivy]

ahh wow wth, yea its just giving me an easy 70-80 ish % w my surface fleet

[pliant condor]

in the new one they seem more likely to engage

[radiant dirge]

Lots of boats you win

[pliant condor]

yeah paradox can't code ai xd

[pliant condor]

still the same

at least i find uk willing to engage near their mainland

if you are playing like japan ofc you won't ever engage anything

[radiant dirge]

Yeah but i want to fight the enemy and i can't find them

[vital plaza]

why excavation?

[radiant dirge]

No i engage them but they run away

And i spend 1 more year looking for them again

[glacial steeple]

thats normal

[pliant condor]

probably the most useful thing your nation can do

[glacial steeple]

just take your land objectives

[trail reef]

is this it or is it more behind the dlc?

[pliant condor]

if they run away, you have supremacy, you have won

[glacial steeple]

manchu gameplay is real sleeper

[radiant dirge]

Yeah but want to fight the navy for fun i guess

[glacial steeple]

you can do subspam tho

thats kinda fun

as manchu

[glacial steeple]

you can always engage the navy if you force them to operate in a certain sea zone/ports

[pliant condor]

the way i think about this is that

ai split their navy anyway

[glacial steeple]

like singapore

[pliant condor]

so you won't get real engagement

[radiant dirge]

Yeah as japan i want big fleat and sink the american one

[pliant condor]

it's basically cheating

(

[glacial steeple]

you shouldnt fight the americans

japan didnt want to irl

and its bad in game

its that simple

[versed rose]

@glacial steeple you got any thoughts on inf subdoctrine? ik cw reduction is good and assault inf is good, but what do you think of individual excellence and great war infantry

[trail reef]

is this the entire communist path or is it more if i buy the dlc???

[pliant condor]

in the current version ai is just not very capable of moving the fleet lol

[radiant dirge]

Idk i win but just asking how to find them

[glacial steeple]

great war inf is great early game and best for china

[radiant dirge]

I build 2x 150 ship fleets

[glacial steeple]

individual excellence is kinda bad

[radiant dirge]

I want to use them

[versed rose]

maybe if the 15% hp applied correctly, i really want it to be good rip

[glacial steeple]

its just hp

like its good if you infinite force attack ig

[versed rose]

infinite force attack Japan with the cp gain and less force attack cost focus

lmao

[glacial steeple]

yeah but thats all hp does

substitute org

[analog maple]

guys how did france create thier own faction on historical? arent they suppuse to join the allies

[glacial steeple]

and less losses

[versed rose]

guess the cw reduction one would be better for that kind of meme anyway

[glacial steeple]

i mean theres some funny stuff

[ivory oak]

how do I do multiple paradrops?

[glacial steeple]

if china survives 770 days sinkiang can get this (maybe not the doctrine 10% tho)

@versed rose (image didnt send earlier)

[versed rose]

85% wtf

[glacial steeple]

:DD

[versed rose]

spirit of defiance should not exist

[glacial steeple]

thats not even the big one

the big one is +50% from old communist china tree

[rapid urchin]

i heard that i do cap japan as china on the historical path and when i flip fascist i lose all the built up compliance in china. How do i prevent this from happening?

[glacial steeple]

spirit of defiance just helps a lot too

[rapid urchin]

for the new DLC

[glacial steeple]

flip before capping china

[versed rose]

just kinda crazy that even exists tbh, somehow someone thought that enabling literally anyone and everyone to get +25% resistance target is a cool idea

[glacial steeple]

i think its good tbh

makes resistance not an afterthought

[rapid urchin]

okay

[glacial steeple]

its very useful to invest into garrisons now

[versed rose]

maybe

[glacial steeple]

the main nerf is to allies anyway

[ivory oak]

So am I right in saying I need Kurk Studet as a field marshal and then give him 3 to 4 armies of paratroopers to invade the UK? I'm starting a new run as Germany

[versed rose]

but like, there arent any real ways to reduce resistance target, only garrison damage taken

[glacial steeple]

ok so what

you lose less IC and manpower then

like some factories will get damaged whatever

[versed rose]

every single minor in Europe will go spirit of defiance and Germany's going to burn rip

[glacial steeple]

you cannot be complaining about spirit of defianve

which is like

an ehh thing

but kinda cool

when the allied gameplay at best is giving armies to uk/usa

because no one has doctrines

[versed rose]

yea the allied mastery gain is so cooked too idk

[sand urchin]

is this mid or good for a s potting cruiser?

[glacial steeple]

people on reddit are like 'coal nerfs minors so much!!'

like coal barely nerfs you if at all

[versed rose]

coal doesnt even touch minors tf

[glacial steeple]

but the doctrine is a huge nerf

[versed rose]

a major with like 500 factories eats like 800 coal

playing well is now punished

[vital plaza]

@pliant condor what doctrine do you reccomend for manchuko?

[glacial steeple]

i think coal is actually cool

just game balance is dead

[vital plaza]

mass assault?

[glacial steeple]

SFP in new update

for defending

[trail reef]

anyone else experiencing the dlc making the game crash every few seconds?

[glacial steeple]

but just read your buffs

[versed rose]

can you roll tactical withdrawal defending an island

[glacial steeple]

you prob wont have full doctrine

[glacial steeple]

yes

[versed rose]

wow abuse

eh, you need full operations subdoc for it to unlock

[ivory oak]

Not gonna lie I really do not like how doctrine's work now

[glacial steeple]

no the abuse is taking guam + philippines

[versed rose]

gl with that as manchu

[glacial steeple]

so japan is invulnerable

[versed rose]

havent touched navy yet

what happened

[glacial steeple]

its cool i think

[glacial steeple]

range is gone

[versed rose]

tf

how gone

[glacial steeple]

range is from uh

navy supply hubs

[versed rose]

oh god

[glacial steeple]

not from any port

and they need a level 8 port if you wanna build more

[noble summit]

so what you are saying is that i should just spam pure inf with no support companies?

[versed rose]

so Pearl cant reach Guam?

[noble summit]

i'm fairly sure Poland starts with like 7 (without no step back atleast)

[glacial steeple]

no the us can invade guam

you have range i think

its just guam + philippines are only starting allied territories with range to invade japan

and coastal forts are kinds busted

(for guam)

for philippines you just like roach

[noble summit]

How does one get range to land in the US as Japan?

[glacial steeple]

thats assuming they try to invade ofc

[glacial steeple]

same as before

you dont

and go for actually valuable targets instead

[noble summit]

how are you supposed to end the war?

[glacial steeple]

or through alaska

or through the west

like europe

[mortal owl]

if i had instoled hoi4 yesterday and now play as sowiey u what is the year i shuld start losing war with hittler

[noble summit]

from Greenland to terranova?

[ivory oak]

that's the neat part you don't

[noble summit]

that's abysmal supply

[glacial steeple]

yes

[glacial steeple]

ok

[versed rose]

then dont invade us

[mortal owl]

couse now is febuart 1941 and i am winning

[noble summit]

whats the point of playing japan then

[versed rose]

because you wanted to die for the Emperor

Tenno Heika Banzai

force attack now

[glacial steeple]

its the same as real life you want the rubber islands and oil 😭

[noble summit]

https://youtu.be/lwC3lNN5YAY?si=efrz5ZIJuXaSeaGX

[glacial steeple]

why do new japan players always hyperfixate on the US

thats not actually what you or they care about

[noble summit]

i get it, but the war isnt over

[noble summit]

because the rest is very easy...?

[versed rose]

who cares, not like the US can really do anything after it loses all the islands

[glacial steeple]

take hawaii and you can peace out iirc (i may be lying?)

[versed rose]

go kill Germany

[glacial steeple]

but i think they added some event

[noble summit]

you are lying (with my dlc setup atleast)

[glacial steeple]

NCNS

[noble summit]

i only have the integrated dlcs

[noble summit]

oh

[trail reef]

does anyone else have problems with the game crashing everytime u pause the game

[versed rose]

@glacial steeple what do you think of this

[pliant condor]

don't make an army

just pick artillery doctrine for railway gun

[stuck garnet]

is this good or should i add torps

[pliant condor]

with support artillery

[versed rose]

does it apply to spg and td, because i was thinking a light spg or light td build might be fun now that they dont cost a fortune

[pliant condor]

and you can build

and you have focu spawn in

[noble summit]

and how many battalions?

[glacial steeple]

bad compared to other stuff

[versed rose]

doesnt a good Poland get like 40 mils by danzig

[glacial steeple]

but kinda cool

[noble summit]

i start building mills from the start but i just cannot hold against Germany

[versed rose]

what would you take in that category then

[pliant condor]

it doesn't matter

whatever you start with

[noble summit]

yeah like 3

[versed rose]

spirit of defiance ig

[pliant condor]

no

[noble summit]

without no step back, yes

[versed rose]

bayonet strength and proper heritage are also good but like, they were good before smh

[pliant condor]

enough to kill germany anyways

[noble summit]

whenever i try to push with pure inf i get nothing but red bubbles

[noble summit]

how is one supposed to beat Germany?

[pliant condor]

the thing is adding artillery won't give you green magically

it doesn't give you more than what it costs

[noble summit]

when i tried as France, it did

[pliant condor]

by playing good

[glacial steeple]

for defense or attack

[pliant condor]

you get 40 mils

200 div

[glacial steeple]

iirc theres some good stuff im not on my pc rn

[pliant condor]

battleplan germany

[noble summit]

so what you are saying is, tanks are useless, you just spam inf and battleplan?

[versed rose]

always used to take proper heritage or relief of command

[pliant condor]

i never said anything about tanks

im saying that artillery never helps you

especially under the new doctrine system that gives inf 100% more stat for no reason

inf is the only thing you should make when you are on a budget

[noble summit]

and neither do all support companies apart from support arty?

[versed rose]

CW reduction and 20% soft in the same subdoctrine, cool one paradox, totally needed that

[pliant condor]

and support anti air

and if you go down assult infantry do armored recon as well

and medium flame

[noble summit]

does this count for mp as well?

[noble summit]

don't have dlc

[pliant condor]

..

for what kind of mp

for the average lobby it's probably enough

unless your opponent know how to make tanks and what

probably still die to this

[glacial steeple]

relief of command still goes crazy, proper heritage is great

[versed rose]

you never know, maybe he fights someone that makes SPGs

[noble summit]

what about special forces? I was always told the optimal offence infantry were mountaineers

[pliant condor]

yes

make mountaineers with assult infanry doctrine

[versed rose]

GBP Assault Infantry Grand Assault

chef's kiss

[noble summit]

and support engineers don't matter i suppose?

[versed rose]

totally needed that stat bloat

even have a line AT doctrine now too, so you can (cope) fight tanks if you really wanted to

lovely

[pliant condor]

still good to have

assult engineer

and do the 3 from the list(arti, armored recon, medium flame)

[versed rose]

base engineer sucks other than defending forest or something

expensive

30 support equipment is criminal

[fading fern]

Why would the path for my naval invasion be blocked?

Unable to move to a provence along its path

Reducig the army size to 6 didn't change anything

[quasi girder]

Your not at war with Spain is one I am thinking

The game will tell you "you cant move here" because without the war thats not a valid landing point

[fading fern]

Oh my god. I feel so dumb. Thx

[quasi girder]

Lol dw we all have done silly things

[onyx trout]

is ottoman empire hard to do

[glacial steeple]

engineer doctrine is funny btw

it does exactly what it says it does

[versed rose]

is it only base engineers

[glacial steeple]

its not a buff to infantry either

its a buff to engineers the support company

[versed rose]

how tf is that garbage worth a subdoctrine

[glacial steeple]

its funni

it looks rlly good if you cant read

[noble summit]

should i make specific inf with all the support companies you mentioned for attacking, and keep the rest of the army cheap with nothing to just defend if i can't afford to equip it all?

[noble summit]

green numbers in hoi4 are like a completed mission in eu4 to me

you see them and think "oooh, dis gud!"

[versed rose]

nothing really looks good in second subdoctrine branch for inf

cw on arty maybe, but arty kinda mid

[pliant condor]

I would make the whole army big

the bonuses are just too crazy

and big divs are better anyways as long as you don't lose

[versed rose]

maybe you can get enough soft from all the line arty buffs to make good portguards (cope)

[noble summit]

wouldn't they get a debuff from being underequipped?

[lucid wagon]

quick question, can you do Afghan achievements as Timur or Mughal? i dont want to play Communisty Afganistan but i wonder if GoE is not bugged with name switch

[pliant condor]

you make division based on equipment you have

not the other way around

[glacial steeple]

you do AT or SH arty

line arty isnt the worst in sp but its still bad

[noble summit]

alright i see, thank you

[versed rose]

is this AT doctrine

why tf is the hard so high

[glacial steeple]

yes

[glacial steeple]

AT 3

[mighty bloom]

does anyone know a good strategy for communist china for the free weekend (so without paid dlc)? I've been trying to follow different guides on youtube where you invade china before japan takes it but something must have changed since they were posted because japan progresses through the rest of china much faster. for example in one video japan was still stuck around the northern border when the player started the war while japan was taking xi'an in my game...

[glacial steeple]

justify on shanxi and xibei san ma ASAP

[versed rose]

i hate that i lowkey want to try this

[glacial steeple]

:D

update fun

[twin knoll]

How many paradrops?

[versed rose]

Great War inf + AT doctrine soviet sitting on supply hubs

[glacial steeple]

very unbalanced but fun

[glacial steeple]

oh great war inf is bad

you wanna click

[versed rose]

idk how you get break on inf to click tanks

[glacial steeple]

i just wanted to make a template that could help counter

[glacial steeple]

prob downsize both but regular inf

also just add a tank batallion in sp

gives like 100 break

[lucid wagon]

up

[glacial steeple]

communist afghan is best afghan

but idk

try it out

[static turret]

what is thiiiiiis

cnu explain the logic behind this

[versed rose]

People's Militia subdoctrine = stat bloat

[glacial steeple]

huh wdym

[static turret]

why militia

[glacial steeple]

militia give initiative and good stat?

[versed rose]

i swear there is no way that is supposed to be 20%

same thing on the TD doctrine with its 10%

[glacial steeple]

it is

[versed rose]

someone misplaced a 0, it has to be

[glacial steeple]

on most militia templates (theyre locked) its like 120% initiative max

which is 30% reinforce rate

like thats fine

[forest ore]

I started the war against china with 1 million manpower. Anybody know how I'm down to 40k even though i've taken very little casualties?

[glacial steeple]

youre demobilizing to 0% because of your eco law

[quasi girder]

Your total manpower has a demobilizing trait

-0.011% of your population is mobilizing

[versed rose]

idk, the only precedent for initiative for line battalions is the mountaineer one with 1%, still hard to believe they thought 20% per line battalion was fine

might just be me being in disbelief though

[glacial steeple]

its fine

all militia templates are locked templates + small

20% initia is fine on them

the easy fix here is just to lock prc template

and youll still have good small div massmob but its not like yk that strong

they just forgor

[forest ore]

ah thx

[mighty bloom]

do you think skipping sinkiang is worth a try? I feel like there's not enough time for all 3. for example I could follow along https://youtu.be/1wZHPsdL8qw where they take all 3 quickly with cavalry but for some reason japan takes its sweet time and even in 1978 they haven't made any progress in the vid. but in my games they are already very deep at the same point in time, around xi'an in late 1937 iirc. I'll see if I have a save in a good position for a screenshot

[neon girder]

Why do you do this?

[quasi girder]

Remove some of those divisions from the tile, 27 divs in one tile is destroying your supply

So your taking a penalty from that + A forest tile is already easier to defend

[neon girder]

Stuck in belgium agen 😄

[sinful vessel]

Well. I've failed all my attempts so far to play Germany historical in the lowest difficulty, though i understand more and more the game. Could someone give me some "checkpoint" ?

[wild rune]

Old guide moment

[devout ocean]

This a decent 1940 airframe? (Germany)

[quasi girder]

Its a pretty decent one I would remove one of the quad HMGS and replace the extra fuel tanks with drop tanks

[wild rune]

Focke wulf mio

[quasi girder]

Drop tanks dont reduce your defence and unless your trying to bring down strat bombers you dont need THAT much air attack

And yeah assign the fighter MIO for some buffs

[devout ocean]

It does now, it has Messerschmidt

[devout ocean]

It does now.

[quasi girder]

👍

[wild rune]

Use those until focke wulf levels up enough to have a noticable range impact

[quasi girder]

Its a good template I would only make the change of the fuel tank to drop tank and one less 4x hmg, but if your up against medium/heavy airframes then yeha keep the air attack

[wild rune]

Then switch the range for armor plates

[devout ocean]

Thanks so far I can produce a ton and they rek most planes.

[quasi girder]

Yeah the drop tanks are awesome as range can massively up your efficiency which dictates how many of your planes are actually in that battle

[kind pewter]

are armored cars worth

[devout ocean]

I'll switch them.

[neon girder]

Can anyone help?

[quasi girder]

Stop attacking for now, the yellow bar on your units (strength) is down so your taking penalties and bleeding equipment

Do you have air superiority?

[neon girder]

No this stupid games is stupid so no

[devout ocean]

Ah, might be design.

And tech

[quasi girder]

Your also at only 43% air efficiency which is horrific

[devout ocean]

Research Heavy MG bro.

[quasi girder]

Means on average only 500 odd planes are actually fighting, the template is decent as a basic try to get range extensions

But for now you gotta stop attacking and build equipment to let your units get their strength back

If the allies are deathstacking then you could also purposfully let them take a few tiles to thin the lines and break through

[wintry haven]

Whats a good garrison template?

[sinful vessel]

Is one of the missing expansion a "must have" and why ?

[upper siren]

I would say either bba for the air designer or gotterdammerung for its special projects. but that is just personal opinion.

[vale cypress]

how can i make this collapse like germany in 44'?

[sinful vessel]

special project allow more option than its vanilla one, right ?

[devout ocean]

Btw you know good Med tank design for 1938? And then onto 1940??

Cheap and can quickly produce them early.

[upper siren]

it locks some existing things behind special projects BUT you do gain some new options.

[upper siren]

like radar gets locked behind one.

[quasi girder]

It depends what you need at that moment, do you want this tank to primarily defeat armor, infantry or be good at both but not exceptional

[devout ocean]

Good at both.

Especially for USSR

[quasi girder]

Okay I personally go with a 3 man turret, standard medium cannon offers flexibility, radio, if you want cheap diesal engine keeps your reliability up, cast armor and a standard bogie suspension

[devout ocean]

Alright cool.

[quasi girder]

Tweak it as you need and depending on how confident you are in producing it

[sinful vessel]

ok thanks. I'm starting again my Germany historical try at the lowest difficulty. None of the previous were successful... And i'm thinking that a bit of new things would make the next fail less boring ^^

[devout ocean]

I put roughly 30+ factories in mediums

[neon girder]

So italy came and now

[quasi girder]

Honestly with that if your planning to not do line changes you can then go for gas engines, christie suspension for speed, an extra machine gun or smoke launchers

Tweak the design and its stats for what you want

[upper siren]

to my knowledge gotterdammerung also reworks german and hungarian focus tree, alongside giving the austrians, belgians and their congo colony a focus tree

or is a part of the german rework free?

[sinful vessel]

i've been said that it offers mainly path for non historical germany.

[upper siren]

I honestly do not know.

[glacial steeple]

sinkiang isnt that good and theres no supply

its not that hard

you shouldnt need a tutorial

research guns, production

manually justify on warlords instead of focus tree

[sinful vessel]

I can't understand how player manage to have that much factory. I've failed my last run cuz of that

[glacial steeple]

either fight japan (doesnt matter how far they push inland)

or diplo annex china (democratic path)

the reality is that without dlcs the axis is stronger

ai anyway

so they will push further and do more damage

[stark bough]

How to extract resources

[pliant condor]

something something poland

ok i cheated a bit but

[sinful vessel]

is MEFO the way to go as Germany ?

[wintry matrix]

In your decision tab there are sometimes options to dig for resources in some states.
Not every country gets to dig up stuff tho.
To increase the amount of resources on your own states, you could research Excavation tech.
Otherwise keep importing stuff.

[obsidian cedar]

does anyone know how to reach equilibrium to get hirohito as leader of japan?

[hasty belfry]

Sinkiang is cooked if Khotan Ma satellites the other Ma’s quickly. Even if Sinkiang doesn’t start the war with them, once Khotan Ma has 20k men in the field they can get a war goal of their own to take Sinkiang. They are doomed if Khotan Ma manages to integrate the other Ma’s.

[wintry matrix]

Just have a plan to achieve Autarky and have fun.

[pliant condor]

as long as you don't overbuild civ it's fine

it's better as you have less focuses to do

[hasty belfry]

Sinkiang’s one edge is that the Soviet’s love sending volunteers to them.

[ivory oak]

Okay why is there no option to recall voluneers in the diplomacy option

[sinful vessel]

i always build civ at start, i shouldn't ?

[pliant condor]

it never has been a thing in vanilla

[pliant condor]

don't build more like 1.5 year

[charred fable]

Feel like my progress isn't going great but k/d is nice

[ivory oak]

depends on you goals for the game, want to win WW2 quickly then yes go Meffo but want to win after a long time go PEG

[wintry matrix]

Civs don't build guns.
And MEFO kind of forces you to create trouble early.

[pliant condor]

how many collabs do you have

also a hint

[ivory oak]

THAT'S MY POINT!

THERE IS NO OPTION

[pliant condor]

instead of making a big frontline

[glacial steeple]

no dlc

[charred fable]

I've had it on repeat. It's at least 2... does it tell you how many you have anywhere?

[pliant condor]

make one frontline to cover the part you are not pushing with shitty divs

[wintry matrix]

You could delete the divisions.
Tho that's not a good solution, but it is one.

[pliant condor]

like 1 per tile is enough

and concentrate everything else on the main front

[neat widget]

I mean it was 6000 before

Now it's 4400

[pliant condor]

i mean click on spy agency

it shows how many you have and your progress on the current one

[hasty belfry]

Ahh.

[mighty bloom]

I've learned a little bit since the ingame tutorial where the war in europe was already over by the time I conquered ethiopia but I'm still very bad, I'll try though ty. on my attempts so far I always get eventually steamrolled by japan

[sinful vessel]

ok. Have you a rough idea of how much military factory i should have on which material ?

[ivory oak]

It's such a stupid thing that there's no option to recall them other than a war

[wintry matrix]

Nope.
I just know that you want to have enough Civs to get that one extra research slot.
I don't know how your prefered army looks like. Just balance it out to your needs.

[hasty belfry]

With DLC I’d say Khotan Ma has the best chances of unifying of any warlord unless the Soviets send tanks to Sinkiang. They can satellite the other Ma’s let them finish their focuses that grant factories, then integrate a core them, along with coring Sinkiang if they beat them.

In the few runs I’ve done I’ve typically needed up with a 12 mils and a similar number of total factories to China.

If you go down the side with the nationalists path then call for subjugation of other warlords, you and the warlords should be able to handily beat China if you go down the branch to fight them unless they already got most or all of the warlords in the united front.

You’re also helped by the fact that you can easily a 3rd research slot way before China can.

[pliant condor]

ah

look at nanjing

there's a list of completed missions

[sinful vessel]

Am i really bad at the game or is it normal to struggle even at the lowest difficulty ?

[pliant condor]

yes you are bad at the game

but it's not super hard to learn

maybe watch some video guides first so at least you know how to deploy divisions and stuff

[charred fable]

I think its only one, with a second almost complete.

[raven snow]

tried to organize my subs and they all immediately went into reserves

just automatically

is there a reason for that

[glacial steeple]

yes

they exceed the fleet size limit you put on the fleet

thats why you dont organize like thta

that*

just split them up normally

[sacred patrol]

Hello

[raven snow]

wdym normally

[sacred patrol]

How does the military even work

[sinful vessel]

Ok. Let's retry then ^^

[sacred patrol]

ive wacthed 2 hours of tutorials and understood nothing about how to maintain manpower, increase it, make a powerfull army and use planes

[vale cypress]

can someone explain to me the new navy system? It's too confusing i dont understand

[raven snow]

how do i change that

[vale cypress]

you get manpower by national spirits or changing the conscription

it decreases due to garrisons

and wars

if ur in war, just keep at service by requirement if it's below half a million

[sacred patrol]

the thing is i was playing estonia and gaining 0 mp the whole game

[vale cypress]

you didnt change ur conscription doctrine

• you couldve been using a lot of manpower on divisions

[sacred patrol]

i guess its the 6 divisions

[vale cypress]

show me the template

[sacred patrol]

i already died to the germans

cus i somehow made the soviets democratic

[vale cypress]

listen

if you want a decent army

you need 4 main templates

[raven snow]

where is the limiter

[sacred patrol]

my dumbass doesnt know what a template is dw

[vale cypress]

Infantry (holding the line)
Mot/Mec (Pushing slightly)
Tanks (for pushing)
and garrison

[sacred patrol]

is it bad i i was doing infantry air and motor?

[vale cypress]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EB8TLvkZAM&t=52s

[vale cypress]

i cant tell

[sacred patrol]

like going for air superiority

[vale cypress]

because i dont know what template ur using

[sacred patrol]

idfk what a template is

unless its the arrangement of troops

[upper dew]

Is there something to focus on as Japan to defeat china in the new update? I'm struggling. I've worked out you should be starting it earlier. Is the key starting it even earlier than like mid 1937 or is it probably a division issue

[vale cypress]

just just... just read this, please https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?l=french&id=2141885565

[sand acorn]

Im playing eu germany

[sacred patrol]

sorry for screwing up your day

[vale cypress]

you didnt screw up my day mate

but if you truly DID watch 2 hours of guides

you'd know what a template is

[warm ibex]

does anyone have tips for sea lion with new naval stuff

[sacred patrol]

my dumbass forgot about this part completly

[raven snow]

why do my subs automatically go to reserves when i try to orgganize them

[vale cypress]

idk

[sacred patrol]

i mostly focus on being technologically more advanced, politics and having an army

[vale cypress]

watch a bittersteel guide

its a great learning tool

[raven snow]

watch hammotimee

[glacial steeple]

use army

minimize casualties

[raven snow]

more in depth than bittersteel imo

[glacial steeple]

do war ASAP

china scales really well but starts garbage

[vale cypress]

Casey, how can I gain naval supremacy with this new navy?

[upper dew]

just use what you get at the start and run them over asap? I've been struggling getting the guns to ensure I'm all set up

[neat sigil]

is it normal to feel like an absolute loser when buying each dlc without a doubt?
at this point I'd get more pleasure out of my money to spend it on a random findom 🙁

these people at paradox hq sure love to humiliate each and every player when selling their overpriced dlc

[sinful vessel]

What kind of template i should use for line infantry as Germany (solo) ?

[primal moon]

anyone know what i can do? it's 1939 still haven't beaten these mfs

cant get past this river

[neon girder]

Operation supply africa

[wild rune]

Research marines

Break through where the port is

[analog maple]

marines

[neat widget]

Not sure if marines would work, this looks like a pure supply issue

Also you should take Chongqing first before entering Chengdu

[analog maple]

is it possible to make japan win the china war so he can help me beat ussr in hist?

[wild rune]

Wdym by this

[neat widget]

Send volunteers to Japan ig

[analog maple]

they always lose in hist

[sinful vessel]

Why is usefull to do with spies ?

[analog maple]

cant i be in war with uk

[wild rune]

Win against UK

Or just beat the USSR

[sacred patrol]

Kk, also is there any mod to add economy

[neat widget]

I see

[pastel scroll]

It was at 500 before…

[sacred patrol]

since i need to learn military i do hope to find a way to make a very developed country

[glacial steeple]

beat them way earlier

in 1937

either you beat them in 1937 or have a forever war

nothing in between

[idle bobcat]

What’s the Strat for romania not dying instantly to the soviets

[sacred patrol]

become communist (dont listen to my ass)

[royal gazelle]

do we know of any secret paths besides the japanese empress one?

[primal moon]

thanks for being honest

so i just need to rush them crazy

the amount of time i have wasted on trying to beat china is brutal

[glacial steeple]

kind of?

[royal gazelle]

i will say I routinely beat them but due to my slow playstyl ethey die around 41 ish as I'm a stickler for making my perfect divisions with perfect air rather than risking a deficit of equipment

[glacial steeple]

just use 2 tank divs

youll have 80 tanks in stockpile

and add artillery to hohei shidan to crit more

and ignore the holding inf because they suck anyway

[sinful vessel]

I'm thinking about this one for the supply bonus. Is it good enough ?

[versed rose]

that's the best one of your choices

[sinful vessel]

Nice. I went for the first one last try.

[pliant condor]

yes but not because of supply

[sinful vessel]

lol. I don't understand anything ^^

Then for aviation, i'm not sure about these 2. They sound better than the others

[raven snow]

why do my subs just go to reserves when i try to organize the taskforces

[glacial steeple]

click the book on the bottom right

itll show you the buffs when the doctrines are completed

[elfin crystal]

how do i get coal

[sinful vessel]

The main problem is i don't really understand which buff is better.

[glacial steeple]

test it?

mastery is the command to get full mastery

[stiff pewter]

What is the easiest path to go down as Nationalist China?

[sinful vessel]

yes, i'm testing. Though sometime a little help make the tests easier 😉

[glacial steeple]

look for early eco buffs

[wet topaz]

Import

[pliant condor]

turn this off

[chrome sedge]

@glacial steeple how do i unistall

[vital plaza]

@pliant condor lord, judge our sins

[versed rose]

1940 wtf

[sand ember]

what country is man

the picture isn’t loading

[glacial steeple]

manchu

[sand ember]

Who plays Manchu tf

[glacial steeple]

me

but idk who else indeed

[versed rose]

1940 haven't even taken shandong

Forever war

[glacial steeple]

issue is ai decs late and has no units out

no holders

[sharp totem]

how do i desolve a faction when i am the only member

[pure hinge]

I have total 10 dockyard but still i can assign them beyond the limit and that come as grey in the slot. what does that mean?

[sharp totem]

remove all build but 1? you have to many build running

[charred fable]

I'm absolutely decimating China and still it feels like I'm not winning. It's actually kinda interesting and annoying. I know how Tojo felt

[wintry matrix]

This means when new dockyards get added (or another gets free because they finished their boat) they will be assigned to the next one automatically.

First submarine gets completed.
That dockyard will be added to the second one.
And so on.

[pure hinge]

ohh ok got it

[fleet lichen]

cause you have automatic redeployment

whatever its called

[raven snow]

Automatic split off?

[fleet lichen]

yes

i think

but you just need to click the button to disable it

15/10 meaning 5 would goto reserves

since it wants 10 in a fleet

[raven snow]

Ok thanks

[fluid axle]

I build civ factories but it takes a billion years to Build and i lost all my civs from presumably nothing

[glacial steeple]

you can beat them in time

but if you dont you will keep winning but never win

[hasty belfry]

For a country with a ton of cavalry buffs, could it be viable to use cavalry as your infantry in armored divisions with the doctrine that increases their speed to 9 km/h?

[queen crystal]

maybe im just not using good enough google fu but is there not a way to download tank designs to have to use in your game or is it just not something people have been doing?

[glacial steeple]

its already viable before you have mech

and with viable i mean like better

[hasty belfry]

What about after mech?

[glacial steeple]

its still ok

[hasty belfry]

Considering the powerful buffs they now get from the doctrine.

[glacial steeple]

mech 3 clears tho

the passive buff anyway

[hasty belfry]

Plus the buffs something like horse Poland or Austria Hungary gets.

[fluid axle]

Idk how i lost my civs

[silent holly]

is it physically possible to get icbms before 1945?

[glacial steeple]

as who

[glacial steeple]

i mean yeah

its possible

[fluid axle]

Peoples republic of gernany

[glacial steeple]

try as iran they get missile tech in like late 37? mid 38?

[fluid axle]

I was at war but i had air superiority

[silent holly]

💀

[glacial steeple]

cuz you have a good research bonus and put 1 of your 2 slots on it from day 1 to save some time

and then you just need to do air facility focuses which i think you have

and maybe second slot on like getting nuke tech idk

thats a bit of a pain

i dont think? you get a nuke bonus

[silent holly]

what is this strat

[glacial steeple]

but youre mostly limited on air breakthroughs/research time

[silent holly]

😭

[glacial steeple]

also germany has insane special project speed

you can do germany too

i guess

[silent holly]

i was trying to rush it as usa and only managed to get it in 1945

[glacial steeple]

oh yeah the US is slower than ger

you just asked if its possible not if its like an engaging nation

[sand urchin]

How should I design my capital ship designs like heavy cruiser or like battleships/battle cruisers either one of em

[fair moth]

I'm having some trouble getting naval dominance. Sometimes my task forces will just produce a grand total of 0 dominance. I have the zone set to patrol, I see the ships in the sea zone, but they don't produce any naval dominance

I'm not being outcompeted, there are very few enemy ships here and it says I produce 0 dominance

[charred fable]

My industry just feels naff!

[sterile void]

whats the best way to play philipines?

[glacial steeple]

yeah thats already pretty late

your industry does suck tho

why are you battleplanning...

[charred fable]

I don't get how to improve it... Resource demand takes your civs

[glacial steeple]

dont import?

its only ships

but yeah your eco is just kinda bad

you also have to delete most mil lines

like planes, id remove train until later

you start with enough trucks but ig you could keep that

basic light is nice for recon tank

medium is useless

3 on artillery 1-2 support equipment rest gun

[charred fable]

I had no fighters so my CAS would have been worthless.

[charred fable]

I don't even use art. Why 3?

[glacial steeple]

you should

either as support in all small units or as line in hohei shidan

imo the latter is better

because you deal relatively significant damage

[charred fable]

Restart numbero threeeee

[glacial steeple]

japan is like that

a lot of micro/learning

has been like that before update too

but its early war so not thatt much time lost

[charred fable]

Last time I played Japan I cakewalked a WC

It's funny cause I am playing like Japan irl lmao

So you still reckon three techs on air even though we're not bothering with it until post China? Seems wicked inefficient when our economy is in a shambles.

[primal moon]

there is NO way that is meta 💔 😭

1200 days is wild

[glacial steeple]

ehh

ok no

[charred fable]

You reduce it with focuses

[glacial steeple]

definitely not

range and engine 3 spawn in with the hayabusa and zero

[primal moon]

ohh ik what u mean

[glacial steeple]

so if youd do 3 on air itd be heavy machine gun and survivability

[primal moon]

i gave up playing japan china is smoking my ahh

[charred fable]

Broooo you're killing me xD

[glacial steeple]

eco techs are probably better

anyway

[glacial steeple]

look im alao figuring stuff out still 😭

also**

its been like a few days

[charred fable]

Damn Casey, get the spreadsheets out!

[glacial steeple]

thats another issue

this version is so buggy in mp lobbies and unbalanced that theres like no mp games on it

[charred fable]

I'm gonna do small air frame 3 and stick the other two on eco. Maybe switch the rifle equipment prior to war

[glacial steeple]

yeah you probably need airframe

you can make converts

you make plane with 2x lmg and cknvert to correct design later

convert*

with modules

[charred fable]

Construction is pointless because low civs so we'll just sub that in when there's no weapons or eco line prod

Would you do 1 or 2 civs then go into mils or just straight into mils?

[wild rune]

Mils only

[charred fable]

Probably where I went wrong last game

[scenic salmon]

so what land doctrine setup do u go if you cant do tanks yet only infantry?

[wild rune]

Inf then operations then close support then armor subdoctrine

In that order

[scenic salmon]

I mean subdoctrine, sry forgot new update change

[glacial steeple]

either facility for flame

civ for focuses/collabs (tho idk if it changes that much

or mils for having more equipment stuff

[sand urchin]

Is this a good design?

[charred fable]

Sooo what should I be doing if not battleplanning? Just spam attack?

[glacial steeple]

you micro?

encircle

especially warlord divisions will be more equipped

[charred fable]

That's what I was doing tbf. Just with my armour xD

[glacial steeple]

imo you should turn 1 into the small div

i keep forgetting its name

itll allow you a small tank stockpile to work with temporarily

[glacial steeple]

its a thing of using all available equipment yk

[charred fable]

I converted them all

[glacial steeple]

sad

now you have 240 unused tanks

more

280

[charred fable]

Decreased the infantry down to 18w and ordered more just so I can have more people in different tiles

[glacial steeple]

imo thats a lot of equipment

[glacial steeple]

decreased?????

why would you decrease it....

[charred fable]

To get more divisions

[glacial steeple]

but

its for attacking

attack is always better with larger divs

and you dont need more hohei shidans??

how do people play japan bro i dont get it

[charred fable]

Problem is giving them all rifles.

[glacial steeple]

like okay your army setup is slightly different than in europe

[charred fable]

I didn't have enough and was being outstretched

[glacial steeple]

but it follows the same principles

small divs hold, large divs attack

larger divs attack better

[timber sleet]

I dont know how to play and I wanna play as Germany or the us

[glacial steeple]

you make more small divs

attack with large

who will go unpierced by chinese bad guns

[split scaffold]

Where did my intervention mandates go? 🤔

[charred fable]

I will push out some fat divs but no idea how I'm arming all these guys

[glacial steeple]

just dont make more

????

you start with 15

is that not enough

you have small divs you can make whenever you have some spare guns

[charred fable]

No, I had quite a few gaps in my line xD

[glacial steeple]

which wont be that many

[glacial steeple]

ok but

but you dont hold them to hold the line

im gonna crash out

[cursive dawn]

how do i set ts as my fleet homebase

[charred fable]

Okay 4th restart... I know what to do now!

It's carrier fleet Italy all over again xD

[karmic eagle]

tank destroyer force is hidden?

[twilit zenith]

Any recommendations on which DLC to buy first

Probably not doing La Resistance since that will be made free in a year or two anyways

[cold bloom]

No Step Back I guess

[fading fern]

Completely new to this game, playing Italy tutorial. For how many civilian factories/military factories/dockyards should I aim so that I have a solid base for escalation? I'm at 40/40/16 and it seems not enough in mid 1939.

I failed getting 750k troops in the field. Division was 9 infantry with engi, artillery, and aa support. Is that too expensive? Can you shorten their training? At some point I produced 10 divisions in parallel, but that wasn't fast enough at 9000 men per division.

Now I'm supposed to produce 300 aircraft each of type fighter, cas, tac, and naval bomber. Can't handle that with 40 factories.

So what do I aim for? I built civilian factories only until start of 1938. But even 2x15 are very slow at building additional factories and infrastructure. Building 6 or 7 synthetic refineries also stalled me a lot.

Edit.
Should I produce 10 divisions in parallel from 1936 on?

[twilit zenith]

First mistake is using the tutorial

[fading fern]

Yea, I noticed that it doesn't explain a lot

[glacial steeple]

italy is also a horrendous starting nation

you have production goals and not a lot of resources/factories to reach those

[twilit zenith]

It doesn’t even tell you to use a field marshal

[fading fern]

That's why I ask. I thought I was doing well until the goals were set and I saw I'm underproducing by a lot

[cursive ocean]

whats the new meta templates for infantry and such?

[glacial steeple]

they are all archievable

like 0 failed

but they suck for a new player because they require a solid gameplan/thinking ahead of time by years

[fading fern]

I don't doubt that. That's why I want to know some basic goals for the next try.

[glacial steeple]

idk id play like finland or japan as "fun" tutorial nation

[bleak helm]

how to get the hakari debate ??

[glacial steeple]

finland abuses a lot of combat modifiers to have their divisions/army "overperform" with a very strong economy

japan is more infantry-air gameplay

[fading fern]

I'd like to play Japan but I think the naval warfare will be quite overwhelming as new player

[glacial steeple]

you dont have to naval invade anything until youre in indonesia

and should focus on air against stuff like submarines

and have naval bombers

but its definitely harder than finland

[fading fern]

I will remember. But I still want to give Italy another try. I was pretty satisfied so far

[glacial steeple]

its better at teaching the logistics side of combat

italy is very hard

[bleak helm]

idk why but now Italy is cooking

[warm ibex]

does anyone have any tips for sea lion as germany

[fading fern]

It seems you like Italy, so could you maybe have a look at my question here?

https://discordapp.com/channels/183787140671471616/589311099674034176/1442298419908444180

[night marlin]

how do I unlock the bottom in this new version

[twilit zenith]

tbh idk it will happen at some point

[granite patio]

First time really playing Japan. Where should you go after capping China?

I suppose Raj and then Soviets

But

[bleak helm]

i was talking about Italy IA

[granite patio]

Idk whats optimal

[bleak helm]

how to get the hakari debate wit japan ?

[night marlin]

I know some point but I really want to ulock it now

[glacial steeple]

raj and indonesia

australia after taking java

then either usa, ussr, or africa

[granite patio]

There should be a decision to remove the time no?

[glacial steeple]

it is a steep amount of land to conquer

[granite patio]

Ok thank you. I figured so. Not used to playing as Japan. Only just really figured out how to cap China.

[glacial steeple]

its fine

too many people forget historical japanese goals and are like 'but i wanna fight the US'

[soft jungle]

Is turkey not able to naval invade after the patch?

[cursive dawn]

why do i keep losing guns every day

[glacial steeple]

combat, resistance

[night marlin]

if anyone knows how to unlock the bottom ones in this new version pls lmk

[cursive dawn]

none of my divs are fighting

[glacial steeple]

you are occupying many lands

[cursive dawn]

any way i can fix ts

[dry vapor]

Is there a section for bug reports because no devs read the forums

[charred fable]

Okay, I may have made a massive error when I was playing previously by leaving the garrisons, as well uhm... garrisons.

[glacial steeple]

template, law

[cursive dawn]

im on local police force with 2 width calvary

what else am i supposed to do

[glacial steeple]

50w cav with mp

also check india

usually you should martial law it

[vital geode]

Wait, how effective is 100% hardness divisions again at suppressing resistance

[strange timber]

Hello, sorry this tooltip has a lot going on lol, does this mean I have to be in this faction for all these focuses? I'm trying to play as Sweden

[glacial steeple]

ask foxsy

sheep dc

but its very good iirc

i believe resistance only deals soft attack

[vital geode]

Do you have debug on or something or is it a localization failure.

In any case, you usually need to do something to unlock it

[glacial steeple]

with one of them and they have to join through event for any focus after the first

[vital geode]

I was wondering about super heavy tank units for resistance suppression

Build some, never take losses

[glacial steeple]

they arent line

[vital geode]

Heavy tank with super heavy

[glacial steeple]

sh doesnt add hardness

[vital geode]

Wait huh

I swore it did

[glacial steeple]

yes before they made it a support company

[warm ibex]

is there a effective way to beat royal navy as germany

[glacial steeple]

no

[warm ibex]

is there a good way to get enough naval dominance to invade uk before usa joins

[glacial steeple]

maybe?

[warm ibex]

or should i just go paratroopers

[glacial steeple]

if you make ships with high supremacy at low cost since day 1

but after the war has started youve wasted too much dockyard IC for sure

[hasty belfry]

Is it just not possible for a warlord to lose government corruption and ineffective bureaucracy if they take the opposition path?

[glacial steeple]

so no

[glacial steeple]

its possibly more in line with your build

[glacial steeple]

its possible in the tree after i think?

[hasty belfry]

The Nationalist tree?

With NCNS do they get the new or old nationalist tree?

[glacial steeple]

its not nationalist tree i think?

its modified

old tree modified*

besides sinkiang

they get old communist tree modified

[hasty belfry]

The last focus says it changes the national focus tree to the focus tree of nationalist China.

[glacial steeple]

` ff

to open console and freely do focuses

take save, try focus, load save after checking

[balmy dawn]

Off ythe wall question...

Do you guys run the game in D3D? Or OpenGL?

[main cloak]

Why is everything "inaccessable"?

[vital geode]

Old tree if a warlord completes it. It does have new things though

[main cloak]

They are my own captured ports.

[vital geode]

Your homebase is wilhelmshaven

Change your homebase

[main cloak]

how do I do that?

Nvm, got it

[vital geode]

Ctrl right click your fleet to a port or click the cog thing

[hasty belfry]

The political tree besides invite foreign investors seems to be totally different.

I might misremembering. It’s been a while since I played the old nationalist tree.

[vital geode]

It should still be split into the 3 subtrees

It is just they added a new tree as well

[hasty belfry]

There are 5 subtrees.

The political path also has a Chinese empire path now.

[vital geode]

Yeah, that's new

[hasty belfry]

There is also a path for the reorganized government of China if you are a Japanese puppet. How would you become the reorganized government? Losing the war with Japan?

[vital geode]

You play as the nationalists.
Japan forms it
You get an event to switch to it or stay as China

[spark swallow]

it used to be that you could get supremacy in the north sea

because the ai would split their fleet

but idk if thats still possible

[dreamy egret]

When is the prefect time to start research nuclear

[spark swallow]

usually never

but if you really want it, like day 1 or smth

[night marlin]

How can one obtain new generals? Is promotion from battlefield commanders the only way?

[glacial steeple]

yes

[dreamy egret]

How to get production efficiency growth

[glacial steeple]

have higher total cap

playing china?

[charred fable]

Wheeeeeeeey

I don't know what to do with myself now xD

July 1937

[gusty briar]

So how true is it that u basically always wanna use signal companies now, never used it before but apparently its really important with the new patch?

[foggy stratus]

is the new guide neat?

[royal gazelle]

question, does reloading a save reload the RNG for % chance decisions?

or do i need to start a new save

[royal gazelle]

damn howd you pull that off? i admittedly play a very slow/conservative playstyle but i'd like to cap china before 1941-42 lol

[bleak helm]

i get bonus against chiness country or they got the bonus ?

[deep sparrow]

Does anoyone know how to balance navy and army in japan? I need that for the hirohito emperor path

[cursive dawn]

you get the bonus

[cursive dawn]

if you go to the factions on the focus tree you can boost or reduce their influence

[charred fable]

Request forces puppets and use them to cover the mountains of Northern China. You're never going to push into this area anyway.
Use your garrison forces defend the front. They're capable enough to hold off any Chinese counterattacks and you really need that cover.
Use your actual infantry to push a smaller front. Firstly along the coast to take Shanghai then towards Central China to take Changde and then to the coast again leading towards Guagxi(?).
Buff your infantry. I added one art and was filling up their infantry battalions toward 35 width.
Acquire intelligence advisor 1st or 2nd pick and spam collabs.
Build only guns, support eq, artillery and trucks.
Spam mils from the get go.

[deep sparrow]

But the thing is, if I boost one, the other looses influence and I can never get them to equilibrium

[royal gazelle]

how soon do u rush war? do u let the army force the war for u or justify right off the bat?

[charred fable]

Let the event fire. There's no need to justify.

[royal gazelle]

gotcha, ill try that in a future run. Im doing a silly non historical run so my puppet is gonna rebel against me so ill just put them down first before rolling into china

[cursive dawn]

what i did was train a couple armies of the 12 widths and naval invaded shanghai

also def get a colab

and reduce the hohei shiden units to 18w

i was able to beat them in 38

[bleak helm]

well well well ?