ask-for-help-here

[tidal inlet]

I used to do 11 inf, 2art and 1 Medium tank but has it changed?

[lethal elm]

ok, this is just before the götterdämmerung dlc was launched.

[glacial steeple]

yeah thats the old tree

they updated it

so now its the one you have

[brisk mauve]

ok , thanks

[lucid torrent]

Why there is no strike? I still stay at 1.16 to finish my run. But when i try to do coordinate strike nothing happen.

[steel bridge]

guy im having a problem

[brisk mauve]

is there any flow charts with what focus Path is good to choose?

[steel bridge]

so basically i cant move my fleet to my allied regions even tho im allied with france

[upper siren]

that has to do with the new naval system.

[steel bridge]

goddamit

[upper siren]

naval range projection (where the center of it is decided) is now back to being decided by where their home base is.

you should be able to set a home base in a french port.

there are several ways to increase the naval range, such as support ships, doctrines, underway replenishment, naval supply hubs, and maybe more.

oh, focuses.

those too.

[steel bridge]

i managed to do that but can it do it automatically?

[upper siren]

guess what the cog next to it does?

[steel bridge]

oh damn im so dumb

[upper siren]

can be toggled using the shift+s shortcut when having a admiral selected.

[quasi cloak]

how can i convert these into medium tank divisions without loosing experience?

[upper siren]

I am gonna throw guess and say you dont.

[empty latch]

hey guys, i just had a great netherlands playtrough and now im trying to get a realistic way for the entante and the reichspakt to start ww3, so if you have any scenario's (like a koreo or bomber fly over ) drop them here please, il be singing of for now so ping or dm me il respond in 12 hours

[quasi cloak]

i saw a way in youtube before but i dont exactly know if its patched or not

[spark swallow]

I believe you convert them to a 50w with equipment disabled

But I don’t really remember

[upper siren]

maybe a violent austro-hungarian collapse turned into a proxy war escalating into ww3?

not sure if that is possible though within kaiserreich.

[spark swallow]

The other way I remember is to change the div in the actual division template

[daring ivy]

I am playing as Italy and want to know what I should do to conquer Etheopia. I can capture all the Etheopian areas but the Emperor leaves and I do not get credit for conquering it. I see the resistance is always high ie 30 - 45%. How do I effect the capture of Etheopia?

I have a question about supply. I am currently playing Italy to learn the game mechanics, I once in a while will play Turkey. My North African and Ethiopian troops are always low on supply, should I be upgrading infrastructure, rail roads, upgrade port facilities etc? What number of civilian factories should I shoot for before adding stuff to my supply lines?

[spark swallow]

Day one send entire army and airforce to Ethiopia

Aggressive battleplan them

And make motorisation of your armies triple truck motorised

Occupation law civilian administration or whatever it’s called

[charred fable]

Also send tanks south and mountain infantry north

[spark swallow]

That’s a slight optimization you can do but imo it doesn’t really matter

The war is not very difficult

[charred fable]

You can usually flank down the western side of Ethiopia by pinning units in the centre. Its an easy war once you commit everyone

Its pretty easy if you dont tbf, you just dont want Rastafari Jesus to catch his train

[spark swallow]

The main thing really is the air because it makes them not able to reinforce

[neat widget]

I usually flank the eastern side tbh

[wintry haven]

How can I up my defense? I don't think I have enough

[neat widget]

What you need is breakthrough

Also hover over the attack and breakthrough icons here

[wintry haven]

I am defending

[neat widget]

Also why are you attacking Germans in snowy mountains

[wintry haven]

I am the germans

[neat widget]

Ah I see

You have plenty

[wintry haven]

I won as the soviets so I switched

[neat widget]

The Soviets literally have zero attack

[charred fable]

Honestly its down to the AI. Once you get those units from Aussa you can sometimes cut off the east without resistance

[wintry haven]

need a higher KD, currently about 14k to 1.4m but a guy earlier said he had a higher so I'm tryna beat it

[neat widget]

Basically each point of defense reduces a point of attack from rolling 40% to rolling 10%

[neat widget]

You don't need more defense you need more attack

[wintry haven]

ah, how can I do that?

[neat widget]

Make tank divs and do encirclements

[wintry haven]

If I move for even a second I will unfortunately die almost instantly due to each tile have 30 stack of tanks and inf, the full way around

[spark swallow]

It’s really not that deep though because if you split your air over the air zones evenly and split your troops too you can just battleplan it very quickly

[wintry haven]

I added Rocket Artillery Support and now we're up to 130KD, thanks

[neat widget]

oh then use mountaineers my bad

that said

[charred fable]

Oh 100%. You don't need to flank at all, you can just keep pushing them back. I'd argue its better to not flank because it lengthens the war a little bit to help squeeze that extra xp out.

[glacial steeple]

no

this game isnt about number of divisions

[spark swallow]

Yeah if you want to grind it’s a different story

[glacial steeple]

but quality of them

30 ai divisions per tile should be feasting, not very scary

it allows you to encircle / kill a lot in a small place

[glacial steeple]

crazy division

1400 ic :(

[fast bear]

how can i make the resistence lower

[neat widget]

Only issue is the terrain is horrible

You simultaneously have to cross a large river and attack a mountain tile

[glacial steeple]

go around

[neat widget]

True, although the terrain around isn't that good either

The large river, the Inn, continues along to the Danube, which roughly follows the line of the Czech forts and then continues into the Slovakian Carpathians

[hollow eagle]

How do You make a lot of tanks quicly cause tank template that are Good need like a lot of tanks and fast do u i just put all My mils into tanks??

[charred fable]

Someone explain the benefit that HQ's have or better yet where I can see the bonuses they offer? Like am I picking my best admirals or just throwing trash in there?

[inner sparrow]

make a convert tank with cheapest gun an the techs u already have, leave slots for tech u don’t have empty, put mils on it and produce till u have ur main gun (howy 1 or 2 in sp ) and refit the design and click on convert

also research conversion tech 2

[opaque garden]

hey what is the easiest way to survive as Poland without being fascist

[inner sparrow]

spam cheap divisions and go sfp + defensive sub doctrines

[opaque garden]

no grand battleplan

?

[inner sparrow]

grand battleplan does nothing if ur defending

[opaque garden]

defensive inf or ww1

[inner sparrow]

forgot its name but its like at the bottom left

think its ww1

[opaque garden]

oh no

[inner sparrow]

gives ur inf 30% def

[opaque garden]

but grand battlepland gives so much entrenchment

[inner sparrow]

entrenchment doesn’t matter

as soon as you move you lose it

or as soon as they take a tile

gg

[opaque garden]

so what if idont move

can I just hide behind the river

with static warfare and all that

[inner sparrow]

ur gonna have to and gbps main strength doesn’t lie in entrench but planning and planning does nothing in defense

also the stats u gain from entrencjment combat modifier is lower than the def from the 30%

[opaque garden]

which path?

[inner sparrow]

theres no path anymore theres only main and subdoctrines

just tale sfp main doctrine

[opaque garden]

I meant pp

[glacial steeple]

dozer blade 😍

[inner sparrow]

tanks is different

and even then get mogged

[opaque garden]

for the record not that pp polical path

[inner sparrow]

ask casey idk poland pp good enough

I can only tell u what to do army wise

[opaque garden]

is the 3×3 inf +eng good enough?

[inner sparrow]

just do 10-16w inf

[opaque garden]

why no my 18w

[glacial steeple]

orgwall+recov+spirit of defiance

[inner sparrow]

too expensive

ur poland

u want cheap and a lot of inf

[opaque garden]

Poland can into space

[inner sparrow]

add aa and signal in if possible

[opaque garden]

why signsl

[glacial steeple]

SFP spirit of defiance guerrilla warfare gaming

[opaque garden]

aa I get but not signal

[inner sparrow]

inf needs signal after doctrines change

[glacial steeple]

ideal

[inner sparrow]

u dont have enough reinforcement anymore

[hollow eagle]

But doesnt refit take time too tho?

[opaque mauve]

Only later on no? So it'd be better to hold off to save ic

[inner sparrow]

yes but u build cheap tanks earlier and the entire game witz efficiency building up on the line

[opaque garden]

ok aint no way im adding signal companies to my inf division

[inner sparrow]

the earlier the better, u need to put early mils on support equipment anyways as u dont change them and they can easily build up full effi

[opaque mauve]

Refit is way cheaper once you have one or two of the 40% speed techs, and for tanks + planes, has no penalty iirc

[inner sparrow]

if u want to be ignorant

its alright if u don’t know what it does

and why its needed

[opaque mauve]

What does it do? I don't remember the buff being that crazy

[opaque garden]

aint it a bit expensive for Poland?

[opaque mauve]

More the support arty giving 20% SA

[opaque garden]

gonna have to put half of my mills on support

[inner sparrow]

reinforce rate which got nuked after removal of mass assault right side

and u lack it hard on inf now

if u don’t have it u get reinforce memed out of the tile

like all the time

esp now after doctrine changes

[opaque mauve]

Huh.

[inner sparrow]

and the bigger the inf the worse it gets

before doctrine change only 35w inf needed it now u need it on small inf too

[hollow eagle]

What about tank module? Cause i start producing one cheap tank to refit later but when i eventually can refit it the tank becomed old af and i have to start over

[inner sparrow]

no

put 4-5 mils on support equipment

and ur good

build mils day one

and ur good

go concentrate aswell

[opaque garden]

nooooo but my civ greed

[opaque mauve]

I've been playing a WTT Nat china game, went united front and have fought japan till white peace. Communist china did the uprising and lost, I took their land, but I don't seem to have any route to unify china other than one china policy, which at the moment will just mean all the warlords will jump to allies/comintern and I'll have no way to claim them. Is there any path or do I just have to wait for ww2 to end so the tension goes back down?

[inner sparrow]

civ greed was bad before on poland hist already but the recent update with coal killed civ greed in general

[opaque garden]

oh ye thats i why hate the coal mechanics

[inner sparrow]

it soft locks nearly every country to a certain eco size

which is imo not good

[opaque mauve]

Refit the ones you did make and if you need to update them then do it again.

[opaque garden]

hehe usa inf resources

[inner sparrow]

dont upgrade ur tank module

stay at basic

[opaque garden]

I swear why does us have so much resources

[inner sparrow]

going up is a waste

[inner sparrow]

bloat

[opaque mauve]

*kind of

[inner sparrow]

always unless armor meme which got killed this update

theoretically

[opaque mauve]

You're still gaining reliability and armour, which is something

Depends where you fight as to whether reliability is relevant

[inner sparrow]

reliability is a stat to jump in for your skill issues which is good for bad players but u can get high enough reliability on basics anyways if needed so waste

and the armor is useless straight up

u waste ic, mil efficiency and tanks by upgrading your chasis

[opaque garden]

can Spain (bald guy) ever win the Civil War with his ai

is there like a small chance?

[opaque mauve]

Bald guy?

Which side

[opaque garden]

demo

commie

anarchy

[inner sparrow]

not on historical

[vagrant chasm]

how am i loosing

[opaque mauve]

No

I've seen republican spain in some historicals

[opaque garden]

hmm weird I had it happen once when I had no dlcs enabled and before this update

[inner sparrow]

mods can bug it out or u didn’t have it on historical

[inner sparrow]

bad stats and probably poor modifiers

hover over ur combat modifiers

[opaque garden]

I had no dlcs no mods and his ai on

[inner sparrow]

idk then, base vanilla can be bugged but it shouldn’t happen

[opaque mauve]

No you are just wrong about it, it's not a scripted thing

Sometimes fascist spain just has a really bad time

and loses

The odds are certainly in their favour but it's not forced

[opaque garden]

wait maybe because Spain doesn't have the focus tree

so commie Spain doesn't get 20 thousands debuffs

and nat Spain doesn't get the buffs

[inner sparrow]

rep spain gets modifiers tho that make it basically unwinnable for them

or maybe thats just a mod thing and not vanilla

[opaque mauve]

I've seen it with and without LaR

[opaque garden]

in my opinion its rly easy to win as long as you arent anarchist path

Just keep the anarchists down and hold on the those provinces on top

should be fine

[opaque mauve]

It's not about that

It's about what the AI does

[opaque garden]

oh ye ai

right

20 generals with 1 division

[opaque mauve]

They have more attack than you

[vagrant chasm]

wym

[opaque mauve]

Wait no

[vagrant chasm]

im attackikng

[opaque mauve]

I'm misreading

[opaque mauve]

Attack works both ways

[vagrant chasm]

still dont have more tho

[opaque mauve]

Yeah

That's what I misread

[vagrant chasm]

i just dont get why im not winning

just started

[opaque mauve]

Could be defense

[vagrant chasm]

their defense?

[opaque mauve]

The shield icon on their divisions

They have higher defense than your attack so they're taking less damage per attack

[vagrant chasm]

do i need to use tanks or something

i dont know how i would get this any higher on attack

with combat width or whatever

[opaque mauve]

Well you can attack from multiple directions, but they already have reserve divisions

[opaque garden]

why 4 artillery 😭 😭 😭

[vagrant chasm]

wym its 3

[opaque mauve]

What's that template's health?

[opaque garden]

and support

[opaque mauve]

it's covered

[kindred kayak]

Atp just use light tanks with a howitzer

[opaque garden]

aint it a bit expensive

[vagrant chasm]

how else am i gonna win

with no soft attack

if i dont do 3-4

[opaque mauve]

More divs

[vagrant chasm]

i have 25 of these divisons

on one front line

[opaque garden]

is this your assault inf?

[vagrant chasm]

my attacking

yea

[opaque garden]

it has no hp

zero

none

[opaque mauve]

Last I knew (pre doctrine rework) line arty is kind of bad, because it hurts your org and hp, meaning you take more losses. Support arty is really good value though

[opaque garden]

you're paying 600 for no hp

[vagrant chasm]

let me go and check hp

brb

[kindred kayak]

If you want line arty just use light spg

[vagrant chasm]

152

hp

[opaque garden]

hey atleast its got 213 soft attack

[kindred kayak]

52 breakthrough is not enough

[opaque garden]

that is really bad for a unit that costs 600

[vagrant chasm]

all im hearing is this is rlly bad

idk how to fix it

[kindred kayak]

What country are you

[opaque mauve]

Replace the line artillery with infantry

[kindred kayak]

That wont fix his problem

[opaque garden]

id say make it bigger like 4x3 inf and 3 artillery one aa if u need it do like assault engineer field hospital support aa cavalry recon support artillery

[opaque mauve]

That's overkill

[opaque garden]

yes but its good

[opaque mauve]

You should be able to beat what they're fighting with less than that

[opaque garden]

it is good

[opaque mauve]

Ok yes but you could then just say make a 2x4 mech with 2x4 medium tanks

That's not helpful here

[opaque garden]

as a sort of special forces breakthrough

[opaque garden]

fair enough

[kindred kayak]

What country are they😭

[opaque garden]

imagine Germany with the Finland army buffs invading sov

[opaque mauve]

What

[opaque garden]

wouldn't that be such a great idea

right?

guys

[opaque mauve]

Just gonna bump this

[wintry matrix]

Mostly buffing infantry.
Not tanks.

But still great.

[opaque garden]

ah who likes tanks anyways

Just inf spam should be good enough

[real wagon]

did the update somehow affect italy? It feels like italy is so weak like I don't know, before the update I wasn't even able to win once as ethiopia and now am winning all games lol

[wintry haven]

What’s that mean?

[opaque garden]

because they never had any resources

they still dont have

[opaque mauve]

industrial capacity, the measure production cost

[opaque garden]

so the coal mechanic hit hard

[real wagon]

So italy has been nerfed cuz of it

[opaque garden]

basically

[wintry haven]

Ah, I can tank it though, 400 factories w almost nothing to make

[real wagon]

okay thanks

[opaque mauve]

Wow that's a thick infantry division

[kindred kayak]

Italy is still very powerful

[opaque garden]

its like a minor major

[opaque mauve]

Why not just use motorised/mechanised if you have that much spare mil ic

[kindred kayak]

Thats when you keep benito if you get rid of him all problems go away

[real wagon]

on single not really

[visual edge]

I'm just going mass mob and conquering everything as a minor

[real wagon]

.

[wintry haven]

Not moving

[opaque garden]

benito is only 160

[wintry haven]

It’s a meat grinder

[opaque garden]

no never goes mass mob

[kindred kayak]

I defeated germany and kicked the allies out of italy all alone as italy

[opaque garden]

dont you dare go mass mob

[visual edge]

Did it get worse?

[real wagon]

nah its still op

[vagrant chasm]

sorry boys im back

[opaque garden]

no but unless ur China there's no reason to

[vagrant chasm]

i am chile

[real wagon]

yeah but i was playing ethiopia and they feel very weak all of sudden

[visual edge]

+5% recruitable

[glacial steeple]

???

air, tanks

[opaque garden]

yes or you could stop losing ppl because u get buffs from the doctrine

[opaque mauve]

Mass mob isn't nearly as bad as it was now that you can choose whatever you want

[glacial steeple]

dont waste it on infantry

[real wagon]

field hospitals

[opaque mauve]

You lose a few good tactics

[cold garnet]

mass mob isn't even real anymore

[opaque mauve]

But it's not a whole investment

[opaque garden]

very expensive for a large army

[wintry haven]

Not moving yet, I have about 60 factories on tanks stockpiling, at 80k so far

And the AF sits at 35k

[visual edge]

It ain't that expensive

[cold garnet]

nah before this DLC, China was always better as a SFP nation,

[opaque garden]

well not if you have 300 div as China with 40 mills

[cold garnet]

not mass mob

[kindred kayak]

Probably the ai being the ai

[real wagon]

if you can afford large army you can afford those few field hospitals lol

[cold garnet]

if you actually have manpower, it is less ideal to play dedicated human wave

[real wagon]

nah doesnt feel like it

[wintry haven]

3 words, living space

[opaque garden]

https://youtube.com/shorts/6BHrWbhhqqI?si=X5vikNrvNc-ibEzz
this is what i do to my army

[opaque mauve]

Ok but then you get the pain of even more army xp before you actually become good

[real wagon]

before the update i tried playing few times with the exact same style and i was being pushed out eveyr time

now am holding the line and i can actually push smth

[real wagon]

true lol

[opaque garden]

yes I got 300 div

are they real?

no

can I afford hospitals

no

not when japan encircled 300k ppl and I lose so much inf equipment

[visual edge]

How'd that happen?

[real wagon]

i never really have any troubles with equipment anymore tbh

[wintry haven]

China doesn’t need MP 🙏🙏

Lmaoo

[real wagon]

unless i annex whole russia

[opaque garden]

Im not the one that said that

scroll back

[wintry haven]

Oh mb

[iron pike]

why cant i produce mp 34s? its not leting me produce
i click it but it dont show up when i try to produce

[opaque mauve]

Have you researched the next tier of gun?

[wintry haven]

Are they out of date?

[iron pike]

its 1940

[opaque garden]

who is the leader with the most buffs?

[opaque mauve]

Not about calendar date, it's about what you have researched

[wintry haven]

Idk the game well enough to tell the dates on individual guns

[iron pike]

yeah i researched it

[wintry haven]

But if you have the gun above them

[opaque mauve]

Show research

[wintry haven]

Are we deadass

[iron pike]

and for osame reaosn my kar98 is gone?

[wintry haven]

It’s out of date

[opaque garden]

dockyards dammit

use them

and your tungsten

[opaque mauve]

Once you research the newer equipment, the old one gets hidden. If you check "Show outdated equipment" it'll show up again

[iron pike]

tungsen???

[opaque mauve]

and your mp38 is right there

Panda stop confusing them

[iron pike]

so i cant produce mp40s?

i mead mp38***

[wintry haven]

1000 days to fix the Light Tank supply 💔💔

[opaque mauve]

You can

Click them

[opaque garden]

yes you're lacking 10 tungsten

[cerulean abyss]

how much did the new update change the grand doctrines overall

[opaque garden]

trade for it

[opaque mauve]

Panda

that's not what they asked

[cerulean abyss]

like is superior firepower any better or worse overall than before

[iron pike]

sorry not 40s sorry i am new and how do usee that??

[cerulean abyss]

also, is line artillery still bad

[iron pike]

oh the materials

[opaque mauve]

Completely changed, there's a bunch of line arty buffs but they're still shit hp at least

[opaque garden]

yes the thing Italy lacks

[iron pike]

so how do i use my tungsen? do ihave to trade for them?

[opaque garden]

u deadass?

trade for it

[cerulean abyss]

What's by far the best doctrine for a nation like the US that can basically build everything

[wintry haven]

Here we can see that there is 3,884 tanks needed to fill in the reinforcement for units you already have in the field but they have outdated equipment

[opaque garden]

with Sweden or Portugal

[opaque mauve]

You're already using it on your anti tank and medium tanks, they're just telling you to trade for it since you're below the amount you need ( shows as the red icon)

But that's not relevant to your original question

[iron pike]

bruh so i need to produce 3k tanks??

[wintry haven]

the + means reinforcement, the garage means they are being stockpiled

Yes

[opaque mauve]

Yeah for the divisions you have

[iron pike]

how tf i produce 3k tanks im about to attack poland

[opaque mauve]

So either merge/disband some, or make a lot more tanks

[wintry haven]

You’re not using all your factories

[cerulean abyss]

the answer is "fk it we ball"

[wintry haven]

You still have 10 spare

[cerulean abyss]

also put more factories on it bruh

[visual edge]

Interesting light tank choice

[wintry haven]

Put like 6 on tanks and the rest spread out

[opaque garden]

https://youtube.com/shorts/6BHrWbhhqqI?si=X5vikNrvNc-ibEzz

this is the solution my friend

[cerulean abyss]

if you have enough infantry divisions then you can just smash poland without tanks but attacking france may be tricky

[wintry haven]

You also don’t need Medium tanks for AI, not really

[opaque garden]

yoi can learn from china

[iron pike]

so i should disbanded some tnak divsions?

[visual edge]

Get the mechanized portrait of Karl Marx

[opaque garden]

dont call falkenhausen back

[wintry haven]

Benelux and spearhead paris, doss. Can also airdrop all major cities for instant cap

[opaque garden]

let him learn the art of human tanks

[iron pike]

this is my screen so far and armys.. to much?

[iron pike]

thats a f ocus?

[cerulean abyss]

You really think this guy has like 10 fully trained and deployed airborne divs rn?

[opaque garden]

bruh

[iron pike]

what?

[opaque garden]

3 not fully filled armies

[cerulean abyss]

damn

thats rough

[opaque garden]

not looking good

[iron pike]

lmaoo bruh i got the game yesterday, explain

[visual edge]

It a joke about the army spirit of the portrait of Karl Marx that manufacters men for your army

[opaque garden]

he aint even commie broski

[iron pike]

ah lol

[cerulean abyss]

by the time you start ww2 at the historical date in 39 you should have at least 5 full armies

[opaque garden]

oh mb

[wintry haven]

Template swap

[iron pike]

oh damn.. so im behind...

[opaque garden]

hey you can also get magic manpower from conscription bonuses

its just less

[wintry haven]

You have 8 more factories to use

[visual edge]

It's the only reason you can even play Tanu Tuva (kinda)

[opaque garden]

but its still magic manpower

[cerulean abyss]

like thats not even enough troops to hold off the french and british while you kill poland

[iron pike]

and its 1940 bruh icant attack poland until 41....

[opaque mauve]

You realise they're new right, you can't expect them to know anything about what you're going on about

They asked how to make guns and you're telling them "get karl marx portrait"

[visual edge]

You only need one army

[iron pike]

but why cnat i produce mp 38s? i click it but then it just dont show up on my production tab

[opaque garden]

I dont even think they have ni step back

[iron pike]

pls explain

[opaque mauve]

Where are you clicking

[cerulean abyss]

its on the production option list

click it

[opaque garden]

produce space marines

[iron pike]

i did but it just wont show up

[rapid urchin]

whats a good budget marine template?

[opaque garden]

space marines most optimal

[rapid urchin]

mainly for japan in china

[opaque garden]

anything better than thishttps://youtube.com/shorts/6BHrWbhhqqI?si=X5vikNrvNc-ibEzz

[cerulean abyss]

new production lines always go to the bottom of the list

[visual edge]

I use 9x4s, but there's definitely a more optimal template

[iron pike]

yah but i dont see it at the bottom?

[opaque mauve]

Yeah they showed this

[iron pike]

huh?/

[rapid urchin]

9 marrine and 4 artillery?

[opaque garden]

why u have 2 lines for trucks?

[visual edge]

Correct

[opaque garden]

keep one on train

you dont need much more

[opaque mauve]

Omg panda

[visual edge]

It hits pretty hard

[cerulean abyss]

press the 1st icon on the top of the screen with the artillery icon, then click on MP38. it should show up on your production

[rapid urchin]

interesting

[cerulean abyss]

also while you're at it, remove the other truck production

you dont need it

[opaque garden]

no dont

[opaque garden]

dont

dont

[opaque mauve]

Just to be clear, you're clicking here right?

[visual edge]

I use that design for mountaineers as well. They hit pretty hard

[zenith flame]

Two production opel blitz what??

[iron pike]

i literally did that wehen i click it i hear the engineer sound and nothing pops

[iron pike]

yes

[opaque garden]

production efficiency

[opaque mauve]

Ok

[opaque garden]

he has it maxed for both lines

[cerulean abyss]

look im trying to make this simple

[opaque mauve]

So you are doing it right

[opaque garden]

Just keep them thete

[opaque mauve]

ATP panda is just trolling

[wintry haven]

See here, these are how much factories of each type you have, mil factories (the green ones) produce military equipment and you have some more spare you can put on the tanks and stuff. The other one is Civ factories, they make you new factories, build stuff like forts, air fields and oil stuff.

[opaque mauve]

Their problem is that when they click the guns, it doesn't add a line

[iron pike]

this^

[opaque mauve]

That's just the game bugging

Stop telling them other irrelevant shit

[opaque garden]

no guns no problem https://youtube.com/shorts/6BHrWbhhqqI?si=X5vikNrvNc-ibEzz

[royal gazelle]

man idk how you did this, twice i've tried now and the strat just hasn't worked. First I doomstacked on the border and tried to use real units to push, got bogged down around qingdao (think thats the name). Then tried to leave my garrison/puppet troops to hold the border and sent a huge naval invasion around shanghai, I did end up landing but got contained very quick and my troops holding my puppets borders folded like wet paper

[opaque mauve]

If you haven't already, try closing the menu and reopening it, if not, save, and restart the game

[wintry haven]

Also, try closing and uninstalling

[iron pike]

bruh do i just restart the whole game? i was suppose to attack poland 1939 but i cant until 1941

[opaque mauve]

Why not?

[iron pike]

so i should?

[charred fable]

I'm literally doing a re-run of it now myself. Are you making sure you are taking supply hubs? You have to push for them first before securing the cities.

[opaque mauve]

I'm just asking why you said you can't

[charred fable]

So we have 50 days until the war kicks in

[iron pike]

i also didnt know icould build multipe things in one line i thought i had to use seprate lines for one. like i would use one civilian factory per whatever i was trying to construct.. bruh

[opaque mauve]

Oh oof

Yeah

The building queue is just a priority list for your factories

[iron pike]

lmaoo i thought each civilian factory could only build one at a time

[opaque mauve]

It can

But you can only have 15 factories per project

[iron pike]

i mean yeah but its a waste of c ivlian factory right?

[opaque mauve]

no

They all contribute equally

[rancid oar]

I wanna play a mod but it needs a difernet version, do I wait till it updates or can I play it already

[opaque mauve]

If you have 15 factories vs 1, it builds 15x faster

[iron pike]

for example this would build two oil refeineres. and it takes the same amount of days so why not build both?

im jus gonna restart its 1941 and i aint attack as yet

[opaque mauve]

No

It will build one

then the other

It just queues them

[iron pike]

o

[iron pike]

it says building one military factory but i see 2?

what is the 2?

[opaque mauve]

That's fine, the game has a cliff-like learning curve, it will take some time to get used to

[opaque mauve]

The two is the queue

[charred fable]

@royal gazelle so this is how I'm going to setup. Effectively 47 units are just there to hold the front (yellow and purple). The red will push the front 30+ width. The one unit is a tank regiment I'll manually command for fun

[iron pike]

huh?

[opaque mauve]

So it will build one in vorpommern, finish it, then start another

[iron pike]

oh

[royal gazelle]

sorry went to go make a sandwhich, idk what im doing wrong personally. should I be converting my whole army to hohei?

[iron pike]

yah im jus ognna restart, its 1941 and aint done nothing

[opaque mauve]

Hope the production line bug stops then

[charred fable]

No. You don't need to convert anything. Just wait and I'll show you what I'm doing

[royal gazelle]

cause when i deathstacked on the border I did get to push far, but around qiingdao the forntline stabilized and I was stuck against a wall of chinese bodies

I did add 1 unit of line arty but maybe i needed to throw more infantry on the div, i was worried about lack of guns

[iron pike]

so i should have 4 full armies by 1939?

[opaque mauve]

I'm not the most knowlegable about germany runs (kind of a big undertaking for the first time imo (but others will disagree))

But 4 armies would beat poland

[iron pike]

what about france? a sepraste army to defend the france line?

[edgy pendant]

Is this good for USA?

[iron pike]

like while attacking poland with 4 armys make a 5th for france defense?

[opaque mauve]

You will be fine just leaving like, some infantry with support engineers on the french line

[iron pike]

ok, so france wont attack me?

[opaque mauve]

They can only attack you across the maginot line at first, until you take the netherlands and belgium focus

[iron pike]

this shit so confusing

[opaque mauve]

Yeah

That's hearts of iron for you XD

Learning curve of a steep cliff

[tranquil kayak]

is the new philippines achievement to control all of spain bugged? Or is it only achievable through the spain path?

[cold bloom]

only achievable through spain path

[light stream]

Hello

Im having a problem playing as Argentina with Trials of allegiance. Im unable to start the focus "Support the spanish coup" because it says it requires republican spain to exist. and it does exist.

[iron pike]

can u explain thse? what are the garage up arrow and health?

[spark swallow]

Garage means stockpiling, up means upgrading, health means replenishing

[opaque mauve]

^

[spark swallow]

In other words, excess equipment, excess but better equipment, and not enough equipment

[iron pike]

huh? whats getting upgarded? and wym replenished

[iron pike]

ah

[opaque mauve]

Stockpile = It's not needed yet, building up storage
Upgrading = It's replacing worse equipment on divisions you have
Replacing = Going to divisions that are missing that equipment

[iron pike]

ahh ok

[opaque mauve]

So that 720 upgrading one means you have 720 of a worse version of that which need replacing

[light stream]

If someone figures why this happens or finds a solution, please dm me or answer me here.

[iron pike]

when usay that u mean its replacing equipment that got damaged?

[charred fable]

@royal gazelle so as you can see we've neglected the mountains and are pretty much holding it with one army (purple). Mean while my main assault army is pushing the coast line and yellow is just filling the gap.

[opaque mauve]

No, old equipment

"damaged" equipment is lost (effectively deleted) and would be showing the replacing icon

[iron pike]

but there is only one light tank 2 that ihave?

[opaque mauve]

One that you're making

You will have older ones that you start the game with

[iron pike]

so its replacing light tank 1?

[opaque mauve]

If you go into the logistics screen (the notepad) and click on light tank, you can see the different variants you have

Yeah

[iron pike]

so when i produce new equipent it replaces older variant?

[opaque mauve]

Yes

[iron pike]

ah nice and the health means how much i need to supply troops? lets say it say 20 health and i produce 5 a week, it will take 1 month to supply troops with equipment?

[opaque mauve]

Yeah the red plus

[charred fable]

@royal gazelle already taking Qingdao with minimal restiance.

[iron pike]

nicee

[marble saddle]

in planes, what's the difference between ground support and ground attack

[vagrant chasm]

how am i loosing

im on the offensive with chile

[opaque mauve]

What do you mean by ground support?

That's not a stat

[glacial steeple]

its 2 v 4

[faint merlin]

you have no supply and are attrition-ing org

[glacial steeple]

they have more org and you get damaged a lot because low breakthrough

[opaque mauve]

Ground attack is the stat that determines how much damage the plane does when doing close air support

[vagrant chasm]

@glacial steeple so do i need tanks

idk how to get more breakthrough with infantry

also idk why its 2v4

[glacial steeple]

you need something that deals more damage than the enemy infantry and you need breakthrough

[marble saddle]

excuse the low quality of the screenshot, it's a screenshot of a live stream

[glacial steeple]

recon tanks, super heavy howitzer, flame tanks, doctrine

[marble saddle]

the flying artillery gives 10% more ground support

[opaque mauve]

Huh.

[tranquil kayak]

iirc those tiles get a massive defensive buff called brown water navy. which always makes uruguay a massive pain. Also you have no supply and your divs are way too big for those tiles so you're just stacking debuffs on yourself

[marble saddle]

I guess it's just a 10% flat increase at everything a plane in ground support order is doing?

[vagrant chasm]

@glacial steeple so is there an infantry unit that can get this job done without tanks

[glacial steeple]

ground support is a unit stat i think

[opaque mauve]

You would think

[cosmic rain]

You are outnumbered and out of supply. A general rule of thumb is that defending tends to be easier than attacking, so keep that in mind.

[opaque mauve]

AFAIK it's not though

[glacial steeple]

mountaineers

[vagrant chasm]

its not even in mountains though?

[opaque mauve]

If it was 10% buff to close air support missions, it'd be called 10% mission efficiency

[charred fable]

@royal gazelle I took Shanghai and am still steadily pushing in. They actually snook past a gap I mistakenly left in the north but just keep eyes on it here and there. It's isolated and we'll push them back by committing a lot of the divisions that are expected to hold. It won't be easy but we should take it back.

[royal gazelle]

idk man i run into a mass wall and cant break through, theres always divisions waiting for me at qingdao and other supply hubs and now im bleeding supply and cant move anywhere. I'm probably just not picking the right doctrine or something but I cant do it

[marble saddle]

I'm not tryna play hoi4 rn this is someone else who's playing and now I'm interested too, but next time I play I'll look further into this

I could just open a plane in the designer to look for anything called ground support

[glacial steeple]

special forces attack better than normal inf in general

[opaque mauve]

Mountaineers have other terrain buffs as well as being stronger infantry once you have research and doctrine

[royal gazelle]

after the first warlord surrenders I gotta put my frontlines back in place then push on and always hit the same stopping point

[vagrant chasm]

so whats final look? do i just go tank division or stronger infantry

[charred fable]

It's probably too late in the campaign. You have to be quick and decisive. Burn through them fast. Similar to Germany and USSR.

[glacial steeple]

usually though

[marble saddle]

but everything I've tried to look up does suggest that ground support is, as emi says, literally just the name of the order

[glacial steeple]

paraguay has great defensive buffs

[iron pike]

@opaque mauve where can isee how much "production" i have?

[cosmic rain]

You don't have nearly enough troops

[glacial steeple]

you want a large front + CAS

[royal gazelle]

im pumping out as much as I can spamming nothing but mils

[iron pike]

wronh photo, meant thjat

[opaque mauve]

Each factory gives 5? I think

Each factory is 5 per day *

[cosmic rain]

You can compensate for inferior numbers by using force multipliers like CAS, or by investing in tanks

[marble saddle]

also omg casey I didn't know you were certified hoi mod hii

[opaque mauve]

That cost number is just the total cost of the equipment that division needs

[iron pike]

so how do iknow if i have enough production??

[royal gazelle]

i know i can beat china im just trying to copy this guy's speedrun strat in killing them in less than a year

[vagrant chasm]

why am i getting exceeding combat width penalty how do i remove that

[royal gazelle]

i just cant move fast enough before i run out of supply

or i hit a brick wall

[opaque mauve]

Make your combat width closer to the maximum for that tile

[vagrant chasm]

how

[opaque mauve]

Smaller divisions

[vagrant chasm]

i just watched a video saying new meta is 36 width divisons

[opaque mauve]

What

Anyway

36 doesn't fit nicely into 90

you can only fit two before you'd be going over the maximum

[cosmic rain]

I feel like there are a million things more important than combat width in that screenshot tbh

[opaque mauve]

Maybe but that was the question they asked

[cosmic rain]

Yeah

[opaque mauve]

Why were they getting overstacking penalties

[charred fable]

@royal gazelle I've constantly been moving my frontlines down so I can focus my assault divisions on the coast.

[cosmic rain]

I wouldn't even really worry much about combat width in general unless you're doing everything else right

[vagrant chasm]

@opaque mauve so is the problem my template

or what

if i make a new template what are some things i need

[cosmic rain]

The problem with overstacking? Yes. The problem with not winning? No

[royal gazelle]

that does remind me i keep forgetting to use my navy for shore bombardment

idk either im missing the right doctrine or more likely i just don't have the micro skill to do it

[opaque mauve]

I'm not an expert on division design, personally I'd be using 18/20w with support arty and engineers

[vagrant chasm]

@cosmic rain how i fix winning

[cosmic rain]

You're outnumbered and out of supply

[opaque mauve]

Because then you can fit 4 of those into a 90 width tile, and you're reducing the jungle penalty

[cursive dawn]

is like arty viable now

with the doctorine that reduces combat width

[opaque mauve]

Maybe less shit than it was

[hollow eagle]

I have a question

[opaque mauve]

But combat width wasn't the problem

It's the fact it has no HP

You can get some more org on it now so it's maybe less bad

[hollow eagle]

When does stacking penalty apply cause it hastnt done when exeeding the combt with wich i thought was what triggered it but no apparently and it hasnt triggered when i have a lotta divisions so what triggers it?

[sharp abyss]

Is espionage part of a dlc? I don’t see that icon.

[opaque mauve]

Stacking penalty is when you have too many divisions on a tile, exceeding width is when you have more combat width in a combat than can fit

[opaque mauve]

Yes, La Resistance

[vagrant chasm]

@cosmic rain we both have 20 divisions

[opaque mauve]

Not in the same fight

[vagrant chasm]

is that combat width

[opaque mauve]

No

[spark swallow]

To elaborate you don’t want to exceed width at all costs

[vagrant chasm]

then why are they not in the smae fight

[opaque mauve]

A division has a combat width based on the battalions in it

Each inf batallion is 2 width

[cosmic rain]

Combat width refers to how much space a division takes up in battle

[opaque mauve]

The maximum width for the battle is shown in the middle at the top

and on each side is how much width that side is using

[vagrant chasm]

does someone mind showing me a template that would work

[cosmic rain]

It can be increased by expanding the battle across multiple tiles

[spark swallow]

For offense: 32-36 width depending on tiles

For defense: 10-16 width depending on personal preference

[spark swallow]

16 width pure inf is good

[opaque mauve]

^

Each extra direction adds some width to the battle (depends on the terrain)

[spark swallow]

Note you may not always want to do this, for instance if the enemy has 32 divs on a tile and you only have 4 to attack with

[vagrant chasm]

ok ill try 16th width rq

[cosmic rain]

True!

[spark swallow]

It will let them get more in the battle and keep reinforcing, which means in this case you will want to attack with only 2 at a time (one direction) to prevent that

[vagrant chasm]

@spark swallow should i have any support

[opaque mauve]

Yes

Arty

[spark swallow]

If you can afford it

[opaque mauve]

and engineers probably

[spark swallow]

Engineer, arty, aa is pretty good

[cosmic rain]

Just be mindful that a 16w division is only half as strong as a 32w division (provided there are no CW reduction doctrines unlocked)

[spark swallow]

Arty support is mega cheap

So is aa

[opaque mauve]

Arty support is also the same stats regardless of width

so smaller units are actually fitting more support arty in one fight

Bigger value

So two 16w divs are stronger than one 32w

[spark swallow]

But also less hp and org so more damage taken and worse at attacking

[opaque mauve]

^

Yeah actually less hp and org is a big factor

[vagrant chasm]

@cosmic rain so is two 16w equivilant to one 32w

[stark bough]

Guys, how do I fix the logistics fulfillment? It says here it's at 0%, but I'm not at war. When I hover my mouse over it, it says it's due to a lack of trains, but I don't even know how to get trains.

[cosmic rain]

Yes

[spark swallow]

You can research and build them

[vagrant chasm]

@cosmic rain so can i just go for 32w then?

[spark swallow]

Support tab

[opaque mauve]

Depends on what you're measuring by

[spark swallow]

You can, I just think low worth is easier to use if you’re newer

[cosmic rain]

I agree

[spark swallow]

But 32w is completely fine as well

[vagrant chasm]

still loosing

[spark swallow]

I mean bro

You have no supply

Attacking in jungles

And no air

[stark bough]

Where can find this research (including excavation research)? I only find military research.

[vagrant chasm]

thats only 16 percent debuff tho

[cosmic rain]

You have no supply

[edgy pendant]

Try winning instead?

[vagrant chasm]

attrition is only 16 percent debuff

[spark swallow]

Support company tab at the bottom I think, I don’t really remember without looking at the menu

[spark swallow]

Read the rest of my comments

[opaque mauve]

Tabs at the top of the research window

[stark bough]

Is this DLC? It's not showing up for me.

[cosmic rain]

What are your templates?

[opaque mauve]

Trains are at the bottom of one of them, if it's not in support research it's in infantry

[spark swallow]

Show gun technology

And put up cas

If you don’t want to try in hoi4

Build CAS fighters

[opaque mauve]

Your industry research is in the last two tabs

[vagrant chasm]

ok im gonna retry with this template with supply and cas

brb

[spark swallow]

Cas fighter template is 4x hmg in first tab, bomb bays/locks in rest

And get extra fuel tanks

[cosmic rain]

Can you attack the tile from multiple directions at the same time? This will expand your combat width

[spark swallow]

And you use ground support mission

[opaque mauve]

Enemy already has more divisions that will enter the fight

Plus if they're undersupplied they'll still lose

[cosmic rain]

I'm aware, but it depends on how much he can expand it vs how many reserves there are

[iron pike]

can some explain this please? why cant i use my civilian buildings? its says consumer goods???

[vagrant chasm]

i have a question i can make more than 24 divisions but only one army can fit on the front right so is there a point for this war

[cosmic rain]

You can put multiple armies on a front. There is no limit.

[iron pike]

@opaque mauve

[cosmic rain]

But, if the combat width is filled, more armies won't help you

[vagrant chasm]

@cosmic rain should i max it out then?

[cosmic rain]

No. Adding more troops is going to make the supply worse

[spark swallow]

Your consumer good factor is high enough to use up all your civs

[vagrant chasm]

the person im fighting doesnt even have planes

do i just use cas @spark swallow

[cosmic rain]

Then you should use planes

CAS is insanely useful

[spark swallow]

I would suggest so

Refer to my design

[glacial steeple]

no?

[iron pike]

so how do i stop so i cant use it on what i want?

[glacial steeple]

you can put as many on a front as you want

[spark swallow]

Do focuses and improve eco law

[cosmic rain]

Even if your divisions suck, CAS damage is not tied to the quality of your divisions whatsoever, and it will just damage the enemy troops

[spark swallow]

On most nations partial mob/war eco is forst pp pick

[iron pike]

how do iimprove eco law?

[glacial steeple]

it does provide an up to 35%? comabt buff to your units

[opaque mauve]

Go to country tab (click flag)

[spark swallow]

Watch these if you’re struggling with the base mechanics

[glacial steeple]

besides the damage

[iron pike]

1 hour? bruh

[cosmic rain]

Which is very useful

But I thought it just debuffed your enemies

?

[glacial steeple]

no

it does both

air supremacy debuffs your enemies

[spark swallow]

Other YouTubers have videos too

[glacial steeple]

fighters

[cosmic rain]

Huge

[spark swallow]

It doesn’t really make sense for us to explain how to navigate the ui to each new player that comes here

[warped siren]

Moderators, a spam bot who tries to advertise a game here @CLUEY96

[edgy pendant]

But spills!.!.!

[opaque mauve]

How long have you been sat here trying to figure stuff out :p

[edgy pendant]

Also forgot spills was a moderator here. Lmao

[glacial steeple]

those are shorter than over text

[cerulean abyss]

oh hes still here

[spark swallow]

Could you make a ticket with supporting evidence please, by dming the pdx bot

[iron pike]

u right i been texting for about 2 hours tyring to figure out lmaoo

[cerulean abyss]

ahhh i remember my first time losing to poland

[opaque mauve]

And air supremacy is from fighters mainly

[cerulean abyss]

good times

[warped siren]

He dm's people

[edgy pendant]

That doesn’t change what he said

[cerulean abyss]

what's the best superior firepower paths for USA now

[edgy pendant]

One that gives planning

[warped siren]

Sorry I'm not familiar how it's done

[cerulean abyss]

planning is lame and un-american

i need attack

[spark swallow]

Dm the pdx bot with your issue and screenshots of the rule breaks

[cerulean abyss]

more attack

[edgy pendant]

Planning gives you attack

[cerulean abyss]

turn anybody i encounter into ash

[spark swallow]

Sfp is 10w with support arty I believe

[glacial steeple]

dm the @hearty wave bot with evidence of your claims, it will open a private channel between you and server moderation, it will then be looked into and handled from there.

[sharp abyss]

Do you think that they will relive the exploit around civil wars, and deleting your divisions before igniting it?

[warped siren]

Uh, next time then. Cause I already blocked it, and thus dont have access to the messages.

[cosmic rain]

Yall remember when you could duplicate airwings to print infinite manpower?

Or was it splitting

I forgot

[vagrant chasm]

cas dont even have enough range

[visual portal]

is the battle royale achivement bugged?

[cosmic rain]

?

Oh

Yeah you might have to modify the design, or possibly build a closer airport

[cerulean abyss]

why is my supply so garbage here

[cosmic rain]

4/10 bait

[cerulean abyss]

its a level 10 port

[vagrant chasm]

cant build any closer of a airport

im rsearching cas 2

[cerulean abyss]

tf you mean bait its a genuine question why is the largest naval base i can make in the game in pearl harbor of all places experiencing crippling supply issues

[cosmic rain]

I mean, 124 ships

[cerulean abyss]

Its pearl harbor bruh not jacksonville

[cosmic rain]

There might be a way to see the supply consumption of your fleet vs the supply availability in the port? I dunno

[royal gazelle]

you know what? 1940 isn't a speedrun record or anything, but im happy for it, usually takes me much longer to cap china

[cosmic rain]

Check supply mapmode

[cerulean abyss]

not much to see

bright orange for bad supply

not telling me anything i dont already know

[cosmic rain]

How much supply are the ships demanding?

[cerulean abyss]

18.36

i send one of my fleets to manila to relieve supply

[opaque mauve]

In supply mapmode what's the line running into the port say

[cerulean abyss]

even then it still says honolulu has no supply

wtf game

[cosmic rain]

Tf

[cosmic rain]

Do you need another level 10 port to "connect" to the one in hawaii?

[opaque mauve]

Yes

[cerulean abyss]

If I do I have LA and san diego

[opaque mauve]

So it's only getting 4 supply

are your convoys getting raided

[cerulean abyss]

Bruh

Its june 1936

Im at peace

[opaque mauve]

Oh

[split scaffold]

@cerulean abyss I think we need to build railways

[opaque mauve]

You don't need sea control for convoy do you?

[split scaffold]

There's no level 5 railway to the level 10 port when you start off

[opaque mauve]

Oh

lmao

[cosmic rain]

Do you need to build railways going to the ocean port to bring supplies from the capital to the pott?

[opaque mauve]

Yes

[cosmic rain]

Port*

That'd do it

[opaque mauve]

You need the same flow rate from main hub to endpoint

[cerulean abyss]

That makes sense

[opaque mauve]

So what's happening is it's bottlenecked on the way to the port, then that port is serving most of its supply to other locations

[split scaffold]

right

[opaque mauve]

so it only gets 4

[split scaffold]

maybe you just need to build one to Norfolk, not all the way to San Diego>

?

[cerulean abyss]

holy jesus was it always like this and i didnt know this?

[opaque mauve]

Aren't railways way cheaper than high level ports

Oh mb you mean different rail

[split scaffold]

I don't think so. I play a lot of US and never had an issue deathstacking in Hawaii or Manilla even for that matter

[cerulean abyss]

I clicked upgrade bottleneck on the supply hub on honolulu

[opaque mauve]

not a new port

Well see if that fixes it

[cerulean abyss]

this has to be new having port supply be determined by land supply too

ill report back ig

[opaque mauve]

oo

[cosmic rain]

Makes sense

[opaque mauve]

Might it be to do with the new home ports thing

Is that port the home port for the fleet

[cerulean abyss]

i love 5 research slots in 1936

[cosmic rain]

Can we not just mix and match? Level 6 on one port and level 5 on another?

So it can get a little supply from both

[split scaffold]

Does the AI do licensed productions or can you lend lease ships now or wtf is going on here? GB went down King's Path and joined the Axis.

[opaque mauve]

No, unfortunately supply is annoying like that

I don't think you can licence ships

And idk why there'd be any events for germany to give uk ships

[split scaffold]

You can

[opaque mauve]

I stand corrected

Why is the UK licencing ships from germany then lmfao

Can you tag switch and see?

[split scaffold]

just did

[opaque mauve]

Oh mb

[split scaffold]

nbd

they are not requesting licensing from germany and they are building... something.

honestly, not bad

[cerulean abyss]

when they do USA rework they should add a mechanic where if your casualties go too high in a short period of time during the war your ws and stability tank

[opaque mauve]

AI WTF are those generals

[opaque mauve]

This is already a thing

[cosmic rain]

That already happens to every country

[nova talon]

100hrs noob here
Always being playing british malaya ,
I fully switch to fascism but I'm still stuck in allies factions. How do I even leave a faction?

[opaque mauve]

Casualties drop your war support

[split scaffold]

i try not to think about it

[opaque mauve]

Low war support tanks your stability

[cerulean abyss]

Yeah but it doesn't do too much if you have plenty of PP to spare

[opaque mauve]

You can't unless you break free of british control, you need to gain autonomy

You can do that by getting war score or sending lend lease

[wintry arch]

Can somebody explain coal to me in short? I find coal very confusing

[cerulean abyss]

With the US it was one of few countries that was really apprehensive to losing so much life to achieve victory

[nova talon]

British malaya had changes recently due to NCNS where there no more singapore , singapore is now part of UK

[cosmic rain]

Or often through the focus tree!

[opaque mauve]

and the continuous focus

[cosmic rain]

It's just fuel for your factories. No coal means all your factories slow down.

[opaque mauve]

I don't think british malaya has a focus tree?

[cerulean abyss]

Think of it like how fuel fuels ships, trucks, tanks, divisions but for factories instead

[nova talon]

Arh ok so i have to land lease convoys to break free then?

[opaque mauve]

That's one simple way yeah

[wintry arch]

So ignore if your good, but worry if you aren't?

[cosmic rain]

I advise looking through your focus tree, there are usually ways to break free through theee

There

[opaque mauve]

You can lend lease whatever though, it's based on IC

[cerulean abyss]

Depends on what country you are

[nova talon]

British malaya is generic focus tree , no breaking free via focus

[wintry arch]

Gonna play as Hungary

With Gotterdamrung

[cosmic rain]

Huh? Seriously?

[opaque mauve]

Lacking coal basically locks you to 1936 ic output

Wdym "seriously"

[cerulean abyss]

If its historical than you might need to trade for coal from germany or something

[opaque mauve]

It's one of countless small nations

[cerulean abyss]

But its no different than trading resources from any other country

[wintry arch]

I do plan on froming greater hungary so its semi historical

[cosmic rain]

I'm surprised it has no focus tree, I just assumed they would have added it with TFV

[opaque mauve]

Nah they only did the big dominions

[cerulean abyss]

greater hungary area doesnt have much coal

so you'll probably have to trade

[wintry arch]

Ye I was worried about that

I find playing the balkans is fun

[opaque mauve]

Continuous focus only gives 0.5 per day though it's not great

Idk if you could even break free before you get forced into ww2

[cerulean abyss]

yall think the USA rework is going to make them harder or easier to play

[opaque mauve]

and then once you're in a war you can't stop being in the war

[wintry arch]

both

[split scaffold]

def harder

[wintry arch]

Mostly harder indeed

[cerulean abyss]

they should introduce a system similar to pre-NCNS china where you had to gain alot of experience to remove debuffs

[split scaffold]

Paradox has an insatiable urge to add completely unnecessary mechanics

[cerulean abyss]

since the US military generally was farily inexperienced compared to its opponents early on

[wintry arch]

Well, the faction and doctrine were old...

[split scaffold]

Instead of using the balance of power from 3 mainline DLCs ago, lets add a little thing in the focus tree to represent the same thing

[opaque mauve]

Please no I hate that mechanic so much as china

[cerulean abyss]

Like it wouldn't have to be as bad as china obv

[opaque mauve]

Ig not as bad for the US because you have 4 years to just sit on exercise

it wouldn't even matter

[split scaffold]

These were GOOD changes. Faction needs some serious work but it is way better, and doctrines are fresh

[wintry arch]

I plan on buying the No Compromise No Surrender DLC when it's on sale

[opaque mauve]

Factions should be base game :/

[cerulean abyss]

Even though IRL the US was simply that powerful there should be some way to make it somewhat a challenge in HOI4

[opaque mauve]

I was so dissapointed when it wasn't

At least some of the features

[wintry arch]

Well they have to lock SOMETHING in a pay wall

[opaque mauve]

Being able to direct your allies, and share research with them easier at least

I still think they need a way to share radar, because it sucks so much having to build a whole avionics facility just for that

[cerulean abyss]

Can you have 3 special forces branches with new update

[cosmic rain]

I think the bigger issue is powercreeo

[cerulean abyss]

Because the US had marines, rangers, and paratroopers

[cosmic rain]

Powercreep

[opaque mauve]

You can use all three

But you just don't get the doctrine

[cerulean abyss]

Make US a billion times more powerful

500 trillion bombers per month

one kansas class super mega fleet carrier a day

trillions of sherman tanks exported accross the world

[spark swallow]

I think USA and Germany could already have that

[cosmic rain]

Cant wait for the mongolian focus tree with a focus called "legacy of the khan" that gives your cavalry +800% damage basically making them stronger than heavy tanks

[split scaffold]

The problem is historically, the Axis lost in 1941 because of the massive imbalance in economy, manpower, and naval power. The only real way to make USA hard is to add annoying mechanics and/or take the historical paths a little off the crazy train.

[cosmic rain]

• coring the entirety of the former mongol empire

[cerulean abyss]

yeah idk i really only use SF for USMC larp or paratrooper cheesing

[wintry arch]

Hungary is by far my favorite focus tree

[cerulean abyss]

im telling you man public opinion mechanic

[split scaffold]

Can they? I think in the German tree when you get one of the focuses that gives you a branch spec, the branch spec in the other focus goes away.

[split scaffold]

But how do you do that in a way that is fun?

fun/not adding another mechanic that's just "war support debuf to casualities+"

[cosmic rain]

Hmm how about a parliament system where the only interaction is sinking PP to make the approval bar go up

[cerulean abyss]

spreadsheet sim of congressmen and their represented population general opinions

duh