ask-for-help-here

[pliant condor]

but if you have a good enough flame and recon light tank design you might still get enough break

or stay on the small gun and just have bad stats

[stuck garnet]

ehh i'd rather swap to meds at this point

[pliant condor]

then do

it never makes sense to but well

medium are better

[stuck garnet]

i think i converted too many division

[pliant condor]

that's fine

whenever you convert division

disable equipment in the converted template

and make a copy with equipment enabled

only convert divs to the final template with equipment enabled(in the field directly) when you produce the equipment

[ripe escarp]

Can anyone help me? Im playingas japan and dont know how to organize my navy properly. I need to keep dominance over very vast areas
Idk how to get rid of the red ones

[sacred patrol]

every AI nation glazing germany like crazy here

[uncut sundial]

How do i bring out any designer? or tank designer?

[glacial steeple]

its so expensive

what for

rush the war and use artillery

theyll only have guns

artillery beats gun 0 (1918) and gun 1 (1936) rather easily

even if just as support

haiti has like double your core pop so strike swiftly

afterwards youll need a navy and possibly marines to invade cuba

they may have a rather lot of troops

you should then again concentrate your firepower on a specific tile to either encircle them, take a port, or ideally both in the same move

[sinful vessel]

Are the medals usefull ?

[carmine herald]

how do i up manpower production

[boreal hamlet]

Does the civilian nuvlear reactors still have their ol buffs too?

[edgy mesa]

i need some tips for basicly everything i just lost as germany against poland...

[young wyvern]

yes but costly in political point

[young wyvern]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbpWbSD6hEY

[carmine herald]

?

[swift sonnet]

Better off Doing cavelry

[young wyvern]

OR you can reduce the number of battalions in your divisions. OR you could change the law of your occupied territories

so many answers

[carmine herald]

lpaying as sweden rn so yeah

[young wyvern]

pupetting china is a good idea too

[carmine herald]

doing lots of navy so its like low manpower

[young wyvern]

There are 12 focuses about manpower for Sweden 🙏

[carmine herald]

oh thanks

[cursive dawn]

how do u get the japan buddhist path

[glacial steeple]

you dont

you can conscript more tho

[carmine thunder]

What is good marine template for usa?

[edgy mesa]

what do i do here my soldiers have to manually take everything or is there a fast way

[carmine herald]

yeah game just says im low on manpower constantly so yeah lol

[glacial steeple]

oh thats fine

thats got to do with the proportion between manpower reserves and army deployed

if you have an army of 10 million but only 1 mil reserves it would say that too

[carmine herald]

ohhh i see

[wet topaz]

Yeah I for that when I had 2.54 mil manpowe reserve

[carmine herald]

how 😭

[acoustic falcon]

how do u properly use submarine carrier

[edgy mesa]

is there a quick way to get all armys to have the same mission?

[neat widget]

Inspirational advice :D

[static turret]

whats the new japanese starting leader called

[neat widget]

keisuke okada

[frigid harness]

hey there how to invade uk as soviet in 1943? theres so many ships sos

[neat widget]

naval bombers

But you can get that many ships in like 1945, so no worries there

[frigid harness]

but i dont have rubber

for the planes

[neat widget]

One year for building dockyards, another for spamming cruisers

[frigid harness]

so I cannot outproduce uk usa mexico and canada

[neat widget]

what does the world map look like

[frigid harness]

and what do i research

ive got france germany and poland with italy

thats it

[neat widget]

That's... a lot

[frigid harness]

wdym

[neat widget]

Maybe you can first invade Malaya from Vladivostok to get the rubber and then once you do you can invade England

Also synthetic rubber is a thing

[frigid harness]

ahhhhhhh

okaoky

thanks

also is there a time limit? for the achivements

can i play until 1950?

[neat widget]

Yeah

You can play for as long as you want, but there will be a popup in 1949

[frigid harness]

okay but will I get the achivements in 1950?

[neat widget]

Yes

[frigid harness]

thanks

[carmine herald]

the allies are losing the war despite me playting as democratic sweden im crying 😭

[glacial steeple]

go up law

[carmine herald]

i dont even have an idea whats going on atp

spectating germany

[glacial steeple]

this is true

[carmine herald]

theres like 20 different army groups

[carmine herald]

idk how LMAO

[frigid harness]

also whats the best inf to make

the template

and do I change as soviet from the massive doctrine or smt like that to the artylery strike

[hollow eagle]

What do players mean by "fix a supply line" or a "trade route"

[frigid harness]

from this to the one above

[frigid harness]

do i get just 9inf 4art and in support enge, hospitals, recon, art, and aa

[neat widget]

eh... that could work but the best i'd say is 18 mountaineers with those companies

although you should swap engineers for assault engineers
recon for tank recon
artillery for super-heavy howitzer
and aa for medium flame tank

if possible

[frigid harness]

what does aa anti air has to do with flame tanks?

just useless in late game? thats why?

[glacial steeple]

howitzer doctrine very good btw

[frigid harness]

????

what\

so should I swap this for the superior firepower?

[inner sparrow]

yeah sfp is better than mass assault with new doctrines

for inf

[frigid harness]

so is it worht it to change it?

playing soviet

[inner sparrow]

can work vs ai but in general arty is bad, very bad at attacking

okay at defending but still meh

[inner sparrow]

if u haven’t chosen any subdoctrines, yes

[frigid harness]

so what width do u recommend

and no arty in the template meaning only in support

right?

[inner sparrow]

depends on how good u are at managing your eco but 16-18w or 30-36w

[inner sparrow]

yes

no line arty, support is still fine

[frigid harness]

huh?

eco?

[inner sparrow]

economy

[frigid harness]

ahh

right

but wont i get the - for the 36w?

[inner sparrow]

the what

[frigid harness]

the minuses for atack

[glacial steeple]

clown what grand doctrine should i do as eth

[frigid harness]

the penalties

[glacial steeple]

you can

[inner sparrow]

depends on the terrain

[frigid harness]

so whats overall better

[glacial steeple]

gbp attack sfp defend

[inner sparrow]

36 for attacking, 16-18 for defending

[frigid harness]

thanks

[inner sparrow]

your attacking divs (tanks, inf, special forces) should usually be around 36w

[glacial steeple]

like gbp looks so good but i could mobile warfare it up yk

[inner sparrow]

mass assault with engi sub doctrine

have fun

[glacial steeple]

torture

no

[inner sparrow]

:)

[glacial steeple]

i might go speed

fun

[carmine herald]

bro im so confused LMFAO

watching the germany just play for itself rn

and i have no idea whats happening in the battlefields

currently barbarrossa ishappening

[inner sparrow]

ai doesn’t know what’s happening itself aswell

[carmine herald]

yeah like i am so confused theres too much happening lOL

i lost sight of everything when germany invaded me while i was playing sweden

[glacial steeple]

ai truly plays like the average player

[stuck garnet]

Hey is hmg main cannon a good idea untill i get a good cannon or should i just not use tanks

[inner sparrow]

wonder that there’s players that play as bad as the ai

[stuck garnet]

Like in combat

[glacial steeple]

yes

[carmine herald]

new ones...

[glacial steeple]

theres worse than ai

[stuck garnet]

The answer is probs no

[primal moon]

probably me

[static turret]

why wont my navy do patrol

[inner sparrow]

just don’t use tanks till u get ur gun, u can still produce tho, just produce the same tank u would use with ur main gun with the cheapest possible and then convert as soon as u get the good one

[primal moon]

it's optimal to start producing a tank evej if its not got all the modules as you can just update it later

costs way less to update something

and you get the efficiency

[neat widget]

True

[inner sparrow]

nah I believe in u fr

[primal moon]

you havent seen me play a navy nation son

[neat widget]

what do you mean you get 25% fort and urban bonuses + 10% to all battalion attack

That's insaaaaane

[inner sparrow]

navy is useless so its alright

[primal moon]

not for uk or japan tbh

[inner sparrow]

siege arty sub doctrine, removing urban from the game 🥰

[glacial steeple]

japan navy is beyond useless rn

[neat widget]

Yeah but don't deploy them of course

[primal moon]

wdym

[static turret]

Char someone help why wont I get dominance 😭

[inner sparrow]

its the truth

[neat widget]

How would you conquer Borneo then

[inner sparrow]

navy is useless

[neat widget]

For your oil

Okay I guess you can take Afghanistan and then Iran

[glacial steeple]

even strike force eats your fuel so its actively detrimental to your airforce keeping away subs and detrimental to your ability to invade with CAS

sure you can maybe use the navy after taking indonesia

[primal moon]

U need to go on patrol

[neat widget]

Like the fort bonuses are crazy

[glacial steeple]

but thats ☠️

you should not need the navy that badly after indonesia

[static turret]

I did

[neat widget]

110% fort bonus and 53.32% fort reduction from railway guns

[static turret]

I qm

Im on patrol

With 0

Percent

And şt wont go up

[neat widget]

You can literally clear level 16 forts with that

Also

I don't think the railway gun part of the doctrine works

And if it does it's even crazier

It's supposed to increase railway gun bombardment by 25%, but that seems to do... nothing?

[neat widget]

Make sure you have your supply base set up properly

Make sure you're not in, say, Oslo, but actually in Southeast Asia

@inner sparrow were you about to say something?

[raven snow]

what are rangers for

[inner sparrow]

I was about to call casey bad at the game but then I remembered telling the truth sometimes isn’t the way

[inner sparrow]

for forests

[neat widget]

Ah lmao

[neat widget]

and jungle

[inner sparrow]

same thing

fr

[neat widget]

true

jungle is just forest on steroids, like mountains are hills on steroids

i guess marshes are enhanced beaches or something

[primal moon]

oh yeah the new navy is super fuel intensive.

that said, fuel was like japans biggest issue, the axis as a whole tbh, so its sort of realistic

[frigid harness]

and do u use special forces?

[gusty briar]

Lol so soviets have military access with me, im at war with the allies and they are not at war, but somehow they are taking British land across my front

They r just walking in and giving me the land lmao

[ripe escarp]

their home base is prob far away or they have too many regions to take care at once

[alpine pivot]

so i got a prob

i need mp

and idk how to get more

[frigid harness]

check garnissons

and change the law

[alpine pivot]

i cant change the law and i got the garrisons as 4 cavalry

[glacial steeple]

conscript more

[alpine pivot]

.

[glacial steeple]

what nation are you even playing

[alpine pivot]

tryna do wojtek poland\

[glacial steeple]

afghanistan?

why cant you change the law then

huh

you also have focuses for like 5% recruitable

[alpine pivot]

join vc and show me pls

[glacial steeple]

im not vcing rn sorry

[south ridge]

why aren't these guys attritioning?

[alpine pivot]

supply

[south ridge]

how do they have supply

[alpine pivot]

the capitla

[stark bough]

When I order my tactical bombers to strategic bomb an area, the mission efficiency always remains at 0%, as if it never happened. What do I do?

[glacial steeple]

capital hub of mengjiang

[neat widget]

yeah

rough

me when kentung and yaungwe

[glacial steeple]

oh its any tile

doesnt have to be a vp

[shrewd salmon]

Hey can anyone send me some div designs and tanks designs? i am unable to make anything good to save my life

i only get like 48 breakthrough at best on my best div and the enemies get 500-700💀

@neat widget @glacial steeple

[glacial steeple]

break doesnt deal damage btw

it prevents you from taking as much damage while attacking

also its in pinned messages

[thin olive]

can someone tell me how to remove the aircraft unasigned from my screen?

[gusty briar]

So im playing as Communist bulgaria in my own faction me and Japan are at war with the allies, but separately and no military access or anything, after capping england and France it gave Japan all the extra land gained, is that bc they have higher war score? They dont have any divisions in Europe

[sleek osprey]

Hey guys, i am kinda new in the game, and i wanted some tips on like which country should i start, i know almost nothing, just some name of some mechanics.

[wet topaz]

Right click the tab thingie

[spice cipher]

Why do my nuclear strikes instantly cancel?

Figured it out. You have to complete the Manhatten Project.

[thin olive]

ok thank you

what about ungrouped aircraft

[remote bone]

havent played in awhile, this a good 39 tank div?

[wild rune]

you should have mech and also ur best bet is using either 10/8s or 9/9s

[iron harness]

i mainly use 10 tanks 8 mot/mech

it's better to use mech cuz it has more armour

[gusty briar]

Why did this update get rid of request garrison support? That's so dumb

[remote bone]

in 39

[full nest]

What does it mean when a military factory is red?

[neat widget]

more hp too

[neat widget]

damaged

[full nest]

Oh ty

[hollow eagle]

Yall

what do players mean by fixing a supply line or a trade route efficiency

[pulsar steeple]

Why do I get out of fuel modifier despite still having fuel in the storage?

[neat widget]

trade route efficiency I believe is how much trade can get through, it primarily affects trade when convoys get sunk

fixing supply ig you build railroads to the frontline supply hubs

[hazy tangle]

Howdy! My name is Sleepy, This is my first message. I have about 65.9 Hours on HOI4, Would anyone be down to help me with over all stragety? DM's are open

[neat widget]

oh sure, what country are you?

[hazy tangle]

Uh could we hop in a call?

[wild rune]

who is UH?

[hazy tangle]

i meant to say uh but i miscaptilized it

sorry livadeia 😅

[wild rune]

what country tho

[hazy tangle]

I want to try first as germany

[wild rune]

germany is pretty simple

usually

[hazy tangle]

could we call?

[wild rune]

I can not rn but I'm sure someone would be willing to help in helping lounge

[hazy tangle]

thank you

[hazy tangle]

could you hop in helping lounge 1?

😭Ghosted...

[neat widget]

By the way my microphone has issues so I won't be speaking

Do you want to screenshare or something?

I mean Regular's not that much more difficult

Civilian just adds buffs around peripheral game mechanics

Ah I see

Oh I see you don't have by blood alone

DLC

the three big ones are La Resistance, By Blood Alone, and Götterdammerung I think

OH and no step back

[wild rune]

I was ab to ask where NSB was

[neat widget]

la resistance adds operations, no step back adds tank designer, by blood alone adds airplane designer, and götterdammerung adds a bunch of special projects

[wild rune]

keep forgetting that they integrated MTG

[neat widget]

forgot that tank designer wasn't integrated for a second

Yeah I think that is the right construction order

Does depend on whether you go four year plan (heavy mil construction) versus prioritize economic growth (civ construction until 1938 and then mil construction)

I mean you can do that

[wild rune]

FYP my goat fr

[neat widget]

I didn't hear you tbh

correct

tungsten is important but you don't need to import more material if you only have a small deficit

Ah I see

To be honest though the vanilla ai really struggles naval invading, you should be able to defeat any troops that land on your shores

Yeah it's really bad

Oh yeah that would mess you up

Wait a second for four year plan you should cancel most of the civilian factories (keep the ones already being built)

Because four year plan gives a lot of military factory construction buffs

You're supposed to be constructing mils, so no

Yeah you could

@hazy tangle basically four year plan envisages you getting civilian factories from conquest

The whole thing hinges on conquering other countries

[wild rune]

early anschluss\

[neat widget]

Yeah

As Cheese said you can early anschluss, where you have to get enough fully equipped divisions

Yeah

But now they reworked the doctrines, there is no advantage in doing cavalry

He probably did it to conserve xp, but proper heritage, which saves xp when adding cavalry to a division, is exclusive to grand battleplan now

deeply unfortunate that germany is stuck with mobile warfare

Well early anschluss still has to be early, so you know do the infantry since it trains quicker

No but you do need to wait until they have full equipment

and are also 20% trained

Yeah speer todt and gobbels is good i think

[versed rose]

the bigger reason to do infantry for anschluss rush is they use less guns than cav so you get it like a week earlier (or with less mils) than if you do it with cav

[neat widget]

Yeah you can absolutely go ahead of time on machine tools, you only waste like 10 days or so

But machine tools are valuable industry techs

WAIT

Don't fire advisors like that!

You lose their buffs, you have 3 slots

Use them all

The main thing where you do want to fire advisors is with the Soviet Union, where you do have to fire the NKVD chair to get a new one

Oh by the way you have new factories and dockyards

use them

For dockyards I just set all existing construction to max dockyards and then if I'm not playing navy, then produce convoys most of the time

Yeah

But do finish the new construction (including the battleships, battleships are useful in this game)

You add a new construction line that has no dockyards on it

right

no don't move the convoys up

You should go down anschluss now

It takes 35 + 35 days I believe

Also add military chiefs of staff, the sooner you unlock doctrines the better

Yeah spread your units around

You can use a garrison order for this yeah

Oh shoot you have so much political power

Spend it on advisors and military staff

800 political power

By the way do you have paratroopers unlocked

Yeah that's too far

You're basically doubling your time at that rate

You don't really do interception

Your typical missions are air superiority and close air support

[wild rune]

😭 how did you let bro accumulate that much

[neat widget]

I did warn them earlier

don't forget about air chiefs of staff (navy can also be helpful too)

[wild rune]

nah you dont need navy

navy doesnt exist

[neat widget]

artillery isn't that important tbf, line artillery is still not good, but support artillery is pretty good

and yes continue creating troops

also btw at some point you should start making medium tanks and airplanes, especially transport planes since we are doing a paradrop build

You should probably make transport planes and fighters right now

or fighters when you get 1940 tech

Yeah you can, also Germany is the only country I believe that starts out with transports

Actually, you can justify on Syria right now and we can paradrop in France

I mean get the research slot

Oh yeah you can pretty easily do no-DLC planes ahead of time since you don't have to research 4 different techs for them

So yeah do the 1940 fighter

And also start making paratroopers with 1 paratrooper battalion in the division, well okay the 3 paratrooper template works well too

Wait a second check france's national spirits btw

Yeah do air support

[wild rune]

special forces cap

[neat widget]

They have like 120+ divisions and like two special forces, I think they're fine

[wild rune]

pluh

[neat widget]

Wait get the research slot

after the kdf-wagen there's one research slot

@tropic linden historical major focus trees are free

The alternative history focus trees are DLC

Yeah this is the actual game

@hazy tangle look for disjointed government

this makes them capitulate really easily and makes them very paradroppable

Also you can't paratroop without paratroopers

coal liquefaction and the reichswerke are pretty good tbh

[wild rune]

@glacial steeple can you make the helping lounge size a bit larger I want to help but too many people are in there rn

[neat widget]

Also line one army up on the French border @hazy tangle

Get transport planes to Karlsruhe as well

And deploy your fighters in Koln

And field marshalls

[wild rune]

I would say put a whole field marshal on the benelux+France and the rest on poland

[neat widget]

Sure

But I chose to declare war on France this way so that we can do paradrop strats

[wild rune]

I see

I forgot paradrop strats

my bad

[neat widget]

Oh shoot

They failed to declare in time

I didn't realize

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

😭

I mean they can declare war on France with Poland

Yeah slow down your game before your declare war

@tropic linden it takes a while to deploy

Wait two days and try again

No the Ardennes are terrible terrain

@tropic linden You don't need aerial supremacy outright

If there's no planes in a region

So you can just put planes over western germany

Also don't send everyone to Paris

You need to take Orleans and Tours too

To move planes right click on an airbase

Do it now

They moved air away

So do the paradrops now

You can do it if they have no planes

I mean you have the orders set up, all you need to do is press the order button

They've been waiting for exactly this moment

[twin knoll]

can someone please help

[neat widget]

Nothing I can do about that

[twin knoll]

what do we do

[wild rune]

vro is cooked

[neat widget]

Yeah, just happens with world conquests

[wild rune]

what are you even using that much coal on 😭

[neat widget]

Yeah coal scales up faster than linear I believe

So maybe this is what happens when you're at 2000 factories

[valid lotus]

anyone know how to solve the issue with your game stuck loading at "calculating naval distances"?

[sleek karma]

where do i change my language

[dusty sandal]

Through the game properties on steam

[radiant dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-my-honest-reaction-damn-skull-skeleton-gif-15885937969029652188

[latent mural]

is there a way to stop certain types of equipment from being converted? for example, i have a cas and fighter both on small airframe, and if i design a better cas on the same airframe and try to convert, it attempts to convert both the old cas and the fighters to the new cas. can i stop the fighters from being converted?

[glacial steeple]

ill talk about it later

[grand iris]

upgrade infrastructure in states which have coal

[twin knoll]

And thats gonna fix -16k

[grand iris]

and if you have decisions to exavate more coal do that

[grand iris]

it can fix few hundred

[twin knoll]

😭 bro

[grand iris]

but if you ask me paradox didnt add enough coal

like everytime im running out

[twin knoll]

Def not

[grand iris]

so i kinda feel u

[twin knoll]

Needs like 3x more bruh

[grand iris]

yea

[twin knoll]

Or coal refineries or some shi

[grand iris]

unless u add mods that add resources

ig

[twin knoll]

Charcoal refineries

[foggy steppe]

the fk is this 210d focus 🥀

[thin zealot]

Cores

I guess

[foggy steppe]

still wild 🥀

[iron harness]

me on x5 speed during war as soviet union

[serene karma]

Nah

I asked about it some time ago

And therefore it got raised from 3 to 4

Its stop too many people from interfering with helpers

[stiff moth]

Explains 1941 Barbarossa

[sinful vessel]

what is the best medal to give to my units ?

[left mica]

hell

[alpine dove]

What are best doctrine choices for soviets and Germany respectively

[fathom thistle]

Looking for templates and specific doctrines for pure infantry builds, Im still kinda lost after the doctrine update ngl

[inner sparrow]

gbp for attacking sfp for defending, sub doctrines really depends on what ur doing but its kinda obvious after reading through them

[inner sparrow]

templates haven’t changed really just do same as before for pure in, doctrines do sfp main and the sub u can take the infantry cw reduction and from the other 3 subdoctrines just choose what u need most

arty doctrines are kinda nothing burger in single player

[fathom thistle]

Are signal companies now even more important since they butchered MA r doctrine?

[inner sparrow]

yes

[dusky plank]

Which button is for activating console

[hollow linden]

Smash your keyboard and find out

[dusky plank]

Peak help 💔

[hollow linden]

Idk what's your keyboard layout? And what device do u play on

If you're Quertz it's this "^"

[dusky plank]

Uhh I dunno the keyboard layout but I mostly play on PC

[dusky plank]

Don't have that

[hollow linden]

So Windows/Linux

Not mac

Ok good

[dusky plank]

Yeah windows

[hollow linden]

Whats your native language

[dusky plank]

Polish

[hollow linden]

Ok so Latin keyboard

[orchid lagoon]

So I have this strange Bug when I play something save it go out of the game and then after some time I go in I cant see my fightig division and the game crashes and I dont understand why this happens to me many Times I Tried Windows Linux cloud anything but this happens 3 Times with germany 4 Times with italy and 2 Times with japan so I wantet to ask if there is any fix for it

[dusky plank]

Guess so

[hollow linden]

......polish uses the Latin script no

[empty latch]

Im looking to play my first ever multiplayer game this weekend, are there any kaiserreich games going on?

[hollow linden]

Not Cyrillic like the russianss

[hollow linden]

#alt-history-multiplayer

[dusky plank]

Yeah

I think it's Latin

[hollow linden]

Jfc

Yes alr

[empty latch]

Any specific games rn?

[scenic nacelle]

It should be the key under the escape key

[hollow linden]

Go look in there

[dusky plank]

Oh yeah it's here

Cheers

Found it

[hollow linden]

Is it not ^?

Huh

[hollow linden]

What key is it for you

[scenic nacelle]

it’s another little squiggly line

uh

[hollow linden]

Dafuq

[scenic nacelle]

~

I think

[hollow linden]

That is on the other side of my keyboard

For me its not tilde

Same location, different key

Jfc

[scenic nacelle]

I guess we have the better keyboard

Ez win

[hollow linden]

Fk off

[inner sedge]

when you play a secret path is better to put historical or not historical ?

[foggy steppe]

is the election fake 🥀

[neat widget]

I was trying to teach them paratrooper strats lmao

[hollow linden]

Do non historical just to fk around

[wild rune]

Damn

[ebon nymph]

as fascist finland, i turn my neighbour countries into fascist but they dont join my faction

is that normal?

[pure tide]

hello im new at the game and i cant see any of the naval superiority colours like red green and yellow can anyone help

[olive mist]

hi guys, is this a bug or the game just lie to me ? why is this unit design cost didn't apply when I tried to change division into infantry ?

[glacial steeple]

youre removing a batallion no?

you have to pay to replace

[sinful vessel]

I i use army from my puppets, will it up their autonomy ?

[hollow linden]

Because you're replacing it with something that costs

Usually this would cost 10

[olive mist]

I thought it mean it will be free anytime I want to add that specific batallion type into the division

[hollow linden]

Well yea you still have to pay for battalions that aren't discounted

[olive mist]

the current unit is a bicycle, I'm replacing it with an infantry

[hollow linden]

Yea so

Costs 5 to remove the bicycle

Costs 0 to add inf

0 +5 =5

🤯

[olive mist]

so why it don't add up to 10 when I tried to replace the bicycle with an infantry when I don't have that design cost discount modifier

[hollow linden]

Idfk

Be happy that it's cheaper

[opaque fractal]

You still have to pay the full cost of the removed division even if the replacement is cheaper when replacing. This is normal.

If you for some reason added an inf to your bicycle division, it would cost nothing. (Might be an initial +20 for new unit type. Cant say I know what type bicycles are off the top of my head lol)

[hollow linden]

Leg inf

Funnily enough

[opaque fractal]

Otherwise you could remove units for free by swapping them to inf then removing the inf.

[glacial steeple]

its normally 5 to remove + replace (but you can freely add the bicycle or other batallion elsewhere)

you still have this same cost because youre not only adding something

[glacial steeple]

its the same cost

[lean wigeon]

Hello , I have a question , does the new dlc let u make custom factions ?

[hollow linden]

You could do that before, now it's just more customisable

[agile bolt]

Anyone got tips on barbarossa as I tried it and got absolutely destroyed by the soviets

[sick ridge]

i try to launch a nuclear raid, it seems to work fine but then says that i dont have any nukes and cancels itself
i have a nuke but it doesnt see it

[rain bluff]

What mod is this? Is it only part of the multiplayer mod or is there anything similar that would let you core when you have higher compliance?

[sick ridge]

vanilla hoi4
did anyone ever seen anything like this pls help

[glacial steeple]

did you finish the nuke project?

or is it still ongoing

[sick ridge]

uh oh i didnt

[glacial steeple]

thats the issue

[sick ridge]

is this why the issue ocucu

ah

[glacial steeple]

needs to be completed

[sick ridge]

thx

[solid crow]

do the ncns ccp achievements for owning all of roc core only fire if you control everything they had a core on at the start date or every core state they controlled at the start date?

cuz in my run sinkiang became a soviet kyrgyz puppet republic for some ungodly reason (thanks paradox)

[glacial steeple]

its very easy to prevent

they only do that when they get stalled in the khotan ma war

[solid crow]

how do i prevent the ai from shitting the bed in man's easiest war?

[wise star]

how do i remove the croatian opposition (i already tried with deleting the ustasa)

[tribal skiff]

Why cant I fulfil this faction objective?

Is it because I have Denmark as German protectorate?

[neat widget]

LMAO

I mean you're right, but oooof

that gotta be a bug

[tribal skiff]

There's the decision "Install Friendly-minded Plenipotentiary" thing, might that help?

[glacial steeple]

well usually one of their biggest issues is failing to cooperate with player units which to them move randomly

[bold lagoon]

bug?

[hollow linden]

Dafuq is gotenhafen? Gdinya?

[hollow linden]

And is your army 1M big?

[bold lagoon]

It won't let me declare war on Poland even though I have the justification branch

[hollow linden]

Non aggression pact?

Nah

Weird dafuq

[hollow linden]

I mean it also says u don't have a war goal

Did they already reject?

[tribal skiff]

2 million

[carmine thunder]

Does anyone have a good marine template for usa

[hollow linden]

Show screenshot of the map

[bold lagoon]

@hollow linden I followed my usual routine, and when I finish researching Danzig or war, the option to declare usually pops up, but this time it didn't.

What do I do? I justify the war but I won't be able to take over all the territory.

[tribal skiff]

who, me?

[hollow linden]

Yes

[hollow linden]

So u didn't get the event that Poland rejected?

[bold lagoon]

Poland refused to give me Danzig and whenever they refuse, it allows me to declare war on them, but this time it seems to have glitched.

[hollow linden]

Unfortunate, just justify manually

[hollow linden]

Ye it's because Denmark isn't a faction member

Puppet, but no faction member

Take over Jutland via decision, that should fix it

[glacial steeple]

just annex all of it via decision?

way easier

[hollow linden]

Can u do that before taking jutland?

[glacial steeple]

no you gotta click all of them

and theres a small cooldown

prevents them from rebelling tho

free eco

free units

[hollow linden]

Hence jutland is taken first?

[glacial steeple]

free ships

[tribal skiff]

I don't see that option, is it in the events and decisions?

[glacial steeple]

yes in decisions

[hollow linden]

I did say decision, yes?

[tribal skiff]

Sure, but I don't see that anywhere in that list?😅

[hollow linden]

Isn't there any decision titled "take over jutland"?

[tribal skiff]

No, and I see now, that if you choose the plenipotentiary first, then Take over Jutland becomes available. So I gotta do this one first

Sigh, I can't take the Take over Jutland, because they like me so much....their opinion can be max -25 for it to activate, but it's actually +40

[robust viper]

what does shock troops mean

[lean wigeon]

Ik it was before , but now like I wanna create a faction with my puppet , can I do it ? Because it says without faction spirit its impossible

Guess world tension does the job

[robust viper]

Also, does anyone have a good strategic bombing plane template ?

[hollow linden]

Yea you still need the spirit

[hollow linden]

use basic airframe, max out bomb shafts, then use electronics to further increase strat bombing

Thats basically it

Dont worry about range or air defense

You wanna max strat bombing

[robust viper]

like that ?

[slate hazel]

Playing Canada, how am I supposed to attack the Axis over the Atlantic? Low manpower prevents me from building a big navy and German fleet destroys my troop convoys while crossing the Atlantic.

[analog maple]

guys how did japan win if it historical?

[sacred patrol]

What's a good template I could use as a small nation

[silk abyss]

For allies that is decent. but for germany it isnt very great

[hollow linden]

A tad expensive

Can u go 4x engine?

Maybe use engine 3 too?

oh ye jfc

[robust viper]

im in 1938 still

[hollow linden]

Always match thrust to weight

Never have more thrust than weight if you can avoid it

[robust viper]

but doesnt that give no speed bonus ?

[hollow linden]

excess thrust does nothing

[silk abyss]

use strongest divisons but with only 6 divison. Build your army again if you start to have a high manpower-pool

[hollow linden]

I mean swap to less engine and see if speed changes lol

[slate hazel]

so just sacrifice troops/equipment to Germany and build up again after crossing the sea

[sacred patrol]

Btw does anyone know how to play small nations well, I've mostly been doing infantry template + focusing on air superiority

[robust viper]

having higher thrust than weight doesnt give bonus as the difference increase ?

[silk abyss]

no u have to defense the frontline in african behind the italian and invasion the city of libyan then attack italy. and countine

since defense of France is almost impossible for canada

[hollow linden]

Wdym "difference increases"

Check if the speed changes

having more thrust doesnt do anything

[hexed parcel]

hey guys i have no idea how to get naval supremacy in channel for british invasion, i already capped the rest of europe but im stuck here

[silk abyss]

u have to do the focustree which gives u industry and manpower-pool

[robust viper]

i dont understand thurst is higher why cant I save

[neat widget]

look at the adjusters and hover over them

[robust viper]

👍

[silk abyss]

bad motors u have to get better motors

[hollow linden]

its too heavy to do port strike

these missions require a minimum amount of thrust

Or rather, they increase weight

[silk abyss]

klick this then the strats bombs stats change. which means that thrust is gonna probably triple or double

[robust viper]

ill just wait for engines 3

[glass aurora]

is my progress good i started playing yesterday

[pliant condor]

you need to click on the mission

if you don't have engine 3, use 6x engine 2 on the strat

and fill it with heavy bomb locks

[forest ore]

Im trying to form roman empire but yugoslavia is my stupid puppet and I cant annex the claims I need. You guys no any better way of getting them besides waiting years to lower their autonomy?

[latent mural]

no but you can spam construction in them to lower autonomy faster

[forest ore]

alright thanks

[pliant condor]

why you never make puppets🤣

also lend lease them equipment

especially convoys

[neat widget]

lend lease them a ton of equipment

[hasty belfry]

Lend lease hundreds of convoys.

[sacred patrol]

Can i have a small country template?

[glacial steeple]

liv did u see legitburger made a video where he played com china and stole equipment instead of producing

pretty cool video i think

[sacred patrol]

can i ask if focusing on fighters for air superiority is a good idea

[glacial steeple]

if you have the production/resources to outproduce your opponents, yes

but do remind yourself that the most expensive thing in the world is the world's second best airforce

[sacred patrol]

i mean, depends on what template i use

[glacial steeple]

if you cannot archieve superiority (local, on where youre fighting anyway) or cannot sustain your losses / fuel usage / resources then its usually not worth having

as majors you always have these resources available

against vanilla ai for sure

as south america you also do

[sacred patrol]

ok, lets say i play like latvia and attack estonia

[glacial steeple]

you dont need an airforce

you just need more of your factories on ground resources

[sacred patrol]

wb experimental facility

[glacial steeple]

latvia has no oil, no rubber, no aluminium

therefore it cannot make an airforce

it will also get outproduced by its likely opponents (ussr or germany respectively)

[glacial steeple]

its good for supersonic plane

land facility is always very good to have

[sacred patrol]

so i should focus on military only? no airforce no navy

[glacial steeple]

because flame tanks/MEV

[glacial steeple]

you start with a navy its fiine

unless you wanna invade sweden then youd need either or

or like finland

just making either of these of sufficient size will be very hard

[sacred patrol]

nah just estonia and lithuania

[glacial steeple]

just use large divs to attack and you will win

[lean wigeon]

Do you know the console command to create this national spirit as a national idea (national spirit) ? Like add_ideas [the idea]...

[sacred patrol]

so like a template using infantry tanks and vehicles?

[glacial steeple]

its ironic actually

smaller divs take more combat losses per hour and in total

because of less hp

you actually cant really afford small divisions because of how tiny your mp pool is

[sacred patrol]

so best bet is to just what

am a bit confused

[glacial steeple]

your wars against the baltic nations are early yes?

youll have probably similar to starting tech

so you make large inf of mostly guns

[sacred patrol]

1937 cus to 1938

[sacred patrol]

so just base template and on the side thing i use artilerry + support

[glacial steeple]

maybe artillery but that costs a lot of xp

so probably not

[glacial steeple]

anything affordable works

their armies suck too

just dont declare on both at once

[sacred patrol]

Ik

so fascism + base template and become militarily advanced in guns

And thats enough

[glacial steeple]

yes

[sacred patrol]

ok

[glacial steeple]

idk where youd find the research time for air or tanks

combined with ability to produce enough

[sacred patrol]

this good

[glacial steeple]

pre unification you have maybe 7-8? mils

[glacial steeple]

too small

[sacred patrol]

4x3 or 3x4?

[glacial steeple]

24 width minimum

[sacred patrol]

so 24 total units in the template ok

[glacial steeple]

id go like 32w but you might not get enough out

[glacial steeple]

no

12 units in template

each is 2 width

up to like 16 ish

[sacred patrol]

am an idiot so like one sec let me make a screenie to see if i understood

[pliant condor]

as long as you deploy all your equipment in the field you can easily kill them with anything

[glacial steeple]

^^^^

[pliant condor]

and for the love of god stop thinking about template

it's a crime to spend any army xp before you click desperate defense

and probably assult infantry as well

don't even touch template

[sacred patrol]

am new to this shit so like i heard its important

for early i mostly focus on political and getting the national focuses for factories

[sinful vessel]

How many reliability should i aim for my tank ?

[pliant condor]

template is like should i give 12 guns to 4 division each having 3 or 3 division each having 4

it is a lot less relevant than, well, getting more than 12 guns

in the new version doctrine give you a lot

[sacred patrol]

ok, last thing, experimental facilities, for me only using infantry is it usellse

[scenic nacelle]

Anything above 20% atleast

[pliant condor]

your first 200 army xp should only go to picking a grand doctrine

[scenic nacelle]

50% is usually too much

[pliant condor]

then picking desperate defense

[pliant condor]

100

[sacred patrol]

desperate defense is the best?

[sinful vessel]

20 % ?! I try to be around 100 % each time ^^

[pliant condor]

if you ever train your tank in the field, anything below 100% means you are losing ic

[pliant condor]

it's not

[lunar flame]

Almost 300 hours spent in this game, and I still feel so lost. Lol

[pliant condor]

but you pick it because without mastery you get 5% recruitable manpower

[sacred patrol]

ok

[sinful vessel]

More than the double, and still often lost ^^

[pliant condor]

which is very important for baltics nation

[scenic nacelle]

I swear like 2 weeks ago it was like 30%

[pliant condor]

i would never say that

[sacred patrol]

thanks, i guess i will build 1 experimental facility and some civilian factories

[scenic nacelle]

Like everyone else does not u

[pliant condor]

build mils

experimental facility is fine but don't build civs

[sacred patrol]

ok so only military, ok

[pliant condor]

(obviously, talking about land facility here)

[sacred patrol]

yea

[pliant condor]

assuming that most people deploy and train their tanks, it's very bad to have 20% reliability

[sacred patrol]

last thing, infrastructure and railways needed or not really?

[pliant condor]

no

especially not railway

the only time you build railway is to connect supply hubs you control that doesn't have a supply connection somehow

infra is basically only for states with a lot of building slots where you would build civs

[sacred patrol]

ok, military factories only and maybe 1 experimental facility

[glacial steeple]

above 100 is useless

[sacred patrol]

and maybe civs if really needed

[glacial steeple]

no civs

you get so many

from focuses and annexing the other baltic states

youll be swimming in civs anyway

[sacred patrol]

ok, do i just justify earliest as i can

[glacial steeple]

yes

unless you really wanna civgreed but thats bad

[sacred patrol]

time for fascism

cus it feels like the one ideology who knows to be doing its job

[pliant condor]

fascist tree give you war goals

[glacial steeple]

communist is easiest

you get the most manpower and spawn in divs

[sacred patrol]

ok

[sacred patrol]

i dont think latvia has that

or at least with the dlcs i own

[pliant condor]

oh right

you have generic tree?

[sacred patrol]

yea

[lunar flame]

I love it so much because I love WW2 history but holy moly it’s a grind to learn. I’m currently trying to watch tutorials and what not. I haven’t actually completed a game yet because I’d like to learn a great bit before trying.

[sacred patrol]

why did soviet just declare on the turkish bruv

[glacial steeple]

oh if no dlc you 100% need to go communist

400 weekly manpower

[sinful vessel]

My first game this year was Germany, and i was invaded by France as i've attacked Poland ^^
Second one, I wasn't invaded, but i haven't been able to push to Paris.
Third one, i took France easily, started Barbarossa and finished stucked in the russian winter.
Fourth was the good one.
To change a bit, i'm playing my fifth with Italy rn. But i'm still on the lower difficulty, though i feel i understand more and more thanks to this discord.

[hasty mist]

Y'all

Anyone know how I can break this stalemate?

(I'm friendly with Allies, enemies with Axis)

[sacred patrol]

i think i have to attack estonia before it starts glazing germany

nvm lithuania

they got the fascism route

should i do it

[hasty mist]

Anyone/.

?

[sacred patrol]

@glacial steeple sorry to ping but what do you thikn

[glacial steeple]

you need 43 more political power

[sacred patrol]

ik

but is the 420 days an ok amount of time

[glacial steeple]

make small manvouvres, lock in

[hasty mist]

All of my offensives kinda just flop though..

[tribal skiff]

How do you change the composition of your existing carriers, fighters/naval bombers and so on? I know how to do it in the buillding que

[hasty mist]

Like my troops aren't good against them.

[sacred patrol]

wb the 420 days

[hasty mist]

Just justify one state

It takes less time

less PP

And you still annex entire nation.

HOLY SHIT

THEIR LINE JUST FAILED

[glacial steeple]

you just need to justify twice

idk how itd take 420 days

it should be more like 200-300

[sacred patrol]

?

[hasty mist]

I dunno

Nothing happened

They kinda just..

Died ig?

Anyway I'm pushing

[sinful vessel]

Will i suffer penalty if i leave an alliance ?

[neat widget]

oh wow the allies love me

little do they know I am planning to invade China

also i annexed manchukuo

[worn pendant]

whats a really good mp inf division as france

[scenic nacelle]

I would guess something like this but replace logi with AT

large unit tactics and I forgot the last one

[neat widget]

large inf france be like

[worn pendant]

Most of its point is for defense and holding against germany

[scenic nacelle]

16w inf with AA, AT, Arty, and I would guess signals

[glacial steeple]

for france hold?

[worn pendant]

Yeah playing against a player germany and im just trying to hold the line rather then actively invading them

[scenic nacelle]

Wait when did u edit the message to France

[sacred patrol]

what do i do

[scenic nacelle]

Annex

[worn pendant]

a minute before you send yours cuz i got changed to france after sending it

[scenic nacelle]

Ohh

[worn pendant]

it is still useful cuz i do intend on playing soviets at some point with em

[sacred patrol]

resistance advice

[scenic nacelle]

Ignore it tbh

[sacred patrol]

its high tho

[glacial steeple]

do you have a uk player ally?

[glacial steeple]

no garrisons

so you lose less men

[worn pendant]

i should they would be focusing entirely air basically

[glacial steeple]

you core it anyway

[glacial steeple]

thats fine ish

france is very poor

and german stats very high

ask for guns

[worn pendant]

okey

[glacial steeple]

you should make tanks

[scenic nacelle]

I suppose u know the general French build?

[worn pendant]

I was not planning on using tanks at all just pure inf

[glacial steeple]

then youll probably get killed by german tanks

[hasty mist]

Wow, that's some border gore.

[glacial steeple]

france is the only allied tank nation because of high stats especially on core

[hasty mist]

Back at a stalemate again though..

Any way I can break it?

[sacred patrol]

mind if i ask how to make it a core state

[neat widget]

Well if you do it in Sheep's mod just solo the Soviet Union and then Japan

[sacred patrol]

can i ask how to like make annexed states core states

[neat widget]

it's very country specific

You can do it via focuses or decisions

[glacial steeple]

decisions

you have a formable nation

[glacial steeple]

latvia no nsb

[sacred patrol]

i dont have estonia yet

[glacial steeple]

yeah but youll core it

not rn

but later

youd loseanpower to garrison losses

[sacred patrol]

theres still like a 0.35 increase

[glacial steeple]

yeah itll go up

and damage some factories

[sacred patrol]

and isnt that just, preventable

[glacial steeple]

and then it goes down with 0 losses when you core it

[hasty mist]

Yeah that stalemate is gone, germany is being crushed.

[glacial steeple]

well yeah but youd lose manpower which is more valuable to you than some damaged factories

because your combined core pop is like 3 mil

[sacred patrol]

ok, no garrison but like should i like leave a soldier nearby or

[scenic nacelle]

No

[sacred patrol]

or just legit let it till i can form

[sacred patrol]

am guessing i just ignore it

[hasty mist]

How did Croatia declare independence..

Twice.

[glacial steeple]

on map division dont influence resistance at all

[sacred patrol]

bulding being sabotaged every 5 seconds nice

[glacial steeple]

thatll happen

[sacred patrol]

what a lucky mf i aint

@glacial steeple do i just give it up or

[hasty mist]

Can anyone explain why I have ZERO manpower?

[neat widget]

by the way casey what is the best carrier doctrine

[glacial steeple]

probably

[glacial steeple]

you put fighter on carrier

now enemy carrier bad

[sacred patrol]

without memel i cant form can i

[glacial steeple]

you can i believe

i mean you dont need wilno either

[neat widget]

So the doctrine doesn't matter?

[glacial steeple]

idk i heard carriers are just bad now

they protect

[neat widget]

i see

even escort carriers?

[gilded karma]

Maybe you have small conscription

[glacial steeple]

bombrr cant get through

cuz carrier fighters OP

[gilded karma]

Or maybe the garrison template

[glacial steeple]

garrison + combat losses

bad conscription law

[hasty mist]

My conscription was at all adults

And no manpower.

[gilded karma]

Send a screenshot

[hasty mist]

I only have 180k fielded..

Huh?

OHHHH

[gilded karma]

-3%

[neat widget]

as the uk?

oof

[hasty mist]

All of my divisions are wrecked.

[sacred patrol]

should ijust ally soviet

[hasty mist]

no

Italy..

Tbf

I've been fighting a 3 year long war with the germans

And for some reason

My divisions are sh*t.

[glacial steeple]

hmm

i have a silly gameplan that wouldnt work with normal gamerules

i wanna play the baltics too now and ill unify before going communist and doing the stupid +260K people per state focus

[sacred patrol]

you have another template, not the basic one?

[glacial steeple]

wdym

templates dont matter that much

[violet sinew]

what game are you playing?????

[glacial steeple]

theyre helpful but its mostly eco management and doctrines

[sacred patrol]

not template, national focuses

mb

[hasty mist]

So uhh

My 50 divisions

Have the strength of 10..

[violet sinew]

but you need to stack moddifiers, for which you need the right batallions and you need to optimize combatwithd

[sacred patrol]

am dying cus the germans are germans

[hasty mist]

Y'all

How do I lower autonomy?

[tribal skiff]

So is there any way to add third branch specialism (SF) with Germany? There's doesn't seem to be more than one in the focus tree? I read some time ago that a third would become available in time... it would be nice since there is now an additional SF with the latest DLC?

[violet sinew]

can you give me tips for barb? it's impossible to beat since tanna tuva has the same eco as spain

[violet sinew]

only some countrys get it

[tribal skiff]

I think you can build infra, forts, airfield in their country, and you can also lend-lease stuff to them, given the right circumstances like war tension?

[hasty mist]

I don't have enough rifles myself..

[sacred patrol]

My game crashed nice

[violet sinew]

?

[scenic nacelle]

What

[violet sinew]

since the update

[tribal skiff]

Convoys?

[hasty mist]

I have literally nothing..

i have a fuckton of civs

[scenic nacelle]

What does those 2 countries eco size have to do with barb

[hasty mist]

But no uhh

items

[violet sinew]

because the commintern has like 40% more divs because tuva is so op now

[scenic nacelle]

Yeah I don’t remember Tuva doing anything at all

[violet sinew]

when was the last time you invaided sov?

[tribal skiff]

So infra then (I won't ask you why you don't have other stuff)

[scenic nacelle]

Like a few days after the update came out

I mean they had a lot of divs for Tuva but not 40%

[violet sinew]

you sure? maybe you ran some modds that glitched the ai

[hasty mist]

(I don't know, my everything is screwed. I have no manpower, not enough equipment.)

(Oh, I do have hella planes)

[scenic nacelle]

Just vanilla

[sacred patrol]

whats like the best way to early justify

[scenic nacelle]

I was invading though Siberia since I was Japan

[sacred patrol]

besides national focuses

[scenic nacelle]

There is no best way

Just justify

They had like 30 divs I think or so