ask-for-help-here

[alpine pivot]

how do you drop a nuke?

[wise star]

i mean yes it would be really funny if albania didnt have italy's guarantee but unfortunately thats not the case

you need to have the nuke researched theres a whole special project

[alpine pivot]

i have nukes just how do i do the raid

[wise star]

i think theres a raid button

bottom right

[alpine pivot]

im not seeing it

wait

[shut vapor]

ok so

first things first

you need a strategic bomber wing

or mothership aircraft wing

or interconti bomber wing

[alpine pivot]

how do i make that

wait

found the mothership

[shut vapor]

strat bombers can be acquired through the regular research tree

and the other 2 are special projects

@alpine pivot you got by blood alone?

[alpine pivot]

i got all dlc

[shut vapor]

ok nice

research the large airframes then

and add bomb locks

@alpine pivot next off, press the nuclear icon found in the raid tab

if its grayed out its because you dont fulfill all requirements

afterwards, im not really sure how you do it but usually youd select the tile you want to nuke

[alpine pivot]

its gold but it says i cant do it

[shut vapor]

i dont drop nukes unless needed for an achievement

[shut vapor]

if you hover over it should provide a tooltip with what you lack

and im guessing its the strat bombers

[alpine pivot]

so just have a large airframe with bomb locks and theres my strate bomber?

[glacial steeple]

needs bomb needs to be plane

is strat bomber then

[neat widget]

You're going to lose Stavanger, try to make another naval landing in Oslo

[alpine pivot]

It says i need a ballistic missile

[wise star]

yo so

[alpine pivot]

i got it

[wise star]

am i doing grand assault or desperate defense

(yugoslavia currently split into serbia + puppets, 1938)

[pliant condor]

desperate defense

[wise star]

https://tenor.com/view/gun-wheelchair-gif-10750835

also

when do you think i should reunite

[glacial steeple]

before the war starts

if you think wow italy takes albania and germany is going into poland

sure looks scary

then reunify

or like similar timings

[wise star]

so, before the whole war starts (1939)

or before the invasion on yugoslavia starts (1941)

[glacial steeple]

before they invade you probably

[glacial steeple]

thats hist

[wise star]

ah so i got a bit more wiggle room then?

[glacial steeple]

not necessarily the time in game

hoi4 moves faster

[wise star]

💀

[glacial steeple]

for a proper pvp with historical ww2 outcome germany has to attack west europe in 1938 and barb in 40

and win/lose by 41-42 maaybe 43

[wise star]

so in short (since its almost 1939) on a scale of 1-10 im screwed

[glacial steeple]

no the ai is pretty slow

but id do it before mid 40 for sure

[wise star]

oh

[glacial steeple]

you just should know the war times arent necessarily accurate

[wise star]

...ill still have to standardize the yugo military (only serbia is getting the field hospitals and anti air as of rn)

and then modernize (latest guns and artillery)

[glacial steeple]

research ahead of time

[wise star]

thats gonna be fun

[glacial steeple]

on gun, production, AA

ignore rest

[wise star]

doing so rn

wait wdym production

[glacial steeple]

like the industry production techs

maybe do engineering too idk

[wise star]

i have like

0 engineering

[glacial steeple]

i dont rlly do it usually but its worth doing some of it

[wise star]

except for forts

[glacial steeple]

like 1-2 techs

fort tech sucks

[wise star]

💀

[glacial steeple]

arty techs suck unless you do tank build

[neat widget]

some radio for reinforce rate tbh

[wise star]

ok so im

screwed

[glacial steeple]

ur fine

the ai plays poorly

but yugo isnt easy

[neat widget]

How many divisions do you have

[glacial steeple]

and def not a beginner nation

[wise star]

22 but thats only serbia

[neat widget]

also yes in MP Yugoslavia woud be screwed

[wise star]

no idea how many i got in the puppet states

[glacial steeple]

even in sp its hard

like you dont have enough meaningful tech buffs imo

and core pop is just bad

[wise star]

if i dont get invited into the allies i might be uberscrewed

[neat widget]

Yeah

Fortunately you will be able to join the allies

Unfortunately I'm not sure if they will come to your aid

[wise star]

i was watching a video by some dude

and he kept getting kicked out of allies for no reason

so then he joined comintern (i didnt know you could join if youre not sfr yugo) and it worked

[neat widget]

Yeah I do that too

[barren sun]

why did marco polo bridge incident get cancelled for me as japan can you not do it as monarchist

[wet topaz]

You can do it as every path

Also you want the timer to end bc that’s when the war starts

You just have to wait a few weeks for China to accept the decision and events and stuff

[glacial steeple]

not as democratic i think?

[wet topaz]

Well nobody actually willingly plays democratic Japan

[glacial steeple]

me before update mostly

now you have to fight an actual civil war

evil

[barren sun]

so why did it cancel for me it first went up by like 70 days and then just fully went away

is it cuz of the influence stuff

[glacial steeple]

yeah

[stoic lichen]

How can I attack the Soviets and win without many lost battles? Also, I am Germany, coming at the Soviets with Medium Tanks and Armor Meme Heavy Tanks

[glacial steeple]

army needs to have influence

[barren sun]

okay thanks

[barren sun]

encircle them

[glacial steeple]

air mostly

[stoic lichen]

In like which places

would you typically

[glacial steeple]

you attack through plains, forest, follow the supply lines

[barren sun]

wherever u see an opportunity ig

[wise star]

i seem to have excess army xp

what should i do with it

(im thinking fire concentration)

[neat widget]

do you have any other doctrines empty

[wise star]

armored

[neat widget]

if you use tanks go for mobile recon and assault

[viral breach]

does anyone have a guide to the new doctrine? I've been playing and I can't fiqure out what is good or what is bad. I think I do good with it and then my army just fails

[wise star]

no tanks

only infantry, support arti, support aa and field hospitals

[neat widget]

Yeah then these doctirnes by and large don't help

[glacial steeple]

excess???

youre supposed to click those ASAP

before making unit templates

[wise star]

wdym click those

[glacial steeple]

so you get mastery?

[wise star]

um

ok heres the thing

i designed the only template i will be using (9x infantry 1x support arti 1x support aa 1x field hospital)

i have 2 subdoctrines (infantry and operations) collecting mastery

but im still getting army xp and it would be a waste if i didnt use it

so im asking what i should use it on

[glacial steeple]

idk army spirits

[wise star]

army whatnow

[glacial steeple]

having all doctrines unlocked is good too

officer corps

the hat

[wise star]

no idea what to do

these are my current doctrines

im gonna consider all of the armor ones useless cause i dont have armored vehicles so these are my options for artillery and combat support

[alpine pivot]

so

are you new to hoi4?

[wise star]

yes💀

i bought it like wednesday

[alpine pivot]

vc?

we can play together if you want

[wise star]

sure lemme js go grab smth to drink

also i cant play mp rn cause its 12am almost

[pliant condor]

yeah everything else is pretty much useless

[wise star]

what do i spend my military xp on then

[neat widget]

I mean you could go mobile recon and assault for more breakthrough

[pliant condor]

not much

[neat widget]

but that's like, what, 5 points of break at most

[pliant condor]

field engineer give you a small bonus

also

[neat widget]

That said you may want to start incorporating tank recon later on

Oh yeah that too

[robust viper]

What are shock troops

[neat widget]

Basically plains, fort, and urban specialists in RT56

so it's a mod thing

They are a bit more powerful than mountaineers if I recall correctly

[glacial steeple]

you start with a tank division smh /j

[glacial steeple]

its so bad

[robust viper]

Oh so they dont exist in vanilla

[glacial steeple]

just do fire concentration or AT frontline

[neat widget]

no they don't

[wise star]

im back

[neat widget]

I mean is fire concentration even good if you just don't have line artillery

[glacial steeple]

i believe it gives support buff too

[wise star]

what is line artillery

[glacial steeple]

artillery not in support

[wise star]

oh

do i need it

[neat widget]

No it doesn't actually

[wise star]

?

[glacial steeple]

are you fighting really broke enemies with terrible guns on both sides of the conflict?

like 1918 1936 guns

[neat widget]

Fire concentration didn't seem to change anything for me

[wise star]

um

germany, bulgaria, hungary, romania and italy will be attacking me

soon™

[neat widget]

It doesn't seem to buff support companies

[neat widget]

Is it October 1940 already?

[wise star]

june 39

[glacial steeple]

AT frontline gives trench to line arty

so thats a buff

[wise star]

im js saying they WILL be attacking

[neat widget]

True, if you use line artillery

[wise star]

so

did i need to make (motorized) line artillery/antiair

or am i not utterly screwed with just the support ones

[neat widget]

Nah I don't think so

Maybe spec into fighters if you've went down that path a bit

[wise star]

nope

not even the ik-2

i CAN make the motorized artilleries work, but that would take a bit of time

[neat widget]

I guess you just recruit as many divisions as possible and hold the line but idk

Maybe a good goal is to at least have around 70 divisions

[wise star]

wanna watch me fail miserably

[glacial steeple]

contrary to popular belief id love to see you succeed

[wise star]

ill be in help 2 screen sharing in case someone wants to watch my defense

(i anticipate as much success as socrates had in his own)

[neat widget]

true

[wise star]

also what's the end goal, do i put motorized line arti in my infantry or do i not

do i js let the dudes go in without front line arti

("go in" as if im doing anything even touching on offense)

[neat widget]

I think you would be better off, if you do any offensives, invading Italy along with the allies

Hopefully they mass send units to you once you stabilize the line

[wise star]

i'm gonna be defending heavily

[neat widget]

@wise star you should probably start mass spamming out military factories right now

[wise star]

interesting

[neat widget]

You have war in only a year, you need those factories now if you want to have a sizable force

All of these countries will join Axis, and Romania will turn fascist in addition

That's why Yugoslavia is so hard

I would not do that, you won't survive for long Sub

[sleek karma]

can anyone teach and explain me the game from the beggining? and when someone speaks german it would be even better

[unique ingot]

its 1943 historical and germany still hasnt attacked the ussr but they have a war goal

[sleek karma]

?

[neat widget]

@wise star create an agency

You have an illusive gentleman, you can get 3 spies

which is quite powerful

a spy agency is useful because it gives you intel over enemies

which affects combat

What is going on here

[small pecan]

whenever i try to open hoi4 at all it literally just crashes

does anybody know what to do

[hasty belfry]

Is support AA necessary if you expect to maintain air dominance?

[neat widget]

it can help provide piercing

but no not nearly as necessary as when you're under CAS fire

[hasty belfry]

I’m trying to maximize buffs on other things. I’m horses Poland and the mounted infantry doctrine already gives 20% more piercing and 20% more hard attack to mounted infantry.

I’m also planning on doing horse medium tanks since the mounted infantry doctrines gets the speed of horses up to 9 km/h.

[neat widget]

@ocean pasture I mean sure you could

But as it turns out you do just about the same amount of damage as if you used infantry the whole time

??????????

[narrow grail]

Is there any cheat command to finish special projects on click?

[neat widget]

No direct command, but take a pick

Also someone's building level 1 forts

Bruh

[narrow grail]

I was looking at naval special projects available for Japan

Torpedo cruiser seems good

[neat widget]

Sure

Although you can get away with torpedo destroyers too so maybe

there's a lot of decent naval special projects that use 1 breakthrough point

@ocean pasture I don't think they will be able to build all of that in time

I'd just build mils in Montenegro or something, and try to use the rivers and mountains to delay the enemy

@hardy kayak what do you need help with?

Ah yes Ethiopian government in exile mechanics

At this rate you have to go and capitulate the nation where their government is hosted, which can be the UK, Germany, or Japan I believe

Not a good sign

Resistance might also be going up because you do not have enough equipment

Generally you should be able to defeat Ethiopia before they form their exile government

But sometimes this happens

Go to your logisitcs tab and then look at the numbers associated with infantry equipment

You're producing 49.9 and losing 80.8 a day

67.6 are needed for garrison reinforcement

Oof

With that high compliance, Croatia and Greece should be on civilian oversight, as for Ethiopia I don't think so you just got to get the equipment somehow

Also check your division template

Yeah I'm sorry, there's nothing you can do unfortunately other than wait

RIP

Yep, resistance can be like that

[narrow grail]

I'd also like to try Support/Repair ships, but there is no data about them on wiki maybe because it was added in 1.17 and wiki is still updating. With seeing what they do thanks to cheats it barely seems worthy to research them and just stacking and/or proper management can outpay it. No idea

[neat widget]

Yeah I have no idea what they're up to too

@hardy kayak yes

yeah, it also helps industry, and you can recombine them via Africa Orientale Italiana somewhere in the colonial tree

also release eritrea, somalia, and aussa

with the latter two you can hand them land and they get cores on territory you're occupying

[narrow grail]

Maybe these ships are counted for operating in regions where you don't have any naval bases/ports?

[neat widget]

Try to get New Industrialization Program @hardy kayak

[narrow grail]

without needing to split off

[neat widget]

But also fit in Citta dell'Aria in there too

You also need to research, and yeah this is a common pitfall with me, synthetic oil

[neat widget]

Maybe

You can decrease compliance and then annex them one by one, or via colonial decisions post-war you can merge them into one giant puppet and then annex that one later on

I tend to do the latter

[narrow grail]

Does even supply affect something in navy?

[neat widget]

You can easily get Yugoslavia on your side

And annex Albania too

Foreign Affairs branch

Correct

You'll find out once you get Foreign Affairs

There's a series of decisions where you can demand territories and puppet status

Yeah

No

If you want to justify manually on someone do it on France, get 2 collabs, and then paradrop Paris and Orleans

But that will also drag you into war with the Allies

[vapid ingot]

Did the update that came with NCNS make Support Equipment more expensive? Its never been this hard to produce enough before.

[neat widget]

I'm pretty sure no

But yes, you should train your troops @hardy kayak. But sending them to Spain is also training them

Spain is basically a training ground where you can't get damaged

No clue about that tbh, just hover over it and see what pops up

Click the edit sign and you will know

You probably should complete your existing construction I'd say

Any new ships will be up to your discretion

You will have to capitulate the UK to end the war in Ethiopia

[narrow grail]

Maybe it's because of coal lack I'd say

with NCNS specifically

[vapid ingot]

I have plenty of Coal

[narrow grail]

ok idk

[neat widget]

You're welcome, good luck

[narrow grail]

Some of national spirits?

[neat widget]

Support equipment still costs 4 ic

so idk

which is quite expensive btw, trucks cost 2.37 ic and artillery 3.5 - 4.5

[narrow grail]

Can you send the images I want to look ngl

[neat widget]

even mech costs 3.76 - 5.64 ic

[vapid ingot]

I have 20 Factories on Support Equipment because i had a shortage of over 2000 and now also need a large stockpile so i can add more support companies. In the past, 5-10 were always enough.

[neat widget]

what do your divisions look like

that might be the issue

[narrow grail]

Fr your divs should be simply devouring them supp equip

I think it's field hospitals

[vapid ingot]

I always use them and never had a problem in the past. 5-10 factories were always enough and gave me a comfortable surplus

[narrow grail]

They are basically never used. Rare case is countries with relatively low population where every single soldier's life actually matters

[vapid ingot]

I like to larp to care about my soldiers :^)

[narrow grail]

Maybe garrisoning?

[narrow grail]

okok

And how many divisions you have?

[vapid ingot]

116 Infantry, 10 Motorized, 8 armored, 10 Mountain.

[neat widget]

those aren't particularly good templates, and also even with an 8/1 I would pick siege artillery over fire concentration
But yes, these divisions are more support equipment expensive than they need to be

[narrow grail]

Do you have uncancelled montly land-lease by any chance?

[neat widget]

What infantry doctrine are yo uusing

[vapid ingot]

Probably, but i like them for SP :^)

[vapid ingot]

None that use Support Equipment, except one to Hungary for 50 support equipment per month, but i only just set that up after dealing with my own shortage.

[vapid ingot]

Mobile Infantry

[neat widget]

I'd do this

[vapid ingot]

Eh, i'll stick with my LARP Divisions :)

[neat widget]

As for tanks

And mountaineers

[vapid ingot]

I did not ask for Division Design advice. All i wanted to know if anything happened to Support Equipment.

[neat widget]

With the first division for every 493 ic you spend on infantry equipment you spend 280 ic on support equipment

Which is around 30 ic versus 17 ic

So I think you can remove one or two factories

[foggy stratus]

everytime i try to learn this game it updates and become harder

[fading ibex]

Do u play it once every year

[narrow grail]

I can't just imagine what can cause any dramatically huge supp equipment hunger.
Swapping many poor divs at once?
Selling them?
I'm running out of ideas

[foggy stratus]

i bought this year

september i think

but im struggling

[vapid ingot]

Me too, thats why i asked. I never had trouble before and i didnt do anything different this time (in regards to support equipment)

[neat widget]

If those are guns 2 they cost 0.58
A typical division in their army has 850 infantry equipment, thus 850 * 0.58 = 493 ic
It also has 70 support equipment, thus 70 * 4 = 280 ic

That's why the divisions are so support equipment hungry

[foggy stratus]

only 37 hours

[narrow grail]

So for example training divs will burn much support equipment?

[vapid ingot]

I always use that much support Equipment in my Divisions, often even more, and never had trouble before. Thats where my confusion stems from.

[pliant condor]

check if your occupation division is using support equipment?

[vapid ingot]

Already did.

Its only cavalry, so only inf equipment

[neat widget]

well support equipment tends to have lower reliability than infantry equipment so attrition losses will be even worse

[neat widget]

Maybe yo uannexed a lot

[pliant condor]

your first template just use too much support equipment

also

do the math yourself

[neat widget]

this section is your friend btw

and hovering lists exact equipment per battalion

[pliant condor]

the ic of support to gun is 280:493

so the ratio is roughly correct

see, support equipment is just super expensive

remove those useless supports

[vapid ingot]

But i literally never had that problem before

[pliant condor]

now you do

[neat widget]

Oh you're right I misremembered it's .58 per gun not .59

[golden cosmos]

Guys im playing with defense council and I dont know how to use the Seeds of revolution option

it appeared for 10 seconds than it disappeared

[neat widget]

is that the one that cores things

[golden cosmos]

idk I think it is

but it said uprising

in Italy specifically

[vernal pecan]

As I remember you have to be at war with them, and it will spawn many 3 battalions infantry divisions

[golden cosmos]

oh

[vernal pecan]

So basically useless option

And you will lose 20k(?) Guns?

I don't remember

[golden cosmos]

yea that might be impossible, I never acumulate 10k guns

I think it is 10k

[vernal pecan]

Still it's too much

It's like 10 divisions

[golden cosmos]

thx

[foggy stratus]

i merged ships by accident, how to undo?

i clicked G instead of right click

[vernal pecan]

D to split them?

[narrow grail]

This decision is so bad just don't use it

[golden cosmos]

thx guys, I won t use it

[narrow grail]

I learnt it hard way

probably 12k guns for like 5 divisions of 3 inf each

Just make normal army yeah

[vernal pecan]

I remember anarchy in ukrainian state mod, you can become anarchy ukraine, and create a civil war in minor countries with operations, and after civil war occurred, you will declare war on other side. For example you make civil war in poland, anarchy poland occured, and you declare war on other poland and annex anarchy poland with their divisions, equipment. That IS the anarchy and NOT the spanish trash

[stuck garnet]

Spain got robbed

[foggy stratus]

wtf i did

[neat widget]

that's fine

[foggy stratus]

I fixed

[lyric socket]

am im tweaking i think the enemy keeps on getting into my territory by using military access from china

[vapid ingot]

What is Carrier Traffic?

[muted idol]

France has mostly subs left do I do mine layers?

[fossil rain]

How does one disband a faction

With only subjects in it

[gusty briar]

Has anyone tried out support ships? Are they worth it?

[hexed parcel]

Borde rating: 10/10

[late widget]

so I just won the war in Ethiopia as Italy and I want to get my army back to Europe do I need to build transport ships or just move them to a port? can I turn Ethiopia and the two colonies next to it into a puppet or do I need to wait for an event or something?

[glacial steeple]

hii chat

[glacial steeple]

just set them on a fallback line in italy

and yeah you could puppet them

[late widget]

okay thanks but how though?

[glacial steeple]

occupied territories, release as puppet

[ashen sigil]

How to increase compliance in an occupied territory

[glacial steeple]

you change the occupation law and equip your garrisons

harshes laws mean more resistance less compliance

[ashen sigil]

But all of the occupation laws decreases compliance

[glacial steeple]

yes so you take the one that decreases it less

colonial police is rlly good tho

[ashen sigil]

So Civilian Oversight which does not affect compliance nor the resistance

[glacial steeple]

it means you get more resistance but you get the full base compliance growth yes

[ashen sigil]

I need compliance to be over 60%

[glacial steeple]

did you let ethiopia get into exile

if not you can puppet in peacedeal or just do the AOI focus

[ashen sigil]

i annexxed them

[glacial steeple]

thats good

[ashen sigil]

Will compliance increase by itself then?

if i do civilian oversight

[glacial steeple]

yes

you can click on the state to see compliance growth

[ashen sigil]

Oh that's good
Is there anything else I can do

or just wait for it to grow

[glacial steeple]

not rlly

[ashen sigil]

Alr ty

[wet topaz]

Effects how many sorties can be launched at once

And penalties from too many

[manic shale]

YALL I need your help real bad

So I play as Hungary everytime I tried to annex Czech through my focus tree in order to recreate austro hungarian empire but one thing is tht they don’t accept it even when I done my national goal railroad and improve relations

Like is there more method tht I get 100% annex on Czech (Germany usually goes to civil war)

[hexed parcel]

CONVERSION TECH IS A PART OF TOOLS NOW

-20% nerf ig with tools 3

[shut ravine]

why cant i send ships? i controll all the ports around

[glacial steeple]

do you control the strait of hormuz?

[shut ravine]

yea i do

[glacial steeple]

also is the suez blown?

[shut ravine]

reloading the game fixed it tho

[shut ravine]

nah

[glacial steeple]

ah okay

[shut ravine]

what type of division do you recommend for a naval invasion

except marines ofc

i dont have marines

[glacial steeple]

its just guns

just research it

its actually. like

impossible to invade without kinda

[shut ravine]

yeah i am currently but i wanna invade before thats done

[glacial steeple]

because youd rely on landing on port sides

[shut ravine]

like no chance?

[glacial steeple]

with the new system thats not practical at all

since you can create less orders

[shut ravine]

im not gonna spam orders

im sending a blob to cyprus

they only have rhodes and cyprus left

[short blaze]

How can I prevent Admiral Yamamoto from dying?

[glacial steeple]

well if its guarded youll take like a -50% battle penalty

which sucks

[shut ravine]

no problem i took it

i had like all the modifiers possible

[dense stone]

what tank should I use for space marines if I'm playing without dlcs?

[hollow linden]

Js don't

Space Marines are kinda bad

[short blaze]

maks armored heavy

[gentle orbit]

hey what should i do here? there is only one tile between us and i just cant breakthrough. any tips?

[static turret]

draw back so that they move forward and loose entrenchment or get paratroopers or if possible naval invade

[gentle orbit]

ok cool, thanks!

[solemn karma]

hi wanted to ask if Italy can unlock more than 1 branch of special forces doctrine?

[boreal garden]

I have all these British cornered and I have 90% dominance of the sea zone, constantly sinking their convoys, but they're not running out of supply – why not?

[pliant condor]

naval invade

[pliant condor]

click on supply map and you see

they should still have capital supply

[thin zealot]

Yemen should still have a capital supply hub

[opaque garden]

tf just happened im France challenged rhineland Britain supported me and Germany backs down

https://tenor.com/view/why-monkey-what-huh-confused-gif-3006908007927048834

is this normal?

since when can this happen

I wanted to do that quickly capitulation Germany strat

this ends up happening

[sacred patrol]

should i do it

[rough hull]

bet

my beautiful human

[sacred patrol]

communist path i am on

[subtle rune]

Anyone knows how to delete one of this?

I need to delete the one highlited

[thin zealot]

1.0.0 (probably earlier)

[thin zealot]

I would assume you delete the .mod file

[foggy stratus]

Is Brazil good as begginer?

[opaque garden]

italy

is what they all recommend

however I recommend hungary

pretty simple

high potential

no navy

[thin zealot]

I recommend Germany

[opaque garden]

hell naw

not for beginners

u remember the first time u played hoi4?

it was a pain in the place where the sun dont shine

[thin zealot]

Died to Yugoslavia as Germany

[opaque garden]

first time I played Germany I atleast got Poland and france

then sov pushed me back to Berlin after 2 weeks

but like first time Germany was my 3rd overall run

[rugged drift]

Hi

I have wrong checksum for hoi4 (f136)

Does anybody know how to fix it?

I've tried reinstal hoi n steam but it does not help at all

[thin zealot]

Either you have mods on or you accidentally edited basegame files

[sacred patrol]

love it when armies bugged and it doesnt wanna god damn work during civil war

[rugged drift]

Deleting all this files doesnt help either

[thin zealot]

Make sure you don't have mods on in the launcher

[rugged drift]

Yeah i dont have any subscribed or installed

[sacred patrol]

btw in total do you only get 2 tank research boosts?

in the base research tree

[scenic nacelle]

The land facility

That’s the only reason I can think of

Pretty sure too

[karmic bramble]

anyone know why my navy automatically flees every battle?

naval targets should be fine

also aggressiveness

is this some new bug?

[fading fern]

Assuming I build a fighter design with added cas weapons and assign the airwings to a general, does my general automatically use them for air superiority and then switch some of them to cas after air superiority is achieved?

Or do I have to manually switch missions for each wing?

[fading fern]

I got mounteneers and paras, so it's definitely at least two

[sacred patrol]

so like

how can i heavily improve the mils?

[fading fern]

Mountaineers are good if you chose a hill/mountain tile to invade for the terrain bonus. Afar from that I just use the divisions with the best stats.

[fading fern]

You want production efficiency, efficiency cap etc bonuses for your mills. Basically everything that increases output.

[sacred patrol]

also is it possible to make my allies produce for me using their factories or i can only produce on their land with my factories

[tropic hatch]

How do I get my puppets to stop trading with other nations and priotize me first ?

[fading fern]

Puppet states give you part of their resources/factories. You can get the best setup when puppeting them in peace deals as far as I know.

For a regular ally to give you equipment they have to offer you a lend lease I think. When and if they'll do that I don't know.

[sacred patrol]

i was thinking of playing albania

tho i think light tank albania is as bad of an idea as democratic albania

[cold bloom]

You cant

[tropic hatch]

Isn't 23 width better in deserts and plains than 25 width ? considering that you wouldn't get any penalty and you can still fit 3 divisions

[opaque garden]

can Franco british union form with his ai on?

[pliant condor]

penalty is mostly not relevant

the stat per width you get is the same

because as you take penalty you also fit more stuff into combat

it's only the difference in IC efficiency

which turns out to also be a very small difference

[subtle rune]

Yeah... i know, but there is only the .mod file of the last

[tropic hatch]

I thought 25 is still viable

[pliant condor]

there is very little difference

just need to understand that width never make you win or lose

and it's mostly not the correct question to ask

yes

you can win with 2 width

6 is fine

take some penalty but

it's not as bad as you thought

but well yeah as long as you have a reasonable width it doesn't matter

like from 12 - 39

[opaque garden]

I think 25 is only good for mountaneers

[tropic hatch]

is there any width that's good for both attacking and defending

[opaque garden]

75

[pliant condor]

it. does. not. matter.

stop thinking as if it makes a difference

use whatever you like

who?

nobody use 25 widthi n mp

[opaque garden]

75 width best

[tropic hatch]

also how do I remove the red jagged impassible border

[opaque garden]

artillery blob

[pliant condor]

it's the width that specifically has a use rate of 0%

or ok it's usually associated with 8/3 template so noobs🤣

25 width is like specifically a meme

[opaque garden]

no

get collab with france then just build dockyards

even with sub spam you still win against their navy

yes

I am infact a goldfish

communist Germany best Germany

[pliant condor]

also for most people, if you spend 10% the time you used arguing about width to go learn the game you would be much better at it😂

[opaque garden]

if you are new be sure to play communist France right path

best beginner natiom

Hungary

in my opinion

Just demand stuff

no major war at your doorstep

no wars until barbarossa

[pliant condor]

is your favorite nation in mp tank canada?

[fading fern]

Can anybody answer?

[opaque garden]

no

Just no

how are nooobs supposed to learn about port garrison

who is gonna help?

us?

commie China?

warlords

?

yes they help

no they dont do anything

monarchist finalnd best country definetly

best color in the entire game

[pliant condor]

ok lol then idk where 25 width comes from

unless it's non vanilla

[opaque garden]

bittersteel uses it

I meant to reply to the 25 width comment

he is bald but not bald

75 width best template

guys if you are new go monarchist greece

so much buffs exclusive to monarchist greece

[pliant condor]

ok not meant to target him but

^

[opaque garden]

is anarchist or carlist harder to play?

why

[pliant condor]

anarchist

[opaque garden]

hehe

then I beat the hardest spain

[pliant condor]

or both are not super hard if you know how to finish the first civil war before the second one

[opaque garden]

True thats what I did

won in 38 may

but actually in 1939 because of the stupid garrison of republican Spain in Paris vasco

and the stupid amount of soviets

[fickle bear]

yall how can you get czechoslovakia to accept annexation without gotterdammerung as hungary ,they always accept the puppet thing

[serene karma]

Get enough intel to see Germany tree

When they do fate of czech

Then u do the event

[opaque garden]

not this

[fickle bear]

i do the spying things but it doesnt go above 40 precent

[opaque garden]

its happening in all the servers

[serene karma]

Got it

[opaque garden]

can I still get achievements if I play on older versions on the game?

[fickle bear]

alt history sometimes is pure cancer tho

[opaque garden]

yo is this allowed?

[glacial steeple]

yeah its what makes the game sandboxy and random

fun imo

thats like normal

france capped to italy instead of ger

[glacial steeple]

yeah

[opaque garden]

hehe no more coal

I hate the coal mechanics

[glacial steeple]

theyre not that bad

[opaque garden]

yes thay are

im forced to partially mob Germany 1944

I hate this

[glacial steeple]

youre not

just do your techs

[opaque garden]

I did

do my techs

[glacial steeple]

excav

[opaque garden]

yes excav

better coal efficiency

all of it

closed eco

[glacial steeple]

doesnt happen

yeah

[pliant condor]

go update to the latest version

coals are fake now

[glacial steeple]

yeah thats not italy

bulgaria is good they get like infinite compliance

italy sucks

[restive mauve]

How is Nuclear Bombing Range calculated? Because I clearly am supposed to have enough range to bomb Attu Island (which I want to bomb because its an american core, and then I get the achievement "Tojo shot first") but for some reason I simply can't because according to the game I dont have enough bombing range

[opaque garden]

please Germany just decline my ultimatum😭 😭 😭

4 runs not declined once

[fair pivot]

whats a good cheap mountanier division

also when i play iran how can i go to war with iraq without uk helping iraq

[vital geode]

You need better bombers

See how Attu is outside of your bomber's circle

[plucky otter]

Because you dont have enough range, the circle needs to reach attu

[rotund crater]

What divisions should I make for a Germany game?

[restive mauve]

but, for some reason I don't have any range to nuke that one soviet island next to it, that is in the circle. I will of coure get longer range bombers but it doesnt make sense why I can't even bomb that island

[vital geode]

Do you have strat bombers with no missions nearby?

Or strat bombers in reserve doing nothing?

He wants an achievement

So

What's the point in that

Not much of an achievement

It is like a solid 10% or less that are world conquests

Isnt playing games a waste of time

And some people find joy in getting achievements

[restive mauve]

I mean I have some in other air bases, like 2 or 3 air wings with no mission, but to be honest all of them are the level 1 strat bombers, so it's kinda to be expected that they are ass

[vital geode]

I am not John Parker

I have done a stream for his cancer fundraiser stream though kind of

Turns out you cannot be a part of the fundraiser if you have less than 10k subs

Doesnt help our profiles are stickmen

Mine? Thanks

[rotund crater]

What divisions should I make for a Germany game?

[boreal pecan]

mp?

[rotund crater]

no single player

im new to making these divisions so am unsure what works

[boreal pecan]

21 width (9inf,1art) or 10inf

at the start

u can later upgrade

do u have dlcs

[rotund crater]

i do yep

[boreal pecan]

i reckon pin has tank designs but uhh

[rotund crater]

oh

ok bro

[boreal pecan]

make 30width tank template

mediums

medium tanks

[rotund crater]

ok thank you i will check through pins for designs thanks for the help

[boreal pecan]

i forgot how much it was i might be off

[rotund crater]

yeah

[boreal pecan]

u can rlly rock anything in sp

its just what i prefer

[rotund crater]

ok thank you both for the help

[boreal pecan]

sp is easy asf

with dlcs

you can make 2w and win probably

[analog maple]

guys how do i trn canada into pan north america thing as fascist britin?

[boreal pecan]

aslong as it half makes sense youll be good

so

[unique ingot]

when i try to puppet in a peace conference it says "no available action"

anyone know why?

[wintry matrix]

Is your faction leader democratic or are you democratic yourself?

Democratic nations cannot puppet.
Best you can do is to annex a nation completely and release them manually after peacedeal.

@unique ingot

[unique ingot]

i am communist but i joined allies

i thought they can create supervised states

[wintry matrix]

Yeah, but communist nations cannot create Supervised Puppets.

It is what it is.

[lament mason]

is there a way to fix this

[foggy stratus]

how do i save her

[hollow brook]

im playing multiplayer with a friend and he cant make his fleet patrol the english channel. his fleet is docked in a friendly port in dunkerque

[scenic nacelle]

Tell him to look here

Make that a port in Europe

[keen wasp]

Hi Im new to HOI4 and I need help with this game, anyone mind to guide me through? I appreciate any help 😁 . Just Dm me

[solemn spruce]

I am playing the non aligned path for the philippines and every time I have the military emergency, I get the event that says the Non-Aligned party will be the new ruling part and that Macarthur will be the new leader. However, after that the ruling party stays with the newly named democratic party. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a focus that I might have completed that shouldn't have or another focus that I should have done?

[waxen spindle]

when I hover my cursor over a fighter in a production line and it says 800 needed for upgrades, what does needed for upgrades mean and what should I do to upgrade? What needs upgrading? Is there an easier way of finding this kind of thing out instead of using this forum? Many thanks

[hollow brook]

thank you so much! I appreciate it

[solemn spruce]

it means that 800 units of fighters are technically in use but still at a earlier version that you are currently making.

It will automatically take those older fighters out and put them into stockpiles when your new fighters are created.

[pulsar surge]

with an agency operation

[livid cedar]

is it a bad idea to delete all of your production at the start of the game just so it gets cleaner?

shit

okay

[solemn spruce]

got the event to switch over ruling party again. Macarthur even changed portraits, but the ruling party didn't change and I am stuck with the horrible leader for the democratic party now. Any ideas?

[livid cedar]

is this normal

[sacred patrol]

how do i unlock more region spots

slots

hey @sterile brook sorry to ping but how

[sterile brook]

idk

[sacred patrol]

but youre like a helper team?

i did techs and it gave me none

brotha i saw all

[neat widget]

it can be depending on your division template

[sacred patrol]

can i ask your opinion on something

[cursive sorrel]

I tried to host a game with a friend and when he tried to join it said "host is using different version of the game" but we both had the newest update and wasn't using any mods. We both checked integrity of the files. I have all the DLCs and he has none, do I need to disable DLCs?

[cursive sorrel]

I think with infrastructure but I'm not sure

[hexed parcel]

Hey y'all which focus does Germany use to get 2 yr bonus on amtracts

[cursive sorrel]

Or with focus tree

[inner mountain]

is there a mod that adds the diplomacy stuff like trading land like there is in road to 56 but without the custom focus trees?

[sacred patrol]

i simply focused on navy focuses atp

[rugged rover]

why are my paratroopers not landing? the mission is started but its been a week they still aint there

[sacred patrol]

also since am an idiot where can i get the battery for destroyers

[cursive sorrel]

Through research, but I think you'll need a dlc for it

[sacred patrol]

a dlc to use basic navy?

[scenic nacelle]

🥀

[cursive sorrel]

Yh you'll need a dlc to make a custom variant of the destroyer

[neat widget]

Well they aren't there

Go find them

and then drag them over

[scenic nacelle]

that dlc is now in the main game

dont worry

[sacred patrol]

thank god

it would be a bit stupid to lock a advantage the AI has behind a paywall

[inner mountain]

is there a mod that adds the diplomacy stuff like trading land like there is in road to 56 but without the custom focus trees?

[cursive sorrel]

^^

[narrow ether]

Hey guys, can anyone help me with an issue. So it’s the first time I am playing HOI4, I tried to start the launcher, but the sounds buffer / stutters a lot, what’s the problem here? Thanks

[sacred patrol]

i unlocked the battery and i cant use it nice

like its so far

[daring herald]

why i get this error when my ships are right there in western france

[daring herald]

whats this ?

[thin zealot]

Your fleet's home base

You can change it there as well, it doubles as a button

[neat widget]

Yes

[idle oak]

whats this number

[scenic nacelle]

How much naval dominance it gives

[idle oak]

thanks

i have 4k hours time to learn navy

[scenic nacelle]

Ur in rb u should know it atleast 😭

[idle oak]

:D:D:D:D i was joking i know navy but didnt know what that thing was

[neat widget]

imagine being in rb

can't be me

[glacial steeple]

good morning everypup

[neat widget]

good morning casey

[frosty lava]

I'm noticing in the new doctrines some give some pretty substantial buffs to line artillery. Is it worth using as Peru where tanks aren't too viable?
I tried using CAS, support artillery, and 8 battalions of infantry per division and it was VERY slow trying to gain any ground even in Bolivia.

[neat widget]

No, artillery suffers from the same issue as tanks

but to only somewhat of a lesser extent

Use mountaineers

[frosty lava]

Gotcha.

[foggy stratus]

I lost to paraguay

[neat widget]

RIP

Marines and forest rangers exist fortunately

Take your pick

[stuck garnet]

I get why you fellas told me to focus on one thing now tbh

Also question about piercing stat

Whats the armor to piercing ratio

Like if you have 100 armor then like

[narrow grail]

Based ngl

[stuck garnet]

What would piercing do?

[narrow grail]

I did it with having ~2.3k houts

[neat widget]

if you have 101 piercing then you will pierce it, thereby increasing organization damage from 1d4 to 1d6
If you have 75 piercing then you will only partially pierce it, only dealing 0.8 * 1d4 damage
If you have 50 piercing then you will only deal 0.65 * 1d4 damage
And if you don't even have 50 piercing, it is 0.5 * 1d4

HP damage is always 1d2 btw

[glacial steeple]

whats the context spill the tea

[stuck garnet]

Just like

Playing the game

It doesnt matter what mod or what gamr

In particular my vanilla games go to shit because like

I alwats like

[glacial steeple]

i tried doing an inf + tank + air build as iraq in sheeps mod and lost (shockingly)

[stuck garnet]

Dont have the research

[glacial steeple]

because it meant i had 3 parts of my army that were garbage as opposed to 1

[stuck garnet]

Idk how to describe

[neat widget]

LMAO

[stuck garnet]

If i wanna do tanks?

[foggy stratus]

Is italy really friendly?

[stuck garnet]

Cant

[glacial steeple]

yeah you cant pull ahead compared to other nations

youre always playing catch up

[stuck garnet]

Yeah true

[frosty lava]

So for the template is it just 16width mountaineer with support artillery?

[foggy stratus]

idk italy seems a trash country

[scenic nacelle]

Not really

[glacial steeple]

do u have any tips to make it work

[stuck garnet]

Should i tank the "ahead of time" research penalties?

[glacial steeple]

maybe i was missing the crucial piece of nuke rush

[neat widget]

Yeah that would work, but I would use 32 width

[foggy stratus]

what do u think that are beginner friendly countries? i was trying to play as brazil

[neat widget]

tbf idk if we're talking about joining at the historical date

[glacial steeple]

yeah

[frosty lava]

Gotcha. And still focus heavily on CAS?

[neat widget]

I guess you can have good relations with the Aliles and ask for their colonies in the Middle East for a more secure position and more industry

[glacial steeple]

i was already licensing planes instead of teching it

[neat widget]

Yeah

[glacial steeple]

fight allies or bust smh

[stuck garnet]

Idk i think i avoid the military trees in vanilla too much

Or in general tbh

[neat widget]

I think you can go down both the Hashemite focuses and the fascist ones but idk, Sheep may have changed that

[narrow grail]

What should I do to prevent reorganized national government of China not coring China?

[neat widget]

idk tbh

[glacial steeple]

i think they need like all of it idk

i havent used them

btw @neat widget if you puppet the ROC/KMT when they do the uh

seek something something allies

bottom of the tree

they just

[barren sun]

what is the best armor support company

[glacial steeple]

get freedom and join the allies

doesnt matter if theyre a puppet or what level of puppet

[stark kiln]

guys why my naval invasion is not working?

[neat widget]

Ah I see, even if it is a collab government?

[barren sun]

hover over the button to launch it and see

[neat widget]

You have no naval supremacy

You should try to get it in the south china sea

[glacial steeple]

yeah dont ask how i found out...

[neat widget]

I see

Guess you annex it before it can do that

[scenic nacelle]

Hm

[foggy stratus]

damn i cant beat ethiopia

[neat widget]

bring your entire army, 22 divs north and 24 south, and bring all your CAS and TAC there too

[little flame]

if im playing ironman austria non historical, do i have to reload if germany goes into the rhineland?

im a noob, 688 hours

[glacial steeple]

no

[little flame]

without having to fight Germany

do they not just anchluss?

[glacial steeple]

why avoid it

you can gobble them up

going austria hungary or communist?

or idk the democratic thing

[little flame]

ah

as in austriua hung

[glacial steeple]

communist is easiest

[little flame]

can i beat them to forming the empire

[glacial steeple]

OP as heck militias

[glacial steeple]

yeah definitely

[little flame]

i've never gone commie for anyone haha

idk why

[glacial steeple]

its harder than communist tho

[little flame]

seems boring

[little flame]

cheers bro

watch me die with an empire now

[glacial steeple]

come back if you need more in depth help

[glacial steeple]

just do air + infantry

make a lot of air with your huge eco

dont research irrelevant stuff

like artillery

[little flame]

why no art?

block of inf cant attack?

and tyty

i just use inf with no art to reform front line after a breakthrough or garrisson type stuff

if that makes sense

[glacial steeple]

useless

good for tank build tho

[little flame]

just for ah? i always produce shitloads of art no matter who i play

wishing i joined this discord months ago

[glacial steeple]

no just in general

read the stats

its not that much of an increase

air and gun techs better

and production obviously

[narrow grail]

I just don't even know if taking this focus is worth it

with fact that it gives USA +5% war support

[glacial steeple]

which one

the puppet?

[narrow grail]

Yes

[glacial steeple]

why would you do it

just get collabs and cap china or occupy without compliance

you can also just

puppet the PRC in the peacedeal

they have cores

same effect as reorganized gov

and you can spend focus time elsewhere

[narrow grail]

There is also one small focus for demanding Macau from portugal behind it, lik eit even matters.

[glacial steeple]

oh man youll be able to get macau

thats like half your eco

49 whole focus days for a city with nothing of significance

its for larp tho

[narrow grail]

14

[glacial steeple]

i appreciate it for the people who cant cap china until 1946

[glacial steeple]

49

you have to do both

unless reorganized gov is 70

i thought it was 35

[narrow grail]

it is 35

just checked

[glacial steeple]

havent ever done the focus + not at my pc rn lol

[narrow grail]

I've never played Japan in my life because navy and fighting Allies far from their metropoly scared me. But now it got insane content injection and I watched some navy guides.

[glacial steeple]

i mean getting macau has at least 1% strategic value

[narrow grail]

Maybe I can even get China at 37 idk

[glacial steeple]

it just sucks its a whole 14 days and locked behind a bad 35d focus

[glacial steeple]

yeah

pretty consistently

[narrow grail]

Macau is still some particle of content for me

[glacial steeple]

youll love to know that japan shouldnt use its navy

[narrow grail]

Especially when rushing 2nd Sino-Japanese war because that's what I wanna do

[glacial steeple]

its good to have as a potential threat but your fuel sucks and strike force costs fuel now

so you just dont use it

[narrow grail]

So I can just pull up strike force ships for such a task only when spot enemy ships?

[glacial steeple]

no

just dont use it

[sinful vessel]

Can i check somewher how many point i miss to make an enemy surender ?

[narrow grail]

With context when I either don't need to naval invade or prepare it

[narrow grail]

This tab

[sinful vessel]

It show in %, i would like to know how many point it is

[narrow grail]

I don't think it's possible to see such information in flat victory points numbers unless some mods

[glacial steeple]

use navs against subs and block off sea zones like this

anyway as a japan player (second most played nation which is practically first)

i will say now your navy is useleas until you take indonesia (just like the irl IJN!!)

bevause you need fuel

and after you take indonesia my god you have indonesia

go take the raj, australia idk africa

theres so many more important targets than a bunch of islands with no factories no resources no pop

you should prob puppet your islands day 1 tho

its free mils

which is actually all the value the entire pacific theatre has

its the mils/civs spawned by those puppets

which is not a lot

[narrow grail]

Pacific Islands give space to invade USA no?

[glacial steeple]

okay?

why care?

oh no theyll maybe naval invade you with a few units

[narrow grail]

Because it's a major nation and I still play single player mostly

[glacial steeple]

which is countered by just having a few units

in the new patch if you wanna like

lock the US our

out*

all. you need is the philippines+guam

so if youre really scared of them, take that and they wont have naval range to invade your cores

[narrow grail]

I'm not as scared of fighting Allies at first

but when they finish in Europe

they will focus ALL forces on me and I just wanna end the war

[glacial steeple]

okay?

thats why you invade africa

goes right into europe front

can do sealion

the islands dont help with stopping the allies it just means they cant send some dudes to your cores

like if you take allll the islands the allies lose maybe 10 factories (optimistic)

[thin zealot]

Maybe some more in the Philippines

[glacial steeple]

20 factories

[nova gorge]

suggestions on a good super sonic cas desgin?

[glacial steeple]

for max attack per width or for cheap

[vital geode]

What was your cas design before

[nova gorge]

im the usa the budget dosent exist just spend

[vital geode]

Because I just use bomb locks or heavy bomb locks

[nova gorge]

umm dont have one been using fighters and start bombing

[glacial steeple]

the US is very poor

[nova gorge]

figured but ti have all of this to work with so im good

so honestly idc about the price i just want to do alot of cas

[glacial steeple]

well your mils just suck