ask-for-help-here

[tough oak]

Masallah

[glacial steeple]

thats what good mils look like

high efficiency high output

[thin zealot]

Good mills are the qing ones in RoN after clicking the weapons smuggling decision cause someone way overtuned it and now it gives like 10000% factory output

Who even cares about efficiency at that point

[glacial steeple]

thats a mod

idc about a mod being broken

[thin zealot]

Absolute mess of a mod but yes

[glacial steeple]

tbh

like its irrelevant to people learning this stuff

[stoic seal]

is like infantry, tanks and some airforce enough to defeat both poland and france?

[mystic otter]

how do you have so much mill in 1940?

[static turret]

as germany just normal plain defensive units is enough for poland and france

[glacial steeple]

you make mils

[sinful vessel]

How do you deal to destroy sub if you go full full light cruiser ?

[glacial steeple]

you always should use air vs sub

destroyers kinda suck

[inner sparrow]

its like not hard

[sinful vessel]

ok. So having 0 anti sub with navy is something you do ?

[inner sparrow]

most super majors get around that

[forest yarrow]

guys best medium tank template?

[inner sparrow]

medium spgs

look in pinned

[forest yarrow]

ty

[sinful vessel]

spg mean no turet ?

[inner sparrow]

no?

[wild rune]

?

[sinful vessel]

Don't know the right word. This ?

[inner sparrow]

no?

[tight laurel]

how to do this?

[carmine scarab]

radio>armor skirts

[opaque garden]

hire one of the following industrial concerns

the language they use is a bit weird

[tight laurel]

😭

ty

[opaque garden]

so hire either"sumitono Mitsubishi Yasuda or mitsui

[tight laurel]

i will try

[opaque garden]

well

do u want them to have more influence tho?

if u dont then dont hire one of them

looking at the stats It gives i wouldn't want it

but its your game

[glacial steeple]

thats their influence lowering

not going up

its better since infra and civ speed are irrelevant

[opaque garden]

mb

reading it wrong

[opaque garden]

depends

[glacial steeple]

as japan you never build those

[opaque garden]

I do in my first year

or maybe theyre playing democratic

[inner sparrow]

doesnt make it good

[opaque garden]

idk

[tough oak]

Can I release the baltic countries as puppets after annexing them with ultimatums (USSR)

[inner sparrow]

why would u

[opaque garden]

I think you have to do a focus

[inner sparrow]

annexing is better than puppets

[tough oak]

why not

[inner sparrow]

bc puppets are worse

[opaque garden]

you have to either do the exiles focus

[inner sparrow]

and u have liberated workers for garrison law

[opaque garden]

or the one that u cant get when going hus

[inner sparrow]

which is the best

[opaque garden]

cant remember the name

[opaque garden]

True

[tough oak]

I just learned that

[inner sparrow]

even without it still better to annex, esp as communist or facist countries

[tough oak]

I have Turkey and Romania as puppets

kinda late

[inner sparrow]

too bad for u

[opaque garden]

could u have annexed them?

[inner sparrow]

but keep baltics

[tough oak]

By that you mean?

[opaque garden]

did u puppet them peace conference

or focus

[tough oak]

Conference

[opaque garden]

ah

[inner sparrow]

if u have the chance always annex

[opaque garden]

too bad too sad

[sinful vessel]

If spg are better than tank, should i build them at start as Germany ? or should i wait till i have have medium ?

[inner sparrow]

spgs are tanks

[tough oak]

I can do it through the Manage Subjects part though

[inner sparrow]

they are medium

u use a medium chasis

[opaque garden]

just build forts

[inner sparrow]

and make the role of the tank to artillery

[opaque garden]

in their territory

thats what I do

[inner sparrow]

no not worth it

[opaque garden]

to lower autonomy

[inner sparrow]

just let them be as a puppet

ignore them

[opaque garden]

nah

[inner sparrow]

ur ic is more important on building mils

[opaque garden]

bigger name on the map

[inner sparrow]

esp as soviets

[opaque garden]

I mean like when I have to lower autonomy

I dont mean I would rather lower autonomy than build mills

[sinful vessel]

so i should wait for medium chassis and use light tank at start.

[inner sparrow]

no? u start with medium chasis

dont use tanks anyways in the early game

ur gonna get everything before 39

where would u need tanks before 39?

besides spain to grind combined armed

[glacial steeple]

france

[inner sparrow]

so 39

[glacial steeple]

38

[inner sparrow]

unless he plays unhist and goes early war

[inner sparrow]

39

[sinful vessel]

this is considered as medium ?

[inner sparrow]

yes inter war

[tough oak]

yes

[inner sparrow]

u dopnt neeed better than inter war tbh

if u really want get it

[tough oak]

1938 is good

just get it

The others are eh

[sinful vessel]

ok. as medium is writen just before the 38 model, i thought it wasn't

[inner sparrow]

it is but inter war one

less relia

its alright, u dont need better really

but if ur bad at micro

then get 38

[sinful vessel]

i quite do no micro 😕

[sleek remnant]

Is there anything fun to do with Japan? For some reason it looks very fun but I feel like there's nothing else to do
Island hopping in Pacific is boring (never tried it tbh because I don't like naval invasion/paradrop) and it doesn't even win the game

I used to ask military access to Italy and naval access to Germany after capping china and then cap allies before USA joins but that also makes you too strong (though never tried after dlc)

I feel like I'm doing something wrong because it's either too easy or tedious

[iron veldt]

are space marines still good or have they been nerfed

[inner sparrow]

good against ai

nerfed in mp

bc of at doctrine

[wet topaz]

No the new dlc sucks

You can core all of Asia for god knows why though

[tough oak]

lmao

[wet topaz]

Ai generated focus free ahh

Literally ai generated

[rapid urchin]

how can i do a good china war as japan?

[iron veldt]

what template/doctrine do you use against AI

[rapid urchin]

in the new DLC

because i cant justify on china to get the 10% attack anymore

[inner sparrow]

I don’t play sp really

ai is boring u can use everything

[wet topaz]

You should be able to cap China in like 4-5 months into 37

Make sure to rush the 2 mills on the army tree

Make a lot of guns and like 2 on arty

And just naval invade spam and rush supply hubs

[rapid urchin]

okay

but what on earth do i do about this

its litterally preventing me from doing constant naval invasions

[tough oak]

nothing

[rapid urchin]

yeah but i dont have THIS on other nations

ircc

[tough oak]

Idk why you don't 🤷

prob

Japan national spirit or sum

[rapid urchin]

nothign about the spirit

[rapid urchin]

and use traditonal 9/0 template or what would you use for a template on china

for the infantry divisions

[sinful vessel]

I can't select flame support tank here, it seems hidden, any advice ?

[inner sparrow]

get flame tech from special project

[sinful vessel]

I have it. The option just seems hidden by the side of the window

[inner sparrow]

do u have the flame gun on your chasis?

[serene thorn]

i have this issue aggain where i cannot physically get my forces out of a tile. i have half a army stuck at a tile a lil to the south ( that lil corner at the bottom ) too...theyre constantly attacked instantly win the fight but cant ever leave the area. theres a supply hub right next to them theres plenty of eq. they have everything they need yet their strength is drained completely and i can just watch ???
i tried reloading , tactically redeploying and manuall pulling out..nothing works.....ye i could just delete them and send more in but man....

[sinful vessel]

yes. I see the option when i open the tab, but it's too low to be selectable

[inner sparrow]

ah you mean that

lol

[rapid urchin]

try to reselect it

happens to me sometimes

like redesign

[serene thorn]

can anyone help me fix this ? ill lose half the area if i cant fix it. if i send troops there im also not sure whats gonna happen 🤡 .

yes i do have eq of every type and plenty of it
yes i do have plenty of convoys
no the convoys arent raided
yes my rails are upgraded
yes the other troops do just fine while recieving the same amount of attacks
yes everything is motorized

i legit have no clue why they dont finish their move order

[bleak plinth]

is there another peace treaty when i fully kick them out or nah?

[rapid urchin]

mhm

you need asmara though for it

in your current situation

did you complete the focus fait acompli?

[bleak plinth]

so heres the funny part

i did boarding the train

and i was looking at international mediation

it said white peace

so i dont gain anything from the war?

[stiff moth]

If I max out New Caledonia will it allow me to skip the entire focus?

[rapid urchin]

other than peace yes

[rapid urchin]

no

[stiff moth]

I have to build max in all states?

[untold marsh]

why are none of these deploying?

[rapid urchin]

manpower

[iron veldt]

manpower

[untold marsh]

ohhhh

ok

how do i get naval dominance now

i set everything to patrol

but its still getting cooked

[stiff moth]

you need a main fleet on strike force to get a higher amount of dominance

your scouts should be patrolling for it

[sinful vessel]

But you will control it in 44 day if i read it correctly

[untold marsh]

ok ty

how do i make this naval invasion go

these guys r js sitting there

we got naval dominance

[scenic nacelle]

Declare war

[analog maple]

guys how do i hold the line as ethopia? i keep getting invaded

[half glade]

how do i stop getting into messy wars?

i try to fight poland

the UK turn up

so do hungary

netherlands

france

[serene thorn]

rotate troops and fall back to the right mountain tiles. push italians out of the south boom u win

[analog maple]

you cant just invade every country 1 by 1

[half glade]

yeah but its insanely unfair

[analog maple]

where is south bro

[half glade]

i have no way to defend it all

[analog maple]

yes

the game is about ww2 not invading small countries with no resistence

[serene thorn]

what im saying is try to end the war on the southern front quickly. u only want the north to remain contested

[carmine thunder]

what do

[analog maple]

im asking with side is south

nvm i just google

[serene thorn]

southhhh

😭 😭 😭

[analog maple]

oh south is bottom

[half glade]

whats the best gun manufacturer as the germans

[serene thorn]

yes try to kill the italians off quickly there while holding mountain tiles in the north. u dont need more than two or three tries to find out wich ill leave u the dopamine to find them ^^

[analog maple]

my troops at dessie keep getting pushed and then the line too big. i even put 2 units on that city

[analog maple]

me i am the best gun manufacturer

[half glade]

i need a real answe

[analog maple]

i was very serius

[serene thorn]

???? if u fall back right at the start nothing bad ever happens

u instantly leave ur initial location

and pull back to more defendable locations. pref hills and mountains

thats also where u can make a defensive line in the south

hills

once u have both formed push the south and micro the north. just pause the game when needed 🤷‍♂️

ull usually have enough troops to outnumber them and get their port in the south

once their port falls theyre dead

go only for the port nothing else

[frosty lava]

Is it possible to actually win the winter war as Finland without capitulating the Soviet Union?

[half glade]

what troops do i make at the start of the game as germany

just infantry?

[serene thorn]

ure germany u can do whatever the frick u want

[frosty lava]

I'm wondering if I have to attack eventually, or if I can just defend and hold out long enough.

[half glade]

not really i suck lol

[serene thorn]

u can really do anything as germany

[frosty lava]

My question was about Finland.

[serene thorn]

unless it involves large amounts of oil without conquest...

sry sry confused with the other guy

[frosty lava]

All good.

[half glade]

i just wanna make my army as strong as possible

[serene thorn]

u can attack later on for encirclements if u see their lines weaken

[frosty lava]

I'm just wondering, if I hold out long enough, will the soviets give up and end the war?

[serene thorn]

🤷‍♂️ 2ppl with a gun can defend vs the ais onsalught if needed. u just need plens

lots of plens....good plens.....

[half glade]

i havent advanced that far yet

i dont understand ground let alone air or navy

i understand how to send planes to a location via an airbase

then right click

then select mission type top left

[analog maple]

i did and i get easly pushed back from all sides

[serene thorn]

u can also directly assign them to a army if u right click a army and theyll follow ^^

[half glade]

no way

thats awesome

so i can provide air support constantly for them?

[serene thorn]

saves painful amounts of clicks...

[serene thorn]

yup

[half glade]

i wanna learn how to make the best armys

like making the best ships in stellaris

[frosty lava]

To play Germany you definitely need a grasp on the basics, if you want, you can play a much simpler nation, Peru, which is focused on South American conquest. You have a much smaller nation and it's a good place to learn the bare minimum basics.

[serene thorn]

u gotta understand the math behind it then

[half glade]

i got told germany was good for beginners ;-;

[serene thorn]

it is

ger is op af for sp

[half glade]

which issss

[frosty lava]

Idk, I think Germany requires a bit of knowledge otherwise you just get stuck in Poland.

[serene thorn]

theres a gazillion stats for ur divisions. u gotta learn what they do and how attacks and defenses are calculated ( at least basic)

[iron veldt]

what templates does one use for space marines

[half glade]

mind teaching me?

[serene thorn]

u can push anything with cas 🤷‍♂️

doesnt matter if its just a old guy in a wheelchair pushing

just cope with plen

[frosty lava]

He just said he just wants ground forces atm.

[half glade]

i mean i want whatever will help me win

i gotta learn after all

[frosty lava]

Oh.

[serene thorn]

u should rly look at a video guide ngl

cuz the topic is huge

[half glade]

got any good ones?

i have all the dlcs too lol

[serene thorn]

if u just copy the most commonly used divs ull already be fine but for gods sake no line artillery or im gonna cry

[half glade]

lmao

does this look good ;-;

[serene thorn]

as germany u can afford support companies so add some. engineers are nice if u plan to hold the line. if u move u lose entrenchment though.
aa gives u plenty of pierce vs ai divs

and sup arty is also pretty neat for a lil more oompf

[serene thorn]

too many bodies

thats why i said u gotta look at a guide mate

[half glade]

what would you change with it

i got that from a website screenshot lol

[serene thorn]

way too many soldiers. width too big

[frosty lava]

New meta from what I understand is 18w I believe? So 9 infantrys.

[serene thorn]

why at ? in sp no at needed

especially not if URE germany wich is the only ai that rly uses them anyway

[half glade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bytRN3t-k does this seem good

[frosty lava]

Also for some reason the AI is shit at making tanks so you really don't need AT, AA will kill basically any tanks.

[half glade]

hmm yes anti air kill tank

makes sense

[frosty lava]

It worked irl.

[serene thorn]

german flak goes POW

why wouldnt it work 🤷‍♂️

[half glade]

dont tell me its been done before

[serene thorn]

ofc. they had at ammo

[frosty lava]

Ofc, an AA gun, the 8.8, was one of Germany's best methods of taking out heavy soviet tanks irl.

[serene thorn]

aphe and apcr

[half glade]

thats crazy

[serene thorn]

even 37mm aint that bad tbh. depending on the nation and type of shell they can be devastating if shot into a medium tanks side

[half glade]

how the hell am i supposed to change on the fly?

am i supposed to know what troops my opponents have?

[serene thorn]

u plan on ruling the air ? proly dont need aa 🤷‍♂️

u plan on having tonks ? proly dont need that much at

if u can counter theirs with urs.....

[frosty lava]

Basically, you don't. You try to predict what's gonna happen.

[half glade]

ah yes perfec

[frosty lava]

Do you know irl WW2 history?

[serene thorn]

" oh no this front is attacked by tanks but theres only inf....guess im ded"

and the best part is that when u predict too much u produce a lot of shit that ull never need

[dense stone]

low supply deep in ussr/africa, red air you'll just know by numbers of your fighters, tanks it really depends on enemy, since some of the countries dont even use them, and special projects one can be considered basic one

[frosty lava]

laughs in finnish

[half glade]

germany invade poland kill poor people germany bad

japan fight us

war ends

[fathom thistle]

AT is pointless most of the time. Since AA 3 has enough piercing for most tanks

[half glade]

uk liberate germany

[frosty lava]

I mean like the deeper details.

[half glade]

not really

ive been to auschwitz

thats about it

[stark bough]

I'm trying to place ships in the Caribbean Sea, controlled by Venezuela, while playing as Brazil. However, when I click to send the ships to these waters, it simply doesn't work., It's as if I'm unable to go. I see the icons and it says all my fleets are in this sea, but there are no active ships in it. What should I do to enable ships to go to this sea? What must be happening?

[upper basin]

I don't think someone needs to know "much" history to play Hoi4...

[half glade]

are tanks meta?

[upper basin]

....

[half glade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tgt9z9JdM4 8 days ago

[serene thorn]

[stark bough]

hell man

[upper basin]

Meta for what

[half glade]

bruh im just asking

[upper basin]

No, but armored car is sure meta for me

[half glade]

i literally have played the game for like 3 days

chillax guys

[stark bough]

I'm trying to place ships in the Caribbean Sea, controlled by Venezuela, while playing as Brazil. However, when I click to send the ships to these waters, it simply doesn't work., It's as if I'm unable to go. I see the icons and it says all my fleets are in this sea, but there are no active ships in it. What should I do to enable ships to go to this sea? What must be happening?

pls someone

answer me

[upper basin]

Supply

Naval things yk

[serene thorn]

unmotorized bikes it is!

[stark bough]

no

[upper basin]

What's the name again? That one supply for navy

[frosty lava]

Okay, that might make things a little challenging. So let me give an example of prediction.
Finland fought the Soviet Union, Finland didn't have anywhere near as strong a military as the Soviet Union.
So you know that you're gonna need AA because the Soviet Union is gonna send in tanks and bombers, when you have very, very little in the ways of beating them.

So you know you're gonna need engineers, for defenses, and you're gonna need AA, for taking out tanks and planes.

Just an example.

[upper basin]

The higher the level

The more you can go

[stark bough]

idk

wtf are you talking

🙏🏻

what level

[half glade]

okay got it

[stark bough]

🥀

[upper basin]

Just check the game bro

Just share you screen here

I'll point it out

[half glade]

can anybody send their templates here?

[frosty lava]

Not really. If you wanna be boring af in singleplayer, focus on good infantry and a lot, and I mean A LOT of CAS.

[half glade]

whats CAS?

[frosty lava]

CAS = Close Air Support, basically little bombers.

For air strikes.

[half glade]

ah right

[upper basin]

Op

[serene thorn]

also uhh.. im still trying to figure out my own problem if anybody can helpm maybe am dum dum but it says they recieved all the supplies they ordered yet they never recieve anything and cant move besides having like 45+ org left

[frosty lava]

But yeah, sometimes, tanks can be really useful if you need something captured QUICKLY.

[half glade]

i just dont know how to go about this

[frosty lava]

Tanks + Mechanized Infantry are bricks that're very hard to kill.

[half glade]

i dont know enough

[upper basin]

Naval supply @stark bough

[frosty lava]

Did you do the tutorial?

In-game one?

[half glade]

its not helpful at all ill tell you that

it doesnt tell you what to do lol

[upper basin]

You guys read tutorial?

[frosty lava]

Ah okie.

[half glade]

it just chucks you in as germany

[frosty lava]

I thought it was italy ngl.

[half glade]

probably

idk

i played it months ago when i first bought the game

taught me nothing

so i just never played again

[frosty lava]

Anyways, that's why I suggested Peru ngl. But if you insist on learning Germany, we can see how to help out.

[upper basin]

Valid

[half glade]

this is all i know how to do

split my army into little groups

[upper basin]

Peru? Try Czech for ya

[half glade]

and deal with a few of the alerts

[sinful vessel]

I have made new design for some of my ships, but they don't have the option to be modified, any idea why ?

[half glade]

i know how to build infrastructure for my nations

[charred fable]

Guys, I'm officially ass. I can't save Axis in Europe as Argentina. Axis just feel doomed without your hard intervention

[frosty lava]

Okay, so for template, I would suggest having this as your very basic infantry.
https://i.gyazo.com/edee8b566b5bd0f8bfe67e458381d69a.png

[half glade]

increase mobilisation for my groups

[upper basin]

@stark bough

[upper basin]

I usually go for line art but support art is okay

[half glade]

i need 4 more army exp lol

[frosty lava]

This will be able to take out most tanks, has a little bit of attack power thanks to support artillery, and has engineers for doing the most important job, holding ground.

[upper basin]

Train them

If you're not in a war

[half glade]

they are

[frosty lava]

You don't need to make divisions right away.

[half glade]

this is literally march 1936

[upper basin]

Chief of army?

[frosty lava]

You start the game with zero exp.

[upper basin]

Oh nvm then

[half glade]

drill or organisation

what do i gotta do early game

like

square 1

[upper basin]

Org

But just do it later

I'd rather go for political advisor first

[half glade]

okay

[frosty lava]

Basically, what most people do as Germany, is make a crap ton of infantry for focuses, and then they convert their divisions to their main divisions.

However, sometimes, it's good to have different kinds of divisions.

Let me give an example.

So one thing Germany is gonna get absolutely pounded with, is naval invasions.

[half glade]

what focus do i even do first thing

annex austria?

[frosty lava]

Four year plan I think...?

[half glade]

ah

[upper basin]

Anschluss yes

[half glade]

thats what ive been doing my past runs

[frosty lava]

I'm not a big germany player because Germany is very stressful and complicated imho.

[upper basin]

Idk what else you want to do except Anschluss

[upper basin]

Just play their navy, it's fun

[small field]

Can someone tell me a good template for a mechanized division

[half glade]

well i want austria asap

[frosty lava]

Only mechanized and no tanks?

[half glade]

so i gotta start making troops

[static turret]

Once you get it down germany is super easy

[small field]

Only mechanized

[upper basin]

Honestly, I never touch this, unlike motorized infantry because it's better imo

[frosty lava]

I mean tbh I'd just do whatever width you did for infantry, and replace them with mech.

[static turret]

Train 22 base divisions at high importance at the start of the game by the time u reach ansvhluss u should be able to get it

[half glade]

i mean im at anschluss rn

i just unlocked it

[upper basin]

Motorized and tanks are always together, mechanized is always solo if I remember correctly

[frosty lava]

If you can get a tank division with 8 speed tanks, you're gonna get encirclements like insanity with tanks+mech.

[half glade]

i can afford this now

[static turret]

Either restart or do the inner circle focuses whike training

[half glade]

do i do it?

[frosty lava]

If you want. I was just giving a suggestion.

[static turret]

İf you wont do air yes

[frosty lava]

I'm not a real big meta player.

[half glade]

might aswell

whatever works lol

[static turret]

İf yoy will do air aa is unecessary

[upper basin]

Yeah it's gonna be quite expensive

[half glade]

i mean AA is for tanks

thats what people told me

even thought its... anti air

[static turret]

No its for red air

İf you know you wont have total air sup add it

[frosty lava]

Yeah, you'll only have a few of them but they are massively powerful. Just be careful not to get encircled from behind while you're blitzkrieging.

[half glade]

idk how air works honestly

so ill add them

how does inner circle work

also this good?

[static turret]

Make it high importance

[half glade]

done

[static turret]

Basically

You choose 1 guy

Wait 100 or so days

Choose again

Do fhis 3 times

You cant have more than3 at the same time

[half glade]

and they give boosts?

[upper basin]

I also forgot, does motorized infantry actually help with your supply line, it's been a while since the last time I played major nations

[static turret]

I recomend trodt,rudolf,goebbels, then replace trodt with herman

[upper basin]

I think they does

[static turret]

Yes they complete focuses on their own

So get them early

[frosty lava]

No, that's automated as long as you have your supply line set to "motorized"

[half glade]

oh thats good

[static turret]

So they can start doing it

[frosty lava]

There's three levels of supply.

[upper basin]

I use motorized infantry as China back then and they quickly pushed back the Japanese back to Shanghai lmao

[frosty lava]

Horse, Truck, and many trucks.

[serene thorn]

noone can leave this tile noone is resupplied why the hell am i experiencing this ?

[frosty lava]

Happens a lot, delete their current orders and then move them to a random spot.

[serene thorn]

the orange guy came in to reinforce the west boom hes stuck now too

[serene thorn]

i did but they still keep lagging back

[frosty lava]

Did you delete ALL orders?

They should have a red exclaimation mark on them

[stuck garnet]

I personally reccomend having "many trucks" even if you dont have enough trucks to fill supply lines

[upper basin]

Based

[frosty lava]

Pretty much, unless I'm REALLY struggling to with trains and trucks, I always have them set to max supply settings.

[half glade]

@static turret what now? ive done inner circle and todt, still waiting for troops

[serene thorn]

i did they stand still for just a splitsec and go back to lagging

[stuck garnet]

Supplu is litrrally everything in this game

[static turret]

Deploy them early

[frosty lava]

I don't see the exclaimation mark.

[static turret]

İt should normally be enough

[half glade]

how?

[small field]

Absolutely

[serene thorn]

oh with orders u meant their frontline ?

[static turret]

Ah

Theyre not ready yet

[half glade]

yeah not yet

[frosty lava]

Yes, delete every order.

And then move them to a random tile, one tile away

[static turret]

Then stall more with economy focuses

[frosty lava]

Then give them the order again.

[half glade]

okay

four year plan?

[serene thorn]

tried no luck

[stuck garnet]

yeah

reccomend it

[half glade]

okay

[frosty lava]

Did you unpause for a bit after they moved?

[stuck garnet]

is pre better as spartacus or nuh

[serene thorn]

yes ofc

[half glade]

@static turret i have doctrines available

[frosty lava]

Idk then sorry.

[half glade]

or do i modify my army templates instead

rather than that

[serene thorn]

they keep lagging back and forth

[stuck garnet]

my main letup with spartacus is that it takes too long for them to turn communist

[serene thorn]

they arent even supplied. theyre constantly in battle besides having supplies directly next to them xD

[static turret]

İf youre gonna send units to spain then doctrines

[serene thorn]

their strength is constantly drained somehow

[stuck garnet]

not the nation itself

the uhh

[static turret]

İf not It doesnt matter I think

[stuck garnet]

the other nations

[half glade]

what would you do

i wanna learn from the skilled lol

[stuck garnet]

ehh i reccomend doctrines

I wanna do doctrines asap

[half glade]

what ones are the best

i can never tell

[stuck garnet]

i usually go with like

for army

large units

streamlined for armored

forgot the names of the second

and the 4th

[half glade]

okay

[stuck garnet]

also question is it possible to ban a certain country from going a certain path

[serene thorn]

just look at this clown....he never arrives. what a bozo 😭

[stuck garnet]

but allow the others

[stuck garnet]

is that communist

[serene thorn]

nah

[half glade]

can somebody like colour the path i should tkae

again, i never know what is good

its so difficult to tell

[stuck garnet]

prioritize anything that increases production

[serene thorn]

idk maybe i missunderstand game mechanics but to me it seems theyre supplied and i have all the necessary gear at hand

[stuck garnet]

for inf equipment

you will lose a lot of infantry equipment.

[serene thorn]

i rly dont get whats going on

[half glade]

okay got it

how do you learn all this lol

[serene thorn]

germans attack -> get nuked by 1400 cas for that army -> i take 0 dmg -> they wont resupply🤷‍♂️

[stuck garnet]

Put factories on other things

[serene thorn]

its not about that idk about the inefficiency

its about having everything u need AND supplyhubs nearby but still they run out of strength

[stuck garnet]

Idk

[serene thorn]

the germans are absolutely destroyed by cas lose in a microsecond and repeat their atk in the next splitsecond

and my troops never get any supplies ? like HUH

everybody is fine its just these poor souls....

[spice pine]

infantry only is the meta

[half glade]

how do i learn the game

[junior escarp]

I’ve been watching Hoi4 content for over a year and I’m planning to buy this Christmas; could it run well enough on a Lenovo ideapad to where I could have fun

[half glade]

what videos do i watch

cause i have 0 clue what is good

and what isnt

[serene thorn]

these guys are already max lvl cuz they kill that many germans yet they get no supplies ! im about to rip some hair out...

i DONT WANT TO delete them....

😭 🤷‍♂️

[stuck garnet]

just like

take those mfs to your capital

and see if that works

are they cut off from capital?

[serene thorn]

i cant leave . they wont move

theyre stuck

they cant ever complete a move order. i already cancelled all commands and tried moving them to a adjacent province

[stuck garnet]

ask for military access from whoever is next to you

[serene thorn]

??????????????????????

sir these lands belong to the japanese people

[stuck garnet]

no no hear me out

whoever is next to the land

like

ask for military access

and if that doesnt work then idk

[serene thorn]

why would i ask for military access ?

im at war with my neighbours

[stuck garnet]

check your manpower

[serene thorn]

5.28m.........

[stuck garnet]

are you at war with the person next to the troops?

[serene thorn]

ofc i am

i pushed into there until these bugs kept happening

the guys in the very southern corner

have the same problem

cant leave no supplies

besides beeing fully supplied....

[stuck garnet]

which ones are the vet divisions?

are they in combat?

[serene thorn]

theyre in neverending combat. its the ones in the middle

u can tell by the supply status

[stuck garnet]

that's why they can't be reinforced

[serene thorn]

its the only low strength divisions

[stuck garnet]

try to end the combat somehow

do you have tanks?

or mountaineers?

[serene thorn]

its unending. i have more cas than theres germans on the battlefield at all times they get nuked the second they start their atk

but they repeat their atk the next second

its not normal combat behaviour

[stuck garnet]

try to capitulate them?

[half glade]

bro how do i get anschluss

[serene thorn]

bro i just want to push through there not go a diff way cuz the game bugs...

[half glade]

i have minimal progress towards it

wtf man

i dont understand bro

[stuck garnet]

the game bugs whenever you like

move through a diff one?

[half glade]

im gonna try peru

see how that goes

can somebody tell me what the key aspects i need to learn are?

[serene thorn]

through siberia instead of securing the south ? are u mad ? then ill become a german myself and be actually out of supply. i could go along the railway but i honestly didnt feel like it .....i planned to go this way and i want to go this way...stubborn noises

there must be a way to unstuck these ppl

help stepdivision im stuck

[stuck garnet]

have you retreated from the tile?

is it

is it a importan title

[half glade]

damn perus focus tree is boring

[stuck garnet]

tile*

[half glade]

what do i even do

i gotta learn

[serene thorn]

i tried retreating...thsts the whole point. id fall back if i could but i cant. theyre stuck there

and im not willing to let max lvl veterans die like animals !

[half glade]

can anybody tell me what i actually gotta do

[serene thorn]

its like they refuse to eat the food i provide. everybody next to them is having mc donalds and chocolate and they starve 😭

[half glade]

like i dont know what i should be doing

im just aimlessly clicking menus

[verbal horizon]

how to enter debug mode?

[charred fable]

Can someone explain why my strike force never engages??

[junior escarp]

Does anyone here play on laptop?

[verbal horizon]

i tried putting -"debug" and -debug into launcher but that doesnt work, any other recommendations

[half glade]

bruh i genuinly give up

how the hell do you learn this game

[halcyon kettle]

its tdebug

[halcyon kettle]

watch the video in pins

[verbal horizon]

like just tdebug

[halcyon kettle]

yes

[verbal horizon]

beta code invalid

[halcyon kettle]

do it in console commands when ure in the game

[verbal horizon]

i cant open the game, im trying to debug why its crashiong

[spice pine]

hoi4 is easy to run you should be fine

[halcyon kettle]

oh then idk lol

sry abt that

open a support ticket then

[hasty belfry]

What’s better at attacking in general rather than on their specialist terrain, mountaineers or rangers?

[tribal stratus]

Anyone have a tutorial for Austria?

This is pretty rough

I can’t do anything

Nobody lets me annex them

How do I annex the Czechs and Hungarians bro

[charred fable]

My fleet hasn't left port once. The naval side of the game is legit broken

[thin zealot]

Do the decisions to increase acceptance, if you max that out they almost always accept

[opaque garden]

just get rid of shushnigg

and all your problems will be fixed

make sure to then choose eleftherios venizelos path

gives you rly good buffs

ig getting alf Landon is also acceptable

but DONT GET pehr evir svinhufvud as your leader

definetly dont

[hasty belfry]

I’m doing the Belgica path. Could the combined 20% monthly population growth increase from a focus and an advisor become meaningful overtime once I expand to all of my cores and annex the Dutch East Indies (and get pretty solid compliance buffs from a focus)?

Also what is a good ranger template?

[charred fable]

Please someone explain to me why my navy will not leave port when set to strike force. I am losing my mind...

[thin zealot]

Because they won't leave until you spot an enemy fleet (which you can do with recon planes, patrolling ships, maybe radar but I'm not 100% sure about that)

[charred fable]

My 10DD patrol fleet spotted an enemy fleet in literally the next sea zone from the port.

[opaque garden]

navy rework

patrol is mandatory

strike force only retains the control u already have

doesn't generate new control

[charred fable]

I have 3 patrols all covering the coast of ARG/BRA and spotting ships... my strike force didn't leave port once. My subs were also actively sinking convoys

[spark swallow]

strike force doesnt help you attack convoys

[charred fable]

I'm not trying to attack convoys. That's what my SS are set to.

[spark swallow]

you brought it up

[charred fable]

I have 5 task forces...
1 strike force full caps
3 patrols of just 10xDD
1 fleet of 10xSS set to convoy raiding.

All work fine except the strike force who do not leave port

[spark swallow]

well yeah

thats their job

they only sally out when the patrol fleet catches someone

also why are your patrols dds

they should be cruisers

1 per squadron set to never engage

[charred fable]

My guy... the patrols are finding enemy ships... the strike force isn't attacking.

[spark swallow]

you didnt mention that part lol

it could be a multitude of reasons

strike force was unreliable to begin with tbh

are you ships on always engage?

[charred fable]

Briefly set them to always engage, but they have since been set to high for most of it.

I dunno... I lose the will to play the game.

Axis Argentina isn't workable

[spark swallow]

thats part of the reason

navy is weird and inconsistent

you need to set to always engage so you can control for those inconsistencies

also, a task force of just capital ships is not gonna do anything except for die

[charred fable]

There were some light ships

[spark swallow]

i mean you shou d be deathstacking your surface fleet

and make sure your navy is on never repair

but if you really want to ensure that your navy goes to fight

you have to micro them

the ai isnt dumb though

I think they will try to avoid your fleet if they think that they lose

[charred fable]

Literally re-ran the game several times and securing the South America is easy, but saving the Axis before its inevitable doom is just impossible.

[stuck garnet]

hey

for medium aircraft

what doctrine 😭

[trail reef]

can romania not core anything in the balkans

?

[glacial steeple]

no

i mean it cores romania

[neat widget]

If only cavalry gave mastery

[scarlet heron]

I did Axis Brazil, it was ridiculously easy, all of South America for free pretty much, unlimited industry and manpower, thrashed the Allied navy, quit because easy is really just boring.

[neat widget]

truer words have never been said

[charred fable]

Taking South America is easy, but by the time I'm a superpower, the Axis are being invaded on all fronts I find.

[glacial steeple]

just cut it earlier?

[scarlet heron]

Surely you can have enough divisions to cover them all though

[glacial steeple]

you dont need all of it

only the south actually matters

[charred fable]

Cut what?

[glacial steeple]

tho you should be done uniting stuff before barb

[scarlet heron]

Hundreds upon hundreds of divisions are easy to achieve

[glacial steeple]

like the continent conquerring

or go for the US

its one of the two

[scarlet heron]

Because for some reason south America is the ultimate superpower

[glacial steeple]

not rlly

[scarlet heron]

Hyperbole

[glacial steeple]

you lack resources and its the lowest pop out of any united continent

[scarlet heron]

Easiest to unite

[glacial steeple]

but its alright

[neat widget]

South America is very powerful if the other continents don't unite

[glacial steeple]

europe's not that hard

north america also really isnt either

[neat widget]

Yeah Europe's pretty easy to unite

[scarlet heron]

I maintain my claim that it is easiest. You get it for free pretty much, Europe you have to fight several majors.

No matter how easy Europe is, South America is easier

[glacial steeple]

well you get north america for free too if you do it as the UK in like 37

its just about perspective

[charred fable]

I'm clearly too slow with my war declarations

[scarlet heron]

Yeah that UK path is also super ridiculous lol

[charred fable]

I mean the biggest part is probably giving myself a handicap by trying to build carriers 😅

[scarlet heron]

I had over 1000 factories by the time 1940 rolled around

[glacial steeple]

south america is generally ehh to unite

its okay tho

oceania isnt hard to unite either actually

but it lacks just about everything

[neat widget]

> be italy
> declare on yugoslavia
> capitulate france
> take everything
> declare on uk
> naval invade uk
> congratulations you are now the most powerful country in the entire world and can solo germany

[glacial steeple]

asia is probably the hardest to unite

so many colonial holdings cant really cheese china ussr owns a lot of it

[neat widget]

I mean the DLC makes it easier

You guys keep capitulating China in like 1937

[scarlet heron]

Sure but this involves defeating 2 majors. Brazil, you defeat 2 or 3 tiny weak countries, and get the rest for free.

[glacial steeple]

brasil is actually slow at uniting south america

[neat widget]

They're like the two easiest majors to capitulate here

France because you can paradrop them to death, but even if you don't that their army isn't terribly strong

[scarlet heron]

I only played Brazil out of all of them, played it once and it was a breeze, can't speak for the others

[neat widget]

The UK because they barely have an army and it is spread all across the globe, so you just need naval supremacy

[glacial steeple]

argentina is like a year faster lmao

[neat widget]

Which you get by taking the French fleet

[scarlet heron]

I know, but they're still harder than Chile and venezuela lol

[neat widget]

Chile can be a pain if you're marching from Peru

Also Venezuela can be quite hard because I guarantee you they have a better army than the UK home army

[charred fable]

Is it worth dropping infrastructure down or just spam mil.factories in highest infra first?

[scarlet heron]

I killed both, it was no problem. I didn't march through Peru though lol

I don't know why one would intentionally make life harder

[glacial steeple]

you have a dam state

use it for a land facility

the rest can be mils thats fine

[scarlet heron]

Language Casey

[charred fable]

Where is it and what would a dam do?

[glacial steeple]

more build speed

[neat widget]

Increases construction speed for everything, including facilities

[glacial steeple]

i forgot exactly where just look around the mountains

[neat widget]

Thing about infrastructure is that it doesn't increase construction speed for facilities, but dams do

[charred fable]

I have no idea how to spot it lmao

[neat widget]

click a state

And on the bottom left there will be an indication of whether there's a dam

[charred fable]

Found it! God... how would you ever know!

[charred fable]

So build a land facility first?

Also is it worth grabbing any of the political actions to speed up the progress towards fascism?

[bleak plinth]

guys why cant i find bearer of artillery achievement on this achievement screen? (yes im playing as poland

[glacial steeple]

no

just get an advisor

[fathom grove]

hey does anyone have a good source for division templates? i played 4k hours in the 7/2 era but am just getting back into the game now

[rapid urchin]

is it possible to get national defence state as japan when doing china?

also should i do mils day one?

or construct a couple of civs

[pliant condor]

yes but there's no reason to do that

build civs ofc

go total mob with pp

^

[rapid urchin]

nice

i can use something like that

[fathom grove]

I have a guide i found for tank divisons, I am mostly looking for good infantry and motorised templates

i can post that guide if yall want, its pretty good for the stuff it covers

[ashen marten]

So I’ve been doing the Dutch for the Treading Narrow Path on historical but went monarchist

Anyways it’s June 1942, allies will absolutely not send any troops to help and Germany will not do the war with soviets focus, its doing its entire naval tree instead of the Soviet war focus

Now I think I remember that the soviets can attack Germany themselves if Germany doesn’t attack the soviets. When does that happen though?

And when does the Allied ai begin to send troops to help you?

1942 is the furthest I’ve gotten so far.

[neat widget]

If you got tanks you can try a 8/0 with aa and support arty

that should defend fine most of the time

and then if you're running like 10 kmh tanks or something, motorized is pretty much the same

You won't be making any motorized for typical 6 kmh tanks

[fathom grove]

I am looking for countries that can't afford tanks due to industry or lack of steel

sorry i should have specified that

[neat widget]

oh

mountaineers + assault infantry and regular infantry + large unit tactics are always good combos

18/0 or 20/0 for the former, and 21/0 for the latter

rangers you will probably do 18/0 there too

for marines do something like 6 marines + 9 rangers + 1 at or 12 marines + 5 mech + 1 at

[fathom grove]

Thank you that's really helpful

[neat widget]

line artillery isn't very useful as you can see

[analog maple]

guys why can i not build anything?

[neat widget]

No building slots

Check if there is a state modifier reducing building slots

[analog maple]

nope

[neat widget]

huh

[raven mango]

Is there a mod or tool to test specific scenarios? Im trying to form Byzantium without the naval invasion exploit, but I cant really break the frontline due skill issue, i want to quickly test different templates or strategies without having to create another game and spending another 2 hours on making the army to fail and repeat

[neat widget]

Naval invasion exploit?

[raven mango]

So far i only won when I let the Turks invade the port of Athens, where you can encircle and wipe out their divisions jajaja

[neat widget]

Ah I see

You could bring the fight to them via a naval invasion

I've done so before, best attack near Adana

[tribal stratus]

I got them this time, but how can I get everything done and also have enough manpower? My manpower is legit nothing

[neat widget]

Or Gallipoli

[neat widget]

There's a focus to get more cores

[tribal stratus]

Should I make sure I get the Austrian empire focus?

[tribal stratus]

I did the Hungarian one

But that’s a lot of focuses

Each being 70 days

My industry or army would be cooked

You need to remake the entire Austrian empire with those focuses and that’s pretty difficult

Before Germany invades

[neat widget]

Well it should be doable to at least get Czechia and Hungary

[tribal stratus]

You can only get 1

So

[neat widget]

And then I believe you can core one of the two

[tribal stratus]

I chose Bohemia

Yeah

You can only core 1

Unless I forget my industry focuses and legit just focus on that

[neat widget]

Do you still have the Italian guarantee

[tribal stratus]

No, I lost the treaty. Most of the time I don’t get the guarantee but I wanted the treaty gone so I disregarded it

[neat widget]

Oh

[tribal stratus]

And the one time I did Italy had 34 casualties so what’s the point??

Italian AI is literal slop

[neat widget]

If you get them in your faction you could divert some troops to killing Yugoslavia and Romania, and then reform Austria-Hungary properly

Because Italy may man some of the front line

[tribal stratus]

So I should try re making or making a faction?

Italy never seems that happy to join though

What faction? Central powers?

[neat widget]

Yeah sure

[tribal stratus]

I didn’t even know that was possible

[neat widget]

If you get Italy into a war on your side they will probably join your faction tbh

[tribal stratus]

Alright then. I’ll try that next

Thanks

[narrow grail]

Is it ok to make amphibious tanks 8kph?

[neat widget]

Yeah

But do you really need that speed

And can you attain that speed

[narrow grail]

Not in marines for sure

at least inf marines

[neat widget]

Can you achieve it in your amphibious tank divisions

[narrow grail]

Idk why speeds are different here

[neat widget]

do you have support companies

also don't use that battalion, that's basically a worse light tank chassis. if you want amphibious tanks use amphibious drive on a medium or heavy tank chassis

[narrow grail]

No, I don't even have amphibious tank template currently, just want to think about marine division templates

[neat widget]

Basically it is saying the speed of your amphibious tank is 6.9 kmh

Default is 4.0 kmh here so you increase the speed by 2.9 kmh

[soft jungle]

Why i dont damage the british ships? I want to sink their pride of the fleet

yes they have one

[narrow grail]

Ok but amphibious drive is 1941 tech thus time penalty

[neat widget]

They aren't in the area

[soft jungle]

so what can i do to make my planes and fleet attack them? just let my fleet go away?

[narrow grail]

Yeah just send them elsewhere

Uk should mave many ships in the Mediterrenian sea

[soft jungle]

ummm I already took down uk and took all of their ships

only not the pride of the fleet

so they kinda have like 4 ships total

[narrow grail]

I think the strategy here is leave uk in one coastal region and wipe their navy down in that one place

[neat widget]

btw do you really need to hunt all of their ships down

[soft jungle]

i dont think so

just the pride

its basically lottey

if i catch their ship in the sea

[neat widget]

But why catch the pride of the fleet

[glacial steeple]

hi chat

[glacial steeple]

take ships in peacedeal

[neat widget]

I know right

They basically have all of the UK except for a tiny corner

[soft jungle]

i want to sink their pride of the fleet

[glacial steeple]

starting to realize videos on the internet are finite..... i think ive ran out of the like half million JASDF videos

[soft jungle]

its an achievment

like realy easy one but for some weird reason i cant do it ever

[glacial steeple]

getting the british pride right

just cap them and take the ship in the peacedeal

[soft jungle]

you mean the pride?

[glacial steeple]

yes the HMS hood

[soft jungle]

why, does it give me the sinking achievmnet

[glacial steeple]

should lol

and just release them in some state so you can always go to war again but know where the fleet is

[soft jungle]

i dont think so, i have taken british fleet a lot of times and i suck at navy so it wasnt destroyed

didnt get the achievment

[soft jungle]

i mean rn i just have trouble to get their ships out on sea and thats the issue really

[glacial steeple]

theyre also in ports around the world

make sure the UK has no access to those, or diplomatic pact ports

and then its pretty easy

[soft jungle]

oaky okay they only have sussex but the have some african ports via diplomacy

thanks

[zenith dirge]

bruh how i win as germany i keep capturing poland and netherlands then getting smacked by beljum

[soft jungle]

when you atack belgium the allies forces for example france has direct route to defend them. This means that unlike netherlands they have support of a strong nation. For me when i learned it was basically defeat belgium fast or never push them. so basically that

[wind canyon]

Ensure you have air suppiority and flying CAS and then push deep and quick using either your motorized or panzer divsions to break lines and into belguim and then france

[pliant condor]

declare on belgium after you kill netherland

once you take one tile belgium would capitulate

assuming you have dlc

[wild rune]

The Hood?

[iron veldt]

what are good space marine templates

[queen dove]

what core state do me/my subjects not fully control????

[neat widget]

actually add a mountaineer to the first one because idk how i forgot

These templates are probably better than the ones I use on a daily basis tbh

[wind canyon]

It looks like the coast? What are you trying to do?

[queen dove]

Get the new qchievement but I never ended up getting it cus hoi4 is broke

[glacial steeple]

french port?

macau?

[queen dove]

I owned macau and Hong kong

[honest shard]

i want to play alt history, but the game says the host has another version of the game

what can i do?

[glacial steeple]

do you have that port

[queen dove]

Shit

Well that explains it...

It was covered by the Guangdong Clique text + a similar color so I missed it

[neat widget]

Ah I see

I thought they had it though

[queen dove]

All that work just to lose it cus i missed one tile

[glacial steeple]

well they dont have vietnam which is an indication of peace

[hollow eagle]

Wtf did they do i was finally beginning to understand navy

[neat widget]

i see

[hollow eagle]

What did they Change

[neat widget]

I meant to reply here rip

but anyways guess you have space marines now

[honest shard]

answer

[red gale]

What do these two do?

Like I read the decription

but what's their real impact?

is it a gimmick or are they actually worth sacrificing a build slot for like with nuclear reactors?

[neat widget]

One of them reduces power consumption

The other increases resources gained

[red gale]

it says "per infrastructure"

what does that imply?

[neat widget]

More infrastructure = more effect

[red gale]

thx, are they worth it?

[neat widget]

It can definitely delay your power issues, so yeah

[glacial steeple]

theyre buildings you just dont make because theyre useless

but it lessens the energy requirement for buildings in a state

[red gale]

I can see it being worth it for some resource rich provinces or if you are really low on coal

[glacial steeple]

well but usually you have enough of that resource

[red gale]

it does seem a little bit too expensive imo

I could only see myself building them in the late game

[neat widget]

Or if you have like 20 factories in a region

[delicate vortex]

I don't know if anybody can answer this, but I am confuse about submarines. For some reason they all have the exact same surface visibility of 1

is that like a glitch or something?

[rich plume]

I've been watching a bunch of videos and they have MIOs looking different from mine, what gives?

also while at it: what MIO should I pick as Germany?

[wild rune]

they have the AAT dlc

iirc thats the one that adds mios

[rich plume]

ah, so which ones should I pick without that DLC?

[wild rune]

Mauser then the tank one which gives -5% ic and then i forgot the rest

[rich plume]

oki, thanks!

what's ic?

[wild rune]

construction cost

or production cost

[rich plume]

I'm guessing this one?

these look kinda nice too

[delicate vortex]

is it part of NCNS?

[native gorge]

What does reinforce rate do? Regenerate fighting strength faster?

[versed rose]

the rate at which reserve divisions join active combat if combat width allows

[native gorge]

Oh

So i wasted command power for nothing 😭

[wild rune]

yes

[wild rune]

reliability is essentially worthless without tank designer