ask-for-help-here

[analog maple]

guys how do i reunify china?

[jagged hull]

Well I was forced to join

[sand marlin]

just because you joined the war with albania for example doesnt mean you have to fight them

joining a war also means to be involved in other activities not only fighting the enemy

[jagged hull]

What should I do you see I'm so close on Moscow

But my tanks sucks

Even with my infantry

They have a lot on defense

Not even attack

[sand marlin]

recruit more men and let the ones standing there defend, this way they wont get this exhausted and they will regenerate their strengh

and obviously use the new recruits to send to the front lines

set "recruitment" as a national focus so the recruiting time is lower

[heady mesa]

Is there a way to persuade neutral countries to join your faction?

[fallen coral]

My game, at 2 speed, has very heavy fps loses, how do i fix them?

[serene karma]

Whats ur pc specs

[fallen coral]

I7 11 gen, 32 ddr4 ram, 3070 ti, i believe its because its using cpu instead of gpu

[half glade]

how can i group all my cas together and all my fighters together

cause having them individually sucks when tryna command them

[fallen coral]

But i cant make the game run on gpu, ive tried everything

[winter ledge]

you plugged your screen in to the internal graphics?

[fallen coral]

Idk

[half glade]

thas not how pcs work

[fallen coral]

How do i check

[half glade]

the role of the cpu and gpu are seperate

you cant just interchange them

[winter ledge]

at the back your screen should be plugged in to the graphics card where there should be multiple ports. The internal graphics port is on the motherboard with the usb ports and ethernet etc

[arctic wave]

Should you build civs or militay factories first as germany?

[fallen coral]

Cpu consumes ~10% gpu 0%

[half glade]

but thats because the game is cpu heavy

nothing you can do about that sadly

apart from improve your cpu

[winter ledge]

i7 11th gen should have no problem with hoi4

my i3 from 2012 runs hoi4 better than what his sounds like

[median summit]

Any tips for winning the Soviet civil war as the white army? I am relatively new to the game and just got the dlc and Japan keeps declaring war on me while I’m in the civil war, or when I try to rush the victory points with cav, I just capitulate.

[winter ledge]

As in it's using the cpu for graphics instead of gpu? cpu should be doing all the calculations and general computing for the game and gpu makes the image your screen shows

[half glade]

where should i convoy raid the ussr?

[winter ledge]

rubber is probably the only thing theyre importing

so id do their east coast

[fallen coral]

But, when i pause the game, fps are stable

[half glade]

how do i beat these guys

we pushed in

but now we are getting pushed back

@tepid umbra you able to help lol

[tepid umbra]

tanks

and air

[half glade]

i have my sp art

[tepid umbra]

inf to hold the line

[half glade]

i have air supremacy

[tepid umbra]

do you have cas

[tepid umbra]

how are you not pushing then

[half glade]

let me try add more

[half glade]

maybe supplies

hmm supplies look okay

[tepid umbra]

lemme see

supply ss

[tepid umbra]

huh

lemme see logistics

[tepid umbra]

and lemme see doctrines

[half glade]

this is cause im making 24 units

[tepid umbra]

omfg bro

[tepid umbra]

don't make units if you don't have the stuff to supply them

[half glade]

oh okay

my def is 14k

gulp

but i make 48 a day

so

[tepid umbra]

son

[half glade]

are you crine

[tepid umbra]

just delete some divs atp

[tepid umbra]

yes

[half glade]

erm

[tepid umbra]

lemme see inf deficit

cuz you def have one if you're getting pushed back

[half glade]

lol

[tepid umbra]

huh

delete some of your tank guys

[half glade]

oh man

[tepid umbra]

and get more infantry

infantry is what makes sure you don't get pushed back

[half glade]

okay

so make infantry?

[tepid umbra]

how many inf divs do you have

[tepid umbra]

why are some of your divs not doing anything

[half glade]

cause theyre like useless random divs i couldnt disband

from puppets

and marines

[tepid umbra]

you can disband puppet divs

[neat widget]

stop battleplannnig and hold

[half glade]

why?

[neat widget]

also how are you in a 13k truck deficit

[tepid umbra]

oh you puppeted them what

[half glade]

yeah

[winter ledge]

what date is your save at

[rose blaze]

so you dont lose even more equipment

[tepid umbra]

why

[half glade]

idk

[neat widget]

Because the enemy is attacking you, and when you are simultaneously being attacked and attacking yourself you get a -50% penalty to all stats

[half glade]

oh okay

[neat widget]

You also lose org in two battles, which would increase your org loss anyways

[half glade]

so all my troops should just be on frontlines rn?

[neat widget]

Yeah

[half glade]

not offensive

okay

[neat widget]

well, for those that aren't defending the coasts

[half glade]

why the coasts?

[tepid umbra]

naval invasions that won't happen

[tepid umbra]

he alr capped allies

assuming it's the same save

[neat widget]

Ah I see

[half glade]

yeah i have

allies are gone

i think i should make a new infantry template

or will this hold up still

[tepid umbra]

you can add more batallions

also use recon rangers if you have them

[half glade]

i dont

like this?

[winter ledge]

I wouldn't use those for attacking

[fallen coral]

1940

[winter ledge]

yeah you shouldnt have lag with an i7

btw here is better https://discordapp.com/channels/183787140671471616/644290413641072660

[fallen coral]

Go there

[half glade]

@tepid umbra why dont italy get involved with the war

theyre in the war

but arent doing anything helpful

[tepid umbra]

cuz italy is a bum ai country

[half glade]

can i get japan to help somehow

we have the treaty thing

[tepid umbra]

italy is only useful for north africa 🔥

[tepid umbra]

no

unless they join your faction

the treaty is of guarantees

[half glade]

damn it

[tepid umbra]

so if someone declares on you or japan then you can join

[half glade]

cause like

the soviets are

worryingly strong

i dont wanna die olive 🥹

[tepid umbra]

they're not tbh

you're doing smth wrong

[neat widget]

add signals for a division that large

[half glade]

okay will do

[half glade]

tryna sort that out

i have thousands of CAS

so im gonna try get some more on the front

but there is so little room at airports

[winter ledge]

youve got loads of guns

id lower gun production and make more artillery

and try add more arti to those divs

[neat widget]

no that won't help

you'd just get the same division basically

Just hold with the large infantry template

[tepid umbra]

yes

[neat widget]

💀

[winter ledge]

yeah 1 extra battalion probably wont help massively

could make 1 army with divs with like 5 arti battallions tho

and just attack with those

[half glade]

what does this mean

is it good or bad

[winter ledge]

theyll raise their autonomy soon and your rubber will become more expensive

[half glade]

oh

not that concerned

[neat widget]

sigh

[winter ledge]

stop using their divisions if you want them to gain less autonomy

[neat widget]

big sigh

[winter ledge]

what

[neat widget]

Build in them

They're basically becoming more independent

[half glade]

i can build in my puppets?

thats news to me

[winter ledge]

i feel like with his current divs hes just trying to do mass attack against russia

ok

[neat widget]

I know they are

[half glade]

i mean

[neat widget]

But yeah infantry only does wonders for that

[half glade]

im not sure what else i could do

im not great with my tactics yet

[neat widget]

They can add recon light tanks for some breakthrough

[half glade]

i just do frontlines and offensive lines

[winter ledge]

defo do this though

[half glade]

i am yeah

but honestly

[winter ledge]

and get that reinforce rate perk on field marshal

[half glade]

the ussr are getting pushed bacl

somehow

i dont even have offensive lines set

[winter ledge]

romania coming in clutch

[half glade]

romania belongs to ME

casualty wise im doing okay @tepid umbra

[tepid umbra]

not really

you can easily get only like 100k

[half glade]

oh

well

[winter ledge]

doing okay compared to russia anyway

[half glade]

doing better

[stuck garnet]

Lowkey ngl

Wait wrong chat

[half glade]

how do i make the soviets captulate

[kind pewter]

Collab gov

Or go quite far into siberia

[hexed parcel]

where can i find the latest templates ? i am trying to do a japan and then an india run

[peak reef]

I see colorful names in MP rooms, short and clear. Can someone explain how to do this?

[stuck garnet]

lowkey i got the new dlc

[short loom]

yo, anybody has the best fighter template possible ? with BBA

[half glade]

still fighting the soviets in 1945

[hexed parcel]

you should do collab before the war or do it right now maybe you will get it before you get victory points

[half glade]

i did

[hexed parcel]

all 3 of them ?

[half glade]

2 got captured

[hexed parcel]

i meant did you do the collab 3 times ?

[half glade]

oh no i didnt

[hexed parcel]

do that. that should cap the soviets

and while you are doing that try to push to victory points but dont overdo it and lose all your equipment

[half glade]

@tepid umbra YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[tepid umbra]

GGGG

[half glade]

@tepid umbra i can invade the US via Unitary Canada right?

[tepid umbra]

yes

[half glade]

how should i prepare

i may or may not be researching the

https://tenor.com/view/oppenheimer-oppenheimer-movie-walk-walking-gif-3311223081607307352

[cobalt robin]

Nuke?

[half glade]

device

[tepid umbra]

you don't really need to

[cobalt robin]

Its just not worth it, but its fun

[tepid umbra]

highk easier than sovs

[half glade]

oh really lol

[hexed parcel]

use canada that should be easy

[half glade]

the world will be free

long live the fuhrer

[cobalt robin]

I Got a Question Guys

Who would i learn everything that i need to know from?

like a youtube channel/video or anything else?

[tepid umbra]

this disc

[half glade]

this disc has taught me all i know

[half glade]

do i fight US rn?

or wait

[cobalt robin]

Lol, But i Don't Think someone is that patient to like teach me everything in the game with my screen open are they?

[tepid umbra]

some can, but not the whole game

you learn by doing

and you can ask for help if you do smth wrong

[cobalt robin]

👍

[graceful linden]

so im very new to this game and i just know NOTHING about it its so many buttons etc. could anyone help me?

[half glade]

@tepid umbra is there a button to like space my troops out

cause after a war

the supplies are low

and i wanna space them out so they all get good supplies back

[tepid umbra]

no

[half glade]

but doing that manually sucks

[tepid umbra]

if you want the good supplies back, pass through your capital

[half glade]

okay

[sleek remnant]

Draw a fallback line?

[glass mason]

Yes, there's 2 ways to do this.
Number 1: garrison order across all your states
Number 2: Make a frontline and set battleplan execution (2 arrows icon on the left) to careful.
Number 1 will space out your troops evenly, number 2 works while at war, divisions won't move into low supply tiles but if they were already bunched up they will stay on lpw supply

[half glade]

thanks

[half glade]

could work yes

https://tenor.com/view/avengers-assemble-avengers-avengers-endgame-squad-teamwork-gif-14751505

[glass mason]

You can also do a garrison order or fallback and then switch to a frontline with the newly added immobile cohesion setting for defense in depth with planning bonus.

I do that with ussr in multiplayer

[half glade]

how do i make nukes

after i did the special project

[kind pewter]

Just build nuclear reactors

Idk if civillian ones work

[raven maple]

Chinese china ah war

[urban plinth]

hi im a bit confused about graveyard of empires achivement does anyone have map of what stats should i have ? this is link of froum or you can just search the title : Cant get Graveyards of empire achivment is it a bug or im missing something ?

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/cant-get-graveyards-of-empire-achivment-is-it-a-bug-or-im-missing-something.1891179/

[half glade]

@tepid umbra how do i defeat japan

i took down the US

[tepid umbra]

prepare a navy

and take china

[half glade]

okay

im tryna move my navy over

[half glade]

how do i see where my army currently are?

[tepid umbra]

double click an army portrait

or do you mean navy

if so then you double click the task force

[half glade]

yeah

navy sorry

[half glade]

jeez armys take forever to move now

gotta move across the whole of asia

[tepid umbra]

cuz they struggle in mountains and hills

[half glade]

ohh

can they not move via planes

[tepid umbra]

no???

what???

[steady star]

Hello

Hi there

[tepid umbra]

hello

[half glade]

idk

i saw transport planes

[glass mason]

Another thing is canadian and US provinces are huge compared to european ones

[half glade]

yes

[glacial steeple]

only paratroopers can

[half glade]

ohh

why wont my navy move from germany to near japan

[bleak zenith]

Youtubers I watch all talk about "medium airframes" or "light hull" etc etc but mine have different names like "light tank I" "light fighter I" is there a setting to change this ?

[tepid umbra]

dlcs

[high rain]

Pay up buddy boy

[tepid umbra]

light hull is in the free dlc now tho

[neat barn]

No step back is free now?

Or am I just stupid

[tepid umbra]

no

chassis is no step back

man the guns is free

[sour mountain]

Which dlc is better
No step back or la resistance

[scenic nacelle]

chasis tank

hull ship

[scenic nacelle]

no step back

[half glade]

hey

do you know why my navy wont move to japan

from germany

@tepid umbra do you know

[tepid umbra]

no

[half glade]

its so annoying

i wanna invade japan

[tepid umbra]

is it home base issue

are your guys on the right home base

[half glade]

im not sure

i tried like right clicking on docks near japan

but they never turned up

[scenic nacelle]

Ask for docking rights

[half glade]

its my land

i am so confused

i have no clue why they wont move

[foggy junco]

can someone maybe save my run?
i have too few materials and not enough manpower
romania took it all even tho i am who did all the work.
i dont know if i can do something to get my land

italy took all the other stuff im taking tooo

[cobalt grail]

Hi Everyone! On my first playthrough now, singleplayer. I'm working my notifications in the top banner, and can't seem to get rid of this "Missing Equipment Production" notif. I've got all my military factories and dockyards assigned...

[kind pewter]

Its when you arent producing something one of your old divs need

Just convert it

[unborn maple]

is there a mod or command that makes it a free for all like eveyr country is at war with every country and not js me

[calm karma]

all the guides i find seem incredibly outdated, can anyone offer advice as to how to best prepare & build South Africa in mp?

[neat widget]

I still believe it is the same, if you're Brazil and you can be air controller then be air controller, else just produce guns on large unit tactics

[rugged rover]

do i have to wait for oppen heimer to make this before i can use nuke

[stuck hinge]

are these fine or no

[inner sparrow]

no

line arty is bad, shit at attacking, bit less shit at defending

also armored car recon is bad

if u want recon either use light tank recon or ranger

[stuck hinge]

alright, i dont have a clue what im doing with the templates lmao

[inner sparrow]

just use pure infantry

16-18 width pure infantry will always work vs ai

especially with green air and cas

keep support artillery tho, that one is good

just no line arty and ur fine dw

[stuck hinge]

alright

[stuck garnet]

hey question about mountaineers

why?

other than terrain buffs

like

idk

i get why marines, if you have a good navy

i don't get paratroopers to an extent

are mountaineers just for mountains?

[inner sparrow]

bc mtn doctrine gives other good bonuses and special forces in general benefit from special force attack buffs per special force doctrine u finish

[devout imp]

i really want to get this game now that there's a sale (also getting the DLCs for tank and plane modification, plus spy network), but the learning curve is detrimental. are there any good videos that explain the basics of the game?

i've been watching HOI4 videos for years now, but i doubt thats gonna pull me through

[vital flax]

just play. Economic focus first years, build military stuff 2 years before war. Play USA, is very safe and boring, but you can build anything and make mistakes. The trick is the congress stuff, but they are a kind of guide of what build to get rid of the 1929 recession debuff. In steam there are guides about the focus that the AI takes, you can follow those focus path while are you learning a country.

[devout imp]

oh sorry i forgot to mention that i'll be playing scenario mods mostly. i dont like the basegame, things like Kaiserreich, TWR/TNO, and the fire rises look very fun to me

but i'll just start up a game, press some buttons and read things as i go along

still, watching a guide that's up to date seems like a good idea too before i start

[stuck garnet]

Tbh

My favorite mods are kaissrredux

And equestria at war

[devout imp]

oh yeah i forgot about equestria, that one looks cool too

[stuck garnet]

I dont really like mods like tfr and tno all that much, i used to but like. Ehh not really

[devout imp]

TNO looks incredibly complicated, and im pretty sure they keep cutting content

[stuck garnet]

I would reccomend them though

Not a lot

[viral ice]

What country should I play for my first game

[stuck garnet]

If you want a less chaotic, more laid back experience where the game holds your hand id reccomend those mods

Badly worded i know

[devout imp]

i was told USA is easy if you wanna learn the game

[stuck garnet]

Theyre more railroaded compared to a lot of mods

Trust that is a good thing

[devout imp]

could be good if im tryna learn the game anyways

[stuck garnet]

To some

[stuck garnet]

Tfr and tno is hoi4 but hoi4 is not tno and tfr

Just because blood is a liquid doesnt mean its the same as water or coca cola yknow?

[devout imp]

i like your funny words magic man

i'll probs understand it once i play

[stuck garnet]

The basics are easy to pick up on

[devout imp]

the fact that it'll cost me 50 bucks with sales is insane though

[stuck garnet]

But there will always be something you dont know.

Especially with flc

Dlc*

[devout imp]

yeah i think i'll get cooked by division templates, navy in its entirety, tank and plane designs

[stuck garnet]

Ehh my advice for divisions is that like

Hmm

Hp? Very important

[devout imp]

HP meaning org? or is that something else?

[stuck garnet]

But org doesnt matter unless you have high soft/hard attack and breakthrough/defense to back it up

[stuck garnet]

Basically

Hp is your strength

High hp = low losses

[devout imp]

whats the difference between hard and soft attack though? in the vids i watched, everyone went for soft attack

[stuck garnet]

Its the reason why you cant do all tanks or arty

[stuck garnet]

Thats for sp

Basically

Soft attack is for low hardness

Hard attack is for high hardness

[devout imp]

hardness meaning the health of another unit or smth? like, hard attack is good against tanks, and soft attack against infantry?

i gotta get a guide on this lmao

[stuck garnet]

Basically

Imagine a unit

Your opponents have 100 soft attack and 100 hard attack

[sterile hearth]

hardness is a measure of how much armor or protection more accurately a division has. That armor needs special ammunition to penetrated it thus the hard attack to specifically focus the armor units.

[stuck garnet]

If you have 80/20 hardness (80 soft 20 hard)

Then thats 100 attack

[devout imp]

right, so hard attack is better against tanks?

[sterile hearth]

yes

[stuck garnet]

If your opponents have 500 hard attack and 100 soft attack, then thats 180 attack total

[devout imp]

sounds logical

[stuck garnet]

You will probably have more soft attack than hard attack unless youre going anti tank

Soft attack good for low hardness

Hard attack good for high hardness

[devout imp]

gotcha

[sterile hearth]

The reason people go for light attack in sp is because the ai doesn't build good enough/enough amount wise of tank for it to be worth it.

[devout imp]

yeah i did see that too, about how ai mostly focuses light tanks at most

sometimes medium, hardly ever heavy

[sterile hearth]

plus their division design is usually not all that great/easy to counter by the player.

are you getting reinforced memed?

[stuck garnet]

Up your reinforce

Do planning

Like

Whats your research for radars?

Signal companies on inf and tanks pls

Higher reinfoece

Fair

[sterile hearth]

are you playing a modded game?

[inner sparrow]

add signals to your div after new update, remove arty, make the width of your division 16-18 width, 16 overall performs better

unless u play modded and mod changes it it should work

its initiative

that part makes u reinforce

make your div 36w then

20-22 is bad

no

[sterile hearth]

so modded generally perform better than normal, because of this mistakes that could otherwise be overlooked can't be. So I recommend using signal companies to try and help plus making your divisions somewhat smaller.

[inner sparrow]

the difference is minimal

also remove at, useless for single player

does it make good tanks and good tank divisions

I doubt

send the design and template of ai tank divs

more likely

no offense

yeah those are bad ofc

but I doubt ai makes better ones

even mods that enhance ai like sheep or expert ai have bad template and designs

yeah thats utter trash

9/1 isn’t good

but its not game deciding

[serene dove]

Anyone know how to fix this

The visual glitch

like it's pixilated kind a and grainy I guess?

I don't know

[inner sparrow]

theres other matters probably like not stacking combat modifiers, bad stockpile management, supply problems, too many divs in one tile and so on that lead to it

[sterile hearth]

probably a tech support question

[inner sparrow]

and bad research and production

[serene dove]

Okay

[inner sparrow]

not using line arty is always better tho, but wont be the reason why u lose in most cases

add signals, change the width of ur division

[icy garnet]

Does the ae command work with custom aircraft?

[inner sparrow]

ur stats also seem pretty low

idk tho if thats normal for kaiser

[summer geyser]

how do i start building militaries? because i develop strong economies and then get steamrolled when that mf italy starts some wars

[inner sparrow]

always winnable

[summer geyser]

i know how to do it basically, but i cant build my military fast enough

[inner sparrow]

what do u see as a strong eco?

and what country

[summer geyser]

around 50-60 civ factories and 70-80 military factories

germany

[icy garnet]

What country?

[inner sparrow]

39? thats low

[summer geyser]

post poland i allways cap them before the allies can do anything

[summer geyser]

germany

[inner sparrow]

very simple, load into the game, build 1 civ, and then only mils as ger, put everything on guns and some cheap fighters (besides obv stuff like truck, trains and support eq) deploy 16w with support arty and whatever else u want in

[icy garnet]

I try to focus on timestamps. By March 1938, you want at least 500k army deployed,

[inner sparrow]

and ur good to go

[icy garnet]

What template do you use?

[summer geyser]

panzer divs and basic infantry divs 😔

but my panzers for some reason dont finish until 1940

[inner sparrow]

ignore tanks of u struggle army wise

just do inf, inf and air wins everything

u don’t need tanks for singleplayer

[icy garnet]

You don’t need a massive amount of panzers until Barbarossa, start producing them 1938 and deploying 1941

[summer geyser]

okay

[icy garnet]

Don’t add artillery into your infantry until post Anschluss or Sudetenland, but be producing them

By the time you add the artillery into the template you have a nice surplus to fill them and be ready for new divisions.

[inner sparrow]

never add arty in your division in general, line arty is shit and a waste of ic, only produce artillery for support arty

support arty is very good this patch tho

got insane buffs

[summer geyser]

is there a prime time to go against the allies because usually i just need to attack france and do around the maginot bc poland is gone by 1937

[icy garnet]

Can they just pick a good template and stick with it 😭

[inner sparrow]

16w with support arty and aa

[icy garnet]

I normally play historical but early is better

[inner sparrow]

and u have everything u need

[icy garnet]

The sooner you wipe Soviets the better

[icy garnet]

Not logistics or recon or anyrhing?

[inner sparrow]

if u struggle with getting armys out play hist

[icy garnet]

If you have the IC

[inner sparrow]

logi for barb, recon is not needed

only thing u really need is air and inf

[icy garnet]

Is this just Germany or all nations

I normally do UK

[inner sparrow]

all nations

u can win against everyone in singleplayer with green air and 16width pure inf division

[summer geyser]

im sure i can collapse poland sooner and easier because i learned today what spearheading does i didnt even know what that was

[icy garnet]

Any support than logi if you have IC / strong enemy, Aa and artillery?

[inner sparrow]

aa if u have red air, support arty in general for sp, very strong, logi is good and signals is great aswell

[icy garnet]

Spearheading is good but avoid doing it longer range, they hdit get encircled. Being able to start the war early sometimes means you get cooked

[inner sparrow]

light recon and flames are good too but not needed for 16 width small divisions

[icy garnet]

Where do flame tanks stand? I swear they change weekly

[inner sparrow]

better for 36width

[inner sparrow]

op

but u put them in big divisions

like 36 pure inf, tanks or special forces

16 width is just cheap, spammable and good all around

[summer geyser]

alr if im correct spearheading lacks the ability to leave protections on the provinces behind them

[icy garnet]

Honestly what is the point of big divisions when most tiles you fight in can fit like 2 as opposed to fitting 5 smaller divs

[icy garnet]

Spearheading means they go directly towards their target, with minimal divisions left guarding the spearhead. Sometimes it works to have a frontline without an attack on the spearhead and it guards the flanks, buts it’s expensive

I don’t really spearhead unless it’s just one front I can focus on but thats just me

[inner sparrow]

because your big divisions are better at pushing have more stats

doesnt matter if ur enemy has 5 small inf with 109 soft and 300 def when ur big division has 400 soft and 900 break

[icy garnet]

Also what’s the difference between 4 regiments of 3 battalions and 3 regiments of 4 battalions

[inner sparrow]

while having more hp and org too

[icy garnet]

I guess

[inner sparrow]

u mean like regiments the thingy where u put ur batallion in?

[icy garnet]

Yeah

[inner sparrow]

the column in the division designer

no difference at all

[icy garnet]

As in having it 4x3 instead of 3x4

Damn

I’ve been lied to

[inner sparrow]

lmao

[icy garnet]

One day I’m gonna have to just read this games source code to learn how combat works

[inner sparrow]

just to find out that it somehow works different

[icy garnet]

Not even the code understands the navy

[inner sparrow]

navy is easy, even simpler after new update

the whole overview and system just makes it look complicated

[icy garnet]

Get ship, our big gun on ship, get plane, put plane on ship, put gun bomb on plane on ship. Send ships out, hope the kill other ship

Thats the extent of my knowledge

Patrol is good, strike force weakens them, raiding weakens them, naval support exists, protection is good

[inner sparrow]

very simplified but somewhat like that

[icy garnet]

And apparently the instant construction command for buildings aorks on boats

So you can make a fleet of 5000 Bismarks

I miss when the ocean went the colour of its dominance

Made it so easy to tell your supremacy.

[cursive briar]

Can someone help me with achieving an Iceland WC? I'm really struggling with it, despite trying to follow online guides

[rugged rover]

how do i drop a nuke

i have air superiority a strat bomber and a nuke

nvm

[foggy junco]

?

[leaden jay]

why did the usa declare war on me (fascist chile) for seemingly no reason?

[foggy junco]

fascist prolly. idk

[true osprey]

so guys why wont this achievement unlock..?

i capitulated germany as japan (with the allies) and had like 120+ troops on the frontline but still didn't unlock... even after i completed the focus...

[tepid umbra]

did you do the focus before capitulating them

[true osprey]

yes

i still didn't get it

[foggy junco]

@tepid umbra you got any advice here?

[tepid umbra]

the game is basically over alr

but in the future avoid pushing with inf battle plans

use desperate defence

[foggy junco]

yea but i wanna take everything haha

[tepid umbra]

use field hospitals

make good tanks

[tepid umbra]

kick them out of the faction and justify on them

[foggy junco]

yea. thats what i dont wanna do. oh well
thanks

[leaden jay]

its fine just push a little deeper then yu would get peace conference then since you did most of the work you should be able to get the lands you want

then focus on allies

[tepid umbra]

he won

[foggy junco]

lul
i was told push a lil deeper already. and that didnt work
also they are the allies

[leaden jay]

well then

[foggy junco]

soviets died long ago. and federalists already capitulated. but that didnt make them stop fighting

[leaden jay]

you gotta kill usa \

[foggy junco]

if i move those troops, i die cause they are more of a defense than an offense rn

i sent 50 marines to iceland. they got clapped
that was my next step. was to try to hop iceland greenland and hope i could get land overthere to hold while i got materials.

[tepid umbra]

if you get cruisers you can just go to us

or you can go from africa, to south america, to panama, to us if you're lazy

[foggy junco]

everyone is stuck in the mediteranian.
and africa i cant breakthru either.
maybe if i took troops from the eastern front. but like i said, cant

[tepid umbra]

tanks

[foggy junco]

i have tanks. idk how many off the top of my head. but its quite a lot

[tepid umbra]

tanks are what breakthrough

good tanks at least

[foggy junco]

yea. the opposition got lot of tanks too tho

[tepid umbra]

it's ai

the odds of them having any good tanks is near 0

[foggy junco]

then idk what the issue is. cause i cant break thru.
at this point ig it could be supply. but they couldnt break thru at the beginning either

[tepid umbra]

what are your tanks

prolly is supply btw

[foggy junco]

the medium sp arty you showed me the other day.

[tepid umbra]

what about the divs

and do you have any supply

cuz those things eat up supply

[foggy junco]

for sure at the beginning. but rn for sure not. but i made like no progress prior either. so idk
divs are also what u showed me the other day

[tepid umbra]

build supply hubs

and naval bases

[foggy junco]

i have been yea

rn its just that i dont have enough materials to make anything. i could go back to like. '64 or something. but i dont want to haha

[tepid umbra]

64?????

WHAT

[foggy junco]

the year

[tepid umbra]

no wonder they have tanks

[alpine root]

What is this called and how do I research it

[vital geode]

Heavy machine gun

Already have it in secondary turrets

[tepid umbra]

pretty sure it's unlocked by default

[vital geode]

It is

[sonic wasp]

Which doctrine do you recommend when playing in South America?

[alpine root]

What do you guys recommend for Infantry templates

Germany

[rustic acorn]

Hey, try to keep it simple. Dont push with your Inf, use tanks or SPA for offensive operations in order to save manpower

and as Olive said, it is basically all about air

here as well, keep it simple if possible. focus on fighters, if you feel you have enough, add some CAS

[kind pewter]

Cas only

Divs can have one support company and thats it

[spiral delta]

do i assign infantry units with tank units to a general or just seperate them into different generals which one is better

[kind pewter]

Depends on whether the general has tank buffs or infantry buffs

That simple

[spiral delta]

ye but is it good to mix them or just better to keep them like all infantry

[rustic acorn]

keep em separate

[spiral delta]

alr

[rustic acorn]

inf for holding the line

[spiral delta]

thx

[rustic acorn]

tanks for attack

[spiral delta]

alr thanks

[rustic acorn]

welcome

[spiral delta]

what about motorized infantry

[rustic acorn]

mot inf aare to be added to early tanks

later they are replaced by mech INF

[spiral delta]

do i mix motorized inf with tanks

[sly estuary]

has anyone tried making an air force of primarily strategic bombers and if so does it work better compared to close air support spam

[rustic acorn]

strat bombing can be very effective, therefore it is banned on several MP servers

[rustic acorn]

mix 50/50 tanks and motInf/mechInf

[spiral delta]

thx

[alpine root]

Should flame tank have radio?

[vital geode]

It can increase breakthrough

[rustic acorn]

all tanks should have radio

[tepid umbra]

yes

[tepid umbra]

erm not necessarily

[rustic acorn]

well, "should"

I agree

[tepid umbra]

not necessarily

[rustic acorn]

but in genral

[tepid umbra]

if you're going for maximum soft attack for 0 reason

[tepid umbra]

yeah

[sweet summit]

Time to try this one more time

[wet halo]

I have a problem of 'no divisions'. I have built 2 ports to allow for 2 crossings at the same time, in both ports i have a large army of boats with support naval invasion, what's wrong?

I also have 90 ships in the red sea for scouting, and the other one works

[rustic acorn]

the lower order has 10 divs

[sweet summit]

Wait maybe they have to be marines ?

[tepid umbra]

how many naval invasions do you have

[wet halo]

all naval invasions are in the photo.

[rustic acorn]

might be the reason, yse

[wet halo]

i must wait for the bottom one and then do the top one? can only do 1 at a time?

[tepid umbra]

might just be another italy being dogshit issue lol

[wet halo]

how can you invade a country before the 2nd naval invasion research, if you can only bring 10 divisions

[rustic acorn]

try to use another general

[wet halo]

same issue

[rustic acorn]

but anyway, there are no divs added to the upper order

[wet halo]

i have this error but i cant fix it

[civic garden]

4 divisions actually attacking the port, 3 divisions landing on each side and supporting the attack from land without the naval invasion penalty will likely force a landing against the level of opposition expected from a pre-1940 enemy

[rustic acorn]

select your divs for the upper order and right click on the upper order

[wet halo]

it says no units attached

[civic garden]

Alternately there's a few bonuses around that increase capacity

[civic garden]

Yeah if your naval invasion cap is 10 that means you can only have 10 total units assigned to all your naval invasion plans combined at once

[wet halo]

will this give me the auto 433 formation?

or i must prepare 3 different naval invasions?

[civic garden]

(a) usually in my experience yes, and (b) if it doesn't then whatever it does give will probably also work

[wet halo]

is it overkill to go in with 2 battlships and 200 other trash ships? while having 100 ships patrolling? it's my entire army i moved it down to support the attack from the seas

because i havent done any naval research, so its quite weak

[civic garden]

I mean if you have nothing better to do... air support will probably be a bigger help, but really both is good

[wet halo]

and i dont know how to build any boats yet or build a "screening line" etc

ok thanks, i'll do all

[civic garden]

Although the main reason not to do naval overkill is fuel costs

[wet halo]

luckily im taking over yemen then lol

next ill try saudi and it wont be an issue anymore

but thanks

[civic garden]

Good luck! I should disclaim my experience with this is multiple patches old so I can't guarantee it's all still true, but...

(Close air support covereth a multitude of sins, to quote a certain webcomic)

[wet halo]

ok building a second airport to hold all my other planes to join the attack!

[cold garnet]

@versed rose ☠️

1000 hard attack for a dirt cheap price

and still has good org, org rec

ah fk

I am having a heart attack

hold on

brb

[sweet summit]

nahhh

[spiral delta]

is there a command to make all ai army instantly be made

[shrewd fulcrum]

wdym ai army instantly made?

[spiral delta]

instant train but for every country

[shrewd fulcrum]

oh

sadly no

only player

[spiral delta]

alr thx but is there a way to stop them from making generals

[shrewd fulcrum]

tbh i got no clue about that

those are very specific questions lol

[spiral delta]

im tryna make germany have 12m soldiers but i aint tryna leave ussr cus the ai will ruin my stuff

[tepid umbra]

what are the trash ships

[cold garnet]

wait so instanttraining only works for players?

[tepid umbra]

screens or other heavies

[spiral delta]

yeah

[shrewd fulcrum]

lowkey just do this

tag ger

[tepid umbra]

it won't do anything if you pause the game

[shrewd fulcrum]

then manpower (any number)

[spiral delta]

yeah but how will i spawn the troops

[shrewd fulcrum]

then back to your country

while your done

the ai should train them but not instantly

sadly

[spiral delta]

yeah im doing that

[shrewd fulcrum]

oh

wait even better idea

ill see if you can disable the ai for a country

then just quickly spawn all the dudes in

[tepid umbra]

I think you need mods for that

right?

[shrewd fulcrum]

maybe

lemme see

[tepid umbra]

at that point just use toolpack

and give them divisions

[shrewd fulcrum]

wait try this

type AI on the countryu

and see what happens

cant confirm it as im seeing reddit posts from 6 years ago

[wet halo]

wtf my army didnt make it

[shrewd fulcrum]

that piece of shit

[stuck flint]

good sire

what would be the best template before taking the uk after poland and france as germany

[sweet summit]

No clue 🥀

TANKERS

Marines for naval invasion ofc and paratroopers for help

Damn it's been 1 hour and they're still a pain

[stuck flint]

what should my tank devision look like

[sweet summit]

I saw one above with like 1600 soft by some guy

Check that out

[stuck flint]

what is soft :Sob:

[sweet summit]

Soft attack

against infantry and hard attack against tanks

[stuck flint]

also

uh

what is the marine icon for germany

[sweet summit]

Anchor

It's always that iirc

psst i've never used them 😭
Just been getting beaten for the last 2 days

Progress at last

Drove them out of the hills

[tepid umbra]

omg bruh

marines

[sweet summit]

Gotten to Gujarat, 90 days left

[stuck flint]

NOTHINGS CALLED MARINES

[tepid umbra]

son

[stuck flint]

oh

[sweet summit]

Got some parts of western and central india
Time to infra
THE BRITISH ATTACKED ME IN THE LOST DAY

😠

Good enough

[umbral rose]

I have researched engineer 2 and the flame armament is not showing up. I just have the base game and no step back.

[gusty briar]

How does the game decide if Vietnam/laos/Cambodia go to vichy or free france?

I thought it was always vichy

But not in this save

Was planning on fighting Axis first as communist japan but now I guess allies it is

[tepid umbra]

why are my shsips not getting naval dominance

england doesn't have any either

[gusty briar]

Maybe u accidentally left another sea zone active and the patrol is there? Can only patrol 1 zone at a time

[tepid umbra]

1/3

do you see the 1/3

[sweet summit]

Yeah afghanistan just died

Iran's next

[sweet summit]

Yeah no

Sikiang screwed me

[haughty vortex]

Sorry for spam, but which one i should go for, concentrated or dispersed industry?

[stuck hinge]

Whats a good template to defeat the soviets?

[sweet summit]

Dispersed as a starter

[haughty vortex]

Elaborate please

[foggy rune]

I really don't understand how to win the German Civil War as democratic Germany. Everything I see online is extremely unhelpful and mostly just people saying "oh its so easy if you can't win that just stop playing" which is infuriating. Every time I encircle huge parts of their army in the south but in the meantime my northern line just collapses and then they blitz into my territory and I lose

[sweet summit]

Dispersed is said to be better for starter players as they may change their factory composition a lot
Concentrated if you have a battleplan

[glacial steeple]

if you have high efficiency cap modifiers (most nations) concentrated

its easier to remember the nations that can benefit from dispersed

netherlands, belgium, romania, poland, USA, manchukuo

typically

[quick forum]

trial and error

[foggy rune]

That's.... not really helpful

[quick forum]

i would say it is

[wet topaz]

U have to be careful to not overstretch your front line

Idk how big your encirclement is but be careful when stretching

Try to snake as much as possible and keep momentum

If you lose momentum then the civil war stalls and that’s when you start to really lose

[full nest]

Should I change anything up?

[vernal knoll]

what year?

[cloud pawn]

whats better Graveyard of Empires or Trial of Allegiance

[wise vector]

need some help with templates, still not very sure on how to set them up, but is this at least decent?

[fickle girder]

depends on your preference tio is focused on south America while goe is focused on east asia

id say that they're both equally shitty

[vernal knoll]

what are the most useful ship to have in a navy?

[tribal skiff]

Eh, I was creating some dvisions using templates of my puppets (their manpower, my equipment), and I noticed that they are being named after my German division names... so I had SS divisions from Syria etc... What names should I use, I don't want to mix them up? There's the option none, garrison or schutz truppe maybe?

[hasty belfry]

I like to delete my entire army, then rush and force deploy a dozen normal infantry divisions to reinforce the 24 bad units you get at the start.

I train my airforce after the civil war starts (make sure you don’t forget any planes in Konigsberg and once it’s trained I deploy them as needed to gain air superiority as this will provide an advantage over the AI who doesn’t trainer their planes.

You can also train 1 or 2 of the default light tank divisions normally.

Try to split their army using the Cezchoslovalian border.

Destroy the section trapped away from Berlin then it should be smooth sailing from there.

The Silesian uprising will further cripple the Nazis late in the civil war (at least you should be in the late stages at that point).

[hasty belfry]

Also don’t forget to change the planes assigned to the air zone over after your done to ensure continued air superiority as they will concentrate all of their planes in the remaining air zone as well.

[lone tangle]

is there a objective better choice between "Reprimand Hamada Kunimatsu" vs "Harakri Debate" in historical japan ?

currently i tend more to the harakiri debate for the war support but im unsure

[tender wyvern]

Im having a problem

when moving my mouse, it seems to not select the area where the mouse is

the mouse-touch is misplaced

and idk why

pls help

[lone tangle]

here is probably the better channel
https://discord.com/channels/183787140671471616/644290413641072660

[analog maple]

put on patrol

[analog maple]

screeeners. with is light cruisers and destroyers

[bleak plinth]

which ones the best?

[cold bloom]

Any mistakes in these? Intentionally nerfed myself a bit as USSR and now trying to counterattack

[vernal knoll]

so i need just light cruisers and destroyers?

[vernal knoll]

use mechanized

[analog maple]

it better to have some of each type. but it wont be that bad if you have only those

[vernal knoll]

alright thank you

if i also use naval bombers it would be better right?

[glacial steeple]

where field hospital

where mech

[vernal knoll]

also flame tank comap

[glacial steeple]

where logistics (they are heavily buffed with individual excellence)

[vernal knoll]

maintance are ok also?

[glacial steeple]

no

unless you wanna roleplay with capturing stuff

[vernal knoll]

alright

[cold bloom]

Got it on large unit tactics, hence the width

[glacial steeple]

but why

you get 5 extra hp per batallion

[cold bloom]

🤷‍♂️ guides said it was good, so I assumed it was

[glacial steeple]

i mean it was good until they buffed individual

now infantry has mech hp

and mech has more hp too

so you just take a lot less losses

[surreal orbit]

Hello. What I have to do for transfer troops to a friendly territory cross the sea?

[cold bloom]

What should I remove to add logi?

[glacial steeple]

like arty?

also why are you doing large inf with tanks

thats like so silly

usually its best to focus on 1, maybe 2 specific things

but thats like inf-air, tanks, special forces-air, tank-air

combat width is limited so focusing double ground is kind of silly

and would leave you with like very little air

[cold bloom]

This better then?

[glacial steeple]

prob fine

like just stick to a gameplan as well

if it works it works

hard to explain rn sorry

[cold bloom]

Does an extra TD battalion have any point against AI?

[glacial steeple]

piercing ig

[cold bloom]

It elevates piercing from 50 to uh 170

(Im playing Road so 1 battalion with higher piercing is even stronger than vani)

[analog maple]

what the best china path?

[tribal skiff]

If I ask military access from a neutral country, can I attack from their land to a neigboring enemy I am at war with? Soviets declared war on me in 1940 quite suddenly, and I'd like to use Finland to attack The Kola peninsula.

[stuck hinge]

nah u can only do that if they are in your faction

[tribal skiff]

OK, I guess it makes sense.

[surreal orbit]

Sorry, can I receive a little help?

[winter ledge]

set a fallback line in that territory and itll move your units to a port, ship them to a port in the other territory, and then move to the fallback line. itll do it all automatically

[static gazelle]

can someone send tank template and design for germany singleplayer

mine is kind bad idk whts good now

[analog maple]

just assign them to a border across the sea

[ashen sigil]

Does putting more divisions in an occupied region increase complience

[versed rose]

No

[hexed parcel]

Space marines

[neat barn]

What’s the meta submarine design for Germany? (If possible for submarine 2 and 3)

[inner sparrow]

support arty is fine in sp

esp after insane buffs

and on small inf

[inner sparrow]

TD is insanely useless against ai

unless you are fighting against a mod that improves ai you could add a cheap td onto your main divs just for piercing

small inf just use at3 in them as support at

also your inf template is like insanely bad

adding armored engi and flame on small inf defeats the purpose off small inf, ur better off doing 36w then

[tight vector]

Please add some organization to that!

[cold bloom]

Why?

[inner sparrow]

same with logi, small inf u want to be cheap, spammable and just for def, so adding arty is fine or at and signals, but field hospital, flame tanks and armored engi defeats its purpose

[tight vector]

Your gonna want at least 40

[inner sparrow]

because small is only better than big inf for the sake of being cheaper and more spammable to fill ur line

and a bit better at reinforcing if u defend

armored engi is insanely expensive, same with a good flame tank and field hospital is only really worth it for bigger divisions as they lose more xp and matter more

[tight vector]

How do I hold back the French?

(as Germany)

Each time I try defences they just go through and spearhead directly through germany

[pliant condor]

by having division on the border...?

[tight vector]

I have like 40

[pliant condor]

then they won't attack you

[tight vector]

?

[pliant condor]

send a screenshot

[stoic bison]

i cant get any achievements whatsoever

i've tried to get canada first and cut the strings 3 times

im on ironman, i verified game files, i reinstalled

please help

[tight vector]

I will when I can (probably an hour or so)

[pliant condor]

wdym can't get achievement

[stoic bison]

i became free from uk

no achievement

i joined axis as canada

no achievement

[pliant condor]

does your game say achievement is available

it's on the top right corner

something you can hover over and show if achievement can be gained

[stoic bison]

im playing on ironman bro

[pliant condor]

?

you also need to not have any mod

just go and check

[stoic bison]

hold on let me see what ur talking about i'm confused

[stoic bison]

i have no mods either

i just wanted to get the funny achievements for my home country

bruh

how did i turn cheats on

[pliant condor]

yes

it means you probably had mods active or something

[stoic bison]

i have to restart all my saves bro

[pliant condor]

what is your game's checksum

[stoic bison]

i dont even know what u are saying

[pliant condor]

go back to the main screen

look at version

there's a 4 character string next to it

[stoic bison]

man im just gonna start over

[pliant condor]

it should be f303

[stoic bison]

idk how i turned cheats on but whatever

[pliant condor]

if it's not, you are not in vanilla

hence no achievement

look at this

[nocturne cloak]

@pliant condor Wsp bestie

[narrow grail]

Do carrier planes besides naval bombers even matter?

[heady mesa]

How does ai decide who gets territory when several countries in an alliance advance simultaneously in one province?

[sweet summit]

Uh boom

[gusty briar]

Do all the terrain trails apply for field marshals? Or is it only Generals?

[versed rose]

both

[stoic bison]

bro

i started over my save

and it said at the begining i could get achievements

i stopped to eat lunch

i come back

it says i cant get them anymore

why bro

[stuck garnet]

I like the new dlc

Literally forces me into war so i can participatw

On spartacus germany

My only problem is im never ready for war by 1939

[pliant condor]

did you do anything

if your checksum is vanilla

[stone dew]

Why does this happen

[pliant condor]

it should only happen if you edited the save

[stone dew]

do i deleter the paradox folder??

[stoic bison]

do i have to close the game to get the achievement

it says i qualify for the benelux one

but i didnt actually get it

[stone dew]

@unique steeple ur my dad, i need dad adult pro here to help ur son

[stoic bison]

phone do you know

[stone dew]

?

[stone dew]

oh abt this, nope, sorry

[stoic bison]

🙁

[nimble otter]

what is the best paratrooper div template

[stone dew]

I have all my mods subscribed to, why do they not show up I dont understand

[bleak plinth]

guys should i accept this im romania and monarchist

[stoic bison]

you are cooked bro

you gotta accept this or they will come back for you in the war

[stone dew]

<@&916727971820240976>

[bleak plinth]

what does it even do

[unique steeple]

Yep

[stoic bison]

if you dont accept germany will either declare war on you right now or they will come back for you when the big war starts

if you accept then you just lose a bunch of your resources and maybe later become a vassal state

BUT you dont get invaded

[stone dew]

im gonna marry you if this works

[stoic bison]

brit can you help me

[stoic bison]

.

idk whats going on with this

[jade ginkgo]

congrats @unique steeple with the marriage

[stone dew]

We're not getting married

didnt work

i verified file integrity too and it said it was all good

[stoic bison]

whats happening

[stone dew]

I'm gonna hit the 3rd tower atp

[stoic bison]

"sir there's a second churchill coming"

[unique steeple]

That's too bad

[stoic bison]

brit are you like big boy pro player

[hasty belfry]

What would a good light tank design for armored divisions be? I’m trying to go tank only as Germany, tanking advantage of the army spirit that reduces light tank cost by 10%

[stone dew]

well its working so we're gonna get married whether you like it or not

[unique steeple]

Didn't you? It looks like you have

[stoic bison]

well it says i have it

but on the steam launcher

i still only have faction achievement