ask-for-help-here

[spare dagger]

I found a tutorial it was great for begineers

[stuck garnet]

is there a good way to do assymetrical warfare in hoi4?

[spare dagger]

but almost the entire country lacks of supply reach

[red zealot]

Oof that's a rough start, I have 18 hours on the game and only tried Italy so far 😭

[spare dagger]

I will try italy cuz ik you have to start with ethopia

I used italy for 10 minutes first time

didn't understand (still don't) frontline attack

crashout

[languid trout]

if ur playing as commie china

[stuck garnet]

i wanna use militia as anarchist spain

for the larp

[languid trout]

i completely forgot anarchist spain existed

[stuck garnet]

idk i wanna fight france rather than just sit back and wait untill i fix my country

[idle arch]

What the guide to make republican spain win if u only have volunteers

[sudden meadow]

Is this good radar usage

[languid trout]

u put good divs as volunteers to them

and encircle anti republican divs

[idle arch]

I actually suck at encircling

[languid trout]

because spain hasnt clicked the decisions to plan offensives in those states

if u specifically want them to win, fight in states without the "unplanned offensive" spirit

[idle arch]

How do I know where they have it

[pliant condor]

click on the state

[red gale]

I do, thats why I want the best sup companies

I have pretty much everything +inf industry

[idle arch]

Low-key should I play communist china or ussr

[stuck garnet]

commie china cool pre and post dlc

but like

lowkey

i can't do commie china either way

[idle arch]

Pre dlc

Is what I have

[stuck garnet]

also question

i just like

[stuck garnet]

.

pls :3

[red gale]

you can unlock the PRC in like 1937

you can rush beijing

[stuck garnet]

idk i tried commie china and i kind of suck at the early battles

so i was discouraged

[red gale]

spam militia plus the militia doctrines

[stuck garnet]

and i wanna try anarchist spain and actually try to rush down france

[red gale]

also commie china has insane defense bonuses

[stuck garnet]

so uhhh

if i wanna do like assymetrical warfare as non china like

militia doctrines are a gurantee but like

grand doctrine?

also if im republican do i defend the upper ports?

i know it's better just to let the nationalists coup

[pliant condor]

ah add more tank

also use spg or td

[quick rock]

Is there anyway to lunch navy invasion without head navy headquarters?

[pliant condor]

navy headquarter has nothing to do with launching naval invasion

if you can't put your fleet in an area click the button and reset the homebase

or set it on automatic

[fierce idol]

what divisions do I need in order to beat italy as germany? like how do I get past their stacks in the alps?

[dark thunder]

Personally I’d just go around. Invade or ally France, or Yugoslavia. You COULD use mountaineers, but might be not worth it. You could bait their deathstacks out by retreating to mainland Germany, encircle them in the open fields and then after that try going through alps.

[weak crater]

How do I produce my own tungsten and chromium

[fickle girder]

so any good endgame div templates

i just don't know if i should go with 5x5 or 3x3 or or...

[dark thunder]

Modern tanks mixed with mechanized infantry around 40 width for offense.

[dark thunder]

You don’t, you have to trade for it or invade countries that have it.

[fickle girder]

light tank? also whut support

[dark thunder]

Modern Tank. There’s Light Tanks, Medium Tanks, Heavy Tanks, and Modern Tanks (also super heavies and landships but those dont rly count)

It’s the last tech of the medium tank branch.

For support, doesn’t rly matter a ton but signal and logistics are my fav

[fickle girder]

hmm

and what would be a good infantry unit

i'm currently using standard 2x4 with a extra 2 light tanks or any type oir art

[weak crater]

How do I get dominance on deep ocean tiles

[dark thunder]

Late game infantry designs don’t matter TOO much, usually you stack so much it’s just a numbers game, but I prefer just upgrading my normal 18 width infantry div with maybe an anti air or a anti tank late game since I can just afford it

You can space marine it by adding light tanks but I’m not a space marine guy so I’m not familiar with its meta sry.

Or just use mechanized.

[weak crater]

How do I get dominance on deep ocean tiles

[fierce idol]

won't I still have to deal with the deathstacks if i go via the yugoslavian border?

[fickle girder]

so this is what i ended up with

@dark thunder now is this any good or is just extremely ineffiecient and a waste of resources

[dark thunder]

Yeah but at least its not deathstacks in mountain tiles

[fierce idol]

will air superiority be able to deal with them?

or am i better off leaving them till after barbarossa

[weak crater]

How do I get dominance on deep ocean tiles

[languid trout]

no

[fickle girder]

no as in bad or awful

[languid trout]

its bad

u shouldnt have 40 combat width

on any division

[fickle girder]

alr so how much should i have

[languid trout]

around 36 max

[fickle girder]

but isn't 40 around 36

[languid trout]

anything above that isnt recommended

[languid trout]

no

u have tanks in those divisions

[fickle girder]

is 32 any good?

[languid trout]

maybe

i usually maximize it to 36

to get the best stats

[fickle girder]

uh xso confusing

[languid trout]

32 is also good though

whatever works out the best for u

[fickle girder]

k so 36max for best stats gott yu

now should i remove as entire row

[languid trout]

what

[fickle girder]

like templates go by roiws so max 5x5

should i maket 5x4

[languid trout]

idk

just as long as it isnt above 36

[fickle girder]

oh so it doesn't matter

[languid trout]

yes

however

as for the tank div template

just remove 1 whole column of mechanized

[fickle girder]

alr thanks

[hasty belfry]

Is it worth it to reverse the Risorgimento as Austria-Hungary or should you just puppet them as normal?

[languid trout]

i dont think u can even do that

if u choose to make a unified italy

[hasty belfry]

You can.

[languid trout]

in any of the decisions

even when theres already a state that was from pre unified italy

the unified italy will annex that

[hasty belfry]

You just puppet them in the peace conference.

[languid trout]

ohhh

i thought u meant in kx or kaiserreich

[hasty belfry]

No.

[languid trout]

anyways

u have regno del sud right?

and r u fascist or non aligned

[hasty belfry]

This is something Hungary does.

It would be non-aligned.

I’m just starting the playthrough now.

[languid trout]

oh

[languid trout]

just give everything to regno del sud when it appears then

[hasty belfry]

The one advantage reverse the Risorgimento has is that it gives each there released states factories and ground units.

Plus what they get in the generic tree.

[languid trout]

thats assuming ur patient enough to lower all their autonomy to integrated puppet

[hasty belfry]

Or you just use the divisions they create to fight.

[languid trout]

unified italy makes more divisions

also using their divisions makes their autonomy higher

[hasty belfry]

Unified Italy would have less combined industry though.

[languid trout]

non unified italy has less manpower

italy isnt china

[hasty belfry]

Also, reversing the Risorgimento spawns I believe 1 or 2 units in each of them.

[languid trout]

and italy makes more long term

[hasty belfry]

Plus whatever they deploy,

[hasty belfry]

Combined the smaller states have the same cores as Italy.

[languid trout]

yeah?

except

[hasty belfry]

So how do they have less manpower?

They actually have more.

[languid trout]

because each of them

have less manpower

[hasty belfry]

Since they get new units from reversing it.

[languid trout]

u know how recruitable pop works right

[hasty belfry]

But combined have more factories than Italy.

[languid trout]

thats why u want to make them a unified italy

because

more manpower

and more factories

[hasty belfry]

Less of both when combined.

[languid trout]

the puppets will not cooperate together

[hasty belfry]

There is a reason to reverse it. It adds industry to all of them, and gives them them units.

[languid trout]

yes

but whats the point

if u cant even have them

and they dont have manpower to create more units

ur non aligned

not fascist

[hasty belfry]

They don’t need much industry to spit out 18 width infantry.

[languid trout]

thats not the point

if u want to make more divs

using italian manpower

[hasty belfry]

Which is the only division the AI makes I would ever want to use.

[languid trout]

then u make them via the training tab

and then going to ur puppets

[hasty belfry]

If I’m still at war when I do it that likely doesn’t matter.

[languid trout]

90% of the divs will be from the puppets' manpower

which means u cant even make divs using their manpower either

do u really want 1-3 18 width divisions

from each italian puppet

but they cant make more

or

do u want a big nation

with a big industry

and a lot of manpower

[hasty belfry]

They also start with units from the focus.

[languid trout]

that can efficiently pump out a lot of 18 width divisions

[hasty belfry]

Oh the puppet Italy would still be greatly weakened.

[languid trout]

wdym

they dont

[languid trout]

thats the point

[hasty belfry]

Reverse the Risogrimento grants each new state units.

[hasty belfry]

Like a good chunk of the north would be gone.

Since Lombardy-Venetia is a separate thing.

[languid trout]

do u want better and more divs long term for many years or do u only want few divisions and then never again

what do u not get

[hasty belfry]

Most of them still have decent manpower.

Sadder is the only one that doesn’t.

At just under a million.

All of the others have at least 3 million.

[languid trout]

enough manpower for like 1-3 divisions though

for each puppet

[languid trout]

thats their population

not the manpower they will get

[hasty belfry]

Yes.

I know.

[languid trout]

the only time that u would want to balkanize italy is if ur fascist

[hasty belfry]

Duchy of Tuscany has 36k available (minus whatever the starting Italian military took out of them since I used commands to annex them which fleets their military) on volunteer only.

With a population of 3 million.

Plus the 18 width the focus gave them.

Papal States has 73k on volunteer only.

Piedmont 62k.

[languid trout]

that is still not that much

[hasty belfry]

Sardinia somehow has 62k despite having the smallest population.

Two Sicilians has 111.16k.

All of them have a signed division with 9.6k manpower from the focus.

[languid trout]

what focus

[hasty belfry]

Reverse the Risorgimento.

[languid trout]

thats still like 10 divisions

[languid trout]

ur on vanilla right?

[hasty belfry]

That is on volunteer only.

[hasty belfry]

Yes.

It added factories to all of the ones released by it, and gave them each an 18 width with engineers and support arty.

Oh wait.

It makes sense now.

Sardinia is part of Sardinia-Piedmont.

Sardinia individually doesn’t have 62k.

[languid trout]

oh i see

[hasty belfry]

That’s actually a solid template. Considering I doubt they would be able to equip any of the divisions I would Ben building besides my standard infantry, that’s a pretty good one for them to make more of.

Looking at the wiki it grants 2 civs and 1 mil to each released nation.

[languid trout]

i thought u meant u released them individually or via peace conference

no wonder

i still wouldnt recommend it though

[warped knoll]

is there anyway to win this

[stuck garnet]

Build more railways

Railwaymaxx

[languid trout]

yes

first off

stop attacking

let them keep attacking u to bleed their divisions

and i recommend using mountaineers

to attack

[warped knoll]

how do i do it tho

cus now they’ve naval invaded from the balkan side

do i go for the soviet’s and just keep infantry lines on these points?

[fierce idol]

are mechanised infantry worth the investment if you've already got enough infantry and a decent number of mils?

[warped knoll]

this game is pissing me off deeply

i had the whole of italy

but the german italy puppet can’t defend shit all

then they just send the arsenal

@languid trout

do you think i’d be able to saloon

sealion

?

i need some immediately guidance

[fierce idol]

how do I get lots of xp?

[foggy smelt]

good afternoon ive been getting this problem recently where one of my modded playsets isnt getting all the DLCS i have when i load up the mod. I tried redownloading the mod but nothing happened and in the playset it says all my dlcs were activated. None of the other mods i play on has this issue, does anyone know how can I fix it or why?

[stoic gale]

Are there currently any tutorials for all DLC?

[foggy smelt]

wdym

[languid trout]

send volunteers to the spanish civil war

[stoic gale]

I would like to watch a walkthrough with all of the DLCs first so I can get a hang of it

[wintry mauve]

If putting all fighters on interception, how does that fare against cas, bombers?

[dire jackal]

when is the best time to build synthetic factories?

[neat widget]

around like 1940 for germany but yeah

[heady mesa]

There is one by Hammo Timee

https://youtu.be/T6riUPTL8K8?si=Fg9v3T2POnKQL0RS

It doesn't include no compromise no surrender tho

And man the guns became part of the base game a while ago

[normal lake]

Is the single or double artillery company/battalion in templates still a thing

Or will that mess you up now

[glacial steeple]

has always been pretty bad

ai does it too now

so itll bring you to the level of the ai

[neat widget]

Yeah and also the buffs from old superior firepower are gone

[normal lake]

how awesome sauce are shock troopers

[dark thunder]

Shock Troopers are fine from what I've seen but often times that special forces cap is better used for places that actually need it, so mountains and marines and paratroopers that deal with specific niches, but if you don't plan on doing any of those its not terrible, but as a Road to 56 exclusive unit there's not a ton of use cases for them in the overall game or template designs

[worthy grove]

Isnt the meta now 0 support arty for majors and just engineer aa 18 width spam with mech tanks?

[glacial steeple]

who told you this?

im confused really

[dark thunder]

I don’t know if it’s the “meta”, but I’ve heard it’s quite a popular template nowdays after the artillery changes in No Compromise, No Surrender, but I’ve heard it’s use previously.

But the idea behind it is that artillery just isn’t really worth it for the production and giving extra bite to infantry, better to take those factories and put them to tanks that can encircle and win wars, rather than just defend better.

[normal lake]

This a good template?

[normal lake]

aight

or hwo abt this

[dark thunder]

Perfectly good, but it’s speed is a little low if your planning to use it with motorized or mechanized, but if it’s with said shock troopers as before it shouldn’t matter.

[normal lake]

this ain't about shock troopers anymore

[dark thunder]

If you’re going to be using it with mechanized or motorized I’d go with the second design.

[normal lake]

aight

[worthy grove]

Just play some mp's

Arty on inf is useless now

You only need to spam inf so your tanks can comfortably drive through the enemy

[worthy grove]

Delete the 15% reliability and give it on more heavy cannon turret

[normal lake]

wdym

wait

nvm

do you mean heavy armaments becuz

This is all I have

[worthy grove]

I meant the additional turret

[fickle girder]

you're evil for this

[neat widget]

replace reliability module with hmg turret

[dark thunder]

Well like around, doesnt have to be 40, just alot.

[neat widget]

don't be 40

you should really really be less than 40

39's fine

39.9? also fine

but 40? no

[dark thunder]

30 is around 40

[neat widget]

Yeah but that's also on the lowrer end tbh

[fierce idol]

as germany, how do I get countries to accept an attache?

[dark thunder]

Theyll usually accept if they are same ideaolgy, at war, like you, and you have spies with diplomatic pressure in their countries.

[glacial steeple]

[neat widget]

increase relations

[fierce idol]

is it worth improving relations with japan? or should I just improve relations with manchuko

[fierce idol]

i don't have dlcs, la resistance hasn't been integrated yet

[compact violet]

How's my template?

[dark thunder]

just press windows shift s ongggg a screenshot is not that hard 😭

Template itself is fine for defensive infantry.

[compact violet]

Im lazy to open dc on my laptop

Lol

[dark thunder]

Much harder to get Japanese attaché now that they start non alligned, but cant you increase relations with them in the fascist path so they like you?

[compact violet]

What about offensive?

What should i add?

[dark thunder]

Infantry generally shouldn't be offensive, you should push with tanks, motorized infantry, mechanized infantry, etc other "offensive" like units. However if its really early game, and you have more infantry than your enemy, then you can usually just human-wave your way across their frontlines.

[compact violet]

I see

Thank you

[glacial steeple]

✈️

[dark thunder]

Planes are baiiiit

[wintry mauve]

If putting all fighters on interception, how does that fare against cas, bombers?

Is it effective at all?

[dark thunder]

In vanilla, most countries are so woefully behind on Airforce that by the time they get into war or even get the tech to start making planes and production up and running, it’s hopeless and so you should just make AA or just fighters

[dark thunder]

Interception is defensive as it attacks bombers and cas first, supremacy is attack and attacks fighters first.

[glacial steeple]

license

[dark thunder]

air is mostly a raw numbers game, big economy plane beat little economy plane. Most countries will get more use out of making tanks they can micro to make encirclements and win the war of attrition.

[glacial steeple]

not really?

i mean in europe

but ai cannot make airfields

[dark thunder]

Licenses are okay if you’re trying to get something defensive up but you WILL get overwhelmed when fighting the large powers.

[golden drum]

Guys is hoi4 going to be free again for a weekend?

[glacial steeple]

and in many places that means they can have like

500 planes up

regardless you can always license, steal ai air tech

be on par with ai air

design from there

[dark thunder]

500 planes is such a low estimate

[glacial steeple]

africa, middle east, south america its common

asia its uncommon but happens

it really depends

air has helped me unify south america much faster

[golden drum]

???

[dark thunder]

I don’t know? I don’t work for paradox???

[golden drum]

A ok thanks

[dark thunder]

I got the game for literally 1 dollar

[glacial steeple]

likely in the future

[golden drum]

Eh how

[dark thunder]

Humble Bundle charity sale a couple years back.

[golden drum]

A ok

[pliant condor]

it's quite the opposite

air is where you can use 100 IC to kill AI's 400 IC because their biplanes have no stats

tanks are nothing special, you can micro any div

[pliant condor]

also this is strictly false

[pliant condor]

interception is exactly the same as air superiority, except that it only flies when enemy plane is on a ground mission, does not generate air superiority, and use a difference mission efficiency(modifies your stats)

so you never use interception

[robust glen]

How to deal with resistance it's so annoying

[pliant condor]

always pick operational integrity and subdoctrine giving you air superiority mission efficiency

[cold garnet]

Do you have manpower and equipment?

[frail monolith]

Connection timed out issue fixed?

[minor ruin]

usually just keep trying

[robust glen]

Very less

[spice pine]

when do i start producing tanks as germany

light tanks the ones you start with

[viscid inlet]

Hi guys! Help, I wanna enjoy this game but its so overwhelming with all those icons and buttons, how do i properly start

[minor ruin]

most people use the tutorial, but it's considerably outdated, so youtube is better

the tutorial does explain the basics

[viscid inlet]

Where can i launch tutorial ingame?

[minor ruin]

main menu

[glacial steeple]

the tutorial SUCKS

it doesnt even teach you production efficiency

just play a nation, any nation

and read everything thats relevant to what youre doing

dont click away on the notifications up top

they tell you most things you need to do initially

[viscid inlet]

Many ppl say play Italy or Germany, but i wanna start let's say Lithuania, small land, lil things going on

[glacial steeple]

you can try

it wont be easy if youre on historical ai

[minor ruin]

good luck

[glacial steeple]

but you can def play them

ahistorical is more fun IMO

[minor ruin]

you can be the 1 out of 100 people who make it past the first stages

the rest get consumed by boredom or something else

[viscid inlet]

Ok I'' go through that ingmae tutorial that will prbably suck, but still get me some answers 🙂 Cause I saw a lot of youtube begginner guids and those are 1hr+ in lengh, oh boy too much info to intake at first 😄

[minor ruin]

obviously china best starter nation

[sudden meadow]

Is it possible to execute one of your admirals

[spice pine]

🤣

[glacial steeple]

1 hour is pretty short

shorter than explaining everything over discord, anyway

[sudden meadow]

because one of them did the most inane shit possible and the wish to kill this mf is unbelieveable rn

[spice pine]

haha

[glacial steeple]

if you want bite-size tutorials then watch segl, but he does usually talk about more advanced stuff than what buttons to click when just starting

[sudden meadow]

is there a way to stop my fleets from returning to port every 5 seconds

without like

totally preventing them from repairing either

[violet vale]

how to build navy faster

[glacial steeple]

make more docks

[violet vale]

I maxed out docks for the production

[minor ruin]

make more docks

[native gorge]

So like is there any way to remove recovering economy if i choose to cancel mefo bills?

And is there any way to keep the buffs if i go do the right-side eco path?

[fathom thistle]

it goes away by itself, if you hower your mouse over it u can see how many days left it has

[native gorge]

I see

But if i go right, is there any way to save the buffs if i cancel it? Or do i just get Autarky Achieved?

[fathom thistle]

If u cancel it then u wont get anything from it

[viscid inlet]

How not to delete game and get in it omfg

[fathom thistle]

?

[native gorge]

So complete Autarky Achieved?

[minor ruin]

woah woah woah woah what?

no it doesn't?

I swear recovering economy is not time based

[fathom thistle]

Nvm I was meaning that first focus prioritize economic growth, the recovering economy stays

[half glade]

how does congress work

as the us

[viscid inlet]

Guys I'll pay if someone gets on voice channel and stream for me and walk me through this game for 1 hr jeeez

[topaz yew]

hello, what are some strategies for fighting a stronger enemy?ive read a bit online and they talked about making small spearheads to create encirclements rather than microing or the other big one i forgot what its called, is there anything else?

ive got my units behind great walls and rivers and fortsso i think theyre pretty safe from attack but i dontthink this is a good permenant solution since roc keeps losing

[native gorge]

I mean here's a common strat to weaken them: If the enemy naval invades commonly, put fallback lines on the ports they invade on, kill the troops (it counts as an encirclement), but DON'T take the port, they'll send troops back to the port. Keep on killing the troops whilst not taking the port to continuously deplete their manpower

[topaz yew]

i dont think theyre reallynaval invading, just pushing from manchuria

[native gorge]

Its just a general strat in case you need it, never played china unfortunately

[coarse finch]

They'll naval invade eventually

[topaz yew]

thanks

[coarse finch]

So be prepared for that

[topaz yew]

when i begin to control the coast again ill use it

but i mean for more than just china too, because i lost quite quickly as brasil wwhen the allies invaded

[coarse finch]

Well the issue with that is you're fighting the allies as brazil. Not much can save you there

[coarse finch]

Which china are you playing anyways? And who are you fighting?

[topaz yew]

yeah it was annoying id basically completely killed chile then they suddenly joined the allies and everyone was on me

[topaz yew]

soviet republic against japan

so is it not really expected to be able to defeat the ai if its got a much stronger army?

[topaz yew]

i dont really think ill win any time soon but i did it more to learn how to do this

[coarse finch]

All on your own? Bcs with allies or if you've conquered most of china you should be stronger

[topaz yew]

im in the united front but i cant control their divisions and they keep slowly losing territory

my goal was going to be to try to encircle this bit

[deft wyvern]

this sounds stupid

but how do i see air superiority %

all i see is mission effiency 100%

[coarse finch]

Click on the air zone and hover over the green/brown bar in the middle

[deft wyvern]

oh thanks

I got 58%

[coarse finch]

Thats a good idea. Just slowly try to weaken japan and eventually they should stall. Their divisions aren't all at 100% strength already

[sudden meadow]

How do I organize my air units, they're all 200000k doom stacked on random airfields but I cant figure out how Im even supposed to organize them because if they're too big then my mission effeciency is 0, at the same time I need to have actual units that makes sense and can be deployed at the same time

every time I make a unit it also makes a new theater and its so damn hard to look at

[deft wyvern]

that's not supposed to happen

[sudden meadow]

welp

my game crashed

and

reset me by about

5 years

including all my other shit so

[deft wyvern]

first go to strategic and then click on all ur planes, u put them in airbases.

Theaters should be based on regions/war

[deft wyvern]

should have autosave

game autosaves every week/month

[sudden meadow]

auto save is completely random for me

hol up

we may be back

my shits gonna keep exploding but atleast I can access it

hypothetically

yeah whenever I open my air my game crashes

I genuinely have 0 clue what I was supposed to do I mean

[hollow linden]

Delete your entire airforce and deploy only as many as you need

Yea don't deploy your entire stockpile lol

Only as many as you need and can fit into the available airfields

That is, airfields that are in range of where you wanna go

[topaz yew]

okay i dont think an encirclement is possible in the slightest but i think i might be able to push it back atleast

[sudden meadow]

Ill try but

now I feel I may need to move over to #tech-support

[true tapir]

is this a good tank for 1941?

[sudden meadow]

my game genuinely wont run anymore

[hollow linden]

Show tank design

[true tapir]

this is the design

[sudden meadow]

this is whats currently left

cant unpause

[hollow linden]

Show the entire thing

I can barely see anythign

[hollow linden]

This is terrible

[true tapir]

why?

[hollow linden]

Try this

[true tapir]

and if i have made like 2k of that tank?

[hollow linden]

Oh god. OK, for the template, it's good generally, just width is too big and you're lacking a lot of support Companies.

For the design, no clicks is bad, welded and sloped armor do nothing, reliability is a fake stat, spgs are better than Normal tanks and for 41 then gun is shit

[hollow linden]

So?

2k isn't a lot

Thats like what 4 divs?

[true tapir]

yeah but i need to use them somehow

5

yeah

[hollow linden]

That's nothing

[hollow linden]

No?

Just make spg and convert

[true tapir]

how do i convert

is it like ships or?

[hollow linden]

It's a button in the bottom left corner of a production line

[true tapir]

ok

[hollow linden]

With a little warehouse icon

If that's green you have stuff in your stockpile that you can convert to your design

[true tapir]

ok

[bitter trout]

am i missing something?? why are my troops going all the way aropund when they are in the adjacent tile

[viscid abyss]

Looks like Italy isn’t at war with Siam

So you can’t attack from its land

[bitter trout]

oh so true, thanks

[topaz yew]

hello does anyone know why my logistics fullfilment keeps flashing green and red? keeps on saying i need trains then dont

[hollow linden]

Weird bug

Doesn't matter

[topaz yew]

ah okay, ty

[fierce idol]

how do i get the british fleet out of the channel?

[hollow linden]

You kill it

If its already there you need to kill it

Try raiding the UK so they run out of fuel then they will pull it down

[fierce idol]

how do i kill it?

[hollow linden]

Light cruisers

[magic mantle]

guys, can I use airbases of neutral country (not in my faction) to drop paratroopers?

[hollow linden]

If you have air base and military access I think you can

[magic mantle]

okay, thanks

[buoyant tiger]

any tips on how do win this and form the Balkan federation😭

[native gorge]

GIMME SHIP DESIGNS

Pls 🙏

[native gorge]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-michael-scott-thank-you-bow-steve-carell-gif-5009516783019270794

[vivid cairn]

Does anyone know how to get manpower as french empire after capitulating benelux and uk?

[hollow linden]

You have a focus that gives you 3% pop and 25% factor......

Like what

French empire literally has the most manpower out of any France

[vivid cairn]

Weißt du wo der genau sein könnte?

[hollow linden]

Also annex India, don't puppet

Don't puppet anything

[hollow linden]

Lesen ist schwer

Under the Soviet war goal

[vivid cairn]

oh thanks

[raven snow]

are heavy tanks at all useful

[cold garnet]

too late

I doubt you can do anything at this stage

but maybe you can join the Comintern

and have them carry you

[native gorge]

Where do i find my railway guns

I built one but im not seeing it

Nor is it showing up when i try to assign it to an army

[buoyant tiger]

i got invaded😭

[native gorge]

Yeah that was also my first thought

But anyways where the hell do i find my railway guns?

Nvm

Found it

[short loom]

guys how the hell to win the communist civil war as germany

with götterdammerung

[hollow linden]

Don't have a communist civil war

You should avoid it

[short loom]

but how do you become the socialist republic of germany then

[hollow linden]

Take the focus when you have enough commie support. Iirc if you have 60% you don't get a civl war

[short loom]

ok thx

[hybrid raft]

how do you get countries in the melinaum dawn mod to do trade with you? like the trade that is responsible for money

when you click on thier country

[pulsar beacon]

how do i counter japans insane planning bonuses and generals as communist china

[dusty sandal]

get better divs

[languid trout]

let the commies do what the hell they want in the event after they return

put ernst as advisor

put proletarian sentiment in some of the northern states

like 3-4

[pulsar beacon]

i keep seeing bs like 700 attack on my entrenched mountain troops with arty

in 1937

[languid trout]

after that u should be able to do the peoples victory

[languid trout]

spam militia

larp

[dusty sandal]

yes ? You can have the same with good enough divs early on

if you don't you need to hold on for long enough until planning bonus fades away

[pulsar beacon]

dont those suck they have no org and collapse quikcly

[languid trout]

make sure to get the militia subdoctrines btw

[languid trout]

yes

however

[dusty sandal]

also, I'd bet that you're actually dying to CAS

[languid trout]

if u get both militia subdoctrines

they become op

[pulsar beacon]

never went upto like -20% from cas

[languid trout]

better than infantry actually

[pulsar beacon]

its just the generals that japan gets man

[dusty sandal]

you suffer penalities from enemy air supremacy
CAS is something else

[pulsar beacon]

ic

[pulsar beacon]

even KMT cant handle japan and lost nanking in 37

i held up the entire northern front without losing beiping

[languid trout]

justify on hebei chahar, get shanxi (the state) early and then kill hebei chahar

[dusty sandal]

CAS directly damages your divs
if you don't have AA and they have CAS, you're as good as dead

[languid trout]

and then build a few forts in the tiles from beiping to tianjin

do NOT make any of the forts lvl 4 or above

otherwise they will never try to attack ur divs

[pulsar beacon]

kk

[languid trout]

then just spam militia

[pulsar beacon]

so 1 or 2 factories for support aa in divs?

[languid trout]

use militia with 6 battallions and support arty

[dusty sandal]

yes, it's vital

[languid trout]

once u get more mils to put on guns

make em 18 width

[left trench]

FENT

[pulsar beacon]

ok

should i rush down the mission to get peoples republic of china, i get shaanxi and beiping reliabl

[languid trout]

the prc focus?

i mean sure if u want

btw

i highly recommend doing the focus "burn the paper tigers" early so u become leader of the united front

it makes conquering china much easier

[pulsar beacon]

kk i assume its for that one focus that allows you to demand other countries join you without war

[dusty sandal]

also research guns 1936 asap

guns 1918 have no stats

and get guns 1940 asap as well, they double the soft atk

[languid trout]

dont do that focus

it will take a long time to get all of china

if u demand them as warlord subjects

its broken

do the one that asks for leadership of china

kick the cliques out of ur faction

and go to war with them

subjugate sinkiang though, u dont have a choice

[raven snow]

are heavy tanks at all useful

[languid trout]

not really

[pulsar beacon]

alr ok

[languid trout]

sure they got great stats

but

they are really expensive

[pulsar beacon]

doesnt it work good for armor meme?

[languid trout]

idk

[raven snow]

do artillery buffs also apply to self propelled artillery

[languid trout]

no

they are seperate

[normal lake]

Do I have enough troops to build up until 1941

[fierce idol]

how much of canada do I need to annex in order to launch a successful invasion on USA? no dlcs so I need to take los angeles to capitulate

[normal lake]

Also for my navy

would it hurt to stop the refitting or let it continue?

hELp

WHA T WHAT HWA HT WHAH THWA HTGAW

[hazy sparrow]

what is the problem?

[normal lake]

deficit like around 1 year before the war?

[normal lake]

okay i disbanded three national guard units and cancelled the national guard training

that seemed to fix it somewhat

[hazy sparrow]

Is normal if you want to stop this from happening you can change the weapons infantry of some army to the lower one making the expense infantry for the army you need the most reducing the deficit

[normal lake]

am I going to have a good army by the time I get thrown in the war??

plus my navy

[hazy sparrow]

If the deficit stay ?

[normal lake]

nah it's okay now

[hazy sparrow]

Ok
Remember more troops you train more infantry equipment is going to get deleted from you stockpile

Sto training when you think your army is right

[worn shard]

how to get planning bonus while in area defence

[serene karma]

Method was nuked

Just change the cohesion setting

[worn shard]

whats cohesion setting

[serene karma]

On the same bar as draw frontline and offensive order

On the left

[half glade]

how do you create austria hungary as Hungary

[worn shard]

what should I change it to

[hazy sparrow]

If I remember is on the focus tree

[serene karma]

the one that doesnt move at all

[half glade]

yeah i know but idk what the correct way to do it is

[worn shard]

will I still get planning bonus

[serene karma]

Half

[languid trout]

focus tree

[half glade]

bruh

[languid trout]

end the regency

[hazy sparrow]

You need to see all the bonuses of the focus tree and chose the one you think the best for you
play more you learn

[languid trout]

just play it

[half glade]

i have

and got smacked by germany

[waxen shard]

IS there a way to get more Special Forces Branches?

[languid trout]

use the divisions u got from annexing czechia

[languid trout]

yes

[waxen shard]

how

[half glade]

i didnt annex czech

they were a puppet

[languid trout]

get more divisions

[hazy sparrow]

Any forts for defending?

[waxen shard]

ok

[half glade]

there is already in czech

[languid trout]

the special forces cap is determined by a percentage of how many battallions u have in ur army

[hazy sparrow]

Are they max forts?

[half glade]

idk

[hazy sparrow]

That's the problem

[waxen shard]

I dont mean Cap

[languid trout]

u should be able to

[waxen shard]

I mean the Branches

[languid trout]

via focuses

[half glade]

not really lol

[languid trout]

oh

[half glade]

when i have 17 units

[languid trout]

if ur at war

and u go to decisions

[half glade]

i only got slovakia

[languid trout]

there should be a decision

[half glade]

not czech

[hazy sparrow]

Yes it help a lot

[languid trout]

to get 1 more branch

[waxen shard]

ok

[hazy sparrow]

Forts makes super bonuses

[languid trout]

request their divs

[waxen shard]

How is it called?

[half glade]

okay

[languid trout]

you will be able to annex them later

[languid trout]

just look for it

i forgot the name

[waxen shard]

ok

[languid trout]

idk the other requirements for the decision to appear, if there are any

i just see it and immediately click it

[half glade]

what do i do here

i have 9 units

but will they actually go to war with me

[languid trout]

let them kill u

however

guard the border of yugoslavia

as long as yugoslavia doesnt get anything

no one will take ur land

and u also lose treaty of trianon too

u even get to go to war economy during the war if u have pp

and u get to keep it permanently

[half glade]

okay

i noticed in my last game

they didnt do anything to me

even after taking me out

why is that/

[languid trout]

cuz they are democratic

[half glade]

oh is that a feature

[languid trout]

and there aint that much world tension yet

so they arent motivated enough to put supervised states/change gov

[hazy sparrow]

They only get the war goal

[half glade]

okay i see

[languid trout]

let romania and czechia kill u

make sure yugoslavia doesnt take take a tile

otherwise they will 100% take a state because they are nonaligned

[half glade]

okay yugo got nothing

[languid trout]

kinda recommend u restart if u want war economy

but alright

[half glade]

huh?

[languid trout]

if u get war economy while being at war with the little entente

u keep it

[half glade]

okay ill restart

[languid trout]

permanently

[half glade]

oh nice

@languid trout

the war ended

then the czech declared war again?

[languid trout]

oh

they didnt declare war

earlier

sad

[half glade]

okay nevermind im back

lol

nothing happened

they just invaded and left

[languid trout]

oh

right

[half glade]

lmao weird

[sacred ginkgo]

any guide for the new doctrines?

[jagged hull]

Can anyone help me please

[vital geode]

The YouTube channel segl has talked about them

[sacred ginkgo]

nicee, got any link please?

[vital geode]

Note, most doctrines are actually not bad

[vital geode]

Look up segl hoi4

[sacred ginkgo]

great thanks

[vital geode]

Dont ask to ask, just ask the question

Just post your question here and people will answer if they know

[tight vector]

Is it worth making anti tank tanks? And all the other types

And also for space Marines would I want a artillery tank or a anti air tank?

[fathom thistle]

for sp? no. Stick to SPG"s

[fathom thistle]

they have less armor so I would stick to normal tanks and stack the armor. Just keep in mind you will get pierced eventually

[true tapir]

what is a good medium flame tank?

whould this do?

[tawdry mica]

how to increase supply status?

[tight vector]

Ok

Wouldn't artillery tanks be better due to their higher soft attack?

[fathom thistle]

Again armor reduction. If you have good MIO's go for spg but for Space Marines u really want to get the max armour I can. Single SPG is not really worth it for div. You might as well make offensive templates with spgs

[worn shard]

hi does anyone wanna coach me in helping lounge 2

[quick rock]

O ops

I thought you had to have headquarters because that’s how you unlock red areas.

Where you have no reach.

[topaz yew]

how on earth do you push against japan, they just dont budge at all

[scenic nacelle]

Too expensive

[topaz yew]

it takes like 10 of my divisions to take out one of theirs

[true tapir]

i have enough mils

like 250

[scenic nacelle]

Fine, you do u

[scenic nacelle]

As China?

That’s normal lol

Memes aside it shouldn’t take 10

My guess is shitty supply + red air

[buoyant tiger]

is watching a tut bad?

[topaz yew]

Yeah i thought red air was mandatory as soviet china?

Maybe its worth taking 1 factory off guns and putting it on trucks? So i have 3 on guns, 1 on artillery and 1 on trucks

Though im not sure because im alreasy 7k deficit of guns

there is no way im gonna be able to make a dent in this

[hybrid vale]

Are the servers online now?

[fathom thistle]

Some are fine. If they mention using line artillery in a template just stop it and try other one

[outer garden]

Whats a good defence unit if you are a minor with 15 mils

[fathom thistle]

18w inf

[scenic nacelle]

It is Dw

[fathom thistle]

u cant go wrong with that

[scenic nacelle]

Why do u have so much po

Pp

[fathom thistle]

add AA, Signal companies and engineers if you can afford it

[topaz yew]

Idrk what to do with it, i always do

Ive got full war support

[outer garden]

And offencive

[fathom thistle]

36w tanks or inf

With tanks u really want to get logistics company and flame tanks

[outer garden]

Cant afford tanks

No rechearch

Forgot

[fathom thistle]

then 36w inf

I can give ya template if you want

[outer garden]

Yes please

[fathom thistle]

Make sure you get those doctrines too

If you are a small country u only want to make one army of this template for stuff cuz it will take a lot of mp

[outer garden]

Mp is not a problem

[fathom thistle]

Equipment mighjt be for a start

[outer garden]

Have 1M

[fathom thistle]

just make sure they are all 100%

[outer garden]

Im 1937 april 4rd

[scenic nacelle]

Click on ur flag

[outer garden]

Playing hungary

[scenic nacelle]

And send the screenshot of the tab that shows up

[scenic nacelle]

He

Hm

[topaz yew]

Theres infiltrations which ive just done to help with the war i think

[outer garden]

Funny thing is i win from the soviets but lose from the allies in iran

[outer garden]

Against the soviets alone

[stuck garnet]

is large unit tactics the best or is there other things good to do

[sacred patrol]

Just look at buffs

[stuck garnet]

assault infantry looks amazing actually

individual excellence looks quite good too

hmmmm

people's militia is like

idk

i wanna do militia but idk i heard people's milita is like a baby doctrine for when you don't have the exp for a better one

[scenic nacelle]

Assault infantry and individual excellency should be the best

[light knoll]

large units tactics is the best for infantry build

[tranquil heath]

How to annex a country without other countries reactions?

[light knoll]

its only good for commie china basically

because like

you can't design them

[stuck garnet]

idk im playing a modded equestria at war game as angriever commune

for context

[light knoll]

oh

well

[tranquil heath]

Like Czechoslovakia

[light knoll]

no clue how does that work

[stuck garnet]

equestria at war is like different to vanilla but like still built largely on vanilla imo

ill go eaw

server

[scenic nacelle]

As Germany?

[tranquil heath]

Yeah

[scenic nacelle]

Just a focus

They usually don’t do anything

[tranquil heath]

Well, i declared war on Czechoslovakia, and france and britain declared war on me

[light knoll]

there are many countries that get focuses to annex Czechoslovakia peacefully, including Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Poland. can't really do that through other means, if they're guaranteed then you'll have to fight the ones guaranteeing them

[light knoll]

you should not declare war. you should do demand sudetenland focus then fate of czechoslovakia

[tranquil heath]

Well okay, but this is my first time playing the game

[light knoll]

basically just build up your army, recruit units, and go down the focus tree

[tranquil heath]

Okay, thanks

[tranquil heath]

So i would need more help to be better and better

[night zealot]

shouldnt there be an option to puppet india?

[hushed gorge]

is it better to build battleships or carriers in hoi4

as USA

[sacred patrol]

What do you guys consider to be the best dlc for new focus trees

[wild rune]

Uhhh for which nations

No Step Back is peam imo

[fathom thistle]

Light cruisers > SHBB > Carriers

Light cruisers are key, if you can research super heavy battleships go for it, if not you can either just spam out light cruisers or also add carriers

[wild rune]

I know not much about navy how good in comparison to the Modern Battleship is the Super Heavy Battleship?

[wintry kernel]

This is all my army💀

[wild rune]

As which country

Oh

I see

[viscid abyss]

In some yt videos it shows doctrines like a tree, and you need to use the xp to unlock each one. But all I have to do is unlock the doctrine once and then it upgrades. Are the videos outdated or is it a mod or something?

[wild rune]

The videos are outdated

That was pre 1.17

[viscid abyss]

When was 1.17 released

[wild rune]

Like 2 months ago or smth

[viscid abyss]

Ah I see

Thanks

[wild rune]

Your welcome

[wild rune]

@glacial steeple

Wait

I should ask this in the smart people discord

[left glacier]

Modern Battleships are just better default Battleships and can use nuclear engines for a long range

Super Heavies are still pretty good

[left glacier]

No Comrpomise No Surrender completely reworked the doctrine system. Any videos with the old "Tech tree style" doctrines are outdated

[fathom thistle]

what is the new defense meta? For example for Luxembrug. I could easily hold out with mass mob R since it had that reinforecement rate bonus but now I just get overrun even with signal companies and radios

Do I just try to stack rangers for forest bonus or?

[left glacier]

They get bonuses for urban too

[fathom thistle]

Yeah but is there anything else I can add to imrpove my chances for Lux?

[outer garden]

Is there any mod that makes the game harder?

[left glacier]

What subdoctrines do you use?

[fathom thistle]

Do I jsut max out org?

[outer garden]

???

[fathom thistle]

I was using defensive posture to get that bonus org but it didnt seem enough

[left glacier]

Black ICE / Darkest Hour if you want something more difficult

[left glacier]

Did you have anti air?

CAS has been buffed in NCNS

[fathom thistle]

Yeah, along with eningeers and signal companies

[outer garden]

Like just a little harder

[fathom thistle]

it wasnt enough sadly

rip mass mob r

[outer garden]

Like a litle harder than vanila

[left glacier]

So like Road to 56

[left glacier]

Forts too?

[fathom thistle]

lvl 6 or 7, maxed out ainti air in province

[outer garden]

For a player who can beat the world in under 5 hours as belgium

[outer garden]

In vanila

[fathom thistle]

they just runned out of org

even with like 60 org

sadly

Ik I could invade netherlands for extra stuff but I just want to defend as lux as I could before

[left glacier]

Yeah. There aren't many difficult mods close to vanilla as far as I know. You would have to look for ones that are like semi overhaul

[outer garden]

I found one its called black ice is that hard or no

[left glacier]

You would need a bit more provinces to hold or else you'd end up holding being de-orged within a tile

[left glacier]

Pretty hard

[outer garden]

I loaded it in

[left glacier]

But if you want to give it a try, go right at it

[outer garden]

Holy shit

[outer garden]

What are these unit pictures its so big

[fathom thistle]

would amor help with it or nah? (meaning spacemariens) or do I just have to go for Netherlands?

[left glacier]

Space marines yes

[fathom thistle]

alr bet

[outer garden]

Wich country are you playing

[fathom thistle]

Just doing funnies as lux. I love doing max casualties ratio

[outer garden]

You mean luxemburg

[fathom thistle]

yea

[outer garden]

I love to play as my own country guess what language tip: hallo allemaal

[fathom thistle]

dutch? Nice

[outer garden]

Searched it up with google translate didnt you

[fathom thistle]

totally not xD

[left glacier]

10 support companies. This is also the mod that had coal mechanic along with food before NCNS

And power to your factories

[outer garden]

Can you take a screanshot of your country with everything like what generals what advisors and your templates maybe i can help

Im pretty good

[fathom thistle]

I just do normal 18w with aa, eningeers and signals companies for lux since lack of mp. But imma try the spacemarines rangers what Floofy suggested

It's mainly that reinforce rate buff which mass mob r had is gone. So it's way easier to get deorgged

[outer garden]

I never tryed space marines cuz i love to play meta

[outer garden]

Sucks

[outer garden]

Also @fathom thistle Do you have forts and aa on your mainland

[fathom thistle]

Maxed out, not enough still xD

It just pisses me off I could do it with old doctriens and I cant now

[outer garden]

Max infastructure and max suply

[fathom thistle]

did all that

Rip my beloved lux

[outer garden]

Got any allies?

[fathom thistle]

gonna try ranger spacemarines

[fathom thistle]

they are uselesss

[outer garden]

Good thats how you win wars

If im a small nation with no manpower and democratic regime than i built the most exprnsive unit posible always works for some reason

[outer garden]

Like a lot of artilery

A block of inf and the rest arty

400 soft attack

And always get field hospital as lux

It can save you so much manpower

Hello anybody here?

@left glacier

@fathom thistle

[fathom thistle]

Mp is not an issue just the deorg from all the units attacking, arty won't help ya for defense either. Imma try the space marine rangers for it and see how it goes

[outer garden]

But offence

Dajum nothing is stopping me

[fathom thistle]

For offense sure. I'm just doing pure defense

[outer garden]

Oh i just rush germany 🙂

XD

imagine losing to belgium as germany XD

[outer garden]

Or luxembourg

[outer garden]

Never played luxembourg
But i actually killed germany as austria

So i guess i can try lux

And arty actually helps

[outer garden]

For def

Also as lux maybe go fashism so you can kill the nether lands for mp from dutch east indies becuase your not gonna join the allies anyway right @fathom thistle

Gonna trie seelow hights or whatever wish me luck

Try

[fathom thistle]

I'm doing comusits since I get almost 1k mp every week

[outer garden]

Alr wish me luck

[outer garden]

Could also work

Bu bye

But

[sonic wraith]

Will the Soviet Union have attacked Germany first?

[topaz yew]

hello, is this optimal enough for 5 military factoies?

[sonic wraith]

I'm playing as France, and it's mid-1942, Germany hasn't attacked the Soviets yet.

[topaz yew]

not sure if its best to take 1 off guns to make trucks for supply

[topaz yew]

also idk when the war against japan becomes a lost cause

[jagged hull]

playing hoi4 austro-hungarian emiper is difficult to bring back

[analog maple]

guys what do i do if a warlord refuse to be my puppet as china. cause no i dont have a war goal or a puppet request

[minor ruin]

keel them or hopefully use them as meatshields in the upcoming war

(justification)

[analog maple]

wym "keel"

[minor ruin]

woops

i'm tired, my brain though of that smithing show

you can kill them

with manual justification

[analog maple]

oh okay

[analog maple]

is it possibile to make japan leave me alone and lemme reunify?

[glacial steeple]

huh