ask-for-help-here

[pliant condor]

ok it's not like terribly worse

i think

[glacial steeple]

because i havent played mp like at all

[pliant condor]

if you micro every state

but putting everything on prosperity is much easier and probably still better

[glacial steeple]

well

it definitely is better long term

no time limit to game

the real question is whats better before 1942

so now you have a timeline to actually do math over

january 1st 1942 is a reasonable time you can expect an mp game/good game to have mostly ended i think

now does the compliance you get exceed 20% of factories

[pliant condor]

ok also exploitation is 5% worse than harsh

so

no reason anyway

[glacial steeple]

resources only

its harsh + forced

[pliant condor]

factory

ok resource is not relevant

harsh is +25%

[glacial steeple]

prosperity seems more solid yeah

[pliant condor]

also it's so good to civ greed now

[sour mountain]

yall it shows i have naval invasions going on but i dont

[scenic nacelle]

preparing

the ai is preparing

[sour mountain]

wahat

what

no like i dont ahve absolutly any naval invasions rn

not planned

[scenic nacelle]

the enemy

is preparing

a naval

invasion

why would i say that the ai is you

and why is ur capital plymouth

[sour mountain]

i just realized

lmao

[sour mountain]

i cant do naval invasions cuz it shows they are prepering for htier own one tho

[topaz yew]

hello, is there a way to get a division to stay on a port tile?

[scenic nacelle]

put a fallback line on that port

or use a garrison order

[topaz yew]

i cant quite figure out how those work sorry, if i put a fallback line wont all my divisions go there? and i thought garrisons was only for occupied territory

[chrome river]

does anyone have any recommendations for an up-to-date guide for Falangist Spain? the MachiavellianStrategist one I found lacks the navy changes from the No Compromise dlc

[rapid urchin]

Civ greed as Japan?

How long?

[jagged hull]

I think I'm doing great Idk if I'm good yet

[topaz yew]

spearheads are a bit weird, its not much of a spear more likea broom

like why are my divisions attacking in the north

this 1 port is driving me mad

thats the 5th time theyve naval invaded there and ivev got nothing to stop them

[rugged pewter]

I need help

How do I "Properly research"? Like how to research properly, I know i need industry and stuff but to catch up with their air, navy and infantry i need to focus on that too right? Else I will get beaten up when getting into a war

Also same thing with focuses

[rugged pewter]

Select a few divisions and ONLY then you can make orders with the same amount of divisions, or simply ctrl + click to assign selected units to an order

[topaz yew]

ahh ty ty

[austere roost]

you have to understand what is essential research and what is not needed

you do not need 1936 radio tech in 1936 unless you are early warring, but you do need to get that done before you enter ww2

if you don't plan on using heavy aircraft, don't research stuff related to it

things like that

otherwise time your research buffs with your research progress

for example if it's 1938 june and you're ussr doing third five year plan start researching 1939 industry tech so your industry research buffs go to the 1941 and 1943 techs

so you can get 1943 concentrated in 1940

[sterile hearth]

it depends on the country, if you are playing sovs I can help quite a bit because of the time I have put on them, if you just want general tips I can help with that as well

[rapid urchin]

@pliant condor how long can you civ greed as japan?

[sleek remnant]

Why 🤔

[rapid urchin]

scaling

think of it in terms of "how many lines of mils can i construct with?"

example

if you do a civ buildish with germany you can do 4lines of buils building for almost 1 year or so

[sleek remnant]

I think for Germany, you build 7 civs for the 5th research slot and that’s it
And tbh maybe not even that (though I might be wrong)

[static gazelle]

anyone know how to naval uk i have a pretty decent navy really good air so im nav bombing i js cant get dominance

[rapid urchin]

no

you build civs until end of todt

around early-mid 37

then mils and rubber after that

[topaz yew]

is it silly to try to take this port and supply hub?

[hoary glen]

Never

[hoary glen]

Port strike their capitals or convoy raid with surface fleet until they are out of fuel

[bright flicker]

how do i delete offensive lines?

[hoary glen]

Bin Icon

[light knoll]

no you just don't build civs

you get the civs you need from conquering

[minor ruin]

based on playstyle

[leaden estuary]

why i cant let my ships patrol here?

[hoary glen]

Can you please better show where you want to patrol? It might be they have no range, you need to change that port down below to be the Homebase. You do that by by ctrl + right click the port or set the admiral on auto port change.

[glacial steeple]

you make like 1

the research slot is good

[stuck garnet]

hey

like

is ther elike

is it true germany has a focus that gives you a free air facility?

[stuck garnet]

also is this good if i wanna do recons

actually

nvm im probs not gonna do recons actually

[weak crater]

What command removes revolts

[sour wadi]

ay so i just had a pretty good italy game

but as i was tryna get ticino, i saw that weird outline through germany

this one

does anyone know what it is?

[tropic seal]

Is there a good inf only template for singeplayer

[sour wadi]

ehh u could do a 32 width

heard thoose are pretty good

if not, 9/0's are good in singleplayer for holding

[pliant condor]

38 at least

[pliant condor]

orange factory good

[pliant condor]

research the important tech, ignore the irrlevant tech

like navy mostly falls into the irrelevant category

[rugged pewter]

Alright, cause I'm worried getting left behind on the military and losing a war later in the game

[pliant condor]

for military the really relevant tech is gun tech

and artillery tech if you are making tank

everything else basically doesn't do anything

[rugged pewter]

alr

[pliant condor]

all the passives are incremental and you can just get them before war

[rugged pewter]

What about air though

[pliant condor]

air you do want to research

like if you ever plan to make air

put a slot on 1940 airframe and engine 3 day 1

if you want to have air by ww2

[rugged pewter]

alr

ty

hold on

[rugged pewter]

do i do small, medium and large airframes or only one?

[pliant condor]

small

ignore anything other than small airframe

[rugged pewter]

alr

[pliant condor]

and for modules you need heavy machine gun, engine 3, survivability, range

[rugged pewter]

Alright thanks

that sounds helpful

[left mica]

i agree with this guy @sleek remnant

dont build civs

surprisingly you have enough civs as germany

go straight to mils

you get more civs from poland, czech and austria anyway

[pliant condor]

and go to war earlier instead of later

[glacial steeple]

literally just 1

not more

[left mica]

how is a single civ making any difference

[glacial steeple]

research slot focus

after schluss

[left mica]

oh

[ocean fable]

do we still recommend sending volunteers to china as germany after the update?

[wild rune]

yes

why would we not

[uneven hare]

if I launch a naval invasion from a port of an ally country in the war that gave me military access does it capture the territory for me or them?

[wild rune]

for you

[uneven hare]

lies... complete and utter lies...

[wild rune]

i thought it was

maybe its only paradropping

my bad

[vital geode]

Depends on if you are landing on an allies cores or claims

Or if you have mil access with the country that you are landing units on

Let's say you are allied to France or have mil access with France. Landing in Normandy will give the land to France

[full quail]

How do I unlock these? I have exp. I'm seriously confused

[wild rune]

you have to go into combat with divisions

[oak jasper]

I think you can also slowly accumulate mastery with exercises.

[full quail]

Great so much for afking as liberia

[wild rune]

you can also train your divisions nonstop

and send attaches to warring countries

[tight panther]

So I was told that theres a way to grind mastery pre war without losing all your equipment to attrition. What is it?

[oak jasper]

Have your troops properly supplied when exercising? If you keep them within supply range, attrition losses during exercises should be slow.

[wild rune]

i am not the one to ask gng

[tight panther]

Hmm, ill double check, but even with good supply you seem to burn through quite a bit of guns as US or UK getting mastery, as neither are typically having that many factories on guns to compensate.

[wild rune]

segl has a video on it i think

[tight panther]

Thanks ill take a look

[sweet summit]

what's the best path for ethopia

[untold monolith]

none of them 💔

but ig the non aligned one is alright

[tight panther]

I have seen some people using a mod that gives them a voice telling them when an agency upgrade completes or research completes etc. Does anyone here happen to know what it is?

[wild rune]

non alligned

[untold monolith]

it’s segls mod i believe, if you go to his youtube i think he links it in his video descriptions

[lucid torrent]

How to gain mastery on tank?

[pliant condor]

train tank

[sweet summit]

Bruh

i went anarchist

they had a civil awr

[lucid torrent]

Should I produce armored car to train them for mastery? I can only afford 16 good 35w divs by the time of war. And I don't have time to train them for enough mastery

[trail olive]

anyone have some suggestions on how to start to play hoi4, cuz I got no clue what im doing (just got the game)

[pliant condor]

just train your base tank

make them have 100% reliability

deploy all of them in the field and train before you start converting

[untold monolith]

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

or watch bitter steel for country guides

also you should probably play italy first since it’s a good beginner nation

[trail olive]

oh ok

[untold monolith]

the in game tutorial is also decent but guides will help you more

[trail olive]

oh i see

[trail olive]

no like I understand the concept but like idk in what order to do stuff

ive already watched the video yesterday

[lucid torrent]

Convert divs template or production?

[untold monolith]

here’s a guide from bittersteel about italy https://youtu.be/yNo7ZJaFrmk?si=WKpYaIYKwy4H08HU

you will basically want to just follow along what he tells you to do then you should be fine for the basics in future play throughs even with different countries

@trail olive ^

[trail olive]

thanks

very much appreciated

[supple quiver]

does anyone have a good inf with art templates?

[lucid torrent]

For pushing or filling front line?

[supple quiver]

pushing

[inner sparrow]

arty is not good for pushing in general

[supple quiver]

ik but let me hv it pls'

[inner sparrow]

just put one in then

[cosmic cedar]

how do i get stronger bro im really weak (no dlcs)

i lose even when im outnumbering the enemy by a huge amount of infantry divisions

[glacial steeple]

no

[inner sparrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1228799041693810770/1274201579716612158/image0-17.gif

[glacial steeple]

dude's getting cooked

[inner sparrow]

this will be u buddy

[sudden meadow]

is it possible to locate an enemy airfield in stock hoi4

[glacial steeple]

memorization

[sudden meadow]

its so joever

[deft wyvern]

Hey, does anyone have any advice for trying to beat the UK? I'm struggling badly

I can paradrop in, but I'm struggling to hold them off and win the battle. Is it a template problem?

I have 27 36W infantry, 3 36W paradroopers and 3 2W paradroopers

Britain seems so have a lot of divisions on the main island

[deft wyvern]

I wonder if this is because I've been at war with them since Sep 1938, they had 6 months to pull everyone back?

[deft wyvern]

Generally supply is fine as I'm landing on ports, but the org of my units is just so low. After getting transported they're limited to 10% org and constantly being attacked

[deft wyvern]

I could make a few light tank divisions if that's helpful?

[wintry matrix]

If I invade UK with paratroopers, I prefer to secure a port and every tile next to it - rather than being spread out.
Then shipping over the stronger army, preferably with punch or tanks.

You could try to land around and on hull, because there is no anti-air there.
It takes a little longer to ship your units there, but your paratroopers won't take immediate damage upon landing.

[deft wyvern]

So it's better to have 1 front line rather than multiple?

[wintry matrix]

Yeah.
Because otherwise you are technically encircled instantly without backup.

Because 2w doesn't hold anything.
And the 36w should have the job to be the defenders of a port.

[deft wyvern]

I wad doing 3 36w on the 3 ports (Cardiff, Liverpool, Hull). They can secure them, but after that they r toast

[wintry matrix]

I personally would prefer having 6 18w over 36w for better org overall, but the meta shifts often - so dunno.

[wintry matrix]

If they are toast, it's not secured.

[deft wyvern]

Well toast after a month when uk comes with reinforcements

They can't push out as constantly being attacked

[wintry matrix]

Yeah, focus on one port only for now.

[deft wyvern]

Hmm maybe this gives me an idea. I could do 6 18w on the north (Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, and York). Then I would have a front line in the middle of the UK?

[wintry matrix]

You can try.
I personally land on Hull and every tile next to Hull.
Potentially encircling the garrison there and maybe a small push if it allows.
Otherwise keeping the port secure.

[deft wyvern]

Hmm maybe that's safer

How many troops do you need after you get hull?

[wintry matrix]

This would work, ud your special forces limit would be higher.
If you have like more than 12 of these, that would sound more viable and more sound.
But you're limitted in that regard.

[analog maple]

Guys does submarine spam work on English channel? I know subs get debuffs there but is it still fine?

[deft wyvern]

Special forces limit is no biggie. There's an exploit for that

[wintry matrix]

Preferably everything.
An army group, maybe 1.5.

[deft wyvern]

I will try just doing Hull and see how it goes... The normal infantry being 36w is ok?

[wintry matrix]

I personally still prefer two 18 instead of one 36, but should be fine.
Just give them some support companies at least.

Anti-air, artillery, engineers should be fine for defense.

[deft wyvern]

I don't have engineers yet, but yah got AA and art

Thanks for the tips. I'll have a go. Will have to go back a bit in my save and make myself an 18W paradrooper template

The normal infantry being 36W was just because I had a lot of men, but I don't know if it's any better to have than 2 18W.

[wintry matrix]

Your main army can be whatever.
Having more individual paras simply sound better to secure or reinforce one specific tile.

May god or pros smite me, when I am wrong.

[deft wyvern]

That's true.

Then my other q

How do you deal with units having low org when they get ported in?

Is that why you need to have the surrounding tiles? So your backup can regain org safely at the port?

[wintry matrix]

If I know I can land, I like to drop with force attack.
That reduces the org issue a little.
After that it is a supply question, yeah.
Port extra important.
Because supply is everything/most important in the game after all.

And extremely big divisions suffer an org regain debuff.
So like (for example) the first 50 org recharge faster than the other 30 after that and all that.
Dunno at what size and org exactly it starts to be inefficient.

[hollow linden]

Get more tiles ASAP

Otherwise you will get deleted. And don't pull in units when a battle is Stil going on on a single tile

Invade multiple tiles too

[wintry matrix]

Two sides of a coin.

[hollow linden]

Uh no? Where have u heard that lol?

Also org is an average

It happens to high org units

Not large units

[wintry matrix]

Click a division with very big org.
They get a small status effect.

[hollow linden]

"high org"

Ye that

Nothing burger

[trail olive]

anyone free in like 20 mins to vc with me and explain to me what im doin cuz if I look at tutorials and guides I dont understand shit (im dumb ik)

[deft wyvern]

Okay. Will try the paradrop to hull & spread out

[hollow linden]

Why are people obsessed with paradropping

[wintry matrix]

Sounds good.

[hollow linden]

Naval invading is literally easier

[deft wyvern]

With what navy

[hollow linden]

Just make light cruisers day 1

[supple quiver]

Isnt it getting less-er combat width?

[wintry matrix]

Because people don't understand navy.

[hollow linden]

You can literally fight the rn

[oak jasper]

In some cases, it's probably easier than defeating the Royal Navy.

[hollow linden]

It Really isn't

[lone sigil]

i mean you only use it if you fight france day 1 or britian with no navy

[deft wyvern]

I am the Netherlands, how to have any production for naval invasion? It's also sep 1938 rn

[hollow linden]

No people use it to air lion too

Which is stupid

[lone sigil]

the navy update sucks the ai splits its navy allways

[hollow linden]

Oh right you're still on that 💀

[wintry matrix]

As Hungary?

[hollow linden]

I'm mostly talking about Germany

Light cruisers when possible

[deft wyvern]

Yah, I'm trying to make it work ahha. Netherlands definitely doesn't have IC for naval

[lone sigil]

and destoryer with tropeodas

[hollow linden]

And even as Hungary, you dont really speed run the UK anyhow

[wintry matrix]

Oh, nvm.
This Netherlands. Whoops.

[hollow linden]

Not really no

They are not any good

Think of torp attack is heavy attack but worse

[dull granite]

Sheep mod haha.

[hollow linden]

Dds are used as screening. The Capital line does damage

[lone sigil]

well what are you gonna do against the captial then if you only have light attack cruisers

[hollow linden]

Other capitals

Or navs

[dull granite]

In sheep mod my German fighter HAVE EVERY STAT better (due to the light aircraft mio) but air defense, and we trade evenly because of that Bullshi

[hollow linden]

Like every nation starts with some sort of capital if you don't then you gotta commit

[lone sigil]

i means navs cost mils wich you need otherwhere and i think its easyer to build destroyer than cpatials

[hollow linden]

But tbh it's absolutely possible to kill AI capitals with light cruisers lol

[dull granite]

ÎS AIR DEFENSE THAT IMPORTANT?

[lone sigil]

oh yes i see what you mean

[hollow linden]

For dds to be worth it it's expensive

Like u need upwards of 3k torp attack

[hollow linden]

YES

OML

range designer and double armor plate

[lone sigil]

realy i never tested out

[hollow linden]

Yea and we really don't have tests to suggest that's it's better than making capitals either

Hence I say, make capitals

Shbb wins again

[lone sigil]

if we speak about a smal nation?

you can aford shit then

if we speak about a major

[hollow linden]

Yea you won't afford capitals

[lone sigil]

then 100%

[hollow linden]

But like the supposed small nation cant afford a navy anyhow?

And if you start as a minor, your only goal is to become a major

[lone sigil]

i mean if you do like greece byzantine

[hollow linden]

Yea that's a major lmao

[lone sigil]

not at the start

[hollow linden]

Then you Build 20 docks and do navy

[hollow linden]

But after

That's your goal

As I said

Like u kill turkey and then you Build your navy

Cool

[lone sigil]

nah

you need army do fight axis

[hollow linden]

Well do both? I'm just saying, if you are at the size of Byzantium, you can afford a navy

Also allying with the axis is a bad move? You only need stuff off the axis

You can take africa later

The important bits are in the balkans

[inner sparrow]

high org is good 🙂

[hollow linden]

I know

Don't gotta explain hoi 101 to me

[inner sparrow]

noo u don’t understand bro

high org is good

[hollow linden]

Ye I don't

[inner sparrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/786868732181086243/1460277931845619722/togif.gif

[hollow linden]

Are u talking about the org regain debuff

[hollow linden]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/807809192537882647/1003573292290019328/SPOILER_unknown.gif

[inner sparrow]

high org best

me when I can do paratroop mass mob on barb finally

[inner sparrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/807809192537882647/1377484690864476210/media-iv-text.gif

[hollow linden]

Just explain bruh 😭

[inner sparrow]

high org!!!!!

[hollow linden]

Mein Bruder im Christus.

😭

[inner sparrow]

🐴

[hollow linden]

🐒

[inner sparrow]

tbh tho paratrooper for paradropping is overrated

using them for mm instead of inf is so much better

[wintry matrix]

Well, you cannot drop non-paratroopers.

[inner sparrow]

you can just not drop them at all and use them as inf instead

[wintry matrix]

You wrote "for paradropping".
I took you too literal. Ahhh.

[hollow linden]

Reading is hard.

[inner sparrow]

nah I should have written it all together, ppl cant read 2nd sentence

[trail olive]

any1 has the patience to explain to me stuff, guides wont do it for me (im dumb again ik)

[wintry matrix]

I am not at home. Sorry.
Pls maybe some other nice individual got the opportunity?

[trail olive]

its ok

[dull granite]

No, Not range designer, light aircraft designer gives best stats,

Range isn’t a important factor in europe ,

[hollow linden]

Well yea by 5% but air defense matters a lot. And range designer since if u you double armor plate, you need the range. The air defense gain is better than the air attack gain on light aircraft

If anything light aircraft is the worst designer

Air is still a numbers game

And with more air defense you lose less, meaning you keep more and can deploy more

[trail olive]

low chances of happening but thanks

[dull granite]

Correct, I agree with you on this one, but not on the range Designer one, because range isn’t important, and stats for stats it’s the light aircraft designer, And it isn’t better by 5 percent, a lot more than that

[hollow linden]

And range does become an issue in Europe when the closest air fields are taken

[wintry matrix]

Armor reduces range.
Sooo...
Make sure range not too garbage.
That's all.

[hollow linden]

How is range not important? Again, it's not to have the range for the sake of range, it's to balance out the loss from the 2 armor plates

So u tank more

With more air defense you keep more planes

Making you effectively have more

That 5% air attack doesn't matter

[dull granite]

Again I can fit 2 armour plates on Fighter 2s, I can take the range debuff on Europe

[hollow linden]

Can you?

At some point your air efficency will tank

[dull granite]

It gives more than that, are you trying to get on my nerves

[hollow linden]

And that's not soemtigng you want

[trail olive]

any1 home rn?

[hollow linden]

No im trying to tell you. If you get annoyed by someone disagreeing that's not my problem

[dull granite]

The air buffs from LIGHT AIRcraft mi-o is better than that

[hollow linden]

The difference is 5%

[hollow linden]

It isn't.

Look man, if you disagree that's on you, I said what I said

[dull granite]

I will arrive home , when I do I will show a screen shot of the diabolical Stats, excluding air attack, like agility speed etc

[hollow linden]

I know what the MIOs do dawg

I'm telling you its still shit

You end up losing more

Than with range designer

Why are the MP guys using range designer then? When light aircraft is so much better?

Are they just stupid?

Like, we've been playing with this for over a year now

Are all their tests just wrong?

[hollow linden]

Agility and speed air nothing burgers BTW but oh well

Range gives similar stats

And 50% range

Like ur arguing purely based on vibes

[wintry matrix]

Creep is trying to tell that Range is important.
If you don't have enough range to cover an entire state, you get a huge debuff in efficiency.
Furthermore airports can be further away and building takes away building time on other things.
By having range you guarantee that your planes see action.

Unless I missed the point again.
In that case, hit me.

[hollow linden]

Not entirely. Building air ports is a necessary step it doesnt take away. The point is that, with air defense you lose less planes, meaning you keep more IC. Range enables you to have effectively more planes in an air zone should the air ports already be capped

The last point isn't as important in sp since you rarely actually need over 20k planes

But if we're arguing best vs best mp experience becomes relevant

Which this guy doesn't seem to have

[wintry matrix]

Otherwise we refer to the first rule of gaming:
Have fun, don't overthink too much.

[inner sparrow]

let him play with f2 2armor plate on barb

[hollow linden]

And no range 💀

[inner sparrow]

sov ai will have green air with 1 plane

[inner sparrow]

starting air force from sov could force green over all airzones btw

[wintry matrix]

Barbarossa you really want range.
Yeah.

[hollow linden]

LMAO

[inner sparrow]

against 2arm plate no range mio

[hollow linden]

Air efficency? Never heard of her

[inner sparrow]

cas in battle? I don’t need that

based

[hollow linden]

Green air?

What's that

Do I need that

[deft wyvern]

wish me luck

[wintry matrix]

This will be a Fanny invasion.

[hollow linden]

Jesus fking Christ.

[wintry matrix]

[deft wyvern]

the new leader 😉

[wintry matrix]

I achieved comedy.

[deft wyvern]

hmm they got planes up after 5 drops, will have to retry

[wintry matrix]

Yeah, this be tricky at times.

[deft wyvern]

bit of rng sometimes i think

[deft wyvern]

doesnt work tbh

Idk what else to do

[hollow linden]

Don't get raided oml

Do u have naval bombers

[deft wyvern]

no

[hollow linden]

Damn

Are u able to research torps and basic medium air frame?

And put like 1 mil on it

[deft wyvern]

torps?

[hollow linden]

Torpedos

From the air tree

[deft wyvern]

for navy?

[hollow linden]

No

[deft wyvern]

is that dlc?

[wintry matrix]

Airplane Designer is DLC, yeah.

[deft wyvern]

yah i dont have sorry :/

[hollow linden]

Then just research normal naval bombers and put one mil on them, max out range

[deft wyvern]

all i got r these planes

[deft wyvern]

how will it help exactly?

[hollow linden]

To kill British subs

You're getting raided to death

[deft wyvern]

i have some ships r they better?

[hollow linden]

Nah

[deft wyvern]

oh they r stealing my supply

[hollow linden]

No that's not the issue here lol

It's red cuz u don't get enough supply

Because you are being raided

[deft wyvern]

bc the subs take out my convoys? or what

[hollow linden]

Ships dont take much supply

[hollow linden]

YES

OMG

[wintry matrix]

Yes, they get your supply.
Not stealing. Destroying.

[deft wyvern]

oh lmao

[hollow linden]

Jfc

[deft wyvern]

so how many planes would i need to protect it?

bc it goes over 3 areas right

[dull granite]

British agility Mio grants the best air defence

[hollow linden]

I know.

[analog maple]

Guys does submarine spam work on English channel? I know subs get debuffs there but is it still fine?

[hollow linden]

Oh you're back

[hollow linden]

As many as you get can get with 1 mil

Put them in the channel

Subs get nuked there

[deft wyvern]

but i have 3 areas that supply goes through

[hollow linden]

Hence the range MIO is only the 2nd best air MIO

High agi is better

And there u do double range

[hollow linden]

U only need to protect one since all the subs will go where they are needed

And if they see that all of their subs in the channel are dead they will try to go there and you can kill more of them

It's easiest to kill in the channel

[deft wyvern]

ok I'm gonna have to restart the game and retry

Thanks for the tips

I'll research naval bomber straight away

[deft wyvern]

Let's see

[native gorge]

So are there any uses for subs other than to disrupt supply and trade?

[tawny turret]

How do I disable Stalin's paranoia via consol command? I don't want to explain it, but I went althistory path, Stalin's paranoia is still nominally active and I can't pick certain foci

[hollow linden]

Nope

That's their whole thing

[hollow linden]

Well it's bugged, so restart lol

[tawny turret]

well

shit

[hollow linden]

Otherwise you could just do focus.nochecks

[tawny turret]

okay I think its bugged in general

[tawny turret]

well seems like the best option tho it would make other countries do weird stuff propably

[hollow linden]

How so? I've never seen this bug so

And Ive played my fair share of althist Soviets

[tawny turret]

the paranoia stays even after you go Trotsky or Bukharin

it doesn't end even if you win the civil war

it doesn't increase but technically is active so you can't do most expansion foci for instance

[deft wyvern]

ok bro i got france even earlier this time

I got 50 naval bombers

enough?

[tawny turret]

OH

okay, yyou can disable it in the debug mod

nwmd, tho i will check it with no cheats or mods and make bug report accordingly

[rain iris]

is adding one artillery battalion to your infantry template worth it

[sour mountain]

anyone mind going vc?

[hoary glen]

IC wise no, but it's not like you'll lose bc of it.

[cosmic cedar]

someone help

whats a good division i can make in germany without dlcs

i just use the default ones and i always lose even if i outnumber them

[hoary glen]

Make the Infantry 8 inf, keep the support arty and shovels, add support AA. Make tank divs with 8 mediums and 8 mech. Keep your Gun tech up to date and build plenty of them. You need like 80 Infantry for war and probably like 200-300 for Barb. Rest goes into Tanks and Air (Fighters and CAS). Build mils day one or at least only very few civs.

[white karma]

can i defend as USSR against germany without drawin fallback line on the river?

[unique geyser]

In singleplayer you can

[cosmic cedar]

someone tol me i should addd 1 heavy tank to my infantry division is tis true

[cosmic cedar]

thanks bro i let u know after i win 💪

and how many troops before i invade poland and the rest of europe

[merry sedge]

hey guys, im trying to learn how to design my divisions and what to use in battle... The youtube tutorials I´ve found arent a good help. So it would be nice if someone could explain or send me a good tutorial 💪

[indigo plinth]

HELP HELP HEEEEEELP

[wintry matrix]

We require more context.

[white karma]

9inf 3art is good

but note that im terrible at this game

[merry sedge]

xD no problem, the thing is I am trying to learn what i should be improving regarding the stats of my divisions... But I think Im going to search for more youtube tutorials. Thx tho

[white karma]

which nation are you trying to play?

[merry sedge]

played sweden the last time I was playing with friends... Does the nation have an impact on it???

[fierce fox]

any advanced tips for production in SP?

[nova plaza]

i wanna preface im using a mod but whenever i add a support company the game yoinks my army xp and saves the template without the support company, i tried reloading the save, didnt work

how do i fix this, battalions add just fine, just support companies

[viscid abyss]

How do I make my troops move quicker. It’s taking my tanks 100 days to go from Kiev down to Italy and although I have rail they aren’t taking it

Is there a minimum level of railway needed or something

[spice pine]

good or bad? what should i replace or improve

[scenic nacelle]

Yes

[subtle rune]

Can i ask you something?

What do you think about swastikas in flags?

Because i don't like nazism, but i'm making a mod and would like to know if that type of realism is appreciated or not (original German flag for example)

• i have no idea about the policies regarding this...

[hollow linden]

Compare to this

[spice pine]

good stuff ty

[spice pine]

does ts shred ai?

[scenic nacelle]

Yes

[spice pine]

thanks

[hollow linden]

Absolutely

[spice pine]

thanks brother ill use it

what are those two cannon looking thinks

the 4th and 5th slot at the top

[hollow linden]

HMGs

[hoary glen]

They are funny and good. You probably want to make big 36w infantry and just skip doing Tank Divs at all with those tho.

[spice pine]

thanks mate

[spice pine]

whats the last thing? looks like a tank

[hollow linden]

Armor skirts

[spice pine]

thanks mate

is my game bugged? im stuck at -1200 medium tanks i cannot produce any tanks at all

it says im making 5.33 a day

[scenic nacelle]

Are u making artillery medium tanks

Or medium tanks

[spice pine]

yes

art medium tanks

[hoary glen]

Order of Priority:

1. Attack and HP
2. Org and Break
3. Rest

[hoary glen]

Build mils from 37 on and always use dispersed. Look at your logi tab to track what deficit is the biggest and needs more mils on it.

[hoary glen]

That Support is not allowed to be used by that Div then.

[spice pine]

think my game is bugged

none of myt tanks are being produced even though it says they are

[hoary glen]

Use B for strat redeploy

[hoary glen]

Always leave them out, there's only one type of player who will miss them.

[scenic nacelle]

Why do u think dispersed

[spice pine]

can somebody help me pls

stuck at this and it wont go anymore

i am producing everything normally i just have 0 medium tanks even though im producing them

[hoary glen]

If you swap around your production a lot bc you research new tech or don't have a complete plan of mil allocation it's just better to use.

[scenic nacelle]

Show ur production/stockpile tab

[spice pine]

oh my god

in my tank template it is medium tanks not medium sp art

[scenic nacelle]

💔

[spice pine]

RAAAAH

[hoary glen]

like I doubt in SP ppl stick to AA1 and Basic Tank bc they are just as good, but you click what's new and shiny

[stuck garnet]

• i love larping as anarchists in modded runs and dispersed just makes more sense if i wanna do that

[cosmic cedar]

how do i do that then what should be the loadout like all infantrya nd how many tanks or wut hows that wrok

[dense depot]

Hello, friends! I ran into a problem (there are no mods, the game is official, the DLC is all there, I cleaned the cache). Why does the game crash when interacting with the fleet? A couple of days, as the fleet is in the raid and departure... I'm playing for Socialist Germany.
How can I fix this?...

[stuck garnet]

?

[idle arch]

Meta div for barb

[sand remnant]

Hey Guys, can someone explain where i can find the penaltys for not having 100% supply on my Fleet? There is no Stat Reducation or low Org on Ships while having low Supply on Ships.

[hollow linden]

Well your ports are enough to supply your fleet so you don't have penalties

Go to a smaller port and set it as home base

[sand remnant]

OK, but iam curious to know whats preventing me from driving around with my deathstack while having just 20% supply since there is no indicator for having penatlys 🤷. like, in that tooltip you see that that selected fleet just has 53% of supply. Like whats the deal behind having low supply on Task forces in general

[hollow linden]

The size of your home base

San Diego is a lvl 10 port lol

[marsh trench]

Why does it say 0/150 ships in the region?

[deft vigil]

This is dominance not ships

Naval dominance builds up over time when you have ships in that area

More ships help get more dominance faster

[marsh trench]

I have 178 ships in that sea, still 0% dominance after long time

[deft vigil]

What do you have them set to?

[spice pine]

any tips? i am basically stuck here, my defence is really good they cant push at all at least for now, i just cant attack

[marsh trench]

right now, convoy raiding

[deft vigil]

Convoy raiding should give some dominance but from my experience patrol gives the most dominance, so try that

[marsh trench]

Its better to naval invade uk first along with, denmark, norway and if you want to yugoslavia, historically. Taking UK insures that no naval landing will happen

[deft vigil]

I would hide behind a river line and build up equipment, also get garrisons for D-Day if you haven't got any already

[spice pine]

i tried man, i landed on the uk but they pushed me off

[spice pine]

yes ive garrisoned the whole coast

[marsh trench]

Do you have the goterdam DLC?

[spice pine]

i have all dlcs

[deft vigil]

Nice, just hide behind the river on soviet front and build up equipment, you should be able to outproduce soviets

[marsh trench]

Alright, where did you naval invade UK?

[spice pine]

alr thanks

[spice pine]

dover

and the provience next to it

[hollow linden]

Get green air and cas

Then battleplan your inf if you're not in a deficit

[deft vigil]

No problem, be aware that when your hiding behind the river they will try push you alot, but since your behind the river and defending, they will lose so much more equipment than you and you are also saving up, good for the long run

[spice pine]

ive got +90k equipment i think im good

[spice pine]

cheers man thanks

[deft vigil]

In all?

Is any of your equipment in deficit?

[spice pine]

ill check

yikes i have tank deficit

and trucks thats it

[deft vigil]

Okay, I would upgrade your attacking infantry

What width are your attacking infantry?

[spice pine]

i dont really have an attacking infantry

my inf is 20.4

[deft vigil]

Make different template for Garrisons, holding infantry and attacking infantry

Garrisons can be pure infantry with signal and engineers, maybe even field hospital

[spice pine]

yuh ive got a template for garrisons

[deft vigil]

Holding can be the near same as Garrisons just more org

[tribal stratus]

Honestly I have around 400 hours, I can do a bit. I’m lacking on tanks and templates I guess but I have a good understanding of the game but I can never get a world conquest run as any nation. I feel I always lose or struggle or whatever it is. I always start by maxing my industry, then around 1937 I build my military factories and then I go to war at 1939 after annexing as much land as I can as any nation wether it’s the Soviets or Germany. I always A either run out of resources or B get steam rolled by some strong AI, or can’t land a naval invasion against the allies. What do I do? Any good guides or videos it’s just hard I have a lot of hours and I can beat back Germany as Austria and such but I’m struggling hard for a conquest run idk what I’m doing wrong

I mostly build maxed out infa templates

[hoary glen]

Just one Heavy Tank is enough. Slap down the biggest Gun and make sure to give it Armour. 5 Tanks per Template work best tho. Rest infantry until you have 36w. Support is Shovels, medium Flame, Field Hospital and the rest is up to you. But add AA if you don't build air.

[deft vigil]

Attacking infantry is usually good at 36 width, with a bit or arty and maybe anti air or anti tank

[spice pine]

is overstacking ok?

or horrible

i have so many free divisons just sitting there

[deft vigil]

Yeah that's bad

[tribal stratus]

Depends if you supply those troops well enough right?

[spice pine]

dang ok

[deft vigil]

Make your attacking infantry 36 width and add some arti and alot of support companies

[tribal stratus]

What support is good for infa

[deft vigil]

And you might have to delete your idle divisions to make equipment for them

[spice pine]

yes ik bro but what do i do with my free divisons

[tribal stratus]

Garrisons

[spice pine]

they are js sitting there

[deft vigil]

All of the support companies are usually good except military police, maintenance companies

[tribal stratus]

Yeah thought so

[deft vigil]

Delete them to upgrade the attacking infantry on soviet front

[spice pine]

mk

[tribal stratus]

^ any way if someone could provide support or advice it would be appreciated because I would love a world conquest run.

[dense depot]

Hello, friends! I ran into a problem (there are no mods, the game is official, the DLC is all there, I cleaned the cache). Why does the game crash when interacting with the fleet? A couple of days, as the fleet is in the raid and departure... I'm playing for Socialist Germany.
How can I fix this?...

[deft vigil]

I would keep some cheap 18 width infantry and put them on the soviet front aswell just to reinforce the attacking inf

[hoary glen]

Does it happen on a new save as well?

[deft vigil]

But don't make them attack, just stand on the frontline

[dense depot]

Yes

[spice pine]

my divison strength on the soviet front is sooo bad

[tribal stratus]

Build railways

And supply hubs

Soviets are the worsy to conquer they take forever

[deft vigil]

That's why your not pushing

Get 3 collabs aswell

And cypher

[spice pine]

i alr have them

[deft vigil]

Only way to really do a world conquest is to kill allies fast with a sneaky naval invasion or paradrop

[spice pine]

this is super annoying

[dense depot]

@hoary glensorry... I started a new game for the Reich and everything is OK... But I can't just drop the old save...

[deft vigil]

As soon as world war 2 starts try wait until the UK fleet is in med and then you can get dominance to naval invade or you could paradrop (though this is hard cause of how good UK planes are)

[tribal stratus]

yeah but they get shredded immediately upon landing

[tribal stratus]

Naval invasion is easier? Assumed it would be harder tbh

I can barley get naval dominance in my own hubs

[spice pine]

yeah im fried, i have 0 strength

how can i get more

[marsh trench]

Nah, I always naval invade, always successful

[hoary glen]

scan files for errors or reinstall

[tribal stratus]

How do you ever get the dominance over the channel

Just put them all on patrol?

Or anywhere for that matter, I don’t even get it on my own German coastline

I don’t change my boat setup either from base game

[marsh trench]

You bomb the hell out of their boats, and build crazy strong boats that will destroy the royal navy as early as possible

[dense depot]

I checked the files. I just transferred the game from HDD to SSD M2... But, so far, the same problem

[hoary glen]

old version then pehaps. or ignorre navy

[tribal stratus]

Naval bombers?

[marsh trench]

Yes, cas can also, with their bomb locks or small bomb bay

[tribal stratus]

hmmm

[marsh trench]

I just sent all my planes their, fighters and everything, bomb the hell out their boats

[dense depot]

No, the version is the newest, I play through steam. And how can I sink Great Britain without a fleet?😆

[marsh trench]

Then naval invasion, then take over UK fast

[tribal stratus]

Hmmmmmm alright, so everything over the channel.

[hoary glen]

I mean the save is from an older version

[tribal stratus]

I’ll study a little more navy

[hoary glen]

Tho could also be the file transfer failed in some parts

[marsh trench]

Depends, with or without gotterdam dlc

[hoary glen]

Yan can check the crash logs and try to figure it out, but best call is to make a new game

[dense depot]

No, I started playing today)

[marsh trench]

cause with gotterdam dlc english channel better, but without, its the worst.

[marsh trench]

Without gotterdam dlc, north sea is the best for naval invasion

near hull and newcastle

but with dlc, dover is best

[foggy nest]

quick question, when earning panzer/cav leader traits, does the ratio mean battalions or divisions?

[pulsar blade]

hi i have a qustion abut fabricken how do i let them preduze tanks

[marsh trench]

You need to have enough factoties to produce tanks, currently you only have 3 millitary factories, so you can delete all other productions and put all 3 on tanks

[marsh trench]

All 3 of your factories currently are on Infantry Equipment

[pulsar blade]

ok thanks

[tidal meadow]

hi guys can a pro teach me and my friend some stuff we want to 2v1 our friend when he is germany and were shi so we want to learn a little pls help

[sudden meadow]

why wont my paratroopers go

[foggy nest]

if you hover over the go button it should tell you

likely causes are you don't have air superiority, or you don't have enough transport planes

[foggy nest]

specifically referring to this btw

[sudden meadow]

I have air superiority it says I need more airwings despite bringing more in every single time it says

[tidal meadow]

can you please teach us joe

[foggy nest]

I don't play mp :/

[tidal meadow]

yeah thats fine

we wanna know how to kill normal cointries good

[subtle rune]

know how to fix?

[foggy nest]

who are you playing as?

[tidal meadow]

soviet union and my friend uk and uk is the facist path

[marsh trench]

Once germany attacks you, stay behind a river that starts in the Kherson state, and near Kiev, put all your troops on a fallback line behind that river until your army in strong enough to push back

[tidal meadow]

that the problem i dont know good templates

[sudden meadow]

bruhh

[scenic nacelle]

16w infantry shitters

[tidal meadow]

Whats shutters

[scenic nacelle]

Spelling mistake mb

[marsh trench]

For Soviet Union, I usually use, 9 Infantry battalions, 1 Artillary battalion, with Engineer company and support Anti Air

[subtle rune]

anyone?

[marsh trench]

for Infantry division

[scenic nacelle]

For Singleplayer that is fine

[tidal meadow]

so i just put infantries until its 16 with and wb like the things on the side do i put anything

[scenic nacelle]

But if Germany has a brain ur cooked

[tidal meadow]

he does

[scenic nacelle]

AA, shovel, and maybe support arty

[tidal meadow]

what the guy does he makes good tanks and incircles us

[foggy nest]

never played soviets and never done UK fascist path so I wouldn't be able to help you all that much.

Curious as to how Fascist UK fights hist Germany though

All you need to do is stick to basics to win combat engagements. Keep your troops fed and deny supply, contest the air as best you can and use tanks to create encirclements where the line is weak

You might have to invest in anti tank if the Germany shits out tanks for a living though

[marsh trench]

shovel 😂

[scenic nacelle]

Make tank destroyers

And I assume whoever is hosting has all the dlc?

[tidal meadow]

Ive never heard of that

[tidal meadow]

ye

[foggy nest]

do you have NSB?

[tidal meadow]

idk what that is

[foggy nest]

No step back. DLC

[tidal meadow]

acutually wait

[scenic nacelle]

Tank designer dlc

[tidal meadow]

oh yeah

he does

[scenic nacelle]

Has Soviet , Baltic, and polish focus trees

[tidal meadow]

we dont have the ones past the iran one

[foggy nest]

if you do just look up a template for a Tank Destroyer

[tidal meadow]

and is that good against mp tanks?

[scenic nacelle]

Zamn

Hm

[foggy nest]

make sure you look for mp templates

[tidal meadow]

we have the tank templates

thing

we have tank designer

[foggy nest]

but yes tank destroyers are a good use but I'd also invest in anti tank if I were you

[scenic nacelle]

@glacial steeple do u remember which subdoctrines are NCNS only

[foggy nest]

just a support anti tank on your inf divisions will go a long way

don't bother with anti tank in SP though

[tidal meadow]

wb with infantry how do i make infantry better than hius

[scenic nacelle]

Wait I may have a soviet guide somewhere

Idk if it was updated

[marsh trench]

Staying behind that river will prevent encirclements

[tidal meadow]

aha

the thing is he always has better troops and shit than us and he just pushes through us like butter

[foggy nest]

you just need an infantry that will hold ground. This is where I'm not too knowledgeable because MP division templates are different to SP

the tanks do the pushing

infantry just holds ground and closes pockets

[marsh trench]

Dont fight at the frontline when he declares war. Let him push through up until that river, he wont get past, cause your defense will be massive

[tidal meadow]

the only time we actually were able to somewhat hold up against him is when we had maxxed out forts in czecoslovatia and he couldnt push thriough

[foggy nest]

also pay attention to terrain

plains = tank territory so defend those more than forests/hills (though tanks can still push through those)

[scenic nacelle]

This should be updated?

I will need to check

It wasn’t nvm

[foggy nest]

there is also the option of pure inf spam and battleplan to berlin but you have to know what you're doing to make it work and idk if it holds up against a good germany

likely doesn't

soviets are one of the few countries who can pull it off

[tidal meadow]

oh

[foggy nest]

curious how fascist UK is on your side tho

do they just manually declare on Germany or smth?

[tidal meadow]

my friend is uk and im soviet or vice versa

[tidal meadow]

ye

[foggy nest]

lmao

honestly they're better off just playing global defence UK

Way stronger IMO because taking America is a slogfest

For the UK all they need to do is deny the Kriegsmarine

[scenic nacelle]

If the uk plays right they can core sll of the USA

[foggy nest]

yeah but they still have to actually take it

[tidal meadow]

i already know about that

ive done it a couple times

[foggy nest]

it might be easier with fascist UK than monarchist but it's always gone way past barbarossa and you need at least 4 full armies to cover all the land and do some landings around the coast/hold alaska push. As UK that's incredibly difficult to get before the US wakes up

[tidal meadow]

im just asking about the offensive against germany

[foggy nest]

when I've done it at least

[tidal meadow]

thats what messing us op

we dont have good templates that work against him

[foggy nest]

don't go on the attack until 43. Pushing too early will get you absolutely annihilated

[scenic nacelle]

Are u playing with any mods

I forgot

[tidal meadow]

No

[scenic nacelle]

Ok

[viscid abyss]

Yes I did

To no effect

[idle arch]

Soviet infantry template meta

[plain fox]

recommended combat width for medium tank divisions?

is 36 still fine

[tardy mesa]

is there anyway of winning this im fighting the axis alone💔

[plain fox]

my ships arent going to the sea, I haven't played since the new update, how can I make them secure naval dominance?

[scenic nacelle]

Yes

[scenic nacelle]

Make them patrol

Then when u do that

Hover over that ocean region

Tells u how much u will get, how long it will take, and how much you have

[plain fox]

i discovered, but thx for making it clear 😭

[subtle rune]

Anyone knows how to fix PLS

i've been trying to fix for 2 hours

i think my NORTON did something

but i reinstalled the game 2 times

still same shit

[cold bloom]

Norton has started blocking the launcher for some reason, you gotta configure an exception

[subtle rune]

yeah.... WHERE

[cold bloom]

Idk I use malwarebytes

[subtle rune]

what is that?

[cold bloom]

Norton alternative

[marble saddle]

any real reason why my volunteers cannot enter eritrea?

oh wait

oh I'm blind nvm

it's because italy is in a civil war and that land flipped to the revolters

are you not able to right click a naval base icon to manually move troops through sea when they're volunteers?

nothing is happening on right click

[subtle rune]

are you absolutly sure it can be norton?

[cold bloom]

Yes

[cold bloom]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/891983376163160078/1460666356142964867/57377c94cfce47cabd89c2b729167cc7.png?ex=6967bf0d&is=69666d8d&hm=9d965e270d1e124fb545e6e4b28d56ab2a1b5e596f0016802918db1d3802ac6b&

This was sent in a different server

[subtle rune]

i deleted history there

i saw that tho

how tf do i fix

[cold bloom]

Usually you get an option to add exception

[subtle rune]

yeah.... WHERE

[cold bloom]

if you remove history it might block it again

[subtle rune]

what server

[subtle rune]

i didn't have a pop up

it blocked

i even resetted norton

[cold bloom]

In malwarebytes you go to history and add an exception

[runic basalt]

can someone help me with naval invading

[arctic wave]

how do i make vichy france stay as my puppet

[foggy nest]

naval invasion support ships only go to sea when the invasion happens. No invasion no deployment. You're best bet is to take all your capital ships and put them on naval invasion and put all the screens on patrol

that way you still get shore bombardment bonus

[fathom thistle]

build civs in thier territory

[foggy nest]

also pls organise ur navy. It's literally the easiest thing to do as Germany

[plain fox]

Yes I will, I just retutned to the game and was a bit confused

[plain fox]

Oh, thx for the tip

[empty anchor]

im trying to naval invade the netherlands as sovieat union and i cant start it cuz i have no naval dominance. what do i do ive put ships on convoy raiding there?

[foggy nest]

you need at least some on patrol

that's how you get naval dominance

patrol increses your naval dominance
strike force multiplies whatever your patrol dominance is
Convoy raiding takes away their dominance

If you don't patrol, all you're doing is decreasing their dominance, so you will never go above 70 (which is the requirement for naval invasions)

The more ships you have on patrol the higher you increase it
The bigger the fleet on strike force the quicker naval dominance increases

Have a patrol fleet of something small and then have ur deathstack on strike force. Technically you could patrol everything but it's a massive waste of fuel

[jagged hull]

Can anyone help me please I'm on vc and I'm fighting in two front sides please

[gentle verge]

hi, i started a game as France in 1936 historical mode, it's 1939 and germany hasn't rearmed the rhineland yet, is it normal?

[neat widget]

Like they haven't done the focus?

Or did they do the focus and then you denied them

[raven snow]

i have full naval dominance, why arent they going over

nvm i figggured it out

[neat widget]

no port

guy's gonna have to wait another 50 days 🙁

[slender moss]

Hey I just joined this server

I was playing Sid meijers and I thought it was too simple and someone recommended me HOI4 so I bought it and I am overwhelmed by what’s happening

I’ve tried watching YouTube videos but there’s so much going on that I can’t keep up

Would anybody be willing to show me literally just the basics?

[gentle verge]

they didn't do it, in the end they invaded czechoslovakia so i crossed the disarmed rhineland but ended up losing because of stupid belgium and uk not helping me

[neat widget]

What do you mean you took Rhineland and still lost

[uneven nymph]

hello, i need a help for anyone for the game, please. thanks

[pulsar beacon]

is the meta for communist china just building millitia divisions with insanely high equipment capture ratios?

[weak crater]

How do I get naval dominance on deep ocean tiles

[crystal zenith]

hello, it would be super swag cool if someone wanted to help me learn this game! high fives will be given

[hexed meteor]

whats this mean

[tribal stratus]

How do I execute case Anton

[tribal stratus]

It’s like their most famous battleship

Like ya know the bismarck

It has a bunch of bonuses and it’s good if you sink it

[untold monolith]

you have to have no troops in vichy france’s territory and i believe vichy france has to not control any of north africa

or you could just declare war on them

[deep crest]

its the pride of the fleet the ship its self gets a few bonuses for being the pride and having one gives a country a %+ to there war support also you can make your own in the navel interface just set one of your ships to pride and you will get that % bonus to your war support

[glacial steeple]

no army, france has low manpower

no air maybe?

but probably just made civs for a while and basically only starting army

predicting

[neat widget]

And perhaps a combination of all of those

although even with no air I think france can survive against vanilla ai

[tribal stratus]

I can’t anymore bro

How hard is it to world conquest as the Uk

[glacial steeple]

not the easiest in terms of fighting power but the easiest in terms of borders

[neat widget]

Yeah

I mean as the UK it should be easy to just outright conquer the US, at which point there isn't anyone to stop you

[wild rune]

Uk is easy gng

[eager scroll]

Can anyone help me I don’t really know how to play

[boreal hamlet]

anyway to stop faction garrison requirment from setting itself to high?

[wild rune]

Become faction leader

[boreal hamlet]

I am have been every time

it's happening every play through. I've even changed it to low and later it was back on high.

[wild badger]

how do i get anchluss

ive got 300 fully stocked divisions

[molten plank]

how many battalions does each div have?

[wild badger]

5

infantry

[molten plank]

what is the date?

[wild badger]

1939

[serene karma]

💀

[molten plank]

you might be too late, if austria has legit 7 fully equiped divs you cant do focus

[serene karma]

U dont have dlc i guess?

[wild badger]

i do

i have em all

[molten plank]

also i think the focus doesnt just care about how many divs, but rather the size (battalions)

[serene karma]

I think u screwed smth up

[molten plank]

its cuz its 1939 austria has an actual army now

they would only need 60 battalions worth of divisions to disable the focus

thats only 6k guns

[cosmic cedar]

ok

[tropic seal]

Are these templates viable in singeplayer? Can I just purely run these as my offensive divs with no tank divs and still win

And which of the two is better

Or is there an alternative template that's better than both

Also why can I design my ships but not planes

[cosmic cedar]

i think thats dlc

[cosmic cedar]

me to osame question

[neat widget]

I mean they are if you have enough industry but they're pretty bad

[sudden meadow]

is it possible to wither enemies on the vine

or do I have to go island to island dealing with the orange horde

[tropic seal]

Oh

[neat widget]

What do you mean?

[tropic seal]

What's a good inf template that doesn't need specialised tank divs to support them

or does that not exist

[sudden meadow]

surround island and starve everyone to death

as opposed to Iwo Jima P2

[neat widget]

Well if you want the island you will have to eventually take them

But starving them out will make it easier as opposed to iwo jima p2

[sudden meadow]

ffs

[neat widget]

Don't worry at all, it will be very quick

You can even skip the island and attack Japan directly, and Japan folds very fast

[tropic seal]

best one for infantry focused?

[neat widget]

no

[tropic seal]

wat

[neat widget]

In almost all cases you want to use grand battleplan

[sudden meadow]

Im tired boss

[neat widget]

Superior firepower can work for a few things, basically if you think you're defending most of the time

[sudden meadow]

Oh no Im Japan in this case

Its just that

[tropic seal]

oh ok

[sudden meadow]

The Soviets, the French, and the Chinese all hate me

[neat widget]

Probably harder to go the other way but if I managed to do it as the Philippines, the US should fold pretty easily too

[halcyon cave]

@flint epoch that wasnt me 😭

[tropic seal]

Is this template any better or are there like no good infantry focused templates

[halcyon cave]

i dont even have a soundboard @flint epoch

i need help gang

[neat widget]

How about this?

This for marines

[tropic seal]

I thought you needed a tank for extra armor or something

and breakthrough

Btw i dont have DLCs

if that helps

because apparently stuff changes if i dont have DLC

[tropic seal]

What support company is that second one? I know first is armored engineers

[halcyon cave]

yall

[neat widget]

Ah right

[tropic seal]

and what support company is the last one

[neat widget]

Yeah that's a DLC compnay

[sudden meadow]

In all seriousness Im new to the game so Ive just been tryna figure it out pretty much but it aint looking good ngl

[tropic seal]

ah aight, do you have a non DLC template?

[neat widget]

for no dlc you'd try something like this

[tropic seal]

thanks

how do I increase my special forcesc ap though or will these basically be like tank divs

where ic ant run a lot of them

[neat widget]

This will help

[tropic seal]

Uh I don't really get what's happening here

[tropic seal]

which doctrine btw

[neat widget]

assault infantry

[neat widget]

So there's three steps to this process

1. spam a bunch of 2w infantry
2. convert them to 50w infantry
3. convert a fraction of 50w infantry to desired template (in this case the 15/3 tank marines shown above)

[tropic seal]

What does step 2 do?

Step 1 is to increase cap right

[tropic seal]

and for these infantry spam it can just be infantry blocks right no support companies etc

[sudden meadow]

are most of the things in shared buildings actually useful?

[neat widget]

step 1 gets you many divisions

step 2 is the one that increases cap

[tropic seal]

oh ok

[glacial steeple]

is this a no dlc marine or

[neat widget]

because the special forces cap is dependant on number of battalions

[neat widget]

Yeah they have no dlcs

[tropic seal]

I'd also be going down the left path right

or should I still go down new panzer doctrine

[neat widget]

i would pick either assault infantry or large unit tactics

[tropic seal]

wot but you just said to do assault inf

[tropic seal]

what templates do i use for the 2w and 50w infantry

[neat widget]

assault infantry i mean

[glacial steeple]

hmm i think you teched engi

otherwise youd be looking at 3 lights or 2 meds

[neat widget]

eh...

[glacial steeple]

ive tested in a game...

a singular no dlc game

[neat widget]

but assault infantry for sure if you're doing special forces

[versed rose]

isnt the guy looking for a one-size fits all though

[neat widget]

I remember they decreased naval penalty from 65 percent to 50 percent in GDR, is that part of the DLC or the update?

[versed rose]

large unit tactics bricks will be better for that purpose

[tropic seal]

yes

[neat widget]

Oh right

all special forces armies are viable due to DLC doctrines

my bad

[glacial steeple]

update

[neat widget]

where do engineers get amphibious bonus in the tech tree?

[tropic seal]

oh so i cant run those in no DLC?

do i go down prussian legacy if im using majority inf or nah