ask-for-help-here

[static gazelle]

il just drop some an pray they hold till i can reinforce it

[wind canyon]

this time go after the warlords get your cores

and then go after china

[hoary glen]

32w ist the biggest width where you can still attack with two divisions simultaneously into a mountain. You obviously can go below that, you will just deal less damage then.

[analog maple]

how do i beat the communist china? we been like this for a year

[wind canyon]

if you think you can hold a port with only 2 paras at like half strength and org then good luck

[static gazelle]

its a pretty thick div i guess

[wind canyon]

you need more divsions for one and increase the supply around that area

[analog maple]

if i add more they starve

[static gazelle]

are the soviets supposed to justify against me in historical? 😭

[topaz yew]

So 100% get the beijing one and go boleheviks? So ive got port access to invade?

[static gazelle]

as germany

[wind canyon]

becuse its all moutian tiles i hope your air force is in play delivering cas and strat bombing

[wind canyon]

build suply hubs

[hexed meteor]

any tips for this war

[hoary glen]

Create a pocket in which they can go. They will slowly move into that, then close the pocket. Rinse and repeat.

[hexed meteor]

the communists are dead i just need to clean up south america

[static gazelle]

encircle kill fall back repeat

[wind canyon]

id say by the times you get all the warlords you should have enough industry for a para drop since thats what i did

[analog maple]

wym "pocket"

[static gazelle]

just send tanks bro 😭

you own like the whole world

[austere roost]

It's better to have spgs now.set the role to artillery

[analog maple]

no more franzosen yay

[topaz yew]

All? Max i could get to was beijing before japan invaded when i went bolsheviks last time, not invading any of them to the west

[scenic nacelle]

Encirclement

Like Stalingrad was a pocket

[hoary glen]

You leave a huge gap, but have infantry all around. Basically you lead them out of their country.

[scenic nacelle]

Made by the Soviets

[tropic seal]

But you can stack 3 divs with 25w right, so which one's betterr?

[scenic nacelle]

Huh that’s a different meaning than I thought

[wind canyon]

wdym

[hoary glen]

Go along the coast, build ports when out of supply.

[analog maple]

they have like 50 divion. that would be a pretty big one woudnt it?

[topaz yew]

There was no way i could get more than a couple warlords before japan invades, especially if i get to the coast for a port

Industry would still be better

It should still work though i think, thanks

[wind canyon]

that i understand but go for the ones in the west

[topaz yew]

Maybe the mao cuf path is just really mid

[hoary glen]

Maximum width you can get into mountains without support attacks is 50 x 1.33 so 66.5. no you can't get 3 25w into one battle.

[wind canyon]

that way you can steal all the indstury and mp from them

[topaz yew]

The west? How do i invade japan then? Just paratroopers?

[sudden meadow]

is it possible to execute units

[wind canyon]

since

[scenic nacelle]

Delete

[sudden meadow]

Im actually so done with paratroopers

every time I try and use them

[hoary glen]

@tropic seal but focus on what Topaz said. Go high on CAS and battle plan.

[topaz yew]

Oh does the west have more industry than the east? I thought it was the other way around

[wind canyon]

since japan will have a overwheling naval surpemcy

paratropers will be your best bet

[sudden meadow]

its always some whiny excuse and when I give them what they want they still say somethings wrong

[topaz yew]

Good shout yea

[wind canyon]

whatever core land you get will be good for you besides you will have a much easier time getting air supremecy then naval

[tropic seal]

24*

[topaz yew]

And if i dont join the chinese united front maybe ill be able to get manchurian lands instead of it going to china?

[tropic seal]

wait can you not stack 3 24s

[wind canyon]

Yes

[topaz yew]

Okay, thanks a lot for the help

[wind canyon]

just make sure you don't piss of china

[tropic seal]

i find paratroopers easier than actually naval invading stuff 😭

[wind canyon]

so they dont invade you

[wind canyon]

real tho bro

[tropic seal]

yeah the problem when im fighting in china as germany is that i have no airbase access

[topaz yew]

Oh is that possible?

[sudden meadow]

How dawg😭\

[hoary glen]

Imagine the number 8. You have one of its rings now. Create a second one and leave the gap short, so you can attack one weak point. Once you have split their army cut them off and attack the cutoff.

[tropic seal]

cuz air supremacy is a lot easier to get than naval

[wind canyon]

yeah cz there is an event where you can like execute chiang kai just dont do that

[wind canyon]

yeah

[hoary glen]

Can you show a screenshot of how the world looks, please?

[wind canyon]

cz what u mean im about to sink the british navy with 50 ships

[tropic seal]

lmao aight lemme boot u p the game its pretty cursed

[topaz yew]

Ohh yea

[hoary glen]

No need for effort. I just don't get the situation

[tropic seal]

no its really kidna a funny map especially since its in historical

ai

[light knoll]

ok so i just went and played a game to test and damn I really overestimated the ai it was too easy
used 18w inf, supports aa arty signal engineers. didn't get pushed back one tile, 400k losses to their 10m. no micro was done. had around 4 full field marshals total. rushed gun 3 as fast as i could, it makes a huge difference.
didn't use airforce or tanks at all, sold all of the starting air and tanks (not using air force is obviously not optimal im just lazy)

[sudden meadow]

hell no dawg😭

Dude I HATE air so much rn

[wind canyon]

dawg just spam out fighters

its not that hard

[sudden meadow]

with Naval I just send a stack of submarines to massacre everybody and then send in a deathstack fleet

[tropic seal]

i hate naval 🥀

[sudden meadow]

Im Japan

[wind canyon]

ohhhhhhh

[tropic seal]

yes

[tropic seal]

oh

[wind canyon]

okay fair enough

[sudden meadow]

anyways

I tried to retake Taiwan

got so close to capturing a port (paratroopers bitched out)

then the attrition got to them and they wound up getting wiped out

[tropic seal]

@hoary glen uh yep this is the map

[wind canyon]

when you para in make sure you suround a port to encicle it

then force attack to kill the defending troop around the port

[tawdry mica]

what are spgs?

[wind canyon]

then send the rest of your army in

[tropic seal]

self propeleld gun

[hoary glen]

For whom are you even fighting? Vols to Japan?

[sudden meadow]

thats not the issue, the paratroopers never even took off in the first place

[tawdry mica]

so instead of doing flame tanks i will switch it to artillery

[sudden meadow]

had they done their job I wouldve tried but I genuinely can never use them its so annoying

[wind canyon]

odd did you have 70% air supority?

[sudden meadow]

Its at 74 rn

but Ive been holding green for a while now

[wind canyon]

in each airzone in the path?

when you hover over the execute order button what does it tell you?

[sudden meadow]

yeah

its like

right across

Its Okinawa to Formosa

[tropic seal]

It's currently germany soviets japan + most of the world vs america pretty much

and italioans*

[sudden meadow]

mfs probably could've swam honestly

[tropic seal]

italians on our side

[wind canyon]

right are your transport planes doing absoutuely nothing? like no mission assigned no airzone?

[tropic seal]

well i dont have paratroopers yet

i was planning on naval invading america the normal way

[wind canyon]

oh sorry mb im not talking to you not trying to be rude

[tropic seal]

oh allg

[sudden meadow]

nope

just sitting there

[wind canyon]

and there are enough right?

you need 50 transport planes per divsion

[sudden meadow]

well thats the other thing

it tells me I need to increase so I bring more in

then it asks for more

then I bring more

and so on and so forth until I have to stop cuz red

[hoary glen]

And the "ask for airbase access" action is not available to you? If you have that you need mil access and you can build airports. Tho if the Soviets are not in your faction you might want to go through them as well. At this stage of the game there is only so much you can do without air into mountains.

[wind canyon]

so the air base isn't full right?

[sudden meadow]

nope

[tropic seal]

nup

[wind canyon]

how many para divsions are there?

[tropic seal]

no air

[hoary glen]

Bruh. Stupid DLCs hiding basic functions.

You could LL Japan air and hope they use it. Tho they might need fuel as well

Or just conquer everything yourself lol

[tropic seal]

i've given them fifteen thousand fighters and the same mount of cas..

[wind canyon]

you saw my msg?

[tropic seal]

theyre certainly using air but like

in amounts of like

200 fighters

🥀

[hoary glen]

Sadge :(

[sudden meadow]

lemme see

[sudden meadow]

19

[wind canyon]

how many transport planes you got?

[sudden meadow]

1200

[wind canyon]

and you redrew the order with however many divsions you need to land per tile right?

[sudden meadow]

I think so

I have no clue anymore atp

[wind canyon]

give it another shot then

and when you when you execute the order see what it says you need

[tropic seal]

how do i use atomic bombs when i research them

[analog maple]

why doesnt portugal surrender?

[tropic seal]

overseas colonies probably?

[analog maple]

colonies doesnt affect surrendering

[tropic seal]

oh

dude why cant i take this

[sacred sluice]

Are you at war with any major country that owns a state in Europe?

@tropic seal

[light knoll]

they are capped

but it sems like they exist on some island

[scenic nacelle]

portugal

india

or

east timor

[tropic seal]

no?

[scenic nacelle]

are u at war with the soviets perchance

just open the war screen

and look

[tropic seal]

no

im at peace or allied with everyone on europe

[severe ivy]

What happens if I annex an integrated puppet? I presume I have to deal with the usual resistance stuff, no?

[sudden meadow]

can you use guided missiles to nuke stuff

[light knoll]

yes, its just a normal occupied land

[tropic seal]

ah hell the ameircans are starting to nuke me

is it joever

[sacred sluice]

Check little islands and stuff

You might've missed Malta or Cyprus or the Dodecanese or something small like that

[tropic seal]

cant seem to find any..

malta is capped

[sacred sluice]

Who owns Cyprus

Looks like the UK

Can't tell tho

[tropic seal]

oh im blind..

the uk has cyprus

BRUH

thanks

i thought it was my soviet ally

they have the exact same shade of red

[wind canyon]

it unlocks the research project nuclear reactors

first you need to build the nuclar research facility which lets u begin resarching the nuclear reactors and then nukes

[sacred sluice]

Bomboclat I wouldn't call UK and Soviets same colour lmao

[tropic seal]

yeah i have like eight of them

[tropic seal]

im blind

im researching nuke reactors rn

[wind canyon]

8 facacilties or 8 rectors?

[tropic seal]

facilities

[wind canyon]

yeah you only need one bro

[tropic seal]

oh

[wind canyon]

oof all that lost ic

[tropic seal]

i thought more facilities = like more progress

or something

[tropic seal]

half my civ facotries have been doing nothing for a year

[wind canyon]

well to get one break through point yeah

[tropic seal]

i need breakthrough points 🥀

[wind canyon]

but after you start research of reactors or the bomb

the rest are useless

[wind canyon]

in which case fair enough

[wind canyon]

put them towards more mils ig

or infastrucutre or the power plant stuff

[tropic seal]

all my building spaces are like full

[wind canyon]

dam bro i rlly? how about all the captured land?

[tropic seal]

pretty much those too

[sudden meadow]

sooo

why did it give Taiwan to New Guangxi Clique instead of me

[severe ivy]

Ah, gotcha! Thank you

[wind canyon]

dam i guess its time for russia

[wind canyon]

i can only assume its bc they have cores on that land

[tropic seal]

i want to get rid of america first

[sudden meadow]

ffs

[tropic seal]

they have nukes

[sudden meadow]

I literally held that and they apparently have it

ts aint fair😭

is there anyway I can take control of it

[wind canyon]

if your fighitng in the same faction with the gc then yeah they get it

[sudden meadow]

or is it theirs permanently

[wind canyon]

maybe you can get it in the peace deal

[sudden meadow]

ffs

[wind canyon]

fair but nukes arent that scary tho

are you fighting with them?

[sudden meadow]

we are NOT winning ts

[tropic seal]

yes

its pretty much everyone vs america right now

except my ai allies are useless

[wind canyon]

oh understandable then

[wind canyon]

yes you can win bro trust

[sudden meadow]

can I coup them at all or not rlly

[potent swan]

heyy
i found this video of someone playing with this super neat quebec focus tree and i cant figure out how they got it 😵‍💫 can you guys sus it out? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbZ9Kgs7dL0

[wind canyon]

i could see you coup either the french or spanish

but its gonna take awhile

and you best get ready to land forces in as soon as its done

[sudden meadow]

I mean guangxi

[sudden meadow]

tru

hmmmmmm

[wind canyon]

oh nah if they in ur faction i think there is a mechinaic that prevents u from doin that

[sudden meadow]

yeah guangxi taking that really hampers my plans now

[wind canyon]

how so?

[tropic seal]

which branch for infantry focused germany?

left right

[sudden meadow]

I needed additional land for factories as well as wanting to establish a radar station so I could see a bit further into the Chinese interior

[wind canyon]

just do down the army focus i think those are mostly for your officers

[potent swan]

like, do yall think this was a mod or base game but with a dlc ?

[wind canyon]

im like 80% sure you can build radars in the land of your faction members

but in terms of buildiable stuff i doubt you can get much from taiwan of all places

[tropic seal]

ive done all that

[sudden meadow]

you can but its not the same or atleast not preferred

I really wanted some additional land tho

[wind canyon]

how about the poltical focus

[tropic seal]

and that

[sudden meadow]

Im pretty much limited to the Philippines and West Papua but thats not a lot

[wind canyon]

well just read either side see what gives you the best

[tropic seal]

aight

[wind canyon]

yeah prety much are you still on the contienent?

[sudden meadow]

Nope

got kicked out of Korea and Manchuria pretty quickly

[wind canyon]

alright bro its time to land in korea trust

just hold the hell out of the port

and send the entire army through it

[sudden meadow]

my issue is even getting ahold of a port in the first place, the AI was so kind to give me massive human wall deathstacks from China, Russia, India, and France and they put em everywhere as well

[wind canyon]

i see well hmm

strat bomb and nuke the shit out of one port

that way you can get atleast a small foot hold

[sudden meadow]

how do I get em to focus on a port tho

[wind canyon]

well like strat bomb targeting supply and stuff

do you know how to specificaly target stuff using strat bombing?

[tropic seal]

icbms are better than strat bombers for nuking people right

[wind canyon]

wouldn't know i don't have that dlc 😭

[sudden meadow]

No

I really wish I did

[wind canyon]

hold on let me pull up a pic

[sudden meadow]

Im using vanilla tho

which is another thing

ah damn yk what, Korea is gonna take Korea

so I wont even actually hold it

[wind canyon]

okay so next to strat bombing icon right

there is the corsairs

you see it

click that

then chose specificaily what your bombers will bomb in that air zone

[sudden meadow]

Hmmm

[tropic seal]

how many casualties can the americans take before their pop collapses bro

[wind canyon]

till scraping the barel bro

[tropic seal]

how many is that

[wind canyon]

find it?

[tropic seal]

like 30mil??

[sudden meadow]

dont see it

[wind canyon]

proably? your better off just sending your whole army

[wind canyon]

its stragiht to the right

[sudden meadow]

or

[wind canyon]

of the strat bombing icon

[sudden meadow]

ah damn wait I see

[wind canyon]

yeah you got it?

[sudden meadow]

omfg thats so useful

[wind canyon]

yeah i only learned like

[sudden meadow]

hell yeah

[wind canyon]

almost 800 hours into the game 😭

please spread the knowledge bro i use it so often now

but yeah just keep strat bombing and nuking one port

and hope that your naval landings are enough with marines

oh yeah make sure you start shore bombardment and cas too

[sudden meadow]

hmmm alright lets see

and with strat mainly supply and rail right?

[wind canyon]

Yes

keep it up long enough it should mean that all that over stack will hurt them bad when u start to invade

to make it better see if you can start any strat bombing over whoever owns korea targeting civs

so they can't repair anything

[sudden meadow]

is it worth bombing airfields

[wind canyon]

absoutuely

[sudden meadow]

Im noticing air space is contested

aight

[wind canyon]

so you can crush their af while fighitng less of them

[sudden meadow]

I think I might have it bomb fields first then move onto supply

yeah

[wind canyon]

yeah do that

[rich dock]

yo can someone help me one pland

poland

[wind canyon]

whats going on bro?

[rich dock]

its not adding up for me i dont get it

thye have 80 monarchy support yet I cannot click the focus

[wind canyon]

it looks like lithuania has to be your subject

[rich dock]

it says only one of them needs to be true

[wind canyon]

no wait non aligned support

is not the same as monarchy support points

im assuming thats an internal point counter inside lithuania

like how the netherlands has a system of counting who has trade domainace between the uk and germany

[fiery flax]

What do I do with my basic infantry after beating Poland

[rich dock]

Oh and also I had a couple of decisions from another focus that let me control monarchy points I think but then they just dissapeared

[fiery flax]

Anyone maybe can guide me

?

[wind canyon]

wdym like ur infantry divsions?

[fiery flax]

Yea

[wind canyon]

take a look at your focuses im assuming they will give you more point s

[fiery flax]

What should I do now attack the Netherlands?

[wind canyon]

keep them in a seperate army from your motized and panzer divsions

[fiery flax]

They are

[wind canyon]

yeah begin to blitz the low lands and then france

[fiery flax]

Panzer are in one army

[wind canyon]

good yeah

[fiery flax]

Ok I mainly use infantry

[wind canyon]

yeah you still take out the netherlands and belguim with them

[tropic seal]

What is MRBM

is that the icbm nuke thing

[fiery flax]

I have Calvary guarding my coast

[wind canyon]

just make sure you blitz the panzers and motorized ahead of them

[wind canyon]

oh no swtich those out for infantry

[fiery flax]

Oh ok should I switch

Like the button to switch them?

[wind canyon]

yeah just make sure you got enough equpiment and stuff

[fiery flax]

Ok

Is this good enough to convert it?

[fiery flax]

Yo

[lusty charm]

could someone help me with forming greater Italy

[wind canyon]

yeah

[lusty charm]

I dont know what im missing, or does a Reichskommisarat not count as a subject?

[tropic seal]

bro i literally took cyprus waht does this game want me to do

[wind canyon]

your mising malta

[tropic seal]

ive taken or alllied everything in europe

why wont it let me take this dang focus

😭

[wind canyon]

what enemy majors are left in europe

[fiery flax]

Thanks for helping bro

[wind canyon]

him/her

he/she*

[lusty charm]

thank you very much

[wind canyon]

yeah no worries auto correct did that

[wind canyon]

no worries

[wind canyon]

how goes the air war?

[tropic seal]

why am i not getting naval dominance

[wind canyon]

from what i understand it takes awhile to build up

make sure your patrol vesels are decent and you have a beefy strike force ready to back them up

cause the patrol vesels are what add naval domainance

[tropic seal]

yuh

my units keep geting to 95 then moving back

[glacial steeple]

click bubble to see battle

[tropic seal]

oh

ight in a min

i gave up and decided to just build a nval base on it

ah itsa marsh

and i have low sup

thats annoying

[wind canyon]

did just get rid of like 3/4s of that army

the reason your attack isn't working is because you have 24 divsions in a single tile its called over stacking

2 or 3 divsions should be easy enough

[tropic seal]

oh

[wind canyon]

yeah just remember how much your supplies can support

[wind canyon]

what da problem

[sudden meadow]

yup

[sudden meadow]

subtraction

[wind canyon]

oh i see yeah they got encircled

reload the save and imedieatly make a break out

either to the right or left

[sudden meadow]

what would a breakout look like

[wind canyon]

so yk about the encirlement penatly in combat right?

[wind canyon]

just attacking enough so that your not confined to the one tile the port is at

and holding onto it

[sudden meadow]

I dont know specifics aside from encirclement bad

[wind canyon]

so bassicaily right

if you left your troops just in that one tile they have no places to retreat to and they get a -30% debuff to attack and defense

what i mean by break out is that you try and get into the tile directly south or north of it

so that your troops don't get the encirlement debuff

and so that they have a place to retreat to if they run out of org instead of getting deleted

[sudden meadow]

btw if I disband my units and reform them does that make a big difference

[sudden meadow]

Oh no yeah I get that, its just hard to know how specifically

I was making good progress by units basically got wiped out by the horde

[wind canyon]

u see it if you click the buble when u get into combat

yk the red the yellow or green one

that way you can see the specifics of the battle

[sudden meadow]

Mmm yeah

[sudden meadow]

Also^

Im thinking of deleting them and restructuring cause I have so many aircraft at all different airfields and its getting hard to look at

[wind canyon]

uh just combine them

do yk how to do that? cz if you delete them then they lose their experince

[sudden meadow]

I did that one time and it destroyed my old save

[wind canyon]

what?

it shouldn't do that?

[sudden meadow]

granted I put like 30k planes at an airfield

unless ur talking bout smth else

[wind canyon]

ah see that would be it

just do it by air field and dont stack all of them in one lol

[sudden meadow]

its hard to see

its a huge mess rn

[wind canyon]

holy shit u werent kiding um

alright man how i usualy do it is seperate air bases by the plane type

its understandable to mix em up a bit when there isn't enough air bases but see if you can orginize it a bit better jeez

[sudden meadow]

thats what I was wanting to do but its difficult

[wind canyon]

i get it with all the mixed planes and wierd air base slots

[sudden meadow]

Ive been having to switch because Im having to deal with Sakhalin, Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan, and Mainland China

[wind canyon]

if you have to start from scratch but i would recomend just taking a minute pause the game and sort it all out

holy hell i just noticed it was 1962

bro what are you doing

[sudden meadow]

uhhhh

fighting

how come

[wind canyon]

god most runs i do last about till 1943 or 45 if i really drag it out

[warped knoll]

need help with a sealion

[sudden meadow]

ahh

yeah its been hard

[warped knoll]

@wind canyon

[wind canyon]

uh how we doin it paratropers or marines/

[warped knoll]

finishing up para research

[wind canyon]

alright cool you got transports?

[warped knoll]

never mind i got 134 days on para

[warped knoll]

no i can make them in the meantime

[wind canyon]

alright good

remember make as many as you can and in the mean time strat bomb the hell out of britian

do you have strat bombers?

[warped knoll]

let me check

might only have tac

no strat

only tac

1400 tac

[wind canyon]

thats gonna have to do for now but start producing strat

do you know how to set your tac bombers on strat bombing specific targets?

[warped knoll]

no

[wind canyon]

do you see to the right of the stat bombing icon

[warped knoll]

oh

[wind canyon]

the little chrosairs

[warped knoll]

that one alr

[wind canyon]

yeah start targeting air fields and AA sites

[warped knoll]

ok

do i just put it over london

[wind canyon]

@ me when your paras are ready and you have complete air control over the isles and the chanel

[wind canyon]

Yes

[warped knoll]

what’s a good para template

my tac bombers are dropping like flies

[wind canyon]

3x3 paras with enginiering company suport arty motized recon and signal company

[wind canyon]

yeah thats way strat bombers are better

[warped knoll]

700 down to 400

[wind canyon]

but trust me keep it going you flaten their airfields

and send your fighters to fight over there

[warped knoll]

i got air sup almost immediately from deploying my fighters

[wind canyon]

wait you didn't have them flying up before?

[warped knoll]

no 💔💔💔

[wind canyon]

bruh lol

well now yk

[warped knoll]

i have 1.7k fighters over channel

all my tac on mainland

why are they unable to deploy

[empty fjord]

👋

[wind canyon]

deploy what?

[warped knoll]

it says those fighters aren’t able to go

[vital geode]

They deployed

Give them a mission

[wind canyon]

do they have a misison?

yeah i was about to say

[warped knoll]

jesus christ i’m actually slow

sorry

[wind canyon]

All good bro we were all there at one point in time

[warped knoll]

alr

paras have 60 days left

[sudden meadow]

is there anyway to get more building slots

[warped knoll]

got full control over english skies

[stuck garnet]

ngl what do i do early game

[vital geode]

Build up for what you want later in the game

[warped knoll]

will he do anything if i give it up

[vital geode]

Just give it to him

Borders look nice

[warped knoll]

k

?

something like this alright

@wind canyon

[wind canyon]

Yes

[warped knoll]

how many should i train

20?

24?

[wind canyon]

As many as your transports can afford

Remember you need 50 transport planes per division

[warped knoll]

50???

i have 150 planes only

[wind canyon]

Also do the focus falchrimjager in Air Force focus you get a general that specializes in paradroping

[wind canyon]

Better increase production

[warped knoll]

i have 10 mills on it bro

[wind canyon]

You might need more

[warped knoll]

i got no tires

shit

[wind canyon]

The general’s name is Kurt something make sure you give him the trait paratroopers

[warped knoll]

yeah kurt student

found him

[wind canyon]

Yeah give him that trait

And assign him to lead the paratrooper

[warped knoll]

ok but bro

my problem is transports now

is there a way to convert planes

i have a lot of cas

[glacial steeple]

not to transports

[warped knoll]

do i just wait

i have no tires

i have a 32 deficit

rubber

no rubber at all

@wind canyon you think 4 divisions is enough

[wind canyon]

uh i mean a bit risky

but the plan is to land your partropers to encicle the port at dover

do you understand?

[warped knoll]

and then just spam troops

yes

so i just need to cut dover off and create a front line

simple enough

i’m taking the two provinces just above dover

right?

[vital geode]

Land on dover as well

[crimson crypt]

can multiple strike forces attack a single fleet thats been spotted by patrol?
for example if there are 3 task forces assigned to the strike force mission in the north sea region, and a task force on patrol spots it, will only 1 strike force sail out to attack it or will all three go?

[warped knoll]

ok i have 24 divs but only 200 planes

ok

good?

@wind canyon

sorry for the pings btw

[wind canyon]

no worries

[wind canyon]

yeah thats good but epect the one that landed in portsmouth to die

but after they land make sure you rush your armies across the chanel to keep the port open

[warped knoll]

ok 7 days

wish me luck

[vital geode]

Only 4 paras?

They are going to get shredded

I sure hope you have more than 4 divisions landing

[warped knoll]

bro

only one landed without being abused

and it’s not one of the coastal ones

[vital geode]

This is why you land with at least 2 per tile

[warped knoll]

i assume there’s no hope here

even with 2 it gets destroyed

[vital geode]

Well, guess it is time to learn naval invasions

Group up the surface fleet and patrol in the channel

[warped knoll]

and now i have no air sup

balright

[wind canyon]

i say just run it back to save and get more transports

[warped knoll]

none of my transports died

i have 200 still

but they have all their air force there now

@wind canyon

[wind canyon]

what happend to your air force?

[warped knoll]

it got deleted

no more tac

[wind canyon]

ah i see

alright run it back to an ealier save and build more synth riferneires

[warped knoll]

bru

[wind canyon]

to get more rubber and more planes

[warped knoll]

what about naval

[wind canyon]

your going against the british royal navy

[warped knoll]

could i still get one off if lucky

[wind canyon]

i mean yeah but

with no air supiroity its doomed to fail

[warped knoll]

i have sup over the chanel

ok wait wait wait

@wind canyon

i got sup over mainland again

[wind canyon]

what

okay do you have naval supioroity?

or air?

[warped knoll]

air

[wind canyon]

wait till you have enough transports

[warped knoll]

i have 300

[wind canyon]

otherwise thats another bunch of paras are dying

eh 6 idk i odn't think thats enough

[warped knoll]

ok

i can wait for more ig

[wind canyon]

gets some more but maintian that air

and keep flatening their air fields

once all of the british planes are dead bomb industry

[warped knoll]

ok i’ve got 8 down

should i wait for 12 or 10

[wind canyon]

id say 12 to be safe

[hexed meteor]

anyway i could switch to a nation, unpause, and switch back to my main nation without the AI scrambling my units into 5000000000 different generals and theatres?

[wind canyon]

Not rlly u just gotta deal with it

[hexed meteor]

anyway to encourage a nation to build an army

[wind canyon]

Alright brother I’m getting off for the night make sure that when you land deploy Cas and focus all paratroopers around a port

[hexed meteor]

these mfs are in such a strategic position

[wind canyon]

Uh bring them to war that usually makes me being up the conscription level

[full quail]

Hey guys I just bought my copy of hoi4 last week. Am I ready for multiplayer?

[wind canyon]

With a friend or someone willing to teach you sure but I don’t suggest hopping on a random mp server

[hexed meteor]

only 3 hours?

get to like 20 hours before mp

im at 600 and i dont think i would be able to keep up in a mp game

[hybrid shoal]

deadass lowk same i can but i couldnt do a major

[full quail]

Yeah man I suck

[hexed meteor]

us 3 should play mp tg lmao

hear me out

[hybrid shoal]

atleast need 200ish hours to be good it sounds big but dont be frightend

[hexed meteor]

switzerland mexico and afghanistan

[full quail]

Sure man dm me

[hybrid shoal]

hn

[hexed meteor]

nah not fr ion got time for that

i used to host dnd like map games

like a mix of a strategy game and dnd

[hybrid shoal]

dnd?

[hexed meteor]

but i dont have time anymore so i cant do that

[hybrid shoal]

dead by daylight?

[full quail]

dungeons and dragons

[hexed meteor]

dungeons and dragons

[hybrid shoal]

hella nerdy

[hexed meteor]

just like in the way theres a host and stuff

[hexed meteor]

dude

we play hoi4

😭

[full quail]

lmao

[hybrid shoal]

hoi4 yeah but dang dungeons hela nerdy

i dont look like a nerd tho lowk

[hexed meteor]

ive been called a notsee for playing as germany in hoi4

[hybrid shoal]

i figure a nerd to be a ugly lame guy whos 5`7

and likesa dungeons and dragons

[hexed meteor]

im only 2 of these

[hybrid shoal]

which?

[hexed meteor]

well i will tell you one thing i am NOT boring to be around

[hybrid shoal]

im 6ft not ugly lowk and not lame or idk

[hybrid shoal]

id agree im pretty funny

[hexed meteor]

im lowkirkenuinly 5'7 912 lbs

[hybrid shoal]

im 5`11 barefoot 6ft wit shoes tall lightskin as in white

backwards cap

[hexed meteor]

badass?

[hybrid shoal]

nahh thats nerd asf

[hexed meteor]

anyway

wanna see my nerdy shit?

[full quail]

I'm a nerd

[hybrid shoal]

how so?

[hexed meteor]

the file is about 100 gb

[hybrid shoal]

5`5 short chopped?

[hexed meteor]

oh nvm

more like 5 gb

[hybrid shoal]

whats that?

[hexed meteor]

and no, i do not know what a continental plate is

[hexed meteor]

fantasy map i made

the nations on the left dont have any lore but the ones in the middle do

WAIT

THEY DO HAVE LORE

some of them do

[full quail]

Imma lowkey put learning navy on me todo list

[hybrid shoal]

so deadass

[hybrid shoal]

when a girl says she wants a nerd its just brad pit with glasses

[hexed meteor]

ugly people are more likely to be aggressive towards women because the only women who have shown them affection are their family

[hybrid shoal]

good point

[austere roost]

no. you make a spg version for your main battalions and then a support flame tank company. pdx made it very easy for you to understand. They literally tell you that flame tanks are support companies in the role selection

[warped knoll]

it failed

gonna try a naval

if it fails i’m just gonna go for russia and circle back

[austere roost]

did pdx ever fix the supply buffs in focuses not working bug?

[warped knoll]

@austere roost

what should i know before barbarossa

i’ve got the medium tanks ready

[left mica]

💀

[left mica]

my little hearts of iron

[austere roost]

ussr ai is extremely stupid and won't research above 1939 rifles so have fun, just remember to keep up with supply if you haven't gotten collab govs set up in ussr

also they're spgs, not medium tanks

[warped knoll]

spgs?

ok

[austere roost]

well if you designed them correctly

spgs and tds are way better than tanks in this version

it's like pdx never even played the game before which is most likely true

[warped knoll]

i’ve only got 36 width med tanks

[austere roost]

it's not necessarily bad

[full quail]

I have a question = what's a nation where you can stack a bunch of easy-ish achievements?

[austere roost]

just spgs and tds are strict upgrades of tanks in this version

[warped knoll]

germany

[warped knoll]

ok

attacking russia is legit my last thing of this campaign

if i fail it i’m just gonna restart

[hexed meteor]

why are these planes not flying to south amercia?

[rich dock]

how many should I put on engine?

[full quail]

Thanks. I think realistically it will take 3-4 playthroughs to get all of the german achievos but I'll be doing the same or similiar strats each time

[austere roost]

0

instead you should question whether it's worth it to spend 23 cost for something that's only 45 soft attack

[rich dock]

is 45 soft bad?

[warped knoll]

very

[rich dock]

what should I change you think

[warped knoll]

idk

ask @austere roost

[rich dock]

k

[full quail]

It's not a matter of = is it good or bad, it's a matter of any it be better per the production cost

[rich dock]

hmmm

[full quail]

Here's a cheaper heavy tank template with more soft attack

[rich dock]

how do i get lvl 2 howitzer?

just from researching better arty?

[austere roost]

1941 arty or 1940 at cannon

also you should consider making it spg or td because spg and tds are direct upgrades over tanks right now

also in sp, you don't need heavy tanks. medium tanks are enough

[rich dock]

how do i make spg

just putting artillery on tank template right?

[austere roost]

yes

and you shouldn't use heavy as mio

if you're using spgs use the spg company as design and benz as the production mio

[worthy lark]

Hey, could someone suggest a good layout for Germany (multiplayer)?

[warped knoll]

@austere roost

i’ve hit a bit of a standstill

[austere roost]

make encirclements and connect the railroads to the supply hubs

if needed maximize the railroads to lvl 5

and use cas, cas ignores supply

[sweet summit]

Leningrad would cause big encirclement

[boreal hamlet]

why is there a scrippted capitualtion for Japan?

[sudden meadow]

can anyone help me organize my Navy

[boreal hamlet]

Sure give me a sec got to cap Italy

[sudden meadow]

sure

[boreal hamlet]

ok I'm ready

[marble temple]

what are the specific requirments i need for thisd achievement?

[glacial steeple]

YOU need to capitulate the ussr

as in

be the MAIN war contributor

not germany not china not italy or uk or whatever

needs to be you

can be done after theyve capped before as well tho

[marble temple]

well meaning, i need to capture moscow right?

or just having the most war score in the first war, not the continuation war*?

[glacial steeple]

no

they have to capitulate to you

as in they have to capitulate while you contributed the mosr war score

[marble temple]

alright.

[glacial steeple]

doesnt matter which war you do it in

[glacial steeple]

it basically just means defeating them without help of allies

[marble temple]

i've been trying to do the 4 achievements in one go following a guide because i am too stubborn to figure out how to do it myself, but seeing how they do it now i feel like it can be easy.

[sudden meadow]

able to VC?

[marble temple]

yeah but this sucks.

[glacial steeple]

after barb theres no way you get it off btw

because germany will do more than you

[boreal hamlet]

yeah you want to use the helping lounge?

[glacial steeple]

but you could keep them alive post peacedeal and then kill them

[sudden meadow]

sure

[glacial steeple]

that works

[marble temple]

i as FINLAND, am supposed to kill the soviets by myself? i mean that's plausible but...

[glacial steeple]

yeah

sheep has even done it in 1937

[marble temple]

yeah thought of that but how can i even do that?

[glacial steeple]

click some peacedeal buttons

[marble temple]

i don't see how i can keep a nation alive

[glacial steeple]

change government works

[marble temple]

alright good, very good

[glacial steeple]

doesnt need to be a lot

[marble temple]

can't wait to have to fight the swedes and germans

its 42 will sweden join the allies?

[wild rune]

Yea

[wild rune]

Depends

[marble temple]

because i wont cause any world tension if i dont peace deal russia yet

i need to act quick;y

[glacial steeple]

thats irrelevant

when its at 100% theyre able to join the allies

[wild rune]

Oh

[glacial steeple]

when youve generated 10+ and the total tension is 25%+ guarantees start

they wont be guaranteed

[marble temple]

yeah.

[glacial steeple]

but its still likely for them to join the allies seeing as same ideology and high enough tension

[marble temple]

i mean this is all i believe

[glacial steeple]

again it doesnt really matter?

even if they dont get guaranteed they can just join the allies

happens often

[wild rune]

Too true

[marble temple]

alright i'll just do the other achievments in another run then.

i won't get lone wolf and... northern lights i think?

[glacial steeple]

on ahist its easier anyway

[marble temple]

oh and i lost no one crosses the finnish line because of ALAND AND PETSAMO. one state smh

[glacial steeple]

soviet civil war greatly weakens them

maybe sweden goes like some nordic faction

it could also be unbelievably harder but my rule of thumb is that if its hard on historical its probably easy on ahistorical

[glacial steeple]

oh i have that one

wasnt very fun

didnt have any wars i just sat there until 1949

[marble temple]

no one crosses the finnish line is easy?

[glacial steeple]

yeah

SSSR gets no wargoal on you

[marble temple]

what? you have to wait until 45?

[glacial steeple]

and the others are like

estonia maybe

ooohh scary

maybe norway or sweden

who are also not very scary

OH I REMEMBER NOW

oh yes

no nvm

that game genuinely nothing happened

i just remembered a game where norway declared war and then accepted conditional surrender and took nothing

rarest moment in hoi4

[marble temple]

conditional surrender moment, it was just a figment of your imagination

this doesn't happenj

the button is there for decoration

[glacial steeple]

it happened

i posted it here too

in my like thousands of images

[marble temple]

i got a 1 to 10 kd on the soviets hahahaha

....

[sudden meadow]

@boreal hamlet mic is bugged rq

[marble temple]

you are kidding me

i love this game

[glacial steeple]

whats wrong with that?

ah allies

thatll happen

well its pretty straight forward then

do your naval tree, spawn ships from nothing, beat allied navy, win war

[marble temple]

never playing finland ever again after the achievments btw.

[glacial steeple]

finland is really fun when you practice it

[marble temple]

i dont think i can kill america.

[glacial steeple]

and a good practice nation anyway

[marble temple]

yep.

[glacial steeple]

you start with pre-grinded generals

just have to pick the right ones

your eco is pretty good

manpower is bad but its not that bad if you mobilize forever and 200 weekly

[marble temple]

11 civs is soooo goood 😋

[marble temple]

yep,

ban facism and you got that lutheran.

[glacial steeple]

for what you have to defend its a LOT

you only need to hold 3 tiles usually

[neat widget]

if only the soviets had pre-grinded generals

[glacial steeple]

and your mils are great

[marble temple]

but i need to kill the soviets.

[marble temple]

yeah

[neat widget]

Only 3 tiles? I thought it was more

[glacial steeple]

idk why youre acting like its bad

[neat widget]

but the lakes really help

[glacial steeple]

minimum

helsinki

[neat widget]

Finland's a very good and defensible start

[neat widget]

Ah okay

The only problem is probably the lack of manpower

But you can probably deal with that too

[marble temple]

alright so i just started a new save, i know how to do the army and what not, i've probably played this nation more than i've seen actual real life friends atp. i know how to deal with quite literally everything except how i can kill the soviets.

[glacial steeple]

i have an old tutorial on how to finland

it doesnt really work since 1 div training is dead but the rest is fine

basically you want 100% government support like late 37

[marble temple]

https://youtu.be/5D-YoqlrqbQ

[glacial steeple]

1. Delete all your army except one of the Jalkaväkidivisioona template (the 6/0 with engineer). Put that division onto training. This is called "one div training". If you have By Blood Alone DLC, get Proper Heritage army spirit, after which you will add to the Ratsuväkiprikaati template more cavalry battalions until they are 20/0, and swap your only div to that template

By the end of 1936, you will get exactly 0.185 daily xp from training this single division. If you do not have BBA, do it anyway, but it will cost a bit overall.

2. Start on Increase Military Budget > Finnish Neutrality > Political Unity > Suomen Maivomat. Use the 50% tech bonus from Increase Military Budget to research 1938 infantry equipment. Keep the 100% tech bonus from Suomen Maivomat for the 1939 infantry equipment and use it as soon as you finish 1938 tech.

Start tech on Electronic Mechanical Engineering, Basic Machine Tool, Construction I. Once EME is done, start the 1938 infantry equipment research

3. Queue up mils in Karjala because 60% infra. If you get cold feet then it is fine to queue on Uusimaa. If you queue on Uusimaa then do Enhance Southern Infrastructure before Political Unity.

4. Do Motion of No Confidence on the first leader when the cost is 50 and you have 150 pp so you can ban fascism immediately

5. Ban fascism after you get Kyosti Kallio

6. Get Mannerheim for 0.40 daily army xp

7. Continue 1 div training until mid/late 1938, then start training an actual army

8. Early 38, if you have GDR DLC, you can build 1 land warfare facility. Keep doing focuses that give you more military factory in the meantime.

9. Go down on mass assault, right path, mass mobilization, so you get 5% conscription, and it is a better defensive doctrine than Grand Battleplan anyway, also save manpower more especially if you have By Blood Alone, and it can ignore much of your supply problem.

[neat widget]

If I'm able to defeat the Soviets as Turkey with war starting in 1936 I think Finland should be able to survive too

[marble temple]

i fllowed this achievement, it's the best one in my opinion

[glacial steeple]

10. 6/3 is fine. You want around 10 of them, and 30-32 of 5/0 division at the onset of war - 24 of which will guard the border north of the lake in Karjala, 4 next to Leningrad alongside the 10 division x main divisions, 2-4 extra on Petsamo

Supports should be Field Hospital, Long Range Recon, Artillery, Anti-Air, and Engineer/Snow Logistics (if it snows, switch to snow logistics, otherwise stay on Engineer or remove it because Engineer is useless for attacking division sometimes),

11. Build a railway line connecting to Petsamo so you won't get convoy raided too easily

Take Reorganize Railway System decision to build 1 supply hub in Salla

12. Push Leningrad on day 1 of war so you cannot be naval invaded unless the Soviets take all Baltic

13. Once you have pushed Leningrad, let the 4x 5/0 hold it while your main army goes north to push the Soviets away from Petsamo and take Murmansk. Taking Murmansk ports will prevent them from doing naval invasion for a while.

14. Once you have taken Olonet and Onega, just park there. Change your 5/0 to 5/1. You will now change the role of your main army to destroying naval invasions coming from the Baltic.

P/S: you can send military attache to China for more xp. If you do that, Negotiate Market Access with all enemies of China so your opinion of them drops to -100, which will reduce the impact of the Recall Attache event.

again this is old

[marble temple]

proper heritage doenst really work anymore

[glacial steeple]

youll have to pick different doctrines

[glacial steeple]

you dont 1 div train anymore

so no deleting army

or maybe just enough to equip all

[marble temple]

alr ill follow this/

[wintry oxide]

hello, is there a way to copy division template from a country? For whatever reason I don't have any tank templates in my army, but Im not too experienced so would rather just copy 😄

[cold garnet]

proper heritage is still takeable but you need GBP

Which isn’t a bad deal

xp matters less now anyway

[lucid torrent]

How to get enough reinforce rate now? I have level 2 signal company but still not enough

[glacial steeple]

you dont

[lucid torrent]

Soooo, how to defend enemy tank divs?

[glacial steeple]

mass mob is dead you have to attack or orgwall until death

[lucid torrent]

how to org wall when i don't have enough reinfore rate, my army still retreating although they are full org.

[sweet summit]

What are space Marines and what are they useful for

[lucid torrent]

infantry with high armor, normally from a few amor brigade with ridiculous high armor.

[neat widget]

rapid domination and deep battle add some reinforce rate, radio upgrades also add reinforce rate, and yeah signal companies and special forces add initiative

there's probably more ways

[lucid torrent]

Not enough.

[sweet summit]

Hmm what are they used for though ?
I saw a video where they were anti air weirdly enough

[lucid torrent]

It is a solid build, but they normally are tank destroyer.

To defend from enemy mech or tank, can can push meat wall if need.

[sweet summit]

What does high armour do and do I build it as a minor or no ?

Hmm ok

[neat widget]

anti air makes for cheap armor since there's only like 36 of them per battalion but the armor won't decrease

but it's pretty bad for anything else, like breakthrough or piercing

[sweet summit]

I might have to fight the Soviets in 41 cuz I'm lithuania 🥀

[lucid torrent]

If it is single-play then you don't really need it.

[neat widget]

lithuania can be pretty strong

[marble temple]

what do 6/3's and 5/0 look like?

[neat widget]

6 inf 3 artillery, 5 inf 0 artillery

artillery here is basically a manpower conserving measure i think, but you do suffer somewhat more casualties in battle

so we don't typically recommend that

[sweet summit]

As a 45k manpower infantry, should I do 6 infantry with 1 support artillery, 1 engineer?

How do I not know what trucks are 🥀

[glacial steeple]

no

[sweet summit]

Yeah I don't have engineers yet 🥀

[glacial steeple]

if you have low manpower and you want to preserve manpower per battle you should go large

its not about engineers

for finland its more about having enough out to fill tiles is why you do small units

[neat widget]

Also yeah

[glacial steeple]

rather than manpower conservation

[sweet summit]

I have 4 units rn 🥀
And they have like 6 infantry each

If i switch to 9 inf one, I'll have 3 units maybe

[glacial steeple]

which nation?

[sweet summit]

Lithuania

[glacial steeple]

what year?

[glacial steeple]

okay use 12/0

12 inf

but for taking baltics it doesnt matter

[sweet summit]

1936, building up the army for Latvia/ estonia

[glacial steeple]

you can use your starting army

without any new equipment

[sweet summit]

I have 31k manpower 🥀

[glacial steeple]

and win

ive done that in a game

[sweet summit]

Royal guards should be hosted 🙏

Goated

[sudden meadow]

one moment

@boreal hamlet @fiery thistle may need to use chat for now

me?

[wintry oxide]

is there a detailed breakdown of what each civ factory is used for?

[neat widget]

Yeah go to production tab and on the top left you should be able to hover over the civilian factories icon there and it should give you a breakdown

[wintry oxide]

I only see this

[neat widget]

That was what I was talking about, but I assume you want a more detailed one

7 license imports oof

[wintry oxide]

yeah

exactly

I wanna see where Im importing so much from

[neat widget]

go to the trade tab

and you'll see which nations you're importing from

[wintry oxide]

i only see resources Im importing

but I found out what it was, a few UK ships (I wasnt even using one of them ever :000)

also sometimes my subjects provide lots of factories, sometimes 0. How do I find out why?

this thing

[neat widget]

No clue, just happens

Sometimes I just switch trading partners when, for instance, I'm convoy raided

[sleek remnant]

When to go for tanks vs special forces?
Specifically for Romania but usually idk how to decide

[glacial steeple]

general, terrain

[lucid torrent]

Soo, how to defend from spy? I max counter intel and have 2 spy on defen

[oak jasper]

How do I keep my troops from attacking zones which aren't part of the offensive line order? There are some tiles I do not want them attacking on account of poor terrain, but they keep on making attacks across the entire line.

[fathom thistle]

Edit the frontline manually

Or change the aggressiveness of armies

[oak jasper]

To be clear: they're attacking tiles not in the offensive line order: the center should be staying in place and the flanks advancing.

[fathom thistle]

If it's advantageous for them they will adance anyway

U can try changing the army stance to cautious

[fathom thistle]

Assuming you are doing the offensive line while already having a frontline with your army group

[hoary glen]

There's one spy upgrade that increases detection. Else there's nothing you can do.

[gentle verge]

did they remove pop-up messages when something happens such as germany rearming the rhineland or no?
germany ends up declaring war on me with a disarmed rhineland in 1939

i didnt get any message to chose to intervene or let go

[wind canyon]

Oof did you activate the paratrooper ability?

Wait how did it fail you had 12 divisions?

[wintry oxide]

do I need all 3 1944 researches to get 1945 one? Or just one?

[dusty sandal]

you need the fighter research iirc
that and the jet engine research/special project

[hoary glen]

If you click on/ hover it should say why you can't research it

[wintry oxide]

based on that I dont need neither of 3, but why is the tree drawn out like that 😄

[dusty sandal]

if I recall correctly, there used to be jet CAS or something before By Blood Alone DLC but I might be wrong

[dusty sandal]

but yeah, the thing you're lacking is jet engine
not plane tech

[wintry oxide]

thank you

[indigo sapphire]

is BICE mod good?

[scenic nacelle]

Yes

[indigo sapphire]

i have it on hoi4

i like it a LOT