ask-for-help-here

[topaz yew]

Self propelled gun

Its supposed to be better against infantry but i think theyre fibbing

[austere roost]

no, breakthrough is a useless stat once you reach a certain breakthrough

[heady skiff]

Well I kinda figured

Cus yk

[topaz yew]

Maybe ill try completely stopping plane production

And replacing my spgs with tanks?

[austere roost]

it's better against inf because you can get higher soft attack and you require less spgs than tanks in a battalion

[topaz yew]

And infantry with mountaineers

[austere roost]

meaning if your tank design sucks and template sucks your armor division will suck too

[topaz yew]

Oh ive been copying a template with 10 spgs, is that too many?

[austere roost]

10 spgs and 8 inf is a standard template

[topaz yew]

Ohh? Not seperated?

[heady skiff]

Yooo someone who actually knows what their talking abt 🥹 ✌️

[austere roost]

wait are you doing 10 spg 0 inf/cav/motor/mech?

[topaz yew]

Ive neen using a 9 infantry template and a 10 spg 6 truck template

[austere roost]

make your armor templates 36 width

you should try to have around 1:1 ratio for armor/inf in your armor divisions

[topaz yew]

It should be i think

8 i mean for trucks

I dont have mechanised yet

Too many resources

[austere roost]

that should be pretty good

oh so this isn't your divisions

[topaz yew]

By infantry do you mean trucks too?

[austere roost]

yeah trucks and mechs are also inf

just inf on cars

[topaz yew]

Almost is, ive been trying to copy it

[topaz yew]

Oh okay

[austere roost]

what is your spg design?

[topaz yew]

Exactly i think now

I think im making 2 a day

[austere roost]

what's the last module?

[topaz yew]

Defence i think

[austere roost]

also you don't need the 4 armor if you're not producing enough

[topaz yew]

Ah alright

[austere roost]

you don't need it

inf provide defense

[topaz yew]

I think a big problem is my lack of resouces stopping me from making much of anything

[austere roost]

wait

is that welded armor?

[topaz yew]

But i cant really solve it since the soviets have nothing to spare and my naval presence doesnt go out of the black sea

[austere roost]

the +30% armor one?

[topaz yew]

No

[austere roost]

use the cheapest riveted armor

[topaz yew]

I think it is

[austere roost]

then why are you using chromium?

you have a resource problem and then are designing armor that uses chromium

[topaz yew]

Does riveted or bolted use chromium?

And the biggest problem is steel

Yea idk whats using chromium but its not welded

[austere roost]

try to find it

rivet is the cheapest armor

you don't need fancy armor against ai

it's a waste of your ic and your resources unless you're turkey which has like 1000 chromium

[topaz yew]

Yea im using riveted

[austere roost]

can you find which thing is using chromium?

if you have a chromium deficit then removing the chromium module will help

otherwise, how many factories can you put on spgs?

[topaz yew]

"Higher tier medium tank weapons" the wiki says

[topaz yew]

I think ive got 17

[austere roost]

lvl2 howitzer?

[topaz yew]

Yea

[austere roost]

oh well you can keep that if you don't have a chromium deficit

17 factories and only 2 spgs every day? Can you show your production interface?

[topaz yew]

It may have gone up since a bit ago but i doubt by much, ive made about 800 total in a year

Sorry no i cant anymore

[austere roost]

maybe production efficiency is still growing

[topaz yew]

Ill probably ask again for help here tomorrow when im on again, thanks a lot for the help :)

[austere roost]

yeah np

[patent drift]

my strike force refuses to attack enemy destroyers that are protecting convoys

is this intended behavior?

is there a way to manually order a task force to join a battle?

[austere roost]

did you set engagement rules?

like never engage

[timber flower]

I was playing and quit and once I open the game back up a few hours later it says the game is using a different version but I never changed anything is there a way to fix this?

[sleek current]

non historical but how is it possible for a country to have more than 100% world tension

[austere roost]

If they keep starting wars they will cause a lot of wt

For example in my wc saves I usually generate 1400 wt

[sleek current]

that’s crazy

[patent drift]

my strike force is literally right next to the battle

-_-

[pliant condor]

not how it works

cancel the mission and right click into the tile, they would join

[patent drift]

am I supposed to spot the 8 destroyers first using the patrols?

I thought the strike force would auto-join any ongoing naval battle

[austere roost]

so as a reference, normally justifying on haiti gives like 1 wt. But when I'm in a world war and am at war with 30 nations, justifying on haiti gives like 15 wt

[austere roost]

could be because the subs are already leaving the battle so your surface fleet isn't going there

[vital plinth]

Hey can someone help me ?
I’m fighting Italy at north the area between Italy and yogoslavia
I have 48 divisions but I’m not getting through I wiped most of their army but this is tight spot and I can’t do naval invasion. Am I doing something wrong having 40 divisions on a single tile ?

Also I don’t get why my trucks are not being deployed to reinforce they don’t work in mountain ? I set them to number 3 highest reinforcement priority

[lament quail]

How do I get Japan to act on their war goal

[austere roost]

yes, there's no way you can fully supply 40 divisions in one tile unless they're one battalion divisions

the highest reinforcement level just guarantees that you can supply maximum amount a supply hub can supply. That doesn't mean that there will always be sufficient supply for all divisions

[vital plinth]

@austere roost I’m trying to encircle then but the mountain tile is impossible

[austere roost]

if you can break through that tile with 76 progress then you have a big encirclement

you need to pin down the two tiles in front of the 76 tile so those troops don't go back and reinforce

[vital plinth]

The ones to the left side ?

[austere roost]

no, the right side

the tiles that you want to encircle

[vital plinth]

Shouldn’t I incicle them to the right side and go for left side ?

[austere roost]

so you need to attack them to prevent them from going back but not with so much offensive force that they just lose the battle and retreat

[vital plinth]

Ah ok that way

I understand

Ah nvm failed now there is 8 division

This game is impossible for me to play without saving and going back I make wrong move always

[austere roost]

you can also try attacking the coastal division to the left and then attack the 76 progess tile from two directions to make it fall faster

[cerulean orbit]

Hello does anyone here understand naval? Because I have plenty of ships as Italy but I don’t know what to do with them. What ships do I set to convoy raiding? What ships do i set to strike force? Etc.

[austere roost]

there are a lot of such guides on the internet

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

for example, this one. Try to follow it

[cerulean orbit]

thank you

[raven maple]

Hey I’m playing monarchist Portugal and Brazil went fascist and I’ve been doing the decisions to get them more monarchist but when they hit 60% N.A will they turn non aligned

[vital plinth]

Hey yeah I tried that worked better since it wasn’t mountain tile so was easier to get to and used what you said where I sent some to attach to stop them from moving thx 😀

[lament quail]

how do I get Japan to act on their wargoal

do I move divs away from the border

[pliant condor]

yes but it's pretty inefficient

just move your fleet manually

you engage enemy navy by raiding

[patent drift]

what do you mean raiding?

[molten geyser]

When you select "Release Nation" from the Occupied Territories menu, it makes them a puppet, right?

[austere roost]

yes by default, I believe it also lets you choose if you want to make it an independent nation

[vital plinth]

Is marsh and mountain the worst tiles to attack ?

I can’t push through

I get 35% attrition too is that a. Huge debuff ?

[austere roost]

it sucks but if you have enough attack and breakthrough and cas, you can push through

also use mountaineers there

[vital plinth]

Not enough cas only 48 divisions of infantry

[lament quail]

how is the score calculated

bc

wtf is this

The German Empire and its vassals combined reach every continent(except for Antarctica)

I have defeated every great power except Japan

[vital plinth]

@austere roost here marsh in middle and mountain at top can’t get through at all is it because of the big debuffs?

[lament quail]

who looks like ts btw

the USA sat on their tushie behind their 2 little pools

and kicked rocks

while I kicked the behind of a fully buffed soviet army

how is the score calculated(i am asking)

also does anyone know why japan isnt declaring war here

[austere roost]

partially yeah, but also partially because you're attacking with inf

[lament quail]

please guys i need this my world is kinda tensionless

[vital plinth]

Ok I see

[lament quail]

i live in a german empire, i want to form the eu

[patent drift]

navy is so goddamn dumb man
why does my convoy escort fleet ESCAPE FIRST, before all the convoys!!! your job is to protect the ships not run lmao

[lament quail]

maybe the risk level at which they flee is too high?

[vital plinth]

@austere roost the template I’m using for mountaineirs? Is it fine or need change ?

[austere roost]

mountaineers should be ~25 width so it's not bad

but it would be better if you remove the line artillery

[vital plinth]

I tried to attack with 3 divisions vs 7 divisions but just loosing

[austere roost]

add in cas or armor

cas gives you org damage that doesn't rely on breakthrough/land attack, and armor directly improves your armor/breakthrough

[pliant condor]

convoy raiding

is the mission you use to engage enemy fleet

[vital plinth]

Armor like support tank ?

[austere roost]

no, i mean spgs/tanks/tds

flame tanks have no stats

[analog maple]

anyone know if usa still join against usa if japan wont attack them?

[edgy pendant]

?

[analog maple]

mb i meant against Germany

[edgy pendant]

I don’t think so. Unless axis ai manually justifies or someone declares war on a nation in the Americas

[analog maple]

ok thx

[vital plinth]

Ah ok I don’t have those yet , I’m attacking with these atm

But it’s not going well xd

[austere roost]

you can open the bubble and it will tell you the key stats and all the modifiers during combat

[hexed meteor]

lemme see templates

swear that 2 good template divisions can win a battle agaisnt 10 divisions with bad templates

[austere roost]

you have to hover over the numbers and it will show you all the percentage modifiers

[hexed meteor]

28 width is terrible for mountaneers iirc

a good mount template (i think) is

sth like this

support companies will vary

and depending on what nation u are i'd go for only 6 mountaneers and 1-2 artillery

im a major power with huge amounts of land rn tho so i can afford larger templates

[vital plinth]

Which number ? 😅

[vital plinth]

I’m Byzantine I can afford 40 total right now

[hexed meteor]

no

no

dont train 40 divs

u can train all the divs u want but you still need to give them guns

lemme see ur production screen

mostly js the rifles

[versed rose]

dont bait people with this garbage

[hexed meteor]

u say this but someone here recomended that template to me

[versed rose]

that someone is clueless then

[hexed meteor]

😭

[hexed meteor]

its still better than what lionwarrior has

[versed rose]

no, his template unironically makes more sense

his tech just sucks

[hexed meteor]

i love tanks in the mountains

because those things just go hand and hand

[vital plinth]

I have enough I’m at 8k need improvement

[austere roost]

attack, piercing, defense

also please stop telling people to create divisions with 3 line artillery

at that point just build spgs

[hexed meteor]

is this to me

ur saying it like this is a reoccuring issue

with me

crine 😭

[austere roost]

it's not reoccuring

[versed rose]

recurring in general

[hexed meteor]

city boiii

[austere roost]

it's just you shouldn't tell people to put 3 line artillery in a division

[versed rose]

too many clowns telling people to gimp themselves with line arty

[austere roost]

1 line artillery is 1 too much

[hexed meteor]

my fault

[hexed meteor]

so lowk should i use light or medium sp artillery for my mountaneer template

[austere roost]

not really

[hexed meteor]

me and lionwarrior both need a mountaneer template

[austere roost]

spaa isn't bad but spg might be overkill

[vital plinth]

Pirceing is 9 enemy armor is 0
Soft attack of mountainair is 84 ans break through is 118, enemy defense is 183

[hexed meteor]

if it matters they're getting disbanded after im done fighting in the rocky mountains

[austere roost]

just put flame tanks and engineers

[hexed meteor]

🙏

[austere roost]

i mean if you hover over those numbers it will show you a detailed breakdown

[versed rose]

good mountaineers look something like this

ideal mountain width is 33.25

[hexed meteor]

thanks

[vital plinth]

What should I look for specifically I have to hover each icon a lot of sections

[spiral dome]

poland is impossible honestly

[austere roost]

usually it's supply and terrain issues

[hexed meteor]

solution for this?

i have marine and amphibious tanks aswell 💔

lowk need them cause im abt to send them to the carribean to help out germany in invading the us

[versed rose]

if you dont like exploiting, only real way is to trim the amount of special forces you have

[hexed meteor]

tragic

[versed rose]

or like, get more doctrine for them

[hexed meteor]

oh wait

hmo

wait nvm

just will keep my mediocre template for now

is this a good dirt cheap defensive template

th entire purpose of these guys is to sit on my pacific islands so they cant get naval invaded

[austere roost]

no you don't need the tanks and half of your supply companies

[hexed meteor]

ts not getting invaded 🙏

[austere roost]

and technically, you don't need island coastal guard if you control the waves

[hexed meteor]

i trained them all before i conquered australia and indonesia

the allies still controled most of the oceans

atp its just the central and eastern pacific that the allies control

[austere roost]

yeah navy is kind of bugged now

[wicked thunder]

so alright i've got 70 boats wrecking the Italians in the med and i'm trying to land in greece, but unfortunately they won't leave here because it says they're "holding" even though i turned it off

[hexed meteor]

I like designing the ships

[wicked thunder]

i keep commanding them to patrol

or go to crete

does anyone know how i can make them do what i'm telling them to

[hexed meteor]

ould u show some menus

not much context to know what the issue is

show us these menus

[vital plinth]

Oh ok yes supply was minus 4% debuff and terrain minus 10%

[edgy pendant]

Why not just have. You know, only infantry defend. Tanks aren’t really good for defending and light tanks are the worst tanks for a line battalion m

[hexed meteor]

idrk why ia dded the light tanks

[edgy pendant]

You want good island defense do like 35w mechanized divisions

[wicked thunder]

nvm i had no oil

papa america's here tho

[hexed meteor]

i need smth dirt cheap

i lowk am just gonna remove some of the support compppanies and the tank in my 2x2 garrison div

tbh the ai is weird and only b invading with like 1-3 divs and most of these islands have coastal forts

[austere roost]

tanks are good for defending. Any division with enough soft attack and armor can easily defend regular ai

[lament quail]

how can i get more steel

[hexed meteor]

do steel mills exist in vanilla

if not then just trade

[lament quail]

there is literally not enough steel in the world

[hexed meteor]

what year is it

[lament quail]

1949

[edgy pendant]

I mean I can spam 2w cavalry and defend against ai, just because it’s possible doesn’t mean it’s good

[lament quail]

(most of these are my puppet

also im not eu because luxembourg is singlehandedly preventing me from doing it

i could take greece(which is in the co-prosperity sphere) and use their steel

or i could puppet the reorganized national govt

but i have my own chinese puppet

that i want to unite china with

which is more worth it

🤔

[scenic nacelle]

Bro 😭

Does bro not play vanilla

[sweet summit]

Chat

I'm building cas in 1938 as Sikiang

Should I research bombs part 2 ?

[hexed meteor]

hell nah

0 dlcs so i onky play rt56

[scenic nacelle]

Why would u do an airforce as Sinkiang

[sweet summit]

Uh why not

[scenic nacelle]

U won’t be able to afford it

[sweet summit]

Fine 🥀

It's not like i spent the last year researching planes

Guess I'll look at a navy now

[sweet summit]

Can I build tanks ?

[peak thistle]

Is there a way to deport Jews as Germany

[hexed meteor]

it happens aslong as you are fascist

if u change ideologies it is assumed the jews are saved

[upbeat arrow]

Does allying with the silver shirts as usa garuntee a civil war? Or can I just use that to help get to global hegemony?

[scenic nacelle]

💔

[buoyant cargo]

Where can I find best template for speical forces and tanks?

[raven maple]

Hey what’s the general consensus for Portugals monarchist path

[peak thistle]

Brazil puppet and liberate Spain

[raven maple]

You annex Brazil

[peak thistle]

It’s easier to puppet them

[buoyant cargo]

As the United States, should I withdraw the Naval Treaty or what?

[raven maple]

But then you don’t get the man power

[raven maple]

Sure

Do it

[buoyant cargo]

ty topg

[raven maple]

It lets you have a bigger navy

You might lose relationships with uk and France

Tho

[buoyant cargo]

oh

[peak thistle]

Yeah ur gonna have to

[buoyant cargo]

very nice

idc so much about good relation because I am afraid of japs

[peak thistle]

They are weak compared to America

[buoyant cargo]

as navy?

[peak thistle]

Yeah

[neat widget]

Just conquer them

Well, if they start warring with you for some reason

[raven maple]

I mean uk navy is gonna be annoying and us is a entire sea away

[neat widget]

set up your navy before they even have a chance to build naval supremacy

also set up your naval invasions so they launch day 1

[sweet summit]

Chat I need guns

Only 2.1m

[raven maple]

Toché

[neat widget]

oof

[sweet summit]

No wait 50k

[fathom nova]

how do i garrison occupied lands

[raven maple]

Put troops in the land

[fathom nova]

ok

is there any way to core it

[sweet summit]

Nope

[fathom nova]

sad

[raven maple]

What land and what country are you playing

[neat widget]

okay that's at least manageable

[sweet summit]

Only decisions, focuses or formables

[sweet summit]

At 70/d

[fathom nova]

oh okk

[tepid umbra]

it auto does it

[sweet summit]

It's fine

It's not like i want to fight china

[raven maple]

?

[neat widget]

still manageable, like you can build production up over time

[fathom nova]

so like if you want cores you need to play like a formable nation like austria hungary or commonwealth?

[raven maple]

Are you gonna answer my question please

[sweet summit]

Or through decisions

Yesh

🥀

[fathom nova]

i usually play german reich or some random small country conquests and some ussr

[raven maple]

I feel formables fall under decisions usually

[raven maple]

So what country

[sweet summit]

Yeah

[raven maple]

And what land

[sweet summit]

I'm playing as Sikiang rn

[raven maple]

Like the benulax

[fathom nova]

like if i were to play ussr and occupy finland and the baltics and some of poland how

[sweet summit]

I only play asia 🥀 or lithuania/ poland

[sweet summit]

Focuses

[fathom nova]

wait doesnt france have a focus to restore napoleon? and like cant they core the benelux?

i kind of wanna get into some freaky france activities

[sweet summit]

Who plays france 🥀

[fathom nova]

people who want to cap germany before they can anschluss

[tepid umbra]

people who want to cap germany ai relatively easily

[fathom nova]

just guarentee poland or defend the cheks

and u cap germany 1938-1939

[tepid umbra]

or js declare and bum rush them

[fathom nova]

real

ww2 solved

[raven maple]

And have colonies

[fathom nova]

what mods are good

[neat widget]

at least you can stop the nazis

[fathom nova]

i just play vanilla with dlcs

idk if its worth it to get mods

[raven maple]

Kaiserreich

[fathom nova]

just run with central power focuses of monarchist germany

literally the same thing

you can even turn france communist

just like is kaiserreich

[tepid umbra]

completely different

[fathom nova]

yeah its just if germany won ww1

which wouldve been so tuff

[neat widget]

and to do that

go play great war redux

[raven maple]

You asked for a mod I gave you a option

[raven maple]

That one’s good too

[pulsar kestrel]

wait is their a mod where ww1 ended in stalemate or still going on ? there was a statement mod now its gone ?

i tried finding it :<

[raven maple]

Idk

[raven maple]

Here you go

[tepid umbra]

someone should merge great war redux into kaiserreich

like sumn to transition

[buoyant cargo]

Guys help

UK is trying to size my Navy

why should me Navy be less than 80 as USA?

compared to UK

[vital geode]

You are to be equals with the uk

Not exceed it

90-100%

Just say you will and take thr stability and war support hit

You can fix those later

[buoyant cargo]

It says that I am above the RN

[vital geode]

Or you go to war with the UK and instantly remove great depression and undisturbed isolation

It might also involve france and japan

[buoyant cargo]

They will gain puppet war goal focus in few days if my Navy isn't less than 80

[vital geode]

But more land for you to conquer

[vital geode]

Less than 80?

Really?

[buoyant cargo]

I will send image

[vital geode]

Oh that's a bruh moment

[buoyant cargo]

It says my Navy is bigger

[vital geode]

Because it is

Delete some of your destroyers and heavy cruisers

[buoyant cargo]

why is UK so jealous 😔

[vital geode]

Or get ready for war

[buoyant cargo]

Then it is the war

lol

[neat widget]

Oh it's very easy to exceed the UK's capital ship limit

Because you basically are headed that direction at game's start

and if you add one more dockyard on a capital ship production line then you get there faster

[plush crow]

If my medium tank division has more motorized than tanks, do I NOT get any doctrine/commander buffs for my divisions for armored divisions?

[tepid umbra]

pretty sure the stats give buffs to the batallions

[plush crow]

Thanks

[neat widget]

Your division almost never gets full combat buffs

It gets it based off composition

So if 33% of your battalions are tanks and 66% are motorized, it gets 33% of tank buffs and 66% of motorized

(or specifically, they're coded as "armor" and "truck)

[timber flower]

when i go to load my save from yesterday it says its from a different version of the game and cant be loaded do you guys know how to fix this?

[glacial steeple]

shows in bottom

[neat widget]

in bottom?

[glacial steeple]

next to hardness bar

[indigo sapphire]

should i build a BIG army navy and airforce as Germany?

[wild rune]

true

I saw that one time

it shows division composition

in percentages

[serene karma]

Army and air force sure

Why do u always capitalise at least a word

[wild rune]

its bros writing quirk

trust

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[neat widget]

Precisely

[glacial steeple]

i wonder how low you could make the %

wait do rockets get double bonus

[left mica]

just go to war

[sweet summit]

Why do some people put tanks in an infantry battalion

Man SIK gets 6 research slots 💀

[glacial steeple]

jan mayen, USA, new zealand also do

[quartz jackal]

Are there any additional ways to increase the special forces limit percentage of battalions beside the special forces officer corps tree?

[sweet summit]

Uhh focuses

[quartz jackal]

Aight, also found out that the Spirit of the Army Tip of the Spear from the Grand Battle Plan increases special forces cap by a flat 24.

[quartz jackal]

What is the reason behind using 36W tank divisions? I've seen a range of different designs but 36 I've seen the most but why? You can't have two attacking a plains tile at the time with the 70 width limit, assuming you use 3x3 INF and 2 ART infantry or just 24 width infantry only 1 can support the tank division.

[glacial steeple]

making your army larger

[glacial steeple]

you can exceed width 33% and also youre usually always attacking from 2 or more tiles which increases width

and you should never attack with holder divs, or overinvest IC into your holders

[quartz jackal]

So you consider a holder div a 9/2 Infantry, could you provide an example of an assault div?

[glacial steeple]

i would never use 9/2

[quartz jackal]

Alright what do you use then?

[glacial steeple]

if i only have guns? special forces

give me a min to design stuff for you i havent rlly gotten up to date stuff saved

[left mica]

anything wth artillery in it will never be a holding template because it reduces org and hp, and the increase in soft attack isnt enough to justify using

the larger the combat width the fewer divisions in combat you have, making you more vulnerable to reinforce memes

just a solid 9 battalions of inf in a holding div

as for assault you get 36w tanks of 8 heavy spgs, 9 mechs or amtracs and 1 heavy TD

[glacial steeple]

smh im loading my game

ill make some stuff for SP

[left mica]

in a 70w tile you get a -2% cw malus

[glacial steeple]

you dont need heavies in SP

tbh lights might be best now that theyre super cheap with balls and the other buff

SP tanks just need to be good enough

[quartz jackal]

Yeah please if it isn't clear enough I don't touch actual MP I just play somewhat casually in SP and with friends aganist AI.

[left mica]

for example this is with 36cw divisions

[left mica]

i love heavies

[glacial steeple]

give me a minute smh

[left mica]

i do it because i want to

[left mica]

read the tooltip btw

[glacial steeple]

1940 techs fine?

[left mica]

its there for a reason

[quartz jackal]

Yeah Ill just wing it for later

[glacial steeple]

my doctrines rn

[quartz jackal]

I think the doctrines include the new DLC which I don't have because it is WAY too expensive.

[plush crow]

HOW TF do I destroy the British navy? Im doing sealion rn. I have 75 submarines but only ~8 destroyers. I have 1000 fighters and 1000 naval bombers as well as 600 CAS

Im slowly chipping away at them but it's obvious it just won't be enough to pave the way for my surface fleet

Should I invade from the east instead of going through the channel?

[glacial steeple]

something like this will work in sp even tho you have no break

[glacial steeple]

yeah, sucks having to design for all dlc combinations so i wont rn

[quartz jackal]

Its fine is the new special forces doctrine in that DLC too?

[glacial steeple]

i believe so

[quartz jackal]

Aight

[glacial steeple]

i can send you a pre dlc marine that should work

[tepid umbra]

the naval bombers

[glacial steeple]

but one min making stuff

[tepid umbra]

with good ones and a handful of ships

eventually the british will just stop patrolling

[plush crow]

My fleet is pathetic, I have like 10 battleships

[tepid umbra]

that's a handful

[plush crow]

How many surface vessels do I need

[tepid umbra]

js don't send the subs in to the channel

[plush crow]

I have them on convoy raiding

[tepid umbra]

enough to not get your entire navy nukes in one go

[tepid umbra]

make sure they're not in the channel

[plush crow]

why

[tepid umbra]

subs in shallow water is bad

and it means they'll all get decimated

[glacial steeple]

7K IC tank havent reduced mech cost

have to reload game ugh

to make it more accurate

forgot to turn some stuff off

and forgot to save skull

[plush crow]

At what point exactly is it safe to send my surface fleet

[tepid umbra]

constantly idk

[plush crow]

brootal

[glacial steeple]

this is more accurate

[glacial steeple]

@pliant condor what do you think of this for SP? balls trade + contracts + standardized MIO with cut corners

1940 techs

oh i forgot you start with tank debuff

its cheaper normally

[glacial steeple]

with national buffs instead of debuffs it goes down to 3K lol

[quartz jackal]

Do you use the recon rangers for the attack buff in snow and mountain? Just curious but it looks like its cutting 2km/hr from your tank speed since they are on foot.

[glacial steeple]

its forest too

its like engineers but cheaper

like, twice as cheap

[indigo sapphire]

hello casey

[glacial steeple]

and the terrain it affects is defendable (hills, mountains)

forest

snow

[indigo sapphire]

hello yalls i just bought expansion pass 2 and now have 37 dlcs in total on hoi4

[glacial steeple]

heres direct comparison to engi

76 cost vs 116 cost

[quartz jackal]

How are you able to go down two special forces tree btw?

[glacial steeple]

you get a decision when at war with a major, or focuses for it

depending on nation

sometimes both

[quartz jackal]

Assuming I go down the paratrooper tree do you have an alternative to the rangers or just the one I recommended.

[glacial steeple]

just use pure mountaineer

they have less CW usage

for for like 32.4 width for mountains

[quartz jackal]

Aight

[strange plaza]

i was playing soviet union and at the start of the game my first justification is on poland, uk never gurantees poland becouse of that, and never did until this game i just had, uk never guranteed poland (im on last version all dlc btw i played my soviet games on that) but only in this game it did, WHY?

[glacial steeple]

because world tension was 25+ and you were 10+ of it

[strange plaza]

every game was same and this too

i didnt change anything

only in this britian guranteed

[silk canopy]

What was the world tension before you declared?

[strange plaza]

idk but i just want to know why in this game uk could guranteed becouse i didnt change anything everything was same as the last games

[silk canopy]

Were you playing on historical?

[strange plaza]

yes every one of them

[novel stone]

yo just took a year break from hoi4 where i was just playing for fun before using the command table for cheats and non historical mode ect never actually winning a game before what wasn’t on regular or harder but im coming back wanting to actually play the game now. what would be the best video or creator to watch for guides, tips, ect.

[strange plaza]

isorrow has a guide he is pretty good

[silk canopy]

segl, he does guides for mp but that makes you better in the game overall and works in sp too

[novel stone]

thanks guys

[strange plaza]

on this game my airforce was at polish border, on the other games it was at moscow

i dont remember airforces make world tension

but still this could be it?

[glacial steeple]

it doesnt

[strange plaza]

😭

[strange plaza]

i did the same things on another game it didnt gurantee this time

[silk canopy]

Maybe the time when you justified and/or declared was different?

[strange plaza]

im was pretty sure i didnt do anything diffrent that changed tension but hoi4 is wacky so

anything could happen

i blame germany

[silk canopy]

Maybe the UK didn't have enough political power to guarantee these other runs

[strange plaza]

both were historical but still can uk act diffrent on political section

[silk canopy]

There is some rng to it, like when stanley baldwin changes to chamberlain or maybe some countries demanding uk to stop ataché which loses you a bit of pp

I don't know if ai makes different pp picks tho

[strange plaza]

idk

when chamberlaine comes tho

38?

[silk canopy]

I don't remember but I think he comes different months based on rng but I may be wrong

[strange plaza]

war happened in 36

prob not about chamberlain

he prob did not come

[glacial steeple]

it could just be like spain or something causing tension but poland war already does a lot

[silk canopy]

I don't think you reach 25 world tension in 36 even with poland war

So that's weird

[silk canopy]

Do you have a save?

[glacial steeple]

poland has a lot of states

[pallid wadi]

Im not sure how do we use spies

like what button do we click to show spies

[silk canopy]

The eye button in bottom right or one of the tabs on top left

[pallid wadi]

idk can u circle where

[glacial steeple]

you dont have la resistance

[silk canopy]

Exactly

[pallid wadi]

wait so

i need la resistance to use spies

[silk canopy]

Yeah

[pallid wadi]

whattt

💔

how much is it

shoulda known i cant play the game before i bought it without paying more

[glacial steeple]

you can play it

la resistance is like one of the less impactful things in singleplayer

[compact violet]

What nation other than Spain that have a civil war event?

[plush crow]

Why did I get this achievement

I literally fought the french

[glacial steeple]

germany, france, ussr, estonia, latvia, lithuania, finland, norway, sweden i think, czechoslovakia kind of, italy, portugal, argentina, brasil, chile, paraguay, usa, mexico, canada, south africa, indonesia, japan, united kingdom, poland, romania, yugoslavia, greece, bulgaria, turkey, iran, iraq, afghanistan, india, sinkiang kind of, mengjiang maybe?, bolivia i think?

i may have missed some

like austria might but i dont remember them having one

same for hungary and switzerland

oh yeah ethiopia has one

[pallid wadi]

the thing is

If i invade the soviets

takes so long

[gilded root]

If you're winning you're winning..

[glacial steeple]

doesnt take much slower with collabs

its just 15% now

shorter

idk words

[compact violet]

The one with the monarchist path?

[glacial steeple]

which

you just asked who has a civil war

[compact violet]

Forget it

I just like to play the civil war

[gilded root]

Is it just me or there's no reggiane mio for Italy?

[wintry oxide]

so in hoi4 you cant really end war with white peace?

I've been stuck fighting in South America the whole game and it's a stalemate

[dry otter]

Does anyone know a good heavy tank div for the Soviets?

Should i just use the same old one with the med ones

[jolly escarp]

(im pretty new) How do I conquer major powers? more often than not It gets stuck in a stalemate, for example when I make the imperial federation and conquer france and spain, conquering germany is often very difficult, I wonder if theres any way around it?

[indigo sapphire]

how many ships crafts and vessels should i build produce as USA

[true tapir]

does japan still capitulate to 2 nukes even if they have taken india, china etc?

[gilded root]

CAS, better divs

[true tapir]

They in fact did not surrender after nukes

[scenic nacelle]

Did u fix their ships

[true tapir]

huh

[scenic nacelle]

To make them surrender

[true tapir]

i didnt need to

[scenic nacelle]

U need to kill their navy

[true tapir]

i didnt need to i had 4 times bigger

[scenic nacelle]

That’s how how it works

Ok u do u

[lament quail]

where is the best part of the front to put my tanks

(I am germany, canada is my puppet)

[scenic nacelle]

Anything east of Wisconsin

[lament quail]

east?

but isnt new england all mountains and forest

?

[scenic nacelle]

Or maybe Idaho if u want

[scenic nacelle]

No

They have like 20 mountain tiles

[lament quail]

also the americans are stacking that part of the front with their mechanized

[scenic nacelle]

But everything on the west is basically just mountain/desert

[lament quail]

what about the midwest plains

[scenic nacelle]

Sure

[light knoll]

not a lot of vps there

nor factories

[lament quail]

i mean at least i can get there

[light knoll]

yeah, but it doesn't give you much to get there

[lament quail]

maybe I could send tanks to buffalo and encircle new england?

i just specialized my medium sp artillery for soft attack

and the amound of hard things I see in New England

has my armored divs timbering

yk what alright I will try

how good are modern tanks again

will ts work

[light knoll]

useless

[lament quail]

and can the ai make good ones

[light knoll]

yes, probably

[light knoll]

no

[lament quail]

alright

im just concerned about how my 1 hard atk sp artillery

[glacial steeple]

bad

[lament quail]

will deal with american armor

[glacial steeple]

worse than heavies

worse than mediums even

[lament quail]

is this beating america

[light knoll]

ai can't design tanks. don't worry about it

[lament quail]

ok

[glacial steeple]

america doesnt even have full equipment

or supply

[lament quail]

22% world tension btw, im wholly relying on america to hate me enough to intervene when I annex my puppet in el dorado

[glacial steeple]

annexing puppets diplomatically doesnt cause tension

[lament quail]

yeah but the usa hates it when you own land in the americas right?

[glacial steeple]

not rlly

just when you attack american countries

[lament quail]

o

crud

but cant they do that thing where

[glacial steeple]

you might be able to flip fascist still

[lament quail]

i kinda need victoria

[glacial steeple]

you got that rat looking guy

[lament quail]

yeah

but he himself gives massive fascist support

[glacial steeple]

its woman in the high castle right?

eva braun works

fascist

[lament quail]

for eva braun i'd need hitler

[glacial steeple]

yeah so youd have to restart

[lament quail]

😭

[glacial steeple]

or somehow do another war vs ussr

and annex it all

[lament quail]

orr i could go from vicky to strasser back to vicky

?

[glacial steeple]

i forgot

i dont think you can

whats your focuses looking like

any wargoals

[indigo sapphire]

hello

[lament quail]

1951

[indigo sapphire]

should i use nato symbols

[lament quail]

ive done everything

[glacial steeple]

you have the war vs ussr focus no?

if you release them

[lament quail]

theyre my puppet

[glacial steeple]

integrate then re release

[lament quail]

also i bypassed it

[glacial steeple]

sucks to do

[indigo sapphire]

answer this casey

[glacial steeple]

uhh idk

you can

its hard to read first time

[indigo sapphire]

alr

wdym

[lament quail]

I bypassed it after defeating the ussr

[glacial steeple]

whats the other one

[lament quail]

end european communism

[glacial steeple]

yeah but like

any communists in europe?

[lament quail]

(there is no communism in europe_

[glacial steeple]

cuz you puppeted ussr

otherwise it couldve given a wargoal

kinda self inflicted ngl

[lament quail]

japan was also in the peace deal

[glacial steeple]

i think youre softlocked

[lament quail]

they wouldve annexed everything i left

[glacial steeple]

but i dont have the save so idk

[glacial steeple]

yeah thats fine

you can release from occupied territories usually

let me think

capo verde starts communist iirc

[lament quail]

is cabo verde in europe

as in

[glacial steeple]

no

[lament quail]

does it count

alr

[glacial steeple]

but im thinking

can i have your save?

from files

[lament quail]

how do i send it

[hardy sable]

Good Afternoon Casey ^^
Can i get special projects with the recearch_on_icon_click cheat? i want to try out the ice carriers what they do

[glacial steeple]

use sp_ra

[glacial steeple]

\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\save games

in files

[lament quail]

here

i think

[glacial steeple]

unless you dont want all

theres stuff like sp_fa

or something

[lament quail]

wait shouldnt ts be in tech support

[glacial steeple]

nah its not tech support

[lament quail]

alright

[glacial steeple]

italy is communist

release and you can spike tension annexing them

[lament quail]

I see

i will try

[glacial steeple]

also france ai might be set to communist

you annexed them early so i cant tell

[lament quail]

what happens if wt doesnt go high enough

after all italy doesnt have that many states

[gilded herald]

Casey you’re always here when I hop on it seems 😆

[glacial steeple]

im here a lot of the time usually

i just had 1 month of relative inactivity

[glacial steeple]

sucks

you could also lose the wart

war*

would create a lot of tension

but uuhh i think itd be faster to restart atp

but it is an option

[lament quail]

should I also release france before "ending european communism"

[glacial steeple]

youd have to wait until they flip

and that could take a while

[glacial steeple]

its kind of back to this point

[lament quail]

yeah

ok imma try italy and if it fails im restarting

poh

*oh

italy tried to annex my albanian puppet

does the power of the major nation that one declares war against affect the world tension increase

or the duration of the war

[glacial steeple]

afaik its relative

there was a world where it was me (iceland) germany (annexed and cored everyone) and switzerland (just kinda there)

when germany declared on switzerland it caused 100 tension

germany won that war btw (max buffed)

[lament quail]

i see

[spice pine]

guys

how does the whitepeace command work

im tryna wp the uk but it says failed

[glacial steeple]

needs to be both war leaders

idk how war leaders work

but you need those

[spice pine]

dawg

ts so ahh

i wish i could go back in time using commands

[glacial steeple]

toolpack is easier (mod)

[kind lagoon]

Do you think Its good to Go for the Netherlands so you can get the resources as germany
The Problem is the mefo Bills get canceld

[glacial steeple]

no

[kind lagoon]

u get hella rubber and oil

[glacial steeple]

you have crazy strong refineries + the resources get raided at the time you should be making air

which is after france cap with all the improved air tech

[kind lagoon]

okay so im gonna use my civs for the resources

i only build them until like 37 because i never trade for anything

[glacial steeple]

dont make them that early, either

make them somewhere in 1938

mils before, mils after

[kind lagoon]

so i should build civs until 38

[sweet summit]

Is sikiang better or kamul khanate

i guess sikiang has easier time with communist support and great buffs but kamul seems to have a better tree post first phase

[glacial steeple]

no?

why

[glacial steeple]

imo kumul is more fun

[kind lagoon]

so you dont build civs at all

[glacial steeple]

you can build 1 so you can do research slot focus after schlussing (1936)

[kind lagoon]

ok thx

[lament quail]

could I orchestrate coups across south america to raise wt

because this 19% wt is js not doing it

i havent fought italy yet

but idk if the italy war will be enough

they ARE communist after all, maybe the world(america) cares less if theyre communist

also how does the failure for this spy operation work

3% wt

[lament quail]

how do i increase success chance of orchestrating a coup?

[glacial steeple]

every month you wait it ticks down 0.5%

[lament quail]

i see

[glacial steeple]

peacedeal does more too

[lament quail]

well the wargoal just finished, here I go

wait a minute

is ts my lifeline

could this raise my wt enough

also, in a civil war, do puppets flip to you or the ai?

[oak jasper]

Is there a way to deploy exile divisions on your own territory? Free France decided "we'll only let you deploy divisions in Eritrea", and I have no secure path for these divisions to actually get anywhere useful.

[glacial steeple]

its their region or your capital

[oak jasper]

Can AI countries just capitulate out of nowhere without any occupation of their cores? Did I somehow miss one of my allies invading Japan?

[trail reef]

is it just me or is the german socialist path where u can support anti colonization and stuff useless and dosent work_

[velvet radish]

can anyone help me kill china as japan new world dms

[trail reef]

why dont they have range

[dusty sandal]

change home base

[trail reef]

how

[dusty sandal]

use the automatic function in fleet selection. The gear icon at the top

[trail reef]

thank you

[analog maple]

guys does the "tactic" thing matter? i never used it

[gilded herald]

It does a lil

[orchid halo]

Guys how can I use cheats on milenium dawn multi-player

[rigid nebula]

Cna you grant land to a newly made puppet in peace treates?

[glacial steeple]

no

[trail reef]

is this a serious question?

[sweet summit]

🥀

[trail reef]

which operation is best for when ur using tanks

[left glacier]

[winter raven]

Uh can som1 help i have all dlcs except for ncns (steam ultimate bundle bought like a month ago) but i dont have the new rangers. can anybody help

[sudden tangle]

china and japan are puppets

originally did this for the kill usa achievement

but i am wondering if its worth the world conquest

and in that case

i need help for boat

design

[winter raven]

Uh can som1 help i have all dlcs except for ncns (steam ultimate bundle bought like a month ago) but i dont have the new rangers. can anybody help

[sudden tangle]

need to know whats good for guardian carriers

guarding

i will be building 8 of them

[viscid abyss]

What’s the good design for USA heavy fighter?

[subtle thorn]

Wich division should i create for speed as brazil?

[glacial steeple]

air

[subtle thorn]

do you have good template im currently 1938 i got thoese things i need like surv

[glacial steeple]

for uniting south america or

just license some basic medium frame and make CAS out of it

2x lmg with 2x bomb locks

as in 1 lmg

[sudden tangle]

use CAS on the enemy and let them de org against this division

[viscid abyss]

Thanks

[glacial steeple]

you can unite south america by like 38 as argentina

a year later as brasil

[subtle thorn]

No motorized?

[glacial steeple]

cuz your focuses are slower

[subtle thorn]

wich grand doctorine should i go?

[glacial steeple]

really expensive

[subtle thorn]

casey mobile or superior firepower?

[orchid halo]

Yess

[glacial steeple]

sfp

[scenic nacelle]

Rangers in dlc

[sudden tangle]

shouldnt be an issue be when you own all south america

[trail reef]

well u cant

[glacial steeple]

it is you dont even have steel

it all has to go to air

[scenic nacelle]

That’s not even a heavy fighter 😭

[glacial steeple]

thats normal yeah

you only do basic medium at start because you have no tech and need range

[sudden tangle]

ye i agree fully

[subtle thorn]

so wich desing for a cas and fighter?

[glacial steeple]

ive played pretty much every nation several times i know what im talking about 👀

[glacial steeple]

those are in pinned

but thats for when you have tech

[sudden tangle]

fair enough

[subtle thorn]

This you mean?

[glacial steeple]

argentina is up there for some of my fav nations

so is peru

[true mantle]

Dude, I was just playing normally and suddenly 122 divisions appeared, divisions I wasn't even training for. In fact, I don't even have that many squads.

(I'm just curious why this happened.)

[glacial steeple]

spy mission

theyre fake units

[sudden tangle]

played argentina few times but decided brazil was first one i tried to learn fully ,

[scenic nacelle]

Would spy missions work in mp

[subtle thorn]

wich pinned do you mean?

[glacial steeple]

argentina is like a worse brasil but faster

[sudden tangle]

nah but thats the plane i use as brazil it worked

[scenic nacelle]

Like it would be really funny

[glacial steeple]

so you can fastgame

but your scaling sucks

[glacial steeple]

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/gxu5CCutA28di9qW58UYRyOBoayMRQL4aaEuQxrkOc4/https/media.tenor.com/GXrGwu5nghMAAAPo/check-pin-discord-check-pin.mp4

failed at copying gif

ending it all

[true mantle]

Thank you

[subtle thorn]

thanks

[sudden tangle]

as for the CAS

if too expensive remove radio or use worse airframe

that was my mistake this brazil run i switched to the next airframe

[glacial steeple]

my personal top 10 fav nations to play probably

[sudden tangle]

and stopped building the old one

[glacial steeple]

this kinda sucks

but its fine

i wouldnt use jets on it

or really use tacs lategame

[sudden tangle]

ye when i designed it i thought it was clased as strike aircraft but that was a week ago and now i know that you need a different airframe

[sudden tangle]

tell me what youd change i have a ton of these

need to enter into a mega war with england and china and such

[glacial steeple]

i would just not use medium frame

theyre expensive for like no gain

[sudden tangle]

gotchu

also need for navy

torpedo cruiser potentially

[subtle thorn]

is excavation worth reasrching

and should i build mechanized or armored div as brazil?

[glacial steeple]

you should not even have that as a thought

[dense stone]

how do I even do naval battles? No matter what design I use and what enemies I fight, they always escape, how to prevent that?

[glacial steeple]

you dont have steel or tungsten

[sudden tangle]

i didnt do either , i brute forced on on air

capture guinea and the dutch colony

[glacial steeple]

you only have resources for air and special force inf

[sudden tangle]

core it

make air

[subtle thorn]

i do these div templates that you sent belgium

[sudden tangle]

he prolly saw bolivia which is aight ig

[clear tide]

What do i do in the lianguang incident

[sudden tangle]

and saw the resources there

[clear tide]

To get tge puppet

[subtle thorn]

damn bolivia 115 tungsten

at wich year should i start building up airforce

wich first fighter or cas

[clear tide]

Fighter

And as fast as you can

[sudden tangle]

use that for anti tank and the stuff for the support companies

[clear tide]

When you researched everything you need

[sudden tangle]

arti etc

[clear tide]

What do i do in the lianguang incident for the puppet

[sudden tangle]

cas

[clear tide]

Pls anyone

Cas when enemy has no airforce fighter when they do

[glacial steeple]

chile too but its not enough for your eco

so it doesnt matter

[half glade]

whats a good light spg template

this is what i made

[sudden tangle]

anti air

[glacial steeple]

no?

not as south america

[sudden tangle]

mb i misread the question

[subtle thorn]

why cant i see bolivian troops

they are ? marks

[warm sable]

what is a good plane design for 1938?

[sudden tangle]

@warm sable

[trail reef]

is tanks a horrible idea for naval invasion`?

[spiral dome]

my units just wont invade

i have air and navel sup but they wont move

[fast bear]

is there a way to more easily mass move my aircraft?
cuase um its kind of alot...

[shadow jewel]

hey um question. as fascist german, is it better for me to get in a faction with romania or invade it? you know because of the oil

[scenic nacelle]

No

[tepid umbra]

The only way is if you want them all to be in one airport

[tepid umbra]

Did you let the invasion get planned

And did you actually start the plan

[reef tapir]

too bad i dont have an easy way to get a wargoal on them

[sudden tangle]

assign them to army groups they change airbases by themselves

[oak jasper]

I had Japan just capitulate out of nowhere without a single foreign soldier on Japanese soil. I loaded an autosave: they had high stability and war support. Any ideas on what happened?

[glacial steeple]

you core acre tho

[reef tapir]

i cored 2 tiles and i could demand them which they accepted

[reef tapir]

cleaned up the colombian mess off camera