ask-for-help-here

[clear tide]

Oh didnt know he was playing there

Mb

[reef tapir]

i call this a success

brazil be shitting bricks rn

[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]

Were u originally Bolivia or Peru

[reef tapir]

peru

[topaz yew]

hello, please can i have some help? ive completely stalled against the axis and im not really sure specifically why, i can vc

[reef tapir]

why am i hearing boss music?

definetly an, interesting fleet

[untold crescent]

How do I get naval dominance without using control

Patrol

[idle arch]

Strike force what

[reef tapir]

doesnt do shit anymore

[untold crescent]

Yeah

And uk has crazy naval

Patrolling just gets my ships blitz

[reef tapir]

just make some spotting cruisers and put your main fleet on strike force

[untold crescent]

I know Jack shit naval

[reef tapir]

sadly there aint no more way to cheese it

[untold crescent]

Bruh

I’m alright at hoi4

[reef tapir]

you have to return to the old cheese called paratroopers

[untold crescent]

Only can’t invade uk as Italy aka what I’m doing rn

As Germany ez idk patrol just works

Restoring Roman Empire but I kinda suck

I got Italy ofc Spain France

I’ll just search up

Thank you tho

[reef tapir]

no problem

[untold crescent]

Man

Their isn’t really much to it

Just patrol

[reef tapir]

if you really cant do anything with navy just do paratroopers

[untold crescent]

Putting other ships on convoy reading and strike force helps if you have ships on patrol

[untold crescent]

How do I get air superiority

[reef tapir]

good fighters

[untold crescent]

ok

Thanking

[reef tapir]

i dont have by blood alone so i cant really show good designs rn

so you have to ask someone else for that

[untold crescent]

Oh shit

Paratroopers are mad

YouTube

I’m not playing right now

Way to late

But this is good for Tomorrow

[vocal gust]

Lf someone who can teach me navy dm

[topaz yew]

it seems pretty difficult to do anything decisisve as a minor power, just as i start to pick up steam again against yugoslavia, the allies take berlin

[fathom thistle]

if you see any allies in europe deal with that first

then you can focus on continuing your stuff

[topaz yew]

as in the commintern

wwas slowly pushing here and suddenly got a notif that berlin fell lol

buti guess thats kind of a given, romania isnt going to kill germany

[glacial steeple]

this is a severe case of trying to push where your enemy is strong

through mountains and rivers into big stacks of units

[fathom thistle]

https://klipy.com/gifs/escanor-5

[glacial steeple]

just push where your enemy is weak

often times that is on long fronts with lots of plains/forest

[topaz yew]

yeah that was the problem i wass having, at the north they had 12 divs a tile, in hungary there was a huge river, and in yugo there are loads of mountains, so i was stuck for 2 years

[glacial steeple]

its too zoomed out to tell precisely, but theres probably tons of weak spots

another issue is that youre using units that are inherently designed to not go on the offensive

[fathom thistle]

combinng rangers and mountaineers in template for ultimate europe division? Aye or nay

[topaz yew]

there are now that the allies are here, but what do you do before that and the axis arnt weak'?

[glacial steeple]

only special forces/tanks/air can make offensives in this game without a lot of unnecessary losses

[topaz yew]

i have 1 self propelled gun, and im working on a second

[glacial steeple]

make your holders cheaper

[topaz yew]

im using this

[glacial steeple]

you can save a lot of costs by concentrating your economy into a few units as opposed to trying to outfit all of rhem

[topaz yew]

should i use less supports?

[fathom thistle]

could I pump it up to 36w or is it counter-productive?

[glacial steeple]

almost twice as expensive as what i sent btw

bottom right

[glacial steeple]

mountains, marshes arent good for 36w

[fathom thistle]

alr bet

[glacial steeple]

even forests are questionable but theyre fine

[topaz yew]

i thought supports were cheap, is that not true at all?

[glacial steeple]

you can read the cost

but typically no

i mean theyre cheap if the unit is large

their cost doesnt scale

[topaz yew]

ohh no theyre well expensive

[glacial steeple]

especially engineers are a noob trap

they are not that shocking for 30 support equipment

[topaz yew]

ill only keep engineer and support artillery then, thanks

oh

[glacial steeple]

ranger recon is 15 btw

and it buffs you on defensive terrain instead of what engineers do

which is like fort buffs

river buffs

[topaz yew]

15 what sorry?

[glacial steeple]

15 support equipment

per unit

[fathom thistle]

no signals?

[topaz yew]

it says production cost is 87 for me?

[glacial steeple]

its for SP

in mp youd have larger + signals

[fathom thistle]

alr bet

[glacial steeple]

in MP you also just have more faction IC to work with

and players who macro better in general

[fathom thistle]

so like for sp signals are just not important that much?

[glacial steeple]

well see it like this

reinforce rate matters if you get pushed too fast

and need to reinforce against high attack enemies

even if ai somehow gets reasonably high stats and pushes you back relatively fast

its usually a lot slower, and typically not in strategically important tiles

so its less of a priority

that is also to say ive only seen the ai make decent tanks once

like vanilla ai

[fathom thistle]

interesting

[glacial steeple]

germany made a lot of these

24 width still isnt great

[fathom thistle]

Im actually impressed they managed to get this divison

[glacial steeple]

if you are somehow in like i think its a 1943 target template?

and facing that

on like plains with red air

you might get rolled

tho im going off of the assumption youre not in that specific scenario and then not having signals is fine

radio tech gives a lot of reinforce too

[viscid abyss]

As Romania do I go Balkan dominance or preserve greater Romania

[karmic terrace]

Anyone got a space marines template

[glacial steeple]

idk why i added the rocket arty but im bored so :p

[karmic terrace]

Thanks

[wintry matrix]

Big boom.

[karmic terrace]

Works with light tanks?

[glacial steeple]

no because their break is worse

and theyre not cost effective

the ones with a heavy tank are for armor

the ones with medium are just for piercing/break

[karmic terrace]

Got it

[glacial steeple]

lights are generally just really bad but NCNS made light tds/light spgs viable for singleplayer (in dedicated tank divs)

theyre garbage on inf because inf lacks breakthrough and the td/spgs also get about 0 break

which defends you while attacking

https://youtu.be/1IIjk4bAh68

refer to this video

[vital plinth]

Hey what exactly does puppet do ? Do I get access to their civs and milletary factories ?

I got Italy and was thinking puppet Libya and annex Ethiopia because of some of their civs and mills and dockyard

[solar robin]

It doesnt cost you equipment to occupy and as you increase control (increasing vassal status) you get more benefits

I dont know what the exact data is regarding benefits

If I remeber it correctly vassals are better short term because they cost less equipment but you will have less acces to their resources and factories in the long term

[vital plinth]

Vassals are puppets right ?

[solar robin]

Yup!

[lucid grotto]

does anyone know of a mod that lets me hide focuses, preferably one that works with mods cause i am playing modded china and the mod i am playing with has a very very confusing focus tree i would like to trim down to the paths i am planning on taking before i do

[glacial steeple]

its mostly manpower really

you always wanna occupy unless youre fascist maybe since its better to directly control mils than have ai control them

[vital plinth]

I am facist but had pressed puppet now :(( and

What should I do ?

[glacial steeple]

thats fine

fascists get good puppets

you get like 65%? 75%? of the mils

[vital plinth]

Also I’m catching up on resseach for tanks but it’s slow , would it help j train a basic tank division now but don’t deploy so they get full training ?

[glacial steeple]

who are you playing?

[vital plinth]

Byzantine started as Greece

[glacial steeple]

typically you only need artillery techs the chassis is irrelevant besides for production efficiency

[vital plinth]

I have a bit of time with no war and huge amounts of factory

Could I train tank divisions and then not deploy but adjust later for combat and keep the experience?

[glacial steeple]

i dont think greece should be doing tanks but its whatever

just exercise them at minimum for +25% combat buff before sending them to combat

[vital plinth]

No I mean when I train under division training with basic template can I keep them there and wait until I get the important stuff resseached and adjust and then deploy ? Will they keep the level 2 ?

[glacial steeple]

uhh when editing as long as the manpower is the same yes

[lucid grotto]

you can but honestly with production during war time half the time its just good to deploy them earlier than the training and have them do exercises in the field right after training and after modding/swapping their template to get them back up to trained or regulars cause you can get stalled out if you have minimal production of tanks and tank divisions in the field eating all the tanks and stalling your divisions in training

[carmine thunder]

Does japan ai now do war with soviets focus on historical if it smells enough blood?

[vital plinth]

Not sure where do I check ? I only got 4 civs in total grime tho Pia but they should have more

[glacial steeple]

you get like 25% of civs

[lament quail]

is italy a major

[errant chasm]

yeah

[lament quail]

ok

[analog maple]

is it possible to keep Germany as a puppet state instead of eiter giving them up or making them independent?

[lament quail]

what is this mod

[lucid grotto]

i think they tend to do it when they get to it and the soviets seem vunerable enough however i am not a good person to ask as i tend to get china to win the second sino wra which seems to delay and or pacify the japanese into being very timid

[lucid grotto]

occupied territory tab under under your leader potrait, shouldbe able to puppet them from there

by clicking release and turning on release as puppet

[errant chasm]

What doctrine should I use for Manchuria?

[lament quail]

can i get a civil war htrough this

at some point

like if i ignore it long enough

or stability gets low enough

i should get a civil war right?

[vital plinth]

Ah ok what should I do to annex them and get the full stuff ?

Also is there a way to unlock more building slots in my old capital I already used economy plan and national focus is there something I can build to unlock another slot ?

[glacial steeple]

you wont get 100% when annexing immediately

its based on compliance

fascist puppets are fine because you get the equivalent of 65% compliance (without modifiers) from your puppets (mils only but civs dont matter)

thats assuming the puppets have cores*

rks are awful because they dont get cores

[lament quail]

can i get civil war thru this mechanic

i cant tell based on the hoi4 wiki

[neat widget]

Probably, but I don't know of any people that gives those bonuses

[glacial steeple]

yes

[glacial steeple]

iran?

maybe

rockets are really really bad in this version

and thats saying a lot because they were struggling at best in 1.16

but if theyre double buffed it might be fun to do

[hollow wing]

Hello everyone, I am playing historical mode as France but I am trying to do a run where I annex both Benelux, Germany and Italy to form the EU and then I complete the focus tree of Napoleonic France, but I am worry it is January 31, 1939 and Germany still no annexed either Austria neither Czesch Republic, what should I do? keep waiting until Germany declare war randomly??

[oak jasper]

I've previously been doing scout groups of 1x unarmored CL and 2x DD. Now that I think about it: the DDs are slower: should I just run single-CL scouting forces?

[hollow wing]

Also I am open for some feedback about my early game/inter war tanks and aircrafts design, I will upload some screenshots

[lament quail]

whats the req for the civil war

[glacial steeple]

just let it run

[lament quail]

oh

like

[hollow wing]

here they are. Are they good enough or too expensive?

[karmic terrace]

This sounds prety hard im just gonna say good luck

[lament quail]

do i wait to hit x% communism or smth

[hollow wing]

it is fun and I love France but I get mad if I have to retstart the game

[glacial steeple]

why fixed turret and expensive armor

[karmic terrace]

These are very expensive

[glacial steeple]

air is very bad

[hollow wing]

I supposed so, at the moment no major war so it is % something happen this 1939

[karmic terrace]

For fighter you should try get heavy mgs

[hollow wing]

it is the one I can afford with the engine, more weight and it cant fly

[lament quail]

uh oh oops

[glacial steeple]

no like you dont want your sir defence down

but dont make air you dont have the industry

put riveted armor on all tanks

[hollow wing]

I will research the tier II next, but since 1936 I only had avaliable 2xHGs and 4x LGs.

[lament quail]

accidentally banned communism, is the civil war still available

[deft yew]

Hello, I now have around 150 hours in the game, and am wondering what to do next to get better. I have played a few games as Canada (including one non-historical), one as Finland (Communist), 2 for Australia, one as Hungary and a few other less relevant ones. I have watched many ISorrow and a few BitterSteel videos (as well as tutorial videos) and I think I now grasp pretty well the mechanics of the game. However, I am wondering what nation to play now in order to better learn how to actually be good at the game. Would it be possible to get some recommendatiosn as well as any useful tips?

[hollow wing]

which one exactly?? Medium tanks or the Heavies one?

[karmic terrace]

Germany is the king, probably gives you experience in every aspect of the game especially with dlcs

[karmic terrace]

Heavys

[glacial steeple]

i think finland is good for practice

you get good generals pre grinded

[karmic terrace]

Mediums dont actually look super expensive

[karmic terrace]

Forming austria hungary is also great for new players

[glacial steeple]

all are very expensive because cast/welded armor

[karmic terrace]

Yeah but the mediums arent even that bad with that

[vital plinth]

Also is there a way to unlock more building slots in my old capital I already used economy plan and national focus is there something I can build to unlock another slot ?

[karmic terrace]

But always stick with default armour

[deft yew]

Thanks, I did see a lot of people recommend that.

[glacial steeple]

its 20% cost increase

thats a lot

using spg/td role is 20% off for mediums

[hollow wing]

it is a heavy tank, the idea I had of this one was that it had to brawl anything and just one per division, fixed turret also it give me more defense and reliability

[glacial steeple]

0% for heavies

40% for lights

[glacial steeple]

well like a lot of that is kind of fake

attack and break matters

[deft yew]

Thanks, should I play many games and try to defend against Russia until I successfully do it? That's what I see other people doing.

[glacial steeple]

the rest is optional

[hollow wing]

well, you still think is so bad when I only need 40 for like 8 divisions?

[glacial steeple]

practice, ask for advice when you run into issues

[karmic terrace]

Yes you will learn how to build industry, use tanks and infantry, planes, navy, spies, making templates and making troop designs

Germany is great

[glacial steeple]

its very easy to see where you went wrong because of its limited gameplay

germany you need to know a lot to play well, but need to know little to win

[deft yew]

Which nation is best to do that with? And what path?

[deft yew]

Understood, thank you!

[karmic terrace]

Austria or hungary

[glacial steeple]

so its very hard to pinpoint where youre going wrong and usually its a number of things

[karmic terrace]

Honestly I cant decide which is better

[lament quail]

unfortunately this man is my only option

[deft yew]

Alright thanks.

[hollow wing]

I know but checking ingame the armor designer, the price and diffence between the price of cast/rivetet armor didnt compensate the lose of armor and defense

[karmic terrace]

Austria has more action that hungary, and hungary also has to invade romania and yugoslavia whereas austria doesnt

[deft yew]

Alright

[lament quail]

can i flip back to monarchist after putting otto in charge

[glacial steeple]

yeah but armor and defense dont matter

[deft yew]

But don't you have Germany pressuring with the Anshcluss? Or can you just decline/ally with them?

[glacial steeple]

those are stats you ignore because the ai will likely not pierce you and its better to deal more damage directly

with lower cost

[karmic terrace]

They will turn their attention elsewhere when you expans and become stronger

[glacial steeple]

and defense is literally only when defending

[hollow wing]

but TDs and SPG lose breaktrought and I thought medium beside soft attack were suppose to add breakthrough too

[glacial steeple]

like in battle

tanks shouldnt defend

[glacial steeple]

break is good, it defends you while attacking

[karmic terrace]

However if you take czechslovakia they will likely still demand sudentenland judt slightly later than usully

[glacial steeple]

but it doesnt deal damage

so its secondary

[hollow wing]

I think they matter but checking France companies they give you a lot of armor already and nothing else

[hollow wing]

yes

[deft yew]

Understood. Should I try playing Germany, then Austria or maybe Finland like Casey recommended?

[glacial steeple]

primary - soft/hard attack (depending on enemy troop composition)
cost efficiency (to replace losses and field them in the first place)
secondary - breakthrough (keeps you alive more while attacking)
reliability (now with doctrine changes maybe you do 100% so you lose none while exercising)
thirtiary stats - armor (usually doesnt make a huge difference to whether youre pierced or not, but can be a buff)

everything else you dont even look at imo

actually hardness would be thirtiary too

[hollow wing]

much appreciated!! I am aware of this but I have to learn how to balance this good enough agaisnt the AI so it perform well while being cost effective

[glacial steeple]

if you sacrifice secondary for primary its okay

[hollow wing]

So about the Heavies, let say which one is better and what should I change for it be cost effective?

[karmic terrace]

Any are great, you will likely have success as austria hungary, I conquered germany AND russia playing austria hungary with like 15 hours playtime at the time with help from the allies by 1940

[glacial steeple]

well youre playing singleplayer

the easiest way to go is medium 3 man turret, howitzer, bunch of heavy machine gun secondary turrets

riveted armor

[tepid umbra]

I mean EASIEST is like machine gun on inter war light tank

[hollow wing]

I kept in the factory line like the base game design so they are terrible but I was thinking of building a lot of cheap base design tanks and then use one or two mil to turn then into good tanks

[glacial steeple]

kinda like this but without the armor added

[analog maple]

any tips for fighting the Germans as the soviets? i keep getting like 13% particapation even though they only get to around Kiev

[glacial steeple]

closest match i have recently saved

[hollow linden]

Neither

[deft yew]

Understood, thank you very much!

[glacial steeple]

well you can change the design of chassis and keep most efficiency

[karmic terrace]

I usually just bleed them out with a good defense then attack

[hollow linden]

Thats kinda close

[hollow wing]

do you speak Spanish? hola, bro!! I will keep talking in English so anyone here can understand us

[hollow linden]

What you do is you put all your mils on the cheap"design, finish everything except the gun and radio, then once you get the gun and radio, you swap the line to the design you want

[hollow wing]

my bad, you Portuguese but I understand the idea behind the tank, which speed is optimal? +5km??

[glacial steeple]

any speed is fine

[hollow wing]

I mean one have to be better than the other one, and that one I will adapt to be good

[hollow linden]

Then probably the first one

[analog maple]

when should i start pushing?

[hollow wing]

I see, the base French tank desing by default bring radios, not sure if the main gun will take long enough to convert when I can have it already before converting it unless is an upgrade

[karmic terrace]

When all of their fighting strength is mostly gone

[analog maple]

thx

[hollow wing]

so you think the one with the fixed turret is better than the one with the normal turret? @glacial steeple some thoughts??

[karmic terrace]

You can use tank divisions to punch through weak parts to get huge encirclements

[hollow linden]

I dont know, both suck just make them better

[glacial steeple]

idk what my thoughts here are

theres 2 tanks

[hollow linden]

Fixd turret is entirely unecessary

[glacial steeple]

i wouldnt use either

[hollow linden]

same

it doesnt matter, just make it better

[glacial steeple]

but i would use the higher cost fixed turret one less

if i had to choose

[hollow wing]

good idea, I am trying to learn in my free time 🥲 👌🏼

[glacial steeple]

no its fine, creep is usually a bit rude imo, i try not to be

well if you had to choose one for combat performance in a world where you cant change them you should look for damage reduction really

so like no break is pretty bad

higher cost is pretty crippling

[hollow wing]

nah is not a problem for me, I just rather get straightforward answers than asting anyone time

[glacial steeple]

now the first one has slightly better soft attack, i guess

[karmic terrace]

Yeah theres like no countries that can support these costs for the ammount of tanks you really want

[fervent haven]

hi, i have a question, could someone, while playing with the steam version subscription active (all dlcs), please tell me how many civ factories, mil. factories and dockyards they have by starting a regular iron mode 1936 (with no mods and standard rules) in the state of Holstein as germany?

[hollow wing]

I guess beside radie, they need to have a normal three men turret, slope armor, riveted armor and 2 heavy machine guns?

[glacial steeple]

far from perfect but french tank i have saved

[deft yew]

@karmic terrace Do you have a recommendation of the focuses to do to successfully form Austria-Hungary? Like focusing on industry first or on demanding land from neighbors before that?

[glacial steeple]

for armor meme

realistically only use 1 batallion of it max if going high armor

majority of tanks should be riveted

[hollow wing]

Sir, that is not a tank but a BAGUETTE!!

[karmic terrace]

What country did you decide for?

[glacial steeple]

for you id just only do riveted armor

because its cheaper

tbh probably should do light or medium SPG for singleplayer now

heavies are really bad with thw changes for SP

[cold bloom]

arms_factory = 1
dockyard = 6

[hollow wing]

it looks good in fact, your idea as mine was to make the most bulkiest tank with amor so the armor division % is better?

[deft yew]

I chose Austria because even though I played Hungary before you seemed to recommend Austria as the easier path

[glacial steeple]

armor isnt averaged

[karmic terrace]

Ok so you want to get down to the focuses that give you decisions to annex people

[glacial steeple]

40% of your armor value is the highest armor in the unit

[karmic terrace]

Honestly for austria there is no order its just how you see fit

[glacial steeple]

so having 1 high armor batallion is plenty

[karmic terrace]

Its up to you whether you want to get czechslovakia and go to war with germany or not take it and take your time

[hollow wing]

I am aware that half of the division amor is between the average of each untis amour % with the unit that have the most armor

[hollow wing]

that is, yes, that is why I thought that riveted armor wasnt good enough for my heavy

[deft yew]

Understood, thank you!

[hollow wing]

the Bar1 here in fact have riveted armour

[glacial steeple]

well

with ai its simple

they dont research ahead of time

so you know their piercing values ahead of time, too

its usually really not high

[karmic terrace]

Dm me if you need any help and make sure to take the focus when attacking hungary that unlocks the rest

[lament quail]

is there a way to start a civil war inside me but stay as the ruling ideology

[hollow wing]

ok, I will check my heavies in game, but what about the mediums?

[lament quail]

also will my current leader(victoria) die if I begin civil war as fascists and win

[glacial steeple]

a big issue with france is army xp

if you have the free time i would restart because its a very punishing nation

[hollow wing]

usually that is no problem for me, I have enough to change two divisions templates and both tanks

[glacial steeple]

first project should be flame tanks, it lets you design for free and gives xp

[glacial steeple]

what about doctrines

[hollow wing]

I like it, I won many time in fact but I am only interested now in those runs with France about beating Germany w/o my allies taking territories from me so I can form the EU and then the French Empire

I just dislike the RNG in general, not the mechanics of France

[karmic terrace]

Do you have doctrines?

[reef tapir]

austria hungary, r56 edition is going to be real (ignore the fact that its without götterdammerung)

[hollow wing]

some feedback about these tank templates? I focus in soft attack and be cheap with one and then the other is about armour but I guess I dont need armor vs the AI

[hollow wing]

at the moment no but I am two focus tree of eliminating the maluses about land doctrine cost

[karmic terrace]

Ok you want them early as possible to upgrade them

Strong doctrines = strong army, the army with better doctrines will usually win unless the strength difference is huge

[glacial steeple]

even then

with strenght difference its a matter of supply and terrain

its why uruguay vs the world jan 1937 is so hard

[karmic terrace]

I mean a netherlands vs germany playthrough will show you everything you need to know about terrain and army buffs n all that

[glacial steeple]

your strenght difference is pretty bad, but your terrain and supply dont allow for easy defense

[glacial steeple]

it was borderline impossible last version but its probably just because im bad

idk if you can do it now

[deft yew]

Thanks a lot! By the focus when attacking Hungary do you mean Bring Hungary back into the fold? Because it seems like the only way to get Austria-Hungary is by doing the Danubian Federation?

[karmic terrace]

Yes that one

[deft yew]

Oh so I should go to Totalitarian Safety then reform the Austrian-Hungarian empire using the decision?

[reef solar]

what is TNO based on? I watched like a 5 second clip of entering the game and it was the vanilla map I think

[hollow wing]

i dont have NCNS but I have 4 options in each

[reef tapir]

hell yeah

[karmic terrace]

Whatever one gives you the path towards austria hungary with decisions to annex and declare war on countries

[lament quail]

so like can I use the hugenberg guy to flip back to nonaligned after doing what I need to as strasser

[karmic terrace]

In pretty sure in my last playthrough I invaded switzerland, joined allies to allow france passage into my territory then wooped germany, reformed austria hungary, then took russia and the allies after that

Ive always played hungary tho so im much better with the hungarian focus tree, then I played austria and released its lowk way better

[deft yew]

Then it might be the Totalitarian path and then do "Approach the Democratic Guarrantors", but I could be wrong. I guess I'll try it and see how it works.

[karmic terrace]

If you send pictures to help me remember ill help

[deft yew]

Alright I'll DM you

[vital plinth]

Hey is there a way for me to unlock more ship designers ? I only have 3 1 is locked 1 im gives huges debuffs and increase production speed and resseach
The third which is my only option decrease max range by 25% on capital ship and screen but gives 10% max speed

What should I do ?

[reef solar]

what is this mod that segl uses in his video that puts a color on what aircraft type is being used?

[reef tapir]

WHAT? ROMANIA HANDS IT OVER WILLINGLY?

THAT LEGIT NEVER HAPPEND TO ME-

[light knoll]

the solution to that is not having allies

never giving or getting military access from anyone

[vital plinth]

@neat widget hey what do you think should I pick the last option since I only got bad ones and can’t unlock the good one ?

[reef tapir]

bro things for romania must be going so bad that bulgaria was able to seize all of dabruja and the soviets were able to seize besserabia early

bro-

[lament quail]

js put romania out of its misery atp

[hollow wing]

well I know but even then that no stop Czech to take land from Germany even if we are different faction they have to capitulate

[light knoll]

why do the Czech exist

did fate of czechoslovakia not happen

[solar robin]

I would say dont bother with heavy tanks or interwar medium tanks and not those designs aswell.

And for the plane go with the (1936/1939)
4x light machine guns x2
(and once researched the)
4x heavy machine guns combined with 4x light machine guns
drop tanks
sealable fuel tanks

For the medium tank go with:
medium howitzer
3 man turret
the extra machine gun turrets x 2
easy maintenance.
torsion bar suspension
engine until 8 km/h
0 armour

[solar robin]

You dont have to get him per se, but you need to fire Otto Strasser. I would say anti fascist and communist raids will work well enough

[lament quail]

I mean after flipping to fascist, can I return to non-aligned using Hugenberg

[solar robin]

ah so, yes you can

[lament quail]

alright then thank you

[neat widget]

Which country are you

[vital plinth]

I’m Greece

[neat widget]

You could just straight up annex Romania you know

[vital plinth]

I plan to invade Soviet with Germany then declare war on Britain and expect America to fight me after they have storng navry no ?

[neat widget]

Can you send me a screenshot because I see different Greek MIOs and they're honestly quite good

[reef tapir]

its getting worse and worse (ignore yugoslavia basically being gone)

whats next? a soviet sponsored counter civilwar?

[lament quail]

is this something worrying? should I fortify the canadian front

oh crap, alaska

are these infantry divisions any good? they're from a puppet I annexed and I want to use them to guard the alaskan-canadian border

[reef tapir]

OH COME ON WHY DID I HAVE TO JINX IT

[lament quail]

they gave up land just to screw you over?

[reef tapir]

nah i just dont care romania now is in a f***ing 3 way civilwar with a revolt against them-

[lament quail]

Romania is just embracing its Latin identity. It's copying Spain

(romanian is a latin language right)

[vital plinth]

Oh hmm maybe because I only have vanilla or la re resistance il send pictures

[reef tapir]

ye

[vital plinth]

@neat widget

[lament quail]

you should send volunteers to ruthenia tryst

then you can invade them

ig

they hold your core right

?

or you can use them to make a ukrainian puppet state

[analog maple]

what the conditions for uk to gurrante someone? i wanna take yugslovia as ussr but i dont want uk to get involved

[reef tapir]

nah who needs this if the game presents it to you on a f***ing silver plattern-

[lament quail]

oh

lucky you i suppose

👍

can they still unite ukraine

[reef tapir]

nah i will annex it anyways i got cores on it

[lament quail]

ah

great

rt56 right

[reef tapir]

ye

its that wierd ah carpathia ukraine state

[lament quail]

yeah

[lament quail]

the condom. of eastern galicia is the better state

[reef tapir]

OH POLAND

[lament quail]

in rt56

[reef tapir]

ITS YOUR TURN

[lament quail]

otto von habsburg looks a bit different

[reef tapir]

road to anime

[lament quail]

whyd they make him uglier

imo

the iconic thousand-empire stare

[neat widget]

ah this is dlc-less

[reef tapir]

thats the look of a man who has seen it all

[neat widget]

onassis is only available on certain paths unfortunately

so you search him up in your focus tree and see which focuses make him available

[lament quail]

"I built a little empire, out of..."

[vital plinth]

With DLC the debuffs are removed ?

[light knoll]

with dlc the system is completely different

and it honestly suck, mios are so annoying

[hollow wing]

thanks you!!!

[vital plinth]

What’s a good template for infantry vs Soviet Union ?

[upbeat arrow]

why are my landing support groups just sitting in port while my invasion fails? i move one manually for at least more air support.

[neat widget]

Yeah pretty much

[solar robin]

No problem!

[solar robin]

They are supporting the naval invasion on cuba I assume

[cold garnet]

waiot

wrong channel

[upbeat arrow]

so do they have to be docked where the invasion launches from? i had the one group that i moved manually home port with this invasion though so idk. also though the ones docked in florida are assigned to the DR region only, dont honestly know why they port up there, they were moved from honolulu to support this invasion. maybe i was just impatient?

[vital plinth]

@neat widget hey do you know if I should build a new supply hub or upgrade Train road to level 3 ? I’m setting up invasion to Soviet but it demands 46 supply but I only got 20 getting made

[upbeat arrow]

nvm, just restarting, 1940 is a bit late to be doing expansionism with historical ai on i feel

[neat widget]

You can really only resolve that via supply companies

You can only upgrade railways to level 5, and building a new supply hub won't fix the core issue and you'll just get the same problem at the next hub

[hollow wing]

what you think people, of my division template for a task like holding the line?? is it too expensive??

this one is suppossed to be the aggressive one

[red sundial]

Hey I was wondering if some could show me the early game for Germany? I’m kinda stuck and would like to know what to do.

[hollow wing]

@solar robin @glacial steeple how do you see now my tank templates??

[glacial steeple]

600 ic is fine but it is a tad small assuming you dont fill cw

[glacial steeple]

i dont like the motorized-camel mix and would pick one of the two to use for standardization

[hollow wing]

I am worried about the support equiptment scarcity or AA and Arty

[solar robin]

You really dont need the sloped armour and radio in singleplayer but its way better than the previous design

[glacial steeple]

then remove a support

[hollow wing]

it is just for the sake to keep France motorised untits, they are soo good and they have the highest combat exp, beside I need a relatively fast division with high HP and tank supports with 36cw

[glacial steeple]

they have the same hp as camels

their combat stats are the same as infantry but they lose more

and hp is only the same assuming you add logistics

[hollow wing]

thinking about this I can fill all my defense untis with equiptment

[glacial steeple]

otherwise its just less

[hollow wing]

@glacial steeple they have similar stats, so you have a point

[vital plinth]

Supply companies ?

[vital plinth]

Yeha i upgraded to level 5 is there anything more i can do ?

[hollow wing]

Could this be a better one??

[vital plinth]

This is the issue btw if anyone know how to deal with this ?

[glacial steeple]

personally i dont like motorized infantry because its very expensive for no added stats

but you could use it if youd like

[hollow wing]

I will try and see how is its perfomance, thanks

[glacial steeple]

general rule of singleplayer is that even though me or someone else might yell a bit at you in ask for help, its still your playthrough and decisions

[neat widget]

logistics companies, in other words

[neat widget]

I mean it does give early game HP if you don't want to run space marines

[glacial steeple]

its the same as inf or cav?

[neat widget]

individual excellence exists

[glacial steeple]

only on indiv is it 30 which camels also have

[neat widget]

and yeah camels exist i forgot

[glacial steeple]

so youre gaining none in this scenario

[neat widget]

(but only for a select few nations)

[glacial steeple]

its about france

camels are the squiggly line

the lil bump

[neat widget]

Yeah fair

[glacial steeple]

cross is infantry, the little dots at bottom are for motorized

[neat widget]

Ah I see

[glacial steeple]

idk if its called a cross

then 2 heavy tanks 6 mediums

[vital plinth]

I’m following the suggestions with medium tank sp(attirly) but it says I have very lol breakthrough is that normal why is that ?

Or is it right ?

[glacial steeple]

supports i kind of forgot but its like armored recon, engineer, unsure, unsure, field hospital

i havent played with NATO icons in months

[glacial steeple]

yeah itll be lower

ai doesnt usually deal that much damage tho

[vital plinth]

But it still the best to counter infantry ?

[oak root]

I goofed. I beat the soviets but it was in a war i was unprepared for, so I had to save romania so they got alot of points and I was only able to annex half, and then the japanese invaded I need to know which line to go to so my troops arent starving in siberia 😭

[lament quail]

why does this happen

[vital plinth]

For me hp is 12

[dry otter]

whats a good heavy tank design and template? (USSR)

[rancid sedge]

help

how do i get revenge of montezuma

<@&916727971820240976>

[lament quail]

how do I use nukes with god damning rung

dlc

and can I drop nukes if my strat bombers have the earthshaker bomb equoipped

*equipped

are these earthshaker bombs even good

are any of these worth making

(the 5 at the top)

[sudden meadow]

can anyone help me break out

Im having a lot of trouble atm

[hybrid quail]

Can someone help me I am stuck at the version 16.9 I wanna update it to 1.17

[spiral dome]

the logos

[austere roost]

That's why if you're playing Germany you should manually justify on the European countries to annex them. While you're at war with UK it takes like 30 days to justify

But you should just park your troops where the supply hubs are

And maybe on defensive terrain like mountains and behind a river

[oak root]

did that

and was kinda stuck until the americans randomly landed in tokyo

outa nowhere 'capitulation of tokyo'

look at asia and half of japan is blue 😭

i got hyper agressive by then to get more war participation

[austere roost]

It's always better to attack usa before ussr

Usa gets stronger with time and ussr gets weaker

[oak root]

either way i might js call it wraps

im satisfied

I won

[left glacier]

With and without dlc, you would need to use the new raid mechanic to plan out your nuclear strike on the right side of the screen

[lament quail]

i see

[left glacier]

Either as fascist or communist Mexico, you would need to build up your army, and capitulate the US before they join the allies. Make sure you have transport ship tech before you attack Panama as part of your focus tree.

In addition, make sure that once you break through the initial deadlock at the start of your war with the US, you need to take major American victory points like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and so forth while encircling American divisions (preferably with cavalry).

[left glacier]

Go to the game's properties on Steam and change game version from there.

[left glacier]

Air superiority with Close air Support. Build/upgrade your ports for more supply. You can also motorize your supply lines by clicking on the horse icon once or twice to get supply around to your divisions. Lastly, get some more generals and a field marshal to commanding your armies

[hybrid quail]

Thanks lemme try

[left glacier]

If not, you can also try reverifying the game files.

Which you can also do through the game's properties.

[white karma]

how strong supermarine is against ai

[royal parcel]

my launcher is not working it says that "i need to give it acces to my documents" or smth

[upbeat arrow]

things are happening, first non historical play, is this normal ish?

[hardy sequoia]

is it possible to defeat germany in 1943 who won ww2 and has 473 divisons as portugal?

[serene karma]

What do u have

Or send ss

[hardy sequoia]

i have 100 divisons

[serene karma]

What about air

And u have all dlcs?

[cold garnet]

can be possible for sure

just set up some safe defensive line

let the Germans bleed

you can likely win the naval war with not too much effort

[tepid umbra]

Make sure you have enough stuff to equip garrisons

Also make sure your stab and war supp aren't in the trenches

[glacial steeple]

very valuable

hard to get up tho

[tepid umbra]

War support can be easy if you're at war and have some time

Stability is annoying though

[tribal skiff]

What happens to a puppet (in this case an integrated one), if their mother country loses a war? They haven't joined the war yet, so I am wondering should I delay my offense a bit until they do

[gilded herald]

They lose too

[glacial steeple]

they only do if they join the war

[gilded herald]

If mother country loses, puppets now are independent if they are not in war?

[glacial steeple]

not necessarily no

only if overlord gets full annexed/full puppeted afaik

[tribal skiff]

Yep, I got Netherlands, Suriname and Curacao, but Indonesia became independent. I could have declared war on them while I was at war with Netherlands, and I guess in that case I would have gotten them too. Back to start, I guess

[shell socket]

quick question, i have nuclear bombs but how do i get thermo nuclear bombs?

im cheatin if that helps with anything

[tribal skiff]

You research it?

[shell socket]

i did research all

and roic

so i got everything unlocked

it doesnt produce or anything, just produced the normal bombs

and i really cant seem to figure it out

ive tried unlocking all special projects but i only got ones unlocked for the normal nuclear bomb nothing for the thermo

[tribal skiff]

dropping a nuke is a special raid, maybe something there?

[shell socket]

oh i gotta do that first?

well i havent dropped a nuke yet

im about to tho

[hardy sequoia]

It should have the thermo nuke option next to the regular one when you nuke a province

[shell socket]

it only shows one icon

and it says nuclear strike, i got nothing else just icon

option

i really have no idea whats wrong

ive been tryna find it for so long

[hardy sequoia]

Use the icbms

[shell socket]

whats that if i may ask

[tribal skiff]

Ai says: To use them, you must
research advanced nuclear technology, build reactors to generate weapons-grade material, and then launch them using strategic bombers (with 75% air superiority) or via ICBM

[hardy sequoia]

Yeah

If u have thero nuke research it should just show up

[shell socket]

ohh gotchu

thank yall for this

appreciate it

[glacial steeple]

its different now

with the project

gotta finish the special project

[tribal skiff]

Sure, I guess most advice in the internet is outdated after the last updates/DLC

[glacial steeple]

no thats like 3 major updates old

[sacred mica]

Guys for the bop mechanic.. weekly bop '+' means it moves towards the bolsheviks and '-' means it moves towards mao.. do I have that right?

[glacial steeple]

yes

[sudden tangle]

i dont have no step back but i need like a simple tank division temp to fill out the mastery for an achievement ,

[glacial steeple]

uuuhh idk what you expect

if you exercise it forces attrition

[sweet summit]

Uh question

[glacial steeple]

without nsb you cant get 100% relia so youd like 0 to attrition

tanks without nsb are stupid expensive

[sweet summit]

When is cavalry good ?
Is it good as kumul khanate as they seem to have some nice buffs

[glacial steeple]

so they dont rlly work

[glacial steeple]

its for when you dont have mech yet

cav got nerfed a lot if you have NCNS

[sweet summit]

Can i replace infantry with cav ?

Oh i have that 🥀

[glacial steeple]

hp is very powerful and indiv excellence buffs infantry hp

if you add logi support

but not cav

and its by +5 flat per batallion

its 25% more hp to special forces

like a bit less to regular imf

inf*

[sweet summit]

Uh another question, what's the best doctrine and subdoctrine if you have a ton of manpower

I use Mass Assault

[glacial steeple]

always sfp for org recov (defensive stat)

[sweet summit]

SFP ?

[glacial steeple]

then indiv excellence is by far best inf docteine pick

with assault inf being a not very close second

but its usable

then the best second subdoctrine is heavy howitzer

because of terrain buffs mostly

spg isnt that bad either but its not as good

[tepid umbra]

Huh

[sweet summit]

What's SFP ?

[glacial steeple]

then for armor idk tbh, in singleplayer i use cav armor becaise of subsidized contracys

[sweet summit]

UHH

[glacial steeple]

and last pick grand assault or desperate defense

[glacial steeple]

superior firepower

[sweet summit]

Grand assault

Oh gotcha

[glacial steeple]

indiv doesnt buff cav

[sweet summit]

I'm gonna be attacking china and then probably Russia

[glacial steeple]

buffs inf a ton tho

[tepid umbra]

Oh

Makes sense

[sweet summit]

Why are space marines good ?

[untold crescent]

Whenever I research paratrooper and to recruit them it says special forces limit cap so I can’t recruit them

[sweet summit]

Like i get a light tank has a lot of soft attack

[sweet summit]

Did you already get mountaineers/ rangers/ marines ?

If so 🥀

[untold crescent]

no

[sweet summit]

OH

It's a percentage of your total divs

Tip of the spear can increase it by a flat 6 iirc

It's a badge you buy with army xp or smth

[untold crescent]

Ok

How much

Army xp

[glacial steeple]

lights dont even work for space marines

[sweet summit]

Uh what does then ?

Medium anti-air ?

[glacial steeple]

a lot of noobs mess up concepts and end up creating trash

[odd cairn]

yoo i was wondering if its possible for me to get my preowned dlcs? i got a new pc and a staacked steam account? is there a way to get them like going through my paradox account?

[sweet summit]

I don't wanna do that

[glacial steeple]

no because this is only due to its batallion needing 36 pieces instead of usual 50

TD and SPG are set to 40 for all types now so always use those

[sweet summit]

what ?

[glacial steeple]

mediums also have bad armor

[sweet summit]

Ok So heavy Tank Destroyers

and max armor

[glacial steeple]

space marines try to mitigate the issues infantry has on the offensive

lack of breakthrough, lack of way to reduce damage

by adding a unit with breakthrough and armor

[odd cairn]

oh damn 40K refrence?

[sweet summit]

So reliability and soft/hard attack is not important ?
Only max armor and breakthrough ?

[glacial steeple]

usually armor can be pierced tho so id usually ignore it

[fathom thistle]

It's called that cuz you got inf with armor basically so spacemarine

[glacial steeple]

soft/hard are the most important stats alongside hp

[sweet summit]

So soft/hard/breakthrough/hp/armor for heavy TDs

[glacial steeple]

yes it started back in like 2018?

[glacial steeple]

tanks dont have hp

or very little anyway

[sweet summit]

so soft/hard/breakthrough/armour

[glacial steeple]

explaining why a space marine works is a bit complicated and thats why new players mess it up so much

[sweet summit]

breakthrough however is trashed if you choose SPGs

[glacial steeple]

you could make very cheap dedicated light spg divs

but those same light tanks would suck for space marines

[sweet summit]

SPGs get -40% breakthrough though

[glacial steeple]

you could also make a really good space marine tank that would suck as a dedicated tank

[glacial steeple]

on heavies you wouldnt do this role

theyre always at 40 per batallion

for mediums you do because it goes from 50 - > 40

[sweet summit]

So what would i build

[glacial steeple]

saving 20% cost

just a normal heavy tank

medium 3 man turret

[sweet summit]

Normal heavy tank gotcha

[glacial steeple]

howitzer 2

a bunch of extra cannon slot heavy machine guns

[sweet summit]

Wait there's a second howitzer ??

Where is that

[glacial steeple]

riveted armor

[glacial steeple]

research

tbh i wouldnt do space marines if i were you unless theyre special forces space marines

theyre really good for a short period of time

but you have to take advantage of that and i dont think youd use them correctly

[glacial steeple]

these are different because you already get inflated attack stats from special forcea

forces*

and adding break so they die less when attacking just helps

[sweet summit]

Oh ok

[glacial steeple]

you can give the tank piercing too

[sweet summit]

Normal infantry then

[glacial steeple]

because also you have to see it like this

you have a dedicated industry size

[sweet summit]

What template would you recommend for china ?
It has some mountains so i was thinking 18/0

[glacial steeple]

say you have 8 tank batallions

you can either put them 1 in 8 infantry divisions, some will not be in positions where they can attack

or put all 8 into a dedicated tank div which will attack more effectively in spots you actually want to push

[sweet summit]

Battalions i'm using are those little spots on the menu

[glacial steeple]

each unit in a division is a batallion

[sweet summit]

Gotcha

Oh my god what is that

What's that pine tree

[glacial steeple]

rangers

[sweet summit]

FUUHH

I forgot to delete my army and lost

[indigo sapphire]

should i make a Template full of Rangers?

[glacial steeple]

yeah youre all forest

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[deft wyvern]

What's a standard single player template for tank division?

[mystic otter]

You add 2 column of tanks
Then either 2 colum of trucks/mechanized until you get 30 org
Width should be 36 ideally
If you have 30 org and not 36 width add either a tank or trucks/mecha until said width

[dusty sandal]

10 medium SPGs, 8mech/cav if too early for mech
Support aa, engineers, medium flame tank, hospittal, logi/recon/rangers

[deft wyvern]

ohh i see makes sense

thank you:)

whats a spg?

[dusty sandal]

The org isn't a real issue btw, you want at bare minimum 200hp first, org comes in after

[deft wyvern]

ok and do i want light/medium/heavy on the tank research tree?

is 1940

[dusty sandal]

You only need 1938 medium

Check the pins from topazand for the design, it's the best there is

[glacial steeple]

light spgs are funny too

[deft wyvern]

so the left hand side?

[dusty sandal]

But either cost too much, or have no break, or require a light tank with them

[glacial steeple]

no break but look at cost

ai doesnt deal much damage so 250 break is kinda ok

[dusty sandal]

Oh, give me a minute, no dlc templates are different

[deft wyvern]

yah i dont have dlc 🙁

[lavish torrent]

can someone give me a tank and infantry template please

for USSR

[fluid chasm]

yo what are good mods for like simple things

[lavish torrent]

xD

[dusty sandal]

left one is the one you want to get as final version, right one is the one you use until you have mech and medium tanks available

[lavish torrent]

its featured

[glacial steeple]

please consult #server-rules on modern politicians and controversial figures.

[lavish torrent]

ok mb

[deft wyvern]

thank you

[lavish torrent]

what country / mod is this?

[deft wyvern]

very funny

vanilla hoi4 xd

[lavish torrent]

country?

[deft wyvern]

netherlands

[lavish torrent]

ty i will try them

[deft wyvern]

np, you can do quite well with them. This is 1940 for me

[lavish torrent]

damn

[deft wyvern]

Eventually I'll try to invade UK

[lavish torrent]

which path?

[deft wyvern]

I go the maintain trade neutrality to get communism really fast. Then standard industry path on left hand side (ignore the colony stuff), try to get war on pacisifim asap

communism first > then industry 2nd

[lavish torrent]

nice

i will try

[deft wyvern]

yah, I actually invaded france before the benelux, but I think both ways can work

Just if you invade belgium/lux first, then sometimes the allies may join so you need to be fast at being able to take all 3 countries at once

[native mist]

what is a good beginner country that is also fun?

[compact violet]

How do i invite Ottoman loyalist?

[sweet summit]

Lithuania

I like it

[deft wyvern]

Imo the best country is USSR, but a lot of people like Romania

[sweet summit]

If you go non aligned, you can get all of poland

But you do get attacked by USSR in 1940ish

Btw all of poland for free through focuses and 1000 pp

[compact violet]

How do i invite the Ottoman loyalist? I don't see any focus tree

[lavish torrent]

its an event

ill send u a pic of the path u will need to go down

[lavish torrent]

yk the election day

[compact violet]

Yes

[lavish torrent]

be demokrat party

[compact violet]

Well, took the wrong path...

[lavish torrent]

there will be a civil war if i remember correctly

[compact violet]

Ok thanks

[lavish torrent]

dw

[dusty sandal]

germany,soviets,usa, canada, hungary

[lavish torrent]

do not start as soviets

if ur on historical

[dusty sandal]

it's easy enough

as easy as ghermany to be fair, as long as you read tooltips

[lavish torrent]

650 hours js to loose by a little 💔

[inner sparrow]

if u lose as sov against germany

vs ai

straight up skill issue

[lavish torrent]

ik

i js cant play soviets

[dusty sandal]

probably lack of aa then

[inner sparrow]

even without aa u win vs ai ger

its like big nothing burger

[lavish torrent]

do i need aa built or in division template?

[inner sparrow]

support aa in ur inf

[lavish torrent]

ohhhh

[inner sparrow]

and double motorized or tripple motorized aa in your tank if u go no air

[lavish torrent]

ok ty

[deft wyvern]

im so lost why do i have 0 naval dominance?

[sweet summit]

Uh my game just crashed

[dusty sandal]

is the fleet agressiveness set to never engage ?

[deft wyvern]

nope

also have this weird glitch

[dusty sandal]

either you have no port, no convys available or convoys are getting raided on their way in

[dusty sandal]

set one of the fleet as strike force maybe ?

[deft wyvern]

i got convoys, and i dont see any convoy losses to my knowledge

[dusty sandal]

show a wider screenshot

[deft wyvern]

they r on convoy raiding

[dusty sandal]

where the supply line is visible

[dusty sandal]

they're on patrol. Set one of the two fleets on strike force

[deft wyvern]

like this?

[dusty sandal]

is this an intervention in spanish civil war by any chance ?

[deft wyvern]

na civil war over

[dusty sandal]

like does the territory you're in is german or is it someone else (allied)

[deft wyvern]

just doing some portugal shenenagians with paradroopers and spain military access

couldnt get naval supermacy so i paradropped into empty tiles and walked in from spain haha

[dusty sandal]

is there any resistance in galicia ?

[deft wyvern]

not that i can see

[dusty sandal]

well, my guess is that when you landed, supply originally went through the sea, got raided, then the supply refreshed and connected through rail to the closest allied capital, but since supp;y takes a month to refresh after convoy raid, you took attrition until then

[velvet radish]

anyone intrested helping me whit ai china im playing as japan

[blissful spade]

Hey, I'm trying to make Finland fascist through diplomacy (descredit the diplometic system-focus). However, I can never manage to achieve 60% stability. Is there anything I can do?

[vivid cairn]

Is there a method to naval land in great britain as napoleon france in 1938 with the french navy how should I split my navy up?

[vital plinth]

Hey what’s the best combat width for a tank division medium tank ? And how do make a tank division good for hills and mountain with light tanks?

[dusty sandal]

you don't split your navy
you send it out on patrol with "always engage" in the english channels with enough planes overhead to swack the royal navy
if you split, you die

[dusty sandal]

36w
don't use light tanks, only mediums
if you want your tank to have stats in mountains, use recon rangers with mountaineer doctrine in them, it will cap the speed at 6.4km/h though

this but with recon rangers instead of light tank
add in logistics (if you picked individual excellence as doctrine and have air) or AA (if you don't have air)

[mystic otter]

Note about this
Make sure to pick the doctrines that buff spgs

[sweet summit]

Uh guys

I'm gonna attack china soon

Are these templates fine ?

89 Main Infantry and about 19 Mountain

[mystic otter]

As japan?

[sweet summit]

No

[mystic otter]

Where your mountainers support equipment?

[mystic otter]

Also make them 24 width

[sweet summit]

Uh i just saw that

[ornate silo]

what are the best tutorials / Walkthroughs to follow along with thanks

[sweet summit]

Pins here are great imho

[mystic otter]

Your templates should be enough
Just make sure your mountainers are 24 width if you want them to attack only mountains or 36 if you want them to be general offensive units

[sweet summit]

Should i change my main infantry to 36 as well then ?

[mystic otter]

In the pins there hoi4 tutorial guides watch them
And there bittersteel guides on yt
They explain the basic of templates and combat

[glacial steeple]

should be smaller

32.4 width max

[mystic otter]

No
You will not be able to handle that lol
Inf is made to hold the line until more elite unit do the breakthrough

[sweet summit]

Uh i'll take 2 off then

These are my only 2 templates btw

[mystic otter]

If you want
Make a duplicate 36width inf temp to make them offensive infantry

[sweet summit]

it's like 1939 🥀

[mystic otter]

And change individual unit

Not the whole army

[sweet summit]

I'll change about 24 of the pre existing ones

[mystic otter]

If your industry can handle the change sure
Btw make sure when attacking you attack from multiple tiles simultaneously

[sweet summit]

I just press the button 🥀

Every time i try to micro, i get encircled
never again

[mystic otter]

You need to wait until your other unit fills the gap you opened

You can't simply breakthrough and run inside

[mystic otter]

https://youtu.be/4TB6I7lAfDk?si=UOzUoojW_y43OKRN

[sweet summit]

Why does the uk always declare war on the netherlands 🥀

Also for some reason, Japan hasn't attacked China yet
Should i wait for them to do that cuz they might attack me instead

[solar robin]

Do you have historical AI enabled or disabled?

[sweet summit]

uh disabled

Also i don't think hitler got czech cuz i got wt to 40

SO is he fuccked ?

I became fascist to coast off him 🥀

[chrome river]

Beat Axis with Bulgaria - what should be my priority for the peace conference? Hungary and Italy's balkan scraps? Austria? - Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Romania are all my puppets/faction members

[sweet summit]

OH i used to try to make them but the whole frontline would move
THis should help a ton

[sweet summit]

Balkan expansion into austria probably

[sudden tangle]

There’s an achievement if you make the Rhineland demilitarized

Also depends what you want like what you’re aiming for

Ignore the date

[sweet summit]

Bruh

2000 ??

[dusty sandal]

first one you must ditch logi, recon and add AA. Hospital shouldn't be used unless you're a very manpower-limited country
the second template is worthlmess

[sweet summit]

Uh i'm fighting china

they don't have planes

[dusty sandal]

right, then you want to ditch everything but support arty

[sweet summit]

NAHHH, THERE'S NO SUPPPLY THERE
I CAN'T DO IT AGAIN

[dusty sandal]

maybe keep engineers if you have pixel eco but it's 20% of the cost of the whole div only for river attack bonuses

[dusty sandal]

logistics doesn't create supply

the issue in china is the lack of supply hub, not that hubs get overloaded

[sweet summit]

IT makes it use less supply afaik

[dusty sandal]

which doesn't matter if the issue is supply range

[sweet summit]

Alright i ditched logi

[dusty sandal]

you need to produce trucks to motorize your supply lines, stick to the coast and only push towards supply hubs
also create collab governements on nationalists asap if you have la resistance DLC. It's a priority

[languid trout]

why in the lord's name are you still playing the same save in 2000

[hollow linden]

It can be both lol?

Logi in small inf is good?

Hello?

[sweet summit]

Yeah i don't need trains for quite some time
Haev about 500

[vital plinth]

I onlyobly few tanks for mountain tile push rest is plains up to hills vs Soviet , should i increase reliability? Don’t think I have flame tank only artillery tank upgrade?

[hollow linden]

That's not what I'm getting at, this guy is giving frankly bad advice, keep logi and remove recon. Engi is fine for defense purposes

However maybe swap it to something else if not defending

[sweet summit]

BRUH

I'm KEEPING ALL OF THEM ATP
I Have no other comp 🥀

[hollow linden]

Ye but recon does exactly nothing

Its worthless

Cav recon*

[sweet summit]

Wait

Noooo

Uh it says 10% movement

Which is why i picked it

speed

as well as engi

[hollow linden]

So?

Your speed gets nuked anyway

Speed is irrelevant since you're gonna be moving at 1 kmh anyhow

[sweet summit]

Man it's fine, the war's already started 🥀
About 15 dics encircled..

[hollow linden]

Engi is worth for defense purposes and nothing else

[hollow linden]

It isn't

You will keep wasting support equipment

For no gain

[sweet summit]

Ok

How do i get rid of this leech ?

[hollow linden]

What?

[sweet summit]

The guangdong clique

He's been fighting them for 2 years
Why he's on my war

[hollow linden]

What about them

They have 28% war score

[sweet summit]

28%

[hollow linden]

Just kill them then?

[glacial steeple]

just dec on them

[sweet summit]

Smart

[hollow linden]

Holy jesus

[sweet summit]

I should've justified on them

Fucck

[tribal skiff]

Has interior of Borneo always been impassable? Or does it go away if you build infra?

[sweet summit]

I'll have to wait 80 days again

[sudden tangle]

The run was originally for another achievement but I decided to go for world conquest

[languid trout]

ok but

it is 2000

and u still somehow havent completed the wc yet

what have you been doing

[sudden tangle]

USA war happened at an unexpected time

[woeful pelican]

Any1 got a path guide for germany now with the new tree ?

[hexed parcel]

That is milenium dawn or what??

[lament quail]

how much of the nonaligned ideology support do I need to flip back to monarchy

[sweet summit]

Chat

[half glade]

how do you guys produce units other than infantry before 1938?

i can never get the research done

[sweet summit]

Pushing into russia from the mongols is hell

[half glade]

and then get production efficiency up

[sweet summit]

WHERE THE FUCCK ARE THEY HIDING THE SUPPLY 😭

[half glade]

and produce troops before 1938/39 and when the first wars start

[sweet summit]

I'm still infantry at around 1940/41

[half glade]

infantry dont win wars

[sweet summit]

It does with 120 divs

[half glade]

it doesnt lol

[sweet summit]

I need steel

I should make some SPGs though

[half glade]

yeah you should

[remote saffron]

Guys is it possible to turn communist on USA without a civil war?

[oak root]

thats the neat thing, there is no supply in russia

theres like 3 inches of west russia with supply, then its nothing.

[glacial steeple]

you dont need that much research what

just get the stuff you want ahead of time and ignore most techs