ask-for-help-here

[hollow linden]

Dude

[mighty dagger]

Grand battle plan is still the best

[misty wagon]

i alr like finished mobile warfare

[wild ember]

gng ur 1941 germany and only 187 factories?

[misty wagon]

do i switch

idek

do i switch

[mighty dagger]

Nah just roll with it

Ur in SP right

Yeah doesn’t matter

[wild ember]

ofc i know its cheating but its a quality of life cheat its not like im super boosting myself

[misty wagon]

i want do holy roman empire

[hollow linden]

Oh the QoL argument

That's how it starts yk

"I should have these cores so I use a coring button +"

[mighty dagger]

I’ve civ greeded worse before

[hollow linden]

"Oh let's add laws that have unreasonable buffs"

[wild ember]

i DO NOT do that

[misty wagon]

im in a halt im not producing anything i swear this ant air is annoying

[hollow linden]

You do you, but that's where it goes

[hollow linden]

Not yet.

[mighty dagger]

Jst stop responding to him he’s ragebaiting obviously

[hollow linden]

This always happens

[mighty dagger]

Lmao

[hollow linden]

Not even

But oh well

[hollow linden]

If you don't, that's good

I'm just saying

Seen this too many times

[mighty dagger]

🥀🥀🥀

You must be fun to hang out with

[hollow linden]

You don't need to like me

[misty wagon]

WORLD tension STILL AT 20% dude

[hollow linden]

Im some stranger on the fking discord bruh

[mighty dagger]

Yeah don’t worry I won’t

[hollow linden]

Good.

[mighty dagger]

Man you’re just baiting him atp

Lmao

[hollow linden]

🤷‍♂️

O

Ok

[hexed parcel]

Press tab, type in the console, nocb

[misty wagon]

alr

ty lol

that was so annoying

[hexed parcel]

If u declare instantly the ai doesnt have time to put troops on frontline if ur looking for a more violent wa

R

Depending how im feeling i either justify like a few weeks or declare instantly

[misty wagon]

guys is it worth taking over the allies i can

[hexed parcel]

Yes

[misty wagon]

is declaring instantly easier

[hexed parcel]

Always if u can

Yes

[hexed parcel]

U can check pins of this channel for tips

This especially

If u wanna do world conquest then always if u know u can annex a country u should do it even if 2 countries or more at once

[misty wagon]

wait wiat

should i invite soviets to faction'

im now leader

and it lets me

@hexed parcel what do u think

that way i can take france whithout soviets on my ass

[hexed parcel]

Ok

I thought u cant invite faction leaders

[misty wagon]

thats what it says

should i do it

[hexed parcel]

Yes

[misty wagon]

alr now france is just gg

[hexed parcel]

2 years and romania is still pushing

[misty wagon]

this is the most cursed picture ive ever seen

[hexed parcel]

Rush capital and split austria in 2 so u can encircle west

[misty wagon]

alright

that was fast

[misty wagon]

im gonna take france then kick soviets out

since i could be overthrown

good idea?

[hexed parcel]

Yes lol

Maybe italy next

[misty wagon]

yes

[misty wagon]

good?

[hexed parcel]

Yes only 1 army needed at maginot

Did hungary die

If u ever invade ussr u could invite poland and take advantage of their army i saw ur faction invites and after ussr dies, annex poland

[misty wagon]

is this gouing well

[hexed parcel]

Yes check logistics tab if inf equipment is negative alot then stop offensive for a while

Unless its still pushing more than it isnt

[misty wagon]

should i kick soviets out only like 30more days untilits possible to overthrow me

[hexed parcel]

Yes kick

Whats ur conscription level

[misty wagon]

limited

[hexed parcel]

Hover over ur war supoort and screenshot what it says

[hexed parcel]

U need more war support

And preserve manpower so combat vasualties dont decrease it either

[misty wagon]

how

[misty wagon]

if i kick soviets rn will they be in same faction with france

cuz look

[hexed parcel]

Its fearmongering nothing ever happens

[misty wagon]

do i kick?

[hexed parcel]

Yes

[misty wagon]

or wait a bit

yes but do they like become allied with france

[light knoll]

no

i mean

are they in the war with france

[misty wagon]

look up am i in risk of loosing it

[light knoll]

oh they aren't

[misty wagon]

im in war

[light knoll]

call them in on the war

then kick them

[hexed parcel]

True

[misty wagon]

why

i dont need help

they will just take my land

[hexed parcel]

They cant make faction with their enemies

[misty wagon]

oH

wait smart holy shit

[light knoll]

they won't really help they have no way to get troops there

so

[misty wagon]

smart smart smart

ima do that

[light knoll]

also please use a field marshal

group all your armies into one field marshal

[hexed parcel]

Also micromanaging is when u manually push eih ur divs instead of using offensive line u can micromanage to not lose akymore manpower

[misty wagon]

WAIT now UK tryna take me

[light knoll]

and then draw a frontline with shift click on the border

[misty wagon]

alr

[light knoll]

also delete a few tank divisions

better than few tank divisions with actual tanks in them than many divisions without tanks in them

also go down on artillery production to one factory

and go down on support equipment production

[bitter fulcrum]

Does anyone know how to make HOI4 not lag? These are my settings.

[hexed parcel]

Idk bro i think ure pc i helpless

[bitter fulcrum]

Aight.

[hexed parcel]

Hoi4 lag is normal also

Unless its like 1 day per 4-5+ seconds

[bitter fulcrum]

It's 1 hour per 2-2.5 seconds.

[lilac oasis]

guys why i cant put navy there?

[hexed parcel]

Idk

Ctrl + rmb or lmb i forgot which click, on the western german port

So that the port is yellow

Ur current home port is all the way in italy, u need to set home port instead of only moving ur navy there

[misty wagon]

HOW DOES UK HAVE 33% PARTICIPATION

THEY WERENT EVEN IN WAR

[hexed parcel]

Probably with navy/air support

[misty wagon]

how did ussr call chinese as my ally

they arent even in my faction

wtf

[glacial steeple]

planes killed?

[dire jackal]

Is there anyway to peace out a war, or do I have to conditionally surrender?

[left glacier]

There is no white peace in war

[dire jackal]

Fuh

[hexed parcel]

Have u tried peace deals mod its cool

[dire jackal]

I'm playing USSR and the stupid Portugal AI joined Japan's faction and now I'm fighting 2 fronts with the allies

[dire jackal]

I dunno how to dl mods

[hexed parcel]

R u using steam hoi4 or other one hoi4

On steam app pc go community tab and go workshop

And hearts of" click hoi4 workshop in search bar and then search in hoi4 workshop whatever mod

[misty wagon]

IS IT worth annexing or puppeting duth der linde

[hexed parcel]

Whattaaa

[scenic nacelle]

Netherlands?

Just Annex

Puppet the Dutch East Indies

[hexed parcel]

Yes

[misty wagon]

im fighting so many wars whithout air its insane

[hexed parcel]

Cas is so useful

[misty wagon]

i dont have any

im legit only land

GUYS I NEED MORE MANPOWER

WTF DO I DO

[left mica]

restart

[tepid umbra]

Do you have desperate defense

What conscript law are you on

[hexed parcel]

He has 0 war supoirt also

[misty wagon]

war support not the problem

i need to fight against someone that has 50% more powerful than me

[misty wagon]

please help

[misty wagon]

limited

guys please i need help how do i fix this

i caused ww2

[mighty dagger]

Scrapping the barrel

[hexed parcel]

Use exhoort heroism to increase war support for each lost manpowers

In decisions

[misty wagon]

i sold

i took to long with czeko

and they joined a faction and im at war with entire world now

ww2

and usa

and soviets

[tepid umbra]

Increase conscript

[misty wagon]

erm

cant

i need to be in a war where 50% of the attackers army is stronger

[west knot]

Is this template good?

[tepid umbra]

No

[misty wagon]

is there a command where i can force someone to go in war with me

cuz fr some reasson i cant attack this italy

[hexed parcel]

Nocb remember

[misty wagon]

yes but look

[hexed parcel]

U can also install toolpack mod so u can manipulate them to invade u first and ur defensive war

[misty wagon]

THIS IS THE ONLY PART I NEED

[hexed parcel]

Or u can say tag ita, invade germany, then tag ger

[misty wagon]

THE ITALY PART SO SMALL TO DO HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

[misty wagon]

btw i kinda made allies,, big

[misty wagon]

what does that do

[hexed parcel]

It makes u italy

But dont ever play while ur other country, cuz ai instantly messes up ur country

[misty wagon]

its called regno de saul or smth

alr

[hexed parcel]

Just pause make italy declare war and play germany if u wanna starr defensive war

[misty wagon]

how its not callled italy

[hexed parcel]

ita, is the tag

tdebug, makes u see other countries tags upon hovering over them

[misty wagon]

wtf

[hexed parcel]

Yes lol

[misty wagon]

no option to declare war

[hexed parcel]

Now do "tag ger"

[misty wagon]

i cant declare war

[hexed parcel]

Theyre already at war idk whats wrong

[misty wagon]

is there a command to go to war

[hexed parcel]

How is it not red while ur at war in decisions tab

[misty wagon]

mann i need JUST that part

[misty wagon]

i killed italy with allies not idk italy wont wanna attack me

what do i do

?

[glacial steeple]

whats happening

[hexed parcel]

Idk

[hexed parcel]

Did u puppet italy and u accidentally gave italy a part u needed for hre

[misty wagon]

no, we were attacking italy, it went to civ war, now for some reasson it joined allies, i kicked it, now it wont let me attack it

WHY IS THIS SO FRUSTRATING

[glacial steeple]

oh

you have a truce probably

[misty wagon]

How i check

ive been playing for 6h

tryna make holy roman empire

im so close

i need to make it before i loose all land in conference

what do i do

[hexed parcel]

Awesome

[misty wagon]

help

pleaase

wtf

is happening

[hexed parcel]

Ok what need

[glacial steeple]

diplo tab

right click country

[glacial steeple]

you shouldnt

just annex in peacedeal (whixh you can if you occupy it, but not if youve given it to your puppet)

[misty wagon]

it says nothing

[misty wagon]

my participation is 6%

i got carried by soviets

[glacial steeple]

that sucks

[misty wagon]

and idk when the deal is happening theres legit like a big world war

[glacial steeple]

low participation is just awful

[misty wagon]

idk why its so weir

i hope i get enough to just get the parts i need

[glacial steeple]

planes killed, states occupied, casualties taken (minor), ground damage dealt, ships sunk

[misty wagon]

damn

i hope i can cheek my way to just get those parts i need

IM SO CLOSE

[misty wagon]

why cant i attack these dudes im so confused

[glacial steeple]

theyre your puppet

[misty wagon]

what wait

[hexed parcel]

Lol that sucks

[misty wagon]

how

how did that happen

how do i remove that

[glacial steeple]

because of the civil war?

one side becomes a puppet

you can integrate them with puppet mechanics

[misty wagon]

how do i do that

[misty wagon]

what r those

??

guys?

[glacial steeple]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Puppet

[glacial steeple]

its been 3 minutes relax

[misty wagon]

im so tired ive been at this for so LONG

[glacial steeple]

take a break :)

[misty wagon]

i take a break bc of a stupid puppet ill loose my sanity

i cant find anything useful in this doc

[glacial steeple]

autonomy

[misty wagon]

half the doc says autonomy

[jade tulip]

is this trade worth it and does that mean that 30 oil everyday for 800 days or what?

[half sparrow]

i'm in ironman, achievements are enabled, why haven't i gotten the Miklos Horthy and the Habsburg Prince achievement yet?

i've done the focus, i have everything i can find online

i'm starting to doubt that facist austria hungary can actually get the achievement

[misty wagon]

i cant find anything useful here

[glacial steeple]

Changing autonomy
Both overlord and subject actions can change autonomy. In general, the subject helping the overlord increases its autonomy, while the overlord helping the subject decreases it.
An overlord lend-leasing equipment to a subject lowers autonomy by 1 for every 100 Production cost of the transferred equipment.[2] For example, giving 1000 Infantry Weapons I (unit cost 0.5 ) will lower autonomy by (1000 * 0.5 / 100) = 5 units. The equipment must be at least as good as the best equipment of that type the subject can produce with its own technology (or better) and can not be foreign-made
A subject lend-leasing equipment to their overlord will raise their autonomy by 1 for every 20 Production cost of the transferred equipment.[3] The equipment must be as good as the best the overlord can produce (or better), so dumping obsolete equipment to an overlord does not their weaken authority over the puppet.
An overlord performing any construction in a subject lowers the subject's autonomy by 0.7 for every 100 industrial capacity invested.[4] For example, building a Military factory, with a cost of 7200 units, will lower autonomy by (7200 * 0.7 / 100) = 50.4. Note that certain subject types prevent overlords from constructing in them (unless the subject is in a faction with their overlord, since faction members can always construct in each other's territory).
Subjects gain autonomy for their contributions to their overlord's wars roughly equivalent to 60%[6] of the war score they generate.Exact formula TBD
The continuous focus "Suppress subjects" lowers all subjects' autonomy by 0.5 daily, while the focus "Increase autonomy" raises it by 0.5 daily for the subject taking the focus. If both focuses are active at the same time, they will cancel each other out.

If an overlord capitulates (to anyone), all of their subjects immediately gain autonomy equal to 50%[7] of the total amount of autonomy that would be required for them to progress to their next tier.

cut some parts out because of message limit

[half sparrow]

basically just build a bunch of shit in italy and they'll lose autonomy

[misty wagon]

that will most likely take a GAZILLION years

also build what

[half sparrow]

take the continuous focus in the bottom left of the focus tree "suppress subjects" and they'll lose it

[misty wagon]

i wanna cry

[half sparrow]

my go to are forts

[glacial steeple]

anything

[half sparrow]

just spam forts in all of their occupied territory

[misty wagon]

what

[half sparrow]

further bottom left

[misty wagon]

is this good

[half sparrow]

shiftclick when your placing them so it places max

[misty wagon]

so i do that and i loose them

[half sparrow]

they'll slowly lose autonomy, go to this menu

you'll see options to raise or lower their autonomy

you want to lower it to the point where you can just annex them :)

no war needed

[jade tulip]

can someone answer, Its pretty much a yes or no for the second part

[misty wagon]

is it getting lowered or raised

[half sparrow]

i dont see why not. for the record, you'll get 30 oil added to your resources

just remember it if you're planning to go to war with russia

[misty wagon]

?

[half sparrow]

further left is lower

[misty wagon]

these mfs dont wanna die huh

[half sparrow]

i wanna do a world conquest in this save and i'm going to have to go up against the russians, spanish, germans, and the japanese all at the same time 😭

i still havent gotten the stupid achievement for some reason

[misty wagon]

well uh im like teamed up with everyone im very mad

they keep stealing my land

[half sparrow]

LOL

[misty wagon]

LOOK AT THIS SHIT

as soon as i become holy roman empire im kicking

EVEYRONE out

[half sparrow]

yeah the base games peace conferences can leave something to be desired if you didnt get more than like

30% war score in my experience

i've thought about using player led peace conferences to minimize the border gore but no achievements that way :(

oh my god i foundout why

i need polish land.

[misty wagon]

LOL

wtf

[half sparrow]

what war are you not in that EVERYONE is asking you to join bro 😭 🙏

[misty wagon]

IDFK

[half sparrow]

also i'd raise your conscription laws if possible

[misty wagon]

i JUST WANT HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE EVERY DAMN TIME THIS HAPPENDS

[misty wagon]

Yes

[half sparrow]

if you get into a war with 10k manpower its over bro 😭

[misty wagon]

i got 13pp

i might just do scrapping the barrel atp

[half sparrow]

tbf once you get the roman empire you'll core a bunch of stuff ang get a bunch of manpower

oh god okay hold off on that

[misty wagon]

IDK IF I CAN DO THAT CUZ THE PART I NEED IS MY PUPPET

[misty wagon]

RN im at all adults serve

wait no

[half sparrow]

once you lower their autonomy enough you just annex them

[misty wagon]

service by requrement

[half sparrow]

you just take their land

[misty wagon]

im struggling to do that

[half sparrow]

make sure you dont run out of stuff building

i had to do the same thing in my save you can see what parts the italians held onto after ww2 LOL

[misty wagon]

LMAO

guys, if i create holy roman empire before conference, and i loose land do i loose the land of holy roman empire

[half sparrow]

well i guess its time to betray my faction and go to war with everyone

[misty wagon]

did that

[half sparrow]

you'll stay the roman empire

[misty wagon]

been therer

died

[misty wagon]

ill loose the land tho

welp GGS no yugoslaiva for me

[half sparrow]

true

[misty wagon]

no holy roman emprie

[half sparrow]

what's your war participation

AW AMN

MAAAN

WAIT

its only turn one you can probably still get it

[misty wagon]

4%

lol

[marble temple]

Any thoughts on The Winner Takes all achievement?

[misty wagon]

is this enough for holy roman emprie

[marble temple]

I seem to have all the things but no achievement.

[marble temple]

iirc, there's a bunch in Italy.

[misty wagon]

yea i need that part its my puppet

but the part in yugo is it enough>?

[half sparrow]

uuuyhhhhhhh

[misty wagon]

im good its possible

[half sparrow]

i'm pretty sure

[misty wagon]

ALL I NEED IS ITALY TO BE GONE

[half sparrow]

protip if you're going for a formable hover over it in the decisions menu and take a screenshot

so you can see it later

and get the right states in the peace conference

[marble temple]

ah, I need HK. fie.

[misty wagon]

SO CLOSE.

i might lowkey kick soviets out

[half sparrow]

do not

wait until you get the formable

i beg you 😭

[misty wagon]

bet

😭

so close

[half sparrow]

oh btw apparently coastal forts count as seperate so uh

you can do that

currently constructing 300 forts over every possible front

can you tell i'm scared shitless

[misty wagon]

very

[half sparrow]

thank god i have the british, american and french navies

and their airforec

i mean i didnt need it i had 1944 planes in 1941 but

hey it makes nuking easier

germans have 0 manpower so

like

[misty wagon]

whar year is it or u

[half sparrow]

1949

WHY DO THE GERMANS HAVE 20K PLANES

[misty wagon]

100 more ppl

PP

AND I GOT IT

[half sparrow]

YES

i do have myself though so thats cool

[misty wagon]

VERY nice

im having a party i cant wait

60 more pp

ITS BEEN 6 HOURS COME ON

[half sparrow]

this switzerland war goal is taking so long...

[quiet geyser]

anybody know any achievements i could work for?

I just finished The Monarchy is Back in Fashion

[misty wagon]

20 MORWE

COME ON

9 MORE

[half sparrow]

you could do the one i'm working on, Miklos Horthy and the Habsburg Prince

restore austria-hungary

[misty wagon]

@half sparrow

LETS GOOOO

[quiet geyser]

seems good do i need any DLCs?

[hexed parcel]

Yes do it

[misty wagon]

THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

IS HERE

[quiet geyser]

GGs

[half sparrow]

you need the holy land, part of poland, czechoslovakia, austria, parts of africa i think

[hexed parcel]

Idk but gotterdammerung dlc gives good austriahungary content

[half sparrow]

i dont believe so

i only have the air and tank dlc's

[half sparrow]

YEAAAHHHH

MY GOAT

[quiet geyser]

Who do I play as to get it? Just Austria? Last i remember playing them they had the default tree

[hexed parcel]

It kinda sucks without goterdammerung but if austria is default then i think hungary can do it, or u can probably form it despite no focus tree

[half sparrow]

you play as hungary

[quiet geyser]

Ohh alright

i will work towards it

[half sparrow]

this tree

[hexed parcel]

True

[half sparrow]

all the states you need

[quiet geyser]

Alright i will start a hungarian game

[half sparrow]

wish i saw that earlier

[misty wagon]

i wanna sob

i finaly did it

after 6h

4 runs

[half sparrow]

you really wanna get czechoslovakia before the germans take it, that includes the sudetenland

[quiet geyser]

great

[half sparrow]

i did it in non-historical but you dont have to

probably makes it easier

[quiet geyser]

Any ideas on how to get as many troops as possible?

[misty wagon]

what do i do now

ive been so locked in i forgot

[half sparrow]

uhhhhhhh i always take desperate defence in my army operations doctrine

5% recruitable population for free

i usually find that more useful than anything else

i got away with that and extensive conscription until the end of all the wars with major powers

rn i'm at world peace technically

[misty wagon]

time for soviets to kiss their ass goodbye

[half sparrow]

now you gotta world conquest the save

:3c

[hexed parcel]

Yeea scrapong barrel + desperate defence vry good it rlly takes ur manpower but u can make like 200+ divs pr whatever

Even as small nation like hungary in this case

If u make enough rifles for it

[misty wagon]

FIRST part is soviets bye bye

[quiet geyser]

i didnt even realise i was disarmed

that just made this so much harder

[hexed parcel]

Yes u need to remove the treaty thing somrhow

I forgot how

[misty wagon]

what country r u

[quiet geyser]

Secret Rearmament

[quiet geyser]

Hungary

[half sparrow]

thats why i run desperate defense, free 5% pop :p

WOAH WHY DID UKRAINE JUST JOIN THE SWISS

WTF??

NOT A RUSSIAN PUPPET??

[misty wagon]

erm why did i have 5k airplanes in storage

lol..

[half sparrow]

hey i mean its one less country i gotta deal with when i backstab everyone

okay

russians are justifying

oh god

[quiet geyser]

prepare for hell

I'm going to rearm asap and then move to the Austria hungary tree

[shadow aspen]

hey guys

so for some reason the game won't let me connect to multiplayer games and play without having a vpn

any fix for this?

[hexed parcel]

idk i searched up and it says hoi4 is banned in china atleast thats only country u dont seem chinese do u

[shadow aspen]

im not chinese no

it just says

''connection timeout''

it doesn't do that when i turn on vpn

[hexed parcel]

idk i never try vpn

[misty wagon]

what am i missing

[hexed parcel]

but if i try to play hoi4 with friend i usually need same version as him

mountains r hard to cross ngl

it looks like ur a lil underequpped

in training tab u can setreinforcement priority to high

[misty wagon]

where

[hexed parcel]

the tnak with arrow pointing down below it

that icon

[shadow aspen]

i mean yh me and my friends got the latest version too its just i cant join their multiplayer host unless i have a vpn

[glacial steeple]

equipment?

[shadow aspen]

idk if a mod here knows much about it

[glacial steeple]

airforce?

[misty wagon]

huh

[spice dagger]

how do you guys set up your marines templates?

[hexed parcel]

same as infd template but inf is marine

[spice dagger]

i'm not that good at templates

[spice dagger]

havent played in a bit, what do rangers do

[hexed parcel]

same idk follow casey template

[glacial steeple]

forest buff

[misty wagon]

why is spain so hard to deal with

[glacial steeple]

marine penalty is 50% and it cannot go positive

so you want something other than +50% amphib modifier

[glacial steeple]

your army isnt equipped has probably awful stats and is fighting in mountains

unsure about your air situation

[misty wagon]

ive sent

i think more than a thousand planes

i swear to god

wtf

[glacial steeple]

terrible air situation too then

[glacial steeple]

thats not a lot

[spice dagger]

and how is this for infantry btw

ill get more support companies soon

[glacial steeple]

i usually use this for holding in SP

[misty wagon]

do i not have enough troops or

wtf is happening

do i send more

[spice dagger]

what about attacking?

[glacial steeple]

special forces or tanks?

or air

[glacial steeple]

its about quality more than quantity

[misty wagon]

uh

i change this?

japan is helping also

oh

[spice dagger]

i was thinking of researching medium tanks over heavy tanks

[grizzled surge]

What is the best doctrine for Russia?

[spice dagger]

which is better in your opinion?

[glacial steeple]

as italy you should do medium tank research if you wanna do them

it spawns howitzer 2 on improved chassis if you do the tank foci

i always use interwar medium/basic heavy unless i have like infinite research but its preference ig

you lose a lot of production efficiency swapping chassis but not swapping guns

[heady skiff]

When trying to form the eu as Belgium. Should I do the minority government or government of national unity?

[half sparrow]

so like

am i cooked guys

yay or nay

[heady skiff]

Nahh

Dont worry abt it gng

[sand ember]

Nah you got this

[half sparrow]

hey i mean i'm positive KD wise :p

800k to 900k casualties but still

[heady skiff]

Genuinely winnable aswell

[half sparrow]

russians have 10m manpower so like

[sand ember]

Ok but actually worst comes to worse just pull back to the riverine and mountainline and let them grind against you for a bit

[half sparrow]

gulp..

[glacial steeple]

so what

its not about what they have in theory

[heady skiff]

Also you should try push Germany into istanbul for an easier hold and free up divs

[glacial steeple]

its about your relative power and whats in the field

[half sparrow]

i had fortified it but had to panic pull my divisions back away from it when russia declared war way earlier then i was expecting

[half sparrow]

yeah i know i'm just saying thats hard to beat lol

literally all the forces on thef ront are russian so i can't count on them slowly running out of manpower

my air force is useless against their combined liek 80k planes

all i needed was some polish states for the achievement too

LOL

[heady skiff]

If needs be you can fortify the alps and pull back into there

[glacial steeple]

this is never a thing you should rely on?

[half sparrow]

of course

[glacial steeple]

and even they

thry still could

usually ai weapons are not widely available

old weapons as they dont research ahead of time

with small industry

[light knoll]

manpower is irrelevant if they don't guns

enemy running out of guns is a lot more realistic and common than running out of manpower

[stoic prairie]

how do i fix my pp gain ?

[spice dagger]

hey since im planning to invade britain from scotland would using mountaineers instead of rangers be a good idea?

[glacial steeple]

sure

[glacial steeple]

haafr how to fix supply ive tried everything /s

[stoic prairie]

are the supply hubs motorized ?

[light knoll]

looks like you need more rails fr fr

[glacial steeple]

yes

[stoic prairie]

did you try not putting everything in one tile ?

[light knoll]

half of the world food is now in the Australian army

[heady skiff]

Fym vro he OBVIOUSLY needs more supply hubs!

[dusty sandal]

average hoi4 subreddit post

[stoic prairie]

transport planes on supply missions

[light knoll]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

[heady skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/gif-emoji-emoji-meme-emoji-memes-spin-gif-3355519892839036421

[glacial steeple]

i thought this would be enough

[light knoll]

build naval bases for more supply :true:

[glacial steeple]

on it

also moving units away theyre just vols that returned

[scenic nacelle]

Delete ur navy

Navy takes supply

[glacial steeple]

its just 100 nuclear subs that cant be it

[stoic prairie]

guys please the soviets are justifying and i am running out of manpower plus i am only on limited

[half sparrow]

its times liek these where i wish i had gotterdamung so i could use ICBMS on these 10div deathstacks on the frontlines...

[glacial steeple]

you only get them in like 1950+

[half sparrow]

i just hit 1950

[glacial steeple]

well its not a set time

i mean like if you half focus on it

[light knoll]

10 divisions in 1950 is NOT deathstack

[glacial steeple]

thats the earliest youll get it

[light knoll]

bro have not seen 100 divisions per tile

[glacial steeple]

it just depends on how much they live

if a lot of ai units die in mega wars theyll be pretty thinned out

[half sparrow]

yeah reading that back that felt bad sorry LMAO

its 6 am

i'm tired as hell

LOL

[glacial steeple]

but if you leave them alone all game its like

theyll start getting a lot of fully equipped units

[glacial steeple]

it wouldnt save you

nukes dont save people they just expedite the process

if your economy management is poor, then youll overinvest into stuff like ICBMs and just have your ground forces suffer and die

or lose the air war as they take a lott of chromium and aluminium

[light knoll]

start building an airforce instead

you should not have issues pushing with air superiority and cas

[glacial steeple]

thats also ignoring the fact that yk

they take nukes to use

not exactly the easiest thing to produce

[heady skiff]

I hate non historical so so much ;-;

[light knoll]

skill issue non hist is goated

[heady skiff]

Vro im playing Belgium and made the european union. Netherlands is my puppet. My ally Ireland got invaded by facist Uk and I was NOT helping ts. Then my other ally Hungary was somehow anshlussed????

[glacial steeple]

the world war in my game might be about to end 💔

[heady skiff]

Im sure I can get France as a puppet 🥹 ✌️

With my 32 divs

[glacial steeple]

china officially facing mainland invasions rn

[half sparrow]

spanish front took one look at my level 6 forts on mountains and LAUGHED"

rammed their way through them instantly

[light knoll]

help them out

[half sparrow]

and now they're snaking their way into italy before i can stop them 💔

[glacial steeple]

forts suck yeah

[glacial steeple]

i have been

[light knoll]

can't let it end like that

[glacial steeple]

i went in and nuked the US once even

and naval blockades

and some volunteers doing defensive countering

[heady skiff]

Its ACTUALLY over. Germany went facist and is now getting the czech entente for free ;-;

[glacial steeple]

dont wanna yk shift the balance too much

[half sparrow]

AW MAN I PUSHED FOR A NUKE ON BERLIN BEFORE I COMPLETELY CAPITULATE AND IT CRITICALLY FAILS

MAAN

this game can't even let me die on my own terms 💔

[heady skiff]

Nuking berlin for the love of the game 😭 ✌️

[half sparrow]

absolutely

how optimistic

okay wait is there any noticable flaws with my template

cause i just pushed a tile with 2 divs from 2 directions and it instantly failed

i have supply here too

[glacial steeple]

its infantry and youre expecting it to push

over mountains no less

with no air

[half sparrow]

i have some vague semblance of air support here

not really but

[glacial steeple]

so no air

[pliant condor]

are you on desperate defense or something

why is the soft so high

[half sparrow]

yes

[pliant condor]

grand assault would push much much better

if manpower is not an issue for you

[stoic prairie]

how do i fix my pp ? please .

[stone kayak]

dont use all that pp in research

[glacial steeple]

no thats fine

its the really bad fuhrerprinzeship picks

[half sparrow]

i usually take desperate defense so that i dont have to push for high conscription laws earlier

[stone kayak]

either hechanges inner circle advisor or he be going liek that

[glacial steeple]

inner circle is -0.9 without the +25% calced in

[half sparrow]

especially as austria-hungary cause you're disarmed at the start and i needed to have a bigger military then czechoslovakia

[stone kayak]

ngl...i think they should buff a bit that, its kinda annoying how it usually takes a lot of yo pp

[half sparrow]

personally i dont see how grand assault would make much of a difference even if i wasnt BARELY clinging onto manpower by mobilization

i'm really struggling to balance all of the aspects LOL

i feel like i make tanks and after a short war even with high reliability i get a 2k+ tank deficit SO fast

[heady skiff]

Its over before it even began Germany getting half of Europe without anyone stepping in 😭 ✌️

[half sparrow]

even making them a small strike force kinda thing it still DRAINS them

[glacial steeple]

yeah cuz reliability doesnt matter

its just when you attrition

[half sparrow]

yeah

[glacial steeple]

which tanks shouldnt

generally

[heady skiff]

Whenever I play as Germany on unhistorical every single nation goes communist or Democratic. But whenever its German Ai the game just gifts them half of Europe ;-;

[stone kayak]

if eu attacked them its gonna be a rough time for them tho

[stoic prairie]

so should i change them ?

[heady skiff]

I cant vro I dont have world tension ;-;

[austere roost]

That's usually because you put too much tanks in your division so your tank division hp is too low

[stone kayak]

germany didnt declare war ?

[heady skiff]

Not yet

[half sparrow]

i just dunno how i can basically solo pummel the US and mexico then turn around and not be able to push anything in core territory lol

[heady skiff]

And prob wont until they beat the entente

[half sparrow]

i've gotta be msising something

[heady skiff]

How is this 81%.....

[half sparrow]

factories are apparently 80% of the requirement

[heady skiff]

How vro ;-;

[light knoll]

its stupid

ignore it

[half sparrow]

yeah i think i'm cooked

[stone kayak]

powerful sweden

obv

[half sparrow]

tbf before the encirclements right as i was capitulating it was like 1.7m to 3m

i'll take that

[heady skiff]

Ong

[half sparrow]

holy shit they ATE ME UP

LEFT NO CRUMBS

GOD DAMN

i've been banished to indonesia for some reason

[heady skiff]

I might be the worlds best player.... Guess who's been on volunteer only and civilian economy until 1940 😎

TO BE FAIR

PP is really hard to come by when it costs 50 to invite someone to the eu

and 100 pp to make them a puppet

[stone kayak]

borders look clean ngl

[heady skiff]

Why do I need anything over volunteer only as Belgium I cant lie. Especially with a French puppet

[light knoll]

a puppet you can't use the manpower of

lmao

[half sparrow]

all things considered yeah

for a non-historical game this is

pretty good

[stone kayak]

scotland ? 💔

[heady skiff]

MIGHT not be over. Germany has 1M casualties just from the Czech entente so far 🥹 ✌️

[slate sinew]

Anyone got advice on trying to get Sweden to join my Finnish Faction?

[glacial steeple]

just spend 150 on eco law ASAP

[heady skiff]

xd

[stone kayak]

i think there is a sweden focus to join finland with the winter war

[heady skiff]

I only noticed because the peoples demanded remilitarization

;-;

[slate sinew]

Is that it cause I wanna do Keepers Of The North

[stone kayak]

whats the achievement about ?

[slate sinew]

It's a finnish focus that lets you unite every scandinavian country in your faction as cores

[gaunt idol]

Anybody german?

I have a problem

I want create the holy roman empire, but there meaning "Always untrue". i can't annex greater flandern

[stone kayak]

ig the requiremtents are in teh focus

if it doesnt explaini much send ss

[stuck garnet]

What if you freed them and just annexed them?

[stone kayak]

or cehck hoi4 wiki

[glacial steeple]

usually its best to check the game/code

[slate sinew]

I'm not having issues with the focus or anything but it's just trying to get Sweden to join my faction cause it usually just ends up joining the axis

[stone kayak]

u never know what the hands will do while he checking

[glacial steeple]

the wiki isnt always correct

[stone kayak]

did you do unhist ?

[gaunt idol]

How can they become free, but they are my puppet

[slate sinew]

what's unhist, mb I only got like 100 hours rn

[stone kayak]

unhistorical

it lets all nations go which ever path they want

[stone kayak]

soviet union ahh moment in 1946

[slate sinew]

Ohhh, no cause one of the finnish focus lets me pressure Sweden into facism but then there's like so much more negative than there is postive which I am struggling to get

[stone kayak]

god bless the editors 🙏

[gaunt idol]

Why did Paradox optimize the option like that, we can't annex personunion Puppets states

[heady skiff]

Just how.

How tf

Does the SOVIET UNION join the Allies

And now im at war with the uk ;-;

[opaque garden]

how do i defeat the allies?

[heady skiff]

Fascist Japan just joined the fuhass allies 😭 ✌️

Its SO OVER

[opaque garden]

all my land is either cored or collabed

except turkey

that is a puppet

around 175 mills

logistics

i can hold the line

i just dont know how to push them back

anyone?

help

please

[heady skiff]

How do you have no guns...

[heady skiff]

Yes but how did you even get 2M casualties?

What happened

[opaque garden]

i have been fighting since 38

its almost 46 now

[heady skiff]

Ok makes more sense

Just build up a gun stockpile and hold your borders until you actually have equipment

[opaque garden]

then what

[heady skiff]

Aint pushing anywhere with no equipment

[opaque garden]

allies have more everything

plus the borders are chokepoints

if they cant push me

no way im pushing them

[heady skiff]

Hope the Comintern attacks the Allies.

Really the only hope

The Allies and Comintern normally go to war so

[stone kayak]

just hold, build air so that CAS can help ya, and dont be in attrition zones, if there are low supply zones retreat so that no more equip will be lost

[opaque garden]

im not even kidding i have 0 air researched

i am doing nukes and landcruisers th

even if i cant deploy the nukes

cuz no air

but will landcruisers help?

[stone kayak]

why u doing nukes with no planes to thrwo them 💔

[stone kayak]

i dont think os 💔

[sour mountain]

can you disband the united front?

[sleek remnant]

Tanks?

You can do inter war
I assume you have artillery tech

[sour mountain]

Pls anyone tell me how to disband faction w new dlc

[cold bloom]

Its in the member list (at least, thats where you leave factions) or when you click the name at the top

[opaque garden]

i am researching modern tanks

from the hvy tank branch

[opaque garden]

i have that fully researched

i also have mechanized fully researched

idk if that helps

[pliant condor]

actually play the game instead 5 speeding to 1945

just restart

[opaque garden]

i did not research anti tank

[pliant condor]

and kill the allies earlier next game

[opaque garden]

no

[opaque garden]

no

[pliant condor]

research and make air, join axis, kill allies

[opaque garden]

broski

[pliant condor]

if you sit around doing nothing you won't win the game

[opaque garden]

i went the path where i cant join factions

[pliant condor]

then kill axis before allies take them

[opaque garden]

i prefer that one

i prefer my ow empire

[opaque garden]

broski u do that then

[pliant condor]

ofc you can

at least you need to try

if you sit around doing nothing the game won't win itself for you

yk

also idk why u have a puppet

much better to annex

[pliant condor]

like here the issue is that you have basically no border to fight the allies

if you killed germany and like even if only taken the east

[opaque garden]

ok wtf are u saying

[pliant condor]

you can go through the entire europe

[opaque garden]

first of all you are good at the game right?

just to double check

no offense to u

[pliant condor]

ah ok

[opaque garden]

what is ur playtime

[pliant condor]

it doesn't mean anything

[opaque garden]

ok i will take ur advice

[pliant condor]

my advice is to restart

[opaque garden]

kinda does

[pliant condor]

and fight wars early on

[opaque garden]

yes but battleplanning requires less braincells

[pliant condor]

or like you can drag it on until 1945 but you need to be doing stuff instead of sitting around

[opaque garden]

what if i continue this run and just do nothig=ng

[pliant condor]

if you build like what 30 dockyards you can have a navy that would beat the allies fleet

or if you make real divisions you can probably push through the italian border

[pliant condor]

you would get bored eventually and quit

[opaque garden]

right i have no navy research

at all

except for lvl4 subs'

[pliant condor]

ai is terrible at attacking

[opaque garden]

and shnorkel

[pliant condor]

probably won't kill you either

[opaque garden]

without torpedo researched

which means im just making convoys

actually not

i have no steel

plus i have enough convoys

[opaque garden]

you are overestimating my army

a lot

[pliant condor]

that's part of the problem

the game is not intended to be played by 1945 when the entire world is in one meag faction

you want to win early on

like in 1939 you can certainly buy steel or any resource from somewhere

so if you keep the momentum going you can take all the german resources for example

all the lands you occupy basically become cores(better than cores in fact)

[opaque garden]

yippee attacking the soviets

why is everything either in rhineland or katowitz

[pliant condor]

that's also an option

[opaque garden]

like basically all the resources

[pliant condor]

you need to do it before germany though

[pliant condor]

game is rigged

yep

western europe too rich

[opaque garden]

i had 15 mills in 41

am i supposed to attack soviets

with 15 whole mills

[pliant condor]

you should have a lot more than 15 mils

[opaque garden]

and 7 million core mp

[opaque garden]

yes

[pliant condor]

even without annexing anything i mean

[opaque garden]

i had civs

[pliant condor]

just from building

if you were building civs that's part of the issue

[opaque garden]

i had like 70 civs

[pliant condor]

but even just from annexing romania yugo and stuff you get more than 15

lol

don't ever build civs

[opaque garden]

why

i was using lik 60 civs for trade

[hexed parcel]

😭🙏

Who u playing

[opaque garden]

and why are civs like 10800 but mills only 9800

[opaque garden]

bulgaria

[hexed parcel]

Civs on paper are more valuable

Also

Just annex everything as Bulgaria

[pliant condor]

imagine if you annexed the soviet union

it would be zero

[hexed parcel]

You get a hella compliance boost with focus

[pliant condor]

and you get another 100 civ for free

you basically core anything you conquer

[opaque garden]

i saw a short abt it

only reason i was palying bulg

but like 95 percent of the states i conqured i could just core

only ones i couldnt were hungarian ones\

is there any other fun op country?

is papal italy fun?

[hexed parcel]

Ehh

I dont think so

[static turret]

facsit uk

durnig civil war declare war on every subject

also make alot of collabs on usa

then attack usa

they should be pretty weak cuz its like 37

then make a faction with italy

conquer mexico

release canada create pan america

they should declare independence

attack again they got like 0 army for now

then do the focus to core colonies I forgot the name

you can also core all of europe

wich is stupidly easy because you got hellofan industry

I literally steam rolled germany with 9 inf with air support

[opaque garden]

great thanks for the tip i will play non aligned luxembourg

[vital plinth]

@dry dome

Hey I’m following this video https://youtu.be/UadQ3euApmM?si=d8NpLl4O1aOmwJOJ

but i dont play with the new DLCs yet

In his resseach order he has medium tank very early but it’s 2 years early , should i still try to resseach it ?

[opaque garden]

bittersteel new germany guide?

idk he isnt exactly thr player known to optimize stuff'

do whatever y feel like

in my opinion generally tanks arent worth it

i prefer mechanized or motorized

[dry dome]

Generally with Germany you get 5 slots rather early on so locking away one to get 1938 mids and keeping the bonuses to research for 1940 and 1943 hulls is generally worth it

[dry dome]

Yeah like a 1 week old guide

[dry dome]

Yeah but begginers need to learn the base game before going in on the optimization routes

[glacial steeple]

age doesnt matter

[glacial steeple]

what

you just learn irrelevant/harder things

[dry dome]

Just telling him it's new

[glacial steeple]

i mean age matters but like

a week wont make a difference

[vital plinth]

Oh ok should I cancel my tank engineer company resseach and do the medium tank ?

[dry dome]

Again just telling the person that the guide is new in case they missed the year in the title

[vital plinth]

Tanks are are bad to use in single player ?

[dry dome]

Haven't watched it but if you aren't picking up any research bonuses to tanks then you can finish the tank engineers

[dry dome]

Not really....they are the best offensive units in the game and will playing them in sp would help ease you in the mp metas and such

Kinda sad only a select few countries have the industrial capacity to support full tank divs

[vital plinth]

Why they hard or bad to use ?

[dry dome]

Not exactly hard but you need to play smart because they are a real logistics nightmare

[glacial steeple]

tanks arent even that "meta"

[dry dome]

So as long as you understand how supply works in this game you should be good to use them

[glacial steeple]

theyre actively detrimental as most nations

[glacial steeple]

you need: terrain, industry, good enough generals, good enough starting tech, bonuses to artillery ideally

just so you can have a lot of positive modifiers and the stat difference is large

[vital plinth]

So smaller nations can never play tank optimally?

[glacial steeple]

if the stat difference is small, special forces are always better, but you likely wont learn a lot besides just going forward

[vital plinth]

Even if they slowly become a major power

[dry dome]

You already get that as Germany and the guide is on Germany so it's safe to assume Lion warrior is playing as them

[glacial steeple]

i like doing tanks as nations, that doesnt mean theyre very good in msot cases

[glacial steeple]

i dont assume people play ger, sorry :>

[dry dome]

There is a thing called space marines which are fun (and banned in most if not all MP lobbies)

[glacial steeple]

its imo bad to only help people with advice for 1 nation anyway

and even as germany if youre bad

not using your modifiers

tanks are bad

[dry dome]

I do because of the guide sent in here

[glacial steeple]

i should watch that guide and then go complain to bitter about stuff he gets wrong (tho im not a super reliable source, its like, better than most sp players)

[dry dome]

Most players start with the biggest player in ww2 hence why bittersteal has only been making Germany guides unless I've missed something (I don't really watch him anymore tbh)

[glacial steeple]

plenty of people play other stuff, germany is the most common but its not like 90% of players

[dry dome]

He doesn't do everything optimally but he tends to combine optimization and simplicity to their fullest potential

[glacial steeple]

bittersteel mostly makes germany vids because it has the highest demand and he wants to make sure his vids do well

its that simple

[dry dome]

Btw @vital plinth

Are you playing Germany atm?

[dry dome]

Wouldn't that be a player's fault in most cases though? 🤔

[glacial steeple]

well, in sp, if you want to win optimally, you go air + AC 3

because it lets you move across the map the fastest

[dry dome]

Ac 3?

[glacial steeple]

your gameplay is always due to actions, choices

armored car 3

[dry dome]

Oh

[pliant condor]

if something is important, research it early

[dry dome]

I've never used armored cars :-:

[glacial steeple]

well everything before AC 3 sucks

[pliant condor]

the optimal play is to become a major power quickly

which tank won't help you

[vital plinth]

Yeah Germany it’s my second game

[vital plinth]

Only after I’ve gotten strong enough industry is it better to add tank if I can afford it ?

I used infantry only until I got Italy yogoslavia Turkey Bulgaria and Romania as core for Greece then I built tanks

[vital plinth]

I don’t know if something is important unfortunately hard to tell if something is important 😅

[pliant condor]

you could

but usually it's better to build air