ask-for-help-here

[stuck garnet]

how do i reinstall my launcher

[idle arch]

So uplift roseberg focus is basically useless

[glacial steeple]

yes very useless

actively detrimental even

since even they dont get cores

[harsh glen]

no supply in own capital

[vernal knoll]

some tips for playing as italy?😭

[stuck garnet]

also uhh

[glacial steeple]

your supply capital is likely in riyadh

[stuck garnet]

have i already asked for help with this 😭

my launcher wont reinstall

[harsh glen]

nope, looks like a bug....

[glacial steeple]

its not

what territories do you control?

it moved to a port because the supply capital always avoids being isolated

because the railway in iraq got broken the game decided to move it for you

to a point where instead multiple supply points connect

usually a port

if thats not it then just reload and it should fix itself maybe

[harsh glen]

got 0 damage on any infastrucutre, why would it shift to a port tf

yeah looks like it shifted to mecca port bruh

[glacial steeple]

link it up with your supply hubs with a level 1 rail

[harsh glen]

so to avoid this upgrade railways to level 2 if they get damaged even a little....?

[obsidian badger]

Intriguing pfp

[jagged hull]

I'm having a lot of trouble I am trying to take over faction of the allies can anyone help

[light knoll]

do you have faction points

you can change faction rules if you have faction points

otherwise you probably just can't take over

[slate sinew]

Any advice for beating USSR as Lithuania? - Been trying for multiple days 😭

[light knoll]

do you want a specific path or any path?

[slate sinew]

Well my goto is taking baltics and plc for industry but literally having no luck

[light knoll]

wdym no luck?

[slate sinew]

I suck basically 💔

[light knoll]

you should have the industry and manpower for it with plc and the baltics, so yea its an issue in gameplay

[slate sinew]

It definitely is cause i'm getting absolutely steamrolled by ussr no matter what I try

[light knoll]

show what have you been doing so far

what division template, research, industry, etc do you have

[slate sinew]

alright i'm still on 36 but I wanna try space marines since I've heard they're strong

[light knoll]

nah

[slate sinew]

fr?

[light knoll]

they're not good nowadays

[slate sinew]

oh

what should I try then? I'd say I'm fairly new to the game still

[light knoll]

just use 16w infantry template

with support arty and aa, and when you can add stuff like logistics/signal/field hospital

[slate sinew]

oooh alright i'll try do that then, ty

[light knoll]

that is for the defensive mostly

for the offensive ideally 36w template

[slate sinew]

so should I do a mix of 16w and 36w?

[light knoll]

nah, probably just start with 16w. can go 36w later when you have enough manpower and equipment

[slate sinew]

got it, appreciate it gng

[pseudo ridge]

i plan to do another game soon, can anyone tell me how to properly manage civilian factories or better yet manage resources so i dont have to keep trading?

[austere roost]

Free trade is one of the best things

You need to understand the goal of your economy is to produce the most amount of things, not the most civs, and not even the most mils

[pseudo ridge]

i'm still learning and as canada was cutting back on production because i didnt have resources because i didnt have any civilian factories to trade

[austere roost]

The extra production, construction speed, and research speed more than pays for the civs you use to trade

[stuck garnet]

For inf??

Ohh yeah

Hp buffs?

[austere roost]

What is your production line?

If you're Canada you don't need to worry about air or navy, Uk and later usa will cover for you

[pseudo ridge]

my production was just soldiers and some tanks, and planes too cause i was just focusing on military stuff

[austere roost]

You don't need to build planes as canada

Just build land units to hold the line for allies

Will save you a lot of rubber

[pseudo ridge]

i'd still need tungsten since every time i build infantry divisions i always do the same template i saw of 7 infantry 2 artillery

[light knoll]

you are not playing to hold the line in sp

lol

[austere roost]

I mean to fight in some places

[neat widget]

Yeah that is really weird

You don't have supply anywhere in your own nation

Bruh

[neat widget]

Canada full air build no land units

[austere roost]

Do they have range mio?

[neat widget]

No unfortunately

[mystic willow]

how do i make special force

[neat widget]

I'm kidding, it doesn't work in singleplayer

Well, not well

It works in multiplayer because other nations produce the planes and then lend lease to Canada

Either Canada or Brazil

[spare cradle]

where is the best place to showcase an achievment

because i just got mikolas horthy and the habsburg prince

[pliant condor]

only make guns

don't try to make everything

[wintry rover]

can anyone here teach me how to properly play the game I have 30 hours on this one account and mabye 50 across other but I just can't win wars.

[spare cradle]

i cant teach better than a guy with 10000 hours, but i can teach you some things ( they might be wrong but stiil

[wintry rover]

I like the humbleness

Add me

[balmy dawn]

there a guide for the new doctrines out yet? I'm still really unsure about where to put my points

[neat widget]

can you draw front lines and move around individual divisions?

[balmy dawn]

Sure. When they're done with that one-off movement, they default back to the previous order

[oak jasper]

The Philippines keeps giving me underequipped divisions. Is there any way to have those pull from your own inventory rather than the Philippines's "I clearly don't have the mils or tech to equip my own

[glacial steeple]

yes you can recruit divs on your own from puppet manpower

but not with those units no

[oak jasper]

Oh, copy their templates and recruit those like exile divisons?

[glacial steeple]

you can lene lease if you care

yes its similar

[neat widget]

correct

[neat widget]

that out of the way, which nation are you playing and what path are you doing

[rustic ridge]

Hey guys, have developers fixed the naval invasion bug yet? The one when you cannot gain any naval dominance even with 300 ships on patrol/strike in one region

[balmy dawn]

At the moment? Im playing Italy. What do you mean by "path"?

[violet lintel]

focus tree path.

[balmy dawn]

Grand Battleplan - Fleet in Being - Battlefield Support

[stuck garnet]

Someone help me with the launcher

[queen agate]

I should have around 1.1M manpower free but I don't. I'm only using about 510k out of the 1.7M total but none is mobilizing, why?

[rocky dove]

i play as poland what path of monarchy is easy to def germany???

[wintry rover]

How does my unit look?

[glacial steeple]

total manpower is before losses

free and used manpower is what you have

[wintry rover]

Post Upgrade is it good?

[glacial steeple]

for what could that be good

[wintry rover]

everything

[languid trout]

i hope this is ragebait

[queen agate]

I wasn't at war, and the last war I lost maybe 300k

[glacial steeple]

garrisons lose men too

if you kill enemies then core their land thats also manpower lost

[indigo sapphire]

hello

[wintry rover]

is it bad tho

be honest how bad is it

[languid trout]

very bad\

[wintry rover]

how is it bad

[languid trout]

54 combat width, 143 hp, about 200 breakthrough, and about 20 org are terrible when they are in the same template

[wintry rover]

I just stack 10 of them at once

also the 1000 soft attack melts them

like butter

[languid trout]

it isnt good in the long term

idk who ur playing as

[wintry rover]

theyre not for line holding

USA btw

[languid trout]

why r u using this as the usa

you have tanks

[wintry rover]

I have tanks too

[languid trout]

you have better stuff to use

than this

you have special projects

not only that, arty takes up 3 comb width

[wintry rover]

I use them when I need to just melt people to get really fast offense that the tanks just cant do in the same time

[languid trout]

just use sp arty if you're going to make a division like this for some reason

its better

[wintry rover]

when you see it in action its way better than it looks

its a really good micromanage unit

[languid trout]

the reason why ur tanks cant kill despite having amazing templates is because they probably have no supply or no fuel

[wintry rover]

the tanks are just slower

not that they dont work

if theres 2 units on a tile and im b lining a capital

[languid trout]

because they dont have fuel

[wintry rover]

the art are gonna get there faster

[languid trout]

or u didnt put recon rangers on it

[languid trout]

no wonder

ur using heavy tanks

dude

if u want faster tanks use mediums

[wintry rover]

heavys are the best

[languid trout]

better terrain stats, especially movement

[wintry rover]

also I didnt say I wanted faster tanks

[languid trout]

you complained about your tanks being slower

now you know why

[wintry rover]

I was just saying I use the art div when the tanks arent fast enough to get there

[austere roost]

Heavies have problems in terrain

And speed is really just a personal preference once you reach 6.4

[languid trout]

sure, heavies got slightly better damage stats, but they are shit at terrain

[wintry rover]

the artillery has 1100 soft tho

[languid trout]

mediums have great damage while also keeping good terrain stats and other stats like fuel usage, etc.

[wintry rover]

so I use them on light lines

[languid trout]

more soft attack does not mean better division

[wintry rover]

I dont wanna swich to mediums I already have my line setup and it would hurt in the long run

[languid trout]

thats like saying that a div that has 2k soft attack but barely has any hp or org is better than a medium tank div

[wintry rover]

it means better division when going against 3 or 4 troops

I also said I stack 10 on top of eachother at once

[languid trout]

https://tenor.com/view/джона-хилл-jonah-hill-facepalm-рука-лицо-долоня-обличчя-gif-7167197686338732060

[wintry rover]

they do better than the tanks in some situations

[languid trout]

just please do not use this division in your future runs

thats all you gotta know

[rapid umbra]

im playing as manchukuo, i defeated the japanese, the soviets and the chinese, i controll the coastal provinces, mongolia and tannatuva, but i still dont get the achivement hail to thr qing,

i need help

its not letting me claim the mandate of heaven

[glacial steeple]

do you have the core state that tibet starts with

[rapid umbra]

yeah i just got that

the focus requierements are just confusing

[upbeat arrow]

thats a new one

[tight flicker]

yall if i were to go deeper into hoi iv can i avoid watching a one hour video

do you have any websites i can read to further my knowlege

[light knoll]

do you control treaty ports?

[inner sparrow]

heavies are better than mediums, just not necessary in sp bc ai won’t have good enough divisions anyways

[mystic willow]

hi guys i would like to creat paratrooper but idk how to do it

[dry dome]

Just research paratrooper tech and then make a division

Also you need a bunch of transport planes for that so keep that in mind

[formal python]

is there any downside to accepting Expeditionary Force from a faction member during war? I'm playing as Germany. Romania wants to send 6 divisions to help me out.

[weak trench]

Lowers your war contribution

[formal python]

what does an airbase with blue flag icon mean?

[cold bloom]

That it has planes from other nations IIRC? You can hover over it to confirm

[obsidian badger]

How the hell do i reassign scientists

I have one scientist in a faction research facility

But now i got my own

I wanna move him over

Like please bro im kinda radarless

[grave patio]

Yo

[jade tulip]

why it says there is resistance decay when there isnt

[grave patio]

How do I know if my templates are good

[weak vine]

so what should i be doing for the first year or 2? building civilian factories and doing focuses?my only previous paradox experience is in ck2

[languid trout]

always build mils

never build civs unless its for focuses or larp

even if ur a minor country that barely has civs

[weak vine]

ok 2 questions.how long do i build mills.and is there a limit to the amount of buildings in a country or whatever?

[languid trout]

build mils forever and yes

if u need some oil, build some synthetic refineries

[grave patio]

How can I produce more tanks before the war starts as Germany I always produce less than 100 and unable to make any templates

[weak vine]

how do i know the ratio of what factories should be built?

[languid trout]

u dont need to

u can build as many factories as u want

just as long as u can get enough coal to fuel them all

[weak vine]

so i should start by building mills and doing my focuses for the first 2 years?

[languid trout]

yeah

ur germany?

[weak vine]

what helped me learn ck2 very quickly was watching youtubers who played the game alot.do you know any entertaining ones?

[languid trout]

bittersteel

[weak vine]

from asoiaf?

[languid trout]

u could also try hatless spider or machiavellian strategist

[languid trout]

no

the guy

the youtuber

[dusty sandal]

the symbol updates faster than the monthly data displayed iirc

[safe garden]

i can t add planes to my carriers

[dusty sandal]

you need carrier-capable planes in stockpile

[safe garden]

and how do i do that?

cuz i can t find any tutorials

[dusty sandal]

if you have plane designer, you need to design planes based on the carrier airframe
if you don't have the designer you need to research and produce the carrier variant

[safe garden]

uhhh

ye idk how to

but ty

[grave patio]

How do I make a good amount of tanks before ww2

As Germany

[mystic willow]

how do i assigne an order

to paratrooper

[jade tulip]

literally unplayable resistance is rising in that region 0.01% per month

[dusty sandal]

stop the plan
then assign the divs

you can't assign divs to a plan that is activated

[dusty sandal]

either rush tech, produce to-be-converted chassis or both (ideal)
you also need mils. Don't build any more than 4 civs if you're not rushing anchuluss in mid 1936

[mystic willow]

how do i stop it

[dusty sandal]

do you have the plane designer ?

[dusty sandal]

button next to where you start it

[mystic willow]

everyone died

[safe garden]

the same as carriers no

[dusty sandal]

then go in the research tab, on the planes you research, there is another orange (brown?) icon you can click on, it's the carrier variant of planes

[mystic willow]

what do we think

[safe garden]

?

ts one

[dusty sandal]

yes

[languid trout]

replace all line arty with tanks or tank variants

add 4 more marine battallions

[mystic willow]

heavy or light tank or motorise infantrty

[languid trout]

mediums

[dusty sandal]

useless maintenance
don't use line arty
lacking critical medium flame tank and light tank recon for breakthrough
only need logi if you went for individual excellence doctrine, otherwise use hospital
go for 35-36 combat width
only use support arty if you don't have super heavy howitzer OR if you went with assault infantry doctrine

AND NO don't use tanks in marines

tanks have -99% stats in landing, which is why you're building marines in the first place
this will unironically cripple your marines

a single tank for armor meme/breakthrough stacking is fine though but you'll need pioneers instead of engineers to balance it out

[safe garden]

and now what i am going to do with the airframe

[languid trout]

then add pioneers

[dusty sandal]

produce it

[languid trout]

any special force is practically just better infantry

[languid trout]

why r u mixing up mot and mech

just make it all mech

[mystic willow]

mss

[dusty sandal]

pioneers aren't a magical thing
you need to reach 40% landing atk bonus

[languid trout]

its better

[grave patio]

Thank you bro

[safe garden]

aight do you have a design that i can use?

[gleaming lodge]

Can someone please explain to me how the GDP and Debt system in The Fire Rises Mod works?

[dusty sandal]

WHY REMOVE THE AA

mech isn't needed, trucks are useless
you kept the useless maintenance company
I highly doubt you went for individual excellence considering the HP of the div
still wrong combat width

you didn't read my message basically

[dusty sandal]

not on hand, no. check the pins there might be one
but against AI basically just produce naval bombers (cheapest you can get, no stats count but naval atk

[mystic willow]

i just don't understand

[inner sparrow]

bro is fighting against the illiterates

poor soul

[dusty sandal]

what don't you understand

[safe garden]

alr ty

[dusty sandal]

want your div to be good ?

• it needs to have a 40% bonus atk in landings
• it needs to have at least 200 breakthrough
• it needs to be 35-36 width
• it needs to NOT use useless support companies AND have some sort of AA

simple as

[mystic willow]

i don't have individual doctrine

[dusty sandal]

so ? I literally said what you must do then

[mystic willow]

i just can't find it

[dusty sandal]

can't find what ? the doctrine ? field hospitals ?

read this message
#ask-for-help-here message
read. carefully

#ask-for-help-here message
this is a summup

[mystic willow]

the doctrine individual excellence i don't have it i mean its not there and 36 width is too much i only have 56 special force

[dusty sandal]

...

[mystic willow]

can't make it to 200 breakthrout without it

[dusty sandal]

these two are support companies

[mystic willow]

meduim flame tank is a dlc ?

[dusty sandal]

MUST-HAVE support companies for any infantry division with the purpose of attacking

except specific mountaineers which use recon rangers instead of light tank recon

you use these to stack breakthrough. With designs such as these

(but with less speed, since you're capped at 4km/h, no point having more

[mystic willow]

i don't have any dlc

[gleaming lodge]

Can someone please explain to me how the GDP and Debt system in The Fire Rises Mod works?

[dusty sandal]

oh, well then special forces are basically a waste

[mystic willow]

alr i just spam inf

[dusty sandal]

they don't bring much of anything unfortunately. what makes them good are special forces doctrines from Arms Against Tyranny DLC

for landings, you can use marines still but it'll basically be hard to land in any case. Close Air support is king in such cases

[mystic willow]

all the previous tips apply to basic inf ?

[dusty sandal]

no

inf you want it to hold the line

so you make it cheap, 9inf, support arty, aa, and engineers if you're rolling in mils (100s of them)

[mystic willow]

i usually do 21 width

[dusty sandal]

and you do such tanks to push easily

these are no DLC tanks

1940 tech, 1936 light tanks and light SPG, 1938 medium tank on the left template

easy to get, and easy to produce early on

[mystic willow]

i play england

[dusty sandal]

no point

you only use 16, 18 width for defence, 32 (mountains/marshes) or 35-36 width for attack

if a div doesn't use these width, theree's a high chance you're doing something wrong
don't attack with inf in general, they don't have any breakthrough meaning they take loads of damage
you can attack with inf if you can fill the combat width while the enemy cannot, OR if you have air supremacy and CAS overhead, OR if the enemy is dying of supply issues and you're not

[slate igloo]

Hey there, I have trouble nuking a country. It's my first time having a nuke but I don't know how to do it. I tried to watch tutorials and I have everything I should need, but no nuke button is showing

[hybrid stratus]

I just don’t get it. I play as Germany, get the Anschluss early, get all of Czechoslovakia, have a huge army and I still lose immediately when I start WW2. I have over 50 military factories and over 80 civilian factories.

I had the MP38

[scenic bone]

yo

why cant i change my divisions name?

I cant delete the current name

It only allow me to type before the name

anyone?

[scenic bone]

use air, fix your division templates and get a good frontline

[fierce idol]

set 24 infantry divisions on area defence on the french front. 1 army on the northern polish front, the rest of your army group on western poland. once you crush poland move your army group to the benelux and take them 1 at a time, then crush france (if they have disjointed government they'll surrender quickly)

[onyx trout]

Is it better to get toa and goa, or getting no compromise no surrender

Goe my bad

[spare cradle]

do you have air supremacy?

[opaque garden]

WHICH ONE SHOULD I PICK?

[wise heron]

look i have an patrol force here but why dont they find an destroyt the last 22 ships that are estimated to be there? i dont get it

[opaque garden]

broski

theyre looking for a needle in a haystack

[wise heron]

ye

[opaque garden]

what do u expect

[wise heron]

and how do i make them find it then?

[opaque garden]

just wait

[wise heron]

fr?

[opaque garden]

u have 100 percent control

[wise heron]

say on ur momma

[opaque garden]

why do u want them so badly

[wise heron]

96.74 procent

[opaque garden]

basically the same

why are you even playing commie France?

[wise heron]

fun

[opaque garden]

you kneo whats fun?

[wise heron]

i want to restore french africa and eu

[opaque garden]

regional defense council of aragooner

so fun

[wise heron]

done that, but got lost after ww2 cuz i was weak

[opaque garden]

then play democratic commie china

[wise heron]

i did not want to attack mega endgame allies

say on ur momma im just supposed to wait

[opaque garden]

on ur momma

[wise heron]

on UR mother

[opaque garden]

on i am mother?

[wise heron]

now i dunt trust u

[opaque garden]

I dunt?

[hollow topaz]

why is my naval invasion not launching inspite of all areas being patroled and my enemies litteraly having no ships

[hybrid stratus]

Oh

[hollow topaz]

its been ready for like a few years

[hollow linden]

.... Your ships aren't on any mission?

Only on strike force

U need ships on the patrol mission

[spare cradle]

why does this work/doesnt work

someone told me these are really good on mountains

[obsidian badger]

I made some ships as hungary

But

Idk why im guessing because none of my dockyards are cores or something?

But they went into naval theater reserve

And went to the backrooms

[spare cradle]

you dont want to make ships as hungary i dont think. just steal other ppl's navies

if your going for "mikolas horthy and the habsurg prince" steal the italian and german ( if possible) navies

[obsidian badger]

I already stope the soviet and swedish navies

but

[spare cradle]

what path you going

[obsidian badger]

I want more

Lol

Uhhh regular fascist im guessing

[spare cradle]

kill italy then

[obsidian badger]

greater hungary

[spare cradle]

oh lol

yeah you cant exactly kill italy then

steal the british italy

[obsidian badger]

Ehhhhhhhh

ill just

naval bomber

spam ig

[spare cradle]

k

also i love how i said "british italy" and no one batted an eye

[obsidian badger]

cant take their navy without taking britain first

[daring gorge]

is there any mod i can use to practice stuff?

[modern kestrel]

Yo is it wrong that I’m chilling and doing economic stuff and not going to war

Or should you rush war

[hollow topaz]

wait yeah but I changed them back to patrol and still nothing is happening

nevermind

[heady skiff]

Im playing Austria and trying to subjugate Hungary but It wont let me because im already "Undertaking efforts to reclaim old lands"

When im just not

Doing anything ;-;

[light knoll]

try reloading the game? of course if you're 100% sure you really aren't

[heady skiff]

I mean is there like a cooldown on it

Because I offered Hungary a non aggression pact and they accepted

And I cant do anything else after

;-;

[heady skiff]

Doesnt work ;-;

[light knoll]

no you just can't do one while doing another

it takes 30 days to do one

or 15 for some of them

[heady skiff]

No I mean after doing one

Ik it takes like 30 days to do

[sour wadi]

whats the best way to ensure you get the no step back achievement

where you loose no land

can i just puppet ukraine and belarus, and call it a day?

[light knoll]

the soviet union can't puppet its starting cores

[sour wadi]

ik

it can on the trotsky path

[heady skiff]

I found a fix on reddit 🥹 ✌️

For my issue

[sour wadi]

i legit had the best airforce. plus 320 infantry

and forts

and i still got reinforce memed out of tiles and pushed

i was dealing 50+ in cas damage

[light knoll]

civil war is already losing core states
but also releasing as puppets is losing cores. what you can do, is declare war on Poland early, and puppet Belarus and Ukraine, not on your cores

but also holding the line is not that hard

[light knoll]

320 infantry is not that much

[sour wadi]

</3

[light knoll]

use signal company

to not get reinforced memed

[sour wadi]

ill do that next time

[light knoll]

last time i did full hold as soviets i had like

at least 4 full field marshals i think

lmao

this much probably isn't needed but also isn't hard to get

[sour wadi]

i was focusing on air force </3

[light knoll]

were you having green air

[sour wadi]

yes

[light knoll]

then im not sure why were you losing

hmmm

[sour wadi]

their entire airforce completely destroyed

plus 50+ in cas damage in poland

lv 5 forts

[austere roost]

Build your armor

[light knoll]

meh

[austere roost]

Also attack turkey early

[light knoll]

i don't think armor is what would help here

[austere roost]

That will also knock out Romania early

It would

[light knoll]

what they were struggling with is holding the line

[austere roost]

Space marine your divisions

[light knoll]

tanks are good for pushing

space marines isn't really good

[austere roost]

They're also good for providing armor

[onyx trout]

Hey! Should i purchase nsnc or get both toa and goe

[sour wadi]

also just for the record, i did do the mil reforms before the war

basic 9/0 with arti, engineers and anti

[austere roost]

Or just build 120 36 width SPG divisions like I do

[light knoll]

what doctrines

[austere roost]

Germans won't even dare to attack you, you need to attack Hungary to trigger the war

[sour wadi]

desperate defence cuz of the good base stat buffs and defensive buffs

defensive postures

and field engineering

grand battlepln

im holding the line great now. its just the first few months of the war are dreadfull

[austere roost]

Also did you grind good generals?

And it's okay to lose the polish provinces

[sour wadi]

how would i do that? spanish civil war

[austere roost]

Yes

You can get chuikov and chernyakhovsky to lvl 6 with like 9 atk in spain

[sour wadi]

whats the template?

the tanks and the divison

[austere roost]

9 SPG 1 SPAA 8 mech, engineer, support art, flame tank

1940 mechs with +5 production cost upgrade

[sour wadi]

spg? wh

[austere roost]

1938 med with lvl 1/2 howitzer

Cheapest flame tank possible

Yeah spgs and TDs are direct upgrades over tanks in this version

[sour wadi]

whats the spg template?

[austere roost]

I told you 1938 med with lvl 1/2 howitzer

Although I had enough ic to add 2 heavy machine guns

Next time I will add them

[sour wadi]

ooh, any armour?

[austere roost]

No

[sour wadi]

easy maintance?

[austere roost]

Cheapest everything else

[austere roost]

I didn't add them because I didn't research it

Maybe I should if I optimized my research

[sour wadi]

okay so just a medium tank w lv 2 howitzer and 2 heavy machine guns?

[austere roost]

Yeah an spg

Should get you around 90-100 soft attack if you use lvl2 howitzer

But you'll need to get your industry together

I had 450 factories by the time I attacked hungary

[sour wadi]

how bruh </3

1942 i have 300

[austere roost]

Five year plan is broken

Also I attacked turkey and Sweden through finland

You can use left side of 5yp to get to 1943 production tech by 1940

And then use mystichy for tank production and okmo for design

[sour wadi]

if i attack turkey and romania, i assume i cant attack poland? or else the allies garantuee them against me

[foggy junco]

so, i screwed up, and did demand slovenia, not knowing it basically forces war with yugoslavia when i start against poland
is there some way i can cheat and undo that? its too late to go back.
cheat or otherwise

[uneven bay]

i cant get achievements but all of my mods are compatible and i didnt modify the save

[light knoll]

start disabling mods one by one and see which one fixes it?

[uneven bay]

when i load a new game it says i can get achievements but then i load the game after few hours and now i cant get them

[light knoll]

did you change game rules/preset?

[uneven bay]

nope

[uneven bay]

and i disabled all of them and still nothing

[light knoll]

no clue then

[heady skiff]

So how do I not get obliterated as China ;-;

[stuck garnet]

how install launcher 😭

[heady skiff]

I genuenly dont know how im so bad

That JAPAN has more divs than me

Its so over already

[grave patio]

When should you focus on civs

[serene niche]

how do you win as china?

btw i want to subjugate the warlords

incase that's important

[heady skiff]

Up until 1938

[heady skiff]

Wdym how do you install the launcher..

[stuck garnet]

uhh yeah

had issue with the read write thing

solution was to uninstall the launcher

let it reinstall

then older version

but then it didnt reinstall

[heady skiff]

You have the game on steam dont you?

[spice tiger]

tell me if i cooked or not i also need help making tanks cuz im a noob

[vague willow]

Is 18 or 16 width good for line infantry as soviets?

and should i have a line infantry and offensive infantry and the same time or is that bullshit

[vague willow]

I think u should remove the motorized

[spice tiger]

alr

[grand iris]

just show me ur tank template, i wanna see what makes its speed 4kmh per hour

and am i just tripping or are those stats bit bad?

I feel like tanks should get more stats and also what year?

And also i recommend putting support AA unless your 100% sure you will have air superiority

[austere roost]

The difference is minimal, and you can have offensive infantry especially as ussr since with glory of the red army you can just make 40% of your army special forces, but tbh at some point you can just make armor divisions

There's nothing wrong with 4kmh, the problem is how do you only have 160 soft attack

[dusty sandal]

motorized is ass, use cav or mech
maintenance company is useless, support arty as well
you need medium flame tank in there, SPGs are better and you need to design a medium

also, you need some form of AA in there

you need 15air attack

[spice tiger]

i did make a tank with a flame and whats aa

[dusty sandal]

add support AA and it's the best you can have in singleplayer

[dusty sandal]

you need to change the designation
AA is anti air

it's essential in all divs

[spice tiger]

how did put the flame and the assult support

[dusty sandal]

even if only for the piercing stat to pierce AI tanks or to not get blown to smitherine when you momentarily enter a red air zone

[dusty sandal]

change the designation of the tank you put a flamethrower on

assault support requires a special project

[spice tiger]

i did the special project

good?

[stuck garnet]

Swap it to a flame tank

Also take the guns out

Add armor skirts

Max out your armor

Armor ticka*

Ticks*

Just those

Just max break

[spice tiger]

alr

[stuck garnet]

Keep riveted

[spice tiger]

which 2-3 or 5

position

[stuck garnet]

Hmgs

And the other one

Keep radio

Also do you have any other mios?

[stuck garnet]

Yeah

I dont have the launcher

It launches fine without it but i wanna pick my mods

[spice tiger]

gtg if any tips for tanks dm me

[alpine imp]

any tips of surviving as yugo against the axis

[cold bloom]

Holding the north seems untenable, probably wanna build some forts around your industrial core and hold those

[alpine imp]

I was thinking like along the rivers near mainland Serbia

[opaque garden]

dont play on Ironman mode

then

annex GER

annex ita

annex usa

annex fra

annex eng

annex sov

[alpine imp]

very funny

[opaque garden]

very easy solution

[dusty sandal]

no soft atk or secondary turret, it's wasted
only breakthrough

.

[opaque garden]

is the land cruiser a good special project?

[cold bloom]

Its stats are plainly OP but it has pretty horrible terrain modifiers, forgot how good it ends up being because of that

[opaque garden]

does that mean I should add support super heavy spaa to a division with the land cruiser?

[jagged hull]

im going to need a lot of help im trying to get south germany as austria

[tight vector]

Should I wait for cruisers or add this to a naval group?

[karmic lintel]

why is my air not doing anyting ?

[tight vector]

Did you select a mission for them?

[dusty sandal]

deathstack
and don't build Destroyers

light cruisers are the backbone of any fleet

[trim root]

when i did the societal bushido focus, the option to flip to fascism for the "question of morality, bushido and fascism" event wasnt there. does someone know the requirements for that?

[karmic lintel]

yes

[opaque garden]

send a ss

[glacial steeple]

hi there

[opaque garden]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-there-gif-5677380953331354485

[opaque garden]

click on the region

u have 0 efficiency

[karmic lintel]

and taht means ?

[opaque garden]

move ur planes to a more central airfield

they need more coverage

[karmic lintel]

oi

ok

[opaque garden]

is it better?

[karmic lintel]

yes thx

[opaque garden]

u can also spend cp for efficiency boost btw

[karmic lintel]

how ?

[strange plaza]

is this a acceptable attack/defense hybrid infantry (mod:agora)

[fierce citrus]

If I send expeditionary forces to an ally, and those forces take casualties, whose casualty figures do they count towards in the war screen?

[neat widget]

You should wait for cruisers

[neat widget]

Does Agora change techs and combat widths or no?

also what doctrines are you using

[dark thunder]

I don’t think they show up at all.

[fierce citrus]

What about in the division count?

I'm playing as PRC here, do the divisions I sent to the Soviets as expedition count in my division quantity, or theirs?

[dark thunder]

I dunno

I never really send expeditionaries, ai will just waste them.

[vital plinth]

Im trying to sea invade Norway but the issue is I don’t do any damage to a Calvary unit ?

Their infantry I do but their Calvary with 7 with takes 0 damage lol

[tepid umbra]

Huh

[livid beacon]

Why is playing with turkey (no dlc) funnier than italy(no dlc) or Hungary(with dlc)

[tepid umbra]

What's your invasion divs

What's their cav

And what's your invasion level

[surreal merlin]

how do you even learn this game? i mean not in mechanics or anything, i arleady know what all the mechanics etc. do, i mean how to actually like play and not lose in this game

[tepid umbra]

play

pick things up

learn from others playing

[unborn gust]

Hello. I am trying to have a good Romania run (Balkan Dominance path, Parties must end national Focus), but in the rare occasion when I am at war with Greece (most of the time I have problem with micromanagement when fighting Hungary, but I can manage), when I am almost at their final lands, they slip through my units and try to reclaim the lost citties. What should I do in this scenario?

[tepid umbra]

not let them slip through

usually the problem with that is front lines deleting

here you might be able to pump out divs before they reach your capital

[unborn gust]

so while being at war with them, should I train more units?

[tepid umbra]

right now, yes

but you can just

not

if you don't let them slip by

[unborn gust]

and how do I make the front lines not being deleted?

[tepid umbra]

replace them when they do

or fallback line

[livid beacon]

How to get more navy i never understood correctly i only got that in production u can choose where they spawn

I think since i got Gotterdammerung i havent played historical Germany

[surreal merlin]

I have 7200 h, and i dont know anyone else who plays it

[vital plinth]

Invasion level 1 basic infantry with support 3x3
But I see the issue I get minus 53% from weather and terrain

[surreal merlin]

i dont even know how i have 7200 i only managed to win against france as germany for the first time yesterday

[glacial steeple]

nah

you gotta interact with people who read the code/do math

playing helps and brings practicality into play

[tepid umbra]

for sp you don't gotta

[livid beacon]

Why nobody helping me😭

[tepid umbra]

I could beat the allies and sov as germany before interacting with anyone who played the game

[tepid umbra]

help with what

[glacial steeple]

germany player opinion rejected

playing germany isnt learning the game

[tepid umbra]

they mentioned germany so I mentioned germany in the same context

[livid beacon]

@tepid umbra

[glacial steeple]

you just use overwhelming force

[tepid umbra]

navy usually goes into your reserves

so if you go into the navy menu and click on that thing on the right with the navy

you can get your new ships

[tepid umbra]

which is playing the game

[livid beacon]

I always produce carriers because they start with 641 dominance

[surreal merlin]

i cant

[tepid umbra]

hoi4 isn't just challenge runs

[livid beacon]

Am i stupid idiot?

[tepid umbra]

watch people play then

or hang around here and learn stuff

or read pins here

[glacial steeple]

theres general tutorials in pinned

[livid beacon]

Bro help😭

[glacial steeple]

it typically helps to only ask directed questions

[tepid umbra]

dude gimme a second

I don't understand what you're even asking ✌️

[surreal merlin]

i dont know what to directed ask since i think i do everything correctly yet i still lose and idk even how

[livid beacon]

If i should produce carriers becuz of they 641 dominance

[tropic seal]

Is he talking about the bathtub naval supremacy strat

[tepid umbra]

they're good but also expensive

[livid beacon]

Whats that

[glacial steeple]

then youre not doing things correctly

[tepid umbra]

idk what that means

[tropic seal]

Build a buncha empty carriers for naval supremacy

They're cheap and give a ton

[surreal merlin]

i meant i dont know what i dont do correctly

[glacial steeple]

in singleplayer you can lose out on 75%-90% of max battle stats and roll the ai

[tropic seal]

Just don't get them into actual combat

[tepid umbra]

if you're trying to beat navy, i'd usually just use light cruisers

[glacial steeple]

watch tutorials then ask questions after with screenshots/savegames included

[livid beacon]

Should i use that strat for a chance againsnt union of britain?

[tepid umbra]

they get enough naval dominance and are pretty strong

[tropic seal]

I hate the navy so I usually just pump out a few light cruises and bbs lol

[glacial steeple]

like why do i not have enough out, why can i not win this battle

[glacial steeple]

why is my supply in netherlands poor before i get belgium

stuff like that

[tepid umbra]

in your games, do you usually end up in large manpower/equipment deficits?

[tropic seal]

How do you lose while doing everything correctly

[livid beacon]

I use the strat of putting navy and naval invasion order so when i start a war they go invade before enemy navy gets me

[tropic seal]

If it singeplayer

[tropic seal]

I usually just use paratroopers

[glacial steeple]

be a terrible nation vs buffed/a lot of ai

[tropic seal]

Since air supremacy is much more useful all round than naval

[tepid umbra]

they think they are doing everything correctly

[livid beacon]

Me when 1941

[tropic seal]

Yeah fair I meant vanilla ai

[livid beacon]

I never research air thing

[tropic seal]

You can hold as Hungary against all majors for eight years easily

[tropic seal]

What

Dude

Air is extremely important

[livid beacon]

I only care about naval capacity

Industry

Army tech

Tech

[tropic seal]

Naval is useless in most cases

[glacial steeple]

player vs world uruguay 1937 is i think the most odds i gave to the ai where i could figure it out but didnt

[tropic seal]

Air even takes over navals role using naval bombers

[livid beacon]

I have no dlc but Gotterdammerung btw

[tropic seal]

You can run a Germany game easily while never making anything except convoys

[tropic seal]

Don't need dlc

[surreal merlin]

later on yes

[tropic seal]

Even with no DLC air is much more important

[livid beacon]

Fricking legend

[surreal merlin]

only equipment not manpower

[tepid umbra]

then that might be a problem of you producing too many divisions

[tropic seal]

What country are you playing

[tepid umbra]

or producing large quantities of infantry with no air

and then slamming them against the sovs or sumn

[livid beacon]

Should i attack poland in 1936

[tropic seal]

You can if you want

[surreal merlin]

i played both germany and ussr and it applied to both

[tropic seal]

But I wouldnt

[tepid umbra]

no?

[livid beacon]

I do it when doing non historical

[tropic seal]

OUT OF MP AS USSR?

What??

[tepid umbra]

they said out of equipment

not mp

[tropic seal]

Ah I'm blind

That's still hard to do

[tropic seal]

I only play historical lol so I'm not sure

[tepid umbra]

it's quite easy tbh

[livid beacon]

I get -37k equipment when attacking poland 1936

[surreal merlin]

i dont think i produced too much divisions germany still had 3 times the size i had

[tepid umbra]

just out train your production

[tropic seal]

Really? I've done 3 USSR runs and never ran out of equipment

[tepid umbra]

yeah so maybe don't

[tropic seal]

What

[surreal merlin]

vice versa on the germany playthrough

[tepid umbra]

that's prolly cuz you're making tanks/air, or not making too many divisions

[livid beacon]

I didn't know u can go to war and still have green numbers after ending it

[tepid umbra]

how many mils do you usually get

[tropic seal]

Germany shouldn't out umber the USSR 3:1 in divs

[tepid umbra]

estimation

[tropic seal]

Ur doing something very wrong if that happens

[tropic seal]

No?

[livid beacon]

@tropic seal

[tropic seal]

I've never made tanks or air as ussr

[surreal merlin]

i dont remember but i bulit a lot of mils so it shouldnt be a problem

[tropic seal]

And I had over was it six full field marshals

[tepid umbra]

that's why I added the or

[tropic seal]

So 30 armies

[tepid umbra]

then your production could hold it

[tropic seal]

Still never ran out of equipment

[tropic seal]

Yes because the USSR usually can

[livid beacon]

@tropic seal

[glacial steeple]

hard to make predictions here so dont bother :>

[tropic seal]

Yes that's just the enemy still fighting

Just crush them they're encircled usually

[glacial steeple]

stop spam pinging people, be patient.

[livid beacon]

Whats spam pinging

[tepid umbra]

if they're running out of equip, it'd have to be from attrition, too much fighting with bad pushing divs, or overtraining right?

if they're up against germany i'm assuming it's not attrition

[tropic seal]

Did he even show his inf template

[tropic seal]

Germany's the one ranking terrible supply in the ussr

[glacial steeple]

it likely is infinite div training queue/attrition/combat with the highest likelihood being the former

[tropic seal]

Especially if you go scorched earth on everything west of kiev

[livid beacon]

I use 9 infantry and 2-3 artillery always

[tropic seal]

Don't use like art

Line

What support companies are you using

[livid beacon]

Whats that

[tepid umbra]

I was guessing the former

[livid beacon]

Supply company alwayd

Support artillery

[tropic seal]

Don't use artillery in your combat slots

[glacial steeple]

many players do not know you can limit it

it brings issues

[tropic seal]

No as?

No anti air?

[livid beacon]

I use main division for absolutely everything

Even colonial defense

[tropic seal]

While not having an air force??

[tropic seal]

Dude

Just use one horse

[tepid umbra]

I never knew you could but I just canceled it after making one

[livid beacon]

How do i defende malaya then

[surreal merlin]

i was using like inf and artillery (as battalinos) and signal and logistic and support arillery and engineer companies

[tropic seal]

Harrison's don't do the heavy lifting in defense

[livid beacon]

Whats a harrisson

[tropic seal]

Don't use line artillery

[surreal merlin]

why not

[tropic seal]

Garrison

[tropic seal]

It's bad

[livid beacon]

Whats a garridon

[tropic seal]

This

[tepid umbra]

port guards

or the things to lower resistance

[surreal merlin]

i saw it greatly increases soft attack

[tropic seal]

There's a video that explains why it's bad

[livid beacon]

I use main division for garrison

[tropic seal]

Even though it looks good on the statsheet

I think Casey sent it here

https://youtu.be/qYmklEwTh6k?si=pdWsuln5HN_IhTM6

[livid beacon]

Why is greater hunger achievement a pain on the ass

[glacial steeple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYmklEwTh6k

[tepid umbra]

🐌

[glacial steeple]

wrong link

sorry

https://youtu.be/1IIjk4bAh68

this is better

[tropic seal]

Ah yeah

[glacial steeple]

it explains combat more thoroughly than saying 1 batallion type is good or bad

[tropic seal]

Don't push wihh 18w

There are infantry templates specifically for pushing

[livid beacon]

28w*

[tropic seal]

What

Use 18w

[livid beacon]

😭

[glacial steeple]

hmm

[livid beacon]

I use the exact infantry division for every single country

[tropic seal]

18w is better as a generalist no?

[tepid umbra]

18w is 9 batallions right

[glacial steeple]

hoi4 rewards specialization, not generalization

[livid beacon]

Even china

[tepid umbra]

isn't 16w better?

[tropic seal]

Yes

[glacial steeple]

you generalize for logistical reasons

[tropic seal]

He's fighting the AI with equipment issues

[glacial steeple]

but for defending its best to have a defensive unit

and for attacking offensive units

[tropic seal]

He should be using 18w to cut down on equipment needs

[livid beacon]

I use 9 infantry battalion and 1-3 artillery batallation then

[tropic seal]

Don't use line artillery

[livid beacon]

Make me

[glacial steeple]

this means you spend less industrial capacity on defense, while taking less losses while attacking

[tropic seal]

Mate if Ur gonna come ask for help

Then not take the help

[glacial steeple]

your industry can be the same size

[tropic seal]

What's the point of asking

[livid beacon]

This

[tropic seal]

Fun is subjective

[tepid umbra]

they said funnier actually 🤓

[tropic seal]

Funnier still depends on the fun levels of each nation which is still subjective

It's just comparing them

[austere roost]

turkey's focus tree was bigger than italy and ussr's focus tree combined

[livid beacon]

Whats a subjection

[tepid umbra]

subjective means it's different for everyone

opinion wise

like in my opinion I find hungary with dlc really fun

[tropic seal]

Yuh I like playing as Hungary then declaring on all majors

[tepid umbra]

but you find it less fun than turkey without dlc

[tropic seal]

But most people don't really find that fun

[tepid umbra]

so it's subjective

[tropic seal]

While defending

[livid beacon]

I use commands to realize greater italy

[livid beacon]

I am scared on declaring war on ussr as Germany

[tropic seal]

Why

The USSR ai is garbage

[livid beacon]

Idk

I usually do it in 1944

And since game is so slow

I quit

[tepid umbra]

if you do it way earlier

[tropic seal]

Did you take prioritise economic growth

[tepid umbra]

ussr will be weaker

[livid beacon]

Always

[tropic seal]

Dude you're Germany you control the pace of the fame

Game

[tepid umbra]

they mean lag

[tropic seal]

Why are you complaining that it's slow if you control it

[livid beacon]

Like

The game

Runs slow

Like roblox in a 2002 computer

[tepid umbra]

if you don't want lag

declare earlier

like 2-3 years earlier

[livid beacon]

I got blitriekg achievement

I forgot that was a thing

Why is china so hard

I only get equipment for like 7 divisions before war

[deft yew]

Hello, confused on why my supply limit isn't 25 for Taiuyan. I have level 3 railways. Is it the terrain limiting it?

I think it might be because I have 0/2 trains needed according to the game.

Evidently railways with no trains on them are not that effective.

I wonder what we build railways for since we don't even know what a train is.

[dusty sandal]

most likely the railways got bombed and so only 1 level works
the lack of trains explains why there s red everywhere

[surreal merlin]

is this a good infantry template for germany

[glacial steeple]

its ok its not good

i wouldnt use the AT in singleplayer

the rest is also a bit expensive on support equipment

70 per division is a lot

[surreal merlin]

ok so what do i use for support instead

or which support do i remove

[surreal merlin]

also why im i even losing to netherlands

i have air superiority and supply

[glacial steeple]

army bad

too many bad units per tile

airforce probably doesnt have enough superiority/cas damage

battleplanning into everywhere

starting unit templates suck

youre cropping out most of the screen too which is harder to read

[sterile robin]

You're just sending a wall of shitty templates in a battleplan

[left glacier]

Yeah. I wouldn't push with these divisions, but they are alright for holding. Make it at least a 20 width infantry divisions

What about your tank division template?

[surreal merlin]

i dont use starting templates

[surreal merlin]

i did this

[surreal merlin]

how do i fix all that

[left glacier]

Not bad, however, do all your tank divisions have enough mechanized to fill it's HP?

[glacial steeple]

there isnt like 1 outlying issue

its always a combination of them and i cant exactly tell from 1 cropped screenshot

[surreal merlin]

idk yet i still only have 3

[surreal merlin]

what screenshot do you need

[left glacier]

He wants your full screen

So all the other details like manpower and army groups

[surreal merlin]

oh ok then

i did manage to get france by now but i dont think ill be able to get ussr

any mods i have are just cosmetic

[wintry rover]

im doing my first japan playthrough any tips?

No wonder people tell me not to play them like what is this

[wind lotus]

Hello, I'm checking the pinned navy guide and i just want to make sure I understand it correctly. Would the LA Cruiser Fleet be composed purely of light-attack cruisers and torpedo destroyers, while the Submarine Fleet would be made up only of submarines and naval bombers? Or do I still need to follow the standard fleet composition?

[wintry rover]

submarine fleets shouldnt have naval bombers as they will make it easier to detect them and theyd all die

[surreal merlin]

i cant even produce enough of them to get a single division

how do i make it produce enough

[left glacier]

Production efficiency will gradually grow overtime

Though you can allocate more military factories to them as you need

[surreal merlin]

even 90 isnt enough

i arleady got resources so ignore that its lacking rn

[gusty egret]

This is... somewhat outdated.

[surreal merlin]

and how do i get more resources? i traded with every avaiable country atp

[gusty egret]

Light attack heavy cruisers have gotten weaker each major patch. By NCNS, none of the five different workable navy metas I know of use light attack heavy cruisers.

[glacial steeple]

pick doctrines if you havent

[gusty egret]

The AI doesn't maximize resource extraction the way a player would. You can squeeze out a bit more by getting more trade influence over the AI, but it's not going to be much.

[surreal merlin]

i arleady did

[glacial steeple]

theres a lot

[glacial steeple]

you can ignore these its chill

just turn them into the 6/0 inf

like you should with everything that isnt a tank or hohei shidan

the hohei shidan units and 2 out of 3 tanks are good for pushing

you delete the third tank to have weapons stockpile and delete them entirely later in the game

[gusty egret]

Bicycle inf are actually fairly decent, people just don't know how game mechanics work.

[glacial steeple]

ehh not as japan you dont have xp/support equipment pre war

[gusty egret]

I still wouldn't use them, but they are actually fairly decent.

[gusty egret]

They still work without support equipment.

[glacial steeple]

theyre fine yeah

[gusty egret]

They require it, but you can turn off support equipment in your division and it'll still be faster.

Because PDS didn't mark Support Equipment as essential for bicycle inf.

[wind lotus]

Is there a better one?

[wintry rover]

fine production rn?

[glacial steeple]

in vanilla you just dont have army xp to use bicycles by china war as japan

[glacial steeple]

no

[gusty egret]

Generally yes.

[wintry rover]

I wanna try motorized infantry

[glacial steeple]

are you day 1?

[wintry rover]

im in may

[glacial steeple]

motorized infantry is the biggest waste you can do

okay, restart

[wind lotus]

Do you know any better guide?

[glacial steeple]

when you assign factories day 1 you get full efficiency on existing lines

[wintry rover]

I just started producing them

and why do i have to restart

[glacial steeple]

for the production efficiency

[gusty egret]

Not really. The navy knowledge I know is from playing with extremely tryhard multiplayer people who occasionally bother to test out navy builds.

[glacial steeple]

you need more guns, maybe like 3-5 arty, 2 support equipment, none on trains, none on air

trucks are debatable

[wind lotus]

I understand

[glacial steeple]

your production is limited

[wind lotus]

Thank tho

[wintry rover]

I have 17 factories

[glacial steeple]

if you waste it you will lose to china

[wintry rover]

what do I use them on

[glacial steeple]

mostly guns

[gusty egret]

The sort of basic, no-brain setup for surface fleets is rock-paper-scissors.

[glacial steeple]

10 factories on guns is like bare minimum for what you need

[gusty egret]

Between torpedo DDs, light attack DDs, and light attack CLs.

[wintry rover]

better?

[gusty egret]

Torpedo DD spam beats light attack CL spam, light attack CL spam beats light attack DD spam, light attack DD spam beats torpedo DD spam.

[wintry rover]

btw submarine convoy raiding is all you need fors subs other dude

[gusty egret]

That's the very basic surface navy setup stuff, where you just spam one ship type and don't bother with complicated fleets.

[wind lotus]

Since i only play single player i believe that would be enough