ask-for-help-here

[tropic seal]

can you produce this captured tank or is it just a one time spawn in

supplies shouldnt be bad in poland

[glacial steeple]

its a design spawn in

[tropic seal]

oh thats great then

ive never ran fascist sweden

ill give it a shot

i ran non-aligned finland and capped the soviets and europe but not as sweden

[glacial steeple]

i find it important to remember tech stuff

[tropic seal]

yuh im currently planning on doing a playthrough on all the countries with unique focus trees

except the chinese warlords

[glacial steeple]

including eth warlords?

[tropic seal]

most of them play the same

[sour wadi]

hey, ive had a weird bug?

[tropic seal]

except those lol those are boring for me

[sour wadi]

i should have 77% of the war score

[glacial steeple]

WHAT

[sour wadi]

but it just says we all have 0. with no demands made

[tropic seal]

common player led peace conferences w...

[glacial steeple]

why should you ?

[sour wadi]

i did the peace treaty before

[tropic seal]

fighting in china is just mind numbingly boring

[sour wadi]

my game crashed

and this is the same savy file

[tropic seal]

because of the supply and terrain

[glacial steeple]

not chinese

ethiopian warlord splitoff region states

[tropic seal]

oh wdym

[sour wadi]

when i did the peace treaty before. i had 77%

[tropic seal]

ahh i was htinking abou the chinese warlords, maybe ill take a look at those

if they have focus trees

[sour wadi]

but when i reloaded it. nobody has made demands, and we all have 0 percent

[glacial steeple]

they do

its a regional generic tree

[tropic seal]

oh nice

ah

also is paradox ever going to update the us focus tree

[sour wadi]

is there any way to reset the peace deal?

[tropic seal]

its pretty dang small for such a major country

[tropic seal]

reload a past save

[sour wadi]

ironmad

[glacial steeple]

its worse than the generic tree BUT it does make your country leader a field marshal

[sour wadi]

ironman*

[tropic seal]

ur cooked mate 😭

[glacial steeple]

and give some recruitable pop buffs

[tropic seal]

💀 i see

[sour wadi]

gosh golly darn

[tropic seal]

just delcare on germany again

[sour wadi]

(my worse word got censored)

[sour wadi]

</3

[tropic seal]

gotta love this game

[sour wadi]

casey. am i buggered?

or do you know of a way to reset the peace deal

[glacial steeple]

idk

[sour wadi]

greaet

[glacial steeple]

uhh reload otherwise prob not

[sour wadi]

atleast i get konigsburg :D

ima jump

i swear

[glacial steeple]

sheeps mod updated today

god bless

[sour wadi]

wazzat?

[tropic seal]

makes the ai not munch bricks

[glacial steeple]

mod that makes the game better

[tropic seal]

vanilla ai are all competitive brick munchers

[sour wadi]

do they upgrade to rocks?

[tropic seal]

like stacking fifty divs in central africa all attritioning

[tropic seal]

no i haven tplayed sheeps mod but apparently its quite good

[glacial steeple]

yeah thats a pretty accurate description

[sour wadi]

peak gameplay fym

[tropic seal]

nevermind then 💀

[glacial steeple]

rocks can be powerful but are hardly adaptive

[tropic seal]

fair enough

i see a lot of encirclement screenshots from sheeps mod

[sour wadi]

i summon paper

[glacial steeple]

try sheeps mod

hist and ahist both work

its fun

[tropic seal]

does it fix ai navies

[glacial steeple]

it doesnt unfairly buff ai

[glacial steeple]

idk probably

[tropic seal]

yeah i played a soviet game with the german vanilla buffs cranked to the max and it hurt

i was getting reinforce memed out of everything

[sour wadi]

it does sound fun. i usually play on ironman mode for the achievments. but ill give it a trey

OML

[glacial steeple]

the mod has some archievements

[sour wadi]

why is my spelling absolutely buggered today

[tropic seal]

an achievement hunter

[sour wadi]

i mean steam achievements

[tropic seal]

we lost him

never seen a sane hoi4 achivement hunter

cosndiering some achievements are literally impossible

[sour wadi]

mapuche </3

[tropic seal]

or require insane amounts of luck

its crazy how paradox expects you to reset a multihour ironman run because the french ai did some dumb shit like declaring on italy before germayn declares on them

so they cap italy

[sour wadi]

i dont actively hunt achievements often dw

[tropic seal]

fair enuf

[sour wadi]

i just know if i dont play ironman

my ahh would be save scumming constantly

[hollow linden]

Nah im just too lazy to save

Ironman is easy

[tropic seal]

i rarely if ever reload saves anyway but i just dont like the thought of a run getting cooked because of a hoi4 moment

[tropic seal]

lol fair enough

[hollow linden]

Mfw I savescum Ironman ck3 cuz my character fails the 95% chance

[hollow linden]

That's called a skill issue

[tropic seal]

fair enough man

[hollow linden]

When does AI fk u over so hard

[tropic seal]

but i forgot that if the leader of a faction caps then all faction members cap with them even those at 0% surrender progress

[hollow linden]

That you have to restart

[tropic seal]

i was fighting in republican spain pushing into vichy when the soviets capped

and i lost 48 divs

[sour wadi]

the only time i save scum is if im taking a really risky move. like when playing hungary and demanding land

[hollow linden]

How 💀

[tropic seal]

the german ai locked in..

[hollow linden]

Boohooo

You're playing Brazil

[tropic seal]

fair enough

[hollow linden]

It has 2929382 Manpower

[tropic seal]

but i just got annoyed

[hollow linden]

Bruh

[tropic seal]

yeah mp wasnt the issue

i cored argentina and chile

[hollow linden]

No I mean how do u forget the single most important feature

[tropic seal]

it was more of a crashout

[hollow linden]

Like

Holy skill issue

All I hear is cope

[tropic seal]

i thought the svoiets had a bit more in them

i forgot to check surrender progress

[tropic seal]

yeah :(

[sour wadi]

ngl is it just me or has the germany ai just been rubbish recently?

[tropic seal]

thats literally the case for 9 out of 10 of my past games

[hollow linden]

No it hasnt 😭

[tropic seal]

they never made it past minsk or kiev even with buffs

[tropic seal]

what

[hollow linden]

That's just AI being AI

[sour wadi]

before the no compromise dlc, they had a good chance of winning against the soviets

especially if you helped

[tropic seal]

i literalyl cranked at least one buff to the german ai every game

[hollow linden]

It's not specific to Germany

[tropic seal]

and they never made it past kiev

[hollow linden]

Just improve the AI

[tropic seal]

ah thats fair then

[hollow linden]

Soviets don't need nerfs

[sour wadi]

but now, it feels like germany doesnt even get to ukraine

[hollow linden]

Yea then make AI better

[tropic seal]

yep

[hollow linden]

Don't nerf the Soviets

[tropic seal]

except the last game it somehow solo capped russia

[sour wadi]

nobody said nerf the soviets bro </3

[tropic seal]

one in a million ass game

[hollow linden]

Turns out AI has an easier time when it doesnt have to multi task

[sour wadi]

bro is fighting ghosts

[tropic seal]

if i dont crank the german ai up its usualyl too easy

[hollow linden]

Pdx is doing it though

[tropic seal]

probably my bad for ignoring europe

[hollow linden]

Less mastery gain

Worse purge

Sov doesn't need a nerf

AI needs to be able to use it's resources effectively

[sour wadi]

in all fairness. the 5 year plan for the soviets is OP

if yk how to use it right lol

you can get 42 tech in 38

[hollow linden]

Germanys 4yp is literally more broken

[hollow linden]

Its more like tools 4 in 39

And tools 5 in 40

[sour wadi]

no?

[hollow linden]

There is no 42 tools

It's 41 and 43

[sour wadi]

i can get dispersed 5 in 1938

as soviets using the 5 year plan bonus's

[hollow linden]

Disp 😭

Why are u doing disp

[tropic seal]

the ai cant use anything effectively

[hollow linden]

Bruh don't use the bonuses on disp

[tropic seal]

let alone resources

[hollow linden]

U use it on tools

[hollow linden]

Hence the problem

Sov doesn't needs nerf

The AI needs to be reworked

[tropic seal]

i use disp as soviets cuz i usually dont even bother buiklding an air force

[hollow linden]

What does one have to do with the other?

[tropic seal]

against ai germany

[hollow linden]

Sov is literally the best conc nation

[tropic seal]

i thought it gave a fair amount of bombing penalty reduction?

[sour wadi]

still tho. as soviets as a player, if you play right you can have 400+ factorys in 1940-41

prolly doesnt need a nerf tho

[hollow linden]

Oh yes the Germans are gonna strat bomb u in siberia

Also that bombing protection does nothing

[sour wadi]

better ai would be better

[hollow linden]

Germany can get 600+

What's your point

If ger was a player it can get 400 mils by barb

Does ger need a nerf now?

[sour wadi]

thats with taking most of europe

[hollow linden]

Yea andM

That's what u do

[sour wadi]

i legit said soviets shouldnt be nerfed

oml </3

[tropic seal]

ah i usualyl build like between smolensk and moscow too

[sour wadi]

why are you fighting w ppl who agree w u

[hollow linden]

You're saying shit I don't agree with

[tropic seal]

since the german ai can never really push past smolensk

[hollow linden]

I'm arguing against pdx nerfs

[hollow linden]

Because u clearly don't

[sour wadi]

i legit agree, it shouldnt be nerfed

[sour wadi]

alr then

theres no point to this convo </3

[tropic seal]

should i still go conc?

[hollow linden]

Yea

[tropic seal]

i dont build an air force or anti air

aight

[hollow linden]

Conc is better in many cases

[hollow linden]

Air sov is dead

Just make aa

[tropic seal]

yeah i just run aa in my inf divs

[hollow linden]

And not in your tanks?

[tropic seal]

lol i usualyl use it and the navy as a purge scapegoat anyway

[tropic seal]

yes and tanks

[sour wadi]

air is easy to win as soviets. just get some heavy mg and 30 factorys on em

[tropic seal]

u dont ever need air as soviets against the german ai

[sour wadi]

more if needed

[tropic seal]

you dont even need tanks as the soviets against the german ai man

[sour wadi]

good to just have running in the backround

[tropic seal]

18w infantry with engi art and aa can go to berlin in 43 or something

without much trouble

[hollow linden]

Eh air sov is kinda dumb? U get so many debuffs and you don't have many resources to make air

[tropic seal]

probably way earlier if you sweat it

[hollow linden]

Very little aluminium, no rubber

And your IC is Already limited so making refs is hard

[tropic seal]

why does france have so muhc aluminum

[sour wadi]

not really? its easy to win the air war

[hollow linden]

Why 18w

Make it 16

[sour wadi]

legit just 30-40 factorys

[tropic seal]

i thought 18w was the best defensive inf width?

[sour wadi]

on fighters

[hollow linden]

For what? Plains? Plains get oneshot

16 fits better into forests

[tropic seal]

oh

[hollow linden]

Tiles actually worth defending

[tropic seal]

ight

i usuallyt defend over the rivers though

[hollow linden]

U could use your IC more efficiently

[sour wadi]

and unless you really butcher the purges. even without air reforms you can get a pretty good air superiority

[tropic seal]

and in the supply hub cities

[hollow linden]

Sp is whatever

[hollow linden]

As you should?

Rivers have nothing to do with cw

U usually hold frontline

Cuz otherwise u don't get planning and Germany does

[hollow linden]

Can't train your air force without losing a lot of planes

[tropic seal]

oh i use fallback lines

[hollow linden]

That accident chance does hurt

[sour wadi]

never had that issue

i just train in the day

[hollow linden]

... That does nothing for accident chance

[tropic seal]

i tried switching to frontlines after they get to my fallback lines but my units kept unentrenching themselves

[sour wadi]

idk man. ive never had a huge aircraft loss from just training

[hollow linden]

No but like, without it, you would have more planes

U lose planes in training. Too many to be worth

And your airforce is kinda shit without training

[sour wadi]

plus planes train decently quick, and ive never seen any significant losses to training as the soviets

i was playing soviets alot yesterday. didnt notice any real plane losses while training

i just had 30 factorys on fighters. 10 on cas. set up over poland. full air superiority

[tropic seal]

if im feeling lazy i just throw everything into inf eq art aa trucks civ trains and support equipment

then i battleplan with like 20 armies

[sour wadi]

fair

[hollow linden]

How Many planes did u get out

[sour wadi]

when i was first playing, i would stack a bunch of armies into an area defence general, and just set them on the enemy

[sour wadi]

like, 3k

[hollow linden]

I guess for sp that's enough

Idk not a huge fan of air sov

Too much of an investment to be worth

Research too

[tropic seal]

is there a reason why the ai produces biplanes till like 44

[hollow linden]

But sp is whatever

[sour wadi]

eh. i just didnt have that issue. i had the best air tech for the time

[hollow linden]

It's retrdrd

[sour wadi]

and advanced industry. plus on par army

[tropic seal]

it cant be that hard to just make them stop production once they have a better model

i dont get it

[hollow linden]

In comparison to other countries, soviet air sucks ass

[tropic seal]

too many debuffs man :(

[sour wadi]

🤷‍♂️

[hollow linden]

Like u have a shit spirit, get no research buffs and you're already short on time

[hollow linden]

Believe me, if pdx improves AI people would be whining about this game being hard

They already do lmao

[sour wadi]

im just saying what ive experienced

[tropic seal]

aint no way 😭

the vanilla ai is like

i dunno man

[hollow linden]

Yea that's fine. I'm just saying, sp anything goes. I'm a soviet main in mp and I've got an unreasonable amount of hours (6k) so I confidently say, that Soviet air sucks ass

[glacial steeple]

thats fine, its whatever you enjoy

[sour wadi]

i dont play multiplayer. so i wouldnt know

fair enough

[sour wadi]

i require the limitations

[glacial steeple]

ironman works for modded too then

[sour wadi]

i will prolly give sheeps mod a try

[tropic seal]

black ice!

[hearty island]

guys a lot of times im having this situation with a minor country when it only has like 2 provinces and i cant get the rest of the provinces, what can i do

[tropic seal]

what

wdym

[tight vector]

Why should I use the smaller one over the other?

[hearty island]

when im in war

[sour wadi]

do you mean in a peace deal?

[hearty island]

no

[glacial steeple]

you shouldnt because engineers are expensive

[sour wadi]

like, actually taking it

can you not push their lines?

[glacial steeple]

but you should because your defensive battles would last longer due to having more org per width

it does take increased casualties tho

[hearty island]

no, a lot of times they just defend too well

[glacial steeple]

org only matters defensively

and even then in sp usually not

[tropic seal]

you dont

[tropic seal]

? send a picture of the map?

[sour wadi]

this aint me lol

[tropic seal]

oh yeah

[sour wadi]

ask him

[tropic seal]

wrong ping

[tropic seal]

ah

so like

its an actual military issue

have you clicked on the bubble

that pops up when you try to push into them

[sour wadi]

look for weak spots in their lines

like plains tiles

or places that arnt across rivers

concentrate your armour and try do an offensive

[tropic seal]

he said its a few small regions

so i assume he means pockets

[hearty island]

1-2 provinces

[tropic seal]

what country?

usually it should be really easy

because you can attack from multiple directions

[sour wadi]

luxembourg?

[tropic seal]

ive literally never heard of a single breathing human player whose had trouble capping ai luxemborg

[sour wadi]

idk man XD

[hearty island]

any minor nation that has majority mountains

[tropic seal]

what is your template

[sour wadi]

mountaineers and air

[tropic seal]

that youre attacking with

[sour wadi]

alotta air

[tropic seal]

gotta check his template first

[sour wadi]

true

[tropic seal]

ive seen some devious tank + inf 'templates'

[sour wadi]

fair lol

[hearty island]

im playing with a mod rn

this is the template tho in the mod

[tropic seal]

uh

i have no experience with mods at all

thats an interesting template though

[sour wadi]

show us the whole thing

like the stats at the side of it

[hearty island]

wdym

[sour wadi]

like this

[tropic seal]

I think some mods change what stats are important

And allat

[sour wadi]

still good to see it

[tropic seal]

Fair enuf

[glacial steeple]

the mod is just a bit punishing

all divs die pretty quickly

[sour wadi]

damn, which mod is it?

[glacial steeple]

i forgot the name

its like a very long timeframe mod

pretty laggy

into the orient or something

[hearty island]

empire mod

oh wait i managed to defeat the enemy

i decided to make a fall back line to see if it works

and it worked

[sour wadi]

good on ya

[tight vector]

Best way to do schleifen plan?

Any ideas?

[viral gyro]

tanks

basic 36 width

medium tanks

motorised

thats all you need tbh

maybe some motorised if you dont feel like tanks are enough

3 lvl 3 tanks divisions are all you need

[vital plinth]

What’s the ratio of naval and fighters on carriers ?

[hollow linden]

100/0

[warm sable]

which trait do i get on him?

[hollow linden]

Don't make carrier fighters

[hollow linden]

Adaptable

But u wasted 2 slots on org and charismatic

Those are shit

[viral gyro]

also get logistic wizard as a next one

[hollow linden]

U wanna get aggressive, thourough planner and logistics wizard

[viral gyro]

yea

[warm sable]

ah, i thought those were good ones

[hollow linden]

Nah that's just a bonus

[hollow linden]

Yea nah

Planner basically adds 10% stats to everything

And adaptle reduces terrain penalty by 15%

[azure kestrel]

Hi I have a question regarding the Man the Gun DLC, is there any way to remove the Naval Designer feature now that it's free?

[hollow linden]

Check DLC tab in the launcher if you can disable it

But I reckon u can't

Why disable it though?

Like, it's not that deep

[azure kestrel]

I just personally don't really care for the designer systems

Too much microing for me xP

[viral gyro]

just ignore it then

[hollow linden]

Yea 🤷‍♂️

[azure kestrel]

It doesn't show up

[hollow linden]

Man, clicking all those buttons sure is complicated

[azure kestrel]

Sadly I can't, I kinda need to build somewhat of a navy

[hollow linden]

In the launcher?

[azure kestrel]

:/ I was just hoping someone has an answer

[hollow linden]

It's prob also not there

[azure kestrel]

I disabled it there as well

[hollow linden]

Yea then learn how to

It's not hard

[azure kestrel]

Still just shows up, tried it without any DLCs and it still does

[hollow linden]

Yea cuz it's in the base game now

[viral gyro]

tbh just like make a good submarine and destroyer and you are set

[hollow linden]

Yea nah

That's now how u build a navy

Dds by themselves do very little

[azure kestrel]

I thought only basic features are included but you can toggle the DLCs to remove the designer

[hollow linden]

Nope, sadly not

[viral gyro]

better than nothing gng

[hollow linden]

That's not a good reason to make a shit fleet

[viral gyro]

subs are good enough if spammed

[hollow linden]

U can make a better navy with 10 docks

Make light cruisers

[azure kestrel]

So there's no way to remove designers then? :C

[hollow linden]

Still shit

[hollow linden]

Nope

At least not the naval designer

[azure kestrel]

Ah shame

[viral gyro]

brotha im talking for just for people that ignore it

[hollow linden]

Those being one person?

Bruh

[azure kestrel]

Yeah I really love playing minor nations, and having to research every part just to be able to build some boats really sucks

[hollow linden]

What a cop out

[viral gyro]

what😭

[azure kestrel]

Especially it's kinda on a time limit before the neighboring nations get too strong for me

[hollow linden]

It's not much research. U only need the first gun techs and basic hulls

Gun and hull upgrades are mostly useless

[azure kestrel]

Playing modded so it's kinda sucky xP

[hollow linden]

Like the upgrade from medium gun2 to medium gun3 is 1 light attack

[azure kestrel]

Like 200-300 days for most parts

[hollow linden]

It's not worth it

[hollow linden]

What mod?

Yea most naval reworks kinda suck?

[azure kestrel]

Currently trying out that EaW mod

Yeaaah

Can't afford to even naval invade anymore it sucks

[hollow linden]

Wait does eaw change naval research?

[azure kestrel]

No

I just play piss poor nations

lmao

[hollow linden]

Yea then the problem isnt the naval designer lmao?

But the fact that u play shit nations?

Even then it's possible

How many docks u got

[azure kestrel]

Regardless I just don't like playing it, no need to be mean about things like you had been dude

Like 4

[hollow linden]

I'm not trying to be rude

[azure kestrel]

Plus no resources at all

[hollow linden]

I'm trying to find a solution to your problem

[hollow linden]

Yea then it's the country, not the designer

That's like saying the tank designer sucks because Estonia can't afford them.

Well nah that's judt Estonia being a poor country

Not cuz the tank designer somehow makes it shit

I just don't get your reasoning is all

You play a country that can't afford a navy therefore the naval designer is shit. Are you able to afford one without it?

Dont think so

[azure kestrel]

I also just don't like playing with the designer because I have to wait for everything to be researched

[hollow linden]

Wdym by everything

[azure kestrel]

It's more nuanced than just "I play minor nations that can't afford to use the designer"

[hollow linden]

U don't need much

Sure it's more than before

[azure kestrel]

But I need more than it used to be :/

[hollow linden]

Again, not much

And they don't take long either

[azure kestrel]

Can't tell if you're ragebaiting or not lmao

[analog maple]

does submarine spam work good in the english channal? i heard subs have a debuff on low waters

[hollow linden]

But you are also able to make much better ships with it

[hollow linden]

I'm not

Like, if you're talking about the gun techs, they're like 100 days

Unless u have some crazy research debuffs

[azure kestrel]

I don't care about better ships, I just want to research one thing and then don't worry about having to update designs

Not even

It's the fact that I have to research slightly better things, then update my things

[hollow linden]

Nah

The channel is bad for subs

Raid anywhere else

[hollow linden]

U don't have to though

[analog maple]

thx

[hollow linden]

Like I said, u can go the entire game with basic hull

And gun2

Gun upgrades are almost never worth it

It's like 1 light attack more

Wooow

And better hulls don't really add much

[azure kestrel]

I suppose. I guess it's cause I've been playing for such a long time without having to use the naval designers or any other designers, I just don't really care for it and it kinda sucks that I'm forced to use them. I was hoping there's a way to toggle the designers at least.

[hollow linden]

U can make this for the entire game

[hollow linden]

Or just, learn the designer?

Like it really isn't hard

Yea u have to think for a bit

But it's not much

[azure kestrel]

I just don't want to dude, that's kinda about it?

[hollow linden]

How do I put this politely

That's sad

[azure kestrel]

It's a skill issue I know

Again, no need to be rude about it :/

I'll just wait till later to ask

[hollow linden]

It's a mechanic that's not hard to learn. Yet you simply refuse for no good reason

[hollow linden]

I'm trying to be as polite as I can

But it's kinda difficult

[carmine thunder]

In mp is it acceptable to use main fleets to convoy raid or

[hollow linden]

Holy fuel usage

And don't get your fleet sniped

But yea it's fine

[carmine thunder]

Is it more vulnerable to enemy fleets on patrol or strike force?

[hollow linden]

Not really, but what can happen is that, you run out of org or fuel, get out of range of land based planes and then the enemy fleet pulls up and you're boned

So be careful

Only convoy raid if you're absolutely sure the enemy fleet can't do anything to yours

[vital plinth]

How I’m supposed to get air suppiorty?

[hollow linden]

... Not with your carrier planes

Use Land based

[wise heron]

yo @hollow linden i love your advice could u maybe help me a little bit in helping lounge?

[hollow linden]

I do not 1on1 calls

Neither do I have time rn

[wise heron]

ahh okay

[hollow linden]

I don't do 1on1 calls

[burnt hinge]

i dont know if this is a bug but im trying to mess around as democratic bulgaria while retaking territories. i saw that there's a focus called "reassert our claims" but it doesnt grant me the annex war goals it should. I also cant declare wars.

[wise heron]

can anyone else help me in helping lounge?

[hollow linden]

The wording is weird. "enemy" implies that you are at war with a country and you get a war goal on an enemy.... That you already are at war with?

Really weird

[burnt hinge]

omfg

whats the point in getting a war goal if youre already at war

[hollow linden]

Ye, exactly

[wise heron]

Yo creepedag im at war with the allies as commie france in 1956, i have naval supremacy i slaughter everyone but now when i have tooken control of the mediterranean i don’t know how to then kill everyone there(

[hollow linden]

So it can't be that

So what does hoi define as an enemy?

It's so weird

[hollow linden]

If u wanna talk to me, ping me. But anyway, show screenshot of the map

[wise heron]

it’s a bit messy but okay

[burnt hinge]

no idea, maybe theres similar focuses where thats been defined?

like where the wording of enemy was used and it was discovered

[hollow linden]

I'm like 90% sure enemy means that you are at war with them

[hollow linden]

And who are u at war with

[wise heron]

ehmm okay wait a min

Uk, federation of russia, chile, brazil, usa, mexico, china, poland, baltics, finland and iran, everything else are basically my puppets

[hollow linden]

Majors of the enemy faction?

UK USA and Russia?

[wise heron]

Uk, poland, russia, china and uk. i invaded and capitulated uk but i dont care about them i just want to farm their navy

like i have maybe lost 8 bad naval ships and they have lost like 800 ones

[hollow linden]

Then go kill Germany for Poland, cap Russia, then China then island hop into USA

[wise heron]

germany is mine

[hollow linden]

Even easier then

Also don't puppet

Annexing is always better

[wise heron]

no

[hollow linden]

Esp with the crazy occupation law

[hollow linden]

It literally is

U get so many factories with liberated workers

And your manpower is gonna run out

[wise heron]

how?

[hollow linden]

Cuz at some point ur core pop is spent

And u have a good non core modifier

[wise heron]

then i annex someone i guess

[hollow linden]

And the best occupation law

[hollow linden]

Just do it

It's better

[wise heron]

yeah after i take denmark and then take all of the enemies in östersjön

but my question is, how do i kill all the ships stuck in the mediterranean?

@hollow linden

[hollow linden]

Go through all the sea tones one by one on patrol with your main fleet and take all the islands not under your control

Do u control both Suez and Gibraltar?

[wise heron]

yes

but what abou the neutral who have naval acces to the allies?

[hollow linden]

Wdym?

If they're not at war with you, what does it matter

[wise heron]

the allies can use their navy bases to store their ships

[hollow linden]

Yea then gg

U need to kill them too

[wise heron]

ahh okay

but for now they have only offered to brazil

no other ships will come then

[tardy mesa]

what do i use to push in the early game

[hollow linden]

Inf

That's really it

Air ain't too relevant there but it's good if you have some starting planes

Like 16w pure inf works just fine

[tardy mesa]

are motorized any good they have good speed and a better breakthrough than infantry i just dont know if theyre actually good

[hollow linden]

Nah

Motorised sucks

Speed is irrelevant

And motorised is expensive

Inf can literally carry the entire game

The bigger the better

[tardy mesa]

im using 9/2 infantry for basically everything but its just not enough sometimes

[hollow linden]

Yea nah

Remove arty

It sucks

Just make more guns

And rush gun2

[honest nexus]

Hey how TF do I win the German civil war fast? I'm trying to do a fix economy, then immediate war econ once war starts, justify on Netherlands, end civil war before silesia revolt. I did it once but I forgot to justify on Netherlands and now I can't get it to work

Is deleting troop divisions before a civil war no longer helpful?

[glacial steeple]

can be

[glacial steeple]

well yeah youd have to justify before civil war begins

not that taking the netherlands is good

[honest nexus]

I think it is. Want rubber

Regardless I cannot end this civil war before like December and I remember explicitly ending it in 36 in like may-august area

I'm wasting a lot of time and idk why or what I'm doing

[ashen sigil]

How do I do the special project radar

[honest nexus]

With an aerodynamic research facility

[ashen sigil]

Thank you

[supple pendant]

Does anyone know how to make a good lituhanian division

Against soviets

With the Commonwealth path

[left glacier]

Besides the new primitive ship designs, late game tech and doctrines, naval mechanics for Equestria at War remains very vanilla.

You do get 5 additional dockyard slots for capital ships and aircraft carriers
(10 total compared to 5 in vanilla)

[tardy mesa]

from where do i get dozer blades

[left glacier]

Support engineer company II (1939)

[tardy mesa]

also which type of tank should i make into flame tanks light medium or heavy

[left glacier]

Medium tanks

[hoary glen]

10 inf on large unit tactics with Support arty, AA and Shovels. If you want to push them take a look at pinned templates and build a lot of fighters and when you get green air CAS

Go SFP as grand Doctrine

And rest is kinda up to you, but select a operation doctrine as your 2nd or first. Either the one with +20% defense or the one with +10% planning if you want to push. Maybe rapid domination is good I forgot what it does again.

[supple pendant]

Thanks

[wise heron]

how can i create an faction in the newest update?

[supple pendant]

Do i need any line artillery

Or is just 10 inf great

[wise heron]

what command in ncns allows you to create an faction?

@supple pendant

[vital plinth]

What is bear fighter aiecraft doctrine ?

[supple pendant]

Get national spirit to do it

If you play an major country

Otherwise im not sure for countries without focus tree

[wise heron]

im commie france but cant create

[tardy mesa]

how do i get the kaiserin as imperial germany wilhelm III died and i modernised succesion laws but i didnt get the event to put her into power

[wise heron]

its 1956

[supple pendant]

Then im not sure

Im not an expert on the new faction system sorry

[wise heron]

u need to do the regulate air safety before the accident and then when you get the event u make sure the kaiserin goes first

[vital plinth]

Best fighter doctrine ?

[tardy mesa]

is there any way i can go back to an older auto save i dont have ironman mode

[wise heron]

nah i dont think so

always play non ironman because sometimes the game can bug

[hollow linden]

OI

[wise heron]

@hollow linden how do i kill all of the allies fleet?

[hollow linden]

I explained it above

[hollow linden]

.

[wise heron]

yea but now not in the mediterannean

[hollow linden]

Then just set up your fleet for supremacy and wait

[wise heron]

where tho ?

[vital plinth]

No I mean sup doctrine sorry

[hollow linden]

Where ever the enemy fleet is, use your brain

[warm sable]

what air doctrine is the best?

[hoary glen]

Just Inf is good, you want to defend with the small ones

Only attack with big 30+ widths if possible

[pliant condor]

operational integrity give you the best fighter stats

but usually that's not super necessary to beat ai air if you are major

so take battlefield support

for fighter assuming you won't have any mastery, airspace dominance is the one that give you the most immediate benefit

[minor stump]

Guys who can help with my situation in Iraq hoi4

I'm trying to attack the British

But I always get stuck in Syria and I get one million divisions thrown at me which pushes me back

[tardy mesa]

for some reason there are always holes in my frontlines they never fully work and my divisions just keep leaving open gaps

[minor stump]

Check your battle plan

Is it aggressive or not ?

Balanced?

[tardy mesa]

balanced

[cold bloom]

You are aware you can draw orders on the field marshall?

[glacial steeple]

chat i have created a plane thats bad at everything how do you like it

[versed rose]

perfect noob bait for an all-purpose plane design

it does it all so it must be good

[glacial steeple]

its 1940 btw

[tardy mesa]

yes i know but i had enough troops on the border and if i added more that wouldve made my supply bad

[glacial steeple]

but its fine because the chance of it seeing combat is like 0

[dry garnet]

yo

im new to HOI IV

Can someone learn how to play

[tardy mesa]

is there any way i can stop this

[hoary glen]

Check out the Pins :)

[glacial steeple]

equipping your units is step 1

[civic hare]

this changes everything

[dry garnet]

what ping btw im new to server

im really sorry but i just dont know the game :(.

[tardy mesa]

im low on artillery i already increased production

[uncut narwhal]

whats like the best doctrine if im gonna have to attack a larger country?

[minor stump]

.

[supple pendant]

Streamed line or flexible line

What is better

[austere roost]

give it a two engine

[austere roost]

gbp and sfp is top tier, ma is meh, mw is meme since nsb

[uncut narwhal]

yea i kinda need subdoctrines tho

i havent looked into whats good yet

[austere roost]

that depends on what you're designing

[uncut narwhal]

just an inf build ig

with special forces

[glacial steeple]

ive "upgraded" it

[austere roost]

there's this https://youtube.com/shorts/CN7N72zCOMg?si=fF6zr1ql6jVuxTP1

[glacial steeple]

?

[austere roost]

segl is pretty good

[uncut narwhal]

just whats the best doctrine rn

[uncut narwhal]

thx

[glacial steeple]

i will make it slower when i can

[austere roost]

but again subdoctrines give you nothing if you don't produce the troops that benefit from it

[glacial steeple]

uuuhhh sfp indiv excellence and like desperate/grand assault

idk for center 2 cuz im bad

[uncut narwhal]

im to poor for tanks or artillery so

[glacial steeple]

arty doctrine is supports too

its like easy

[uncut narwhal]

yea but im lwk too lazy

[glacial steeple]

making the worlds worst airforce rn (1941)

[light knoll]

engineers is like the only relevant one most of the time

because at is irrelevant, line arty ain't good, sh arty and helicopters require projects

what else is there i don't remember but basically nothing else that you'll usually have as minor early game at least

[glacial steeple]

mobile recon is good

[uncut narwhal]

what country are you?

[light knoll]

it gives nothing to inf build

unless you have light tank recon ig

but still almost nothing with it lol

[glacial steeple]

cheap

[stuck garnet]

Sp my beloved (i never get to make tanks)

[glacial steeple]

not a relevant one

[light knoll]

sure but it still doesn't give much

the good ones are siege arty and air cavalry but takes too long to get unfortunately

[minor stump]

That's my situation at the moment

I can rewind to sep 1 (before any attack too)

But I always gets stuck in the same quagmire

I've repeated this offensive like 100 times Tonight

[glacial steeple]

spain air cav and indiv SF build might be peak

[glacial steeple]

have you considered that your army might not be sufficiently equipped/strong for the task youre giving them?

[minor stump]

Well they did it previously

And tbh , the front is mostly exposed

When I start the offensive

[glacial steeple]

when there were little to no enemies on the frontline

yes because youre attacking puppet borders

ai nations are supposed to defend threatened borders with mainly their own troops

after the war starts actual allies come in

[minor stump]

Yes , but they push way too aggressively and always keep gaps in the line

[glacial steeple]

your army looks too weak to put up a defense

[minor stump]

So when the allies do come , they slice right through

[glacial steeple]

much less strong enough for an offensive war

[minor stump]

Yes you're right . I'm kinda hoping to hold on until France leaves the war

As then the whole Syrian front will be gone

Only Jordan

But I don't how much I'm supposed to push and dig in

I took Grand battleplan

As a doctrine since I plan to push deep and then settle down

[reef terrace]

anyone understand how to get the limited war event to work when invading france as belgium?

[uncut narwhal]

whats like a light tank recon tank design?

[minor stump]

You think that'll work?

My industry is like 17 factories

[glacial steeple]

extra ammo

[uncut narwhal]

give it up bro your iraq game cant be saved

[glacial steeple]

3 man turret

[glacial steeple]

iraq can be played correctly but youll always be weak

[minor stump]

I know . I can start a month prior (save game ) but can you tell what exactly should I do

Like to not enter such a quagmire

[uncut narwhal]

dont push and hold

[minor stump]

So I shouldn't try to conquer Syria and Jordan?

[uncut narwhal]

is this a good design?

[glacial steeple]

not with force unless youre confident in your victory

[glacial steeple]

its a tank

[minor stump]

So I just take Kuwait as its just backdoor . And I hold the Syrian Jordanian border

[glacial steeple]

are you looking for cheap or only on some units

[uncut narwhal]

yep

[minor stump]

No pushing

[uncut narwhal]

im looking for cheap

[minor stump]

Alr thx for the help both

[glacial steeple]

wheels, diesel engine, 3 man turret, machine gun, ammo storage ammo storage ammo storage

ammo storage too

[uncut narwhal]

so no radio?

[glacial steeple]

its like the same break for 0.5 ic

it depends on how much it gives

since its % instead of raw

[uncut narwhal]

does mobile recon give the best buffs for light tank recon?

[glacial steeple]

it gives buffs

the arty doctrines arent great

besides howi

[weak vine]

completely new player here. do i just build light attack cruisers for my navy and update them once in awhile? cuz im not very good at this

[glacial steeple]

navy rule of thumb is make your navy out of the techs you have

[uncut narwhal]

yea i wont have the capacity to produce tanks tho for a while

[glacial steeple]

why not

tanks are a mindset

you make them or you dont

usually its bad to anyway

[uncut narwhal]

tell that to the czechs in the far east

[uncut narwhal]

why is it bad to get tanks?

[glacial steeple]

terrain, supply, generals

not having vets

[uncut narwhal]

1.4k soft attack isnt getting beaten by anything in sp tho

[glacial steeple]

in most scenarios tanks are bad

[glacial steeple]

you can get that with inf too

[uncut narwhal]

but it isnt as cool

[glacial steeple]

so you agree its just a mindset

if you want to do tanks then do tanks

[weak vine]

so do i just spam light attack cruisers and then nothing? i heard bittersteel say its a disgusting meta but i wanna do it while still learning

[uncut narwhal]

yea but if i cant because no industry then its not a mindset

[glacial steeple]

CLs are a bit dated but work

rn the main debate is between light attack and torp destroyers because you get disgusting amount of visibility reductions

which is also the chance your enemy hits you at all

[glacial steeple]

if you have 3 mils you can do tanks

[uncut narwhal]

yea ok budster

[glacial steeple]

they wont be effective

but you can

[uncut narwhal]

yea bro holy theoretical scenario

[glacial steeple]

ive been there

AOI tank game

[uncut narwhal]

what is "AOI"

[glacial steeple]

italian east africa

[uncut narwhal]

ohhh right

yea i dont play this game to suffer tho

[glacial steeple]

africa orientale italiana or something

[uncut narwhal]

im just playing casually

[glacial steeple]

same

[uncut narwhal]

yea sure

[glacial steeple]

i dont tryhard or id lose less

i just like click buttons

[uncut narwhal]

yea whatever

[north vine]

i'm playing road to 56 as austria rn and germany did all of their normal focuses but apparently just skipped anschluss? they never sent me the ultimatum or anything and just went straight for poland and the benelux and got cooked

anyone knows why?

[glacial steeple]

you joined a faction?

[north vine]

i allied with the italians, got the hungary PU and guarantee from switzerland and liechtenstein. might that be the reason?

[glacial steeple]

if austria joins a faction it bypasses

doesnt matter which

[north vine]

joined the rome protocols (italy's faction)

[north vine]

oh i didnt even know that

i was preparing forts and anti air and everything lol

i think its better to just restart atp because i want to fight the germans and get their territory

ion want the allies to get it

[onyx trout]

Why is the focus on the austrian focus tree called "take back galicia", isn't galicia a part of spain? I might be wrong idk im not so good at geography

[north vine]

they had galicia at some point

[oak jasper]

It's Europe. At some point, every country had owned every other bit of Europe. Especially Luxembourg, rightful heirs to the Roman Empire

[harsh bane]

There’s also a place in Eastern Europe called Galicia

[alpine pivot]

good or bad

[light knoll]

hp and trickleback maxxing

no casualties

[sand ember]

not good

I mean I guess you could just drop them in empty tiles to hold them but they don’t really seem like they have a purpose other than that

[alpine pivot]

how can i make them good

[sand ember]

Make bigger so they have actual attacking stats + max support companies

Or just make them 2w with no support and use them to take empty tiles

[zenith zephyr]

I'm Carlist Spain, and I'm requiering 386 infantry eq. per day, how would I reduce the number of infantry eq needed, I got a 1 cavalry unit as garrison and got Local Police Force on all states.

[austere roost]

release vassals will help, but tbh it seems like you do have the industry to produce way more than 386 guns every day

[zenith zephyr]

this is my industry

54 mils

[austere roost]

that is kind of low, did you just convert your gun to lvl2 guns?

[zenith zephyr]

yes

[austere roost]

are you doing your industry tech?

[zenith zephyr]

august 1940

[austere roost]

looks like you should be at concentrated 3 and production cap 3

how many in your stockpile?

if you capped france you should get a lot of guns

[zenith zephyr]

I only have 24 divisions in the field (infantry)

and 1 tank division

[austere roost]

also concentrated is 99% of the time better than dispersed

[zenith zephyr]

ik

[hoary glen]

https://tenor.com/view/check-pin-discord-check-pin-gif-1835998338632614419

[austere roost]

you might need to release vassals then

[zenith zephyr]

this might be a problem ig

the next closest is spain itself at 50

[zenith zephyr]

But I lose territories and Icl I wouldn't rlly want to

i'd lose 37 mils and 41 civs

well no

[austere roost]

you can like release indonesia and stuff

[zenith zephyr]

bcs I only can use like 50%

[hoary glen]

IE is bad advice imo bc most people don't bother with the SF limit trick.

[austere roost]

or the african countries

[zenith zephyr]

they only use 25 divs

[austere roost]

you don't really get a lot of industry there

[zenith zephyr]

that's nothing compared to frqance

[austere roost]

are you in war?

[zenith zephyr]

yes

uk

i can't invade them

their navy is just too powerfull

like

[austere roost]

try to find lend lease then?

[zenith zephyr]

I just did that with germany and italy

[austere roost]

once you get back to no deficit you would lose less guns than right now

having insufficient equipment for garrisons makes it more costly to garrison

[zenith zephyr]

what would happen if I invaded UK

like

would it reduce my garrisons?

[austere roost]

if you cap them does the war end?

[zenith zephyr]

yes

[austere roost]

you get all of uk's guns

[zenith zephyr]

yes

[austere roost]

and also you get their industry

[zenith zephyr]

yeah

[austere roost]

so it would help a lot

[zenith zephyr]

though

I only got 25% war participation

even though I took out france the benelux, northern africa and greece

[austere roost]

if you get to land your troops on england then uk will cap to you

[zenith zephyr]

yeah

but the problem is getting them there

imma try something

[austere roost]

also tbh you can start researching lvl4 industry techs

construction speed isn't the most important, the first two are

[zenith zephyr]

ok

What do you think abt this to distract their navy a bit

it crosses the 3 seas

the other one

that's the real one is on the north

[vital plinth]

can someone help im stuck and cant realyy break through with tanks idk why they perform so bad lol the edge in middle i have low supply but they so many now i cant breeakthrough at all

[zenith zephyr]

Do you have air superiority?

[hoary glen]

Tank template?

[zenith zephyr]

@austere roost If I put some ships on convoy raiding on other seas will it help get units out of the sea imma invade through?

[hoary glen]

Also you need to build more harbours at the coast

[zenith zephyr]

@hoary glen do you know abt this by any chance?

[hoary glen]

I mean best choice is just to kill the UK Fleet, but that's more a thing for your next run.

[vital plinth]

It’s 50/50 atm

[hoary glen]

You're unlikely to move them with raiding bc AI has 100 Fleets

[zenith zephyr]

I can't possibly do that

[chrome dew]

is there any multiplayer games avaible?

[hoary glen]

You need to kill them with defeat in detail

Use your air to paradrop them

[austere roost]

Kind of, but you'll still need to cover 3 areas

[hoary glen]

And Navs to kill the Navy

[vital plinth]

2 lines of medium tanks and 2 lines of trucks and 2 extra trucks in line5

[zenith zephyr]

Their stats

My stats

[austere roost]

Build carriers

Carriers went from meta to broken in this patch

[hoary glen]

Only a few of their ships are ever together. You just need a few Light attack Cruisers and Torp DDs

[zenith zephyr]

Don't have 1 single air unit

I'll put all in that sea and see what happenes

[hoary glen]

Restart your playthrough and build Air this time

[zenith zephyr]

I don't have enough research for that

I'm researching it rn

I wouldn't have enough factories for it neither

[hoary glen]

You want 8 medium Tanks and 8 Mech

[hoary glen]

Your playing Netherlands or something?

[zenith zephyr]

Spain

Carlist Spain

[hoary glen]

Tbh if you refit the DDs with max Torps and the Light Cruisers with light attack you might beat the UK

[hoary glen]

If you don't have enough mech yet rather use Cav

Also change those two trucks for Tanks

[austere roost]

Replace tanks with spgs, also what are your supports

[zenith zephyr]

Well let's say my first battle didn't go as planned

also

to get naval supremacy

do I need to put destroyers on patrol?

and my main task force on strike force

bcs like

naval invasion support be doing nothing

[hoary glen]

Where is your fleet tho? You need all your ships in one doom stack except your subs

[tender moat]

how do i stop crashing? i have a really good computer but i still crash alot

[hoary glen]

Patrol with all

Else you'll lose all your ships

[zenith zephyr]

ohhhhhh

[hoary glen]

On Boot or in game? Mods?

[tender moat]

in game

like randomly in different dates

[hoary glen]

Also you must doomstack

[tender moat]

with mods tho

im tryna play kaiserredux

[hoary glen]

Mod fault then. You can make a report in the Steam Workshop page

[tender moat]

i mean im pretty sure its not the mods fault cuz i tried normal too it happens still

and ive asked a few other ppl that are playing the mod and theyre not having the problem

[hoary glen]

Scan files for errors

[tender moat]

how do i do that

[hoary glen]

Right click in steam Library and then it's either there or when you click more options

I don't remember rn

You'll find it

Just right click the game

[vital plinth]

Logistic , assault engineering, armored recon and maintenance

[zenith zephyr]

First win

little one

[austere roost]

Maintenance isn't useful, get flame tanks

[tender moat]

are u talking about "verify integrity of game files"

[hoary glen]

Yes

[tender moat]

or just straight up scan files for erros

oh ok

[zenith zephyr]

Picking up the pace

[hoary glen]

Also put your ships on "always engage" and "never repair"

[zenith zephyr]

alrdy like that

seems like my troops are heading out

[hoary glen]

You need to keep an eye on HP and manually repair time to time

Yeah AI Navy is always super split. So you can easily defeat in detail

[zenith zephyr]

landfall

[hoary glen]

Remove your subs from the main fleet tho @zenith zephyr

[zenith zephyr]

k

also

now that they made landfall

should I keep em for supply to come in

or wait for all my troops to get to england

then remove

[hoary glen]

Sit them next to the port for shore bombardment

[zenith zephyr]

what?

[hoary glen]

Put them on hold and manually move them on the sea tile next to the port