ask-for-help-here

[wet moss]

Think I might try econ growth and then the other if it doesnt work out

Thank you 🙂

[mystic otter]

both are good it just depend on what you like

[wet moss]

Ive never done well with a timer tbh

[mystic otter]

then 4 year plan wont be good for you
mefo bills/economy of conquest force you to keep conquering to seize enemy gold reserve until you achieve aturkey

[wet moss]

Ah okay.

[austere roost]

Peg is strictly better than 4yp

You can just compare the numbers

[wet moss]

Isnt there a way to select Raeder without a war as your leader?

[austere roost]

Idk I haven't done a lot of oppose Hitler runs.

[wet moss]

Alright thanks

[sour wadi]

i want to flatten an enemy

whats the best bomber design?

IC is not a problem

any tech

[analog maple]

Thz

X*

[mystic otter]

bomber as strat bomber?

or tactical?

[sour wadi]

strat bombers do cas and building damage, right?

or is that in reverse

[mystic otter]

strat only building
tact can do both

[sour wadi]

strat then

i got like, 6k cas lol

[mystic otter]

then play usa

[mystic otter]

holy

[sour wadi]

in reserve

[sour wadi]

im playing germany world conquest

dont question it

XD

[mystic otter]

best strat is range and as many bomb bay as possible

[ruby helm]

is there a difference between forming a reichskommisariat by puppeting during peace conference or forming one when it asks you to

[mystic otter]

maybe ignore range module and use mio for range

[sour wadi]

you mean as germany?

[ruby helm]

yeah

I know RKs are shit compared to collaborationist I'm just wondering

[sour wadi]

the ones in your political branch are unique

[mystic otter]

atually there good they help germany when doing 4 year plan

[sour wadi]

plus they buff rosenberg

[ruby helm]

ok lemmie explain

[mystic otter]

lower your factory consumers

[ruby helm]

i invaded and puppeted the baltics before expanding the rosenberg office right

and they're called reichskkommissariats

I know alternatively you can annex them and then it gives you a popup that asks you if you want to form the reichskommisariat so & so

what is the difference

[sour wadi]

the reichskommissariats you can form via the political popup are unique, they improve afred rosenburgs buffs plus they hold different lands compared to if you just puppeted it manually

i think they give the same stuff tho unless you go down goring

[ruby helm]

do I need to reannex the baltics to do those

[sour wadi]

nope

[ruby helm]

(which i did)

[ruby helm]

ok so when I get the chance to form them it'll just tell me

aight

[sour wadi]

check your political options

[ruby helm]

aaah

I see

[austere roost]

Rosenberg just gives -10% consumer good factories right? That's a near useless buff now

[sour wadi]

decisions

[austere roost]

For all that pp spent

[sour wadi]

5% plus 10% mil factory speed and factory output

i like em just cuz i find unique puppets cool

[austere roost]

Oh it makes more sense too bad rks still suck

How did PDX decide to do some of these things

[mystic otter]

i wonder if the factory buff stack with concentraded industry

[sour wadi]

plus as germany any buff is pretty much unneccesary lol

[ruby helm]

decent while trying to figure out mefo bills

plus the puppets are auraful

[austere roost]

Getting gold from France means you'll never have to worry about mefo bills

[mystic otter]

or conq uk and get aturkey early

[sour wadi]

best way to do it

ngl, i dont get why italy in hoi4 gets hate lol. for some reason whenever i play germany, italy locks in

[stuck garnet]

Yeah its hypocritical to do colonialism and be communist❤️

[worn pendant]

so what do i go down first as china with the new tree

[mystic otter]

italy rng love you lol

[ruby helm]

in my experience AI italy systematically fails to understand the power mechanic and immediately falls into civil war

[sour wadi]

italy always takes like, all of north africa and the levant#

in 1939

its baffling

[ruby helm]

wait can the papal states be formed by the AI

[stuck garnet]

How do you like

[sour wadi]

whenever i play the benelux. germany cant push me, but italy is the one that has to capitulate france

[stuck garnet]

Fight in north africa anyways

[sour wadi]

rush ports basically

try hold enemy units in a place and rush their ports

if you get stuck in the desert of tunisia or right before alexandria. either naval invade or pull back to your port

[ruby helm]

get supply companies

africa is extremely underdeveloped and railways are rare

[sour wadi]

itrs basically impossible to push in north africa if your a few tiles away from your port

[ruby helm]

short of you building them yourself try to make your armies survive with little supply when they're marching

[sour wadi]

so pin enemys near it, go past them and rush their port

[ruby helm]

yeah if you take ports you're golden

paratroopers are pretty good for africa

no marching needed when you can just drop them on supply lines

[sour wadi]

that too

motorised in north afria are suprisingly effective too

since they are super fast due to the desert giving no speed penalty, you can just rush past your opponent

[stuck garnet]

can someone buff africa lowkey

put a looot of resources in africa

[sour wadi]

isnt it based on the resources we knew of at the time

[stuck garnet]

idk i feel like theres no point in playing like countries like south america and africa and thats sad to me

because they have interesting history

[sour wadi]

its why the middle east is lacking oil

[stuck garnet]

idk i wish theyd incentivize more activity in those areas

you could be imperialist or anti imperialist in those areas

[sour wadi]

i get it. but africa was under colonial rule for a good long time. not much development happening there lol

[stuck garnet]

have the european countries own the resources and give the countries being imperialized options to fight back

[stuck garnet]

no thanks to the colonizers

[sour wadi]

well yeah lol

[stuck garnet]

all they wanted was to use africa for resources and ports

[queen wadi]

hi guys

[stuck garnet]

they didnt wanna "Spread religion" there they had gold and salt

[queen wadi]

who can help me

[sour wadi]

i do know dw, i am british

[queen wadi]

with 1 mod

dm me

[stuck garnet]

ohh yeah the continent full of riches definitely needs european religion, for uh- reasons. dont ask why we're putting telephone poles everywhere

[ruby helm]

huh?

"Is not the overlord of german poland" Implying poland is either not my puppet or I can't be the overlord of poland

which are both equally confusing

[sour wadi]

cant be the overlord i think

not too sure

wait ik

it wouldnt make sense to make a polish reichskomisariet since you already have the entire country

as a puppet

cant really make a mini poland in big poland

[ruby helm]

"reichskommisariats" are actually integrated puppets

paradox isnt stupid and

made it so that doing those decisions turns them into int. puppets

called reichskommisariats

[sour wadi]

i never really thought to hard about em lol. i just use em cuz i like unique puppets

gives the game more character then just annex all

[sour wadi]

you just have to annex poland, then your set

[ruby helm]

oh annoying

I'll just do it with a tool

[sour wadi]

fair

the african rkommisariets are abit funny to me, cuz germany just decided "screw it. north and south"

no care at all for ethnic borders

very european of them lol

[light knoll]

if you care about it, doing RKs at all is just throwing resources into the trash and the only reason to ever make them is larping

[ruby helm]

dont they turn into integrated puppets

also yes partially it's for the larp

[sour wadi]

peak larp IMO

[light knoll]

just strictly worse than annexing the land yourself

they don't get cores so

they're worthless

[ruby helm]

what do you mean they don't get cores

do they spend their own manpower on garrisoning their own land

[sour wadi]

they dont core their own land

[light knoll]

yes

[sour wadi]

which is weird

[ruby helm]

???

[sour wadi]

i think the capitals of them are cored

[light knoll]

nah

[ruby helm]

i mean

[light knoll]

0 cores

[ruby helm]

i guess you're not using your own manpower at least

[sour wadi]

but their actual lands they own have no cores

[light knoll]

you get more manpower from conquered land than garrison cost

[sour wadi]

only claims

[light knoll]

and factories

[ruby helm]

what if you manual puppet

[light knoll]

still works than annexing really

puppets are generally worse than annexing

[ruby helm]

ok no

[sour wadi]

they get the cores, but they have different border

[ruby helm]

also mefo bills

[light knoll]

because ai can't use its resources in even remotely competent way

[sour wadi]

you wont get the cool turkestan borders if you puppet em

manually

[light knoll]

so 10 factories for you > 100 factories for ai puppet

[sour wadi]

so its basically just normal puppets

[ruby helm]

integrated puppets give you most of their stuff anyways

plus i always just

steal everything they have with war reparations anyways

[light knoll]

you get more with compliance

through annexing

[sour wadi]

realistically i think they are worse to puppet then just, annexing em all. but with the amount of stuff germany itself has, you aint loosing anything by puppeting them lol

[ruby helm]

puppets are temporary

[sour wadi]

unless you really wanna minmax the game, puppeting them is fine

[ruby helm]

at least these ones I'm making

I'm just trying to survive the mefo bills till I get to autarky

[sour wadi]

oh shit yeah

the less land you directly own, the less mefo bills hurt

[light knoll]

the thing is they're also a lot more headache to manage

[sour wadi]

forgot about that

[sour wadi]

not really?

[ruby helm]

not really

just send them some convoys and integrate them

[sour wadi]

ive never had one slip away from integrated puppets lol

and i never built in em

[light knoll]

then get a pop up every time they make a division, spend pp annexing, etc.

[sour wadi]

or gave em anything

[ruby helm]

collaborationist government is pretty good

it's practically cored

and you don't spend manpower garrisoning

[sour wadi]

if your puppets get enough war score to try take land, thats mad </3

plus germany gets so much pp daily

[light knoll]

100% compliance+harsh quotas is better than cored

you get factories out of thin air

[ruby helm]

i guess bro

[sour wadi]

in the end its upto if you wanna min max or not

lotta better options then creating puppets or reichskomisariets, but in the end it doesnt effect you that much either way

your still germany lol

not like your dying for an extra 20 factorys by annexing and maxing compliance

[ruby helm]

why dont reichskommisariats get cores

that's so stupid they're puppets

the whole point is that you propaganda your way into spoonfeeding fascism to the population and slowly replace the local government

so most towns and city halls register the annexation as "the goverment told us to put up pamphlet"

like ??? do you just LOSE cores for creating RKs

[light knoll]

that's not what Germany did historically

[ruby helm]

germany also lost the war

[light knoll]

they abused the locals and were brutal to them and didn't hide their intentions

RKs are the historical thing. you don't have to do them

[uncut narwhal]

why would they have cores when they were occupiers and oppressors historically?

[ruby helm]

I'm gonna see if there's a mod to change this lol

[light knoll]

other countries can't make puppets at all if they don't own the land

[ruby helm]

feels stupid for RK'd countries to not keep their cores

iunno I'm just a bit iffy on the mechanic

I could just make collaborationist governments

[light knoll]

that is always better yes

[ruby helm]

I'm doing this strictly for my own enjoyment

[uncut narwhal]

just get reichskommisariats+

[ruby helm]

yeah is that mod good

I was just about to ask

[light knoll]

btw, if you triple collab france, then make Vichy france, then make collab government in france, the collab will annex vichy, giving you access to most of their fleet and colonies

[ruby helm]

hilarious

yeah I'm just gonna get RK plus

[uncut narwhal]

yea its a very good mod, rks dont get cores tho because its unrealistic

[ruby helm]

but you get a focus tree

[sour wadi]

ngl if germany came to england and was like "oi, this german guy is now your ruler" i dont think the pop would be too complaciant

[ruby helm]

that make RKs actually somewhat worthwhile

i get not getting cores but like

[light knoll]

most puppets should not get cores if we're being realistic lol

[ruby helm]

isnt the point of RKs to alleviate the occupation of a country

[light knoll]

or like get significant nerfs

[sour wadi]

bro was already saying puppets arnt worth it. now they should get nerfs aswell </3

bro hates puppets

[light knoll]

no i mean if we're being realistic

lol

[sour wadi]

ik lol

[light knoll]

i don't think the game should be realistic because that's not fun

if someone wants that they can play bice

[sour wadi]

wym, its already very realistic. a bear can become leader of poland

[light knoll]

hey a gorilla once ran to presidency in Brazil and got 400k votes. i don't think a bear king is that far fetched

[sour wadi]

true-

i mean wojtek was a war hero

bro has a great backing of support

probally would be better then the government that the polish lithuanian commonwealth had

[fathom thistle]

is there any other country with compilance bonus like bulgarian empire?

[light knoll]

many?

[fathom thistle]

like?

[light knoll]

don't remember exactly. i know italy does

there are many more i just don't remember at the moment

[sour wadi]

Only greater italy, right(

?

Not mare nostrum

Nvm

[light knoll]

japan, finland, communist opposition ussr do from quick search

[sweet summit]

Guess the country

Without the only positive modifier, this would be 1.35*1.82

That's like 60%

[leaden jay]

so i am russia and i control the mainland uk and im tryna nuke dublin, but like 30 seconds after i do nuke order it gets cancelled. do any of yall know why

[sweet summit]

Do you have enough strat bombers/ range

[leaden jay]

yeah

i do

[glacial steeple]

tbh idk

romania?

netherlands? australia?

[sweet summit]

greece

fuccking greece

who the hell cursed em

[worn pendant]

how do you get planning bonus without front line

[cold bloom]

They patched that, but you can disable automatic redeploy

[worn pendant]

where is that

[cold bloom]

the uuuuh

automatic redeployment setting on the left side of the planning bar

[harsh bane]

After winning the Argentine civil war as communists I have renewed hope in eventually being able to learn this game

[dark thistle]

Which way is better

[obsidian badger]

im a dispersed enjoyer but really depends on how long you expect your game to last and how often you switch productions

if u only wanna play until like 1944 and use 1938 meds throught concentrated is better

but if you constantly wanna upgrade every 2 or so years do dispersed

[dark thistle]

okay thanks

[inner sparrow]

concentrated is better unless you don’t know how to properly manage production line

even if u swap, after a year concentrated is better again so in most cases conc is just the best

[dark thistle]

isn't dispersed better for defense tho?

[inner sparrow]

tho for newer players or player that are not good disp will give u more ic

[inner sparrow]

no

[dark thistle]

oh

[inner sparrow]

there is no defense

[dark thistle]

but its aginst bombing

[inner sparrow]

yeah? make fighters

5-10 mils on fighters and bombing will never matter again ( already doesn’t without it)

the ai sucks at bombing

[analog maple]

anyone know what the diffrence beetwen those 2?

[analog maple]

depend if you have alot of space. first one if you do, second one if you dont

[obsidian badger]

division capacity means you can have more divisions per invasion
invasion capacity means more invasions you can have at once

[dark thistle]

okay thanks

[analog maple]

oh so i am allowed to have do 5 invasion instead of 2?

[obsidian badger]

yes

[analog maple]

oh ok ty

[plucky otter]

Concentrated is better

[dark thistle]

ty

[sour wadi]

in the communist netherlands path in historic mode. is there any way to get the war on belgium before the allies garantuee them

[glacial steeple]

it doesnt work btw

it isnt additive with state AA

so having state AA gives you the same effect, but you cant stack them

also youre having less stuff out so you can be bombed less?

[dark thistle]

oh ok

[inner sparrow]

i swear whenever I see ppl say bc of bombing im crying

like the deadly ai strat bombing

5mils on any fighter and its fixed

[opaque garden]

can you get negative consumer goods factor?

cuz i have decisions that in total can give me negative consumer goods factor

[glacial steeple]

i will bomb you

[glacial steeple]

yeah

[inner sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/midnightgif300-gif-8301499228231208748

[glacial steeple]

watched too much brainrot, lost his braincell

its sad to see

[celest shuttle]

hi i want to ask, I want to justify a war goal, but there are no wars left in the world. What should I do? it at late game

[cold bloom]

Attack the largest country you can take on until youre the strongest country, then i tend to stop because world conquests are boring

[celest shuttle]

@cold bloomi cant attack i dont have war goal to war

dont have any Fascist and Communist

[cold bloom]

ah, you mean youre democratic so you cant justify on anyone?

🤔

[celest shuttle]

im not demoncratic

[plain cave]

My friend has a huge issue, he can't host Multiplayer servers, nor he can connect to any, yes, he owns HOI4 on steam

[celest shuttle]

im china and for now all Fascist and Communist is no more

[plain cave]

When he tries to connect, it instantly says Connection Timed Out

[celest shuttle]

dont have Fascist and Communist i cant war

i cant find way to make war goal because world tension is 0

[cold bloom]

Ah, you're non-aligned so you cant justify until...50% tension IIRC, but because they rebalanced world tension, it is on 0% despite multiple huge wars?

I just play with mods that partly undo the world tension changes, they seem really bad unless Im missing something

[celest shuttle]

so what i can do now ?

how i can make war again ?

[cold bloom]

Hmmm Id just use cheats if you cant make any wargoals

[celest shuttle]

ok

i have another question

@cold bloomIn this game, there is a very annoying mechanic: when I attack a territory occupied by another faction and then that faction releases the country as a puppet government, my troops get pushed back to the border.

Even though the puppet government that was released will still continue fighting against me.

[cold bloom]

I think I know what you mean, and if I do understand correctly, thats a hardcoded bug sadly only the game devs can fix

[celest shuttle]

@cold bloomFor example, I captured Hanoi from Japan, but then Japan released it as a pro-Japanese puppet government. As a result, my troops that were stationed there were pushed out.

[cold bloom]

mhm

That sounds like a mistake in their decisions to release something there, unless of course they had a peacedeal against the allies and then puppeted it

[celest shuttle]

Why were my troops stationed there pushed out? It would make more sense if they could only release the parts of Vietnam that I haven’t occupied yet, or not be allowed to release it at all unless they’ve fully liberated it.

[cold bloom]

Sounds like a design mistake in their decisions to release a vietnamese puppet

[celest shuttle]

vietnam is not only one bug

I also encountered a similar situation in Tibet.

[leaden jay]

how do i become third rome? i have r56 mod and ive done the third rome focus but im still the russian empire

[celest shuttle]

anyway thank u very much time to sleep 😄 @cold bloom

[cold bloom]

Good night

[cold bloom]

It should rename your country

Conflicting mods perhaps?

[tardy mesa]

what happens if i attack a puppet of a nation thats in my faction

[opaque garden]

does it give anything special? btw remove min 10 percent fac Tories consumer

[leaden jay]

what mod could beconflciting?

[cold bloom]

Anything that overrides formables or the Russian tree I guess

[cold bloom]

you shouldnt be able to, because puppets automatically join the faction unless its Denmark

[analog maple]

do japanese puppets have cores on thier land?

[civic hare]

I think you know whats next after this

[static turret]

You can check by clicking on the state it should say if its a core ornoccupied

[static turret]

Why is africa decolonised

[civic hare]

non historical uk did that mostly

[static turret]

1950💀

I think whats bext is closing the pc because of the lag

[weak vine]

Anyone know a small nation with a small focus tree that I can learn the game on?

[stuck garnet]

India?

[harsh bane]

I can’t produce CAS as Argentina and I can’t find it in my tech tree

[civic hare]

I THINK MY GAME CRASHED CUZ I WANTED TO BULD MORE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THERE WAS SOO MUCH

I THINK IT CRASHED BECAUSE THAT LOL

[inland rune]

How does one take on za russian

[weak vine]

Was that for my question?

[reef solstice]

How can i get better at hoi 4

[civic hare]

heart started beating here but not bad

[harsh bane]

I can’t produce CAS as Argentina and I can’t find it in my tech tree

[lime citrus]

2 questions:

1: Can I shrink the HOI4 window?

2: I'm trying to follow Bitt3rSteel's video on how to make the U.S.A. strong in default HOI4. Should I select the 1936 or 1939 scenario?

Strike 2 off. It's the former scenario.

[dark thistle]

Does anyone know how to fix or am i just cooked

[hexed verge]

how..

[dark thistle]

i don't know...

i mean i could give up the east

[hexed verge]

give up france

constant naval invasions and just its gonna bleed you dry

hide behind maginot and fortify the easty

[dark thistle]

the problam is that 60 divs are stuck in italy and balkan

[dark thistle]

the maginot line is half lost

[lime citrus]

Ok, I'm still watching Bitt3rSteel's U.S. guide, and I'm at an impasse.

This is his aviation research branch:

And this is mine:

[hexed verge]

just try using ANY rivers

[hexed verge]

if you dont think you can save them just delete them

[lime citrus]

I don't have all the things on the side that he does.

[dark thistle]

the problem is that all my divs are stock in balkan italy or in the east

theres like 10 in germany

[hexed verge]

can u save them

[dark thistle]

no

[hexed verge]

are they encircled?

[dark thistle]

yes

[lime citrus]

Is anyone listening?

[hexed verge]

that sucks twin

[dark thistle]

well i can get them in italy out

but they're gonna get killed while getting back

[hexed verge]

i mean

just try to cas bomb your way into punching through

i mean they are cooked ngl

the uk has gibraltar and suez

you are locked in the mediterranean

[dark thistle]

i own gibralter

spain is my puppet

[hexed verge]

oh ok

dont call them in

[dark thistle]

but until my soldiers are in spain france will be lost

[lime citrus]

What am I missing? DLC?

[dark thistle]

probally

[hexed verge]

dude this needs a dlc

by blood alone DLC

it also adds a focus tree for like italy

[lime citrus]

Great. Just great.

[dark thistle]

i have 1 div holding france

[hexed verge]

average paradox experience..

amazing game for cheap but EVERYTHING is locked behind dlc

[dark thistle]

yes

alot more

[lime citrus]

Nvm. That was a stupid question.

[dark thistle]

u can't even do basic stuff without dlcs

u can't build planes or tanks

[lime citrus]

https://tenor.com/view/picard-facepalm-oh-no-oh-hell-no-no-gif-10723914200679373178

I suppose the pay-to-play/win virus HAS infected HOI4 in an unusual way.

Now I remember why I stopped playing it a while ago.

[dark thistle]

Lets hope that steiners works...

[dense glen]

you dont have by blood alone (dlc)

[pliant flax]

Hey all new to the server and still a noob at the game any chance someone can hop on with me and telling me where I'm going wrong

[lime citrus]

Ah. Well, I'll have to get that, among others, when I have the chance.

[dark thistle]

NOO

the americans landed in denmark

Even hitler did better then me

[opaque garden]

should i attack cominterm or allies?

[vital plinth]

Is it possible to play as Spain and create monachi or rule with king ?

[dark thistle]

not even bittersteal can save this anymore...

[tepid umbra]

[dark thistle]

[warm sable]

whats a good submarine design?

[austere roost]

get Anechoic chamber, put it on fleet subs, and then max out torpedoes. Switch engine with air-independent ones once you research them

[fierce citrus]

it's called anechoic coating, but yes this is OP

You can get very low visibility subs, especially if you have a MIO that gives bonuses as well

which makes it borderline impossible for the AI's ships to notice you shredding their convoys

[fathom thistle]

Grand assault or rapid domination? I just feel like I get more stats from the rapid assault then the other one

[pearl path]

Guys i dont what is happening but i cant build anymore factories and its already using everything and i dont know how to fix it can someone help?

[fathom thistle]

That's why you go with left side economy if you don't want to deal with this

[pearl path]

i didnt even knew the difference its my first playthrough

[fathom thistle]

Oh, it's fine. Basically the left side is a bit rough for for few days but after you complete it u don't have to deal with it anymore. Right side is basically conquering and then via pp decisions use gold of your conquered territories to deal with consumer goods rising.

[pearl path]

thank youu i can finally build again

btw i wanted to ask if poland and jugoslawien are strong or weak i have an army of 1,5 million people

sry if you cant understand it because its in german

[fathom thistle]

Number wise it's fine but you wouldn't even need that many with a good template. Size doesn't always matter.

[pearl path]

oh okay thxx

[sinful vessel]

I'm starting with Russia, and i've sent some volunteer in Ethipia, though i cand send planes, why ?

[vital plinth]

Can someone help me what is free market ? Do I get civs for selling gear or am I using my own civ to sell it ?

[pearl path]

i lost

[hoary glen]

Free Trade?

Or the market Tab?

[hoary glen]

They have no/too few Airports

[low vector]

So my tanks are 100 % Supply status but they cant get any fuel? Not sure why when my fuel is full

[hoary glen]

The region is very low supply, that might impact that. Else did you wait a few days?

[low vector]

yes

[leaden jay]

bittr steel can save you

[low vector]

My tanks have 100% supply status and 150% supply stored.... And my fuel is full at the top... Still not getting fuel to my tanks though

[hoary glen]

If your supply connection from the territory's owner capital to there is not interrupted and not getting raided I have no idea.

[serene karma]

Is your supply from your capital being raided

The full supply status might be from uk helping but ur supply connection to ur capital is blocked

[low vector]

No problems

Could it be because the narrow sea is mostly controlled by the enemy?

[vital plinth]

Market tab

Hey also when I do a focus that gives civs to a state but after completion I have gotten a new state from a deal then the focus I did before also says it would give civs to the new state I got.
Does it mean it’s already added or should I have waited til I got the state before doing the first focus that adds civs ?

Or will it automatically add the civs to the new states I get its through a deal where I buy land

[stuck garnet]

how play communist japan right side

[vital plinth]

Edit : when I look at the focus I completed after I got the new land it’s changed it says it adds civs to the new state I got but when I completed the focus before o got the new state it gave civs to my main state

Idk what’s going here , I’m playing India

[stuck garnet]

do i take democratic focuses if i wanna go communist

also the yakuza

do i take that too

which oneee

pls help

[languid trout]

restart

you're supposed to elect the socialist guy

and go down the communist tree in the left

[stuck garnet]

its march 13th

can i take both

[languid trout]

no\

if u dont elect iso abe

ur democratic

no matter what

[stuck garnet]

i havent gotten the chance yet

so if i take this side

will i still be able to get isoo abe?

[languid trout]

no

[stuck garnet]

what if after

[languid trout]

just restart

[stuck garnet]

no no not the whole side

[languid trout]

there are no elections

hoi4 isnt like that

[stuck garnet]

can someone verify

when do i usually get isoo abe?

[languid trout]

i think its after okada dies

hes still alive?

[stuck garnet]

idk i just got a 3 way one

[languid trout]

is he dead

[stuck garnet]

the one where youre pro military another one and youre anti military

idk how do i telll?

[languid trout]

u should get an event with 3 choices for who to elect

[stuck garnet]

not yet

[languid trout]

wait for okada to die

i thought u elected someone already that wasnt iso abe

[stuck garnet]

oh

can i do those during the meantime and if so how far can i go down the tree before my communist focuses are locked?

and when does it stop being worth it to take the democratic focuses if i want to go communist?

[languid trout]

it gets locked once civil war starts

but u can choose when the civil war starts

[languid trout]

idk why u should even take the democratic focuses when going commie path

[stuck garnet]

is the yakuza and the police worth to get on your side?

[languid trout]

u auto take the navy after defeating imperial or democratic japan

[stuck garnet]

idk if i should even consider allying myself with the police as a communist lmfao

[languid trout]

u can ally the yakuza

they r useful

the civil war is easy anyway

[balmy dawn]

Is there a way to "Select All Air Wings" from this menu?

[stuck garnet]

idk i find it very confusing

usually due to my starting armies

my refusal to replace the divisions with something else even if they are bad

should i just swap the divisions i dont like into a different template?

[balmy dawn]

When it comes to deploying Armored divisions, do most people go with a small number of large divisions? Or a larger number of small divisions?

[stuck garnet]

small number of large divisions?

you gotta concentrate your forces

i mean youre not a ww1 general

you cant just line your stuff up and expect it to go fine

[balmy dawn]

Yeah, so... I've always heard that a good template for Armore was 13 Armor/8Motorized(or Mech). That's a pretty big division.. like 20000 soldiers

[stuck garnet]

13??

[balmy dawn]

battalions

[stuck garnet]

idk usually its 10/8s for that 36 width

if you have a lot of tanks? great! thats amazing!

but youre not expected to have a lot of tanks.

even then

whats the point of having tanks if youre gonna have a small division

[balmy dawn]

speed

I use Mongol tactics when I can. Never attack the front, always come from the rear

[wet topaz]

Yeah do 10/8

13/8 is old meta pre combat width changes

[stuck garnet]

hey question

uhh

going commie if it matters

why does everyone who calls communist "commies" hate communists?

like whyy

[oak jasper]

Does tank top speed matter for anything except how fast the resulting division can move? It seems to me like cranking speed on light tanks is immaterial if you're only using them for armored recon companies in slower medium tank divisions.

[stuck garnet]

the capital

help why is it there

[vital plinth]

Where can I see how many civs a puppet is giving me ?

I can only see total amount from all puppets together

But can’t find out how many each give

[scenic salmon]

If I start as a chinese warlord and go the focus to become republic of china or w/e, does that nullify the achievement "The Neverending Story" ?

[heady skiff]

How does one beat a unified China that joined the axis and didnt have to fight the Japanese ;-;

Also with a good industry ;-;

[stuck garnet]

hey hey

question

which one

[raw magnet]

Managed to form the Byzantine empire but I have one problem, Romania, how can I deal with them, and naval invading doesnt seem to work, not to mention UK keep guaranteeing shit

[stuck garnet]

hey uhh

pls tell

[plucky otter]

Mitsui is pretty good

2 free civs

[wet crater]

Sumitomos industrial concern is also strong

[primal crown]

Help with how navy and airforce work

[wet crater]

Very strong

Since sumitomo increases raw production efficency

Honestly every zaibatsu focus is strong

[balmy dawn]

Is Reliability still consdiered "useless"?

[oak jasper]

Is "armored car" something separate, prob a DLC I don't have yet, or does that just mean a light tank with wheeled suspension? Do any modules improve suppression, or can I just throw the cheapest possible design at garrisons?

[plucky otter]

Mostly yes

[balmy dawn]

If Suppresion is your goal, I've never seen any math that's better than Cavalry.

[oak jasper]

It's trivial to show that light tanks (and presumably armored cars) use less manpower and are harder than cavalry... at the cost of way higher IPC.

[balmy dawn]

I don't think Hardness affects Supression enough to care.

And the entire point of "math" is "Amount of Suppresion Value per Cost of Unit"

Cavalry always wins that, when I run the numbers. Feel free to show me where that's wrong.

[grand temple]

is it just me or its almost impossible to engage ennemy navy since the update ?

i just get some destroyer and cruiser picks

[balmy dawn]

Is your Spotting up?

When you say "Navy" do you mean Surface? Or Subs?

[oak jasper]

With my current tech, 20 cavalry + 1x MPs yields 52 suppression for 1455 IPC and 20500 manpower.

Switch for light tanks, you get 65 suppression for 4575 IPC and 10500 manpower.

[grand temple]

yeah spotting was decent, my surface fleet was engaging a full size ennemy fleet but they always flee

[oak jasper]

(Exact IPC probably goes down if you use cheap-as-possible tanks)

[austere roost]

36 w with 8-10 armor and 8-10 mech. If you don't have mech, you can just use inf

[balmy dawn]

That's triple the cost for 20% more suppression, and that doesn't even count the raw materials requir4ed to make all that. Yikes.

[balmy dawn]

Which is 8 and which is 10? Just so I'm clear....

[austere roost]

your choice

the difference is minimal in sp

[grand temple]

i do 30 width, 8 tanks 8 motorized, works really well

[austere roost]

that's not even 30 width

and 36 width is better than 30 width since pdx changed combat widths

and in current patch spg and tds are way better than regular tanks

[grand temple]

7 motorized not 8*

[balmy dawn]

er? Why is that?

[austere roost]

requires less equipment, has higher soft/hard attack, gets buffs from both artillery and armor subdoctrines

[versed rose]

so stupid that medium tank costs 50 per battalion but medium TD costs 40

good one

20% cheaper for more damage?

terrific decision

[queen agate]

why can't I put medium armaments on my medium tank 💔

[oak jasper]

Do you have a compatible turret?

[stuck garnet]

Check the turret

[balmy dawn]

Are you saying that... for example... 50 TDs and 50 SPGs are better than 100 Tanks?

[austere roost]

no

it's td and spg battalions are better than tank battalions

you just build one of them depending on sp or mp

[balmy dawn]

Single for SPG and Multi for TDs?

[heady skiff]

How do I invade japan when I have no navy, no airforce and the Soviets REFUSE to put their navy for me to land?

😭 ✌️

[leaden jay]

why cant i attack bahrain?

[queen agate]

3-man

[stuck garnet]

Light or medium turret

[queen agate]

medium

oh nvm it works now for some reason, same turret but idk

regardless thx

[harsh bane]

How do I see cores

[heady skiff]

Look at occupied territories

[tepid umbra]

armored car is not a light tank and it's not a dlc thing

iirc

[heady skiff]

Why does the usa just endlessly run into my lines even when they immeditatly lose the battle. For months straight they just immeditaly keep attacking again after they lose and I literally cant push anymore because they just counter attack, lose the counter attack and then repeat. They just dont retreat or lose complete strength or org

[oak jasper]

My best guess from Google is that it's a La Resistance thing, because I'm not seeing it with NSB + Arms Against Tyranny.

[oak jasper]

Well it's hardly a completely ineffective defense if you can't push, isn't it?

What you can try is holding an assault group back a tile or two, let it gain some org, and push with that rather than trying a broad-front assault.

[heady skiff]

No I win my battle when attacking but they just attack again and we are in an infinite loop of them losing but keeping me stuck in a tile because im constantly attacked

[oak jasper]

And so Hannibal won the battle of Cannae, but lost his war with Rome.

Does it strictly matter if they fail to take tiles but hit your org so badly you can't advance either?

[austere roost]

yes

[austere roost]

you need to naval invade it

[heady skiff]

Im literally in a 1 tile hold

I cant push any other tile

[oak jasper]

Either find a way around that tile, e.g. naval invasions or paratroopers, or figure out how to get some divisions up to high enough org to attack. I don't know what else to say.

[heady skiff]

Games cooked

Dont comment about supply

[balmy dawn]

What does "Exile Wings Recuitment Available" mean? I don't see any way to recuit them? /boggle

[errant vale]

would some one mind getting into a multiplayer game this weekend and teaching me the game very stuck on navle invasions and supremecy

[stuck garnet]

whats a good marines division

[oak jasper]

Not sure if it's meta, but what I'm using right now: 12x marines, 4x line arty, support arty+AA, pioneers, logi+hospital.

When you have the production/research to spare, consider mechanizing it to something like amtracs + amphibious tanks.

[heady skiff]

Vro since when did the US have so many people?

Lwk impressive

There only on limited

[oak jasper]

There's a national focus which gives the US +2% recruitable pop.

[balmy dawn]

Amtracs and Amphib are nerfable. They just roll over anything.

[heady skiff]

Im on service by requirement and only able to get 3M people in the army ;-;

[oak jasper]

Well, you're just going to have to play smarter than the AI.

[heady skiff]

To be fair I have pushed them quite far with only 73 divs

[heady skiff]

Just annoying they get so many people

And I have to sacrifice my industry

I have the biggest industry in the world by a long shot to be fair

So it doesnt rlly matter

BUT STILL

Its about the principles

I mean idk why I dont just make tanks

;-;

Seems pretty smart

Well

Not smart but

Seems pretty stupid not to

[stuck garnet]

can someone plss tell me how to do special forces

[tropic seal]

line artillery is not good

[tropic seal]

you mean how to get more special forces or just how to get them in general?

[oak jasper]

To me, it seems to add a lot of soft attack, though at the cost of org, HP, supply use, and pretty much anything that isn't soft attack or manpower.

[tropic seal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IIjk4bAh68

[stuck garnet]

how to design, get, use effectively, what to do with them, stuff like that

[tropic seal]

For design just copy a template if you're very confused

Uses they are special forces

[stuck garnet]

dont put those in your line divisions

[tropic seal]

they have prebuilt uses

mountaineers in the mountains

marines for naval invasions

rangers for forests etc

[stuck garnet]

idk im kinda dumb

like idk sometimes mfs use a mountaineers division and it just slaps overall

even outside of their designated use

[tropic seal]

yes

its just that theyll do even better in the mountains

as a general rule special forces are better than inf flat out in most offesnive scenarios even in the ones where theyre not designed for

marines can still push very well just that it wont be as useful as using them to naval invade etc

[stuck garnet]

idk sometimes i see mixed special forces divisions and i get confused

also what are commandos for

[tropic seal]

whats there to be confused about

[tropic seal]

uh

thats not a special forces battalion

theres only 4 isnt there

[stuck garnet]

marine commandos

[tropic seal]

they can retreat from any coastal province

making it nice if you somehow botch a landing

but their stats are worse overall

but i dont usually use them in singeplayer

since its hard to botch a properly planned naval inasion

[austere roost]

it doesn't when you consider terrain, availability of buffs, combat width, ic, and the fact that 9/0 and 9/1 have similar total damage when you multiply soft attack and org and more damage than 9/2 and 9/3

[tropic seal]

you honestly dont even need marines in sp for naval invasions

i usually specialise in mountaineers or rangers depending on where in fighting

mountaineers are great in south america and the pacific

rangers are great in europe and russia

[tropic seal]

andc hina

[harsh bane]

Why did Soviet Romania become fascist is this a bug

[oak jasper]

Is it a fascist government, or a communist government which has not yet been overthrown?

[steel ferry]

I have solved the issue thank you for everyone that helped out. I deleted the mod,launcher-v2.sqlite, and .launcher-cache folder[then verify the files on steam]. I believe the issue was related to the launcher.

[harsh bane]

Or maybe the fascist Yugoslavia created a coup

[glacial steeple]

not rlly

[compact violet]

Why do border raids in China only have 6 max div

[glacial steeple]

thats just how they work

6 v 6

[heady skiff]

Is all adults serve THAT bad

Or should I just delete some troops to free up manpower

[vital geode]

You playing a Scandinavian country or something?

[heady skiff]

Poland

;-;

APPARENTLY 2.5M casualties is too much -_-

[vital geode]

Yikes

[heady skiff]

This game I have took like 10M casualties all together 😭

[heady skiff]

Only realised how bad it was when I ran out of manpower in America

And now they are death charging into me. Which isnt working but it IS grinding my manpower even more 😭

[tropic seal]

I thought poland can get a few cores from the polish lithuanian thing?

[heady skiff]

Yeah I used it all

[tropic seal]

💀 damn

[heady skiff]

I have cores on Lithuania, Lativa and estonia

And used it all

[tropic seal]

yeah to be fair those arent really mp heavy countries

[heady skiff]

I annexed Germany, Italy, Austria, and Hungary but im not making them puppets as im getting a WHOLE lot more manpower from keeping them than it takes to garrison

[tropic seal]

luxemborg wc when

[heady skiff]

My issue isnt even my industry going to shit

I just will literally die without manpower

My industry is doing perfectly fine on scraping the barrel 😭

[tropic seal]

150 factories on inf eq will do that for you yes

scraping the barrel is insane though

ive never had to go that low

but ive also never played poland

so like

[heady skiff]

And my stockpiles are peak

[tropic seal]

7 armored surpport vehicles

[heady skiff]

xd

Maybe inf only Poland WASNT a good idea

How does one force its Chinese puppet to gimme manpower

[tropic seal]

aint no way youre going inf only while being on scraping the barrel

[heady skiff]

xd

[tropic seal]

your industry is big enough for tanks man 😭

[heady skiff]

I forgot to research them okay

And it will take too long now

[tropic seal]

💀

[heady skiff]

Wait

I can just license russian tanks......

Im actually the worst player of all time

[heady skiff]

I GUESS I CANT LICENSE IT

STALIN IS ACTUALLY THE WORSE ALLY OF ALL TIME

[tropic seal]

cooked

start researching now anyway

you can get up to modern quite fast with 4-5 research slots + bonuses

[heady skiff]

America FINALLY stopped the endless death charges

Only had to delete an entire army group

[heady skiff]

If I make China an intergrated puppet I get manpower from them right?

Or am I stupid

[tropic seal]

uh

[heady skiff]

I DO

[tropic seal]

yeah

[heady skiff]

I hate stalin so much

I gave him almost a million guns

And he repays me by just sitting with 8M men on my frontlines failing to push

And refusing to give me ANY tank

Didnt even matter

I just got the tank I wanted from my Japanese puppet

[heady skiff]

Do you possibly know a good tank design ;-;

I always think I do a good design but I dont actually know so

Just asking

[tropic seal]

its in pins but iirc its like

3 man medium turret

howitzer

2 heavy mg

easy maintenance

christia suspension

and riveted + gasoline

[heady skiff]

Which howitzer

[tropic seal]

medium howi i think

technically spgs are better than medium tanks

so you should use those

[heady skiff]

Easy maintenance?

[heady skiff]

I have no clue what an spg is

;-;

[tropic seal]

self propelled gun

[tropic seal]

unlocks it from maintenance company 2

[heady skiff]

o

[heady skiff]

A WHAT

[tropic seal]

yeah?

[heady skiff]

How does one get a self propelled gun

;-;

I only got no step back recently so

[tropic seal]

Pre sure its just mounted on a regular chassis

I use mech instead of amtracks though

[heady skiff]

What about the fuel barrel vro ;-;

[tropic seal]

i dont think its needed

[heady skiff]

Ngl

[tropic seal]

havent seen any suggested templates with it

[heady skiff]

This doesnt look great

[tropic seal]

i only know the stats for the actual full div template

so im not sure if you did the correct steps or not

slap it in a div template i guess

[heady skiff]

Uh

It wont lemme save it

Fixed it nvm

[glacial steeple]

yeah its pretty bad

if its avoidable dont do it

improved chassis is wild

every time you change chassis your production efficiency is nuked

[heady skiff]

Yeah vro I wasnt making tanks before

;-;

My efficiency isnt there

[glacial steeple]

then why start late

tanks are like

[keen basin]

what is the best medium aircraft doctrine for a heavy fighter build, long range escort or heavy interceptors

[glacial steeple]

for when you dont have eco for aie

air*

[heady skiff]

Uh because im on scraping the barrel and I have like a spare 200 mills

[glacial steeple]

if you start late usually youd be best off doing air

[heady skiff]

I literally have no manpower and im at war with the US

[glacial steeple]

who r u playing that you never d barrel

[heady skiff]

I need tanks to push

[glacial steeple]

it mobilizes slowly

[heady skiff]

Poland

[glacial steeple]

and its probably garrisons killing you

you do NOT need scraping

its probably not even at 20% mobilized

[heady skiff]

Ive took like 10M casualties this game

Against Germany, Japan, China and now US

Im bad

Leave me alone ;-;

[glacial steeple]

you never need more than all adults even then

[keen basin]

speaking of air, casey ur smart

[glacial steeple]

just use like full med tank garrisons

[glacial steeple]

lie

[keen basin]

for heavy fighters, do i go long range escort or heavy interceptors

one gives 10% range, 10% agility the other gives 10% attack 10% defense

which one would be better for a US heavy fighter

[glacial steeple]

attack and defense are good i think

[leaden jay]

ive nuked japan twice why didnt they surrender?

[heady skiff]

Whats a good plane design

[tropic seal]

3 heavy mg

the best single engine u have

armore plates

extra fuel tanks

and self sealing

[heady skiff]

I aint got allat

[tropic seal]

then wait till youve got them

what hve you been spending research on??

not tanks and not planes??

[heady skiff]

Just gonna throw alot of guns on the plane and call it a day

[heady skiff]

I dont even know vro

Artillery and infantry equipment

And industry

[heady skiff]

These tanks are gonna cook trust

[tropic seal]

whats ur template

breakthroguh seemsa lil low

and soft atk

[heady skiff]

My template sucks but its the best I can literally put together rn ;-;

[tropic seal]

i wouldnt us emot

pre sure cavalary is better

[plucky otter]

It is

[tropic seal]

do you not have flame tanks

or sometihg

use aa

[plucky otter]

Mech>Camel>calv>moter

[heady skiff]

I mean I have light flame tanks

I dont think there any good

;-;

Im sure my 1936 planes will cook the Americans

trust

Its 1946

But

Im sure it'll work

[tropic seal]

?

if you have light flame tanks

youll have medium adn heavy flame tanks too

med flame tanks are what i usually go with

[tropic seal]

1936 planes in 1946????

[heady skiff]

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

Hey they beat the Japanese airforce in 1946

[tropic seal]

i usuaully use - armored recon / ranger recon, aa, assault engi, logistics / field hospital, flame tank for support companies

[heady skiff]

They will work NOW

[tropic seal]

you coulde beat it a lot easier with up to date air

did you not build an avionics facility

[heady skiff]

Dw about it

[tropic seal]

you should have jet engines by 46

they trade like 2 to 100

its hilarious

[heady skiff]

Ehh

I dont need allat

The soviet airforce shall rein suprime

No matter the age

American airforce SUCKS

I dont actually know when my planes are from

I just took them from annexed lands a few years ago

[tropic seal]

you were missing out on a lot of cas damage

that wouldve helped with mp

😭

[heady skiff]

Ah yes this makes complete sense

I completely understand how im trading so well

[gusty briar]

To protect an Island from an attack through a straight connecting to it, do my divisions get boosted from a regular fort or a coastal defense fort

[tropic seal]

yeah because you have a 12 to 1 numerial advantage and the ai air force sucks

[gusty briar]

Or is coastal only for amphibious invasions?

[heady skiff]

Nah

Ignore that

Trading just aswell in texas trust

This is basically winning

ONG

[heady skiff]

Sooo how does one deal with the issue of needing to import every single material

;-;

[compact violet]

Oh... I see

[tropic seal]

conquer where those materials come from --> harsh quotas

[heady skiff]

Cant get harsh quotas

Cus of manpower

;-;

Nvm

Apparently I CAN

[heady skiff]

Just realised instead of trading like 25 civs for tungsten I could just trade 3 civs for all of china's tungsten....

Im going to crash out

The soviets have over 1k divs and 10M men in the field

But REFUSE to attack anything

They just steal my supply

And refuse to fill my garrisons

[tropic seal]

turn off allied supply

[heady skiff]

Wait wat

[plucky otter]

Ctrl click on a supply hub that you own

disables allied supply

Allies and puppets will no longer gain supply from it

[heady skiff]

Peak

Ok apparently the ussr doesnt even have many divs in my land

They have like 400 divs with no supply in siberia 🥹 ✌️

God bless the soviet high command

Time to move my 5 new tank divs through enemy infested waters and hope they dont all sink

[glacial steeple]

flame tanks, ranger recon, field hospitals

assault engineers

kinda mandatory

[sleek remnant]

Yea I think I include this 4 in every offense template, it’s a bit repetitive

5th is usually aa or something else but idk if there’s anything good

[glacial steeple]

logi is arguably mandatory too now

if youre on IE anyway

[sleek remnant]

I would like some alternatives for flame tank and assault engineers though

[tepid umbra]

signals

[sleek remnant]

Since you might not get them always

[glacial steeple]

defensively

[tepid umbra]

oh

[sleek remnant]

IE?

[tepid umbra]

use the armored engis, not assault if you're going defensively

[sleek remnant]

Oh no I meant for offense

[tepid umbra]

[tepid umbra]

[sleek remnant]

I just use support arty and aa for defense

Maybe field hospital if I can afford it

[spiral delta]

is this a good tank template im ussr and i wanna use against the germans

[tepid umbra]

no not really

[spiral delta]

how do i improve it

[tepid umbra]

1: no support companies

support companies are insanely important

2: motorized infantry

it can be good, but if you can research it, mechanized is better in 90% of ways

[sleek remnant]

Probably remove motorised artillery and add some support companies at the very least

[spiral delta]

so i switch them with mechanized?

[tepid umbra]

3: motorized artillery is not that useful

you'd prolly be better off with more mechanized or more tanks

[spiral delta]

what about combat width what do i keep it at

[tepid umbra]

4: motorized AT can be good, however against ai AT is usually not good

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is it better to combine mechanized and tanks or just keep them alone?

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5: try and stay around 36w

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combine

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no support inf and remove those motorised artillery and anti tank battalions

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take that division and swap all the motorized with mechanized

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individual excellence

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i love individual excellence

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alr thx

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i always use that or assault inf

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irregular infantry better 🔥

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great war infantry!

battleplan and larp as a ww1 nation

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6: tanks are good, but a lot of the time it's better to just go SPG or TDS

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no microing

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