ask-for-help-here

[past dragon]

remove all of the supports

like radio

?

[opaque zealot]

159.50 production

cost

[opaque zealot]

@past dragon

[past dragon]

bro

[past dragon]

WHAT have been researching for the 5 years?

[past dragon]

you need to research AIR stuch

put the heavy bombay

[raw magnet]

Can anyone suggest me a meta Byzantium infantry template ? Or even a med tank template? I want to do a Byzantium run that i can conquer with ease

[past dragon]

the inf for hold?

[raw magnet]

Inf for conquering

[past dragon]

against ai?

[raw magnet]

Yes

[past dragon]

put the heavy bombay in

[raw magnet]

Cas my beloved

[raw magnet]

Okay so, basically what ive been using this whole time

[past dragon]

yea but add the less supplies and hospitals

[raw magnet]

i just had 12 if and 4 art

Okay hm

Likely is more cheaper from what you're suggesting

[glacial steeple]

whats up chatroom

[glacial steeple]

this sucks

[past dragon]

what so you mean?

[glacial steeple]

like the unit

it does nothing and is expensive at doing nothing

cant attack well, cant defend well

[past dragon]

bro i just designed them it is 1936

JAN 1

[glacial steeple]

why do you need them

[past dragon]

bro

this is ASK-FOR-HELP-HERE

[glacial steeple]

is this not the ask for help chat where misinformation/poor guidance shouldnt be

[glacial steeple]

yeah

[past dragon]

bruh

cant even sent

you

[glacial steeple]

dont bypass the filter please :>

ill give you a second chance to cease bypassing the filter, and calm down

[molten cape]

Mountaineer brick. You can exploit the special forces cap by deploying a lot of 2 widths, converting them to a 50 width, then converting however many you want into mountaineers. Rest get deleted

[molten cape]

Please stop speaking if you don’t know the difference between cas and a strat bomber

[past dragon]

i didn´t see the bombing

strat bombing

[broken trail]

do you need to have all of the land after a peacedeal or can you just occupy it in order to form rome

[light knoll]

occupy

[broken trail]

should i do it in historical or non historical

[spark gorge]

how is this not an encriclement

[fathom thistle]

no naval dominance, they can just ressupply from sea, or no air supremacy and they are resupplying from air

[light knoll]

whichever you prefer

[spark gorge]

green air

[fathom thistle]

then from sea

[spark gorge]

and right pocket has no port

wait nvm I see it now

[spark gorge]

why do my nuke raids cancel themselves

[hard atlas]

where are the paratrooper divisions?

[fathom thistle]

did you research them?

[fathom thistle]

send schreenshot

[hard atlas]

where do u research them

in ground support or infantry

[fathom thistle]

inf

[spark gorge]

can I destroy certain buildings ?

[fathom thistle]

bottom

[spark gorge]

like go do a normal non nuke raid to get rid of a port

[fathom thistle]

there should be menu where u can assign priority target for bombers

[fathom thistle]

oh u have base game, then to doctrines - special forces - paratroopers

[fathom thistle]

u sure u cant scroll down more?

[hard atlas]

nope

[glacial steeple]

huh

its the same place afaik

[fathom thistle]

he doesnt have it on ss so Im just confused at this point

[glacial steeple]

he didnt croll down

scroll*

[fathom thistle]

I have been lied to then 😔

[hard atlas]

u cant scroll at all bruh

wtf

plus i have 0 mods on

the only thing i have is the gotternamerung dlc

[fathom thistle]

tbh at this point it's either bug (try from different game) or some sort of a bad resolution setting since u cant scroll or check your mouse

[glacial steeple]

ok so

quick advice

if you ask for help PLEASE dont crop your screenshots

it makes it much harder to read

maybe its this second inf tab? but i cant tell what it is

[glacial steeple]

there is a scrollbar btw

meaning there is the ability to scroll

[opaque zealot]

down

[fathom thistle]

scroll down in inf research

with the bar if mouse doesnt work

[glacial steeple]

the research tab sob

looking everywhere but where you need to be

[hard atlas]

I AM SO DUMB 😭

I FORGOT TO SCROLL DOWN 😭

[errant chasm]

If it makes you feel better, when I first played the game. I never bothered to click the other research tabs and only researched infantry tech.

[wise roost]

I never used specialized division when I started playing hoi4, I cooked AI with regular ones

Sometimes I still ignore them

[slow tree]

How can I fortify myself agians British naval invasion as Germany after getting france

[wise roost]

Like division to defend the land?

[runic basalt]

Naval forts

[wise roost]

Yea build naval forts

[slow tree]

Alr

Last time they invaded even when I had all the northern France covered with inf

[daring osprey]

That small tech branch was there the whole time?

[glacial steeple]

yes

since 2018

[spark gorge]

whats the best way to invade usa

should I declare on mexico then go from there ?

[fathom thistle]

There is no bad choice, u can invade from canada or start from south america and make your way up

[spark gorge]

I dont know if I can get a good hold on them tho

bc am already at war with them

if I go from mexico or canada the second I reach their border its gonna be 2v1

[hard atlas]

yes

[spark gorge]

I think I should sort out the uk first

I got sweden and norway to naval land uk

[fathom thistle]

mexico has terrible army, canada similarly so I wouldnt worry about that much'

[fathom thistle]

do uk first yes

I usually do Usa last

[spark gorge]

should I always make as many troops as possible ?

it gets hard to manage

I got 6 infantry armies of 24 divs

1 24 div tank army

and still 3 million manpower

but my navy is still abysmall

I got 3 ships

[fathom thistle]

U can conquer the world with 3-4 good armiers, rest is usually jsut for holding coast and u can stack 72 divisions for area defense general

[spark gorge]

how can I deal with this

They cant push but I ccant push either

I need a singular victory point but usa just keeps sending divs

98% progress on norway

[fathom thistle]

fix supplies, move your tanks and push from skien while also attacking neighboring tiles

[spark gorge]

game is off rn ill do those tomorro

I had supply hubs being built

do nukes help you capitulate enemies ?

I could maybe nuke capital for the last 2%

[spark gorge]

btw these are the tanks

infantry

I only have the free dlcs

[fathom thistle]

add signal companies and one more motorized to make it 36w, also having tanks in hills and mountain is just making them useless so keep that in mind

[hexed parcel]

Does mass mob soviets work anymore?

[fathom thistle]

if it's meant to be an offensive infantry make it 36w or 35w with one aa in line, add hospitals, u dont need recon I would rather replace them with rangers, for other slots add signal companies

[spark gorge]

I am basicaly new to the game

I got 100 hours but it was all in 2022

[fathom thistle]

and that's fine

[spark gorge]

am still stuck at 7-2 in my mind

so I dont know what widht and all is

[oak root]

Do I accept german request or do I do a funny.

Because I think I need a bigger army before I go in guns blazing

[fathom thistle]

Generally:
Offensive: 35w-36w
Defensive: 16w - 18w

[spark gorge]

what are defensive divs tho

I only use one type of div

I dont know how to do defense either

[fathom thistle]

like 9 inf stack

or 8 inf stack

[oak root]

@fathom thistle What do you think I do here?

[fathom thistle]

with aa and signal companies

[spark gorge]

I mean declining doesnt make the attack you right away

[daring osprey]

Thats insane

[spark gorge]

you got more than enough stuff to catch up and then pass them power wise

[oak root]

fair

[fathom thistle]

I would just yeet the Germans, Rule Britannia or something

[oak root]

btw just to emphasize how weak america is 36-38

[spark gorge]

decline wait till they go in the soviets then attack

[oak root]

I conquered the USA with 2 armies

trash army with trash infantry too.

ima js accept than betray them when I can actually fight them

[hexed parcel]

This is self explanitory

[spark gorge]

I dont think you can attack very fast

if you accept them in

there is a buffer period or somn

just dont let them in the axis

they will just drag you into some bs war

[austere roost]

in your next game replace tanks with spgs because spgs and tds are now better in sp and mp respectively.

[gilded plover]

Annex france first

[oak root]

Ewww border gore

somehow

the germans got paris even though I clicked on it.

now to steal belgium and their colonies.

anywho

i need to adjust templates

this a mid enough template?

(Dont yell at me for not getting logistics, im working on it 😭

[neat widget]

do you have the maginot or do the germans

[oak root]

i got it

now plz tell me about template

putting 2 artillery was always somthin i did.

[spark gorge]

afaik line arty isnt worth it most of the time

[oak root]

i use it js because

it feels cheap.

well it isnt

its more arty

but

its easy to beef up the numbers

im already producing hella arty so, might as well put it to use

[lapis wasp]

I always use support artillery for infantry

line artillery seems a bit expensive

[glacial steeple]

wouldnt use ever

[glacial steeple]

it isnt

its really expensive for the stats it gives especially once you factor in combat losses

[lapis wasp]

Is it possible to beat the ussr late game?

[glacial steeple]

sunk cost fallacy with new players

[oak root]

ussr gets weaker over the time

[glacial steeple]

they over invest in like inf units

then go i cant afford good units

[lapis wasp]

they get hundreds of divisions late game, right?

[glacial steeple]

brother div count is not even a huge deal in this game

its mostly about how well divs perform in battle

which like

has radical differences

thats where a lot of the skill gap is

[spark gorge]

supplies

they get the most divs at the start

after that its not that big of an issue

also their borders are massive

[lapis wasp]

any tips for beating them?

[spark gorge]

micro your troops

encircle bit by bit

shouldnt be that bad if you prepare well

good cas + good divs ai doesnt stand a chance

[lapis wasp]

ok

[wild rune]

I❤️ sunk cost fallacy

[wild rune]

Just build more inf

Everything is not a problem with enough inf

[glacial steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/pizza-wolf-dog-gif-25611245

[wanton frost]

How many mils should I have on Planes to Paradrop France as Kaiser Germany, Im trying to be quick since I dont want the Brits to join the war

[wild rune]

Get 300 transport planes

@glacial steeple how many vps is needed to cap france when they have that one spirit

[wanton frost]

I can do collaboration govs too so it shouldn't be too hard its just getting there thats tricky for me

I've done it a couple times i just haven't played in awhile

[glacial steeple]

idk like a lot

at least 50

[light knoll]

paris is 50 alone you need more than that lol

you usually need paris and like 4-5 other big vps

[glacial steeple]

it sucks

they should make the spirit worse

[light knoll]

making 6 2w paras is free

but agree

[glacial steeple]

too much effort

1 tile should be plenty

[light knoll]

they make france cap if you take one tile

to be historically accurate

[chrome river]

so France just capitulated, but their land just shattered into a bunch of random Soviet spots - despite the fact the Soviets don't share a border with France nor did they have any troops nearby. What gives?

[plucky otter]

My eyes

[chrome river]

and somehow my Habsburg Spain puppets grabbed a chunk too, even tho I hadn't called them into the war

[plucky otter]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

The soviets got the land because they contributed more somehow

[hardy pewter]

would anyone be down to hop in a call and tell me how navy works rq?

[plucky otter]

Im guessing they caused alot of french casualties

[chrome river]

yeh the screenshots come out super bright, even tho my screen isn't. sorry

[chrome river]

so the trick is to take more land before capitulating France?

cause its still mid-war, there wasn't any peace conference or anything

[plucky otter]

no

Try to cause more casualties and get more war participation

You are going to need it anyway for more warscore at the peace conference

[hardy pewter]

how do I assign the transport to the paratroopers?

[lapis wasp]

I think you might have to add another transport to the air base

would this be a good late game template? I took it from a steam forum

[vital plinth]

Is Dual battey better for light cruisers or what are they good for ?

[glacial steeple]

its not bad if youre in like 1936/37

not really after

but thats just because the 1918 and 1936 guns suck

[lapis wasp]

what’s a good template for 43-44?

[neat widget]

you ought to have moved onto tanks or special forces by that point

[vital plinth]

Can someone help mentors designining cruisers there is so much mixed opinions online I have no clue what is good or bad 😅

[lapis wasp]

what about regular infantry for holding?

[neat widget]

just a 9/0 with aa and artillery will do

[bleak night]

GENUINELY how do you even win..... This is on civilian difficulty with the ussr strengethed like %75

I can never win as the germans, or the soviets

or as anyone

like I have to be doing something terribly wrong

[neat widget]

try to take back donetsk

and try to close the smolensk salient

[bleak night]

I couldn't do that if I tried

I think my divisions are just really buns, I swear I need like a 1922 start date to properly get set

[light knoll]

you have neither an army nor an industry

those are the obvious issues

280 divisions is very little fot the soviets

and 150 factories is practically nothing for barb

[bleak night]

I had quite a few factories I think they just got mowed down

but like I built some infastructure, then civs, then military

[neat widget]

I think I did soviets on like 300, so it isn't that bad

but i did push hard early war and that shortened the frontline

what do divisions look like

and, if you have them, planes

[bleak night]

I don't get how I'm supposed to have enough time to build good industry, build a massive army all in a timely manner

[light knoll]

yea if you know what you're doing you don't need that much

especially if you have tanks

but for beginner with just inf spam which is easier

just spam more units

[bleak night]

Is there like a certain amount of one thing I should have before switching to another?

[glacial steeple]

liv washed?? 💔

[neat widget]

was i supposed to make a torpedo cruiser?

or a destroyer?

[glacial steeple]

no, all doctrines buff dds now and you can get like -60% vis with blockade runner and stuff

its rlly good

[errant chasm]

According to Joey P, destroyers are better becuase crusher spam isnt as good as before.

[light knoll]

important things you should do: you should start with building a few civs, them by late 37 or so move to building mills
you should spend your first 250 pp on sending attache to spain and moving the war economy
you should rush your gun tech and industry techs, use your 100% research bonuses smartly
you should rush the political tree to get rid of paranoia asap, ignore the left side of the political tree only do the right

[glacial steeple]

patrol boat subdoctrine is meta

as silly as it sounds

[vital plinth]

Okay I made same styke , in Reddit people were sharing dual battery and only 1 medium battery rest light battery

[errant chasm]

I gotta test this in my pratice japan game rn

[light knoll]

you should ideally collab Estonia and Latvia

[neat widget]

Unfortunately no range 🙁

but yeah

[glacial steeple]

its just 10%

[neat widget]

the buffs are good i have to admit

[neat widget]

i already struggle in retaking easter island

[glacial steeple]

just split off some higher range ships

[bleak night]

I've been rushing to get rid of paranoia, I think I've been doing good on building civs but I'll force myself to build them till 37-38 next time.

How does atache to spain help other than training the units and giving army experience?

I'll try to do more industry research?

[oak jasper]

The "rush war economy" advice is incomplete. You can get war economy early, but you then drop below 50% doing the part of the focus tree which deals with Stalin's paranoia, meaning you either get strikes or spend 50 political power dropping back down to partial mobilization.

[oak jasper]

+10% war support. Also very useful for the US getting "The Giant Wakes".

[light knoll]

sending attache gives you war support
which allow you to get war economy
which is massive

[bleak night]

I know roughly what needs to be high numbers on divisions but it's so expensive and takes time to get good things, do you have a favorite template you like to run?

[light knoll]

no you don't

[errant chasm]

Should I ever build an sub destroyers as I remembered once in a game my host told me that he forgot them in a japan game.

[oak jasper]

That is exactly what happened to me. You most likely left something out of the explanation.

[light knoll]

those tanks are bad. don't use them. the infantry is fine just remove 1 or 2 battalions, make them 16/18 width

[neat widget]

"this doctrine gains mastery from carrier and destroyer" omg

[light knoll]

add anti air

very important

and remove motorized recon

motorized recon and motorized divisions in general are bad

[bleak night]

But their soft attack is 68, isn't that really low even for that combat width?

[light knoll]

i don't remember the exact tree now but im sure you don't need to go down from war eco

[light knoll]

it won't be that low with gun 3. but its fine anyways

you get enough of those divisions

[bleak night]

whats gun 3? ppsh-41?

[glacial steeple]

yeah

[vital plinth]

I’ve set up 2 collab goverment on the Soviet’s is it better for me puppet then now or still annex ? I need mainly manpower right now

Im non aligned monarch

[light knoll]

for doctrines, pick grand battleplan, grand assault, and large units tactics or individual excellence (if you use logistics company)

[light knoll]

yes

[glacial steeple]

the fourth gun

[light knoll]

annex

collabs are all the more reason to annex

compliance=good

[neat widget]

what do you use for the other doctrines btw

[glacial steeple]

you do coastal minelayers or something on subs

forgot tbh

and for the fourth one of them also buffs dds? iirc

[bleak night]

And is artillerly just useless? I hear it (or atleast line artillery) is really bad and lowk useless

[glacial steeple]

depends on when

it beats the 1918 and 1936 guns in attack

after that its pretty trash

no break, no hp, high width usage

only slightly better in soft attack per width at best

[neat widget]

doesn't seem to anymore

[glacial steeple]

?

[errant chasm]

do we ever build subs anymore?

[glacial steeple]

minelaying buffs them

no one who takes navy seriously makes subs

they work vs the ai and bad players

[errant chasm]

a good anti sub counter ship?

[glacial steeple]

plane

[bleak night]

okay with ppsh41 soft 78 at 16th width

[errant chasm]

How TF does that work!? Subs are underwater and planes go above the ocean.

[neat widget]

There's been a small naval rework so it seems like they've removed some of the visibility buffs

[light knoll]

ever heard of depth charges

[vital plinth]

So I still get the man power and ressocues by having collab thought it only worked my making it into puppet no ?

[glacial steeple]

plane fly (fighter) see ship (submarine) and naval bomber kill ship

subs have 0 AA

RADAR also works in place of fighters

[errant chasm]

fair point lmao. fair point to my arrogant question.

[glacial steeple]

its also like how they kill subs irl

[light knoll]

no its the opposite

[glacial steeple]

like its the only realistic combat thing in hoi4

[neat widget]

Seems like you can get from 10 visibility to 7.3 visibility maybe

[glacial steeple]

and yet people complain

[neat widget]

(10% from selective engagement isn't shown)

[glacial steeple]

youre forgetting admiral

[neat widget]

Isn't that another 10% or am I wrong?

[glacial steeple]

i forgor

at least 10

[neat widget]

wait 20%

[glacial steeple]

in sheep its 20

no thats mod

[neat widget]

because destroyer leader and concealment expert both

[glacial steeple]

then 20%

and you can just roll for blockade runner if its bad

[neat widget]

yeah

[glacial steeple]

did you see btw

range and speed affect dominance

[neat widget]

yeah

[glacial steeple]

its really quite silly if you have a lot of range

[neat widget]

but somehow the patrol boats thing doesn't since it doesn't despite decreasing range

[neat widget]

yeah

[glacial steeple]

was playing novum and saw subs give insane supremacy

cuz they have insane range

[bleak night]

Figured I should put this screenie here atleast for reference, this is maybe a few days after they invaded?

DUDE IT WAS GOING GOOD FOR LIKE 5 MINUTES

BUT I GUESS NOT

BIG VODKA DECIDES TO LEAVE THE LINE JUST WIDE OPEN LIKE AN O-LINE ON A RUN DOWN THE MIDDLE

[versed rose]

how do you only have 163 factories in 1942

what did you spend your ic on

[bleak night]

whats ic?

[versed rose]

industrial capacity, basically factory output

[bleak night]

Uhh Idk how to answer? I built civs for quite a while

then mils

[versed rose]

define a while

[bleak night]

uhh

A year or two maybe?

[versed rose]

when did you go war eco

[bleak night]

Actually im not sure I think this is an older save I used to test templates?

I haven't yet

yeah that means this is an older save

[versed rose]

Soviets can go war economy at 1936

do that

[bleak night]

bc I didn't send troops to spain AFTER he said to so yeah

I just need to start fresh

whole new save

[pliant condor]

1. hold shift when you draw frontline

it would distribute much more evenly

2. don't play on 5 speed especially if you are losing

3. how possibly could you get 163 factory in 1941?

[bleak night]

Yeah I was just kinda trying to speed quickly to test things, honestly forgot i was 5x

[bleak night]

Is that really low or really high?

[lapis wasp]

where did you build factories?

just wondering

[errant chasm]

late but explain why? Since I selected Ozawa instead.

[vital plinth]

Wait what ? Then how do I get more man power lol.

I thought annex with collab goverment would give more man power

[molten cape]

Soviet should have more mils rn than you have total factories

[bleak night]

Moscow, Kharson, and kindaaa everywhere else in the general southwest region.

More?

[lapis wasp]

I think some of it got captured

[bleak night]

Definetely

Is that a good amount or should I build more?

[wet crater]

Absolutely

The second screenshot last time was down 13

[lapis wasp]

build military factories

[wet crater]

My instinct is whack them down in the urals

[lapis wasp]

in the east just in case

[wet crater]

So they cant be captured if you give ground

[bleak night]

too many?

is there such thing as too many?

[sour wadi]

this focus gives the max factorys if i invest in metropolitan france and algeria, right?

even if algeria isnt a core

[lapis wasp]

i think it’s a little ambitious

[sour wadi]

ahh no need

just rush concentrated

then you get the same civs on high infrastructure land

you wanna min max your civ greed as much as possible

[bleak night]

Meaning I want as much civs as possible?

[sour wadi]

yeah

the better infrastructure a tile has, the faster it makes civs

[sour wadi]

if your going for civs, then yeah

[bleak night]

Should I be training troops from the beginning as well?

[sour wadi]

with the soviets you only really have to worry about wars in 1941, compared to 39 for most countrys

so you can sorta chill abit and build up your eco

[bleak night]

My real goal is to either capitulate the USSR as Germany or the other way around.

I think I'm honestly just focusing where I shouldn't, or maybe I'm leaving out important things.

[sour wadi]

but your playing as the USSr

[lapis wasp]

did you start the great purge early?

[sour wadi]

huh?

[bleak night]

"or the other way around"

[sour wadi]

OOH

mb its 3am lol

[bleak night]

Is there an "early"? I usualy bumrush it as fast as possible

[sour wadi]

yeah thats the best way

you wanna just try get the purge over with

[bleak night]

Yeah I'm working through Stalin Constitution rn

[lapis wasp]

nice

[bleak night]

I should atache to spain and get war economy asap right?

[lapis wasp]

send volunteers

[lapis wasp]

as well

[bleak night]

Is there a point in time to stop building the civs?

[lapis wasp]

maybe 1939-40?

[bleak night]

I have 97 right now, how many should I roughly have?

[versed rose]

too late, soviet stops at late 37 and starts mils or they wont have the fielded ic to not keel over and die to barbarossa. This date can be pushed later in singleplayer because of how bad the ai is, but earlier mils = better in 90% of circumstances in this game

[lapis wasp]

ok got it

but not all mils right?

[versed rose]

all mils

civs until late 37, or early 38 at the latest, then mils

[bleak night]

currently december 17th, 1937. I have 91 civ and 32 mils

[austere roost]

3 years before the war

[bleak night]

Why would I get war econ in 1936 if this debuff will happen?

[neat widget]

increase your war support beyond 50%

if you could

you can do this by, for example, sending an attache to china, and also annex baltics soon too

[bleak night]

I've been building mediums for a while now, why do things take so long to get into the divisions themsleves?

[glacial steeple]

because you dint have them

generally dont infinitely recruit soldiers

[bleak night]

I have though?

[bleak night]

why?

[glacial steeple]

because its bad?

it always leads to not having stockpiles

you are down 12K tanks rn

not having stockpiles is bad

having deficits is rlly bad

[bleak night]

Is there a way I can guage how many I should recruit?

[errant chasm]

If you can afford to fully equip them, recruit them. If not, stop training them. That is my rule of thumb

[vital plinth]

Do you convoy escort with your main battlefleet ? The one with battleships destroyers and screens ? Or how exactly do you convoy escort effectively?

[indigo sapphire]

how does ussr produce so much stuff

@glacial steeple

[austere roost]

by rushing war economy in 1936-07 to get second 5yp done in 1937-04, then get down third 5yp, timing the research bonuses to do production tools 1941, 1943 and concentrated 1941, and using mystichy for production + okmo for design on your armor units

also when you get mechs use 100 xp to make it half cost, and by 1941-06 you can pretty much have enough equipment to arm 120 10 spg 8 mech + engineer + support arti + aa + flame tank divisions and produce the latest 1940 planes to win the air war

[austere roost]

it's better to wait until factionalism emerges to start doing the center path since all center path focuses reduce paranoia (yes that includes the center focus itself), use the first 105 days to rush down nkvd or agitprop focus

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[indigo sapphire]

also how does Ussr make so many divs

@austere roost

[austere roost]

You train them?

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[wanton frost]

I formed the EU as Monarchist Germany, is it possible for me to turn democratic like through spamming and canceling war goals or something I dont really like the Non-aligned flag if not thats cool too

[lucid torrent]

where can i see the crash log?

[fathom thistle]

Hire democratic advisor and do referendum via pp decisions

[wild rune]

USSR has like infinite manpower

[cloud wasp]

WHEN I BEAT JAPAN AS AMERICA DO I PUPPET THEM OR WHAT

HISTORIC WISE

[hexed parcel]

Puppet

[cloud wasp]

ok

[hexed parcel]

Change ideology would make better sense tho

[cloud wasp]

ok ty

i jsut puppet them

[violet maple]

how do i return volunteer forces

[normal lagoon]

You cant. it will only happen automatically when you end up in war. only planes can be returned.

[raw nacelle]

how do i even play the game LOL

who do i watch to learn

[deft yew]

There’s good tutorials and channels all over. I’ll send you some links.

[indigo sapphire]

is 18 carriers good as Germany

or should i build more

[deft yew]

18 seems like a lot

Make sure you have screens though

[indigo sapphire]

alr

dw i will have

im producing a lot of em

i put max dockyards on em ALL

@deft yew btw i do have a mod that removes building slots

i can literally have so many factories like mils and dockyards

[deft yew]

Nice.

[indigo sapphire]

its very good

[deft yew]

I'm sure it is XD

Don't have to spend 100 political power or wait for research to be done for an additional building slot

[real plaza]

How to do naval invasions with the new update?

I understand navy at 100%

But idk how to naval invade

@deft yew how much you write??

Lol

[deft yew]

Normally when you click on an army and look at the toolbar, you'll see an anchor. Click on it, then choose where to start and where to land (which could be multiple tiles, even not on a port, although taking a port is important of course because it gives you supply). Then you need to have the required amount of naval dominance on the sea zones traversed. You can see what's required as well as launch the invasion by hovering over the button above the general's portrait.

[deft yew]

A lot XD

[real plaza]

Thats the problem. You mean that I can only do naval invasions pressing only the Patrol button on my fleets

?

[real plaza]

Ok...🤣

[deft yew]

Watch this if you need it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiMFUVCpmkM

[real plaza]

Ok thanks

[deft yew]

No, you just need naval dominance. I think the video will illustrate so will do a better job of explaining it.

[real plaza]

I'm a Kaiserredux player, so I need to know

[deft yew]

Oh I haven't dare touch that mod yet XD

[real plaza]

How to break the game with OP nations

[deft yew]

Fascist Finland is pretty good.

Idk about it in kaiserredux though.

[real plaza]

Is historical accurate to. They are still fascist with their monarchy

Nowadays

(for real, they asked for help during the Operation Barbarossa and the nazis answered yes)

So they moved some troops on the Nordic front

In 1941

[deft yew]

In my Fascist Finland game I just finished, the Nazis and I beat the Soviets (Winter War I managed to hold) but they declared on me for Denmark. With the help of the allies and having killed over 10M Germans and even more fascists, I beat them. Idk why they declared on me, stupidest decision ever.

[indigo sapphire]

damn

[real plaza]

Damn

Why you didn't release Denmark?

[deft yew]

Southern Jutland was like Verdun but 10 times worse. Some divisions had 20,000 total casualties (the template has 8K men).

[deft yew]

I could have but I had a non-agression pact with the Germans and had troops on the border. Plus they had broken the n-a pact before but hadn't declared.

Like I managed to get another n-a pact after a month and in that time they didn't attack. Very weird.

[indigo sapphire]

jesus

im sorry

i feel sorry for you

[deft yew]

I felt sorry for myself too

And for the Germans who had over 15% of their population gone.

[indigo sapphire]

damn

[deft yew]

Allies were useless until 1947. Starving in North africa and ramming into Iran, who had over 200 divisions from the Axis and the Allies.

[indigo sapphire]

EY its my fatherland Estonia

im estonian

irl

[deft yew]

Nice.

They didn't want me to annex them but they joined my faction, had to liberate them after the Germans swarmed them.

Same thing for Lithuania and Latvia.

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[deft yew]

Btw I forgot a Soviet province in Kamatchka so they existed there for the whole game.

[slow tree]

are strategic bombers on medium or large airframes

[deft yew]

Large i'm pretty sure (Edit: Medium works too apparently?) No i'm wrong only large

[gritty marten]

those are tactical bombers

[slow tree]

thanks!

[gritty marten]

for medium

tactical bombers can do both strategic bombing and close air support

but not too good at either

[deft yew]

Oh yeah mb.

[glacial steeple]

large

[glacial steeple]

no

thats a tac bomber

[glacial steeple]

theyre better at strat pervic actually

[gritty marten]

whats pervic?

[glacial steeple]

bombing

im rlly tired and prob clucked some suggestion on my keyboard

sorry

not tired but like sleepy

[deft yew]

same

i thought it meant per victory points for some reason

[slow tree]

if i am a repairing 2 ships from a fleet

only those 2 will go and dock?

[deft yew]

No, you have to enable automatic split off to do that

[spiral delta]

can someone pls help what do i do against afghanistan im ussr i keep losing against them is there a template i should use or something?

[noble laurel]

when I click, I can see the flame tank option, but then it diseapears out of the box, how to fix ?

[deft yew]

do you have supply?

[deft yew]

try reloading maybe?

[glacial steeple]

drag designer to top of screen

[noble laurel]

that worked yep, thx

[spiral delta]

yeah

its like 100 units 1m troops against their 80k idk how im losing

[glacial steeple]

thats not how the game works

[deft yew]

If it’s mountainous then use large mountaineer divisions to push

[glacial steeple]

theres a max combat width per tile

[spiral delta]

it works against the germans

[spiral delta]

i do 36

is that good?

[glacial steeple]

per tile

like you can only fit so much in a battle

[spiral delta]

yeah

my combat width is 36

[glacial steeple]

for the units, likely not for the tile

[spiral delta]

so if i spam do i keep it high?

[glacial steeple]

but you cant fit a mil soldiers in a tile

[glacial steeple]

no, its a set number

of how much can be in a battle at a given place

[spiral delta]

i have like 60 units on a tile they cant take 1 unit like i send all

[deft yew]

Look at terrain and fight bubble to see it

60 on a tile is way way way too much

[glacial steeple]

yeah because not all 60 are in the battle lol

they wont win

[spiral delta]

bro how

do i need to lower it

?

[spiral delta]

is this template good

[glacial steeple]

you just cant fight with infinite units in an area

[spiral delta]

so how do i do it

[glacial steeple]

what is this creature of a unit

[spiral delta]

for mountains

[glacial steeple]

give me a bit im too sleepy to chat rn

[deft yew]

Would put engineers instead of recon first off

[indigo sapphire]

hello casey

[glacial steeple]

no thats fine

he has decent supports

[indigo sapphire]

hello

[spiral delta]

so how do i win against afg with the units i got?

[indigo sapphire]

im producing a LOT of ships as germany

i already have 18 CVs

[spiral delta]

hey how do i win against afg with the units i got?

[deft yew]

Look for mountaineer templates in guides and yt videos

Also having too many units on a tile will make them less effective since they’ll have less supply

[spiral delta]

wheres guides

[spiral delta]

no the supplies fulling all

[deft yew]

On steam and yt

[spiral delta]

listen like do i send small amount and not all of my units?

all my battles against them is always red

[indigo sapphire]

are normal carriers better or Escort carriers?

[deft yew]

Send a screenshot of one of the battle and hover over attack defense dtc

[spiral delta]

now it shows im winning but after a few seconds the battle stops and nothing happens idk

[glacial steeple]

its like rlly easy

[glacial steeple]

in the battle you see that youre not winning

[spiral delta]

no but outside the thing it was green

[glacial steeple]

thats a prediction

[deft yew]

You’re not attacking with your mountaineers

[glacial steeple]

it says 'well if all units join the battle AND fill width (dont get pushed out early), you should win'

like bubbles arent always correct, theres RNG, reinforce rates, instantly losing all org etc

[spiral delta]

i have 24 units of mountaineers

[deft yew]

Yes but they’re not the units currently in battle

Stop the other units from attacking and let the mountaineers attack by themselves

[indigo sapphire]

answer someone

[spiral delta]

i use the ai mountaineer template rn i dont have enough xp for the one i showed

[deft yew]

No idea sorry

[slow tree]

naval most confusing thing

[deft yew]

Oh

Ok but still try attacking only with mountaineers

[spiral delta]

it failed aswell

[cold bloom]

Spam light cruiser

That's the entirety of navy /s

[deft yew]

Send a photo please

[spiral delta]

dude what is this graveyard of empires shi

[spiral delta]

alr

[slow tree]

its not that

its how the control works

40 ships have 0 naval power

[spiral delta]

the battle stops after a few seconds

[deft yew]

They have to be on patrol or convoy raiding (strike force doesn’t work if there isn’t already a patrol thee if I remember correctly

Attack from multiple tiles onto one with your mountaineers. That increases combat width allowing more of them to fight at once.

[spiral delta]

do i increase their combat width?

[deft yew]

No.

You put your mountaineers on different tiles adjacent to the one you’re trying to attack. Then you make them attack that tile. This increases the combat width allowed in the battle.

The 70 at the top.

[spiral delta]

i legit cant put on another tile i barely took one

by tile u mean province right?

[deft yew]

Send a photo of your divisions

[deft yew]

Yes

Or like the map

To see the provinces

Also since it’s a desert mountaineers not necessarily better, use whatever has most attack and breakthrough

[gritty marten]

is line artillery still useless?

[deft yew]

idk

[gritty marten]

3 combat width, ruins organization and hp for a bit more soft attack

[slow tree]

first invasion

[deft yew]

Send one without the description blocking the view.

[deft yew]

Nice.

[slow tree]

london fell

[glacial steeple]

old

[cold bloom]

Yes

[cold bloom]

I cant tell if youre trolling me or not at this point

[glacial steeple]

no, it changed

you get up to like -60% vis on destroyers

which is wayy better

[cold bloom]

Shit

[glacial steeple]

smh

patrol boat doctrine is the meta with the other ones being just whatever buffs dds

[cold bloom]

I only play singleplayer so anything goes

[deft yew]

Look for provinces bordering multiple ones, are there any? Also the yellow boxes means supply is a bit lacking, so try spacing out your trucks more equally.

[slow tree]

panzer divisons so good

[deft yew]

Look at the red circles, those provinces overlap a bit, you can attack one of them from two different tiles.

Also upgrade your mountaineer divisions' doctrines if you can afford to.

[indigo sapphire]

should i rush to TOTAL MOB economy law?

[deft yew]

what country

[indigo sapphire]

germany

[deft yew]

not sure but i would tend to say yes. later on you have the totaler krieg economy law though.

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[deft yew]

do you have focuses that put you at higher economy levels?

[indigo sapphire]

idk

[deft yew]

look for them

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[deft yew]

they should be in the economic part of the tree

[slow tree]

why cant i puppet everyone

[deft yew]

not enough war score.

are you germany?

[slow tree]

yes

[deft yew]

If you're germany you should annex them and form reichcommisariats

you have a focus that allows you to do tht

[indigo sapphire]

should i build a LOT of the bismarck ships

[slow tree]

sadly i have 5k score

why is free france still there

and poland

[deft yew]

you have more war score after each round

[deft yew]

not really, i would recommend using paratroopers to capitulate france and the uk and then take their navies

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[deft yew]

watch a guide on how to that though.

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[slow tree]

i think im gonna annex all uk

[deft yew]

do that and then use the decision to form the reichcommisariat for britain once you have done the required focus.

dont forget their islands and colonies abroad.

[languid trout]

why do u have like 72 divs on one tile

ur forgetting that combat width existszx

also put field marshals

[noble laurel]

does Romania being in faction count for Germany's autarky ?

[languid trout]

id recommend using 36 width mountaineer divs

or something close to 36 width

if u picked the doctrine that minimizes combat width for mountaineers

[deft yew]

what does it say in the focus tree? If i remember correctly its only counting Germany and its puppets

[noble laurel]

yeah

it's kinda stupid tho

like it incites me to go kill an ally then ?

[deft yew]

yeah its pretty hard to do

russias ressources allow for easier completion. also ask your allies for control of states with those resources if ouc an.

also do the focuses for more rubber and build synthetic refinery, or puppet the indies if you can.

build infrastructure to gain more resources from states you already have as well.

look for a guide online or on youtube on achieving autarky, will probably help a bit

use develop decisions as well if you can spare the political power

[slow tree]

HOW DO I NOT HAVE AUTARKY

[deft yew]

i dont know, you have so much

maybe forming reichcommisariats and having compliance go up?

im pretty sure you only get part of the resources if you dont have a core

[dusty sandal]

you need more resources

[slow tree]

dawg

i own half the world

[dusty sandal]

is that half of the world fulfilling the prerequisites

[deft yew]

look at the ressources. aren't they red

[dusty sandal]

because if that's half the world with all the steel in the world but no oil it doesn't matter

READ the prerequisites

[slow tree]

done

i can now

[deft yew]

what

what did you do

also researching excavation will help

[slow tree]

press space

those swis fuh

have lvl 10 forts in mountains

[dusty sandal]

tanks + medium flame tank + engneer company + general with fort buster trait and ability = no more fort penality (1.8% on lvl 10 forts)

[slow tree]

i managed

after like 10 months

anyways

will ussr have lots of tanks

[deft yew]

Switzerland usually not worth dealing with I feel like

USSR has some tanks yeah.

But you should be fine.

Push with your tanks, encircle, repeat

[cedar wigeon]

What army should i take in the jungle ?

[deft yew]

What do you have

[cedar wigeon]

The most basic troops ever

Just started

[deft yew]

Are you Brazil?

[dusty sandal]

AI tanks are worthless

[glacial steeple]

none usually

[dusty sandal]

make it 35 width, you can trade armored recon for recon rangers with jungle speciality

don't forget a single line bataillion of AA (on this template, just replace a single ranger by an AA piece)

[cedar wigeon]

What are the tree one ?

[dusty sandal]

rangers

[deft yew]

Rangers

[dusty sandal]

oh, you need No Compromise no surrender DLC

[cedar wigeon]

I dont have this dlc

[glacial steeple]

make it marine if dont have

[languid trout]

i didnt know rangers were ncns

[cedar wigeon]

I have marine

[dusty sandal]

then it's pure mountaineers with recon rangers OR marines with pioneers tht have the jungle specialization

[glacial steeple]

why are we jungling

[dusty sandal]

ideally, do both companies (pioneers and rangers) with mountaineer div

[dusty sandal]

rubber defence ig

or amazonian trip

[glacial steeple]

is it?

[glacial steeple]

then you cant use yours

no supply

[dusty sandal]

yes supply

[cedar wigeon]

Conquering south america

[glacial steeple]

id just use paras

theyre awesome

hp, supply usage

[dusty sandal]

I know for sure, I used them as my battleplan units in my brazil playthrough

wanted to do the bad ending achievement, got bored before

[glacial steeple]

how could you get bored

[deft yew]

What country should I play now that I've finished a Fascist Finland game and a historical Germany game?

[glacial steeple]

whats your goal?

you can play every nation and be pretty bad at all, or you can practice repeatedly playing/learning a nation and getting better at that

[deft yew]

I've managed to fend off the USSR as Finland and win WW2 as Germany. I'm looking for an intermediate challenge, since I can't decide what to play next.

[kind rampart]

Im conpletely new to the game and about to play it soon, is there anything i should know, im also a germany main

[deft yew]

Wdym germany main

you play them in other games?

[kind rampart]

No i mean i play germany more than any nation

In other games yeah

[deft yew]

i would recommend watching tutorials, watching playthrough videos (bittersteel is pretty good), asking for advice here when you need help, and playing as canada first to learn easily and help the allies a bit.

play germany when you've learned the basics

[kind rampart]

So i cant immediatly start with the axis? Also ill make sure to watch bittersteel

[deft yew]

watch guides as well

you can if you want, but make sure you know a bit at least

[noble laurel]

i don't understand how new naval supremacy works, there isn't a single ennemy ship in the zones I'm trying to get superiority in...

[deft yew]

i would recommend playing canada first just so you have a better idea of what you're doing, and also not get overwhelmed with germany's army, navy, planes, focuses, etc...

[noble laurel]

i have air sup, naval mines, 135 ships deployed on patrols, strike fleet and raiding
they have 0 ships, 0 planes
and yet
i don't have supremacy ???

[kind rampart]

Yeah i saw some conquest videos and germany seemed to be a bit conplicated

[deft yew]

have you waited for it to go up or did just assign the patrols?

[noble laurel]

it's been a month or two

and i can see it going down

[deft yew]

yeah, but you'll get the hang of the game faster than you think dont worry

[noble laurel]

from the very low value it went up to

[deft yew]

are your ships actually operating? what does the game say your naval dominance should go to?

[kind rampart]

Thats what happened when i thought AOH3 was too complicated, so you're definetly right, appreciate it by the way

[analog wyvern]

How do I micromanage exactly? And how do I know where and when to attack

[noble laurel]

does that mean I won't have enough ships to get dominance over this tiny region ???

[deft yew]

watch this: https://youtu.be/4TB6I7lAfDk?si=JXoyyt5Qe6BmP6uv

[deft yew]

send the orders you have, a view of the naval map mode

[deft yew]

nvm

[noble laurel]

i do

ye, naval zones be annoying

[deft yew]

i would put your ships on patrol, all of them.

[noble laurel]

they should reshape this whole area

aight

this is all that's operating in the zone btw

[deft yew]

that's not that much

try to split them into equal task forces

[noble laurel]

+96 subs who are assigned to the regions, but also many others so they're not only there

[deft yew]

should be enough

[noble laurel]

well yeah, it's what Germany starts with

[deft yew]

96 subs but where are they

[noble laurel]

assigned to the regions I'm trying to get supremacy + atlantic

[deft yew]

they cant operate everywhere at once

[deft yew]

split this fleet into equal task forces, then assign them to patrol in the seas required only.

[noble laurel]

bruh what the actual f

how

just

how

how does that make any sense

what tf is this

i mean thanks i guess

[analog wyvern]

Alright thanks

[noble laurel]

this game is just getting worse every year, it's a disaster...

they took something that was bad and made it worse, lol

[deft yew]

i made a video

too big though

hold on

[deft yew]

make something like this

[noble laurel]

yeah that's what I just did

now I have 3000 supremacy in one region

and 0 in the 2 others

[deft yew]

do you have different task forces?

[noble laurel]

no

[deft yew]

you need different task forces.

[noble laurel]

i did the same thing as ur video d ude

it's just broken

[deft yew]

send a pic

[deft yew]

Try to have equal amount of ships in each task force

submarines dont give much

[deft yew]

Should have 150 for each

at least

Dont mix submarines and ships. Submarines are used mainly for convoy raids while ships are usually used for patrol/strike forces

[noble laurel]

it finally worked

thx

[deft yew]

no probs

be careful with the uk, they will mess up your navy. try naval invading where they dont have much ships or better yet paradrop into them and secure a port.

[glacial steeple]

challenge idk play lile afghanistan, japan can be challenging, italy

[deft yew]

alright thanks, i'll try afghanistan

[green tundra]

how can i fix it? I cant start the launcher

[deft yew]

according to the first comment this fixes it: https://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/joh5i0/bootstrapper_error_couldnt_start_launcher/

[pliant condor]

don't delay baltics

unless you want to grind on it ofc

[pliant condor]

it's like you didn't build anything since 36

are you on civilian economy for the entire game?

[pliant condor]

because ozawa has blockade runner which allow you to pick concealment expert, which is the best trait

-10% visibility = +20% hp to all your ships

[lucid torrent]

How to see the crash log?

[pliant condor]

documents

paradox interactive

hoi4

logs

[glacial steeple]

similar issue with people picking dumb generals

'oh they have high level with lots of traits they must be good'

and then its like the worst traits possible

with no attack points

[pliant condor]

rommel moment

[lucid torrent]

[20:21:52][no_game_date][gfx_dx11.cpp:83]: Finish command list failed: An internal issue prevented the driver from carrying out the specified operation. The driver's state is probably suspect,

and the application should not continue.

what is this crash error?

[indigo sapphire]

uhm

for some reason the building slots mod doesnt allow me to build new mils and dockyards

it says i need tech: gc5

what does that mean

@glacial steeple

[haughty forum]

can i form the chinese united front as nationalist china?

[marsh trench]

Should I get anti-tank, my first time playing as france?

[dusty sandal]

no, anti tank is completely useless in singleplayer
get anti air though, you'll need at the very least a support anti air company in ALL divs

[silk abyss]

Dude The achievements The Legion 501st sucks a lot i manage to control all my neigbors capital as belgium with spirit "Rexist legion". But this game dont let me get the acievements.

[violet maple]

help*

its early 1942

how do i beat him

[silk abyss]

Wow that is really a lot of divisions

[silk abyss]

Who are you playing

[violet maple]

germany

[misty wagon]

can i attack canada which is a puppet of UK and UK is in my faction

[silk abyss]

No u have to leave faction

You cant attack others country in your faction

[misty wagon]

can someone help me make a tactic to take down UK, im using nocb and i can suprise attack them, is there any way i can like send troops quick before they send their navy or smth

[silk abyss]

Do you have enough navy?

I mean u gotta got a strong navy than UK

if yes then invasion Uk. And capitulate both should be easily

[misty wagon]

how theyr navy is stronger than mine

i can suprise attack insta declare

[haughty forum]

Is there any way to form the chinese united front as nationalist china?

[silk abyss]

I see now that this is 1969 which is really late. You got three different possibly way to beat.

1. Kill Canada fast. If you dont have strong air than Uk. Then u gotta start build strong naval bombers and different planes. Try conqueor all their land in different contient. Then u can wait until you got enough strong naval to do a invaison or strong air to do a airbone.
2. If you already got a strong air superioty. Then you van try to capitulate Uk with a lots of paratroopers.
3. Worst Choice: U start build navy until you beat UK

I mean u have to do the invasion of Uk very early i recommend on 1950 otherwise this is gonna be a long game. I mean early as possibly

I mean u got highest industry. You can produce more ship than Uk. If you do that. You will probably get better navy at 1971

[misty wagon]

how do paratroopers work

[silk abyss]

Use transport planes. and produce Speical Division with only Paratroopers which is unlocked by research paratroopers. i just realize that you dont own all DLC.

in Youtube there are a video about paratroopers. You can watch this video

[misty wagon]

alright

[silk abyss]

Beside i am not sure if you got paratroopers research

[misty wagon]

i need a opinion, is using NOCB cheating?

[silk abyss]

If you run that game on ironman u cant use command

If you run that not on ironman u wont get any achievement

[misty wagon]

alright

[silk abyss]

If you want get any achievements you always have to play on ironman. Where the command cant be used

[glacial steeple]

idk

[misty wagon]

wat do i do when i dont have any more generals

[deft yew]

promote from your divisions

[misty wagon]

it wont let me do that

damn i need commanders

[deft yew]

weird

[glacial steeple]

bba dlc

he just has to click on the new general screen

[deft yew]

oh yeah right

[glacial steeple]

and click at the bottom

[misty wagon]

where

[clear tide]

Hi whats the meta against the ai navy how do i beat the us navy?

[misty wagon]

guys where do i get more commanders plase

[dusty sandal]

go where you would assign general, then click show field commanders and promote one

[misty wagon]

im like fully maxed out i think

[dusty sandal]

you don't have enough CP

[misty wagon]

can i even promote one when i already use all of them