ask-for-help-here

[winter ledge]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Land_battle

i dont actually like do all this maths in my head

just gives you a general idea of what you want and why

[pliant condor]

in your steam install folder

[oak oasis]

how do I fix 30000 ping?

my internet is good, 100 download 20 upload

host has the same

is pdx down or smth

[winter ledge]

tech support

where are you and where are they

[fast bear]

should i worry?

[winter ledge]

982 factories out of 3483 needed

[fast bear]

so nah?

[slender lodge]

ye u might maybe

@dusty sandal yo

if i play as USSR, germany will atacck me on 1941?

[winter ledge]

definitely not

unless usa takes over the whole world

[dusty sandal]

if you on historical yes

almost always between april and august

[vital plinth]

Is it complicated to read and find out or easy ?

[austere roost]

It depends on how strong your border army is

If it's too strong Germany won't attack

[winter ledge]

no dont bother

[languid trout]

im pretty sure they always do no matter what

[winter ledge]

you can just find everything you want on google

[languid trout]

but they wont attack if u have like lvl4 forts

or higher

[austere roost]

They don't attack when I put 120 armor divisions on the border, I need to justify on Hungary to start the war

[languid trout]

everytime i play as the soviets germany is always super aggresive

[languid trout]

120 armor and not infantry as frontline holders??

[winter ledge]

this is literally one focus:

[austere roost]

Yes

120 36w divisions

[languid trout]

i dont think you can afford all that by 1941

[austere roost]

Germany is +1

I'll see if +2 Germany will attack me

[pseudo ridge]

can anyone tell me when spirit of the army got removed from canada

[slender lodge]

my german plan
communism = false
hungry = yes but hide
war = yes

army = true

if army false = collapse

script

very avanzed

[subtle thorn]

can someone help me i cant have chief of the army as grecce

there aint any monarchists chiefs of the army

[pseudo ridge]

i'm in a similar boat i cant have spirit of the army as canada

[subtle thorn]

what was the way to put a chief of army

[subtle thorn]

so we never get the

army xp

[pseudo ridge]

i can get it from focuses but i cant get spirit of the army for whatever reason

[vital plinth]

Damm then how else can i understand and learn the focus paths and make my own route or do most just follow guides seems very confusing and probably impossible for me to play online then 😅

[glacial steeple]

theres usually guides

just if you wanna learn on your own you gotta test, read, talk to people

[vital plinth]

I see makes sense 👍

[pseudo ridge]

casey what happened to the spirit of the army for canada

[glacial steeple]

the what

[glacial steeple]

also guides are usually only for hist mp games or bad quality as youve probably noticed

[pseudo ridge]

this, provides bonuses to commanders and i'm trying to do this strat i'm following for canada where you ignore the navy and focus on research, production, and trucks

[glacial steeple]

most options there are unlocked by the no step back dlc

its the hat button

[pseudo ridge]

what the actual hell so i cant do the strat then

[glacial steeple]

should still be able to no ?

army command is always available to be hired

its both in that screen and in your advisors tab

[pseudo ridge]

and yet spirit of the army is a different thing for the strat that i'm trying to do

wait no i dont need it since its just a boost to army experience...at least relief of command is

[slender lodge]

hate when i use ussr for first time

and yeah uk and france sents ALL their army at third year of game

agaisnt me

instead of germany

[neat widget]

using mediums?

[vital plinth]

So what is best to learn as beginner and become better suited for multiplayer later on ?

[slender lodge]

no step back

[slender lodge]

play alot of multiplayer

no step back x2

[vital plinth]

Hey question regarding the Holy Roman Empire does the Kaiser need to die for the Victoria leader to come in power or can you keep willhelm the third ?

[austere roost]

Yeah medium spgs

[glacial steeple]

played a hist sp game not too long ago

wasnt too bad shockingly

maybe it was because i was playing prc tho which is just kinda fun

[slender lodge]

germany carrying

paris failed 1 day later btw

time to counteratacck for USSR

No step back

i got

poland east

and im re-taking the lost zones

31 Countries vs starter ussr

[austere roost]

Is this a mod?

Ussr against the world?

[slender lodge]

no

this is called when you atacck estonia

and the allies priorize a dewaste war agaisnt you instead of germans

[slender lodge]

...

[light knoll]

why did you not use the focus to demand annexation

[slender lodge]

where it is

i didnt find it

[light knoll]

claims in baltics

[slender lodge]

is there

any way

to make a peace iwth france and uk

as USSR

[glacial steeple]

cap them

[slender lodge]

i cant

germans will capture me first

and the war just made me too much weak

bc germany took alot of land that was mine

[glacial steeple]

bro that war should NOT have been that hard

[light knoll]

now its kinda too late

[slender lodge]

31 countrys vs ussr at start

[glacial steeple]

its a 3 tile border and a bit of coast

[slender lodge]

they sent ALL army agaisnt me

[light knoll]

no manpower no industry no war support no stab

[glacial steeple]

yes you win that as well

your land army is better than uk and france combined

[slender lodge]

i did because germany captured europe so i had a chance to counteratacck

[glacial steeple]

at game start

[slender lodge]

it was but all i could do was defense

till they started to collapse and i had to atacck

germans has alot of my land there

and if they atacck me now in barbarrosa all i could do is retreat to urals

and wait till allies to do something

[marsh knoll]

is hoi4 ultimate edition always 30% off or does it go even lower during sales

because im trying to save as much money as i can whiile getting all of the dlcs

i only have base game and after 500 hours and mods i need a tank designer

and air but i dont want to spend 130 on it

[slender lodge]

play with ussr mentality

spam spam

@glacial steeple @glacial steeple

just check how weak my divitions have turned on

ok yeah im done

i just have some little options right now

[jagged hull]

I hate Germany achievement woman in the high castle it's very hard because Britain keep refusing to be reclaim the royal family

[slender lodge]

1 - Counter atacck for USSR (Moscow, leningrad; stalingrad)

or 2 - Go to urals and fortify there

@glacial steeple i need your opinion

[glacial steeple]

thats just not true you just played very poorly

[slender lodge]

i tried to counteratacck alto of times

encircles, etc

[glacial steeple]

spam when you have no equipment or manpower so you lose more from combat? you just need to equip your army

[slender lodge]

it was always a defeat or red atacck

[glacial steeple]

and equip them with better weapons ideally

[slender lodge]

cant equip them if im getting killed

i need to fight back or retreat to urals

[glacial steeple]

you can

[glacial steeple]

well maybe not now but definitely earlier

[slender lodge]

germany killed all europe in less than 1 year

[slender lodge]

it was worst

[glacial steeple]

i dont know what advice you expect when youve destroyed your economy

[slender lodge]

germany atacck on france saved me but make them focus on me next

[jagged hull]

Austria is hard but I managed to defeat Germany but German empire for the woman in the high castle is harder because Britain keep refusing to get accepted back again in the loyal family and the Hindenburg getting destroyed

Austria is easy because I learned it it was hard but it's easy to learn

[marsh knoll]

is hoi4 ultimate edition always 30% off or does it go even lower during sales
because im trying to save as much money as i can whiile getting all of the dlcs
i only have base game and after 500 hours and mods i need a tank designer
and air but i dont want to spend 130 on it

[wild jolt]

https://gg.deals/pack/hearts-of-iron-iv-ultimate-bundle/

this has a price tracker

[stuck zealot]

I made a collaboration government in France as Italy and am getting the factories as expected but I can't trade with my collaboration government. Is there something I'm missing?

[vital plinth]

Hey do I get anything back as Germany is Greece ask for investment?

[errant chasm]

No

Just select the option to never bother Germany again. Same goes for Turkey

[visual yacht]

Whats the cost = 5 referring to

[vital plinth]

Oh ok I don’t get more ressoxues or anything?

[errant chasm]

no

[slender lodge]

is there

a way to make peace with allies?

im USSR

USA sent me lend lease and im fighting with germans

i need to make white peace with allies

anyone know a way to white peace?

no mods, no commands

[glacial steeple]

their capital moved and they dont have convoys im guessing

[glacial steeple]

thats not a thing in vanilla

[slender lodge]

so, how do i peace with uk and france without invading?

isnt like if i can invade them anyway

[stuck zealot]

Their capital is now on Corsica so that looks likely. thanks!

[warped knoll]

kind of struggling here

it’s all infantry, decent template

no supply issues

i have air sup

but i just can’t break through

[glacial steeple]

you cant

[visual yacht]

Whats the best way to beat america with comparatively low manpower as south america

Cant naval invade cause their navy is stronger, would it just be paratrooping and slowly going up?

[slender lodge]

cassey

how do i anex baltics as USSR

in decisions which decision it is?

[glacial steeple]

you have to do a focus before you get the decisions

[slender lodge]

wich focus

could you tell me please

[slender lodge]

thx

@glacial steeple

do i need to have politic paranoia to do tha?

do i need it or i need to not have?

[glacial steeple]

you need to not have it

[slender lodge]

how to turn it off

tips pls

[red mesa]

you complete the purge tree

[grand sky]

why 36 width templates and not like 35? 2 36 units wouldn't fit into plains no?

[hearty wolf]

stats gained from the battalion giving the extra cw outweighs the stat loss from going above cw iirc

[grand sky]

oh so more than the width can fit into it? thanks

[hearty wolf]

yeah if it isnt too much

the game lets it

[red mesa]

There's also the assumption that when attacking you're doing so from multiple tiles which expands the width a bit

[hearty wolf]

dunno how much is too much tho

[grand sky]

thought more wouldn't fit

weird

would y'all say the multiplayer is still alive and worth getting into

[vital plinth]

Hey I’m doing s guide for Holy Roman Empire and I need to to do a focus to get war with France but it cancels because my world tension made is lower than I need for the focus so it cancel. I don’t have political power I don’t know how to increase world tensionatm any idea or suggestion?

[hearty wolf]

you could wait for pp to justify to cause world tension

[red mesa]

you might be trying to do it too early. Or trying to do it before certain wars/events have kicked off to spike WT

[vital plinth]

It’s my war tension generation but his guide is 1 year old Al in the same time date

I could do a focus that takes 30 days and do 2.0 world tension idk if that helps

[visual yacht]

Up to 33% over

So if youre attacking a 70 terrain width tile from 2 directions, your actual max combat width will be 139.65 ((70 + 35) * 1.33) so youd want to do 34 widths to get a 4th division into that fight since 36 widths would be just too high

[slender lodge]

WHY THE USSR IS SO BAD

I HAVE 240 DIVITIONS INVADING FINLNAD

MAX USPLIES GOOD GUNS GOOD ORG GOOD ALL

AIR SUPREMACY

AND THEY CANT EVEN WIN AGAISNT ONE GODDAMN SOLDIER

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PEACE IF WE CANT EVEN INVADE

HORRIBLE DESIGN

[vital geode]

I dont believe this

There are supply dead zones

And also, have you figured out how the Soviets won the winter war in real life and their failures as well?

[faint dirge]

sup, anybody home?

[vital geode]

Somewhat

[faint dirge]

time to answer some stupid questions?

is that a no?

well, i'll go ahead an ask anyway.

Will the soviets attack poland if you don't declare war on Poland as Germany?

On historical, i mean.

[vital geode]

Probably

So far, I notice they like to declare war on france

[faint dirge]

Also was kind of curious, when the molotov ribbon pact triggers, why the soviets don't declare war on Poland, or how your supposed to take poland without triggering the allies guarantee

[vital geode]

But Poland was usually capped by then

[vital geode]

Game would break as Allies would be at war with the Soviets

And completely shatter WW2

Germany just gives the east up for free

Soviets do demand eastern Poland if Germany takes too long

Or manually justifies

[faint dirge]

oh? really? did that trigger for me? maqybe i missed it

[vital geode]

Germany can ignore molotov even after it is signed

It just let's the non aggression pact cancel

[faint dirge]

but they wouldn't as an NPC on hisotrical would they?

[vital geode]

No

They always give up the east

Give it some time

[faint dirge]

well that is one question answered. thank you, sir

So if germany doesn't attack poland, the soviets will. WIll this trigger the allies guarauntee?

[neat widget]

why did I think this was in sheep's lmao
but yeah well done

[faint dirge]

well i guess i can just run it and see

that took less time than expected. I guess the answer is that it does trigger the allies guarantee.

I guess that begs the question, will the soviets agree to the molotov ribbon pact and give germany their half of poland if you don't attack Poland as Germany?

are the events in the wiki keyed to show what the default historical choice is?

ill go check

doesn't seem to list it. wiki says the soviets honored the pact in real life, so i guess they would in game too.

i mean, the event is listed, but not whether it will trigger yes on the event decision on historical.

[vital geode]

Yes

Guarantees will take effect

[raw magnet]

byzantine med tank div. 🤔

[left glacier]

Looks pretty good, although I would suggest switching the armored maintenance company for something else. If you have access to No Step Back, flame tanks are a pretty good addition to your tank division for fighting in rough and urban tiles. If you will be fighting with your tanks in red air supremacy, use support anti air.

[glacial steeple]

if youve seen his previous comments/posts....

[vital geode]

Oh, he had an experience and a half

[austere blade]

Guys, is there a Hoi4 website that provides statistics on war losses, similar to Europe 4?

[raw magnet]

I have no idea how to add flame tanks they are not even on my thing to choose

also these are my forest movers for my invasion into canada

[junior ocean]

guys I got no knowledge of meta navy. I just know patrol gives dominance and dominance gives naval invasion. Tips? Help plz I have 2.5k hours.

[austere roost]

Get it to 36 width and replace tanks to spgs and stop using at and maintenance company; replace them with engineers and flame tanks. Support art can be replaced with field hospital. Get the flamethrower weapon through engineering 2 tech if no gotterdamurng or research it through land special projects

[austere roost]

Stop using line artillery, also you don't need special pushers for Canada.

[glacial steeple]

perfect knowledge

just put all ship together

[junior ocean]

Help 🤑

[neat widget]

where are you invading canada from

also what is the year

[junior ocean]

I genuinely wanna know navy guys

[austere roost]

navy meta is setting all ships to patrol because having supremacy over coastal sea tiles gives you stability now

[junior ocean]

is this real

[austere roost]

Yes

[junior ocean]

u fr

[neat widget]

core coastal states protection be like

[raw magnet]

from iceland

[neat widget]

what are your marines like

[austere roost]

100 stab Stalin by 1937

[junior ocean]

ok then how do I get dominance too invade the u.k as Denmark for Danelaw achievement and I don’t have paratroopers

[raw magnet]

don't have marines just yet

though I never really struggled without marines

[austere roost]

I swear no one does purge apologia like PDX does

[neat widget]

do you have flame tanks?

tbf with canada and its small army you can probably go without marines

ideally you'd make your division like 36-39 width

but you may not have the manpower tbh

at least 30 width

[short berry]

Does anyone know to holy Roman Empire

[languid trout]

did the hindenburg survive?

if it died then restart

it needs to survive

also go down the path with "accept british naval dominance"

go down the focus tree and check your decisions

check your decisions and u will see some new decisions related to the british, and i think there is one that makes it so u can elect female leaders

send victoria to the uk

btw you need uk to accept the carving of the congo and the guarantees

and britain needs to stay democratic

[oak jasper]

Is there any consensus on use of small, medium, or large airframes for naval bombers? The mediums, at least, seem to be hampered by always needing to haul around a bomb bay rather than just straight torpedoes.

[cold garnet]

I am stuck in an unwinnable war

I just can't finish off the Soviets

[oak jasper]

I've seen Germany stay in the fight after 10M+ casualties. The AI can, and will, go to scraping the barrel to keep throwing poorly equipped infantry divisions at you.

[dark frost]

i cant form nation in road to 56

[slender lodge]

is this good?

[oak jasper]

Single or multiplayer? I can't offer much advice on MP.

[slender lodge]

single

[inner sparrow]

no for both

[oak jasper]

Mkay. You're going to want to go very hard on soft attack and breakthrough, probably keep up a decent speed, and the rest isn't that important.

[slender lodge]

how to

[oak jasper]

Three-man turret. Close support gun/howitzer as primary armament. Best radio you have. Two heavy machine guns for more soft attack. Easy maintenance if you have access to it, to make it cheaper. Christie suspension and gasoline engine for speed. Riveted armor is cheap. +4 armor to make it a bit tougher without inflating cost. Enough engine to reach your target speed.

Something like this:

[light knoll]

are Sovietd and Germany at war with each other

[cold garnet]

not yet at the time of the image

[light knoll]

ph

oh

well you'll win when they do

[cold garnet]

AI GER avoids starting barb if they border other major

[inner sparrow]

U can max armor for more break or just leave both armor and engine clicks on one, it doesn’t matter at all in sp. What u should do tho is change the tank variant to artillery tank

[cold garnet]

you lied

I will win even if they don't,

and no, it hasn't gotten any easier

it is pretty much the same thing anyway

eventually I will win

but like

that's a very bad way to wage war

if I can only win by killing all of them

[light knoll]

i didn't say you will win if they do, i said you will when they do smh
its a time indication not a condition

[cold garnet]

nothing changed anyway,

I said at the time of the image because now they have

hmm

@serene karma how do I get game helper role back

[slender lodge]

this one?

i did what you said

[cold garnet]

hmmm

[cold garnet]

get 1939 artillery tech

[oak jasper]

(And yes, changing to an artillery variant will max out soft attack. I like to mix things up, one brigade of regular tanks to get breakthrough up, the rest SPGs because the AI has a hard time coming up with good armored division designs)

[cold garnet]

to unlock better main weapon

[slender lodge]

ill just produce the tank i did

[oak jasper]

Also, what you added was "Extra Machine Guns", not "Heavy machine Guns" (under extra turrets)

[slender lodge]

i fix it

alr, do i produce it?

just say yes

[oak jasper]

Seems like a reasonable SP design to me.

[slender lodge]

100 factorys going to use it

how much factories do i put at my infantry guns?

i have 40 there

[oak jasper]

I am unashamed to admit I use a spreadsheet to figure out "OK, if I want to train X divisions of each template, then I need Y factories on each type of equipment".

[slender lodge]

?

i need factories for my tanks but seems like the one that im making doesnt built fast

[oak jasper]

Yes. Production efficiency starts off very low, and slowly ramps up. You see that green and red bar towards the top of each item?

[slender lodge]

ye

when will that be good

i have max 5 months before germany starts invading me

[oak jasper]

Roughly 6-12 months? I do know the USSR gains efficiency slower than other countries.

[slender lodge]

im so done

[inner sparrow]

40 on guns is fine, if done right it should give u roughly 400-500 16w inf depending on when u put it on guns andtimer u go to war

u should swap to gun2 tho the moment u get gun2, gun1 are kinda useless

[serene karma]

Make a ticket and ask for it back

Ull get it

Didnt i tell u this in ur server alr

[short berry]

I tried like 5 times I'll do later

[slender lodge]

i resisted agaisnt germany for 4 goddamn years

with almost no new troops

they did moscow pact lol

[serene karma]

💀

And whys ur screen so square

[real cave]

wtf am i looking at

[cold bloom]

😭

exactly

wth

[flat hound]

My game crashes whenever I load into a game

[slender lodge]

check ur ram

[short berry]

Which path is good for sweden for wc

[glacial steeple]

just get nukes?

[dense stone]

how do I trigger Warsaw uprising without any tricks? Everytime I'm about to reach 50% resistance for it to trigger, Germany makes it a Reichskommissariat and now resistance is always too low for agency to even try

[empty latch]

anyone got tips not to get kicked out of the allies as monarchist netherlands?

i need it for rp purpeses

[glacial steeple]

your army isnt equipped yet again

this is your largest issue when fighting wars

[slender lodge]

it isntr

[glacial steeple]

you dont equip them, likely train new units forever (which you shouldnt)

[slender lodge]

no

i equip them

[glacial steeple]

its showing a 32,000 gun deficit

a 2500 artillery deficit

[slender lodge]

in communism theres no deficit

[slender lodge]

somehow bc i didnt use artillery

[glacial steeple]

youre heavily overproducing support equipment

stop acting ignorant

[slender lodge]

no

[glacial steeple]

the reason youre losing your games is because you neglect your army heavily, then come here to ask for help

[slender lodge]

Bro i just lost one time

and it was bc it was allies and axis agaisnt me

My First USSR gameplay btw

[austere roost]

Convert this to SPG

[slender lodge]

Never

[austere roost]

It's better than tanks

[slender lodge]

I just wanna have fun

[austere roost]

You need to produce less and they have better stats

[slender lodge]

OK When home ill try

[uncut narwhal]

use a howitzer and not a close support gun aswell

[dry sable]

can somebody help me figure out how to get supply to my troops from italy to ethiopia

[dusty sandal]

please show us

[dry sable]

where

[dusty sandal]

the front

send a screenshot of the front or describe the situation extensively (but it'll take like 500 words to describe it properly)

[dry sable]

im very new and theres so much crap to do

[dusty sandal]

stop building random supply hubs
follow already-existing supply hubs
don't deathstack your divs in no supply areas
use your airforce (bombers only)
ADRESS THE ALERTS AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN

didn't see the date
do the same as I just said but restart. Your game is already doomed by the looks of things

[pallid iris]

Does this include Britain not guaranteeing Iraq? Iranian nationalized oil path

[dry sable]

alr ty💔

[dry sable]

okay so next question

how do i use the airforce

[jade tulip]

I have problems with invading brits, when I sent paratroopers I was able to claim dover and when I send an army there to reinforce them, suddenly all of my organization gets evaporated and before I can get it back up, Im already destroyed by brits, any way to cross the sea without losing all org?

[slow sapphire]

will carrier CAS participate in navy battles or will it only be carrier naval bombers that damage ships?

(yes i know carrier CAS is bad. i just like the idea of using it for fun)

[flat hound]

Use transport planes

[uncut narwhal]

i think you got raided

in the channel

and you had no supply afterwards

put cas over the channel on naval strike

and fighters too so the brits pull out their subs

[jade tulip]

with careful planning in the end I was able to get brits, I know some awful stuff happened while annexing but thats temporary :)
Its peace at least... for now

[uncut narwhal]

why is poland alive

[scenic nacelle]

Same for Luxembourg

and Italy in the Benelux

[jade tulip]

great question, idfk

I tried everything to take the lands back to me

but eh, taking back poland and benelux lands will be easy

also is there a way to check what factions exist and who their members are

[uncut narwhal]

there is a list of all factions

[jade tulip]

where I can view it

[uncut narwhal]

i think its some button at the top

i lwk forgot tho

[pliant condor]

not cropping out important information challenge😭 impossible

[austere roost]

idk why but my subs can't do any missions: if I put them under an admiral and send them to missions (i tried patrol, convoy hunting, and training) in black sea, the fleet automatically gets detached back to reserves like in the screenshot. Is this a new bug?

[glacial steeple]

no

but its from kuwait to south yemen afaik

[pliant condor]

click

[blissful spade]

What is the Megagaria strategy? I played a multiplayer round yesterday, and it was mentioned as a "banned" strategy, but didn't explain it.

[amber wren]

What marine do

[dusty sandal]

bulgaria can core all balkans and has better mils than italy
megaria is you give greece, albania and yugoslavia to bulgaria which cores everything, it essentially because amother major power that can deal with the whole DDay wall by itself

[light knoll]

that's not megaria

[dusty sandal]

add romania and you're good

[light knoll]

megaria is giving Bulgaria all occupied land because they get insane compliance bonuses

+0.15% compliance per day

making it essentially better than cores

[austere roost]

oh yeah thanks I didn't even noticed it

[indigo kraken]

hi

[blissful spade]

thx

[blissful spade]

thx

[indigo kraken]

anyone knows a good desing for tanks?

like division of tanks

[scenic nacelle]

Check pins

[jade tulip]

why it says UK is the faction leader when literally UK doesnt exist anymore

[scenic nacelle]

Hoi4 being hoi4

(No clue)

[jade tulip]

so I assume the biggest country in the faction is the leader?

[indigo kraken]

do i have this on vanilla game? or nah

i have never used that

[pliant condor]

yes

do you have no step back

[indigo kraken]

no

i dont

[pliant condor]

then when you click on tank research

there are three small buttons next to each tank variant

one of them that says self propelled artillery is this

[indigo kraken]

ohh

yea i see it

ty

[woeful bridge]

Um so I got naval invaded and steam rolled. but somehow am still alive thanks to Germany

[open rain]

how to change language in the game btw ????

[lime citrus]

I just downloaded DLC for HOI4. Is there anything else I need to do? Any concern for the mods I have in place?

[oblique needle]

what do paradox accounts do
is there any point logging in to the hoi4 launcher

[oblique needle]

top right of the launcher

[oblique needle]

you can check the mod page on the workshop to see if any mods are or are not compatible with certain DLCs, most mods are made with all DLCs in mind
if it doesnt say anything it is probably fine with any combination
just turn it on in the launcher

[indigo kraken]

yea

you can change the version of the game

the mods u want in the game or dlcs

and that type of things

[oblique needle]

you dont need a paradox account for that

[indigo kraken]

no

[oblique needle]

I do that in steam

[indigo kraken]

yea me too

but i have an accout

because i play cities skylines too

and eu4

[oblique needle]

is there anything you need a paradox account for though
I dont get the point lol

[indigo kraken]

idk

because u save ur progress idk rlly

[lime citrus]

Ok, what about the scenario I've already started?

[oblique needle]

in vanilla you can turn on a DLC for a game you've already started
however you cannot turn off a DLC if you had it on when you started the game
it will likely create more bugs though

for mods, no guarantee it will work

it might or might not

[lime citrus]

So, just delete the first scenario?

[oblique needle]

its up to you

[lime citrus]

I won't lose anything of actual value.

I guess.

[oblique needle]

yeah ig

[opaque garden]

@cold bloom just needed a quick way to go to rt56 server cant fine it in my list

noooooooooooooooooo

why did you change your tag

[lime citrus]

Ok.

On another topic.

[cold bloom]

Our boosts ran out 😿

#337306241149960193 message
here you go

[lime citrus]

I'm wondering if there's a way to go down the Gold Standard path to make America a superpower without causing a civil war. Ideas?

[jade tulip]

does this bar means the subject is going towards Its freedom?

[opaque garden]

yippee

[cold bloom]

its toward annexation I think, hover over it with your mouse and youll see

[lime citrus]

Hello?

[jade tulip]

ight yep I got it now

[cold bloom]

Think not unless you just get lucky going historical

[lime citrus]

Of course...

[cold bloom]

maybe if you guarantee absolutely everyone youll have an easy time getting enemies

[lime citrus]

"Guarantee absolutely everyone"?

[pliant condor]

u can go fake fascist

the war goal focuses just need you to have enough support

you don't need to civilw ar

[lime citrus]

Since there aren't many YTers who don't go down the non-civil war gold standard path, I'll need a bit of help here.

VC?

[pliant condor]

read the focus tree

basically certain focuses have red text on them

that says "this will lead to civil war"

if you do two of them you will civil war with mtth of like 180 days

but you don't actually need to do them

your war goal focuses are under war powers act

which only require 30% fascist support and congress support

so you can just go down there to grab all the war goals

while staying democratic

[lime citrus]

Ok, how do I implement them? What do I begin with? Lobbying?

I'll need a step-by-step walkthrough for this one. VC, anyone?

[jade tulip]

is there a way to make the annexing go faster?

[dusty sandal]

can you even annex reichkommisariats ?

don't they have a "always false" thing ?

otherwise you can just lend lease them equipment. the higher the value the more autonomy gets removed

[glacial steeple]

yes

[vital plinth]

Hey I just beat France , should I puppet or annex their puppets Syria and Lebanon *

[austere roost]

Usually you just annex

[warped knoll]

anyone wanna help

[jade parrot]

what are some good beginner tips. I spent ages as Netherlands creating forts abs getting an army just for it to get destroyed by the reich

Also how do I get alot of man power? I assume by fascism or communism

wouldn't that be harder for countries like Belgium with the default tree

[glacial steeple]

forts bad

[glacial steeple]

you have a puppet

[dusty sandal]

air is important, if you don't have good air you better have anti air
anti tank is useless in singleplayer
supply matters, no supply = no stats = no pushing or defending properly

and last but most important :
READ THE TOOLTIP !! See something red ? you're probably doing something horribly wrong. Pause the game and figure out what's happening ! See an alert ? click on it or hover over it and see what's wrong !!
Never stare and just go "I don't get it", READ

[wise heron]

how many naval bombers is enough?

i’m playing sweden and i want to destroy the german fleet

but i don’t understand the mechanics around naval bombers

[vital plinth]

Assault infantry is the best ?

[glacial steeple]

as many as it takes

their air defense doesnt matter for losses

keep that in mind

agility does but you can use worse frames, worse engines if its significantly cheaper

[jade parrot]

alot of them like man power and ressources dont show any solution, but thanks :3

[jade tulip]

does doing the second option cores slovakia?

[glacial steeple]

trading? turning all units into puppet-manpower units?

annexing east indies

[jade parrot]

wouldn't I have to be com / fascist to justify a war

[wise heron]

is ts an good naval bomber?

[glacial steeple]

you start with indonesia as netherlands

[glacial steeple]

no because it tries to be CAS

just use a torpedo

[jade parrot]

idk, in all the videos I've watched no one used colonies so I thought they weren't important lol

[wise heron]

ahh okay

[glacial steeple]

ideally you use medium frame

but small is fine

[glacial steeple]

for the netherlands it is

[jade parrot]

oh okay

what about the Congo? for Belgium

[glacial steeple]

not important

belgium has enough people and recruitable pop

[jade parrot]

ah okay

how could I make a successful run with belgium

like what should I focus in

[glacial steeple]

having an army first of all

probably mountaineers

get gun tech ahead of time always

its huge upgrades

[wise heron]

@glacial steeple what about ts one?

[glacial steeple]

looks fine

[wise heron]

ok thanks

[jade parrot]

how could I do that, I kinda struggled with Netherlands, max I could get was 100k

[glacial steeple]

netherlands is a bit tricky

youre not using your resources wisely here

you have a lot of recruitable pop, but not domestically

ideally you annex your puppet before the war starts and have taken all their manpower

[jade parrot]

what puppet?

[glacial steeple]

indonesia? dutch east indies?

[wise heron]

do yall think 100 naval bombers is enough to make an difference in an naval fight?

[jade parrot]

wouldn't they already be annexed if I own them

[wise heron]

@glacial steeple please help

[glacial steeple]

its something

you use fighters to detect

[glacial steeple]

no, theyre a puppet

[jade parrot]

oh how would I annex them, I would have to justify a war with them no?

and conquer is like fascism and that

[marble temple]

Alexandretta?

Where is that??

[glacial steeple]

no

theres puppet mechanics

with autonomy, id recommend looking up videos on it

but basically its points to being higher level puppet / free or annexed

the dutch east indies are at the lowest puppet level already

[jade parrot]

hoi4 does anything but have a good tutorial

[glacial steeple]

so it just takes autonomy points and 300 political power to annex them

[marble temple]

oh. Turkey. :/

[jade parrot]

I lowk lost to Ethiopia as italy

[glacial steeple]

combat is the hardest part to learn

[marble temple]

Turns out you don't need Hatay/Alexandretta if you and Turkey are in the same alliance! Achievement Unlocked!

[vital plinth]

Hey should flame tank be made from medium or light tank ?

I mean the support one

[glacial steeple]

mediums unless you make paratroopers

[wise heron]

ngl cas is useless i have 1800 GOOD cas division and i can’t attack in the báltics with 39 7/1

they are all active in the báltica but still nothing good

and they are still able to push back

@glacial steeple please

[glacial steeple]

what are we doing

show the screen

[wise heron]

@glacial steeple

[hoary glen]

Click on the CAS planes and show their range pls.

[wise heron]

this is cas and air superotitt, the one with short range is just an naval bomber i accidenltly added

[hoary glen]

what is your CAS Design?

[stuck garnet]

pls help my friend has different version

[hoary glen]

I mean you should be able to just battleplan them, no? Even if the bubbles are red you'll destroy all their IC

[wise heron]

industrial capicty?

[hoary glen]

Tell him to update the game.

[glacial steeple]

he has 10 inf divs there

he doesnt have an army is the issue here

[wise heron]

no 29 divs

[hoary glen]

He has 30

[wise heron]

39*

[glacial steeple]

how many are your own vs puppet divs?

[wise heron]

all my own

[hoary glen]

Like that should still be enough to battlplan

[wise heron]

7/1

[stuck garnet]

her*

[hoary glen]

they are not good, but still

[glacial steeple]

thats really bad

like worse than ai

ai runs 9/1 and 9/2

[wise heron]

how are 7/1 bad?

[glacial steeple]

its just too small to attack

artillery and small divisions just take huge losses when going on the offensive

[hoary glen]

No Hp and no attack, no break

[wise heron]

but everyone tells me u need atleast 50 org for an offensive div thats why use 7/1

[glacial steeple]

ive never heard anyone say that

[wise heron]

whats an great attacking div then?

[glacial steeple]

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

[wise heron]

uhuh

[glacial steeple]

theres like so many options there

[hoary glen]

If she doesn't has this game version in the launcher, she needs to check for updates

[stuck garnet]

no its like

uhh

we doing kaiserreich

[hoary glen]

Yeah, basically your Divs are IC and Manpower. Run out of either one and you will lose every battle. So just attack them endlessly and let the CAS do the work

[wise heron]

what the freak is ic

[hoary glen]

you already said it

Industrial Capacity

[wise heron]

how is industrial capacity tied to an division

[hoary glen]

Your equipment is made out of IC

[wise heron]

the amount of industry i can have?

why not just say equipment

[hoary glen]

The cost of a div is how much your mils need to do to finish all the stuff for it

[wise heron]

what will happen if i just keep attacking as u said

will i just not lose so much manpower?

[glacial steeple]

equipment isnt the same as economic cost

[hoary glen]

https://tenor.com/view/i-guess-bro-what-are-you-talking-about-bruh-wolf-of-wall-street-nose-pinch-gif-2883543456073544458

[wise heron]

im so confused

[glacial steeple]

you can have 5 divisions of 100 guns or 1 division out of 500 guns and the 1 division will take less losses and industry to maintain

[hoary glen]

Just save, try it out and see for yourself.

[glacial steeple]

also it takes into account that different equipment types have different real division costs

[faint dirge]

isn't it better to have a bunch of small divisions, since they all have their own org?

[hoary glen]

Only for defense

[glacial steeple]

like 30 support equipment is 4 ic per equipment, where tank recon may be 24 units but could be less

in cost

[faint dirge]

you can just double up on the number of division on a front line

[hoary glen]

The way combat works small divs are really bad for offense

[faint dirge]

how do you figure?

[hoary glen]

Break is per unit. Small Divs don't have much break. Low break means you get crit more, so you lose more battles.

[stuck garnet]

she has different version 😭

[wise heron]

what

ic?

[faint dirge]

okay, that makes sense

[wise heron]

i don’t understand ic

[hoary glen]

One of you uses outdated mod then. Unsub and resub to the mod.

[hoary glen]

It's just what your factory produces. They build like 5 IC per Day per Mil. So a Tank that costs 20 IC will take your one Mil 4 Days to build

[faint dirge]

aren't hits scattered anyway, aside from coordination?

[wise heron]

okay whatever i have an strong military so just pushing with small division as u said will kill all my men

[hoary glen]

Hits still target a single div. So if a big div with high damage hits a small one you will get crit.

[faint dirge]

You could mix a fat division with a skinny one.

[hoary glen]

Did you try to attack yet? And not like for a Day, but like 2 Weeks while your CAS flies?

[wise heron]

yeah i tried and my units kind of retreated due to being like weak at attacking

like they have 100 divs at the border

[hoary glen]

Bro you can also use 1 widths. You can always make a worse build.

[hoary glen]

If you send some screenshots from the battles I can help you. Else this is hard to tell.

[wise heron]

can’t rn

[faint dirge]

so whats the right width? 18? 36?

[wise heron]

but btw how is it possible that they can attack me with 39 divs plus like 40 more from the allies if i have 1800 cas and i get red bubbles from it?

[hoary glen]

16-18w for def and 36-38 for attack

[hoary glen]

They probably use better divs than you. But your CAS will kill them slowly.

You are using like the best gun tech possible, right?

[wise heron]

yes

[hoary glen]

Gun tech doubles your stats per tech level

[wise heron]

like guns for infantry then yea

[glacial steeple]

is this a challenge

[hoary glen]

Feel free to do that lol

@faint dirge tbh vs AI you can get away with 10ws for Ports and unimportant fronts. And you can also attack AI with 16ws if you have CAS and at least gun 2. It's just those bigger Divs will be far better.

[wise heron]

@hoary glen is an 7/1 an good defensive unit?

[glacial steeple]

as germany you can make anything with more than 0 org work

[hoary glen]

But always keep in mind the most important thing is that you can fill all your Frontline width.

[hoary glen]

You never really want to use line artillery. Especially for defense it's quite bad bc it reduces your org, which is a really important stat for defense.

It's not like you'll lose bc of it

[wise heron]

ahh okay

[hoary glen]

Main reason why you can't push is bc you have 40 Divs where you'd want to have 120

[wise heron]

but btw what’s an good attacking unit that works with as much cas as possible

[hoary glen]

Like I don't know about your other fronts, but you want a lot of divs if you want to conquer Germany

[wise heron]

that would be 3 times the total combat width of the front tho

[wise heron]

sweden have low manpower i did tho core denmark and finland but due to me being weak in the beginning they got denmark

[wise heron]

plssss

[hoary glen]

36w pure Infantry with support Artillery, Engineers, Flame Tanks, Scout tanks or ranger and field hospital

[wise heron]

how tho?

[hoary glen]

Wdym how?

[wise heron]

barely any soft attack

and would it not just take so much manpower

[hoary glen]

You should get something like 300 base with it

With full planning that's plenty

Like special forces Inf can get 500 Soft. The AI has nothing that can hold that.

[wise heron]

is special forces better then?

but what about manpower will it just not take a lot of that?

[hoary glen]

Always if you can afford them

[hoary glen]

Be at least on service by requirement and if it's not enough Desperate Defense and/or Guerilla.

[wise heron]

guerilla?

[hoary glen]

Inf tree something there. Gives you 2%

[gleaming dragon]

I am sorta new to the game? i've played for 200 hours and still dont know a good avarage infantry template

could someone help me?

[wise heron]

i can only have limited conscription

[gleaming dragon]

💔

[hoary glen]

Check. Pins

[hoary glen]

Haha. Good luck tho

[wise heron]

but what do i do then?

[hoary glen]

I mean even more important to try to get recruitable from doctrine

[wise heron]

are there not better divisions?

[hoary glen]

Do a focus to change it. Else you're hard capped and just know you need to do something different next time.

[wise heron]

no focus things to do

i can do one that gets me 80 weekly tho

[hoary glen]

Good low manpower Divs are Mech and Tanks. But they are expensive.

[wise heron]

high breakthrough divs basically?

[marble saddle]

???????

[marble saddle]

what is to be done???

[gleaming dragon]

i see people talking about medium self propelled artillery

how do i make that

[marble saddle]

Italy is DEAD and germany is not in the war yet I have not achieved a peace conference

[wise heron]

would for example motorized and ASPG’s work @hoary glen

[hoary glen]

If you have the tank designer and add a howitzer canon you can change the designation from medium tank to SPG at the top below the name

[gleaming dragon]

okk

[hoary glen]

I don't know what ASPG is. But never use motorized. Either use Cav or Mech

[wise heron]

Artillery Self Propelled Gun

[hoary glen]

Ah, I see. Yeah those are good 👍

[wise heron]

medium too?

[gleaming dragon]

wait so i choose the option "artillery"?

[wise heron]

soo like mechs with medium spgs will go through the line without taking that much manpower?

[hoary glen]

Mediums with the howi2 get like 100 Soft. Very funny

[hoary glen]

Yeah

[wise heron]

is that bad

[hoary glen]

Tank div is like 10k manpower. But if you have like 4-6 you can win the game

[wise heron]

yeah but i mean they don’t take much manpower

[hoary glen]

No it's per battalion. So you get like 1k base soft in total

[hoary glen]

You can see how much in the division designer

[wise heron]

wait does the 36 width special forces did you mean that they took much manpower to make or that they lose much manpower while attacking?

[wise heron]

i’m not that noob

[hoary glen]

They cost more guns than an inf div. Special Forces and Inf take the same manpower. Tank stuff is half the manpower.

[wise heron]

yeah but do 36 width lose much manpower while attacking cuz that was the only thing i was concerned about

[hoary glen]

They lose less than small width

[wise heron]

okay so why can’t i just use them then

there is no big problem

[gleaming dragon]

i could have sworn i researched flame tanks but when i want to add it as a support company i dont see it

[hoary glen]

And if you use field hospital 3 they lose nothing and with lv4 Hospital you gain manpower (that is a joke, but almost)

[wise heron]

u need to research it again

[wise heron]

ahh okay

[hoary glen]

You need to go into the tank designer again and make a tank with a flame thrower module, then you change it's designation again and this time choose flame tank. Afterwards you can select the Flame company in the div designer

[gleaming dragon]

ah i see

[glacial steeple]

its good before the 39 gun but thats a short timeframe

[hoary glen]

It's a ponzi scheme to trick new players into overproducing a useless piece of equipment. You can play and beat the game with 7-1s or 9-1s or whatever. But most likely you'll waste a lot of production on it that could have been used for more fun stuff

[glacial steeple]

1 mil

its only rlly as minors but still

1 mil

[vital plinth]

So what’s the difference in design between defense infantry and attack ?

Like everything seems so simple with infantry just 9/0 ?

[glacial steeple]

small unit reinforce better defend longer

large unit crit more lose less

in sp you can always run large units because ai usually bounces attacks

like if you use 32w inf everywhere youll ball

[carmine lichen]

how do i make the imperial japanese navy more influential i need to be able to strike south but i cant take the focus

nvm

[carmine lichen]

why does my main fleet keep returning to the capital after i move them to another port

[celest shuttle]

Hi

[visual yacht]

How grief is it if i just make 36 or 39 guns forever and never switch 42, the steel cost has destroyed me

[celest shuttle]

Hi I want to play HOI4 into the late game; please let me know what PC specs I need so it doesn't slow down

[visual yacht]

Good cpu

And maybe ssd, not sure if that matters tbh

[celest shuttle]

@visual yachtthank u

@visual yacht Intel Core i5-12600K or AMD Ryzen 5 5600X ?

[visual yacht]

5600x if thats x3d

What are you upgrading from? It also depends on your motherboard

As in compatibility needs to be checked

[celest shuttle]

@visual yachti want to buy a new PC i finding a option

[visual yacht]

Ok then yeah look for any "X3D" cpu, after that its up to your budget range

If yiure doing any 3D rendering then i think GPU is important right?

Iirc gpu processing is faster than cpu

[celest shuttle]

@visual yacht thank u very much 😄

@visual yacht i just want a pc to play this game 😄

[carmine lichen]

even though i have my ships here why is the surrounding area red

i just need to take hawaii to get the eternal empire achievement ive even tried setting up my patrol boats but they still stay red even when i move my fleet to the port

nvm didnt know about the knew updates home bases

[maiden lintel]

tbh thats bs

[clear tide]

Does anyone have a guide for the germany air and inf meta?

[maiden lintel]

use best hull, hmg, self sealing tanks, armor plate(s), and range. 18-21w with basic support companies

[carmine lichen]

thought i figured ts out but i cant get range into american coast

what do i do\

there arent any islands i can take to get any closer

[marble saddle]

am I being TROLLED?????

I'm trying to edit my template

and I cant

cuz its

exist

YEAH???

tahts what eiditng does

my apologies

I see what happened

wehn annexing a puppet

that put the template on my list because I inherited their units

thus getting this

I understand now

[visual yacht]

Then yes the most important thing will be your cpu

[celest shuttle]

@visual yachti see do u play china before ?

[visual yacht]

Im playing it now with the new dlc yes

[faint dirge]

well i beat my first war with a major power

I beat russia as germany, i let russia attack poland then attacked russia, i took all of poland and most of western russia

god this game is hard

i had 90% capitulation on russia and i had to go way past the Stalin line, past Gorsky and into the Urals even.

I had stalingrad, leningrad and moscow

[visual yacht]

Try to learn the spy agency if you have the dlc

Collaboration governments maje big country capitulation much easier

[faint dirge]

no thats what i mean, i had 90 capitulation from spies

[visual yacht]

Ohh

[faint dirge]

Russia was just being stubborn, would not go down

[visual yacht]

Yeah i did it without it the first time a while ago, needed to take everything except sibera basically

[faint dirge]

there is only so much supply you can shuffle east

every rail line has a max throughput of 35, even with 3 or 4 level 5 rail connections from the capital, thats like 140 supply, max

i had 3 army groups of line infranty and 2 more army groups of auxillary infantry (36 w and 18 w, respectively)

no matter how much rail i put out there, i couldn't keep everyone supplied

90% collaboration i should say

not capitulation

[austere roost]

Put dds in their own fleet then, if you want range then stop mixing low range units with high range ones

[celest shuttle]

@visual yachtdo u destroy soviet china ?

@visual yachti just found the way to finish them quickly

[visual yacht]

whats your way? i dont have a 'strat' for it i kinda just go through them like any other warlord

[arctic stream]

How do I navy invade bro I'm so confused. I got my troops at Norway but they died instantly when they were on a port, so it's not supplies. I sent good divisions too

(Playing as germany btw)

[indigo sapphire]

idk how to help you

sorry

[neat widget]

did you get trapped in a single tile?

you should not get reinforce memed off of the norwegian mountains

[arctic stream]

It was like 2 tiles I had before I got sent back to see

Sea

[neat widget]

ah i see

oof

try to capture more land and make a more solid defensive perimeter next time

and launch your invasions when you declare war on norway, so make sure you're building naval supremacy beforehand

[arctic stream]

Alr thanks

I'll try it next time

[hoary glen]

If you use line Arty? I doubt that claim. You need 36 per div, 48 if using support Arty as well.

[hoary glen]

This game pretty much runs on anything. As long as you pick some decent mid class cpu you will be fine. You should rather aim your spec goals to other, more demanding games you might want to play.

[hoary glen]

It's just the question how much you want to challenge yourself. 39 Guns are decent enough for AI tho. But if you're stuck in 1945 with your enemies stacking 50 Divs per tile you'd wish you had better guns.

[visual yacht]

my previous run i was hard bottlenecked by the steel, feels like id get more mileage if i put it towards more tanks or something other than upgraded guns

[oak jasper]

Note to self: try to keep green air and keep the enemy from logistics bombing my stuff.

In less than a year, just in northern France, I've destroyed 7243 trucks and 200 trains. No wonder a lot of German divisions are having supply issues... and if I can do it to them, an enemy could well do it to me.

[hoary glen]

Did you block of the naval zone or smth? You should still get supply on a port unless you're getting raided or blocked off the zone. But if they constantly attack you, you can't recover org and will die.

When you naval attack always attack the port and both adjacent tiles. Use at least two Divs per tile and force attack until you have a port.

Also put up fighters and CAS over Norway. Denmark gives you enough range.

[oak jasper]

My response to that is "get more steel". Second-worst-case, each mil on 1942 guns costs you an extra 0.25 civilian factories vs. regular infantry equipment.

The worst case is "cannot trade for more steel", which is not the greatest situation to be in.

[hoary glen]

I can't speak for you're situation bc I don't know about it, but even if you build Tanks you want to keep like 10 mils on 1942 guns and only give them to your tanks.

[oak jasper]

You can also improve your steel output by building infrastructure, high-capacity electric grids, and in some cases, supply hubs on your big steel-producing states.

[visual yacht]

Wait i know infratructure increases resources but do those other ones act the same way?

[oak jasper]

High-capacity electric grids boost the effect of infrastructure: instead of +15% per infra, you get +25% per infra.

Supply hubs do the "Supply Routes" multiplier: if there is a connected port or supply hub in the state, that's 1.2x yield.

[hoary glen]

If there is a port or supply hub in a state you get 20% more ressources from that. You just don't notice it bc most states have at least one of those.

[visual yacht]

I usually play me vs the world so theres no steel to trade for

[light knoll]

which country are u playing?

36 guns are straight up unplayable. ALWAYS switch asap

[visual yacht]

Most recent problem was with mexico

[light knoll]

were u at war with both allies and axis?

[visual yacht]

(In R56 but i dont think theyve changed resources for mexico in that mod)

[light knoll]

did research excavation techs and do decisions?

trading the steel is worth it

for reference, 39 guns are ×1.5 36 guns, and 42 are ×1.33 39 guns

so that increases your soft atk stats by 33%, which is kinda crazy

[visual yacht]

Right ok that is a lot

I think i only really look at defense since i use tanks or special forces for offense

[light knoll]

soft atk is more important than def on the defense

[oak jasper]

Soft attack does matter: the more damage you deal, the sooner the enemy breaks off the attack.

[visual yacht]

Yeah no that makes sense

[light knoll]

you still win battles on the defense by deorging your enemy

def is also capped

if you have more def than your enemy has atk, than extra def does nothing

[visual yacht]

Oh really?

[celest shuttle]

@hoary glenthank u

[visual yacht]

Shit i didnt know that, always assumed it was a multiplier

Idk what itd be multiplying now that i think about it

[light knoll]

how def works, is that every point of atk the enemy has is one dice roll
if that soft atk point is covered by one defense (or breakthrough, which is your defense on the offense), then the chances will be 0.1. for every atk point that isn't covered by def/breakthrough, the chances are 0.4

so if you have 150 atk and the enemy has 100 def, 100 dice rolls will have 0.1 chance and 50 dice rolls will have 0.4 chance

[serene karma]

Basically every point of attack that exceeds enemy defense/brk will cause 4x more damage

Called critting

Also means that any brk/def more than enemy attack is useless

[visual yacht]

Thats made hoi a whole new game again

Ive ALWAYS just opted for defence multipliers in every decision....

[light knoll]

yeah, when you have a choice between equal amounts, always take atk

[violet bramble]

hey kinda stuck

[cold bloom]

Did you unpause for a sec?

Maybe it doesnt count it when they are still deploying

[violet bramble]

iv been playing

i think im winning

still says 7 lol

[light knoll]

you're on the wrong region

it says danakil

which is the northeastern one

[carmine pier]

so my org is low but i dont know how to get it higher, since my templates are saying it should be around 68

i havent played the game too much so im not sure what to do about this

i am also out of fuel but i cant seem to get more

[hoary glen]

You need more Supply. Move away half the Divs in the north. Try to double motorize the supply. Also shouldn't you annex aussa by now?

[hoary glen]

You are out of supply then. Move to a supply zone/ increase supply throughput

Same issue with your fuel

[carmine pier]

should i upgrade my rails instead?

[hoary glen]

If your supply hub is using 25/25 or whatever cap you have, yes. Also if you are out of supply in single tiles, although more infra might fix that.

It's very situational

Send screenshots from your supply map mode and I can help you mor r

[carmine pier]

can you briefly explain supply for me pls

this is where the main issues are

i have no idea whats happening and im clueless

i havent learnt how to do supply yet either, this is my first time

i picked germany because i have access to more civs and can build more since i needed to learn

[hoary glen]

Every unit has supply need. Every tile has a supply value, cities have more supply than a mountain. Supply hubs distribute supply radially around them. There is a total supply a huh provides and a supply per tile. Both are not equal. There is more supply the close you are to a hub.

[carmine pier]

should i put hubs at the front lines?

[hoary glen]

You're taking attrition bc of the training, not supply

[carmine pier]

OHH

haha back to 77 org

thank you so much

[hoary glen]

Also don't build supply hubs in Europe ever. Infinite supply region.

[carmine pier]

what about my fuel though?

[hoary glen]

Unless you're in like russia trying to invade

[carmine pier]

ill bear that in mind but when i played as finland i low key needed supply

[hoary glen]

Show your army deployment tab pls

[carmine pier]

so i just defended the russians and sat there

[carmine pier]

which ones that again

[hoary glen]

Where you make divs

[carmine pier]

recruitment you mean?

the templates?

[hoary glen]

Yeah

No

[light knoll]

do note that railways do NOT bring you supply. they only connect between supply hubs

[hoary glen]

Just that tab

[light knoll]

so making a railway between the supply hub to a tile with bad supply does nothing

[hoary glen]

Or like hover you're fuel at the top of the screen and show that tooltip

[carmine pier]

fuel?

[hoary glen]

So you can see your daily gain is 970, but you use 2400 per day. You are out of stockpile, so you have no fuel left

You can fix this by importing more fuel with trade or training less units

[carmine pier]

i have reached 50 which is what i need for anschluss so should i stop?

[hoary glen]

Especially training air and Navy beyond them being regular is not needed

[hoary glen]

You don't need to train for anschluss, just deploy Divs for that. Training is for gaining army XP.

Although you rather want to send volunteers bc they gain a lot more

You could also train your army, but exclude your Tanks and Mot, so you don't use fuel

Or get rid of them bc they are terrible Divs anyway

[carmine pier]

should i just be producing inf and arty?

i was told 9:1 is good for division

[hoary glen]

For anschluss just guns

[carmine pier]

okay

[hoary glen]

Whoever did that doesn't know the game

[carmine pier]

i looked it up