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thats what im doing
ok
how do I defend the north properly then
they just spam their entire army north and breakthrough
with max fort level and anti air
wut the hellie
you don't build forts
lvl 3 max maybe
you hold the vP on the crossing
and you hold urtecht vp + the regular tiles of amsterdam (few divs there), rottherdam (few divs too), breda and eidhoven (lots of divs)
you micro your units too, no automatic distribution
estonia?
no lithuania
add support engineers to your units once you can afford it
i mean latvia
how did you get the 12
they start with like 48 d500 french planes
ohh latvia makes sense
no ik the 360
im talking about the 12
360 uk early planes is always baltics
i guessed wrong between latvia and estonia im sorry 😔
aight
I'll just thin out the south and try to put the needed divisions north
also does adding medium tank aa with full armour still work?
or has the recent patches just killed that entirely
doesn't work much anymore since a long time
if you do so just use a medium SPG
this but with max armor ticks and radio istead of easy maintenance
i mean it still works
but your stats are bad
yeah I already won once using these
I can't lie they literally feel like cheating
thats why I was trying runs without these
but yeah the other strategies didn't work best
many strong strats
is this casualty ratio sustainable?
I don't like spacemarines armormemes either
with ned it's easy enough to turtle up and make special forces instead
don't forget, only builds mils since day 1
i did use a last stand order once which i wont have to do again
maybe some static AA before war
like 3k came from that it hink
yeah
don't worry I am not a new player
I never civ greed
yeah, avoid doing that except for emergencies or if you're using big ass divs
francis have you played every nation
almost, probably
it was emergancy
I try them
but there's never enough time for them to get completed
to not get blitzkireged on
haven't played most of south america
as trinidad and tobago how do i beat the US of A
just do lvl 3 on amsterdam to prevent stratbomb
i need to theorycraft
bruh
yup
thats always the priority
I'd say cap a small country, then a bigger one etc until you can field enough manpower
liv told me to do it but i have not been locked in
they dont get formables or ticking xp
so its a bit bad
should i just wait for barb
very historical
i am sustaining the casualty ratio
that's good, did the soviets never get poland ?
oh you got pskov, that's huge
yes
true, I bow to the tactician
i mean its against ai doesnt rly say much tbh
don't need to push out too far, the point is making them starve on the line
theyve stopped attacking
so my plan is
no naval invasion attempt ? from the soviets
no
lucky you
then attack
Guys I need Help On TNO map
when I did the baltic achievement I was getting harassed
i have reserves in training
which one?
head to TNO discord
the thign where you need all costal baltic states
And i did the "gonna be lit" one as well
oh this one
went for poland annexion, then baltic, germany couldn't do danzig or war (poland didn't exist) and sov kept naval invading me
i wasnt even going for any achievemtn
i just wanted to suffer
but now that you mention it
im gonna dew it
actually no
i have to kill sov and ger
tip :
lithuania
go down the path to annex poland as monarchy
asap do agency and get spied to prepare collabs on soviets
give memel to germany and annex poland around mid 38
kill baltics before that yo should be able to
kill sov
then war germany, start justifying on finland, sweden, denmark and norway once you're about to cap ger and join the allies once you have started the justifications, kill germany
then dec on each minor one after another without worriying about allies (call them in each time to prevent kicking)
uh one lil problem
since when are monarchies fascist
except for cossack poland
you aren't
non aligned can collab
only democracies cannot
im sure you couldnt
I did
i tried colab as aragon
no workie workie
@dusty sandal do you have a good ranger template
im gonna go on the offensive now
support arty if you went assault infantry doctrine, otherwise use superheavy howitzer with its doctrine ideally
recon rangers instead of light tank recon if you can't afford it
the regular engineers are fine if you can't afford armored too
right
because lithuania is the worlds industrial powerhouse
and has a land research facility
you should always build one
and also has 5 research slots
I do mine day 1 to get brk points early on
eh ig
flame tanks are a must-have for attack divs
and it's especially true for infantry because you need all the breakthrough you can get and flame tanks + light tank recon give you A LOT with the assault inf doctrine
nope
ok
marines ar eonly good at landing and clearing marshes, you won't need that
right definetly no marshes
there are some, you just go around them
encircle, then swipe it
always have another perspectrive
veliki luky, if taken, ruins their supply there, you can move up north without worrying about counterattacks and encricle the whole coast
once it's done, you have an easy hold
motorize your supply lines
well, you better start ahah
w drawing skills
don't forget about planning bonus
ah yes my 30 percent planning bonus is gonna do so much
iam not gonna plan
because
30% more stats
iam gonna do military buildup first
it's huge
i have to reorganize my generals
plus i dont have enough divs to attack and hold
the south
i cant afford my whole army attacking
im gonna get these guys to lvl 3
then attack
otherwise, what you can do, is forget the north for now, pull back there and go south until you have trucks
head for minsk, wilno and grodno if you can, pocket them in the plains, then either pull back and repeat or go down to germany's border to encircle bialstock
concentrate troops for offensives and micro manually
im not gonna go south
snipe supply hubs and cut important railways
reason one they have good supply
reason 2
i want germany to capture that with barb
also by the looks of things you might be able to make a mad dash for vitbsk on the dnieper
the more theyre fighting the garman the less theyre fighting me
i most certainly could
considering its that template
the beefy one
and theyre veterans
well some of them
but the thing is
im gonna get counterattacked
and i cant hold that
you need to aim for small encirclements then
easier ones are around narva
3 tiles to encircle
broski
kill, rince repeat
im using default inf
they can push underequipped divs that can't fill the combat width
what are you expecting
you just need to micro, use planning bonus
i can push them yes
i cant encircle them
instead
ill get encircled
yes you can
planning bonus, micro, pin when they move out
because infite soviet divisions
the only thing that can save me then is karl marx portrait
im gonna try to get some railway cannons
yellow and red are possible easy encirclements
blue are pinning attacks if the enemy moves while you're about to get the encirclement
very easy to do
im the opposite and love civ greeding
that is every new players past time
i also love to civ greed
okay it depends on the nation
it really depends on how much micro you are willing to do
i dont civ greed on a major
when germany decalres you can just battleplan them
or
you want to do a lot of small encirclemetns
tf u mean when ger declares?
so their division count is down
i gave the memel
on soviet?
I mostly play countries neighbouring germany
So no civ greed for me
then after you kill enough soviet division you can battleplan them
you can annex soviet before germany declare on them
if you are willing to cheese, fallback into your own land while holding the supply hubs
ya knmow what
im gonna make some mechanized
its been a while since i played the baltics
make division
..?
get as much manpower as you could and research guns
nonaligned is a lot more difficult now that paradox nuked desperate defense
but fascist/communist should still be fine
yes a whole 5.6m thats so much
Definitely gonna do a lot
enough to kill soviet
if you are communist you should def not complain
why did u go fascist
and abandon Karl marx portrait
and why is your army so small
marx portrait is useless
comapred to your existing manpower pool
communist already give you more than enough
army is small because it's all 30 width
im not complaining about 1 battalion every fortnight
you can go service by requirement before war
hell naw
holy soviet casualties
no garrisons moment
this is why you dont wanna run out of oquipment/manpower
what country are you lol
lithuania that unified the baltic
I have a fleet as italy and i have to control the gulf between france and spain. I am allied with spain so i can use their ports but when i try putting any naval mission my fleet just goes back to italy. The gulf is covered with red stripes saying i cant access it even if i am literally there. Is there something i can do to be able to do naval missions there?
Hey guys im looking to get hoi4. Wheres the best place to buy it from.
Steam
I was looking at the prices on steam and its looking horror
Wait for a sale
Its like around 10€ or whatever currency you have
Ok thanks so much
Nvm found the way
How do I get Ethiopia to surrender as Italy?
take addis adeba ad 4 other victory points
hello
u_se your bombers with close air support mission, delete most of you mainland units to reinforce the one sin ethiopia,
can i make that war factories produce "dobra konsumpcyjkne" instead civilian ones?
but they always get a government in exile and the war never ends
these are factories you can't use
change your economic law to have a lower base of factories assigned to it
additionally, as germany, read your focuses and national spirits as you start with MEFO bills which increase that number of factories monthly and you have to choose an economic path about it
you need to kill them faster
they are able to go in exile if you don't kill them by may iirc
lf bb design that its closest to shbb design (I dont want to wait so much till I get shhb)
2 heavy guns, everything else AA and dual purpose as secondary
1936 or nothing btw, you won't get 1940 soon enough
gotcha
can i trade somehow changing for exampel steel for civilian factories?
trade laws force a part of your resources to be exported
these resources can be bought by other countries, 8 resource for a single civilian factory
you can do the same if you need to import something
I highly suggest you watch paradox official beginner's guide though before anything
i do not know english well
there are probably subtitles or tutorial in your language although it will be hard to find reliable ones
Don't worry too much about english level, I'm no native speaker either and I actually learned a lot through hoi, I'm sure you will too
cha gpt suggested me how to learn hoi4 without watch tutorias
how can i sell?
i wanna civilain factories for steel
damn
you already have 75 steel up for export, so the axis-aligned ai should be buying from you already
I'm gonna give you two big advice
1 - AIs are abysmal dogshit at the game, they take their advice from old and generally awfully bad reddit threads by the looks of things and are beyond useless at troubleshooting except for extremely simple things that didn't change in years
2 - best way to find your way around the game is reading extensively : read statistcs, their description, focus trees and what they do, technologies and what they mean etc. Read the tooltips, see something red ? probably a bad thing, put your cursor on it and read what it says
now, to simplify the reading part, there are tutorials here and there but there's only so many that are good
doesnt this mean "from trade"? or am i wrong. idk if u would be getting 15 from trade tho
what year is it? people will buy from you eventually
this is what's reserved for export, it's available for purchase by anyone, but not everyone will buy from you
1937
ye
i go break after 2 hours
i hope i can learn basics within 30 hours and have fun of game
for SP Germany players how many battalions you guys usually have by 1942
I usually fill a field marshal and call it on most countries
seems like i'm on par then
is it possible?
batallions or divisions
basics? maybe, anything in depth without tutorials will take a while
battalions
no idea, how do u even see batallions lol
thats the point of this game
and how do i learn it
by testing everything
in what gamemode
does that really work
basically you would want to start on the most easiest lvl, and then try to pres F1 F2 F3 F4 F5
youll see a lot of icons
read them
ok
here's hotkeys.
shift + Q
shift + W
ok thanks
By playing the game Mr President
how should i push here? ive alrady taken way too long but i dont really know what im doing, for next run
did you guys learn it like that?
im meant to have already killed them like 3 months ago
Watch YouTube videos to learn the basics doesn’t have to be guides just videos of ppl playing the game then you will learn
Yes, i learned navy in my first 100 hours and im still learning air and groud at 1000+ hours
oh ok
concentrate your attacks, let them roam free in the north, attack from the south and avoid mountains
you should restart btw, it's way too late now
ah okay thanks
i did
i declared as soon as possible
i waas told to get an encirclement in the desert andthat was successful, and i was able to get 1 division in the north, but got stuck around trhe mountains for a long time
use the north to run around and encircle at first, then move down, let the ai push in useless desert while you punsh through the hills and go take the capital and VPs behind
then you use a few units to snake the vps in desert
right that makes sense
if you get stuck you retreat, let the ai push and come back
you don't attack any mountain except to kill pockets, if it's undefended or to pin enemy units
isnt it all mountain there though?
ah ig just the bottom
right ill try again in a bit, thanks for the help
what is thois reource i receive?
best starter dlc/first dlc to buy?
batlle for boshorpus dlc
I’d get bba or gdr or nsb
NSB
Infantry equipment
Means you are in a defecit
Arms Against tyranny
No Step Back
the other ones are meh at best
does anyone know ay good infantry division designs for holding the line and small offensives i usually use 9 infatry and 2 artillery but i dont think its really that good also if someone has a good light tank and medium tank division for offensives that would be great.
9inf, support arty, support AA
tank : (add support aa to the template)
how can i make "stabilziacja' better?
national focuses, advisors, decisions
am i tripping or do u need NSB for tank designing
yes
aaaahhhhhhhhh
duct national socialist movement
the higher stability the less it requires
some focuses might give more reduction and economy laws
as Napoleon France should i go full light tanks, full air (cas, basic small air frame ) or a bit of both ?
no
basic airframe is pretty bad
same for light tank
napoleon france is pretty boring
if you build around killing uk the game is basically over when you capitulate them
Does anyone play the game on Mac?
and ?
I'am having fun in it so far
it is better when + or - ?
Lower is better
how is counted "wszystkie pomnożone czynniki"?
and why it says "zakup jugosłowiańskich samolotów" when i didint buy any jugoslavian planes
Youre selling to them I assume
its an event you can get
how this is calculated
there is a base
which is the podstawowe oczekiwania
in your current economy law it's 20%
then, this number is multiplied with the product of all the multipiers
which is (100% - 10%) * (100% - 15%) * (100% + 75%) * (100% - 18.4%) = 109%
so your final factor is 20% * 109% = 21%
this is an event where yugo buys planes from you
but it is better to have higher final result or lower?
21% means that you need to pay 21% of the total number factory
as consumer goods civilian factory
basically civilian factory that you can't use
so you want it to be lower
oh that's an event where you get to sell planes to yugoslavia in exchange for a consumer goods factor reduction
guys i just started playing italy im a complete beginner i just took all of ethiopia and im trying to bring my army back to italy how do i do that
and there's this also
your construction speed and how many civs you have are different things, you can have 1 or 1000 civs and each civ builds at the same speed. You're capped at 15 civs per construction project
ok i get to udnerstand
how u checked it?
as mentioned earlier
dont meat grind in the mountains. Let them push out and then pocket them to die in the mongolian steppes
If youre fascist, puppets give industry by default which is nice, if youre not, they dont, and you might wanna release states without industry to steal, while building compliance on ones with it
If you got a nation with many states you probably wanna have it as a puppet regardless because you can just build in them to lower the puppet tier
You could do that with smaller nations but it becomes a chore
french union success is predetermined in game start right
so taking the focus twice will have the same regions say yes/no and it won't change
What are the other ways to lover the resistance level without changing the law and doing the Reichskommissariats puppets as germany? I also have road to 56 thanks.
idk if rt56 change ms anything about it, but generally you can just ignore resistance
it doesn't matter
you do collabs on important nations
which helps
Soviets obviously always 3 collabs, France, Poland also 3 collabs usually, Belgium, Netherlands 1-2 Collabs
Im adding transport planes but its still saying 1 more
if you don't have collabs on a nation, and you don't plan to be playing for too long (over like 3 years since you take it), have it on harsh quotas, which both give you factories and lower resistance
are the planes deployed yet
they could be not deployed
it takes a bit of time
how do I see if they are deployed
from what I can see they are all deployed
how many paratroopers do you have in the order
13
uh, in a single order? or multiple?
How make mediums that arent spgs or tds with stats💔
just copy your spg or td design but not assign the specialized role
although idk why you would want that
it's basically the same design, just with less stats. There's no point other than to nerf yourself
ok, i am after around 5 hours of gameplay
I udnerstand how works civilian factories, decisions, trees
what's next?
when am i meant to beat this war by? it seems basically impossible to beat it before 1937. and im not close to beating it in soon
i encircled 3 divisions in the desert and north then tried concentrating in the hills but its still such a slog to push anywhere
understand how production and production efficiency works
i think its just a case of hitting my head against the wall until soviet china works for me but a lot of the time im not even sure why what ive done hasnt worked
i thought civilian difficulty would be easy lmao
well
do note the strength bars
because you as communist china begin with production efficiency and the other chinese states (including china itself) don't
those Shanxi troops have no equipment and thus no strength
yeah they seem pretty week but because of the terrain and entrenchment they dont seem to budge very much at all, so imnot sure how im meant to get them by 1937 when it seems like im bound totake an extra 6 months past that
run wild in the desert
keep pushing the south
it's about getting the AI to panic
The ai can panic?
And like, even when i get 4 divisions hitting 1 division it still takes weeks to move it
it's a big word but they'll shuffle divisions around for no reasons when they get encircled
Ah okay
Basically you want to have more than 75% reliability. Instaed of spending 11 hummers you can spend 9/10 putting some thing on +10 rel. Also for usual med. tank at least 5 armor and 6 eng
learn aviation, the most important part btw
So like I’m at war with the allies (im Italy and have a balken +spain and Portugal allies) I have all my fronts covered but I forgot swis was in the war should I pull my soldiers out of Syria and put them on the Swis front cause I’m out of divisons.
reli doesn't matter much if you don't smash your head in desert, deep snow mountains, marshes or no supply areas (where tanks literally don't work anymore because fuel) which isn't really difficult to do
Still matters because that tanks will be your attacking div. Also during the fight for benilux/early barbarossa your tanks will be smashing billions of infantry,so - if you dont want to lose 500 tanks in a week,keep rel on 80%
also, armor doesn't matter on a mechanized div because AI cannot pierce it anyway
and you have enough breakthrough
speed is up to your liking though
you lose tank because of reli only when you take attrition
most extreme attrition settings are when you're doing something wrong, stupid or both (like running out of fuel)
the little attrition you get doesn't matter if you smash the enemy faster
You'll lose more tanks from combat if less stats but more reli than more stats and less reli
I know my stuff and the people that made these designs do too, they even got it pinned in this channel so yeah
good morning (morning as in the time i woke)
the SPG is the current best design you can get in singleplayer in term of cost-stat ratio
you can adjust speed and engine and all but that's just design choice, doesn't make it better really. The raw stats are what's make it OP against AI
about to go to bed, having a hoi argument right before
question about germany for hoi4 mp,
so you spamm heavy tanks ok
and you do the cheap tank to convert it later ok
for france: do you convert the convertable tank or just change the blueprint to be the tank that you want for france? and is it the heavy cannon 1 or heavy cannon 2 for france? with radio 2 I assume?
and for soviets you want the fully maxxed heavy tank on war start already?
Do you jsut make one line of heav ytanks and justr swap that around or multiple to stakc it up
for france, you do the same as germany would, you build "converts" that are cheap and use no tech or MIO
you produce it with almost all mils, you keep 2 on guns, 5 if you want to try and hold (advised against if germany knows what they do and commonwealth isn't allowed to join in the battle of france), one on aa, one on arty and one on support eq. all future mils go in converts
you rush the AT 1940 tech to get heavy canon 2, get the two armor and engine techs, radio 2 as well
then you put 14 armor clicks, 14 engine clicks, radio 2, heavy canon, 2 and MIO, change the designation to heavy Tank Destroyer and start producing it. Obviously, everything else must be the same as the convert (turret, engine, suspension, chassis and the 3 secondary canons), you decommission the old convert to allow conversion, create a new production line for the final chassis and select the convert setting on the line
(the stats are with gun 3 and heavy canon 3 but it's the same template if you try to hold france)
if you have UK air cover
you get the mech license from canada early on, put 10 mils on it and never touch it again but to swap the canadian mech for your own once you get it (35% more factory output)
how do you get the license
just request it?
convert would look like this
0 on both asrmor and engine?
yup, in MP canada is almost always played
if it's not, you use camels instead of mech for battle of france
you only put them for the final conversion
which would look something like this
and for france
it would just be
heavy cannon 2
radio 2
as much engine and armor as u can
y?
but u keep this all just on one line
yup
you either do "continuous conversion" where you keep producing the convert "base" (this one #ask-for-help-here message) or, as it's often banned and since it's less effective now, you just produce only the final chassis once you have it and have converted every base you had
if it's no sweaty game and you aren't into excels, I recommend to just swap everything on the final chassis once you get it, click the convert button and never worry about it ever again
just DO NOT forget to unitck this or it'll convert chassis for each MIO upgrade, wasting a TON of ic
and for the france war you just produce normally not convert?
oh didnt know the untick thing
rel does matter a bit after 1.17
in mp people are switching to the later chassis for barb because of the rel change
produce convert chassis until you have the tech to create the real chassis (this one #ask-for-help-here message. You need the 2 radio techs, 1940 AT OR AA, and the 2 armor and engine techs. Don't forget to make it a tank destroyer)
once you have the real chassis, put everything on it and start converting, once it's done converting it will build new tanks
Haven't seen any of it, is it really that common ?
from what i know it is the meta yeah
I only remmeber a troll build on USA recently with 1943 heavies armor memes for some reason but nothing about chassis change
not recently at least
maybe french community is late on meta ?
depends on the players
improved heavy is a thing for germany
yeah so radio 2 heavcy cannon 2 14 engine armor
for france
but do you use conversion or just produce them normally
but on sov u still take the same and france doesn’t care aswell
main issue is barb front, there your reliability actually matters
and improved ger gets 70 relia in template while their dday tanks don’t get pierced by marines
well damn, maybe I don't know my stuff
its like a niche thing and not everyone doing it
depends really on ger main
but it’s definitely an option
this? :/
you first produce the base chassis to get an early stockpile of easily-convertible tanks
once you have the final chassis, with all required techs, you only produce that one with which you start off by converting the old base chassis into this newer, fully teched, chassis
so you use infantry only for france?
they are?
what
1- you design a base chassi with no tech (#ask-for-help-here message)
2 - you produce it
3 - once you have the tech, you produce the new design instead of the old one and decommission the old heavy tank chassis (#ask-for-help-here message)
4 - on the production line of said design, you click the convert icon so that it converts the old, now decommissionned chassis, into the new ones with all techs
5 - once there is no more chassis to convert, the line will start producing new tank destroyers from scratch
???
I can't explain it better than that
im asking if you use a worse earlier heavy tank
for france
or do you genuinely just infantry push france
kind of
HC2 isnt that bad
but you dont use HC1
yeah rush hc2 and use it for a heavy tank for france
you don't use worse heavy tanks
you build dogshit tanks to convert into good tanks which are then used to push
in MP you won't push shit with inf
you can turtle and cycle, especially if UK gives you air but you won't be able to push
read what clown said above^
ok so:
make convertible tank
then rush armor 2 engine 2 anti tank cannon 2,
switch the convertible tank with the heavy tank -> td thing, use conversion
after france swap back to vonertible, then get cannon 3 radio 3 etc and then do same thing but this is for soviet war
like this yes?
wouldnt it be better to add the other stuff later as well?
yes
no
u want ur convert tank that u produce to be as similar as possible to the final tank
while staying as cheap as possible
removing modules like extra guns just makes it less like the final, especially as those modules won’t get changed or upgraded in the final design anyway
as you can see the only parts that aren’t added are stuff like armor, radio or the main gun, which changes in the final design
clown 🥀
okay i read it that makes sense
yeah same
and for antitank 3 you get the 2 year reduction national focus yes? and have it be ready before soviet war to convert heavy tanks quickly
yes
you also have a focus as germany that gives u faster conversion speed
its in the army tree
is there any certain amount of divisions that i can orientate myself on for france war and soviet war? I know about splitting the tank divs one for barb and one for soviets
also how do you unlock that last line in the line batallion things for the div templates?
for france and africa later usually 4-6tanks are enough, if france is a player and does mainland hold u need more than they have
for barb and dday u need 70-90 in a good lobby
70
bruh
how to get the manpower
u just make very little infantry? or the minors/italy are doing that
ur starting mapower is enough for 70 tanks
ger doesn’t do inf besides for poland and ai countries
romania and hungary should do inf
u do 40-80 16w for 39 and later on u can delete them
makes sense why the templates are the way they are then
for barb and dday u don’t do inf
unless yo that your minors wont make any and are bad
oh ye
about the guide u sent me
u rush anschluss and put 28 mils on infantry weapons
if u can’t trust ur minors to make inf u make it urself
what unit do u produce? make a 2 width infantry and spamm it?
40-50 mils on guns enough
this anschluss guide is for rb, rb changes the rules and makes it actually harder
in vanilla 21-23 mils on guns should be enough
rb?
and just spam divs out yes
mp server
oh so their mod increases the requirement
yes
so idont have to lose all the prod efficiency
nice
2 width infantry then? for 5 army xp?
yes unless something got changed
exactly
for the other requirements like czech u just convert ur 2ws into the largest division u have with eq turned off
that will make u able to do the other focuses after anschluss aswell
yeah i did that
alright good
yeah because those requirements are modded out in our mod
Help pls
its like kinda nothingburger
like what is the Hs. 126, mittlerer traktor xd the GER is cas ?o
hs. 126 is a spy plane
and mittlere tracktor is a medium convert tank to grind daimler benz
its a mod thing i assume? cuz its not even being researched the recon camera
ger starts with it
in vanilla aswell
in the mod only? not invanilla
u should have it as ger
im gonna recheck but im 99% sure its not there
go to a medium airframe and look at modules
theres something called similar
yeah its not there
yes add 2 engine 2
u can add more range modules
this...?
yeah
its the italian fighter
u don’t have to really produce it, only real reason to make air as ger is to intercept strat bombing and cas for barb
ah so its licensed
yes
and whats the pooint of the mittlerer traktor? just for daimler benz? whats the template xd do u convert it later on to anything like flame thrower or such
Russ still takes the flight even when I get the thing for he doesn’t take it
and what are SPGs for...?
depends on the lobbies, in our its the td for dday wall inland mechs, in worse lobbies u can just make them into spgs to click infantry and yes its main purpose is to grind daimler
infantry
any infantry type division gets nuked by them
so td for tanks and spgs for infantry
so in worse lobbies they do pretty good
basically yeah
but u wanna produc eboth
so u make a medium tank destroyer out of it? with convert thing later?
As long as you can deal more damage than the enemy you should win
yes the mittlere tracktors are the spgs converts
Eventually, may take a few years
this?
yeah either medium tank destroyers or spgs
in your case I would recommend spgs
as you don’t really have a need for the medium tank destroyers
yes
yes
and then just as medium tank not artillery and do the swap thing
whats the main weapon
exactly
i see
germany is
alot
oh also this guide tells to go grand battleplan as germany...?
its the country with most inputs
yes
oh so germany is hardest
gbp was always the thing for germany
sfp now was also an option after new doctrines
oh also one last question
this research table
the slot 5
germany starts with 4 slots
so this is a bit confusing
you get 5th slot from a focus
what it means is just as soon as u get 5th slot u do the 5th slot thing
thats when u research basic med? (basic medium tank??)
yes
exactly
ofc this is the gemany players preference
I don’t research basic med as example
and why is heavy bomb locks researched but nothing else for planes not even the 1940 plane
heavy bomb locks is for cas
but generally this block is standard no?
yes
yeah but on the 1936 plane then ?
yeah theres like exploits where u can get the airframe without having to research it
but its banned
he prob didn’t update all of it
for cas just design a cheap cas
u don’t have to research heavy bomb locks
if u want it let italy do it
np
oh btw
whats the meta for ships? what ships to build as japan, uk, germany? or generally
is this a good division for invading italy in 1938?
whats the difference between left clicking when making a frontline and shift clicking
its saying i have a modified save when i dont?
normally each general gets a preassigned part of the frontline where only their troops sit, with shift click all generals distribute their troops evenly over the entire field marshall front
is multiple assign front lines better or just 1
Usually with shift is nicer because when the front expands/shrinks it keeps distribution consistent, only downside is that it becomes less easy to prioritize one part of the line by making a general's assigned area especially short
I am struggling to understand this
For exmaple the Barbossa front
Should I have like 3-4 Field Marshal groups
probably 2 if you got sufficient units
and those orders drawn with shift+right click to assign each field marshall an area
How many armies in each Group?
5
Okay thank you
shift always better cuz you can always make seperate general orders silly
gun 1 = bad
otherwise good
What does shift do?
I am new
workable
what do you mean?
your stats are very low because you have not researched the better gun
but it's fine just get it
makes frontline assign divs based on where the units are rather than artifcial based on generals
alright, how would you improve it?
gun, more mountaineer
research 1939 gun asap
you should always try to get gun techs (not top row, only the gun themselves) as early as possible, if you have any research bonuses for it, use them smartly
most countries have some research bonuses for infantry weapons in their tree
i love better gums doubling your damage, that's exactly how it worked irl :true:
Then a 50%
Then a 25%
irl gun uogrades didnt do a lot lol
yeah 
it mostly just made it cheaper
no, germany largely used bolt action
?
I think supply represents ammo well
can someone who has a bunch of hours share whats their go to div. early-mid game , thats incredibly OP i meant 🙂
thanks
similar to late game? you can rush getting the stuff in time typically
as a new player you dont know how to/have bad eco so you struggle
also getting good generals/combat modifiers is huge
can anyone DM me division templates because I'm new to the game and was told that is probably my issue for not winning wars. I can't do breakthroughs even if I outnumber the enemy by a lot
1000 hours in , i was just wondering whats the meta now 🙂 thank you anyway
this is more likely the issue
templates help? but hardly matter overall
yup i can not figure out the meta template RN and support divs
youll just see your stats go up because good division designs have good terrain modifiers
Have you checked pins?
stuff like this is good
Thanks will try it thank you so much
In early game you aren't researching field hospitals
is there any mods with the current world map?
not 2026
theres 2020 though
especially tfr and millenium dawn
is the second rangers optimized for mountains or does it have the snow upgrade
i froggot
Playing as UK...
Is there any value to building Static AA in Southern England to fight off The Blitz?
Static AA only affects incoming Strat Bombers, right?
it shouldnt affect CAS but it should vs logi strikes
tho why dont you have air superiority
Im just starting a new game, so it's still January 1936.
wWanted to make sure I'm not wasting production on AA guns that don't do anything
If I recall correctly... 4 armor on Tanks and 2 armore on ships is basically more than the AI can penetrate. Is that correct?
no
armor on tanks is silly
if you have up to 30 armor the ai will prioritize researching AT less
which is like a nothingburger imo
but if you do 5 armor clicks it costs 1 more steel
realistically you do armor clicks for break and not for armor value anyway
and since ai doesnt really do much damage, you dont need a lot of break
so typically 4 clicks are fine? but it depends on how much break you need really
armor is irrelevant stat
like if you do special forces with tank youd want a lot of break on your 1 batallion for example
I think I understand.
I should have been more clear. I was referring to "Armor" in the design section, rather than the "Armor" combat stat
itsthe same thing
Sounds like you're saying if you have 30 Armor (Combat Stat) then you're fine
if anything id rather have the ai make more AT
because they wont use it effectively and have less units out
probably due to combat modifiers
terrain debuffs, bad general, red air, cas
Fair
small divisions with no crit damage
tanks are hard to learn and its hardly rewarding compared to using special forces
I do love my Airborne, lol
i don't get what's so hard with building tanks, just build spg with maxxed out soft attack and throw 10 of them in a 36 width division. How is that confusing?
Why hard attack on ship is bad? I understand the logic of kill all screen, but isn't that heavy damaged capital will take longer to repair and make enemy retreat sooner?
Quick question. Can an outdated GPU cause severe stuttering every in-game hour? I had 2 save files I've now deleted which were unplayable around 1938-9 cause the game legit stuttered and lagged every hour. Downgrading the graphics or even moving it from the thumbdrive into an internal drive didn't help.
Games legit unplayable when that happens
Possible
What gpu?
Are drivers updated
Do u play any other games?
Because big hit profile
Means less damage
If u manage to kill all screen the capitals are essentially gone
combat modifier makes them good
for ic effectiveness inf better otherwise
NIVIDIA RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Game has ran perfectly on my old laptop which had a weaker one
Yes, just updated it
Yes, EU4/5, CS 1 and 2, Stellaris, HD2, and etc to name a few
All run well.
can someone teach me how to play air and navy please
So having more light cruisers with a lot of light attacks is what’s best to produce ? What’s purpose of capital ships then ?
everytime i play i get declared on by the uk and i cant invade them
build more than your enemy and win
and use everything together
it's literally all that navy and air is
I dont know how to operate it
Idk how paratroop or navy invade
that's a different thing
Or how air superiority works
Its part of the same category tho
just put your plane on air superiority mission
well both are part of oprating the army...
navy and air itself are simpler
Also i need help with figuring out how to make it so that my soldiers keep their weapons and stuff
wdym
Every time i try to invade the ussr they run out of equipment before i even reach kiev or stalingrad
build equipment
then
like if you have 30 factory on gun
it would probably run out
then put 100
also make collaboration government on everything you conquer and put the land on local police if you have compliance
military governor is a very good way to lose guns
everything really
very bad occupation law
I use martial law very often
the best route for Portugal
Either local or liberated workers
Yes exactly
Max armor cls were meta
Idk if the naval update changed that
Do this
torp dds > cls > light attack dds > torp dds
afaik la dds are meta now
Did they fix surface torp
meta vs torp dds
ai usually does light attack dd build
kind of
It seems to be working better now on a new save after updating the drive. But if happens again, I'll try
Thanks
wdym?
torp wasnt changed
destroyers were tho
?
I have a question
Im a noob and play as britan
How can I get my navy in the Mediterranean sea?
I wanna naval inavde Italy from northafrica
ctrl+right click on the alexandria port or malta port
doing it sets the port as the navy's home port
= navy will go there for repairs and range center is set there
Real?
and south africa
Oh
oh ahhhh Thanks
u can do it with any port btw
thats the meta
its like the famous game 'rock paper scissors'
where rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, but paper beats rock
You mean scissors paper rock? /ragebait
and its similar to this famous game!
where you can pick rock (cl) paper (torp dd) or scissors (light attack dd)
perfect
and if you do one of the builds it will beat another one of the possible best naval builds!
I always thought light cruisers were king
theyre good
What about the battleships ?
Also aren’t shbb like unsinkable or something
no
they pretty much are against the I
ai*
theyll get damaged and repair for 20 years vs ai
if you dont oneshot their fleet that is
if you want?
visibility buffs are good and destroyers get a lot
submarines have always been bad
but they work against ai because ai cant put naval bombers and fighters over seazones
like they can but not effectively or targetted at submarines
Do they make asw?
they make destroyers but destroyers dont work
In sp if you have the ic build cls because they have more range
Use fleet submarines with maxed out visibility buffs, otherwise subs are just for convoy raiding. Remember to set fleet submarines to always engage or else they won't fire torpedoes at surface ships
Hi all. If I take over a country, like I'm UK and I conquer France or Germany, can I release and play as it afterwards?
i left my border with ussr undefended and they declared on my puppet and now i am at war
help what do i do
those orders are from shattedred divisons that are gonna arrive with no org and no planning
what i mean with undefended
uh anyone
help
hello, how long it takes to learn basics of hoi4?
6 or 7 days
holy stats
more like 6-7 months to actually be able to beat ai
in my opnion
what do you consider basics
like using factories and moving units around the map? probably like an hour
problem here
dont do the tutorial
just look up videos the in game tutorial is like really bad
theres pinned messages
ok
I think the paratrooper medal is broken
i spammed like 15 on enemy territories with more than enough transport planes and it still for some reason doesent register
on one paradrop order
Why are you at war with germang
what i shoudl learn next after 5 horus of gameplay?
i understand how civilain factories work, national goals, decisions
why it says "brak produkcji wyposażenia"?
@echo sky
Jestem
Jak masz te ikony duże na lewo od tych migających kolorowych
To tam są różne zakładki
Przestudiuj je sobie dokładniej
Druga od prawej to logistyka
Tam możesz sprawdzić które wyposażenie masz na czerwono i nie produkujesz
Bo nie produkujesz tego, a twoje lotnictwo ma zapotrzebowanie na te samoloty
mhm, a gdzie sprawdzic owo zapotrzebowanie?
już mam opanowane fabryki cywilne, cele, decyzje
na czym teraz sie skupić?
Te duże ikonki druga od prawej , taki notesik
no tak, ale gdzie wycofwać zapotrzebowanie na samoloty?
please take non-english chatting to dms if possible :)
You cant , just produce them and fill the requirments, or ignore it like i do
so focus now on what?
Make tanks and strong army ig, i have only 300 hours in game so im still kinda a noob
ai sucks and is very easy to beat, it all depends on if u have someone teaching you and who it is that teaches u
can i delete somehow all units?
right i did it without someone teaching and it took about that long
at most I watched one bittersteel vid that told me to use sfp for offence
Well, yeah, but why
if that was a few months ago before the doctrine changes it was pretty much wrong
it was like a year ago
ik thats wrong
thats why I mentioned it
yeah lmao
to highlight bittersteels interesting choices when it comes to certain things
most hoi4 youtubers are the kings of spreading misinformation and wrong "meta"
who do you think teaches best actually
or did in the past ig too
Compared to no knowledge about the game at all it’s good
true
i liked shadykobold
idk I dont watch hoi4 ytbers, segl was alright
cool guy
not youtubere like in general
ahhh
probably ppl like inertia, rommel if he likes u, delnar and topazand
delnar is goated
im the best fr
inertia idk we spoke once
rommel idk who he is but hes a nerd