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dusty sandal
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I know because I did exactly that for the achievement where you don't lose any states

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put them at high price, AI still buys it

opaque garden
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thats what im doing

woven cairn
opaque garden
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wut the hellie

dusty sandal
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you micro your units too, no automatic distribution

glacial steeple
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estonia?

opaque garden
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no lithuania

dusty sandal
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add support engineers to your units once you can afford it

opaque garden
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i mean latvia

glacial steeple
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they start with like 48 d500 french planes

opaque garden
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from focus

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i got some planes from uk

glacial steeple
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ohh latvia makes sense

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no ik the 360

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im talking about the 12

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360 uk early planes is always baltics

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i guessed wrong between latvia and estonia im sorry 😔

woven cairn
dusty sandal
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doesn't work much anymore since a long time
if you do so just use a medium SPG

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this but with max armor ticks and radio istead of easy maintenance

glacial steeple
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but your stats are bad

woven cairn
glacial steeple
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many strong strats

opaque garden
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is this casualty ratio sustainable?

dusty sandal
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I don't like spacemarines armormemes either
with ned it's easy enough to turtle up and make special forces instead

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don't forget, only builds mils since day 1

opaque garden
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i did use a last stand order once which i wont have to do again

dusty sandal
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maybe some static AA before war

opaque garden
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like 3k came from that it hink

woven cairn
dusty sandal
glacial steeple
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francis have you played every nation

dusty sandal
woven cairn
opaque garden
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to not get blitzkireged on

dusty sandal
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haven't played most of south america

glacial steeple
dusty sandal
glacial steeple
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i need to theorycraft

woven cairn
dusty sandal
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I'd say cap a small country, then a bigger one etc until you can field enough manpower

glacial steeple
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liv told me to do it but i have not been locked in

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they dont get formables or ticking xp

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so its a bit bad

opaque garden
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should i just wait for barb

lunar spoke
opaque garden
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i am sustaining the casualty ratio

lunar spoke
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you just need helsinki iirc for the war to end

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like hold it for 30 days iirc

dusty sandal
opaque garden
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they did

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you have underetimated me for the last time

dusty sandal
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oh you got pskov, that's huge

opaque garden
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yes

dusty sandal
opaque garden
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i mean its against ai doesnt rly say much tbh

dusty sandal
opaque garden
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so my plan is

dusty sandal
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no naval invasion attempt ? from the soviets

opaque garden
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build up military

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wait for barb

opaque garden
dusty sandal
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lucky you

opaque garden
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then attack

open quartz
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Guys I need Help On TNO map

dusty sandal
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when I did the baltic achievement I was getting harassed

opaque garden
opaque garden
dusty sandal
dusty sandal
opaque garden
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oh this one

dusty sandal
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went for poland annexion, then baltic, germany couldn't do danzig or war (poland didn't exist) and sov kept naval invading me

opaque garden
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i wasnt even going for any achievemtn

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i just wanted to suffer

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but now that you mention it

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im gonna dew it

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actually no

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i have to kill sov and ger

dusty sandal
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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)

opaque garden
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since when are monarchies fascist

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except for cossack poland

dusty sandal
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you aren't

opaque garden
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but how collab

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non aligned

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explain

dusty sandal
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non aligned can collab

opaque garden
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wut

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since when

dusty sandal
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only democracies cannot

opaque garden
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im sure you couldnt

dusty sandal
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I did

opaque garden
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i tried colab as aragon

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no workie workie

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@dusty sandal do you have a good ranger template

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im gonna go on the offensive now

dusty sandal
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the regular engineers are fine if you can't afford armored too

opaque garden
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right

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because lithuania is the worlds industrial powerhouse

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and has a land research facility

dusty sandal
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you should always build one

opaque garden
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and also has 5 research slots

dusty sandal
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I do mine day 1 to get brk points early on

opaque garden
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eh ig

dusty sandal
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flame tanks are a must-have for attack divs

opaque garden
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should i also add marines to my rangers or not?

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because its the soviet union

dusty sandal
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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

opaque garden
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ok

dusty sandal
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marines ar eonly good at landing and clearing marshes, you won't need that

opaque garden
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right definetly no marshes

dusty sandal
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there are some, you just go around them

opaque garden
dusty sandal
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encircle, then swipe it

dusty sandal
opaque garden
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always have another perspectrive

dusty sandal
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veliki luky, if taken, ruins their supply there, you can move up north without worrying about counterattacks and encricle the whole coast

opaque garden
dusty sandal
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once it's done, you have an easy hold

dusty sandal
opaque garden
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right

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because i have so many trucks

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i dont even know what a truck is

dusty sandal
dusty sandal
opaque garden
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w drawing skills

dusty sandal
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don't forget about planning bonus

opaque garden
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ah yes my 30 percent planning bonus is gonna do so much

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iam not gonna plan

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because

dusty sandal
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30% more stats

opaque garden
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iam gonna do military buildup first

dusty sandal
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it's huge

opaque garden
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plus i dont have enough divs to attack and hold

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the south

opaque garden
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im gonna get these guys to lvl 3

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then attack

dusty sandal
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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

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concentrate troops for offensives and micro manually

dusty sandal
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snipe supply hubs and cut important railways

opaque garden
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reason one they have good supply

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reason 2

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i want germany to capture that with barb

dusty sandal
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also by the looks of things you might be able to make a mad dash for vitbsk on the dnieper

opaque garden
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the more theyre fighting the garman the less theyre fighting me

dusty sandal
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that means less territory for you in the end

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A LOT less

opaque garden
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i most certainly could

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considering its that template

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the beefy one

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and theyre veterans

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well some of them

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but the thing is

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im gonna get counterattacked

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and i cant hold that

dusty sandal
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you need to aim for small encirclements then

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easier ones are around narva

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3 tiles to encircle

opaque garden
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broski

dusty sandal
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kill, rince repeat

opaque garden
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im using default inf

dusty sandal
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they can push underequipped divs that can't fill the combat width

opaque garden
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what are you expecting

dusty sandal
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you just need to micro, use planning bonus

opaque garden
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i cant encircle them

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instead

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ill get encircled

dusty sandal
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yes you can
planning bonus, micro, pin when they move out

opaque garden
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because infite soviet divisions

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the only thing that can save me then is karl marx portrait

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im gonna try to get some railway cannons

dusty sandal
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yellow and red are possible easy encirclements
blue are pinning attacks if the enemy moves while you're about to get the encirclement

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very easy to do

keen hemlock
opaque garden
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i also love to civ greed

keen hemlock
pliant condor
keen hemlock
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i dont civ greed on a major

pliant condor
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when germany decalres you can just battleplan them

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or

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you want to do a lot of small encirclemetns

opaque garden
pliant condor
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so their division count is down

opaque garden
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i gave the memel

pliant condor
woven cairn
pliant condor
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you can annex soviet before germany declare on them

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if you are willing to cheese, fallback into your own land while holding the supply hubs

opaque garden
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ya knmow what

pliant condor
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basically create a pocket for soviet to walk in

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then rinse their divs

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repeat

opaque garden
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im gonna make some mechanized

pliant condor
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just make more guns

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and keep mobilizing

keen hemlock
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you could get ideoloigcal loyalty

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too

pliant condor
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just mobilize

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you have enough manpower with baltics cored

keen hemlock
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its been a while since i played the baltics

pliant condor
vestal brook
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im struggling

pliant condor
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make division

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..?

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get as much manpower as you could and research guns

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nonaligned is a lot more difficult now that paradox nuked desperate defense

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but fascist/communist should still be fine

opaque garden
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Definitely gonna do a lot

pliant condor
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if you are communist you should def not complain

opaque garden
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and abandon Karl marx portrait

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and why is your army so small

pliant condor
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comapred to your existing manpower pool

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communist already give you more than enough

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army is small because it's all 30 width

opaque garden
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im not complaining about 1 battalion every fortnight

pliant condor
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you can go service by requirement before war

opaque garden
pliant condor
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and pick desperate defense when you are at war

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it's 15%

opaque garden
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im not doing that

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I have like 15 percent pop without service be requirement

pliant condor
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even better?

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manpower is not an issue

opaque garden
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holy soviet casualties

opaque garden
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oh no

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uprising

glacial steeple
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this is why you dont wanna run out of oquipment/manpower

pure vortex
dusty sandal
ripe badge
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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?

jolly basin
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Hey guys im looking to get hoi4. Wheres the best place to buy it from.

jolly basin
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I was looking at the prices on steam and its looking horror

ripe badge
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Its like around 10€ or whatever currency you have

jolly basin
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Ok thanks so much

lapis wasp
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How do I get Ethiopia to surrender as Italy?

dusty sandal
indigo sapphire
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hello

dusty sandal
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u_se your bombers with close air support mission, delete most of you mainland units to reinforce the one sin ethiopia,

toxic plaza
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can i make that war factories produce "dobra konsumpcyjkne" instead civilian ones?

lapis wasp
dusty sandal
dusty sandal
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they are able to go in exile if you don't kill them by may iirc

fathom thistle
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lf bb design that its closest to shbb design (I dont want to wait so much till I get shhb)

dusty sandal
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1936 or nothing btw, you won't get 1940 soon enough

fathom thistle
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gotcha

toxic plaza
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can i trade somehow changing for exampel steel for civilian factories?

dusty sandal
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I highly suggest you watch paradox official beginner's guide though before anything

toxic plaza
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i do not know english well

dusty sandal
# toxic plaza 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

toxic plaza
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cha gpt suggested me how to learn hoi4 without watch tutorias

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how can i sell?

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i wanna civilain factories for steel

honest lintel
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the ai will buy from you

toxic plaza
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damn

honest lintel
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you already have 75 steel up for export, so the axis-aligned ai should be buying from you already

dusty sandal
# toxic plaza cha gpt suggested me how to learn hoi4 without watch tutorias

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

toxic plaza
honest lintel
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doesnt this mean "from trade"? or am i wrong. idk if u would be getting 15 from trade tho

honest lintel
dusty sandal
# toxic plaza

this is what's reserved for export, it's available for purchase by anyone, but not everyone will buy from you

toxic plaza
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1937

toxic plaza
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i go break after 2 hours

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i hope i can learn basics within 30 hours and have fun of game

magic summit
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for SP Germany players how many battalions you guys usually have by 1942

thin nebula
magic summit
honest lintel
honest lintel
magic summit
honest lintel
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no idea, how do u even see batallions lol

orchid token
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Can someone be my personal coach

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this game is too confusing

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for me

soft osprey
orchid token
soft osprey
orchid token
orchid token
soft osprey
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youll see a lot of icons

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read them

orchid token
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ok

soft osprey
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here's hotkeys.
shift + Q
shift + W

orchid token
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ok thanks

thin nebula
topaz yew
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how should i push here? ive alrady taken way too long but i dont really know what im doing, for next run

orchid token
topaz yew
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im meant to have already killed them like 3 months ago

lyric geyser
thin nebula
dusty sandal
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you should restart btw, it's way too late now

dusty sandal
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don't use the focus to go to war with them, justify manually asap

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it's quicker

topaz yew
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i did

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i declared as soon as possible

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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

dusty sandal
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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

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then you use a few units to snake the vps in desert

topaz yew
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right that makes sense

dusty sandal
topaz yew
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isnt it all mountain there though?

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ah ig just the bottom

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right ill try again in a bit, thanks for the help

toxic plaza
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what is thois reource i receive?

vestal brook
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best starter dlc/first dlc to buy?

toxic plaza
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batlle for boshorpus dlc

keen hemlock
fathom thistle
keen hemlock
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Means you are in a defecit

dusty sandal
pastel orbit
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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.

dusty sandal
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tank : (add support aa to the template)

toxic plaza
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how can i make "stabilziacja' better?

dusty sandal
vestal brook
austere roost
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yes

opaque garden
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duct national socialist movement

toxic plaza
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how can I reduce "współczynnik fabryk dóbr konsumpcyjnych"?

dense stone
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the higher stability the less it requires

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some focuses might give more reduction and economy laws

hollow stirrup
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as Napoleon France should i go full light tanks, full air (cas, basic small air frame ) or a bit of both ?

pliant condor
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no

hollow stirrup
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define the no please

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saying no is quite vague

pliant condor
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basic airframe is pretty bad

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same for light tank

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napoleon france is pretty boring

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if you build around killing uk the game is basically over when you capitulate them

hexed parcel
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Does anyone play the game on Mac?

hollow stirrup
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I'am having fun in it so far

toxic plaza
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it is better when + or - ?

cold bloom
toxic plaza
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how is counted "wszystkie pomnożone czynniki"?

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and why it says "zakup jugosłowiańskich samolotów" when i didint buy any jugoslavian planes

cold bloom
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its an event you can get

pliant condor
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there is a base

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which is the podstawowe oczekiwania

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in your current economy law it's 20%

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then, this number is multiplied with the product of all the multipiers

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which is (100% - 10%) * (100% - 15%) * (100% + 75%) * (100% - 18.4%) = 109%

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so your final factor is 20% * 109% = 21%

pliant condor
toxic plaza
pliant condor
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as consumer goods civilian factory

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basically civilian factory that you can't use

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so you want it to be lower

neat widget
toxic plaza
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now this event ended

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so i have new factories built faster or slower?

unkempt sable
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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

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and there's this also

stuck garnet
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Annex or puppet?

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Idk for africa i feel like puppeting is better

austere roost
toxic plaza
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ok i get to udnerstand

toxic plaza
magic summit
cold bloom
# stuck garnet Annex or puppet?

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

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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

light knoll
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french union success is predetermined in game start right

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so taking the focus twice will have the same regions say yes/no and it won't change

blissful swan
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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.

light knoll
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idk if rt56 change ms anything about it, but generally you can just ignore resistance

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it doesn't matter

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you do collabs on important nations

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which helps

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Soviets obviously always 3 collabs, France, Poland also 3 collabs usually, Belgium, Netherlands 1-2 Collabs

jade tulip
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Im adding transport planes but its still saying 1 more

light knoll
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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

light knoll
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they could be not deployed

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it takes a bit of time

jade tulip
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from what I can see they are all deployed

light knoll
light knoll
jade tulip
light knoll
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you have 206

stuck garnet
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How make mediums that arent spgs or tds with stats💔

austere roost
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just copy your spg or td design but not assign the specialized role

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although idk why you would want that

dusty sandal
toxic plaza
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ok, i am after around 5 hours of gameplay

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I udnerstand how works civilian factories, decisions, trees

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what's next?

topaz yew
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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

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i encircled 3 divisions in the desert and north then tried concentrating in the hills but its still such a slog to push anywhere

neat widget
topaz yew
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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

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i thought civilian difficulty would be easy lmao

neat widget
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well

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do note the strength bars

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because you as communist china begin with production efficiency and the other chinese states (including china itself) don't

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those Shanxi troops have no equipment and thus no strength

topaz yew
dusty sandal
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it's about getting the AI to panic

topaz yew
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The ai can panic?

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And like, even when i get 4 divisions hitting 1 division it still takes weeks to move it

dusty sandal
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it's a big word but they'll shuffle divisions around for no reasons when they get encircled

topaz yew
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Ah okay

soft osprey
soft osprey
grand mortar
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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.

dusty sandal
soft osprey
dusty sandal
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also, armor doesn't matter on a mechanized div because AI cannot pierce it anyway

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and you have enough breakthrough
speed is up to your liking though

dusty sandal
# soft osprey Still matters because that tanks will be your attacking div. Also during the fig...

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

glacial steeple
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good morning (morning as in the time i woke)

dusty sandal
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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

dusty sandal
grand sky
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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

dusty sandal
# grand sky question about germany for hoi4 mp, so you spamm heavy tanks ok and you do the c...

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

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(the stats are with gun 3 and heavy canon 3 but it's the same template if you try to hold france)

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if you have UK air cover

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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)

grand sky
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just request it?

dusty sandal
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convert would look like this

grand sky
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0 on both asrmor and engine?

dusty sandal
dusty sandal
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which would look something like this

grand sky
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and for france

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it would just be

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heavy cannon 2

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radio 2

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as much engine and armor as u can

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y?

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but u keep this all just on one line

dusty sandal
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yup

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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

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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

grand sky
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and for the france war you just produce normally not convert?

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oh didnt know the untick thing

light knoll
dusty sandal
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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

dusty sandal
light knoll
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from what i know it is the meta yeah

dusty sandal
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I only remmeber a troll build on USA recently with 1943 heavies armor memes for some reason but nothing about chassis change

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not recently at least
maybe french community is late on meta ?

inner sparrow
#

improved heavy is a thing for germany

grand sky
#

yeah so radio 2 heavcy cannon 2 14 engine armor

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for france

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but do you use conversion or just produce them normally

inner sparrow
#

but on sov u still take the same and france doesn’t care aswell

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main issue is barb front, there your reliability actually matters

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and improved ger gets 70 relia in template while their dday tanks don’t get pierced by marines

dusty sandal
#

well damn, maybe I don't know my stuff

inner sparrow
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its like a niche thing and not everyone doing it

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depends really on ger main

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but it’s definitely an option

dusty sandal
# grand sky but do you use conversion or just produce them normally

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

grand sky
#

so you use infantry only for france?

dusty sandal
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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

dusty sandal
dusty sandal
grand sky
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im asking if you use a worse earlier heavy tank

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for france

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or do you genuinely just infantry push france

glacial steeple
#

HC2 isnt that bad

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but you dont use HC1

grand sky
#

yeah rush hc2 and use it for a heavy tank for france

dusty sandal
#

in MP you won't push shit with inf

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you can turtle and cycle, especially if UK gives you air but you won't be able to push

light knoll
grand sky
#

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

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like this yes?

stuck garnet
inner sparrow
inner sparrow
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u want ur convert tank that u produce to be as similar as possible to the final tank

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while staying as cheap as possible

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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

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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

glacial steeple
glacial steeple
#

okay i read it that makes sense

grand sky
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yeah same

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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

inner sparrow
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yes

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you also have a focus as germany that gives u faster conversion speed

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its in the army tree

grand sky
#

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?

inner sparrow
#

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

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for barb and dday u need 70-90 in a good lobby

grand sky
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70

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bruh

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how to get the manpower

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u just make very little infantry? or the minors/italy are doing that

inner sparrow
#

ur starting mapower is enough for 70 tanks

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ger doesn’t do inf besides for poland and ai countries

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romania and hungary should do inf

grand sky
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none at all? not even a 24 thing?

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huh crazy

inner sparrow
#

u do 40-80 16w for 39 and later on u can delete them

grand sky
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makes sense why the templates are the way they are then

inner sparrow
#

for barb and dday u don’t do inf

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unless yo that your minors wont make any and are bad

grand sky
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oh ye

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about the guide u sent me

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u rush anschluss and put 28 mils on infantry weapons

inner sparrow
#

if u can’t trust ur minors to make inf u make it urself

grand sky
#

what unit do u produce? make a 2 width infantry and spamm it?

inner sparrow
#

40-50 mils on guns enough

inner sparrow
#

in vanilla 21-23 mils on guns should be enough

grand sky
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rb?

inner sparrow
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and just spam divs out yes

inner sparrow
grand sky
#

oh so their mod increases the requirement

inner sparrow
#

yes

grand sky
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so idont have to lose all the prod efficiency

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nice

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2 width infantry then? for 5 army xp?

inner sparrow
#

yes unless something got changed

inner sparrow
grand sky
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yeah i see now i had 10k+ weapons in surplus when i did it in sp

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makes sense

inner sparrow
#

for the other requirements like czech u just convert ur 2ws into the largest division u have with eq turned off

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that will make u able to do the other focuses after anschluss aswell

grand sky
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yeah i did that

inner sparrow
#

alright good

grand sky
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the guide just kinda

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lacked that explanation

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so i wanted to verify

inner sparrow
#

yeah because those requirements are modded out in our mod

grand mortar
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Help pls

inner sparrow
#

its like kinda nothingburger

grand sky
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ohhhhhhh

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that explains alot then

grand mortar
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Am I cooked

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I have Sicily and Rome

grand sky
#

like what is the Hs. 126, mittlerer traktor xd the GER is cas ?o

inner sparrow
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hs. 126 is a spy plane

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and mittlere tracktor is a medium convert tank to grind daimler benz

grand sky
#

its a mod thing i assume? cuz its not even being researched the recon camera

inner sparrow
#

in vanilla aswell

grand sky
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in the mod only? not invanilla

inner sparrow
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u should have it as ger

grand sky
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im gonna recheck but im 99% sure its not there

inner sparrow
#

go to a medium airframe and look at modules

grand sky
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theres something called similar

inner sparrow
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recon reconnaissance is the module called

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to make ur medium airframe a spy plane

grand sky
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yeah its not there

inner sparrow
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u have to put it on

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click on basic medium airframe

grand sky
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ahh

inner sparrow
#

yes

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now add range modules aswell and the engine 2

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and u have a good spy plane

grand sky
#

somewhy i cant add

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1 engine 2

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just 2 3 or 4

inner sparrow
#

yes add 2 engine 2

grand sky
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ah

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so this

inner sparrow
#

u can add more range modules

grand sky
#

this...?

inner sparrow
#

yeah

grand sky
#

and what is the

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GER plane

inner sparrow
#

its the italian fighter

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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

grand sky
#

ah so its licensed

inner sparrow
#

yes

grand sky
#

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

brazen glade
#

Russ still takes the flight even when I get the thing for he doesn’t take it

grand sky
#

and what are SPGs for...?

inner sparrow
inner sparrow
#

any infantry type division gets nuked by them

grand sky
#

so td for tanks and spgs for infantry

inner sparrow
#

so in worse lobbies they do pretty good

inner sparrow
grand sky
#

but u wanna produc eboth

grand sky
neat widget
inner sparrow
#

yes the mittlere tracktors are the spgs converts

neat widget
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Eventually, may take a few years

grand sky
inner sparrow
#

in your case I would recommend spgs

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as you don’t really have a need for the medium tank destroyers

grand sky
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huh okay

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so medium spgs and heavy tank destroyers

inner sparrow
#

yes

grand sky
#

whats the template for the traktor

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like that?

inner sparrow
#

yes

grand sky
#

and then just as medium tank not artillery and do the swap thing

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whats the main weapon

inner sparrow
#

exactly

inner sparrow
#

u get it from artillery tree

grand sky
#

i see

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germany is

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alot

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oh also this guide tells to go grand battleplan as germany...?

inner sparrow
#

its the country with most inputs

grand sky
#

oh so germany is hardest

inner sparrow
#

gbp was always the thing for germany

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sfp now was also an option after new doctrines

grand sky
#

oh also one last question

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this research table

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the slot 5

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germany starts with 4 slots

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so this is a bit confusing

inner sparrow
#

you get 5th slot from a focus

grand sky
#

yeah but like

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way later

#

does this mean that when you unlock the 5th slot

inner sparrow
#

what it means is just as soon as u get 5th slot u do the 5th slot thing

grand sky
#

thats when u research basic med? (basic medium tank??)

inner sparrow
inner sparrow
#

ofc this is the gemany players preference

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I don’t research basic med as example

grand sky
#

and why is heavy bomb locks researched but nothing else for planes not even the 1940 plane

inner sparrow
#

heavy bomb locks is for cas

grand sky
#

but generally this block is standard no?

inner sparrow
grand sky
inner sparrow
#

yeah theres like exploits where u can get the airframe without having to research it

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but its banned

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he prob didn’t update all of it

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for cas just design a cheap cas

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u don’t have to research heavy bomb locks

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if u want it let italy do it

grand sky
#

ok got it

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thanks for the help

inner sparrow
#

np

grand sky
#

oh btw

#

whats the meta for ships? what ships to build as japan, uk, germany? or generally

errant aurora
#

is this a good division for invading italy in 1938?

carmine lichen
#

whats the difference between left clicking when making a frontline and shift clicking

spare cradle
#

its saying i have a modified save when i dont?

cold bloom
brazen glade
#

is multiple assign front lines better or just 1

cold bloom
brazen glade
#

For exmaple the Barbossa front

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Should I have like 3-4 Field Marshal groups

cold bloom
#

probably 2 if you got sufficient units

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and those orders drawn with shift+right click to assign each field marshall an area

brazen glade
glacial steeple
brazen glade
glacial steeple
pliant condor
#

otherwise good

brazen glade
#

I am new

glacial steeple
errant aurora
pliant condor
#

but it's fine just get it

glacial steeple
errant aurora
glacial steeple
light knoll
glacial steeple
#

maybe stuff like MEV

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if available

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but its fine

errant aurora
#

tank you guys

light knoll
#

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

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most countries have some research bonuses for infantry weapons in their tree

glacial steeple
#

game so easy

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research gun and you will win defensively almost always

light knoll
#

i love better gums doubling your damage, that's exactly how it worked irl :true:

glacial steeple
light knoll
#

it mostly just made it cheaper

glacial steeple
#

ig the uh

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ak/stg was big

glacial steeple
stuck garnet
glacial steeple
#

they really should represent ammo

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but the lag

stuck garnet
obsidian kayak
#

can someone who has a bunch of hours share whats their go to div. early-mid game , thats incredibly OP i meant 🙂

thanks

glacial steeple
#

as a new player you dont know how to/have bad eco so you struggle

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also getting good generals/combat modifiers is huge

upbeat silo
#

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

obsidian kayak
glacial steeple
#

templates help? but hardly matter overall

obsidian kayak
#

yup i can not figure out the meta template RN and support divs

glacial steeple
#

youll just see your stats go up because good division designs have good terrain modifiers

austere roost
#

Have you checked pins?

glacial steeple
#

stuff like this is good

obsidian kayak
#

Thanks will try it thank you so much

austere roost
ionic ferry
#

is there any mods with the current world map?

languid trout
#

theres 2020 though

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especially tfr and millenium dawn

wild rune
balmy dawn
#

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?

glacial steeple
#

tho why dont you have air superiority

balmy dawn
#

wWanted to make sure I'm not wasting production on AA guns that don't do anything

balmy dawn
#

If I recall correctly... 4 armor on Tanks and 2 armore on ships is basically more than the AI can penetrate. Is that correct?

glacial steeple
#

armor on tanks is silly

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if you have up to 30 armor the ai will prioritize researching AT less

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which is like a nothingburger imo

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but if you do 5 armor clicks it costs 1 more steel

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realistically you do armor clicks for break and not for armor value anyway

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and since ai doesnt really do much damage, you dont need a lot of break

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so typically 4 clicks are fine? but it depends on how much break you need really

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armor is irrelevant stat

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like if you do special forces with tank youd want a lot of break on your 1 batallion for example

balmy dawn
#

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

glacial steeple
#

itsthe same thing

balmy dawn
#

Sounds like you're saying if you have 30 Armor (Combat Stat) then you're fine

glacial steeple
#

youre gonna get pierced eventually

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imo it doesnt matter

balmy dawn
#

k

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My Armor tends to get mauled, so I've been trying to look at how I build them

glacial steeple
#

if anything id rather have the ai make more AT

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because they wont use it effectively and have less units out

glacial steeple
#

terrain debuffs, bad general, red air, cas

balmy dawn
#

Fair

glacial steeple
#

small divisions with no crit damage

#

tanks are hard to learn and its hardly rewarding compared to using special forces

balmy dawn
#

I do love my Airborne, lol

austere roost
lucid torrent
#

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?

covert horizon
#

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

serene karma
#

What gpu?

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Are drivers updated

#

Do u play any other games?

serene karma
#

Means less damage

#

If u manage to kill all screen the capitals are essentially gone

glacial steeple
#

for ic effectiveness inf better otherwise

covert horizon
covert horizon
covert horizon
#

All run well.

jolly musk
#

can someone teach me how to play air and navy please

vital plinth
jolly musk
#

everytime i play i get declared on by the uk and i cant invade them

pliant condor
#

and use everything together

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it's literally all that navy and air is

jolly musk
pliant condor
#

you don't need to

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it doesn't matter

jolly musk
#

Idk how paratroop or navy invade

pliant condor
#

that's a different thing

jolly musk
#

Or how air superiority works

jolly musk
pliant condor
#

just put your plane on air superiority mission

pliant condor
#

navy and air itself are simpler

jolly musk
pliant condor
#

wdym

jolly musk
#

Every time i try to invade the ussr they run out of equipment before i even reach kiev or stalingrad

pliant condor
#

build equipment

#

then

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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

glacial steeple
#

very bad occupation law

cold garnet
#

haHaa I use martial law very often

pulsar tree
#

the best route for Portugal

stuck garnet
serene karma
#

Max armor cls were meta

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Idk if the naval update changed that

glacial steeple
light knoll
#

afaik la dds are meta now

serene karma
glacial steeple
#

ai usually does light attack dd build

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kind of

covert horizon
# serene karma Do this

It seems to be working better now on a new save after updating the drive. But if happens again, I'll try

#

Thanks

glacial steeple
#

torp wasnt changed

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destroyers were tho

mighty sluice
#

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

stuck garnet
#

Allign with france?

#

OH THATS WHAT AFRICA IS FOR

#

I wish africa was more relevant

languid trout
#

doing it sets the port as the navy's home port

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= navy will go there for repairs and range center is set there

stuck garnet
#

My opinion is like

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Put a bunch of resources in africa

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Like a bunch a bunch

languid trout
#

its the congo

stuck garnet
#

Real?

languid trout
#

and south africa

stuck garnet
#

Oh

mighty sluice
languid trout
glacial steeple
#

its like the famous game 'rock paper scissors'

#

where rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, but paper beats rock

stuck garnet
#

You mean scissors paper rock? /ragebait

glacial steeple
#

and its similar to this famous game!

#

where you can pick rock (cl) paper (torp dd) or scissors (light attack dd)

mighty sluice
#

perfect

glacial steeple
#

and if you do one of the builds it will beat another one of the possible best naval builds!

keen hemlock
glacial steeple
vital plinth
keen hemlock
glacial steeple
light knoll
#

ai*

glacial steeple
#

if you dont oneshot their fleet that is

keen hemlock
#

Yeah

#

What about sub 4s with aneonic tiles and air propulsion

glacial steeple
#

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

keen hemlock
#

Do they make asw?

inner sparrow
#

carrier spam > everything else

#

frfr

glacial steeple
austere roost
austere roost
tame junco
#

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?

opaque garden
#

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

toxic plaza
#

hello, how long it takes to learn basics of hoi4?

inner sparrow
#

6 or 7 days

toxic plaza
#

5 hours daily?

#

what tod o here?

opaque garden
#

holy stats

opaque garden
#

in my opnion

glacial steeple
#

like using factories and moving units around the map? probably like an hour

toxic plaza
#

to have fun with game

#

basic land wars etc

glacial steeple
#

impossible

toxic plaza
glacial steeple
#

just look up videos the in game tutorial is like really bad

#

theres pinned messages

toxic plaza
#

ok

untold nest
#

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

toxic plaza
#

what i should do next? i udnerstand how civilain factories work

#

@glacial steeple

stuck garnet
toxic plaza
#

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

echo sky
#

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

hexed tartan
toxic plaza
#

mhm, a gdzie sprawdzic owo zapotrzebowanie?

#

już mam opanowane fabryki cywilne, cele, decyzje

#

na czym teraz sie skupić?

hexed tartan
toxic plaza
#

no tak, ale gdzie wycofwać zapotrzebowanie na samoloty?

glacial steeple
#

please take non-english chatting to dms if possible :)

hexed tartan
toxic plaza
#

so focus now on what?

hexed tartan
inner sparrow
toxic plaza
#

can i delete somehow all units?

opaque garden
#

at most I watched one bittersteel vid that told me to use sfp for offence

hexed tartan
inner sparrow
opaque garden
#

thats why I mentioned it

inner sparrow
#

yeah lmao

opaque garden
#

to highlight bittersteels interesting choices when it comes to certain things

inner sparrow
#

most hoi4 youtubers are the kings of spreading misinformation and wrong "meta"

glacial steeple
#

or did in the past ig too

scenic nacelle
glacial steeple
inner sparrow
glacial steeple
#

cool guy

inner sparrow
#

there was another polish guy that was good too

#

but I think he stopped

glacial steeple
inner sparrow
inner sparrow
#

probably ppl like inertia, rommel if he likes u, delnar and topazand

glacial steeple
#

delnar is goated

inner sparrow
#

delnar is the biggest yapper

#

I swear hes goated

glacial steeple
#

topazand is like, not very detailed

#

but hes fine

inner sparrow
#

im the best fr

glacial steeple
#

inertia idk we spoke once

glacial steeple
#

rommel idk who he is but hes a nerd