ask-for-help-here

[dusty sandal]

if germany or bul don't want to give you states, give them those first in order to sway them

this will work best with bul

with germany your best bet would be highr war participation

[daring gorge]

ok ty

i was a little confused

[daring gorge]

how do i get yugo annexed faster? i alr have max factorys and infra but they take so long its like 1500 points

[brazen lance]

if i have tank recon in my template but in the support companies, is that also considered as space marines?

[lapis wasp]

how do I disband the chinese united front as nationalist china?

[daring gorge]

were can the brittish navy be? i keep loosing planes to them but they have 0 ports in med or suez

[dusty sandal]

space marine is tank batallions in inf div
armored recon could be considered armor meme in some ruleset but those that create such rulesets honestly don't understand how stat works

[daring gorge]

u cant

u need to get big big big and then take leadership wich is rly hard

u can leave

but not disband it

[lapis wasp]

how do I leave it?

I just need two more warlords to be my puppet

[daring gorge]

u shouldve started puppeting bfor the united front forms 😭

u had like 1 year bro

[lunar spoke]

ive been using motorised in sp and its fine imo

the speed allows me to do encirclements

[lapis wasp]

it’s ncns so idk if I can do that

[lunar spoke]

ofc i replace them with mech later in the game

[daring gorge]

you can

border disputes bla bla

what year are u in?

[lapis wasp]

1942

[inner sparrow]

yeah but they aren’t better??

u recommend him straight up to make his tank divisions worse

just because it works in sp for you doesn’t mean that it makes it good, u can go half blind against ai and make the worst division designs and win

[glacial steeple]

??? you can get mech in max 1939

and its worse

i wouldnt rlly care if it was gen chat smh

[lunar spoke]

yuh mechs are better

but i normally dont make mechs until 1940

[rancid pagoda]

Nah i was the Baltic Socialist Republic

[languid trout]

ur cooked

u gotta pray the allies do some insane d day stuff

thats the only way ur surviving

[carmine geode]

I did D day for germany in 1939 as uk xd

ans suprisingly it worked

[rancid pagoda]

the game ended because the allies never d-dayed

[carmine geode]

🙏

[void nacelle]

shouldnt i rn have completed the 501st legion achievements?
cause i have not gotten it yet

[lunar spoke]

u need to fully control berlin state iirc

and the states of the other capitals

[void nacelle]

so if i would attack the soviet union rn and take brandenburg fully i should get it

[lunar spoke]

just cap the germans

and take brandenburg in peace deal

[void nacelle]

yup it worked. thanks

[lunar spoke]

np

[uneven briar]

Any help for fighting on the eastern front in mid-1942? I started Barbarossa 22 Jan 1942.

I am Germany for the record

[jagged hull]

Can anyone help me to get eva Braun The iron maiden

I'm trying to get to achievements Otto-man play as Austria and for Germany I need to get woman in the high Castle I don't know how to do that because America just beat me up because I was greedy

[orchid ruin]

does anyone know why this is happening?

[lunar spoke]

for eva braun just dont be greedy and play slow

[orchid ruin]

yersterday i was playing normally now i cant play with my mods

[lunar spoke]

also set up collabs

[orchid ruin]

for some reason they duplicated and even when i uninstalled the game they are still there

[lunar spoke]

to get her basically you need to fail certain events

hitler will get assasinated and you can pickj eva as his successor

[orchid ruin]

in addition everytime i re-download a mod and open the playset the game just runs without them

im only using road to 56 and player led

[karmic lintel]

looking to help new players. i can help with almost anyting. dm

[dark thunder]

where’s the offensive units?

Only so many units can fit in one province anyways for an attack, so infantry blobs like this usually won’t work.

also you are winning it’s just taking a bit

[jagged hull]

i did but do i have to get a war so i have to fight CK

but the achievement for woman and the high castle is hard i try victorya the 3rd

[astral heath]

do i use either of these? im hungary going monarchist

[zealous hinge]

personally I do not

depends what DLCs you have though

if you do have Gotterdamerung I wouldn't
If it's base Hungary I also wouldn't be it is more feasible there

[astral heath]

none

[zealous hinge]

ok in that case I would just not worry about those decisions

I would use the first one though

[astral heath]

im to bad to play witrh a big army so im playing a small country

[zealous hinge]

but that one just makes your supply faster to build, which in Hungary is not as big of an issue

[zealous hinge]

small country is worse lmao
Just play Germany to get a feel for it
At least you can start the war on your own time

[zealous hinge]

the second decision doesn't do anything great. just gives you 50 trains for 5% stability. in general, stability is gold, so you best keep as much stability as possible

[orchid ruin]

can u help me with that stuff above?

i dunno if the servers are downj

or smth

[astral heath]

which is better

[zealous hinge]

I would go with Domestic Arms

Gives you more military factories

[astral heath]

ok yeah im struggliung with infantry eauiutment

equitment*

[zealous hinge]

I got it lmao

Just build more civilian factories

The focus tree should provide you with a good amount of mils

[storm solstice]

is iran easier with default focus tree?

or the 10$ dlc

[zealous hinge]

Iran with default is really bad

But the DLC isn’t much either

So you could go either way

I would just get the DLC

Might as well if you want to play Iran

[open skiff]

Ben istemek Türk

🙏 🙏

[mild portal]

good design ?

any suggestions?

[dusty sandal]

what the hell

[storm solstice]

if a country reaches 0 manpower on STB, will they have 0 forever

my germany (ai) almost has 0

[floral peak]

does any1 have a good tank design ?

[errant chasm]

A little bit of everything

[fathom thistle]

Check pins.

[floral peak]

which pins?

[fathom thistle]

In this channel. You got most of the templates you need there

[floral peak]

okay why you use rangers?

[signal fern]

1947

[dusty sandal]

who does

on tanks I mean

[jagged hull]

Is it me or German in civil war the German Reich became powerful

Because every time when I do German civil war German reich is powerful

[brazen lance]

ty

[keen hemlock]

They will gain some recruitable every month

Plus they still could be mobilizing

But wtf happened to Germany to go to stb

[white slate]

i'm playing as canada with with millennium dawn and i cant train new divisons

nor can i create new templates

how can i fix that?

[scenic nacelle]

Check national spirits

[white slate]

i dont see anything remarkable towards division training

unless thats military wage

i cant duplicate templates or make new ones either

it just says locked

when i try to train the existing ones it says

"cannot train new special division"

i got it.

fixed

[wise heron]

can anyone help me in my game in helping lounge 1

[fathom thistle]

Did you train any new unit outside of the oness you spawn in?

you really want to just start it from day one and then you just rush the middle to split them in two pieces then just finish the pocket at south

then continue north

[glacial steeple]

winter

[glacial steeple]

chris

[dusty sandal]

even then, the buffs for SPGs are better

from armored recon

[vital plinth]

Hey my task force seem to have.a red pin with supply problem icon. But I can’t see any debuffs it gives to that ship any idea how to see what low red supply does to a strike force task force ?

[dusty sandal]

it only affect them if they run out of fuel

which means only if there is red icon

[vital plinth]

It says red supply at 11% supply status

Also am I using sups wrong ? Im convoy raiding around their main island but in a single fight I lost 17 sups wtf what’ am I doing wrong ?

[dusty sandal]

if the fuel tanks of your ships are emptying, then worry about it

[dusty sandal]

don't send subs in shallow seas
and what subs are you using ?

because if those are sub 1s or interwar just expect them to get nuked

[vital plinth]

Early sups all of them and few basic sup class

I refitted most of them with an extra topedo

[vital plinth]

My fuel tanks only show how much they use but it doesn’t say anything of how much fuel I have left or that sort

Oh ok shallow sea makes sense

[dusty sandal]

these have too high visibility for anything, they die instantly

[dusty sandal]

open fleet screen, there's a fuel icon
if the number's high and stable it's fine

[scenic nacelle]

Wha

[rose plover]

why is it that when u-boats perticular get produced and wait in the dockyard that they get immediately repaired without ever driven a single mile

[fathom thistle]

did you put them on exercice?

[rose plover]

no

i did nothing with them

[fathom thistle]

you can go to taskforce menu and change the repair to never repair

[rose plover]

they get frest out of the dockyard and go in repair

[rose plover]

ye ik, but why do they need repair if they come out of the dockyard

[fathom thistle]

no clue sry

[vital plinth]

Which number should I look for sorry ?

[subtle socket]

u are still capulated no?

99% thats game over

[proven rain]

How to win spanish civil war

[pliant condor]

which side?

[errant chasm]

1.Have cheats on
2.Pick any focus
3.If you lose just switch to the other side using tag spa/spb/spc/spd
4.???
5.Profit

[proven rain]

If i do it in iromman mode

[proven rain]

Monarch

[errant chasm]

I recommend doing Franco's path if you are a beginner. Would be more easier.

[pliant condor]

carlist?

[errant chasm]

I assume Carlist, that is the monarchist path

But Franco's path is easier imo because you don't have to fight a 4 way war/not in a rush to defeat the republicans.

i did Falangist a long time ago and I think I managed to win. Just get the axis to help you that's all

[pliant condor]

basically play normally first like franco

don't need to contest the two northern states because your focus remove unplanned on them

so do like the AI opening(2 on sevilla 2 on Extremadura 1 on cordoba, then exactly 25 days before the last decision expires click on sevilla and extremadura)

this ensures that you gain the two states

or do 3 on eastern aragon and push barcelona

you just need to go fast and mostly capitulate republicans before carlism rise

[austere roost]

carlism won't rise as long as you hold on to the north

[glacial steeple]

false

you need to take territories for it too

[austere roost]

yeah the two states in the north

[glacial steeple]

also one to the east afaik

[pliant condor]

no they are playing carlist

you get the states for free as carlist

[mild portal]

Bad?

[mild portal]

yeah the problem?

[glacial steeple]

its not great

[neat widget]

42 width designs exist because the previous meta relied on 42 width units, however it makes no sense in current meta where 40 width would prevent you from pushing into forests and jungle

You should also try to simplify your designs, currently you have towed artillery, towed rocket artillery, and motorized rocket in the same design. They are very similar, but you will get yourself confused. Stick to one of them.

You should also probably be using mechanized shock troop at this rate

[mild portal]

Understood

[mild portal]

being used actually

[errant chasm]

why not just build tank divisions?

[errant chasm]

Wouldn't tanks be better? I think mech is used for defense

[jaunty iris]

how should i mainly compose my army? i figure using all defensive infantry isnt gonna do me any good- so what should I be trying to aim for in terms of numbers for actual damage dealers?

[fathom thistle]

for damage dealing division you are aiming for something like this:

as for how many that depends on how many can your industry pump out

[jaunty iris]

alright! thank you

what about something for a much smaller country industry wise like blugaria or hungary?

[fathom thistle]

do you have NSB?

[jaunty iris]

i've got all the dlc's thankfully

[fathom thistle]

lovely, you could get away with offensive 36w infantry then

but you want to get at least 200 breakthrough to make it make sense

designing flame tank with breakthrough will help with that

[jaunty iris]

Light? Medium? Heavy?

[fathom thistle]

mediums

[fathom thistle]

how are you choosing doctrine wise?

grand assault will help you with that breaktrough too

[jaunty iris]

okay! thank you

you wouldnt happen to have an image i could reference would you?

[fathom thistle]

something like this, breaktrhough is under 200 bcs I was using different doctrine but stick to grand assault one

replace engineers with pioneers

[jaunty iris]

gotcha! thank you!

[fathom thistle]

or rangers, they are fine too

less ic cost wise compared to pioneers

[jaunty iris]

alright! I really appreciate the help

[fathom thistle]

anytime

[jaunty iris]

would the rangers be the recon rangers?

[fathom thistle]

Yes they have like small star icon

[jaunty iris]

gotcha. thanks!

[subtle socket]

aa?

[fathom thistle]

If you don't have air superiority yes

[subtle socket]

its basically free

and u have an empty slot

unless ur an ai ur tanks will fight outside air range

here and there

[fathom thistle]

Not mine just the one from pin I got fastest

Just sent it as an example for him

[subtle socket]

ok

[uncut drum]

Help here?

[hexed parcel]

hey can someone hop in a call and demonstrate how to naval invade i have decent understanding

but idk how to naval invade

[uncut drum]

Click divs. Click naval invade button. Then click the port from where u invade from. Then click where to

Also u need to naval patrol to get supremacy

But still. Is there help here?

@inner sparrow help here?

[uncut drum]

If u have another question about it ask

If i didnt explain it well enough

[hexed parcel]

petruu could hop in a call?

[uncut drum]

Cant rn

I can explain it tho

[errant chasm]

you wanna screenshare rn?

[hexed parcel]

yes pls

[inner sparrow]

help with??

[uncut drum]

Vro

Help here?

[inner sparrow]

vro

im drunk

[uncut drum]

It days ask for help here

[inner sparrow]

what does ur skibbid ass want

[uncut drum]

Help here?

[inner sparrow]

AHAHAHHAHA OMG

I will touch you

[uncut drum]

Ah hell naww unc

[inner sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-run-cat-hit-dumb-cat-small-cat-cat-pain-gif-5201429184094247707

[uncut drum]

Uncy

[inner sparrow]

woah

[uncut drum]

Unc

Holy unc

Almost 25 yo

25 mighr as well round it to 30

Tho

U havent answered my question

Help here?

[inner sparrow]

im 21 vro

[inner sparrow]

yes

[hexed parcel]

yo who was the one helping me

[errant chasm]

you have an additional question?

[uncut drum]

Thats like almost 40...

[inner sparrow]

igb

[uncut drum]

Igc

[twin kayak]

how am I supposed to defend against this

[errant chasm]

well you can't you're outnumbered unfortunately

[hoary glen]

Deploy 60 Divs of your own asap

[pearl tapir]

is it possible to keep the puppets or faction members if you get fascist as uk?

[hoary glen]

There's not much information to go by but in general try to always have enough division for war to cover your entire Frontline width. So not just one div per tile but if you have 16w units 4-5 per tile. If you can't you need more guns etc. @twin kayak

[hoary glen]

Usually these things are scripted, so unless there is some focus you missed or a decision, I'm afraid not. Sometimes it can also vary with the decision from events you take, but I don't know much about the ones for the UK as I play little non hist. Sorry.

[twin kayak]

yeah, but with brittain, I barely have enough men to get to 48 divs

I'm at war with japan and just pumped out 72 more

but still

I now have 1 other front

(I'm not at war with germany yet, but I will in a short amount of time)

[hoary glen]

I mean managing your borders and conflicts is also part of the game strategy. But if that fails you need raw numbers. Also if you plan for huge wars increasing conscription early is always recommended

With early I mean like in 1939 at least extensive

[storm solstice]

can we still not have more than 4 carriers in a TF?

[scenic nacelle]

Technically

Trigger civil war

Declare war on puppets

And ummm

Annex them in peace conference

Since UK is major

[late river]

im 17 jun 1940

i alr conquered europe and soviet union, just uk and usa left (and afrika)

this tank design is good?

[glacial steeple]

well the gun is bad

but the rest is decent

[late river]

should i put medium one or research a better gun?

@glacial steeple

im also arthur, my another account got terminated

hii

[tropic seal]

is christie not the best suspension anymore?

[late river]

idk

someone said " use it " and it looks ogod for me

[tropic seal]

and why are you using heavy tanks in i assume singleplayer

[late river]

cuz i alr won soviet front to easy

i need heavies

[tropic seal]

wdym

what do you need heavies for

the enemy armor gets piereced by aa

so its not that

[late river]

SS divitons to look good

[tropic seal]

larping is fair enough

[late river]

and bc

i got no other tanks to produce (panzer iv or tiger)

so i prefer tigger

[tropic seal]

medium spgs?

but yeah that template should work aight

[graceful lance]

so i need help, im playing HOI4 (ofc) and im trying to do battle things and i send a ton of divisions but only one fights then it fails is there any reason for this? (im new) (im fighting as soviets and invading finland) (btw i was always winning and my divsions have high breakthrough and soft attack and hard attack (well as good as i could get it)

nevermind its fixed... i do not know how but its fixed

[late river]

bc

supplies

or org

[finite terrace]

if youre pretty much anywhere but leningrad or the northern port its agony supply wise

[teal geode]

Trying to learn fleet composition; when designing a strike force, can destroyers and light cruisers be used, while still following the ideal ratio(ie 1 Capital ship to 4 LC's or 6 DD's), or is it definitely one or the other?

[finite terrace]

confused by your question slightly, yes your strike force is when the ratio matters

patrols can literally be 1 LC with airplane catapults for spotting

you just set them to never engage so the screen ratio is irrelevan

for strike force you need the 1 carrier/1 capital/4 LCs or DDs split

[teal geode]

My issue is that I took my enemies navies in peace deals, and now I have 300+ ships im trying to organise, but the strike force fleets seem worringly small

[finite terrace]

tbh i dont overcomplicate it usually, you can basically just combine every single fleet into one deathstack, put the submarines in a separate fleet

[teal geode]

Should wolfpack sub fleets be 10 per? Or if you have a lot of subs can you go up in fleet size?

[finite terrace]

and then manually just parse out a couple patrols

[teal geode]

Then my fleet gets 0 org

[glacial steeple]

yes this is how you win battles

[finite terrace]

i think 10 is reasonable, you can also set the template to have 10 subs so they auto fill

right, it doesnt matter tho tbh

if youre worried about it you can just

combine the big deathstack

then press S and split it in two

functions just as well

[glacial steeple]

if you like split small ships off to patrol, then strike force the big fleet, that also works

[teal geode]

Thats what I did, but I have like 150+ subs so idk if I should go bigger or not lol

[glacial steeple]

just like 1 ship per zone or whatever

[finite terrace]

subs shouldnt be on strike force anyway

[glacial steeple]

its not hard to organize

[finite terrace]

if thats your question

they should be convoy raiding

[teal geode]

I had tried to use my fleet against an enemy one, and my fleet was getting wrecked, even though it was far larger than the enemies, im presuming because they had org and I didnt

[finite terrace]

it might just be your carriers causing most of the problem cause they have a stack penalty maybe

[teal geode]

I almost always just do 1 deathstack, then some destroyers for patrol, but since my deathstack was getting hammered, now im rethinking my strategy

[finite terrace]

how many carriers are in the fleet

[teal geode]

I believe 7

[finite terrace]

yeah so maybe just take that massive doomstack and divide in 2 and have 2 strike forces

carrier penalty happens above 4 carriers i think

maybe its 5 i dont recall lmao

[teal geode]

Gotcha, I'll split it in 2 then

How big are your patrol groups usually btw?

Do you group them under the same admiral as your strike force, or a different admiral

[finite terrace]

if you were planning ahead of time you can make spotting cruisers with good speed and you legit just make single task force patrols with em

sometimes i like to do 1 cruiser/3 destroyers if im in your circumstance and i have a million ships

but you could also make 10-20 ships per patrol if you have4 a million ships; idea being the stronger the patrols themselves are, the less the strike forces have to bail them out

so they can kinda hold their own and the strike force will only come out for the big boys, if that makes sense

the patrols will kill subs and other small patrols themselves

[teal geode]

Do you ever scuttle ships you get from the AI if they are old? Like if you get 50 tier 1 destroyers from a peacedeal

[finite terrace]

nah i think if you are stealing entire navies from one of the main powers like UK/Italy you dont even care, you just stack em and theyll wipe everything

depends what country you are really, who did you start as

either way i wouldnt destroy em, they can just be ur patrols and the good destroyers can be in strikes perhaps

[glacial steeple]

theyre ships, theyre useful

worst case they just sit in some random port

[teal geode]

Oh wtf I just tried the balanced fleet button, is the compositions it gives you fine to use?

[finite terrace]

i think it does fine, makes slightly larger patrols than i generally would manually

but it gets the job done on the major points

i.e. getting rid of subs cause they destroy other ships speed

[zealous hinge]

Sure. Not a bad thing usually imo but not sure bc I’m not navy expert

[acoustic kayak]

how invade uk i always kill russia and all of europe but uk is impossible to kill

[green nova]

yo W name

[zealous hinge]

Why thank you

The König approves

[green nova]

yey

[green nova]

looking at ur acc i can guess u prob got like 3k hours?

[acoustic kayak]

how invade uk

waaaaaaaaa

[green nova]

bro idk i got 23hours

[zealous hinge]

Eh about 1k

Not much ik

[acoustic kayak]

i got 200 hours

[zealous hinge]

Rookie numbers

[green nova]

wydm

[acoustic kayak]

ive won as every major power

[blissful nova]

If it is a detriment to your fleet then remove it, if they all are then keep them in a deathstack

[green nova]

😭 wydm i got 23hours

[zealous hinge]

Naval and air supremacy over the channel

[acoustic kayak]

except axis because uk is invincible

[blissful nova]

By building a navy

And then invading them

[acoustic kayak]

yeah ik its impossible to do that as germany

[zealous hinge]

After that land on Dover and the tile next to portsmouth

[acoustic kayak]

it takes sooooooooooooo long

[green nova]

or drop ur bois on them

[zealous hinge]

Dirt cheap destroyers are key

[blissful nova]

what

no it doesnt bro

you can build a navy to get dominace by 39 easil

if you do german empire path you can destroy the royal navy too if thats what ur doing

[green nova]

bro can som1 tell me why even if my army got more dudes but im still losing..

[blissful nova]

More information bro

Thay doesnt tell anything

[acoustic kayak]

HOW

[green nova]

idk how to play i can build place kids on the frontline and dats all

[acoustic kayak]

everytime i send my ships they get mauled

[blissful nova]

who are you playing

[acoustic kayak]

and insta die

[green nova]

germany

[blissful nova]

who r u fighting

[blissful nova]

If U cant build anavy then spam naval bombers like he said

[acoustic kayak]

i do but they never fully kill ships

they just damage them

[green nova]

usually the checks in 1936 and the polish but i can against the polish i think it might be the yr im fighting in cuz when i fighted poland in 1939 it was ez

[blissful nova]

Bro

Why are you fighting the czechs?

[acoustic kayak]

ur supposed to use the focus tree

lmao

[green nova]

why no

[green nova]

i do

[blissful nova]

Do you know what a focus tree is

[acoustic kayak]

u can js annex them through the focus tree

[blissful nova]

Do you know what antichluss and the munich confrence was

[green nova]

i live in usa i want it ALL

[green nova]

no?

[blissful nova]

Do you know what mefo bills are

[acoustic kayak]

want it all?

[green nova]

ya but no

[acoustic kayak]

u can get it all bud

[green nova]

ye

[green nova]

fr?

[blissful nova]

You can annex and get austrias army for free and you can annex czechs for free by 38 usually

[acoustic kayak]

through the tree

yeswe

it gives u the option to

[green nova]

wata hell is 38?

[blissful nova]

1938 time

[acoustic kayak]

the year

[green nova]

k

[blissful nova]

If you declare war as germany early

your econemy will crash

because of mefo bills

[acoustic kayak]

i also go economic growth

[green nova]

🇩🇪 💔

[acoustic kayak]

always

its just more reliable

[blissful nova]

Thats not based

[acoustic kayak]

yeah autarchy is for people who are good at the game

[acoustic kayak]

economic growth is easier

[green nova]

i saw that u can attack true the focuz tree but i thinked all it did was just declare war and give u some small buff

[blissful nova]

Mefo bills btw

[blissful nova]

no

for example france will never say no to rhineland

You will need to fight poland if you go historical however

[green nova]

can u tell france too to f... stop attacking me every time i attack som1

[blissful nova]

Not czech or austria

[acoustic kayak]

u can just annnex them, did u not watch any1 play before u bought?

[blissful nova]

Who are you attacking mate

You cant go arround attacking everyone

Espescially democratic countries

[acoustic kayak]

french prolly guarentee independence

[green nova]

annex how

[acoustic kayak]

and he normally declares

[blissful nova]

If you attack a democratic country the allies will attack you usually

[green nova]

polish and checks

[acoustic kayak]

through the focus tree u can annex slovakia and austria

[green nova]

ty

[blissful nova]

build army

do ancihluss

keep building up

annex czechs with focuses

[green nova]

k

[blissful nova]

by 39 attack poland and france

[blissful nova]

Do not attack through your france border

invade the netherlands and begiym with around maginot

[acoustic kayak]

thats where u do it btw

through the sudeten land path

[green nova]

sooo when i started i attacked netherlands and belgium they touched me a lil too far... but i had like 5hours

[green nova]

while playing as germany

[blissful nova]

wdym bro

[acoustic kayak]

u gotta train more troops and u should also watch 15 tutorials

[blissful nova]

btw if you dont blizkrieg the benelux you will lose

as the allies will flood them

[acoustic kayak]

yeah

[blissful nova]

you need to lightning war

[green nova]

nah X that by 17

[acoustic kayak]

i honestly never use tanks

everytime i use them i lose

i just go down the prussian army path

[green nova]

bro i love were a dc mod from this gc got in pronounce as any i gotta put that as mine too

[zealous hinge]

the huh…

Welp

[blissful nova]

What is the new china as japan strat

Old one is patched

[pliant condor]

wdym patched

[night monolith]

Can anybody lend some help

[magic phoenix]

Is anyone else experiencing germany being absolutely destroyed before 1944 in the new open beta?

[radiant dirge]

Or just paradrop if you want to speedrun

[kind willow]

ودنا مساعدة من العرب

[frail summit]

What’s the best doctrine rn for Germany

Land

[pliant condor]

swap it to grandbattle plan

pick grand assault on operations

then ur good

[neat widget]

you're supposed to take the benelux states one by one

[copper pagoda]

how do i confirm a run has historical ai focuses checked? britain just turned communist

[ornate zephyr]

what if I'm in a choice event and I leave before I pick a option, would it save or would it pick automatically

[serene karma]

Saved in decision tab

If by time limit u havent chose

Itll chose for u

[ornate zephyr]

the game is paused so no timer, if I leave the game I can check the decision tab to pick later?

[serene karma]

If u save the game yea

[ornate zephyr]

its ironman 😭

[ornate zephyr]

Well anyways I found out it saves and so I thank you for your help

[spare ridge]

would anyone help a chud in need for a good tank design for soviets

[serene karma]

Check pins

[spare ridge]

oh

ty

[keen hemlock]

if you do alt hist stuff, the ai will sometimes

but if you exit out of your run, go to start a new run, then click load in the bootm left and load the save, you can check

[worn shard]

what does branch specialisms mean

[keen hemlock]

special forces doctrine

[worn shard]

yeah

ik

but I cant pick mountainers

bc of it

[keen hemlock]

when you unlock a new specialisim that means you get a new special forces doctrine

[worn shard]

but how do you unlock that

[keen hemlock]

take a focus or click the decison that show sup

no clue when or why it shows but it does

here it is'

[fringe trench]

Hello, I’m currently facing a problem. I’m trying to conquer the world with all major countries, and since I’ve already finished with France, I’ve been attempting Italy for some time now. However, I keep failing.
So far, I’ve been using strong infantry and following the democratic path, joining the Allies to fight against Germany, but it doesn’t seem to work.
Does anyone have tips, ideas, or maybe even a good division template?

[worn shard]

why cant my shups control some places

[hoary glen]

So I have a feeling you are trying to go through the Alps to achieve that. What's really important for fighting in mountains is ideally using Mountaineers and Air superiority with a lot of CAS is absolutely required. Make sure to have more fighters than Germany and build CAS to support your ground troops.

For templates you can read through the pins

[dusty sandal]

Put them on patrol and wait

[hoary glen]

Maybe you're out of range, some screenshots would help

[glacial steeple]

prob port

[hoary glen]

I think if you try to load the save or host it as MP you can see it. If you go non hist in hist the AI will start to do non hist stuff as well tho.

[glacial steeple]

control right click to change home base

[hoary glen]

Yeah

[worn shard]

I cant launch my naval invasion I have control and the conveys

why

[hoary glen]

Send a screenshot please

[hoary glen]

Also you can hover the invasion order arrow over your general and it shows what's missing

[bold canopy]

advise for that problem?

[fathom thistle]

engineers help with river crossings

and marines

[dusty sandal]

Use better designed and equipped divisions. Pay attention to modifiers and support companies

[storm solstice]

my game crashed when i took stuttgart

[half glade]

with the british raj

does paying dividends just like, mean i lose those civs forever?
what is the 'investment' i get in return for it?
and how do i determine how many 'taxable' factories i have
i know it says 3, but how do i increase/decrease that

[sour mountain]

accidently picked wrong guy

can i still create faction

?

[light knoll]

i think you have the co prosperity sphere later down the tree

[sour mountain]

it dosnt say it can create faction but il try

its weird cuz i alr beat china but i cant do the focus

they should be able top lwk

[light knoll]

it creates a faction

doesn't give you the ability to create new ones tho

[dusty sandal]

It's literally written that it creates a faction

[sour mountain]

oh

[sour mountain]

i ment hte setrule thing

thats what i looked for

mb

[fathom thistle]

Where is proximity fuse special project?

Maybe I'm just blind but I can't find it

[dusty sandal]

It's a naval project iirc

[fathom thistle]

Alr

[indigo sapphire]

which SPs are good to use as any nation?

[dusty sandal]

Flame tanks are basically a must have
Super heavy howitzers and armored vehicles are good too
Cruiser subs are good if you don't have 1940 subs
Superheavy BB is good but not as good as it used to because of torps

Jet engine is needed for mp and 1950+ games in sp
Motherships are stupidly powerful

[indigo sapphire]

alr

what about fleet subs?

[dusty sandal]

Very good but overkill against AI and you unlock them too late

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[dusty sandal]

They're generally banned in mp as well

[indigo sapphire]

alr

thats why i only play SP on hoi4

[storm solstice]

lost every last aircraft i have but won the war 🥲

[carmine geode]

guys is this a good tempalte for tanks?

[storm solstice]

No

[carmine geode]

why 🙏

[storm solstice]

dont use light tanks, upgrade to mechanized over time

[carmine geode]

i mean i will use mediums instead of lights

ignore those lights

[storm solstice]

I would use medium SPGs instead

because soft attack

[carmine geode]

mhmmm

what about

that

trucks

repalce them or use em?

[storm solstice]

use them for now but upgrade to mech as soon as u get them

[carmine geode]

for which one?

[storm solstice]

and in mech modify it to max production cost

[carmine geode]

wdym

i dont have much dlcs

only base game and free ones

[storm solstice]

its not a dlc

[carmine geode]

can u show me visually?

[storm solstice]

idk what this is but mech is the one to the immediate right of truck in mobile infantry

[carmine geode]

this?

[carmine geode]

aaaa

[storm solstice]

it halfs the price

at max

[carmine geode]

aaaa so use these

and craft these

and it unlcoks mehcanized infantry

and upgrade to production

oke oke thanks

[glacial steeple]

i wouldnt use them

theyre expensive and add no stats

[glacial steeple]

just research?? youre not even researching it

[carmine geode]

on whattttttt

[glacial steeple]

you dont need the cromwell what

also like

[carmine geode]

wdym i dont need 🙏

[glacial steeple]

dont worry about ahead of time

[glacial steeple]

tank chassis doesnt give stats

[carmine geode]

its whole different tonk

[glacial steeple]

youre researching so much useless stuff because you want to "stick to the year"

oh nvm, no dlc

[carmine geode]

look

[glacial steeple]

most people have no step back, sorry

[carmine geode]

ah its fine

[glacial steeple]

still this though

[carmine geode]

welll

🙏

[glacial steeple]

yeah thats bad LOL

[carmine geode]

😭

[glacial steeple]

why the ref techs, why no eco, why artillery when you dont have dlc

you only do arty techs for modules with no step back

[glacial steeple]

that can do like mech or something

you could have guns a lot earlier

[glacial steeple]

yeah this is like not good LOL

[carmine geode]

THIS IS GOOD

:So

[glacial steeple]

artillery just has like, bad stats

[carmine geode]

😭

[glacial steeple]

no hp

[glacial steeple]

hoi4 is not irl warfare

[storm solstice]

do u need a focus to do roman enpire

[glacial steeple]

yeah

[storm solstice]

i dont see the option

[glacial steeple]

use it as support

doesnt matter which arty you put in

[storm solstice]

and exc for japan ive done WC

[carmine geode]

and i get soft attack

for support

artilery

its all godo

[glacial steeple]

yes thats like, an unnoticeable difference

as opposed to getting buffs that like, make you win

[carmine geode]

wellll

a penny to penny and u have a dollar 😎

[glacial steeple]

or you could just have 3 dollars

[carmine geode]

i dunno how to

[glacial steeple]

instead of 2 pennies

[hoary glen]

you're the UK. Why do you do ref techs?

[carmine geode]

because i will go to war with soviets

they are holding line before i get ready

so like

what do id o now 😭

[hoary glen]

you have Singapore and can trade the US/ have giant amounts of Oil everywhere yourself. You only need refs if you have neither of those

[agile rivet]

What

[hoary glen]

Tbh no nation in the game profits from fuel ref tech

[glacial steeple]

patrick is really good btw, he won against austria as germany

[agile rivet]

why am losing so much not in combat

[carmine geode]

xdd

[jade tulip]

is GBP worth it as germany if Im going to micro?

[hoary glen]

where are you fighting? Mountains, jungle, desert?

[light knoll]

i heard he also beat Poland is that true

[hoary glen]

yes

[agile rivet]

its a mp

[agile rivet]

but only with my fend hes playing poland

frend*

[glacial steeple]

he got memel i think, idk about poland

[jade tulip]

but dont you lose all planning bonus when pushing with tanks?

[agile rivet]

so i may be losing in iktal;y

[hoary glen]

I mean you are battle planning in Marshes centre of soviets and northern Italy is also Marsh and Mountain. You are fighting in high attrition zones. If you lack supply anywhere you also eat attrition

[hoary glen]

you lose it quicker if you self micro, but you still get full planning and the stats. Using full planning to click enemies is the core of Hoi4 Micro, so this is exactly what you want to do.

[jade tulip]

ight thanks

[proven rain]

what should i do against this

[carmine geode]

i would get the highest garrison

and equip my garrison with enough of supplies

and then just wait 😭

[blissful nova]

doesnt work anymore

china got buffed

[clear thunder]

i'd do civ oversight + garrison w 1 cavalry since th higher the compliance is, itll counteract the resistance

[blissful nova]

if someone cant deal with resistance they absoulutelely cant deal with those laws bro

use some critical thinking skills

90 percent of the time when new players have high resistance its because they are losing thousands of equipment per day or somethi ng

[light knoll]

ignore

unless you're seeing it reaching over 60-70% resistance it isn't really relevant

[hoary glen]

Just battleplan north to south with 60 12w with Support arty. Beating China is easier than it's ever been.

[light knoll]

the game will give notification for nothing

have a good occupation law

[blissful nova]

What do you think im doing

[light knoll]

and you'll be fine

[blissful nova]

Try the strat out again

its patched

[gleaming grove]

How can i build transport planes for paratroopers? Do i need to research paratroopers first to see them?

[blissful nova]

china has doubled its divison count

[blissful nova]

plane research menu

then produce them

[light knoll]

yeah thats a huge nerf for them

[hoary glen]

attack march to june 37

[light knoll]

80 divisions with 30% equipment <<<< 40 divisions with full equipment

[gleaming grove]

Which one is transport?

[blissful nova]

not in 0 supply mountains mate

[blissful nova]

oh you dont have bba

im not sure

[indigo sapphire]

hello yalls

how much INF equipments and techs should i produce

[blissful nova]

as what

[hoary glen]

China doesn't even have the two most vital hold points of Bejing and Jiang. Just push these early and aggressive and you win. But if you struggle add Naval invasions north to south.

[indigo sapphire]

like estonia

[blissful nova]

enough for your army

[hoary glen]

all of them and always get newest inf tech

[blissful nova]

yeah

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[light knoll]

most of china is plains

and you can easily push

[indigo sapphire]

a lot of my mils goes into INF equipments

[light knoll]

even the mountains

[blissful nova]

Your kidding me?

"most of china is plains"

[light knoll]

the outer region is mostly plains

you kill whatever is left of their army there

[blissful nova]

i destroy the outer region

[hoary glen]

It's hills like whut? Still easy to take

[blissful nova]

my problem for me is i cant close encirclements because they will reinforce with 50 units on every battle

[red grove]

Anyone got any tips for beating India in 1955?😬😬😬

[blissful nova]

restart

[red grove]

They have 400 divisions

[hoary glen]

Medium SPG Tanks plus CAS

[blissful nova]

spam nukes

[red grove]

Plus the whole of allies

[blissful nova]

yeah

spam nukes on them

[red grove]

Problem is im attacking from Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan

I can do Naval invasions

But that would mean sacrificing my entire fleet

But I’ll try

[hoary glen]

Get mountaineers

[red grove]

Also I was stupid because haven’t researched nukes 🫠

[hoary glen]

And as soon as you are past the mountains strike with Tanks

[red grove]

I have, but are crashing into like 20 divisions on each time

Maybe my template is bad or smth i don’t really know

[hoary glen]

most important is have like 4k cas in the zone and you are afine

[light knoll]

divisions with no equipment in them are worthless
honestly im not sure how are you struggling with this

[hoary glen]

you can look at the pins for good ones

[blissful nova]

Ima record myself fighting china and send it here later

thx tho

[red grove]

Alr thx, I already have air there but they have alot too, but I will try with tanks

Maybe I can research nukes too

[indigo sapphire]

how many subs should i produce as Germany?

also should i SPAM a lot of cheap divs

[hoary glen]

I would recommend trying out Torpedo Destroyers. But else just as many as you have docks for them

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[hoary glen]

Depends what you do. If you do Tanks get like 60-100 cheap 16w inf for war and 200-250 for Barb. If you do good inf with just Air Spam then as many as you can get while building a strong airforce.

[hoary glen]

green air will be important

[queen blaze]

Hello, I have downloaded it now. Millenium What will I need? So I can play 2000 and above and so on?

[fathom thistle]

not any tbh, since you can use those dockyards for your patroling fleet

[lapis wasp]

what do i do if a warlord refuses to become a puppet when I play as china?

[red grove]

Should I make alot of mountaineers or is less more in this scenario? India has ALOT of troops on their borders

[gleaming grove]

Does this mean i get all of brazil?

[mild portal]

I already do And have variety of them

medium tanks division
fast medium tanks division
Heavy Tanks ( very slow and rarely produced)
Modern Tanks divison ( equivalent of early game light tank divisons)

do you want to see the designs?

[bright ruin]

how do i make it so that a frontline streches over multiple countries

[mild portal]

It actually used with tank divisions instead of motor specially in late game specially for the armour and hardness I guess it also gives slightly more breakthrough and soft attack But only use them in attacking divisons if you have strong industry other than that just use motor or cavlary

[swift knot]

how do i make island soilders go to other land

[mild portal]

I think you cant

[devout canopy]

what did i do wrong

[hoary glen]

In this game it doesn't matter if you have 10 or 10000 Divs on one Tile. Two 32w Mountaineers per tile will be enough.

[mild portal]

if the island has port you can just click on the soliders and then right click on the other piece of land but the other piece of land must have a port too

[bright ruin]

oh that sucks

[swift knot]

yeah but it doesn't move

[mild portal]

or you could just draw a fall back order on the other land and it will go automatticaly

[mild portal]

screenshot

[bright ruin]

if i put two frontlines on both the belgium and dutch border they all just go to dutch border

[mild portal]

It does

[swift knot]

oh wait it does move thx

[mild portal]

what is your problem

[swift knot]

choosing italy

[devout canopy]

it said i was "winning" the battles but france just walked right into my italy

i "won" all the way to a civil war

[mild portal]

I dont really understand but you seem to not know anything about the game and have some missconceptions

[bright ruin]

is this overkill for the netherlands

[mild portal]

like you say france walked into your land and that may be because you have no men on the border I guess?

[mild portal]

LIke what the hell is that start division

show the template so that I could tell

[bright ruin]

i just did an icon so i can differentiate between other divisions

[mild portal]

how many hours do you have on this game dude?

[bright ruin]

17

[mild portal]

makes sense

[bright ruin]

yep

[mild portal]

just restart

[mild portal]

first of all that is shit

[devout canopy]

whats a good nation for a noobie? one that doesnt have to deal with the naval system ideally

[bright ruin]

tannu tuva

[mild portal]

switzerland

[swift knot]

is germany good for noobs

[mild portal]

no too much responsibility

[bright ruin]

ah

okay

[mild portal]

see

firstly

you cant put motorised along with regular infantry

[swift knot]

= (

[mild portal]

cuz motorised have 12 km peed

speed

[swift knot]

what should nations do i need to play

[mild portal]

while infantry has 4

[swift knot]

i want to play axis

[mild portal]

so infantry would slow down mototr

motor

so replace the 3 motor with regular infantry

also no need to put tanks along with infantry that early because you wont have the industry to produce enough of it for each infantry division

also depending on the light tank design it probably have very high speed around 10km wich infantry would slow down too

so the best option is to put ligt tanks in seperate divison along with motorised

and use them along with other independent motorised for breakthrough attacks

[hoary glen]

Always use fully equipped divs

[mild portal]

while keep infantry as defensive units which could be used to attack just to pin while the breakthrough armies do the job

[hoary glen]

Either do Inf or Tanks. Never Both unless you just add one Heavy Tank for Stats

[mild portal]

I am actually explaining to him his mistakes

cuz he has disasterious design

also you should show your tank design cuz it is probably shit

[hoary glen]

Either Germany with lots of restarts or smth like Australia or Canada which are very chill.

[swift knot]

guys

[mild portal]

Bulgaria or romania

or hungary

[hoary glen]

If you like to fix your mistakes and restart a lot, yeah. Else play smth more chill like Canda or Australia

[swift knot]

ooo romania ok thx

[devout canopy]

i think i want to do canada, but can Canada participate naval or no? so far away

[swift knot]

i picked germany , what should i do first

[mild portal]

It can why not?

[mild portal]

declare war on the USSR

[hoary glen]

USA and UK will take care of it

[bright ruin]

its just the base one

but yes im learning..................

[devout canopy]

so i should focus on land invasions?

[mild portal]

modify it and add radios and better gun ( put the close support gun for max soft attack)

also add speed try to match it to 12 km per hour while maintainig decent reliabaility and good breakthrough and cheap Ic cost

[bright ruin]

is it imperative to always research support divisions?

[mild portal]

what does Imperative mean?

[bright ruin]

if its needed

[mild portal]

I could help you if you want like I really like to play with people maybe coop or smthing

[mild portal]

yes it is important but not the most important RN

Wanna share screen?

[bright ruin]

yeah wait im gonna restart i think

okay so co-op or screenshare?

[mild portal]

yeah ok I could tell you how to play properly if you need anything I have played germany a lot GL Bro

[mild portal]

Whatever you like

Mind Coop?

[bright ruin]

nope

ill host

[mild portal]

Not minding or minding?

ok sure

[swift knot]

how many hours do u need to fully understand this game

[mild portal]

I am around 700 hours and kinda feel I understand 95 %

[hoary glen]

All mils on Guns, spam out your normal inf template. Go down to Führer Prinzip, grab Speer. Then you go to Anschluss. If you have been training enough divs you can get it done like June. Then next you go for right side eco focuses that spawn the civs, then go for the ones with mils. Always grab Hess and later Gobb as soon as available. When you have your Eco grab czechs and keep all of it. rest is up to you but try to Danzig around june to sep 39.

Also build max infra in the west states with Dams, then start only building mils until end of 38 where you build like 12 Refineries. Then build mils again.

Research Air and Inf stuff, Tanks if you want to do them as well. Always keep your eco and rubber tech up to date and go dispersed.

Don't worry about PP you have infinite of it. So spend it how you like. But your first or 2nd pick should be army advisor and you should get war eco as soon as you hit 50% ws.

Also if you have spies try to do two collabs on Poland as well as France.

[mild portal]

But you should let him figure his playstyle and Have fun instead of scripted meta gaming

like tell him how to play not what to do

[hoary glen]

You can just focus on fighting in africa. Allies will land eventually and then you can expand to europe

[fathom thistle]

thats individual experience, good milestone is 100% world conquest

that forces you to interact with everything

[keen hemlock]

I have like 950 and I still learn new stuff daily

[mild portal]

Any mods or pure vannila?

[hoary glen]

if you need template you can look at the pins of this channel

[bright ruin]

vanilla

no dlc

[mild portal]

Wait really

let me host I have all dlc

[swift knot]

how to do anchulss

[bright ruin]

okay!

[mild portal]

Focus tree

[swift knot]

i don't have the requirement

[swift knot]

ik but i can't

[hoary glen]

you need to have more divisions deployed then

[remote sedge]

I'm having a problem where the short term goal of creating joint research practices isn't available. I had it, but then i accidentally swapped it for something else and now it's not available. Does anyone know how to get it back?

[hoary glen]

You need to put like 20 Mils on guns Day1

[swift knot]

how many

[mild portal]

Then match them

[hoary glen]

20-30 more then you start with

[mild portal]

do you know the requirments?

[mild portal]

No sorry

[swift knot]

yeah

500K soilders

[hoary glen]

Too many useless focuses nowadays. If you do too many wrong you end up declaring war in 1940 and Allies have double the troops making it much harder for a beginner

[mild portal]

then increase your soliders till you match

[mild portal]

that is how I actually learned and it was a fun way of learning and the hard way too but have good yields

[mild portal]

Send you info on DM

[hoary glen]

If the condition got completet in the meantime it's gone forever.

[swift knot]

Ok

just recruit them?

[mild portal]

yess

and produce equipment for them

or buy

better to produce as germany

[indigo sapphire]

how much licenses and stuff should i buy

like as estonia if i start running low

[keen hemlock]

Enough to were you won’t be low on it anymore

[indigo sapphire]

alr

thx

what types of production licenses should i get

[fathom thistle]

licenses ?

[indigo sapphire]

yes

they were added

[keen hemlock]

You don’t need those

Ai designs suck anyways

[charred light]

Why do you need licenses

What nation do you play?

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[fathom thistle]

oh like actual licenses from other countries,, yeah they suck

[indigo sapphire]

estonia

[vagrant grove]

whats the current navy meta for us?

[blissful nova]

what is this symbol and how to fix

[charred light]

You can do your own designs

[fathom thistle]

pretty much still torpedo dd's

[vagrant grove]

ok thx

[charred light]

Personally my favorite path is communist one

As Estonia

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[charred light]

It's very easy to core the Baltic's and you will be very strong

[indigo sapphire]

alr

ik

ive done it

a couple few times

as Estonia

[devout canopy]

this has to be the most complicated, hardest to learn paradox game by far

[charred light]

Not really

[inner acorn]

vic 3 is harder imo

[devout canopy]

i found vic 3 way easier to grasp

[charred light]

I hate stellaris

[devout canopy]

stellaris is SOO easy

[indigo sapphire]

i like HOI4

A LOT

[charred light]

Yeah but stellaris is boring

[fathom thistle]

stellaris gets boring so quickly

like 😭

[inner acorn]

honestly i got like 20 minutes each on ck3 and eu4

[charred light]

Ck3 and hoi4 are best games

[inner acorn]

too hard

[indigo sapphire]

how and why does other ai nation licenses suck?

[charred light]

I have 500h in ck3 and 700h in hoi4

[charred light]

Ai tends to make some dumb things

[fathom thistle]

ck3 when you die but you have more then one kid left...

[charred light]

Like improved small airplane is so bad for Italy

[charred light]

It's easy to fix

Just add inheritance law

[fathom thistle]

ik imprisoning etc.

but like its bums

[indigo sapphire]

ill take whatever i can get

[fathom thistle]

thats kinda late into game

[charred light]

Italy planes are like paper

[fathom thistle]

since I start from the earliest scenario always

[charred light]

Thet can't do anything

[indigo sapphire]

wdym

[charred light]

Ai makes very bad designs

[fathom thistle]

light attack battleships 😭

italy in its best

[charred light]

Germany and Soviets probably make best designs because of cannons

[charred light]

Pizza ship

[keen hemlock]

My 300 polish planes were enough to shred like 1000 allied planes

[devout canopy]

they said stellaris is boring, here i am playing canada in hoi4 about to fall asleep

[charred light]

Play something more aggressive

[keen hemlock]

With like 500 German ones

[charred light]

Canada is just playing tall

[indigo sapphire]

why does The international market and licenses requires Civ factories?

[gleaming grove]

im not at war with us why cant i cross? And why cant i use my fleet around panama?

[keen hemlock]

You have to pay

[charred light]

How else would you pay?

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[charred light]

With political power 😭

[keen hemlock]

There’s no money system just civ factories

[indigo sapphire]

yes ik

hopefully for hoi5 they add a money system

similiar to eu4 and 5

[fathom thistle]

Swiss cheese currency for Switzerland 🔥

[charred light]

Icl you can't play hoi4 without all dlcs