ask-for-help-here

[glacial steeple]

is not a lot

id hope theyre at least like 32w inf but im doubtful

[errant chasm]

hello casey

[glacial steeple]

ok im gonna go watch military news brb in like an hour

[prisma bronze]

Hi, I been playing this game for a while, and I had some success, but I am struggling with hitting timers, and army comps, and getting up numbers, either because of production or manpower or both...

Any vids you can suggest to watch, I tried watching some but, nothing is hitting the blind spot I got...

[austere roost]

Wdym success

Can you cap ussr during barb

[prisma bronze]

I mean, I usually get pretty big, but fall apart after like 42-44 ish...

TBH, it depends on who I play as, but most of the times the cause of the fall is the same, my army becomes obsolate, the numbers are too few, and can not handle the piling of enemies.

OFC with easier countries, I do get some wins, but even there I struggle a lot.

[dark thunder]

Websites?

What’s wrong with the workshop?

[austere roost]

in that case you should try following bittersteel's germany guide and try to recreate his progress

then you can start worrying about how to build airplanes (templates in pins), what doctrines are good and why, how does industry and production work (they're different things), etc.

templates are the least you should worry about

[prisma bronze]

I guess, its hard to explain, where I fall, off, I dont usually have issues playing Germany though, in the "Normal way" Although I do mess up Sealion quite often cause I dont quite understand navies... but after that its usually easy sailing.

Tbh, I think my main issue is understand little of everything, but nothing properly.

[austere roost]

well you can start by watching segl

[glacial steeple]

germany is like the most OP nation in the game, ithink youre just like, ignoring half the game if not more if you lose as them

[austere roost]

for example the one in pins that tells you why line art sucks

[glacial steeple]

its really hard to pinpoint

[austere roost]

seems like he can sealion in the end despite heavy losses

[glacial steeple]

likely, bad research, not going for autarky, civgreed, bad units, bad generals, bad air combined

[obsidian badger]

dont question why, but what’s the easiest way to release the caucasus nations without setting soviets to fragmented

[spark gorge]

The game balance is just comical

[prisma bronze]

Ah I didnt mean I lose 42-44ish as germany, I mean as Hungary for example. its not about Germany here

[spark gorge]

everything is built around the fact that germany hs to be able to do stuff no matter what

[austere roost]

so what is your factory count and your divisions by danzig or war?

[spark gorge]

they get like 0 bad modifiers for anything

besides mefo

[glacial steeple]

mefo is a buff

[obsidian badger]

Germany still fumbles

[dark thunder]

chat can we kill Germany players

[obsidian badger]

Every game

[spark gorge]

they dont even get a debuff for losing ww1 like any other nation

god damn even french get a debuff for WINNING ww1

[dark thunder]

like Germany players fr ruin all balance discussion

[glacial steeple]

italy too

[spark gorge]

but germany has to be op

[inner sparrow]

bc germany is a new dlc nation and allies are not

[glacial steeple]

it does not to this degree

[spark gorge]

if they dont wage wars world tension gets stuck

[inner sparrow]

thats the only reaosn btw

[obsidian badger]

Germany was locked in tho

So

[spark gorge]

then no more stuff for you democratic nations

[inner sparrow]

new dlc nations = uber op

[obsidian badger]

Phillipines

[inner sparrow]

while france, uk and usa are like guh

[glacial steeple]

japan is pretty balanced on hist no

[dark thunder]

I mean people always assume another is playing Germany

[inner sparrow]

they are strong

[inner sparrow]

NO

[spark gorge]

isnt usa op

[inner sparrow]

Japan is so op

[spark gorge]

but like insanely boring

[glacial steeple]

sorry :(

[inner sparrow]

if allies don’t larp japan it will nuke them btw

[spark gorge]

usa gets like uninterrupted 10 hours of factory tycoon gameplay

[austere roost]

japan got a focus to surrender, so op

[prisma bronze]

I nearly never play Germany cause its boringly easy

[glacial steeple]

no lmao 😭

[inner sparrow]

has to be caged by ruleset

[spark gorge]

with unlimited resources

[obsidian badger]

Theres no content

Basically

[glacial steeple]

usa is weak

[spark gorge]

boring as hell

[glacial steeple]

bad mils

[spark gorge]

but like

[glacial steeple]

bad MIOs

bad generals

[spark gorge]

I dont have mio dlc :)

[obsidian badger]

Texas needs to be split into 5 ingame states

[glacial steeple]

output of mils bad

build slots too limiting

its like one of the weakest majors

[inner sparrow]

better like that fr

[obsidian badger]

Ur telling me westphalia or hessen can have as many factories as texas

[dark thunder]

I think Germany does need more late game nerfs. Hitler should have gotten a Quisling system where his portrait gets worse and his stats degrades as he gets more and more into his drug ridden state in the later years of the war, not huge stat buffs he gains in the late game.

[spark gorge]

I want sweden tree

[inner sparrow]

dw as soon as allies get dlc nations will be op aswell

[dark thunder]

Kaiserredux

[inner sparrow]

just gotta wait some years

righttt

[glacial steeple]

game will be balanced by 2050

[inner sparrow]

truth nuke

[spark gorge]

uk lowkey crazy

as is

[glacial steeple]

ahist uk yeah

[austere roost]

just play tno then

[spark gorge]

france can also shaft germany if you reject sudetenland

[glacial steeple]

no

you lose

[dark thunder]

??? That’s not even the same genre as vanilla

[glacial steeple]

well, against player

[spark gorge]

I dont :)

[inner sparrow]

allies are op in mp tbh but that’s more bc of their ic that they have and gameplay

[obsidian badger]

I feel most ahis russia is weak

[dark thunder]

I’m saying Germany is op, needs late game nerfs.

[glacial steeple]

against ai its like wow you beat a child on the playground

[obsidian badger]

Eco of conquest

[inner sparrow]

they nerfed sov btw bc sov ai was beating up ger ai in hist and players complained about it

[dark thunder]

I really like it in theory but it just isn’t a nerf enough

[obsidian badger]

It still does 🥀

[inner sparrow]

as it should

[obsidian badger]

Lol

[dark thunder]

lol lmao that’s what happened irl

[austere roost]

maybe limit germany from getting war eco

so you have to like the total war speech to get war eco

[dark thunder]

Germany players spoiled

[glacial steeple]

remove the free stats button and austrian generals?

thats like half of it

MIOs also busted

[inner sparrow]

yeah but it was like beating thwm up in 41 and larpers didn’t like that

[obsidian badger]

Are we talking Germany ai Germany player or Germany in general

[glacial steeple]

germany (balance) but ai is whatever

[inner sparrow]

all of it

[obsidian badger]

German ai is shit

[glacial steeple]

ai should just adapt

[austere roost]

mystichy still smoother because you can use it produce support equip and trains

[inner sparrow]

germn ai is utter shit

[glacial steeple]

ethiopia can get that btw

[astral heath]

is there any way to garruntee romania gives me all of transylvania

as hungary

[glacial steeple]

no

[obsidian badger]

Save scum

[austere roost]

declare on them and annex them

[obsidian badger]

1 month before focus completion

[austere roost]

oh yeah did you see that pic of the holes of german cities

[astral heath]

i mean without annexing its annoying

[obsidian badger]

Keep reloading the save until they give u it

[astral heath]

wait u can save scum on iron man right?

[glacial steeple]

no

[obsidian badger]

Ironman?

[astral heath]

yea

[obsidian badger]

I mean theres methods

[astral heath]

i want the acheivment

[obsidian badger]

Idk them but they exist

[austere roost]

germany is locked on 99% surrender

[glacial steeple]

ohh that one

east germany is poorer smh

[obsidian badger]

122 tank divs in 42

Template?

[austere roost]

120 tank divs in 1941 may

[obsidian badger]

Are they shitters or have u enslaved every worker

To make trans

Tanks

Phone correct

[austere roost]

10 spgs 8 mechs eng support aa support art med flames logistics

[dark thunder]

Remember chat, if you occupy the land of a capitulated country in exile, they are added to the peace deal as a defeated power.

Useful if your pushing Germany as Soviets, snake around to Benelux and France and they will be puppetable when the war ends

[austere roost]

mechs are +5 production cost and spgs are just basic chassis 3 man turret lvl 2 howitzer tds are just basic chassis 3 man turret medium cannon 1

[glacial steeple]

you can get 120+ heavy TDs out by barb in sheeps

as ussr

[obsidian badger]

Guh

[austere roost]

yeah there are certain things I didn't exploit

[obsidian badger]

https://tenor.com/view/spaiz-tryhard-inae-gif-25591120

[austere roost]

like giving tuva 1 province to let them pic industry focuses earlier so you can annex them earlier

also I screwed up my navy training schedule

[obsidian badger]

How to release countries as Soviets as fast as possible without fragmented

[austere roost]

that's very broken

flip trotsky, early war japan, release everyone then take comecon

1200 factories in 1938

[glacial steeple]

screenshots (not mine)

[obsidian badger]

Does sheep buff player or general producction rates

[dark thunder]

Trotsky path he can release countries

[obsidian badger]

yayy civil war…..

[austere roost]

civil war isn't hard

[obsidian badger]

It’s annoying

[dark thunder]

why are you making Chinese guns

[glacial steeple]

it makes amphibs cheaper, and you can get more civboost from allies

[obsidian badger]

Tech rush prob

[glacial steeple]

so technically its mostly possible in vanilla, but the civs are RNG with normal ai

like even more

[austere roost]

so what does sheep ai even do to game mechanics

[glacial steeple]

nothing

changes some MIOs and stuff tho

[austere roost]

cuz i remember downloading it once and immediately popping the japan border provocations and I was like dude

[obsidian badger]

Makes every country ai play as optimally as possible

[glacial steeple]

and some focuses

[austere roost]

you don't even have enough time to move all the troops there

[obsidian badger]

Some tech too

[glacial steeple]

ehh not really

just makes outdated guns easier to produce

still should never do it

[obsidian badger]

It’s incompatible with tech overhaul mods

Like ett60

[glacial steeple]

yeah it changes gun tech

but its just buffs to making outdated guns

[obsidian badger]

Only reason i use better ai instead

[austere roost]

i saw this exploit in chinese sites to use 1918 guns to train all 4 subdoctrines together

[obsidian badger]

Ngl if i remove the tech changes files sheeps should then be compatible no?

[glacial steeple]

yes

[obsidian badger]

With ett

[glacial steeple]

sheepmod submod fr

[obsidian badger]

Idk how to mood

Mod

I hate phone typing

[glacial steeple]

#modding

they usually know

[austere roost]

if you've modded skyrim before modding hoi4 should be much easier

[obsidian badger]

Wait actually it wont

Sheeps probably adds preset fighters and stuff

But ett changes like modules and stuff

[austere roost]

is bice or sheep harder

[obsidian badger]

Its a problem even with better ai

[obsidian badger]

Bice

[austere roost]

i've been watching bice playthroughs and the 2nd 5yp there looks like torture

[obsidian badger]

In Sheeps everybody is competent

In bice u aren’t competent because of the 5 quintillion feature bloat

[austere roost]

yeah like every year you need to research different tank builds like wtf

the food and energy and synthetic resource system seems cool, way better than coal in base game

[glacial steeple]

no?

why would it

it just sets target templates for ai afaik

[obsidian badger]

Better ai does

[glacial steeple]

better ai cheats yes

[obsidian badger]

And then ai can’t produce it

[glacial steeple]

wdym

[obsidian badger]

If some tech is in a disallowed module it just makes it impossible to make

Produce

[glacial steeple]

oh yeah im just saying sheep doesnt do that

the ai doesnt get cheated in designs

they have to do it themselves

and if they never get the tech themselves/from license they wont have it

unlike better ai where it just spawns it in

because spawning in is a lot easier to code

[obsidian badger]

Only thing i don’t like is Argentina and Dominican Republic lock in in sheeps

And other lame nations

[astral heath]

i hate ai

my germany deadass did influence the benelux

its 1939 btw

[keen hemlock]

whats the best design for a carrier naval bomber?

[austere roost]

highest lvl torpedo, highest level single engine

[keen hemlock]

any other modueles

[light knoll]

why do collabs i do on china apply to some warlords state but not others

[obsidian badger]

If u can range and defense stuff

Like self sealing fuel tanks

[austere roost]

they're useless in naval combat

like you're spending much more in ic for like maybe 5 less planes shot down

if you really want to put more on your carrier naval bombers then put max heavy machine guns since pdx now allows naval bombers to use them when bombing

[keen hemlock]

Alr

Ty

[tropic igloo]

am palying as germany france and belgium keep holding me and then they join the comenturn and then call in half of eu.
how can i push them easier

Yes am using close air support and Medium tanks

[glacial steeple]

depends on what youre occupying

[austere roost]

ahistorical?

what is your supply and air situation

[tropic igloo]

historical as german empire and i have full supply and air

[austere roost]

green?

[tropic igloo]

they just have stacks on forts

[austere roost]

don't attack maginot

[tropic igloo]

Yes

[austere roost]

go through belgium

[tropic igloo]

am stuck at belgium

[austere roost]

are you divisions fully equipped?

[tropic igloo]

Yes using Medium tanks and holding troops

[austere roost]

can you send screenshot of frontlines?

and air situation?

[tropic igloo]

nvm i think its becuase i need to make the front line bigger

I need to take netherlands first and then do the Schlieffen Plan

[fleet reef]

What DLC pack unlocks the Dora?

[austere roost]

nsb?

and then gotterdamerung unlocks super heavy rg

[fleet reef]

K, and what about the Flampanzer?

[austere roost]

but you'll need to micro the railway gun a lot or else they'll keep going to ports and get sank by subs

nsb

if it's tanks then it's nsb

[fleet reef]

K, thanks

[devout canopy]

what do you do if hitler loses after you joined the axis?

[keen hemlock]

You defend from the naval invasions

[wind canyon]

this situation is kinda over but imo you should take over the American continent after you secure your northern territory

then spend a good long while building up a navy while setting up port guards to defend from the british and french naval invasions

then after that island hop from greenland to iceland and then the tip of england

[chrome sedge]

no

it took like 70 days

[vapid gate]

im rly skeptical about switching to free trade as new zealand

[light knoll]

i realized that i was doing it the wrong order in the peace deal but im still not surewhy some random territories in warlords controlled states got the compliance

like random states in tge middle of Sichuan, shanxi, etc. got the compliance

it works fine and everyone get it when i annex warlords first then china

but when i do china first then warlords its weird

[neat widget]

70 days is still extremely short imo

considering we're talking about the axis in sheep's mod

[regal geode]

hi so im trying to figure out exactly like what i should be going for with a light tank build? i just need it to fill a gap between me and the japs while i do other stuff for a sec as brit raj

[glacial steeple]

👨‍🦼

[chrome sedge]

no

imagine what you could do in 70 days

so much sleep

[chrome sedge]

so true

[chrome sedge]

btw is sheeps mod difficult rn

actually better question is the game better

[neat widget]

still difficult, a bit less difficult than before but still a challenge

[chrome sedge]

less than?

[neat widget]

than pre-1.17

[chrome sedge]

oh oki

[neat widget]

road to 56?

[glacial steeple]

sheep is making kaiserreich submods

[regal geode]

yea

[chrome sedge]

sooooo

is he going to make a non hoi4 sheep mod

[glacial steeple]

well sheep is making like ai/enhancement mods for it yeah

[chrome sedge]

whhahahha

[glacial steeple]

not rlly interested in vanilla

[chrome sedge]

im hallucinating or smth

[glacial steeple]

why

[chrome sedge]

thats hoi4 no?

[vapid gate]

when i first started selling some convoys all nations rushed to buy them but they left 6 units for months now without any offer
is that normal?

[chrome sedge]

writing a paper rn and its 3 am

[glacial steeple]

yes

[chrome sedge]

.

[glacial steeple]

dont write the paper

[chrome sedge]

its due tmrrw

[glacial steeple]

sleep for 48h (coma) so you have an excuse

[chrome sedge]

its not exactly like that would dbdhdf

ah whatever

[glacial steeple]

wdym

[chrome sedge]

halucinations

[glacial steeple]

cant you say 'i went into a coma' (medical issue) to get an extension

its so easy /j

[chrome sedge]

probably but also im like not the only author

so eeehh,m

problametic

[neat widget]

aeugh

no easy solution :(

[chrome sedge]

mhmhmmhmh

[vapid gate]

i think going this way is better

for now

[waxen sluice]

anyone know if this is a good division template for 1941 finland about to do the continuation war

[balmy dawn]

Do Supply Hubs "work" if they're in a province under attack? For example, if I drop one here (as shown), would it stop working when the Italians attack?

If so, should I move it back a hex?

[woeful minnow]

i would help but i can barely tell what the hell im looking at cz the nato symbols

[balmy dawn]

Nato symbols ftw

[woeful minnow]

heck naw

[wind canyon]

yeah same nato symbols are not it

[wind canyon]

well that one is currently under constrction

but after its done yeah it will function just fine

but do keep in mind construction in that provence will halt if under attack

[balmy dawn]

It's not under construction just yet. I was just wondering about the in-combat modifiers

[wind canyon]

oh alr just make sure u don't lose it cz at that point just fall back to an area with more supply

[balmy dawn]

Very true

Same with Land Forts 😮

[waxen sluice]

idk how to change them but its 6 infantry 1 engineer company and 1 artillery

[wind canyon]

uh for finland that okay but you should aim to have 9 inf battalions once you move up conscription laws perhaps some support aa if u can afford it

[waxen sluice]

i dont think i can upkeep the manpower demand since i just lost half of my army

hbut thanks

[wind canyon]

oh uh

[celest shuttle]

i have a question why i coup a country and after i sucess they dont join my faction ?

[wind canyon]

i mean are you in any faction?

[waxen sluice]

no

im lone wolf

[astral heath]

what do i do?

[wind canyon]

well all it does is just change ideology of the nation it dosen't mean that explicitly have to join ur faction

[wind canyon]

id say just stick with it but that does mean you need to step up your game

[wind canyon]

ah thats kinda rough i mean any chance u can white peace?

[celest shuttle]

@wind canyon they are non alige like me but after coup they join Axies

[waxen sluice]

probably not

[celest shuttle]

@wind canyondo u have anyway to make them leave axies and join me

[waxen sluice]

aslong as i hold my frontlines and leningrad im chilling

[wind canyon]

alright i suggest forts if your industry can afford it the soviets are eventually gonna come back with a vengence

[wind canyon]

no not rlly

[waxen sluice]

ive got a decent military industry im good on that, i just need to hold out and silently gain more mp

[wind canyon]

good luck bro sounds like your in for a rough time post 1942-43

[celest shuttle]

then coup is useless thing sigh

[wind canyon]

pretty much

[waxen sluice]

yep lol, my first ironman playthrough so its nothing bad

[wind canyon]

ahh fun

[wind canyon]

altho if you were to justify a war goal on the other side of the coup it would be a mutual war so there is a good chance the side you want to win will join your faction

don't count on it tho they may decide to join some other faction cz hoi4 ai

[celest shuttle]

@wind canyoni try that already but they still join Axies not my faction i play china

@wind canyonthey join axies at a second they coup

when the coup sucess they war with Burma and join axies

[wind canyon]

alright so whats the goal exactly? why do you wanna coup burma?

[celest shuttle]

@wind canyoni want to take Burma without war with allies

[wind canyon]

right so the reason the other side of burma joins the axis

is cz the other side is already at war with the british witch by extention is at war with germany

[celest shuttle]

@wind canyonthat why i load my save and war with allies first before coup but they still join Axies

[wind canyon]

my suggestion is this, its super cheesy but it may work

[celest shuttle]

i feel this mechanic is random

not sure which faction they will join

[wind canyon]

its not random its that they will join the side that will help them most

[celest shuttle]

i help they coup but not sure they will join me

[wind canyon]

in this case the axis

[wind canyon]

right but because of that

[celest shuttle]

Axis is strongest faction for now

[wind canyon]

it puts them at war with the british

[celest shuttle]

if i strongest faction maybe they will change their mind

[wind canyon]

no its not how that works

if you want burma you have to go to war with the alies

[celest shuttle]

ok

@wind canyonthank u very much

[wind canyon]

no worries good luck

[waxen sluice]

i got back up to 26 divisions with ~35k manpower and germany is closing in on key victory points in the USSR

just started my offensive but i forgot to change the template

[wind canyon]

thats good

does it look like the germans are stalling yet?

or does it look like the ussr will hold out?

[waxen sluice]

nope theyre moving great

the USSR has little troops on the northern part of the front

[bitter venture]

anyone down to play mp and teach me the game along the way?

[waxen sluice]

@wind canyon if you care i pushed them far back!!!

[wind canyon]

Good work bro

Keep it up make sure you don’t over extend

[wind canyon]

Good good

Hope Germany will let u take what u want during the peace deal

[wind canyon]

I can’t rn but I’m more then happy to answer ur questions whenever u get then

[vagrant stratus]

So uhm. Playing as Italy. If I can't get my navy anywhere close to the UK because I can't pass ships through the Gibraltar strait, and Germany vacuumed up all of the airports that I would be able to use to drop paratroopers onto the mainland.. How exactly do I deal with them?

[astral heath]

do i attack soviets or british first

[waxen sluice]

5% war score is great, anyways im about to get komi

[pulsar plover]

I havent played since probably the release of Gotterdamerug and i gotta be honest alot has changed, my biggest question is, what does properly equipped units mean when in terms of annexing Austria?

[pliant condor]

own gibraltar

[left mica]

_ _

[pliant condor]

or ok before joining the war have your navy ghere

[left mica]

think that means fully equipped divisions

[gloomy vector]

do i need to change anything

[neat widget]

add an mio

also there's an interesting feature below that checkbox

[gloomy vector]

cool bird

[high basin]

Does anyone know how to counter tank in multiplayer, I have support anti tank in all my infantry, but the breakthrough is so high my infantry just get sand flying

[vivid lotus]

I could use some help proclaiming the GGR, 'cause I have no idea what else I could be missing

[neat widget]

norway?

check for anything you got in a peace deal that you don't have right now

greenland is another frequent one

[left mica]

check this

there should be a core that denmark still owns for some reason

[left mica]

why would germany have cores on greenland and norway

[neat widget]

they don't

but it says that all owned states (i.e. those you have from the start, get from peace deals, or events) have to be fully controlled (i.e. your color on the map) by you

[vivid lotus]

I did both Norway and Denmark just now, still a no. Do I have to win the war to proclaim?

[left mica]

no

wtf

um

so go to any state you own then hover your mouse over your own country flag

...that should highlight all your cores

other than that idk

[neat widget]

the prerequisites don't even involve cores

so idk why we're talking about cores

[left mica]

oh wait it says all owned states controlled by germany

could be any islands or whatever thats being occupied by someone else

just kick them out of there and ur good

[neat widget]

Yeah

[hoary glen]

Support At unless AT3 does nothing in MP. What Nation are you playing? And Hist?

[glacial steeple]

hi patrick

well it does something if the enemy has like MC2 medium tanks

[worthy prairie]

i wanna truly learn how to play and im hoping that this makes it to the right people

[high basin]

I played France and got shit on by my friend, his playing Germany and my infantry got destroyed by his armor even though I have support anti tank

[uncut niche]

how do i invade albania i have declared war on albania but i cant move my troops nor naval invade i need help

[neat widget]

you don't control the strait of otranto

[high basin]

his tank look like this

[neat widget]

so you either have to have your whole invasion south of the black line or north of the black line

[neat widget]

Bruh

this is a multiplayer template?

[high basin]

yea

[uncut niche]

and how do i do that

[neat widget]

by naval invading albania unfortunately

[high basin]

me and my friend don't know sht about multiplayer

[glacial steeple]

its not that bad

[neat widget]

if your naval invasion arrow does cross the strait it will literally just not appear

[uncut niche]

i cant naval invade it doesnt let me

[neat widget]

Oh what?

Show me your naval tab from the upper right

[uncut niche]

look at the screenshot

[high basin]

how do I hold my line wieh him having those tank

[glacial steeple]

make your own better tanks

but also germany is OP so you shouldnt win

[high basin]

so do I only use tank?

[neat widget]

no, click one of the buttons on the upper right

and the naval button there

[neat widget]

So yeah you have naval invasion capacity

what happens if you try setting up a naval invasion order

I see the button is greyed somehow

[uncut niche]

its grayed i cant invade

[neat widget]

Hover over it

What does it say

[high basin]

if I had this would it hold the line?

[high basin]

or how can I make it better

[glacial steeple]

no

that really really sucks

[neat widget]

okay that's really weird

do you have mods enabled

[glacial steeple]

its super expensive for what it is

[uncut niche]

no

[neat widget]

OH

you can't do naval invasion orders with field marshals

you have to do it on a general level

[daring condor]

Is quantity better than quality?

[glacial steeple]

make it way larger like 15 inf 1 td or make small slop inf + dedicated heavy TDs with HC2

[glacial steeple]

no

[uncut niche]

so should i create a new army group?

[neat widget]

No

don't think in terms of army groups at all

you have to think on an individual army level

[high basin]

what is HC2?

[glacial steeple]

heavy cannon 2

[neat widget]

heavy cannon 2, you get it from either 1940 aa or 1939 at

[high basin]

I see so 15 inf and 1 td should hold against tank right?

[neat widget]

I don't think you will hold totally, but it will delay the enemy

[high basin]

so there is just no way you can hold tank with out tank right?

[glacial steeple]

itll do better

[glacial steeple]

well assuming the german player doesnt get vets, does use good generals and doesnt use the free stats decision it should hold

[neat widget]

no way you can hold tank without either tank or air, and against germany i don't think you will have either

[glacial steeple]

which seems likely if no field hospital

[neat widget]

can't expect germany to know how to general grind

[high basin]

what is vets?

[neat widget]

i don't even know how to

veterans

[glacial steeple]

send big dude to spain

battle a lot

its based on battle lenght

training time buffs are a factor to it

[high basin]

is I play us vs Germany what should my line holding inf should look like

[neat widget]

yeah

[neat widget]

somehow i'm never able to do it

[vital plinth]

Are medium fighters or heavry fighters any good ? If you have a lot of mills

[neat widget]

yeah medium fighters can be good in certain situations

but the true standard is supersonic light fighters

[glacial steeple]

@neat widget i have a challenge and idk if its possible

try to hold/win as france in vanilla but you cant make mils

[indigo sapphire]

should i keep playing Mostly Estonia

[glacial steeple]

i wouldnt

[indigo sapphire]

wdym

[glacial steeple]

estonia doesnt have a ton of potential in hoi4

[indigo sapphire]

OH alr

well for me its fun playing as Estonia

[glacial steeple]

then its fine :D

whatever you find fun

[indigo sapphire]

its also fun playing as Estonia becus its a challenge for me

@glacial steeple

[glacial steeple]

hi

:3

[indigo sapphire]

read above

[glacial steeple]

well youre not forced to change :D

[indigo sapphire]

alr

[uncut narwhal]

whats the best design for a light cruiser spam on germany

[lime shoal]

yo can i stillget less combat width on mass mobi

[uncut narwhal]

you get reduced combat width on large unit doctrine

[uncut narwhal]

thanks

[uncut narwhal]

also whats a good naval doctrine?

[glacial steeple]

FIB, capital hunters iirc, patrol boat, light task force, marine support (i think)

[uncut narwhal]

thanks again

[hoary glen]

Hiiiii

[pliant condor]

you don't get doctrines anyway

pick the one where the opening pick give real bonuses

[hoary glen]

Next time keep your starting army, deny Rheinland (be ready for the Southern civil war) and just crush him.

Overall very evil of him to do that matchup. Depending on when he starts war you can rush AT2, slap it on heavy Tanks, get like 6 for war and kill him. Else there's nothing really to do for you. For that build in Mainland, build Mils Day one and release all possible nations as puppets.

Tank template should be in the pins.

[glacial steeple]

you do with navy

[brittle mulch]

What is important when making a template?

[hoary glen]

Trash. But good enough if you have no Tanks.

[glacial steeple]

its their enemy

[hoary glen]

Yes

And those are trash divs

But good enough to beat op with his Inf only France build

[high basin]

Yea is a good tank build because my tank also look like that

[hoary glen]

No

Never use Motorized. Use Cav, but you as France should use camels. They are armour less mech

Also Heavy Tanks mog Mediums, especially with HC2

Support you want Scout LT and field hospital instead of Arty.

[high basin]

I see thanks

[glacial steeple]

im assuming manstein is used too

so its very beatable

even with large inf with medium TD

because the tanks suck

they will do like half if not a quarter of damage if not less than optimal tanks

its probably somewhere between 15-25% of stats

so like 800-1.5K attack

which means if your div can get 2K defense in battle youll never be crit

especially with the TD to pierce and do some hard attack

[hoary glen]

@high basin send 40w camel vols to Spain to grind Combines arms expert and then later make these Divs with veterancy into Tanks. Or find other wars to grind in like China war.

[glacial steeple]

thats my thought process

[hoary glen]

Mediums is rough bc you can only start building them so late. Basic Heavy you can build from the start

[stray scaffold]

Can someone help me I want to Play with my friend but it says that we have different Version

[glacial steeple]

no?

just make interwar?

theyre inf support tanks anyway

[hoary glen]

Eww

[glacial steeple]

also. hmm

that div has like 60% hardness

maybe you just do SPG tanks

[hoary glen]

What is your checksum, what is his? Are you playing with mods?

[stray scaffold]

No we Both dont have any on just DLC

[hoary glen]

What is your Checksum and what is his?

[stray scaffold]

Mine is (b048) his is (cdcd)

[stray scaffold]

So Idk How to make it the Same

[hoary glen]

I'm currently on 1.5.3 and we have the same checksum ^^

Funny

[stray scaffold]

Huh

[hoary glen]

Well, I'll check in a sec when I updateed version what is the correct one

[stray scaffold]

Okay

[daring gorge]

whgen does legionary romania appear?

and what ideology are they?

[dusty sandal]

verify game files and ensure you're playing on the same game version, with same mods/no mods

[wind canyon]

Fascist usually around 1940ish or whenever they join the allies

Axis*

[twin kayak]

I'm playing turkey and idk how to get these down

[glacial steeple]

putit on local police force

go into deployment tab

you see a bunch of dots on the top

put garrisons on the third so they get reinforcements first

forget about it forever and clicl decisions for manpower

if you didnt do this from day 1, used the special occupation law, or gambled on the kurdish decisions, its going to really hurt you a lot

both in industry and manpower

[twin kayak]

I also have this through focuses

[glacial steeple]

yes and its bad

well its really good but they get resistance buffs so its bad

its like the best occupation law in the game but it doesnt work on kurdistan

you need local police to lower their resistance

civ oversight/reconciliation dont do that and so theyll kill a lot of stuff

[twin kayak]

I'm on civ oversight for these

and they don't really go down

they hover at 40-50%

[glacial steeple]

you should do civ oversight only when you want compliance like 4 years in the future

its ok to do martial/harsh quotas/local police otherwise

[twin kayak]

brutal repression it is xD

[glacial steeple]

for kurdistan you do local

because it like, hurts you the least

[fair sandal]

whats the mp soviet meta?

[glacial steeple]

die but slower

[twin kayak]

are decisions any good ?

[inner sparrow]

depends on ruleset

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgaIttaRMXz5Qo6WYsGJqOCAle5ul4-XyXRFWHr2pos/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.n4gw5heyzkne

but its overall this

with small changes depending on ruleset

[glacial steeple]

i wonder who made this guide

[inner sparrow]

hmmmm I wonder aswell

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1432120791675175165/1491777482607693904/IMG_3221.gif

[glacial steeple]

is this real

[inner sparrow]

yes!!

[twin kayak]

I don't understand anything about this

[fair sandal]

i tried doing this, kinda and i lost against normal ai, i know im stupid but im terrible on this game xd

[inner sparrow]

just shows that u dont know enough about the game to pull it off yet

which isnt bad or anything

also in pure vanilla without any mods soviet is a LOT weaker and worse to play

[fair sandal]

it really bad man

i just returned to this game i didnt play 6 y ago, then i just made 24 widht inf and somehow it worked, no need for air so i didnt learn how to play it, no need for navy because it was terrible mechanics (no near as bad as now, i dont understand anything on navy now)

i just wanna play somewhat better but i need 68 pdfs and excels just to dont die to the normal ai

[fair sandal]

to be fair i just playes minors, because i didnt want to make my brain explode but now i wanna major and crazy shit its happening

[glacial steeple]

never click it

it loses stab but cant gain any

[twin kayak]

how do I core these states ?

[glacial steeple]

focus

theres 2

1 in the historical neutral path

and then theres 1 at the turan stuff

[left mica]

Me

[daring gorge]

is there any way to automatically build supply without me having to manually do it?

[left mica]

No

[daring gorge]

is this enough for 1940 barb?

i have also built lv3 railways all along the front

[glacial steeple]

idk

[keen hemlock]

I think so

It really depends

[keen hemlock]

Go to level 5

[vital plinth]

Is it waste of time when you play a small country and expand into an empire to build dockyards and build a good navry ?

And is it worth refiting coastal ships or battleships ?

[languid trout]

i guess so

[languid trout]

not really

ur battleships usually already have good enough heavy attack

u js need light cruisers to destroy the destroyers so u can let ur battleships destroy other battleships

[old wadi]

can somebody help me with good naval desgins for mp

i dont really do mp and idk if my sp ship designs are good enough

[vapid gate]

is there a way to take the allied islands around the pacific as NZ without war

[glacial steeple]

ask

[vapid gate]

if i remember correctly there was some events or decisions where britain gives u some islands i dont remember how

[glacial steeple]

you get a focus to ask politely

[vital plinth]

Only battleships can destroy other battleships ?

[glacial steeple]

in the māori branch

[languid trout]

yes

[glacial steeple]

nah

[languid trout]

u need heavy attack

[glacial steeple]

torp and any heavy attack can

[languid trout]

for battleships

[glacial steeple]

light attack too

it just does less

[languid trout]

i forgot heavy cruisers existed

[vital plinth]

I made 3 super battle ships , how good are they against other ships ? I stacked only super heaven battery

[glacial steeple]

theyre good against planes

decent against ships

[vital plinth]

What’s the difference between heavry attack and light attack ? Is heavry ?

If heavry attack can target light cruisers and destroyers?

[glacial steeple]

light attack good vs screens

heavy attack good vs capitals

both damage both, but they damage the other one less

[pearl vessel]

I have huge confusion on navy I have nearly 100 hours in this game but can't understand what design should I use for each ships?

Watched some videos but still

[gilded karma]

i have almost 300 and still do some random stuff

so you're def not alone

[gleaming grove]

Is there a list of starting countrys that have its own tree and not the generic tree (no dlc)

[fathom thistle]

Which specific ship you want ?

Like for basic patrol fleet?

[pearl vessel]

No,I was saying I have confusion on whole navy design like what modules should I use for each ships that includes crusiers,destroyer every ships also what types of ships should I produce etc?

[kind bloom]

hey guys

do we put AA tanks and tank destroyers into our divisions or just put them as support company

[vital plinth]

Ah ok thx and sorry I asked this before once was it sheep mod that made navry battles more competitive with AI ?

[fathom thistle]

Here is like a really basic designs for a patrol fleet:

1. carriers max 4 per taskforce - slap max airfields in every slot u can and fill out the basics that are in bottom row ( air control, AA, fire control , armor etc.)

2. heavy cruiser - it's cheaper than bb's
   (1 for each carrier you have)
   Top row half heavy batteries and half dual purpose batteries , bottom row again basics

3. torpedo dd's (ideally 4 for each capital ship you have or even more)
   Spam torpedos in every slot u can and again fill out the basics

Sry it took so long xD

[pearl vessel]

Thx mate,I have one question how many types of destroyer and light cruiser should I design ?should I design many types of destroyer and cruiser each for specific mission?

[fathom thistle]

The torpedo dd's is all your need for schreening really. As for other designs the only other useful one you can use is a spotting cruiser but that's it

@pearl vessel Spotting cruiser design. Change the engagement to never and put it in individual taskforce

[pearl vessel]

Can It damege submarines because depth charges?

[fathom thistle]

Sure. But it's mainly for scouting

[crisp ledge]

Are the Prospecting decisions tied to your Industrial Concern? I didn't have any of those options as Italy, and I do as Romania, but they don't seem like they're unique to Romania.

In that they're far too general, exist on East Siberian territories, and it seems like they would be massively overpowered if they were just exclusive to one state.

[red yew]

whats just a general tip on how to become better at the game
im 400 hours in still playing like a beginner

[glacial steeple]

theyre not

[crisp ledge]

Is there a particular reason I didn't have them as Italy, then, or did I just not notice them?

[glacial steeple]

you dont have decisions in every area of the map, and its based on excavation techs

[crisp ledge]

I see, I see. My mistake, I just wasn't sure how they worked.

[glacial steeple]

some are focus locked but its kinda rare to be

[errant chasm]

Hello Casey

[crisp ledge]

I'm definitely a fan of the Prospecting decisions, so I was really hoping I got to keep them when I try Bulgaria this weekend.

[glacial steeple]

hiii

[astral heath]

should i get la resistance for spy agency?

[errant chasm]

Yo wanna play hoi4 tomorrow?

[glacial steeple]

yes

[glacial steeple]

probably

but its also likely to be free later this year/next year

[errant chasm]

Cool

[vital plinth]

@glacial steeple hey any idea about navry mod ?

[glacial steeple]

VNR

[inner sparrow]

betraying me and jon don

[keen hemlock]

on the wiki mabye

but if you load up the game and try to start a new run, it shows you every country with a tree

[fathom thistle]

Less is sometimes more. For example not having more armies than you can supply or don't need. Trying to use divisions, ships, planes etc. for something they are not meant

[gleaming grove]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Category:Countries_with_unique_National_Focus_trees found it thx

[uncut drum]

unc do ur taxes

[inner sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/ai-ai-shark-shark-cute-shark-baby-shark-gif-1199800098980643365

[uncut drum]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1214243184742367242/1362956144594915499/togif-24.gif

[hoary bough]

Is it still possible to take uk in 1938 as napoleon after the navy and German dlc

[honest bloom]

Why is it stuck on 0 and 1???

[vital plinth]

I think it’s what’s missing of stuff in divisions , you can try see under stockpiles the exact numbers

[rough quartz]

is ts normal?

[honest bloom]

I still dont understand why is it stuck on 0

[fathom thistle]

no field marshals?

[honest bloom]

30 factory]

[sick ginkgo]

What does hexagon attack circle mean

[keen hemlock]

Pentagon is city

Hexagon no clue

[rough quartz]

bro the pic is literraly about field marshals

[fathom thistle]

0 mean u full 1 u missing from 1 rifle being reinforced for some reason, 1 is fine tho

[sick ginkgo]

Like thing that isn’t circle

Idk how to define hexagon or pentagon

I’m not native speaker

[fathom thistle]

then why dont you have army groups?

like u just promoted normal generals I get it but assign army groups too

u missing on free stats

[rough quartz]

cuz they have frontlines

[keen hemlock]

Oh it’s a city then

Pentagon = 5 sides hexagon = 6

[fathom thistle]

no like literally u are missing army groups, click on the empty portrait on the left, then click on any army general and right click on the field marshal u just made

[rough quartz]

ok

thx

[woeful minnow]

get 2 fieldmarshals with 5 infantry generals and then 1-2 tank generals \

[bold canopy]

how can i get her territory?

[wild rune]

there is a logistics tab that shows your stockpile

[dense stone]

That's because your divisions recently lost some, and logistics require time to deliver weapons to the division, so you can get those low amounts for few game ticks(if it doesn't go away then it's better to reload the game)

[bold canopy]

how can i get yagoslavia terrotiroy if she is my puppet?

[dense stone]

integrate

[sacred patrol]

who can hand me a light tank division template

[bold canopy]

how can i do it faster?

[dense stone]

lend lease trains and convoys

or build in their territory(if you've got spare civs)

[twin kayak]

how do I defend against germany as belgium ?

or how do I defend in general ?

I always get steamrolled when a major attacks me (and I'm playing a minor)

[keen hemlock]

use the focuses that give you fort construction speed

and construct forts

[twin kayak]

I had forts on every tile

and still got steamrolled

[keen hemlock]

if ur open to doing alt hist paths

do the facist one where you get cores on the netherlands, join the axis after they declare on poland, dont join any wars, then leave

after they complete arount maginot

[vapid gate]

how can i check specific events on the wiki like the joint chinese alliance in 1936

when i get into the wiki there are different types of events idk which type is it

[glacial steeple]

forts :(

[sick ginkgo]

yo

[twin kayak]

I had 4 on everz tile

I didn't have many divs

16 iirc

but still

I just got steam rolled

[sick ginkgo]

which countries do i need for the british empire to be the empire thing (nationalizing focus yk)

[sweet timber]

Hey everyone, can someone help me with paradox launcher please, I cant download it, writes the error code 2503-2502

I dont have antivirus, only windows safety but even if I turn it off, I still cant download

[glacial steeple]

forts are just bad

they break, dont help against air, theres a lot of modifiers to make fort attack easier, and their effectiveness goes down when attacked from multiple sides

you should focus on getting large inf units out, and if out of manpower use the congo manpower

[carmine geode]

even when extending maginot line against italy and germany?

[glacial steeple]

yes

[carmine geode]

bruhhh

so its better defense leader with entrenchment?

[glacial steeple]

well thats fine, you could also just, take the 10% attack

just have more mils so you have more stuff

[carmine geode]

well tru

[tall zodiac]

Oh man Hoi4 crashes again on the next iron man run , whyytho?
anyone know why it crashes when I make denmark as a pupet?

[half glade]

why do my troops have so much worse stats than his

oh bruh auto HDR messing up my screenshots again

[tall zodiac]

sucks to use windows 😛

[half glade]

lmao i like linux on my laptop

you got an answer to my question though? vids only from 2 months ago

is it because hes germany? nation buffs

[twin kayak]

I don't have a clue on how the puppet/colony etc system works

[half glade]

press this button here

select the congo

copy a div design

design it was needed

then you can produce that unit

and it will use the congos manpower and not yours

[tall zodiac]

if he uses full MIO and you have not the right MIOs and some nation buffs then yes and you have no but it looks like he has everything researched as well

the 53 piercing from AA? in early game?

[half glade]

oh yeah lmao, the date fooled me

just noticed the army xp

[sick ginkgo]

gng actually

[half glade]

im gonna do it

the ottomans used space marines all the time

[sick ginkgo]

does anyone know which countries i need for empire (britain thing with coring half of the world)

[sweet timber]

Hey everyone, can someone help me with paradox launcher please, I cant download it, writes the error code 2503-2502
I dont have antivirus, only windows safety but even if I turn it off, I still cant download

[tall zodiac]

meh the game crashes again when I just conquer denmark...

[sick ginkgo]

its more of #tech-support question (if they dont answer you can ask there but try to ask in tech support too)

[sweet timber]

Oh, thanks

[sick ginkgo]

np

[glacial steeple]

you can recruit units and itll use some of their men

[devout canopy]

I joined axis but hitler is losing... what do I do

[uncut narwhal]

what country are you?

[devout canopy]

Big Argentina

Like all of south america 1945

[half glade]

what do i do about turkeys manpower problem

[keen hemlock]

Does it give them autonomy

I know that’s how you do the puppet manpower exploit (I hope they never get rid of this)

[strange sable]

whats the best template for basic infrantry for a noob

[glacial steeple]

yes

if they fight

otherwise no

[forest star]

hy, is there a small cheat sheet on what to focus on when your playing belgium?

[fathom thistle]

basic as in it's meant to fill out frontline and hold I take it?
Then 18w inf with support artillery and support aa if you dont use planes

[strange sable]

wdym 18w inf?

[keen hemlock]

Does making 1 widths the converting get manpower up?

Or take their manpower

That seems like the easiest way to do the exploit

[fathom thistle]

eh, each inf in template gives you 2 width (combat width stat) putting 9 infs makes it 18w

[strange sable]

oh like that

yea

thats cheap too right?

[glacial steeple]

???

[fathom thistle]

you can make it 16w if you really want to but 18w is standard

[glacial steeple]

youre not exploiting anything

it just uses a portion of their manpower when you recruit divs "as" theirs

[fathom thistle]

but yeah its considerably cheap

[keen hemlock]

No I mean

When you annex them

[glacial steeple]

if they go up in autonomy it will use increasing amounts of your own manpower

[keen hemlock]

You keep the divs

[glacial steeple]

yes

[keen hemlock]

And delete them for manpower

[glacial steeple]

you could

yes

you could recruit all their manpower in units

[strange sable]

and this works for only attack or defense too?

[fathom thistle]

defense and holding

dont expect it to attack well

[glacial steeple]

why do all new players expect infantry to be the greatest offensive unit

[fathom thistle]

this 😭

[strange sable]

not for attacking..?

[fathom thistle]

I mean you can make offensive inf but it doesnt compare to proper spg division at all

[fathom thistle]

no, not really

[strange sable]

what do you recommend for attacking

[keen hemlock]

36 width for armor

25 w for mountaineers

[fathom thistle]

you have dlc's right?

[keen hemlock]

30 w for rangers

[strange sable]

nah

[fathom thistle]

ah, nvm then Imma look for dif template then

gimme a sec

[half glade]

how do people genuinely play ahistorical

i hate that random people just join random factions

[strange sable]

dayum

[half glade]

and it ends up in me fighting some random nation in another continent

[strange sable]

but thats a tank divison?

and thats late game

[dusty sandal]

it can be done by 1938
this one can be done day 1 basically

[stable goblet]

i accidentally drew these front lines, how do i delete them?

[errant chasm]

There should be a trash can icon on the hot bar

[twin kayak]

I need a country that is challenging to a medium to bad player

any suggestions ?

[carmine thunder]

Does anyone know against sheep ai axis whether medium or heavy tank build is better as soviet union

[carmine thunder]

probably italy? You normally learn how to fight in mountains and desert

[proven rain]

how to improve supply

[dense stone]

trucks, better railways

[proven rain]

?

[dense stone]

transport planes in case of low supply area like west china

[dense stone]

do you use motorization for supply?

[proven rain]

how to get

suppl here

[dense stone]

do you motorize your existing supplies?

[proven rain]

yea

[dense stone]

and this one has no supply hub, so supply will be low

and it's mountains, so even less

[proven rain]

ok and

how i supposed to make these before 1939

and creat like 2 div with these

[dense stone]

use earlier cannon and tank modules

it's very achievable before 1939 then

[glacial steeple]

why do people use small cannons

theyre so bad

you have howitzer even

also 200 xp did you even select your doctrines

make mils also

mils produce stuff

[vital plinth]

Hey do CAS damage enemy man power or do they just apply a debuff ?

[dense stone]

If I cap netherlands in 1936, do I puppet or annex dutch east indies? If I annex I get less resources, but if I puppet, I have a risk of Japan attacking me

[glacial steeple]

do whatever you want

if youre germany i wouldnt recommend doing either

[violet maple]

i dont think japan will attack u

if ur germany

[glacial steeple]

if youre a small minor you might need the puppet manpower, unless you wanna build compliance

[violet maple]

cuz u get a non aggresion pact if u go down the befriend japaan thing

[glacial steeple]

otherwise probably annex

[dense stone]

thanks

[wind canyon]

thats goodcould be because of the nation like national sprits focuses and doctrine

[sacred patrol]

peak romania

also shit ussr joined war

[vital plinth]

Hey do CAS damage enemy man power or do they just apply a debuff ?

[sacred patrol]

ggs france joined

[fathom thistle]

both

[proven rain]

should i start my game by researching all of these

[twin kayak]

How good are light tanks ? I’ve mostly used heavy spg and anty tank, but I’d like to try the same, but with light tank chassis instead.

[uncut narwhal]

use mediums

[proven rain]

can someone answer

[uncut narwhal]

no, your fine off just using medium spgs with medium howitzer and motorized

[twin kayak]

I want something fast and that I can shit out. Do medium work too ?

[uncut narwhal]

speed isnt very important but mediums are just a lot better than light tanks

[twin kayak]

And compared to heavy ?

Is it worth going for them ?

[uncut narwhal]

heavy tanks are too expensive for singleplayer

its just wasting economy

[sacred patrol]

romania peak experience

i attacked hungary

gave up as allies cominterm and italy attacked me

[uncut narwhal]

using medium tanks is just a lot better

[sacred patrol]

no dlc

for tank designer

[uncut narwhal]

ohh

isnt the light tank division best then

[sacred patrol]

and plus what are tanks gonna do when yugoslavia greece bulgaria poland are all against you?

[uncut narwhal]

if you have the dlc, tanks are gonna do a lot

1k soft attack

[sacred patrol]

brother am surrounded

every country around me killing me

[hoary bough]

Can I land in the uk as napoleon before the ww2 starts

[ivory nimbus]

is this a good tenplate?

for just basic infantry

[glacial steeple]

well, no

[ivory nimbus]

oh well

im pretty new so

[glacial steeple]

but its pretty close to irl units

[ivory nimbus]

😛

[glacial steeple]

so theres that

[ivory nimbus]

okay

yeah im trying to improve ive got 50 hours rn

so

[fathom thistle]

singelplayer or mp?

[ivory nimbus]

single player

still learning

i dont want to hop into multyplayer let

yet

[fathom thistle]

it's bad but I just wanted to point out that you dont really need AT in singleplayer, the aa has enough piercing

[twin kayak]

can someone explain me how defence works ? I had campaign where I couldn't defend against anything and others (like turkey) where I defended alone against the axis with only 36 simple infantry divs (with support companies tho) and then pushed back

(my divs were all fully equipped in both cases, so no deficit in anything)

[fathom thistle]

turkey's terrain gives you that advantage on defense, espeically if you can hold axis at the balkan corridors, now there is a lot of factors which influnce your ability to not get pushed back even with fully equipped armies, especially on larger fronts, if you are not doing a fortress build for your country then you want to eventually attack or try to get an encirclement on the enemy,

For example I could say Luxemburg is way easier to defend than Poland bcs of how German ai behaves diffrently

[ivory nimbus]

okay so this is what i just learned: play 100 more hours and hope you understand

XD

[twin kayak]

I'm at 250 and still hoping

[viscid bay]

Yo guys I'm playing Germany in a singleplayer match and when I naval invade Britain I can't seem to get anywhere. They're able to defend against any push inland and eventually my troops just die lol

Any advice

[fathom thistle]

what is your attacking template?

[glacial steeple]

wow

[fathom thistle]

thats the one issue for sure

do you have NSB dlc?

[fathom thistle]

if you dont have nsb dlc you are aiming for somethijng like this, the design with cav you can get pretty early on

[viscid bay]

I don't have any DLC's, just the base game

[fathom thistle]

gotcha so u can use the one above, you want to upgrade from first design to the 2nd one

[viscid bay]

Got it, I don't have mechanized infantry yet so can I use motorized until then or

[ocean knot]

I've been thinking of doing a game where I spec into Mechanized instead of Tanks, is this a good idea, and if so what's a good template i could use (Own all dlcs and for SP of course)

[twin kayak]

are these light spg ?

[fathom thistle]

@dusty sandal if you could explain why lights and not meds for non dlc template

[tall zodiac]

someone can tell my why my units attack something totaly differently when we look at the plan that is in action and active? they even attack this tile without supporting

[glacial steeple]

cost

[fathom thistle]

cost then

[twin kayak]

would it still work for dlc template ? (be optimal)

[austere roost]

this really just shows the powercreep with nsb

[fathom thistle]

if you have nsb I would rather just stick mediums honestly, Im not sure about exact calculations of light spgs with nsb and without

[austere roost]

don't use motorized, if you can't mass apply mech to your tank divisions then use inf instead

[spark gorge]

am I just cooked