ask-for-help-here

[gritty valve]

im very noob at teh game

[half glade]

why cant i take this

[fathom thistle]

read the red stuff

[half glade]

where the helly is the red stuff bruh

its all ticks

okay im genuinely an idiot

[fathom thistle]

aproach soviets

[half glade]

and i should question my existence as a human being

[fathom thistle]

and down there

[half glade]

lmao idk how i managed that

[hoary glen]

If you like to learn Navy you should not build subs. I can just tell you what is meta if you want, but you will not really learn from it.

[supple jungle]

oki

eh i cant be bothered i ragequit greece after balkan gang beat me up for getting 25km from ankara

also i only asked about subs bc greece gets a -10% modifier for production cost

[hoary glen]

It's not the easiest to play, you need to cheese a bit

[supple jungle]

i so nearly won

(2000 hours aint helping)

[spring robin]

question, i'm trying to do some achievemnt, but i'm tired of always doing the same buildup till 1939, can i just do it once, save that file, and play it multiple times ?

[grave turret]

is there anyone that would be willing to help me figure out why i cant push Germany past my fort line as the USSR?

[feral forge]

what are important stats for ships?

[hoary glen]

If it still works you can copy the save out of the folder and later just replace your current one with it.

[fathom thistle]

depends what ship but generally I would say speed

[hoary glen]

Surface visibility, soft attack, AA and any other attack in that order. Unless you know you have air cover then ignore AA.

[twin kayak]

how do I use nuclear bombs ?

[hoary glen]

It's a raid mission iirc. Click the target state and then you can start the mission

You need to have one Bomb in stockpile and a Strat Bomber

[gritty valve]

is there any General visual mod for thailand? how can i find one?

i mean like thailand have 2 general face and different names lol or i might be missing smth

[pure hedge]

quick question about the agreement with poland for czech, is it purely random if poland accepts?

[hoary glen]

Perhaps part of some mod adding more general faces to all minors. Maybe enter the search term "generals"

[gritty valve]

Alr ill look some out

[hexed parcel]

are mio traits on vanilla btw ?

[inner sparrow]

with dlcs

[hexed parcel]

ty

[obtuse crescent]

hii

can anyone help me learn hoi4

tutorials really never help me

[gritty valve]

i need help how to scroll up

[red mesa]

https://tenor.com/view/do-you-have-any-idea-how-little-that-narrows-it-down-that-narrows-it-down-clear-now-its-clear-now-i-understand-now-gif-21256627

[gritty valve]

i need help guys

[gritty valve]

how to scroll up the factory

[red mesa]

save, exit, reload

it's a UI bug

[half glade]

why cant i make this

[gritty valve]

OK

[half glade]

the weight is 1/3 of the thrust

[red mesa]

too heavy while on mission

[half glade]

oh wow

what do i make the design then

[austere roost]

Remove armor plate

[red mesa]

just drop the dive brakes and bomb slots until it works, get more range

[half glade]

okay

bro i need manpower so bad

but i dont have the army for the soviets

[red mesa]

you're commie, you get infinite ticking manpower

[indigo sapphire]

is using ALL ships a good idea?

[red mesa]

be more precise

[half glade]

look at this bro

[red mesa]

1.1k/week is good

drop some from navy if you're desperate

[half glade]

yeah but my pop isnt mobilising

[red mesa]

yeah, you've recruited to cap on SBR

you still get the weekly and monthly

[half glade]

which is not enough at all

[red mesa]

you could switch to desperate defence if it gets even worse

[half glade]

true

[neat widget]

You can also core a lot of land

[half glade]

but how?

[neat widget]

What does your political focus tree look ljke

[neat widget]

Confederated Finno-Russian republics allows you to core some Soviet lands

[half glade]

but i wont beat the soviets cause my army is tiiiiny

i only have 3

[red mesa]

letting them attrit probably doesn't help...

[half glade]

idk how to stop that

[red mesa]

put them where the supply isn't dogshit

obviously

[neat widget]

Also if you conquer Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, you can unite the Nordics

[half glade]

chill dude

[half glade]

theyre all democratic so wont they drag the british and french in

+theyre in my faction

[neat widget]

I would also add an spaa and replace the artillery with engineers

[half glade]

okay

[red mesa]

just noticed your supply is at 20% so it might just be that you have a massive equipment deficit in trains and/or trucks

[neat widget]

So it's a 38 width with those changes

Plus btw what do your mainline infantry look like

[half glade]

trains yeah im fixing that#

[half glade]

i cant even produce them because of my manpower

i literally have like 16 militia divs

[neat widget]

BTW what were you doing in ww2

[echo echo]

i need help im new here what templates you use guys

[half glade]

protecting denmark from germany

thats how we capped them

soviets pushed from the east, free france from the west and we captured berlin from the north

• protecting norway

[uncut narwhal]

do you have any dlcs?

[neat widget]

You probably could have taken Sweden and Norway then

[echo echo]

yes i have all dlcs

[neat widget]

Because then Sweden would have joined axis

[half glade]

oh i didnt know that

[uncut narwhal]

use that for tanks in sp

[neat widget]

Replace mot with mech of course

[half glade]

should i try jump in?

[neat widget]

And replace artillery for logistics if you are doing tanks

[uncut narwhal]

ofc

[uncut narwhal]

why?

logistics

you want to always have supply

with your tanks

either way

being in bad supply areas

is just bad

with tanks

[neat widget]

Individual excellence gives hp from logistics companies

[uncut narwhal]

but soft attack bro...

[neat widget]

Maybe, but one last thing: you can probably launch coups and then send volunteers in civil wars to turn democratic nations non-democratic

[neat widget]

You already have 1250 soft, 30 more will not amount to much

[uncut narwhal]

more is more

[neat widget]

Compared to reducing your losses by 15 percent from HP increase

[half glade]

wait how do i do that???

[echo echo]

what about infantry template?

[uncut narwhal]

for holding inf 18w with support arty/aa is fine

[neat widget]

Through intelligence agency

Or without dlc you just spend political power in diplomacy screen

[half glade]

wait so i can remove sweden from my faction then try it?

we finished the joint focus tree already

[neat widget]

Also doesn't this Finnish path have influence rallies in which you can make Sweden switch ideologies without leaving faction

[half glade]

yeah ive tried like 4 times now

they have never flipped

neither have denmark or norway

[neat widget]

But yeah you could do that

[half glade]

ill keep trying it i guess

[gloomy vector]

What's the strongest soviet build in sp

[median pivot]

If i want to keep old equipment how do i avoid my factories to upgrade?

[wind canyon]

just don't change the production line

[median pivot]

thx

but what if i didnt want to use factories on it anymore

[wind canyon]

delete the line you don't want to produce

[brazen panther]

am i doing good? first playthrough in ww1 (and my entire navy got obliterated)

and what should i change?

[wind canyon]

i suggest trying to close out one of your fronts either the italian or french

so try and hold your lines curently as best you can while training up more speardhead divsions like motrized, mechinized or tanks

air seems good so try and produce more

[left mica]

what are you even doing anyway

[gritty valve]

Guys how to defend this am i cooked

[brazen panther]

im about to execute an offensive to encircle units in the benelux

[gritty valve]

do i fall back

[brazen panther]

wth is rattanakosin 😭

[wind canyon]

do that make sure you push it in fast so they don't escape

[gritty valve]

Bigger thailand

Pls help me

do i fall back

theres so many british soldiers

[wind canyon]

fall back

[gritty valve]

Where do i fall back to

[wind canyon]

to the thinest part

[red mesa]

you're outnumbered like hell

[gritty valve]

yes

[red mesa]

try to hold bengal

[gritty valve]

i accident declare war on china and i got 2 front now

[brazen panther]

fallback to big rivers

[wind canyon]

there is a river line there

your troops should be bale to hold that

do you have any air?

[obtuse crescent]

anyone wanna teach me how to play

[gritty valve]

here?

Ok river

[wind canyon]

yeah behind the river

if need be fall back to the moutians

[gritty valve]

is this good

[wind canyon]

i cant at the moment but what are you struggling on?

[obtuse crescent]

everything

[gritty valve]

I'm fighting china with japan maybe japan could help me

[obtuse crescent]

i dont know what im doing

[gritty valve]

whgenj china is dead

[red mesa]

too long, you want the shortest front with the most defensible terrain you can find

[gritty valve]

Can u mark form e

[wind canyon]

no do a straight line

[gritty valve]

OK

[wind canyon]

kinda like that

[wind canyon]

um okay thats a lot right

there is a guy in the helping lounge rn

[gritty valve]

this good?

[wind canyon]

maybe he can help you out

[gritty valve]

@red mesa

[wind canyon]

yeah perfect

[gritty valve]

Alr

[wind canyon]

you may have to put some extras on that northern bit since its not behind a river

but it hsould be fine

[gritty valve]

I'm also attacking china

[red mesa]

bruh

[obtuse crescent]

yea

well

[gritty valve]

Do i just speed up and let britain get all of india again and i go on china

[red mesa]

stop pushing that crap, you're burning men and equipment on mountain tiles with loads of enemy divisions

[gritty valve]

when i have my front

[obtuse crescent]

hes offline like afk

hasnt got out of afk in like 20 min

[gritty valve]

ok

do i change

[red mesa]

let japan handle china, you're not doing anything sucking up supply there

[gritty valve]

Ok sir

[half glade]

communism

[gritty valve]

So now i should defend the british?

[wind canyon]

right let be more specific then what exactly are stugling with

[red mesa]

go to war economy, yesterday

[left mica]

i mean

[wind canyon]

cz this game is pretty huge

[obtuse crescent]

as i said

[left mica]

why are you building up

[obtuse crescent]

idk anything

im just clicking random stuff

[wind canyon]

hover over your man power

[gritty valve]

is there any hope i can push back

[wind canyon]

is it still moblizing

[wind canyon]

let me send u a hoi4 guide

[obtuse crescent]

is it long?

[wind canyon]

yeah move up another level

[gritty valve]

Ok

[left mica]

300k garrison lol

[wind canyon]

i will find a reltiviely short one

[left mica]

make medium tanks to garrison

[obtuse crescent]

ok

[left mica]

.

[red mesa]

the hell template are you using for garrisons?

[left mica]

bros using cav for sure lol

[gritty valve]

oh my god bruh

[gritty valve]

Oh some guy told me to use full calvary

🙏

[wind canyon]

okay this is a bit long, but just skip to the parts where your most confused on

it has time stamps

https://youtu.be/WCqXIRRVZIY?si=GA2VgMQ-UkbkSQVW

[keen hemlock]

You can if you can afford it

But one cav or full medium tanks is better

[obtuse crescent]

k

[gritty valve]

only one?

[wind canyon]

yeah plus marital law

[keen hemlock]

Yes

[gritty valve]

Welp half my lands are probably going too 🙏

[keen hemlock]

If you want to do medium tanks

[red mesa]

man he's playing thailand, forget tanks

[keen hemlock]

I’m saying in general

[gritty valve]

yes

[indigo sapphire]

is using panzershiff and pre dreadnoughs good as Germany

like if i need more ships

[gritty valve]

Shet dawg 900k on china war 💀

im cooked

[gloomy vector]

Is it best for all ideologies to always annex?

[red mesa]

yeah, attacking inf into mountains with no supply mindlessly will do that

[wind canyon]

no generaly speaking its better to puppet

[red mesa]

why not just build out upgraded Leipzig CLs?

[keen hemlock]

Does Thailand even have 900k manpower on extensive

[wind canyon]

unless your trying do a formiable nation

[red mesa]

local autonomy and liberated workers would like a word...

[inner sparrow]

just wrong

[wind canyon]

mm would it tho?

[gloomy vector]

It gives you more factories and resources

[red mesa]

yes, best occupation laws

[gloomy vector]

I was wondering for fascist puppets since they seem better

But I also see people usually annex as fascist too

[wind canyon]

alright but if you had an intergrated puppet you can trade one civ fac for 80 of said resoruce

[inner sparrow]

if u can u should always annex

[red mesa]

puppeting guarantees you a fraction of the factories and resources, occupation only gives you that if you can get compliance up, fascism is worse at this than democratic or commie

[gloomy vector]

Ik I was talking about local autonomy and liberated workers

Compared to puppeting

[wind canyon]

right but why? liberated workers shoots up my reistance by a ton

and then u gotta deal with building compliance witch takes ages

[inner sparrow]

building compliance does not take ages

collabs exist

[wind canyon]

unless your gota colab

[inner sparrow]

and are a thing

[red mesa]

compared with what?

[gloomy vector]

Why wouldn't you collab

[wind canyon]

just puppeting you don't gotta deal with gariason

[wind canyon]

if its like a huge nation like the ussr yeah absoultely

[inner sparrow]

u dont have to really deal with garrison aswell if u make collabs before u annex

[wind canyon]

but if im going for like idk the neatherlands

[inner sparrow]

even for small nations its worth it

[wind canyon]

how so?

it takes away two of your spies

[inner sparrow]

yes

and?

[gloomy vector]

Why wouldn't you do it for any country with some sort of industry/resources

[inner sparrow]

what else u gonna do with the spies?

let them kiss?

[obtuse crescent]

@wind canyon so far so good

[gritty valve]

Yo i'm holding

[wind canyon]

great

[wind canyon]

idk let them work on a bigger nation

[gritty valve]

what do i do now

i build land fort

[wind canyon]

then a small one

[gritty valve]

Alot of landforts

[inner sparrow]

???

[gritty valve]

Does this work

[inner sparrow]

just collab the nations before u annex them its not hard

[wind canyon]

wait for an opening get some more forces

[gloomy vector]

What's the strongest soviet build for sp?

[inner sparrow]

on germany u can even collabs any nation u want bc u hve 10 spies

[wind canyon]

right but don't you need to run that process like 3 or 4 times to get 100% compliance?

[gloomy vector]

So?

Worth it

[inner sparrow]

twice is enough for 70

3 for 100

[gloomy vector]

You wouldn't use your spies for other stuff anyways

[inner sparrow]

even one is fine

[wind canyon]

right okay how many rescoruces/facs with 100% compliance is the best ocupation law

compared to puppeting with an intergrated puppet

[inner sparrow]

any is better than puppeting

[gloomy vector]

Compliance gives you like +65% factories and resources

Whic completely offsets occupied resource penalty

[red mesa]

just look up segl on yt, he just did a video on SP sovs which is quite good. Geared towards pushing barb rather than defending though

[gloomy vector]

And leaves you with only -10% factories

[inner sparrow]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgaIttaRMXz5Qo6WYsGJqOCAle5ul4-XyXRFWHr2pos/edit?usp=drivesdk

[wind canyon]

with an intergrated puppet it hands over like most of their industry i can't remeber the numbers rn

[inner sparrow]

its for mp but a lot of it can be used in sp aswell

[gloomy vector]

Yeah i tried it and it worked great but I was wondering if there were any better builds

[inner sparrow]

segls yt guide is also fine

[jade tulip]

is line artillery worth it? I found this youtube video explaining it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYmklEwTh6k
but it was released before doctrine rework, does that change anything?

[gloomy vector]

Still bad

[inner sparrow]

and guess what annexing with full compliance does, theres ehen occupation laws that give u more eco than the country had for some time

[wind canyon]

ah fair enough ig

i remeber it being more tho

[sage mirage]

guys how i can do that

[red mesa]

only worth using in niche circumstances or very very early on before techs have a chance to kick in properly. Otherwise no it's still dogwater

[sage mirage]

philip etter

[gloomy vector]

China war right?

[red mesa]

yeah, that's one example

[inner sparrow]

if u have 70-100% compliance, harsh quota for example, spawns in factories that don’t even exist. But that’s only for roughly 3 years ingame

[jade tulip]

even with playing as minor/poor nations?

[red mesa]

yes, even then

[inner sparrow]

there was a graph for it how long its better compared to other ones

[wind canyon]

what

ah fair enough ig

hoi4 logic lets goooo

[gloomy vector]

Should you build mech as soviets or does rubber cost make it not worth it

[wind canyon]

i will try it next time when i fight i usually always just puppet thanks for enlightening me

[inner sparrow]

here

this is without liberated

which is the best one

[gloomy vector]

I mean puppeting also gives nicer borders

[red mesa]

I mean you're not using rubber for anything else besides trucks so it's not too bad esp with the production cost reduction

[gloomy vector]

So that's a plus

[light knoll]

you need to pick a country leader (by picking them as advisor first and then leader on the election) with one of those traits

[wind canyon]

right some what im getting at here is

high compliance + harsh quotas will give more free industry

[inner sparrow]

yes but it obv falls off after some time

[wind canyon]

at that point what do you do then?

swithc to secret police?

[wind canyon]

and how long is that period 3 years as you said?

[inner sparrow]

no, u should only harsh quota if yk the game is done by then or if yk u lose the territory after some time

[inner sparrow]

960 days with 70% compliance

[light knoll]

secret police is never useful

just a bad law

[wind canyon]

ah right

[light knoll]

is there a chart for liberated workers

[left mica]

i play sp and i always just do local police/civilian oversight

or liberated worker if communist

[inner sparrow]

no sadly not but its the best

[wind canyon]

and liberated workers gives more factories then harsh right?

[left mica]

or local autonomy if democratic

i think harsh still gives more

[light knoll]

yea makes sense

[gritty valve]

guys do i change guns its 1944

[red mesa]

oh dear

[gritty valve]

Bro i'm so stupid

i dont know what im doing

Do i change gun

[red mesa]

yes

[gritty valve]

yes

oh shet dude

[red mesa]

you change gun up as soon as you possibly can, you want to upgrade guns ahead of most other stuff

[gritty valve]

ok

[red mesa]

the difference it makes to your infantry especially is so important

[plain wadi]

i have to enlist or something?

[light knoll]

you should pretty much always rush gun techs and swap asap

its one of the most important stuff in the game

gun 3 have literally double the stats of gun 1

[half glade]

is there a strategy to fix finlands manpower problems

[gritty valve]

Ohh i see now

so everytime i got newer guns i should just get it Instantly for big upgrade?

[dusty sandal]

for 1940 guns (guns 2) absolutely

it's less required for guns 3 though because it'll shoot down your efficiency
although it's very much possible with finland, considering you won't have as many troops to equip as other countries

[light knoll]

yes, and you should always try to research them soon, use research bonuses from your tree if you have, which you'll most of the time do

research even ahead of time

[gritty valve]

oh my god dog the world is out of steel

[keen bridge]

what are the better samples of a tank division?

[jade tulip]

is having heavy tanks in tank template in mp worth it? Or mediums are still better?

[empty latch]

how do i get rid of this?

road to 56 btw

[left mica]

Heavy tds always

or uh

Mediums if ur ger doing sov barb

[jade tulip]

so like full template with heavy tds?

[dusty sandal]

it's almost always heavy TDs
except for anti-Dday tanks (Medium SPGs) and some builds (Medium TD using Heavy Gun 3, especially used as soviet for tank swarm)

[dusty sandal]

ask that on their discord

[errant chasm]

Hi Francis

[rigid tundra]

Commie britain has their troops defending austria who isn't in their faction

Anyone know why?

[uncut narwhal]

volunteers?

[feral forge]

voulenteers maybe

[iron veldt]

unpaid soldiers

[rigid tundra]

How

Austria isn't at war

Oh

Austria is at war

with Japan

[iron veldt]

lore accurate

[rigid tundra]

How did indonesia end up with the danubian federation

This AI man

Now i'm going to have 50 million indonesian child soldiers in european front lines when I try to fight them

[uncut narwhal]

they dont have the industry to get out a lot of troops

[vital plinth]

Hey the Franco Spain route it says on wiki I can core Brazil and Portugal too but I don’t know exactly how that works

[errant chasm]

Sometimes the wiki can lie and not accurate. But tbh I have not played Franco spain in a long time

But I think Carolist spain could core portugal iirc

[uncut narwhal]

if portugal gets cores on brazil and spain unites with them

you get the cores

from what it looks like

[errant chasm]

Really in Franco Spain or Monarchist spain?

[tired moon]

I cant get it under 90% for enough time what do I need to do

[uncut narwhal]

if you do the unite the crown thing then i think so

[uncut narwhal]

if its over 90% your cooked either way

[errant chasm]

does it require franco or the king?

[uncut narwhal]

not a single reason for that

[tired moon]

why?

[uncut narwhal]

france has that focus

[uncut narwhal]

why is it at 90%???!?

[tired moon]

i mean i can handle it

[plush mauve]

what's your current state as germany?

like what lands do you own?

[tired moon]

also many puppets

[errant chasm]

I remember once Hatless Spider did a Super European union with France Uniting with Spain iirc

[tired moon]

idk

[errant chasm]

this was before 1.15

[uncut narwhal]

you went alt hist and still 4 year plan?

yea no chance lol

[errant chasm]

also hey steve hru

[plush mauve]

conquer the balkans and the soviets to get it under 90%

controlling belarus & ukraine gives less consumer goods

[uncut narwhal]

yea you need the carlists to win in spain and then unite

[uncut narwhal]

im good hbu

[errant chasm]

Oh I just finished College so now I had the time to play a backlog of games I wanted to play

[uncut narwhal]

you should check out lay of the land

real cool game i discovered

[vital plinth]

How do I get potugsl to do that ?

[uncut narwhal]

set them to that specific path

in the game rules

before you start the game

same with carlist spain

[errant chasm]

Also Steve, do you know how to get the Gerogian volunteers in op barb as I was looking at the events code and there wasn't any way I could trigger it when I managed to occupy the Geroria as Germany

[uncut narwhal]

i just get them after a while

i dont even occupy georgia

[errant chasm]

really?

[uncut narwhal]

feels like they randomly ask to join

[uncut narwhal]

yea

[errant chasm]

oh so the event is just random

[uncut narwhal]

looks like it

[errant chasm]

a bit weird since the code doesn't say anything to trigger it. If you (or anyone else on this server) ever manage to get pop up of that event please send it to me.

but yeah usually I cap russia before i get the event so its kind of useless

[uncut narwhal]

you could just like do a slow barb

and itll probably pop off

[errant chasm]

That is the antithesis of operation Barb lmao. Germany's doctrine is gotta go fast

[uncut narwhal]

let me correct myself

do a historical barb

[errant chasm]

yes and lose

[uncut narwhal]

ok wait maybe the georgian stuff is only for the monarchist

[errant chasm]

makes sense

[uncut narwhal]

found this

[errant chasm]

oh that makes sense thank you

[uncut narwhal]

i think you can get them as hitler too tho

[errant chasm]

tho I kind of wished there were more events recruiting foreign divisions for the Wehrmacht as irl they did recurited divs from Spain, Croatia, and Arabic countries

[uncut narwhal]

not sure

[uncut narwhal]

isnt there ss recruitment?

[errant chasm]

Yes but that ain't those weren't the Wehrmacht divisions I mentioned. Also it sucks that they are locked templates.

meaning you can't edit, change or disband them

[uncut narwhal]

yea undeletable units are the worst thing

no idea why they still exist

but ig because the divisions recruited were more like volunteers

and not actual conscripts

[errant chasm]

recently I did learn you could modify your puppet's division templates and recurit and take manpower from your puppet nations.

[uncut narwhal]

bro

thats the whole thing as the netherlands

[errant chasm]

so I assume this is how you are supposed to recruit the Croatian divs for the wehrmacht.

[errant chasm]

Belgium and Netherlands gameplay in a nutshell

[uncut narwhal]

oh yea belgium too

anybody with a big puppet

[digital gyro]

hi , in the new dlc theres an option fo peace negotiation with the germans but i dont see it anywhere and idk how to trigger it

[gritty valve]

guys it say i have 800 plane where do i find it and place it

[keen hemlock]

thats how i did my rexist run

i conqured the dutch and stole the east indies manpower

[gritty valve]

pls help guys

i dont know how plane works

[keen hemlock]

on an airfield

[errant chasm]

hi mr. destructor

[winter ledge]

click an airfield on the map that is in your territory and in the top left theres a + button with a plane

[gritty valve]

Yes

What do i do now

@winter ledge

[winter ledge]

or you can use this button to set up another little button that lets you deploy 100 at a time per click of a new button

[gritty valve]

Got it now thanks so much have a great great day

[gloomy vector]

how do i beat germany as france after denying rhineland

im able to take over the rhineland using motorized but i get stuck with the civil war and germany's reinforcements push me back

[uncut narwhal]

if you wanna hold as france dont deny rhineland

its easier to build up

otherwise you get a civil war

still doable

but harder imo

[gloomy vector]

do you have any tips

[uncut narwhal]

for the rhineland rush?

[gloomy vector]

i mean i can rush it fine

i just get pushed back

[uncut narwhal]

i have only played france normally so idk

[austere roost]

you immediately reconquer fascist France and try to push to the Rhine before stopping

Then you can just wait until czechslovakia and Poland join

[fathom thistle]

if you really want to do that the niche trick is to convert all your divs to single artillery template and after civil war starts u convert it back, this way other france will have that single artillery

[gloomy vector]

what if im trying to do napoleonic

would it still be doable

without allies

[austere roost]

Maybe?

If you can get a naval invasion going

1936 France is not able to break through the German line

[lapis pilot]

Do someone have Usa-jap heavy template example?

heavy fighter

[keen hemlock]

hello vistula

[lapis pilot]

thanx

[keen bridge]

what're the best focuses to play through as hungary?

[uncut narwhal]

austria hungary

[fathom thistle]

best as in?

[uncut narwhal]

i recommend austria for that tho

[keen bridge]

enjoyable

[fathom thistle]

austria-hungary - more cores,, greater hungary - hungary larp

[gloomy vector]

how would i get the army xp to make single arty template

[iron veldt]

i’ve only used small planes in SP when are you supposed to use medium/heavy besides for bombers?

[primal silo]

heavy fighters are kinda bad tho

[gloomy vector]

they trade better if you can get them researched

[uncut narwhal]

you dont usually use them

[gloomy vector]

for usa you're able to research them

[fathom thistle]

train all divs at start

You should be able to get enough

[primal silo]

if you count by plane yes, by IC definetly no

[austere roost]

No they don't unless you're usa cuz you get research cards

[iron veldt]

what about MP

[gloomy vector]

yeah thats why i said for usa

[austere roost]

You can cap fascist France by just taking Calais and dunquerqe

[uncut narwhal]

i dont play mp

[gloomy vector]

im not able to tho

i got planning bonus before and everything

and theyre communist for some reason

[austere roost]

Did you put troops waiting outside that state?

[gloomy vector]

yes

they were all on the line already

[primal silo]

Medium NAVs are decent imho

[uncut narwhal]

yea also for recon planes

[primal silo]

I tried reconm planes a bunch of times and they never seemed to have any singificant impact

[uncut narwhal]

yea they arent really relevant in sp

[primal silo]

most of the times I have intel advantage already

[kind hedge]

Anybody knows how to make the french accept the damascus diktat as the ottoman empire in rt56

Or in the basic game cus i think its the same mechanic

[primal silo]

would need to check the events to see if any of these has any effect, but the following things can help AI accept things sometimes:
High relations
Non aggression pact active
Diplomatic pressure from spy
Bigger army

[kind hedge]

I completely forgot about diplomatic pressure

Ill try it

I thought theyd accept it cus theyr kinda dying to the germans

[queen portal]

Yo guys question, at the doctrin tree, how do you get armored cavalry like other stuff, i always see them in youtube videos but not in normal game, can you tell me if its a mod or dlcs?

[balmy merlin]

hello i need some help i want to play multiplayer but nnow one have my version

[fathom thistle]

idk what kind of armored cavarly you mean, only armored cavarly I can think of is basically combining cavarly units with tanks for armor like spacemarines

if you could send a schreenshot that would help

[kind hedge]

Nvm, i went to a prev save before i attacked greece and yugo, they accepted, probably because of low tension

[gritty valve]

guys what do i take im thailand

[kind hedge]

Id say puppet the land with most resources and then add resource rights if no cores and u plan on going to war any of those countries

[gritty valve]

Oh bro ijust found out that if u just take some u can take more

[kind hedge]

Lol its ok

[gritty valve]

Im so dumb

[kind hedge]

Also take provinces with big manpower

Best thing is to always puppet and then add resource rights

[gritty valve]

What should i do

[gritty valve]

Ok

do i get guanxi

[kind hedge]

Dont take anything in the north

[gritty valve]

Germany is above

[kind hedge]

Take the one in the south worth 94, puppet it and then add resource rights if u have the bba dlc

[gritty valve]

i dont have any dlc

😢

[kind hedge]

Uh then

Js puppet it ig

Idk

[gritty valve]

is puppet better than annex

[kind hedge]

In ur case yes

[carmine thunder]

Is this bad template for inf holding against sheep ai? Tried variations of this but when may tanks aren't there to help it cant hold

[gritty valve]

OK

[kind hedge]

I dont see direct acces + if u dont have cores, keeping it would be pointless

[gritty valve]

im puppet guanxi quique and north china?

[kind hedge]

Maybe try space marines idk

[carmine thunder]

I dont really have the time to change my productions line for space marines in my current save

[hexed parcel]

I actually think that the combat width might do you worse, i'd say u should have 9 inf only, athough the AA seems fine atleast to me, but i havent truly tried out Sheep's yet (i will tmrrow with a friend)

Also to save some equipment i'd personally say to take off the medical camp thingy since it doesn't actually change all that much

Maybe as well switching one of those AA for artillery so it has bite agaisnt other infantry as well, but im unsure of your current state

[inner sparrow]

annexing is in nearly all cases better

just make collabs before u go to war and ur fine

[hexed parcel]

I mean depends on your mp, stockpiles, industry n' DLCs

[inner sparrow]

if ur facist or communist

[inner sparrow]

stockpile and industry barely matters for annexing

mp yes

[hexed parcel]

If you have BBA simply make puppets with resource rights and allat

[inner sparrow]

true dlcs aswell

[hexed parcel]

Industry and stockpile matters if you dont have enough factories to make a stockpile decent to keep resistance at bay

Sometimes it actually becomes a issue

I once neglected resistance and well

Had to fix my entire country for over 4 months

It was annoying, not the end of the world tho

[inner sparrow]

keeping resistance at bay is not an issue at all even with a shit stockpile

esp if ur a country that can make collabs

[hexed parcel]

I mean not, but yes annoying if you arent that industrialized just yet

[inner sparrow]

if u don’t have the industry for managing resistance u also won’t have the industry to get to the annexing part

so its like a big whatever

[hexed parcel]

My personal take is always puppet

If you cant get a core on it ofc

[inner sparrow]

which is ur personal preference and fair

[hexed parcel]

(I have BBA)

[inner sparrow]

but annexing is better

[hexed parcel]

Even annexing's good

[queen portal]

like the sub doctrinr "Armoured Cavalry" and "peoples militia" like ts

[hexed parcel]

Just be sure that it wont hurt you all that much (like, dont annex 4829481984 lands if you cant take it)

[honest bloom]

Is space Marines good for single player?

I'm playing as iraq

[fast pawn]

im a beginner where do i start

[honest bloom]

Watch a tutorial

[hexed parcel]

I think so

[fast pawn]

i have

[hexed parcel]

If you can take the industry pressure then yes

Though i never tried out space marines just yet

[honest bloom]

I will try it since iraq is very weak and limited manpower

[hexed parcel]

But as far as i know you're unstoppable agaisnt the AI if you properly did it

[hexed parcel]

Go ahead

[honest bloom]

Well if you understand the basics start with Germany they are the best

[rigid tundra]

Okay, I have absolutely no idea how i'm going to draw a frontline against this monstrosity of an alliance (germany, france, italy, russia, turkey and the rest of europe.)

[chrome breach]

is this the same version everybody else is playing on?

my friend cant join me because it says hes on a different version

[hexed parcel]

What country are you playing as?

[chrome breach]

only difference is his says 859d and mine says 858d

[hexed parcel]

And how did that alliance even was created 😭

[rigid tundra]

czeck

[hexed parcel]

Year?

[rigid tundra]

1945

[hexed parcel]

Okay that makes sense now

[rigid tundra]

War took a while

I was solo vs all of europe and inflicted 13 million casualties

But once they ran out I just pushed and took everything

[hexed parcel]

RIP

W then lol

[rigid tundra]

But now USSR puppeted half of europe for free

Want to fight them but I'm not about to draw 10 different front lines

[hexed parcel]

Have u accomplished all your goals?

[slim bridge]

what happens if France guarantees both me and the country I want to fight in a war?

does one declaring on the other mean France stops guaranteeing one of us (the attacker) and joins the opposing side in the war, or will they stay neutral to the whole thing?

[nova lichen]

why cant i complete this focus?

[primal silo]

are you at war?

[nova lichen]

no

do i need to be?

[nova lichen]

okay

[fathom thistle]

Isn't it in 3rd row?

It shouldn't be dlc dependent

[queen portal]

i have every dlc except Graveyard of empires, the czech one and the asian one

[carmine thunder]

is doing focuses on the left side of political paranoia worth it

[slim bridge]

in case anyone later wonders, they stay neutral. They can't join a war when they're guaranteeing both sides. So it's just free for you to take your enemy, you can call their bluff 😎

[dusty sandal]

not really
you have way more important focuses do first

and by the time you can do them, you don't need their ridiculous buffs

[iron veldt]

hello kyrie irving dallas mavericks point guard

[acoustic zephyr]

Is it worth to make up to date destroyers with the best hull and modules or is it better to just make cheap and low tier destroyers

[tough wedge]

best thing to do is steal navies, otherwise, try and get about 3 destroyers with as much light batteries as possible as a form of countering naval invasions. that worked for me

[acoustic zephyr]

I did steal the greek navy but im trying to build a really powerfull one but its kinda confusing

Im making light cruisers but idk about the destroyers

I need them as screening

But I dont know if its worth to make "good" ones

[dusty sandal]

"up to date" destroyers are 1936 DD with 3 torp launchers, no aa, cheapest gun and best engine

most countries start with that

[acoustic zephyr]

Yes but its 1941 and im wondering if it needs to be better

[tough wedge]

is it worth it to make light cruisers tho? every time i use them they just feel two-sided each time

[acoustic zephyr]

I have no idea I watched some video's and it was said they tear trough screens and do good damage

The ones I use do have a lot of light attack

[kind hedge]

Start a new one then ig

It always takes me multiple save when i try to do something big

[kind hedge]

Yes but you should look for a good design

And also have a lot of cheap destroyers

[dusty sandal]

it doesn't

[kind hedge]

Dont really know if making up to date destroyers is useful

[dusty sandal]

1936 DD has best cost-torp and HP stat ratio

[kind hedge]

What i use them for is tank for my light cruiser and capital ships

Plus u can get a lot of them by conquering countries so you dont really even need to produce them

[dusty sandal]

either build light cruisers and capitals or build DD swarm
not both. NEVER both

there's just no point

[kind hedge]

Ye

[dusty sandal]

the "roach DD" meta was never a meta

[kind hedge]

Thats why i said

I use premade destroyers

Also eitherway even if you have good light cruiser youll still need some destroyers

[dense stone]

for achievement "Why die for danzig?"
Will it work if I just go unhistorical, and repeat until france turns fascist?

[dusty sandal]

no you don't

why would you need DDs with light cruisers

[kind hedge]

You do

[dusty sandal]

why

[kind hedge]

Because if you want a good fleet and you dont have an awesome economy you wont have enough time/resources to get enough light cruiser to lets say beat the british

Not to mention destroyers are extermely cheap and they tank for light cruiser and can do some damage

[dusty sandal]

so your logic is investing into ships that only work in swarms because they're cheaper ? that's not how navy works

you're wasting IC doing so

and no, they won't "tank" for light cruisers, since they're in the same line of fire and their HP count is so low they won't tank anything

[kind hedge]

Depends on the stats

Id rather have a decent amount of light cruiser and a lot of destroyers then a lil bit more light cruisers and no destroyers

[dusty sandal]

no it doesn't

the argument you could make would be that the DDs are there for their torps which bypass BBs armor, but it doesn't makes sense either because once CL can attack capitals, those capitals are doomed torps or no torps

you either have a good amount of cruisers or a swarm of destroyers

never both

especially not in low ic situations

because then, you'll just see your half baked DD fleet get evaporated, losing on the swarm part, leaving your now outnumbered light cruisers get smashed by the deathstack they're facing

[kind hedge]

A swarm of destroyers wouldnt be useful

If u dont have lc

And

As i said

Destroyers are gonna have some attack

[dusty sandal]

Navy isn't some hidden black magic or a place for in-betweens, hoi4 is a doomstack mechanic no matter how much effort paradox puts into saying otherwise. And it's an absurdity to try and get dual pourpose fleets that cannot win against anything

[kind hedge]

But its gonna be really cheap to produce

[dusty sandal]

just so you know, with the new doctrines, Destroyer swarms are meta

[kind hedge]

What type of destroyers

Maxed out

[dusty sandal]

torp destroyers

[kind hedge]

Or basic

[dusty sandal]

1936, 3x torp 2, engine 2, lightbattery 1, 980ic destroyers

[kind hedge]

Idk didnt really play navy lately but everytime i played navy game my idea worked

[dusty sandal]

simple as

[acoustic zephyr]

Do I also then use the level 1 torpedo?

[dusty sandal]

because it's AI

[kind hedge]

They did kinda ruin naval game

[dusty sandal]

AI has been navally broken since No Compromise No Surrender

it is basically incapable of anything except once in a while where doomstack leave ports toattack your fleet, but that so rare

[primal silo]

A swarm of destroyer can kill every single ship the AI has and then some suffering little to no losses

[dusty sandal]

if you don't have torp 2, you can
but at this point just build convoys until you have torps 2 before switching everything on DDs

[kind hedge]

Idk if its only for me but since the last updates basic 9 inf destroys every single thing the AI has

Even if its considered a defensive unit

[dusty sandal]

depends what country you're fighting and if you have air or not

[kind hedge]

No air

Aa company

[dusty sandal]

9/0 have some basic offensive capabilities, especially when they can fill a combat width and the enemy can't

[gleaming grove]

Why cant i assign a region?

[dusty sandal]

rclick a region

[vital plinth]

What do you mean with this ?

[dusty sandal]

I mean that navy works in two simple ways

• Specialized ships and fleet are always better than non specialized ships and fleets (just like all other designers)
• A navy deathstack will always operate better than a smaller taskforce, no matter how you put it. Splitting your fleet is the best way to get it killed, even though paradox seems adamant that that's what you're supposed to do now in their patchnotes since NCNS

[vital plinth]

So putting as many destroyers battleships and cruisers in one task force is what’s best ? And 4 carriers

[dusty sandal]

if that's all you have, yes

put every single surface ships in the same fleet

but don't build random diversified ships

[vital plinth]

What’s the issue with diversefied ships ? Like destroyers for sub detection, cruisers for surface detection and destroyers for strike force subs ?

[dusty sandal]

carriers used to be the exception, where you wouldn't deathstack until you have 21 of them (so the penality was worth taking) which was a comically large number of carriers so people usually kept the extra ones near and would micro them around

[gleaming grove]

lol im stupid

[spring robin]

hello, can anyone tell me why i can't deploy my navy in sea of japan ?

[vital plinth]

I tvhink I’m very clueless with the current situation and meta and issue in navry even when talking here 😅

[dusty sandal]

want an escort DD ? you build it to do just that. You don't EVER replace a torp launcher on a swarm DD with depth charges
you want light cruisers ? you stack light atk on them, and if you want more detection, you build a detection cruiser
you want a heavy attack BB, you build a heavy attack BB, you don't build a heavy-mixed wiht AA or light atk BB

[dusty sandal]

change port base

it's set in germany right now

[spring robin]

i already did

[dusty sandal]

no you didn't

[gleaming grove]

Where the hell are the decisions that give me war support and stability

[fair hare]

at the top

[dusty sandal]

don't lie to me please

[spring robin]

how am i supposed to do it exacly ?

[fair hare]

port is still in wilhelmshaven

[spring robin]

ahh okay

i'll try that

[dusty sandal]

war support at the top, you probably already took them both
stability you already took them as well
note that when you ban an ideology, you loses stability as per their popularity, you probably tanked your stab doing so

[spring robin]

yh it works that

[gleaming grove]

so no way to get it back up?

[dusty sandal]

well, stab will be long as you can pick work condition decision once per year

check your focuses and advisors

[glacial steeple]

hi chat

hows the discording

[fair hare]

CASEY

[vital plinth]

Oh ok you mean a single ship with different modules to different things ?

[dusty sandal]

yup

[vital plinth]

But cruisers are the best one for surface detection right ?

[glacial steeple]

hi :)

[ripe valve]

what ships should i use for naval superiority

[errant chasm]

Hi casey

[carmine thunder]

when is best time to annex baltics? (when are they done with their industry focuses)

[pliant condor]

none of those are useful

i mean the only point of navy is to kill the othre navy

[glacial steeple]

in vanilla its not scripted and lit doesnt do any

in sheeps they should rush it so just count focus time

[vital plinth]

Any advice on how to build up big navry from scratch as British raj ?

Produce dockyards early as possible?

[twin kayak]

I've a question about divs

Let's assume I want 18 infantry battalions/tile with support aa

is there a difference between 18 divs of 1 infantry battalion with support aa (1 per div)

and 1 div of 18 battalions with support aa

[austere roost]

yes

you will need much more aa

[twin kayak]

do support companies grow depending on the div size ?

[fair hare]

no

[austere roost]

and also the hp will be much lower meaning you take like 2% of equipment damage for every 1 org lost with 2w divisions but only like 0.5% of equipment damage for every 1 org lost on 18w divisions

[austere roost]

no but you need 18 support aa companies now instead of 1

[twin kayak]

so (let's assume it's 100 manpower/support aa) In the 18 divs of 1 infantry, I'd need 1800 men and in the 1 div of 18 inf, I'd just need 100 men ?

[vagrant cosmos]

Hello fellas, asked a while back and haven't got an answer :(

Do we know if the Soviet Air Focuses are still bugged? As per this video of 4 years ago, the Focii don't really do anything & the debuffs don't really do anything either except on Ace Generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bCm-WS4zs8

[fair hare]

yes

for the support

[twin kayak]

so it's better to just go with the max div size to defend ?

[austere roost]

yes which is why for 18w divisions we wouldn''t recommend you to max out 5 supports because that is wasted ic that could be used for offensive divisions

[twin kayak]

or is it usefull to have 18 support aa to do 18x more damage

[austere roost]

18w is a sweetspot between having enough divisions to provide org and being able to recycle, combat width limitations, and ic limitations based on hp

[twin kayak]

what is ic ?

I don't know that abbreviation

[austere roost]

if you want you can always build a 25 aa division and put one on each tile. AA still shoots down planes even when they're in reserve

[austere roost]

industrial capabilities

you're spending too much industry on defensive 18w units if you give all of them armored engineers, field hospitals, recon, etc

[pliant condor]

usually the answer is you need to expand first

raj might be large enough

and then yeah build dockyards

[pliant condor]

it works but its effects are minimal

[twin kayak]

why am I playing on a powerpoint presentation ?

[pliant condor]

doesn't stop you from killing ai air at all

[austere roost]

the air focus doesn't matter much because the stats that are affected barely matter

[pliant condor]

1953💀

[twin kayak]

I took my time

:)

nvm, found the problem

all of these subs are not really helping

(+ they were all in one big group)

[austere roost]

they're not even doing anything

[twin kayak]

I transfered that save from my mac to my windows and sometime weird things happen

now I can't put them back on convoy raiding

[ripe valve]

what ships are best for securing naval supremacy for, say, naval invasions?

[twin kayak]

you can shit out torp dds

[tranquil trellis]

How to not lose every damn ground battle gang-

[twin kayak]

works great for me

[ripe valve]

destroyers?

[twin kayak]

yeah

[ripe valve]

aight

[twin kayak]

with the support of some naval bombers if it's a very big navy

[ripe valve]

are those considered capital ships

[twin kayak]

these two have worked really great for me

[ripe valve]

or screens

[twin kayak]

you can change support companies, it's probably not optimal

[twin kayak]

destroyers and light cruiser = screen, the rest are considered capital ships

[gleaming grove]

Is there a way to upgrade all railways to max level at once?

like some shift click somewhere?

[vital plinth]

Oh so building on my own regions isn’t enough I need more lands ?

If so which lands should I take

[austere roost]

click the support base you want to maximize supply and then click the yellow arrow, just remember that you might not get the optimal build if you're trying to upgrade multiple bases that way

[vital plinth]

I can’t fight Japan because until 1939 it’s spent on internal stuff and building up as India

[pearl kestrel]

is it possible to not get anyone to join the convention in the greek focus tree? this happened to me right now, its my first greek run

[fathom moth]

ALRIGHT WTF

i love non historical

[gleaming grove]

what arrow

[pliant condor]

raj maybe

but idk

you have nothing to ifght

[austere roost]

if no arrow then you just have to click on each railway to max them out

[astral heath]

how do i invade britian

[vital plinth]

Im playing raj and going independent India , but could see if I can get Afganistan and Iran

[burnt agate]

Guys, I haven't played for about a couple of years. I logged in as my favorite Communist China and... I don't understand why my troops have become complete garbage. I used to have 25 "helmets" and fought exclusively with infantry. Now I don't even have 25 helmets, I'm barely surviving on 9 and I don't understand where the upgrades I need are. Please tell me what happened to the game and how do I live now?

[keen hemlock]

new dlc came out

[thin nebula]

they updated china

[burnt agate]

Not yet abdeit, but nefr.

I have trouble understanding how to fight Japan in the current situation. I used to be able to comfortably eat my neighbors in Communist China, but now we're fighting so much on equal terms that it's nonsense.

[thin nebula]

its pretty accurate

[rigid tundra]

So I was invading austria and it just tag switched to cissel?

And now my war is completely stopped and I dont have war goals

[pliant condor]

well yeah

issue with playing non-eu antions

I think like swedne something might be best for a navy

[dusty sandal]

hungary pupetted them through a focus by the looks of it ?

[true hearth]

i'm trying to naval invade the UK but i really don't understand how air superiority works? i have complete naval superiority but as for air i have no idea.

(yes i know its 1945 and i havent capped them yet i've been experimenting with division sets and stuff i havent done before)

[uncut narwhal]

watch out that you dont overstack your airports

and click on the air zone for more details

[true hearth]

They're not overstacked I've upgraded them. When I click on it it says mission efficiency 100% but air superiority is like 60% at best

[uncut narwhal]

click on the airzone and send a ss

[true hearth]

Okay gimme a second

I think I know why it's so low superiority looking at this 😭 but here

i didnt know they had that many planes

[uncut narwhal]

you have the dlc right?

[true hearth]

is it just as simple as out using planes

[true hearth]

i havent bought any dlcs yet im not sure what to buy tbh

[uncut narwhal]

ok for no dlc i think its really just better tech and more

i recommend you get by blood alone and no step back

la resistance is also good

[light knoll]

what do you want the navy for
usually the answer is to do things that would get the same effect but for much cheaper to no cost

[true hearth]

thank you

[light knoll]

so paratroopers or naval 66

[neat widget]

uh... your aircraft have issues

also no clue why air superiority is gray

[true hearth]

honestly I've got 1000 hours and I barely just figured out supply

[wild rune]

oof

[wild rune]

gah

[true hearth]

It's my first attempt at an ironman as well and it was going well until this

[wild rune]

Show air template for your fighters

[true hearth]

I don't have the dlc for planes I don't know if that's base game

I gotta buy them at some point

[wild rune]

ohhhh

what air thing are you using

just draw back don't fight for supremacy over the channel if you don't have equal numbers without the dlc

[true hearth]

I tried over the north sea too and it still failed

I've had 4 naval invasions repelled so far

I would use paratroopers but for that i need air superiority so I'm kinda just in a loop

[uncut narwhal]

just get the best tech and get a lot of them

also ironman just isnt fun

no reason to play

[neat widget]

oof

that said what do your fighters look like

[true hearth]

well stupid me forgot to turn off road to 56 before trying to do the achievements and I was too far gone at that point and just continued

[true hearth]

I only have base game not the dlc

I think I need to buy it lmao

[twin kayak]

what country were you playing to not be affected by that aspect of the game ?

[true hearth]

well I'd always build railways and stuff but I didn't know about motorisation and the what not

the first 500 hours or so though were just spent playing germany usa and uk but now I've branched out a bit I'm just trying to improve

[uncut narwhal]

germany is probably the easiest nation to learn

and to play in general

but 1000 hours is a lot tbh

[true hearth]

I checked its actually 857 I just rounded up

[errant chasm]

what about a nation to improve your skills on? As germany usually gets spoiled with lots of buffs

[uncut narwhal]

soviets

china

finland

france

[errant chasm]

thanks

[true hearth]

I've been playing the soviets recently I can halt the germans I just can never get a counter advance going

[uncut narwhal]

try using tanks to attack the germans

also where exactly do you halt them?

[true hearth]

they push a few tiles up from the border left after molotov pact

And then it just stagnates

[uncut narwhal]

what divisions do you use?

[true hearth]

Well every time I've played I just used a normal 9 infantry with some supports and then for tanks I'd do 4 light 2 heavy and 2 motorised infantry but today I tried having attacking infantry and defensive infantry and it seemed to be more effective

[red mesa]

Romanian front is usually softer

[red mesa]

That is a bad tank division comp

[true hearth]

what can I do that's better

I've only started trying to mess with that stuff the last couple times I've played

[uncut narwhal]

yea bad tank divs

[red mesa]

10 mediums 8 mech with good supports

[uncut narwhal]

10 tanks 8 cavalry/mech

[true hearth]

okay I'll attempt with that tomorrow and see how it goes

[uncut narwhal]

try using specail forces aswell

they work good aswell

36w is the width you want to aim for

[true hearth]

Yeah most of my divisions were around 24

So I'll try make them bigger then

[uncut narwhal]

your holding divisions

should be 18w

just 9 inf with support arty/aa

engineers if you can afford them

[true hearth]

Are tank destroyers worth building or should I just avoid that

[uncut narwhal]

avoid it in sp

[red mesa]

AI doesn’t build high armor tanks that need destroying

[uncut narwhal]

in sp you want mediums

spg

if you get the tank dlc

[true hearth]

Thank you I appreciate it

No doubt I'll be back here tomorrow

[rigid tundra]

Anyone give me a little guidance on how to win as czech vs germany?
They demand sudentland by 1939 and even if I give it to them almost immediately declare right after.

[barren copper]

Hello, I’m new to the game and was hoping to get some advice on optimal infantry division templates—particularly in terms of maximizing soft attack and overall combat effectiveness. I’d really appreciate any guidance or insights you can share.

[spring shore]

i do not know how optimal it is anymore, but the 7-2 division works for me. 7 inf 2 arty. i HIGHLY recommend the arty support and engenier support

[barren copper]

I truly appreciate your help and your kindness in responding to my question, especially given my lack of experience.

[thin nebula]

Dont give it to them?

If you give it to them you lose your fort advantage and have to fight through them instead

[rigid tundra]

I can't

if I give it to them I don't have time to take yugo and hungary

[floral cedar]

so guys is the navy ai any better in the new update

[red mesa]

you need to design divisions to either attack or defend. Infantry is primarily for defending, soft attack is not it's most important stat. Special forces and tanks get way way higher soft attack, so are better for attacking.

[red mesa]

7/2 was never optimal and only works because the AI is braindead

[spring shore]

sorry man, im just working on what i know

https://tenor.com/view/caught-caught-in-4k-caught-in-4k-meme-caught-red-handed-caught-you-gif-8043513456647096798

[red mesa]

nothing wrong with that, but the pinned messages here are a better start

[plain mason]

7/2 was a good template around 7-8 years ago

but it got recommended for way longer than it should have

isn't good for ages now

[red mesa]

I remember building it all the time in like 2018 so yeah maybe even longer

[red mesa]

combat width changes really killed it off, thank god

[plain mason]

tbf if hoi4 still had the 80cw standard then 7-2s would still be bad

arty just got nerfed into the ground for whatever reason

[glad birch]

how fix this

[glacial steeple]

up late, smh...

(i say as im 1 hour past when im supposed to sleep)

[plain mason]

it's 10pm

[spring shore]

thanks for correcting me tho, so i want a tank breakthru and a meat shield div?

[plain mason]

do you have a mod turned on?

[red mesa]

if you can afford tanks, yeah

[glad birch]

yes i have tried to fix it before