ask-for-help-here

[minor ruin]

xibei san ma… haven’t heard that name in a long time

[gaunt vortex]

Any temp for paratroopers?

What the hell💔🥀🥀😭

Is this any good?

[lucid torrent]

Why I can't core them?

[vital geode]

If you want to be cheap and just want to cheese, just use 2 widths

[vital geode]

Isn't there a focus you need to do

[lucid torrent]

I did it already

[vital geode]

Do you have the integration resistance law active?

Or do you need to click the 15 command power decisions on the map

[hollow willow]

why are my frontlines like this?

[lucid torrent]

idk? I click them many time before

[gaunt vortex]

I am playing Ireland so sm good

[warped osprey]

A question about TFR, Is everything before first european war affecting your walkthrough after as germany?

Cuz I want to do Einheitsfront Germany

[left mica]

bug?

[neat widget]

yeah it's just an annoying minigame

you should do the focus which gives the reconciliation law for these territories

[hollow willow]

cmon guys i need answers pls.. im genuinely getting encircled just because my frontlines wont shift to the captured tiles.

[left mica]

seems like a bug i have no idea

delete it and redraw?

never seen that before

[hollow willow]

tried that but it didnt work, but dw all i had to do was reload the game, mb 😭 😭

it probably is a bug

[vital geode]

You turned off ai units

Go to bottom right of screen and turn them back on

Oh, just realized you fixed your issue

[hollow willow]

thats ctrl + f9

[vital geode]

Oh

[hollow willow]

i did that so the frontlines are more clearer in the ss

[astral anchor]

how do the help lounges work

do i just ask someone for help and they get in the lounge

[left glacier]

Pretty much. They are voice channels for helpers community members

[astral anchor]

i might need that later if anyone does tfr

im about to do the GAW but i have a feeling im gonna get annihilated

is this good

idk how to make templates in tfr or regular hoi4

[sand ember]

i have no idea since this is modded and everything is different

what do you mean that has 39 combat width

[astral anchor]

is this good to fight with in asia

[hushed vault]

what is the combat width of the tiles in asia

where u plan on fighting

[astral anchor]

i NEED to kill the PDTO and i need something cheap to spam out so they cant naval invade bejing

[astral anchor]

indochina india the koreas and japans and literally every asian nation besides china (me)

[hushed vault]

make that combat width +1 or +2 and u should be fine

[hushed vault]

.

do your own homework

[astral anchor]

are there tfr guides anywhere

[sand ember]

just hover over a tile and say the combat width real quick

[lucid torrent]

this? But that is another politcal path

[astral anchor]

korea is 80 indochina is 75

india is 90

[sand ember]

it's based on terrain not country

so make a division that roughly fits in the tiles you want to fight

[astral anchor]

alr

if i lose ill just use commands anyways so i technically never lose

[neat widget]

oh wait

[neat widget]

hit the sun button on the top

that should show you the focuses that affect kurdish separatism

maybe there isn't an option without bftb

[lucid torrent]

never trust paradox in tagging

[lucid torrent]

Yes, all path have a way to core these land, but somehow it is bugging

[neat widget]

bruh

[vital geode]

Are the decisions on the states themselves

Like the 15 cp ones

[lucid torrent]

no, now I remember that they should appear on the map

[vital geode]

So what are the 15 cp ones on the Kurdish states about

[lucid torrent]

they are available from start, just gambling

[vital geode]

Oh, it's the gamble ones

Have you tried reloading the game

Because the decisions should be there

Or is it locked behind compliance

[austere roost]

I saw a guy make 200 of them, although with 5 supports since no mods

[lucid torrent]

Yeah, Idk why but 5 months ealier it is possible, but now it don't

[vital geode]

Hoi4 breaking itself each update.

Difficulty level impossible

[lucid torrent]

I mean 5 months in game

Soooo, this is the reason, somehow when kurd break away from iraq, it disbale my decision

[twin kayak]

How easy would it be to create a mod that changes every additive stat upgrade to multiplicative ?

[cold bloom]

Youd copy the entire ideas folder (maybe tech too) and would have to just mass replace each stat manually with mass replace I imagine

[hardy star]

I think it has to do with some conditions that says "if country exists" = mission is failed, so it disables the decisions. If the country stop existing, maybe it will show up again

[lucid torrent]

Nah, it don't, I start a new game anyway

[daring gorge]

i hv spread communism in every country avaiable and did this focus after but no one is going civil war

[small scroll]

does anyone know a quick tutorial for hoi4?

[spark cedar]

anyone know like the quick strat to demolish germany with USSR early as a buck

like less than 5 months or a year

[daring gorge]

early soviets easily defeat early germany

you have like 3x more divs

[spark cedar]

do i defeat poland then slap germany is that the easiest way

[daring gorge]

yes

[spark cedar]

ok thx ill try

[grand iris]

how much communism support they have

[daring gorge]

like 20

but it said i only hv to spew communism?

not a number

[grand iris]

yes it has worked with me but its gonna take a while

[tired surge]

any mod that supports 1.18 thats like millenium dawn?

[uncut narwhal]

99% of mods support 1.18

only new stuff is the czech tree in vanilla

[tired surge]

well not millenium dawn

or at least my game crashes

and not the novum vexillum

[uncut narwhal]

tfr

[tired surge]

elaborate?

[uncut narwhal]

the fire rises

[tired surge]

does it work with 1.18?

[uncut narwhal]

think so

[tired surge]

time to test

[final estuary]

Y'all got tips on how to play finland

I'm doing it for my next run after argentina

[iron veldt]

gaurd your ports

[spark cedar]

yeah i tried several times and failed

took poland

then the UK and poland just slap me back with uprising and naval superiority

also germany slapped me aswell after

[warm lava]

i bought dlc of gott... and idk how to use nukes after research , production , strat bombs and air superiority

[hazy quiver]

Is cheap light tank (Only 5 to 7 product cost) even worth it or just infantry spam?

[fathom thistle]

no

[hazy quiver]

No to the light tank or to the infantry?

[fathom thistle]

no, the light tanks is not worth it

[hazy quiver]

Light tank in general or the 5 pc?

[fathom thistle]

in general, except if you have are using light tank recon

[hazy quiver]

And medium tank at low pc worth it or no?

[fathom thistle]

if its a good design then yes

doesnt have to be expensive

[hazy quiver]

Okey ty

[fathom thistle]

while refering to medium tank use spg in singeplayer and td's in mp

they just better

[hazy quiver]

Why spg even good at single player?

[fathom thistle]

big soft attack

less tanks per battalion

[hazy quiver]

Do arty in tank?

[fathom thistle]

howitzer yes

[left glacier]

Basically. You research the nuclear reactor special project. Depending on the choices you make, you either get a regular nuclear reactor or a heavy water nuclear reactor. Heavy water reactor is built faster but produces nukes slowly.

After, you need to research the nuclear bomb. Nuclear reactors automatically create nuclear bombs. Using the new raid system, you create a nuclear strike using a strategic bomber air wing. Having supremacy increases the chances of a successful strike.

[hazy quiver]

Is nuclear bomb even good?

[fleet rivet]

Basically destroys infrastructure on a wider scale idk i dont ever use them

[odd canopy]

Why is it that my units don't follow orders? They won't move to the front even after assigning them to it, I have to manually move them myself.

[woeful relic]

you haven't clicked on battle plan

[odd canopy]

You have to click on the battleplan button to make them fill the front?

[woeful relic]

the red arrow on the generals and field marshals

[woeful relic]

Oh, Your guys just take time

[odd canopy]

They literally don't move.

And when I do that they don't attack anyways, so.....

[hazy quiver]

It's bug just shift click on new front

[odd canopy]

That worked, thank you.

[hazy quiver]

Np

[hazy quiver]

Tip shift click every time in ftont if you dont want to have 5 unit on 1 place and 1 in the other place

[odd canopy]

It was like that because they wouldn't move.

[left glacier]

You can use it to break stalemate with the ai in late game. You can also destroy aircraft if you strike a province with an airbase

[hazy quiver]

Idk why its happening but just shift click make front alot better for me

[odd canopy]

I do, but the issue isn't that I wasn't shift clicking, it was that they wouldn't follow any orders.

[hazy quiver]

Okey ty

[warm lava]

but bro i didnt see a nuke raid button i know raids exist

[left glacier]

You click on a tile while in the raid mode

[warm lava]

??

@left glacierdm me with instructions please

[left glacier]

Let me get my game up first

[left glacier]

1. So you first click on atom icon button on the raid GUI
2. Click on a tile you want to do a nuclear strike on (for this example Frankfurt)
3. Assign the air wing (strategic bomber) and the origin airport they'll be flying from (closest is better)
4. Create the raid. You can increase the chances of a successful nuclear strike with air superiority and airwing experience

[visual tide]

It fully disables a state now. So it is a strategic asset now not a tactical one. Example as USA, you'd want to nuke Rhineland, Hessen and Brandenburg to destroy most of germany's industry in core states

Or high population states if you want to cut the enemies available manpower

[warm lava]

that isnt appearing me

[lethal moth]

how do i join a game? i just got the game and idk where to put the id

[warm lava]

@left glacier

[left glacier]

It's collapsed under the target icon

You have to click it to make it show up

[warm lava]

alr

[vital plinth]

So I puppeted most of French colonies except those with ressouces was told it was a way to get civs what am i supposed to do with them now annex them ? Or make them intergrated puppet ?

[glacial anchor]

I know this sounds like a stupid question but for port strike does it strike the ports IN the tile it’s in or the ports ON the tile it’s in?

Nvm I phrased that really badly, do I port strike on the sea tile or the land tile

[left glacier]

The ports on the land tile

If it's an island inside a sea zone like Midway Island, you have to do the port strike on a sea tile

[lyric quarry]

good MP tank templates? i have like over 1k hours but i've never really touched MP

[austere roost]

just build tds

[glacial anchor]

Oh alr

[glacial anchor]

10-5

10 mediums 5 motorised

Works for me idk

[lyric quarry]

who do you play MP with

[uncut narwhal]

thats just not even good in sp

[lyric quarry]

with what division template

also medium or heavy

[austere roost]

Pretty much the same as in sp just with heavy tds

[lyric quarry]

i don't think my sp tank templates are good anyway

they probably only work because well... ai

[vital plinth]

what route should i take as france in this section ?, the mastry debyuff is at the bottom if i want to remove it

im playing as franco-spain

[jagged cargo]

Choose the buffs that are practical

[vital plinth]

i dont know they are all good

[mellow geode]

could someone give me a short guide on how to play minor powers? been trying playing them but i keep losing here and there, didnt really know what im doing wrong, thanks in advance

[warm lava]

@left glacieryo what if i have these red zones how to put ships on there

[vital plinth]

but its just historial so will fight germany and italy

[jagged cargo]

give me 5 mins?

i will hop on

[jade jewel]

If I occupy some tiles and germany is in the war too, why do my tiles just randomly become german

[left glacier]

You need ships on patrol to gradually build up naval dominance

[signal drum]

when i play as italy which focus should i do to get yugoslavia as puppet?

[left glacier]

So you could put your biggest fleet on patrol

[jagged cargo]

if the tile you occupied is next to a german tile, it will become german's

[lyric quarry]

are you doing tanks

or infantry

[jagged cargo]

Like if you are fighting and progressing from germany's territories, anything you gain will be germany's

[warm lava]

what the red zones mean

[lyric quarry]

also, how much are you going on air

[lyric quarry]

no range

[warm lava]

so how to access there

[left glacier]

Ah red stripes

[signal drum]

how do i get yugoslavia as a puppet when im playing as italy?

[left glacier]

You have to change the fleet's home base

[lyric quarry]

screenshot the right side of your focus tree rq

somewhere in the right side i forgot where

[left glacier]

So each fleet's range is based on the naval base, for this one Taranto

[signal drum]

idk where it is

[vital plinth]

Both no ?

Or am I to focus on one ?

[lyric quarry]

i think it's under balkan ambition

[signal drum]

alr ill look

[lyric quarry]

i assume you're gonna push with tanks so probably right side

[signal drum]

is this the one?

[lyric quarry]

check your decisions

[signal drum]

alr

[lyric quarry]

i think it's send ultimatum to yugoslavia

[jagged cargo]

they haven't done Balkan Amibtion or the other one

[grave pawn]

what are good attack infantry and cavalry attack templates

[lyric quarry]

oh yeah

[jagged cargo]

do Balkan Ambition

[vital plinth]

I can’t focus both infantry and tanks ?

[signal drum]

ok

but that doesnt make yugo a puppet right?

[lyric quarry]

it does

[signal drum]

ohhh

ok

[lyric quarry]

you can demand dalmatia without puppeting them

[signal drum]

i just dont understand the words good because im not so good at english but thanks

[lyric quarry]

it's ok

[lyric quarry]

are you gonna try to push germany with infantry?

[jagged cargo]

Doing the focus will unlock a group of decisions that allows to demand them territories such as Croatia's coast,.... including puppeting them

[vital plinth]

Normlay I play mix of infantry and tanks but am I to have focused one of them early instead of both ?

[lyric quarry]

not really

[signal drum]

which one do i do then now?

[jagged cargo]

Did you do Potential Allies in the Balkan

[signal drum]

oh shi

[jagged cargo]

.

[signal drum]

i did

[jagged cargo]

bruh..anyways

demand Dalmatia

[lyric quarry]

you were meant to do balkan ambition

[signal drum]

they look so much alike bro😭

imma just restart tbf ive only played for like half an hour

[jagged cargo]

can i get to see your division's template

[signal drum]

but thanks for help still

btw how do i win ethiopian war without moving all my divisions there

[jagged cargo]

Snaking, pinning and uhh

ngl

just move all the good divisions in

💔

[signal drum]

alr

idk what thoser words ment

i mean i could just move all divisions there still it doesnt do that much right?

[jagged cargo]

Snaking is taking tiles that are unprotected by any divisions repeatly

[signal drum]

idek how to do that

do i just micro it?

[lyric quarry]

yes

[signal drum]

alr

[lyric quarry]

pinning is when you attack a division so it stops moving, you can retreat while pinned but the ai NEVER does this for some reason

[signal drum]

the problem is that my troops dont have supplies and idk how to do that

[jagged cargo]

something like this

[signal drum]

alr but idk how to get supplies in africa

[jagged cargo]

you don't..

[signal drum]

damn

that just makes it way harder

[jagged cargo]

Pinning is like attacking divisions on a tile that are trying to move into other tiles

[signal drum]

ok

[lyric quarry]

if you put like 1 or 2 factories on motorized you'll have basically enough to give you motorized supply the entire game

[signal drum]

motorized?

[lyric quarry]

trucks

[signal drum]

ohh

[jagged cargo]

-2000 Trucks(From bombing)

[jagged cargo]

make it 3

[lyric quarry]

if you select an army, double click the horse icon near the top

[lyric quarry]

only in MP

[jagged cargo]

yeah

[lyric quarry]

never happened to me in sp

[jagged cargo]

its scary 😭

[signal drum]

why 3?

[jagged cargo]

you don't need that many

[lyric quarry]

you don't need that many

[jagged cargo]

use them on important things

[signal drum]

ok

do they automatically appear in africa?

[lyric quarry]

select an army and

double click the horse icon

[signal drum]

ok

[lyric quarry]

it uses trucks for supply but

your supply improves a ton

[lyric quarry]

for basically no cost

[lyric quarry]

yes

like that

[jagged cargo]

Also

you can use them for this:

[signal drum]

les go

next question: how do i use planes

[jagged cargo]

click twice for two truck icons

[signal drum]

alr

[lyric quarry]

it does this automatically if you have motorized supply on i think

[jagged cargo]

idk, i just do that to all suppy hubs i own

[lyric quarry]

click an airport

select the mission

and right click an airzone

[signal drum]

ok

thanks

[lyric quarry]

the 2nd and 3rd ones from left to right are the most important ones btw

[jagged cargo]

example:

the most important ones are

[lyric quarry]

you won't need intercept

[slate nimbus]

honestly air is more intuitive than navy

[jagged cargo]

i js enable for da example lol

[lyric quarry]

air is super simple

[slate nimbus]

Air superiority my beloved

[jade jewel]

If I attack sweden through germany over a straight, what do I have to do that it os my occupation?

[lyric quarry]

what do you mean

[jagged cargo]

yo need to do like 500 researches for navy and you'll only be using them for blocking trades in multiplayers or smth

[slate nimbus]

i swear strike force doesnt do anything nowadays

[jade jewel]

So that it is the occupation of my country and not germany

[jagged cargo]

it'll be germany's

likely unless you have cores/claims

[signal drum]

can they not just surredner bro🥀

[jade jewel]

But it worked the first try

[jagged cargo]

good job!

[lyric quarry]

attack with everything at once

[jagged cargo]

.

[signal drum]

alr

[jagged cargo]

u dunno whats a field marshal rght

[signal drum]

i used all my troops beacause i cant do only the onest hat i start wit hin afrcia

[jagged cargo]

i mean

army group

[signal drum]

nah

[lyric quarry]

you can make one frontline for 5 or 7 armies (depending on how experienced your FM is)

[jagged cargo]

click on a army you choose then right click

[jade jewel]

On my first try I attacked the same way and it was my colour

[lyric quarry]

you can try to ask germany for occupation

[vital plinth]

It’s just 3x3 and support art and engineer

[signal drum]

bro attacking with everything still doesnt do shi

[lyric quarry]

show ss

[vital plinth]

But the question is what is best to focus of the 4 routes tank , air or infantry or forts

[jade jewel]

But they won't give it to me and there has to be a reason

[lyric quarry]

i can't help you then

[signal drum]

what?

[lyric quarry]

screenshot

[signal drum]

oh

[jagged cargo]

Click on the army group, Shift + Left Click on the frontline and something like this will happen(2nd image):

[signal drum]

wait what

[jagged cargo]

Army Group

[signal drum]

im not listening rn wait rq

[jagged cargo]

ok

[signal drum]

ok what are we talking about

[jagged cargo]

Choose all divs there and right click on Addis

[signal drum]

yeah

[jagged cargo]

Spam doing that till tehy break

[signal drum]

ok

i thought i only had to do it ones and they would keep doing it

ig thats why i cant do anything

[slate nimbus]

that would require battle plan

[jagged cargo]

they stop when the battle reaches 0/out of org

[slate nimbus]

so annoying when that happens

[lyric quarry]

ethiopia can't hold out forever

[slate nimbus]

theyre already encircled so like theyll die eventually

[lyric quarry]

unlike other countries who can genuinely just be a pain in the ass

[jagged cargo]

do it fast, theres escalation level

if that reaches too high, ur...dead

[signal drum]

that went horrible

[lyric quarry]

you have to keep attacking

keep making your divisions re-enter the battle

[signal drum]

i did

[lyric quarry]

so they can't rdorg

[jagged cargo]

SONION

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[lyric quarry]

what

[jagged cargo]

you are lore-accurate Italy 💔

[lyric quarry]

happened

[signal drum]

i kept spamming addis

and this happend ig

[jagged cargo]

all bad divs on 1 tile

peak.

[slate nimbus]

hows your supply doing

[signal drum]

bro idk whats bad and good

[jagged cargo]

special icons = bad. Helmet = good

[signal drum]

alr

[jagged cargo]

are u using planes

[austere roost]

red boxes mean low supply, not full yellow bar mean not fully equipped

[signal drum]

how do i even fix this bro

[signal drum]

nah idk how

[slate nimbus]

mmm iirc you should be able to deploy some planes there

[austere roost]

watch the beginner's guide and then follow bittersteel's germany guide

[jagged cargo]

wanna see me do it in

[signal drum]

is this it?

[jagged cargo]

uhm bro.

uh

where are your planes

[signal drum]

idk

[short matrix]

Any mods to boost performance? I own a 2011 4gb ram laptop btw

[jagged cargo]

and why ur on Defensive thing

[jagged cargo]

hold on

[short matrix]

ill come back in a min

[signal drum]

uhh idek what i can do bro

hold on i gotta eat dinner amigos

[jagged cargo]

@short matrix

dont use TWR, Modifier icons, Better Mechanics

[short matrix]

thx

[true tapir]

best in the game for any country?

with most dlcs

[pure relic]

would anyone be up for helping me with learning the game? I just got it while it was on sale.

[signal drum]

im back can you help me fix ts

[golden sable]

Hello, I have tried creating a custom music station, but the music never plays

It does not appear in the music station

[jade tulip]

is there a way to bypass the requirement of not being fascist?

[austere roost]

watch the beginner tutorial on hoi4 channel and then try to follow bittersteel's germany guide

[pure relic]

okay thanks @austere roost

[valid oak]

how does combat width work?

[brazen panther]

which alliance

[jade tulip]

allies, also playing non historical, brits turned fascist but Im too

[brazen panther]

amount of units in a template determine the battle width of an entire division, if in a battle the battle width of ALL ur divisions is bigger than the max u get penalties

[brazen panther]

then theres a way

[jade tulip]

which is

[brazen panther]

be fascist

[signal drum]

why did germany go against me when i took vichy france??

[valid oak]

ok

[jade tulip]

well I am fascist

but I still cant join

[austere roost]

Cuz German guarantees vichy

Unless you're in the same faction Germany will join the war

[brazen panther]

so

i was at a bulgarian campaigned and formed the third empire

is there a way to invade turkey in 1940 or later without joining the war?

[wild kiln]

If doing SPG meme in single player, do yall do SPG divisions only or add normal infantry divisions in as well?

[gleaming grove]

Is this the strongest single division you can put to defend a city? I couldnt come up with higher Defense

[austere roost]

you'll need to be careful cuz you might be reinforce memed

[austere roost]

wdym spg meme

you just build 36w spg + inf or spg + mech

[keen hemlock]

Armoured engineers might give more

[spring shore]

what is currently the meta for navy? if i picked the memo correctly its torpedo subs? (for germany for example)

[brazen panther]

bro do u needa defend a 200vp city with that def? 😭

[uncut narwhal]

think its torpedo destroyers with spotting light cruisers

[spring shore]

how does one even make spotting ships?

[uncut narwhal]

light cruisers with a lot of spotting planes

[spring shore]

thx man

[signal drum]

yall how do i make my subject my own territory?

[dusty sandal]

entrenchment is way more powerful than more defense past a point
armored engineers
super heavy howitzer
and the right doctrines could get you 12+ entrenchment flat

but watch for the reinforce meme with that size

[brazen panther]

lower autonomy by building for example

if you lower its autonomy at the lowest level its an "annexed" (annexed into u)

[signal drum]

i have the lowest autonomy but like idk where i counqer it

[brazen panther]

manage subjects after u press ur nation's menu (q)

[signal drum]

alr thanks

is there a way to get a peace request yall?

[brazen panther]

conditional surrender, AI never does this

[signal drum]

how do i do it and what does it do

[signal drum]

?

[drowsy holly]

people are revolting and destroying buildings what do i do?

[sand ember]

you need to do better at garrisoning

you're missing equipment and manpower

so resistance is going really high

which is bad

cause it just gets worse and worse

[drowsy holly]

idk what garrisoning means

[sand ember]

press your flag and then press the occupied territories button

and look at this icon

[austere roost]

Check pins, Wellesley has a post

[drowsy holly]

i dont understand what this means

[drowsy holly]

what do i do here ?

[drowsy holly]

@sand ember

[sand ember]

You're a communist country, so you should change your garrison law to liberated workers which is quite good.
You should change your garrison template to use cavalry instead of infantry since they have a higher suppression stat.
You need to free up some equipment and manpower so that you can actually afford to equip these invisible garrison divisions that manage resistance.

Doing these things will mean you start taking less damage from resistance, and you'll start getting more resources from the lands you annexed.

You should also go read up how it works so you can adjust this for future games

[drowsy holly]

i dont understand what is agarrison division

[austere roost]

Did you read the pins post?

[drowsy holly]

yes

[austere roost]

Create a 2w cav template and set it as your garrison template in that screen on the top left corner

And then look at how much guns you still need and then delete the corresponding divisions

[drowsy holly]

what is a 2w cav template what

[austere roost]

Cav template that is 2width

It's really that simple

Liberated workers for communist, civilian autonomy for dem, local police force for others and a 2w cav template is all you need

[drowsy holly]

what is 2 width

[sand ember]

it's a stat in the division designer

how much space a division takes up in a battle basically

go look at it

[drowsy holly]

so i need to make police units

[sand ember]

that is basically what a garrison division template is yes

[austere roost]

Yes, but usually everyone starts with a cav division

If it doesn't have supports then it's good for garrison too

Otherwise a 2w cav division is the cheapest

[pearl tapir]

why does it show the divisions as "?"? because i have too low organisation or attrition?

[vital plinth]

What designs should I use for light tanks that I will use for defense as France ?

[austere roost]

Not enough intel

[austere roost]

Light SPGs

[pearl tapir]

i am at war, doesnt that make me then see the divisions? i saw them like 5 min ago. is it still intel?

[austere roost]

Yes cuz you don't have enough intel

Check your Intel on them

[pearl tapir]

ok

[jagged cargo]

Solutions:

1. Use Medium Tanks
2. Spam Lineholder Divisions
3. Create 2nd Maginot Line

btw Medium > Light/Heavy

[austere roost]

You can make light SPGs

They provide a lot of cheap soft attack

You can also put a dover blade in them for super high entrenchment buffs

They're good for defending the line

[iron veldt]

<@&846892188725673984>

[vital plinth]

Can I add them to infantry template ?

How do I get Dover blades btw ?

[iron veldt]

yes

[nocturne wedge]

Can someone explain to me what combat width is? I keep hearing people talking about it but I don't understand why its so important

[austere roost]

1939 engineer

Also you can add them to inf

Add enough of them and they can be offensive units too

[austere roost]

Search for it in wiki

[vital plinth]

waiting on dozer blade but is this design fine for now?

[uncut narwhal]

bro

light tanks?

[austere roost]

But pretty much 18 width for defense and 36-38 width for offense

[vital plinth]

for defense

[austere roost]

14 cost light SPG?

[uncut narwhal]

dont use tanks for defense

[austere roost]

Are you kidding me

[uncut narwhal]

especially not those

[austere roost]

Light SPGs are like 6 cost

You can use tanks for defense

[odd canopy]

Why? What do I need to do to make this work?

[austere roost]

You use inf because you don't have enough ic

[vital plinth]

what should i remove of moduels seems hard to cut down to 6 cost

[austere roost]

Uh everything?

Light spgs are just for defense and to buy time until you can get medium spgs

Also have you researched 1939 artillery?

[vital plinth]

I have unlocked medium tanks as France

[austere roost]

If you want SPGs why don't you research them

Even with mediums you can get 7 cost med spgs

[vital plinth]

Yeha I’m almost finished with that

So better to make mediums spgs for defense ?

[austere roost]

Then just do a light fixed + howitzer 1

[vital plinth]

Oh ok until I get more mills for meidum tanks ?

[austere roost]

Both work but if you're putting chromium armor on a light SPG you need to stop building tanks

Ok do this

Make a cheap med SPG and get cutting corners with your design mio and then you can only change your design when you can put three of them in every division

For reference I never build SPGs that are more expensive than 10 cost before 1945 and my SPGs have 3 times your attack

[vital plinth]

I need plus 5 size to get cutting corners i believe?

[austere roost]

Yeah

Lvl6 mios get a new trait

[vital plinth]

So Change design you mean add more modules once I have enough to fit 3 in my infantry divs ?

If I understood it correctly

[austere roost]

That's mainly because you are fixated on adding useless modules

I only start adding heavy mgs after I equip 120 SPG divisions

[vital plinth]

Ah fair thougt I was supposed to use those modules like the pinned screen in discord showed but I changed the design cost is 9 now for medium spg

[vital plinth]

Thx for help now I got 48 soft attack

Will give it a try 👍

[austere roost]

Remember to switch the cannon when you finish researching 1939 art

[vital plinth]

Doesn’t it give less soft attack ?

[austere roost]

I'm talking about howitzer

Cannon comes with 1936 tech

[dark turret]

yo i need help, im in helping lounge 2

im playing germany

[uncut narwhal]

whats the problem?

[jagged hull]

for some resaon im not good playing hungary to restro AH

[vital plinth]

I have an issue as Franco Spain Germany invaded Luxembourg half of year earlier and haven’t even attacked Poland yet

[abstract forum]

I don't know how to make troops, I mean how to make a good modification, if you know how to make troops and edit them

[dusky heart]

Look to the top left of you screen. There is a Tank with an arrow that is pointing down. Click that and on the left there should be your templates wich you can train

there should be something like "infantry division" and underneath that "train" and "edit"

edit is to change the template, wich costs you army xp (green stars)

for normal infantry in single player, a 3x3 should be good, but idk. it would be best if you´d take a look ateh germanys base template and keep that, just add anti air, support artillery and the shovel symbol on the left (there is a small row on the far left of the template window, there you can choose them)

[abstract forum]

I know that, I mean that they are efficient, that they hit, how many lines I give them and what

[dusky heart]

They cost like 10 army xp per thing. The troops itself, the main part of the template editor is costing you 5 xp per addition

[dusky heart]

as i wrote, best, take a look at the german standard template and just copie it in every nation as early as possible

and the othere stuff i wrote afterwards

i hope that helps :]

[gilded herald]

Waiting int he helping lounge for 10-20 min if anyone has questions

[tired moon]

romania is guaranteed by the french and czechs, and im guaranteed by the brits and french. If I declare war on romania, who will join

[dusky heart]

You are only garanteed, meaning that, if you get attacked, they will probably help you (keep in mind probably, not definitly they might lack some brain juice when it comes to the ai). You need specific allies and faction members to call them into war. When you clcik on declare war, you can click the box with "call allies" then just test it out who´ll join (you have to save first, obviously)

At least that´s what i believe, according to my current knowledge (60h)

[tired moon]

look heres my idea

[gaunt vortex]

Is this good for Ireland?

[tired moon]

i attack greece > greece is guaranteed by romania > if romania attacks me theyre the aggressors

[dusky heart]

I don´t actually know if that´ll work, but again, just safe (unless you have ironman mode on) and find out

:]

*save

[tired moon]

also how do I get more manpower

[dusky heart]

under "laws and government" click on the 3 soldiers, wich are glowing

the far left

there you can change the enscription (sry if i typed it wrong), higher ensription means some more debuffs if you go too high

[austere roost]

It's also a signal for you to stop training

[dusky heart]

And if you have too many divisons with low manpower, your divs will regain their "life" / soldiers, way slower

or also not at all

so, always have an eye on that, when you are playing

in the main countries it is most often no problem, but you shoudl still keep an eye on it

[amber heath]

how to change ideologies

[gleaming grove]

do you have to click the Ace message to actually get the ace, or can i ignore those?

[austere roost]

you can ignore them, but be careful the aces sometimes aren't automatically assigned to the planes

[pearl tapir]

is there a way to make boost ideology faster without more spy's?

[tough pollen]

Hey, what's the deal with this? I have no reason not to launch the invasion but it simply won't send

[iron veldt]

redo the order

[tough pollen]

Oh wait nvm

I didn't join the war yet I'm slow

[vital plinth]

Damm bene play outside of Europe for so long , does wars really last that short ?

I tried Franco Spain it took 1,5 year then war was over didn’t even built anything in Spain that I own yet

[tough pollen]

I'm playing ahistorical. My main goal is to bring back the Dutch Empire

[vital plinth]

Or am I missing something? Had hoped it would be a longer game

[tough pollen]

Yeah it can be really easy to win early as the defender

[sand ember]

It’s a civil war it’s not meant to last like 5 years

you’re meant to win and then take part in ww2

[vital plinth]

I liked playing France the focus tree is bad tho 70 days all of it and can’t take out some of the big debuffs either

[sand ember]

Or continue wars

[vital plinth]

Yeah I mean ww2

[inland scaffold]

Does thiss till work?

[vital plinth]

Germany just attacked me instead of Poland

[inland scaffold]

For spain communsit path I mean

[gaunt vortex]

Idk why I can't use paratroopers even tho I have the temp

[gusty hinge]

you need transport planes

[vital plinth]

I fought ww2 but the game just felt very short didn’t. Last long beat Germany easy

Been a while since I played in Europe’s but do wars even last more than 3-4 years I mean ww2 for you guys or how do you get the war to last longer without just sitting and waiting

[gaunt vortex]

I have

[gusty hinge]

did u give them order where to land

and u need air sup

[gaunt vortex]

I am trying its just the game says no paratroopers in the command group

[sand ember]

Well the issue is the ai is not very good and even not the best player can have a huge impact on the war and cause it to end really soon

[gaunt vortex]

This is my temp

[tough pollen]

Ok now what's the deal

I very clearly have superiority

[vital plinth]

With sheep mod how does it change or work ?

Or multiplayer is it more stallmates and harder to get through ?

[sand ember]

I haven’t played it in a while. Go try it out

You’ll probably have a more difficult experience if you try a major

[gusty hinge]

move them to the airport with the transport planes

[pearl tapir]

just wait for AI making the naval invasion and then send your troops there

[gaunt vortex]

For sm reason I can do the naval invasion and also did that

[gusty hinge]

so when u give them the order where to drop

does it show arrows

where you want them to go

[gaunt vortex]

I can't give them a order cause that game thinks they are not paratroopers for sm reason

[gusty hinge]

maybe don't have helicopters

cuz they don't work like that

[gaunt vortex]

I yes

Got it

[gusty hinge]

and artillery maybe

[gaunt vortex]

The helicopter were the issue

Thanks g

[gusty hinge]

np

[odd canopy]

Does anybody know how to get into a multiplayer Hoi4 game with a decent amount of people? Because I don't have all of the DLC's, I don't like using mods, that changes the gameplay, and 99% of multiplayer games is all DLC, I've never played multiplayer before.

[sand ember]

You don’t need the dlc yourself. As long as you join a game of someone who has the dlc, you get access to the dlc in the game

[odd canopy]

Interesting..

[sand ember]

as for finding random games with no mods your best bet is probably just checking the server list for no discord games or looking in the multiplayer channel here

Or finding a server that hosts them

[iron veldt]

didn’t know this was a thing

[waxen willow]

HELP

im playing witrh the rise of nations mod

i cant get past colombia

and i cant do a navel invasion

[scenic nacelle]

71 divisions in 1 tile

Don’t do that

[spring shore]

how whould one go ahead as to armor meme?

[waxen willow]

well i cant invade any other way

[iron veldt]

get some air

[waxen willow]

i do

i got tatical bombers

[iron veldt]

CAS

[waxen willow]

what

[slate nimbus]

close air support

thats what CAS means in this game

very useful

[iron veldt]

you’re just bombing the structures

not actually damaging the units

[austere roost]

You wouldn't because it sucks

[left mica]

Build strat bombers

[visual dove]

Dear HOI4 chat, this tank was already ingame the moment I started.

Rate the prebuilt

[waxen willow]

cant the mod starts me in the 1900s and im in 1913

[left mica]

open console and type roic

[waxen willow]

ok im gonna see if that works

[versed rose]

god tier, the france heavy prebuilt is one of the best in the game because it comes with howitzer, change the turret to a non-garbage one and add more heavy mgs and its a goated sp tank

[keen hemlock]

do kamakazies have any usage?

[stone summit]

Have you built supply

[stone summit]

Aura farming

[civic hare]

why aint my lend lease doing frick

[stone summit]

Is it arriving

[civic hare]

sent it

[stone summit]

That notably did not answer the question

They probably don’t have the convoys to actually receive that

Especially not all at once

It should tell you how many convoys they need/have at the top left

[kind bloom]

hey guys

how do we use repair ship in this game

[keen hemlock]

add it to your fleets

[kind bloom]

and put on do not engage right

[keen hemlock]

i dont think they participate in battles anyways

[austere roost]

Then how will your fleets engage

They provide buffs to your fleets once you put the repair ships in your fleet it will show you the value added and how many more ships you need

[lunar spoke]

are decently equipped heavy cruisers good enough to fight the brits jn the med

context im italy and i refitted the zara and pola classes

with lvl 3 heavy cruiser guns

[heavy quail]

If u have 100 of them 😭

[lunar spoke]

ill just build a battleship then 🙏

[heavy quail]

Just build naval bombers tbh

Unless ur the usa u can’t really contest the British

[fathom thistle]

heavy cruisers are cheaper, if you need a capital ship for schreening your carriers stick to heavy cruisers

[compact cairn]

are sp artillery worth it gang

[obsidian badger]

Spgs? theyre kinda meta

[compact cairn]

🤤

[obsidian badger]

Wtf are torpedo cruisers and are they any good

Ok theyre shit

[fierce patio]

How did u kknw in 10 minutes

U remond me of my forme annuoing liberal friend

[dark thunder]

You can just look at the stats

[glacial steeple]

expensive for bad stats

[serene karma]

what

[nova plaza]

i got my weirdest glitch ever, i was playing monarchist uk so i made an uprising in canada so i can give it all the dominions territory so i can directly annex them (so i only have to use the autonomy system on one of them) then core the us then form the imperial federation, but for whatever reason, the monarchist canadian ai was not in the peace deal, so i had to make another canada which kinda broke the imperial federation tree

any fix or anyone know why

[drowsy hazel]

take gilbratar they won’t attack you with the fleet, also Italy base navy is enough for naval dominance

[vital plinth]

As France is it important I do the ban communism ?

Im playing napoleon route

[dusty sandal]

no
there are a few things to avoid having to do it

first : the spirit of violence disappears once you reacch 70% stab
second : if you don't accept communists in governement (take the 5% stab hit) you won't ever have communist events
third : the "protests descend into violence" event only cost 25pp or 5% stab following which option you pick. Nothing to worry about if you need to bruteforce a focus

[glacial steeple]

francis how do i build ship

[dusty sandal]

put workers on it

tell em "need ship" and they should tell you "yes"

[vital plinth]

Ok thx do you know what causes thev early mobilization event for France ? I didn’t pop this time up

It did in my last game

[gleaming grove]

Is there a way to stop missile silos from auto filling? I have some too far from any frontline and the silos close to the frontline are running empty

[dusty sandal]

world tension and the threshold is lowered depending on if you pick popular front (higher) or the other (lower)

in vanilla, you always get rearmament with the alternative route as long as ger does rhineland as first focus

[dusty sandal]

delete the missile wings in the silos you don't want to fill up or change priority of some silo wings

but honestly balistic missiles are bad
they used to be funny memes because they were free, now they're just bad

[vital plinth]

I had all the DLCs and tried Franco Spain but I did get the mobilization thing then

But now I don’t for some reason still going down same focus route

[dusty sandal]

it's linked to the elections too
basically from my experience, it triggers as long as there more than 5% world tension

but it doesn't unless 10% with popular front

I could be wrong though

[vital plinth]

Ah ok maybe a trigger that’s outside my control ?

Does France not need a rework of its focus seems a bit stiff 😅

[dusty sandal]

ahist paths sure are rough
the historical tree is fine imo though, maybe just lacking variety in focus orders

[keen hemlock]

France’s tree is so weird

Like you get to do it all over again

And you are basically stuck with 3 research slots or terrible debuffs

[lyric quarry]

best build as hungary for MP?

[vital plinth]

Ah ok I see can I ask a last question what do people do with the tanks you start with as French they have a lot I think 1200 light tanks what do people do with them ?

[dusty sandal]

sell everyone of them on the market at high price except the R35 (the ones that don't look like great war tanks) since you can convert them into something useful
or just keep them and make crappy light tank div of them or use them as armored recon in inf

[dusty sandal]

continue the regency focuses
mass mob build for barb

[lyric quarry]

so just inf spam?

[dusty sandal]

yes

35.7 inf, support logi, AT (or AA depending on sov build), engineers, recon rangers (with snow speciality from mountaineer doctrine) and, if you can afford it, hospital

rangers divs are good too, as well as armored engineers (the one that doesn't require a specific research) if you can afford it

[lyric quarry]

which doctrine are you using for the width

[dusty sandal]

you rush gun2 tech, don't produce any gun until then, put 6 to 9 mils on support equipment, 2 on trucks, 1 on trains
produce AT once you get 1939 AT, don't swap for AT3 and only swap for Guns 3 if you have at least 70k guns in stockpile + 150 divs fielded

[dusty sandal]

large unit tactics

[lyric quarry]

alright

[dusty sandal]

note that individual excellence can be a good tradeoff if needed

it's not as good but is optimal if sov is going for air build or if you don't play with a mod that gives free xp and masteries because you can use the HP gain way more than the width reduction in such situation

[lyric quarry]

we r playing pure vanilla i believe if that helps

[dusty sandal]

yeah, then individual excellence can be better

[lyric quarry]

alright

[dusty sandal]

you may choose to keep large units and just build 1936 guns to train them to death for mastery though

[lyric quarry]

if desperate defense isn't available, which operations doctrine?

[dusty sandal]

keep in mind that you're building for barb, not anything before that

that's the meta at least. Both hun and rom build for barb and garrison france/italy/greece until then

[dusty sandal]

wait for depserate defense

you need the manpower

[lyric quarry]

how would you get the defensive war tho

since you need that now

[dusty sandal]

if it wasn't patched when inida does its focus taht "declares on every country at war with UK", no matter if they're at war or not, you'll be able to pick it
if it was patched, you should probably pick rapid domination

[lyric quarry]

wait

you can swap doctrines right

[keen hemlock]

Yes

[lyric quarry]

alright

[keen hemlock]

Would the uk declaring on Iran and Iraq not count

[inner sparrow]

why is bro dankus from wish

[lyric quarry]

i don't know

🤷‍♂️

[inner sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/son-sonion-squirrel-gif-10815566660674888721

[dusty sandal]

dunno

[lyric quarry]

i am kmt dankus

[inner sparrow]

big

[vital plinth]

Ok so all the interwar light ones best to sell ?

[keen hemlock]

Big w

[inner sparrow]

I had to coop chungus sov this saturday, never again

[clear saddle]

How do I achieve Imperium Romanum?

[inner sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/meowl-owl-cat-owlcat-spring-excited-gif-9638611985122140704

[clear saddle]

I always get slimed by France and Britain

[keen hemlock]

USA or uk declaring on Vichy could also get it

[inner sparrow]

sell everything that u won’t need

[keen hemlock]

But that’s way later

[lyric quarry]

you used to be able to paradrop france to death in '37, i wonder if they fixed that

[clear saddle]

Is there a video tutorial?

[modern loom]

What should I do in this situation (it is 1939)

[keen hemlock]

Win the civil war

[red mesa]

stop attacking the main front, clean up the pockets and barcelona, get equipment in, split the north in two, then win

[lyric quarry]

i'd say take a small break and don't attack anymore except for the 2 pockets and then just get your strength up and kill the nationalists

have the carlists risen up yet?

[modern loom]

no and probably won't be, I played it until 1940 and they weren't there yet

[dusty sandal]

don't attack with the crappy divs you have, except to pin or move up empty tiles
attack with the few good divs you have

[vital plinth]

I got the free early mobilization as France , I now have the option to get partial mobilization, should I change to that or do I need to save my PP points for other stuff ?

[wide mirage]

is this army big enough to fight someone

[lyric quarry]

does "anti tank" apply to support AT too or just line AT

[fathom thistle]

Put different field marshal too for tank divs

[wide mirage]

the one i have is lowk op tho

[fathom thistle]

alr then

[wide mirage]

is the infantry temp;ate good?

idk the meta

in the good old days it was 9-3

[fathom thistle]

its standard pretty much, I wouldnt worry with logistics company for your small inf div but you do you

you can also always redesign your medium tanks to medium spgs for extra soft attack

[lyric quarry]

me personally i put engineer company on basically everything but it looks good

[glass hinge]

how do i win the border war as communist china because i cant seem to win against shanxi

[sweet summit]

gang

[spring shore]

you can try doing the border raids, they lower their defense a good bit

[glass hinge]

thanks

[fleet rivet]

i dont see nun wrong

[slate nimbus]

what would you guys say is the best way to get a rather quick victory in the Ethiopian front with Italy?

no dlc

[fleet rivet]

pray to the paradox devs

[keen hemlock]

use your full army and air force

[slate nimbus]

atp im already on my knees lol

[fleet rivet]

i managed to win once by sheer luck

[slate nimbus]

i did but it takes a bit too long attacking from Eritrea and South Somalia, i suppose because the terrain is harsh + divs kinda ass

so it took til almost 1937

unless i manually rush the thing by forcing certain divs thru certain fronts

[vital plinth]

What’s the difference between the 2 support tanks ?

[slate nimbus]

i suppose its also cus supply is really ass in that area

[dusty sandal]

a few unmeaningful stats

produce the cheapest

[vital plinth]

Ok thank hyou as napoleon should I annex the Belgian Congo or puppet it ?

[slate nimbus]

i once again come to say that i feel strike force dont do anything no mo

even with grouping whole fleet into a big enormous fleet

[red mesa]

yeah, obviously. They changed it so you basically need spotting ships or at minimum naval patrol planes to find ships for the strike force to engage

[slate nimbus]

damn, i have to think now?

ok fair

maybe i should stick to patrol then

[austere roost]

Also don't forget to assign mio

Cutting corners gives additional -10% cost to them too

[slate nimbus]

how do i make those spotting ships btw

[fathom thistle]

set to never engage and put them on patrol

if u have radar even better

[vital plinth]

Do you know what the strategy is for napoleon route found out I can’t core Europe only as democratic France weirdly

[austere roost]

Idk I haven't played France for eternity

Waiting for allies remake

[slate nimbus]

and i combine this with the other ships that would actually engage?

[fathom thistle]

no, put them in seperate taskforce

[vital plinth]

Have they announced they will make one soon ?

[austere roost]

It's expected

They reworked the axis and ussr

So next should be allies

[slate nimbus]

yessir

gone are the days where i could simply just strike force and forget about it

[keen hemlock]

I at least want a France rework and for the us to just have 1 army spirit instead of 5 different ones

[austere roost]

I just want pdx to fix their bugs

[vital plinth]

Is it too early to fight Germany in end of 1938 as France ?

I had same amount of divisions and good surpluses of equipment but still getting pushed back their airforce is twice as strong still

[keen hemlock]

yeah prolly

you still have tons of debuffs

[vital plinth]

Ah ok and should I puppet or annex the Dutch indies and Congo when I beat Dutch and Belgium

But unsure as French empire is annex better for more man power later from non core ?

[keen hemlock]

id just puppet and take their troops

[keen hemlock]

you dont need manpower once you get rid of your debuffs

esp if you do desprate defense

if you want to you can easily just manpower manip

[austere roost]

The best time is during sudetenland

[vital plinth]

Right after they take it ?

[austere roost]

Of course not

You help czechs fight back

[vital plinth]

Ah ok so that event I say I got the czechs back and they join my faction ?

[austere roost]

Don't you just like do little entente path?

[vital plinth]

Im planning to fight Soviet and British so that’s why I’m concerned about man power haha

[vital plinth]

I don’t know what the entente path is sorry

[austere roost]

Well search your focus tree

After reconsider diplomacy you have two paths, Uk or little entente

[vital plinth]

Ah I can’t do that path since I’m playing napoleon, but there is a event that asks if I leave Czech to their faith or back them up in 1938 and lose 200 PP

Could do that to get an ally

[austere roost]

Oh then just help the czechs then

[vital plinth]

A question about tension i have had the issue when i play Germany ( German empire ) or mess with Germany earlier the world tension barely increases even if I declare on Belgium Germany and Dutch it all only increases about 6% total

And then I can’t justify on others bit frustrating its only Germany mainly that can increase world tension dramatically by only going historically, is something I can do about it or what do you guys do when you also play something that removes Germany early ?

[rose plover]

i have germany as a soviet puppet, why do i not get the achievement

[signal drum]

@lyric quarry do you know what youtube videos i sshould watch to get better at hoi4

[lyric quarry]

not really

[signal drum]

damn

got any tips?

[lyric quarry]

there is always more to learn

even when you go above 1k hours

[dusty sandal]

segl vid about stats

[signal drum]

i mean just the basics

[signal drum]

alr ill try that

thanks

[craggy pumice]

On historical if you’re the Soviet Union or any axis country is there any benefit to doing Turkish investment requests ?

[merry sedge]

How do I get rangers?

[scenic nacelle]

No

[opaque token]

How to save dont mind flags because its mod

[finite pine]

GG 😭

[opaque token]

send help!

[pearl valley]

Hi,is there any strat on how to speedrun the communist or democratic civil war in Japan in vanilla?

[fathom thistle]

do they start with any militia on start of civil war?

if not then you can do simple method of deleting all units and having only one in training, you deploy it once civil war starts and capture major cities to quickly capitulate

[ember wolf]

What is corrupting my eyes

[iron veldt]

what kind of infantry divisions do you need late game ?

like everyone has a crap ton of equipment & manpower past ww2

[slate nimbus]

damn this strat sounds dirty but will definitely note it

game is game

wonder if this would work for other civil wars, cus i was planning to play as Mexico and i believe it has to deal with one thru certain focuses

[fathom thistle]

replace engineers with super heavy artillery

You can also do a mechanized infantry template with this

[iron veldt]

why not keep engis

[fathom thistle]

I rather keep ranger than engineers

[iron veldt]

bet bet

[slate nimbus]

the slots on the bottom are unlocked thru doctrine, right?

[harsh barn]

Are taking gold reserves worth it?

[iron veldt]

yes that’s how you reduce the consumer goods

[harsh barn]

will they revolt?

[iron veldt]

who

[harsh barn]

the county

[iron veldt]

no

[harsh barn]

ok thanks

[pearl valley]

I found somewhat of a street to end the Democratic Japanese civil war in a short period of time

You need to delete your whole army day one

Idk if you can start building horse divisions but not deploying them until the cw starts

However,just spam horse divisions and micro

[iron veldt]

how long did the war take

[pearl valley]

I ended it in December 1936

But I rushed to the cw and probably could have prepared better

[gleaming grove]

How am i using convoys for trdes?

also how am i supposed to break this? i got 80 green bubbles but than attack stops

[woven lotus]

i think cuz ur resources are not land connected to ur capital so they need convoys?

[woven lotus]

u have no convoys for supply so u have zero fuel for ur tanks

[gleaming grove]

yeah but i have 2k convoys

[woven lotus]

that are being used for ur resources

[gleaming grove]

i dont understand this game man

im completely dominating and all of the sudden all units just disappear without encirclement

[woven lotus]

mby u got overran or their strength went to zero

[hexed birch]

Question regarding invading Soviet Russia as Germany. I have x3 Generals holding around 20 Medium Tank Divisions each with the attached division layout and tank design (its 1942).

Should I make a frontline + offensive line only with these units or should I have Infrantry on my frontline and the tanks behind them with a fallback line and manually move the tank units every now and then to invade (wait until they get reorg etc.)?

At the beginning my tanks usually manage to push but then it becomes a stalemate and my units keep on losing org due to the low supplies etc. And even if I have infranty on the front it doesn't seem to work that good?

[gleaming grove]

I went from 3m-15m losses
to 5m-15m losses without losing at any front

lost almost 100 divisions

[woven lotus]

probably cuz zero supply so u have combat debuffs and speed defuffs

so attrition and stuff

[gleaming grove]

so why does the supply hub 5 fields further have supply and the ones below not?

[uncut narwhal]

those tanks are actually horrible

[woven lotus]

u lack trains convoys or/and trucks

like i said

[uncut narwhal]

try using smth like this

doesnt have to be mech

can be cav too

and dont use your tanks in bad supply

just hold the line with inf

[hexed birch]

i made this tank design very early to build enough for the invasion

[uncut narwhal]

and concentrate the tanks

[uncut narwhal]

yea as germany you can also get enough of good tanks

[hexed birch]

And I guess upgrading supply lines and infrastructure is important too right? That's 1 thing I've also not been doing

[gleaming grove]

I have trains and trucks

its a landroad

wtf does it need convoys for

[uncut narwhal]

you dont have to do that, just motorized your supply

if you really need it build some railways ig

just capture soviet supply hubs

[woven lotus]

u dont have convoys tho

[woven lotus]

u need convoys cuz ur capital isnt connected through land

[spring shore]

What whould be a good defensive division for the soviets? im guessing tanks? or just flesh?

[uncut narwhal]

for defense you usually want to use infantry

[gleaming grove]

well gg than

[spring shore]

thx

[gleaming grove]

no way im building enough convoys

[austere roost]

If you can make 48 armor divisions then you don't need defense divisions

[spring shore]

well the soviets are pretty big no? i dont really know how to cover that much with only 48w tanks

like, thats quite a bit of tanks

[austere roost]

Ok actually maybe 72 if you don't early war turkey

Germans will melt in front of 2 tank divisions per tile

[spring shore]

alright, thanks

[austere roost]

And also you can build 200 36w SPG divisions pre barb if you know what you're doing

[keen hemlock]

How do amtracks compare to mech

And when should I use them

[astral heath]

is chancellor borman or hess better

[austere roost]

Main difference is Amtraks can't be upgraded with xp

Otherwise the stats and modifiers tell all the story

[balmy panther]

Why is this division in Low supply? There are no convoy losses

[keen hemlock]

Ah

Hopefully we get a mech and amtrac designer

[spring locust]

Tbh i think there are template on this server, but idk where to find them, could someone tell me pls 🙂

[short palm]

Do you have the seazone blocked off?

[balmy panther]

No

[short palm]

or is the port bombed out or something

[gleaming grove]

i guve up. Managed to conquer china, india, 95% of Australia until all units died to nothing. Had a 1-5 kill ratio before that...

[balmy panther]

Also no, i am not at war

[short palm]

Amtracks are better cause you get movement buffs and special forces doctrine buffs

[glossy gazelle]

How do naval invasions and naval dominance work?

[gleaming grove]

Click on the anker, select a harbor to start from and the regions you want to invade (you need at least 1 enemy harbor so you get supplies once landed)
The divisions are now planning for 30 days.

You need naval dominance in ALL water tiles from the starting harbor to the destination landing tiles.

You get naval domination by sending navys on patrol in that area.

[glossy gazelle]

Ok

I will try

[sick ginkgo]

How to genuinely do sealion

I produced 110 submarines