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austere roost
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You only need TDs against expert ai mods and mp

light knoll
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lower hp = more casualties

cosmic rain
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in the long run possible

austere roost
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Also please use 36w if you really want to use tanks

light knoll
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135 hp is really too low to be used

cosmic rain
austere roost
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You don't need much hard attack but if you're so into it then maybe add one light td

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No it can't be balanced that way

cosmic rain
austere roost
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If you use medium cannon

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In theory it doesn't work either

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You need hardness because your industry can't support high tank losses

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So you will be in red for tanks and then get lower stats

cosmic rain
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plus they have horrible hard attack stats

austere roost
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Hp is the most important combat stat since it determines your loss

cosmic rain
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mfw

austere roost
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This is theory wdym

cosmic rain
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depends on your country

austere roost
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In practice would be you playing and then realizing it goes as we tell you

cosmic rain
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so in this particular situation, that may be true, but some high industry nations MAY be able to make it work

austere roost
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No you wouldn't do that

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That's suicide

wild rune
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is this in reference to the left div?

austere roost
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120 SPG/TD divisions when on full combat mode at 300hp takes around 80 losses at most on a good day. If you're at 100 hp that's 240 losses per day. Good luck replenishing that.

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In MP you will lose 500 TDs a day with your idea

cosmic rain
cosmic rain
austere roost
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It doesn't work that way

wild rune
cosmic rain
wild rune
cosmic rain
austere roost
cosmic rain
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I dont understand

austere roost
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You don't have to

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Just understand that you shouldn't have low hp units using tanks

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Use 36w and maybe 38w for you since ussr air will shred you

cosmic rain
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I'm saying that in regards to manpower exchange, it's a function of attack AND HP, not solely HP

wild rune
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With a huge industry by losing more equipment you are essentially nerfing your production as despite you making more, you lose more at the same time

glacial steeple
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true for 1936 guns cuz they suck

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divs are too small so will take tons of losses

wild rune
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you will receive damage

austere roost
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Like just multiply your atk and hp in your two divisions

glacial steeple
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and per attack taken

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you need to crit a lot in order to overcome that

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your unit doesnt crit

austere roost
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Your idea is wrong but even with your own idea your divisions suck

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The rule of thumb is atk*hp/ic btw

cosmic rain
austere roost
cosmic rain
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if you have higher attack you inflict more damage to your opponent's HP

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thus

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that creates better manpower exchanges for you

glacial steeple
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true

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no

austere roost
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Like seriously, you should stop arguing

glacial steeple
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but part of it is true

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its because hp isnt linear

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if you have more, you take less losses by quite a bit

austere roost
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You said you want to maximize atk*hp so go do the calculation for your two division designs

glacial steeple
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i havent played in a while obv but still

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hp is pretty important and overlooked

cosmic rain
austere roost
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Your tank division is 16000 and inf division is 21000

light knoll
glacial steeple
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i might load hoi later to see if i can help

wild rune
cosmic rain
austere roost
glacial steeple
austere roost
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You clearly get it already

cosmic rain
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not just HP

glacial steeple
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use some fattt mountaineers with lt recon?

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line arty if your other option is 1936 guns

cosmic rain
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since, higher attack allows you to inflict more HP damage to your opponent per tick

glacial steeple
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go into 39 and 41 guns

austere roost
neat widget
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funnily enough if you try maximizing atk*hp/ic you get that you should use 38 width divisions for infantry, which sounds weird

cosmic rain
austere roost
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That was what I was telling you

wild rune
cosmic rain
cosmic rain
wild rune
austere roost
glacial steeple
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lets stop arguing

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relax

austere roost
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And you were saying that somehow big industry nations can take lower hp divisions

neat widget
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what's going on btw

light knoll
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they admitted that their division is not good

cosmic rain
light knoll
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they're not wrong on the principle that lower hp more atk can be worth to some degree

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like

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tank divisions with 300 hp

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instead of inf divisions with 600

glacial steeple
austere roost
wild rune
light knoll
cosmic rain
wild rune
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but I see the point

light knoll
wild rune
glacial steeple
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:D

light knoll
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militia Czechoslovakia

glacial steeple
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militias šŸ„€

cosmic rain
wild rune
austere roost
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And you need to learn that you shouldn't sacrifice your hp just because you have big industry. That just means you'll lose astronomical equipment and manpower

glacial steeple
light knoll
cosmic rain
austere roost
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You didn't

cosmic rain
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my beloved

glacial steeple
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weve lost it

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IE is by a long shot the most busted inf doctrine

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and its not close

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situationally some others can be better

light knoll
austere roost
# light knoll

Replace rocket art with med flame and it would burn everything in its way

glacial steeple
cosmic rain
# austere roost You didn't

yeah I said my divisions are probably not optimal and that in this particular situation my infantry would be generally better than my tanks BUT you said that I would lose tanks and thus lose hardness which is why I brought up higher industry nations, if my industry was higher then tank shortages would be less of a concern

light knoll
austere roost
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I thought initiative for militias is nerfed?

wild rune
light knoll
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irregulars is crazy

wild rune
wild rune
light knoll
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irregulars is equivalent of 2 other doctrines combined

glacial steeple
light knoll
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for militia

austere roost
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initiative sucks anyway

glacial steeple
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i need my infinite hp divs as ethiopia

cosmic rain
austere roost
light knoll
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1400 hp divisions still take losses unfortunately šŸ’”

austere roost
cosmic rain
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build more divisions?

glacial steeple
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and like idk 20w or higher for holding

austere roost
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Yeah have you ever ran 120 SPG or TD divisions?

cosmic rain
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if I had more industry but the same number of divisions, I mean

austere roost
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Ic management becomes much harder with more industry

cosmic rain
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if I have more industry AND manpower then yeah the scaling is irrelevant because losses increase with size as I field a bigger army

austere roost
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Because if you have 5 mils you're only producing guns

cosmic rain
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that's obvious

austere roost
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Not just that

wild rune
austere roost
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You lower hp by adding more tanks in your divisions, so you lose more percentage of tanks with each hp damage and since hp is much lower now you take more percentage of equipment damage per hp loss. That's why it quadruples

cosmic rain
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who mentioned adding more tank to infantry ratio?

wild rune
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Its a second order reaction😭

austere roost
cosmic rain
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like, my current tank to infantry ratio (with low HP) would be more bearable at higher industrial might

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not that I would add more tanks

wild rune
cosmic rain
wild rune
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you already know it is bad

cosmic rain
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I'm not, I was clarifying what I meant in my earlier statements

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I've reloaded an older save and I'm investing in more line AA

glacial steeple
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limited manpower, 99% forest

wild rune
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fair

glacial steeple
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and no theyre worse if strictly in forest

wild rune
cosmic rain
glacial steeple
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in this case, the div cost lies to you as well

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because while you do have mil efficieny on your gun line, you wont on your tank line

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so every tank costs about 4x the mils compared to full eff

cosmic rain
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ohhh motor inf has more HP than cavalry inf this might be useful

glacial steeple
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weve lost the plot

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moto doesnt afaik? unless they changed it

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mech does

cosmic rain
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maybe it's my doctrine

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or RT56

glacial steeple
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rt56....

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overhaul mod moment

cosmic rain
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that would do it

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I feel like terrain penalties aren't as impactful as they should be

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in-lore how exactly does a flame tank help divisions do better at dealing with harsh terrain like rivers?

austere roost
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They are

glacial steeple
austere roost
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Terrain works multiplicatively not additively

wild rune
glacial steeple
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it evaporates the water

wild rune
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because trenches taste better than river

austere roost
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So 100 Atk with 20% country modifier 50% terrain modifier is 180 not 170 atk and -50% terrain modifier is 60 not 70 atk

wild rune
glacial steeple
wild rune
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not off-topic

cosmic rain
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actually all things do

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within the same modification group thingy, stats are additive but across categories they multiply

glacial steeple
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tbh generally i wouldnt recommend road

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the balancing in road is done by people who dont really understand the video game meta at all

wild rune
glacial steeple
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everything else is kinda mid

cosmic rain
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that's just me though

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🤷

glacial steeple
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yeah

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theyve been watering it down since like AAT

wild rune
cosmic rain
glacial steeple
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tho its OP to have good positive modifiers

cosmic rain
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+75% is absurd

glacial steeple
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like spawn vetted units

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those who know

cosmic rain
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w

wild rune
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terrain modifiers apply even if you don't have the equipment to support the support companies

cosmic rain
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like the HP bonus on field hospitals

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😭

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you can go into the divisional equipment tab and disable field hospital equipment and they still give you HP

glacial steeple
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hoi4 sp is silly

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you can do a lot of silly things and theyll work

cosmic rain
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absolutely

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you can get away with almost anything within reason

wild rune
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I want to show off a meta mp div if my game would load

wild rune
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with everything researched so its not truly accurate but

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Since Desperate Defense is no longer accessible

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Its main perks are its extreme cheapness both manpower and ic wise

versed rose
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the .17w name but it being 19w is bothering me

wild rune
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line AA i mean

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but fair

versed rose
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you kinda need 100 air attack if you cant put planes up

wild rune
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the line AA is needed but its not

versed rose
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is it really optional?

wild rune
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If there is no air

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then its needed

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if not then it is not needed

neat widget
versed rose
neat widget
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also how do you get light tank recon and recon rangers in the same template

neat widget
versed rose
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no way people still use 40w in 2026

wild rune
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I pressed research all mb gng

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not accurate

inner sparrow
# wild rune

double aa and aa support company for a small w inf is insanely mid

neat widget
inner sparrow
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also just go siege arty instead of field engi

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u can also disable it in eq

neat widget
wild rune
inner sparrow
inner sparrow
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if u can get enough aa for 2 line aa and support u also have enough ic for a lwf

versed rose
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unless you're some poor ass dog-country with 2 factories, a land warfare facility is probably one of the better investments you can make

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flame tank and shhw are in there

inner sparrow
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^

neat widget
versed rose
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even taking into account singleplayer map-painting with minors, you'll probably want at least flametank at some point

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its just so juiced

neat widget
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true

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especially if you're doing special forces

wild rune
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main point is that it is a good somewhat ic efficient division

inner sparrow
inner sparrow
inner sparrow
wild rune
inner sparrow
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then its an even worse division

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only axis country that does small inf would be italy, only axis country that needs aa in their inf is italy aswell. U don’t need it on barb. For allies u also don’t need aa so for who is that div

vital plinth
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When making destroyers to fill up screens 40-50 destroyers should they be filled with topedos or just cheap ones?

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Also isn’t it better to make destroyer spotters instead of crusiers spotters I noticed once my cruisers get spotted by enemy and attack I can’t escape at all and get them destroyed and they ekspensiv to build I feel or am I maybe doing something wrong ?

inner sparrow
# wild rune

if u want to make it efficient for mp remove stuff like arty and engi, remove one aa, disable lt in div so u don’t have to produce u can even disable support equipment so u don’t have to produce it aswell, u still get buffs from doc and so on. Only thing u would need to produce is guns and aa

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siege arty would be good to add, logi aswell or signals but its we

hazy quiver
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Is supersonic jet good?

dusty sandal
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And DDs can't have spotter planes modules so they can't be spotters

trail lava
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does anyone know how I can fix these borders with my puppet?

boreal ferry
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also i dont think u can unless you do a peace treaty

trail lava
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idk how america got so much land, I literally had 2x the war score and capped japan myself

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all their war score came from sinking japanese ships and defending the Philippines

vital plinth
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Or is it just when strike force intercept I can’t escape regardless of my speed of cruisers

crisp pendant
trail lava
crisp pendant
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that's weird

dusty sandal
crisp pendant
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i guess u could wait it out and then annex them

dusty sandal
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or you're dead

vital plinth
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To inhibit any naval invasion

dusty sandal
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not if you're ready to gamble it all

glacial steeple
indigo sapphire
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what Ships are good to build?

storm sable
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My education loan

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Help me pay it

shy schooner
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Is conquering British early as Germany easy? Or do I just conquer netherlands to puppet Indonesia

crisp mural
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you can just vps drop britian

shy schooner
dusty sandal
shy schooner
crisp mural
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paradrop them

shy schooner
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Owh

crisp mural
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trains a bunch of 2 width paratrooper

shy schooner
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Well
I don’t have any of Them currently

crisp mural
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and drop them into vps in britian

dusty sandal
crisp mural
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its gonna be giga hard then

crisp mural
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1936 the only way to do it is prob vps dropping

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1937 is more manageable if you can land and kill them quick enough with naval invasions

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or im just not good enough ig

spiral delta
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good 1938 medium tank in 1937?

crisp mural
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if theres any other stuff

crisp mural
shy schooner
crisp mural
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just make do heavy machine guns

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then convert them into the good cannons you research later

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you can search "tank conversion strat" or stuff like that in youtube

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and you will be guided through

dusty sandal
spiral delta
crisp mural
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its the easiest way

dusty sandal
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RT56 changes too much

spiral delta
shy schooner
crisp mural
dusty sandal
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you can't compare a rt56 tank with a vanilla tank as RT56 significantly changes about everything

crisp mural
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oh idk about rt56 meta

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i dont play much

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rt56 i just do air + SF

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never bothers to touch tanks lol

dusty sandal
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I'd advise you to ask the same thing on RT56 discord just to be sure

crisp mural
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yeah

spiral delta
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didnt know

crisp mural
spiral delta
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ill do that thx

dusty sandal
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most if not all major mods do

crisp mural
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im pretty sure in the menu of the game

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they have a discord link there ig

spiral delta
dusty sandal
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the link's on the workshop page but you mayalso find it through discord discovery

crisp mural
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yeah just go to workshop page

crisp mural
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remember to paradrop in ALL of their vps

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cuz UK is a bit harder to cap

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than france

shy schooner
crisp mural
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small stuff is set a small naval invasion first

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so uhh they're busy to garrision their port ig

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then just drop

shy schooner
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Okay

crisp mural
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they're easier to do so

shy schooner
crisp mural
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you can just trade everything

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UK barely have any resources in their mainland beside steel anyway

shy schooner
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They have many puppets

crisp mural
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and you dont need rubber or tungsten early in the game

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its late 1936

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you dont have 300 mils in air and tanks yet

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btw remember to do collabs on them

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so you get the compliance

shy schooner
crisp mural
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and they're 10% easier to cap

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oh

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idk jsut try it out ig

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eventually you will get it

shy schooner
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Okay

indigo sapphire
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are modern airframes good?

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like yk jets?

left mica
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obviously

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unlike tank chasses, later airframes are far better

shy schooner
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Is researching artillery as germany important?

twin tangle
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uh

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@glacial steeple

twin tangle
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it also gives you the canons for your tanks

shy schooner
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Okay

sage portal
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What is best docrine for naval

vital plinth
dusty sandal
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yeah
you get into a battle, win it or lose it and that's that

indigo sapphire
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hey how good are Rangers

vital plinth
spring shore
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whats a good paratrooper division?

orchid roost
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i dont know if i can text this here but when i try to strart hoi4 a bootstrapper error appeares and it says couldnt start launcher

spring shore
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its right under this one

orchid roost
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ah thanks

glacial steeple
twin tangle
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someone had posted a scam but its deleted now

sacred arrow
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I am SO cooked

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lowk how does one even win this situation?

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I still have to sealion britain and manage the eastern front in mid 1940 smh

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I thought that if I did the ribbentrop pact USSR would also not attack my lithuanian puppet

fierce patio
sacred arrow
worn shard
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what is a tactical bomber

left mica
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a bomber that is used in tactical missions

spiral delta
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for my tank is extra 2.7 kmh better or 7.6 more break through

left mica
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basically smaller bombers that can both do cas and strat bombing

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speed sucks just keep speed at around 6kph

worn shard
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is it heavy or meduim

trail lava
spiral delta
trail lava
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breakthrough for sure

spiral delta
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alr thx

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57 breakthrough good for 1939 as germany yeah?

trail lava
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uhhhh I don't know by heart

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what does your template look like?

spiral delta
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im getting flame and engineer tho

trail lava
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yeah that looks good, hp and org are a bit low though so add some more trucks

trail lava
spiral delta
trail lava
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if you can't get there with trucks remove some tanks

spiral delta
arctic merlin
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Need feedback on my inf template

trail lava
spiral delta
inner sparrow
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optimal for tanks is 36

spiral delta
trail lava
inner sparrow
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ahhh

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mb then xd

spiral delta
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do i increase

paper knot
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I tried getting the achievement where i had to puppet ussr as communist mexico with trotsky after like 60 attemps i finnaly did it but i did not get the achievement what did i do wrong

trail lava
arctic merlin
spiral delta
trail lava
paper knot
left mica
glacial steeple
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chuckhi peninsula state has real SOV

glacial steeple
left mica
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you need a lot more mechanised

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trucks are bad due to bad terrain stats

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if you dont have mech use cavalry

trail lava
spiral delta
inner sparrow
left mica
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then rush mech and use cav for now

glacial steeple
indigo sapphire
glacial steeple
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like hp, attack

arctic merlin
glacial steeple
inner sparrow
left mica
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high cw isnt bad

glacial steeple
inner sparrow
glacial steeple
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my 0 width 1K attack units will beat your 100 width 1K attack units

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lower width is better

left mica
glacial steeple
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theres other stats to look at

trail lava
spiral delta
arctic merlin
left mica
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and make medium or heavy spgs instead of normal ones

inner sparrow
spiral delta
arctic merlin
left mica
inner sparrow
left mica
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but yeah its always 9 tanks 9 mechs

arctic merlin
inner sparrow
left mica
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36w is king

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line arty is trash

spiral delta
arctic merlin
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But keep the support?

left mica
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id sprinkle in a single heavy tank destroyer for the love of the game

inner sparrow
left mica
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this template is meta fr

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there should be a mod where all battalion types are removed except (rocket) artillery

spiral delta
trail lava
spiral delta
arctic merlin
glacial steeple
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the width isnt relevant to combat attack, hp, org, youre just associating it with things

left mica
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20 coughing babies vs 1 hydrogen bomb

glacial steeple
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which is why its confusing to new players

trail lava
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you cannot deny that

glacial steeple
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its not like artillery magically gets more stats for being higher width

tender tartan
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i need some help with defending against the germans playing as hungary, does this division work in defence

trail lava
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@glacial steeple so you're telling me 20 of the ones with 1 infantry will beat the biggest division you can make? both of them have the same amount of equipment

glacial steeple
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youre associating stats

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the left template would lose, not because of width, but because it lacks attack and HP

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if those 2 units were the exact same, with only width as difference

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its worse to have higher width

trail lava
glacial steeple
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no, like making them larger is good

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i agree

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but width isnt the relevant term to use when talking about adding hp and attack

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and the point of this channel is to help new players understand these differences

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or else theyll make some like 75 width artillery only template thinking its good

trail lava
glacial steeple
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they can be

left mica
sacred arrow
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guys quck question, how can I handle britain and eastern front in 1940 😫

left mica
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restart

trail lava
sacred arrow
left mica
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against the ai who doesnt even use tanks?

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just have cheap tanks instead

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welded armour adds a ton of ic

spiral delta
left mica
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so its generally not worth it unless you have 2 thousand mils

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this is ic

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industrial capacity but everyone just calls it ic

spiral delta
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how do ik my ic

left mica
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your tank is worth 17.45ic

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riveted armour subtracts 20% of your ic value

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so you'd have like 12ic tanks instead

spiral delta
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ye but how do i check how much ic i have or u cant

left mica
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ic means production cost...........

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everyone just calls it ic instead of pc

trail lava
spiral delta
left mica
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plus u better off with 9 cavs

spiral delta
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but the cw

left mica
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how the hell are the spgs 3cw?

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are you playing on an older version

spiral delta
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just reminded me

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im playing road to 56

left mica
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rip

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just keep cw at 36-40

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you need org to be above 30 at least

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hp can be 250+

subtle socket
tender tartan
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omg i forgot to add them that's a big mistake on my part

tender tartan
subtle socket
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the math has been done by bigger nerds u can imagine

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but the easiest way to explain it other than hp and combat width being garbage its army composition

glacial steeple
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which has been a trend in this channel in the past too

subtle socket
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u have to add a ridicilious amount of arty to ur template to make the composition anything worth relevant to "arty buffs"

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when infantry buffs are extremely common and stack far higher than arty ones

glacial steeple
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cuz theyre not artillery

subtle socket
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at counts as infantry btw

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idk about aa

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the composition counts it as inf

trail lava
subtle socket
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so when u have a mounty vs arty

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its like infantry guy in high command

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commando high

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special force buffs

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all infantry doctrines

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and its less than 2 combt width vs 3 combat width arty

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that has little to no bonuses

trail lava
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I’ve never ever used line artillery, I don’t know why I’m being told it sucks

subtle socket
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idk maybe i misread the convo my b

tender tartan
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when i played with hungary against germany they just slowly pushed my units until they broke through completely, what can i do against them, one of the german units was basically like 3-4 of mine

indigo sapphire
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should i sell gib licenses and lend lease support to Allies as USA

twin tangle
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unless u have tons of extra equipment you have no use for

indigo sapphire
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alr

sacred arrow
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Should I go for stalingrad or go around it directly to the Caucasus when doing barbarossa? Cuz I don't have any collab on the USSR I have to go to Kazan

vital plinth
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Would be maybe a smart move to convert my light tanks to anti air tanks as France ? When fighting Germany in 1938 ?

austere roost
austere roost
sacred arrow
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also

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why tf is there no supply north of kazan

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my tanks are glorified steel huts cuz ion even have fuel anymore lmfao

dusty sandal
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follow the supply hubs
don't attack without fuel (-95% stats)

sacred arrow
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but past some point there just is n't

dusty sandal
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a good tip is not to lose your time going around in wastelands

shy schooner
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I’m at feb 1937
Do I take Himmler for more special forces

fair hare
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you first get todt

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and after that u go hess

shy schooner
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I got todt and goebbels

fair hare
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and once u get decision

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switch todt to the rightmost industry guy

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forgot his name

shy schooner
shy schooner
fair hare
shy schooner
# fair hare ye

How do I kick My inner circle? I now got both todt and gorring because I got the 4yp too late

fair hare
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u need to choose a 4th guy and then u get decision to replace ppl

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and u choose todt

shy schooner
half belfry
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how do i land on multiple places at once?

shy schooner
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And gorring can’t progress

fair hare
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it could be restart worthy

fair hare
shy schooner
fair hare
#

yes

shy schooner
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That’s nice
Thanks

fair hare
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he will stop working on 3rd focus

half belfry
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i keep getting stuck here

spring locust
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Defend like ur life depends

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And don't forget garisson

fair hare
#

0 supply

cosmic rain
half belfry
fair hare
half belfry
half belfry
fair hare
spring shore
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is it (still) worth rushing to kill the dutch as germany?

scenic nacelle
tired moon
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bro how do I naval invade britain

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they destroy my ships

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no matter what i do

tired surge
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genuinely what the hell is going on

worn shard
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Whats the best strat bomber design

spring shore
worn shard
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Im usa so 1941

dusty sandal
unreal sapphire
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Is AT worth producing for Special Forces?

dusty sandal
unreal sapphire
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Where they actually field good tanks

dusty sandal
#

no need for AT in Asia

unreal sapphire
#

Like if you tag an AI nation the designs are utter shit

fair hare
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in vanilla AI tanks dont rly exist

unreal sapphire
fair hare
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i mean dont rly exist as in inf is better than those tanks lol

ocean knot
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Is offensive inf just a block of 32w infantry? I'm playing portugal and I can't really afford special forces or tanks

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Or an airforce for that matter

unreal sapphire
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And Mountaineers shouldn't be too hard to acquire based off experience

ocean knot
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Fair

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What template do you use for light tanks?

fair hare
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or 36 width

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and line arty is still trash

ocean knot
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Kay thanks

unreal sapphire
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Like 21w

fair hare
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nonono

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16w inf spam is meta now

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also 21w would be 9/1

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and its old now

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sadly doesnt work well anymore

unreal sapphire
fair hare
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AA is optional

versed rose
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More like engineer is optional

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More optional than aa

hazy quiver
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for the naval player that know carrier if i have like 500 naval bomber/naval fighter in my stockpile do i need to keep them in the stockpile and wait for carrier to take them? or i can just use them as normal normal fighter and bomber until my carrier need plane so its will take it from the group on the ground attack for itself? or its completly diffrent place to put them so the carrier will take them?

neat widget
fair hare
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i feel like against ai its aa

neat widget
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engineer is sort of pointless

fathom thistle
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AA is must if you don't have air

fair hare
neat widget
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unless you're doing a naval invasion

fathom thistle
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Simple as that

unreal sapphire
#

Well isn't AA good at least if you don't expect air supremacy

glacial steeple
glacial steeple
drowsy hazel
glacial steeple
unreal sapphire
#

What about just adding tanks to infantry or special forces

fair hare
unreal sapphire
fair hare
#

lol

glacial steeple
fair hare
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so sad that hhc got bombed

glacial steeple
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its a skill youre gonna have to learn fr

glacial steeple
unreal sapphire
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Like I was thinking if I could do what the British actually did

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Like cruiser vs infantry tanks

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But I guess it's not meta...

fair hare
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it is

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actually

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just not in this way

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in singleplayer

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anti infantry tanks are rly rly good

glacial steeple
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its very powerful especially on special forces

#

you add breakthrough+piercing stats to infantry

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makes them very busted

unreal sapphire
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But I guess you don't have to always play meta

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Like use what's fun and still works

glacial steeple
#

play however you want

paper knot
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Could anyone suggest me what achievment i could get next i have 300h and i just did the achievment,,the new home of revolutionā€

fathom thistle
strange badger
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Why don't many of my divs use strategic deployment? Ctrl+B only work for some divs.

half belfry
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what is the best inf template?

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for early game

tight tangle
#

šŸ¤”

Is it good to fill in the gaps of lacking inf equipment with rifles from the international market as KMT China with NCNS DLC?

glacial steeple
tight tangle
glacial steeple
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and you should mostly focus on making artillery support as it gives more attack stats

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the guns are not saveable, and guns until the 1939 gun are kinda bad stats anywayt

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tho ofc you should make them, just not all your factories

glacial steeple
tight tangle
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Wouldnt my divisions have very low str due to the lack of guns

glacial steeple
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but your stats are terrible anyway

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artillery for china gives more attack/industry

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you just need guns for your units to stay alive

unreal sapphire
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I heard the 1940 medium tank isn't worth it and you should just upgrade your 1938 ones

tight tangle
clever mango
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how do i apply this effect in game using a command, not an existing event?

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its from tno

glacial steeple
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everything else is like irrelevant

clever mango
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im trying to achieve this by trying this command but it doesnt work

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what to do

fair hare
fair hare
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it doesnt give good enough bonuses

glacial steeple
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unless its heavy or light, light depends on what i start with

unreal sapphire
glacial steeple
#

you just retain your efficiency on them

errant chasm
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so it's late game and i have a large industry, is medium SPGs or Heavy Spgs better. I know people use Heavy tanks for TDs not sure if it applies to heavy SPGs also since I have the heavy howi now.

fair hare
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3 hmg

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and also heavy howi

half belfry
fair hare
subtle socket
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for sp u dont need heavy spg

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u dont even need it for mp tbh

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giga overkill

austere roost
#

you definitely should not build spgs in mp

glacial steeple
sacred ginkgo
#

Does anyone know, if i accept to be a ussr puppet as iran, do i switch to the communist tree?

glacial steeple
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or any soft enemy really

subtle socket
errant chasm
subtle socket
#

ur smokin bro

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spgs are needed in mp

errant chasm
austere roost
unreal sapphire
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If I want task forces should I just use the auto balance button

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For navy

subtle socket
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death stack navy minus sub

subtle socket
austere roost
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get green air first

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and then if the other side is doing inf bricks then you can use spgs but even then good luck with supply in egypt

#

you can just use specials instead

subtle socket
#

thats not how it works in mp...

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u build supply for the spgs and ur never getting green air on egypt y dont have airport space

#

in mp air zones are either allied owned or axis owned due to airport size

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egypt is the most allied favored airzone

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even more than france

hazy quiver
#

How do I put plane on aircraft carrier? And how its work

tawdry lava
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which one should i get

fair hare
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if u wanna do tanks do right

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if u wanna do inf do left

tawdry lava
#

infantry?

fair hare
#

yes

tender tartan
#

why are my cavalry so ass. I am playing as Hungary and I have bonuses for cavalry

red mesa
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Doesn’t help that germany is sending a bigger division with a better general

errant chasm
tender tartan
# red mesa Cav is ass in general

so even in a larp sense i shouldnt use cavalry. I thought it would be atleast usable since hungary has like 4 focuses that improve cavalry

keen hemlock
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And send to minors for micro

red mesa
tender tartan
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hmm i will try to drag the war so i can make my divs bigger and let the germans grind themselves against my lines.

red mesa
#

Your soft attack is super low

tender tartan
#

how could i ix that

austere roost
#

otherwise you can just make a 10 cav 8 spg unit

half glade
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is this easy?

tender tartan
#

what what is spg, selff propelled gun?

thorn crow
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is it possible to autoassign ships

shy schooner
#

How to get breakthrough points?

thorn crow
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never in my 500 hours of playtime have i ever heard of breaktrough point

shy schooner
thorn crow
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its this

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u need to do research that gives nuclear breaktrough

shy schooner
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I see

thorn crow
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it has to say this

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for example atomic research

thorn crow
merry sedge
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How do I win against the english after succesfully naval invading them??

thorn crow
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plymouth is an early goal

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use it to bring over divisions

thorn crow
merry sedge
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it just seems like they pull divisions out of nothing

thorn crow
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they dont have anti tanks

thorn crow
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they use them to bring units from their colonies

merry sedge
#

yeah gonna try that thx

thorn crow
thorn crow
shy schooner
# thorn crow what country u playing

Italy
I got bored
I let Etiophia won on purpose
War with allies + German Reich
Lose on purpose
Become democratic then communist
Non agg pact with Reich
Join allies
Send helps to Reich
Japan and Reich lost
Then I got many states by doing nothing lol

thorn crow
#

lore accurate mussolini

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i have a shit ton of infantry eq that i dont know what to use for

shy schooner
#

My friend said it’s good to stock many equipments
So if You lose some
They are always there to replace

thorn crow
thorn crow
shy schooner
#

I got 100K+ when was playing German Reich

thorn crow
#

checking out the new heavy cruiser meta rumors

fair hare
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like 20k should be max

shy schooner
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I see

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Btw do You guys have tips on creating many divs?

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I keep seeing people on yt got many divs

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And They are strong ones

subtle socket
#

ur 3+ years late to heavy cruiser meta they are garbo now

thorn crow
#

yk sometimes ur too bored to care

subtle socket
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theres no recent buffs to then but hey u can build anything and beat ai

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so whatever floats your boat literally

rapid urchin
#

is this a fairly good descision to click as japan?

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or should i save my pp for something else

wintry slate
#

Hi everyone,
i started playing recently and now i need help to assign ~140 Russian divisions to different armies in order to create a balanced armies and assign exercise orders
is there a smart way of distributing the whole army divisions to multiple armies instead of select one by one?
thanks in advance

grand iris
#

and then its bit easier to distribute into smaller armies

cosmic rain
#

What do yall think about picking assault infantry doctrine and then adding flame tank support company for the infantry battalion attack bonuses but disabling its equipment so it doesn't cost any IC. Is this free stats?

tight tangle
#

The sudden urge to impulse buy

frosty nymph
#

Ugh... is the jet engine really that bad? I just got it, found that there are no upgrades in the tech tree (not even in Road to 56), and that 35% reduction in range is crushing. The only aircraft it might work on is my small airframe fighter, because they're really short range anyway.

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Oh wait... It's all special projects?

silk berry
#

Would anyone know a good way to release urself as scotland and kill the uk

ivory wraith
#

do we know if escort carriers count towards that like limit of carriers per fleet?

dark thistle
#

whats a good medium tank designer?

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for early game

subtle socket
#

called empty mob lol

tight tangle
#

Is armored cars worth fielding or no?

wind canyon
#

but i just use cav with mps and call it a day

tight tangle
#

I was intendinf to use them for frontline use

sand ember
wind canyon
dark thistle
wind canyon
#

or if your want a budget offensive unit morized divsions are pretty good agains the ai

tight tangle
#

So yeah

wind canyon
#

i suppose motorized inf would be the best, altho the rough terian may limit it's effectiveness

wind canyon
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otherwise if im fighting in say africa, deepr into russia or china stick to props

tight tangle
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The template is kinda butchered rn

wind canyon
#

armored cars are slower then motorized meaning they drag down the overall speed

wind canyon
tight tangle
#

Oh

wind canyon
subtle socket
hidden raptor
#

Can sometime tell me if this is real because I feel like this exists, but when playing historical germany when you do the focus reclaim the colonies before the mittelafrika focus. Isn't it if Britan is also in the axis with you, you can demand return of the colonies? Or am I just getting that confused with the alt germany path with conceding to british naval superiority

tight tangle
#

I guess if your curious as how to I even butchered it, here

tight tangle
#

Did I gave you a heart attack

wind canyon
#

yes

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okay so

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is this supposed to be a offensive or defensive infantry template?

tight tangle
wind canyon
#

right so

wind canyon
hidden raptor
#

The biggest tip right now never use armored cars

wind canyon
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so take out the motoized and armored car

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and beef up the infantry, i believe it was 12 infantry battalions and 2 line arty?

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just make a template that will be 36 witdth

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and that should be a decent budget inf offensive build

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oh and add some enginiers if you have enough suport euipment

tight tangle
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oh, uh, no

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I dont even have support equipment

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but I do have the guns and the guys

wind canyon
tight tangle
#

36 width, gotcha

wind canyon
#

yeah

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consider making moutiniers as well since fighting in the nothern region of china is rough

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with all those moutians

tight tangle
#

Got it

hidden raptor
tight tangle
#

Come to think of it this is literally lorea ccurate China

hidden raptor
#

If your in a desperate defnese situation tho then 2 line early game is okay

wind canyon
#

that give more org at that point yeah?

hidden raptor
#

Yea

hidden raptor
#

Depends which Artillery doctrine ur doing ofc

tight tangle
#

I dont know why they have even bothered to add this

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The reason Im even using it because I cannot afford light tanks

wind canyon
#

a niecie gimic

hidden raptor
wind canyon
#

if designed properly

hidden raptor
#

I like to do basic radio, 2 man or 3 man turret improved small gun and christine suspension with 5 engine 2 armor

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Costs like 6.5 production and like 5 factories will make you divisions worth

tight tangle
#

Got it

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Damn it, really disappointed I cannot utilize armored cars, out of everything

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oh welp, gonna get started on the light tank chassis

hidden raptor
#

Biggest tips with tanks is keep an eye out on your reliability because anything lower then 70 and your basically wasting them

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You can improve the reliability with additional armaments but those cost more to the tank ofc

wind canyon
#

yeah if you can research 1939 mainitance companies easy matiennce is a good upgrade if your planing to add more stuff to the tank

hidden raptor
#

Definently lifesaver mid game

tight tangle
#

got it

hidden raptor
sick thicket
#

Hii

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I'm new to the game

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I pretty overwhelmed by everything

#

šŸ’€

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I was looking for help

shy schooner
#

How to nuke?

wind canyon
#

for a more generalized guide about the game

hoary glen
wind canyon
#

i suggest you watch the official hoi4 beginiers guide

wind canyon
#

so research a large air frame and get them into production

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then bottom right of your screen there will a raids symbol chose the nucular option

shy schooner
#

Or any works

wind canyon
#

then pick a city

wind canyon
#

all you need to do is deploy them

shy schooner
honest nexus
#

anybody have any advice for the united netherlands achievment?

neat widget
#

and then you build inf

honest nexus
#

oh... I was trying to axis kill them before germany did

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it said conquer, im an idiot

runic escarp
#

does anyone know any good tutorial in 2026 for hoi4? i just got the game with all the dlc bc i really liked it but now i gotta learn how to play it

prisma hill
#

what is state attrition?

thin nebula