hoi4-general

[heavy vigil]

or usa doing heavy fighters

[misty fossil]

you dont rush tanks

[sudden thistle]

Never upgrade ur tank chassis

[misty fossil]

you just use interwar (or basic heavy)

[heavy vigil]

for heavy you use basic

[misty fossil]

you cannot afford to lose production efficiency

[heavy vigil]

eh

if you want you could

i should play spain again

fun

[misty fossil]

im talking about germany

[sudden thistle]

Do Portugal

[heavy vigil]

no

[sudden thistle]

I have no clue if they do anything

[misty fossil]

i should get back to hoi again

i aint breaking the 20 odd year old playing video games allegations arent i

[heavy vigil]

germany is boring

click free stats buttons and autowin or dont and lose

[misty fossil]

real

[sudden thistle]

True

[misty fossil]

i should play a game with max naval buff UK

[sudden thistle]

Like literally every game as them is the same

Just become bigger in the map

And very strong easily

[heavy vigil]

:(

why does l;and facility take until after civil war start

[rough pond]

Ultimate power fantasy

[heavy vigil]

this game blows

[misty fossil]

btw

long range aircraft mio for cas?

[sudden thistle]

I think it’s because I have 70-100 playthroughs in Germany though

[sudden thistle]

I larp and do junkers

[misty fossil]

i probs have 70-80 playthroughs across my time playing hoi4

[rough pond]

Also, is sheep’s mod only for historical? Or can I do stuff like form ah empire

[misty fossil]

historical only

[rough pond]

Kk

[misty fossil]

i think

[sudden thistle]

I will need to check again

[misty fossil]

how do i check mine

how many hours d oyou even have

[heavy vigil]

anyone else like doing tanks as spain during scw

[sudden thistle]

A few

[misty fossil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1401563044231778305/1410234910320492665/attachment.gif

[rough pond]

How do you get tanks that early? I never am able to make a proper one till like 40 ish

[sudden thistle]

Only like 2.9K ish

Give or take a dozen

Hey Casey has like 2x mine I think

[heavy vigil]

research ?

[misty fossil]

i have 833 hours

[heavy vigil]

and train army

[rough pond]

No army xp

[heavy vigil]

train army

[rough pond]

Can’t?

As Spain I mean

[heavy vigil]

can

[humble sapphire]

Or send vols to gain xp.

[sudden thistle]

Guh

[rough pond]

Or nvm, Spain gets a bunch lol

[dusky burrow]

I mean it won't be proper

[dusky burrow]

I'm sure Casey has a design

[sudden thistle]

Get xp during the civil war

[misty fossil]

a lot of that has to do with the fact that i only got this game after i got into uni

[heavy vigil]

not saved

i just add 1 tank to the cav

[humble sapphire]

That's space marines.

[rough pond]

1 tank/9 cav?

[sudden thistle]

Nuh uh

[rough pond]

And would it break the game if I say went Carlist instead of nationalist

[humble sapphire]

No, it is.

[sudden thistle]

Armored Calvary

Duhhhh

[dusky burrow]

well 9 cav is what you use in tank divisions too

[heavy vigil]

ok so what

[humble sapphire]

Cheating.

[heavy vigil]

12 cav 1 tank

[heavy vigil]

its only for the spanish civil war idc

[rough pond]

Not 10 tank and 8 motor?

[sudden thistle]

This chat is always fun to read

[humble sapphire]

I can't believe you're going to need tanks in the civil war.

[rough pond]

Light med or heavy?

[dusky burrow]

Well we're quite early in the game

We don't quite have the investment yet

[haughty gulch]

so many people dead 😢

[heavy vigil]

its 1936

you have 0 budget

i used to buy them from market but sheep stopped ai from selling tanks

i played spain back in 1.14

[dusky burrow]

Huuuuh

Why

[heavy vigil]

idk

was removed

[dusky burrow]

How should I play Chile btw

[heavy vigil]

@waxen vessel

ask him

[waxen vessel]

Not as rhe French monarch jfc

Fascist is Hella fun, eat Peru brasil then Argentina, THEN THE WORLD

[dusky burrow]

I don't do fascist countries, most times

[waxen vessel]

Hard life, commie path is fun, you get stir civil wars in every country

[viscid lodge]

Ouugh,,, its not like a board game,,,

[cerulean orchid]

first time ive been successful as poland so dats cool

[waxen vessel]

Meh id play fascist far less if non aligned or democracy would actually war early / not be severely gutted doing factions

[humble sapphire]

You got help from the Germans.

[waxen vessel]

Its the only government type that universally allows you to war

[rough pond]

play non aligned israel in rt56

[humble sapphire]

Mass mob USSR is goated.

[rough pond]

or monarchist paths in general

[dusky burrow]

Sure, but not a lot

Definitely not a lot on the ground

[humble sapphire]

You can defend yourself as Polish commonwealth.

[waxen vessel]

Monarch paths are my preferred path, but they have very locked in routes

Gotta wait 3 years to war outside of focuses zzz

[dusky burrow]

Yes, very much

[dusky burrow]

Polish Commonwealth is one of the few that can

BTW I'm guessing the French Chilean path is particularly bad in this regard

[humble sapphire]

I still prefer the Native american path.

[wary sparrow]

this game sucks you in bro

[heavy vigil]

liv

howitzer meds or med tds

[humble sapphire]

The best time in your life.

[heavy vigil]

for spain

[wary sparrow]

most of it was me afk

[craggy trail]

🐴

[wary sparrow]

so its not to bad

just been messing around in this save for the last 3 hours

turned africa into a giant rubber plantation

and im giving nuclear energy to every state in europe

[dusky burrow]

Is this Sheep's or vanilla?

[dusky burrow]

Not the worst idea tbh

[heavy vigil]

sheeps why else would i play spain

spain in vanilla isnt fun

[dusky burrow]

Of course TDs then

[heavy vigil]

i guess

howis still kill marines

and theyre mediums after all

[wary sparrow]

ill be able to nuke the usa's faction into oblivion

[dusky burrow]

You have a North Africa front to pay attention to if you join Axis, so yeah

[wary sparrow]

although they do have china and russia so ill have to kill alot of divisions

[undone vale]

😓 ts not working

[dusky burrow]

The world in 2025 be like

[wary sparrow]

just form byzantines

[undone vale]

yesss

[wary sparrow]

i made my puppet indonesia form nusantara and now they own all the rubber in the world

they are NEVER going independent

[dusky burrow]

Fun

Long term you annex them though, right?

[wary sparrow]

eh i like good lookign borders

also

i did make africa all rubber

so

i dont need much

peak realism

[viscid lodge]

Holy Romafrica,,, so you can make alternate realities then?

[wary sparrow]

you can make anything you want (kinda)

[viscid lodge]

peak

[wary sparrow]

i also fixed africas supply so id never deal with it again

twas painful to justify on all the former british states manually

[sudden grotto]

The amount of patience for It lol

[wary sparrow]

we did have a 8 year long war with the soviet faction

it had all of china, uk, mexico, argentina, and a bunch of minors liek yugo and romania

stupid italy called my faction in

but at the very least they were also fighting the united states faction

[wary sparrow]

i feel it tho, since upgrading all the ports in the colonies to ten was a long process

my faction is staring down the americans

[heavy vigil]

im such a goblin at this nation

[wary sparrow]

suprisingly my game isnt lagging with the thousnad units on the board

[craggy trail]

I finished up my 3-way war between the Northern Block, the Changelings, and Equestria

[undone vale]

i tried everything i still dk why tf its not doing anything 😭

[kind vale]

How much entrenchment is too much

[wary sparrow]

are you defending or attacking

[undone vale]

nothing

get more

[kind vale]

Defending as historical Belgium

[kind vale]

I already have 18

[wary sparrow]

as much as possible lol

you gotta make belgium more than just a speed bump

[kind vale]

The ultimate speed bumb

A wall

[wary sparrow]

bro why is the usa the only place with a significant amount of oil

rah

[kind vale]

Bc texas

[sudden grotto]

To ten...Bud made africa the most Advanced continent fr fr

[wary sparrow]

also got max sea forts

and all railways are level 5

[sudden grotto]

Autobahn but african

[wary sparrow]

also fortified every city

[sudden grotto]

Atleast It wasnt every tile lol

[wary sparrow]

also maxed infrastructure

[sudden grotto]

Wb AA

[sudden grotto]

Tahts legit what i do when i have civs to spare Just max infra everything

[wary sparrow]

i have 300 spare civs

[heavy vigil]

1 month into scw

[wary sparrow]

AFRICA HAS NO RESOURCES

ALL THE RUBBER IS PUT THERE BY ME RAHH

NO OIL IN ALL OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

[sudden grotto]

Nice rubber lol, malaya has hundreds times that and its Just a single state

[sudden grotto]

Cooking.

[wary sparrow]

ik

i own them

[sudden grotto]

831

[wary sparrow]

this is without any rubber plantations bro

disgustingly

amazing

i control all the rubber in the world and the usa controls all the oil

[sudden grotto]

Imagine when the next dlc comes out. Malaya Will be the easiest nation to wc lol

( i Hope they work a focus tree for them )

[wary sparrow]

i mean all the pacific and east asian nations need better focuses

[sudden grotto]

Tahiti has the priority tbh

[wary sparrow]

nah these 3 come first

[sudden grotto]

Bhutan Nepal and Pakistan? Agreed.

[wary sparrow]

i need a thunder dragon empire focus tree

[cerulean orchid]

ive killed like 100 german divs 💀

[wary sparrow]

i meant tibet but

[sudden grotto]

Tibet gotta chill.

[wary sparrow]

we need the himalayan alliance, which will do nothing all game

then get declared on by china and be evaportaed

[sudden grotto]

Holy Buddha empire Path for tibet

Core every buddhist state

[wary sparrow]

nah a formable for the himalyan nations that also can have a focus to build forts on every province

[heavy vigil]

spain is awful

[kind vale]

Whats a good amount of defense on a division for Belgium

[sudden grotto]

Hyperborea

Best himalyan formable fr fr

[sudden grotto]

S-pain, legit in the name

[wary sparrow]

why does wiki load so slow

[sudden grotto]

FBI tracking

[wary sparrow]

bud what info are they getting from hoi4 players, we do NOTHING

that includes showering

[kind vale]

Is a 16 width mountaineers with 6 mountaineers and 2 infantry good for defense?

[heavy vigil]

juist remembered why i dont play spain

[cerulean orchid]

oops why tf did i annex france

[heavy vigil]

i have to be less stupid to play spain :(

[cerulean orchid]

its 1943 and i STILL cant form the commonwealth

theyre at like 77% compliance

[kind vale]

Mountaineers are great for forests

[hoary mortar]

paradox

[hoary mortar]

Honestly I've rarely used them

[kind vale]

Neither do I unless im playing as a minor

[cobalt cave]

Crazy

[hoary mortar]

I should probably do another minor nation game sometime soon

but naval first. I need to sail the seas

Now gn have a good weekend all!

[kind vale]

Belgium

[magic pecan]

hey!

south africa go crazy!

[wary sparrow]

your game is very brown

[magic pecan]

vintage map mod

[dusky burrow]

Wow Chile is really zero stability gaming

[warped flint]

how do i get naval supremacy

I got total air dominance

[zenith geode]

https://tenor.com/view/tag-gif-367413152327750712

[warped flint]

Just got it somehow

Right when i wasn't paying attention of course

[zenith geode]

You get it for 5 days then ai spams there entire navy until your entire navy is gone

[warped flint]

This is my first time sealioning not in 1941-1942

[zenith geode]

Oh yo thats sick

[warped flint]

I am sorta sad with my casualties tho

1M is crazy

Nearly 2M

[zenith geode]

What was your strategy

Im really really really really crappy at air

[warped flint]

I can show you my design

pretty much

[zenith geode]

K

[warped flint]

This is all you need

don't even have to go any more then this i believe

[echo barn]

insane

[opal nymph]

Can confirm. This is all you need

[zenith geode]

And you just spammed fighters

[warped flint]

Yep

[zenith geode]

K

[warped flint]

if i am sealioning in 1941

[opal nymph]

You need fighters to contest the air, but CAS actually helps with damaging the enemy

[warped flint]

i like to have 800

of that design

[opal nymph]

Only 800?

[zenith geode]

Cas is bombing right?

Like bombers

[opal nymph]

To be fair, I do produce crappy fighters before

[opal nymph]

Close bombing, yeah

Tactical bombers also do that, but also can bomb buildings

[zenith geode]

CAS destroys me in a lot of campaigns so I just ragecheat

[opal nymph]

Strategic bombers just bomb buildings and can drop nukes

[opal nymph]

That's where you build fighters

Fighters shoot down enemy CAS

[zenith geode]

Ohhhh

[opal nymph]

Also support AA

Support AA is the best support company in the game

[zenith geode]

Engineers gotta be second

[warped flint]

At LEAST

800

[zenith geode]

You literally have to have them in every template

[warped flint]

i like to have more

[opal nymph]

Support artillery

Engineers are expensive

They are nice

[zenith geode]

Ok but when your playing a minor sometimes you cant afford that

[zenith geode]

Dont they run of support equipment

[opal nymph]

If you cant afford to spare 2 mils on artillery, you are in trouble

[zenith geode]

I mean like division wise

[opal nymph]

Engineers are pretty expensive support equipment wise

You dont use line artillery

[zenith geode]

If you cant produce enough artillery for your divisions

[opal nymph]

You just use support artillery

That uses like 24(?) Artillery pieces

[zenith geode]

Thats it

[warped flint]

I expected more resistence

[zenith geode]

Bruh

[warped flint]

i suppose 6M casualties hurts a nation

noted

[zenith geode]

Guess they ran out of tea

[opal nymph]

It's always the initial beachhead that is painful

[warped flint]

Look what italy did

2 years ago now

[zenith geode]

Unless you land in scotland

[opal nymph]

No, even more painful

[zenith geode]

Elite strategy is landing in the mountais of scotland through norway

[opal nymph]

You cant give air support

Also less ports to work with

And less supply hubs

[zenith geode]

You could do it as like a distraction

[opal nymph]

You can

Or you just do a cross channel operation

[zenith geode]

And then land in dover or something

[opal nymph]

Land in dover and portsmouth area first, then maybe a distraction at Hull

[kind vale]

I pushed into the rhine as Belgium

[warped flint]

Is it painfull to navaly invade the US

[opal nymph]

Not really

Though Labrador is supply pain

Landing in New England is quite well

Supply wise

[warped flint]

Should I land in like, Canada or New england

[opal nymph]

New England if you have range

I sometimes land in Labrador to get a launch pad

[echo barn]

maine or boston iiirc

if the uk has fallen, just invade from canada

[heavy vigil]

seattle

[echo barn]

mexico not patched lmao

[warped flint]

I wil lcontinue tommorow

ignore swizterland

they suck

[echo barn]

night

[echo barn]

east coast has more vps

[heavy vigil]

seattle

[echo barn]

boston

this is like saying invade russia in vladivostook

[heavy vigil]

i do that pretty often

[echo barn]

well yeah, if they don't cap

[heavy vigil]

?

no as a start point of invasion

[echo barn]

for what country

[sharp sierra]

south sudan

[echo barn]

reasonable

[wary sparrow]

I may be a psycho

i removed all supply problems from my colonies in africa

africa is now more developed than europe

[kind vale]

Nowhere near enough supply

[wary sparrow]

lol

[kind vale]

As Belgium im carrying the allies rn

[wary sparrow]

average allies when the player is playing with them

they become inept at anything

[kind vale]

I legit own most of germanys cores

With 17 war participation

Im just gonna annex all of Germany

[wary sparrow]

i just realized my computer was running hoi4 for 15 hours straight today

average hoi4 session

[kind vale]

I got 212 min rn

I own Berlin now

[silk fern]

holy shit

[cedar lance]

hello yalls

[kind vale]

My attempt failed?!?!??!?

[uneven basin]

if lenin lived until 1936 in our own timeline do you guys think his rule would’ve been better than stalins

[clear dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/lenin-must-crush-capitalism-undead-communist-communism-gif-20636305

[coarse trail]

Never had this happen to me

[marsh ravine]

12 per div

[marsh ravine]

Flame tanks r better than engineer

[alpine dock]

guys any tips for a manchukuo run?

[echo barn]

YOU CREATE THE BOLIVAR ALLIAMNCE AND NOBODY HELPS YOU LMAO

caps

[atomic grove]

does the distance between an operative's counter intelligence on map location and an operative's intel network actually affect the chance of the operative being caught?

[heavy vigil]

yeah

[silk fern]

42 day focus to find the holy grail lmao

[kind vale]

I need a german discord server

[rough pond]

I just lost to germany after like 2 years of fighting as soviet union in sheeps mod help?

my planes were inferior somehow and I was basically losing every battle I didn't have 8+ divisions on

[fallen vigil]

planning naval invasions are always so fun

[kind vale]

They were using the meta

[rough pond]

3 hmg, self sealing fuel tank, and 2x armor plate?

[marsh ravine]

Soviet planes are bad

Worse mio

+you probably didn't go high enough

[kind vale]

Should've been 4hmg

[rough pond]

I thought 3 hmg self sealing. armor plates and extra fuel tanks was meta

[rough pond]

not possible?

[marsh ravine]

Mio is important

You don't have good mio or enough eco

[rough pond]

what is best mio

[marsh ravine]

Range

Germsny has best air mio in the game

[kind vale]

And agility

[rough pond]

prolly, had like 327 factories by barbarossa start, ger had 600

[marsh ravine]

You can't compete with that

[rough pond]

oh

[marsh ravine]

?

[rough pond]

I was using light aircraft mio

[marsh ravine]

Range mio is just the best

Yeh thats why ur air is always worse

[kind vale]

Agility is also good

[marsh ravine]

We are talking about the mios

There are range mios

[kind vale]

Ik

[marsh ravine]

And they are just always best

High agility is uk only cos they dont have range

[rough pond]

how does germany get the econ to spam out so much stuff?

[kind vale]

I use mesershmit or whatever its called it gives range and agility

[marsh ravine]

Owning Europe

[marsh ravine]

Messerschmitt? Is worse than focke wulf

[kind vale]

How

[rough pond]

also, is ma right the best play for soviets?

[marsh ravine]

Go look at the mios

It gives alot of range and production bonus

[lone sail]

Maybe with the coal resource commercial nuclear reactors could actually do something

[marsh ravine]

Yes

[marsh ravine]

And air attack

[rough pond]

I was completely unable to defend against german tanks even when they didn't have planes on that tile

[marsh ravine]

And air defense if u r germany

[lone sail]

Nuclear energy should be able to substitute coal

[marsh ravine]

Germany also has the best tanks in the game

😭

[rough pond]

🤬

how to beat ger as sov

[kind vale]

I use Daimler Benz and henschel

[lone sail]

To bad I only use mass assault with them

[marsh ravine]

Massmob

Inf spam

[kind vale]

Daimler Benz for production

[rough pond]

I did that

maybe template is wrong?

[marsh ravine]

Germany also has v good inf but I dont think its the best in the game

[marsh ravine]

Show template

[rough pond]

I just closed game, but it was 9/0 with engi field hospital arty, anti air, anti tank for holding

[marsh ravine]

Thats way too small

[rough pond]

and 22/0 with engi field hospital anti air, ranger and anti tank for pushing

[kind vale]

Should I be using focke wulf for fighters and cas or just fighters?

[marsh ravine]

21/0/1 (21 inf 1 aa) sup engi sup flame sup aa sup arty? Sup hospital, idk what the last support company is

[marsh ravine]

Id use ur cas designer for cas

[rough pond]

wdym by sup?

[marsh ravine]

And focke wulf for fighter

[kind vale]

Yeah thats what I do

[marsh ravine]

Support

[rough pond]

ah

[kind vale]

Alr and what about bombers/tac bombers

[marsh ravine]

What mios do u even habe

I wouldn't make tac bombers tho

Id just make strats

If u wanna make bombers

And use ur heavy air mio

Gives u goated bonuses for strat bombing

Strats are just way better than tacs

[crude nova]

Is there anything new? I didn't play since graveyard of empires dlc

[rough pond]

also, is there a strategy for gaining air sup against ger? like in terms of how I use planes

[kind vale]

Heinkel, focke wulf, and dornier

[marsh ravine]

Not rly I dont think cos they should always outproduce you

[kind vale]

Heinkel is the only heavy one

[marsh ravine]

Use heinkel for bombers

Then

[rough pond]

I mean like focusing all my planes on one air region or spreaading them out, air sup or interception, should I use fighter bombers on battlefield support etc

[marsh ravine]

Gives best bonuses to strat bombing

[kind vale]

Alr what about for naval fighters and naval bombers

[marsh ravine]

Oh always focus in one region, dont do multi role

[rough pond]

cuz I heard fighter bomber on battlefield support trades best

with 40% efficiency buff from doctrine

[marsh ravine]

Id assume a naval aircraft mio? But if not just use the same one as your fighter/cas are based on whether you make heavy fighter nav or casnav

[marsh ravine]

Casfighter is mid iirc

It can work

[rough pond]

also, op integrity or strat bomb for soviet

[marsh ravine]

Strat

U wont have air xp for op int

[rough pond]

?

I maxed out op int like 3 months into the war

[kind vale]

Ima use naval for the bombers and focke wulf for the naval fighters

[marsh ravine]

Wym naval fighterz?

Carrier fighters?

Yeh they r always same as normal fighter

[kind vale]

Yeah

[heavy vigil]

No

[timid crest]

Welp

My laptop broke

[heavy vigil]

1 more weight

[timid crest]

Can't play Hoi till I get a new laptop

[marsh ravine]

Zip it

[heavy vigil]

True

[kind vale]

A tragedy

[heavy vigil]

I wonder whats the lowest specs hoi could launch on

[rough pond]

whats a good minor to practice sheep's mod with?

[kind vale]

What tank should I use to make tank destroyers

[heavy vigil]

Do you wanna observe or actively game

Australia is chill

[rough pond]

actively game

[pearl flume]

New IRL news in HOI4 terms day 2!

Turkey just cancelled Israel's docking rights.

[heavy vigil]

Uuhh

Easy? Hard?

[rough pond]

well, easier than my last soviet union game, but harder than vanilla

[heavy vigil]

Finland?

[rough pond]

finland is easy?

[heavy vigil]

Just have to beat the ussr

[clear dagger]

lux

[heavy vigil]

You get a lot of stats

[clear dagger]

what im doing

[heavy vigil]

You dont need to know like

Eco management as finland

It isnt particularly mega difficult

[rough pond]

its just spam out infantry with ma right?

[heavy vigil]

Also sheep buffed them

You get a part of the fascist tree on non aligned

So thats nice

[rough pond]

do I make airforce?

or nah

[heavy vigil]

"do i make airforce"

I mean if you have the oil, aluminium and eco for it

[rough pond]

so no

just let ger carry

kk ty, ill try finland next

[atomic grove]

chat what should i do in this situation

idk if i should go for the axis or the usa first

[rose siren]

usa

[heavy vigil]

Axis

[marsh ravine]

Axis

[sick pawn]

Axis

[analog ivy]

why is the east india company leader just a generic portrait

nvm im dumb

i have to appoint a CEO

[kind vale]

I wonder what its like to play mind games on people in mp

[soft granite]

Once a game has started, is it possible for new people to hotjoin?

[primal timber]

watching all the hoi4 modding tutorials like im gonna re-make TNO (i'm literally adding a single general)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1348640301937590273/1409784061932867614/attachment.gif

i have zero experience how to code all im doing is adding a single general

[mint adder]

The sub got crazy

[marsh ravine]

?

[analog ivy]

THE SOUTHERN DETERRENT SECTOR?????

Where is that even lol

[fervent stone]

juice

🇹🇹

[analog ivy]

thats such a fire name ngl

[empty spindle]

I say, I've won

[lethal ether]

is the usa at war with germany

[atomic grove]

yes

[analog ivy]

look at our east indian company employee's walking into sweden

[atomic grove]

after i killed the uk in 1941

[analog ivy]

yummy

[atomic grove]

i rushed on building a very strong army, navy, and airforce

[clear dagger]

the luxembourg super railgun

[empty spindle]

Poland in red flood is fun to play as ngl

[clear dagger]

huh?

[fallen vigil]

HOW TF IS THERE NO SUPPLY HUB IN CHONQING

[primal timber]

gang he's

he's still here

[lone sail]

Nepal dlc when

[empty spindle]

Never sadly

[pearl jackal]

how do i make my hoi4 less laggy and crash-able

[clear dagger]

when colombia becomes a 1st world country

[pearl jackal]

waiting for nepal-bhutan-tibet dlc

[hollow silo]

rf be like

[marsh ravine]

His bonus from being an idea is now from him being leader so it gets rid of the idea so you dont have 2x the buff

[primal timber]

looking at all the starting naval designs like

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-try-not-to-laugh-gif-7682731162751353849

[clear dagger]

what are ideas again?

[marsh ravine]

*spirits

[marsh ravine]

The small icons here

The sword etc

[clear dagger]

ah

[marsh ravine]

I accidentally said ideas

[clear dagger]

i was also asking cause when i delcared war in sheeps mod it said it removed an "idea"

[marsh ravine]

Ah

[hybrid galleon]

UK botched in Africa

[hushed shell]

i just saw this wtf

china was stealing stuff from 90 years ago

[hybrid galleon]

But man is my navy crushing the German navy

[primal timber]

my better question is why is the scott turret on an LVT

[hushed shell]

its LVT A 4

search google

[primal timber]

for a starting template

it's not that bad

[hushed shell]

tfr

or smth

?

[green moss]

Francisco got his own plans

[hybrid galleon]

Apparently Germany negated their navy cause my US ships are destroying the German navy

And their convoys

[green moss]

wtf

Sinomerica

[hushed shell]

china everywhere

[green moss]

ngl alliances a bit weird

"enemy of my enemy is my friend" ahhh

RIP Neutral World

tf is Spain cooking

[edgy abyss]

💀

[hushed shell]

👍

[green moss]

exactly

[quartz vigil]

Wutuhel man 💔

To have Vichy beat you as Spain is wild

[pearl jackal]

^^^

[quartz vigil]

My, guy, from what year is your CPU from.

[pearl jackal]

Idk

[quartz vigil]

I think there was a button to check, don't remember it

But if you can save, then it's better than mine

[pearl jackal]

What's a way to fix it

Lmao yes I can save

Takes like 15 seconds tho

[quartz vigil]

Get rid of the 3D soldiers

[pearl jackal]

Sometimes it crashes when it tries to save

[pearl jackal]

In settings?

[quartz vigil]

Use FPS map mod

[pearl jackal]

Alr

Tyty

[quartz vigil]

That should do it for the most part

[pearl jackal]

Alr

[pearl jackal]

should i change anything here

[quartz vigil]

What was full rendering for again...?

[quartz vigil]

Oh yeah, leave it on

[gilded vessel]

what should i do im worried the us will join the allies

also the uk is at war with norway italy,iraq and iran

[pearl jackal]

Ok

[quartz vigil]

Just try to get rid of your enemies as fast as you can

[gilded vessel]

soviets?

[quartz vigil]

Yeah

[gilded vessel]

ill try

[quartz vigil]

And don't get into any other war until you are TRULY ready

[gilded vessel]

yeah

alright

i got about a year until japan declares on the philipines

[misty fossil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1401563044231778305/1411205594404229150/attachment.gif

[atomic grove]

i hate nothing more than having to fight a late game axis

(the germans have that much planes)

[pearl jackal]

is it just called fps map by hdjs_

[quartz vigil]

That one

[pearl jackal]

i dont blame u

alr

[primal timber]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-true-morgan-freeman-true-nodding-gif-13973817878387504960

[pearl jackal]

Prob finish off ussr first and then go fight the uk, assuming u got ur war goal from a focus it should last 2 yrs

[gilded vessel]

i dont even need a wargoal my allies are at war with the uk

[pearl jackal]

Yeah finish off ussr prob

[slim nexus]

Its good if you are going to push with infantry

[gilded vessel]

easier said than done

[pearl jackal]

True

[slim nexus]

I use that template for nations where i know i will be getting tanks a bit later into the game

Like france

[marsh ravine]

Line artillery 😭

[clear dagger]

that is nothing comparred to late game ussr

[primal timber]

i have reason to believe line artillery is meta in great war redux

[marsh ravine]

Gwr idk so fair

Ive heard stuff abt cav being meta but I think they patched that

[lone sail]

Can someone please explain to me how a military dictatorship can be socialist

[marsh ravine]

Used to be 1w

[marsh ravine]

A leftist military?

[slim nexus]

The military rules but they are socialist

[primal timber]

the military guy is socialist

[marsh ravine]

Isn't it literally just they are left wing instead of right wing

[lone sail]

But it’s a military dictatorship

[marsh ravine]

???????

[lone sail]

In what way is a military dictatorship socialist

[marsh ravine]

Left doesnt mean you cannot have a dictatorship

[slim nexus]

They enact socialist policies

[primal timber]

are field marshals not allowed to be socialist anymore

are people gatekeeping military guys from being socialist

[marsh ravine]

Just because some military dictatorships are anti socialist doesnt mean all are

[lone sail]

Socialism is anti dictatorship

[slim nexus]

Nope lol

Soviet Union

[marsh ravine]

Isn't democracy anti dictatorship?

[primal timber]

kid named stalin

[lone sail]

Soviet Union wasn’t truly socialist

[marsh ravine]

I mean soviet union wasn't socialist but that doesnt mean anything in this

[lone sail]

A military dictatorship can’t be socialist

[marsh ravine]

A socialist military dictatorship is literally just one with socialist policies

They have socialist economics or something

Thats it

Thats enough for them to call themselves socialist

[primal timber]

there's nothing stopping the field marshal from being socialist

[marsh ravine]

They may not be truly socialist but they still call themselves/ are viewed as socialist

[quartz vigil]

.....i mean, look at the Bolivian party at start of game

At least without the south America dlc

[lone sail]

Finally someone gets my reference

[primal timber]

i sure hope this hitler fella doesn't have any nationalist tendencies that will change the world forever

[quartz vigil]

Moustache jumpscare

[lone sail]

Hot take: Hitler had the worst mustache ever

It was a weak mustache

[slim nexus]

It was a necessary moustache

[lone sail]

Only when he was a soldier

Stalin had a way better mustache

Wilhelm too

[quartz vigil]

I honestly like the German monarchy

At least they weren't.... well, like him.

[little compass]

Ultimate hoi4 pc

[quartz vigil]

Bro is gonna take a while

[ivory hull]

how much ram is that?

[little compass]

64 gigs 6000mt/s

[ivory hull]

niceee

[little compass]

For cities skylines

[ivory hull]

hoi4 will still lag in 1950 tho

[little compass]

I'll be using tons of mods so I need ram

[little compass]

My current laptop lags in 1939 so

I'd say that's an improvement

[ivory hull]

yea by a lot

damn

[quartz vigil]

Fools.
Mine crashes just by loading the save screen.

[ivory hull]

that means you couldnt even play kx or anything like that

[primal timber]

why didnt stalin draw the border to meet up at lake ladoga smh

why does it have to go past viipuri

[quartz vigil]

Is the lake demilitarized or something bruh-

[primal timber]

have you ever selected a state before

[quartz vigil]

......oh right

[marsh ravine]

Because hoi4 states r weird iirc they didn't ask for the whole state

Its just what they took after winter war

[quartz vigil]

I haven't played in like 3 days.

[misty fossil]

because you dont want soldiers to swim through the lake to invade finland without crossing through the land border

[primal timber]

surely stalin could've saved on fencing by just drawing the border to meet at the northern shore of ladoga

[quartz vigil]

Sounds like something they would do

[marsh ravine]

BRO

THEY LITERALLY DIDNT ASK FOR EVERYTHING INITIALLY IT WAS JUST AFTER WINTER WAR

[quartz vigil]

[primal timber]

accidental ragebait

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1348640301937590273/1409430300240642099/attachment.gif

[marsh ravine]

This is what happens when u play soviets

And not aussa

Aussa in mp is fun

!

[primal timber]

not hearing a word of it until someone does a world conquest as it

[marsh ravine]

What abt Dominican republic capping france in mp?

[primal timber]

trujillo's wild ride

[drifting kiln]

yeah... you go buddy

[marsh ravine]

(This game i capped as aussa after the whole French army came to cap me with Italy so Dominican Republic player capped them💀)

[primal timber]

i think i have a few other questions than the dominicans having france

[marsh ravine]

Like?

[marsh ravine]

So thats why I was observing germany

[lethal ether]

amazing youre going to get a whole 7 fps on full speed

[lethal ether]

i have a simmilar pc 😭

[primal timber]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1348640301937590273/1397593123986870373/attachment.gif

[little compass]

Hell yeah

[marsh ravine]

Wholesome

[lethal ether]

when u gonna build it?

[little compass]

Today

Lol

[lethal ether]

w

[misty fossil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1348640301937590273/1397593123986870373/attachment.gif

[final sigil]

I love my bf so much

He made this video for we

[misty fossil]

i wish i had a gf like your bf

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1401563044231778305/1410263960216666225/attachment.gif

(i dont get it)

[real isle]

im having a stroke

so he has a boyfriend

that has a girlfriend

that is cheating on him

cool

[green moss]

is this tuff

[proud tapir]

GENGHIS KHAN LIVES!
THE GREAT HORDE BEGINS!
VERIFY YOUR CLOCK!!!

[green moss]

The Old Order

[primal timber]

whoever made this template im firing them

[proud tapir]

Guys, is line arty worth it?

or should i just stick to the 9 block inf

[misty fossil]

crazy cameo

[misty fossil]

never did, never will

[proud tapir]

alr

[primal timber]

mackensen looks a little different

[hidden dome]

Bro, are you interested in seeing my MOD?

[misty fossil]

lower soft attack per cw than special forces and decreases org and hp so you take more losses and dies more quickly

[proud tapir]

I mostly have 9 block inf, support arty, support engineers and support anti air

[misty fossil]

its good for nothing

[proud tapir]

anything else i should put as support companies?

[misty fossil]

remove one inf battalion

16w, 8 batts

more divs in combat means less likely to get reinforce memed

[proud tapir]

oh alr

So basicaly left side of sfp is useless

because it buffs line arty

[misty fossil]

difference between life and death if germany breathes down on your neck with tanks

superior fire is useless*

the entire doctrine

is useless

[proud tapir]

I thought mobile warfare was the worst

[misty fossil]

mobile warfare is generally mid unless you take mechanised warfare for inf org

spf is the worst

[proud tapir]

So, GBP is king?

[ivory hull]

yes

always left gbp

[misty fossil]

the best ones are GBP left (overall stats) and MA left for inf meat wall

[proud tapir]

Ah great, so all my xp for commie Hungary went to waste

i went sfp

[misty fossil]

Cheat

give yourself some xp

[proud tapir]

Nah, ill see what i can do

[misty fossil]

its a learning experience anyqay

[patent thistle]

"dont bother with soviet na-"
"shut up and let me play with my big boats"
(also no this isnt supposed to be a giant navy its supposed to hold the ground against germany)

[proud tapir]

I plan to bunker up, i built level 5 anti air in most regions now

[misty fossil]

You should try vanilla navy rework

very good naval rework mod that changes a lot of naval mechanics

[proud tapir]

and get enough spaa for a support aa company because i dont have the industry for aircraft

[misty fossil]

makes vanilla navy a circus

[misty fossil]

soviets?

[proud tapir]

Im playing commie Hungary, joined the alliance with them

[patent thistle]

if its on paradox plaza? cause i dont have steam funnily enough-

[proud tapir]

But they wont give lend lease as of right now

even tho its almost 41

[patent thistle]

its the ai.

what the hell do you expect?

[proud tapir]

Like i cant even request at all

Its greyed out

[patent thistle]

world tension?

[proud tapir]

Its pretty high

i gotta check later why they wont tho

[patent thistle]

or are they perhaps on closed economy?

[misty fossil]

oh its not on pdx plaza i think

ooooof

[proud tapir]

Also, is total mobilization worth it?

Or is war economy fine

[patent thistle]

usally war economy is enough total mob is something i only use if the situation gets desperate

[proud tapir]

alrr

[patent thistle]

for example operation overlord

[proud tapir]

I managed to mobilize two full 24 div armies as of rn
Just not enough manpower for more but

[patent thistle]

(the 1944 mod)

[proud tapir]

they should hold the line

Thats all i need

But forts+anti air

should do something

[patent thistle]

you were hungary right?

[proud tapir]

yup

but commie

i could not do a land grab like with fascist Hungary

Everything would risk just getting myself killed by the allies or the little entente

[patent thistle]

"what if the hungarian revolution succeeded" ah world:

[proud tapir]

Without any actual industry too because im still Hungary

commie path is fun-ish
Fascism/Horthy is more fun because you can demand everything

I have yet to try a full Austria Hungary playtrough because uhhh

Idk, it dosent appeal to me that now i puppet the old territory instead of a full annexation

[primal timber]

i just noticed after i did kodoha japan became pure white

[frosty solstice]

yo so im trying to play germany for hre and im watching a tutorial and this guy defeats the nazis in august or september. when i follow his exact steps i end up finishing in december. i have the dlcs so idk. can y'all guide me so i can end the war earlier?

[primal timber]

spain is

looking worse for wear

[primal timber]

split off bavaria

[frosty solstice]

yeah i tried doing that

[primal timber]

i swear if the carlists win by some miracle

[frosty solstice]

and when i did the AI literally placed most troops over there

this guy disbands the whole army before the war

i tried doing that and somehow the nazis had way more troops than me

[primal timber]

i don't know what's going on in your run

i've done the german civil war more times than i can count and i usually finish the nazis off by like

march or april

[frosty solstice]

nah no way

[neat kayak]

haha britian weak

[frosty solstice]

march is literally the month in which the war starts

[primal timber]

i thought its february

[proud tapir]

I only had nationalists and republicans

[proud tapir]

i have never seen this before

[frosty solstice]

focus takes 70 days

can you please just guide me ive tried like 10 times and i can never defeat them that fast

[primal timber]

from what i've seen if you tell the ai to go down one of the routes for the factions in the SCW that faction ends up winning

[proud tapir]

is this a la resistance thing?

i dont have the dlc

maybe thats why my scw is only two sides

[primal timber]

i swear if you tell spain to do their republican path in the little custom game rules

they get more states

and are somehow competent

if you tell spain to do carlists

the carlists do better

[proud tapir]

No no ik, but you know, anarchist Spain and all the other lil stuff

and carlist?

never heard of em

[primal timber]

i think

the reps and franco has to do a focus to stop those two from splitting apart

[proud tapir]

Ah alr

is Spain even fun?

like to play

[primal timber]

most of the time franco can stop the carlists

but azana won't stop the anarchists

[proud tapir]

Or is it just designed to be an army xp farm

[primal timber]

im gonna use this as an excuse to do another monarchist run

[frosty solstice]

thank you

i think this was my 15th attempt

somehow my AI got encircled in so many places right as the war started

[primal timber]

if that's your 15th i think theres a bigger problem than just "nazis are tough"

[frosty solstice]

yeah

skill issue

ik

[primal timber]

most people get it on like

their third at worst

[frosty solstice]

i can defeat the nazis

its just that i cant do it fast

[proud tapir]

i played alt history germany a bit last two days and

i basicaly deleted the entire army

and when the war started i trained up a bunch of regular inf divs

and stacked them to push

[frosty solstice]

yeah thats what im doing

[proud tapir]

where i wanted to

[frosty solstice]

thats exactly what im doing

[primal timber]

i've done the GCW an unhuman amount of times

you can usually finish it by may or june

[frosty solstice]

could you guide me and tell me what im doing wrong?

[primal timber]

well first thing i have no idea what you're doing lmao

like im a math teacher and you didn't put your solution to a problem so i have no idea where you're wrong

[frosty solstice]

yeah i wanted to ask if you wanted to come vc

and i will share

[primal timber]

ehhhhhhhh i don't really like using VC

[frosty solstice]

just mute yourself

and ill do the same

[primal timber]

you can pretty much just micro your way out of the civil war

[real isle]

how to i stage a naval invasion

[primal timber]

look for the giant anchor when you select the army

[real isle]

cuz it gives me zero trasport and zero division

[real isle]

yeah

clicked it

did the port selection

it says

no divisions and zero transports

[primal timber]

do you not have any convoys dog

[frosty solstice]

huh?

[primal timber]

you have to assign the army

[real isle]

convoys

yes i have

134

[frosty solstice]

isnt there a limit to how many divisions can participate in naval invasions?

[primal timber]

you start with 10 capacity

[neat kayak]

Got this little one and didn't even see it

[real isle]

ho

how

[primal timber]

HMS hood watching my 105 french destroyers with 64 torpedo attack approach

[frosty solstice]

and how do you increase it?

[primal timber]

https://tenor.com/view/no-no-no-wait-wait-wait-gif-23893070

[primal timber]

the boat

[frosty solstice]

ohh

thank you

[real isle]

i researched it

[frosty solstice]

how do you split the nazis that fast?

[primal timber]

do you know how to micro

[frosty solstice]

idk the term micro

[primal timber]

okay i think is see the problem

[frosty solstice]

no i just dont know what micro means

[primal timber]

telling your divs "go here" instead of using battleplans

[frosty solstice]

oh yeah thats how i try to split them

[primal timber]

in other words manually controlling your divs

[frosty solstice]

yeah

after i set up the frontline thats how i try to split them

[real isle]

so how do i stage a naval invasion

[primal timber]

i'm not sure what kind of nazis you're fighting because im using r56 right now

[real isle]

how do i assing convoys

moslty

[primal timber]

you assign your divs to the invasion

the convoys will follow

[frosty solstice]

i managed to split them only by late may

best run yet

in all the other runs i only managed to do it by june or july

[real isle]

how

[frosty solstice]

select divs, hold ctrl or shift i forgot and click on the plan

[real isle]

doesnt work

ok nvm

works

[frosty solstice]

YESSS

I DID IT

I ENDED THE WAR IN AUGUST

HOW THE HELL DID I ACHIEVE THIS

now i gotta get rid of the separatists

also this guy says that mobile warfare is best for germany

i usually play gbp

[prisma zealot]

it's incredibly easy to defeat france

get paris get calais get brest and you have a great puppet

yesterday i did it with only 1 SS division

[frosty solstice]

im tryna make them communist so i can avoid them joining the allies