hoi4-general

[paper echo]

i only did timurid

i wanna do nuclear gandhi

[tiny pawn]

But wait, now you can play the DUTCH EAST INDIES in 2026!

[flat gazelle]

buying states everywhere is kinda fun but thats genuinely all there is for east indies

[flat gazelle]

give me the british malaya and burma dlc or i uninstall

and make it 50$

[paper echo]

why buy them when you can just play as romania and steal them

[flat gazelle]

also do a separate one for nepal tibet and bhutan

[tiny pawn]

Bro

have you seen the

[fair horizon]

AUSTRALIA DLC

[tiny pawn]

expansion pack

[flat gazelle]

this will happen one day i hope you guys know that

[tiny pawn]

Bro

[gilded cobalt]

Agreed, which is why I'm doubtful about getting the expansion pass this time around

[flat gazelle]

i only know abt philliphines china and japan

[paper echo]

we had country pack we had expansion.now we'll have something called focus pack

[fair horizon]

my game crashed when i tried to start an ireland game

[tiny pawn]

have you guys even watched the Expansion Pass 2 video

[gilded cobalt]

I'm confident NCNS will be a good DLC like GD was, but country packs are often made by external devs

[paper echo]

i wonder how much czechia dlc is gonna coast

[flat gazelle]

no i did not 🤯

shocking

[tiny pawn]

THERE WILL BE A AUSTRALIA + SIAM + DUTCH EAST INDIES (probably) DLC

[gilded cobalt]

GOE wasn't developed by the main team and you can tell.
The same thing happened with BfTB, which had a lot of problems - Bulgaria was the only tree out of the 3 that wasn't buggy

[worn coral]

oh dude come on

i gotta go 1 whole year back because i decided to declare war on russia

[flat gazelle]

should fix the dlcs that are already out first

and not announce 3 more

[fair horizon]

is there a paradox dev that can confirm whether or not the seaplane tender skins are for destroyers or cruisers? i saw something that said they're for destroyers

[tiny pawn]

its the expansion pass

[gilded cobalt]

It's destroyers

[tiny pawn]

its coming in

like

mid-late 2026

[flat gazelle]

yes

i know

[zinc light]

But that doesnt make money

[flat gazelle]

thats why i said announce

[paper echo]

bro paradox needs to add a " (target country) is fully independent" prerequisite when you invite people to faction cuz why did austria steal my puppet bulgaria when it did central powers path on my romanian game

[flat gazelle]

german ai still gets locked out of its focus tree on ahist

goe is goe

[paper echo]

germany is just pissing me off

[flat gazelle]

mexican ai is still suicidal

[tiny pawn]

how is it that terrible

Like

[paper echo]

almost everytime they do historical

[flat gazelle]

doing everything but making ahist playable

[tiny pawn]

At this point

[fair horizon]

romania #1

[tiny pawn]

let us use the console commands on ironman

[zinc light]

They have a 50/50 Chance so yeah, they do more historical than any other nation

[paper echo]

stole all the land

[zinc light]

Unless you set it manually

[paper echo]

i hate that ngl

[paper echo]

i want it to be random

[fair horizon]

oh you're actually playing them... im sorry

[zinc light]

It is random as far as focuses go

[flat gazelle]

YESSSS

UK IS DOING DECOLONIZATION

[zinc light]

It's just that all ahist paths are locked behind 1 Initial focus

[flat gazelle]

oh wait ffs

[paper echo]

also you cant even pick the focus manually cuz they have a battle plan at the start.if they wanna go historical and you pick civil war path then they wont do the other non hist focuses

[flat gazelle]

i just realized

[tiny pawn]

we need a balkan + Usa update

[flat gazelle]

that im doing a wc run

🥀

[paper echo]

of course i did

i officially have -0.1 sanity

[fair horizon]

literally the single worst country in the game

[flat gazelle]

cant wait to justify on every single african national manualy

[tiny pawn]

Mentally stable hoi4 player

[paper echo]

well i wanted to steal all the land

managed to do alexander empire kinda

[fair horizon]

chat am i cooked?

[paper echo]

that was when i started playing

not im unstable

[tiny pawn]

We should have a Eurasia formable

[paper echo]

bro said romania is the worst country but he plays as ireland

you deserve the unstable title

[paper echo]

play formables plus mod

it has it i think

[tiny pawn]

Ive played it dw

just

like fascist

russia

should have one

[random parrot]

how much pp should i be making with germany in 1940?

[paper echo]

paradox should make a game rule to disable EVERY historical path

[fair horizon]

im playing rt56, id rather play regular generic tree ireland over romania too

[tiny pawn]

enough

[paper echo]

did a mod about it but the problem is that the ai picks a battle plan at the start so sometimes it doesnt work

[flat gazelle]

me when i lie

[random parrot]

how much is enough?

[flat gazelle]

what could you possibly do as ireland

[paper echo]

you are more unstable than me

[paper echo]

occupy uk

[tiny pawn]

uhhhh

[paper echo]

and put brutal oppression

[tiny pawn]

probably like, depending on difficulty, around 1.6-2.0 pp

[fair horizon]

romania literally has the worst tree in hoi4 period

no industry

no land

no core

no manpwoer

[random parrot]

0.30

[flat gazelle]

czechoslovakia exists

[random parrot]

What am i doing wrong?

[tiny pawn]

do you any dlcs

[paper echo]

thats why you puppet hungary and steal all their troops 🤑

[fair horizon]

and your stupid leader takes your pp or consumer goods every single month

[random parrot]

all of them

[paper echo]

they never stop printing units

[flat gazelle]

how 😭

[random parrot]

its the inner circle

[flat gazelle]

germany has an insane amount of pp

[random parrot]

i think

[tiny pawn]

Did you do the correct inner circle

[paper echo]

yeah thats annoying

i think it goes away when you force abdication

[random parrot]

well its 0.2 for every guy

how can you do that wrong?

[tiny pawn]

Hess gives a large buff

in pp

[random parrot]

didnt do hess...

[tiny pawn]

damn

hold on

[random parrot]

i went for goeblers (whathever his name is) and the spy guy

[fair horizon]

alright my goal is to take over britian

[paper echo]

its goebbels

[tiny pawn]

here is hess as leader

its in rt56, yes, but its still fine.

its the exact same in vanilla.

[paper echo]

he looks so depressed

[tiny pawn]

ye

[random parrot]

so i guess ill replace him for goebbels

[tiny pawn]

he knows irl he got imprisoned by britain

[tiny pawn]

early on

hes great

Goebbels is

[paper echo]

bro i cant understand why the tile above belgrad belongs to croatia state

[tiny pawn]

kinda

late game

[paper echo]

hoi4 balkan states need to be studied

[flat gazelle]

to match the irl borders from the axis occupation of yugo ig

[random parrot]

well, i did it early game but better late than never

[paper echo]

doubt it

[tiny pawn]

always do pp first

[paper echo]

would probably do the same for berlin

[flat gazelle]

not really

its after ww2

[tiny pawn]

(in most situations)

[flat gazelle]

yugo was during ww2

[paper echo]

it still doesnt make sense to me why it belongs to that state

i would probably either put it on serbia state or the other above

[flat gazelle]

i mean i just told you why that is

probably the only small detail in borders they ever bothered to put in

[paper echo]

and its these details that piss me off lol

[flat gazelle]

also idk when they added this state

[paper echo]

do yall think new dlc is gonna have schizo paths

[flat gazelle]

but

it makes me so happy

idk why

i always

wanted this exact state

[paper echo]

well that state makes more sense

i dont see anything wrong with dobrudja

[flat gazelle]

theres nothing wrong thats exactly my point

its great

[paper echo]

yeah

[paper echo]

i hope it does

no schizo paths = not a good dlc

[nimble swallow]

guys recommend me dlcs pls

[flat gazelle]

this entire game is schizo

[fair horizon]

easy game 😎

[paper echo]

no step back

[untold sphinx]

why does my game crash instantly when germany gets involved in a war???

[nimble swallow]

others?

[paper echo]

by blood alone

[nimble swallow]

blood alone sucks i think

new plane things..

[fair horizon]

ireland 💪

[flat gazelle]

i hate myself for being a completionist because i decided to go back to 100% achievements

[nimble swallow]

götterdammerung maybe?

[paper echo]

it might seem bad but plane designs are goated

[flat gazelle]

and now im forced to play this game

[paper echo]

also dont buy man the guns cuz it will be free anyways

[nimble swallow]

arms against tyranny?

[paper echo]

yeah

good dlc

[nimble swallow]

i had it before

[flat gazelle]

only if you plan on playing nordic countries

finland is very fun in it tho

[nimble swallow]

i play finland,turkiye,greece and usa

[paper echo]

la resistance is also good on some cases

[nimble swallow]

yeah but spain..

[paper echo]

collab govs are sanity saver

[nimble swallow]

spain sucks a bit

[paper echo]

at least you can do collab gov on ussr and you wont need to push past the urals

you wont even need to get moscow sometimes

[zinc light]

yeah that's such a game changer

[flat gazelle]

especially for the soviets and usa

[nimble swallow]

yeah true

[paper echo]

china too

[flat gazelle]

i cant live without collab govs on the soviets

[flat gazelle]

im not a masochist and dont play japan so idk

[untold sphinx]

i hate this game crashing whenever germany does something

anyone has experienced something like this

[zinc light]

bro won against Italy and decided it's time for a new drip

[muted depot]

can you get hacked if you join a hoi4 mp lobby with a hacker?

[nimble swallow]

i have 2163 hours but cant play navy still..

[flat gazelle]

based

[paper echo]

not only for japan

[nimble swallow]

navy is hard for me

[paper echo]

if you fight china as a nation late game its so annoying to push there

[flat gazelle]

1557 and i suck at navy and airforce

[paper echo]

i have 1613

[nimble swallow]

i started hoi4 at 2022

[zinc light]

hell yeah

[flat gazelle]

tbf i havent done a wc in a loooong time so i forgot about the fact that you can fight china as someone other than japan

[nimble swallow]

2022 december or smthng

[paper echo]

i started playing a bit in 2023 i think or 2024

[paper echo]

i never did a world conquest

[nimble swallow]

i play better turkey+ now as a mod

[paper echo]

i was close but i didnt wanna lose more sanity

[zinc light]

non-socialist ethiopia is locked to 4 research slots

[paper echo]

couldnt be assed justifying war goals

[flat gazelle]

idk if i did more than one

i did one with monarchist england for the achievement

[nimble swallow]

and why the hell is adolf looks like garbage now

[flat gazelle]

and maybe i did one with germany

[nimble swallow]

he looks like old

[paper echo]

if you want ultimate schizo play greece rework

[nimble swallow]

yeah i like greece mods

i need third rome mod

[flat gazelle]

ohhh they're doing the funny thing

[paper echo]

its a soviet path

[nimble swallow]

venizelos

[paper echo]

you can do it on no step back

[flat gazelle]

1937 😭

hungary is done for

[nimble swallow]

you mean the communist byzantium?

thing

[devout trench]

i think it might be a problem with mods (if you have them installed) if not that then your most likely running below the required specs for the game

[paper echo]

third rome thing

[nimble swallow]

yugoslavia is best minor in balkans

w

very op

[flat gazelle]

bulgaria is better

[nimble swallow]

oh okay

[devout trench]

bulgaria on top

[untold sphinx]

i don't wanna remove every mod i have atm

[paper echo]

yugoslavia has joined the chinese united front

[untold sphinx]

i tried removing some and its still like that

[nimble swallow]

lol

[devout trench]

just remove any that modify germany

[untold sphinx]

i did

i have RT56, and a few other things but really no big deal

[devout trench]

hmmm

[nimble swallow]

for vaterland.

[devout trench]

https://tenor.com/view/jgmm-cat-meme-ragebait-cat-think-cat-ponder-gif-7034802297606826390

could be a conflicting mod issue with rt56

[untold sphinx]

these are my mods

i dont even know what could be conflicting

[flat gazelle]

i'll se them in 1950 then ig

infinite civil war

[nimble swallow]

guys open smoothb motion if you have nvidia 4000series

its helpy

i had 40fps when i reachg 1945 now 60

[paper echo]

that shit locked me out of my focus tree

[devout trench]

france completed mod

[untold sphinx]

how

[paper echo]

and i was forced to make the original afghanistan annex the other so i could continue

[untold sphinx]

wait no

it isn't

wait wait wait i just removed better laws and policies for RT56 and its not crashing

[paper echo]

the original afghanistan didnt control 2 states so i couldnt do a focus.thats exactly why civil was sides should have dynamic tags or smth

[sudden thistle]

I’m bored so why not

[flat gazelle]

this is exactly why paradox should stop making slop

[paper echo]

original afghanistan is the same and the other one should be like AFG-2

[devout trench]

if you think hoi4 slop is bad look at any of the other paradox games...

[flat gazelle]

eu4 is goated tho

[paper echo]

eu4 my beloved

i dont have any dlc tho

[devout trench]

EU4 is best paradox game

though there is a lot of slop DLC for it

[flat gazelle]

yeah i dont have any bought

i only buy subscription when i feel like playing eu4

would take me years of subscription to match the price of the dlcs

[paper echo]

the faction for independence have pressed their demands

and then you have a revolt of 50k troops

[devout trench]

EU4 in total is like 300 something dollars

[devout trench]

real

[paper echo]

then you hit alt f4

then you dont play the game for months and probably even delete it

[fallen vigil]

guys what od dive breaks do for cas??

[flat gazelle]

did they integrate something into the base game or smth?

[placid karma]

Read the stats

[devout trench]

i dont think so?

[sudden thistle]

Read

[devout trench]

that might of been the on sale price though

i dont know

[flat gazelle]

its defo much more

at least in poland

[paper echo]

only thing i hate in eu4 is that you wanna fight a nation then they ally with the whole world

[sweet bone]

hamburger

[paper echo]

i once played vic3 when it was free for a day but i closed it almost immediately cuz it was too complicated for me

[buoyant rivet]

every possible bonus and I still cant break an entrenched line

they dont even have a fort

[devout trench]

i personally dont think vic3 is too bad

[night lintel]

reinforcements lol

[paper echo]

cas them to extinction

[sudden thistle]

Same

[devout trench]

i got something like 100 hours in vic3

[buoyant rivet]

I am 😭

[paper echo]

its not bad but it was too complicated for me

[flat gazelle]

936zl for all the content dlcs or 36zl/month

[buoyant rivet]

its an awesome game, I am just too dumb for it

[devout trench]

this is our USD price

[flat gazelle]

would have to pay for the subscription for 26 months for it to cost more

[paper echo]

can you send me a pic of the area you are fighting in

[flat gazelle]

so its worth it for me

[flat gazelle]

thats actually higher then mine damn 😭

[devout trench]

not that complicated fr if you just spend a week or two reading the tooltips

[flat gazelle]

oh wait nvm

i thought

dollar was

much more expensive

[buoyant rivet]

its the 45 damage one

[flat gazelle]

its cheaper for you guys yeah

203 usd is 740zl

[buoyant rivet]

its been going up and down arond 30-45

[flat gazelle]

i thought it would be like 1000 ngl

[dusky burrow]

No fog of war?

[slim nexus]

Bro why are paradox games so expensive

Ridiculous

[buoyant rivet]

uh what?

[paper echo]

invade sicily.its their weak spot

[buoyant rivet]

I have max radars

[devout trench]

thats EU4 with ALL dlc

[dusky burrow]

Or really good intel network

[buoyant rivet]

I dont have the intel DLC

[dusky burrow]

I see

[flat gazelle]

its still ridiculous

[buoyant rivet]

just radars

a lot of radars

[flat gazelle]

that game is unplayable without the dlcs

[slim nexus]

HOI4 is like over 200€ as well

[sweet bone]

coughing baby vs atomic bomb

[flat gazelle]

goes for every single one of the paradox games ngl

[devout trench]

you thought that was expensive fr?

[buoyant rivet]

I am playing france so I just extended the maginot and boom I cannot lose

[flat gazelle]

vic2 is absolutely goated for only having 2 dlcs

[dusky burrow]

the 45 is not damage, I think that's organization ratio

To get damage you have to click on the bubble

[paper echo]

have yall seen the review bombing mtg has got 💀

[devout trench]

ck2 is the most expensive out of them all i think

[slim nexus]

They saw an opportunity to make more money

With Vic 3

[buoyant rivet]

I sent that screenshot earlier

I didnt realise it was org ratio though, thank you

[dusky burrow]

And then check if any of your modifiers are off

Key tip

[paper echo]

who else is waiting for autumn sales

[devout trench]

me fr

[paper echo]

i wanna buy a game

i aint paying 30 euros for it

i hope it goes on sale

[flat gazelle]

only 200 days until i can do something

i love brazil

[devout trench]

about to get gotterdammerung on autumm sale

[sudden thistle]

I read that as autism sales

[flat gazelle]

hoi4 playerbase would be feasting if those existed

[dusky burrow]

Time to collect your seasonal dose of autism

[paper echo]

nah thats just for people that wanna buy ea games on sales

[flat gazelle]

paradox gamer hating on ea 😭

brother its the same thing

i could argue that paradox is worse

[paper echo]

at least paradox games are more fun

[flat gazelle]

but they're a smaller company at least

[devout trench]

see, EA makes a good game once every 5-10 years

[paper echo]

i love looking pixels changing

[devout trench]

paradox makes one game every 5-10 years

[flat gazelle]

wow they're actually winning for once

every time they rise up in the north they just stand there for years

[paper echo]

actually hoi4 and stellaris both released in 2016 🤓 ☝🏼

[devout trench]

i honestly forgot stellaris existed

[paper echo]

and ck3 in 2020 🤓

[ancient marsh]

in recent memory it’s hard to even call them games

[dusky burrow]

The only way for them to win is to take Moscow

[devout trench]

their more kinda just like

[flat gazelle]

it took them like month or two to win lol

[ancient marsh]

they’re just templates missing necessary features to later pack into dlc

[flat gazelle]

i feel like the soviet civil war ai has been boosted

same goes for the monarchists

[paper echo]

trotsky russia always wins

[flat gazelle]

its unusually quick

[ancient marsh]

the only game that looks like it won’t be a total snoozefest at launch is eu5

[devout trench]

paradox is the equivalent of EA

but EA actually makes the games slightly playable without dlc

[flat gazelle]

ea if they werent already filthy rich

[flat gazelle]

will become playable after the 10th dlc

another paradox classic

[ancient marsh]

well paradox isn’t as big a studio at all nor makes big AAAtitles

[gilded cobalt]

Is Prioritize economic growth better for Germany if I'm achievement hunting? Going historical for this one, I want the By Beer Alone achievement and Operation Sea Lion - which somehow I have never gotten in 8 years of playing this game despite invading Britain many, many times. Probably because I mostly play with mods on

[devout trench]

EU5 launch is gonna be only the menu screen and you gotta buy a dlc to unlock the starting screen and etc

[devout trench]

paradox slop is on the level of EA slop or even worse at this point

[lost quest]

why don't my units ever attack when I tell them to

[flat gazelle]

i have mixed feelings about this

[lost quest]

I assign them to an order and they just sit around at the front not doing anything

[devout trench]

they most likely dont have enough org

[flat gazelle]

its good because they wont be annoying in the americas

[lost quest]

so what?

why won't theyt attack

[flat gazelle]

and they will be easier to conquer

[lost quest]

it's an order

[void crescent]

grrrr uk called romania against me

[flat gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/omniman-gif-26206182

[devout trench]

because the AI is stupid fr

[paper echo]

wait till you see the true union of britain

[devout trench]

put the battleplan on aggresive and watch

[idle quail]

when does the dlc sale end

[flat gazelle]

but on the other hand they will release a trillion new nations

and i have to do a wc

[lost quest]

they're going against skeleton crews of units and empty fields

and they're too afraid to attack

[flat gazelle]

?

https://tenor.com/view/bugs-life-a-bugs-life-bruh-not-smiling-ants-not-smiling-gif-8815283262918161887

[devout trench]

https://tenor.com/view/hans-landa-gif-13588332054919988806

what?

[flat gazelle]

im scared

[devout trench]

how is uruguay ai even justifying

[worn coral]

guys

[devout trench]

the ai doesnt justify until they got like

[flat gazelle]

focus tree

[devout trench]

oh forgot

[worn coral]

remember how i was losing to russia?

so yeah

[ancient marsh]

PEGging scales to mefo by mid 39 but murders your early eco

Mefo has better concluding modifier if you cap allies but you’re on a clock to take land and seize their resources

[worn coral]

i loaded another save

and something fun happened

[flat gazelle]

well

they didnt get to declare on me

because i did it first

[flat gazelle]

idk what they were planning

[devout trench]

secret poland path

[devout trench]

free oil

[flat gazelle]

i might actually do tank brazil this run

[silent root]

Man the guns is free YAY 🤑

[devout trench]

mass mob on top

[paper echo]

w path now take slavic countries and form slavic union

[silent root]

Time to conquer the world as THE UK

[worn coral]

i will

but first

i will end the axis war

and destroy the uk

[flat gazelle]

im 3 years behind on hoi4 meta ngl

[worn coral]

if i have the manpower

[flat gazelle]

i just go with superior firepower every game if i dont use tanks

[worn coral]

now thats a problem

[flat gazelle]

if i use them i go mw

[devout trench]

1 width divisions are the new meta

[flat gazelle]

thanks will try

[devout trench]

1 width AA btw

[worn coral]

and i cant fight russia yet

[devout trench]

forgot to say that

[worn coral]

they have 300 divisions dude

i will conquer asia first

[devout trench]

push frontline = encirclement

[worn coral]

yeah but i cant even hold it properly

[zinc light]

guys I dropped the vase

[worn coral]

asia first

[flat gazelle]

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

[worn coral]

then russia

[devout trench]

how bad are your divisions...

[worn coral]

then uk

they arent

they just overwhelm me

[flat gazelle]

did they build a maginot line there or what

they've been holding on for a year now

[brittle cypress]

Who are they fighting

Just Romania and Hungary ?

I mean crazy that yugo is winning that but still

[flat gazelle]

yugo and romania vs hungary

in 1937

[ancient marsh]

think they mean hungary

[flat gazelle]

they should've lost in an instant

[blazing belfry]

that happens quite a bit for me actually, balkan entente? I think it is

[worn coral]

im training 127 more

[ancient marsh]

it’s cause they chose a habsburg

[worn coral]

but my manpower is absurdly low

[ancient marsh]

and then didn’t agree to the restrictions

[flat gazelle]

the dlc is a thousand years old

[worn coral]

and i dont wanna raise to all adults

[flat gazelle]

and somehow there isnt a portrait

[devout trench]

they forgot the leader fr

[flat gazelle]

bro what is this frontline

[zinc light]

did me defeating italy cause romania a stroke?

[devout trench]

its the anti-munich conference line

[void crescent]

can i get help with templates

[flat gazelle]

and why are the czech refusing to give up sudetenland if they dont have any forts built

no way

[void crescent]

before i war poland for the third or fourth time

[flat gazelle]

it ended in 1938???

[worn coral]

in 35 days

[devout trench]

replace ALL of it with infantry

[worn coral]

my conquering of asia starts

[devout trench]

swap to mass assault

[void crescent]

can you not mess with me dude

im like actually trying to ask

not get trolled

[blazing belfry]

non historical mode has random paths for the ai to go down, even though czechoslovakia doesn't have much of a focus tree, theres a random chance it'll be stubborn as and will fight to keep its land

[devout trench]

mass mob is best way to go?

[void crescent]

@grok, is this true?

[worn coral]

1941 and i own almost 1/5 of the world

[flat gazelle]

no dont you get it bro trolling people who genuinely want help is so funny in 2025!!!

[worn coral]

crazy

[flat gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/lil-yachty-drake-oprahs-bank-account-meme-laptop-gif-20803826

[void crescent]

okay but

can i actually get some tips

[void crescent]

template here

[worn coral]

had to deal with czech entente

wiped them out like crazy

[flat gazelle]

i suck at the game sorry

[void crescent]

alr

[blazing belfry]

random screenshot I found online, there'll be historical and then a variant that says historical - ignore appeasement, or something like that

[sudden thistle]

use ur land facility to get armoured suppourt and flame tanks, do medium flame tanks then put them in ur div

for tanks do 10/8

[flat gazelle]

bro ik

[wooden parrot]

add a light tank or 2, get maintence company

[sudden thistle]

10 tanks 10 motorized/mech

[flat gazelle]

that wasnt a serious question

[void crescent]

the date is august 1939

i don't think i have enough time for that

[blazing belfry]

you have no idea how much times the ai has screwed me over I have to explain it

[sudden thistle]

ohh did u do the 1939 date

[void crescent]

no

[sudden thistle]

and yes u do have enough time

[void crescent]

lets goo

[sudden thistle]

i mean ur tanks will live without those 2

[void crescent]

so i just

[zinc light]

hey I found a bug for Ethiopia!
"A Federal Empire" says it ends the balance of power
but there's several focuses that require your balance of power to be on x side, which you cant do apparently

[sudden thistle]

but its reccomended

[void crescent]

so i can just do ten mediums ten mech

[sudden thistle]

scientist and start project

[void crescent]

ok

[sudden thistle]

8 mech but yes

[void crescent]

okay, thanks

[sudden thistle]

its 1941 and i just realized i forgot to research guns

[void crescent]

its over for you

also

i don't happen to have mechanized stuff, just motorized right now

[flat gazelle]

lovely borders

[earnest vortex]

Noo horthy

[flat gazelle]

his daddy came to save him

the germans declared on yugo

[void crescent]

😢 gonna lose

AGAIN.

AND ITS GONNA KEEP HAPPENING, AGAIN, AGAIN, AND AGAIN.

[sudden thistle]

i reccomend getting it

[void crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/bruhlmaojk-dexter-morgan-dexter-edit-gif-3871590212062699993

okay thanks

[sudden thistle]

whats ur conscription law

[void crescent]

uhh lemme check

also

[sudden thistle]

thats rlly low manpower for ur div count

[void crescent]

i can't get 10/8

i can only get 8/8

[sudden thistle]

why not

[void crescent]

limited

[flat gazelle]

i wouldn't put that many divs in east prussia

[void crescent]

you're right

[sudden thistle]

whats ur infantry templater

[void crescent]

ill probably just keep my infantry there

[flat gazelle]

yeah

[sudden thistle]

btw put some divs on the french border

[sudden thistle]

because they will join the war

[void crescent]

i wanted to see the space marine thing

[void crescent]

yes

[sudden thistle]

u dont need field hospitals in there

too expensive for inf

[flat gazelle]

lovely encirclement

[void crescent]

what is this yellow sparkle

[zinc light]

my man is DRIPPED OUT

[flat gazelle]

based

does hitler have a death wish

[void crescent]

don't yall just hate it when your 3 div stack gets red bubbled by an infantry division with rifles and a cavalry division

[flat gazelle]

what is europe even about

germany will still somehow win

[normal tide]

How do I even do this

[void crescent]

balkan entente 😭

[flat gazelle]

balkan entente with 1 (one) balkan country in it

https://tenor.com/view/omniman-gif-26206182

[nocturne cedar]

half a million men?

[void crescent]

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

[nocturne cedar]

you need to watch Bittersteel’s video man

[void crescent]

im not watching a one hour video dude

i know theres a faster way to learn

[nocturne cedar]

i mean, you’ll win atleast

[nocturne cedar]

whos gonna tell him

[paper echo]

why are your units not on max strength

[void crescent]

i deployed them early

are you not supposed to do that

[remote quarry]

go watch a guide

[remote quarry]

that's not the issue

[nocturne cedar]

watch bittersteel’s guide

[paper echo]

do you not have tanks?

[remote quarry]

the important thing is that do you know each unit uses equipment

[void crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/jimmy-butler-jimmy-butler-paper-confused-gif-14478007832172093541

[nocturne cedar]

depends

[remote quarry]

when you don't have equipment, you could deploy the division

but if your tank division has no tank in it

[void crescent]

i have a full 24

[remote quarry]

what is it gonna do

[paper echo]

i mean do you have a deficit of tanks

[remote quarry]

you have tank divisions deployed, but they may not have actual tanks in them

[flat gazelle]

why would they possibly want that from brazil

[void crescent]

let me check

[finite nacelle]

damn what going on in mexico

[nocturne cedar]

brazil mentioned

[flat gazelle]

belgium is capping france 😭

[void crescent]

13 thousand deficit

of medium tanks

[remote quarry]

you can click on the division, then click on its icon, to see

lol

yes

[nocturne cedar]

spain 2

[flat gazelle]

😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

[paper echo]

..

[remote quarry]

pls go watch a guide

even bittersteel

[finite nacelle]

they have there own world war

[paper echo]

pls remove the tanks from your infantry template

[flat gazelle]

brother those arent tank divisions atp

its just infrantry divs larping as tanks 😭

[void crescent]

shush

their guns are the cannons

[paper echo]

cant be worse than the italian tank template

[flat gazelle]

🔥

[worn coral]

yeah

[nocturne cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/romanian-anti-air-romania-anti-air-gif-25843679

[void crescent]

and im flippin winnin boy

[worn coral]

thats what happens when you have 303 divs

[nocturne cedar]

you are lacking resources

[void crescent]

yes i am

[nocturne cedar]

trade with siam or sweden

[flat gazelle]

ffs the us decided to actually use counter intelligence

[void crescent]

true

[flat gazelle]

BRO STOP

[void crescent]

yo wait im actually winning

warsaw in sight bro

[nocturne cedar]

heres a tip: invade netherlands first and the rest of the benelux next

[void crescent]

yes

[nocturne cedar]

or youll get stuck in belgium

[paper echo]

you shouldve taken danzig when you declared

its demilitarized so its open

[flat gazelle]

thats good

[void crescent]

SLAMMEDDD

[flat gazelle]

nice that many colonies stayed in the allies

[void crescent]

SLAMMED

[flat gazelle]

will make it easier to get them

[nocturne cedar]

atp you shouldve capitulated em

[brittle cypress]

• german high command 1945

[gilded cobalt]

I have historical on, what the hell?

So now the Carlists are going to mess everything up

[paper echo]

whats your air situation

[flat gazelle]

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

[paper echo]

why did you not put any plane..

[flat gazelle]

why do i even play this game man

he just keeps going

[paper echo]

these days im just repeating the phrase "this game bro..." for a reason

[flat gazelle]

losing on all fronts but he keeps declaring wars

[gilded cobalt]

• no field marshals
• red air everywhere (did you even build air, you're losing the air war to POLAND)
• constantly battleplanning even on the defensive
• your air force is doing literally nothing
  you'll learn, dw

[void crescent]

king blawg of albania

[flat gazelle]

have fun there man

[gilded cobalt]

just email the save to BittrSteel at this point lil bro

[flat gazelle]

not much of a north american coalition if you ask me

but you do you

[gilded cobalt]

Filipinos are built different

[flat gazelle]

watchthem lose

[worn coral]

uhh

guns?

[paper echo]

dont get too excited.youll probably lose them all in china cuz of attrition

[worn coral]

actually

im not losing

i dont have any supply at all

[flat gazelle]

"why am i not winning guys? i have more divisions than them!?!?!"

[worn coral]

at burma

[paper echo]

this is a moment in history frfr

[worn coral]

i know

[flat gazelle]

this is so based

[paper echo]

steiner will save this

[flat gazelle]

romanian dalmatia exists

[paper echo]

tf is happening in croatia and bosnia

[true juniper]

is that a trotsky ussr

[flat gazelle]

not quite

[paper echo]

why does ussr get so strong when it does that path

i hate trotsky path

[paper echo]

i want ai to do sssr

[paper echo]

cuz it never ends and you have a free ussr

[paper echo]

wtf

[chilly cipher]

original by taoscar370 on youtube

[glad vine]

recently connected a keyboard and mouse to my macbook, so playing hearts of iron IV might become a bit easier

[flat gazelle]

theyre somehow not collappsing yet

[paper echo]

historical germany will not collapse even if they have 10 units

idk how they do it

[flat gazelle]

they're actually pushing now holy shit

[true juniper]

they had a plan all along

[flat gazelle]

this game man

why am i seeing romanian liaoning

[true juniper]

blessed romanian manchuria

[flat gazelle]

what a lovely invasion order

im sure there was no other way guys

[worn coral]

guys

how do i invade japan

[flat gazelle]

eh

i wasnt quite ready yet

its doable tho

[wanton whale]

I am so scawy

[flat gazelle]

i might have

missed

a naval invasion

[paper echo]

by naval invading

[zinc light]

https://tenor.com/view/row-boat-ods-official-duck-studios-gif-13756831

[worn coral]

yeah thats not happening

[paper echo]

why

[true juniper]

paradrop then

[worn coral]

all my navy is from countries i capitulated

[zinc light]

just wait for the next ice age and walk

[worn coral]

no allies close enough

[paper echo]

then make a better navy

[worn coral]

i dont wanna

[paper echo]

and destroy their navy with naval bombers

[worn coral]

ugh

ill just kill the usa then

[true juniper]

invad the soviets and occupy vladivostok

[mighty zodiac]

I already bought a China expansion, it was called Waking the Tiger or something 💀
now the Steam news is saying there's gonna be ANOTHER China expansion?

[paper echo]

paradox:
update dlc for free ❌
make a new dlc that updates a dlc ✅

[paper echo]

IS THAT MY GLORIOUS LI ZOGREN

[crystal marsh]

waking the tiger was a really old one, and it was integrated into the base game earlier last year

[paper echo]

make a dual monarchy with ma bufang

[crystal marsh]

how would i even do that

[paper echo]

idk

split china with ma bufang

[unique garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-dota-gif-26396077

[paper echo]

then make alliance

closest thing i can think of

[crystal marsh]

bro thinks im playing romania

[paper echo]

romania stronk

[flat gazelle]

10 years of fighting here awaits

[paper echo]

ew

south america terrain

just cut these damn forests

and drain the swamps

[flat gazelle]

wouldnt have happened if i didnt forget about getting some port guards

[umbral agate]

what is germany doing

[paper echo]

this map blinds me

austria hungary prob

why does it look so bright

is this daynight cycle or smth

[umbral agate]

i didnt realise it was on

[dim hazel]

can someone tell me why every time i declare war on spain they always gotta join japans faction

[umbral agate]

im playing as czeckoslovakia

[zinc light]

high tension, and mabye the only faction willing to take em

[umbral agate]

as what country

also its cuz japan is desperate

aswell

[dim hazel]

like germany

[umbral agate]

theyc ant join the axis

cant*

and there is only 1 fascist faction left

[dim hazel]

plus why do european nations join japans faction y cant tere be a mod or update where they cant join japans faction unless like puppeted

[worn coral]

dude

[paper echo]

after the faction rework it will prob not happen again

[worn coral]

i have a bunch of divisions basically isolated on another country because the convoys are getting destroyed so they cant leave

i hate u japan

[dim hazel]

can there also be a update where when operation barbarossa happens soviet union gets a invitation to the allies

a lil bit more historical

[paper echo]

the problem is that poland is also in the allies so ussr wouldnt puppet it

if we are talking about historical

and i cant think of any way to make it scripted

[dim hazel]

oh yea that kinda makes sense

[paper echo]

and after faction rework it will probably be worse to add it

imo ussr should declare on poland

poland wouldnt be in the allies till it caps

similar to ethiopia

ussr would still be at war with poland but not get debuffs (like italy) and the allies wouldnt be able to join the war

also they should make guarantees work like defensive pacts against

[flat gazelle]

world conquest not going that well

[paper echo]

if germany has war goal on nation and uk guarantees it should only be against germany

so if i declared on the nation with peru for example uk wouldnt join against me

[dim hazel]

why you got beef with guatamala

[flat gazelle]

i am never getting through this

[dim hazel]

nah nah anah nah tell me why u got beef with guatamala

[flat gazelle]

i am not even at war with them for now

[ancient marsh]

in the next 3 dlcs only 3 countries are getting completely new content

philippines, indonesia, and siam

[flat gazelle]

PLEASE

[ancient marsh]

i dont think the warlords are even getting anything new

[mighty zodiac]

why are you pushing with infantry 😭

[ancient marsh]

this new dlc so far feels really small in comparison to any of the last major expansions

but ig we havent seen any dev diaries yet

[mighty zodiac]

it's literally expanding countries that already had DLC lol
waking the tiger

[flat gazelle]

because its the amazon jungle?

[mighty zodiac]

basedbasedbasedbasedbased

[mighty zodiac]

cut them off at the port first..? so they starve?

[flat gazelle]

what do you think im trying to do?

[ancient marsh]

only reason the previous DLCs were made free and now MTG is just so they can rehash old nations in new dlcs

[mighty zodiac]

attacking them in the forest for some reason.

you just said so yourself!

[flat gazelle]

where tf else was there to attack

[mighty zodiac]

naval invasion go brrr

[flat gazelle]

yes i can see my brazilian navy outclassing the american one

[mighty zodiac]

seems legit lol

[mighty zodiac]

issue of skill!

Brazil is the second strongest nation on Earth, it is known.

[ancient marsh]

dod integrated, immediately hungary rework in next dlc

tfv integrated, upcoming aussie content

[mighty zodiac]

I didn't even know they were integrating DLCs until today lol

[ancient marsh]

(if they dont include nz that'll be ridiculous

@heavy vigil

[flat gazelle]

they're still standing 😭

and they're somehow pushing back

[paper echo]

totally

[dense pine]

each dlc costing 20 dollars

[heavy vigil]

Hii

Whats up

[flat gazelle]

the romanian ocupation zone of manchuria

[dense pine]

https://tenor.com/view/memes-gif-9980668056796018353

[ancient marsh]

are we praying for nz rework in that upcoming dlc

at least minor changes*

[heavy vigil]

Not me

I like nzl

Just their ahist is kinda bad

Australia is full on just bad tho

Well, ahist nzl at least gets like 2 more research slots for being independant

It isnt like yk a path with OP buffs but its pretty powerful

[flat gazelle]

based polish berlin

[split bane]

NZ paths:
Historical
A hist but tech sharing with the Soviets
A hist but tech sharing with Japan
Declare war on Australia

[flat gazelle]

FINALLY

WE GOT THE PORT

[sharp laurel]

how do i gain naval supremacy? i moved fleets in the area but still didnt increase it

[heavy vigil]

Well i mean you can just ignore ahist paths mostly

Your air research buffs are decent

[split bane]

Best part of NZ is the Big Bob

[heavy vigil]

And you have enough slots to make good air

You dont really get good tanks

Or good infantry

The main issue is not having an air MIO

[split bane]

https://tenor.com/view/bob-semple-tank-gif-27695661

[heavy vigil]

If they got one itd be a lot better

[split bane]

NOOOO

My Bob Semple gif!

https://tenor.com/view/new-zealand-tanks-bob-semple-tank-gif-24607518

There we go

[flat gazelle]

the brazilian tank program starts today

we may be researching 1938 tanks in 1942

but

as they say

better late than never

[flat gazelle]

60 days until i start the main offensive

against mexico and the us

HOW DID THEY GET HERE

[dense pine]

ai always plans naval invasions in the most random places

it's quite normal for me actually

[worn coral]

so guys

the congress of poland failed

[untold sphinx]

when will the new dlcs come out

[worn coral]

russia is just way too strong

i cant handle 524 divisions

[dense pine]

most of them are useless cavalry divs

[worn coral]

surprisingly not

and it allied with the usa

so yeah

[flat gazelle]

this is not a drill

we're actually winning ts

the us has a suprisingly small army

up to a maximum of a 125 divs

[dense pine]

watch out for supply in the desert

[eternal pilot]

fr

[flat gazelle]

100% of my industry is building railways and supply hubs 😭

[dense pine]

that's good to know.

[flat gazelle]

THANK GOD FOR ITALY

makes the wc so much easier

wont have to kill everyone one by one

now that they're in a faction

[eternal pilot]

Only good thing Italy does 💔✌️

[flat gazelle]

this is litterally

the first

thing they've done this run

(almost 1943)

[dense pine]

Seems normal to me.

[eternal pilot]

true

[flat gazelle]

the brazilians have entered texas

[dense pine]

You don't get to hear that sentence anywhere else

[eternal pilot]

No doubt that it’s from hoi4 🥹

[flat gazelle]

i reckon you could hear the current american president say that one day 😭

[eternal pilot]

😭😭

[dense pine]

I just realized

why is germany normally black

[dense pine]

because hilter hated black people

[eternal pilot]

Ts so beautiful 🥹

[flat gazelle]

all rightfully brazilian territory

[finite nacelle]

commie🥀

why is mexico named that?

[flat gazelle]

FINALLY

[dense pine]

https://tenor.com/view/pointing-that-is-correct-thats-right-good-job-way-to-go-gif-18723702

[flat gazelle]

?

[finite nacelle]

yes

[flat gazelle]

ts so based

[eternal pilot]

Nah it’s not mexico

It’s brazil

[flat gazelle]

polish colony in turkey

[eternal pilot]

lol

[flat gazelle]

this is a thing that exists

[finite nacelle]

qookie that gotta be the weirdist game i ever saw

[dense pine]

this stuff always happens in all my campaigns

[flat gazelle]

normall ahist gameplay

[eternal pilot]

I hate unhistorical hoi4 ❤️‍🩹

😭

[flat gazelle]

didnt even notice that at first

polish switzerland

we're litterally the greatest nation on earth

[gray gust]

Just bought the game! Hope to have fun!

[dense pine]

sending prayers🙏

[eternal pilot]

Dw you’ll start having fun around 600 hours 🙏

[flat gazelle]

in this universe young thug will be born a brazilian

[gray gust]

The only other HOI game i've played is HOI3. I'll be fine.

[eternal pilot]

Fair enough

At least you have experience with hoi

[worn coral]

im so bored

any ideas?

[dense pine]

go outside

[worn coral]

its night time

[dense pine]

sleep

[worn coral]

im wide awake

[dense pine]

play something else

[flat gazelle]

please just cap already

[worn coral]

i was playing wt

and before that i was playing the op poland

but then i got f'ed up

[flat gazelle]

YESSS

[worn coral]

are you playing historical?

[flat gazelle]

no

okay

now

i can either get canada

or naval invade ireland from accros the world

[dense pine]

canada.

[flat gazelle]

im so glad that everyone in europe sucks

god all the wargoals take over 100 days

💔

[ancient marsh]

what happened here

i play with historical off ONCE

[dense pine]

Just be patient for once

[flat gazelle]

i have to do a world conquest here

hard to be patient considering how many war goals ill have to make

[dense pine]

"patience is key"💔

[flat gazelle]

after that its probably britain that i will attack