#hoi4-general
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whatever it's called
I play sheep mod for increased difficulty
in my regular, UK locks the straits like crazy
Fun fact, the difficulty selection doesn't change Ai it just gives you a bunch of debuffs
And makes it "harder"
it gives buffs to ai which is also the simple solution that every second overhaul mod does
why is he bald
Play sheep mod
This one actually improves AI
I did and it's not for me since I mostly play minors
Sounds like a skill issue to me 
Divide Et Impera jumpscare
overfed gabagool
I beat a unified Austria Hungary as Sanatation Right Poland
in that mod
can't form byzantium if the enemy major power AI can use its industry and make cas
See that's a skill issue
Just be better
not even a matter of skill you just get overwhelmed
It is. Because if you were better you would beat it regardless
I had 3 million manpower as Poland btw
That aside sheep mod isn't that hard
I only play TWR, TNO or Kaiserredux, I play vanilla history as vanilla
have you played any minors in sheep mod
I played Poland
Played Chile, beat USA
Yea Greece might be a hard sell
Actually gotta play it in sheep mod
Imma go do that
vanilla poland run was so crazy if you do it right.
eventually got overrun by germany
fled massive numbers to UK
stockpiled a lot of guns there
funneled guns
fought across all allied lines
entered greece
WARSHAWO WALCZ
when I kicked the uprising, entire country turned back into Polan clay
Mussolini's Footprint TL
Meanwhile Italy having 90% of axis airforce:
who really builds military when you have dockyard
i keep having problems with taking screenshots ingame
I cant race with UK in air for a reason
50 factories producing fighters yet they have more
your army is nothing without an airforce
i dont think thiaeyaeieyaieyayieiaeyaieyayer air force can reach the soviets
hello yalls
hello guys
sup bro
air bases:
new to the game n stuck
poland occupied everything neither me nor pizza country had air bases
they are for spaceships, thinking ahead
no way
what happened
couldnt even complete theb tutorial on my own
waht
ok you're fighting ethiopian war
nothing happened
can you send a screenshot
no sorry
assign generals to both fronts, then set frontlines
then why is Poland independent
yes
infact
and via f3 or plane icon on right bottom screen access to air screen
hi parachute
sup bro
is that a purple slime from terraria
i haven't been concerning my self with boring historical runs
now im doing polish barbarossa
boring historical runs
anyone wanna play and vc?
or just take over germany as austria
defend as much as you can
austria doesnt have a focus tree
then once germany is exhausted you can counterattack
ok but how do i core germoney
say no to anschluss
not coring germany makes it harder and therefore more fun
i got 60
that chalenges are fun for me
get anti air and forts
yes with that where to assign them
that wont help me with sill issues bruv
my laptop crahed btw rn idk why
wait is poland your ally
rip lol
to where you are fighting at
Italy can use polish airbases then
let me sahow u an ss
and my precious baby Finland
there are 2 main types of planes
if i spam bombers do i magically turn into a femboy
another thing why the gane run in fuklll screen i cant use my tabs when its open
femboy hoi mod when
check settings
so if a spam bombers
i become a femboy 100 rounds ahead of time?
whats new airplane meta?
oif io keep windowed screen doest work at all
light cruiser
they dont fly iirc
not sure, did not try yet
damn..
so who are we testing on
isnt that the one with the crap nasty focus tree?
airplanes in hoi4 are as important as drones rn
drones are airplanes
guys hear me out on josef stalin
couple centuries late but oh well
tf i crashed again
is the kamikaze exploit no more? that was funny
I see that it's still the same for light fighter build... but wtf?
bomb locks are not useda nymore?
It's heavy bomb locks now
Wdym?
Whats the confusion
Wouldn't know which one that is tbh
This, save for Soviets, tho
You can have a zero-air Soviet game but you'll be on the backfoot until the Allies bail you out
At least in multi
Yea sov might be the only nation that can pull full aa build
It just takes too long to get rid of the debuff
Not even mentioning the shit MIO and IC difference
Should've grinded Kusnetsov and got aa3
I grinded out Chuikov 'cuz he got more space for traits, and since he has a nice ATK trait
But yeah, for tanks, I usually just go for Rokossovsky or Kuznetsov
Wdym "more space" it's a 1 level difference
You grind popov and Kusnetsov
I gues you can grind chuikov instead of popov too
Grinding roko is bad cuz he's already a genius High Command and is already lvl5
i love the british ai they guaranteed me after i justified against a country they guarantee
its also mega allies so im cooked
i won the independence war already, am i just stuck now
i think the Congo tag might just be deceased 💀
the Belgian Congo that stuck with me is a generic tag
I dont think I was meant to play HOI4 this lategame
why does everyone say that navy is hard .-.
it gets really laggy late game
It's very badly optimized and the engine only uses 14gb of RAM and 4 CPU cores which is pathetic
I got a 16 core CPU and it legit only uses 4
And 96gb RAM and it uses 14
how to check which nations have resource rights to which regions?
When you open the recource tab it should show the flag of the country that claims recource rights to the region next to it for example if I take over Luxemburg (peak example btw) and puppet them and request recource rights, it should show a Germany flag (depending what country I am) next to it
it only uses 1 CPU core for AI
I know
It's so trash optimized like holy shit even mobile games are better optimized
is that during peace conference or after?
AI accounts for 90% of the game's CPU time
after
90% of CPU time and 1/4 cores used
🥀
WHO PROGRAMMED THIS
BRO
😭
and that includes pathfinding
the front lines are so buggy
Like 15% of the times my front lines end up floating on the air and my troops refuse to move
Then I'll have to micromanage the whole front
And even if I reload it won't do shit
the reason mobile games are so optimized for multi core is because it they have to be
yeah true
phones have many weak cores
Modern games aren't optimized too because they don't give a shit they do it because they want people to buy new PCs
But Hoi4 ain't modern bro it's a design flaw
yeah 6GHz vs 2GHz is a huge difference
Not just that but most modern phones don't even have GPUs they have NPUs now 😭
Like my pixel
7a
they don't?
bruh a phone can't even boot up without a GPU
A game engine from 2007
NPU can also handle GPU stuff
Where multi core wasn't a thing
those are called GPUs
Bro source legit uses resources better
SOURCE
TF2
No clue but Clausewitz was developed for EU3 💀
We're using THAT for EU4, EU5, CK3 and Hoi4
yeah they're cracked in the head a bit
in 2007 the most common CPU was Pentium 4 which was single core
I guess a big studio doesn't wanna afford the cost of making a new engine when the old one works
Hoi4 still makes money no
pirating
they don't even have to
So?
they just have to change the old engine a bit
Hoi4 still makes money?
I dont think a game engine that's that old can be fixed with a few touchups
The core of the engine is probably such a mess of a code that they don't wanna engage it 😭
victoria 2, hearts of iron 4, europa universalis 4, all these games run shit lategame because there are too many units for the engine to handle
Also it's dumb stuff like the AI making hundreds of templates and different equipments
Like legit AI makes 12 templates it doesn't even use
it doesn't really affect performance much
when you move a division from moscow to vladivostok, your CPU has to do millions of calculations in order to find the best path
in comparison a single variable change (like manpower) your CPU only has to do thousands of calculations per country
You get this when doing any civil war path
can still be purged
In all my hours of playing as the Soviets, I've yet to play the Civil War paths
preparations are boring😎
Sad. Trotsky is fun
I wanna play the Rightist path
I keep hearing the consumer goods thing
with Rykov/Bukharin
I honestly see no merit for the Trotskyist path save for world conquest
Kind of pointless?
Since cg isn't as good as it used to be?
oh
Left is simply better
Oh boy do I have news for you
Tools and conc 5 in 1940, gun 3 in 1940
It's insane.
Yes
Tho, I'll stick to my Stalin path and industry buffs
hello niche community where we at
@wind kiln
its so stupid that czechoslovakia wasn't included in gotterdamrung
hungary was
like come on
hungry
good ones
exactly
congrats
18w infantry for holding and build a shitton of tanks
thats it
if i encircle can i use those 18w infantry to kill the encirclement
im bored what nation should I play?
what sort of tank divs? medium tanks?
Albania
you're gonna regret it @snow wasp
do they have a custom focus tree or smth?
You will find out
soon you'll be the happiest man you've ever been
chat if i make a thick light tank div, can they break through the soviet line
chat what if i make a 36width medium tanks & mechanized inf division
like 10 of em would that eb enough to create encirclements
whats this
periodic table
Noooo im separated from hoi for a week
But seeing Polesie is kinda nice
btw what mods do yall use?
I like my states tiny, pulchtridunious states
any tips for mass-producing medium tanks with a massive tungsten deficit?
Galicia and transcarpathia too
I use all of these except rt54
wha
idk
same question I would be asking lol
Player led peace conferwnces doesnt do anything as of now, just set your victory point rules in the game settings and use Better Peace Deals mod
oh
why is that?
The mod havent been updated in a while and it stopped working
oh
that sucks
Which dlc allow that?
in what cases should I use medium flamethrower tanks as support companies ?
idk man
La Resistance
la resistance
la resistance
I have a better chance of learning latin then mastering hoi4
use it on medium tanks
w dlc
Not on infantry? Why?
personally my favorite dlcs are either Gotterdammerung or no step back
im not an expert so idk
Sigh
I have a better chance of masterring hoi4 MODDING than continuing to learn german
Where the experts at
If I must buy one dlc right now, which one should I choose
crazy
Nsb 100%
for infantry i just do a 3x3 block with engineers and support artillery
no step back
Med tanks, and infantry that has field hospital
Yep thats what I do unless I have mass mob, I just add 2 more infantry then
So only on important and special infantry ?
What are the additions to the game
I recently did mass mob as Poland and holy shit no one stood a chance 😭
Many focus trees + tank designer. You can read about the specifics in steam
Poland and Russia are amongst the countries with new trees
That’s because it’s mass mob
tank designer,baltics poland and ussr focus trees,officer corps and logistic strike with planes
and scorch earth
imma play tno with zhukov
It has an economy I read?
it does but idk if it affects much
Oh 😭
Yikes that mod is smth else
I’d far rather do tfr
tfr economy is useless
That’s why I love it
i just want tfr eastern europe content
Well there’s Russia
Who needs anything except Russia /s
but they will keep adding america stuff
not complaining i just think that they should add a bit of east europe
goodnight/day
👋🏼
what are light tanks useful for
Speed
what does that matter if they cant attack for sh
Early game ranks
Early game tanks*
if i manage to get a naval port in the UK as germany
can i send as many armies as i want over to that port
without them having to prep
i've only managed to land in the UK once through a naval invasion, and they killed all my divisions
should i use paratroopers instead?
No
Invade on multiple tiles btw
It’s better
And attack as soon as possible
What is a fun polish monarchy path?
All of them are fun
I gotta end my game rn before my game breaks any further
imma use console to fix some borders then I'm done
(for some reason the AI literally would rather let Hitler have the Rhineland than me)
the AI wasting all their points fighting the player and letting the defeated country just go because of it is a cult classic
Time to install hoi4 again now that my exams are over
Anyone tell me what changed in the meta?
What were they over
democratic austria btw
I want to go murder Henderson–Hasselbalch and the people who discovered vectors and the biologists who made all those complicated photosynthesis, cancer and respiration stuff now… Krebs cycle kelvin cycle… Adp atp adhp
it's outright crazy that paradox STILL hasn't fixed this annoying bug after years
OH GOD THEY CAN DECLARE WAR ON SOVIET GERMANY
THESE MFERS ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO START WW3
Oooo. Medical related stuff, no thanks. I’ll stick to my math
Cry and restart
So annoying in mp too
type shi
Vector and Henderson–Hasselbalch is basically math, chem
The more I look at this picture, the more I get confused
Computer science makes me more depressed than all others combined tho
Chem is even worse. Lmao
Calculation chem is basically math in disguise
What’s the current meta…
idk if it works but try building a lot of random stuff till you see that little slider
i think thats what i did and it fixed for me
Idk how long ago the meta changed
I would assume it’s the same
Sorry
Ok it’s not that
It’s heavies now
its a mod... idk why people are saying la resistance
Heavies didn’t go that well though
Also when mcwhisker reviving
Never sadly
He hasn’t been seen in months
It does work it happened to me and it worked by doing that
yo can anyone help me
With?
Upgrade railway
also i dont understand this
when I called my allies to take down the Congolese rebellion I didnt expect them to just take Rwanda and Burundi bruh
I won the war but lost starting territory at the end
But the clean borders though
It’s not supply
Its strength
anybody know if i can invade greece from italy if they control albenia and they gave me military access?
U mean italy controls albania?
like they have it they annexed them
italy
It’s supposed to be italy
Then you just invade greece
If you want more troops just transfer some from the mainland navally
but how do i fix this
Build more trains.
So where do I go now
alr
is this good?
poland
I did the befriend Czechoslovakia focus but didn’t realise I’d be unable to do the Danzig for Slovakia as well so a little annoyed but its fine
But will my war with the ussr focus’s work with Trotsky doing his thing
Will Trotsky try invade the west if he wins
Türkiye should be fixed bro
Why does it have to take 5 years till i get to declare wars
i cleaned up some borders
rate the new soviet western border
U do ww2 early
Looks neat
how do i move troops by sea because i did reserch transport ships but idk how to make them
Nice and smooth
Firstly move them to a port then when they arrive select the port u want them to go
You need to build more train
If u wanna do a naval invasion u gotta have a set amount of time pass before ur troops go
You prob don’t have enough convoys
Yes
alr
Or you can commandeer civilian trains
not a navel invasion i want to move them from iran to italy and they gave me military access
You need more convoys
ok
how many convoys do i need?
should i make a thick inf div
alr
but does that mean
those 10 tank divs r gonna die
if they dont even make it to land they sail back home
also do this
invade both tiles next to the port then shift click the port foir multiple direction bonus
litterally unplayable
I can't read cyrillic
RT56?
its anarchist commune in english!
fairly sure it's kaiserreich or kaiserredux based on germany's western border
oh and it's the kaiserreich flag for germany
volunteer only china mfw
Got invaded by the ocean once
hello yalls
It’s Kaiserredux
@late wharf umm what is the amount of prize money for the Tournament?
€2500 grand prize
Read the website or smth for the other rewards
Kaiserriechdux got a spain rework AMAZING FOCUS TREE BTW but yea its got a bourbon path
Yeah found it on the discord Server but still thanks.
Should i get "by blood alone" or "götterdammerung
I mean do u want plane designer or special projects
im asking the server cus idk
Then get whichever u like
Hell nag
holy
idk cus ive never played with any of them 🫡
am i dead?
depends if soviet gets mad
cooking
How on earth did the balkans rally against u
romania joined allies
hungaryshit.mp4
lol
idk who do a game as
belgium
This has to be ragebait
i am the noobiest person alive and ts infuriates me
motorized aa and art in infantry?
this alright against germany?
I would personally switch the recon for hospitals if u can afford it
I think I need to take a LONG break from Paradox game, like genuinly. HOI4 is literally the only game I play, I haven't played another game in such a long time
idk who to play as
locked out of my own congo tree
did nobody ever think a belgium player would be playing in 1945 rn
they rebelled but they died
#hearts-of-iron-news thanks for mentioning ✍️ 👍
You don’t even need the recon company
wth I should be able to do Overseas Department of Belgium
the Independence War isnt happening (I won) and nobody is negotiating from 6 feet under
Alright, I'll try
also how come even with 100% intel network i still don't know the german troops
Sevastopol anc crimea are a country?
the rebels took my focus tree
Did I miss an update?
I think recon may do that 😭
But it’s not needed u will live
Imean it’s considered Ukrainian territory but has been occupied by Russia for a decade
So paradox means that crimea and Sevastopol is not Russian by that announcement
Ok
will i be now accepted by the french people?
Not enough but yes
No napoleon wouldn’t split Italy
what about rangers
i love marine
My brain tells me to leave this server cuz its afraid of getting addicted to HOI4 again...
fire
just leave if its a health concern 👍
no one will hate you for it
Ok, I'll join back when it becomes better. Bye:)))))))))
That dude was weird
there was a global flag that shouldnt be on, i removed it with console and now it works

wrong germany?
I have 80 hours in hoi4
ok imma let austria join the comintern but they arent staying as a detached part of east germany im going to make them a puppet instead
Should i join the tournament
Dw most players in the tournament will only have about 100x more
But hours dont indicate skill anyway so whatever
in bulgaria old tsar path
can i core all of greece?
with the balkan integration focus
Yeah
air
I’m pretty sure
why does this sound like a dog race
Germany? What Germany?
china is no more
Oh god it's growing.
Sinking and the Guanxi went the rival Goverment path, and im starting to fear them
play with us commanders
md used to be my favourite mod but it got ruined for me bc of their discord server
play with us commanders in mp2
full of assholes and people that for whatever reason will defend these assholes (???)
what's the commanders mod?
join mp 2 i show u
come in MP2 and we will stream
we need like 2 more players
rn i'm drinking chai, then i gotta log on my computer, then i gotta open steam
i hate the swiss focus tree
i need a few minutes XD
me too, bc it's the default focus tree for me.
mine is the actual tree, probably worse tbh
I didnt stand a chance
how
how can any tree be worse than the default? the default tree isn't bad or anything, but it's so BASIC
chai is peak
which ofc makes sense as it's a default tree
💯
do you want to army focus? well you cant if you want to do expansion
so does someone wanna join the commanders mod?
since im indian, it is guaranteed to be peak
but english tea is still nice
hmm
NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN
this is the fastest anschluss
haha get screwed germany
italy whose in my faction attacks romania and drags france into a war im not prepared for
yo guys anyone wanna do a 2v2?
<@&846894118219022336>
Neutral unity
peak
i alr got the french alps now time for the italian alps
So it’s 1939, I started the war a year early by mistake but I took Poland, France, the Benelux, Baltics and puppeted yugo
I have 2 options
Try naval invade uk which I still havent built up to fight the rn
Or turn my attention to the Trotsky ussr which I have 270 divs to their 150
nvm italy killed me
Should i do naval invasion or capture the port with paratroopers and bring the army through the captured port
Tank divisions instead of marines to follow up
Uhhh depends on the country ig
What in the eastern front is this?
@past quail
Do you have the range for a paradrop???
Form the intermarium
Luxembourg is like 500 km away
what's that
Mobile warfare
Yeah click on the special forces tab
And you wanna fill out the paratrooper one
It makes everything better
Keep it to #1239926537512292362
(this requires them to have the Arms against Tyranny DLC btw)
Shit
You're right
Very sorry if you dont!! Either way if you dont have naval supremacy just paradrop
If the uk still has overseas holdings it should be a cakewalk
Also is anyone somewhat well versed on light tanks
War reparations gives me all enemy factories?
idk what nation to play as
Tannu Tuva
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
too easy, they wont be able to learn the mechanics if they world conquest by 1935
katanga is fr just there now
is eu5 a buy
both katanga and the congo are republics but they are under a monarchy btw
red dusk
kinda looks more like red dawn rn
Known Bug
will it get fixed?
does it have to?
Why are u complaining lol
Yes
nah i was just wondering
Enjoy while it lasts
i will
is the poland expansion in there?
since when?`??
YO
?
Yoyo
does czechoslovakia or romania have more pop and civis
Romania has more pop pretty sure
red duck
finally
playing as russian warlords is a waiting simulator
waiting 2 years just to take siberia
Do you have the equipment enabled?
?
Theres actually a way to accidentally disable your equipment
Did you change the little icon of it
where?
?
italy wanted independence so i stole their troops then denied their independence and they have to fight me now with 0 troops
I haven’t pressed that button in months what does it do again
turn europe to red like breaking bad
OK
your division type has to correspond with the symbol
or it will not reinforce with the equipment
heres an example where i set a tank design to the same icon
this is a peak profile picture
it will not reinforce unless the tanks i produce have the same icon as the division
Indeed sir
as you see here it does not use the tank with the icon if it isnt on the correct type
where even is this
clicked it
THAT DOES SOMETHING????
still nothing
can you force complete a focus?
Do FF in console commands?
a focus tree mod broke where i need a spirit to progress in it but i dont have that spirit anymore
Yes thats correct
what r the keybinds againM?
read the tooltip
The one under the escape key
~
I think
oh thanks
Cant believe other people havent perfectly memorized all the mechanics of this video game smh
i have another problem
Je ne parle pas francais
i cant complete the other focus
Its not french so youre fine :D
oh is that German mb
Mutually exclusive?
In the division
no
Do FF again?
let me cry letme cry
Yes theyre disabled because theyre the wrong icon as you can see
And they stay disabled until you re enable them
what tf my puppet recalled the divisions i requested?
The panzer III Ausf. D shows the issue pretty clearly
Yeah that’s a thing
🥳
how long does it take before they get recalled?
ah yes
70 days?
Puppets have no way of recalling their units
But their units get recalled when you enter/leave a faction
i never left/joined a faction
am kinda stucked
they did
they cant be in the same as you if you have war with them
Odd then
With the army typically
you making fighters/bombers?
Sure kinda
bc am in 41 and still
whats ur divs
strugling in france
I dont get how people struggle
kind of
am bad at the game bro
I followed versailles military limitations and did better thn that
Thats fine
5 width infantry and 900 divs
what french divs are holding the line?
No military airforce, no tanks, 10 divisions of 100K manpower in the field btw
Don’t listen to this guy 😭
take down your naval bombers and port strikes
Take luxembourg
Bro has no fighters
Block off the english channel seazone
Stukas dogfighting spitfires
Yes
its a naval option
The red button on the sea zone
OHHHHHHH
what?
I always declare on Luxembourg last so that I don’t have to redraw my frontlines
Whats your logistics stockpile looking like?
most of your divs seem under equiped with guns
or sum
yeah
Sorry ik i asked abt it earlier but does anyone know a good/optimal light tank build I wanna use them for a game but I never use them lmao
are tac bombers not good anymore?
or is around maginot better
aren light shit?
Yeah
comon
Yeah ik theyre not but i wanna use them
uhhhhhh
Uhhhh let me look at your other messages first
all i know is the medium tank build XD im sorry bro
Ur good
Push where your enemies are weak, dont push where your enemies are powerful
shoudl i upgrade this or leave it?
Awful
upgrade
Jeez
Why do you hate hp
uhm
Do you think tanks work like star destroyers from Star Wars
LMAO
at this poiunt i shoudl uninstall the game bruh
AT-AT also needed infantry support it just got tumbled over
Yes tbh if you want them cheaper youd want more motorised than tanks
Up conscription law
No you can clutch this
about to get cooked
oh my lord thats a lot of losses
Why tf is greece a major
am basicly remaking first world war
um
Brother
this m9is my inf division
what
You made it worse
Right thats ok
oh
Have you been making aa
guess
Ok
Uhhh your infs fine it can hold
166civs?
We need to fix ur tanks tho
yeah
nah am gonna clutch
bittersteel gonna have fun
bittersteel isnt that good but hes ok
Hes bald
Very little hp so it will take a lot of casualties
Ok uhh
More hp in a division means less losses in this game
this?
Cav and tanks???
No way
what about this
Is it actually
Looks better
how tf is tno germany that weak
hmmm
Why is there 2 support equipment lines
Other than that?? Ur good
Yeah just hold until ur out of a deficit and then update us on the frontline
We can tell you where to put tanks
what
the
heck
how
do you even
push the maginot
in reverse
f
oh
you have
5 medium tank divisions
thats greaat
Just dont bother with the maginot bro
🙏
mate
i dont think
you understand
what happend
they pushed
from maginot
to me
9 divisions vs 2 low supply divisions and the low supply divisions win
balanced