hoi4-general

[abstract crypt]

they are colonies

[strong umbra]

wtf

[abstract crypt]

check it

[strong umbra]

why

tho

[abstract crypt]

it becouse of the spanish civil war

half of the spain is not cored by the spain

so it is no ones territory

since that, no ressistance

[strong umbra]

huh weird

[sudden thistle]

Holy focus rush

[royal marten]

what

[wispy quiver]

is there a chanell for pictures and people to sshow off?

[sudden thistle]

Just do that here

[versed rapids]

?

[wispy quiver]

war starte in late feb ended in early july

[cosmic jay]

everybody looking at the Mona Lisa bit that guy on the right just happy to be here

[crude bronze]

i was playing as napoleanic france dominating europe and japan declared war on me even after i gave them tonokin

[versed rapids]

skill issues

[crude bronze]

nah japan lost

bozo got naval invaded

and europe got dominated

[weak quarry]

tuff?

[knotty vortex]

just got pulverised by austria-hungary as ussr

the ussr was so confusing

i couldnt figure out how to get rid of political fear or whatever

and by the time i got rid of it

all the war goal paths werent available

as the countries just didnt exist anymore

[crisp wyvern]

Had to roll back to version 1.16.8 of hoi4 because the latest version of the game basically renders every mod I have as useless

or break the game entirely

[knotty vortex]

i still have no clue how to deal with supplies

navy is a mystery

ive never touched it

havent touched aerial troops

[knotty vortex]

i still dont understand how to make good troops lo

[strong umbra]

how do I get this to the left

[versed rapids]

how do you even play at that point

[strong umbra]

just need it 10 percent

[versed rapids]

hirohito looks so out of place

[knotty vortex]

i mean i make troops

put them in army group

then declare war

invade

take country

thats how i play

[crisp wyvern]

for most of my time playing hoi4 I just sticked with 9 infantry 1 support company and artillery support (18w in total) as my main division template

sometimes I add anti air support company too

[knotty vortex]

i was trying to make a tank template

[versed rapids]

imo everyone does that

[knotty vortex]

and i needed like 1600 heavy tanks to make 10

it was insane

[crisp wyvern]

ik Hirohito, ik

[versed rapids]

then just make 1-2 other divisions

tanks + fast trucks

and you're good to go

i like making bycicles instead as japan

[crisp wyvern]

Minor nations ig

[versed rapids]

they're truly op

bicycles*

[knotty vortex]

nope i was germany and ussr lol

[crisp wyvern]

I've always played as minor nations to get a hold of everything in hoi4

[knotty vortex]

germany went better than ussr

ussr i didnt understand how to remove political fear

[crisp wyvern]

My largest navy in the game without stealing someone's else's navy was 145 ships as central america

cannot steal anyone else's navy because I don't have the dlc to do so

[crisp wyvern]

there is a focus to get rid of that

or just go with any of the other paths that remove Stalin from power through a civil war

[knotty vortex]

yeah it took me forever to figure out

game doesnt make things very obvious lol

im always out of supplys

but idk how to fix that

always having riot thingies

[crisp wyvern]

version 1.16.8, i have a mod that reworks china's focus tree, but hirohito has the same portrait as the one shown in your screenshot

[versed rapids]

build supply hubs

[crisp wyvern]

sort of

awesome name

[knotty vortex]

i just wanna make nukes

and wipe everyone out

[crisp wyvern]

nukes are relatively useless

unless you wanna carpet bomb the enemy out of supply and everything else but

to even use nukes you need an airforce

and without an airforce, those nukes are like

[knotty vortex]

even with dlc?

[crisp wyvern]

yeah

without an airforce, nukes are useless

[knotty vortex]

what do the dlcs even add

yet to figure it out

[versed rapids]

75% of the games

[feral hedge]

Guys I'm thinking of getting an achievement, should I do people have stood up or miklos horthy and the habsburg prince?

[crisp wyvern]

just add a bunch of focus trees to some random ass nations like mexico or nations that dissappear out of the face of the earth like austria like in mid 1938, and add stuff like rework the navy, tank designs, IMOs, airplane designs, international market, icbms and etc

basically

they sell you the rest of the full game in separate really expensive dlcs

or wait 5 years for the next dlc to be incorporated into the game

like la resistance

since man the guns has already been given for free and incorporated into the game

[amber knoll]

Anyone know any additional start date mod?

[knotty vortex]

i bought the subscription

so i get everything right?

[crisp wyvern]

fair deal ig

[crisp wyvern]

yeah

[amber knoll]

Like 1941,1943 etc

[sudden thistle]

Seelow heights?

[fringe shell]

bruh

[dusky burrow]

hear me out deaf person

well you can invade anywhere else

maybe japan? idk

[strong umbra]

Germany may be losing

but good luck going through the one tile chokepoint

[dusky burrow]

paradropping sweden?

[strong umbra]

was the plan

but naval was enough

[dusky burrow]

ah i see

yeah i see you guys took stockholm

[strong umbra]

ye

world map rn idk if this helps

[violet veldt]

Like britian and france have been so peaceful

[crude bronze]

how do i stop the ai from making these DISGUSTING maps after a war conference

look what they did

this is disgusting

no human should ever witness this

[dusky burrow]

Greece lmao

Kill Turkey and then you can form the Roman Empire

[strong umbra]

attacking Greece rn

theyre at the chokepoint

[dusky burrow]

You probably have like the largest navy in the world

[strong umbra]

could naval invade

but cant bother

[strong umbra]

ye

[dusky burrow]

Yeah you should naval invade

Probably like 4 divisions to Athenis will do the trick

and another 4 to crete of course

[strong umbra]

the thing is

is want the pope

but I cant get nay more support

anywhere

there is physically no option

[dusky burrow]

Huh

[strong umbra]

wdym huh?

[broken sky]

🗣️

[last cave]

european union with erich reder

[vagrant burrow]

What's better for World domination with British Raj, communist or fascist?

[last cave]

ost india company

u litterly buy whole world with just civilian factories

and get insane buffs

on army

economy

etc

[fringe shell]

i think we have a problem

[strong umbra]

why is it all bourgoindy purple😭 😭 😭

[fringe shell]

man whole world is purple i played for achivement so no player lead peace conference so russia for jacking off in the mother land takes everything every state so whole wold is purple

[vagrant burrow]

Oh that sounds interesting too. Especially since it's probably the only country that can do stuff like that. Thx

[vagrant burrow]

Can you still freely conquer stuff or is that limited somehow?

[warped flint]

was gonna play the 1944 mod but then I see this

[versed rapids]

my puppet is more powerful than my country

is this normal

[safe wing]

Bruh

[warped flint]

But germany magically loses 6 recruitable pop???

makes no sense

[strong umbra]

germany is officially cooked

[warped flint]

the soviets took way more casualties then the germans

[warped flint]

hold shift when making field marshall frontlines

[last cave]

yeah but its non aligned so u need 50 percent world tenseion + there is an system wich u pay taxes to britain but ur not puppet and u can break away from those taxes once u control london

erich reder mog world

[copper sluice]

austria simulator

I AM SO ANGRY

[last cave]

if its com germany its very easy

to win against them

[versed rapids]

not as austria

it took me a year to capitulate them

[last cave]

i did it in 4 months using mine puppets divs

[azure palm]

Just made the most OP luxembourg with Commands... though the game keeps crashing when I try to create a faction

[copper sluice]

I am fighting hungary rn

[vagrant burrow]

Ah okay, so basically the downside is to having to conquer UK..

[sudden thistle]

commie germany is so funny

so weak if the AI does it

[copper sluice]

im glad italy just lets me die

so happy

time to restart until germany goes monarchist and I can invite them

[pearl raptor]

Japan dont declare War on usa in 1941 and 1942 with new dlc

?

[wintry drum]

I think you choose when you invade Pearl Harbor.

It's a focus I think?

[pearl raptor]

Ai japan

[wintry drum]

Oh. I dunno

[last cave]

how did it become major

💔

[sudden thistle]

poland may be onto something

[pallid shale]

Are the faction objectives and all gone?

Cuz i dont have them anymore

[finite plume]

🥀 Real great state name PDX

[crude bronze]

whats the point of collabaration states if i can just puppet them

[last cave]

so that they capitulate fast

[strong umbra]

I hate the war score mechanics

soviets were losing barbarossa

I come sweeping in

Germany dies

what do I get moselland and thats it

literally nothing else

[crude bronze]

i thought they can only be installed after they capitulate

[strong umbra]

goddamm greedy soviet ai

[finite plume]

"Lagos"

Looks Inside:

Kuril Islands 🗿

[crude bronze]

also how do is stop eithopia from going in exile after i invade them in blood alone

its pissing me off

[finite plume]

Would it kill them to rename file names

[safe wing]

its easy kill them before May 20th 1936

[crude bronze]

thats 20 days to invade them

it takes 20 days from troops to arrive from italy

[safe wing]

20 days? you have 4 months

[crude bronze]

nvm i misread

4 months yeah

i got solid progress though meaning i killed them pretty fast

and i need to wait for troops to come from italy too

which takes time

[strong umbra]

nah abyssianian fiasco

just a question if I do the papcay focus first then roman empire I'll be called ram empire

but if I do roman empire first then papacy I'll be called the papal states right?

so which one should I pick?

[gilded vessel]

are you allowed to stream games outside of hoi4 in the helping lounge?

[lilac glen]

Chat

Quick question

When you research advanced versions of warships

Can you upgrade your old ones or you have to make brand new ones everytime?

Nvm

Reddit answered my question

I will wait to research those

[finite plume]

Fire name for Communist Taiwan

[ripe slate]

Yes actually, if they dont override the entire map

Youre forced to stick to the filenames you override otherwise

[fallen vigil]

guys how do i core the horn of africa as COMMUNIST ethiopia does anyone know?

[finite plume]

The actual names don't matter, though

It just reads the ID name, never the actual file name

647-Palau can be changed to 647-Kanto without any effect

It's just the STATE_647 name that affects it

[lilac glen]

Chat, what do you do when your entire army uses anti tank but the new division template that you will use doesn't use it?

I want to free the used MILs for other uses

[snow rain]

swap the old template fielded to the new one you created
btw anti tank is useless in singleplayer, no point ever investing in it

[lilac glen]

I know 😔

[vital stump]

Question: how do I prevent PRC joining Comintern after leaving United Front as nationalists China?

I heard if you have at least positive 50 relation with USSR, they won't take them in, is that true?

[snow rain]

kill them while the soviets are losing a war to germany
this should prevent prc from joining for a while but they'll most likely join after a year

[snow rain]

that doesn't sound very hoi
relation do almost nothing overhaul

[vital stump]

Kill who?

[snow rain]

prc

[vital stump]

Well I'm basically role-playing historical so I don't want to kill prc before 1945

[snow rain]

in this case you're boned

[dusky burrow]

well

if you're Erich Raeder where's your navy

[vital stump]

Also that doesn't make sense? They wouldn't have joined them after a year if they don't exist lmao

[snow rain]

almost certain of that. Late game hoi starts in 43, after that it's wacky as hell

[dusky burrow]

also wow your army is so small

[snow rain]

as soon as ww2 ends it gets really messy
even before if you do your own part of wack

[dusky burrow]

Like what do you do after ww2 ends? You're the most powerful country in the world by then

[snow rain]

they want to kill prc after 1945 but don't want them getting into comintern, except, imo, it's impossible to prevent prc from joining comintern if ww2 has ended

because sov focuses and lack of diplomatic reticencies to intake new members

[dusky burrow]

Yeah

But you should be able to deal with the Soviets

Are you China btw

[snow rain]

yes, they're the nationalists
(original message #hoi4-general message)

[vague abyss]

mmm yes 1% construction speed

[snow rain]

man this is so ass

[vague abyss]

real

[dusky burrow]

no army strength gaming

[vague abyss]

50-75pp

[tribal cargo]

anyone up for mp?

were 3 and need some more

[tame granite]

If I reach 100% consumer as Germany and I have no more decisions to reduce it

Am I just screwed

[vague abyss]

you gotta do ur gold reserves

[tame granite]

I did

I killed the allies and took all their gold

But ran out sadly

[vague abyss]

Im doing democratic china and took 4 warlords just in time

[copper sluice]

I am hopelesws

[ripe slate]

It does if you want to override the vanilla file

[ripe slate]

GG

[vague abyss]

frr

been on number 1 for 24 hours

[oak mantle]

Logi or engineer company for soviet inf?

[versed rapids]

both

[vague abyss]

both

[oak mantle]

What iff you cant

[versed rapids]

remove whatever prevents you from doing it

[oak mantle]

What should i remove

For MP btw

[versed rapids]

signal

[oak mantle]

U kinda need signal now

[versed rapids]

not really

[oak mantle]

I was thinking the best thing to remove is field hospital

But im not sure

[versed rapids]

not as much as engineer and logistics

field hospital might be good since you're in multi and soviet union

[lilac glen]

Is there any reason to use paratroopers over any other special forces?

[oak mantle]

Yh

Engineer company is pretty viatle along with logi

[spiral sphinx]

Paras can be op when used right

[oak mantle]

I could just take the HP hit and go engi instead of field hospital with logi

[lilac glen]

I mean, when you paradrop divisions

Nvm

I am blind as frick

[spiral sphinx]

lol

[versed rapids]

sure

[lilac glen]

This is not the parachuted symbol lol

What is a good paratrooper division btw?

[oak mantle]

Yeah i think logi is kind of mandatory MAYBE even more important than engineer but i think engineer is more important than field hospitals

For soviets

Itll just amount to some extra combat losses but ill take the hit

[versed rapids]

logistics +

the logistic bonus you get from battle plan doctrine

in shift + e

is liteally op

• 25% supply bonuses if you play as japan

and you're literally op

[spiral sphinx]

i like to make them very very very cheap so I can snipe a vp or a good coast tile so I can invade with my whole army

[oak mantle]

Which one

[versed rapids]

it's the last slot

[oak mantle]

Operations?

[versed rapids]

no

shift e

in army section, in the last slot

get the supply bonus

[oak mantle]

This?

[versed rapids]

yep

but you don't have battle plan

[oak mantle]

Yh

Theres also one for +10% hp which could just even out the losses from losing field hospital

[last cave]

No no, its an other front, i split them so that it's easier for me to orientate.

[last cave]

Didn't have time to make, i was in war with whole whole europe(like really whole europe) and at war with USA in 1937-1938

[last cave]

I have like 400 divs

I had 500

But i desperately needed manpower

So thats why i deleted 100

[crisp wyvern]

not accurate, you didn't conquer the coastline of each and every country

[lilac glen]

What do ya think?

[spiral sphinx]

really depends on what you want them to do

[lilac glen]

Force a quick capitulation

[dusky burrow]

try something like this if you really need to fight

[spiral sphinx]

if they need to fight you need bigger

[dusky burrow]

I don't find that easier at all tbh

also how's your air situation because the situation seems tenuous

[lilac glen]

I don't have most of these companies cuz I forgor to research

[dusky burrow]

If you don't have armored car recon just use cavalry recon or ranger recon

if you don't have pioneers just use normal engineers

[lilac glen]

I have armored car

[lilac glen]

Yeah

Sad ;-;

ehhhh

[royal marten]

combat insertion

[dusky burrow]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[royal marten]

Im right here, ready for combat

[dusky burrow]

i mean there's a reason why the divisions are 36 width

You can only send so many divisions, thus you want them to be as strong as possible

[lilac glen]

Dumb nonsensical question

[fallen vigil]

who do you guys think will win

[lilac glen]

Forget it lol

[royal marten]

nah

its genuinely valid

if you plan on using them as 'elite frontline infantry'

then you're correct

no reason to use them over other units

But with combat insertion they are really good

[dusky burrow]

Half of enemy org gome

I haven't really relied on them ever but it is probably useful

[dusky burrow]

Poland

[royal marten]

it is

[dusky burrow]

Nazis never win in the end

[royal marten]

wrong

[dusky burrow]

Then it's not a world worth living in

[royal marten]

Why

You get to kill Nazis

https://tenor.com/view/wolfenstein-gif-19401903

[lilac glen]

I got confused

I thought you could paradrop special forces

That's what I meant

[royal marten]

lmao fair

[quiet drum]

Why are my keybinds gone with map modes in Hoi4

[slim nexus]

i want a mod

with calvinc oolidge

[sterile nacelle]

If poland really locked in it could win

[woven sparrow]

i turned off historical accuracy for one game

and we have commie poland

[fallen vigil]

finally finished every ethiopia achievement now my life is complete

i almost killed myself 30 times doing these

[finite plume]

I'm not overriding, I'm replacing

Also is there any news on the next major update? This one already crippled my modding

[earnest latch]

why african colonies is released

[fallen vigil]

uk went communist
uk decolonized
uk demanded for france to decolonize
they accepted

i got pretty lucky this run but im at war with half the world rn

[earnest latch]

historical?

[finite plume]

https://tenor.com/view/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-paul-bäumer-ww1-wwi-gif-2348658253136802085

[fallen vigil]

nahh when i do achievement runs with minor nations i usually do ahistroical

[quasi viper]

I love playing as Austria and going with the Fatherland Front, just to tell Hitler to p!$$ off XD

[ripe slate]

Major DLC is every half year roughly, though nobody knows how much the already planned minor ones are gonna affect things

[fallen vigil]

oh for gods sake i forgot to do this achievement

so uhmmm

how do i change my capital to jeruslaem

[quasi viper]

This should be the flag of the Iranian socialist path, not the Gilan Soviet flag.

[heavy vigil]

why

theyre not that bad

[heavy vigil]

own it and empire of aksum iirc

[topaz valley]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-17729711691959966457

[versed rapids]

oh hell yeah

[elfin flume]

Lovely border gore

[kind vale]

How can you beat the Japanese civil war easily?

[versed rapids]

you don't

unless you cheese it

[elfin flume]

Turn all units to anti ai

Then switch em back

[versed rapids]

^^

that's cheesing imo

[elfin flume]

It is lol

[kind vale]

Kinda hard without being able to get 5xp

[versed rapids]

get an army advisor

[kind vale]

I will

[fallen vigil]

playing as ethiopia in general is annoying

quite literally a total of 1.5 college graduates in the country

-40% research speed

shit production efficiency

takes 20 trillion years to build a factory

quite literally our army is made up of spears and rocks

[barren coyote]

Somebody rate my first encirclement of the game:

[solar tundra]

The divisions have not yet arrived from overseas..

There are only 5 tank divisions in mexico

Croatia will soon be as large as the british

Stalin came back and created 155 soviet divisions out of thin air and is now in a faction with mexico and canada

[crude bronze]

how do i quickly raise compliance as a non aligned state while also making sure resistance isnt too high?

[crude bronze]

how can u become croatia? pretty sure u can only become countries that existed in 1936 or 1939

croatia becomes independant around 1940 or 1941

[copper sluice]

idk if I will ever make liechtenstein

[solar tundra]

you have to manually exit it from Yugoslavia using console

by setting the owner of the core states of croatia

[solar tundra]

I usually give them local autonomy

[crude bronze]

local autonomy is for democracy only isnt it?

i never play democracy

too restrictive

i wish it was available for non aligned states too

[solar tundra]

or civilian oversight

[crude bronze]

that works too

not as good as local autonomy but it gets the job done

[sudden thistle]

excuse me

@vague abyss does ur mod change cost for theses

i have ONLY noticed this when i got ur mod

[dusky burrow]

What's this mod rip

artillery only costing 0.19 ic wtf

[sudden thistle]

his infantry/arty designer

[dusky burrow]

Ah I see

Right

Does your artillery have stats though

[sudden thistle]

its gives 0 stats

and idk why

[autumn plover]

Which of the new doctrines are the defense meta?

[sudden thistle]

ok his mod broke my whole game

[autumn plover]

I wanna kill 10 million Germans as Belgium again

[sudden thistle]

it somehow deleted every mil i had

[meager valley]

No one was gonna say that Primo De Rivera of Spain got a new pic? 😂

Wonder why

[polar path]

Wrong map guys

[wide badger]

can someone explain why this happened? i've played many games with usa, but this is the first time i'ts happend to me. i haven't played hoi4 in at least six months, and some things have changed

i don't understand why they became independent whithout having had a civil war

[solar tundra]

Stalin is still around but he only has this tiny bit

[split bane]

If you go for the Democratic side and do the civil war they'll spawn and you should get an event for you to either declare war on them or leave them alone
If you leave them alone they'll peacefully rejoin after you kill the CSA

[viscid stirrup]

wheres the revolutionary commune of orenburg?

[dusky burrow]

Chicago, Croatia must be a great place to visit

[solar tundra]

this is the countries view

[solar tundra]

Leningrad, mandatory palestine is great too

[solar tundra]

united states is a independent country they're just in the croatian union

[dusky burrow]

booooooooo

[opal nymph]

You didn't do work with the bund I believe

[crisp wyvern]

what would you guys do if the austro-Hungarian Empire were to be restored in this year

[opal nymph]

Go to work probably and do my job

Maybe play a game after work

[crisp wyvern]

I would fall onto my knees and cry because I dropped my favorite coffee cup that I use almost every morning

https://tenor.com/view/ww1-fiat-tank-renault-ft17-i-drive-ryan-gosling-gif-9120924170441533043

Then clean the spot and go on with my day

[dusky burrow]

ouch that is rough

[nimble notch]

What are some good panzer division designs

[silk gust]

I did a strat where you put your navy on no repairs and high risk and it worked

[novel otter]

So for this supply issue, I have a bunch of troops station here. how do I improve it even more, increasing it from 20 to 40 or smth

[dusky burrow]

do you have supply companies

[pale flare]

somehow joined a faction as lone wolf finland

[dusky burrow]

huh

[pale flare]

got the event where peru invited me to support the making of some faction, agreed for shits and giggles and now we are here

[clear dagger]

i would join a group called the Black Hand and train for months to take out their leader

[signal hemlock]

uh what’s the hoi4 latest version? if anyone knows

[crisp wyvern]

Just get a Bosnian henchmen and tell him to shoot the archduke or sum

[crisp wyvern]

1.17.3 I suppose

[signal hemlock]

I need like the whole thing

[clear dagger]

i try to throw a bomb at his car but i miss because i suck

[crisp wyvern]

Bomberman would be disappointed of you

[forest bough]

I just joined to complain about how bs it is that minor countries cant declare war anymore

like wth

[tulip thorn]

What

[forest bough]

who decided that that was a good idea

[leaden mulch]

Its part of faction initiatives

You can change that

[forest bough]

literally makes so many countries impossible to play

atp just get rid of the generic focus tree too

[forest bough]

oh

wait I'm an idiot]

I am so dumb

[pale flare]

i always hear about a request garisson thing, is it gone now?

[tulip thorn]

Its in the new faction system

Its in that part

[pale flare]

ah, thanks

[twin flint]

how do i put planes on aircraft carriers that aren't in reserve?

[tulip thorn]

What?

[twin flint]

i can only seem to put planes on my aircraft careers if they are in my reserves

if they are out and about on and airfield, i can't put them on the aircraft carriers

[tulip thorn]

Yeah...

Because you need to have the plane to put it on the carrier

[twin flint]

no

so i'll have carrier naval bombers right

on an airfield trained up to regulars

how do i put them on an aircraft carrier?

[tulip thorn]

The same way you move planes between airfields

You click on the air icon that follows the carrier

[raw shale]

is there any game tommorow if so when and how long will it last?

[tulip thorn]

If you are looking for mp, check any of the 3 mp channels

Spanish ai cooked on historical 🔥

[toxic cypress]

20 gyat

[vital cove]

doesn't the ai not use it ever

[tulip thorn]

They use it

Not very well

But they do

[vital cove]

most of my games i don't see them use it

[dusky burrow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/1pjz3gr/combat_width_diagram/#lightbox btw guys

[inner iron]

The nerdogram

[glad sun]

what?

[viscid stirrup]

every broken clock is right twice a day...

[half trellis]

hi

[novel otter]

Fort spamming = ez win

[tulip thorn]

You dont even need forts to hold that easy tbh

[novel otter]

Throughout multiple runs, its necessary especially if you want to get the "not one step back" achievement it makes my life easier

[tulip thorn]

Its not necessary, but I guess makes it easier

You could just use the ic from building forts to build more mills for a giant meat wall of infantry

And lots of tanks

But forts are nice I suppose

[toxic lotus]

U just need green air

[hoary mortar]

now multiple wolves

[rain loom]

how fun is civ greeding on a scale of 1 - 10

[warped flint]

Romanias stupid

joined the war then moved all their divisions from the frontline

Man this was much harder last time I played

[final moon]

Hi guys new player here , Is there an up to date step by step guide for Germany anywhere ?

[warped flint]

Germany has been stopped

[lethal ether]

up to date with all the new features? no i dont think so. but you can still learn alot from the bittersteel guides

[final moon]

ty

[lethal ether]

you can watch that and if you have any questions about something you can ask here and people will reply and help you

[tulip thorn]

I always love it when italy owns all of yugoslavia, but never dalmatia

[merry sluice]

is this real guys? In my austria run I had managed to essentially handicap the german reich and in result they were defeated by the combined forces of poland and the soviet union, Does this mean that if poland somehow survives the german reich they will join the soviets in an alliance?

[tulip thorn]

Unless the polish joined the soviet alliance, the soviets will invade almost every time

[merry sluice]

so I had gotten that rare poland outcome in my run?

[dusky burrow]

Try this

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zRj6Hen1N9mBG54NY6regkK890M3QdSKDAfi-d3y5zw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.wr3gj1iwnoqf

(although this is made for a mod so you may have to change some things)

Sorry meant to ping @final moon

[stone mango]

is this smart

or just 36 width

[merry sluice]

should the organization be atleast 40?

holy god the breaktrough is insane

nice hard and soft attack

[stone mango]

so it good?

[merry sluice]

in my eyes yes

[stone mango]

ok

[void bramble]

Whats normal China like in HOI4 now, any fun with Historical or the Alt Paths?

[spare sun]

What does it mean to be PC of something

I always wondered what PC focuses in ussr tech tree means but no matter how hard i tried to find an answer, google doesnt give me anything

So as a last ditch effore ill ask here

[toxic lotus]

alr devs

[tame bone]

maybe it's 'political commisar' or something? just a guess tho

[vague abyss]

was testing the showa path, its a big ouch against china, late war too

[full jewel]

OMG I JUST SET OF A FACIST REVOLT IN ENGLAND AND IT MAY END THE WAR YAY!

NVM FUDGING MIND RUSSIA DECLAIRED WAR ON LITHUANIA AND ENGLAND INVITED THEM TO THE WAR

[fierce mist]

Bad or good designP?

[vague abyss]

use mech

winter companies? hmmm mkkk

although ur speeds limited to 4km,

[near rampart]

Dang have reached india

[pearl raptor]

do they have mech or cas

or ships lol

[crude bronze]

how do u get zombies? is it a specific mod

[earnest bay]

Uhhh how the hell do the nukes work

[vague abyss]

youtube.com

[earnest bay]

I've did everything YouTube tutorials tell me 🥲

[vague abyss]

yes youtube tutorials will tell you correct!

[crude bronze]

why are all my puppets/collabaration governments named something such as "french italy" what a lack of creativity

[real heath]

how do i cope to the fact i ragequitted playing the soviets with a buffed germany and expert ai on impossible

5 hours down the drain as you do

[vital cove]

you try it again but this time use commands to add 100 mills to Germany at the start of the game before going to yhe soviets

[real heath]

reasoneable

i mean idk what i was thinking using light tanks but

300 cas damage is so stupid i just had to quit

[strong umbra]

trapped the entire Swiss army

hehe

[real heath]

i wanna say I had about 90 divisions in the outskirts of moscow before i ragequit just as the last of them popped

and the allies hadnt even kicked italy out of libya

late 43 btw

[strong umbra]

italy out of lybia?

italy is africa

[sour nymph]

Anyone wanna play

[summer vortex]

Greetings, I have the following problem. For context: I have all DLCs, play without mods in Ironman mode, and have very good and completely adequate hardware in my PC. Since the latest update (and thus also the new DLC), my game always crashes in the late game (1944-1946). I get the following error message: AI tried to post an invalid command: order_set_invasion_source_command. This floods the error log shortly before my game crashes. Does anyone else have the same problem, as I haven't found anything about it online, or does anyone have a suggested solution?

[rocky stump]

try to delete and install again

[strong umbra]

have you trued turning it on and off again?

-Benjamin

[summer vortex]

I already did. It didn't help

[meager widget]

this is funny https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/s/5iUS4y67OU

[pale flare]

how do i wipe these guys out

nuking them does nothing

[junior imp]

you don't

[pale flare]

alright ill just get the nuke mod thing

[winged field]

How it feels doing this casualty ratio without air or tanks or encirclements

[junior imp]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-flashbang-gif-16362445421478761717

I did

5 Million

with only 3 Infantry armies shitty puppet divs and 1 tank div

[winged field]

Hell yeah

[junior imp]

thank god the Soviets had barely equipment at the start

1945 btw

But then the evil allies

touched me just as I finished the war

[winged field]

Allies are so meany

Smh

[junior imp]

mhm

[opaque mulch]

thats why i play hist switzerland

[spring relic]

is there a mod that makes it easier to see railways and rivers

[untold sphinx]

why the hell is the sea blocked

even tho i got a naval headquarter

[teal mortar]

@silk furnace #historical-multiplayer message whats the join code?

[limber jackal]

why doesnt it let me play multiplayer? I have the game legitimately from steam, didnt get it from a shady key (if all that matters), I have a wifi connection if that matters and it's been like this since yesterday for no apparent reason.

(the connect id isnt showing and i cant copy it either)
(and this is a friends only lobby)

[umbral grove]

How to do decisions with no check?

[lethal ether]

what

[untold sphinx]

does anyone even know what that works

[umbral grove]

How to do a decsion without it being checked

Like focus no check

[lethal ether]

console cheat?

or wym

[umbral grove]

Ye

[lethal ether]

deicisons.nochecks or something like that

decision.nochecks

[woeful night]

Can I ask as for russia this is alt history on history focus trotsky history uhmm whats the is it worth it going down the 3 year plan focus tree??

[lethal ether]

its on google

[woeful night]

Like is it worth going down russia 3 year plan focus tree???

[balmy hull]

Hello! I'm trying to restore the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Hungary (without DLCs). I have already occupied the Romanian and Italian parts and I have Czechoslovakia as an integrated puppet (soon they will be annexed), so I only need the Yugoslavian parts to form the empire, but I can't get them because Croatia always appears. How do I prevent them from spawning?

[candid pecan]

yo can someone explain what graphic redux doesnt

does*

[candid pecan]

just let them die and then fight

thats what i do

[balmy hull]

but they join the axis and im also in the axis so when i will take their provinces they will be occupied by them in the end

[candid pecan]

wait does it become a puppet of u or germany

[balmy hull]

it becomes a puppet of noone

[candid pecan]

oh dang

i thought it becomes a puppet

[balmy hull]

same

[candid pecan]

idk whenever i invade yugoslavia they always spawn

but as hungary i usually dont join the axis

[balmy hull]

i had to for galicia

and to keep the sudeten land

[candid pecan]

true

[balmy hull]

maybe YT can help

[fallen vigil]

how do i beat italy as ethiopia quickly?

[umbral grove]

thanks

[regal river]

just did a multiplayer game for a brainrotting 16 hours.

[balmy hull]

it can't

[untold sphinx]

when do you invade yugoslavia

[little owl]

Anyone know any quick fixes for desyncs?

I'm playing with just 1 other person and it works fine until I save & rehost for whatever reason, then usually there's a bunch of desyncs

[meager valley]

What country was Candy Cane originally?

[opaque mulch]

candy cane empire was candy cane empire, it always existed bruh

[wide mantle]

any reason why this couldve happened?

[meager widget]

as germany should I keep building mils (right from the start) and focuses along with anchluss and fate of czechoslovakia will give me a good amount of civs? or should I start building civs then convert to mils later?

[fallen vigil]

haha

six seven

[meager widget]

🔥

[strong umbra]

hehe

soviets are so cooked

attacking from east and west

[sudden thistle]

The first one

Mil spam

[meager widget]

I see

why?

[sudden thistle]

If ur doing mefo,

U get great mil buffs

And the inner circle gives great mil buffs too

The civs from ur enemies are enough for everything anyways

I don’t remember the exact math for it

[meager widget]

I see also is it good doing the 4yp and doing mefo cancellation and using price controls to lower consumer goods factor

or peg is the way to go

[wicked haven]

build civs in the rhineland area until it's full then only mils from then on

[copper sluice]

how do I get switzerland to accept annexation when I am austria

[sudden thistle]

Improve relations/opinion

[junior imp]

Austria has a path for that?

[sudden thistle]

Don’t do mefo cancellation

Exploits like that are not fun

[meager widget]

ah alr

but it works well?

[wicked haven]

it does work

but you can still do MEFO and not lose

just steal everyones gold and turn them into puppets so they don't cause the mefo bills to increase faster

[meager widget]

alright

thanks

[copper sluice]

I've tried that

many times

[sour nymph]

guys is art really needed in hoi4

[quaint kettle]

Is the dlc subscription gone?

[candid pecan]

yo how do u remove economy of conquest

cuz im not at war and i still have it

[winged field]

not really

but you could say that with most of stuff

[sour nymph]

oh ok

ima go only infantry

[echo basin]

PLSSSS PARADOX IM BEGGING YOU PLS I NEED THESE MY PS5 NEEDS HOI4

[wicked haven]

get autarky achieved

[strong umbra]

encircled the entire soviet union

hehe

other people say attack from the east

I saw attack from west east and south

north

[meager valley]

Why would you attack from the east if 90% of their important stuff is west of the urals

[strong umbra]

Mongolia only country successful

attacked from east

[strong umbra]

im attacking from all sides broski

I have triple their mills

SEE

[wide mantle]

fix ur ui paradox

[strong umbra]

what

whats wrong

I dont see anything wrong

[wide mantle]

the big blue bubbles?

[strong umbra]

ignorant fool

thats a speed bonus

from your faction

research bonus broski

[safe wing]

I'm gonna try out heavy torpedo bombers

[strong umbra]

kinda lile research sharing broski

[safe wing]

as Imperial Germany no less

[strong umbra]

im making cas thats costs 62.57

[toxic sapphire]

rate the first medium tak template i ever nade solo

Ade

made

im bad at med temps

[sudden thistle]

U forgot to show us the stats

[toxic sapphire]

im germany and have the entire uk france poland benelux ect

[sudden thistle]

U don’t need battalion AA in ur ranks

[toxic sapphire]

god here comes the flaming

[sudden thistle]

Since ur Germany

[sudden thistle]

Bro

U said rate

I’m telling u how to make it better

But u do u ig

[toxic sapphire]

ik im just sayin

what batt for aa

[toxic sapphire]

what battalions do i switch for aa

this is for attacking russia btw

[winged field]

replace those 2 aa with tanks

and put aa in support

[toxic sapphire]

@sudden thistleshould i fill 3rd and fourth rows in with mobile then switch aa with tanks

[toxic sapphire]

oh mb i forgot bout that

[shrewd hill]

I love the x10 mod

isn't it beautiful

[pearl spoke]

Its incredible

So how much manpower do the soviets have

[pearl spoke]

😭

[ripe slate]

Thats the same in vanilla though

[shrewd hill]

hm they haven't adjusted this for 1.17

but

ah yes, self-sufficient soldiers

[pearl spoke]

Actually makes fighting in asia bearable

[shrewd hill]

gonna shoot the Sun down

[pale flare]

oh they losin

[pearl spoke]

Anti meteor defense system

[pearl spoke]

I got a better question

[pale flare]

canada is everywhere

[pearl spoke]

Actually a lot of questions

[pearl spoke]

😭

[pale flare]

told you canada is everywhere

[shrewd hill]

warp speed

[jagged totem]

Wait, not every tag can unlock militia battalions (so that they can add it in the template)?

[pearl spoke]

And latvia too

[jagged totem]

Paramilitarist Austria have a militia division template but can't add militias

Idk about NCNS!PRC

[untold sphinx]

does anyone know about navy

[pale flare]

do yall know of a mod that adds stellaris style peace deals? or atleast one that makes it so you dont need to kill all great nations to broker a peace deal

[untold sphinx]

why cant i patrol, sea is blocked even tho i have naval headquarters

[shrewd hill]

you need to click on the fleet

you'll see the fleet's home city

you need to set that port city to one in Northern France

[pale flare]

my subs are gonna have so much fun

[untold sphinx]

where tf

oh there

[shrewd hill]

click on the admiral

[untold sphinx]

tahnks

did it

[shrewd hill]

np

[pale flare]

do yall know of a mod, ironman compatible, that makes it easier to do peace deals

[shrewd hill]

now this guy might come in handy

[shrewd hill]

no

[pale flare]

forever war it is

[shrewd hill]

do you mean achievement compatible?

[pale flare]

yeah

[shrewd hill]

definitely not then

PDX don't like that

[pearl spoke]

I wish there was an achievment compatible mod that makes puppets the same colour as your nation

[shrewd hill]

without recon rangers in mountaineers (in 1936)

with

[pearl spoke]

Dayum

[inner iron]

1948 steel trade be like

[forest meadow]

wtf bro

[visual pasture]

nothing compared to africa

in the middle of the jungles

[forest meadow]

tallinin is german capital

[visual pasture]

or Libya

[copper cobalt]

Playing Cat and maus all over the map

[solar tundra]

war has broken out!

[wraith mauve]

Is good?

Nvm it’s blurry hold on

[drowsy ravine]

mods are weird

[wraith mauve]

Great War redux

[solar tundra]

incredible encirclement

[haughty bison]

the moment when you as america defeat the jap fleet but lost all of your marines due to forgetting the invasion was on and now your sitting wait for new one to train

[arctic lintel]

hey guys I have a question :

[proven quest]

happy hanukkah

[haughty bison]

shoot

[arctic lintel]

sometimes i play with Italy but every time i try to declare war on another country the UK just keeps guaranteeing thier independce what do i do ? , do i need to fight them ?

[haughty bison]

the world tension is high enough they can garuantte countries

so yh your forced to fight them
unless you disable guarante in the custom setting

[arctic lintel]

ok thank you

[craggy trail]

25% world tension or higher is enough for UK to guarantee countries

[haughty bison]

if you end up fighting uk and there democratic try and cap them before usa join

[arctic lintel]

ok thank you. I am new to the game by the way so these brits is just a nightmare

[haughty bison]

just concentrait your entire flee bar the subs into 1 stack and patrol 1 area with the new navy changes the AI is splitting the fleet into smaller one so you can snipe them but you should ask other players who are better at navy than me

[lilac glen]

Chat, why is Italy losing to Switzerland while I just capitulated Poland?

What's Mussolini doing?

[arctic lintel]

ok one more question about the UK , If i improved my relations with them would they stop guaranteeing countrie's independce ?

[haughty bison]

nope

yh welcome to the pain that is know as the UK

[alpine kindle]

Has anyone ever had success with Portugal using it's national focus "Iberian Summit" to convince Spain to join the Axis? It's supposed to overrule the recovering from civil war like other focus do correct? I can't seem to get it to work

Would using an agent to exert diplomatic pressure work?

[junior imp]

Boys puppeting poland or annexing it (I'm gonna be attacking Germany 1937 as USSR)

[safe wing]

Puppet

[quaint kettle]

shit

[junior imp]

how did you even

manage this

[quaint kettle]

i forgot to make a front line before declaring

[junior imp]

you better be quick with the frontline gng

[quaint kettle]

ive made it

im regaining land

lithu is dead

[junior imp]

good

if you couldn't kill them as USSR

and know about

frontlines and etc

just quit at that point bro 🙏🙏

generational embarassment

[quaint kettle]

bang

latvia gone

[quaint kettle]

so was finalnd

[frosty solstice]

hello guys i have a question

i have a nice navy of around 50 capital ships 350 screens and a lot more subs, but i dont know how to separate them since if i place them all in the same task force they wont really do anything

[quaint kettle]

i dont speak navy im afraid

[heavy vigil]

split off subs

[frosty solstice]

yeah i got them split up in like 10 task forces of around 30 subs

im playing as german empire btw the second naval race path

[solar tundra]

Croatia W

World peace

[frosty solstice]

how can you even achieve this without console

[cyan temple]

Did the recent update affect how long it will take for ships to get repaired?

It's taking like eight months for one of my light cruisers to get repaired from 50% damaged

[thorn halo]

Red Dusk is so peak

[frosty solstice]

i dont think so

im not noticing any changes

[opal nymph]

Top tier mod

[fair herald]

Guys do you agree that the Greater German Proletarian State should be reworked?

[opal nymph]

Which one is that

[fair herald]

Because so far it makes no sense why a "Greater german" formable does not core Austria of Czechia

[fair herald]

Spartacist Germany formable

[opal nymph]

Ah

Isn't that the puppet everything path

[fair herald]

yes

you can core France Benelux and Britain

[opal nymph]

Interesting

[fair herald]

but not Easyern Poland, Austria or Czechia

which is dumb

[opal nymph]

Eastern Poland?

[fair herald]

and why is a Communist formable called "greater german state"

[opal nymph]

That is called the rest of Poland

[fair herald]

i meant Western

[opal nymph]

Austria makes sense for getting cored, I can understand the Czechs not getting cored

[fair herald]

But the problem is is that it Incorporates france and Britain, which are not inherently "German"

at least paradox should rename it to "Western European Proletarian State"

makes more sense

[opal nymph]

I'd agree with this

[fair herald]

🙏

[solar tundra]

wtf

mexico just declared war on the uk

[cyan temple]

This is Kaiserreich but I don't recall it taking that long to repair my ships

[fallen vigil]

this is the easiest ethiopia achievement i got only one more left

[worn hollow]

um guys

why wont it let me influence czechoslovakia to partition under me

[faint folio]

Anyone got some tips?, i just got the game a few weeks ago, but ive tried the fallout mods and millenium dawn and vanilla of course, but this game is expansive so any advice would be nice!

[solar tundra]

The map of Europe now

[fringe shell]

bro

[frosty solstice]

the AI is coded to never give up danzig

i mean i think so im not sure

[fringe shell]

yeah but danzig for slovakia should work last time it worked

[frosty solstice]

huh it never worked for me

even on nonhistorical

[solar tundra]

Croatia has released all occupied land except for its rightful territory

[crude bronze]

how do i invade italy as france? these mountains are bugging me out

[solar tundra]

Mountaineers

[crude bronze]

these mountains are impassable

[frosty solstice]

yeah mountaineers with a ton of arty and air support

[cosmic jay]

the lion does not concern itself with the opinion of mice

[crude bronze]

talking about the swiss mountains

[cosmic jay]

put the squeeze on him

[crude bronze]

which are impassable

[frosty solstice]

oh

ticino dude

[solar tundra]

I sent 8 croatian mountain divisions into france over the italian mountains and then re routed the front line to south France and then attacked the belenux and maginot line from Paris.

America and china held the front line in the rhineland then we naval invaded the uk and our tanks won

And China and my tanks invaded india with 8 million casualties in total

Not much happened in africa there were some guys there but they didnt move anywhere

Canada got steamrolled by my infantry and the usa

[frosty solstice]

I NEED MORE STEELLL

[daring geyser]

bigger weapons

[frosty solstice]

wdym bigger weapons

this is caused by navy and mech

[daring geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/you-wouldnt-get-it-joker-smoking-gif-15952801

[fringe shell]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/941040071598043166/1119820239832621126/DBAF5277-4D29-488A-8396-E7267210A9CE.gif

[frosty solstice]

chat is my navy big enough?

[sudden thistle]

they may be cooked

[daring geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/saul-goodman-meme-better-call-saul-breaking-bad-brit-gif-25925990

[hard grove]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/513709294844117015/1442940903344967750/attachment_1.gif

[hard grove]

https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM28wd3F2eHJzdzRzaXFzN2xpYzRhZ2NpaGcxM2Vpbnc0bzI0M21xeiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/81dIUx8KL95bcwS14r/giphy.gif

[fallen vigil]

guys will there be another peace treaty when i fully kick them out?

[tropic lance]

probably not

[runic wraith]

i got 200hrs on this game but still cant defeat the allies as germany. is this normal?

[frosty solstice]

not really

its easy

you just have to knock england out before invading soviet

just spam bad destroyers and naval bombers and then naval invade them

uk AI usually doesnt station many troops on mainland

[runic wraith]

i hate navy

i ignore it

i try to create a new design but it updates existing one

stupid ui

[frosty solstice]

yeah

same thing happens with planes sometimes

its very annoying

i try to make an interceptor and a fighter and it just overwrites my other one

DAMN