hoi4-general

[wicked haven]

The navy and airforce were well organised though

The airforce especially

[quasi shoal]

The us was tryna be neutral

[calm delta]

That’s always been the uks strength

[wicked haven]

Actually the navy was a bit terrible tbf

[calm delta]

No I mean when they joined the war

[quasi shoal]

🤯

[calm delta]

100 destroyers hmm Yh ok

30 cruisers

[wicked haven]

Why didn’t France realise historical ai Germany was going around magnet through Ardennes

[calm delta]

Because they have no brain cells that’s why they always ask the Brits and Americans for help

[quasi shoal]

Why didn't germany flicker bomb the uk

[timber shadow]

how to larp

efficiently

[quasi shoal]

Just dont bro

[timber shadow]

cmon bro

its not fun otherwise

[wicked haven]

We lost Royal Oak when she was working up, we lost a carrier because we put it on escort patrols, we lost two capital ships because of poor air sea coordination and because they set out without carrier cover etc

[calm delta]

We decived them quite well actally

[quasi shoal]

Larp ingame or larp here

[quasi shoal]

Do yk what flicker bombing is

[timber shadow]

in game

[calm delta]

Still

We manged to win

And defend

Eventually

[quasi shoal]

If you wanna larp effectively then look up historical decisions and divisions

[wicked haven]

Put three big lines, one to Leningrad, one to stalingrad, one to Moscow and then go afk

[timber shadow]

ok

give me 30 mins

[wicked haven]

Ye we did avoid getting capitulated

[timber shadow]

do i put effort into defending when allies do d day?

or do i just let myself get defeated

[calm delta]

Flicker bombing" isn't a standard military or technical term, but it likely refers to using very quick, intense flashes of light (like photoflash bombs or modern strobe effects in games/media) for disorientation or tactical distraction, perhaps combined with actual explosive effects, similar to how flashbangs disorient but on a larger, explosive scale, especially in gaming contexts like Blox Fruits where "Bomb" abilities use rapid, bright attacks for crowd control

[calm delta]

We wasn’t weak tho we held our own

[indigo elk]

Should I be making a smaller garrison template?

[wicked haven]

Just fire your general staff on the east and put them in charge of reserves then kill Rommel

[quasi shoal]

No

[calm delta]

Anyways I’m going gym tomorrow and trying to get into a better routine have a good one everyone

[quasi shoal]

Flicker bombing is a hoj4 exploit where you quickly change where your strat bombing is so you avoid losing any bombers

[wicked haven]

We got folded on land by Germany and in the ocean by Japan but we did defeat Germany in the air, in Africa and Italy in pretty much every theatre

[timber shadow]

oh

guys my italy ai is succeeding on egpytian front how to stop it

[calm delta]

We defeated Rommel too

[quasi shoal]

Divisions

[wicked haven]

Ye

[calm delta]

It happens

[quasi shoal]

Prolly on that one funnel

[calm delta]

They play good then don’t

[wicked haven]

Invade Italy

[calm delta]

Naval invasion very simple

[calm delta]

You see Cyprus

Use that to naval invade

[timber shadow]

im germany

[quasi shoal]

Ok damn

[quasi shoal]

Then why are you complaining

[calm delta]

Ok then why aren’t you happy Italy is winning in Africa

[timber shadow]

historical larp

[calm delta]

It’s one less front you have to fight

Anyways

[timber shadow]

isnt that like what we aimed for bro

[calm delta]

Have a good one people

[wicked haven]

Italy the goat fr

[wicked haven]

U2

[quasi shoal]

If you want real historical larp then dont play with ai

[wicked haven]

Italy is actually so fun to play naval

[timber shadow]

nvm bro

[wicked haven]

I just really don’t like the USSR stuff

[timber shadow]

they have like 20 divs of their own encircled in ethiopia

[wicked haven]

By Britain?

[timber shadow]

yes

[wicked haven]

Historically accurate tbf

[timber shadow]

i was hopeful for a minute

that paradox made changes to ai

[quasi shoal]

They could still win

[wicked haven]

You know what would be cool, hoi4 mod that adds ai general offensives

[quasi shoal]

They got past the difficult parts of egypt

[wicked haven]

Where the ai attempts to actually make strategic plans

[quasi shoal]

I mean sheep ai js makes the ai better in every way

[timber shadow]

omfg all of their colonial divs are just in libya doing nothing

[quasi shoal]

I mean it sort of alr tries that

They js suck

[timber shadow]

when the road to the encirclements are empty

[wicked haven]

Ye

[wicked haven]

The strategy is launching infinite naval invasions against Rome no matter how much of the med and North Africa they control

[quasi shoal]

[mental mantle]

Can we get a fully fledged Liberian pan-African monarchic focus tree, up to 1950 at least?

[wicked haven]

Yes

[mental mantle]

Thank you dev

You made my month

[wicked haven]

No problem 🤠

[timber shadow]

why do i need to produce so much tanks for reinforcement when i clearly dont have any divs that use tanks

[wicked haven]

Are you training tank divisions?

[timber shadow]

yes

[wicked haven]

That’s why

It includes reinforcements

[timber shadow]

wtf kinda reinforcements require 4.5k tanks

i need 3k just to train

[quasi shoal]

Tanks that are half full

[dusky burrow]

most normal moment in the balkans

[dusky burrow]

You should probably increase your conscription law

[quasi shoal]

is this a good prewar tank destroyer design for MP?

[indigo elk]

Do I want my subs on patrol or convoy raiding? I'd have thought on patrol they'd find enemy capitals, but apparently not.

[dusky burrow]

Floatplane cruisers can probably help with that

Subs don't have particularly high surface detection

[indigo elk]

So subs won't really spot ships on their own

[dusky burrow]

Set the cruisers to do not engage and patrol

[indigo elk]

How many in task force?

[agile perch]

best country in hoi 4 is finland

!

[tulip thorn]

yeah finland is broken

[dusky burrow]

Just make sure the task force is all cruisers

doesn't matter how many since you're having them run away anyways

and the subs do the killing

[violet quartz]

yall think peru got this

[dusky burrow]

Peru got this

If no one's naval invading Peru won't fall

[indigo elk]

Will they kill convoys in patrol? They don't appear to be

[hallow cove]

How on earth did Peru got into that situation

[dusky burrow]

Yeah no

Depends on what you wnat your ships to do

[dusky burrow]

maybe ecuador joined allie

[violet quartz]

empire path, declared war on half of south america, then i did a focus to invite half of south america to my faction

[remote quarry]

no

use secondary turret

[quasi shoal]

why

that's either a ton of production cost or just soft attack

these tanks aren't meant to kill infantry, i'll have sp art for that

[remote quarry]

it give you hard attack soft attack and breakthrough

and using a medium turret on a heavy tank is completely pointless

either use heavy cannon 2, or switch to a medium tank

use heavy cannon 2 on your tank

[quasi shoal]

those ones are expensive

like an extra 3 production cost

[remote quarry]

yes but you need the stat

[quasi shoal]

asuming you use 4 small cannons

[remote quarry]

yes

[quasi shoal]

the tanks are over double the production cost

[remote quarry]

or 3 and a radio

[remote quarry]

and double the hard attack

[quasi shoal]

for less than double stats

[remote quarry]

use heavy cannon 2

[quasi shoal]

no lol

[quasi shoal]

I am

they're only double with the MIO

and production cost is still 28

my tanks are not even 14

and mine have better armor

[remote quarry]

and the thing is, a tank with double hard attack is not 100% better than your tank, it's infinitely better.

[quasi shoal]

and similar breakthrough

[remote quarry]

because you can't possibly attack into their tank

means yours is useless

while they can kill you

[quasi shoal]

isn't that not how that works

isn't whether you can attack their tank based on hard attack and breakthrough

of which this tank does not have much

[remote quarry]

yes

and they have double your hard attack

guess what happens

the standard design has more than double hard(before doctrine)

[dusky burrow]

that's 3 ic for 15 tanks

so it isn't much at all

[quasi shoal]

3 ic per gun per tank

[dusky burrow]

wait

why was i thinking you're talking about the flame tank

for the heavy td then yeah

that's 3 ic per 360 tanks, so 1080 ic per division

so yeah can be quite expensive but you really need it if you're in MP

[quasi shoal]

is sp art meta in MP too

or should I be using sumn else

[leaden mulch]

depends

TDs are usually better tho

[quasi shoal]

would both be useful against a uk as germany

[remote quarry]

technically, 3 ic is not good for 3 hard

but the correct way to think about it is to looka t the whole tank

then it's not terribly inefficient

[remote quarry]

you should build both

you need a medium line to grind daimler benz anyway

so you give it heavy gantry crane and use it as production mio for your heavy

[quasi shoal]

that's what I was planning to do

[dusky burrow]

Nope

Tanks fight tanks in MP so TDs are the meta for the hard attack and piercing
But yeah as said mediums have to be used somewhere

[viscid stirrup]

yo yo yo

[quasi shoal]

would a combo of both be good against a soviet

one who's not that good

[remote quarry]

you need 15 factory on medium tank regardless

because of the mio

so the question is what do you use those medium for

spg is a good chocie

but remember there's a lot more to tanks than the design or template

[quasi shoal]

good spg doctrines are good for tank destroyers too right

[remote quarry]

yeah

or no the other way around

for armor you still pick tank destroyer force

instead of mobile defense

[quasi shoal]

oh I forgot that one existed lol

[dusky burrow]

yes

[dusky burrow]

only 15?

wow

[glad sun]

is their a way to automate aces

[indigo elk]

I want my ships to actually participate in combat... What am I doing wrong its really frustrating!!!

[quasi shoal]

are they on never engage or what

[indigo elk]

No, you can even see the icon in the sidebar

[dusky burrow]

Yeah they are trying to detect enemy ships but it's going slowly

Did you get the floatplane cruisers I talked about

[full jewel]

any history buffs know why the netherlands have a claim in this game on south africa?

[indigo elk]

So here we have a fully stacked float plane cruiser monitoring the sea zone. I skip a bit and a battle starts... my task force is nowhere to be seen, but the subs have turned up. It goes on for a few days and they're still nowhere to be seen

[dusky burrow]

did you research radar

[indigo elk]

Yep.

[dusky burrow]

then why didn't you use it

[indigo elk]

Wait. No. I have sonar

[dusky burrow]

Your ship should probably look like this

[indigo elk]

How do I unlock radar?

[opal nymph]

I did this with a heavy cruiser and had one of the float planes a depth charge.

10/10, would use to screen for escort carriers again

[opal nymph]

Special project

Air research facility

[dusky burrow]

special project

[indigo elk]

Yeah I should have grabbed that!

[opal nymph]

What country are you playing as

[dusky burrow]

are you like researching jet engines

argentina

[opal nymph]

UK already has it unlocked

[dusky burrow]

Yeah if you don't have it yourself you can license the ship module from UK

But not like, say, ground radars you can build

[latent herald]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-meme-trying-not-to-laugh-laugh-homeless-gif-9458928528704746136

[warped flint]

hmmm

who should I play

[split bane]

TWR? Hmmm, China? Or maybe America? But like, turn off the German Civil War ig

[latent herald]

finland my absolute goat

[warped flint]

those look boring

when I play other countries they just sit there and do nothing for 10 years

[split bane]

They're the most up to date content wise
You could play a Russian country

[warped flint]

I played russia way to much

Yk I never realy played germany to much......

Like once a year ago

What path should I do

[split bane]

Oster?

[warped flint]

uh idk who dat is

[split bane]

Hans Oster, anti fascist guy

[warped flint]

Wait I know who your talking about now

I remember him being a political guy in germany alt hist

[glad sun]

bruh i wish you dodnt have to won states for a achievement because im slowly wining this cancer war

[split bane]

To get him you basically get the civil war, play as the military, wait for the Manstein Question to run out, do the decision to appeal to the hardliners, get the Moderate Clique to form, do some events until they take over, win the civil war, appoint Canaries as president, purge the military, do the focus to make an Independent Chamber and you should get him (but I am getting this off an old reddit post so take this with a grain of salt ig)

[warped flint]

hmmm I will do that tommorow, since its late I want something basic to do

That doues sound fun

purging

fun

killing

[split bane]

Alright, if you want something basic maybe Serbia? Or Croatia?

[warped flint]

Those look very weak, Yk I may play Hungary

not a major but still strong

wait what

I thought I started with horthy???

huh

zero tech?????

[split bane]

The "not being updated to the most recent patch" strikes again

[warped flint]

What version do I need to play on for this?

[split bane]

I think 1.16 should be fine, they will be updating to the most recent one with their next update "Rom und Jerusalem" which comes out checks notes before the end of this year

[warped flint]

Thats what im on

[split bane]

Huh

Then I got no clue

[warped flint]

says nothing here to

man that sucks

ima redownload this and hope it works

not fixed still\

bruh

[sand blade]

Hoi4 axis AI build a competent fighter challenge 2025
Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE

they have 50 fighters left

It’s 1940

They’re gonna do Barb in red air

[viscid stirrup]

ssblin

sablin

[warped flint]

no

i got 3 hours of sleep so I am going to bed early

1 am

[dusk nova]

When this will be updated?

[dusky burrow]

once sheep's mod comes back up you'll see the difference such air makes

which country are you

You might be able to just naval invade all your way to Berlin

[full jewel]

holy moly I think I may partially understand how to do navy

[tulip thorn]

Congrats

Navy my beloved

[weary whale]

Can I still get achievements if I use the fire rise style map mod ?

[tulip thorn]

98% of fancy looking map mods are iron man compatible

Check mod description

And test in game

[weary whale]

Okay

[broken pier]

What do you guys think of playing as Switzerland

[tulip thorn]

Love that el salvador still has the "Unknown"

[tulip thorn]

Boring and horrible focus tree

I would rather play the old italian tree

[broken pier]

lol

What about Netherlands

[tulip thorn]

I dont hate the dutch tree

Just really outdated

I've had fun with it

[quasi viper]

I hate the new naval update

[broken pier]

fr

[tulip thorn]

I love it

The new naval mechanics are fun

Makes it more interesting

[pale flare]

is there a way to see the total casualties i did in a war?

[tulip thorn]

This entire screen exists

You then just hover over the numbers

Gives you a break down

[pale flare]

yeah but i want an overall damage dealt

not manual hover the casualty of a nation then add em up

got 900k casualties rn but every nation i hover to i deal the most damage so i wanna find out how many ive killed precisely

[tulip thorn]

Yeah dont think that exists

yeah doesnt exist

[pale flare]

ah

[full jewel]

Haaaay why does it say the us is going to do a nuclear raid on me when Im not at war with them

[tulip thorn]

They are planning it for the future

[full jewel]

🙁

[tulip thorn]

You can plan raids without being at war

just cant launch them

[full jewel]

cool thats not great

ive almost finished one war and now

I will have to start another for no reason

[tulip thorn]

You could just ignore it

Unless you want to go to war with them

[full jewel]

yea but im allready in 1953

[tulip thorn]

Nuke them first

[full jewel]

fair ill have it ready

nvm not close enough yet have to make a long plane

[tulip thorn]

its 1953

why use plane

when you could just get an missle

or nuke submarine

[full jewel]

no dlc

[tulip thorn]

Sad

[full jewel]

very but I am so happy about getting the navy dlc thats pretty fun when you can actually build something and not verse the entire british navy

[regal heron]

is the best way to intercept their way is using intereception mission? or air sup

[dusky burrow]

air supremacy

interception only fights if there are bombers, scouts, or transports in the area

[regal heron]

ok thanks

[heavy vigil]

iirc it works the same

[calm delta]

Sup people just woke up

[warm valve]

Any good alternative for ios guys 🥲

[ripe slate]

Android

[iron helm]

macarthur type shit

[full jewel]

they got like 6 nukes ready to go on me with nowhere at all close to me and my allies are at war with them

[full jewel]

A bit more south west of there

[terse crater]

Anyone else get to a point where the war grinds to a general halt in the late 1940s. Playing as Italy and the Axis have taken out the Soviets and for the last 5 years, the Allies and Axis have been fighting in Africa with neither side gain any momentum

[inner iron]

The AI dunno how to supply

[grizzled yarrow]

Yo guys how can i defeat germany as austria

[pale flare]

holy death stack

cant wait to encircle them

[neat ether]

I'm confused how the minimum days for the event to fire is 75 days, but random days are set to 45...

[pale flare]

yeah ive done it way too many times on them

pretty sure if i sucessfully encirlce them, this is gonna be the 3rd or 4th lmao

[inner iron]

Burma is always that weird overcrowded front

And then at the raj itself, the frontline randomly becomes empty

It's like the AI is hardcoded to swarm certain minor countries

[pale flare]

yeah other fronts are pretty chill in comparison

ww1 ahh

[inner iron]

Another ridiculous swarm front is the Benelux if ignored for too long

[pale flare]

wheres that?

[inner iron]

Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

[pale flare]

ah

[inner iron]

And whenever I deal with axis fronts, German puppet borders always have a multinational force of every single axis country while Germany is half empty

I have to ignore them like land mines and just snake towards Germany itself

[sudden thistle]

I was playing Poland shading Germany and locked tf in

Slovakia to Romania had like 20 divs per tile

Then Germany had like 3

[solemn pond]

HELLO, how do you convert heavy tanks and why?

[sudden thistle]

Wdym

If u mean like medium to heavy?

That doesn’t exist

To convert tanks to another model, click the little green house button on the bottom left

And why

U can make a bunch of shitty heavy tanks and then make the design good

Press convert

And watch the magic

[south spear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eI4EHPkHU they should add this to ww2 vannila soundtrack ❤️

with epic hoi4 style improvisation in the background

like they do the other ones

[pale flare]

quick encirclement to prep for bri ish naval invasion

[south spear]

philipines in ireland with USA wow

I rarely come to this chat and when I come i see very cool things

[pale flare]

yeah philippines can be a very competitive nation after you core most of south east asia

i got enough manpower to go toe to toe with the US

[south spear]

ooh this is from the new DLC i suppose, still havent played philipines

will do soon

I have been playing alot of WW1 lately

[pale flare]

boom

[south spear]

I must say, I love the recent DLCs
the last 4 dlcs kinda made vannila hoi4 actually fun and have content, I rarely even play road to 56 nowadays

so its working!

[pale flare]

yeah this from NCNS

[south spear]

whatever paradox is doing, its working on my case, I love the vannila expirience more than before

My biggest critic is blue china....I miss the yellowish colour

it looks like im playing a mod now which is silly

[proud tapir]

Douglas MacChadthur
Democractic
No elections

[eternal palm]

Ever seen fascist with elections?

Iirc El Salvador has it

[ripe slate]

(Its so they dont ideology from drift)

Its also why Philippines for the most part has different generic political events

[proud tapir]

This and maybe an armed guard in the voting booth

[pale flare]

how do i see more beyond the fog of war besides intelligence agencies?

[eternal palm]

Radar

Decryption

[proud tapir]

radar is very underrated imo, i like using it when i can

Good boosts for navy and air

takes a bit of time to get the special project but very worth it

[eternal palm]

It's straight up op

[pale flare]

me when the island nation leaves his island (hopefully) unguarded

[eternal palm]

Like not using it is so bad

[eternal palm]

Not even, build facility day 1 and research air you can get it in 36

[proud tapir]

Like i can go without it if im playing like Germany or something because i can shred with OP plane designs

But that radar boost means so much especaly later in the game

[pale flare]

yep its unguarded lmao

[proud tapir]

My favorite special project

A must do

[proud tapir]

"Oi mate what if they just invade from the otha side?"

"Huh, like thats eva gunna happen"

[pale flare]

well i did come fro mthe other side of the world

[proud tapir]

got the hang of tanks, this is like crack

I love seeing infantry just

melt

[eternal palm]

Try rangers with spgs

Whoops

That's not allowed apparently

[pale flare]

try convoy raiding and suddenly having 50% of war participation

its kinda nuts

[proud tapir]

I was playing Hungary and wanted to do something funny by just building a tank industry

Axis got bogged down in Belarus for 2 years straight in 1942

Decided to absolutely not join and just send my tanks to China and absolutely demolished starved Japanese divisions and singlehandedly won China just to test drive my tank designs

im doing a Germany run with a tank focus

Hungary was just a test

[pale flare]

yipeee

[inner iron]

I once dropped everyone's war participation to 0 by dumping all my stockpile to them with lend lease

And then took all states in the peace deal for free

[proud tapir]

i remember Italy trying to take all of the British raj after they did absolutely nothing in North Africa (my army was the one that pushed Britain out completly) after i gave them most of Africa

Genuinely sometimes i just want to strangle that bald bastard

You are only useful as a distraction

[sour nymph]

SON this game is too hard

[proud tapir]

Once you learn and get more experience, its fine

its def not the hardest paradox game

[sour nymph]

wow that helps alot

[proud tapir]

maybe one of the simpler ones

im just saying

play

watch videos

Its complex at first sure

[sour nymph]

i got 81 hours and i cant do barbarossa

[proud tapir]

yeah man i did axis victory at like 300

[sour nymph]

ts is the farthest ive ever gotten

[sour nymph]

wow good for you 🙃

[proud tapir]

im just saying

Rome was not built in a day

[sour nymph]

oh

[proud tapir]

and for 80 hours

[sour nymph]

300 hours is not alot

[proud tapir]

this is okay

[sour nymph]

i guess

[proud tapir]

My first 100 hours

[sour nymph]

im still learnin

[proud tapir]

i could barely cap France

[sour nymph]

lol

[proud tapir]

Got stuck in Belgium

[sour nymph]

thanks for the motivation

[sour nymph]

sometimes it be like that for me too

[proud tapir]

Its because Belgium is small and if the army there is too big, supply is absolute hell

rookie mistake no1

[inner iron]

I think my 2nd game ever in hoi4 was as commie USA before mtg expansion so I never had a civil war

[sour nymph]

trueee

[inner iron]

Allied commie spain and solo killed the axis by holding the spanish border

[sour nymph]

also for barbarossa, do yall just use 1 field marshall for the whole front

[proud tapir]

and like Mr.Grandmaster of HOI4 Thomas Kay says

Supply is everything

And green air

[sour nymph]

i will not go to another country on hoi4 untill i win as germany

NEVER

[rapid pebble]

maginot line aint doing shit to me

[proud tapir]

Germany is good to get the hang of the game

Btw did you go MEFO or Economic growth?

as Germany

[sour nymph]

4 year plan

[proud tapir]

i recommend economic growth

[sour nymph]

sometimes economic growth

[proud tapir]

slower sure but

Mefo is really for when you really know what you are doing

[sour nymph]

defeating ussr is what i truly struggle with

[proud tapir]

supply

USSR is supply hell

Also what dlcs do you have?

[sour nymph]

poland, benelux, and france i just draw 1 offensive line and power through them

[sour nymph]

none

[proud tapir]

ah okay

so ofc its gonna be easier with dlcs later

[sour nymph]

i am forced to micro against the ussr

[proud tapir]

For the USSR and every other major, with spies

Make a collab goverment

so they cap quicker

[sour nymph]

ill watch a vid on that

[proud tapir]

without a collab, you have to push past the urals

[proud tapir]

with la resistance dlc

but

Christmas sales

you could maybe get some cheap dlcs

if you truly wish to invest in the game

[sour nymph]

why TF am i lagging so hard

im tryna get better at this game so ig ill get a dlc

[proud tapir]

must have:
No step back-tank designer
By blood alone-air designer

and

La resistance-spies

With the plane designer, you can make planes that will shred everything

Easy green air

never wanna fight under red air

[south spear]

great naval invasion

[sour nymph]

cheers mate

[south spear]

in SP i litteraly just do 4 guys on a port and it usually works

if it doesnt then i do paratroopers

[pale flare]

thanks

[south spear]

I love it when people do the effort to make beautiful looking naval invasions cuz i never bother

[proud tapir]

some hoi4 content creators to watch so you can learn and see some seasoned gameplay are
TommyKay and Bittersteel
@sour nymph

Bittersteel also has lots of guides

[south spear]

watching tommykay to get better?? xDDD

[proud tapir]

Supply is everything

[south spear]

tommykay cant play for shit, he only knows how to beat up noobs in MP

[proud tapir]

most people will play singleplayer

So its basicaly like fighting AI

[pale flare]

yeah, playing as an island nation so pretty much locked in on naval stuff

[south spear]

rarely he pulls up an amazing thing

[pale flare]

barely touched tank tech tree except for the amphibious light tanks

[sour nymph]

bro i hate tommykay he basically does not help at all

[proud tapir]

Its not even about him being extremly good
Its just that he has longer videos that show you the full gameplay

So you can see to an extent what is going on

Without skipping over some important details

and its funny trying to watch a video until he mentions supply

its like a game

[sour nymph]

thats not help at all

ill js stick with bittersteel\

[slim nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/no-you-cant-you-can-do-this-homeless-guy-you-can-do-this-homeless-guy-nah-id-win-gif-18423862390955985385

[proud tapir]

also bittersteel guides @sour nymph

[south spear]

to get better at hoi4 I suggest ISP, bittersteel, feed back gaming, Aldrahill

they actually give tips from time to time

and its very good tips

[rapid pebble]

same

[sour nymph]

is ESG good

[proud tapir]

Vijoplays

Goated

[rapid pebble]

I also like teefeeraw

[south spear]

sure yea

[proud tapir]

dude made entire spreadsheets

[rapid pebble]

what about teefee?

[proud tapir]

also fellow Aldrahill enjoyer

[south spear]

I personally learned how to play watching feedbackgaming and ISP

[proud tapir]

peak youtuber

[south spear]

aldrahill is newe

newer

yea

I like the guy

[proud tapir]

love him

[south spear]

he is making peak content rn

[pale flare]

how do i flush these guys out

[south spear]

bittersteel complains so much but he actually plays the game, unlike tommykay

tommykay complains so much and does jack shit

[proud tapir]

very good flow in his videos

Theres a lot i dont like about hoi4 content creation, and its mostly because its repetitive

[queen bronze]

to decrease resistance do i need to have troops in that area? have a set of SS division in poland even tho im on french line?

[proud tapir]

Aldrahill just feels diffirent

fun to watch

[rapid pebble]

garrisons

[proud tapir]

SS divisions

[rapid pebble]

not actual divisions

🙏

[polar beacon]

Havent played for almost 2-3 years, first thing to do is to play as Soviets and become friends with benefits with Japan

time to Man in High Castle Allies, tho its 1946

[south spear]

I have been watching ISP since a long long time

xD

[proud tapir]

You would love darkest hour or blackice

[queen bronze]

ok. so should i just scrap the SS divisions i got for the materials?

[south spear]

im in the ISP server

[proud tapir]

So

the way garrisons work

[rapid pebble]

first time trying sheeps mod, clicked super france

[south spear]

anyway see you guys

[rapid pebble]

and nothing was super

[south spear]

dude destroying france through the maginot should be ilegal

its so dirty

[rapid pebble]

I pummeled the french at the maginot

[pale flare]

WHY IS HIS WHOLE NAVY HIDING THERE

[rapid pebble]

but its so FUNNY

I lit jst maxed out all my tds

[south spear]

I agree xD

[rapid pebble]

and rushed down the maginot

[proud tapir]

You have garrison templates
They represent divisions that dont exist on the map but consume manpower and equipment

You select a cheap garrison template

Usualy is like cheap horse divisions

And thats it

they consume equipment and manpower in the background

[rapid pebble]

dont ask

[south spear]

horses with one armoured car

and military police

[tranquil spindle]

Why's the British Raj sending me demons 💀

[queen bronze]

ok thx. ill do that.
do i scrap the free SS ones that i got from the national thign

[proud tapir]

either convert to a better division or use them

its just extra divs

[rapid pebble]

is THIS enough mediums for the soviets

or do I need more

[south spear]

i thinks its de-mon which is Hawker Demon plane

its pronounced differently

or im stupid idk

[proud tapir]

so in short
Garrisons are imaginary divisions that require equipment and manpower but you dont train anything

you want a template thats cheap

[rapid pebble]

so france deleted his divisions

they gave up

average france

[proud tapir]

and just set it as the deafult garrison template

thats it

[south spear]

TF you mean ''currently sold'' someone is buying ww2 equipment irl??

[rapid pebble]

i dont even need my tanks anymore to push

I just need to get my 400+ infantry divisions to push

[proud tapir]

If i become rich

[rapid pebble]

wait

[proud tapir]

i wont say anything

but

[rapid pebble]

should I vichy

or not

[proud tapir]

there will be signs

[rapid pebble]

hmmm

should I do the funny thing

fire vichy

then get the collab government

for all those factories

[south spear]

i usually do vichy anyway for the rp

[proud tapir]

Vichy so less strain on garrisons

[south spear]

i always play eu4 or hoi4 with RP in mind

[rapid pebble]

i got max colab gov 😔

wait nvm

just 2 collabs

ill just fire vichy

[proud tapir]

"Nooooo, what are you doing??? Thats not meta!! You are not playing optimal! X thing sucks!"

"Hmmm yes, this is perfect for my rp"

[south spear]

hehehe I want Potez 631

[south spear]

this is so me

i never cared about meta

[proud tapir]

Im investing all my money into finding the only existing Tiger 1P

[south spear]

except divisions sometimes

[sour nymph]

guys, for barbarossa, is it better to not use offensive lines and just micro the whole front

[south spear]

im more interested in planes than tanks idk why

[proud tapir]

Probably in some swamp in Belarus

[proud tapir]

It was the only Tiger 1P not converted into a Ferdinand and was the only one used in combat

[inner iron]

I shut down my metabrain and play millennium dawn to make the most outrageously expensive tank division as volunteers

[proud tapir]

but according to reports

[inner iron]

And send them to iraq

[proud tapir]

it took out 12 tanks before the engine caught fire

and the Tiger was abandoned

[south spear]

I am gonna play hoi4 today

Canada into UK in Kaiserreich

[proud tapir]

I play hoi4 in school because i figured out the school Internet is just good enough to run hoi4 on geforce now

[south spear]

lol

[inner iron]

Yesterday I had a MD game as Sweden and clapped Iran with Swedish volunteers in Iraq

[south spear]

I have RTX ge force 5060 at home

[proud tapir]

Millennium dawn

i tried to play it

Ran like

not even trash

it barely ran

it walked

[south spear]

i dont like millenium dawn

I prefer novum vexillum

[proud tapir]

i like its older brother

Novum vexillum

[south spear]

I have it downloaded, i did a USSR game there, it was very fun

[proud tapir]

NVs only issue is a lack of content, but its sooo much better than MD

because

it actualy runs like a normal game

and it dosent have the economy mechanics

[queen bronze]

rome just fell. im pretty sure im screwed. i mean i knew i would be eventually but dang.

[south spear]

the generic tree itself aint bad if you have imagination and want to rp something

[proud tapir]

Its just hoi4 but modern

[proud tapir]

i played my country Croatia with the generic tree

had so much fun

[south spear]

the NV generic tree is nice

and red world generic tree is nice

[inner iron]

How to sink an economy

[proud tapir]

Generic tree is very strong

[south spear]

i wish it was like this in all mods

[queen bronze]

my german line is literally all along the french border. i dont have enough to protect south ermany.

[proud tapir]

Croatia funny enough had the strongest starting army in the Balkans

which makes sense

[south spear]

is it? I thought its france or ukaine

[proud tapir]

Oh no i meant in the Balkans

[south spear]

oh

[inner iron]

I would assume greece would be the balkan sleeper when it comes to military

They're armed to the teeth over Turkey

[proud tapir]

Every other country before me melted because i could just encricle their divisions and snake to VPs

[south spear]

greek farmers when it becomes winter: tractor blockage!

[proud tapir]

Yugoslavia/Serbia was suprisngly easy which is historicaly accurate too

they got bombed back to the 1400s by NATO

[south spear]

im living in bulgaria rn so im balkanoid now

[proud tapir]

Based

[south spear]

I love bulgaria

just dont like the goverment

nobody seems to like the goverment tho

[violet veldt]

Nv?

[inner iron]

I tried to plan a honeymoon trip to Varna in Bulgaria but holy crap the flights to Bulgaria suck

[proud tapir]

I also loved doing licence production in Novum Vexillum

It was fun rp getting exported Leopards from Germany

[proud tapir]

Novum vexillum

Its a mod that predates millennium dawn

its the OG millennium dawn

[south spear]

romanians when goverment bad: arrest the politicians
greeks when goverment bad: tracktors on the road blockage the entire country raaaa
bulgarians when goverment bad: talk about how bad it is and do nothing (sometimes protest in sofia)

[proud tapir]

its better because it runs like a normal game and has vanilla economy mechanic

[inner iron]

In MD, Belarus gets all Russian licenses with 0 penalties so almost the same I guess

[proud tapir]

I would love to rp in MD if it ran

Kaiserreich is still the most peak hoi4 mod imo

[queen bronze]

bruh i swear dude
these smaller ah countries are GETTING ME KILLED. even more than i would be
hungary decided itd be a great idea to make chzec join the allies. czech promptly invades germany cause i dont have any troops along the border cause i dont have enough.

[proud tapir]

Horthy can be funny like that

[slim nexus]

Yes

[proud tapir]

man i love playing Hungary in hoi4

with gotterdammerung

its so peak

[inner iron]

Run a navy, it'll be easy

[queen bronze]

i dont even wanna know wtf would happen if i didnt do everything i could to not make russia declare war.

[slim nexus]

Romanians in cold war the dictator romani soviet doctator : 🗿

[proud tapir]

Navy would also be my new crack if i took the time to build one

[queen bronze]

hungary might be ok if the italians can keep czech out of berlin

[south spear]

ok thats fking BASED

BASED UK

[proud tapir]

Italians doing stuff, LOL, LMAO even

They would get caped by the Czechs sooner than the Italians holding Berlin

[queen bronze]

they dont have their own country almost. but they have been helpful

theyre literally using camels.

[south spear]

Italy will just get invaded by the british and rome and napoli taken for the 80000000000 game in a row

and capitulate into a civil war

[proud tapir]

i will never forgive Italy when i was still playing hoi4 for the first time

Kaiser Germany
Fighting the allies
1939

ROME FALLS

ROME FALLS

[rapid pebble]

ic

[south spear]

i dont even rememebr what was my first game in hoi4

been a while

[proud tapir]

mine was Sweden lol

[queen bronze]

rip musolini.

[proud tapir]

My first sucsessful game tho was with communist China when it was still easy to cheese as them

i followed a guide

[south spear]

my first game on the current version is the netherlands

lol

[proud tapir]

up until i had to fight Japan which i wanted to do alone

under red air, infantry only
I heroicly pushed them out of the peninsula while getting the soviets killed

Because i called them in against Japan

Germany capped them

Japan got Siberia

i was fighting up until 1944

because i was fighting in the middle of nowhere Siberia

man that was a fun 2nd hoi4 game ever

[rapid pebble]

finally

I finally finished my sheeps campaign

capped the brits

took over the benelux

then turned east

didnt even bother with norway and denmark

capped the soviets

and got autarky

i must say

sheeps mod is a 10 OUT OF 10

[inner iron]

Since MD games last long, I always have time to build a proper fleet

I research late supercarriers for max capacity carriers

Which I did in that UK game

1 of my UK carriers is equal to 2 US carriers

But won't go through the overstacking penalties

[proud tapir]

UK reclaims the title of the ruler of the waves

[proud tapir]

Its time to show the 13 colonies what Britannia rules the waves means

[inner iron]

In that same game I went for local defense doctrine for my planes and had hilariously cheap light fighters parked all over Britain

They trashed all of NATO planes cause the doctrine and my spirits buffed the hell out of home defence

Pretty much the only way you can beat major powers in MD, you go hard on home defence buffs for your airforce and play the waiting game of AI losing all planes against you

[pale flare]

damn if this is all of him then i can capture him

[sour nymph]

guys, is it good to have max infantry deploying the whole game

[ripe slate]

Wdym

[sour nymph]

like infantry deploying

like max it out all the time

[ripe slate]

If you mean manpower, you want a decent reserve

[sour nymph]

alr, meaning unassigned divisons

[slim nexus]

Marjin my friend

You ready ?

İ will show you my map mod (i uptade 1/4 world map)

[grizzled yarrow]

Yall whats a fun minor nation to play

[wicked haven]

Austria

Finland

Ethiipoa to a degree

[grizzled yarrow]

I tried austria but idk how to beat the germans

[wicked haven]

Romania, Hungary or Yugoslavia

[grizzled yarrow]

Played all of those before

Im thinking greece cuz of the formable

[gusty tendon]

I love peace conferences

Poland bro

[grizzled yarrow]

Holy border gore

[gusty tendon]

Yeah it’s a lil crazy

[proud tapir]

oh man just looking at the soft attack and breaktrough of these tank divisions 🤤

first time doing tank focused Germany

[coarse hull]

"north atlantic"

[queen bronze]

so WW2 just ended in europe in nov 1941.
and germany just casually gets to have all its original territory back. wild
hitler 2.0 if i just make new divisions ig

whats even the downside to losing WW2?

[eternal palm]

Not winning

🤯

[queen bronze]

well sure. but it got all the research and time out of it. so now i could roll people again

[inner iron]

Sure if you can outproduce the allies already sitting at atleast 50k planes

[queen bronze]

lul i could at the very least make AA more than i could prior

[eternal palm]

If ger left side easy

Then it would be at least a fight

[queen bronze]

wdym

oh

the non mefo tree?

yea im not

[fallen vigil]

wtf?? how did this happen

[queen bronze]

idk what i can do better this time. but like. idk i didnt do great but i didnt do good either. i got 1 big mistake fixed
but otherwise i think decisions are the next big thing to fix.

[inner iron]

Both civil wars get an option to trade their territories for guns

Russia only gets 200 rifles tho lmao

Japan gets 5 fully equipped divisions I think

I had the same sakkalin swap on my Buddhist achievement run

Getting the extra divs to finish the civil war fast is worth tho

[timber shadow]

anyone wanna play multiplayer bro

[queen bronze]

so. can someone explain how tf i solve the consumer goods taking all my factories?
i know theres price controls and such. but otherwise, i think thats my main factor

i need to have as much as i can, so i can both build new factories but also keep military production.

i have 35 civs. 28 mils
14 of those are taken by consumer goods
so i cant really get anything done at the start.

[timber shadow]

germany?

[queen bronze]

Yea

[timber shadow]

invade people and steal their gold reserves

[grim plover]

Hello!

[timber shadow]

also try to get autarky achieved as soon as possible

[timber shadow]

hi wanna play multi

[queen bronze]

Yea. I did that last time. And WW2 was over by nov 1941

And I didn’t have enough production of materials for autarky achieved

[timber shadow]

there should be a guide for it

on reddit

[queen bronze]

Yea I’m sure. But I kinda don’t wanna do that because then it sorta defeats the purpose of playing

[timber shadow]

then suffer

[queen bronze]

But on the other hand there’s no way to actually learn the game thru playing. It’s ass

[timber shadow]

idk bro

[queen bronze]

Yea.

[crystal marsh]

wait what the heck

since when did they add czechoslovak voicelines

we are so back

[dark scaffold]

Guys up to how many hours is someone still considered a beginner?

[sudden thistle]

Just balance it

Don’t ask literally everything

But ask some

[bronze mango]

They've been there for ages

[crystal marsh]

wdym

literally a couple months ago there were none

[timber shadow]

i have decided to larp as estonia and defend against soviets

any tips?

[violet veldt]

What economy

[timber shadow]

hes talking bout economy of conquest

[violet veldt]

Total krieg?

No i meant civ to total mob

[sudden thistle]

Have fun

[arctic lintel]

hey guys i have joined a war aginst spain and i won but evrey time i try to pupet them they do white peace what is the proplem ?

[amber solstice]

when i play non his norway always goes facist revulution and fails every time nuking hteri focus tree

[little compass]

tannu tuva dlc when

holy shit i now got to own all the dlcs after nsb and i hsve no idea what im doing

[inner iron]

If u do the focus to make one of the islands a fat victory point, you can infinitely survive just holding those 2 islands with equipment capture and portrait of marx

That's if you do it just as Estonia and don't kill the Baltics

[azure palm]

We need Tannu Tuva and Mongolia DLC

along with Tibet or something

Were never gonna get it though

[frank parcel]

How on gods earth is the new dlc 33 dollars with 4 focus trees and coal? Like paradox releases 2 to 3 dlcs a year... Just 2 years ago they released like 1 a year for half the price

[craggy trail]

[sudden thistle]

Because it’s paradox

[frank parcel]

Worse than Nintendo

[violet veldt]

Chat are maintennance companies any good

[sudden thistle]

What do they do

[violet veldt]

Like i want equipment capture🙏

[sudden thistle]

I forgot they existed

Oh

[violet veldt]

Idgas about the extra reliability

[sudden thistle]

Hell nah

[frank parcel]

remember to get coal so you can feed them

[violet veldt]

?

Idkkkk is scavenger good compared to fort buster

[frank parcel]

If you run out of coal your f,ed

[heavy vigil]

no

[violet veldt]

Especially if you plan on running through maginot

[heavy vigil]

theres the armored version of it with MEVs

its like 10x better

approximately

[violet veldt]

?

What does that do

Is 10x better any good

[heavy vigil]

as in 10x more capture ratio?

like 1% > 10%

[violet veldt]

Niice

[arctic lintel]

what command i should give to my ships so they can control the area ?

[pale flare]

patrol, make sure their main base is nearby

[arctic lintel]

how can i know which one is the main one ?

[shell whale]

is this meant to happen? its only 1941

did I miss a focus or

[solemn bay]

Yep, Japan get's to take the land I died for, yep

[shell whale]

why did the soviets join

[sudden thistle]

This usually does happen

It’s not supposed to

But is common

[shell whale]

How do I solve this?

[sudden thistle]

Chinese Soviet republic

[sudden thistle]

U can’t

[shell whale]

💔

[sudden thistle]

Are u China ?

[shell whale]

I was doing really good in the sino japanese war too

[shell whale]

yeah

I held the line for 2 years

im starting to get really good at china

that was a really good run ruined

[wanton raven]

finally finished a world conquest campaign with my friend who was first timing the game 20+ hours of constant war since i didnt pay attention and declared war on the allies in early 37 (r56 mod)

[shell whale]

https://tenor.com/view/flight-flight-reacts-flight-orb-flight-meme-flight-sphere-gif-17842614454987387209

does anyone have any tips for china and how I can beat japan better? currently im relying on just making japan bleed to the point htey cant bleed + holding defensive postures

I usually block all naval landings

[crystal marsh]

is it just me or did they make tagswitching quicker

[sudden thistle]

Get a toolpack

[shell whale]

off topic, what is the flag in your pfp?

[sudden thistle]

“Toolpack without the errors”

[shell whale]

uhh I always play on ironman

[crystal marsh]

my userflag

it doesnt represent anything specific

[shell whale]

do toolpacks invalidate ironman playthroughs? im assuming they do

[sudden thistle]

Would u rather have the save ruined because of paradox coding or cheat to remove shitty coding

[viral elbow]

is there a mod that allows to sign a peace before you capture whole land?

[shell whale]

no I usually play for achievements lmfao funnily enough

I barely have any achievements

otherwise id play with toolpacks

[pearl raptor]

is there somth about buffed poltc power gain?

in last updates

[abstract ether]

hi

[vital cove]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3331870680

[civic elbow]

@vague tree

[vital cove]

just what i found on a quick google search

there's few more

[heavy vigil]

hearts of iron IV

[vital cove]

idk which works and which is updated

[daring geyser]

@heavy vigil hello

[shell whale]

can I get a few tips on how to play china (historical) ?

[little compass]

What are the meta ship designs for USA

[safe wing]

Carriers

Basically a fully stacked carrier for a capital ships

[finite plume]

Do HOI4 players tend to prefer the big, exaggerated cities or the more accurate ones like the red outline

This is Dhaka btw

[safe wing]

Japan should have battleships with carrier runaways as they experimented with that after midway

[safe wing]

Larger so I can see them better when zoomed out

[heavy vigil]

hi

[finite plume]

Hey Casey

Would you prefer the exaggerated city terrain that HOI4 vanilla has or more accurate, smaller cities

I'm kinda debating on the matter for my mod

[safe wing]

I would recommend you Do test runs with both and see what you like better

I made a mod for medival 2 once

[finite plume]

I mean this is what it would likely be like

Important cities like capitals being small and such

To their IRL sizes

[safe wing]

Small then

[finite plume]

Mmkay

[fallen vigil]

is prc fun now?

[finite plume]

Tannu Tuva gameplay's still superior imo

[shell whale]

id say so, yeah

[strong umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/mao-gif-25760638

I am spreading the revolutionary propaganda

[fallen vigil]

bro why are the china dlcs so long and confusing

[strong umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/social-credit-credit-social-уважение-плюс-уважение-gif-1626328442317885176

Im feeling my social credit going yp

[cobalt flame]

Hei guys, does anyone know any good YouTuber to invest a few viewing hours in to learn the game? There are so many I dont know who to be consistent with

[indigo elk]

Out of curiosity... is the first one worth it? 104 days for +3% research speed doesn't seem so bad compared to mechanical computings 255 days.

[knotty vortex]

how do i turn this into an absolute fortress

im allying with the british

i wanna lock my country down

make it impossible to invade

but what do i gotta do

[knotty vortex]

what

[split fulcrum]

something looks wrong...

[knotty vortex]

ah nothing to worry about#

just me not realising i started a civil war

[split fulcrum]

did dude turn communist on accident

[knotty vortex]

no

we are democratic

[split fulcrum]

peasant union is democratic?

[knotty vortex]

idk

[bronze mango]

Italy in Romania?

[knotty vortex]

first time playing poland

this happened

[bronze mango]

Yes that is one of their paths

[knotty vortex]

its my friend

we're playing together

idk what im doing

[bronze mango]

Ah ok

[knotty vortex]

i have like 25 hours

but im scared of the facists

gulp

so wanna protect myself

[split bane]

Peasant Union can go Democratic or Communist but I think they start Democratic, can't remember tho

[knotty vortex]

and become an absolute fortress

[desert echo]

Chicken

[bronze mango]

Yes