hoi4-general

[azure walrus]

actually how about this

[dusky burrow]

You can probably expand that tbh

[heavy vigil]

airforces are BAD...

looking at my 440 fighters which somehow consist of 11 different types of fighters

[azure walrus]

do i send kissler to the guianan front

[azure walrus]

this maybe?

[grizzled zenith]

Why did Nigeria just create the Asian Entente?...

[rain loom]

man

idk who to play as

[azure walrus]

I pushed in the guianas 🥹

kissler didnt fail me

danish diplomats brought chile and argentina to fight me

[frail kite]

Is it normal for supmarinss to lose to a normal battle ship fleet ?

[azure walrus]

and they fold like paper

[frail kite]

Should I have a navry fleet patrolling same area that I’m convoy raiding ?

[steel zephyr]

ok starting 6th latvia run today

maybe ostland this time

[azure walrus]

ok

[steel zephyr]

ok 🤤

[azure walrus]

If you’re playing Ironman you should go for the achievement

[steel zephyr]

🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻

[steel zephyr]

I'll try boss

hopefully no guarantees on lithuania this time

[azure walrus]

And maybe the other achievement for any Baltic nation

To conquer the whole Baltic Sea coast

If you want

[steel zephyr]

well theres my previous run, was actually 3 or 4 hours i was afk for the last 2hrs

🥹

[quasi shoal]

????

yo you got some bigger issues

[steel zephyr]

ok yeah i should just end my latv ia run here

pain in the ass without a friendly germany

[heavy vigil]

yeah they get buffs

like +4% in tree

you can get +7% from doctrine

assume they got all

[azure walrus]

try a non fascist path

like the communists

[quasi shoal]

0 planes 0 convoys 0 ships -41% stab 0% war support

[azure walrus]

and form baltic belarus

[heavy vigil]

its easy youre a baltic country

you have a ton of eco

[steel zephyr]

bruh not again

[heavy vigil]

just play?

[plucky pewter]

Typical alt hist germany

[heavy vigil]

youre the baltics you get like 40 civs 30 mils

at leasy

least**

max is like 90 civs 60 mils ish

just from unifying baltics

youd have to do it mega late for the latter tho

[azure walrus]

play a non-fascist path

like the commies, and form baltic-belarus socialist republic

or...

play the military directorate 🥹

[last cave]

what....

[coral gorge]

can't you just gamerule only Germany to be histocal?

[steel zephyr]

does this mean lithuanian civil war

[azure walrus]

yeah

[finite nacelle]

double H did not learn his lesson

[lost dawn]

Strange that Germany was capitulated and that our Austrian painter did not shoot himself

How is he still alive

[finite nacelle]

i am gay

[lost dawn]

What

[azure walrus]

Under Erich Raeder, the german empire struck east, defeating the Russians and the Japanese Sphere. Raeder, the Sword of Islam, then located the British royal family and demanded the restoration of the Hohenzollerns' royal titles, to which they gladly obliged, even suggesting the use of the Hindenburg zeppelin in the glorious ceremony. However, this magnificent aircraft would crash and burn, leaving the only surviving member of the royals as the traumatized Victoria, who also bore the burden of becoming Kaiserin of the entire Old World. Furthermore, her inability to justify a wargoal against the treacherous liberal democratic United States has enraged the nationalist wing of the DNVP to the point where they have allied with Otto Strasser -- a revolutionary nationalist spouting rhetoric that is nauseatingly similar to the words of Hitler. Victoria eventually caved and let this man into the government, where he prompty organized a rigged referendum, overthrowing the monarchy and waging the German-American war himself.

(I wrote this myself)

[last cave]

ah yeah, sword of islam

how tho?

i remeber seeing that trait

on victoria

[azure walrus]

Realizing the dystopia that would ensue should this radical polity be allowed control over the world, the democracies have banded together in one final futile act of resistance against Strasser's Hegemony, even attempting to invite the military junta in Brazil. This would fail, as the pseudo-superpower would instead focus its efforts on the creation of its own South American Empire.

[azure walrus]

it was on raeder

[steel zephyr]

non-communists might actually win the civil war maybe

[last cave]

soo how?

[azure walrus]

I completed the focus while he was leader

bc was desperate for manpower way back during the soviet war

in 1946

[last cave]

batlics are infinite civil war simulator

[azure walrus]

oh how the time flies

[last cave]

no

[azure walrus]

no but if ironman is off you can tagswitch between them at will

(this might break the game)

(so be careful)

[last cave]

playign as other country

[azure walrus]

type "tag [country tag]" in the console

[last cave]

write in console tag "country tag"

and you'll play as it

[vast delta]

on limited conscription btw 🫠

[last cave]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1102209883891310693/1430282649334976583/attachment-2.gif

[vast delta]

twr reference

[steel zephyr]

about to invade estonia and lith still in civil

[warped flint]

So how do you do this one?

[last cave]

old vers cav swarm

i have it

not that hard

[steel zephyr]

what an invasion... 1k losses to 13k estonian losses

[azure walrus]

fascist right

[steel zephyr]

oh

[warped flint]

dont kill them

you need that manpower

[manic iris]

what path is best here

[last cave]

do u want HRE or GE

[manic iris]

i dont understand what that is im sorry

[leaden oyster]

how do i win against the allies before the usa joins them

cuz i wanna have egypt

[last cave]

holy roman empire or german empire

[manic iris]

oooo

which is funner

more fun

[leaden oyster]

hre

[last cave]

ye

[old plume]

hi

[manic iris]

U CAN RECREATE BYZANTINE EMPIRE WHAAAT?>

[leaden oyster]

yeah

[last cave]

ddlc only

[manic iris]

i want holy roman empire

[leaden oyster]

u only need to beat turkey as greece

[manic iris]

aw

[last cave]

kill honzelholens expect for victoria

and you get decision to form HRE after having needing prov

[leaden oyster]

yeah viktoria is the coolest one

crazy passives too

[manic iris]

wait please explain again i dont understand

[last cave]

no dlc only victoria canµ

[manic iris]

do i need dlc

[last cave]

no

without dlc only victoria can HRE

[manic iris]

what path im very confused

[last cave]

with dlc every honzelhon can

[manic iris]

whats victoria and honzelhon

[last cave]

vritish naval domincae

[manic iris]

i do british naval for hre?

[leaden oyster]

hohenzollern is the german royal family

[last cave]

honzelhon = housr family

vicotira = person

[leaden oyster]

viktoria is a member of it

make sure the hindenburg survives

[azure walrus]

actually no

[leaden oyster]

so sharpen air safety

that 30 political power decision

[azure walrus]

isnt the byzantine empire also in vanila?

[last cave]

@leaden oyster explain to him how, i dont know much

[manic iris]

i am so lost do i do a path or i assasinate someone

[last cave]

no

[manic iris]

im so lost

[leaden oyster]

no

listen to me

sharpen air safety

[vast delta]

11m vs 0 its over

[leaden oyster]

first off al

[manic iris]

please explain in terms for a 30h person

[azure walrus]

oh yah

[azure walrus]

mb, was thinking of ottomans

[leaden oyster]

theres this decision u can do

[last cave]

oh dam

[leaden oyster]

sharpen air regulation

press on it

thats step 1

[manic iris]

where

[last cave]

decisions

[leaden oyster]

somewhere in all those decisions u can press

[manic iris]

alr done

[leaden oyster]

ok good

now

go with accept british naval supremacy

[manic iris]

( do i actualy get named holy roman empire)

[leaden oyster]

yes

[manic iris]

alright

[leaden oyster]

then go down

[manic iris]

holy shit one of my fav empires

[leaden oyster]

i think it was the 4th focus down there where britain guarentess ur independence

which is very important

[azure walrus]

holy shit, roman shit, and imperial shit, wouldnt you say

[leaden oyster]

so improve relations with them

[last cave]

also new yellow color

[leaden oyster]

u can also get free colonies down that path

which is whatever

[last cave]

ottomans are more roman than them💔

[last cave]

also sword of islam LOL

[leaden oyster]

WAIT

WAIT

[manic iris]

so i do

[leaden oyster]

STOP THE FOCUS

delete ur army

[manic iris]

i was so close to doing it LOL alr stoped

wtf

[leaden oyster]

and then do the focus

netherlends need to decline

[manic iris]

why..

how do i delete

[manic iris]

wat

[leaden oyster]

return of the kaiser work this way

germany asks netherlands for their kaiser

who libes there

if ur army is big they say yes

[last cave]

trash bin after u click u choose divs

[leaden oyster]

if ur army is small they say no

[last cave]

small army = nono

[manic iris]

wait like actualy delete them

[leaden oyster]

they need to say no

[manic iris]

its good to say yes?

why no

[last cave]

ye

[leaden oyster]

yes but before u delete them

build 30 more

[last cave]

so that willy doesnt becomes kaiser

🥲

[manic iris]

oh

whats a kaiser 😭

[leaden oyster]

emperor

[manic iris]

ohh alr

[leaden oyster]

in german

[manic iris]

what

why make 30 more if im deleting

[leaden oyster]

cuz u need them after netherlands say no

dont let them spawn in

[manic iris]

oh

[leaden oyster]

if ur army is 0 and u want to recuit more troops

u can do only 10

[manic iris]

so train but no spawn

[leaden oyster]

yes

and be careful to press the right decision when netherlands declines

one is u go to war

[steel zephyr]

ok bro

[leaden oyster]

the other is u accept it

[manic iris]

how i remove their spawn location'

[leaden oyster]

right click

[manic iris]

which one do i do

[leaden oyster]

its obv

the one which says

"perhaps we habe better candidates"

[manic iris]

no work

[leaden oyster]

uhh wait lemme check

[manic iris]

i wanted to make byzantine so bad damn only dlc

[leaden oyster]

see

right click reset location

[manic iris]

i am

[leaden oyster]

while ur mouse is on it

[manic iris]

IT IUS

[leaden oyster]

send ss

[leaden oyster]

now press right click

[manic iris]

I AM OMFG

am i that slow why tf isnt this working

[slim nexus]

I have a knock knock joke but someone has to start it

[leaden oyster]

uhh well if it doesnt work

the just delete it

[manic iris]

sad..

[leaden oyster]

u can just spam force deploy after that

[manic iris]

i had so many ready

[leaden oyster]

not that dramatic

[steel zephyr]

now i just gotta defend againts britain for rest of the game 😢

is there any way to epace

peace

[leaden oyster]

but yes delete that army and then do the focus

after that u can do mitterleuropa ur own faction

[manic iris]

is this good

[leaden oyster]

yes

perfect

now delete the active army

[manic iris]

i also did some tanks

alr

done

[leaden oyster]

the tanks are bad

light tanks are bad

[manic iris]

oh

i mean

rip

[leaden oyster]

but u can beat france with only infantry anyways

[manic iris]

ill stick with tham

yea

WAIT I ATTACK FRANCE

[leaden oyster]

ye ye

but

[last cave]

one of the weakest nations btw

[leaden oyster]

after the focus is done u need to reinstate the succesion line and modernize it

they are decisions

[manic iris]

this right

[leaden oyster]

ye

[manic iris]

done now what

[leaden oyster]

okay so now

form your own faction

mitteleuropa

[manic iris]

erm

[leaden oyster]

no on no

its a focus

[manic iris]

oh

[leaden oyster]

or it should be

send a ss

of ur focus tree

idk if its dlc only but im like 100 precent sure it isnt

[manic iris]

if its a dlc

im gonna cry

[manic iris]

its a dlc isnt it

[leaden oyster]

wtf

yeah

sucks ass

[manic iris]

man

[leaden oyster]

ok this is very weird

with the dlc u do holy roman empire via a focus

ok anyways

u need to get viktoria

[manic iris]

so no hre

[leaden oyster]

prolly yes

itll appear after u get her

[manic iris]

who is viktoria

[leaden oyster]

its a bit secretive

[manic iris]

and how do i get her

[leaden oyster]

the empress u will need bruv

go with accept british naval supremacy

and do the decisions

[manic iris]

this right

for the one down

right

[azure walrus]

yk what?

i quit begging for latvian military directorate

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-gif-25117042

[leaden oyster]

this too

yeah sure

[manic iris]

i do this right

@leaden oyster to get british naval dominance

[leaden oyster]

yes

do the right and then the one below it

improve relations witth britain

[leaden oyster]

and do the decisions too

[steel zephyr]

is this a W soviet land grab

[leaden oyster]

with the succesopm öome

bery important

[manic iris]

do i release them

[leaden oyster]

ye

now build ur army

[manic iris]

or wait for training

[dusky burrow]

Yeah

[azure walrus]

latvia game 1

[leaden oyster]

well set the location

and just let them spawn in

normally

[snow rain]

green = -25% stats
don't deploy them unless emergency

or you'll need to train them manually, which causes attrition and is less efficient than in-UI training

[azure walrus]

nice land grab

[steel zephyr]

the meta is invade soviet lithuania when soviets are in civil war 🤫

locked in a war with allies though

[high totem]

Iraq got kicked out of the faction and declared war on, hoi4 moment I guess

[manic iris]

can i start making mils

[azure walrus]

latvia game 1 - i guess no helpful germany here

[leaden oyster]

yeah 70 is enough

stop the vics

civs

make mills

[azure walrus]

ofc

ofc lithuania goes soviet

lets hope they enter opposition

so when they invade me

[leaden oyster]

and do the decisions to reinstate the succesion line and modernice it and then after you did the british focus you should get reinstate british titles

[azure walrus]

i dont have to fight ussr

[steel zephyr]

😨

shit

[manic iris]

Ima start research nukes

lets go

[azure walrus]

oof

[last cave]

noooooµ

[steel zephyr]

nvm

[dusky burrow]

yeah ai is bad at naval invading

[manic iris]

why

[steel zephyr]

it only tries to invade bases right? thats where i got my defence on

[azure walrus]

and of course poland is going to form the plc

[last cave]

buddy, nukes in early game is jsut suicide

[manic iris]

o alr

im gonna cancel these mEFO bills whatever they are they annoy me

[high totem]

just invaded Iraq in this hoi game because they were developing weapons of mass destruction

[steel zephyr]

are these not sea bases?!

well i can see they're not but what are they

[dusky burrow]

Yeah some of them are just random buildings

look at lower left to see what buildings are actually on a tile

[dusky burrow]

Yeah they can be annoying but they are worth it

If you're doing early war

[azure walrus]

latvian production

[steel zephyr]

yeah i was looking but couldnt see anything, thats why i was confused

[azure walrus]

the soviets are going centrist, guess I restart 🤷‍♂️

[manic iris]

@leaden oyster did the british dominance

now where do i continue

[steel zephyr]

latvian production 🤤

[azure walrus]

you got the baltics brochiato

i js got me myself and i

[dusky burrow]

You should probably start building mils

of which you have 15

[leaden oyster]

did u do the succesion law decisions

look if u can reinstate british titiles

[manic iris]

i dont know what that is

[leaden oyster]

send a screenshot od ur decisions

[heavy vigil]

import coal

make mils

[leaden oyster]

u know the decisions tab

[last cave]

worst shi ever

[steel zephyr]

oh they can land on any coast

[leaden oyster]

worst addition there is

[dusky burrow]

Yeah they can, but they will starve in most places

[leaden oyster]

under worker conditions

[dusky burrow]

Only way to get supplies is either through ports or through air missions

[leaden oyster]

reinstate his right of succesion

willhelm

[azure walrus]

my biggest ally

[manic iris]

done

[leaden oyster]

ok now u can modernize them

[manic iris]

huh

[leaden oyster]

but u need more political power

[steel zephyr]

wow did they starve

[leaden oyster]

same decision tab

[manic iris]

oh alr the modernize

yea i need politcal

[dusky burrow]

looks like it

considering you wiped them out

[manic iris]

this is like a puzzle i thought it would be like up front

[leaden oyster]

after that u go just down the british route

whats the next focus down the tab

looks different from the dlc one

read what it does

[manic iris]

ann allience with the shade

[leaden oyster]

but improve relations with britain

[steel zephyr]

oh that wasnt a question 🤤

[leaden oyster]

yeah doesnt exist in the dlc

[manic iris]

says german empire seeks to join the allies

[steel zephyr]

made sure to put a bit more rail in the east just incase...

[leaden oyster]

yeah do that

[steel zephyr]

all my construction on mis

mils

[manic iris]

after or before the decision

modernize thing

????

[azure walrus]

never mind, monarchist britain will be my greatest ally

[manic iris]

link i do that path rn or after i do the modernize decision

[leaden oyster]

doesnt matter

but what matters is that you will prolly get a new decision after that focus

reinstate british titles

and you dont do that

til u modernize

and when you do will get another decision

and u need to press on the " Send a liziaon in advance" or smth

then u get viktoria and u can form the holy roman empire

its only formable if you also have the terrotories of it

[manic iris]

oh

so i need

what countries

[azure walrus]

yall think the nonaligned side might win this civil war if i send them an attache

nevermind they just lostdivisions

[manic iris]

what countries i need

is this supposed to happen..

[leaden oyster]

dude

did u improve relations

with the uk

before doing thi

s

[azure walrus]

latvian military directorate 🇱🇻

[leaden oyster]

are u on ironman?

[manic iris]

no

[azure walrus]

is ts tuff

[manic iris]

im so dumb i thought u meant it improves by itself

[leaden oyster]

then go to a previous save

no its like a thing u press

[manic iris]

okay

[leaden oyster]

when u press on the county

[steel zephyr]

3rd british landing 🤤

[manic iris]

last save was prolly aGES ago

[leaden oyster]

well just do the same stuff again

if u know what ur doing it doesnt take long

[manic iris]

wait it was like 5 mins ago lol

alr good

[leaden oyster]

aight then improve relations with the uk before doing the focus

if ur in the focus cancel it

[manic iris]

how long i wait

[leaden oyster]

do like some economic focus in the meantime ig

til its 100

its a green number

cant miss it

[azure walrus]

92 war support

if only i werent nonaligned

[azure walrus]

now go get poland

[manic iris]

like this?

[leaden oyster]

press on uk

right click

[snow rain]

I hope you're not on military governor law

[leaden oyster]

press on

improve relations

costs 10 pp

[manic iris]

i did

and i am douing that

[steel zephyr]

glad to see the brits are making new enemies

[azure walrus]

ofc

[snow rain]

it caps at +100 tops

[manic iris]

where do i see

[snow rain]

after that it doesn't improve anymore

[leaden oyster]

ok perfect

92 should be enough

[lethal ether]

how do you end up like this

[snow rain]

hover over it, but I'm positive you're capped at max

[leaden oyster]

do the focus

[lethal ether]

oh nvm

i thought i saw sometihng i didnt see

[snow rain]

also, just realized you went economy of conquest on a monarchy germany 😭

you won't have civs anymore

[manic iris]

what

what is economy of conquest

:Sob

[manic iris]

doing it

[manic iris]

what

[snow rain]

4 year plan economy path

[leaden oyster]

yeah thats shit

[snow rain]

it relies on you conquering and pillaging for rapid game. if you don't do that, you get penalities

[snow rain]

it's the best path, but not for this setup

especially not if you join the allies

[leaden oyster]

yeah i know

he wont invade a million countries

itll just be france

and like 4 other ones

for HRE

[manic iris]

oh i didnt know

[leaden oyster]

its ok

theres a next time

the game is better with the dlcs but idk how affordable they where u live

[lethal ether]

i thought i saw something i didnt see nvm

[manic iris]

i got accepted

i see the tiles

[leaden oyster]

there we go

ye do that ONLY AFTER you do modernize

[manic iris]

i did modernize

now what focus

@leaden oyster do i do economic focuses or

[snow rain]

have you done the pirce control focus ?

[manic iris]

uhm idk what that is

[steel zephyr]

i heard of a method that if you let them keep a coastal province and keep killing them when they arrive its free kills

[snow rain]

the price control focus, see if you've completed it

[snow rain]

they need a port first

[snow rain]

they can't land troop there night now

[last cave]

only works if port

[snow rain]

oh you did, welp you're boned

do the rightmost focuses, they're essential

but know that you'll basically never have civs now

[leaden oyster]

well yeah theres nothing else now

wait til british titles

do them

and send lizaion

[manic iris]

can i do these

[leaden oyster]

sure

[manic iris]

i need MILS

[snow rain]

yes but eco first, especially since you're not rushing for war and you're gonna sit on no construction for the rest of the game

[snow rain]

you can't build anymore

[manic iris]

wait what

wtf

[snow rain]

so you need to do the focuses that give you industry buffs

[manic iris]

why can i not..

[snow rain]

you went economy of conquest path, but for basically a no conquest path

[leaden oyster]

consumer goods are throught the roof by now

[snow rain]

look at your economy spirits, hover over the "MEFO Bills" or "economy of conquest"

[manic iris]

damn i got told when i first started 4 year plan is best i didnt know

93% mefo bills holy fuc

[snow rain]

it is the best, but since you're not doing the conquest and pillaging required well, it's not the best anymore, it's ass

[manic iris]

can i start pillaging will that help

like austria

[snow rain]

you can still, but since you're now in the allies you can't justify against countries that have not generated tension

and even if you used a focus, as soon as your war ends you'll get kicked out of the allies

[manic iris]

i screwed up

HOW DID I LOOSE 100 PP are u kidding me

[steel zephyr]

mittleeuropa fighting communists and allies

[manic iris]

i casnt even do buffs since they required MEFO less than 90%

[manic iris]

can i just like leave MEFO bills

does that lower the factor

[snow rain]

did you do price control decisions ?

[manic iris]

holy god

[snow rain]

you did the focus but did you do the decisions ?

[last cave]

just restart atp

[snow rain]

no, wait

[manic iris]

i have no decisions available

for MEFO

[steel zephyr]

ok div?

[snow rain]

well then yeah, restart if you want to build
you can cancel mefo, but you won't get any more buffs and will be stuck at a permanent 70% (if I recall correctly) consumer goods factor

might be 60%

can't recall

[manic iris]

is it better than what i have right now

[snow rain]

ditch logi and it's perfect
except if you've gone with individual excellence doctrine, then keep the logi

[fierce galleon]

genuinely what is italy's purpose

[snow rain]

no it's not, because you're already too late on the reaction there. keeping the production buffs is better now

[fierce galleon]

every time i play germany all italy does is get me ion useless wars and get naval invaded

[manic iris]

@leaden oyster i restored the tiles now what

[leaden oyster]

Wait

There should be a decision coming

Where u can send someone

Send a liziaon

[leaden oyster]

After u press it

Do the top one

[manic iris]

done

[leaden oyster]

Okay now wait

[leaden oyster]

There we go

Now go to the focus tree

[steel zephyr]

uh oh, australia joined 4th international and is also at war with me because it used ot be in allies

[leaden oyster]

See if there is holy roman empire option now

If it isnt there itll be in the decisions most likely

[manic iris]

holy shit

[leaden oyster]

Yeah

Gotta have it all

Itll be czeckoslovakia

Switzerland

Luxemburg

[manic iris]

can i just go on a rampage now

[leaden oyster]

Italy

Yugoslavia

And france

[manic iris]

is there focus for france right now

[snow rain]

yes, and don't forget to pillage the gold as you go

[leaden oyster]

Forgot if u need schleswih fron denmark

[last latch]

think chiang got a little ahead of himself

[manic iris]

idk how to do that

[leaden oyster]

Idk i think its prolly the one below it

Its a decision

[steel zephyr]

mobilizing ASAP if soviets try

[leaden oyster]

Afzer u conquer a countsy u will have the decision for their gold reserve

[snow rain]

it'll be decisions that are available once a country caps
click it asap, it'll reduce consumer goods factor of MEFO

[leaden oyster]

The new updatr will make it a million times are harder

[snow rain]

don't garrison coast if the combat width on the port isn't filled up

[leaden oyster]

Cuz u higher threshold for justification

[snow rain]

there's no point

[dusky burrow]

yeah 70%

[manic iris]

well uh,, soviets are in a team with france

[scenic fog]

hey guys its my second game (i did italy tutorial but lost to ethiopia and now i am playing russia what is this?

[leaden oyster]

But yeah you just have to conquer the entireitx of middle europe

How

[snow rain]

garrison only the ports, you can't even afford the manpower being sent on useless coastal tiles

[leaden oyster]

Wait the french commune took over

Theres like

[manic iris]

same faction

[leaden oyster]

A Focus

[dusky burrow]

summary: rush political path

[leaden oyster]

Just for that

[scenic fog]

ok

[leaden oyster]

Theres a Focus for when france turns communist

[dusky burrow]

if political paranoia gets too high people literally start mass dying

[leaden oyster]

Yes perfect

U dont share a border with the soviets anyways

I think the uk will join the war too

So itll be easy

[snow rain]

do your purge focuses asap, they're n°1 priority in soviet focuses
scapegoat the navy (decision) and sacrifice 5% consumer goods once in a while to keep it down. Kill the airforce too if you need
Never click the administration decision, it can be a game killer

[leaden oyster]

The usa will prolly join too at some point

Maybe leave like

Some garrisons in königsberg and the coastal shit

So they dont Naval invade

[steel zephyr]

yeah moved a lot of excess coastal units to soviet border now, and since germans are fighting brits too it'll put less stress on coast

[manic iris]

what i press here

[leaden oyster]

No idea i forgot

[manic iris]

first

[leaden oyster]

Prolly

Idk

[snow rain]

keep it

[leaden oyster]

Didnt play germany for some time

[snow rain]

don't cancel mefos or you'll be stuck with the permanent 70% CG with no buffs

top option

[leaden oyster]

Didnt he say he canceled them some time earlier

[snow rain]

he asked if it was worth to do so

[leaden oyster]

Oke

[snow rain]

if he had cancelled it already, the event wouldn't pop

[leaden oyster]

Ye true

Just bypass maginot in the south

[snow rain]

click on this to see AI divisions

because right now you see the maginot open

[leaden oyster]

And justify for the entirity of all benelux states

[snow rain]

and it's certainly not open, the whole french army is probably just there

[leaden oyster]

U can do bypass in the north too as well

[snow rain]

I never got why they even created this button, it's so dumb as a setting

[leaden oyster]

But justifying on switzerlabd takes like

2 years

[snow rain]

he has a focus

[leaden oyster]

Yeah but its either Switzerland

Or belgium

Luxemburg

Atleast with dlc it was this way

[snow rain]

sure doesn't looks like it

[leaden oyster]

Man that kinda sucks ngl

Switzerland is better for time but its just mountains

[snow rain]

looks like the old WTT focuses to be fair

[leaden oyster]

Yeah if he does it right he can go through the south

If he doesnr he gets stuck

And loses a million gazillion men

Hes in the allies so the brits should like

Naval invade atleast

[snow rain]

me when I watch red bubbles all over the front and decide to ignore it for a year before complaning I can't do anything and that the game is ass until someone points out that big ass red marks aren't good (average new hoi player experience)

[manic iris]

im getting attacked by soviets behind and france in front

[leaden oyster]

???

How

You donr share a border

As germany

With rhe soviets

[snow rain]

france is communist

[leaden oyster]

You didnt conquer poland right

[snow rain]

they in comintern

[leaden oyster]

Yeah but there shouldnt be

2 fronts

Just one

[snow rain]

the german focus "dantzig for protection" or something creates one

[leaden oyster]

Yeah but u just guarantee poland

Ni land border with the sovjets

@manic iris send a Screenshot

[snow rain]

and you get danzig

which links east prussia to mainland

[manic iris]

im so cooked

[leaden oyster]

Hoa??

[snow rain]

you got naval invaded ???

[leaden oyster]

Naval incasion

I told u to set up garrissons

In the north

[manic iris]

IDFK

[leaden oyster]

So they wonr naval invade

[manic iris]

what happend IDK

[snow rain]

CLICK ON THIS DARN BUTTON ALREADY

[leaden oyster]

Yeah runs over

[snow rain]

don't you want to see the enemy units ????

[leaden oyster]

I would do a new run and with the better economic strategy

You know what to do now after all

[manic iris]

wtf

😭

i got gang banged

no fair

[leaden oyster]

You can prolly ljke

Wait ril the usa joins

And theyll bail u out

If they join at all

But that boring

[steel zephyr]

czech jumpscare

[night field]

chat am i cooked?

[manic iris]

new run

[leaden oyster]

Just like follow a guide online on how to conauer france

[manic iris]

im making hre

[manic iris]

i hate killing france

[supple summit]

decided to see how the warlords would fare without china actually doing anything and the japanese stopped because of no supplies lol

[manic iris]

border so small

[leaden oyster]

Yes thats why there was a focus below ir

To go through Switzerland

Because maginot line cant be conquered with infantry

[snow rain]

1 - You couldn't see the enemy units because you disabled it (#hoi4-general message)
2 - You didn't garrison our ports OR sent out your fleet in the baltic nor even remotely payed any attention to the map or the sound alerts and 4 speeded your way into getting capped by soviet naval invasion
3 - You brainlessly battleplanned into the MAGINOT LINE, with infantry only and under enemy air supremacy and didn't even cancel the order when you saw red bubbles accross the board.
4 - You had no war support, no manpower, no units, didn't spend your XP, didn't pay attention to popups

Hell, you didn't even pose the game to take the screenshot

[snow rain]

don't attack the maginot if you don't know how to do so

[leaden oyster]

Ye

[snow rain]

lvl 10 forts means you get -150% stats base
and the enemy gets buffs all accross the board

[leaden oyster]

U can get through it with tanks and rhe right support company

But its a hastle

And takes years

[snow rain]

and Air

[leaden oyster]

Ye

[manic iris]

how tf i take france then

[leaden oyster]

Just go south through Switzerland

The focus below the France one

[manic iris]

how did the nazis do this damn its hard

[snow rain]

build for a maginot breakthrough
or naval invade
or paradrop
or go around

[manic iris]

alright

im gonna try again tommorow

[leaden oyster]

They wenr through belgiun

Thats how

Theres a focus below the france one

Where u can declare war on Switzerland

And go through Them

[manic iris]

is it possible to like requst other countries for me to walk thru their land attack on it

[leaden oyster]

Only faction members

[manic iris]

wouldnt i get in war with EU president tho

[leaden oyster]

???

[steel zephyr]

the finns invaded the soviets but turned out the leningrad pocket still had divs in it somehow

[leaden oyster]

Its Switzerland bruv

[manic iris]

laast time i attacked swizerland entire europe attacked me

[leaden oyster]

Prolly cuz they joined the allied

[snow rain]

the thing there is, you didn't build anything and didn't do anything once war started
from the looks of it, you basically sat there and watched your country die

sorry for sounding rude and harsh but that's how it looks like

[leaden oyster]

Allies

But now youre in the allies

Since you joined UK

[manic iris]

build what

i couldnt build shit my factories were in a halt

[snow rain]

you had 3 armies of inf in 1940. No airforce, no tanks, not even 8 divs on port guard

[leaden oyster]

Going with the UK basically means u can do whatever you want in europe

[manic iris]

i sent my entire airforce in magiot line

[leaden oyster]

Yeah do airforce too

Should have done more

Dont attack maginot line anyhow

[manic iris]

idk how to use airofrce and navy yet ill learn later

[snow rain]

you need quality airforce, not the crappy byplanes and horrid base design you start with

[manic iris]

yea ima do same run but go thru swizz

[manic iris]

oh i never research air

[leaden oyster]

Follow like a guide online

[manic iris]

aalright

[leaden oyster]

One nazi germany guide

[manic iris]

anyway ima go sleep cya tommorow

[sly venture]

why does Switzerland always have like 50 divisions bro😭

[snow rain]

to be entirely fair, you shouldn't play ahist until you know how the game works
but the game never tells you that because prdx is ass in all their tutorials somehow

[leaden oyster]

And you know how rhe game worms

Yeah ngl for Switzerland you need tanks

[snow rain]

they're crappy militia

[manic iris]

gn ill see tommorow

[leaden oyster]

Anything else takes a million years

Gn

[manic iris]

i use light i had best light ones

[sly venture]

I have like 100 hours and still don’t know what like half the buttons do

[manic iris]

😭 i have 35 didnt know u can see enemy troops

[steel zephyr]

germany still hasnt recovered from the czech jump

[sly venture]

What happened 😭

[leaden oyster]

Ye light tanks suck

Go medium

Theyre like standard ones

[steel zephyr]

czech randomly joined soviet faction and got invited into war

and now poland joined soviet faction too

uh oh poland jumped me

[wanton whale]

Don't ask about what we did with Bhutan

[abstract crest]

(Sorry for the quality)

What do you guys think?

[supple summit]

dont attack just hold

let them just waste their troops on you

and let the french have the maginot line

focus your forces on the north

[abstract crest]

I don't think my volunteers will last that long.

The idea occurred to me, but I never thought it would be a stroke of genius in the short term.

Can I just hold out until the end?

Incidentally, not a single Briton set foot in France

[steel zephyr]

🥀

[supple summit]

mb didnt see

[supple summit]

they will if you use them smart

[supple summit]

??? tf is going on

i really gotta play with bro just to see the typa coke your on

[abstract crest]

HAHAHAHA I'd already been told that

But I already tried it and it doesn't work at all, bro.

[azure walrus]

It lwk pmo how there are literally no videos about the Latvian Military Directorate

[brittle cypress]

windows key shift s then

brings up snipping tool

[azure walrus]

Or the Lithuanian Junta

Bc the thing that appears when you search it into yt is irl Latvian military strategy videos

[abstract crest]

Wow, it works!

[steel zephyr]

sneaky breakthrough

uh oh

[azure walrus]

How’s the rest of the front

Uh oh indeed

Wait

Is that independent communist Poland

[steel zephyr]

yes

[azure walrus]

Don’t they get weekly compliance buff

[steel zephyr]

these would make perfect pockets if it werent for that the poles are part of soviet's faction

[azure walrus]

But you’re not at war with Soviets?

[steel zephyr]

no

i quit ts pmo

[azure walrus]

You should play

A different path

Or historical

[supple summit]

you can clutch fr

[azure walrus]

Yeah I believe in you

[night field]

yeah its over.

[azure walrus]

See above

[supple summit]

yeah you can do it

just gotta

go hella on the defensive and use natural boundries

and make some forts if you have the industry

and hope the soviets and allies go to war

[night field]

the germans dismantled the czech forts or something there are no forts at all

[azure walrus]

Also build nukes

[steel zephyr]

i could but this entire saturday i've been spending most of my day playing 7 latvia runs 😢

i dont have the willpower

[supple summit]

play with me

ill be germany

[azure walrus]

You should try the communist path

[supple summit]

you be latvia

[steel zephyr]

maybe in a few hours

12:31am for me rn

[supple summit]

same

[steel zephyr]

tuff

[supple summit]

ong

uk?

[steel zephyr]

trvke

[supple summit]

how is it 12:32 am for you if your in turkey and im in the uk

[steel zephyr]

trvke = trvth nvke

this guy does NOT know niche

[supple summit]

oh mb

lol

i still dont know what that is

[steel zephyr]

truth nuke

🥹

[supple summit]

mb bro 😔

i still dont know what it is

i gotta give up

[steel zephyr]

deglovered

degloved

[supple summit]

ok that i know

[steel zephyr]

speed smeg

or is that too niche

[supple summit]

interesting

nah

ive seen worse

[steel zephyr]

😨

[supple summit]

eufhlo;sudijhfdjo

[noble turtle]

Only be satisfied with total victory!

仅接受无条件投降！

[noble turtle]

（Only be satisfied with total victory!in Chinese）

[grizzled zenith]

Yaaay

[night field]

im losing alot of infantry equipment

[torn rampart]

how

is ERICH RAEDER

my leader

[inland falcon]

i um... no

[torn rampart]

anyine

tell me

[inland falcon]

naval coup

[weary lagoon]

so many national projects going on that it refuses to even show anything!

[dusky burrow]

You got couped didn't you

You basically have to do like a year's worth of focuses in two years to get Raeder off your back

[night field]

theres no saving this anymore (no supply bc bombing almost all of my mils and civs are damaged)

[worn coral]

guys

my fps has a huge drop when i use speed 5

what do i do

[low sentinel]

Dont use speed 5

Idk the actual answer

[jaunty basin]

what do you think about this bad boy

23,7 km/h

[tacit cosmos]

Tank go brrr moment

[lethal ether]

forts

[jaunty basin]

two tiles per frame baby

[lethal ether]

slow

[crimson crane]

my friend is playing as belgium and needs national spirit collapsing government and did the focus for it but it did not work any fixes?

[supple summit]

is it just me or can historical germany no longer fight russia?

[supple summit]

wdym?

[inland falcon]

what? imperialism? we're just liberating the internment camps...

[supple summit]

absolute peak

[crimson crane]

yes

[rigid bolt]

why cant I build transport planes

I'm luxembourg btw

[inland falcon]

worst spirit OAT btw

[fickle thicket]

i mean its realistic

[inland falcon]

idgaf about realism, its ass

[fickle thicket]

they wont remove it unless usa gets a good rework

which will never happen

[inland falcon]

especially if you're japan since you'll prolly be hitting the rockies as it kicks in

[fickle thicket]

well better build up supply

or invade the east coast

[inland falcon]

blah blah blah they're gonna get nuked

[sharp sierra]

worst spirit is definitely whatever gives sweden 100% vp capitulation requirement

[west owl]

Can I give Germany Ethiopia as Italy?

[inland falcon]

speaking of

sorry cracka, only we get nukes

[brisk finch]

What s the meta ship for singleplayer

[sharp sierra]

probably just building a bunch of something

[brisk finch]

What type?

I tried so far subs and destroyers

Didn t work either

Ill try light cruisers next

[sharp sierra]

i think its basically aircraft carriers and the normal light cruiser thing

[west owl]

Can I give Germany Ethiopia as Italy?

[sharp sierra]

and spotting light cruisers too now because of the patrolling shit

[brisk finch]

I just need to cap that uk

Cuz i landed a lot of times but too late

When they haved 300 divs on main land

[sharp sierra]

their division spam just gets reinforce memed and overran with actual good units and air superiority

[brisk finch]

Yeh but till i got my good divs the marins were send back into the chanel

[sharp sierra]

wat

[brisk finch]

Killed

[sharp sierra]

what was ur marines not that im assuming theyre a bad template or anything

the template discussion gets old

[brisk finch]

Support artilery pionners aa , 6 marines 4 mount 4 mech

Smth like that

[sharp sierra]

am i dumb whats mount

[brisk finch]

Mountenieer

[sharp sierra]

o right

[brisk finch]

Idk how to spell it

[sharp sierra]

yea idk

[brisk finch]

Alr ty

Gn

Cya

[worn coral]

idk man

it kinda has low hard and soft attack for the cost

also

what mod is that?

[jaunty basin]

better? the mod is Novum Vexillum, insanely good and stats/templates are based on vanilla

[worn coral]

better but i think you shouldnt make a balanced divison

make one for pure soft and another for pure hard

[jaunty basin]

i hate to micro manage, its either draw a line or nothing

[worn coral]

man