hoi4-general

[azure walrus]

im crine

[proud tapir]

because they refused something with good relations, diplomatic pressure or even the game itself telling me they are likely to accept

nope

they just like being pricks

[azure walrus]

yall think I can renew the nonagression pact

i got 100% diplo pressure

[azure walrus]

and 100 opinion

[azure walrus]

its like hes in some king of... battle against the world

[sharp sierra]

although it is seeded at the start of the game sometimes you know you can just copy the ironman save file and paste it somewhere else

[calm delta]

https://tenor.com/view/gulag-joseph-stalin-gif-1303406357648712159

[azure walrus]

wym

its monarchist russia

[calm delta]

I know

But I was bored

So I found that funny gift

[azure walrus]

also i thought stalin liked nag pacts

he made one with the nazis

[proud tapir]

i will admit, i do like playing ironman out of principle too

to avoid save scum

[azure walrus]

i am sad to announce that after 2 years, nenetsia did unfortunately fall 😭

[sharp sierra]

i do it to save my own time

[proud tapir]

It starts to suck when you realize "wait i cant do that focus, i soft locked myself"

and then you either

restart

or

punch air or something idk

[proud tapir]

oh man that wolf icon goes hard ngl

i love hoi4 achivement icons

[clever shuttle]

is there like an forum or channel that drops like all the paths and country play guides?

[proud tapir]

also i didnt know that about ironman

good to lnoe6

know

[proud tapir]

well the best way is to just watch a youtube video that is specifically made as a path guide

[heavy vigil]

dont do civil war as australia

[proud tapir]

bittersteel is goated

[clever shuttle]

yeah but is there like an official one?

[proud tapir]

not really anything official

youtube is your greatest friend for path guides

[normal yoke]

holy shit

did i accidentally recreate 1984

[heady ether]

Lol I see it

[calm delta]

I hate seeing someone that I detest so much

[sharp sierra]

wheres the combat wasteland

[normal yoke]

india

[sharp sierra]

yea

[normal yoke]

middle east

ethiopia is sigmaxxxing

[heady ether]

Lore accurate USA

[sharp sierra]

how many aircraft carriers do they have

[proud tapir]

one thing that stops me from playing the US is just how boring it feels

Cant wait for a US rework

[sharp sierra]

switch every nation to go communist

[heady ether]

Agreed, US focus tree is absolute shit.

[proud tapir]

How CIA saw the world circa 1947-1991

"but....they are liberal democra-"

"I SAID COUP THEM!"

hoi4 coup only possible?

CIA simulator??

[heady ether]

I hate how nerfed the USA is in vanilla HOI4.

It doesn't even have all of it's states.

[sharp sierra]

who gaf bout rhode island and connecticut

[proud tapir]

recently,i only play nations that got reworked in every dlc gotterdammerung and after, everything else feels kinda outdated imo

Gotterdammerung is so peak fr

[heady ether]

Everything pre NSB is ass.

[sharp sierra]

im not a big gotterdammerung fan anymore

[proud tapir]

and also

[steel zephyr]

w supply hubs

[proud tapir]

arms against tyrany which i want to get

[sharp sierra]

last two dlcs made me realize its not that good

i kinda hate the research facilities and air raids

focus trees are alright

except for the wolfenstein new world order bullshit in germanys focus tree

declaring war on ireland and sinkiang

dumb

[heady ether]

Germany and USSR are so overpowered, then the other majors are just...

[proud tapir]

i love it since im a big Hungary, Austria and Germany enjoyer.

Austria can be a bit painful but the good kind of pain

[proud tapir]

I hate fighting AI Germany

[sharp sierra]

feel like germany and ussr will both usually get steamrolled by allies

[heady ether]

USSR AI is ass, but controlled by player it's arguably the most broken nation.

[sharp sierra]

ai japan is actually pretty weak now i think

[proud tapir]

They do, but when fighting them on your own as a country in mainland Europe

it can be

a grind to say the least

[heady ether]

They always get stomped by China lmao

[sharp sierra]

in my games they do well against china cause china is even weaker

[heady ether]

AI Germany always has so many planes for some reason despite having like no rubber.

[normal yoke]

japan being invaded after managing to beat india and china

sad

[normal yoke]

they were this close

[proud tapir]

In my games, Germany sometimes dosent even get past Belarus and gets absolutely stalemated in barbarossa before they collapse.

Now this could be due to me playing nations that eat Austria and/or Czechoslovakia early

so that could slow down the german ai

[sharp sierra]

they pick bad doctrines in the new update i heard

[heady ether]

AI Allies and Comitern are so incompetent it makes AI Germany look OP, but really they aren't.

[proud tapir]

My last Austria game was painful because i was fighting the axis on 4 fronts as fascist Austria

They didnt do danzig, so the ussr and the allies want to war while i fought the axis alone.

[heady ether]

For me AI USSR gets crushed by like late 1942 then Germany spams like 1000+ divisions.

[proud tapir]

I ate a good chunk of Germany, but i was spread so thin as Germany got molotov ribbentrop

and

like a 4th or 5th front just appeared

out of thin air

[heady ether]

Something similar like this happened to me when I played Austria one time.

Allies don't do shit

[proud tapir]

i was so unprepared because i expected either Italy or Germany to start a war against the allies

Nope

Romania, Italy, Fascist Yugoslavia AND Germany against me and Bulgaria

[steel zephyr]

bruh

[proud tapir]

Bulgaria held their own well tho, they kept the Romanians at bay

[azure walrus]

how are they still alive

[normal yoke]

i joined against japan before they died

so i could take a bit of land

fortunately the allies mostly made neutral states in asia

now it's time for cold war

[azure walrus]

it worked, the czechoslovak diplomats have come to their senses

[proud tapir]

Czechoslovakia isnt being an annoying prick for once?? Whats next? Tommy will build railways!?

[azure walrus]

maybe russia doesnt want to invade

[heady ether]

Which country has the most annoying AI

[azure walrus]

they all can be annoying

even austria can refuse anschluss

[normal yoke]

heartland vs rimland theory be like

[azure walrus]

i dont understanf this

[normal yoke]

understand what

[azure walrus]

nvm they just set up divs on my border

[steel zephyr]

son im crien

[azure walrus]

yo @steel zephyr , surely youve defended against russia in your double digit latvia games

whats the strat

[heady ether]

AI France spamming like 100 divisions on the Maginot line and then sending 5 to defend the Benelux is so dumb.

[steel zephyr]

capture pskov then hold

thats the entire strat

[heady ether]

As the UK you have to defend their country for them.

[steel zephyr]

then if you have the strength and the soviets lack the strength, try rush to leningrad

if you dont reach leningrad, retreat

anyways here is a closer screenshot, might aswell send it to disastersaves

[normal yoke]

WHY AM I LOSING SO MUCH MEN

TRYING TO INVADE

AFGHANISTAN

AS RUSSIA

IM 10000 MORE POWERFUL

[sharp sierra]

learn about terrain modifiers

and other combat penalties

[dusky burrow]

did you get your cores?

I also did tell you Germany would fall

[steel zephyr]

yes and i knew that too, but i forgot that memel had connections to that one other german province

i was reinforcing it but didnt come in time

[dusky burrow]

The reason is simple: Germany still runs 4yp even if it conquers nothing, so it ends up with zero industry

[azure walrus]

What if borders look like this

And I havents formed baltic Union yet

[steel zephyr]

https://disastersavior.com/disaster-saves/5f04a72e-ae88-4211-8eca-98f70a288e79/ 🥹

[steel zephyr]

wtf man

you either take estonia or you die

and you didn't take estonia

there is nothing but forests between you and the soviets

your biggest defences: daugava, narva, pskov are all out of reach

its joeover

[azure walrus]

Daugava?

The river?

[steel zephyr]

yes, the large river flowing through Latvia

[azure walrus]

It’s right there tho

[steel zephyr]

yes, but you notice something?

soviets are on BOTH sides of it

[azure walrus]

it should also be noted that russia is missing ukraine, armenia, khiva & bukhara

and spent 2 years fighting nenetsia

will this help me in any meaningful way

[vital cove]

many people have asked this question before

and not just in hoi4

[dusky burrow]

Soviets didn't lose that many men in Afghanistan

[steel zephyr]

managed to recapture vilnius and kaunus

[dusky burrow]

Like around 15k

[steel zephyr]

no because you still have no estonia

your front is far too large

we may be so back

[dusky burrow]

Germany recovered wow

[azure walrus]

What if I shrink it

By retreating behind daugava

[steel zephyr]

retreating north?

[azure walrus]

See fallback line

Oh wait

[distant valley]

bro what is this game its so confusing

like look at this im doing EXACTLY what it says https://medal.tv/games/hearts-of-iron-iv/clips/m0400apMqng6oknKF?invite=cr-MSxyV2IsNTAxNDE1NjAz

[dusky burrow]

Their frontline is set up on some good rivers like the Neman in the south and the Volkhov in the east

[vital cove]

not Soviets specifically
but many other nations

[dusky burrow]

fair

[azure walrus]

fallback

[distant valley]

can anyone tell me why its not working

no?

[dusky burrow]

tutorial doesn't work anyways

[dusky burrow]

Best advice I can give you is just to click around and see what works

13 divisions on Memel 😭

[steel zephyr]

still too far, there isnt much coming back from this game since you just let estonia and lith go

[azure walrus]

i couldnt take them before russia could bc unlike russia, my focus tree doesnt give me wargoal

(see: military latvia)

[steel zephyr]

small pcoket in liepaja but the main target are these memel

shit

nvm we are so back

[steel zephyr]

closing in

[warped flint]

take vilpuri

[steel zephyr]

finland is soviet puppet

[sharp sierra]

naval blockade thing is really annoying

[steel zephyr]

baltic forts

[languid patrol]

christ

[azure walrus]

can the czech entente(france, czechoslovakia, romania, and latvian military directorate(aka me)) actually match russia's freakishly large army

could I make it out alive?

[steel zephyr]

what does this on the defence mean

[opal nymph]

Shore bombardment

[azure walrus]

french garrisons are already arriving

i love democracy 🥹

[steel zephyr]

maybe but in the process the russians would steamroll you

[opal nymph]

Enemy navy is shelling you more than likely

[azure walrus]

for some werid reason they are waiting to declare war, giving me time to build forts on the previously shown line

Operation Iron Dome shall soon begin

as soon as the infrastructure is ready

[steel zephyr]

you need mils far more than forts

[azure walrus]

also i have a bit of an airforce

[steel zephyr]

and fortifying your whole border isn't tuff

[azure walrus]

i cant build anymore

[azure walrus]

but its not my border

as suggested, im retreating behind the river

thats what im supposed to do right

a focus gave me lvl 2 forts on the eastern border

so i decided to try and extend

the line of forts to the north

[azure walrus]

see above

i can get more mils through my focus tree

(which is what im doing rn)

but not through building

and i get a construction speed boost to forts (and mils, but ive shown how thats irrelevant)

so i decided to replicate the maginot

but latvian(which makes it 100x better)

[steel zephyr]

🥀

[steel zephyr]

yes but the rest above it is the border

[azure walrus]

i see what you mean

[azure walrus]

but see above my justification

bc what am i to do with those forts

lose them?>

[languid patrol]

how is my line already collopasing

[azure walrus]

are you ussr or germany

[languid patrol]

ussr

[azure walrus]

the last mils i can get are in this focus

[azure walrus]

i see

[steel zephyr]

the 'retreat to dnieper-duagava method' 🤫

both are large rivers

and you only give up half of belarus, ukraine and lithuania

[languid patrol]

going better

not good

[azure walrus]

wtf are my allies doing

if theyre garrisoning hungary how are they going to throw their men at russia

for me

[languid patrol]

im actually going to lose

we have stabilized

[still crystal]

nice

[past osprey]

breakthrough or defense on artillery MIO?

thoughts

[urban flower]

Speedrun WC as Roman Empire:

1. Play as Italy declare on Yugo (who France Guarantees)
2. Take out france and steal navy
3. Declare on someone and Brittain will guarantee
4. Naval invade Brittain with French navy in Plymouth ez
5. Justify USA and use Canada as invasion platform
6. Paradrop and kill Japan
7. Finish USSR with GER
8. Kill GER
9. Only China left and ez game

In this order no one will declare on you and you can take out the majors 1 by 1

if you want you can declare on people seperately to take them in the peace conference

[crisp fossil]

Never played the USSR, soo Communist Finland is something that is making me nervous

[languid patrol]

wdyn

[crisp fossil]

Idk its just kinda... cursed ig

[urban flower]

go Grand Battleplan, Large Unit tactics
put everything on guns and just use 18 width infantry

[languid patrol]

lol

[crisp fossil]

Like i never saw Finland get puppeted by the Soviets

[winter fulcrum]

i feel like somethings wrong but i just cant put my finger on it

[light tendon]

are we allowed to tell someone to shut up

[urban flower]

idk who here said SHH are meta and armored cars etc
meta is just guns and battleplan because no one can keep up with your early production

[crisp fossil]

Wait

Why is Finland with the Russian flag?

[winter fulcrum]

it was a puppet of the russian empire im pretty sure

[urban flower]

Imperium Romanum, i released khalistan for memes

(Ironman btw)

1940

[winter fulcrum]

uh dude theres a small country called imperium romanium you forgot to invade

[static creek]

I tried doing an invasion on France and I keep getting cuked

[urban flower]

You just dont delete starting army, produce max guns and only put 2 or 3 units on yugo border

I did put 7 factories on CAS template I made

[crisp fossil]

Ok they invaded Switzerland, now the romans gone too far, they didnt respect switzerlands neutrality

[winter fulcrum]

notice anything else odd abt the war?

[crisp fossil]

Croatia exists?

[static creek]

I did managed to break their lines to go straight to Paris but I keep getting stuck on the border.

[mystic sand]

you guys know any good mods to white peace the us as japan?

[urban flower]

I only know Raetia what the f is Switzerland

[winter fulcrum]

no it doesnt

[static creek]

I did try to spam Calvary which did sort of worked

[crisp fossil]

Isnt croatia that pink line there?

[urban flower]

Hmmm what I did was go north and snake around the maginot

Then I went south to snake along Spain,

that thinned their lines so much that i managed to find a breaktrough and rushed to paris with 3 units taking different paths

[urban flower]

it does

[crisp fossil]

Snake?

[urban flower]

but it's an integrated province

[winter fulcrum]

theres no croatia

[crisp fossil]

I was gonna make a MGS joke but nvm

[urban flower]

snaking is running trough unmanned lands to conquer it, but like you just keep running

[winter fulcrum]

im not talking abt the romanium run

im talking abt the great war

[winter fulcrum]

this

[static creek]

I did invade the socialist part of Spain during the civil war, giving me some land to the French border, which I did weaken their lines from two sides but they joined the allies before I even got to paris

[crisp fossil]

Oh we were talking abt different things then

[crisp fossil]

Wait who is the bogd khanate?

I dont even know that nation

Where are they?

[winter fulcrum]

idk

[crisp fossil]

Isnt parachuting into France what Italian runs always do normally?

[winter fulcrum]

but serbia and russia are in the central powers if u didnt notice

[crisp fossil]

Like you parachute into Paris and most big cities and boom, there goes France

[crisp fossil]

Oh wait ye what the

[crisp fossil]

Wait where is the UK too?

Shouldnt they be helping france?

[winter fulcrum]

it started before 1914 bc for some reason i could call russia into a war without them being my ally, and austro-hungary managed to puppet serbia

and then i js invaded france once russia was in my faction

[crisp fossil]

Well ig the UK just was nowhere to be seen, probably too busy doing nothing like in my games

[languid patrol]

hahaha

[wary cloud]

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[azure walrus]

which is best

i am soon to be invaded by russia

(even though its february 1942 and the nag pact has expired)

(and they have yet to invade)

so which of these is best

[heavy vigil]

assault is good

[azure walrus]

alright then

[crisp fossil]

Prob assault

I mean you are russia

You got men to spare

[azure walrus]

no im latvia

im about to be INVADED by russia

[crisp fossil]

Oh i read wrong

Ye no nvm

[heavy vigil]

def assault then

large unit tactics is good too

[azure walrus]

"offense is the best defense" rings true in the videogame, i suppose?

[crisp fossil]

I mean, he will have a massive border with the soviets, @azure walrus join the germans too if you havent after

Cuz you are unlikely to hold that for much longer

[heavy vigil]

?

hows that relevant

large unit tactics lets you fit more units per combat width

so its better if you like, have a lot of infantry units

[crisp fossil]

Yeah true

Ngl his situation is a nightmare altogether, but its still very possible to survive

[heavy vigil]

ability to fill width does matter tho

is it?

baltic eco goes crazy

[crisp fossil]

Idk about winning but surviving he absolutely can

He prob can win too if he does very well

[elder patio]

Why are Hearts of Iron players like Warthunder plays and femboys in disguise 😭

[heavy vigil]

ive never struggled as the baltics when united anyway

[warped flint]

im gonna play a older game version of hoi4

[crisp fossil]

The soviets will be even more unprepared since they will have 2 fronts

[heavy vigil]

1.0

[crisp fossil]

Well until germany connects with latvia

[warped flint]

i play wt a little bit

[elder patio]

Lowkey

Im 11.4 on Italy and main it

[warped flint]

i am playing ussr and germany, 6.7 and 5.7

[elder patio]

Germany im the same BR as you, im grinding France rn and Sweden next

Germany is lowkey boring asf

[warped flint]

I am enjoying the panthers at least, tigers feel mid

[crisp fossil]

I play Portugal a lot and some other nations there and there

[elder patio]

Same

Not Portugal

[crisp fossil]

And Spain, but Spain is mostly bcs of the Spanish Civil War which is just a bloodshed and chaos

[elder patio]

But the other nations instead of the three major nations

[heavy vigil]

i play war thunder sometimes my highest br is like 7.7 tho

[crisp fossil]

Canada is also pretty cool to play

[elder patio]

Completely understandable

[crisp fossil]

Sure, i wont be a big boy like the US but ill do damage and win

[elder patio]

How does one play Canada

[sharp sierra]

i played warthunder on console during the pandemic and shit ill never bother myself with playing it again

[crisp fossil]

Canada is either, you go for industry or men

[warped flint]

We talking Warthunder

[elder patio]

FR

I LOWKEY GAVE UP

[crisp fossil]

Oh wait nvm

[sharp sierra]

i had it on my computer to test drve premiums

[elder patio]

I SPENT SO MANY HOURS GRINDING ITALY

[crisp fossil]

Thought it was hoi4

[sharp sierra]

then id close it

[elder patio]

Your me all over expect i grinded the most useless tech tree😭

[warped flint]

italy looks boring asf

[heavy vigil]

i played italy until i got to the sherman and crashed out

[elder patio]

Understandable

[warped flint]

I might grind for the turan III tho

[elder patio]

I lowkeh smashed my phone once over grinding its low tier

[heavy vigil]

i am the number #1 sherman hater

[elder patio]

ITS SO AHH

[heavy vigil]

everything was fine

understandably bad

i suck at the game too

[elder patio]

Sherman's are so mid and overrated 😭

Its why I have the US

[heavy vigil]

maybe its the shell i inderstand now

[elder patio]

Same here dw

[heavy vigil]

but i couldnt damage nor pierce anything

and i just refused to play italy again

i only play hungarian vehicles from there now and its like bliss

[warped flint]

i kinda wanna grind the hungarian subtree

[heavy vigil]

its good

[elder patio]

Personally I grinded towards the AB41

[heavy vigil]

you go from ww2 german to cold war ussr stuff to modern day nato stuff

[elder patio]

Its decent for low tier

[warped flint]

Yk what ima grind for the Turan III rn

[elder patio]

Grind France

[heavy vigil]

anyway since i crashed out at that ive decided to instead play japan mostly now

[elder patio]

The AMX series are the goats

[warped flint]

not a big fan of the turan I tho, the gun feels to weak

[heavy vigil]

i dont want to play france thoo

[elder patio]

Japan is underrated let's be so fr

It has the most potential

[heavy vigil]

its not that good

at least ground

[elder patio]

Its goated

[elder patio]

Wdym

Its grind is good asf

The type 10 or whatever its called is literally op asf

[heavy vigil]

they nerfed the uhhh

the ww2 tank

i forgot its name

its 5.7 now

the one after the chi-to

and thats where im at rn

[elder patio]

Ah

[heavy vigil]

and ive heard all the cold war/modern stuff is like mid

i havent like paid to get advanced japanese vehicles or anything

[elder patio]

BRB I gotta attend to my rose bushes, raspberries and blackberries rq

[warped flint]

Chi ri?

[elder patio]

I needa take cuttings rq

[warped flint]

i think thats what your talking about

[heavy vigil]

yes

and its like

its the same size as a tiger

its the same battle rating as a tiger

but it really is not like the tiger tank at all

[safe wing]

I need to play Italy and restore Rome for the 1,000,000,000,000 time

[warped flint]

Honestly I dont think the tiger is that good

[safe wing]

same

[elder patio]

Opinions on my guava tree?

[safe wing]

M4 Sherman my beloved

[heavy vigil]

its better than the chi-ri

its just an easy comparison

[safe wing]

I legit never heard of the Chi Ri and figured it was a Japanese prototype

[heavy vigil]

nope it was a real tank

the armor is pretty bad

[azure walrus]

the german faction isnt led by germany

the germans are in the central powers

led by democratic austria

that managed to snatch silesia from germany

so that might be an issue

[azure walrus]

but i am in the czech entente

which has czechoslovakia, romania, and france

(led by czechoslovakia tho)

[crisp fossil]

Ukraine existing in a HOI4 map looks soo cursed

[azure walrus]

so i hope that is a functional alternative

[crisp fossil]

Especially Democratic Ukraine

[azure walrus]

russia btw

spent 2 years fighting nenetsia after the stalinists lost the war

and let all these states break away

crimea broke off too but the tsarists took them back

[crisp fossil]

Oh look Armenia now exists

[azure walrus]

they also conquered lithuania and estonia

[crisp fossil]

How nice

[azure walrus]

but i managed to clutch a nag pact

(latvian diplomats built different)

i cant get another one

because of the wargoal on me

by russia

but they are biding their time

[crisp fossil]

Also why is Bulgaria communist?

What happened there?

[azure walrus]

they went communist this game

[crisp fossil]

Oh you turned off historical AI

[azure walrus]

yeah

[spice root]

is steam down?

[crisp fossil]

Thats why germany was in military junta

Makes more sense now

[azure walrus]

uh huh

austria started with otto von habsburg btw

but they got beat up by the little entente

along with hungary

[crisp fossil]

And now we have Democratic Austria

[azure walrus]

(hungary who is now democratic but being invaded a second time by the czech entente)

[azure walrus]

with silesia

[crisp fossil]

Boy oh boy i cant wait to boot up HOI4 and play Democratic Austria

Sounds like fun

[azure walrus]

this isnt dem austria path, this is habsburg austria with democratic ideology in charge

[crisp fossil]

One day we will get a Luxembourg focus tree

[crisp fossil]

Oh

[azure walrus]

also sanationist poland won the civil war

because russia annexed half of the peasant republic's land in 1939

which is something i think theyre scripted to do whenever germany goes with military junta

but i could be wrong

[crisp fossil]

Why did everyone go communist mostly

Well except russia

[azure walrus]

i mean not rly

only japan, india, italy, bulgaria

bunch of minors

[crisp fossil]

I see like a big communist block in the south

Especially Italy, arent they Communist?

[azure walrus]

yugoslavia is in the japanese faction

italy is alone

[crisp fossil]

Did Japan go communist too?

[azure walrus]

yep

[crisp fossil]

Omg 😭

Communist Japan with Communist Yugoslavia, what a dream team

[azure walrus]

jap faction

[crisp fossil]

Omg

Nvm, they are soo strong

[azure walrus]

china isnt even communist

[crisp fossil]

They have all of china 😭

[azure walrus]

they just joined for funsies

willingly

[crisp fossil]

Prepare for the manpower horde

[azure walrus]

well theyre missing mengjiang

[crisp fossil]

5 billion chinese soldiers russhing in the enemy

[azure walrus]

so theyre obviously weaker than dirt

but still pretty strong

anyway i dont plan on fighting them as the latvian military directorate

[crisp fossil]

I mean ye but not like they will need it

[azure walrus]

are you dismissing the greatness of mengjiang

[crisp fossil]

They have all chinese land that makes china pretty strong

What they are missing most is the great state of sinkiang

Trully the most powerful in that faction

[azure walrus]

you have dismissed the greatness of prince yondonwangchug and the state of mengjiang

when the mongols come for you

[crisp fossil]

Sorry pls dont execute me your greatness

[azure walrus]

there is no compromise

nor surrender

for you

[crisp fossil]

i will take no step back

[azure walrus]

well the clash between you might bring a twilight of the gods, a götterdammerung even

[crisp fossil]

India Japan and China being in the same faction

This faction alone prob got 5 trillion men deployed

[azure walrus]

it should be noted that this exists

and that india has no cores

bc of the partisans

[crisp fossil]

Nvm there goes all that manpower

Well at least theres china

[austere pier]

i managed to get the giant wakes in jan 1938 because of communism in south america, on a scale from 1 to 10 how great is that? idk when its usual to get the focus

[crisp fossil]

Im more suprised anything happened in south america

[azure walrus]

he hasnt surrendered yet, how can he claim to be french

[crisp fossil]

Oh wait isnt Paraguay communist at the start?

[crisp fossil]

Oh god Portugal went down the monarchist path and they did it

[azure walrus]

yeah

[crisp fossil]

If they get the uruguay war goal, they might go to war with the US

Well thats gonna end bad

[azure walrus]

there goes romanian flexible foreign policy

anyway i should build up for the russian-latvian war

(aka build forts

and then when I have building slots

[crisp fossil]

Romania got no one to be friends with

[azure walrus]

they got the czech entente

^_^

[crisp fossil]

But that will not complete their focus now will it?

[azure walrus]

fair

but theyve still got friends inside the entente

[crisp fossil]

At least they can get the research slot

Thats always good

[azure walrus]

yeah ig

[crisp fossil]

Wait i just saw by this image

The UK went fascist

[azure walrus]

yeah they did

and theyre fighting the us, which has made a faction with their former dominions

[crisp fossil]

Well at least they didnt go communist

[azure walrus]

i suppose

but theyre lwk useless

[crisp fossil]

Only to have 500 nations pop from decolonization

[azure walrus]

theyre at war with both the japanese faction and the american faction

so not too good

[crisp fossil]

I mean, maybe Portugal can help them

They might go to war with America

Cuz of the Uruguay war goal they get

[sharp sierra]

its crazy how you can just request lend lease and get like 20k guns

each time

[azure walrus]

portugal(+argentina) are bogged down in chile

i dont believe in the idea that their entrance into a conflict with 3 major powers

[crisp fossil]

They still didnt kill chile?

[azure walrus]

no

[crisp fossil]

Are they both eating rocks?

What are they doing?

[azure walrus]

french guy in charge of chile decided to activate the other part of his french roots

the louis XIV side

[crisp fossil]

How havent they capitulated?

Look at them

They have like what 2 provinces left?

[azure walrus]

they even sold the north to peru

(who lost the amazon war btw)

[crisp fossil]

Omg they did

They sold northern chile...

[azure walrus]

it might be the latvian attaché

[crisp fossil]

I do find funny theres just a massive peru blocking bolivia from the sea

[azure walrus]

yeah its the great might of the latvian military attaché that hath been delivered to the kingdom of araucania and patagonia

[azure walrus]

they occupy one of chile's coastal tiles

waitno they dont

nvm

[crisp fossil]

Wait a minute

Why is the US in like one the guianas?

The british ome?

[azure walrus]

they demanded that the uk piss out of america

[crisp fossil]

Ah

[azure walrus]

democratic alf landon

[crisp fossil]

Portugal is gonna cause WW2 in this timeline with that uruguay war goal

[crisp fossil]

Telling you rn

Omg they got alf landon

Now they should also go communist after that

Thats gonna be fun

[azure walrus]

sure will be

after all the major communist powers in the world are gone

[crisp fossil]

And then Russia turns democratic

[azure walrus]

theyre monarchist

[crisp fossil]

And we have a inverted cold war

[azure walrus]

would be fun tho

[crisp fossil]

Wait omg they could ally with the Portuguese too

Cuz they are also monarchist

[azure walrus]

i dont think they have a focus for that

[crisp fossil]

That would be a pretty strong faction

[azure walrus]

but yeah

[crisp fossil]

Althought they are distant

[crisp fossil]

If they get a common enemy, that might just happen

Do not let Portugal declare that war goal on Uruguay

They gonna set the world on fire

[azure walrus]

They don’t have one

That’s the Chilean war goal

On Uruguay

[crisp fossil]

They get one later on right?

[azure walrus]

Portugal gets claims later

[crisp fossil]

On their focus?

[azure walrus]

Not a war goal

[crisp fossil]

Oh ye true

[azure walrus]

Only claims

[crisp fossil]

I hope they dont start a war goal over that

That would be bad

[azure walrus]

Which they could be discouraged from acting upon due to the US guarantee

[crisp fossil]

Hows spain going too since we talking about Portugal?

Who won in the spanish civil war?

Now if you think about it, both sides have a chabce

Cuz pratically they are mostly alobe

[azure walrus]

Republicans

[crisp fossil]

Republican Spain with Monarchist Portugal

It all makes sense

[azure walrus]

I tried to help the Carlists with an attaché but they were too bad

Anarchists were doing ok but spread the civil war to Portugal before consolidating their own position and were crushed

Falangists were low key just incompetent

[crisp fossil]

Omg they had a chance and blew it all away

I actually like to play Anarchist Spain

[crisp fossil]

I never saw them win a single time

Well that and the Carlists

[azure walrus]

“They had a chance” not exactly, the front was stalling and they were VERY SLOWLY being pushed back

But they were pushing in other parts themselves

[crisp fossil]

How is France doing?

[azure walrus]

They exist

[crisp fossil]

Did they go communist too? Cuz they always do for me

[azure walrus]

They went democratic

[crisp fossil]

Its just soo fun

[crisp fossil]

Omg i must be dreaming

[azure walrus]

That’s why they’re in the Czech entente

[crisp fossil]

France didnt go communist for the 5272615th time

[azure walrus]

Well at least I have a powerful ally

Who can maybe garrison my country

[crisp fossil]

That will surrender as soon as you go to war

[azure walrus]

So I don’t get crushed by Russia

[azure walrus]

Fortunately they don’t border Russia

But Czechoslovakia (leader of the faction) does

[crisp fossil]

I mean france can keep on with the fight, arent they a major?

But then again, its france, they arent gonna last long

[azure walrus]

Idk, haven’t been to war

[azure walrus]

Due to lack of a border they’ll be fine

[crisp fossil]

Germany is prob gonna wake up and smash them like an insect

Soo i expect them to not last long

[azure walrus]

Germany is busy with communist Italy

Along with the rest of the aforementioned “central powers”

[crisp fossil]

What did germany go btw?

I know they went military junta

[azure walrus]

They have Wilhelm III

[crisp fossil]

YES THEY DID MONARCHY

Finally, the game wont be a democratic germany game where nothing happens

[wary sparrow]

chat can they fix german ai yet

[azure walrus]

They’re in a faction with a communist Bulgaria and Militarist Turkey, led by Democratic Austria

[wary sparrow]

they have produced 0 tanks or support equpiment

or planes

[azure walrus]

Who they fighting

[crisp fossil]

Who needs support equipmemt or tanks or planes

[azure walrus]

To waste allat equipment on

[wary sparrow]

only allies rn

german ai has been broken

[crisp fossil]

For the 50th time

I think

[wary sparrow]

its bad this time

[crisp fossil]

I lost count

[wary sparrow]

they cant even fight the soviets at start of barbarossa

[crisp fossil]

Its funny when i join Germany, they get rolled over

[wary sparrow]

cause the soviets are fully equipped and have 5x mroe planes

[crisp fossil]

But when i play against them, they are like this titan

[wary sparrow]

just checked and germany has one factory on guns and 14 on artillery

god have mercy on my hungary campaign

[crisp fossil]

Maybe they are trying to do artillery only

Sorta

[wary sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/mane-im-dead-gif-6502286207230651503

[austere pier]

my american fleets cant go into the carribean or tip of south america for whatever reason

[crisp fossil]

They got 10 artillery and 1 guy with a gun

[austere pier]

anyone know why?

figured it out

[azure walrus]

I think Russia has a better option

aint no WAY czechoslovakia and romania lose a bunch of men to Hungary right before Russia invades me

(Romania owned that state before the war btw)

nvm hungary died

please dont do this czechoslovakia

please czechoslovakia, i need this

without you and france, my latvia is kind of defenseless

russia is about to invade me, give me time to put my forts up

THANK YOU OH GAME

Russia declared war on Finland which was guaranteed by Germany

now theyre fighting the German faction

(which is led by Austria but whatever)

this gives me a much, much more secure guarantor if they come for me

or at least ally

yeah uh

[runic spoke]

why did bro let ukraine exist 🥀

[azure walrus]

the japanese faction (with italy and yugoslavia also in it) managed to get into a war with most of europe 💀

[azure walrus]

im latvia

[runic spoke]

ohh

better prepare smth around riga

[azure walrus]

russia let ukraine exist

[azure walrus]

they just got in a war with the german(austrian) faction

i have time

[runic spoke]

until konigsberg falls fr

[azure walrus]

theyve had the wargoal for almost a year

since the nag pact I got expired

germany is justifying on me too

am i fried

[runic spoke]

na

have germany declare war on u and join russian faction

or get free non aggression pact with them maybe

[azure walrus]

russia has no faction

i can do this tho

also ukraine is lowkey fueling the latvian economy with its coal

so lwk thank you vladimir iii for sparing them

democratic france against all odds is doing work 🥹

should I join this war

nah

i wont get anything useful out of it

(im latvia)

russia has joined the asian communist solidarity

are the new faction mechanics only for ncns

ah crap

they came for latvia

at least they have to fight all this too

they naval invaded riga

[runic spoke]

so few divs agh

[azure walrus]

im latvia

what do you want

[runic spoke]

shouldve had riga on frontline

[runic spoke]

desperate defense service by req maybe invade ur neighbors for core pop

[azure walrus]

i have desperate def

im nonaligned and havent been to war before this point

so no service by req

and im nonaligned so I need 50% wt to justify

[runic spoke]

whats div template looking like

[azure walrus]

and by that point Russia had already invaded and annexed lit and est

i managed to squeeze out a full army of this

tried to make medium tanks but gave up on it

because manpower too low

[runic spoke]

thats pretty good

ig i would throw on engineers

i also wouldve consolidated to a way shorter line

seems like they broke through pretty fast

[azure walrus]

i dojt have those

[runic spoke]

researche m

[azure walrus]

yeah i died

latvia game 4

[rich nacelle]

Based off of the 2 times I have done this.

[west owl]

My brain just created a new synapse when I learned you can only declare total war in this game

[fair horizon]

Need Q2

[opal nymph]

The rare scripted peace deal:

[heavy vigil]

the legendary rarity whitepeace/conditional surrender:

[wooden agate]

@silk walrus Can I speak to a PDX rep

@heavy vigil I have something really important to discuss

like really importat

[west owl]

I messed up hard going to war with Romania as Italy but I got Greece so

[heavy vigil]

dm @grizzled delta to create a ticket

[opal nymph]

You can get in contact with people through the bot

[heavy vigil]

^^^

[opal nymph]

PDX forums works for a general question

Devs tend to look there

[pine gull]

Holy. Look at how many dead in japan vs usa

[wooden agate]

Alright I did, what I sent is pretty bad

[sharp sierra]

what is it

[cedar monolith]

my guns helped

[heavy vigil]

youll have to be patient as this is outside paradox staff work hours

[wooden agate]

of course

[green lodge]

Quami or nufus ?

[west owl]

I figured out u gotta defend let them run out of supplies, then attack

[mental mantle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1223573746644815943/1397545824753553449/16B7C9DC-C848-457A-97CB-905FED2A7FD1.gif

[green lodge]

Best focus till now

[inland falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/potechi-potato-chip-kun-seal-grey-seal-gif-8004755833807337444

[green lodge]

Fuuhh

The volunteers didn't come

[azure walrus]

imma do latvia for latvians today

[full ether]

https://tenor.com/view/what-do-you-mean-by-that-gif-10559980082154008380

[azure walrus]

this

I do the focuses under latvia for latvians

and then do anti german propaganda

[full ether]

fun

[azure walrus]

to stay nonaligne

d

because I want to get strong as the latvian military directorate

for no one else will

hail to the marshal

keep the radicals at bay

hail to the marshal

bring democracy back "someday"

idk man

[full ether]

Atatürk approves this post

[azure walrus]

im angry that paradox forgot to give estonia a militarist path

😠

where is my military coup paradox

no god please no

[fickle thicket]

mid new czech tree

[azure walrus]

if i dont see a hussite path imma fume

(be very angry)

[fickle thicket]

pdx 2026 focus trees should be massive instead of this

yes the czechs are a minor dont mean anythin

[azure walrus]

i mean, these are from no step back

not 2026

but im not mad about the size

im mad about the personality

[fickle thicket]

what trees

[azure walrus]

where is consistency

[azure walrus]

baltics

the ones you replied to

[fickle thicket]

im a dumbass

[azure walrus]

ah

[static creek]

I did that a few times but it doesnt work anymore

Unless im doing something wrong 🤔

[azure walrus]

is the ai gonna form hungaromania 🔥

[fickle thicket]

yur

[azure walrus]

hail the nightmare

[fickle thicket]

i need to start playing the trees for got.

been gaming hytale a shit ton

[west owl]

How do you friend and invite other nations to current war?

[restive sable]

didnt even think of this but it'd be funny

[azure walrus]

knowing paradox tho it'll have a secret "easter egg" to get jan hus' long lost descendant adolf hus, who conveniently shows up after the nazis lose the civil war and has 6 or 7 unique focuses that give you super heavy tanks, cores on germany, and 75% faster nuclear reesearch speed(among other less relevant buffs)

[brittle cypress]

ask to join faction/invite to faction and then press the call to arms button

[west owl]

I’m in faction with Germany but I can’t invite Hungary

[brittle cypress]

what does it say when you try to

[west owl]

It doesn’t give me an option, just says docking rights and everything else

[brittle cypress]

uhhh are you faction leader?

idk

[west owl]

Nope Germany is

Idk what to do, I’m in an unwinnable war with Romania

[brittle cypress]

Who are you playing

[west owl]

Italy

[brittle cypress]

justify on Hungary and invade through there?

or Yugoslavia?

[west owl]

I have Italian yugo but Hungary is near Romania

[azure walrus]

Latvia game #5 😄

[west owl]

Should I declare war on Hungary?

[brittle cypress]

Oh so the issue is that you can’t break through Romania

[west owl]

Yes

[brittle cypress]

sure if you want to it would open the front a bit, but like you should be able to push Romania

[west owl]

I lost 30 divisions getting trapped by them

[brittle cypress]

you lost 30 divs to Romania ???

[west owl]

I lose 460k they lost 199k

Yea

[brittle cypress]

Send screenshot of this

How is that

What

The frontline not the losses

[west owl]

I pushed so hard in they encircled me

I can’t push there front line unless it’s on left side

I might order complete withdraw and let yugo deal with it

@brittle cypress

[west owl]

Idk what to do I’m so stressed

[azure walrus]

crap

do i reset atp 🥀

[green lodge]

Guys is Quami path better than the Nufus path or nah ?

[rustic owl]

Increible

[gritty leaf]

How do I stop the allies and comintern battles in my land?

[west owl]

Guys am I cooked?

[green lodge]

Chat

As Afghanistan, i picked Quami and Grand Battleplan

I'm assuming for Subdoctrine, i'll choose Irregulars and shit out Irregular divs

[winter fulcrum]

is this tuff?

[green lodge]

Yuh

[west owl]

AI said I’m pushing like Germany as Italy but I’m Italy lolll

[green lodge]

Ayy

Finally something good

[green lodge]

Irregulars helped me aton to smash through India as well as eic eating up bombay means i have to go to madras 🥀

[random delta]

I FINALLY DID THAT THING TO BULGARIA LETS GO

[restive sable]

i love kaiserredux

[grizzled crater]

Can anyone help me in https://discord.com/channels/183787140671471616/644290413641072660

[quasi shoal]

take 2 of the sultunate of aussa playthrough, did nonhist and italy joined the stressa front so now it's me and ethiopia vs every major in africa

time for free causualties 😋

[green lodge]

OLIVE

Have you played Afghanistan

[quasi shoal]

nah

I don't got the dlc

[green lodge]

Fuh

[shut sigil]

What did you do to my country

[random delta]

imagine

[shut sigil]

The duck is that supposed to mean

[green lodge]

Ah yes Albania
The Islamic Country

[tawdry nebula]

Good morning guys.

[dawn grail]

What you be doing when Bulgaria lookin like this?

No like honestly what do I do

Romania joined the Soviets and invaded me

[analog ivy]

ngl TFR has the best focus art i've ever seen

and there is so many focuses

no wonder why theres only like 4 countries with focuses its because it takes so long to make the art and the 40 different paths

[dawn grail]

The Romanians have a couple more divisions than i would have liked

[dusky burrow]

Turn off military access for one of them

Not like I'd particularly care tbh, they kill each other so you stand stronger

[supple summit]

accepted a mongolian expeditionary force

got this piece of shit

[dusky burrow]

That's gold to some smaller countries

[supple summit]

mb tanna tuva

but

like

im the ussr rn and this

is just sad

[dusky burrow]

I mean that's just a standard line-holder division

[supple summit]

whatever works ig

[dusky burrow]

Yeah

As the Soviet Union you obviously have better divisions

But still, one division is one division

[quasi shoal]

ts ain't even that bad

but it's ugly asl 😭 ✌️

[dusky burrow]

ai division design be like

[supple summit]

tbh thats what i was on about but i just did an all nighter

i cant even be asked tryna explain division design

my

0

i=wergko #latest-updates

[junior imp]

what is this dog shit

this is not

acceptable

[supple summit]

ong

[junior imp]

What was AI cooking

[supple summit]

meth apparently

[junior imp]

Mongolian Heisenberg 🥀

Chengiz White

[snow rain]

it's alright as a defence div, it's 16w that just lacks support arty
it'll make a good last stand sacrifice to the blood god

[rustic ridge]

Its 1949. Damn. Strong germans. With new tech.

And yuh 2 nuclear bombs

Only Anschluss. No war.

[green lodge]

Iran's easy to kill in 36 at least

[green lodge]

AHH

[rustic ridge]

Aditionaly supplies

High level of supply

[fair compass]

me watching the ai make every general they have lead 1 division

[rustic ridge]

On 44 was attacked by Britians

Small country but strong.

[green lodge]

Damn, but I'm Afghanistan

They had like 8 divs and i just pinned them down and took their capitals

Always strike first guys

[rustic ridge]

Yo the reason i don't attack now EU countries is... 28 allies only 2 Axis. And second reason... Learning becoming powerfull.

[fair compass]

1 Ally cuz the other 27 are all British vassals in non-european continents

[rustic ridge]

Like my infantry div is stronger than my panzer div

[green lodge]

That's not good

[rustic ridge]

Oh. Didin't know

[green lodge]

Build self propelled guns

40% MORE SOFT

[rustic ridge]

Like infantry got 287 HP or something like that but panzer got only 100

But panzer hard attack is 756

Soft is 478

Idk