hoi4-general

[pseudo raven]

Or do special project for armored engineers

[tawny robin]

would get pierced

[pseudo raven]

Or even sp at or aa

[tight zephyr]

One of the best thing on defence is entrenchment

[pseudo raven]

Yep I am planning to use spies to reduce german planning bonuses

[tawny robin]

that will help a lot

[pseudo raven]

And my uk friend wants to focus on cas

[tight zephyr]

@pseudo raven try it mp game

Ofc

[tawny robin]

maybe something you can do is remove 1 inf battalion and add 2 anti tank battalions

they only take 1 combat width

[tight zephyr]

Oops my Internet

[pseudo raven]

Like 8inf 2at bats

[tawny robin]

yea

havent really tried that myself but it should increase your hard attack significantly

[tight zephyr]

Cas? What was cas?

[tawny robin]

close air support

[pseudo raven]

And support is focused on Rangers, engineers, signal comp, mb aa

[tight zephyr]

Oh

[tawny robin]

rangers are kind of pointless

in northern france

it's 90% plains a bit of forest which rangers dont benefit from

wait

which kind of rangers exactly

the new one?

[pseudo raven]

We want to rush German insta after remilitarisation

[tawny robin]

or mountaineer support battalion

[pseudo raven]

Of reihn

[tawny robin]

that usually ruins multiplayer games

[pseudo raven]

To ruin first mp game and play 2nd

[pseudo raven]

Yeah we will do it for jk

They are not randoms

They will be chill

Has someone tried those forest special forces?

Are they good or mountaineers are still best option

[tawny robin]

they're kind of strong

i've seen a germany player spam out those

it was hard to handle

[pseudo raven]

Bcs of forest buff and overall special forces buffs?

[surreal mist]

dont use line AT like this, there is 0 benefit over adding a second one to your line holder inf, and even the first one is questionable. This isn't going to stop a real tank division from players that know how to play. The most you can hope for is piercing them so they dont take 50% less damage, and support AT is fine for that role.

[pseudo raven]

So
Sup at
Sup aa
Signal company
Engineers
Rangers

Smth like that?

And 9 inf battalions

[tawny robin]

the goal was just to increase hard attack so they can defend better

but I guess that's not too useful since they wouldn't have too high hardness

[pseudo raven]

Ig there were doc for if hard attack

[surreal mist]

overpriced for no reason on line filler inf, better to use that AT on big special forces divs if he really wants to play with AT

you'll never have more hard attack than tank breakthrough on line filler inf

[pseudo raven]

What about sp at or i just stick to meta sp art tank divs

I have seen someone done 3700 spft atk with sp art div

Looked cool against ai

[surreal mist]

soft attack doesnt do anything to hardness, you were talking about an MP game so i assume your opponents will know how to make tanks, which SPG divs will be very bad into

[surreal mist]

also, do 8, better width to fit in forest, you arent holding plains anyway, no reason to optimize for it

[tawny robin]

there are a lot of plains tiles in northern france

[pseudo raven]

My will have a chance to get into Belgium forests with help of uk

He will try to rush heavy bomb locks

For cas

[surreal mist]

you arent holding that even with the extra battalion, its w/e but 16w just performs better everywhere else, but it doesnt really matter all that much

[pseudo raven]

Idk he is like 10hrs in game i thought him how to use interface and basics of control

[pseudo raven]

But he can hear calls

So should be comfort

[pseudo raven]

Makes sense

At some point I was thinking about doing 15w

Or 14

But lots of support companies

Like so in every fight lots of divs with at aa

But it is not cost effective for France

[stark pebble]

How should a good medium tank div look

[pseudo raven]

Against ai do sp art divs ig

[stark pebble]

Whar

[pseudo raven]

Creep send me once this template idk is it gud

[spiral prawn]

load

[sudden raptor]

i dont think so

[sudden raptor]

nvm it is but u usualy want guns 3

[pseudo raven]

I am not acknowledged with meta

[surreal mist]

howitzer 3 is heavy gun

[sudden raptor]

im also not 😭 im just writing what ive seen in yt vids 😭

[pseudo raven]

I used to play with 7/2's like I done before no step back

Now trying to hop on new meta templates

[surreal mist]

you lose 40% break if you want to use howitzer 3 on medium chassis

[pseudo raven]

Ouch

[sudden raptor]

Mauser or Carl Walther?

as MIOs

mauser right?

[surreal mist]

both, Carl Walther is goated for researching support (i.e signals, logis, hospital) but you want guns to be Mauser

Carl Walther with Rudolf Hess = 45% research speed

[sudden raptor]

aight ty

[spiral prawn]

Russia somehow lost the central asian war

[slim nexus]

what mod is that

[sudden raptor]

is this ww1 mod?>

[spiral prawn]

This is Kaiserreich

[sudden raptor]

so ww1

[spiral prawn]

What if Germany won ww1*

[sudden raptor]

ohhh

[surreal mist]

is Kaiserreich ai fixed yet, post NCNS they purposely hamstring themselves and pick only dogwater doctrines

[spiral prawn]

Idk

I'm banned on most kaiserreich communities

Its a great mod tho

[sudden raptor]

flame or military engineering tanks?

[spiral prawn]

definitely better than vanilla

[spiral prawn]

Flame

[sudden raptor]

engineering is just if u know ur gonna defend right?

[spiral prawn]

yes

[pseudo raven]

I heard they give buffs even if not produced

Like just in div template

Is it right?

[sudden raptor]

who should i promote to field marhsall as germany? guenther von kluge right?

[stark pebble]

Does CK2 have the complete randomness that medieval marriages were

[mellow ibex]

guys

how do i remove this stupid HOI from my name

[vapid oasis]

Ik i've been holding off on getting back into HOI4 until i got the dlc (preferably on discount) but ive been trying out pax historia and now I got that grand strategy itch again.

so yeah, time to hop my rusty butt back in

will help me prep for ww2 games

[zenith charm]

time to take a shower

[slim nexus]

wow

thats a lot

[pseudo raven]

In profile edit menu

In bottom is "Server tag"

[mellow ibex]

thank u

[edgy wedge]

Is the next dlc the warship skins one?

[vapid oasis]

im a complete rusty noob by comparison. Anyways, time to play south africa.

[cold wedge]

Peak plane design

trust

[vapid oasis]

historical ai on or off for this run? playing the commonwealth can get spicy when britain goes decolonization/empire.

[cold wedge]

If ur PC isn't a potato go off

cuz decolonisation makes ur PC explode

[vapid oasis]

off it is

[cold wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/cpu-on-smoke-cpu-blasts-potato-pc-gif-24592403

[vapid oasis]

mmm, speaking of communist and fascist paths

as soon as I get the rails done im starting the abandon westminister path

[pseudo raven]

Ig union of African people sounds cool

[vapid oasis]

especially if britain decolonizes

though king for our people boer conquest sounds fun too

if edward still gets kicked out that is

[pseudo raven]

Any path beside staying democratic or puppet

Is fun

[vapid oasis]

aka don't go german, don't like civil wars anyways

gonna be south africa first or anti colonialist crusade

oh ffs

screw it, i wont need soviet support anyways since they kill eachother 99% of games.

huh, germany and the soviets are actually staying put this time

oh hello

[vapid oasis]

this is why we do referendums when we can

bruh

[queen bronze]

medium SP is where i want to go next right?
what do i change

[atomic grove]

add 4 more mech

and add 1 more tank if u can

[cold vapor]

finally

[copper cobalt]

Millennium dawn makes the pc purr

[queen bronze]

but i want SPs instead of tanks right?

[atomic grove]

sure

go to the tank design menu

use a medium howitzer or the upgraded ver

and switch the role to artillery

[queen bronze]

thx

med 3 man turret? and speed are what i want right

oh and hardness or breakthru? for armor

[queen bronze]

heres what i got

[atomic grove]

max out the armor stat via the button and switch the armor back to riveted

[queen bronze]

like this?

[atomic grove]

yeah

thats good enough

[cold vapor]

also max out engine and always do 3 men turret

[atomic grove]

nah

speed isnt always necessary from my games

especially for germany too

and higher engine stat (the button) means more fuel usage

[ember vine]

I did it lol

[slim nexus]

So based

[patent thistle]

please dont tell me you forgot about memel-

[ember vine]

Italy dont wanna give it to me

[patent thistle]

typical italy

[ember vine]

Fr

[patent thistle]

they always think they are entitled to something

[serene breach]

interesting

[golden granite]

what dlc you guys recommend? I have arms against tyranny and no step back atm

[serene breach]

if soviets have major puppets will they capitulate if i gonna capitulate soviets? or i have to capitulate every major puppets? they are not in faction

[patent thistle]

by blood alone is a good DLC to get due to the plane designer

[golden granite]

alrighty ty

[patent thistle]

its the next DLC i am getting myself too (i also have No step back and arms against tyranny)

[atomic grove]

u just have to cap sssr

because they aint in a faction

[worldly sonnet]

What did Albania do😭

[eternal palm]

What's gonna happen is, when the Soviets cap, their puppets will become independent and you have to kill them one by one

[eternal palm]

Nope

Puppets will become independent

[atomic grove]

they do?

never had to do that

[eternal palm]

Yep

[eternal palm]

Usually because puppets are in a faction

It's not the same here

[atomic grove]

no like even without the faction

[eternal palm]

Unless he's lucky and the cap fires before the independence

[atomic grove]

that only happens to me if the puppet never joined the war

[eternal palm]

It usually does though

Idk I've never been in a situation where the puppets are majors

[lost dawn]

I have been told that my infantry template sucks.

Does anyone have a better idea on how to build units that can hold the frontline?

[lost dawn]

Do I really need those flame tanks?

What about anti-air and hospital companies?

I am not that fond on using infantry units that all need fuel.

[eternal palm]

Aa in case of red air of course, fh is wasted on small units, you'd rather use them on larger divs like this

[eternal palm]

Then just replace the flame tanks with aa and the recon with rangers

[outer tide]

first time doing space marines is ts alright?

[lost dawn]

Would something like this also work?

[eternal palm]

Nah

[eternal palm]

Why 20w

[outer tide]

for 1939

[eternal palm]

It's shit

[lost dawn]

Instead of this

[eternal palm]

Yea don't do this

[lost dawn]

I am just kinda used to the idea of 20w.

[eternal palm]

Recon does nothing, use rangers instead and use signals instead of the fh

[eternal palm]

Yea then get unused to it

[lost dawn]

I do not have rangers yet.

[eternal palm]

It's been out of the meta for years now

[eternal palm]

Then leave it open

[eternal palm]

Still shit

Space marines are bad, arty is bad and the width is awful

[orchid lily]

i have the strongest fleet in the north sea but when i patrol this shows up, WHY

i have a big ass fleet and it is giving me no naval dominance

if it did id have already started the invasion please explain what i am doing wrong

but how can i bring it to friendly control if it doesnt let me increase my dominance

please someone help me this is really confusing

[atomic grove]

its prob out of range

show ur screen

[orchid lily]

im almost out of time soon ill have to go back and repair

this new mechanic is so bs

[terse skiff]

You'll need as many fleets patrolling as the amount of sea tiles you need dominance over

[sudden raptor]

does anyone have a save were they alr did all the work and all i have to do is declare war 😭 i just want to have fun man

[orchid lily]

one fleet can cover both the norwegian tiles i got supremacy there

[ember vine]

Am I autistic

[sudden raptor]

just make tanks atp

[orchid lily]

but alr ill try splitting that fleet as you said

so now 2 fleets each cover a tile at a time

[slim nexus]

Most dont know this but tanks r avruslly rlly good for pushing

[terse skiff]

If all three fleets are patrolling, then you need to wait until the fleet goes to that tile. If it still doesn't work, usually you need to cancel the mission and reclick patrol. Unfortunately the naval system is heavily bugged now

[sudden raptor]

anyone?

[ember vine]

Gon make a full army group of super heavy tanks and invade america with em

[sudden raptor]

or space marines

[ember vine]

I literally got großosterreich

[orchid lily]

yep had to cancel and reselct the mission

ffs

broken ass game

RAHHH

[serene breach]

ohhh well thats not really issue because i gonna have whole world bc soviets already puppet like 80% of world XD

thanks

[serene breach]

thats me

[worldly sonnet]

Damn

[serene breach]

why i have these borders you asking?

BECAUSE DAM SOVIETS KEEP STEALING IT WITHOUT MILITARY ACCESS

they coring whole world 😭

[quasi osprey]

little iraq empire I made I just need to take oman and yemen for arabia decision

[ember vine]

Oman is hard unless uk turned commie

Oh you at war already

Lol

[quasi osprey]

nah but I will manage especially if uk collapses in africa which it is slowly doing I think

[ember vine]

Go for em

[quasi osprey]

I will try

they invaded my land in saudi arabia but I pushed them back quite a bit almost to pre-war borders

[ember vine]

I still don't know how to knock japan out as austria, I beat Germany and formed Großosterreich after creating austria hungary and idk what next

My fleet is fresh

I'm with fascist allies

And I hate Italy the most for stealing my land without war

[quasi osprey]

finally the italian africa connected

there is a reason why I kinda hate this borders for now

the allies love to naval invade and half my provinces are next to the ocean

and I cant even form arabia as I dont control oman and yemen

[icy crescent]

Try forming Arabia as Oman, if you're masochistic enough. xd

[quasi osprey]

north africa is finally ours

[grizzled yarrow]

i won like 3 months earlier than last time #progress

[deep pike]

is kaiser whilheim II trais better than kemail attaturks traits?

[icy crescent]

I prefer the 20% extra stability over other cost reductions.

[quasi osprey]

germany....... why

[sudden raptor]

what are u playing as

[quasi osprey]

germany is in no military position to fight the soviets

[quasi osprey]

iraq

[sudden raptor]

what

IRAQ?

[quasi osprey]

I am in axis

[sudden raptor]

also just leave the faction

bfor they call u

[quasi osprey]

cant

I am at war so cant leave faction

[sudden raptor]

ah

why is there no way to make "peace" in hoi

[quasi osprey]

idk maybe the soviets will collapse and it will be nice but well who knows

[quasi osprey]

yes I wished for it to be there many times

[sudden raptor]

did they call u in tho

[quasi osprey]

maybe it could work the way that if you give up a part of ur teritorry or pay with civs you could make peace

[quasi osprey]

yes

[sudden raptor]

zamn

just say no

[quasi osprey]

well i was at war with allies even before this but soviets idk they dont border me

[quasi osprey]

they cant get to me unless they pass through iran first

I like how this is basically the only time italy gives land to me from their conquered land and not the other way around

[toxic cypress]

we need more rails

every american town must have a train

[edgy jetty]

even the trees must have a train

[woven dragon]

You skipped Montana and North Dakota

[toxic cypress]

baby steps

the goal is every county a trainstop by 1950

EVERY american town will have a tokyo metro level train

[slim nexus]

Chinese empire borders awesome

[patent thistle]

this should be enough for the soviet black seas fleet, (romania)

[toxic cypress]

i deleted the entire american navy

im gonna redo it

america without a navy

lets hope my 500 coastal garrisons

will stop whatever comes

and yes i have a map saved of the world maxed out with max eco and full non sp tech

i load this whenever i wanna have fun

[toxic cypress]

its part of a really big alliance too

i made the world a lil too axis sided

[sudden raptor]

game save por favor

[toxic cypress]

i worked hard for this shit boy

[sudden raptor]

game save por favor

[toxic cypress]

i spent like 1h doing all the focus trees setting up cores and tech maxing all the states

[slim nexus]

Game save por favor

[toxic cypress]

all in 1 day

[toxic cypress]

when i finish this run i dm u the mod list and save file

im not closing my game to get the mod list

[sudden raptor]

oki

[slim nexus]

Oki

[toxic cypress]

if i remember doe

[sudden raptor]

js send me the file like it is rn

por favor

[toxic cypress]

also in like 20h im flying to hongkong

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-hikikomori-gif-9348270

[sudden raptor]

send or eternal avdol and joseph humping

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/jojo-anime-jojos-bizarre-adventure-joseph-joestar-battle-tendency-gif-17923881

joestar family secret

[toxic cypress]

what if i just send you a buncha files

[sudden raptor]

yes

[toxic cypress]

and u go try to find which one is the save file

and you also have to guess the modset

the like 20 mods i have for this to work

[sudden raptor]

i dont need mods

[toxic cypress]

it will crash without mods

[sudden raptor]

o

[toxic cypress]

yeah

u gotta find the massive amount of mods i have on for all of this to work

[sudden raptor]

but i dont wanna mods 😭😭

[toxic cypress]

🤷‍♂️ u think i have 6k factories in vanilla

i think the asian commune has like 8k

i broke up the eurasian socialist soviet republics cause it had like 10k factories

[wise spire]

good template?

[toxic cypress]

this used to be one superstate

but was too op so i just cut it up

[serene breach]

how i can fix attrition on ships?

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/gotta-feed-the-fam-pnb-rock-aftermath-song-i-have-to-feed-my-family-gotta-bring-the-bread-home-gif-23283285

[wise spire]

The British fleet will destroy it in 1 day

[patent thistle]

f*** you italy no

[serene breach]

wdym

what british

[old adder]

What a civil war

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/watching-at-you-gif-1693404535541998110

[patent thistle]

good idea yugo

(i am making it into small puppet states)

[steel zephyr]

Kier Starmer of Finland

[trim lotus]

It's 1946, and I thought, "It's complex and annoying to find bases for so many aircraft. Surely, 100 active fighter wings is enough, and I'll just have a giant pile of reserve aircraft."

Three days into a war with Britain and France: "I guess I'll just have to train another 80 or so fighter wings for training".

[sly venture]

genuinely impossible to play multi

[heavy vigil]

10K fighters in 1 zone is plnety

spread out? no

[crude schooner]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1164170109816934435/1469017177364365514/togif.gif

are we deadass

[supple summit]

lowkey do you wanna go on with me and some other guys?

[hot oxide]

i started a coup in germany

[sly venture]

We decided on the country to play so sorry no

[hot oxide]

and this was their immediate response

[supple summit]

its good

[grizzled yarrow]

SCREW YOU UK

[patent thistle]

should be enough to keep the soviet black seas fleet out of my sea

[toxic cypress]

why did you take canada

[grizzled yarrow]

Us invasion

[toxic cypress]

you know taking indonesia or malaysia is better right

[toxic cypress]

the axis will take canada

if u take indonesia or malaysia later when u betray the axis

they wont have the rubber

for trucks or planes

also u will get hela oil

[grizzled yarrow]

Hmmm good point

[lethal ether]

best star wars mod in ur guys opinion?

[grizzled yarrow]

I gotta say

Spain truly is pain

[serene breach]

he should retire

[grizzled yarrow]

Welp.

Atleast the hard part is over

Now i js gotta make troops and kill the us

[chilly night]

Anyone has a good equipment_designs they can share? I am tired of having to guess the "good" designs, so if anything exists, that's cool.

[grizzled yarrow]

Designs or templates?

[safe wing]

Empire at war fall of the republic or thrawns revenge but they are for a different game

[modern torrent]

is there a hoi4 mod that takes place in ancient times

[lethal ether]

for what game

[safe wing]

Empire at war

[lethal ether]

oh

[safe wing]

One of the few RTS games I played that has better Naval combat than ground combat

[modern torrent]

does anyone know

[safe wing]

There was

But it’s no longer in development

[lethal ether]

are there any for hoi4

i saw some but they look bad

[modern torrent]

unfortunate

[safe wing]

Yeah

But empire at war has a better engine for Star Wars mods

[tawdry nebula]

Good evening guys.

[safe wing]

Good afternoon

[woven gate]

what's up

[chilly night]

It's the designs for the tanks, guns, fighters, boats etc...

[grizzled yarrow]

For tanks lowk js get as much soft atack as possible

In sp

[chilly night]

the point is to get a file I can simply put in my documents

and sit back

and relax

[tawdry nebula]

I'm fine thanks and you?

[woven gate]

just went for a run

what are y'all up to

[weak jacinth]

he looks like the guy from the animated movie where aliens come and he breaks it down on the keyboard

(i forgot his name)

[pseudo raven]

stabilised front

[weak jacinth]

OH MY GOD WHAT AM I LOOKING AT

[ember vine]

4x4 infantry 1x4 artillery support artillery support anti aircraft support anti tank engineer company cavalry scout company

[weak jacinth]

what's the combat with

[ember vine]

Idk I quit a few hrs ago

[weak jacinth]

its like 50with or something please be honest and tell me what u were thinking

[ember vine]

I had a million guns and didn't know what to do with them

So I edited all my infantry units

I have 50 factories for everything as frickin austria

[weak jacinth]

i personally wouldnt ever go over 36 with, if you really had that much equipment just pump out more divs

[ember vine]

I'd cause AI neighbors to be desperate and spam divisions on my border

[weak jacinth]

whad? were you playing modded?

[ember vine]

Nope

I got non historical and the borders are shit

This but updated to lithuania being annexed by italy for whatever reason they wanted it

[weak jacinth]

my guy at this point you dont need to be concerned about ur neigbours spamming divs, you can just battleplan them at this point if they try to fight you

[ember vine]

Also I puppeted ukraine

[ember vine]

Russia is busy with japan and i'm not planning to help them on siberia

[weak jacinth]

yeah sometimes the occupation goes to someone that defently doesnt deserve it

[ember vine]

Also Germany is capitulated and wont give up because japan joined the axis

Japan is annoying asf

[ember vine]

I got too focused on puppeting benelux

I've formed both großosterreich and austria hungary without declaring a single war

[weak jacinth]

i love forever wars that never end because some random country that isnt even on the same continent decieded to guarente someone else (looking at you uk)

[toxic cypress]

20 repairs and 20 supply ships per fleet sound good?

8 fleets

[ember vine]

Fr like why tf would the UK care about Rwanda being invaded by burundi

[toxic cypress]

maybe 6 regular fleets and 1 mega fleet

the american flagship

[weak jacinth]

i tried to take mongolia as russia, guess who got in the way

[toxic cypress]

20 repair/supply ships for 6 fleets and 50 for one super big fleet

[ember vine]

UK rhymes with "u gay" and it even sounds the same

[weak jacinth]

tbh i dont know much about navy but from what i heard support and repair ships arent worth it, not sure tho

[weak jacinth]

https://tenor.com/view/joe-bartolozzi-our-brains-are-shrinking-our-brains-ascension-gif-1990741957393838955

[toxic cypress]

well i gave every state maxed out shit every nation has max tech and full eco

its not like we rationing here

[ember vine]

UK and Japan are the worst because they are the loudest but without their little rusty navy they're barely a thing

[toxic cypress]

also double pop growth

im sitting here while the old war fight it out

[ember vine]

Half an army landing in great britain and I capitulate them in 5 days

[toxic cypress]

i mean fight fight

they have millions of losses and crazy industries

[weak jacinth]

this whole area just hurts my brain

[toxic cypress]

its probably hell

i ddnt build em supply

just industry

[ember vine]

Probably china and asian commune have each others military access to fight siberia

[toxic cypress]

there probably is an entire lost generation fighting in the frontlines of the west v east war

[weak jacinth]

its like a car crash, its horrible but you just cant stop looking

[toxic cypress]

it was worse btw

there used to be an african front

that shit was disgusting

[ember vine]

We non historicals see this kinda shi daily

[toxic cypress]

ts looked completely ass

[patent thistle]

italy be cooking

[ember vine]

Latin africa lol

[toxic cypress]

11k sunken ships

[toxic cypress]

the portugese winning rn

[ember vine]

I mean a lot of countries got cons00med

[toxic cypress]

its only been like 1 and a half years btw

it took 1.5 years to have 50mil loses

[ember vine]

Wdym like it was still 1937?

[toxic cypress]

yeah

[ember vine]

How dafuq

[toxic cypress]

also soviets had civil war

i forgot

to fix that

there was alot more loses

b4 the soviet civil war

[ember vine]

How did it all happen before 39 bro 😭

[quasi osprey]

this casualties are a bit high for a small country like me😭

[toxic cypress]

it is 1940 now

[ember vine]

Every damn time when I play a minor country

[quasi osprey]

I think lithuania is a bit claustrophobic rn

[quasi osprey]

yes

idk why I always take so much casualties as minors

[patent thistle]

romanian maginot line

[ember vine]

Bro got germany, germany and germany as neighbors

[patent thistle]

understatement

[quasi osprey]

idk how they even escaped soviet rule

[patent thistle]

italy is cooking hard btw-

[patent thistle]

idk did they just deny soviet annexation?

[toxic cypress]

60mil oh boy

[quasi osprey]

iraq is cooking hard as well at least trying to

[patent thistle]

common british L

[quasi osprey]

although the british are trying to take bake their land very fircely

I simply dont have enough equipment for their onslought

this is my average div rn

[patent thistle]

ah yes because as romania you need nuclear reactors

[quasi osprey]

wow logical three pefect divs failing to attack to severely under equipment barely existing divs

in my whole army there are exactly three good divs

[patent thistle]

the romanian navy is ready for stalin

the army too ig

[upbeat burrow]

Is there any way to increase odds of the warlords accepting puppeting?

[patent thistle]

f*** off stalin

[grizzled yarrow]

How does one know navy

[tiny pendant]

I can’t get Kaiserreich to work even though I have it downloaded and enabled it loads vanilla.

[patent thistle]

did ya check that it was really kaiserreich?

[tiny pendant]

It’s Kaiserreich.

[patent thistle]

screenshot and show

uhm, thanks UK?

[patent thistle]

its the soviet navy i will have to deal with, i just dont want to deal with naval invasions

[patent thistle]

do you have the playset selected?

[tiny pendant]

It’s in the Initial playset.

[patent thistle]

then you might need to validate your files over steam

[tiny pendant]

Shit I’m dumb I forgot to activate it.

[patent thistle]

LOL-

[tiny pendant]

Thank you comrade.

Long live the revolution!

[patent thistle]

WHERE IS THE SOVIET JUSTIFICATION- ITS JUST GONE-

[grizzled yarrow]

Theres no country i hate more than the uk

It took me a whole lot of microing to cap them as spain

[grizzled yarrow]

It expired ig

[patent thistle]

claimed states justifications dont run out tho?

[grizzled yarrow]

Are u sure

[patent thistle]

i am pretty sure they dont run out

only normal, conquer and puppet ones can run out i am pretty sure

[grizzled yarrow]

Conquer wargoal usually dont expire tho

Idk bout puppet

[patent thistle]

i wanted the soviets to invade me tho-

[grizzled yarrow]

Js justify on em

[patent thistle]

fine i just justify on them i got a claim

i am pretty sure the germans are also coming into the soviets soon

[toxic cypress]

80 mil people died for this

[toxic cypress]

i think ima try to

fix this a lil

[worldly sonnet]

Was it worth it?

[toxic cypress]

hell no

i wasnt even in it

im america

i just watched

[grizzled yarrow]

How is angola alive

[shadow plinth]

uh guys, is this normal

when did this happen historically

[prisma saddle]

Costantinopoli

🤑

[shadow plinth]

look at where the capital is located

[prisma saddle]

1942

[prisma saddle]

damn

ravanda

what ts

[shadow plinth]

i seriously dont know how this happened

[prisma saddle]

well

theorically if you play historical and you do some strange thinghs not historical the ai can choose other way in the focus tree

but I am not sure

[shadow plinth]

im playing as byzantine

i just dk why the capital moved there

[prisma saddle]

maybe in decision you can move it?

[toxic cypress]

fixed it

less ugly

[prisma saddle]

poor Angola..

[shadow plinth]

mmm no i dont see it

[toxic cypress]

its stronger than argentina

[prisma saddle]

thats strange😭

[toxic cypress]

2nd last place 💪

[prisma saddle]

no doubt

[shadow plinth]

mmm yes i love the hostorical capital of byzantium

[prisma saddle]

Angola lives in hearts

[shadow plinth]

ravanda

[prisma saddle]

RAVANDA

[toxic cypress]

nvm

[toxic cypress]

argentina is somehow higher than me

[prisma saddle]

"where you from?"
RAVANDA

[toxic cypress]

dam

[shadow plinth]

somehow it has more population than constantinople

[crimson knot]

what is belgium cooking

[prisma saddle]

holy roman United states

[prisma saddle]

bicyvle division tour d'urss

[shadow plinth]

its kinda like how you seperate two really small lego pieces, yk

[crimson knot]

xd

I was wondering why all of a sudden i had way less troops per tile

[shadow plinth]

sorry i ate them

[prisma saddle]

thank you belgium✌️

[prisma saddle]

no more ravanda capytal

[shadow plinth]

mmm no the capital is still very much ravanda

[slim nexus]

Sssr: looks away 1 second
Belgium:

[prisma saddle]

divine punishment

[crimson knot]

Insane AI tactic

[prisma saddle]

straight to the point😭

[slim nexus]

Germany: we need to liberate ssst fro-
Belgium: got it
Germany: i didnt even say
Belgium: liberates that one german state in russia near kazakstan border

[crimson knot]

They are now pushing into modern day kazakhstan

[patent thistle]

germany out for that romanian oil

[wraith pier]

uhh

[crimson knot]

I love graveyard of empires, i always get free oil from afghanistan, whatever i do they just ask me for oil rights best dlc fr

[prisma saddle]

TRIP TO VLADIVOSTOK

[prisma saddle]

finally a great turkey

[crimson knot]

genuinely what is this bufoonery

[prisma saddle]

GO BELGIUM GO GO

[slim nexus]

From ostend to vladuvosto

Silk roads, bike road

[vital cove]

that score is 90% just air

its stupid

[crimson knot]

noooo, not the belgian bycicle division in kazakhstan

[heavy vigil]

@dusky burrow china lost, 300mil+ total deaths

ill be cleaning the borders up in a bit

[wise spire]

Is it possible to ask the allies for manpower?

If yes, then how?

[shadow plinth]

garrison support

[junior plume]

https://youtu.be/LSd3ozgXYFY?si=gce9MsIXli97Oaim

subscribe or somethin 😔

[sharp sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/deep-sea-creature-sea-creature-cat-silly-silly-cat-gif-5111948485873411698

[slim nexus]

Belgiym: i would give reinforcement but no, all here are slow

[grizzled yarrow]

erm

[dusky burrow]

the earth has no people anymore ig

🙁

[dusky burrow]

bicycles are the fastest unit when you're attritioning

You may be surprised at how much work you have to do to trap them

[viral matrix]

okay

[crimson knot]

hmmm i wonder why i have -80k infrantry eq while force attacking the ussr because they wont capitulate

[finite plume]

Is this format understandable

[slim nexus]

Yes

[finite plume]

Oki 👍

[slim nexus]

Snake petersburg, moscow, kazan, niviy poterov or somrthing, staliningrad. Naval invade vladivostok and snake kahabrovsk

A nd snake azerbaijan capital

[heavy vigil]

heres a bit cleaner borders

[viral matrix]

i think its over for them

[crimson knot]

i hate peacedeals sm

[serene breach]

i think im ready for my main enemy

[crimson knot]

kristibbs ahh albania

[viral matrix]

i have fully killed japanese navy and aviation

[night field]

i keep losing ground in italy

[viral matrix]

nice!

[fair herald]

Which Belgium EU paths is better?

[pseudo raven]

heavy is fun

[fair herald]

The left path seems quicker, i dont know though

[eternal palm]

Clicking into mountains 😭

Holy strength bars

[surreal mist]

5 divs 102 combat width

wth is that tank

[eternal palm]

💀

20w tanks?????

[pseudo raven]

not scariest thing

[pseudo raven]

kekw

suprise

silly french things

[safe wing]

How about 10/0 almost 18 width infantry for defense

[eternal palm]

u could just remove the tanks, make it bigger by adding more mountaineers and get better results

This is so backwards

[pseudo raven]

no silly component than

[safe wing]

21/0 infantry with large company size though

[pseudo raven]

those heavies clutched defens against italy in africa))

they were conquering Ethiopia

[heavy vigil]

why so small

[pseudo raven]

bcs no mils on france

[safe wing]

Anyways My favorite Calvary unit in Rome total war the Cataphract available to Seleucids, Armenia and Parthia

I’m gonna do a Seleucid campaign when I get home

As they are by far my favorite faction

[pseudo raven]

time for nice walk

no even eastern front

and this...

[uncut pollen]

pretty europe

(somehow germany was still the military junta)

[pseudo raven]

how to scare people in hoi4 gen

[orchid lily]

every time i play as italy germany's AI is so incompetent at everything that it makes me lose the war

it cant defend its coast it cant attack the ussr it cant build a navy

im tired

is there any mod or console command to fix this and enhance the ai of specific countries?

the only good thing that i can recall germany doing for me is recapturing sardinia for me and selling coal

[ocean flume]

hi, i tried to play millennium dawn, every other mod worked but it says that md is missing a descriptor file, can anyone give me advice on how to fix it?

[pseudo raven]

Just go solo form roman empire

U can get uk and France both like in early 38

[orchid lily]

but i wanna do historical

[pseudo raven]

Than u should lose

It is historical for Italy

[orchid lily]

oh yeah ur right

still tho germany lost because they got sandwiched in 3 fronts

if i protect literally every inch of coast in europe they should at the very least give me results in russia

not stay blocked in belarus till 1943

[safe wing]

Democratic King Italy then becaause no balance of power mechanism that results in a civil war

[orchid lily]

no democratic path sucks

duce always

[safe wing]

How

[orchid lily]

still, that's not the problem

[safe wing]

You can form Rome

Just make sure to join the axis before flipping democratic

[orchid lily]

the problem is germany not being able to win literally the only front it has to worry about with the help of like 6 countries

[safe wing]

You need half of Germany as Rome anyway

[fair horizon]

Chat can carlists core spain?

[safe wing]

Yes

[toxic cypress]

bro is wage slave again

[crimson knot]

i played spain once, won the civil war with the carlists, with the luck of the anarchists spawning and encircling both nationalist and republic, and then lost to portugal which had gone communist i think

[toxic cypress]

cs2 ur life?

[crimson knot]

10/10 will do it again

[crimson knot]

ye

[toxic cypress]

can u donate a tiger tooth karambit to me

its ur lfe

[safe wing]

Yup

[toxic cypress]

i got hela unlucky

i got the worse max win on the kilowat case

can u refund and give me another hit but this time not a stattrak covert and a gold instead

i dont want no stattrak chrome cannon i want that tiger tooth

[crimson knot]

I only have a ursus forest ddpat on one account, and a navaja, dont remember the actual skin on my main

so i dont really have a lot of skins xd

[toxic cypress]

i keep getting regular reds

and stattrak reds

I JUST WANT THE TIGER TOOTH VALVE

VOLVO ADMINISTRATION PLEASE

[little geyser]

whats the best focus path in the game including dlc?

[toxic cypress]

ive spent more money on cases then the actual cost of the knife now

[stoic sable]

Guys what is better, establishing Vichy France or conquering all

[toxic cypress]

conquer all

puppeting is weak

[stoic sable]

How do I do that

I'm worried that I have to go into Africa

Which I don't want to

[toxic cypress]

u dont have to form vichy

its an option

[tacit citrus]

im so ass at hoi4 I only play when bittersteel makes a tutorial for it

[stoic sable]

Should I partition Poland

[toxic cypress]

no

just take everything

ur the player

everyone sucks

[stoic sable]

Are you sure I'm worried the Soviets will smoke me

[safe wing]

Step one don’t use line artillery

[tacit citrus]

I dont even use artillery

[safe wing]

Do you use support aa or arty?

[tacit citrus]

support aa mostly

[safe wing]

You should have support arty as well

[tacit citrus]

im gonna try TFR today and see how it goes lol

[fair horizon]

hey so im an idiot and i meant france in this

[stray root]

Why does Poland use an Italian motor company for its trucks (fiat)?

[safe wing]

Yes

[safe wing]

Poland had close relations with Italy before ww2

Dino Grandi visited Poland

[stray root]

ah ok

Actually makes sense considering how close a military junta and a dictatorship are

[safe wing]

Both regimes were both anti communist also

[stray root]

Ye but most were

[plain patio]

how many transports do u need per paratrooper

[vivid juniper]

Viva le France !

turns out playing on historical helps

I have made France powerful again

I also shattered Germany

[viscid swift]

guys im playing the second time ever unhistorically and im seeing this for the first time

how do u get that?

[viscid swift]

i mean i played sweden before 😭

and stuff but yk like its weird

[maiden verge]

The Fallen Riksdag?

[viscid swift]

yeah

[maiden verge]

As far as I remember, when the rearmament event appears, you cannot choose either the farmers or the opposition and the fallen riksdag will remain until the 1936 election

[urban jasper]

It’s so beautiful.

[mighty bone]

The reorganized government of china(japan puppet state) has the old chinese focus tree. W devs

[fair horizon]

CARLISTS 💪

[vivid juniper]

A fun path done correctly

[sharp sierra]

soviet and portuguese volunteers trapped on whatever amount of divisions the republicans had left

im just going to be stuck in civil war forever

shit is so stupid

[fair horizon]

make cas already

[sharp sierra]

its 1938 and i have no plane research do you think this is what i want to have to do

[fair horizon]

or marines

you just need to keep sending naval invasions

[frigid plank]

Should you put assault engineer and flame tank support in every infantry unit?

[oak mantle]

Soviet union should lowk get a buff

[fair horizon]

if they're not attacking its not advisable unless you have a massive surplus

[frigid plank]

Doesn't it joost attack

[sharp sierra]

soviet civil war so the volunteers are gone and uk gave republican spain gibraltar so they sent their unit deathstack to there instead of on the island

[tepid crown]

I thinks it’s more so axis needs a nerf

[oak mantle]

Thats true but the soviets basically get 0 buffs apart from one military advisor giving 15% attack to tanks

[tepid crown]

I mean they do have the best mils in the game though even if it’s not a direct military stat buff

[oak mantle]

At a certain point in the gme (like when the germans and soviets go to war) stats matter a lot more than mils

[sly venture]

Now what

[tepid crown]

True but it also goes back to axis just having insane stat buffs too

[oak mantle]

Very true

Soviet union in multiplayer is just inevitably gonna die unless allies do d-day or stupid germany

[sly venture]

love how am contributing nothing to the soviet war but I have 1 bazillion casualties so I get like 50% of the land

[sharp sierra]

this game can be so good at making you mad

[tepid crown]

Even then still dies like 95% of the time. Axis have to mess up big time to not kill Soviets in current version of the game

[safe wing]

also Rome Total War VH/VH Brutii Campaign

Armored Greek Hoplites and Mega Egypt

[oak mantle]

Yep

[tepid crown]

Allies only do as good as they can because air

[oak mantle]

Like the soviets could make the best division in the game but it wont matter because of the stat bonuses the axis get and the lack of stat bonuses the soviets have

[tepid crown]

In a way that’s just how the game is balanced. Axis either have to focus Soviets or allies. Focus on one and the other could kill you if you’re not careful

Like air gamble axis should be killed by a competent Soviets player

Especially if allies can get even yellow air against it

[oak mantle]

I suppose

[tepid crown]

I will be honest and say idk if dlc made Japan relevant at all or not though

[safe wing]

historically accurate because the only Japanses ships to take part in the European/ African Theatre were a few subs off Madagascar in 1942

[slim nexus]

a lot of releasable countries have misplaced portraits (generic communist portrait in a fascist country for example)

wonder if like Georgia, Ukraine gets unique portraits for Bandera and Khruschev

[heavy vigil]

its same strenght better planes

[trim lotus]

The end-of-game scoring has got to be something wildly obsolete that nobody cares about. It somehow put the US over my gigantically expanded German Empire, apparently because the US has a slightly larger pile of aircraft. Excuse me for having lost a few aircraft in combat, you know, that thing the US never did all game long.

[heavy vigil]

not pile, deployed

[trim lotus]

So I could literally just throw my remaining 700K manpower into my enormous stockpile of obsolete aircraft, filling every airfield in the Empire, and get first place, got it.

[sharp sierra]

wel what else would it measure

[finite plume]

I'm barely halfway done with this dang tree 😔 ✌️

[tepid crown]

Yes

[trim lotus]

Technically total score includes number of divisions and the size of the number of fleets, but those barely register. I get 41.25 from army score, 56 from navy, and 2459 from aircraft.

$5 says the US still has a bunch of leg infantry in 1947.

[sharp sierra]

are they supposed to have only tanks and half tracks

[trim lotus]

Also SPGs and SPAAGs.

... Note to self, now that I have mechanized every single frontline division, time to begin mechanizing my port guards (or, I would if I continued the game).

[tepid crown]

…

[sharp sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/empty-tank-meter-gas-gif-22994582

[trim lotus]

It was 1947, and I'd been sitting on an enormous pile of mils for years waiting for my navy to grow large enough to challenge the Royal Navy.

[tepid crown]

Nah USA has enough oil, SPG and SPAAGs are just useless tank designs

[sharp sierra]

spgs are good

[crisp karma]

Is it normal that whenever i have a conversation and start getting confused my mind switches and start imagining hoi4 game play + i start seeing the game hud ?

[sharp sierra]

its from too much sugar

[vital cove]

? spg is the best single player tank

hard atk is irrelevant

only soft atk matters

and spg has the most

[sharp sierra]

the new doctrine is great also

[safe wing]

https://tenor.com/view/rome-total-war-marching-roman-hastati-julii-faction-gif-16648934775160509213

[heavy vigil]

size of fleets also not

only amount of fleets lol

[trim lotus]

So, to summarize: deploy a giant number of biplane fighters, single-battalion artillery divisions, and single-ship task forces of midget submarines, gotcha.

[sharp sierra]

wel it probably is a little more meaningful when looking at ai only

[heavy vigil]

its a meaningless score but yeah

deploying lot of plane and splitting fleet into a million fleets gives you score

its not like the game "ends" you can play after if youd like

[trim lotus]

I know I'm kvetching about something pointless, but still. It wouldn't even be hard to do something like "total score proportional to deployed manpower, IPC of deployed equipment, and probably work territory+industry in as well".

[heavy vigil]

you get a bit of states score

just the scores are really odd values

[trim lotus]

(States score is shown, but not included in total score. Whee!)

[sharp sierra]

haha lets go

✈️ 🪂

[rich nacelle]

We are 10% through 2026 already.

[fair horizon]

chat any tips for byzantium?

havent played it for a while

[heavy vigil]

use the research menu, greece starts with bad technologies

also youre not gonna outscale anyone so dont play for it

but you start with good civs so you can make a land facility

[sharp sierra]

all of this before i cored a single spanish territory

[proud tapir]

man China is pain

[fair horizon]

chat which side is better?

[heavy vigil]

i believe right side but its a lot of work compared to left

actually no

theres one where you need a gazillion opinions of people

and i forgot which is which

[fair horizon]

both kinda

left is for majors

right is for balkans

[heavy vigil]

majors is kinda fake because cant you just force cancel the debt on it or something

[viral knot]

the real question why you playing greece.

[fair horizon]

byzantium

[viral knot]

I did that once and man i suffered 100% of the way... everything that could go wrong went wrong.

[fair horizon]

byzantium is easy war-wise

[viral knot]

yeah thats what i thought but half way through conquesting egypt. Soviets decided it was my time. which attacked that border, the US joined and helped the British, i was expecting an easy walk through egypt (The uk decolonized) oh and germany hated me.

i was fighting everyone it sucked.

[fair horizon]

thats fine hold constantinope and you're fine

russia border is easy to hold too

[viral knot]

yeah, i won. Don't get me wrong, it just sucked. Every foot of ground felt like a miracle.

[fickle thicket]

all u need to do is save pp and rush it

[slim nexus]

For either the Megali Idea or the KKE

[heavy vigil]

yeah its annoying

[graceful flume]

jesus?

[frosty carbon]

been back and forth in this damn western front

(the great war redux mod)

[sharp sierra]

wat....

this is how u get war score

[brittle cypress]

id want to hear how right could be better cause i'm pretty sure left just gives you like a dozen factories for free if you improve relations

[charred lake]

Why is a democratic country in faction with a facist country 😭. It's all Mexico's fault, just HAD to get into a civil war, and have multiple powers against them

I thought the faction thingy was supposed to fix this stuff, like I get it, they can join the 'Allies', but they shouldn't stay in it for a long amount of time

[viscid stirrup]

how do you know?

[fickle thicket]

ew fr*nce

[sharp sierra]

its actually only 9.844% over

[fickle thicket]

365-current day

i thingk

[viscid stirrup]

but its a leap year

[fickle thicket]

no

[viscid stirrup]

yes

[heavy vigil]

youre a leap year

[viscid stirrup]

2018,2022, 2026

[fickle thicket]

feb doesnt have 29 days this year

[viscid stirrup]

oh right

yeah sorry

[fickle thicket]

its a perfect rectangle

[heavy vigil]

damn 2022 is already so long ago im old

[charred lake]

Valid reaction

[fickle thicket]

https://tenor.com/view/soviet-union-fact-checked-real-patriots-stalin-ussr-gif-506730060443640855

[sharp sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/jagex-gif-5680496487336290237

[fickle thicket]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/815309804456771584/916476076044214282/b53.gif

[sharp sierra]

i like france but not their streets

[charred lake]

https://tenor.com/view/communiste-communist-hugs-heart-red-gif-16969631219125202892

[viscid stirrup]

they geniunely used to throw poop into the streets man

like they have no idea about hiegene

ancient india had better sewage

[fickle thicket]

rome had better sewage but all of europe did that

[viscid stirrup]

yeah they progressed backwards

[fickle thicket]

yes

[viscid stirrup]

thats why i want to live in korea

or the middle kingdom

[fickle thicket]

which part

[viscid stirrup]

south

the north is a monarchy

[fickle thicket]

no

they are a democratic bastion

[viscid stirrup]

you mean the south is a democratic bastion

[fickle thicket]

no

[viscid stirrup]

the north isnt democratic

[fickle thicket]

the north holds elections

[viscid stirrup]

its a monarchy

[viscid stirrup]

theyre rigged

anyone voting against the current leader will lose their jobs

or potentionally be locked up permanently

along with 3 generations

[fickle thicket]

yes i know

[safe wing]

Before I go to bed I have the most ambitious video idea hoi4 every path ranked from weakest to strongest

That might be too ambitious

[sharp sierra]

get vijoplays on it

[safe wing]

I’m gonna make a tierlist after I play every nation

[south sorrel]

So uhh

Can someone like

Gift me a dlc pls 🥹

I have nothing😭 🙏

[sharp sierra]

dignity ⬇️

https://tenor.com/view/bolsaarroxa-arroxa-stocks-bolsa-thompson-gif-18014030

[slim hatch]

Money well spent

[astral forum]

Lucky

[slim hatch]

Fr

I preordered right before it ended

[jolly flower]

what is happening to (S)pain?

[safe wing]

Rivera got executed

[jolly flower]

ok then

[safe wing]

He is supposed to be the leader of the Falange path

But he can get imprisoned like her did historically

[jolly flower]

and he just got killed?

pl

ok*

[safe wing]

Yes

[jolly flower]

gotta love it when there is no backup portrait!

[heavy vigil]

fire

make it a series

[solemn bay]

This AI man

[fickle thicket]

max puppet usage for industry

[restive sable]

not the complete worst

[uncut wraith]

how on EARTH is the axis winning according to the game

[cunning saddle]

Taboritsky

[heavy vigil]

theyre not?

the bar is showing allies is winning

[uncut wraith]

isnt germany the aggressor though

[heavy vigil]

doesnt matter

in this case allies are left so the bar on their side shows their progress

similar to battle bubbles

[chrome mulch]

They aren't according to the game

[uncut wraith]

i see

i thought red meant aggressor that’s my bad

[long pendant]

guys does anyone know why devs havent added planes that can transport troops?

if theres an inherent issue with this let me know

cuz like it could be similar to naval transports no?

[maiden verge]

He overthrew his dad

So technically, now he is the King

[vale dagger]

is there a hoi4 pow mod

[heavy vigil]

no, thatd be against the hoi4 steam workshop ToS

afaik

[vale dagger]

oh

just wanting some historical accuracy yk

[heavy vigil]

war crimes are not allowed

i think its EULA actually sorry

[vale dagger]

probably a good thing considering this community

[heavy vigil]

you can make a private mod, not upload it, then its fine

but as soon as its uploaded its against the EULA

[slim nexus]

Wats eula

[maiden verge]

end user license agreement

[slim nexus]

European union liberties accces

[glass python]

Hey should I start converting my civilian factories as America in 1939 I have 188 civilians but only 40 military I think I need to start building up now should I do it?

[vale dagger]

bro you do not need to build civs as america