hoi4-general

[heavy vigil]

politics

something something

bad

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-zen-meditation-gif-13277341

[silver eagle]

?!?

[eternal palm]

Never did the best Swiss path?

It's funny

U get to steal everyone's land and then core it

[fickle cove]

https://youtu.be/Y43c_zmteFY?si=tPkvrE3vVqOvZE_M

WHAT IS THIS?!?!?!

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/flightreacts-reaction-flight-reacts-flight-reacts-flightreacts-gif-14526489174047821058

[fickle cove]

he genuinely moans and everything too

like what the actual...

[toxic cypress]

winston asu fratleader versus hitvacular

[eternal palm]

Every masterpiece has its cheap copy

[fickle cove]

is this the masterpiece or the cheap copy?

[silver eagle]

israeli caliphate my favorite nation!

[paper echo]

that vid changed my life for the best

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-man-covering-mouth-lol-in-tears-gif-18016812431523599211

[eternal palm]

The cheap copy

[proud tapir]

one good video, the rest didnt work out so well. So he started posting schizo content

[fickle cove]

...who's the masterpiece then?

[proud tapir]

this is what we call washed

[eternal palm]

The mc video that did it first

[runic spoke]

YUNNAN CAN CORE BURMA NOW

long yun truthers REJOICE

[woven dragon]

YES

[toxic cypress]

the minecraft one

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

[serene breach]

i calling this perfect game

czechoslovakia will conquer all of europe

edvard beneš will be Napoleon

[sudden grotto]

letting serbia be kosovo is wild

[serene breach]

its not even serbia its just yugoslavia

[sudden grotto]

yugo je serbija

[serene breach]

and i wanted annex bulgaria greece and turkey but britain guranted them

[fringe shell]

what even is point of historical

🥀

bro like its 1940

[toxic cypress]

pov u left ur game running to do smt

and come back and had to pull all the way abck cause the ai encircled ur entire main army

u really cant leave this game running or the ai will f u bruh

what even happened

[eternal palm]

Looks about right

U forget that hoi is not a sim

It's a sandbox set it 1936

[fringe shell]

it is 36

[eternal palm]

What did u do to Japan lmao

Mega buff

[fringe shell]

bro im canada🙏

[eternal palm]

That's not answering my question

[fringe shell]

yeah i know

[eternal palm]

Did u buff Japan

[fringe shell]

nah

everything norma;

[toxic cypress]

peak reposition

just move to the supply hubs

[paper echo]

why does mengucko have so many units

[toxic cypress]

may have accidentally lost 18 units but reposition to victory

[toxic cypress]

idk bro

i left the game for abit

just to wash dishes

came back i was encirled and they had 41 units

48 now

[paper echo]

does anyone give them expeditionare or what

[toxic cypress]

i had 21 units when i left and 8 when i came back

[toxic cypress]

🤷‍♂️ this vanilla too

the ai just locked in while i was away

and beat my ass

savable

WAIT THEIR UNITS SUCK I REPOSITION FOR NO REASON I COULDA JUST PUSHED

[paper echo]

yeah its mengucko

dont expect much

[toxic cypress]

we are back

[toxic cypress]

they killed 132k of my boys

[paper echo]

put them on brutal oppression for that

[mortal topaz]

And allied italy

Finished a austria run in red flood puppeted germany bavaria france poland ukraine and the balkans including romania

I saved russia from collapsing cause ukraine had pushed to urals

[toxic cypress]

i core em bro

also we got our revenge

ai never wins against players

[paper echo]

manchuko cores meng?

[toxic cypress]

ngl i just pulled back encircled everything and push again

[paper echo]

or you cored all of china?

[toxic cypress]

it cores all of china outer manchuria and mongolia

[paper echo]

alr

[toxic cypress]

300k this is enough

time to go invade someone fr now

actually nvm ima go take a shit

ts annoying to do

[fringe shell]

nah bro but ts is NOT a historical

best dlc they said

fah

its 42

[limber arrow]

Does anyone know how to make a good lituhanian division

Against the soviets

[cold mist]

i thought paradox was evil with their dlcs but rpg maker has 892 dlcs

[safe wing]

Warhammer total war trilogy has over 50

[worn coral]

nice conversion rate

[cold mist]

bro MIGHT have planes

[clever shuttle]

what command in ncns allows you to create an faction?

[dapper pine]

Now this....is beautiful....

[sly venture]

Am convinced invading the uk is impossible

[eternal palm]

It's not but oh well

What do u struggle with

[sly venture]

the invasions landing

[eternal palm]

What are you invading with

[sly venture]

basic/improved cruisers

[eternal palm]

No I mean Land units

[sly venture]

infantry

[eternal palm]

So you get supremacy. But you lose the battle when landing?

[sly venture]

yes

[eternal palm]

Template?

[wary sparrow]

It also cores lower jutland if you have it, and I already had the old german empire holdings cored cause I waited for sovs to take poland

[sly venture]

one sec

[eternal palm]

Show stats aswell

[eternal palm]

Yea OK so multiple things: your width is bad 30.6 is ass. Either it's 35-39 or 16-19. Artillery is ass. Even worse for invading. Normal recon does nothing, replace it with smth like ranger recon

That's for template. Do u have green air and cas when invading?

[sly venture]

I have green air

what is cas

[eternal palm]

And cas?

[eternal palm]

Ground support plane

[sly venture]

yes

[eternal palm]

The thing u build other than fighters

[sly venture]

the thing am trying to do is send 3 naval invasions 2 around Dover and 1 on Dover

[eternal palm]

Yea that's fine

How many divs are you invading with

[sly venture]

30

10 on each

[eternal palm]

Jesus

Maybe spread them out more. So that you have like 2 per tile

Cuz stacking more divs on a tile while naval invading does very little

[sly venture]

where should I spread them

[eternal palm]

Around Dover, Plymouth, Norwich

Along the southern coast

[ruby rover]

is their aother focus tree change for Germany in the Fire Rises mod?

[sly venture]

Also how do I increase width

[eternal palm]

Add more stuff

Every battalion has a width

[kind reef]

Playing HOI4 with a song in the background about the ideology/country you are playing as is peak

[sly venture]

what stuff

[eternal palm]

Battalions

[sly venture]

And finally what do I replace artillery with

?

[eternal palm]

More inf

[sly venture]

should i keep like 1 or remove it all

and do I add anti air

[eternal palm]

Remove all

[eternal palm]

If you have green aa does nothing

[sly venture]

k

hope I can actually invade Britain

[safe wing]

Taking a break from hoi4 because of Cyberstan and my itch to play Byzantium in medieval 2 total war

[long seal]

what is this mega faction

Soviet Union, Great Britain, and Kaiser Germany

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/harrower-dreadnought-tor-swtor-harrower-class-gif-16786903634488165402

the commies the capitalist and the monarchists unite against the threat of france

[long seal]

i held until the last breath

[toxic cypress]

who u playing?

china?

[long seal]

Greece

[toxic cypress]

oh ur fine no

[toxic cypress]

if u build a few forts in greece u can hold infinitely

cause they have large reserves

they got big resource nodes

so u can technically wall up and hold while they push u

[toxic cypress]

well u failed

BRO U HAD BYZANTINE HOW DID U FALL

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-disappointed-fan-seriously-what-are-you-doing-judging-you-gif-17485289

[long seal]

turkey was cores

so they took turkey

and i capped

my friend is playing as spain

[toxic cypress]

ur friend cant save u from this

spain isnt that strong

u could have saved him but

u fell

[long seal]

broski i had the entirety of everything against me

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/tommy-mastripolito-tsundere-speech-bubble-thomas-mastripolito-gif-1120263122400818295

[long seal]

they did well

i still have crete

i will counter attack

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/downfall-steiner-mein-fuhrer-steiner-gif-24733130

[toxic cypress]

gawd dam

[sly venture]

found this division on Google is it good?

[long seal]

no

remve line arty

and one infantry

you need to use this to hold

do medium flamer tanks

remove recon

[sly venture]

Do I add ranged recon

[long seal]

nothing on holding infantry

don't push with those

[toxic cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-man-covering-mouth-lol-in-tears-gif-18016812431523599211

[sly venture]

do I change these and it will be good?

[toxic cypress]

anti air is smt i only put on fodder lne holders

air superiority is a given

[long seal]

you might want to also remove arty

[sly venture]

I would probably remove anti air either way cause I can easily get air superiority as Germany

[zealous robin]

what made this hungarian heavy tank division better against soviet infantry than the german medium tank?

[long seal]

if playing MP AT is good

[zealous robin]

HUN

[long seal]

yes

[sly venture]

Do I change it to that?

[toxic cypress]

where should i go today

[dawn marlin]

POL

[toxic cypress]

wtf r u doing

[zealous robin]

GER

[toxic cypress]

horse speed bonus and u cap it with artilery

[dawn marlin]

idrc tbh

just battle plan

1941 feb

[atomic harbor]

i think i created some troops

[atomic harbor]

247

italy its done

[dawn marlin]

oh...

[atomic harbor]

this is what im holding btw so yh.

[dawn marlin]

holy shit what are you doing

[atomic harbor]

Facist uruguay, all america, china, taiwan, paris, france, a piece of italy

[atomic harbor]

world conquer as uruguay

[dawn marlin]

1966?

jeeps

[long seal]

0 MP 🔥

[dawn marlin]

and do suppression in focus

[atomic harbor]

i just placed tuff

stuff*

247 divisiosn

[atomic harbor]

btw i lowk started ww3 and poland took over germany

and portugal took over france

and yeah im dropping hella nukes on italy to get them

[dawn marlin]

what are you garrisonning bro 😭😭

[atomic harbor]

i just protect every piece of territory i got

after ww2 ended while i was the leader of the allies and democratic and shit i became facist 💀

[atomic harbor]

arnulf

💀

also idk why i invaded USA they declared war on bunch of countries and i tought it was ggs since i was only invading them but they got cooked by canada

they declared war on me, portugal, UK, canada

[dawn marlin]

how many hours u got

[atomic harbor]

its like my first first run

i played a lot on an roblox copy

of HOI4

on that one i got like 500h hours 😭

[dawn marlin]

my recomendation, play japan

[atomic harbor]

wouldnt i get nuked?

[dawn marlin]

world conquer is very fun as japan

[dawn marlin]

no

[atomic harbor]

btw i nuked japan and germany

[dawn marlin]

trust

[atomic harbor]

instead of US

[dawn marlin]

if u just take all of allied asia and the pacific islands its easy

[atomic harbor]

i also nuked washington and all major cities on my USA invation.

[dawn marlin]

watch a vid abt navy and boom

japan teaches u a lot

especially with the new DLC it is way easier

[atomic harbor]

idk i just nuke stuff

[dawn marlin]

u cant nuke in 1940 💀

[atomic harbor]

i think i did???

i dont remember

maybe 1941 ish

germany was falling

and i nuked berlin and japan

[dawn marlin]

💀

[atomic harbor]

if im not mistaken

[dawn marlin]

dawg just play another play through

atp

[atomic harbor]

nah i wanna wc

and nuke shit

[dawn marlin]

wc as japan bro its so fun trustt

[safe wing]

Why are you playing Uruguay

[atomic harbor]

its my country

🙂

[safe wing]

Fair

[atomic harbor]

first thing i did its prepared an invasion against argentina

and as i was invading them they became axis

then as i won against them they made me allies leader

and i just went to europe to help with ww2

[dawn marlin]

we love it

[atomic harbor]

yo i got 289 intercontinental nukes 💀

and an absurd amount of antitanks

[atomic harbor]

who is bro opps 💀

[steel zephyr]

🤤

50k losses againts the soviets

[azure palm]

Whats the point of claims. They just ruin diplomacy.

[atomic wolf]

Is it possible to cause a civil war for the confeds in road to 56

[rich sorrel]

nuke world

[toxic cypress]

ggs bro erm

i think ur allied with poland right?

[steel zephyr]

nope

[toxic cypress]

if ur not i think ur good

monarchist germany

is so strong

[steel zephyr]

supply so far away I'm just gonna maybe halt until poland can cap them

a lot of my divisions are these which arent particularly speedy

[rich sorrel]

This is meta yea?

[steel zephyr]

for finland maybe

[rich sorrel]

No, for every nation

This literally meta division

[steel zephyr]

oh

tuff

[rich sorrel]

Btw you played road to 56?

[steel zephyr]

yes but this run is vanilla all DLC

[rich sorrel]

so

[steel zephyr]

I just play r56 when playing multiplayer

[rich sorrel]

r56 is good for single?

I just want play that mod. I check reviewes and this like vanilla+?

Im right?

[ripe slate]

Awesome mod

:) not biased at all

[ripe slate]

Yeh its vanilla+

[ripe slate]

Youd have flame tanks instead of recon I think

[steel zephyr]

bummed

[heavy vigil]

i just created a creature

[worn coral]

dude

why didnt u get the south area with the oil

i forgot the name

[steel zephyr]

caucasus

and dont worry

[worn coral]

yes

[steel zephyr]

poland soon...

[vital cove]

where is your industry

[steel zephyr]

just annexed the soviets, not accessing their entire industry yet

[terse skiff]

it makes it much quicker to justify war goals

[vital cove]

you should be using collabs on soviets

[terse skiff]

For example, once I sign Molotov-Ribbentrop as USSR I can justify on Estonia in 30 days compared to 70 days if I don't have a claim

[vital cove]

also your industry should be bigger anyways

[azure palm]

yeah I know that stuff. Quicker justification, war goals dont disappear, allies give you the terretory, cheaper in peace deals. But still, there are focuses that give you claims and they are really bad.

[terse skiff]

tbh most pre-nsb focuses are now very bad

[steel zephyr]

released a few puppets so i got enough manpower to garison

[young frigate]

what template should i use for cavalry?

[azure palm]

depends on which nation you play. But in general going with a 3 by 3 template is good.

[wide mantle]

any issues with ts template?

[dawn marlin]

lovely name

[young frigate]

Poland

[ocean breach]

W multi fighter

[sharp sierra]

why using armored recon if no spg

and logistic company is lame

[ocean breach]

should be using armoured signal company

[restive spear]

son😭 you do not know the E like that

[strong belfry]

do world conquest as kazakh

[azure palm]

what path?

[rich sorrel]

This was in vanilla. Now i do EU in road to 56

[terse skiff]

yeah what is that name

[young frigate]

cossack king obviously

not much cores compared to romania path but its good imo

[azure palm]

how does your stockpile look like and your manpower?

historical or non historical?

[young frigate]

non historical, i always train new divs once i got rifles in reserve and i most of the time hold on 700k manpower

[azure palm]

Maybe try a 12 batalion cavalry division?

[young frigate]

wouldnt 20 be better tho?

idk much about battle width

[brittle cypress]

Why is it 38

[rich sorrel]

weird

but ik why, because this physic teacher's forces

[rich sorrel]

i like this beautiful green fornt

[weak rock]

whats the best way to invade uk?

i found its best to paradrop newcastle

is there a better way

[young frigate]

i think paradroping from the north since there is less divisions there

also bordering with them somewhere in africa is helpful

especially with wide front

[mystic sand]

Does testing the Soviets as Japan actually do anything?

[slender elk]

multiplayer looks special lol

[silk fern]

all this for nothing

[dusky burrow]

Yeah that is probably the most assured way to invade the UK, cut the UK in half in Newcastle with large paratrooper divisions and then just dig in at the mountains

[young frigate]

only gives u xp

[mystic sand]

Interesting

[young frigate]

which is kinda useful if you want to rush something

[toxic cypress]

mogging greece

brutally frame encirled by bulgaria

[shy bloom]

"Am Still standing" Mf ah 🥀

[toxic cypress]

yummy

[young frigate]

anyone knows how to play italy? 😭

[toxic cypress]

win and keep winning

https://tenor.com/view/roman-empire-gif-3415613540829417485

[young frigate]

i will try reforming roman empire then

[steel zephyr]

finndih

anything for the ural achievement

just hungary left

[sage anvil]

hello

[young frigate]

hi

[toxic cypress]

oh god

https://tenor.com/view/kevin-hart-tears-of-joy-tears-crying-gif-1795347642895926641

https://tenor.com/view/kevin-hart-tears-of-joy-tears-crying-gif-1795347642895926641

[jade ore]

what are we meant to be looking for

[toxic cypress]

this

[jade ore]

ah nice

[young frigate]

ad imperatorem

[ocean breach]

playing italy is a nightmare

[young frigate]

why

you get free france, yugo, romania and czechoslovakia at the start of the game

[toxic cypress]

itsa beautiful

[dusky burrow]

time to beeline for larisa

[toxic cypress]

it only gets better

[fair horizon]

Play another minor

[young frigate]

rip soldiers in albania and sardegna

[dusky burrow]

Yeah probably don't put units in Zara since they will get deleted

[young frigate]

someone gotta make roma great again bro

[young frigate]

zara is fine

[fair horizon]

Italy is a minor nation

[young frigate]

my 3 tank divisions survived

[young frigate]

i can make it major easily

[fair horizon]

Zara can be attacked from 4 directions and you're considered encircled

[young frigate]

not that deep ngl

yugo doesnt have full eq divisions at the start of the game

[fair horizon]

It is if you have a garbage army like italy

They'll just reinforce meme you

[young frigate]

3 divisions of base tank template they have is enough for zara

[fair horizon]

2 euro countries ill never play again is italy and romania

Both garbage

[young frigate]

romania is peak wdym

[fair horizon]

Romania the -95% civs every 30 days because the king decided to buy his 50th mansion for his wife

[young frigate]

calm him down and ur good

[fair horizon]

Ill turn him into mulch if i ever play romania again

[young frigate]

lol

[fair horizon]

Btw i won against russia first try, still hate it

[young frigate]

the balkan domination path is very cool in their tree tho

[fair horizon]

I did that one

You just have like zero manpower and no industry until the king gets replaced

[brisk anchor]

the best update paradox could give this game is to make the canada-US border "continuous" so i can make ONE command to cover the thing

[orchid lily]

Whenever I naval invade Britain I always get overwhelmed, I land and take a few tiles, maybe a supply hub or two, but after a few weeks Britain just brings like 60 divisions on the front and there is no hope of me ever defeating that

What am I doing wrong?

[young frigate]

you didnt do paradrop invasion

[weak rock]

paradrop newcastle with 12-15 divs

[orchid lily]

What would that change

[young frigate]

bigger front

[weak rock]

split the uk and mad dash to London before they have time to consolidate

[orchid lily]

Why are paratroopers considered better than marine invasions

[jade ore]

im guessing the naval invasion debuff

[young frigate]

cuz they are literally angels

except with rifles pointed at your head

[weak rock]

usually they're not but uk always mans the ports and leaves inland tiles open

[young frigate]

tbh even two paratroopers in the highlands islands will be enough to rile brits up and divide their main forces

[orchid lily]

Well what template should my paras have?

[weak rock]

thats just how many i recommend to hold a front until main force gets there because its usually never a good idea to drop southern england

[toxic cypress]

so beautiful

so many encirclements

[fair horizon]

Is it not?

[young frigate]

my friend spams 30 paratroopers with 3 battalions

[brisk anchor]

nope.

splits along huron

[young frigate]

antiair art is a must for them

[weak rock]

i used german defaults and was fine. General rule unless you have a 3k air superiority capacity invade before 1940 i did mine november of 1939 going into december

[fair horizon]

Canadians trying to get one sip of our michigander water

[brisk anchor]

nah its gross

no need for it

[fair horizon]

Thats what they all say

thats our water bud

[brisk anchor]

rate my invasion

[brisk anchor]

im american...

[weak rock]

uk is honestly way harder than Soviets honestly so once you knock them out your solid

[fair horizon]

Which one is unitary canada?

[brisk anchor]

fascist

i joined axis

its a fun path

[fair horizon]

You're canadian clearly

[brisk anchor]

until you just get a message that united states has joined the war

im from ny

[fair horizon]

Basically canada

[brisk anchor]

brooklyn

[young frigate]

somehow romania did a naval invasion and i didnt notice 😭

[fair horizon]

America did a naval invasion through my patrolling carrier fleet so

4k dominance

Now im going to have to expunge more of them in new ginuea

[strong belfry]

mid

[brisk anchor]

to be fair

half of them were in europe

and the other half were fighiting off the british in newfoundland

they got halfway into canada and this is what we're at right now

and i actually touch grass so im sorry i cant be as great as you

[fair horizon]

You play hoi4 you dont even know what grass is

[toxic cypress]

bulgar empire

the prussia of the balkans

[brisk anchor]

WARNING: MATURE CONTENT

[fair horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/lord-of-the-rings-lotr-theoden-rohan-two-towers-gif-13863406401517703527

[steel zephyr]

bit off more than i can chew

gg

[vital cove]

seems simple enough

[wary sparrow]

encircling the soviets is peak

[steel zephyr]

holy fumble

[toxic cypress]

yikes

[wary sparrow]

URRAH

i love inflicting 1 million more casualties

[brisk anchor]

uhm guys

how did they get there...

[toxic cypress]

come on paradox fix ya game

[warm leaf]

goyslop skill issue

[toxic cypress]

puppeted sinkiang and mexico plus got all the navies

[ripe slate]

Probably a focus/decision, you could check the template of the unit there and see where it came from

[steel zephyr]

secured a stable front

[toxic cypress]

bulgars high seas fleet

[silver eagle]

first mandate of palestine playthrough doing pretty good

[brisk anchor]

i still dont see how they can get into the restricted area

[toxic cypress]

beautiful

almost 5x kd on bulgaria

[warm leaf]

jokeage

why s

so serious

https://giphy.com/gifs/memes-joker-panda85-VFPRXWnYSeyr0diFse

[toxic cypress]

1 manpower

https://tenor.com/view/scrape-the-bowl-cookies-gif-11903546

[tulip thorn]

Got the hood

[ripe slate]

Thats what I answered xD

Focus/decision effect couldve spawned it directly there

[brisk anchor]

weird

which on

[ripe slate]

Dont know, but you could backtrace that if the unit has a unique template

Which focus/decision reward units tend to have

[steel zephyr]

yeah ok good idea to call it quits here

gg

owned poland and belarus, lithuania, before

had to retreat

[brisk anchor]

its a regular infantry unit

which means the ai got it there somehow

[fair horizon]

Bulgarian fleet >look inside >russian navy MFW

Be careful btw they have a tendancy to spontaneously combust

[toxic cypress]

erm actually its the mexican spanish russian and indian

[woven gate]

i wanna use 12 inf what should i toss in with them

[toxic cypress]

problems found

no wonder

i was like what is happening man

and then found out i have buncha seabound units going the long way

[glad sun]

macarthur is crazy

[fair horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/cobalt-solutions-cobalt-gmod-gmod-hack-cheat-gif-16724958

[steel zephyr]

got a bit panicked releasing a lot more puppets (mostly in the caucasus and siberia, central asia was a puppet before)

but atleast im holding the daugava-dnieper line very well

got armoured cars in mass now too so garrisoning is taking a lot less mp

once i figure out hungarian division (crazy defence) and counter it, i'll push back

[steel zephyr]

sneaky liberation of sweden

[steel zephyr]

Sweden liberated (almost)

[quaint girder]

I defeated germany as france

I figured the most french thing possible was to do this

Was to balkanize germany

Into the confederation of the rhine

[fair horizon]

Balkanized germany 🤮

Saved poland though so its fine

[quaint girder]

I mean, this was a legitimate french post war plan

Its stupid but whatever

Time to go naval invade britain

[fair horizon]

Balkanize england and free ireland/scotland pls :)

[quaint girder]

I didnt notice

But the german reich survived

Its in austria

And italy now is leader of the axis

[quaint girder]

Also since they all get the generic focus tree they build free industry for me

Eventually the plan is to annex those

[steel crown]

yo

im new to hoi 4

[tulip thorn]

Welcome

[heavy vigil]

omg its comunista tank dempsey and vendrip

the only good people on this server

[tulip thorn]

lol

[steel crown]

im getting the hand of it ngl

[quaint girder]

Like my uh

Incredible german peace deal

[tulip thorn]

yes

[quaint girder]

I then promptly failed to invade britain

Yeah the marine doctrines and actually having marines make that a lot more

Possible

Plus I had like 0 manpower

Which was rather annoying

[tulip thorn]

Damn

[quaint girder]

Weirdly fighting the germans like this isnt even that hard

All I did was go the napoleon path

Annex the benelux

Spec hard into cas and fighters

And let the germans beat themselves up for a bit until I could secure encirclements

And this is without training any new divs

Just the starting french army converted to the 18 width infantry div

18 width isnt bad

[heavy vigil]

france can be strong

[quaint girder]

Yeah no it can

Still has issues fighting the uk

[heavy vigil]

its not too hard if you annex ger first

[quaint girder]

My assumption is its a bit easier to defeat the royal navy in detail as japan because unlike with me being japan forces the uk to divert ships to asia

Weakening them in the channel

[quaint girder]

It was only hard because i didnt give myself enough time to get more planes up

And spec into marines properly

[tulip thorn]

I love doing heavy air france tbh

Since they get cheaper planes really early

[steel zephyr]

W encirclement

[amber matrix]

why do i have 2 soft attack

[tulip thorn]

Spanish civil war im guessing

[amber matrix]

yeah

so?

why

[tulip thorn]

Thats why its so low

Unplanned offensive

The tool tip tells you why its so low

-90%

[amber matrix]

how do i remove it

[tulip thorn]

Via the spanish focus tree

[amber matrix]

Oh

i shoukd have added that these are volunteers

[tulip thorn]

When you send vols

unplanned offensive is actually a good thing

Lets you grind traits for generals

[amber matrix]

okay ig

[fathom swan]

I won the civil war as Argentina!!!

[austere pier]

does nuking not do anythingn anymore? i dont think its effecting war support

[tulip thorn]

It does

Nukes also leave fallout

[austere pier]

is it base war support

[tulip thorn]

I dont think so

[misty fossil]

https://www.reddit.com/r/HOI4memes/s/WE50CRJ60P

[tulip thorn]

Daring do has got it trust

I literally guessed it

https://tenor.com/view/daring-do-mlp-my-little-pony-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-mlpfim-gif-17651175337212733647

[fair horizon]

doing the decisions every like 90 days or w/e

[merry compass]

is there anyway i can order my soldier to go somewhere that has supply when there are no orders

[clear dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont-invincible-gif-27194608

[quasi shoal]

it tells you why 😭

[fair horizon]

Area defense and set it to supply hubs

[tulip thorn]

More need to read the tooltip lol

Solves about 98% of issues in hoi4

[finite plume]

Added more provinces to the Philippines cause I'm a Sadomasochist

🗿

[fair horizon]

QUIT BISECTING THINGS THAT WERENT MEANT TO BE BISECTED

[finite plume]

WHY NOT

[tulip thorn]

I think you should keep doing it

I love it and thinks its great

[unreal snow]

How do you even do minor nation world conquests anymore?
Can't really make a faction with Italy, that was like my only method

[hard spire]

Yall for Infantry build in mps should I make them like good Infantry or just bricks to fill out the front

[uncut wraith]

why won’t the ai ever want to join my faction when i’m at war but the ai immediately says yes to other ai’s who are at war

[plain patio]

why does germany always do so bad now in barbarossa

[smoky fiber]

My second easiest playthrough EVER.

Am I done for when I get to Barbarossa or no?

[quaint girder]

Ugh

France has no manpower with the french empire path

Its really annoying

Controlling most of europe via puppets is dope though

[smoky fiber]

Playing France in general is annoying

[quaint girder]

I have got to up the conscription law

But I cant do that until I fight somebody

Ironically

I dont want to fight cause no manpower

But I cant get more manpower until I pick a fight

[smoky fiber]

Hmm

[quaint girder]

Since i went with the napoleon monarchist path

I had to release poland and austria due to garrissons costing too much manpower

And yes I swapped to the cavalry template

I have like 44k manpower

[smoky fiber]

You might have to either Quit or press “~”

[quaint girder]

But germany is balkanized, and I have all of poland

So its not going badly or anything

[smoky fiber]

Just low manpower

If you have any allies you can request manpower from them.

[quaint girder]

I got the czechs

And a bunch of puppets

[smoky fiber]

Thats good

[quaint girder]

Maybe i can get garrison manpower out of them

[smoky fiber]

Exactly

[quaint girder]

Cant i make a puppet template and garrison with that?

[smoky fiber]

Im a little slow I started playing 8 months ago and never use templates so idk

[quaint girder]

Fair

[smoky fiber]

What year is it in your save?

[quaint girder]

1940

[smoky fiber]

Its not late game so nothing will be too hard to do

[quaint girder]

Yeah

Realistically I want to go after most majors

And see how much I can take

[smoky fiber]

Napoleon the Reckoning

I have the most random save ever its a 1957 Swiss save 😭

[untold glade]

So Italy got navel invade and I didn’t notice in time, how do I push in Italy

Cause my tanks aren’t doing anything

And why is in inf no splitting evenly on front line

[fervent minnow]

yall i kinda suck ass at invading the UK for some reason after the new update

istg they didn't have this many divisions guarding their homeland bruh

[toxic cypress]

bulgarian north africa

yummers

[quasi shoal]

greece bro 😭

[toxic cypress]

finally we can end this

20 encircled americans gyat

[red fable]

chat is this a vagabond moment from me

[fervent minnow]

why is bulgaria out of all nations fighting in mexico bruh

how did we get here

[oak mantle]

Am i the best wordle player of all time?

[tulip thorn]

yes

[toxic cypress]

yummmers

[toxic cypress]

we winning duh

got 20% war score too so ima get my balkan puppets and achievement

[fervent minnow]

nice, which one u going for?

[toxic cypress]

master pupppeter

beautiful

[toxic cypress]

the bulgarians arnt in mexico now

[inland falcon]

surely bulgaria has more than like 4 generals

[fervent minnow]

bulgarian world conquest?

[fervent minnow]

ah

[toxic cypress]

probably

[toxic cypress]

those r my puppets troops

but their encircled so

im not gonna put generals on troops in a encircled piece of land

[inland falcon]

i mean the generic portrait guy

[fair horizon]

chat why is australia so good and yet so garbage

i mean i know why but id like to complain again

[toxic cypress]

i didnt know which one would be lost after i went facist so

just be safe

get 2 new generals first

once i finish focus tree i use the generals leftr

[ember vine]

Can devs fix communist sweden joining fascists? It looks extremely dumb

Like if a bunch of chickens went to KFC

[primal timber]

hello quentin hope you don't get a dehabilitating sickness in south america

[brittle cypress]

It’s lore accurate

the communist Swedish guy was anti Soviet union

He wanted to join the axis or something to destroy the Soviets

[ember vine]

Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my enemy

[ember vine]

And the painter would allow this?

I mean he adored Sweden for sure for ykw reasons

[brittle cypress]

From the few second google search I’m pretty sure the Germans gave him funding

[ember vine]

Blondieblueboys

[ember vine]

Sweden is so complicated in terms of WWII 😭

[fervent minnow]

thats so weird

wasnt the whole plan to destroy communism

[ember vine]

People were like fish watching other fish get pulled out of the sea after eating a bait

Painter backstabbed literally everyone

And they still believed they do good by siding with him

[fervent minnow]

true

ig yeah in that matter he did work with the soviets until 41

[ember vine]

Bandera, Pavelic, some communist dudes, Bulgaria etc

[ember vine]

He worked with them because he would just kill half of his army invading Poland

[fervent minnow]

yeah

oh and also

is hybrid tanks worth it

what i mean is

take a 1936 german light tank

in like 1939 instead of using mediums

[ember vine]

Amphibious?

[fervent minnow]

you mix it with lights

like half light half medium

even heavies too

is it better to produce only one (for example medium)

or have all 2 or 3 types

in a divison

[ember vine]

I keep losing my tank divisions so idk

[fervent minnow]

lmao what

[ember vine]

Bros cant fight for me for some reason

[fervent minnow]

ironic that your name is the super heavy tank division

when you "lose" tanks

lol

[ember vine]

I sent carlist spain a tank div in volunteers they couldn't manage against a militia with absolutely no supply

[fervent minnow]

yeah no shit, spain is a really bad place for tanks (at least the north)

[ember vine]

Yes this is literally savage against tanks

[fervent minnow]

and the carlists are in the north so

that's normal

[ember vine]

Yeah ig

But still

[fervent minnow]

north is mountainous

[ember vine]

That was a damn militia

[fervent minnow]

yes but there's also the unplanned offensives modifier

that's what's messing w u probs

[ember vine]

Kids in uniforms made a french tank division retreat

Ykw nevermind that makes sense

[fervent minnow]

you shouldve told me you played france in this bruh

yeah ofc

french tanks without modification SUCKS

[ember vine]

France trying not to be gay for a minute:

[fervent minnow]

how many hours do you have on hoi btw

[ember vine]

I don't even count them lol

[fervent minnow]

no i mean on steam

[ember vine]

I've been playing since 2021 with some breaks

[ember vine]

Hol on maybe Ill check through my phone because i dont wanna open my pc

[fervent minnow]

alr ig

[ember vine]

I have 1890 hours

This is madness

This is SPARTA

[fervent minnow]

holy

i've got 705

[fervent minnow]

ironic that someone with a stalin pfp posted this lmao

[inland falcon]

you think he had any real consistency?

[ember vine]

Painter was a backstabber

[inland falcon]

at the end of the day, he was a meth junkie that got too much attention

tbf, we don't really have anything to go off of when trying to figure out what they'd have done with a communist, pro-german sweden

they didn't last long enough to see what they really would've done with their allies

[tawdry stratus]

got hacked

not great

[unkempt zodiac]

guys WHY does nobody prioritize economic growth especially in MP like u can do the rhineland, appoint borrman and you get the political advisor -15 consumer goods for really cheap and you basically get war economy and remove all the bad debuffs before 36 ends

and the fact that the prioritise economic growth tree is just overrall better

[heavy vigil]

because it sucks

less eco when it matters

[unkempt zodiac]

you can literally remove all the debuffs within like the first 4 months and you get war economy and a better tree

[heavy vigil]

yes but your mils are slower

[unkempt zodiac]

i meann

[heavy vigil]

also end buffs are the same

[unkempt zodiac]

thats only half true

you get WAY more civies to build mils later

[heavy vigil]

its just worse when playing well

[cedar lance]

hello yalls

[heavy vigil]

MEFO takes like no civs from you until its at 100%

[unkempt zodiac]

im 95% sure prioritize economic growth gives more buffs

[heavy vigil]

and atp you shouldve conquered stuff

[heavy vigil]

it does not

[unkempt zodiac]

for sp four year plan is prob better

[heavy wind]

if we consider autarky achieved

no

MEFO is for spamming mils

there is no reason to go Economic Growth as facist germany

[unkempt zodiac]

for mp there is tho lol

[heavy wind]

i mean depends really

if we talk MP

[unkempt zodiac]

i mean four year plan gives a bigger head start especially in mils but economic growth really grows industry

[heavy wind]

btw

is there a way to avoid civil war as left oposition on USSR

[unkempt zodiac]

anything that involves trotsky needs a civil war if i remember correctly

[heavy wind]

well thats a bummer...

[unkempt zodiac]

just set up near moscow get above 40% before igniting the flame and it should be easy

you dont even need to cheese

[heavy wind]

im trying to MP max

and i cant go Stalin "cuz its too op"

[unkempt zodiac]

dude just go the center 😭

[unkempt zodiac]

oh

[heavy wind]

yeah

im just looking for a path without a civil war

i know i can do Right opposition without a war

[unkempt zodiac]

well

[heavy wind]

but its like

complicated

[unkempt zodiac]

i mean banning stalin for being too op is lowkey crazy

if someones playing germany or japan just say the same thing and gaslight your way into picking stalin

[heavy wind]

Germany cant go historical

either

so...small wins?

[unkempt zodiac]

just pick a good minor then

NATION

[heavy wind]

my buddy is on Poland

all good

[unkempt zodiac]

is germany going monarchist

[heavy vigil]

its RNG

but if you kill stalin its stronger

[heavy wind]

full rng?

[compact saddle]

Yo guys

Wat nation should i play?

[heavy wind]

herobrine is fun

[compact saddle]

Ok ive never play that nation i will test

[heavy vigil]

yes

[coral gorge]

a victorious Reichspakt, but a Reichspakt without Germany

[toxic cypress]

bigulria

[vital cove]

huh

ow did all of south and central America get intoy faction without me approving them

[toxic cypress]

bulgarian usa

the south will become part of bulgaria

[tulip thorn]

Prussia of the balkans

[toxic cypress]

prussia of the balkans and confederacy

[tulip thorn]

Bulgaria prussia of the world

[toxic cypress]

soon

ima split the save file

so i can release puppets

and do the fate of balkans achievement

and then go on to fight germany

[heavy wind]

did it my first try

[toxic cypress]

BULGARIA COLONIAL EMPIRE

[heavy wind]

bulgaria is my top3 nation in hoi4

[toxic cypress]

bulgaria rules the black sea

[toxic cypress]

bulgaria isnt even my top 10

but someone sent a lets destroy bulgaria meme so i played bulgaria

yummy

[heavy vigil]

good

[toxic cypress]

cmon

[cedar lance]

🇪🇪 10 years down the road ESTONIA IS DIRT

[toxic cypress]

we in china boys

[left tusk]

can the uk just bring out their navy so i can nuke it already..

[fair horizon]

show navy

[toxic cypress]

insane kd rn

[fair horizon]

Also set those planes to port strike and watch their navy dissapear

[toxic cypress]

im not in a good spot but i think i can use this to make china grind its shit down

im losing like 10k men for 100k of the enemy

and i have alot of equipment

[fair horizon]

China running out of manpower?

[toxic cypress]

equipment

china has shit industry

[fair horizon]

Honestly their industry is pretty good tbh

[toxic cypress]

if i can make their strength run out

i can just overrun

[toxic cypress]

🤷‍♂️ problem is my allies r dumb

they arnt helping

you would expect more

my supply hub finished they arnt ever taking back this land

[fair horizon]

Inb4 reinforce meme

[toxic cypress]

they have no iron to make guns

we completely control the iron supply

and blockade em all

if we just hold long enough

they will run outa guns

china really wants this

lol my entire navy and airforce just here to grind down the chinese

nvm i can just push this

[fair horizon]

You didnt make that navy did you? :(

[toxic cypress]

no its the american russian mexican greek spanish italian chinese navy

40% war score im gonna get so much land

huge encircle oming

oh wow that encirlement killed 1million people

[left tusk]

goddamnit i just lost 20 divisions landing on the british isles

[toxic cypress]

rip

bulgaria

beautiful

[wanton whale]

I have reached a higher stage of Hoi4 disease

[cursive oxide]

how do i annex parts of yugo and bulgaria and all of albnia and turkey with out dlcs ?

[grizzled zenith]

Why doesn't it start the border conflict?

It just refuses

[light nova]

how you would regularly

manually get war goals

in the peace conference take what you want

who're you playing as

[grizzled zenith]

By justifying on them?

[light nova]

yeah

[grizzled zenith]

If you're fascist and fighting a major justifying a war goal takes 10 days

[light nova]

tbf based on what he wants to take he's probably playing Greece

[cursive oxide]

italy

[light nova]

hmmn

yeah it'll take some time

[grizzled zenith]

Oh you 're answering a question bruh

[cursive oxide]

italy keeps killing me there protentin albania

[light nova]

yeah

[light nova]

who are you playing

Greece?

[left tusk]

guys i think i lost

[cursive oxide]

greec

[left tusk]

british just nuked my navy

how tf can i land now

[light nova]

damn

[left tusk]

[light nova]

you could probably beat Bulgaria and yugo

as for Albania

just leave it

[cursive oxide]

but i need it

for the acievment

[light nova]

if you have the money get the 5$ a month subscription for all the Dlcs

[light nova]

do you have to control it

or own it

[cursive oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/no-money-donald-duck-sad-gif-21751594

[cursive oxide]

reform byzentuim

so i can rename istanbul to constenobel

[light nova]

if you only need to like occupy it just declare on Albania and occupy it

[tiny iris]

25 euros for Götterdammerung is crazy,

[light nova]

if you have to control it

yeah you're cooked

[light nova]

I did the math

125 for all Dlcs

[cursive oxide]

dam

do i go fasict or comie ?

[tiny iris]

8 euros for all DLCs for a month.
Play it enough till you get bored of HOI4.

[light nova]

fascist I think is good

[light nova]

it's 8 dollars for the 3 month one for me

[ripe slate]

The non-sale prices are irrelavent when the DLC go on sale constantly, unless you insist of getting them all the day they come out

[cursive oxide]

yea but then i need to fight italy with out support

[tiny iris]

I bought EU 5 yesterday, my OCD doesn't let me play it though but at least I can flex it.

[light nova]

I mean you're cooked either way you have to beat the axis

[cursive oxide]

aslo is fatiocn expoliting a way to go ?

[light nova]

best thing you can do

beat them before they join the axis

[cursive oxide]

how

[light nova]

idk

I actually do not know

[cursive oxide]

[light nova]

but it seems like the only feasible way

does Italy start with a guarantee on Albania?

[toxic cypress]

are you kidding me

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

i need to fight the japanese to fight the tuvans

[tiny iris]

You know, Napoleon Total War is cheaper than the HOI4 subscription at the moment.
Isn't that crazy?