hoi4-general

[ripe slate]

UK can on ahistorical join Poland against the USSR

[south mountain]

My game was on historical though.

[scarlet badger]

I feel like the allies always invade the soviets late game

[south mountain]

Mine was in the middle game

[scarlet badger]

*in vanilla

[south mountain]

I probably think that in my RT56 run UK somehow guaranteed Poland and then when USSR attacked Poland and the UK AI got activated.

[ripe slate]

Possible, normally that guarantee gets removed before USSR joins in I think

I think that happens when countries join a faction leader of a different ideology

[safe wing]

Democratic Austria Hungary flag looks sad

[vast delta]

yeah

[eager pebble]

Yo, what ahistorical campaign should I play as? (preference for minors that can grow; don't really like starting as a major)

[sly venture]

throwback to when I got pushed back by the sultane of Aussa

[still dune]

"German Military Junta has joined the Chinese United Front"

"German Military Junta has called the Kingdom of Hungary as our enemy in the Manchurian-Afghanistani war"

"China is 96% towards capitulation - they will capitulate once 100% of their territory has been occupied"

"Major countries needed to capitulate: China, Guangxi Clique, Sinkiang, Afghanistan, German Millitary Junta, Kingdom of Hungary, Svea Rike"

[mighty bone]

big plays

[still dune]

"Yunnan has joined the allies"

"Yunnan has called British Malaya as our enemy in the Italian-Albanian War"

[mighty bone]

are they a major?

[umbral trellis]

https://tenor.com/view/the-big-leagues-the-big-leagues-are-calling-gif-15928249687245233098

[ember vine]

Devs please fix the frontline cuts

It's annoying

The frontline edges keep cutting

And before I noticed they just got around me

[night field]

this war has been going on for ages

[sly venture]

Germany has joined the Chinese united front

[smoky fiber]

What do I do

[long pendant]

what?

[sly venture]

say no

[smoky fiber]

ok

[sly venture]

What’s the worst that can happen

[trim lotus]

Sometimes I feel the need to scream at my AI "allies" to not put a ton of their fourth-rate divisions on a narrow frontline where I desperately need supplies for my mountaineers doing the actual work.

[sly venture]

me when Italy naval invades the ussr for no reason and loses 50 divisions

[azure palm]

depends. How strong are you?

[long pendant]

somehow the uk manages to screw up d day WITH american support

[trim lotus]

So, like IRL when they took forever to get off the beaches?

[sly venture]

I lowkey just insta kill the uk as soon as I get France

it is not that hard invading it

[long pendant]

thing is im the swiss

im waiting for the uk to finally land d day

so i can have a proper, non-encircled frontline

[sly venture]

British ai when you actually want d day to land:

[smoky fiber]

Thank god I saved before this

[long pendant]

the soviets held moscow for like twive as long as they did irl

*twice

[smoky fiber]

What if I ust Annex GER

no

[sly venture]

this is like the easiest way to invade the uk

[steel zephyr]

french better not cap

[smoky fiber]

I said yes to Sudtenland and they are still declaring on me for 0 reason

[steel zephyr]

son

[trim lotus]

1. Historical AI can still adapt to you choosing non-historical focuses.
2. Germany invades you later anyways; giving the Sudetenland merely buys a bit of time.

[azure palm]

yeah the best way is just to hope they dont go historical

if you play alt

[steel zephyr]

yeah ok france capped its joeover

[azure palm]

RIP

[steel zephyr]

italy civil war

we are so back?!

[young lake]

I SWEAR im not losing the balkans. If I lose ill take them all down with me I cant lie

[azure palm]

you could do the bittersteel move and win this war

[steel zephyr]

tryna use my limited forces to neutralise german poland

[light nova]

Guys Lebanon dlc next dlc

trust me

[azure palm]

never! We first need a tannu tuva DLC!

[light nova]

Lebanon is worse start

I'm genuinely crying

because of how bad Lebanon is

why couldn't I be Bulgarian

they have a damn good focus tree

my favorite in the game

[young lake]

Yo guys hows my stockpile? 😭

[light nova]

eh you'll push through it

eventually

[young lake]

In a war still but sure

[light nova]

eh you can do it if you abuse the power of friendship

[frail parrot]

hey guys, I'm playing as South Africa and I want your opinion with my template, is it good or do I need improvements?

[young lake]

Im alone bro....

[young lake]

I HAVE NO FRIENDS IN THIS WAR 😭

[vast delta]

hi can someone help

[light nova]

Oh yeah you're 💯 done

[vast delta]

i am editing a map and

[light nova]

Just tag switch to Lebanon and start farming

[azure palm]

hah, im Austrian. We have a giant focus tree

[vast delta]

i have well over 100+ factories in a country but it says total factories is 70

[young lake]

Trust trust

[vast delta]

ik this isnt the case since theres a minimum of 9 per state ( italy )

[young lake]

Im sure they have no guns aswell

[light nova]

I'm sad

When will Paradox acknowledge us

we had some really cool and interesting shit in the 30s

coming out (and losing) a 400 year struggle for Independence

a president who doesn't like his country

[azure palm]

not soon

[light nova]

a rift in our parliament that divided the entire government and started mass sectarian issues

[light nova]

true

We're getting the South West Africa dlc first

[azure palm]

though an update for like tannu tuva, lebanon, syria and liberia would be cool

[light nova]

true

Lebanon and Syria we're going through it

[young lake]

THESE TERMS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE FYM????
Only took like 400k casualties and crippled my army

And I get some consumer goods?????????

[light nova]

BULGARIA RAHHH

[young lake]

Bulgaria got cooked

[young lake]

Did lose Constantinople at one point tho 😭

[shrewd valley]

bro nobody cares 😭 😂

[steel zephyr]

🤤

[young lake]

I do

🥹 ✌️

See I only had to ruin ANY CHANCE of future wars and I got a very slight bit of land and -75% consumer goods!
Entirely worth it fr

Im gonna be so useful in the WW1

[smoky fiber]

I will be fighting on 3 fronts when Germany breaks this ceasefire...

[steel zephyr]

holy shit where are the germans

[shrewd valley]

nobody cares gng😂

[smoky fiber]

Bye

[uncut pollen]

This looke perfect

Enjoy the easy war

[young lake]

Bro the Austrians are going to OBLITERATE Serbia 😭

Serbia already on extensive with 50k mp left

And like 0 stockpiles from the Balkan war

[young lake]

xd

[strong umbra]

holy hoi4

[night field]

germany's army is slowly collapsing now and im slowly running out of manpower because of naval invasion

[austere pier]

why is the other iran tag winning lol

[austere pier]

thats actually sneaky op tho

-75% is pretty crazy

[young lake]

I had like 20 civs ;-;

And 11 mills

I infact joined and accidently just did something REALLY stupid in egypt

Capped egypt and pushed into libiya and looked away for 2 mins and I look back and 2 army groups are encircled in Egypt with only 1 able to escape

So now im gonna try cap Egypt again and take the Suez AGAIN

But this time the Suez isnt wide open and has 20 British divs on it

Atleast France wp earlier ;-;

[scarlet badger]

opinions on dlc subscriptions?

[ember vine]

I sometimes wish I never got them, same goes for the game

but its quite fun

[night field]

do the soviets have infinite manpower reserves or something

[charred lake]

Anyone here know why it says the "Host has another version of the game" just tryna teach a friend some hoi

I only enabled dlc, and I had ONE mod called Folk Music for Countries

that was it, and it usually works

[ember vine]

I had a similar problem thats why i didnt try multiplayer

[charred lake]

ohh

is it like a general HOI problem, or is it like, just a few have it?

[ember vine]

idk last time i tried multiplayer i was using linux

[charred lake]

i see

alr then, I guess no multiplayer

[quasi shoal]

did you update the game

also mods count as "another version"

[charred lake]

It was, didn't say update, it usually updates automatically

[charred lake]

I turned off everything

[quasi shoal]

check if you and your friend both have the same version of the game

[chrome mulch]

First time i've won

im new to hoi4

lowkey spent 80 hours learning army

[cedar coral]

id recomend you leave cuz there is no turning back

[heavy wind]

what ships should i convert as italy in an MP game

the battleships only? or also the heavy cruisers

[charred lake]

cant forget about the navy

[cedar coral]

also advice on gcw
cut the nazis in half then get rid of them in bavaria

use you air

[mystic nest]

man i love the basic inf template

its so cheap and it performs so well

[deep dagger]

AI just uses bad templates

[green lodge]

what's wrong with this, normal generated template by ai

i'm lithuania 💀

[deep dagger]

Well not bad but you can outsmart them easily

[mystic nest]

Yep

[mystic nest]

naht hey use bad templates

[mystic nest]

bad width

[strong belfry]

why the year is 1953

[mystic nest]

not large enough width for pushing not small enough width for defending

[green lodge]

is it good for pushing into the soviets

[strong belfry]

low soft attack high witdh

[green lodge]

How much is enough ?

[mystic nest]

36w for pushing

but the soviets are terrible in sp so 18w could probably push

also youd want different suppor tcompanies to push

[strong belfry]

i usually do 22 witdh 2 artilerry 8 inf

[green lodge]

Gotcha so i'll just shit out some more of those

[mystic nest]

flame tanks, assault engineers, support aa, field hospital and logistics / recon rangers (logif or IE)

[green lodge]

I'm lithuania, i don't have those reseached in 37

[mystic nest]

dont do that

[strong belfry]

well singleplayer is so easy since you can world conquest by farting

[mystic nest]

meta is 16/18 width on defence and 36w on offence

16w so you can fit in forests

[green lodge]

Don't have a military thing/ don't have a military thing/ don't have aa researched/ don't have radio researched/ don't have mountainneers researched

[mystic nest]

18w if you have to hold plains

[strong belfry]

why not 34 witdhs

[mystic nest]

theres some cases where youre forced to hold plains even though theyre bad like if playing czechoslovakia

[strong belfry]

i do 34 for tanks

[mystic nest]

do 36w

34 and 22 is past meta

[green lodge]

Don't have a military thing/ don't have a military thing/ don't have aa researched/ don't have radio researched/ don't have mountainneers researched

[strong belfry]

alr imma try next multiplayer

if it doesnt work ill be at your door

[mystic nest]

youd want to be specialised in mp anyway isnt it that some countries make tanks some make inf?

[green lodge]

Oh 50 days for aa

AA's happening soon

[mystic nest]

dont have aa researched??

you need aa in almost everry scenario except if your airforce is cracked

[deep dagger]

Yk it‘s in the artillery section

[green lodge]

50 days for that

[strong belfry]

nope somecontrys like sovviet does everythink

[mystic nest]

dont bother with inf templates until the war starts

spend that army exp on doctrines

[deep dagger]

Flak in support company

[green lodge]

Flak in ??

[mystic nest]

doctrines always first before templates except if youre playing like china

[mystic nest]

aa

[mystic nest]

yeah soviets americans are the exception i think

[green lodge]

Yeah i have 10 factories waiting for aa

[mystic nest]

britain too maybe

[mystic nest]

wdym waiting

?

[green lodge]

Uh they're doing nothing else ?

[deep dagger]

Gng landcruiseres are overpowered but it takes decades to research them and a ton of ressources

[mystic nest]

why

put them on something

you can always divert them later

[mystic nest]

no theyre litearlly just used for memes

medium tanks are more than enough in sp

theyre not worth the ic

[deep dagger]

They give crazy stats ye ik

[mystic nest]

not worth how much resources they cost

[deep dagger]

Multiplayer would be a different story

[strong belfry]

just spam inf with cas in sp

[mystic nest]

yeah

you never need tanks in sp

tanks are just nice to have

lol you can really feel the cas nerf this is with 0 friendly planes

[green lodge]

Large unit tactics or indiv excellence ?

[cedar coral]

genesis... 6, 7?

[green lodge]

If I'm going infantry only

[mystic nest]

ie

[green lodge]

Sure ? Cuz 36w could go down to 35.2w 👀

I do go ie every time

[silver eagle]

take that dixie

[night field]

WHY DID GERMANY ANNEX VICHY FRANCE THEY WERE THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE AXIS THAT HAD ANY MANPOWER LEFT

[mystic nest]

this situation is baked i would reset honestly

late game allies industry outscales you by far

[heavy wind]

shits and giggles

[heavy wind]

let him cook bro

[night field]

the german ai can be worse than italy sometimes

[mystic nest]

the only thing cooking here is his cpu

its 1955 im surprised hes not lagging

[heavy wind]

https://tenor.com/view/evangelion-dancing-despair-gif-10936523928010112006

[night field]

the east is holding just fine tho

[heavy wind]

its about winning not prolonging the defeat

at some point ur gonna run out of stuff

Allies wont

[night field]

well what do you suggest that i do?

[mystic nest]

reset

its 1955 allies

they probably have like thirty thousand strat bombers at this point

[heavy wind]

or get the big boom

[mystic nest]

if all allied majors are alive at 1955 its wraps

[night field]

the german ai always screws up in every hungary game i try

[heavy wind]

do something meme

[night field]

they never even get to core soviet territory most of the time

[heavy wind]

like Heavy Jet Fighters

[heavy wind]

they never do btw

[mystic nest]

that why you have tod o the work

never rely on the ai for anyhthing

[heavy wind]

if you wanna keep going, do it

[mystic nest]

his pcs gonna crash before he quits atp

[heavy wind]

i mean you can learn a lot from just carrying the ai by the Rag

[mystic nest]

my games become a lag machine after like 55

[green lodge]

Ok

[night field]

almost every allied country is out of manpower now tho

[green lodge]

I have 60 mills 💀
What do i build

[mystic nest]

how many casualties have they taken?

[mystic nest]

wdym jus the standard stuff

[green lodge]

I'm thinking of building air force ?
Like cas/fighters

[mystic nest]

inf eq, support eq, art, aa, trucks, trains + whatever else you need

[mystic nest]

sure

[green lodge]

Poland had a lot of space

[mystic nest]

oh

poland

what year is this

[green lodge]

1938

[green lodge]

Lithuania imperial allows you to annex Poland diplomatically

And core it 💀

[mystic nest]

thats nowhere near close to running out of mp

for the allies

[night field]

well the brits and americans have ran out of manpower

[mystic nest]

brazil allows you to annex portugal + every country in south america and some in cnetral america diplomatically

and then core it lmao

[green lodge]

💀

[mystic nest]

are you sure? whats their mobilisation law?

[heavy wind]

DO HEAVY JET FIGHTERS

[green lodge]

Austria is goated in diplomatical coring
I got like almost everything

[heavy wind]

then some basic cas

and then the big BOOM

[deep dagger]

Well you need a navy if you want to defeat the allies so

1955

[mystic nest]

first time ive played a holding czechs game

[deep dagger]

Darn

[mystic nest]

the ussr is at war with the allies

beacuse they declared on poland before germany

🥀

[green lodge]

I'm not getting the option to .. hold a referendum?

As monarchist

I have 48% fascist support

[mystic nest]

pre sure allies can take at least 2-3 hundred mil more casualties

before runnign out lol

germanys actualyl closer to running out of mp than the allies

[deep dagger]

Yea ofc they do

[green lodge]

British raj has a few million hiding 👀👀

[mystic nest]

yeah dont even mention india

[deep dagger]

Yea them

[mystic nest]

they can spam out inf divs

[green lodge]

Just so goated

[deep dagger]

If you play tsar Russia that has national spirit that grants you +1000 weekly manpower

[white dome]

https://www.tiktok.com/@betodiaz60/video/7548933776353578271?lang=en

[deep dagger]

I just got the Romanov’s laugh last achievement or however it‘s called

[night field]

germany has ran out of mp years ago

but they are holding on every front now

[heavy rover]

all ts is bad or naw

[young frigate]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3594132155

working on this mod

[astral forum]

No one expects...

[heavy rover]

holy border gore

[astral forum]

Weird ass game where I went Monarchist, Czechoslovakia gave me the Sudatenland and I reunited Austria-Hungary, and then Romania declared war on Bulgaria and Hungary before I divided them up. Meanwhile, Poland was at war with Czechoslovakia and Poland was in the allies

[viscid mason]

this template is terrible remove the line and light tank

[heavy rover]

yrah i know

[tranquil lion]

Is there a focus or something for Austria that allows me to more easily integrate my puppets (Austria-Hungary path)?

I'd rather not have to use the base-game puppet annexing system. That would take me until like 1941-1942 to annex everyone.

[finite plume]

https://tenor.com/view/ninja-any-haircut-recommendations-low-taper-fade-you-know-what-else-is-massive-gif-3708438262570242561

[sacred pilot]

i really love this game.

i made the holy papal state

[uncut pollen]

nice

[steel zephyr]

🌹

[bitter nexus]

are we serious rn germany

big ambitions i see

im NOT joining this war lol

[safe wing]

Terrible

Should be all infantry

[safe wing]

Kill the UK

[bitter nexus]

im doing a viva la france run (i suck at hoi4 btw, only like 250 hours) but I did another save that wont load now, but I did do war and all the axis left me to deal with Africa, there was a death war that wouldnt move and it was pain and agony, also the italians got navaled so I had to go help them, and had to fight the netherland as germany was all the way to moscow and still not capping when the netherlands declared

so hell no

im not declaring war until im ready this time

i messed up bad last time

[modern torrent]

good idea lol

build up air and paratroop into major british cities

1 day of airsuperiority and youre already in london

[glad sun]

Holy encirclde

[grim raptor]

anyone down for hoi4

[brisk rivet]

i am anyone else

[heavy wind]

note to myself-red flood sucks ass

[mighty bone]

huh, if the game goes historical german ai kills hitler for goebells

[night field]

the soviets finally went to scraping

[steel zephyr]

first time using space marines, very nice

[steel zephyr]

YOO MIGHT FINALLY BE ABLE TO GET URALIC BROTHERS UNITED IN THIS

[strong belfry]

holy cheat divs

[tulip thorn]

I havent used space marines in so long

[random snow]

is radar considered army tech or civilian?

i ask because im trying to steal the UKs tech

[crisp wyvern]

guys

I have achieved something great

I made Italy a competent force, a nuclear empire, and a global great power

With fighter jets, bomber jets, and modern tanks

[smoky fiber]

How

[crisp wyvern]

to be Italian, one must be incompetent

and I, am not incompetent

1.64M sized army too

[smoky fiber]

As ITALY????!

[crisp wyvern]

Yeah!

[smoky fiber]

No way

[crisp wyvern]

First mf to make Italy a deserved super power

[tulip thorn]

Thats it

Weak

Very weak italy

[crisp wyvern]

I also dropped a nuclear bomb in Austria just to prove the world that I was a nuclear power

[crisp wyvern]

Heard enough, spawn 10 billion Italians out of the thin blue

[crisp wyvern]

And gave Russia 200 fighter jets for their fight against Finland and Karelia (Karelia broke free)

W Italia 🥹 ❤️‍🩹

https://tenor.com/view/hetalia-north-italy-hetalia-feliciano-vargas-italy-gif-14958202355461559899

[smoky fiber]

I like your bio

[smoky fiber]

❤️‍🩹

[crisp wyvern]

I like yours too

[smoky fiber]

Thank

[crisp wyvern]

thank.... Tank?

https://tenor.com/view/war-thunder-gif-15118857863314551017

I hate navy, I love ground as aereal warfare

[uncut pollen]

I won a war against belgium against bc of navy

(i played germany)

[smoky fiber]

Maybe we move our tanks to off topic

[crisp wyvern]

Nah it's okay

Hoi4 is a war game with tanks anyways

why would they get pissed about us talking about tanks, in a tank warfare game

[smoky fiber]

WHAT is on the front of the Belgeitpanzer 57 😭

[crisp wyvern]

Kaiser Wilhelm II speech bubble (it was the schliefen plan instead of a naval invasion)

[tulip thorn]

Taml as in Tank Dempsey

The best thing to come from the black ops series

[uncut pollen]

Haha

[crisp wyvern]

what if

[smoky fiber]

I have 3.0 Japan and it hurts

[crisp wyvern]

Dempsey x Takeo

[smoky fiber]

Big words

[smoky fiber]

Friend

Tonk

[crisp wyvern]

big tonk

I know very little about tanks though, sadly :(

I've been getting really rusty at history

[smoky fiber]

Thats a Jumbo

[smoky fiber]

sad

[crisp wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/gerita-hetalia-italy-germany-happy-gif-449181922519853390

[uncut pollen]

Im now pissed that you 2 talked about tanks in a tank warfare game

[crisp wyvern]

oh no

[uncut pollen]

!bean @crisp wyvern

[smoky fiber]

Should I be scared?

[crisp wyvern]

nah

[uncut pollen]

You are now beaned

:D

!bam @smoky fiber

[crisp wyvern]

Mussolini treatment 2000

[smoky fiber]

Ow

[uncut pollen]

Yes

[crisp wyvern]

I genuinely love playing hoi4 sm at this rate it's going to overtake the amount of hours I have in warzone

https://giphy.com/gifs/stare-thousand-yard-queueuof-UsKYCgdsoHGq7xrHLd

[smoky fiber]

I like hoi4

[crisp wyvern]

we like hoi4

[smoky fiber]

I am a special one

1 in 1

[uncut pollen]

I Like to play it bc it makes me forget trauma

[smoky fiber]

I laughed so hard when I saw that ingame

[crisp wyvern]

I love playing it because it makes me happy to lead a nation to glory and prosperity

Either the brown ideology way, or the democratic way

[smoky fiber]

I play it to play it and I like it

[crisp wyvern]

Fair

[uncut pollen]

I like gray and blue

[crisp wyvern]

Even the devs don't take the game that seriously

[smoky fiber]

I dont trust the wheelchair with the Panzerfaust

[uncut pollen]

I mean

The achievements give it away

[smoky fiber]

I do whatever the nation I play gives me

Or when I play Germany I do the civil war

[uncut pollen]

Good decision

[smoky fiber]

and Hungary to 100% non aligned for Stability and Austria-Hungary

[crisp wyvern]

100% stability Austria-Hungary is literally the make love not war meme

[smoky fiber]

That was me playing Hungary in January 1936

[smoky fiber]

Yes

Why we die

[crisp wyvern]

How I feel after the chud ass of Churchill declares on me for absolutely no reason

[smoky fiber]

How I felt when Hitler declared on me for no reason shortly after I establised Austria-Hungary

[crisp wyvern]

Bro just wanted sudeteland and had to fight the Austro-Prussian war all over again

Or wanted Austria itself

[smoky fiber]

No he started Justifing before he Requested Sudetenland

He didnt give a care about me taking Austria

Even if you give him Sudetenland the war still happenes

So I have this ceasefire mod so before he declared I made him like me so as soon as war started he proposed a ceasefire thank God

[south mountain]

I really hate late game since it is a big stalemate between the allies and the other factions, having 20 troops per tile is not fun.

[tulip thorn]

Sounds like alot of fun

A single encirclement is like 1m+ men

[fathom swan]

Where did the name hearts of iron come from

[uncut pollen]

metaphorical, it refers to the toughness, courage, and iron will required to wage World War II. It represents the commitment and mental strength that people possess.

[quasi shoal]

[mystic nest]

aura farming purposes

[hardy mirage]

bruh what is this

[smoky fiber]

Clickbait

[tulip thorn]

Someone who hates hoi4 mp

[south mountain]

I think this is more like a virus/malware than a cheat for HOI4 multiplayer.

[tulip thorn]

Duh

[south mountain]

The people who will fall for it are going to be really disappointed when they run the exe file.

[south mountain]

Some people might have no common sense about exe files for some reasons and will fall for it.

[uncut wraith]

is there a way to make frontline orders actually work

[terse skiff]

Wdym work?

[uncut wraith]

like my troops think that the frontline is a suggestion and will actively refuse to man parts of it

even when i have more than enough divs on it to man the whole thing

its great when i’m trying to fight a defensive war and my troops all leave a tile open and then don’t move back when it gets taken

[uncut wraith]

e.g. i move troops from neighboring tiles to man it and then they instantly leave and go back to where they were

[terse skiff]

Could be a field marshal line and another general's troops should be there

[dusty onyx]

https://medal.tv/games/hearts-of-iron-iv/clips/m9Urg3cQwlFxUFlif?invite=cr-MSxtU00sMjE3OTk1NTE3&v=43

[fickle thicket]

average multi germany

[merry bloom]

is there a limit to 5x speed? or is it literally as fast as ur computer can handle?

[tulip thorn]

Its how ever fast it can handle

[merry bloom]

ah ok

[dusky burrow]

why are they puppeting as germany

[south mountain]

What are the keybinds for the battleplans feature in game?

Is this good?

[cedar lance]

hello yalls
ill spend 3.4k on the BRAND NEW gaming laptop and gaming pc

[strong belfry]

use field marshal

[coral gorge]

oi

[desert cradle]

@frosty juniper internet crash

[dusky burrow]

Probably have one army on France, three on the main Polish border, and one in East Prussia so that you can overrun Poland. France will struggle to push over the short Alsatian front

[dusky burrow]

sheep don't make that noise

[south mountain]

True

France in RT56 mod is pretty aggressive.

[ember vine]

I got the biggest influence I ever had as Hungary until 1950

With Miklos Horthy as my king

Zamn the gameplay was smooth (except for peace conferences where they left some independent guys after contest)

Literally joined the allies and they spread democracy around

[south mountain]

Allies are overpowered in hoi4

[vital cove]

people are puppeting as democratic nations 💔

someone gotta tell people like bittersteel to stop make people think puppeting is good

[dusky burrow]

I mean in this case we're talking abotu fascist germany

[upbeat patio]

whats so bad about it

the supervised state feature releases them quick

[dusky burrow]

in which case you don't want to puppet because you get 4-year plan bonuses from annexations

[vital cove]

yea exactly

you should be annexing always as democratic nation

[upbeat patio]

yea ig

[vital cove]

ai ally = worthless

1000 factories for ai ally < 10 factories for you

[upbeat patio]

ai allies are so ass

they just take up all the supply

with their 200 divisions of recon and 6 inf

[dusky burrow]

yeah it's better to have factories for yourself

but 1000 factories for an ally is probably better than 10 factories for yourself unless that ally is running out of manpower

[ember vine]

More like division spams

[vital cove]

im just exaggerating to deliver the point

[upbeat patio]

its very annoying when ur trying to invade poland as germany and hungary stacks up 64 divisions in carpenian ruthenia

[green lodge]

I annexed germany but released it

Cuz I needed coal

300 coal

[hasty linden]

um

🥀

[green lodge]

I'd rather buy it from Germany than the pay 40 civs to the Ussr

[green lodge]

Too invested

[sly venture]

alright bro am retiring

[green lodge]

Brotha

Brotha why

[sly venture]

i won

[green lodge]

You always put equal on both sides

Brotah

[dusky burrow]

yeah you just have to cas them out

[green lodge]

What year is this

[dusky burrow]

should be 1936 or otherwise i'd probably restart

[sly venture]

i am not taking such disrespect i am redoingt that

[green lodge]

Brotha

Brotha it's easy

[icy jungle]

Or get all of your army

[sly venture]

its april

[dusky burrow]

i see

[green lodge]

All of your army

[green lodge]

💀 nah bro reset

They already jumped the train

If they join the allies, start praying

[dusky burrow]

yeah ethiopia should take a few months at most

[sly venture]

i capped them

[dusky burrow]

you place 22 divisions in the north and 24 in the south

[green lodge]

They can go into exile ?
Are they in exile ?

[dusky burrow]

Bring all of your tactical bombers and close air support to Ethiopia

[green lodge]

I hope you puppeted them

And not annexed

[dusky burrow]

Set them up to bomb danakil and ogaden

and then push as hard as you can

[green lodge]

Cuz you have to do that stupid mission

[green lodge]

He won

[dusky burrow]

once you get out of danakil switch to ethiopian highlands

that's the general Ethiopia guide

[sly venture]

invading ethiopia harder then britian confirmed

[green lodge]

Brotha

[icy jungle]

Just get the AOI and the mission autocompletes

[green lodge]

Brotha did you puppet them ?

[dusky burrow]

invading britain as italy shouldn't be that hard either

before you declare

[green lodge]

🙏

[dusky burrow]

you set your fleet on the northern coast of France or Germany

Build up naval supremacy in the appropriate regions

And then send 12 36-width infantry divisions to naval invade Britain

[green lodge]

Brotha aa

[dusky burrow]

there's a funny thing you can do with ethiopia post-capitulation where you divide them into as many statelets as possible

[icy jungle]

Just get your ships in the channel and pray

Thats how you invade britain

[dusky burrow]

The thing with this is that Britain doesn't build naval supremacy pre-war, so you get naval supremacy upon entering war

If you start the war first

Like it's really easy to spiral as Italy

You can also do similar tricks with Germany, conquering the UK in 1937

[hushed talon]

how to download

[dusky burrow]

It's funny just how the seemingly most daunting operational plans are actually quite easy, like sealion and breaching the maginot

the harder part about hoi4 is managing the economy, production runs, focuses, and decisions

[icy jungle]

Mate are you a bot?

[narrow lotus]

I am so confused bro 🥀 I'm losing to Switzerland as germany

[strong belfry]

its normal if your new

you have small border with swit

also its mountians

[narrow lotus]

What country is easiest to start with yall germa Y ain't it I'm not tryna fight 5 countries at once

[fervent minnow]

yall

geniune question

every time i close hist and germany goes into their monarchist path

august von mackensen NEVER retires

[barren lotus]

KANONENFIEBER!!!

[fervent minnow]

like we're talking itd be 1942 and still mackensen

[fervent minnow]

HELLYEAH

[fervent minnow]

no kaiser wilhelm or military dictatorship

[strong belfry]

play romania

[fervent minnow]

they just get stuck like that

have anyone else had this problem

i play with no mods btw

vanilla

[strong belfry]

use submods

[fervent minnow]

for the issue?

which ones

[strong belfry]

state tranfer tool, puppet color etc

[fervent minnow]

how are those gonna help my issue

when i say with no mods i mean this happens on vanilla too

[strong belfry]

oh i didnt read your old messages

https://tenor.com/view/lick-spongebob-meme-spongebob-meme-snail-gif-11908872455029987581

[fervent minnow]

lmao

so do you have an answer to my problem

like it's EVERY time bro

[strong belfry]

u might doing something wrong

last time i played germany was 1 year ago

[fervent minnow]

it's not me bro it's the ai

the ai never does the path they always get stuck on von Mackensen

[strong belfry]

ohh the ai

you cant change ai its always stupid

[supple mango]

yall

do i need to unlock political advisors by playing more?

[strong belfry]

no lol

[supple mango]

i have like

9 and no silent workhorse as germany

[strong belfry]

well some contrys has different political advisors

[supple mango]

i know that but doesnt it have a silent workhorse

[fervent minnow]

you can't control that catzen

[strong belfry]

u know sovviets only has 1 industry advisors cuz they killed all the othres

[supple mango]

i watched so many videos and saw it

[fervent minnow]

you're stuck with whatever the game gives you EXCEPT if it's by a focus

[strong belfry]

yeah

[south mountain]

Old versions or different paths for the country you are playing

[fervent minnow]

sometimes focuses give you advisors

[supple mango]

alr

[strong belfry]

by going monarch you might have different advisors

[south mountain]

Or DLCs or mods

Can I win this?

[sly venture]

does ethiopia by chance get buffed in by blood alone dlc because i went from capitulating it in 2 months to stalling on both frontlines

[south mountain]

Yes

DLCs make the game significantly harder.

[fervent minnow]

my brother in christ LOOK AT YOUR NOTIFICATIONS

[supple mango]

units are stupid

[fervent minnow]

also where's yo tanks

[supple mango]

they keep going back to a city even after setting the fallback line

[south mountain]

In the 23 division army

[fervent minnow]

under Guderian?

[south mountain]

Yup

[fervent minnow]

ok assign some commanders and pay attention to your notifs

i don't think this is horrendous

[sly venture]

k bro 6 months is wild

[barren lotus]

not as fast as france

[patent thistle]

i think the west might need help with the soviets

[short ore]

yo

if you get capitualted by france and belgium at the start of the game you get your territories back (As germany)

Is that still the case if I were to conquer a country and then get capitualted by them?

[neat kayak]

Give me some achievements to do

[neat kayak]

tpp man

[jolly lake]

qq all

[patent thistle]

i do not believe so

[short ore]

even if its cored?

[patent thistle]

that one i am sure about

[patent thistle]

keep china devided so they dont get the chance to rise up as one (i split up the chinese puppet more)

thats gotta be cursed as hell-

(joined the war against the soviets)

[short ore]

alr it seems to just become a french puppet

[south mountain]

LOL

[sly venture]

There is no way by blood alone does not buff Ethiopia

ts is hell

[azure dagger]

just go communist path

[opaque atlas]

they just casually changed the trait

[south mountain]

It does

[south mountain]

they get +20% advantage in attack when you have that DLC

[modern torrent]

what yall know about eoanb

[eternal palm]

It gives it a tree so yes kinda?

[sly venture]

that tree can’t be that impactful that makes me go from capitulating them from 2-3 months to the summer

or am just worse at the game

[eternal palm]

U playing as Italy?

That's a skill issue

[sly venture]

yes

[sly venture]

that only happens when I play with the dlc tho

[eternal palm]

So?

Actual skill issue

[safe wing]

I usually kill Ethopia in March as Italy

It’s painfully easy to kill them

[sly venture]

am just asking if Ethiopia is buffed in by blood alone

[safe wing]

Honestly yes and no

[patent thistle]

COME ON WEST DO SOMETHING I DIDNT JOIN IN JUST SO YOU COULD FALL

[safe wing]

They are still easy to beat if you send all divisions and air wings to ethopia

[serene breach]

i want play this

[sly venture]

I don’t sent every divisions to Ethiopia

[safe wing]

You should

[sly venture]

because I run out of supply very fast

[safe wing]

I don’t

I just push and they fold

[patent thistle]

i am legit the only one slightly succeeding

[arctic nest]

you computer doasnt want to

[sly venture]

I will try to sent every division there

hope that changed smt

[eternal palm]

As I said, kinda.

[eternal palm]

Holy pc

[safe wing]

Time to continue playing Byzantium in Roar of Conquest

Andronikos III time

[eternal palm]

Noooooo

[safe wing]

Medivial 2 mod because I’m bored of hoi4

[serene breach]

i payed for whole pc

xD

[patent thistle]

NO OIL FOR YOU SOVIETS

[desert trellis]

My best game so far is it good? I played poland

[safe wing]

Baku will be burning for months

[placid comet]

👀

[safe wing]

Nice

[patent thistle]

ik i also got moscow

[sly venture]

OMFG IT WAS THIS EASY

[placid comet]

😔

[patent thistle]

congrats you now have a never ending war

[safe wing]

You have to end it before May 20th

[arctic nest]

couldve gone commonwealth

[placid comet]

._.

[sly venture]

btw

[patent thistle]

you got nuked from japan out of all places

[arctic nest]

lmao i played japan yesterday where i did the same

[placid comet]

😩

😭

[safe wing]

Japan nuking USSR makes a lot of sense considering Japan was anti communist

[placid comet]

😒

merde

[patent thistle]

leningrad is next

[patent thistle]

was and is even nowdays

[placid comet]

🫡 🥶

[patent thistle]

done with jet bombers cause yes

[arctic nest]

immagen not having intercontinetal bombers with 12000 km range

[patent thistle]

(i need the range)

[placid comet]

😬

[patent thistle]

dont have the DLC

[arctic nest]

aw

[patent thistle]

i only have no step back and the south american dlc

[placid comet]

i just have la resistance😭

[patent thistle]

i can bet that this will eventually become free due to how important the agency is getting

[placid comet]

oh

[patent thistle]

nothing garantied its just speculation on my part

[clever shuttle]

1944 soon and germany has still not done barbarossa but im still standing, it kind of is my fault tho for not wanting to guard the gibraltar strait. 8 million casualties is crazy tho

like i’m just building aa rn cuz the tactic they have is to have like 8 divs to attack first until like almost all of them die and then they get another one so my units get kinda low org but i still hold

[placid comet]

sheat

[arctic nest]

did you allign with the allies?

imma boot up my 1949 japan game

[patent thistle]

endsieg, i got the allies to peace out by nuking the US

[arctic nest]

huh i had no desicon for that

i need to conquer uk and us

[patent thistle]

dont think you are playing endsieg (battle of seelow heights) rightnow

[arctic nest]

oh you mean the mod

but they should add that into the base game

[patent thistle]

the west at some point just randomly wp out when i nuked the US and the war between the soviets and the west started

i got some territory out of it so i aint complaining

FINALLY THE WEST IS DOING SOMETHING

ONLY TOOK YA 3 NUKES TO SEE REASON

[sly venture]

all i needed was to bring all the troops from italy

[sly venture]

without blood alone the base troops on ethiopia are enough

[patent thistle]

without by blood alone ethiopia has like 10 divs at most

• they dont even get the option to make an infinite war

sevastopol was a failure.

[patent junco]

what was your objective with those nukes

[balmy jolt]

My first nuke was in Israel because they wouldn't let me in Denmark 😩

[patent thistle]

resource nuking and just making the soviets feel misserable

[patent junco]

hm

[patent thistle]

stalino has all the soviet coal

finland is also getting a nuke because they joined the soviet faction

OH THE SOVIET WEST IS FINALLY FALLING

[modern torrent]

nuke moscow for good measure

[patent thistle]

already did bro

[shy bloom]

Cant wait for my heavy ship

[patent thistle]

i basically nuked every single major western soviet city that isnt minsk and kiev

[prisma saddle]

is this a good patrol ship?

[clever shuttle]

i don’t understand what’s the point of nukes what do they even do?

[south mountain]

Is this bad?

[cedar lance]

hello yalls

[patent thistle]

disrupt supply

thats the main thing with nukes

and its funny

[heavy rover]

how ts even possible

it must be the best heavy ship

ever

[vital cove]

ugh i hate that mechanic the nordics have where you can pressure other governments, and then they can instead of join your faction, change government and join another faction like soviets or axis

who the hell designed this

[supple mango]

can i prevent russians from attacking me, im germany

[patent thistle]

on historical they will never attack you unless you have nations like poland, finland or the baltics in your faction

[supple mango]

holy i win

[patent thistle]

or you control eastern poland in which case they will demand it later on

[supple mango]

ill build a big ass airforce

should I worry about mefo bills reached 100%?

[patent thistle]

yes.

you should.

[supple mango]

cancel them?

[patent thistle]

not if you gone down the path of the mefo bills

[supple mango]

which is

[patent thistle]

if you did then complete price controls and then the decisions

you have either economic recovery or the other path in economy tree

i cant open it rightnow cause endsieg

[eternal palm]

That's kinda bad. You should be able to get it down by taking gold in decisions

Do not cancel them

Thats a bad idea

[supple mango]

i menat consumer goods factory 100%

[eternal palm]

Yea I know

You should get it down

U have no civs to build with now

[supple mango]

wym taking gold

[eternal palm]

So basically when you capitulate a country you should have a decision that reduces the cg factor

France usually gets it down to below 0%

[proud tapir]

Jarvis, tell chiang kai shek to be an idiot when im playing as a warlord state

[eternal palm]

Cuz their eco is huge

[eternal palm]

Skill issue

[proud tapir]

50/50

im playing an easier warlord but main China is still an annoying ally

We are beating Japan, no thanks to shek tho

[supple mango]

i dont want to start ww2 early

im still weak in military

[eternal palm]

Wdym early

How did it reach 100% already

[supple mango]

its 1938

[eternal palm]

What year is it

[eternal palm]

How in the fk?

Did you do price controls

Like u have decisions before the war to reduce it

[supple mango]

you mean

isntitute price controls

[eternal palm]

Getting czechs and Austria also reduces it

[eternal palm]

Yes

[supple mango]

no

i did free trade

[eternal palm]

Then do it.

[eternal palm]

What?

....

How do you have cg factor 100%

[supple mango]

idk thats what it said in the guide

[eternal palm]

When you arent on right side

[eternal palm]

Which side of the eco branch did you do

[supple mango]

4 year plan

[eternal palm]

Wdym free trade then

YEA DO PRICE CONTROLS

Holy shit

[proud tapir]

i feel like for a complete begginer its better to go economic growth

[eternal palm]

It's easier but lowkey worse

[proud tapir]

i perfer eco growth myself but see the why mefo can be powerful

[eternal palm]

It's straight up better

[supple mango]

so this why construction been ass

[eternal palm]

Esp if you do the cancel exploit

[eternal palm]

Hmmmmmmm

Jesus christ

[proud tapir]

yup

[uncut pollen]

English only

[proud tapir]

consumer goods is how much of your civilian factories are being used for your civilian industry aka unimportant people (none military)

[supple mango]

now

im stuck

[eternal palm]

No?

[placid comet]

😭

[eternal palm]

U can do price controls

Any take czechs

And yea maybe start ww2

Cuz otherwise you're boned

[supple mango]

so

war on the chech

[eternal palm]

.....

U have a focus to annex them.

[proud tapir]

oh no war, you just get them for free

[uncut pollen]

#server-rules

[supple mango]

they still have some land

i did it before

[cedar tulip]

who want to play on this custom map with me ?

[proud tapir]

yeah a focus after the first one

[cedar tulip]

no mods needed

[proud tapir]

it will fully take Czechoslovakia

[eternal palm]

It's gonna crash lmao

[proud tapir]

do you see the vienna award focus

[placid comet]

._.

[eternal palm]

It's not playable

[cedar tulip]

no

lie , i went to 1945

[proud tapir]

after the vienna award, you have fate of Czechoslovakia

[eternal palm]

I see missing tags and states

[cedar tulip]

no crash

[eternal palm]

No way this works

[cedar tulip]

bro i mod better than u

[cedar tulip]

bro i tested it

[eternal palm]

Yea and?

[cedar tulip]

10 time

[ebon crypt]

hello

[eternal palm]

OK cool

[cedar tulip]

then stfu

[eternal palm]

No need to get all upity about it

[eternal palm]

Nah

[eternal palm]

No wonder nobody wants to pay with ur dumbass lmao

Ur rude as fk

[cedar tulip]

i am tired of people talking while knowing nothing

[eternal palm]

Kinda crazy that I'm saying this

[proud tapir]

@supple mango i recommend watching more gameplay and some more general tips

Germany is fun and easy once you get the hang of it, dont stress

[eternal palm]

Deal with it

Not my problem u got issues

[cedar tulip]

u mad bro ?

[eternal palm]

U were telling me to stfu

[proud tapir]

Bittersteel is a good channel

[eternal palm]

I think ur mad

Lmao

[supple mango]

thanks!

[cedar tulip]

so i am looking for people to join the MP game hosting right now

[proud tapir]

he has general guides but also even in his normal videos you can pick up some tips and see how the game i played

[cedar tulip]

90281945991927814

[eternal palm]

Wrong channel bud

#alt-history-multiplayer

[eternal palm]

🥱

[supple mango]

having no supplies sucks

[proud tapir]

supply is king

[supple mango]

by supplies i meant routes

cant get enough to the front lines

might go to war with france early

before poland

[proud tapir]

@supple mango sent you some guides in the dms

[patent thistle]

no resources obviously

[fervent minnow]

what, mefo bills?

[fervent minnow]

hi sargenet dornan of the Enclave

[white spoke]

sargent

[ebon crypt]

hi

[fervent minnow]

that's cuz he is

[patent thistle]

what i like about him is that he very rarely does coward tactics to show something in the game

[fervent minnow]

yeah he straight up faces it without cheese

except it's very needed

if its*

whoops

[patent thistle]

2 words, disaster saves

[fervent minnow]

yup

[patent thistle]

even then he refrains if he can

[south mountain]

What to do here?

[white spoke]

call it quits

[fervent minnow]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[patent thistle]

at this point you just lost

restart

[fervent minnow]

you kinda lost a lot of defensive terrain

yeah

restart atp

maybe fall back to the mountains from the swiss border?

[south mountain]

I think I can win if I am lucky.

[patent thistle]

at that point you risk capping

[fervent minnow]

good luck but ionthinkso man

[white spoke]

i believe

[fervent minnow]

yeah especially if he stil has the uh

disjointed government idea

[patent thistle]

if he still had that he would have capped already

[fervent minnow]

oh right true

i may be stupid

[patent thistle]

me think this might be joever for stalin

his west got nuked hard

by me

[south mountain]

I might win

[fervent minnow]

good luck going through the siberian wasteland

you will probably do it but like

yeah

supply hell

[patent thistle]

i know but dont think i even have to given how the west is pushing the soviets back hard

[fervent minnow]

theyre not even in soviet territory yet no

?

[patent thistle]

they lost all the way to italy and france capped so the current progresss is great

[fervent minnow]

ah okay

[patent thistle]

before i got involved

[patent thistle]

especially me nuking soviet supply and major cities has helped them greatly

[fallen garnet]

hey Im pretty new to the game and I dont know how to design good attack tank units, anyone got a template I could use???

[south mountain]

What is the best option?

[patent thistle]

the kiev nuclear raid is a failure. dam.

[patent thistle]

all arent great but i believe just continue the fight

[tulip thorn]

All of them are terrible, but the one where you play vichy can be fun

[south mountain]

I did!

[patent thistle]

continue the fight atleast lets you stay in africa

[tulip thorn]

Free france is one of the least fun things in hoi4

[patent thistle]

doesnt free france mean "the fight goes on"?

[south mountain]

I am WINNING!

[patent thistle]

continue the fight just basically slaps germany with a "nah iwould win" card

[tulip thorn]

Oh yeah I forgot lol

[analog ivy]

how do i fix the map bug in the new update?