hoi4-general

[vocal bolt]

thats nice that the updates come to basegame

germany got the new tree pre götter aswell

[dusky burrow]

also it's just a cheap engine in general i have to say (rocket engines are cheap in vanilla too but have even less range)

[craggy trail]

It'll be a while until there will be updated doctrines on the hoi4 wiki

[vital cove]

is 70% discount the cheapest the base game goes

or does it go lower sometimes

[silk fern]

It might occasionally be lower but that’s about the best your gonna get

[last swift]

ahhhh yes the greater germanic reich making NATO is a great idea

[ruby heath]

The british really like they're African colonies

[split bane]

Cheapest it's ever been is 80% off but the last time that happened was 2024 so...

[vital cove]

[violet veldt]

Are you playing angriever?

[craggy trail]

Syndicalist Sicameon

[violet veldt]

Where is that on the starting map

Would you reccomend?

What does their focus tree look like

[craggy trail]

Are you looking for beginner countries for the mod?

[violet veldt]

So its like italy?

[craggy trail]

Sicameon is somewhat like Spain

[violet veldt]

Vanilla spain?💔

[craggy trail]

If your looking for something like Italy, That is Wingbardy, just west ofit

[craggy trail]

Spanish in culture, but not in lore

[violet veldt]

Do they have an anarchist path :3

Can i play birdnaventura durriti?

[craggy trail]

Wingbardy has the main fascist historical path with Beakolini, monarchist path, and multiple flavors of harmony and communist paths. It's a very beginner friendly country to learn the mod from

[winter badge]

Does anyone know why my hoi4 kicks me out whenever i want to take screenshot

I work everywhere but in hoi

[violet veldt]

Would you reccomend communist italy in hoi4 as a beginner friendly path? (Ichave 1.3k hours btw)

[violet veldt]

Water tea

[violet veldt]

Pls answer💔

[safe wing]

Yes but its boring compared to democratic king Italy

[winter badge]

I would reccomend tanu tuva / bhutan

[violet veldt]

Tone indicator?

[winter badge]

joke

Ofc they arent for begginers tbh they arent for anyone that has touched grass

[violet veldt]

Idk about "touch grass"

Idk if this is political but i feel like its a very abelist insult to say to someone

[winter badge]

In gaming communities this is one of the most often

[violet veldt]

Idk i probably cant play any modern fps game without muting everyone's mic

[winter badge]

i sometimes play cs

And i never mute since im too lazy for that and i dont really mind

I enjoy listening to russians shouting abt random shit and raging at everything they see

[ruby heath]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-ishowspeed-speed-stream-ishowspeed-stream-speed-nod-gif-1082323842437565509

[winter badge]

wet water

[ruby heath]

Grass is green ahh

[winter badge]

Paradox can make any name

[ruby heath]

The Kingdom of God

[proud tapir]

Military dictatorship>>>>Kaiser

simply because of the flag

[winter badge]

Dragon empire of bhutan

[ruby heath]

The Empire of Red Dragons

[grave sonnet]

The flag is beautiful ngl

[winter badge]

thunda dragons empire

[ruby heath]

The Empire of Sands

[winter badge]

Empire of jobless 😔

[ruby heath]

Azerbaijani soviet democratic socialist republic

[jade ore]

the democratic socialist republic of palestine-iraq

[fossil dragon]

another one

https://tenor.com/view/dj-khaled-another-one-one-gif-5057861

[grave sonnet]

Great job

[fossil dragon]

just 15 more

[jade ore]

cant u just make the easiest-to-make carriers and battleships

[fossil dragon]

i stole them from UK and france

[jade ore]

or that

ew u conquered uk and france as colombia?

[grave sonnet]

Again I'm saying this for the 3656 time probably but Crazy dedication I couldn't do this

[fossil dragon]

non historical

[winter badge]

Wish I had that much

I always focused on playthroughs for fun and ended up with only 40

[fossil dragon]

I mean I play for the achievements

and MP

[winter badge]

Fair enough

[fallen garnet]

finally beat france with Italy on historical, I´ve got a headache tho xD

[heavy rover]

its a hell to attack from the alps

you used special forces?

[safe wing]

The Latin Byzantine Empire of Egypt

[fallen garnet]

nahh takes too much time, just a lot of cheap inf and good timing

[violet veldt]

hey question

[prisma saddle]

why turks font go to athens😭

[violet veldt]

if im playing sparticus germany

and i wanna attack austria and germany through mountainous terrain

whats good for mountaineers

[terse skiff]

check pins in help

[grave sonnet]

For Austria you don't even need Mountaineers they have nothing at the start

You will run them over easily

[violet veldt]

idk im gonna make a confession

sometimes i get slamemd by austira

as germany

like sparty

well

used to

nowadays its just italian gurantees messing me up

[grave sonnet]

It's fine

I used to lose so much equipment and manpower during my first games as italy

Against Ethiopia

[grave sonnet]

Italy is ez

[violet veldt]

italy + austria

no air superiority because i didnt make tanks

also as althist germany

idk usually i go

[lethal ether]

italy is super annoying to fight if ure weak because of how small the front is

[grave sonnet]

Bait encirclement

I did that when I was trying to get Eva braun

[lethal ether]

its still way harder than fighting in central europe for example

[violet veldt]

1936: civil war
1937: fixing my country
1938: economy
1939: try to snag austria and go down my communist internationalism, accidentally start ww2

[grave sonnet]

Let the Czechs get so much that they can't man the front

And just encircled them and won

[lethal ether]

i did that in cw rise of radicalism if u know the mod while fighting the polish liberation army 💀

[grave sonnet]

Ic ic

There was a trend on tiktok where you would bait an encirclement like give up 99% of ur country

And put Bittersteels voice saying "small encirclement"

[lethal ether]

thankfully my feed isnt hoi4 yet

[grave sonnet]

My feed is Politic

[lethal ether]

my feed is a combination of cats, cars and rants

[prisma saddle]

how to capitulate turkey as greece

[lethal ether]

get their victory points

[silk fern]

Bait naval invasions

Just don’t retake ports and they will infinitely reinforce

Infinite death

[lyric lotus]

Hey guys

How do you invade uk as germany

[silk fern]

Boats

[lyric lotus]

They have a tons of battleships

I cant compete

I need 1899 patrol points or whatever

[silk fern]

Sometimes you just gotta pray that they abandon part of the ocean and give you a chance to invade

[lyric lotus]

Ye i kinda think about using planes to do that too

Ok bye

[fringe shell]

chat am i cooked

[silk fern]

Could also use paratroopers

[lyric lotus]

I did they died or when i conquwr land my troops "wont find a spot to land"

I mean they cant find any way of reaching

[proud tapir]

yes ussr yes, naval invade behind my lines

so fun

[woven gate]

you got this

[lyric lotus]

I felt that playing as romania

[woven gate]

neeeevermind

[proud tapir]

im playing as military dictatorship infantry only Germany.

Im deep in USSR, and cant spare troops for their naval invasion of the baltics

[violet veldt]

Lowkey just make garrisons

[proud tapir]

they now stacked a bunch of divs there

[proud tapir]

well between east Prussia and the baltics

[grave sonnet]

Hope it goes well

[lyric lotus]

Lowk makes me reset a 6 hours run

[woven gate]

bro's playing straight ass

[proud tapir]

nah its fun

[barren ruin]

i got the game today, played 1-2hr and watched bunch of videos and still got no idea how to play

[proud tapir]

Infantry only Germany is fun

[barren ruin]

i think its normal

[proud tapir]

very powerful

[woven gate]

large unit tactics simulator

[grave sonnet]

Give it time

[proud tapir]

you have great bonuses for artillery and planing bonus

[lethal ether]

the more divisions that are there the less that are on the actual front

[barren ruin]

thats what i heard

[grave sonnet]

The mods gonna tackle u

[proud tapir]

i guess its a race to capitulate them

[lyric lotus]

What are not getting sir

[grave sonnet]

Delete it

[lethal ether]

get a few divisions to cover the front and starve them

[proud tapir]

My guys also ran out of guns too but they just keep green bubble pushing deep into the ussr

[violet veldt]

Is that allowed

[grave sonnet]

Rule 2

[lyric lotus]

I dont get how people conquer russia with infantry

[grave sonnet]

It violated it

So no it isn't allowed

[violet veldt]

Ussr ai needs a buff i swear

[lethal ether]

sorry to intervene on ur guys s thing but death is controversial?

[violet veldt]

Political figure

[lethal ether]

they only need to get it when they are close to capitulating so they turn around

[grave sonnet]

Political figure

[violet veldt]

Nahh

The whole way

[lyric lotus]

What u guys on?

[lethal ether]

political figures cant die?

[violet veldt]

Political figure

Yes i know this is hoi4

But

No recent events

[grave sonnet]

Modern Political leaders aren't to be put up

[lethal ether]

what about ghenghis khan

[grave sonnet]

Such a modern leader ❤️

[plain isle]

im back from my ban

the mods in this server got their 7k

[lethal ether]

alexander the great?

[grave sonnet]

Welcome back

[plain isle]

yed

[grave sonnet]

So modern oof

[lethal ether]

Jesus

[plush vessel]

Am I an "modern" leader?

[grave sonnet]

He's a Religious figure and this server is afraid of that for some reason

[lethal ether]

albert

https://tenor.com/view/albert-einstein-lol-think-be-smart-think-wise-gif-12007209048632941810

[grave sonnet]

Chak said anything after Ww2 is modern and shouldn't be talked about

[plush vessel]

Ok

[terse skiff]

is the HOI4 team lead a modern leader?

[lethal ether]

what about michael jackson

https://tenor.com/view/michael-michael-jackson-jackson-michaeljackson-jackson-dance-gif-14754514933467869233

[grave sonnet]

He's a good man overall I would say

Atp we talking about anything but hoi4

[lethal ether]

wasnt he crowned prince of a country or something

its morern politics

you cant talk about michael jackson

[grave sonnet]

What timeline are you in currently

[lethal ether]

he actually was look it up

february 1992

[grave sonnet]

Idk if ur trying to ragebait me

Or u just acting stupid

[lethal ether]

Krindjabo, Ivory Coast.

search it up

im not kidding

[lethal ether]

he was actually crowned king

[violet veldt]

Uhh.. idk

I will shut up

[grave sonnet]

Ivory coast 💔

[lethal ether]

its still a country

its still modern politics

it is against the rules to talk about michael jackson

[grave sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/ahem-shit-loser-seriously-gif-5731140

[snow rain]

as long as it's the music I don't see what rules it would break

[grave sonnet]

I genuinely think it's just ragebaiting atp

[left igloo]

hi guys im looking for friends (plz moslem)

[grave sonnet]

Ur looking for friends in the most cancerous games discord server

[left igloo]

i want friends

[terse skiff]

Go outside

[left igloo]

no

[snow rain]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1341523903683624980/1356347660600082693/togif-6-2.gif

[fossil dragon]

well 1939 start germany totaly not OP

plus another one

[hollow shoal]

ROMANIAAA RAHHHHH

https://tenor.com/view/romania-gif-9303829863785054258

[patent junco]

As belgium how do I get the national spirit falling government

[hollow shoal]

maybe a civ war

and minus stability and stuff idk

im just guessing

[patent junco]

bruh

[proud tapir]

Finally

[ember inlet]

You wait

[proud tapir]

Infantry only, -75k guns
Still capped the USSR

[hollow shoal]

wait till germany makes the first move

[strong umbra]

holycasualtyratios

[safe wing]

its time

[agile perch]

yo dude

why this happenin

[dapper pine]

Guys its him

[safe wing]

Yeah the us ai tends to elect him a lot

Guess they like that 120 free pp

[dapper pine]

Which is strange since i put everyone on historical either the ai is crazy or paradox thinks alf landon was the rightfull winner of the 1936 election

[safe wing]

He only won two states irl

Maine and my home state of Vermont

[sharp sierra]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1221079980340019273/1221463614137958470/3467468983574.gif

[dapper pine]

Then why does he get elected like 90% of the time in historical games

[safe wing]

I don’t even know like even he knew he had no chance so he half assed his campaign

[sharp sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/the-sopranos-tony-soprano-how-bout-dat-how-about-that-sopranos-gif-16854992944801209042

[dapper pine]

https://tenor.com/view/dirty-docks-shawty-triflin-shawty-triflin-she-gif-22455514

[sly sluice]

why don't people just do this when playing italy?

release erithrea and somaliland as puppets so you get supplies without having to control le caire?

[snow rain]

just release ethiopia directly tbf
also there's no point going in east africa

[strong umbra]

what the hellie is this

[sly sluice]

you can't

[strong umbra]

i have genuinely never seen thisbefore

[sly sluice]

youstay at war

even after they cap

[snow rain]

you need to do the focus for it, 5 bazillions puppets appear and spawn factories

Or just do it in the peace deal

[snow rain]

only if you take too long

[sly sluice]

where is it? i never found it

[snow rain]

you don't stay at war if you kill them before may iirc

[sly sluice]

nuh huh. i gapped them in 1936

[snow rain]

which is very easy to do

[sly sluice]

huh?

dude

[snow rain]

still too long, you have around 4 months to cap theù

[sly sluice]

dude

[snow rain]

you have until they do the focus "board the train" or something like that

[sly sluice]

this is dumb

[snow rain]

no it's not

[sly sluice]

it is

it isn't shown anywhere

[snow rain]

really easy
just put your bombers up and battleplan. Done in 3 months without micro

[sly sluice]

so why make it a thing?

[sly sluice]

lies

[snow rain]

read ethiopia's focuses

nope

[sly sluice]

yes

you're lying.

unless your macro is like super smart

[snow rain]

I mean, as long as you use the bombers that have range in the correct airzones, it's that easy

[sly sluice]

i do it

[plucky pewter]

just dont revive the ottoman empire

[sly sluice]

and also had the luck to have a huge breack

breach

[snow rain]

when you keep attacking them (battleplan) you basically pin them for years, once you take 2 eth cities, you annex the aussa sultanate and then eth dies because they don't have troops to respond while your whole army from mainland came to the front

[plucky pewter]

true but dont revive the ottoman empire it's too dangerous

[sly sluice]

don't you know about supplies?

[snow rain]

just link the hub you gain near aussa

like 5 rails of 270ic

[plucky pewter]

also you can just fend off Italy by making a horde of defensive walls with manpower by doing the soviet focus

[sly sluice]

i did

[snow rain]

done in a week

[sly sluice]

nuh huh

[snow rain]

don't stop the battleplan and micro the air

[plucky pewter]

Ethiopia gets slimed otherwise

[sly sluice]

not a week

[proud tapir]

its just so peak, Prussian military path for Germany

[plucky pewter]

microing the air is a headache

Italian bombers slam you doen

down

[snow rain]

Well you can say nuh uh as you wish, I played italy in MP once, couldn't be bothered to micro anything else, killed them in 3 months

[plucky pewter]

they slime everyone in their path

[snow rain]

got laughted at btw because it was slow af

[plucky pewter]

Pakistani patriot

[snow rain]

now you can believe me or not, idc
it's very easy to kill eth fast

because air is king

[sly sluice]

thats what i did

i sent all planes

6 month

[plucky pewter]

just use CAS and bombers

[sly sluice]

also built railways to aussa asap

[plucky pewter]

And fhe job is done

[sly sluice]

thats what i did

[snow rain]

you need the hub from ethiopia

[plucky pewter]

how did you lose then

[snow rain]

which they cannot hold if you attack every tile

[sly sluice]

i didn't lose

[plucky pewter]

did you restore the ottoman empire?

[snow rain]

because no troops available

[sly sluice]

what are you even talking about?

[snow rain]

also, if you're struggling, delete some divs from home to get no equipment deficit(and don't forget the airforce back there as well. No fighters only bombers on CAS mission)

[sly sluice]

you mean to tell me they loose ALL their supply as soon as i destroy their capital hub?

[snow rain]

they don't lose any

you get access to supply deep in eth

[sly sluice]

i mean yeah. thats what i did

[snow rain]

capital hub moves around when it's taken, but when a country disapears and there was no hub building there, there's just no hub

Aussa has no supply hub in itself, you need the hafar tile right under it

[sly sluice]

i was fighting a fk ton of units tbf. atleast double the amount i usually have to

[snow rain]

which you can capture undefended or from somalia's side

[sly sluice]

huh no i couldn't

[strong umbra]

yippee

[sly sluice]

that tile was defended

[snow rain]

please note the "or"

[sly sluice]

and i couldn't break through as fast as i would have wanted to

[sly sluice]

yeah i know

[snow rain]

also, iirc only bombers from somalia reach that tile

but really, if you're struggling there, you're doing something wrong. That's no big deal but don't just complain about it being stupid and try different things instead

[sly sluice]

huh just... no

[snow rain]

overstacked airports = less efficiency = less damage
airport overstacked above 50% capacity ? planes don't take off anymore

also, fighters are useless as eth doesn't have any planes

[shrewd inlet]

real

just bring cas and bombers

you'll roll Ethiopia

[sly sluice]

i used fighter to gain air superiority faster. i just forgot to pull them out when bombers arrived

since they travel faster

[snow rain]

you gain superiority instantly from bombers anyway

[sly sluice]

yeah but the travel time from italy to ethiopia

its a few hours more with air superiority

which honestly is minmaxxing

but idc

[snow rain]

you already have bombers there

[sly sluice]

i had no planes there when i sarted the game

[snow rain]

fact checking this gimme a sec

CAS that reaches Gondar, tac that reaches everything else

[agile perch]

dude why dont my hoi 4 work i just came back after a couple of weeks

[sly sluice]

i mean that was defenetely not the case. i must have missclicked it and it moved back to italy to be fair

[sly sluice]

check corrupted files

[agile perch]

i downloaded some mods a couple months ago do you think that might be why and how to delete

[sweet dust]

if the launcher is booting, than probably check your mods in section "mods" or delete in steam workshop

[snow rain]

5speeded my way through

2 divs even spawn when you annex aussa

only micro I did

[sly sluice]

you know they defend it now right?

they used not to

now they do

and you can't breakthrough with the 2 units that you have. even witth CAS

or atleast i can't

[snow rain]

they didn't when I did
they had 2 troops on the left, pinned them with one of the spawn-ins I got and run straight for it with the other

didn't even have to connect the railway btw (addis adeba died from CAS)

[sly sluice]

well they do with me 😂

they do it all the time

never seen them leave this tile undefended

[snow rain]

don't forget to bring the army in
2/3 in the north, 1/3 in the south
delete the tanks and cav to fill gun deficit

[sly sluice]

plus usually they defend it with 2 units or more

[agile perch]

ive done everything dude how to i delete this ?

[prisma saddle]

first time repubblicans contested sevilla

[zealous lynx]

The hungarian civil war is impossible

[tulip thorn]

What is hoi4 discord server even about

[vital cove]

civil wars are always easy

[zealous lynx]

Then how do i win

[vital cove]

you just delete the army before, train a single cavalry division and have it ready but don't deploy, then deploy it when the civil war start

now your opponent has no army but you have 1 division

[zealous lynx]

Okay but if i dont do that

[vital cove]

which is enough to cap them

[vital cove]

idk i haven't played it
just play well? its the ai, shouldn't be too hard

[zealous lynx]

Sent my entire army fresh with organization and strength and they cant beat 2 random troops resting at the capital

[uncut pollen]

Can we please not?

[twin nebula]

what're you mad about now flower

you lowk crashing out

like a delicate flower

like nobody is gonna be bothered by ai einstein

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1291946538511110204/1473086738397139135/togif.gif

[astral wedge]

am I cooked I have Rome and Sicily

[tulip thorn]

Its against the rules :)

[twin nebula]

the rules highkey kinda stupid

the rules need to buzz off

unless you posting gore, straight 🌽, or really disturbing shit

it's just crybabys

[tulip thorn]

Its so stupid people, such as you. Cant ruin the experience for others :)

[astral wedge]

I just lost Rome now it’s just Sicily

[safe wing]

bro is illiterate 🙏

[twin nebula]

why was there a period after you

[tulip thorn]

Because I wanted to put one there

duh

[uncut pollen]

Yet again

[astral wedge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1291946538511110204/1473086738397139135/togif.gif

[twin nebula]

yo where is the rules channel even

[uncut pollen]

Please lets not do it

[tulip thorn]

#server-rules

[twin nebula]

fuh is wrong with that one bro

[safe wing]

server guide

and its ai slop

[tulip thorn]

Modern politics

[safe wing]

that too

[tulip thorn]

Major rule break

[astral wedge]

it’s not ai slop if it’s not slop in my heart slop

[twin nebula]

no

the rule is no DISCUSSING modern politics

so I am free

free bird

[tulip thorn]

There literally is lmao

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-patrick-star-patrick-bottle-gif-6605208024845857705

[astral wedge]

6767

[astral wedge]

#67

67

[twin nebula]

it's not controversial

it's a gif

you guys take stuff FAR too serious

[tulip thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-patrick-star-patrick-bottle-gif-6605208024845857705

[twin nebula]

like lower ya cortisol bro 😭

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1475545021447929878/1475772201981579306/Nooblordjjj_furry.gif

[uncut pollen]

@twin nebula last warning

[twin nebula]

for what?

you are failing to explain

what rule I am violating

actually no

@uncut pollen last warning!

[tulip thorn]

You are breaking rule 2

[uncut pollen]

2

[twin nebula]

for which one

[tulip thorn]

Real life politics and controversial topics

[twin nebula]

[Rule 2 - Avoid Controversial Topics]
⮞ Avoid discussing real-life religion, politics, or controversial topics.

not discussing anything

so no

not breaking the rule

[tulip thorn]

Its still a rule break

[twin nebula]

no

the rule says discussing

[tulip thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-patrick-star-patrick-bottle-gif-6605208024845857705

[twin nebula]

I am infact not discussing

I am sending pictures

[uncut pollen]

Showing them in Pictures is also a rule break

There he goes

[tulip thorn]

Yo flowi I think this guy might be a bigger issue

[uncut pollen]

But why not pinged mods when it wasnt a day old?

[tulip thorn]

I didnt even see that

I just looked at what media he has posted

Chat was going fast at that time 💔

[loud shuttle]

finally i can sleep

[dusky burrow]

btw you can get really crazy political power gain as a saadabad pact member

[dusky burrow]

i wonder if you can form the formable from here

[loud shuttle]

i dont even know im gonna go sleep now

gn

[dusky burrow]

oh shoot sorry

[rapid furnace]

let me retake china for gods sake

[faint fiber]

why does he look high as a kite?

[rapid furnace]

what

[faint fiber]

he looks high

[copper sluice]

how do u successfully play the soviet china

[faint fiber]

you just choose them when you start the game??

[dusky burrow]

That's a wild combination of traits in Afghanistan

[copper sluice]

and how do I get to the success part

[vital cove]

which mod is that

[faint fiber]

I just changed the files

[vital cove]

yeah i assumed so but which mod is it

mill dawn?

[faint fiber]

yes

[ripe slate]

@faint fiberPlease no discussion of modern politics

[copper sluice]

Whats modern

[ripe slate]

Our history channel used to say nothing post-war, though we're not as strict I think about directly post-war stuff

[maiden bolt]

The American Empire

[violet veldt]

And nothing changed

[maiden bolt]

what

[safe wing]

Revenge for 1812

[woven gate]

my pookie omar bradley

[clear dagger]

they are so based for buying luxembourgian steel

[maiden bolt]

WW3? soviet Union, People republic of China Vs America

[violet veldt]

Vanilla?

[polar radish]

Lets just say Japan isnt ready.

[astral forum]

The Japanese Air Force:

[polar radish]

I have air supremacy bro dw

[maiden bolt]

dam im cooked

[violet veldt]

Build carriers you chud larper

/j

[polar radish]

Over 4 carriers has org penalty bro

ts is optimal

[violet veldt]

Ehh dont call me that💔

[terse skiff]

No with new doctrines you can get 9 cvs

[polar radish]

Well ts is funner so

[violet veldt]

Lore accurate us

Wont build carriers

Why nottt 💔

Washington should build more supercarriers

[heavy vigil]

oh nice

im so out of the loop

[terse skiff]

But you'll need base strike and the subdoctrine that gives 30% sortie efficiency

[polar radish]

Dont listen to him, ts is meta.

[heavy vigil]

raiding doctrine clears no??

-5% vis compared to all others

[terse skiff]

For subs? Yeah there's that one that gives -5 vis so it's better

[heavy vigil]

all

[terse skiff]

You can get 0.9 vis fleet submarines

[heavy vigil]

vis is also big on surface ships

its the chance your enemy hits you at all

[terse skiff]

CVS don't get attacked if you have bbs

[heavy vigil]

or CAs

[violet veldt]

Cas?

[heavy vigil]

irl cruisers are called heavy cruisers based on armor

[terse skiff]

Heavy cruisers

[heavy vigil]

so CA, cruiser armored

in game heavy cruiser

[violet veldt]

?

[terse skiff]

Ca = heavy cruiser

[violet veldt]

Why ca

What template

[terse skiff]

There's no template

[pearl shoal]

when do I get good enough at this game to win a single war

I suck

[terse skiff]

We're talking about capitals screening carriers

[vital cove]

why is light cruiser cl and not lc

[shy hearth]

can someone who has a bunch of hours share whats their go to div. early-mid game , thats incredibly OP i meant 🙂

thanks

[terse skiff]

Because cruisers were separated by armor level, and they weren't called heavy or light

[vital cove]

so what does cl stand for

and what does bb stand for

[heavy vigil]

cruiser light

[heavy vigil]

battleship?

bc is BattleCruiser

[heavy vigil]

well no they are called light

just not heavy

[vital cove]

why is it reversed

[vital cove]

how is bb battleship

[heavy vigil]

cruiser part more important

[vital cove]

where's the second b

[heavy vigil]

in your heart

[vital cove]

lmao

[heavy vigil]

you cant just call it 'b'

[vital cove]

bs?

[heavy vigil]

and theres probably an issue with 'bs' but idk what it could be

ill look it up

[heavy vigil]

battleship, battleship

apparently

lmao

[vital cove]

apparently

lol

[heavy vigil]

cruiersers

[vital cove]

[heavy vigil]

yeah because cruisers are always seperated

but battleships dont really have subtypes

i guess you could do like BAA

but thats silly and not done irl

thats just hoi4 doctrine

[vital cove]

that explains also why destroyers are dds and submarines are ss

[finite plume]

Best place to make a navy 🔥

[sacred pilot]

nice...

[manic tree]

hoi4 devs i pray that u guys make samoa dlc

[heavy vigil]

finally someone speaks the truth

[manic tree]

make samoa independent starting tag for taog
mau invincible

i am curious tho if the delay for taog means that we'll get content for another country or if its just for technical reasons / improving whats already there

[terse skiff]

Hoi4 devs should focus on the conflict that the game is based on, the Peruvian Ecuadorian war

[clear dagger]

how did that even work?

[manic tree]

mau-nzl war

its all samoa

[lofty yoke]

hello

[nocturne cedar]

how I can turn the tides? War started in 1012, we are barely holding up, we sre stretched thin. Feels like 1943-1944.
I need help.

how can their industry keep up… I thought I bombed it all

[nocturne cedar]

hi

[lofty yoke]

i wanna ply this mood what the name of it if you want

[nocturne cedar]

equestria at war

whats ur hours

ingame

[lofty yoke]

thx man

[rotund chasm]

Where's the ireland dlc 🙁

[nocturne cedar]

can anyone anwser me or…

[tulip thorn]

Equestria at war

The my little pony mod

[tulip thorn]

Shouldnt be that hard to break really

Equestria really isnt the strongest

Like enough cas and even just 2 tank divs make them a cake walk

[finite plume]

I added power plants for the US 🙏

Even that may not be enough

[karmic viper]

sooo there's a dlc sale

[fair horizon]

Tank is that mod fun? Im bored of hoi4 and at this point im willing to try anything

[tulip thorn]

yes

[heavy vigil]

unironically fun mod

[halcyon pasture]

lmao

[fair horizon]

Whyd you beat up belgium?

[opal nymph]

Griffonian Republic was fun

Only country i played in that mod

Basically felt like me being Taiwan trying to reclaim the homeland lol

[heavy vigil]

hiiiii jon hru

[opal nymph]

Alright, you

I restarted my R56 Germany game now knowing what to expect in the path

Mostly just been playing KSP career mode though

[fair horizon]

chat im gonna cry

[heavy vigil]

pretty bad pretty bad

[heavy vigil]

they might make it peak,,,,

maybe adding malaysia and nzl too,..,,

[fair horizon]

they never make peak anymore

they havent made peak in years

[heavy vigil]

it could be good.......

[fair horizon]

they're gonna add more war advisory council focuses

[heavy vigil]

hopium,.....

[heavy vigil]

EVERY focus is tension locked

[fair horizon]

i forever hold a grudge against czechoslovokia players

[restive sable]

can only hope the extra time is used to make ToaG even better

[fair horizon]

we all know it wont 😭

[restive sable]

it's nice to dream though..

[opal nymph]

Oof

Hope it gets better

[heavy vigil]

been feeling terrible for 3 months its chill

[sudden gulch]

No clue what is going on but I can't naval invade

[terse skiff]

guys I don't think this war is doing too well for the allies

[ebon silo]

TCD

[sudden gulch]

How do I build naval supremacy for this?

[fair horizon]

patrol your boats here and wait

[trim lotus]

Naval supremacy is built up by warships actively patrolling in a zone, with multipliers from fleets on strike force, naval bombers assigned to the sea zone, and IIRC, radars covering the zone.

[fair horizon]

is there a map mode to see what kind of region is what? like rural vs developed rural vs urban?

[rare sand]

hoi4 sale, what are the essential dlcs

[heavy vigil]

you will not like the answer

[sacred pilot]

w or l?

[fair horizon]

L

[heavy vigil]

pacific front up top

[sacred pilot]

i felt like fehlinger breaking up russian states into idk 35 new, better, freer states

[fair horizon]

im gonna assume you're french and i think thats bad ngl

[sacred pilot]

i'm not french

[fair horizon]

faction is blue

what country

[sacred pilot]

french...

listen, i wanted to bring back old empires, like the spanish empire

[rare sand]

assuming I can just ignore vanilla and their bland focus trees, what are the essential dlcs for mechanics, ranked in order of importance

i'm obviously not completing my collection in 1 sale

[lofty yoke]

how i do that 😢

[fair horizon]

abuse your navies people

[glad sun]

Holy manpower

[fair horizon]

they might have manpower but you can always just encircle spam them

[finite plume]

What does this modifier even do

[clear dagger]

my stupid single tank division is changing the tide of the war

get off my beach

[fair horizon]

stability

[fair horizon]

3 sea regions for almost 10% stability

[dusky burrow]

you have 4

4 regions where you can do this

and you got 3 of them

thus 3/4 * 10%

[quasi osprey]

Will there no compromise no surrender dlc be discounted on steam?

[clear dagger]

nvm its so joever

[dusky burrow]

yeah you can't save everyone when you're the size of Luxembourg

also Lithuania be like:

[clear dagger]

idk why they're there lol

oh shit turkey joined the war

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-rogue-one-help-us-help-trapped-gif-18325059519786925128

[fair horizon]

unless im missing something i only have 3 regions assigned

[clear dagger]

i am just killing hundreds of thousands but they just keep coming

we are fighting on like 5 fronts

[dusky burrow]

which country are you?

[clear dagger]

ITS SO OVER

[robust vale]

Don't be defeatist

Youll win

[clear dagger]

nope

we lost

by the time i took out the benelux pocket which was in like 2 weeks all of france was lost somehow

also for some reason hitler had like 400K men on lithuania and those weird pockets in finland instead of the western front

[robust vale]

Tag to germany and move all troops behind the Rhine

Hold that and turn it into a nuke game

Trust

[clear dagger]

they lost all their troops in france

in the dumbest encirclement ever

[robust vale]

Uh

Spawn in troops

[hot dew]

Hi, is it worth buying add-ons to play online? Or will they not work and will I lose anything?

[clear dagger]

i have 8k men to spare

[robust vale]

Leutzburgisches Volkssturm

Dw german AI will win it for you

[storm escarp]

Pretty sure that the game would use the dlc of whoever is hosting. If you have no dlc but join someone who has all of them you will play with theirs, and if someone with no dlc hosts than the game won't use any. I might be wrong though

[toxic cypress]

if host has all dlc everyone plays all dlc

[robust vale]

@clear dagger are you winning?

[clear dagger]

no we lost

[dusky burrow]

By the way, you can also get yourself into a defensive war by guaranteeing a nation that will be attacked

but i'm not able to replicate that screenshot

also when did iran have irregulars

[woven ridge]

average ai non-his alliance

[dusky burrow]

wooo i was able to do it xd

[hollow silo]

entente be like

[fair horizon]

to all the czechoslovakia players i want you to know i wish you a very appeasement

[misty fossil]

67% ws

[clear dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/no-one-cares-i-dont-care-idc-nobody-cares-gif-8737514

[misty fossil]

if you dont care why did you respond

[clear dagger]

so you know

[misty fossil]

clueless emoji

[misty fossil]

i know

do i care

no

[strong umbra]

who is no one

[heavy vigil]

they dont afaik

[heavy vigil]

sejo is making a vid on this soon btw

but hes like going islamic republic into communist

or something

is it because the focus autocompletes if youre communist?

[dusky burrow]

it autocompletes when you capitulate to someone who is not the soviets i believe

[heavy vigil]

they have to be communist i know that much

ough i need to somehow win in that trinidad playthrough

it is unjoyful

[dusky burrow]

i haven't tested with democratic and fascist path

[dusky burrow]

oh yeah

[heavy vigil]

bad strategic decisionmaking have led me to not have any good offensive units lowkey

actually

hmm

i do have 2 veteran divisions i should just turn those into marines instead of using paratroopers

paratroopers seemed funny but the ai is actually garrisoning the useless ports

[unique cliff]

I've seen that most people puppet Turkey and Romania at the start as USSR, instead of annexing them
Any reason behind it, other than roleplay?

[heavy vigil]

idk? if you want insta win just go for poland and germany lol

its such an odd strat that originated from wargoal over bosporus strait

[clear dagger]

because its more fun to gain factories than resistance

also larp

[heavy vigil]

but you get the best occupation law in the game

your puppets dont even give you mils

theyre useless

[clear dagger]

but the larp

[heavy vigil]

@dusky burrow am i considered a major power yet

wow this airforce sucks cant even attack venezuela because range

im doing my best

oh yeah these guys too

successful ground offensive, a major victory

btw liv you can stop force attacks lol

[clear dagger]

oh my god they took Maduro

[fair horizon]

8 whole divs? casey you're cheating arent you

[heavy vigil]

900 weekly manpower

i had to grind for this guy

maybe the first ever trinidad and tobago encirclement

[fair horizon]

who are you fighting casey

[heavy vigil]

rahhh

[heavy vigil]

allies and venezuela

[fair horizon]

did you make a navy?

[clear dagger]

yes a navy mighty enough to challenge even the Imperium of Man

[trim lotus]

So, trying out Ecuador. Pulling out enough divisions to make an attack tends to weaken the line enough for Peru to gain some ground.

Is it reasonable to just kinda sit here, wait, let Peru bash its head against my lines for a year or so while I mobilize enough population to stiffen the lines?

[fair horizon]

dont you get free units?

[trim lotus]

4-battalion militia, just barely enough to get me two divisions per tile.

[fair horizon]

thats fine though because with entrenchment they're a lot better

can you produce enough guns?

[trim lotus]

More than enough. I'm limited by mobilization speed, especially since I stayed democratic instead of trading portraits of Karl Marx for more manpower.

(I could probably double the size of my army right now, I have political power banked for two conscription laws... would going up a conscription law increase mobilization speed?)

[storm pelican]

But that doesn't set the flag

[heavy vigil]

i made the navy i showed yes

[patent junco]

red

[heavy vigil]

whats wrong with that

[cedar lance]

hello yalls

[fair horizon]

bug tuff navy casey

[clear dagger]

red = bad guy in most media

[upbeat monolith]

just bought this game on a steam sale, is it any good

[heavy vigil]

not real

[clear dagger]

the snake of denmar- i mean south america

[cedar lance]

hello

[clear dagger]

if you pray to marx once a week 500 big strong men will appear outside your government building

[fair horizon]

they can be weak idc as long as they can hold a rifle so i can conq- i mean liberate the workers of the world

[clear dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-chat-mr-reed-heretic-hugh-grant-reed-gif-4591840691591954480

[cedar lance]

ey wassup marshall law

[fair horizon]

chat my new second favorite plane is the amx

[cedar lance]

hello lord

[fair horizon]

hi

[cedar lance]

wassup lord

[heavy vigil]

IM WORKING ON IT

im crasbhing out rn

afdhasliyufqejlkfhzx

[cedar lance]

hello casey

[eternal pollen]

hello mark

[cedar lance]

call me either marko or mrm

[heavy vigil]

helloo

[patent junco]

no

u should uinstall

and touch grass outside

if you begin ur hoi4 phase you will be committed to at least 4000 hours a year

[heavy vigil]

i fixed it

it is 1944

[grave sonnet]

If u like pain then yes

[heavy vigil]

but god trinidad and tobago suck

[grave sonnet]

Trinidad & Tobago DLC when

[heavy vigil]

@proud sparrow can we get updates on this

(he loves getting pinged surely he wont want to murder me)

[grave sonnet]

We need it to happen

Make the DLC 60€ or smth

[upbeat monolith]

so do i refund

[weary lagoon]

yes, you're better off spending your money on food

[upbeat monolith]

no need. i accidentally starve myself daily

[hushed lichen]

Is goa and toa good dlcs to buy on this sale?

Wanna get both

[weary lagoon]

ah, then on actual good games then

which you'll never regret spending your money on

[patent junco]

You have two options. A) Refund HOI4, be skinny go outside hit the gym and meet women or option B) become one of us stay in ur moms basement, get fat/turn into a femboy and provide at least 4000 hours a year of service to the HOI4 team

[granite sigil]

Anyone wanna do modded co op

[patent junco]

option B is most common

[hushed lichen]

What is a fat femboy?

[granite sigil]

I play hoi4 all day but I live alone lol

[patent junco]

no u become fat or become a femboy

[patent junco]

age?

[granite sigil]

And I’m skinny and masculine lol

I’m 21

[patent junco]

and u work?

[hushed lichen]

Impossible

Denial is a river in egypt

[granite sigil]

Not impossible lol

I have 2 kids too lol

[patent junco]

21 and kids is crazy

[hushed lichen]

At 21?

[patent junco]

cap

[hushed lichen]

How old

[patent junco]

VRO

[granite sigil]

Yeh man

[patent junco]

I mean-

[granite sigil]

My daughter is 3

[patent junco]

im 22 and I run a game studio soooooooo

[hushed lichen]

How old are the kids!

[granite sigil]

And my son is 1

[hushed lichen]

Ok and the other one?

[granite sigil]

Ooo any job opportunities?

[patent junco]

do you live in leeds

[hushed lichen]

What game?

Are you producing

[patent junco]

scary ones

[granite sigil]

I live in Kent but wannna learn if I can volounteer

[hushed lichen]

Roblox horrir games

[patent junco]

games

[patent junco]

no

[granite sigil]

Can I pm u ?

[patent junco]

We only hire specialists sorry

[hushed lichen]

Uniry horrir games?

[patent junco]

UE5 baby 😛

(yes we optomise)

[hushed lichen]

Im a specialist critic?

[granite sigil]

Even if I can learn lol that’s how u get to be a specialist

[hushed lichen]

May i get a job

[granite sigil]

Even a play tester 🙂

[patent junco]

To work in the games industry you don't just learn like a mcdonalds employee you have to learn softwares and be pros.

Alpha access is open to almost anyone on our Dc community that have been a member for ages.

[granite sigil]

I have qualifications lol

[patent junco]

How many years of substance painter do you have

[hushed lichen]

I watched 1000 hours of how to analyze and watched a how to critic video

IM MORE THEN SPECIALIST IM AN EXPERT

[patent junco]

means nothing.

[granite sigil]

I have a level 3 ict qualification from college which includes coding and shit tbh

[patent junco]

https://klipy.com/gifs/roblox-animation-roblox-blender

[patent junco]

great u can name PC components so can I 🙂

[granite sigil]

Tahts level 2

[grave sonnet]

In blender we trust

[hushed lichen]

Oh i get, you think im overqualified and you think that i have more knowledge for this job so i should use my potential to my extent

[patent junco]

Yeah we don't discuss my blender hours.

[granite sigil]

Level 3 part 1 I did which is way more complicated lol

[patent junco]

ICT means nothing

[granite sigil]

Fe man

[patent junco]

games you have to learn softwares, programming languages, 3d softwares.

each one is as good as learning a new language

[granite sigil]

We did that in it lol

[patent junco]

thats like saying u can speak russian and french for a polish translator job

[patent junco]

u got a portfolio?

[hushed lichen]

I think russian would be helpful tho

To know

When translating

[patent junco]

yeah

[granite sigil]

I think the Easiest one is html

[patent junco]

what games are made on HTML

[hushed lichen]

Are we dorgetting abiut scratch?

[granite sigil]

U would be surprised

[fair horizon]

yay

[patent junco]

don't get me started on scratch

🥀

[granite sigil]

Scratch is partly html

Aswell as c sharp

[patent junco]

scratch is a 2d game engine, my company doesn't make 2d games

@heavy vigil we see you lurking

[reef lava]

I accidentaly created a 1984 timeline

[hushed lichen]

Without html is scrathc just scrat?

[granite sigil]

Guys I eventually wanna make my own mod team for hoi4 tho if anyone’s interested

[granite sigil]

Basically

[hushed lichen]

What mod?

What kind of mod

[granite sigil]

Different gameplay ones like scenarios

For instance a better modern day mod

Better than millennium dawn

[hushed lichen]

Like fire rises or like one of those more complicative unit designer things

[granite sigil]

More complicated and unique

[hushed lichen]

Overhaul?

[granite sigil]

Yeh

[hushed lichen]

Like new story and shit

[granite sigil]

Yesss

Cause we need more tbh

[hushed lichen]

Realistic or fantasy?

[granite sigil]

Both

Cause why not !

[hushed lichen]

Timeline?

[granite sigil]

So the one I wanna do rn with help is from 2020 onwards in modern day cause of the ww3 tension

With the Ukraine war into it with all the current wars

Plus some we can see coming

Even with the options of funding t groups and stuff

Cause In real life the western world has done that

[hushed lichen]

Not a bad idea

How would covid work tho

In the mod?

[granite sigil]

Then using them to take a civil war and become ur puppets

[granite sigil]

Like controlling it using speaches and researching vaccines

But the wrong vaccine can make things worse

[cedar lance]

wassup casey

[winter badge]

Hello

[cedar lance]

Hello Hus

[quasi osprey]

Gemini AI is soo smart.

[quasi osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/wojak-loading-dumb-soyjak-brainlet-gif-5905960021355918533

[ripe slate]

Id guess its confusing metrics

[urban ivy]

u re definitely using ai wrong

[heavy vigil]

not much hbu

[quasi osprey]

well it cant even get this simple question right

[urban ivy]

u re probably using the cheap/free version

which tend to invent stuff

instead of actually searching for it

also tell it to give you the source

this forces them to at least find an old / bad one

[proud tapir]

Italy and resources in the same sentence

[quasi osprey]

100 steel in luxemburg doesnt have even a bad source I think

[violet veldt]

Idk japan good country (to play as)

[grave sonnet]

Japans is a good country to play as but I prefer China

[violet veldt]

Idk it forces you to be expansionalist

Their other communist path would be so good if it wasnt japan and it just

Didnt have to do imperialism

[vital mirage]

what is the best modern modes (that not take 10year to finish like the fire rise, and its fun)

[violet veldt]

"Liberating the workers" only goes so far in propaganda

[grave sonnet]

Those don't exist

TFR is good

[violet veldt]

Idk i feel like if youre playing as a communist country some of your focuses should increase communism popularity within countries of at least 10% communism popularity if youre non stalinist

[strong umbra]

https://youtube.com/shorts/kzejkb6X0pA?is=6EzdtxbZiHCW9hng

[grave sonnet]

I'm just waiting for them to add more content

[violet veldt]

Me no likie

[strong umbra]

is there any fascist nation to have elections?

[violet veldt]

Division designer suck

[strong umbra]

ik commia use has them

[vital mirage]

ik tfr is good but its just taking 10year for 1 run its its to long for me

[violet veldt]

Tech tree is half decent

[grave sonnet]

The fire will rise

[strong umbra]

demo and non are easy fo find

[grave sonnet]

And it will continue rising

[violet veldt]

Apla focus tree sucks💔

[strong umbra]

but any fascist elections?

[violet veldt]

Its chud shit

[grave sonnet]

I enjoyed playing Patriot front and CDU Germany

[vital mirage]

but its taking to long i think

[grave sonnet]

True but eh

Im the average guy to go to 1969 to finish a campaign

[grave sonnet]

I was gonna play APLA Jacobins

Or Octoberists

[vital mirage]

like i can start and finish 4h later and that to long and 1969 finish a campaign is just insane even yt wont do it...

[violet veldt]

Play anarchists they my favorite

Mark bray my beloved❤️

[grave sonnet]

I like Jacobins because of Hinkle

[violet veldt]

I dont like hinkle irl

[grave sonnet]

I think we shouldn't talk about Hinkle

The mods smell blood

They are like sharks

But if the sharks were bad at moderation of a discord server

[vital mirage]

any good cold war mode that wont take 10year?

[grave sonnet]

Just play Kaiserreich

[vital mirage]

kasierreich is cold war? its ww2 not?

[grave sonnet]

No it isnt

But kaiserreich is a good mod

Best mod if I dare say

[vital mirage]

i do play kasierdux but i want cold war or modren gameplay

[grave sonnet]

Ic

You can try Red Dusk