hoi4-general

[quasi osprey]

I cant do any focus

[young lake]

💔

Invade

[young lake]

Ok well if your capped then Im not exactly shocked you have 0 factories? 😭

[quasi osprey]

I control many states

[young lake]

Lemme see

[cyan prairie]

the allied has 11K planes

bro

[quasi osprey]

colonies

but they have no factories

and I cant build any

[young lake]

How did you cap as the uk?

😭

[quasi osprey]

as portugal

[young lake]

Ohh

Alr

Makes more sense

[quasi osprey]

I will soon get my lands back in the peace deal

[young lake]

Fr

[quasi osprey]

then I will have 16 factories and not 0😭

[young lake]

Maybe just restart...

[misty fossil]

and thats why you dont play hoi4 without bba

[cyan prairie]

a

may i ask

what is bba

[misty fossil]

by blood alone

[cyan prairie]

o

[misty fossil]

gives air designer

[cyan prairie]

naaahh

ik

but uh

[misty fossil]

wait for a sale

its steam

[cyan prairie]

my planes know best

but still

then whats the best desginer for planes

[misty fossil]

buy bba

[young lake]

?

[misty fossil]

counterpoint

[quasi osprey]

I am so happy to see this

[patent thistle]

you lost 3 planes not good enough

[misty fossil]

my bad

that was probably the wind

[cyan prairie]

:cry.mp3:

[patent thistle]

the plane is only as good as the pilot is what i love to say 🤷‍♂️

[misty fossil]

the pilot is only as good as the pilot

[cyan prairie]

do i try and land in london

[misty fossil]

of course

ur gonna fail anyway

might as well do it

failing to sealion is a rite of passage for everyone

[cyan prairie]

how can i fail

[misty fossil]

same with not being able to push past belgium

[cyan prairie]

i am russia

ill be fine

[quasi osprey]

well...

[misty fossil]

or not knowing navy

[cyan prairie]

i know navy

trust

[misty fossil]

you'll see

do you

whats the screening ratio for screens, battleships and carriers

[cyan prairie]

👍

[misty fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-waiting-still-waiting-gif-13052487

[cyan prairie]

i infact

do not know

anyway

[misty fossil]

exactly

[cyan prairie]

heres the stalemated borders

i made a secret weapon

t a n k s

[misty fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/skillissue-skill-issue-gif-22125481

[cyan prairie]

smashed through the netherlands

[quasi osprey]

after 0 factories this is beautiful to see

[cyan prairie]

what would u do in this situation then

[misty fossil]

this of course duh

clueless emoji

[cyan prairie]

aha

but like

h o w

what specifically do you do

[misty fossil]

tanks

[cyan prairie]

which causes insane boosters

i have mbts

[misty fossil]

reading the tooltip

[cyan prairie]

but i dont have designer

[misty fossil]

thats how

and of course owning no step back

if i only have base game hoi4 id rather just gift it to someone for free

[cyan prairie]

rip

[misty fossil]

yeah you need to buy the expansion dlcs lol

[cyan prairie]

will those dlcs ever be implemented into the actual game

[misty fossil]

dont touch the others

eventually

[cyan prairie]

i onl bought the dlcs that got implemented 😔

thats why

[misty fossil]

a few dlcs were integrated

yeah

thats fair but at least grab the expansions

[patent thistle]

why the flying hell do i have some japanese ships-?

[cyan prairie]

the us just nuked them

ok

[misty fossil]

must have been the wind

[patent thistle]

it aint even close they just turned commie and i got those-

[cyan prairie]

aaa

i need so many transprt planes

i have 50 paratroopers

i am going to murder the UK

MUEHAHAHA

finally

i have the upperhand

more

MORE

[young lake]

Is it even gonna be possible to win 😭

Like can I even AVOID the war

[last granite]

you can either give germany gdansk and danzig and go for the russians or wait for the allies to help you out

[young lake]

Gulppp

So probably worth giving it up

[last granite]

probably

[young lake]

As the Russians come in later

[last granite]

yeah

you're also able to core the russians with the path you're going

[young lake]

I believe the cavalry army can hold the line :3

[last granite]

so that's something

[last granite]

hopefully

[vital cove]

yes

if it's possible to win as Poland on the 1939 start date

its always possible

[cyan prairie]

Russian uno reverse

my tanks made a breakthrough

[last granite]

nice

what tanks you using

[cyan prairie]

mbts

dont forget

i am OUTNUMBERED

[last granite]

what year is it lmao

[vital cove]

pls hold shift when making a frontline

[cyan prairie]

it made an auto frontline

and alright

making a break for it to athens

i NEED aluminum

my factories are choking

[sudden thistle]

Hungary

[cyan prairie]

from the little amount i have

[cyan prairie]

cant pen hungary for some reason

[sudden thistle]

Norway

[sudden thistle]

Lock in

Silesia

[vital cove]

why do you need aluminum

[cyan prairie]

im gonna jumpscare them from their back

[sudden thistle]

Plane

[cyan prairie]

plaen

i kinda uhh

[vital cove]

why are you making planes as the ussr

its really just

not worth it

[cyan prairie]

this is why

im making jets

for cas

cover

[vital cove]

what year is it

[cyan prairie]

52 😔

[sudden thistle]

How did bro not win yet

[cyan prairie]

the allies keep annoying me with air

so

uhh

i had to build up

see the thing is

they KEEP PRINTING UNITS

so i gotta bomb them

with cas

i love being the one armour memeing them instead of me getting memed

its so satisfying

[sudden thistle]

Lock in

[patent thistle]

lock in, never, surrender.

[cyan prairie]

i locked in

i went through montengro

now i got alot

of

mulinmulin

aluminum

imma pull back on plane production

i got 14K jets in reserve 💀

119 factories on it

[violet pawn]

wtf can i do

[winged field]

what year 😭

[violet pawn]

1943 december

ill get nukes soon so ill try to do smth

[winged field]

how is that even...

possbile ig

[violet pawn]

btw i have no idea

but they're pushing while im CASing the hell out of them

[winged field]

you good on stockpile?

u have enough manpower still right?

[violet pawn]

i've got 1 m manpower

i think

[winged field]

cheers, what about your attacking divs, they cant push at all?

[fallen hearth]

funny how italy is holding longer than germany

[violet pawn]

they can but theres a million of soviet divs which push me back

reasonable width and soft attack

[winged field]

against player right?

[violet pawn]

nope

ai

i didnt even buff the ussr

[winged field]

pretty low hp , mainly bcs of line artillery, breakthrough is pretty small

prefferably you woldnt use line artillery too

[violet pawn]

well 18 width inf would immediatly die

if i put it on the front

[winged field]

you make it close to 36 but without line artillery, also what are your doctrines?

I assume you use that mass unit tactic

[violet pawn]

the armor one is modded im pretty sure but it's pretty similar to the vanilla ones

[winged field]

for 4th you want to have grand assault always pretty much, as for large unit tactic you kinda defying its point bcs you use line artillery, u want to try to use assault infantry doctrine at some point

[lapis snow]

18 width is a fine line holder. You don't attack with inf

[knotty vortex]

first time playing japan has been SUPER fun

[silent oxide]

if you are gonna use arty... why not the arty support doctrine

[winged field]

just bcs it uses less manpower while having bigger soft attack than with large unit tactics

[violet pawn]

ofc, but they cant defend against a bazillion of soviet tanks and inf

[lapis snow]

yes, they can

AI divs suck bawls

[violet pawn]

im using a mod which changes their templates btw

so no

[lapis snow]

which mod?

[violet pawn]

CA mod

[lapis snow]

???

[icy egret]

Well it’s really late game so 18 width spam isn’t always viable.

[violet pawn]

should i js try to hold until i get nukes

[lapis snow]

lmao, no

nukes won't save you if you're suffering from skill issue

[violet pawn]

whatever u say

[icy egret]

nukes were nerfed into the ground with Gotterdamerung

[lapis snow]

I don't know what to tell you man, if your army sucks, then nukes aren't going to magically make the army not suck

get the good techs and special projects, build proper divs and don't battle plan inf like a moron

[sudden thistle]

I think that mods buffs AI majorly

[lapis snow]

TF is it?

[sudden thistle]

Expert AI but way more +100% bonuses?

[violet pawn]

i've got good tech n allat but ig if my divs r that bad ill change them

[sudden thistle]

I never played it yet

[icy egret]

Well what does the front look like

[lapis snow]

Sheeps is the only one I've tried that actually meaningfully changed the way you have to play

[violet pawn]

btw

[lapis snow]

Better mechanics AI and EAI both make no difference

[violet pawn]

they get massive bonuses on core

so i had to retreat

[sudden thistle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2803543445

He is using this one I think

[violet pawn]

yes

that one

also

[lapis snow]

cool... might have to try it myself

barb is fking boring in vanilla

[sudden thistle]

Why is Bulgaria white

[violet pawn]

they bugged

zveno civil war

[cyan prairie]

a.

[sudden grotto]

romanian worst nightmare, making their capital budapest

[cyan prairie]

i locked in

[young lake]

I hate the Ussr so much.

I have no manpower 😭

[terse skiff]

@heavy vigil the fort faction mission is so op, now I have 500 factories before barb

[patent thistle]

lol

that is your uperising?

cute.

[young lake]

How do I beat the Russians. 💔

[heavy vigil]

good job :D 👍 🐋

[ivory hull]

bro take out the line arty and the logi, add flame tanks and make it 36w inf only

[heavy vigil]

whats wrong with logi

what did it do to you

[ivory hull]

id rather have flames than logi

[heavy vigil]

you can have both

[ivory hull]

especially on inf

[heavy vigil]

theres 5 slots

[ivory hull]

he had full support companies bro

[heavy vigil]

the supports are good

maybe he doesnt have NSB

[ivory hull]

ohh

maybe

[patent thistle]

hehe

[young lake]

What do I do if I have like 0 manpower, and no way of getting it 😭

No quick way anyways

I tried taking as little casualties as possible, but I did NOT think I would have a massive manpower issue at 600k casualties....

Atleast ive dealth almost 3M...

[fallen hearth]

my god

[young lake]

Didnt even know Tannu Tuva had over 100k soldiers 😭

It CANNOT be this deep....

[violet pawn]

i do

[ember vine]

Tannu Tuva op moment

[violet pawn]

do i need like super cheap flame tanks if ill put them on my inf

or does the design matter

[young lake]

I just realised... THEY HAVEN'T EVEN KILLED A SINGLE PERSON 😭 😭 😭

HOW DO YOU LOSE 147K MEN WITHOUT A SINGLE KILL

[ember vine]

When you have more men than enemy has bullets

[vivid juniper]

Mexico has the uncanny ability to royally screw up ahistorical games

[heavy vigil]

give them breakthrough

[rough bough]

Sup

[young lake]

Im so fried 😭

This is gonna be like a SCRATCH to the soviets 😭

[ivory hull]

where is your equipment

[young lake]

They have the manpower to tank this

[young lake]

Its the men Im missing

[fallen hearth]

i finna crash out

[young lake]

💔

[fallen hearth]

THERE ARE NO JAPANASE TROOPS HERE

[ivory hull]

dont you have a lot of cores?

[young lake]

Idk how to core the soviets 😭

I was told I could

Idk how

[ivory hull]

go down the focus tree bro

you can core all of the plc

[young lake]

Broo

[vital cove]

you can't

you can only with Anastasia Romanov

[young lake]

I dont have compliance 💔

[ivory hull]

you still get the plc

[vital cove]

they look similar so they thought you were doing that

[ivory hull]

iirc you can release lithuania and the click the decision

[young lake]

I need 50 💔

[ivory hull]

make lithuania your puppet

[vital cove]

go on civilian oversight 😭

never use secret police

[eternal timber]

you can form the commonwealth if you release lithuania as your puppet

[heavy vigil]

secret police is crazy ngl

its less bad than mil governor

[young lake]

Oh I can

Sick

[young lake]

I used it cus I just dont have manpower 😭

But I wanted low resistance

[errant bridge]

anyone balkan wanna play?

[young lake]

They got this trust

[heavy vigil]

then go local police

[violet pawn]

very fair

[ivory hull]

you gave up danzig vro

[young lake]

I hate this game.

I refused to give up 1 tile like a YEAR AGO

[shrewd inlet]

Meow

[young lake]

And now they declare 😭

Guess I gotta start again from here 🙃

God I love this game.

[violet pawn]

what year is it

[young lake]

1941

[young lake]

Or do you mean in my save Ive gone to

Which is also 1941 nvm xd

[violet pawn]

is it a disaster save or js smth old

[young lake]

This is a run I was just playing

This looks bad but I encircle the entire thing so

Its actually VERY much in my favour

[violet pawn]

how many div

s

[young lake]

148

Its fine

The save point is pretty much when everything turns in my favour

So now I just gotta do some micro and try do ts all again

Finally back to this part

😭

[ivory hull]

are all your divisions cavalry?

bro

lwk

[young lake]

Of course

[finite trout]

Thats good?

[ivory hull]

i dont think your able to manage that

[young lake]

Its Poland

[ivory hull]

is that vanilla?

[young lake]

Cav is better than inf in this path

[ivory hull]

i know the path but you should still use infantry

[young lake]

Yh

[ivory hull]

if you cant manage

[young lake]

Hmm nah

[ivory hull]

everything

[finite trout]

Im new

[ivory hull]

its ass

[finite trout]

Why

[ivory hull]

too big

please dont use line arty

[young lake]

I just need manpower, which I fixed. Stockpiles are all good

[ivory hull]

36w is best

[finite trout]

?

[ivory hull]

combat width

[finite trout]

?

[ivory hull]

you want 10 tank battalions

and like 8 cavalry

or motorized/mechanized if you can afford

[young lake]

Wdym cant manage

[finite trout]

Idk

[ivory hull]

getting pushed back that far mostly means you did something wrong

[finite trout]

I just like playing like hunter

[ivory hull]

wdym

[young lake]

Nah my frontline just didnt follow

[finite trout]

Get out stamina and kill

[heavy vigil]

crazy

[finite trout]

Thats what i mean

[ivory hull]

yea your div is still bad

change it up

like i told you

[finite trout]

?

[young lake]

The frontline just decided to not work. Its fine the second I realised

[ivory hull]

your division template is bad

[finite trout]

And what to change

[ivory hull]

any reason for giving up danzig?

[ivory hull]

.

[young lake]

I tried to win before and I just wasnt ready

[ivory hull]

alr told you

[finite trout]

Idk mb

[young lake]

So I was gonna beat the Russians and come back later

I love cavalry 🤤

[finite trout]

I have buffs on cavalary

So idk

[ivory hull]

so 10 tank battalions and 8 cavalry

[finite trout]

Mixing mb

[finite trout]

Garnizon its cavalary too?

[ivory hull]

wdym

[finite trout]

Idk garnizons

Im playing moded

[ivory hull]

for garrisons you want 1 battalion of cavalry

for occupied territory

[elder cosmos]

this aint the real price right

[finite trout]

main

[ivory hull]

this is horrible

wtf is that

[finite trout]

cavalary

[ivory hull]

for what is this

[finite trout]

with support

[ivory hull]

horrible

template

dont even use cavalry

for combat

only for occupied territory

[finite trout]

bro im newbie

[glacial crag]

No

[finite trout]

im seed cavalry is good

[ivory hull]

its not

[finite trout]

it is

[ivory hull]

bro its not

[finite trout]

with buffs on poland they can kill tanks

[ivory hull]

its not good

bro

[vital cove]

you want your offensive units to be 32-36 width, don't fill all slots, and don't use cavalry or line artillery

[ivory hull]

thats poland

[sullen folio]

Hi! I have a question, can we ask people if they are interested in playing, if so, where?

[ivory hull]

probably in the multiplayer channels

[finite trout]

super main

[vital cove]

this is real you're paying 50$ for a single focus tree with no mechanics

[ivory hull]

dont make it over 36w and dont use line artillery

[finite trout]

why artillery

[ivory hull]

its bad

[finite trout]

why

[ivory hull]

you get more by using infantry

because artillery reduces org

and is bigger width wise

so infantry will give you org and hp while being smaller

so per width you get more with infantry

[finite trout]

?

[ivory hull]

1 less tank and change out the 4 infantry for cavalry

[patent thistle]

BURGUNDY PURPLE HELL YEAH

[ivory hull]

for 6 cavalry

also

are those light tanks?

dont use lights

use mediums

[finite trout]

but u said cavalary is bad

[ivory hull]

if used alone

you need it for tanks tho

otherwise you wouldnt have organisation

[finite trout]

i only started i have small factories

[snow rain]

world ablaze mod ?

[finite trout]

im playing for portugal communist

[snow rain]

it isn't
it's fast inf, definitely better than motorized inf

[ivory hull]

if you cant afford tanks use special forces like mountaineers/rangers or marines

[finite trout]

here

what

[snow rain]

what mods are you using

[finite trout]

its bad too

[finite trout]

road to 56

[ivory hull]

what is bad?

[finite trout]

im researched badly

[snow rain]

then vanilla templates will probably not be the best
you should ask for advice on the rt56 discord

RT56 changes A LOT

including templates and equipment stats

[finite trout]

hm idk ill try that one

soon will be war with spain so ill test

hah

[finite trout]

damn

im alredy have two water blockades by japan and uk

italy*

nice its goes funnt

[patent thistle]

monarchist portugal is for the real people

[finite trout]

poratugal comunist

i wanted to try it

[patent thistle]

monarchist portugal wins everytime

[finite trout]

mb idk

[heavy vigil]

its a decent path

[patent thistle]

not forced civilwar, and more population overall

[heavy vigil]

you can chill in iberia tho

[patent thistle]

you can invade spain anyways later on and chill in iberia too

[heavy vigil]

you own all the world tungsten except for like malaysia if you do iberia

[heavy vigil]

no cores tho

[patent thistle]

but for that you have brazil as cores

[heavy vigil]

no tungsten tho

[patent thistle]

you already have so much tungsten in portugal proper

whats the point?

[heavy vigil]

you can make rocket planes with it

i believe

[finite trout]

i liked 56 bc slow gameplay to 1956

vanilla boring

[patent thistle]

from what i can see spanish tungesten is actually quite negliable

[heavy vigil]

maybe they dont have cores

its like 50+

tungsten is kinda rare

[patent thistle]

and? portugal starts with over 100

[heavy vigil]

control most of any one resource

its vibes

iberia is also good for like

idk

you have a nice defendable place

its nice

ofc you can do the brasil stuff but like

its just worse to do it as portugal

cuz less bloat

iberia is decent

[patent thistle]

counterpoint, multiplayer portugal-brazil being a pain to invade being already a deterence

[heavy vigil]

why not form as brasil

more buff

[patent thistle]

+you get to core your colonies so good luck for germany or italy to naval invade

[patent thistle]

i have seen some game which explicitly banned south america due to its stupid buffs

[heavy vigil]

argentina is fun

you can into europe by 39 if youre fast

maybe its slower now due to naval invasion changes idk

actually its like

[finite trout]

Peru:)

[patent thistle]

thats exactly what i was talking about

[heavy vigil]

probably up to 100 days slower

[heavy vigil]

its nice but like you cant into europe

[heavy vigil]

its only arg

and your army for it is weak

[patent thistle]

brazil quite easily able to do the same

[heavy vigil]

no

absolutely not

they scale by like 1940-41

[finite trout]

Just play mexico

[heavy vigil]

they can into europe by 41-42

which is fine if you want to play a longer game ig

[patent thistle]

i have seen a brazil be in europe by like the mid 40s

[heavy vigil]

for d day?

d day is different from like soloing

[patent thistle]

through spain more specifically into italy

[heavy vigil]

thats so weak 😭

[finite trout]

Portugal in mod have weak army

[heavy vigil]

argentina has annexed portugal+spain+can invade france and ger in 39 you just kinda only have inf/air/whatever your allies help you with

its funny

[heavy vigil]

thats just portugal

[finite trout]

Thats only 2 phase

[heavy vigil]

1 focus and its gotten rid off afaik

[finite trout]

Not like 1 but u close

[patent thistle]

thats the portugal situation in my world

[finite trout]

U need 2 focuses

[heavy vigil]

incrível

[patent thistle]

(also a mod)

[patent thistle]

did i forget to meantion its march 1939?

[heavy vigil]

okay, im like not super impressed if you wanna show off XD

its nice though for sure

[patent thistle]

oh thats incredible in portuguese- my bad-

[violet pawn]

what's a good singleplayer tank template

medium tanks btw

standard 30 width or nah

[nocturne estuary]

which mod

[heavy vigil]

no like

[patent thistle]

hard attack focus is useless in single player is what i know

[heavy vigil]

ill tell you why i was looking at arg a lot

[patent thistle]

the frozen war

[patent thistle]

a lesser known mod

[heavy vigil]

its because a good while ago hollowbeing was doing this 4 reichs video thing and he wanted to know if it could be done

so i was like, tryharding getting germany annex as arg ASAP

[violet pawn]

what if ur using a mod that changes ai templates and designs to smth like mp

[heavy vigil]

and you can do it like late 39 early 40 in sp

with some rng and luck and speed and all

well with perfect probably earlier

but whatever

its pretty OP at rushing nations down

[patent thistle]

okay then switch the medium howitzer usually used for a standard medium cannon

keeps reasonable soft attack and gives better hard attack

[heavy vigil]

hard attack even in sheeps mod is usually bad

ai doesnt like making high hardness units

or gets them late

[coarse hull]

all this and the frontline hasn’t moved in 5 years

[patent thistle]

oh okay? cause i like never played sheeps and i refuse to do so-

[violet pawn]

is this even good

[patent thistle]

if you asked others they would execute you for that high reliability

[coarse hull]

i’d upgrade the engine a little since you’re over 100% reliability

[violet pawn]

aight

is 80-90 rel good?

[coarse hull]

should be

[heavy vigil]

well it can be good there maybe

but like ussr doesnt get enough tanks/mech out

[coarse hull]

though having it any higher than 100% is redundant

[heavy vigil]

i guess d day might but its like yk

kinda mid

just depends on how hard your enemy is

[violet pawn]

i suck with designs so idrk

[ivory hull]

anything over 100% is useless

also make it a spg

and only use howitzer in sp

[heavy vigil]

100 or 10 for relia usually

you either attrition them, or you dont

[ivory hull]

yea either full invest or ignore

[violet pawn]

i would but ai uses good templates cuz of mod

i've got spg templates tho

[coarse hull]

anything over 100% is just as reliable as 100%, there’s no additional bonus unfortunately

[violet pawn]

aight ty

[heavy vigil]

100 just means you can take any amount of attrition and take 0 losses

everything below youd like to avoid mountains, jungles, marshes, no supply

which isnt too hard

but if you wanna battleplan through jungle

[ivory hull]

ah ok

[violet pawn]

should i leave the balkans even though it means losing the romanian oil (i already have indonesia and iraq soo)

im already struggling in poland so

[young lake]

Poland 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱

[patent thistle]

not a polish nationalist, he surrendered danzig

[young lake]

😭

Who needs Danzig if we can have Russia

:p

[violet pawn]

how am i supposed to push this out

[tardy spruce]

cas and tanks

[violet pawn]

i've got both

[patent thistle]

not an inch of polish territory shall be lost.

[violet pawn]

doesnt seem to work

[patent thistle]

gonna say but the frontline you picked sucks

[violet pawn]

well im defending on marsh terrain

[steel mica]

@runic creek

[patent thistle]

doesnt help the fact the line is far too streched out to defend properly

[violet pawn]

what about the balkans

if i plan to leave the front in poland

[patent thistle]

by the time you have to defend against the soviets you shouldnt give a dam about the balkan allies

[young lake]

Lwk getting a lil hard to defend my front with 118 cavalry....

[patent thistle]

why so little troops?

[young lake]

I dont even know at this point

[violet pawn]

smth like this?

slovakia isnt in the war btw

[young lake]

I used to have manpower issues on extensive, but I do have a million extra

[young lake]

Thats the issue! Slovakia carries fr

[young lake]

How many divs do you have?

[violet pawn]

180 in europe

42 garrison temps in indonesia

[young lake]

Wat

😭

[violet pawn]

i took it early game

cuz of rubber

[young lake]

Do you have troops in Africa?

[violet pawn]

well italy is somehow holding but yes

wait

[patent thistle]

WHY DO YOU ANNEX INDONESIA MAN-

[young lake]

Yeah but like 42 is alot?

[patent thistle]

JUST PUPPET

[young lake]

Fr

Abandon Africa

You dont need it:sob

[violet pawn]

i got 6 divs there

[young lake]

Or just hold egypt

Oh

[violet pawn]

btw the allies cant do much

they have no supplies

at all

im raiding the entire ocean so

[coarse hull]

you gotta find the ark of the covenant before indiana jones does smh

[young lake]

How much manpower you got?

[violet pawn]

1 mil

[young lake]

What conscription law?

And show stockpiles

[violet pawn]

uhh service by requirement

[rich holly]

why didnt i get the 3rd engine as reich after i researched plane

[young lake]

How much did you lose?

Also show your inf template

[rich holly]

ohh do i have to form jagdwaffe

[violet pawn]

someone recommended it so

[young lake]

WHAT

[pastel dock]

what

[violet pawn]

desperate measures

[pastel dock]

what in the name of god

[violet pawn]

it's holding well

[young lake]

THIS is ALL you need

[pastel dock]

what is that

[violet pawn]

dont judge the cover by it's book

[violet pawn]

dude

[young lake]

Block them.

[violet pawn]

the soviet ai

[pastel dock]

and artillery

[young lake]

BRO

[violet pawn]

is hella hard

not kidding

i put a mod

[pastel dock]

just use cas

[violet pawn]

they have custom templates

[young lake]

??

[violet pawn]

i am

[pastel dock]

and artillery

[violet pawn]

im failing still

[pastel dock]

how

[violet pawn]

i literally killed their airforce

[pastel dock]

well

[young lake]

Bro just use the template I gave you.

[ivory hull]

just use inf bricks if you cant hold

[young lake]

Your templates are too wide

[pastel dock]

you template is using all of your combat widh

[violet pawn]

i was using them at the start, trust me it isnt good

[young lake]

What mod do you have?

[flint pebble]

Hi guys should i get hoi4

[pastel dock]

no

[violet pawn]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2803543445

[winged field]

why no hospitals? this kind of division benefits most from hospitals

[young lake]

Its not about should you get it, its about when your getting it

[young lake]

Bro.

Just use this div.

[violet pawn]

ok so

[flint pebble]

Wdym

[violet pawn]

if i do use it

and die in 10 seconds

ill see who to blame

[young lake]

If your already thinking about it, its only a matter of time

[young lake]

Yeah slowly remove 1 inf

And make more divs

Dont just strip away half your army

Do it gradually

[sudden thistle]

Or u can make fat inf divs

[finite trout]

It aws fast but we didnt surrender we have good fight

[sudden thistle]

And just do that

[flint pebble]

Im only worried about learning it

I heard its quite hard

[violet pawn]

i feel like they'd get blitzed in seconds by the soviet tanks

[sudden thistle]

Most people don’t like putting their brain into the game

[violet pawn]

cuz they have around 200 tanks

no joke

[sudden thistle]

And as a result lose

[violet pawn]

they get crazy buffs for some reason

[winged field]

you will get blitzed...

[flint pebble]

How long did it take u to learn?

[young lake]

No 😭

[sudden thistle]

I was like 12-13 when I got this game

Umm

[flint pebble]

Oh

Im 14 rn so yeah

[young lake]

Ok I guarantee they have like no tank stockpiles so their divs suck

[sudden thistle]

I don’t remember

[violet pawn]

they do

they're full strenght

well 80-90

eitherway

[sudden thistle]

Tanks on frontline

[young lake]

Well they dont have the fuel 😭

[violet pawn]

and i made the mistake of putting howitzers on my medium designs

cuz i didnt expect the ai to be that

good with the designs

[violet pawn]

they have it

[sudden thistle]

When ur done with this game try sheep’s mod instead

[violet pawn]

is it the same

[sudden thistle]

Try it and see

Some people like it some people don’t

[violet pawn]

do i need to reroll my game's version for it

[sudden thistle]

No

[flint pebble]

Overall it seems like a good game but hard to learn

[sudden thistle]

I played it last week

[violet pawn]

ill try it out

[sudden thistle]

Easy to learn hard to master

[flint pebble]

I think i will buy it

[violet pawn]

also

how is he winning

[sudden thistle]

Those aren’t fully equipped

U said they were

[violet pawn]

still

stats

[violet pawn]

i said 80-90 strength

[sudden thistle]

U said both ok

[violet pawn]

mb then

[young lake]

😭

[rich holly]

how do i get 3rd engine as german reich

air engine ofc

[obsidian sigil]

in my sheeps game Sweden for some reason went fascist and just annexed finland, afghanistan joined axis, and iran joined allies

[violet pawn]

should i js retreat to the river even though it means the balkans dying

[obsidian sigil]

Balkans are useless any ways except maybe Romanian oil

[violet pawn]

i've got indonesia, iraq n africa

so i should be good

[brisk canyon]

have extra divs on the front to slow them down and give you time

[flint pebble]

Okay guys im buying hoi4

[young lake]

Wait

[obsidian sigil]

Then how r u losing to soviets

[rich holly]

GUYS WHY DIDNT I GET ENGINE III AS GERMANY

[flint pebble]

yes?

[brisk canyon]

trash

[young lake]

Because your stupid? idk

😭

[violet pawn]

i got a mod which gives them good templates and designs

that might be the reason

but still

i've got total air over them

so idk

[rich holly]

maybe give me an answer instead of saying stupid things

[young lake]

Research it?

[sudden thistle]

U gotta research stuff

To get stuff

[brisk canyon]

sheep?

[young lake]

Check dm's

[flint pebble]

What?

Oh

[rich holly]

i thought you get it through focus

[flint pebble]

Ok

[rich holly]

or am i demented

[violet pawn]

no but something similar

[young lake]

😭

[brisk canyon]

expert ai? 🤔

[rich holly]

I SWEAR YOU COULD GET ENGINE III

[sudden thistle]

They patched that as Germany I’m pretty sure

[violet pawn]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2803543445

[brisk canyon]

gd prolly removed it

[sudden thistle]

Other countries get it though

[rich holly]

oh

[brisk canyon]

ah didnt think people used country specific ai mods

[rich holly]

well now my whole campaign is ruined thanks paradox

[brisk canyon]

thats your fault btw

[frank locust]

i want to buy it too but idk if there won't be any sales soon due to the dlc release

[brisk canyon]

check eneba or cdkeys

[frank locust]

whats that ?

[young lake]

Just research it fym whole campaign ruined....

[flint pebble]

Cheaper games basicall

[brisk canyon]

buy game keys

[frank locust]

oh ok

thx

[brisk canyon]

people buy them during sales and resell later at slightly more expensive

[finite trout]

help

[brisk canyon]

how have you not caped

[finite trout]

russia mother

[obsidian sigil]

Send to disaster savior 🥀

[finite trout]

god will helpme

[obsidian sigil]

Let bittersteel fix

[finite trout]

russia will help me

we hav ealliance

[brisk canyon]

youll still capitulate

[sudden thistle]

Steam DB price history

Look at chart

[finite trout]

not yet

[brisk canyon]

eventually

[finite trout]

but close

[clear dagger]

didnt know hasan was russian

[untold sigil]

lol do you know whether my tick speed broke or what? I am going on 5th highest speed level and the game ticks like 1 day on a second and the whole game is kind of laggy when the time is on "go"

[violet pawn]

gg

it's not worth it

[young lake]

Finally 😭

[violet pawn]

damn

alternate universe

[scenic pulsar]

is this a game ending scenario?

[tardy spruce]

someone is playing kaiserreich

[lethal ether]

i think there are alot of people playing kaiserreich not just someone

[lethal ether]

wth happened here

[open bay]

when will the new dlc release?

[prisma saddle]

KILL AXIS

[prisma saddle]

tomorrow

[open bay]

how much time if you have any idea?

time zones yk

[acoustic wasp]

britian is the most cringe nation ever in this game

like genuinely

[flint pebble]

Does anybody know how to fix when u alt tab in full screen it goes black for a few seconds

[acoustic wasp]

they just make me want to shove my arms into an industrial meatgrinder

[young lake]

Lator

My friend been begging me to play something with him lmao

Cus "What even is hoi4 bro no one plays it" 😭

[acoustic wasp]

I've seen this issue before somewhere on reddit i remember the most upvoted reply was resetting your UI scaling to 1.0 i think

or try windowed

[daring geyser]

change screen mode to fullscreen borderless

[prisma saddle]

💔

[daring geyser]

if this is happening i bet my house on that it's happening because of your monitor adapting to fullscreen mode which is handled differently from the desktop

[acoustic wasp]

Navy mogs, they have the ability to call 90000000000000000 bordering nations to war, you never have enough men or equipment to guard each and every border

If you FINALLY navally invade them they just retreat to the US and keep spamming your shores with 900 naval invasions a year

[daring geyser]

just kill them before the us gets in

[heavy vigil]

you have your own house? congrats

[daring geyser]

the british navy is easy to tackle because the ai doesn't know how to do navy

unless you're like romania

[flint pebble]

worked ty

[acoustic wasp]

quite difficult when they remain democratic and not switch to fascist or communist when i waste around a year in a civil war and 6 more months fixing the factories and justifying on the neighbouring nations (Commie germany)

then they call every non aligned and democratic country into war

hell bro rn the playthrough i rage quit

they even called italy

FASCIST ITALY

to war against me

all i did was take poland 1 month late

my bad

[daring geyser]

just means more nations you can kill

[acoustic wasp]

Too bad i dont have 120 divisions, only 3 armies in 1939

[daring geyser]

then there is something seriously wrong with your germany

if someone struggles as germany they didn't get something about the core concepts of the game

with singleplayer in mind

[acoustic wasp]

i've had very successful playthroughs when they turn fascist or communist, when they remain democratic they just call every other political ideology to war against you

[daring geyser]

i have killed the uk when they were democratic like a million times

[acoustic wasp]

i dont have problems with nazi germany, only germanies with civil wars because im already behind on everything

[daring geyser]

civil war or not

[acoustic wasp]

you just better than me

shrimple

i am kind of new to the game, not that new like a few months in but not a newbie

[daring geyser]

just saying it's not the uk it's just that you got something about the game wrong

the ai is very weak and after you learn some basic meta templates + understand supply and the power of green air then you can crush them no matter what

[acoustic wasp]

2 days ago they turned fascist and called 2 of my communist puppets to war against me it was hilarious like messages of brittian calling german france to war against germany bruh

it was 1947 tho

papa stalin gave me a hard time

[acoustic wasp]

Ok so about that i need some recommendations for infantry

[daring geyser]

infantry is simple

you want to keep it small for cycling, 16w + support aa is my go to

you actually don't need support arty and engineers to hold against the ai funny enough

[azure walrus]

fractured world preset, kumul khanate start!

[scenic pulsar]

just use this

[acoustic wasp]

So I usually make 2 divisions

One defensive infantry and one armoured, most of the time Self propelled howitzers.

The defensive infantry is the classic 18 width + the aa support, i dont think it's completely booty but it's a bit underwhelming, i tested a 20 width one by removing one infantry and adding 2 line arty and it was a nightmare

[daring geyser]

don't use this

[acoustic wasp]

bruh

lmao

[hearty cloud]

Oh my god

[hearty cloud]

Bros trolling with this shi

[acoustic wasp]

the armoured is usually 2 lines of mountaineers, 2 and a half of mediums or self propelled howitzers on medium chassis, 36 width, i usually go with medium tanks, slap some clicks on armour and slap a diesel engine in it to make it reliable and go 4kmh since it is accompanying infantry and do the prussian focus for the infantry

the armoured divisions are really nice they punch through anything

[scenic pulsar]

meta inf template btw

[acoustic wasp]

my problem is with the infantry templates

[hearty cloud]

Is this for MP or single player?

[scenic pulsar]

every player

[acoustic wasp]

i need something to be the backbone, cheap, simple to spam out and actually doesnt shit itself

[acoustic wasp]

im asking about single player if you are asking me

[grave sonnet]

Finnaly some1 knows the meta

[acoustic wasp]

i usually never attack with infantry

[hearty cloud]

That would be melt in MP and in single player you wouldn’t need anti tank right?

[acoustic wasp]

unless im forced to

[daring geyser]

line arty is awful, never worth it in any situation, if anyone ever recommends any template to you involving line arty they don't understand how damaging the org and hp loss really is

your inf template is fine, it's defensive, don't ever expect to push with it, though

for SPGs you can try this template (REMOVE the mot AA, this template is meant for multiplayer hence it has anti air), combine it with max planning bonus, green air and good cas, and literally nothing the ai throws at you will be able to hold, given you know how to micro and where to attack

[acoustic wasp]

wait let me show you the templates from my world conquest

[daring geyser]

and replace the mot AA with like mech

[acoustic wasp]

so is there anything that is cheaper than this?

[daring geyser]

oh yeah don't exceed 36w either

[daring geyser]

dk why this one does

[hearty cloud]

Doesn’t line arty just eat up supply

I don’t know how that is meta then

[daring geyser]

i'd remove engineers and support arty and make it 16w

this one is p expensive

[acoustic wasp]

alright i'll walk my doggos and try it

[heavy vigil]

this is my go-to division template

[acoustic wasp]

i lowkey love this when combined with normal infantry

[daring geyser]

armor is useless, prefer gasoline over diesel since reliability is also useless, riveted is more ic efficient

[acoustic wasp]

me when it's time to take the suez canal

[daring geyser]

christie suspension would be a gokd addition tol

[hearty cloud]

It’s peak

[daring geyser]

don't remove the armor ticks tho

they give breakthrough

[acoustic wasp]

i mean diesel has also a little bit lower conversion cost

[hearty cloud]

I would go for more camal

[daring geyser]

just the sloped armor

[daring geyser]

are you constantly converting your tanks?

[acoustic wasp]

and replace it with?

[daring geyser]

machine gun

[heavy vigil]

csc in hoi gen chat is crazy

[acoustic wasp]

i mean yeah i try to use them as early as possible and when it's time to upgrade the howitzer i have like 4000 of them or something

radio howitzer etc

[daring geyser]

the conversion cost usually isn't worth it in diesel since diesel is more expensive

gasoline engine is just overall better

[heavy vigil]

its the same cost no

[acoustic wasp]

so reliability isnt really a thing? i can have 65 or 60 and it's good?

[acoustic wasp]

it is yeah but diesel has more reliability and like 0.5 lower conversion cost it's not much difference i thought reliability was important

and i dont want the tank to go over 4 km anyway

so i thought why not

[daring geyser]

you can have 0% and it's still good, reliability only affects attrition losses so as long as you have your divs in good supply and plains/forest biome you are good

[scenic pulsar]

how could they possibly be projecting naval dominance

[daring geyser]

it matters only for marsh/desert/mountains

and high attrition biomes alike

[heavy vigil]

thats fine for inf tanks

[acoustic wasp]

yeah most of the time they do run into shit areas like the alps or the vast nowhere in the soviet union as well as the low supply areas in scandanavia

[heavy vigil]

high relia will help lose less to attrition if you like battleplan into hell

marshes mountains no supply and jungle tiles

[daring geyser]

this is the red baron spg template, armor skirts should be useless in singleplayer so replace with mg