hoi4-general

[molten forge]

Anyone playing rn?

[eternal aspen]

Semetics? Like the people who gave us some of the best technology we have?

[opal nymph]

Don't worry, the USA was updated to have 1 less general

To be fair, Wainwright is a better general now

[molten forge]

Uh huh, just give USA another 200 mills

[molten forge]

You playing rn?

[opal nymph]

USA could use more industry buffs since the Germans and Soviets have better factories than the US

[opal nymph]

Do you not have NCNS?

[molten forge]

What now

[opal nymph]

NCNS made Wainwright a Philippines general

No compromise, no surrender

[molten forge]

Nope don't got it

I was hoping someone could stream some Hoi4 rn cus I ain't anywhere near to play it

[eternal aspen]

Finally working on my 2nd army group (probably gonna use tanks and special forces for the 2nd group)

Uhh, how can I tell if I ship design is a BC or BB?

[lapis snow]

armor

[molten forge]

Wacthing George do the mistake I did

Attacking the entente when french is in it early

[serene breach]

i think germany is too powerfull after new patches

[patent thistle]

because it quite litterally is a fallout mod

[molten forge]

Want very good idea?

[serene breach]

turn off day/night?

[patent thistle]

better then nothing

[eternal aspen]

Tyats it?

[opal nymph]

I was surprised the Soviets didn't cap until I realized the caucuses weren't captured yet

[molten forge]

I was gonna say play poland

Historical

(as in historical on)

[serene breach]

yea very easy xD

im playing rn as china

[strong thicket]

Hope the guy whos playing germany knows about collaboration governments.

[molten forge]

Oooo wanna stream (am bored out my mind)

[whole matrix]

I see you love hardcore

[molten forge]

Fr

[serene breach]

its easy

already puppet all of them

it 1948 btw

[patent thistle]

bud definetly was part during the war for area 51

[opal nymph]

28 1/2 bolsheviks easiest way to unify china

[molten forge]

Lowk I have good challenge for you ig

[strong thicket]

Wait are u the soviets?

[opal nymph]

Just ask nicely and the nationalists will be annexed

[serene breach]

no

[whole matrix]

Why they don't add focus on Slovakia

[molten forge]

Want challange?

[whole matrix]

In new dlc

[serene breach]

i did even easier focus i just annex them without war xD

[strong thicket]

greedy

[serene breach]

tell me

[opal nymph]

That's what I mean

You just ask nicely

And they get annexed

[molten forge]

Italy without axis

[serene breach]

roman empire?

[molten forge]

Sure

[serene breach]

its not that hard

[opal nymph]

Just lead the United front and have like 51% contribution

[strong thicket]

Form the Roman Empire as Bhutan

[molten forge]

I don't wanna do too muhc

[serene breach]

italy is strong but AI is dumb

[whole matrix]

tanna tuva*

[molten forge]

But if you want harder challenge I am happy to give

[opal nymph]

Tannu What?

[serene breach]

i tried as luxembourg but my best was benelux and france annexed

then i died to allies

[molten forge]

Random nation near sovietd

[eternal aspen]

So aside from the torpedo mount, the Deutschland Klasse panzershiff is accurate on game start lol

[strong thicket]

One hard is playing the soviets in the russian tsarist civil war (if u dont cheese)

[molten forge]

Lowk I have an idea

[severe halo]

I want to buy 2 dlc right now but dont know which two i should get. No step back/by blood alone/la resistance

[opal nymph]

The old meme is gone

[whole matrix]

Pepper, try forming ottoman empire

[opal nymph]

Because the Soviets do the focus so late

[sudden thistle]

My best was killing 4 million Germans

And my save got corrupted

[whole matrix]

For turkey

[strong thicket]

No step back and by blood alone always

[serene breach]

i did that

already

[severe halo]

okay thanks

[molten forge]

@serene breach i guess try dominate the allies with Estada Novo portugal

[lost wind]

what to do in this situation? (they have atleast 4 divisions on every province)

[serene breach]

xD

[strong thicket]

Restart

[molten forge]

?

[sudden thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-türk-homelander-türk-milliyetçisi-türk-kahraman-yurtsever-gif-15085610499242363624

[serene breach]

no as algeria conquer africa

very easy

[whole matrix]

Run in Russia

[tender comet]

Do you want to make Byzantium for Greece?

[molten forge]

Nah come on tho, you can Def beat the allies as Portugal on Estada Novo path

[lost wind]

yes

[serene breach]

maybe?

with these "planes"

i know i know its terrible

[whole matrix]

Pepper

[serene breach]

but its designed to die

[molten forge]

At least you got the dlc

[whole matrix]

I got HARDEST challenge

[molten forge]

Kamikaze?

[serene breach]

i have all of them

[whole matrix]

Play as Algeria, without French core territories

[strong thicket]

Rate the encirclement

[serene breach]

yeah thats everything

[whole matrix]

(Litteraly all your territory is DM zone)

[eternal aspen]

Research scum is so fun

[serene breach]

i can do cheaper with 0,02 fuel usage

[tender comet]

Typically, you should exploit the abusive landing at Alexandroupolis, leaving the bulk of your divisions near Physsaloniki, thus creating a cauldron. This should be done approximately three times

[serene breach]

with rocket engines

[eternal aspen]

I have 1940 mediums in 1939

[opal nymph]

Lots of troops, quite nice

[molten forge]

Tbf Estada Novo onto proudly alone would be interesting to try against allies

[opal nymph]

But encirclements are overrated.

Overruns are where it is at

[serene breach]

honestly i played portugal like 1 time and then died

[strong thicket]

Bro got his tanks encircled

[tender comet]

How to land in the UK for Germany?

[molten forge]

Want very not secret idea

[opal nymph]

No

[lofty adder]

Hi

Professional;

Is this good infantry

[serene breach]

?

[opal nymph]

I was absolutely laughing when I overran the entire soviet frontline

[winter badge]

Party encirclement

[molten forge]

Just attack Spain after their civil war

[opal nymph]

And met 0 resistance

[molten forge]

You get a focus

[serene breach]

i did that

[opal nymph]

I LOVE ARMORED CARS

I LOVE ZOOMING AT 20 KM/H

[molten forge]

What path did you go?

[serene breach]

but vichy france declared war on me why? idk

[whole matrix]

Go through North Sea

[novel zephyr]

What are the best possible mountaneers?

[strong thicket]

Nope not even for defending use 18-14 widths for defending and 30-36 width special forces inf for attacking (line art is okay but i dont recomend) Watch Segl on yt and learn more.

[opal nymph]

32 or 36 width blocks

No line arty

Have support companies

[novel zephyr]

Not 40? Ok so pure?

[molten forge]

@serene breach what path did you go then?

[opal nymph]

40 outdated

[tender comet]

Infantry divisions shouldn't be made large; they don't require a wide front. A front width of 14 is usually suitable for plains. The front width should be a multiple of the front width on the terrain

[whole matrix]

@serene breach unite Africa as South Africa

[serene breach]

i dont remember it was like year ago

[strong thicket]

Brodie the combat width for a hill, desert, and plain is 70

[opal nymph]

32 is all terrain, 36 is for max breakthrough i believe

[novel zephyr]

Ok what is I have sup. firepower for less width

[molten forge]

Why don't you try Yugoslavian European domination

[opal nymph]

No line arty

[strong thicket]

32 is cope for tanks like u only gon attack in forsts, plains, hills, and deserts

[lofty adder]

What

[tender comet]

What if I don't know how to build a fleet?

[opal nymph]

32 or 36 width

[lofty adder]

Lot of people advice 36 width

[strong thicket]

Yup u heard him trust

[lofty adder]

Other advice 18

[whole matrix]

Bro

...

[molten forge]

18 defense 36 attack I believe

[lofty adder]

Yes

[unreal mica]

They should add a revanchist ottoman empire path in kaiserreich after u lose against egypt u should be able to reconquer ur lands

[lofty adder]

Im want attack

[novel zephyr]

Ok isnt there something you can reduce width of mountaneers? What makes them so strobg without arty when they have little soft attack

[serene breach]

idk i have alot of options but i chosing the hardest one or without focus tree xD

[strong thicket]

14-18

30-36 attack

[whole matrix]

Just put it in production

[opal nymph]

Yes, then you do the thing that makes them like 32.4

Or you make them 36 width

Line arty is soft attack and nothing else

[molten forge]

You ever played Greece?

[novel zephyr]

Ok got it 36width is what I go for then. Ligjt tank rec?

[serene breach]

ye

[opal nymph]

Mountaineers give soft attack, defense, HP, org, and I think some breakthrough

[unreal mica]

Why not 13/3 mountaineers 35 width

Thats what i go for

[opal nymph]

Line arty is not great

[molten forge]

Nvm then, umm, you wanna play maybe Belgium

[opal nymph]

It works

[serene breach]

i did and annexed france with allies

[opal nymph]

But you get peak terrain bonuses with pure mountaineers

[whole matrix]

Pepper play South Africa

[novel zephyr]

okok

[molten forge]

Nah, play belgian Congo @serene breach

[opal nymph]

Mountaineer rangers should be quite good as well

Especially for europe

[serene breach]

never played that XD

[molten forge]

Exactly

[tender comet]

Is the starting fleet template suitable for naval superiority over UK?

[unreal mica]

What are those does that even exist

[molten forge]

It was lowk a bit fun when I tried it in mp

[serene breach]

nuclear congo

[whole matrix]

Yeah

[serene breach]

sounds good

[opal nymph]

You make your division like half and half

[molten forge]

Wanna stream it ig? Like in a VC here

[unreal mica]

Half rangers half mountaineers?

[opal nymph]

2/3 mountaineers 1/3 rangers or something like that

[unreal mica]

How do i get rangers

[opal nymph]

Or half and half

[whole matrix]

Tbh nobody understand how naval works in this game

But somehow it works

[opal nymph]

Do you have no compromise no surrender?

[unreal mica]

No

[novel zephyr]

half half?

[serene breach]

no sorry, and im trying to make china as global power

[sudden thistle]

Nobody spends time trying to learn it

[molten forge]

I barely started understanding how to use ships, tho I don't know how to create good oned

[opal nymph]

Then they dont exist for you

[opal nymph]

Maybe, not entirely sure

[molten forge]

Alright just ping me when you do sum else alr?

[novel zephyr]

@opal nymph I always have problem with sf limit how do I increase it with minot nations?

[serene breach]

yea

[opal nymph]

You spam a bunch of 2 width divisions, convert them to 50 widths. Make the special forces you want and then delete the 50 widths

[molten forge]

Thanks

[wide osprey]

quick dopamine for ya boyz 😎 ✊

[opal nymph]

Indeed

[novel zephyr]

ohh oj thanks

[serene breach]

ouh

well another front

[tender comet]

I tried to understand the navy, but in the end, I landed for Germany with the help of the airborne forces. But lately, even after a successful landing, I can't surrender; for some reason, I'm short of supplies

[whole matrix]

Land in supply hub

Or near it

and capture it

[serene breach]

my drones works

[tender comet]

I captured supply nodes on the island, but this still happened. I can only assume it's because the British fleet is sinking convoys. It might be a bug

[eternal aspen]

My tanks should be 36w for pushing right?

[surreal timber]

Im playing with friends and want a strong path,
something like fascist Uk, preferably core territory mainly outside of europe.
Road to 56 paths are fine too

[eternal aspen]

Do fascist imperial federation

Ofc if nobody is playing as a british vassal

[surreal timber]

yeah i mean another country

[novel zephyr]

Why does combat in mellenium dawn feel awkward or worse?

I like the Mod but that part is annoyinh

[vivid juniper]

Is it just me or has anyone been playing Czechoslovakia and when you kill Italy, you’re immediately at war with everyone?

[lusty river]

why did the "proclaim new world order" decision disapear?

[sudden thistle]

What are they playing

[acoustic wasp]

man i hate the logic of this game so much

like so much

got UK guaranteeing literal fascists because i got a focus to annex them

[prisma steppe]

bro hyperfactions between commie Britain, Facist Russkieland & monarchist Italy

[acoustic wasp]

i just want to play papal italy in peace for once without something stupid happening

first playthrough i annexed romania then when stalin wanted bessarbia

i read like 5 times

"give up our territory without a fight"

then the game marked it as that i refused

he went to war with me

second game in im chilling and for some reason vichy france declared war on me and dragged hitler in

now i got UK guaranteeing fascist romania, fascist hungary and turkey

how about guarantee the benelux or france you pricks you cant even do shit

and now i got the entire british navy in greece instead of defending themselves or france

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-crazy-crazy-ishowspeed-speed-crashing-out-gif-13267980027367138180

[wide osprey]

[surreal timber]

Always different, but Germany is always taken and then mostly Italy, Usa and some other country like Japan, China or Romania, smth like that

Or i play as one of them

[eternal aspen]

I found the trigger for stalins speach

[grand forge]

LOOK AT THIS 🤣

Best hoi4 historical mods

[eternal aspen]

As soon as you take Minsk, a timer for 1 week happens and then it plays

Also Finland joined the Axis, so there wont be a continuation war, im fighting russia rn

[grave sonnet]

They ain't wrong about Kaiserreich being the best mod..

[eternal aspen]

Jan 29th, 1940

[grand forge]

It puts best historical mod

[grave sonnet]

Ik

[grand forge]

it isnt historical in any sense

and kaiserreich < kaiserredux

[grave sonnet]

But still it's a good mod

[grand forge]

Yes

[grave sonnet]

Without kaiserreich

Redux wouldn't even be a thing

Redux is good for the content

But for better performance I think

[grand forge]

But redux is way better than kaisserreich

[grave sonnet]

Reich is better

[grave sonnet]

Depends if you can run it

My old setup

Couldnt run redux

Only Reich

But now I can run redux

So yeah

Redux is better I agree

It adds more content

A good mod that's historical

Would be

DH

Or BICE

[grand forge]

I like bice

but torture

[grave sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/why-is-he-lying-wong-gif-5558347777370316415

[grand forge]

i am not lying

well

i like the mechanics

the divisions are not very

optimal for you

[serene breach]

chinese production is damn bad

[arctic mauve]

Guys i bought the game :)

[stark elbow]

millenium dawn is historical enough

[arctic mauve]

wadahel

[grave sonnet]

I thinks he is talking bout Ww2 era

[stark elbow]

could've guessed it

[grave sonnet]

My condolences

[arctic mauve]

:)

[stark elbow]

you are in time to refund

[arctic mauve]

it was 70% off on steam

[stark elbow]

there is no turning back then

[stark elbow]

it isnt about money

[arctic mauve]

xd

[winged field]

run while you still can

[whole matrix]

Tno, tfr and so many other mods...

[arctic mauve]

xd

[whole matrix]

Oh

Historical

Mods

[grand forge]

does someone anytime want to play KaiserreduX?

as third internationale

[arctic mauve]

is there a way to change the main menu music

[whole matrix]

I maybe can

[lofty adder]

HI

[serene breach]

bro i didn't know they getting old

[lofty adder]

WHAT IM NEED AD

ADD

[arctic mauve]

Where do you get more model and icon mods

[lofty adder]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3051057425

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3132985068

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2909181066

3 mods on tanks

[arctic mauve]

are there any mods that enable usage of like german tank models in hungary?

so like interusable models and icons

[grand forge]

You can ask them for license production

[lofty adder]

Axis tanks models

Also

You need have all dlc

[arctic mauve]

no i mean i make my own tank but the model is somewhere else

[arctic mauve]

damn

[grand forge]

like send hungarian tanks to germany?

[arctic mauve]

no

[whole matrix]

Dang

My manpower

Going low

[arctic mauve]

send children to the front

[grand forge]

The license production allows you to produce tanks from other countries

[arctic mauve]

you dont get what i mean

[grand forge]

explain what you mean

[fading pier]

this sever is kinda dead

[fading pier]

Scraping the children

[lofty adder]

Hi

HIIIII

Is this good

[whole matrix]

I been forced

[fading pier]

i see russian

[arctic mauve]

is it not true?

[fading pier]

i see strong

[whole matrix]

To retreat from Balearic islands

Playing kaiserredux rn

[wide osprey]

hoi4 players when they see children in army

[fading pier]

wheres balearic

[wide osprey]

you know there is in-game tool to draw plans on map 🙂

[whole matrix]

Noooo

My navy got destroyed

By British

[terse skiff]

No it's horrible. 74 atk for 19 cost is just sad. Replace the modules with two heavy mgs

[lofty adder]

im know

im cant

[lofty adder]

im not have 2 guns

[whole matrix]

Dang, Austria did federalisation

And they can join war on our side

[unkempt sun]

Idk if my inf division design is good is it? I use 9 inf + 1 artillery for some soft attack with support aa , artillery and engineer company

[lofty adder]

im mean that

[whole matrix]

I think

[terse skiff]

Ussr comes with heavy mgs available

[lofty adder]

yes

[terse skiff]

Remove line artillery

[lofty adder]

94 soft attack

but

break

through

is little

from 49 to 8

[terse skiff]

Breakthrough doesn't matter in sp

[unkempt sun]

so just 9 inf support aa , artillery and enginneer company?

[terse skiff]

Plus you can just get other units in the divisions to provide breakthrough

[terse skiff]

Yeah honestly I wouldn't even put engineers unless you have equipped everything else to maximum

[unkempt sun]

tanks are lowk expensive when u play as a minor country so i need like some division good for very small pushs

[quasi osprey]

One is of these is a hoi4 fascist flag the other is a real parliament party of the same country why do I see too many similarities💀 💀

[terse skiff]

Tanks can be very cheap

a light SPG can be created with like 4-5 ic

[unkempt sun]

aight

[whole matrix]

HECK

FRANCE BREAKS THROUGH GERMAN DEFENSE

[terse skiff]

And if you want medium SPGs, you can get them with 7 ic if you have easy maintenance

[wide osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-shocked-ariana-grande-ariana-wicked-gif-9352977018792188008

[eternal aspen]

I almost regret invading russia when winter war happened

But im winning

[whole matrix]

I started offensive against France

[eternal aspen]

Ive pushed to the Buh river next to Odessa so Romania is secured, my main struggle gonna just be tryna get more tanks

[whole matrix]

Offensive failed

But at least I entered France

[wide osprey]

A friendly reminder of the polar day in Hoi4

[wicked dome]

@oblique cypress

Ekle

Beni

@oblique cypress

@oblique cypress

@oblique cypress

@oblique cypress

@oblique cypress

[whole matrix]

It's time for Spanish atomic research

[sullen hazel]

Is anyone alive

Or online...

[little owl]

Anyone have a strat for communist Japan to win the civil war as fast as possible? I can't do it consistently - often times get stuck on a small front and it genuinely just does not move

[whole matrix]

What are those front lines even about

[ripe slate]

you can hide allied front lines in the bottom right

[sullen hazel]

Anyways!!

[ripe slate]

[sullen hazel]

I know we should discuss this on modding but...

I just want some advice

[ripe slate]

Yeees?

[sullen hazel]

What makes a good focus tree

A good naval focus tree..

[ripe slate]

Right amount of challenge and interesting flavor

[heavy vigil]

where challenge

tbh ethiopia is fun and afghanistan was fun for me

[ripe slate]

Personally I lean super heavily on foreign policy in stuff I make

[heavy vigil]

until they buffed afghanistan then it got boring

[sullen hazel]

Hm...

Alright so it needs to be interesting

Needs to be challanging

And that's it?

[ripe slate]

It helps to check pre-existing trees to see what they do

[heavy vigil]

i like argentina a lot

its not particularly hard but its only good early game

[sullen hazel]

Okay..

[heavy vigil]

it doesnt scale well

if you want a long game you play brasil

but argentina can take the continent early and thats fun

i think

[whole matrix]

IT IS TOO EASY

One of highest buffs in game

[heavy vigil]

arg?

try taking germany in 1939-40

its easy to take south america

whatever

[sullen hazel]

Anyway.....

[heavy vigil]

ive done it before

was fun

[sullen hazel]

So you're trying to imply that there should be some...

Balance between long and short focuses?

Interesting...

[heavy vigil]

well, no

not every nation has to do the same

everyone can specialize and thats kinda fun

[sullen hazel]

Hm...

[whole matrix]

I really like hard to play countries

[heavy vigil]

which

[grave sonnet]

Play Democratic Algerian Desert nation with interwar equipment 👍

[whole matrix]

WWWWWWW

[ripe slate]

I really wanted to add a hard civil war to Czechoslovakia but its shaped like a sausage so doesnt really work

[whole matrix]

Like some minor countries

Without big buffs

[sullen hazel]

How to make it balanced though..

[heavy vigil]

which ones

[subtle tapir]

Wassup? Kaiser Germany is best Germany. I actually wound up winning World War II as imperial Germany after allying Poland. In the peace deal, I got Mexico. 🤣

[whole matrix]

For example South Africa

[sullen hazel]

Because clearly sometimes focuses can be either downright hard or downright impossible to play

[heavy vigil]

shouldve :(

[whole matrix]

Is pretty hard to play

Focus tree is old tho

[subtle tapir]

Should add that it was an ahistorical play through. Poland reformed the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.

[grave sonnet]

Should have added a thing like Danzig where Germany has a chance to declare war and ruin ur run

[ripe slate]

Gotta playtest stuff like that

[whole matrix]

Also I like Turkiye focus tree

[ripe slate]

Basegame Turkey is too slow

[grave sonnet]

70 days...

[sudden thistle]

Sudetenland rises up

[ripe slate]

when you turn Ottoman halve the world is already at war

[grave sonnet]

You barely done with stuff in late 38

[sudden thistle]

Moravia

Slovakia

[grave sonnet]

Germany intervenes to help...

[sudden thistle]

And the Hungarians in the south rise up in that province

Free for all civil war

[grave sonnet]

Atp just make it the TFR civil war but for Czechsloavkia

[whole matrix]

Ultra communist monarchic Eurasian totalitarian world order

[sudden thistle]

In hoi5 I better be able to take each and every house in the world

[atomic grove]

what would be the atomwaffen for czechoslovakia though

[grave sonnet]

Too much schizophrenia

[grave sonnet]

Idk

[atomic grove]

ss?

[grave sonnet]

The Beer Division or smth

[atomic grove]

or like ss volunteers or sum

[vital cove]

a good naval tree is kinda like
close to impossible
because if you're a starting naval power then you win the naval game by default and don't need to do naval focuses
if you're not then your most efficient method to get a navy is to kill someone and steal their navy
so like
yea

[safe wing]

Toast division

[grave sonnet]

SS officers in the Sudetenland border of Germany

[atomic grove]

budweis revolutionary army

real

[whole matrix]

I remember

[grave sonnet]

With Himmler ,just make it Czech Burgundy

[whole matrix]

TFR USA civil war have 7 factions

[grave sonnet]

Mmm toast

[grave sonnet]

New york police force best

[sullen hazel]

😭

[atomic grove]

germany

monarchist germany

[vital cove]

yeah no

[sudden thistle]

Why are u orange now

[whole matrix]

Mods don't even try to do naval trees

[ripe slate]

Road does 😛

[sullen hazel]

For a second I thought this was a scene from star wars a new hope

With that scene where they're in that desert planet with that one old Jedi master and that one descendant of the Skywalker Family

[whole matrix]

Like tfr have 0 countries with naval trees

[whole matrix]

Expect Japan I think

[tulip cobalt]

yo whats better gotterdamburg or la resistance

[vital cove]

im a chameleon

[tulip cobalt]

yo whats better gotterdamburg or la resistance

[vital cove]

i swap colors every now and then

[whole matrix]

Gotter

Definitely

[atomic grove]

monarchist germany actually has a good need to build a big navy and it gets some dockyards from its trees, and it gets free ships, and some other stuff from its normal naval tree

[atomic grove]

gotterdammerung now

[vital cove]

except

[tulip cobalt]

ty

[sullen hazel]

So hmm..

[vital cove]

you don't need to do the naval focuses

[atomic grove]

collab govs arent that great anymore

[vital cove]

to win the naval game

[whole matrix]

Gotter reworks Germany

[atomic grove]

steal navy?

[sullen hazel]

Doing the Philippines naval tree overhaul is going to be difficult..

[vital cove]

false

[sullen hazel]

Isn't it..

[whole matrix]

Major power

[vital cove]

collab governments are still the best thing ever

[atomic grove]

unless u fighting china or russia

[whole matrix]

And giving it a very good focus tree

[atomic grove]

probably

or even us

[vital cove]

no, they're still the best thing ever

against everyone

with any industry

[whole matrix]

And more content on mitteleurope countries

[vital cove]

just build navy from day 1

and its enough

[atomic grove]

r u talking about when u get 100% collabs

and u form that collab gov of a country

[heavy vigil]

what

you should still do the mission, its compliance

no one cares about surrender limit that much

[sullen hazel]

Hey casey

[atomic grove]

yeah i kind of forgot that it gives free compliance lol

[sullen hazel]

Cute lil doggy guy

[tulip cobalt]

i want la resistance only cuz of complience gain and resistence loss

[heavy vigil]

hiii !!

[sullen hazel]

How good should the Philippines naval focus tree be

Because that's what I am trying to do rn

[heavy vigil]

idk i havent played hoi in like weeks

flip a coin

[atomic grove]

i think it already gets enough naval buffs

[sullen hazel]

Wahhh

[sudden thistle]

Ahh makes sense mb

[sullen hazel]

But I am redesigning it to be Abit more interesting

[atomic grove]

it just doesnt have a navy so those buffs are mostly useless till u get a decent navy

[vital cove]

no that's bad

[atomic grove]

buying ships

[whole matrix]

Mmm, below European naval powers

[atomic grove]

idk how u would do that though

[sullen hazel]

I am doing some research about it's offshore patrol history

[vital cove]

their navy is already kinda really strong in vanilla

[sullen hazel]

Hmmm

[atomic grove]

complete access to a country's industry though

thats something

[sullen hazel]

But I am going to make it so you can only do it once you do the national defense act

[atomic grove]

that focus is painful already to do

[sullen hazel]

But to pull this off rn I am currently constructing an entire focus tree of the national defense act..

[atomic grove]

200 days to do it without help from the main tree and probably more than 200 days to shorten enough to wait it out

[atomic grove]

ok

[vital cove]

collab government puppets are way worse than 100% compliance

[atomic grove]

r u talking about that megagaria trick

[whole matrix]

I think Phillipines navy at best is at level of Australia

[sullen hazel]

Yeah but still

[spiral sphinx]

just build one

[atomic grove]

u cant

[little hull]

Hey

[spiral sphinx]

just takes time

but you dont even need navy if you go historical

[atomic grove]

no like u basically cant

its more efficient to steal navies as the philippines

u have basically no civs and dockyards

[little hull]

Wanted to ask if the new dlc was worth the 5$ before buying it

[sudden thistle]

@fair horizon u know Australia

[sudden thistle]

Nah

[heavy vigil]

he doesnt

[mighty zephyr]

You can just download like any Czechoslovakia mod

[heavy vigil]

but @ripe slate would be sad

[mighty zephyr]

The dlc isnt bad but money…

The wallets are truly empty

[little hull]

What is it called

And what does it add

[mighty zephyr]

The dlc?

It just adds a Czechoslovakia focus tree and a few more things

Its a czechoslovakia dlc

[ripe slate]

I mean, you're free to try mods first, I think the DLC will still be worth it

Im obviously biased since I worked on it but its vanilla-like content, extensively playtested and researched, it has nice art and banger music
And mostly I just think its fun to play

Also, welcome

[heavy vigil]

its vanilla content

not vanilla like

its in the game

[ripe slate]

Well we did do our best to make it feel like other vanilla content in style I mean

[vital cove]

no? just 100% compliance as any country

[eternal aspen]

So

I ended up pushing to Moscow

Took paris, then the British decided to send the whole home army into the maginot and pushed to belgium

[little hull]

Thx man i will see some gameplay i guess and see but i think i will buy it

And do yall think someday we will get a dlc about the Arab countries or north afrca ? Would add gameplay mechanics for colonial countries ect..

[lost dawn]

Not bad for 1940. It could be better ofcourse.....

And Austria Hungary having formed has thrown a wrench in my plans

[lethal ether]

wth happened to germany

[lost dawn]

The Soviets.

[lethal ether]

in 1940?!

[lost dawn]

Japan went early war against soviets

[little hull]

Tbh they are not that strong ta that time i believe

[lost dawn]

and pulled Germany in

All that is blue... is a soviet puppet

[lethal ether]

poland is massie

massive

[little hull]

Poland did the commonwealth and got killed?

[lost dawn]

I still have a guarantee for joining the US faction

But I am not done conquering for now

[lost dawn]

Poland is only in the soviet faction

not a true

puppet

But will still attack whoever the soviets attack

[little hull]

Oh damn but they are not communist no? 😭

[lost dawn]

Non-alligned

[little hull]

How did they manage to join

Oh

[lost dawn]

Germany attacked them

[little hull]

Did Germany declare war on poland and the ai did his shit and joined the soviets?

[lost dawn]

trying to get to the soviets

Germany also declared on all of the baltics

[little hull]

Damn they went crazy

[lost dawn]

If you think what happened to Germany is crazy

[ember vine]

Chat am I cooked

[lost dawn]

Wait till you see Japan

💀

[ember vine]

Historical

My goal is to survive and kill a lot of germans

[little hull]

GOD DAMN

[little hull]

Unreasonable devil and everything bad peace deal

[ember vine]

LMFAO THEY DONT WANNA INVADE ME

[safe wing]

Did you go communist by any chance

[ember vine]

Ofc I did

They attacked me but dont wanna battle with me

[safe wing]

Good the 500 weekly mp is a savior as Luxembourg

[ember vine]

Lmfao I have air superiority in Benelux

With 120 planes

[safe wing]

Germany never really builds planes when played by the ai

[ember vine]

I have 900 thanks to Indoctrination too

Man now I am in Comintern

If USSR screws up then I'm cooked

[safe wing]

Pro tip when Germany attacks the USSR and doesn’t attack you attack Germany

When the opposite happens defend

[ember vine]

But they still got a lot of divs

[safe wing]

Div numbers don’t matter 20 good divs will destroy 200

[ember vine]

Also now I can't see enemy divisions for some reason

I think I bugged the game lol

[safe wing]

Intelligence agencies I belive

[ember vine]

Nope

I got infantry map

[quasi osprey]

I am sooo close to encircling a lot of the chinese army

[acoustic wasp]

chat what's the most optimal way to rush armoured divisions early (not germany)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1448605516271190069/1471252264629829902/IMG_1822.gif

[sullen hazel]

Maow

[ember vine]

I killed 12 times more Germans than they killed my soldiers

Lol

I wanna kill a million of em

[lusty flint]

CAN I GET A MOD TO HELP ME PLZ???

[lethal ether]

whats the big difference between kaisr redux and kaiserreich

i havent played both mods in a long time and i dont remember

[lost dawn]

Austria hungary declared this war. What are they thinking....

What were they thinking....

[sly venture]

when Germany attack the ussr they are 500 times weaker

[quasi osprey]

is this an ok encirclement?

[acoustic wasp]

yeah, just make sure to protect that one tile with the green bubble in between, ideally attempt to push them back an extra tile so they dont open the encirclment and pull their men back

[quasi osprey]

I waited for a few days until their supply ran out and it went really succesful

[acoustic wasp]

W

[chilly trout]

what is a good mechanized temlate against ai?

[acoustic wasp]

i cant remember but i think my biggest encirclment was like 70 somoething soviet decisions

[acoustic wasp]

armoured / mecha you mean? or just mechanised?

[quasi osprey]

also considering I am manchuria with not the best divs😐

[chilly trout]

just mechanized if its possible

[wicked dome]

@oblique cypress

[chilly trout]

i aint doing tank with manchuko😭

[safe wing]

Kaiserredux is more schizo and fun

[quasi osprey]

the casualties😂

[acoustic wasp]

i never play pure mecha but generally you need to focus on soft attack and breakthrough, and aim for widths between 30-36 for offense and 12-18 for defense

[safe wing]

Kaiserreich is more grounded in the lore of the scenario

[chilly trout]

alr thx❤️

[acoustic wasp]

welcome

[amber finch]

can i take over the world as Sweden? 😄

[acoustic wasp]

sure, iirc sweden is very good, only played finland and it was insane honestly, might play sweden at some point

im just trying the communist branches for all the majors now and they all suck

[restive sable]

kaiserredux best mod ever

[acoustic wasp]

time for soviet china

pray for me

btw is there a communist path for spain?

before china

i could try it

never played spain before

[restive sable]

yes

[acoustic wasp]

alright then, im gonna play it and probably lose the civil war and if i win it will turn out to be a very lame tree and i'll probably be gutted and go to sleep

as usual it's either we're stalinists or no we're the real commies and stalin is fake

BORING

[amber finch]

should i buy General Edition? -70% sale so why not right?

[west jungle]

what doctrines are meta?

[restive sable]

yeah and thats boring as hell

there's no variety

[west jungle]

for mp, building heavy tds

[acoustic wasp]

hoi4 devs hate socialism

[grave sonnet]

2 width infantry

[grave sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/why-is-he-lying-wong-gif-5558347777370316415

[lethal ether]

k thx

[west jungle]

cheers mate

[lethal ether]

guys tell me fun country to play in kaiserredux

[west jungle]

any major

[fair bough]

Any fun dlc other then la resistance and the new one

[chilly trout]

i love manchuko❤️

[west jungle]

how tf have u got 200 fasctories

[fair bough]

The chinese countries op asf

I was at like 500 factories in sikiang

[chilly trout]

nah but facist manchuko is op

[fair bough]

Does it have a focus tree in vanilla?

[chilly trout]

idk

ig

yeah

[fair bough]

Might give it a shot then

[chilly trout]

you should

[fair bough]

Any tips?

[chilly trout]

the idependence war is the hardest thing

exept if the japanese do a non historical branch

[fair bough]

Oh yeah i forgot they starf as a puppet

[fair bough]

I mean thats kinda boring isnt it

[chilly trout]

do like 7 inf 2 artillery and support

[chilly trout]

yeah but youre sure to have a good start

[fair bough]

But first im gonna finish the thing i was doing

[chilly trout]

yeah

[fair bough]

You wanna know what that is?

[chilly trout]

yeahh sure

[fair bough]

As sinkiang unite with communist china and take over all of main land china that they have today

On historical with no dlc

[chilly trout]

good challenge

[fair bough]

Its pretty easy

But my 2nd try i failed u wanna see?

[chilly trout]

sure

[fair bough]

Its 1953 soviets and i was attacking allies but they capped

Now im incircled from al sides

[chilly trout]

damn

[fair bough]

Dont think i can safe it

But i wil try until i capitulate

[chilly trout]

gl

[fair bough]

Im gonna need that😂

[lost dawn]

Very unfortunate for you.

I am not sad to see the PRC go though

[fair bough]

I just capped but its not even that bad

I stil have al my land anf most of my divisions

[lost dawn]

Another dude got scammed

Crazy

[grave sonnet]

2 of them

[lost dawn]

How can people fall for such obvious scams

[grave sonnet]

Discord users vs single moms couple mins away

[eternal timber]

where?

[lost dawn]

NO

[eternal timber]

dang it

[hollow pulsar]

... Fallout 2077..?

[grave sonnet]

Just click my link!

[mild musk]

pdx_fraser PDX Fraser [HOI], Role icon, Community Team — 11:12 PM
Generals! @Hearts of Iron News 🎖️

We have recently received volunteer forces from content creators HatlessSpider and Pydgin, and we aim to conduct a livestream operation tomorrow from Saturday, May 2, 2026 8:30 PM. ⚔️

I believe the plan will be to form the Polish Confederation as Poland and Czechoslovakia... But remember, no plan survives first contact with the enemy!

This'll be live on the Official Hearts of Iron IV YouTube channel, in addition to their own personal channels.

Hearts of Iron IV YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5kZDo3BZ-E
HatlessSpider's YT: https://www.youtube.com/@hatless_spider
Pydgin's YT: https://www.youtube.com/@Pydgin

Consider using the Event for a notification when this goes live!

https://discord.com/events/183787140671471616/1499848726213169242
HatlessSpider & Pydgin Livestream!
Join HatlessSpider and Pydgin, as they aim to form the Polish Confederation as Poland and Czechoslovakia, following the recent release of Peace for our Time!

This will be livestreamed on the official Hearts of Iron IV YouTube channel, as well as both of their personal channels!

HOI4: https://www.youtube.com/live/E5kZDo3BZ-E
HatlessSpider: https://www.youtube.com/@hatless_spider
Pydgin: https://www.youtube.com/@Pydgin

thank me later

[eternal timber]

idc about a bum stream

[lost dawn]

Can't wait for the next season to come out

[fair bough]

?

[west jungle]

Does rt56rp change what templates are best?

[umbral radish]

@mystic sand i cant join the game

[hasty linden]

tno update 🙏

[umbral radish]

it says your on a different version

[hasty linden]

its real

after all this time

[mystic dune]

Hello

I have a question

I wanna buy HOI4 and probably get some DLCs with it but don’t y’know which ones are more important

[void plover]

just did this in hoi4✌️

[low sentinel]

Probably ask someone who knows more than me but I hear no step back is really popular and arms against tyranny is decently popular too

[mystic dune]

I’ll see

[arctic mauve]

guys who can i play with? im new and i wanna play hungary
i know about supply, combat width, and thats all

[lusty river]

Sudetenland

[rain loom]

big ass carpatho ukraine is amazing and should be celebrated

[wide osprey]

1. No Step Back
2. Gotterdammerung
3. By Blood Alone
4. Arms Against Tyranny
5. Everything else you want

🙂

you can swap 2 and 3 ppbly

[lusty river]

BBA is meh imo

no compromise no surrender is pretty fun ngl

[wide osprey]

oh i forgor about ncns

who cares actually

[lusty river]

😭

[wide osprey]

if you want china and japan then yeah it's good

otherwise

meh.

oh wait i forgor there is new doctrine system
and faction rework

that's kinda cool
maybe i'll put it on 4

[coarse hull]

playing argentina and im locked in an eternal war with the whole world

[lusty river]

why can germany core slovakia but not bohemia and moravia?

[viscid mason]

I don't know, beats me. I always found it silly that Germany could core Slovakia in the first place

[ripe slate]

How can they core Slovakia?

[lusty river]

fate of slovakia decision

i didnt know it either lol

[viscid mason]

if you annex all of czechoslovakia without hungary in your faction

[viscid mason]

anyways I bought NCNS for the forest rangers. Which 2 of the 4 special doctrines should I chose?

[ripe slate]

[viscid mason]

As I always picked mountaineer and marine doctrines before NCNS

if you switch to a nation that owns no land the game ends

[dawn mango]

oh i meant to do setowner not tag lol

[viscid mason]

setowner tag and click on the state you want to annex

[dawn mango]

ik

[viscid mason]

oh wait alternatively you could do setowner tag state_id

idk if you have to release the nation first

[agile fossil]

will someone pls get me hoi while its on sale

[viscid mason]

here you go https://ca.indeed.com/?r=us

[agile fossil]

im noly 15 bro

[viscid mason]

gotta yearn for the mines /s. But to be serious yeah ask your parents for money. As I highly doubt a stranger will give you hoi4.

[viscid mason]

tho I heard vic3 has a free weekend soon and ck2 is free to play if you are interested in that. I know it's not hoi4 but it's better than nothing I guess.

[grave sonnet]

Or he can just give his parents money and they can put that money in their credit card and blah blah blah you already know the process prolly

[viscid mason]

yeah or that.

[lost dawn]

Man

Deutschland looks so much better on the map than Germany

[karmic viper]

so I was talking to my friend and he said look at spain and I said what about spain then

[hollow shoal]

German empire is so overpowered

[agile atlas]

Bro!

[hollow shoal]

its 1939 btw XD

although ill admit im on civilian mode

im just doing ironman non historical

[agile atlas]

nice

[wide osprey]

anyone knows what was the idea with coastal artillery? did anyone ever asked devs? 🧐

[sly venture]

never ask a man his sallary never ask a woman her weight never ask the british what happend in january 17th 1940

[hollow shoal]

https://tenor.com/view/gold-paper-coach-meme-gif-1598633554401345489

[agile atlas]

My profile and yours?

[sly venture]

ITS OVER

[agile atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/german-soldier-dancing-gif-6220619198421923093

[sly venture]

yes bring your airforce 2 birds one stone

[agile atlas]

Am I the only one who does all the tasks?

[sly venture]

holy

[acoustic wasp]

is playing as tito fun?

yugoslav

commie

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1448605516271190069/1471252264629829902/IMG_1822.gif

[agile atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/eastern-front-ussr-ww2-germany-ww2-soviet-union-gif-11321007713213691636

[haughty gorge]

Hi, am planning to buy hoi4 the base game, however there is deal where you get the la rescitance and the Balkan dlc. Is it worth buying

[lusty river]

not rly imo

[haughty gorge]

Fairs

[lusty river]

its not the best dlcs

[grave sonnet]

Get BBA & NSB

[rare arch]

buy only basegame play with mods until you catch a good bundle sale from some random site that gives you a bunch of dlcs for low price. (make sure its a trustworthy site)

[haughty gorge]

Thanks

[grave sonnet]

You also get the integrated dlcs

[agile atlas]

Yes, because of the money, but not really otherwise.

[haughty gorge]

I will buy it and try it

[rare arch]

YESSS DEATH OR DISHONOUR LETS GOOO who cares bro

[haughty gorge]

Are mods free ?

[rare arch]

yes

[agile atlas]

yes

[grave sonnet]

Better something than nothing bro

[haughty gorge]

And which one are good

[rare arch]

ig

[frigid cedar]

Yo I jst bought hoi4 can sm1 teach me

[sly venture]

10 detroyers are guarding the english channel

[haughty gorge]

Can you form the Ottoman Empire and ww1 Germany in base game

[haughty gorge]

Thanks

[agile atlas]

no mod

[sly venture]

THE 10 DETROYERS KILLED MY WHOLE FLEEEEYTETETT67EYGFETUGFYTEFR

[wet summit]

Im fascist US and im in a faction with germany, italy and japan.
We won WW2.
Now Japan justifies war against me.
Will germany kick me out of faction and join japan, or kick japan because they declare towards me?

[upbeat tundra]

end of middle ages is kinda outdated but its still decent

[agile atlas]

true

[upbeat tundra]

oh and dont forget dawn of the dark ages

[agile atlas]

okay

[sudden thistle]

how many times have u failed sealion

[sly venture]

let’s just say a lot

like dude I had 1,5k naval bombers over the English Channel

naval superiority was like 500 for English

and they killed my whole fleet

you can not tell me this is not rng

What else can I genuinely do

[sudden thistle]

Getting gooder as some people may say

[sly venture]

so I should make more naval bombers?

[viscid mason]

I bought the NCNS and the PfoT dlc. What special forces doctrines should I take? Is the mountaineer or the forest ranger doctrine better?

[sudden thistle]

Well what was ur navy before the 10 DD’s killed it

[sly venture]

66 ships

[sudden thistle]

Matters on where u are

[viscid mason]

playing as germany

[sudden thistle]

How tf do u lose that

[sudden thistle]

Combination of both should work fine then

[sly venture]

I don’t know bro

My naval bombers almost sunk the pride of the fleet like 5 times

[viscid mason]

at the cost of no pioneer support oof. Still find it silly that major powers are limited to 2 special forces doctrines.

[sly venture]

I also had shredded all of the enemy’s close air support

And fighters

[daring tangle]

Hello

[viscid mason]

heelo BBRevan

[hollow shoal]

peak expansion

and then ts happens

[sly venture]

how I feel like when i sink the British pride of the fleet and then get my pride of the fleet my 25 heavy ships and all the other stuff sunk by 10 destroyers and 2 naval bombers

[hollow shoal]

my fleet got wrecked by the brits (i havent touched navy in my entire life)

[sly venture]

How many others do you have

Hours*

[hollow shoal]

what

[sly venture]

mb

[hollow shoal]

oh like idk not over 100 for sure

[sly venture]

just so you know navy is the worst thing in this game

it’s rng

sometimes

[hollow shoal]

these are my proudest moments in hoi4 for now

[hollow shoal]

Oh yeah ik i dont understand a bit except the patrol and convoy raiding

[sly venture]

convoy raiding is basically like starving your enemy to death

[hollow shoal]

AHAHAH I TOOK PARIS FROM THEN W ENCIRCLED TROOPS

[sly venture]

What country

[hollow shoal]

im playing as germany rn and im getting attacked by half of the world

[sly venture]

Show me the map

[hollow shoal]

usa uk france benelux

[dawn mango]

cristany

[hollow shoal]

@sly venture

i own all of russia

yet

idk what to do w it

but i get bragging rights

https://tenor.com/view/gem-gem-alarm-gem-alert-bell-harry-dresden-gif-5419200886822863241

[dawn mango]

no supply is a w

[hollow shoal]

supply is for noobs

XD

[sly venture]

suicide attack into Paris

[opal flume]

Why is ts game so hard😭

[sly venture]

also show me the airforce

[whole matrix]

i playing kaiserredux rn

how the heck

azerbaijan defeated iran

[inland nova]

hello

i just bought hoi

[whole matrix]

and puppeted most of Caucasus

[opal flume]

Same

[inland nova]

how is it going

mine is going bad

[opal flume]

Me also😭

[sly venture]

to understand the basics of the game you need like 1k hours

[hollow shoal]

I got encircled there like half an hour ago and theyve been chilling until i made them domain expansion paris

[opal flume]

Ive js realised that

[daring tangle]

I hope these 15 euros will be worth it.

[sly venture]

Maybe 800 if you are a fast learner

[inland nova]

is this what ww2 generals had to deal with

[hollow shoal]

Goodluck

[inland nova]

if it is i would quit on first day

its very hard

[daring tangle]

more

[hollow shoal]

youll spend 6h a day playing the game to not understand a single bit

[inland nova]

a

[sly venture]

Play Germany until you understand how the game works

[inland nova]

i played italy

[sly venture]

don’t play Italy by any means

[inland nova]

italy is easier no?

....

i watched a video

it told me to play italy

[sly venture]

Italy is like 50 times harder

[inland nova]

no wonder i ragequit

[astral forum]

It explores a lot more of the mechanics a lot quicker but isn't easier

[hollow shoal]

Germany is boring play small nations and turn them into power houses its the most fun thing to do

[sly venture]

Germany is good because you choose when to start the war and have the biggest starting industrie

[inland nova]

how long does it take you to get good at the game

[sly venture]

wdym with good

[inland nova]

like

learnt he basic

dont need tutorial

or any help

[viscid mason]

a long time. I'm still trying to refine my skills even after 13 hundred hours

[inland nova]

just play the game and conquer

[hollow shoal]

thats it you dont