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# Mods
>> READ THIS FIRST.
http://pastebin.com/cCdcev76
>>[HoI4] - General Fixes V003
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cr6upg7blz89zf8/gsgmodv003.7z
>>[CK2 - 2.5.2] - After The End
https://github.com/notalbanian/postapoc
>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.3.3 - 21/03/2016
http://pastebin.com/66gpxbKk
>>[V2] - Napoleon's Legacy v0.3.1.7
http://pastebin.com/sN1g69sr
>>[V2] Alternative Flag Pack V7
http://pastebin.com/PRQH8vcV
>>[V2] Many Houses Divided - v 0.0.1.1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jso7qa1c4ystej7/MHD.rar
Old Thread >>144846249
Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.
>>144900558
pls help
GSG MOD V003
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cr6upg7blz89zf8/gsgmodv003.7z
GSG MOD V003
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cr6upg7blz89zf8/gsgmodv003.7z
GSG MOD V003
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cr6upg7blz89zf8/gsgmodv003.7z
Changelog: I replaced all of the Axis music to real life music and I changed the opening music. I also tinkered with Italy a bit.
DESCRIPTION:
This mod aims to provide a more historical and less 'flippant' experience to the game. Flags and country names are proper, so a change to communism or fascism will not yield a silly name for your country.
In addition, I have added plenty of new music to the game.
Is hoi4 like hoi3 and DH andrealityin that battleships are fucking useless and carriers are the wrath of God made manifest?
There's a lot of shitty things about the HoI4 AI.
But if this happened in HoI3 I would be pissing my pants with excitement. This is a completely AI directed invasion, by AI, against AI. Using sensible ports and targeting victory points.
Where can I pirate HOI4?
>>144900960
I haven't used them, so take this with a grain of salt, it comes from watching streamers.
Even ancient (pre-dreadnought) battleships are the bane of everything afloat that comes near them, but carriers shit on them hard (and so do shore based naval bombers which are insanely powerful now)
>>144900757
Reminder to end yourself
>>144900960
In the 1940's? Yes.
>be france
>never really focus or care about my navy
>just produce a bunch of subs to keep my dockyards busy
>war with japan breaks out
>decide to help
>gather the entire fleet, which is just the starter fleet with more subs, into one doomstack
>send them to search and destroy around the japanese home isles
>severely win every single naval battle
So either this is broken, or the AI is just really bad at countering doomstacks.
Has anyone that pirated HOI4 got multiplayer working? If so, mind telling what you did?
>>144900839
Go fascist.
Also you fucked up the invasion, gather a stronger force before you go in. You should have more than 24 divisions really. If you can't punch trough then you will just get bogged down and Finland will lose in that kind of war since you have one of the lowest manpower pools out there.
>>144900946
Shouldn't you change the Fascist Japan flag away from the naval ensign if you're going for historicity?
Who cares if that means democratic Japan and Fascist Japan have the same flag, it's accurate.
>>144901234
doomstack subs are broken, I've seen a 42 stack of submarines sink like 3 battleships and all their escortsas for doomstacks of surface ships... well that's fucking period accurate mahian doctrine, it's supposed to be more powerful than spreading your fleet out
>>144901274
>Also you fucked up the invasion, gather a stronger force before you go in. You should have more than 24 divisions really. If you can't punch trough then you will just get bogged down and Finland will lose in that kind of war since you have one of the lowest manpower pools out there.
Wait, what do you mean?
I just gathere 20ish division to their front, made up a CB, trained 1 month before executing the plan, put recruitment to max and went to war.
I could only get 1 inf and 1 light armor with the max recruitment though.
I don't understand what I did wrong, honestly.
>>144901378
Subs in general seem broken
It doesn't matter how many you have
Since the AI is shit and cant plan any naval invasion on me and doesnt do anything about the massive air advantage i have, its a pretty comfy set up
>be norway
>go facist
>england instantly invades
>i lose
fuck off britain, goddamn.
>>144901753
How are you surviving? Why aren't they pushing through the rest of your border?
Post more pics pls
I'll ask again:
How many ships can a navy have before there is an equivalent to a stacking penalty?
What's the capital to screen ratio I should have?
OOB mod when
First for glorious map mods
>1941
>France
>>144900960
Well that depends. Do you have an airfield near the sea zone you're putting your battleships into? If you do, then battleships rape. If not you'll never even close to the enemy carriers before their torpedo bombers and attackers shit on you.
From what I remember air support was worthless in HoI3 and HoI2 so by extension DH, but in HoI4 if you have air support from land bases you can wreck carrier air groups pretty easily.
>>144901878
From the last thread: >>144899679
>>144900392
>>144901959
what has changed?
Ah. No mega upload for Hearts of Iron 4 yet?
>>144902062
Looks like a terrain mapmode without the country color overlapping.
How the fuck do paratroopers work? According to this, they have been 'preparing' for over a fucking year.
>>144902038
So basically, if I put a nice big battleship fleet in the English Channel, put a couple thousand fighters there as well, Britain falls?
Nice
Fuck HOI4, Darkest Hour is the superior WWII grand strategy game
Do divisions assigned to a front advance on their own?
Micromanaging every invasion of these Siberian provinces is getting tiring.
>>144901593
I started a coup in Siberia thinking that it would divide the soviets attention however when the war ended i lost all my captured lands which reached beyond the urals then they went to the newly spawned russian empire which is also in the axis.
>>144901628
I'm still at war with the allies that is to say Britain and the free american empire, i tried to start a coup in the usa but instead they just got voted in so they never went to civil war.
>>144902170
I got mine from mega lmao
>>144902238
>democratic Germany
>invading france
>>144902319
if you draw the right arrows, yes.
>>144902059
327%?
WHAT THE FUCK
that's a full buffed winter soviet in 1942 kind of defense bonus
>>144902425
I invaded Yugoslavia. France didn't like that.
>>144902462
Entranchement is broken
>>144902238
Did you try reading the tooltip?
>>144902238
literally says on the tooltip
you need more fighters in tyrrenian sea and then you can send them
>>144902251
Probably. I don't know how good the AI is at reacting right now, but Britain has colossal air force of very powerful fighters and a shit ton of naval bombers of their own so it's pretty hard to beat them in the air. They also have tons and tons of battleships. It's not like their forces are hinged entirely on carriers.
I think that the AI is pretty weakshit at responding to developing air and naval situations right now, so it's probably not hard to beat Britain by doing that.
>>144902319
gotta plan an attack route after placing a frontline, Just using frontline has your soldiers dig in and wait.
>>144902425
Post it ya' cunt. I wont waste 40 ducats on it.
>>144901473
>Tanks
Don't think you should be omitting to tanks as Finland. Try incorporating more artillery, that has more bang per man power.
What was your division composition?
Also you should have had at least service by requirement before going in. That gives you 10% recruitable manpower. That should be enough for 40 divisions and little bit of spares on it's own.
Fascism gives you extra 7% which is good for 30 or so divisions so fascism route is a lot stronger militarily
In my pre war Finland save, the day I could attack (7th of January 1939) I have 195k manpower in my army and 165k manpower in my pool with 9.5%. I have 29 divisions ready to strike and if I played this better I could have had an extra 20 divisions, though my manpower pool would only last for a while if the engagement didn't instantly succeed.
simply ebin
How do you shift aircraft around? I've only been able to do it individually, and I have like 1500 various craft in western Germany not helping fight off Normandy
Should I play HoI4? Whats it like compared to HoI3?
>one more reform and it'll be me vs thousands and thousands of communists demanding reforms that would actually be good for them and bad for the state
Can't fucking wait.
>>144902429
>>144902684
God damnit. Now I have to break up my armies and make smaller fronts and do more micromanaging.
>>144902757pcgames-download dot net
Front page
>>144901473
Your manpower pool is fucking garbage as Finland, you CANT have many divisions because divisions are made up of HUMANS and you have very few HUMANS in Finland because Finland is a dark, cold, wet nightmare of a country that nobody wants to live or raise children in.
>>144900683
Daily reminder germany is eternally cucked in WWII
gib pirated HOI4 link plz
>>144903087
Imagine there are no HQs and that's about it, also unit recruitment/supply production has been incorporated in an interesting system which is bases on individual equipment pieces which require much management. Research has been deflated so there is a lot less useless shit to research which is good, focus tree is a fun addition. It's like a mix between DH and HoI3. Play it.
>>144903137
>ever promoting generals
JUST USE LOADS OF GUYS WITH 24 UNIT CAP
Micromanaging is literally better, and they get to keep all their traits that way.
>>144903219
rude t. finn
>>144903435
>implying they were promoted and not already Field Marshals
>>144903219
>huge ad telling me to turn off ad-block
>>144903470
At least you people make some good music
>>144903435
It has different pros/cons. 24 cap limit generals gain traits like desert rat, so you have a better desert force while field marshals get stuff like +10% soft attack for all traits.
Judging from pics, HOI4 looks like EvW fixed
Does it have population like EvW?
>>144903435
I kind of do it for RP reasons. I have Field Marshal Erwin Rommel up to level 6 or 7, with two traits.
>>144903219
Thanks for reminding me why I drink. A glass for that sprölölöö
>>144903551
Yeah but I don't mind it really. The ads are manageable and all the downloads worked well with no malware yet. I dont mind turning off ad-block to keep a decent direct download site running.
>>144901313
No because fascist Japan is synonymous with the IJN naval ensign.
>>144903724
>this game where all you can do is blob looks exactly like a fixed version of a game that should depict the time in history where blobbing was most rare and dangerous
>>144903392
Thanks for the reply. Getting it now.
>japan gets tons of oil from venezuela
>venezuela sends volunteers to every member of the axis
>>144903724
HoI4 has population, but it doesn't matter too much beyond what you can recruit into your army. I guess IC cap also depends to a degree on how much pop a province has.
>>144904021
At least they are contributing to the war effort unlike those dirty Italians
What should my goals be for fascist mexico?
I'm thinking I should keep eating up Central America then build up like a motherfucker. Then wait until the US is deep in the war in Europe then dickstab them and take at least California.
someone please post the piracy protection with Johan where you have to pay 6 million shekels to unlock your games
>>144903692
Oh, I didn't realise they had different traits. I couldn't commit enough units to any front's for it to really matter before, and I saw that I would lose my traits.
Now that I have a fairly large front with Russia is it worth promoting some of my high level generals to field marshals?
>>144904106
>honduras is part of mexico
DELET
>>144903814
That doesn't make it historically accurate.
>>144903096
My recruitable population is now growing while i have this massive front. I dont fucking get this game
>>144903219
Finland seems like an autists paradise. I wouldn't mind living there.
>>144904106
Take all of your rightful clay in the southwest, all of central america including panama and the canal, and all of the west indies
How do I rebase my fleet far away? I'm trying to move Baltic fleet to Pacific, but it doesn't tell me why I can't
can someone test this? has no virus I promise :)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wf35uv1q7yu08aw/British%20Isles%20Map%20Mod.rar?dl=0
>>144903096
Based AI
Just let US grind it's country to dust against your wall and then march in and take all of it's shit.
>>144903939
Don't fall for the arrow meme, remember to mostly use all your divisions yourself and it's quite enjoyable.
less than a year from start to finish
attacking during the great purge is a hell of a drug
>>144904475
>Stalin purging at 1940
Just #soviet things
>>144904210
At least one field marshal is probably a good idea and takes a load of you when you have a big frontline.
>>144904636
I turned off historical AI focuses for shits and giggles to see if Italy would go full Roman or something, and Stalin waited until late 1939 to purge.
Please help me you guys. How do I move these god damn planes?
>>144903780
I like to give Rommel 24 crack panzer divisions, set a offensive line deep inside the enemy country and let him do his thing.
>>144904842
alt f4
>>144904842
You le click on the air port with a wing selected
Back up is on its way
I miss the OOB ;_;
>tfw no CK2>EU3>V2>HoI4>EvW>Stellaris mega campaign
Right I'm feeling somewhat disappointed in HOI4 so far as I was expecting "half decent grand strategy experience". As of yet the game has either been far less enjoyable than that, or actually more closely adhears to juvenille pay to unlock content schemes than my ability to detect Jewry would lead me to believe.
As for mods I don't think it's a practical, moral, nor effective solution to any of the game's problems.
>>144905102
There should be game between HoI and Stellaris
Chinese Puppet or War with China? What are the pros and cons?
>>144905214East vs West
>>144905027
Reminder that this would never happen in HoI 3.
>>144904475
good now give it all to germany
Do any of you feel like you've gotten the experience Podcat describes here?
>>144904434
Yeah I've had this problem with the US, solution seems to be to select the fleet, and ctrl+click on the port you want to move it to. Ctrl click sets that port as its home port, after that click on the port with the fleet as normal and it should move, worked for me.
>>144905214
Hearts of Iron 4: Future Shekel Wars
Added stellaris converter for only 19.99 shekels
>>144904434
Same guy as before, you're right its fucking odd that when you try and move a fleet far away it just gives you that metallic twang sound and gives you no other feedback. I assume its a fleet range/supply thing.
>>144900683
i want to talk about my grobgermanus but all these newfags are here ree
>>144905097
t. autism pro
Is HoI4 only for 64-bit? Because my computer is 32-bit.
>>144905387
I really like the fact that AI is actually active with it's naval invasions in 4.
On the other hand since it actually tries to do stuff it's bad decision making is also enhanced when compared to the railroaded 3
Is there a way to wage war in South America as one of the South American states without USA butting in?
How much Russia is lebensraum and how much is blobbing? No, I can't take everything up to the Urals. Also, the Poles took the Soviets as a puppet.
>>144905803
what g*me nigger
Has anyone played as australia or new zealand yet? What's the optimal way to expand as a minor that needs too many things and not so much time to build up a force?
>>144905803
>>144905923
Hearts of Iron 4
6 millions people isn't a bad number, despite being double than what it historically was.
Still better than the old numbers.
>>144905923
EU2 of course
>>144905719
>my computer is 32 bit
Either you're a moron and installed 32 bit Windows on a 64 bit processor, or your computer is made circa 2006 and can't run it anyways.but it's a 32 bit program
>>144905803
Load in as US, revoke guarantees on the South American countries, load back in as your country of choice. You might need a world tension minimum to revoke them not sure.
>>144901889
wait for some autists to figure it out
no one here is autistic enough
Anyone had cool results yet from selecting non-historical focuses? Like, alt-history shit. Two games so far and nothing unique, except Russia withdrew from the Far East.
>>144906004
My brother installed a 32 bit Windows in my PC. I NEVER WANTED TO DOWNLOAD WIN 10. FUCK
>>144905956
I am 99% sure USA doesn't butt in if you're guaranteed by them. They have a focus that lets them fuck your shit up, but they won't have it in the beginning.
>>144906014
United States has to take an idea for it to kick in, it isn't at the start.
>>144905958
>6 millions people
never forget goyim
>>144906101
Windows 10 isn't even available in 32 bit you malnourished gnome.
>>144905958
if the potato famine rgo modifier is -300%, nobody will get their needs and thousands will die off
>>144905958
>6 millions people isn't a bad number, despite being double than what it historically was.
t. HPM
>>144905770
>HOI3 railroaded
In what way?
>>144903087
it's fine lad
sometimes I think the hoi3 circle-jerkers didn't play that shit on launch
Any chance of CK2 going on sale soon?
>>144905958
Industry is following a the same pattern: early game heavy industry is scarce and important, late game it becomes more diffuse, to the point of over saturation. Fortunately, no market crash happened for heavy industry due to overproduction, so that's good.
For the first time I also saw a basic good in slightly more demanded that supplies, a good sign that I'm close to a good solution for late game overproduction of certain goods.
>>144906182
I don't want something artificial like that (more than I already have anyway) and they did produce shit during the time anyway. Besides, their RGOs are mainly food, the ones that are under supplied early game. I've been considering remove any RGO malus altogether and just use an income malus.
>>144906180
Explain this, then
Lads, what is this graphic mod? Pic is not mine, found it on /his/
pls spoonfeed.
>>144906385
>our old game wasn't great on launch so it's totally OK that our new game is a fundamentally broken piece of casualised shit goy
>>144900960
Carriers > Battleships >>>> Destroyers >>>>>>> Cruisers
>>144901234
>>144901378
>>144901693
Subs are broken because they get retreat bonuses and first strike surprise. If you get enough of them together you can sink an entire fleet at once and only have to worry about losing a few unless the enemy is stacking destroyers which hard counter subs
>>144906385
>Old Paradox did this horribly launch so it's fine they do it forever
>>144906502
MMMM in the archive
>>144906457
An income malus is more artificial than an RGO output malus. It's the least abstract option.
>>144906502
>tfw you can tell it's your mod since it has Kuwait
I use MMMMStrongterrain, it's in the Mega
>>144906457
Good to see you HPM!
I think I may have asked you this before. but how do you set a custom wargoal? (Such as the Xhosa one or similiar)
>>144906536
Even then subs can still just retreat.
Only way to kill AI subs so far is to bait them into a fight with an inferior fleet or kill them as part of a bigger AI fleet.
I have had on two occasions subs fight and retreat in the same province for several years in the row until I just docked my fleets because I couldn't take the constant naval battle alerts.
We all know why based Johan didn't include the holocaust in HOI4
>>144906682
Not really since they did produce, they just had to pay a lot of shit to landowners and got poor as fuck. That and unemployment.
And unemployment is already represented by RGO size.
>>144906808
You mean how to mod a custom CB, how to set one in a war or how to set one that the game start?
>>144905516
Never played as a major in HOI3 but as Yugoslav that's what I did against my neighbors and I conquered the from the Balkans to the Levant.
>>144906894
Because it's supposed to be an historical game.
Why would they include such outlandish fantasy?
>>144906942
They produced but they produced way less than they did before
It's called the potato famine for a reason.
>>144906874
They're not immune from naval strike either. If I keep getting the stupid siren every five seconds because there's a single sub left in a province I just move the fleet out of the area and naval strike and it gets sunk. Naval strike is broken as fuck.
>>144903097
what mod is this? havent seen penal law before.
>>144907075
Oh I didn't try that one yet. Thanks anon.
>13 hour fucking MP game
>peace confrence in 1946
>game crashes at the end of the conference
great game paradox
>>144907168
HPM
>>144907034
Oh, you talking about the potato famine only. I'm talking about the other, longer modifier.
In any case, even in that scenario, potato was a subsistence crop rather than exportation shit, that's why so many people starved.
>>144907247
Was it with le stramgrouppe?
Are they going to raid us again?
>mfw these borders
>>144907354
You mean the Irish Opression modifier?
You're not seriously going to make Irish pops magically have less money, right?
>>144905516
In HoI3? Yea I pretty much used AI to control my theaters and had it roll over the enemy AI. I did fail Barbarossa once, but I really didn't have a sane production/research plan so I had a very small and shitty army. Comparatively speaking.
>>144906347
Pretty much goes the same way every time because a lot of things the AI does are hardcoded. Like USSR declares war on Germany if Germany occupies London.
Anyone know how to lower the age of possible concubines and wives in CK2? I tried editing the defines.lua but the game just crashes.
>>144906942
I mean a special CB that sets up an event, like a treaty
So I'm trying to industrialize as Liberia, what use are my civilian factories besides militarizing? As in is there any way I can use my factories to industrialize?
Interesting developments, Germany starts war with Poland, but Staling somehow manages to ninja all of Poland away.
>>144907624
They repair damaged buildings, infrastructure etc.
>>144907642
/gsg/ is an English general fuck off
>>144906942
Anyway civil war was very unorthodox
>>144907534
NNM already does it and I explained the reasoning. The modifier takes income from the poor and gives it to the rich.
Besides, that's the only thing keeping immigration levels to a reasonable level. Otherwise they end with 40 million people by end game because no one leaves Ireland.
>>144907565
Have on_po_accepted fire an event or set a flag for one of the parties.
Like
on_po_accepted = { THIS = { set_country_flag = friendly_communist_puppet } country_event = 96087 }
>>144900683
>play Britain in multiplayer
>manoeuvre game so that it becomes soviet versus axis versus allies straight off, with Germany attacking soviets first, we agree to truce while I secretly plan to stab Germany in the back when he's fully committed to the east
>however soviet player has politically influenced a ton of south American/Asian nations
>soviet brazil attacks allied uruaguay
>soviets attack Germany
>I try to attack Germany after ending the truce
>lolno you cant fight someone who is also fighting the same enemy, even though they are from different factions, got pulled in for different reasons and basically are separate entities
>in otherwords, allies and germans cant have a three way war with Russia
>end up marching through Nazi Germany to invade Russia
BELIEVABLE FUCKING WORLDS PARADOX
end of the game
>>144907542
age_of_marriage_female in the lua determines that IIRC you can set it to whatever you want.
>>144906470
http://www.howtogeek.com/228042/how-to-switch-from-32-bit-windows-10-to-64-bit-windows-10/
I was wrong (they only sell it 64 bit but you can upgrade to 32 bit), but you're a fucking moron because the answer to your issue is the first result on Google.
>>144907542
defines.lua worked fine last time I tried
Although I haven't played CK2 since pre horse lords so who knows.
>>144907791
t. the eternal anglo.
>>144907642
I can out do that
>Playing as US
>Overlord goes off without a hitch
>Soviets declare on me because I embargoed them
>Germany capitulates after the Allied/Comintern wall of death squishes it
>Poland gets released from all of their cores except for provinces occupied by Soviet troops
>Creates an encirclement around half the Soviet front line
I like to head canon that it was a Polish uprising against Soviet rule which pushed the war in my favor, but man the game needs fucking work.
Tips for playing Winland?
Im planning becoming fascist after which I take over sweden and rest of scandinavia. That would take a year or two at most.
After that I could gear up for winter war at least another year. Given the powerful foci I should roll over Russia with or without German help
What ya think?
>>144907901
Well it's not like Britain or the US could have sold it to their citizens that they were fighting Nazis and Soviets at the same time.
>>144907898
>NNM already does it
No it doesn't.
>>144907898
Did you give the Irish a negative pop growth modifier? It doesn't look like they have one in the tooltip.
>>144907476
what?
>have a fucking huge war, ww2 plus, soviet vs german war
>allies vs axis vs soviet
>american civil war too, Axis helping facist america trying to rise up, Allies vs Axis
>overtake the WHOLE of europe, 95% of africa, all of central asia, all of middle east, all of soviet union, all of japan. War end
>peace conference
>end of conference
>sweden, belgium, switzerland, iraq, ireland plus other smaller countries reformed and are created
>civil war is still active, we are at war with all the countries reformed that we totally overtook
>have to retake them
great feature paradox
also
>American civil war was over the Free American Empire being formed by the Silver Legion of America
>7 years into the "civil war" that is only taking place in europe with democratic America in the allies
>america becomes facist, the same facists we were trying to install, in THIS civil war
>they are still in the allies and are now fighting us, the country who is fighting for them to be incharge.
what in the actual fuck, in theory if we won we would just install them as the goverment, which they already are.
>>144908198
You're gonna need to exploit entrenchment
>>144907934
>>144907980
As the game tries to load the game logic, the game just crashes.
>conquer the soviet union
>they had American expeditionary forces
>united states pockets slowly reconquering siberia
I dont want to deal with this
Can someone explain to me how the fuck do battle planning works? I cant micromanage EVERYTHING why the fuck did they change hoi3 automated system for something even less intuitive
>>144907898
Economical data is a little better but inside the expected number.
>>144908306
They are making less money because they produce less, even though production wasn't the problem.
The difference between that and what I do is that the money goes to the rich instead of everyone making less money.
>>144908348
Only during the famine.
>>144908546
it is 10x's better than the hoi3 automated system lol, its annoying to use but when you learn its perfect for just letting the AI do it for you.
The war seems to go pretty well now, at least the AI knows how to transport troops to another continent
Any official screenshots or word on Kaiserreich for HOI4?
>>144908546
>set up front line
>draw where you want to conquer
>adjust your arrow to the specific provinces you want to capture
>use edit as necessary
Tbh, I only really manually control to create encirclements which is what I always wanted to do in HoI3 anyways
>>144908712
There's a SS floating around from the country select screen. Maybe check out their site.
>>144908681
Probably because transports are now entirely automated and they still get through even with fleets sat in the sea zones
>>144908586
Have you thought of changing the policy of the UK's Liberal Party that replaces the Whig Party from Interventionism to Lassiez-Faire? The UK is the biggest source of overproduction and plummeting prices late game due to their habit of subsidizing everything even if the party in power historically promoted the free market.
>>144906808
>>144906619
Thanks lads.
>>144908821
Convoy raiding mission should stop them.
>>144908821
If you select convoy raiding it'll sink AI invasions.
>>144908712
They confirmed theyll make it.
>>144901987
Are those venezuelan divisions in france?
>>144908792
>set up front line
>draw where you want to conque
I dont know man I draw the map and a lines sprout at random, I have no idea of what I'm doing and it says no divisions are attached to the battle plan without offering an advice of how to attach them.
This shit is not very user friendly, I had no trouble understanding how shit worked in HOI3 now I cant fucking figure this out.
>>144909359
Look, friend.
If this system is fundamentally too complicated for you, remove yourself from the human genepool for the betterment of our evolution as a species.
>>144909359
>only 29 factories and planning on taking on Japan
wtf
If HoI 4 never received a single update it would still be 10/10.
Thoughts?
>>144909359
>make the whole system extremely simple and easy to manage forces moving on a large front
>cant figure it out
>>144909649
6.8 at best
>>144909649
Not even worth a reply.wait...
Is there any way to annex puppets in HoI4?
>>144909715
I could figure out HOI3 one just fine, this one is too autistic.
>>144908873
Seems kinda strange that their only L-F party is anarcho liberal.
I'm inclined to do that but I need to check that first.
>>144909806
autistic? its far more streamlined and actually better features
>waiting for japan to capitulate in a war you dont care about
Is there a cheat? The game is already starting to chug and i dont want to wait 10 years
>>144909854
Oh, Ireland is released with trinket subsides and healthcare. That explains a few things.
>>144909963
You could be impatient like the americans were and send two notes to speed things up.
>>144909854
So the USA event spam is getting fixed for this update too?
Do you have any goals after you've sorted out that and the economy?
>>144910093
Yeah i thought of that, but nukes dont win the game like in real life
god hoi4 is so fucking boring, i can't even think of the specific reason but it's just so dull
>>144910062
Can I release my love inside of you HPM?
>>144909942
Ok not autistic ENOUGH, I literally cannot comprehend it.
>>144909647
What version of HOI4 are you playing? I fucking butchered them with the help of the soviets I loaded back to pre war to try and understand how automation works.
god hoi4 is so fucking boring, i can't even think of the specific reason but it's just so dull
>>144910191
>germany has already capitulated but just called iraq and iran into the war
worst endgame ever
>1942
>10 fps on speed 3
my cpu is a bit outdated by lads this is ridiculous
>>144910094
Yes, it is.
For this update? Not really, those are the two major power goals.
>>144910363
Have you thought of making paper a factory maintenece good?
>>144905102
>stellaris
NO
>>144910330
Maybe it will be good in a year when modders cobble together a proper game out of it.
I understand it's much easier to mod interesting things now.
But I'm just going to leave it alone until then. I feel bad for everyone who bought it you have my sympathies.
>>144910361
kek i remember when i used to play games on a laptop and when it overheated i'd stand it on egg boxes so it had some breathing room
>>144910361
>1356
>1 tick per second on speed 5
Fuck MEIOU&Taxes fäm
After I finish this American music mod for HoI4, anyone interested? If so I'll upload to mega.
>>144910505
I don't think it would end lead to good end results. Decreased throughput because of lack of paper, that is.
If you want to represent paperwork, we could just increase how much capitalists/clerks use.
how do i increase range of paratroopers?
I'm at war with axis and allies
>>144910698
as long as it isn't memetic
anyone know the best division setups yet? right now im using 2x4 infantry + 1 artillery with recon+eng+arty+hospital+logistics support battalions
when i get a field marshal that has the Offensive Doctrine trait (reduces combat width by -10%) i add another artillery division
this is built around the combat width system obviously, allowing me to get 4 divisions into a battle from 1 direction
> Play Commie Yugo
> Germany attacks 1940
> Defeat Germany
And here I was hoping for a GSG. I would have lost in HOI3, but in HOI4 I only need to press play.
>3 months since last hpm release
is it a coincidence that this was when hpm started fucking around with the economy? did liquormemer make hpm go insane?
>>144910725
HPM what do you use as your historical sources for population numbers, economic and industrial power, military power and so on?
>>144910513
I think this is everyones hope.
>>144910840
make sure to make your arrows extra pointy ladm8
>>144910859
It's all period music. Peace songs are some Andrews Sisters and Glenn Miller, and a Benny Goodman song probably gonna add in some Louis Jordan. War songs are the standard affair: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, American Patrol, GI Jive, Don't Sit under the Apple Tree, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition. I'm avoiding anything that specifically references the opponents like Slap a Jap, You're a Sap Mr. Jap, Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line so it'll match any faction you join.
>>144910870
6 motorised infantry nothing else
>>144910870
25 heavy armor
My perfect son dies and 2 revolts in a row... fuck this shit. Ill try EU IV next
>>144910974
The liquormeme started after HPM added liquor as maintenance good for armies and it got even more profitable
>>144911258
just reload faggot lmao
>>144911286
is it what made hpm screw around with the economy? before that, all he did was make decisions and events
>>144908873
>>144909854
Seems like you are right. They don't seem to be anti-military either.
>>144911018
Census, books, studies. Depends on a lot of on what we are looking for. Stuff for uncivs is almost exclusively modern papers.
Population and army numbers can be found on a number of locations. For germany they have very accurate data in "Germany: the spirit of her history, literature, social condition, and national economy, illustrated by reference to her physical, moral, and political statistics, and by comparison with other countries". For economical data Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics is usually a good measure. If I need something that's common knowledge or pretty widespread, usually wikipedia with/or another encyclopedia does it.
>frankreich and gross britain both conquered
>netherlands has joined the allies
>netherlands has joined the war
thanks for the free land!
>>144911442
HPM was talking of fixing the economy for a long while, the liquor meme started abour one month after his last update and it was made mainly by the discord group and a few members of the steamgroup because they like EU4 MP and wanted stellaris in the thread
how do i havefunplayinghoi4
>>144910339
just waited 2 years, with the game chugging at low speeds in spite of great computer and SSD. No one attacked japan, but then britain, because it was filling its entire national idea tree, researched "war with italy" and the allies declared on me. WHat shit
>>144911457
As a Germanboo, thank you for this
>>144911593
t. Alex Grandi
>>144911601
by going full alt history
>>144911593
fuck off HPMIDF
>>144910929
>implying ussr didnt do all the work for you
>>144911457
Why would they be anti military? Every party in the Uk was about muh empire
>>144911867
>>144911715
Case in point
>>144911593
t. liquor baron
>>144911543
thanks memer I thought nobody would come through
>>144912002
No problem goy
>>144911543
>BYZ-1453
leld
>>144911457
It seems they were L-F and later they changed to interventionism, so I guess the game isn't that wrong.
>>144911932
I don't know, that's just how it is in vanilla. Anarcho liberals and Communists are pro-military, the liberals are anti.
>>144911593
>>144911867
hello alex, did you have your daily meal of cement, liquor and energy already?
how do I cheat to capitulate my enemies, I want to end this game already
What is the gameplay differences of EU3/4 and HoI 3/4?
>>144912217
It hsould the other way around imo
Okay, I got the "game"
Which semi-relevant nation should I give a focus tree first?
>>144912217
How would you feel about Perm being a precious metal province?
>>144912436
To be fair, I don't think the Communist Party of Great Britain was anti-military, especially because it became Stalinist.
How does one prevent a naval invasion?
Is it enough to have a fleet patrolling in the adjacent sea province, or does it need to be set to convoy raiding or some shit?
Why the HELL HoI4 screen flashes white every 1-2 minutes? It's so fucking annoying, is there any mods to disable it. It's literally burning my eyes.
>>144912716
China, Iran
>>144912767
seems to be convoy raiding yeah.
>>144912716
CHYNA
>>144912741
Gold from the Urals is represented in Ekaterinburg.
do you put paratroopers as part of a bigger army or use them on their own??????????????????????????????
>>144912889
But Perm is actually in the Urals.
>don't mind me i'm just browsing
>>144912779
>he got the Win32:Trojan-Flasher
Say bye to your bank account kid
pls buy my mod goyim
>>144912716
China
Persia
Spain
The Netherlands
Turkey
>>144912954
I don't own a watch
>>144907521
gud my son
>>144912954
johan doesn't wear watch...
>>144912889
Did you see that post a thread or two by Misc Campaign Guy that adds to the Berlin Conference by granting Russia Kars and releasing Eastern Rumelia as a minimod to HPM?
If you don't add that in yourself I highly recommend integrating it. After all, it'shistorical
>>144912949
So is Ekaterinburg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterinburg
The province also gets part of the Urals.
Can anyone recommend any WW2 books to help get me acclimated with the war? Only things I learned in school were about pearl harbor, d-day, the holocaust, and the manhattan project.
>>144912716
You realize that Parajews are going to use any content you make to create DLC and ban your mods labeling them as piracy afterwards right?
>HOI4 runs worse then HOI3
fucking how?
>>144913242
Memoirs? Academic? Pop history?
>>144913242
Holy shit American education is fucking garbage
>China doesn't have a focus tree
>Italy does
What the fuck?
>>144913134
>>144913149
that's why he wears a watch when he wears that shirt in public. so he can claim it's not him since he normally doesn't wear a watch
Just thought I'd let you all know that I know the guy who created the Swastika flag mod that you're all using personally so I'm basically a pretty big deal in the /gsg/ community
>>144913382
>>144913373
Trolled
>>144913432
It's worse then you think, Poland has a focus tree, so Japan is the only Asian nation with a focus tree.
>>144913219
Can you show Russia's population in your latest save?
Do I have to pretend it's HoI3 and micro-manage to beat China as Japan? The battle plan AI just Kamikaze'd 15 divisions, which fucked everything up.
>>144913432
China was irrelevant to the war. Italy singlehandedly decided the whole thing by causing Germany to lose.
>tfw no idea whot o play and have fun in Hoi4
Help
>>144913771
Touché
>>144912815
>>144912867
>>144913027
I guess I'll do China. not gonna lie though, I only know a little bit about that area during world war 2. What important stuff should be in the focus tree?
>>144913297
Meh, it's not like I bought their shitty game anyway
>>144913771
>tfw italy doesnt have national focus that lets you switch side whenever you want.
>>144913219
Why are monitors heavy ships in the game? It doesnt really make sense
>>144913826
Try playing historical france and winning. It's pretty hard.
>>144912767
Just have a bunch of ships on convoy raiding. It doesn't take a lot.
>>144913242
Max Hastings not too bad.
Is there literally any reason to build Infantry instead of Mountaineers or Marines in HoI IV?
>>144913926
you should add more releasable nations desu
>>144913926
>Hey guys I'm gonna make a mod
>Hey guys what do I need for this mod lol
fuck off faggot
>>144913197
Kars and Rumelia were the result of the Treaty of San Stefano although the conference did revise that stuff. I'd rather have the Balkan countries fight a war with Russia against Turkey than leaving it to the conference.
>>144913719
>>144913985
I don't know why Paradox did that, probably because of their big guns.
>>144914328
If it was a european or american country I would be fine lad. I can do China by myself, I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything important
>>144914464
Do they have tons of fuel factories? I've noticed that in all my games.
>>144912716
Yugoslavia
>>144914810
No but they have a ton of car and clothes factories. Almost one for each state.
>all those detailed statistics after a naval battle
why the fuck not this for land again?
>>144914124
Historical Accuracy
>>144914464
>invention localisation says monitor are faster than ironclads
>they have half the speed
Uhm
>>144914984
They are also losing a big war so their economy and the world economy are taking a big hit.
>>144913242
Just about to say this >>144914023
Inferno is a great overview of the whole war.
Here's just a few great ones that I remember at the moment.
Shattered Sword is a really great look at the Battle of Midway from the Japanese side of events.
Hitler's Last Gambit about the Battle of the Bulge.
A Bridge Too Far is easily the best work on Operation Market Garden, and I also suggest September Hope along with that, it covers the battle from the American units' perspectives.
It's not WWII proper, but Nanking 1937: Battle for a Doomed City is a detailed look at the Japanese push through China to Nanjing, and manages to discuss the Rape of Nanking without going full "muh six gorillion". The same author also wrote Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, another great one for the Sino-Japanese war.
No Silent Night goes in-depth on Bastogne.
Definitely read The Big E, about the USS Enterprise.
Again, that's just what I can think off now. You can find a book on practically anything in the war.
>>144915173
What's the demand of fuel?
>>144915173
HPM whenever I play your mod, the US never balkanises in any way, yet I see so many SS of the FSA and CSA and New England all the time.
Am I just getting >historically accurate RNG?
>>144915173
>Soviet Empire
>>144915228
>reading books
nerd
>>144915097
That's Paradox for you. Some of the supply needs for navy were also weird.
Anyway, that's easy to fix, though it's just temporary. I wanted to take a better look at naval units because the setup is all weird, but that will have to wait.
>>144915294
>>144915323
Depends on a lot of stuff. If they lose a war, go bankrupt or refuse to pass reforms they can turn in a dictatorship and break up.
I want to stop here since I don't much like blobbing.
Now I need to do a massive military buildup so I can take on the US. I'm thinking 2 armies on the border, one diverse one to take from the Rockies West to California, and a tank/motorized one to wash over the plains of south Texas. And maybe an invasion from Cuba into Florida to meet with the Texas army.
I'm boosting fascism in Colombia and gonna try to get them to join a Faction with me and Brazil too if I can. Joining the Axis would be sure death so this is the best I've got.
>>144915228
Do you have any book on the evolution of Soviet tactics and strategy during the WWII?
Every time I play as a minor, by 1940~ the next minor I'm trying to annex somehow joins a faction or calls a faction/major country to help them. How do you avoid this? Happened when I took half of Asia Minor--Turkey called Italy to help, and Italy accepted.
>>144915851
>Help ww2 keeps starting in a ww2 game
>>144903724
It has population, but population isn't influenced by anything.
Which is unfortunate. Special firebombing missions, long-running regular strategic bombing, fighting over/in major cities, and nuclear bombs should all reduce city population.
Civilians didn't live in stalingrad while the germans and russians fought over it.
>you can sink subs with naval bombers
Retard here, how does that work?
>>144915565
Would it be feasible to model Stalin's Five Year Plan for the Soviet Union. Obviously,this should take place once the totalitarianism modifier is applied.
>>144916251
Subs weren't actually submerged all that much
>>144916251
Dropping depth charges m8.
Also >>144916356
>>144915785
I wish I did, but nothing specific like that. Go hit up the wiki page for Soviet Deep Battle and check out the sources at the bottom. Those are probably the best places to start.
Is there any way to get rid of old shit like inter-war planes, besides lend-lease
>>144916619
Send them to die at the front.
how do you un-censor hitler?
When i watched streamers play HOI4 they had all the research on one screen and just had to scroll down, but all my icons are huge and i have to side scroll as well. Why is this?
>>144916824
Why would you want to uncensor Hitler's (PBUH) face? Fucking naziphobe
>>144916853
Resolution scaling probably
>>144916331
Five-years plan were just an expression of the Planned Economy policy, I think.
The few results I can think is shifting a few RGOs from food to cotton or something like that.
>Playing NWO as USSR
>Hungarian Revolution happens
>Shut it down
>1 year later Hungary randomly starts being a democracy again anyway.
>>144917082
NWO fucking sucks
in victoria 2 im stuck with a shitty party that always gets 90% of the votes, and i get no rebellions. what can i do?
>>144916060
I want the minors that I'm invading to passively sit there and die before my shitty third world armies. Why can't you understand that.
>>144910870
anyone??
>>144917082
Shitty mod
>>144912716
TCHINA
and
norwegen danke
>every time a Paradox game is released, hordes of people complain about the game being too complex or the UI being unusable
Why do so many people complain about Paradox games being "incomprehensible"? I started with Vicky 2 and it only took me a couple of hours of fucking around with Prussia to figure out the basic handle. Are people just retarded now, or are they lack the attention span to learn a game that lasts more than an hour?
I feel like the litmus test for HoI4 should be if you can't play through the first turn in Axis & Allies, this game isn't for you.
>>144917627
>einfach so völlig grundlos rumdeutschen
Bah
>>144917006
I agree. But late game Russia tends to be a bit too weak. I was thinking something along the lines of representing collectivization as well. Reduction of some RGO sizes (grain and cattle perhaps) with an increase in output, but with incredible amount of militancy in the affected regions. Also factory build costs should be drastically reduced.
Effectively exchange lives for rapid industrialization.
But ultimately its up to you
>>144916913
Is there any way to fix that or am i stuck with that annoying bullshit?
How come I don't see many posts about AI? It's not just bad, it feels turned off completely. Aside from slightly shuffling troops on the border, it doesn't do anything. I've seen UK carve a long 1-wide corridor inside Japan and then sit there for a year doing nothing, Japan also didn't attempt to encircle them. US troops marched from France to China through Siberia and then just stood around. The only "strategic movement" was from Sweden roaming and capturing random provinces under my nose.
>>144918262
because it's nothing suprising coming from paradox
>>144918194
I'm not sure making Russia have more militancy is a good idea friend.
>>144905214
DONT REMIND ME
I never could get into HOI3
will HOI4 be easier to get into?
>>144918262
Most people here aren't l33t min/max "pros" who do nothing but obsess over the easiest ways to win. Some of us just want to play the game and role play a tad. Personally, I find the game challenging. I wager that others feel the same.
>Mao gets control over Manchuria even though the soviets haven't occupied it at all
nice
epic
ihateit
>>144918650
Yes
Its a slightly more complex EU4
>>144917635
the game is the opposite of complex but they shit up the ui by forcing you to use retarded things like terrain and diplomacy view when you really just want simple colours and troop count/locations, also they removed individual names on each county from map modes too
>>144918785
Railroading isn't an argument.
>>144918650
This HOI is hilariously casual
>>144918771
lol
>>144918235
nah but you can drag it with LMB. Bit better.
Christ that was difficult
I spent half an hour trying to figure out why this whole national focus tree wouldn't show up when I realized it was set to France.
Anyway, here's China with the german tree as a placeholder.
I'm going to do focuses for annexing the warlord states, either befriending or fighting mao, some stuff for more manpower and things for liberating Manchuria, Korea, and Mongolia
I'll have it done pretty soon. possibly 2-3 hours
I even cheated but it looks like there's 0 way this war will ever work out. I might as well turn back into a democracy and start sucking American cocks because this will just result in lots of dead mexicans.
My plans are so pretty though.
sharing dlc pls don't imprison me johan
>>144917635
To be completely honest I never figured out how pops and the economy work 100%
It always bothered me that a dev didn't make a super detailed guide explaining it.
How do i do a fucking naval invasion?
>>144919423
Christ, could they not at least drop the branding?
>>144919481
Select the cunts then click naval invasion order and follow the steps.
>>144918951
>on each county
Make sure to fuck off back to CK2 you newfag piece of shit
>>144919362
Keep in mind there is an event that annexes the warlord states and allies Commie China and China after Japan declares war. I assume you're going to replace that with a focus.
>>144919494
how else would you know who made this game?
they worked really hard!
how do i make paratroopers work? i assigned start point and destination and clicked to perform it but it has been several months now and my test parachuter has yet to move
i picked an airport with 4 transport ships, theres only a singular paratrooper wishing to move
>>144919614
And they're in the fucking port already.
get fucked Monty
>>144918951
Want to know the ironic thing? HoI4 is actually more complex than HoI3 or 2.
I feel like a retard but how I transport troops overseas in HoI4?
I need to move my troops into Africa and I can't for the life of me figure out how.
>>144919378
cheat harder
>>144919629
what else do you suppose i should call them you fucking retard? they're not states, they're not fucking countries
because they're counties
dumbass
>>144919672
Yeah I'm going to completely remove that event, it really isn't that historical and it will help Japan to at least be even with China in AI fights
>>144919782
why do you only get 20 frontage while they get 36
>>144919362
>more manpower
>as china
>>144919812
move your troops to a port
its retarded but thats the only way it works
>>144919765
not sure. Try select the marines and ctrl left click the order.
>>144919874
They're fucking provinces you mongoloid. Do you really think that the area around Stalinist Moscow could be called a county? Kill yourself
>>144919874
province, you scum
Is there a more perfect and beautiful country than Sardinia-Piedmont?
>>144919919
can't remember. Maybe some shitty cav divisions I started with.
>>144920040
>Getting this upset over someone slightly misusing a word
Pure autism
>you automatically get military access when fighting the same enemy
>you can just get access, prepare giant encirclement and win against anyone
Goals for fascist Netherlands? I think there's an achievement for annexing Belgium and Luxembourg, so I might try that.
>>144920017
fine, you got me, counties are bigger
>>144920286
Stupid move by Pdox. It makes no sense that a nation would just randomly give access to someone just because they share common enemy.
I can't imagine that "feature" will stay around for long.
>>144919994
Its still not doing it. Fuck
>>144920206
>slightly misusing a word
Provinces and counties are two seperate things.
Imagine if someone called your motorcycle a car and you told him that it's not a car but a motorcycle and he told you that it doesn't matter since he only slightly misused the word car
>>144919423
Much better desu
>>144920129
Annex France
>>144920445
gud game senpai
>>144920445
>not SH3
kys
>>144920319
They're also noble titles and ruled by a fucking count.
>>144920445
WAT DIS?
is it bad to have loads of panzer divisions in my army?
for example of my armies of 24 i have 10 panzer 10 infantry and 4 mechanised infantry (SS)
What's the console command for army/navy/air mana?
>invade Reich
>for some reason there is almost no resistance
>piss easy to capture Berlin
>go north and realise why
>they've been sieging Copenhagen with 120 division stack dying of attrition
>they finally capture it half a year later and 30 division down
>their next move is to attack Sweden over strait with 99% penalty
>>144920752
kill_yourself
>>144920562
not when used to refer to geography in this year
>>144919812
you can ctrl left click to fronts and they auto move wherever
>>144920705
Silent Hunter 5 looks like.
>>144919362
Should probably add some German cooperation ones too.
>>144920731
plz respond
>the free american empire
What the fuck does that mean?
>cleaning up the last 5% worth of the entire british shitfest so i can annex 100% of them
>japan asks to join axis
>"sure, you da best gooks after all"
>japan declares war on america
>america has joined the allies
here we go
How do you play the game once America researches South American intervention? Both playthroughs I have won my first 3 wars and then its basically game over.
>>144920443
It's more like clip vs mag
Obviously there's a difference and it's annoying when people misuse it but it's nothing to sperg out about like this guy did >>144920017
>>144913242
Evan's Trilogy is the best
>>144905803
Wait, join the allies, and wait for the US to join the allies, if you don't want to cheese.
What's the best strategy for democratic France? I've only managed to hold off Germany for a year before it gets to the point where I can't keep up with their production and recruitment.
How do I build and deploy nuclear bombs?
>>144913242
The chief culprit.
>>144921242
>Swiss Imperial Confederation
>Canadian Empire
>Kiwi Empire
They haven't even try to be logical.
>>144921530
Spam civilian factories, defense the maginot line, arm your infantry with anti-tank and artillery, use superior firepower, and then while they throw themselves at your forts build a tank force and break on through.
>>144921242
I recommended trying out the neutral USAnian name for some Real memes
@144921616
No
>>144921756
also alpine troops in full forts with artillery killed 100k italians to my 4k frenchmen. it was slaughter
>>144918194
I know, I know. Though in one game they actually got more industrial score than France.
I will deal with that in the future though.
Anyway, good night /gsg/.
>war is in status quo
ebin, simply ebin
>>144921616
>research nuclear reactors
>build nuclear reactors
>research nuclear bombs
>wait for a bomb to finish
>bomb any province that you have air superiority over and that's in range of your bombers
@144921616
But less likely to reply just to spite you :^)
>>144900683
Lol what, after many years of boosting democratic popularity in Mao's china this happened.
>>144921916
>war is in the state which
makes sense to me
>>144905102
no point in converting a game into Stellaris since everyone starts the same with one planet in Sol System and you can customize the rest in the empire creator.
>hoi4 is actually pretty good
/gsg/ BTFO AGAIN
>>144921242
United States of Americanian ?
Any way to unattach divisions from a particular order?
is this bad
The Thunder Dragon Empire is Strong! STRONG!
>goes to buy hearts of iron IV
>regular edition, bullshit "we removed content from the game and will sell it to you for extra" edition, "pls buy the next two expansions and we even already know how much they're going to cost so save money now" edition
No thanks, the parakikes meme is truly reality now
>>144922438
you could be perfectly fine even with -100k, it all depends on how many days until you meet the deficit
i have -100k deficit in infantry equipment but it only takes a few months to meet it
>>144920305
Goals for Fascist Netherlands:
1. Occupy Paris before the Germans get there
2. Start WW2 over Dutch invasion of Belgium (UK will guarantee anyone you start a war goal justification on)
3. Occupy the entire Northern French Coast
4. Invade and occupy the entire British Isles (doing this before USA joins will probably end World War 2)
5. Remember you have Pacific colonies which produce a shit load of rubber
6. Invade Australia and the British Raj if WW2 still isn't over yet.
>tfw been at war for 14 years
>tfw just watching as russia and japan invade the US with the help of a facist uprising in Alaska
i actually just want peace at this point
the war has gone on too long
>>144922647
Noice
>>144919378
The numbers don't mean much sometimes. I was trying to kill a single infantry unit from the UK and with 4 infantry, a tank, and 3 cavalry they were able to fight for over 2 years completely surrounded after they invaded me in Brazil.
I don't like the interface and I rushed for the nuke, had one in 1945, but didn't have air superiority due to the amazon being too large of an area for my fighters to cover... despite nobody else having airplanes in the area?
Half the game is super straight forward and the other half is hidden behind a horrible user interface and unexplained and/or poor mechanics. Looked like a gem the first night, never polished up.
Yes I am retarded.
I have air superiority with 90 1940 fighters.
Why Can't I launch the invasion?
>Rudolf HeB's famous flight
Was it autism?
holy fucking shit
/gsg/, alex grandi, report and ignore autist, cobra, and wrong thread autist absolutely blown the fuck out yet again
>>144922962
he looks it tb.h
>>144922647
have fun having no manpower
>>144922929
if you only have the first tier of transport tech in the naval tech tab, then you can only have 10 divisions in a naval invasion.
>>144922962
What's autistic about trying to secure peace?
>>144922001
>>wait for a bomb to finish
>>bomb any province that you have air superiority over and that's in range of your bombers
You skipped the part where I build them. How do I do that?
>>144923006
>too daunting
Senpai, what are you doing
>stage coup in yugoslavia
>game crashed on the day the coup fires
Well, that was 400 days down the drain.
>>144923006
>literally the best tutorial they've ever done
>get marked down
is there a flag mod for hoi4? these flags are so retarded
>I told Johan to call it Fuhrer mana and he actually did it the absolute madman!
>>144922962
It's a great war movie which has never been made. A man finally sees the horrors of Nazi Germany after believing the lies for so long, he steals a plane and flies across warzones to try to end the madness.
I'd cast Ed Norton with prosthetics.
>>144923006
""""""complexity"""""""
>>144923006
>grand strategy with unparalleled complexity and nuance
>>144923129
They're automatically built when you have everything researched and have at least one nuclear reactor. You'll see their progress next to the number of factories you have in the top left.
>>144923146
>not having autosaves enabled
>>144923161
tutorial could've been better but instead they decided to give players an ingame wikia so there was no point going too indepth
>>144923217
buy the game. if you bought the game look at steam workshop. if you won't buy the game have fun begging for someone to upload a flag mod.
>>144919362
MCG, are you going to add GroßChina stuff?
(Like focuses/events based around Hong Kong, Macao, Outer Manchuria, Mongolia, Korea, Ryukyu, etc.)
>>144922174
So what will happen with the Chinese Republic and Republic of China after the war?
>>144923104
Already got tier 2.
What the fuck is wrong with you autists banning Stellaris from this general and then spamming it with Swipes of iRon S4?
>>144923217
Try gsg's general fixes(it has the naval flag for japan which some may not like)
And this http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=700063144
>>144922929
it literally tells you in the tooltip you blind fucking retard. you have to assign a navy to the seazone you're crossing to gather intelligence.
please fucking kill yourself you stain on humanity
>>144923115
the fact that he didn't even have any sort of authority to do so and neglected to tell anyone else that he was going to do it
>>144923350
Not him but I bought the game and the workshop behaves weird.
>>144923463
the mod some guy posted earlier? version 0.3 or something?
>>144923543
>the fact that he didn't even have any sort of authority to do so and neglected to tell anyone else that he was going to do it
In a war people do desperate things.
>>144923660
Yes
>>144923737
it was desperately autistic
>>144923543
>airwings or navies
I'm sorry that a statement that implies either is sufficient led me to believe that having one was sufficient.
who is this mysterious figure?
>>144923862
johalf liquer ii, baron of the bueraucrat reich
>>144923804
you need 50% (or some other number, fuck if i know) naval intelligence, airplanes appear to give very little intelligence even with superiority, i remember having 19,84% or something
WHY THE FUCK IS HITLER'S FACE CENSORED
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>144923862
Ayodolf Ohilla
>>144923862
Ayadolf Hitla the famous black German leader.
>>144922962
>stabbed himself with a bread knife to try to commit suicide
i think it was autism
>you can still control the countries while the AI handles it on the observer mode
This shit is even more funnier than playing the game itself, lmao
I'm trying to naval invade but my troops won't fucking move. What am i doing wrong?
i'm going to play a game as D E S I G N A T E D should I go communist or facist.
>>144923006
>Unparalleled complexity
Who writes these?
Some 16 year old?
wow peace concernces are retarded
if its an even war you cant even take much while everyone else takes the whole fucking rest of the deal because you cant take shit
Holy fuck this is dumb
>>144923938
Thanks m8
>>144923636
restart your game. if that doesnt work click the download button on that screenshot you showed me. if that doesnt work restart steam. if that doesnt work try unsubscribing to the mod, then subscribing again and also restarting steam again. if that doesnt work, kill urself
>>144924153
how the fuck are we supposed to know what you're doing wrong when all your screenshot has is an asiann general in command of 10 divisions
Every wing defaulting to no surrender
>The changes to the economy go on
Was it autism?
>>144923983
because if you look at his eyes, it will turn you into ashes
>>144913242
Adolf Hitler : The greatest Story never told.
>>144923146
I can't seem to do anything to fix it. Even if I cancel the coup, it still crashes.
I can't get past September 14th 1943, for some reason.
>>144923350
I have autosaves. It's the 400 days spends preparing a coup that are now wasted.
how can you upgrade aircraft? i have 200 interwar wings just sitting there useless, can i upgrade them, or do i let them collect dust?
>>144924184
The system is pretty good, it just needs some tweaks
Would a facist or communist india be funner?
>>144924419
No he's going to turn you into soap
>>144924160
Fascist definitely.
>>144924407
>The Middle Strata is divided in 3 informal categories now: The Upper Middle Strata, the Middle Strata and the Lower Middle Strata. The only difference is in their needs: Clerks and Artisans, being lower middle, consume less goods overall. Clergy and Bureaucrats, being true middle, consume the average amount (with bureaucrats still consuming more than clergy) and officers are high middle strata, consuming more than anyone else in the strata. As it was in Ricky, the Life Needs of Middle and High middle strata were doubles and a small quantity of tea added to it. Most needs in the everyday needs category were also doubled and instead of consuming lumber, they try to consume steel and cement right off the everyday needs for their housing. They will also try to consume small quantities of radio, electric gear and telephones.
Yes.
I can't wait until the new HPM version with all the epin economy changes come out, it's going to be an absolute fucking trainwreck even worse than PDM and Senhor Grandi will lose all his credibility and be forced to mod over at paradoxplaza.
>>144924535
depends if you want historical accuracy or not. I dont know shit about indian politics in the era but communism makes sense to break the caste system and have equality.
fascist is in my opinion better than communism due to you +7% recruitable population from the national focuses
>>144924535
Fascist, you well get help from Japan
>>144923983
IMO it only makes him look more badass
>>144924525
The interface for upgrading planes and ships is on the production screen after you select the production line as if changing to a new item, click the icon on the plane... but you need xp.
>>144924535
Communist, spread the loo revolution
>>144924648
I think you mean lamp shades
>Tfw can't deny how sexy Rommel looks in his uniform
>>144924914
He looks like a Mussolini look alike
>>144924160
they already came up with the swastika so
>>144924975
>Comparing that ugly ape to this beautiful kraut
>>144924975
only his jaw
>>144924975
Mussolini had a fat face
Just look at that qt sculpted chn of Rommel's
I'm not even gay, but I'd love him to pound me in the ass with his 10 inch cock
>non-communist Russia isn't reflected in event texts
fucks sake paracocks
>>144924526
if you think countries puppeting and taking land not close to them is good you are wrong
if you think not being able to fucking take a good share of land at the beginning while the next dude uses all their victory points is good you are wrong
at least I managed to reload enough times to get a good enough austrian empire
>>144925192
lol it's a game, it's a sandbox game if you want some railroaded shit go read a book
>>144915228
BASED
A
S
E
D
Some dude recommended me Churchill's Second World War.
What do you think?
>>144925297
its not even rail roaded shit dimwit its the fact Sinkiang can puppet the UK and China takes turkey. AI should take land actually close to it ffs,
and being able to make a decent set of demands as the top contributor in the war just makes sense, why the fuck can the next guy use ALL of his VP when I can only use 20% to net JACK SHIT in the peace deal before russia and italy takes all the stuff I want
hell I should be able to contest an allied demand too
>>144924849
no, that's for creating a plane variant, not upgrading old planes
>>144925192
>he says as he annexes britain as austria
Anybody know how to replace unit sprites with that of another country? I want to play as Austria with German-looking troops, used to do that all the time in HOI3 but I can't figure it out in HOI4.
>>144925581
sikang had the britian puppeted and im gonna go fight the soviets anyway
if I had a choice I wouldnt restored the habsburg empire but I cant so w/e
>>144925664
play as germany and switch land with austria
>military units can pass freely based on mutual enemies
who the FUCK thought this was a good idea?
>declare war on poland
>USSR decalres war on poland
>soviet troops fighting alongside my forces
>>144925664
>Using sprites
I'm afraid you'll have to wait for a DLC for that feature anon.
are the aces real or made-up?
>>144925168
He's literally got a fat ape face
>Even comparing him to Rommel or using his name in the same sentence
Raus
>>144925664
Probably doable with a mod. Check the asset and .txt for sprites then create a mod that edits whichever sets who can use said sprites.
>>144925579
I believe once the variant is created they will upgrade in production if it's filled or has priority. If you mean upgrade to a brand new airplane model, I think you're out of luck.
>>144924153
you usually have to wait a few days for them to prepare
just get out of the army screen and hover the mouse over your invasion line and it should tell you how long until its ready
also
when you execute your invasion sometimes you need more info on the region youre going to
>>144911457
When is HPM getting hired by paradox?
>>144925838
He got more aryan features than Romemel
>>144925979
why is he wearing an aviator cap
>>144923348
>>bomb any province that you have air superiority over and that's in range of your bombers
Ok so how do I do that? What buttons do I press?
>>144926170
Because he's a Luftwaffe pilot
>>144923104
I lost my empire to Nepal. I'm so sorry Bhutan.
Does it matter where you put units in the division editor?
>remove historical focuses
>germany declares war on poland and seems to be getting fucked
quality~~
>>144926181
Paradox audience, laddos
>>144926081
You are going to trigger rob and the steam groups
>>144910062
nigger I gave you a screenshot of most countries' social policies on release like 6 months ago, did you even look at it
>Start fascist revolution in Raj
>nationalist indian leader is a chink
JOHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
Every single game, about 6 of them.
>Germany declares war on Russia before Polish war is over
>Germany attacks russia before divisions are there from west
>Once German advance falters, it declares war on France
>Attacks maginot line for 2 months
>invades belgium
>declares war on yugoslavia, gets bogged down
>declares war on denmark, forgets about it
>denmark comes out big winner
wtf
So has anyone run the spreadsheets on division composition yet?
On the fence for playingdownloading piratedHoI4. From these screenshots, my impression is that the game is not as hard as previous HoI3, more closer to EU3/4 difficulty tier. Is that correct? Should I play it now or wait for DLCs and patches to come?
>>144923862
Adolphus Schicklegruber
>>144926538
well it's pushing back now, it seems the AI is just too retarded to realize it's about to declare war
also poland wasn't guaranteed by either france or the UK so no WW2 yet
>>144926936
There's literally no point in not torrenting it and trying it out
>>144926936
HoI3 wasn't hard, just tedious. I think it's harder than HoI3, but it's certainly easier to get into because you don't have to faff about with the OOB shit for 10 hours.
>>144926936
Yeah. If you like EU4 chances are you'll like this. I don't mean it as a slur either.
>>144926574
for real tho pls help
>>144926736
Why'd they make Hitler the only normal looking person?
>>144926936
just play the game on veteran difficulty if you think its too easy
>>144926936
Why not play it now then play it when DLC and patches come? You stupid fuck.
WE WUZ KANGZ N SHIET
>>144927132
>all your commanders are white
>>144927047
>>144927052
So is it easier to map-paint in HoI4 compared to HoI3?
>>144927106
I can only have time waster so much. Especially since it's /gsg/ title that means I'm gonna waste time a lot.
https://mega.nz/#!sgNxTThb!gWYhSWPS8cydPgo0_3DnR7OYAZt1XsPWwdPt-IaTu-k
US Period Music for those that were interested.
>>144925531
Exactly. I just finished a China game and I can't take back all the parts of China I had fucking cores on that I conquered with my own armies, but the whole of Europe doesn't mind me taking all of Germany and Italy by me on the last turn by pressing pass and accumulating enough points.
Wewlad playing as Italy and the uk has no tanks or mot in Africa
Absolute steamroll
How the fuck do i get strategic bombers for nuking
>>144927269
m8 you literally paint a line and your divisions start colouring in.
Can my mememachine run Vicky 2?
>>144925664
>Try to make Austria great again
>Get Czechia and Hungary
>Go to grab Slovenia
>UK intervenes
>GERMANYDEMANDSANSCHLUSS.jpg
>refuse
>Wienbychristmas.pzkpfw
>>144927132
so they made generic asian and latin leaders, but didn't think to make any indian ones?
>>144927450
That only saves the tedium of having a numerically and tactically superior army carry out its conquests. It's not exactly gonna win the war when your armies are weaker.
>>144927449
strategic bombers are far right tech. Not that hard to get.
What the fuck, I just had my first war experience on HoI4, playing the Nazis and I sent over a vehicular division over to aid Nationalist Spain, as soon as I saw a break in the lines I just drove my guys straight through and took both the major cities, giving Nat Spain the win, is it really this easy?
>>144923361
I don't know lad, this is difficult
I've been trying to add stuff, I added about 8-10 focuses and then I fucked it up and they disappeared
anyone know if its possible to get trotsky as your leader as a communist mexico
>>144927269
Yea map painting is easier, specially right now since the AI has some serious competence problems. Particularly with naval gameplay.
>>144927616
Aw shit didnt scroll right again, thanks
>>144927602
right but the cunt asked if it's easier to map paint. It is.
>>144927693
Yeah, the VP % needing to be greater than national unit to achieve victory can lead to really wonky results like what you described, when the enemy still has significant troops to contest occupation of major cities.
>>144927912
I've always wondered what happens when we can code a botnet well enough to sustain us with little to no labor
I've got like 10 nukes and I have no idea how to use them please send help
Is encryption even useful against AI?
I can see it's practicality playing against people, but is the AI even smart enough to use intel efficiently?
>>144907168
found the redditor
Argument is not a meaningful realist
>>144927589
>.pzkpfw
lol'd heartily
>>144927061
Just type 'debug_nuking' into the console (use the '~' key). Then press the small nondescript button in pic related.
>>144928192
Te AI uses Intel more efficiently than they use AMD
>>144928096
Communism is the natural progression from capitalism but only in a post scarcity society which we haven't achieved yet
So Germany is deceptive for a HoI4 noob, its not as easy as it looks?
>>144928192
I thought it gave you defensive bonuses if your encryption is higher than their decryption?
>>144928215
This game is completely broken
>>144928464
>Draw a line
>Draw an arrow
>Click to go
>>144928329
Related
muh new roman empire
Wew
https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/740635823377403904
Jap starting fleet totally fucks the UK fleet christ
>>144928669
t. Martin Anward
>>144928669
i don't miss him
I've managed to get 25% war contribution as Canada, and through months of blood letting on the continent I've managed to prop up France through the winter and into the spring of 1941.
My manpower has just ran out.
There's still no prospect of the US or Russia joining.
Fuck this game is brutal.
>>144928665
>betraying your german comrades
>expanding north
>not crushing the kebab and restoring the true roman empire
it's like you actually hate fun
>tfw successful naval invasion of kagoshima
Feels good. Home Isles is going to be easy, since Japan sent all their troops to China.
>>144929119
>roman empire
>german comrades
lol
Which is objectively the most fun nation to play in hoi4?
In hoi3 it was Italy/japan imo
>>144918402
Why is that kraut in an British trench?
>>144928543
>Did that
>Got invade by UK in the north
Do I need an army group specifically dedicated to this shit? That was fucking annoying
>>144925787
How else would you simulate Lend Lease without having Americans fighting at Stalingrad?
>>144928591
I don't know why you mentioned the debug stuff but thank you for pointing out the button.
>>144929119
>expanding into worthless desert
>letting the allies obtain the wealth of germania
is there any way to link a fleet to a troop transport?
How does supply work, where the fuck is the fuel coming from?
I'll be honest, I didn't expect this
>>144929510
it's to show the common bonds of all Germanic people
>>144913297
No, but I'm pretty sure the country DLCs will include unit models and leader portraits and that alone is worth the ~$4 that they'll probably charge.
>>144929725
hoi4 is a meme game
>>144928543
just leave a garrison force along the coast.
eventually you want to get air superiority and then invade them either navally or with paratroopers
>>144929725
its really easy to change governments as the player
>>144929696
Fuel stockpi...
Ermm
>>144929793
it's the AI that did it on its own though
>>144929696
Supply mapmode, figure it out.
>>144929673
troop transports? No. If you ctrl left click soliders to a front they automatically make their own way there via your convoys.
>>144929673
Convoy escort command protects them. Fleets in same naval zone help with bombardment I think.
>>144929872
That's not what I'm asking. What materials are forming the basis?
>>144900683
Reminder that Britain saved Europe
>>144929673
i have 110 men i want to send over to my alaskan port so that i may invade north america, but i don't want to leave them without protection for understandable reasons
>>144929119
Those fucking Barbarians ruined rome
>>144929762
>romanticizing meme language groupings
Get fucked jerry wanker
Nobody has uploaded HOI4 to the mega archive yet?
>>144930034
R U S S I A
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lads..
>>144930104
It's an ethnic group too, Britain is heavily Celtic though just with a Latinised Germanic language
>>144930034
>Mosley
>ww2 happens
>>144930104
>not romanticising common ethno-linguistic characteristics
Where the fuck do you think you are?
>>144929995
No materials. materials are used for equipment.
>>144930354
He got into power literally just after the war started
and then I wasn't really sure how to get out of the war without surrendering so I just went with it
Casualties here, though a lot aren't shown. Mine by that point were half a million, plus another half million for the British Raj.
>>144905516
Vanilla? YesBlackIce HOI3?No fucking way. Good luck AI-ing your way through Russia, even 200km from Moscow would be considered luck
I had to manual the whole Crimea -> Caucasus region, with all the specific divisions for mountains, then switching to armored for plains and the doomstack for St*lingrad.
Oh, and most of the Baltics -> Leningrad route, especially encircling the city. The last 20 hours of gameplay of my campaign can basically be described as pause/unpause every 20 seconds. Manually controlled every single air wing, all my navies and around 50 divisions out of something like 150-200. Also had to watch all the supply lines, strategically bomb their single rail line through the middle of Asia up to Europe, rebuild and enhance the conquered lines and use massive amounts of transport planes for the front, since it constantly got out of supplies. If that wasn't enough, I had to manually cycle fighters with CAS and bombers, then fighters again, then had to strategically deploy level 10 air bases as close as possible to the front (so my planes don't eat up all the fuel from the supply hotspots by flying too much), had to build ports and connect them via level 10 infra to the front so the front is supplied by convoys through the Black Sea region, etc etc etc
And all I did in HOI4 was literally draw a single fucking arrow to Moscow and let Romania and Turkey do the rest to the South.
>/gsg/ talks shit about stellaris for months maybe even years before release
>Still plays it
>/gsg/ talks shit about HOI4 for months maybe even years before release
>Still plays it
You'd literally eat shit if it came from Paradox
>>144930034
>Mosley
>>144930602
nothing wrong with it as long as you didn't give the parajews your money
>>144930602
>implying anyone is still playing stellaris
i uninstalled it after playing it for one day
hoi4 at least allows me the satisfaction of painting
>>144930602
t. Johan
>>144930494
So these are magic tanks then?
>>144930785
With 100% reliability, yes they are.
13 years after starting the game, we finally beat fellow one-city minor Cao Cao. And all it required was Lu Bu staying at home, not ruining everything.
I am still unclear as to whether or not RoTK belongs here or not.
>>144930570
How much manpower does the Raj have in total?
How often do you guys see Germany or Soviet Union getting into a war with each other? My first run finished without it happening. The Soviets just dicked around attacking irrelevant minors like Iraq while Germany got gangraped by America and Britain.
>>144930770
t. Paradox employee
You're constantly talking about and advertising the game
>>144930785
Tanks are made from supplies, supplies come from resources. Fuel consumption is proxied into the game via extra supply cost. It doesn't actually cost oil to make tanks, just to use them.
>>144930903
only hoi4 belongs here
fuck off
>>144930903
What's the combat like in the RotK series? Turn and tile-based tactical strategy like Fire Emblem?
>>144930903
this is paradox generalis
only paradox games are allowed
>>144930903
What's that ROTK? IX?
>>144930961
playing as germany, soviet has yet to attack me when i'm at war with the vast majority of everyone else, and took rightful soviet clay like afghanistan, the baltics, iran, and romania, while taking finland into the axis
i also formed the anti comintern and got the war goal to annex soviet prepared at any time
i did have my border protected by a fairly large army for the majority of the game though, just recently i left it completely undefended to see what happens
>Mongolia is 68% democratic
>Still hasn't turned Democratic
Jesus how many years must I wait. I turned mao democratic already. Sinkiang and Mongolia are being a bitch.
>>144930903
>playing as a nonwhite country in Europa Universalis II
lad...
>>144931004
Yeah I get it. It's still shit.
>>144930903
>Killing the man who did literally nothing wrong
Absolutely disgusting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJXSTfCOL4
>>144930905
Some 166 divisions, compared to my 660.
>>144930993
Are you retarded. All of us already know about the game and we pirated it so we did give them any money. How are we advertising by posting about it in this general? Please, I'd love to hear your response.
>>144931204
X.
>>144931109
It's fairly similar, though IIRC it varies wildly from game to game
>>144930903
you tell me lad
Trying to expand into India as the Shahi in Old Gods is such a pain in the ass holy shit
I just want to create Rajastan before subjugating Maharastra (managed to get a relative safely on that throne) but I forgot to press a(n Afghan culture) relative's claim on Delhi and then my own character died before she could press her own claim on Delhi. Also have to somehow slap up a claim on Gujarat? I closed the game once I made sure a male would be my next character.
It's so stupid to pass up male rulers in India in hindsight, females can't take concubines and all those concubine babies yield non-aggression pacts with vassals essentially nonstop. At least all this tolerance bullshit means I have access to more commanders, but FUCK designating a female as heir unless she has a shitload of brothers a son and somesuch else backing her solitary hole up.
>>144931549
Memedia being in CK2 is retarded.
Poo in loo choo chooCrusader Kings? More like Poo In Loo Kangz
>>144931336
Attacking Chen Liu over and over again with Lu Bu in charge, I finally learned Chen Gong's pain.
>Tfw never understood Air/Naval game in any HoI
>Tfw just throw shit at the enemy and it only works like 1/3rd of the time
>>144931549
>holy shit
what is that shit blessed by the loo witches created by poo
>>144931715
It's like you're actually Italian high command
>>144931839
underrated
Anyone else having trouble using the HOI4 command console?
I'm trying to add equipment but it isn't always working
>>144928669
>HPM removing wiz strait broke british ai
wew
austria confirmed best germony
>>144931985
Game works way better with the strait removed and HPM improved the naval invasion AI, I've seen it make quite a few naval landings
>>144931980
>cheating in quite possibly the easiest /gsg/ ever created
>>144932069
>1950
What's the point when EvW DLC hasn't been released yet?
>>144927359
do what I did just save and reload until AI doesnt take your rightful land
shit needs some work
everybody should have low score to work with and claiming stuff farther away from you should be exponentially harder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NqG2lAojNQ
>Brits were so cucked they hated this based motherfucker
Lame
>>144932195
>Hearts of Europa 4
>grand strategy
go play some stellaris lad
>>144932150
How the hell do you even touch vic 2's AI?
Stop spouting lies, Alex Grandi.
>>144931690
Here's hoping the next patch is optimized as fuck because even two centuries in the game likes chugging. Also more characters being cleaned up by what I am hoping are higher mortality rates. Hell, maybeexpanded map into the Tibetan plateau so that the Tarim Basin has SOMETHING to do. I imagine the Prosperity thing mentioned in the Dev Diary this week may mean AI inclinations for attacking/conquering certain parts of the maps may be toned down off a wild guess, so it's plausible that AI Tibet/India/Hordes won't pour into each other every single campaign within a century like Egypt into Nubia right now.I imagine Afghans poo in loo though?
>>144932197
too soon
>>144932197
because the war isnt won until all factions are dead
late game does need some major rework, especially in the runaway factory department
>>144932278
Most people don't know who he is
>>144932195
>not making it as sandbox as possible
Do you even have autism?
>>144932205
I don't understand why they couldn't have at least adopted something more intuitive like the EU4's peace treaties. Whoever occupies a territory gets the option of annexing it or not. An ally would have to turn over occupation to you if they want you to have the option of conquering it or not.
>>144932369
t. butthurt rob
>>144932460
That kinda defeats the point of transferring occupation. Because the point is you can delegate occupation to someone else who benefits from it more during the war.
So I'm guessing consumer goods do nothing in HoI 4?
>>144932498
t. Senhor Grandi
>>144932460
because the occupation system is too dumb in that regard but I do think your faction should get first dibs on faction captured shit as well as a distance penalty to avoid china taking turkey and USA taking china
oh well 2 years from now this will be finally working knowing paradox
>>144931383
Mario's Pizzeria is now closed
>>144932567
They do same shit in HoI4 as they do in other HoIs. Eat up your IC.
>>144932460
also we should be allowed to contest retarded land grabs but what really needs work is the turn taking shit with super landgrabs
http://poal.me/oy24um
>Playing MP with a bro
>He's France, I'm Britain
>We both went fascist and made our own factions
>it's 1939
>Spanish civil war is still going on
>Nationalists have been holed up in one province in Galicia for years
>They ask to join our faction
>Me and my buddy brutally rape Republicans and win the war for Nationalists
I can't believe they held out in a single province for so long, anyone else seen something like it?
>don't want to allow italy into my war because they'll claim some of my land despite being useless
>as the war drags on and more and more parties come into play i begrudgingly accept them when they demand to be a part of it
>tfw italy is FUCKING USELESS losing their entire country to a few small american divisions
>tfw they have 0 holdings, 0 casualties, but had their airplanes bombing the american holdings in italy
>tfw he has 13% war participation
>tfw i have to share my land with this fuck at the end of it all
meanwhile, japan who got me a holding in america, allowing my forces to come in, while also dealing with australia, has 1%
>>144932898
Dude, nice one, subscribed!
>>144932898
It's actually not too uncommon for nationalist Spain to end up holding a single urban province or a handful of provinces.
They tend to lose.
>>144932375
>expanded map into the Tibetan plateau
>hinpoos and pisslamics blobbing into tibet like they do in EU4
pls no
>>144933010
Thanks, don't forget to hit that like button as well! :^)
>>144932731
That's a pretty cool event, I love little flavor events like that
>>144932731
But there's still a lot more cleaning up to do.
Axis Africa is what's left of the German Reich, Spanish State, and Kingdom of Italy. We let them run around in Africa to let them think they were winning.
Axis Europe is Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey, who are all now at war with the Soviets. Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey didn't join World War 2, so they're still pretty strong.
Japan still stands, though it's lost everything on mainland Asia. The Soviets have taken Sakhalin, and the Swedes are pushing in to Nagasaki.
>2020
>CK2 map now goes from Greeland to Japan
>CK2 requires 16GB of RAM to even run
>with all DLC it costs $800
>there are only 6 government types now that one was added for asia, but the new government type used by china and japani is just slightly edited feudal
>alien invaders DLC
So....
Played plenty of EUIII, EUIV, and CKII, perhaps too much CKII.
Should I play Vicky2 or HoI3 next?
>>144933480
sorry, meant that for
>>144932729
>>144933615
BUY HOI4 YOU FILTHY ANTI SEMITE
>>144933583
Since I have over 500 hours of CKII, even with a enforced 1 year break, that sounds awesome.
>>144932917
did you try playing better germany?
>>144933615
Stellaris, jk depends on which period you like more.
>>144933702
Why would I buy a Paradox game when it released? I do not even look at them till the first DLC is ready.
>>144933730
>he wants a shittily made china and japan DLC that's not even close to accurate in '''CRUSADER''' KANGZ
modern paradox audience
neo-/gsg/
bravo jewhan
>>144933858
Because if you don't buy HOI4 you are literally as bad as hitler and might as well be shoah'ing me yourself.
Buy my fucking game you goy animal.
>>144933906
If I want a historical accurate game, then I turn off the silly DLC.
Anyways in CKII i mostly just breed a huge family that inbred.
Off to find screenshot
>>144933906
calm down fa.m ck2 is a fun /gsg/ if you play it for the characters, not the blob
t. old/gsg/
>>144933906
>neo-/gsg/
>I didn't want to believe the memes
>People are actually playing the easiest GS ever made.
>Grand strategy is not synonym with autism anymore
Who wants to bet that the GS genre is going to
Is there any way to fix border gore in HOI4 yet? I took most of france as Italy, but when they got on their knees, Germany took the remainder. I'd rather they have it, than have weird-ass blobs and strands poking into their territory.
>>144934219
we needed a wider audience goy
i'm sure you can understand
t. johan
>>144932898
its because nationalist spain has high national unity so you basically have to take every single victory point from them to make them surrender, and also because entrenchment with a good defensive general is pretty op.
>>144934219
...to transform into casual neo-rts genre a few years from now? You can't even call HOI4 a simulator.I fucked up the ctrl+enter.
>>144934361
Fuck you, Johan. I want my autism genre back.
>>144934462
You can't call HoI2 or HoI3 a simulator either.
>>144933615
Vicky 2
>>144934210
This, this is why CKII is fun compared to say EUIV or so on. I like the idea of running a royal family and ending up with a huge empire just in time for the world's shittiest heir to ruin it all.
>>144934536
HOI3 was getting closer than HOI2
Vicky 3 could've been pretty much there if they would've taken some of the military from HOI3 and expanded+adapted it and actually made a economy simulation to work with the POP system.
>>144930602
Most of the people playing HoI4 are from reddit or /v/. You can spot them a mile away like >>144907168
>>144934536
>You can't call HoI2 or HoI3 a simulator either.
But you can, faggot. HOI2 is used as an academic tool in war colleges.
>>144934583
Who a good starting country for Vicky2?
HoI3 I would assume it would be something like Italy...
>>144934803
France
>>144934803
america, japan, sardinia-piedmont, prussia
>>144906894
Johan 'Let's get this Shoa on the road' Andersson
>>144934803
Prussia, France and Japan i suppose
>>144934803
The go to choice is usually the US because it's not much involved in foreign affairs.
I went with Brazil myself, though, that was enjoyable.
>>144934750
>HOI2 is used as an academic tool in war colleges.
Not in any that matter.
t. free citizen of the only free country on earth
>>144901246
yea i paid for it and it worked like magic
>>144934803
Prussia, USA, the Netherlands, Japan as first unciv
>>144934462
>>144934219
It's depressingly true. (((Paradox))) near monopoly means they can do whatever they want with the genre. AGEOD stuff is as close as you can get for a substitute I think.
Weird to think that people here are eating this stuff up. It's as if there's been a total shift in the posters here.
Goals for a fascist US?
>>144935036
>tfw the US military created a COIN game that is used as a learning tool at military colleges
>tfw it has never been released to the public
>>144935098
Sup /pol/
>>144935036
The grand strategy genre is older than computers, and was invented to teach military officers about war strategy.
How new you're?
http://darkest-hour-game.com/aar/2014-MCWAR-WWII/Barrick_WW2ExAAR-2014-04-15.pdf
>Strategic bombing gives massive war contribution, like an order of magnitude more than ground attacking
I hate this meme.
>>144935253
>How new you are?
Fuck.
>>144935098
>near monopoly means they can do whatever they want with the genre
Paradox killed the GS genre. It's over. Vicky III will be even more casualized than HOI4 and EUIV.
>>144935189
annex canada and mexico, annex cuba for the sweet amount of resources they have, then do the monroe doctrine and make your own faction with all of the americas in it.
>>144935198
>tfw the US military created a COIN game that is used as a learning tool at military colleges
They also made a multi-million naval simulation to test their carrier capability. Guess what happenedThe US unironically lost a Carrier Group to motor boats from Iran
>>144934174
these games are supposed to be historically accurate
>>144935436
>these games are supposed to be historically accurate
The Empire of the Platypus wants a word with you.
>>144935253
MCWAR is a joke.
Marine command in general is a complete joke.
>>144935436
This
Paradox's shitty monopoly over the genre is killing the entire genre, because they're abusing it to push shit no one wants so they attract people who don't like the genre so much
Wish there was another company that could realize the potential profit of this shit and finally make a GSG that's worth the money
>>144935565
>any publicly traded company making a video game worth the money
>post 2000
WEW
>>144935565
wat
if no one wants it then how are they attracting people
illogical
>>144935361
>Vicky III will be even more casualized than HOI4 and EUIV.
I know. I don't expect anything less. Anyone who thinks it will be good is either desperately delusional or a neo-gs fan.
>>144935436
Paradox wants a more sandboxy/Civ approach where the history part is mostly in the background and the player doesn't get upset about being constrained by historical plausibility.
>>144934331
see this shit?
is there anyway to fix it?
>>144935538
t. burger king
>>144935436
Yes and no.
By default, random chance will make odd things happen, and then you have a player doing events. They must have a historical framework and be interesting.
It not like EUIII had detailed combat..
>>144934672
Are we playing the same hoi3? Hoi2 was closer, hoi3 completely breaks if you stray too far from history.
>>144935737
What I wanted to say is that the core fanbase of the genre doesn't want it, and their target is no longer just that fanbase but the wider one that can be acquired through youtube, streams and steam. And for that audience, stuff like accurate history and a requirement of at least 100 IQ to play the game has to go. So do NATO counters and "ugly" mapmode that's far more useful than the current puke they call a map
>>144935753
Of course it will be good.
After about 4 DLCs and a full conversion mod.
>>144935775
go to diplomacy and offer control of a state to germany or take control of a state from them.
Sometimes it might not work because you need control of an entire state, if that happens then ask them for it then give it back.
>>144935565
>a company shifting focus to make more money
LITERALLY WORSE THAN HITLER.
>>144935062
wew
>>144935775
thats the issue
that bottom blob, germany owns 1 province
that top blop is 1 province i own, out of the state
there doesnt seem to be a way to resolve this, barring more all-out war
>>144936139
>a company is allowed to take the fattest shit on their core fanbase that basically made them because they're a company!
>>144936139
t. neo-/gsg/
>>144936139
>corporate apologist
Do you also defend EA and microtransactions because fucking the costumer or a loyal fanbase int he ass gives them money?
>>144935775
>annexing switzerland
>>144926779
FUCK ME PARADOX LMAO
*puts helmet on backwards*
>>144922647
FUCK YOU WED DWAGON UNION NUMBA WAN!
What crunch would Concentration Camps have if they were implemented?
Low cost military factories that increase world threat.
>>144939107
cheaper gearing bonus and perhaps boost to party popularity, but hampers political power by 50% and increases revolt risk potential
