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New ck2 dlc when

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HoI4 is kinda shit, dudes.

The OoB of HoI3 was the closest thing we had of HoI series evolving into a wargame.

vic 3 when?

Ffs the division designer would actually be superior to hoi3 if they didn't have to add army mana for changing it

What is the reasoning behind it? Fucks sake

>>144691889
never, johan confirmed it in todays stream

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tips for japs?

>>144691874
Yeah, I know

>>144691898
Dunno why they did that either

>>144691874
This 2bh

Bit sad now

>>144691940
Don't kill yourself and breed more

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>>144691851
>>144691889
You can find updates on the Paradox blog

https://www.paradoxplaza.bIoghost.com/

>>144691874
No shit

>>144691874
You mean evolving into having a job in accounting.

>>144692134
totally not a virus goys

>>144691874
I mean it isnt amazing, but its fun enough. With mods I think it can reach the level of HOI3 and maybe beyond, but it depends on if itll have enough of a dedicated mod support from people.

>>144691898
This 2bh. Battalions are cool but what's the point in training mana

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>>144691874
>wargame

WHY DO YOU WANT THAT SO MUCH

>>144692134
>le false link to malware site again
I don't know how mods didn't ban you for spreading your malware shit here

>>144691780

I have around 900 hours in hoi 3 breh.
And i don't see what was so tedious about clicking on a corps/army and moving it kinda close to your front line divisions every once in a while.
You didn't have to move them at the same fucking time all the time.

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>>[V2] - Legacy of Slovenia v1.01
http://pastebin.com/72Yhqm5i

>>[V2] - unHPM v1.3.1
http://pastebin.com/zK3YrpNx

>>[V2] - 7 Years v4.1
http://pastebin.com/fMCvXaAA

>>[V2] - Robmod v2.5
http://pastebin.com/MHswMhZi

>>[V2] - Visegradmod v3.2
http://pastebin.com/C8swKB9t

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>>144691295
>>144691940
did you try drawing pointier arrows?

Don't understand this battle shit

Make a border, draw offensive line, execute order? Is that literally as deep as it goes? No intricacies?

>>144691898

The army mana's the worst part about it. You can't really try out badical experimental compositions or strategies or anything because you're locked behind the fucking army mana before your first war.

I wanted to try mechanized/blitzkrieg France

>>144692309
Based Cobra

>>144692309
cobra lad why don't you like my meme mod

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>>144692359
Are there any penalties to controlling your units manually? The battle plan execution feels awful. I have been playing it like Darkest Hour.

>>144692359
Well in hoi3 if you were automating troops it was just click on the capital and unpause

Why not move the troops yourself ladm8

>>144692359

Pretty much, anon.

>>144692551
Who the fuck automated theaters in HoI3 ?

Can someone explain why navies have their own factories (dockyards) but planes and ground troops use the same?

Feels like they should have kept it as all 3 sharing one type or given each its own type

Just got home from work. Where's a download link.

Veteran Hoi3 player here , how the heck do I manage the troops? I can do anything except actual combat.

>>144692656
podcat

>>144692289
Explain to me why I want to have my commanders out of range of the units they are commanding. Come up with a valid reason and ill admit it isn't tedious.

Otherwise your autism must be off the charts if you think this isn't retarded.

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The lack of pops is still a major problem , most armies late game are only around 15,000. I'm not sure if there is a way to fix this though. even with pop growth decisions the entire world is deserted.

>>144692741
Podcat is based

>>144692656
Well seeing as you're the one automating your troops the first change you get in hoi4 then it was probably you who automated theatres

>>144692548
For real, the province density isn't THAT HIGH that you can't just control all your units manually
Also I wish there was a menu where you could see all the combats going on currently or something, it's super easy to lose track of front progress since there are no popups or anything about attacks

>>144692765
What exactly are you making?

>>144692656
I did, and manually controlled special units like heavy armour, was the best way

>>144692696

It's really annoying too because if you're waiting for boat tech to come through there's sweet fuck all you can build other than convoys

>>144692656
anyone who didnt want to manage a large as fuck front

fuck I remember how shitty I was playing clean up with a large front was in HOI3
>>144691673
>tfw forgot the supply system even existed
bravo paracucks for removing the best system of hoi3
>tfw theres runaway army building because troops dont have unkeep like they did in hoi3

LADS WHAT DO I LOOK UP FOR A HOI4 TORRENT

>>144692278
It's the sensible graduation from "casual with mild autism" to "autist".

The ultimate autism is Gary Grigsby games

>>144692905
Retard

I've been playing hoi4 10 hours straight and my arm is starting to hurt

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>>144692894
It's that old zombie mod converted to the latest HPM, I made a few decisions like encouraging pop growth to make the game less of a chore past 1850 but I need something better

>>144692841
but dat 50% attack bonus for drawing a line bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>144692961
>anyone who didnt want to manage a large as fuck front
Any casual who couldn't manage a front
I never automated any troops in HoI3, easter front or western front

>>144693051
Please keep working on it, I never got around to playing it and now I want to
release when

>>144692656
Plebs

>>144692656
based podcat did

>>144693163
There's actually the zombie mod for HPM that HPM fixed a few days ago in his pastebin

Fuck me convoy raising seems broken as fuck I'm just using France's starting submarines with no extra techs and I'm sinking like 10 axis convoys a day

>>144692982
virus.exe
>>144693107
then youd be playing at a low speed or youd be playing suboptimally because you couldnt take advantage of weak spots

some of us dont want to spend 10 days to finish a game so I normally had my main battle line automated (unless the front is managable) then the elite and armor I used myself

>>144693412
Yeah, I played a low speeds
Or rather I paused

> youd be playing suboptimally because you couldnt take advantage of weak spots
Like the AI would

Sorry you have the attention spam of a child

>>144693412
Playing at speed 3 and pausing a lot you can win the war against Russia in a few hours easily

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fug

>>144693412
>Watching the AI play video games for you

How do I use planes?

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Anyone here played as the Duke of Axum and goal was to restore Isreal? Any tips? Super scared of Egypt right now and my sons, none of them as high as stewardship or martial as me so my levies are not going to be as much once I die.

>>144693564
Cs.rin has a mega link Google it

>>144693553
Nah you need to play at speed 5 and be done with the game in one hour otherwise the retards won't finish it

>>144693564
t. pædophile

>>144693163
Here

https://www.mediafire.com/?6rbe69db69fz3rs

This one is an updated version, it adds new decisions and takes out the meme governments like State of Emergency that break the game

>>144693687
Go on the air map mode, click on a region and then choose the mission for each air wing

>>144693498
>>144693553
AI was pretty competent on moving a front forward, I got tired of having to shuffle and click after the initial offensive when the enemy is basically jelly

using manual control when you already have the enemy overrun is just retarded. However using AI control before that point is kinda dumb too. Id manage my front as France until I broke through and had the germans on the run for instance
>>144693578
>implying I enjoy having to shuffle troops around when the war is already won

>>144693925
Virus do not click

>>144693742
nice virus

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>>144692309
>>HOI4 Crack (May contain a chinese botnet)
http://pastebin.com/72Yhqm5i

>> Updated Waggle Pastebin
http://pastebin.com/33A7wXdB

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>send equipment
>send men
>decide to clear barcelona region of red scum
>zoom out and see this
franco for ficks sake

>start tutorial as Italy
>get raped by ethiopians until I realize im supposed to be building millitary supplies to reinforce
Just like in real life!

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How is this possible, game only came out 11 hours ago

>>144694118
Reported to the police for the racist flag

>>144694118
two capitals?

>>144693940
>AI was pretty competent on moving a front forward,
No, it wasn't. It is absolutely horrendous at making any progress

You could see that when you played a weaker enemy against a stronger enemy, like Italy holding an eastern front where the USSR grinded to a halt the Werhmarcht advance.

>>144694094
t. cobracrunch

What's the fucking point of cavalry and/or the military police?
The default cavalry is fucking shit for attacking.
The default military police is fucking shit for military policing.
The default cavalry make better military police than military police.

Province names FUCKING WHEN

>>144693932
Thanks

>>144694296
>playing as a weaker enemy against a stronger one
thats just dumb to use AI control but when you basically have won the war against the enemy why would you capture VP's yourself? Thats where the AI control shined. basically wiped out the USSR army and dont feel like moving your armies to capture VP's? no probs! OOB is a fucking mess after your offensive? AI dont give a fuck

Wait so you don't actually build units anymore you build equipment?

>>144692364

>I wanted to try mechanized/blitzkrieg France

This. France was a my favorite cunt in HoI3 aside from Yugoslavia because of the insane shit you could and sometimes had to pull to win on the harder difficulties, yet still maintain some degree of believability.

>>144694118
You do know that as Germany it is in your best interests to drag this war out for as long as possible as long as Franco wins, right? True for both real life and in game.

>>144692278
Some people want to be emperors, some want to be generals. I want to be Emperor-General.

Y'know, like Napoleon.

What's the difference between support artillery and dedicated artillery?

Am I cheating if I remove mana to edit divisions?

>>144694634
You build both.

>there's casual scum in this thread who think that HOI IV is hard.

>>144694698
Yes but do it anyway

>>144694634
I'm confused with the same thing, hoi3 was way easier for me.

>>144694426
Don't know about Hearts of Iron 4 but Cav is the best for upgrading and saving IC.

>>144694804
Thanks pal

Is the game easily crackable like the other paradox games?

>>144694603
So you are saying you used the AI control just because you played against weaker enemies
wow

>why would you capture VP's yourself?
Because changing to AI control completely wrecks the OOB

>>144694634
and your divisions can consist of different models of weapons

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>>144694795
Post your world conquest

Here's mine

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>Download HOI4 crack
>Monitor starts flickering
>Johan slowly begins to appear from the bottom of the screen
>My volume is suddenly maxed out and a distorted scream begins to play endlessly on loop as Johan's smug face stares at me and slowly bounces of the edges of the screen.

Wahey lads, at least I didn't get the cryptolocker this time..

>>144694634
You choose what units you want to train and it'll tell you what you need to produce and how much.

It's very clunky compared to HoI3 since you need to manage two separate pages just to shit out units.

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>play Japs as my first nation
>delay declaring war on China because they have like 3 times my number of divisions and I'm trying to get some more factories going
>turns out I just massacre their dudes at like a 10 to 1 rate
>I end up having to basically conquer the entirety of china and go through almost 4 million of their manpower to finally get them to concede
>doesn't have the same event peace that gives you the coastal ports and most of the north like in HoI3 so I just end up annexing basically their entire nation
well I don't know what I expected desu

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The game says I have 20 free factories but these factories are all red and are not actually usable

Could someone explain this shit please

>>144694795
It would be sort of hard if the AI wasn't pants-on-head retarded to the point where it feels like cheating.

I'm guessing the first thing serious mods will do, aside from removing retardation like Platypus Empire and Ottoman Empire, will increase the difficulty.

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never ever again

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JUST

help pls

>>144694636
You get it from training, focuses and advisors. Unless blitzkrieg France is something you do in 1936 I find it hard to believe this poses a problem

>>144695036

>Because changing to AI control completely wrecks the OOB

Tbf it doesn't if you don't let it reorganize your shit (which it never has to to be effective if you built your army at all acceptably.)

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Say what you want about how retarded/completely useless the battleplan system is, and there is a lot to be said about it, but at least the plans look pretty nice. They're like the History Channel documentaries with armies represented by flags that I used to watch for hours.

>>144695063
where the fuck do you see equipment stats?

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I have no clue what I'm doing desu

>>144695118
Japan starts with some of the largest divisions in the game (like 14k men per division), better infantry weapons than China and better tech than China. Literally your only problem in taking China should be supply in the Northern regions. So just build mountaineers for north and launch like three simultaneous naval invasions in the south.

>>144695036
>just because you played against weaker enemies
>implying I played weaker countries
My favorite countries in Hoi3 were China, Sweden, Turkey, and France because of the difficuilty but even with these countries youll enevtually whittle the enemy down. I use it for when its an even match or when I need to hold an offensive line while still moving forward (i.e. China going through manchuria after a failed japanese offensive)
>wrecks the OOB
my OOB is already fucked by the time ive overrun the enemy by that point I cant be arsed to micro an easy win

youd be a fool to ever use it if there's a notable chance youll lose the front

>>144695156
That's just Johan telling you to buy the game instead of pirating it.

>Playing Poland
>Join Axis
>Wartime comes, Germany declares war on France
>Goes on Netherlands and Belgium as well
>Instead of going through the low countries they mash troops into the maginot line
>Italy mashes troops into French Alps
>Have to send half my army to keep Italy from capitulating half a year into the war due to Commonwealth naval invasions
>Soviets start making cassus belli on me
>OH BOY
>they invade
>pull back my troops
>push back their invasion with Axis help, even make it as far as Odessa, Kiev, and fucking Leningrad mostly through my own efforts
>Meanwhile Germany and Italy get killed through AI incompetence and a billion beach landings
>I'm the last European Axis member alive as the Allies close in from every direction

that was fun, I do hope that the Germans attacking the maginot line is a one time thing though

Last I checked, Stellaris was kicked out of this general because people didn't want these generals dominated by that game. How come HOI4 is allowed then?

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i'm torn between getting a refund over steam for $49.99 back
>loved hearts of iron 3 & how it played, though didn't quite like how historically strict things were in vanilla
>always looked forward to hearts of iron 4, now that i have it, love how it gives an option to play an ahistorical route in vanilla, but hates how it plays

>would play more to try to get into it but already at 2 hours for just fucking around getting a fascist france and another session of trying out cheats

should i just get a refund and come back for the summer sales or just try to get myself more into it to maybe like it? i know there's probably some mods out there for hoi3 that'll loosen the historical restrictions, but i'm yet to find them

>>144695773
Stellaris was kicked out because it's 4x

>>144695602

Nat China was the most fun cunt in HOI3. Italy was probably my number 2.

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QHALITY

>>144695852
That doesn't make it not grand strategy

>>144695773
>How come HOI4 is allowed then?
It's grand strategy and it's biggest newest piece of content we've had in years. Reason Stellaris was kicked out is because it's 4x not because it would "dominate the discussion".

If Paradox announced/released Vicky 3 you'd also expect all the threads all day long to be about it. People wanna play something new, even if it's sort of shit.

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>>144695538
I guess I annexed Bulgaria

>>144695920
it doesn't.

But its not.

>>144695920
It does, new fag.

btw the general you are looking for is >>144642052

PUT IT IN THE FUCKING ARCHIVE ALREADY
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>144695984
>>144695992
t. liquor sheiks

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>>144695492

>>144695275

How easy is it to transition? Not saying a mech France needs to be viable in 1936, but the thing is, in HoI3 you could make divisions however you wanted, then upgrade/attach the right brigades when the time was right.

For example, I did a dank meme composition for early war French armored divisions of HARM, HARM, MOT, and regular ART to counter muh blitzkrieg decision soft attack bonus.

Then when it came time to start the offensive, I just upgraded the art and attached ENG brigades.

It really let you plan ahead and organically evolve your army, can you do the same with the system in HoI4?

>>144696078
Stop being an entitled little brat and go look for your own pirate shit

Are there any good mods for this game yet?

>It's a just spam infantry because it's impossible to incorporate artillery or tank divisions into your first war episode
This is lame

Some minor fixes for Gypsystan in HoI4:

https://mega.nz/#!oEdinbZD!hVlq72ubeI4_tHABg13aYlN6D8osdktwbXtZ2u_LWzY

>fixed flags
>partial Transnistria fix (a complete fix would require cutting a province in half)
>moved a province from Moldova to Wallachia
>proper 1936 starting leader (didn't touch 1939 yet, nor did I touch portraits)
>changed spelling to Rumania (the common English spelling until the mid-60s)

>>144696198
Kaiserreich and BLICE have been announced for HoI4. Other than that, you're free to mod your own annoyances out.

>>144695860
Italy would've been more fun if conveys sinking wern't spammed at you and if Africa wasn't worth trash in HOI3

im so glad they made resources worth more in hoi4

>>144695118
Are you complaining that the game doesn't spoon feed you your peace deal?

>>144696154
>It really let you plan ahead and organically evolve your army, can you do the same with the system in HoI4?
No

>>144696198
It isn't a day since it has been released, calm down

>>144696235
What you thought your army learnt anything from the great war?

I'd honestly want a limited, super in detail and historically accurate game covering the 16th or 17th century, but just a rather limited period therein, like the French Religious Wars or the Thirty Years War.

I want a new grand strat based on Here I Stand or Virgin Queen. That's what I want.

>>144696284
> BLICE

Source ?

>>144696287

Having your convoys get sunk was great because you got gobs of naval experience.

>>144693708
Just assassinate the Caliph as many times as you can and they should explode. That's my usual Byzantine strategy.

>>144696370
Ironically, ~1550 to 1750 is the only part of the timeline EU4 simulates sort of well, considering it's focus on supremely important rulers and Westphalian concept of nation-states.

Before that you'd want CK and after that you'd want Vicky for real simulation.

>>144696370
http://www.ageod.com/products/575/details/Thirty.Years'.War

>>144696198
I have started fixing broken things, meme names, etc

will release in 5ish hours probably

First world war mod when?

>>144696140
Yeah but if you mouse over Weapons I or Basic eq it doesn't give any numbers.

>>144696532
The max I can get the plot power to increase is around 30 or 40. How can I get it higher?

>tfw no supermegaautistic grognard game ala War in the Pacific about the Civil War

>>144696603
Please include
>>144696246

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Hey, anybody else getting a black map for HoI 4? As far as I gathered it's a problem with Intel cards, and there is a fix on the paradox forums but I can't see it since I pirated.

>>144696471
the problem was you'd have endless popups and half your industry dedicated to creating convoys because your DD/CL's wouldnt be able to sink their shit until like 1944, plus youd have phantom fleets sinking your stuff even if you took suez and Gibraltar

But still good for a one off campaign, not fun for multiple breakthroughs like France and China were

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>>144696714
Have you tried purchasing the game?

>>144696770
Hi Podcat

>>144696181
t. Wiz

>>144696714
Tbh that looks better than the shiny neon map it actually uses.

>>144696649
Ultimate Gettysburg or whatever the fuck it was called was bretty dice IMO.

Af course that's RTS tho.

>>144696634
dont really get what you mean
there are numbers of weapons the right of their pictures

>>144696634
Try research screen

>>144696714

>#BLACKED

>>144696714
BUY THE GAME GOYIM

The uk is always the most fun nation in hoi desu

Feel like I very very rarely see anyone else play as them though

>>144696770
>hekekek you suckaz giving da dues shekels
>lern 2 pirate
^^Whole thread on release.

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Brits sure are stupid, what did they think would happen? Now they are out of supplies and can't move. Fucking wasted my time.

>>144696858
I mean I just wanna know the stat difference.

>>144695902
>start game
>von Kluge is a field marshal in 1936
>close game

Last I checked, Stellaris is more complicated than games that are considered more traditionally 4x.
I would also consider Europa Universalis IV to fulfill the conditions of being a 4x game, but we consider it a Grand Strategy Game.
I think this thread is just full of people who can't enjoy Stellaris for what it is.
Is it disappointing, a little bit.
Is it fun, sometimes.
Does it give me the space Grand Strategy Game I've been looking for for years, yes.
Am I one of those who have been playing it nonstop since release, no because I have plenty of other Paradox games to play.

Also I haven't played HOI4 yet, but I didn't enjoy HOI3 much compared to everything else.

>>144696845
I like the design it has at night, but the daytime just looks really weird. Like It has two modes. Night, and Blue Night.

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>>144693708
Also why arent my provinces switching to jewdism and are instead becoming heretics?

>>144696918
I never played them because naval gameplay in previous hoi games was utter trash

>>144696918
Meh, you do all the work, get bombed, lose at least few hundred thousand men and then USA comes in and takes all the credit and all the rewards for the war leaving you fucked and with your empire collapsing.

Really WW2 is tragedy of the British Empire more than anything else. Especially since in classic Greek tragedies the hero tends to do good shit and try to act well and gets fucked over by it over and over again.

>>144697073
attilla tw has more complicated diplomacy than stellaris

>>144696898
Yeah thanks. Retarded it's not in the unit details.

>>144696624
Already exists for DH and HoI3

>fuhrer mana is actually a thing
kek

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Why can't I get this
they exist
they own Slovenia
I'm at peace with them

>>144697147
>letting the USA join your faction as the UK in HOI3
>>144697131
it was actually pretty fun for a one off campaign

>>144697073
Complexity doesn't define if something is a 4x, being a literal 4x game means it's a 4x game

Eu4 has a non randomised start so it isn't a 4x

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>>144696858
this but can only see it in research apparently.

>>144697232
based johan our guy

>>144697151
desu, haven't played Total War since Empire because I discovered EU4.
I'll concede that diplomacy is lacking in Stellaris, I'm sure that they'll improve it and I'll buy the DLC. Still doesn't make the game bad. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll improve diplomacy in free patches

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Where's a good place to stick AAA? Infantry or motorize or what?

Also
>this german music
Danke

My german game so far is much comfier than Shitalians

Have a rare hitler lads

>>144697323
Exploring past fog of war, don't really know whats over there till you get there. That's exploration whether you like it or not. Especially if centuries have passed by

>>144697147
If you can't do better than the British did historically you're just bad at the game desu

Japan barely defends the home isles and Italy is incompetent and invading them gives a good jumping off point into Germany

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>>144697448
That Hitler looks like he's the main character in a shonen anime.

Have some German qts in return.

is there infrastructure deadzones in Hoi4 like there were in Hoi3?

or am I going to fight in the sahara desert?

>select an army
>divisions not sortable by fields
what the fuck man

>>144697120
Isn't that normally low religion power (forgot its real name)?

If you want to assassinate them try paying off concubines, they normally have so many that a conspiracy of women can easily destroy a kingdom.

>>144696327
I was more just curious because I could have sworn I'd seen Germany and Japan get the similar custom peace deals when I'd seen the game in the past.

>>144697567
Yes you do it's a fucking map of the world, if you don't know your way around a map of the world why are you here

It's exactly the same thing behind the fog of war every time, it's not randomised

>>144697567
No, 4x exploration literally means exploring a map (usually randomly generated) not just knowing where an enemy unit is retard
By your retarded definition even AoE wold be a 4x

>>144697567
>don't really know whats over there till you get there
have you looked at a map before?

>>144697567
You don't know what's in the TI if you're an absolute retard that's never looked at a map before.

Set Map
Set Start
Set everything.

Historical Simulations are not 4x. IF you think so that Total War general and 4x should be combined because, hey, there's a Fog of War in every Total war game and you have to explore to reveal what's underneath, even though you know exactly what the map is going to look like, and what cities are going to be there.

>>144697120

You need higher moral authority or whatever it's called.

>>144693051
a couple suggestions if you're still working on it

>pop losses from new infected provinces should by at most 5%, not 20
>they should get to Madagascar via portugal's colonies, not france, and it should only go one way
>no pop penalty for getting reinfected if you've cleaned your country
>spread between countries should be at least a year, not a month, to make more cohesive hordes
>zombie land should last less time if possible
>zombies should have large immigrant push
>zombie modifier should run out after about 20 years to keep provinces that were covered, then suddenly weren't, from just staying there at 0 pops
>countries shouldn't treat zombies like other major revolts in HPM and make countries secede for no reason

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>>144692548
Why did Hitler want to call Berlin "Germaina"?

That would be like the US renaming Washington "Freedomland"

>>144697780
>>144697738
>>144697726
So the countries that rule over India remain the same until I discover it. Good to know.
Yes I know the geography, but I don't know what kingdoms exist until I get there

>>144697634
>each and every one of those girls was raped then killed then raped again by some slav(e) subhuman trying to defend the street they grew up on from an invading army of bolshevic swine
>they died, along with the hope of a free Germania, in order to pave the way for degenerates and traitors to take control of Europa

Why live, senpai?

>>144697952
Vicky 3

Rather than arguing what makes a 4x game a 4x game, what makes a Grand Strategy Game a Grand Strategy Game and why can't a game be both?

>>144697952
inb4 someone makes a shitty rape joke.

>>144697952
what he said >>144698034

And also to keep the hope of unified pure Europe alive

>>144696770
kill yourself fag

>>144698034
bahaha good joke

thats a reason to off myself before i have to see that abomination

>>144697864
I wouldn't be surprised if that does exist.

Why anon, what does Germania mean in your obscure language?

>>144698062
>why can't a game be both?
They can

Stellaris isn't though

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>>144691673
What the fuck is this supposed to mean?

Is encryption even worth it?
I doubt the AI even cares and probably cheats.
It's not like the AI is good either, it just gets rolled over.

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>literally parking all of your shit in Egypt
Fucking tactical geniuses

>>144698132
Oh don't be like that. if it's shit we can shitpost all day how shit it is. And if it is actually somehow not bad then that's literally a game to replace Vicky 2.

>>144698220
My native language in english

When I build infantry equipment is it automatically assigned to the infantry?

Apparently I downloaded the German version because Hitler is shaded out. I said Field Marshal Edition, but it also says no DLC's loaded up. Is this normal? There are DLC's in the DLC folder.

>>144698365
Yeah. You can change priority in Recruit & Deploy screen.

>>144698132
There's rumors that are saying that Vicky 3 is a reality
It's going to be handled like the Charlemagne CK2 expansion, change some concepts and add on a load of years.

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>First attempt at Internalist Brazil
>Fight Paraguay without knowing what the fuck I'm doing
>Win
>Second attempt, more focused on stuff that's effective on crossings and more ground support
>Struggle for so long it turns into global war
The fuck

>>144696770
adelaide?

>>144698257
What do you not understand

>>144698308
beating retarded Paradox AI is nothing to brag about

>>144696284
>Kaiserreich
Source? All I see on their forums is a 'maybe, focus trees could be good'.

>>144698365
It's automatically assigned to a unit type that needs it. If there are no unit types that can use that equipment that don't have it then it's placed in stockpile which speeds up your future recruitment of units since you don't need to wait for equipment for them to be built.

>>144698425
>Brazil caused world war
meme game

>>144698324
all they would have to do to make a good vic 3 would be add regional markets, make the economy work properly, fix piddly shit like industrial score, and expand the military a bit. Instead they will fuck it all up.

>>144698434
Hi pal : ^ )

>>144698454
>need 950k manpower in the field
I have 978.5k

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What's a good starting nation to play?
Ive played CK2 and EU4, but HoI4 is my first time with the title

I guess im looking for a more forgiving nation to play. One where i can fuck up a bit to get my bearings

>>144698612
Recruitment counts as used manpower, but it doesn't count till those troops are "in the field"

>>144698425
I jsut had this problem as Facist USA. Was able to use Pax Americana to topple plenty of governments over to my faction, invaded a few central American governments,fought and won against UK and Canada. But Mexico took almost 3 years to kill and in the last year they brought in the Allies despite being unaligned. Literally ruined my run.

>>144698652
Neutral USA
Romania
Canada
Brazil

>>144698406
Someone please answer :(

>>144698652
You literally can't go wrong the game is so simple.
Pick any nation.
Make an army.
Put army on the border.
Draw an arrow to the other nation's capital.
Declare war.
Click invade button.

>>144698652
In order of easytude

USA
USSR
UK
Germany
Japan

>>144698763
Post your successful game as Luxembourg doing this ladm8

Wait, so I can only edit pre-existing divisions in exchange for army XP?

>>144698742
You have to use the crack.

Can someone please explain exactly how HOI4 has been "casualized" in relation to the other games in the series? The user interface is barf, I know, but it's not like they turned it into the grand-strategy equivalent of Sim City or Spore, right?

Hey Guys, I've been checking the forums, (ck2) and I just can't seem to find a good mod for The Conan setting.

Where are these mods? Any that I can rollback the patch on? I'm really in a mood to conquer the world as a stygian.

>>144695127
That red represents those factories not being fully tooled up yet. They gain efficiency the more they work on whatever it is, in this case those kinds of tanks.

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ah.... relief....

>>144697825
My Religious Authority authority is 54% Holy war'd the entire region

>>144698724
Ah, okay.

That makes some sense, I guess. Thanks lad

>>144698906
You can make a new divisions. The button is literally right there.

>>144698968
Technology/research, ideologies, parties, military, economy have all been simplefied.

New production is actually more complex than HoI3.

Naval and air combat is about the same as HoI3.

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>tfw theres no longer ifrastructure dead zones so your troops fight across the sahara
FUCK

>>144696568
>coming to steam June 9th

I think I'll get it and post about it here. I hope it's not too politically simplified as to who was in the conflict, but overall it seems like it'll be good enough for such an under represented war in games.

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>>144696950
^^Podcat

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Why is Japan so utter shit in this game? I don't think I've ever seen them beat China ever, in my own game and in the streams I've watched.

This game they got stalled in the north and then push back and their southern naval landing got completely rekt. Only their central naval landing is doing somewhat well.

>>144699170
They take like 80% attrition

There's no reason why troops shouldn't be able to March across the Sahara whilst taking massive losses and casualties

>>144697689
Already did and only one with 7% said yea, sending my spymaster to spread rumors and chancler to his capital to sow dissent.

>>144699398
Probably because they got rid of militias for this game so they have actual infantry now

>>144698465
>brag
wew

>>144699398
Huh? Have you seen koreanusher's stream, he took out both chinas and then tibet too.

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>want to play as Austria and restore proper borders
>don't want Adolf to invade me before I can

;_;

>>144699463
but when troops fight they still march through the sahara due to the ebic arrow game

>>144691874
what manga?

>>144699691
I was talking about inordinate amount of times AI China wins over AI Japan. Frankly Japan needs a buff and/or China needs a nerf.

Maybe don't let them annex all of their substates as soon as Japan declares on them?

>>144699763
You're not forced to make shitty battle plans. Nor are you required to activate your shitty plans.

>>144699757
>vaporized Britain
11/10

>>144699318
grosskarlingium/10

>>144699757
How did you do that? Did paintisburg not give you trouble?

>>144700027
My v2 game was pretty strong this campaign.

>>144699981
t. arrow pro

>>144699981
You get penalized for not drawing arrows, though. Your units fight shitter because you didn't draw the battleplan. That's real gameplay incentive to draw the retarded plans.

>>144699318
>>144700048
>no Barcelona

shit desu

>>144694640
why?

>>144700219
Africa starts at the Pyrenees

Why would you want a land connection to Africa

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I got the protect against communism event like four god damn times, support was at 100%. Why do I have to fight a fucking civil war? Is there no reason to pick the popular revolution over military coup? Because it seems like whether you get a civil war or not is entirely dependent on which of those two choices you pick.

>>144700208
Which part of you don't need to activate plan don't you understand? If you can't draw arrows, control manually.

Although you at least need to designate the front properly.

>>144697027
Why did you bully based Franco anon?

>>144700256
You get more army experience. I learned that the hard way when I sent in two panzer divisions and took Barcelona and Valencia by myself and the war ended and I was left with like 11 fucking soldier mana.

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Just finished my first multiplayer game, lasted for 10 hours and Axis won, also invaded the US, but not depicted on the screenshot, screenshot is just the victory against the Bolsheviks.

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>>144700486
Republicans won.

Lads, I'M 100% serious when I say that HOI4 is more complicated than HOI3. The AI in both is fucking horrible so you win by default, but the production system in HOI4 is so terribly unintuitive that it ruined my armies a few times.

>>144700483
>you don't need to draw the plan
to
>you don't need to activate the battleplan

Nice goalpost moving faggot. You're still forced to use and then ignore a retarded system.

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pls tell me no one has done this yet

>>144700736
Then you did the right thing anon. I'm sorry I doubted you.

How do I gain control of the rest of a duchy title if my liege, the king, controls the rest of the provinces. He owns one of them and has vassals serving him in the other two yet I hold the title of the duchy and have no vassals. How do I get the rest of the counties?

>avoided war with china/uk as japan
>invaded that gook clique
>took me 4 years

lads...

>>144700808
Why are those 44 boats inland?

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I know you all are busy discussing Radical Yugoslavia's® Pro Painter™2016, but I'm starting a run as the Haizei, a Chinese pirate kingdom.

The Haizei exist to represent the forces behind the pirate raids that devesated the chinese coast. The Wokou also have been added to represent the Japanese pirates who added to the Ming and Korean suffering.

House rules:
No Religious conversion
No conquest of provinces on the mainland
Pirate truce: no attacking or raiding the Wokou unless they declare war first.

Goals for this run:
Fuck over the mainlanders
Have fun with privateering/raiding
Profit

>>144700748
Might want to learn reading. Because I didn't say that. I said you had a choice between drawing decent plans or not activating shitty ones

>>144700983
they are just havin a rest lad :)))

>>144700983
can't you see the icon? they're being carried by plane

>>144701101
>eu4
stopped reading there

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Is it possible to make more convoys for trade? Help

So if you draw the battle plan and don't execute it you till get the 50% bonus or no?

>>144695980
annex turkey next

>>144700820
Is there a decision in which you could petition your king to transfer his (your de jure vassals) to you?(making them your de facto vassals as well)
For the one he owns, no idea.

Does HoI4 have strategic resources?

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>China doesn't have a unique National Focus tree
This is going to be DLC isn't it?

>>144701104
>muh precious arrows

>>144701205
You can build more convoys yes.

>>144701607
Looks like it's you who is moving goal posts.

>>144701597
Of course. Everything that can be sold will be sold. I wouldn't mind if it was like EU4 where free patches introduces national ideas and traditions to minor nations but selling national focus trees makes me glad that I'm pirating it.

>>144701597
Quick, someone make a supremely detailed focus tree for China so that the inevitable China DLC looks like shit.

>>144701101
If this goes over well I'll change my mind on EUIV

Also I notice how you said nothing about ever possibly colonizing the new world.

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Finland called me in to this retarded war

>>144701607
t. steamgroup

>>144701749
Not the same guy, mate. More than one person dislikes meme arrows here,.

>40k peak players

ouch

>>144701580
Nope.

>>144701749
Thanks, I used some arrows to do it automatically for me.

>>144701932
Then don't reply to me. I don't care what you like or don't like.

>>144701902
Couldn't find this on the Google play store can you link me it so I can play it on my tablet later?

>fake german reichskriegsflagge because m-muh evil swastikas

Into the trash it goes

Fucking historical revisionist pieces of shit

>>144702195
well arrowed, my friend

Am I the only one who has absolutely no idea what's going on at my front, the interface is fucking horrible and the 3d graphics don't help.

t. HOI 3 semipro

>>144702195
>still cares enough to comment

>>144702072
>paying for trash
this aint sweden

But why is there no minimap tho?

>>144702323
yes

>>144702401
can't fit it on tablets so good

>>144702323
No, since the icons arnt counters, but instead just squares that float around, they are completely useless at assessing unit location

Is there any actual reason to ally Japan as Germany, thinking realistically about it? Literally all Japan is going to do is maybe win maybe lose in China, which is completely irrelevant to the greater war effort and fucks you over by getting in you in war against the US too early which can potentially lose you the war.

Really, even China, if it beats Japan, is better ally. Or just having not having anyone besides Italy and all the fascist puppets in Europe is fine too. At least that delays the war against the US substantially.

>>144702323
What's wrong anon, aren't the green/red orbs that come and go with no notification informative enough? Don't you find it helpful that unit counters all get stacked together when you zoom out so that you have no idea WHERE your troops actually are?

>>144702323
This the production stuff is way tougher than in hoi3

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What are the paradrones saying about HoI4? Shilling or waking up?

why does this game have a weird blue hue

>>144702209
Cry more faggot

>Muh swastika is gone?! How can I blay as gross geraniums now DX?!

>>144702209
Unfortunately, Europe is so cucked that people can get arrested for even mentioning the N*zis. How they can still be so booty blasted after seventy years is beyond me however.

>>144702668
worse than space game to be honest.

>>144702507
USA will get in the war either way because the germans were killing 6 hundred million innocent people...

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>>144701169
>>144701825
I'd do it in EU3, but coastal raids and pirates aren't modeled well in that game.

The initial raids strike the Chinese coast with ferocity. The Haizei loot fishing villages and raid warehouses along the Southern Chinese coast, adding to their ranks by means of enslavement and recruiting the various thugs and ne'er do wells.

>>144702463
woops i meant yeah, the interface is shit

>>144702507
No
>not invading US first
kek

>>144702668
shilling on paradoxplaza as usual

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>>144691673
Can someone please tell me what's going on here? Why isn't this working?

>>144702072
Peaks for all time (usually nowhere near release)
CK2: 12k
VIC2: 1.6k
EU4: 24k
Hoi3: 1.5k

Aside from Stellaris, I'd say Hoi4 compares pretty well.

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Why can't I build infrastructure in my puppet Manchuko? Now all my troops are starving..how am I going to beat China?

>>144702568
fuck if they even moved to the same state level when you zoom out I could accept it.

>>144702782
they're still training probably

divisions need to be physically on the map

>>144702568
Don't forget that there aren't any battle summaries, this shit is less accessible than HOI3 desu if you don't just press activate and lean back.

>>144702782
Because the game is a piece of shit

>>144702739
This looks fun as fuck anon, running any mods?

>>144702698
Why even have it set in a historical context in the first place when you change shit just so you can sell it to edgy 15yo that get triggered by reality/history

Fucking parashill, might as well play total war then

>>144702782

Need more divisions deployed

>>144702742
>shilling
Holy shit, really? This is the worst paradox release since EU4 and yet those plants are still chugging it?

>>144702863
>The holocaust was the worst atrocity in all of human history

hahahaha go watch schindler's list some more.

>>144702860
Single Japanese division is like 14k men with better guns than China. Just invade with mountain troops.

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>>144702863
>The holocaust was the worst atrocity in all of human history and white people will NEVER be able to pay for it completely.

>>144702967
People complain literally every single Paradox release that the game is dumbed down and simpler. You know how everyone here is talking about how good Hoi3 was now? Guess what people bitched about on release. They said it was too dumbed down.

>>144703008
i...

i just cannot...

you need to go back to /pol/

>>144702863
Reminder that war crimes only matter if you lose.

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>>144701673

How? I have been messing with everything but i don't find the option.

>>144702884
>>144702896
Ah that was it, thanks guys

>>144702895
Go play total war then if you get this triggered over a flag you can change in seconds cry baby

>HoI gets released
>threads turn into holocaust shitflinging
can you please keep it to /v/?

>>144703098
HoI3 is shit. It's just le war in the east spin off. It didn't have any of the cool political shit DH did.

>>144703008
>>144703090
>>144703126
>responding

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>>144702863

>>144703123
/gsg/ is not your personal safespace

>>144702863
t. falseflag