/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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Hoi4 is good

>muh NATO counters

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don't mess with the Italian navy :D
Italia rules the Mediterrainian

"no"

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Arumba

Reposting from last thread:

In prep for the CK2 AAR, I've looked over all the bookmarks and picked a few scenarios I think might create some interesting outcomes, or would have solid potential for an AAR which begins in a specific place (like England during the Anarchy, etc.) but would expand out from there.

Keep in mind that, for most of these scenarios, I'm not specifically suggesting a particular ruler or even area to play in, merely that an interesting situation exists somewhere in the world--oftentimes multiple places--which would lend early flavor to the AAR and might lead to some unorthodox outcomes. After a start date is finally decided on (which isn't happening right now; this is just the introduction of what I've got so far) I'll start polls on where in the world I should be playing, whether I'll be playing with a custom or historical character, etc.

I'm mostly posting this to see if any of you anon have any feedback on it, or additional suggestions for possible start dates. Since I'm using mini-SWMH keep in mind that I've already seen all the start dates featured in it (which are almost all from Sniggles' Bookmarks) and have dismissed using anything but what I've featured here, and that there is no India in mini-SWMH.

Possible start dates so far:
http://imgur.com/a/cfxnT
http://imgur.com/a/cfxnT

What's the optimal naval composition?

>>145178762
Neck yourself

>>145178951
4/4/1/1

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>>145178916
The resemblance is uncanny

Is there a reason to build anything besides submarines?

I had 2 full production lines pumping out subs and by 1940 I had 200 subs with donitz rekking all kinds of face. Cariers and battleships included

>>145178954
bit rude

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>>145178582
>>145178621
>>145178632
Here it is fixed friends.

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>>145178846

>>145178923
fourth crusade greece

>>145179076
Just build CVs and go town with port strikes

>Muh nato counters
Dont affect gameplay at all and wont make your casual game into a simulation.

Just fuck off

Is there a way to disable Jacobin rebels from spawning in vicky 2?

I'm tired of half my population revolting every 3 months.

Should I update my hoi4?

>>145179191
Nobody actually reads anything, do they?

This isn't for the vote, this is asking if there are any other interesting start dates I'm missing.

>>145179520
how do i read

>>145179181
>implying hoi is a sophisticated wargame

>>145179416
Nevermind can't stop 300k rebels as Sardinia Piedmont early game, I'm a republic now.

>>145179416
>>145179681
Pass reforms, nigger. Spring of Nations ain't no joke.

Hey /gsg/, so I fixed the states of Portugal, just a tip remember to add the states to the supply area in maps/supplyarea, but for some reason the game crashes after a couple years, ideas why?

>>145179771
I don't want the peasants to have voting rights.

>>145180069
Then you have to deal with the rebels

Have they made a probably shitty modern day mod for HOI4 yet? The game already feels so much like Superpower 2, they might as well

>>145180069
You didn't want that and they turned you into republic, are you happy now? You can't even appoint the ruling party now lmao

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I'll be damned, seems like the literacy restrictions do work.

>>145180206
Can I play your mod and blob as Japan into China and be number 1

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not only do I have naval superiority but I've captured the Suez

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GuP mod when?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9c8C2K-TtE

How do I enable DLC in the carribean version of HOI 4?

>>145180206
I'll assume that's from UK's colonies, does UK have open borders on their colonies? Doesn't make much sense to me

>>145180148
My economy is dead and I lost GP status.

And forming Italy is going to be a bitch since Austria and France are allies. So unless Russia shits on France in the Crimean war right now I mite be fucked.


>>145180307
There is a portrait one already lad.

>>145180145
Hasn't even been a week since release, stop being so entitled goyim

>>145180242
Yes, but only if you blob into China after they westernize so you can use those millions of small Chink hands to increase your industry score.

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>>145180206
When we open up, the influx comes back.

>>145180242
There are restrictions to blob in china, they are unlocked depending on your technology. See the pastebin inside the pastebin for more info.

>>145180327
No, those are british pops from the islands. Pops in colonies barely emigrate.

How the fuck do I become non-aligned in HOI4?

I thought changing ideology was piss easy.

>>145179136
what the hell are those symbols

>>145180531
Can you make a decision for fascist Ireland to genocide/assimiliate the Britsh population in N.I.? It's stagnant the whole game when in real life there would have been emigration from N.I. to the UK of the British pop

>>145179627
Go to bed Gary Grimsby.

>>145180531
>No, those are british pops from the islands
Don't Brits start with 60% literacy? Why can't they immigrate to a country with literacy limitations, I thought you set the limitation to 60% too

>>145180206
>literacy restrictions

can you please explain?

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Am I doing something wrong here? I launched an invasion into northern and southern France, but when I try to attach new units to the frontline they just stay where they are with the error "unable to find valid path to target".

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>playing as Soviet Union
>White Army, Black Baron starts playing

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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

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

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>>145180531
Yeah, it does work. After restricting it again the biggest number I got was 486 pops. Mexico gets pops from Spain and Austria too while I basically only get from the british.

>>145180809
Yes, they start with 60%. The irish don't and they are the bulk of the people leaving the UK.

>>145180679
Isn't better to make a decision where they go back to the UK?

>>145180679
One of the immigration policies are literacy quotas. You need to prove that you are literate to enter. In game a pop need at least 60% literacy.

we need a new archive, the old one is outdated

>>145179136
a-are you insane?

>>145181135
Emigration restrictions when? I don't like thousands of pops leaving my country every day.

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>>145180608
>being this new

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>>145181135
Here's a late game test with the latest test game. Left is open borders, right is quota.

The quota basically excludes all the Chinese from moving in because no one has over 60% literacy.

>>145181135
Wait, if you need 60% literacy to enter a state and the irish don't, how are they emigrating?

>>145177207
>border policy
>
>x
>x
>closed borders
>immigration policy
>open borders
>tick is over closed borders
Based.

But what do you mean:
>It also has a few caveats as you don't go full north korea without other countries becoming suspicious.

>>145178923
>http://imgur.com/a/cfxnT
For a less Euro-themed one, some of the Zoroastrian starts are good, and hard as hell.

>>145180362
Thank you based pan nationalist for doing it for me. Granted I'm still a shitty liberal country so I can't even build railroads in the new land.

Fuck liberal governments are so god damn awful in this game.

>>145181373
>you can exclude people based on literacy
OY FUCKING VEY I JUST CAME ON MY SCREEN, NOW MAKE IT EXCLUDE BY RELIGION

>>145178923
Also almost forgot - reconquesta is not on your list.

I am the ruler of another empire and I have the most votes in the election for the Byzantium throne. How can I make sure I still have this lead? What determines who the a.i will vote for?

>>145181373
Based HPM
I can finally have a pure Anglo United States without getting flooded by micks and wops

>>145178923
None. Play GoT mod as Stannis you faggot.

>>145181373
And possibility to fix immigration between European countries?

>>145178923
Bro just start from Charlemange and do the AAR through both EU4 and Vicky and maybe even HOI4

It would be sick

>>145180976
Is this song even in the game lad?

>>145181558
In V2 any immigrant instantly assimilates and converts anyway

>>145181373
Is it possible to have this as a policy for a political party, instead of being a reform?

That way, you're likely to see much more fluidity in immigration as the game progresses.

>>145181373
Make one that only allows your religion and 75%+ literacy and another more leniant one that allows 50%+ literacy.

>>145181458
Not doing anything before 1066, it would take far too long (and 867 is the only option anyway). Zoroastrianism will be an option based on whether I play a real character or a ruler designer one.

>>145181564
There are several bookmarks which have interesting things going on in Iberia, one of which even has it up to Granada. That's pretty much a Reconquista bookmark.

>>145181952
Nein

>>145182052
No fucking way. I'm autistic, but I'm not that autistic. I wouldn't have the time for it anyway.

>>145182180
Yeah, but that way the fucking russians are excluded.

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Will organizing a colony make their primary culture French?

>>145181373
HPM, would it be possible to make it so that colonial pops could only migrate to other colonial provinces, to simulate things like Indian workers in Africa and SE Asia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-resident_Indian_and_person_of_Indian_origin#Historical

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I've had moderate success posting RoTK here before, so I think I'll ask here.

Do I try to scout out free officer Cao Cao and recruit him? He'd be an incredible asset and, left at large with other forces to join instead, is a huge potential danger. But I just know doing so would end up with him becoming my liege in one way or another, possibly backstabbing me in the process.

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>>145181350
They are already in. I talked about it here >>145155672

>>145181376
Because they can still go to Mexico. The people immigrant tot he US are British - over 60% literacy. The people moving to mexico are mostly Irish.

>>145181443
Well, you will burn infamy slower. That's the trade off for the restriction. Turning in a democratic government will also change the reform. Constitutional rights give you the right to come and go and all that.

>>145181558
That's actually one of the few things I'm almost sure won't work out. I can test it, but the game usually interprets "religion = THIS" as if the target has the religion called THIS instead if the target has the same religion. That and it will fuck the aesthetics of the whole screen.

>>145181837
Until they learn to read and write, that is.

>>145181957
The game purposefully only represents large scale immigration. Technically, you can have immigration as any nation, pops just prefer the new world much more.

>>145182184
I think so.
It's bot a bad idea, but I'd need to redesign the party policies party of this screen and there isn't enough space. I also need to add another party policy to add min-max social spending so there's one thing on the line for this.
That and prohibiting anyone from leaving your country isn't exactly something that changes dynamically.

>>145182354
Depends on the colony. Most, yes, but some like arab countries, no.

>>145182528
>rotk
Return of the King?

>>145182552
Can we restrict immigration to certain regions instead of literacy?

Or exclude rights from pops from certain regions?

>>145182603
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, you fucking pleb.

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Is the guy who posted rare Mosleys here?

>>145182552
>Well, you will burn infamy slower. That's the trade off for the restriction. Turning in a democratic government will also change the reform. Constitutional rights give you the right to come and go and all that.
>not taking refugees gives you infamy
>in the 19th century
>this is what you do instead of adding decisions for france to make wallonian accepted
Fuggin ebin :DDD

>>145182603
Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

You'd think it would be RotTK or RTK, but RoTK is the most common acronym.

>>145182528
Leave him be, see if he can reorganize and form a new force. Also post map.

>>145182768
Shouldn't that be RotTK?

In hoi4 if my fleet was destroyed and air fights are causing me huge losses in planes but I have land superiorty but can't attack because of no planes should I just defend until I can field enough planes?
I expect to get bombarded to hell, should I invest into anti air units and buildings, and is it possible to create a navy without fielding them so they don't get instantly destroyed the second they come out?

>>145181551
Just like real life then

Can I download steam workshop stuff if I don't own the game?

>>145183206
Yes

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Help!

>>145182552
Make a decision for a conservative government to roll back immigration reform that gives a modifier called "populist administration" which improves ruling party support.

>>145183206
Not for the new games

Anyone have a mega link to HoI4?

>>145182552
HPM first of all I want to say thank you for your work. The dedication you've put into this mod rivals a sizeable DLC.

I've got a few questions about immigration:

Will this have any effect on uncivs? Historically China sent thousands of immigrants to the US, but there isn't an easy way of currently representing that in the game besides the clumsy move_pop command. Is there any way of granting them one of these immigration reforms without fucking up the game's economy?

I'm assuming a Fascist/Communist dictatorship will impose closed borders, but what effect will an anarcho liberal/jacobin/reactionary coup have?

When an unciv Westernises will the default immigration policy be closed borders?

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is the /gsg/ mod guy here?
I can't get this focus to work probably because he changed the name of vicky France to French state

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>Every 10 seconds I get another Cut Down to size.

Got another two after I finished this

Hey guys. I'm new to HOI. I fully understand EU4 and semi understand Vic 2 after 7 hours. How complicated is HOI4 to learn?

>>145182898
He is only doing it because of his autism. Russians shouldn't leave because it didnt happen, Irish should leave in masses because thats what happened. Of course all the reddit fanboys are eating this shit up

>>145182552
I don't see anarcho-liberals restricting immigration. Everyone else is a fair point however. For anarcho-liberals, who I imagine practically as libertarians, I just don't see it.

>>145182552
Based HPM

I did an Italy game a week ago, and I have 2 questions

When France got dismantled, they lose their cores on Savoy. They then claimed Savoy. Is that a one time thing? If I were to dismantle them again, would they lose those cores again and not be able to reclaim it again?

When France got dismantled, I also got the border provinces. I had no need of them as Savoy and Nice were top line forts. Just a suggestion, but maybe instead of just giving Italy and Spain France's border provinces, have events fire for them so they can choose to take those or not. Maybe an option to take and giving mil and con to the french pops in the provinces, and an option not to and lose like 1 infamy or something

>>145183485
I regularly post his mod there for karma so I can shitpost more.

>>145182552
I'll justify infamy burning thing as, the infamy you burn if you don't have open borders is the actual one and you burn more infamy if you have open borders as you take care of people that flee from wars, oppressive countries etc. Because I agree with >>145182898 that not accepting the refugees wouldn't give infamy in 19th century

But that won't make much sense with countries that don't get immigrants in the first place, so countries that don't get immigrants shouldn't have the infamy burning of others even though they have open borders though I have no idea how would you do this

>>145183424
Can't you just surrender?

>>145183401
Yes i'm here, I'm almost certain that the national focus trees use the country tags rather than names, so changing the name has no effect at all

>>145183240
how?

>>145183896
so it's just hoi4 that is broken

>>145183896
Lad, you probably can't do it for the next version, but can you also add cores to the USSR? Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia etc

>>145183896
I'm pretty sure your mod makes my game crash
I'm not the guy that was trolling you the last time, really it keeps fucking crashing

>>145184384
It's probably the beta patch

>>145182659
I've thought about it and there's a good precedent in Australia. Problem is, it fucks up the symmetry of the screen. I know it sounds petty but it's one of the main problems. The aesthetics will go to shit if I add another level.
So the quota could be either literacy or European only. I could make a decision that adds an additional layer though, like literacy+region, but the effect present in the reform is the most important and will be the base restriction.

>>145182898
There are no refugees in V2. Closing your borders is people not getting in or out. The wallonian stuff has nothing to do with this.

>>145183485
Yes I try to simulate historical trends. French people didn't breed so much, Ireland was overcrowded and people were leaving en masse and Russians had serious restrictions on moving out. There are plenty of mods out there, or even vanilla, that don't try to do these things, so it shouldn't bother you if people like what you don't.

>>145183259
That implies the existence of a few things, like nativist movements. It's complicated.

>>145183351
Thank you for the kind words.

China also had serious restrictions to movement. The thing had a few exceptions, like Coolies. I don't see an easy solution for that problem as the Chinese will probably bleed out so many immigrants that they will flood the new world.

>I'm assuming a Fascist/Communist dictatorship will impose closed borders,
Not necessarily, it doesn't impose anything. The AI only changes to closed borders if they adopt a totalitarian policy. The player can do it if they want, but don't need to be totalitarian.

>anarcho liberal/jacobin/reactionary
Right now only, the only one that has an effect are jacobins. They force it open. I guess anarcho liberals should also open it.

>When an unciv Westernises will the default immigration policy be closed borders?
Default for all countries right now is open. Closed borders don't change much for most uncivs as they already don't migrate much.

Started playing CK2 yesterday, and quite honestly, I am disapointed...

Game was great and very fun, but it just does not make any fucking sense at all!

I was playing with chales magno, waged war against the saxons, I had clear numerical superiority having over 6k soldiers while they had 4k, was easy to defeat them...

However, not even 1 month after my victory they simply rebelled and spawned nothing less than 12k soldier! That is 3 times what they originally had in the war we just fought!

Like...what the fuck is up with that shit? How did their soldiers grow 3x the original number while I still don't have my 6k soldiers back?

This just feels very broken and unbalanced, makes me feel like this game is a massive waste of time since no matter what I do the game will fuck it up with some random ass shit like this...

>>145184564
did it ever get to your mind that they may not be the same soldiers? people revolt and get to arms all the time

anyone please >>145183104

>>145184505
European only wouldn't work though, because if I'm playing Japan I won't want a bunch of cumskins coming in when there are plenty of nearby Chinks or Gooks.

>>145183558
I agree with you, I will change that.

>>145183648
>They then claimed Savoy. Is that a one time thing?
I'm fairly sure it's a one time thing. It's a NNM decision so it shouldn't be repeatable.

>would they lose those cores again and not be able to reclaim it again?
Yes.

>fire for them so they can choose to take those or no
Someone brought this up, don't worry, I will do something like that when I redo the dismantlement stuff.

>>145183796
It's not about letting people in, it's about letting people out. Freedom of movement. Victoria 2 doesn't have refugees and letting people in is a moot point since European countries getting immigrants is extremely rare.

>>145184653
>did it ever get to your mind that they may not be the same soldiers? people revolt and get to arms all the time
After I massacred their population in a war a month ago?

And even if they are, how the fuck am I supposed to fight it? I don't get 3x the amount of soldiers I had 3 months ago, how the fuck can I ever counter this?

>>145184505
>That implies the existence of a few things, like nativist movements. It's complicated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)#United_States
Let it be known this is the last example of this I shall be listing. I am in no mood for one of your thread spanning bouts of stubbornness.

>>145184564
>I'm bad and it's the game's goddamn fault!

You're everything wrong with this genre

>>145185029
>You're everything wrong with this genre
Ok, explain to me how to get 3x the soldiers I had a month ago right after the war, mr pro-gamer.

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What should my goals be for my Gross Vargassium-Brasilliums

Haven't played the game yet. Can you remove the 3d models and just have nato counter or not ? Haven't really followed development lately.

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Seriously, what the fuck is even up with the flags in EU4? Here I've spent several hours forming Arabia and then I end up with this low-res ugly piece of shit. Why can't Paradox just make them a bit more high res so they don't look quite as dogshit? Even the flags for the main countries look like crap. Fucking unplayable

In HOIIV, what influences amount of factories possible in a state?
Infrastructure?

>>145184929
You "massacred" their soldiers, not the population which rose up against you.
Local nobles and merchants can afford foregn mercenaries to fight the oppressor.
And so on

>how the fuck am I supposed to fight it?
you don't fight a crushing rebellion, you avoid it
strip the local nobles of their power and give their land to loyal men so they won't rebel, you need the right laws to do that but it shouldn't be difficult if they're foreign and/or of different religion

>>145184505
Wow sorry, next time I won't express my opinion and just keep watching you and your fanboys fuck up Railroading: the mod even more. Fucking prick.

>>145185267
I think the base number of factories is hardcoded i.e. can't change during play

>>145185159
How can you stand playing with the day/night cycle on

>>145185285
>you don't fight a crushing rebellion, you avoid it
>strip the local nobles of their power and give their land to loyal men so they won't rebel, you need the right laws to do that but it shouldn't be difficult if they're foreign and/or of different religion
So, im gussing at this point I might as well start the game over, don't think it will be possible to avoid this rebellion at all...

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MALTA CAPTURED
SUEZ CAPTURED
ANGLOS BTFO

>>145185267
Industry tech, focus tree decisions

>>145185267
Technology and focuses

>>145185443
What do the rebels want? If they want independence for the saxon land you recently conquered you can just conquer them again later.
But yeah you made mistakes

>>145185414
i honestly dont mind it

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>>145184957
I never denied the nativists existence. I know they exist.

The problem is that it implies they always exist and exist everywhere, and that people are always supportive of them. You can already change the reform normally, but adding a modifier called "populist administration" that improves ruling party support implies a bit too much about pops.

>>145185326
And I'm justifying my design choices, because I have read your opinion and took it into consideration even if I suspect you aren't trying to help.
I'm also trying to help you: don't get at mad people for liking something you don't, just play something that doesn't do what I'm doing. There's plenty of that.

Anyway, I will leave you to your bitterness. Thanks for the opinion!

>>145185558
What laws should I get to avoid such a thing from happening in my new game?

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>>145181551
Well I just got fucked silly with this French Austrian alliance. France is going on a rampage this game. They just finished the Franco-Prussian war by 100% occupying north Germany.

Not sure what I'm going to be able to do this game, may have to wait for great wars before I can get my land.

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>>145184957
>Let it be known this is the last example of this I shall be listing. I am in no mood for one of your thread spanning bouts of stubbornness.

>>145185672
I can't remember exactly but it has to do with taking away titles of your subjects. However I think you never need a law to take titles of subjects of different religion. that you recently conquered

>>145185159
I hate those fucking stars so much

>>145185159
Uruguay + entre rios + esatern paraguay + everything east of the orinoco river (guyana and venezuelan guyana)

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>>145182906
Wasn't really sure how I should go about doing so.

>>145185748
>he has never spent 4 hours passionately stating fact after fact, with sources to HPM only to be told it's not "the direction he wants to take."
missing out tbvqh lad

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what the fuck

>>145185667
can you do this? It would not take long
>>145165443

>>145186293
source

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How do I salvage my game?
>Playing as Greece, joined axis
>We BTFO Europe in two years
>All fine, just making progress with Italy in Africa and the Middle East
>Everything starts to fall apart
>Germany inevitably declares war on the Soviet Union
>Japan joins the war
>Germans barely make it a third of the way to Moscow
>They retreat to the pre-war Polish-Soviet border
>It's a stalemate
>I start advancing through Iran
>Stuck on three mountain provinces near the Indian border
>They get reinforced by FUCKING FINLAND and AUSTRALIA
>US joins the war
>Invade Spain with Canada
>Reinforces the Iranian front, forcing me to defend
>Danish troops liberate South Africa

How do I break the stalemate? I'll post more pictures to show what is going on

>>145186293
>he has never defended Tibet against heinous accusations of slavery
wow...

>>145182898
>being this dense

>>145186434
uninstall.exe

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>>145186434

>>145181012
based cobra

>>145184564
t. Turkslayer

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>>145186434
>Trying to conquer India as Greece

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Portrait anon here. I made a portrait of Georgios Tsolakoglou, the Axis-installed puppet leader of Greece, to appease that autist who keeps asking for him.

Usual rules apply. Anyone can use him and the dds has been added to the mega folder, etc etc

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>>145186434
Error: You must wait 2 minutes 51 seconds before posting a duplicate reply.

>ace pilots are just icons and a buff
>not even a statistic how much planes they downed

baka senpai

how do I enable Poland DLC? it doesnt seem to appear in the DLC list

>>145186737
how do you make these?

>>145186791
>All those red battle bubbles

Prepare for hot slav dick

Shit, someone needs to rework the axis. Whenever I play as democratic America I don't have to do jack shit because by 1939 Germany has declared War on half the world and by 1941 Berlin has fallen. Maybe make them a bit less aggresive, I don't know

>>145186791
Land in the Don Basin

>>145185989
A list of the kingdoms would have been enough, but that's pretty cool. I assume those are the same people as always, right? Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce/Sun Jian, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, etc. In this game everything seems to be very static, 207 and it's all pretty much like the start.

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>>145186434
believable worlds
>>145186908
they are just failed attacks though
i'm in a NAP with the Soviets
i knew the germans couldn't do anything
by doing that though, it split off into a different war which saved the world

>>145186829
Talent.

>>145186808
Did you pre order goy?

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Cavalry too strong.

>>145165443
>>145186347
Sure.

>>145185893
I just loaded the game and got even more confused, it wont let me take their titles away because it says I need title removal law to be able to do it, but when i check laws i already have that law active...

What the heck? is this a bug?

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>>145186829
I use Photoshop with a couple of plugins - one to save/view dds files and another to give it an oil paint look.

Then I create two custom colour layers; one for the clothes and one for the face. After that I'll spend some time tweaking around with the levels to make sure it matches the style of the original.

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>>145186434
last pic

>>145186979
the germans tried that, but lost every single ship and plane they sent there
also, the ai has a habit of creating invasions with one division

>trying to play a comfy commie nippon in vic2
>take hawaii (kawaii) for 0 infamy, first thing i do
>only 1 regiment was used
>westernizing fast as shit
>cant buy fucking sheep
>cant train soldiers because no sheep in japan
>no sheep in the world
>100+ reactionaries in edo
>back to the stone age

how do i not let this happen?

>>145187146
nope

>>145187168
I saw someone basically do this same thing in HoI3 as Turkey, almost did a WC with just cavalry. How is this possible?

When i start as spain in 4 do I get to choose between NatSpain and SocSpain ?

>>145187186
Do you have religious revocation?

>>145187292
No Poland DLC for you then

>>145187236
Can you make a better portrait of Hirohito?

>>145187178
Hey HPM, I know it's minor but for aesthetic purposes could you make the matter of state bar reach to the ends of the reform tab? Right now it's cut off.

>>145187374
b-but it's in the game files!

>>145186737
Thanks mate <3
i love u

>>145178846
Sprites are unironically messy when there's a lot of them.

Can you annex any African nation you have sphered after scramble for Africa pops through event or is it exclusive to certain ones in hpm?

>>145186973
Or better. I had Germany pull soldiers off the front like to invade Switzerland. I took Berlin like a month later as SR. The AI needs helps.

>>145187259
Soviets need to war conquered early as fuck otherwise they're too strong.

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I'M GONNA DO IT

>>145187660
the fuck is that?

>>145187660
>40 fucking euros
>to make the next expansion pack free
What the fuck does it mean, will DLC cost upwards of 40 euros each from now on?

>>145187387
That's a good idea. I'll start on that now

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>>145187660

>>145187834
They will probably cost a lot more

>>145187660
>>145187743
>>145187834

Jewry. Hitler was right.

>>145187660
>can pirate dlc and still play the steamversion
lmao@urlife senpai

>>145187356
I don't have that option available, maybe i needed to research some technology before I can use it?

Guess I will just start over and apply all I learned from this failed game on my next one, see if i do better this time.

>>145187317
Cavalry is just faster infantry. So encircle and destroy. AI is currently pretty passive so you can do whatever you want. Mass your troops on encirclement battles and leave other parts of the front lightly defended.

>>145187262
Kawai sheepuna

>>145187440
Sure but it needs to be activated, so either pirate the DLC or go full goy like >>145187660

>>145187178
What's the price of liquor in the latest patch?

How do I enable dlc?
I have the pirated version and all dlc is included, they're just in a dlc folder and i dont know how to enable them
help

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>>145187419
Like this?

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l.m.a.o.

so the reason Hirohito's portrait in Hoi4 is so unnatural looking is because they literally copied it from a TIME magazine cover.

>>145188245
>reforms is 2 millimeters from the edge while release nations is at least 3.5mm
stop triggering me

>>145188309
>l.m.a.o.

kys

>paradox likely will not make an open beta for the free patch that's going to accompany In Sickness and In Health
fuck this business model of theirs trying to spike playrates on dlc release days

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What the fuck is up with HOI4 that keeps drawing me in, it's not like the game goes any different really, I just keep finishing games and starting up new ones right after. THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME ITS NOT EVEN A GOOD GAME

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oy vey no Israel?

>>145188309
ebil

>>145188408
CK2 DLC?

>>145188309
>tfw you will never be a ö-grade deviantartist how gets loadsa money "painting" leader pictures

>>145188379
That's because reforms is currently selected you dumbass

>>145187660
PLEASE
THINK THIS ONE THROUGH

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H-here we go lads!

T-ten thousand y-y-years :I

Tennoheika Banzai!

>>145187186
>I need title removal law to be able to do it, but when i check laws i already have that law active...
do you have it active or is it being voted on?

depending on your council laws you may need approval before your laws become effective

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>>145187007
Oh yes, that's much easier.

I'm playing from the 3rd scenario, that starts in 194.

>>145186582
Advance through Odessa, Central Asia, and the main force through the Caucasus, you numbskull

>>145188495
Maybe 3000 hours of other grand strats made you get bored of them?

>>145188573
Fuck are you scared about?

>>145188512
CK2, it also leaks out to other games I assume but CK2 is in a state I'm finally able to say is unacceptable after years of not being bothered over anthing outside the most blatantly broken (short-lived) patches

>>145185459
The UK AI seriously need to STOP doing shitty naval invasions in Italy and START putting fucking soldiers in North Africa and other regions where the enemy is amassing soldiers.

I managed to take Egypt with 4 divisions of Mot-Inf as Italy. I felt empty inside.

>>145188379
Didn't do that at all.

>>145188730
>I managed to take Egypt with 4 divisions of Mot-Inf as Italy. I felt empty inside.
>implying that's not historical

>>145188679
That's might be it, I have so many hours in each that something new is making me want to play it as much as the others. But I know it's a bad game but I just can't stop

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Started at 1933.

Feels good mane.

Russians are folding like a house of cards.

>>145188704
No I'm asking about In Sickness and In Health

>>145187007
New people pop up sometimes but it's rare.

>>145188680
The US shitting on me in 2 months

>>145188805
>plays DH in 2016

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>playing germany
>doing well
>conquer france in an month's
>air superiority over the channel, british isles etc
>DOW ussr
>UK somehow manages to land troops in normandy while I have troops stationed there and air superiority over the channel and france, you're only supposed to be able to do naval invasions when you have air superiority
>2 production lines maxed just to replace the thousands of fighters that get downed in the east

I'm so shit at this game that I'm just going to start starting in 1939 so I don't have to prepare for 3 years just to lose handedly

>tfw playing hoi4 made me a german nationalist even though I'm not german

>>145188917
Better than HoiV

Better than Hoi3

>>145188672
i'm not at war with the fucking soviet union you dip

>>145188784
I'm pretty sure Italy literally got BTFO N Africa by some exiled Brits and a handful of louse infected ANZACS despite outnumbering them 5:1

>>145188962
no, youre just a naziboo

>>145188898
>implying the baka gaijin even know how to use a sword
>implying they aren't fatass cowards which they legit seem to be without planes, the US's only edge is having infinite industry and being unhittable due to being across the fucking map
Shamefur dispray

>>145183206
>>145183240
no you can't. you used to be able to use
http://steamworkshopdownloader.com/
but it doesn't work for stellaris or hoi4

>>145188805
Meh too much micro, I'd rather blob 200 divisions and draw a line to Vladivostok

>>145189013
DELETE THIS
t. pizzanigger

>>145188962
fag

>>145188940
>Not taking care of britain before DOWing the commies

Repeating the same mistakes Hitler did I see.

People that play pirated games = rapists

>>145188850
that's the name I'm guessing off of a wild hunch
I'll drop it if the upcoming DD doesn't mention marriage
I was really hyped for playing in Ethiopia with conclave and have been unable to do so thanks to the aggression tweaks and holy fuck I observed the mongols lately they're weird as hell declaring invasions on people they don't border thanks to fucking seazones, hell they subjugated an arabian empire that had done a few wars across the caspian without borders of their own which was border gorey enough on its own
I assume prosperity is mostly to stop people from pouring into the steppes and East Africa so I REALLY want an open beta patch for that alone.

>>145188940
Put garrisons on the coast you dumb frogposter

>>145189253
I DID THE ENTIRE CHANNEL WAS GARRISONED

>>145189115
why though

>>145189234
Where are the dev diaries, is it not in steem announcements?

>>145184564
okay imagine this

you're a peasant. your tending your land and providing food for your family. that's what you do. you know of a person who is in the army, that's what he does

now a foreign army comes in, destroys your nation's army, burns your villages, rapes your women, and then they have the nerve to claim they rule over you now.

well you might just put being a lowly peasant on hold to take up arms against these foreign invaders now wouldn't you?

>>145189306
paradox forums
until recently they were kinda lacking desu outside the options menu preview and the recentmost DD

Open beta patch N E V E R

>>145189283
More than 2 divisions on all coastal areas?

The game seriously lacks some feedback about lost units, planes, enemy invasions etc.

>>145185558
It's the Widukind Saxon Rebel event.
>>145184929
The Saxons were Germanic tribals meaning basically every male could fight if he wanted, and they've been fiercely independent and territorial (as well as pagan) since Roman times. Get good.

>>145188991
>i'm not at war with the fucking soviet union you dip
>proceeds to wonder why the Axis is losing

question, can i arm my populace to the teeth like the US in HOI4?

>>145189295
wish I knew anon. they somehow blocked it

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>>145189545
>Serbian state

Is this a mod that fixes German-puppeted Serbia being Yugoslavia, or is it the beta patch?

>>145189545
>the German fucking AI cucks him out of Slovenia

>>145184564
>he has 6k as Karl Karling
Nigger you should have 10-20k easily, did you lose it all to attrition like a dumb bitch?
12k light infantry is nothing, lure them across a river or over a hill.

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Dutch stronk. Dutch stomp frogs. Dutch beat Bolshevik.

>>145185326
Why so butthurt?

>>145189663
it's my puppet

>>145189707
I let Germany take Slovakia

>>145189830
are you running a mod or anything? when i puppet it, it's yugoslavia, but with serbian borders

>>145189562
oi i have less than 100 divisions

>>145185153
You're an imbecile who offended literally every one of your vassals if you had 6k as Charlemagne.

>>145189896
there's an option to puppet Serbia and then if you wait a turn you can give it extra land

>>145189801
I always find amusing how the same fag get extremely butthurt when hpm's around

>>145188940
>>145189195
You could of stopped this.jpg

>>145189013
Italy's generals were incompetent and actually thought the UK had any amount of troops in Egypt so they dicked around in Libya instead of just charging them and overwhelming them with superior numbers

Is it enough to just have a coastguard on my northern german coast or do I need to have it expand all the way to Memel to make sure allies dont do a sneaky landing ?

>>145178848
>>145188506
>He doesn't individually recolour his army groups
why even play

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New version of new counters mod. It eliminates memes, so no more cats for your alternate divisions.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/v7up45ufsem2y59/newcounters.rar

>>145184564
It called a peasant revolt. It how it works. For example, one time as Leon I was able to do the reconquesta in 5 years. I spent the next three generations getting them to be proper culture so I didn't have to put down revolts in revolt season.

>>145190141
There are people who don't have each front under a field marshall and stick every unit in that group?

>take molotov ribbentrop pact
>conquer poland
>get to keep it all

>>145190483
An event pops up like a week later where you can follow the treaty, but I don't know if it penalizes you in any way for not following through

>>145190201
>4chan

>Hoy Foy as Italy
>Send two tank divisions to help in Spain
>Nasty Spain completely incompetent, Commie Spain backed by five fucking Soviet NKVD divisions
>Condor Legion encircled and destroyed within a month
>Slowly, slowly chip away with my two tank divisions, encircling one Internationale division at a time
>Commies eventually run out of gullible American bleeding heart divisions
>In December 1938, my tanks roll into Barcelona and end the war
>Nasty Spain had 8 divisions left and Commie Spain had around 4 divisions
>Two outdated divisions of Italian tankettes destroyed the entire Red Spanish Army
War is hell. Spaghetti is demons.

>>145189789
you should have gone full dutch and just annexed important cities and landmarks

>>145190775
i have -NEVER- been able to assist spain
even when I sent 6 tank divisions and captured most of the people's republic cities, nationalist spain still lost

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>>145189789
This flag triggers me

>>145190935
What flag is that?

>>145190930
>>145190775

as Germany i once succedded because their tank division are very pacey

but with shitalian (or other) tanks theyre very slow and useless

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WHY THE FUCK THE THE RETARTED GERMANS DECLARE ON THE ARABS FOR NO REASON
MY JOB IS NOW MUCH HARDER

>>145191058
Panzer II divisions are fast as fuck, you can run across like 10 plains provinces and encircle their entire army before they can cut you off.

>>145190930
They lose the war if they lose enough VP's

>>145189890
I love my liquor
>>145190020
It's just so salty, it's bad enough being run over by reddit

>>145191052
Well that's the problem; it doesn't exist. It looks like a Holstein flag. So the guy who made the flag mixed up Holstein with Holland, probably because of the similar tag (HOL)

Paradox is a fucking joke

>>145191052
He's probably talking about how shitting the Dutch Fascism flag is.

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New Hirohito portrait lads.

I hearts of iron 4 good?
Will i like it if my favorite grand strategy is vicky 2?
Is it worth a buy, or not yet?

>>145191052
Nobody knows

>>145191802
It's worth a pirate. Fun for a couple playthroughs but it's really barebones.

AARnon lad, you around?

As promised, here it is, the whole AAR:

http://imgur.com/a/OP4r8

http://imgur.com/a/y94Ec

Never used imgur before so hopefully I haven't fucked anything up.

This is also a way for me to thank you for the great story. Looking forward to that CK2 AAR too.

Can you scrap/sell planes ?

I dont want all these polish planes I captured.

>>145191785
He looks derpy but at least he's not a derpy lipidball.
Can you draw a pic of Amaterasu, I'd rather play as an actually divine ruler.

>>145191785
What a nerd

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When is generalchanges going to include glorious Soviet music for that revolution spreading action

>>145190460
Is there a disadvantage in doing this?

>>145191802
It needs a lot of work and 3-4 DLCs (like all Pdox games) before its good.

>>145191785
Is he looking at two different directions?

>>145191071
>joining Axis
>ever
>not forming your own faction and picking up the pieces of WWII

So is anyone working on a complete overhaul mod for hoy iv already?

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>tfw Prussians stop trying to sphere north German minors
>tfw squished S-P as soon as they became GP

Feels good man. After 1870 I will take Tunisia and the rest of Libya, then genocide all Arabs as a service to future generations.

>>145192157
One eye on the streets, one eye on the Chink.

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>>145191974
>he says in a thread catering to fans of grand strategy games on a mongolian yak-milking forum.

>>145192039
you don't get general bonuses and you could be doing things more efficiently (general infantry army on the whole front line and specialized armies on a smaller front for important objectives)

>>145192257
The team who did Black Ice for HOI 3 is doing a version for HOI 4 as well

Is Japan any fun in HPM?

>>145192550
Yep, just slow getting started, but lots of events

are heavy fighters any good? I sent 1100 common fighters against 3500 bombers and 400 fighters in Northern France. I was playing as Italy, most of the planes were outdated. The Allies had the air supremacy. I shot down their planes but lost 700 planes. I was thinking maybe heavy fighters are better against bombers?

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Green is for me. Red is puppet states.

Y/N?

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>>145192157
I made another version with the original body instead of re-using the one Paradox already made. If people prefer it I can upload it as well.

>>145192392
I had a general for each segment of the front when I started but at some point my army had 2 lines of generals with most of them requiring attention so I just promoted Rommel and the other 7-8 generals to field marshal and now I have 5 generals leading 100+ troops each, which is way less to worry about. The small bonuses are replaced with the field marshal traits. It was fine to pause each time in DH to micro every unit but since HOI4 gets slow as the war advances it's very frustrating to pause and then watch the game slowly advance after wasting 15min on organizing units.. Going to uninstall after this playthrough, the only thing the game has going for it is the industry and supplies

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Does sinking a fleet kill the fleet commander?

>1mil manpower left
>WE HAVE LOW MANPOWER

what am I missing ?

>>145192765
Dont you lose all their traits when promoting ?

Or can they gain them back ? What about traits they gained as Generals, do they lose those too when you promote them ?

>>145192870
no, commanders in paradox games have the ability to magically teleport

>>145192763
I prefer the first version, the second uniform is a bit out of focus

>>145192870
Does appending your post with a Sichuan animated picture make me more likely to ignore it?

>>145192954
manpower

>>145187047
>AI italy always marches 100,000 men through the sahara and the interior of africa to invade south africa
it's pretty shit 2bh

>>145192976
Then why do I need to put the fleet in port to change commanders?

It's very inconsistent

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>>145191785
why not this

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Working on something :^)

>>145192751
Y

>>145193026
I believe it's so you don't move your generals around to have a good one present on every battle if you have multiple naveis

>>145191905
You can't sell or scrap planes. You can get rid of them by giving them away in lend-lease.

>>145193043
2 western for someone supposed to represent an eastern nation, albeit westernized eastern nation.

What's up with all the fucking border gore in HOI4?

How come France invades fucking neutral Spain and Britain invades every Axis member all fucking day for no reason?

>>145191058
Actually, Italian tanks are fine (11km/h). The problem is they start attached to FUCKING HORSES for their infantry support. Motorize your tank divisions as Italy and you too can play maneuver warfare.

>>145193071
Ah yes USA_neutrality, I see

>>145193109

As it stands you can have literally every division commanded by the same max skill field marshall

Why do they suddenly care about that shit with navies?

>>145193201
reiterate

>$10 "new focus trees for nations" packs
>Bhutan pack
>Bhutanese Passport focus giving -unity +manpower
Not sure I'm ready for the memes 2bqhfam

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So anyone here worked out a good fleet composition to build in HOI4?

>>145193071
HoI4 Custom Nation DLC fucking WHEN

>>145193141
But he's wearing a western-style military uniform, that shit ain't the imperial regalia.

>>145193231
because it's retarded. i'm not saying it makes sense, i'm saying why they think it makes sense

>>145192751
Ony take Savoy and Nice in France, puppet Greece, only take Cyprus in the Eastern Med. Lybia, Tunisia, and break up KUK by freeing just west and east Hungary

Have all-cores Romania as your greatest ally

>>145193307
i made my own dlc its called Notepad++

>>145192954
You lose all the traits and one skill level, that's why I waited for my generals to get to lvl 7 min. As a field marshal you get more macro traits like offensive tactics, defensive tactics, logistics and some other shit I don't remember right now since I closed the game. It seems that the field marshals get skills more slowly but maybe that's because I haven't fight too many tough opponents after the change.

It would have been more logical to have a field marshal with generals assigned under him executing the plans together.

is there any point in having puppet states in hoi4?

>>145193295
spam light cruisers and carriers, just like HoI3

Alternatively I've seen submarine doomstacks take on carrier groups and sink CVs, so there might be something there. Try variating your subs with max stealth and torps or some shit and then substack, report back for science

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Why is Africa always a clusterfuck?

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all of the HOI4 leader portraits look awful, they look like airbrushed crap