/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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Hoi4 is shit

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3rd for DLC

>>145449737
>>145449758
>stellaris warning back
>report and ignore autist back
clockwork lol

>>145449786
Could be good with DLC though

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Arumba

>>145449832
Not really

>>145447942
When I make navies, the most important thing seems to be the carriers. Give them something like a 60/40 relation between Naval Bombers/Fighters
I'm not sure if the Fighters are even worth it, because the AI never has nearly as many Carriers as I do, but the Naval bombers sure as fuck are. They'll usually be the first contact, and can even win battles without any of your other units engaging
I also throw some Light Cruisers and some Destroyers because it looks good, I don't know if they actually do shit

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buy it

>>145449826
Based R&I keeping stallaris steamgroupers out

>>145449832
It's already good. But it's missing some obvious things that are needed for autism mods. For example, you can't use a piece of equipment as part of production resources. Say an old tank as ingredient for tank destroyer.

Something like that would allow a modder to, for example require engine to build a plane.

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>>145449986
wish he'd keep out the HoI4 steamgroupers as well

>>145449881
Then storm happens and your fleet goes poof.

>>145449832
>dlc being used to fix a game rather than improve it
Just as paradox planned. Strip it bare, put it on sale, then parcel out the rest for a reasonable price.

Extended timeline mod for hoi4 when?

>>145450094
>reasonable

>>145450173
that was facetious

What's the difference between tactics and strategy?

>>145450094
Idk why people say this, its just a meme i think
They are fixing the games right now with patches.
They released 1.01 on Monday and they also said they were aiming to fix other issues.
DLC will be to improve the game, but if you look at CK2 it might try to "fix" it too.

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The world as it should be

>>145450298
Hey Johan

>>145450330
>Holstein flag
You fucked up

>>145450094
>HoI4 provinces have population growth rate
>But all of them have the same rate "Base: 0.12%" and no other modifiers
Fuck Johan. That's the most obvious half done feature.

>>145450369
Fascism was the only way

>implying I'm going to bother editing my flag

>>145450416
>implying you belong here
its literally 5 minutes in paint

where is your autism?

how do i westernize as japan?

>>145450469
we /v/ now

>>145450487
Have a core province next to a Western nation's core province. And positive stability.

>>145450645
i mean in vic 2

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>>145449758
He's back, lads.

>>145450772
We don't play that kind of game here, mate.

>>145450772
Just wait a bit, you have a high as fuck literacy
Pass education reforms

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34th for Grob Germaniums

>>145450897
thank you

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Hey guys where can i pir

>people actually thinking a paradox release isn't a beta for at least 1-2 years afterwards

>>145451401
Why does Johan look like dead or wants to kill himself in every picture?

>>145451583
symptom of autism

>>145450921
>you will never play a gsg game as the head of the waffen SS before, during and after ww2
>grow your organisation and design uniforms
>train elite panzer and infantry divisions
>settle germans in occupied territories and remove undesirables to concentration and death camps
>send einstatzgruppen to surpress partisans and collaborators
>how well you command your divisions in key tasks assigned to you by the fuhrer can affect the outcome of the war
>if Hitler loses the war, attempt to protect his life and secure evacuation for your unit to Argentina, as well as burning important documents and hiding mass graves
>if Hitler wins the war, oversee the construction of new cities in the east, and expel slavs across the urals,

An expansion could be for you to play as the NKVD, and do a similar thing but in the name of Stalin

>>145451747
i'd buy it

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Still didn't decide on how to handle terrain in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Much of these countries is covered in desert and cities only happen along the rivers.

Anyway, I added Kunduz, which is the absolute monarchy name of Badakhshan. Murad Beg conquered the Tajik part of Badakhshan and added to the Khanate that takes the name of its capital.

>>145451747
>>you will never play a gsg game as the head of the Hugo Boss before, during and after ww2
>>grow your organisation and design uniforms
>>train elite seamstresses and cotton divisions
>>settle germans in occupied territories and remove unfashionables to concentration and remodelling camps
>>send einstatzgruppen to surpress hispters and bums
>>how well you command your fabric factory in key tasks assigned to you by the fuhrer can affect the outcome of the fashion war
>>if Hitler loses the war, attempt to protect his life and secure evacuation for your unit to Argentina, as well as burning important dyes and hiding mass piles of clothes
>>if Hitler wins the war, oversee the construction of new fabric factories in the east, and expel unfashionslavs across the urals
and show those liquor barons that fabric can be profitable too

>>145452163
Did you do any history in school/uni?

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>>145452163
The latest test was largely normal with the last results too. Same patterns can be observed.

>was unable to browse gsg for almost a week
>come back
>hoi4 is still allowed

What is the meaning of this?

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>>145452163
RELEASE IT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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>>145452261
A few interesting scenarios. But overall, some large wars left most of the world population somewhat poorer than in other test games.

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>>145452169
>you will never play an army tycoon kind of game
>producing factories to supply a military with needed equipment
>designing new weapons, tanks etc.
Just kill me fampai

>>145452351
it's the steamgroup >>145450026

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>>145452367
Russia's population is somewhat smaller than last test. Then again they were heavily dismantled and are missing several historical territories.

>>145452384
gear city could give that when they finish the mod support.
As for right now you can only supply pick-ups/vans or engines to the military but it should be possible to design tanks with mods

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>>145452461
And the Irish got their help from the British.

Overall, the new immigration reform breaks the US-Canada immigration Axis and while the US still gets a fuckton of immigrants, Canada's immigrants are more spread out.

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>>145452536
The ACW is largely the same thing as it ever was, so I assume the changes I made are adequate to both end event spam while keeping the ACW as it was before.

>>145452163
Can't you handle it by making cities and deserts different provinces?

>>145452539
KEK, HoI4babbies absolutely BTFO. Thank you, janny.

>>145452163
Make pop filled provinces along the river? Make the rest big provinces represting the deserts

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>>145452678
The world economy, as I said before, is in one of the poorest conditions I ever saw.

This is the result of the 4th Great War, which involved most GPs, lasted from 1920 to 1924 and claimed 9 million lives. The world is still recovering from that.

>>145452720
>>145452864

That's the general idea. Problem is, Central Asia has almost no provinces to spare and the deserts have no pre-russian and sometimes even pre-soviet cities.

http://www.strawpoll.me/10481738
http://www.strawpoll.me/10481738
http://www.strawpoll.me/10481738
http://www.strawpoll.me/10481738
http://www.strawpoll.me/10481738

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>[V2] - Legacy of Slovenia v1.01 <- (Download this to make R&I mad)
http://pastebin.com/72Yhqm5i

>>[V2] - unHPM v1.3.1 <- (Download this to make HPMIDF mad)
http://pastebin.com/zK3YrpNx

>>[V2] - 7 Years v4.1 <- (Download this to make R&I mad)
http://pastebin.com/fMCvXaAA

>>[V2] - Robmod v2.5 <- (Download this to make the whole thread mad)
http://pastebin.com/MHswMhZi

>>[V2] - Visegradmod v3.2 <- (Download this if you're a retro memer)
http://pastebin.com/C8swKB9t

>>[V2] Liquor and Bureaucrats Mod 1.2 <-(Download this if you like healthy economies and pops)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ r1s3v3z0d17ctya/liquornbureaucrats.rar

>> Updated Waggle Pastebin <- (Browse this to make R&I extremely mad)
http://pastebin.com/33A7wXdB

>>145452989
Based Cobra

>>145452989
>Putting liquor and bureaucrats mod along with legit mods like 7 years and unHPM
Gas yourself cobra

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>>145452879
Well if you count the parallel conflict that developed alongside the 4th Great War, the number goes up to 12 million lives, 5 years.

Technically, only 2 great wars happened. The 3rd and the 4th happened at the same time, sometimes with the same actors and the 2nd one never happened since it was one of those damned crisis that white peace next day.

I will have a look at that now while I decide what to do with central asia.

>>145449740
>I think the expansion of social media has had a negative effect on paradox.
>Now games are about showing your friends on the forums what achievement you got, and getting Respectfully Agree [x] rather than playing the game just to enjoy it
That's videogames in general.

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>Johan Andersson @producerjohan 1h
>I am finished. My star has fallen. I have no fight left in me. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators

Is he alright guys?

What mods should i download to make HoI at least as enjoyable as Stellaris? If this shit keeps up the newest Paradox game will never surpass the level of genius that is EUIV

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>>145453285
Gsg is ruining lives one by one

Can I get banned for making an historical jew gassing mod for hoi4?

>>145453285
Tell him I pirated every Paradox game, he should be fine then.

>>145453378
From reddit and pdx forums, yes.

>>145453378
I'll personally get Based Podcat to ban you.

>>145453451
t. podcat

>>145453440
why? you can expel jews in CK2

>>145453486
Podcat is based

>>145453378
>historical
>jew gassing

wew

Where can a filthy pirate get 1.01 hotfix for hoi?

>>145453570
*tips Schirmutzen"

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>>145453570

>>145453570
even the most tryhard neo nazi hitlerboos know jews were gassed although the numbers are highly exaggerated

What would be the borders of grossBritaniums? I want to honor Mosley's memory

>>145453869
No they don't you retard, their entire argument is that the jews died of typhus and starvation and the gas chambers were a lie

>>145453869
t. ledditor

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>>145453934
>>145453932
t. stormweenies

>>145453921
Britain 1917 plus norman part of France

What reasons do france and uk have for guaranteeing Poland in hoi4 in a world where their Jewish overlords economical interests aren't modeled??

>>145453981
Damn that guy looks good.

>>145454057
paradox code

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>tfw no nationalistic Sweden

>>145453921
Depends how gross you want to go.

In order of not gross to gross:

British Isles, Canada/Australia, South Africa, the Thirteen Colonies, Normandy, France, Denmark, Belgium/Netherlands, Hannover, Iceland/Norway, Sweden, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Russia, Germany

>>145453107
HPM, if you're revamping terrain in Central Asia could you give Xinjiang/Tibet a do-over? Their provinces make zero sense.

>>145454474
Also, remember to change some pops in Afghanistan and the Sikh empire animist to represent Kafirs.

>>145454231
Thank G*d, now those fucking subhumans can die off permanently

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>>145454063
>guy

>>145454760
Dumb anime poster

>>145454760

SHOO

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>>145454760
>anime posters

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>>145449737
And like clockwork people fail to used the updated OP image.

My god.

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>>145455136
>Implying we animeposters aren't better than frogposters..

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>>145455176
wrong image,it has no HoI4

How do I maintain an effective navy in Hoi4? What are good naval compositions?

>>145455337
all assault ships

Hey while we are all shitposting can someone hook my lazy ass up with the Arumba my mother's husband picture?

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>>145455025
>>145455089
>>145455136

>anime image board
>get mad when anon posts anime

>>145454474
I wont have the time right now. Plus Tibet is mostly mountains and I hate doing the terrain for mountains, so I procrastinate doing those places/provinces whenever I can.

>>145455337

2 or 3 CVs, 2 BBs, 5 or 6 CAs, 5 or 6 CL, 30 DD, 10 subs.

You need all subs fleets for interdiction and light fleets (CL+DDs) for patrol, Convoy protection and ASW.

>>145455515
How many subs should I have in all sub fleets?

>>145455617

Depends on how many DDs you have to fight against but 20 is more or less a good number.

>>145455695
How stupid is it to change my naval doctrine as germany? Fuck subs, I want muh BBs.

>>145452461
>Republican Japan
neat. Now I want to see a map of what happened.

Official /gsg/'s gsg ranking:
1. HoI3
2. Vicky 2
3. Vicky 1
4. DH
5. EU3
6. FtG
7. CK1
8. EU: R
9. Sengoku
...
9001. EU4
80085. HoI4
9999999999999999999999. Stellaris

>>145455492
>>145454613

>>145455695
Thanks anon.

>>145455439
Dumb watch_dogs 2 poster

>>145455760

Take a look at the whole interdiction doctrine path. It's got some nice bonuses for other types of ships too, not just subs.

>>145455796
^_~

>>145455760
remember what happened to germany's BBs?
and japan's?

>>145455832
I did that, but I want the best big booty BB, not just a bonus that everyone might get.

>>145455774
>5. EU3
>6. FtG
gas yourself

>>145455905
Always worked for me in HoI2.

HOI 4 is best played on a map with many small countries like 70s and 80s africa, 90s balkans, or even 40s central america.

Watching Germany fail over and over against the Soviets is sad.

What's the max research slots you can have in Hoy4? 5?

How do I absorb puppet states? I'm getting kind of annoyed that this critical border region has shit infrastructure.

>>145449737
just tried out my first gsg and CK2 is fucking murdering me. My first game I played Wessex starting from the earliest start, gobbled up the bottom half of england until I was bordering Mercia and founded a defacto kingdom. Was doing well after 200 years, then Burgundy took Gloucester from me by inheritance and then declared war along with West Francia when I claimed it back as dejure kingdom. 3,000 men held off twice that number with some nimble navigation and my own vassals used that chance to enforce an elected monarchy through the faction system, vote my heir out of inheritance and then assassinate me.

I was two provinces away from having a dejure claim over the rest of England (Had almost all of Wales and 3/8ths of Ireland along with about 20 English provinces) and thus making the british empire, which could have solved some of my inheritance issues.

I started again as Northumbria and barely lasted 30 years because the cunthole picts kept trying to take a single province off me and then calling in all their irish butt-buddies to help when I started kicking their arse. I made an alliance with West Francia which at that point had swallowed east/middle francia, saxony and burgundy and the most they ever did was drop off 500 cavalry which sat on an unoccupied province until I quit.

Every time I got stuck in a war I got blackmailed into something by the faction system or someone tried to assasinate me and I wasn't even doing anything cuntish. I give these people landed titles for good service and then they decide they want the entire fucking kingdom.

Fucking manc cunts.

>>145455774
Sengoku Rance?

>>145456093
>he played the charlememe start
>he has conclave
>You were born too late to enjoy ckII

Having finished my Japan game yesterday taking suggestions on what to play next.

I was thinking of exploring the naval game more this time, maybe as Germany, trying to take down UK by naval and air strangle hold. Even though I played Japan last game it was still mostly focused on land combat. I took the Soviets down first and then had my blinged out carrier fleets stomp US and UK navies. This time i'm thinking of more active submarine style campaing.

When the fuck is CK2's new patch coming out? The patch that lets us disable features? I want to play 2.5 with all of its features disabled

>>145451747
>if Hitler wins the war, oversee the construction of new cities in the east, and expel slavs across the urals
kek, this is how I used to immerse my self when playing simcity

>>145455774
>Either of the crusader kings.
>Good.

>>145455439
Worst argument ever

Just because the website was founded by a sad weeb fag doesn't mean its users have to be

>>145456403
>t. Vickykid

>>145456427
Nope hoi3 lad.

>>145456093

Marry relatives with other powerful nobles relatives. Make grand feasts and tourneys. Get your diplomat working on improving relations with your lords, heck, even pay money to then.

>>145456093
CK is most focused on diplomacy out of all the paradox titles.

Focus on diplomatic ties and take the who conquest process slower. Of course you can forge an empire within a single ruler lifetime but that often sucks the fun out of the game. Advance slowly, building your faction and power up over several generations instead.

>>145456420
It was built around anime culture, it did expand beyond that but it's roots still exist.

>>145452163
>meanwhile in god knows where
http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/balkh/AiKhanum.htm

>>145456574
>It was built around anime culture, it did expand beyond that but it's roots still exist.

hahhahahhaha delusional weeb

>>145456574
Most users came for /b/ initially. So its roots are more in that if you really want to go there

>invade Belgium in 1938 as the Netherlands
>annex it
>almost no diplomatic penalty with anyone

Bravo paradox

>>145456841
That's because belgium is a non-country.

Had a laugh and played Belgium with intent to hold as long as I can before they breakthrough. Unfortunately they never did breakthrough because the neutral focus tree is just too good.

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>>145456910

Forgot pic.

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started a playthrough as commie france in HOI4 and finished the pol focus to create own faction, so how do i start one? there's a diplomacy option for some countries like commie spain to create faction but it says "ask to create a faction" making it sound like theyll be the leader. how do?

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they think that their in-game jokes and memes are funny or that their references are smart.

they won't stop. from their first game to HOI4, they never stopped. they think they are comedians.

this more sad than pathetic. i actually feel like rooting for them.

>>145456728
>/lit/ homeboard
>tfw the content, goodreads community, charts are/were "so good"shit that there is a huge exodus from r/books to /lit/

I wish we still had /b/ roots

>>145456093
You're just way too focused on expanding your kingdom instead of taking it slow and choosing carefully who is bellow you. Take note of everyone, always look who doesn't like you, try to kill them, install someone who is friendly towards you. Don't go full on hostile with smaller guys neighbouring you if they can be allies, as sometimes there are people around you who can not be allies in no circumstances, take those out first. Marry everyone, try to expand through marriage.

>>145457034
They wouldnt be the leader, you'll be

>>145457078
Who are you referring to by 'they' and 'them'?

>>145456910
It's Germany being too weak. Even Denmark can hold out or sometimes even beat Germany in this game.

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>>145456259
bls

What exactly does the signal company do?

>>145457316

It doesn't help they have no idea how to utilise the clearly superior aerial power on me either. They don't throw interceptors/CAS at all in the Benelux Region at all.

>>145457078
>complains about paradox references
>makes anime reference
wew. i don't think this is a coincidence.

>>145457449
Increase reinforce rate and decrease planning speed

>>145456060
US can have 6, everyone else gets 5. Major powers except USSR and France start with 4, they and the rest of Europe start with 3, everyone else gets 2 and needs to have 50 factories before the can get the 5th.

>>145457474
Ye the air AI is retarded.

Do you have air power in that region?

Last game I encountered this weird bug where I had my fleet completely surround UK from all sides. At some point I decided to start strategic bombing them from France too for the hell of it. The moment I had my planes in the air in the Channel and Southern England the AI deployed it's planes too and destroyed almost all of my channel navy besides my carrier fleet which could defend itself. The AI literally had 30k planes which it didn't use untill provoked. My navies in the other regions surrounding UK were completely unharmed and I had no planes myself in those regions.

I think the AI only uses it air force in full for reactive play and only very limited offense, which is why all the AI powers stack tens of thousands of planes and never use them.

>>145457449
>>145457625
*increase planning speed

>>145457661

Yeah, just 300 Fighters though because of the severely limited production capacity Belgium has (most of my production went into fielding 7 medium tank divisions for the 'tower defence'.)

I know exactly what you mean though, UK in general probably has the worst AI of them all. Suicidal amphib invasions, literal non use of it's air power in key points and sends it's navy sightseeing as 3 marine divisions successfully invade dover.

>>145457790
Did Germany have any provinces on Benelux air area? If it doesn't it might still consider that area non essential even though it is directly trying to invade it.

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Rate my Italian spaghetti. Had France and North Africa by like 1940. Been an interesting campaign so far.

>>145457790
>literal non use of it's air power
Could have fooled me! Playing as Italy, if I don't shit out fighters from day 1 and zerg 1940 Fighter ASAP, the UK puts its entire air force on Tyrrhenian Sea and Italy and just sits there the entire war.

>>145457869

It had Luxembourg and all of the Netherlands.

>>145457873
Consider dropping down to war economy since you are that low on man power.

>>145457923
Ye weird shit

>>145457920

>Forgot about Italy

Yeah the attention on Italy is just weird for the UK, they like to dump everything into the Alpine region even though the key fights is in Western France.

>>145457873
It would be better if you also controlled Iberia and Morocco but they're controlled by Nationalist Spain who is probably also in Axis so I'll let it pass.

Why let Portugal exist tho, just feed them to Spain

Official /gsg/'s mods POWER RANKING

1: AGCEEP
2: D&T
3: Magna Mundi
4: HPM
5: European Phenotypes
6: Black ICE
7: Kaiserreich
8: Reign of the Ancients
9: MEIOU
10: HIP
9001: /gsg/'s Vicky mod
9002: GOT

>>145458023
>HPM
>not #1
>magan mundi on the list at all

>>145458023
>6:Black ICE
The AI cheats its way into relevance

>>145458023
>No Caleb's Political Titles
Into the trash you go

Reminder

Negatives

> Total lack of flavor events and decisions
> Shallow supply mechanics
> Horrible graphics that are also hardware intensive
> Naval invasion/paratrooper mechanics are clash of clans tier
> No portrait diversity
> Defensive theory/units are OP
> AI is horrible with the exception of naval invasions,
> Can't target specific provinces in aerial raids/bombardments
> No province names, this plus the shitty graphics makes the world seem tiny and lifeless
> Lack of Ledgers and Map modes
> Peace conference system while a very good idea has been poorly implemented
> Border gore that rivals EU III due to the AI being able to march anywhere on the map with no repercussions and the shitty Peace conference system
> Peace is impossible to obtain due to you having to force every major nation you're at war with to capitulate
> Battlefront AI is horrible at combat
> Every nation in the game starts out with the same level of tech
> Inability to view the results of individual battles
> No liquor factories

Positives
> Revamped, easy to use, meaningful production system
> Much improved tech tree
> Improved nuke/rocket mechanics
> Clear concise UI despite the shitty graphics
> Manpower mechanics are significantly improved
> Aerial superiority now makes a fairly large difference in land battles
> Battlefront AI is fairly useful, removing a lot of tedious micro management

>>145458023
>black ice
no fun

>>145457920
I think the problem is that AI is very bad in deciding what is important and what is not.

Like it CAN bring it's force to bear like in your italy example or in my case over the english channel, but it's very bad at deciding where it's needed. It also fails at defending key areas it should be in control (like the sea areas around UK where it's loosing 10 convoys a week) or in supporting its offensive manouvers.

>>145458114
reminder to filter you

>>145458114
added to the filter

>>145458114
filtering you rn

>>145458114
>namefag
filter'd

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>>145457967
Ah damn. I forgot that total mobilization took away 3% of the recruitable population... Should've known that before I changed the recruitment law to that all adults serve. Whoops. Oh well, can hopefully change it back.


>>145458007
Nationalist Spain is part of the axis yes. Havn't really bothered with Portugal to be honest. Been focusing on southeast Asia, gonna take over Britain soon.

Some weird shit been happening in my campaign tho, like Norway holding of the Germans for like two years now.

>>145458350
That's just standard procedure. Germans don't use their air force on Denmark or Norway and hence can't dislocate the 1000% entrenched troops.

Also even the minors can shit out hundreds of divisions sometimes if you let them + aid divisions coming from other countries.

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>>145458350
Also the Soviet Union is kinda on our team (?) in its war against the Allies. Japan isn't in any faction at all, but at war with the US.

I am a soldier. Speak to our representatives.

>>145458173
adding to that, that the ai never adds support brigades to its divisons. Tagswitch lategame to one major and look their designs.
run unistall.exe afterwards

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With previous version of EU4 is best? I don't want to play current version anymore because Mare Nostrum made the game shit.

>>145458560
I thought major powers like USSR or Germany would have their unique division designs

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Trying to invade egypt

>>145458575
EU III

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>>145458114
TL;DR:

The developers made this game FOR multiplayer!

It is NOT designed to be a functional singleplayer game!

>>145458618
That would be railroading

If I have a military high commander that gives bonuses to infantry, does that include motorised/mechanised?

>>145458575
Common sense prob, even tho there were a lot of shit feature by then, development was a much better system and the revamp of buildings and forts was good

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KEK <----
KEK
KEK
>inb4 reddit
If you don't know what this means, paradox is hosting graphics for their launcher and forums on imgur. Btw, that is against the rules of imgur.

>>145458468
Really hate this shit. A thing is diverging from history, being 100% sure everything is random is something else. Something shitty. Played finland in 39, turned fascist hoping urss wouldnt invade. In 1942 i was 100% okay and Barbarossa didnt even trigger. Fuck that honestly

>>145458618
No. You need to buy the divison of ww2 dlc. Be sure to preorder it. And dont forget the special women divisons dlc.
_____________pls__________

>go as Netherlands
>first thing I do is become fascist
>build up my military
>clear out Belgium for a clean push
>wait for the date so I can push into France with the big guy
>Germany declares war on me and starts throwing itself against my lv5 forts/lv5 AA

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE

hoi4 going into archive when?

>>145458560
Imagine if the Germany which loses 5 million men actually had fully upgraded field hospitals with their troops

>>145458742
Were you in the Axis?

>>145458682
W E W
E
W
>inb4 Reddit buys Imgur to let Paradox (and probably other dev studios) continue this casual baby bullshit

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>>145458681
you could say the improvements were.............
>common sense

How do I LAN on HoI4

>>145458834
I wanted to be kind of like a fascist-Yugoslavia on the other side of Europe so no and I can see why German AI would've gone in

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>>145458754

More like 6 million.

>>145458023
>AGCEEP on top

My nigger

I don't know about Magna Mundi's ranking though, I haven't really played enough of the mod to actually say anything about its quality, but I think there's too many pop ups from what I have played.

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>>145458468
Also this shit is annoying as hell, especially if it's another nation from a different faction that has got it.

>>145458998
Oy vey, never forget the 6 million germans

>>145459092

Wouldn't be surprised if they accused Belgians of turning their POWs into waffles or Belgian chocolate, they lost like 4.5 million in the Ardennes alone.

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>>145457098
>/lit/ homeboard

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>>145459092
>>145459218
>Believing such a dumb statistic without any source

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>>145459414
Oy goy, are you perhaps denying the holocaust??

i like hoi4

>>145459556
me too

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Glorious Thai general

dispersed or concetrated industry as the USSR?

>>145459556
>>145459594
see >>145449758

>>145459795
Liquor factories

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>>145456574
>>145456724

>>145459863
He only said "report and ignore shitposting", not "Don't shitpost".

>>145459795
From purely gameplay perspective you should always go concentrated on everyone as it's the superior choice provided you won't lose and human won't lose.

From a more RP oriented view soviets definitely should go concentrated as they have plenty of space in Urals to build more factories safe from bombing. Same goes for other big countries too as they have the space to build factories in safe zones and also will expect to build same things on a same line for basically for ever.
Small nations or nations expecting a ton of bombing should go dispersed as there is more need to protect your factories from bombing and small nations might need to adjust their production a lot more.

>>145459795
Always concentrated as anyone, you can just repair with those bonus factories.

Reposting questiion from last thread: Can someone help me get the gsg general changes mod for HoI4 to work? I followed the instructions in the pasteebin and it's present in the mod screen (and activated) but for some reason won't take effect in game.

>>145459921
>moot
>not a normalfag kike that works for google

He even said he stopped watching anime ages ago.

>>145460054
That wouldn't work for minor powers I think? Saudi Arabia for example

>>145459921
>Moot
>relevant
>not a complete joke of a person.

>>145460279
That usually happens when .mod file isn't correct. Open it and fix it

reminder paradox gimped the AI and their programmers don't know how to use notepad

>>145458023
>GOT last place
You clearly hate fun

>>145460601
>paradox
>fun
XD

>>145460649
speedy

>>145452367
>uncivilized communist dictatorship
epic

>>145460809
>communist dictatorships
>civilised

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who would win
>1 strategy game programmer
or
>1 whale

>>145457873
how do you get that intelligence thing at the bottom left?

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>stellaris is dead
>hoi4 sold poorly
>podcat is a bowtie wearing hack
>the average age of the paradox team is 19
>half of them are gauged, pierced vampire kids or broken faced mouth breathers

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why did they add the division template designer if the ai fails to properly use it 100% of time?

>multiplayer
the lack of such a designer wouldn't change multiplayer at all. if anything, it makes it more tedious by forcing the players to pause and look at the best combination of stats.

>>145460427
What should I look for?

>>145461080
Podcat is based

>>145461080
Hoi4 didn't sell badly, it's the highest played steam paradox game right now sharing place with Eu4 and Stellaris. Go look at steamdb.

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>>145461080
>half of them are gauged, pierced vampire kids or broken faced mouth breathers
Oh god damn is that the truth.

You forgot hipster wannabes and actual cuckolds, though.

>>145461080
Is that age thing for real?

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>tfw eternal ivan and eternal kraut

>>145461373
What's the pro strategy for Poland?

It pisses me off so much that people who are at war with the same enemy in hoi4 can enter your lands

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING PARADOX

>>145461435
just train hussars and use meme arrows

>>145461435
Beat Germany and assume direct controll

Official /gsg/'s people POWER RANKING

1: Johan
2: Wiz
3: Wester

POWER GAP

4: HPM
5: Podcat
6: Report and ignore shitposting guy
7: DDRJake
8: Quill18
9: Ubik
10: Turkslayer

...

9001: Rob
9002: Arumba
90000000001: Meneth

Can't wait for the DLC that makes NF dynamic and better railroaded

>>145461559
Podcat is based

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>>145461175
You should probably correct the "path" section.

You can see the mod in your launcher and can activate it so you definitely put it in the right folder. The problem you have usually happens when someone downloads a mod using workshop downloader and tries to use it on a pirated game, the game can see the .mod file but when activated it doesn't change anything because the .mod file directs to a non existent/wrong folder

Though this shouldn't happen in this case as the mod is not even on steam and ALPHA's .mod file is correct, perhaps you changed the generalchanges file name or something like that? This was the first solution to come to my mind

And no, that supported version is not a problem. I have the beta patch and ALPHA's mod still works

>>145461486
>>145461489
>meme arrows
>direct control
So which is it?

Not like I care, I'm probably just going to go back to EU4 or DH or quit grand strategy altogether because fuck this casual, unfinished, le office multiplayer meme bullshit

Would a fantasy mod work for HoI4?

Does anyone have any good mod ideas, for alternate history and such?

>>145461612
invade Germany with meme arrows
Directly control the country, don't puppet

>>145461559
Johan is like a father to me

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>>145461435
the same as with every single nation
>research industry
>spam infantry + artillery divisions
>grand battleplan doctrine (lmao +110% attack)
if you want maximum military power, go fasicst
i stayed non-alligned though for achievements
also, poland can fabricate claims much earlier than other non-evil nations because of revanchism national focus

In HoI4, what does the anti-comintern pact actually do?

I'm trying to play a "Poland First" kind of game, and influence Germany towards democracy, but that leads to the Soviet Union being super scary.

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>>145461559
>9002: Arumba
>Turkslayer is on the list
>Rheinhart, Faysal and others are not

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What the fuck happened here?
I'm using the General Fixes mod.

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What a shit game.

>>145461997
I'm not sure, but I think the manpower counter also counts units in training. Try deploying something that's under training

>>145461997
That's a in-game thing, retard.

>>145461997
Army counts manpower that's already tied to training divisions pretty sure.
Deploy some or wait till the training is done.

>>145462224
>>145462281

Seems so. Thanks.

>>145462273
My mistake.

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Fucking modders

>>145462810
Not relating to your post directly but do leaders gain more experience when commanding a small force over a big one?

For countries with a huge lack of manpower is it worth it to use battalions of 3inf+2art or is the reduced organisation too steep?

>>145462907
Try using more heavy equipment like tanks instead if you lack manpower.

Also even pretty small countries can get pretty large armies with manpower laws or by going fascist.

>>145461609
I'm afraid I might be terminally retarded. The path in the mod file seems to be correct, yet it still won't work.

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Can I cheese out of this? It's my only wheat-producing province.

>>145463219
edit the savefile back to grain

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reminder that dogo will know if you cheat

>>145463160
Open your generalchanges.mod file. Erase verything and paste this inside...

name="/gsg/ General Changes Mod"
path="mod/generalchanges"
tags={
"Balance"
"Events"
"Fixes"
"Historical"
"Sound"
}

what happens if I set the life rating modifier to 1000%

what about pop growth?

Any other things I should fuck around with?

>>145463160
Your .mod file and generalchanges folder are in "Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod" folder, correct?

Otherwise your problem might be the inside of generalchanges folder, inside of it there should be 8 folders, common, events, history etc, correct?

>>145455515
Subs just slow down your fleet.

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>stalemate on western front after italy and spain joined with 200 divisions
>stalemate on eastern front because soviets are done with finland and keep sending more and more divisions
>had to increase conscription because started running out of manpower
well fugg :DD

>>145463797
Pop growth LR gives is maxed at 30 or 40, you can get maximum 0.09 growth from LF. You have to create a cheat modifier if you want to cheat pop growth but be warned, it breaks the economy too quick. You'll have shitload of soldiers though.

>>145463219
Save, reload the save and the event should be gone.

>>145463894

What conscription law you got?

You usually can get away with service by requirement but once you go 'All Adults Serve' you are practically fucked.

>>145463910

I would love to get a huge population and get some colonies desu

>>145458560
I tag switched to Germany, and found they never researched SPGs or tank destroyers.

I tag switched late to a losing USSR to find out they were researching naval doctrines.

account

podcat

>>145464521
You can simply use event 14680, it should be enough. If it's not enough for your tastes, check out its modifier and create another modifier with bigger pop growth, though if you overdo it it really breaks the economy and make Americas overpowered as hell, as they get shitload of immigrants from you

>>145464701
Podcat is based

>>145464007
It looks like it worked, but for future reference, how do I mod Vicky 2 save files?

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So, it looks as if the AI is allowed to just stomp through your territory if you are both at war with the same entity. We are in different wars, and no one has granted military access, yet the Raj's troops started showing up, then the English, then the Americans. Worse, the Americans have grabbed land for border gore.

>>145464872
With a text editor or with the clausewitz save editor which is somewhere on the Paradox forums.
It's somewhat tricky with a text editor if you don't know what you're looking for because the files are huge.

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>>145464469
i have extended conscription now so no penalties to industry yet
i managed to break german lines on western front, but germans launched counteroffensive against britbongs and they are about to break through

meanwhile, soviets launched offensive on eastern front with 200 divisions, but my 70 good divisions can hold out for now

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Is this supposed to happen? WW2 has been going on for 17 years, the AI has been trying to conquer America for 7 years at least.

>>145465345
How did you play past the end-game lag?

>>145465443
I have a pretty good computer. It gets laggy every now and then but not too bad. I'm playing as Luxembourg so I don't have a ton of units to manage, might be it.

The general changes mod works for me but I'm not hearing most of the songs in the music folder, how do I fix this?

>>145465235

Makes me want to try that now. Not touched Poland yet but looks interesting, though going full infantry with artillery seems difficult since they don't have the extensive manpower that the Chinese have (which makes them a total joke, artillery with some AT for pierce just demolishes Japs.)

>>145453378
>historical jew gassing
you should get banned for hate speech against Germans.

>>145465718
A lot of the songs are country specific eg the german songs

>>145459975
But did he?

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>>145464872
Seeing that this event reared its ugly head again, I think it's time I quit for the night.

>>145466065
>not producing liquor

Lad...

>>145466065
Accep the event, then just edit the save file so it produces grain

>>145466113
that's now how you spell clipper

>>145450005
I had the beginnings of a HUGE mod planned that hinged on being able to do this, now I'm just going to rebalance economies to historical scales and maybe add workshops that can only produce small arms for China, Spain, Raj etc that had a lot of small business arms production during the war.
I have all the research done on the economies and the locations of loads of manufacturing centres so it's a shame it fell through, would have been interesting to make the skoda armament works specifically boost Germany's tank production capabilities.

Also, I'm going to add more flavour to some of the unique manufacturers.

>>145460986
There are no winners or losers when you're having fun anon :)

>>145465780
Poland has national focus that gives +2% recruitable population. It can easily field 150 inf+art divisions without going over extensive conscription.
I'm fielding 110 divisions and sitting at 500k manpower, but I have over 1 million loses now because of 2 front war against Germany + Soviets.

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if u were a gs province which one would u be

me, i would be HoI3 Alaska

>>145465932
But the general music like beethoven and ride of the valkyries which don't have any country tags aren't playing either.

>>145466380

What are their losses looking like? Generally speaking if you're shredding both of them then it's all good.

>>145466194
>>145465219
Link?

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>>145466425
Benin

>>145466527
are you using the latest version?

>>145456728
/b / was an anime board in 2005-2006 when I still went there.

>>145466652
yep

>>145466425
Chad

>>145466580
https://sourceforge.net/projects/eug/files/Clausewitz%20Scenario%20Editor/


I think this is it (I know it says EU4 but it does almost all Clausewitz games)

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>>145466548
Axis loses are 2.5M, Soviets 1.5M
Germany collapsed, now I can move 20 divisions to eastern front and get rid of Ivan

>>145466957
Thanks.

If all fails, I'll just keep putting off the event until I unite Japan, there'll be plenty of wheat to go around.

>>145467002
BELIEVABLE WORLDS

ALSO KILL YOURSELF FOR PLAYING POLAND

>>145453932
Yes, starvation because of allied bombings.

XD

By the Svarog, you are literally retarded aren't you.

>>145467143
can you repeat that in English please, I have no idea what it is you are trying to say

>>145467097
>ALSO KILL YOURSELF FOR PLAYING POLAND
t. prussia pro

>>145450005
This.

I would like to put together vehicles. Start with an engine, hull, armor, turret, a gun, and blam, you have a tank. Getting your engine factories bombed would seriously slow down your tank production. You can have your big, heavy, and slow infantry support tanks at the start of the war.

Send your old equipment back to get refit. Take a light tank, slap some armor on it, and a bigger gun, and blam, you have a tank destroyer.

Put together your ships with engine, hull, armor, turrets, and guns. Go for that fast battlecruiser, or that early, slow battleship. Put your hull down a couple years in advance. Don't need another battleship? Complete the hull as a carrier. Send a ship to be refitted with additional anti-air and advanced radar.

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Who's the best /gsg/ content producer?

Also I hope you goys will be tuning into HOI4 stream in an hour.

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Is there a good country names mod for HOI4 yet?

>>145467476
>taking a family photo with a fucking horse

What did he want to achieve with this?

>>145461774
it doesnt do anything beyond country opinions

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>>145467002

God Germany is so fucking bad in this game unless it's run by a human.

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>>145463894
Literally how.

I tried doing a Poland game but I got shrekked by the Soviets. I had ~80 divisions when the soviets attacked with their ~300 divisions. I managed to hold out for about 6 months, but Warsaw eventually fell, and I had to capitulate.

Right now there's just cucked Germany here, they didn't even manage to take France.

>>145467593
Family photo with a horse I'd imagine

>>145467565
>Deguo
>Meiguo
Haha tha-
>LIANHE WANGGUO
what

I don't recall the context but I think a paradox employee on their forums implied july was "holy" so I'm assuming they won't release anything during July, so that probably also means for CK2 that the patch (which has to come with the DLC because of their asshole market practice) will either be released with a whole week of June to give time for an emergency post-release hotfix, or all the way in August.

I'm guessing DLC is coming out in August at any rate and being denied the patch that long kinda pisses me off desu I won't be able to play Ethiopia or Nubia until arabs are finally inclined to not swarm East Africa.

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>>145467364
There is literally nothing wrong with being a Preußenboo

good naval comps?

>>145467593
wanted to include his wife's lover

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>>145467565
>France
>fag

>>145467759
July is when all Swedes take their holiday.

t. swede

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i have no mouth and i must scream

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>Great Powers in the next EU4 patch
>"It was great in V2 let's shoehorn it into EU4!"

I have been playing as Luxembourg for 20 years now. I haven't had a battle in 3 years. I'm just waiting for the fucking AI to successfully invade America.

>you can now potentially have a seven holding capital ANYWHERE (so long as it isn't sieged/diseased to shit)
>>145467830
thanks for the confirmation johan
please release an open beta patch for the patch itself before july...