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68 – The Roman emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
747 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani, Arab military leader, begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
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# Mods
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>>[HoI4] - General Fixes V003
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>>[CK2 - 2.5.2] - After The End
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>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.3.3 - 21/03/2016
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>>[V2] - Napoleon's Legacy v0.3.1.7
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>>[V2] Alternative Flag Pack V7
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GSG MOD V003
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Changelog: I replaced all of the Axis music to real life music and I changed the opening music. I also tinkered with Italy a bit.


DESCRIPTION:
This mod aims to provide a more historical and less 'flippant' experience to the game. Flags and country names are proper, so a change to communism or fascism will not yield a silly name for your country.

In addition, I have added plenty of new music to the game.

Is hoi4 like hoi3 and DH and reality in that battleships are fucking useless and carriers are the wrath of God made manifest?

There's a lot of shitty things about the HoI4 AI.

But if this happened in HoI3 I would be pissing my pants with excitement. This is a completely AI directed invasion, by AI, against AI. Using sensible ports and targeting victory points.

Where can I pirate HOI4?

I haven't used them, so take this with a grain of salt, it comes from watching streamers.

Even ancient (pre-dreadnought) battleships are the bane of everything afloat that comes near them, but carriers shit on them hard (and so do shore based naval bombers which are insanely powerful now)

Reminder to end yourself
In the 1940's? Yes.

>be france
>never really focus or care about my navy
>just produce a bunch of subs to keep my dockyards busy
>war with japan breaks out
>decide to help
>gather the entire fleet, which is just the starter fleet with more subs, into one doomstack
>send them to search and destroy around the japanese home isles
>severely win every single naval battle
So either this is broken, or the AI is just really bad at countering doomstacks.

Has anyone that pirated HOI4 got multiplayer working? If so, mind telling what you did?

Go fascist.

Also you fucked up the invasion, gather a stronger force before you go in. You should have more than 24 divisions really. If you can't punch trough then you will just get bogged down and Finland will lose in that kind of war since you have one of the lowest manpower pools out there.

Shouldn't you change the Fascist Japan flag away from the naval ensign if you're going for historicity?

Who cares if that means democratic Japan and Fascist Japan have the same flag, it's accurate.

doomstack subs are broken, I've seen a 42 stack of submarines sink like 3 battleships and all their escorts

as for doomstacks of surface ships... well that's fucking period accurate mahian doctrine, it's supposed to be more powerful than spreading your fleet out

>Also you fucked up the invasion, gather a stronger force before you go in. You should have more than 24 divisions really. If you can't punch trough then you will just get bogged down and Finland will lose in that kind of war since you have one of the lowest manpower pools out there.
Wait, what do you mean?
I just gathere 20ish division to their front, made up a CB, trained 1 month before executing the plan, put recruitment to max and went to war.
I could only get 1 inf and 1 light armor with the max recruitment though.
I don't understand what I did wrong, honestly.

Subs in general seem broken

It doesn't matter how many you have

Since the AI is shit and cant plan any naval invasion on me and doesnt do anything about the massive air advantage i have, its a pretty comfy set up

>be norway
>go facist
>england instantly invades
>i lose

fuck off britain, goddamn.

How are you surviving? Why aren't they pushing through the rest of your border?
Post more pics pls

I'll ask again:

How many ships can a navy have before there is an equivalent to a stacking penalty?

What's the capital to screen ratio I should have?

OOB mod when

First for glorious map mods

>1941
>France

Well that depends. Do you have an airfield near the sea zone you're putting your battleships into? If you do, then battleships rape. If not you'll never even close to the enemy carriers before their torpedo bombers and attackers shit on you.

From what I remember air support was worthless in HoI3 and HoI2 so by extension DH, but in HoI4 if you have air support from land bases you can wreck carrier air groups pretty easily.

From the last thread:

what has changed?

Ah. No mega upload for Hearts of Iron 4 yet?

Looks like a terrain mapmode without the country color overlapping.

How the fuck do paratroopers work? According to this, they have been 'preparing' for over a fucking year.

So basically, if I put a nice big battleship fleet in the English Channel, put a couple thousand fighters there as well, Britain falls?
Nice

Fuck HOI4, Darkest Hour is the superior WWII grand strategy game

Do divisions assigned to a front advance on their own?

Micromanaging every invasion of these Siberian provinces is getting tiring.

I started a coup in Siberia thinking that it would divide the soviets attention however when the war ended i lost all my captured lands which reached beyond the urals then they went to the newly spawned russian empire which is also in the axis.

I'm still at war with the allies that is to say Britain and the free american empire, i tried to start a coup in the usa but instead they just got voted in so they never went to civil war.

I got mine from mega lmao
>democratic Germany
>invading france

if you draw the right arrows, yes.

327%?
WHAT THE FUCK
that's a full buffed winter soviet in 1942 kind of defense bonus

I invaded Yugoslavia. France didn't like that.

Entranchement is broken

Did you try reading the tooltip?

literally says on the tooltip
you need more fighters in tyrrenian sea and then you can send them

Probably. I don't know how good the AI is at reacting right now, but Britain has colossal air force of very powerful fighters and a shit ton of naval bombers of their own so it's pretty hard to beat them in the air. They also have tons and tons of battleships. It's not like their forces are hinged entirely on carriers.

I think that the AI is pretty weakshit at responding to developing air and naval situations right now, so it's probably not hard to beat Britain by doing that.

gotta plan an attack route after placing a frontline, Just using frontline has your soldiers dig in and wait.

Post it ya' cunt. I wont waste 40 ducats on it.

>Tanks
Don't think you should be omitting to tanks as Finland. Try incorporating more artillery, that has more bang per man power.

What was your division composition?

Also you should have had at least service by requirement before going in. That gives you 10% recruitable manpower. That should be enough for 40 divisions and little bit of spares on it's own.

Fascism gives you extra 7% which is good for 30 or so divisions so fascism route is a lot stronger militarily

In my pre war Finland save, the day I could attack (7th of January 1939) I have 195k manpower in my army and 165k manpower in my pool with 9.5%. I have 29 divisions ready to strike and if I played this better I could have had an extra 20 divisions, though my manpower pool would only last for a while if the engagement didn't instantly succeed.

simply ebin

How do you shift aircraft around? I've only been able to do it individually, and I have like 1500 various craft in western Germany not helping fight off Normandy

Should I play HoI4? Whats it like compared to HoI3?

...

>one more reform and it'll be me vs thousands and thousands of communists demanding reforms that would actually be good for them and bad for the state
Can't fucking wait.

God damnit. Now I have to break up my armies and make smaller fronts and do more micromanaging.

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Your manpower pool is fucking garbage as Finland, you CANT have many divisions because divisions are made up of HUMANS and you have very few HUMANS in Finland because Finland is a dark, cold, wet nightmare of a country that nobody wants to live or raise children in.

Daily reminder germany is eternally cucked in WWII

gib pirated HOI4 link plz

Imagine there are no HQs and that's about it, also unit recruitment/supply production has been incorporated in an interesting system which is bases on individual equipment pieces which require much management. Research has been deflated so there is a lot less useless shit to research which is good, focus tree is a fun addition. It's like a mix between DH and HoI3. Play it.

>ever promoting generals
JUST USE LOADS OF GUYS WITH 24 UNIT CAP
Micromanaging is literally better, and they get to keep all their traits that way.

rude t. finn

>implying they were promoted and not already Field Marshals

>huge ad telling me to turn off ad-block

At least you people make some good music

It has different pros/cons. 24 cap limit generals gain traits like desert rat, so you have a better desert force while field marshals get stuff like +10% soft attack for all traits.

Judging from pics, HOI4 looks like EvW fixed

Does it have population like EvW?

I kind of do it for RP reasons. I have Field Marshal Erwin Rommel up to level 6 or 7, with two traits.

Thanks for reminding me why I drink. A glass for that sprölölöö

Yeah but I don't mind it really. The ads are manageable and all the downloads worked well with no malware yet. I dont mind turning off ad-block to keep a decent direct download site running.

No because fascist Japan is synonymous with the IJN naval ensign.

>this game where all you can do is blob looks exactly like a fixed version of a game that should depict the time in history where blobbing was most rare and dangerous

Thanks for the reply. Getting it now.

>japan gets tons of oil from venezuela
>venezuela sends volunteers to every member of the axis

HoI4 has population, but it doesn't matter too much beyond what you can recruit into your army. I guess IC cap also depends to a degree on how much pop a province has.

At least they are contributing to the war effort unlike those dirty Italians

What should my goals be for fascist mexico?

I'm thinking I should keep eating up Central America then build up like a motherfucker. Then wait until the US is deep in the war in Europe then dickstab them and take at least California.

someone please post the piracy protection with Johan where you have to pay 6 million shekels to unlock your games

Oh, I didn't realise they had different traits. I couldn't commit enough units to any front's for it to really matter before, and I saw that I would lose my traits.

Now that I have a fairly large front with Russia is it worth promoting some of my high level generals to field marshals?

>honduras is part of mexico

DELET

That doesn't make it historically accurate.

My recruitable population is now growing while i have this massive front. I dont fucking get this game

Finland seems like an autists paradise. I wouldn't mind living there.

Take all of your rightful clay in the southwest, all of central america including panama and the canal, and all of the west indies

How do I rebase my fleet far away? I'm trying to move Baltic fleet to Pacific, but it doesn't tell me why I can't

can someone test this? has no virus I promise :)
dropbox.com/s/wf35uv1q7yu08aw/British Isles Map Mod.rar?dl=0

Based AI

Just let US grind it's country to dust against your wall and then march in and take all of it's shit.

Don't fall for the arrow meme, remember to mostly use all your divisions yourself and it's quite enjoyable.

less than a year from start to finish

attacking during the great purge is a hell of a drug

>Stalin purging at 1940

Just #soviet things

At least one field marshal is probably a good idea and takes a load of you when you have a big frontline.

I turned off historical AI focuses for shits and giggles to see if Italy would go full Roman or something, and Stalin waited until late 1939 to purge.

Please help me you guys. How do I move these god damn planes?

I like to give Rommel 24 crack panzer divisions, set a offensive line deep inside the enemy country and let him do his thing.

alt f4

You le click on the air port with a wing selected

Back up is on its way

I miss the OOB ;_;

>tfw no CK2>EU3>V2>HoI4>EvW>Stellaris mega campaign

Right I'm feeling somewhat disappointed in HOI4 so far as I was expecting "half decent grand strategy experience". As of yet the game has either been far less enjoyable than that, or actually more closely adhears to juvenille pay to unlock content schemes than my ability to detect Jewry would lead me to believe.

As for mods I don't think it's a practical, moral, nor effective solution to any of the game's problems.

There should be game between HoI and Stellaris

Chinese Puppet or War with China? What are the pros and cons?

East vs West

Nice

Reminder that this would never happen in HoI 3.

good now give it all to germany