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How fares your empire, /gsg/?
This day in history, June 10th: 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. 1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem. 1329 – The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire. 1916 – The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. 1940 – World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
>spain: solid 40 division infantry force if you can survive the civil war, lots of opportunities in Africa and in Europe >indian raj: fuck ton of units, pretty much a small major, only downside is facing japan once in a blue moon >Canada: decent units again, safe spot on the map, can specialise as a paratrooper/ marine/ armored force >Greece: low industry but very included in diplomacy during multiplayer games due to it's place on the map, can effectively hold down the Baltics against stacks twice it's size and had lots of potential to expand >Poland: great for a short game, usually one of the major powers will want to have you in their faction and rarely double team due to how early world wars kick off, great start in equipment and can really fuck over major powers if they get their doctrine right, fun for short games where you have to leave fairly soon
now the 3 worst
>finland: get raped by soviets, do fuck all for rest of game >turkey: join soviets, spend eons trying to improve industry, fail to attack Balkans, ask stronger majors to help you the fuck out >brazil: for some reason all the new tards play brazil, probably because it's big, get shut down by americans or alternatively beaten by your own third world kin, cry to majors for help and don't receive it because lolfuckoilandrubber and it's too far away to bother
MAJOR STRATS (MP) RUSSIA >protect national china from japan early game, while massively focussing on industry >send men off to fight as volunteers in spain and other wars for exp, invest in artillery and anti tank >pick entrenchment doctrine and employ trench specialists generals >try to get Poland to be comintern, or leave it as a bufeer while you deal with japan >wave tactics on japan, get china to help, attrition on Germany >AIM: BLEED GERMANY WHITE, WAIT FOR INDUSTRY TO DEVELOp
Lincoln Sullivan
>MULTIPLAYER
Elijah Davis
>mp Kill yourself
James Ross
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Christian Wright
Cool, thanks user
Wyatt Walker
Thanks for the tips and tricks dog can you tell me how to beat poland as germany thanks
Jack Davis
NOTHING CAN STOP THE PEOPLES UNITED PROVINCES
Colton Butler
I've been playing as a few different countries and I have no clue how many factories of each type I should have running by the time I get into the war historically. Any guides for what factories to build and focuses to go for first?
Mostly interested in: UK, France, Italy, Japan, US, Argentina, Romania, Canada, Australia But I'd still like guides for any other country you feel like helping with.
Leo Perez
That'd a dumb name What were they thinking
Nathaniel Stewart
in my 1936 game europe stayed the same until after 1941 what am I doing wrong? the second I try to expand into poland as germany I trigger a world war against france and uk
Charles Green
Lucky my games are always wacky
Jackson Morgan
>the gypsy bomb
Blake Miller
Is there any country who can't turn in a major global power in the first 2 years in HoI4?
Juan Gray
Hey folks I have very little experience in grand strategy games and wanted to ask for a recommendation. I have a sweet spot for super realistic mil sims like arma or wargame, is there a grand strategy game that is done in the same spirit? Theme doesn't matter, can be fiction even. Difficulty doesn't matter. I just want a super real war sim, maybe even one that focuses on logistics and country wide maneuvers rather then commanding individual platoons on the front line.
Joseph Rivera
Nice, paradox is adding Israel into the next patch and I can finally form my zionist worldwide empire and kill all the aryans
Michael Garcia
no idea
Aaron Ross
Hearts of Iron 3 with the Black Ice mod.
>inb4 meme ice
Sebastian Thomas
Read the OP image AGEOD games, War in the East or War in the Pacific is what you are looking for
Owen Cruz
Finland should be a decent minor even in a multi if opposing player isnt USSR or any other nordic nation. Honestly why would someone even play a steamroll and OP nation in a multi? AI being shit is the only reason you can take on soviets.
In my current finland game I conquered nordic nations so I rock about 50 mil factories,20 dock yards and another 30-50 civ facs.(1940)
Only problem is manpower but you can take on the soviets if AI is playing it. If your friend goes germany then finland can be a good addition.
Also I have destroyed around 1milj of ussr troops while only losing 60k. Is this normal or is the game favoring the player on normal,
Eli Taylor
Anyone know how to set up multiplayer with pirated HoI 4?
Carson Bennett
Bhutan ::^^^^))))))))
Matthew Thomas
>black scheisse
Anthony Hughes
After Navarran forces reached Paris, the French agreed to a peace treaty, swearing to cut down their forces and pay reperations, whilst also handing over their influence in the Horn of Africa.
Carter Sanchez
Yes, you buy a copy of the game
Julian Adams
Custom conversion?
Adrian Brooks
How do you stop Great Britain from raping your air force as Germany? I've had plenty of fighters and they still get air superiority.
Zachary Myers
Jesus christ what a meme
Chase Wood
Started in 1081, yes
Luke Walker
gary grigsby's war in the east
Gabriel Young
Doing mods on your own is a lot of work.
Charles Lee
TURN ON THE AMERICAN HEROS CHANNEL ITS PLAYING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HOW LIQUOR BUILT AMERICA
Christian Sanders
+1
Sebastian Harris
And modding news events is pretty retarded. Turns out just to spawn one news event to the player you have to write two.
also *similar
Dylan Rodriguez
what are the effects to london and the england?
Jace Moore
its true liquor really is the most profitable good
Ayden Sanchez
I've managed to create grobamericums in my first play through. Converted to Fascism built an 80 division army, installed fascist governments in Mexico, Venezuelan, and Peru. Invaded Cuba. Am Currently trying to assist Fascist Argentina win a civil war and subjugate Chili, but because of the retarded supply mechanics in this game I can't do shit and they're Argbros are going to get fucked they're around 1 month from losing their last few victory points. What else can I do to make this fun?
Michael Kelly
[ ] Helpful [ X ] Agree [ ] Respectfully Disagree
Camden Edwards
With the British already fighting over Picardie in France, the USA asked Navarra for assistance in taking New Mexico whilst their enemies' allies were occupied.
With no fighting having occurred on the North American continent yet, the first battle of the war came just north of Paris, as a large Navarran army met an unprepared British regiment.
Gabriel Cox
soviets multiplayer can easily be defeated before 1940-41 unless the soviet player has literally god mode strategic thinking; soviets have a 40k inf equipment deficit, have little avenues to gain troop experience, have to deal with the japs and Germany AND suffer from potential civil wars and staff purges. Playing against soviet ai is practically playing against a toddler for minors? I would say 30 max early game 1937-38 and 40 late game. You should be basically spamming infantry style regiments as a minor. also, whenever you arnt making a civilian factory, keep spamming military factories. I mix them in my construction queues so one mil factory preced a civilian factory and so on, have a cut off point for civ factories as well, like dec 1937-8 (depending how mp is going) and then build nothing but mil factories
got majors, Germany should easily be able to spack off 60 civ factories early game and 70ish mil factories. Use them to go full motorised and stick to a minimum of 50 divisions and a maximum of 70 late game; your doctrine is blitzkrieg and you should shred larger inf centric forces, as well as have the support of Italy and spain.
Britain is a mixed bag in my opinion, again try and get the same industry targets as Germany but avoid fully motorised forces as your needed to reinforce and assist other allies in the field
Italy should either go elite infantry or elite motorised with mild armor support (talking about 1-2 light tank and 1 light tank destroyer per motorised division at best); your the support army and while Germany is blitzing your pinning and mobbing up behind him. Do get some motorised though for Africa. I would say 40 civ factories for Italy (stolen from slavs and Romanians) and again a lot of mil factories
frace has shitty industry and equipment stores full stop, spam mixed industry far into1938-39 and only by 1938 do you want to go fully militarised factories. Go defensive doctrine and spam the fuck out of arty+AT
Oliver Ward
what difference does it make having my artillery as support or in combat? in HOI4
Also should I build more divisions or build bigger divisions?
Thomas Rogers
Historical multiplayer
Jose Perry
Looking for a fun Islam start for CK2
Ideally something that will give me time to grow and experience the Islamic mechanics rather than having to fight 20 holy wars immediately
Cooper Taylor
Fuck off back to >>Veeky Forums you cuck
Juan Sanders
Sharif of Mecca then, or someone in Egypt/yemen/oman
Chase Gonzalez
>people literally getting paid in liquor
we memed this into history lads
Adrian Powell
are you lefty redditor. Also why aren't crossboard links working?
Christian Thompson
How new
Logan Brooks
I think national unity plunged by 17% or smth like that, fucked up the area don't know if it killed armies, but strolling into britain was not that heard so I suppose it did
Logan Fisher
willy
Brayden White
So as the UK try to go for about 60 civ and 70ish mil like Germany? That's by Sept 1939 right? I'll give it a shot. How many Dockyards should I try for?
Dylan Johnson
>all of europe, the soviet union, africa, and the usa have surrendered >still no peace treaty
thanks johan
David Walker
three > to crossboard link you newfag
I actually already played Emir of Medina and it was fun, it's the ONLY fun Islam start I've found so far but thanks for trying
Maybe Egypt could make a fun start but the way holy wars work with seas makes me kind of dread starting there because it leaves me open to attack immediately. Still, it's worth a shot.
Might try the border near India since I never do India stuff, too.
Jackson Perez
CONT your job as france is to survive until 1940 and begin mass mobilising, try to get a few fighters as well but really your main focus is full defensive warfare
Russia is a case of spamming both civilian and military factories at the same time and again using defensive doctrine to wait until your fully mobilised
arty support is like a passive buff to soft attack, main arty divisions are actual units that apply soft attack but require more in terms of supply and reinforcement: a division of support arty will break quicker then a div with a few arty brigades because the support arty is not part of the battlefield
bigger divisions, aim to change and adapt existing divisions to suit your needs, however only develop your divisions more if you can afford to reinforce them with manpower and equipment
50 divisions of fully equipped infantrymen with AT will trump any day 100 divisions of partially filled infantry and a few partially filled motorised/armored divisions as well. Most players don't realise this and watch as their ELITE PANZERMANIUMS =D or half equipped infantry and a quarter equipped armor get wrecked by 1 division of infanty entrenched with 2 anti tank guns
if you arnt making a surplus on infantry equipment, don't make more divisions
Jeremiah Hughes
>are see* At least i'm not a cuckold redditor leftard like you, Ahmed Goldenberg.
Matthew Martin
CONT your job as france is to survive until 1940 and begin mass mobilising, try to get a few fighters as well but really your main focus is full defensive warfare
Russia is a case of spamming both civilian and military factories at the same time and again using defensive doctrine to wait until your fully mobilised
arty support is like a passive buff to soft attack, main arty divisions are actual units that apply soft attack but require more in terms of supply and reinforcement: a division of support arty will break quicker then a div with a few arty brigades because the support arty is not part of the battlefield
bigger divisions, aim to change and adapt existing divisions to suit your needs, however only develop your divisions more if you can afford to reinforce them with manpower and equipment
50 divisions of fully equipped infantrymen with AT will trump any day 100 divisions of partially filled infantry and a few partially filled motorised/armored divisions as well. Most players don't realise this and watch as their ELITE PANZERMANIUMS =D or half equipped infantry and a quarter equipped armor get wrecked by 1 division of infanty entrenched with 2 anti tank guns
if you arnt making a surplus on infantry equipment, don't make more divisions
remember to be constantly building factories, once you get to the 50-60 mark in civ factories for Britain literally spam mil factories and don't look at construction ever again. also, entwine your factory production so every 1 civ factory you make leads to a military factory after
fuck making dockyards, your fleet is unbeatable in Europe unless someone like Germany or Italy spams naval production the entire game. I honestly only produce convoys with 1 dockyard when playing as a continental power as it wastes iron and fuel to employ more docks
also depends a lot on the multiplayer situation, if wars about to kick off inn 1937 then dump civ factories and go full military
Colton Wright
>paradox is adding Israel into the next patch I don't believe you
Ethan Kelly
>New Afghan Empire
Oliver Ross
Looks nice. Mecha Hitler when? Obviously, tanks are still far superior in every category, especially style
Dylan Edwards
Awesome.
Alexander Hall
The soviets are doing great work along side my people.
Isaac Harris
There was eventually fighting in North America, but it was quickly won by the United States, and so too was the war - New Mexico gained statehood on the 7th of April.
James Adams
only through multiplayer can you unlock these great memes
Thomas Flores
holy shit
Adrian Flores
Is there any hope of going head to head with the british navy as germany?
Julian Hall
So who is fighting who? What the fuck is even going on.
Angel Roberts
this is historically accurate though
Henry Bell
Is there a mod out that extends the end date?
John Reed
What even is the end date? It's 1941 and I already own half the world
Eli Robinson
Yes.
Landon Reed
1948.
Jordan Thompson
Steam link?
Landon Garcia
*1984
Jacob Davis
That's weak. I thought it was something like 1953 or so
Kevin Fisher
Historically accurate
well let me tell you about this game >germans declare war on soviets >soviets declare war on allies AND axis >new, game mechanics are such that you cannt attack a coutry engaged in a war with another country you yourself are fighting against >in other words, I couldn't invade Germany because Germany was at war with the soviet union who was also at war with me and my allies >therefore, I had to ask for military access from adolf hitler in order to invade Russia via germany
Israel Soviet State of Israel Israeli Totalitariat Free State of Jerusalem
I think they are feeling guilty and are making up for the lack of holocaust events to remember the 60 trillion
Julian Wilson
REEEE WHY DID MY FUCKING BLOB TRANSFER TO THE FUCKING MEXICANS WHAT THE FUCK MAN
Jaxson Nelson
How do I route convoys to not go through the Med. and get bombed to shit by the Italians or attacked by their navy?
I remember Paradox saying you could route them away from danger in HOI4.
Connor Myers
Definetely doing a world conquest with it
Jason Anderson
not sure on that
Gavin Clark
It should at least be a decision for the USA to make it when they capture the area or something
Carter Lopez
Finally, all 240 pics downloaded and being uploaded to imgur right now, which is going to take quite a while. I'll have to make two albums because apparently you can't have more than 150 images in the same album.
Depending on how long it takes to upload, I might be able to finish it in a few hours, if it takes too long I'll finish tomorrow, because it's getting late.
By the way, do have any fancy title for the AAR in mind, or should I just go with "AARnon's France AAR" or whatever?
>8 March, 1904 Well, at least I can use them as a bait for the Brittish after I intervene in the Boer War. They own a shitload of African land by now.
Lucas White
what happens if I tell my division to stop using their old weapons but I don't have any new ones? will they start fighting with theyr bare hands?
Camden Garcia
>>Israeli Totalitariat fucking what Im not memeing but did they actually hire Caleb to do these or something?
Ayden Turner
>so new to Veeky Forums that you don't even know how to redirect to different boards >actually ADMITTING you're a newfag >coming to Veeky Forums just for ebin MRA and /pol/ memes
Literally kill yourself. You are what's wrong with the internet nowadays. This isn't your fucking special safe space.
Luis Rivera
they will use the old equipment until they have enough of the new equipment to upgrade
E.G if I change to inf equipment 2.0 all my divisions with existing inf equipment 1.0 will keep that equipment until it is eventually "phased" out by the newly produced inf equipment 2.0 via upgrades
if you mean simply not producing inf equipment at all, then eventually your divisions will simply fail to reinforce and die
Evan Perez
>accidently start WW3 >realise I'm really behind US and UK on production and techs and also have shortage of absolutely everything
John Flores
Oh I understand now. It's 1944 and most of my divisions still use the Weapons I, Does this mean they will get wrecked whey they fight against soldiers with III weapons?
Oliver Rogers
Its fine,AI cant fight for shit even if they could crush you with a button press
Thomas Reed
steamgruppe leave now
Brody Wood
Peoples United Provinces strikes again at the same time