/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Cool, thanks user

Thanks for the tips and tricks dog can you tell me how to beat poland as germany thanks

NOTHING CAN STOP THE PEOPLES UNITED PROVINCES

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.

That'd a dumb name
What were they thinking

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

Lucky
my games are always wacky

>the gypsy bomb

Is there any country who can't turn in a major global power in the first 2 years in HoI4?

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.

Nice, paradox is adding Israel into the next patch and I can finally form my zionist worldwide empire and kill all the aryans

no idea

Hearts of Iron 3 with the Black Ice mod.

>inb4 meme ice

Read the OP image
AGEOD games, War in the East or War in the Pacific is what you are looking for

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,

Anyone know how to set up multiplayer with pirated HoI 4?

Bhutan ::^^^^))))))))

>black scheisse

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.

Yes, you buy a copy of the game

Custom conversion?

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.

Jesus christ what a meme

Started in 1081, yes

gary grigsby's war in the east

Doing mods on your own is a lot of work.

TURN ON THE AMERICAN HEROS CHANNEL ITS PLAYING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HOW LIQUOR BUILT AMERICA

+1

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

what are the effects to london and the england?

its true liquor really is the most profitable good

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?

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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.

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

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?

Historical multiplayer

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

Fuck off back to >>Veeky Forums you cuck

Sharif of Mecca then, or someone in Egypt/yemen/oman

>people literally getting paid in liquor

we memed this into history lads

are you lefty redditor.
Also why aren't crossboard links working?

How new

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

willy

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?

>all of europe, the soviet union, africa, and the usa have surrendered
>still no peace treaty

thanks johan

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.

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

>are
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At least i'm not a cuckold redditor leftard like you, Ahmed Goldenberg.

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

>paradox is adding Israel into the next patch
I don't believe you

>New Afghan Empire

Looks nice. Mecha Hitler when?
Obviously, tanks are still far superior in every category, especially style

Awesome.

The soviets are doing great work along side my people.

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.

only through multiplayer can you unlock these great memes

holy shit

Is there any hope of going head to head with the british navy as germany?

So who is fighting who? What the fuck is even going on.

this is historically accurate though

Is there a mod out that extends the end date?

What even is the end date? It's 1941 and I already own half the world

Yes.

1948.

Steam link?

*1984

That's weak. I thought it was something like 1953 or so

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

forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-1-0-1-hotfix-beta-patch.945139/page-2

>Israel has been added with the following names;

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

REEEE WHY DID MY FUCKING BLOB TRANSFER TO THE FUCKING MEXICANS WHAT THE FUCK MAN

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.

Definetely doing a world conquest with it

not sure on that

It should at least be a decision for the USA to make it when they capture the area or something

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?

Too bad the game has no decision interface, huh?

/gsg/ general changes mod 0.04 for HoI4
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dis gun b gud

>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.

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?

>>Israeli Totalitariat
fucking what
Im not memeing but did they actually hire Caleb to do these or something?

>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.

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

>accidently start WW3
>realise I'm really behind US and UK on production and techs and also have shortage of absolutely everything

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?

Its fine,AI cant fight for shit even if they could crush you with a button press

steamgruppe leave now

Peoples United Provinces strikes again at the same time