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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:I played, uh, I forget the name but whatever Zebrican nation is the one with a Posadist route, not that long ago. It was pretty fun for a while, but the run sort of spluttered to a halt eventually when the focus tree started to demand ever-larger stockpiles of nuclear weapons to progress (and I'd hosed my nuke income with the secret weapon decisions that come with permanent nuke upkeep costs). Took multiple ingame years of twiddling my thumbs and flood-building reactors to dig my way out of that hole. Personally, of these, I'd avoid Stalliongrad and the Crystal Empire. Only one of Stalliongrad's path has actual content that functions, and the Crystal Empire is heavily tied into the show, features, of all things, a CYOA/visual novel esque series of events, and kind of plays second fiddle to Equestria and the Changelings. Other than that everywhere in that image is fine. Personally, I'd recommend Aquileia (July Monarchy France), as well as the Griffonian Empire and anything under Herzland (the HRE if it was still relevent in WWI/II.)
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# ? May 23, 2023 18:20 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 10:40 |
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As an addition to EaW chat if you want to do hardmode then Haukland - small island nation between the two north continents - gains the ability later in their mission tree to tame dragons and use them in their armies and the Socialist Republic of Skynavia - far northwest in the tundra - is the outside bet contender for the Griffonian Empire and subsequently has access to the most overpowered ability of being able to core every province.
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# ? May 23, 2023 19:08 |
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Aquilea is a fave. New Mareland is pretty interesting too, though I've yet to successfully pull off either a Big Sister run or reclamation of Equus after the Changelings win there. (Rosa Maledicta the Queen of Blood/Bones 4eva)
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# ? May 24, 2023 02:21 |
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I apologize but I refuse to let anyone subject themselves to a Dread League run, even if Rosa is cool and good.
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# ? May 24, 2023 03:01 |
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play the evil wizard pentarchy instead
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# ? May 24, 2023 03:15 |
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Hellioning posted:I apologize but I refuse to let anyone subject themselves to a Dread League run, even if Rosa is cool and good. It wouldn't be so bad if the first years weren't sitting doing nothing but waiting for the tree to progress and watching the Empire to see how quickly they reform to know if it'll even be possible. Making a million armies armed with flintlocks and overwhelming tank lines with bodies is stupidly fun, at least. IIRC they have something insane like -50% infantry width which also stacks with the inf width from Mass Assault doctrine to make overwhelm tactics more than viable. Rynoto fucked around with this message at 03:53 on May 24, 2023 |
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Wow, my first game with the new peace conference mechanics and I don't understand them at all
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# ? May 25, 2023 22:05 |
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HerraS posted:play the evil wizard pentarchy instead If you like reading and minigames
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# ? May 25, 2023 23:44 |
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The new peace conferences take a little bit to figure out, but eventually they seem mostly straight forward. Effectively you end up bidding on provinces against other war participants. You spend your war score on getting all the easy stuff first, and then you start spending the remaining points trying to get what the other winners are trying to get. There were some problems with the numbers and war score though last time I played. Sometimes I ended up in a situation where I was 1 point off from being able to claim every province/state. Magissima posted:If you like reading and minigames Kaiserreich players.
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# ? May 26, 2023 06:29 |
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thats TNO players, us KR players like actually playing the game
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# ? May 26, 2023 06:37 |
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VostokProgram posted:thats TNO players, us KR players like actually playing the game Why
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# ? May 26, 2023 16:01 |
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Not that I want to start a silly slap fight online, and Kaiserreich is the only mod I really play, but all the new minor tags like Poland have all been mini games and events.
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# ? May 26, 2023 18:55 |
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KR does eventually get to a war for most countries. TNO really only has any fighting in the Russian Warlord states, The rest of the world is JUST minigames and events until the game over screen. (Both are good depending what you are up for)
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# ? May 26, 2023 20:50 |
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Well, there's the proxy conflicts for the superpowers (as well as some countries that can send volunteers like Brazil on the SAW and Guangzhou with their weapon testing battallions) and the GCW
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# ? May 26, 2023 21:29 |
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Kaiserredux is the version that still has all the fun stuff, right?
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# ? May 27, 2023 14:17 |
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Trying to fight the Soviet civil war as the left opposition, just got my rear end kicked on my first attempt out of arkhangelsk. There's kind of a lot going on. I had a decent amount of divisions, but my manpower was quickly gone and the whole thing folded. I had no idea what I was doing. Do you want to try to rush to spring the civil war sooner rather than later, or take your time? I pretty much went down all the civil war focuses as quickly as possible, and kicked it off in 1938 when I didn't have any left. The western powers pledged to support me with equipment, but during the civil war I didn't see anything. What should I be doing to prep and make it easier?
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# ? May 27, 2023 16:11 |
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Personally with Trotsky I usually did it starting in Odessa, or whatever was the headquarters location in Ukrainian SSR. There's a bunch of scripted stuff going on with the civil war, and also some RNG. Like a few months after the civil war starts, you get desertion events when you capture cities with a lot of victory points. There was a exploit/gimmick where you would switch your main division template to only 1 AA battalion, then send all the equipment to Spain as lend-lease. Then fire the civil war event, and cancel the lend-lease so you get all of that equipment back. I assume it still kind of works. Most of the civil war focuses are just there, you don't need to do them. They're mostly there to either make it easier, which you shouldn't need, or to unlock some specific advisor after the civil war. You should probably look ahead to see if you really want or need any of that stuff. Stalin will still have the NKVD ones, but the red army regular ones would be a lot weaker. I'd say rushing the civil war as quickly as possible is the better way, and you should focus on micro managing your divisions to encircle and destroy as many of Stalin's as you can. But really, really, I don't think the soviet civil war is all that fun honestly. Unless you really want to do some alternate history stuff, Stalin's focus tree is still the best as long as you rush the paranoia/purge part.
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# ? May 27, 2023 16:40 |
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New Kaiserreich update makes me ask the decade old question. Will the frontline system ever work?
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 05:13 |
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Farecoal posted:Kaiserredux is the version that still has all the fun stuff, right? It has some fun stuff (tons more content in general, 6 way American Civil War), some profoundly “problematic” stuff (one of the ACW factions is literally the KKK), and some profoundly silly stuff (the new Albanian ultra-Hoxhaist focus path is… it’s a thing.)
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 09:09 |
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Lostconfused posted:New Kaiserreich update makes me ask the decade old question. I think realistically the frontline system is going to work pretty much as it currently does until Hearts of Iron 5.
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 09:31 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_fA1AwbkcQ This just got posted on the official channel ... --- -- . - .... .. -. --. / .. ... / -.-. --- -- .. -. --. / .--- ..- -. . / --... - .... = SOMETHING IS COMING JUNE 7TH CVKCXCUGBRALSBMBMHOYCCCKXA TBFBZFWBPUZBOCBILAMNWZEWADZBRJRK = THERE ARE MORE HIDDEN MESSAGES IN THE [dunno] CAN YOU FIND THEM ALL? - .... . .-. . / .- .-. . / -- --- .-. . / .... .. -.. -.. . -. / -- . ... ... .- --. . ... = THERE ARE MORE HIDDEN MESSAGES 09 04 40 is the date of the start of operation weserübung, the german invasion of norway/denmark so hopefully this means the next dlc is nordic focused
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 14:26 |
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Who is going to be stronger, Quisling’s North Sea Empire or Restored Hyperfinland? Also Sweden content tracks with international arms dealing
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 14:47 |
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if we can't replay the Finno-Korean Hyperwar what good is the dlc anyway
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 15:35 |
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Iymarra posted:
Give us Denmark GUI, you cowards!
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 16:07 |
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It makes sense that the Scandinavian DLC is next as Sweden is the perfect match for the arms market they previewed in the recent dev diaries. Sweden spent most of the war selling weapons to both the Allies and the Axis. The famous Bofors AA guns that the British widely used were Swedish-made (or at least designed, I don't know if the UK ended up producing them locally under license). And there were a bunch of other Swedish weapons that found their way into Axis use as well.
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 17:03 |
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Vichan posted:
FOCUS: STOMACH
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 19:54 |
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Dramicus posted:It makes sense that the Scandinavian DLC is next as Sweden is the perfect match for the arms market they previewed in the recent dev diaries. Sweden spent most of the war selling weapons to both the Allies and the Axis. The famous Bofors AA guns that the British widely used were Swedish-made (or at least designed, I don't know if the UK ended up producing them locally under license). And there were a bunch of other Swedish weapons that found their way into Axis use as well. I play hungarians in historical miniatures games, about half of my fancy kit is swedish.
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 20:08 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I play hungarians in historical miniatures games, about half of my fancy kit is swedish. Hungary is always interesting for the eclectic mix of imported and locally developed stuff they have. I wish more games included the various minors and their equipment. There's a criminal underuse of IAR 80s, among others.
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 21:09 |
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Vichan posted:
That pylorus is incorrectly labeled. It’s too far down and the arrow is pointing to the second portion of the duodenum. My ability to feel human has been taken away etc etc
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 21:21 |
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Cantorsdust posted:That pylorus is incorrectly labeled. It’s too far down and the arrow is pointing to the second portion of the duodenum. My ability to feel human has been taken away etc etc This is all because Paradox went public smh my head.
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# ? Jun 1, 2023 22:02 |
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Vichan posted:
The Levers of Power:
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 02:32 |
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New Ukraine in Kaiserreich is so buff now. All of eastern Europe just carrying the Kaiser on their backs now. Unless the computer RNGs into a revolt. Also I was too stupid to learn from someone else's mistakes and setup a collaboration government in Germany instead of Ukraine, again.
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 14:42 |
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If anyone is interested in The New Order but doesn't want to actually dive in blind, I'm doing a Let's Play of Guangdong, the most recent major content update. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4032743
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# ? Jun 5, 2023 01:01 |
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I tried playing TNO last nite as USA. No CIA decision panel (but I could see CIA decisions hiding in a tooltip) and too sluggish even on a super computer. Welp.
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# ? Jun 5, 2023 23:53 |
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tno is interesting in that it shows how far you can go with middling to (very occasionally) good writing and and player base of bored teens and 20-somethings
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# ? Jun 6, 2023 00:04 |
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Agean90 posted:tno is interesting in that it shows how far you can go with middling to (very occasionally) good writing and and player base of bored teens and 20-somethings Edgy!
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# ? Jun 6, 2023 00:12 |
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guidoanselmi posted:I tried playing TNO last nite as USA. No CIA decision panel (but I could see CIA decisions hiding in a tooltip) and too sluggish even on a super computer. Welp. yeah they completely overhauled the GUI for American foreign policy/CIA decisions, reworked and added a bunch of conflicts, and in the process made the game unplayably laggy also the haiti conflict doesn't even work properly lmao
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# ? Jun 6, 2023 00:15 |
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I remember in the earlier build there's an implication the CIA is doing much more than they are but it was actually Burgundy trying to start WWIII. Burgundy has a bunch of projects like escalate South Africa into a war by killing Ian Smith and trying to get the Japanese and USA into a conflict through confrontations. I can't remember if the Japanese shrimping ship, which was the standoff that caused WWIII most the time, was one of them. I think it's hinted that the assassination attempt on Hitler was actually Burgundy/Himmler getting him back while doing the above apocalyptic poo poo stirring. I don't know if they changed it yet, they said they were, but Burgundy had a minigame where you had to build bunkers to survive WWIII but no matter what you do, you can't complete them properly because Himmler and crew are insane and incompetent. I haven't played it in a bit but I feel like Thousand Week Reich is better because you can actually play HOI4, it's more believable in that all the collapse happens in the 50's instead of the 60's, and it's not just a VN unless you play as a Russia unifier. The US does get some wars, mainly South Africa, but it's not like that takes more than a year, if that, since it's very easy to outmaneuver the German colonial states. I think ultimately the HOI4 is best when the game is kept in the 30's/40's because the engine really struggles to properly represent conflict post WWII.
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# ? Jun 6, 2023 15:27 |
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The game's coming home to Scandinavia. https://twitter.com/hoi_game/status/1666430621457997826?s=61&t=kcY4l2x5HnYUqI9eJ-2-HQ
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 10:40 |
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can we trick paradox into thinking some tech based nation with computers that was wholly uninvolved with ww2 existed so we can get an expansion fixing the AI
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