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Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong here? I am a HOI vet that has played since HOI2 and I'm stumped. I am playing as facist Nepal, and I expanded to take over all of China. China currently has the Chinese United Front formed, and when it goes to capitulate I only have a 16% warscore and my only option is to annex Sianking state, and everything else goes to the Reformed Chinese Government. I control nearly all of China myself and have inflicted almost a million casualties, so what the hell? I am using the road to 56 mod, but I don't see anything listed in it that would cause something like this. Anyone know if I am being screwed by an event or if the mod is to blame or what?
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Friend Commuter posted:Who else is at war with China? Just Japan? Load the save just before the peace conference and check what everyone else's warscore looks like. Taking China was actually pretty easy, only it took like 3 years for my guys to grind through it. China is almost 100% infantry so if you max out your soft attack with arty and rockets it's a totally one-sided meat grinder- you just have a lot of meat to grind through. It was 1941 when I launched the war so the entirety of the axis is at war with China. Sianking doesn't even exist as a separate country, it's just the only region I'm allowed to annex. I'm not really sure I understand how warscore works in HOI4. I have 100% participation in my war, but there is a separate war going on with the axis. Are they capitulating to the axis, not me, (despite Japan holding only the northeast corner of China) so that's why this is happening?
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Mar 15, 2017 03:22
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Apoffys posted:You probably need to declare war on the Axis before China capitulates then, if you want the territory. That did it, thanks! Strange that I've never run into this problem in HOI4 until now, it's a really stupid game mechanic. Now what I really don't understand is why when China capitulated this time all of its territory that was occupied by Japan went to France and the UK. At least I got to keep what I occupied.
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Mar 15, 2017 17:06
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Fister Roboto posted:Are there any up to date guides for surviving as Ethiopia? I know it was possible last year when the game first came out, but it seems like paradox has changed some things to make those methods not work anymore, like moving Italy's southern port a few provinces southward. After those changes it was still possible to take advantage of some dumb AI behavior where they shuffled troops around up north, but they've fixed that as well. Someone at Paradox really doesn't want people surviving as Ethiopia 
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Apr 9, 2017 15:31
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Fister Roboto posted:I can't say I'm struggling with anything in particular. It's like I know how each individual part works, but I don't know how they work together. The HOI3 wiki has quick guides as to what you should be doing (as in, who to attack in what order) for almost every country. The game mechanics are mostly different, but the overall strategies they suggest or more or less the same.
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Apr 15, 2017 13:56
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I have never ever built AT guns, but don't really think I've ever had a problem as there are usually so few tanks on the battlefield that I run into. That said, I play minors 99% of the time, but do regularly go up against Germany and Russia. Am I missing something here?
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Apr 18, 2017 20:45
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Do peace conferences give you a big discount on requesting provinces that you control, while charging people who don't control it many times as much? Because if not I feel like that would fix peace conferences.
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Apr 22, 2017 23:46
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Lum_ posted:
And then nothing ever happens again. MD can be fun to screw around in, but it needs a LOT of events added and the tech tree needs re-worked so African minors aren't cranking out Gen4 fighters and modern MBTs in 2001.
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Aug 12, 2017 00:09
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Peanut Butler posted:anyone play Road to 56? I just downloaded it, and usually prefer alt-history-from-the-get-go mods, but there seems to be lotsa potential for historical fuckery, which I appreciate It's probably the best mod for alt-historical fuckery because they have an extra research menu that is designed for min-maxing. I did a Nepal run where I conquered most of China and Japan before I ended up quitting. You can get something like +200% rocket artillery soft attack if you take the right research options.
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Aug 15, 2017 04:20
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Playing as a minor isn't even as fun in HOI4 because after 1940 any independent nation you attack instantly joins their aligned faction even if you yourself are independent. You have to play crazy efficient for the first four years and hope to gobble up 2-3 countries before the gates are closed and you're forced to pick a side.
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Aug 29, 2017 23:10
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I find that even as a minor if I can invest 1-3 factories into building fighters for a year before war I have enough planes to contest the airspace if not gain total air superiority. I play only against the AI though and it seems pretty bad at managing its air assets.
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Sep 3, 2017 14:30
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Can anyone explain why these numbers don't add up? 2.87K + 16.80k + 2.40 != 29.57K And just now I rasied my conscription laws and it stayed at 2.87K free. Bug? Is there any way to fix this? Is this a Road to 56 bug? Kind of sucks because I finally pulled off an invasion of Denmark as Iceland after like 6 restarts.
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Sep 15, 2017 14:52
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Gort posted:Did you let the month roll-over after doing your changes? Yes, and my manpower is continuing to drop for some reason. It's now down to 2.58K total. Gotta be a bug 
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Sep 15, 2017 15:03
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ArchangeI posted:Are you taking casualties anywhere? Nope, wasn't taking casualties or building boats. It stopped going down after a couple months so I consoled the missing manpower to myself, but the game is now crawling in 1940 at speeds that I usually don't see until almost 1950. I'm thinking Road to 56 and the no ai unit spam mod I'm using that someone linked in this thread don't play well together. Herp derp I didn't realize road to 56 was a submod collection. Arven fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Sep 15, 2017 |
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Sep 15, 2017 18:40
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I thought doomstacks of submarines was the way to go for naval in this game? Sure seems to work for me...
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Sep 20, 2017 20:53
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Gort posted:What? No. Are you playing Darkest Hour or something? Nah. I'm playing minors and using their national foci to have subs that are a tech level ahead of everyone else for most of the game. That said, I usually augment then with land based naval bombers. I put them in a tight spacing and when they find an enemy fleet they go to work.
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Sep 21, 2017 00:02
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Tahirovic posted:Yes this still seems to be required, the game doesn't seem to split a big wing up for missions and planes are only in the air for X time then need a break. So if you have one big wing you wont have coverage. From what I've read the optimal size would be somewhere between 50 and 80 actually, but gently caress that, I just go with 100. Ughh. This explains so much. I've had doomstacks of 1000 fighters in an airspace against <100 enemies and not held air superiority before, and this explains why. Why do they even let you have that many fighters in a wing? Way too many traps in this game.
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Sep 27, 2017 17:33
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drat Dirty Ape posted:I had a ridiculous game as Venezuela with a legion of naval bombers with fighter air superiority just constantly sinking dozens of enemy ships all over the Caribbean since it was basically me vs the world. If at anytime I tried to build any naval ships (which I rarely did since I had no steel) they were nearly instantly sunk. Yeah, I had Tibet game where I pushed the Japanese off the mainland and then proceeded to sink their entire fleet with a wing of ~1000 Naval bombers with a few hundred long range fighters to hold air superiority.
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Oct 10, 2017 04:47
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Lum_ posted:Road to 56 is pretty much my go-to mod package now, the author fixed (ie: nerfed) most of the hilariously overpowered focuses from the focus trees included with the package. It's not historical by any means but if you want to fight a war between the Neo-Byzantine Empire and the 2nd Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth while Germany is off having a civil war with the Kaiser, this is your mod. (this actually happened last game) My current road to 56 game is a massive four way battle between the axis, the allies, the comintern (including Communist France, which only just fell to Belgium of all things in 1945), and the African anti-colonial faction lead by me. They really did fix a most of the egregious poo poo, like you can't cheese the gently caress out of the focus tree as a minor and have a 50% research time modifier in 1938 anymore and a lot of the extra focuses now actually have downsides.
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Nov 4, 2017 02:02
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I always play minors and my recipe for naval superiority has always been doomstacks of subs with a few light cruisers thrown in to hold the enemy in combat until the subs can shoot, supported by bombers. I've never had problems sinking battleships, and while carriers don't get sunk very often the AI tends not to leave capital ships out at sea without any escorts. Most minor nations can crank out 12 subs a year once they get their naval production focuses done and conquer a neighbor or two that has theirs, or they can build a battleship in 2.5 years with that same production. Not exactly a difficult choice there.
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Dec 15, 2017 16:40
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I'm surprised those haven't shown up in any mods. I really miss the HOI2 style secret weapons research tree and the crazy stuff a lot of mods brought into it.
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Dec 15, 2017 21:01
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Huh. I've bought dozens of games off g2a and never had an issue, but after reading that I'm not going to buy from them again.
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Dec 15, 2017 23:44
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Gort posted:Yeah, I find my puppets just defend their own borders mostly. I find my puppets pump out more divisions than they have equipment to equip, so I end up constantly having to defend their borders anyway as all their divisions are perpetually at 25% strength somehow.
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Dec 28, 2017 15:23
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Gort posted:One of these days I need to try the "heavy self-propelled AA in your infantry division" strategy for Japan. Heavy SPAA is the cheapest way to add a bit of armour to a division and China's got no piercing to speak of so in theory you should roll over them easily. Just tried this for fun and oh boy does it work. Communist China for example has like .8 piercing.
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Dec 30, 2017 16:48
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My own contribution to the argument that that naval combat breakdown video doesn't hold up in the actual game- 2 BBs and 9 DDs and enemy planes against 24 subs and 15 lovely interwar fighters.
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Jan 5, 2018 21:30
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Torpor posted:What the heck is this DLC coming out? Stellaris also has a huge patch/DLC that could be released at any moment. I know different Dev teams work on each game, but I don't know how likely it is they'll release both at roughly around the same time..
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Jan 14, 2018 13:54
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It would be nice if sinking ships caused a stability/war support hit. If Japan or England loses its entire fleet they should really surrender faster...
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Jan 20, 2018 02:45
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Kibbles n Shits posted:Also you should be able to choose the lunch and dinner menus for your soldier's rations including the precise amount of calories they intake and how the weight of their boots affects the total calories burned per mile of marching. I can't believe the game is so dumbed down that you can't do this. I unironically would play this game
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Feb 10, 2018 23:26
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Did a run as Bhutan just to see how long it would take to go from completely neutral to fascist and at war with a neutral neighbor and... oof, good luck getting any wars in before 1939 now. I'm sure the Road to 56 will still let you cheese that up with focuses, though. Also Japan caused the United Front to surrender by mid-1938. Is it possible that having them all in one faction is actually worse than before, as the fighting doesn't drag out into the 1940s anymore because whole faction just surrenders as a whole as soon as one or two of them are overrun?
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Mar 8, 2018 17:03
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So um... did something change? The AI can attack out of being attacked? I can't hold divisions down with attacks anymore?
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Mar 9, 2018 15:29
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axeil posted:The AI appears to be much smarter now. They'll try and encircle you all the time. I think you all misunderstand- I'm Ethiopia in that screenshot. And after 3 hours and 10 restarts, I give up. I swear, someone at Paradox has a hate boner for Ethopia. It gets harder and harder to win the war against Italy every patch and now it's impossible because you get hit with worker strikes, mutinies, and draft dodger events so often that you are always negative political power. I also thought you're supposed to capture equipment from enemy divisions? I encircled and destroyed 6 divisions one try and didn't get any equipment. Arven fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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Mar 9, 2018 16:05
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Gave it one more try this morning and I managed to kick Italy out of Ethiopia. Here it is after the final Italian troops were overrun on October 3rd.  (screenshot cut if off, but I took 25k casualties) I played on speed 3x and didn't use the AI at all for front lines, micro'd the poo poo out of everything and managed to encircle and destroy the entire Italian army. They landed some tanks at the end, but it was too late as I had already taken their ports. Quite frankly I was only able to do it because I got super lucky with the RNG. The random general I recruited to be my field marshal was a an Infantry Officer, so despite the casualties I was taking my guys never dipped below regular, and only one of the negative events fired- the one that effects your recruitment (normally I seem to get worker strikes over and over). The AI is a LOT smarter about not getting encircled, but it can't help itself if you give it a big hole in your lines with a clear shot to your capital to try to push.
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Mar 10, 2018 14:30
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Is it hard coded into the game that the USA does the entire Monroe Doctrine tree any time the player is a South American nation, or am I just really unlucky?
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Apr 11, 2018 15:18
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Acute Grill posted:If you play with historical focuses off, the United States is almost guaranteed to rush Pax Americana. If you have them on it's still only a matter of time. Ahhh okay, this was probably it. Guess I can't do Gran Colombia while the world also does crazy alternate history stuff. ... Welp, even on historical focus the US still has the entire tree done by January 1937. Arven fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Apr 11, 2018 16:09
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Gamerofthegame posted:millennium dawn, obv Modern Day 4 is actually pretty good compared to millennium dawn. The creator is a magachud judging by the US national focus tree. My last game was really depressing; Trump got elected for a third term and sat idly by while Russian annexed the entire middle east and then China.
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Jun 15, 2018 12:53
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Drone posted:Aren't both mods created by magachuds? That would explain why they're merging, I guess.
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Jun 15, 2018 15:35
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ArchRanger posted:I thought the new tech trees in the mod were pretty dumb. Not the stupidest I've seen but yeah lets waste research time on specific models of camouflage and pants. The camouflage research itself doesn't do much, but the desert/winter gear it branches off to gives you a huge attrition reduction.
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Jul 7, 2018 14:52
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Just give them planes with unlimited range and a base in Antarctica? I'm really disjointed there isn't a mod that adds Antarctica. Really get that ahistorical stuff going with the nazis falling back there when they lose. Hell, it'd be cool to have a secondary "map" of the moon too that required rocket ships to ferry troops and resources between to get ultra ahistorical.
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Jul 13, 2018 14:28
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What is it about this game that attract modders that hate ahistorical situations? I was messing around in the End of a New Beginning mod (basically tacks Victoria into HOI4, runs 1867 to 1967 or something) and played as a Native American nation for the hell of it. I got in a war against the US, and despite winning the warscore via casualties and holding all my territory, I couldn't sue for peace because of the "base reluctance" mechanic. I hopped on their discord to suggest that maybe base reluctance shouldn't be a thing before ~1900 because it essentially requires complete annexation to end a war... and I was slapped down by a Dev who told me that I shouldn't be fighting wars that weren't started by an event or decision, and in the situation I was in there wasn't an event to end it if I was winning because my nation was supposed to lose. Who the gently caress wants to play a 100 year completely on-rails HOI4 game 
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Do you guys hire people who work remotely or do they have to move to Sweden? I'm a Sys Admin with an educational background in programming and I have a a cousin in Sweden, and I'm looking for an exit plan if things get Trumpier...
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