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I've bought all the other recent Paradox games and really enjoy them. CK2, V2, EU4, Stellaris -- all of them! The only game I never got into was HOI3, which was really complex and impenetrable and didn't really feel like a "game" to me. Oddly enough, I really enjoyed the later, Great War parts of V2, especially setting up my little fellas on the borders and drawing up plans. Is HOI4 good, fun, bug-free? I wasn't really hyped for it the way I was for Stellaris, but would I enjoy it right now if I enjoyed the combat parts of late V2? Or should I wait for a few more patches to come out?
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Is there a "comet sighted" event?
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Jul 8, 2016 15:02
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I decided to go  hard mode playing as the PRC at 1936. Did well the first few months, fought a war against Shanxi and Xibei San Ma and expanded, and then poo poo hit the fan as Japan attacked Nationalist China. They ended up winning because I refused to join the Nationalists in forming a united front against Japan. Instead, I independently justified a war on Japan for the cores in Manchuria. When I declared war, Nationalist China capitulated and now I was surrounded by a sea of Japanese soldiers!Fortunately, the USSR came to my rescue. I joined the Comintern, and after that some kind of bizarre domino effect occurred in which the Allies were also pulled into the war, as well as the Axis countries. I guess in this timeline WW2 started over the war in East Asia! This is brilliant!!
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Jul 18, 2016 02:48
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I'm playing as Nationalist China and losing badly, since I'm bad at WW2. Any tips on fighting Japan?
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Jul 31, 2016 19:23
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TheDemon posted:As you might imagine, you literally want to make a bunch of infantry and drown them in your conscripts. That means 10 width infantry, move to 20 width once you have the exp to get there with a template copy, build nothing but infantry weapons and research the poo poo out of them. Push through in weak areas like Manchuko while defending / slowpushing with stacks of 8 (or 4) along the regular front. Guard the coasts heavily too, there will be naval invasions. Okay, cool, I'll try that.  I don't know what I did wrong in the previous game, but somehow, despite me starting off with millions of manpower (~5M?) I wound up running out of manpower not long after the war with Japan started. I didn't know China could run out of manpower. 
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Jul 31, 2016 20:08
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Thank you too for getting me to notice that I was still on Limited conscription! Now China has 100 M reserves to throw into the Japanese meat grinder!  It's too bad the USSR gave up and was annexed and partitioned by the Nazis and Japan! Now I'm hosed.
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Aug 1, 2016 16:23
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Riso posted:Dude. You are China with 100 million men in reserve. You'll just grind them out. Yeah I can kinda picture in my head how it's gonna go. I'll steadily push back my borders and then spend the rest of the remaining 4 years of the war guarding said borders and annihilating naval invasions. It's gonna be a slog. 
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Aug 1, 2016 17:03
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World War 2 is never-ending! It's 1950 and I am still fighting hopelessly against Japan, and I still haven't gotten an ending screen. China does not have a good enough navy or enough dockyards to produce a fleet that would absolutely remove Japan's sea dominance, and I cannot seem to land enough troops to properly invade Japan.  Nagasaki has been nuked twice and there's no end in sight.
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Aug 14, 2016 17:01
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Well, mostly it's a problem of not being able to form a proper front. Since my navy is so crap-rear end -- composed of something like two dozen submarines -- and I don't have enough range on my planes, I don't have much choice but to invade somewhere in Southern Japan. So while I've managed to land dozens of divisions, I can never seem to gain much traction on the Japanese homeland. It craters their organization and cuts off their supply routes, so they just end up in a neverending stalemate while a hornet's nest of highly, high-morale Japanese troops surrounds them from all sides.
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Aug 14, 2016 17:08
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Build a naval base in the territory you invade.  Of course. I didn't know that I could do that!
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Aug 14, 2016 18:16
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So I won the Spanish Civil War as Anarchists and I'm loving it! No Pasaran!! I'm really enjoying La Resistance so far, I think they've introduce a ton of neat new mechanics to play with - especially the spy system. I can't wait for a Cold War mod that puts the spy stuff front and center. Anyway - so I'm supposed to be able to start Anarchist uprisings in other countries, but I'm not sure exactly how to do that! Can someone give me some pointers?
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Mar 9, 2020 21:49
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So I've worked up the courage to play as the Soviet Union again, post La Resistance, and... how does Trotsky work now? I used to have a lot of fun doing coups and such with Permanent Revolution, but since the changes in La Resistance Trotsky seems really weak.
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Mar 16, 2021 18:01
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ShadowHawk posted:I spent an entire game as USSR trying to orchestrate a single coup in a minor nation and hit the hard cap for stability reduction preventing me from doing so. Well... gently caress. That really sucks and is disappointing!
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Mar 16, 2021 20:54
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I just got back into this recently, and... so is the USSR getting completely wrecked every single run WAD or what? It seems like the AI always folds once Operation Barbarossa happens. I mean, I'm all for alt-history scenarios, but this is a bit out of hand.
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Oct 10, 2022 00:26
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Gort posted:It wouldn't surprise me. The German AI is one of the more solid ones, with only one major issue - sending divisions to West Africa to fight in the colonies they get from Belgium. If the UK AI punished that by raiding the seas between France and the ex-Belgian Congo, that'd be pretty crippling, but the UK AI doesn't do that. Alright, well that kind of confirms my suspicions!
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Oct 10, 2022 14:59
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They should play a big air raid siren whenever someone drops a nuke.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:45
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 I like naming my railroad guns. 
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Apr 11, 2023 15:50
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Ardryn posted:Wouldn't that be like asking if the latest dlc added a human designer? Delicious: +5% manpower attrition when Out of Supply, -10% equipment attrition when Out of Supply.
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May 23, 2023 16:46
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Vichan posted:
The Levers of Power: 
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Jun 2, 2023 02:32
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Raenir Salazar posted:My incredible cursed Hoi4 ironman run I'm doing to try to learn the game! W-wait... from these screenshots... are you not placing fronts? Why do you not have a field marshal? What are all these divisions with the ! for no order assigned? Are you manually moving every single division?? 
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Aug 27, 2023 05:31
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I don't have enough equipment to make infantry, I just call up more men, ask them to wear their personal clothes that look similar enough to the poster on the wall, and then send them unarmed onto the battlefield to improvise weapons from the land itself.
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Sep 9, 2023 18:12
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Gort posted:On site procurement, huh Boss? Praxis.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:12
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Bremen posted:Flame tanks apparently have a bit more amphibious attack bonus too. That's not what games taught me about how elements work!!
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Sep 14, 2023 19:45
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Nonsense, don't believe these fellows, infantry can push, you just need enough of them! 
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Oct 15, 2023 20:53
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ELAN VITAL!
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Oct 16, 2023 18:50
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Moon Slayer posted:So, Sweden can create the Imperium of Man now? There's an Eternal trait?? I feel like this is the first time I've ever learned this was a thing in HOI4.
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Nov 1, 2023 20:26
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StealthArcher posted:And all this in a game where as calculated the US is at 14% equivalent industrial output. Ooh, what is the source for this figure? I'd love to read a deep-dive article where they compare the real world to HOI4. 
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Cheers! Thanks a lot, gentlegoon! 
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