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ExtraNoise posted:Continued work on the modern mod, US holiday special edition. I have no idea if HoI4 has an election system in place (probably not) or if I can get away with just using events (please please please include a way to change leader portraits, Paradox) but I went ahead with creating the potential portraits for the United States presidents.
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Is there a way to cancel certain exports? All my American steel got dibs'ed by central/south america before all the 'you can actually build stuff now' triggers went off. Besides a Trade Law change.
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Jun 6, 2016 23:25
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Bold Robot posted:I'm playing a second USSR game and somehow during Germany's war against Poland, all of the focuses to claim the Baltic states and Bessarabia got bypassed/completed. Not sure why, but okay. I remember from my last USSR game that I kept getting events where the Baltic states would just give up, and I'm pretty sure there's an event where Romania does the same for Bessarabia. How do I make this happen? I'd rather not actually justify and go to war if I can help it.
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Jun 15, 2016 00:24
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Vichy France is actually just the name the game gives to a fascist government France, so whatever happened to them is just based on the demands Germany made on France during the peace conference.
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Jun 18, 2016 23:12
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Are sub-hunting destroyers supposed to be on convoy escort or s&d?
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Jun 20, 2016 21:50
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Any Japan strat that doesn't declare war on the Netherlands before 25% world tension (ideally the same day you declare on China) is incorrect. Take the rubber before they are guaranteed/join the Allies.
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Jun 22, 2016 19:00
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TheDemon posted:I did all those things, then the Chinese smashed my lines and made an encirclement that Hannibal would have been proud of and that I was powerless to interfere with. Like, it was some crazy blitzkreig poo poo. I didn't know infantry could move that fast. They took over a dozen provinces before I could even retreat from one frontline engagement. How to Japan: Send your max # of troops to Spain - but use infantry. Your goal there is to harvest army experience for putting artillery in your templates, not winning the war for the fascists. Only fight in plains to conserve equipment. Never help actually taking VPs/encirclements. Pull everything off the Soviet line, pull everything off the islands. Your garbage garrison troops with the worst infantry equipment and green training should be barred from using the latest equipment via the Equipment button on the division designer, or be simply be disbanded. New division training (mostly marines and a handful of your starting "tank" and motorized templates) should have highest priority. I like switching doctrines to Superior Firepower. Attack in spring '37. Every bone in your body will tell you to wait just a few months more to get better equipped, but go. They are hurting more than you. Your northern army's only objectives are to do a quick thrust take the airfield and surround Beijing. That should bag you 10 surrendered divisions. Then do the the same thing to Tianjin by getting over the river, that should bag you 10 more surrendered divisions. Play defense on the western mountains, but really as long as Mengkukuo doesn't capitulate you have some land to trade for time. Have the Dalian port at at least level 7-8 on the first day of war. Keep a surface fleet on Hold to give you the shore bombardment modifier around Tianjin. Land an invasion in Qingdao. Either just push out of the peninsula to a 3-province wide front and sit there, or try to link up with the northern army along the coast. Now land at Shanghai and take Nanjing. This basically kills all their factories. Now you just keep reinforcing the Shanghai front and push north along to coast to link up with the Qingdao front. Keep landing small forces at every port further and further south. They will be spread so thin and be so out of infantry equipment that they'll start collapsing everywhere. I also like putting in a justification against Netherlands to be used on the same day as we start China. The world should be at maximum 20-24% tension when you declare both wars to avoid the British guaranteeing Netherlands. 3 divisions hoping around unopposed can get you to the 'infinite rubber and enough oil' situation sooner. Focus order: army primacy --> free civilian factories --> war --> army innovations --> research slot
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Jun 24, 2016 18:20
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Is there some reason I'm not seeing that should give me an incentive to keep the default close-air-support to naval-bombers ratio on my CVs, assuming I don't care about attacking land divisions directly? 1940 CV Naval bombers stats (whose air-frame names imply they represent torpedo bombers) Naval Attack: 2.0 Naval Targeting: 1.0 vs 1940 CV CAS stats (whose air-frame names imply they represent dive bombers) Naval Attack: 1.0 Naval Targeting: 1.0 I would have imagined that dive bombers would have had a slightly better targeting stat, but it is not so in-game. Both the Japanese and Americans very highly valued doing combined-arms attacks of both types together during fleet engagements, and that benefit doesn't seem represented. Either by a modifier to the battle saying 'you are doing both at once, you get +XX% effectiveness', or by them have simply having different pros and cons (dmg vs accuracy). There's also nothing to represent the idea of leaning more on torps if your enemy has heavily armored battleships and leaning more towards dive bombers if they have tissue paper carriers. wukkar fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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Jun 25, 2016 01:09
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Is there a mod that replaces Japanese plane names with their Allied designations? Kate/Val/etc.
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Jul 1, 2016 18:57
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Dongattack posted:Last 4 games where i have late game invaded GB i deployed all my fighters and naval bombers in the english channel and then a token navy in there to lure out all the naval bombers. Then i also had heavy fighters and infrastructure bombers set on the british mainland. Through a giant clusterfuck supported by my undisturbed factories combined with their constantly bombed factories i usually deplete their airforce after a fair few months. Then i invade
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Aug 22, 2016 14:58
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Friend Commuter posted:You should've had a chievo called The Empire Strikes Back for Britain puppeting/annexing the USA. That is the actual name of one which is for retaking a rebelled SA/Canada/Raj/etc.
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Dec 14, 2016 21:33
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How exactly am I supposed to attack Manchukuo as the Soviets? I justified the war. I'm at war with their master. I am not at war with them. The 'Declare war' button is greyed out. They aren't even on the 'Alles not in war' list. This puppet system needs some work. 
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Hearts of Iron IV: playable but it won't offer you a terribly enjoyable experience.
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There are map modes to answer those questions.
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May 29, 2018 14:52
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I really wish the Italian tree would get the rework treatment that Germany and others have had. It would easily be my most played nation.
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May 31, 2018 02:55
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Re: Commonwealth countries - I have to say that they look really boring, why would I want to play as them? I think I would rather play as Poland and risk losing rather than sit on my hands on a slow speed while my friends fight the war - but I may be missing something?
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spectralent posted:And anyone who's not a fool is going to take the free puppets decision as well. If you want to follow historical timelines, you have time for 19 focuses before declaring on Poland. (1339 days between 1936-01-01 and 1939-09-01, and dividing by 70) The 'mandatory' ones, in the general order I take them (Austria/Czech whenever they light up, might be earlier/later). code:a1) spend 2 getting to German War Economy. If you hire Goebbels you can do this very early. a2) spend 3 getting to Integrated War Economy. b) spend 3 getting to U-Boat Effort, giving you a far better shot at the Battle of the Atlantic. c) spend 3 getting to the next layer of doctrine ones (Army Innovation II, Tactical Air Effort, Air Innovations II) which will make your Blitz faster and have fewer casualties. d) spend 2 to make your synthetic rubber a complete non-issue, making you far more self sufficient when war starts. I don't think Integrated is worth it. Too much opportunity cost. I'd rather max my infrastructure in several states instantly and have time for one piece of b/c/d. Japan usually invites Romania the second you give them the fascist diplomacy modifier anyways.
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well Operation Hydra (V rockets) and Operation Husky (Sicily) were real things, so those names give big hints unless they are meant as misdirection. What were all the prior expansions and updates code-named before announcement?
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Apr 4, 2019 16:49
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I really wonder in what percentage of their automated overnight games Japan actually takes the goddamn southern resource area.
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May 18, 2019 19:28
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JustJeff88 posted:As shocking as it is, apparently there were serious talks around that time on the subject of France and the UK becoming one nation for mutual defence. I wish that that was modelled in-game.
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Jun 16, 2019 16:27
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They can delay the Soviet tree as for as long as they are feeling actively spiteful toward their own player-base, but first can we get the 'Select Ships to Transfer' list to be sorted by Model Year/Model Name/Model IC Cost instead of by a vastly useless Ship Name? I don't ask for much.
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Aug 28, 2019 18:29
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MooselanderII posted:I've been playing as USSR hoping for a good defensive brawl with Germany, but Germany hasn't been attacking me, even as late as July, 1942. I have the game set to historical mode, so what am I doing wrong? I have about 150 military factories, 330 divisions, and level 4 forts all along the border, are any of those possible factors?
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Sep 19, 2019 02:44
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:I think Portugal was done for game design reasons because Spain has a focus to reform the Iberian Union. That logic could equally apply to doing goddamn Belgium/Ireland before Italy and is bad. wukkar fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Oct 19, 2019 20:42
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The only mistake in Man the Guns naval system was not including a 'if there's a '40 destroyer with a crab icon in the reserve fleet and an '36 destroyer with a crab icon in a templated real fleet, exchange them' checkbox. Artillery will slowly swap out the old with the new, but ships won't. Archangel please. wukkar fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Nov 13, 2019 |
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Nov 13, 2019 07:10
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Operations cost/time need to scale with target size. There should be a large difference in trying to build up compliance in Denmark/Czech than in France/SU.
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What influences whether or not the Brits will agree to Turkey's Petra Proposal focus?
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Mar 11, 2021 08:52
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The primary design flaw with the espionage system is that mission costs don't scale with target country size. It should cost far less time and material investment and agent count (why always two) for Germany to prepare a collaboration government in Denmark than in Poland.
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Beamed posted:I guess I’m confused on what the last five years of development have been on, then, if not the focus tree support and the other content. The meta has changed a tiny bit, the naval designer was added.. in that time, Stellaris has been completely redesign, even if it still kinda sucks, CK3 was developed and also released. Sure, now there’s the supply system rework, but the project management here is frankly inexplicable, at least from the outside.
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Apr 22, 2021 19:15
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Is there a list of all focus trees released since launch, and who had design ownership of it?
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Apr 23, 2021 02:09
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Are we holding off on the Horse Designer until the Italy DLC?
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Apr 28, 2021 21:16
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Was a jira ever made for this AA?
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Apr 28, 2021 21:25
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I was going to say that there must be Some Dude In Marketing that decreed there couldn't be an expansion name with four words, but then remembered that Battle for the Bosporus was a thing so I guess there is not actually an excuse. Names better than No Step Back:
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"We're doing a Mongolia focus tree before Italy." - HOI devs, probably
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If I click this supply notification in January 1936 as the Soviets, I crash to desktop. That's not promising in a release about supply and the Soviets.
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Nov 23, 2021 21:12
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Somebody convince me that scout planes are worth the research and factories.
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For an armored recon company, does the combat engine care about the stats of the light tank? Or do I want a barebones cheap thing?
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As England in 1942, I don't see a way to use my French exile manpower for land unit creation. I can spawn my Dutch in Suriname, my Belgians in Congo, and my Polish/Yugoslavians/Norwegians in London (why does this work?). But I can apparently only use my Frenchmen as pilots. None of Guiana(never changed hands) / Syria(flipped from Vichy via Focus) / Tunisia(liberated by me) are valid deployment locations.
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I strongly endorse new players learning via the majors, not minors. Do historical runs on all of them until you can beat real life events. Do not be afraid of "but what if I gently caress up and can't beat Poland?" or whatever. Restart.
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Feb 3, 2022 22:49
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There should be 'soft' peace conferences when a faction leader is 50% capitulated and again at 85%. First one is only declaring which broad regions you are most interested in, some sort of ranking or percentages. Second one firms it up by going through each region one at a time and calling first dibs on particular countries. Final one when the war ends actually transfers states/puppets. Have the popups reference Tehran/Yalta.
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Are Hoi4 Devs aware of this guy's channel And are they aware of the embarrassing poo poo he finds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQf7t5Wz5u0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bCm-WS4zs8
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