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Schizotek posted:So I went to war with Afghanistan as Iran, and they have a ridiculous number of divisions, mostly called "militia". Where did they get these? Historically Accurate Afghan Invader Simulator
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Hahaha my first game as Ireland is going great. Went Commie, joined the Comintern, once WW2 broke out declared on the UK to get back Norn Iron. We swept into Belfast without too much trouble; Monty came over with a single Infantry division but didn't have time to get situated so we pushed them out. Both sides immediately brought in all our friends, of course, so it's a full on Soviet-Allied slugfest. So I just checked the warscreen about eight months in:
 keep fighting suckers, Ireland will emerge from this ruined world and be supreme. :ireland:
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Koesj posted:Okay what's really stupid is South African forces marching straight across the whole continent to cut me off vertically in Egypt Not if they did in fact cut you off!
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Am I missing something, or is there not a way to have a newly assigned division automatically slot into the Army's plans? I can do it by ctrl-clicking but I don't want to have to do that with every rear end in a top hat unit I ever build, I just want them to get assigned by the AI while I'm busy with, you know, running the war at a strategic level. Game beats the poo poo out of HoI3 though, that and the weirdness of the Air orders are my only significant issues (and possibly naval, haven't played anyone with a navy yet though!). Less significant issues I'd still like changed; No ledger. I know you're not supposed to have an omniscient view of stuff, but it's still be incredibly useful to see my own stats in one, as well as allies and anyone we've got intel on. Most of this info is out there, but has to be tracked down across a bunch of different screens. In the same vein I'd really love after-combat stats, I want to know how many men I killed and lost, equipment too, etc., and this is more than just grognardness - it's pretty important to know if you're a power who intends to win by attrition. Compromise by having the current system of no reports, reports available if you click on an icon where it took place (icon fades after, say, three days), or automatic popup. Then everyone can play with the level of info they want. Where the Christ are the events? I don't need KR levels of event spam, sure, but something more than a news report once or twice a year would be nice as well. I want to give special praise to the industrial/production side of things. I really, really dig the way things have been handled this time around, it gives you a great degree of control, lets you plan and react, and the fact that training doesn't directly rely on industrial output but rather your existing supplies is extremely good poo poo.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Maybe I'm just stupid, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to add divisions to already-existing armies. Could someone dumb it down for me further, please? Once your division(s) have appeared on the map, select them with a left-click, then right-click on the general's picture at the bottom of the screen, they'll get assigned to that army.
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Jun 7, 2016 05:01
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I miss small province names. I want to see that I'm fighting over Leicester, not a nameless region of the East Midlands.
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Xerophyte posted:Not possible when assigning an already produced unit to an army specifically since the army can have multiple orders. You can assign the unit to the plan instead and it'll auto-slot into the army, though. Thank you for this, and building on it - a little tooltip popped up for me, and it informed me that you can also right click on your army general's icon to assign production to the army as a whole. If you have an army dedicated entirely to garrisoning I suppose that would let you do what you're looking for.
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How the hell do you recall volunteer divisions from a foreign country? Nat Spain has lost the civil war, I don't want my boys to fight to the death for a lost cause.
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uPen posted:It may be different when you don't have a land connection but I've always just literally left. Send your boys home then move their army out of the expeditionary front into a regular front. Oh hah, I'll give that a try, thanks
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cheesetriangles posted:The peace treaty system is really loving cool. I've been begging for a peace conference system for years, this is a great development  So, Groogy, I've been pretty impressed by the AI in the main, but something weird happened in my Ireland game. Non-historical focuses. I went Communist and joined the Comintern, then declared on the UK to claim Northern Ireland, which we grabbed easily enough. I continued building up some forces, and after a few abortive naval attempts, nothing happened for awhile. Then the Allies sent a big ol' naval invasion my way and got into Belfast, which was great! There was a huge epic fight across half of Ireland and I was losing it - until without warning or apparent reason, they withdrew every single division. I just rolled back across all of Ireland and was back in the same situation I had been in. To be clear though I'm a big fan of the AI being naval invasion-happy, you SHOULD have to keep your coasts garrisoned etc., and I remember the older games where such things were essentially unheard of, so I'm completely down with it. They do need some tweaking to be sufficient in strength, and properly followed up on, though. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Psychotic Weasel posted:I love that the AI takes matters into its own hands and will actually do something to help and persecute its own war instead of taking the comatose route it did in HOI3 but some of the decisions it makes are downright bizarre. I think in every game I've played so far the UK keeps launching multiple landings in Italy and I keep getting notices of the liberation of Rome in summer of 1940, only to take a look back a month or two later and see the UK almost completely driven out, except fo Sicily or something. I have no idea why the Italians can't properly secure the Med agianst this. To be fair, you're relying on the Italians to secure the med 
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Viral Warfare posted:So is the game good, or bad ? Real good. As with any Paradox game some polish will improve it, but this is a tight, well-designed game for the most part. That said, the air interface is wack.
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Jun 8, 2016 06:08
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Star posted:More civilian factories will however also help you produce through trade. In addition, your Consumer Goods percentage is measured against your total number of factories, not just a percentage of your Civ factories, so if things get too military weighted you'll be hard pressed to build stuff like forts, infra, or exports.
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gfanikf posted:The British National Foci that build factories in Commonwealth Countries is that just a goodwill gesture or do you get the factory capacity added to the UKs? I believe it's the countries in question who get the IC, but that could make a noteworthy difference to their ability to contribute down the road. Wrapped up my first full game as a major power, French Commune in this case. I went my own way and told Stalin to get hosed, but we all ended up on the same side in WW2. Hitler went nuts and declared on every single power in Europe execpt Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden, so by the time French tanks rolled into Berlin in late '42, the Allies had a lot of members. Republican Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands were in the French Alliance. With US help we knocked out Italy, then the Germans were completely surrounded and they capitulated Christmas Eve, 1942. Which just left Japan. Christ Almighty, if anyone wants to feel that the A-Bombs were justified, try invading Japan in this game.  It took five years with them being the single remaining member of the Axis, with enormous landings by me, the Americans, and the Brits, and contributions by powers as varied as Canada and Yugoslavia. The simple problem was we just couldn't get the supply throughput needed to make headway, attacks would end within hours because our boys had nothing to shoot. On the other hand there were so many of us we couldn't be evicted either, and nobody had nukes or anything.But in the end, after devoting massive industrial power to building naval bases in every province I could, we drained them and pushed them out. Then the Soviets took an absolutely ridiculous share of the peace pie and within a couple months WW3 was on, but I'm sitting out for now, working on coups and building up nukes and then we'll show the world French Power. 
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Sylink posted:Ok, I guess its just a bit opaque as to whether or not thats occurring without digging down into some screen I haven't seen. A relatively easy way to see what your aircraft are doing for you is to look at the screen for an ongoing ground combat in the air zone in question. You can mouse over the airplane icons if any exist, as well as other indicators, to see what effect is being had.
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There's a mod that adds Manchukuo, but I have no idea why it's not in the base game. e; Game is extremely very good, buy game. For reference I'm a huge HoI2/Darkest Hour fanboy and did not like 3 at all.
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Playing a game as Revolutionary Argentina where I'm intending to unite the whole continent under the red flag. First point of note; the leader is Fanny Jabcovsky http://www.albavolunteer.org/2011/12/queen-of-the-machine-gun-fanny-schoonheyt-dutch-miliciana/ e; fuuuuck yooooouuu Funky Valentine  She also has her own portrait, interestingly, perhaps precisely because she's the only woman leader?Then the French fell into a civil war with their own Red uprising, only it lasted about a week - I presume Commune forces managed to strike from their start position in Pas de Calais at Paris and maybe Orleans, Reims, Troyes, or something, and brought France below their 30% national unity limit. The Republicans are winning the Spanish CW. Communism is on the rise  Then again the US just said "Yo whatup we're enforcing the Monroe Doctrine between y'all as well as against European powers" and I might be about to hit the mother of all roadblocks e2; gently caress, the yanquis did declare Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jun 10, 2016 |
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Xerophyte posted:But ... that's an article about an entirely different Dutch woman, named Fanny Schoonheyt, also in the International Brigades, that incidentally mentions Fanny Edelman as easily mistaken for her. And Paradox use Schoonheyt's portrait for Edelman? Oh, yeah, they must have got mixed up too because Schoonheyt's portrait is the one in the game! I just saw that and linked the article without reading much further 
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Imagine being the President who sent a million men to die in Patagonia and still lost. This was taken the day the wars escalated and merged, so unless a lot happened in about two hours somehow, every single one of those dead Americans died fighting in the Andes or in their brief, abortive invasions of Mar del Plata. We took a kicking but I managed the front extremely closely and did encirclement, etc., where possible. These days the yanks aren't the problem though, they apparently decided a naval invasion of southern China was a better use of men. The Allies got both Plurinational Bolivia and Second Brazilian Republic in and so I've been fighting against considerable numbers (Backed up by shitloads of UK troops; idk how they can spare the men because they're fighting across most of Western Europe in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries, and winning) but after a massive encirclement I've managed to stop Brazil enough to let me regroup and reinforce. Next up, pushing into Bolivia, then hopefully being able to finally make a drive on Rio. I've been trying to do that for two years now, but every time I've been ready to start I've suddenly had to use those units to respond to a fire someplace else. I didn't have even close to enough divisions to both secure my beaches and hold the Brazilian front, but I think I do now. This game is so loving good.
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Palleon posted:This may be a dumb question, but am I missing a victory points map mode? I'm attacking Canada as the US, and for the last 5 months they've been at 94% capitulation progress, but I cannot find where their last victory points may be. The only way I can seem to do it is to zoom in the map super close and look for tiny dots, but I'm pretty sure I've found all of them. What am I missing? I'm 90% sure those dots do not represent the only victory points. I had every single marked province in Brazil under my control but they didn't capitulate until I rolled through some more territory. I'm thinking air and/or naval bases also count? Speaking of which I should never have conquered Brazil, the coastline is far too long to effectively garrison and instead of pushing onwards through the remnants of South America, my forces are tied down in constantly turning back naval invasions. 
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It's 1948. The Axis, aside from Turkey (who haven't fired a single shot in anger at anyone), has been dead and buried for half a decade. The Comintern and Allies have been fighting for seven years now. Comintern Losses
Total Comintern Losses: 17.72 million Allied Losses
Total Allied Losses: 16.18 million Allied has a huge number of countries but only the US and UK have more than a million losses each. Others of note though, are Finland's 155k (almost twice what they lost IRL), South Africa's 133k (compared to 12k IRL), Norway's 557k (One sixth of their 1939 population), ANZAC combined losses of 400k, Belgium with 713k (12,000 military dead IRL), and Ireland's 157k (Neutral IRL, imprecise figures on Irish volunteers who died in Allied services, but estimated around 4,000). Both sides really are throwing everything at one another. I've been fighting for a decade to secure South America and maintain our shores, and I think I've finally got enough troops to achieve the latter. Shame for the Allies that my first nuke will be ready in less than a year.
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:where are you seeing your losses? I had five french commune divisions fighting for a year or more in the spanish civil war but I can't see how many of my dudes died You can't see specific divisional/army/battle losses as far as I know (or not without careful comparison of before-and-after figures on other screens), but you can see total losses in a war by clicking the "We are at war with" icon at the top of your screen, it'll give you a rundown of casualties, among other stats.
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 Alright someone tell me what a build order for Germany is so that I can start the war on schedule. I can either start the war and not be ready or I can start the war late when everyone else is stronger.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I'm pretty sure the fact that the US guarantees both the people you declare on, and you, means it won't actually intervene. It's basically a guarantee against aggression from the outside, not inter-Americas aggression. They can definitely declare on you even as a South American power, as I found out to my detriment in my ten year hellwar Argentina game. However I also found that, hilariously, if you keep things paused you can declare, then go to the US and ask them to intervene on your side, and they might. Problem is if their "US demands you stop fighting" event fires it can forcibly flip them to the other side of the war.
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Went to start up the game just now and noticed something. 
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Jun 17, 2016 23:15
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I'd love to know why I can't release a bunch of puppet states like you could in previous HoIs instead of having to track every loving VP down and then having some relatively peace options. I feel like the (very good in itself) system for spawning civil war nations detracted from them writing a bunch of potential revolters/releasables. I'm sure it'll be fixed with mods though, there's already a Home Nations one for the UK for example. e; ^ Yeah that's also true, it seems that wars in this game are pretty much set up to always be to-the-death affairs, though that's not exactly unreasonable for the timeframe.
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Jun 19, 2016 02:58
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Top Hats Monthly posted:My favorite thing to do is break countries up in this game, not gonna lie. I want more countries to break apart. Absolutely 100% agreed. I want every single province to have its own country, every historical, theoretical, made-up, or aspiring country to be releasable, I want countries that are everything from all North American states and provinces to a single special continental union (and continental unions for everyone else as well).
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I'm the other way around from some people, I can overlook Stellaris' flaws but now that I see where the cracks are in HOI4 it's really hard for me to enjoy a game. That said it's vastly better than 3 ever was so I'm sure I'm going to come back to it for a long long time once more patches and expansions start landing.
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I've been sitting on this loving island for four loving years since France fell and I am now the last Syndie power on Earth aside from Mexico. Every single thing that could have gone wrong for Syndicalism did. There's no Republican Navy left. There's Republican Air Force is a few hundred planes. Britain is blanketed in over a million soldiers who have been repelling invasion attempts on a monthly basis for years. We've run out of convoys. We can't keep up with the repairs needed from all the bombings we're enduring. We sure as hell can't build a new fleet that can clear the seas and let our actually quite considerable army take the fight overseas. We're going to run out of food or ammo or both, and eventually be overcome, but one thing the Union of Britain will never do is surrender. Floating DPRK4lief What I'm getting at is this game got real good and I already liked it at release
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I gotta try OWB out I guess, but I'm in the middle of playing War of the Worlds and it's the best War of the Worlds game since the PSX one.
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Oh man that's a great addition I'm ready for the wackiest timelines! So, quick question; I know how to change an individual unit from one template to another, but is there a way to do it en masse? e.g. If I want to change every 'Light Armored' division into my new 'Mech+Medium Armor' division or something, rather than having to go through each one individually, can I do it all at once? e; I know you can change a template directly but if I don't have the Army XP for that or want to keep the old one around for some reason
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Agean90 posted:Click on a field Marshall and double click on a unit of the type your trying to change. It'll select all of the type and you can change them en masse from there Ahhh sweet thank you  I hadn't spotted the little button that does that!
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I wonder, has Austrian High Command considered throwing more men at the problem in massive human wave attacks? 
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Aug 3, 2018 22:41
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Loading up with every Old World Blues submod that I can find OWB lief
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Aug 6, 2018 01:10
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I don't care how A) Dumb and B) Overpowered it is, this Shin-Ra Rising mod is incredibly my speed I've got Literally Sephiroth running around cutting tanks in half with his hanzo steel
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I got into the series with Doomsday as well, and of course never touched that scenario. I had played EU3 first though. I don't even want to imagine what my combined time in HoI2/DH is, and 4 is going to end up the same way I fear. None of it compares to Stellaris though, it's been out a little over two years and I'm already almost at 1700 hours  (Of course none of this in turn compares to Civilization IV)
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buglord posted:God I spent all weekend playing that crappy final fantasy mod with sepiroth or whatever I’ve never even played that series but hoi-anything is good in my eyes. I'm glad you're enjoying it and I intend to turn more of the thread to it in time  Butch Banner posted:Wow that sounds bad, and I've played that series. Play the Fallout mod, Old World Blues. It's good. It's super bad, in an incredibly great way
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buglord posted:Why did you leave Japan intact what’s wrong with you What the hell is a Japan? Do you mean Wutai? Also thank you for the air war info over the last couple of pages, I never knew whether what I was doing was of any use or not. Now I'll have a better idea!
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TropicalCoke posted:removing sternberg might be the hill i die on when it comes to KR same what the gently caress guys
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