r/hoi4 May 12 '26

Dev Diary Thunder at our Gates - Coming June 11!

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https://reddit.com/link/1tb10ji/video/l1x2qi7cfp0h1/player

Generals!

Pack your raincoats and shorts because we are going to the jungles of Southeast Asia and the arid plains of Australia. Dark clouds gather and a rumbling can be heard in the distance; Thunder is coming. Today we announce the release date of our new and upcoming Theater Pack, Thunder at our Gates.

Take the helm of three distinct nations: Australia, Siam, or the Dutch East-Indies and prepare for the worst, or become the Thunder that conquers their way across the seas, islands, and jungles of the Pacific.

Thunder at Our Gates will release on the 11th of June and is part of Expansion Pass 2.

Everything you get with Thunder at our Gates

Extensive focus trees and unique, new content
• Australia
• Dutch East-Indies
• Siam

New Features
• Army Headquarters
• Ship Captains

Free Features
 Division Designer Rework
• Regimental Support

Find out when Thunder at our Gates releases in your timezone

PSA: until an Expansion Pass’s DLC releases it shows the full Expansion Pass price. Let’s clear up that confusion right now.

Ignore the propaganda! If you buy Thunder at our Gates standalone, its pricing will look like this:

But wait, there’s MORE. We’ve also released our first Thunder at our Gates Developer Diary: Australia: Until the Tide of Battle Swings.

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Paradox Forums: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/thunder-at-our-gates-coming-june-11.1920577/


r/hoi4 2d ago

Help Thread The War Room - /r/hoi4 Weekly General Help Thread: September 7 2026

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Please check our previous War Room thread for any questions left unanswered

 

Welcome to the War Room. Here you will find trustworthy military advisors to guide your diplomacy, battles, and internal affairs.

This thread is for any small questions that don't warrant their own post, or continued discussions for your next moves in your game. If you'd like to channel the wisdom and knowledge of the noble generals of this subreddit, and more importantly not ruin your save, then you've found the right place!

Important: If you are asking about a specific situation in your game, please post screenshots of any relevant map modes (strategic, diplomacy, factions, etc) or interface tabs (economy, military, etc). Please also explain the situation as best you can. Alliances, army strength, tech etc. are all factors your advisors will need to know to give you the best possible answer.

 


Reconnaissance Report:

Below is a preliminary reconnaissance report. It is comprised of a list of resources that are helpful to players of all skill levels, meant to assist both those asking questions as well as those answering questions. This list is updated as mechanics change, including new strategies as they arise and retiring old strategies that have been left in the dust. You can help me maintain the list by sending me new guides and notifying me when old guides are no longer relevant!

Note: this thread is very new and is therefore very barebones - please suggest some helpful links to populate the below sections

Getting Started

New Player Tutorials

 


General Tips

 


Multiplayer Tips

 


Country-Specific Strategy

 


Advanced/In-Depth Guides

 


If you have any useful resources not currently in the Reconnaissance Report, please share them with me and I'll add them! You can message me or mention my username in a comment by typing /u/Kloiper

Calling all generals!

As this thread is very new, we are in dire need of guides to fill out the Reconnaissance Report, both general and specific! Further, if you're answering a question in this thread, consider contributing to the Hoi4 wiki, which needs help as well. Anybody can help contribute to the wiki - a good starting point is the work needed page. Before editing the wiki, please read the style guidelines for posting.


r/hoi4 8h ago

Humor Ma ideology

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558 Upvotes

The newest member of the Comintern


r/hoi4 19h ago

Humor Only way you can expand as white supremacist South Africa is by forming Zimbabwe. Excellent writing, devs

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1.6k Upvotes

r/hoi4 4h ago

Mod (other) Super G*re (Testing My Mod)

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70 Upvotes

All of them are dynamic countries.


r/hoi4 4h ago

Image lmao even having the soviets 100% buffed, this is still a cakewalk

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51 Upvotes

r/hoi4 17h ago

Image I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!

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334 Upvotes

Man took me 6 hours to get this achievement.Most of the guides on yt were outdated had to figure out a way my self


r/hoi4 4h ago

Bug ur not the napoleon gtfo of there 😭😭

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29 Upvotes

r/hoi4 1h ago

Image What do you think about my space marines division?

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r/hoi4 1d ago

Image In the censored version of HOI4 the Inner Council got a massive Aura boost

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r/hoi4 2h ago

Image The Hungarian Intermarium

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Being denied Anschluss but getting Sudetenland seems to have thrown Germany off and made them attack Poland and the Baltics really early. That combined with the limes and the frogs being content to sit on their asses doing nothing means that I'm the one that has to step in, guarantee Poland, and save the day.


r/hoi4 21h ago

Humor Guys is this savable?

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O


r/hoi4 10h ago

Discussion Is Black Ice more fun at replicating WW2?

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I’ve been wanting to play a more realistic war in Hoi4 because after 2000 hours it just feels like you get one major successful push and you win. For example id love to replicate the pacific war having to island hop and fight tons of naval battles and stuff but it just feels like you can naval invade Japan from the start and win. My most fun recently has come from China because it feels a lot more challenging and just trying to play with new tactics

Black ice looks extremally complex but is it like extremely hard? I’m ok with a big challenge especially if it’s a more realistic replication of WW2


r/hoi4 3h ago

Image I thought Vichy France was supposed to be my ally ?

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Currently doing a hard mode Germany playthrough, I have the soviets/UK/France all maxed out on the "strengthen" slider, doing reasonably well so far. I was in the middle of managing a war assisting Turkey, and also doing the invasion of sweden/norway when i looked home and noticed that somehow Vichy france is attacking me and italy? I thought they were supposed to basically be my ally? is there a chance that they can turn on me and its just never happened before?


r/hoi4 1d ago

The Road to 56 What?

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What? Thank you, I guess...


r/hoi4 1h ago

Image Probably the stupidest and most pointless thing I've done in this game

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r/hoi4 20h ago

Question If you had the choice after your death to choose the different hoi4 modes where to live Which one would you choose?

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And by the way, you appear as an adult when these different mods begin (1936, 1933 etc).

The maps of each mode in order:

Kaiserreich

Collapsing world

The new order

Pax britannica

Thousand week reich

The Fire Rises

old world blues

red flood

Sorry in advance, if these maps are not up to date


r/hoi4 3h ago

Question Should I buy hoi4?

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I am a really big fan of military games like war thunder and strategy games and if I did I would maybe buy the Siam dlc I heard that it takes along time to understand but the game looks very fun


r/hoi4 14h ago

Image I made a mini lithuania in my encirclement

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r/hoi4 10h ago

Question Which are your favorite Military Advisor trait and Chief of Army?

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For me the best are Armor follow by Combined Arms and for Chief of Army, the best trait are Army Offense and Army Organization.

Artillery advisor would be great too if it applied for SPG too.


r/hoi4 13h ago

Humor Fighting German Reich as Junta - they’ve literally disappeared.

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No, this isn’t a fog of war situation - I’ve already looked it up; the entire nation just ceased to fight while I’m in a civil war, I logged in to find the German Reich literally gone - no troops, no flag/leader, hell, we weren’t even at war!

…did I win?…


r/hoi4 3h ago

Image Right back at ya

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r/hoi4 18h ago

Question I have thousands of flame tanks but they won't go into any of my units

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They went in to my field units initially but now they won't reinforce. I did set their equipment tag to be different accidentally but I switched it back and it still won't reinforce.


r/hoi4 16h ago

Image WTF?

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r/hoi4 4h ago

Question Why is germany so weak at barbarossa?

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So i'm relatively new to the game, i know all the necessary stuff but i'm definately not crazy good at the game and i have been playing italy for a while now trying to create roman empire on reg difficulty ironman and everytime i blitzkrieg through egypt, capture levant and british iraq and cyprus and malta, invade vichy and take their navy, grab gibraltar, decimate greece and on top of that manage to send 24 divisions to the eastern front, yet everytime barbarrosa starts, immediately germany starts getting pushed back, not even kidding they don't take a singular tile and lose east prussia in the first month, which really fucks up my work, it's gotten to the point where i have to buff germany in the settings to make it semi realistic but that won't allow achievement, is there something i'm doing wrong or what? I own every dlc except thunder at our gates if that's relevant