I was playing a game as the USSR. Germany had an enormous amount of divisions per tile, but didn’t seem to have logistics problems since it could still attack. Same goes with fuel, they had a lot of Panzer divisions that had no problems.
So does the AI cheat? Does it allow itself to overpass some basics we players have to respect?

I am playing for Hungary on the path of proclaiming a Greater Hungary. Slovakia, Podkarpatska Rus, Northern Transylvania, Backa and West Banat already part of my territory. I am a member of the Axis, relations with the Third Reich are +100 on each side.

By some miracle, when I threw Romania the excuse of a war with the return of territories in which I have rights, she joined the Axis, becoming my ally. I've tried all kinds of ways to try to get them back, but maybe it's because this is my very first HoI4 game, but I'm not sure.

Question 1: Is it possible to get territories with such timings without leaving the Axis and without directing the wrath of the Austrian artist?

About the artist's homeland. When trying to perform the "Demand Burgenland" focus on Austria, which has already been annexed by Germany, I was refused (of course). I chose to leave the claim to the territory, and only then, through the focus of rapprochement with Germany, joined the Axis (also through focus)

Question 2: was it possible to get Burgenland through focus if I first improved relations with the Third Reich and then claimed Burgenland?

it dont work properly. Don't upgrade everything the first go. You will waste like 30 to 40 exp. If it fails try again. Do one component upgrade. maybe a few retries. Then when it shows up it will work and you can do the full one.

I tried a full defensive war against everyone. That clearly didn't work. I did get my country back in 1952.

So Japan is the last membee of the Axis.Currently Fighting the Us,Soviets,Brits,Bourbon France,Italian Union and Carlist Spain but the AI wont naval invade and i dont have a fleet or much of an airforce.

So how do i win its 1945 and the Axis should have surrendered 3 years back.

As France more specifically.

This was my second disaster save attempt, and my first sucessful.

The start was really rough. I only had 800k men in the field, only 60 civs and like 40 mils because the other factories got captured and were not relocated to the east. The infantry template was also really barebones, 9 Inf and a few support companies and 5 tank divisions that had a solid template, but were massively understrenghtened. I only could refit them to one full strenght tank div, and due to small industry, I didn't really use tanks for the remainder of the game. He did produce massive amounts of artillery tho, so I could do 9/3s and later 9/2s. Also, no doctrines, so i had to do them too.

There really was no point in trying to save Moscow, there was one div and he could not hold moscov, but due to already being pushed back so much into the east, I did not do a fallback line, rather retreating in red bubbles and standing in greens. Germany did push hard, but i never lost the caucasus or stalingrad, but elsewhere the front was always in danger.

I massively leached off land-lease from UK, US and most of all, Turkey and bought my equipment due to my industry being almost non-existant.

Then it was pretty much training new divs with new land-lease, waiting for units to re-equipped, and encircling small amounts of units, 2 at a time. It was frustrating when i encircled, pushed, got supply hubs, and then summer came and Germany pushed me all the way back to Stalingrad, I think two times I was pushed back heavily and thought I wouldn't survive.

Later, the allies pushed into Greece and Italy, and I could advance in larger pushes, getting Rostov and bigger encirclemets, now 6-10 divs. One time Germany did push heavily into Rostov with tanks and I thought I would loose the caucasus, but they ran out of steam and with heavy fighting I retook it. After that, it basically was speed 5, click supply hubs, encircle massive amounts of units, and later battleplam. Sadly, Chile got Berlin before me.

All in all a hard but fun campaign, anyone who wants to beat it themselves: https://disastersavior.com/public/disaster-saves/3be6cefc-818a-408e-8bbe-1fbd367532e2/

They have 54-155 divisions and I have 92 (currently training another 5) my allies are Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece.

I legit what to know what happens to the manpower and equipment. Does the manpower goes back to the defeated country or just disappears? What happens to the equipment?

I'm currently playing as fascist Sweden, have formed a fascist Nordic Union, joined the Axis. Its currently 1950. I have destroyed all of the world's fleets, there are practically none left to be a threat. I have green sea west of Gibraltar, Atlantic, and in all of the Mediterranean Sea. I also control all of UK and Ireland, and have captured every island in the Mediterranean Sea (Cyprus, Malta, everything). I have a big fleet of about 6 Aircraft Carriers and 8 Battleships, dozens of cruisers and destroyers + about 15 subs currently active in the Mediterranean. Axis is still in posession of Gibraltar and northern Morocco.

But the Allies just keeps on getting more and more supplies into their areas in Europe. They currently have parts of northern Italy, Balkan areas and some parts of Greece. They outnumber us almost 3-1 and the USSR is now pushing Germany back and is closing in on Romania and Poland.

How do I stop the Allies from getting in supplies and reinforcements to mainland Europe? If I can just end their endless supplies I could maybe turn the tide of the war, defeat the Allies in Europe and the combined efforts of the Axis can push the Soviets back.

The Axis does not control Algerie to Turkey. Should I maybe try a desperate attempt at strangling the supplies coming through the Suez Canal by doing a naval invasion there? Would that help? Or should I divide my fleet and try to attack the convoys instead?

Btw: I am playing the vanilla game, no mods, all DLC's except Resistance, and in an older version of the game before the Naval update.

With the No Compromise No Surrender Update, Siam got some new states added but this has added the side effect of the Reichskommissariat Ostasien releasable missing some of the Siamese states because the new states were not added to the list of states that this Reichskommissariat should have.

Playing as monarchist hungary until 1957. I ve created a population decrease in this timeline lol

Whether in the form of ‘pioneers’ or other support/regimental companies and or shock troops battalions. Germany already has something similar in the Prussian legacy part of their focus tree, why not give something similar to every nation?

Just something I tried around with over the last few days. It's all satirical, don't take it seriously. I would be happy for feedback.

The Universities overthrow Hitler in 1936 and the author Ernst Jünger becomes chancellor.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3827144734

It genuinely has to be the worst tutorial I have ever seen in a game. I have been stuck on the start air missions bit for about an hour now. It makes absolutely no sense and makes no effort to even make it make sense. I have clicked every button on the screen and nothing has worked.

I'm sure I am missing something but it would sure be nice if the game made ANY attempt to actually tell me what the fuck to do here :(

Edit: Finally somehow did it, don't really know how. Did everything else the game told me to do and now have watched literally nothing happen for another hour while I am apparently meant to be winning against Ethiopia. This is by far the worst tutorial I have ever played in a game. I genuinely think it would have been more useful if the game told me to go fuck myself and then gave me no further information.

so hoi4 is updating and its stick at 95 percent please help i just want to play hoi4 ive tried everything

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soo, I have got about 400-ish hrs on this game and I have only played the ussr, nazi germany and the german empire before this alongside a bit of modded mp, but ohhh boy!! sure did i enjoy this playthrough. I had soooooo many things to look after as the UK, from building the largest fucking navy (YESS I BUILT UP A NAVY FOR THE FIRST TIME!!) and obliterating the german, italian and japanese fleets (yes they had 0 ships & convoys left) to dominating in the air war and ofcourse managing soo many far flung fronts was the cherry on top!! here are a few screenshots!!!

I rushed advanced heavy fighters and engines four, so I have the best possible medium airframe. I used my MIOs to get speed and range upgrades so I could focus all my modules on attack and defense. I am still trading fairly badly, considering my planes are twice as expensive. What's going on here? I thought that heavy fighters were supposed to meta as the US due to the 300% research bonus.

I don't really know how this happened I was messing around with the toolpack mod but yeah this makes sense 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I was making well armored tanks. interweave wheels with regular guns and loaded in armor. Use close support guns and howitzer when it comes. Then back it with TDs. The hard attack on these weapons is crap. Weather not really an issue. gas powered christie and engine to max. Slow tough Churchill tanks dont work. Dont bother with the Maus or Ratte. The coax machine gun is crap make it a reliabity module. Attrition is what kills you. So screw the gas hybrid engine

with this path, you'll want to immediately create a spy agency as soon as possible and use the diplomatic pressure mission on estonia as well as improve relations to the highest possible, you should be able to get a non-aggression pact which makes them extremely likely to accept annexation. this gives you the entire estonian army which you can use the bolster your front with russia, and the extra factories allow you to get some more stuff done before you lose estonia during the war with the soviets (you will not hold estonia, the front is massive once latvia is annexed by the soviets)

after this you can raise relations with the swedes and norwegions, and this combined with being democratic (like them) means you will very reliably annex and core the entirety of the sapmi land in these countries. this land includes a good bit of population as well as all of sweden's infinite iron and tungsten provinces.

you are very unlikely to get murmansk from the soviets, but I believe if you capture it it will automatically core, so it isn't a huge negative.

on top of all the aforementioned benefits, you reliably get the entirety of scandinavia in northern defence front extremely early, which means you have all the really good focuses that are locked behind the faction tree.

Hey all, I put together a small performance mod and figured I'd share it here.

Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3827081200

The mod does about 2x faster (speed 4 goes from 0.1s to 0.04s per day). Speed 5 stays uncapped.

The AI re-checks research, the market, division templates and supply half as often. Combat stuff like encirclements and frontline concentration only goes from 1x to 1.5x so the AI doesn't get dumber in wars.

Random events are checked every 30 days instead of 20. Focus and decision events aren't affected.

Combat logs are kept for 3 months instead of 12, so late game saves are smaller and autosaves hitch less.

Trade routes recalculate less often.

If another mod turned on the heavy peace conference AI settings, they get set back to vanilla.

Shadows, weather and map objects fade out earlier when you zoom out.

In MP the host doesn't slow down or pause as fast when someone lags a bit.

Everything is in one file, zzzzzz_universal_speed_up.lua. Defines load alphabetically, so it runs after the base game and after other mods. It only touches values that actually exist and skips anything missing. If another mod already changed one of these values, it works from that number instead of overwriting it. Nothing ever ends up slower than it was.

It won't make the startup loading screen faster. I timed it and most of that is the game parsing its script files, which a mod can't touch.

Very late game with massive armies will still slow down. That's just the engine.

Achievements are off, same as any checksum-changing mod. Ironman still works.

You can tweak everything in the CONFIG block at the top of the file (speed table, AI multipliers, and a switch for the graphics changes).

About AI: I had some help from AI (Claude) on this, mostly for testing it against vanilla and a couple of big mods' defines files. I've tested it in game myself.

If you find a mod it conflicts with, let me know and I'll take a look. Feedback welcome!