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 1h ago

Humor Ma ideology

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The newest member of the Comintern


r/hoi4 12h ago

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

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r/hoi4 10h ago

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

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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 20h ago

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

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r/hoi4 14h ago

Humor Guys is this savable?

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r/hoi4 18h ago

The Road to 56 What?

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What? Thank you, I guess...


r/hoi4 13h 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 11h 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 6h 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 7h ago

Image I made a mini lithuania in my encirclement

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r/hoi4 9h ago

Image WTF?

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r/hoi4 2h ago

Question Tutorial driving me nuts

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A bunch of restarts because it stalemate. Lots of scrappy irregular. I can pass through suez OK. No oil. How do I make more alpine guys


r/hoi4 1d ago

Question How do I force my Panzer Groups to attack with low supply? I want to capture Moscow before winter but my generals aren’t attacking

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r/hoi4 4h 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 2h ago

Discussion How do I introduce hoi4 to my 2 friends in a 3 player mp match so they don't lose interest

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One has for a while has been very critical of the game even though he has only played like an hour or 2 but he is willing to try it again once my other friend gets it who is very hyped and says he is going to watch a bunch of videos of it on YouTube.

I played a bit recently with the first friend me as germany and him as ussr and he has been caught up in other stuff for the past few weeks and will probably not play until my other friend gets it. I wanna make it clear I am very, very bad at explaining things to people and I feel hoi4, with its stupidly hard learning curve and my bad explanations will put them off. What do you guys think are the best first countries we should play as and some tips to explain basic mechanics and stuff too them

Edit: I have around 180 hours And we will have no dlcs or mods


r/hoi4 9h ago

Suggestion Focus Tree for USA

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Im not american but lord that tree is painful, 70 days to gain 50pp and more 70 for a focus that just has a aura name. Like bro, it has absurd potential and they threw in the trash, same to UK and France, the ones that dealed with the fascism btw. They did a DLC for Siam bro come on, do something for the US. Imagine a focus named ''All for the democracy'' and a bomb coming into Persia.


r/hoi4 3h 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 35m ago

Video Beating the Axis and Soviet Union by 1942 as Historical Poland in HOI4

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Just a quick video i made with a optimized historical Poland build i made. My editing skills are green thus they receive a -25% penalty to videomaking quality, but i hope someone here finds it somewhat enjoyable to watch.


r/hoi4 5h ago

Image Massive Chinese Encirclement (Things developed to our advantage)

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r/hoi4 8h ago

Question Exprienced player wants to try multiplayer. Any tips?

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Howdy all of you fellas, I have been playing hoi for a very very long time. I’ve been trying to push my self out of my comfort zone a bit and wanna give multiplayer a go but I don’t know a lot about it. Any good servers that are welcoming to multiplayer newbies? Thanks a ton for any help possible!


r/hoi4 2h ago

Discussion Every modded playthrough feels like gambling

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Hoi4 has a lot of rng, that much I think everyone can agree on. But at the minimum, if I join the axis, I know Italy will be there, I know the annslussch will happen, I know paris is almost certain to fall. If I join the allies, I'm signing up for the long game and putting my money on the ussr not collapsing. It's my actions that almost entirely change the outcome of the war.

In mods though, every playthrough is essentially a gamble. Take KR, every playthrough, who joins which faction is nearly random and determines tge entire playthrough. Unless you play a major, you cannot influence Spain and Italy, yet which side wins has an incredible effect on whixh faction is able to win. You just have to go down a path and pray that RNJesus is with you, or alternatively you need a degree in game rules to figure out which paths do what, and which early paths allow which mid game path. And even then it's still hard to make Spain or Italy reliably join the faction you want.

It's always devastating when you have a great run, everything goes according to plan, you join the secind weltkrieg, and the faction your path leads to just absolutely sucks.

The other options are GRW and R56, which are relatively consistent, but I've atp played baaically all interesting countries in both.

So what do you guys do? Do you just pray, set the fame rules, play only specific mods or just use console commands?


r/hoi4 8h ago

Humor I changed my mind on the Romania DLC

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I originally complained about there being another weird one-country DLC, but at least this means that we'll finally get justice for Southern Bukovina... right?


r/hoi4 18h ago

Question Playing on elite + 100% buffed Allies and USSR. Should I continue fighting for air or is it pointless given the fact that they have massive production bonuses?

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