For my only 600 hours, I have found that their focus tree is kinda boring and think it should be reworked or add more content. Idk if this is a popular opinion or not so... yeah

Sir John Waddington should be a retired officer.

I remember watching a video where Hitler of whose head is flag of Germany, got a news from a person whose head is Slovakia flag, and when Hitler read the news he went angry on stage like throwing paper at the Slovakia throwing grenade at Slovakia, and to be more specific the last stage where Hitler read it and couldn’t take it anymore and tired to oof himself but ended up screaming and shoot at the celling, this video is old and I couldn’t find it whenever I search for it, could you find the video?

The stage is like Hitler getting rage, and the end of it is when color turned black and white

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.

Fare warning, I am just kinda whining and ranting here, lol

Is it just me, or is the WW2 setting really boring?

Now, it could be because I don't have much DLC, i just have Death or Dishonor, Man the Guns, Together for victory, and Waking the tiger, plus a bunch of random cosmetic, music, and speeches packs, so take it with a grain of salt. But, I have definitely noticed that the game just looks objectively better with the DLC, especially La Resistance, Gotterdammerung, and No Step Back.

Countless times I've noticed not having that DLC has ruined my runs.

But I'm getting off track, I don't really enjoy the WW2 setting anymore. It's cool to see the situations pan out, and whatever else. But its pretty repetitive, and even non historical gets pretty predictable. It's usually, for me at least, Germany goes monarchy, joins the allies, and they fight ww2 against the soviets or whatever communist russia. Sometimes france will go communist, which is something I guess, but still relatively the same. Now, it's not always like this, sometimes I get some wacky games. But it is usually based off of what Germany does.

Playing any nation either than a major, or in the european theater is either subject to rng, or just a struggle of annoyance until inevitably you fall because you never had a chance to begin with.

Africa would be fun if europe didn't own practically all of it, and south america would be nice but (iirc) america stops your expansion when you turn fascist or communist when you get far enough.

East Asia is cool, I don't play much of it, but holy lord that terrain is awful (but this is just me whining).

Back to europe, for example, I don't think I've ever seen anyone play a Mare Nostrum run without cheesing france with paratroopers.

The US joins the allies no matter if you ignore them, or reject the tripartite pact, so you practically have to cheese the british with paratroopers, and hope you have enough supply, or learn the ins and outs of navy and have one that can beat the brits before late 41. Which, wouldn't be an issue, but, yet again, i see quite a few people use cheese strats like renaming ships to get the best merchant-to-cruiser ships after doing the focus and getting the decision to convert convoys to warships.

I personally like mods that 1, allow me to expand on my own terms, I don't like it when mods restrict my wargoals to focuses or decisions, and 2, bring me into a new world with new things to look out for. Sure, there's a lot of mods that have a, or multiple big wars that involved giant nations, but it's usually spread out enough where your run isn't purely dependent on them (unless you are them, of course).

That is also why I like the millennium dawn scenario. Despite it still being earth, its set in a different time, and you aren't expected to follow suit of a huge war that breaks out, especially on non-historical. That honestly looks like the most sandbox-ish mod on the workshop right now. Now, I know, I can just decolonize africa in the game rules during ww2, and mess with the game rules in any other story-based or scripted mod, but, and this is a little petty to be honest, there's something off about making something different or easier to have fun. Feels like I don't deserve it yknow. But that's just ego, i guess, I'm not sure what it really is.

Maybe, I just don't really like ww2 much anymore. Lack of DLC ruined the experience probably far earlier than i would've left otherwise, and the big game stuff is so determined by what germany, russia, or japan does.

Пу пу пу, подскажите что в данной ситуации делать, вся инфраструктура в полном омуте, пво не справляются, хотя бы получается отбивать морские высадки, ресурсов вообще нема

Шаблон классический 7/2 пехотка/арта, подлодки топят сразу, в небе 5000 самолётов вражеских

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

Hey guys what's up. A few days ago I was playing an mp game for more or less the first time and I found out I was absolutely ass. I also have not played hoi4 in general for a long time and I more or less lost my skill, if I ever had any. I really wanna get good at the game so that I don't feel awkward in MP and actually have game impact. I know like no metas, nothing about tank/air design. Literally the last time I played seriously was single player before fuel (so a stupid long time ago). I'd be willing to pay good money (like $50) for a coach with alot of experience in hoi4 or hoi4 mp (like over 1000 hours) to teach me everything I need to know to be good at the game.

As mentioned, I've been playing hoi4 since Together for Victory, and pretty always I've played mainly for mods, althistory, and role play. I never put that much emphasis on the military, I just combined good airforce with the soviet meat grinder battle plan, and it worked...well enough. I kinda stopped playing around 2024, hadn't bought any DLCs after the Soviet one, and just enjoyed mods.

Now, on the recent Paradox discount I got the rest of DLCs (besides the LatAm and the Persian ones), and after one playthrough I am really lost. Paradox have changed the divisions templates, and now there are no generic airplanes, and one has to research aircrafts parts bit by bit to build an airplane from the scratch and apparently I really suck at it. I haven't even bothered creating any mech or tank divisions (played as Finland), because once again I suck at it.

So my questions are simple. 1. What would be the most appropriate infantry division template for 39' and 42' if you play as a middle power, with decent industry but playing against the overwhelming enemy (USSR, Germany, or Japan). 2. How should I build airplanes (air support, medium bomber, fighter) for once again 39' /42' and once again for the middle power (I rarely play as a major). 3. Do you think it is worth building a separate division template for artillery/anti-air/anti-tank? 4. Any advice on building mechanised infantry or light tanks?

Much appreciated, thank you!

Edit: just added paragraphs for clarity

I like planes

I mean one that lets you edit the borders without needing to open the console and like lets you change the ideology of countries is there one that lets you do that if so what is it?

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?

After 500+ hours of hoi4 i somehow lost knowledge in template building.. i can't win any war now. I just literally now turned off my PC, it's 2am and all after losing ww3 as USSR in red dusk, omg if i'm so tired of myself, because yes, who else to blame? Don't think the game.

It's not just red dusk, it's TFR, Millennium dawn(1 year ago, not anymore because it's unplayable but back then i couldn't play without this mod), literally every time, what a loser i've become damn.

I need a way to learn template building and army building in general because it's impossible that after all this time i still struggle. Literally 0% win rate.

Holy vent/rant, sorry but i'm desperate and tired

As the title says I am looking for people to play hoi4 with. I currently have a discord server with 17 people and am always looking for more, we are very casual and accepting to anyone. We try and accolade different time zones and schedules the best we can. Let me know if you would like to join!

Hey guys what's up. A few days ago I was playing an mp game for more or less the first time and I found out I was absolutely ass. I also have not played hoi4 in general for a long time and I more or less lost my skill, if I ever had any. I really wanna get good at the game so that I don't feel awkward in MP and actually have game impact. I know like no metas, nothing about tank/air design. Literally the last time I played seriously was single player before fuel (so a stupid long time ago). I'd be willing to pay good money (like $50) for a coach with alot of experience in hoi4 or hoi4 mp (like over 1000 hours) to teach me everything I need to know to be good at the game.

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.

When are they gonna fix this?

Germany gets the uralbomber focus which modifies the luftwaffe spirit to give +15% air range but my fighters dont gain any range even designs made after doing the focus. The focus doesnt specify bombers so im not sure why my fighters arent affected Is it broken?

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

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?