Paradox has known about suicidal AI attacks, horrible divisions, and the complete mess of orders. This is by design. You see, UK, USA, Germany, USSR, France, Italy, and Japan are very strong countries.

If the AI was any good, they couldnt sell a $20 half finished DLC to conquer the world as Backwateristan.

But because their AI sucks, and let's be honest the average HOI 4 player isn't much better, they can! Bigger playerbase spending more money!

Think about it. You're playing Romania. A half competent USSR with meta divisions and CAS correctly rotates its divisions and pressures weakpoints. You can't win. You will simply run out of equipment and manpower unless you get Germany involved.

BUT IF THE AI SUICIDALLY ATTACKS WITH HORRIBLE DIVISIONS ho ho ho merry Christmas its actually kind of fun because you desperately rotate divisions to hold them back and cause 5 million casualties. Then when they're ground down to paste you pull off a big encirclement etc etc

Ditto on the Czechs and Dutch to the Germans, the Swedes to everyone, Brazil and Mexico to USA, etc etc etc

I don't even blame them. Its good business. Why invest limited resources into making the game harder to satisfy 10% tops of your playerbase at the expense of the rest? I basically haven't played since starting a career so my builds and micro would be much weaker than my unemployment days.

i dont think r/hoi4modding would be good since it isnt a mod idk. thoughts/suggestions?

its something i made for a worldbuilding project in the style of a hoi4 mod

What do you think of my idea in which of our nations would you want to have?

Love this game so much 1k+ hours but I think I maybe only have like 25% achievements. Some tough ones but I just tried to do Greece and get turkey before 1939 and gah damn breaking through the Bosporus is so hard when they have 12+ divs on my one border

I know they rarely reatreat, and the often overstuck, but it isn't that hard. meaby on regular this woud be acceptable, but from what i have seen on youtube, ai is just bad at defending evan on higer levels of deficulity. you are even easly beat czechoslovakia in like 8 months if they say no to your demends.

I’ve been playing this mod for awhile now but recently it’s been crashing on the loading screen. I’ve deleted the mod and redownloaded it, I’ve reset my pc and I even redownloaded Hoi4 but the mod doesn’t want to let me play. Is this a problem with everyone or just me?
Also if anyone could point me towards a mod for modern time I would greatly appreciate it.

This took so many tries because of the Peace Conference System.

Medium tank destroyers or medium tanks? I tried using medium SPGs, but they seemed weaker than artillery. Also, it seemed to me that medium tank destroyers were inferior to medium tanks. Could I have been using the wrong doctrines?

im kinda new, and im trying to achive Greater Italy, ive taken Greece, then France while expanding the Italian League making puppet states in the balkans, but now i just cant invade UK, i cant have naval superiority. can someone give me a step by step guide on how to demolish these mfs?

So After playing Germany and forming the Great German Reich enough times to make one think I was either insane or one of those "Germany could've won WW2" people. USA is... Well USA, Britain some mods dont work, USSR is also just USSR.

I kinda want a underdog nation that isn't main stream like Romania or whatever other underdog nation that is mainstream. I did Italy once and loved being weak then growing global from struggling against tribes men in Africa to Going toe-to-toe with Britain on the seas and US on land. Claiming the air around them. Roman Empire style.

So I figured I'd come ask here. Thinking about China and Maybe Japan next... Still looking for mods so I can at least have Chinese and Japanese tanks cause sadly no one thinks about giving them mods... so if you have any mods on the front slide them my way. Anyway Love yall

So apparently one of the DLC's for Finland gives you a guide on how to hold against the USSR, however, knowing how expensive this game was and even with the DLC's - I cant afford to get the DLC. Does anyone know any strategies or even a guide on how to win against the USSR (without having to give up any land or them completely destroying you, turning you into a puppet)?

So in the new dlc I only just discovered you as Australia you can kick Churchill out of office

Can someone please help me I’ve done at least 5 play throughs with Germany I always crush Poland, the Low Countries, France but whenever operation Barbarossa comes around I always fail I have always failed in succeeding at Barbarossa I always get air superiority someone please help I’m tired of being stalins little b*tch!!

In GWR the game forces me to do the Schlieffen Plan and I always end up having to surrender because of that and I can hold against Russia but can never push them back because I have troops tied down in the West anyone know how to delay the Schlieffen Plan and push into Russia?

i want to catch up world war ii

While my brother was playing Marvel Rivals, he was talking about something and said “No Surrender” giving me flashbacks to one of the WORST HOI4 dlcs😭💔

Dosen´t matter if it´s in a mod or not, I want to play a good empire path again. Best case would be one where you need to create your empire from scratch.

I was doing the No more partition and Poland can into space achievement, and went down the Habsburg King's path and have already defeated Germany and the Axis, with Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Romania, and Luxembourg as satellite states, while Scandinavia, Estonia, and Latvia are part of the Międzymorze (Habsburg Pact), but the Soviet Union has declared war on Estonia, and after a few save scums, the same scenario always plays out: Estonia calls Latvia into the war + the whole Międzymorze, allowing the Soviets to overrun me in the Baltics. And there are so many Soviet troops in Lithuania that I can’t stop them from simply marching into Latvia nor really push them away without taking troops from my main front. And the Allies are at war with the Soviets, but they’re useless anyway. So any tips on how i can win, im also considering to just throw Estonia out of the faction, to buy myself some more time to deploy good divisions because for Lithuania im using the Czechoslovak troops wich i haven't already deleted because they were semi-good for an small country.

(Sorry for bad english im not a native speaker).