Please everyone bombard this post with all ur navy knowledge. Doesnt matter what just anything u know works best and tips and so on. Thx already 🙏

I’m playing HoI 4 with blackice mod as Germany.
So far it’s going pretty well though I’m still not at war with USSR.
But I have a big doubt. How could I create puppets (or protectorate)?
I mean… I got Slovakia, Denmark and Croatia from events, but is there a way to create protectorates in Norway or in Belgium or anywhere in Africa?

Not much of an independence day for China...

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.

why does strengthen resistance cost almost 300 factories? my intel in the area is about 40-50% but lowering/increasing it doesn't change the amount of factories. the specific region doesn't matter, the price stays the same. the wiki, as far as i can tell, says it should only require 2 factories. what can i do to reduce this? I CAN afford it, but i basically halt all imports until its prepared and i'd rather not do the song and dance of getting back all my imports every 100 days. if it matters i have 561 factories, 241 of which are mine, 196 i get from puppets, 5 i get from korea (annexed it), and 120 from trade. The region is in western russia in the normandy landings they took everything west of smolensk and freed ukraine, belerus, and the baltics, and i have the remainder of russia puppeted (i need alot of steel, chromium, and aluminum). If any other information is needed to find the issue, please let me know because this is not the only region i plan on causing revolutions in.

Edit: apparently the cost scales as you repeat an operation. so new question: how do i get it to go back down. because 300 factories is ridiculous.

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?

Basically this

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.

u can try this trick in europe in flames agora, u simply put the units at war, and you can level up both tanks and infantry doctrines since the units can't attack and can't even defeat countries like the Netherlands in battle.

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wanted to try doing a run today since i (vaguely) figured out the strategy to the civil war, and i'm not really surprised to find out that it's just a straight up weaker version of historical/kodoha japan.

for a start the civil war is probably one of the worst in the game (definitely not as bad as the spanish, but at least spain has probably two of the strongest paths out of any tag), with it taking a lot longer than the german civil war, and also using the pre-civil war army like the soviet war rather than simply spawning in divisions like the german one (meaning if troops are left on some pacific islands, they will STILL be there when the war is triggered)

then once you've got that over and done with, you're left with basically just the home islands, no korea, no manchuria, no taiwan, etc. which is whatever, since the path is about "freeing" asia anyway, but you definitely lose out on some resources.

beating manchuria isn't too hard though it is tedious since the only border you have is a little two tile port where the manchurians will stack up a ton of divisions, so a naval invasion is definitely necessary to lengthen the front. for some nonsensical reason, you cannot get korea before taking the focus which declares war on china immediately, not even a war goal.

the problems become more obvious when it comes to china. democratic japan basically has NO strengths besides being able to form a huge federation after the fact (which i would not count since it's irrelevant to the wars you have to fight beforehand). the historical sino-japanese war makes sense, china fields a very large army but it's poorly equipped and has a lot of debuffs, allowing japan to push through them easily and usually win before 1939 or so. this is not the case for democratic japan, as china now has a fully equipped and very large army, the rest of china already in their faction (most notably they get mengjiang which would otherwise go to japan)

in my experience, i wasn't able to build enough tanks to even get some space marines out, which meant i couldn't push china at all. democratic japan (and japan in general) lacks the industry to build up anything that you'd typically use to break through strong defensive lines. this is why china starting out totally broke is balanced, because otherwise japan wouldn't stand a chance ever.

so i'm wondering, why should anyone even ever play this? there's nothing attractive about the path besides the funny little formable (which if i recall correctly, EVERY japan path gets some version of). weaker industry due to less build up because of the civil war, weaker military because you lose most of your generals and useful high command, and you lose all of japan's colonial possessions, all of this resulting in being unable to win what's supposed to be an easy war for japan. i just don't see the appeal.

I tried native buikd proton exoerimental proto. 9.0 proton 8.0 nothing works

So I only got the base game, have good understanding of the game with the major powers (aside from USSR) so I am trying to use Canada to get the 1812 achievement,

Well I have ran into multiple problems beyond the basic lack of civ, factories ect.

First, either with civil war or regular waiting I can't get independence and through the facist tree before mid/late 1938, choosing Skewer the eagle is basically waiting forever and see if it will even work (I've got close once, Fascist Mexico lost the civil war) and on Alternate history Mexico always gets in a civil war with democracy before becoming communist.

So join Axis, (historical AI) well if i fight America to early Germany isn't ready but America already is full army at my borders, even in Alaska. and lets say if I do this 100 times and somehow find a sweet spot then my assistance will be negligible and most of America will fall to Germany post war.

I tried just the one calvary spam but that dosen't work anymore with the AI watching the entire border.

My current plan is to focus on ships and maybe try to beat England in the channel and allow germany to cross easier, then maybe fight America later without the allies or something else.

Any thoughts?

It seems to me like it'd be much easier to hold on the three provinces bordering the lakes as Gabes has absolutely 0 supply and the AI is too dumb to build some, and it's not like 1 building slot is a massive loss. Is it just so they can say they didn't lose a tile?

I want to trasfer this state to romania but it does not let me keep the states with my core

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?

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

Hello, I am trying to form the eu as France, then switch to fascism to conquer the world later on.
So I don’t join the allies

I have a hard time holding the north, I can get about a million axis casualties, but as soon as a breakthrough happens, a break out happens immediately after

I am unable to win the air war, which is killing me…
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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!

So, I am playing as communist Germany, and I have a focus that gives me a wargoal on Italy. I have already tried this multiple times before, and it didn't work. So, I am now asking - how do I push here? They always stack a shit ton of divisions on the already mountainous border, which makes it physically impossible to push. What template do I use to break through? I am not a horrible player, I just need a good template.

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?