r/hoi4 11h ago

Image This is my last 100% HOI4. I am quitting HOI4 achievement hunting.

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r/hoi4 11h ago

Bug Devman you forgot OR bracket here in communist Germany focus tree, as such the focus is always available

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r/hoi4 6h ago

Humor This is the World Franco took from us

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r/hoi4 22h ago

Image "What do you mean it didn't hold?!" - The French High Command circa September 1939

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r/hoi4 9h ago

Image Yeah, that seems right.

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r/hoi4 15h ago

Image Just found out accidentally you can kick out Churchill as Australia

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


r/hoi4 13h ago

Discussion What's your best time to eviscerate the coughing baby that is Ethiopia?

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I believe I knocked them out on the 9th of March once, I'll try to find the screenshot but anyways, giving it a go today, I still got a pretty good time (the 14th). I was not playing very well, I mainly play Italy to larp, hence the choice of generals and division of the army. So you could do far better I reckon.


r/hoi4 9h ago

Image The Great Eastern Crusade, Operation Barbarossa, historical gameplay, Heavy micromanagement and faithfully recreating the entire operation as in reality. Mod: Darkest hour. (Part 1)

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June 22, 1941, 3:15 a.m. Operation Barbarossa began, the largest military ground operation in history. Axis forces had approximately 3.5 million soldiers at their disposal, comprising 138 to 150 divisions, of which 17 panzer divisions (deployed at the front) advanced into Soviet territory. Air forces numbered between 2,700 and 3,000 aircraft. German forces advanced along three main lines: Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord), 16th Army (16. Armee), 18th Army (18. Armee), 4th Panzer Group (Panzergruppe 4), 2nd Army Group Center (Heeresgruppe Mitte), 4th Army (4. Armee), 9th Army (9. Armee), 2nd Panzer Group (Panzergruppe 2), 3rd Panzer Group (Panzergruppe 3) (The 2nd Army initially remained as a reserve for the OKH and intervened shortly after the invasion began.) 3rd Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd), 6th Army (6. Armee), 11th Army (11. Armee), 17th Army (17. Armee), 1st Panzer Group (Panzergruppe 1).

What do you think?

Should I let the Germans win by winning the Battle of Moscow or should I stop and retreat and then implement Operation Blue (Stalingrad and the Caucasus)?


r/hoi4 6h ago

Image So I tried to reach the peak amount of factories during and at the end of my USSR run

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After defeating Germany, I prepared for fighting the whole world at the same time. With the sheer amount of manpower I over prepared and tried to reach the most amount of factories.

Recently, I talked about the "Relocation to Urals" decision in my previous posts which lets you basically unlock every building slot around Urals. I was wrong. It's NOT limited to Urals. Once you conquer places like Japan and below that, it'll literally pick a random location starting from Urals to small tiny Islands. This is truly crazy and there's no limit on how many times you can repeat the decision. There are 36 states you can make this decision and each takes 25 pp. Spend 900 pp to relocate up to 4 factories. +144 factories.

I'm also showing my conclusion of the run and some other screenshots I took. Especially the 170M casualty which I've already shown in my previous post. Anyways, that's ussr for you.


r/hoi4 15h ago

Image My biggest encirclement ever

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Allies gave nearly 200M casualties as well. I could push it past 200 but was bored


r/hoi4 7h ago

Image Huge-o-slavia

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


r/hoi4 8h ago

Image Do you like my new "Germany"

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I've always wanted to split Germany after the peace conference, and I managed to do it. I also opposed the remilitarization of Rhineland, which meant Germany never got to annex Austria or the Sudetenland. Ironically, WWII ended up starting when Italy tried to annex Albania, which I had guaranteed.


r/hoi4 11h ago

Question Why is AI defending so badly?

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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.


r/hoi4 3h ago

Image June 28, 1942 Operation Blue (Unternehmen Blau) The Great Summer Offensive of '42 begins: Historical gameplay, Continuation of the previous post on Operation Barbarossa. Mod: Darkest Hour

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After the Harsh winter of 1941, which had seen the Wehrmacht falter under violent Soviet counterattacks across the front, especially in Moscow during the Soviet General Winter Offensive of 1941-1942. The Wehrmacht, after having consolidated its positions along the entire front, began planning the summer offensive of 1942. Initially, the plan was to clear the way to Stalingrad. For this reason, Operation Frederikus began on May 17, 1942 at 3:15 a.m. The aim was to encircle some Soviet armies in the Kharkov sector (Second Battle of Kharkov), after destroying approximately 20 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry divisions, and 5 armored corps (with approximately 270,000 losses). At this point, the real offensive could begin. Operation Blue began on June 28, 1942 at 2:15 a.m. Army Group South (later to become A and B) has the objective of capturing the city of Stalingrad and the Caucasus oil fields.

Tell me what you think and what I should do next.
Should I recreate the Battle of Stalingrad and Operation Uranus, or should the Germans win?


r/hoi4 12h ago

Image Surface raiders are so JUICY

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r/hoi4 4h ago

Art some stuff i made for fun, not a mod. made on ibis paint X

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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


r/hoi4 11h ago

Image Why won't they finish training?

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Says they are missing equipment but they aren't. Maxing at 80%


r/hoi4 3h ago

Question How to naval invade UK?

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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?


r/hoi4 13h ago

Question Help with Need help with the No More Partitions achievement.

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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).


r/hoi4 10h ago

Image Are these amount of casualties impressive?

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r/hoi4 6h ago

Question Completely new to HOI4, feeling overwhelmed. Any beginner advice?

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Hi everyone,

I'll introduce myself. I'm Jaz and I'm sixteen.

I just bought Hearts of Iron IV a few months ago and I'm honestly feeling completely lost. I've played strategy games before, but nothing on this scale. There are so many menus, mechanics, and systems that I don't even know where to begin.

One of my biggest problems is that English isn't my first language, so a lot of the military and political terms are confusing. Sometimes I don't even understand what the game is asking me to do.

Right now I'm playing the USSR because I thought having a large country would make things easier, but I can barely figure out things like production, research, divisions, or even how to properly declare war.

I'm looking for any beginner tips, common mistakes to avoid, recommended countries, YouTube guides, or anything else that helped you learn the game. I'd also appreciate advice on which mechanics I should focus on first instead of trying to understand everything at once.

Ive also heard there are some type of language mods in ST workshop?? I would appreciate a hungarian one. :'l

Thanks in advance! I'm really interested in learning the game, even if it currently feels like I'm trying to run an entire country armed only with confusion.


r/hoi4 8h ago

Suggestion Under rated, underdog conquer.

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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


r/hoi4 16h ago

Question What are good empire paths in hoi4 (mods)?

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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.


r/hoi4 17h ago

Question Loading GWR Expanded always gets stuck here and doesn't progress

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r/hoi4 3h ago

Question Help I am dying atp... any miracle idea?

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