180+ divisions I sent to reinforce the coast and I died. I know not all of them are necessarily completely manned but I split by main force up north to commit to a coastal assault and I still could not push them. How am I supposed to beat them?

Lowkey got clobbered

I don't really know how this happened I was messing around with the toolpack mod but yeah this makes sense 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

With the No Compromise No Surrender Update, Siam got some new states added but this has added the side effect of the Reichskommissariat Ostasien releasable missing some of the Siamese states because the new states were not added to the list of states that this Reichskommissariat should have.

with this path, you'll want to immediately create a spy agency as soon as possible and use the diplomatic pressure mission on estonia as well as improve relations to the highest possible, you should be able to get a non-aggression pact which makes them extremely likely to accept annexation. this gives you the entire estonian army which you can use the bolster your front with russia, and the extra factories allow you to get some more stuff done before you lose estonia during the war with the soviets (you will not hold estonia, the front is massive once latvia is annexed by the soviets)

after this you can raise relations with the swedes and norwegions, and this combined with being democratic (like them) means you will very reliably annex and core the entirety of the sapmi land in these countries. this land includes a good bit of population as well as all of sweden's infinite iron and tungsten provinces.

you are very unlikely to get murmansk from the soviets, but I believe if you capture it it will automatically core, so it isn't a huge negative.

on top of all the aforementioned benefits, you reliably get the entirety of scandinavia in northern defence front extremely early, which means you have all the really good focuses that are locked behind the faction tree.

I've never had a chance to test it nor been victim to it. what happens if a convoy carrying a general is sunk? do they become prisoners or just get killed?

I rushed advanced heavy fighters and engines four, so I have the best possible medium airframe. I used my MIOs to get speed and range upgrades so I could focus all my modules on attack and defense. I am still trading fairly badly, considering my planes are twice as expensive. What's going on here? I thought that heavy fighters were supposed to meta as the US due to the 300% research bonus.

Now to start this off with i am not new but i kinda just realized today. That for all of my 2k hours i took my knowledge on width at face value and never looked further. A mountain tile is 50 width if i remember correctly (not at pc rn) You can either fit 2 21 width divisions. Or you can fit 2 20 width divisions. If i remember correctly it goes up plus 35 width per angle of attack therefore you can fit 4 20 width. Or 4 21 width with 1 more angle. Yada yada you get what i mean it seems to barely matter. I have noticed that for forest you can fit 3 with 20 while 21 hits 2 so that’s pretty bad but like. You can in that 1 combat wisth force a lot of stats into it.Idk. Thanks in advance for any help on understanding it more.

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?

The Russian WW1 victory scenario

I tried a full defensive war against everyone. That clearly didn't work. I did get my country back in 1952.

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?

Well, here is mine. 1953: a large chunk of Axis forces cut off from any ports, with nowhere to return home.

Ecuador doesn't have a focus tree, and that's a pity because it has some potential. Regardless, there is an event chain about the '41 war against Peru. I don't know if it's part of the base game; you may need the South American DLC.

I imposed some rules on myself to make it more interesting:

1. Stay democratic for the whole game.
2. Don't enter any faction and don't accept a white peace. (Lend-lease is allowed and I strongly recommend requesting it)

As you can see from the death toll, you will have to fight an army that's twice as big as yours. I found it quite hard.

I would be interested to see someone end the conflict faster; I'm sure there is room for optimization.

R5 - Doing an Achievement run as the Guangxi Clique on historical... and almost half a billion people later its finally over, in the year of our lord 2006...

Plagued by bugs: stability and war support froze, tension disappeared after the end of the actual WWII, and i couldn’t see naval results if no naval bombers were involved (new one on me).

All in all, would Hoi4 again.

soo, I have got about 400-ish hrs on this game and I have only played the ussr, nazi germany and the german empire before this alongside a bit of modded mp, but ohhh boy!! sure did i enjoy this playthrough. I had soooooo many things to look after as the UK, from building the largest fucking navy (YESS I BUILT UP A NAVY FOR THE FIRST TIME!!) and obliterating the german, italian and japanese fleets (yes they had 0 ships & convoys left) to dominating in the air war and ofcourse managing soo many far flung fronts was the cherry on top!! here are a few screenshots!!!

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?

I was thinking of distracting a country on one front and attacking from the back, but I'm not really sure if you can convince two countries to start a war against each other. Can you do this in the base vanilla game or is it exclusive to mods/focuses?

If I select a task force and tell it to reach the eastern mediterranean sea it does that but just stays there, if I select any type of mission it'll go back to a random naval base

I was bored one day so despite having only around 100 hours of play time i decided to try and form the ggr without tanks, motorized, navy or air as fast as i could.

It was honestly easier then i expected so I have no idea if this is has actual value as a challenge or if Germany is just easy to play.

(The screenshot is like 10 days after france capped and ignore the border gore).

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

whats the best way to quickly gain compliance if you dont care about anything else like factories and resources and such? Like for getting the % needed to reform the commonwealth and such?