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Loopoo posted:Thanks a bunch, good to hear I'm not doing anything wrong on my part then. I'm not really the best person to ask, I just understand some basics thanks to watching some other people play the game. I suggest watching quill18's videos on Youtube, at least the first few episodes of his Italian campaign. He's not known as the best player or anything but he does a pretty good job of explaining some of the basic mechanics.
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BigglesSWE posted:Pretty sure it isn't released yet. Will take some days before we get it, I assume. Ah, okay. Finished the tutorial. Took awhile, but Italy finally defeated Ethiopia.
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Jun 7, 2016 02:06
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I've played through to late 41 on three games now, Italy, Turkey, Sweden. I'm impressed with how consistently Germany stomps Poland and France, and how they keep getting stopped juuuuust before Moscow as winter rolls in. Good game.
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In my game it's 1940 and Poland went last year but the Allies didn't intervene. France went to war to protect Yugoslavia (which was my next war in early 1940) but isn't part of the allies and is going it alone now Yugoslavia is down. Unfortunately the UK guaranteed all the countries north of the maginot line, so I'm going to try and take France down without doing the usual tactics and bringing the UK in. Currently I'm researching the focuses to get Italy and then Republican Spain to join in as I'm hoping that combined we'll have enough ommph just to push straight through France's most defensible provinces.Loopoo posted:Thanks a bunch, good to hear I'm not doing anything wrong on my part then. If you get bored of just preparing for war, go for one of the fascist counties like or the USSR or go for the 1939 start date. In terms of coastal attacks, yes, attrition is a killer. 23 units will probably all run out of supply pretty quickly. If you're going to do it I'd split them into three and try three separate ports simultaneously, maybe paratrooping a few guys in around the port to support them. . Remember to use research and train some marines who specialise in naval invasions and have a better chanch of pushing a garrison unit off of the province. That said, naval invasions are hard and tough and put you at a disadvantage if Germany has defended his ports well, possibly setting you up to have your entire forces wiped. You could always deploy to a friendly country (Poland or France) and reinforce their front line.
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The Spanish Civil war becomes hilariously frustrating as a democracy when you're CPU-bound to be stuck at around speed four the whole game. "Yeah come on republicians, keep killing those pockets already now push into the last corner left what no stop losing yeah back to it" I agree that more feedback on, well, poo poo in general would be nice, but I suppose the "what to set everything as and do first" etc poo poo will be in a wiki by the end of the month.
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Jun 7, 2016 02:23
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Re: naval invasions, one thing that the (non-PDS) streamers I've seen seem to gently caress up is that they just target the one port province. You can set the target to be a few provinces wide when planning, and adding the ones surrounding the port means you're likely to succeed even if the port itself is garrisoned. Then you can go squish the port proper before your supplies run out. It also seems like a good idea to have a couple of fairly large invasions fully planned out and ready to fire on likely war targets go as a rule, it makes the war go that much quicker.
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Jun 7, 2016 02:34
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-Troika- posted:How do I get new carrier fighters? I have the same ones as when I started as Japan and it's not obvious how to develop new ones. Or do the carriers just load the latest models of naval bombers, etc? You have to research the carrier model of whatever airframe seperately. Ith the carrier icon on the top right of the picture of yhe plane on the research screen Then you gotta build new planes to replace your old ones
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Jun 7, 2016 02:38
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Aaaaaaand found my first AI screwup: Hm, yes, sure, let me just cram 60 divisions into this mountain province. 27% attrition? Suck it up boys! I'm thinking it's because that is literally the only French province the Axis control, after a counterattack by DEUX METRES threw the Panzers back in the north.
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Jun 7, 2016 02:49
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Won the Spanish civil war as Republicans earlier than the Nats did and while using a 360 controller as a mouse. 
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Is anyone else having large issues using Battle Plans? They seem to require just as much effort as manauly managing your forces.
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Jun 7, 2016 02:52
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725 fighter losses in 13 days as Italy - over southern france, my homeland, and two zones in the Med. Horrendous. I've now got air superiority in all those zones though, and combined allied losses are 1236 
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Jun 7, 2016 02:53
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Never played HOI before, but I've absorbed plenty of it through osmosis just by playing other paradox games and following the community. Italy is a really good country for the tutorial: start against Ethiopia for the basics and then you can support Franco in Spain for a war with an actual front. I still feel a bit overwhelmed by my large navy and airforce which I'm not sure what to do with.
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Jun 7, 2016 02:55
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The Soviet Union has determined that the Nazis can wait, Turkey must be burned to the ground. Actually a smart plan because I was going to flip them fascist to spear at the Caucasus.
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Jun 7, 2016 03:05
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Okay what's really stupid is South African forces marching straight across the whole continent to cut me off vertically in Egypt 
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Jun 7, 2016 03:18
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Koesj posted:Okay what's really stupid is South African forces marching straight across the whole continent to cut me off vertically in Egypt Not if they did in fact cut you off!
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Jun 7, 2016 03:23
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Mister Adequate posted:Not if they did in fact cut you off! Yea sounds like some plucky South African soldiers did the impossible and...saved Egypt? I'm not sure what the goal here was but by god they did a thing.
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Jun 7, 2016 03:25
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Koesj posted:Okay what's really stupid is South African forces marching straight across the whole continent to cut me off vertically in Egypt Brave Boers, making the Greatest Trek, clearing the land for the True and Righteous settlers.
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Jun 7, 2016 03:30
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Can you upgrade obsolete tanks/planes/ships?
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Jun 7, 2016 03:32
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StashAugustine posted:Can you upgrade obsolete tanks/planes/ships? Yes, but you keep the old planes. They're useful for kamikazes Speaking of I thought kamikazes were a Japanese only focus? Because I just sunk some british ships with them as Republican Spain.
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Jun 7, 2016 03:37
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No. There also isn't really a penalty for using them, so have obsoletes shore up the backlines/convoy defend.
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Jun 7, 2016 03:37
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Koesj posted:Okay what's really stupid is South African forces marching straight across the whole continent to cut me off vertically in Egypt 'N boer maak 'n plan
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Jun 7, 2016 03:37
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slavatuvs posted:Yes, but you keep the old planes. There's also a "New Soviet Man" or some such that gives the USSR Kamikazes. 
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V for Vegas posted:'N boer maak 'n plan Ja but that poo poo was baie sleg.
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Jun 7, 2016 03:41
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TehKeen posted:There's also a "New Soviet Man" or some such that gives the USSR Kamikazes. Then why do I have kamikazes as a default nation?
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Jun 7, 2016 03:45
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TehKeen posted:There's also a "New Soviet Man" or some such that gives the USSR Kamikazes. THE MAN WITH THE GUNS SHOOTS, THE MAN WITHOUT THE GUNS SITS IN THE BACK SEAT. WHEN THE MAN WITH THE GUNS IS KILLED, THE MAN WITHOUT GUNS CRASHES THE PLANE.
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Jun 7, 2016 03:50
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Hey I never messed with it in other HoI, how do countries like the British occupied India play? It looks like it's treated as its own thing rather than, say, a country that's just part of the big UK blob. Does it have any interesting rules, and are there any other countries like it you can play as?
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Hey I never messed with it in other HoI, how do countries like the British occupied India play? It looks like it's treated as its own thing rather than, say, a country that's just part of the big UK blob. Does it have any interesting rules, and are there any other countries like it you can play as? I think it depends on the size/location of said occupied province or country? In the Canada playthrough I was watching Newfoundland/Labrador was definitely part of Britain. e: I just bought the game because I am weak and Paradox does good things with my money.
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Jun 7, 2016 04:12
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Hey I never messed with it in other HoI, how do countries like the British occupied India play? It looks like it's treated as its own thing rather than, say, a country that's just part of the big UK blob. Does it have any interesting rules, and are there any other countries like it you can play as? It doesn't have a unique national focus tree (though that would be an interesting country for one), so mechanically it would probably play a lot like any other minor. I think most of the other colonial holdings are owned directly, I imagine British India is a special case to stop the UK having ridiculous manpower, resources etc.
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Question 1: How do I build planes? Just finished Italy tutorial land, getting ready to attack Yugoslavia but I can make an airgroup, and set it to like 5/200 or something but that doesn't build planes? Question 2: Is there a list of what countries have unique national focus trees? I'm pretty sure the wiki doesn't have all of them listed yet.
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Yea if the UK 'had' India proper they'd pretty much have a fairly strong position in every single possible area to fight from, kinda overpowered even for historical British Empire stuff. Pity it doesn't have a unique tree or something, I'd kinda love a thing where you can either rebel or maybe even join with the empire 'fully' and all along with the whole 'oh hey Japan and China are loving around right next door, that's not good' thing. India is a pretty unique perspective in WW2 that's hardly ever used, maybe a future DLC could expand it.
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Kaidyn posted:Question 2: Is there a list of what countries have unique national focus trees? I'm pretty sure the wiki doesn't have all of them listed yet. As far as I know it's just the big 8: UK Germany Italy USSR France Japan China USA And Poland is getting a unique one with the upcoming free DLC. vvv oh wow, you're right. I didn't expect to see it until the first hotfixes got pushed out. The Narrator fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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The Narrator posted:As far as I know it's just the big 8: The DLC is already out and it's free.
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The Narrator posted:As far as I know it's just the big 8: Does Nat China have one? I thought it was generic.
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uPen posted:The DLC is already out and it's free. Does it show up as DLC to 'buy' at the store or is it just a thing that got patched in?
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Xerophyte posted:Re: naval invasions, one thing that the (non-PDS) streamers I've seen seem to gently caress up is that they just target the one port province. You can set the target to be a few provinces wide when planning, and adding the ones surrounding the port means you're likely to succeed even if the port itself is garrisoned. Then you can go squish the port proper before your supplies run out. It also seems like a good idea to have a couple of fairly large invasions fully planned out and ready to fire on likely war targets go as a rule, it makes the war go that much quicker. Pfft, on D-day we just crammed millions of men onto a mile wide strip of beach with no prep work. Counterintelligence? Paratroopers? Sabotage? A wide front? Offshore support? Air cover? We just lasso selected some riflemen and told the AI to make it happen.
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V for Vegas posted:Does Nat China have one? I thought it was generic. Oh, you're correct. I thought the pre-release plans were 8 + a generic one, but it's 7 + a generic one to make 8. Seems like a nation that should get some attention in a hypothetical content pack, then. The Narrator fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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I am just loving around as Italy and holy poo poo this is so much better than HOI 3. I beat Ethiopia in the tutorial and I actually knew why I was doing what I was doing. I restarted and am now playing on Ironman. I haven't had this much fun playing an HOI game since Kaiserreich for Darkest Hour. Woohoo! Is pushing non-aligned countries to the Axis a good idea if you're Italy? I'm thinking of pushing Mexico, Brazil and Canada into fascism so if the US gets pulled in it'll have its hands full.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Does it show up as DLC to 'buy' at the store or is it just a thing that got patched in? It's the Poland United and Ready DLC, everyone who buys HOI4 gets it for free.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Is anyone else having large issues using Battle Plans? They seem to require just as much effort as manauly managing your forces. I am, I thought it would be a lot more freeform than it is but I can't get it to do much that isn't really simple. Also it handles attrition really badly, especially on narrow fronts with a fair number of troops. Is there no way to release a nation as a puppet? As far as I can tell if you take territory in a peace conference there is no way to get rid of it short of making a completely independent country who hates you.....I suppose you can just justify and fight them again but that seems a bit silly.
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