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drat this game is fun, I took like 6 countries without even declaring war, just threatening to, and everybody capitulated. But now it's 42 and Germany is about to declare war on me and they outnumber me like 3 to 1. I'm getting better at this, although I have no idea how to properly stem the tide of rifle upgrades when you move up that infantry tech tree. I just keep making 15 factory production lines and I still have deficits in the hundred thousands
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I'm gonna make a nuke and use it though ftw.
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Playing it fairly straightforward though still. Like I'm just communist Russia and selecting all the historically accurate treaty options with Germany, pushing into the baltics and Poland and kinda defusing the Japanese front. After this I wanna try something stupid like full communist America that ignores international conflict completely and takes over South America
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In Training posted:Playing it fairly straightforward though still. Like I'm just communist Russia and selecting all the historically accurate treaty options with Germany, pushing into the baltics and Poland and kinda defusing the Japanese front. After this I wanna try something stupid like full communist America that ignores international conflict completely and takes over South America The American Commune Hemisphere sounds like a good time. might steal your idea
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In Training posted:drat this game is fun, I took like 6 countries without even declaring war, just threatening to, and everybody capitulated. But now it's 42 and Germany is about to declare war on me and they outnumber me like 3 to 1. I'm getting better at this, although I have no idea how to properly stem the tide of rifle upgrades when you move up that infantry tech tree. I just keep making 15 factory production lines and I still have deficits in the hundred thousands Don't worry about it. When you research a new rifle tier, those old rifles don't go away. Your troops will have slightly outdated stuff but it's better than not having anything. You can even set it so only your elite battalions use them, since the higher tiers are more expensive to produce
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Outdated rifles aren't so bad anyway. I think they have better piercing (aka doing more damage to more divisions at once) than later weapons.
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Is there a way to set it out so only new divisions get outfitted? Would that be the Upgrade priority?
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In Training posted:Is there a way to set it out so only new divisions get outfitted? Would that be the Upgrade priority? Yeah, it will still reequip old divisions with any excess production. You can also set elite div templates (chevrons pointing up) that get new stuff first and reserve divs (chevron down) that get it last. So you can have lovely garrison divisions using the hand me down stuff.
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Ty for the tips, I'll have to mess with that next time I play.
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lol the kaiserreich mod is dumb 
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Jan 5, 2017 05:47
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HoI4 doesn't translate stuff like the 4-way second american civil war well.
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Jan 5, 2017 05:58
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To be fair a lot of the mod feels like its made to still work in Darkest Hour.
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i think the idea is to port all the dh stuff and work from there, but idk they're modders and probably very retarded
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Evil Eagle posted:lol the kaiserreich mod is dumb thats cause it's supposed to be darkest hour and hoi4 isnt as good
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Jan 5, 2017 16:40
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Eagle play the DH version. It's a magnificent mod in its natural state.
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Plutonis posted:Eagle play the DH version. Still enjoying it even though it's unfinished in this version. It's making the friend that I'm playing with really annoyed though because the entire world declared war on us (UK/French Commune) when the only aggressive act either of us did was send 2 volunteers to the us red faction. Germany's units seemed to be flat out better than ours but we finally took out their mainland after we took the time to prepare despite endless harassment from Canada and Ukraine. The worst thing that happened was Germany declaring war on us 2 seconds before I took Denver with my 2 volunteers to remove the original US from the game and then the AI over there doing absolutely nothing for a whole year. It was so close. Evil Eagle fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Agean90 posted:To be fair a lot of the mod feels like its made to still work in Darkest Hour.
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Is there a HoI4 mod that makes the invasion pop-up more noticeable? It's really to miss if you're focusing on one front especially when you have a big country.
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Evil Eagle posted:Is there a HoI4 mod that makes the invasion pop-up more noticeable? It's really to miss if you're focusing on one front especially when you have a big country. I got screwed by this in my current Soviet run just being so focused on defending my holdings in Eastern Europe and panning over east a few months in to see to my horror that Japan had taken over all of east asian land  This run went south but I will definitely last to the end date and I wanna see how the game ends. Its cool that I entered another war while at war with germany, and so many people swapped factions and allegiances and chose sides in the secondary conflict that it said "XXX war was rolled into the German-Soviet Conflict"
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In Training posted:Playing it fairly straightforward though still. Like I'm just communist Russia and selecting all the historically accurate treaty options with Germany, pushing into the baltics and Poland and kinda defusing the Japanese front. After this I wanna try something stupid like full communist America that ignores international conflict completely and takes over South America I did a variation of this by going Fascist. I got as far south as Peru before the South American countries joined the Allies so I needed to join the Axis to even the odds. I'll post photos later once I conquer the whole of the western hemisphere.
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I've done nothing but mapgame this year. 35 hours in 4 days. I want to get in to CKII. I have the base game but zero dlc. Which are the important ones that I should grab on the next sale? Is it worth playing without them? Plutonis posted:Eagle play the DH version. It's a magnificent mod in its natural state. I'm actually really enjoying the mod. A friend hotjoined our session today as communist America and we ended both of our defensive world wars. Canadian occupation of the Isle of Man was a real thorn in my side for the entire war so it felt great to take all of Canada away from them. Now I have a piece of the Union of Britain on every continent. Asia is a real mess right now so we're probably going to jump in to that next session. I will pick up DH soon for sure, it's only ten bucks.
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Evil Eagle posted:Which are the important ones that I should grab on the next sale? Is it worth playing without them? I would argue as a bare minimum Way of Life is all you need. It lets you pick traits about your ruler and gives you special events you can choose (eg. being a Seducer or a country management focus). Sword of Islam, Legacy of Rome, The Old Gods, Sons of Abraham, Rajas of India give you some extra options for playable countries/dynasties (SoI, SoA & RoI let you play a bunch of countries cumulatively). I don't remember if LoR & ToG do specifically but they're still good to have. The Reaper's Due is pretty good but I have only watched streams of it so I can't comment on what is notable other than "Black Death + New Death Types" that were added. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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The real answer is all of them, including portrait, music and unit packs as well as the ebooks.
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One thing I really hate is that I noticed that civil wars in HoI4 just straight up delete troops and factories. I fought a civil war as Ireland to try and swap fascist faster, but it deleted all my factories from the focuses so I went from having 6 factories and a few dockyards to having 2 factories and no dockyards. Also, the extra building slots the focus give disappeared too, along with 90% of my troops
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Good. Civil wars should be bad.
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I realized that when Eagle lost as communist Spain and I've been using coups to gently caress up my neighbors' infrastructure. It's pretty strong
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Maps have started to appear when I close my eyes. I'm obsessed.
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I had a little moment today because I've been so used to playing map games for so long and just thinking about them as little math sims and stuff, but i looked at the casualty number for my war with Germany and saw the numbers crossing 2 million total and I felt bad.
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Evil Eagle posted:Maps have started to appear when I close my eyes. I'm obsessed. I once had a dream where i was playing a map game and i would automatically lose every battle, worst nightmare ever
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I don't know how I did it but i garrisoned for 2 years and eventually the German Reich had been so thoroughly dismantled by Western Europe that I was able to recover my forces and liberate Poland. Now I have to wait for America and UK to finish dismantling Japan so they capitulate and this war can end. This run was like a recreation of history 1:1 except we are beating Japan without nuclear weaponry
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My friends told me that nukes are worthless. I haven't bothered using them yet so I don't know if it's true.
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The post war peace conference slows the game to a complete crawl
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Evil Eagle posted:My friends told me that nukes are worthless. I haven't bothered using them yet so I don't know if it's true. Iirc before they patched it only hosed up infrastructure and unit organization and stuff in a province but now it reduces a lot of manpower and equipment?
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In Training posted:The post war peace conference slows the game to a complete crawl It pauses the game lol
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Evil Eagle posted:It pauses the game lol I just meant every time the AI had to think about what it wanted to claim the game froze for like 15 seconds.
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I ended up taking over Japan and installing a poo poo load of communist puppet governments all over the world and it was really fun to look at all the weird results and claims in Europe and Asia but like. What do I do now? It's only 1944 but I doubt anyone is actually gonna start a war again. I made sure to liberate communist Spain just to give props to Eagle.
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Also idk how common this is but I thought it was funny that after the war ended East and West germany were formed but theres also just regular Germany still in existence in parts of Austria. The last bastion of fascism in a world gone mad
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In Training posted:Also idk how common this is but I thought it was funny that after the war ended East and West germany were formed but theres also just regular Germany still in existence in parts of Austria. The last bastion of fascism in a world gone mad In a ussr game i played I puppeted germany but the allies grabbed some chunks and made west germany out of it lol
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In Training posted:I ended up taking over Japan and installing a poo poo load of communist puppet governments all over the world and it was really fun to look at all the weird results and claims in Europe and Asia but like. What do I do now? It's only 1944 but I doubt anyone is actually gonna start a war again. I made sure to liberate communist Spain just to give props to Eagle. Hoi4 after ww2 is pointless. You start over is what you do
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Or you can import your save into the NWO cold war Vicky 2 mod
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