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IK this is an old video, but one trick i did to make sure france doesnt cap italy or anything is request the netherlands units and put them somewhere else

Could you show the template you use for training divisions to deal with the soviets? I have a hard time designing divisions as mostly idk what im doing

Yeah, for me i think non historical is the best way to get the most out of austria hungary. You arent as rushed with time is germany goes civil war, and allows you to go liechtenstein HRE if the allies go ahistorical

The poland bug annoyed me a lot while playing. Also the democratic eu path is shit. Even though the choice of joining or subjugation is high, the countries still reject. We don't even get some pp refund. Also the joint focus trees is a waste of time. None of the countries except albania use the joint focus tree

I don't know when the bug of Poland not giving anything started, but it wasn't there when the DLC first released From the focus paths you showed, I'd rank them from best to worst by 1. Austria Hungary, generally nice as there's not too much RNG, and you can easily form it and become powerful The main downsides are being in between two angry factions which can cause some weird stuff to happen with the AI Germany as it cannot invade the Soviet Union Sometimes plans not going well due to randomness, guarantees, or whatever (It's also repetitive technically, although I'd still recommend doing both Hungary and Austria's Austria Hungary paths) 2. European Federation/Union as the European President It's fun and short, you can easily take down Germany after creating a big faction, then play as a support nation similar to New Zealand or Canada and take down the Soviet Union afterwards with your faction, and your playthrough is done by around 1942 at most (you'd also have one or two countries integrated by now) Downsides are that it can be really short if you don't do anything after Germany capitulates You don't really expand much, and can't get too much war participation or large scale battles as a supporting country You rely mostly on the AI, and some extra RNG, although it can be reduced by improving relations, and a few other things 3. Communist Austria, the best way to play it is similarly to Tannu Tuva, where you just rely on the Soviets to destroy a nation you declare war on by joining the Commintern, while you take as much land to get as much war score as possible and slowly expand while creating horrible borders Downsides are that's about it, there's really nothing else to do There are also a few alternative choices such as puppeting instead of annexing as Austria Hungary, but those are generally worse than the three stated above (Such as your puppets giving away land or being declared on, or being the lone communist nation in Central Europe, surronded by Fascist Major Powers...)

Austria was the frst country I played with the new DLC. I stayed fascist and pretty much did what you said, peacfully annexing and taking Yugoslavia and Romania by force. I didn't get the Poland bug & was able to get their provences. Had to give up Sudetenland cuz I was in no position to fight Germany. Tried defending Poland when they invaded, but that didn't work out and had to reload and abandon Poland. I waited til Germany was overextended into the Soviet Union then declared war on them. As soon I got Sudetenland back I finally was able to become the Austria Hungarian Empire, which helped a lot cuz I didn't get Italy on my side and had to fight them too. I only had 25% war score but it was enough to get all of Germany and take the focus to core them. I wasn't ready to fight the Soviet Union til almost 1945. At that point it just felt like I was a much weaker Germany, having taken so long just to get all of central Europe. At least the allies sat out my war against Russia. I ended the run after defeating the Soviet Union and becoming the Großösterreich. I was burnt out and didn't even feel like taking on the allies because, again, it just felt like I was playing as a much inferior Germany. I look forward to seeing how you play Austria, since I know you'll do better than I did!

16:10 yeah that's not only happeninng to me, but i had fun with Austria at all

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i tried to invade them in the south and i got destroyed, they put tons of divisions in the border and they attack you non stop until your divisions deorganize

I find it fascinating how paradox could make the peace conference system worse than it was before this dlc.

I'm confused, did you justify on them or what?

The problem with demilitarized zones, is either your neighbours A) will never attack you or B) you will attack them, I can't tell a single time where after a peace conference, you should do a demilitarized zone to anyone, not neighbours, not puppets. Maybe its useful in non historical?

Really appreciate these bite sized videos. Seriously these have helped me gain confidence in my playthroughs way more than a 3 hr long guide

Great tut, I really look forward to the other vids. I found the module on Army Tactics and war very well done and provided the basic information I needed to understand that concept. Thanks very much.

I love self propelled artillery and other tank variants lets you customise so much of your division to your liking

Extra clicks got me ngl As far as MIOs go, I think that the tank and airplane MIOs are the most useful. Other ones are good for production buffs too. Also did you notice there are now helicopter MIOs? Keep up the great work man

Just a quick ? , What guide of yours would you recommend for beginners? Also, you state here in the beginning that you have an "...initial setup for Germany guide..." Do you have a link to that. Thanks for all the great work you do. :)

could u do a video explaining if as germany its better to puppet countries or make them reichcomisariates? i feel like countries like USA would be better as pupets but for some reason they wont really send a lot of troops to help u in wars in europe asia or africa, they are only good in america

The change is imo bad for playing minor nations since you can’t defeat uk before usa joins allies which is extremely annoying with all those unlimited ai naval invasion spam. It was possible tho before dlc.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who just never used marines and always used Fallschirmjäger on Wessex from pre-Götterdamrung to after.

The focus for me says annex Yugoslavia not check so this guide is useless

Thank you so much for this. I’ve been trying for the past week to invade the UK effectively. I used to be able to do it with limited success but recently couldn’t at all. This has given me some good ideas on how I could succeed. It doesn’t help that I’m still learning the game. Like division design only just clicked for me like a month ago.

I cannot win the UK invasion. It's too hard.

I beat the uk navy with food fighters and cas and navy bombers

I think your tier list is perfectly fine I like the International Market as it's an easy way to get guns as a small country (losing your only civilian factory to get guns is more efficient than your only military factory) But apart from that and some niche cases, not much to it Selling stuff does give a construction bonus, but that's not really going to do much for you, beyond making things a little quicker (unless you're a small nation with lots of stuff to sell) As for MIO, they kinda suck, a designer like the Tank, Plane, or Ship ones would be far better than the current one Instead of choosing engine or gun modules, you chose modifiers like +2% defense or -5% production cost that you can stack in any way Whether that's -25% prodcution cost, +10% defense, or a mix of both or something else Oh, and also the ability to save presets, not just for MIO, but for the other designers (I know saving at the start of the game works, but a custom presets button would still be nice)

what is MOT division template, maybe you show us but, as i remember i didnt saw that. please if you see this replay it, or if someone saw that in video. Thanks <333

I like the DLC for the country focuses a lot The Special Projects are nice, and can be extremely fun at times, but at most you usually only get a few, and a lot of them are extremely late game due to taking so long Extending the HOI4 dates from 1936-1945 to somewhere in the cold war could be nice, but unreleastic Something that I think would make Special Projects much better is the ability to que them (like MIO), say to the designers, "I want the Landcruiser to have more reliability and armor" so those options get chosen, or something That and some special projects being way too long for their bonuses, like Stronghold Networks (which should give more to match the time it takes) Personally I love Underway replenishment, you can realy mess with the game, all of the projects are fun if you cheat them in at the start of the game, there's just a few things that bring them down Raids can be useful, but really, stopping the Soviet Union from having resources is nice, but time consuming and something you really don't need, unless you absolutely need help, it's quite nice in multi-player as you and your allies can just decimate the resorce extraction of your enemy But there's not much else to the DLC

Goetterdammerung is very disappointing in terms of features. The raids and wonderweapons are very tedious, add a bunch of more micromanagement, for no actual value. I really appreciate that the AI no longer spams nukes and you are actually able to defend yourself, but overall there is no special project or raid that is worth the effort in SP. (Except for Flametanks of course)

This detailed guide is really helpful to understand the mechanics of HOI IV. One question I have ATM is about production. When setting the naval production in the early game, you max out all the production dockyard slots. What's the purpose/result of this even tho none of the naval production is set to infinity? Again, thanks for a great guide.

I saw you answer this question about 10 months ago in a short but do you have any plans to make a naval ship guide in the near future. Obviously there is a lot of new content to cover with the new dlc. Understandable if it isn’t.

Personally I don't use collaboration governments much as the main countries they're useful for are the US and USSR (unless you want the country in a peace deal, or the extra compliance, which are both nice) The former as you'd need to push to the west, and the latter as you'd need to push through zones of no supply, if you can beat them to that point, you can keep going, it just takes longer, although if I do have the chance, I do get at least one (usually I'm using spies to reduce enemy entrenchment and such) I prefer the naval infiltration and coordinated strike as those can allow a guaranteed naval invasion, as you know when to put your navy out (when every enemy fleet or ship isn't there) so it doesn't get destroyed before you invade The only intel that I don't think is worth it is airforce, you get enough intel from putting a spy in the country, you know what's attacking you and how many Knowing what their design is is pointless as if you focus on building the best planes you can, you'll destroy everything (There's a niche strategy where you design each plane to specifically destroy a certain design of the enemy's planes, but that's too time consuming and doesn't offer much in return) Overall the DLC is nice, but really not needed unless you enjoy screwing the AI a lot (turns out civil wars are an easy way to cripple any country you're at war at... Unless it's one state like Luxembourg, but if you're losing to Luxembourg, then nothing will help you)

The move towards the current vehicle system for tanks, planes, and ships was massively negative in my view and feels incongruous with the rest of hoi4. MTG started this trend, so I hate MTG.

I do not know why but for me the german civil war ( and germany in the game) is not easy to play. I know almost everybody says that germany is wo easy but i allways struggel with germany. The only way for is using a guide. For me the soviets are so easy but germany no. What am i doing wrong?

Complaince is the difference between not even reaching leningrad stalingrad or moscow to cap the USSR and going I'm 2 years into Siberia

lol mtg was very hated for downgrading the naval game actually

BFB is good for historical gameplay but it's has one of the worst tree ever existed while TOA is good for people who play these countries cause South Africa is the least pacitipate region in WW2 that's make it not really fun to play specialy when you gonna go peacefull run(No offensive war) I recommended look what you like if you like NSB,BBA,AAT and GTM style(35 days focus) choose TOA but if you like MTG, style choose BFB

Yeah subscription is the most consumer friendly thing paradox has done. I hope they keep the prices for it realistic.

I always combine attack through sea with paratroopers in central england to slow their reinforcments. It's mess and a lot of micro but I think it's wortth it

So I got the game and the DLC. (A few DLC anyway.) 1. The navy doesn't produce much as far as ships and subs. Is that by design per your strategy? 2. For some reason I can never get the War Economy Law above 50% for War Support. I'm pretty sure I followed your specific path so far. Any idea why I can't get above 50%? 3. "Range Improvements" for research; Is that from a specific DLC? I don't have that in the research tree that I have. Regardless this is well done. Thanks for your efforts.

what paradox game you played beside hoi4?

Fair list. I would have stuck Arms against Tyranny as low as possible. It should have had better trees and the additions are a waste. Considering the dlc, a lot add things that have one function so you reqyire the mechanic. Spy agencies give colab govenments so its needes. Gottadamarung was ok cause the flame tanks and radar are base game

What template do you use? I still find sealion difficult because sometimes the ports take forever to capture. By the time I have a port, units are already flooding me 😢

Ogni volta che lo faccio, quando la vichy france si forma la Germania prende tutta la Francia e la vichy france diventa di colore marrone invece che azurri. non posso nemmeno dichiarare guerra a questa strana vichy france, e la Francia libera è ancora sulla mappa. sapete come posso evitare che questo accada?

How can I make a naval invasion to UK if I'm not part of the Axis. With only military access of Germany.

I was going to purchase this w the latest GOTT DLC, but your vid says it’s broken. Is getting the HOI 4 and the GOTT DLC a bad idea?