So uh i was playing as communist ethiopia and pushed the italians out of somalia etc etc. How do i get the deccision to annex their african lands? Or do i NEED to get the peacedeal trough ussr like the focusetree wants me to? I also got an offer before i pushed them out to annex only the red small country that always surrenders to them. Idk help me pls🙏🏿🙏🏿

Brand new player here

If I understand things well (correct me if I'm wrong), tricks that were used to micro efficiently, letting troops move freely while still getting planning bonus, like garrisoning or moving unassigned divisions to their field marshall's front line, have been patched and don't work anymore.

My question is simple, how do you micro efficiently now. I've read you should use very short front lines and short offensive line paths, but I don't really understand how that works

Could someone point me to a good guide (not referencing the patched tricks) or explain it to me (I really like to move my armies myself and not let the AI do the job)

TIA

R5: I was playing NEA and I did the new beiyang government focus, which gave me wargoals on every country in china including myself, which I'm not sure why

Like the uk or usa rework mod.

Do I just give it up and start over instead of wasting another 4 hours to come to the reality of this being unwinnable

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For 1400h of Hoi4 of 10 years and several Germany playthroughs, I never thought of surface raiders as viable option. But for the sake of roleplay and curiosity, I tried now.

A relative small fleet of Panzerschiffe (8-15, from 39 to 41) split into 2-3 flottillas where enough to starve the UK out. What helped was heavy naval intelligence to see the convoy routes.

Very effective was the ability to destroy the escort DD and CL of the convoys, as well as very quickly destroy the convoys themselves. I had to continously switch seazones, since the UK adapted and rerouted its convoys around my active zones.

But the AI never sent any form of battlefleet with BBs or CVs (or my ships managed to avoid any fight, because of their speed).

What also helped, where the focus and doctrines specifically for surface raiding. I research the complete "Damage Control"-naval tech, as well as the radar, better fire control, which I upgraded. Also AA and torpedos, but not guns. I upgraded existing Panzerschiffs only for radar and fire control.

In the end, in January 41, I could clearly see via Intel and on the front, that the remeining 100-200 convoys of the UK were not sufficent to import enough Oil, bring in the extracted resources to the UK and support its troops.

With air cover and my starting fleet (plus a few additional built DDs and the Panzerschiff), I could easly set up a sealion and invade and conquer the UK. The channel only needed 150 naval dominance by my navy.

The only naval losses I had, were few DDs and SSs from my starting fleet, during the invasion of Norway and additional, opportunistic convoy raiding.

For all "easy" Germany runs, this felt the most easy one. I ended after UK-capitulation, since I achieved the goal of my run.

I’m really confused on what niche they fit as light tanks can be made cheaper and better- whether that’s to fulfil recon and or combat battalion duties.

The only thing that comes to mind is; that as recon they give a bonus to soft attack, as opposed to, the heavy attack light armour recon gives (as modifiers). Overall not that useful in my opinion.

I’m sorry if this is low effort or anything like that but I’m really struggling to see a use for them.

Additional 1.3 mil casualties to the Italians. Lost only coz of lack of equipment. Adding just 1 AA did absolute wonders. Also, yes my game is modded slightly, using the BHOI, which gives couple interesting bonuses, very goated mod if you dont have DLCs and such. POLSKA GUROM!!

For context, i will say that before this, i was playing RE9 before my monitor suddenly stopped recieving any input. It crashed constantly after, so I tried updating and reinstalling my drivers

And now when I try to play hoi4, the progress bar doesnt go past "loading GUI" when i use DirectX 11 or 9. When I use OpenGL, it is fine until i get to the map to pick a country, then everything gets unplayably slow.

I am using the latest version of AMD drivers, the version that came out on October 20th

Someone please help

I’m launching from territory I control via a peace deal. Not a core territory. I’m in range of Japan and wanna nuke them playing as Australia. Why on earth does it auto cancel, like I like raid, it starts preparing, and then it says “canceled” and that’s it

I am only using infantry(I am having a hard time timing the production for mechs/tanks). But I was able to encircle Stalingrad late 1941. Moscow and Leningrad captured. The Soviet is down to 80 divs. Casualty is 1:4. So far so good.

Btw anyone wondering why iberia doesn't exist is because I didn't want to waste the collab I was bulding up on France.

Hello im new to the game and im trying to understand how to achieve naval supremacy effectively. I am playing germany i have a small but strong fleet consisting of light and heavy cruisers filled with guns. I just need an explanation on how to use patrol, strike force.

I was playing the Uk rework mod and was planning on invading legimites france but then they got annexed by spain, they also annexed portugal brazil union thingy.

Hello can someone tell me in the most simplistic (talk to me like you would a 5 year old) how to use the foreign template hack from puppets or whatever as germany. I always run out of manpower. I also realised i wasn’t using field hospitals early enough and trying to fully hold the whole world without comisssariats may be foolished, one can dream… my last campaign was going great but i was comstantly running out of manpower without even losing too many troops. I never really had this problem before but since i only have time to play a full campaign of this game every couple months everything somehow keeps changing on me. I play vanilla btw

Hey everyone, wanted to share a mod I (vibe)coded.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3825509850

What it does: modify the Strike the Southern Road focus adding extra events to permit a peaceful surrendering of East India in case you don't wish to fight Japan right after the USSR/UK/USA.

As many may have experienced, if you defeat the Allies before mid 1941, Japan's focus Strike on the Southern Road will grant them a wargoal against you which they will most definitely use.

This mod recreates a negotiation between a successful Axis and Japan in late 1941 about East Asia. During the Tripartite Pact, Germany, Italy and Japan agreed on spheres of influence so they should be given the choice to sit down and negotiate about East Asia.

There is an option to request compensation for handing over Indonesia and other territories, but the AI may not like this!

DLCs should not be needed, but to be honest I've only tested with DLCs on so maybe try it and let me know.

I'm open to suggestions and bug reports! Hope you enjoy it

EDIT: Added a more basic explanation.

So I'm having my DEI game aiming for achievements, in fact I'm doing very well, managed to use to communist path to form Maphilindia. Before invading India I decided to try out that coring mechanic from the Federation of Aslia to get bit more powerful (it's quite late in the game, I'm running into 50s, past time passion of mine). And suddenly, the requirement of the Maphilinda is gone. Do I continue (since Java-Script achievement worked for me despite having capital city in Sumatra) or am I screwed?

To me vanilla hoi4 "storytelling" (for lack of a better word) seems very rough. I can't quite put my finger on it, but especially alt-history paths feel very clunky and out of place. I'm not sure exactly how, but mods like Kaiserredux do this a lot better, to the point where I almost never touch the base game anymore.

It’s insane. I can’t get achievements in this game a decade after release because ironman mode FORCES the game to save weekly (there is zero indication this is the case when you check your settings, but on the forums people say it’s the way it works).

Lagging every 7 in-game days while it makes an autosave I don’t want is not how I want to enjoy the game.

I am completely lost as to why Paradox have not changed this. Just make saves in ironman non accessible if too much time has passed, and continue to forcibly save when the player quits.

The game is unplayable if you want to go after achievements. Ridiculous.

First off, I wanna make this a post that's understandable and short enough for anyone. So, I'm not gonna tell you what to research or what not.

As complete basics, you'll need:
-A fairly decent airforce, and regular infantry army

-To do what I tell you to do

So, given you are Germany, you have a ton of industrial potential. Use your factories to produce a lot of naval bombers, fighters and CAS. Click on the tile of the English Channel and mark it to Blocked, so that the British don't send their ships out to destroy your convoys.

Start naval bombing the English Channel and pretty much spam your entire airforce on it. As you bomb it, you will see that over time there are less and less ships, until the frequency of British ships is so low, you can do the "Operation Sea Lion" focus and place all of your navy on patrol in the channel, gaining the naval superiority in 2 days and allowing you to execute the naval invasion

(I found, that without previously bombing the hell out of the channel, British reinforcements arrive nearly instantly, and if they do, your entire navy gets wrecked within the span of 5 days)

Hope this helped anybody

i wanted to try out this path after a horrible experience with the nothingburger communist path (as are most communist paths) and it doesn't seem to be any better. people say the czechs are one of the strongest with their new focus tree but i don't see it at all. with the monarchist path in particular, you HAVE to rush the political tree otherwise the germans will get austria first, meaning you can't prepare anything against the germans in that time.
you have very mid industry, terrible resources for building anything that isn't cheap tanks or guns, and all of which will get bombed to the shit by the germans anyway (including your supply) because you lack the industry to build any sort of counter to that.

i made space marines and did a couple of the fortification programs, and even that wasn't enough to hold against them. do the devs even play the content they put out? if you can't even win while using an exploit that's banned in MP (again, space marines) there's a very clear problem, but i can't really expect much from content that's been outsourced to RT56 devs of all people..

i also tried a second run where i attacked the germans instead to get the peace agreement, but nope. they literally declare on you before you can even get the chance to do it. there is genuinely no point to any of the czech content, it's worthless.

Trying to figure out why some warlords won't join the chinese united front / why China would reject their request. Anybody know why?

Sinkiang won't join because they can't until june / july, but how about the rest?

Really new player here. I've been recommended that the US is a good nation to start off with, however when the war breaks out I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing with the naval system.

I'm trying to move my task forces over to areas where they are needed, however I can't move my fleets any further than this. How do I move my task forces to neighboring sea tiles, even though I have naval dominance in the sea tile I'm currently in?

I know how naval dominance works, I know how task forces work, I know how patrol, strike force and convoy raiding works. Do I just need more task forces? Do I need better radar?

The problem is that the Italy Tutorial doesn't tell you anything about the Naval system, as well as every other tutorial I used to learn how to play the game is outdated now, due to the Naval rework that was added in no compromise, no surrender.