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I wonder if in hoi4 vanilla mp is it possible to beat UK's navy as Italy (assuming both are experienced players), since the game favours more numbers of ships & stat stacking in the naval calculation.
Ig its near impossible :'(

I am also having hard time thinking of counters to some metas, like what will be counter to low visibility, high speed, light/torpedoe attack dd spam, maybe armored light cruisers or light attack heavy cruisers , or maybe cheap battleship spam with only one turret to maximize armor/hp.

>>47193
i'm bored, who should i play as? in any mod you recommend

>>47214
Not the OP but,

If you are visual novel enjoyer,
TNO - Iberian Union,
If you want more fighting, more war mechanics, and then a story,
EAW - Changelingia
(Or Posada's Hippogriffia / Siren's Hippogriffia )
If you want to larp & have a challenging game
Kaiserredux - German Empire w kaiserredux expert ai mod, its actually difficult fighting the two front war with Communards and Russian Sphere.

Those r what comes to my mind rn.

>>47215
Cheers. Have already played all of those (except KRR but played it in KR, not with expert ai though) but good suggestions.

Thoughts on map-game-in-development, Espiocracies iteration on event chains? Kind of interested, as event chains have become very stale:
>Technically, it's a kind of advanced event chain, so it has all the usual features of event popups known from other strategy games – trigger conditions, flavor text, clickable decisions, and effects on the game world. The caveat is that they are never triggered automatically; they are launched through a conscious governmental decision (so the Soviets may decide to never launch the blockade).
<Inside, what makes it "advanced" is that the event has a decision tree (a'la dialogue tree) which is traversed in turns by two opposing parties.
>Every decision has defined availability and costs (in terms of state budget, strategic intelligence, military deployment, etc). Once chosen, a decision:
<-directly influences the game world; for instance, "nuclear escalation" means actual progress up the escalation ladder, which may lead all the way to WW3;
<-modifies the event's -100 to +100 score (similar to a "war score");
<-grants a new set of decisions to the other side.

>The point of divergence is won by either side once the score reaches -100/+100, or when the end of the decision tree is reached (in which case the side with no responses left loses the confrontation), or when external circumstances derail the event (eg. the aforementioned WW3). The final outcome implements a wide range of bespoke history-rewriting consequences. For instance, a Soviet victory in West Berlin will cause further Western retreats, delay the establishment of NATO (or significantly weaken NATO if it is already established), damage the image of the current American administration, turn the German population against the West, and so on.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1670650/view/697642648593240744

opinion on errorlog? is he a anti-communist?

Step right up and take a gander at the three communist paths for Texas, coming to a Red World update near you! Should you bring the revolution to the Lone Star State you get a choice of three different paths: cursed, cursed, and Iron Felix!

the funniest thing on the new TNO leaks is how they make germany legit weak and uncapable of defending its eastern conquests to some minuscle warlords with T-34-85s so they had to nuke it two times to stop them

thoughts?

>>47476
cruelty squad is dark woke, cyberpunk 2077 is light chud

>>47477
>>47476
what does that have to do with HoI4 modding thoughbeit

>>47478

idk…

how do i immediately become good at HOI4? i wanna play HOI4 mods but i'm bad at it

does anyone have the twilight struggle leaked version?

>>47485 (me)
found myself personally, have fun yall: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3761851518

>>47479
Spam CAS

>>47479
You can't immediately become good, but you can do it in a few hours, here's my leftypol guide:
1) Go deep through the division designer and try to understand what makes what, soft power good against infantry, hard against armored targets, aa etc… It's really all simple math hidden under annoying UI.
2) Assess the status of the country you'll play and the one of your rivals, how many factories? Do they have planes? ships? tanks? And what do you have?
3) Adapt your production and designs to this, the simpler the better, take time and efficiency in account, don't overproduce, the artillery will be all there in a few months and you can put some points elsewhere instead.
4) Try to understand the bonus/malus the terrain, generals stuff, air thing, fortifications etc… You can totally bleed an enemy by holding a well fortified mountain and reinforcing it just when it's gonna fall.
5) >>47491 CAS works, if you can spare the production, do it

>>47479
For most of the nations in most of the mods, you will just do well with spamming 36 or 38w infantry brick with the best firearm & then battleplan your way (do cas&fighter too if you got the eco), the AI usually does awful templates and gets destroyed by pure infantry due to just HP/soft attack.

That is why I personally prefer MP games more, there is more creativity for sure, there are hardcore historical mods such as BICE too.

>>47469
Judging by the events, it looks like more about a symbolic nuclear strike to permanently demoralize Russian remnants and brag about the technological supeority of Wehrmacht since they have no access to nuclear weaponry nor jet interceptor planes.

Idk if sending Wehrmacht directly for the border war with Gorky Tank Brigade would be a better choice tho… ( which they'd probably win)

>>47553
My only question is, will Germany ALWAYS nuke Gorky?

Among other new Kaiserredux paths are the Columbia Party, led by Homer Loomis Jr who irl formed America's first post-war Nazi group

lol, lmao even

>>47593
I REQUIRE CONTEXT HAT

>>47593
require context also i only know this retard tried to defend bokoen1 and had a personal vendetta for a TGWR mod that was trolling

>>47595
>>47603
why would you require context, it's pretty obvious this guy is the issue just based on that post alone

>>47604
yeah ive seen the pics and i swear to god a nobody trolls him and he get pissy and make posts about he is being harassed, i probably was banned for saying bokoen1 ban was deserved.

>>47603
>also i only know this retard tried to defend bokoen1
What bokoen1 said is surely an unrealistic ( had operation unthinkable happened, Red Army would probably be in Paris, the only 2 advantages of Allied militaries would be fighter aircraft count and early nuclear weaponry ) and of course entails a mass slaughter fantasy. But lowk it didn't deserve a permanent ban cuz it is fundementally not very different than a german guy telling the french guy how they crushed them and won in WWII. Bokoen1 just wants his liberal worldview to be dominant under whatever means possible, just like every political movement really… humans do fight for their abstract valuations.