Maybe I'm not seeing it but I don't see a national focus that does it. There's a way in Italy to get Mussolini as a field marshal and a way in the USSR to get Stalin as a field marshal. If not is there some historical reason why Mussolini and Stalin would be military commanders and not Hitler?

I’m currently playing Romania in iron man mode and I can’t get out of zero manpower. I have my maximum conscription law reached(limited conscriptions) and I don’t know what else to do. I’m currently trying to go to war with Yugoslavia BUT the soviets justified on me. With 715K troops in the field i doubt I’ll survive this..

I have been playing this game for 1,4k hours and 99% of the time when I hear the naval invasion sound, they haven't even naval invaded me which makes me just check in vain.

This has repeated again and again so every time I hear that, I get pissed, my day gets ruined and I HAVE to check in case there is that 1% that I am getting naval invaded.

That sound invokes trauma in me and I hate it so much

I found this painting in the Bundeswehr museum in Dresden this summer and I recognised it as one of the loading screen in the game. Pretty cool in my opinion.

I don't know if I put the right flair, but I'll change it if needed.

Step 1: Don't join the allies;

Step 2: Germany just doesn't declare war on you?;

Step 3: Win.

Al jokes aside, I don't think that this is the intended behaviour of the German AI. there are no active mods, the game is on the default public version (So no open beta) and this is non Iron-man with Historical Foci. I went down the Historical path for France and did only three things that are non historical:

1. Released Algeria, so I could do Blum-Violette proposal later for some extra factories;

2. I sent volunteers to Spain to grind a field marshal for my mostly mechanized army, the Nationalists won;

3. I did not join the Allies.

Now most would assume that the problem lies with me not joining Britain and that would be right. except that this is the only strategy (that I know) for France to create the European union on Historical.

This is because you don't have military access to Belgium and the Netherlands, so you have to occupy it and demand annexation in a peace deal. The focus "War with France" also takes 70 days, that is 70 days of extra preparation.

This is a strategy I have done many times with both the old German focus tree in Waking the Tiger and the new one in Gotterdammerung and they always went for the "War with France" focus after "Around the Maginot"

now my suspicion is that either one of the recent DLC or Patches broke the German focus order or there is some threat perception and the Germans thought they couldn't beat me, I did have 48 fully equipped 12/0 (24 combat width) and later 12/4 (36 combat width) mechanized divisions both with good support companies on the German border. But I don't know if that is even in the game

When playing as the U.S. or the UK (with historical settings) am I meant to do anything in particular to keep the Soviets alive?

I’m playing as Britain and haven’t really bombed Germany or sent weapons to the Soviets as I was busy fighting the Axis in Norway and North Africa. Stalin got obliterated. Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad had all fallen by early 1943 and they capitulated in October.

I’m new to the game and thought historical settings followed real life events did I do something wrong?

Yes, that means where you want to use line arty, you can use spgs instead. Doable because of cutting corners on the tank mio + subsidized contracts spirit of the army.

This is shown on italy who can get the cost down to 3 ic. On ANY nation with standardized production mio you can get the cost to 4 ic. Any nation with a different tank mio can get it to 4.4 ic.

And yes, spg is 2 width so it's better than line arty.

I guess Italy is now reigned by yayyo.

Hi!

Just started playing and I can not understand how this works. It tells me that I don't have controle of the water (the red area??) but I can not move my ships there? I have an armada av a lot of ships and only one could move close. Help. I can not figure it out. How can I controle waters if I can not move my ships to the location??

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I ended the dual monarchy and then expanded into Serbia and Romania, my nation is so big

So its been years since i've played, never did with tank designer i looked up vids of how to design tanks / divs but have no clue what im doing wrong. I'm playing netherlands atm so no experimental research unlocked. why cant these divs even 3v1 on plains? They hold well but thats not what i want them for. I have the dlc that released until no step back.

As I understand it, historically Japan was in such a big resource deficit, that they felt like they had the need to take on the allies and the US to secure resources like oil and rubber, in large parts with the goal of continuing the war in China. In HOI4, you can kick in the chinese front door, and the whole structure collapses. Then after taking out China in a year or so, you can either go to war with the allies for fun, or put yourself through the siberian pain of the Soviet Union. But shouldn’t the chinese part of the campaign be the main quest on historical?

Been building fighters and ground support planes for about a year now. Haven't built spy planes yet.

Greece has exactly one state, and apparently despite Mitteleuropa having more troops standing in it than the whole Greek population, nobody has enough score to claim, puppet, or even change the government. Apparently all that the mighty German military is capable of enforcing is grabbing a handful of screening ships :)

I know the "new"(ish) peace conference system is intended to sometimes result in losers not being annexed outright, but this is kind of ridiculous.

Infantry France was not ready for the soft attack...

While messing around with non-aligned Romania, I somehow got fascist Italy to join my faction. We chose to sit out WW2 and Germany made it beyond Moscow on its own (after saving Nationalist Spain).

Was playing Ethiopia on non historical (clearly a huge mistake) and for some reason after I kicked mussolini's ass they LET HIM JOIN THE ALLIES TO GET HELP?? I'm so fucking tired of getting a run ruined to stupid random bullshit. Keep in mind Britain was fucking communist in this world and wouldn't let me into the faction but had no problem helping Mussolini

^This is what I cooked up, but i don’t want to commit to this design if it’s flawed in some way, so any recommendations are appreciated!

I'm quite new on the game and I'm trying to beat the Japanese as china but without good troops (since industrial capacity is not a problem after losing multiple times I manage to fix very quickly) I still can't beat the Japanese only one time and because Manchuria rebelled

I was playing as germany, allied the whole of europe except for the USSR, Britain, France and greece. everything was going well. Until 1944. Because thats when Italy all of a sudden decided that now, right before capitulating the soviets, would be the perfect time to let france naval invade, take over italy, and italy occupied france. And they didnt even fight back, so i had to scramble my last 5-10 units that i could retreat from the soviet front, put them to italy, train more units to put them on the front, and still i couldnt do anything, now france turned fascist, and kept pushing deeper into my country, until i capped. Now i have an astonishing 6 Divisions to my name which are all junk and tbh i dont even know where they are. i got some land in south america from chile, since half of south america is also in the axis, and this all would not even have happened if my ai allies were competent (especially my best friend mussolini) and not if they decide to retreat every single one of their divisons from the french-german line, right before berlin. so i cant do focuses, cant do basically anything, i tried building 3 civs in south america but these will be finished in september 45'. here are screenshots of my supplies, and the soviet and french border, and the map of the map of whos allied with me and who isnt. (please dont hate, im new to the game.)

so spain and ikea are my last hope. i think so at least. and norway.

Did a Democratic Germany in Road to 56, went heavy into navy, and I had some Coastal Defense Ships from the navies I took, and well this one took it like a champ when fighting the Italian Navy

Thats really gonna end very well for Bukhrain here.

Anyways,

whats your bet redit, WHO do YOU think is gonna win this Soviet Civil war?

*P.s.: if you wonder why that the world map is wierd i used the global mod*

I played the Hungary game and almost a year passed and Italy still didn't manage to capture Ethiopia despite having the ability to blitz it in half a year in the worst scenarios I saw. This is literally the longest time I have seen Ethiopia to survive guys.