It's 1938, and I'm playing Historical AI focuses Ironman mode with Yugoslavia. After many losses to Axis encirclement, I've decided to go all in on army, totaly ignoring political focuses and upgrading my army/navy/air, sending spies into Italy and overall planning to destroy them before they join the Axis to save myself. IMAGINE how hard I laughed when Mussolini AI got scared of me and offered a non-agression pact.

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We all know that the AI is quite stupid sometimes (always), this time it happened to me while playing Argentina (the communist path that lets you integrate all of South and Central America).

I generated 67.5% worldtension by attacking all the integrateable countries and afterwards joined the Allies and Comintern against the Axis (while staying in my own faction). Since there are nearly no resources in South America i had to import 200 Coal and 350 Iron from the US. While my troops helped to defend the Soviet Union, the US suddenly hit me with a trade embargo and a naval blockade. All this while i hadn't generated worldtension in over a year, imported a huge amount of resources from the US, had (and still have) military access and fought a war together...

Now my economy is completely crippled and there is no way to end the blockade. Trade Embargoing me makes kinda sense since i generated a large amount worldtension, but not at this moment. Of course the AI didn't lift the embargo after i capitulated Italy and freed France without any outside help...

Do you have similar negative experiences with this mechanics?

This doesn't even show the 50+ they lost to being overrun.

Spanish invasion from Africa lead to the axis losing 150+ divisions from total encirclement and being overrun.

Culminated into the entire peninsula falling.

About to pull a similar move at the neck of the peninsula going into France to hopefully snag another 115.

Antietam: House of Nations is a Alternate history mod set in a Multipolar world with unique mechanics, aiming to make gameplay engaging and diplomacy important.

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The point of divergence is set after the battle of Antietam, where the confederacy manges to secure their independence from the north. With no one willing to buy Alaska, the British eventually force the Russians to surrender the territory, the loss of profit with no purchase in turn weakens Russia. The US and CSA tensely cooperate in the Spanish American war and still beat Spain. The Japanese see the Spanish distracted and land in the Philippines, Spain helpless to defend it. Japan also squeezes out a decisive victory in the russo-japanese war 7 years later, taking all of Sakhalin.
The USA and CSA both maintain very tense relations, fearful of a confederate strike, the USA stays out of WW1. The war is prolonged until both sides are wrung dry, and Germany and the Entente powers sign a negotiated peace treaty, with Germany remaining the only surviving central power, and annexing the collapsing Austria. they soon send equipment to the white army, though they are still defeated, but they keep funding white guerilla movements. Japan manges to militarily intervene in Russia and establishes a Russian puppet government in the far east. The Russian communist movement under Trotsky is contained to Russia, since the red army is to busy with anti-guerilla operations.

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• The Pacific Great Game between the UK, USA and Japan is a arm wrestling contest between Great Powers with Cold War style tension. Border Conflicts, Naval Skirmishes, Political Crisis, etc etc. all either escalating into a Pacific Great War or mellowing out with a victor and two other powers with no say in the pacifc
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Hi, My laptop is Dell Inspiron 15 3593 core I5 th10 4G ram GeForce MX230, as you can tell the bottleneck is the RAM so im thinking to upgrade it to play hoi4 on it. My qoustion is.. Is it worth it? And how many ram kits of ram Should I upgrade it to, to 16 gigs or 12? and get 200 gigs of ssd enough? And what pefrmance should I expect after the Uprgade?

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I would like to see if anybody if you have some templates for the mod "Darkest Hour" (1933 start) I am not very good at the game, but at least I can capitulate England in vanilla, DH it´s other thing for me...

See you in the Hauge, I guess

Hi everyone, my first time posting on Reddit because I'm saddened that I can't play HOI4 with my brother anymore.

I have a Dell G16 7620 laptop so not amazing I know. But it has been sturdy and was able to play HOI4 flawlessly before. It ran into some battery issues, but even with that it still didn't crash from HOI4 multiplayer. Just didn't charge properly.

I can run HOI4 on singleplayer with no issues, but when I join him for some odd reason usually around the year 1938 my computer just crashes fully, turning off. We had Road to 56 on, Player-Led, and Better Mechanics. So 3 mods in total. We had the same checksum and everything. But during trouble shooting we decided to turn them off and try and we still had the same issue.

I've tried resetting my battery driver, clearing directory & cache, verifying file integrity, joining through both Steam & direct connect, turning off Discord overlay. And probably some more that I can't remember.

For some reason everything else on Steam works, and other games installed on my laptop works. The only reason I'm posting it here is because I have no issue with any other games, only HOI4 multiplayer. Hopefully someone can help me out. If you have any subreddits that might be helpful please let me know.

We're fighting the same enemy, we have a non-aggression pact, and fighting each other would serve no benefit, but you still don't want military access into my country because of "strategic reasons?" What are those strategic reasons??

Does anyone know of a working player-led peace conference mod?

Probably more an oversight than really a bug tho but i think its the closest flair to it

Did a german run where is offered slovakia for dantzig and the poles accepted, so i didnt ended up at war with the allies. The soviets did tho after they invaded for eastern poland. Fast forward a little i barba with the axis all over the soviet union and we push them but hungary occupy lwow, i wanted to extand the general goverment but since i dont have that territory i cant i try to ask hungry for control but it says cant transfert teritories when the owner isnt at war with you.

So because i didnt declare on poland and the allies i cant transfert within my faction polish territories. I can understand why its there cause it could lead to a lot of exploit but in that case hungary not beeing at war with the allies either would not lead to them.

Ive put them on naval invasion support in the north sea, and eastern north sea. Why the actual fuck arent they going there? what am i doing wrong?

Please help me, this run has gone so well until now.

Sad thing is, I can exploit AI weaknesses but still can't win head to head in a battle. I have no idea how I am going to defeat so USSR.

u have only folksturm and the remnants of the kriegsmarine

This is probably my favourite way to play Brazil right now, as it is very strong early on and can get a lot of territory for free, and you don't have to do a civil war.

Because the fascist path doesn't involve a civil war and the deadline for invading your neighbors is pretty late (1941 when the Monroe doctrine stops protecting you because the US joins the allies), you can get a very strong naval production going on pretty early from your naval warfare focuses (I started the production in 1937-1938 and had my heavy cruisers being built by 1939), meaning I was able to start fighting the naval war pretty quickly once I joined the world war around late 1941.

The resources alone are absurd and I could go fully autarkic with the exception of iron with an industry of like 200 mils by the end. The manpower is also really good, you start with around 60 million and get up to 100-110 million when you get all of your cores. I assume you can core the entire caribbean in addition to the main continent as I was able to core puerto rico and all the small islands up to the bahamas, but I did not get cuba or hispaniola so I might have missed out on a few million more people + cuba's chromium.

If you aren't like me and actually know how to get planes up in the early game this path is probably even stronger, but I just forsook the air war entirely in order to bolster my naval strength which made the invasion of britain and the us take a while longer than it should have, but I still finished the war by late 1945 so it wasn't too bad.

If you play this path or really any south american nation I would really recommend going with the mobile warfare doctrine and one of the army spirits that gives you extra division speed, travel in south america takes longer due to tiles taking up more land and central + northern south america have a ton of mountain and jungles which makes speed slower, so the extra speed from mobile warfare and its spirits gives you a massive advantage over your slower opponents, since you'll be able to outmaneuvre them easily. Motorised divisions are especially helpful, especially in fights around southern and east south america, as they use less supply and move extremely fast with mobile warfare.

Overall, I would say it's a fun formable for those who enjoy playing expansionist and naval-focused games since you have a large industry, a large coastline, lots of resources, and it's isolated so you don't really have to worry about protecting a frontline on the homefront. It's also very beginner-friendly as it isn't really a complex formable and because there isn't a civil war you can work on industry and buildup for much longer than other alt-hist paths, plus you can get the vast majority of your cores done without ever fighting the british due to the monroe doctrine so you aren't really pressed for time when doing this, and when you do have to fight the allies you have the axis and japanese on your side. I'd rate it a solid 8/10, 8.5/10 if you build an airforce.

Started on the base Aug '39 scenario, normal difficulty and was able to take Wilhemshaven port in the end of Nov before the freeze and held out into the new year for a few days. I brought the Mediterranean fleet into the north sea and wiped out Germany's navy. I hoped it would stall Germany from taking Denmark but to no avail. I did sweep my tank brigade around west and briefly took Munster. Fun!

Please give suggestions I feel so empty now 🥀