Paradox Games VI: Cuckolding Habsburgs since 1076 AD

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

What are the best doctrines in HOI4? Specifically land doctrines, because they seem the most useful.

Also, what use are ships? I don't understand the naval aspect of warfare at all.

Grand Planning and Superior Firepower are useful if you have small manpower, and for the latter, strong industry for support equipment/artillery.

Mass Mobilization is for the kinds of China, Soviet Union, Indonesia, where manpower is not an issue.

Mobile Warfare is if you have the capability of mechanized/armor and intended to be blitzkrieg things.

What do you want to know about the ships? They have four policies. Patrol, patrolling seas. Destroy, destroying enemy ships on the seas. Convoy raiding, and do nothing policy.

[Impaled Nazarene]

What are the best doctrines in HOI4? Specifically land doctrines, because they seem the most useful.

Also, what use are ships? I don't understand the naval aspect of warfare at all.

Ships are easy. First you fall into one of two categories.
The first category is actually having a navy: France, UK, Japan, America.
The second category is having a "navy": Everyone else.

Most nations in the second category tend to have little in the way of dockyards. What you do first is open your production and assign dockyards to convoys and submarines. If you have more than 6 you can also produce destroyers. Then you organize your fleets. Simply click on them and merge the micro fleets together if they exist. The only order you're going to give them is to raid convoys as the other ones don't work. The ai will do the rest. You can either assign your newly produced ships to a new fleet "auto" or an existing one by clicking on auto and assigning them to the fleet.

As for the first category play Battlestations Midway and Pacific for 100 hours, read up on every ship class in the game and fleet tactics from the 17th century to mid 20th century. Go in with extensive knowledge of naval warfare and find out that Hearts of Iron IV could not possibly be more historically inaccurate even if wehraboos made the game while watching thuleanperspective.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Just won a brutal hegemony war against Prussia, so i might be on the course to forming the South German Federation as i have most of germany in my sphere. If i knock them down to secondary power status i might be able to pull it off.

[The Alexanderians]

Because of the Halloween sale (Praise Gaben) I have managed to grab Mandate of Heaven, Third Rome, and Rights of Man. I passed over Cossacks because a lot of people have told me its shit.

[Wansul]

So I recently got HOI4, a recent game I did was Facist America(Chilché, I know), and now I'm doing democratic Germany. Any advice?

[The Huskar Social Union]

So I recently got HOI4, a recent game I did was Facist America(Chilché, I know), and now I'm doing democratic Germany. Any advice?

I didnt do a democratic germany, but i did do a communist one and my first steps were to take over Austria, then hit Fascist italy and take them out. They tend to get very little support due to being surrounded by democracies and other kinds, no other fascists around to help them, and japan did not get involved for me.

[Bralia]

Just won a brutal hegemony war against Prussia, so i might be on the course to forming the South German Federation as i have most of germany in my sphere. If i knock them down to secondary power status i might be able to pull it off.

You'll need the province of Sigmaringen or whatever it's called off of Prussia before you can click that button, fyi.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Just won a brutal hegemony war against Prussia, so i might be on the course to forming the South German Federation as i have most of germany in my sphere. If i knock them down to secondary power status i might be able to pull it off.

You'll need the province of Sigmaringen or whatever it's called off of Prussia before you can click that button, fyi.

I got it, i took it from them in that war.

And i won another war there where i humiliated them and took some land from them, but they are still a great power. Think ill do what i did as the french and just balkanise them.

[Deutsch-Afrika]

Gonna play France in Vic 2
My goal is to stop Germany from forming and take Wallonia from the Belgians and eat a large chunk of Africa

[The Huskar Social Union]

Gonna play France in Vic 2
My goal is to stop Germany from forming and take Wallonia from the Belgians and eat a large chunk of Africa

Thats what i did, though mine kind of devolved into utter madness on the home front towards the end.

Also balkanised Austria because it was funny.

[The Batavia]

Gonna play France in Vic 2
My goal is to stop Germany from forming and take Wallonia from the Belgians and eat a large chunk of Africa

Thats what i did, though mine kind of devolved into utter madness on the home front towards the end.

Also balkanised Austria because it was funny.

As they should, those bastards.

[The Transhuman Union]

I should play as the CSA in 1861 start...
Is that even possible

[Lunas Legion]

I should play as the CSA in 1861 start...
Is that even possible

Yes. I've won the civil war from there before, you just need to get lucky. If you can survive until the Trent Affair event fires (if you're playing PDM - CoE), then it gets easier since the UK will start a war against the USA.

[The Transhuman Union]

When does it fire?

[Lunas Legion]

When does it fire?

Can't remember exactly, early 1860s.

[Bralia]

The HoI4 Dev Diary: The air war is getting some quality of life features added on.

[Val Halla]

Is Cities Skylines appropriate to discuss, or is it all grand strategy?

[The Batavia]

Is Cities Skylines appropriate to discuss, or is it all grand strategy?

Nah,Cities Skylines is fine since it is a Paradox game.

[Alvecia]

Is Cities Skylines appropriate to discuss, or is it all grand strategy?

Nah,Cities Skylines is fine since it is a Paradox game.

And with a brand new DLC just come out. Has anyone tried the Green Cities stuff?

[Val Halla]

Is Cities Skylines appropriate to discuss, or is it all grand strategy?

Nah,Cities Skylines is fine since it is a Paradox game.

Okay good.

I'm terrible at city planning. I expand badly, build overly complex roads that are two narrow, and my public transport system is terrible

[Ifreann]

Is Cities Skylines appropriate to discuss, or is it all grand strategy?

In a way, isn't Cities Skyline just a grand strategy game with less genocide and incest?


No, not really. But Paradox is Paradox, so go for it.

[Alvecia]

Nah,Cities Skylines is fine since it is a Paradox game.

Okay good.

I'm terrible at city planning. I expand badly, build overly complex roads that are two narrow, and my public transport system is terrible

Sounds like every city I build
Still haven't got the hang of proper traffic management.

This is the biggest I've ever got. Turns out cargo ports spit out a metric shit ton of traffic every time a ship come in.

My favourite shot is still this overly ambitious firefighter

[The Batavia]

Okay good.

I'm terrible at city planning. I expand badly, build overly complex roads that are two narrow, and my public transport system is terrible

Sounds like every city I build
Still haven't got the hang of proper traffic management.

This is the biggest I've ever got. Turns out cargo ports spit out a metric shit ton of traffic every time a ship come in.

My favourite shot is still this overly ambitious firefighter

Actually looks pretty nice if you ask me.

[Val Halla]

Is Cities Skylines appropriate to discuss, or is it all grand strategy?

In a way, isn't Cities Skyline just a grand strategy game with less genocide and incest?


No, not really. But Paradox is Paradox, so go for it.

If it's me playing, there's plenty of accidental killing of my own people.

[Kannap]

Nah,Cities Skylines is fine since it is a Paradox game.

Okay good.

I'm terrible at city planning. I expand badly, build overly complex roads that are two narrow, and my public transport system is terrible

Sounds like my city building skill, tbh. Though recently I have considered just building a town to torture it with harsh natural disasters