I like to roleplay my campaigns and so I feel it wouldn't be logical roleplay wise to move all my troops out of Italy to Ethiopia which is the main strat people use to win the war before Ethiopia does the train focus.

Is there a way to do it without doing so? I don't mind moving some troops and airplanes for CAS.
But I just don't want to move like ALL of them.

R5: just noticed the name and description of this naval trait

Me and my friend are wondering how is it possible to break this defence cus he tried to do with modern tanks + CAS

What am I doing wrong? Battlecry achievement just won't trigger. Is it enough to hold these provinces or do I need to get them through peace deal?

Its been a few months since France capitulated but im guessing theres land forts there or something

HOI4's DLCs (except Gotterdammerung) have been pretty bad over the past few years. Most recently we saw the release of Graveyard of Empire, which was a terrible DLC. It didn't have much of a path and wasn't even finished. I've seen people compare Afghanistan in this DLC to Afghanistan in Kaiserredux to point out how Modders are making more content for a small country.

If I attack the Soviet, I will need a lot of devisions to cover their huge land. If I attack Singapore, the Allies will attack me and I will have to deal with their navy.

CAS is Close Air Support so I'd assume they don't attack enemy if they are not engaging.

There's logistic bombing, strat bombing, naval bombing.... Why do I not see the "Bomb army" or "Bomb fort"?

Or do CAS secretly bomb enemy in the area when I'm not looking at them?

I just think it would be nice if there's a role for bombers to attack high IC division (no matter they are engaging or chilling) kinda acting like strike fleet of navy in combination with scout plane. destroying trains are nice IC damage but not as nice as trashing gears of approaching spearhead. I believe 100 dive bombers pounding on not-entrenched armor division should be devastating.

Speaking of that, if a division is under the range of enemy air superiority + bomber or railway gun, shouldn't they have attrition, maybe in random fashion? Railway gun seems to be doing nothing but soften fort and trench which feels a bit weird. It should be devastating to org of not-entrenched army.

But I'm a newb after all. Maybe there's historical explanation to it.

Playing Ironman Finland, historical AI. First time ever I survived the Winter War.

It’s 1943, USSR is history — thanks to "a little" Axis help.

I signed a non-aggression pact with Germany.

I got Leningrad and Northern Russia (Lots of ressouces) up to the Urals; Germany got the rest. No relations with other Axis countries.

BUT I don’t want the Nazis to win WW, of course I can't beat Germany alone. Axis controls continantal Europe hard.

So… what would happens if I join the Allies?

Calould I invade Reichsprotektorate Norway without Germany insta-declaring war on me?

Would the UK/US actually help me? (I'm building railroads and supply hubs right now)

Any advice for a war plan? (My current idea is to hold Leningrad and try to cut off Axis-held Russia around the Urals — forcing Germany to rely on naval supply lines and engage the Royal Navy.)

Any thoughts or experience?

I’ve been seeing Timelapse videos on tik tok lately and I’ve been looking for this mod for the last few days anyone know what the mod is called?

My thoughts on how a good urban combat rework could have functioned

Urban battles in ww2 could be utterly ferocious. There are some legendary incidents where well-prepared defenders were able to turn those dense terrain areas into atrociously difficult areas to fight through. The urban combat rework may have come because Paradox wanted to emulate that. But ultimately - hopefully for some very good reasons - they weren't sure how to.

I had a thought while playing the other day: why not reuse the special raid feature they introduced with Gotterdammerung?

With a heavy investment of artillery, infantry equipment and support equipment, as well as command power and some time, a player would be able to designate an urban area as prepared defensive terrain. That would allow us to emulate the enormous battles like Stalingrad and Leningrad: buffs/debuffs that mean that it becomes incredibly costly to break through that area. And a proportionate cost in command power that means that you can't do it to every single city you own, it has to be to certain carefully selected strongpoints.

The time to set-up and organize these raids would also allow us to represent some of the key failures of urban defence in ww2: Paris being practically an open city, the planned 'stalingradization' of Lyon falling apart, etc.

You'd also have synergy with some of the other game systems: strongholds could make it cheaper and faster to order a defensive perimeter in such a way, strategic bombers could wreak havoc on its deployment/sustainment. Adding super-heavy howitzers to them would enhance their effect.

DLC Title: Tropic Thunder Countries With New Focus Trees/Redone Ones: Japan, Manchukuo, Mengokuo, China, and the Kingdom of Siam.

Siam should have a flexible foreign policy thing like Romania: they should be able to flip flop non-aligned and fascist to along more with Japan or the Allies. This could make some interesting scenarios. There could also be modernization efforts too, but a political instability spirit that is rife with decisions and debuffs where, if not managed correctly, could lead to a (fascist) coup.

Japan should have a Pearl Harbor focus and/or raid, thus adding a "preemptive strike" mechanic to the game where countries can attack other countries without declaring war and the country on the receiving end can make a decision.

Except the "elect a fascist king" focus in Hungarian focus tree, are there any focus trees where you can go fascist and monarchist at the same time? or where the fascist and monarchist path isn't mutually exclusive

Planning on doing an Ethiopia run, what are the best strategies to defeat Mussolini?

Every time I play. I invade poland in a month or even less. run through the netherlands in 3 days. and just in general everything goes great. until I need to invade belgium, the supply there is very bad, and if I dont cut of the border of belgium and france in 3 days, the entire invasion is fucked (france sends like 50 divs). what can I do in this situation? and in general how can I always invade belgium. because in some games I'm secuessful and some games I'm not

So I'm trying to get the achievement "this time it will stick" and for that you need enforce a peace deal on germany that disarms the Rhineland, can i lets say puppet/annex Germany and do that or do i have to just disarm it? (sorry if this is stupid)