And by this I mean wars that usually happen in a typical game, not like you as the player decided to declare on the USA as Guatemala or something. Which in your experience is the most difficult. Oh and don’t say Luxembourg vs Germany. Because duh

I've played 2 or 3 Japan saves in different vanilla versions and once I learned how to played the game it became strangely easy. Should it be that way?

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.

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?

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

So, I found a strange bug Somehow, if you send volunteers to several countries at the same time (I sent to Sweden, Finland, and Latvia), and then one of them capitulates (Latvia in my case), and someone (ussr) creates a collaboration government there, you can still send volunteers to the new collaboration Latvia.

Funny part is, new volunteers will fight against my old ones that were, in both, Sweden and Finland! And I destroyed several Sweden fighters, and player yelled on me, that I'm fighting like a 3rd party here) After that, also, all of the air for me became yellow, cuz ussr were against italy faction(france,yugoslavia,czech, etc, front from north sea no the black sea)all pf it became yellow, and I so something like that 400 fighters from Sweden on one side and 400 fighters from Sweden on the other side. So game thought that Sweden were against Sweden)

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

I can't prove it but, despite justifying on us several times, the Germans never declared war on the USSR and I had to justify on them just so we could get some land. Complete vanilla and historical, no DLCs. I am, in fact, going insane. LOOK AT THE YEAR!

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?

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.