I have a problem with modern strategies being made for Discord faggots and only for them.

>>2316565
i love this game

What about OTHER GAME?

>>2316585
I like OTHER GAME more than Game. It may be less complex, but I think it strikes a good overall balance between the extremes of autistic tedium and casual, mindless gameplay. Call me a brainlet or w/e for that.

>>2316585
>What about OTHER GAME?
Hoi2? It was fun

>>2316565
I love hoi2 and hoi4 but hoi3 was way too much for me

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>>2316585

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I like big encirclement numbers

>>2316630
sorry your retarded

>>2319012
game is unplayable if you leave this shit on. You get like 20 popups per day during wartime

WW2 themed pop-up wack-a-mole

>>2319336
i find it's only an issue when the ai is trying to attack you with 0 org units repeatedly

>>2319012
Appreciate the simplicity.
Thought, would it have killed to separate thousand with a comma?

Hoi3 should have become the universal design standard.
Along with its cousin Eu3 it was an attempt to accurately represent historical events on a grand strategic scale. Sure plenty of things sucked, but in general it did a pretty good job for a game designed to run on most home computers.
I fully expected it would lead to future refinements with plenty of fixes and improvements.
Still playing it. Current game is United Kingdom ( with its ally France and all the little bumfuck puppets ) gone wild on a world conquest.

>>2319811
Update on current game.
Well its got a bit boring now. Conquered everywhere except Russia and Germany. Was hoping for Germany to invade Russia and leave me alone. Then I later I would safely nuke them both into surrender. No fuss, no bother, no massive micromanagement. No messy taking those annoying last victory points. Fuck you Astrakhan.
But no, Germany just had to go and spoil it all by declaring war on me. Now I have to fuck around shifting units around.
Also rebel spam gets really irritating when you have conquered most of the world already. That's one thing they could have easily fixed by just requiring an IC and manpower tax to represent the cost of adequately garrisoning a conquered country.

>>2320197
Post screens faggot

>>2320197
Germany is fucked. I had hoped they would run through France, but France has been on a war footing for nearly 3 years while Germany has not. Plus Germany never got Austria because I wiped out Austria before the Anschluss event could fire. So we got France snailing their way into the southern half of Germany while I causally crawl my way towards Berlin.
Yeah, very disappointing.
>>2320197
No. I cant be fucked. Just imagine the world map getting painted pink other than France and all the starting puppets.

>>2320642
Okay so Germany crumpled like wet toilet paper under the mighty onslaught of my armies. I have every worthwhile strategic bonus available.
Bit fucking annoying though the way puppets suddenly pop back into existence once their original masters are fully annexed. Like Manchuria. It messes up the global color scheme.
So now its only me, France, and Russia ( and the unavoidable puppets ) But its still only late 1939 and the civilian nuclear technology is being held back by the ahead of time malus. Still a long way off producing nukes.
>Just invade Russia for fuck's sake
No, I want to nuke them, then just taking Leningrad should be enough to force a surrender. Ezy pezy, no hassle, no fuss, no grinding out the last advances towards distant victory points.

>>2321266
Just saw this thread is over half a year old with less than 20 posts, four of which are mine made in the last few days, lol. I'm out, bye!
Protip to OP, if you want people to engage with your thread at least have something intelligent to say.

>>2319336
You play at 2x or 3x speed nigga, it's manageable

>>2316565
Hoi3 got me into sabaton

>>2321499
>Just saw this thread is over half a year old
Feel old yet?

>>2331337
reddit

>>2331337
ebaumsworld

>>2316565
Based

>>2316565
the tech system is a mess but it's simultaneously cool to be able to upgrade every piece of equipment in your military down to a granular level, and they did a lot of research even for minor powers in terms of small arms. still would have been better off using HoI2's nation-dependent tech team system however.

what are your favourite minor/regional powers to play as? for me it's Hungary or Romania as Axis and Canada or Brazil as Allies. If you build like 2 LArm/Cav divisions as Hungary in 1936 you can pretty much singlehandedly conquer the Balkans down to Greece before gearing up for Barbarossa.

>>2316616
yeah bruv i love micromanaging the production of boots and towels in OTHER GAME no retarded tedium there

>>2341715
the practical/theoretical system is fantastic and a blend of practicals and tech teams would have been best

>>2316565
I wish the timeline was a bit longer, starting shortly before the Russo-Japanese war and have it end at the Korean war.

does this game have good mods apart from BICE and the WW1 mod

>>2341722
I find it boring. So none now. They are too limited by their low leadership. Instead I prefer to play a major, beat the crap out of the rest of the world until they nearly surrender, then save and reload as the weakest major. Then I try to stave off defeat and claw my way back to victory.

>>2316565
I would love to revisit this game but it crashes on newer systems. Any fixes?

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Axis Poland achieved.
also trying to rush Heavy Tanks

If there was a mod that starts every country at war with every other country, all with the same techs and same leadership points, and with an AI which doesn't waste IC on any infrastructure improvements, garrison units or armored units with no CA bonus, then I would play it.

>>2351479
>Heavy Tanks
Why tho?
You need light arm for speed to overrun and encircle, infantry takes of the rest, urban assaults etc. Heavy tanks are just a waste against an AI that never uses its armor effectively. Too slow, fucking useless on terrain outside plains, and not that much better than a couple of vastly cheaper infantry divisions.
Its like building CAS, by the time they are any good you should already have won, and if not then the available airbases and their short range is too limited anyway. Probably the only use of CAS is if you are larping a German- France WW1 rerun.

>>2351562
I've never used heavys before but I heard they are invincible and I always get my ass kicked by soviets anyway. Im thinking heavy tanks + armored cars for the spearhead... we shall see

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>>2316565
This is a game for iron men,
Their hearts made of selfsame stuff,
For those who strategy is one they ken,
For those who are completely tough.
See the map, see the nations,
Which one would you choose to be?
You may choose Britain with elation,
But I will choose Nazi Germany.
I look outside every day,
And see untold degeneracy,
So in this game I will stay,
Making a future that should be,
Where Germany rules an iron hand,
Over Europa, from sea to sea,
Where every great man would look and stand,
And know this is where he'd choose to be.

>>2319811
>>2320197
>>2321266
Screenshots or save please

How are the gary grigsby games? I got war in the west on a sale but haven't tried it out yet.

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>>2351479
>1092x819

>>2351829
Honestly not any better than Hoi3 except their mechanics are far more obfuscated and full of pointless details. Arguably even worse than HOI3 becasue everything is rail roaded to the nth degree, whereas with HOI3 you can easily follow different paths. Not that hard either if you dont mind slogging through all busy work. You can get a better challenge and far more interesting games playing HOI3 on very hard settings, playing as a minor, or just implementing specific house rules.

>>2351479
Holy, I forgot by now how amazing the HoI3 map looks. How could they trade this kino for the casual mobile game look of 4

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War against the soviets has started and going pretty well. Germans and Italy on their way to help.
Using mainly Heavy Armour + infantry regiment x3, and armoured cars for later encirclement and breakthroughs


Poland starts off with a huge army of infantry regiment x3 so its very viable to rush heavy amor, make lots of HArm brigades and attach them to each infantry division made of regiments

Is it possible to makes mods like TFR in HOI3, superevents and all?

>>2353456
Yes but it would be extremely painful

>>2355367
you're a big guy

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>>2355712
For you.

I like playing as the USA.
Because then I can sit back and do nothing but fuck ass.
Why yes, I think I will NEVER run out of resources or money becasue I have SHITLOADS of FUCKING EVERYTHING!
My, I will just slowly build up my navy, air force and army with a little bit of FUCKING EVERYTHING so when war breaks out my practicals are HOT!
HOT! Just like my COCK when it slides up my enemy's ass!
Oh! Oh so Japan has declared war on me? Well then I think I will do FUCKING NOTHING while I get my officer ratio up to 140, lol, enjoy your worthless gains you JAP BASTARDS!
Oh! Oh the Allies want me to join their faction? Well FUCK YOU! How about NO? Fucking ENGLISH FAGGOTS and FRENCH FROGS! Fight your own wars!
Hahahha!
Now to do FUCKING NOTHING for the next few years except get my tech levels up in FUCKING EVERYTHING! Hahaha!
Oh! Oh so I researching nukes 6 years ahead of time? I dont care becasue I have FUCKING Leadership to spare!
I have so much FUCKING industrial capacity I dont know what to spend it on! Think I might build a level 10 SUPERHIGHWAY across the whole FUCKING USA and pump out another 1000 convoys!
Ah nukes! Now we are rolling. Guess it going to get a bit hot in Tokyo! And London! And Berlin! And Moscow!
Enjoy sitting on my BIG AMERICAN COCK!
HAHAHAHAHH!
HAHAHAHAHHAHA!
HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAH!

>>2351562
larm is useless because everything pierces it
arm would be fine
i actually think harm is a decent choice because he is so manpower poor and they will be one of the few things capable of punching through the soviets
he isn't gonna manage arm + mot etc and it's not that good against the soviets anyway because they just have so much shit
particularly when he wont have the numbers to properly do large encirclements
his main line is completely outsourced to germany he just needs some elite divisions to push through key battles
>>2353445
why ac though?
the mobile practicals are awkward for you, the stats are mediocre, and the speed is meaningless
eng would give you better terrain buffs and move speed bonuses too
if you want more frontage efficient armies then direct fire gives you better stats

>>2358431
Massively lowit post. Tell your grandfather to stop fucking your brains out through your ass hole

>>2358385
FUCK THE WAPANESE

>>2358900
so grateful for your sage wisdom senpai
i'm sure the ussr wont have any at or be up to date on infantry at tech

>>2358431
>why AC?
To increase hardness. I was following the strat that the guy Marco Antonio was using for Poland, and he built a shit ton of AC.
Besides that I just love armored cars for larp purpose

>>2358385
So you spend all game just doing nothing until you can start trickling out a few nukes? By what, late 1943 or something if you really push ahead of time? Even on speed 5 I doubt I would have the patience to spam click all the techs, pop up and constantly check the sliders.
Nukes take too long and do nothing unless all dropped on the same target on the same day. Its fucking retarded. Even then you still have to take one or two of the major VPs.

>>2359390
Good on you Anon. You are doing God's work. You are playing HOI3 like a MAN!
...a lot of people play HOI3 like faggots. Dirty fat faggots. You know I was talking to God the other day and He said "Man, I hate faggots"
The sort of faggots that fuck around going like "Oh no! I better be safe and careful here!"
"Oh! Oh my! I had better be historically plausible, Tee Hee Hee!"
"Oh! Oh! I think I had better not do anything the Allies wouldn't have done!"
"Oh gee golly I had better treat the enemy AI like it actually capable of putting up a fight!"
...and shit like that.
Goddamn faggots.
No. The purpose of the game is to fuck everyone UP THE ASS! ( No homo ). That's right. You build up, you exploit every mechanic, every loophole, you attack in the dead of winter, you forgo air superiority, you ignore enemy fleets, you invade the north coast of Germany, you sealion the fucking British, you BUILD MOTHER FUCKING ARMORED CARS UNTIL THEY COME OUT YOUR PISS HOLE AND YOU FUCK EVERYONE'S ASSES!
EVERYONE'S!
No exceptions.
Yeah...you FUCK them HARD! UP THE ASS!
You FUCK THEM UP THE ASS until they squeal like stuck pigs and beg for mercy! ( No homo ). Then you fuck them some more.
That is how you play the game as GOD intended!
I am praying for your success Anon. May the Neo-Polish Empire last one thousand years. Just watch out for faggots though. They will try to fuck your ass.

>>2359390
>To increase hardness
that's a pretty good answer and one i didn't think of although i still think engi would be better because ac aren't that hard
even going from harm inf inf inf to harm inf inf ac will only bring softness down by ~5% which is still going to matter but it isn't huge and engi would bring it down by 1% too

i guess it depends if you intend to transition into a mobile army
you could have made cav instead of inf to try and pivot to mot but arm would have made more sense
being invested into inf means you've gotta keep your practicals topped up if only for techs despite probably starting with plenty
still, ac is a fair choice

Are you telling me KAISERREICH was never ported to HoI3? What the fuck does everyone play in this game then

>>2360222
kaiserreich is cringe and retarded but hoi3 never got that many mods
i think the huge stability issues it used to have were the main reason why
that and dh is better for larping since hoi3 has a pretty rigid political system largely determined by your start, decisions, and events

>>2360286
Lame.

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How do you deal with this?

>>2362061
lol wtf is that their cancelled cold war game

TLDR. Fuck this game. Defeated and retreating enemy HQ manages to destroy my Infantry division by simply existing.

>Be Australia. Go it alone. No Axis. No Allies.
>Every unit counts, every last drop of IC and Leadership counts. Can not afford any fuck ups at all.
>Declare war on NZ
>Begin immediately landing in Christchurch, only an enemy HQ there, so I immediately defeat it.
>My troops occupy Christchurch while the enemy HQ begins to retreat away very slowly to the west.
>Send one infantry division north while others stay in Christchurch, enemy HQ still retreating out of Christchurch to the west,.
>The infantry division advancing northwards gets to the next province but encounters the whole fucking New Zealand army advancing from the opposite direction, fights for a while but is defeated.
>My defeated division begins retreating back to Christchurch.
>No problem, I control Christchurch, have several full strength full organization divisions there. Along with the Australian navy in port. So my retreating division should be fine. Right? Right?
>wrong.
>My retreating division vanishes. Gone. For good.
>WTF? SERIOUSLY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
>Oh its because the enemy HQ is STILL retreating from Christchurch and my division cant retreat back into a province where an enemy unit is still present. Even though is only a fucking HQ and is retreating after being thoroughly defeated.!
>Despite me occupying Christchurch with several divisions not engaged in any combat.
>despite the fact that I also sent a cav division to the west to occupy the western province the enemy HQ is retreating into. Does the enemy HQ vanish when my Cav unit occupies the western province? Oh fuck no! You see the enemy HQ is retreating so FUCKING SLOWLY it hasn't had time to reach that province.
Nope. That's sheer assfuckery. Fuck this bullshit.
Also. Funny how the a huge fucking New Zealand Army manages to materialize at full strength so close to Christchurch within a couple of days of war.

>>2362164
>Can not afford any fuck ups at all.
>Declare war on NZ

>>2362180
Your point being you are a tardfuck?
Yes I agree. You are indeed a tardfuck.
Stupid cunts like you with your useless stupid comments is why threads like this die. No one can be bothered engaging when only fucking morons like you are around. Enjoy your dead thread tardfuck.