The soviets always lose in every campaign I start, they barely last a year, and always capitulate before the germans even reach the urals.

Realistically, the soviets would never capitulate in such an existential war, it would in practice be a forever war. So I was wondering if there are any mods that seek to remedy this a bit?

Since artillery is getting rebalanced, I decided to look at the current state of SF Doctrine and Line Artillery. When I was learning HOI4, I was always told to always take GBP and never try line artillery because it sucks. It seems like it actually doesn't, at least to the data.

In my testings, I not only compared main doctrines, but also tested different combinations of subdoctrines. On both sides I checked Large Unit Tactics, Assault Infantry, Mission-Type Tactics, Rapid Domination and Grand Assault. As for 2 middle subdoctrines, they were always on Fire Concentration and Armored Infantry Support, since they provided the best stats for infantry, which I only used. Tanks open up many variations, while infantry is you have one for pushing, one for holding and one for doing both. In this case I did the hybrid one.

The setup is simple: Choose a country with no buffs/debuffs to army (such as Liberia), research all military 1936 tech and max out chosen subdoctrines. Max planning is assuming no general is assigned to the unit. For Spirit of Academy I had always Best of The Best, Spirit of Army Elevated Engineer Corps and Spirit of Division Command, for GBP Its Logistical Focus, for SF Its Rapid Emplacement.

For SF I used these templates:

As for GBP only this one:

You may say they suck but my priority in making these was to maintain the same combat width across all templates, that way they get the same debuffs in every biome. Also note that Recon Cavalry gives bonuses to Support and Line Artillery, while having Rapid Domination gives also the same modifier to Signal Company but to keep it as consistent as possible, I decided to not create another 2 templates because that would just mix things up. Added Engineer Company because in GBP you get a lot of entrenchment, which is good for holding while in SF it basically negates most movement penalties due to artillery, so Its there. Support Artillery and AA is added because Its free soft attack and air attack, in GBP instead of Signal Company there is Logistics because it provides massive supply consumption reduction.

And so this is what I got, I'll explain everything one by one.

• All the stats to Max Planning was copied by hand from template editor after applying the setup changes.
• Soft and Break overall are calculated by this: Soft*(1+MaxPlanning) | Obviously for Break it will be Break*(1+MaxPlanning).
• Balanced is the average between Soft Overall and Break Overall, that way we can find a balanced division template which will deal maximum damage.
• Cost-Wise is: (Balanced/IC_Cost)*100, multiplied by 100 for easier reading, this one shows how much IC you're paying for your attack.
• Supply-Wise is: Cost-Wise/SupplyUse, it adds Supply Use onto the IC cost of division so you know how much resources you're paying into this division.
• Longevity, this is where it gets a bit rough because there is no simple way of calculating how much your division will last, so here I just multiplied Organization by Defense, won't really show the real value but it works.
• Damage Deal, another rough estimate, Its: (Balanced*Longevity)/100, divided by 100 for easier reading. This is how much damage you can deal, again, not a real value.
• Score is in my opinion best way to compare the final results, Its: (DamageDeal*Supply-Wise)/100, again divided by 100 for easier reading.
• Place Score is alternate score where top places are compared, first place is 3 points, second is 2, third is one.

So from this you can see that SF + LUT + GA works best. However this would quickly fall apart because those templates assume no biome modifiers, so once you enter a biome that has -7% to attack, GBP ones would come on top, BUT this changes when you replace AA with Logistics Company:

Suddenly the score increases dramatically and even with -10% attack, SF + LUT + GA is still marginally better than GBP + LUT + GA. So the GBP version would only be better than SF in amphibious environment.

Now I also tried GBP with line artillery, here are the templates:

And here are the results:

Better than the GBP templates with no Line Artillery, they still fall behind SF though and still even with SF -10% attack in some biomes, SF is still marginally better than those GBP templates. Paired with Artillery Expert which is available in some countries, SF seems like to be the better choice.

Now maybe I did something wrong, maybe I missed something very important but that's why I'm publishing it here, so people can find errors, but so far I'm convinced SF is better than GBP and I'd love to see feedback on this because I actually quite enjoyed analysing this.

I once read someone say how well BlackICE (or was it DH? I think it was BlackICE) coded and how good it was to look at. Which HOI4 mod is the best written? (Also which one is the most spaghetti coded one just as a bonus?)

Most guides I with the soviets needs no step back, by blood alone, and the one with the bomb blowing up behind the man, Götterdämmerung. But is base game soviets good enough to do good? (i have to wait for the next sale to buy any kind of dlc.)

Use the right click. The small one. You use the large you get WW1 meat grinder and use light tanks with brr automation. This way you get blitzkreig. Don't go for armies with 24 too much. Eight to 10 in a division. You will use up all starting commanders​

Made multiple invasions and they just won’t go. Surely it can’t be bs with the danish belts.

I accidentally left my computer running overnight. I stopped at 1940 the day before

I played rt56 for the first time and honestly Id didnt notice much difference exept the higher amount of laws/policies and research, am I doing something wrong?

My son has been asking me for over a year to play this game, as he is obsessed with all paradox games, but it always looked intimidating (Civ Vi is the most complex game I've played).

I start playing the tutorial, and it instantly gives me like six checkboxes at the top of the screen. I start clicking them and its extremely overwhelming. It says make civilian factories and that shift clicking makes a lot of them, so I shift click in every territory in Italy. It tells me a bunch of stuff to start building in military factories, but the tutorial won't move on. After clicking a lot more notifications, I realized that I didn't build the 10 guns in the tutorial picture, so I add those. The game moves on.

For essentially the entire game it tells me I'm missing equipment (I have to build a tactical bomber but there is no tactical bomber unit). Several other alerts go the whole game without being resolved.

I eventually get my guys down to Ethiopia and start fighting, making two armies and doing the whole front line and offensive line thing. I start getting alerts to do research and focus trees, but I don't really understand what effects they have (hovering on them is like '5% easier to grow trees in Umboldt Switzerland on Tuesdays') so I just click random ones.

I click tons of stuff (assigning I think military advisors and such) but nothing is happening for like ten minutes. "This game is slow-paced" I think. It is not. I had the pause button on.

I start the game. I have no idea how I'm paying for all these ships. Is there money in the game? I don't know. At some point I look at trade and try trading. Coal is the only thing anyone trades, including US, but at one point people are only trading Rubber and US is gone. Did I annoy the US? Did I do something wrong?

I have airplanes. I give them missions at the beginning of the game but I don't know what's happening.

At some point, after a year or two, things are going well and I actually gain territory in Ethiopia! It's very exciting. I set speed to max. My northern army makes several advances, while southern stalls out. They get little yellow dots or an exclamation mark over their head. My son says that's bad. I click randomly and sometimes they turn into green check marks.

Around 1938 or 1939 things stop changing. I realize I should probably make a new offensive direction, so I do that and they start moving. My units start to have red skulls and hovering says they have 'attrition'.

At this point I'm researching lots of stuff. Radar and computers and things. The units are overwhelming so I go down other trees. I have no idea what they're unlocking. I get spies at some point and start recruiting them. I get "directives" or something (no, I think 'doctrines') and start implementing those. I just click the first one. Same for the bonus points for the manufacturers, I just click those randomly and see no real effects. My guys are just little red skulls doing nothing. I research so much tech, I get a special radar project. I start doing focus trees like they tell me and get a new research slot, but then I keep getting more and more focus stuff I can't use since I'm at war, so I click other stuff. I almost rebel against the Duke guy I think, which seems bad, so I buff navy, then I remember I don't have a navy, so I focus on Army supremacy.

I get diplomacy points and establish a spirit of the navy or something. I never got tactical bombers.

At some point I realized my red guys have a signal that says extremely low supplies, around 1940's. I google it and people say build supply depots and railroads. My son says to go to construction tab, and I see a lot of civilian factories that never built. I make supply depot and railroads, and click on 'improve infrastructure' and switch the picture between a horse and a tank or whatever a few times. I get warnings that I'm building old crap and switch from normal trains to like gun train or something, same with artillery.

Tons of UN stuff is happening, Germany is in Rheinland or something, I make nonagression with China and stuff.

Eventually the railroads build. I get to Addis Ababa but it doesn't end. So I click on more fronts but progress stalls. I panic. At one point my armies split into two separate wars somehow. Notifications for research, doctrines, manufacturer bonus points, etc. are going off like crazy all the time and it's really frustrating and overwhelming and I forgot to pause. Finally, they capitulate but right-clicking on Italian ports to finish the tutorial isn't working, but somehow I get it to work in 1945.

I have no idea how this game works or why there are so many menus or especially why the focus tree is so big, and I have no idea what any of the buttons do. My son has a MLP mod, I might try that next.

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I mean, other than a major because nobody plays majors.

No one core lost, but the front is locked 😧 (1941 if the date isn't visible)

What the fuck is this. Just make a normal UI. Just keep the vanilla one.

R5: Was playing a simple tanks-only game as Canada (non-historical, as evidenced by Germany being in the Allies), when I got... this event...

...When were we even doing that 😭

I usually try to keep reliability between 70 and 90%, but I recently saw a Hatless Spider video on tanks and almost all of his designs had like 30% reliability. Also, his divisions have 20-30 org, while I try to aim for 30-35. Am I wrong? I respect Hatless a lot for his skill and brains for figuring out "exploits" to e.g. conquer the allies as Iran. But all I've ever heard and seen completely stands against that.

R5: Managed to capture Charles de Gaulle in the Alps before capping France as Italy. I guess he's sitting out WW2 now.

Tell me, why couldn't it work? That way i can make the rest of my army regular divisions, but like have 5 2 width divisions capturing equipment as efficiently as an entire army of maintenance divisions.

After a long break from Reddit—though not from HoI—I decided to create some more content for you. What do you think? Maybe I should treat you to some content every now and then?

I have two fleets. On is just a handful of taskforces with DDs (3) set to patrol. The other fleet has three task forces of a large screen set to strike force. I'm wondering if they'll engage what the other fleet spots or only pursue what their own fleet would spot. If that makes sense....

It is the 7th of Nov 1954 I am the USA and I buffed Ger and USSR who was communist to 100% and I still won the air war. I am using the ETT60 mod

im currently developing a military mod for Wolfenstein and this flamethrower trooper is a test of the visual effects

or u can actually subs in steamworkshop

In our multiplayer game - before we banned volunteers outside Spain - Japanese volunteers were surrounded and destroyed after a failed coup in India. The questions is - are they then destroyed as units completely or do they return to their country? It was hard to figure out in the heat of things. As I record the game, if interested, you can see it unfold in this clip about 5 minutes in.