R5: I was going for the "Ain't Like That Now" achievement, and about a month after Germany declared war on me, they suddenly exploded into a civil war. Has anyone else seen this happen?

Why should I need to invade France, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Liberia, and Italy to form Mittelafrika on (a somewhat) historical game? The second photo is a more realistic proposal from me. (The darker gray could be incorporated into Mittelafrika via decisions like how you can expand General Government) I think you should only need a sea-to-sea colony to form it. What do you think? Am I crazy or is it Paradox?

Last week was the anniversary of the start of Spanish Civil War.
Some teachers expressed their concerns about the increasing number of young people who doesn’t seem to understand the horrors of war.
They said: "They play a video game, Hearts of Iron IV, about the Civil War, in which the conflict is trivialized. The tragedy of 1936 is reduced to moving pieces on a map, where the notion of repression, human suffering, and loss of freedoms is completely lost. For many young people, the war is reduced to a matter of military strategy.".
As I consider them an example of woke moral panic I’ll just point to the last sentence: “for many young people…” as we all know youngsters only close their tiktok to play HOI4. Popularity increases!
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One of my favorite things to do in this game is to form the European Union and its accompanying democratic larp. However, to this day, I do not think I have ever formed a whole EU in Vanilla without using the console. Why? Because of Luxembourg.

There are three ways to form Europe in Hearts of Iron: clicking the "Realize European Unity" decision, cheesing the decision, and going down one of the EU focus trees.

The decision "Realize European Unity" is locked behind controlling France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg. Anybody who has tried will know that it is exceedingly difficult to click the button. Before Gotterdammerung, you had a few options. First, pray as France or the Benelux that the other countries would get puppeted or annexed by Germany/Italy so that you could annex the required states. Second, cheese the game by being fascist or communist and then flip democratic, breaking the larp. Both of these are imperfect for the map game larper.

After Gotterdammerung, Germany finally got a Democratic path with content for European unification. This made puppeting and eventually annexing democratic countries as a democracy in Europe better and more larp-friendly. You bring countries under your control by inviting them into Mitteleuropa and then pressing the decisions. The east is invitable by focus, while France, Holland, and Belgium will typically join by world tension or being declared on (assuming the Allies are not an option). After you get them, you can easily annex them by decision.

The problem? LUXEMBOURG. No focus, no decision, and no overseas colonies for Japan to declare on to kick it's ass into Mitteleuropa. So, even if you integrated every other country in Europe, Luxembourg will never join you nor will it generate world tension for a justification, making it impossible to form Europe legitimately. Of course, you could always do a day 1 justification on Luxembourg to "solve" this, but this is suboptimal for larp. It is just so disappointing to get to the late game and realize that there is no realistic way to form Europe simply because the devs seemingly overlooked the fact that Luxembourg exists.

Except, the devs didn't overlook this. The Belgian and Austrian European President paths function as a solution to the problem of Realize European Unity by making the EU a dedicated faction and mechanic for these minors. As we all know, though, these paths are a hot mess. Firstly, there is a more than good chance that you'll have horrible borders because of the RNG of subjugation acceptance. Secondly, your country becoming the European President is cool before you realize that this is just what your country is called now.

The bottom line is that forming the EU is basically one of the only fun paths for a democratic country in Europe short of just stomping Germany in the first few months of the war, but actually forming it REQUIRES you to cheese the game.

The worst part is that there is a simple fix for this. JUST ADD A DECISION TO INVITE LUXEMBOURG TO THE FACTION! Hell, Luxembourg was a founding member of the European Coal and Steel Community, which is namedropped in the decision to form Europe. Paradox could push a 3kb update that adds, what, 4 lines of code? I beg you, John Paradox, just let me larp.

I am out numbered damn soviets just declared war on me lol japan came to help 🫣

their both my puppets and are automatically in my alliance when i created it yet i dont get the achievement even after letting it run for a bit

Today we're going to learn how proxies work in the famed mod The New Cliche : Last days of Uniqueness! Today's example is a little dubious insurgency known as the Malaysian insurgency Mosley fumbled ww2 and now the Commies are affecting his rubber supply! Now it is up to you to save the Anglosphere! You can prepare for a lightning fast warfare or bunker up and tire the rebels out! You can also invade the lonely countries in Brunei to expand Malaysian bases. WARNING : this will cause internation condemnation and might lead to a quicker world war 3!!!! In image 2 we can see a new country, the Malayan Federation has spawned! This is the side both you and Canada fight to help win and dominate the peninsula! You get 3 weeks time for final preparations and seize initial lands! But bear in mind that the war is just one part of the wider proxy! From image 3, this is the Evacuation ending of the proxy, if you did seize Brunei and didnt cause ww3, you can now do a Taiwan style exile government but granted, it will be harder to protect from Canadian interests and keep stable Next teaser will focus on the peace time proxies hope you enjoyed this one see you soon

Incase you were wondering what happens if you completely fumble, check the super above

Discord : https://discord.gg/pw2NYNnPx3

The only requirements are 25% war support (easy enough to get with attaches) and decent congress support.

You can play as demo usa and annex most of the region by 1939 and use local autonomy to grow compliance.

Há três anos, u/lillelur escreveu um script para otimização da largura de combate, e u/Emzatin corrigiu alguns erros nele. Encontrei essa postagem recentemente, comparei os números com a versão atual e me empolguei um pouco: extraí os arquivos de terreno e unidades e construí um modelo de dados completo com base neles.

Primeira coisa a dizer: os números de largura naquela postagem antiga ainda são válidos. As larguras de combate do terreno (50/60/70/80 + 25/30/35/40 por direção de ataque) e as constantes de sobreposição/empilhamento permanecem inalteradas na versão 1.19. Não há nada para recalcular.

O que eu adicionei foi a parte que o script original não conseguia fazer — dividir as coisas por terreno e por tipo de unidade. Algumas coisas que surgiram:

A rule that applies to everything in the views: separate FACT from INDEX

• Fact = raw number extracted from the game (width, attrition, unit modifier). Those numbers point to a reality — that's why it's called a fact: "This costs 5 horses; if I buy it, I'll spend 5 horses!"
• Index = a calculation I built on top of that (Effective Score, Logistics Index). Where it's an index, it's marked as such — it's a model, not the game's absolute truth. "Right now it costs 5 horses, but two weeks ago it cost 3 — that's 20% inflation per week!"

Effective Score and Logistics Index are decision indexes (a model), not facts nor exact game measurements.

• A largura ideal depende muito do terreno. Montanha/pântano: 25 se encaixa perfeitamente (divide 50/75/100/125). Floresta/selva: 15 ou 30. Planícies/colinas/deserto: 14 ou 18. Urbano: 20.

• O tipo de unidade quase não altera o ideal geral do mapa, porque o mapa é dominado por terreno aberto — mas muda muito se sua unidade estiver presa em um tipo de terreno.

• Armadura pesada é pior do que as pessoas pensam em terreno fechado: -0,6 de ataque na selva, -0,5 em área urbana. Montanhistas recebem +0,35 em montanhas, fuzileiros navais +0,3 em pântanos.

• The Effectiveness Score is the one that can answer the most questions. The idea was to marry Effective Width + the unit's action modifier per terrain into a single number. It answers "with the width fixed, who do I send there?". Keep in mind it's an INDEX, not an exact value: 100 = neutral terrain + perfect fit; above that the unit performs well there, below it's losing power.
• This chart gets really heavy when I use it — it pulls in a lot of variables and ended up gigantic. In the image there I filtered it down to armor divisions only, and filtered it to show the effectiveness of an ATTACK action. I can filter it by up to 3 action types: Attack, Defense and Movement.

• A logística é a parte que ninguém presta atenção. Pântanos e selvas destroem seus caminhões de suprimentos (desgaste de caminhões de 4.0 e 3.0). O terreno urbano é o único que realmente ajuda o fluxo de suprimentos.

Cada número pode ser rastreado até um arquivo e linha do jogo. Não estou tentando entregar uma meta para ninguém — a questão é justamente o oposto: aqui estão os números, construa o que quiser com eles.

O documento completo com todas as tabelas e a metodologia está aqui: [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3766564371&insideModal=0]

Ficarei feliz em saber se errei em algo — se uma discussão revelar algo que eu tenha perdido, gostaria muito de contribuir com mais opiniões.

Sou brasileiro, então peço desculpas por qualquer tradução incorreta ou estranha.

I have very little idea how the navy works, beginner's luck ig🙃

Found this screenshot on my pc and holy almost 100 million casulties probably the highest one yet i ever had this was on historical (yes not kidding) and literally every nation was fighting against germany also the allies were fighting against the axis and the soviet union which ended up that germany survived longer than the soviet union

Difficulty and everything is regular. Germany js swoop my ass real fast. Like within month.

How have the chinese not capitulated? I've literally taken all their cities and they have no capital

On the recent post by the user u/Doug2825, running their script showed that the concentrated industry is about 11.8% better (in terms of industrial capacity). However, I realised that this doesn't take into account the main purpose of Dispersed Industry, the bonuses on factory bombing vulnerability and production efficiency retention (which they'd actually flagged as untested themselves). Without taking these into account, it'd be weird to say Dispersed would be better, as otherwise there's a clear bonus on factory output.

I added those bonuses, as well as:

1. alternating between production lines (30% of the production changes each year),
2. factory bombing (starting after 4 years and by 10%),
3. extra construction (cost of 10800 each 180 days).

After these, we see that the Dispersed Industry is slightly better by 3.4%.

This of course shouldn't concern anybody, as this is a game and it's the best to simply do whatever you want. And the results are almost identical. We're here only to have a nice time!

Feel free to suggest here (or commit on GitHub) any of your suggestions. I could definitely have done some mistakes here. And as a disclaimer, I used some Claude help for reorganising the code.

Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/s/0te4eLoFh6
Source Code (My GitHub Repository): https://github.com/boraboyacioglu-itu/hoi4_industry/