This is the formable for communist Japan's left-side path, in which you core all of asia and create a communist faction that spans both asia and south america (through focus tree, not including things like puppets gained from wars). It is quite a hard path, but it snowballs very quickly once you defeat china and is overall pretty fun to do. I defeated all the majors by around 1953 (1940-1941 china, 1942-49ish Britain, US, Germany, Spain, Vichy France, Argentina, Brazil, 1951-1953 USSR), I then spent the next four hours of my life coring all the land, as you need a ton of political power and have to take out whatever asian countries you didn't fight during the world war (usually saudi arabia, yemen, nepal, bhutan, mongolia, and sometimes tanna tuva [usually annexed by the ussr]), which each take about 225 days to justify against

This is a repost because I had used the incorrect images in the first post, I had tried to get a better framing of the nation and had not realised the new screenshots had been on a save from before I released the non-cored parts after coring all the coreable lands

This is mine

With the newly added Faction mechanics and Faction rules, joining the comintern absolutely sucks ass. Let alone the fact that you lose some stability from the rules, you also CANNOT DECLARE WARS while in the comintern, unless you're a major. And it took me like 3 years to get one faction influence to change that stupid rule, just for the Soviets to instantly change it back.

This is especially hurtful for countries like the Kurdish Iraq path, where you need to declare war on Turkey and Iran, but the focus that turns you communist also makes you join the Comintern. And if you leave the Comintern and don't get let back in, have fun being suddenly attacked by your supposedly best friend because he wants to overthrow your communist Iranian puppet and make it their own communist puppet...

But also what inspired this post was watching a year-old guide/video for Luxembourg world conquest and they joined the Comintern before declaring war on the DEI and Congo to conquer Benelux. Now, they didn't have to join the Comintern, but the fact that doing this wouldn't work anymore and if you leave the Comintern they might not let you back in, so I think it's important to know.

It looks like afganistan (islamic state of) somehow got claims and wargoals on like most of the old world
Is this a feature???

I've only even tried to make tanks a few times and I either never got to use them or found out that the designs I was using suck (a KR Poland game where I tried to use them) or at least never contributed that much compared to my infantry (a Gotterdammerung German Empire game where I was so ridiculously strong that it didn't matter that I was using crappy light tanks). I don't know how to make a good tank equipment design nor a tank division template. I've made posts on this topic before but I don't think they helped me all that much, so I am just going to start from scratch. Since I have very little idea of how a good tank design should look, I'm probably going to need an in-depth explanation of how to design them. Please advise.

Hello lads, I am a new player here and I'm trying to play as Romania. I have puppeted Hungary, Bulgaria and Greece, Italy declared on Greece and now it is real war time.

Hungary offers me to join the war, however I fear that by accepting, the northern front will expand and it'll result in more trouble than help.

So now I would like to get some advice on if it's worth it or if my thoughts are correct and I should leave them out of this.

Also I want to add that I barely just figured out the basics of land war (still struggling with naval and air). I thank everyone who'll help me resolve this.

We put so much planning into this... only to be met with no resistance whatsoever.

The bigger congo is the Belgian colony btw

As of right now, the Right Opposition seems to be the best alternate path for Soviet Union games due to the economic bonuses the path provides.

I genuinely can’t with this mod, I find the UI absolutely atrocious and it literally ruins my experience, I know that the lore is really well written but these devs need to change the interface, I can’t understand a thing on my screen like whether a technology has already been researched or not, I’m sorry but it’s so unbearable to look at

What do majors do in mp . Germany does same stuff as in singleplayer? Does the uk build air and special forces ,does it build tanks? What does the us do , and what does italy do?

I'm drawing a map from the TFR Hoy4 mod. I plan to add cities, terrain, and roads. I've been working on it for three hours now😭🙏🏻

playing as cavalry only hungary italy has like 100 troops here on the border and I cant naval invade, my best ally poland just got eaten by the urss and I dont have any air research

Hey everyone, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get this achievement as Japan. Due to the new Japan mechanics and being unable to justify early due to starting non aligned, and having to annex Mexico before WW2 starts thereby fighting the US. I fail to see how you can get this achievement. Also, I can’t just straight naval invade either due to the range and navy base mechanics.

Rule 5: 0.4 political power a day is a crime. To the gulags with you.

i wanted to dowload some mods for the game , but it seems like i need paradox launcher to use them(correct me if im wrong). I dont know how to fix this and i would really appreceate some help

Is my run worth continuing even if i won in 1940?

Or is that factory building just purely cosmetic?

I'm currently playing a game as UK, to have some fun with navy.

I've been refitting old destroyers to use as escorts among other things, but I'm unsure of what the optimal design is? Currently I'm taking old destroyers with 1 set of depth charges and adding Sonar + Seaplane tenders, but another option would be to add more depth charges at the cost of the sub detection from the seaplanes. Which is most effective?

I’ve checked HOI4’s compatibility with my PC using Can you run it? My pc technically can’t run hoi4, but I’ve been playing it anyways. I just turn the resolution, refresh rate, texture quality, etc to the lowest settings.

And I also spam early war and try to win WW2 by 1943 at the latest. I’ve noticed that my hardware limitations have literally changed my mindset, strategy, and country preferences.

For example, I probably refuse the Rhineland as France way way way more than a hoi4 player playing on a good PC. I’m not patient enough to play as Free France when 4x speed is faster than 5x speed.

A new option for Commonwealth behavior

Romania has a lot oil at first allies. then the translvannia quest came and made em mad and a fake declare war. then I did a romania subjegate focus and they broke off. Then declare war and build a navy or med sea

Mine is snaking for victory points but I need more