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thronedfire2
02/10/2024
08:04 PM
#1
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/961f498e.jpg

I'm France >_>

this was my first time trying France with historic AI off, apparently if you abandon Czechoslovakia and the other eastern countries Germany just steamrolls everything :(
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Crimsoness
02/10/2024
08:05 PM
#2
lol
She/her
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UnholyMudcrab
02/10/2024
08:06 PM
#3
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw the German AI make it past the Dniepr.
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thronedfire2
02/10/2024
08:10 PM
#4
the first big thing that happened in the game was Russia invading Finland and it all went to shit from there. literally every other eastern european country and italy joined the axis and went to war with the soviets. after that it was like 500 divisions vs every other place they invaded

I was trying to stall and did all the focuses on the left to get research slots so by the time I needed to be ready for war I was too behind. I know not to do that again especially since the extra research wasn't even useful
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Dakimakura
02/10/2024
08:11 PM
#5
At least anime is about to get real good
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Ivynn
02/10/2024
08:12 PM
#6
thronedfire2 posted...
literally every other eastern european country and italy joined the axis

If weren't for the Nazis' pesky lebensraum "issue", all the Eastern European states joining them against the Soviets coulda been a possibility. >_>
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UnholyMudcrab
02/10/2024
08:13 PM
#7
Oh good lord, I just noticed your stability. You, uh, might want to do something about that.
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thronedfire2
02/10/2024
08:14 PM
#8
UnholyMudcrab posted...
Oh good lord, I just noticed your stability. You, uh, might want to do something about that.

I lost like 5 days later

lmao
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Ivynn
02/10/2024
08:17 PM
#9
thronedfire2 posted...
I lost like 5 days later

lmao

You fucked up the timeline, TC.
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thronedfire2
02/10/2024
08:18 PM
#10
Ivynn posted...
You fucked up the timeline, TC.

It was all Stalin's fault

next game I'm backing Trotsky
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SiO4
02/10/2024
08:22 PM
#11
Are there Belgians in the Congo?
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UnholyMudcrab
02/10/2024
08:24 PM
#12
My typical strategy for France is to add a battalion of heavy tanks to every infantry division and set up a defensive line behind the Somme and along the forests to the east.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/ca844b0a.jpg

Something like that.
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thronedfire2
02/10/2024
08:35 PM
#13
my few games before this I played germany and every time I tried to be aggressive some country would join the allies just as I invaded them. I guess I need to learn the best focus order because that seems more important than everything else.
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Spartan_Jedi117
02/10/2024
08:35 PM
#14
What game is this? I've seen bits from it. Kinda gives me Civ vibes
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ROBANN_88
02/10/2024
08:40 PM
#15
Spartan_Jedi117 posted...
What game is this? I've seen bits from it. Kinda gives me Civ vibes

That's Hearts of Iron 4, i think
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thronedfire2
02/10/2024
08:49 PM
#16
ROBANN_88 posted...
That's Hearts of Iron 4, i think

yeah

it's a thousand times more complicated than civ but civ is boring to me now anyway

I'd love a game in between HoI and Civ though. I want to have to manage resources and armies but not every individual unit
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Spartan_Jedi117
02/10/2024
08:54 PM
#17
ROBANN_88 posted...
That's Hearts of Iron 4, i think
Thanks for the answer
thronedfire2 posted...


it's a thousand times more complicated than civ but civ is boring to me now anyway
I don't play Civ much, but when I do, it's because I'm bored and just wanna play something
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VideoboysaysCube
02/10/2024
08:54 PM
#18
Never played this before but...what is the U.S. doing?
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UnholyMudcrab
02/10/2024
09:00 PM
#19
VideoboysaysCube posted...
Never played this before but...what is the U.S. doing?
In May of '41, and with Japan having gone north instead of south, likely not much.
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thronedfire2
02/10/2024
09:01 PM
#20
Spartan_Jedi117 posted...
Thanks for the answer

I don't play Civ much, but when I do, it's because I'm bored and just wanna play something

that's usually why I play civ, but I'm at a point where if I play on one difficulty the AI cheats too much for it to be fair, but if I play on the next lowest it's too easy.

so either way I spend 2-3 hours and it feels pointless :(
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VideoboysaysCube
02/10/2024
11:04 PM
#21
UnholyMudcrab posted...
In May of '41, and with Japan having gone north instead of south, likely not much.

Actually, hold on, if they went the Kodoha route, why do they have the Dutch East Indies?

Ah, I didn't notice the date. I had assumed Pearl Harbor happened already.
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ScazarMeltex
02/10/2024
11:12 PM
#22
thronedfire2 posted...
the first big thing that happened in the game was Russia invading Finland and it all went to shit from there. literally every other eastern european country and italy joined the axis and went to war with the soviets. after that it was like 500 divisions vs every other place they invaded

I was trying to stall and did all the focuses on the left to get research slots so by the time I needed to be ready for war I was too behind. I know not to do that again especially since the extra research wasn't even useful
Oof. Let me guess, AI UUSR got bogged down in Finland and the Germans invaded and fucked them up?
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UnholyMudcrab
02/10/2024
11:53 PM
#23
VideoboysaysCube posted...
Ah, I didn't notice the date. I had assumed Pearl Harbor happened already.
It's actually a bit weird in HOI4 because of the way the focus trees work. In a typical game with historic, Japan will attack the Philippines and draw the US into the war in April or May of 1941, but since this wasn't a historic AI game, I can't say for sure.
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Letsago
02/11/2024
01:17 AM
#24
I felt like whenever I turned off historic, it didn't change much. Can you get the radically different paths like Hitler being overthrown and the Kaiser returning if you turn off historical AI, or can only the player do that?
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ironman2009
02/11/2024
01:18 AM
#25
Germany is about to fuck you to death lol
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invertedlegdrop
02/11/2024
01:27 AM
#26
the only RTS i ever got into was romance of the three kingdoms...

always wanted to try of classic RTS's but was worried about the timesync they would be...

any good recs?
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ScazarMeltex
02/11/2024
09:38 AM
#27
Letsago posted...
I felt like whenever I turned off historic, it didn't change much. Can you get the radically different paths like Hitler being overthrown and the Kaiser returning if you turn off historical AI, or can only the player do that?
You can, it's pretty rare, but it does happen. I had a game as the USSR where the depression provoked a US civil war, the fascists won, and then allied with Germany. It didn't end well for me.
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thronedfire2
02/11/2024
10:26 AM
#28
ScazarMeltex posted...
Oof. Let me guess, AI UUSR got bogged down in Finland and the Germans invaded and fucked them up?

yup. After that they just took over all the countries that hadnt joined willingly. Belgium/Switzerland/Netherlands only lasted like 2 days each
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