Someone created a Cold War mod for HoI 4. Other than nothing happening, it has a lot of promise. The US is aligned so that it can't pick a fight ot anything and is 100% reliant upon the uSSR doing something that increases world tension sufficiently for the US to respond. I may have to replay that scenario as fascist just to throw off the game's mechanics. What good is a war game without a war?! The only other major problem is the author incorporate attack helos/ CCA into the mix....with a top speed of 1000 kpn and stronger anti air capabilities than an F-4. It should be pretty pimp if they can balance it out more. Build a gazillion AH-1 Cobra's to everything and call it a day.
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Waiting for a more complete version of the August Storm mod to drop on HoI 4 plus the beyond amazing work done by the Black Ice guys. I found one that made America an absolute beast if you take the fascist route (yes, I'd like to annex all of Latin America. Thank you!) though the material resources are never enough. That means I have to get my conquer on. I combined it with an enhanced weapons and industry mod which takes the game out past 1955 or something like that.
1942 and Cuba repulsed my first invasion attempt. Damn them, I need their chromium but it shows how difficult it is to invade even a weak country. No problem, allow me to introduce you to 23 divisions of Marines and Mountain troops with double artillery and anti-tank guns.
Problem solved, 140 units of chromium are mine. Haiti somehow scrapped together 19 divisions while the Dom Rep created 5 or 6. There are porn stars who don't give up their back door like the Dom Rep.
Stage troops in Panama. El Sal was a problem until my mech infantry/ armor task force showed up which worked out because Heeelllllllloooooooo Mexico! The XP for an upcoming S. America campaign is good so I hit them with 72 divisions. Problem solved.
Canada rolled like your mom because it sent all but 8 or 10 divisions to Europe. I'm now poised to simultaneously push from Guam (rubber in the East Indies), Canada (England via Greenland and Iceland), and Panama (rubber in Brazil and I don't need a threat on my flanks).
Germany is almost rolled up and my fascist bro-bros can eat a dick. I don't want any part of their plan, I want the whole damn thing. I don't think I have the manpower though, but that won't be until 45 or early 46 unless they declare war first.
1944's going to be a good year.
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One (okay two) complaints about HoI 4: When you conquer a nation you receive almost no population increase and there's no slow decline in the penalty. You'd think after a few years even 5 or 10% of the population would be available, but it stays at something ridiculous and unusable. The second is it caps your population and doesn't take into account something like an antibiotics buff, better health care, or agriculture improvements. You receive a slight increase in manpower per year, but it isn't even enough to make a division. You expect to run out of manpower at some point, but even if you have a few years of peace your manpower barely increases. Your only hope to beat the planet is to rapidly overrun their population centers so they can't replace their losses and even that's a bit dubious. The game appears to set aside a number of your people as if they all moved to another part of the planet or something.
1942 and Cuba repulsed my first invasion attempt. Damn them, I need their chromium but it shows how difficult it is to invade even a weak country. No problem, allow me to introduce you to 23 divisions of Marines and Mountain troops with double artillery and anti-tank guns.
Problem solved, 140 units of chromium are mine. Haiti somehow scrapped together 19 divisions while the Dom Rep created 5 or 6. There are porn stars who don't give up their back door like the Dom Rep.
Stage troops in Panama. El Sal was a problem until my mech infantry/ armor task force showed up which worked out because Heeelllllllloooooooo Mexico! The XP for an upcoming S. America campaign is good so I hit them with 72 divisions. Problem solved.
Canada rolled like your mom because it sent all but 8 or 10 divisions to Europe. I'm now poised to simultaneously push from Guam (rubber in the East Indies), Canada (England via Greenland and Iceland), and Panama (rubber in Brazil and I don't need a threat on my flanks).
Germany is almost rolled up and my fascist bro-bros can eat a dick. I don't want any part of their plan, I want the whole damn thing. I don't think I have the manpower though, but that won't be until 45 or early 46 unless they declare war first.
1944's going to be a good year.
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One (okay two) complaints about HoI 4: When you conquer a nation you receive almost no population increase and there's no slow decline in the penalty. You'd think after a few years even 5 or 10% of the population would be available, but it stays at something ridiculous and unusable. The second is it caps your population and doesn't take into account something like an antibiotics buff, better health care, or agriculture improvements. You receive a slight increase in manpower per year, but it isn't even enough to make a division. You expect to run out of manpower at some point, but even if you have a few years of peace your manpower barely increases. Your only hope to beat the planet is to rapidly overrun their population centers so they can't replace their losses and even that's a bit dubious. The game appears to set aside a number of your people as if they all moved to another part of the planet or something.
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^^^This is gold. I want...no NEED this game, sharpish. Yet another good reason not to sleep thanks to SS.
Last night time wasn't my friend, so I only accomplished overrunning Borneo, a portion of the Dutch East Indies, Guyana, and all of the Caribbean islands. I'm short on steel and tungsten, but it isn't 1944 and I'm 6 months away from making that a priority. Managing multiple invasions is supposed to be easy with some of the provided tools, but I prefer the manual route which can be tedious and take more time.
One snag last night was the UK bombing my ports and mucking up my absolutely massive fleet. I had to send them out in less than perfect condition and still smoked the Brits. Tonight I'll take Iceland and build it up before pushing into England and make a run at Singapore if I have the time before bed.
One major problem is maintaining a solid front. The IA exploits any gap available and pushes a unit or two through it, running amok and taking territory until you can send units to push them out or overrun them. I may have to ally with Japan to help me take India because of that.
Nationalist Spain and Italy were overrun and I may take a two pronged approach (invading Spain and France) to reclaiming Europe. Africa has many resources but a lot of space to manage. I need to sort out a plan for that beast...maybe use scaled down units to hold the line while several battle groups do the heavy lifting.
I can take the Allies given enough time, but manpower may conspire against me if I want to take the Soviet Union. I may have to side with the Axis if I want to do that, but I have a few years to make that decision.
One snag last night was the UK bombing my ports and mucking up my absolutely massive fleet. I had to send them out in less than perfect condition and still smoked the Brits. Tonight I'll take Iceland and build it up before pushing into England and make a run at Singapore if I have the time before bed.
One major problem is maintaining a solid front. The IA exploits any gap available and pushes a unit or two through it, running amok and taking territory until you can send units to push them out or overrun them. I may have to ally with Japan to help me take India because of that.
Nationalist Spain and Italy were overrun and I may take a two pronged approach (invading Spain and France) to reclaiming Europe. Africa has many resources but a lot of space to manage. I need to sort out a plan for that beast...maybe use scaled down units to hold the line while several battle groups do the heavy lifting.
I can take the Allies given enough time, but manpower may conspire against me if I want to take the Soviet Union. I may have to side with the Axis if I want to do that, but I have a few years to make that decision.
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You know what would help this mental image? Screen Shots... or Twitch it when you play. Just some ideas...
I'll take screen shots. Thinking about S. America I may puppet them so I don't have to deal with domestic unrest tying down my troops. I take otherwise useless cavalry units and give them a unit of MP's. Those guys can cover some ground and free up my combat units for that whole conquering thing.
Sumatra, illustrating how the AI arrays units. It could have pushed down but didn't which allowed me to "squeeze the tube of toothpaste" until they were all gone. Then you have the AI stacking up and depleting its units through attrition. I landed further down the chain and rolled up the various depleted units. The last....that's how it begins England. God (and a fast plane) save the king.
"Best laid plans...."
Last night, England was a black hole into which I dumped division after division. I think I'm over 80 at this point, but finally in a rough line from Bristol to Oxford to Ipswich and poised to attack London. A strategic bombing campaign beat down her industry and I eventually "out spent" her in manpower. Northern England held me up for far, far too long as Allied nations and the English pushed in reinforcements via Scapa Flow. You have to take the ports in any invasion to prevent resupply and reinforcements.
Speaking of invasions, DAMN YOU AUSTRALIA!!!!!! You gobbled up 20 of my most experienced Marine divisions in my futile efforts to capture Darwin. You should have accepted the loss, because tonight I'm back for Round Two and it won't be pretty.
I'm short hundreds of units in material so manufacturing is slow, but I have enough stocks to replenish my equipment losses. I've introduced jet fighters on both land and sea. It took several thousand of all types to subjugate the RAF. It was not their finest hour.
I'll extend my conscription which will give me another 4-5 million in manpower on top of the 3-ish million left. I should be able to finish off the English and that Down Under crowd tonight. I'll use the latter plus new units to handle Africa while I push into France at some point this week.
One WEAK ASS unit is the Airborne. They have to fix that broken ass implementation because airborne assaults are basically garbage and they aren't worth the manpower or manufacturing to support the units and aircraft. If I could have dropped 4-5 divisions on Darwin that wouldn't be a topic.
Last night, England was a black hole into which I dumped division after division. I think I'm over 80 at this point, but finally in a rough line from Bristol to Oxford to Ipswich and poised to attack London. A strategic bombing campaign beat down her industry and I eventually "out spent" her in manpower. Northern England held me up for far, far too long as Allied nations and the English pushed in reinforcements via Scapa Flow. You have to take the ports in any invasion to prevent resupply and reinforcements.
Speaking of invasions, DAMN YOU AUSTRALIA!!!!!! You gobbled up 20 of my most experienced Marine divisions in my futile efforts to capture Darwin. You should have accepted the loss, because tonight I'm back for Round Two and it won't be pretty.
I'm short hundreds of units in material so manufacturing is slow, but I have enough stocks to replenish my equipment losses. I've introduced jet fighters on both land and sea. It took several thousand of all types to subjugate the RAF. It was not their finest hour.
I'll extend my conscription which will give me another 4-5 million in manpower on top of the 3-ish million left. I should be able to finish off the English and that Down Under crowd tonight. I'll use the latter plus new units to handle Africa while I push into France at some point this week.
One WEAK ASS unit is the Airborne. They have to fix that broken ass implementation because airborne assaults are basically garbage and they aren't worth the manpower or manufacturing to support the units and aircraft. If I could have dropped 4-5 divisions on Darwin that wouldn't be a topic.
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Based on what you have said earlier, it sounds like you def won't have the manpower to take on Russia now. Will the losses you have suffered in men and equipment travel down the line, or can you make them up?
I have...two or three more conscription options, some or all of those carry penalties like increased training time or a 30% decrease in manufacturing capability and increased time to build what I can. Those are inconsequential at the moment. I'm down to nearly 1 million left to recruit, halfway through France and 5 or 6 provinces deep in Australia. One great feature of HoI 3 was that with enough espionage you could determine another country's manpower and manufacturing capabilities. Not so with IV.
I found a nice bugduring the invasion of France: French units don't appear on the map. The lines look barren until I attack and then I'm fighting my way through the country. I'm sure better players than I have a better strategy, but I'm a plodding "line abreast" guy who will build a battle group and use it like a lawnmower, cutting down the front lines so my leg infantry can move in with minimal losses.
Instead of Darwin I took Perth and needed a mech infantry group to do that. 20-ish Marine divisions didn't have the staying or attacking power against the Aussie whatever's garrisoning Perth. Now that I have a foot hold I can eventually take the continent. After that? Maybe the PNG and clean up all of those islands before moving on to India.
What little I played was solo. Online gaming exposes more assholes than a proctologist's office.
For better or worse, people leave other people alone for the most part.
Unfortunately, people playing Solo can screw with us online players just as much as other online players. Whenever people make a station lock down on Solo, it affects every play type, and there's nothing we can do about it if they aren't online with us.
I've had mostly positive online interactions (there was one asshole in an Anaconda who decided to interdict my Cobra and destroy me) and even when I had a bounty on my head, players didn't attack me (one even made sure that I was aware of it and told me to be careful).
There's benefit... sharing of good trade routes, cooperation in bountyhunting... but you need comms to make it work.
It does, however teamwork gets more kills...
As 1955 approaches I find myself in control of France, portions of modern Germany, the Balkans, Hungary, Romania, all of Australia, Switzerland, and Southern Africa. I formed a faction, named it Thor's Hammer, and welcome all who oppose the decadent notions of capitalism or the unrealistic notions of communism.
Yes, those are Swiss divisions on line against me in France. FAIL
That's how Italy and other nations lost 60 divisions. Without a port for evac, they melt away like tears in the rain.
I don't know how much more I wish to play in this game. It is 54-55 and I've beaten the Allies even if they won't sign a peace treaty, so the only question is should I scrape the bottom of the barrel for manning and go for it all?
One thing I just read is the new patch, due out in a few weeks, will fix a major problem that I hadn't noticed until now: the AI doesn't build nukes or medium/ modern armor. No nukes and nothing but light armor and leg infantry makes for a weak AI. That's supposed to be fixed in the next patch according to the devs.
Time to chase my sleeping pill with some red wine. Good night, America!
Yes, those are Swiss divisions on line against me in France. FAIL
That's how Italy and other nations lost 60 divisions. Without a port for evac, they melt away like tears in the rain.
I don't know how much more I wish to play in this game. It is 54-55 and I've beaten the Allies even if they won't sign a peace treaty, so the only question is should I scrape the bottom of the barrel for manning and go for it all?
One thing I just read is the new patch, due out in a few weeks, will fix a major problem that I hadn't noticed until now: the AI doesn't build nukes or medium/ modern armor. No nukes and nothing but light armor and leg infantry makes for a weak AI. That's supposed to be fixed in the next patch according to the devs.
Time to chase my sleeping pill with some red wine. Good night, America!
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For the sake of securing victory and playing it smart? Probably not.
For the sake of curiosity and the entertainment of all? Absolutely.
Out of curiosity, when engaging in battles, is this similar to a Rome: Total War style or are you always the top of the flag pole watching your orders carried out on mass scale?
Pre-ordered and paid in full BF1 today. Not sure why as I was never too big into Battlefield (1942 excluded, loved that game as a kid). Something about the WWI theme has my attention, if for no other reason than it's a different historical era FPS and there's too many futuristic styles now. I was never a big online guy (exception naturally being the aforementioned 1942).
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The main problem I have is not enough targets showing up
I haven't tried HazRes sites, though, so I can't speak for those.
There's zero tactical level anything in the game.
I'll probably make a run at the USSR even if it crushes me, but I won't do that until the Allies surrender and I absorb those lands, settle puppets, etc. For resource's sake I'll puppet the UK, claim all of France, puppet Belgium, take the rubber-heavy portions of the Netherlands, take all of S. Africa, puppet Australia, and probably puppet Canada or at least a slice. I'm surprised the computer hasn't surrendered yet because the Allies are down to nothing.
