"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve."

@@natesiress1057 If only they re added either a focus or decision chain to have the bombing of Pearl Harbor actually occur. I get that in the old US focus tree the "Pearl Harbor Gambit" focus was just a dumb thing to do but I think it could be done well. For example like an event could happen in April 1940 that says something like: "President requests the Pacific Fleet be stationed at Hawaii" and the one option would move the fleet to pearl harbor as well as give a small war support boost and the other option could cost a PP penalty of 50-100 and/or lose some war support. For Japan there could be the regular "Secure the Philippines" focus or one called something like "Neutralize the American Threat" that would be locked until after the American event and would give them a decision to trigger a scripted port strike mission that simulates the actual Pearl Harbor attack, puts them at war with the US and the Allies, and gives them a temporary naval invasion bonus against the places they invaded historically. Ideally the AI would also attempt to wait until around December 1941 to do this. For the Americans, upon the completion of the Japanese focus, they could get an event detailing the attack and the option to acknowledge the pop up would say "A date which will live in infamy", put the base war support at like 90%, give a buff to carriers and carrier aircraft, and maybe even add a decision to start an event chain for the Doolittle Raid. Idk I'm just spit balling here but it could be a neat idea.

@@topphatt1312 maybe someone can make a mod that adds that in addition, maybe you will need to "create" the nuclear bomb to have the focus to bomb hiroshima and nagasaki

Yet by using a spy to boost ideology other than democracy, you can stop the US from doing it (They need 95% democracy support)

This is interesting. I've done this once. I neglected the Romanian front. The Germans pushed me till Moscow Leningrad and Stalingrad line. (Somewhat historical one). Then I slowly started to grind the Germans and started to push them back. Made use of lend lease scams from the middle east countries.

What kind of fantasy is it?

@@kaansaki8265 I think it’s doable

nah the real challenge is to play your best game possible as Germany then when you declare war on the USSR save the game and switch to playing as them

​@@BigMackWitSauce I did this once before

mildly might be little bit of an understatement

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"I fear we have woken a sleeping giant... and filled him with a terrible resolve." Isoroku Yamamoto

THATS WHAT I THOUGHT TOO

Well, so much for my understanding of mathematics

what?

@@obama69890 if your base war support is 0 and you set it to 10. The other non base war support modifiers have no impact on your final war support.

Then you can set pride of the fleet back and it goes to 15

@@feldspar1496 it goes to 15 regardless of if you unassigned the pride of the fleet. The pride is not base war support it is a modifier to it.

So basically 4D chess?

VOID HOW ARE YOU DOING

That would be nice

I've been playing hoi4 like this to give it more difficulty It works well

Hilariously, this is what Bokoen1 and ISP did... kinda. They played a game as Denmark, completely stomped over Norway, sent a save to Alex the Rambler, and asked him to save Norway, lmao

My favorite is to go down the communist path a bit but then once I finish the wealth tax and desegregation and all that, end up not flipping communist, and instead fire Browder and put in the democratic reformer. This probably isn't as strong as just embracing communism but, it does mean I can roleplay a USA that fixed segregation, Jim Crow, wealth disparity etc and yet still remained fully democratic and did the giant wakes path etc etc.

@@JB-xl2jc ??? thats so cringe

@@kungfu3299 Do you understand what that word means?

@@JB-xl2jc Yes, and if I didnt, your comment explains it perfecty

@@kungfu3299 Ahh, to be 14 again. I miss the blissful ignorance. Have yourself a nice day.

Amazing.

Yeah same just like uk,you can get core on brazil,Spain and portugal if portugal do monarchist, then spain do unite the iberian peninsula, then france do monarchist after that when capitulate doing franco British, and you can do imperial federation

@@Kelvin_Dnl Yes, it can technically be done, but if you were to do it in Ironman Mode, you would have to have deal with a LOT of RNG.

i don't know if it was in vanilla, and i apologize in advance if it isnt, but wasn't there a way to gain cores on all of the USA as Britain with some monarchist gimmick of letting your wife rule the USA and then doing the imperial federation?

@@falkeunit british monarchists gives your wives the kingdom of usa as puppet. you can do it as blackshirts and give canada all of the usa. Also blackshirts allowes you to form eu. + the spanish-porto-french trick, you core: dominions, usa, spain,porto brazil,france,lowlands,germany,italy. I tried to console commands something else: Estonia forming scandinavia. Poland annexing austria hungary. having lithuania then coring all of estonia and poland. And restore the P-L commonwealth. Didnt work though with estonia, giving no scandinavian cores

If you switch to export focus to save up some oil for fuel you can get all naval doctrines by 1939 by training the whole navy with naval reform spirit

In regular difficulty without strenghtens

@@fabriziocecchetto181 If you build infrastructure in all oil states from the start (TX and CA are always my first), the oil stockpiles remain full the entire time when training everything. Don't need to move off of free trade until conserving resources in the late game.

Lol, you can supply all the allies solo, easy even running everything constantly

I think he made a division guide, but it might have been before NSB. Would love to see an updated one though, I always struggle.

Its really just divisions and attacking from angles

Kinda hard things change every update, right now cas is king

agreed

Infantry as an anvil and armor as a hammer is easily the funnest way to play with ground forces.

@@stonedtowel As poland i used this strategy to destroy soviet russia. It's funny how much they got destroyed.

@@stonedtowel i also used spies since they're SUPER OP.

no it doesn't. if you have above 10% it provides no additional war support. however @Bitt3rSteel is playing unnecessary games with his war support. base war support and modified war support are not the same. as long as you have less than 10% modified war support, STA sets your base war support to 10%. so you do not need to unpride your potf to get an "extra" 5% ws. it doesnt work like that. the 5% from potf is modified above the base. it is not counted in the base. USA starts with 0% base war support. as long as your modified war support is 9.9% or below, while having gained no base war support (ie you did no war propaganda or whatever), you will always get a 10% spike in war support.

@@kvlt1349 Thank you, this is a really important point and it's unfortunate that so much attention in the video is devoted to a mistake - you do need to care about whether war support is over 10% or not but this is just an either/or proposition. Bitt3rSteel clearly misunderstood why this was important and didn't make the connection even after noting that the world tension bonus still got applied on top of the 10% base.

​@@kvlt1349I was about to say that. BASE war support. Modified war support is stuff like world tension, pride of the fleet, ect.. Base war support is diffrent. If have 5 base war support, and some focus says it sets it to 10, it gives 5 war support.

And then you learn he didn't even get the +5 from the shenanigans as pride of the fleet is not base but a modifier :)

and 5) The Bureau of Ordnance repeatedly refused to acknowledge that there might be anything wrong with their torpedo, ignoring field reports and blaming the servicemen for incompetence instead.

He framed MacArthur though

Dispersed also provides dockyard output which is good for any navy build you do. It also reduces the amount of damage your factories take from bombing.

It's got to do with the production retention rate. Concentrated is better for producing bulk equipment like infantry equipment, but as you are constantly researching upgrades to these assets it will take too long for those upgrades to benefit from the additional productivity of concentrated industry line because you need to spend months working your way back up to the productivity you had before you see any benefit from concentrated.

Long story short: Production Growth

Because of the production efficiency retention.

I feel it is very usefull when you are constantly improving your technologies because you can produce the new stuff more quickly. If you have no airforce it is also quite good to stop the enemy strategic bombing (in my experience it is not a big threat). But sure, if you play soviet style just producing a lot of old guns to field the biggest army possible, then concentrated is indeed way better. Honestly going either concentrated or dispersed is not that important, just follow your hearth where it takes you.

Canada's Fascist leader looks like a evil Walt Disney.

Except you literally don't have to do any of that nonsense to do it and he left all his islands exposed for a SP run in which the AI will annoy him by taking those islands.

Truckin' is life

It’s definitely worth the purchase!

Haha yeah i once was like you

@@johnqvd1924 I own the base game but without all the DLC is seems pretty empty

@@dahakaprod6519 definitely get some dlc. You don’t need to get all of them either. For example, just don’t purchase Battle for the Bosporus, or even Together for victory (though personally I would pick up the latter). All the other dlc are pretty much essential though imo. Also, wait until steam has a sale (which happens relatively frequently). You can save a ton of money that way.

The P-47 was good at high altitude and had excellent diving speed. Using the plane strengths, the 348th Fighter group had much success with P-47's in the South Pacific.

Damn, that's a big oops

Cruiser design doesn't work anymore as you aren't allowed to intermix heavy and light medium batteries.

does this generate more XP than the 1div training that he does?

Maybe they'll do a Scandinavia DLC in the future.

@Aran_Gski special forces ftw