You can puppet spain and Putugal if you go down the Romen Empire Path and you can invite some South American Lands. Just do say it.

YEs!

As a player of WwA from its beta days. I will say this; stay away from it. It is basically p2w coh clone. It WAS good though back then but nowadays the devs heavily monetize the heck out of the game. Upgrading units at lower level doesn't eat much resources but the amount of resources needed ti upgrade units will skyrocket insanely. Yes, you are forced to only focus on one nation only. This is still somewhat understandable to an extent. The devs keep releasing legendary units that is almost difficult to get and only available on special limited time banners. It costs contracts which you can buy from "special" deals which either costs Gold tokens (another special currenty) at an overpriced price OR get them from events that is outright cashgrab or for whales only. That's not all, they also gives general separate levels too. When a general reach lv 10, they give massive buffs to your armies. The problem with that is in order to get general cards upgrades, you have to spend on general special banners again and yes, it costs contracts again. To upgrade them to lv 10 costs shit ton of cards. We are not done yet though, they also recently released "mastery" bs which is special upgrades you can only get from special banners as far as I know (I already quit at this point). This mastery gives you an edge against non mastery units. From what I hear from veterans, mastery massively changes how the gane plays. Suddenly a basic rifleman can outrange a defensive bunkers, soviet flame tank suddenly become faster than speed of light. Tldr; at the time of this writing, the game is a garbage p2w CoH2 clone with gacha that only cares for whales. If you intend to play and don't be a whale, then stick around low lv league and avoid upgrading your troops since matchmaking depends on your average unit lvl and trophy. And then pray the matchmaking didn't get broken and decided to match you with an opponent with overlevelled units. It happens from time to time. If you plan on being a whale who want to spend without care of real life, you just find a perfect game to throw your money away. I loved the game but the devs ruined it themselves

Why

I'm thinking about getting hoi4 in the future and seeing if your guides will work (I know they'll work even for a dummy like me) but if everything goes wrong could you please save It?

What he was likely building for was the mountain combat width.

then there would be only 2 infantry regiments per division

the Tank templates are almost what Italy starts with. whoever sent this in only changed the 4 cavalry for 4 mot. infantry. it is terrible to start with

Me too

Wouldn't even be accurate, Italy's infantry were on par with other nations of the war, the motorised and armoured however are probably close to it, given yknow, they had to deal with the whole extremely mountainous terrain of Italy

some people do make intentional disaster saves for him to do such as in "This USSR Disaster needs me to DEFEND MOSCOW!" (because the German AI never does Sealion), the last disaster save was 2 weeks ago, but I think he's doing less of them because he's trying new things like A to Z, challenges like the Stalingrad mod and normal mod playthroughs. Plus he has a job and family outside since KZfaq is his hobby (I think) so he doesn't have a lot of time

@@saltvault8943I think he has just gone full time.

I wanna play some disaster saves but Im too good at this game to make my own. Theres a reddit for hoi4 saves but its very dead.

There are only so many times you can learn the same things at a certain point most of those people understand better

@@saltvault8943 about the sealion thing one time i was playing as the USSR and germany atcually sealioned UK

Can confirm, I still don't understand division width, soft attack, hard attack, or what support divisions even do. I just do the same templates with arty, anti-air, and anti-tank and some other random supports that look like they'd be cool.

​@@omogHLanti-tank is literally useless in single player. Until maybe late game when the ai actually produces a lot of armor

​@@seanm241Though, usually late game you'll have so much armour and CAS that you can just shred enemy armoud anyways. Imo the only use of AT in singleplayer is for CAS

Thanks, man!

@@vikenock many things

Ciao compagno italiano

That is funny💚🤍❤️

Mandi!

30 is far superior

General rule of thumb after NSB is 15-18-21-25-41/42/42/43/44/45 are all good, I don’t think 30 width is good anymore after NSB, but it would work against AI regardless.

Although divisions over 40 are costly.

@@sauron1414 30 is a perfect fit for mountains

@@Bitt3rSteel i was more or so referring generally, my bad bitter.

Nm. Zfmnnn

Well the player could’ve just changed the name along with a bunch of other stuff before he sent it in

In my hoi4 games i do a lot of puppeting, it gives you an idea of what divisoins the ai makes, the templates in this video are not templates the ai makes

@@gintozlato1880 Yeah the ai just spams templates

​@@WhiteVanMan17it decommissions a lot of templates too

can confirm, i sent in this disaster. juts came acorss it today :) im thankful that he chose mine and i learned sooo much from it.

You get puppeted by Germany though

@@cptcatf1sh I'm pretty sure that's only if you're in a faction with them.

Agreed

It did it just wasnt uploaded to youtube

​@@GAMER123GAMINGyou must be fun at party's

so historical italy?

He was doing historical Italy wdym?

@@SlayridThe joke is that historical Italy did a bad job

I'm impressed you managed to get this many divisions to survive in that case

@@Bitt3rSteel thanks it was mostly the ai being incompetent at holding pockets

So uh, why did you choose the mobile warfare and naval AA advisors when you didn’t have a navy or mobile warfare doctrine… Edit: Free pass on naval AA since you just lost your navy.

@@Panzerfrank i had a navy and a lot of tanks but they all got killed

The Romans were notoriously terrible at naval warfare especially eastern Rome

I hope to warm up with December 1944 when the mod is fixed. After that.... Maybe

​@@Bitt3rSteelat this point it honestly feels more like "if" than when which is a really big shame

you expect better from a human player!

Yeah, it’s always a disaster

If you want to fight the Royal Navy: 1) Get dockyards early. 2) Use mines and only fine in mined areas. 3) Wait until France caps so you don't fight the whole French Navy as well. 4) Fight in regions where you have air superiority. 5) Rush the 1939 targeting tech and refit your cruisers and battleships with those. 6) Observe your battles and run away if needed 5)

But I #want# cooler looking tanks

That's an absurd amount of footage tbh

so great when i play as i wacht, was only an ide... ps. love what you do, hoi4 is one of my top 5 games @@Bitt3rSteel

Artillery gets pretty costly if you use it all over the line like that

@@Bitt3rSteel Not really. If you have that much artillery you're going to be absolutely demolishing enemy divisions that have no armor (so any infantry division you face). If you are doing that much damage to enemy divisions they never have the chance to do much damage in return. The issue is more that you didn't have control of Italy from the outset so you couldn't prioritize artillery production to that degree. That much soft attack will leave enemy infantry divisions with extremely low strength. I know this because it's one of the main ways to out attrition the Soviet Union by destroying their equipment faster than they can build it as a smaller nation. Just sit on mountain/river line, let the AI attack, and have reserve divisions that you can throw in after you bait the attack. It's easy money.

​@@Gustav_Kurigajust make all divisions 9inf 3arty with support companies

@@xeon39688 Eh, I prefer 21 width divisions, then 31, then 41 (if possible). The minor malus to going slightly over combat width is vastly outweighed by the increased capability you can add to a division. So I'll usually build something like a 7inf/2art/1AA if I don't have tungsten or a 7inf/2art/1AT with aa support if I have the tungsten necessary for that production. Once you get later into the game where you can support higher width divisions both industrially and from a supply standpoint, I'll upgrade it to 31 width or 41 width.

And I'd then have to guard those ports....

@@Bitt3rSteel just to be clear, I was referring to you having problems in north Africa when you said that there was too much of a distance between supply hubs. By that time you had naval supremacy in the area, if I remember correctly. But even if you didn't, I don't think AI would be fast enough to capitalise on you having built the port(s). I'm not even sure if they acknowledge that there is a new port created so they could potentially naval invade it. Though the video is great, love to see those disasters saves 👍

It has empirically the best collection of stats that will apply in most circumstances. It's not the best at anything , but is good at everything.

@@Bitt3rSteel can I send you a decent desaster save?

@@darthrevan5200 yeah, sure

It's tied to specific email addresses, I'd recommend checking the FAQ online. I can't assign it manually, it's all automated through Discord and KZfaq

@@Bitt3rSteel ah thanks!