Hearts of Iron IV Dev Tracker

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30 Aug 13:04 PDX Chakerathe on Steam - Thread - Direct

Good morning/evening/night!

Summer break is over here in Sweden, most of the team is back from vacation and it's full steam ahead towards the finnish line. As mentioned in the last Swedish DD there’s two designers for the Swedish tree, so you might see both of us answer in the comments below. Without further ado

Communist Sweden In game the path to communist Sweden is to the left side (we finally managed to have the communist path on the left and the fascist one one the right) of the democratic historical path where you instead choose to align with the Swedish trade union to unlock some communist advisors

When your support for the cause is high enough, you can flip communist with the leader Nils Flyg. This guy definitely does not fit into the HoI mold as he became disillusioned with the Soviet Union and became pro-axis.

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30 Aug 13:04 /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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28 Aug 17:22 PDX Chakerathe on Steam - Thread - Direct

Generals!

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28 Aug 17:22 /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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25 Aug 20:16 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

The Colonel said: I think the bigger effect, unless the live patch is significantly different from the beta, will be the huge range nerfs. It's going to be very hard to make offensive fighters to take air superiority over a zone you're just pushing into because you have to sacrifice defense and weight => attack (with thrusts now reduced) to get the extra fuel tanks to have enough range to project superiority into other zones. Unless there are more changes, it seems like defensive interceptors will be able to mop multiple times their IC in bombers/air superiority fighters, which I can't really comment...

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25 Aug 16:43 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

Synicus said: 1) Is air defense important for fighters? or would it be catastrophic to use drop tanks instead of self-sealing fuel tanks resulting 1.0 air defense 800 range?

I did a run on a live stream a few weeks ago where I had a ton of planes with non-standard materials usage. I wasn't running IW planes, but I had plenty of CAS with air defense of 1. It was part of a larger experiment with trying to save aluminum by having fighters with top tier stats and CAS with poor air to air stats to lower their cost (since I wanted to see if I could lower ... Read more

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24 Aug 13:06 PDX Chakerathe on Steam - Thread - Direct

Generals!

Our next Feature Breakdown Video on Arms Against Tyranny is here!

With it comes a look at the Finnish Focus Tree and a look at the first Major Feature of the Expansion: The International Market!

Make sure to check out the video here[pdxint.at]

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24 Aug 13:06 /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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23 Aug 13:00 PDX Chakerathe on Steam - Thread - Direct

Hej everyone, it’s me, Carlo! Katten has been staring at me from the other side of the office all morning, which can only mean one thing: it’s time for me to write another Dev Diary! Now, I’ve already talked about Historical Norway, the Joint Focus Tree, and modding stuff so there’s only one more thing I could write about, and that’s our favorite kamerat, LevTrotskij.

Known outside of Norway as Leon Trotsky, he was one of the most prominent members of the bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, renowned marxist theorist, known for his permanent revolution, and even more permanent exile. He was Lenin’s successor apparent, but Stanlin’s political maneuvering forced him out of the government and eventually out of the Soviet Union. After that, he was allowed to move to Norway, with the newspaper editor, Konrad Knudsen. So far so good.

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23 Aug 13:00 /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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21 Aug 23:30 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

goodcigar said: Still don't understand. What is CV NAV referring to? CV Torpedo Bombers or CV Dive Bombers or both?

Secret Master said: For the other fleet, create a CV NAV that uses the modern ...

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21 Aug 23:17 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

HmJ_JP said: Yes, it's the internet version, so of course, aligned with the current wiki. Yet PDX decided to install a version on your disk, see my post for the path.

Aha, see I thought the game's browser was accessing the copy on the hard drive. Which, in hindsight, wouldn't make much sense.

Yeah, that's weird there's a copy on the harddrive. Is there any way in the game to access it? Every button I press in game opens the browser. But the OP mentioned pressing the ? key, but that still netted me the online version. Or does it pull up th... Read more

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21 Aug 21:13 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

HmJ_JP said: He's talking about the embedded wiki in the game. I also have a very outdated version, not sure why the PDX team embeds a wiki version at all if it's so old.
[drive]\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\wiki

View attachment 1014657

Hmmm....

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21 Aug 17:42 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

Herennius said: I would like to add here that reliability beyond 100% (aside from acting as buffer if other temporary things like weather increase attrition) currently triggers the "extra-equipment-out-of-thin-air"-bug, if you go out with maintenance companies:

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21 Aug 04:49 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

HmJ_JP said: I'd say push soft attack and armor as high as you can, while keeping speed as low as needed (4 kph). Isn't it all we need for tanks supporting infantry battalions?

The Colonel said: ...

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20 Aug 23:09 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

HugsAndSnuggles said: Wouldn't medium be better then?

Depends on whether you have the time and research slots for medium 1938.

For 1936 techs, this is what we see:

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20 Aug 19:13 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

Mister Analyst said: This leads me to believe that you are using an outdated version of the HOI4 wiki.

Umm, how would this happen? It's not like the game has a cache with old wiki pages in it.

Unbestechli...

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20 Aug 19:06 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

Mantriel said: 2. I have an army of light tanks (24 divisions), I started producing medium tanks.
3. My divisions are 7 infantry & 2 artillery, 20 width wide for my infantry armies. The tank divisions are 5 tanks & 5 motorized infantry. Support companies are for both: Engi, Support Artillery, Support Anti-Air, Logi & Hospital.

I would be producing medium tanks either before France falls or immediately after. We want medium tanks with 8 kph speed on them so they are going fast enough to overrun and encircle. Light tanks are simply not going to c... Read more

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20 Aug 18:14 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

Morvrann said: Hi, I never really played using Space Marines, wanna try it

Let me provide some guidance.

First, let's make something clear: Space marines are not about having good tanks. They are about having "meh" heavy tank destroyers that you can produce from 1937 until you you drown the enemy in them. So, when thinking about this, I don't want you looking at the tech tree and saying to yourself "Aha! I'll get 1943 heavy tanks soon. Let's swap to that!"

Resist that impulse. Instead think like this:

"I have 137% pr... Read more

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17 Aug 23:10 Secret Master on Forums - Thread - Direct

HmJ_JP said: I often like these tactics, work well in HOI4 although AI gets suspicious when the opening is too narrow. But don't try the opposite in 1939 against Germany, it doesn't fare well until you're well equipped.

I did it by accident one time in an MP game many years ago.

The weird way some tiles near Kherson are drawn, one time I left one tile completely uncovered along the river. The Italian player sent some motorized troops through the gap, and I didn't notice at first. When I noticed a weird Italian snake heading towards Sevast... Read more

Hearts of Iron IV Dev Tracker

30 Aug

Developer Diary | Sweden Alt History

Developer Diary | Sweden Alt History

28 Aug

Steam Strategy Fest!

Steam Strategy Fest!

25 Aug

Interwar plane design help.

Interwar plane design help.

24 Aug

Arms Against Tyranny | Feature Breakdown Video #3

Arms Against Tyranny | Feature Breakdown Video #3

23 Aug

Developer Diary | Norway Alt History

Developer Diary | Norway Alt History

21 Aug

Broken Carrier aircraft explanation?

Mentorship

Mentorship

Heavy Tank design for Space Marines?

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Heavy Tank design for Space Marines?

20 Aug

Heavy Tank design for Space Marines?

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Best strategic deployment against the SU? Beginner questions.

Heavy Tank design for Space Marines?

17 Aug

Combat Width - Switzerland - Mountaineers - Supply

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