Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

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how2update
a lot of this ♥♥♥♥ is based on early MTG meta so don't get angry and call me a tibetan monk when u die
update DLC coming soon™ with exciting features such as:
1) (not) very secret exploits 2 cope with the cancer that is la resistance
2) updated naby
2.5) slightly updated strategies folded over 1000 times
3) moar culturally relevant language
4) AIDS
buy now for ¥10,000,000.00
how2laresistance
u dont
u get 39 industry in 41, germany and italy has a massively nerfed industry compared to soviet/allies
spies are just encryption & decryption with a civ cost, and half the strategies here are rendered void because of your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ industry

So just play no air or convert your civs to mils so you can get planes and try to do something I guess.
at least there's a new (actually 3 years old, but never revealed) exploit that makes your life slightly bearable where you can make any divisions you want veteran with puppet manpower though. I won't tell you how for now, just wait until everyone in multiplayer does it because I won't be playing it for the meantime and you shouldn't either.
how2vet
"bro i have 2k hours i will do superior firepower 14/4 R.E.A.L.S (recon, engi, arty, logi, signal) & marines, spam 50 light attack heavy cruisers + empty DD with trade interdiction left/spam 500 cruiser sub&sub3 with trade interdiction right (depends on which metaslave mouthbreather anglo you're talking to), do 8k+ zero's and spam 3k tac bombers. I will take china by late 38/early 39 and have at least 24 40width by the start of the war. I will make a collab guberment on china or (WARNING: red flag depending on some people/mod) give most of it to manchukuo. I will do New Naval Estimates and Steel for Ships early game (after I take silent workhorse) then go down the research slot then get total mob. I will skip spiritual mobilization and go right for marco polo because I can do the decision for the manpower. I will have 7 facs on gun, 5 on artillery, 3 on support, and the rest on tac bombers early game. (say 3 on CAS if you have a feeling hes a metaslave 19yo from sweden) I will rush zero immediately after marco polo and make sure to get tora tora tora! bonus before war. I will put at least 50 mils on zero. I will also only build civs until china ends with some dockyards sprinkled in there and there. Manchukuo can be air controller or they can be useless mass mob fuel slave and siam can do sub3 or they can develop themselves and not play the game bro."
how2talk
make sure u sound super confident & cocky when conducting diplomacy if you're exhibit A.
if you're exhibit B, make sure u sound like a passive little ♥♥♥♥♥ or monotone.
(see below)
try to negotiate with the host to not have a siam because you get cucked out of 25+ factories because germany wants 3 civs back, and if germany/he complains say you'll have you or manchukuo give civs to germany to mend muh tradeback (make sure u tradescam him)

since ur essentially alone most of the time, or just wit one or two guys in voice chat, you can actually engage in conversations that arent about clicking icons on a virtual map and b urself. prob not tho, cuz ppl who play ♥♥♥♥♥♥ countries like großmanchukou or "I cuck you out of 25+ factories" don't tend to be the most talkative or eloquent, especially if they're american
if its silent and awkward, heres some topics ♥♥♥:

- how much u love anime
- how much u love bideo gaem
- how u pwned these nubz in map paint
- weather
- politics

if ur ronery in chat then either go to axis and deal with LARPers screaming about icons in a virtual map, or just listen to billie eilish's latest hit
how2play NA Japan
do all the ♥♥♥♥ you said to the host and spam light cruisers with light attack if you're in a mcdonalds lobby, or spam cruiser subs with max torp if you're in an euro lobby. don't build escorts, just spam convoys for a few months.
research tac bomber 1 with germ license and put 5 or 4 facs on it.
do conc and tools and electrical engineering
you don't actually need to do superior firepower if you dont want to waste research, do GBP left path. if its a player china then you need to do superior firepower and alt f4. do battlefield support (yes). make sure you sneak in some subs tech if you're doing them, otherwise they're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless.

1. new naval estimates
2. purge kodoha->research slot
3. pp on silent workhorse, use on ships
4. 1 div army train and use xp on 14/4 template. send volunteer to mexico to cuck germany from grind if allowed
5. ask manch to make marine template or save up 100 xp from china to do (formerly known as) dustin exploit and convert all ur army to marines
5. poop out 24 ♥♥♥♥ width's and convert them to 14/4
5. poop out 24 ♥♥♥♥ width's
6. improve infra in mengkukuo and get a lvl 10 port in dalian
7. put ur 40w on border with china and the ♥♥♥♥ width on border with shanxi
8. declare, wait for escalation, maybe do some naval invasions, don't use planes to conserve fuel
9 (optional) strat bomb nanking infrastructure so you attrition china to 999999999%
10. finish him
11. spam docks and mils
12. do some fuel silos until 2m
13. declare
14. convoy raid around malaya with 500 subs and bomb the airports so they can't tac bomb you
15. push them while they are attritioning
16. GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
17. oh wait you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless
18. meme around and take islands and invade aussie, new zealand and india because you're not gonna impact anything
19. want to know how to have impact?
20. check below
how2play Sugar Daddy Japan
DISCLAIMER/UPDATES: If you are playing Horstorical or any Horst* mod, you actually have a broken as ♥♥♥♥ industry, so you can afford to have 110+ mils or even something like 90mil/100dock, research SF while boosting germany and contest malaya and random ♥♥♥♥♥♥ stuff like india

22. was right there were lots of rule changes;
If there's rules about lend leasing, convert some mils to civs and try to give Germany the biggest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boost you can.

If there's rules about overtrading, make Heavy Cruisers with maximum medium batteries and don't research excavation. You can dual prop later and it will take the most steel in the game. If you have GOOD social skills, ask Germany/Italy to make a bunch of duplicate HC templates, license and produce them for more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Follow the early game for A, except you're going to be making convoys and subs only. Don't make tacticals, only put 2 factories on CAS and the rest on guns.

Instead of researching tac1, research mass mob
1. make convoys
2. lend lease some 300 to manchukuo
3. spam some subs and convoys
4. license fighter 2 from axis
5. only produce that when the war starts and the bare minimum you need to keep your divisions supplied during war (check logistics tab)
6. if italy declares on yugo and greece and axis AC joins, lend lease the fighters you're making to manchu and have him send ♥♥♥♥ to them
7. if they for some reason refuse or if someone goes autistic, make threats to leave
8. if they don't play ball with you, just simply go AFK and don't take china. you can also go closed economy to fug them harder
9. do something else
10. spam mils and civs during china, start boosting germany's economy by overtrading AT least 15 civs. rush fighter 2 with fighter modernization
11. peak trade should be a boost of at least 50 civs when you're almost done with china (make sure u mp at harsh)
12. at least 50 mils on f2 and rest on guns
13. convert your civs to mils in 1940
13. keep some on arty, anti air, support eq for your 40w and 14/4 mountaineers you will spam out
14. when the war starts, smuggle all your planes through manchu and keep building them until mid 1940
15. put your fighter production to a minimum of 10 and spam out guns
16. spam 800 10w's and garrison yourself to the teeth
17. make some fuel silos, state anti air.
17.5 move subs to germany
17.7 split up your fleet and surface raid. you can refit some of them with anti air.
18. declare
19. abandon siam and hide in this line with 40w and mountaineers (you can actually build forts since no one but america has fortbuster in allies)
20. AFK until dday comes and they get red air and you convoy raid them with 300 subs
21. GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
22. get banned, have new rules made, get told by deranged people that you're not getting any sleep tonight
how2play 160 dockyard
just build 160 dockyards bro

PP buy order: Silent Workhorse, Steel for Ships, Free Trade, Draft Exemptions whenever you can (Stay on Navy Dominant), take Extensive Conscription when you're at 50k manpower from Total Mob, War Industrialist, Coastal Fleet Designer, Mitsubishi, then you can do whatever you want ♥♥♥♥♥♥ (save PP for war bonds)

Focus order:
1. new naval estimates
2. purge kodoha -> research slot -> total mob -> marco meme blabla
3. cruiser focus (rush Cruiser 3 with coastal fleet)
4. le zero
5. naval production (have manch hard rush cas 2/tac 2 for you)
6. develop resources
7. naval production (b-but muh supremacy of will!111 ♥♥♥♥ you ♥♥♥♥♥♥)
8. (late 1940): strike south doctrine into the war goal focus, warrior spirit
9: construction repair gggggggggggggggggggggg

Build order:
Civs until Greater East Asian CoProsperity Sphere
Port on dalian, tell manchukuo to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ build infra on mengkukuo and airport if you're playing cringe horstnig mod
dockyards (civs during china gay), make some 10 mils after china war
you should have 100 docks by 1 jan 1940 if you did everything right
keep building docks, maybe some fuel silos there and there

Research:
hardcore research everything navy, rush disp/conc 4 manually, you need the building slots

Gameplay: spam 100 cruisers, annex siam during china, spam 300 destroyers, overstack carrier fighters in your carriers because they kamikaze during battles for some reason (and they don't get shot) gegegegege
you can mix this with sugar daddy japan and boost italy instead of germany and tell him to make docks from day 1 and you make docks as well
how2play 200 mils
just make 14 veteran mediums and 14 light spg bro

same ♥♥♥♥ as 160 docks but with mils, except you go for army dominant and make 40w pure infantry divisions and grind them on shanxi. you can go supremacy of will with licensed german tanks if you want pure stats although researching them yourself gets you more quantity
if you want to research them yourself, time your medium 1 research with the armor bonus

make light spg's 2 during the leadup to china war, you can get them on seasoned or veteran and they are really helpful. if you want to do an infantry centric build with tac bomb spam, then grind mountaineers instead

grind the 40w infantry as hard as you can, put supp companies you would like to be on the tank then
1. Duplicate the template
2. On the duplicated template, disable all equipment
3. Convert the trained (regular lvl) 40w to the duplicated template that has no equipment enabled
4. Change the duplicated, no equipment template to the desired tank template and still turn off equipment
5. Enable all equipment
Tanks start with exp this way with no training and losing tanks. Japan can get Veteran tanks through hardcore grinding. how2grind? right click moar u ♥♥♥