Hearts of Iron IV - The Ultimate WWII Strategy Game

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

I hate that brazil so much.

Its like they think any state in the amazon without including all of Grão-Pará would be able to last more than five seconds.

 

[Delterius]

I hate that brazil so much.

Its like they think any state in the amazon without including all of Grão-Pará would be able to last more than five seconds.

The whole thing presupposes a similar development pattern without the rise of the centralized government which managed resources and lend institutional power to portions of a country whose geography is particularly shitty for inland development. If there was such a thing as an 'United Kingdom of Brazil' it wouldn't be just Sao Paulo + the south and the northeast + Minas just because those are the big states in our post imperial colonization rojects, post republican dictatorship-led corporativism. It would likely break down into a number of local state oligarchies like the US.

 

[Malakal]

First of all you basically can not have a land locked resource-based-economy nation that is independent. How the fuck will they export their massive tonnage worth of exports? Ans how will they manage any other kind of economy?

 

[AwesomeButton]

How the fuck will they export their massive tonnage worth of exports? Ans how will they manage any other kind of economy?

Through gas pipes :D

 

[Agesilaus]

I have HoI4 with most of the DLCs, should I play vanilla or get Kaiserreich or something? I have played before, but not in the last few months and never with a mod.

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[thesheeep]

I have HoI4 with most of the DLCs, should I play vanilla or get Kaiserreich or something? I have played before, but not in the last few months and never with a mod.

Mod.
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I would say this is the essential mod kit:
- Coloured Buttons
- More Division Icons
- Extended & Streamlined Production (sounds fancy, but really just adds more factory slots to productions)
- Puppet Manager (may be optional, depending on the overhaul you use)
- Player-Led Peace Conferences (if you could only install a single mod, it would be this one, screw the peace treaty AI, this is mandatory for sanity)

And in addition to that one of the overhaul mods:
- Kaiserreich, obviously, if you are into the alt-history. Undoubtedly the overall best mod due to the sheer amount of events, decisions, details. Only the research tree is too sparse IMO, too vanilla
- Road To 56, which starts historically but then goes bonkers
- Hearts Of Oak, which is like vanilla on steroids - if you don't want a mod that is too far from vanilla, pick this one

That said, I started playing using only vanilla and it isn't a terrible game on its own. I just don't see a reason not to improve it with mods. Especially with the essential ones.

 

[Life of the Party]

State Transfer Tool is fairly essential, and I'd also suggest some music mods.

There's also a bunch of submods for Kaiserreich, including the likes of Kaisertech and !ZMM MoreVariants, as well as some waiting for releases or updates such as Dankest Hour, Home of the Brave and Kaiserredux. There's also Balkans Upgraded although it feels too much like 'choose your own ideology'.

However, I'd say the mod I'm by far the most interested in is Godspeed: A Flame for Winter.

 

[thesheeep]

State Transfer Tool is fairly essential.

Why do you need this when you already have the Player-Led Peace Conferences?

I really hate that mods such as these are even required. It is terrible to sprinkle your game with tools that would just let you cheat like crazy.
But even the constant exposure to "oh, hey, don't you want to use me to give you a little edge nudge nudge wink wink" is better than the catastrophe of what happens by default.

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Btw, I've been having some problems with the new launcher and mods. Is the new version of KR supposed to be for the latest patch?

 

[Life of the Party]

Yes, but it works perfectly fine on Hydra.

 

[Life of the Party]

Decorum Est:

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Beastro]

I hate that brazil so much.

Its like they think any state in the amazon without including all of Grão-Pará would be able to last more than five seconds.

CONUS is just as weird.

Do they honestly think without the Louisiana Purchase the US wouldn't keep pushing forward? Even before the 19th Century private American Citizens were trying to find ways of bringing French and Spanish land into the fold despite it causing diplomatic problems for the Federal government.

It's similar to the Alaska Purchase. Had it not be bought the US would have found some other way to get a hold of it. The only other nation they were remotely content to tolerate free of their influence on the continent was Britain.

 

[Life of the Party]

I hate that brazil so much.

Its like they think any state in the amazon without including all of Grão-Pará would be able to last more than five seconds.

CONUS is just as weird.

Do they honestly think without the Louisiana Purchase the US wouldn't keep pushing forward? Even before the 19th Century private American Citizens were trying to find ways of bringing French and Spanish land into the fold despite it causing diplomatic problems for the Federal government.

It's similar to the Alaska Purchase. Had it not be bought the US would have found some other way to get a hold of it. The only other nation they were remotely content to tolerate free of their influence on the continent was Britain.

 

[Malakal]

Some kind of UK + France alliance of containment could certainly work if they decided to go this way.

 

[Beastro]

Some kind of UK + France alliance of containment could certainly work if they decided to go this way.

America was too good a pawn to play with by the French doing unto Britain what Britain had always done to them. Once that era ended the US and Britain had too many coinciding national interests to make them be at odds despite their talk to the contrary.

About the only way they could be at odds is if Jefferson made a clone of himself that ruled as dictator after him for a good few decades and succeeded in his desire to break the trade of New England and force them all to be good Yeoman farmers like he hoped all Americans would become. It was that reason why he was so insanely hostile towards the US Navy and sought to neuter it, since he felt the only thing it helped protect about the US was its overseas trade, as if that was a bad thing.

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Space Satan]

Red tide is the most boring and pretentious mod hoi4 saw

 

[Fedora Master]

Red tide is the most boring and pretentious mod hoi4 saw

Which says a lot in a game full of those.

 

[Life of the Party]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-bag-of-tricks.1308467/

 

[Life of the Party]

Home of the Brave and Kaiserredux

 

[Beastro]

Red tide is the most boring and pretentious mod hoi4 saw

Wait, these are real?

I thought they were some silly satirical meme people were making mocking this kinda thing.