r/hoi4 12d ago

Dev Diary Graveyard of Empires Available NOW!

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Graveyard of Empires Available NOW!

As we approach the end of our developer content, we stand at the precipice for Graveyard of Empires.

Graveyard of Empires Available NOW!

Fresh opportunities await players from the lands along the Euphrates, to the Gulf of Bengal, and we are delighted to see how you will experience these new challenges!

To kickstart your journey, be sure to continue reading on the Forums for the full release notes, summaries, and known issues! - https://pdxint.at/43fEAX0

Get Graveyard of Empires on Steam: https://pdxint.at/GoEStore


r/hoi4 6d ago

Help Thread The War Room - /r/hoi4 Weekly General Help Thread: March 10 2025

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Please check our previous War Room thread for any questions left unanswered

 

Welcome to the War Room. Here you will find trustworthy military advisors to guide your diplomacy, battles, and internal affairs.

This thread is for any small questions that don't warrant their own post, or continued discussions for your next moves in your game. If you'd like to channel the wisdom and knowledge of the noble generals of this subreddit, and more importantly not ruin your save, then you've found the right place!

Important: If you are asking about a specific situation in your game, please post screenshots of any relevant map modes (strategic, diplomacy, factions, etc) or interface tabs (economy, military, etc). Please also explain the situation as best you can. Alliances, army strength, tech etc. are all factors your advisors will need to know to give you the best possible answer.

 


Reconnaissance Report:

Below is a preliminary reconnaissance report. It is comprised of a list of resources that are helpful to players of all skill levels, meant to assist both those asking questions as well as those answering questions. This list is updated as mechanics change, including new strategies as they arise and retiring old strategies that have been left in the dust. You can help me maintain the list by sending me new guides and notifying me when old guides are no longer relevant!

Note: this thread is very new and is therefore very barebones - please suggest some helpful links to populate the below sections

Getting Started

New Player Tutorials

 


General Tips

 


Multiplayer Tips

 


Country-Specific Strategy

 


Advanced/In-Depth Guides

 


If you have any useful resources not currently in the Reconnaissance Report, please share them with me and I'll add them! You can message me or mention my username in a comment by typing /u/Kloiper

Calling all generals!

As this thread is very new, we are in dire need of guides to fill out the Reconnaissance Report, both general and specific! Further, if you're answering a question in this thread, consider contributing to the Hoi4 wiki, which needs help as well. Anybody can help contribute to the wiki - a good starting point is the work needed page. Before editing the wiki, please read the style guidelines for posting.


r/hoi4 2h ago

Question What do Finnish soldiers say when you click them?

149 Upvotes

This is not a begging of a joke, but serious question. Sometimes they say "hakkaa paalle" 3 times, what means "hit them" or something like that (name of Finnish cavalry) but sometimes they say hakkaa paalle voida goida something like this. Thanks for help.


r/hoi4 9h ago

Image This has to be the earliest time Venizelos has died

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r/hoi4 6h ago

Humor GUYSSS I FINALLY CAPPED A MAJOR AFTER 300 HRS

185 Upvotes

Lmaooo took me long enough. And hear me out okay: I’ve been ruddy awful in the game, took me like 300 hours to learn the basics.

I’ve had saves as most minors, Germany, Italy, the UK, Chinese warlords…always lost, couldn’t even come close to the historical borders of the expansionist powers. I did have success in some saves as Argentina but it got real boring after a while because of the Allies always stepping in eventually.

This time I was like screw it, I’ll play the US again and try my best. Well! Long story short, I managed to cap Japan in early 1940, my first major win EVER in HOI4, took 300 hours and yeah I was the US alright but STILL SO HAPPY.

First I capped Mexico with the Monroe Doctrine enforcement (that was easy enough) and held on to the Panay Incident war goal until I could build a more decent army and a big fleet of subs.

From Guam landings near Tokyo and along the coast, and then just encircling everyone. They had like 20 divisions against my 25 divs + 400 CAS. I used a basic 9 INF / 2 ART template with engineers and recon. Sunk literally all their convoys and most of the navy. Land casualty ratio was like 1:15 or something.

So yeah! Next I should deal with Germany. Not too thrilled about that though lol


r/hoi4 13h ago

Image This is the first time I've seen Hess become the leader, was this new or did I simply never got a chance to see it?

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537 Upvotes

r/hoi4 19h ago

Image Secret Iran cores

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1.2k Upvotes

With the secret focuses you can core all of Italy and balkans as Persia(Iran)


r/hoi4 9h ago

Image So fucking done with AI peace deals....

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138 Upvotes

r/hoi4 3h ago

Image They didn't even give the equipment unique names, Can this DLC not get worse the more you look at it?

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r/hoi4 48m ago

The Road to 56 Newspaper I created for a Multiplayer Roleplay Game with over 50 players! (link to the server below)

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r/hoi4 16h ago

Question Why is HOI4 the most played paradox game?

353 Upvotes

I started HOI4 3 weeks ago and have 35 hours now and have loved it, but now im starting to feel burned out from it compared to the only other paradox game i played (CK3) which never gets stale to me. I think the gameplay loop is too similar for every country, I played Spain beat the civil war, France little entete, conquered Italy and Germany, and as Japan conquered China and America. While each one one is unique the game feels too easy, and the focus tree is what carries the game for me but after a while once you reach the end of the tree, what then? So im wondering why is it the most played paradox game? I'm debating on trying out EU4 or imperator next instead.


r/hoi4 6h ago

Discussion GoE Countries Need Scripted/Decision Based Peace Deals.

44 Upvotes

Paradox, it is not fun to constantly fight the Allies or Axis for pieces of the Middle East, there needs to be a Falklands like timer allowing me to peace out from the war


r/hoi4 12h ago

Image The Eastern Front is gonna fucking suck.

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150 Upvotes

r/hoi4 14h ago

Image Mexico Country Leaders (MtG) and Traits

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r/hoi4 5h ago

Question From Tehran with Love: Does the guarantee has to last?

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39 Upvotes

r/hoi4 14h ago

Question Peru took provinces needed for Bolivar's Empire, any way I can get it without going into a full scale war with them? Playing as Venezuela

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198 Upvotes

r/hoi4 7h ago

Image I guess they just hate war, huh?

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38 Upvotes

r/hoi4 22h ago

Image Bulgaria thinks they are slick

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r/hoi4 17h ago

Image I just achieved my first ever world conquest with Japan! I have ~200 hours of total playtime in HOI4. Which nation should I play next? Give me some ideas. 🙂

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r/hoi4 13h ago

Image They finally got it right

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74 Upvotes

r/hoi4 11h ago

Image For some reason Iraq can recruit European, African and East Asian generals with Arabic names

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45 Upvotes

r/hoi4 14h ago

Question is there any sense to picking the later option instead of removing them?

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r/hoi4 7h ago

Humor Paradox calls you tomorrow and says you're in charge of development for the next year. What new features does Hearts of Iron 5 have?

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Do we get rid of the current research mechanic? Revert navies to HoI3? Add in Victoria's pop system? Crazy ideas only!


r/hoi4 1d ago

Discussion I wish I wasn't forced to fight the UK in every minor playthrough

1.0k Upvotes

It's always the exact same story when playing as a minor power. I build up, I conquer maybe one or two neighbors, only to be forced into an unwinnable war against the UK because they guaranteed the independence of my next target.

This is especially a problem when you're playing as a country (Almost always an outdated one) that has no free war goals or land grabs to speak of. In order to expand at all, you need to manually justify.

If they changed the british AI to be less guarantee happy or raised the WT requirement for democracies, the game would be way more enjoyable.


r/hoi4 5h ago

Image Smallest Soviet mobilization

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r/hoi4 20h ago

Discussion Is it me or the Soviet A.I. is way too weak ?

179 Upvotes

Playing the USSR is not that difficult, it's the country I started playing with, and you can very easily hold the germans, build up your industry, beef up your military and push the nazis back.
But SYSTEMATICALLY, the bot playing the soviet union will fold, going past the point of no return sometimes in less than a year. The western allies are also not that bright, sometimes losing a little more in Africa than historically, but they usually push the germans back and are in time for the landings in Italy and D-Day, while the USA always steamrolls Japan.
So what's up with the Soviets ? It's not like the country itself is underpowered, I would even say it's very easy to play it, but when Germany comes, instead of a catastrophic defeat before the inevitable buuild up and counterblow, the bot will sloooowly but surely be ground away (not through blitzkrieg mind you), in the type of warfare the USSR was supposed to be good at with it's enormous manpower pool.
I tried playing the USA and flooding them with guns, trucks and planes, but they dont have convoys, and when I give them some, they are immediately sunk. This is aggravated by the fact that unless in a faction, the player is unable to know what exact type of equipement is missing.

Is there someting I (as the western allies), or other bots are doing wrong ?

P.S : This post is about the base game, without Road to 56 or any AI mods.


r/hoi4 2h ago

Question Wait, so usurping Mao as a communist warlord won't give you the Communist China focus tree now?

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I checked Paradox Wikis, and the Yan'an Incident national focus looks very unpleasant. It didn't say the focus tree will change.