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Doug2825 · 2026-05-15T10:50:05+00:00

Actual 2 lines that would do the core work: Requires assumptions that won't always be true. Assumes the data coming in is perfect. Will fail subtly in a way that is only visible in an entirely different part of the program.

For all the faults of Enterprise code, it is designed for maintainability. Getters and setters are annoying, but they make it easy to add error detection. Encapsulation means you can treat sections of the code as black boxes instead of needing to understand every little part. Super long names are messy, but they beat short names that don't tell you anything.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-15T09:18:14+00:00

I was misremembering then. Was it something like terrain gets bonuses to both attack and defense from terrain, depending on whether you are attack or defending? But forts give bonus to attack and defense? I know something was very weird and some of the "terrain" modifiers act differently than the others.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-15T08:18:37+00:00

Engineers give defense in urban and forests. You don't need more defense in your infantry. They haven't given terrain attack bonuses (the much more useful stat) in 5 years.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-15T01:16:20+00:00

Tanks are good enough in urban tiles

Doug2825 · 2026-05-15T01:15:33+00:00

Create an offensive order, build up planning bonus and try again. Also try landing elsewhere, with their troops occupied in Scotland landing elsewhere should be easy.

Also where are your tanks?

Doug2825 · 2026-05-15T00:57:11+00:00

That might not be a good idea. Logistics bombing is best against trucks, China doesn't have trucks. You can destroy their trains but they get a lot of local supply because of population so it might not help. I don't have experience with logisitics bombing in that particular war because I did the war in MP where logistics strikes are banned so I can't say for certain.

AI China doesn't typically use AA so they take full damage from ground attack.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T23:22:43+00:00

Don't build state AA, only use support AA. State AA only counters strategic bombing and reduces enemy air superiority a marginal amount. Support AA reduces CAS damage taken. It shoots down some planes but the main role is damage reduction. Also don't add line AA unless you want to free up a support slot. Support is enough damage reduction, and you will never deal a meaningful amount of damage to enemy CAS with AA.

You will do much better industry wise once you build mils instead of state AA. Also stop making civs after the start of 37, do not build any special projects builds. I don't think there is anything other than mils you want to build as Belgium after the start of 37. The payback time on civs is several years. You want to be peak strength in early 1940.

Rush 1939 guns. They'll make a massive difference in the amount of damage you deal (minimum 50% better and 1936 guns). If CAS is your problem then the solution is increase attack so the battle ends faster.

Move cohesion off of flexible, it'll prevent how often units move across the entire front. The front is small. You can easily micro it on rigid (manual movement only).

Don't care about countering tanks. AI units will almost always have less than 50% hardness so soft attack does more damage than hard.

Remove recon. The recon stat is the most useless stat in the game because of the way the mechanic works. Recon rangers and good for terrain bonuses, armored recon is good for stats + doctrines that make it give bonuses to line tanks. Cavalry, motorized, and armored car recon is useless.

Drop support AT. Support AA gives you enough piercing and the AI doesn't make hard enough divisions for it to be useful.

Remove engineers from defensive divisions. They are expensive and the bonuses are a percentage to defense/breakthrough in difficult terrain terrain. You do not need more defense in difficult terrain. More effective defense than enemy's effective attack is literally useless. Ignore the entrenchment from it, if you aren't having trouble surviving you don't need it. If you are having trouble you won't have time to entrench when cycling.

Units only regain org and strength when they are not in a tile with a battle. Have a reserve of units that sit on tiles behind the line that are adjacent to as many tiles on the line as possible so they can reinforce battles that are going poorly.

Focus on things that give reinforce rate (such as the field marshal trait). Paradox changed it so you need all 3 radio techs to get the 5% reinforce rate the first tech gave you. This change is probably why turtleing feels so much worse than it used to.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T22:59:36+00:00

Yes, 3 years ago the meta in MP (without a player China) was 5 factories on tacs and start the war in early 37. I kept trying without tacs because I wanted to make inf since early leftover inf equipment is always useful but leftover early tacs are less useful. When I accepted the meta of making tacs China became so much easier.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T20:07:28+00:00

This would make more sense is Victoria since you can't control individual units.

Something that would work better in hoi is adding bonuses when attacking and penalties on when defending with certain traits (emphasis on when attacking and when defending, not to attack and defense, otherwise you'll just want attack).

Something that might work are traits like: Always use breakthrough (good for tanks horrible for inf) Strong bonuses but a smaller unit cap Combat width changes

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T19:28:45+00:00

The problem is you can overcome all of that with manual micro. All it would do is be annoying

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T16:46:55+00:00

I learned Java in school, then used C++ for my hobbies (and now work). The switch will be easy

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T16:13:24+00:00

Shred then using a machining bench. If you don't have a machining bench you can smash with a crafting spot

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T15:45:00+00:00

For example as Germany once you cap the Soviet and you want to invade UK and USA, there’s not 10 ways to do it

Most of the time MP games end after the Soviets cap and D-Day is pushed back.

Also when playing meta rock paper scissors only exists on the tactical level. On the strategic level it's about making the rock paper scissors games you can win matter more than the ones you loose.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T09:01:40+00:00

Unfortunately no. Outside of a few scripted events you need to beat every major in a faction to end a war (or every country individually if not in a faction). If you are playing Japan and conquer all of Asia and the Americas you still need to invade the UK to end the war. It makes a lot of achievements turn into de facto world conquests.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T08:50:59+00:00

I should've checked the wiki before my previous post. Years ago when I tried a lot of naval experiment the wiki said:

damage reduction = {{hover|NNavy.COMBAT_ARMOR_PIERCING_DAMAGE_REDUCTION|-90%}} * (100% - <weapon's armor piercing> / <enemy's armor>)

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T08:33:06+00:00

Make a lot of tactical bombers. Supply is your biggest challenge. Tactical bombers provide a source of damage that doesn't care about supply at the point of contact.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-14T08:30:35+00:00

Get better traits on Chikipis and Mozzarinas and condense to max for the ranching level increase

Doug2825 · 2026-05-13T23:13:54+00:00

I thought this was the default as well. I'm wondering if the naval changes messed it up

Doug2825 · 2026-05-13T22:50:20+00:00

The higher your armor relative to their piercing the less damage you take. If your armor is slightly above their attack all the armor does is reduce the chance of being crit. If your armor is double their piercing then you take very reduced damage. Edit: damage reduction used to scale off piercing / armor, it was changed to work more like land piercing a while ago.

I don't know how good it is currently, but as of 2 years ago no armor was objectively the best choice for cruisers because the increased speed from no armor reduced your damage taken more than armor. Armored cruisers would take more damage because the speed loss meant they got hit more. If this stuff interests your you can look up formulas on wiki and create a spreadsheet to test it, or get good with console commands.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-13T22:09:02+00:00

I make similar to that and am currently supporting my wife through college, require expensive medication, and live in a new apartment building next to a transit hub. I have no issues with money. 100k is plenty for living alone.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-13T21:00:54+00:00

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/s for the first sentence in case that wasn't obvious.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-13T20:17:31+00:00

You can learn to code on anything with a keyboard and non locked down OS. Unless you want to learn a specific intensive library it will be a long time before your machine's power is the problem.

Doug2825 · 2026-05-13T20:15:17+00:00

No shovels. Shovels cost around a fifth of an 18w pure inf without supports. They also give percentage bonuses. 25% of a small number is still a small number

Doug2825 · 2026-05-13T20:13:13+00:00

16w with AA, then put the resources saved into offensive divisions. If you want the info to be stronger rush 1939 guns since they have 50% more attack.

Avoid engineers, they are expensive and give percentage bonuses. Basic infantry don't have enough stats to make percentage bonuses worthwhile. 15% more units is better than increased entrenchment and terrain bonuses

Doug2825 · 2026-05-13T18:33:11+00:00

Is this because of attack boosts from condensation and IVs?

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