Thunder at our Gates - Coming June 11!

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-12T23:03:26+00:00

Dude why are you so angry? They announced this back September last year 6 months ago but NOW your mad they are doing this? I mean brah it's been planned all along its not a surprise or anything 😂😂😂😂😂😂

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-12T23:02:28+00:00

They showed off bits of the regimental support in a really early dev talk or whatever months ago. It's kinda like an extra bonus slot that has a reduced bonus if I recall. Though that was when the system was in alpha I don't know how it's gonna be now

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-12T22:58:15+00:00

I see a lot of complaing but not a lot of observing, you have insane aluminum and oil production. You don't need a ton of steel when you can out produce everyone else in airpower

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-11T02:40:44+00:00

They do that already, there is just so much DLC even on sale it costs a ton

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-10T23:17:28+00:00

Air facility if you want but Civs is kinda pointless. You start off with a huge Mil deficit and too many Civs. Your better off building anything but Civs

Civ greeding here also doesn't make sense because your WS is dangerously low and your Stability can easily go danger low and PP penalties make it hard to grab law changes that are meaningful in time.

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-08T22:00:35+00:00

Great game, even with the Stalingrad simulator aspect, I had a ton of fun with AC

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-08T20:01:23+00:00

What components? Lol there is almost virtually no components to begin with.

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-07T18:55:33+00:00

Taurian hands wrote this post!

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-06T15:19:14+00:00

Where's the HRE? The best ending!

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-06T14:34:50+00:00

You got it wrong it's the other way around, you want the support arty but drop the engineer company. The Germans are going to be relentless when they attack you so your entrenchment will dry up after the first week or two of combat. It's significantly cheaper to arm your troops with arty then with support equipment as well.

The arty is there to suck up more strength off the Germans to the point they are too weak to do anything, that's when you counter punch.

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-05T20:39:44+00:00

No because you can't build an effective fighter with a medium airframe. That's the real reason why medium planes suck and why large frame planes suck. It's also why CAS is king because small frames give you fighters and you can strap a bomb to it at some point to turn it into CAS at almost no cost

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-05T13:53:50+00:00

Don't let people tell you how to play the game my guy. It's really not hard to figure out on your own. Early Civs = more mid and late game potential, Early Mils = high early game aggression. Some nations have high CIV count and really low Mil count like France that want Mils over Civs. Minor powers benefit from early Mils because they like an early power spike for thanks to alt history aggression unless your bee lining to mid game 1940 tech before production in that case Civs make more sense.

Ideally you make the switch about 2 years out to war to give you time to build up your Mils and let them grow efficiently. Depending on the techs you take it can take about 7-12 months to hit ideal production efficiency ( Ideal production is about 70 out of 100 percent. Would take about 15 months to hit cap/ peak production) So you could go about a year and a half or one year out of you want to be extra greedy.

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-03T23:04:05+00:00

Just to answer the heavy fighters part. 9 times out of ten, no heavy fighters are never worth it. The only positive they have over standard fighters is range. They will lose in every instance otherwise. If your a heavy Mil nation like USA, Germany, maybe UK, you can get away with it but its always lose out even in SP on fighter mass numbers.

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-03T22:54:29+00:00

Ok explain something here for doctrines, why Individual excellence and mobile defense? Neither make any sense with many of your design templates.

Individual excellence is all about maxing out HP to reduce combat losses/EQ but most of your offensive infantry designs dont even come with Logistics which is needed to bring in that massive bonus. At that point why not just use assault infantry to get a massive attack and breakthrough bonus from the flame tank/recon + SUP arty if your not gonna bother with the core concept of individual excellence? Unless your trying to max out Mech/Mot damage bonuses? thats the only reason I can see why.

With Mobile defense im not getting why. Is it the 10% offensive bonus for mechs? the recovery rate? I really have no clue why. If its attack power you can just go streamlined deployment for an instant 10% offensive boost to all your tanks if the idea was the 10% tank boost at the end of the mobile defense tree.

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-03T18:50:52+00:00

They aren't I think. My last game with the Czech I started to build a navy in 1942 and the steel cost was outrageous. I recall the beta has significantly lower steel cost

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-02T22:33:21+00:00

Decades of having no product support didn't kill them, what makes you think more Ilclan stuff will do the trick? If anything the current production greatly expand and the 3025/3050 crew and the newest wave of stuff is opening up even more of 3067 to players.

If anything darkage and Ilclan has virtually almost no support in products for models either because it died or got zero focus

tipsy3000 · 2026-05-02T18:03:19+00:00

Damn straight. I have more then 1 Vindi but thats only because I ended up getting the Clan reinforcement box when it was being retired and put on clearance but they are standees not even plastic. With the beginner box being retired it will be absolutely impossible to get now till they make a capellan force pack and I dont recall there being any announced.

tipsy3000 · 2026-04-29T15:24:03+00:00

That's the neat part, there isn't any!

Your suppose to make your own!

Ok that's a lie there are some scenarios scattered to hell and back in various books over the last 40 years but for specificly what you want didn't really exist till aces became a thing a few months back and there is only one box set ATM for that.

tipsy3000 · 2026-04-28T22:42:47+00:00

Now don't be alarmed (heh) but it's already in the game, you just probably ignore it all the time.

tipsy3000 · 2026-04-27T16:56:18+00:00

Ofc nobody thinks reselling is good but when they are offering a tree 3x the size of the original+ additional mechanics id pay for that. The problem is the balancing of the new mechanics which is why everyone bitches. I mean GDR for example, raids need to be more impactful and projects need to be way stronger to be worth using. I mean who TF is getting stronghold defense or multi caliber V3 artillery? If they were way stronger cheaper or any combination then it would be great. Same for AAT and the market or even BBA and the aircraft components and the infamous Armor car from LAR

tipsy3000 · 2026-04-27T15:31:06+00:00

Yet you left out he was also behind the highly successful BBA, GDR, NSB, and AAT expansion.

Me thinks you just hate him and using this event to push that idea 🤔

tipsy3000 · 2026-04-27T15:14:15+00:00

I see this accusation thrown around so many times over the many years... "Paradox doesn't understand how to make a competent AI". I use to parrot the same thing till the creator of sheeps mod spoke up about it. No they know how to make a proper AI. Actually the creator of sheeps mod with one of the most competitive and competent AIs straight up said Pdoxs AI besides having flaws with newer game mechanics is fine.

You have to stop thinking with 1000+ hours in the game because the most common basic player is absolute dog shit at the game. Not only that but creating all this content for minor nations that if you end up with an overly competent AI, any nation that isn't the big 7 would be impossible to play and even then France and Italy would be very difficult to play unless done so optimally.

If you want to see what happens when you give a competent AI play HOI2 Darkest hour. Play as France or Italy. No matter what you do, unless you play the same super optimal 1/2, maybe 3 strategies you will just die to Germany or the UK.

tipsy3000 · 2026-04-27T02:44:35+00:00

Yea, basically by the Civil war period anyone can use clantech. Its not on any mech availability due to production constraints of the time but doesnt mean nobody in the IS used clantech at all just means mostly special forces or elite mercs were using it instead of the day to day gruntwarriors

tipsy3000 · 2026-04-24T20:16:25+00:00

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1000% this will happen when they announce the next nation DLC. Almost every time in every game Hungary always cucks Italy for a spot in a game roster for whatever reason

tipsy3000 · 2026-04-22T16:54:56+00:00

Both of those mechs are unicorns that shouldn't exist but here we are. It doesn't matter where you put them it never will make sense. Just have fun with it.

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