HOI4 Dev Diary - We're back! (and 1.4.2 patch)

[Balesir]

"The Royal Navy tended to order its destroyers in groups of eight during the 1930s and first half of the 1940s" I wouldn't say the woozy bit (at least right now), as I'm confident of that one (I just finished reading a book on British destroyers ),

If I was being really picky, I'd say that tended to be groups of 9, not 8, because they included flotilla leaders as well. But that was not universal; there were omissions, exceptions and examples of the "rules" being ignored, so... On average, it might well have been eight!

 

[Axe99]

If I was being really picky, I'd say that tended to be groups of 9, not 8, because they included flotilla leaders as well. But that was not universal; there were omissions, exceptions and examples of the "rules" being ignored, so... On average, it might well have been eight!

Hahahaha - right you are! I'm thinking in terms of "HoI ships" rather than flotillas, and I usually made the leaders a different class - but they were definitely considered part of the flotilla by the RN, and I'm fairly confident it was flotillas of nine (eight normals, one leader) from the A through I classes (other than that silly class half of which were sold to Canada or similar - can't recall exactly what happened, but they mess up the whole pattern). I'm pretty sure from the Tribals and J/K/Ns onwards it was eight, but prior to that it was nine. Or at least I think it was......

The lesson of this story is even when I'm confident, one should take it with a grain of salt .

On topic, my 1.4.2 beta patch game is going well for me so far, haven't seen a single German or Italian troop convoy in the English Channel .

 

[Duke_Dave]

Well the Yemen and Bhutan guys look swell

 

[Oliver Twopence]

- New leader portraits for Yemen, Haiti, Malaysia, Luxembourg, Indonesia/Dutch East Indies, El Salvador, Buthan, Cuba, Panama, Dominican Republic, Netherlands (alternative)

Hell yeah! I really enjoy those.

I do hope you will redo Mao at some point, though. He was a great deal younger in 1936!

 

[Duke_Dave]

Hell yeah! I really enjoy those.

I do hope you will redo Mao at some point, though. He was a great deal younger in 1936!

I'd like them at point to have two sets portraits one which are historically correct and one which has well known leaders. So that you could get Castro, Khomeini, old mao, pol lot, etc.
And before you start the game you have the option to turn on historical accurate portraits or "famous leaders", than you get the most famous leader of that ideology, if he had been born back then already.

 

[Gorben]

Are you using an AMD graphics card? This is an issue with the latest driver (1.7.7.2 for my 390). Just roll back to the previous driver via device manager on Windows.
That fixed it for me

Thank you alot, yes I am using a 290

 

[NaRen13AnnexYourself]

Hell yeah! I really enjoy those.

I do hope you will redo Mao at some point, though. He was a great deal younger in 1936!

I guess Paradox should fire Lin Biao as a Yun'nan warlord firstly, that would be far easier!

 

[Mannstien]

You guys are wierd sometimes....

We weird people are what keep this train going Mr. @podcat and the lights on .

 

[Tisifoni12]

You know the not sending Axis forces to a watery grave thing. Could you extend that to the Allies. Playing as the UK and watching Dominion forces unnecessarily sailing to HK through the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, and being sunk en route.

 

[neliodv]

On topic, my 1.4.2 beta patch game is going well for me so far, haven't seen a single German or Italian troop convoy in the English Channel .

Nice, I think I'm going to test this beta too.

 

[Kadanz]

Then I must've selected the wrong beta?

 

[Axe99]

Then I must've selected the wrong beta?

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It's only troop convoys sadly - supply and resource convoys still get sunk in droves - but it's a start. And those Italians do look very suspicious!

Edit: this is the strategy - do Italy look like they meet those conditions? If they do, and they're still shipping through the channel, might be worth posting up the save.

Spoiler

axis_stay_away_from_the_royal_navy = {
    enable = {
        has_war_with = ENG
        date < 1942.1.1
       
        OR = {
            GER = {
                naval_strength_ratio = {
                    tag = ENG 
                      ratio < 0.5
                  }
              }

            # if we manage to get a foothold in UK we must do what we can to exploit it! (checks coastal states)
            divisions_in_state = { state = 127 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 126 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 125 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 129 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 130 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 131 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 123 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 122 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 132 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 121 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 136 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 120 size > 0 }
            divisions_in_state = { state = 133 size > 0 }
        }       
    }
    abort = {
        OR = {
            date > 1942.1.1
            NOT = { has_war_with = ENG }
            AND = {
                GER = {
                    naval_strength_ratio = {
                        tag = ENG 
                        ratio > 0.5
                    }
                }

                divisions_in_state = { state = 127 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 126 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 125 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 129 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 130 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 131 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 123 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 122 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 132 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 121 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 136 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 120 size < 1 }
                divisions_in_state = { state = 133 size < 1 }
            }
        }
    }
   
    ai_strategy = {
        type = naval_avoid_region
        id = 18 #english channel
        value = 100
    }
}

 

[Kadanz]

It's only troop convoys sadly - supply and resource convoys still get sunk in droves - but it's a start. And those Italians do look very suspicious!

The british did a raid of the Italian mainland, they got repelled eventually. A large portion of Italian uniforms went missing in the process however, very suspicious indeed.

 

[noobermenschen]

- Cheating on the Austria-Hungary Referendum and going with the annexation should no longer report that Hitler was assassinated.

Fake news!

 

[DeathGhost]

If you are making South Tyrol a core of Austria, then make Vilnius (Wilno) a core of Lithuania.

 

[Baldos]

I don't see this at all. They are oftentimes reckless regarding aggressiveness and get into multiple-front wars which they can't win but they are not weak.

Yes Axis AI is very reckless...

 

[tarzanofmars]

Hi everyone! The HOI team is now back after recharging batteries on summer vacation (although yet again I failed to go visit the submarine museum in Kiel ).
We decided to start our time off with a little patch (Oak 1.4.2) since there were still a bunch of things we wanted to deal with for which there was no time before summer.

Here is changelog:

In 2016 you said in regards to air supply "Ran out of time to code it. We will likely add it at some point in the future after release."

We still can't air supply.

 

[kettyo]

Yes Axis AI is very reckless...

I'm going to mod AI aggressiveness to not open multiple fronts.

 

[myzael]

If you are making South Tyrol a core of Austria, then make Vilnius (Wilno) a core of Lithuania.

That would require a map rework, Lithuania never claimed whole northeastern Poland and that is what the current Wilno province is.

We still can't air supply.

We also can't grammar

 

[Adamgerd]

Yes and this is again not cheating since players can look at the pool of sold resources anytime as well.

A player can? How?