Quick Questions/ Quick Answers - HoI4

[Killer-Cosmo]

Looking at the german focus tree, two questions have arisen:

1) I cannot find any focus to puppet Hungary and Romania anymore. How does a player of Germany puppet them nowadays? Or is there any other peaceful way to get possession of Romania's oil (i don't mean by trade nor conquest)?

2) An Inner circle question - especially on the economic guys (Todt/Speer/Goring): If a player has let one of them research the respecitve third focus - is there still an option to change over to one other guy? The historical order would include all of them at different times with Speer being the last. Is this possible?

1) While I haven't seen it myself, There exists something called "Operation Panzerfaust" for Germany.

In this dev post:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/graveyard-of-empires-release-notes.1730282/reply?quote=30207848

They mention Operation Panzerfaust by name, specifically stating:

• Fixed an issue where Germany's Operation Panzerfaust would result in Hungary getting puppeted and having their war reset, resulting in teleported divisions

I made a post about it:

Operation Panzerfaust And Puppeting Romania

So the release notes for Graveyard of Empires had this specific line: Fixed an issue where Germany's Operation Panzerfaust would result in Hungary getting puppeted and having their war reset, resulting in teleported divisions Since they removed...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

As for Romania, you can subjugate their economy through the respective focus, however I don't know about fully puppeting them after that.

If I had to guess I'd say it has something to do with the Eastern Front and fighting the Soviets in general

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2) Once any one of the three completes their third focus, the other two cannot. I wouldn't apply historical context to the Inner Circle mechanic in general, as it's more for gameplay/balancing

 

[Federkiel]

@Killer-Cosmo Thank you for the explanation! I too feel intrigued on how this operation pans out.

EDIT: Thanks too for the hint at the lackey thingy. So one has to swap them out before the third focus hits target.

 

[Killer-Cosmo]

EDIT: Thanks too for the hint at the lackey thingy. So one has to swap them out before the third focus hits target.

You should get an event when one of them starts the third focus, which allows you to either stay with them or swap them for one of the others for free

 

[50shadesofgreen]

I built 3 synthetic rubber plants in Sachsen. Then I did the two focus towards Autarky that build additional rubber factories in Sachsen. I was sad to see I didn't get a fourth and fifth factory there. I thought you used to, but not any more. Did this change?

Another focus annoyance. I played through up until choosing the Scavenger focus for Germany. Only to find that the generals getting this focus changed on this playthrough. I had been farming the wrong guys up to this point.

Anyone else want a highlight in the Focus tree to indicate the variations with each new start? The other obvious time this happens is with which states get Infra bonus, the Soviet tree gives.

 

[Bigvanvader]

There is no downside to sending volunteers in regards to trade or opinion, every fascist or communist nation should be sending volunteers to Ethiopia

100%, send your two divs to the most nothernly tile and the Italians will run headlong into you for months making no progress, if they stop attacking you like a madman then click them, either they are done for and you're gonna push them or they will see that you are now not entrenched and will go back to fruitlessly ramming into you

You can easily get mountaineer, cav/panzer/inf leader depending on what divs you sent and a couple of levels on your general, assuming you sent a level 1 guy, the Soviets have a few guys that have a lot of potential

 

[GrandVezir]

I built 3 synthetic rubber plants in Sachsen. Then I did the two focus towards Autarky that build additional rubber factories in Sachsen. I was sad to see I didn't get a fourth and fifth factory there. I thought you used to, but not any more. Did this change?

IIRC rubber plants have always capped at three per state. If you ever got more than that, it was through a mod or a bug.

 

[papapyro]

Does the 'weather' command just disable visual weather effects, or does it turn the feature off entirely?

 

[Anaraxes]

Does the 'weather' command just disable visual weather effects, or does it turn the feature off entirely?

The console command? It turns off the feature, resetting existing weather to some default state as well as ceasing to calculate the progression of weather. (You can see snow disappear, temperatures change, etc, instantly when you issue the command.)

 

[Ko4evnik]

Tell me a mod for more Soviet generals that is relevant at the moment. I dug into the steam, a bunch of dead mods

 

[50shadesofgreen]

Invading China as Japan. Should I call my puppets M&M into the war and when? They seem quite low in division counts and lose territory quickly when I briefly tried.

 

[Bigvanvader]

Invading China as Japan. Should I call my puppets M&M into the war and when? They seem quite low in division counts and lose territory quickly when I briefly tried.

I wouldn't bother, they won't be any help at all but being in your faction the Chinese will guard the borders

 

[50shadesofgreen]

Thanks for that. I don't recall previously having to call them as an option.

 

[Kosaki MacTavish]

Invading China as Japan. Should I call my puppets M&M into the war and when? They seem quite low in division counts and lose territory quickly when I briefly tried.

I always called Mengkukuo everytime i pushed into Shanxi Clique, then stopped in the border with Xibei San Ma. I know that the real battle is on the south, but i wanted Mengkukuo to have more manpower and core territory instead of Shanxi using it.