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Does the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark or Iraq have over 21% support for Fascist or Communist governments in the 36 start. I ask because the UK as focuses to attack them if they do. Also have you seen these ever go up or down without you interfering with them? Like do any change by the 39 start? And can you influence Fascist support as a democracy.
 

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I have had a preview copy of HOI 4 and spend more than 70 hours so far in the game. If you guys have any questions about the game or any requests for screenshots or such please post them here and I will answer as much as possible.

I have 3 Let's Plays going:

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On average, how competent are AI allies? For example, looking at Quill18's current playthrough, the German AI is a complete mess, which can't even mop up Denmark. Go to 19:20" to see what I mean
 

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What are the effects of the "Albanian Occupation" focus ?

As there is no oil resource in Albania (according to the HOI4 wiki), I wonder if it add some oil there ?
 

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I made a thread about this, but then I remembered your thread and I hope you can help me :)

In the video below, we can see sped up WW2. Germany and Lithuania push back the dirty communists. You can see in minute 3:18, that glorious Lithuania controls its home turf and also vast areas of Russia.

At 3:54 we can see that glorious SU recovered and destroyed the fascist invader pigs. The Germans are completely wiped out by Poland and Lithuanias homeland has been "liberated" by the communists.
Now, in the North (around Archangelsk I think), the Lithuanians still control some land.

Now the question 1:
How much manpower does Lithuania have available now (Dec 1944). They lost their homeland, so those people are not recruitable anymore. That means they will draft the people from occupied Russia, yes? But they only get like 1-3% of the draftable population there?

Something similar happened in the same video to Germany. Berlin now belongs to the Polish hussars, but the honorable Italians gifted the Germans some land in France. Is it now the case that french factories with french workers produce German tanks, and french population gets drafted to serve in the German army to fight their french/allied brothers?

So that means that Germany gets the IC malus (50%) and also the draft-population malus (95%?) of occupied territory?


Are they even able to produce units, or do they only fight on with the meager rest of the forces they have left? Because Germany sure seems to extend its territory (for like, 2 weeks, but still!)

And question 2:
Does the AI really give its allies a part of the occupied territory so they can "play on"?
Or did the countries conquer those lands themselves with their remaining armies and I just misinterpreted?

And how does the AI decide when and which states to give its allies?

 

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I made a thread about this, but then I remembered your thread and I hope you can help me :)

In the video below, we can see sped up WW2. Germany and Lithuania push back the dirty communists. You can see in minute 3:18, that glorious Lithuania controls its home turf and also vast areas of Russia.

At 3:54 we can see that glorious SU recovered and destroyed the fascist invader pigs. The Germans are completely wiped out by Poland and Lithuanias homeland has been "liberated" by the communists.
Now, in the North (around Archangelsk I think), the Lithuanians still control some land.

Now the question 1:
How much manpower does Lithuania have available now (Dec 1944). They lost their homeland, so those people are not recruitable anymore. That means they will draft the people from occupied Russia, yes? But they only get like 1-3% of the draftable population there?

Something similar happened in the same video to Germany. Berlin now belongs to the Polish hussars, but the honorable Italians gifted the Germans some land in France. Is it now the case that french factories with french workers produce German tanks, and french population gets drafted to serve in the German army to fight their french/allied brothers?

So that means that Germany gets the IC malus (50%) and also the draft-population malus (95%?) of occupied territory?


Are they even able to produce units, or do they only fight on with the meager rest of the forces they have left? Because Germany sure seems to extend its territory (for like, 2 weeks, but still!)

And question 2:
Does the AI really give its allies a part of the occupied territory so they can "play on"?
Or did the countries conquer those lands themselves with their remaining armies and I just misinterpreted?

And how does the AI decide when and which states to give its allies?

From what I've seen that entire video just shows occupational status and no peace deals were made which actually divvy out the land
 

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From what I've seen that entire video just shows occupational status and no peace deals were made which actually divvy out the land
Exactly. This is why I wonder how the AI gifts land to their allies, or in case of Italy/Germany, basically revives the ally in a completely different location ("Germany occupied by Poland? no problemo seniore Hitler, here have some France")
 

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One more for you. Can you show a picture of Japan aviation tech. I remember reading about the Devs recently updating that, I wish to compare it. Thank you so much!
 

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Do you need a ton of divisions with MPs as support to keep the resistance from raping your factories and infrastructure? Benjamin Magnus has like 30 cavalry divisions (with MPs) in France to suppress them.
 

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I probably going to be starting with a minor nation such as my country (Portugal) and was wondering, during your +70h, if Portugal did anything at all besides border defense/neutrality. Such as use their colonies in the pacific or africa....or take advantage of the civil war in Spain.
 

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Question.

How nations that start with 2 research technologys gets the fifth one? I know you get 2 from national focus tree but can´t find where i can get the 5º slot.