Do it. it's a great mod and even without the Ai bonuses makes the game actually challenging.

I swear if you play road to 56 I might have an aneurism like seriously wtf is that ♥♥♥♥ I had turkey join the allies and invade bulgaria and then send 10 divisions to egypt and before I got to whoop their little erdogan worshipping asses my game lagged out bc venezuela and every other irrelevant western-hemisphere nation built an army like space aliens from mars were gonna come and burn down their houses and steal their children as playmates for their antisocial alien children bc their alien children can't make friends.

Tl:dr Road to 56 bad, Expert Ai good

Yeah these boys are probably the best pick of all of the axis nations because they're strong and can build a whole bunch of cool ♥♥♥♥ due to their huge industry and research bonuses.

Although Italy in real life sucked major peepee, Italy in Hoi4 is pretty strong and by spamming naval bombers can make the allied navy wish they had just stayed home and jerked off.

This guide is not for weaboos so please don't pick this country. it's also an ugly color which makes me wish there was a mod to take it out of the game altogther. (not a real axis country, but people say they are so I had to put them in here.

They sorta tiny but lowkey thicc asf with industry and can be a fun country to play if you like to roleplay. They can make good tanks and have lots of aluminum if building your own little airforce is what keeps you motivated to get out of bed in the morning.

You're basically Hitler's oil field so be nice to him and build up infrastructure there and go on free trade so Hitler can feed Panzerarmee. Otherwise, just build good marines since for some reason you get really good special forces and infantry advisors.

Just don't die to the dirty commies. That is your whole job. Just don't lose to Stalin or Hitler and Mussolini will be lowkey mad at you and won't invite you to their birthday parties and I heard that they both throw lit ass birthday parties.

They make like 1 whole ass division the entire game and I usually throw it on the Eastern Front to make them feel included into the axis. I recommend you do the same so they don't feel sad about themselves.

I don't even know what these guys are here for, but they helping out the axis so they obviously got a place in the squad.

These guys don't join unless you boost them, but a fun country if you want to piss of Britain and take their dumb canal. Historically these guys were in the axis and fought the UK and Germany even send them some fighters which means that they were bros. Unforunately they died early in the war so rip, but maybe you can change history and beat them back.

These guys are cheap and also pretty zippy but once countries figure out that they can give infantry rocket launchers and grenades and other explosive ♥♥♥♥ these guys get toasted by anything that can carry a gun.

I personally only use these for the Spanish Civil War and then lend lease them to Slovakia so they can make their own Panzer-Division and blitzkrieg with the rest of the axis (it's very important to get Slovakia included with the rest of the Axis so they don't feel sad and left out).


Build these, they're really good and put them in a 40 width template and watch your enemies crumble



These things are really good and if you can secure that sweet Yugoslavian and Greek chromium you can pump out a few divisions of these guys.

For the Italians I love these things since the allies usually only put 300 africans with Lee-Enfield Rifles between you and Egypt and these guys will kill all of them while taking very low casualties. They also look cool.


Super heavy tanks are retarded and shouldn't even be in the game.



No, no, no, noo (unless you're a roleplayer or something).

Yes mechanized sound cool as hell and everyone wants their virtual Hans to be transported to battle in a safe armored box, but the problem is that they're too expensive to be worth it so you can tell Hans to walk and he'll probably understand since he's devoted to waging unprovoked offensive wars for defending the Fatherland.

Definitely research this tech though since the 100% boost to hardness for motorized makes your armored divisions even harder to beat.

Look how happy Hans is in there. Unfortunately, these things are too expensive so he's gonna have to walk :(

Some of the idiot mongoloids playing hoi4 will tell you to use rocket artillery. Don't, it sucks and costs more tungsten so there's no reason to use it.

"bUt tHerEs ROcKetS AnD eXplOsiOnS aNd sTuFf"

that's pretty much what they're gonna tell you about rocket artillery but the truth is that true gamer chads only use conventional artillery.

Build lots of subs and convoys and a couple of other ships for naval superiority but don't worry about researching tech because you sure as hell know the Ai barely will and also because of NAVAL BOMBERS

Naval Bombers are Op and absolutely demolish anything in a sea zone over the course of a couple months. Build a bunch of these guys (~500) and just let them have fun.

As an Axis nation you will probably not need to worry about navy unless you're Italy so this section is only for Italy peeps mainly unless you're one of those memers who want to put Horthy on a Super Heavy Battleship or something memey and dumb like that.

Axis naval bomber destroys a British warship (1940, colorized)

Just build as many fighters and CAS as possible in a 70/30 mix and upgrade engines on fighters and range after that with reliability. Don't upgrade air attack on fighters. If you're starting to lose control of the air, switch some of the factories from CAS to fighters. If you're really struggling you can put AA in your divisions which will reduce the malus from not having air superiority and also shoot down their cas. AA also has decent piercing and hard attack which is a cute little bonus. It's best to put AA in a support company slot in my personal opinion, but I'm willing to bet there's someone who makes spreadsheets for this game and has done advanced calculus might tell you otherwise. At the end of the day its a game so who the hell really cares.

Also, build RADAR.

Just go through belgium and use that the beat the French and then send some guys to egypt and beat them there since the UK loves their stupid canal, but only enough to put 3 crappy colonial divisions to defend it which are basically as effective as boomers trying to get "the youngins" to stop using their phones by complaining about it in newspaper comments.

The most dangerous part of the allies is naval invasions that take over half of your country because you forgot the garrison a single port and some random greek division with 50% equipment landed there and then every single random rag-tag allied member just threw whatever garbage they had into there and slowly started taking over your lands.
So just defend all your ports and you should be fine.

Buckle up, I hope you like encirclements because you're gonna need a lot of them to beat the endless horde of soviets since expert ai (I hope you used this and not road to 56) makes a lot of them.

My advice is just to push them and make sure you made supply companies for your eastern divisions because if you didn't your virtual Hans is gonna starve to death and his dead body will be raped by a bunch of crazy commies per Stalin's orders. It's important to make sure infrastructure is repaired and also that you have decent air cover or else the Soviets are gonna bomb you back to Berlin. It also makes Tanks use less fuel which is cool I guess.

The best place to make large advances is the south. The center is crappy smelly wet swamp and the north has too many trees. By October of '41 you should have at least taken the Baltic states and pushed well into the south and be ready to take Moscow within the next 2 years or you will probably have waited too long and the Soviets will be powerful if you don't whittle them down.

Guys... serious topic.

Just because Slovakia is smaller, weaker, and less populous than the other axis members along with also being shaped like a turd doesn't mean that they don't deserve a place in the Axis. One of the major principles of being in the Axis is inclusivity and leaving Slovakia behind is NOT what we are about. So please just lend lease them some tanks so they can be part of the Blitzkrieg too or even let them defend the coasts of Normany against the menacing 10width Indian garrison divisions. Just little things to make them feel like a full and helpful member of the axis.

Thanks :)

Stop... seriously I'm just straight up out of patience with you people. If you use rocket artillery you don't deserve to even fight for the Axis. Go back to whatever evil communist nation taught you that rocket artillery is good because it is not.

So you've liberated a lot of land from oppressive, democratically-elected governments and the people are unhappy due to being mislead into believing lies made by evil communists. This is surprisingly common and you're given two choices to deal with them.

A. Be gentle with their lands and don't make them work hard and spend time with their families

B. Send horses to reeducate them and teach them important values such as the necessity to work 14 hours a day to fuel the war machine.

Option B is always better since horses are pretty cheap and people are very scared of them in this game.