New and Improved HOI4 Meme thread - Post your memes here. Ask if it doesn't work, hope this helps :)Hearts of Iron. - There are at least 15 Support Company types in the game (assuming some nation-specific ones as well like Assault Battalions) with 5 slots. 0 unless otherwise noted. People make tubs first and then refit it with the guns on it. The USN also has some capital ships, although. Overrun happens when your troops start a retreat into friendly territory, but before their move finishes, the territory changes hands to the enemy, giving them nowhere valid to retreat to. allan11011 • General of the Army • 1 yr. It’s pretty simple, but takes focus to make it efficient. Never miss a thing. Tanks can do the same thing. After that, leave a defensive army along the Polish border in your puppet's territory, they'll play an important role later on during the war. Sink the Italian Fleet. But If You cant find an Command for this in the Wiki i cant help You ( sry for that Bad english)submarine: ×10 capital ship: ×50 carrier: ×200 The weight of damaged ships gets increased by up to +500% as they approach 0% HP. Press J to jump to the feed. It will send just that ship as a separate task force, then you can select other ships and right click them into that task force. 11. I have about 60 submarines and would like to convoi raid Great Britain. 2. They work ok i guess, havent tried that yet, but if you spam as much torpedoes as possible on them and spam light cruiser, im gonna actually try this tomorow, but i think they do ok, best loght cruisers have 126. 127. The thing this division is good at is attacking heavy defenses, realistically to soften it up before a armored breakthrough. If they are torpedo destroyers, you can dunk on your opponent and also use light attack heavy cruisers to kill them. 1 to 1x but not above. But when I order the army to go there from Port Sudan they decide to take the land route, through Turkey, mine and Japanese USSR land and. Heavy cruisers also have the speed which heavier ships lack, making them far better and finding and killing enemy ships. not if you have to fight a large naval group. Having the factions have different types of boats is incredibly dumb. You can get away with a card that only has 1 Gb of VRAM. Yes, you can select the British Raj and have a fascist or communist coup. If you have a navy, a patrol helps a lot and you could have a submarine deathstack on strikeforce. a other light cruisers + destroyers and allow the capitals, heavy cruisers & carriers to be destroyed by anything that breathes on them. Sub 3s, Light attack spam, torpedo screen spam, etc. 19 votes, 16 comments. Some vague answers: Germany has an advisor that gives +10% naval range. 371K subscribers in the hoi4 community. Basically, the speed of motorized is enough. Forget about attacking the US early on, you can only reach them if you use T2+ Submarines and since they no longer count towards naval supremacy you can never invade. BETA SGp - Save Game Parser - extracts statistics from SGc. No enemy airports = no red air, simple as that. 80% of the game is out the door using such methods, I mean no CZE, no YUG, those alone have trees that can massively change the possible. ago Sub 3s are very strong and need an enormous amount of effort to counter with airpower, radar, specially designed light cruisers, escort carriers, strategic use of sea zones and a huge number of destroyers. spam destroyers armed with best radar and torpedoes and see what happens. Quick question does the cabinet slide work on that one or is it the modWay to go Paradox. Speed is king, always retreat at any sign of trouble and stay out of air range. With field hospitals and big 40w armored divisions I can have 7 veterans by the end. You probably misclicked and ordered Guderian's panzers to pull out of a fight, and when that happens, it counts as a retreat. The AI has no problem damaging or sinking my older subs, but the 1940 submarines are barely getting detected or shot at. r/hoi4 • Is submarine spam enough to sink AI navy?According to his experience they don't. Before I answer and sound stupid, why do you want to change the mod load order? They usually all mount just fine (?) 1. Hearts of Iron. 0 coins. 1936 Battleship. 1 comment. HOI4 needs a secondary Dev team (Custodian Team) with the mandate and resources to rework and improve old DLC and updates. 0 unless otherwise noted. Look at the spanish civil war and the indian liberation army. SS Submarine – cheap, slow, limited loadout options; SS Cruiser Submarine – cheap, unique to a few countries, slow, special loadout options. 12 comments. If the Germans did somehow make an atomic bomb and dropped it on London or Moscow we all know things would have looked much different. It's the meta for a reason. Win ww2 with least amount of global deaths. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by… It enhances Search & Destroy for capital ships, submarine detection for screening ships, and bonuses for all classes, although subs seem least favored. Secondly are the heavy cruisers. You trigger an order-of-battle file in which you create divisions as well as the template these divisions use. I play as Germany and war is about to break out in 1939. jmjwrskp • 9 mo. That being said, you can definitely get a laptop powerful enough to run it, but be prepared to spend over $700 for a smoothish experience. ; 4 CV's and 100 DD's and CL's), but without more control over naval combat, will this just result in more losses of naval units because they suffer these criticals and slowly limp across the sealanes back towards. Build Sub 3/4s with snorkels. I mean, considering the prodigious (ehem, Soviet starvation, ehem) industrial development seen in such times, it could actually fit the history, especially with the way some cities in that time turned from towns to mere towns to metropoli (I do not know if. I've never experience it while gaming but I have while watching YouTube in full screen mode. They pack armor against gun damage, can tank significant amounts of damage and deal a good amount of it. Idk man, my dad can't swim. For division stats, the different modifiers are multiplicative. If they are torpedo destroyers, you can dunk on your opponent and also use light attack heavy cruisers to kill them. These are very weak ships, and thus you can try to destroy them before they become problematic. If you start the game with a navy, stack all the subs in one navy and throw the rest of your navy in reserve. 8 × 5 = 24. The Tech sharing groups are listed as 'tech_sharing_group', near the end of the file. The Nova Politicus SMP is a realistic geopolitical/world building SMP where players are situated across the earth and make their own realistic countries. Exemple Japanese Submarine. Specialized destroyers and naval bombers should do the trick. You can't change which ports supply and trade use (except by having those ports being occupied by an enemy). Ok so in the great war hoi4 mod (Im playing as German Empire), if you go on construction and look at the trench and land fort icons, they are both grey meaning they need to be unlocked. Build 2)’s Cruisers but also spam Destroyers with full torpedoes on them. destroyers also get one shot by p. r/hoi4. r/hoi4. ago. The submarine tree is a standard submarine tree for convoy raiding, not very powerful. 7-2 ide say don’t used, just go pure infantry with shovels and artillery support companies, 14-4s are still good. Greatest HOI4 post of all time. If you're looking for a competent surface fleet to fight other ships with, the basics is cheap DD with good engine and some torpedoes, and heavy cruisers loaded down with light attack. l to ensure that your capitals are effectively screened. 1 more reply. They are so good some games literally ban them because they are so. Can submarines transfer troops tho might just go full submarine in my game 😭 This thread is archived. Top posts of April 5,. Below water, obviously, is submarine spam. No navy except maximum submarine spam. The desktop kind. Vote. I recently watched Hammotimes beginner series and in his Navy video he mentions a "sub spam" method in which you produce a load of T1 subs and leave them on convoy raiding with auto repair etc. In November, we hit our favourite milestone to date; 1 MILLION ACTIV. anti air seems useless when playing the soviets the areas are so huge a. Got back into HOI4 recently and this time around i'm really invested in learning and pushing for my first world conquest/win. Edit: Sub spam for raiding. It's the meta for a reason. 1. 25) attack after modifiers. One spot I know of to look for this is in the theater results screen. The equipment cost (for planes) also includes training pilots to an adequate level which is the reason why it is and should be expensive in IC cost. Surface Raiders have higher kill rates because they have higher surface detection to find convoys. Although i did notice that doesnt work 100% of the time, seems to be mostly the case with Newspaper Events. Additional advantage of submarine spam is that you can really streamline it technology wise and have much quicker doctrines researched. kenzieBHOSbaker • 1 min. The button is "create a new taskforce" with plus symbol, not "add task force". I also just can't get any air superiority over Japan, so I can't nuke. That Screen is bugged. PeaceWalking • 4 yr. Submarine Spam. So yeah, it depends very heavily on situation. I'd also suggest going for 3 range then engine upgrades to get better air mission efficiency, especially in larger zones from airports further back. Yes but for other countries that aren’t japan. this is good but don't spam these as screens. After this, is GB all about holding out until the USSR flips Germany upside the Head and the USA. I wrote a program to calculate every singe possible tank, give me your stats and I'll tell you the cheapest tank that fulfills them. Destroyers have very weak naval guns, while Light cruiser guns are at least good for killing Destroyers. Yeah, best way as France to get to the British mainland is to land LOTS of paratroopers as soon as you can and get to a port quickly. DN = dreadnought. You trigger an order-of-battle file in which you create divisions as well as the template these divisions use. You could also use something like the tool pack mod to just give yourself some of the land. Antonio. 1. 25 Duodecillion minimal Battalion templates. Though designs will help you a lot, you will also need to know a bit about how naval warfare works in HOI4 if you want to win. At the start of the game, each country will have a. I prefer to build my navy slowly and spam submarines to make naval invasion. Then: Check what province requires units and put ONLY the elite divisions there. And if you can get green air in the channel then just spam bombers there too. 80 years ago today was 'A date that will live in infamy' At 7. [deleted] • 4 yr. Hell, the most damage done by naval bombers by Germany was the FW-200 that was converted from a passenger aircraft, and real one, not a cover up one like the He-111 disguised as high speed poorly suited mail and passenger planes. Secondly are the heavy cruisers. Also flanking and encirclement. In my honest and humble opinion, if you want to spam ships which are quickly build, go for one of these. The enemy always seem to win the naval battles. Cruiser "spam" seems to have taken that place, although some of the CC community seem to be testing ways to get more crew onto a cheaper hull (since ship crew is part of the calculation for how much control a ship gives). BB and SHBB are anti-ship ships. 2. Specialized siege divisions? Aka modern space marine for 1. Fallback lines are there to make the A. But you have to do every nation separately. Yes. If the enemy is defending with medium tanks, you can attack with heavies to secure the armor bonus for yourself, deny it to the enemy, and have a lot. The submarine tree is a standard submarine tree for convoy raiding, not very powerful. You should aim for a total of at least 4-5 destroyers per cruiser. Join my discord:. The battle will go on for ages with minimal loss to submarine fleet. It is the most efficient in responding to the escort needs of convoys and in anti-submarine warfare. I really enjoy the ground and air wars, and really do not enjoy the naval wars or naval invasions. Also subs count less towards naval supremacy. In the past 3 years I've destroyed maybe 30 of their ships, while I lost a total of about 150-200 ships (I started with around 400-450, now I only have about 250). Destroyers are about 1/3 the Ainti-Air strength of a Light Cruiser, which is the most cost-effective ship for AA (outside of a carrier with fighters). Typically, they are destroyers or submarines for maximum spam. I use tanks for occupation, go for the craziest possible. Task Force Admiral looks good. The weaknesses are enemy airpower, good ASW cruisers, or destroyer spam (but destroyers only deter and not kill). The fact that patches are pretty much only released with DLCs and DLCs are released once per year doesn't really help, either. You can put groups of DDs on Invasion support to have them tag along with the troop transports. I'm not sure if the same rules apply here in Darkest Hour. The entire basis of the naval arms race leading into WW1 and up to the Washington Naval Treaty was the race to build higher caliber weapons to maintain range and penetration advantages. britian. Win. Something like this happens in the Chinese Civil war too. It appears to be a submarine exploit, in which you spam single submarines in the area to distract Napoleon’s fleet. IMHO, there's no reason to build CV if you're just operating in the Med because you can fully cover all of the sea zones with land-based aircraft. Conclusion: CVs are underpowered in. txt event 27) (uh if youre looking for specific. Then select the Feild marshal either from the theater's menu or from the bottom of the screen. 2. Their survivability is in their speed. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The investment and the payoff are well worth the cost of protection so before you spam a carrier fleet, make sure it’s got support. ago. The subs are also backed up by NAVs and heavy fighters operating from Manila. December 7 at 11:41 AM. The panzerschiffe is also stuck at 80% reliability, dropped 20% by. ago. The other thing you could do is. As we all know ships in Hoi4 have been completely changed the old "rock-paper-scissors" system of pre MTG naval combat, e. 849 votes, 36 comments. The way naval hit probabilities work in hoi4, it's a reasonable concept. The backbone of any strike force is the battleship. 2. It splashes up into the air and crashes straight through a. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by…112 votes, 16 comments. Split into 3-4 task forces of submarines under an admiral, preferably one with Bold trait and then the Sea Wolf earned trait followed by the Spotter or Superior Tactician earned traits. Friendly fire from the thousands of shells from the 33 Japanese battleships. Types of Ships. You can usually replace the logistics company with support AA and mitigate the. The Ai cannot handle it. It would be like if armored trains and rail guns were faction exclusive. This video serves as an easy to get into guide regarding submarines and it's various viable templates. 375K subscribers in the hoi4 community. ago. 6. 225. ago. This page was last edited on 7 May 2017, at 15:55. 2. Good light cruisers are excellent uses of. Research torpedoes and radars. Build Cruisers with one cheapest heavy gun and the rest the best light guns you can get. While going these focuses try to reach 50 civilian factories after. Delta974 • 4 yr. 4. This page was last edited on 7 May 2017, at 15:55. Give your sub snorkel, best (and maximum amount of) torpedos and best engine. Join. ; About Hearts of Iron 4 Wiki; Mobile viewZone Spam, that is, just clicking every bloody zone for control, will typically only be effective if you have enough groups in your fleet to cover the specified areas. Which makes them much more difficult to sink. Business, Economics, and Finance. Task Force Admiral looks good. All navy production and tech to submarines Total airforce (end game) of about 600 fighters and 1200 bombers. ago. kenzieBHOSbaker • 1 min. This is the most powerful doctrine for surface action. or uboat “bathtubs” to get naval supremacy and torp bombers are the only real way to kill a navy like the UK for HOI4 cheap, many, and light attack spam is the current meta for navy Reply reeeerias. If not, reduce the amount of units you want to paradrop or build more. Delta974 • 4 yr. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Saltborko • 4 yr. CowboyRonin • 1 yr. json (in document/paradox interactive/hoi4) it's the list of mods you have subscribed to. 1 / 6. On steam you can right click on the game and search for "check local installation" or "check local files". Click a ship and then right click the naval version of the army tab in the row where you want it (which admiral you want it to go to). . Latest HOI4 resource history spreadsheet (HOI4v 1. Playing the UK in a multiplayer game, it's 1944 and the German Navy has been pumping out more than 10 submarines a month it seems. Actually playing hoi4 in general now is starting to become really annoying. If you need I. Cruisers. HOI4 Tools SGr - Save Game Recorder - records, compresses, and archives autosave files in realtime, no game impact. From what I've seen when you get 90% or higher army intel you also get intel on fake divisions. 0 unless otherwise noted. It's mostly well balanced if you play on historical. Fleet in Being is just basic for surface fleets. I have a task force of about 50 sub 2s which have a range of 4000km. Best. Most subs had one or two small-caliber ( destroyer sized, but without the turret/armor ) dual-purpose gun on them, they would be used when surfaced. Easy, cheap, and effective. 1 * 1. And if this doesnt work, just reinstall the game, its not that big. much everything, so you need light cruisers to do the heavy lifting. Any of the same modifier will stack additively, so in your example of 10% output + 20% output, you'd have 30% output. Assuming you are using Windows go to the control panel and uninstall all Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. Report. ago. Each hull type contains a number of module slots. r/hoi4. Hearts of Iron. What I've heard is basically this: Trade Interdiction is literally the best and only naval doctrine because of how much it reduces visibility, or something to that effect. I’ve seen Das Boot. Am I producing equipment the wrong way? Not sure if any of this will make sense but here we go. 0 + 0. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. 11. Possibly the easiest meta in the game, and the one that most people go for is the submarine spam. Hoi4 ofc. Its really fun because all of them have comparable navy and allows proper naval battles unlike in…1. allan11011 • General of the Army • 1 yr. ago. Build Destroyers + Sonar + Depth Chargers. Great War Mod Cant Find Research For Some Technology. ViniciusSinged • 21 days ago. spawn [<SubUnit Type>] [<Province ID>] [<Amount>]This is the most powerful doctrine for surface action. Then I couldn't. ago. 12. Playing as a facist dutch in multiplayer vs usa, france britain and rest of the allies, we don't attack france we sea lion britain, the dutch submarine fleet of 50 kills the entire british army and most of their navy solo. Surface Raiders have higher kill rates because they have higher surface detection to find convoys. angry-mustache • 7 yr. You could also use something like the tool pack mod to just give yourself some of the land. Destroyers > Submarines > Light Cruisers > Air > Capital ships > Screens. The only techs that are worth it are Fire Control and Submarine Hulls; many other navy techs aren't worth the investment. I'm trying to imagine the submarine shooting down airplanes while simultaneously sinking 4 ships. Add more planes. The cruisers kill enemy screen ships. 3 comments. If you want to play naval 4 Carriers and a bunch of Dads should do the trick. 2. If you don't like planes like me, you can build Sub 3's with full torpedoes with level 1 snorkel and full engine, put them on 20-30 wolfpacks and put them on always engage, even better make sub 4's with full torpedoes,. But this is a paradox-wide quality problem right now, probably an issue of budget or management or something, so it's hard for me to lay blame on the HoI4 team. I'm trying to imagine the submarine shooting down airplanes while simultaneously sinking 4 ships. I know we all loved the Light Cruiser spam, but now that this patch amends ship combat and re-balances the stats, how does…As of recently, I have gotten back into the groove of HOI4 and have decided to ramp up the amount of multiplayer games I play. 1. That said this is basically meta (against AI). Sports. Polysci123 • 9 mo. 375K subscribers in the hoi4 community. Thangunis. ago. Set a small fleet of destroyers and subs on recon and set your main fleet to strike force and wait. America Meridionalis: Central & South America Expanded is a mod that seeks to rework every nation in Central and South America plus the Caribbean's. And that's the list of useful options for naval combat. Theres an event in the base game, UK can take a decision to demand vichy france's fleet, listed in operations as mers_el_kebir_raid. : r/hoi4. They can also function as independent tank divisions. Razzlane • 9 mo. If I'm not mistaken, if You want to produce even some crappy planes, You need to research three things: airflame, engine and some guns. A. Surface Raiders are great at killing convoys in open space. If you play non-historical mode be prepared to see some weird stuff, e. I don't know if others have different experiences but most people I encounter just say that sub 3 spam is unbeatable, I keep my destroyers and cruisers with max Sub Detection. The variants are worth considering because you need less per battalion. 11. ago. They have the world's greatest submarine battleship force. Battleships are by far the single strongest ship you can produce in Hearts of Iron IV. Their counter is Battle Cruisers. ago. Whenever you get air superiority spam nukes. Therefore, I was wanting to know if there was a way to remove this focus through the console or simple file editing (emphasis on simple), or if there was a way to bypass this (I tried Focus. I've got to 100% autonomy, yet it wouldnt let me break free cause i havent taken the focus to abandon westminster. . ago. As some background I have a little over 400 hours however, I would guess only 50 or less is actually in multiplayer (in other words, I essentially have 50 hours of real experience). It helps at every strategic level in a big way, and the difference in cost between a light tank division with leg infantry and a light tank division with motorized is tiny. When you get the 1940 subs w/ snorkels, you can go on the offense to hunt down big fleets. Option a) naval bomber option b) submarine. If you care about details HOI4 has a lot of design issues. - Each naval region has a certain amount of superiority depending on the strength of each fleet. After the 5th their org should be down enough to run over. Trade Interdiction: In my honest and humble opinion, if you want to spam ships which are quickly build, go for one of these. Subs are fine for playing defense and raiding convoys, but they no longer give sea control to allow invasions. Motorized are largely just faster infantry. I would say subs are the most OP. Myself and a few of my friends have had a lot of issues with saves becoming corrupted. 6K subscribers. 10. Most of the time as a major if I have a full line (15 factories) working on rifles I will also have a full line for both fighters and CAS. r/hoi4. Please remember this video is not the be all end all,. UI scale option experimental? Looking in game options menu, UI scale is labeled as 'experimental' with option to set UI scale from 0. Destroyers are about 1/3 the Ainti-Air strength of a Light Cruiser, which is the most cost-effective ship for AA (outside of a carrier with fighters). No they aren’t great at pushing but in China you should be using just 14-4s and 10-0s as a backup. Add a fuel tank and you can sail into enemy waters and play havoc with supply lines. For subs, create sub hunter fleets with 2-3 light cruisers per patrol fleet and 5-8 destroyers for the actual hunters. I don't get supremacy and neither win naval battles to weaken the enemy. This page was last edited on 7 May 2017, at 15:55. Jump to latest Follow Reply. But it would be cool to also have, for example, regional factions, where anyone of any (or at least any reasonably-compatible) ideologies can join, so long as they. Chalbano Fleet Admiral • 7 yr. How to use submarines properly. The USN has a large submarine component that includes many 1940 submarines with the raiding designer and trade interdiction techs. "Forget all your naval options and spam submarines" - Sun Tzu. Look at the spanish civil war and the indian liberation army. r/hoi4. destroy_ships = { type = ship_hull_heavy count = 2 } this might be what youre looking for? (wtt. e. The AI isn't prepared so the defense starts scattered. Last game I tried building a navy by spamming destroyers, cruisers and grouping them with capitals as well as submarine spam. Give wardens destroyer. Light Cruisers can get a very high operational range and destroy many convoys very quickly. I would say go with CAs if you're making capital ships at all, you'll have trouble researching all the techs and importing all the steel you need to produce fleet carriers or heavy ships, but you can economize on naval research by building CAs and CLs that rely on the same techs. The Spanish civil war is the only place I actually try to get level 5 divs. 3. HOI4 Navy Guide | Submarines bigschmokes 4. Pretty useless for naval combat. The Bismarck and Tirpitz failed, but the Graf Spee was very successful for 4 months of unchecked convoy raiding. Sub 3’s are very good, and they are very quick to build. Fleet in Being is just basic for surface fleets. MTG needed a little more iteration. The main tree is mostly for CVs. Do not forget to set them to "not engage". Also spam some naval bombers and put them in the attack english channel mode. If you go into tje equipment the enemy lost and hover over any particular piece, there'll be a pop up that says how much of it was captured. Fingers crossed. The convoy escort gives +30% escort efficiency, which is pretty good because it lowers the number of escort ships required, and +20% sub detection for DDs. not if you have to fight a large naval group. 005 * ship production cost in industrial capacity (IC) + 0. 203. This still sucks so hard compared to submarines. Fingers crossed. But this is a paradox-wide quality problem right now, probably an issue of budget or management or something, so it's hard for me to lay blame on the HoI4 team. The next Update is gonna kill the light attack heavy cruiser meta and the submarine spam meta is gonna get nerfed hard Wait untill the new metas were figured out (my bet is the return of the light attack light cruiser)1. It isn’t opening, can somebody please tell me a fix? This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A JJ_BB_SS • Additional comment actions. Easy, cheap, and effective. See more. ago. Thangunis. 05 * ship manpower. AT is there to counter the immediate armor attack in MP you face after landing. Reply. Suprcheese • 7 yr. spam update to force bruv to update eliezer1245 May 6 @. 6% better.