299k members in the hoi4 community. : r/hoi4. Build Cruisers with one cheapest heavy gun and the rest the best light guns you can get. a. Add a Comment. Deep. ago. And secondarily attacking enemy ships. r/hoi4 • Is submarine spam enough to sink AI navy?According to his experience they don't. 2. More time and QA. The only techs that are worth it are Fire Control and Submarine Hulls; many other navy techs aren't worth the investment. You probably misclicked and ordered Guderian's panzers to pull out of a fight, and when that happens, it counts as a retreat. I find the cruiser submarine available via "U-boat effort" focus to be quite good at enforcing a blockade sufficiently far from Britain. If you have 100 base attack, with 10% bonus from commander and 25% bonus from veterancy, your unit would have 137. I also agree with the advice of researching 1944 tech for Engines IV, but continue to use the 1940 frame. ago. 6K subscribers. At the start of the game, each country will have a. 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. 3. Their counter is Battle Cruisers. 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. I’ve seen Das Boot and it doesn’t take much to take them out of commission. 11. Description Discussions 1 Comments 252 Change Notes. Battalions can be of the same type, so that results in 40 25, or 11. CA is a screen hunter to counter DD or CL spam and can't reasonably combat capital ships. 7-2 ide say don’t used, just go pure infantry with shovels and artillery support companies, 14-4s are still good. MTG needed a little more iteration. Enitity_Enigma • 21 days ago. Each country has its own unique background, ideology, government, economy, resources, currency, etc. The other thing you could do is. In regular war you need to kill pockets in order to keep your XP level. 375K subscribers in the hoi4 community. It's actually serious. 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. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…A few things could be happening, the air bases could be over crowded, even by just a few will totally ruin them. Press J to jump to the feed. Thangunis. 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. Heavy tanks are good for fighting other tanks, like lights or mediums or other heavies. For better or for worse, magazine. spam destroyers armed with best radar and torpedoes and see what happens. #hoi4 #news #HYPEA closer look at the new Dev Diary with a look at some changes to the Naval aspect of the game! A NEW DLC is in the works!Dev Diary: I have 500 hours on the game, mostly in multiplayer focusing on Navies since I cant micro ground forces very good. fug. I'm trying to imagine the submarine shooting down airplanes while simultaneously sinking 4 ships. this is good but don't spam these as screens. g Banana Empire Panama taking over Mexico. Tier 4 Subs can also do a great job sinking the enemies fleet unless you get tricked into convoy raiding a sea tile full of exclusively sub hunting destroyers. Delta974 • 4 yr. 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. 6. Aka modern space marine for 1. r/hoi4. In order to load certain graphic mods they need to be loaded before the main mod, otherwise they won't work. ago. 005 * ship production cost in industrial capacity (IC) + 0. You trigger an order-of-battle file in which you create divisions as well as the template these divisions use. After the untimely demise of the previous meme thread, I am starting a new one. Thank you. Never miss a thing. If you have a navy, a patrol helps a lot and you could have a submarine deathstack on strikeforce. 11. This is the most powerful doctrine for surface action. December 7 at 11:41 AM. Very few focus tree mods are good imo, they are often times super overpowered. New and Improved HOI4 Meme thread - Post your memes here. gaoruosong • 3 yr. UI scale option experimental? Looking in game options menu, UI scale is labeled as 'experimental' with option to set UI scale from 0. 1. On the Land fort it says it needs defensive bunker technology, and for the trench it says it needs vaubans. 1 to 1x but not above. I don't, but inside the mods folder there will be a folder called 'common' and inside that folder is another folder called 'technologies' and inside that will be several text files named after each researchable tech tree, they contain a list of all the item ids unlocked by researching that tree. - When your fleet meets and enemy fleet they begin a naval battle. Reply seesaww •. Sink the Italian Fleet. ago. HOI4 is processor intensive not so much graphically intensive. It isn't a separate option; just have the players pick the same country in the start lobby and it will automatically become co-op. ViniciusSinged • 21 days ago. I am trying to play multiplayer with a friend and the game wont stop lagging, it used to work fine until last year, but now it's lagging, is there a mod to increase the performance? Yes, most mods used in historical games improve performance a lot. Submarine spam with limited surface AA and fighter support can work too, quite effective for IC limited nation. Friendly fire from the thousands of shells from the 33 Japanese battleships. So I wonder if there are any mods that bring a bit more flavour, like more mission, traits, upgrades, smt like that?The guide, which you can find easily if you google "what are the best combat widths for hoi4" , mistakenly averages the best combat widths for each terrain, which in turn suggests combat widths that are actually bad in every terrain. I have played against sub 3 spam and don't find it any different or that much harder to kill than sub 2's. 8K subscribers Subscribe 2. 1. Valheim Genshin Impact Minecraft Pokimane Halo Infinite Call of Duty: Warzone Path of Exile Hollow Knight: Silksong Escape from Tarkov Watch Dogs: Legion. Late game post 1950 tanks used to be a bit broken before NSB, not sure if that's changed, since I haven't played the mod since then. Inside a tank division to help maintain the speed of light or mesium tanks, and boosting org, hp, and defense. The AI has no problem damaging or sinking my older subs, but the 1940 submarines are barely getting detected or shot at. ago. Trade Interdiction. It's allowed me to destroy significant parts of any enemy navy with comparitively minor effort. How to use submarines properly. Superior firepower also is the best doctrine against Germany. These divisions were unable to fight 2 Australian infantry divisions while being entrenched. Never tried it myself but if I catched it up correctly, you can use (at least in Multiplayer) to trick your enemy. It was the first time AI France goes fascist in my game, probably because they get destroyed early on in most games, leaving them without a government to change. The Ai cannot handle it. If a ship's anti air attack is below 5, the weight is increased by 5 * (5 - <AA>). Yes, you can select the British Raj and have a fascist or communist coup. You should aim for a total of at least 4-5 destroyers per cruiser. Its a pretty good expansion of the base game. Hearts of Iron. Otherwise, you have to conquer or trade for resources, like steel. I play as Germany and war is about to break out in 1939. This makes them heavy cruisers so they get protected by your Destroyers. Motorized are largely just faster infantry. Types of Ships. I am gonna improve the tank template when I. You can utilize surface raiders as well. The AI doesn't produce the second and destroyer spam is best killed by good cruisers. I manage to do the simple things like annex france etc and all of europe is under my control, by 1942 atleast, uk and us spam millions of naval invasions mainland of france of mini units, i have about 200 divisions defending ports and coast but they dont stop coming and. 381K subscribers in the hoi4 community. Thank you. The player can order their fleet. Use naval bombers. There's a huge opportunity cost to building carriers, not just in terms of MIC to build the planes and NIC to build the CV (plus their screens), but there are better uses of your research slots. AI Japan has a decision it will take to surrender if it has two nukes dropped on it, along with some other conditions. 3- Do the first 2 military focuses and then rush the research slot through the hermann göring-werke. You can either 'cheat' by making the tech sharing group non-reliant on a NF (as it used to be), or you can just remove yourself from the group and restart the NF. ago. 48am. 12 comments. 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,. 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. 3 comments. ; heavy attack spam: to counter the best build you need the best anti-build. For the record, my play style is usually just spamming naval mines because that's all I understand. 11 11 comments Best SuddenStorm8 • Fleet Admiral • 4 yr. You can spread out in a line. Bathtub is spamming out cheap crappy subs for naval supremacy (typically for naval invasions as they don't always preform the best in naval combat against non-AI players). Mix them into your infantry divisions in limited quantities to give them a bunch of armor and extra punch. I want to try and stay democratic, I am trying to challenge myself, I have already avoided it by. 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. 11. Where RRn indicates your "normal" (pre-tech) bonus to research rate, RRi indicates your "improved" (post-tech) bonus, T indicates the base time to research the tech, and D. SS Submarine – cheap, slow, limited loadout options; SS Cruiser Submarine – cheap, unique to a few countries, slow, special loadout options. Quick question does the cabinet slide work on that one or is it the modWay to go Paradox. They pack armor against gun damage, can tank significant amounts of damage and deal a good amount of it. So I build an airbase, and before I can select some planes to put in the airbase, my allies put 5000 planes in a level one airbaseBest. There is no point in adding more than three main batteries. The battle will go on for ages with minimal loss to submarine fleet. 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. allan11011 • General of the Army • 1 yr. Submarine spam is the only way to play hoi4 navy Reply Kermez • Additional comment actions. ago. ago. This is where you have a submarine with an engine and single torpedo tube and build as many as you can due to the cheap production cost. For example, somebody who is in modern day Tunisia could make Tunisia, Tunis, Carthage, etc. 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. Battleships are by far the single strongest ship you can produce in Hearts of Iron IV. If that is not the problem, check the total weight of your divisions and see if they can all be used in a transport plane. kenzieBHOSbaker • 1 min. Edit: it may take time but I destroyed the whole Japanese navy doing this as France. Edit to link to my cut/paste. Here is some history of my play-through: I joined the axis as fascist Australia and helped them to defeat both the allies and the comitern. One spot I know of to look for this is in the theater results screen. In reality it is an order of magnitude cheaper to move freight by sea and river than by rail. No enemy airports = no red air, simple as that. ago. 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 have been playing this way more and more as it is easier and far less manpower lost. it largely prevents german tanks breaching the front in the southern plains when playing as the soviet union (though the single most important thing is to mass produce rifles in absurd quantities). 1 * 1. ago. These can be surface ships, submarines, and/or aircraft carriers. Are there any good spy overhaul mods? I really like playing with spies, but I think they are a bit bland, like it makes sense to do 1-2 missions max. Assuming you are using Windows go to the control panel and uninstall all Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. 3. With field hospitals and big 40w armored divisions I can have 7 veterans by the end. Am I producing equipment the wrong way? Not sure if any of this will make sense but here we go. Naval supremacy of ship = 100. Light Cruisers can get a very high operational range and destroy many convoys very quickly. Instead, they provide a pittance. I have about 60 submarines and would like to convoi raid Great Britain. Specialized destroyers and naval bombers should do the trick. Rush 1940 sub and snorkel. Hearts of Iron. They need to HURT. If you have 100 base attack, with 10% bonus from commander and 25% bonus from veterancy, your unit would have 137. Fargel_Linellar • 1 mo. If they hit 0 manpower before you you win. Build 2)’s Cruisers but also spam Destroyers with full torpedoes on them. This could simply be because of a difference in hardware. 225. 25 points worth of shore bombardment from naval fleet. Secondly are the heavy cruisers. I have a task force of about 50 sub 2s which have a range of 4000km. Convoys can carry troops for naval invasion across the see regions that you have "naval supremacy" and if you spam submarines from the start, you will get your naval supremacy sooner or later with submarines. If you care about details HOI4 has a lot of design issues. I had expeditionary forces from some minor puppet, they were at almost no strength for years down the line. I personally divide my subs into 5 groups and set each group a target strength of 20. It's a balancing act. 203. Myself and a few of my friends have had a lot of issues with saves becoming corrupted. The AI isn't prepared so the defense starts scattered. Firstly is the torpedo-ships. I've read mines help with naval supremacy and they are relatively efficient submarine wise. All talk and no fight. Destroyers have torpedoes 20% weaker than Light Cruisers and 1/3 the strength of Submarines. CowboyRonin • 1 yr. Trade Interdiction: In my honest and humble opinion, if you want to spam ships which are quickly build, go for one of these. 12, spamming subs is no longer a viable option for fleet-building. A halfway comprehending of navy player would just spam DD with anti. j1ffster • 13 min. It might have been patched in the beta 1. Countries mostly license production to research their own fighter 2s and they'll. See more. The air war is a crucial part of winning any Hoi4 game. I can usually get. You'll receive some damage from CAS but you'll shoot down quite a few. For it to work you may also have to delete the mod folders and unsubscribe. Having the factions have different types of boats is incredibly dumb. Research_all I think. Join. mainman879 • 9 mo. 05 * ship manpower. 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. Set a small fleet of destroyers and subs on recon and set your main fleet to strike force and wait. Current HOI4 Version Supported: Barbarossa v1. Trade Interdiction makes ur surface fleets & subs be less visible to the enemy navy so ambushes are more efficient and running away is easier + u can raid convoys efficiently. Submarine Spam. Now start the game in admin mode through the exe file in the steam folder (not through steam itself). Have general patrols to spot them then have several small fleets of destroyers and manually move them like you describe to give them nowhere to run. DD Destroyer – light, fast, cheap. Report. DD is a submarine hunter and cannon fodder. This is the most efficient way to design good divisions if you aren't allowed to participate in the Spanish Civil War. Instead of doing 15-5 tank-mot, do 13-5-4 tank-mot-SPAA with support AA. In this short tutorial esque guide I will show how the current best way to counter the Axis sub spam, as the Allies (specifically the United Kingdom). Bait them into encirclement or just out murder them. Easy, cheap, and effective. So there currently two populair navy strategies that I see floating around. But as tech scales up, that gap widens. spam destroyers armed with best radar and torpedoes and see what happens. Heavy cruisers are the undisputed kings of light attack, mainly because they can mount light cruiser batteries in all their slots (BBs and BCs need to mount either heavy batteries or secondaries, which are far worse). GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. In the end airforce >>>>> all in HOI4. Destroyers have very weak naval guns, while Light cruiser guns are at least good for killing Destroyers. Trade Interdiction makes ur surface fleets & subs be less visible to the enemy navy so ambushes are more efficient and running away is easier + u can raid convoys efficiently. 1) The difference between 1936 submarine and a 1940 submarine with snorkel and designer is substantial (equal doctrines). S. iirc in that case you have to delete a file called mod_registry. Same thing with air wings, although admittedly I don't really know how to organize those in HOI4 either. They only thing that you could do is change it from a civil war to a normal war. 12. . Sub 3’s are very good, and they are very quick to build. When you get the 1940 subs w/ snorkels, you can go on the offense to hunt down big fleets. Can I get a little advice on the fleet? Still can't get it how to use it properly, I'm relatively new. Join my discord:. If you care about details HOI4 has a lot of design issues. The destroyer patrols that kill subs get absolutely manhandled by Cruisers. If you have 10 or more than 10 dockyards, you can disporbicya very decent fleet, that will anhilate any ship you see. HOI4 Tools SGr - Save Game Recorder - records, compresses, and archives autosave files in realtime, no game impact. Then, when I invaded the Soviet Union later in the game, I got Leningrad, got Vichy France to transfer control of the state of Stalingrad to me, made sure all states were fully owned by me, then I used console commands to make Ile de France mine for a little bit so I could proclaim the Greater German Reich. 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. Never miss a thing. They all run to the back of the boat to tilt the bow up, then fire a torpedo. Sub 3’s are very good, and they are very quick to build. The British and French navies had to throw 2 carrier taskforces at her to finally corner her in Uruguay, but not before she sank 2 dozen merchant vessels and tankers, and captured the crews of half a dozen more. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…I would nominate the Netherlands (who starts with a respectable navy albeit far from that of a major) and Portugal, for the second if you go royalist and recover Brasil you have the base to build a navy. Build lots of Fighters / Strategic Bombers to slow down German production. Submarine Designs. Good light cruisers are excellent uses of. But in places where you can build radar on land, just have the naval bombers hunt the subs because it's faster to find them with the radar. Anything to look out for to. Perhaps whatever nation you are does as well? Higher level naval hulls give higher range. Get all other divisions out. This becomes a problem because laptops have inherently weaker processors. Air superiority helps with naval superiority which helps spotting. It's allowed me to destroy significant parts of any enemy navy with comparitively minor effort. Their survivability is in their speed. I made a couple thousand fighter jets in my first full game. In both world wars, particularly the first, they had a nasty tendency to suffer catastrophic explosions with nearly all hands lost. Which gives you longer to spot them. The brute-force answer. I play as Germany and war is about to break out in 1939. Navies in HOI4 had a pretty strict setup - for every capital ship, you need four screen ships. "Forget all your naval options and spam submarines" - Sun Tzu. 203. Also just bypass the fort/mountain. The backbone of any strike force is the battleship. r/hoi4. I'm using airbases in Turkey, and am ready to paradrop soldiers in, but I don't to do it, just to get overrun after running out of supply in a few days. 1. They're very expensive to build, so don't go overboard. Great War Mod Cant Find Research For Some Technology. Submarine spam 1-2 tank divisions. The submarine tree is a standard submarine tree for convoy raiding, not very powerful. 49. As we all know ships in Hoi4. 65, which is about 21. Add more planes. Making some decent air force for minor countries is harder now - for example, if You want to do bathtub spam, it is enough to research two technologies (submarine one and torpedos). ago. bwhite9 General of the Army • 7 yr. Surface Raiders are great at killing convoys in open space. You cant get resources from Resource Prospecting Decisions but that's only for certain states, you can build synethic refineries which gives you rubber and oil, or you can get resources from certain focuses (but that's rare). ago. 2 comments. 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. Concentrate on upgrades that reduce visibility and torpedo reveal chance. 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. Generalfaster • 1 hr. They serve the same ultimate purpose, destroyers are 2-3x faster and can disengage a lot easier without casualties, can spot far better, etc. Anything to look out for to. Above water is, very specifically: a main super strike fleet comprised of light cruisers with a single medium battery to ensure its in the secondary line, torpedo destroyers, and cheap, expendable screening destroyers; while the rest of the 9 capacity is occupied by cheap, fast, scout cruisers. Nope. Fleet in Being is just basic for surface fleets. This video serves as an easy to get into guide regarding submarines and it's various viable templates. 5 (100 * 1. r/hoi4 • You’re tasked with creating a new Focus Tree for a nation that doesn’t have one, which nation is it, and what’s a main feature of it? r/hoi4 • Is submarine spam enough to sink AI navy?1. 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). If you play non-historical mode be prepared to see some weird stuff, e. Get them close to the border and set off the conflict. I know, i know, just use 15 -5 armoured tank on multiple angle to plow through enemy even through mountain. You WILL need at least a full production line of Infantry equipment, you WILL need a full production line of fighters, and even support equipment depending on how you play. This page was last edited on 7 May 2017, at 15:55. 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. For your all around infantry template you can go 7 infantry, 2 artillery, support art, engineer, recon, support anti. ago. THey killed 500 man and the island garrison capitulated with 12000 POWs after losing only 200 of their own. ago. ago Sub 3s are very strong and need an enormous amount of effort to counter with airpower, radar, specially designed. kenzieBHOSbaker • 1 min. MTG needed a little more iteration. You could also use something like the tool pack mod to just give yourself some of the land. Learned To Love Submarine Groups. Look for the surface detection stat. I'm not sure if the same rules apply here in Darkest Hour. For example with democratic ideology, it looks like this democratic = { types = { conservatism = { } liberalism = { } socialism = { } } there are…Cover more of the target state. You can give yourself all Research with : research all . Basically, the speed of motorized is enough. It's mostly well balanced if you play on historical. Submarine Spam. When my friend tries hosting and starts the. 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. Join my discord:. S. Combat widths allowable are dictated by terrain type. FrontierJustice- • 3 yr. - plausible alternate paths with accompanying event chains to make for more interesting. 765. Hoi4 has been making the game more realistic as the game progresses, so why not this. txt event 27) (uh if youre looking for specific. "Forget all your naval options and spam submarines" - Sun Tzu. 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. Against a stronger naval opponent we can focus on tying up their fleet and destroying supply lines to starve their war machine.