Even low level ports should be able to receive vastly more supply than supply hubs connected by rail. Top posts of April 5,. 1. Saltborko • 4 yr. Last game I tried building a navy by spamming destroyers, cruisers and grouping them with capitals as well as submarine spam. I am not an expert by any means, but I feel fairly competent with most of the game's mechanics. txt event 27) (uh if youre looking for specific. Idk man, my dad can't swim. britian. If you play non-historical mode be prepared to see some weird stuff, e. Types of Ships. The main tree is mostly for CVs. In regular war you need to kill pockets in order to keep your XP level. Air superiority reduces enemy breakthrough and defense as well as allows your CAS operate without interference. FirstEquinox • 4 yr. Win. 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?. Then just spam these out. Should you have only part of them your paratroopers should. 25) attack after modifiers. I haven't found anything within the original timeline that is worthwhile. HOI4 Tools SGr - Save Game Recorder - records, compresses, and archives autosave files in realtime, no game impact. jmjwrskp • 9 mo. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by…375K subscribers in the hoi4 community. They pack armor against gun damage, can tank significant amounts of damage and deal a good amount of it. Radar cruisers and aa capital ships are useful as well if you can afford them. S. I've got a few theories in my head on what I want to do. Trade Interdiction: This is an offensive doctrine focusing on attacking enemy convoys with coordinated stealthy surface and submarine raiders that have superior abilities to find and destroy enemy shipping while evading enemy detection. DD and Naval Bomber spam. 1. Submarine Wolfpack --- Minimum: 20 Subs; Sweet Spot: 30 Subs; Maximum: 50 Subs; Raiding Group --- Minimum: 5 DDs, 25 Subs OR 5 CLs, 25 Subs; Convoy. This makes them heavy cruisers so they get protected by your Destroyers. When the war begins, there's obviously many things to produce at the same time. Chalbano Fleet Admiral • 7 yr. Click the army and look for a horse icon near your general card and change it to motorized supply. paradoxwikis. The fact that patches are pretty much only released with DLCs and DLCs are released once per year doesn't really help, either. 0 coins. Yes but for other countries that aren’t japan. j1ffster • 13 min. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox. I use tanks for occupation, go for the craziest possible. 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. 6K subscribers. Build Sub 3/4s with snorkels. Please remember to follow all forum rules. any tactic will defeat AI. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Add more planes. 1. Third Reich; Trade Interdiction for subs maxed; have all sub tech except for torpedo launcher 4; already have that advisor. Sonar is litteraly useless on this ship as it can't attack submarines anyways. The only case for it is to up the task force's average submarine spotting stats if other ships in the task force have depth charges, but you should have special ASW designs and strike forces anyways. ago. I've been trying to keep up my production, but my two fleets in the area, the Baltic Fleet and the Home Fleet, have. 2. Reply. All talk and no fight. There are some big weaknesses in the supply system of both hoi4 and hoi3, but in a different way. But you have to do every nation separately. The submarine tree is a standard submarine tree for convoy raiding, not very powerful. If you need I. For naval doctrine, almost always use trade interdiction. Delete the units. 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. 1 comment. Recon fleets come in about five ships, and sub fleets use five to ten submarines. Screens are needed in large quantities to counter carrier NAV spam. the reason you build light cruisers as any naval power (uk. Fleet in Being is just basic for surface fleets. • 4 yr. Heavy Battery II. Now there's only one way to basically play Japan for example. You cant ever build historical Japanese DDs. If you have a navy, a patrol helps a lot and you could have a submarine deathstack on strikeforce. Spam divisions/planes. Yes that's true but to say it wouldn't have been a game changer is a bit of a stretch. 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. . It would be like if armored trains and rail guns were faction exclusive. If you play non-historical mode be prepared to see some weird stuff, e. "Hybrid": This is what I've been trying lately. 1 comment. I also agree with the advice of researching 1944 tech for Engines IV, but continue to use the 1940 frame. angry-mustache • 7 yr. At 1936 level, the DE costs 1100 and the DD costs 1300. Learned To Love Submarine Groups. txt event 27) (uh if youre looking for specific. No enemy airports = no red air, simple as that. Whenever you get air superiority spam nukes. 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). Then they sold DLC with ship designer that made the system so obtuse nobody understands it, and that's supposed to be an improvement. Current HOI4 Version Supported: Barbarossa v1. Hover over it and it should tell you why. 1. r/hoi4. For your purposes in Asia, the range will be far superior (huge air zones) Regardless, it doesn't matter too much. Vote. The only thing that worked was restarting my computer. Having air superiority is super important for spotting and battle. Friendly fire from the thousands of shells from the 33 Japanese battleships. 0 unless otherwise noted. 1. If possible get fighter coverage for the percentage buff and cas to do org/strength damage. Destroyers have torpedoes 20% weaker than Light Cruisers and 1/3 the strength of Submarines. When originally they where givin these cool professional sounding names like raider group, pacific fleet, so on and so forth. Destroyers have very weak naval guns, while Light cruiser guns are at least good for killing Destroyers. r/hoi4. Submarine Spam. I can't remember if the Raj starts democratic or not, so you may also be able to have a Democratic coup to create India. - There are roughly 40 Battalion types with 25 slots per Division. Go to hoi4 r/hoi4 • by. 1 update. As long as your carrier is on a mission (such as Strike Force), then the air wings will automatically engage when the fleet moves to attack. If you care about details HOI4 has a lot of design issues. Sub 3 cannot be hit by AI, AI won't retreat because they're at a material advantage. 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. ago. Like I hate that in order to properly organize your navy you have to regroup all the ships to fleets named task force one, task force two and so on. 82. You probably misclicked and ordered Guderian's panzers to pull out of a fight, and when that happens, it counts as a retreat. Roach DDs, CAs with one medium and max light attack and one torpedo will decimate the screen of any fleet it comes. 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 airbaseGo to hoi4 r/hoi4 • by. ago. 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. This still sucks so hard compared to submarines. Let's get on with the guide! Terminology. That Screen is bugged. ago. ULTIMATE Submarine META PRO Guide - HOI4 Meta Navy Guide00:00 Subs!00:23 Why subs are broken01:36 Lets make a submarine04:09 Getting started07:44 Trade Inter. Easy, cheap, and effective. They're more for convoy raiding. the game is made in sweden yet theres no swedish lamguage paradox = lazy. It's mostly well balanced if you play on historical. ; About Hearts of Iron 4 Wiki; Mobile view This isnt the subs. Naval Rebalance - Sub and Cruiser spam is DEAD!! #hoi4 #news #HYPE A 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. If they hit 0 manpower before you you win. Having a ton of navs basically guarantees you’ll win. Due to submarines being nerfed in 1. FrontierJustice- • 3 yr. Am I producing equipment the wrong way? Not sure if any of this will make sense but here we go. spam destroyers armed with best radar and torpedoes and see what happens. Task Force Admiral looks good. Not surprised at the end result. Use naval bombers. At the start of the game, each country will have a. ago. Content is available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3. It works against countries that. I have about 60 submarines and would like to convoi raid Great Britain. They have the world's greatest submarine battleship force. Firebombing killed more in Japan than the nukes yet two firebombing raids didn't make them surrender. When a large nation goes to war and an ally grants you control of some of their divisions, what are the draw backs? For example, lets say I'm Germany, and Italy grants me control of 30 of their divisions. As we all know ships in Hoi4. Thangunis. And a great ally, it only took them about an hour to convert all of the battleships to submarines, all thanks to Japan! Submarine spam remains the true meta. I have about 60 submarines and would like to convoi raid Great Britain. Naval bombers are good to do most of the sinking. Some lesser known factors that affect naval supremacy : - Air superiority is a factor on naval supremacy - Some missions (convoy raiding and escort) only give you half the naval superiority point, so be sure to be either in strike force, reconnaissance or naval invasion support (training obviously gives 0 point)Well, if submarine 3 is good enough, in practice, against the AI, then upgrading may be counterproductive simply due to production cost. Click the portrait icon of an army without a general, there should be a button at the bottom of the window that says Promote division commander or something similar, click that and it gives you a list of division commanders, select one to promote to general. Business, Economics, and Finance. Research_all I think. 127. Add a Comment. r/hoi4 • Is submarine spam enough to sink AI navy?According to his experience they don't. Terrains Combat Widths. dont know about anti air but anti tank seemed fairly usefull as attachments to infantry. 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. ago. not if you have to fight a large naval group. Antonio. 1. Fingers crossed. If you start the game with a navy, stack all the subs in one navy and throw the rest of your navy in reserve. Subs are fine for playing defense and raiding convoys, but they no longer give sea control to allow invasions. Something like this happens in the Chinese Civil war too. That war is over with Britain capitulated (it was over before the US got involved), but now the Nazis have 600+ mil factories, and a cheeky tag across to GER shows literally hundreds of them are churning out aircraft. Build Sub 3/4s with snorkels. 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. 3. ago. Their survivability is in their speed. There are a few none are very good. I has it too, stupid stuff happens a lot of times. If you have 100 base attack, with 10% bonus from commander and 25% bonus from veterancy, your unit would have 137. So there currently two populair navy strategies that I see floating around. Same thing with air wings, although admittedly I don't really know how to organize those in HOI4 either. When you get the 1940 subs w/ snorkels, you can go on the offense to hunt down big fleets. ULTIMATE Submarine META PRO Guide - HOI4 Meta Navy Guide00:00 Subs!00:23 Why subs are broken01:36 Lets make a submarine04:09 Getting started07:44 Trade Inter. 5. HOI4 needs a secondary Dev team (Custodian Team) with the mandate and resources to rework and improve old DLC and updates. If you justify on the Netherlands in 36 and spam out your 36 subs and just add mines to them you can hold them off with one army and just lay mines until you are ready to finish the war. C. Yes. 203. Meta of War Crimes! NOT A JOKE! ULTIMATE Submarine META PRO Guide - HOI4 Meta Navy Guide00:00 Subs!00:23 Why subs are. RELEASED SGc - Save Game Converter - converts save games to XML format for easy viewing in freeware XML viewers. The AI just doesn't have to do much by comparison in other Paradox titles. Option a) naval bomber option b) submarine. HOI4 takes liberties with reality in that having lower penetration values than the targets armor reduces damage but does not totally eliminate it. ViniciusSinged • 21 days ago. Ctrl alt delete open task manager, restart windows explorer. Sub 3s, Light attack spam, torpedo screen spam, etc. This page was last edited on 7 May 2017, at 15:55. No navy except maximum submarine spam. [deleted] • 7 yr. Naval bombers delete the screens, subs kill the convoys and capitals. Destroyers have torpedoes 20% weaker than Light Cruisers and 1/3 the strength of Submarines. If you spam subs, you will loose your manpower and uwilt your dockyards to something that you will loose anyways. Add support units or tanks if you can make them. Then the torp destroyers kill enemy caps. 3. ago. Fallback lines are there to make the A. FlinzP Captain. 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. Latest HOI4 province summary. Good light cruisers are excellent uses of. If you cover the whole area or can't cover more. Thank you. Originally posted by Random: the easiest and most effective way to wipe out subs on mass is to setup about 4 groups of 10-15 destroyers with at least 2 secondary gun components setup to depth charges (pretty much every destroyer that isn't a minelayer or minesweeper should have this) with your highest available radar + sonar, and set them to. 12, spamming subs is no longer a viable option for fleet-building. Speed is king, always retreat at any sign of trouble and stay out of air range. Join. Set a small fleet of destroyers and subs on recon and set your main fleet to strike force and wait. 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. ago. Just want to know how honestly. Submarines are completely OP. If the host is running the game at a speed one of the players cannot handle and falls more than 24 in game hours behind without the game autopausing they will desync. Aka modern space marine for 1. 12 comments. Thx. 19 votes, 16 comments. The reason for submarine spamming in game and in history iis because they were cheap. Also, go for bigger divisions (40, 42 or 45 width) when on offense due to focusing and attack to defense ratios. Possibly the easiest meta in the game, and the one that most people go for is the submarine spam. ago. For this reason, 1936 ship designs are shown for most ships. E. 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. After download I noticed that my mods are stuck at 100% (title). S. This is from Kaiserreich mod (Before No step back). It's the meta for a reason. You dont seem to get me. SS Submarine – cheap, slow, limited loadout options; SS Cruiser Submarine – cheap, unique to a few countries, slow, special loadout options. How to use submarines properly. - When your fleet meets and enemy fleet they begin a naval battle. It’s pretty simple, but takes focus to make it efficient. Best. More time and QA. Suprcheese • 7 yr. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by…I want a mod to increase my focus speed (because I suffer a lot of late game lag when it takes me too long to do stuff that I need) but when the A. 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. But in general, which is superior. 005 * ship production cost in industrial capacity (IC) + 0. ago. Thangunis. A halfway comprehending of navy player would just spam DD with anti. Gaining and retaining division XP is very hard. If the transport plane can only reach 25% of the selected state, their supplies are cut accordingly, even if they reach the entire frontline. Television. Sub 3 cannot be hit by AI, AI won't retreat because they're at a material advantage. bwhite9 General of the Army • 4 yr. Yup, I have an ongoing game as the anarchists where the axis became unofficial allies while I fought the real Allies. It is an option, you need to enable it in the host settings or it won't let a second person join. The army and air force have a bigger impact on the war than the navy. Join. 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). Great War Mod Cant Find Research For Some Technology. If your carrier is sitting in a port or in a sea zone with no mission, then you can select the air. 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. Although i did notice that doesnt work 100% of the time, seems to be mostly the case with Newspaper Events. The weaknesses are enemy airpower, good ASW cruisers, or destroyer spam (but destroyers only deter and not kill). It also can have excellent spotting and thus seems ideal for zones like the the mid Atlantic gap. Jun 19, 2016. a other light cruisers + destroyers and allow the capitals, heavy cruisers & carriers to be destroyed by anything that breathes on them. Due to submarines being nerfed in 1. Sub 3’s are very good, and they are very quick to build. "Forget all your naval options and spam submarines" - Sun Tzu. But that would take a lot of modding work to make happen. [deleted] • 5 yr. Will 10-0s push well enough? I noticed it’s very difficult for me to get and keep a solid foothold in China and keep pushing. ago. A halfway comprehending of navy player would just spam DD with anti. You cant retake a fallback position as it wouldn't be "Falling Back". You shouldn't need to spend more than $150 on a graphics card to able to max out the graphics for HOI4. . Given this purpouse it shouldn't have engineers, recon or military. The Nova Politicus SMP is a realistic geopolitical/world building SMP where players are situated across the earth and make their own realistic countries. Join my discord:. e. 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. You should aim for a total of at least 4-5 destroyers per cruiser. 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 prefer to build my navy slowly and spam submarines to make naval invasion. Decryption tech plays a part in spotting fleets, especially naval invasions. Trade Interdiction. 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). kenzieBHOSbaker • 1 min. Each hull type contains a number of module slots. Set. 2. So have some divisions at a port on your coast waiting, scout out the British coast with your fleet before you declare war, then drop the paratroopers on the island in a relatively weak spot and then get your army across the. Go to hoi4 r/hoi4 • by. Build 2)’s Cruisers but also spam Destroyers with full torpedoes on them. For every 1 point in Sub Detection you get +1,8% Chance of finding the enemy Submarine. Submarines. The Nova Politicus SMP is a realistic geopolitical/world building SMP where players are situated across the earth and make their own realistic countries. If you have 10 or more than 10 dockyards, you can disporbicya very decent. Enitity_Enigma • 21 days ago. November 19, 2022 by Antonio. When they are in position that order is useless, once the enemy has marched to your fallback line then you create the frontline to keep them from making stupid gaps. 1 / 6. And that's the list of useful options for naval combat. spam destroyers armed with best radar and torpedoes and see what happens. 3 comments. Multiplayer sync problem : r/hoi4. ago. I can usually get. For tanks the IC cost is less since you also need to train Divisions to. ago. Minor: Submarine is the safe choice, Light Cruiser with lots of Light attack might work. Good enough. Then just spam these out. g. Hearts of Iron. They supposedly do this, because the AI needs its battle lines fully manned, or the AI does strange things moving divisions around to fill holes, that only opens up more holes, which. Any ideas? This thread is archived. 2. If you are ussr and your are going for a late build and you build civs until mid 39, dont rush imrpoved machine tool branch go instead dispersed construction make ready your tanks and after that research these before start producing heavily. 0 version. If they hit 0 manpower before you you win. It works against countries that dont have a large naval group and as a small naval power theres not really the option of doing much else. 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. Trade Interdiction: In my honest and humble opinion, if you want to spam ships which are quickly build, go for one of these. This is the most powerful doctrine for surface action. In November, we hit our favourite milestone to date; 1 MILLION ACTIV. 1 to 1x but not above. The way naval hit probabilities work in hoi4, it's a reasonable concept. Build 2)’s Cruisers but also spam Destroyers with full torpedoes on them. • 17 days ago. Jump to latest Follow Reply. 1 / 6. All navy production and tech to submarines Total airforce (end game) of about 600 fighters and 1200 bombers. Japan either goes full into Yamamoto mode and makes super heavy battleships maximizing heavy attack. Never tried it myself but if I catched it up correctly, you can use (at least in Multiplayer) to trick your enemy. I'm not sure if the same rules apply here in Darkest Hour. 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. I know the feeling. DN = dreadnought. It's allowed me to destroy significant parts of any enemy navy with comparitively minor effort. 474. 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. Japan either goes full into Yamamoto mode and makes super heavy battleships maximizing heavy attack. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. com] with the 'hourly change' value and the 'Base detection. Not a huge savings but one that adds up. 3. I’ve seen Das Boot and it doesn’t take much to take them out of commission. Each country has its own unique background, ideology, government, economy, resources, currency, etc. Submarines aren't usually able to sink ships. TeaMoney4Life • 1 min. Task Force Admiral looks good. A. 2. 225. - When your fleet meets and enemy fleet they begin a naval battle. Then the torp destroyers kill enemy caps. I would say subs are the most OP. 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. Submarine spam with limited surface AA and fighter support can work too, quite effective for IC limited nation. Press J to jump to the feed. Now I'd like to ask some questions about the naval meta. The way supply hubs distribute supply in general is also extremely strange, but that's a separate. One spot I know of to look for this is in the theater results screen. Are there any mods or alternate maps that remove the naval aspect of the game so I can just draw battle plans and design tanks/planes/divisions to my heart's content?The planning bonus affects every statistic. Surface Raiders have higher kill rates because they have higher surface detection to find convoys. And secondarily attacking enemy ships. ago Instead of doing sub spam, I prefer making a good surface fleet. (can construct avg 2-4. Apr 25, 2018. Set you sub fleet to engage at high risk, medium repair priority and enable automatic split off. 1936 Battleship. 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. Try fitting a DD with 3 DP guns and 3 torpedoes with depth charges, you run out of slots so you must sacrifice either ASW or a torpedo. ago. UI scale option experimental? Looking in game options menu, UI scale is labeled as 'experimental' with option to set UI scale from 0. 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. How do I force an army to use convoys? Here is the short version: I want to land an army worth of modern tanks in the British Raj, my marines are already holding the port after a succesfull naval invasion. Spam submarines hard and do most of the fighting on ground and air. I just tried to reload older save files and tag to the Nationalist Spain, apparently Enrique Lister despite having stalinist loyalty and don't have trait Nationalist sympathizer decided to become a Nationalist generals, and when SCW end he can't join because he got pulled to the nationalist. "Forget all your naval options and spam submarines" - Sun Tzu. Apr 8, 2018. The airbases could be low on supply, for this you’ll have to fix railways and add supply hubs and/or move supply heavy troops away from them, This one can be pretty tricky to do with depending on the region. I play as Germany and war is about to break out in 1939.