ago. heavy attack spam is. In the last 5 games I played, Germany declared war on the USSR without fighting anyone and Poland joined Axis, the UK declared war on the USSR and. ago. 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. I have about 60 submarines and would like to convoi raid Great Britain. SirStrider666 • 4 yr. Assuming you are using Windows go to the control panel and uninstall all Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. Then in order to get most out of them funnel your convoy routes through a few sectors. Even low level ports should be able to receive vastly more supply than supply hubs connected by rail. SirStrider666 • 4 yr. 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. ago. Battleships are by far the single strongest ship you can produce in Hearts of Iron IV. The reason for submarine spamming in game and in history iis because they were cheap. They pack armor against gun damage, can tank significant amounts of damage and deal a good amount of it. Instead of doing 15-5 tank-mot, do 13-5-4 tank-mot-SPAA with support AA. Build Cruisers with one cheapest heavy gun and the rest the best light guns you can get. Easy, cheap, and effective. Base Strike is more focused on Carriers & Naval Bombers. Spam basic infantry and forts, and try to get Italy on your side. Subs are fine for playing defense and raiding convoys, but they no longer give sea control to allow invasions. 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. They only thing that you could do is change it from a civil war to a normal war. For example it goes from 3 bars to 2 bars and then 1 bar and then it pauses the game. Win. It’s pretty simple, but takes focus to make it efficient. Then select the Feild marshal either from the theater's menu or from the bottom of the screen. "Carrier Battles" is a good game series about Carrier fighting. CowboyRonin • 1 yr. ago. Set a small fleet of destroyers and subs on recon and set your main fleet to strike force and wait. Anything to look out for to. 2. Get all other divisions out. 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. The AI doesn't produce the second and destroyer spam is best killed by good cruisers. - There are at least 15 Support Company types in the game (assuming some nation-specific ones as well like Assault Battalions) with 5 slots. Below water, obviously, is submarine spam. And if this doesnt work, just reinstall the game, its not that big. 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. 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). Generalfaster • 1 hr. Give wardens destroyer. 203. HOI4 needs a secondary Dev team (Custodian Team) with the mandate and resources to rework and improve old DLC and updates. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. "Hybrid": This is what I've been trying lately. 6th Flotilla Took 20+ enemies To Davy Jones. ago. I use tanks for occupation, go for the craziest possible. ; 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. I prefer to build my navy slowly and spam submarines to make naval invasion. 3. [deleted] • 4 yr. 12. You can also do a double motorized for even more supply but you’ll eat your trucks doing it. I personally divide my subs into 5 groups and set each group a target strength of 20 subs. ; About Hearts of Iron 4 Wiki; Mobile viewThis isnt the subs. Greatest HOI4 post of all time. Exemple Japanese Submarine. The reason for submarine spamming in game and in history iis because they were cheap. Instead, they provide a pittance. 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. These can be surface ships, submarines, and/or aircraft carriers. UI scale option experimental? Looking in game options menu, UI scale is labeled as 'experimental' with option to set UI scale from 0. 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. Their main purpose is to keep damage from capital ships. spam destroyers armed with best radar and torpedoes and see what happens. Build Sub 3/4s with snorkels. HOI4 Navy Guide | Submarines bigschmokes 4. 11. You cant ever build historical Japanese DDs. If your carrier is sitting in a port or in a sea zone with no mission, then you can select the air. Any-Squirrel-3953 • 9 mo. CA is a screen hunter to counter DD or CL spam and can't reasonably combat capital ships. Good light cruisers are excellent uses of. 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. 17 Badges. 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. Build Sub 3/4s with snorkels. Reply seesaww •. When the war begins, there's obviously many things to produce at the same time. Vote. For example convoys have only 0. 1. any tactic will defeat AI. Secret Master. 9. spawn [<SubUnit Type>] [<Province ID>] [<Amount>]This is the most powerful doctrine for surface action. Give your sub snorkel, best (and maximum amount of) torpedos and best engine. 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. Spam divisions/planes. 11 11 comments Best SuddenStorm8 • Fleet Admiral • 4 yr. I've been playing HOI4 since it's release date in 2016. 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). j1ffster • 13 min. Can I get a little advice on the fleet? Still can't get it how to use it properly, I'm relatively new. ago. Set. 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. 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. ago. I've never tried cloud save but Ironman save can be corrupted easily if you forcefully quit the game. Also flanking and encirclement. Outside of a tank division as their own dedicated motorized. 2- start preparing (or just pump divs out) to make a lot of divisions to rush anschluss. Specialized destroyers and naval bombers should do the trick. Some vague answers: Germany has an advisor that gives +10% naval range. In reality it is an order of magnitude cheaper to move freight by sea and river than by rail. Last game I tried building a navy by spamming destroyers, cruisers and grouping them with capitals as well as submarine spam. Well, they've reached their limit of supplies they can deliver. Tanks should be used scarcely only as a breakthrough force. 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. bwhite9 • General of the Army • 4 yr. ago. If your goal is to go after warships by setting aggressive to max, then snorkel will allow your subs to stay in the fight longer and sink more enemy warships. Pretty useless for naval combat. 1. 1. Would it still cap at 100% or could it go to 110%? This thread is archived. This is the fact AI never upgrades sonar or detection and will never retreat when they cannot detect their enemy. If the transport plane can only reach 25% of the selected state, their supplies are cut accordingly, even if they reach the entire frontline. 1) The difference between 1936 submarine and a 1940 submarine with snorkel and designer is substantial (equal doctrines). Light Cruisers can get a very high operational range and destroy many convoys very quickly. More armor/piercing, more hardness, more hard attack, slightly more soft attack, defense, and breakthrough. Nope. 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. #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. Please remember this video is not the be all end all,. A. Garrison your ports and naval bomb anywhere they try to land. Deliberus Banned. Firstly is the torpedo-ships. 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. Maybe your subs don’t have enough coverage or are spread over too many zones. 80 years ago today was 'A date that will live in infamy' At 7. I've always annihilated and been annihilated if subs/destroyers run into a large naval group. Friendly fire from the thousands of shells from the 33 Japanese battleships. ago. Yes that's true but to say it wouldn't have been a game changer is a bit of a stretch. 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. Im playing in the Millenium Dawn mod, as USA, and I'm planning on invading Afghanistan, but don't know how to approach an invasion. ago. America Meridionalis: Central & South America Expanded is a mod that seeks to rework every nation in Central and South America plus the Caribbean's. For your purposes in Asia, the range will be far superior (huge air zones) Regardless, it doesn't matter too much. Fingers crossed. If you play non-historical mode be prepared to see some weird stuff, e. I swear every time I try to use paratroopers they give me a headache, the times where they simply wouldn't launch are more that the ones where they worked! CommanderEggnog • 2 min. The USN has a large submarine component that includes many 1940 submarines with the raiding designer and trade interdiction techs. Edit to link to my cut/paste. 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. Countries mostly license production to research their own fighter 2s and they'll. allan11011 • General of the Army • 1 yr. 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. Japan either goes full into Yamamoto mode and makes super heavy battleships maximizing heavy attack. 1. 13. ago. Jump to latest Follow Reply. Delete the units. After that, pressing H will do the job. HOI4 needs a secondary Dev team (Custodian Team) with the mandate and resources to rework and improve old DLC and updates. [deleted] • 7 yr. 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. In real life, the German heavy surface raiders worked extremely well for tying up lots of Allied ships escorting convoys off the coast of Norway: leaving them unavailable for use elsewhere. You don't reinforce them with your own pool, they reinforce with Romania's pool and equipment. 29. Firstly is the torpedo-ships. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. - Each naval region has a certain amount of superiority depending on the strength of each fleet. ago. the reason you build light cruisers as any naval power (uk. ago. On steam you can right click on the game and search for "check local installation" or "check local files". The fact that patches are pretty much only released with DLCs and DLCs are released once per year doesn't really help, either. r/hoi4 • Is submarine spam enough to sink AI navy?According to his experience they don't. r/hoi4 • Is submarine spam enough to sink AI navy? r/hoi4. For naval doctrine, almost always use trade interdiction. 005 * ship production cost in industrial capacity (IC) + 0. For tanks the IC cost is less since you also need to train Divisions to. The fact that patches are pretty much only released with DLCs and DLCs are released once per year doesn't really help, either. On the Land fort it says it needs defensive bunker technology, and for the trench it says it needs vaubans. Total__Entropy • 7 yr. This page was last edited on 7 May 2017, at 15:55. 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. . Hover over the unit in your division to see if it can be paradropped. bwhite9 General of the Army • 4 yr. I’ve seen Das Boot and it doesn’t take much to take them out of commission. Secondly are the heavy cruisers. 2. As we all know ships in Hoi4 have been completely changed the old "rock-paper-scissors" system of pre MTG naval combat, e. That Screen is bugged. Possibly the easiest meta in the game, and the one that most people go for is the submarine spam. This is the most efficient way to design good divisions if you aren't allowed to participate in the Spanish Civil War. r/hoi4 • Is submarine spam enough to sink AI navy? See more posts like this in r/hoi4Since research times vary based on your trade policy, it's a little daunting to set up a universal equation, but here's what I came up with: (1-RRn)D = (1-RRi)D + (1-RRn)T. Specialized destroyers and naval bombers should do the trick. Jul 3, 2016 323 465. lwp2004 • 4 yr. You can give yourself all Research with : research all . 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. 2. Make sure that all the armies you want on a front have no orders. destroyers also get one shot by p. Good enough. Deep. a other light cruisers + destroyers and allow the capitals, heavy cruisers & carriers to be destroyed by anything that breathes on them. 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. People do notice the HOI4 AI's shortcomings more, though, since combat and war production are basically the entire game. 203. 1,265 ratings. for the low price of just 85 XP! As an added bonus, get a way to ramp up your army to a million men for just 5 XP extra! Limited time offer. 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. l to ensure that your capitals are effectively screened. Due to submarines being nerfed in 1. 1 to 1x but not above. Exemple Japanese Submarine. So this is not bathtub strat (Cool victory tho comrad). Do not forget to set them to "not engage". 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 channel. Valheim Genshin Impact Minecraft Pokimane Halo Infinite Call of Duty: Warzone Path of Exile Hollow Knight: Silksong Escape from Tarkov Watch Dogs: Legion. Join. Radar cruisers and aa capital ships are useful as well if you can afford them. 82. Hover over it and it should tell you why. ago. When originally they where givin these cool professional sounding names like raider group, pacific fleet, so on and so forth. Hulls are the foundational component of ships, and are unlocked through research. As much as I love HOI4 (2700 hrs), the game isn't designed flawlessly, and for most people, they can safely ignore anything to do with navy and still complete world conquests. I find the cruiser submarine available via "U-boat effort" focus to be quite good at enforcing a blockade sufficiently far from Britain. e. Contrarily if you want to spam DDs against subs research right away sonar or depth charge and start produce. 3. Sub 3s, Light attack spam, torpedo screen spam, etc. They only thing that you could do is change it from a civil war to a normal war. Sports. 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. ; 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. Chalbano Fleet Admiral • 7 yr. 25) attack after modifiers. r/hoi4. Yup, I have an ongoing game as the anarchists where the axis became unofficial allies while I fought the real Allies. I play as Germany and war is about to break out in 1939. E. People make tubs first and then refit it with the guns on it. 005 * ship production cost in industrial capacity (IC) + 0. For better or for worse, magazine. Reply Fun. 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. Any of the same modifier will stack additively, so in your example of 10% output + 20% output, you'd have 30% output. Best. 225. The USN also has some capital ships, although. Give collies submarine. This page was last edited on 7 May 2017, at 15:55. Meaning your division is 100% more effective at everything, attacking, or defending. Roach DDs, CAs with one medium and max light attack and one torpedo will decimate the screen of any fleet it comes. r/hoi4. 8. This becomes a problem because laptops have inherently weaker processors. But last DD about rebalancing navy and two playtrough, when I cannot build even submarine spam fast. not an SSD), I can see this happening. classteen • Fleet Admiral • 2 yr. Its really fun because all of them have comparable navy and allows proper naval battles unlike in…1. Which gives you longer to spot them. You cant retake a fallback position as it wouldn't be "Falling Back". ago. This is the most efficient way to design good divisions if you aren't allowed to participate in the Spanish Civil War. If you have 100 base attack, with 10% bonus from commander and 25% bonus from veterancy, your unit would have 137. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox. ago. I'm put a week aside to fully mod the UI to swedish. They're very expensive to build, so don't go overboard. Conclusion: CVs are underpowered in this 1. 4 comments. Navies in HOI4 had a pretty strict setup - for every capital ship, you need four screen ships. The DD's find them, the bombers eradicate them. Hoi4 ofc. They are really only useful for convoy-raiding and some niche fleet compositions. I've read mines help with naval supremacy and they are relatively efficient submarine wise. No enemy airports = no red air, simple as that. CryptoThere are some big weaknesses in the supply system of both hoi4 and hoi3, but in a different way. You'll receive some damage from CAS but you'll shoot down quite a few. I know, i know, just use 15 -5 armoured tank on multiple angle to plow through enemy even through mountain. Look at the spanish civil war and the indian liberation army. Range, cant reach any battles that are currently happening, but sometimes airzones bug, could also be airfield being crowded. Its a pretty good expansion of the base game. For subs, create sub hunter fleets with 2-3 light cruisers per patrol fleet and 5-8 destroyers for the actual hunters. 5. Sink the Italian Fleet. Navy Works like: 1 Admiral has a Fleet, each fleet has different Task Forces. britian. The main tree is mostly for CVs. Should you have only part of them your paratroopers should. You trigger an order-of-battle file in which you create divisions as well as the template these divisions use. A halfway comprehending of navy player would just spam DD with anti. 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. 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. 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. Submarines OP. However, the longer your divisions are moving or in action, the planning bonus dwindles. r/hoi4 • Is submarine spam enough to sink AI navy? See more posts like this in r/hoi4. Content is available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3. (can construct avg 2-4. High AA doesn't mean you can easily shoot down 500 planes. Minor: Submarine is the safe choice, Light Cruiser with lots of Light attack might work. You shouldn't need to spend more than $150 on a graphics card to able to max out the graphics for HOI4. l to ensure that your capitals are effectively screened. You can spread out in a line. 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. 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. 2. Hearts of Iron. It's mostly well balanced if you play on historical. FrontierJustice- • 3 yr. Fill it with all the rifles and artillery you can find. Myself and a few of my friends have had a lot of issues with saves becoming corrupted. As others said, 60+ torpedo attack is needed to one-shot kill convoys. 2. There are 5 types of ships that you will use in HOI4: Destroyers. Sub 3’s are very good, and they are very quick to build. Also subs count less towards naval supremacy. [deleted] • 4 yr. 1 * 1. I'm not sure if the same rules apply here in Darkest Hour. variants) that can be produced by dockyards. Decryption tech plays a part in spotting fleets, especially naval invasions. Is there something I m doing wrong because I thought I should be able to increase UI scale beyond default 1X ? This thread is archived. 0 unless otherwise noted. If you need I. I know the point of the MtG update/expansion is to combat the current meta of BB/CV spam, and to combat naval force "inflation" (i. I'm trying to imagine the submarine shooting down airplanes while simultaneously sinking 4 ships. Instead, they provide a pittance. Surface Raiders have higher kill rates because they have higher surface detection to find convoys. angry-mustache • 7 yr. As someone with 600 hours in HOI4 and a good understandung of the navy, dont bother. DD is a submarine hunter and cannon fodder. 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. Subs are the best scouts, best convoy raiders, and best minelayers. You should aim for a total of at least 4-5 destroyers per cruiser. . 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. This is a very heavy assult infantry tenplate. Something like this happens in the Chinese Civil war too. Now start the game in admin mode through the exe file in the steam folder (not through steam itself). 12 comments. A large submarine fleet can be a major asset in a country’s war effort, allowing it to deny enemy ships access to. 0 coins.