This community wiki's goal is to be a repository of Hearts of Iron IV related knowledge, useful for both new and experienced players and for modders. Also the submarine you cited could carrier a whopping total of 3 planes, which wouldn't make much of a difference. After the 5th their org should be down enough to run over. Just gotta get dragged in to WWII. ago. Their survivability is in their speed. AI in general | Paradox Interactive Forums Ai naval invasion spam is out of control and is ruining the fun in my games. There are also optional arguments: start_experience_factor = 0. • 6 mo. Orleanist is the most chill branch, you get some extra PP and stability becomes a non-issue. Destroyers stacked with torpedoes are more reliable than a sub spam. Probably one of my favorite parts of this game. Build medium tanks and mechanized. It's not an equipment issue - I have loads of stuff in storage. [BIG FAT] МАГІСТР ХУ Ї Jan 4 @ 1:11pm. Additional comment actions. Orleanist is the worst for blobbing, but can be a good anti-Axis nation in multiplayer games where world conquest isn't desirable anyway. This is extra effective as Germany due to your Admirals, focus tree, research bonuses, and simple geography. Give your sub snorkel, best (and maximum amount of) torpedos and best engine. i just edited my post to show my audio settings. AI doesn’t really upgrade its starting fleet so they have a hard time killing subs, especially sub 4s. Capital Ships can use up to 5 yards of production at a time, Screens and Subs use up to 10 yards, and transports can have a capacity of 15 yards working. infantry divisions. HoI4 "pro" Servers horrendously cancerous. If you want to bleed the enemy resources (if they need convoys) and hunt for troops going across open water, then sub spam is still good. Alive-Barber-5358 • 9 mo. Subs only have an advantage against surface fleets without screens. The checksum is 45c2. A 100 plane 1944 carrier will have 10 CAS, 30 naval bombers and 60 fighters. Not really lol, navy is super simple in hoi4. To be honest I never liked the idea of the merger because modern-day 4 runs bad on my computer. Pacific Fleet. Either deathstack (put all your mainline ships into one group), or the "HOI4 Special" of spamming subs/Naval bombers. Sub Hordes are a good way but they get slaughtered by the enemy if they aren’t Sub 3/4s. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox Development Studio. Once you're communist, immediately research the focus "secure the colonies". Report. A sea is salty water. 1. This can be attached to your patrol screen fleet for max convoy and sub destruction. So for convoy raiding, you're better off with "Silent Hunter" than "Lancer" since it will be pretty infrequent that your subs will be engaging capital ships protected by screens, so the trait is basically useless for sub commanders. No enemy airports = no red air, simple as that. If screening ever hits 90% or less the torpedo cruisers will stomp stuff. 11. Subs. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox Development Studio. 146 votes, 146 comments. And clicking on a focus tree does nothing. Created by Majo Max. For want of soft attack. it's also an interesting. Same thing with air wings, although admittedly I don't really know how to organize those in HOI4 either. Added helicopter support (transport, recon, anti-sub, and attack). I wouldn't produce more then 8 of them for the beginning of war. Naval bombers are ridiculously overpowered in large numbers. The carriers covered the Mariana's, PI Sea, Bismark Sea. Naval combat in HOI4 goes on for far too long anyway, as a result the U-Boats also seem to spend way too much time submerged, those without snorkels could not have managed longer than 48 hours with 24 hours for most, and snorkel based ones would be at high risk of being spotted by air or radar as they came up to snorkel distance. India Fleet. Managed to get it working. Attack supply hubs and railways. Use cheap destroyer bait + naval bombers to kill any real fleets that get too close to home. • 1 yr. . Stack at least 8 divisions per tile. I think because i made a plan to naval invade Malta. HOI4 crashing after few minutes Hello I have a problem with game crashing. The fact I’m actually exited to play the base game again is impressive in and of itself. Londtex • 4 yr. Okay, thank you that was helpful. If you start the game with a navy, stack all the subs in one navy and throw the rest of your navy in reserve. It is a rewarding game. However, despite its immense wealth in resources and infrastructure assets, the USA is heavily restrained by its laws and national spirits at the start of the game. As Nazi Germany's grasp over Europe begins to weaken and Japan's puppets begin to chafe under their master, Ame. The New Order: Last Days of Europe is an alt-history Cold War mod for Hearts of Iron IV. Greetings all! As you’ll no doubt be aware, the launch of the No Step Back expansion last year was the climax of a busy year of development for the HoI. The destroyer patrols that kill subs get absolutely manhandled by Cruisers. Op Int got nerfed at MtG release to have only +10% agility. 1st: add_party_popularity 100 fascism. Sub detection: 1. Rule #5 - A helpful guide to build a strong navy as Japan, but can be applied. There are multiple strats, but. Join. Last game I played my task force was 4 CV, 4 BC, 4 CA, 8 CL, and 32 Destroyers. If your carrier is sitting in a port or in a sea zone with no mission, then you can select the air. Small group of cheap DDs. 5 production per day. I personally divide my subs into 5 groups and set each group a target strength of 20 subs. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…I kinda like playing Hungary and reforming Austria Hungary, the problem is that in order to get the achievement you need to invade the UK, but you don't have any navy and you need to do that before the USA joins the war or GG. Who needs hoi4 cheats when you have. Useful links:Iron Workshop Discord server. Description. At the top of the window you will see Patrol, Search, Raid, and Defend, each of these have uses I'll cover later, but you select and option and left. As for tank I use 6tank/4mot and again, it works very well against AI. For subs, create sub hunter fleets with 2-3 light cruisers per patrol fleet and 5-8 destroyers for the actual hunters. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…Kaiserreich - a 1936 mod where Germany won WW1, Britain and France fell to socialist revolutions and Russia is an ultranationalist dictatorship. . Go to hoi4 r/hoi4 • by. Isn’t the main reason they are broken OP, AI in hearts of iron 4 is braindead so they don’t know how to counter them. It says hoi4 for god sake any brain can read that within a millisecond or smth. From the wiki [hoi4. Unless the triggers are adjusted, AI will be likely to use /Hearts. Conservatism. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…1. 0. You should always add exactly one float plane catapult to all of your capitals. 6 Sub-Hunting And Coastal Patrol. The Ai doesn't anti-sub very well. if you don't boost fascism you run the risk of rebellion due to democratic tendencies. Give your sub snorkel, best (and maximum amount of) torpedos and best engine. Sometimes grabbing a 150 PP focus early is worth delaying other foci, if it means being able to switch away from civilian economy, add certain advisors (silent workhorse, the -5% consumer goods one). Trade Interdiction +30 +30%-10% +50%. Or you know,in SP just spam subs with torpedoes+minelayers and mine the seas. 1. Added ballistic missile 5. e. Spam divisions/planes. ago. I'm not sure if the same rules apply here in Darkest Hour. The War Room - /r/hoi4 Weekly General Help Thread: September 4 2023. Whenever you get air superiority spam nukes. pinned by moderators. paradox ai dont cheat unless you have the difficulty above normal. • 5 yr. India and sub-saharan Africa. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox Development Studio. Especially when that content comes at the cost of $20 installments. 377K subscribers in the hoi4 community. A. 1. Created by Starfoth The Burgundy Silk Rug. card classic compact. Rush 1940 sub and snorkel. Surface Raiders are great at killing convoys in open space. Description. HOI4 Special: Subs with snorkels, lots of Naval bombers. Released June 20th, 2023 on Steam. Referring to u/Emzation's post on r/hoi4 concerning the findings on new combat width meta, it concludes the templates with combat width lower than 12 and higher than 40 are impractical. Have 4 carrier, 6 BB, 15 HC, 25 LC, 50 DD in your "main fleet". For naval, sub spam starting now. 2. Alesi_Sanchez • • Edited . Dubois and wanted to hire Harold Laski to teach students about politics and democracy. 5%. ago. Posted by. The purpose of infantry is to defend. Added a final 1026 nuclear tech. The New Order: Last Days of Europe is an alt-history Cold War mod for Hearts of Iron IV. I don't know if it is current meta or not, but since no one else is answering: I still sub-spam to sink transports. If you don't have many factories to work with and can't commit to tanks, then 14/4 inf/arty is better to use than 7/2, but you'd still want to use 10/0 with engineers as your core defense and use the 14/4 to attack with. Then in order to get most out of them funnel your convoy routes through a few sectors. Set them to convoy hunt. A halfway comprehending of navy player would just spam DD with anti. HuhSubideologies are also used in the game's files to determine the ideology of leaders. While it's possible to find many individual mods, it's difficult to find a comprehensive collection of all the good and compatible mods in one place. 2)You would need to put a lot of Industry on the CAS for this plan as they would take very high losses. ！. Jan 21, 2020 @ 2:33pm. Target cost is in the 10-12k range. In multiplayer, destroyer spam can be easily countered by building a few fast capital ships (heavy cruisers or battlecruisers). Escort ships become pointless as even if they can detect the sub they cant kill it because of bad game design. once you kill all his convoys you should easily beat his navy. use Tacs to try and kill his subs, and make sure you do naval doctrine. BCs should be 1-2 heavy batteries, 1 plane, fill with AA1 or dual purpose secondaries. And if whole battalions are being wiped out, a draft will not fix that. Description. simplify the amount of equipment you want to make. Stoffen2. Preview file contents. but for making screens, use something with light attack. The sub-ideologies convey cultural differences and versions of ideologies that are very specific to a country (like the Korean communism, 'juche') or simply adjust the art of the icon to the culture of the nation. The game will attempt to join as many as it can of your attacking/defending divisions into active battle up to 16. For convoy escort, I assign a squadron of (8) DD. Road To Enhancement is a sub-mod for "The Road to 56". Fourth, use the Raiding Fleet designer if possible. Try it, give up on historic vs AI, I garauntee you will enjoy it. Sub spam and convoy raid is a good way to lose your sub fleet as Japan especially when US has complete air supremacy over the pacific. Hearts of Iron. Carriers are worth it if you can afford them and sustain them. Australia Revamped is a Millennium Dawn sub-mod which is primarily focused on the optimisation of Australia during 2000 period in the mod Millennium Dawn. Alternatively, for HOI4 modding most of the files you download will have the descriptor file in the mod folder itself. 354K subscribers in the hoi4 community. Base Strike +60 +25%. You cant ever build historical Japanese DDs. the meta was to use some combination of specialized anti-sub destroyers (sonar and depth charges) and land. You pack your shaker of charcoal into your suitcase and head out the door. 9 Avalanche). A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by…Seems like a nice little flavor mod. To supplement make a heavy ships. Destroyers are best used for cheap spam and ASW. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by…And they said sub spam was dead. Stellaris Technology IDs. 359K subscribers in the hoi4 community. He also goaded Nicholas II on during the disastrous Russo-Japanese war with spam mail about the "yellow menace". Join. ago. Go to hoi4 r/hoi4. 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. But there is one glaring thing that is missing. Always add radar to your ships. 它好我也好. Starting at $4. 0 + 0. Whereas an extra research slot pays dividends early and often. instant construction ( ic in the console) makes it so on every new day, every production line builds 1 vessel. ”-. The mod only works with Kaiserreich and sub-mods for it. Whenever you get air. . 2. 5) greater than base. AI will never find you (but stay away from naval bombers, they're still a problem). "Hybrid": This is what I've been trying lately. Last game I played my task force was 4 CV, 4 BC, 4 CA, 8 CL, and 32 Destroyers. r/hoi4. once you kill all his convoys you should easily beat his navy. Split into 3-4 task forces of submarines under an admiral, preferably one with Bold trait and then the Sea Wolf earned trait followed b imo traditional fleets are more effective than t3 sub spam. Generally best to limit to the one that's defined in the same file. Democracy. 9 Badges. I literally always only do subs, and I know they are kinda the meta. Once you get good levels of dockyards, what I do is spam subs and destroyers. You are not detecting subs better with tactical. Hoi4 compared to its predecessors is all about simplicity. Squid2454 • 8 mo. 12. Surface Raiders are great at killing convoys in open space. What this does is, once the aircraft have been detected, it allows your fighters to detect more of them during the engagement/mission. It was only a matter of time before a WWI-themed mod entered the scene when Hearts of Iron 4 was released. If you have an abundance of artillery production capability, leaning heavily into this template can allow you to steamroll most A. it is better to have heavily armored surface fleet that can survive anything and wipe enemy navy taskforce by taskfroce with repairs in between. For details on how aircraft statistics affect air wing operation, see air missions and air wing . Rush 1940 sub and snorkel. 5 production per day. Some building changes. Also flanking and encirclement. 3. . I do cruiser spam and naval bombers. When a carrier enters a naval battle, it gets first strike on all other ships (because plane range > gun range). Sub visibility is a value that represents a submarine's outline. Also flanking and encirclement. 14. Don’t stack your paratroopers up on one tile, attack several connecting tiles. Get your NAV bombers in there and watch the ships go down,support that with strike mission subs. 0. A division counts as an artillery division (and thus the respective bonuses apply) when artillery accounts for >. Thanks. Naval bombers delete the screens, subs kill the convoys and capitals. AA Destroyers are another good way but they will get slaughtered if they encounter the enemy fleet. 99 / month. 10 things I noticed/thought about HOI4. "Forget all your naval options and spam submarines" - Sun Tzu. Subscribe. “Naw fuck oil and rubber, that shit hard to get. UrbanExplorer101 • 1 yr. 5. light attack spam: the best build because it beats the other non meta builds and the starting fleets of the largest naval player with ease. Do the standard delete army + one division train, make your 50, 40, and 20 width infantry templates (training, 14-4, 10-0). for people curious: take all the sub focussed political advisors, just spam 36 subs from the start of the game at 20 dockyards (get 3 free with focus) then take the doctrine down the sub-unrestricted warfare branch (also with 3x 100% boost with focus) and put your subs to raid in any ocean, deep ocean and archapeligos cutting your entire sub collection in 10. but edit the default sub template so you have the best possible from the start and just produce a lot of them! you should try to have at least 100 subs by 1939. Created by The WarSimmer. hoi4kaiserreichfanbo Research Scientist • 1 yr. Modding, or creating mods, is the act of modifying the behavior of the base game (often referred to as vanilla ), either for personal use, or to release publicly for other players, for instance - via the Steam Workshop . 0 (i. r/hoi4. How to counter mass Submarines? I have upgraded all naval doctrines and using 1944 Destroyer equipped with 2 deep charge and 1 mine sweeper, with best sonar. Your production should be 90% fighter 2 when you get it (late 38). ago. Tanks: extremely expensive, but unmatched in offensive power. 1. 5 soft attack and 40 breakthrough, but 261 defense, 252 HP, and 52 ORG. A single Naval Yard outputs 2. ago. After a year of MTG, devs haven't fixed this, it makes the whole naval system redundant. Template 1. Learn to master land, air and sea with the Hearts of Iron IV - Starter Edition. Heavy AA is really good, Heavy arty is really good, pick only light or medium arty, don't mix both like historical templates do. ". 17 CAV + 3 HT - technically a cavalry division so cav high command, cav leader, cav expert, inf leader, and inf expert will all buff the division. HOI4 cheats – set ruling party. 363K subscribers in the hoi4 community. R5: aside from cheaper and sooner coups, justifying wars are easier with the "subversive activity" modifier, which I also think should have some power over politically influencing other countries, but its okay considering. We have countered with dds having full sub detection and latest depth charges for the year (39-44 timeline), completed naval doctrines for convoy escort, yet still seems no way to actually find the. 1 this is good but don't spam these as screens. Please read the sidebar rules and be sure to search for your question before posting. The New Order - Last Days of Europe. Last time I played I used the battlegroup of 12 BB, 12 CL, and 36 DD. 19. 10 things I noticed/thought about HOI4. 6. 379K subscribers in the hoi4 community. . Members Online • gabrielangelos01 . Its a great game but the AI is lagging behind all the content they've put out. ago. 25 and 37. Your entire sub force should then look like this. This may be the first time I've seen a divisions thread on this sub where the general consensus in the comments is "yep, this is a good standard division. Then it's a roughly even trade (type 4 sub op). I have the +25% division training speed focus but it doesn't seem to be helping. On the other hand, while Naval Combat has a lot of good material to wrap your head around, there is fundamental issues which serve to dissuade players from persisting with significant Naval Gameplay. Forest 2 126 % 42 = 0. It is a combination of Overhauls, Focus Trees Overhauls, Mechanic Overhauls, and even funny! I recommend that you free up atleast 10 Gbs of storage. I want to try and use cavalry in my campaigns during war in the frontlines for attacking and advancing in enemy territory. This submod is one of a humble character designed to complete and iterate upon existing mechanics present within The New Order’s Italian content. TheJewishBagel. Germany will just spam 1940 subs with good admirals and doctrines, and you'll stretch your convoy escorts thin with all the extra traffic while not sinking that many submarines. So a 7/2 has about 31% more SA, but 32% less DEF, 29% less HP, and 19% less ORG. 382K Members. Neat-Alternative-541 • 1 yr. Jun 22, 2020 560 1. Maintenance companies are good on your armored divisions to reduce attrition losses. While most people are content with the sub spam meta, I enjoy building up a powerful fleet with carriers at the centre. Modify your Hearts of Iron IV experience by checking out the many mods created and shared by the community, including tweaks to almost any aspect of the game. ago. Turn your 18 width infantry with shovels into 40 width 14-4s with R. save. Description. I’ve seen Das Boot and it doesn’t take much to take them out of commission. R5: I saw u/CBAdams make the 1936 map (starting date of HOI4) in minecraft, so I thought I'd try EU4's start date. Japan needs a lot of transports. ago. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox. the creation of parts to preserve those already in the field, this over the advice of guys like. Enitity_Enigma • 21 days ago. NAV can also be effective at killing subs, especially when you have a lot of sub detection in the sea zone. In 1939, the UK honored its guarantees to Poland by declaring war on Germany. You want to lock down the Indian Ocean for security asap. In refititing you can’t remove/refit armour or engine because it’s way too expensive so don’t. The AI simply can’t compete. In MD its even more realistic bcuz the AI sucks and doesn't have good units or production 😆. Get your whole main army as 5inf + engineer. Am I expected to rush undertrained soldiers into the field to Anschluss swiftly? This thread is archived. The goal of Kaiserredux is to bring together submods that share the same common goal, expanding the content of Kaiserreich with an emphasis on fun and interesting scenarios over realism/grounded lore. 1. Have 20DD and 5LC in your "patrols fleet", have subs going by 20 to 30. Yep, the mod doesn't even have nukes or industrial technology anymore, let alone anything else. Save at least 5 army XP, do not make the single battalion template (yet). That means, 4*4 equals 16 torpedo tubes avaliable to shoot at the enemy. B. Moskau50 • 6 yr. g. The reason that these are effective against the current meta is because CA's are counted as Capital Ships. The strength of the battalions are their training and equipment, you can't replenish either with a draft. So if you want to focus on tanks, MW is better. Germany in particular needs non-stop sub building early game. console command to add midget sub technology Question does anyone know of a console command or a way to add midget subs to other nations? Archived. In my honest and humble opinion, if you want to spam ships which are quickly build, go for one of these. My first attempt at the mod (or any mod for HOI4). - plausible alternate paths with accompanying event chains to make for more interesting. Sub spam is less expensive and arguably more effective. Instead they provide Intel (Intel has a variety of bonuses). If I have the resources, I've had pretty good luck with Battleships decked out with AA guns and radar. 2- Install the HOI4 game and start the game without any mod. ago. HoI4 is a complex game, and for some people complexity is what makes a game hard. This is the method to have most equipment and good capability to build and repair. 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. Numbers are most important for these. If you want good subs, there are many good templates online, and if you want bathtubs, make the cheapest submarine ReplyAI has no answer to sub 3 spam. ; About Hearts of Iron 4 Wiki; Mobile viewCapital Ships: CV - Radar, Min 3 Flight Decks, AA and secondary battery. You can even build specialized ASW patrols (a few depth charge DDs, plus maybe a couple cruisers to manage enemy patrols). Inspired by a guy on the hoi4 sub, I'm making a map of 1444 in minecraft. Set to engage at high risk (sub3 or sub4 only). ago. ago. division_template is the name of the template that the unit should use. This is the most powerful doctrine for surface action. And our fleet composition will be as follows: 12 x Battleships: 95 x Lightcruisers: 95 x Destoyers: Total IC = 715,598 (2289 less than the British)Total Ships = 202 (35 less than the British) It was kinda same for me until recently. Let me explain. " This will shift the balance of power in favor of the faction you choose to. You can put groups of DDs on Invasion support to have them tag along with the troop transports. * and Kaiserredux Version 2023/11/17. It is like tanks but they go into seas. Max heavy machine guns. It's the meta for a reason. If you want to have infantry who are powerful on defense, SF is better. If you go to the production tab in Black Ice there will be an image of a yellow tank in the top right of the tab that says 'Click to view Historical Tank Designs'. Carriers: Carriers were the gods of the sea irl in WW2, but in Hoi4, not so much, at least not until later in the game. Surface visibility: 10. You will easily kill off the Royal Navy by having them. It is possible to see the achievements sorted by the percentage of. Yeah, it might be powerful, but OP is something else. He, along with Friedrich Bernhard Marby, were imprisoned during the Third Reich for being unauthorised occultists. Go to hoi4 r/hoi4 • by. Hunter/killer patrol could do the actual sub killing. Fresh heavy cruisers should have as many light cruiser batteries as possible with one heavy battery the best secondary battery you have and NO ARMOUR. The only way someone wins is the other running out of either sub's or convoys. Sub provide the ability to convoy raid. First fleet had 3 carriers, second fleet had 2 carriers. I almost never use. Content is available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3. 99 / month. Naval Bombers are the fastest and most cost efficient way early on.