26. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…Hoi4 Tech Lead on fixing AI scrapping Naval Construction:. Give your sub snorkel, best (and maximum amount of) torpedos and best engine. ago. 182 votes, 39 comments. Arheo. 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. Netherlands, specifically monarchist Netherlands. Even Italy has twice as many stacks as I do. Home. For marine you want them to have 1 or 2 artillery for more soft attack. ago. Squid2454 • 8 mo. Plans do not. ago. I've seen people on this subreddit complaining that MIO's don't give worth it bonuses and I can't disagree more, the amount of extra stats and production bonuses you can get is. Then it's a roughly even trade (type 4 sub op). Last game I played my task force was 4 CV, 4 BC, 4 CA, 8 CL, and 32 Destroyers. the creation of parts to preserve those already in the field, this over the advice of guys like. You get +30% attack +40% defense if you stack all the traits and high command, but they still lack breakthrough. This is the most powerful doctrine for surface action. The remaining battleships and CA's I split into 3 equal task forces, with 3 scout task forces. In this mod the most important faction from the Fallout world, her lore, her. Created by The WarSimmer. They use amount of air superiority to "detect" ships and subs and tactical bombers have exact same air superiority rating as naval bombers. 3K upvotes · 97 comments. Plains 2 135 % 42 = 9. Jump to latest Follow Reply. Deliberus Banned. Making them pretty bad for dealing with fighter airplanes. Get your admiral/staff sub detection and visibility lowering traits, spotting and speed helps as well. 366K subscribers in the hoi4 community. r/hoi4. 3. Nobody will hit you early. Tanks can do the same thing. But there is one glaring thing that is missing. Rule #5 - A helpful guide to build a strong navy as Japan, but can be applied. 005 * ship production cost in industrial capacity (IC) + 0. e. From what I learnt the meta is basically, spam sub 3 with snorkel and torpedos or heavy crusier a with 30+ light attack and no armour and torpedo destroyers. The Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil is pretty fun too. 🟢 The RT56 mod is quite interesting, but personally, both the base game and the RT56 mod lack certain features or actions that would enhance the gameplay. Join. Schmeethe • 3 yr. Easy, cheap, and effective. Spam BC because they are the most cost effective capital ships, get naval superiority over the North Sea, and naval invade the outskirts of Hull with 10 light tanks flanking the city on both sides with 5 per group. the pre-alpha demo comes out on the 24th Feb, here’s an invite to the discord if you want. r/hoi4. . Modern tanks can use heavy howitzer. The main hoi4 sub doesn't allow memes. 0 unless otherwise noted. Hearts of Iron IV has 190 different achievements, all using the Steam achievements mechanics. 9 Avalanche). It's not an equipment issue - I have loads of stuff in storage. Finally, according to both the tech screen and ship designer, the DP doesn't impact max speed (nor does Light Batteries or Secondaries). 9. the meta was to use some combination of specialized anti-sub destroyers (sonar and depth charges) and land. If you have an abundance of artillery production capability, leaning heavily into this template can allow you to steamroll most A. The Official Black ICE Guide for Hearts of Iron 4. When it has many islands we called archipelago. 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. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…If by this you mean you like those event spam mods where you get a 60 paragraph event every 5 days, then try calm before the storm. 58. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox Development Studio. Added crystal-powered rocket interceptor 4 and 5. I get it to where I can produce 1 per month of each. Go to hoi4 r/hoi4. With 15-20 divions of 40w medium + mech you should be able to push germans from north poland, through konigberg to berlin. PlatypusHaircutMan • Research Scientist • 4 yr. If you like it, I would very much appreciate if you’d follow me on Spotify. • 6 mo. Surface Raiders are great at killing convoys in open space. Try to create destroyers whose sole role is to hunt subs, probably wont work as intended because para--- the hoi4 dev team seriously cant develop their game properly without screwing up everything. Note that both of these were IRL refits once air power was shown to be effective. Escort ships become pointless as even if they can detect the sub they cant kill it because of bad game design. AI peace determines the AI's behaviour in a peace deal. 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. The Great War: Redux is a stand-alone rework to Wolferos’ famous Great War mod. Ideology types (usually referred to as sub-ideologies) have little impact on the game. ago. txt and every ideology has its own file. Democratic Netherlands underrated af actually. You want to lock down the Indian Ocean for security asap. Even in irl, back in the 1940s, it was increasingly clear that planes made big battleships obsolete. Bonus fact: No unit cosmetics means everything DLC. Turn your 18 width infantry with shovels into 40 width 14-4s with R. This can be attached to your patrol screen fleet for max convoy and sub destruction. a SH battleship supported by 15-20 cruisers with nothing but AA and duals is practically invincible. Well the game doesn't include floatplanes, which most Capital ships carried behind them, or floatplane tenders. Not really lol, navy is super simple in hoi4. Because of the current weaknesses of the battle AI, having faster division to be able to encircle ennemy armies easily makes Mobile warfare very powerful. it is better to have heavily armored surface fleet that can survive anything and wipe enemy navy taskforce by taskfroce with repairs in between. WD + SSA to get 30% WS for GW. * and Kaiserredux Version 2023/11/17. Heavy Battery II. Note: this is without DLC’s. That means, 4*4 equals 16 torpedo tubes avaliable to shoot at the enemy. 4) - Many Focus, specific Tree for Spain. If you start the game with a navy, stack all the subs in one navy and throw the rest of your navy in reserve. 1936 Battleship. What you want to do is sub spam, and convoy raid them. Navy Works like: 1 Admiral has a Fleet, each fleet has different Task Forces. That said basically every part of this game is better in MP. Socials Liberalism is a classic "right" type of politic. Battleships require air superiority in order to stay afloat so unless you can guarantee that go for carriers. Idk just feels like politics in hoi4 is really underwealming. Inevitable-Head2931 • 10 hr. In Hearts of Iron 4, all roads lead to globalDON'T POST STUFF ABOUT THE MAIN MOD ITSELF. Navy is pretty easy tbh, 4 Carriers (they’re the most important so make sure they’re all deck space and as modern as possible, then just build 8 capitals and as many light cruisers and destroyers you can get. It's the meta for a reason. Welcome to Pax Britannica: An Imperial Timeline, an alternate history science fiction mod for Hearts of Iron 4. Naval strike. A division counts as an artillery division (and thus the respective bonuses apply) when artillery accounts for >. It could be they planned to do something with them and never did. 21. 192 armor/tank! This is a monster. But with ponies and griffins and Changelings and yaks and bears and penguins and skeletons and Zebras and that one dragon island. Subs are the best scouts, best convoy raiders, and best minelayers. Either deathstack (put all your mainline ships into one group), or the "HOI4 Special" of spamming subs/Naval bombers. 2. 5 per yard) x (QTY of naval yards dedicated) / (cost of design) = production cost in days. All aircraft start with 80% reliability unless otherwise noted. Naval Bombers are the fastest and most cost efficient way early on. Since this morning, my mx3 has reverted to it's default setting. Your settings are not the issue. 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. Enitity_Enigma • 21 days ago. The surface fleet meta is heavy cruisers (1 heavy gun, lots of light guns, max engine, no armor), with roach destroyers (as cheap as can be; possibly include upgraded engines) and torpedo destroyers. 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. 0. Retreating/Joining battles: -Whenever a task force determines it is too risky to stay in battle it will start retreating. So! (2. 12. You can even build specialized ASW patrols (a few depth charge DDs, plus maybe a couple cruisers to manage enemy patrols). r/hoi4. Mid 1. It's completely ignoring the options software custom settings. 1. . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (more commonly “the United Kingdom,” “UK”, “Great Britain”, or simply “Britain”) was the principal power of the Allies in World War II. The most cost effective are 'empty' battlecruisers (1936 and 1940 versions). Axis vs Allies and commitern Maby France makes heir own faction and maby the commitern end up in a war agaitns the allies. Members Online • gabrielangelos01 . any tactic will defeat AI. Me becoming racist as soon as I started playing hoi4. A sea is salty water. It's best to start early with this tactic, give your naval sub captains the skill for reduced visibility and torpedo visibility, find out which. In multiplayer, destroyer spam can be easily countered by building a few. Bulgaria is pretty fun, if not a little complicated. Escort Carrier - 1 flight deck, AA, Radar is you want, carrier 1 engine. Destroyers with mines and anti sub launchers are relatively cheap. So I play as Japan quite a bit and they have access to the Carrier Sub straight away, I typically use these as a mine-laying sub because the mining/production is actually really good (Engine 1 and Torp 1). These subs will destroy all the enemy escort groups. Escort ships become pointless as even if they can detect the sub they cant kill it because of bad game. Gatts - Helping with the mod. The only gameplay change in the base game that they have is that countries with the same ideology type gain the Same Ruling Party ( +20 Opinion) opinion modifier toward each other, while countries with the same ideology group yet different ideology types. Target cost 5200-5300. If air isn't an issue then it's between all main guns and dual torpedoes. powerful still. The other thing you could do is. When it is big we called Ocean. At the very start of war with the UK, the A. Just wanted to counter all the whiner threads: i played HOI2, Darkest Hour and HOI III, this one here is the first title where i immediately was able to play a full session, using marine, airplanes, divisions, battle plans, naval invasions(!) without setting up a command chain for 2 hours first. The AI simply can’t compete. A single Naval Yard outputs 2. You will easily kill off the Royal Navy by having them. 26. Find below our table of unit names to unit codes conversions for use with console commands in Hearts of Iron IV. "Invalid sub unit: 1, near line: 0" in file: "save games/autosave. 12w:Here is a list of them. ago. ago. Bombers can be NAV or TAC. 1. This will make its combat width 20 which is optimal for early – mid game. Save at least 5 army XP, do not make the single battalion template (yet). Here is my take; paratroopers are good now in no step back, you just need to plan your assaults. ". ) communism (. Planes are still the best imo. 9K. Planes don't have detection. Managed to get it working. But if capitals aren't in the mix the torpedo cruisers go down hard every time. Lots of AA because it will attract the most attention from any bombers attacking your. It's like five-dimensional chess. You pack your shaker of charcoal into your suitcase and head out the door. 2. 3-> SPEED ->Have some speedy cheap fighters for interception, save the luxury models for air superiority. So forget submarine detection for escorts or expensive ships, simply spam old DD with 1 depth charge. Destroyers are best used for cheap spam and ASW. " This will shift the balance of power in favor of the faction you choose to. Dregorin - Fixing the entire mod. Toolbox theory will either make or break the game. division_template is the name of the template that the unit should use. You also need to be mindful of PP gains. One strat that worked for me is spamming sub 2s with torpedo upgrades, or if time and resources allow sub 3s with the same upgrades. Mediums work in SP because the ai is as good at hoi4 as people with the name "Player" who pick a banned nation, and then say "Host why Kick" when they get banned for not switching. I. 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. 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. No it won't. Join. DD and Naval Bomber spam. Originally posted by A Spoon: Just wondering for your opinions I don't like using artillery for the terrain debuffs. All you really have to do is spam sub 3s, put them on always attack and they will wipe the floor with any navy. The reason beginners struggle is because they usually slip up, forget or don't know something important. 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. This guide contains the more important aspects of the mod that should be understood, as well. UrbanExplorer101 • 1 yr. India Fleet. tl:dr - use subs in 3-5 sub fleet wolfpacks and have them convoy raid away from major ports for maximum effectiveness. 10 width can’t fight long and suffer more losses but with well when you spam it with cas. Raiding Efficiency. The strength of the battalions are their training and equipment, you can't replenish either with a draft. ago. Battle Royale v3. AI newer uses 40 widths, so you'll be perfectly fine with 20 width. E. Maintenance companies are good on your armored divisions to reduce attrition losses. Old World Blues is a Fallout total conversion mod for HOI4, featuring a brand new map, entirely new technology, massive focus trees and many other new features. 10 CAS per carrier. This submod is one of a humble character designed to complete and iterate upon existing mechanics present within The New Order’s Italian content. A 100 plane 1944 carrier will have 10 CAS, 30 naval bombers and 60 fighters. Enitity_Enigma • 21 days ago. 17. The ultimate decision mod for HOI4, where you must decide the very fate of your future Content:-Sex OR-Grass made for the generic tree as if your playing generic nations in HOI4 you seriously need to do one of these things. Or you know,in SP just spam subs with torpedoes+minelayers and mine the seas. Latest HOI4 resource history spreadsheet (HOI4v 1. Democracies in this mod are stabler. Edit: a copy/paste put a sentence in the wrong spot so I corrected it. There are essentially two metas. 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. Make sure you have fighter support if the AI moves airwings into sea zones to fight them. And the most obvious reason is that Paradox would definitely not put in such a blatant reference to 9/11. Bait them into encirclement or just out murder them. Problem 1: as everyone else in Hoi4 community, I hate naval stuff. All you really have to do is spam sub 3s, put them on always attack and they will wipe the floor with any navy. ago. Navy is so-so in single player. 382K Members. 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. However I was wondering if Carrier Subs are worth using as a 'spotting' fleet for my raiding groups, or to. I'm aware of the CA strategy, and the sub one (which is arguably better again), but I'm not so interested in 'meta', I'm interested in a degree of realism and fun roleplay and giving. Unless the triggers are adjusted, AI will be likely to use /Hearts. Liberalism. 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. Specialized destroyers and naval bombers should do the trick. Also flanking and encirclement. R5: I had a theory that if you destroy all airbases in the first week of the war, then their airforce will be crowded in ruined airfields, leaving them extremely inefficient. The triggers can be seen inside of enable = {} in the files, and they are generally reliant on ideologies. Pretty straightforward if you understand HoI4. ago. auandi • 4 mo. Same thing with air wings, although admittedly I don't really know how to organize those in HOI4 either. ago. You can usually replace the logistics company with support AA and mitigate the. Most of the times it's just not worth it to make a good navy for sp. Instead of doing 15-5 tank-mot, do 13-5-4 tank-mot-SPAA with support AA. 5 soft attack and 40 breakthrough, but 261 defense, 252 HP, and 52 ORG. He, along with Friedrich Bernhard Marby, were imprisoned during the Third Reich for being unauthorised occultists. infantry divisions. Rush 1940 sub and snorkel. 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. Sub 3 with snorkels and max torpedoes is probably the most cost efficient way to kill enemy fleets that are actually out in the water that your planes can't reach. 2)You would need to put a lot of Industry on the CAS for this plan as they would take very high losses. I’ve tried BICE and Endsieg so far, so I’m looking for recommendations. 1 this is good but don't spam these as screens. A huge expansion of Hearts of Iron IV, Darkest Hour is an ambitious historical immersion project that will place fate in the hands of the player. 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 the works!. HOI4 Division Spam Reduction Options 6 items Description This mod changes the target division template size to the listed width in the title (40 only atm). Very situational. 05 * ship manpower. Invading France took longer than usual, they had a lot of bombers/CAS on me. Here's a multiplayer guide to building a strong navy. 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. 9 Badges. conservatism (Sub ideologies below) liberalism. Ai peace. Subs only have an advantage against surface fleets without screens. spawn [<SubUnit Type>] [<Province ID>] [<Amount>]Gameplay | Cold War Iron Curtain: A World Divided | This mod adds a Cold War scenario into Hearts or Iron IV. [BIG FAT] МАГІСТР ХУ Ї Jan 4 @ 1:11pm. If it has depth then it is called deep sea otherwise it is called shallow sea. Orleanist is the worst for blobbing, but can be a good anti-Axis nation in multiplayer games where world conquest isn't desirable anyway. Socialism does not necessarily fit the in-hoi4 communist ideology, and Einstein's socialism definetly does not fit it. 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. Fleet in Being helps Light Cruiser (CL) to hunt the submarines the better. As a naval major (UK, USA, Japan), in SP, you can blend both metas effectively, leaving you with a power surface fleet, good patrols, great convoy raiding, and great anti sub. aces-n-eight. Useful links:Iron Workshop Discord server. Generally I want use cavalry as effective land units (on the same level as infantry or tanks), not just as cheap partisan activity suppression units or solely meant to capture empty land plots abandoned by the enemy, but I don't know what. Scout planes don't even boost recon. Press J to jump to the feed. That said this is basically meta (against AI). After the fall of France, the United Kingdom was the only Allied nation left. Millennium dawn - set in the modern era (year 2000) with lots of options and alt-history events for many countries. 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). Yep, the mod doesn't even have nukes or industrial technology anymore, let alone anything else. Set them to convoy hunt. Reed202. That Screen is bugged. PTT809 • 3 yr. 5 per yard) x (QTY of naval yards dedicated) / (cost of design) = production cost in days. NAV are incredibly good at killing enemy navies, mostly due to the AI's inability to design ships and fleets, often giving them no AA or air cover. The only way someone wins is the other running out of either sub's or convoys. Simply add 7 infantry and 2 artillery to your infantry template. AA Destroyers are another good way but they will get slaughtered if they encounter the enemy fleet. 1. I love the comments of Dankus Metacus tryhard kiddos saying that navy is trash and that you should play minmaxing your air force instead. In my experience the best way. 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. simplify the amount of equipment you want to make. The New Order: Last Days of Europe is an alt-history Cold War mod for Hearts of Iron IV. Sub detection; Surface detection; Sub visibility;. In multiplayer, destroyer spam can be easily countered by building a few fast capital ships (heavy cruisers or battlecruisers). The official Black ICE mod guide for Hearts of Iron 4. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by… mtg: beating the sub spam meta 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. Revamped focus trees and gameplay for a more varied, replayable, historical and interesting experience. powerful still. Created by Nemo. Bay's Plane and Naval Units Scale Mod. Rush 1940 sub and snorkel. Description. It's a game that will require hours and hours and hours just to learn the very superficial layers, but will pay off in spades and offer the deepest gaming rewards if you stick with it and understand the intricacies. I am currently still working on making this mod into its fullest potential. 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. 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. ago. In MD its even more realistic bcuz the AI sucks and doesn't have good units or production 😆. r/hoi4. Sub visibility is a value that represents a submarine's outline. Hearts of Iron 4 Unit Cheat Code List. Carriers get a lot more power ramp than other ships, so they start off comparatively weak, but later on get much stronger. ago. Ultra-Nationalism. NAV can also be effective at killing subs, especially when you have a lot of sub detection in the sea zone. The "HOI4 Special" as it stands, is to spam subs with snorkels and naval bombers. . 2- Install the HOI4 game and start the game without any mod. Naval supremacy of ship = 100. 9K votes, 130 comments. 11. The devs released a roadmap including sub-ideologies, so it's probable. If you want to be involved in the development of TGWR - join Discord (link below) Compatible with version 1. Subscribe. Destroyers should be at least 4 per cruiser. The most efficient way by far of dealing with submarines is naval bombers. Set you sub fleet to engage at high risk, medium repair priority and enable automatic split off. heavy attack spam is. 17 CAV + 1 HT + 1 HTD + 2 HSPAa - TD brigade. Selected Poland. - When your fleet meets and enemy fleet they begin a naval battle. The subs should have good torps and the best snorkel you have, and be split into packs of 8-12 (any more and there will be operational penalties). As a naval major (UK, USA, Japan), in SP, you can blend both metas effectively, leaving you with a power surface fleet, good patrols, great convoy raiding, and great anti sub. TAC have better range, and can switch back and forth between the ground and sea war, as needed. I almost never use. Of all the Paradox titles to deploy massive libraries of user-made addons and modifications, none might compare with the whopping collection of over 20,000 Hearts. I usually obliterate any enemy fleet in 2 years tops using Carriers with Battleship support. Conservatism. Either the Democratic or the communist paths to unite Balkans are fun, if not slightly cursed. Whereas an extra research slot pays dividends early and often. Hoi4 Dev Diary - Thoughts & roadmap. Please read the sidebar rules and be sure to search for your question before posting. ; About Hearts of Iron 4 Wiki; Mobile viewCapital Ships: CV - Radar, Min 3 Flight Decks, AA and secondary battery.