"Smug Sense of Moral Superiority"

I feel the same way lmao. But I don't think It's quite like that. Afaik field hospitals represent proper triage centers/hospitals right behind the lines. Even if you dont have field hospitals, your units still have field medics and, ostensibly, personal medikits for the individual soldier.

People look over how effective F.H.'s maintain/grow division experience. Typically the only way to get veteran status experience on a division is through constant dug in defense. But with F.H.'s your units can reach that level attacking regardless of losses.

Realistically you would have all the support companies but 🤷‍♂️

@@Snake.007 yeah, they really should up the limit to like 10 SCs. There is a mod for that but it really should be built in

They're so expensive though...

​@TumblinTrouble if you have production issues as the US or the USSR you need to improve your Macro.

​@@jjquinn295 Its not that, is that you could spend that production on something better

US I can maybe see a benefit because as a democracy it’s harder to maintain war support but with Soviet manpower and war support modifiers you def don’t need them as soviets ever.

You are gonna take to many casualites and reducing experince as long as you dont batteplan or get clicked and their is so mutch better alternativs that it is neither worth it stat wise or cost effective

Ok

yepp, anti artillery is horrid

I've found especially as Russia it will shred through the German air force, and it's not hard to make a lot of it with little cost

If you focus heavily on planes it's completely useless

@@therealpooperandpee-er even if you somehow have 100% air superiority in every zone and your units are completely immune to enemy CAS (unlikely…) the piercing alone from AA more than makes it worth it especially in single player against the AI

Hoi4 Israel world conquest

NEIN israel worst country ever change my mind

​@@ilburrito0059 Wouldn't be too difficult, they have sand-eating barbarians that they've already decisively defeated in a war on their border.

@@kidfox3971 Poor b8

@@metaltrombone549 When the bait is 100% true though... is it still bait?

it also allows for more supply brought to divisions from the supply zones, the same way trucks do

I mean it is pretty noticeable on the German-Soviet front which often has poor infrastructure which tends to leads to supply issues for both sides.

Infrastructures also reduce the chance of mud occurence.

真的，新的供應效果讓他的意義更不明顯 但是當地的補給依舊十分重要...尤其是你的大部隊需要穿越這已經被打爛成千川百孔的地區

Naval bombers definitely. Naval CAS sacrifices damage vs ship for CAS potential but never in your life will some 50 carrier CAS planes make a difference plus you have shore bombing anyway I do 50% carrier fighters 50% carrier naval bombers because not having carrier fighters may bring a very bad ending. But even 20% fighters 80% naval bombers is a good idea if you have good naval AA Then there's USA with their crap naval bombers, maybe then naval CAS is worth it

Why didn't the AI get the memo then?

No cause supply and encirclements would prevent this. It helps prevents smaller death stacks but putting your entire army in one tile wouldn't work even without cw.

@@Kattalanonyt Supply got reworked in no step back. Before while you couldn't put the WHOLE army on one tile combat width was definitely the limiting factor rather than your civs

@@SerialElfYT I know, im talking about now. Ive played since 2016 but even then huge armies would attrition massively on one tile(in the bad zones) but it would have been much more possible back then.

Dropped more then 100 nukes on USA nothing changed

I had a game as imperial germany and was struggling to win air war in usa, by nuking airbases it would give me a window to push

Although I understood combat width near straight away I totally understand, paradox games seem to have a way of keeping you learning well into the thousands of hours of gametime.

@@tommyt4259 Maybe its intended? Since understanding something after a long time is a relatively good feeling.

@@Mmat2016 agreed

"So guys, I'm not gonna answer this question cause I don't support an apartheid state"

@@aciduzzo stand with Israel, f palestine

@@eruenethiistar4976 Having SPQR as your PFP while also having pro Israel stuff on your profile is so ironic... go look up Bar Kokhba revolt and Emperor Hadrian XD

@@El_Jefe_Maestro yeah, I’m aware thanks anyway though

@@eruenethiistar4976 You like stealing people's homes?

They're only good in that particular mod, because manpower is so low across the board (if you're not playing NCR or Legion).

Tank Destroyers with cannons are surprisingly good - and cheap. I use them to bulk out armoured divisions early on, and they bring a good mix of soft and hard attack. Good all rounders, just don't field them on their own.

The speed bonus from infrastructure is still usually not worth it since you don't build your factories in states with 0% infrastructure.

Yeah, cas planes are only to support ground forces

They’re better than horses in the desert due to better combat and movement modifiers. They are not really worth it anywhere else because they use more guns for no real benefit

20 line for full infantry and 21 with one artillery, the full infantry its better, more defense more organization and you win more xp because the fight last long. To add the artillery it will cost two more military factories, so I better use one factory in AAA, or Planes or Tank and the other in trucks.

This strategy is precisely what I used when I fought 2 gigantic factions at once, (in kaiserreich mod), I played against the reichspakt and the entente and they outnumbered me by a factor of atleast 1-20, I had no hope of doing much so I basically nuked their airfields as soon as the war started (was very late game, ~1955) so I can have air superiority then I bombed the hell out of their AA and kept their airfields down and just demolished their entire economy that way. When I finally capitulated one of the majors I saw they had so many repairs needed that it basically would take me longer than I was willing to play to finish so lol I gave up repairing.

Alas, no. Its just flavour at that stage.

the medals remain with the division. they are only useful to generals as xp boosters, effectively giving him a higher level or close to it. As far as im aware no other stats carry over from the division command

They'll attack anything in the designated area, but poorly.

Sometimes units move off the ports which can leave them open to capture.

Hardest part is gauging the cost effectiveness of a plane that only does IC damage. Where combat effectivenss is easier to see

@@FeedbackIRL I won’t lie, I definitely haven’t crunched the numbers to say if it’s truly meta or not. I also haven’t played since the plane designer was added so idk if there’s a more IC efficient way to achieve the same effect. But I honestly don’t know if it’s really possible to quantify the utility of strat bombing in the way I described. They don’t directly counter an enemy on a tactical level. Rather I see them in two ways: 1. In the short term as a tool to dictate tempo and control initiative at an operational level. 2. In the long term as a tool to destroy an enemy’s economy (without needing to directly target the factories) Strat bombing does also let you save IC elsewhere. You can almost think of strat bombing railways and supply hubs as a buff to your own divisions, especially on defence. You end up fighting enemies that are basically always suffering from significant attrition, and are often missing large amounts of equipment. On top of that you cripple an enemy’s ability to shift forces to react to new threats, especially if you also target infrastructure(albeit at the cost of slowing your own divisions once they push in). Given that most people take dispersed industry, using strat bombers in the way they were used irl (bombing factories) is pointless. I think a lot of people try bombing factories, see how little damage they do, and write them off. But they do truly massive damage to just about anything else. In my experience if you throw 1-200 at a relatively unprotected air region, it only takes a week or two max to cripple the rail network. It’s a similar timeframe for infrastructure, silos, refineries, ports, hubs, etc. as long as you don’t put too many things on the targeting list at once. And given the range of Strat bombers you can easily rotate your bombers around whenever the enemy reacts with interceptors. Also on the topic of targeting infrastructure, they’re also incredible at denying the enemy production inputs. Use spies to identify enemy supply constraints: 1. If they’re importing target the railroads. If they’re producing or the imports are from another belligerent then… 2. Target infrastructure in the area the resources come from. For example, Germany is heavily supply constrained on everything except steel and aluminum. Target their chromium and tungsten and you can cripple their tank production. Target their synthetic refineries and you cripple their ability to make trucks and planes. Add in silos and infrastructure in Romania and now they’re running out of fuel. Tbh their aluminum production isn’t that great anyway, blow that up and now they’ll struggle to even produce support equipment. Even better, those same spies that helped you pick your targets can also foment resistance and perform sabotage, which can actually destroy the factories that the bombers can’t touch. So ultimately for me, I’m not super concerned about direct cost effectiveness of building strat bombers. They derive their value from the more intangible ability they grant to control the initiative. You force your enemy to always react to you, forcing them into tough choices about where to best use a steadily shrinking pool of resources.

Do you need help, self harm isn´t a solution, please seek help. Life can be great, don´t throw it away.

@@Velatus5978 I'm having quite aa lot of fun, actually.

@@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja I think thats a coping mechanismem or paradox took you as a hostage and forces you to write say that 😂

@@Velatus5978 Mechanism* I don't know what to cope for though, per chance it is my lack of sex lately.

@@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja ok then just the normal hoi4 player experience :)