He gets it

it was separated from main army, probably recon light tank with a division

LT with a focus on armor and a close support gun with a max speed of 4kph as hardness booster using it as recon support is a good add-on to a defensive template. An infantry tank that can protect the infantry while also dishing out HE soft attack to the enemy is a nice RP.

@@kimpatz2189 eh, 4 km/h recon tank that cannot reliably engage vehicles of same category is not good for the rp.

@@tastethecock5203 then make an offensive recon tank that can match the offensive speed of your div. Swap the gun for a general purpose one and dump the armor to raise the speed. The infantry LT is just for the defensive div to survive just a bit longer especially when facing an all infantry div and the one doing defense has low manpower to spare. And its cheaper to make than the offensive one that must have a higher breakthrough and speed.

@@tastethecock5203 "Not good for RP" Well, let's look up what we'll find if we'd look for heavily armored recon tank with interleaved road wheels, single man turret and armed with either machine gun or autocannon, shall we? Woops, we've just described Panzer I F and and Panzer II J recon tanks with 80mm frontal armor, 50mm side armor and having 25kph and 31kph road speed in ideal conditions. Real existing RECON tanks. Whose job was to go in front of the infantry, get shot at and thanks to heavy armor, retreat and report on ambushes. Who could have guessed?! P.S.: HoI4 uses operational speed, not maximum speed on the road. Operational speed includes moving over actual terrain, getting stuck in dirt, maintenance, rearming, refueling and several other time wasting factors. For example if you travelled the road at 70kph for an hour, then spend 8 more hours in the dirt at 20kph and after that spend 2 more hours for maintenance then your operational speed during that period WON'T be 70kph, it'll be just short of 21kph.

Right? THIS was a perfect breakdown. It's not so much that I look for the best division... I ask that because the game is so complex that I have a really hard time understanding what each thing does... I couldn't figure out why my divisions would seem good on paper but still fail... and this video was all.. "OH!!!!!!!" I get it now. I would love to see a full series of "Okay folks, here is what this does in the most basic of terms." Why thing = Good, Why thing = Bad. Boom

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1 artillery

10 with infantry

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I love it

What would you use primarily for defense though (as France for example)

@@Negativitie infantry block of 20 width with support arty and shovels. keep in mind these divisions can't push for shit but are enough to at least give an AI enemy a hard time.

You make a regular division with marines or amfib tanks instead of infantry and add engineers.

Ah yes, 1000hrs in a PDX game is about the point you advance from noob to novice.

Also, something can be said to new players about maximizing your research with country focus bonuses and when to take your army spirits and doctrine! As a newbie I would damn near always forget to progress down it and wonder why I was getting stomped. Also as germany always take motorization drive spirit for free tank templates

Mobile aa

Or armored anti air . One man turret to keep hardness. You get to boost armor and they are super cheap

thank you- i have 1400 hours and still cant win as USSR. All other nations are easy to me compared to the USSR... except democratic france

@@steppedtuba50 some might say doing mils at the srart of 39 is too early-… Well in my build I also do full scale mil conversion, so I kinda have to do earlier mil production to make up for the lack of basic equipment stocks. Also you need A LOT OF time to build up the efficiency on tank production lines( or air craft's if you do air sov build).

@@honkai8692 Japan came and kicked my ass. Logistics were so poor, took heavy attrition. 👺

@@steppedtuba50 do you not have historial focus tree on so you are inviaded by japan or you mean you've lost against the japanese when the border conflict event pops up.

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If u mix those, then you effectively cancel out the best stats the LT or MT has to offer. Its speed. The lowest speed battalion bogs the entire div as it is now the speed of the div. Heavies are for very very heavy punch through the lines. The mediums can do both, heavy punch and some encirclements. And lights can do encircling at a much faster speed. If AI is stacking on the frontlines, bring your heavy divs and punch a hole on the line. This can be followed by mediums if the line has better enemy and needs more armor to compensate in order to do encircling. The lights can be used if for some reason the AI lightly manned the lines and if its forbidden to use heavies or meds as the area has harsh supply issue. Lights can be substituted by motorized if your industry is unable to support fielding tanks of any size. The lights can be designed to match the motorized for a maximum speed use. Motorized and mechanized has a base speed of 11kph. Match it to your tank designer and you can have space for more armor if you design a light tank.

Nope

mehanized is basiccaly motorized just with armor/hardness stats. however keep in mind they do use more supply and are more expensive to produce. if you play germany go ahead

If you have the industry theres no reason why not. You can reduce the production cost in the equipment designer to make them pretty cheap if you also have army XP lying about. Not a necessity though

@@Eren03eren it also has a lot more defence

Yes. BUT only if you can afford it

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You had me until you said a few 1000 CAS

Build it to what you need. Did you watch the video?

In single player games against the AI you don't need particularly strong special forces units. 20-30 cw marines or even infantry with engineers for naval invading. Literally one battalion of paratroopers bc successful paratrooper operations are rare so using them as fodder is preferred.

20 width infantry with support artillery and 42 width marines with lots artillery and aa and support aa and logistics would I suggest. I would focus on air. Overall the biggest challenge is the supply so you should not make big divisions and win with CAS and fighters.

@@BomKaBom Thank you very much for your help and for the provided guidance :)

I would add to previous comments that I would recommend also make a reconnaissance agency, add 5 upgrades to it to get a second spy and make collaboration government in China at least 2-3 times so you wouldn’t have to walk all the way to the last capital in the depth of China to capitulate.

They all overstack. There isn't a 1 size fits all

Mix

@@FeedbackIRL So if you've got an army with a mix of front-line defensive divisions and breakthrough divisions, and you give it a battleplan, will the AI use the breakthrough divisions to attack with, or do you have to micro it?

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Motorized and do the encirclement. If not, use the cavalry and do encirclement. Use conservative combat width and a small number of divisions to make a punch on the line and encircle them. Atleast 12 or 15 divs will do. Large amount of divs on a tile hits hard on supply.

@@kimpatz2189 ah, so switching from infantry to special forces isn't worth the cost?

Bikes are just mobile infantry. And special forces are just infantry replace for bonus's

@@FeedbackIRL thanks for the answer and video! Best regards, man!

Yes infantry tanks are a thing and are very OP. However can be expensive producing enough heavy tanks

Cavalry = extra suppression and cheap

cavarly is way cheaper than normal divisions

cheap and more suppression than infantry

dont know why ppl say its cheaper, its not really. the reason u want cavalry is for suppression, add a MP support and you should be gucci.

@@sirundying What does suppression do? Also didn't feedback say MP's only work with larger divisions?

As long as you don’t stack like 4-5 in a battle they are probably fine. Check your battles when fighting to see if you are over stacking combat width frequently

Anything from 15-45 is fine in general but it depends on the situation!!

You also will support armor level of medium tanks on 70+, then you will get shield bonus in 99% battles, because bots don't have strong antitank divisions in early 40's.

You think A, B and C is hard? Just wait until I tell you about 1, 2 and 3.

They are not comparable. They do 2 different things

All of them

Tanks are better than infantry for that, but cas is the real playmaker

You could encircle the AI by speed-walking around them

@@FeedbackIRL well that changes everything in a good way and I'm going to need to preform a test

It's all going according to plan

Modern NATO army is when you play Germany or France with only 5 military factories pretending it's great

Yeah but very little

Sooooooon

Towed, it's cheaper

Do you need armour?

As in use SPG if you need armour or were you asking if I had a specific template I was designing? I was just asking in a general case.

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