Have 1300 hours on hoi4, clicked this video because the only thing i still have to learn is like combat width's, but for beginners this is like the best tutorial i've ever seen, good job.

I see these massive gameplays and try to recreate them, but they mostly take those parts of game strategy as granted for who is watching. As a newbie, I appreciate the effort, it's helpful!

This video was amazing, I've got 450 hours on HOI4, but hadn't really learnt about combat stats and all that because I was just playing mods ig, but I thought now would be a good time to learn. I've watched 2 other videos about this, and yours was the best, really helped me !

For those who struggle with rivers, there are a few more useful tips. Engineers or marines help, but I have found the best thing is to use fast units (motorized, mechanized, light tanks) to push as quickly as possible to create a bridgehead. If you can get just two tiles across, you have made 70% of the effort already.

Cheers for the guide, just snatched the game on summer sales and played it the first time, I feel like I need a tutorial for the tutorial to make sense of all the mechanics and buttons lol, this video helped

10:10 you dont mention that the tank is low on fuel and the massive debuff it. Cuz it lowers the armor of this devision to 10% of the original value. Therefore having good supply is even more important for tanks if you dont want to suffer high ic losses

Good video. Main takeaway: open the bubbles and look at the stats to understand why the battle isn't going the way I thought. I don't do that enough.

While I do agree with the video, I would also add that planning bonus is definitely something every player should be aware of for offensive units, as it multiplies your offensive stats, similar to how entrenchment multiplies defensive stats. Also putting spies in enemies can reduce both planning and entrenchment bonuses the enemies get.

Thanks for the video! As someone who is a casual 1000+ hour hoi4 player, ive been needing some tips and tricks on combat. Thanks for that

This is really a great guide, I never really understood why I am loosing battles I thought I had clearly the upper Hand and 3 times amount of troops

I bought the game yesterdat and i found this really easy to digest, clear examples and pretty nice explanation!

Woah this tutorial was actually good. All the other tutorials were pretty complex but this was simple and to the point. Even showed a usable tank template.

I have 1,250 hours on this game and had no idea how combat worked.

Thank you so much ! Your video is really helpfull to understand the basics concepts of battles. I just reached 200 hours and I still feel like a total noob. This game has an amazing curve of learning. You explain in a clear a simple manner some crucial things I hadn't understood yet !

Core territory modifiers are also effecting the equivalent show of force.

5:23 I really like that you include this explanation as not many people know about this or keep it in mind for combat, and even less people that know about it bother explaining it.

Great video. Thanks!

I was playing as Germany, got lots of planes, improved medium tanks with 14/4 infantry and motorised. However, when I started to break into Belgium it went horribly wrong and they had like 700 defense from air :( And worse thing is that planes take forever to produce so I can't even spam any CAS.

I think i finally know why im so bad. Thanks

Good video. The game has so many modifiers that it would’ve taken so long to cover them all but I think for the new players this is the core information they need to know and this isn’t even getting into cas, force attack, buffs from the commanders and such

I have like 600 hours in the game and just with this video I just finished understanding this mechanic, thank you :D

Well, that was informative

Needed this

best tutorial i have had for hoi4

I have 384 hours and i usually just quit due to lack of confidence to win wars and battles in general so this helps a lot thabk you

For beginners it makes sense not to include it but I would have loved templates, what to do with low supply, how to defend better against tanks and offensive divisions and also maybe the tank designer?

Great Tutorial. The thing I like most is how you demonstrate each factor and you do so independent of each other. Very easy to follow.

Thanks for the video, zaddy TerribleStrategist

My man youre underrated

i usually do tanks with motorized divs so i can have enough speed to overrun and encircle a front, it works wonders if you have a sustained push with oil drums on tanks

Only 50 cas planes can change the entire battle, this is incredible

this is a very nice explanation for the basics of HOI4 land combat, for any beginners this much game sense could already win most encounter against the AI in single player HOI4 isn't actually that hard of a game at the basics, the real fun of the game is making your own challenge by doing alternative history and also optimizing the little things you manage like units and economies while escalating the scope of the game to make increasingly harder scenarios

also one thing to note is war support. when war support is below 50, in the code, you get an attack penalty. all the way to -50% on non-core territory iirc

A good infantry template is a 9 inf and 3 arty. Has high hp and org and deals a lot of soft attack. This unit can be produced by minor nations like Siam. You can ditch one arty for support arty for a cheaper variant or lower combat width. Not 100% sure its that optimal

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2k+ hours and I'm still clueless on division design other than basic 7-2s or expanded default templates. Godsend of a video.

I understood most of hoi4 from this video you deserve subs but One question what does piercing mean?

thank u 🎉

Thank you very much

I love how my 370 hours on any other game would mean I would scroll past this but with HOI4 this video seems helpful

Been a few years. Time to brush up the skills!

Fantastic video

When I can afford inf, with a few arty and about 4 mechanized usually works, and then a tank divisions about 10med tanks with 2 rows of mech and maybe some arty

You tutorial is simply nice, but what is the thingy of the templates that is like u can’t add more things of infantry, anti air…?

Obviously a lotta armor is ideal to push through lines as it was back then. But how about the early game ? I still often have to resort to infantry with arties for most of my battles.

Question I have around 60 hours in this game so far and I’m wondering how to build supply in a war state? I usually try to rush supply ports but they are usually well defended especially when I’m attacking France

Im new to hoi4 and i coild not defeat poland but now i can thank you

Nice.

What version do you use in hoi

how do you have a high supply?

Do video on becoming a supply god boss

Hopefully i Can finally get good at the game now!

I always kinda suck at HOI4 battles, so I think I'll practice HOI4 battles with this gudie so that way I can get better at HOI4 battles.

I spent 2 hours on the tutorial, the Italian-Ethiopian War finished in 1937. Unbelievably complicated.

Wonder what the template of the infantry attack that worker looked like... 😀

what is a good template for fighting in jungle

My problem now is when an enemy stacks the frontline with 5-6 divs on each tile, I try to cut through the line with tanks but I need so many tanks that they eat up all of the supply, and eventually I end up 2-3 tiles into the enemy's territory with enormous losses and get stuck having even less supply. What do I do wrong?

How did you manage to do this kind of simulation? Is this a mod?

To last longer i gota add artillery, got it😜 jokes aside a great tutorial for new players

How is your date and generals look so small, how do I get that?

Honestly i wish i could watch a video like this when i first picked up the game lmao Good stuff

If you make an explanatorial video, it would be helpful if u would show us why u won that battle with inf. And not just say: I changed something but I would tell u what, only that I added soft attack an breakthrough. SHOW the stuff u are explaining. Takes us into the why and how. Would have made this video much better.

wow amazing cocntent

Where does motorised and mechanised divisions play into all this?

Just for interest, were you using a mod? If yes which.

I Ve player for less than 100 hours but the thing i didnt really understand was how combat works plus how to move infantry in the Sea or in the air

Nice video but i should suggest not to put leg infantry with tanks (aka space marines) because they will only go 4km/h and if you need to push it's not worth. Tank designs should only have motorized or mechanized (if you are low on production you can use cavalry)

how do you get army experience?

im a bit late here, bt just wanted to point out that your audio is a bit low. my laptop speakers are pretty mediocre and at full volume i still struggled to hear you clearly. its usually better to upload the videos with audio a bit louder as it's easier to adjust the volume down. great ivdeo otherwise, im just getting back into Hoi4 after a few months break and needed a refresher like this!

what mod/command did you use to make germany have no troops (sorry but I am still a noob at hoi4)

there is two ways to attack succesfully. Deplete your enemys orga, making them lose the combat and retreat, this barely even works beocuse most people figured out how to spamm "small" infantry divisions mening that in a plains tile there usualy are up to 10 divisons roughly 16 width. meaning that in plaines at least 5 divisions (probably even 6 divisions) in there at all times. making it neccesary to deplet 250 orga (300 if its 6 divisions) bevore your enemy can reinforce. That is basicly impossible with divisions alone, especialy with signal companies giving additional reinforce rate. However it is possible with exesive air support, asuming oyur enemy lacks in air defense. Additionaly attack divisons need a LOT of supply, menanig that even in europe they often fight with a supply disadvantage. lets take oyur example. with a inf diviosn with 122 soft attack and 43 orga you will never do enough damage to push an enemy out, before you yourselfe runn out of orga. so this is objektively a bad attack diviosn and only works agianst very minor nations at the start of the game, or agianst players who have no idea what tehy do. Comparing one divison againts one divison is not only unrealistic but also unfairt to your own test method. your arty inf is considerably more expenisve then your enemy pure inf defense. so he would never fight you one on one, and more like two on one, making this test invalide. So the other way to winn is by destroying your enemy resources, all ww1 style. Each attack of yours needs to destroy more of the enemys soldiers and equipment then you lose in the attack. This is achivable with high planing bonus and lots of artillery. However this too is imperfekt becouse wehn your enemy counters wiht certain unit types like tanks or artilery of his own you likely start to lose more then you destroy. Let's take you inf agian as example with 122 soft attack and 40 ish orga this division is perfekt to defeate atacking enemy arty heavy divisions. With tnaks this porblem is even more visible. the only reason why tanks "winW agains infantry/artillery is becouse they have the armor bonus. EManing they only take 50% of all attacks and make a d6 instead of a d4 damage to org (org only) so rougly in the mean value 50% more damage against enemy org. That only counts if oyu have armor bonus. if oyu lack supply (supply not fuel) yor armor gets reduced (as stupid as that is) and if oyur enemy has somewhat decnet piercing oyu lose not only the damage reduction, but alos the increased orga dmage. Making tanks only realy usefull against bad enemy tanks or infantry. If your enemy has as much as one or two tanks destroyers with halfway decent pirecing he will always pierce you, setting oyu back t osquare one. Honestly i have yet to figure out a decent way to properly attack in this game that is not reliant on your enemy lacking a certain resource or weapon in his army. aka that doesn't rely on my enemy beeing stupid.

do you guys recmmmend to get the game from steam or g2a or eneba

how do you maintain supply?

man im struggle as a minor when them majors decide to push on you esp the Briish it's usually a game over no matter how strong my division is I can't compete with all those resources, factories combined

Civilian difficulty. There you have it.

12:39 what dod you expect? CAS is king!

Is that a training level or something like that?

In my first hour of HOI 4 rn, there's just so much information on my screen, its hard to keep track.

You didnt mention what changes you made at 6:35 when suddenly you are winning.

First combat tip: turn the speed down

You guys don’t spam divisions and ram them into plains?

I love this! Thank you! Now lets talk about how the Navy!

how do you get those symbols in Templates? I see rectangles with lines in my game

I have several hundred hours in this game and I never clicked these bubbles before. Which means I also didn't realize how big the supply/terrain debuffs are. Sheesh.

I am playing as the US and I was rapidly becoming the most technologically advanced nation and I was watching Europe and Poland and Germany allied and then Poland and Estonia invaded Russia 😂 keeping historical AI focuses is so fun 😂😂

Do you have to micromanage battles and fronts, or can you draw up plans and trust the AI? Something tells me the AI isn't going to understand the difference between your defense and attack divisions. I could be wrong though.

This video should *straight up* be in the tutorial of the game.

Has anyone showed that if infantry doesnt have arty they take more casualties

So one of the most important things is supply, cool, how do you get supply…😮

Not me diverting whole of my army(500+ divisions) to france and somehow france stand still like how the hell they holding 200 panzers that are concentrated dude

4:45 never use inf to attack if you don’t have to. Only special forces or tanks unless the nations is really weak like Japan fighting china or majors fighting other minor nations.

Is CW really that important or does it just depend on the division you're trying to make?

Lol I kept losing till 300 hours when I decided I'll just watch a tutorial wasn't this one but it was pretty similair and now I can hold my own against ai on regular For anyone who is still clueless please just watch like a 20 minute video about ground combat it covers about 80% of the game

Bought it yesterday, decided to play as Afghanistan, attacked Iran with 12 infantry and 1 royal guard and I immediately got flatlined 😅

Instructions unclear, my Norway was capitulated by Finland

The real Chads make divisions so powerful you can defend and attack with

Does this apply to OWB?

im still trying to win a war

So youre telling me that clicking the green arrow is not the correct way to attack!?

Hmmm...should I really take advice from someone named Terrible strategist? 😄