First you send a few iron coffins on mission to get engaged and while the brits are busy sinking you you send the main fleet as escort for your landing party. King_of_Saxons • 5 yr. Have the division railroad to the nearest port and then shift right click on the target port to queue naval transport option. 2. ago. Here is how to change your Conscription Law and increase Manpower in HOI4: Press the flag of your country in the top left corner of the screen. The link to join our discord is addition to large carrier or battleship-based fleets, a navy should use smaller fleets for specialized purposes, such as patrol fleets with 3-3 CAs/BCs, a few CLs and a bunch of DDs, flotillas of 3-6 subs on convoy raiding or search and destroy missions, as well as squadrons of a couple DD for anti-submarine warfare, convoy escort, or convoy. and the cl arent doing anything against any dd that come convoy raiding, better just use pure dd taskforces set to low engagement. I'ts ruined every single game I've played. first example, playing as UK. AND, sometimes the fucking troops move start stacking right on top of eachother. Only that way they will get their navy. Entrench until you sort out the supplies and can support a larger front. Select troops. You can use this to your advantage as well- if you control the naval choke points, you can swarm subs south of South Africa and Chili to just ruin the AIs armies. It prevents a good portion of DMG. 3. Sent troops to help Russia against advancing Germans. Restarted the program, and the troops started moving after the game recomputed everything. Last game as Germany I invited Finland to the Axis when the Soviets attacked them mid-1940 or so which I was almost immediately called to arms against the commie-menace. Unless fresh troops are landed, of course, and can expand the lodgment enough to make it possible for worn troops to be withdrawn. How to Supply Troops in HOI4. Old habits die hard. ️ Thank you to Burrito and Marco for the help on this video! ️#guide #tutorial #hoi4 Hello again, I wanted to show off how to use Marine units in Hearts of. Add the ships you want to move to the reinforcement pile. Ensure you have a large stock of plans and nukes to drop and clear out all the devisions in the lowlands. ago. The investment in 2900 defense is useless. Steps to Reproduce 1. The Spammer. This is why width of 10 20 or 40 are most commonly used. A single Naval Yard outputs 2. The closer you can get to the maximum combat width the more damage, defense etc you can do. Decrease Autonomy. r/hoi4. Shift click it, then click on the first arrow. Get app Get the Reddit app Log In Log in to Reddit. In the old system you pick field Marshall give eastern front. ago. My reserve fleet is everything else and sits in port so I don’t waste gas driving the slow WWI-era gas-guzzling battleships around that are too slow to join a combat but will bankrupt. The question is often asked because it's honestly a good question. I just found out last night playing as El Salvador when I wanted to conquer Panama. constantly. Just capturing a non-port city will provice supply to keep a couple of divisions from getting attrition, but once you capture a port you can get supply from the home nation, as well as ferry troops to land and act as the main force. Suffice to say that you should have air superiority and plenty of naval bombers while doing. You’re not zoomed in enough but I’m willing to bet most of the axis troops have a low organization so they are easy to push and over run (instakill). ws [amount] This command will add war support (max. Once the amphibious invasion is started, then. better to just use single ship taskforces for patrol set to never engage. . I've had similar problems doing naval invasions and paratrooper drops, where all the conditions were met, but attack did not take place. The engine keeps them fast. Use this option and cover the tiles where you want your convoys to pass Kayleys- • 1 yr. Example being Japan, had a war with Soviets to help Germany as I was in a bind against both US and the Allies. America's base war support is 0 so when it says it sets the base to 10%, you're increasing by 10% total. . So try to wait till your influece is positive and UK has declared on Germany due to Poland. Like in the real world, the main function of the navy is to secure the sea so that you can use it as a means of travel. Better to go the avoidance route. paradoxwikis. Declare war as soon as you can. Remember the AI wants to protect bigger naval bases before small ones when they have too few troops or more troops than the minimum. Once you increase the Manpower in HOI4 through. The fleet that has better scouting will launch carrier planes first, giving them the first attack, while also doing so from a longer distances (forcing enemy battleships to travel longer before they can reach the carriers). a cruiser with a catapult for instance. Content is available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3. Then select some troops, click the naval invasion button at the bottom (is the first from left) and left click on your port for them to take off from, right click the landing province (best to be a port unless youll be able to take a port quickly, for supply reasons), then unselect the naval invasion button (which confirms it). Do not let it cross 50%, change type of local government if you have to but keep the target under 49%. uh-uh, no way, not going to happen. Right-click on the enemy province where you want your troops to land. But the enemy might have 0 guns in stock. To be able to perform a naval invasion, you need at least 50% Naval Supremacy in ALL sea zones the troops pass through. if you have them set to a convoy escort mission in a sea zone that any type of convoy is sailing in, if said convoy gets attacked the fleet will intervene asap. After you do that put them in an airfield near where you want to paradrop the soldiers. I like almost every aspect of how land combat is performed in HOI4 expect for one thing: Units who are in reserve because of a lack of combat width or who came late to the battle and their reinforce chance didnt trigger yet. Then draw an offensive line beyond that one. I’ve tried re-assigning them to the frontline, sending them to a port near the frontline and also pressing h to cancel their order then assigning them to a port/frontline, which works for a second, but then they continue their u-turn back to port for no reason. Princess_N1cole • 2 yr. Continue escalating once a month and take Ichi Go as soon as possible. You don't need to guard the whole coastline, because you need a shitton of divisions for that. Once the war starts, immediately change your HOI4 divisions to your normal ones and destroy the Soviet Union. Training also uses up equipment. Select the paratroopers and then hit the paradrop order. Your fleet range is only as far as shortest legged ship. Then you assign 10 divisions to this plan. 1. The problem is that because the AI prioritizes VPs. 3 – Artillery Equipment. I think it is: A. This is the continuation of a discussion started by this post in the PDXCON Q&A thread: One thing we need more than anything is improvements to frontline. Step 3–naval invade via a channel port. You. The remaining troops will be far stronger than they are now, so you shouldn't risk losing your position, especially this early in the game when the US has very little to work with. It helps at every strategic level in a big way, and the difference in cost between a light tank division with leg infantry and a light tank division with motorized is tiny. Originally posted by Kaustek: Originally posted by Hunkthebear: To move troops across water you have to first move them to a province with a Naval dock/Port, which looks like an anchor on the map. Poland-Romania then having red air there doesn't impact going from Kiev to Berlin simply because the planes don't go through other airspaces except the one where it does its mission. However, if they make small, 2 width Paratrooper divisions with no support companies, they can spam out. Step 2, make sure the sea zones it passes through are secured by your ships, or the invasion fleet will refuse to set sail. Originally posted by Ryan: Ships assigned to Naval Invade will sit in their ports until the amphibious invasion is launched. 366K subscribers in the hoi4 community. Once your troops have moved up, start the next offensive the same way. The Pacific represents an interesting challenge because one must fully utilize all methods of warfare against a determined enemy. The Execution. The best way is to make Spotting Cruisers (cruisers with only Float Plane 2s on them) and pair them up with 5-10 Destroyers each with only Sonar and Depth Charges. Left click your troops and right click a port on England. Use your 10 cavalry for naval invasions. Resource trading as well as sending or receiving lend leasing also puts more convoys to sea to be sunk. You can recruit in any owned provinces that has a land route to the capital. Select one of the available Conscription Laws that appear on the right. Army 2 and army 3 are my reserves. Navy history buff here. first example, playing as UK. You just move your ships to the place you want them to operate. ago. (If troops can get to some place by both land and sea, you want to be sure to click on the blue anchor symbol, not just anywhere in a province that happens to have a port. You also need to have the ship role filter off - it needs to be set to the asterisk. The problem is that Hoi4 does a poor job of modeling supply interdiction. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…Here is how to successfully naval invade in HOI4: Select one of your armies and press the Naval Invasion Order button (anchor icon with an arrow). Values below 100% mean that escort will have delayed reaction, which can be critical in some cases (or completely irrelevant). Without having troops already in the Canada region I would always suggest invading USA in Florida, establishing a secure foothold, and improving supply etc. ago. If they don't move, make sure you have enought free convoys. The lowlands will fall reletivly quickly, and when they do start off your naval invasion of England. Then wait for naval supremacy in those regions and for the planning stage to be. SexualConsent. Saltborko • 4 yr. I use area defense myself. then hit go. 1. In my latest game as germany I put 45 MP divisions under the control of a field marshall and asigned them to garrion europe/russia. Click on your general. ok, so playing as japan, and i have capitulated china, and i just started the pacific war against usa, and when im going to transport troops through the area. Among the various players on the global stage, few can rival the enormous potential of the. The point of a navy is to supply and reinforce land troops and keep the enemy from doing the same. Hearts of Iron IV QuickTips on how to make the most of your occupied territories through suppression and occupation policies. Better yet, have those troops come in amphibiously, if you have the tech to support more troop flow. I mean at a basic level, to launch an invasion you just select the units, select naval invasion, choose a friendly port and choose a target tile to invade. Any ideas? 0 28 comments Add a Comment Splitzy • 15 days ago. You should have 6 medium tanks, ~7 light tanks, and around 150 10-0 in the field prewar, with another stack of 50 10-0 ready to deploy once you hit war economy. com This video serves as guide to the Convoy Raiding and Convoy Escort missions. Meanwhile, try to push through the Alpine line with your infantry. When you click on the fleet, also click "select all" button which is on the bottom right corner of the very top info box (which shows the admiral, engagement rules, repair priorities, etc. The engine keeps them fast. In HOI4 there are no supplies , but areas can only support a certain number of troops. New to HOI4, playing as soviet union and i want to invade nationalist spain to help republican spain. 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. You can use this to your advantage as well- if you control the naval choke points, you can swarm subs south of South Africa and Chili to just ruin the AIs armies. The easiest way to prevent this is to take all of the British island in the Mediterranean so they don't have a nearby port to launch landing to your mainland,which is totally doable. I have Japan completely surrounded and have 3 fleets of ships on convoy raiding/patrol around Nagasaki their last port and they are still landing…Pretty simple to use but basically you need to make transport planes. My reserve fleet is everything else and sits in port so I don’t waste gas driving the slow WWI-era gas-guzzling battleships around that are too slow to join a combat but will bankrupt. Naval. Declare war on Dutch East-Indies and you will pull in The Netherlands. Expand user menu Open settings menu. Call of Duty: Warzone Hollow Knight: Silksong. Here is an example of how to do it. uh-uh, no way, not going to happen. 1. corn_on_the_cobh • 4 yr. Set them as Convoy Patrol (A button with a shield in your boat option would be in the top of the profile) Set your naval invasion. Supply grace periods may allow enemy troops to break your encirclement and may even encircle your units that were pushing deep into enemy territory. In this I explain both the Convoy Raiding and Convoy Escort missions, and when alternatives are better to use. When there is no supply to sustain all units on frontline, battleplan moves only a part of army to prevent suffering out of supply attrition. You could use roach destroyers for the job, but their detection is pretty poor, so you’d need a bunch extra. If you do not have naval supremacy in the area, your troops will not move at all. A few months leave (not uncommon for special troops like marines, paratroopers and certain armored divisions) should not make them drop down to a trained unit level. the best plan, though, is to just remove the enemy fleets attacking your convoys. Go to hoi4 r/hoi4 • by. 8 Battleships 28 Fleet carriers (not including all the escort and light carriers they built) Trying to build that many capital ships even with 100 dockyard would be insane. Bram06 • 7 yr. 1. The volunteer troops can't be transported by using target nation's dock. Soft attack is 300. Capital ships provide the punch and are made to deal with mainly other capital ships, but also screen ships. You should have 6 medium tanks, ~7 light tanks, and around 150 10-0 in the field prewar, with another stack of 50 10-0 ready to deploy once you hit war economy. Tsunami1LV • 7 yr. I think fighting is the fastest way and normal recruitment the slowesr. In HoI4, the Home Fleet still projects naval superiority even if it's too far away to arrive in time to stop an invasion, e. . In order to successfully naval invade, depending on the amount of divisions invading, they'll need time. ImperialNick • 4 yr. I send a naval invasion into a port in Scotland and move as fast as possible to cut Britain in half then take more ports for supplies. Select a group of units and click on the little + portrait thing at the bottom of the screen. Naval warfare is conducted by ships which operate in the world's interconnected seas and oceans. with alot of changes to hearts of iron 4 man the guns many still dont k. silly Nov 21, 2016 @ 2:51pm How to place ships/fleets in docks? Really don't know, which is difficult when playing smaller nations with no dock, but borders the ocean < > Showing 1 . 11. Take the port and the airbase, brind some AAR and bring like 3-4 tank divisions to help them when you have some supplies. Ctrl+H, however, is the correct key combination to remove currently selected units from their order. Report. The Launcher for Hoi4. In this I explain both the Convoy Raiding and Convoy Escort missions, and. Larger ports can funnel more supply across the ocean, though this will also require more convoy ships. Typically, your unit’s actual speed is lower than this value. - Each type of terrain has a fixed combat width which determines how many divisions can enter combat in a provice, so there's no 1 division template fits all. Then, left-click a part for your troops to depart from (probably Florida or Texas), then right-click one or more provinces in Venezuela to make them the destination landing points. Most likely, you will be able to roll over the island since they have their troops all over the world. 3. But as Germany, I like to turn (double-agent) or recruit an agent in the UK and one in the Soviet Union, simply because I will be doing missions there again and again. This video serves as guide to the Convoy Raiding and Convoy Escort missions. Go to hoi4 r/hoi4. you gotta remember the player in hoi4 isnt a general or a governor of a country. You can use your strike fleet (or any fleet) as an escort for troops performing a naval invasion by changing their mission to Naval Invasion Support. There is a risk they can get taken out by an enemies navy, and the troops can only land at bases that are allied controlled or your own or you have military access. Select friendly source port. II- Amphibous tech. They will not move until a naval invasion launches. Once you put them at a port and assign them to an invade operation they will move, but you need to have sea control for the sea prvinces along the route. The navy gives you the agency to go and do anywhere, and not be locked to the limitations of a contiguous land passage. . homer2101 • 7 yr. Invade Denmark. You don't trade resources, troops get those automatically: food, fuel, ammo etc are sent to your troops along normal supply lines and when those lines run across the sea they use convoys. Your units must be on a province with a naval port. 4. Ships assigned to Naval Invade will sit in their ports until the amphibious invasion is launched.