Blitzkrieg Unleashed - Designing Invincible HOI4 Tank Divisions 

@@dutchrjen Thanks a lot! This is exactly what I was looking for! I still have some follow up questions, I hope it’s not too much of a hassle :D First, for 2) how do you know how much breakthrough will be optimal then? Do you have a feeling for the attack values AI divisions use in a certain year? Do you have a certain number that you always try to reach? Also if you are taking out the USSR as Finland in 41 that means it’s still early/midgame. Do you think that tank design philosophy changes a bit in lategame with all the extra tech and modifiers from military industry? For 3) you say that HA is an overlooked stat while also saying that it is not as important. Did you mean hardness? Or should tank divisions have HA as well even though you go for howitzers on your at tanks? For division design, do you not value recon/rangers and radio? I feel like there is so much conflicting information on support for tank divisions online. For example Hammurabae is saying that radio is incredibly important for tank divisions and as far as I understand it, recon helps with any offensive division. Is it just about not being able to research all support divisions equally? For terrain, the only one you didn‘t mention were hills and they are quite common. Do you get your mountaineers for those or just muscle through them with your tanks? Also, am I understanding it correctly that an attacking army group for you has tank, marine and mountaineer armies, they are all close to each other and you bust out the marines everytime there is a river crossing and your mountaineers for every mountain etc? And once you cross a river you use your regular tanks again since they are faster? And what about very mountainous regions like Slovakia or the Caucasus? Then division numbers: you said you have very few tank divisions but what about the armored marine, armored mountaineer and those spec ops divisions without tanks? And when you push with your tanks do each of those 2-4 divisions attack their own tiles? Do they all attack the same one from multiple directions? Do you ever have 2 tank divisions on the same tile? Do you attack in multiple areas at once to set up a big encirclement? For pushing, whenever I managed to break through the lines I often went overboard and tried to get a screenshottable encirclement, getting my tanks encircled due to being out of position in the process. Do you just push from supply hub to supply hub and the encirclements come naturally from doing that? Do you intentionally move along railways so that the newly conquered hubs are actually connected? Same as most new players I have massive supply issues all the time. Lastly, when playing a country with less research slots, what do you prioritize? For example I like playing France but it takes forever until you get even just a 4th research slot. It feels impossible to stay up to date with infantry, armor and airforce research at the same time. In those situations what do you prioritize/sacrifice? Can any of these weaknesses be covered up? Like putting more AA in your divisions if you lack airplane tech for example. Thanks again for taking the time to write all this down! I know it must all be pretty obvious for an experienced players but I had real trouble and understanding how to wage war. I was starting to get pretty frustrated with the game tbh and you have really shed some light. So far I basically always fought WW1 style with very slow pushes and huge casualties. Thank you so much!

@@dutchrjen I didn’t have internet for a few days so this comes late: thank you so much! This has helped me more than anything I have watched or read before! Just beat Germany in 1943 as France. I know people do it way faster but for me it’s a big step up! And it was fun too, not just a war of attrition. Thanks!

Their are all really bad

The bonus is not alwaysworth it depending on what you want. Breakthrough is great but if you make a tank with very little of it the bonus isnt worth. Radio is generally great but its not 100% of the time useful

​@@Hammurabae In what scenarios is it not useful?? I'm a noob so I'm not too sure.

@@Hammurabae we all know what happened to french lol

@@atharwamalawade259 if you want your tanks to focus on snaking (just driving into your enemy's territory; not fighting enemies) or for AA tanks!

cavalry have 6.2km. So you are slice faster then inf. also 10km is very nice.

Yeah they are really good but cheaper and have huge soft attack

Me two. Combined with flame tanks, these beasts slaughter infantry divisions

I mean just the combination of "M26 icon, Pz. VI Tiger blueprint, and Pz VIII. Maus Model" shouldn't be allowed. but here we are. Putting extra turrets on, regressing ourtank designs back to the Great war.

they are god awful in game as well

Unfortunately I was pushed out from the server by the current owner in a really shitty manner. Due to that I along with a lot of the old staff left the server. Given the reasons for how it happened and what they wanted to change before it went down I want to stay completely unassociated and will not be returning. MP I may start to run again in the future but it wont be there.

it is always useful he prob just doesnt alter or forgot about it but you want tanks to be at least 12kph and 75-80% reliability so adjust armor and engine stats off that

@@joebno3 Why 12kph? Why not 8kph?

@@twentytwan7965 trucks default speed is 12 so if your tanks are 12 you won't have any speed penalties

​@@joebno38kph is just especially considering by 41 (aka most of the war) you will have switched to mechanized

But if using light tanks I keep it motorized. Why waste mech for light tanks? I personally wait till I have enough for my whole army then swap to mech with med or heavy tanks so I don't deal with debuffs. But definitely keep it at least 8kph for late game. I just forgot to tell this part.

Suggested designs in the year. I try to give options for different points of a game

​@@HammurabaeWhat Main Armament did you use for 1942 TD Light Tank?

Can't find it either...

I just figured it out, its "Easy Maintenence" you get it by leveling maintenence company to lvl 2

​@@minialphareaper3602Thanks!

Literally says in the video

Its easy to get to the point you can beat AI 99% of the time. Gotta do some self regulation unless you’re doing achievement runs tbh

it has the anti air cannon

At some point, may be a bit though

As usual, I dont design for sweat lobbies

​@@Hammurabaeeven noob lobbies in Poland, where average age of players is 12, usually have better tanks than this pile of garbage

Not to be a broken record, these arnt designed for sweat lobbies@@eryk_9523

​@@Hammurabaecalling them "top tier" would entail exactly that

Disagreed. Meta tryhard stuff is its own niche thing.

Yes

Please give me a better tutorial, which would you recommend? I am new to the game

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