10:30 the military general gives XP while at peace because he is studying battles and coming up with new battle plans. you can XP in war when youre actively fighting in combat
@@FeedbackGaming I think it should scale off World Tension. Represents foreign military observers learning from battles abroad (and is sort of hinted at with some focuses like the USA Louisiana Manoeuvres).
As an old veteran of HoI4, I advise you to not forget to play other games or go outside. Also, it's way more fun with playing with your friends! Online multiplayer is full of sweaty kids that play the best way possible with their hundreds of hours waisted. My experience and tip is: Win air warfare and do a lot of CAS damage. Win war. But that is very simplified. Have fun!
@@DjangoUnSkilled Thanks for the tip, lots of guides have been talking about air but I never know how to get a good air design against the allies once I get to around that part in 1939 where I'm invading france. Sometimes it just fails here and then I get steamrolled by Stalin after he finishes justifying on me
The way you discuss HOI4 is both complex & simplistic at the same time. I don't play anymore because of the time sink but love watching your lets plays
00:00 Arms Against Tyranny Axis Germany 00:50 Historical Germany WW2 1:20 Starting Steps Germany hoi4 2:00 How MIOs work in hoi4 4:20 Mils Vs Civs 8:00 How to build a navy in hoi4 11:00 Selling on international market 13:30 MIO META 20:00 Super German Industry 28:00 MIO hotkeys 29:30 Ultimate tank design 43:30 Setup armys in hoi4 51:00 Setup battleplans 56:00 Break the lowlands 1:03:30 Operation Sealion 1:11:00 Peace conferences 1:14:00 Italy downfall 1:20:00 Operation barbarossa successful 1:25:00 MIO Policies
I looked up Hjalmar Schacht. He was a banker and economics minister who served before Hitler's rise to power and was part of the government until 1939 - and apparently wasn't popular among senior Nazis because he opposed rearmament. He was basically your typical capitalist of the time - interested only in the economy and opposed to anything that disrupted it. He ended up being wound up in the assassination plot against Hitler, got arrested but survived - and lived until 1970 at a ripe old age of 93.
Its interesting how certain nazis lived to be very old, Rudolf Hess died in 1987 and he was with Hitler from like 1922 onward. I was on wikipedia looking at the battle of stalingrad, a german colonel in Stalingrad died at some point in the early 2000s.... pretty crazy
@kashmir3489 the thought of being in such a battle like stalingrad and then living to tell the tale and going into old age while millions died in that one battle, is just unfathomable to me. Imagine being 70, walking through a city in the late 20th century and remembering the days you were in the cold winter fighting from building to building in stalingrad.
2% hardness might look bad, but if you can get that on infantry equipment it means 2% less damage taken from soft attack on your infantry and of course +2% hard attack taken, but that's usually a lot lower than soft attack, so it can be very valuable.
The user AI (aka, automated features like supply) seem designed to screw over the player. Front lines are the same - it loves to leave gaps by redeploying divisions in a senseless manner (often moving them from one end of the line to the other so if you don't notice they are way out of position before you can order them back into the correct place). And don't get me started with whenever you make an encirclement or merge front lines or brush up against a neutral territory and it decides to make a new front line and assign half your divisions at random... If it wasn't for the planning bonuses I'd NEVER battle plan. As it is I have to babysit battles to make sure its not doing something stupid like driving tanks through mountains or attacking forts with understrength units. Its maddening.
If you don't wanna battle plan and still get the planning bonus, you can set your general to area defence in territory that your units can't reach, ie Guatamala. You get the planning bonus and also each general gets 72 units under their command, if I wasn't lazy I'd use it all the time
@@garrettredding2837 Interesting, though the fact you need to do something so weird to get it to work is... not ideal. I do love the game, its just got some weird frustrating quirks to it still.
@@garrettredding2837 "If you don't wanna battle plan and still get the planning bonus, you can set your general to area defence in territory that your units can't reach, ie Guatamala. You get the planning bonus and also each general gets 72 units under their command, if I wasn't lazy I'd use it all the time" ahahahahhahaha this is quintessential HOI4
one of the best strategy I use when playing germany is justifiying on the Netherlands at the start of the game around october of 1936 you can declare war and puppet the Dutch east indies with resource rights on all of their resources that way you have unlimited rubber for the entire game (if you can defend ur trade routes) and can bank alot of oil for the war, you can even go fully motorised/mechanised.
I usually twofer - justify on Dutch Indies and Iceland (gives me Netherlands and Denmark as well). Justify early on Iceland, Dutch Indies, cancel justify on Iceland, justify on Iceland. You get both war goals on the same day and no interference from the Allies.
I learned a ton of hotkeys from these and really enjoyed hearing all your reasoning behind why you took certain actions. I particularly liked the Chinese Horse episode, the power of horse is strong.
I am watching you from France since a year man and i finaly could afford to buy a pc with the game and all dlc only from last month so i realy thank you for all you’re advice and this guide is helpfull to start Love u keep going!👌🏼
I didn't even know there were policies in the MIOs, but I certainly like that you can shift-click the traits to queue them up now! Thanks FeedBackGaming!
I am very late to the party but I just started HoI4 2 days ago and even tho I am not new to Strategy games, HoI4 is a monster to get into... I was looking for a playthrough like this, they are both super rare and super usefull, especially for new players, so thx a lot!
21:00 for the gold the funny part is it is historical accurate during the civil war the transferred three quarter of the gold reserve to the soviet Union they did not want it to fall in the hand of the Nationalist and later on the soviet just took it as payment for the supply and help given during the civil war
If you want to play a disgustingly OP Germany for fun, you can change focus trees with custom game rules. Set Czechoslovakia, Poland and Sweden to fascist, this results in Poland and Czechoslovakia voluntarily giving you the Sudetenland and the German Empire borders as core states. All 3 countries will become your puppet as well and nothing causes world tension. If you play it right you can annex or puppet the Lowlands, Austria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden and (fascist) Spain without having to fight the Allies. You can also change Switzerland to fascist and they might become a puppet as well if you are lucky. It makes Germany incredibly OP by changing only 3 or 4 focus trees.
The one issue I have with this is the fact that it’s using space marines which if I’m going to be practicing for MP I do need Atleast some kinda alternative. Going to attempt to use this in combination with your old Germany guide (replacing the sealion strategy there, and using actual tanks)
Try doing 9x3 motorised/mechanised with engi, motor recon, logistics, and maintenance support companies. If you have the production capacity you can also add a signal company to make them move faster. Speed is usually key for MP games. Then just have large infantry-only divisions to soak up damage on the front line (rarely push with these, they are mainly just for defense). Make a concentrated push with the motorised and try to make a break through to do encirclements. The infantry should fill the gaps but you can't move too far or you will leave them behind and get encircled. If you need an extra oomph, make medium tank divisions while trying to focus on speed.
Regarding naval invasions, you can set multiple smaller invasions from separate ports under the same general. It takes more clicks, but alleviates the supply issues, and the planning takes less time than a single larger invasion would. Just make sure to split your fleet to account for the number of invasions which should occur simultaneously. If you keep the deathball, it can only escort one invasion force at a time. AND, while sometimes allies can be a pain in the ass, if you want more operative slots that's the best way to go. Each free ally with 10 or more factories grants 1/4 of an op slot, and each major grants 1/2 of an op slot. Whenever you play a democracy, your dominions also contribute to bonus op slots despite not quite being free themselves. For any other ideology, collaboration governments will instead contribute. That's why the UK gets so damn many spies in its agency. It starts with four dominions and only gains allies over time.
what you forgot: 1. usually you don't have building slots on Germany, so you have to preserve research slots to focus on dispersed industry before you take four-year plan 2. spies and collabs for france and poland. this will reduce resistance, you can make richskommissariats for belgium and netherlands. 3. tanks. you use space marines, but it's boring 4. you start building synthetic too early. as for me, perfect timeline is: civs up to mid-spring-summer 38, then mils up to summer 39. june 39 - rubber. thus you can max your army by war, and solve rubber deficit by the january 40.(you can suffer by deficit in the beginning, but you army would have already been big) 5. you told that you don't want to take land because you have to defend it. make puppets, take resources and industry rights. it's pointless to leave any allies after crushing them 6. it's better to invade denmark and norway before peace conference with allies. thus you can also take them 7. why did you call italy and other axis members to the war? 8. consider attaching air wings to armies. this could reduce micro. I use that for tank armies 9. train navy, gain exp
The Panzer 36 and 38 t and the Marder 2 a tank destroyer was built on the chassis of tanks acquired from Czechoslovakia. The Germans did this a few times with equipment from areas they invaded.
i typically go after italy too, they are such liability, they're good for sending you material, shitty material of course. speaking of dev upgrades, what would think about being able to queue research, like have 2 things waiting to automatically move into the current research slot as soon as your current selection is complete?
A tip for anyone wanting to maintain the Denmark agreement for the supply buffs: You must have/maintain good relations with them [I try to keep it at 40+] otherwise you risk them canceling the agreement [usually the next day after they agree lol]. They're historically Democratic, so any world tension you generate will downtick your relations with them.
No trust me its a bug. If you ever had no supply in republican spain save and reload and supply will come back. Its a issue with the mediterranean ocean
Posting this before I watch bc it's a big video, but I'm looking forward to watching. Picked up most of the HoI4 DLC in the Black Friday weekend sale after playing it for quite some time with minimal DLC. As Germany I'd managed to beat the USSR and America in ironman on the middle difficulty so I felt confident going forward. Now I can't even beat France. For a country that historically had very little manpower they just put a gazillion divisions on the border with Belgium when I'm going through the Low Countries and no matter what I throw at it in terms of CAS, tanks, motorized infantry, or shock infantry, I cannot punch through. Very frustrating. Hoping I'll pick up needed info from this in order to make a go of it otherwise I'll probably just uninstall.
For resistance, i usualy go Martial Law. It works best for me. And when resistance reaches 0, i change it to Civilian Oversight. And if it raises back, i just put it back to Martial Law and repeat.
Thank you so much for this. Most other "hot-to" HOI4 videos just zoom through the options so fast it's impossible to keep up and you can't tell what's being clicked.
Hjalmar was minister of economics for the regime. He was against German rearmament and clashed more with Goring than Hitler who was the one to replace him as minister. Then he was the president of the Reichsbank until 1939. Thing is he was put on trial for being part of the regime however the courts couldn't sentence him to be executed like much of the others as they couldn't find evidence that he was involved in the atrocities. The man lived to nearly 100 years old dying in 1970. He had parents that were around before Germany was even known as Germany.
I am playing as Italy and going for the space marines. Due to the limited factory output and steel is it still worth it to put all that soft attack on the AA tanks or just focus on Armor instead for lower costs?
Hi, I'm extremely new to HOI4, and this is already helpful (only 10 minutes in). Could you explain how you have 5 millitary factorys on planes, while its on the bottom of the priority list please? For me, only the 1st one is green of the 5
Simple answer. Planes are low priority in this build. Land forces take all the production. I need some interceptors to prevent losing war support from bombing. That's why I can't do a no air build as Germany
They could make things a bit easier by having some kind of option to save a design. For example, you just got a more advanced airframe and want to design an aircraft using it but oops you don't have enough air xp to finish the plans so you can shelve the plan and come back when you have the xp.
Hello Feedbackgaming, I have been using your guides, as well as many others, frankly, for a good long time, Recently though, my friends and I have been working on an AI mod, partly using these many guides as the basis for human strategies to play against the AI (well, more like bots). Would it be possible for you to give the mod at least 1 or 2 games and give me some feedback on how the AI could utilize their resources better in a way that a good player like you would do?
Do we want more content like this? If only I could reply in the comments with a voice clip, it would be Feedback saying "More!". Also, I am constantly seeing the reinforcement bug happen on my planes. Usually it's when i'm going from one airframe design to the next, and when I upgrade to jets I have to scrap all other fighters and fighter wings because I cannot get them to reinforce with jets at all no matter what I do, including setting them to elite and prioritizing reinforcements. It's very frustrating because I lose all my having to build new air wings all the time.
28:00 doesnt battleplanning not work in the spanish civil war because of the "unplanned offensive" modifier? it makes you have -90% soft attack and im pretty sure its because of that your generals think they lose all the battles and dont attack
Well depending on how you look either my game cheats or feedback cheats. Tried it exactly like he does but get hammered on the way to the British isle and from Italy.
I saw your minmaxed historical France, I was wondering if you would please do a AAT Imperial France minmax? Would really like to see how you play as Napoleon :) happy holidays!!
