HOI4 10 Tips on Winning Wars (Hearts of Iron 4 Man the Guns Guide) 

Step 1: Choose Luxembourg. Step 2: Make 10 fort. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit.

Step one: choose Tannu Tuva Step 2: Declare War on EVERYONE Step 3: victory

I just draw one line with all my division to the capital, click play an lay back while all my troops fails miserably because i had no idea what i am doing

Germany: I have successfully captured 0.1% of France France: surrender!!

People are saying that encirclements are only luck? *Operation Barbarossa wants to know your location*

The one thing thats always been annoying me in HOI4 is how you carefully set up frontlines for each army yet the moment you do any penetrations/encirclements they go all over the place and u have to constantly reset the frontlines on all ur armies.

11. Go Superior Firepower, make 40 w divisions (armor is welcomed, but not necessary) with enough up-to-date artillery, wreck havoc on enemy and win

To control the factories in a state I'm pretty sure you just need to control the major city if it has one. For example, taking Paris would give you control of all the factories in that state, even if you don't control the entire thing.

I’d love to use these tactics and play a good game of Hearts of Iron, but my toaster-computer can barely get me past 1938😂

Can i just say, you forgot one huge way to win wars GREEN AIR AND CAS

Type "Annex **Country tag you're at war with** " Easy peasy lemon squeeze

1-Play as United States. 2-Become fascist. 3-Done.

Thanks for this. I have over 60+ hours yet I haven't 'won' a single game. I've won wars, yes, but by 1948 I'm always either stuck in an unbeatable war or I got rekt by a country way more powerful than me. At least I'm having fun losing though, I guess thats what matters the most

I like to use fallback lines for smaller countries. Take Bulgaria as an example. If I am in a war with Bulgaria, the greater chances are that the front line is small. I will keep 2-3 infantry troops on each front line province using a fallback line to keep my other troops away. I want enough troops on the front that Bulgaria cannot break through, but not so many that they stop attacking me. They will lose way more manpower than I will lose, and I commit all of my forces to a powerful counterattack whenever they run out of manpower.

You've been absolutely killing it with videos recently. Thank you so much!

I was losing a war badly once but then I enriceld a lot of troops and then won the war that was the most epic thing I ever done

7:04 in real life they bought all Portugal tungsten. An economic war almost forgotten.

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Thanks for the amazing tips, keep up the great content 👌

Really good and useful video! Thanks!

I'd like to see it become necessary to build logistics depots. Usually a city center, or the area with the highest infrastructure in a state. Or maybe make it so logistics support is just part of the equation, but you need to build logistics trucks that work much like convoys, but on land.

Hey man i love your vids and you should keep it up. Could you please upload more playthroughs or twitch vods though, i find them pretty entertaining

Tips: Never invade Russia in winter and never get involved in a land war in Asia.

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Very, very, very good. What you did here, you uncovered serious [!] bugs and game issues and showed us how to exploit them. For the sake of the game, the quality and the standard, you should stick your video in the official HOI4 forum, urging that these (gamebreakers) be eliminated/corrected asap.

thanks for this helped a lot

Thanks for ur tips man

Some people don't understand that when they make crazy division templates that are not simple without equipment they will not be able to keep there divisions equipped.

They gotta fix the decryption stuff, now in the mid-game you can't see any of the enemy divisons. Makes the game so frustrating to play for me

Now I hope I can get my first win in singleplayer Kappa

Thank you for this video, it was pretty interesting and i even learned some new stuff :)

I just line up my troops to make a swaztika and wait for my allies to notice it

LMAO Paradropping into Paris is hilarious! 😂😂😂

How do I get started in multiplayer in Hoi4.I have 300 hours in the game and I consider myself a competent player

I just used one of the tips I learned from this video to obliterate the UK. I finally managed to get a good foothold on their island, but I left London encircled instead of immediately taking it. I absolutely wrecked the rest of their troops. It was so bad that I put my Army Group on aggressive, and I was overrunning them.

The video stopped right before you completed the encirclement! Do you like to watch us suffer?!

Personally I would love to see 10 ways you can make people rage quit in Hoi4. I would like to know just so I don't do them.

Nice vid. :) tips on production? I usually spam civilians untill the war gets close then I do mills

Anyone else just kinda tier their armies? Light Infantry (Leichte Infantrie), which is like 5 infantry and a couple Artillery, 1 Anti Tank and a single Motorized. Regular Infantry- 20 Width your infantry (10), 2 Artillery, 2 Anti Tank, 3-4 Motorized Battalions and definitely a Medical Company. Heavy Infantry is just Regular Infantry except subtract 2 Motorized and add a Medium Tank. Light Tank Divisions I just max out the Engine abilities of the light tank variants. I do this for large encirclements and rushing cities. Medium Tank Divisions are mixed with light tanks and mostly medium. Primarily for the purpose of backing up the line if it gets bogged down. Then Super Heavy Tank Divisions which is just like a line of 5 Battalions and some Motorized and Mechanized. Plus some AT if I need it, and its just for ripping through fort lines. Which usually only happens late game. Like if you Take Quebec and you realize last second to NEVER USE QUEBEC AS A LAUNCH PAD FOR INVASION! Seriously Quebec will always have shitty supply into the region, I use Florida and Cuba as jump points.

Foarte tare frate

Gangster tactics tbh, like those paratroopers deleting factories

Perhaps central supply hubs should be manually set up or constructed on the map.

"Never take capitals because of the supply" 2 mins later "If you take the capital, you win because of the supply" Thanks bro

i didnt know the paratrooper ability all this time.. ive just been encircling netherlands by land on its port so that Uk wont be able to send troops via the ports in belgium, guess time to try it out now

so realistic this might help me conquer the whole world mysleft in real life

Don’t over rely on offensive lines. Micromanaging can be way more effective

@Dustinl796 Videos I used the light spg tank divisions you showed in one of your mp videos and I broke benelux and northern france in a matter of minutes

I like it how he didn’t invade Deluxembourg™

I reccomend turning on 3d units it helps

I target AA first with strat bombing. If you don't, you could lose hundreds of bombers in a few days. Did some bombing on UK ports with port strikes to force the fleet out of port. Didn't target their AA and lost around 220 bombers and 145 fighters in 5 days. Made up 70% of my casualties. Switched to bomb the AA and even with just 3 damage levels (out of 5) that dropped to around 10%.

This man is battleplanning and talkm bout how to win

I made lvl 5 forts along the Soviet border as Germany and then when I declared war they kept attacking the forts and drain their manpower. When their manpower were at 0, I basicly won the combat instantly so it was not hard getting to the victory points.

thanks for the tips dad

Thank you for these tips. Already did the things like encircling the capitals and screwing up their supplies or using different kinds of armor for specific tasks. Also knew civilian factories were important, as in my very early days I didn't emphasize on them and lost my wars. Just never got to go after the ones of the enemy. I am not that great with offensive in air warfare :( any advice on improving my air warfare play?

Very interesting tips. Thanks a lot for that. Can you show us your units template please? Thank you.

“Number 6 is to remove the ability’s enemy to fight”

Of course, playing the overbuffed reich with hidden bonus attack you can kill everything around

it took me 160 hours in hoi4 to realize that you have to assign a mission to planes i was losing every war then when i realized it all the red turned into green and i started winning a lot

basic tanks have high breakthrough, no other tank types have that so that why you should have a lot of them so your tanks can keep attacking

Is it always a good idea to be constantly upgrading your equipment? I am finding I am not even making enough guns for example to full equip my armies before I have upgraded to the next one. Also if you are at an equipment deficit in something should you build up a surplus first before upgrading to the next tier?

Bro Luxembourg is just chillin

What GFX do you use please tell me it looks so goid

Don't you have any guides for Kaiserreich? That would be good

How to win? 60 width, all artillery. Lol

dont know why anyone wouldnt make their own rubber/oil when almost no country has them, seems pretty stupid to rely on a colony in the as end of nowhere

I always have the issue as the UK where in the eastern Med italy and Germany keep bombing my ships and I am losing ships left and right even when I challenge there air power they still destroys a large part of my navy any tips to counter this

What do yall think of light autocannon tanks for general anti-infantry work?

thanks for this video just bought hoi 4 and i cant even beat france

I need this because IRL it took Germany roughly 59'000 casualties before it won over Poland It took me over half a million casualties in HOI4 before I won over Poland

_nice video_

I thought this game was pretty realistic until I saw this

Funny fact I used a tactic like this as on a other game I named it the Wolves hunt because of the way it happen.

Any reccomendations for division loadout?

Please make a video of you doing Operation Barbarossa in multiplayer pls Dustin

im playing this game for 1 month, i learned some templates with grisha but the part of france and ussr is so hard, in france i just winned one time, i got stucked in belgium, ussr is a nightmare for beginners, i watch some videos and looks like so easy. ps: my logistics is normal. Edit: I defeated ussr in 1940 for the First time, i invaded in 38, is just you go attacking the weakest troops 11 Infantry, 2 artillery, that game needs patience.

My problem with this game is in the construction and the unit building, I never know how much I should do of what type and when for both

Mechanized + Heavy SPA divisions have fucking top tier soft attack it’s so nutty

It would be nice to know what is the best infantry template for winning. I just cant get it right

Targeting forts can be useful to.

3:54, how did you assign that whole army to that one order? i thought you would have to do an order for each army group

Can you make a video where you compare AT/AA with Armor-AT/Armor-AA? I find myself using the non armor version more often since I usually play countries that can't really afford tanks like China, Siam etc.

this is a game i just can't seem to get good at

Him: Use paratropers and sink convoys Me: Ha ha heavy tank go boom boom

so question, with my USA playthroughs in the states I have all the infrastructure maxed but it keeps saying the previous bottleneck is Virginia even though its maxed, any idea on how to fix it?

Me: We will paratroop into regions in France >:D We will remove it’s factories and retreat to Germany >:D System: *France surrenders when I paratroop in Paris* D:

The point of having Capitals dictate supplies is to make Capitals important.

You have forgot the German way of encirclement - Tanks Breakthrough. Just concentrate tank divisions ( at least 6 per sector) , that will let you to do Mass tank attack in single point.

What is your pc specs Dustinl? Thinking of building a new pc.

You don't need SPGs to engage infantry. Tanks and infantry that accompany tanks have enough soft attack. Two key things are: hardness and armor. Higher the percentage of your division hardiness, higher the percentage of hard attack that enemy infantry must use. And infantry have poor hard attack, unlease it is MP human made infantry. If your armor > enemy piercing, you will recive half the damage and cause 50 % more organization damage. Well that 50 % could be 40 %. Because organization is what determine win, by having armor > piercing your division is effectively 2,8 to 3 times better.

Hey Dustin, do you have any tips on how to play as Argentina?

I ally with my "allies" then garrison everywhere then declare war, boom, they didnt realize my troops got in their territory

I see your videos and I Just click. Simple isnt it?

While talking about strategic bombing, it never seems to work for me. I have air superiority with tactical, cas and fighters. But it seems not to work as often, and when it does not si efficiently. However I've watch your video about strategic bombing, but can't do it in my own. Any tips? Love your video by the way!!

Unfortunately stuff like draining manpower and encircling capitals isn’t viable in multiplayer :(

They said they plan to rework the logistics systems. they should add new mechanics and techs for it. Really its such a crucial thing even back in Roman times, the number one thing on Ceasar's head was how am i going to feed my god damn troops this month. Now its ohh how am i going to make sure that the longest connection to my capital does not get severed while im stuck in the middle of my enemies industrial heartland ohh no im doomed. Edit: well come to think of it i doubt the enemy heartland would be able to produce your kind of equipment let alone be willing to produce since they can see your eminent peril. This is what i love about paradox games there is no straight forward solution to any one problem. Well one thing is for certiam you should be able to move supplies around. Think of it like multiple capitals that if taken all the supplies stockpiled in the province will be seized by the enemy. You would be able to build supply bases. With techs similar to radars these supply bases would be expensive but each can hold a certian amount of stockpiled goods. They should limit how far your divisions can be from your supply caches/bases without suffering a lacking supply penalty not so far but I should not be always supplied if im France when im all the way down in china or the painful ass of the soviet union. Even with ships there should be supply bases closer because even ships take alot of time to deliver such supplies weeks although i suppose it is abstracted by maybe having them go back to back, well you can imagine the same thing on land like but this is crazy inefficient and should cost painful fuel. Hey there you go for each supply bases distance your away your fuel consumption for supply delivery goes way up this sounds like a fun and fair idea gives way more value for fuel since if your a large nation your stocked almost all the time. Anyways many ideas can be thought of here was one. Lets hope paradox can figure something cooler out. Or hopefully not cock it up even worse than the one we have

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Regarding the Strategic Bombers ,so is it worth investing on them by start researching and then producing them as soon as possible? For example even when playing USSR or of course UK???

What specs do you need for this game? Looks pretty cool.

Some tip for manpower? I am playing as Sweden and i constantly have problems with that, i'm not producing any troops, because i have a good army but my manpower is 0, i can't win the war against the United Kingdom and my faction don't do anything, so, the United Kingdom every day gets more troops and i every day get less options to invade him i'm stuck. Sorry for my english, i'm not native speaker.