I have about 1000+ hours on Hoi 4 and I’ve learnt more from these videos than all play time😂 Thank you for all that in depth information, now I really begin to understand the core mechanics of the game
This works a lot, I want to give some advices to new players. All wars can be won if you dominate micro and other knowledge like terrain bonuses. Literally yesterday i was doing Hugeoslavia achievement and at one moment i was at war against German empire, Italy, France, Albania, and Poland, then Turkey join to central powers and opened another front suddenly (cause i already took Greece and Bulgaria), i just entrenched myself behind rivers, on mountains and hills and tried to survive their first attack, you have to micro not just to attack, also to defend moving divisions on your weak spots if they are gonna break your line, once they are with low equipment you can crush them with micro doing pockets of 30 divisions, this even if they have air supremacy. Use the supplies to your benefit, if you detect a point where your enemy has no supply but you do just carry them to that position, make a pocket, destroy the divisions and make a retreat order to let them in again on that low supply region, is so much easy break enemy lines if they are low supply and you just disappear lots and lots of divisions with minimum casualties. If you have so much coastal provinces to garrison like Greece, Italy, China, South east asia, etc do not use garrison orders, i usually make a retreat order where i have 3 divisions covering the ports and the rest waiting one tile behind the coastal provinces with no ports, so this way they are going to disembark just to be on a pocket instantly losing all their manpower and equipment instead of just being repelled by a garrison order.
When I first tried the game and I didn’t know about front / offensive lines, I thought that microing was the only way to fight in a war. After that, I discovered them and started to over-use them without thinking about it. Now I realise that if microing is manageable, then I should do it, but if it’s a country like the Soviet Union, then I should stick with offensive lines.
good stuff, liked and subbed. i recommend you teach this with smaller nations because the huge amount of troops makes it chaotic thus hard to see whats happening :)
I've finally been getting into HoI lately after years of wanting to, but finding it overwhelming to start learning. I just watched this series of vids, and I gotta say I've learned so much! Like so many others in this comments section, I just wanna say I think it's extremely well done and super clear for a game as complex as this. Thanks a lot for this series. I'm gonna have a lot more fun with the game and I think I can actually keep Denmark safe from those germans now! Well.. Maybe. Hopefully.. Haha, anyway, I definitely want to show this to my brother so he can get into the game as well. Thanks a bunch!
@@hammotimee You're welcome mate! Wanna add btw, that being able to go back to your timestamps for explanations and division templates and such, is awesome. There's so much stuff to remember in this game, but this makes it a lot easier. Last game I managed to hold off the germans at the danish border all game. Not a single province fell, and the first two years of the war I had only taken 17k casualties and both Sweden and Norway were all german. I think that's is pretty good for a noob, so thanks again! xD
Im a new player, (13 hours) and I kept losing to Poland as Germany, because my troops kept getting encircled and I didnt know how to micro, And this video has helped me so much, cant describe it in words
Thanks so much! There's a whole playlist for beginners, then I've got videos coming out weekly! Check out the shorts too, some stuff is explained in there like the naval battles etc
when i ditched the whole micro thing and started doing massive offensive lines to retake lost land. by the time i reached berlin and won against the germans, UK and the allies declared war on me and i have no manpower left to spare 😂
Thank you!! Not really, it's sadly just part of the advance, especially if you're making large gains. There is a setting now where you can limit how much your units shuffle but I'm going to test exactly how good it is before I make a video on it haha
Delete the front line sure its bloody annoying microing 50 individual divisions to the front line but thats the only way with out leaving gaps in the front line
Hello, I am relatively new to the game (about 50 hrs). I have never seen those unit animations where they run and shoot and their idle animations where they do anything else besides standing and looking around. Is this in the base game or is it a mod because I like the animations very much!
I am going to practice this with germany. but how do you do this lets say with a country like ethiopia? When you are lacking everything, having inferior quality weapon/no artillery/support?
@@hammotimee thanks! i actually just been defending not moving and my troops in ethiopia became super experienced to the point that italians were always losing the battles. but had trouble to push through their tanks!
I do have a guide on division design I'll link below, and I do play Turkey 🦃 occasionally, come swing by my twitch channel! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aizLm3MvrwE.html
@@hammotimee the speed 1-2 microing for wars. Also this and Vicky are both very strict diplomatically making it way less fun to play small nations and still succeed.
Plenty of my guides don't use Germany 😊 And by the same logic should we not play as the UK due to their colonialism, or as the USA due to their history with slavery? What about Japan and everything they did in China? Or Spain and their colonisation of the Americas? Dig back far enough and you'll find terrible things every country has done my friend, there's a difference between acknowledging it and being respectful of it, and glorifying it
@@hammotimee I know, you can dig back enough to justify whatever, but that's just being disrespectful. In WWII Nazi Germany had the blame for almost everything and what they did was a crime beyond any at the time, not saying the rest were saints, but to have that clear in our minds is perhaps the most respectful thing we can do about it. I noticed most of tutorials are done with Germany, perhaps if there was one or two I would be fine with it, but not 90% of them, that, honestly, scares me. I'm glad you do tutorials with other nations and hope you'll continue to do it, they are very helpful ;)
The pinning tip completely changed the way I play the game and I actually ended up winning my first campaign without cheats! Thank you so much for the tutorial!
So happy to finally find a playlist of guides that teach me how to play the game rather than playing the game for me, appreciate you teaching us the mechanics and not the meta. I've finally managed to win a couple of campaigns without mindlessly following others, thanks!
great vid really helpful for new players but i like to divide my my armor and motorised into even armies of 6 to 10 divisons and create multiple breakthroughs to enact encirclements easier behind the enemy, this also helps with over stacking and supply penalties
I pause all the time. Most playthoughs are several days for me lol... to be fair I also have real world stuff to care for so I dont feel bad at all. Its videos like these that gave me renewed interest in this game. Watched a different video about something else dont remember what but saw how they would use tanks to push and encircle. Began incorporating that and learned quick pinning is very important.
- Unassigned divs still get planning with the shift-right click field marshal frontline as of this comment. - Also, you can "support attack" with unassigned divs using control + alt right click, even if there is no active combat, which means you don't have to wait for reinforcement from support attacks to operate at full width and start doing max damage to defender. - Using "b" hotkey for strat redeployment is very helpful. AI is not the best about punishing it, and if you are pinning at line + doing breakthrough, it can't contest strat redeployment before they get some org back anyway. Good to use cheap infantry filler behind offensive divisions. Human players counter-micro much better, but vs AI the difference between infantry multi-province damage to open the line + driving pure mot through that opening vs tanks is small.
For me a great way to practice micro was sending volunteers to Spain / China, where the AI essentially keeps the line with their infantry and I can focus on creating the encirclements and practicing micro management
Thanks! One thing I'd like to know is how best to handle low supply. When quickly moving to encircle, I always run into supply issues. I usually try sticking to railroads and supply depots, but they take 10 days to be active and are often more defended. I'll try using lots of transport planes but still rarely get enough supplies to divisions doing the encircling. Part of the problem is I always use tanks for this, which require lots of supply. Maybe I should start experimenting with more motor infantry and armored cars.
Thank you for tutorial. You helped me a lot, I allways struggle with invading Belgium as Germany ,but you showed me how to invade, just put 4 armys there😆 I allways putted only 1 army.
This game is really starting to piss me off, I really wish it would tell you the thing that you’re doing is wrong so I don’t have to spend hours watching videos and reading reddit posts to find out why my army’s can’t do crap. Thanks for the video anyway, I’ll have to try this out in the morning. Just spend hours trying to take France with me only taking a small amount of land
That's a vibe bro, hopefully this helps!! PS. With France (assuming you're Germany) don't try and push through the level 10 forts on your border, go through Belgium 🙂
The amount of units selected, if you want half of them to move to a spot and the other half to keep going, you can right click where you want the first group to go when all units are selected, then press S to deselect half of them, then right click where you want the others to move!
@@hammotimee oh right, so if i understand it correctly it basically works so that if i go somewhere i leave half the units and go further with the rest and repeat
