ULTIMATE STRAT BOMBER guide for HOI4 

I don’t disagree but also note that the show way over blows how bullets are in the air.

@@tylehh120 how so

the best part of feedback videos is when he explains something from history incorrectly, yet confidently

More you know

I've tested the night bomber strat and its not very effective because they're only bombing half of the day you end up hitting 50% less targets which defeats the whole purpose of making the big bombers

@@FeedbackIRL Then make a day bomber and a night bomber. Put the daylight ones on day and the night ones on night. It works for me. It only costs a tiny amount of air XP to make the two different models and you can put say 25 mils on each. Daylight fighters have a huge debuff at night and the AI and human players rarely make night fighters. The cheap electronics modules I end up researching for other reasons reduces the night penalty to strat bombing by 60%. Daylight bombers can have tons of air defense and guns with one bomb bay while night bombers have air to ground radar, nav II, bombsights, and many bomb bays. This is pretty much how it happened in real life with the US having the flying fortresses and much smaller bomb bays while the British had much larger bomb bays, relatively less defensive armament, and bombers designed for night bombing. A high defense daylight bomber design like you show in the video is doing very little bombing at night and the defense is overkill during the night. If you really want to draw enemy fighters out during the day then make 75% of the strat bombers daylight bombers and 25% night bombers. You can put the daylight ones on both daylight bombing and night bombing if you want. The night penalty to strat bombing is 50%. However, with the night air doctrine path and a 60% reduction the night penalty is mostly gone. If you can put up night bombers with 3 bomb bays instead of 1 and cheap and light electronics modules instead of so many defense modules you can make them quite reasonable and effective. I thought the goal was to cause as much damage to the enemy as possible and overwhelm their air force. I do not see how this does not achieve it. Night bombers will lose way less to fighters, and they can have more bombs per unit IC. Day bombers will draw out more of the enemy air force. Really if Paradox was doing it accurately any single strat bomber should only fly ONE mission per day. No strat bomber in real life is going to fly a high-risk WWII style bombing run twice a day. The bombers need maintenance and a look over after each mission and the crews need a rest. I'm not sure you "tested" this well enough as it definitely works well in single player or maybe there is something min/max in multiplayer that's messed up with HOI4 that causes night bombing to not work. BTW I generally play minors like Peru, Afghanistan, etc as anything bigger is way too easy for me against the AI so maybe the AI just makes night bombing practical.

100%. Engines first then chassis's. No point having module slots when you can't fill them

@@FeedbackIRL As you go up chassis size your speed and agility also fall.

Its a fairly new addition. No sweat ;)

Heavy fighers is next

Sure!

Lad

I've tested the night bomber strat and its very effective because they're only bombing half of the day you end up hitting 50% less targets which defeats the whole purpose of making the big bombers

TRUEEE

Thanks bud

Quick Summary Navy Base Strike - carriers and light cruisers Fleet in Being - Battleships, fleet destroyers and destroyer escorts Commerce raiding - Battlecruisers, heavy cruisers and submarines on convoy raiding Air Strategic Destruction - Fighters and Strat bombers. Night bombers do more damage, day bombers have more defence, superiority fighters have more air defence, interceptors more attack Battlefield Destruction - Air Superiority fighters, Multi role cas and heavy cas. Air superiority machine guns and air defence, multi role case 1 rocket rail first and rest heavy machine guns with air defence, heavy case, little air defence much attack. Run multi role cas when the sky is contested, heavy cas when it isn't. Multi role cas are very good at righting enemy fighters due to doctrine bonuses. Operational integrity - Air Superiority, Interceptors, Fast Bombers. Fast bombers use the -50% visibility to strat bomb specific targets e.g. ports, supply hubs. Use air superiority alongside it to maximize effectiveness. Fast bombers are meds with one bombay nav, bomb sights and air to ground radar enough range and rest air defence. Land Blitzkrieg - tanks or mech followed by tanks or manpower Firepower - line or company followed by air support or artillery support Battleplan - defensive bonuses followed by infantry attack of combined arms attack Mass mob - defensive bonuses followed by combined arms or guerillas

I've spoke about all three in the past however never all in 1 video. Look though my older videos on IRL

@FeedbackIRL maybe you should make a definitive guide? As ive said there's remarkably little on RU-vid explaining the various doctrines in anything but very vague terms

its banned because its just a harrasment tactic and doesnt promote fun gameplay. Its a bad strategy and easily countered overall.

Funny thing is. If the bomber strat fails the bomb maker has invested so much they're out of the game. DO OR DIE

Before DEI

Extra damage. Can't complain ;)

A little expensive for my tastes. But I imagine it works

I assumed worked the same way as fighters. MORE YOU KNOW

@@FeedbackIRL Small aircraft get both drop tanks and extra fuel tanks as options.

I got 1 as USA. It happens but its super rare

Planes in a region are an average of all the planes stats

American kamikaze

Air to air CANNONS

Cheapness and or range and nothing else. Plane won't be flying missions just needs in range of the tile. Only need one plane.

Any strat bomber

use the 1st bomber with no modules except non strategic materials and maybe range improvements. You can't drop a nuke unless you have air superiority, they do not need to run missions, just be on an airway until you can push the button. Cheap cheap cheap

Trueee. Static AA ultimate counter

really, I never heard that. Although I dont use them much

@@willywonka6487 Source: 71cloaks vid "HOI4 BBA - How Should You Build Your Strat Bombers"

I presume thats still the case however last I heard that was 2 years ago

@@Monksy1337 thanks, that explains a test run I did. First time using strat bombers I played usa and put 1000+ of them over berlin. They did jack all or it got repaired as soon as it got damaged, either way. Never tried them since

higher strat bombing damage

They are relatively cheap compared to the base cost of the airframe and engines, so you want to make more effective bombers as you make few of them anyway

@@yaowd8399 Does that mean more buildings damaged per unit of time?

Still going as of today

Pays for itsself in 365 days. So 35 army xp per year afterwards. So unless you're going at least 3 years its not worth it. FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

+1

JOOOOOOE

Lad

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