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What is the game in 2:00 mins.

YOU ARE A GREAT LEGEND! I have around 1500h in hoi4 but I still learned MANY things. This was easy to comprehend and even fun to watch! Absolute masterpiece. GREAT WORK

Joyfully concise, clear, communicated. A+ Make more.

that make no sense for me. So Artillerie ... is useless? But in RL its the shit.

Now I'm confused, why do all other HoI4 youtubers tell me that artillery is very important.....

please make a navy tutorial

Wait, artillery is useless ? WHAAAAAT ??????

Why big division with a lot of artillery (and super heavy artillery) and insane soft attack is not good? they are way cheaper and at the end, againist infantry they pierce like if was butter. Yes, one tank division may be better than one of this division, but i have way more division that will overwhelm the enemy. There is not much manuver, sometimes you need to stop to refit your units, but usually is always green on all the front and the collateral damage is so big that even if is red, after few weeks of attacking all gets green.

I learned nothing, because I understood nothing. :P

I think Reman's Paradox's video on this is a much better explanation of combat than this one is.

awesome

But I like making divisions of nothing but like 3 infantry and mass artillery to hold the line. They evaporate the AI meat assaults like an air frier ^_^ I like to call them the war crimes division

I completely disagree with this video i have strat that tanks couldnt oneshot my divs and and i pierece throught tanks with normal divs and i cant cover it here its a pretty long thing and yes i gave most of my mils to air the if you have a better fighter and cas you crush all the tanks with enough entrenchment

The way artillery is handled in HOI4 is probably what I dislike most about the combat system. How is it possible that "the queen of the battlefield" is useless in the game meta? Why the hell does it have combat width? It is behind the front lines a good 10-30 kilometers. If you give combat width for arty (you shouldn't) , it should have a large limit, and be separate from units which directly participate in combat. We are 8 years into the games life and plenty of expansion packs, and it seems they barely touched arty. When I look at battles during the game, even if you pack your divisions full of artillery (3-4+ brigades), the number of artillery pieces is still laughably small compared to historical battles. Why can't I have 100 000 guns prepared for an offensive, and 10 000 per province? To me it have always been so simple. Just make artillery have diminishing returns with every gun you add. At first it has an enormous, buy diminishing impact (for example, up to 150 guns per province), and then have it decline (150-1000), and have it drop (1000+), but never be a negative. Additional give an advantage to the side which has more artillery (and is using it effectively). Also add arty ammo as a variable, because you might be able to shoot a 100 000 guns in one spot for the initial barrage, and possibly for a couple of days, but eventually you will need rationing. Also huge batteries of artillery should also incur great org penalties when moving provinces, as they need at least a couple of days, or even weeks to all properly assume positions. So during a rapid advance and retreat small portions of quickly prepared artillery would be crucial (if it can keep up), for breaking through hastily assembled defenses, and disrupting and overstretched advanced. However on the other hand, the huge artillery stacks would not have enough time to prepare and be properly effective. IMO the main impact of artillery on the battlefield should be a constant org penalty for both attacked and defender (on account of being shelled and unable to operate freely), slowing down of advance in particular, but also most other maneuvers. Dealing a steady damage to org (depending on the strength of the artillery and the enemy), but with diminishing returns. And cause casualties, mostly to infantry, particularly when caught in the open. I was also thinking about independent artillery detachments that would be independent from individual divisions and simply be gathered and concentrated at the front, where most firepower was needed. The penalties should also probably be larger, against a smaller army, than against a large force, where more artillery has actually more targets to hit. Probably also a cool idea to add an additional factor to exceeding combat width, where the enemy artillery can have a field day with you, the more packed you are. But on the other hand, one needs to be careful about giving to much of a penalty for stacking, because the whole point of the spearhead and all offensives depended on stacking all possible forces over as narrow a front as possible (the tougher the enemy, the more concentrated force in a single point). Fighting without artillery should be associated with huge penalties, especially while attacking and when the other side has artillery. It should also depend on doctrine and training. If your troops are to poorly trained, or you don't have any good doctrine (associated with training), than your artillery will not make anywhere near the impact, if you did. I generally think that cheesing would be far more difficult if you could not just skip, entire crucial types of equipment would have consequences. It is crazy that you can actually have and advantage over enemy that build artillery, because you can just spam more infantry divisions. I also think there should be more varied events in combat (not just tactics and counter tactics) and probably more than one per province. Like for example in artillery case you would need to hit the enemy, preferably in the open, or could possibly bomb the assembly area. With air force, CAS and TAC in particular should not have a constant impact, but larger and smaller depending on when they actually perform their bombardment.

That means All of Paradox games actually a D&D session

So i need to stop adding line arty despite the soft attack bonuses y can stack? 😢😢

According to this video i need to get the division stats high, and the division itself high.

Holy shit, this video saved me.

wow this is your second video and it has 158k views at the time im watching, that is impressive, hope it kickstarts your channel well.

Paradox needs to buff arty a bit. it was OP before, so they nerfed it so hard that now it's near useless.

Irl divisions from the time period actually had MORE artillery per soldier than the classic hoi4 7/2, and yet having any line artillery at all is shit in this game. They need to 1. make artillery cheaper 2. make it 2 width. A mixed infantry line artillery div should have the role that a pure inf division has.

Wait... that's it? Go on!

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Hey bro, it's been two weeks since your last video. Make more of these videos again!

whats song is this i love it!!! the one at 4:30

I just started using tanks and it's amazing. They are just melting enemy.

Haven't even watched yet, just upvoted and subscribed. You're doing Astolfo's worth with this ❤️

Excellent video! Make more please, subscribed!!!

Am i the only one that makes 40 width infantry to hold the lines or push and make a specialised tank cops for spearheads?

Wow, paradox is awful at explaining what breakthrough is. Reading the description, I thought it influenced whether attacking divisions would be drawn into defending if their province was attacked while other units were there. I thought it was a bad thing to have, since I had lost divisions to encirclements since other units in the encirclement wouldn't join the defense.

Forgot to mention the terrain. The reason Infantry wants to be smaller is also because terrain has different sizes and being above that sizes gives you penalties to attack, defense and breakthrough, since tanks prefer attacking over plains you specialize their size to minimize the penalty when attacking over plains, but since you don't want to micro your infantry you make a smaller all purpose infantry that has the overall least penalties when deployed in any terrain. In theory you can specialize a bit, for example when you're Italy and need to hold the mountains, instead of going 18 width all purpose infantry you can make a mountaineer division, which gets bonuses in hills and mountains and make that division 25 width (1 artillery and 11 mountaineers / 1 anti tank / anti air and 12 mountaineers). If you want something that can take or hold Urban regions 20 or 40 would be the best width. Forests would be 30 and 31 width.. Something people often overlook is that the "defense" stat increases breakthrough not the "attack", it makes sense because it is your defense when attacking, so if you want more breakthrough, you want to take advisors or general traits that boost the defense of a unit not it's attack. Also one last tip, invest into the special unit branch early, at least the first doctrine of it, it enables rangers which replace recon (something you generally want as it increases the units chance of picking a tactic that counters the enemy tactic), Rangers give you bonuses across the board on most if not all terrain, something that can greatly boost your infantry (and even your tanks especially if you don't want to or can't just attack through plains).

In new dlc recon company now buffs line arty (and you can even increase those buffs with research), is line arty finally valid?

Hello there, I'm a bit late to the comment section, but I found the video quite easy to follow, I've been playing this game for quite a long time now and the vast majority of the information in this video is excellent and accurate, however there are a few things I'd like to note on the advanced side of things. 1. Combat Width The combat width you mentioned being the best for infantry is 14/16/18, this is slightly inaccurate, across all terrains and additional attack vectors the best combat width to use is 15 followed by 14 and then 18 as 16 width divisions suffer significantly in marshlands and relatively poorly in plains while performing well in forests and excellently in urban. For tanks the best combat width is quite broad, in the video you mentioned 30/35/36, which by all extents are the best options by far, although they do suffer greatly in marshlands as well. I specifically mention marsh tiles as the preliminary defensive positions of the eastern front generally revolve around marsh tiles, which most players will fail to break when playing germany, so special divisions may be recommended at the specific combat widths of 10/11, 25/26/27 or flat 50 width for an amphib tank push. 2. Breakthrough Whilst breakthrough is highly important it's usfulness caps out at around 500-600, after that the division may lose out on too much soft and hard attack to be useful and will suffer in combat, however if the goal itself is indeed to grind down the enemy in long tank battles going beyond 500-600 can be a good idea. 3. Organisation Organisation always needs to be above 30 at minimum for tanks, lower will nearly always cause your division to retreat from combat far too quickly. For infantry (with full doctrine researched) it is best to keep it above 50-60 on the eastern front and ~40 for the african, western european and pacific theatres. Hopefully some of this information will be useful to you for the future.

Artillery is not useless for defense or offense. It gives you a lot of soft attack. This means you deal more damage to the enemy. More damage = Less time for them to deal damage to you

Isn't breakthrough just the counter for Defense the same way piercing is a counter for armor? If your Breakthrough is higher than their defense you mow threw em. The same way if your piercing is higher than their armor, it will shredd them

Hi, what can I do to defend from Germany as a small nation and at the same time attack if I cannot afford planes because Germany will always have an advantage over you, and also no tanks if production and raw materials do not allow me to have armored units?

My 44 width infantry divisions hid in the closet while I was watching this

make a video about the doctrines?

Epic video

Keep it up man. Great work

Wait, wasnt the garbage tank division just a specialized anti tank division?

Your accent hard to a understand

i'm sure this is great but I am barely able to focus from the 'personal jesus' instrumental in the background.

this is actually super helpful wtf thank you

wway diff thank the paradox games i playd, in ck3 u just pick roman n culture and make 5k good mercs + good martial and you steamroll 50k armies here its way harder

Well, at least now we know which unit to beg paradox to buff

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They really do need to buff artillery to better represent how effective it is in the real world. Artillery especially in WW2 is what did most of the work.