most advanced ship techs in hoi4 the 1944 ship techs represent real life ships who were launched around that times but the thing is those ships themselves were desinged either well before the war years ago or with the lessons of the ongoing war and designed rapidly and then developed so on. pdx has to overhaul how shipyards work. 5 yards dont work on a single ship its a single ship yard being able to produce 5 6 ships at the same time.
Still wrong completely!! Dockyards only assemble the ships, they don't build them from scratch! It's the military factories that manufacture the guns, armour torpedoes ammo, etc., then deliver them to the dockyards for assembly
@@512TheWolf512 Not actually wrong completely just didn't mention the things you mentioned. You still both essentially agree on the same things you're just being a pedant to look good.
Naval refit yards: major naval powers start with a large fleet of old fashioned ships. In particular, ships with poor AA. It can help you pre war to upgrade your legacy ships to be something useful.
Every day I watch / read about navy, I feel like I understand it more. Every game where I put effort into navy, I feel like I've wasted a week's worth of off-game research.
I feel like navy is just fundamentally broken. Even if I build a fleet that can take the British on one on one, they don't even have to come out and fight to deny me naval superiority. The only way to guarantee naval superiority for naval landings is to build the bigger fleet, and that's just going to take until 1946+ even if you prioritize navy completely and use the paltry starting military factories to outfit the army and somehow win the land war with a crippled industry. Edit: One thing I've found works is that sometimes the British just decide to reassign their fleets from the English channel or north sea, and that can create an opening to launch a naval invasion. Defeating the purpose of building a navy, because if you wait for the AI to do something that stupid, even one submarine will give you 100% naval supremacy.
@@J7Handle Navy has been and will always be cheesy in HOI4. Like you said, one submarine is enough to land in Britain… that should NEVER be easy to do, but by merely spamming planes over the Channel, the AI shows fear and retreats their fleet.
@@FilliamPL yes, meanwhile, a player can maintain naval supremacy without even having to deploy the fleet. Just keep on naval invasion support, if you never launch a naval invasion, the fleet stays in port no matter what, but you can get naval supremacy that way. Meanwhile, if the Germany player could force a naval engagement, that might be in Germany's favor. But Germany can only do that if the UK has the fleet on strike force, not naval invasion support. Hell, if the UK player has their fleet on low risk engagement, then even then the Germany player won't easily be able to draw the British fleet out. If a Germany player really wants to naval invade Britain reliably, they need to build enough dockyards and spend 12 years building up the fleet for naval supremacy. Even port strikes won't work too well. The British fleet doesn't have to be that close to the English channel to provide supremacy for some reason. I think Iceland might actually be close enough, if not, the Faroe islands. Only very long range bombers could port strike that.
FeedbackIRL talk a lot but simply read the description of things and don't even understand it. His tierlist are bad, he doesn't check his infos. For spirit of naval command Night Fighting is a must have and always has been for every country, and every type of fleet, with how visibility matter in and out combat. It must be a S. Efficient communication is really good but only with the intention of battle with a big fleet, witch most country doesn't have and doesn't need to build. A surplus of Positionning bonus is useless and Admiral can provide a lot. So it's just an A. And since we can only use one spirit and doesn't have interest to switch for this one, second place doesn't matter. So in my tier list Night Fighting S and every other are useless.
btw dave about flexible contracts. i think it was a expensive yet legit strategy to switch designer companies after benefitting their bonus to their specialty ships. a designer for example gives extra speed to screens. you hire designer design the screening ships of your choice and then save the design and hire another designer company. the designed screen from previous company should still retain its bonuses
There is also another way of picking first a coastal designer, which has reduced cost with reduced ship stats. And then later replacing the designer for a escort designer, or another designer. So you can retrofit out of the stat reduction. This is particularly viable for things such as Torpedo Cruiser designing with Japan, Though also works with other nations that have access for coastal designer.
It's an essential part of the navy game. Especially with the coastal defense designer giving - 25% production cost. With flexible contracts you can switch to Pacific fleet for just 30pp and get free air wing size on your carriers. Switch to escort fleet designer and design crazy anti Submarine destroyers. It's so good, definitely should be S+ tier
@@melfice999 and that sort of feel historical correct. design the ship to complie whit the size regulation but the ship is designed to use another set of guns.
Some nations have access to multiple unique naval designers that have huge bonuses to certain type of ships. So what you do is flip between designers using Flexible contracts to design your DDs, CVs and so on. And you use Refit Yards to speed up the refitting of existing ships to better designs that you have created.
Basically a bunch of torpedo boats to swarm battleships so hard that they couldn’t dodge thus sinking their capital ship without losing much value to yourself because a bunch of small crafts are very cheap compared to something like the Yamato or Royal Oak. Jeune École is still practiced widely today among 3rd world navies like the Iranian Navy or Vietnamese Navy, but they’d have to get past the screening ships like destroyers that were made specifically to protect the important capitals. Of course Jeune École can help you defend your coast but it won’t get you anywhere past a large coastal navy IRL, to project power beyond you’d need to invest into capital ships like heavy cruisers and carriers nowadays.
Cheaper ship design IS very useful to nations who do not have infinite fuel, every bit of naval XP before going to war is precious, you don't want to focus too much on naval focuses that give XP because you end up lacking in other areas like economy, air etc. So having to spend less on a ship design, wich later means the saved up xp gets you a doctrine sooner is nice imo
I found that when playing on Oil poor countries, a good way to secure your position is to either invade Venezuela if playing Axis (as they have plenty of oil and make for reasonable staging ground against the US) or using spies to get Iran to revolt, then do a little intervention for oil through India if the Allies (also opens up a potential new front into the USSR)
On Integrated Designers, its not really "catch up" spirit, but "Tech Rush" spirit. as the +40% stacks with the 15% from Naval Designer, this means you can really rush through key naval techs such as better guns, torpedoes or such like, and due to how wcheap naval XP is to get, you can easily then rush a key hull types for the T3 hulls.
@@marthvader14 it removes the bonus if removed. and it SHOULD speed research if added partway through. However due to Paradox games being paradox games, you might want to be on the safer side and remove the research, and then continue after 1 day tick so it applies properly with the spirit properly active.
something to keep in mind with navy, because you get so much XP from training your navy compared to air and army, it give you more options with switching your spirits. so you can do things like use the sub research to rush to 1940 or 1944 sub techs(or other ships with the other spirits) then switch to a different spirit once you have researched and designed your ships, you can also do things like use the flexible contracts to get the coastal designer to make ships cheap, then later switch to a different designer and switch to the repair/refit spirit to quickly refit your cheaply manufactured ships with a cheap refit(like say fire control) to switch the designer to get rid of the negative to range from coastal defense
For those having trouble deciding what and when to refit: basically any boat with a level 2 engine is worth refitting and using in a battlefleet, regardless of whatever level of armor or hull it has
I think Surprise Attacks would be good if you have a small, but fast fleet, going against a larger, more powerful enemy. Like cruiser vs battleships. You can get in, launch torpedoes and whittle the screen down, before retreating back to port. Could be handy with Greece vs Turkey in the aegean sea
It's similar how I tend to run my fleet as Netherlands, just harass and pick off smaller fleet before a death stack can arrive. Just keep picking off their convoy escorts with my surface fleets and getting away before reinforcements arrive to let my submarine keep going ham.
After checking the code it is said that all ships except carriers would only engage in combat after 6 hours into naval combat where carriers can start doing damage from 0 hour i.e from the beginning hence those six hours might be called the initial phase. Ps this speculation not fact I could be wrong in interpreting it.
Flexible contracts to get the a designer with -25% production cost -50% range on ships, then switch to a better design company + naval refit yards to do a cheap module upgrade is incredibly powerful for the countries that have access to it. US, Japan, UK, Greece and a few others. -25% cost on a 3-4 flight deck carrier is insane. Then send it in for a 1 level upgrade on AA for +50% range and whatever your new ship designer bonus is.
I've always tended to go with Integrated Designers to allow me to keep up to date on naval stuff I need without clogging my research longer for the other things I'm actually REALLY going to need
You know, Dave, I just got an idea. How about organising a small tournament, where the ONLY way to fight is with the navy? Kind of like USA Vs Japan, the one who can island hop and invade the other's mainland - wins And both parties HAVE to build up their navies from scratch. Including naval aviation. And maybe boost the dockyard output to cut down on match time or something.
@@512TheWolf512That actually sounds super fun. I love messing with the navy in this game, more so than the land forces. Nothing more fun than taking on the Japanese navy with a few escort carriers and strategy.
I've found that most of the naval academy spirits that give a bonus to earning a certain trait are kinda worthless, because admirals don't seem to get much exp for them, needing like 5-6 massive battles to get either the Ironside or Air controller traits, and by that time the naval war will be most likely decided. The big exception to this is Sea Wolf, which can be gained relatively easily by just convoy raiding with around 20-30 subs.
It seems they are designed to be best used switched in and out. If you have a starting navy, exercise to get early exp then get the thing which reduces the cost for pp for creating the research slot, and design a cruiser too. After that switch to research and catch up, then go and do the fitting one
When it comes to repair costs it'd be better if you can assign multiple naval base/dockyard slots to a single ship instead of using 1 of each for every ship, from a destroyer to a SHBB. It'll make you choose between producing new ships, repairing more ships at once or getting bigger ships back in the fight sooner, where focusing on one detracts from the others
Decisive battle could be good for a sub-based raiding fleet. Having a much higher chance to hit with torpedos could massively increase your convoy kills per battle. The penalty to retreat chance and speed would be hard on that though. In fairness to Surface Raiders, it looks like the retreat chance and speed bonuses are fleet-wide, so again subs would take advantage of that to avoid getting sunk while retreating after their first strike on convoys.
Re: Flexible contracts, you can use that to jump around with your ship designer. Pick the one which gives the ships crappy stats but makes them ~25% cheaper to build - build many of them. Then change designed to buff their stats, and then tweak the design like upgrade the radar module or AA gun, and then refit. BAM, huge cost and time savings.
I like Integrated Designs on a naval major like the US (which has limitless naval xp) to really push ahead on tech. Also, again with a limitless naval xp power, using Flexible Contracts to swap designers is helpful. It was more useful a couple patches ago when the Raider designer gave -visibility, but still.
You state several times that grinding navy xp is the easiest thing so why do you give naval reformer S-tier when it only slightly accelerates the xp gain (especially when it gains the fastest already)?
If you want to research modules cheaper, you want 50exp each, good if you want to rush fire control techs, or research armor in less than 30 days. You need exp to refit and newly customize each of your ship classes, but mostly you need that early war doctrine advantage over your enemies, specially those who give organization. Naval exp is indeed the easiest to accumulate if you have the fuel to train your fleet, but in a nation with 50-100 surface ships, Naval command in officer Corp and Naval reform its basically gg ez ahead of everything against your opponent
You can actually level up admirals stupidly easy if they're leading surface fleets. As France, I got a level 3 admiral up to level 8 within a year of the wars start
I remember hearing a while back that carriers are the best ship because it multiplies the stats of the planes atop it during the initial stage of combat. It's why kamikaze and torpedo bombers could do so much damage. But this was years ago, and I'm no admiral. I just remember being suggested to always go for them if you could afford it.
Carrier naval bombers and Carrier Close air support deal 5x the dmg if they are launched of carriers if they are in a naval battle with the carriers, but kamikazes were just broken cuz of their targeting or something, not being based of carriers
That one in French is the name of a strat where the French thought they could overwhelm Britain by spamming smaller ships instead of fewer large powerful ships
Flexible Contracts is great if you play a nation with multiple designers because you can flip your designer around and make specific ship type designs you want with each designers respective bonuses. The active designer applies only when you create the design, so if you make a Pacific fleet carrier design for the extra deck space, then flip to a capital ship designer for Armour and Heavy Attack to design Cruisers and Battleships, you can still make those carriers and they'll have the Pacific Fleet Designer bonuses.
Flexible contratcs is op if you need pp, like u get ship designer almost for free and for the entire game. it has a permanent effect even if you dont have it, the ship designer, which in most cases you wouldnt get from the very frist....
I always really liked Integrated Designers because I like investing heavily into Navy early on and getting some strong Destroyers and Submarine 3s as quickly as possible and it helps a ton.
Regarding surprise attack, think submarines. Initially they're invisible, then they attack, then they have to flee while the enemy is aware of them. This one increases the chances of your subs actually surviving a engagement...
The true power of the Cruiser designer is as follows. I always pick it after my workhorse. You pick the -25% cost coastal designer and use that to design all your 1936 ships. You then build all your ships cheap, treaty limits are no hindrance here since the 25% cost applies to treaty cost. Then, in 1940 when you have Radar 3 and Fire Control 3 you select a sub or screen or capital specific designer and then upgrade your fleed designs with radar and fire control, then you do this for all your designes, sub designer for subs, screen designer for screens and capital designer for cap ships and carrier designer for carriers. In 1940 you'll have all your designes for the rest of the game ready with the ideal designer and you can do it cheap.
Facepalm most nations switch ship designers multiple time depending on what ship they are designing. you just happen to pick Ireland which has one. It is S tier.
The naval refit is a good one if you have a lot of ships, and don't plan on making a whole lot of new capital ships. Your are faster a refitting older ships with new equipment and the repair time is east for light ships
One of my favorite nations, especially for the naval game, is Italy. I strongly recommend Naval Refit Yards for Italy and early. Your starting tech is decent, especially with some mod research. I think you're best suited with Italy refitting a lot of your early destroyers with small refits - better torps, better guns, better AA. Your starting fleet can win the war for the med, but it's smaller than the UK's and quick repair is very useful as well
I always take integrated designer every since game, since I like to research most of the naval techs when playing a naval power and it saves a ton of time...maybe I should think about naval reform though.
You can use the designer for certain countries to get the best screen bonus and best heavy ship designers. My buddy plays a mean Italy game with that tactic.
The USSR start of with a large Navy and few admirals who you likely purge on historical, the can make great use of the +2 levels on new commanders spirit.
The Naval refit yards is good because you can refit your old battleships with new engines so they don’t slow down your main fleet as much (and also more dodge chance).
FAVORITE breakdown video Dave has ever done. LOOOOOVE the navy. Still waiting for a followup playthrough of Greater German Reich with a GRAND Greater German Navy! ♥️ ❤ ❤
Actually i don't agree with surface riders. It's not completely bad if you rly use just your capitals to hunt down conwoys. The point with this strat is to create like 10 fast capital ships with good armour and then send them to hunt down conwoys. Why? Due to high speed, and low numbers it's hard to hunt them down, and if you micro a lot it can actually win you game as convoys are gonna get sunk, and if your enemy doesn't have his main fleet nearby then also convoy escort is going to sunk. So in my opinion it should be more of c/d tier rather than f.
I hope they update naval battles to make battles more like land battles: I mean you can throw ships into the battle and forget about this and manually control what they do. In this case, well-balanced medium/small operational connections will make sense.
i would argue that Jeune Ecole is pretty useful as a minor power so you spend less oil and time and dockyard space for repairs training your fleet because you need to build a fleet destroyer and a few other light ships like escorts for your convoys so having the lower DD cost does help i do think that it should receive a buff like Destroyers being faster to build or something
They really should have made the Jeune École more transformative. Let it change something fundamental, to decrease the impact of capital ships. IDK, make torpedos OP or something.
Surprise Attacks: This increases the chance a fleet will retreat after the battle start. EG: 1 hour, ~Guessing~ (Ship damage is applies every hour) it will give commanders a 10% buff to the chance they will retreat. The Second Bonus gives you +10% speed if you do retreat. Both Bonuses would last for the entire battle. Commanders make a retreat decision roll every hour ?? ~maybe~. This would then increase the chance they would retreat overall. The speed bonus would apply any time you retreat, throughout the battle. Even Manually canceling the fight. This is meant for hit an run tactics, where you set subs, and small fast groups of screens + 1, 2 capitals (At your risks, Capitals slow okay). You Set to Always engage or High Risk and hope for a fight. you get initial attack with Torps, and hope for some damage, before retreating and getting out of dodge.
25:00 I feel like there are two situations navy-wise in HOI4. 1) you're the UK or the USA. You have the upper hand, but you want to force decisive battles as quickly as possible to be able to project power more widely. As UK, for example, I want to sink Germany's fleet before Italy joins the war. I can afford to lose a few ships in the process. Decisive Battle is useful here. 2) You're any other country. In this case, you need to preserve your navy for the long game and build it up slowly and carefully. You can't afford to take risks.
28:45 If you already expect to go with submarines that could help massively with getting submarines ahead of time and fielding more of them before other achieve parity with you. Doubly so if you are Germany and get submarine research speed bonuses as it could be worth it to rush for 1944 submarines from the start of the game given that you can expect the submarine research bonuses to assist with the ahead of time penalty.
Curious is Decisive battles bonus would be strong on torpedo destroyer stacks? Give them higher chance of not running away and reaching the capital ships for torps, as well as the +10% torp hits. Combo with Close Combat..
The raw stats of your new admiral should be proportionnal to your doctrine. If you are advance in your doctrine it means that you have a naval corps with a lot of experiences so it would be logical to recruit admiral with big stats
Idk if what Dave is saying is 100% correct on the ship production. Most games by 1943-45, I have a dozen or so carriers sitting in reserve with usually 3-5 carrier fleets out patrolling. Of course this is usually done with larger nations like Japan and US, but others like China/PRC can still pump out half a dozen carriers by end game easily on top of loads of screening ships. Not saying they are on par with the UK or US, but would definitely be more than other majors like the USSR, Italy, Germany, or France.
I’ve had 4 escort carriers as Australia by the time war comes around. At that point I start refitting them into full carriers one at a time using that refit spirit
You satire Ireland's navy but my Irish carrier fleet once mopped up a Japanese player's carrier fleet in multiplayer (America was giving me 50 civs all game)
Hello, the spirit of the navy command are actually bugged; Well the tooltip is bugged and wasn't updated. There is actually 40% chance of gaining new stats which makes it very much worthwhile
I never use the 15% naval exp spirit. Most nations that generate their exp through training only need the exp for doctrines. However, most nations can afford those doctrines anyway. The USA can max it all out before the war, and nations like Japan and The UK can do the important doctrines as well... I am a research addict, so I preffer the research spirit. The only time you want to use naval exp gain is when you have a starting navy that you are not going to upgrade. Basically, a Mexico or Brazil that has capital ships but no research or industry to support them without ruining your army or airforce. So if you are planning on upgrading your fleet, I would not recommend it. I always use flexible contracts to get a naval designer for the 15% research bonus. After that I pick the 20% naval and 20% naval module spirit to research all the modules needed for a good 1940 ish fleet. As soon as you start to prepare for war, you want to swap to refit and repair spirit. Refitting ships is always useful when you want to add or upgrade things like sonar, radar and fire control.
I don't know if you've done a video on this, but it would be interesting to see if having more naval commanders with the optimal number of ships is more effective than running one naval commander with a death stack. Does it change the game play enough to make it worthwhile or does it make no difference? Does death stacking have any effect on a fleets ability to use it's AA, do the debuffs effect individual ship systems?
There's no downsides if on Always Engage, no retreat, which you should be, cause if they killed you the first time, they'll just kill you harder the second time.
The META is very simple, Instilled aggresion because attack is the best stat by far cuz of how the effects of taking dmg work, 2nd one doesnt matter but flexible contracts to pick designer and refit yards to refit ships and integrated designers if ur rushing something, for example carrier 3s, and 3rd one you go night fighting because not only are your ships slightly better at night tho that doesnt even matter compared to the real reason which is the -5% visibility which if you dont have any other visibility bonuses makes your fleet take 5% less dmg multiplicatively, btw that visibility stat there doesnt affect ships outside of combat. Also in terms of admiral traits u want bold as a backround trait because attack is the best stat and for beginning traits u want one of the ones that lets u get concealment expert, for the US the best admiral and arguably the best admiral in the game is arleigh burke because he also starts with fleet protector which allows you to pick destroyer leader (dont pick lancer tho its useless) and he starts as lvl 3 soo u have more chances to roll for attack, for britain the best one is Andrew Cunningham and for Japan im pretty sure it is in fact yamamoto. Some notes from the video too, torpedo screen penetration is a multiplicative stat meaning if the enemy has 100% screening it litreally does nothing because 1.05 x 0% = 0%, having admirals start at a higher level is nothing compared to the loss of random traits (admirals are very easy to level which is also the reason the trait gain chance is lower than the ones for the army, seeing a lvl 10 admiral after a massive MP naval battle between japan and the USA isnt that rare and lvl 8 or 9 is pretty much guaranteed)
There is no ideology based spirit like in the army? Referring to the surprise attack I came over it for the first time yesterday. But then again, it takes alot of time until Guangxi Clique have carriers 😉
once I was playing italy and had my fleed on alway engage and well it ended up against uk and french fleet well safe to say the subs got away the sirface fleet howwver also turned into subs
Germany with their starting Fleet refittet in 1938/1939, ouch, they can hurt the british Navy and Airforce pretty good. Hehe, bad choose of words and nitpicking, but Surface Raiders were the norm for the last four or three thousands years :)
Best of the Best is good for the Soviets since they have few good admirals and they might get purged and get the "Cowed by Stalin" trait. All though, who builds a navy as the Soviets..
Does Naval Reform give xp during naval training or is it only in combat? I thought it was only combat xp but maybe that changed or im just wrong. If its oy during combat its still useful but not nearly as good.
I’m compelled to say this having watched the disability video of yours yesterday. I remember when you first showed up on youtube, I was hella annoyed by the castrati feeeeedback intro and quickly dismissed the channel. Having recently searched for plane designs I’ve stumbled on your channel and legit had to check if you’re the same guy. Mad props to you my man, passion and dedication got you real far. I came for plane designs, but now I’m staying for charisma and excitement. I’m not even into multiplayer of hoi4, that should say something. Again, great work man, hopefully it pays off for you. That intro though, good riddance.
Is this for AI only? Because some of these things can be used pretty well to annoy the shit out of other players (stacking retreat chance on capital ships and raiding the mid atlantic, constantly running away from their main fleet while distracting them the entire time)
What about a video Dave on carrier aircraft composition on carriers? Like how many fighters/bombers/torpedo planes and why? I have no idea what the best ratio is
I think its a case of what cards are played. as I think in the Aircraft tech or on admiral theres a lot of bonuses for taking less damadge when reatreting or doing it faster. the problem whit reatreting is that you need to do it fast and prefable all ship leaves at the same time. I had cases when I saw the enemy trying to reatret and it did so whit most of its fleet exept for one show battleship that promptly got sunk because it took so long for them all to reatret. meanwhile my more or less lone carrier whit 2 destroyer escorts my unit was bigger I just rolled bad there. promptly ran away when they came face to face whit a decently sized fleet tanks to my admiral.
Why are research speed bonuses catch up? it means you spend less time researching navy so more time researching air, tanks, economy etc. its useless if you dont go navy but good if you do, plus you need to chekc if the reduction scales with ahead of time penalty, if it only takes 20% off the base of thats not great but if it reduces 20% of the overall research it takes then this could get you modern equipment early, you could be sailing with ships that have guns that other nations just started researching.
most advanced ship techs in hoi4 the 1944 ship techs represent real life ships who were launched around that times but the thing is those ships themselves were desinged either well before the war years ago or with the lessons of the ongoing war and designed rapidly and then developed so on. pdx has to overhaul how shipyards work. 5 yards dont work on a single ship its a single ship yard being able to produce 5 6 ships at the same time.
100%, refits are close-ish but still not ideal.
Still wrong completely!! Dockyards only assemble the ships, they don't build them from scratch! It's the military factories that manufacture the guns, armour torpedoes ammo, etc., then deliver them to the dockyards for assembly
I really dont think so. Iowa class was designed and started building at 1940 finished at 1944. I think that makes her and her sisters as 1940 design.
@@avatar9292 Yeah but try building an Iowa with 1940s tech in HoI4, you're either far too light or too slow.
@@512TheWolf512 Not actually wrong completely just didn't mention the things you mentioned. You still both essentially agree on the same things you're just being a pedant to look good.
Admiral Halsey was lacking that bad weather spirit.
he sailed Task Force 38 into the eye of typhoon cobra in 1944.
killed 790 sailors.
Naval refit yards: major naval powers start with a large fleet of old fashioned ships. In particular, ships with poor AA. It can help you pre war to upgrade your legacy ships to be something useful.
Every day I watch / read about navy, I feel like I understand it more. Every game where I put effort into navy, I feel like I've wasted a week's worth of off-game research.
Yeah, same mate
I feel like navy is just fundamentally broken. Even if I build a fleet that can take the British on one on one, they don't even have to come out and fight to deny me naval superiority. The only way to guarantee naval superiority for naval landings is to build the bigger fleet, and that's just going to take until 1946+ even if you prioritize navy completely and use the paltry starting military factories to outfit the army and somehow win the land war with a crippled industry.
Edit: One thing I've found works is that sometimes the British just decide to reassign their fleets from the English channel or north sea, and that can create an opening to launch a naval invasion. Defeating the purpose of building a navy, because if you wait for the AI to do something that stupid, even one submarine will give you 100% naval supremacy.
@@J7Handle Navy has been and will always be cheesy in HOI4. Like you said, one submarine is enough to land in Britain… that should NEVER be easy to do, but by merely spamming planes over the Channel, the AI shows fear and retreats their fleet.
@@FilliamPL yes, meanwhile, a player can maintain naval supremacy without even having to deploy the fleet. Just keep on naval invasion support, if you never launch a naval invasion, the fleet stays in port no matter what, but you can get naval supremacy that way. Meanwhile, if the Germany player could force a naval engagement, that might be in Germany's favor.
But Germany can only do that if the UK has the fleet on strike force, not naval invasion support.
Hell, if the UK player has their fleet on low risk engagement, then even then the Germany player won't easily be able to draw the British fleet out. If a Germany player really wants to naval invade Britain reliably, they need to build enough dockyards and spend 12 years building up the fleet for naval supremacy.
Even port strikes won't work too well. The British fleet doesn't have to be that close to the English channel to provide supremacy for some reason. I think Iceland might actually be close enough, if not, the Faroe islands. Only very long range bombers could port strike that.
@@J7Handle I’m glad I don’t play MP then
I’ve tested the night fighting, the -5% visibility works at all times not just at night. Great for subs!
it is infact the best one for every ship in the meta if u didnt know and feedback probably doesnt know
FeedbackIRL talk a lot but simply read the description of things and don't even understand it. His tierlist are bad, he doesn't check his infos. For spirit of naval command Night Fighting is a must have and always has been for every country, and every type of fleet, with how visibility matter in and out combat. It must be a S. Efficient communication is really good but only with the intention of battle with a big fleet, witch most country doesn't have and doesn't need to build. A surplus of Positionning bonus is useless and Admiral can provide a lot. So it's just an A. And since we can only use one spirit and doesn't have interest to switch for this one, second place doesn't matter. So in my tier list Night Fighting S and every other are useless.
Night fighting is the best. It always works and uses the most important counter in Navy combat--not getting hit.
Oh no Dave, you forgot the unique US spirit for their amazing torpedos! It should've been ranked S+.
If you read about the mk14 torpedo and the bureau of ordnance's fuck up, the us should get some way bigger debuff than they currently do
@ThatOneDudeNextDoor it'd be like a -60% hit chance and a -80% naval bomber hit chance
btw dave about flexible contracts. i think it was a expensive yet legit strategy to switch designer companies after benefitting their bonus to their specialty ships. a designer for example gives extra speed to screens. you hire designer design the screening ships of your choice and then save the design and hire another designer company. the designed screen from previous company should still retain its bonuses
There is also another way of picking first a coastal designer, which has reduced cost with reduced ship stats. And then later replacing the designer for a escort designer, or another designer. So you can retrofit out of the stat reduction. This is particularly viable for things such as Torpedo Cruiser designing with Japan, Though also works with other nations that have access for coastal designer.
It's an essential part of the navy game. Especially with the coastal defense designer giving - 25% production cost. With flexible contracts you can switch to Pacific fleet for just 30pp and get free air wing size on your carriers. Switch to escort fleet designer and design crazy anti Submarine destroyers. It's so good, definitely should be S+ tier
@@melfice999 and that sort of feel historical correct.
design the ship to complie whit the size regulation but the ship is designed to use another set of guns.
Swap between three different designers and you still haven't spent the PP of a regular full price one
@@melfice999 doesnt work anymore got patched
7:10 why does he show SFR Yugoslavia when he says "in a perfect world" 😭
Some nations have access to multiple unique naval designers that have huge bonuses to certain type of ships. So what you do is flip between designers using Flexible contracts to design your DDs, CVs and so on. And you use Refit Yards to speed up the refitting of existing ships to better designs that you have created.
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@@jansatamme6521 what exactly got patched?
Jeune École means young school. It was a naval doctrine calling for a combination of small but heavily armed ships to fight battleships.
and the way he says that just kills me xD more sounded like "gynéco", wich is... something different for the least!
Basically a bunch of torpedo boats to swarm battleships so hard that they couldn’t dodge thus sinking their capital ship without losing much value to yourself because a bunch of small crafts are very cheap compared to something like the Yamato or Royal Oak.
Jeune École is still practiced widely today among 3rd world navies like the Iranian Navy or Vietnamese Navy, but they’d have to get past the screening ships like destroyers that were made specifically to protect the important capitals. Of course Jeune École can help you defend your coast but it won’t get you anywhere past a large coastal navy IRL, to project power beyond you’d need to invest into capital ships like heavy cruisers and carriers nowadays.
Cheaper ship design IS very useful to nations who do not have infinite fuel, every bit of naval XP before going to war is precious, you don't want to focus too much on naval focuses that give XP because you end up lacking in other areas like economy, air etc.
So having to spend less on a ship design, wich later means the saved up xp gets you a doctrine sooner is nice imo
I found that when playing on Oil poor countries, a good way to secure your position is to either invade Venezuela if playing Axis (as they have plenty of oil and make for reasonable staging ground against the US) or using spies to get Iran to revolt, then do a little intervention for oil through India if the Allies (also opens up a potential new front into the USSR)
Also when you wanna refit your fleet. If you are refitting you end up making like 30 designs to get all of the ships except subs/destroyers obviously.
On Integrated Designers, its not really "catch up" spirit, but "Tech Rush" spirit. as the +40% stacks with the 15% from Naval Designer, this means you can really rush through key naval techs such as better guns, torpedoes or such like, and due to how wcheap naval XP is to get, you can easily then rush a key hull types for the T3 hulls.
Do you know if switching it out after the research began removes the research bonus? Or adding it after it began making the research faster?
@@marthvader14 it removes the bonus if removed. and it SHOULD speed research if added partway through. However due to Paradox games being paradox games, you might want to be on the safer side and remove the research, and then continue after 1 day tick so it applies properly with the spirit properly active.
something to keep in mind with navy, because you get so much XP from training your navy compared to air and army, it give you more options with switching your spirits. so you can do things like use the sub research to rush to 1940 or 1944 sub techs(or other ships with the other spirits) then switch to a different spirit once you have researched and designed your ships, you can also do things like use the flexible contracts to get the coastal designer to make ships cheap, then later switch to a different designer and switch to the repair/refit spirit to quickly refit your cheaply manufactured ships with a cheap refit(like say fire control) to switch the designer to get rid of the negative to range from coastal defense
For those having trouble deciding what and when to refit: basically any boat with a level 2 engine is worth refitting and using in a battlefleet, regardless of whatever level of armor or hull it has
Agree fully. Also, it's probably never worth it to upgrade the engine itself. Takes forever.
I think Surprise Attacks would be good if you have a small, but fast fleet, going against a larger, more powerful enemy. Like cruiser vs battleships. You can get in, launch torpedoes and whittle the screen down, before retreating back to port. Could be handy with Greece vs Turkey in the aegean sea
It's similar how I tend to run my fleet as Netherlands, just harass and pick off smaller fleet before a death stack can arrive. Just keep picking off their convoy escorts with my surface fleets and getting away before reinforcements arrive to let my submarine keep going ham.
After checking the code it is said that all ships except carriers would only engage in combat after 6 hours into naval combat where carriers can start doing damage from 0 hour i.e from the beginning hence those six hours might be called the initial phase.
Ps this speculation not fact I could be wrong in interpreting it.
Flexible contracts to get the a designer with -25% production cost -50% range on ships, then switch to a better design company + naval refit yards to do a cheap module upgrade is incredibly powerful for the countries that have access to it. US, Japan, UK, Greece and a few others. -25% cost on a 3-4 flight deck carrier is insane. Then send it in for a 1 level upgrade on AA for +50% range and whatever your new ship designer bonus is.
you can stack designers? like make a cheap design then give it the bonuses from another design? Are you sure htat works?
@@joda7129 it did but got patched semi recently
I've always tended to go with Integrated Designers to allow me to keep up to date on naval stuff I need without clogging my research longer for the other things I'm actually REALLY going to need
You know, Dave, I just got an idea. How about organising a small tournament, where the ONLY way to fight is with the navy?
Kind of like USA Vs Japan, the one who can island hop and invade the other's mainland - wins
And both parties HAVE to build up their navies from scratch. Including naval aviation. And maybe boost the dockyard output to cut down on match time or something.
Holy shit... this sounds super fun!
You would have to boost Japan's navy a lot. I think maybe us vs uk fleet idk
@@joda7129 UK has a bigger fleet than both. Especially in capital ships
@@joda7129 it was just an example. Mod the opponent countries to be identical in all things. Maybe leave the admiral stats up to luck
@@512TheWolf512That actually sounds super fun. I love messing with the navy in this game, more so than the land forces. Nothing more fun than taking on the Japanese navy with a few escort carriers and strategy.
Naval Refit yards is S tier it makes refits and repairs take very little time thus and allows you to really dominate a naval war
I've found that most of the naval academy spirits that give a bonus to earning a certain trait are kinda worthless, because admirals don't seem to get much exp for them, needing like 5-6 massive battles to get either the Ironside or Air controller traits, and by that time the naval war will be most likely decided. The big exception to this is Sea Wolf, which can be gained relatively easily by just convoy raiding with around 20-30 subs.
Yeah. Navy is just 1 battle that decides it in the game. Grinding generals only really happens in niche situations or convoy raiding/escorting
@@joda7129 And this is why instilled aggression is the best admiral trait
It seems they are designed to be best used switched in and out. If you have a starting navy, exercise to get early exp then get the thing which reduces the cost for pp for creating the research slot, and design a cruiser too. After that switch to research and catch up, then go and do the fitting one
When it comes to repair costs it'd be better if you can assign multiple naval base/dockyard slots to a single ship instead of using 1 of each for every ship, from a destroyer to a SHBB. It'll make you choose between producing new ships, repairing more ships at once or getting bigger ships back in the fight sooner, where focusing on one detracts from the others
Decisive battle could be good for a sub-based raiding fleet. Having a much higher chance to hit with torpedos could massively increase your convoy kills per battle. The penalty to retreat chance and speed would be hard on that though.
In fairness to Surface Raiders, it looks like the retreat chance and speed bonuses are fleet-wide, so again subs would take advantage of that to avoid getting sunk while retreating after their first strike on convoys.
Re: Flexible contracts, you can use that to jump around with your ship designer. Pick the one which gives the ships crappy stats but makes them ~25% cheaper to build - build many of them. Then change designed to buff their stats, and then tweak the design like upgrade the radar module or AA gun, and then refit. BAM, huge cost and time savings.
got patched semi recently
There isnt enough hoi4 content on youtube and these kinds of videos are really awesome! Keep it up man!
Forgot to cover the British dedicated spirit!!!
I like Integrated Designs on a naval major like the US (which has limitless naval xp) to really push ahead on tech. Also, again with a limitless naval xp power, using Flexible Contracts to swap designers is helpful. It was more useful a couple patches ago when the Raider designer gave -visibility, but still.
You state several times that grinding navy xp is the easiest thing so why do you give naval reformer S-tier when it only slightly accelerates the xp gain (especially when it gains the fastest already)?
If you want to research modules cheaper, you want 50exp each, good if you want to rush fire control techs, or research armor in less than 30 days. You need exp to refit and newly customize each of your ship classes, but mostly you need that early war doctrine advantage over your enemies, specially those who give organization. Naval exp is indeed the easiest to accumulate if you have the fuel to train your fleet, but in a nation with 50-100 surface ships, Naval command in officer Corp and Naval reform its basically gg ez ahead of everything against your opponent
You can actually level up admirals stupidly easy if they're leading surface fleets. As France, I got a level 3 admiral up to level 8 within a year of the wars start
I remember hearing a while back that carriers are the best ship because it multiplies the stats of the planes atop it during the initial stage of combat.
It's why kamikaze and torpedo bombers could do so much damage. But this was years ago, and I'm no admiral. I just remember being suggested to always go for them if you could afford it.
After mtg they nerfed carriers. Now they buffed them again and they are really good.
Carrier naval bombers and Carrier Close air support deal 5x the dmg if they are launched of carriers if they are in a naval battle with the carriers, but kamikazes were just broken cuz of their targeting or something, not being based of carriers
That one in French is the name of a strat where the French thought they could overwhelm Britain by spamming smaller ships instead of fewer large powerful ships
Flexible Contracts is great if you play a nation with multiple designers because you can flip your designer around and make specific ship type designs you want with each designers respective bonuses. The active designer applies only when you create the design, so if you make a Pacific fleet carrier design for the extra deck space, then flip to a capital ship designer for Armour and Heavy Attack to design Cruisers and Battleships, you can still make those carriers and they'll have the Pacific Fleet Designer bonuses.
Caustic personality, "Chaotic" lmao.
Flexible contratcs is op if you need pp, like u get ship designer almost for free and for the entire game. it has a permanent effect even if you dont have it, the ship designer, which in most cases you wouldnt get from the very frist....
I always really liked Integrated Designers because I like investing heavily into Navy early on and getting some strong Destroyers and Submarine 3s as quickly as possible and it helps a ton.
Regarding surprise attack, think submarines.
Initially they're invisible, then they attack, then they have to flee while the enemy is aware of them.
This one increases the chances of your subs actually surviving a engagement...
The true power of the Cruiser designer is as follows. I always pick it after my workhorse. You pick the -25% cost coastal designer and use that to design all your 1936 ships. You then build all your ships cheap, treaty limits are no hindrance here since the 25% cost applies to treaty cost. Then, in 1940 when you have Radar 3 and Fire Control 3 you select a sub or screen or capital specific designer and then upgrade your fleed designs with radar and fire control, then you do this for all your designes, sub designer for subs, screen designer for screens and capital designer for cap ships and carrier designer for carriers. In 1940 you'll have all your designes for the rest of the game ready with the ideal designer and you can do it cheap.
they patched that, its barely cheaper
THE VIDEO I WANTED IS FINNALY HERE! I love you Dave! 🥳
Facepalm most nations switch ship designers multiple time depending on what ship they are designing. you just happen to pick Ireland which has one. It is S tier.
The naval refit is a good one if you have a lot of ships, and don't plan on making a whole lot of new capital ships.
Your are faster a refitting older ships with new equipment and the repair time is east for light ships
One of my favorite nations, especially for the naval game, is Italy. I strongly recommend Naval Refit Yards for Italy and early. Your starting tech is decent, especially with some mod research. I think you're best suited with Italy refitting a lot of your early destroyers with small refits - better torps, better guns, better AA. Your starting fleet can win the war for the med, but it's smaller than the UK's and quick repair is very useful as well
Bold is the best not just for the 5% attack but the 10% speed boost. Speed is great.
I always take integrated designer every since game, since I like to research most of the naval techs when playing a naval power and it saves a ton of time...maybe I should think about naval reform though.
trade interdiction : so this is when you have a small fleet
*watered eyes* my fleet is quite average dude
You can use the designer for certain countries to get the best screen bonus and best heavy ship designers. My buddy plays a mean Italy game with that tactic.
The USSR start of with a large Navy and few admirals who you likely purge on historical, the can make great use of the +2 levels on new commanders spirit.
The Naval refit yards is good because you can refit your old battleships with new engines so they don’t slow down your main fleet as much (and also more dodge chance).
FAVORITE breakdown video Dave has ever done. LOOOOOVE the navy. Still waiting for a followup playthrough of Greater German Reich with a GRAND Greater German Navy! ♥️ ❤ ❤
Actually i don't agree with surface riders. It's not completely bad if you rly use just your capitals to hunt down conwoys. The point with this strat is to create like 10 fast capital ships with good armour and then send them to hunt down conwoys. Why? Due to high speed, and low numbers it's hard to hunt them down, and if you micro a lot it can actually win you game as convoys are gonna get sunk, and if your enemy doesn't have his main fleet nearby then also convoy escort is going to sunk. So in my opinion it should be more of c/d tier rather than f.
as germany with panzershiffs it's at least B tier
Haven’t seen anyone mention how Feedback rolled an admiral named “Peter Griffith”
Hey Loi-
I hope they update naval battles to make battles more like land battles: I mean you can throw ships into the battle and forget about this and manually control what they do. In this case, well-balanced medium/small operational connections will make sense.
i would argue that Jeune Ecole is pretty useful as a minor power so you spend less oil and time and dockyard space for repairs training your fleet because you need to build a fleet destroyer and a few other light ships like escorts for your convoys so having the lower DD cost does help
i do think that it should receive a buff like Destroyers being faster to build or something
They really should have made the Jeune École more transformative. Let it change something fundamental, to decrease the impact of capital ships. IDK, make torpedos OP or something.
Surprise Attacks: This increases the chance a fleet will retreat after the battle start. EG: 1 hour, ~Guessing~ (Ship damage is applies every hour) it will give commanders a 10% buff to the chance they will retreat. The Second Bonus gives you +10% speed if you do retreat. Both Bonuses would last for the entire battle. Commanders make a retreat decision roll every hour ?? ~maybe~. This would then increase the chance they would retreat overall. The speed bonus would apply any time you retreat, throughout the battle. Even Manually canceling the fight. This is meant for hit an run tactics, where you set subs, and small fast groups of screens + 1, 2 capitals (At your risks, Capitals slow okay). You Set to Always engage or High Risk and hope for a fight. you get initial attack with Torps, and hope for some damage, before retreating and getting out of dodge.
If you research the 1940 ships along 1940, when are you going to have a battlecruiser o carrier ready, in 1942???
or, alternately, upgrade a 1936 design with 1940 radar and fire control and you have a nearly 1940 level ship ready in 1940.
I feel like PDX is missing out on having the naval battles more visual. Which means we are also missing out! Make it happen Dave!
25% naval refit speed is big when u nation starts with destroyers that dont use all there modul slots and after u researched good torpedos
25:00 I feel like there are two situations navy-wise in HOI4. 1) you're the UK or the USA. You have the upper hand, but you want to force decisive battles as quickly as possible to be able to project power more widely. As UK, for example, I want to sink Germany's fleet before Italy joins the war. I can afford to lose a few ships in the process. Decisive Battle is useful here. 2) You're any other country. In this case, you need to preserve your navy for the long game and build it up slowly and carefully. You can't afford to take risks.
as germany you can make uk fleet spread thin by submarine raiding and surface raiding.
28:45 If you already expect to go with submarines that could help massively with getting submarines ahead of time and fielding more of them before other achieve parity with you. Doubly so if you are Germany and get submarine research speed bonuses as it could be worth it to rush for 1944 submarines from the start of the game given that you can expect the submarine research bonuses to assist with the ahead of time penalty.
I think the most frustrating element of naval is your leadership never really grinds new traits
The only thing you can really get is the sub traits
Yeah it does take forever doesn't it?
Curious is Decisive battles bonus would be strong on torpedo destroyer stacks? Give them higher chance of not running away and reaching the capital ships for torps, as well as the +10% torp hits. Combo with Close Combat..
The raw stats of your new admiral should be proportionnal to your doctrine. If you are advance in your doctrine it means that you have a naval corps with a lot of experiences so it would be logical to recruit admiral with big stats
Idk if what Dave is saying is 100% correct on the ship production. Most games by 1943-45, I have a dozen or so carriers sitting in reserve with usually 3-5 carrier fleets out patrolling. Of course this is usually done with larger nations like Japan and US, but others like China/PRC can still pump out half a dozen carriers by end game easily on top of loads of screening ships. Not saying they are on par with the UK or US, but would definitely be more than other majors like the USSR, Italy, Germany, or France.
I’ve had 4 escort carriers as Australia by the time war comes around. At that point I start refitting them into full carriers one at a time using that refit spirit
You satire Ireland's navy but my Irish carrier fleet once mopped up a Japanese player's carrier fleet in multiplayer (America was giving me 50 civs all game)
Hello, the spirit of the navy command are actually bugged; Well the tooltip is bugged and wasn't updated. There is actually 40% chance of gaining new stats which makes it very much worthwhile
"...the best thing to do in a perfect world..."
*shows Yugoslavia*
I never use the 15% naval exp spirit. Most nations that generate their exp through training only need the exp for doctrines. However, most nations can afford those doctrines anyway. The USA can max it all out before the war, and nations like Japan and The UK can do the important doctrines as well... I am a research addict, so I preffer the research spirit. The only time you want to use naval exp gain is when you have a starting navy that you are not going to upgrade. Basically, a Mexico or Brazil that has capital ships but no research or industry to support them without ruining your army or airforce. So if you are planning on upgrading your fleet, I would not recommend it.
I always use flexible contracts to get a naval designer for the 15% research bonus. After that I pick the 20% naval and 20% naval module spirit to research all the modules needed for a good 1940 ish fleet.
As soon as you start to prepare for war, you want to swap to refit and repair spirit. Refitting ships is always useful when you want to add or upgrade things like sonar, radar and fire control.
Speaking of all the carrier stuff, has PDX fixed the issues with carrier planes not really doing anything in naval battles?
As US you start with TWO air enthusiasts.
As Japan you start with THREE.
"Not maxing out Naval Doctrine until late game"
Laughs in USA XP gain
Flexible contract is S tier. If you really want you can change designers regularly to get the most specialized ships possible.
I don't know if you've done a video on this, but it would be interesting to see if having more naval commanders with the optimal number of ships is more effective than running one naval commander with a death stack. Does it change the game play enough to make it worthwhile or does it make no difference? Does death stacking have any effect on a fleets ability to use it's AA, do the debuffs effect individual ship systems?
There's no downsides if on Always Engage, no retreat, which you should be, cause if they killed you the first time, they'll just kill you harder the second time.
It's funny how this video immediately becomes outdated because integrated designers only gives ship modules research speed now.
A Blockade Runner admiral could offset the negatives from decisive battle and then some.
night fighting is better than decisive battle btw, feedback doesnt know the meta as usual
Hang on. With Night Fighting, it doesn't say anything about the -5% visibility being only at night. I hope it's not, because that's why I take it.
The META is very simple, Instilled aggresion because attack is the best stat by far cuz of how the effects of taking dmg work, 2nd one doesnt matter but flexible contracts to pick designer and refit yards to refit ships and integrated designers if ur rushing something, for example carrier 3s, and 3rd one you go night fighting because not only are your ships slightly better at night tho that doesnt even matter compared to the real reason which is the -5% visibility which if you dont have any other visibility bonuses makes your fleet take 5% less dmg multiplicatively, btw that visibility stat there doesnt affect ships outside of combat. Also in terms of admiral traits u want bold as a backround trait because attack is the best stat and for beginning traits u want one of the ones that lets u get concealment expert, for the US the best admiral and arguably the best admiral in the game is arleigh burke because he also starts with fleet protector which allows you to pick destroyer leader (dont pick lancer tho its useless) and he starts as lvl 3 soo u have more chances to roll for attack, for britain the best one is Andrew Cunningham and for Japan im pretty sure it is in fact yamamoto. Some notes from the video too, torpedo screen penetration is a multiplicative stat meaning if the enemy has 100% screening it litreally does nothing because 1.05 x 0% = 0%, having admirals start at a higher level is nothing compared to the loss of random traits (admirals are very easy to level which is also the reason the trait gain chance is lower than the ones for the army, seeing a lvl 10 admiral after a massive MP naval battle between japan and the USA isnt that rare and lvl 8 or 9 is pretty much guaranteed)
Integrated designers is literally god tier for everyone, there is so many techs. Wtf u talking about just catching up on
did you forget about the british CAG spirit? The most OP in the game?
its under the air force ones not navy ones
There is no ideology based spirit like in the army?
Referring to the surprise attack I came over it for the first time yesterday.
But then again, it takes alot of time until Guangxi Clique have carriers 😉
Getting naval invaded and letting them land eventhough you have a powerful navy
i am happy to know that everything you choose top tier i was already selectting it!!it mean i have brain :)
I use instilled agression on convoy raiding and thats all
once I was playing italy and had my fleed on alway engage and well it ended up against uk and french fleet well safe to say the subs got away the sirface fleet howwver also turned into subs
Also I think the close combat would suit Germany and submarines too no? Seems perfect
night fighting is always better
Thank you for this video
5:00 hey Lois
Germany with their starting Fleet refittet in 1938/1939, ouch, they can hurt the british Navy and Airforce pretty good.
Hehe, bad choose of words and nitpicking, but Surface Raiders were the norm for the last four or three thousands years :)
Best of the Best is good for the Soviets since they have few good admirals and they might get purged and get the "Cowed by Stalin" trait.
All though, who builds a navy as the Soviets..
I love spamming 36 battlecruisers with brave commanders selected
Does Naval Reform give xp during naval training or is it only in combat? I thought it was only combat xp but maybe that changed or im just wrong. If its oy during combat its still useful but not nearly as good.
I’m compelled to say this having watched the disability video of yours yesterday.
I remember when you first showed up on youtube, I was hella annoyed by the castrati feeeeedback intro and quickly dismissed the channel. Having recently searched for plane designs I’ve stumbled on your channel and legit had to check if you’re the same guy.
Mad props to you my man, passion and dedication got you real far. I came for plane designs, but now I’m staying for charisma and excitement. I’m not even into multiplayer of hoi4, that should say something. Again, great work man, hopefully it pays off for you.
That intro though, good riddance.
Is this for AI only?
Because some of these things can be used pretty well to annoy the shit out of other players (stacking retreat chance on capital ships and raiding the mid atlantic, constantly running away from their main fleet while distracting them the entire time)
Is it possible to use trade interdiction just to get blockade runner and then switch to fleet in Being and go for decisiove battle?
What about a video Dave on carrier aircraft composition on carriers? Like how many fighters/bombers/torpedo planes and why? I have no idea what the best ratio is
Full navs in the best. Unless the enemy has a ton of carriers. If it is ai then just full navs anyway.
Navs get crazy damage while on carriers.
Full navs, look up the 71cloak vid about carriers being OP if u go above 4 carriers
Bet this video will be great
我必須要說，自己都說過好幾次了，海軍經驗有夠好拿的，基本上根本不缺
那，那一個經驗增幅的BUFF 就根本不需要才對
I thought you didn't want retreat chance bonuses because your navy took more damage as it retreats?
I think its a case of what cards are played.
as I think in the Aircraft tech or on admiral theres a lot of bonuses for taking less damadge when reatreting or doing it faster.
the problem whit reatreting is that you need to do it fast and prefable all ship leaves at the same time.
I had cases when I saw the enemy trying to reatret and it did so whit most of its fleet exept for one show battleship that promptly got sunk because it took so long for them all to reatret.
meanwhile my more or less lone carrier whit 2 destroyer escorts my unit was bigger I just rolled bad there.
promptly ran away when they came face to face whit a decently sized fleet tanks to my admiral.
Making escort carriers as a minor nation is so fun. Take on wolfpacks at first and then take on the Japanese with your veteran air wings and ships.
Why are research speed bonuses catch up? it means you spend less time researching navy so more time researching air, tanks, economy etc. its useless if you dont go navy but good if you do, plus you need to chekc if the reduction scales with ahead of time penalty, if it only takes 20% off the base of thats not great but if it reduces 20% of the overall research it takes then this could get you modern equipment early, you could be sailing with ships that have guns that other nations just started researching.