@@apostolostsampasis8566 7:39 Invasion of Poland guide 9:49 Encirclement and Dunkirk 10:23 Vichy france 12:17 Operation weserübung 13:49 Operation Barbarossa 14:24 Seize the Oilfields of Baku, Maikop and Grozny Haven't I watched alot of TIK history, haven't I?
Some other tips for new players as Germany. 1. You don't need to spend many mils on infantry equipment as Germany until after early war when it is time to upgrade. When you Anchluss and you Annex Czechoslovakia you will have all of the infantry 1 equipment you will need to equip your troops for the 1939 War. Prioritize air (Fighters then CAS) then medium tanks, trucks and whatever flavor support you like to do. I for example take some AA support to help out a bit in the air war because it's cheap and adds a bit of soft attack to your infantry to boot. 2. Since your troops don't need to have all the guns, they just need the manpower numbers to fulfill the requirements for Anchluss and Sudetenland, you should force deploy what you need to fill out your armies and then set them to exercise to have them ready by 1939. 3. It might be tempting to use idea 2 to anchluss and sudetenland early. This is not a great idea. First these minors have focuses that will give them free factories so the longer you wait the more factories you will inherit and of course the more guns they will have produced just for you to use. And you will lose Hjalmar Schact after you sudetenland and his bonuses to construction are important in the early game. Then of course there is the fact that you are spiking world tension early which will really tee off your axis friends in multiplayer as you're probably ruining their early expansions and allowing the US to take the giant wakes early. 3. Farm Army and Air xp from the Spanish Civil War for as long as possible. Don't just run them over. I prefer to send lend lease equipment to both sides and send air volunteers to the nationalists. That is usually good enough to make it long in single player while still getting the result of a fascist Spain. In multiplayer what you do in Spain will depend on what the Soviet player chooses to do. 4.Keep your mefo bills going. PP cost is not a problem, the construction bonuses are huge, and failure to extend them is a major economic set back. It is a dumb system to be sure, but it is vital for Germany to be as strong as it can be economically before 1939 war. 5. Spend your mils on 1 line of new equipment you plan to build as soon as it becomes available to build your efficiency bonus. Tips for people who are looking to min max and know a few things. 1. This is very gamey but you don't have to take Goebbels if you want to go war economy early. You can bypass him by deploying single unit air wings in the Spanish Civil War and farming aces (make sure you pull them off of the air wing asap once they proc.) Getting an ace gives you free war support and you can easily get to fifty that way. BTW this is considered against the rules in many multiplayer servers as it is an exploit. But in single player you just got war economy for 150 pp instead of 300 to get war economy and a largely useless adviser for Germany. 2. In early game change from limited exports to free trade. In multiplayer this is the meta as a good axis team will use free trade to trade factories back and forth while still having all the construction and tech benefits, in single player you will generally outpace all the majors in productivity after France conquest and will have produced all of the oil refineries you need. Rubber will be a problem at this stage but your extra construction capacity for building civs will yield you all the extra civs you need to trade for rubber early game to get all the planes you can ready for 1939. 3. In singleplayer change back to limited after Danzig or war. In multiplayer you don't need to do this as a human Japan can seize the dutch east indies and trade rubber with you but generally in early game almost all of the rubber in the world is controlled by the allies so you need to hold onto more of your rubber resources since an AI japan finds ways to lose the China war and become irrelevant. 4. In free trade Expand your mils in a balanced fashion. Make sure you have enough civs to keep up the level of construction you need with a few extra left over to spend on resources to keep the MIC pumping at full efficiency. 5. Since you've played the game a few times and have a good idea of how many factories you generally need to spend to get the army composition you want, go concentrated industry instead of dispersed.
i dont see goebbels as useless. he also give +0.1 faschist support on top of the 10% war support. saving 150PP early for something is good, but i dont agree goebbels is useless.
@@frogchip6484 youre missing the point of aces here ( or maybe i am missing something ), but when u spawn an aces u get 2% war support. are you saying u gain war support from attaché ? i must admit i didnt pay attention to that
Halfway through my gameplay Donald J. Trump got elected in France and built walls on the Marigot. Tried invading through Belgium but those walls are unpenetrable. Pls help!
Since you didn’t explain division templates anybody who wants to know click read more Infantry 20 width - 7 inf 2 arty 40 width - 14 inf 4 arty Use 40 width against Russia and mainland France, 20 widths are fillers or defending troops Support companies Support Artillery Recon Company Engineer Company Support Anti-Air Logistics Company or Signal Company (if 40 width) Tanks Medium Tank - 6 mot - 10 med 2 TD 2 SPAA Heavy Tank - 7 mot 10 heavy 1 TD 2 SPAA Light tank - 4 mot 6 light
Ngl Dustin, but it MIGHT be worth pinning a more important comment like Fascisile Q or this one than a fake Adolf Hitler account making his presence known
@@locoCEBRO if you mean heinz guderians criticizing of hitlers decisions he is wrong . Come on be realistic hitler did not lost because his soldiers caught cold.........Cold breakdown their motorized units
@@berkinturkylmaz3643 actually many veterans and experienced soldiers froze to death, vehicles you can replace, experience never. Don't get me wrong vehicles losing is still bad but not as bad as your core army. Also many field officers died which are the backbone of any army. They train support the troops and germany had a very well trained and disciplined field officers. After the cold there was a severe shortage of leadership. One of the effects is that they had to rush in the so called inexperienced 'luftwaffe' divisions, but they were pretty much cannon fodder compared to the regulars. "ground crews armed with spare weapons to hold the line". I like this channel called 'military history visualised' which explains this much better than me.
I basically rush my focuses for the extra research slot and production before I do actual rhineland. Then about 3 years later I've realized that I'm stuck in a war with Sweden and Norway and trying to breakthrough the benelux with no success
It's easy? All you have to do is put all your troops on the Maginot Line and Let the Germans invade France, then take over Vichy and hope that Germany wins so the Allies don't come for Revenge 😂
Funny advise Dustin. What you need as France is to add some forts at Italian border (level 4,5,6), add some forts at Belgian border as well (just in case). First you build them, and than add +2 from focus tree. When war started you can rush to the Rhine, and stop Germans from taking Belgium and half of Netherlands. UK will come and help you, so it can be done. Don't forget to cover Spain as well, after war started. What I like to do is to pull all troops from colonies, and put all motorized and armored division in Africa on border with Italy. So when war kick of, I am pushing Italians out of Africa. There is island next to New Zealand where France have 100ish chromium, so you want to fortified and defend that as well. If you using patches before 1.6.2 you should build your infantry divisions with 8 infantry battalion, 1 artillery battalion and one battalion of AA, because AA is brokenly overpowered. AA also works as anti-tank sort of thing. Train your submarines to get naval experience, so you can have nice naval designs. Don't follow the guidelines, the fun of the game is to get your own strategies. Whatever makes you happy.
Well that is true it is more fun developing your own strategy but a lot of people have issues with getting a certain time frames after the new a I was given such an upgrade, now the AI is much more intelligent and usually doesn't fall for traps is easily and now because of that a lot of people are struggling with how they should build up to have a chance, but yeah you do have a good couple points 😁
A couple of small criticisms: - Your not spending enough time building civs, I would keep building them until 1938, then build mils until 1939 (if you keep mefo's then you will build a lot more) then just build some synthetics and airfields a few radars. - Go to free trade, as Germany the 20% factory output is really beneficial, resources aren't too bad either, because Germany either has lots of a resource (e.g, steel) so losing a lot of it does not matter or basically none of it (e.g oil) so you're losing nothing. - Research medium tanks as early as possible and mass-produce the panzer 3, then gradually switch to heavy 2's (tigers) through time.
Yeah when I broke through Belgium I start aggressively attacking on the Maginot to keep 30 + divisions there and forgot until I was all the way through France to take them off of aggressive 😂
i also build on 80% infra states but not the ones that will be modified by autobahn to maximise the build boost from the 100% infra from those 4 states.
theres another way thats also totally fine: build naked army men without any equipment (just spam divisions and deploying them before they're trained) and then you can demand everything you ever wanted. then actually supply your army, which shouldn't take too long. then invade poland by 1937 and conquer all of the allies by 1938 to 1940. from canade u can go to america and so on.
yea but the problem is doing this puts you at a huge disadvantage later if done wrong, by doing this when you get equipment for the divisions they will be at a -25% penalty because they are not trained. then if you do train them later it will take alot of guns to train say 150 20 width divisions for 3 months so they get rid of the penalty. sometimes i say its not worth it because also the allies like austria, czechoslovakia, and poland get a lot of focuses that when historical ai is on all together by 38 give like 30 extra factories
Dustin: *makes detailed followable guide* Me: huzzah, a man of quality! Edit: also tried this as close as i could despite the oversight of an additional research slot, and i managed to defeat the allies by 1940. no doubt ill be able to kick in Stalin as well. love the vids you do Dustin :3
I can't believe I was overthinking the Navy part of Germany. After the update I somehow got it in my head I needed a full Navy to compete with the British fleet; but that isn't possible in the timespan leading up to the start of WW2. Not without comprimising building a powerful land force that is, which is where Germany's strength lies combined with it's airforce. I feel so stupid since I did exactly what you showed before MTG was released. Pummelling the british into submission with my airforce then jumping across the channel. Encircling large quantities of Soviet troops to level the playing field before pushing to their capitals. If you're focused and know what you're doing, it should be relatively straightforward. Now of course theory and application are two different things, but if you do it right Europe doesn't (hopefully) mobilize enough to contest your forces. Germany was initially winning WW2 with it's Land and Airforces, not by sea. For some reason I started not doing that after the Update.
Yesterday in a multiplayer game we purposely didn't attack El Alamein so we just kept Convoy raiding in there with bombers and submarines and sunk over nine hundred British covoys 😁
When you where talking about the soviet victory points need to grab stability dosent change the surrender limit rather war support does. which makes little more sense when you think about it.
How to be OP as german: 1: war with polland at 1936 2.build a lot division (infantry) 3.war with ussr 1937 when they doing purge 4.hold the line(dont push) after u kill 1-2m soviet 5.start pushing and win around 1938 or early 1939 6.build a lot mil 7.start war with allies Work every time
If this is mp guide i understand, sp is too easy so i don't think we need guide for that, i mean the newer players maybe but some of us who played for a while now know that best sp strategy is to take out poland , then soviets all till 1938 and then just win the game.
These guides have really helped me understand this game so much better. Thank you! In the technology list, what do you mean by Medium 1 and Med 1 Sparty?
You once posted a video with a guide on a trick where you use conversion of mils and civs to ultimately have more factories than you would have otherwise. Could you make a playthrough where you demonstrate this strategy?
Well it doesn't really work as well anymore, 1 people found that out then a lot of players started working on mostly strategies on Maxine civilian production at the start which is actually a lot better than just converting it over, unless you have the ability to get total mobilization or at least War economy very early so you get bonuses for converting factories.
While its nitpicking, building up provinces to 100% then civics is pretty good, and then using those 4x100% to build civics in later on. Some fac conversion also helps, but it dangerous if something unforseen happens.
Thanks for the guide, always something new to learn. I have over a thousands hours in the game, and still didn't know about using docking rights to cut off the allied rubber supply. (*annoyed Homer Simpson "doh!"*)
In SP you can justify against 3 areas in romania and 1 in yugo at the same time for 140-50 political power. It takes 350 days for both to finish and the czechs guarantee them both, which means you get to invade them as well. You end up with everything you need to do whatever you want for the rest of the game without starting ww2. Take note!! You cannot do rhineland before doing this as it will trigger the uk or france due to the world tension.
If you justify on Yugo and turkey you can get both Czecho and Romania into the war and you also get all the chromium. This also makes Greece give in when you do the focus.
Dustinl796 Videos Sure, there are many ways to abuse game mechanics to beat the game within an extremely short amount of time, BUT that is not always the most fun way to play the game
Step 1: Take down poland Step 2: Paratroop france with 1 width paratroopers Step 3: Paratroop an English port then start to send troops(you may lose some) Step 4: Annex the minor nations and it won’t be hard to conquer Soviet Union Congrulations,Now you can defeat Italy,USA and Japan easily
Naval: build a cruiser only (both CA and CL) fleet. This will decimate Brtish screen ships and convoys. Easy to repair and replace. Easy to research. Can torpedo capital ships down or run away if outguned.
After Man the Guns, you lose your Captain of Industry after Fate of Czechoslovakia so I wouldn't recommend to use him if you play as Nazi-Germany. I would go for the UK first. It's more difficult but worth it because the US isn't involved yet and also India isn't a great power (so you don't depend on Japan). If you have your peace treaty with the Allies, the Soviet Union isn't a problem at all.
Well I would say the captain of industry is still incredibly important since you're building civs until around time for fate of Czechoslovakia anyway, and this was more of a guide for historical players and people who want to play multiplayer which is why I didn't go for anybody earlier or anything
I said this was more of a guide for multiplayer, I didn't say it's completely for multiplayer. The majority of advise in the paths you take are designed for multiplayer like I said, but even in the video I mention certain things will work in multiplayer and some things won't depending on your situation
hey out of curiosity, do you think you can make like a google doc or word doc for your guides so we can download them or something. For example I typed up the German guide on google docs so that I can bring it with me places or use it when I'm playing so I don't have to alt+tab each time to look, so this way I have a printed form. It just makes it easier to bring to places and this way its in a physical form so I can easily look at it whenever but I have to go through a process of going to the doc so printing it is easier on me and saves me time. So I was hoping you could type up the guide in a sort of doc? If not it's fine but I think it'd make it easier if it was something we could look at rather than going back and forth through a video taking up more time so. Just a suggestion. Thx
@@mari0664 I had a similar idea, I sat down 1 day an made a replica of all of his country guides in a diary and mixed it with other TH-camrs' strats and PrussianPrince's templates
German strategy Focuses: 1. Rhineland 2. Four year plan 3. Autarky 4. Herman goering wake 5. Kdf wagen 6. Army innovations 7. Treaty with USSR 8. Coal liquidation 9. Synthetic rubber 10. Extra research slot 11. Anschlus 12. Reichs autobahn 13. Army innovations 2 14. Demand sudetenland 15. First vienna award 16. Fate of CZ 17. Reasert eastern claimes 18. Molotov ribbentorp pact 19. Danzig or war 20. Around the maginot 21. German war economy Construction: Civilian factories from January 1936 -> April 1937 Military factories from April 1937 -> November 1937 Synthetic refineries from November 1937 -> March 1938 Military factories from March 1938 -> May 1939 Build additional 20 dockyards Build what is needed Research: 1. Construction 1 2. Basic machine tools 3. Electronic mechanical engineering 4. Mechanical computing 5. Dispursed industry 1 6. Construction 2 7. Dispursed industry 2 8. Improved machine tools 9. Excavation 1 10. Radio 11. Fuel refining 2 12. Weapons 1 13. Excavation 2 14. Medium tank 1 15. 1938 computing machine 16. Interwar artillery 17. Anti tank 1 18. Medium 1 self propelled artillery 19. Fuel refining 3 20. Rubber processing 21. Encryption 1 22. Decryption 1 23. Infantry equipment 2 24. Dispursed industry 3 25. Advanced machine tools 26. Infantry equipment 3 27. Artillery 2 28. Construction 3 29. Improved computing machine 30. Fighter 2 Division templates: Infantry: 40 width - 14 infantry 4 artillery Support artillery Recon company Engineer company Support anti-air Logistics company Medium tank: 6 motorized infantry - 10 medium tank - 2 self propelled anti-air - 2 tank destroyer Heavy tank: 7 motorized infantry - 10 heavy tank - 1 tank destroyer - 2 self propelled anti-air Political power: 1. Silent workhorse 2. Fascist demagogue 3. War economy 4. Captain of industry 5. Blitzkrieg theorist 6. Porsche tank designer 7. Krupp industry 8. Erwin rommel armor staff 9. Infantry expert 10. Army logistics 11. Herman goering air superiority 12. Army offense Navy: Build U-boats and starve the UK from the Atlantic and when possible the Pacific
Paratroopers don't work that great anymore, now since the AI guards capitals and other various cities along with putting troops on the front line now paratroopers barely hold far off
17:26 By this time normal soviet player usually has smt like 250-300 civs and 200-250 military factories, and please respond me how u gonna deal with that, with >200 civs, and 220 mils, please?
Blah-Blah-Blah How?A normal Soviet player how have 250-300 civs and 200-250 mil factory in July of 1941?That’s almost impossible unless you did some conquests.
What about Spanish sending volunteers to other wars? There's war in Ethiopia right from the start, i usually send 2 infantry and bunch of planes for xp. Then i save up 100 PP for spanish civil war, and send them attache with tanks and planes. And then there's japano-chinese war, i send them attache and some planes.
for anyone following this guide, this is a reminder that this is not optimal at all don't call this a "guide" but a "how I play" video: first steps are kinda wrong: don't build factories in Brandenburg but in wurtemberg which is also 8 infra. Only when you get the focus of reichsautobahn then start building factories in brandenburg, franken, thuringen and hannover this way is much more efficient thanks to the increased building speed from infra. Also plan to build infra level 10 in the regions with the highest amount free slots, that way again you maximize your building bonus (niederbayern, ostmark and Niederschliessen(?)) are good options). Use the industry research bonus to get ahead in construction II and improved tools, dispersed industry is not so important research that only when the ahead of time penalty disappears. The power of your industry is determined on how many factories you have and not the equipment you produced in the first 1.5 years is negligible. Political power first you do is FREE TRADE= research speed, construction speed +10 % is AMAZING, also +10% factory production (but i don't care about that). Doing this from 1936 to mid-late 1938 gives you 15 factories more, not to mention the research speeds which is SO important since the new DLC. then martin (SWH) is good, then fascist demagogue depends how high the war support is. because you should stop buying war economy and use the OP focus right below reichsautobahn. use that PP for captain of industry to get even more factories. if you follow these steps i guarantee your military factories will be built at 300% the basic speed and 250% for civilians. also 300% for refineries. you get 110 mil 16 dock and 99 civ, well the above way gets you 15 factories more 115 mil, 110 civ and 40 dock (and 24 more docks). The German submarines are OP right now so you can compete with the allies if you have cruiser or tier III submarines with as many tubes and radar possible. the key to defeating the navies is killing convoys for oil and resources. with enough torpedoes are OP if you spam enough subs (200 with each +50/60 torpedo attack) decimate even carrier fleets, because Germany has the best admiral for subs and he has an ability to have +10% screen penetration. which means 20% of 200*60= penetration 2400 with torpedoes which ignore armor (ofc if everything hits) the basic HP of the first battleship is 350 HP (no upgrades) lets say a decent BB has 650 HP that's 3.7 battleships that your fleet can sink EVEN with SCREEN protection and no armor can protect them. that's per salvo and Donitz also has an upgrade with +10% accuracy to make it just a bit more better (and don't forget to upgrade the 2 +20% torpedo attack upgrades). Raiding the east is not as effective as raiding the oil supply in the atlantic, rule 1 submarines get bonuses in the high seas, so fight in the high seas. fighting in shallow water is suicide for a submarine. Using front line ready infantry as garrison is a very poor way of manpower management, always use horses its so much cheaper, and keep a mobile force of a few tanks and motorized nearby to prevent you from an invasion = much cheaper. Vichy is good but just leave them, they are a very powerful ally, they field a very big army in 1943 and their navy combined with the Italians (you don't have to care about it) can defeat the Mediterranean British fleet. 75 mil factories on fighters??? come on 40 is plenty use the others for CAS or NAV or HEAVY. In single player i have plenty of planes with 40 mil dedicated to fighters in total. research of doctrine is more useful to get mobile inf and modern blitzkrieg, manpower you get with your laws, skip the 5% manpower its not as good as all the other bonuses. Except if you like to throw manpower away, in that case think about yourself and how evil your truly are. Killing the navy with spamming airplanes in the channel is good, but also taking out their oil also disables the rest of their fleet and their airplanes that way you have a much easier time capturing England. everything else is not like the above part where mine is better, this part is just how i prefer to play: going hard on tanks is ok-ish but tanks don't protect your skies and your factories. I like speed therefor i only need motorized and light tanks with 26 combat width to rush, Poland,low lands, France with 10 K losses, to do this i need loads of airplanes because airplanes slow divisions down. if you focus on speed, your divisions can get to 13.2 km/h, this is twice as fast as any other french or British division have. Im sorry but 1,8k planes, is pathetically low, how do you prevent yourself from strategic bombing, tank losses from enemy CAS? i get by aug 1939 at least 800-1000 CAS 1,4-2k fighters, 400-800 heavy fighters and 600 NAV. 106 navy i suspect half is submarines, well you need more. thanks to the 24 more dockyards i can cut UK's oil off in 4 months and bring it to 0. therefor i need subs III and at least 100-200 of them because the low level subs will get killed so fast.
I would say write a guide somewhere yourself, you have some valid min max tactics and you should share them with people instead of burrying it in the shitstorm of comments.
@@lars9925 i wait for czechoslovakia until mid-late 1938 when i don't need it anymore CIVs since i have enough built then. I don't mind letting austria and czecho do some focusses because then i get more factories for free. But yea i can understand the logic behind your argument of spending 150 PP on something else more permanent. maybe someone has done the value of having a +10% speed and what it means in number of actual factories extra.
@@alphalion2057 i might do that someday, after the updates have settled. Don't minding it posting it here since i wrote it whilst watching the guide. You never know if he used a trick or tactic i didn't know about.
Whatt ı have 600 hours and this is completely bullshit . 1.4-2k fighters???? Uk has 3k and france has 1k no mention of other minor allied countries.)how the hell will you get air superiority I get 5 k fighter 2-3k tac bomb. and 2 k cas .by 39 when I complete danzig or war.Another very important thing is the treaty with the USSr foucs(perhaps the best focus in the game) and rush med tanks . I usually get 30-35 med. divs . Trying to cut of uk trade is ridiculuous they have 1k convoys and you will need to continue for 1-2 years. Using cav for garrison is a terrible idea especialy if you are in SP because as germany you wont need to save up your whole army to beat france and Uk ı keep normal 20 widht inf s to coast garrison and resistance suppresion .(Also keeping tanks or motorized divs is a very poor idea as you wont have a lot of them.
In SP, after you learn the game, you can get 4x 24 inf (40w) and 1x 24 tank (med 40w) divisions easy before june 1941(all with fully upgraded logistics). This is more than enought to crush fully buffed USSR. Also - having more divisions leads to more attrition, therafore it is not wise to have more than this on eastern front as germany anyway
Erm nice but glaring errors stright off the bat. 4 research slots.. and you cant research mech. computing till after electro mech. engineering. So what to fill the 4th slot with at the beginning?
For some reason I can never seem to get the amount of troops needed to do anchluss by 1937 I build the factories but by the end of 1937 it’s still building civilian factories and not mils
Slight issue with your focus tree order: in order to attack the Soviet Union you need to have Anti-Comintern pact completed, since you can’t justify against someone you have a non-aggression pact with. I usually do Rhineland, Four Year Plan (to get Hjalmar Schact) and then Anti-Comintern. I also found it hard to get coal liquidization and synthetic rubber before Sept. 1 1939, unless you attack Poland using the territory claim rather than Danzig or War. IMO the game should give you a core on Danzig if you take the claim route as well, since it otherwise becomes impossible to do Ribbentrop-Molotov at the historically accurate time if you want to do Danzig or war too!
For the research list, is it ordered in columns or rows? Because you can’t do mechanical computing until after you’ve done electronic mechanical engineering.
To be honest it's the left side first then the right side, I did make a couple small mistakes though. I've been up for close to twenty hours working on content when I started to edit the video
Dustinl796 Videos You did a great job! I did veer from the research list slight because sometimes I couldn’t do the next in the list and I had a slot available, but my game worked out nicely. I had to make a comeback from being cornered by Romania, Czechoslovakia, France and Yugoslavia and then Hungary declared on me for refusing to give up Transylvania, which was then joined by Spain after I did the focus to get them on MY side - they ended up joining Pact of Rome the other fascist faction, which is one of the most bullshit problems with the AI, don’t you think?Though not Italy, as I had a non-aggression pact with them, though they took a couple of my puppets, but were defeated by the Allies eventually who are now at war with the Americans holy shit it’s a mess.. I then took parts of Poland while they were at war with the Soviets,this was easy and I took Danzig and a few other states but I didn’t have enough points to take the rest, so I went to war with the Soviets who were allied with Japan for some reason. I took the USSR and finally got my peace deal after multiple failed naval invasions of Japan... hope you didn’t mind the summary of my game. Hoi4 with all the DLCs and no historical focus can be crazy.
No! Build Wurtemberg, Rheinland and Westphalen in the beggining and then move on to 70% if needed. Save Brandenburg for when it gets 100% from Reichsautobahn
Greasing you do rheinland first is it gives you another 70 days so you can begin researching the first industry technology of dispersed or concentrated and then by the time you get done with that you can take the industry Focus because you already be working on dispersed industry 2 or concentrated industry 2 so you'll get to Industry technologies that you can use for industry 4 and 3
starting off as germany, you can literally take poland by the beginning of october with the allies leaving you alone. As soon as you get political points near the end of the month you can justify war towards poland, i usually do this, save the game, and the continue from there. When you attack poland, even when you are still learning a new focus, you can bypass the Rhineland focus, and if you have enough men on the field, can start on the Anschluss pretty early. Not sure if you ever knew this
Well you can do that but this was more of a historical guide that people can also use in multiplayer. The last time I came out with a guide and told people to do that the multiplayer server that I play in told me that a bunch of people that kept joining were following my guide and invading Poland right at the start
because you can use the 5th slot if you want exclusively for far away tech your using bonuses on like medium 2's or 3's instead of tying up a 4th slot for 2 years
Send a certain amount of guns once and send one support equipment monthly. If you don't as soon as the guns arrive you get no more XP off of them because the Lend-Lease closes
Soooo... you didn´t tell us which things we should produce (except for naval things, but not for example which planes and how much military factories build which things etc) and im pretty new to this game, so could you answer that?
Ty for this guide, since I am new to the game this helps a lot understand mechanics. But I got a big problem; after "Danzig or war" the Allied Forces instantly try to invade me when I try to take poland. And they just shredd me from the west.
Problem with technology is that I have 1 empty slot and cant take Mechanical Computing until it's researched. same on version 1.6.0. as in 1.8.0 version.
In AI games I like to naval England thru Norway, capitulate them, and naval France from the strait. This leaves northern France undefended and I can take it easily
If somehow Turkey joins the Axis, you could actually pull off a naval invasion in the Caucasus region. The only downside would be that you need to upgrade the ports there to at least level 4. There are two ports (namely Batumi and one close to the Kerch strait) and both of them are lvl 1.
@@dustinl796 tbh though, a good German player knows that prioritizing tanks and CAS is the only way you can reliably defeat the Soviets. Such a player does not need Turkey to open up another front in the Caucasus. The only downside is that you need a Romania player that isn't a complete idiot and maxes out his oil production. Oh, and a Hungary that lend leases you aircraft.
Well to be honest that's why in the guide I specify production after 38 when you have Panzer 4's they should be a top priority and also the same year start building synthetics to support you since you can't really rely on your allies in multiplayer....... ever 😁😂😂😂
I think some of those techs might be in wrong order in the tech list. I would probably research land doctrines before the war, and also mechanized 1 tech before the war (to boost motorizeds hardness). Also, when should germany get land doctire researches done and what about air doctrines? Then in La resistance theres is the goddam espionage thing again, but I doubt it will be very useful for Germany for cost reasons before war.
Have never tried GER (either MtG or pre-MtG). About to give it a go, following this guide. One thing you didn't mention: Balkan nations and whether/how to use Romanian/Hungarian/etc expeditionary forces for hitting USSR. Is it worth the extra time & effort to lock all those countries up and use their forces? I'd think at very least Romanian oil is a mandatory goal, no?
The Romanian oil may or may not be an issue, when I build synthetics for full-year even with all the motorized, tank divisions, submarines, and Air Force I don't have that much of an issue with oil. But as for taking their divisions I usually don't do that, personally that's just more divisions you have to keep an eye on in the a I will go crazy and try to keep pushing on its own
The tactic of invading Belgium isn't working out. I attack with 10 divisions of 40w of mixed medium/light units, and the enemy is getting air superiority, terrain advantage, and are able to pierce the armour. I just can't break through, and the UK and France keep streaming troops in. My inf divisions are 20w. Not sure what I can do the fix this besides reload all the way back and produce more medium armour divisions and forget the planes and light tanks.
@@dustinl796 Completely overwhelmed France by 30th October. I used 9 light tank divisions in army group A, 5 mixed tank divisions (light and medium), and another 4 lights in army group B. The old Netherlands then Belgium worked a treat. Used the lights as ferraris to quickly run up the coast and take Paris.
I am completely stumped trying to invade USSR as Germany. I have read so many guides and watched many videos like this one. I had not played HOI4 for about a year and recently picked it up again. I gather the meta has changed from 20 width to 40 width. By early summer '41 I have 4x 24 div infantry armies and 2 x 24 div mixed armour and motorized armies and they just don't punch through. The Russians throw 3500 fighters up over eastern Poland and there are are not enough air bases built in time to match them. Then there is supply, with this many troops on the line I am running into supply bottle necks all over the place, especially at the north and south end of the line of advance. I see your main tank army under Rommel is only 15 divisions at 20:11 and all mediums at Aug '41. I am wondering what difficultly you are playing at? By that date having followed this guide precisely I am not sure how I would have the time and experience to have gone all mediums. Meh about to restart and try again, literally the 20th attempt.
to be honest recently.... (a couple months ago) the ai got a big buff and mostly aggressively attacks, basically you have to try the best you can to cause decent encirclement's and hold till the ai looses alot of guns
I'm new as a player myself, i have now the Keiserreich back and for some reason i can't build any CVs. Allready late game and it still won't let me build one. "Missing component" but it won't tell me what component.
Check the bottom row, every ship needs at least one main gun which is the bottom left and then Cruisers need a fire control system which is the third from the left :-)
should you start researching medium tank 1 (panzer 3) even before you get the medium tank 1 tech boost from focuses finished? Is the tech boost still applied to medium 1 tech even though youre already researchin it?
When i´m doing the poland invasion, france enters the war and starts conquer all occidental germany? i´ve seen your videos and that doensn´t happen. How can i stop France form entering the war?
I wouldn't do the bottom left of mobile warfare ever, if you don't have enough manpower as Germany you aren't playing correctly. I also usually go down the motorized side rather than the tank side, because I think +15 org for every motorized and mechanized is worth more than +20% breakthrough. If you do mobile warfare the way I suggest, you still get the 40% breakthrough that you got from your method, but your divisions can have more tank units in comparison to motorized, making them ultimately stronger in the end.
National Focuses: 0:23
Constructions: 0:36
Research: 1:34
PP: 2:34
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7:39 Invasion of Poland guide
9:49 Encirclement and Dunkirk
10:23 Vichy france
12:17 Operation weserübung
13:49 Operation Barbarossa
14:24 Seize the Oilfields of Baku, Maikop and Grozny
Haven't I watched alot of TIK history, haven't I?
thank you
"So if you're Germany... well obviously you're Germany" beautiful!
How to tell when somebody's not using a script 101 😂
@@dustinl796 no script gang
This is a scam I tried this irl and it failed. SMH
No it works, this guy just tells you you need to get enough coats for your men 😁
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On one hand I probably shouldn't pin his comment, on the other hand this is just too good of an opportunity 😂
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Confirmed Dustin is a nazi 😂
"Brandenburg, this one and Rhienland"
That gave me a sensible chuckle
Some other tips for new players as Germany.
1. You don't need to spend many mils on infantry equipment as Germany until after early war when it is time to upgrade. When you Anchluss and you Annex Czechoslovakia you will have all of the infantry 1 equipment you will need to equip your troops for the 1939 War. Prioritize air (Fighters then CAS) then medium tanks, trucks and whatever flavor support you like to do. I for example take some AA support to help out a bit in the air war because it's cheap and adds a bit of soft attack to your infantry to boot.
2. Since your troops don't need to have all the guns, they just need the manpower numbers to fulfill the requirements for Anchluss and Sudetenland, you should force deploy what you need to fill out your armies and then set them to exercise to have them ready by 1939.
3. It might be tempting to use idea 2 to anchluss and sudetenland early. This is not a great idea. First these minors have focuses that will give them free factories so the longer you wait the more factories you will inherit and of course the more guns they will have produced just for you to use. And you will lose Hjalmar Schact after you sudetenland and his bonuses to construction are important in the early game. Then of course there is the fact that you are spiking world tension early which will really tee off your axis friends in multiplayer as you're probably ruining their early expansions and allowing the US to take the giant wakes early.
3. Farm Army and Air xp from the Spanish Civil War for as long as possible. Don't just run them over. I prefer to send lend lease equipment to both sides and send air volunteers to the nationalists. That is usually good enough to make it long in single player while still getting the result of a fascist Spain. In multiplayer what you do in Spain will depend on what the Soviet player chooses to do.
4.Keep your mefo bills going. PP cost is not a problem, the construction bonuses are huge, and failure to extend them is a major economic set back. It is a dumb system to be sure, but it is vital for Germany to be as strong as it can be economically before 1939 war.
5. Spend your mils on 1 line of new equipment you plan to build as soon as it becomes available to build your efficiency bonus.
Tips for people who are looking to min max and know a few things.
1. This is very gamey but you don't have to take Goebbels if you want to go war economy early. You can bypass him by deploying single unit air wings in the Spanish Civil War and farming aces (make sure you pull them off of the air wing asap once they proc.) Getting an ace gives you free war support and you can easily get to fifty that way. BTW this is considered against the rules in many multiplayer servers as it is an exploit. But in single player you just got war economy for 150 pp instead of 300 to get war economy and a largely useless adviser for Germany.
2. In early game change from limited exports to free trade. In multiplayer this is the meta as a good axis team will use free trade to trade factories back and forth while still having all the construction and tech benefits, in single player you will generally outpace all the majors in productivity after France conquest and will have produced all of the oil refineries you need. Rubber will be a problem at this stage but your extra construction capacity for building civs will yield you all the extra civs you need to trade for rubber early game to get all the planes you can ready for 1939.
3. In singleplayer change back to limited after Danzig or war. In multiplayer you don't need to do this as a human Japan can seize the dutch east indies and trade rubber with you but generally in early game almost all of the rubber in the world is controlled by the allies so you need to hold onto more of your rubber resources since an AI japan finds ways to lose the China war and become irrelevant.
4. In free trade Expand your mils in a balanced fashion. Make sure you have enough civs to keep up the level of construction you need with a few extra left over to spend on resources to keep the MIC pumping at full efficiency.
5. Since you've played the game a few times and have a good idea of how many factories you generally need to spend to get the army composition you want, go concentrated industry instead of dispersed.
i dont see goebbels as useless. he also give +0.1 faschist support on top of the 10% war support. saving 150PP early for something is good, but i dont agree goebbels is useless.
Facsimile Q no need to farm aces in Spain, just send an attachè
@@frogchip6484 youre missing the point of aces here ( or maybe i am missing something ), but when u spawn an aces u get 2% war support. are you saying u gain war support from attaché ? i must admit i didnt pay attention to that
sirundying yea you get 10% War support from attaché
Instructions unclear, I reinstated the monarchy...
Takes a few tries, first time by accident i got stalin as leader of democratic germany
Halfway through my gameplay Donald J. Trump got elected in France and built walls on the Marigot. Tried invading through Belgium but those walls are unpenetrable. Pls help!
I didn't know Millennium Dawn was out yet?
@@dustinl796 dude i same problem but with Nevil Chamberlain as a Facist communist china
Since you didn’t explain division templates anybody who wants to know click read more
Infantry
20 width - 7 inf 2 arty
40 width - 14 inf 4 arty
Use 40 width against Russia and mainland France, 20 widths are fillers or defending troops
Support companies
Support Artillery
Recon Company
Engineer Company
Support Anti-Air
Logistics Company or Signal Company (if 40 width)
Tanks
Medium Tank - 6 mot - 10 med 2 TD 2 SPAA
Heavy Tank - 7 mot 10 heavy 1 TD 2 SPAA
Light tank - 4 mot 6 light
Ngl Dustin, but it MIGHT be worth pinning a more important comment like Fascisile Q or this one than a fake Adolf Hitler account making his presence known
Is it worth it to put anti tank guns into infantry or just artillery and anti air
Koleyo You won’t pierce any tanks anyways unless they’re light tanks for which just put Support AA in the division
I always make some small 10 width divisions with at. Normalle 3 inf and 4 at usuially do the job as long as they are behind front line inf
I needed this
How to win HoI4 as Germany:
Oil ✅
Panzer ✅
Unterseeboot ✅
Kampfflugzeug ✅
Wunderwaffe ✅
Coats ✅
I feel as though coat to might be a little bit more important then to be in last place on your list 😂
Coats???
if only they knew they could make coats out of oil, !!!!! Barbarossa Intensifies !!!!!
@@locoCEBRO if you mean heinz guderians criticizing of hitlers decisions he is wrong . Come on be realistic hitler did not lost because his soldiers caught cold.........Cold breakdown their motorized units
@@berkinturkylmaz3643 actually many veterans and experienced soldiers froze to death, vehicles you can replace, experience never. Don't get me wrong vehicles losing is still bad but not as bad as your core army.
Also many field officers died which are the backbone of any army. They train support the troops and germany had a very well trained and disciplined field officers. After the cold there was a severe shortage of leadership.
One of the effects is that they had to rush in the so called inexperienced 'luftwaffe' divisions, but they were pretty much cannon fodder compared to the regulars. "ground crews armed with spare weapons to hold the line".
I like this channel called 'military history visualised' which explains this much better than me.
U-Boats, U-Boats and more U-Boats! Starve the UK, their navy is a paper tiger without fuel. Donitz wolf pack intensifies!
Dustin: Makes germany guide
Also Dustin: *slaps thumbnail with Maus and Tiger*
Also Dustin, angry at you for getting a tiger and a Panzer 4 confused -_-
Alright. I played myself there.
That you did
Real life Hitler: *This sounds like a good idea*
My guide to play Germany
Step 1: Wunderwaffe
Step 2: Even more Wunderwaffe
Just add some more wonder waffles to be sure
Don't forget the wunderwaffe
Need to invade Belgium to get them out of the waffle game.
Belgian waffles are fake waffles!
Oh thats why they invaded Belgium...
Yep twice in less than 30 years, that and French is a fake language, just a silly accent.
Something nice about this channel? Yes the content but more when you comment the content producer actually cares and answers
Keep going buddy
Yay! 😄
Thank you for this video! This will certainly help me... Cause im still pretty new to this game and im pretty bad... So... thank you!
Instructions unclear, trapped inside the bunker with allies and commitern skewering from both side and stiener is not attacking. Help!
*Grabs popcorn*
*Waits for comments from people that are actually not bad at the game.*
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This is so sad Alexa play Westerwaldlied
Anddddddd someone in germany calls the cops
Well, this guide is pure cancer which gonna work only against AI in singleplayer, with 25 mills on SPA and producing F1 in 1939
Also going dispersed against AI is cancer as Well, same shit with deleting factories in poland
I love how you present it, its quick and very relevant.
0:23 theres a typo for almost every focus lol
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Dustinl796 Videos “army inovasions 2”
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I basically rush my focuses for the extra research slot and production before I do actual rhineland.
Then about 3 years later I've realized that I'm stuck in a war with Sweden and Norway and trying to breakthrough the benelux with no success
yea i can see why :)
Your so good at this game your channel should be more popular
Thanks!
Thank you so much, all the old starts are outdated and this was SO detailed! Learned a lot through this.
Glad to help :-)
Can you please make a france guide (after the USA guide ofcourse)
It's easy? All you have to do is put all your troops on the Maginot Line and Let the Germans invade France, then take over Vichy and hope that Germany wins so the Allies don't come for Revenge 😂
Funny advise Dustin. What you need as France is to add some forts at Italian border (level 4,5,6), add some forts at Belgian border as well (just in case). First you build them, and than add +2 from focus tree. When war started you can rush to the Rhine, and stop Germans from taking Belgium and half of Netherlands. UK will come and help you, so it can be done. Don't forget to cover Spain as well, after war started.
What I like to do is to pull all troops from colonies, and put all motorized and armored division in Africa on border with Italy. So when war kick of, I am pushing Italians out of Africa. There is island next to New Zealand where France have 100ish chromium, so you want to fortified and defend that as well.
If you using patches before 1.6.2 you should build your infantry divisions with 8 infantry battalion, 1 artillery battalion and one battalion of AA, because AA is brokenly overpowered. AA also works as anti-tank sort of thing. Train your submarines to get naval experience, so you can have nice naval designs.
Don't follow the guidelines, the fun of the game is to get your own strategies. Whatever makes you happy.
Well that is true it is more fun developing your own strategy but a lot of people have issues with getting a certain time frames after the new a I was given such an upgrade, now the AI is much more intelligent and usually doesn't fall for traps is easily and now because of that a lot of people are struggling with how they should build up to have a chance, but yeah you do have a good couple points 😁
I figured out an even easier way...
*Dont play France! Just play Albania instead...*
A couple of small criticisms:
- Your not spending enough time building civs, I would keep building them until 1938, then build mils until 1939 (if you keep mefo's then you will build a lot more) then just build some synthetics and airfields a few radars.
- Go to free trade, as Germany the 20% factory output is really beneficial, resources aren't too bad either, because Germany either has lots of a resource (e.g, steel) so losing a lot of it does not matter or basically none of it (e.g oil) so you're losing nothing.
- Research medium tanks as early as possible and mass-produce the panzer 3, then gradually switch to heavy 2's (tigers) through time.
I like how in the middle of the battle of france you ran out of manpower
Yeah when I broke through Belgium I start aggressively attacking on the Maginot to keep 30 + divisions there and forgot until I was all the way through France to take them off of aggressive 😂
i also build on 80% infra states but not the ones that will be modified by autobahn to maximise the build boost from the 100% infra from those 4 states.
I wish you showed division templates/explained production queues a bit somewhere
yea
Ill take note for next time
theres another way thats also totally fine: build naked army men without any equipment (just spam divisions and deploying them before they're trained) and then you can demand everything you ever wanted. then actually supply your army, which shouldn't take too long. then invade poland by 1937 and conquer all of the allies by 1938 to 1940. from canade u can go to america and so on.
yea but the problem is doing this puts you at a huge disadvantage later if done wrong, by doing this when you get equipment for the divisions they will be at a -25% penalty because they are not trained. then if you do train them later it will take alot of guns to train say 150 20 width divisions for 3 months so they get rid of the penalty. sometimes i say its not worth it because also the allies like austria, czechoslovakia, and poland get a lot of focuses that when historical ai is on all together by 38 give like 30 extra factories
Dustin: *makes detailed followable guide*
Me: huzzah, a man of quality!
Edit: also tried this as close as i could despite the oversight of an additional research slot, and i managed to defeat the allies by 1940. no doubt ill be able to kick in Stalin as well. love the vids you do Dustin :3
I can't believe I was overthinking the Navy part of Germany. After the update I somehow got it in my head I needed a full Navy to compete with the British fleet; but that isn't possible in the timespan leading up to the start of WW2. Not without comprimising building a powerful land force that is, which is where Germany's strength lies combined with it's airforce.
I feel so stupid since I did exactly what you showed before MTG was released. Pummelling the british into submission with my airforce then jumping across the channel. Encircling large quantities of Soviet troops to level the playing field before pushing to their capitals.
If you're focused and know what you're doing, it should be relatively straightforward. Now of course theory and application are two different things, but if you do it right Europe doesn't (hopefully) mobilize enough to contest your forces. Germany was initially winning WW2 with it's Land and Airforces, not by sea. For some reason I started not doing that after the Update.
Yeah submarines are definitely overpowered now and can very easily decimate the British Navy especially if it's an AI
@@dustinl796 Pretty much what I did before the update but with the whole Navy.
11:18 that moment I pull all my bombing force on Med sea. Goodbye Royal Navy.
Yesterday in a multiplayer game we purposely didn't attack El Alamein so we just kept Convoy raiding in there with bombers and submarines and sunk over nine hundred British covoys 😁
When you where talking about the soviet victory points need to grab stability dosent change the surrender limit rather war support does. which makes little more sense when you think about it.
Oh yeah that's right, I'm still used to it working on stability before man the guns 😁
keep up the good work dustin wished the best man games really interesting
How to be OP as german:
1: war with polland at 1936
2.build a lot division (infantry)
3.war with ussr 1937 when they doing purge
4.hold the line(dont push) after u kill 1-2m soviet
5.start pushing and win around 1938 or early 1939
6.build a lot mil
7.start war with allies
Work every time
You forgot the part of strat bombing the us
You can use political power and persuade Netherland to join your cause, and alongside it come Indonesia and all that sweet rubber.
Well you can't do that of course but I was more going in a historical guide route for the video
@@dustinl796 *can
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Wow do I hate autocorrect -_-
Or you could just take them over
As a total noob finally i managed to do something right with this guide, thx.
Glad to help :-)
If this is mp guide i understand, sp is too easy so i don't think we need guide for that, i mean the newer players maybe but some of us who played for a while now know that best sp strategy is to take out poland , then soviets all till 1938 and then just win the game.
you cant chose machanical computer before you finish electornic mechanical enginering. So what do i do wiht 4th reserach slot ?
Research the land doctrine
If there is one thing i need to work on its division templates haha
These guides have really helped me understand this game so much better. Thank you!
In the technology list, what do you mean by Medium 1 and Med 1 Sparty?
np, glad to help and its the first medium tank and the middle button inside the tank picture on the right
Timestamps:
Focuses 0:25
Research 1:35
PP: 2:33
You once posted a video with a guide on a trick where you use conversion of mils and civs to ultimately have more factories than you would have otherwise. Could you make a playthrough where you demonstrate this strategy?
Well it doesn't really work as well anymore, 1 people found that out then a lot of players started working on mostly strategies on Maxine civilian production at the start which is actually a lot better than just converting it over, unless you have the ability to get total mobilization or at least War economy very early so you get bonuses for converting factories.
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Oh. So just building civs is better?
Well again it depends, you didn't get War economy or total mobilization really fast sometimes it's worth it
Could you pls create a mtg guide for italy MP.
No promises but I can try 😁
Dustinl796 Videos thanks man
While its nitpicking, building up provinces to 100% then civics is pretty good, and then using those 4x100% to build civics in later on. Some fac conversion also helps, but it dangerous if something unforseen happens.
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Welp, I forgot about my manpower and the Netherlands capitulated me!
oof
Thanks for the guide, always something new to learn. I have over a thousands hours in the game, and still didn't know about using docking rights to cut off the allied rubber supply. (*annoyed Homer Simpson "doh!"*)
I tried it but in the middle of my game A.I UK took it’s navy out of the channel an then I invaded then and finished the war by 1941
Yeah new update Paradox did a couple days ago makes the UK try to avoid guarding the English Channel with their Navy now for a while
In SP you can justify against 3 areas in romania and 1 in yugo at the same time for 140-50 political power. It takes 350 days for both to finish and the czechs guarantee them both, which means you get to invade them as well. You end up with everything you need to do whatever you want for the rest of the game without starting ww2. Take note!! You cannot do rhineland before doing this as it will trigger the uk or france due to the world tension.
If you justify on Yugo and turkey you can get both Czecho and Romania into the war and you also get all the chromium. This also makes Greece give in when you do the focus.
@@hunterbrown9237 Thanks for the tip, i didnt know that! Im assuming this doesnt get the allies on your ass?
Not going to lie that's actually pretty genius
Well you could do that but this was supposed to be more of a historical guide
Dustinl796 Videos Sure, there are many ways to abuse game mechanics to beat the game within an extremely short amount of time, BUT that is not always the most fun way to play the game
Step 1:
Take down poland
Step 2:
Paratroop france with 1 width paratroopers
Step 3:
Paratroop an English port then start to send troops(you may lose some)
Step 4:
Annex the minor nations and it won’t be hard to conquer Soviet Union
Congrulations,Now you can defeat Italy,USA and Japan easily
Let me get this straight... You just in 10 seconds pretty much summed up my entire guide LOL
Naval: build a cruiser only (both CA and CL) fleet. This will decimate Brtish screen ships and convoys. Easy to repair and replace. Easy to research. Can torpedo capital ships down or run away if outguned.
After Man the Guns, you lose your Captain of Industry after Fate of Czechoslovakia so I wouldn't recommend to use him if you play as Nazi-Germany.
I would go for the UK first. It's more difficult but worth it because the US isn't involved yet and also India isn't a great power (so you don't depend on Japan). If you have your peace treaty with the Allies, the Soviet Union isn't a problem at all.
Well I would say the captain of industry is still incredibly important since you're building civs until around time for fate of Czechoslovakia anyway, and this was more of a guide for historical players and people who want to play multiplayer which is why I didn't go for anybody earlier or anything
@@dustinl796 this is a guid for people who play multiplayer @FDX
I said this was more of a guide for multiplayer, I didn't say it's completely for multiplayer. The majority of advise in the paths you take are designed for multiplayer like I said, but even in the video I mention certain things will work in multiplayer and some things won't depending on your situation
hey out of curiosity, do you think you can make like a google doc or word doc for your guides so we can download them or something. For example I typed up the German guide on google docs so that I can bring it with me places or use it when I'm playing so I don't have to alt+tab each time to look, so this way I have a printed form. It just makes it easier to bring to places and this way its in a physical form so I can easily look at it whenever but I have to go through a process of going to the doc so printing it is easier on me and saves me time. So I was hoping you could type up the guide in a sort of doc? If not it's fine but I think it'd make it easier if it was something we could look at rather than going back and forth through a video taking up more time so. Just a suggestion. Thx
i might later but its pretty hard
Dustinl796 Videos Mk I just ask because it makes it easier to use so yea thx
@@mari0664 I had a similar idea, I sat down 1 day an made a replica of all of his country guides in a diary and mixed it with other TH-camrs' strats and PrussianPrince's templates
What division templates would you use I'm pretty nooby so i don't know what are the good ones for Germany would appreciate the help🙂
Well the tank divisions I used in this video were 10 motorized, 4 medium tanks, 4 sparty
German strategy
Focuses:
1. Rhineland
2. Four year plan
3. Autarky
4. Herman goering wake
5. Kdf wagen
6. Army innovations
7. Treaty with USSR
8. Coal liquidation
9. Synthetic rubber
10. Extra research slot
11. Anschlus
12. Reichs autobahn
13. Army innovations 2
14. Demand sudetenland
15. First vienna award
16. Fate of CZ
17. Reasert eastern claimes
18. Molotov ribbentorp pact
19. Danzig or war
20. Around the maginot
21. German war economy
Construction:
Civilian factories from January 1936 -> April 1937
Military factories from April 1937 -> November 1937
Synthetic refineries from November 1937 -> March 1938
Military factories from March 1938 -> May 1939
Build additional 20 dockyards
Build what is needed
Research:
1. Construction 1
2. Basic machine tools
3. Electronic mechanical engineering
4. Mechanical computing
5. Dispursed industry 1
6. Construction 2
7. Dispursed industry 2
8. Improved machine tools
9. Excavation 1
10. Radio
11. Fuel refining 2
12. Weapons 1
13. Excavation 2
14. Medium tank 1
15. 1938 computing machine
16. Interwar artillery
17. Anti tank 1
18. Medium 1 self propelled artillery
19. Fuel refining 3
20. Rubber processing
21. Encryption 1
22. Decryption 1
23. Infantry equipment 2
24. Dispursed industry 3
25. Advanced machine tools
26. Infantry equipment 3
27. Artillery 2
28. Construction 3
29. Improved computing machine
30. Fighter 2
Division templates:
Infantry:
40 width - 14 infantry 4 artillery
Support artillery
Recon company
Engineer company
Support anti-air
Logistics company
Medium tank:
6 motorized infantry - 10 medium tank - 2 self propelled anti-air - 2 tank destroyer
Heavy tank:
7 motorized infantry - 10 heavy tank - 1 tank destroyer - 2 self propelled anti-air
Political power:
1. Silent workhorse
2. Fascist demagogue
3. War economy
4. Captain of industry
5. Blitzkrieg theorist
6. Porsche tank designer
7. Krupp industry
8. Erwin rommel armor staff
9. Infantry expert
10. Army logistics
11. Herman goering air superiority
12. Army offense
Navy:
Build U-boats and starve the UK from the Atlantic and when possible the Pacific
You can defeat the allies in 1939 with paratroopers and defeating Poland in late 1936
Paratroopers don't work that great anymore, now since the AI guards capitals and other various cities along with putting troops on the front line now paratroopers barely hold far off
@@dustinl796 he is talking about paratrooping the UK i guess which the AI does not defend at all in 1939-1940 their army is in france and africa.
I’m still learning about this game
0:25 when anchsluss is spelt anchulus. Sounds like a mexican dish...
Brother, it's called Anschluss, not Anchsluss.
@@zulu0489 take the wineland
Good video, but you might want to proofread your list of national focuses.
Anchulus
Inovasions
Veinna
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17:26 By this time normal soviet player usually has smt like 250-300 civs and 200-250 military factories, and please respond me how u gonna deal with that, with >200 civs, and 220 mils, please?
If they went no air Russia you begin strat bombing, if that's not allowed you have to encircle and encircle some more
@@dustinl796 How can i pierce soviet 3d heavy tanks with 5 armor having only mids
Blah-Blah-Blah How?A normal Soviet player how have 250-300 civs and 200-250 mil factory in July of 1941?That’s almost impossible unless you did some conquests.
Bruh I will just win when Steiner attack ez game ez life. He is coming right? Right?
Alright everyone clear the room, hitle is in one of his moods again and he's got a knife 😂
Dustinl796 Videos THE PENCIL OF DOOM
What about Spanish sending volunteers to other wars? There's war in Ethiopia right from the start, i usually send 2 infantry and bunch of planes for xp. Then i save up 100 PP for spanish civil war, and send them attache with tanks and planes. And then there's japano-chinese war, i send them attache and some planes.
As Spain you can send volunteers for more XP it's up to you
for anyone following this guide, this is a reminder that this is not optimal at all don't call this a "guide" but a "how I play" video:
first steps are kinda wrong: don't build factories in Brandenburg but in wurtemberg which is also 8 infra. Only when you get the focus of reichsautobahn then start building factories in brandenburg, franken, thuringen and hannover this way is much more efficient thanks to the increased building speed from infra. Also plan to build infra level 10 in the regions with the highest amount free slots, that way again you maximize your building bonus (niederbayern, ostmark and Niederschliessen(?)) are good options). Use the industry research bonus to get ahead in construction II and improved tools, dispersed industry is not so important research that only when the ahead of time penalty disappears. The power of your industry is determined on how many factories you have and not the equipment you produced in the first 1.5 years is negligible.
Political power first you do is FREE TRADE= research speed, construction speed +10 % is AMAZING, also +10% factory production (but i don't care about that). Doing this from 1936 to mid-late 1938 gives you 15 factories more, not to mention the research speeds which is SO important since the new DLC. then martin (SWH) is good, then fascist demagogue depends how high the war support is. because you should stop buying war economy and use the OP focus right below reichsautobahn. use that PP for captain of industry to get even more factories. if you follow these steps i guarantee your military factories will be built at 300% the basic speed and 250% for civilians. also 300% for refineries. you get 110 mil 16 dock and 99 civ, well the above way gets you 15 factories more 115 mil, 110 civ and 40 dock (and 24 more docks).
The German submarines are OP right now so you can compete with the allies if you have cruiser or tier III submarines with as many tubes and radar possible. the key to defeating the navies is killing convoys for oil and resources. with enough torpedoes are OP if you spam enough subs (200 with each +50/60 torpedo attack) decimate even carrier fleets, because Germany has the best admiral for subs and he has an ability to have +10% screen penetration. which means 20% of 200*60= penetration 2400 with torpedoes which ignore armor (ofc if everything hits) the basic HP of the first battleship is 350 HP (no upgrades) lets say a decent BB has 650 HP that's 3.7 battleships that your fleet can sink EVEN with SCREEN protection and no armor can protect them. that's per salvo and Donitz also has an upgrade with +10% accuracy to make it just a bit more better (and don't forget to upgrade the 2 +20% torpedo attack upgrades). Raiding the east is not as effective as raiding the oil supply in the atlantic, rule 1 submarines get bonuses in the high seas, so fight in the high seas. fighting in shallow water is suicide for a submarine.
Using front line ready infantry as garrison is a very poor way of manpower management, always use horses its so much cheaper, and keep a mobile force of a few tanks and motorized nearby to prevent you from an invasion = much cheaper.
Vichy is good but just leave them, they are a very powerful ally, they field a very big army in 1943 and their navy combined with the Italians (you don't have to care about it) can defeat the Mediterranean British fleet.
75 mil factories on fighters??? come on 40 is plenty use the others for CAS or NAV or HEAVY. In single player i have plenty of planes with 40 mil dedicated to fighters in total.
research of doctrine is more useful to get mobile inf and modern blitzkrieg, manpower you get with your laws, skip the 5% manpower its not as good as all the other bonuses. Except if you like to throw manpower away, in that case think about yourself and how evil your truly are.
Killing the navy with spamming airplanes in the channel is good, but also taking out their oil also disables the rest of their fleet and their airplanes that way you have a much easier time capturing England.
everything else is not like the above part where mine is better, this part is just how i prefer to play:
going hard on tanks is ok-ish but tanks don't protect your skies and your factories. I like speed therefor i only need motorized and light tanks with 26 combat width to rush, Poland,low lands, France with 10 K losses, to do this i need loads of airplanes because airplanes slow divisions down. if you focus on speed, your divisions can get to 13.2 km/h, this is twice as fast as any other french or British division have.
Im sorry but 1,8k planes, is pathetically low, how do you prevent yourself from strategic bombing, tank losses from enemy CAS? i get by aug 1939 at least 800-1000 CAS 1,4-2k fighters, 400-800 heavy fighters and 600 NAV.
106 navy i suspect half is submarines, well you need more. thanks to the 24 more dockyards i can cut UK's oil off in 4 months and bring it to 0. therefor i need subs III and at least 100-200 of them because the low level subs will get killed so fast.
I would say write a guide somewhere yourself, you have some valid min max tactics and you should share them with people instead of burrying it in the shitstorm of comments.
After Man the Guns, you lose your Captain of Industry after Fate of Czechoslovakia so I wouldn't recommend to use him if you play as Nazi-Germany.
@@lars9925 i wait for czechoslovakia until mid-late 1938 when i don't need it anymore CIVs since i have enough built then. I don't mind letting austria and czecho do some focusses because then i get more factories for free. But yea i can understand the logic behind your argument of spending 150 PP on something else more permanent. maybe someone has done the value of having a +10% speed and what it means in number of actual factories extra.
@@alphalion2057 i might do that someday, after the updates have settled. Don't minding it posting it here since i wrote it whilst watching the guide. You never know if he used a trick or tactic i didn't know about.
Whatt ı have 600 hours and this is completely bullshit . 1.4-2k fighters???? Uk has 3k and france has 1k no mention of other minor allied countries.)how the hell will you get air superiority I get 5 k fighter 2-3k tac bomb. and 2 k cas .by 39 when I complete danzig or war.Another very important thing is the treaty with the USSr foucs(perhaps the best focus in the game) and rush med tanks . I usually get 30-35 med. divs . Trying to cut of uk trade is ridiculuous they have 1k convoys and you will need to continue for 1-2 years. Using cav for garrison is a terrible idea especialy if you are in SP because as germany you wont need to save up your whole army to beat france and Uk ı keep normal 20 widht inf s to coast garrison and resistance suppresion .(Also keeping tanks or motorized divs is a very poor idea as you wont have a lot of them.
is it enought troops for soviet campaign ? 15:00 when i play 5x24 general barely compete with soviets
it depends. in sp if you have alot of really good tank divisions then yea, if in mp you may want double
In SP, after you learn the game, you can get 4x 24 inf (40w) and 1x 24 tank (med 40w) divisions easy before june 1941(all with fully upgraded logistics). This is more than enought to crush fully buffed USSR. Also - having more divisions leads to more attrition, therafore it is not wise to have more than this on eastern front as germany anyway
"Chrominium" .....its Chromium
To be honest I maybe should have specified in the video that was an Easter egg for a livestream I did a while ago and a few selected friends
No its kryptonite
Can you explain better the production and templates? Thanks 🙏
Here are the templates th-cam.com/video/Uvy5sYRLgFo/w-d-xo.html
How can i do mechanical computing as the same time as electronichal mechanical computing???
Erm nice but glaring errors stright off the bat. 4 research slots.. and you cant research mech. computing till after electro mech. engineering. So what to fill the 4th slot with at the beginning?
Basically just skip over to the next technology until you can go back and do it correctly. My list got out of order when I was editing it
For some reason I can never seem to get the amount of troops needed to do anchluss by 1937 I build the factories but by the end of 1937 it’s still building civilian factories and not mils
you could build a ton of 2 width divisions and after you get like 40, convert them to your main infantry divisions :)
Dustinl796 Videos I’ll try that later today
Slight issue with your focus tree order: in order to attack the Soviet Union you need to have Anti-Comintern pact completed, since you can’t justify against someone you have a non-aggression pact with. I usually do Rhineland, Four Year Plan (to get Hjalmar Schact) and then Anti-Comintern. I also found it hard to get coal liquidization and synthetic rubber before Sept. 1 1939, unless you attack Poland using the territory claim rather than Danzig or War. IMO the game should give you a core on Danzig if you take the claim route as well, since it otherwise becomes impossible to do Ribbentrop-Molotov at the historically accurate time if you want to do Danzig or war too!
good point
For the research list, is it ordered in columns or rows? Because you can’t do mechanical computing until after you’ve done electronic mechanical engineering.
To be honest it's the left side first then the right side, I did make a couple small mistakes though. I've been up for close to twenty hours working on content when I started to edit the video
Dustinl796 Videos You did a great job! I did veer from the research list slight because sometimes I couldn’t do the next in the list and I had a slot available, but my game worked out nicely. I had to make a comeback from being cornered by Romania, Czechoslovakia, France and Yugoslavia and then Hungary declared on me for refusing to give up Transylvania, which was then joined by Spain after I did the focus to get them on MY side - they ended up joining Pact of Rome the other fascist faction, which is one of the most bullshit problems with the AI, don’t you think?Though not Italy, as I had a non-aggression pact with them, though they took a couple of my puppets, but were defeated by the Allies eventually who are now at war with the Americans holy shit it’s a mess..
I then took parts of Poland while they were at war with the Soviets,this was easy and I took Danzig and a few other states but I didn’t have enough points to take the rest, so I went to war with the Soviets who were allied with Japan for some reason. I took the USSR and finally got my peace deal after multiple failed naval invasions of Japan... hope you didn’t mind the summary of my game. Hoi4 with all the DLCs and no historical focus can be crazy.
No! Build Wurtemberg, Rheinland and Westphalen in the beggining and then move on to 70% if needed. Save Brandenburg for when it gets 100% from Reichsautobahn
Greasing you do rheinland first is it gives you another 70 days so you can begin researching the first industry technology of dispersed or concentrated and then by the time you get done with that you can take the industry Focus because you already be working on dispersed industry 2 or concentrated industry 2 so you'll get to Industry technologies that you can use for industry 4 and 3
starting off as germany, you can literally take poland by the beginning of october with the allies leaving you alone. As soon as you get political points near the end of the month you can justify war towards poland, i usually do this, save the game, and the continue from there. When you attack poland, even when you are still learning a new focus, you can bypass the Rhineland focus, and if you have enough men on the field, can start on the Anschluss pretty early. Not sure if you ever knew this
Well you can do that but this was more of a historical guide that people can also use in multiplayer. The last time I came out with a guide and told people to do that the multiplayer server that I play in told me that a bunch of people that kept joining were following my guide and invading Poland right at the start
@@dustinl796 it's funny you say that, my one and only multiplayer game a couple people got pissed and left as soon as I took Poland early on lol
Can anybody tell me what infantry setup melted the allies. my old reliable 7inf 2arty is just not cutting it after mtg
To be honest what I use is 7/2, 4/4 and then usually just double the numbers
how would you change this to incorporate the new spy mechanics?
Why _Extra Research Slot_ after _Treaty with USSR_ and _Synthetic Rubber_ ?
because you can use the 5th slot if you want exclusively for far away tech your using bonuses on like medium 2's or 3's instead of tying up a 4th slot for 2 years
Any recommendation to lend lease Spain Civil War or Sino-Japanese War. Especially to boost army xp?
Send a certain amount of guns once and send one support equipment monthly. If you don't as soon as the guns arrive you get no more XP off of them because the Lend-Lease closes
Soooo... you didn´t tell us which things we should produce (except for naval things, but not for example which planes and how much military factories build which things etc) and im pretty new to this game, so could you answer that?
Well that mostly depends on your game, mostly you want air as num 1 priority tho followed by tanks
@@dustinl796 Oh, always did the opposite. Thanks!
Ty for this guide, since I am new to the game this helps a lot understand mechanics. But I got a big problem; after "Danzig or war" the Allied Forces instantly try to invade me when I try to take poland. And they just shredd me from the west.
Is it feasible to break through the maginot line? maybe with strat bombs and parachuts? would be kind of cool
What strategic bombers are Fort Buster it's possible
can we get the remasterd version of this video
which research is " AT 1" if I may ask, cant seem to locate it
perhaps anti tank 1?
*Is it a good idea to took Denmark first?*
Problem with technology is that I have 1 empty slot and cant take Mechanical Computing until it's researched. same on version 1.6.0. as in 1.8.0 version.
In AI games I like to naval England thru Norway, capitulate them, and naval France from the strait. This leaves northern France undefended and I can take it easily
Good strat 😁
If somehow Turkey joins the Axis, you could actually pull off a naval invasion in the Caucasus region. The only downside would be that you need to upgrade the ports there to at least level 4. There are two ports (namely Batumi and one close to the Kerch strait) and both of them are lvl 1.
Definitely of turkey gets involved it's game over for the Soviets
@@dustinl796 tbh though, a good German player knows that prioritizing tanks and CAS is the only way you can reliably defeat the Soviets. Such a player does not need Turkey to open up another front in the Caucasus.
The only downside is that you need a Romania player that isn't a complete idiot and maxes out his oil production. Oh, and a Hungary that lend leases you aircraft.
Well to be honest that's why in the guide I specify production after 38 when you have Panzer 4's they should be a top priority and also the same year start building synthetics to support you since you can't really rely on your allies in multiplayer....... ever 😁😂😂😂
I think some of those techs might be in wrong order in the tech list. I would probably research land doctrines before the war, and also mechanized 1 tech before the war (to boost motorizeds hardness). Also, when should germany get land doctire researches done and what about air doctrines? Then in La resistance theres is the goddam espionage thing again, but I doubt it will be very useful for Germany for cost reasons before war.
nah its right, this was for mtg so im still working on it
what about the "only build mills and convert to civs" trick?
That really only work this Japan and it doesn't really work very often anymore since you have to go to war very early
@@dustinl796 why do I have to go to war? what's with the SoV?
Have never tried GER (either MtG or pre-MtG). About to give it a go, following this guide. One thing you didn't mention: Balkan nations and whether/how to use Romanian/Hungarian/etc expeditionary forces for hitting USSR. Is it worth the extra time & effort to lock all those countries up and use their forces? I'd think at very least Romanian oil is a mandatory goal, no?
The Romanian oil may or may not be an issue, when I build synthetics for full-year even with all the motorized, tank divisions, submarines, and Air Force I don't have that much of an issue with oil. But as for taking their divisions I usually don't do that, personally that's just more divisions you have to keep an eye on in the a I will go crazy and try to keep pushing on its own
The tactic of invading Belgium isn't working out. I attack with 10 divisions of 40w of mixed medium/light units, and the enemy is getting air superiority, terrain advantage, and are able to pierce the armour. I just can't break through, and the UK and France keep streaming troops in. My inf divisions are 20w. Not sure what I can do the fix this besides reload all the way back and produce more medium armour divisions and forget the planes and light tanks.
yea the ai is a little smarter now sense a recent update. use all ur cas, fall back a little and try to get 10 widths
@@dustinl796 Completely overwhelmed France by 30th October. I used 9 light tank divisions in army group A, 5 mixed tank divisions (light and medium), and another 4 lights in army group B.
The old Netherlands then Belgium worked a treat. Used the lights as ferraris to quickly run up the coast and take Paris.
Just build stacks of uboats with lots of torps and set them to always engage. You'll win the atlantic. Don't know if this still works in 1.7
Oh it does. It does
I have one question
WHAT DO I USE MY FORTH RESEARCH SLOT FOR!!!
Bassicly whatever you want, i use it for fighter 1's early for cv fighters
Oops not usa guide, basicly just whatevers next on the list
Dustinl796 Videos almost had a stroke until I saw the second comment, thought the coop from your recent video commented this lmao
I am completely stumped trying to invade USSR as Germany. I have read so many guides and watched many videos like this one. I had not played HOI4 for about a year and recently picked it up again. I gather the meta has changed from 20 width to 40 width. By early summer '41 I have 4x 24 div infantry armies and 2 x 24 div mixed armour and motorized armies and they just don't punch through. The Russians throw 3500 fighters up over eastern Poland and there are are not enough air bases built in time to match them. Then there is supply, with this many troops on the line I am running into supply bottle necks all over the place, especially at the north and south end of the line of advance. I see your main tank army under Rommel is only 15 divisions at 20:11 and all mediums at Aug '41. I am wondering what difficultly you are playing at? By that date having followed this guide precisely I am not sure how I would have the time and experience to have gone all mediums. Meh about to restart and try again, literally the 20th attempt.
to be honest recently.... (a couple months ago) the ai got a big buff and mostly aggressively attacks, basically you have to try the best you can to cause decent encirclement's and hold till the ai looses alot of guns
I'm new as a player myself, i have now the Keiserreich back and for some reason i can't build any CVs. Allready late game and it still won't let me build one. "Missing component" but it won't tell me what component.
Check the bottom row, every ship needs at least one main gun which is the bottom left and then Cruisers need a fire control system which is the third from the left :-)
@@dustinl796 I learned why, unlike other ships where you can build them stock but not the CV. You need naval exp to build a CV in the first place.
should you start researching medium tank 1 (panzer 3) even before you get the medium tank 1 tech boost from focuses finished? Is the tech boost still applied to medium 1 tech even though youre already researchin it?
it doesnt, when you start researching any bonuses for that type are not used. that method only works for equipment designers like tank designers
When i´m doing the poland invasion, france enters the war and starts conquer all occidental germany? i´ve seen your videos and that doensn´t happen. How can i stop France form entering the war?
I tried the Luxemburg trick and it didn’t work what should I try now
Declare war on the Netherlands first, then Belgium, then finally go after France after you Blitz through Belgium
Sorry for late comment. But why Porsche over medium tank designer? Isnt soft better than hard for tanks?
To get into the Atlantic get docking rights from Venezuela and Spain
Will you please make a combat and production guide?
I'll try to soon :-)
I wouldn't do the bottom left of mobile warfare ever, if you don't have enough manpower as Germany you aren't playing correctly. I also usually go down the motorized side rather than the tank side, because I think +15 org for every motorized and mechanized is worth more than +20% breakthrough. If you do mobile warfare the way I suggest, you still get the 40% breakthrough that you got from your method, but your divisions can have more tank units in comparison to motorized, making them ultimately stronger in the end.
In most multiplayer games, Italy and Hungary are the main D-Day defense not Germany, so desperate defense doesn't make sense.
How do you spam the man power? I cant get 950k until may 1940 in my last game