HOI4 10 Tips on Winning Wars (Hearts of Iron 4 Man the Guns Guide)

Todays hoi4 video is a hearts of iron 4 tutorial showing different ways you can win wars in hearts of iron 4 man the guns and all other versions. we cover things like convoy raiding, espionage and tanks in this important hoi4 guide while showing off some little tips for hoi4 aswell
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[@ItsJustMak25]

Germany: I have successfully captured 0.1% of France France: surrender!!

[@dustinl796]

France? Do you mean free real estate?

[@TheOriginalGamerdud]

Dustinl796 Videos it would then be frence

[@mnco5741]

Lool

[@jonasmejerpedersen4847]

Napoleons France: i have invaded the netherlands germans states: i surrender!

[@redcape2184]

@@jonasmejerpedersen4847 Prussia would dissagree

[@kaqaji2945]

Step 1: Choose Luxembourg. Step 2: Make 10 fort. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit.

[@dustinl796]

What are you going to do? Luke the Germans that are trying to attack it LOL

[@kaqaji2945]

@@dustinl796 Step 3 says it.

[@hbk4570]

step 3 is get encircled by germans and die slowly

[@alexeyamosov664]

One nuclear bomb: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career”

[@nyph933]

@@alexeyamosov664 nukes actually do like nothing in this game.

[@crazybalalaika8143]

Step one: choose Tannu Tuva Step 2: Declare War on EVERYONE Step 3: victory

[@dustinl796]

-_-

[@crazybalalaika8143]

@@dustinl796 guess I've done your job in less than 10 minutes xD

[@TheAetheris]

Tannu what?

[@andreimoga7813]

@@TheAetheris *insert picture of Steve Rogers with caption "I understood that reference"

[@arthas640]

Reminds me of those crazy people who take over the world as the Ryukyu Islands or Byzantium in EU4.

[@El_Presidente_5337]

People are saying that encirclements are only luck? *Operation Barbarossa wants to know your location*

[@dustinl796]

lol

[@fnapFNAP]

Stalingrad!

[@PLPCPLAPD]

If people say tactics in this game is "luck" they must truly be beta male casual gamers who should stick to candy crush

[@heha3131]

@@PLPCPLAPD mobile candy crush lmao

[@altairtodescatto]

I just draw one line with all my division to the capital, click play an lay back while all my troops fails miserably because i had no idea what i am doing

[@dustinl796]

you need to micro or let the troops sit for a few mins to max out the planning bonus

[@nestororiginal3053]

Me too haha. I was loosing with Italy in Athiopia and still don't know why they are stronger though we have more divisions

[@walbermr]

@@dustinl796 dude, I always wait for the planning bonus but lose all the time lol. Am I some kind of idiot? Yes or aye? XD

[@thelaniakean7597]

Walber Macedo the game takes a while to learn. Try using multiple divisions to attack a province from many directions.

[@australianword3812]

@@nestororiginal3053 because blunt charges dont work. Don't bring the entire Italian army

[@tonyjiang94]

11. Go Superior Firepower, make 40 w divisions (armor is welcomed, but not necessary) with enough up-to-date artillery, wreck havoc on enemy and win

[@dustinl796]

More like raining refrigerators

[@gildedphoenix]

Or go Mass Mobilization then throw man into grinder until they run out of manpower.

[@gildedphoenix]

@@John-rr9fv if it works, it is not retarded.

[@arthas640]

There are few things quiet as beautiful as watching some idiot Soviet AI throw wave after wave of infantry at an armored division in the vain hope of drowning you in Russian blood.

[@gildedphoenix]

@@John-rr9fv How? How can you miss 5% manpower bonus? And Mass Mob is actually useful if you know what you are doing.

[@panzerwafflez7228]

The one thing thats always been annoying me in HOI4 is how you carefully set up frontlines for each army yet the moment you do any penetrations/encirclements they go all over the place and u have to constantly reset the frontlines on all ur armies.

[@santiagoperez2094]

There is no way for the name to know war you want to do so sadly that's just a natural mechanic problem

[@fnapFNAP]

Don't use front line system use fallback line if you defend if you attack delete the line and use you time to move every division and be smart about it if enemy if weak use front line system to end them fast

[@lazykukuk4481]

Ah yeah, I try to invade netherland as german with front line tactic and offensive line. After that I focused on france, and after some times I confused why almost half my territory being invaded by netherland, and I founded the army I use for invade netherland just go where they want to 😔

[@Fabioonn]

30 Min of hell flashbacks (quite easy if you do it with the warsaw uprising). Everytime i tried to make a small push the frontline instantly made a full circle around the whole front. Can you get planning bonus without frontlines?

[@badatnoscoping4954]

To control the factories in a state I'm pretty sure you just need to control the major city if it has one. For example, taking Paris would give you control of all the factories in that state, even if you don't control the entire thing.

[@dustinl796]

To be honest that would make a lot more sense on how the system would be set up. Most of the time I just try to capture as much of the zone is possible to also buy time if in multiplayer LOL

[@rokass.5430]

@@dustinl796 OMEGALUL XDDDDD

[@anthonyfangqingyu4570]

You have to control the majority of victory points in a state to get occupation and control of factories, which is usually just controlling one or two big cities.

[@andreimoga7813]

Yes, that is the condition. Maybe because the city is the major urban center, and so the industry is most developed in it? If so, maybe a mechanic should be included where researching Concentrated Industry or Dispersed Industry actually makes a difference in how the factories of a region are captured. Nah, scratch that, too complicated.

[@magatmilan8925]

@@dustinl796 Also, I don't know how you didn't know about this while making this video, but during wartime, you can only delete 1 factory per month in a given state. It's been like that since like together for victory or something

[@KonaKonism]

Can i just say, you forgot one huge way to win wars GREEN AIR AND CAS

[@dustinl796]

That doesn't necessarily always mean that you will win though. Depending on doctrines and many other things you can have green air in it be of little use to you. Something really important that I recommend always is prioritize plane and fighter production to at least contest the air but give your troops AA support so you're not too reliant on the fighters

[@KonaKonism]

@@dustinl796 I understand that green air doesn't mean you'll win wars, but in my experience it helps alot for attacking (for example Japan - China war). But yeah in some wars you don't really need cas or air at all if you have AA (again for example if you are the soviets vs germany) that's just my opinion. Still respect and understand your answer.

[@prolainen8997]

@@KonaKonism jep

[@Troglodytarum]

@@dustinl796 It was a joke dumbass

[@tomi9562]

Me with only 47 planes: oh boy here i go dying again

[@whyshebuiltlikethat5311]

I’d love to use these tactics and play a good game of Hearts of Iron, but my toaster-computer can barely get me past 1938😂

[@rasmuswhitehorn5240]

Feel you. Have you tried older versions, so the game is less advanced?

[@dustinl796]

There are a lot of mods in Steam Workshop that can either reduce lag or totally stop it. Look for mods that say performance in the title or you could just search for performance mods themselves. What they mostly do is they remove Manpower from South American countries so they don't make divisions and make the game go a lot faster

[@Destragond]

The latest update 1.7 has some performance improvement. Haven't tested it out myself though.

[@KonaKonism]

Feels bad man

[@robbyy4116]

@@Destragond my fckin lenovo laptop that has 4 gigs of ram cannot go smoothly with this game like what he fuck

[@hernan1868]

1-Play as United States. 2-Become fascist. 3-Done.

[@dustinl796]

You forgot the part where you get kicked out of the multiplayer game though for going fascist USA 😂

[@pavelslama5543]

@@dustinl796 Try anything useful and get kicked out of multiplayer game. There are just two ways how to play multiplayer games: 1) Find some friends to play with, preferably some who do not need to overreact if they lose. OR 2) Dont try to be smart, play dumb like everyone else. And just to be sure - dont even try to win, because if you create too good division, you get kicked, if you strat bomb them, you get kicked, if you use paratroopers as diversion/destruction units, you get kicked, if you land around enemy capital, you get kicked, if you like being Free American Empire, you get kicked. Really man, just pretend that you are AI...

[@thelaniakean7597]

But the USA has that annoying House of Commons and senate system

[@vgames6792]

@@pavelslama5543 this sounds like good game for multiplayer :)

[@toxicelamain2494]

v games I’d say just play singleplayer and ignore the fact that there is a multi. It’s clunky as hell anyway feels like a lan system from 15 years before.

[@kenshinalbirunny6834]

Type "Annex **Country tag you're at war with** " Easy peasy lemon squeeze

[@dustinl796]

And how do you plan on doing that if you're in Ironman mode or multiplayer?

[@JohnDoe-jq4re]

Dustinl796 Videos shhhh 🤫

[@0lennard]

Do any tips in this video work in multiplayer?

[@fruze8478]

@@0lennard Yes

[@arthas640]

@@dustinl796 i havent tried it myself yet, but i heard if you delete system 32 then the servers cant detect if you cheated or not so you can use cheats in multiplayer. _hack the mainframe!_

[@parallel2795]

Thanks for this. I have over 60+ hours yet I haven't 'won' a single game. I've won wars, yes, but by 1948 I'm always either stuck in an unbeatable war or I got rekt by a country way more powerful than me. At least I'm having fun losing though, I guess thats what matters the most

[@tylerpentecost9669]

I like to use fallback lines for smaller countries. Take Bulgaria as an example. If I am in a war with Bulgaria, the greater chances are that the front line is small. I will keep 2-3 infantry troops on each front line province using a fallback line to keep my other troops away. I want enough troops on the front that Bulgaria cannot break through, but not so many that they stop attacking me. They will lose way more manpower than I will lose, and I commit all of my forces to a powerful counterattack whenever they run out of manpower.

[@fnapFNAP]

Do the same but in any war I'm weaker than my enemy cuz I hate when AI manages my frontline and messes with my troops of course the way I do it is I look at the terrain and divide my armies like a 24 division army to hold the fall back line then 5 or 6 divisions to breakthrough and divide enemy forces and crush them

[@Septimus_ii]

You've been absolutely killing it with videos recently. Thank you so much!

[@dustinl796]

Thanks for watching! 😬

[@blazodeolireta]

7:04 in real life they bought all Portugal tungsten. An economic war almost forgotten.

[@XavierSJ]

9:00 check his name on the top left

[@dustinl796]

100% not drew durnil 😁

[@Vipers_Pit]

😂😂😂😂

[@Kriegerflinger]

I'd like to see it become necessary to build logistics depots. Usually a city center, or the area with the highest infrastructure in a state. Or maybe make it so logistics support is just part of the equation, but you need to build logistics trucks that work much like convoys, but on land.

[@Kriegerflinger]

We already have fuel to think about, why not small arms ammunition, artillery and tank ammunition, and food? It would definitely change how we go about planning our campaigns.

[@chrisscott6254]

Oh boy. This man is a prophet

[@GodOfGunz]

No step back di be workin’ like that

[@MalleusSemperVictor]

Tips: Never invade Russia in winter and never get involved in a land war in Asia.

[@dustinl796]

That might be good tips 😂

[@zacharymohammadi]

Tip3: never attack Lichtenstein they are too OP

[@JohnDoe-jq4re]

Zachary Mohammadi Or Quarry I think I scraped some Lichtenstein off my shoe when I can in the door.

[@davidthorp01]

Et Malleo Semper Vicit Now hold your horses........ We can still expand the Lebanstram, you just need a little more forethought and hutspa! Destroy the english by not letting up on the RAF and then slowly making the Channel virtually a death sentence for enemy shipping. Then take your wüdebau infantry und some splendid PanzerKompfGroupeen and CRUSH the english, CRIPPLE THEIR BLASTED LONDON GOVERNMENT und scorch your way to scotland. They should capitulate soon enough.... Then it’s boogaloos till we puke in Moscow once we wait for spriiiiiingtiiiiime!

[@shibainu7709]

I was losing a war badly once but then I enriceld a lot of troops and then won the war that was the most epic thing I ever done

[@nicholasjohnstone7823]

Hey man i love your vids and you should keep it up. Could you please upload more playthroughs or twitch vods though, i find them pretty entertaining

[@dustinl796]

I've been trying but it's kind of difficult to find a game that actually goes over pretty well when you're looking for random matches LOL

[@kiko3063]

Thanks for the amazing tips, keep up the great content 👌

[@dustinl796]

Glad to have helped :-)

[@CJT02]

They gotta fix the decryption stuff, now in the mid-game you can't see any of the enemy divisons. Makes the game so frustrating to play for me

[@krizy1819]

Cameron Jack Trayling Build radar stations

[@franrodriguezrondero5749]

Really good and useful video! Thanks!

[@Hoot_hoot777]

Personally I would love to see 10 ways you can make people rage quit in Hoi4. I would like to know just so I don't do them.

[@dustinl796]

You know what I think I will do that now LOL

[@IraqiTaxiDriver]

Some people don't understand that when they make crazy division templates that are not simple without equipment they will not be able to keep there divisions equipped.

[@dustinl796]

Probably should have included that or something like that in one of the tips. Personally I usually have five or six a game, 1 Garrison division, one Frontline Infantry Division, a defensive and offensive Infantry Division and two or more tank divisions and sometimes motorized divisions depending on what I'm doing

[@Daydream896]

Now I hope I can get my first win in singleplayer Kappa

[@dustinl796]

Good luck!

[@tamakaze712]

Need to remember if you want to make anyone fascist under 1944 is just go war with anyone

[@Daydream896]

@@tamakaze712 that's what I used to do when I started HOI4, played Sweden, joined axis and declared on everyone 😎

[@charmyzard]

@@tamakaze712 Instructions unclear, *Hungary just ran away into the Allies*

[@oleanderkazzy_]

Girls with a time machine: Hii I'm your great-granddaughter Boys with a time machine: Watch this, king

[@tylerpentecost9669]

I just used one of the tips I learned from this video to obliterate the UK. I finally managed to get a good foothold on their island, but I left London encircled instead of immediately taking it. I absolutely wrecked the rest of their troops. It was so bad that I put my Army Group on aggressive, and I was overrunning them.

[@moxyahh6768]

thanks for this helped a lot

[@matthewschad6649]

The video stopped right before you completed the encirclement! Do you like to watch us suffer?!

[@dustinl796]

Sowwy 😁

[@I_like_big_bombs]

Anyone else just kinda tier their armies? Light Infantry (Leichte Infantrie), which is like 5 infantry and a couple Artillery, 1 Anti Tank and a single Motorized. Regular Infantry- 20 Width your infantry (10), 2 Artillery, 2 Anti Tank, 3-4 Motorized Battalions and definitely a Medical Company. Heavy Infantry is just Regular Infantry except subtract 2 Motorized and add a Medium Tank. Light Tank Divisions I just max out the Engine abilities of the light tank variants. I do this for large encirclements and rushing cities. Medium Tank Divisions are mixed with light tanks and mostly medium. Primarily for the purpose of backing up the line if it gets bogged down. Then Super Heavy Tank Divisions which is just like a line of 5 Battalions and some Motorized and Mechanized. Plus some AT if I need it, and its just for ripping through fort lines. Which usually only happens late game. Like if you Take Quebec and you realize last second to NEVER USE QUEBEC AS A LAUNCH PAD FOR INVASION! Seriously Quebec will always have shitty supply into the region, I use Florida and Cuba as jump points.

[@arthas640]

honestly when i play germany (my fav) i build almost nothing but general infantry and light tanks. Throw some AT and ART support on there and you can beat 90% of what your enemy throws at you. I beat most of Europe on my first play through by simply drowning them in cheap tanks since early to mid game the AI doesnt bother with much for armor and i only had to worry about enemy tanks mid game. Not efficient or elegant but im too lazy for too many division types.

[@davidthorp01]

Brad From Scene Twenty Four Depends, how much time are we talking to perhaps have it as a launch point? Has Canada been annexed via ending Britain or is it still fighting on stubbornly with American support? If you have time, just build the infrastructure up and defend the St. Lawrence if the Americans don’t outclass you. Do your offensive in either the western mountains or through the great plains and Michigan into the ohio and Mississippi salient. If you’re superior across the board and needn’t worry about anything in Europe? Take the time to build up the ports on both sides of the country and to move the Kreigsmarine (should you keep up the production of Subs and Battleships & Battlecruisers) to Canada or Greenland from the North to defend the Atlantic supply pathway. If you are not superior and have little time to fight....I suggest either leaving them alone and recuperating or simply not dealing with the Americans.

[@DionysiusvonAug]

Very, very, very good. What you did here, you uncovered serious [!] bugs and game issues and showed us how to exploit them. For the sake of the game, the quality and the standard, you should stick your video in the official HOI4 forum, urging that these (gamebreakers) be eliminated/corrected asap.

[@dustinl796]

Which things do you think are game-breaking?

[@justdom248]

How do I get started in multiplayer in Hoi4.I have 300 hours in the game and I consider myself a competent player

[@joshuaroark5632]

Josef Stalin join games that say !!1936 historical discord. Join the discord and play Brazil or and minor nation. Learn the meta and get better

[@alfredlindquist3046]

Step 1. Find a multiplayer lobby. Step 2. Wait between 1-3 hours for players to join. Step 3. Play some country and pray to god that the server does not resync or host leave.

[@frogchip6484]

Josef Stalin you’re not competent until about 1000 hours, i wouldn’t say I’m competent, I have 720 hours

[@joshuaroark5632]

FrogChip what’s your discord name

[@frogchip6484]

Joshua Roark Frogchip#4203

[@rednaxninety3659]

I just line up my troops to make a swaztika and wait for my allies to notice it

[@dustinl796]

And that's when you get pulled to the allies chat and the host demands you to fix it or else gets banned LOL

[@rednaxninety3659]

Dustinl796 Videos lmao

[@RedPatriot76]

Bro Luxembourg is just chillin

[@thecutedoglola6604]

@Dustinl796 Videos I used the light spg tank divisions you showed in one of your mp videos and I broke benelux and northern france in a matter of minutes

[@dustinl796]

Nice 😁

[@frogchip6484]

The Cute Dog Lola it’s AI, pretty much anything can work, look no further than the stuff ISP did in hoi4

[@fkjl4717]

Of course SPG art works good vs infantry. But AI in Hoi 4 is very weak. You should empower your enemies (Increase country strength or choose veteran/elite difficulty) to do a real test of your templates.

[@thecutedoglola6604]

My pc cant handle late game majors with buffed strength, sorry

[@andreimoga7813]

Mm, Light SPG, yum

[@blitzfox8989]

Thank you for this video, it was pretty interesting and i even learned some new stuff :)

[@dustinl796]

Glad to help :-)

[@hezekiahgab4490]

Thanks for ur tips man

[@dirkslabbert3587]

Perhaps central supply hubs should be manually set up or constructed on the map.

[@dustinl796]

Actually that would be pretty cool too

[@dirkslabbert3587]

Dustinl796 Videos With the construction of supply hubs, a supply system similar to the fuel system can be implemented which would be very interesting.

[@Elementalism]

Didn't hoi3 have command units that served that function?

[@dustinl796]

Yes it did

[@styot]

They are doing something like that, the updated supply system will introduce railways as the main supply routes and major cities will be supply hubs, plus you can manually build supply hubs and new railways where ever you want.

[@cledon.]

Nice vid. :) tips on production? I usually spam civilians untill the war gets close then I do mills

[@dustinl796]

Usually it depends on who you're playing as and what you need, as Germany I'll usually build civilian factories until 1937 and then by about mid 1937 I'll start building synthetics for about half a year and then start building military factories for about a year before the war

[@xdlolfam2713]

LMAO Paradropping into Paris is hilarious! 😂😂😂

[@sdkfz142sturmgeschutziii4]

"Never take capitals because of the supply" 2 mins later "If you take the capital, you win because of the supply" Thanks bro

[@japanpanda2179]

In the second one by "take" they meant "encircle"

[@lastyhopper2792]

Yup I'm confused as well

[@dima9171]

Gangster tactics tbh, like those paratroopers deleting factories

[@dankuser8303]

Don’t over rely on offensive lines. Micromanaging can be way more effective

[@dustinl796]

Oh definitely by far. When using tanks I hardly ever use a battle plan, most of the time that's only for infantry divisions

[@captainnutsack8151]

^^^this^^^

[@captainnutsack8151]

I always micro hard, it limits my manpower losses extremely....I concentrate large quantities of divisions on one single tile, picking the tile with the most attack directions, try to pull off encirclements that way. Usually even if I can't pull of the encirclement, the enemy will retreat realizing the danger of the possible encirclement, and I gain ground anyway.

[@arthas640]

i prefer drowning the enemy in cheap tanks, but to each his own

[@zachyoung6807]

Exactly this. I'm pretty new to the game, and I can't stand how often I find single infantry divisions trying to Duke it out with tanks.

[@ANWRocketMan]

I target AA first with strat bombing. If you don't, you could lose hundreds of bombers in a few days. Did some bombing on UK ports with port strikes to force the fleet out of port. Didn't target their AA and lost around 220 bombers and 145 fighters in 5 days. Made up 70% of my casualties. Switched to bomb the AA and even with just 3 damage levels (out of 5) that dropped to around 10%.

[@dustinl796]

Yeah but civs can get repaired so quick by the civilian factories if it's in multiplayer

[@ANWRocketMan]

@@dustinl796 True, I usually then leave 100 or so medium bombers on strat bombing after the initial attack on the AA just to maintain the damage. That seems so far to prevent their repair. I'll need to do more testing on that though.

[@andreimoga7813]

Thank you for these tips. Already did the things like encircling the capitals and screwing up their supplies or using different kinds of armor for specific tasks. Also knew civilian factories were important, as in my very early days I didn't emphasize on them and lost my wars. Just never got to go after the ones of the enemy. I am not that great with offensive in air warfare :( any advice on improving my air warfare play?

[@dustinl796]

Depending on who you're playing as what I would suggest is have as many of your Fighters as possible follow your army group that will do the most attacking, select a bunch of your fighter Air Wings and then right click the division. Make sure you turn on air superiority and also use Cas the same way and I'll just simply follow them around giving support when able

[@andreimoga7813]

Well, thank you. So, air combat is basically just having a bigger number of airplanes than the enemy, in the given battle area?

[@dustinl796]

Well sort of. The way Hearts of Iron 4 air combat works is kind of tricky. For example if somebody has Fighter 1's and you have heavy fighter 1s you can have less and when because of other statistics are added in the battle like who has the most range, who has more agility, who has more Etc. Really most of the time though if somebody has more advanced planes than you even if you do have more than them they will still win and take your planes out in a 1 to 4 ratio

[@andreimoga7813]

Thanks. Well, now I can't wait to get home and try on a new game.

[@Mazzzaq]

Is it always a good idea to be constantly upgrading your equipment? I am finding I am not even making enough guns for example to full equip my armies before I have upgraded to the next one. Also if you are at an equipment deficit in something should you build up a surplus first before upgrading to the next tier?

[@dustinl796]

Normally ill go into production and turn on (outdated equipment) ill then put a few mills on there and 4 or 5 more mills on current weapons and upgrade as needed sense old equipment is cheaper

[@KurdishTigers]

I like it how he didn’t invade Deluxembourg™

[@Random_sandwich]

i didnt know the paratrooper ability all this time.. ive just been encircling netherlands by land on its port so that Uk wont be able to send troops via the ports in belgium, guess time to try it out now

[@poltergeisterr1094]

I made lvl 5 forts along the Soviet border as Germany and then when I declared war they kept attacking the forts and drain their manpower. When their manpower were at 0, I basicly won the combat instantly so it was not hard getting to the victory points.

[@dustinl796]

Yea i love draining mp

[@only9746]

Foarte tare frate

[@Aiham]

This man is battleplanning and talkm bout how to win

[@tricksterdac4216]

I always have the issue as the UK where in the eastern Med italy and Germany keep bombing my ships and I am losing ships left and right even when I challenge there air power they still destroys a large part of my navy any tips to counter this

[@dustinl796]

Yea, air is op now

[@hydra9254]

3:54, how did you assign that whole army to that one order? i thought you would have to do an order for each army group

[@imannaufal640]

Shift left click/right click the field marshal to make the frontline

[@hydra9254]

k ty

[@dustinl796]

field marshal.

[@lostintimeandspace4522]

I reccomend turning on 3d units it helps

[@TheDethBringer666]

dont know why anyone wouldnt make their own rubber/oil when almost no country has them, seems pretty stupid to rely on a colony in the as end of nowhere

[@georgbergsten6050]

Well for the US you obviously have all the oil you need. But you do have a problem with building slots. So I usually just import from dutch east indies and garrison them. It saves building slots as one civ gets you 8 while one refinery would get you 4 at most.

[@exileohseven]

“Number 6 is to remove the ability’s enemy to fight”

[@yosefandre8399]

so realistic this might help me conquer the whole world mysleft in real life

[@Kat-qz9ze]

so question, with my USA playthroughs in the states I have all the infrastructure maxed but it keeps saying the previous bottleneck is Virginia even though its maxed, any idea on how to fix it?

[@nxght6694]

thanks for the tips dad

[@dustinl796]

😨

[@Greg-jq1co]

It would be nice to know what is the best infantry template for winning. I just cant get it right

[@dustinl796]

Actually I do have country template guides on my main Channel page. If you check on my channel and go to playlist you'll see them

[@cashewsinacup2438]

basic tanks have high breakthrough, no other tank types have that so that why you should have a lot of them so your tanks can keep attacking

[@dustinl796]

Well you don't eat a lot of them usually

[@CheefCoach]

You don't need SPGs to engage infantry. Tanks and infantry that accompany tanks have enough soft attack. Two key things are: hardness and armor. Higher the percentage of your division hardiness, higher the percentage of hard attack that enemy infantry must use. And infantry have poor hard attack, unlease it is MP human made infantry. If your armor > enemy piercing, you will recive half the damage and cause 50 % more organization damage. Well that 50 % could be 40 %. Because organization is what determine win, by having armor > piercing your division is effectively 2,8 to 3 times better.

[@dustinl796]

Usually in multiplayer people will have six or seven hundred defense before modifiers so it actually is kind of important sometimes to have self-propelled guns inside of tank divisions

[@CheefCoach]

@@dustinl796 Defense give 90 % protection, in counter to 60 % when there is no defense points left. 10 % of attacks will stile pass threw.

[@craigbather6316]

thanks for this video just bought hoi 4 and i cant even beat france

[@dustinl796]

Hope it helped 😁

[@ERMAKREV48]

My problem with this game is in the construction and the unit building, I never know how much I should do of what type and when for both

[@ERMAKREV48]

which is strange because i was great at hoi3

[@ERMAKREV48]

any tips ?

[@dustinl796]

always go for alota civs then mills when you can later.

[@ERMAKREV48]

Dustinl796 Videos how long is later? like when it's become 'total war' as they call it? 41-43?

[@ERMAKREV48]

Dustinl796 Videos by the way thank you for the response, you've gained a sub. do you accept steam friend requests ?

[@mio0072]

While talking about strategic bombing, it never seems to work for me. I have air superiority with tactical, cas and fighters. But it seems not to work as often, and when it does not si efficiently. However I've watch your video about strategic bombing, but can't do it in my own. Any tips? Love your video by the way!!

[@dustinl796]

The way strategic bombing works and I didn't really go into too much detail in this video about it is they will only do missions once or twice a day. One really cheesy thing to do is split the volume of bombers up into how many targets you would like to bomb. So say for example you want to Target military factories, civilian factories, and infrastructure you would divide the bombers by 3, now that you have three Air Wings, split them a few times so there will be alot more bombing missions to do damage but don't go under 20 planes per wing. Now tell the three different groups to attack those specific targets so you have four groups attacking civilian factories, four groups attacking military factories, and four groups attacking infrastructure. As you can tell you really need a lot of bombers if you're going to do it this way

[@mio0072]

Okey, thx alot, wil try it soon 👍

[@karrackhalcyon8826]

How to win? 60 width, all artillery. Lol

[@dustinl796]

No -_-

[@CataciousAmogusevic]

A R T I L L E R Y O N L Y

[@dustinl796]

Nyet!

[@karrackhalcyon8826]

Made 15 motorized arty, 5 motorized, and 5 hvy tank 2 division, i think it was 65 width. Obliterated everything in its path

[@fkjl4717]

@@karrackhalcyon8826 move dat shit to Africa

[@SirPeacemaker]

Very interesting tips. Thanks a lot for that. Can you show us your units template please? Thank you.

[@dustinl796]

There's actually some country guides I've got an in those playlist I've got templates for each one :-)

[@Fabrizio_Ruffo]

What do yall think of light autocannon tanks for general anti-infantry work?

[@pzg_kami6472]

Regarding the Strategic Bombers ,so is it worth investing on them by start researching and then producing them as soon as possible? For example even when playing USSR or of course UK???

[@dustinl796]

If the enemy isnt going hardcore into plane production yes. But if they are making fighters first then strat bombers

[@user-yu4nd1sn2z]

Of course, playing the overbuffed reich with hidden bonus attack you can kill everything around

[@creeperminecraft294]

it took me 160 hours in hoi4 to realize that you have to assign a mission to planes i was losing every war then when i realized it all the red turned into green and i started winning a lot

[@stickman2846]

_nice video_

[@dustinl796]

Nice..... What is that profile picture?

[@stickman2846]

@@dustinl796 My friend made it for me

[@wiwjei]

Please make a video of you doing Operation Barbarossa in multiplayer pls Dustin

[@dustinl796]

I do have a few multiplayer gameplay videos were stuff like that does happen but I'll try again soon

[@tobiastollefsen6967]

What is your pc specs Dustinl? Thinking of building a new pc.

[@dustinl796]

Gtx 1080 ti 11gb, 32gb ram, i7-9700k cpu

[@dexterjettster3683]

Any reccomendations for division loadout?

[@BrianXu352]

Unfortunately stuff like draining manpower and encircling capitals isn’t viable in multiplayer :(

[@dustinl796]

Well the encircling Capital part works well in multiplayer. For example if Italy doesn't take France's capital on that island beside Italy's mainland then they can just keep Convoy raiding the Mediterranean and ruin the entire supply for France in Africa

[@frogchip6484]

Dustinl796 Videos Italy is usually obligated by the rules to have to take Corsica if it’s undefended bc it’s completely unfair and takes the fun out of the game to just slowly die and lose all supply bc of Italian convoy raiding

[@BrianXu352]

@@dustinl796 I meant that most mp servers ban that kind of stuff bc its not fun for china and russia

[@dustinl796]

I'm in part of like 60 different Discord servers and for some reason I have never seen that rule. I've seen rules about no one circling Capital but they've never really considered that technically and circling it which is kind of dumb in my opinion

[@dustinl796]

Ah

[@general-cromwell6639]

Once you have completed one "lane" of land doctrine, if you pursue the other "mutually exclusive" would that negate the finished doctrine? Example, Mobile warfare...I finished all the way down to modern blitzkrieg, but, then I wanted to do desperate defense....

[@dustinl796]

If you went to the other side of desperate defense you would only lose the side you were currently in.

[@romrommi]

Hey! I'm mostly derping around because idk what to do, I'm a beginner with about 4 hours so I know like the controls and some tabs. But I really don't know how this game works and every tutorial wastes 40 mins on basoc stuff I know. What did you watch to learn the game? And what do you recommend doing to get a good feeling of the game I've already playes as USSR and Germany.

[@dustinl796]

To be totally honest with you on my main Channel page I probably have 40 or 50 guides on different specific Basics like how to launch Naval invasions, how to use tanks, how to make a tank division and several other things like that that don't take 40 minutes showing the entire guide itself but instead showing direct tips

[@dustinl796]

Really man? You couldn't recommend him to check out my channel page -_-

[@romrommi]

@@dustinl796???

[@Elitezombie03]

Noon question but how do you make an army group front line?? I can't seem to do it after the recent update

[@dustinl796]

Hold shift and left click

[@averagehumanbeing7932]

Him: Use paratropers and sink convoys Me: Ha ha heavy tank go boom boom

[@citywokbesitzer6834]

Can you make a video where you compare AT/AA with Armor-AT/Armor-AA? I find myself using the non armor version more often since I usually play countries that can't really afford tanks like China, Siam etc.

[@dustinl796]

Actually I think I have a video like that somewhere on my channel already but I will make an updated one probably really soon

[@waltermodel706]

im playing this game for 1 month, i learned some templates with grisha but the part of france and ussr is so hard, in france i just winned one time, i got stucked in belgium, ussr is a nightmare for beginners, i watch some videos and looks like so easy. ps: my logistics is normal. Edit: I defeated ussr in 1940 for the First time, i invaded in 38, is just you go attacking the weakest troops 11 Infantry, 2 artillery, that game needs patience.

[@sheevpalpatine9495]

I got my ass beaten by Hungary

[@carloeichholz9371]

which INF and Tank Division temlates did u used in this vid?

[@dustinl796]

Under my Germany template guide video I used the template that had 4 self-propelled artillery and all the other stuff

[@antitroller101]

I need this because IRL it took Germany roughly 59'000 casualties before it won over Poland It took me over half a million casualties in HOI4 before I won over Poland

[@bonnie2.052]

I still can't beat Poland it's making me regret getting the game :l

[@luka1667]

Tank template, are they the same u references before or are these different?

[@dustinl796]

Pretty much the same

[@drdmr]

What GFX do you use please tell me it looks so goid

[@manoszoulias3684]

I see your videos and I Just click. Simple isnt it?

[@dustinl796]

Sounds it

[@scotchwhisky6094]

Is the encirclement of the capital stopping supplies still the case or has it been changed?

[@dustinl796]

yes but you still gain some supply (only a tiny amount) on towns or victory points

[@Holsp]

Wait, are the supplies delivered throu convoys? I though it was by ports

[@dustinl796]

Well yes and no. How it would work for the United States as an example is this. The supplies would originate from Washington depending on the infrastructure level, then they would go to the port where they would leave to go to the US troops in Europe. The supplies are then transported by using convoys and then either remain the same level of Supply or less depending on the port they go to so they can resupply

[@Holsp]

@@dustinl796 oh, I always though it was from port to port and it cannot be intercepted

[@fkjl4717]

You have forgot the German way of encirclement - Tanks Breakthrough. Just concentrate tank divisions ( at least 6 per sector) , that will let you to do Mass tank attack in single point.

[@dustinl796]

Oh I agree that you should have as many tank divisions as humanly possible that can breakthrough but to be honest I got on tank production pretty late is I was concentrating on strategic bombers early in the war so I could push through the Maginot Line If I wanted to

[@fkjl4717]

@@dustinl796 there are many ways to break the Maginot line... bunker gets damage if combat happens in it is zone. Also atillery have bonus against forts. And with CAS you can just dismantle Org. of defenders and make them flee leaving the Maginot...

[@dustinl796]

Honestly I just get tanks with a lot of breakthrough, soft attack, organization and then use Fortress Buster now

[@Lcgmatheus]

Don't you have any guides for Kaiserreich? That would be good

[@dustinl796]

Unfortunately not, I was planning on doing it a while ago but I kept getting distracted with hoi4 videos

[@seberzx]

Hey Dustin, do you have any tips on how to play as Argentina?

[@dustinl796]

Dont let the german chancellor in!

[@alexandernuckel9107]

How many hours should it take playing to get to this level?

[@danielzamora9491]

Some tip for manpower? I am playing as Sweden and i constantly have problems with that, i'm not producing any troops, because i have a good army but my manpower is 0, i can't win the war against the United Kingdom and my faction don't do anything, so, the United Kingdom every day gets more troops and i every day get less options to invade him i'm stuck. Sorry for my english, i'm not native speaker.

[@flyboymb]

Top 10 ways to quickly troll a MP match

[@dustinl796]

Actually that's not a bad idea,

[@luna-himalaya-1ps471]

Funny fact I used a tactic like this as on a other game I named it the Wolves hunt because of the way it happen.

[@dustinl796]

Which tactic?

[@luna-himalaya-1ps471]

Paratroopers Plus Tanks :D I wiped out Germany.

[@craig5322]

I thought this game was pretty realistic until I saw this