How to Use Every Battle Plan | Hoi4 Mini Tutorial

How To Use Every Battle Plan in Hearts of Iron 4. A very information dense guide for complete beginners. Send this to a friend in need :)
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:02 - What Battle Plans Are
0:14 - Exercising
0:41 - Fall Back Lines
0:55 - Unit Assignment Mode and The Unassign Button
1:14 - Assigning multiple Orders
1:37 - The Edit Button
1:50 - The Delete Order Button
2:03 - Area Defense / Garrison
2:33 - Frontlines
3:07 - Cohesion
3:31 - Offensive Lines
3:50 - Execution
4:16 - Spearheads
4:51 - Check Out My Other Videos!

[@MaxiTano006]

i didnt even know how to edit a spearhead, thats very handy... very good video!

[@C.A._Old]

sometimes need visit arounds. :-')

[@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg]

I have over 2k hours in the game and i didn't know about the shift click on the exercise button trick lol

[@fischnoices130]

Glad to here vets can learn something too :)

[@jonathansantiago792]

Same lol

[@Daniel-ix2sy]

Yes, I just about slapped my forehead and said "all this time" lol

[@janslavik5284]

2 things: Editing mode can be accessed by pressing ALT. This shortcut is so easy to remember and useful at the same time that I think every HOI4 player should know it. Holding shift when creating a frontline with a field marshal will create a unified frontline, without separate general level frontlines. This helps quite a bit with the frontline cohesion.

[@gammaao]

Talking about unified frontline can you do it with fallback line too so all generals with their army gets seperated into their own collumns instead of being spread apart when war starts?

[@Superimperatoris]

Worth noting: Aggresiveness of execution will also determine if units will move up to the frontline or not, depending on the supply situation

[@thepeero9670]

this explains... so much. Thank you good sir

[@thesovietgamer5798]

If you're using an Army Group (Field Marshal) to create a frontline, it will create frontline sections for the armies in the group. This will cause the divisions to move around when the frontline moves and cause unnecessary loss of organization and planning. To avoid this hold shift and draw the frontline to create a unified army group frontline. And don't forget that you can use the commander abilities at a cost of command power. General and Marshals with special traits can get access to special abilities for examples: general with "Amphibious" trait can use "naval assault plan" to speed up naval invasion preparations, marshal with "logistics wizard" can use "extra supplies" to give extra supply grace (time units can go without supplies before attrition).

[@DasMonke]

You explained everything, even down to what keys and buttons to press. Other HOI4 tutorials gloss over that expecting you to know it already. Thanks

[@C.A._Old]

You know what? i love these tutorials. helping to people.

[@beruberu-karl]

this video have to be in official paradox hoi 4 tutorial

[@derkaylon1740]

Very useful, thank you!

[@huntersleepybrown2988]

Better then the actual tutorial

[@alanrosete3855]

How does a game makes you still suck ass at it after 500hrs XDDD nice tutorial i didn't knew how to edit spearheads

[@fischnoices130]

It is a very complicated game 😂

[@Shad0wack]

Lets make a wargame and then make the AI play all the wars for you

[@fischnoices130]

Hey it makes things easier sometimes 😂

[@yokin0996]

Dont execute your frontlines, that will destroy your manpower and equipment. Just make the frontline and attack manually, it works 90% of the times.

[@yokin0996]

No, you can do 2 things: 1º just create the frontline and offensive line, wait until you have enought planing bonus and attack with each unit manually or 2º use the exploit of garrison neut5ral country and create a frontline with the field marshal and you have to manually move your units, in MP game the people do that @@vexillarius3356