Assessing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Using Bicycle Divisions in HOI4. Enought with the jokes I would recomened the great war redux mod ontop of the noraml great war one because redux has amazing focus trees, and I would recomend using 7/2 because the. You could mix them with tanks in offensive divisions but the slight boost in deserts is not worth the loss of hardness or other stats from mot/mech. When there's space open on the front line of the battle, each unit in reserves will roll each hour to see if they can fill up the open space in the battle. Still, feel free to adjust the combat width based on starting circumstances and industrial capacity. I’m using 40 width, 13 mountaineers and 6 howitzers, and they work well early game but they’re getting stalled. I think you need BftB and you can only do it as certain countries, the wiki says: "Exclusive to British Raj, France, Iraq, Italy, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the. Console Commands in HOI4 are mostly used for the following 4 reasons which are Modifying, Customization, Cheating, and Debugging/Testing. Best. 4) If you find production of support equipment to be burdensome or decide later you want 40 width divisions I have learned playing UK (I pretty much have to do this due to early industry and Army XP constraints) that converting your 5/3/1 divisions to 12/5/1 simply requires doubling your rifle and artillery production and losing about 30 points. This means for defending, you can fit 75 combat width. MP divisions - 2 or 4 Calvary + MP division. Do the 9 infrantry and 4 artillery. The AI can't coordinate with other puppets 😪. Note that you can also combine divisions and that will combine also their equipment. 2x Tank Hunter. Find your nearest beduin tribe and barter with them. Showing 1 - 1 of 1 comments. However, upon releasing them I scrolled through all. R5: Hoofin't it achievement require to unite Arabia and have 30 camel divisions. sum (divParams [:, 1]) Division's Org in hoi4 is just an average of all battalions orgs. Any good camel division has a 6. Point #2: Scale cost changes to divisions so the AI can't spam them. Hearts of Iron IV > General Discussions > Topic Details. Let me describe it in a fictional scenario. ago. Do not use them. If you’re a little behind, don’t sweat it. Camels are not good offensive units. UwUmirage • 1 yr. ago. Each division consists of 1-25 battalions - also sometimes called line battalions. Support divisions do not count. This is one of my hoi4 tutorials that covers the army part of the game, and will soon do more hoi4 guides and tutorials for the intelligence, navy and air force, as well as obviously more hoi4 army guides. R5: With the second lockdown in my country, I've had some time to trooph all the new achievements. Try to stick to the same kind of tank and the same kind of mobile, just to keep it simple. Cavalry is faster than Camelry and has minisculely better defense and breakthrough while Camelry has more HP, slightly less supply use and terrain boosts at the cost of being more expensive. If you set it to a field marshal order the divisions will spread evenly among the armies in the army group. 15. If you like it, I would very much appreciate if you’d follow me on Spotify. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game…Turns out, if you give them artillery and infantry equipment they'll make 7/2 units. If you click the army button in the upper right corner there is some info on how to check how much manpower you already have deployed. I normally use the 20 width light from 1939 to early 1942, then I have the industrial capability to switch to 42 width medium and heavy. As Lawgun said, do it as Great Britain with path of "king's party". Arabia is one of the hardest formable, probably. Camel divisions. Description. Is there as Focus to get rid of the Blackshirt divisions? As the decision is blocked to get rid of them is blocked after 2 tries. There's two more benefits to sweeten the deal: 1. While I 100% agree with you, I gotta say that this could become a bit OP, especially right now. ; Press the Tab Key or ‘~’ Key in order to open up the console where you are able to enter any command of your choice. Or 12-6 inf/art with engineers - Heavy Infantry. Add AA as a support company or as a line battalion. The British fielded 1 marine division and 2 airborne divisions in total. 1. Judge_Todd • 1 yr. If you do, Then, you need to make a new division template. : r/hoi4. R5: On top of a general, the new update grant an attack bonus for cav but despite my best efforts i couldn't break the german line in the Dutch region(CAS, naval and air superiority). • Repeatable strategy that can be used by anyone in single player. I like 5-2-2 with 5 light/2 spg /2 mech (and go mobile warfare when you're doing 20w lights, only time it's better than SF imo)Looking at your production, manpower and losses do you think you will be able to train more divisions and sustain them. I've noticed 27 combat width divisions become veterans far, far. As the scale is considerably larger than in games using similar systems (say Gary Grigsby's War in the East which "just" simulates parts of the eastern front and the whole war, leaving out the civilian side), I would consider the token-and-field system a suboptimal. I did the two achievements you mention with UK, but in 2. Combat width is divided into segments of 20 in HOI4, try to keep. If you don't want a lot of microcontrol then add more artillery. Or, you can click the duplicate button and modify that template. Let Belgrade pact defeat bulgaria and give Thrace to you for free. But im not sure if it can be used while in civil war. So in the example of (1) 40w vs (4) 10w, the stacking penalty wouldn't apply even if you're only attacking from one province. The AI will not take the decision. In combat, this stat gives the number of attacks the unit can make against a. If you internalize these concepts, you'll understand that if you invest 10 army XP into modifying the battalions in a template, you can make a huge difference in the efficiency of small divisions, while the effect is quasi negligible in very large divisions. However I made the mistake of converting ALL my infantry divisions to this setup lmao. Only Compatible With Vanilla For Now. Ergo, 4 divisions can fight effectively from one province to another. You can do it as the UK itself since they start with camel divisions. It controls almost the entire northern third of Asia as well as the eastern edges of Europe. Discord! me on Patreon! me on Twitter: In singleplayer, your tank divisions will face more infantry divisions than tank divisions. When Bannerlord comes out, they'll use the Camel model Taleworlds made for this. But soft attack for the defending army means that the attacking army takes more damage while attacking: causing. they all give XP towards cavalry leader, but only cavalry and camelry also towards infantry leader (if this hasn't changed. 😊. They fight in the template way you do in battles. The more piercing the enemy has, the more armor you need. This is a relatively new feature and Hoi4 doesn't have it yet (and will never get it), while Stellaris was the first. The Ascari and irregulars can get disbanded when the war with Ethopia ends if I remember. 14 kph. This is not concerning. Combat width was then redesigned 2 DLCs ago, which makes 20 width as standard, no longer necessary. Land warfare is performed by divisions, subdivided into Brigades. Remove MP and all of the line artillery battalions if you are a major or two if you are a minor. Don't call Germany into war though, you don't want to share warscore. 1. CAS damage is still very influential over the outcomes of battle. spotify. Davidchen2918. - Darkrenown Pronoun: 3rd person (use my name)You can edit division templates by going to: Recruit & Deploy -> Then click "Edit" on the desired division. Quantity is not as important as quality. Hard attack value is checked against defense, same 4x damage if it's higher than defense. I recommend 48 40 width mediums even if you need to cut the budget on air. I'm equally curious how you get them, I started up a game as some Middle Eastern countries and could not figure out how they get camel divisions. A Red Revolution has collapsed Federal authority. In regards to your template, I would change medium tanks to medium SPGs and leave rocket artillery out, making your template 7 MECH / 2 M-SPG . Armored Cars are not worth using. C. I needed to crank out a bunch of quick units after I was surprised by the AI during a lull. 2 Support Companies 1. You only need 5 Army XP to create a 1Bn Camel division from scratch. Hi, let me introduce myself! I composed the music for the Battle for the Bosphorus pack. (Turn off infinite) Make new divisions when you get enough supplies for a new one without the logistics turn red for a single item. The most common layout for infantry divisions is 7 infantry battalions and 2 artillery battalions - this gives you a width of 20 exactly, making optimal use of the common maximum width of 80. Conquer the US. Join. Instead giving a bunch of infantry some AT will be much better. This is a defensive template. All tiles used to be divisible by 20 making this division the perfect width. Then click on that army and there simply click on 'exercise' (the button with the gears). Garrison template. Divisions of 1 cavalry battalion are much more efficient than large divisions with military police. Therefor this template is perfect for dealing with resistance. Ethiopia has those tribes irregulars. 1943 tech -> SuperHeavy tank with this design and this division. I usually give them descriptive names like “20W Inf. To increase the special forces cap, one must have more non-SF battalions. How to unlock the Hoofin’ It achievement. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Stick these guys wherever you are likely to see naval invasions or paratroopers. Edit all infantry division templates to 7-inf 14 width divisions, and all tank divisions to 18 width pure light tanks. I’m aiming for about 200 before I stop force-deploying them and I shift to other things like panzer divisions. If they refuse declare war but do not push into them. You always wanna keep producing divisions as a major country. On this menu there is the special forces icon above where all the divisions are displayed. ago. Zeel26 • 1 yr. I have played the GWR mod several times before as Germany but I always lose cause my Division templates suck, any suggestions. For example: 'Matilda LP'-tank with improved Armor and Main Gun and name it. You have 2 strategies to win. Eokokok • 1 day ago. ago. #3. 1, you need to own the territory (so take it in a peace deal) 2, you have to train and deploy camel divisions, not convert already existing ones. What if, lets say, level 1-3 is corps commander (3-6 divisions), at level 4 is army general (up to 10 divisions as you suggested) and from level 8 and up he's field marshal automatically with ability to control up to 24 divisions alone or 4-6 armies under his command to boost low level generals and corps commanders. pp [political power amount] – Add a specified amount of political power to your pool. after NSB and in single player, you can pretty much copy historical division designs and get good results. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Penal patalions are locked divisions from a ussr focus. Mod with historical divisions, realistic unit sizes (including "division slice"), accurate relative unit values and recruitable percentages. You can also puppet the Netherlands, and copy their bicycle template as (e. It is determined by the amount of units in a division and their values. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV by Paradox Development Studio. Depends on the capabilities of the enemy. Bop right icon. Major Countries starting with territory in Africa: Britain, France, Italy and Spain. Not sure, didn't know anyone besides Japan could make bicycle divisions. These smaller divisions are best used to guard territory, protecting key ports and coastlines from naval invasion. Template suggestions for these would be helpful too, but I find navy much less confusing right now. mountain = "light gray background with ". #didyouknow #hoi4 #heartsofiron4 Bicycle Divisions in Hearts of Iron 4 (HOI4) must be one of the most obscure things you can build in the whole game. If you use 20 MOT, you can use the factories you'd normally use to make all those arty to make trucks instead, allowing you to motorize your whole army and run circles around everything you find. Further, up to one in three of the Japanese POW deaths were due to their prisoner transport ships being sunk by. 11If you are still with me at this point, several perks of Italy's focus tree. 5x Motorised. In this titanic struggle of national survival, we must use every asset and every advantage. Light tank 2 with 12 base speed will be buffed to 14. r/hoi4. Infantry leader and Calvary leader both add bonuses. If you have an abundance of artillery production capability, leaning heavily into this template can allow you to steamroll most A. I do agree that the 7-2 is not horrendous, because it still does a terrific job at defending. Play germany, get maneuver warfare spirit, get guderian as theorist, get a maneuver expert advisor, make tanks with 12 speed ( same as trucks ) = profit. The AI knows how to make good divisons (as long as they have plenty of right equipment), they don't know how to make the proper weapons, so they keep producing only infantry equipment and they end up building infantry only divisons. That would be 4-6 20 wide divisions, or 2-3 40 wide divisions. My 14 divisions against their 5-8, learned the hard way that it's not about how many people and tanks you can merge into 1 division. Stop allowing the AI grow out of control and proactively hunt them down. Do you hate when newer focus trees such as the Soviet Union, Italy or Switzerland have divisions that you can't delete or edit. For tank divisions, just aim for about 20 org, tank/motorized ratio can vary based on land doctrines. r/hoi4 • 3 yr. 5. Max Speed. This thread is archived. This thread is archived. If the defender has 3000 defense, it’s still only 100 blocked rolls. 1. 353. You're still at war. In conjunction slam 8 40width tank divisions with cas into the tile just in land using the divisions you just to open the combat width to get as many of your tanks in the battle as possible. You can rid of the African irregular units by winning the war and a decision should become available to remove them in the "dealing with the colonies" section or whatever it's called. For example 176 active divisions means 8 divisions where 181 would mean 9 divisions could be deployed as volunteers. This means motorized is significantly worse at attacking anti-armor divisions than a standard infantry regiment. Tank division - Somewhere between 10 and 13 medium or heavy tanks + 7 to 10 motorized or mechanized infantry - should end up at 40 total combat width. For example: 'ae 100 infantry_equipment_1'. png 29 × 26; 1 KB. That’s sufficient to break through at two points, for small encirclements. Einstein2004113. ONLY SO MANY DIVISIONS CAN FIGHT IN ONE BATTLE. Adds a decision for everyone to get the (formerly) Japan-exclusive Bicycle-Unit. 13 10-Width Infantry: Cheap And Cheerful. Create and deploy enough divisions so that 500k manpower are in the field. Do you perhaps only control all the states? The achievement requires you to own them i. playing as russia in kaiserredux invading germany, whenever i move or use my divisions to attack they get attrition sometimes they get attrition even if it says "0% attrition", sometimes they have 120% attrition, so whenever i attack only one division joins the battle, its super annoying. I did it in non-historical AI and hoped that Britain would decolonise, and I lucked out on the first attempt. r/hoi4. CorpseFool. 30-39widths are all terrible. Support recon, engineer and whatever else you feel is necessary. Currently, creating a blank division template is free, duplicating a template is free, and adding/subtracting new battalions costs 5 xp (10 for support companies, 25 for new battalion types). 20ws are more defensive. You need Army Experience to change your template. You can't create a brand new one. Infantry and motorised divisions: 10x Infantry or. If you want to push along the line (which. Find below our table of unit names to unit codes conversions for use with console commands in Hearts of Iron IV. If you’re careful with micromanaging and know the game, you really only need a few 40W tank divisions to breakthrough/encircle (in SP). Oh thank you, I only have waking the tiger. Templates can be modified, and such. They are just the starting template you get. Yes, you can build a Medium Tank division with Self-Propelled Artillery, SPAA, and Tank Destroyers, Mechanized Infantry, and flame tanks that is easily 5x better. Simply turn fascist and justify on Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman and deploy the required amount of camelry, achievement done Reply notquiteaffable Fleet Admiral • Additional comment actions. This is where the whole "10 v 1" thing comes into play. 6 x (average of all units). For example infantry has a site of two; artillery has a size of three. g war with the USSR because you have to fight a lot of troops and conquer a lot of land so your infantry will use a lot of equipment. If I am reading this correctly, you only have 18. It’s way cheaper than tanks, and has enough soft attack to demolish any infantry division. 4. r/hoi4. 2. 3 yr. 1. Harsh terrain tends to favor the defender. png 12 × 13; 485 bytes. The difference is the enemy's 70 divisions were comrosed of just a couple of. Stats are not perfect but it still works perfectly + it's easy to mass produce/no production micro on MT/MTD. Aim for between 30-40 org for an well balanced tank division. Add AA as a support company or as a line battalion. The achievement is definitely working because I got it this weekend as Saudi Arabia. A 42 Width Tank Template. 0 motorized divisions. This achievement, I think, will remain the one that got away. let's go. A division on reserve status uses just as much manpower and just as much equipment as a regular division. Try to start a lane with at least 1 industry asap of each. Building up your infrastructure in Southern France also can help. Upgrade the new ones when you get enough xp to do so. 1 guide Hide ads How to unlock the Hoofin’ It achievement Filip36365 40,932 04 Mar 2022 12 Mar 2022 12 Mar 2022 0 0 0 I played as fascist UK. You will also take less losses, but this is mostly due to having lower org. When you click 'create template,' and the 'T1, T2, T3' show up. HOI4 has generic units, which more or less are modelled after Western style units. Twelve on each side to hold lines. Strategically located at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, Turkey is bordered by Bulgaria and Greece to the west, Italy, the Island of Rhodes to the southwest. 4. These are the "ideal" combat widths for the offensive units, either tanks/motorized/mechs or inf/arty. The small division has a CW of 10, the large division a CW of 30. png 25 × 22; 1 KB. KxS_07. Cavalry go faster than bikes but they do less damage and have less HP. One reason that division spam is so prominent in HOI4 is that the game's AI is so pathetic -- really, really pathetic -- so that it just churns out one ridiculous, useless template after another, and I believe that unit spam is one way of papering over that flaw. The arab states might be starting with camel units, though haven't checked. Consolidate the British Isles, conquer Ireland, and complete the Unite the Anglosphere focus. Thanks in Advance < >-< > . Select to Train that division and then Shift + Click on the Add Unit. However, the stacking limit is 8, plus 4 per flanking direction. 1. r/hoi4. Then, you can recruit SS units in your decisions tab. This thread is archived. 4 x (highest unit) + 0. 2. oh and Japan only gets them through the focus. ago. However, B is able to delay the 10 divisions of A with an attack of 4 divisions from one province on their 10 stack and it will be a somewhat even fight. The investment in 2900 defense is useless. If you want to steamroll the world, hmm, do this. This is a quick Infantry Guide made after By Blood Alone DLC. Divisions also require a certain amount of organisation to move. In my last playthrough, pre-NSB USA, I believe I had 24x 40W modern armor-amtrac2 and 48x 40W modern armor-mech3 by the time I turn against the Allies. Armies are composed of divisions, which is the smallest unit a player can directly control. Each division has a size that is shown together with their other stats. 6x SPG. How am I supposed to get/use camelry as a country that’s not turkey, same goes with the bike units. Just to get a perspective: In WW2 the US fielded 6 marine divisions and 5 airborne divisions. if you get 5 xp, start replacing the infantry battalion to artillery battalion on your duplicate division you made at the very. For mobile divisions, you want 6 motorised and 9 medium self propelled artillery (the middle small icon on the right of the medium tank tech). Make sure you absorb them into your territory. The Void Boy Mar 20, 2018 @ 3:46pm. The DLCs used in this video are Together for victory, Man the Guns, Death or Dishonor, Waking the Tiger and La Resistance. Large divisions use a lot of supply, tanks use fuel too, which can be reduced by 40% supply consumption and 20% fuel cost reduction with 1945 tech. Repulsive-Bath7420. r5: im not getting the achievement and i dont know why. Division Templates for Germany in Great War Redux. 13 10-Width Infantry: Cheap And Cheerful. Here is an example of a basic 10 Infantry division template for defense: And a basic 7 Infantry - 2 Artilery division template for offense: Reset -> Reset the edits you've made but haven't saved. I literally have a spreadsheet open right now that tells me that 1 Infantry division requires 7. It's an event you get when the soviets and an allied power are each occupying at least one German state. ago Camels are not good offensive units. Unless you’ve already won you won’t have the oil to support many mech divisions, and you won’t have the factories to produce so much mech. You get events to release 4 puppets and can raise colloboration or release for the others. i looked in the gamecode, ive got 74 camel divisions, i own more than i need and ive got more than 4500 infantry equipment. A Battle Plan is an important tool that helps players visualize how their divisions will advance, allows the AI to control the player's divisions automatically, and can confer a Planning bonus. This is not concerning. It'll actually cost you a lot more IC than light tanks because of the losses. r/hoi4. ago. My basic infantry template would be 10 inf. Wait Im supposed to upload videos?Hello everyone - I made this video randomly, it was not planned content, rip. Will HOI4 be released on H hour CET of D Day? - Mannstien Once again though, there are no actual zombies, it is all hysteria and panic. Only achiveable through focus, and by the time you reach there it's past time for them to shine. Italy decided to go to war with the allies so i refused their call to arms and then I puppeted Romania and Hungary. Since 480 non-SF battalions are needed to get to the 24 battalion cap, every subsequent increase of 1 SF battalion will need to be accompanied by an increase of 20. Here is the strategy for fascist UK in HOI4 if you want to form the Empire and maybe the EU: Start the Civil War against the Allies and conquer the UK and all the colonies. Land doctrine. ago. Exiled divisions won't come back automatically unless there's a direct land route, so if there's sea between them and your own land, they will stay and do nothing. SnugglyPolarBear • 3 yr. One guideline I saw is that you want 65-70% of your production going to your tank divisions (including the motorized/mechanized, and support components), then 25% to your air force. ) Germany. For it to be true, all Battalions must be Paratroopers. It's called No Division Limit. Select every army in the area and Ctrl+r. 64. My preferred defensive division is 9/0 or 10/0 (18w/20w) with the previously mentioned support companies. manpower [amount] – Adds a specified amount of manpower to your reserves. If we compare it to this hoi4 marine division they are pretty much the same. Here is the resulting function: def fitness_func (solution, solution_idx): divParams = np. Meanwhile, I have outrageous infantry equipment, support equipment and even some truck equipment deficits. The arab states might be starting with camel units, though haven't checked. Who gets camel divisions? I annexed Turkey, then I released them as a puppet thinking that they got them. I know, i know, just use 15 -5 armoured tank on multiple angle to plow through enemy even through mountain. • 1 yr. They're considered a mobile battalion. DeezeKnotz • 4 yr. 2! Then the modifiers get applied on the field again and you get the sweet 45% buff again. Wait Im supposed to upload videos?Hello everyone - I made this video randomly, it was not planned content, rip. Division must remain an infantry division for the infantry general bonuses to work. (20w) - Light Infantry. The templates below will be 30 and 42 width, since you usually want armored divisions to be larger. . • 3 yr. If you want to just use large Arty divisions, you need an enemy without tanks, air or sea power like China. But it depends on your industry, manpower and other factors. AaranPiercy • 4 yr. Add support engineers, recon, signal, logistics, and maintenance to either type. Specialized siege divisions? Aka modern space marine for 1. If you puppet-annex I think you get a copy of their division tenplates as well. Then it’s a matter of allocating a large portion of your mils to your tanks. We then multiply 300 by 1 and get 300 (obviously). If you didn't know, the 7-2 design was META because of the width of the division, which was 20. You could also use mods. lilmuny • 1 mo. I’m aiming for about 200 before I stop force-deploying them and I shift to other things like panzer divisions. Your goal in singleplayer is to maximize soft attack as much as possible. (+/-2). And engineers, recon, artillery, hospitals and logistics as support companies. Arent they just unlocked by default? Edit. However, that means we'll never have camel divisions.