Hoi4 how to fight tanks Jun 12, 2024 · Tanks make the organization plummet, which means you need to add infantry to increase org. Plese don't "LOL do you even play this game?" it is silly and disrespectful. At Operation Market Garden (Arnhem), om two landings over two days, 16 Hamilcar Gliders each carrying a 17-pdr anti-tank gun, plus it's tractor and gun crews, delivered 1st Airborne's anti-tank batteries. But none the less they hold out against soviet tank forces with 6 medium tank groups, 5 mech/motorized groups, with artillary, and a bunch of support groups. Tanks to provide armor/breakthrough/hardness and a slight increase in attacks, mountaineers to lower the terrain penalty, and then your typical artillery/SPG's to bring the attacks. You need fodder to hold the line, few specialized tank divisions and green air, nukes if you need to take very fortified cities (talking like 50 divisions on it) and ports when navaly invading. Bro flame tank support compaines,i dont think they get said debuff,and i strike the ports so i always have supply and they don't,i never fight in central africa because its just a waste of equipment and manpower which the ai wants because you are against a larger force and don't forget garrision would take a huge chunk of your manpower while you still didn't even take moscow Welcome to HOI4 and the HOI4 Reddit. Five gliders crashed on landing, taking out the battery and men within, but 11 guns and crews deployed safely to fight in the battle. Now that we got that out of the way. Build infrastructure near the border, get air superiority with close air support and atleast 24 tanks divisions and 100 infantry. If you make a tank template with a Flamethrower on it, you can save the tank as a flamer. Chassis define largest type of turret it can handle, thus limiting armament type of tank. Medium tanks are reasonably agile multi-purpose tanks which are able to take on many roles such as scouts, support, or even front-line tanks. If you want a tank division that will be able to make a breakthrough and take several more provinces while being able to repel counter attacks you do not want a low organisation armour unit. But they take lots of production and chromium which is very Apr 10, 2019 · I will answer your question in 2 parts. As mentioned it depends on what you want the armour unit to do. Jul 30, 2018 · What is the use for heavy tanks in HOI4? Light tanks are fast, take less production, and have the best soft attack per buck. Tank destroyer is probably the unit that will get you the piercing you need. When fighting in South America, Africa, or parts of Asia where there just isn't the infrastructure for tanks or 40W units, what do you use to attack? I've been splitting the difference between pure 20w cavalry and 7/2 Infantry, but they both feel suboptimal for the situation. We had a similar interesting strat. Putting a lot of Artillery in all of your divisions, even if they are Infantry divisions, is more than enough to win almost every fight. It has a pocket of steel that unlocks at Excavation III and a huge deposit of Chromium which I use on heavy tank divisions. Dec 2, 2022 · Tanks are still effective, though perhaps not bring heavies or superheavies. Nov 11, 2020 · Here's Italy's starting factory setup. Medium tanks are fast, and have the best armour for buck as well as decent hard attack. Make sure your tanks are either light tanks or medium with mechanised. Apr 1, 2025 · Tank chassis Edit Tank chassis types Edit. The main problems that the USA has at the start of HOI4 are the Great Depression and its government laws. Would 9:1s or 9:3s work well in the desert, except I change the infantries with cavalry? Ottoman Empire, for example, gets camelry from the Desert Corps focus which worked very well against British infantry and motorized divisions for me during the Egyptian campaign. Generally speaking heavy tanks pair well with infantry so you can comfortably add a single tank battalion to your infantry division and buff them up substantially while at the same time giving them a good shot against strong enemy divisions. Heavy tanks are slow but have usually ~20 more armour than mediums which can make them unpenetrable depending on tech. I would focus on killing their tanks first IMO, since you want to minimize their breakthrough capabilities. However, I don't think I am fighting 40 width divisions. You will fly over them and overun then with fast movement speed. Mobile reserves. Motorised and mech infantry, and artillery, are still good. Also they are defending at leas lvl 4 forts. For heavy tanks, they will allow your infantry to have decent armor and great piercing. If you have fast tanks, use trucks or machanized infantry so that they can move fast together. Jan 22, 2025 · Light tanks are small, agile tanks which are able to both scout and fight lightly armored opponents. Using specialized mountaineer-tank divisions when you absolutely have to resort to fighting on a mountain is probably your best chance. Heavy tanks have bonuses to attacking forts. 1. gun : choose high velocity cannon they give the most total attack. We've got: Infantry Equipment, Support Equipment, Tanks, Trucks, and CAS. Air superiority, CAS + Bombing can wear down the fort but if you have enough Tanks you can constantly cycle them and basically keep attacking the fort eternally until it eventually breaks. Having huge Soft Attack, for example, is all you need to win in single player. Make sure you have the fort buster trait on your General and use the ability too. If you are running medium tanks, put one with your tanks to be able to pierce heavy tanks. Encircle, kill, hold the line, repeat. 40w heavy tank divs MIGHT be able to push them out, though I would still attempt this at the coastline, where you can get naval bombardment. Then you can use them as a support company on your divisions. The chassis is the frame of the tank. worth it. In the early game, this is cavalry, in the late game, it's fast tanks with mechanized infantry that can rush to a weak spot in the line and reinforce the defenders. Try to get 40 width tanks with 20 width infantry. Feb 18, 2024 · General Strategy for USA in HOI4. The second way is to make an offensive line and allow the army to reach full planning, as this will help them reinforce more quickly and extend the length of combat. This will likely make it a bit of a jack of all trades but having it capable of both attack and defence will make it easier to use. So I thought if tanks would be a good unit, but they can break down and have a high supply demand. Canada has little in the way of Tungsten, so capturing Cuba and using the chromium for heavy tanks makes a great replacement for both light and medium tanks. The island serves as a launchpad into the South Atlantic. It's probably not worth the investment unless you're attacking an extremely fortified mountain position though, which is inadvisable regardless. My way of thinking was to use mobile infantry because they can fastly run over the whole continent. Feb 11, 2020 · Two ways of capitalizing on the reinforcement rate of mass assault are to get signal corp support on any major assault divisions, armor being a great example. Jan 12, 2022 · As for theorycrafting, you could hypothetically create a specialised mountaineer-tank division that offsets the negatives tanks receive in mountains. **tank destroyers** worth it. But I already have a low manpower. turret : choose 3 man turret for the most breakthrough. I have to build infractrure while my units burn their reinforcments very fast. Effectively, treat it similar to open ground, except things are a bit slower and the defender has more of an advantage. Feb 27, 2022 · recon light tanks are a way to buff your unit's stats. And maybe support field hospital. Best way to attack in jungles is not to attack. Apr 26, 2024 · HOI4 is a numbers game, and having the bigger numbers will always allow you to win. I like attacking with infantry formations into forests personally, since they aren't hindered by as big of penalties as tanks and mech. If your tanks are slow, use normal infantry. yeah typically divisions with heavy tanks would not be just heavy tanks, but rather a designation given to formation of a grouping of armored units and what these were was Aug 15, 2007 · Engineers don't give a bonus to forest fighting, just their defense bonus. But this is barely used in single player. Basic categories are light, medium, heavy, modern and amphibious, of which light, medium and heavy can be improved by research. earlier in Rule 2 we trimmed this line down. Light tanks with motorised. its main job is to do as much damage and as much breakthrough as possible. Flame-Tank. hoi4 just does not do a good job of modeling actual army organization, though in fairness actual army organization irl could vary pretty wildly from country to country. Heavy tanks are large, armored monsters which are designed to destroy enemy tanks and fortifications. Supplies & logistics, troops won't fight very hard without ammo, food, and fuel. They can be concentrated into unstoppable heavy tank divisions or dispersed as an infantry support tank. Basically everything that you want to do in the game can be executed by a series of left- or right-clicks on the right icons/places (there are also some keyboard shortcuts that you'll probably . Dec 16, 2023 · If you are new to using tanks then I would strongly recommend using very balanced armoured divisions, something like a 1:1 ratio of tanks to infantry. Offensive units want tanks for breakthrough not mech for defense Mech has negative attack penalties in a lot of terrains and eats lots of supply - if you had concerns about tanks why would you pick mech? I would rate mech as pretty low priority tech. The Great Depression, Disarmed Nation, and Undisturbed Isolation all limit the capabilities of the United States, making the country with the highest Civilian Factories count at the start of the game one of the hardest to mobilize. If you're using the Mobile Warfare doctrine then this shouldn't be too hard in theory, all those large bonuses to Motorized, Mechanized, and Tank units should make it your primary tactic. Flame tank support company is good for attack boost in various terrain types. They have insane armor. I see you have met the resident tanks spammer u/vindicator117. Can be used if you play against nations who have a lot of tanks like Germany and the Soviet union. This tank would only need to go 4 km/h. The thinking kind of works like this: the tanks will be upgraded to medium tanks, so lights won't be needed - scrap the line. Battle planner can be a bit more complicated; I usually just use it to set up a front line with infantry and then micro my tanks (as described above). nsjvnj txgvt cmkmci zfvfyj etyplz utaawk ynqx kqkaym hjg xaqkb pnuztn oqys nonwlpa notjx akmqh