Mastering The Basics: Ultimate Land Combat Guide For Hearts Of Iron IV Beginners

In this video I will describe how to use your airforce, navy, and spies to give bonuses to land combat. I also cover topics like how to make a battle plan, the best way to attack and the best way to improve your army's combat effectiveness. This video is for begginers but I also explain many advanced techniques as well. I hope you enjoy the video and if you learned something, please consider liking and subscribing. Cheers!
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:19 - Set Up a Battle Plan
00:01:05 - Battle Plan Bonus Explained
00:02:10 - Micro vs. Battle Plan
00:03:30 - Leader Combat Bonuses
00:05:47 - Field Marshal Battle Plan
00:08:48 - Skilled Staffer Trait
00:09:28 - Navy and Air Bonuses
00:11:25 - Putting it All Together
00:12:48 - Attack From Two Tiles
00:13:07 - Equipment/ Organization Explained
00:13:38 - Overruns Explained
00:14:07 - Battle Plan Micro
00:15:11 - Battlefield Assessment
00:20:54 - Getting Green Air
00:21:30 - Combat Width
00:22:45 - How To Capitulate Poland
00:23:38 - Air Micro
00:24:09 - Tonk Micro
00:25:01 - Equipment Farming
00:27:17 - Spys Buff Battle Plans
00:33:00 - Air Doctrine
00:33:45 - Outro
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[@theboom997]

Now I can beat Ethiopia

[@captainyossarian388]

This helped me a lot, thanks! It had taken me a little over 2 months to take over Poland in 36. Thanks to this video, I got it down to 5 weeks.

[@ESG1]

Glad it helped!

[@dashua1735]

Thank you for that, I was playing as Hungary and planned to invade Austria earlier, but then I got my ass kicked cause I didn't know about all of this. I'll try this next time I play.

[@qwintoningoknocklein280]

Great guide! Really cleared a lot up so thanks 😁

[@ESG1]

NP, glad you liked it!

[@vladyslavkhainatskyi7386]

Thanks a lot. Really you do the best guide of this game and I searched a lot.

[@ESG1]

Thanks man! I'll keep em comming.

[@flokkywow3542]

Thank you, this is a great guide!

[@ESG1]

NP, glad y liked it!

[@edh9999]

OMFG! Ever since the game came out, I've assumed that you need to activate your battle plan to get the bonus, and I'm old school. I like to micro my divisions. That is a game changer for me!

[@ESG1]

Make sure the battle plan is on the same front as the war. That applies the planning bonus to combat.

[@postmortem3260]

This is great! I now understand so much regarding how land combat works! If you can do this for both air and navel that would be wonderful! (maybe even some help with construction and production since I tend to get overwhelmed with those as well)

[@ESG1]

Updated naval guide coming out soon. I may do another air guide… not sure. Check out my YT channel for more guides.

[@gamergamer7515]

Thanks, before this video i micro attacked everything without knowing about battle plans.🤣

[@derfvader6951]

great video is there a video explaining the use of the buttons on the battle plans bar

[@ESG1]

Shoot, I have so much content I can't remember. This video may be helpful: czcams.com/video/kmjEMsl0QYw/video.html. If I explain the battle plan buttons, it is most likely in the later half of the video. Cheers!

[@derfvader6951]

@@ESG1 thanks ill try it
in the older version of the game there was a way to get a division to attack an area but not move in after victory

[@ESG1]

@@derfvader6951 You can manually click on the unit and do a ctrl right click for a support attack. The support attack will do what you describe above. You can tell because it will have a blue arrow, instead of a red arrow.

[@sashrill]

my man. if a color is bright (also nominally flashing) than it means only that the air wing you have selected is in that zone. not that it is a higher degree or tier of that color

[@ESG1]

I was refering to the different shades of colors

[@ctrlaltdebug]

The best HOI4 guides.

[@ESG1]

Thanks man!

[@erhanstranger3004]

How the piercing calculates and affects ?

[@ESG1]

From the wiki: Piercing. Represents the ability of a division to pierce armor and pin down armored forces, restricting the movement. If the value is higher than the enemy's armor value, then the division suffers no penalty to its attacks. A division's piercing is equal to 40% of the highest piercing in the division plus 60% of the weighted-average piercing of all battalions in the division.

[@kosto9]

the thing I am wondering
when in a 80 widht fight ( old system)
you have 5 division ( 20 widht)
enemy has 4 divisions (20 widht)
without modifiers and different direction attack
that 1 exstra division you have is reserve
so it doesnt do anything unless joinnig combat
but when in a fight 5 divisions wins how is this happening but when I attack with 4 division same combat width it loses does reserves give combat bonuses I am really confused

[@ESG1]

The reserve division could be reinforcing when the rest run out of org. There are a lot of factors at play. Maybe try 42 width tank divisions in stacks of 2 and see how that works out.

[@heehee8507]

Every time I attack a nation I get instantly demolished i got defeated by Czech in a layer of 1 month

[@ESG1]

You need to watch more of my guides in that case.

[@jamieholtsclaw2305]

Got encircled by Poland? That's almost as bad as getting encircled by Ethiopia.

[@ESG1]

It happens, AI is better then it used to be

[@Ibi0925]

My brain is hurting and i still dont understand anything. Im going back to eu4. Its way simpler

[@ESG1]

Time to roll up your sleeves and take on WW2, u got this.

[@alexanderholt4679]

Stability has nothing to do with surender cap war support does

[@KingofWarsaw-ed3ky]

False