Micro & Encirclements in Hearts of Iron IV | Beginners Guides
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- Do you want to take your Hoi4 to the next level? Well watch this guide and learn how you use unit micro to create big juicy encirclements in Hearts of Iron IV! Battleplans? Who needs them!?*
*Still you as you get benefits from them which I outline in the video.
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00:00 What is unit micro?
00:51 How to unit micro
01:21 Encirclements
03:06 How to pin divisions
04:00 Stopping attacks with hotkeys
04:31 Attacking from multiple directions
05:03 How to support attack
05:38 Stopping the enemy from reinforcing
06:21 Why you should encircle the enemy
07:22 What units you should use to micro
07:54 Planning bonus
08:39 Queuing up orders & splitting selections
10:04 Pinning using battleplans
10:38 Finishing off encirclements
11:34 Exploiting gaps
14:20 Using battleplans with micro
15:11 Note on multiplayer
15:41 Don't forget your airforce!
16:15 Bonus tip!
17:33 Thanks for watching!
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When I first tried the game and I didn’t know about front / offensive lines, I thought that microing was the only way to fight in a war. After that, I discovered them and started to over-use them without thinking about it. Now I realise that if microing is manageable, then I should do it, but if it’s a country like the Soviet Union, then I should stick with offensive lines.
Great insight! I really like to use micro for specific attacks/advances, or if there are gaps on the enemies frontline, send units into it
Cannot describe how much this video helped
I want you to try
The pinning tip completely changed the way I play the game and I actually ended up winning my first campaign without cheats! Thank you so much for the tutorial!
LETS GOOOO I'm so happy I could help!!
I have about 1000+ hours on Hoi 4 and I’ve learnt more from these videos than all play time😂
Thank you for all that in depth information, now I really begin to understand the core mechanics of the game
Aw thank you! I'm just happy I've been able to help people 😁
😅
Dude, my brain hurts due to the fact that I think that I finally understood the game, everything makes so sense now, thank you very much 🙌
🤯 we've cracked the code 🤯
@@hammotimee it's just supply chain management with politics 😂
So happy to finally find a playlist of guides that teach me how to play the game rather than playing the game for me, appreciate you teaching us the mechanics and not the meta. I've finally managed to win a couple of campaigns without mindlessly following others, thanks!
You're welcome! Glad to be able to help!
300 hours (and counting) and I just learned that division halt had a key bind
Hhahahhaa yep, one of the most handy ones!
This works a lot, I want to give some advices to new players.
All wars can be won if you dominate micro and other knowledge like terrain bonuses. Literally yesterday i was doing Hugeoslavia achievement and at one moment i was at war against German empire, Italy, France, Albania, and Poland, then Turkey join to central powers and opened another front suddenly (cause i already took Greece and Bulgaria), i just entrenched myself behind rivers, on mountains and hills and tried to survive their first attack, you have to micro not just to attack, also to defend moving divisions on your weak spots if they are gonna break your line, once they are with low equipment you can crush them with micro doing pockets of 30 divisions, this even if they have air supremacy.
Use the supplies to your benefit, if you detect a point where your enemy has no supply but you do just carry them to that position, make a pocket, destroy the divisions and make a retreat order to let them in again on that low supply region, is so much easy break enemy lines if they are low supply and you just disappear lots and lots of divisions with minimum casualties.
If you have so much coastal provinces to garrison like Greece, Italy, China, South east asia, etc do not use garrison orders, i usually make a retreat order where i have 3 divisions covering the ports and the rest waiting one tile behind the coastal provinces with no ports, so this way they are going to disembark just to be on a pocket instantly losing all their manpower and equipment instead of just being repelled by a garrison order.
That's some damn good advice!
good stuff, liked and subbed. i recommend you teach this with smaller nations because the huge amount of troops makes it chaotic thus hard to see whats happening :)
I'm working on a guide to playing smaller nations!
@@hammotimee looking forward for that, cheers!
All the tutorial videos with way more views and THIS is the video that finally changed my game. Great work.
Happy to help!!
Thank god I found this video. I'm done conducting massive human wave attacks and losing millions of men now. Thank you very much bro
Human waves can be fun! Not the Hoi4 kind though
Poor, poor Poland 😅 almost every tutorial is about capturing it.
Very useful though, thanks a lot!
😂 no Poles were harmed in the making of this video
really like the bonus tip gimmick!
Hahha hey! It's not a gimmick, it's a tactic 😋 but thanks!
@@hammotimee I mean as the youtube gimmick to increase watchtime
just getting into HOI4 and these tutorials are great! Please keep them coming
Thanks so much! There's a whole playlist for beginners, then I've got videos coming out weekly! Check out the shorts too, some stuff is explained in there like the naval battles etc
I have HoI4 since release and I never knew about support attacking! This will change my game so much!
You're welcome! Enjoy haha
great vid really helpful for new players but i like to divide my my armor and motorised into even armies of 6 to 10 divisons and create multiple breakthroughs to enact encirclements easier behind the enemy, this also helps with over stacking and supply penalties
Thank you! And I do the same, makes it a lot easier hey?
Hahaha the bonus tip was the most helpful!!! 800 hours in and I still didn't know that thank you so much still learning.
Glad you think so! Happy to be able to help!
It took 16 hours to figure out out launch a battle plan so until then I microed because i dint knew how to attack another way
@@miguelgameiro8063 hahahahaha "you micro because you want to be better, I micro because I missed game mechanics. We are not the same" 😂
@@hammotimee spitting facts
Thank you for all your hard work just to help new players you helped me a lot
Thanks so much! Glad to help!
I've finally been getting into HoI lately after years of wanting to, but finding it overwhelming to start learning. I just watched this series of vids, and I gotta say I've learned so much! Like so many others in this comments section, I just wanna say I think it's extremely well done and super clear for a game as complex as this. Thanks a lot for this series. I'm gonna have a lot more fun with the game and I think I can actually keep Denmark safe from those germans now! Well.. Maybe. Hopefully.. Haha, anyway, I definitely want to show this to my brother so he can get into the game as well. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks heaps! I appreciate that so much!
@@hammotimee You're welcome mate! Wanna add btw, that being able to go back to your timestamps for explanations and division templates and such, is awesome. There's so much stuff to remember in this game, but this makes it a lot easier. Last game I managed to hold off the germans at the danish border all game. Not a single province fell, and the first two years of the war I had only taken 17k casualties and both Sweden and Norway were all german. I think that's is pretty good for a noob, so thanks again! xD
@@86Kba I'm getting into it at the moment - and fully agree!
it's a whole new game for me now b/c of your videos- thank you so much!
Thanks so much! I'm happy to help 😁
You are such a stud! And always so helpful.
Aw stop it you 🤭
I've always wanted to be better at micro, thanks!
You're so welcome!
I needed this thank you kind sir.
You are so welcome kind frog
Very useful, thank you!
Glad to help! Go forth and encircle
Thank you bro keep going
Thanks King! 👑
- Unassigned divs still get planning with the shift-right click field marshal frontline as of this comment.
- Also, you can "support attack" with unassigned divs using control + alt right click, even if there is no active combat, which means you don't have to wait for reinforcement from support attacks to operate at full width and start doing max damage to defender.
- Using "b" hotkey for strat redeployment is very helpful. AI is not the best about punishing it, and if you are pinning at line + doing breakthrough, it can't contest strat redeployment before they get some org back anyway. Good to use cheap infantry filler behind offensive divisions. Human players counter-micro much better, but vs AI the difference between infantry multi-province damage to open the line + driving pure mot through that opening vs tanks is small.
Great tips!
This is the best tutorial ever man, advertise one thing show five
Thanks so much!
Wow thanks again I used to just use the ai and hope for the best now I can attack better and encircle more!
Let's gooooo
I pause all the time. Most playthoughs are several days for me lol... to be fair I also have real world stuff to care for so I dont feel bad at all. Its videos like these that gave me renewed interest in this game. Watched a different video about something else dont remember what but saw how they would use tanks to push and encircle. Began incorporating that and learned quick pinning is very important.
Same! Especially when I started. Some of my achievement runs go till the 1950s haha
Thank you for tutorial. You helped me a lot, I allways struggle with invading Belgium as Germany ,but you showed me how to invade, just put 4 armys there😆 I allways putted only 1 army.
Im new in the game btw. for got to add.
Thanks so much!
Very useful tutorial. Could you maybe do something about the airplane editor next?
Thank you! I am working on guides for each of the different designers actually!
@@hammotimee Perfect, I am looking forward to them :)
You should make soms guides for major civil wars like the german civil war, russian civil war and the spanish civil war
That's a good idea actually! They'd be pretty straight forward 😁
you are the best!
No walter, you are the best!
Sorry when attacking who is more important
Soft attack or breakthrough?
Both are, but soft attack is more important
Lmao u made the game now so easy for me and makes sense
POLAND I AM coming BABY
Hahahah watch out Wotyek 😂
Also thank you so much!
@@hammotimeeno thank YOU sir , i love how clear you explain the tactics 🙏❤️
hey bro can yo play Turkey with by blood alone dlc and teach how to get stronger divisions as a minor thank you!
I do have a guide on division design I'll link below, and I do play Turkey 🦃 occasionally, come swing by my twitch channel!
czcams.com/video/aizLm3MvrwE/video.html
Good video! Is there a way to avoid the automatic reshuffle of infantry troops along your field marshall line once that you start to advance?
Thank you!! Not really, it's sadly just part of the advance, especially if you're making large gains. There is a setting now where you can limit how much your units shuffle but I'm going to test exactly how good it is before I make a video on it haha
You can put them on rigid cohesion (next to the naval invasion order), that way they will reshuffle on shorter distances
@@imbazo8890 there is, but when I've used it so far it led to units being left behind. Does that still happen? I've not tested it in a while!
Delete the front line sure its bloody annoying microing 50 individual divisions to the front line but thats the only way with out leaving gaps in the front line
How many credits are obtained per course session? Also do I get a certificate of completion?
+1 credit per hour played, and 1000 credits are needed to pass the "beginner" level certification
I need a guide for peace conferences, when to puppet, when to contest a bid etc..
With the new system that's a great point!
do you host any multiplayer games
Occasionally! Best place to find out about them is my stream ☺️
As a HoI1(2002) player, I find HoI4 child's play
Everything is so simplified and clear. Sigh
Ok boomer
Did Moses mistake this guys 2 front teeth for the Red Sea?
He did that so your mum had a clear path over here
At 8:48 there’s reference to essop key. What are you talking about? What key?
Sorry I said "S hotkey", that's my accent coming through 😂
I am going to practice this with germany. but how do you do this lets say with a country like ethiopia? When you are lacking everything, having inferior quality weapon/no artillery/support?
Focus on less divisions but make them stronger, rather than having more, weaker ones!
@@hammotimee thanks! i actually just been defending not moving and my troops in ethiopia became super experienced to the point that italians were always losing the battles. but had trouble to push through their tanks!
@@rosebeats09 awesome that's great!
of course poor poland is the field test for any hoi4 tutorial💀
Hahhaha those in game cobbas have a rough time of it
Holt...Hold... potatoe potata
Top of the mornin to ya
@@hammotimee You as well fine Sir. Tip top shape today turned to be!
Jesus Christ i didn't know there was a support attack button lol
Hey you live and you learn!
I knew support attack existed in all hoi games like hoi2, hoi3 etc. But never knew there was shortcut for it in hoi4.
What do i do when im encircled?
Alt F4 tbh
Or try and attack enemy divisions thjat are closest to your lines to break the encirclement
i could not understand what he means by splitting selection can anyone explain simply
im a little dumb
The amount of units selected, if you want half of them to move to a spot and the other half to keep going, you can right click where you want the first group to go when all units are selected, then press S to deselect half of them, then right click where you want the others to move!
@@hammotimee oh right, so if i understand it correctly it basically works so that if i go somewhere i leave half the units and go further with the rest and repeat
@@hammotimee thanks
@@brad650 exactly!
Yo
Yo
I don't know how to snake
Right click go brrrr
This game is really starting to piss me off, I really wish it would tell you the thing that you’re doing is wrong so I don’t have to spend hours watching videos and reading reddit posts to find out why my army’s can’t do crap. Thanks for the video anyway, I’ll have to try this out in the morning. Just spend hours trying to take France with me only taking a small amount of land
That's a vibe bro, hopefully this helps!! PS. With France (assuming you're Germany) don't try and push through the level 10 forts on your border, go through Belgium 🙂
@@hammotimee yeah I believe it helped, last night I did pretty well, I took France and did quite well after Italy
This is one of the many reasons why HOI4 is my worst PDX game
Why's that? 😅
@@hammotimee the speed 1-2 microing for wars. Also this and Vicky are both very strict diplomatically making it way less fun to play small nations and still succeed.
@@KarmaEpsilon ahhh that's fair, you'll get faster as you play more!
I accidently disliked this vid this helped me a lot
Algo ruined
Nah jks hahah thanks glad it helped!
Can anyone do a tutorial without using a fascist country? Look it's not cool to play as the people who made the Holocaust ;)
Plenty of my guides don't use Germany 😊
And by the same logic should we not play as the UK due to their colonialism, or as the USA due to their history with slavery? What about Japan and everything they did in China? Or Spain and their colonisation of the Americas?
Dig back far enough and you'll find terrible things every country has done my friend, there's a difference between acknowledging it and being respectful of it, and glorifying it
@@hammotimee I know, you can dig back enough to justify whatever, but that's just being disrespectful. In WWII Nazi Germany had the blame for almost everything and what they did was a crime beyond any at the time, not saying the rest were saints, but to have that clear in our minds is perhaps the most respectful thing we can do about it.
I noticed most of tutorials are done with Germany, perhaps if there was one or two I would be fine with it, but not 90% of them, that, honestly, scares me. I'm glad you do tutorials with other nations and hope you'll continue to do it, they are very helpful ;)
Whats y'alls biggest encirclement? I just got 127 Soviet divisions encircled (1,500,000-2,000,000 losses for them) with a "smaller" 66 division encirclement just a couple months later.
i.imgur.com/vXQpIfA.jpg
I have bigger ones IIRC just can't find the files. Nothing more satisfying than being autistic proper micro managing encirclements with Panzer/Mot armies, and letting the encircled divisions suffer for a few months guarded by some lightly equipped reserve divisions, and them still unable to break out. I almost want to give the Soviets/Allies/Japan x4 their manpower just to keep trying to outmaneuver them in different ways
Damn that's picy, I don't know for sure but I feel like it would be around 40-50 maybe?
@@hammotimee Just got another "small" 60 div encirclement with the spearheads ready to go East for another big push
i.imgur.com/LShbchq.jpg
Honestly I'm almost convinced my sole existence on HOI4 is to get as many encirclement as possible. It's like an addiction. Forget playing Minors or alt. history scenarios hahah
@@RifleEyez encirclements are why I wake up in the morning
@@hammotimee I love the smell of a Soviet encirclement in the morning. I almost wish HOI was even more deeper where operations took hours to plan and the map was like x10-x20 times bigger.
Honestly some games I love massively buffing the USSR with like x10 manpower and equipment just so I have even more of a challenge, but more potential opportunities to encircle them without winning so quickly. On the screenies I showed you sadly I didn't do that so I could just march in with infantry and win.
There's something so satisfying about being so intricate using the terrain, supply, weaknesses in their lines etc, and microing with Panzer/Mot units to pull off huge encirclements.
Like using the Plains tiles to make the pushes with my units, while bogging them down in marshes, forests or cities in certain weather (mud, etc) to encircle them, and trapping 100's of divisions. Then leaving them slowly for weeks just to suffer.
I think we have issues. Even right now I'm autistically doing the same thing trying to lure them into the ideal positions with my Inf units to go for another encirclement. I will post my update when I'm done.