Micro & Encirclements in Hearts of Iron IV | Beginners Guides

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  • Опубликовано: 9 дек 2024

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  • @whaliin
    @whaliin Год назад +21

    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!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +6

      LETS GOOOO I'm so happy I could help!!

  • @Ramzinie
    @Ramzinie Год назад +55

    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

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +9

      Aw thank you! I'm just happy I've been able to help people 😁

    • @mamshd
      @mamshd Год назад

      😅

  • @CatfoodChronicles6737
    @CatfoodChronicles6737 Год назад +42

    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.

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +5

      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

  • @potissimus100
    @potissimus100 2 года назад +92

    Cannot describe how much this video helped

  • @danielzamora9491
    @danielzamora9491 Год назад +11

    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.

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +2

      That's some damn good advice!

  • @NoobMaster2754
    @NoobMaster2754 4 месяца назад +1

    Im a new player, (13 hours) and I kept losing to Poland as Germany, because my troops kept getting encircled and I didnt know how to micro, And this video has helped me so much, cant describe it in words

  • @OfficiallySmoko
    @OfficiallySmoko Год назад +5

    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!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      You're welcome! Glad to be able to help!

  • @Adelheid069
    @Adelheid069 Год назад +12

    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 🙌

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +4

      🤯 we've cracked the code 🤯

    • @Adelheid069
      @Adelheid069 Год назад +2

      @@hammotimee it's just supply chain management with politics 😂

  • @christianpaul5674
    @christianpaul5674 8 месяцев назад +1

    All the tutorial videos with way more views and THIS is the video that finally changed my game. Great work.

  • @nathanh2917
    @nathanh2917 10 месяцев назад +2

    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.

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  10 месяцев назад

      Same! Especially when I started. Some of my achievement runs go till the 1950s haha

  • @86Kba
    @86Kba 9 месяцев назад +1

    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!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  9 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks heaps! I appreciate that so much!

    • @86Kba
      @86Kba 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@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

    • @po-cf1ut
      @po-cf1ut 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@86Kba I'm getting into it at the moment - and fully agree!

  • @SpinoMedia
    @SpinoMedia Год назад +19

    300 hours (and counting) and I just learned that division halt had a key bind

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +2

      Hhahahhaa yep, one of the most handy ones!

  • @WhiteDevil-hi2nk
    @WhiteDevil-hi2nk Год назад +5

    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

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +4

      Human waves can be fun! Not the Hoi4 kind though

  • @danielverman
    @danielverman 2 года назад +10

    Poor, poor Poland 😅 almost every tutorial is about capturing it.
    Very useful though, thanks a lot!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  2 года назад +6

      😂 no Poles were harmed in the making of this video

  • @Word187
    @Word187 Год назад +2

    I have HoI4 since release and I never knew about support attacking! This will change my game so much!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      You're welcome! Enjoy haha

  • @yac7571
    @yac7571 Год назад +24

    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 :)

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +4

      I'm working on a guide to playing smaller nations!

    • @yac7571
      @yac7571 Год назад

      @@hammotimee looking forward for that, cheers!

  • @esantocheebi3012
    @esantocheebi3012 2 года назад +6

    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

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  2 года назад +1

      Thank you! And I do the same, makes it a lot easier hey?

  • @yato329
    @yato329 2 года назад +3

    Hahaha the bonus tip was the most helpful!!! 800 hours in and I still didn't know that thank you so much still learning.

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  2 года назад

      Glad you think so! Happy to be able to help!

    • @miguelgameiro8063
      @miguelgameiro8063 Год назад

      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

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      @@miguelgameiro8063 hahahahaha "you micro because you want to be better, I micro because I missed game mechanics. We are not the same" 😂

    • @miguelgameiro8063
      @miguelgameiro8063 Год назад

      @@hammotimee spitting facts

  • @vitcosoft
    @vitcosoft 2 месяца назад

    For me a great way to practice micro was sending volunteers to Spain / China, where the AI essentially keeps the line with their infantry and I can focus on creating the encirclements and practicing micro management

  • @davidmullins6859
    @davidmullins6859 Год назад +1

    it's a whole new game for me now b/c of your videos- thank you so much!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +2

      Thanks so much! I'm happy to help 😁

  • @MariDuru21
    @MariDuru21 Год назад +3

    just getting into HOI4 and these tutorials are great! Please keep them coming

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +2

      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

  • @TheMelnTeam
    @TheMelnTeam Год назад +2

    - 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.

  • @Torgan454
    @Torgan454 Год назад +1

    really like the bonus tip gimmick!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Hahha hey! It's not a gimmick, it's a tactic 😋 but thanks!

    • @Torgan454
      @Torgan454 Год назад

      @@hammotimee I mean as the youtube gimmick to increase watchtime

  • @rabidus
    @rabidus 2 года назад +7

    I've always wanted to be better at micro, thanks!

  • @grobbs666
    @grobbs666 6 месяцев назад

    Thanks! One thing I'd like to know is how best to handle low supply. When quickly moving to encircle, I always run into supply issues.
    I usually try sticking to railroads and supply depots, but they take 10 days to be active and are often more defended. I'll try using lots of transport planes but still rarely get enough supplies to divisions doing the encircling.
    Part of the problem is I always use tanks for this, which require lots of supply. Maybe I should start experimenting with more motor infantry and armored cars.

  • @TopatTom
    @TopatTom Год назад +1

    Thank you for all your hard work just to help new players you helped me a lot

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Thanks so much! Glad to help!

  • @PhobosGamerYT
    @PhobosGamerYT Год назад +1

    Wow thanks again I used to just use the ai and hope for the best now I can attack better and encircle more!

  • @jimberry7385
    @jimberry7385 2 года назад +1

    You are such a stud! And always so helpful.

  • @Jakes_workshop
    @Jakes_workshop 8 месяцев назад

    This is the best tutorial ever man, advertise one thing show five

  • @Rimtas1233
    @Rimtas1233 11 месяцев назад

    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.

    • @Rimtas1233
      @Rimtas1233 11 месяцев назад

      Im new in the game btw. for got to add.

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks so much!

  • @larsprophitius2968
    @larsprophitius2968 Год назад +1

    You should make soms guides for major civil wars like the german civil war, russian civil war and the spanish civil war

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      That's a good idea actually! They'd be pretty straight forward 😁

  • @Flepsons5552
    @Flepsons5552 Месяц назад

    You're a wizard mate!

  • @twiglets2
    @twiglets2 Год назад

    Very useful, thank you!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Glad to help! Go forth and encircle

  • @UgandanWarriorofHell
    @UgandanWarriorofHell 5 месяцев назад +2

    when i ditched the whole micro thing and started doing massive offensive lines to retake lost land. by the time i reached berlin and won against the germans, UK and the allies declared war on me and i have no manpower left to spare 😂

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  4 месяца назад

      Hahaha defs gotta find a balance!

  • @johntory8330
    @johntory8330 5 дней назад

    I did not know that you could support attack, thanks

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  5 дней назад

      @@johntory8330 glad to help!

  • @daniwood2998
    @daniwood2998 2 года назад +1

    Very useful tutorial. Could you maybe do something about the airplane editor next?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  2 года назад

      Thank you! I am working on guides for each of the different designers actually!

    • @daniwood2998
      @daniwood2998 2 года назад

      @@hammotimee Perfect, I am looking forward to them :)

  • @SuperGeomike
    @SuperGeomike Год назад

    At 8:48 there’s reference to essop key. What are you talking about? What key?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Sorry I said "S hotkey", that's my accent coming through 😂

  • @wabbit3439
    @wabbit3439 2 года назад

    I needed this thank you kind sir.

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  2 года назад

      You are so welcome kind frog

  • @UCKszbcV
    @UCKszbcV 2 года назад +4

    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?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  2 года назад +1

      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

    • @imbazo8890
      @imbazo8890 Год назад +1

      You can put them on rigid cohesion (next to the naval invasion order), that way they will reshuffle on shorter distances

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +2

      @@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!

    • @eli-mi3mh
      @eli-mi3mh Год назад +1

      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

  • @Macinatorecazzaro
    @Macinatorecazzaro Год назад +1

    Sorry when attacking who is more important
    Soft attack or breakthrough?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      Both are, but soft attack is more important

  • @Alexanderaigpt
    @Alexanderaigpt 2 года назад

    Thank you bro keep going

  • @silasking3996
    @silasking3996 Год назад +1

    Did Moses mistake this guys 2 front teeth for the Red Sea?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      He did that so your mum had a clear path over here

  • @AlwafiCharki
    @AlwafiCharki Год назад

    Lmao u made the game now so easy for me and makes sense
    POLAND I AM coming BABY

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Hahahah watch out Wotyek 😂

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Also thank you so much!

    • @AlwafiCharki
      @AlwafiCharki Год назад

      ​@@hammotimeeno thank YOU sir , i love how clear you explain the tactics 🙏❤️

  • @artmcewen3165
    @artmcewen3165 Год назад

    I need a guide for peace conferences, when to puppet, when to contest a bid etc..

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      With the new system that's a great point!

  • @JJonez19
    @JJonez19 Год назад

    you are the best!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      No walter, you are the best!

  • @GospodarTecnosti
    @GospodarTecnosti 6 месяцев назад

    Hello, I am relatively new to the game (about 50 hrs). I have never seen those unit animations where they run and shoot and their idle animations where they do anything else besides standing and looking around. Is this in the base game or is it a mod because I like the animations very much!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  4 месяца назад

      I think it's one of the unit packs in the DLC section!

    • @GospodarTecnosti
      @GospodarTecnosti 4 месяца назад

      @@hammotimee The Allied and Axis Armor you mean?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  4 месяца назад

      @@GospodarTecnosti uhhhh possibly? I thought the animations were in the vase game tbh haha

  • @rosebeats09
    @rosebeats09 7 месяцев назад

    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?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  7 месяцев назад +1

      Focus on less divisions but make them stronger, rather than having more, weaker ones!

    • @rosebeats09
      @rosebeats09 7 месяцев назад

      @@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!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  7 месяцев назад

      @@rosebeats09 awesome that's great!

  • @destroyermaqa36
    @destroyermaqa36 8 месяцев назад

    As a HoI1(2002) player, I find HoI4 child's play
    Everything is so simplified and clear. Sigh

  • @MrJeramy6548
    @MrJeramy6548 Год назад

    How many credits are obtained per course session? Also do I get a certificate of completion?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      +1 credit per hour played, and 1000 credits are needed to pass the "beginner" level certification

  • @bonty2463
    @bonty2463 2 года назад +1

    do you host any multiplayer games

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  2 года назад

      Occasionally! Best place to find out about them is my stream ☺️

  • @biat
    @biat 2 года назад

    hey bro can yo play Turkey with by blood alone dlc and teach how to get stronger divisions as a minor thank you!

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  2 года назад +1

      I do have a guide on division design I'll link below, and I do play Turkey 🦃 occasionally, come swing by my twitch channel!
      ruclips.net/video/aizLm3MvrwE/видео.html

  • @NaTi0nalst
    @NaTi0nalst Год назад

    What do i do when im encircled?

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      Alt F4 tbh
      Or try and attack enemy divisions thjat are closest to your lines to break the encirclement

  • @suxix7312
    @suxix7312 Год назад

    Holt...Hold... potatoe potata

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +1

      Top of the mornin to ya

    • @suxix7312
      @suxix7312 Год назад +1

      @@hammotimee You as well fine Sir. Tip top shape today turned to be!

  • @dorimeameno5514
    @dorimeameno5514 Год назад

    of course poor poland is the field test for any hoi4 tutorial💀

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Hahhaha those in game cobbas have a rough time of it

  • @eli-mi3mh
    @eli-mi3mh Год назад

    Jesus Christ i didn't know there was a support attack button lol

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Hey you live and you learn!

    • @steelpanther88
      @steelpanther88 10 месяцев назад

      I knew support attack existed in all hoi games like hoi2, hoi3 etc. But never knew there was shortcut for it in hoi4.

  • @brad650
    @brad650 Год назад

    i could not understand what he means by splitting selection can anyone explain simply
    im a little dumb

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      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!

    • @brad650
      @brad650 Год назад

      @@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

    • @brad650
      @brad650 Год назад

      @@hammotimee thanks

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      @@brad650 exactly!

  • @thefirehydrationunit5887
    @thefirehydrationunit5887 Год назад

    Yo

  • @picturebypicture3598
    @picturebypicture3598 Год назад

    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

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      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 🙂

    • @picturebypicture3598
      @picturebypicture3598 Год назад

      @@hammotimee yeah I believe it helped, last night I did pretty well, I took France and did quite well after Italy

  • @eagles5650
    @eagles5650 Год назад

    I don't know how to snake

  • @KarmaEpsilon
    @KarmaEpsilon Год назад

    This is one of the many reasons why HOI4 is my worst PDX game

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      Why's that? 😅

    • @KarmaEpsilon
      @KarmaEpsilon Год назад

      @@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.

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад

      @@KarmaEpsilon ahhh that's fair, you'll get faster as you play more!

  • @thatannoyingduck1331
    @thatannoyingduck1331 8 месяцев назад

    I accidently disliked this vid this helped me a lot

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  8 месяцев назад

      Algo ruined
      Nah jks hahah thanks glad it helped!

  • @carlosfelipeninobernal6851
    @carlosfelipeninobernal6851 Год назад

    Can anyone do a tutorial without using a fascist country? Look it's not cool to play as the people who made the Holocaust ;)

    • @hammotimee
      @hammotimee  Год назад +5

      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

    • @carlosfelipeninobernal6851
      @carlosfelipeninobernal6851 Год назад +1

      @@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 ;)