How to Strategic Bomb and Counter it (HOI4 and Hearts of iron Tutorial)

After multiple request ive made a how to strat bomb in hoi4 tutorial, mostly as germany and england uk im showing how to use and counter strategic bombers in hearts of iron 4

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[matijagrafsoro]

"Gee why are strat bombers banned in multiplayer"

"Yea watch me destroy their entire supply chain in a day lmao"

[mrsfrizzlegavemelsd]

Also, by bombing their Airfields, you're basically preventing them from sending interceptors up into the skies. **The big think**

[mavislenya]

2:30 I disagree about the targets, I believe the your first target should always be the runways, as to diminish their air superiority so then you can do damage to the rest.

[mmdb]

I would love to share your videos with my friends, but i don't want to give such valuable info to my possible hoi4 enemies

[mercurianrepublic]

6:45 mutinies!You can cause mutinies through strat bombing.Also a good reason why strategic bombing is so OP.

[MXTHOUSAND]

Richard Overy, in Why the Allies Won: "At the end of January 1945 Albert Speer and his ministerial colleagues met in Berlin to sum up what bombing had done to production schedules for 1944. They found that Germany had produced 35 percent fewer tanks than planned, 31 percent fewer aircraft and 42 percent fewer lorries as a result of bombing. The denial of these huge resources to German forces in 1944 fatally weakened their response to bombing and invasion and eased the path of Allied armies." Other figures show that the shortfall for that year in tanks was around 9, 500 and in aircraft nearly 18, 000.

Two million men were involved in anti-aircraft defence, civil defence and bomb damage clearance and repair. Tens of thousands of anti-aircraft guns were deployed along with millions of rounds of specialised ammunition, and aircraft production was skewed 3:1 toward fighters. Making the anti-aircraft guns reduced the numbers of field artillery pieces and ammunition for western and eastern fronts; cutting down on bombers reduced the support available to front-line German soldiers directly and also indirectly in airfreighted supplies.

[RinaRavyn]

Personally i like to go about a Strat Bombing campaign in stages... Stage one is focussing on State-AA, Infra, and the runways. This way you cripple their capabilities in fighting back, and once ou succeeded with this, you already basicly won, and can switch over to stage two, in wich you can either go after milfacs or docks respectively depending on whats more important.

Civillian factories i want to keep undamaged as much as possible, i know this means i have to bomb more than the enemy can repair, but the more civillian factories are unharmed, the quicker i can build up damaged states and use them once i set foot.

[Ork]

I can easily explain why Strat bombing is not liked in multiplayer:
1: You can bomb the capital infratructur and completly destroy supply lines. This is because of how the supply system in HOI4 works. And this is a bad simulation of reality. You do not ship all supplies from your capital. Your industry is all over the whole country. The supplys go from there to several army depots and are distributed.

2.: Strat bombers are ridicolous overpowered regarding their air figthing abilities, as you stated yourself. During WW2 especially the americans had the opinion that you can make a big bomber invulnerable to figthers by putting enough guns on it. They did that in the B17 and called them flying fortesses. Then they used them against germany without figther escorts. Guess what happend: It took the german figther pilots a couple of minutes to find the weak spot of the B17 and they got absolutley slaugthered. That was the reason the P51 Mustang long range figther was developed and the british attacked at night.

3. Also strat bombing is by far to effectiv in the game. In WW2 both side swarmed each other with bombers, but the americans took it to a complete new level. Never the less the impact on the figthing ability was by far not as big as expected. The theory that it is possible to beat an enemy country into submission from air was also proven wrong. At least not without nuclear weapons or guides weapons.

I like HOI4 because it is as close to reality as it gets with strategic games rigth now. Paradox put in a lot of effort to make thing close to real history. They boast with that fact. Of course this is still a game and not real but they did a pretty good job except the fleet combat system and the three issues above. So 75% of the major flaws are related to strat bombing. And that is my reason not to want strat bombing in a multiplayer game.

Fazit: It can be countered but it just take the fun out of the game in the way it is implemented because it is completly overpowered caused by flaws in game simulation and stats. I mean look at your solution. You suggest to supply entire armies by planes? Of course in game it works. But that sounds like something Herman Göring came up with. Didn't worked out very well. Ask the german 6th army about it.

[Lorian]

Well, try to counter 5000 Strat Bombers from USA in 1941 :-)
Your Airfileds are down in a few days.

[forgi]

Man your videos are great <3 Great work, keep it up. Your videos are 1 of the most useful tutorials on HOI4 I ever saw <3

[jayb]

finally, if i’m bored and unable to do anything, i can just start a civil war with cheatland Hoi4 console commands

[astrandofhair]

Always target Runways first, Infrastructure second and Civs third

[benlex]

note that fighters also have agility and after the wake of the tiger Strat bombers can easily be disrupted by fighters (while not all of them). 1000 fighters should be able to disrupt 70~80% of 1000 strat bombers of the same level without modifications and killing 1~5 a day. If you can build static AA it would go even higher. Of course, this changes when they have escort fighters, so make sure your fighters are on interception when taking on bombers. Just a side note, heavy fighters and rocket interceptors are way more efficient at taking down strat bombers with their speed and attack, and would not have to engage escort fighters when put on interception.

[jamesmurchie]

There’s an issue with the transport plane abuse, each plane needs Command power to do supply missions. There would be a limit to how many supplies you can drop as not only is Command Power capped at 100, the Command Power doesn’t replenish during supply drops.

[saiaccused]

Great video. You deserve way more subscribers!

[JokeeGA]

Also, I've never played a MP game of HoI4, but I imagine the reason it is banned is because if you haven't built up a critical mass of heavy fighters, when the strat bombers come, it is too little, too late. I mean, it seems like in the video you took Germany out of the picture in a matter of days.

[leeonekerman]

As always, quantity is quality.
You helped me a lot! Thanks.

[SwagMessiahOfficial]

The tutorials are helping so much, thanks mate

[TNIZZLE]

Air defense does not increase the chance you shoot down fighters, it only reduces the damage done to you. It is still air attack that deals damage.

[ronlackey]

This video is excellent and translates to the history of WW II in that one of the main reasons for the Allied victory in Europe was the utter devastation of Germany's ability to wage war due to around the clock bombing. I think this videos shows that and is therefore a viable strategy. I don't think it should be banned from some servers. It is the way it was. Become innovative and come up with ways to slow down or stop it. Maybe massed AA, heavy fighters, dispersed industry? Also, can fighters in regions located between the strat bombers base of origin and their target harass the bombers ALL the way to and from the target? Love the video. Got me thinking strategically and I like it.