HOI4 Strategic Bombing | NASTY Trick for OP Bombers

HOI4 Strategic Bombing | NASTY Trick for OP Bombers

SEE EXTRA SINGLE PLAYER TIPS IN PINNED COMMENT. If you don't think hoi4 strategic bombers are effective, you're using them wrong. In this hearts of iron 4 tutorial, we conduct a detailed test to find out the best strategic bombing approach in Hearts of Iron IV — daytime bombing, nighttime bombing, or a combination of both. The results for strategic bomber night hoi4 are STUNNING, so if you found the information useful, please like & subscribe for more.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:41 The strategic bombing tests explained
1:18 Fighter and Strat bomber design overview
2:19 The variables during the tests
3:38 IC cost/buildings bombed ratio + example
5:04 24/7 Strategic bombing tests
7:11 Tips for defending against strategic bombing in Hearts of Iron 4
8:13 Daytime bombing test
9:27 HOI4 Strategic Night bombing test
11:52 How strategic bombing can change the HOI4 meta
12:29 More strategic bombing tips to bomb effectively in HOI4

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Timestamps for mobile users + EXTRA TIPS FOR SINGLE PLAYER BELOW:

0:00 Intro
0:41 The strategic bombing tests explained
1:18 Fighter and Strat bomber design overview
2:19 The variables during the tests
3:38 IC cost/buildings bombed ratio + example
5:04 24/7 Strategic bombing tests
7:11 Tips for defending against strategic bombing in Hearts of Iron 4
8:13 Daytime bombing test
9:27 HOI4 Strategic Night bombing test
11:52 How strategic bombing can change the HOI4 meta
12:29 More strategic bombing tips to bomb effectively in HOI4

FOR SINGLE PLAYER:
German & most other AI countries don't bother with building AA or radar stations at all, nor does it bother sending fighters back to protect against your bombers. Therefore:
1. Make your strat bombers as cheap as possible by adding non-strategic air materials and make sure to get the -10% bomber production cost from your focus tree if you're with the USA. Create 4 engine variants as shown in the video, remove the self-sealing tanks as you won't face any opposition.
2. Switch to day & night bombing. I know I said night bombing is best, but that's only if you're facing AA, RADAR, and fighters, which you are not in SP. AI does not damage your bombers at all, you only lose them due to accidents. So day & night when unopposed gives you the most damage.
3. Don't bother with targeting specific buildings, bomb everything. As there are no radars or AA, you will run out of things to bomb if you target fewer buildings, and it seems that dispersed industry offers a big defensive bonus against strat bombers. Still, it only protects factories, so you can bomb everything else with ease (disrupt fuel and rubber production, heavy damage to airports and seaports, reduce infra) and still flood the repair queue, preventing the AI from building anything new + damage some of the civs and mils they build. Mils seem to be more vulnerable to bombing than civs.
4. It can be argued that you don't even need escort fighters as the German AI just does not bother protecting the skies after they're at war with the USSR, so don't divert that much IC into your airforce, use a more balanced approach.

[Mr_T_Hief]

HOI4, the only game where no matter how much I learn and improve I'll still encounter a random essay that will make me feel like a complete rookie

[omercagatayduman]

i always wished paradox would implement strategic warfare on a deeper level. strategic bombing blockades and commerce raiding was a big part of ww2.
btw this is some "remans paradox" level shit. very informative and no garbage. hope you will make it big. you have a huge potential.

[SanderDoesThings]

Dude, I don't usually say this, but this guy has serious potential for content making

[tylerkunkel]

Bomber Harris can rest in peace knowing that strat bombing is viable in hoi4 again.

[broodlettuce]

Again, another truely amazing video! Very informative and simplified. No time wasted and if you wanna just skip to the outcome there are time stamps! 🎉

[patrickweiss]

I had done this in a recent USA game. Night only bombing with the modules to reduce the night operations penalty. The entire Axis ran out of buildings to bomb by 1943.

[gabe]

Alright, this is actually massive. I'll try a strat bomber build next game.

[hakku]

I love playing with strategic warfare so much. Sometimes I roleplayed using strat bombers and subs to starve the UK literally (without attacking ussr), 0 fuel, 0 convoy, low war support, many factories destroyed, airforce devastated. its pretty funny. I wish paradox use those the strategic potential in the future.

[youtube-is-cringe]

Would be cool if you had also included a step with 1 AA, just to compare 1 AA to no AA, but still great job man

[DanGarcia-xdqv]

Good job. You keep this up, and your channel will be must see for HOI players. Looking forward to more drops if they are going to be as informative as your air videos.

[udaykumartembhare]

This is a very underrated channel, with the potential to compete with the more known channels like feedback and others. I can't wait to see you blow up now.

[quincyames]

i usually just do what i have buffs for, germany has a lot of boost for fighters and cas, usa gets heavy fighter way ahead of time

[Viktor_fff]

Wow, thanks dude. I was really interested in this, but didn't want to spend time for tests. Glad you did all that researches and share results

[counterfactualgaming]

Your tests clearly show that defending against strategic bombing requires a coherent strategy that considers everything from planes to static AA to RADAR. I'm also pleased to see that night bombing has come into its own. A long time ago, night bombing was terrible since there were not modules that mitigated the bombing efficiency.

[john-jy]

No overly long intro no off topic no bs amazing video man keep up the good stuff!

[brexit_good]

Was doing some testing about strat bombers earlier and noticed that the night penalty reduction given from air to ground radar doesn't seem to apply but the extra strat bombing does, worth thinking about if you are gonna try to rush the tech.

[tornadonick]

Liked and subscribed, very high quality research and good presentation. Would be happy to see this kind of math and research applied to other PDX games, or strategy in general.

[juvandy]

Great video! I've always selected the night path for strat bombing since the benefits seemed so much greater, but I never thought to keep the bombers up only at night- it makes a lot of sense!

I wonder if selecting night only also have benefits to CAS if you are a minor fighting a major, since it could reduce their fighters' ability to find your CAS. Your CAS impact would be reduced also, but you wouldn't lose as much of your industrial output.

[datman]

Just saw this video in my recommended, good video!