Invade the Soviet Union! Operation Barbarossa Tutorial - Hearts of Iron IV HOI4 Paradox Interactive

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[jordray]

'here's a good barbarossa tutorial'
*Attacks in winter*

[picklickwick]

God the ussr is so scary in this game.. They just pull hundreds of divisions out their ass.

[Boryspitzanzx]

i just got a 1 hour skipable ad about a guy playing GTA 5 on a potato. WTF youtube

[mladizivko]

A truly advanced guide.
"Send all your divisions to the east, as early as possible." Worth the 10 minute mark.

[alexandertempel]

The trick is to slip a single tank division and drive into Moscow with no resistance

[rob]

what I do is attack in spring and summer and defend in winter to let them kill thr supplies by the time I won they had like 22m dead

[thesenate]

I have nearly 200 hours on this game now and after countless attempts I still can’t do it. I steamroll all of Europe but Stalin keeps pulling divisions out of his arse. Even with huge encirclements killing 20-30 divisions in one go I still can barely get past Kiev...

[bigfatpandalaktana]

I got pretty desperate when Stalin decided to break the pact, so I just created this giant line that pushed straight into Moscow and Kiev and defeated that mustache man

[Thomaswake]

"This is a large bulge" - FeedBackGaming

[rastas]

Executing Operation Barbarossa in HOI4 nowadays is so much more complicated than this. You need to think of oil, your airforce, and really be intensive in terms of conducting encirclements. If done right, the Soviet Union can go from ~400 divisions to under 200.

[DaveFeedBackGaming]

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[alicebrown]

I find that if I save the Soviet Union till last in Europe, I can focus all of my forces. My general strat is to make a full front between me and USSR, and then with a defensive infantry build assigned to a Field Marshall on the front, alongside 2 or 3 panzer/mot infantry divisions to generals that will sweep from the north and south ends to around Moscow, usually making the capital in Leningrad, where most of the Soviet troops will be in a center pocket, letting the attrition hit so my troops can just roll them. Rinse and repeat pushing east until they drop. The strong defensive infantry with AT and Artillery prevent their tanks from busting through, and their front will ensure they stay with the front line, rather than having them like garrison or on a defensive line. Of course, it's a good thing the Russian AI never focuses on Heavy Tanks

[seattlepunkgaming]

The north flank struggled because you accidentally clicked in the south and had the entire front drive south and then run back north again to execute their order.

[moderngermany]

and when its over annex all the land and get a shit ton of factories

[lucioarenas]

i literally fail at almost all operation barbarossa attempts i did even invading the soviets early by invading poland in 1936.

[CPT]

I often had this vision of playing as the Germans and essentially reenacting the timeline of Wolfenstein.

• To start off, have the historical events play out as they would normally by keeping Hitler in power and invading Poland on September 1, 1939.
• Steamroll over France and have them conquered by June 22, 1940.
• By May 2, 1941, sway Iraq into having an alliance to fight the UK.
• On June 22, 1941, commence operation Barbarosa, this time with a heavy focus of logistics (but stop short of conquering Moscow until March 16, 1945).
• On August 30, 1941, capture Mga, Leningrad Oblast to sever the last railway to Leningrad.
• On September 2, 1941, have a bunch of artillery divisions start showering Leningrad.
• On September 14, 1941 have the third and 16th Panzer divisions link up at Lokhvitsa, completing the encirclement of Kiev.
• On March 16, 1943, conduct a bombing raid on London.
• Pretty much fortify Normandy and make D-day a failure.
• On March 8, 1945, start bombing raids on Moscow for a whole week. Then move into conquer Moscow on march 15.
• on June 24, 1945 cripple the British Royal Air Force at the battle of Liverpool.
• On January 6, 1946, formal plan to conquer the British Isles via Scotland.
• On March 11, 1946, conquer Sweden.
• On July 4, 1946 have the nuclear bomb research completed.
• On August 20, 1946, give assistance to the Japanese Navy in the Leyte Gulf and assist in wiping out more than half of the American fleet.
• On December 12, 1946, have Russia capitulate.
• On January 3, 1947, launch an amphibious invasion against Canada.
• On March 7, 1948, have divisions threaten the Chinese People’s Liberation Army from the north (on a sidenote, don’t conquer Mongolia, because they are left alone in this timeline, oddly enough).
• On June 21, 1948, conquer the UK.
• on July 8, 1948, conquer China and essentially force Japan to relinquish all their territorial claims whilst making them a puppet.
• On December 21, 1948, nuke New York.
• On December 22, 1948 conquer Washington DC and puppet the United States.
• On October 13, 1949, invade Italy (and pretty much just conquer them whenever).
• After that, establish the New World order and work towards making every government on the globe fascist.

Visualizing building a dystopia can be fun… 😏

[TheElderNexus]

ehhhm... You do realize that you attacked during winter right? I always start Barbarossa in April

[janisl.]

Cool video. Just wanted to share how I did it.
First I didn't give up eastern poland, than took the baltic states before ussr could invade them. Stationed my infatry in a front line along the border. Than had a elite divisons push to different cieties, than move to another city to take it. I quickly took Leningrad to to not allow them to have a fleet in the region and built ships there to establish naval supremacy around britain. The only thing that failed was an attempt to flank Stalingrad from crimea and trap their divisions in the Caucasus, my forces got trapped and only captured Sevastopol.

[TheNickwars]

No hate but i really dont like this because its not really a tutorial or something that shows a strategic operation or something that makes it easier or because in most cases the soviet union has much more division on the german front so you cant get threw it with only 116 division....

[clyax]

Thank you so much! The strategy and the medium panzer template really helped. I'm about to capitulate them with both capitulation and victory points around 20%. Wish me luck, and then it's on to the U.S..