1. bumb #1 Drussix Apr 9, 2017 @ 11:12pm Lets a fleet protect friendly convoys in the assigned patrol areas, allowing them to concentrate on enemy submarines and commerce raiders that dare to attack your shipping. 1. However, convoy escorts will still be able to fight against submarines once combat is initiated, even if subs are not normally detectable by enemy taskforces on the map. You can even then sent out your strike fleet to destroy the convoy escort. CUF Chinese United Front CV Aircraft carrier - Ship capable of transporting airplanes of three types: fighter, CAS or naval bomber. 8 to 1. 6) or later. In general, modifiers are typically used to create a consistent and long-lasting effect that can be easily reversed. Second focus should be the first air force focus, it will cause an. In addition to large carrier or battleship-based fleets, a navy should use smaller fleets for specialized purposes, such as patrol fleets with 3-3 CAs/BCs, a few CLs and a bunch of DDs, flotillas of 3-6 subs on convoy raiding or search and destroy missions, as well as squadrons of a couple DD for anti-submarine warfare, convoy escort, or convoy. CTF Commander of Task Force or Carrier Task Force. Least expensive way is to block naval routes where you'd be exposed and NAV bomb convoy raiders in areas you can reach until you kill the AI's raiding. FlyPepper. 18. 391 954. I always build a lot of docks and then modernise the entire fleet in the most practical way by avoiding high cost changes like engines and main batteries. And Jesus Christ, I did not know how good carriers were at convoy raiding. 2. HOI4 Tools SGr - Save Game Recorder - records, compresses, and archives autosave files in realtime, no game. Revealed:. It is OP against nations like Japan or the UK. Protect your convoys with anti-submarine fleets (destroyers with depth charges and sonar, plus one or two light cruisers with spotter plane catapults, set to the Convoy Escort mission). If you want your ships to patrol the sea zones, then use Convoy Escort. Screen Shot 2019-04-03 at 4. I use task forces of 2 SS--very cheap models--for patrols/scouting (the binocular mission). CryptoI am trying to do a naval invasion and i assigned one of my navies to the regions that needed escorts and now i need that navy to escort in other regions and i cant delete the previous ones. ago. Added an increase to sub visibility as part of the positioning penalty in naval combat. The game picks a route for the convoys, it does not adjust this if there are straits blocked or sea areas that you have denied to convoys. Not only can you use your fleets to blockade an enemy’s supply lines they can also be used to perform naval invasions, sometimes saving you a lot of time fighting it out over a long land route. xp [XP amount] – Add a specified amount of XP to your Army, Navy, and Air forces. Your navy, whether over the course of years or in one decisive battle, can make the difference between humiliating failure and righteous success. 2: 1x Escort Carrier, 4x BB, 8x DD. What you will need a shit ton of DDs with torp racks to nuke their fleets. Convoy escort mission. This video serves as guide to the Convoy Raiding and Convoy Escort missions. Which is ok in the eraly game b/c planes lack capacity to sink them and in turn get taken out nicely by convoys. If you’re relying on naval convoys to fulfill resource needs, protecting those convoys is going to be vital. png. Cruisers and destroyers are great for convoy escorts. Fire control upgrades reduce reliability less, unless it's a. Princess_N1cole • 2 yr. FlyPepper. Reply. In 1. The three strategic regions I will be placing my subs into are the Iberian Coast, North Atlantic Ridge, and the Denmark Strait. Create a destroyer escort for convoy escort mission. : r/hoi4. [deleted] • 7 yr. 2. 106 Badges. my capital fleets consist of 3-4 carriers (with CAS wing included for land support), 4-5 BS, 5-8 heavy cruisers, 8-12 light cruisers, 24 destroyers, 2 submarines. Similar delays also apply for missions like convoy raiding or escort at suboptimal efficiency so it’s harder to bring all your power to bear at the same time. 2 Sea Zone: Patrol Fleet You will require a repair haven and some sort of sub scouting to detect incoming fleets so you can move off the convoy route till the strike fleet goes back home. Ships can influence land combat by. You should get subs 3s over sub 1s because sub 3s have a slot for radar while keeping 3 torpedo. Convoy Escort English Channel--TF1. Escort Carrier - 1 flight deck, AA, Radar is you want, carrier 1 engine. Carriers get a lot more power ramp than other ships, so they start off comparatively weak, but later on get much stronger. Citronsaft. Be nice if they added a min threat level to it. For convoy escort I would make destroyers with the highest level sonar and depth charges possible. May 13, 2018 @ 8:35pm Originally posted by GoofyGooberYa: Thanks, it really needs to be fixed. The most common use for naval task forces is protecting and attacking enemy convoys. Convoy Warfare: this spirit is available if you have the Trade Interdiction naval doctrine. Putting capital ships on those orders is a waste (and a good way to get them sunk). Good enough. Sub killers go into better hulls, 1 gun, and the best ASW/Radar tech possible, upgrading when possible. It absolutely nukes literally all your stats - heavy attack, light attack, screening, etc. And with more and more submarines coming, the issue usually gets worse and worse. log. All the other toys in a main strike force. Or lend leases taking all the convoys up. They are death to your subs. k. Find below an updated list of all Hearts of Iron IV console commands, these are commonly referred to as cheat codes. Hi there, So I recently played a historical game as the US, I fought the Japenese, lend leased Britain alot. Give your sub snorkel, best (and maximum amount of) torpedos and best engine. Interesting. There is the convoy escort mission, and to my knowledge it does exactly what it says on the tin. Set to engage at high risk (sub3 or sub4 only). I’ve had at least one line of Early Hull Destroyers with anti-sub weapons in construction since the start. Feels like a "campaign mode" for Hoi4 but in an alternate, yet still relatively grounded, reality. Draw an offensive line. The best meta currently in HoI4 is heavy cruiser spam: To make these Heavy Cruisers, start of with a current Light Cruiser hull to get an extra slot for a Light Battery. Crash To Desktop - Frequently used in patch notes. But when raiding convoys, every intercepted convoy causes the route. This protection is extended to all of the fleet's assigned regions, although the number of regions that can be efficiently protected depends upon the number and size of task forces performing the mission within a given fleet. 19. Ideally 15 ships, but ♥♥♥♥ hit the fan and my admiral are being. Such a fleet would drink lots of fuel. The convoys had the order to keep going, but they stayed in the region where the battle took place. The submarine tree is a standard submarine tree for convoy raiding, not very powerful. e. HOI4 is quite. 72 Badges. The normal US stuff. You also should try to make this fit your own style of playing. deadstalker007. Consider them a Flower class corvette. 3. The destroyer patrols that kill subs get absolutely manhandled by Cruisers. I am playing UK importing almost everything from the USA however my convoys leave through the english channel where Germany has submarines convoy raiding. For example. Hover over a command in the table to view detailed argument-related help. Destroyers will never detect a sub if the sub has snorkles, but they can sink them; however, cruisers with floatplanes are used to find the subs and destroyers will kill them once found. Try to have a mix of good ships, you can't escort effectively with just submarines, or just destroyers. Task Force composition. Target cost 5200-5300. Usually only one strike force until mid/late game. Is there a "critical" value of AA to negate the 4 carrier naval bomber force in the open seas. A single Naval Yard. Seems pretty obvious. First of all, you need to know that there are five different ships in total in Hoi4, meaning there are 5 different warship classes that you can craft. With convoy battles in the game, CVEs saw a bit as well, but the argument for their inclusion is a good deal weaker given the current state of commerce raiding at the moment, but will hopefully improve with time. Toggle signature. Their counter is Battle Cruisers. Im a relatively new player. A single task force of 12 ships can participate in only one battle at a time. RELEASED SGc - Save Game Converter - converts save games to XML format for easy viewing in freeware XML viewers. Use the convoy escort mission. Report. Go to hoi4 r/hoi4. Most subs had one or two small-caliber ( destroyer sized, but without the turret/armor ) dual-purpose gun on them, they would be used when surfaced. The Man the Guns DLC was not enabled for. Convoy Escort: Efficiency is just 2 ships per convoy, if I recall. Convoy health causing auto heal 7. I put my entire navy on Convoy Escort to defend my reinforcements to Tripoli and now 2 task forces have engaged the Allied navy and my other 6 task forces in the region are just watching them die instead of helping. Greatest HOI4 post of all time. If you're playing a naval power you can also throw in a few battleships. During battle, they can form the bulk of a screening line to protect capital ships from torpedoes. Convoy Escort Focus Light Hull -10% PC. With some speculation that convoys are now going to appear on the map, and potentially be integrated into the main naval combat system, is it too early to ask if the role of 'escorts' is more. your fleets roam between assigned sea regions, and in the case of convoy raiding arguably teleport still just like convoy escorts. - added carrier sub detection increase of 25% to escort carriers doctrine research. A task force assigned to the convoy escort mission will protect convoys belonging to the player or their allies if they are attacked. e. So if you have multiple task forces of 2 cruisers and 12 dds with depth charge 3 or 4, you'll find subs for days. Ships can influence land combat by performing shore. Cheap destroyers with detection and depth charges as a focus (if adding anything at all). It is possible to see the achievements sorted by the percentage of. 3 command power while mission is active. This is the most powerful doctrine for surface action. Surface Raiders have higher kill rates because they have higher surface detection to find convoys. The good news is that the AI has started blocking off the sea zones to convoy traffic where my subs and mines are doing the most damage. Kill the enemy ships attacking your convoys. These range from simple patrol missions to convoy escort duty. If the UK has 60 convoy routes and you sink convoys on one, that's one in 60 hit, or under 2% of the maximum effect, no matter how many convoys are actually assigned to those routes. • 1 yr. ok, so playing as japan, and i have capitulated china, and i just started the pacific war against usa, and when im going to transport troops through the area. It is the most efficient in responding to the escort needs of convoys and in anti-submarine warfare. Set your convoys to avoid sea tiles with significant enemy fleet presence, and hope for the best. This video serves as guide to the Convoy Raiding and Convoy Escort missions. Optimized game rule checks by finding the game rule in the game rule database more efficiently. Lowered sub hidden escape speed from 0. Subs are the best scouts, best convoy raiders, and best minelayers. I could do that, but it shouldn't happen. The best meta currently in HoI4 is heavy cruiser spam: To make these Heavy Cruisers, start of with a current Light Cruiser hull to get an extra slot for a Light Battery. tank template. Maybe a carrier and / or cruiser Role: Convoy. Rush 1940 sub and snorkel. Then split them into 2 or 4 fleets. As for all Paradox games, Hearts of Iron IV is moddable to a great extent. There is two different variants that come in handy: First, Light/Escort Carriers (CVE). Keep them out of shallow water and away from enemy bombers, both of which murder subs. Infinite time on station still exists (unreal for subs and escorts) 6. In practice you'd want to run very cheap destroyers for convoy escort missions, and run light cruisers with radar, sonar, and float planes for patrols. If they have AA guns they can shoot with them at other ships too. This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. At present there are 4 missions; Search and destroy, Patrol, Convoy raiding, and Convoy escort. So no you cant bomb berlin while the luftwaffe is still strong because even if the bombers can range it (night can work for least casualties here) while your fighters barely make it to Frans. CVLs in particular saw a fair bit of action in the HoI4 sense. MP might be a different animal because human players are more adept at effectively implementing naval strategy than the AI. In this sense all engagement rules except Do Not Engage are the same for raiders and escorts. Currently there's nearly 400 convoys going, which I guess is more than you had previously, so it needs more ships to be as efficient. Dismissing 20 notifications in a month saying you’ve destroyed between 1-12 convoys is based. Thanks! 3. Open 'DocumentsParadox InteractiveHearts of iron IVSave Games' , open the newly created savegame file, search (CTRL-F) for the name of your generic created Admiral. If you're having troubles assigning dockyards, you'll need to create a new production line of convoys, assign docks, then take them off of their current build production. I plan to conquer the UK as germany by convoy raiding around the British mainland. The subs should have good torps and the best snorkel you have, and be split into packs of 8-12 (any more and there will be operational penalties). Switch your fleet to hold position, wait an hour, and give it new orders. and the cl arent doing anything against any dd that come convoy raiding, better just use pure dd taskforces set to low engagement. Against a stronger naval opponent we can focus on tying up their fleet and destroying supply lines to starve their war machine. Then, tell the rest of your land forces to move across the channel and reinforce the 1 or 2 ports you have. 5, -- scales impact of convoy route size (0 to turn off) So it looks like the rules are this: If you damage a convoy route delivering supplies, the efficiency of that route. You convoy raid them and any units that want. Anyone else think you should have an option to disable naval convoy travel for divisions? So after conquering the British Raj I quickly created a fallback line along to coast line for my troops to guard the coast around 50 divisions.