The ULTIMATE Naval Guide For HOI4!

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I always wish to build a good navy as a minor and winning battles against other minors or even majors. Everyone said it's not worth to build a navy, but I just can't get over the idea of a battleship tearing enemy fleet to sheds. Thanks for the guide man!

5:27 you cannot put the torpedoes you research in the naval weapons tree on a submarine, those are for surface ships. For each submarine hull you research, you get a better variant of the submarine torpedo tubes. Like with the engines, for each ship you research you get a more modern engine for that class of ship.

"I don't make meta guides" is an instant thumbs up from me.

Holy shit it’s so nice not having to sit through an hour long rant. I can tell you only shoe horned the most valuable info here and the condensed style makes this so much easier. Very appreciated dude🤘🏻

I also avoided the Navy when I started playing but now I’m starting to get more serious about campaigns so this will help.

Without a doubt the best video on Navy I have ever seen. Been playing HoI4 since release and never understood the Navy until now. I hope to see you explain more things about this game so many others including myself can improve greatly.

Thank you so much for this! I have 3000 hours in Hoi4 and yet have always sidestepped navy as much as possible, this video and the template video helped me tremendously. Very well made video as well, I enjoyed all the sick navy clips to help psych me up haha

Just wanna say I've played for years and have always just defaulted to submarines because the navy shit was intimidating, but this is the first video that really made things make sense for me. Great job, not too much infortmation/data that it becomes hard to follow, but covers all the important stuff.

Truth about navy in hoi4, is that there just isn’t any time for it. In a game I’d rather put my research into things that actually matter, rather then research every little gun and ship type. It would be great if paradox separated normal research from naval and gave us a base research slot or 2 for navy.

Putting Never Repair on means that if a ship is damaged to the point of going 1.3 knots, then the entire fleet will go at that speed to keep pace. I don't think this applies in battles, where I'm confident each ship goes as fast as it can, but that would require micro-managing your fleets without to ensure that you don't end up having your fleets as sitting ducks for the far superior and more efficient naval bombers (In multiplayer, it is more efficient to not build a navy and to instead spam CAS capable of naval bombing, or just naval bombers). This would also mean that if you forget to split off a damaged ship, the whole fleet could get caught out if you are genuinely being chased by a superior force, or if you're in a battle, that ship could be so slow it can't retreat and will get caught up to and sink anyway. I'd recommend setting high repair priority and automatic split-off, meaning if a ship is damaged above 5%-10%, it will create a mini fleet, return to the nearest port, repair, then return to the parent fleet. The downside here is that a single ship is a sitting duck, so that's why you concentrate aerial and escort forces in the areas where ships would split off to, to ensure a safe return.

You’re doing gods work I wish I had this to watch a year ago

I have watched MANY HOI4 Navy tutorials over the years, and was intimidated by some of them and disinterested in others. THIS tutorial hit many of the points that I needed explained to start using my Navy well. 10/10 beginner Navy tutorial!!

The best video I've ever seen when it comes to Navy, thank you so much! I wasn't able to play with my own country (Japan) because it requires so much Navy knowledge, but I think this video will do. Thanks!

I’m half way through the video as of commenting this. I really like how you sprinkle little facts about history throughout the video, and thank you for making this guide.

Man, I watch all your tutorials, you are amazing! Huge thanks!

carriers are fixed now and work properly

Thanks I've always felt offput by naval stuff but this actually makes it look fun and more simple.

Yes, I like hoi4 naval combat but very rarely i would sink something. then y played japan and made a fleet following this guide, and i have sunk all of the US navy, thank you for the biggest dopamine hits i have ever experienced in a hoi4 game.

VERY well put together video, not only have you done your research and are up to date with everything, but its put together in an organised and easy to understand/follow. Thanks for this, you've saved me many hours of research.