While more expensive to build than destroyers, they are still quite cheap relative to capital ships.ĭestroyers (DD) – Destroyers are the smallest, fastest, cheapest direct combat ship that can be built.
They can be equipped with a plane catapult, which makes them excellent scouts for a fleet. They have more survivability than their destroyer counterparts but much more attack and armor. Light Cruiser (LC) – Light cruisers are a very versatile ship and one of my personal favorites. The primary role of screening ships is to protect capital ships from torpedo attacks and to attempt to penetrate the enemy ‘screen’ to attack their capital ships. Now we move on to screening ships of which there are only two types. Adding additional hanger modules gives this US carrier the ability to carry more planes at the cost of increased production cost and slower overall speed Its build cost and time are less than BB’s but more than CA’s. The ship itself has moderate speed for a capital ship, and light armor. We will talk about Carrier Task Force (CTF) composition later in the fleet composition section. The strength of a CV depends on the planes it carries and how many of them. In real life, they absolutely dominated the seas after 1941, but in game, they are effective but not dominant. They are significantly cheaper and faster to build than other capital ships.Ĭarrier (CV) – Aircraft carriers in HOI4 are a bit of an enigma. However, their speed is quite high which makes them difficult to hit. They have the lightest armor of any capital ship, which reduces their survivability in combat against other capital ships. Heavy Cruiser (CA) – Sometimes referred to as ‘the poor man’s battleship,’ heavy cruisers can still mount heavy batteries that are moderately powerful. The idea being that ‘they can outrun anything they can’t outshoot and outshoot anything they can’t outrun.’ Their lower armor means they can survive fewer hits, but their higher speed means that they are harder to hit in the first place. They keep most of the firepower of a BB, but trade armor protection for speed. They are also useful for shore bombardment.īattlecruiser (BC) – Battlecruisers are the faster, smaller cousins of battleships. Like their bigger brothers, they are powerful but slow and vulnerable to torpedoes and planes. While not as strong as SHBB’s, they take significantly fewer resources and time to build. The Japanese super-heavy battleship Yamato is simply a beast on the waves.īattleship (BB) – Battleships are powerful ships in their own right. They are also useful for shore bombardment. The cost to build them is also massive requiring many resources and tying up dockyards for several years. No other surface ship could hope to compete with them directly however, they are still vulnerable to torpedoes and planes.
SHBB’s have serious firepower and armor protection. Super-Heavy Battleship (SHBB) – These are truly monsters of the waves. Capital ships are designed to meet the enemy ships in combat and sink them. There are three basic types of ships in HOI4: capital ships, screening ships, and submarines. * If you own the Man the Guns DLC, the capabilities of all ships is mostly determined by the modules you use on the ship designer. Taken from the HOI4 wiki, you can see how long the build times are for capital ships.
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To do this most effectively, you need to know how to construct a navy. You must make a sober assessment of what your country’s naval requirements and capabilities are and get to work implementing them straight away. This means you only have a little more than 3 years before the war breaks out if playing on historical. Naval strategy is different from land and air strategy for one reason building ships takes a very long time! Most Hearts of Iron 4 games start in 1936. Themistocles, Athenian politician and naval strategist He who commands the sea commands everything. We will look at the different ship types, the ship designer (assuming you have the Man the Guns DLC), mission explanations, a stat breakdown, as well as an overview of how naval combat works in the game. In this part of the tutorial, we will discover what it takes to build and use a world-beating navy. Planning: What do I want my Navy to Do?.
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