Fritz Joubert Duquesne Is actually REALLY Interesting. He Is a South African Born Boer and German Soldier, Big Game Hunter, Spy and Journalist. His Nicknames Include: The Man Who Killed Kitchener, The Black Panther and "The Duke" and he has Gone by the Aliases: Captain Claude Stoughton, Fredrick Fredricks, Boris Zakrevsky (Assumed The Identity of the Real Russian Duke), Major Fredrick Craven, George Fordham, Piet Niacud (Niacud is the Pronunciation of Duquesne Reversed) and Colonel Beza.
The big reason why you want tanks are: ●Breakthrough: Allowing you to take less damage on the Attack ● Hardness: Depending on your Hardness you take more or less Damage, a 60/40 Hardness Division takes 60% Damage of Enemy Hard Attack and 40% Damage from Soft Attack. ● Special Attack Tactics: Tactics like Blitzkrieg, Unexpected Attack and Guerilla Warfare can completely break the game ● Higher Base Stats resulting in extreme Planning Bonusses to overcome Stalemates (eg: The Stalin Line) Furthermore: The little Barrel next to the Division Name in the General/ Army list when you click on it shows the fuel. Important to know: RELIABILITY is calculated on a Division-Level. You could easily build 40% Reliability tanks, then use a division with more Motorized/ Mechanized than Tanks, and end up with over 75% Reliability.
Because of how HOI4 calculates division armor, you can actually somewhat neglect it on the bulk of your tanks. The formula for total armor is "40% * [Highest Armor] + 60% * [Average]". So, the idea is that you add a single battalion of a very expensive AA tank that has maxxed armor to your division, so that way the 40% highest armor makes up for how cheap the rest of your tanks are. A single battalion of medium AA for example is only 36 tanks, so it doesn't matter that they can cost almost 20 IC per tank, you're only going to have 36 in your division yet improve your overall armor stat significantly. You'll get a lot more divisions out this way.
ON THE MATTER OF YOUR TANKS. Firstly, always have your reliability at or above 80% there's no reason for you to have it any higher or lower. Second, don't worry about soft attack so much on your tanks, small and large cannons are death traps, just focus on armor. For mediums, Armor should be at least 80-100. The universal rule for armor is 30-50 for light tanks, 80-100 for mediums and 100-120 for heavies. Also upgrade your point armor before adding the +25 percent sloped armor. Don't use sloped armor on light tanks, they should be cheap and fast. All tanks you should ever make in single player should be no faster than 12 kilometers. It's the maximum speed for motorized and only using tanks in a divison destroys the organization. Finally the divison for single player tanks that I think is a good starting point is this, 2 regiments of tanks with 3 battalion in each row (for medium or lights but heavies only 1-2 battalions) Note: You don't have to use only 3 tank battalions the whole game. I recommend for majors adding another 1 battalion to each regiment every year but your frequency should depend on your stockpile. 2 regiments of motorized with max as many battalions you can put on(mechanized are useless in single player) The last regiment should be used as a late game regiment full of either mot artillery or 3 medium tanks or light ones. Hopefully this helped and you'll use tanks more often now!
Soft attack is important its hard attack you should not focus on. For medium tanks 1-2 hmgs (you dont lose reliability from them) + medium howitzer tends to work best
I know this is a old video, but I know a guy called VijoPlays which plays hoi4 and has videos about tank templates, division templates, navy, and plane templates. Hope it helps
For your tanks, it depends on what kind of niche you want the unit to fill. For my mediums, I typically prioritize Breakthrough, since that seems to do the most damage to enemies and allows for the most encirclements, sometimes at the cost of speed, meaning less overruns. For SP Artillery, just prioritize Soft Attack, that is what they are good for. Try to keep all your tanks' reliability at around 80, otherwise their organization will run out too quickly. I don't know if it's actually all that good in MP, but it shreds through France and Poland like nothing in SP, so I would recommend it. Also do your tank divisions at 40 width. I usually do 12 tanks and 8 mech/motorized. Keep in mind tanks really only excel in hills and plains, otherwise you will need some excellent air to back it up.
@@kristibbs-lg9gy what the fuck man is not my name , my name is Pete and I prefer to be called she (I’m joking obviously)(I’m not into any of that preferred pronoun bs)
7:20 your tanks aren't actually that bad but for single player the ai doesnt design high armor tanks so piecing isnt your highest priority you should focus on soft attack and breakthrough since it really helps you in attacks in multiplayer piercing and hard attack are more important
The only tanks I use is flame tanks you need engineering 2 and most time I use the cheapest tank with a flamer on it for extra soft attack. Works pretty well
You have to make all tanks the same speed beacuse the division will be as fast as the slowest battalion is also best tank div is 30 width and around 30 org
When designing tanks, it's important (in my opinion) to focus on soft attack, speed, and reliability. If reliability is over 100%, it adds no extra benefit, so you should add more engine/armor points or another module. In singleplayer, the vanilla ai is notoriously bad at designing tanks so hard attack is pointless. Also, you should only research anti-tank in singleplayer to get the improved medium cannon. Hope that helps.
the tanks are alright since in sp the ai makes bad divisions the only thing I would change is ur tanks should be 8kmh and put the medium cannons and advanced medium cannon as they give soft and hard atk also the artillery tanks arent affected by the doctrine so u never got the stat bonuses like the org or breakthrough otherwise nice vid
0:07 i feel you Kris. The Romanian experiment at communism was probably the 2nd worst one in existance behind Afganistan. But you need to understand that Marx didnt really destinguish between socialism and communism. You can think of it as socialism being the transitional period between capitalism and communism so in essence when you bash communism you also hurt socialism because the avarage person doesnt know the difference between the 2.
@@kristibbs-lg9gy "For Marxists, socialism or, as Marx termed it, the first phase of communist society, can be viewed as a transitional stage characterised by common or state ownership of the means of production under democratic workers' control and management, which Engels argued was beginning to be realised in the Paris Commune of 1871" - this is from wikipedia
@@kristibbs-lg9gy "Since it is essential to talk about it while discussing the distinction between socialism and communism, the dictatorship of the proletariat that is a political transition period is also explained in this study. Communism has two phases. The first or lower phase of communism is called as socialism that is the phase between capitalism and communism. The second or higher phase of communism is the perfect stage. There is no inequality or injustice in this stage. Communist society is classless society where products are delivered according to individuals needs." - from the journal of human sciences
Those tanks are decent i guess, if they got around 7kmph 85 relaibility some 25 30 soft atack some 40 armor they are allright to clap the AI. The template is also not that bad. Anyways, its better than what the AI makes
You Lived In A Place That Experienced Communism And Yet You Still Don't Know That The Only Thing Anybody Experienced Is Socialism, As Communism In A State Has Never Existed And Probably Never Will. They Are Not The Same And Not All Forms Of Socialism Are The Same, Some Are Especially Bad (Stalin's Shenanigans), Some Are Decent (Marxism By The Book), Some Are Actually Pretty Good (Syndicalism, Democratic Socialism (Different From Social Democracy) And Others) Btw, Socialist Germany Is Based
Wtf are you even talking about? I know the differences. I am a socialist. What even gave you the impression that I am clueless? Also I wouldn't call anything that the Soviet Union or its satellite states anything other then Authoritarian dictatorships.
Against AI I don't think that having hard attack on your tanks is worth it. Since they don't put all their tanks in a couple of tiles to make a breakthrough, and instead disperse them on the front, you can just go around the tank and encircle it.
@@kristibbs-lg9gy ok ok, i mean the template is still cooked (use 30 width with two columns of tanks and one of motorised) but at least the tanks werent as bad as they could of been
Man I just think he has 100k subs, only to look and he only has 30k and I am like, brainrot channels get millions of subs, and a good UA-camr like him gets nothing
If your are so easy to influence the allow me to influence you to play the Shadow of sevres mid as greece or the great war redux as greece (has focus tree) so the suffering can become REAL Pls sir
"attacks with tanks over a river and lost" - Tanks trash
"Infantry attacks plains and wins" - Infantry better
I did point that out =))))
We still waiting for black ice world conquest just reminding
up
Luxembourg too ofc
Hell nah, I ain't waiting for that.
Fun Fact: You can get George Orwell (for the British Commune) and HP Lovecraft (for New England) in Kaiserredux
Wtf?
@kristibbs-lg9gy Yup, Orwell can become in charge after the Second Weltkreig
And Lovecraft can become in charge after going for a cult path
@@kristibbs-lg9gy Oh yeah, they use Orwell's actual name of Eric Blair instead of his pen name in the mod
I do know but why are you telling me this here? =))
@@kristibbs-lg9gy This is a sign, world conquest as HP Lovecraft
Conquer the world as Luxembourg in black ice already
Fritz Joubert Duquesne Is actually REALLY Interesting. He Is a South African Born Boer and German Soldier, Big Game Hunter, Spy and Journalist. His Nicknames Include: The Man Who Killed Kitchener, The Black Panther and "The Duke" and he has Gone by the Aliases: Captain Claude Stoughton, Fredrick Fredricks, Boris Zakrevsky (Assumed The Identity of the Real Russian Duke), Major Fredrick Craven, George Fordham, Piet Niacud (Niacud is the Pronunciation of Duquesne Reversed) and Colonel Beza.
The big reason why you want tanks are:
●Breakthrough: Allowing you to take less damage on the Attack
● Hardness: Depending on your Hardness you take more or less Damage, a 60/40 Hardness Division takes 60% Damage of Enemy Hard Attack and 40% Damage from Soft Attack.
● Special Attack Tactics: Tactics like Blitzkrieg, Unexpected Attack and Guerilla Warfare can completely break the game
● Higher Base Stats resulting in extreme Planning Bonusses to overcome Stalemates (eg: The Stalin Line)
Furthermore: The little Barrel next to the Division Name in the General/ Army list when you click on it shows the fuel.
Important to know: RELIABILITY is calculated on a Division-Level. You could easily build 40% Reliability tanks, then use a division with more Motorized/ Mechanized than Tanks, and end up with over 75% Reliability.
Take a shot every time Kris says ''god-fucking-dammit''.
You ask me for money, just to give it to HollowBeing? The gall.
Jk pretty wholesome
Yes. I need money to fuel my addiction of living money to Hollow.
"i just realized that this is the first time i do it with a woman"
correct
"You know communism is bad when it happens to you"the best quote of 2024
Because of how HOI4 calculates division armor, you can actually somewhat neglect it on the bulk of your tanks.
The formula for total armor is "40% * [Highest Armor] + 60% * [Average]".
So, the idea is that you add a single battalion of a very expensive AA tank that has maxxed armor to your division, so that way the 40% highest armor makes up for how cheap the rest of your tanks are. A single battalion of medium AA for example is only 36 tanks, so it doesn't matter that they can cost almost 20 IC per tank, you're only going to have 36 in your division yet improve your overall armor stat significantly.
You'll get a lot more divisions out this way.
Your parents thought that you were a mistake until they saw your tank design
0:09 this image is the most cursed thing ever
Its the truth
"I'm wasting my twenties on HOI4"
Lemme tell you, as a person in my 20s who quite rarely plays video games, the real world ain't much better
35 minutes
10 kristibbsmaxxing 🗣️🗣️
Congrats on the 10 streak
ON THE MATTER OF YOUR TANKS.
Firstly, always have your reliability at or above 80% there's no reason for you to have it any higher or lower.
Second, don't worry about soft attack so much on your tanks, small and large cannons are death traps, just focus on armor.
For mediums, Armor should be at least 80-100. The universal rule for armor is 30-50 for light tanks, 80-100 for mediums and 100-120 for heavies.
Also upgrade your point armor before adding the +25 percent sloped armor. Don't use sloped armor on light tanks, they should be cheap and fast.
All tanks you should ever make in single player should be no faster than 12 kilometers. It's the maximum speed for motorized and only using tanks in a divison destroys the organization.
Finally the divison for single player tanks that I think is a good starting point is this,
2 regiments of tanks with 3 battalion in each row (for medium or lights but heavies only 1-2 battalions)
Note: You don't have to use only 3 tank battalions the whole game. I recommend for majors adding another 1 battalion to each regiment every year but your frequency should depend on your stockpile.
2 regiments of motorized with max as many battalions you can put on(mechanized are useless in single player)
The last regiment should be used as a late game regiment full of either mot artillery or 3 medium tanks or light ones.
Hopefully this helped and you'll use tanks more often now!
Soft attack is important its hard attack you should not focus on. For medium tanks 1-2 hmgs (you dont lose reliability from them) + medium howitzer tends to work best
i subscribed to help you reach your goal🗿
also you make good videos, you just single handedly cleared all my bittersteel brain rot
Thank you
Uruguay being Kristibbs biggest enemy all game feels right.
I know this is a old video, but I know a guy called VijoPlays which plays hoi4 and has videos about tank templates, division templates, navy, and plane templates. Hope it helps
10:10 wild because I literally thought this same exact thing to myself earlier wasting time bro
For your tanks, it depends on what kind of niche you want the unit to fill. For my mediums, I typically prioritize Breakthrough, since that seems to do the most damage to enemies and allows for the most encirclements, sometimes at the cost of speed, meaning less overruns. For SP Artillery, just prioritize Soft Attack, that is what they are good for. Try to keep all your tanks' reliability at around 80, otherwise their organization will run out too quickly. I don't know if it's actually all that good in MP, but it shreds through France and Poland like nothing in SP, so I would recommend it. Also do your tank divisions at 40 width. I usually do 12 tanks and 8 mech/motorized. Keep in mind tanks really only excel in hills and plains, otherwise you will need some excellent air to back it up.
This was a verry good video kris , I have changed my ways and now I support you again , this video was verry good
wtf man
@@kristibbs-lg9gy what the fuck man is not my name , my name is Pete and I prefer to be called she
(I’m joking obviously)(I’m not into any of that preferred pronoun bs)
7:20 your tanks aren't actually that bad but for single player the ai doesnt design high armor tanks so piecing isnt your highest priority you should focus on soft attack and breakthrough since it really helps you in attacks
in multiplayer piercing and hard attack are more important
ITS THE FIRST WC UNDER 10 HOURS GJ
kristibbs video and one piece chapter on the same day this is the greatest day of my life
The only tanks I use is flame tanks you need engineering 2 and most time I use the cheapest tank with a flamer on it for extra soft attack. Works pretty well
I actually wanted this mod, i always use it when playing Germany, mostly Trotskyist path
Love watching your channel very entertaining
They added surgery to a grape
That's a good artillery tank. I'm actually proud, I thought I was the only support tank enjoyer
Wow, I just bought a 2 years old DLC. It looks like it came out yesterday
Black ice luxembourg...
when i tried this mod i had no pol;itical advisors or military staff
You should give Red Flood Germany a go and see how they compare [without the world conquest part]
Best hoi4 tuber doesnt exi.....
love you kommentation and how you play [ sorry my English is bad ]
You have to make all tanks the same speed beacuse the division will be as fast as the slowest battalion is also best tank div is 30 width and around 30 org
208 days of HOI4. I want you to get a year.
Another vid, another victory in germany
kris making tanks? character development fr
When designing tanks, it's important (in my opinion) to focus on soft attack, speed, and reliability. If reliability is over 100%, it adds no extra benefit, so you should add more engine/armor points or another module. In singleplayer, the vanilla ai is notoriously bad at designing tanks so hard attack is pointless. Also, you should only research anti-tank in singleplayer to get the improved medium cannon. Hope that helps.
erm this video is straight skibidi!
We starving with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Hey, I have 3.5k hours in HOI4. Slightly more experienced.
*DDR music starts and gets closer*
DDR= Communist Germany after WW2
einz zwei drei the best party yea vier fünf sechs the best connection sieben acht the warsaw pacht and neun your best friend * sick instrment riff *
You can form the ottoman empire as Bosnia in the Yugoslavia overhaul mod. The mountain general made a great video on that path.
I know 10.000 people have told me about it already =))
@@kristibbs-lg9gy Did you know you can form the ottoman empire as Bosnia in the Yugoslavia overhaul mod?
FR?
bro tanks arent the problem, you just dont wait for the breakthrough to kick in and you use them on mountains and forests
Details.
Amazing content!!!!!!!!!!
Glory to Germany and Glory to Comrade Kristibbs!
Video idea: form the Ottoman empire as Tannu Tuva
i didnt forget
the tanks are alright since in sp the ai makes bad divisions the only thing I would change is ur tanks should be 8kmh and put the medium cannons and advanced medium cannon as they give soft and hard atk also the artillery tanks arent affected by the doctrine so u never got the stat bonuses like the org or breakthrough otherwise nice vid
Wasting your 20s on hoi4 is too real 😢
i love tears
let me drink yours kristibbs, let me drink your wonderful tears
Ba taci, comunismul e goated
Matache măcelarul 13 ani
@@kristibbs-lg9gy Matache macelaru și-a început cariera încă din 1879, nu din 2011
Do you live in Romania? Also, can you do a world conquest as Romania pls🙏
I do i did do a work conquest with Romania already.
Oh
Medium Tank is good enough. A bit slow but otherwise solid. I don't have enough experience with SPA to judge it's design, tho.
GOD TIER TANK
0:07 i feel you Kris. The Romanian experiment at communism was probably the 2nd worst one in existance behind Afganistan. But you need to understand that Marx didnt really destinguish between socialism and communism. You can think of it as socialism being the transitional period between capitalism and communism so in essence when you bash communism you also hurt socialism because the avarage person doesnt know the difference between the 2.
Bruh. They both suck. Worst idea to have ever been created.
@@MonkeMountain I like how you included your reasons and scientific research and results in your thought provoking nuanced argument
You have no idea what Marx was on about my guy. Go read some its nowhere near what you think.
@@kristibbs-lg9gy "For Marxists, socialism or, as Marx termed it, the first phase of communist society, can be viewed as a transitional stage characterised by common or state ownership of the means of production under democratic workers' control and management, which Engels argued was beginning to be realised in the Paris Commune of 1871" - this is from wikipedia
@@kristibbs-lg9gy "Since it is essential to talk about it while discussing the distinction between socialism and communism, the dictatorship of the proletariat that is a political transition period is also explained in this study. Communism has two phases. The first or lower phase of communism is called as socialism that is the phase between capitalism and communism. The second or higher phase of communism is the perfect stage. There is no inequality or injustice in this stage. Communist society is classless society where products are delivered according to individuals needs." - from the journal of human sciences
finally i can play karl marx the second XDDD
You had a close Supportgun on your Artillerietank so…
Those tanks are decent i guess, if they got around 7kmph 85 relaibility some 25 30 soft atack some 40 armor they are allright to clap the AI. The template is also not that bad. Anyways, its better than what the AI makes
Bro fell 2k 41 minutes
The list got too long to read? Suffering from Success
Tank 100% laguhable
road to 56 is still waiting
Yo no way he tried the mod i suggested
DENMARK DOES EXIST!!!
Proof?
Yeah got any proof??
Bro I literally loaded up this mod right before the video released, but my xpu overheated ao I can play it
did you forget about the armor and engine thing for tanks
No
The tank design gave me virtual aids
Darn nice mod for Germany
You Lived In A Place That Experienced Communism And Yet You Still Don't Know That The Only Thing Anybody Experienced Is Socialism, As Communism In A State Has Never Existed And Probably Never Will.
They Are Not The Same And Not All Forms Of Socialism Are The Same, Some Are Especially Bad (Stalin's Shenanigans), Some Are Decent (Marxism By The Book), Some Are Actually Pretty Good (Syndicalism, Democratic Socialism (Different From Social Democracy) And Others)
Btw, Socialist Germany Is Based
Wtf are you even talking about? I know the differences. I am a socialist. What even gave you the impression that I am clueless? Also I wouldn't call anything that the Soviet Union or its satellite states anything other then Authoritarian dictatorships.
@@kristibbs-lg9gy✊✊🚩🚩☭
@@kristibbs-lg9gy based
Bro doesn't know that engine and armor can be upgraded lmao
I do know and I did upgrade them.
@@kristibbs-lg9gywe are proud of you
If you like giraffes more than humans then you do a mod with buthan
What?
@@kristibbs-lg9gy do a world conquest with buthan + mod
There îs a Buthan mod???
@@kristibbs-lg9gy there has to be
I don't think there is
Nice
Against AI I don't think that having hard attack on your tanks is worth it. Since they don't put all their tanks in a couple of tiles to make a breakthrough, and instead disperse them on the front, you can just go around the tank and encircle it.
11:26 AI Mexico literally ruins my game 80% of the time bro
bro didnt add any engines or armour to his tanks 💀
I did after i got more xp.
@@kristibbs-lg9gy ok ok, i mean the template is still cooked (use 30 width with two columns of tanks and one of motorised) but at least the tanks werent as bad as they could of been
_😤_ based
Nebraska mod when
sorry for being mean, but the artillery tank has a hunchback at 7:33. but the tank design is good.
A what?
@@kristibbs-lg9gy your artillery tank looks like Quasimodo.
When Peter Griffin world conquest?
Who? like the Yellow guy?
@@kristibbs-lg9gy Petoria mod (the guy from family guy)
Bro you just suffered with Siam, take a break 😭🙏
21:55😳
Use AA for tanks turrets
cool:)
Is this a mod?
Ofc it is.
17:25 brooo
Cant read focuses, but reads comments... sounds fair....
Its a choice.
Kristibb
Are you reading this too?
Nah not this one.
@@kristibbs-lg9gy Damn. Dude can reply without reading.
Get youre job done kris its the vanila hoi4 not a moded one
Argentina ist my Favorite balkan country
Yippie
Man I just think he has 100k subs, only to look and he only has 30k and I am like, brainrot channels get millions of subs, and a good UA-camr like him gets nothing
What 30k bruh its 24 😥
@@kristibbs-lg9gy 30k, don't let these fake numbers fool you :)
romania world conquest
Did that
@@kristibbs-lg9gy do it again, with only 1 division
No thanks
The tank designs are okay, but would have been better if you researched 1939 artillery to get the new cannons for more soft attack
I did change everything to newer technology when i got it.
Can we just have a vid making fun of Austria pls
I do really often =))
If your are so easy to influence the allow me to influence you to play the Shadow of sevres mid as greece or the great war redux as greece (has focus tree) so the suffering can become REAL
Pls sir
idk