USA Ressource Guide (Some Ideas) for HOI4 +/- Man of Guns DLC, + Air/Bomber Strategy

[Maddog1944]

Hello guys,

i just watched a Video from ReviewgameX, he is my favorite Lets Player on Youtube with Good Comments, i learned somehting from him about Allied Fraction and Particular the USA - United States.

Here is how it works, and what he said about the early Game Start for the US

First of all, you have a production Malus because of the Great Depression.
To help Great Britain in the European Theater, you can Trade with GB and give them Civil Factories (they use the Ressources well) because there will be a "Synergy" Effect for Allied Fractions

If you Play USA, the game is about to Secure Ressources or DO NOT give Axis Possibility to get for Example:

key Ressources:

1.

400 (!) Tungsten in Portugal
(the Axis Player or AI, will use it for Tanks, and Tank Destroyers)

Tungsten is one of the key Elements, in the game.
You can Prevent Axis from Getting Tungsten by Invading the Pyrinaens (Boarder Between France and Spain) if the Axis Troops Fall into Spain, they will be CUT OFF from Supply.

+ for this make Sure you get the Airborne Divisions and Transport Planes

1.1

Key Ressources: Rubber (Airplanes, Motorized, Bombers)

as USA with Land and Carrier Based Air Fleet, you need Secure Rubber OR Prevent Axis from Getting Rubber

for This you make an Naval and Infantry Post in Singapur and Prevent Axis from get Access to Siamese and South Vietnam (all Together there is like 100 Rubber)

1.2

Did you ever check the Map for the Dutch Colony "Sumatra" and "Kalimantan"?

The regions have 450 Rubber all Together (!)

To have these Ressources or AVOID Axis to get them, can be Key in winning Late game, OR if you can get access to these Regions you will have the Key Ressources for your Air Fleet, Land and Carrier based

1.3

Research as USA the Combined Bomber Offensive
Research in Air Doctrine the Night Bombing
During Night Raids, on Ploesti for Example, the enemy will have a malus to Detect and shoot your bombers down

- For Night Hunting Bombers they need a HUGE Research Tree, which is only complete by 1944/1945 with Radar, and Night Fighters (which are special and i dont know if you can Research them in the HOI4)

1.4

Take Malta as Air Field for your Strategic Bombers and Heavy Fighter Escort
Make Night Raids on Ploesti
With Strategic Bombers -> Combined Bomber Offensive you will have longer Range and can Bomb in a Radius of about 2500 km

1.5

Produce Heavy Fighter Groups for Escort (they have more Health)
P38
and P47 Thunderbold

Enter Air Fights as Early as Possible with Small Groups to gain XP, and you get have "Aces" for the Plane Type

1.6

Research the Night Bombing in the Air Doctrin Research Tree

1.7

When Possible send (asap) Weapon Deliveries to GB (you find under decissions)

1.8

Send 20 Divisions to Singapur with Transport and Escort

-> you will have Acess to most of the pacific Key Regions and you can prevent to Japanese to Expans in the Area (because you can Block them for example Eastern Part of British India, or they will have access to 240 Tungston there)

1.9

Try to Bomb German Industrial Production with Night Raids with your B-17 or B-24 plus Heavy Fighter Escorts

- by Selecting the Doctrines early in 1936 / 1939, and Continue 1940/41
- key Point is also Bomb Ploesti in Romania to avoid Axis get Full acess to 70 Oil Ressources in Romania (Axis can Supply several of their Tank armies with this fuel to be a serious Threat to Russia or is Allies in Europe)

2.0

Only "Cheat" i used in the Game is to Annex Netherlands to have Access to 300 Rubber on Sumatra, because During a "Test" Game i had lack of Rubber, (Aluminium)

2.1

It would also Work without any Cheat if you play a Nation* with a Possibility to get Access to Ares with Rubber / and or Aluminium Supplies.

* would be Ideal when this Nation will have Good Fighter and or Bombers to fully profit from the Rubber / Aluminium

2.2.

Nations such as Soviet Union have huge Land Masses for them Steel, Tungsten, more Important than for the US / GB in the Early Game. In Order to Build the T-34 or Tank Destroyers, after 1940 / 1941 and 1942

2.3

These ideas i Collect from ReviewgameX a German Lets Player on Youtube and just Translate his thoughts to English Speaking Public

2.4

IMPORTANT

Do not Try to fight Axis in Europe as USA in France in 1940, you dont have good Troops in 1940 to make Large Attack Movements, go the Heavy Bomber + Ressources + and Naval Fleet Strategy

2.5

My Idea was to replay the "Land Lease" to Soviet Union to Strengthen Their Airforce and Land Forces, During a Test Game i send per Land Lease

The Basic Idea for me Behind Land Leaase (not discuss about politican Reasons), but in the game is:

Make Most Possible Damage to the enemy, or Germany with the Units you Produce such as:

Anti Air, Anti Tank, P39 Aircobra, GMC Trucks, Weapons, if you can afford the M4 Sherman, the A20 Tactical Bomber, for the Soviet Union

- Just Anything to shoot German Planes out of the Sky!

- Oil
- P38 Lighting Heavy Fighter
- A20 Tactical Bomber
- p47 Thunderbold
- you can early Produce the P39 Aircobra
- i send 1500 Units to Soviet Union to help them out till they Transfer from I-16 Rata, which was outclassed by the Me Bf 109, The P-39 Aircorba had the 37mm Gun this is just another Story to Small-Machine Gun Fire from the I-16 Rata

(Just Imagine a 37mm hole in Fuselage, Wings, Engine) of a German Plane - Mostly its the "end"

Send Soviets the Mass Produced GMC Trucks, i think in real History they build the Katyusha Rocket Launcher on a similar Truck Basis

- so as USA you can easy Produce 300.000 Units and Send them to Russia

- dont Forget

You can Store Units for Later Missions but a Stored Unit is not effective on the Battlefiled,
a Anti Tank Gun can make Damage to German Tanks, or with your Lend Leased GMC Trucks soviet Troops can be more Mobile.

So The Idea Behind this is to make as Much Damage to Germans and Axis on the Battlefiled as Possible and to do not Allow them to have long Term Access to Key Ressources Areas for this as USA you play "Huge" Night Bomb Raids.

(a Soviet Fighter Ace, Hero of Soviet Union Pokryshkin was Flying on the P-39 Aircobra)
as USA you can Mass Produce Tanks, the Sherman, the M18 Hellcat, to Weaken German Panzers on the Eastern Front.

+ also Send Per Land Lease
- Anti Tunk Guns
- Anti Air Guns

as USA you can mass Produce them and send to Soviet Union the Axis will (hopefully have Bigger Losses) to make you easier to open 2nd Front in Europe

As USA i would not Try fight Germans in Air like 1:1 Dogfight against Superior Fw190 but would use the "Masses" Tactics in Air and on Ground (if Possible)

For Example send for an Air Raid Massive Bomber and Fighter Formations like:

250 B-17
500 P47

or more Huger Squadrons are Possible if you can afford like

500 B17 and 1000 P47

i Dont know what Romania or Italy can Do against HUGE Bomber, Fighter Raids*, it with they weak fighters if you go NIGHT Raids. * on Ploesti (OIl Raffinery)

- This Bomb Raid was also Historic, carried out on 1. August 1943 with 177 B-24 Liberator-Bomber of the USAAF, with Fighters i think (check Wikipedia)


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