Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

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SudoNoun Apr 22, 2018 @ 8:34pm
help cant win war in neverending stalemate cant push
how the hell do you brack a stalemate i have been push to back to germany and have been defending for years now noone is pushing. i have killed 150mill but they still ar atacking my level 10 forts how do you make a brack thou?
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McShafty Apr 22, 2018 @ 10:33pm 
open up a second front using naval landing or airborne forces. it will divide enemy forces alowing a push
emcdunna Apr 22, 2018 @ 11:29pm 
Focus an attack in a smaller front with heavily armored units, you need the latest tanks, convert your old ones to tank destroyers and SPGs.
You need close air support, and air superiority. Then load up tons of units in a small area, and manually attakc with just 4 or so at a time. Let them get exhausted and fall back, and use others for the next wave. The AI isn't great at actually reinforcing where you focus your attacks. It's just that you can't use front lines for this, really.

You can only win by a basic, massive front line on auto pilot if the enemy is horribly outclassed and outnumbered and undersupplied. So instead you need to manually dig into the fight
Mack Apr 23, 2018 @ 2:13am 
Maintain air superiority at all costs, tech up strategic bombers, jet fighters, CAS and Nuclear Weapons.

Build maximum nuclear reactors and start nuking the enemies biggest concentration of forces. Don't immediately push, your goal is to bleed out your enemy completely, eventually they'll reach a point where they can't reinforce their units with manpower. They'll probably have the weaponry though if you're playing as Germany and have been pushed back so far.

It's going to take a while though.

Also if you let them gain air superority they'll probably nuke you into oblivion.

I'd build up an army of 12x40 width tank divisions with 12x40 width mechanised.

Your goal should be to knock out one nation at a time.

Build up a large concentration of nukes and then use them to start the breakthrough.

You might be in an unwinnable position though.

I'd be cool to see a screenshot of the casulties screen though. I had one game where the casulties were enourmous the soviets alone lost more dead than in the real WW2 on every side.
emcdunna Apr 23, 2018 @ 8:00am 
Or you can restart the game and try to win the war earlier. I feel like if you just build up and camp too long it's going to get crazy
SudoNoun Apr 23, 2018 @ 12:15pm 
i cant build up a navy or air forse the allies bombed my factorys to hell and i need the ones that i do have to make inf stuff so i can keep up my def ps i have kill over 200mill do they ever run out of men?
Last edited by SudoNoun; Apr 23, 2018 @ 12:15pm
zacharyb Apr 23, 2018 @ 12:36pm 
Originally posted by captaincrash20:
i cant build up a navy or air forse the allies bombed my factorys to hell and i need the ones that i do have to make inf stuff so i can keep up my def ps i have kill over 200mill do they ever run out of men?

Germany should have more than enough Military Factories even with just the ones in their home territory. If you don't have enought Military Factories then you did something wrong. Use your Civilian Factories to make more Military Factories, then produce Jet fighters with those new Military Factories.

Then build as many Nuclear Reactors as you can, after you have a good stockpile of Atomic Bombs, gain air superiority on part of your front, and also have about 100 or so strategic bombers nearby, but not on a mission. When you have air superiority in a location, click on the provinces in that region and drop 8 Atomic Bombs(You don't have to wait to drop another, just keep clicking the button.) on each province that has enemy units, dropping 8 bombs all at once on the same province will for the most part completely destroy all units in that province, and any that survive will have extremely low Organization and Strength. Then you push that flank, and if you get to another stalemate you use the same tactic with dropping bombs.

You can also make some Divisions of Modern Tanks, 20 Modern Tanks and 20 Mechanized, a Division like that is usually powerful enough to get through most lines.
SudoNoun Apr 23, 2018 @ 12:38pm 
ok
thx mate i will try that
emcdunna Apr 23, 2018 @ 12:59pm 
But there is also a point in a campaign where if you didn't do the right stuff early enough, the game can just become crazy. Sure the ai might not actually beat you if you hunker down behind a wall of forts, but you won't win either. I'd suggest restarting haha
SudoNoun Apr 23, 2018 @ 1:34pm 
ok
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Date Posted: Apr 22, 2018 @ 8:34pm
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