Stop Activating Battleplans you Muppets - Speed 5 Tutorials

So quick review based on the tests here:
Battle plan > approx. casualty ratio 3:1, Micro > 12:1
Took about 1.6x longer to play Micro vs Battle plan
Victory was achieved in about half the in game time with Micro
results may vary
That being said there are benefits to battle plans other than the obvious saving of time and attention, like taking Difficult fixed points or overwhelming an opponent in an MP game.
interestingly I just tested to see how quickly AI Germany beat AI Poland and they took only about 1.3x longer than cristo's micro, test much faster than cristo's battle plan test.

Really good advice, I was getting pretty frustrated with the game experience using this "AI" to make decisions. The dismal "autoplan AI" makes horrible, illogical decisions, AND disconnects you from the game. Having much more fun (and results) actually making these decisions myself.

The Poles said the city must survive

What mod is that

A more effective and related approach is to use both as the game makers intended that way you can relax a bit more while fixing mistakes of the IA and gutting the soft attack bonuses too

I play hoi4 by putting agressive battleplans everytime, cuz since you learn from mistakes I make as many mistakes as I can in order to learn a lot. 👍

worst game hoi series

Micromanaging is really good. Medium tanks with mechanized are best. Another tips is bomb enemy railways and supply hubs in their capital to ruin their entire supply and bomb mils and civs

thanks bro, i got 19K casualties as germany only while poland had 245K casualties

As a HOI3 fan this has always annoyed me

Im so dumb if I just had use the plane before I would of gone much better

"Speed 5" Tutorial #1, don't play at speed 5


I certainly didn't expect that.

R u ever gonna play meiou and taxes again?

Bruh im trying to roleplay, I don't think the Germans microed their troops into Poland.

Could you provide an example of this in MP? Because I have a feeling it's not as effective with all the pausing.

IMO, you should activate battleplans when an enemies frontline has just completely collapsed. Makes it easier

Source on the song in the video?

is this music a part of some mode? where can I get it? :)

In a single player game against silly Ai it generally doesn't matter whether you use battle plans or not as you can beat fully buffed expert Ai mod Soviets as Germany battle planning - However the main reason why one would battle plan is general grind which if you manage to get certain traits gained from battle planning, your chance of winning the other wars becomes much better as you can then get logistic wizard and other broken traits. So I believe your not entirely right here as battle planning is actually beneficial and despite slightly more causalities against Poland, you will be significantly stronger against Soviets and possibly level up your generals due to the constant attack.

My head always hurts when I see the ai going over a river into a fort 😀

The AI is so dumb, I just play with AI improvement mod. When I try to micro and surround them, the AI wont just sit there and do fuck all

"Im better than you" 1v1 me nerd /s

Here is a chalendge: play a campaign where you can only micromanage when battle plans are on.

I think u can even do better cristo. U missed some chances

Also don't forget that if you control-right click on the icon that displays either in green or red how the battle is going with a unit selected you perform a support attack, meaning that once the battle is over the unit won't move into the province you were attacking.

Basically, while it has increased functionality compared to Hearts of Iron 3, leaving battles to the AI would lend itself to a slugfest that would inevitably grind your manpower and material into the dust compared to controlling it yourself.
So that hasn't changed much. :p

Now I feel stupid that I did not figured this out on my own

God i will never understand how someone can use those disgusting nato icons

This is a very good idea actually. What's more, I use to create a single-tile battleplan sometimes and delete it just before starting the attack with my units that were assigned to it. This way I get the planning bonus, and after advancing I've no fear that they will randomly change their position and ruin the whole plan. This is for extreme micro but extreme micro means extreme fun :)

wtf no

Fuck off.