Catalog | HOI4 Ship Designs

Browse and rate player-created HOI4 ship designs. From fast escort destroyers to massive fleet carriers. Get inspired to build your own and share them with the community.

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Heavy

The strong must die

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Light

The weak must die

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Torpedo

ALL MY BOYS LOVE TORPEDOS

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Anti air

ALL MY BOYS HATE NAVAL BOMBERS

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Anti sub

ALL MY BOYS HATE SUBS

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1939 spotting cruiser

Early/Mid game cruiser for spotting enemies that your strice force can then engage

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English Channel AA patrol

Attract RAF like magnet

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Basic 1940 carrier

Basic 1940 carrier with nothing unnecessary

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Earlygame destroyer

Just a basic early game destroyer.

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Armored Raider

I mainly use this on any Germany playthrough; it really shines in the Kaiserreich branch due to the amount of dockyard outputs you can stack. The idea is simple: you pair this ship with either a Battlecruiser or Heavy Cruiser and let it decimate convoys. The Kriegsmarine spirit gives you a 10% screening bonus when only using capital ships, so this is all you need to raid. I like pairing Rolf Carls as the Chief of Navy with another speed-bonus Admiral to pick these up to around 35kn; make sure your BC or CA stays the same speed stat-wise. The same philosophy applies to Super Heavy Battleships, which I do prefer in a Kaiser playthrough due to the fact that you can refit those to be extremely fast, heavily armed, and stacked with AA to become an insanely OP battleline, with or without carriers.

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Stealth Submarine

Sharing the first ship design with none other than a stealth submarine. I haven't played much after the visibility bug, but I'm assuming it got fixed with the latest naval patches and subs should be good to use again. I'm paring this submarine with the Anechoic tiles and the capital hunters sub doctrine to minimize as much as possible its visibility so it can operate with ease for any given task

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