Catalog | HOI4 Tank Designs
Browse and rate player-created HOI4 tank designs. From low-cost infantry tanks to super-heavy armored breakthrough tank. Get inspired to build your own and share them with the community.
Armored car
So tell me what makes this a tank and not an armored car. (If you want to use this, its decent garison tank, tho then remove engine ticks)
1 iron IFV
You could make a shovel in minecraft instead. Just a test of how much stats I can throw on a little brick that costs one steel only. Cost more than the light tank version but medium tanks are 50 to a unit instead of 60, so the overall cost for these is actually lower if you don't use the army spirit subsidized contracts. Comes a few years earlier in tech than the phrankenphreak too, since medium tanks are '39. You can save one IC with the autocannon, and another going christie instead of interleaved, but I went with the small cannon because it really doesn't matter you'd pick the one that fits your resource needs anyhow. You could obviously go cheaper but that wouldn't be maximizing the overall stats for an 1 steel only IFV. Its an IFV. Its about maximizing your infantry combat power. Unsurprisingly, the light tank version is also pretty much the same design. Earlier versions pre-autoloader would use a machinegun or armored skirts instead.
The tank every minor nation needs
Costs 6.8 to make. very good when you need to pretend to have a massive tank army
Reliability Maxxer
Will never break. Also relatively cheap. Reliability is 180%, and it costs 7.61 to make
PhrankenfPhreak, makes you þink (Low metal, High breakthrough)
Wielded armor costs 12 IC instead but uses 1 chromium. Do what you wish with the rest. Uses improved rather than advanced hull for that sick 1 metal use only, making its metal use only about 20% more than a 1940 artillery piece. Only rushed techs here are better radios to highlight the benefits of this approach.
Flame tank / Огнемётный танк
A fairly cheap flamethrower tank for troop support.
Light Anti-Air / Легкая ЗСУ
It adds good air defense to your troops, and the air attack is recommended to be compared with motorized air defense!
Light Armor Artillery / ЛТ-САУ
Improves soft attacks in your troops!
Universal L-Tank / Лёгкий Танк Универсальный 1940
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17IC 1940 medium tank build
premium medium tank for 1940, 1 medium tank batalion per armour division (more if you can afford it, like one i showcased already)
8IC light tank build 1939/1940
cheap build to boost your tank division hardness and soft attack, 8kph tank
Minimum Viable Product (Anti-Artillery propaganda)
Not really meant to be a practical design, but I'm going to compare it to other early game options for a player. Essentially, I'm just looking at how brittle/desperate the line artillery situation is. Since artillery's only argument over tanks is hypothetically saving on costs, but when it comes to resources, one of the more likely limiting factors you will run into, line artillery isn't even justified. - With all bonuses, this can be almost -40% as expensive as advertised on nearly generic nations. -15% from an army spirit, -15% from the most common mio, +~20% from the most common mio. - The iron use is only 40% worse than infantry weapons 2 before you add the MIO in. think about that last point. - The tech costs to improving are also less, as your anti-aircraft research will inevitably scale this and your AA guns, and you need radios for reinforcing. - It fits in your doctrines better, it doesn't compete with field engineering and assault recon, it gets its own slot. - It lets you minmax your regiments more, as spaa regiment supports are mind-numbingly strong even with nerfs. - Its defenses are better than artillery due to the extra hardness and a bigger breakthrough priority. - You don't need rubber/trucks to run this with cavalry. You can run diesel versions on infantry to cheaply eliminate attrition. The key reason to go artillery is if you know the enemy is so weak that you can push them from the start of the war with few casualties, or you can't pay the IC tax to save resources. Its more trade efficient so the real cost is fuel during offensive operations, as saving on trade lets you scale your industry and have more industry long term. Let the tracks roll.
