I'm argentinian, so my first games I was playing that nation! I never touched any major, until I had like 100 hours into the game. It really helped me understand everything! You're very right on that first tip. Cheers
A crucial tip can’t stress enough to newer players is: READ, read what soft attack does or what piercing does, how armor works, u can learn the entire game by reading everything and production wise, learn the logistics menu, it tells you if your outproducing your consumption or not, if not add more factories to it, or do less battleplan attacks and more concentrated attacks, u can get alot of stuff like guns, support and arty just from encircling divisions and capping their equipment, but it all starts with reading.
I must say I don’t really comment very often but I really liked tip number 9, everyone plays the game like it’s a competitive game even if it’s in single player but I like playing with cheats and just enjoying the experience instead of struggling and being annoyed, great video lad!
Just recently decided to try again to get into HOI4 after my initial tries with the game ended up driving me away, your tutorials are things I super wish I had back then! You’ve been really helpful! Keep being awesome!
My way of learning was playing as germany and watching a guide on how to defeat the allies (the way the game was intended) blindly copied it some times and started analyzing what he was doing in the guide and learning from it
As a player with over 270 hours, I really find your tips helpful, and I agree a lot with tip n° 10, I bought No Step Back a few days ago and I have been trying to survive as Poland, all of those tryouts failed, but in the last one, I designed a template for divisions that actually worked against German troopers, I think I'm starting to get good at this, even though I still play in Civil difficulty. Keep the amazing work!
I am absolutely terrible at Hoi4. I spent all of the Welsh Covid lockdowns playing it on my dad's steam (he got it for himself and I really wanted to try it) and later my own. I have in total on both accounts 4k + hours yet I still need videos like this one. But by far this is the best one so far. Told me everything I need to know in 9 mins instead of a over complicated 30 min video. Thanks so much for this video you're an absolute legend
Thanks so much boyo! Glad to be able to help players out, fuck the English 🐲 (my only knowledge of the welsh is Colin Hughes from Ted Lasso sorry lmao)
As a 1.4k hour player I completely agree on the meta point, it's so bullshit, you'd win more and have fun more actually planning, just because dankus had a breakdown on paratroopers doesn't mean you can't use them,meta discourages the creativity of your strategies
i bought hoi4 3 days ago for the summer sale, struggled to understand any tutorials and only just got a grasp of the basic ui functions from the top rated tutorials on youtube, your tutorials are very helpful and easy to understand and as a complete beginner, i can say this has helped me a ton
I think starting on major nation than micronation helps more, just start with 0 dlc at first then work your way onto the next dlc learning its new mechanics.. By starting with germany you can learn annexation, planes, etc and doesn't kill the mood for new players to retry again unlike smaller nation where you slowly build from 10 factory which generally very slow learning curve
It makes sense to you or me as experienced players, but try to remember how overwhelming this game can be as a beginner. There's too much to struggle with honestly
Thx for making this vid! My first nation was the US (now that ive branched out im a bit frustrated since its so much different than everything else) and after 30 tries i finally beat japan, learning USSR and struggling now so i think i might do a canada game or something just to reset. Thanks again!
My biggest Tip is: READ and COMPREHEND If you don't understand something, read the tooltips, hover your Mouse o er everything that seems like it means something. Running your 24 Infantry Divisions into a City and you're loosing? Press on the Red Battle Bubble, read what the numbers mean a d where they come from. Ideally it would look like this: > Loose attacking city with 24 Divs. > Open Tooltip to read why > Find out about Combat Width, Organisation, Breakthrough, etc. > Fix Division Template, making it bigger, giving units more inf>artillery, concentrate Air over the Airzone, attack with less Divisions at once, use planning > Successfully take City!
Im Just starting off and am gonna give a lot of these a try lol, thank you for the tips, I kept trying to play Germany/France/Poland and kept getting bored, excited to try again
I have over 50 hours into the game. And yes…I freaking suck. I can’t get myself to win battles, improve my economy and etc. however I’ve seen myself improving way more nowadays just because I never gave up! So one crucial tip is to be patient, it is going to take time. Also I’m not really the best till now so if any of you have tips reply down below!
@@hammotimee Thanks! I completed the Aerophasic engine which destroyed the galaxy and possibly me along with it. But I got a victory screen so the details aren’t super important.
A good tip from someone with nearly 2k hours. If you want to do navy, and don’t care about getting into the multiplayer scene, get the mod that adds unlimited dockyards for ship production. Want to churn out battleships and carries a month at a time? That’s the way to go. Otherwise don’t even bother with navy. Also, if you aren’t sure about any of the DLC, get the pass, play a few a couple weeks, then cancel it. Especially if you know you won’t be playing it as much as some. Vanilla is super vanilla. Mods and DLC is a must if you really want to have a good time playing the game.
Great video for beginners. You’re probably right it is best to learn with a small nation but I’d ad that once you get that down you want to play as Germany. Germany has pretty much no restrictions until UK and France decides to be annoying. Btw it took me 7 games before I managed to create the Roman Empire as the Italians on the easiest difficulty. I’ve never played a game with such a leaning curve
I agree! Germany is definitley one of the best to learn on once you have the basics down. And yep, this and Rainbow Six Siege are probably two of the games I'm played with the biggest learning curves!
Cheers mate! And yeah exactly, for a new player whjat's meta isn't really going to be helpful, and IMO it's boring. There's so much you can do in this game, why limit yourself to what everyone else does?
For people not wanting to get too deep into navy: spamming battleships might not be efficient at winning battles, but usually its enough to get you naval dominance and allow for a naval invasion
what was a really helpful tip, is that wargoals might help not starting a world war... i played mexico today, and conquered everything to the panama channel... yeah this country joined the allies and i fought vs uk, usa similarily then... so yeah next time ill just either fight USA first or conquer with wargoals
Thanks mate I appreciate the straight forward to the point video. I was about to uninstall out of frustration but I'm glad I came across your video. Cheers legend
Well I’m a sucker for punishment so I’ve started as France for my first play through. 😂. I only have 11 hours invested into the game so far, with only about 5 hours put into my current campaign. I had to start again as I didn’t realise that building up civilian factories asap is the most important thing to do. The learning curve on this game is massive with so many moving parts but that’s a good part of the appeal for me as I like complexity in games, it adds to the replayability of the game. No doubt I’m probably going to loose to Germany but losing allows you to learn from your mistakes and get better.
@@David-lr2vi oh my lord that's like playing Elden Ring for the first time on max difficulty hahaha Glad you enjoy, and honestly even if you do lose to Germany over and over you'll learn so much it will still be beneficial! 😄
what the, i click off for a few minutes and when i come back i see luxemburg taking over france 😭😭 i agree with tip 1 though, it's genuinely how I got used to the main mechanics of the game, and as a result when I actually played a major power i did pretty well first try
I hear what you're saying about losing, as Italy I lost Africa to the Brits and the allies are propping up the last couple of Greek cities. To top it off I just ran out of manpower 😖 Any chance of a guide on managing fuel reserves and manpower? Italy (or just me) seems to struggle with both.
I had the same problem when playing as German against the soviets, ended up with 200 manpower and not enough war support to change the conscription aha
For manpower generally you just want to not attack positions when you don't have the ability to realistically win. Also having high compliance gives you more manpower from your occupied states, so you might want to check if you didn't put on an occupation law that lowers compliance growth. For oil, the best thing to do is to build refineries before war. And be careful how you use your navy. Just a handful of ships can suck up all of your reserves easily without accomplishing much. Also use armored divisions mainly for attack, your normal infantry is perfectly capable of holding the line (chances are they are even better at it) so you can safe a lot of fuel there too
I'm still figuring out how to properly get a massive army without running out of supplies for training them. It always seems I'm behind in military factories no matter what I do. I'm either not able to produce them fast enough or I focus too much on the civilian factories and end up not building enough military factories.
One thing I wonder about is the development of infrastructure and railways. I tried playing Canada 🇨🇦 and was like watching grass grow after playing the United States
I tried playing Australia and acting as support for the allies, making sure my sphere of influence was protected and depending on the allies to stop the Axis. Problem is, I did really well, but the Allies did *Absolutely Nothing* .Germany won, took the USSR and Japan took China and the Philippines without the USA doing anything to get it back for the entire game. D-day never happened, the UK just sat there until 1948. It was very depressing because I was relying on the Allies to do *something* and they were utterly useless.
@@hammotimee I think it was because the UK and the US did absolutely nothing to stop them. There was no d-day to distract them in the West. The Soviets held them for quite a long time but they seemed to be the only ones fighting and they eventually folded.
Great tips but you kinda forgot that mods make the game fun in the late stages of playing, some go for rt56 multi-player, God forbid comp mp, or kaiserredux, aswell as being creative with your plans and thinking critically, most new players as soviet union for example cannot defeat Afghanistan because of the hard terrain, they should think of the enemy' strengths and weaknesses, for example because their mountains, it would help if mountaineers were deployed, if they have forts, bomb them, if you have green air, distract them and paratroop behind their lines
Thank you! It's a good point about the mods, most of my videos are aimed towards newer players, so with a game as busy asd hoi, I didn't want to add more onto their plate with suggesting mods, as that's like adding new games entirely sometimes haha
3:58 Sadly I made that big mistake in the beginning. I went communist Romania and started knocking out all the small countries until i hit Hungary, which of course had a guarantee from France and Britain. I declared war on them like an idiot, and 3 years in I was fighting both Germany and the Allies, and not even an alliance with Russia could save me. Completely swallowed by both factions. The moral of this story, DO NOT ATTACK A COUNTRY THAT IS GUARANTEED BY THE ALLIES!
So….this might be a dumb question but, is recon good for attacking army? Like a recon armored car, cause I AWLAYS thought it scouts the enemy army, but….recently i found out that, I think I was wrong?
@@hammotimee ah, got it, so, for my atk inf, rn I have armored recon, arty, logistics (cause there 42 width, I heared it’s the meta so) maintenance and anti air
@@Anderson12690I'm pretty sure you should change the armored recon to cavlary one. The armored recon has two uses, first, it doesn't slow your forces down, but that doesn't matter for infantry, and second it doesn't impact your units hardness so much. But for infantry thats kinda pointless outside of some space marine builds. The big difference is that armored recon takes light tanks, while cavalry only takes infantry and support equipment. So the cavalry one is way cheaper
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong when attacking countries, I'm playing a Austria-Hungary campaign and helped the axis take over France in a couple weeks, yet with the help of the axis I'm losing to Romania? Any tips would be appreciated.
Hard to say, could be supply, maybe your troops are under equipped, do they have air supremacy? Have the Romanians joined the Soviets? In which case that'll be harder haha
Check if they are supplied and if you are lacking equipment. If you fight a long war, your (likely small) industry can't really support the amount of troops you have. If you see negative numbers in the storage tab, your divisions lack equipment they need to keep fighting. If they don't get it, zheir fighting strength is very low. My recommendation is to set the reinforcement priority to the highest. Also you should change your garrison division template to a template with only 1 cavalry. This way you can safe tons of equipment, because your garrisons would normally use your standard infantry template, which will use stuff like artillery that costs much industry but doesn't really give any suppression.
Honestly the best country for your first run is the US. If you chose non historical AI, you won't be drawn into any way way into 1945, or even later. You can really learn all about focuses and industry, and if you feel like it start a war with Mexico, which shouldn't be too much of a challange. For the 3rd or 4th run, I recommend an non historical Soviet run. The Soviets start with a pretty good army, decent industry, and most importantly you can pick your fights for most of the game, unlike with small European countries. In my experience with playing a small Nation, by around 1940-1941 Germany or the Soviets will have beef with you, and you don't really stand a chance. If you want to learn more about supply lines, try and fight the japanese, for just general combat try and invade Europe. On easy difficulties both shouldn't be a problem even for lower players
I'd still recommend starting with germany or at least not to delay playing it too much. I wasted too much time playing useless minors until I tried Germany and was surprised at how easy the game was
If someone has never picked up this game before, Germany can be super overwhelming. After 4-5 games of other countries then I agree, Germany is probably one of the best
Hey learning how to play HOI4 and everyone else i always try watching, keep saying try Germany cause they are easier. I have tried Germany, and they are not new player friendly. I will try a smaller nation and get used to the mechanics. thanks for the tips.
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its funny i cant do stradegy or multiple fronts its just for some reason my brain just tells and forces me to put all my focus on one part and i realise i messed up when its too late and it also doesnt help that i have 0 idea what im doing,what im researching,building,etc my brain is too simple. and how do i do navy and air force stuff and how do i not die instantly when more than 2 countries are at war with me plz halp i also dont know what to pick for the focus tree and also i never read any of the stuff im too lazy or my brain doesnt have brain cells to process all the text
Every time I play a fun nation like Germany I always got bogged down after I take France and Scandinavia I can never understand how to function the navy anyone have any tips for this stage in the game or where I should focus on
I feel your pain! I have a naval guide here, which is good if you don't have man the Guns, but I've got a video coming out in two weeks all about how to manage your navy, so stay tuned 👀 ruclips.net/video/ztxduPIqNo4/видео.html
I keep losing manpower even though I'm not training anyone, I'm not making new troops, not at war, and I can't find anything to help me. I need some tip
I've given this game 3 chances and I'm done. Hats off to the people that can get a handle on this. I guess I'm just dumb. To me it's clunky, lags, doesn't explain a thing, and is not user friendly what so ever. I made the mistake of getting this because I wanted something more complicated then total war but this was wayyyyy more then I anticipated. Actually being a leader would be easier because you have people that know what they are doing, doing the little things.....
Learn from your mistakes... Like not sending your entire Canadian army to France to help the Allies, only for France to surrender, thus leaving your army cut off and surrounded, thus wiping it out.
Change Game Rules??? Wow! I'm super new and super bad (and not bad in a good way) and sometimes I've wanted a game where I can just do whatever and not worry about the end-game where the big factions take over everything and so you're like on rails to a predetermined end (even on non-historical...usually the fascist faction takes over). I never knew you could just change the rules!
The tip 6 remember me the time that i as japan dominate most of asia and take over half of russia, while i keep atack russia, turkey join alies and invade me, i lost all of persia and the alies open a front, and flood it wit a bunch of troops and i lost the game after some naval invasion,
@@hammotimee 5 years. It didn't make perfect. It wont ever do i reckon. The only good performance i ever gave was always as fasci Germany, but y'know it is always overpowered no matter what allies do
🥠How bad was the Star Wars Battlefront 2 clip? Was it that bad?
I like the weaving in and out of personality in your videos. And yeah, it was rough, but that was kinda the point yeah? Cheers!
@@j72ashley haha thank you, I like to keep it inconsistent 😎
I loved the clip. I agree completely agree with the clip as well.
@@kittycats7186 hahaha thank you!
I'm argentinian, so my first games I was playing that nation! I never touched any major, until I had like 100 hours into the game. It really helped me understand everything! You're very right on that first tip. Cheers
Thank you! Glad to have a good testimonial 😀
Conquer the world as argentina, total chad move
@@senorjuanwick9818 por favor?
Lol… I’m German but I also started of with Argentina as Europe felt like too much happening at once
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A crucial tip can’t stress enough to newer players is: READ, read what soft attack does or what piercing does, how armor works, u can learn the entire game by reading everything and production wise, learn the logistics menu, it tells you if your outproducing your consumption or not, if not add more factories to it, or do less battleplan attacks and more concentrated attacks, u can get alot of stuff like guns, support and arty just from encircling divisions and capping their equipment, but it all starts with reading.
Absolutely! Use the tooltips! Hover over things to see what they do 😁
Oh no, reading!
If you don’t like to read because reading is uncool, don’t buy and play the game.
Nice one Hammo 👍
I must say I don’t really comment very often but I really liked tip number 9, everyone plays the game like it’s a competitive game even if it’s in single player but I like playing with cheats and just enjoying the experience instead of struggling and being annoyed, great video lad!
Thanks heaps! Yah honestly to this day I'll still load up a game and console command the shit out of it 😂
Just recently decided to try again to get into HOI4 after my initial tries with the game ended up driving me away, your tutorials are things I super wish I had back then! You’ve been really helpful! Keep being awesome!
Thanks so much! I'm so glad to have helped!
My way of learning was playing as germany and watching a guide on how to defeat the allies (the way the game was intended) blindly copied it some times and started analyzing what he was doing in the guide and learning from it
If it works it works! More than one way to do it for sure, thanks for sharing 😁
I did the same thing 😂
As a player with over 270 hours, I really find your tips helpful, and I agree a lot with tip n° 10, I bought No Step Back a few days ago and I have been trying to survive as Poland, all of those tryouts failed, but in the last one, I designed a template for divisions that actually worked against German troopers, I think I'm starting to get good at this, even though I still play in Civil difficulty. Keep the amazing work!
Hey great work! The more you play the better you'll be 😄
I am absolutely terrible at Hoi4. I spent all of the Welsh Covid lockdowns playing it on my dad's steam (he got it for himself and I really wanted to try it) and later my own. I have in total on both accounts 4k + hours yet I still need videos like this one. But by far this is the best one so far. Told me everything I need to know in 9 mins instead of a over complicated 30 min video. Thanks so much for this video you're an absolute legend
Thanks so much boyo! Glad to be able to help players out, fuck the English 🐲 (my only knowledge of the welsh is Colin Hughes from Ted Lasso sorry lmao)
@@hammotimee the fact you called me Boyo is Welsh enough lol
As a 1.4k hour player I completely agree on the meta point, it's so bullshit, you'd win more and have fun more actually planning, just because dankus had a breakdown on paratroopers doesn't mean you can't use them,meta discourages the creativity of your strategies
That's such a good way of descripbing it, meta stunts creativity! That's important for people to remember, just have fun with it!
This helped me so much! I’ve played Peru and defeated the US
Let's gooooo Inca Empire forever!
i bought hoi4 3 days ago for the summer sale, struggled to understand any tutorials and only just got a grasp of the basic ui functions from the top rated tutorials on youtube, your tutorials are very helpful and easy to understand and as a complete beginner, i can say this has helped me a ton
Aw thanks so much! You're literally in the same position I was in when I started, so I'm glad they help!
I think starting on major nation than micronation helps more, just start with 0 dlc at first then work your way onto the next dlc learning its new mechanics..
By starting with germany you can learn annexation, planes, etc and doesn't kill the mood for new players to retry again unlike smaller nation where you slowly build from 10 factory which generally very slow learning curve
It makes sense to you or me as experienced players, but try to remember how overwhelming this game can be as a beginner. There's too much to struggle with honestly
Great tips, dude. My first thought was to play a South American country instead of one of the larger nations so you confirmed that.
Yep! much easier on a slower paced nation :)
Finallyy !! The first guy who agree with me to start with small nation not like 90% of the community
It's good advice for learning anything, start small and scale up
Thx for making this vid! My first nation was the US (now that ive branched out im a bit frustrated since its so much different than everything else) and after 30 tries i finally beat japan, learning USSR and struggling now so i think i might do a canada game or something just to reset. Thanks again!
You're so welcome! I have a couple of country guides, maybe start there?
@@hammotimee ill definitely give them a watch!
You are doing a great job! I’ve learned a lot thanks to your tutorials 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks so much! I appreciate the support :D
Love your guides , makes learning the game a lot easier and more enjoyable :)
Thanks so much! I'm glad they're helpful 😁
The most important tip is to avoid the toxic multiplayer mode.
OR find friends to play with that aren't toxic!
Or insult them back!
Your videos are really good. Keep it up!
Thank you so much!
My biggest Tip is:
READ and COMPREHEND
If you don't understand something, read the tooltips, hover your Mouse o er everything that seems like it means something.
Running your 24 Infantry Divisions into a City and you're loosing? Press on the Red Battle Bubble, read what the numbers mean a d where they come from.
Ideally it would look like this:
> Loose attacking city with 24 Divs.
> Open Tooltip to read why
> Find out about Combat Width, Organisation, Breakthrough, etc.
> Fix Division Template, making it bigger, giving units more inf>artillery, concentrate Air over the Airzone, attack with less Divisions at once, use planning
> Successfully take City!
thanks this helped me alot
I like your vibes man!
Yooo cheers cobba!
amazing video. your videos are so helpful
Hey thank so much!
Im Just starting off and am gonna give a lot of these a try lol, thank you for the tips, I kept trying to play Germany/France/Poland and kept getting bored, excited to try again
Good luck!
Great video! you deserve far more subs
Thank you so much!
I have over 50 hours into the game. And yes…I freaking suck. I can’t get myself to win battles, improve my economy and etc. however I’ve seen myself improving way more nowadays just because I never gave up! So one crucial tip is to be patient, it is going to take time. Also I’m not really the best till now so if any of you have tips reply down below!
Keep watching my videos 🤔
I'm coming to this game from Stellaris. I finally beat it on default settings after 766 hours.
Like a world conquest? Well done! 😁
@@hammotimee Thanks! I completed the Aerophasic engine which destroyed the galaxy and possibly me along with it. But I got a victory screen so the details aren’t super important.
Good begineer tutorial I'm experienced in the game myself but I'm trying to find a good video to send to a friend.
Thank you! I hope it helps them out, if they need now guides I've got a while playlist
ruclips.net/p/PLFkhGrDp_yRvdWXUC52BGtGgPHzeCNe1R
@@hammotimee No thank you, your playlist of guides are also quite handy
@@purein1042 I'm glad you think so!
2:41 i always play like: build civs till december 1937, slowly start building mills and supply hubs.
Not a bad way to go!
Great Video!
Thank you! Great comment!
A good tip from someone with nearly 2k hours. If you want to do navy, and don’t care about getting into the multiplayer scene, get the mod that adds unlimited dockyards for ship production. Want to churn out battleships and carries a month at a time? That’s the way to go. Otherwise don’t even bother with navy.
Also, if you aren’t sure about any of the DLC, get the pass, play a few a couple weeks, then cancel it. Especially if you know you won’t be playing it as much as some. Vanilla is super vanilla. Mods and DLC is a must if you really want to have a good time playing the game.
Good tips!
Gonna be honest I hate the navy and naval invasions are the bane of my existence I've never once successfully taken a port.
Just keep practicing and you'll get the hang of it 😄
Great video for beginners. You’re probably right it is best to learn with a small nation but I’d ad that once you get that down you want to play as Germany. Germany has pretty much no restrictions until UK and France decides to be annoying.
Btw it took me 7 games before I managed to create the Roman Empire as the Italians on the easiest difficulty. I’ve never played a game with such a leaning curve
I agree! Germany is definitley one of the best to learn on once you have the basics down. And yep, this and Rainbow Six Siege are probably two of the games I'm played with the biggest learning curves!
This is some good stuff you are so right other hoi4 youtubers just posting guff metas that dont mean shit if the basics are so misunderstood at first
Cheers mate! And yeah exactly, for a new player whjat's meta isn't really going to be helpful, and IMO it's boring. There's so much you can do in this game, why limit yourself to what everyone else does?
For people not wanting to get too deep into navy: spamming battleships might not be efficient at winning battles, but usually its enough to get you naval dominance and allow for a naval invasion
what was a really helpful tip, is that wargoals might help not starting a world war... i played mexico today, and conquered everything to the panama channel... yeah this country joined the allies and i fought vs uk, usa similarily then... so yeah next time ill just either fight USA first or conquer with wargoals
Yep! Wargoals from focuses increase world tension less than a manual justification!
Thanks mate I appreciate the straight forward to the point video. I was about to uninstall out of frustration but I'm glad I came across your video. Cheers legend
I'm glad to be able to help! 🤠
Well I’m a sucker for punishment so I’ve started as France for my first play through. 😂. I only have 11 hours invested into the game so far, with only about 5 hours put into my current campaign. I had to start again as I didn’t realise that building up civilian factories asap is the most important thing to do.
The learning curve on this game is massive with so many moving parts but that’s a good part of the appeal for me as I like complexity in games, it adds to the replayability of the game. No doubt I’m probably going to loose to Germany but losing allows you to learn from your mistakes and get better.
@@David-lr2vi oh my lord that's like playing Elden Ring for the first time on max difficulty hahaha
Glad you enjoy, and honestly even if you do lose to Germany over and over you'll learn so much it will still be beneficial! 😄
what the, i click off for a few minutes and when i come back i see luxemburg taking over france 😭😭
i agree with tip 1 though, it's genuinely how I got used to the main mechanics of the game, and as a result when I actually played a major power i did pretty well first try
thanks dude
You're welcome!
@@hammotimee
Nice video. 💯
Thanks 💯
I hear what you're saying about losing, as Italy I lost Africa to the Brits and the allies are propping up the last couple of Greek cities. To top it off I just ran out of manpower 😖
Any chance of a guide on managing fuel reserves and manpower? Italy (or just me) seems to struggle with both.
Gotta get used to it!
Yeah I might make a short on it for you! Otherwise my supply and logistics video covers fuel 😁
I had the same problem when playing as German against the soviets, ended up with 200 manpower and not enough war support to change the conscription aha
For manpower generally you just want to not attack positions when you don't have the ability to realistically win. Also having high compliance gives you more manpower from your occupied states, so you might want to check if you didn't put on an occupation law that lowers compliance growth. For oil, the best thing to do is to build refineries before war. And be careful how you use your navy. Just a handful of ships can suck up all of your reserves easily without accomplishing much. Also use armored divisions mainly for attack, your normal infantry is perfectly capable of holding the line (chances are they are even better at it) so you can safe a lot of fuel there too
first time i tried tanu tuva..after many hours i figured this game had to do something about ww2
Omg hahahahahhahaha
I'm still figuring out how to properly get a massive army without running out of supplies for training them. It always seems I'm behind in military factories no matter what I do. I'm either not able to produce them fast enough or I focus too much on the civilian factories and end up not building enough military factories.
A good timeframe to think of is build civs until 1939 and then switch your production fully to mils, that should help you out!
Thanks mate.
Thank you!
Oh good, I might not be garbage now tyvm.
Also I refuse to learn from my mistakes. What I want WILL work and game mechanics won't stop that. Don't let your dreams be memes!
@@rabidus "I refuse to learn from my mistakes" the average gamer mentality lmao
One thing I wonder about is the development of infrastructure and railways. I tried playing Canada 🇨🇦 and was like watching grass grow after playing the United States
It can take time, and honestly as minor countries you have to make sacrifices early to build up your industry
I tried playing Australia and acting as support for the allies, making sure my sphere of influence was protected and depending on the allies to stop the Axis. Problem is, I did really well, but the Allies did *Absolutely Nothing* .Germany won, took the USSR and Japan took China and the Philippines without the USA doing anything to get it back for the entire game. D-day never happened, the UK just sat there until 1948. It was very depressing because I was relying on the Allies to do *something* and they were utterly useless.
That's really interesting, I've yet to see an AI Germany win against the Soviets since NSB!
@@hammotimee I think it was because the UK and the US did absolutely nothing to stop them. There was no d-day to distract them in the West. The Soviets held them for quite a long time but they seemed to be the only ones fighting and they eventually folded.
@@kerravon4159the Allies got confused and thought they were playing support for Australia
Great tips but you kinda forgot that mods make the game fun in the late stages of playing, some go for rt56 multi-player, God forbid comp mp, or kaiserredux, aswell as being creative with your plans and thinking critically, most new players as soviet union for example cannot defeat Afghanistan because of the hard terrain, they should think of the enemy' strengths and weaknesses, for example because their mountains, it would help if mountaineers were deployed, if they have forts, bomb them, if you have green air, distract them and paratroop behind their lines
Thank you! It's a good point about the mods, most of my videos are aimed towards newer players, so with a game as busy asd hoi, I didn't want to add more onto their plate with suggesting mods, as that's like adding new games entirely sometimes haha
why do i like ur videos
Because they're fkn fire 🔥
@@hammotimee yessir
ah wish i watched this when i started playing i litereally just threw like 3 trys at germany until i figured it out ish
3:58 Sadly I made that big mistake in the beginning. I went communist Romania and started knocking out all the small countries until i hit Hungary, which of course had a guarantee from France and Britain. I declared war on them like an idiot, and 3 years in I was fighting both Germany and the Allies, and not even an alliance with Russia could save me. Completely swallowed by both factions. The moral of this story, DO NOT ATTACK A COUNTRY THAT IS GUARANTEED BY THE ALLIES!
Yeah no guanretees make me scream haha
YES
So….this might be a dumb question but, is recon good for attacking army? Like a recon armored car, cause I AWLAYS thought it scouts the enemy army, but….recently i found out that, I think I was wrong?
General recon is best for defence 🙂
@@hammotimee ah, got it, so, for my atk inf, rn I have armored recon, arty, logistics (cause there 42 width, I heared it’s the meta so) maintenance and anti air
@@Anderson12690I'm pretty sure you should change the armored recon to cavlary one. The armored recon has two uses, first, it doesn't slow your forces down, but that doesn't matter for infantry, and second it doesn't impact your units hardness so much. But for infantry thats kinda pointless outside of some space marine builds. The big difference is that armored recon takes light tanks, while cavalry only takes infantry and support equipment. So the cavalry one is way cheaper
Do you recommend to stay in historical focus or not for new players?
Yep when starting out it provides some consistency for people learning!
Im on a slow burn. Playing Peru and the year is 1966. Haven’t attacked anyone yet and just building lol
Building what?! 😂😂 Please send me a screenshot, or the game save file I want to load this up and have a look
@@hammotimee sent you an email with the data
@@hammotimee There is an update. The year is now 2084 lol
Oh my god that’s hilarious.
Almost makes me want to play isolationist US but that might not be effective
When do I build forts?
@@YouLikeBosch if you're a smaller nation against a larger nation and you have a line that you have to hold
@@YouLikeBosch build then behind rivers and in difficult terrain like mountains where possible
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong when attacking countries, I'm playing a Austria-Hungary campaign and helped the axis take over France in a couple weeks, yet with the help of the axis I'm losing to Romania?
Any tips would be appreciated.
Hard to say, could be supply, maybe your troops are under equipped, do they have air supremacy? Have the Romanians joined the Soviets? In which case that'll be harder haha
Check if they are supplied and if you are lacking equipment. If you fight a long war, your (likely small) industry can't really support the amount of troops you have. If you see negative numbers in the storage tab, your divisions lack equipment they need to keep fighting. If they don't get it, zheir fighting strength is very low. My recommendation is to set the reinforcement priority to the highest. Also you should change your garrison division template to a template with only 1 cavalry. This way you can safe tons of equipment, because your garrisons would normally use your standard infantry template, which will use stuff like artillery that costs much industry but doesn't really give any suppression.
Honestly the best country for your first run is the US. If you chose non historical AI, you won't be drawn into any way way into 1945, or even later. You can really learn all about focuses and industry, and if you feel like it start a war with Mexico, which shouldn't be too much of a challange. For the 3rd or 4th run, I recommend an non historical Soviet run. The Soviets start with a pretty good army, decent industry, and most importantly you can pick your fights for most of the game, unlike with small European countries. In my experience with playing a small Nation, by around 1940-1941 Germany or the Soviets will have beef with you, and you don't really stand a chance. If you want to learn more about supply lines, try and fight the japanese, for just general combat try and invade Europe. On easy difficulties both shouldn't be a problem even for lower players
With all due respect, for someone brand new at the game, any of the majors are way too overwhelming. It's better to learn one feature at a time IMO
I'd still recommend starting with germany or at least not to delay playing it too much. I wasted too much time playing useless minors until I tried Germany and was surprised at how easy the game was
If someone has never picked up this game before, Germany can be super overwhelming. After 4-5 games of other countries then I agree, Germany is probably one of the best
Hey learning how to play HOI4 and everyone else i always try watching, keep saying try Germany cause they are easier. I have tried Germany, and they are not new player friendly. I will try a smaller nation and get used to the mechanics. thanks for the tips.
Yeah I agree, there's too much going on for sure!
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Best nation to start as in kaiserreich ?
I've not played enough Kaiserreich to really say but I just did Austria and it was super fun!
its funny i cant do stradegy or multiple fronts its just for some reason my brain just tells and forces me to put all my focus on one part and i realise i messed up when its too late and it also doesnt help that i have 0 idea what im doing,what im researching,building,etc my brain is too simple. and how do i do navy and air force stuff and how do i not die instantly when more than 2 countries are at war with me plz halp i also dont know what to pick for the focus tree and also i never read any of the stuff im too lazy or my brain doesnt have brain cells to process all the text
my friend said i need to buy this i knew it hes trying to make me crazy
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My manpower keeps going down when im not at war? How to fix?
Garrison
How do i.make troops? I cant lern how to
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@@hammotimee tx mate
Currently trying to learn the game. Someone said to play Germany and I got rolled by Poland
@@Abox-hh9ib yeah mate start with Italy and play the Ethiopian war over and over! That practice will help you so much
Every time I play a fun nation like Germany I always got bogged down after I take France and Scandinavia I can never understand how to function the navy anyone have any tips for this stage in the game or where I should focus on
I feel your pain! I have a naval guide here, which is good if you don't have man the Guns, but I've got a video coming out in two weeks all about how to manage your navy, so stay tuned 👀
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If you just gonna use it for naval invasions, spamming battleships is a pretty easy way to get naval dominance
I was one attacked by italy... as germany it was a quick war
Cant trust those Italians
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I keep losing manpower even though I'm not training anyone, I'm not making new troops, not at war, and I can't find anything to help me. I need some tip
Are you occupying territory?
It could be your garrisons?
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I've given this game 3 chances and I'm done. Hats off to the people that can get a handle on this. I guess I'm just dumb. To me it's clunky, lags, doesn't explain a thing, and is not user friendly what so ever. I made the mistake of getting this because I wanted something more complicated then total war but this was wayyyyy more then I anticipated. Actually being a leader would be easier because you have people that know what they are doing, doing the little things.....
Sorry to hear that! If you need to take a break and come back to it another time with a clear mind 😄
If you are more i to economy focused games, I recommend Stellaris!
Only thing i know is command Annex-GER/FRA
Yessir
i just got destroyed by ecuador as peru and idk what i did wrong
Could be any number of things, but try naval invading with a few divisions as Peru too
Learn from your mistakes... Like not sending your entire Canadian army to France to help the Allies, only for France to surrender, thus leaving your army cut off and surrounded, thus wiping it out.
I do this everytime dw
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Thanks! But my accent is clearly Australian 🤦
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What was my request in this video lmao
Watch a guide on how to start a nation and when you feel comfortable just stop watching the guide
Like mine hehe
Change Game Rules??? Wow! I'm super new and super bad (and not bad in a good way) and sometimes I've wanted a game where I can just do whatever and not worry about the end-game where the big factions take over everything and so you're like on rails to a predetermined end (even on non-historical...usually the fascist faction takes over). I never knew you could just change the rules!
Hahhahah yep! Makes it a lot more fun!
Why am i even watching this?
I have 3400 hours
The tip 6 remember me the time that i as japan dominate most of asia and take over half of russia, while i keep atack russia, turkey join alies and invade me, i lost all of persia and the alies open a front, and flood it wit a bunch of troops and i lost the game after some naval invasion,
Happens to the best of us
i suck at this game and my friends say im too stupid to be taught
Your friends are assholes haha anyone can learn 😄
bonus bonus tip : play as poland
Bad tip reeeeeeee
I play this game for 5 years and im watching beginner guides... I cant take china as japan
Practice makes perfect!
@@hammotimee 5 years. It didn't make perfect. It wont ever do i reckon. The only good performance i ever gave was always as fasci Germany, but y'know it is always overpowered no matter what allies do
Seeing this type of vids after 1300hrs of game... Lol
Hahaha the algorithm needs to put some respect on your name 😤
@@hammotimee the algorithm showed me your channel, that's good enough
@@kumayasei The algo has blessed you with my video, and blessed me with your time 😍
I played as Germany and I was defeated by Czechoslovakia.
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@@hammotimee I was talking about that there was a Battle For Dream Island Clip art on the thumbnail
@@IDFBIntroisamazing oh what I just found it online 😂
@@hammotimee it's a really good web series lol
@@IDFBIntroisamazing I'll give it a cheeky suss
HOW TO MAKE HOI4 LIBERIA OVER POWER?? TIPS?
Console commands
I don't know why can't i beat the Germans in this game,they are just to strong
Yeah they're tricky, just takes time!
I have 300 hours and im scared to play the ussr
Hey only one way to learn!
On easy difficulty it's actually kind of easy lol
I can take ethiopa as italy in like 3 years😂😂😂
Hahaha hey that's progress
I just learn how to do it before the deadline
German mistakes, getting naval invaded by the Dutch.
German mistakes, being German
@@hammotimee Harsh.
@@Ranked_Journey so was their Polish and French holidays in 1939 🤷
i fucking hate this game
Vibe 😄