I hope you enjoyed this video! Feel free to Comment in this section! ► Full Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLsT4scrqjQbRo9wPxyvn6PXphT_BIoow2 ► Want to learn Victoria 3? Check out my Tutorial: ruclips.net/user/liveJuuc32EMrTg?feature=shared ► Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/flyingdutchy
Out of all of the tutorials for learning the game I find this one most useful. Most tutorials do things too quickly for me to follow along where I have to keep pausing and rewinding the video. With this one I watched it all the way through without having to pause it at all. 10/10
I totally agree, after 3 years of watching tutorials that learned me some but never the complete thing, never really got the feeling of this game, even after almost 3K hours on CK3,200 on EU4 ,2K Stellaris and 1K Vic3. I always felt like i was missing something, thanks to this tutorial i got over 100 hours in this game at last and i have the feeling i starting to understand it, and i am LOVING it. Dutchy's patience in explaining everything and let you take the time to see what he does where with the cursor .
My head canon is that the lack of rubber slows down production because they have to go and source the rubber from elsewhere, the number you have is like an "easy accessible" amount and if thats too low they have to go and dig it out of the reserves and ship it hither and tither
I opened up the game for the first time, started a game just like you did and were like "Nope!". This really cleared lots of things up, thank you so much!
Thank god there is this series, most are older than 1.11 when the supply system was overhauled so i am having high hopes that i am able to learn that here.
Lovely. I was thinking of finally trying Hoi4 but all the tutorials I could find are either from release or talk about expansion mechanics. It's nice to have a tutorial that deals with just vanilla :)
Before I found this I tried a single player campaign on reg. My industry was booming and my army was massive. I was about to get my airforce and navy bigger and then Italy goes and pulls me into a war with the allies. Somehow I end up fighting all of the allies and Japan
42:25 I know you said you wouldn't explain it, but as a new player I am really curious how you knew "Four-Year Plan" wasn't the most optimal national focus just by looking at the industry research tree, this deep level of knowledge is what I want to have one day lol
Thank you for the tutorial man, you seem very nice and inviting, best beginner friendly series on this game I’ve seen. Can’t wait to watch all 18 parts :)
Holy fuck dude thanks! I just skipped by the usual beginners talking in the start that I have heard as many hours as I have failed to play but once I got to the stuff you like to do like the factories n infrastructure I fell in love. That’s the guiding I need. I know what the stuff does by now but I haven’t grasped when to actually do any of it.
@@FlyingDutchy that would be helpful. Basically as a part 2 to this one. “The advanced beginners guide” cause After I finish this, I’m obviously an advanced beginner lol
top tier guide btw I feel confident going forward with the game now. my friends say eu4 is way harder than this but atm I'm much more confused here in this game, than on that other bordergore of a mess. Like sure eu4 has waaaay more buttons to press but each tab is quite simple on their own than the tabs presented on this game. each tab on hoi4 is packed with so much info I get hella confused. Example technology tab in eu4 has only 3 main categories. whereas this game has 8. (notes for self) tech will give 3-4 building slots. max infrastucture on base 60% if you can build 5-6 civs max infrastructure on base 80% if you can build more than 10 civs
Hey Dutchy! Recently got into the game and I really appreciate your tutorial! However, it looks like the game’s changed a lot in the year since you made it, and I’m worried these may no longer adequately prepare one to play Germany (I don’t even know how to deal with the new MEFO bills). Will still watch the whole thing though, and again thank you!
Just started playing yesterday and was quickly overwhelmed with mechanics and notification spam. I'll be following this tutorial series but after watching this one episode, I already have a strong grasp on some basics now. One thing I didn't really understand though was what you were explaining with the dockyards, could you clarify that bit please?
I don't really know anymore what I said in the episode. Dockyards build ships and can only be build on coastal states. The more dockyards the quicker you can build your ships (and you also need the resources ofcource to not get a penalty)
I think he meant that since you selected two dockyards to the first submarine, it will get completed first, and the grey dockyards are so when the first submarine gets completed it assigns the 2 now free ones automaticly to the second to be built, and now that one will complete before the others, so when it is completed it will auto-assign the 3 now available dockyards to the next and so on (Sorry for my bad english if you didnt understood)
It's probably fine to "lie" to keep things simpler in a guide like this. Like saying that electricity flows from postitive to negative. I'm just being cheeky and I enjoyed the vid.
Thanks for the series ❤, it's hard to find updated tutorials for a niche and old game like hoi4. An overview and a guide to the dlcs would be very useful, because there's very little out there for beginners.
@@FlyingDutchy hmm I mean i can also buy "gamepass" on steam which will give me a lot of content but I am afraid of being overwhelmed new content so I thought i can learn vanilla then first dlc etc.
Over 2,000 hours in- 99.9% as Germany, and HOI4 makes me feel like a beginner every time. 6,000 trucks, 3,000 medium tanks in excess stock? Let's put that number closer to -3,000 trucks and -1,600 med tanks now that you've been at war for 6 months. Oh, btw, that 88,000 excess infantry equipmemt? It's at -55,000 at the moment. But you have 45 extra trains! 😮 Edit: I definitely use DLC. Getting gov collabs on USSR to put them at 47% [versus 20%] victory points is super helpful.
I have enjoyed EU4 the most. It is the game that I played the most ever. It has nice replayability by all major nations having their own flavour and missions.
@@larschristensen4941 Well the game mechanics are almost the same and most of the focusses are somewhat the same. Anschluss is just calculated differently but it is still good enough really.
I have a problem as Reich,i conquer poland,denmark and norway....the Holland and as soon i attack belgium i conquer half French and British kick in,i have good supplly,railways at 3 and still i stock at french border i cant panitrate due the lack of Supplies is frustriating
You have to increase production to make the factories that make factories faster so you can make military factories for artillery that lets your infantry attack.
@@robnoel9306 No, you have to make factories [civilian] which make other buildings [like more civilian factories, war factories (which build only military assets), oil refineries, infrastructure, anti-air, defensive forts, etc.]. Civilian factories are more valuable than anything else, because even if you finish building across all your infrastructure cap, you can convert them to military factories.
this game is a mess to a new user. Just simple things like assigning and moving divisions is confusing and totally non intuitive. Right click for this, but have to be clicked on something first and bring up this other thing then ..... blah blah blah blah. How about some simple drag & drop??
![Hearts of Iron 4 Tutorial 🔴 How to Play HoI4 in Under 40 Minutes Guide! [No DLC]](/img/1.gif)
I hope you enjoyed this video! Feel free to Comment in this section!
► Full Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLsT4scrqjQbRo9wPxyvn6PXphT_BIoow2
► Want to learn Victoria 3? Check out my Tutorial: ruclips.net/user/liveJuuc32EMrTg?feature=shared
► Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/flyingdutchy
Out of all of the tutorials for learning the game I find this one most useful. Most tutorials do things too quickly for me to follow along where I have to keep pausing and rewinding the video. With this one I watched it all the way through without having to pause it at all. 10/10
Nice to see that it is being used!
I totally agree, after 3 years of watching tutorials that learned me some but never the complete thing,
never really got the feeling of this game, even after almost 3K hours on CK3,200 on EU4 ,2K Stellaris and 1K Vic3.
I always felt like i was missing something, thanks to this tutorial i got over 100 hours in this game at last and i have the feeling i starting to understand it,
and i am LOVING it.
Dutchy's patience in explaining everything and let you take the time to see what he does where with the cursor .
@tat2mano Nice that it helped you!
i've got several hundred hours in and i still feel like a beginner
Just follow along with this tutorial!
And I got serveral hundred questions, I just played for the first time and quitted. xD
The same thing can be said about civilization 6
I got over a thousand hours in hoi4 and sometimes I find it useful to go back to these starter tutorials icl
@cd9962 I also think that sometimes someone else knows something that you didn't and vice versa. I also have that with these grand strategy games.
42:40 you can cancel a focus on the tree by clicking the X next to the focus thing.
My head canon is that the lack of rubber slows down production because they have to go and source the rubber from elsewhere, the number you have is like an "easy accessible" amount and if thats too low they have to go and dig it out of the reserves and ship it hither and tither
"Are you a complete beginner"🎉
(1700 hours in) "yes sir I am"
xD even 4000 hours in like me and still learning things!
This is perfect timing. I have owned game for long time but haven’t given it the proper time to get to know it. Time to get caught up with you. 🤙
I hope I can explain everything so that everyone can play the game!
Man, this is a great HOI4 Tutorial! I've given up on MOST of them, but this one is GREAT!
Hele handige tutorial, super bedankt
I opened up the game for the first time, started a game just like you did and were like "Nope!". This really cleared lots of things up, thank you so much!
Hey! Glad I could help!
Thank god there is this series, most are older than 1.11 when the supply system was overhauled so i am having high hopes that i am able to learn that here.
If I remember correctly I do go over supplies :D
Lovely.
I was thinking of finally trying Hoi4 but all the tutorials I could find are either from release or talk about expansion mechanics.
It's nice to have a tutorial that deals with just vanilla :)
Have fun and I hope it helps! Please let me know!
Thanks for this, thinking to get back into HOI4 after playing basically at launch. Huge help!
You're welcome!
i have hundreds of hours on this game, tried to play again after 2 years, lost to belgium as germany
Before I found this I tried a single player campaign on reg. My industry was booming and my army was massive. I was about to get my airforce and navy bigger and then Italy goes and pulls me into a war with the allies. Somehow I end up fighting all of the allies and Japan
42:25 I know you said you wouldn't explain it, but as a new player I am really curious how you knew "Four-Year Plan" wasn't the most optimal national focus just by looking at the industry research tree, this deep level of knowledge is what I want to have one day lol
This is a great tutorial compared to the others i've watched. Great tutorial man!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for the tutorial man, you seem very nice and inviting, best beginner friendly series on this game I’ve seen. Can’t wait to watch all 18 parts :)
You're welcome! Good luck!
Holy fuck dude thanks! I just skipped by the usual beginners talking in the start that I have heard as many hours as I have failed to play but once I got to the stuff you like to do like the factories n infrastructure I fell in love. That’s the guiding I need. I know what the stuff does by now but I haven’t grasped when to actually do any of it.
Really wish this had the new Germany focus tree but I can survive if the rest is as detailed and shows what ya do.
@@gothscvm2878 I might do a revisited tutorial with all DLC's enabled.
@@FlyingDutchy that would be helpful. Basically as a part 2 to this one. “The advanced beginners guide” cause After I finish this, I’m obviously an advanced beginner lol
If you look at the top right of the focus, you can see an X that says "click to cancel focus," just in case you didn't see it
top tier guide btw I feel confident going forward with the game now.
my friends say eu4 is way harder than this but atm I'm much more confused here in this game, than on that other bordergore of a mess.
Like sure eu4 has waaaay more buttons to press but each tab is quite simple on their own than the tabs presented on this game. each tab on hoi4 is packed with so much info I get hella confused. Example technology tab in eu4 has only 3 main categories. whereas this game has 8.
(notes for self)
tech will give 3-4 building slots.
max infrastucture on base 60% if you can build 5-6 civs
max infrastructure on base 80% if you can build more than 10 civs
Yes that seems like a good approach to me.
Hey Dutchy! Recently got into the game and I really appreciate your tutorial! However, it looks like the game’s changed a lot in the year since you made it, and I’m worried these may no longer adequately prepare one to play Germany (I don’t even know how to deal with the new MEFO bills). Will still watch the whole thing though, and again thank you!
The game changed with my lastest series indeed.
Just started playing yesterday and was quickly overwhelmed with mechanics and notification spam. I'll be following this tutorial series but after watching this one episode, I already have a strong grasp on some basics now. One thing I didn't really understand though was what you were explaining with the dockyards, could you clarify that bit please?
I don't really know anymore what I said in the episode. Dockyards build ships and can only be build on coastal states. The more dockyards the quicker you can build your ships (and you also need the resources ofcource to not get a penalty)
I think he meant that since you selected two dockyards to the first submarine, it will get completed first, and the grey dockyards are so when the first submarine gets completed it assigns the 2 now free ones automaticly to the second to be built, and now that one will complete before the others, so when it is completed it will auto-assign the 3 now available dockyards to the next and so on
(Sorry for my bad english if you didnt understood)
@@maslan76 yes that makes sense!
Thanks Dutchy this tutorial is exactly what I needed!
You're welcome. Any questions please join the discord
"Never get more than 200 political power". Aight guess I will never annex my puppet.
Should have said at the start of the game :)
It's probably fine to "lie" to keep things simpler in a guide like this. Like saying that electricity flows from postitive to negative. I'm just being cheeky and I enjoyed the vid.
great video, thx. I will watch the entire series
Good luck learning the game
i have 100 hours in this game and i just learned ive been doing it all wrong and thats why i always lose
Thanks to my Tutorial? Glad I could help!
@@FlyingDutchy i still lose but thats cuz im bad dw
Dankjewel jij meesterlijke Nederlandse baas!
Thx a lot! Best tutorial
Maybe it's because you are obviously nearby (sounds danish?), but I find this tutorial absolutely excellent.
Thanks a lot!
@@FlyingDutchy Forget about the "danish", didn't saw your nick... 😁
@innerlight7018 ;)
Man i was hoping so much that this is gonna be a first tutorial with all DLCs, cause all the ones are without any 😢
Can be a good idea to make as well!
@@FlyingDutchy please do!
So far i have lost as poland, norway, italy, and Soviet union. After watching tutorials on how to play.
Best tutorial !
Thanks a lot
Glad I can help!
Thanks for the tutorial videos!
you're welcome!
Excellent tutorial but in the future please turn down the music or preferably turn it off. It is way too loud and completely drowns out your voice
Thanks for the series ❤, it's hard to find updated tutorials for a niche and old game like hoi4. An overview and a guide to the dlcs would be very useful, because there's very little out there for beginners.
which dlc would you recommend for first? i am thinking bout waking the tiger
I am not sure which DLC adds what to the game. Being able to make your own ships and tanks is the best one I think
@@FlyingDutchy hmm I mean i can also buy "gamepass" on steam which will give me a lot of content but I am afraid of being overwhelmed new content so I thought i can learn vanilla then first dlc etc.
18 episodes, that are 40 min long, for complete beginners? I could learn quantum physics in that time and go to work at CERN :D
Well you can see that if you want to learn everything that you need a lot of time just like CERN xD
Yeah, learning particle physics is probably similar to the HOI4 learning curve. Both are entirely logical, and require immense attention to detail.
Over 2,000 hours in- 99.9% as Germany, and HOI4 makes me feel like a beginner every time. 6,000 trucks, 3,000 medium tanks in excess stock? Let's put that number closer to -3,000 trucks and -1,600 med tanks now that you've been at war for 6 months. Oh, btw, that 88,000 excess infantry equipmemt? It's at -55,000 at the moment. But you have 45 extra trains! 😮
Edit: I definitely use DLC. Getting gov collabs on USSR to put them at 47% [versus 20%] victory points is super helpful.
The hypocrisy in blacking out hitler but showing Stalin and Mussolini…
They didn’t really try to genocide people unlike mustache man
Mussolini yeah but why would they black out Stalin lmao
@@st.altair4936 mass murdering monster and committed multiple different genocides
@@st.altair4936. . .
@Conradlovesjoy Stalin smacked hitler in the mouth, he can be shown
Thank you buddy
I see you have a lot of experience with Paradox games. Which one do you enjoy the most and why?
I have enjoyed EU4 the most. It is the game that I played the most ever. It has nice replayability by all major nations having their own flavour and missions.
Not a complete beginner but it's been like 4 years.
I dont get it. Removed all DLC but my focus tree is not the same as yours.My focus tree is a lot bigger.... ?
The game just got updated with a new German focustree xD So no wonder hahahah
@@FlyingDutchy ahhh ok :) u think if i follow your tutorial it still would work out with new updated tree?
@@larschristensen4941 Well the game mechanics are almost the same and most of the focusses are somewhat the same. Anschluss is just calculated differently but it is still good enough really.
@@FlyingDutchy Cool then i will go on.And thx a lot :)
I have a problem as Reich,i conquer poland,denmark and norway....the Holland and as soon i attack belgium i conquer half French and British kick in,i have good supplly,railways at 3 and still i stock at french border i cant panitrate due the lack of Supplies is frustriating
Did you build up your economy well? Try to follow my build up order, it should really help.
Thanks you !
You're welcome! I hope I can help with this series of videos ;)
What version of the game is this?
you could have unselected the 4 year plan and then select rhineland
Yep I know now :)
Couldn't understand. Lost to Luxembourg. 😞
Just keep watching the other episodes!
Exactly what I needed. Bought the game during the black friday sale on Steam. I'm absolutely lost😂 The in game tutorial is sh*t!
I hope I can help you with this! :)
Paradox tutorials are notoriously garbage.
i lost to ethiopia on civilian
Oh goodness. Well watch this series then :)
This game is ridiculously over-complicated.
hahaha did you play other paradox games yet?
You have to increase production to make the factories that make factories faster so you can make military factories for artillery that lets your infantry attack.
@@robnoel9306
No, you have to make factories [civilian] which make other buildings [like more civilian factories, war factories (which build only military assets), oil refineries, infrastructure, anti-air, defensive forts, etc.].
Civilian factories are more valuable than anything else, because even if you finish building across all your infrastructure cap, you can convert them to military factories.
This game is a trap, from the first moment you download it it will take all your time and you will find the rest of the games boring
xD
👍
thanks
this game is a mess to a new user. Just simple things like assigning and moving divisions is confusing and totally non intuitive. Right click for this, but have to be clicked on something first and bring up this other thing then .....
blah blah blah blah. How about some simple drag & drop??
I do agree. I felt the same when I started.
ok dude you're being silly, 18 videos 40 minutes+? not doing all that
Maybe give it a chance :) Sometimes learning a difficult game can give a very rewarding feeling :)