What every Hoi4 beginner does...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- I know some you do not understand, but these are things that i have seen many beginners do.
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In my first game I actually did lose to the Netherlands as Germany, I made 400 crappy divisions and put them on Czechoslovakia's border and declared war on them instead of just eating them. I couldn't push and had so much tunnel vision I didn't notice the Dutch owned half of my country lol
I'm at 4k hours now o_0
can we play sometime, im relatively new to hoi4 and i want someone to play multiplayer with since i have no friends who have it lol
@@gothicgator4888 Same
@@fridolfgranq whats ur steam?
@@gothicgator4888 don´t play it its toxic
@@gamerdrache6076 No it isn't
In my first game, Austria refused Anchluss and I lost lmao
HAHAHA
What how
Lmao how
In my first game, I sent 15 paratrooper divisions to invade Belgium, who all died. Then my army went on the attack on the German-Belgian border until the divisions were basically dead. The Belgians counter-attacked and almost beat me but I encircled them once they advanced into Germany.
Then I attacked Poland and they capitulated me.
In my games as Austria I always refuse Anschluss and it usually turns out fine
Me as a beginner:
- Picks Japan
- Searches for a new strategy and division templates against China
- Gets mauled by Chinese manpower
- Repeat
yo también hice eso en mis primeras 100 horas lmao
well in my 3 or 4 try i defeat china and its allies but the main thing is that it took a lot of time and war will be end in 1943. i never finish china before that
>play German
>start ww2
>got attack by neighbour country
>one of them is Switzerland
The first time I play HOI4 i was losing a war as Mexico against Guatemala cause i put my entire army on one tile and then i noticed that you can get encircled 😔
My first game was as México too, but I didn't know you could get war goals on central America via focus tree so I had to wait for WT to go to 100% to start justifying wars, then idk why the US declared war on me but it ended on a kind of stalemate cuz I covered the naval invasions and had level 7-10 forts across the entire border XD
I feeled a god when I defeated Guatemala(I only had 6 hours and it's the only war, without couting civil wars, than I winned)
That i actually did as a beginner:
- Spend almost half of hour choosing the country to play. Stopped on Soviet Union, although i thinking about him at the beginning;
- Looked at interface. Looked on focus tree. Looked at tank and division constructor. Get scared.
- Dropped and forget the game about half of the year. Watch a bunch of thematic videos on the TH-cam.
- Gets inspiring from these videos. Goes back to the game. Still scared, but these time i just decide to play with console, like in sandbox mod.
- Match after match i finally gets some understanding of the game.
And now im here :) Hope my english wasn't too bad.
Your English is very Ok, don't worry.
Hello from France~
Tho ur english is very bad,.i could not understand half of the stuff u said
Better English writing than a lot of Americans.
same i was plaing with console and commands for like 300-400h and after that i could play hoi preety good
You’re pretty wise second guessing yourself about the game first then jumping back in when you felt ready.
I knew a lot about hoi4 when I first started so I actually held France. I invaded Poland and took 1.1 million casualties. Then managed to cap Paris with shitty 12 width cav.
The british naval invaded and recapped France then soviets decalred war and I died.
Sounds historically accurate
@@monkeybirthdaycake0627 but the soviets didnt declare on them the germans did
@@disguymemes for the most part
i can take francer after a while but i just get demolished by uk either because they naval invade without me seeing or they are just too strong
I also known hoi4 since before there is any dlc, this year I am fortunate enough to have the hardware to play it for the first time.
first times plays, I chose neutral countries since I thought it's good to learn how the game works before fighting.
nice nice that works
Learning how the game works, Just not the fighting part lol
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent OK BUD im very bad in HOI4
@@itsalmostfun8567 Just play the game m8 it is easy to learn
This was how i learnt too, when i started out everything seemed overwhelming so played sweden historical, which allowed me to work out how to build industry and mess with troops and how to manage my production output, then when i was confident with that I moved on to playing canada which gave me a taste of combat without the burden of being a major
What I did as beginner a lot of times :
(I have 610 hours by the time I type this)
- Take major countries like USSR and just try to declare war as fast as possible on neighboring countries.
- Entirely skip the political advisors + military advisors.
- Spam as much troops as possible even tho I didn't know I didn't have any equipment.
- Entirely skip the airforce and navy, I had no idea how to use it.
- Every battleplan was set to aggressive.
I won 0 wars legit.
When i bought this game, i was so excited to conquer, but when i launched the game and saw so many buttons, i just backed out and didn't touch it again after a month, now im actually a professional at this game i lost to Luxembourg as soviet union. Praise Paradox.
But the soviets don’t border Luxemburg.
Even not having border with Luxembourg wont stop you from having your cheeks capped @@Watermelon-Cato
bro how you achieved that lol
i am bad at hoi 4 lol, i invaded polen but then they crushed my empire >:(
Try tanks
@@ismaelbutt5105 great input, really helpful comment
@@ryanmurray7941 fr
@@ryanmurray7941 ik fr
Polen bad >:(
0:39 This was literally my first HOI4 Berlin-Moscow axsis pack game, except that I was also at war with poles and danes who were in front of Berlin.
The Italians, who were also in the alliance, pulled me into their war too quickly.
But amazingly, I mastered it, it was very exhausting.
So far, in 500 hours of playing hoi4, I haven't felt the need to play berlin-moscow pack again.
Everybody always shitting on Italy, but most of the time they are my most reliable allies
In my case, I did ribbentrop first, got poland then did Moscow axis, and actually won the game
A true beginner would lose to Ethiopia.
I did
My troops wouldn’t advance
@Ossian_Mik-bb3hv I have I still suck
@Ossian_Mik-bb3hv I have looked
@@Sketchy_Outlawsame lol
Too ambitious for a beginner.
When I was I beginner:
How do I invade France
*Spends hours trying to move troops while exploring the interface*
I casually right click on France an I see the declare war button. So I start to search how to make the declare button available. After this first game I went again but this time I was doing good and I defeated Poland and ended up in a stalemate with France.
did you try to invade via the maginot? (border with france) that land has level 10 forts with a total of a -150% attack so its impossible to break. you thus invade belgium to go around the forts
@@Suppexion yep being an history nerd helped so I attacked Netherlands and Belgium and there I got the stalemate. Now with 1k hours i still remember it
@@salvocastiglione748 i got 200 hours and still cant defeat italy france uk soviet OR romanania hungary yugoslavia as germany without cheats/ mods. as japan i cant even beat the weaker countries and i struggle to take turkey as solo italy. any tips? i got all dlcs and latest version
@@fluto6997 play something else my man, 200 hours? If this is satire i look retarded
@Ethan Jordan How do you have the supply for that???
my first time wasnt actually bad, i defeated poland but lost Königsberg because i didn't know how to move troops across
i usually just let them have it because uhhhh well you see i just decided.
@@asherwoodrow7471 just let them have it
I have the strange feeling we get it back soon anyways 🤫
Same. The game doesn't let me move troops to Königsberg and neither recruit new divisions in Königsberg, despite Königsberg is Germany, isn't it? I don't understand it.
Always defeat Poland but East Prussia is always sacrificed to them. 😔💀
Use ur navy?
When I was a beginner, I declared war on the US as France using allowdiplo. I played on civilian difficulty. I eventually get naval invaded and then I quit the game. Good times, I tell ya
The naval invasions are the worst. You think you’re doing good, then you check your capitulation status. “73%? How?” And then you zoom out to see half your country consumed.
@@Finlandball39 we can't do what lebron forgot to do: garrison the Atlantikwall
@@leer1698 Ja Hans.
I played italy and the war in ethiopia a few times to understand the basic warfare mechanics
with the help of a few online guides it was fairly easy, not sure why the devs didn't make a pocketmap to enable new players to learn the game
and now i want to understand ck3 and I have no clue what to do so I put the game down LMAO
Ck3 is really easy to understand compared to HOI4 (Except the vassal part that is confusing af) Just check out the scroll at the top, it will tell you what you need to do. Then when you want to war with someone just wait till you have the opprotunity to marry someone that has a claim on their land, then invade them.
Ck3 is easy to learn
bro u opened my eyes... i rlly didnt know that many divisions is bad
You forgot the beginners don't know what a focus tree is, so they declare war on Austria and lose since they don't know that you can annex them with a simply clicking a button
Even the beginning of my first game didn't get this problem
Though this needs to thank many people who film tutorial
I played as Democratic Germany and focus on the East, Poland is quite easy to beat but the Soviets take me a lot of time even with the Allies' help
Beating the Soviets are easy fr. The allies tho...
Lol I remember when I first did the Berlin Moscow axis the Soviets ended up carrying
funny thing, for the first hours like 10+ or even more i didnt even care about reading what certain things do, like i did scrapping the barrel because i saw more manpowe as canada (yes my first ever game was canada) didnt used generals and i moved soldiers manually, like eu4 edition. But i was like 14 back there so
As Soviet Union , I lost Tajikistan to Afghanistan 😂😂
As a new player I can neither confirm or deny this video.
Bold of you to assume we knew how to make Frontline orders in our first game
My first hoi4 experience wasnt quite this bad, but as it always happens my first game ended with my troops being slaughtered in the eastern front while i had no idea how to use my navy and i was naval invaded and died.
I have 674 hours and I still dont know how to use the navy
@@yourboi39 lmfao same. Only strategy that worked for me so far is just spamming subs
@@dmitripazlov491 ye and then only use them once for operation sea lion. It even works sometimes.xD
I won against Poland then Italy in axis with me invaded Switzerland and Switzerland joined allies. Then Netherlands won against me when i was defending from Switzerland lol
Way to good for beginner. Me as a beginner choosed 1939 scenario. Moved division to france border and other all sended to warsaw. Blitzkrieg was too bad, i didnt know why youtubers easily capitulating poland within month. Also, after some learning, i opened hoi4 again, then i win battles(division vs division), but i was bad at micro, and didnt know why my planes didnt working( i drawed them, nut didnt know how to activate them). After 1 year, i take poland with high casualties. I feeled good about it.
Now i am pro at this game
First time playing this game I was like “oh yeah Poland you are mine now”, after a few months, Poland still exists, and the French moved in to Berlin, that’s when I realised I have a border with them and the French can actually attack.
In my girst game, I managed to defeat Poland, but didn't break through Belgium to conquer France. Then, I attacked from the Italy, almost conquered France, but Italy was defeated by naval invasions. Sorry for bad grammar :\
This is literally what happened to me in order of playthroughs
jokes on you in my first hoi4 game i lost to switzerland, not the netherlands
"Just bought HOI 4"
Meanwhile the manchukuo game:
I remember my first hoi 4 game I played Greece back at Man the Guns and didn't know what the fuck was happening but somehow I still managed to capitulate the italians, comes to show how useless benito is
My first hoi4: I played Germany and crushed all europe, but i gave up against USSR
yea LOL invading USSR is easy but its long
@@itsalmostfun8567 Try setting up collab governments to make them easier to capitulate
I see what you did there...lol
As an HOI4 player, I lost as germany to Checoslovakia bc the allies had joined in. Also I staged a coup in texas which did not go well, which made the USA join the war early. The year was 1938.
When I was a beginner playing Germany I didn’t go through the Benelux but I knew I couldn’t go through the maginot so I actually moved my troops through my ally Italy
My first Hearts of Iron was "Hearts of Iron" literally the first game, so of course I won the war when I first tried HOI IV, but honestly, I was baffled at how easy the game was.
I lost the war as germany because tannu tuva naval invaded me while my whole army on the eastern front got encircled by the red army due to lack of division width
Remind me 3 years ago when I just start to play HOI4 as Soviet Union. Focusing too much to capture Helsinki and not realizing they already eat half of European part of Soviet Union
When I first started I was losing to Estonia as the soviet union, then (because I never did purge) the civil war happened.
spamming divisions is very relatable and i do that almost always
probably because i'm idiot and dont know how to use divs templates
i played hoi4 for the first time today and declared war on austria because i went wrong focus but a few minutes later i lost berlin
My first game was Portugal I spammed divisions and didn’t know how frontlines worked, I died to Franco while he was still in a civil war while I was in the Comintern
Being now a player of hoi4 for more than 3 years , I can say same thing happened to me when I first played the game
"losing to the natherlands"
Me who lost to Poland: Am I the stupid one or the smarter one?
My first game was just me doing all the diplomatic annexations in the german focus tree and then dying horribly to the soviets
My first game probably went different than most peoples given I was doing a MP run with a friend (he played a few times before me but he was also still new) and we decided it would be a good idea to do France and Poland… in a 1939 start. And well I probably don’t need to say anything but it went exactly as one would expect.
the fact that every single of these situations has happened to me💀
As being a beginner very recently I can confirm that all of this is true, but I lost to Luxembourg instead :/
How?
Imagine spamming divisions but forgetting the Königsberg advantage lmao
This exact thing happened to me with switzerland
i was EXACTLY like that - a begginer like a week ago
now i am good at encircling polish soldiers as germany, now i need to learn how to make france ofensive
I had a friend start as Italy. He was getting stamped out by Ethiopia. He also started a war with Switzerland while he was still at war with Ethiopia and got roflstomped. That was a spicy meatball.
i started in 1939 when i play hoi4 first time and idk how to add army commander i just select every divisions and get them to every tyle by hand and i declared war to poland then instantly the game being stuck nothing happened.
As a beginner with 2,723.5 hours in the game, I can confirm this is true
When i was a beginner i got poland and others with no sweat. battleplan, troops did it by themselves basically. That was in 2016 when it was hoi 4 was very beginer friendly. But France was a huge problem, i didn't realise they had forts on loraine so you can figure out what happened next. :)
That “flying gorilla” add tho
For my first 200 hours I haven't played any majors. I just played Mongolia and try to recreate the empire.
Wha... i think thats too much
THAT WAS LITERALLY ME
On my first game of HOI4, in the tutorial, I actually almost lost to Ethiopia. I thought they were so weak and i didnt understand game mechanics, so I selected all of my divisions and did a manual order to rush the capital. My divisions proceeded to get encircled as they abandoned the ports and frontlines. They luckily managed to fall back, regroup, and use a normal attack order with frontlines to win, but its still a funny story.
This was also the same game where I spent half an hour looking for bar where you give orders to your air wings (air superiority, close air support, strategic bombing, etc.)
I actually lost to Ethiopia and even now I struggle against it. Ethiopia is not that weak at all when your forces are only marginally better.
-Pick South Africa
-Research
-Realize that I should have researched that thing sooner
-Restart the whole game
em as a beginner:
-watching a 6 hour tutorial
- picks germany (and easiet dificulty)
-loses to poland
My first time a friend helped ma understand and i picked the soviets. I went to war with poland asap without purging my generals and lost to my own country in a civil war while my friend tried to help me lol.
now i have 2600 hours of gameplay and destroyed Germany with Austria
i have 5k and can´t do that
The issues I had was always with front lines and their orders. The units weren't hard to figure out after a google search but I just didn't register why my frontlines wouldn't always be right for some reason.
I just started and this is literally me lmao, in my first game I was playing Italy and thought switzerland would be easy to invade and lost. In my second game I was playing germany, i was doing all right at the start, annexed poland, formed the berlin-moscow pact, and then soviet union dragged me into ww2 and I capitulated to switzerland again
In my first game, I didn't even know how to declare war in the first place
You forgot having hhalf your army sitting in the middle of your country doing nothhing as all fronts collapse and then claim its not winnable
In my first game i declared war on Austria to ATTEMPT a simulation of the anschluss (what are focusses lol) and i kept having issues, a main one being my armies constantly running back to previously set front lines in different sections (like the netherlands since i didnt know how to remove them and set new ones
In one of my first games in hoi4 i spent 10 minutes tryng to understand how to unpause the game
I started playing hoi4 a month ago and I played a few singleplayer games. I think I’m still forgetting something but I played a multiplayer game with my friend (I was Italy and he was Spain). Somehow I managed to get a LOT of France to the point where Germany just gave me Vichy France. While my buddy got only 1 province 💀.
I absolutely demolished France in Africa and even invaded Portugal with my buddy but ironically I got 60% war participation 💀💀💀 so I got most of Portugal. I only have 3 generals though and I don’t know how troops have the division tree or smth? Yeah I’m bad at that but I still demolish people in normal difficulty. I even learnt naval invasions!
In my first game i didn't even knew how to draw a frontline
I first attacked Denmark, which is easy without frontline and then Czechoslovakia and lost because France also joined the war and I micromanaged every single unit without success xD
Жижа
Жиза
In my first game, I literally managed to somehow defeat France, the whole Benelux and Norway while I was still struggling with Poland
when I first played hoi4 I played as the soviet union and declared war on latvia and was slowly dying LMFAO
when i was new in hoi4, i losed a war to luxembourg
In my first game I played as Austria and somehow managed to hold germany back for about a year
For my first game, I played switzerland(before bba) and just flipped communist, but I was too scared to fight any wars
I’m always scared cuz I send my whole army to every war unless it’s Luxembourg and then if I’m in 2 wars,I die
Everyone talking about "losing wars" in their first game
I just stared at the horrendous UI, tried to move units and failed, spent 2 hours looking up tutorials and help online and eventually gave up.
in my first game i played with bulgaria and tried to conquer yugoslavia and Ive reached a stalemate after 5 years of static warfare
in my first game i declared war on austria and i didnt even knew how to make a battle front
First time I played New Zealand without even trying a tutorial and I left, and when I saw the tutorial I am considering giving up
In my first game I played as Germany, I made a faction with Yugoslavia and then I failed the Anchluss, and because of that, Italy & Austria joined the allies, and I was in war with almost whole Europe
My first time with Germany, I tried for hours to cross the maginot line until I succeeded and then attacked Belgium.
I was playing as USSR and I lost to Afghanistan
In my first game i was italy if i remember, firstly i got defeated by abbyssinia, i lost somalia and eritrea, then got extremely defeated by france and uk in libya. Then losed piedmont. Then i just ragequitted.
When you join Berlin-Moscow, everyone around you will join the allies. Even Switzerland.
In my first game as Germany everything was beauti with the Netherlands, but with Belgium I had a new border along the Elbe River
How it went for me:
Low speed
Front line?
Armies?
Generals?
Austria annexed all but Prussia and puppeted me
In my first game, I declared on Poland with no armies or army plans (I didn't even know those existed), got pushed back all the way to maybe eight or so tiles from Berlin, then I zoomed out and saw that France had completely consumed the other half of the country. If I were to revert back to the save I had before giving up, there'd probably be a 50k supply deficit in everything, no fuel, I'd be 80% capitulated, and I'd have at most twenty divisions, down from 30 because at least ten got wiped out when Konigsberg got surrounded.
I just started this game and on my first game I pretty much beat Poland but then the UK and France invaded me really early on while my army was in Poland, I went to the second game, got Poland, Got Belgium, Got the Netherlands and then I went for France. I made the stupid mistake of attacking the Maginot Line and my army was pushed back. Fun game
I can tell this is silly as a paradox player yet I have next to no idea what’s happening here as a beginner player to hoi4 myself
in my first game i tried to recruit a single division 4 hours and left without saving, i actually created some but i didnt notice it
then i played as reich and captured netherlands, luxembourg, france, poland
i used cheats for equipment and XP
I am still a beginner and have restarted about 17 times to try and encircle Italian troops as Ethiopia but after some consultations with some TH-cam videos I managed to hold them in the mountains.
Unfortunately, even though I won against Italy, I got stuck as a puppet master with a war against Yemen with no navy for my naval invasion and had to wait until Eritrea was annexed...
I did a detour to Road56 mod after the 13th try, though, and I got to say I had a lot more fun with Ethiopia then, than in the base game.
The first time I played, Czechoslovakia refused the Sudetenland thing and They destroyed me with the help of the allies
My first game (as germany ofc) i died to france because i declared war on poland but i didn't defend my other border at all and it was too late by the time i had noticed.
On my first game, I didn't loose to the Netherlands, I lost against Austria. I didn't know there was the Anschluss path, lol
My first game, I played Greece - mind you this is before any of the DLC, so it was Greece with National Unity and a default focus tree. It was such a miserable experience that I refunded the game. Welp, with 2k hours playtime now, that refund did not last.
The first time I ever played this game, I failed to invade my own country, Denmark as The German Reich. My guy, they have 5 divisions if i remember correctly
In my first game, I was at war with Poland... For 9 or 10 months...
I still remember conquering poland for the first time. Celebrated for 30 minutes, nowadays I just go meh