Hearts of Iron IV: Tutorial for Complete Beginners! - 5/7
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"Puny little task of taking out Finland"
Pretty sure stalin actually said that too...
I thought this too and laughed out loud, but couldn't tell if Quill was being ironic or not. That was a gold statement though.
It really was just perfect, yes
Stalin didn't expect farmer with such godlike skills :D
The White Death was a legend.
Also Molotov Coctails :D
Flagrus You nailed it
3 mouths and some 259 confirmed kills later...
It took 5 episodes each of them 30 minutes to actually start a war, i feel like the soviets had less preparations than you did in real life against finland
Probably too busy with the "Great Purge" section.
@@razorburn645 soviets after great purge: wonder why, wonder how😂
36:45 "finnish this war" haHAA
No... you did not just do that..
Thats what popped up in my mind too haha
He shouldn't be Russian to Finnish it.
Or he’ll be Lenin to Defeat
If he wants to win, he shouldn’t be Stalin
this is so unbelievably helpful, thank you for this series
Same hear
"They got plenty of forces here, which isn't great... it is also winter, which isn't great"
By this time everyone knows the "When you take a piss and the pile of snow starts speaking finnish" - meme. Simo Häyhä isn't going to fool around.
legendary example of an exceptional patriot
Liking and replying to this gave me deja vu. A very vivid one at that
Remember though winter is Russias greatest ally
@@Lolsout In Russia, sure.
In Finland, not so much.
Who are the people disliking this tutorial series??? This is some of the best tutorial info I have ever come across for a game, let alone a grand strategy game like HoI4.
Dont dislike
too bad
@@kiancoleman4778
Always wanted to dive into this game but was always intimidated by it. This series is making it less intimidating of a proposition. Next time HoI4 goes on sale im gonna pick it up. I think Paradox owes you a commission.
I just picked it up on the Christmas Sale...for the same reason as you. I wanted to love it b/c it looked awesome, but "Paradox = Scary". This tutorial series has opened the door and made me even more excited to play the game than I ever was before!
Paradox is crap at tutorials, yes... and its DLC policy is frankly atrocious.
Drome Gaming its on sale til mar 2,2020. (I’m in the same boat ) :)
@@jeremybridges6015 Just took advantage of that very sale to pick it up. Haven't started playing it yet, but looking forward to diving in soon.
@@Elyseon Tutorials in Paradox games are just "Check the wiki for more info"
"...this puny little task of taking out finland" usually ends with a half a million of your soldiers needing a burial.
That’s probably what the Soviet said in real life. Than they lost I think 160,000 soldiers.
23:52 "I don't really need to destroy infrastructure stuff and what not with stragetic bombing, but what the hell, let's do it." - Probably what all the airforce commanders said during WW2.
Thanks for the great videos! Really helps an entirely new player to HoI and to Paradox games in general - especially after I played the game for about 10 hours and had no clue what I was doing. Now it all kinda falls into place. I think I'll do a new Soviet campaign!
"Diplomacy is how you start wars!"
Baldrick, you're fired.
Beaut of a reference!
After watching these tutorials, doing the in game tutorial and messing around with various countries for about 10 hours I think I'm starting comprehend the very basics
These tutorial in this particular series have been the best I have seen. I have played for a few years and i'm learning something new in every video. Great stuff Quill and many thanks!
Thanks Quill18 for your comprehensive tutorials on HOI IV. I like the way you have broken it up into seven parts. Great instruction here-most informative and enjoyable. Watched all videos in one sitting. Even at this point I feel quite confident I can go back to this game after a long time and make some pleasing progress. Would like to see more on other great Paradox titles like Crusader Kings 2. So much to learn and many updates over time making other past tutorials largely outdated.
My approach with Paradox titles is to watch the newest tutorial you can find and then watch videos on each expansion (release notes, play throughs, etc). Not only do you get up to speed but you're aware of the changes to the meta-game.
1:06 Tuna Tuvu. How dare you disrespect this glorious nation!
its propre name is Tannu Uriankhai, and it belongs to China
@@johnneymc *proper. Plus, I was being sarcastic. I only knew the name, but it's interesting to know the history behind it.
Bumblebee Tuna!
Tuna who? lmao
You gotta just love when a tutorial series jumps ahead a year in game time and doesn't bother to explain to you what it did in game so that you are up to speed. This series is very helpful, but this leap forward of a year leaves us in the dark as to what to do in order to walk through the tutorial with you.
My brother is making me watch these and play the game with him as my end of a deal we made. Thank you for making it bearable lol
10:30 i love the way you set up the war, and explain how easy it's gonna be. Very similar to '39.
I saw your videos and was like... hey, let's try a Colombia reconquest of Nueva Granada... What could posibly go wrong?... Axis now control everything in the old continent plus the soviet union was recket to the point U.S. sent them a few troops to help... Australia is now Japan... What have I done...
Ahg man, that's just what I wanted to do tonight.
When you turn historical ai off lol
@@benmunn7481 i tried a co-op campaign with a buddy to learn the game a little better and we somehow ended up with Fascist Mexico joining the Axis Powers and trying to invade America. How that happened while we were playing Germany i have not even the slightest clue
"I mean, Finland is not going to be bombing (destroying) their own stuff"
Russia in Napoleonic Wars:
"We would rather stick to our way of doing things, but thank you anyway"
27:40 - Man, it threw me for a loop to see those modifiers adding up to so much. Took me a minute to realize they STACK. That's HUGE! Wow!
quill18 my man, i really want to thank you for the info, was following you from Civ 6 videos, thank you especially for your capacity to synthesize the info ! learned a great lot about the game ! all the best !
Dude these tutes are so damn good. Kudos to you, my guy. Great job. Just one thing... How the fuck did YOU learn all of this? Hahaha, you been playing this game 8 hours a day since release? The learning curve is so ridiculous that I felt like I needed a university degree to actually play competently. And then you come along and you know enough to pass as a developer of the game lol. Where/how did you come to know everything you know about the game? There are things that you know that I wouldn't even have thought to Google, let alone find out through playing the game.
ya totes good tutes
Watching this in March 2022 really hits different.
I watched every video up until now, and have already forgotten the first 4 videos instruction.
Thanks for this wonderful series of videos that are so essential to learning to play HOI IV! Could I suggest you add into the description of each video a few bullet points on what you'll be covering in it. Many thanks Aidan.
You did a great job on these videos, man. Super helpful.
I realized the best way to understand this game is to think about designing divisions as the absolute core of the game and everything else in the game is built to support building effective divisions
I am so thankful of this tutorial series! Just bought the game and i have absolutfels no idea of what i am doing
''Tunna Tuvu'' I hope there's no Tuvan here lol.
I've been playing this game for years, but this tutorial is really helpful, as I used to only play HOI 1, 2 and 3.
This episode and the one before it helped tremendously! Thanks!
now at least I can start playing the game :D thanks quill18
Working through this one video at a time. Don't know if it's even up to date anymore. But this is already episode 5 of 7 and we still didn't talk for a second about what I actually do after starting a game. Knowing how everything works is important, but what to even do with it is just as much.
Is *that* what Reinforcement does? Useful even for non newbies. Thanks, Quill!
Fantastic tutorial! I was about to return he game until I saw this series!
Thanks for the videos. Very good pronunciation on Turkish cities' names.
you sound like Charles Boyles from Brooklyn 99. This is so relaxing. Btw thank you so much for this tutorial i bought the game while high and couldn’t figure out how to play but you helped me fix that 😂
Following your advice. I have done the what I thought was unthinkable and won my first war.
Brilliant advice and tutorial 👍 thank you very much
We are going to 'Finnish' this war, it was an unintended pun but a welcome one.
That is such an amazing video, even after all these years, thank you very much
Thank you for doing this. I have never played any paradox games before and was a bit overwhelmed at first. First play through is with Germany and its going good so far. Any tips for playing as the US?
Friends: " hey bro, haven't seen you in a while! What have you been up to?"
Me: (a withered shell of a man looking back at them)" just been working on my hearts of iron 4 masters degree so I can download the game 💀"
Even with the explanation, I have no idea what divisions I would want to design or why. Is there a guide for optimal ones or anything like that somewhere?
This video is so valuable
I finally start to know what I should do. I will first play vanilla 2 times to then enable the dlc
Fantastic tutorials. I've played CK3 and stellaris so thought this would be as easy a game to play. Hahahaha
About 27 minutes or so in, I suspect that the “Country” bonus modifier isn’t there bacause those units happen to be defending their own country, but rather due to a specific National Spirit that Finland has. I could be wrong, though.
"... we are at war with finland. EXCELLENT"
Joseph: we have the overwhelming number of our people to valiantly conquer the enemy, there's no reason to bomb their infrastructure and our future puppet city.
Quill: wut the hell, let's bomb it anyways.
Thank you very much for these tutorial series. I bought the game a year and a half ago and was very intimidated by the entire game hud and the in game tutorial did not help me at all understand what most things did. I’m in 1938 now in my game, playing as Germany. I’ve re-united Austria with my country as should be and instead of fighting with Czechoslovakia I’m going to peacefully take it over with political influence, one year remains for me to finally go to war with Poland and eventually the smaller countries around Poland and France before invading France itself. I am actually having a lot more fun then I would have expected.
Lol I did same but I'm just 1 year ahead of you and am going on war with France and UK right after I Finnish Poland
"Excellent! So now the fighting can begin" 😂
Is there a video or information on what you did between the end of tutorial #4 and the start of tutorial #5?
Thank you.
7:50 you had me laughing out loud
hah BAD and SAD :D. Love the vids, now i can finally start playing HOI 4
And no i did not mean that the videos is bad or sad, i meant the names of the planes stuff.
Where did @Quill18 get that War Goal from? I've not been able to get that in my game as I follow along and try to learn.
Same - I don't see how he got the Finland war goal yet.
Bro is planning better than actual soviets
8:30 "pewny little task of taking out finland"
famous last words of many a russian general
great vids, thanks man, but could you turn the music off? :)
I need to make some genal having some kind of traits, however when i find the general there is no options to force him having that trait that was suggested. THere is no description of what to do either. Help ? do i need make this decision go to fail ?
For interception, do you have to deploy the the fighters in the home region where the enemy is bombing, can you put them in a region in the "flight path" (dont know if that exists) to that region to intercept, or do you have to deploy the fighters in the region that contains the enemy airfield that deploys the bombers?
For the flight path question, say I'm in the UK and Italy is bombing me, and I deploy an air wing in Germany (a province between where they are bombing) and where the Italian planes are deploying, would my planes intercept the bombers on their way to Kent.
18:12 - "Port Strikes and Port Str-"
I am confused, where did those troops at the Finnish border come from? What has been deployed there in the other video was a totally different force without any attack plans, or am I blind?
I don't know how to divide the divisions but keep them under the same general
i play all paradox games i got all information from quill18
Say I had 200 planes and I told them to do both air superiority and interception. How's that work exactly, is it like 100 of them gonna do air superiority and other 100 gonna do interception?
Also, should you do strategic bombing always, aren't you bombing factories otherwise you can capture?
"Tuna Tuva" lol 1:11
The legends tell that after 7/7 tutorials for complete beginners, Soviet Union was still trying that puny little task of taking out Finland...
Not sure if this is what you're showing at 17:20 mark, but is that how you'd go about combining your fighters with your bombers to escort them?
It "relieves" you from micromanaging where are the airwings stationed... if the army they are attached to move forward and they capture an airport, the airwing will automatically follow the army, to keep themselves in range
The aircraft that attack your bomber airplanes are enemy fighter airplanes. The way to escort your bomber airplanes in an air zone is to put your own fighter airplanes on air superiority duty in that air zone. Your fighter airplanes when on air superiority duty will target any enemy fighter airplanes that are spotted, and therefore will attempt to join into the air combat when an enemy fighter airplane attacks one of your bomber airplanes.
Range of your airplanes is important. Often your fighter airplanes will have less than 70 percent air coverage in an air zone due to lack of range, and sometimes your bomber airplanes will also have less than 70 percent coverage of an air zone. When your air zone coverage fraction is less than 70 percent, your airplanes have a large air combat disadvantage, and should therefore be used almost entirely at night, in order to avoid air combat in a region in which your airplanes are at a combat disadvantage. Sometimes, tactical bombers and strategic bombers are better left unescorted, especially in a large air zone. In a large air zone in which your bombers can cover more than 70 percent of the air zone but in which your fighters with their lesser range can only cover less than 70 percent of the air zone, your bomber airplanes will be often better at air combat than your fighter airplanes.
Equipping your divisions with one or more anti-air battalions each will sometimes tip the balance in the air war, because your airplanes will often be fighting enemy airplanes that have been heavily damaged by your anti-air battalions. Anti-air battalions also have a surprisingly good attack against enemy tank battalions, and only take up one combat width each. Anti-air battalions serve as a substitute escort for your bombers by helping to reduce the total number of enemy fighters. Equipping each of your states near the front line with a primitive level 1 anti-air facility also serves a little bit of a substitute air escort service by helping to reduce the count of enemy airplanes.
I once ordered 10 of my rifle (aka soviet infantry) divisions to march from Rzhev to Siberia. Took them 400 days.
Watched 'till 10:41... Atacking Finland during winter trusting in superior numbers... I'm having the strangest feeling I've heard of such a plan before and that it didn't go so well...
Hi! I'm sorry, what happened here? There's a full year missing, you gained a war goal and you are ready to attack. I'm really confused, how do I get to your point?
Vielen Dank :)
I find it very odd that we can't build airbases at province level; some states are far larger that others, and air range falls short.
You've got a very friendly voice
Quill war doesn't end diplomacy. war is just another diplomacy way of communicating
"War is diplomacy by other means"
@@Crimethoughtfull bigger army diplomacy
This is getting intense i am really sucked into immersion and you are a great narrator even for foreign ears i like this tutorial very much and i need it very much i want to be able to play the game Finnish Christian Fascists I want you to win but at the same time my feelings root for my country men and my relatives and my BFF:s relatives also a finnish christian fascist decendant of Eberhard I The Bearded of Swabian League who has a an heir with russian blood in his veins but still a full finnish male But i am stupid enough to say i have not been this frightened by a game tutorial because of game complex and you're demonstration ever :D
My god sir, lay off the coffee! I have to reduce playback speed to be able to understand you lol.
you seem to be losing really badly in one part and it goes as low as 10 but you don't seem to mind can someone explain why
On my game i cannot go to war before word right above is 50 procent. How do i fix that?
can anyone tell me if there's more of the mexico campaign on the way?
glad quill is helping introduce people to the enigmatic pdx experience, but I'm pretty familiar with hoi so I'm hoping he didn't scrap his play through
@@johnifity , it is from his live Twitch stream... So most likely he won't post anymore of that game until after his next stream of it. I think he has a schedule posted on his Twitch for when he'll play certain games, he is doing his wife's chariy stream today, go check it out.
@@ibtoogood4u thanks! makes sense. and I did see about the essential stream, but I work a triple through tn lol :((
“Puny little task of conquering finland lol” tell thqt to actual history
Maybe its just me but I feel the most important thing for this game is having a big screen... playing on a 1080p 23” is hell - on a 43” 4K tho...
Maybe your Interface UI is too big?
"War is a continuation of politics by other means." -Clausewitz. So, yeah, diplomacy IS how you start wars! LOL
How are you so smart. Love u
5/7 already and all i know is what is world tension ...
It takes forever for me to justify my war goals. I basically just run the clock forever until it finally goes through. Is that what's suppose to happen?
Tell me if you get an answer to you question or if you solve it yourself. Thanks.
Well depends on if you are a democratic country or a facist country or a communist country. Facist are the fastest to declare wars and democrats are the slowest. War tension needs to be high or it takes a while to justify, Just so you dont start fighting right away. Always declare only one state it doesnt matter much
How did you get enough Political Power to do declare war on Finland? That's kind of an important step you skipped.
You get political power every day
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Hahah i tought the action was gonna be on the last one but double the action it will be one this one i will take short sleep break and get right back to it Finnish Christian Fascists Yess fresshhh but still little bit away from waking up to watch this i need to understand this but let's go war fighting episode ! Now that i have everything out of the way you can bet i am nailed to my seat, i would not believe the tuto would be this intense for finnish christian fascist since it really is WW2 I do want to see you win, but at the same time not feeling confused :D
so you are skipping a year from previous video with no explanation and call this a beginner's video ?
How do you escort something?
i need way more aderall to play this game effectively...
Puny little task of taking out Finland? Sure bud, lemme know how that one goes
i am still so confused about ctrl click, shift click and alt click lol
this is really confusing so much stuff is different in my game than in the tutorial.
There have been patches and DLC's. The thing with Paradox is that they start out with a Vanilla game. Then they'll release 6 DLC over the next 4yrs. Approximately 1/3 or 1/2 of the DLC content is given to you for free as an update. If you want the other 1/2 or 2/3 of the DLC, you have to buy it. A new major DLC has come out since this series was made (La Resistance), so some things will be different.
Also, he said he was using no DLC, but if you have full (paid-for) versions of DLC with your game, that will change a few things.
i got to 1939 and then a civil war started.
I’m relatively confused because I need a war goal to invade Finland and you don’t.
If u look at it this way, Paradox games be like: yes it looks complicated because theres so much to see in the UI but you only need to look at a couple of things and ignore the rest 💀💀💀 then you'll be actually playing the game as normally as it should.
I would have liked to see the management of your policy and country in the year before the war. That would have helped with understanding how you set up for war so that you go in prepped.