Hearts of Iron IV: Tutorial for Complete Beginners! - 2/7
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The lack of rubber explains the large population.
Such intelligence is what the world needs
Smarty Smarty.
One issue with lend lease was that the Soviets used the metric system and had their own sizing for clothing and shoes and what not. Dealing with this meant having a commission set up that would translate the clothing sizes, make sure that if they were bringing over a truck that had inch bolts they'd also send a toolkit with US tools and so on.
Apparently when they got around to discussing sending over condoms the Soviets claimed that their standard condom was 13" long. The US honored the Soviet specifications but sent them in boxes labeled "US Condoms, Size: Medium".
You are a genius, you moron.
@@davidthompson7723 Most of the world used the metric system. The USA was one of the few ones who didn't.
_When Hitler miss-clicked and accidentally became communist_
Actually, Hitler and Stalin were two of a kind!
300 like is me :D
@@agentorange153 If it's just the ide that both were Dictators sure .... you are correct in this part - they were one of a kind ... but then all Dictators would be one of a kind. But their political ideologies couldn't be further apart. Idk where the idea that, suddenly in recent years started to circle arround the internet, that claims Hitler was a socialist or even comunist comes from, but it is outright false. Hitler was fanatic oponent of communism an socialism. In Mein Kampf he often proclaimes that Marxism and Socialism are Jewish inventions and therefore evil incarnate. This was also the reason to attack Soviet Union in the first place - The whole reason of Hitler's war was to get rid of Comunism and Jews. That was his Casus Belii if you will. Otherwise it would be stupid move to attack Stalin before he finished his British campain. Or at all. In a way it was, but he attacked Soviets because he was running out of time ... and one of main wargoals was again to destroy comunist.
It is very interasting stuff. But reading both Mein Kampf as well as Comunist Manifesto it becomes very clear what lies as the base of this ideologies. I know full well people get misled by the naming of NSDAP which includes the word "socialist" in it's title. But it's important to note here to note this: party existed before Hitler joined it, and ... it was based around the idea of "Volksgemeinschaft" - the people's community - where community is meant strictly in meaning of uniting the "pure" (or arian) race as a ruling community. In this way it was understood that it dealt with "social" issues of race. The question of racial purity WAS a social question - as mentioned again in Mein Kampf - this is where the "socialist" part of the naming comes into play. Socialism as used today tho has entirely different meaning - and it's often used to describe a "soft comunism" if you will.
Actually, as much as Hitler claimed to hate socialism, his ECONOMIC (as opposed to military or social) policies DID include elements of socialism -- an extensive public welfare system, the right for trade unions to collectively bargain with corporations (but without the right to strike), great public works to be built at taxpayer expense, a compulsory labor force to build these, etc., etc. So you CANNOT claim that he was 100% anti-socialist, because he WASN'T!
@@agentorange153 Well even modern day America isn't 100% anti-socialist. One of the best example is the existance of pensions. And ofcourse many projects which are indeed built on "taxpayers expense". This include damage compensations in case of natural disasters etc. But you still cannot claim America is a socialist country. I agree with you - and I also did not state, Hitler was 100% anti-socialist. But his regime wasn't a socialist regime as it is understood today, much less when you look at his rule through historic lense. He also OPOSED stock trade as it was in his mind a "Jewish invention". He favoured production (which is ofcourse anti-capitalist) - but also, what is most important - rule of the strongest (which is close to capitalist in it's core idea).
One thing must be very clear however! - and I was not, in my previous post (for which I apologise), Hitler was NOT (and I stress NOT) advocate for modern capitalist system! If one would compare it with comunism - sure I could agree there is a common fact in that they both are proposed ALTERNATIVES, but that does not mean they are the same. Nazism and Fashism did not survive till modern times (or failed in obscurity) thanks to the great war - but communism survived. IMO all of these systems are terrible - so let's agree on that I think - but not the same.
".....Or capture them through warfare," he says, scrolling pointedly to Poland.
Poor Poland.
In my first time playing the game the first thing i did was invading poland no one told me that i didn't even know how to play but i really wanted to do that instinctively
@@youneskasdi lmao
Blood moon a true German
Sorry guys , force of habbit
Poland actually kicked the bolsheviks ass in the war of 1919-1921. Seriously impressive.
Jumped right into the game as the USSR for the first time yesterday. Had a Trotskist takeover and a royalist (?) second civil war. Got invaded by Afghanistan with the aid of the fascists. Failed miserably. This is already helping, so thanks!
Got invaded... by afghanistan...
If you get invaded by Afghanistan then you probably deserved it...
How the tables have turned!
You have to do the great purge to stop the coup
whenever I try to invade someone. there is always something the AI finds wrong or I do and everytime i get invaded. I've played 7 games in 2 days not won a single one
Thanks to this video series, I now know to allocate ~100 days to my own "Fully Learn Hearts of Iron IV" research activity.
a game that takes 70 minutes before your first real move..
he is explaining everything what do you expect
I actually enjoy the first planing phase, makes me feel competent for a while, then the real deal starts and i get wrecked because of my lack of knowledge in combat.
@@zahard1732 me too
@@sanctumsomega Not having ADHD is even more common. And the game is designed for those people.
yeah real war doesn't happen in an hour lol
21:40 I like the way the music stops when you say "but they also need some equipment".
"They need a certain amount of manpower" - I sleep
"But they also need some equipment" - *REAL SHIT*
I am late to the party, but following this guide is helpful thanks!
Lol me too
same
@@d0nkey083 Are you sure about that?
@@d0nkey083 ?
Me too
Timestamps:
00:00 - 00:38 - Intro
00:38 - 09:01 - Military Factories/ Production
09:01 - 11:22 - Ship/ Navy/ Production
11:22 - 19:46 - National Focus Tree
19:46 - 24:13 - Recruit & Deploy
24:13 - 24:32 - Unassigned Divisions (skipped)
24:32 - 30:40 - Insufficient Resources/ Trade
30:40 - End - Outro
Thank you very very much for this tutorial quill. Can you please change video titles to match the videos content like "army management" or "navies" etc. I know i will need this tutorial months later and it will very hard to remember you explained what in which video. Thanks.
or Or OR.... Just write down a note for yourself on which one says which. why does he have to do something that you can do just as easily?
CODrocker90 because a simple change for quill could benefit many people, whereas a simple action from 1 person would only help 1 person. Makes more sense for quill to do the change
@@danielf1066 idk, I think it's not that hard to find it for yourself and I think he's entitled to format his videos the way he wants. However I do understand that constructive criticism is the way for youtubers to improve so maybe I'm in the wrong here.
CODrocker90 I dont really mind whether quill does this or not, i was just pointing out that it would make more sense for quill to make the change. However, i do agree that if you care so mich, you can just do it yourself. I dont think either of us are in the wrong here, just we both have different ideas
@@CODrocker90 bc it helps everyone and is simpler that way
Just bought the game yesterday , i thought lets jump in & get started. WRONG my god this game is something else. Thanks for the in depth guides , reallllllllllllllllly helping all of us out!
Bought?
@@gabrielqian9936 yes you buy games to play them
I wouldn't have bought this game idea quill didn't have a tutorial. It's how I learned civ
Quill: What are the chances you can do something like this for Victoria? That's the ONE Paradox game I've never been able to even SLIGHTLY wrap my brain around.
Yeah please
vicky 2? i find it's the most simple paradox game
Easy. Go laizzez faire as the US and don't worry about anything except invading Canada.
@@dodovomitory3496 have you ever heard stellaris?
It's easy really. Nowhere near as difficult as HOI to wrap your brain around. Especially if you're capitalist; the capitalists take care of the economy. You just nudge things in whatever direction you want.
These here are great tutorials imo. Trying to find one that's for beginners made by people that have been playing so long they think everyone is born with some inherent knowledge of what button to click. Not the case here. After watching these I actually started playing the damn game that's been sitting, uninstalled, in my library since the game was released. I watched every tutorial I could find back then and I could never find that jewel that actually is for beginners. Well, one of the best here folks enjoy. This guy did a great job. Thank you guy!
Part 1 > 1,000,000 views.
Part 2 < 500,000 views.
That's Paradox, folks! XD
lol
Generally speaking, this guide is amazing.
As soon as I read this he said that!! Great comment xD
*Plays most of the time historic strategy games
"I don't know much about history in general!"
I find that alot with folks making war strategy games based on history. Do they actually teach history in schools anymore?
@@vinniethefinger7781 a lot of folks making war strategy based on history is a good thing right?
@@kayfoster7385 If they learn from it and sure it is.
@@vinniethefinger7781 They teach you about video game lore in school?
Lol my first Soviet game. Poland lost the D and became Polan
19:38 hit the nail on the head
Still waiting for that UK purge to activate.
Quill18:I wanted fascism but i accidentally purged.
This is so helpful, thank you so much Quill.👍
Thank you, Quill for these videos. I have had hoI4 for years now, since its release, but I have never played more than five minutes of it because I just couldn't get my head around how different it was from 2 , and especially 3! The tutorial on the game is average at best, at least for me, and your way of communicating is so much better.
After getting to grips with the factories and production and divisions etc. I am having loads of fun! Thank you for this tutorial. I will be certain to buy the expansion packs and start making my own ships. Would be great if I could design my own tanks etc.
Thank you kindly!
Thanks for teaching the best to negotiate and import materials.
This is a great tutorial series.-
You can deploy units in non-core territory if it’s after the peace deal and it’s connected to your capital by land
Another great tutorial. Thank you so much for making these. It is gonna make game-play so much better
a pleasure to see you demoing so many features - I hate it when the people who are trying to show you how to play clearly have no clue how to play themselves - it also helps that you can and do form a coherent sentence!
i just bought the game cuz one of my friends plays it and said its pretty good, i havent rly played many strategy games except for a browser game called call of war, anyways this tutorial series if rly helping me out
u still play call of war? I started with this one too. Maybe we could join up on either!
Dude I have never subscribed to a video for a tutorial before but you're actually really funny and great at explaining things so you get my sub
I'm getting this game tomorrow so I really appreciate this tutorial
Fantastic tutorial! I was about to return the game until I saw this series- Thank you!
Honestly I'm glad he accidentally chose the Soviet Union instead of Germany.
Starting this game at 2020 during the lockdown ! very helpful.. thanks
Nothing better than needing to watch a 7 episode half-hour episodes for a game that I have had for a month and been watching videos of for a year
Just bought the game yesterday, your videos are a big help, thanks man.
This really is a complicated game, so thanks for making these tutorials! Or I would never be able to learn the game.
Great tutorial. Thanks a lot. Unfortunately Paradox didn't put mich effort in documentation. Which is a shame because the game is far from being selfexplanatory.
It would be great to continue this tutorial for the changes from newer patches. There was one relatively big change where supply became far more important.
The ingame tutorial with playing Italy went wrong for me because I didn't realize the importance of supply. Was totally lost in Addis-Abbeba with just doing the outdated instructions.
I really like this tutorial, because it explains things that even if I knew the basics, I would not consider at all.
Taureor made so much videos on this game and It looks like a lot of fun, so now I'm learning the rocket science that is this game.
Great guide so far. I plan on watching them all because you do such a good job. I just started trying to play the game and cant even get through the tutorial, its terrible. Thanks for doing this. I was about to just say screw it and not play the game, but youve given me hope! Ive played plenty of games like this in the past, but this is much more complicated.
Thanks for this I really needed it
This is very similar to stellaris just everything has a different name. I now realize that. I am thinking about getting the game and these tutorials have pushed me over the edge!
Aaf, thank you. Really great tutorial!
this is so helpfull. The in game tutorial left me so confused i didnt play it for over a month after i bought it
You have a gift for teaching, sir. You make me think I might actually play this monster someday. Thank you!
Thanks for these tuts!
13:45: In short, Stalin decided that the military leadership was plotting against him (it was not, he was just paranoid) so he got all of his leading generals arrested and killed. The NKWD was the secret police and responsible for the arrests and executions carried out in the "Great Terror" period from 1934 to 1937 and later on. Basically you have to chose if you slowly trust the new military leadership (after you killed all your great generals before for no reason) or trust the killers you brought up that terrorize your population on your orders as you are paranoid.
Stalin must have been a real party crasher.
The greatest of all the great purges
Tin Man ok
Great tutorial, I started worrying about my Hungary being ""independent"" though whole game just sitting in the corner being donated my Germans and free lands and not being able to do anything to help them
Thank u for ur tutorials i understand every thing
Confusion cleared up. Thanks... :)
Thank you bro very helpful
If you are curious what NKWD is - watch "Enemy at the gate". Really lovely bunch of chaps...
Thanks, fantastic tutorial, I was smashed by the complexity of the game but after the second video I can't wait to go back in :)
Planning my world domination as I am watching. Great tutorial series. Big help as I am getting into HOI 4. Big thanks. 😁👍
if you have a shortage of anything your build speed is massively slowed always TRADE
This helps a lot. Thanks!
Thanks for this video. The red bar in the production menu was making me think "Oh, once my troops have enough of these items, this red bar will go away, so that means once my troops have enough and a little bit of a surplus, I can just remove it and dedicate it to other production" rather than it being the efficiency.
Thanks for the help! Now I just need to get a computer so I can actually play the game
What screen resolution and interface ratio do you play at? My interface is very fuzzy compared to yours which is crystal clear. Also, if you don't mind me asking, what monitor do you have?
Jeffrey Pinard it’s probably you’re display or your GPU
Change from borderless to fullscreen under settings in the launcher. Worked for me.
Just bought this game during exams, learning more abt this game than my courses😅
Can I play it for free?
@@samiam1059 no
@@samiam1059Yes pirate it
20:28
1.Rifle division
2. Mountain rilfe division
3. Moterized Rifle division
4. Calverly division
5. NKVD borderline Division
6. Mechanized corps
7. Airbone brigade
Thanks quill!
Thank you so much!!
Generally speaking...this is a very good video.
Thanks for the info.
I've watched the 1st episode 10x and I still am lost. ILL watch this one and see if anything changes.
Yes more vids.
Thanks for the walk thru Quill, very helpful. Is there a ratio of civ to mil factories I should attempt to achieve early game? I understand the value of the civ factory but don't want to use up too many slots that I will need for mil factories later in the game.
Most people build civs early game and then make military factories. Unless you desperately needs guns and are gunna be attacked/ go to war early you should do civs early game, the mils. Once you conquer territories you will over time/resistance laws will be able to get their factories as well.
Some very niece question maybe, but how come your icons for you different pre sets, when you train units... I dont have those nor can I find them. They are all envelopes with me.
@quill18 Brother I really have got a vibe for HOI after this video , can you suggest any chat group where i can address my problems i face while playing the game ? Sorry , I am a super newbie to this game.
I played for the first time yesterday, but i had no idea how to actually play so i looked up a tutorial. After your first video i thought i could take over a small country. The netherlands took me over even though i was the german reich and they made me democratic ;-;
Accidentally clicking Soviet Union might have actually worked out for the best talking about National Focuses, since they actually a really deep political tree to look at
Really, I love how nicely Focuses can help power up a nation in a way that strengthens its identity. For example, the US political focuses ultimately all revolve around juggling foreign relations and getting out of the Great Depression, and all the while needing to appease Capitol Hill when making any “spicy” decisions, like taking a focus to allow for limited conscription
what's the best strategy for factories? I've started producing as many civ factories as possible for the first few years and then doing infrastructure and mils, is this right?
Will the factory you traded belong to the other countries forever? Or is some time like until the convoy reaches back? Or just a fixed amount of time?
Rehabilitated military might refer to Stalin’s purge of the military in 1937, sent a lot of officers to the Gulag and had to call many back once Germany invaded. That might be what it means
All my things like national focus and research are really zoomed in, how can I change that?
Change from borderless to fullscreen under settings in the launcher. Worked for me.
I've a question about building factories. Does distance from the action matter? If playing Russia for instance would building factories far from harms way be good? Or does the goods need to be transported?
13:34 The NKVD Is a agency made by the soviet union meanwhile rehabilitated millitary is basicly self explanatory
In conclusion u need to choose on either spying or direct assault
Little tip for u quill, whenever uploading a video, u generally want the music volume quite a bit lower than your mic 😵
So I'm, playing my first game, iv started maxing out each state building mil factories, is there a reason why I shouldn't be building so many?
your civ factories will be working on the mil factories then other stuff late game for example you will need rocket silos and other stuff and the civ factories being queued up will prevent them from making the other buildings (very rough explanation)
@@m1ndfr34k7 I'd also say pretty self explanatory with more civ factories it's easier to build mil factories or whatever you want later on, the only exception would be if my civ population demand is so high that I'm getting nothing out of the next 2 or so factories
I am learning this game before I buy
On to the next!
How did people play games before Quill18 tutorials?
Wow super helpful
Rehab military is down to the purge, during initial purge against Trotskyite’s various friends of Stalin tipped him towards believing the military to be a hotbed of radical Trotskyite thought. There was also some jealousy and personal malice from some of Stalin’s henchmen towards certain generals (for example Tukhachevsky was a great armoured warfare theorist who was up there with Patton, Guderian, Hobart etc for deep armour operations, but he annoyed Voroshilov, Stalin’s pal, so he got convicted on false charges and shot). The purge of the military basically eradicated vast swathes of the officer corps, all the expertise, experience, theorists and skilled officers either murdered or packed off to Vorkuta or somewhere equally terrible. It also made the lucky survivors absolutely terrified of the leadership.
The result of all this is probably obvious, in 4yrs time when the Germans invaded the Red Army was both led by inexperienced officers terrified of mistakes, or senior officers who were not willing to use their initiative in case Stalin had them shot and so the first few months of Barbarossa were a bloody retreat. A few hasty pardons had to be written to bring back condemned or gulaged officers - Rokossovsky, for example, who went on to be one of their greatest generals. Unfortunately the murdered ones, like Tukhachevsky were lost forever.
just realized you could be Canadian jack black if you committed to saying shit like scootch hahahaahahaha
what do you mean you need equipment to train? in Soviet Russia you don't even need equipment to be deployed, or at the very least you get 1 rifle for every 2 men.
If you are researching something that takes 100 days and you have a free research slot can you assign the same research so it speeds up ?
No
Should you trade more early on for the Axis to build up a reserve for when you lose trade routes?
Except for fuel you don't really build up a stock of anything, so it's better to just use your factories to build things.
My son (11) started playing this recently, now. How did you start with 38 convoy?
Also are you using any interface or map mods? You map seems clearer than my own too. Thanks and cheers!
Jeffrey Pinard I don’t think so mine is the same
Jeffrey Pinard I believe messing around in the graphics settings will do the trick
If you set up a trade route does the resource keep importing until you stop it?
ok just got hoi4 and needed this and as soon as you messed up the intro ""subscribers +1""
Because I've played a bunch of civ I thought I would at least somewhat understand this game but oh my god not at all. First game with Germany I tried to take the Sudetenland following real history and I got taken over by Czech Slovakia 😭 didn't even make it to 1939. Thanks for this series, such a necessity for a new player
You have a focus in your tree, which allows you to get Sudetenland basically without a war(90% of the time). It's literally called "Demand Sudetenland"
Then like irl I suppose than you can just take the rest of the country with ease?
Zoldic Random If you do the focus tree you should never have to fight Czechoslovakia at all
Today I shall start Hearts of Iron for the first time... 3.5 hours and seven videos later... I shall try the tutorial soon.
@19:39 I think you meant "crazy politics in the USSR" not "UK" but then again.... :D Thank's man seriously great tutorial!
Can you also export your excess products? Like steel ?
i started playing yesterday as the usa currently 1945 with about 150 divisons in the netherlands facing about 500 german divions while trying a d-day we still hold
21:27 when the troops will get their guns so training can begin?
I just remember the first country I played was Tibet. I'm not sure I could have picked a worse start
What am I doing wrong? After selecting country and war goal it never advances to war. Can you please help?
Bruv, I was trying to figure out how to fix the "old equipment in production" (or something like that) problem, the game never gave a thorough tutorial about barely anything
Never thought I simply had to change the equipment in production