Intro to Army in Hearts of Iron IV | Beginners Guides

The army. The most important part of your military in Hearts of Iron IV, it’s essential you have the basics down to start playing this game. Luckily I’m here to take you through everything you need to know as a fresh recruit to Hoi4!

The Beginner's Guide series is for new players to learn the core concepts of Hearts of Iron IV. All these tutorials are assuming players are using the vanilla (un-modded) version of the game, and have not yet purchased any DLCs.

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⏲ TIMESTAMPS ⏲

00:00 Intro to Army
00:33 What is your army?
00:48 How to create an army
01:20 Assigning Generals
01:51 Frontline orders
02:29 Offensive orders
03:20 Planning offensives
03:49 Understanding combat
04:42 Division icons
05:24 Assigning divisions to existing army
06:57 How to war?
08:06 Winning wars & peace deals
08:46 Moving troops & fallback line
09:31 Issuing new orders
10:07 Training new divisions
12:41 Deploying new divisions
13:52 Assigning a field marshall
14:36 The BEST bit
15:02 The BETTER bit
15:17 Outro

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My name is Hammo and I stream on Twitch! I play a variety of RTS and strategy games, but my favourite game by far is Hearts of Iron IV.

I love this game and it's complexity, strategy and historical focus, but these are also reasons people can find it hard to get into Hoi4. The endless spreadsheets, statistics, buffs and debuffs can be overwhelming without someone to show you the ropes, which is where this channel comes in!

I will be creating and posting beginners guides, tutorials, walkthroughs, tips and tricks videos, just about everything I can to get you playing and enjoying Hearts of Iron IV as much as I do!

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[ruairimadden]

Gold standard for HOI4 tutorials that I've found on YT, much appreciated keep it up! Concise and clear, love the decision to break the videos down in 10+ minutes focusing on each aspect, rather than some behemoth 2hr tutorial that just looks impenetrable lol. TY :)

[michaelangellotti]

These are very well produced. Enjoyable to watch and they don't waste your time. I intend to re-watch as I play. Thanks.

[stickstreams]

Really appreciate these videos! I did a game where I just played before watching any vids. I played as US and stopped Dec 1st, 1941. Then I watched your videos, started a new game, played as US again, and stopped on the same day. Then I compared the two saves. The difference was incredible! Thank you!

[justinhebert]

I have watched several 'beginner' videos, yours have been the best so far. Thank you for being so thorough and explaining every click (or right-click)! It's very helpful to have such clear instruction.

[xxvequalizer]

This answers literally anything in the game that I needed that the tutorial failed to tell me... Thanks for taking your time!

[BagelsAreQuiteCool]

one of the best guides to hoi4 military, earned a sub!

[johntory]

I did not know about the field marshalls till now, thanks mate!

[jimberry]

Another tremendous job. The pace and detail are perfect. Will be viewing these multiple times over my plays.

[danielverman]

I much needed exactly this type of tutorial at the very beginning. Actually, I’m not that far from the beginner lvl 😅, so it’s still very useful! Many thanks ❤!

[GunnartheGreat]

Didn’t even know how to move troop before this thanks a lot man

[barrysworld]

Great job of explaining Army creation and deployment basics! Thanks! :)

[toadsniff]

great videos, haven't played since 2017 so these really helped me get back in quickly

[Eddy]

This is easy one of the best hoi4 tutorials

[jacksystems]

Thanks, these videos are great and very helpful!

[Jakes_workshop]

Crazy good videos and also I don’t skip cutscenes

[Matt-lkng]

Could you make a guide for all the different option in the tech tree and how to keep up supply?

[Torcquemado]

I want to learn to play and I think i will make it finally.

[TylerChristensen]

Great video! I have a small request, or rather some constructive criticism. The audio levels for spoken voice is too quiet. I am suggesting that you increase these levels by 4dB - 6dB.

[eli-mimh]

I never use battle plans because they frick up my attacks i only use front line orders and then i micro with the armor and motorized well the infantry is lagging behind cause i already destroyed the armys by running them over and just taking the remaining ports and stuff lol

[farkasszabo]

With smaller nations, I only have 1 general I can choose. How do I recruite a new one? I saw in videos there should be a button on the bottom left for PP to add a new one, for me the button says 'see field commanders' or something like that. How can I recruite new generals? I also have no field marshall option. Do I have to promote a division leader to general, then a general to a field marshall? I have all DLCs on (might be a mistake on my part, but its more fun this way even if I'm losing)