What every Hoi4 beginner does...

I know some you do not understand, but these are things that i have seen many beginners do.

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[CptMann]

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

[acertainsomeone]

In my first game, Austria refused Anchluss and I lost lmao

[ibrijira]

Me as a beginner:

- Picks Japan
- Searches for a new strategy and division templates against China
- Gets mauled by Chinese manpower
- Repeat

[OnionRing_]

>play German
>start ww2
>got attack by neighbour country
>one of them is Switzerland

[danielzamora]

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 😔

[slavaermolenko]

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 Youtube.
- 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.

[LLAANN]

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.

[checkmate]

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.

[bravinches]

first times plays, I chose neutral countries since I thought it's good to learn how the game works before fighting.

[Nikzmat]

i am bad at hoi 4 lol, i invaded polen but then they crushed my empire >:(

[axemuth]

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.

[lynoska]

my first time wasnt actually bad, i defeated poland but lost Königsberg because i didn't know how to move troops across

[sharadowasdr]

A true beginner would lose to Ethiopia.

[keanudreimann]

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.

[unowno]

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

[leer]

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

[salvocastiglione]

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.

[timurbriukhov]

bro u opened my eyes... i rlly didnt know that many divisions is bad

[Volpeusz]

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

[mappingowo]

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