10 Tips for Beginners in Hearts of Iron IV

If you're new to Hearts of Iron IV or struggling to learn the game, this should set you on the right course of what you should be focusing on, as well as some tips and tricks to help make your games a bit easier.

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00:00 Tip 1 - Start small
01:29 Tip 2 - Focus on your army
01:59 Tip 3 - Keep an eye on your production
02:43 Tip 4 - Don't neglect your navy and airforce
03:24 Tip 5 - Plan your wargoals carefully
04:13 Tip 6 - Keep an eye on your neighbours
04:55 Tip 7 - Research your technologies wisely
05:45 Tip 8 - Take advantage of the national focus tree
06:36 Tip 9 - Change the rules
07:46 Tip 10 - Learn from your mistakes
08:37 BONUS TIP!!!

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[hammotimee]

🥠How bad was the Star Wars Battlefront 2 clip? Was it that bad?

[Lisanicolas]

I'm argentinian, so my first games I was playing that nation! I never touched any major, until I had like 100 hours into the game. It really helped me understand everything! You're very right on that first tip. Cheers

[crondum]

A crucial tip can’t stress enough to newer players is: READ, read what soft attack does or what piercing does, how armor works, u can learn the entire game by reading everything and production wise, learn the logistics menu, it tells you if your outproducing your consumption or not, if not add more factories to it, or do less battleplan attacks and more concentrated attacks, u can get alot of stuff like guns, support and arty just from encircling divisions and capping their equipment, but it all starts with reading.

[Captain_Britain]

I must say I don’t really comment very often but I really liked tip number 9, everyone plays the game like it’s a competitive game even if it’s in single player but I like playing with cheats and just enjoying the experience instead of struggling and being annoyed, great video lad!

[craftsmenMC]

Just recently decided to try again to get into HOI4 after my initial tries with the game ended up driving me away, your tutorials are things I super wish I had back then! You’ve been really helpful! Keep being awesome!

[skytheguyhigh]

As a 1.4k hour player I completely agree on the meta point, it's so bullshit, you'd win more and have fun more actually planning, just because dankus had a breakdown on paratroopers doesn't mean you can't use them, meta discourages the creativity of your strategies

[bandixx]

My way of learning was playing as germany and watching a guide on how to defeat the allies (the way the game was intended) blindly copied it some times and started analyzing what he was doing in the guide and learning from it

[VinylFoxx]

I am absolutely terrible at Hoi4. I spent all of the Welsh Covid lockdowns playing it on my dad's steam (he got it for himself and I really wanted to try it) and later my own. I have in total on both accounts 4k + hours yet I still need videos like this one. But by far this is the best one so far. Told me everything I need to know in 9 mins instead of a over complicated 30 min video. Thanks so much for this video you're an absolute legend

[dodo]

I think starting on major nation than micronation helps more, just start with 0 dlc at first then work your way onto the next dlc learning its new mechanics..

By starting with germany you can learn annexation, planes, etc and doesn't kill the mood for new players to retry again unlike smaller nation where you slowly build from 10 factory which generally very slow learning curve

[MrLostAndFound]

This helped me so much! I’ve played Peru and defeated the US

[bigsmelly]

i bought hoi4 3 days ago for the summer sale, struggled to understand any tutorials and only just got a grasp of the basic ui functions from the top rated tutorials on youtube, your tutorials are very helpful and easy to understand and as a complete beginner, i can say this has helped me a ton

[danielverman]

You are doing a great job! I’ve learned a lot thanks to your tutorials 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[vitrous]

Love your guides, makes learning the game a lot easier and more enjoyable :)

[Dreamflightentertainment]

Great tips, dude. My first thought was to play a South American country instead of one of the larger nations so you confirmed that.

[fangan]

The most important tip is to avoid the toxic multiplayer mode.

[crombonow]

Finallyy !! The first guy who agree with me to start with small nation not like 90% of the community

[jonbutler]

Thx for making this vid! My first nation was the US (now that ive branched out im a bit frustrated since its so much different than everything else) and after 30 tries i finally beat japan, learning USSR and struggling now so i think i might do a canada game or something just to reset. Thanks again!

[niku]

My biggest Tip is:
READ and COMPREHEND
If you don't understand something, read the tooltips, hover your Mouse o er everything that seems like it means something.
Running your 24 Infantry Divisions into a City and you're loosing? Press on the Red Battle Bubble, read what the numbers mean a d where they come from.

Ideally it would look like this:
> Loose attacking city with 24 Divs.
> Open Tooltip to read why
> Find out about Combat Width, Organisation, Breakthrough, etc.
> Fix Division Template, making it bigger, giving units more inf>artillery, concentrate Air over the Airzone, attack with less Divisions at once, use planning
> Successfully take City!

[Musket_Lad]

Im Just starting off and am gonna give a lot of these a try lol, thank you for the tips, I kept trying to play Germany/France/Poland and kept getting bored, excited to try again

[JoshaSturg]

Your videos are really good. Keep it up!