Hearts of Iron 4 Tutorial 🔴 How to Play HoI4 in Under 40 Minutes Guide! [No DLC]

Hey guys, this is a How to Play / Tutorial / Guide on the Real Time Strategy Game Hearts of Iron 4 for PC featuring Gameplay with Live English Commentary!

In this HoI4 tutorial video I guide you through the core mechanics of the game in less than 40 minutes without any DLC! This means everything from teaching you how everything works as well as informing you on a great country to start with! Enjoy!

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[MahDryBread]

Oh yeah and if you stopped watching less than a minute in because you got confused by a front line, just watch a few more seconds and you'll get to the part where I say I'll show you how to do that in great detail, later in the video.

Yes, I had to write this part in 5 years after the video came out, because for 5 straight years I've had comments of people pausing and complaining about "The line thing". It's kinda funny, search through the comments by newest, you'll see them.

If you can't make it a full minute into the 35 minute grand strategy game tutorial without pausing, saying you don't understand, and giving up, then I can't really help you. There is no way you could understand the game in the first minute of the video, it's cool. Just keep watching, absorb what you can, and it will start to make sense in time. No one learns a grand strategy game in under a minute.

Now don't give up on yourself! You can figure this game out, it's not rocket science. You'll be having fun with it before you know it!

[RyanTheHero]

THANK GOD THIS EXISTS. The ingame ‘tutorial’ is literally just a new game where you have to figure everything out yourself

[BalmoraWendigo]

"You've already read the title of the video, so let's not waste any time." = You immediately have my like, my comment, and my subscribe and I don't even know what you make videos about.

[tylittlefield]

Can we all just thank this dude for responding to most comments about people have trouble with the game 6 months after this video released? I don’t see other youtubers doing this

[thundreski]

Way better than the official tutorials. Paradox's tutorials are usually something like throwing someone who doesn't know how to swim into a pool and saying, *"Now whatever you do, don't drown!"*

[FourKelvin]

"Let's not waste any time" THANK YOU.

[chewchewtrain]

Step 1: Build factories
Step 2: Research industry and stuff
Step 3: Train divisions
Step 4: Draw frontline and make offensive plan
Step 5: Declare war and activate plan
Step 6: Repeat until world is conquered

[JakvsMetalheads]

Trying to figure out this game has kind of given me an appreciation for the people that actually led these countries and armies in actual history. If it's this difficult in a video game that, as complicated as it is, is only a fraction of what would go into it all in real life, then I can't even imagine being a world leader or general or something like that in WWII, or really any era..

[yowmama]

God damn it, this game is harder than math

[Ceti_]

This is an incredibly impressive production. The lack of verbal mistakes and stutters over 45 minutes with what sounds like no script (outline at most) covering so much so well. 10/10 wish I was even close to this good at tutorials.

[subsWithnovids-inyd]

I’m so bad at the game, I played as Germany and lost to Poland 😂

[rodguy]

I only bought Hoi4 because I was beginning to understand the Fundamentals of Eu4



After 600 hours that is

[fritomontana]

Video on using navy forces would be cool. I could finally play as Japan and know what I'm doing.

[joelrebollar]

0:50-Moving troops onto a front line
1:34-Main country menu
2:52-National focuses
4:47-Decisions tab
6:06-Research tab
12:38-Diplomacy tab
14:07-Trade tab
15:20-Construction tab
17:28-Production tab
19:35-Recruit and Deploy tab
20:54-Logistics tab
21:19-Top left UI number information
22:29-World tension
25:18-Generals
27:04-Battle plans
29:46-Troop division layouts
32:47-Using your airforce

A decent navy guide:

[TheFrenchWhispererASMR]

Great tutorial! I just got started and was completely overwhelmed by all the options (despite being very familiar with Paradox games and having perfecly mastered HOI2 10 years ago or EU4). You solved that in half an hour, thanks a lot.

[tardarsauce]

Moblie Warfare?
don't you mean....




*B L I T Z K R I E G ?*

[reuploadhub]

I have spent a whole day learning this and revising like it’s a exam.
Plz help me

[dryerflyer]

This was really well done. I enjoyed your voice, the editing, and the pace at which you covered everything. I would love another video.

[onthebowoftheship]

Ok so there's a reason that I stay away from game videos on YouTube.

I heard the first 2 seconds of this video and almost wept.

Thank you Mah-Dry-Bread. You've gained a like and a subscribe this day.

[vtrix]

Does anyone else feel that satisfaction when you’re actually taking over territories but you’re absolutely clueless on how you’re doing it?