Over the course of seven episodes, we'll cover all aspects of Hearts of Iron IV in this purely vanilla (no expansions/DLCs) setup. TOPICS: How your economy and how factories work, including trading goods with other nations. Producing equipment and how to design and train divisions. How to command your troops, both manually and by drawing up war plans (including naval invasions). We'll look into the different ways to justify wars and also declare a war (R.I.P. Finland). We will utilise strategic bombers, close air support, air superiority fighters, and naval bombers -- and look at the different types of missions air wings can be assigned to. We'll learn all about the Supply system and how infrastructure affects how it reaches our front lines. We will look at how to deploy our navy, particularly since this is now completely different as of Patch 1.6. Finally, we'll look at our internal politics, command structure, and decisions.
Aw man, I remember that your original series of RU-vid videos on HOI IV were what got me into the game in the first place. 1.2k hours later I just have to say: Thanks for all the fun times you've brought or inspired! HOI IV and Civ V videos of yours really defined my tastes in games to this day. I wish you many chocolates and wines.
I learned to play HOI4 about 9 months ago, messing around with Italy and playing for a couple months. I'm retired & spoiled so I have several games which I play, so I gave this one a break, waiting for Man the Guns to release. Because I was born back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth (I'm 61), I've forgotten a whole bunch of stuff & needed a refresher. I like your style. Very informative, and most importantly, you don't babble incessantly like a crack ho and constantly lose track of what you were talking about, like some of the kids I've tried to watch & given up on. Thanks. Subscribed, and I'll be watching.
@@simondesanta5774 The game? I play a bunch of Paradox games. The vid? RU-vid's search engine. My love of PC games? United States Navy, being stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, '90 - '92. In addition to drinking massive amounts of duty-free booze, one either took up PCs or scuba diving, 'cause there wasn't much else to do.
I'm hoping to learn how to use the navy (couldn't figure out how to remove a mission from an area i didn't want patrolled anymore), and how not run out of fuel in 1 month while using said navy. 👌
@@ibtoogood4u LOL I have the same issue... what I do is find the navy I want to redirect (and that in itself is a hairy topic) then cancel all its current orders with the "hold" button, then give brand new orders.
@ stamasd I am finishing a run as Britaint and that problem is just too real... Took me a few tries to figure it out, but what I do is that I have a big fleet in port on a Strike force mission and a much smaller one doing the patrol stuff. That way, the big fleet does not consume fuel except when moving to engage the enemy. When I need to convoy troops on the continents, I wait till a handful of them are build, bunch them up in a port, then move my fleet to escort convoys, just long enough to get all my troops across the channel... Still pretty harsh, but I didn't invade Iran or Iraq...
Not so low chance I think after the updates. I had 4 straight games with communist america when I tried to play historically as one of the axis or allies. Bulgaria kept joining japan, Romania become communist. Sometimes america becomes fascist without anything that I do that's too different. Not sure if my game is broken or the updates broke it. Edit: I don't use any mods or dlcs.
@@Tuskin38 I didn't get any of the DLCs or mods. Not a single one. And every game is communist US. The latest one with historical focus on, they became communist via civil war, joined comintern, and later had a *second* civil war with a fascist "Free America* that joined Allies. Wish I had screenshot it or recorded it on video or something. Before the most recent updates, my pc would sometimes ctd. The updates fixed that but made my game strange. Edit: I also often see Romania have both fascist and communist influence special event at the same time so it often becomes communist and the Germany AI kicks him out or he leaves the axis faction.
It's not a low chance anymore. I went into the country modifier before a game and put all nations as historical and turned on Historical AI before the game, to make sure it was as historical as possible. I was playing as Finland. Soviet Union turned Fascist and never launched the winter war against me. Britain became Communist France became Communist Germany lost to Poland after Poland formed an alliance with Italy and Poland immediately killed itself by having a fascist civil war RIGHT after losing. I can tell you that's not what happened in real life, and I fell asleep in math class.
@NoYou Without particular dlc, most majors have both fascist domagogue and commies revolutionary unlocked at the start of the game. So it is possible for the AI to accidently pick that ministers.
I’ve only played to games my first as Italy my second as Poland In my second game I though I was doing good and then I forgot to upgrade my factories that produce synthetic materials. I let Germany take Danzig. I rushed to make as many defensive alliances. Then I declared war in Germany and they attacked first and took Warsaw in a month. I’m just happy I made it to 1940.
@mynamejeb8743 actually? I've been playing EU4 and CK3 a lot, with CK3 being the easiest for me and basically can play as any nation and get strong, EU4 a bit more challenging for me, but still do well most of the times, yet, I've always struggle with HOI4. Mainly because just by looking at vids and having played (very little), I get overwhelmed by so many mechanics. It has to be me then, because I find EU4 and CK3 simple now after hundreds of hours played, so I don't know why HOI4 gives me the perception of being so much more complex.
Never have I had to go straight to youtube after purchasing a new game. Thank you for providing me with exacctly what I needed. The first thing the in game tutorial does is refer you to the wiki, thanks again for doing a great job!
This remains EASILY the best tutorial series for HOI4: I've been going through the videos carefully and shaking my head every few minutes thinking "how come I never figured that out before?"
OMG! These guides are terrific. quill18 clearly has English as his primary language which buffs my ability to understand what is being said. (No offense to anyone that has English as a second language.) 100 thumbs up is what is deserved! Thanks much.
I finally broke down and bought HoI 4 almost a year ago, when my divorce started. I've tried a few times to try to play. But couldn't even figure out how to het past the first hour in the tutorial. Now...I really wamt to play it, but still couldn't figure anything out. Thank you. Ill be watching all 7 videos. This seems.like a very grand scale game, and very in depth. I'm going to need all the help I can get, just to play. I won't ever play online against other players, but thos will pass dome time in a fun way. You're very good at this teaching thing, very clear and concise. Thank you. I may actually figure out how to play, with your help. I hope.
What Quill did miss is that the first group of buildings (Infrastructure, Anti-air, and whatever else is there) don't use the same building slots. Those can always be built up to the max in a state, the building slots are for the next group (shared buildings). In fact, upgrading infrastructure is the main way to create building slots (though I prefer conquest myself ;) )
Didn't know there was an in game tutorial... I couldn't figure out wtf I was supposed to do at first so I just looked for an online tutorial and found this
It just gives you a bunch of shit to do and doesn't actually tell you how to do it. It's basicly just the school system if the school system was a video game, and this guy is like the Indian RU-vidr.
The fact that it took 7 videos to explain this game and they're all 30 minutes long makes me wish I never bought this game in the first place. Plus the developers should pay you for this video because this is what the in game tutorial should have been.
The in game tutorial is absolutely shocking. I remember first playing this game i felt like i was drowning in information, its overwhelming for a complete beginner
I mean netherlands are pretty hard/easy like I just had a netherlands game i build some forts and hold after germany declared war on me and then in 1943 pushed into germany and some how I did it
Italy is probably the best starting country as you basically get a decent feel for air, land and sea and also have a decent production, gets to annex things; all while not being a major player, you can focus on a pretty small area around the Mediterranean.
So I've watched like 3 or 4 other creators explain how to play and I deliberately didn't click on yours because I didn't want to watch a series of 7 episodes. The other guys left me confused and from just this video alone I am finally beginning to understand what the hell I'm meant to be doing! Thank you, have another like, and I'll make sure to watch the other 6. You rock \m/
It took awhile to learn Steel Panthers 3 way back when. This looks like some of the same interfaces are similar. Lots of details, lots of buttons, lots to learn. Hopefully lots of fun.
Just bought the game and I spent 4 hours in the tutorial just pushing buttons and reading the wiki page.. I've learned more in this 30 minute video!! Thank you! Definitely watching the rest of the episodes.
I have to mention this, @quill18. Factory conversion back in USSR was quite amazing. For example, there's a whole line of tobacco factories, making cigarettes that just happen to be 7.62mm in diameter. Guess how long it takes for those production lines to change to making ammo? ))
I didn't realize that the process of making cigarettes was so similar to the process of making bullets that they could use the same equipment. Or did they just shoot cigarettes at the enemy and give them all lung cancer? :)
Since I bought this game two years ago on steam, I've (allegedly) played this game for some 70 hours. I don't remember this. I pretty much remember playing the Tutorial, not understanding what the hell is going on, and giving up. This video is giving me hope. If all goes well, I'll reply to part 7 in about 3 hours.
@@Highonwater3X The video is "How To Hearts of Iron 4 - A Tutorial for People Who Keep Asking for a Tutorial ". If you just search for "quill18 angry tutorial" it's the first result.
Best tutorial for beginners in HoI IV! I watched several of them and all were very confusing and not clear - except yours. To me - you are a amazing teacher, you really can explain evberything step by step. This game is pretty scary at the beginning - lots of options, many things going on at the same time. Thank you for helping me with that, can't be more greatfull for your videos. Now when I know the basic's I can finaly enjoy this wonderfull game, this masterpice. Without you, I would probably just give up after few hours and lost oportunity to have houndrets of hours of fun. One more time - HUGE THANKS!
I watched this entire playlist three times and clocked up 100 hours before I had a competent understanding of every component of the game. Worth it though. Great game.
dude the game just went on another 75% sale and i want to say with 400 hours in ck2 (rookie numbers i know) you videos are still saving my live and you deserve to be much bigger with how interactive you are
After following this tutorial I went from not understanding what was going on to placing Trotsky as head of the USSR and hold my own in a War against Finland, Estonia, France, the UK, the Commonwealth AND Nationalist China. 12/10 quill18 made an amazing tutorial.
I just picked this title up for 10$. This game doesn't have a learning curve. It has a learning cliff! I have a lot to learn here before I even turn the game on here.
Nice refresher course here. I put about 100 hours in when the game came out but waited for some DLC to do any more, well that was years ago and this is a paradox game. = me rusty. =) So thanks again.
I dont know about other people, but for me this is the best hoi4 tutorial there is. I just started playing and its a bit confusing. But honestly your video helps
Beautifully done. I am completely new to this game, and i appreciate so much how well spoken you are in this tutorial. It is so refreshing not to feel as if i'm being spoken to as a child, but at the same time thoroughly going through the game knowing that i can't know what i don't know before i know it. If that makes sense at all. Anyhow, thank you so much for this great work and i'll be using your playlist A LOT.
Great starting video. I bought Hearts of Iron yesterday following a friend recommending it millions of times, loaded it up and legit had no idea what to do haha. This has helped.
@quill18 I really loved this video brother , just bought this game alongwith bunch of dlcs , I want to dive into the world of HOI now after having played CK3
Wow - sweeeeeeet tutorial! Thank you! I bought the game on sale, opened it, thought it was Axis and Allies x 1000 on the complexity scale, and immediately crapped in my pants. Off to youtube for help. After just one video I'm super stoked to get into the game. Can't wait for the rest of the tutorials.
I remember seeing an iSorrow video about HOI4 about exploiting the newly added spies I believe it was at the time, I bought the game knowing nothing about and tried out the tutorial and oh man... I've never been great with long tutorials you have to read through, I struggle to really take in all the information so imagine my feeling of being overloaded with stuff to think about while also playing. I remember finding this series a couple days of frustration later but by that point it was too late lol, almost 6 years and many failed attempts later I finally put all the fragmented pieces together well enough to help the Allies defeat Germany and Japan as the US a couple weeks ago, since then I've found this tutorial and a bunch of other really helpful ones along the way. Dark Souls might be known as the most gate-keepy community but some of the worst advice I've ever seen being given by people that seem to be actively trying to turn new players away has been in hoi4 discussions sadly, no the tutorial is not actually all that great especially for people like me and it just isn't true anymore, that tutorial really needs to be looked at again because it's showing its age, even Victoria II has a better one...
Just bought HOI4 a couple days ago and almost gave up even trying. And then my favourite youtuber comes to my rescue with the perfect series! What a luck!
Could I suggest that you plan out a very condensed, one-episode tutorial briefly going over how to make front lines, how to manage production lines, what buildings to construct and what to research? I have a couple friends who are new who are... basically getting everything they own encircled, lacking equipment, etc
Took me a while to really understand the game. Considering this tutorial is a bit obselete due to NSB, it is still a fantastic way to introduce people. I'm more of a Stellaris player, but I found HOI4 to be more complex. UK is my go-to faction (for obvious reasons) and I tried Germany but I found it to be a struggle.
Oml, every time I find a new game that I'm like "hey this game seems a little complex, but really fun" and I decide to look for a tutorial, lo and behold, not only has Quill played it, nonono, you've also made a tutorial for it
WoW you know your chit! I have always been intimidated into not picking up this game because of it's complexity, but you have broken down the barriers. Thanks for sharing.
I tried playing as the Netherlands as my first game. Went full on fashist, supporting Germany. Look, we're Germanic fashists too! But i probably wasnt efficient enough because Germany said 'nein' and used me as an extra living room anyway. Im happy were good neighbours these days.
I just got HoI 4 to take a tiny break from game development, and needless to say I couldn't believe it was your video, as I was using *your* Unity tutorials to improve my current project. Thanks once again!
Dear Quill I just bought the game so your tutorial series is just what I need. Thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to make these videos - much appreciated! :-)
Thank you, this tutorial helps me alot i've played 7hours as Soviet Union, and sometimes i don't know what to do. So this is definately a huuuge help! Keep up the good job 👍
Me: *sees HOI IV on sale for 75% off on steam* "Eh, looks cool, I'll give it a shot. Lemme look up some tutorials first though, I hear it's tricky. Google results: "Here is a series of 7 30-minute videos on how to get started"
Dont give up, this game is really fun and actually rather easy once you understand the core mechanics. If you did pick up the game and have any questions, I can help
I'm so grateful for this series of video's. I just got the game and the in game tutorial actually made me more confused. These video's are so much better. Thank you sir.
